The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 25, 1938, Page 1

» THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE VOL. LIL, NO. 7854. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1936 -~ MORE lies FARLEY ENJOYS FIRST VOYAGE T0 TERRITORY Postmatser General Now Sees Vital Need Air Mail, Other Development VISITS ALASKA JUNEAU MILL THIS MORNING Cabinet Officer Hopes to Come Back Some Day | to See Interior Blaciantiy imitiesied Wi’ his first glimpses of Alaska and see- ing great possibilities for its future, Postmaster General James A. Far- ley and party paused in Juneau for | an hour this morning while souih bound aboard the Aleutian after a trip which took him as far as the Palmer colony. While the vessel was in port, Mr. Farley, accompanied by his daugh- ters Betty and Ann; Ambrose o'~ Connell, his executive assistant, and Edward L. Roddan, assistant pub- licity director of the Democratic National Committee, was escorted through the Alaska Juneau mill by L. H. Metzgar, General Superinten- dent of the Alaska Juneau Goid| Mining Company operations here. Giving his impressions of his visit north, the Postmaster General said: “I am leaving Alaska with mem- ories of a most pleasant and enjoy- able visit. The scenery surpasses anything I have ever seen and the many interesting things to be seen at each port make Alaska the ideal vacation land. The Roosevelt Ad- ministration has been sympathetic to the needs of the Territory and the officials in Washington Wwill continue to cooperate in solving your problems. Douglas P which Col. Charles A. Lindbergh DOZEN STATES ONEAST COAST Twelve Lives Known to Have Been Lost—Prop- erty Damage Heavy Clearing skies in. many sections gave hope of an early end of ruin- ous floods and rain storms which took 12 lives and caused property and crop damage totaling millions | of dollars in one dozen states. intended to fly to Long Beach, Cal “Having seen the Territory, I realize now more than ever that ex- tended air mail facilities are vitally New England was the hardest hit. A week-long downpour sent| rivers out of their banks all along | The red-headed spanned ihe Atlan _pleasant by the courtesy and kind- “ Mr. Farley enjoyed every minute of necessary. The new service 10 b€y spanic seaboard esmbusneu_ should pr]ov» to lfw “g The dam: is conservatively tremendous boon to the people &NC 1,009 at $3,000000. The tobacco industries of Alaska. crop loss in Connecticut is placed Palmer Colony Goes Ahead : to op. Bt $1.000.000. “I was ulnfi of the U‘s"“ P, %" Similarly heavy tolls were exact- serve at first hand the Progress ., qon, corops in Massachusetts and being made at the Palmer agricul-| p, o 1004 tural community. There were many difficulties to be overcome but the flourishing condition of the colony is the best evidence that the experi- ment is going to be a success in every way. “Alaska is to be envied for its natural resources and the sound manner in. which the mining, fish- ing and agricultural interests are being developed bear testimony to the fact that the Territory is at the threshold of a new period of growth and expansion. “Qur visit was made extremely Textile mills are shut down in many towns, throwing thousand of persons temporarily out of wo Hundreds of famili are home- less in Massachusetts, land, Connecticut and New York. >oo Langer Charges Intimidation in ness shown us by Gov. John W. Troy and by the other Federal, Ter- ritorial and local officials Who went| w,spINGTON, July 25. — Gov. out of their way to show us the|gyan panger of North Dakota, beauties and grandeur of this de'\recsmly defeated by Senator Ger- lightful land. I was glad of the 0b-| .14 Nue in the Senatorial primary, portunity to talk c_:ver political con- complained: to the Senate Campalgn ditions with National Committee- |y, ogionting Committee that re- man J. A. Hellenthal and the other j..