The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 6, 1938, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRL “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7865. " JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 6, 1938. | CENTS SOVIET PLANES RAID KOREAN SECTION FIlghtmof» Baby Cllpper Is Postpone " RADIO TESTS DELAY FIRST HOP T0 NORTH If Trouble é(;reclcd. Big Amphibian Expected to Take Off Tomorrow FAVORABLE WEATHER REPORTED ON ROUTE Notice Will Re Given by l.“]p“e a”(] Rddl(’ If Flight Starts Sunday Test flight of the Pan American baby clipper from Seattle to Ju- neau, scheduled for today, has been postponed to allow the crew to com- UN-SHY LOYALIST-REFUGEES stacked up firearms at a military post across SOUTH SEWARD ¥ STREET PRUJEGT; !i"., GETTING AIRING | Council Decides to Make/ Property Owners Of- | fer of $5,000 ‘ | After heariang about. two hours | of argument, the City Council at| its meeting last night decided to| make an offer of $5,000 for the| | right-of-way on South Seward for| | street widening purposes, which is| approximately half of the $10,200| figure asked by sponsors of the pro- | ject. | | Councilman G. E. Krause, who made the motion and won a second {from Councilman Sam Feldon, ex- plained that in view of the princi- | pal objection to the undertaking being based mostly on cost to the | plete lio tests, according to an ify weapons as former. property of 43rd Division.s city, it was his idea to negotiate Associated Press dispatch to The France’s border where French officers identify P P y _on the matter and perhaps get @ | ‘mpire today. Officials in Seattle ¥ better price. While his motion would the plane would not leave be- ” \ZIC"()I' limit the cost to the city to $5,000, | “H lliii y ore tomorrow at the earliest. vorable weather conditions pre- vail up the coast, although there was only a thousand-foot eeiling at Seattle this morning, it was stated, and indication was given that the flight might be made tomorrow. In the event it is made tomorrow, notice will be posted in the window of The Empire and radio station KINY will make an announcement before going off the air at 2 o'clock | in the afternoon. The reception and dinner planned at Percy’s Cafe for 6 o'clock to- night has been set over until such time as the Clipper crew arrive here, according to C. B. Arnold, Chairman of the Chamber of Com- merce committee arranging the af- fair. Information from Seattle was that the radio tests made yester- day did not prove entirely satisfac- | tory, fade outs being experienced. If this matter is satisfactorily cor- rected today, it is expected the Clip- per will hop for the north in l]wI morning. If not, it probably will be delayed further. It was explained that this being purely a test flight, the first of three to be made, great care was being taken to perfect every feature of the flights which are the forerunner of regularly scheduled air mail and passenger service between the States and Al- aska, NIPPON FORGES AGAIN BLOCKED W. Lee O’Daniel with family Victorious in the Texas Democratic gubernatorial primary, W. Lee 'Daniel and his family celebrate victory at their Ft. Worth home. O’Daniel, wealthy flour salesman who campaigned with a “billbilly” band and a platform based on the Ten Commandments, defeated 11 opponents after waging a sensational if unorthodox campaign. The Democratic nomination in Texas is tantamount to election. | he said it was his intent to pave the way for negotiations, as he be- lieved it was necessary for the city | to do something to improve street | conditions on the waterfront. Chamber Filled which filled and Family LABOR TO MEET ATKETCHIKAN - SEPTEMBER 5 Mantlme Federallon Calls | Mass Conference of | All Unions the was | An audience Council chambers to capacity on hand for the discussion and was | made up for the most part of the| pros and the antis. Two ppmmns‘ were before the Couneil, each signed | oy appmxnmnt.ely 80 names. 0ne| urged the improvement be made, | 5 and the other objections for several | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Aug. 6 reasons. Attorney Frank Foste ep- |The Maritime Federation of the resenting the antis, outlined the Pacific has called a “unity confer- ..qsons. ence” for all Jabor groups in Alaska L el s St s B 4An b0 0- FeetohiEbi goebEmbR S on the grounds that certain prop- Invitation has been extended to - " erty owners would be benefited at fi:l‘U:FL' IO nint - ipapeatent | expense of other property own- s 3 2 rty owners effected The Federation office, said the | ™ The Property on South Seward are the R. J. Som- mers Construction Company, who already has donated a piece of hi property to the city for the pur- pose; the Juneau-Young Hardware ession is solely intended to combat igorous attacks by salmon pack- ers and invested interests,” who the Federation said have imposed wage cuts up to 37%: per cent in the ¢ ,hany the Oscar Harri machine h\,m“g ndysay, 4 2 shop and Central Properties, Inc., The unity meeting was voted for . whieh J. B. Warrack is Presi- by the Federation Convention at the suggestion of the United Fish- ermen’s Unmn of the Pacific, NUNIVAK ISLE dent. The $10,200 is proposed as the price to be paid the latter three firms for moving back and repair-| ing their building fronts in order \Lo give the city right-of-way. { sSpokesman Foster contended that \aIl property owners in the city were | paying for the improvement which | he held was benefiting only a few ; Claims Other Projects Needed | secondly, he declared that there| were many other projects in the city | which were more urgently needed, | ‘su(h as the small boat harbor, pav-| | ing Willoughby Avénue and sewer \wnsl.lucuon These projects before| SKULL, BONES "UNIDENTIFIED ~ MAN ARE FOUND Women Berrvplckers Make Discovery, Steese High- BY HIGH WATER Japanese Armies, Harassed by Chinese, 110 Miles from Hankow SHANGHAI, Aug. GfJapanew forces have fought up the Yangtze River Valley to within 110 miles of the Provisional Capital of Hankow but have stopped the advance on account of Yangtze River floods. Palmer Gomg to Kodlak to! i being carried out; if they are, should | be presented to the voters for their Investigate Cattle vs. | consideration along with the South Bear Argument NAZI AlRPLA NE | Seward Street improvement, he ar- |gued, the taxpayers deciding whether they want to bond the city ANCHORAGE Alaska, Aug. 6.