The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 5, 1938, Page 1

> HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” *VOL. LIL, NO. 7864. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 5, 1938. RUSSIAN ARTILLERY Baby Cllpper Due Here Tomorrow 'FLIGHT STARTS FROM SEATTLES AM. SATURDAY t Test Plane Expected to Ar- rive in Juneau Around 3:30 in Afternoon DINNER PLANNED BY CHAMBER FOR FLIERS Landing Probabaly Will Be Made at PAA Field, But Auk Bay Possibility SEATTLE, Aug. 5—The erican’s baby clipper is scheduled to hop from here at 9 a.m. tomorrow on her first test flight to Juneau, preparatory to inaugurating a regu- lar air mail and passenger service between Seattle and Juneau, it was announced today. The flight is ex- pected to take about seven and one- half hours with a brief stop at Ket- chikan for refueling, officials said. Aboard the plane when it takes off here tomorrow will be Capt. John Mattis, in charge of the test flight; S. E. Robbins, well known Alaska pilot, First Officer; Hugh Gordon, Navigation Officer; Ro- land Thompson, Flight Mechanic: J. W. Smyser, Radio Officer; Joe Crosson, Manager of the Pacific Al- iys;-affiliate of Pan-Am-| erican, and Ed Yuravick, Inspector for the Bureau of Air Commerce. Pan-Am- DINNER PLANNED FOR FLIERS Getting away from Seattle at 9 a.m. tomorrow, which will be 8 a.m. a MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS is Mary 5000 MILES Pressgrove of Shelbyville, Tenn., traveling to wed Claude La Varre, brother of the explorer. Ceremony will be on Liner Santa Clara off Talara, Peru. ), E. EDGERTON PASSES AWAY, AFTER CAREER Fighter Agamst NRA, Col- lective Bargaining, Dies in Tennesssee LEBANON, Tenn., Aug. Emmet Edgerton, 58, who rose !rum laborer in the woolen mills North Carolina to the Presxdencv of the National Association of Man- ufacturers in the United States, died here last night. He waged a militant fight against the great textile “WRONG WAY" FLIER GIVEN 1CKES, BRIDE T0 BE GREETED AT KETGHIKAN Alaska Secre!ary Griffin, New Yonk Clty Greets Mrs. Bender Go South | Douglas Corrigan on | . toRepresent Governor | Arnival from Ireland | PEREE, NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—Cool, brash young Douglas Corrigan rode tri- umphantly up lower Broadway Q- day, grinning as the rose and sweltering cheered his progress, Representing Gov. John W. Troy in welcoming Interior Secretary | Harold L. Ickes and his bride to Alaska, E. W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska, and Mrs. Robert Bender sailed for Ketchikan this morning on the Princess Louise and will ac- company the Secretary and Mrs.|s Ickes to Juneau. Secretary Ickes is scheduled to arrive in Ketchikan tomorrow fore- noon on the Mount McKinley from Seattle and the vessel is expected in Juneau Sunday morning. He will remain in Juneau on the north bound trip only while the vessel is in port, going on to the Westward and Interior. His itinerary calls for a trip over the Alaska Railroad and back over the highway and Copper River and Northwestern Railroad, taking the Baranof south from Cor-| dova to Juneau, arriving here around the 19th on his return south. The Secretary has announced plans to spend at least three days here before retuxnmg to the States. WESTWARD PACK 'RUNNING AHEAD OF LAST SEASON and a continuous roar dinned upon his ears from the Battery to the City Hall. Tons of torn paper and ticker tape fell on Corrigan as he sat in the back of an open car. James McCurrin, Chairman Mayor LaGuardia's reception com- mittee, and the Mayor's secretary, Stanley Howe, were in the second car with Corrigan's brother Harry and the latter’s wife. enthusiasm has not been seen since the frenzied tribute given Col Charles A. Lindbergh. Fully 100,000 persons gathered at ‘tthe Battery and let out one mighty roar when Corrigan hove into sight. Police said about a million people were watching Corrigan in the few blocks from the Battery to City Hall. The Mayor gave him freedom of | the city for the “prepared impul- siveness of your grand flight.” little because the Mayor's speech “well nigh floored me,” but added | that he could say to the Mayor “that BIG WELCOME temperature | thousands | indifferent to | the oppressive heat. All the enthu- | asm for his mad solo flight from | New York to Dublin was let loose | of | Such crowds and such boisterous | m‘ New York City in years, perhaps not‘ Corrigan remarked he could say| PRICE TEN CENTS ) % o ! \ | | FROM THE GRAVE MOUNDS that characterize their wverts take the pattern for these foot-thick concrete artillery “pill boxes” which are planted in earth and covered with grass. These are being moved along Yangtze river. CI0 BLAMED FOR CAUSING | Grump Faction Wins Primary - LABOR STRIFE In Tennessge |Goyarnor of Cahformaw(}ov. Brownin: | Bluntly Takes Organ- ‘ | ization to Task [ g Group Is Snowed Under in Aval- anche, Primary Ballots Aug. 5.| NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. today | Democratic faction headed by | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, —Gov. Frank F. Merriam 5.—The Na- Juneau time, the clipper, if it trav- els on planned scheduled should ar- strike of 1934 and also warred on! rive in Juneau between 3:30 and 4 o'clock tomorrow evening. The am- phibian is expected- to land at PAA field out the highway on wheels, but preparations also are being made by PAA officials here for a land- ing at Auk Bay in case the clipper command chooses a water landing. Reception for the clipper and PAA staffs is planned by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce and a com- mittee headed by C. B. Arnold will be at the field ready to greet the fliers when they come in, it was announced today. A dinner at 6:30 o'clock is scheduled at Percy’s Cafe by the committee for the men off the clipper and all the members of the PAA staff who will be in the city. The committee handling the af- fair for the Chamber includes C. B.| : Arnold, Chairman; Tom Dyer, Mayor Harry 1. Lucas, Wilbur We: r, Charles W. Carter, Adams, Allen and Curtis Shatt John W. Jones, Charles Goldstei Harry Watson, E. S. Evans and R. L. Bernard. | Platform Built | many phases of the New Deal. More than a decade before Fran- klin D. Roosevelt became President, Edgerton began 10 years of service as head of the National Association of Manufacturers in the United States, but it was after he had left! that office and become spokesman for the industrial south that he at- tacked the government’s labor poli- cy under the National Recovery Ad-| ministration, blaming it for much of the labor trouble in those unset- tled days. Claims Made outbreak of the textile September, 1934, Edger- At the strike in ton wired Roosevelt that the walk- “more against the govern- Ad- out was ment, the ministration, National Recovery the code the affected employers But the roots of the strike, charged this manufacturer whose own plant at Lebanon, Tenn. escaped unaf- fected, lay in the system itself. Tt | never would have happened, he said, had it not bheen for Section 7-A, the collective bargaining section, of the National Industrial Recovery Act| Over in B. M. Krafft's woodwork- Bristol Bay Packed Final Total of 1,811,985 Cases With Bristol Bay packing more| than 1,800,000 cases, the Westward | districts’ salmon pack for this sea- son now stands more than 100,000 cases ahead of last season, accord- ing to figures released today by the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries. The final pack figures from Bristol Bay show a total of 1811985 cases of which 11,754,387 cases were of the famed Bristol Bay red salmon. It is the second largest pack in the history of that region. The 1918 season ex- ceeded it with 1,838,439 cases, Bu- reau records reveal. In addition to Bristol Bay, Cook | Inlet, the north side of Alaska Pen-| insula and the Prince William Sound area are all ahead of last season. The Bureau announced today that| an extension had been granted in the Prince William Sound area from | 6 o'clock Saturday evening until 6 p.m. August 9. The case pack figures for the| | Westward districts through July 30, | you too have your compass set in| bluntly charged the CIO with caus-| tional Committeeman E. H. Crump | |a certain direction and youw'll get|ing much of this state’s labor strife| and U. S. Senator McKellar won a there if you want to.” With a note of slyness, he added further, “if | you know what I mean.” | Apparently the crowd knew for it exploded with laughter. The Mayor looked surprised, then he | too, grinned. It was revealed late in the after- | | noon that Corrigan was put to bed | briefly suffering from a chest in-| | jury received apparently when '/ crowd stormed his automobile just before his Broadway parade earlier | today. His .Brother Harry said the | cartilage around the breast bone was broken and he was quickly heavily taped. Corrigan said he would go through with the welcom- ing schedule and did. BAN LIFTED WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—Doug- |las Corrigan, who started off for ‘Cam’m ni§ recently, spanned the At- |lantic and landed in Ireland, can spread his wings again at the De- partment: of Commerce Aeronauti- ’cal Bureau’s ban on his flying ac- | tivities have been lifted. The ban was placed on the Irish aviator be- | cause he failed to secure a permit Ito fly. as well as trouble in the Nation at| smashing victory over Gov. Gnr-{ large. | don Browning and Senator Berry | Gov. Merriam emphatically said| yesterday in the Tennessee pri-| he had no sympathy with the or-|mary, incomplete returns show. | ganization and further said he had been compelled to protect not only| business interests but the lives uf‘ those B o labor disturbances. Prentice Cooper, 43, Shelbyville attorney and former state Com- mander of the American Legion, was nominated Governor over Browning who two years ago when he had Crump’s support received the greatest majority ever given ’ a gubernatorial candidate in this state. Senator Berry was defeated by A. T. Stewart, Winchester District At- torney General, who expressed a 100 percent endorsement of President Roosevelt’s policies although the New Deal was not an issue. Returns showed for Governor in 1900 precincts: Cooper, 176,000; Browning 129,000; for Senator, Stewart, 128,000; Berry, 76,000; Rep- rescnmuve‘ mdley Ml(‘hvll 59,000. DIES, GALLOWS, PREVAILING IN GERMAN DOINGS U.S. Departments Will Talk “Off the Record” But | Not for Publication By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—Not in a long time have we run into such a tone of hush-hush about the State Department, Department of Com- | | | landscape, Chinese military ex- the ONE MURDERED ON EVE OF VOTE IN KENTUCKY Former She—r'-lfl_ Is Slain on Stairs Leading to Sen. Barkley’s Offices | JACKSON, Ky., Aug. 15—Murder| | warrants were issued today for two men for killing former Sheriff Lee Combs last night on a stairway leading to of Senator Alben Barkley. Combs, the left shoulder, Lewis Combs County Chairman. Gov. Albert B. “Happy” dler, opposing Senator Barkley in S. L. Combs, father of Lee, obtained warrants before County Judge Pearl Campbell for William Combs, no relation of the victim, and Wardie Jenkins. Another warrant was is- sued for Irvin Turner, charging him with “aiding and assisting” in the shooting. Coroner James Goff called an in- quest and in s where the mation was gathered from several sources which indicated that Lee and Lewis Combs went to the build- ing where the Barkley headquarters is located, and which also housed a meeting of the Breathitt County precinct committee, to attend he later meeting and see committee- | and wounding two others| the Breathitt County headquarters| Lewis | brother of the former sher-| iff, was shot in the side and Sher-| iff Walter Deaton was wounded in| is | Chan- | tomorrow’s Democratic primary, and | eeking the source of | shots were fired infor-| merce and even the Treasury with PLEADING FOR ing shops, workmen have been busy the last few days making sections for a big servicing platform for the | baby clipper. The platform is 28 feet wide and | 11% feet high. It is seven feet rram! front to back and rolls on 18-in wheels six inches wide. and for “the commonly accepted as- | including finals for Bristol Bay and surance that nobody shall go hun- Gopper River, with comparative fig- | gry. | urs for last year for the same peri-| Rapped Bargaining lod follow: 1 At every opportunity Edgerton| chignik—Reds, 28,220; kings, 133; rapped the collective bargaining pinks, 3,406; chums‘ 5,381; cohos, | clause, describing it on one occasion | 167; total, 37,307; last season, 78,-‘ as “the one-sided, wholly partisan,| 437, Marine Airways Fly Wide Area regard to German affairs. Experts will talk informatively “off the record” about trade and other relations affecting Germany but are genuinely careful that no offensive note be struck. Germany is the keystone right now in Euro- HIS COMPANION Man Is Hanged for Slaying, unjust section 7-A of the National Cook Inlet—Reds, 147271; kings,| pean peace negotiations and this men. Reports were that Lee comba‘ went up to the meeting first