The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 27, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7856. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA\:,JULY 27, 1938. * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE ~ By PRICE TEN €E GERMAN WORLD FLIERS MAY LAND HERE AVIKTION IN ALASKAWILL BE EXPANDED Dr. Gruening Promises In- creased Facilities with More Federal Aid ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 27— Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director, Di- vision of Territories and Island Pos- sessions, said expanded aviation is Alaska’s greatest need Dr. Gruening predicted increased facilities within two years with Federal aid WATER WAGON WHEELED 0UT SEA MONSTER Weird Hair. Covered Crea- ture Found Dead Near Columbia Glacier CORDOVA, Alaska, July 27.—Bot- tles have gone overboard in this Prince William Sound area follow- ing the discovery of & weird sea monster’s body on the beach near Columbia Glacier. The creature was found in Fidal- go Bay on the beach, 15 miles from Columbia Glacier, and no natural history volume gives it any classi- fication. Some persons assert the animal (or fish), belongs to the whale fam- ily, and others deny this assertion on the ground that no blubber is present. The animal (or fish) is 27 feet long, and 17 feet in girth. It has hair on its back, four to five inches long, and on its sides, two inches long. Its ventral fins are six to eight feet long. Because of the nature of water currents in the area, away from Columbia Glacier, it was believed possible the creature had been em- bedded in glacial ice since pre- historic times and had been recent- ly released by action of the melt- ing glacier. PACKER SAYS BRISTOL BAY IS ABOVE NORMAL A. K. Tichenor Believes Take This Year Larg- er than Usual SAN FRANCISCO, July 27—A. K. Tichnor, Vice-President an General Manager of the Alaska Packers, said today he understood the Bristol Bay salmon operations in Alaska have yielded larger packs than usual. Tichenor said definite figures would not be available until re- leased by the Bureau of Fisheries at Juneau, but he said the salmon take has been “somewhat above normal.” All Bristol Bay operations ceased July 24, with the exception of those at Ugashik, which continues until Saturday, Tichenor said, in- dicating that cannery vessels will probably leave ' far Pacific Coast ports early in August. Eighteen Thousand 0Id Age Pensions Paid Off for June WASHINGTON, July 27. — The Social Security Board today re- ported that Old Age Pension Insur-| ance payments in June totaled $861,000 for 18,000 claimants, aver- aging $31.52 each. Of the 18,000 certified claims, 10, 942 went into estates of wage earn- ers who died. Alaska was included in the claims, eight being certified in 'June, bring- ing the total number of claims to 40 in the Territory. Tn Jume, $252 was paid out to Alaskan claimants, | bringing the total payments to date to $3,141. % ) MUST BE LOVE in that grin of Alan T. Schumacher, New Yorker, social event at Newport, R. L. Mrs. of Eil one-time fiancee of John Jacob Astor, breaking quarrel was society gossip for of Eileen Gillespie, whose engagement - whose marriage to the former Phyllis Gillespie, debutante, Schumacher is a sister, 3d, months, Eileen was maid of honor at weddingy/ H igii'estil] ncli mbed Peak On American Continent Has at Last Been Scaled by 2 Men LOYALISTS IN SURPRISE MOVE ONINSURGENTS Fight Way Through Streets of Gandesa—Valencia Charge Weakens HENDAYE, French - Spanish Frontier, July 27.—Government war dispatches assert that Government militiamen have fought their way through the streets of Gandesa, key city of southern Catalonia, hitherto an Insurgent headquarters | district. | The movement has been a sud-, |den offensive that has caught the| | Insurgents_ by surprise and wesk-‘ ened the advance on Valencia. Last night the Government forces were reported only three miles from Gandesa. — e — *- — New York Central 18%, Soutehrn Pacific 18%, | . United States Steel 59, Cities Serv- ice 9'2, Pounds $4.92'., Northern Pacific 12', Safeway Stores 19'%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, SMALITI;OAT HARBOR Jones averages: industrials 140.24, rails 28.28, utilities 20.72, *- | o+ £ d BASEBALL TODAY Scores of baseball games played in | Yesterday with the major leagues this afternoon as received up to 1:30 o'clock are as follows: National League Cincinnati 0, 1; Boston 1, 5. Pittsburgh 4; Philadelphia 2. St. Louis 7; New York 0. American League New York 7; St. Louis 5. Washington 4; Detroit 9. FOUR CHILDREN * | sTock QuotaTions | Smothered to Death While| | NEW