¢ won o " were intimidated. officials of the Democratic party. oy g0 Shepperd, of the Com: Fralse: for Dimand mittee, announced he will call a “Your Delegate in Congress, AN- ..o Wt i ek o thony J. Dimond, was a fellow Pas-| oongiger the Langer complaint senger on the ship and through by {Most Wounded his guidance and help we were able to make the most of the limited| {Man in World | Passes Away time at our disposal. Mr. Dimond is one of the most sincere and useful men in Congress and it was pleas- ing to learn that the people here know and appreciate what he is doing at Washington to promote the welfare of the Territory. ! “This trip to Alaska was planned as a graduation present for my two daughters, Betty and Ann, the| former of whom just graduated from high . school and thé latter from grammar school. A better choice could not have been made. The girls have had a marvelous time o and they are carrying away happy | | memories of the warm hospitality of the Alaskan people. “Some day I hope to return and to have the chance to see more of the Interior. In the meanwhile T shall ‘be an ardent booster for the MIAMI, Fla., July 25.—Wal- lace Smith, often described as the most wounded man in the World War, is dead here as the result of a sudden attack of the heart. A shell explosion which killed 34 of his comrades, wounded Smith in 132 places. - . -FSTOCK- QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, July 25.~Closln‘; quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 11, American Can 100, | American Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 37'2, Bethlehem Steel wonderful land of Alaska.” 61%, Commonwedlth and Southern Mr. Farley was accompanied on 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General the round trip to Seward by J. A.|Motors 43%, Kennecott 43%, New Hellenthal, Democratic National York Central 20%, Southern Pacific Committeeman, and Mrs. Hellen-!20%, United States Steel 624, Cities thal. |8ervice 97, Pound $4.92'%, Northern “Despite a few inconveniences, Pacific 14, Safeway Stores 22. his trip,” said Mr. Hellenthal. “He DOW, JONES AVERAGES took a keen interest in everything The following are today's Dow, v |Jones averages: industrials 144.91, rails 30.14, utilities 22.08. (aiizunuefl on Page Six) Rhode Is-| Losing EIEG“U"%«I,; Dodd We Trust” rdl/pital . Liberals Say, Backing Son Of Ambassador for Congress | PRESENT YEAR - SET DOWN AS [America’s Reluctant Re- | lreat from World Mar- 1 ket Is Heralded By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, July 25. — The year 1938 is all set to go down in Ihistory as the eighth year of the |great American wheat crisis. It marks another year of Amer- ica’s reluctant retreat from the world wheat market—a retreat that began to take a definite trend in 1930. All the big wheat-growing na- Itions of the world are raising good wheat crops this year. It begins to llook as if they will pour four bil- (lion bushels of the golden grain into the world's bread basket. Four billion bushels is 900,000,000 bushels |too much wheat. TRADE WOULD HELP True, calamity could overtake part or disease could jof the crops. Bugs - WHEAT'CRISIS Crate Non-Stop, New York to Ireland Bennett field in New York to Baldonnel airport, Dublin, Ireland, after announcing on his takeoff he paid $900 for the ship, similar to the one in Here is the plane as he gunned the motor and tock off. He prefessed to be amazed that he went dewn in Ireland and said: “My compass went wrong.” H_[][]Ds SWEEP Corrigan Fills Up for Long Hol; : Here is Corrigan as he loaded his old single-motored plane with 320 gallons of gasoline which carried him non-stop from New York to Dublin, Ireland. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 25.—Politics has its less grim aspects at times and so we have to tell you how capital New .Dealers are trying to elect a Congressman of their own | choosing. | Of course any schoolboy knows | that the national capital has no vote and no Congressmen, but what most schoolboys_don’t know is that Jjust across the Potomac is Alexan- dria, in Virginia, where many Washingtonians live. And in Alex- andria there is a Congressman. He !is Rep. Howard W. Smith, a Con- servative in the sense that Senators | Glass and Byrd are Conservative— and a group of Washington Liberals | are after him. Their candidate is Prof. William bassador to Germany who began denouncing