and a | short time later came downstairs. | A little later he came to the foot of the stairs with his brother and; they started up again but wnre stopped by Sheriff Deaton. Then\ shots rang out SOVIET SHELLS ARE RAINED ON DISPUTED HILL Conflict Reported Riging Along Border in Face of Truce Offer NIPPONS WANT TO AVERT ANOTHER WAR Moscow Government Gives Terse Terms Which May Stave Off Strife (By Associated Press) Japan’s offer of a truce to Soviet Russia in the border hostilitles hag raised hopes for a peaceful settle- |ment in the present crisis which threatens to draw the Japanese | troops into a second Asiatic war. The situation is far from set- tled however and is on dangerous grounds. Russian artillery is reported pounding the Japanese lines on the disputed Changkufeng Hill near the junction of the Russian-Japanese- Korea-Manchoukuo border. The next move is up to Japan as the result of the Russian Govern- ment’s brief statement setting forth how negotiationss may be opened for a peaceful settlement. In brief the terms are that fighting must cease, artillery be withdrawn and all Japanese soldiers from Soviet Territory and that Japan must recognize the Russia-China treaty of 1886 with border maps at- tached to it. B 100 BOMBS ARE DROPPED IN AIR RAID, VALENGIA Loyalists Approaching Al- barracian—Now With- | in Rifle Range | HENDAYE, French - Spanish Frontier, Aug. 5.—Insurgent air | raiders dumped fully 100 bombs on | Valencia today while intense fight- | ing continued on two major fronts. | Government advices report that | a large number of buildings in Val- | encla were destroyed as a result of the bombardment but casualties are not estimated. Insurgent advices said Gen. Fran- co reported that 100 war planes | bombarded, simultaneously, the Al- barracian and Catalan fronts. Direct advices from Madrid state the Government forces are within | rifle range of the Insurgent head- quarters in Albarracian, northwest of Tereul notwithstanding the air | raid upon their ranks. —ao—— ‘Steps on Nail; Holes in the top of the platform made to accommodate the twin engines and their propellors give | an indication of the clipper’s size, showing engines to be placed ap-| proximately fifteen, feet apart and\ well over 10 feet off the ground. The “rig” was made in sections in the Krafft shops and taken out to the airport today for erection. Wright Bothered C. D. Wright, temporary airport manager for the trial flights of the 10-ton baby clipper, is “up in the air” because he doesn’ know where to expect the landing of the big craft. o Wright said today that a '600-| pound anchor and mooring buoy had been placed in Auk Bay near the end of the Fritz Cove road in| the advent of Capt. Mattis’ choos- ing to land the amphibian plane on water instead of at the field. T've got to be two places at once,” Wright sighed, commenting that the plane would probably ar- Industrial Recovery Act, which was! 15, 229; pinks, 27,635; chums, 15,212; written into it by the mailed hand|cohos, 29,714; total, 235061; of the American Federation of La- | season, 174,482. bor.” i Alaska Peninsula (south side)— B B Nj | ieding and Bert Wood: Of a promise to furnish strikers!Reds, 51,145; kings, 1657; pinks, "This morning, Pllot Cope retilrn- with food through Federal relief 179541; chums, 95,968; cohos, 12.-| t agencies, Edgerton said that if it|g46; total, 341,157; last season, 437,- f: f::;n :‘ajf:}iifé tré:k::.: Ke;crhfll(ax: were withdrawn the strike “would | 217, |night at 5 pm. with Lgl cHeb:st last less than a week.” | Alaska Peninsula (north side) 7‘1-0,‘ pe',ersbu?g and L. Gy eWm arrd Chapel Service In Mills | Reds, 74,175; kings, 1022; chums,|anq Oscar Bergseth for Kebcmgkan His statepents were regarded as| 4726; total, 79,923; last season, 6L- Alex Holden,yesterday afternoon significant because as president of ! P e Stawip ol 559. Ilew the Bellanca to Sitka with Early this afternoon, Alex Holden last took off in the Marine Airway§ e/ Bellanca for Polaric Taku with Industrial| Bristol Bay — Reds, 1754,387; - ) B. F. Heintzleman, R. F. Besse (Continued on Page Seven) | kings, 4,828; chums, 52438 CONOS, u'i Jerrs Lodge. returning in the REE MEMBERS AR 332; total, 1811,985; last season, L-|ovening with Bessey, Georgia | TH . | 434388 . E | - Coul A. Power, Bi Kodiak—Reds, 84,165; kings, 241; | apecre i Bl -Bernes Yesterday evening after the Sit- ka