YORK, July 27. — Closing‘ |auotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 197, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 35'%, Bethlehem Steel 581z, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Ourtiss-Wright 5%, General Motors 41%, International Harvest- er 64, Kennecott 41%, Iment | Nelson, |tracks in the lower part of town. llxlsnd bridge on the mainland. CHISTOCHINA, Alaska, July 27 -Bradford Washburn, Cambridge, Mass., explorer, has returned to civilization. Washburn said he and Terrace Moore, of Los Angeles, succeeded in climbing Mount Sanford, a 16,206- foot peak, on July 21. It was the highest remaining unclimbed peak on the American continent. Washburn said he and Moore| made an earlier attempt on July| 19 but they were driven back by storms at 14,500 feet. 1 Dogs and horses were used to| transport supplies to the 6,000-foot | base camp which was’reached only after crossing a wide stretch of bogs and marshes. The dogs were used to 14,000 feet but the final lash was made on skiis. DIE WHEN SAND CAVE FALLS IN Playing on Railroad Embankment CLEVELAND, O., July 27.—Three | boys and one girl were smothered to death today when ten tons of sand collapsed upon them while they were digging in an embank- The childen were Agnes Majkra- ck, 8, Edward Kruczek, 9, Billy 7, and Leo Yazembra, 8. They were digging a cave’in the sand embankment beside railroad ja REPORT BE GIVEN AT | CHAMBER TOMORROW b Report of the small boat harbor committee on its conference here Col. John C. H.| Division Engineer, | Le® U. S. Army at Portland, will feature the meet- | maries was limited, when a candi- | ing of the Juneau Chamber of| Commerce tomorrow noon at Per-| by Allen Shattuck, went over the| | proposed site yesterday with Cr)l.; |Lee and discussed with him the|isn’t following that pattern. possibility of getting an allotment | of $232,000 for construction of the maries were little short of revolu- | |harbor just morth of the Douglas | tions, but gradually there grew up| I system in which each candidate | JAPAN | southern port of Minatitlan, HOPKINS BIVE CLEAN BILL BY SENATE RULING Campaign Expenditure Body of Mind WPA Head | Tried No Coercion WASHINGTON, July 27. — The |Senate Campaign xpenditures | Committee today dismissed the re- cent statement of WPA Adminis- | trator Harry L. Hopkins that ninety | percent of all WPA workers would | vote for President Roosevelt. | The committee, in giving out the | | statenient, said such comments “are | ‘lo be distinguished from those that | are in the nature of political advice, | or indicate intention to exert poli- | tical pressure upon workers paid from relief funds or from benefici- |aries or relief funds.” | It was found by the commm.ee! that Hopkins' alleged statement in | | no way showed attempt at coercion. | | Chairman Sheppard said inves-| | tigators will be sent to Georgia, Tllinois, and Indiana, however, to| Iin\'estigill(' other charges of politi-| | cal abuses. - CLASH AGAIN, SIB. FRONTIER Tokyo Foreign Office Says1 Disturbance Not Tak- en Seriously TOKYO, July 27.—The Japanese Foreign Office discloses thata third | |clash this month between Soviet and Manchoukuo patrols on the| Siberian frontier has taken place. | The Foreign Office states that {the clash is “not to be taken seriously,” although admitting rela- |tions between Japan and Soviet sia “are a bit strained.” NAVY SEAPLANE BOMBER MAKES RECORD FLIGHT SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 27.—Fly- ing nonstop on both legs of a San Diego to Pensacola, Fla., trip, = patrol bombing plane landed here, completing the Navy's first such roundtrip transcontinental seaplane | flight. ‘The bomber carried a crew of six SEEKS FOOTHOLD I MEXICO FIELD MEXICO CITY, July 27.—Reports that the Japanese have chartered a tanker, now enroute to Tampic and another is being loaded at thc e~ ceives speculation that Japan i seeking a foothold in tHe Mexican oil industry. — e Navy Scouting Plane Carries Two to Death Two were carried to death in the crash of a Navy scouting seaplane which fell into the Snohomish The plane was one of three flying from the cruiser The bod'es of Aviation Cadet Joseph C. Booth of Glendale, , the wreckage being taken from the river. River, near Lewell, Wash,, after Leuisvilie, anchored i Cal, and J. C. Monti, a pharn CZECH TROUBLE Leapsto Death from 17th Story Of Hotel After Defying for 10 Entreaties Not OVER SUDETANS NEAR SOLUTION Minority Groups Given New + Cencessions—British- er Will Mediate (By Associated Press) Two steps have been taken toward a settlement of Czechoslovakia’s troublesome minority problem in the