the Nazis while he was still in Berlin and has contin- ued it since. Many of these Washington Lib- erals never had a chance to cam- paign for a Congressman before. They have lived in or about Wash- lington all their lives, where the elements of precinet politics are overlooked. The result is that cam- | paigning for Dodd and against !Smm' has become almost a parlor | game. Representative Smith is a for- mer judge and a solid citizen with two or three terms in Congress be- /hind him. Dodd, no playboy Lib- . (Continued on Page Three) (O:m'-lnued on Page Bix) ATTEMPT MADE TO ASSASSINATE GOV. PORTO RICO [Bullet Hits Executive in Arm During Review at Celebration POLICE IMMEDIATELY OPEN FIRE ON CROWD One Man Killed and Many Others Are Taken to Hospital at Ponce | LT SAN JUAN, Porto Rico, July 25. —Major General Blanton Winship, 68, Governor of Porto Rico, escaped an assassin’s bullet at Ponce today while he was reviewing a parade. Preliminary reports to the Gover- nor's Palace here said the police immediately returned the fire which came from among a crowd watch- ing the celebration of the fortieth anniversary of the landing of Am- erican troops in the Spanish-Amer- ican War One man was killed and a num- 1 iy }Scorvs Killed When Plane Nose Dives, Bursts Flames As Crashes to Grandstand |Many of Those Injured Expected to Die; Disaster Rated | as One of Worst in Aviation’s History of Western Hemisphere; Crowd Panic Stricken When Lead Ship in Aerial Review Catches Afire | BOGOOTA, Colombia, July 25.—|dia, the plane, leading a umssm]} | At least 50 persons, including the| aerial review, caught fire as it ;pilot. were killed and more than 1.'\()' plunged into the grandstand | |injured when a Colombian airplane Flames spread and a wild panic nose dived into a grandstand gripped men, women and children.| |packed with 40,000 spectators| President Don Alfonso Lopez and | watching an aerial review. |a group of foreign diplomats seat- The disaster is one of the worst|ed in a nearby reviewing box, nar- in aviation's history on the Western | rowly escaped death.’ hemisphere. | Many of the injured are expected Piloted by Commander Cesar Aba-| to die. Band, Candidate O’Daniel | Elected Governor of Texas TERRORISTS OF DALLAS, Tex., July 25. — Texas apparently has picked W. Lee 0'-; Daniel, never before a candidate for public -office, as Governor. ot e 3 PRICE TEN CENTS BLOOD SHED ON 3 WAR FRONTS INSURGENTS CUT OFF MORE LAND, SPANISH STRIFE Japan, Making Intensified ampaign in China, Takes More Lives JEWS ARE KILLED BY EXPLOSION, PALESTINE British Government Striving to Stave Off Trouble in New Problem (By Associated Press) Spanish Insurgent offensives have carved Spain into three war fronts while Japan’s intensified campaign in China has taken lives and Ter- rorists have spilled more blood in the feud between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine. Many lives have been taken during the weekend in the Civil War in Spain. In London the House of Com- mons today searched for a compro- mise to settle the demands of the Czechoslovakia Nazis who are sup- ber injured. Many arrests have been | 3 i Y made. | ,0 D;\l\lf*].\_ spectacular campaign, | ported by the Sudeten of Germans, Later reports said at least 20| H L LANDA E wn.h-a Hillbilly band, enthralled the | without upsetting the unsteady | persons were injured by the police | voters with the rural rhythm. | peace in Central Burope. fire, some seriously. Rioting im-| Representative Maury Maverick, In Spain 4 ardent New Dealer, and another| A gwift Insurgent offensive in | mediately broke out. | Senator |standing in the | was slightly injured. Gov. Winship was struck in the |arm by a bullet fired by the would- be assassin and was slightly in- | jured. An American Naval Officer of | P. J. Seralles, who was reviewing .