trip, Holden then flew a charter HONORED ; LUNCHEON | | pinks, 173,160; chums, 43,181; cohos, | A Martha Society pot luck lunch | 1515; ,262; last 3 was held today at the Ray G. Day 51531237 fony mnat on el ;;:pk mB Fnga ;ni :;Ilood 3“( D residence on 126 West Seventh| Prince William Sound (including sp:ctiveleyz > ol st | Street with approximately fifty | Resurrection Bay)—Reds, 17,163; & members in attendance. The lunch- | kings, 220; pinks, 175519; chumsxa Tmfff;mnmiop;‘ w? 19 take eon served as a farewell party for|19319; cohos, 3,902; total, 206,123; i e - eee - Government is anxious not to make Bank Robbery—Wants things worse, since they are al- ready bad enough. Partner’s Life Spared & | WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 5 4 P“blfc\smnley Knapp died on the gallows in Washington there is|shortly after midnight in the State | NOTHER REMEMBERS In almost every major building men who went from the various de- | partments to fight in the World| Knapp mounted the gallows and | War. Some list hundreds of names.| then made a plea for the life of | Every once in a while a bouquet| his companion in the crime, Herbert ‘ol flowers will ‘be deposited at the| Allen, scheduled to hang on August foot of one of the tablets. Some-| 16, | times it is an ornate bouquet, the formal remembrances of some or- * | ganization to which the dead sol- ‘ dier once belonged. Occasionally the bouquet is a simple bunch of flowers—one Mama picked out of NEW YORK, Aug. 5. — Closing the garden to leave below her| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | boy’s name as she headed for town | stock today is 11%, American Can to do some shopping | 101%, American Light and Power Wars last an awfully long time 5%, Anaconda 367%, Bethlehem holdup slaying in Spokane. - e — * STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 a bronze tablet with the names of | penitentiary for his part in a m:nk1 FOUREARTH SHOCKS FELT L. A, COUNTY LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 5—| Four slight earth tremors were felt in various sections of Los Angeles county last night with no damaue; reported. Residents however be- came panicky. - Coaperage Plant Destroyed, Blaze Gets Ride with Stretcher Crew Rescue Party Takes Wom- an to Palmer from Wild- erness Home ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 5— Mrs. Walter Stickman is in the Palmer Hospital today after a four- |day stretcher ride, crossing rivers and fighting storms, after a blood poisoned leg had rendered her help- less. Matanuska Valley Marshal Wil- liam Bouwens led a rescue party to Mrs. Stickman’s wilderness home three members who are to leave for the south soon. Members hon- ored are Mesdames Anthony Bock- rive around 3 or 4 o'clock in the oo Gunnar Blomgren and Flor- afternoon, and that he probably .. gronce) would not know until the last min-|" mp honorees were presented with ute where the plane Will be Put|gires ang the afternoon was spent down. in sewing. last season, 188,391. Copper River—Reds, 64,270; kings, 2,525; total, 66,795; last season, 81,- 322. Totals—Reds, 2,210,796; kings,| 25,855; pinks, 559,261; chums, 236,~ 225; cohos, 48.476; grand total, 3,- 080,613; last season, 2,978,363, EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETS A regular meeting of the Ep-| | —with mothers. Steel, 60, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright, 57%, Shy Howard Hughes, who flew General Motors 45%, International | when word reached Palmer thatshe PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 5. — The‘hld stepped on a rusty nail and ‘wor!.h League will be held tonight around the world in 91 hours, was Harvester 62, Kennecott 42%, New lin the Methodist Church mrlurs a half hour late getting to Wash-| York Central 20, Southern Pacific | with President Lola La Pugh pre- |ington to address a gathering of 20, United States Steel 61%, Safe- mdlne Following the meeting a so- | newsmen and federalisti, but onece way Stores 21, Pound $4.89%, Nor- | thern Pacific 13%. cisl will be held, (Continued on Page Seven) Pacific Cooperage Company plant and three or four small buildings were destrdyed early today in a Northwest Portland Industrial dis- trict blaze. blood poisoning had set in. The rescue party took pack horses in, but Mrs. Stickman was too weak to ride, and had to be strapped to a stretcher for the long trip.