publication of a new Minorities Statute and the appointment of a British adviser as mediator. The new statute would grant three and a half million sudeten Germans new concessions with reference to school administration and Govern- ment jobs, and the use of preferred languages. The new statute did not, however, deal with the question of autono- mous government. It appeared def- inite that final settlement of all problems entering into the dispute would not be reached until the ques- tion of autonomous government is cleared up. The appointment of Viscount Runciman, from Londoy, as adviser in the dispute, was hailed in Ber- lin official circles as a clear triumph for Germany. —ee—— Cook Inlet Red Salmon Pack Is flvefiast Year Fifty Thousand Cases Are * Already Canned—Run Still Continues ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 27— Canneries here have already e ceeded their last year’s pack and the red salmon run still continues strong. Fifty thousand ready packed. cases are al- 0l(l-Timé. i)rimaries in Kentucky Were Simpler Despite Many Shootings By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 27. — Old line Kentucky politicians would glad for a return of the old da: when outside interference in p: s ri- date battled alone for his nomina- tion and the state counted the dead ley’s Cafe. The committee, headed and wounded before it tabulated| tyrning pis the vote. The Barkley-Chandler contest Time was when Kentucky pri- worked for himself. He claimed | little aid from national or state | administrations, depending instead |upon his own organization and | friends. | our information is that such was especially true regarding U. S. | Senators until Governor Chandler bowled over the idea in 1936 by | state organization |against Senator Logan, without | success. | HOW 1T WaS DONE Chandler has made (Continued on Page Seven) Kentucky Elliott Bay, Seattle. it hit a powerline. s mate, were recoered. Abo BRISTOL BAY PACK ISNEAR THO MILLION Westward Districts Now Hours Ahead of Last Year Due |into space as a cargo net was being | to Big Red Salmon Run There will be a two-miiiion-case salmon pack in Bristol Bay this season when total figures are com- piled, it was indicated today in pack figures reelased by the Bureau \of Fisheries and covering the period through last Saturday at which time there were still two days to fish in the region and five days more in the Ugashik River area. The Bristol Bay pack now stands lat 1,809,223 cases, the report re- | veals, about 400,000 cases over last year and one of the greatest packs |in nistory. The huge pack in Bristol Bay has |sent the total pack for westward districts slightly over that of last season and it is expected to go | considerably higher. | Westward districts with compara- |tive pack figures for last season through July 23 follow: | Chignik—Reds, 26,078; kings, 115; pinks, 1,150; chums, 4,358; cohos, 43; total, 31,744; last year, 52,736. | Alaska Peninsula (south side)— |Reds, 45,344; kings, 1652; pinks, {93.394; chums, 79,294; cohos, 5,556; |total, 225,240; last year 317,526. | Alaska Peninsula (north side)— Reds, 59,643; kins, 1,022; chums, 4,- 064; total, 64,729; last year, 50,106. Bristol Bay Reds, 1,752,304; kings, 4,818; chums, 51,765; cohos, 1336; total, 1,809,223; last year, 1- 1434,388. | Kodiak—Reds, 65,277; kings, 152; | pinks, 47,750; chums, 28,031; cohos, 502; total, 141,712; last year, 357,019. | Cook Inlet—Reds, 89,867; kings, 13,713; pinks, 15481; chums, 13014; cohos, 22,835; total, 154,970; last year, 108,838. Prince William Sound, including Resurrection Bay Reds, 6,383; ,kings, 170; pinks, 73681; chums, 14,274; cohos, 2,941; ttoal, 97.449; last year, 115,707. | Copper River (final)—Reds, 64,- 1270; kings, 2,525; total, 66,795; last year, 81,322, Totals—Reds, 2,109,168; kings, 24,- 227, pinks, 231,456; chums, 194,800; cohos, 32,213; grand total, 2,501,862; |1ast year, 2,517,642 cases. >-ee L. F. MORRIS HERE L. F. Morris, former Alaska trav- eling man who made his home in |Juneau for several years, visited Juneau today while the North Sea was in port. Morris is going to Sitka, where he will stay for an indefinite time on business. While in Juneau today, |Morris renewed acquaintances with many old Juneau friends. ( | | | downward. to Do So| 2 NEW YORK, July 27.