«;tnnd.i Congressman praised by President| Roosevelt, has apparently been de- feated. Maverick was downed by an Irishman, Paul Kilday. O'Daniel’s platform was the Ten Commandments. He defeated 11 foes and got nearly a half million votes compared to a little more than 150,000 for his nearest rival. RULED BY EXILE Orders Are Given by Arab- ian Big Shot, Banish- ‘ ed El Mufti Southwest Spain pinched off 3,125 miles of important Government Territory, apparently the Govern- ment’s price for holding the Insur- gent drive on Valencia almost to a standstill. In China In what is regarded as the main war arena in China, Japan’s air, |the aireraft carrier Enterprise, has | | wirett - t4persons have been' taken JERUSALEM, July 25.—Haj Amin |to the hospital. The shooting did pffendi Al Husseini, Palestine’s not interrupt the parade and the|exiled EI Mufti, sits in a big house |marchers continued passing the re- i, A).Zok, near Beirut, and stirs viewing stand, only a few of |.ht.-m‘[h(B Arab world with a long-handled O'Daniel has been a successful flour miller. POLITICAL PRECEDENT DALLAS, July 25.—O'Daniel, the E. Dodd Jr., son of the former Am- | knowing what had occurred. The Nationalists opposed the an- | niversary celebr: | manifesto calling a meeting to pro- test against it. Fisherman Given | Wishi hen Dies JAMESTOWN, N. Y., July 25— “I'd like to catch one more fish before I give up this sport,” Axel William Johnson, eighty, said today |as he started on a fishing trip. |A little while later he landed a ten-pound muskellonge and then |dropped dead of a heart attack. B | MANY OFFICIALS COMING HERE ON . S.5.COLUMBIA A large number of government officials will be arriving in Juneau | tomorrow aboard the Columbia from the States. Among them will be John D. Coffman, Chief Forester of the National Park Service; Joel E. Wolfson, Assistant to Commissioner Fred W. Johnson of the General Land Office, and T. C. Havell, tech- nical advisor for the land office; Col. John C. H. Lee, Division En- gineer at Portland for the U. S. Army engineering staff; Major Gen- |eral A. J. Bowley, Commanding General of the Ninth Corps Area, San Francisco; Roger M. Jamieson, Chief Underwriter for the Federal Housing Administration for Wash- |ington and Alaska, and R. F. Bes- |sey, Conselor for the National Re- sources Committee. [ |MESSENGER CRUISE SCHEDULED SUNDAY | Sunday morning, the Messenger |will leave Juneau for Snettisham long distance it will be necessary to leave early in order to return in the evening. Those wishing to go are asked to get in touch with Lieut. C. 8. Brooks at the Hotel Juneau as soon as possible. ————— |HALIBUT PRICES, RUPERT, KETCHIKAN At Prince Rupert today 246,000 pounds of halibut were sold at 6.80 and 780 and 6 cents a pound. are 7% and 5 cents today. . fon and issued & pe has built up as well-financed an for an all-day cruise. Owing to the | Prices at Ketchikan for halibut | 46-year-old novice politician who Reliable reports from Beirut snyin.“.’de shambles of Texas in his po- | litical precedent, assured the public | that he would be a “regular fellow as Governor” and scoffed at the| possibility of a dictatorship. The O'Daniel landslide mired in-| ‘sdlrectly two potent members of v e % Congress, the lart tongued Maury f’l"hp Beirut stories t.?]l.n( a flow Maverick and Morgan Sanders, {of money to the house in Al-Zok,| gateq for eventual Chairman of| as the Mufti holds his court and | yho House ways and Means Ce o ‘ carries on—by remote control v oy e | continuing terrorist activities Late: i i st returns i - | Palestine, where a royal commission | ggg yotes f]:;rm e DA it i | majority over eleven |is trying to shape a new partition opponents. Yplan. | Paul Kilday, 38, San Antonio at- | They Couldn’t Agree | torney, whipped Maverick, New Deal The first scheme for dividing|mainstay, by 425 votes. | spoon. |organization as he had before he |stole away from Palestine last October, after hiding from the Brit- ish authorities in the holy Mosque of Omar. | “The Nation | Palestine into Arab, Jewish and| | British-mandated states pleased | o Murphy Favors For almost two months the com- | | mission, headed by Sir John Wood- | | head, has been interviewing govern- | H n u s av e I t fnr |ment officials, private individuals ! and official representatives of the Jewish Agency, all in secret ses- | sion. Arabs have refused to appear. | "u ar erm Meanwhile British troops are try- | ing to keep the Mufti's