—A horri- fied crowd saw John Ward, 26, un- employed instructor of society girls, plunge 17 stories to his death early last evening, after refusing for 10 hours, pleading of police, firemen, relatives and friends, as he lounged on an 18-inch ledge outside of a hotel window debating the futility of life. More than 1,000 policemen were unable to hold back the crowd. Hundreds fainted when Ward nonchalantly stepped off the ledge | hoisted up the hotel facade to catch | him. A moan, audible for blocks, arose from the crowd as the body hurtled Traffic on upper Fifth Avenue had been blocked for hours as Ward debated his plunge. He smoked three packages of cig- arettes debating his plunge and ;kept police and others from selzingi |him by saying: “Go back inside| or I'll jump.” Ward accepted cigarettes, water,| tea and sandwiches but kept out| of reach. Ward's mother, living upstate in New York, long-distanced him through an extension telephone pushed to him on the ledge. He | talked briefly and then hung up. | Shortly after talking to his | mother, he took the fatal leap. Libhy Official ~ Tours Northland ‘Edward Wil—ki:, on Execu- | tive Board, Visits in : Juneau Briefly | Edward Wilkie, on the Executive Board of Libby, McNeill and Libby, is now making a tour of Alaska, visiting all of the big company’s canneries in Alaska. He was in Ju- neau two days ago and then flew with Alex Holden to Yakutat to visit the cannrey there. Mr. Wilkie graduated from An- napolis in 1921 and was a famous football player. He left the service and for 12 years was European representative of Libby, McNeill and Libby, but was brought back and named to the Executive Board and is now becoming familiar with the company holdings in Alaska. Being a graduate of Annapolis, he and J. Simpson MacKinnon hob-nobbed while on the brief Ju- neau visit. e SHANTZ ARRIVES HERE Dr. H. L. Shantz, chief of the Wildlife Division of game manage- ment Forest Service, Washington, who has been in the Territory for several weeks, arrived in Juneau last night on the Ranger IX after a visit to Anan Creek, Pack Creek and other points of interest in Southeast Alaska. He expects to be returning south the latter part of | EFFORTS TO BE MADE FOR STOP, ALASKA CAPITAL {German Embassy Is Asked | to Make Change in Routing in North MORE DETAILS ARE RECEIVED ON FLIGHT j‘Permission Asked to Land at Nome and Fairbanks —Crew of Six Aboard Following announcement that the German world fliers are not attempting to make a dash but rather making a test flight, communications have been sent to the German Kmbassy in Washington to permit the plane to land in Juncau, if feasible, on the flight from Fairbanks to San Francisco. The plane is using the PAA airport at Fair- banks and presumably the same courtesy would be extended here. | ¥ i | PROPOSED FLIGHT Following the announcement in yesterday’s Empire (hat Germany is sponsoring a world flight, further information was received here to- day concerning the proposed globe tour, The German Embassy, on orders from Berlin, asked the State De- partment yesterday to grant land- ing permission of the plane in the United States and also at Nome and Fairbanks in Alaska. The plane will start, presumably from Berlin, in August or Septem- ber. According to advices received from the German Embassy the plane will carry a crew of six. Capt. Henke will be pilot and comman- der of the flight. He has long experi- ence in aviation. Co-pilot will be Capt. von Moreau. The remainder of the crew will be a navigator, ra- dio operators and mechanics. The plane is a four-motor new type Condor, manufactured by the Focke Wulf, Germany company. From Alaska the plane will fly to San Francisco and perhaps then nonstop to New York City. The German fliers will not ate tempt to rival Howard Hughes for speed and the flight is characterized as a series of long distance tests. The route proposed is from Ger- many, flying southeast to India, China, Japan and thence to Al- aska. The plane will then cross the United States and then fly back to Germany either direct or via Ireland. —————— NAVAL UNITS OF JAPANESE PUSHING ON Advancing Toward Provis- ional Capital City of Hankow—Opposition SHANGHAI, July 27.—Japanese Naval units are reported pressing rapidly up the Yangtze River to- ward Hankow after occupation of Kiukiang, 135 miles down river from the provisional capital. Chinese sources indicate guerilla warfare is threatening the advance which is not as 1osy as Japanese reports indieate. % Jail Quarantine Upsets Justice YORKVILLE, Iil, July 27.—It was sort of disturbing (o have them tack a “Keep Out—Scarlet Fever” sign on the Kendall county jail door, It meant that Sheriff Willlam Maier went home to live with his father for a while, The sheriff’s daughters, Joanne, 9, and Shirley, 7, were confined to their apartment in the jail build- ing. Two minor offenders were ins carcerated indefinitely, ». |the month, And the line prisoner awaiting trial couldn't even get to court.