terrorists on the run. Late in May thousands | TRAVERSE, Mich, July 25. —| of soldiers moved secretly into the | GoV. Frank Murphy indicated in| Galilee and Samaria districts, cut- |80 address he favors a third term | ting a swath right down the center !oLRoosevelt, of Palestine, to keep the terrorists| UOV. Murphy said: out of the villages and force them | ¢OMeS first and it may be necessary further north in order to eject them for President Roosevelt to accept a completely. | third term.” Construction of an electrified wire fence along the Lebanon, Syria and | H HH | Palestine borders is proceeding rap- " I. I"cl e cl“b idly to keep terrorists out. | | Anti-British Plotting H H | Not only does Haj Amin control ea I s Imsel[; the Arab brigands who roam the Palestine hills, but he has begun | to take an active part in Syrian, DENVER, July 25. Walter | | Iraquian and even Egyptian affairs, Thornton Beans, seventy-four-year- | One report tells of a meeting at old jeweler and organizer of an Haj Amin’s house at which it was anti-suicide club here a dozen years | decided to allocate $25,000 for the 260 Was dead—a suicide. He took purpose of fostering anti - British poison. Il health was blamed. and ‘anti-Jewish propaganda in the T |Arab press in Arab countries; to H establish new propaganda centers e". ers "'g s in Baghdad, Mosul and Basra; and |to bring pressure to bear on the U B | |government of Iraq and Saudi ut 0' Hns ltalw {Anbm to take a more active in- | From his house in Al-Zok mes- WASHINGTON, July 2. — Gen. sengers go out over the Arab world | john J. Pershing has completed a |to buy arms and ammunition, o three months' physical checkup at| recruit brigands, and to stir up|the Walter Reed Hospital and has trouble against the British. | moved into a hotel. Frontiers Kept Open | ————— |to give evidence that the funds at i |the Mufti's command are ample to| Luncheon meetings of the Juneau | keep the Syrian and Turkish fron- !Hor.ary Club have been changed to tiers open to get money, arms lndi'ruesdays, Secretary O. L. Kendall ‘ammunmon into the Palestine hills, lannounced this morning, and the | |next luncheon will be tomorrow | terest in Palestine. | There are stories which purport| ROTARY MEETS TOMORROW | |noon at Percy’s Cafe, he said. (Continued on Page Three) land and naval forces combined to drive a break through’to Kiuki- ang, the key Yangtze River port, 135 miles east of Hankow, China’s Provisional Capital. In Palestine Thirty-nine Arabs were killed and | between 50 and 60 injured when a | bomb blasted Jerusalem's crowded market place for the second time since the strife in the Holy Land flared into violence again on July — e P.A.A. FLIGHTS FROM SEATTLE START AUE. 6 Sikorsky Amphibian Will Be Used on Experi- mental Hops Pacific Alaskn Airways will start experimental transport flights om the projected overseas route bee tween Seattle snd Juneau begin- ning August 6, according to advices received by The Lmpire today from New York. Pan American Airways, parent company of PAA, said the first flight would be made by a 10-ton Sikorsky amphibian, authority hav- ing been received from the U. 8, Department of Commerce. A “baby clipper” which normally carries 15 passengers on the inter- island routes of the West Indies and to South America has been as- signed for the first experimental flights, it was announced. It is equipped with special engineering gear and technical weather equip- ment. It will carry no cargo or passengers at the start. There will be a basic crew of five men, a captain, first officer, navigator, flight engineer and radio operator, all pilots. Pan American enginers said they estimated it was feasible to set up a seven-hour schedule to Juneau from Seattle, a distance of approxi- mately 1,000 miles. The initial flight will be made on August 6 from the flight base at the naval air station at Lake Washington, Seattle, — e — Twin Girls Born - Four [lgys Apart STILLWATER, Minn., July 25— Mrs. Art Hanson, wife of a Works Progress Administration painter, be- came the mother of a three-pound girl and the stork came back four days later with a five-pound girk 1