— Palmer, of the United States Bm]ogmnl Survey, reported here that musk oxen transplanted from Tn HuP Tu u s Fairbanks to remote Nunivak Island two years ago are thriving and increasing. Voyage Wl“ BC Started Palmer said the herd has been Nex[ MOnday BU[ DC-' increased by nineteen animals and | “You haven't the money to under- take this project,” he said, “and the only fair way is to put it up to| the taxpayers.” | He argued further that the cost| is too great. He contended, a con- tention which was strongly disput- ed, that the price being asked was | further to make the improvements. | | - |now numbers 50. Palmer also ex- tails Kept Secret pressed the opinion that the herd | has grown sufficiently to permit| Aug. 6.— BREMEN, Germany, Aug. 6.—The gshipment of some of the animals | picking berries, dis- Focke-Wulff Airplane Company an- to Point Barrow. | | covered the skull and bones of an nounced today that it is planned| Prom Anchorage, Palmer is going | A Chinese communication said| way, Near Fairbanks the defending army is hampering operations of the Japanese forces| FAIRBANKS, Alaska, but this is causing untold misery to Three women, the peasantry. equivalent to $2.67 per square foot.| He declared that before paving and | sidewalks were completed along with | the original cost of right-of-way | | the entire project would stand the city close to $20,000. —_——————— unidentified man off the Steese Highway, four miles from here. The skull had been shattered by a bullet. A rifle lay nearby. ‘The authiorities said the skull and NEW YORK, Aug. 6. — Closing bones might be those of Otto Wer- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ner, journeyman plumber, who van- stock at today’s short session of ished flb"“l four years ago. the New York Exchange is 11% American Can 103, American nglu and Power 57, Anaconda 37%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Common-| wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss| Wright 5%, General Motors 47%,| International Harvester 62%, Ken-|vid Grant, formerly of this city, necott 43%, New York Central 20%:, died in a hospital at Kelso, Was] Southern Pacific 20%, United States July 9, as the result of pneumonia. o+ * | STOCK QUOTATIONS * Pl TSl FORMER JUNEAU MAN DIES OF PNEUMONIA Steel 62', Safeway Stores 20%, Mr. Grant was well known in Ju- Pound $4.89%, Northern Pacific|neau, having been an employee of 13%. the Harri Machine Shop during the time he resided here. Since leaving DOW, JONES AVERAGES Juneau Mr. Grant has resided on The following are today’s Dow,| his farm at Yale, Wash. He is sur- Jones averages: industrials 145.67,| vived by his wife, Mrs, Lorell Grant, | rails 29.77, utilities 20.93. and a stepson, William Clark, Word has been received that Da-|whether the flight of the 24-pas- to send a 24-passenger plane on a to Kodiak Island to attempt mJ ‘Wants Donation |nonstop flight to New York as soon gettle the controversy there over‘ W. D. Gross said he had proper'\' as possible, perhaps next Monday. which are the most important| which would be effected either way.| Secrecy attended the preparations anjmals—cows or bears. | “I own property on both sides of | for the flight. The spokesman said | cattle ranchers have been com_vth‘s argument,” he said in advanc- nothing wuuld,be announced until p1aining that bears are killing cat- | ing his belief that the property | the plane ves in New York. tle, while other islanders support y,he] owners on South Seward should do- | Previously the United States De- pears as tourist attraction which | nate their footage to the city with- | partment of State disclosed that & |jures big game hunters to Kodiak.| Out cost. He argued that the re- ‘sulung improvements and stores | which would go in would more than | VESPER CHOIR rs‘puy the property owners in the| TO SING SUNDAY district for giving the city Lhe\ | ground. | At the eleven o'clock services at| FrOPErty Owner Joe Kaher, ”" pressed a similar sentiment, but the Northern Light Presbyterian ooneeasior o 3. Dishaw took & dif-| |Church, the vesper choir of high| fereng yigw of it and challenged the | school young people under the di- $20000 cost figure advanced by ‘recu‘n:‘ of Mr. George Schmidt will Attorney Foster. He contended it Miss Haviland, employee of the sing, “Lift Up Thy Voice O Zion.” ‘would not be anywhere near $20,000, Hecor McLean Insufance Company,| The Rev. John A. Glasse's sub-| ;.4 argued that the improvement is a roundtrip passenger to Skagway |ject for the morning will be “Sen- | 1 the city in getting a nice en- on the steamer Yukon, which was smle Society,” or when is it bes'.\ R T il in port last evening. lto say “Yes” and “No.” (Continued on Pase Six) permit had ‘been granted to the Germans to land a plane in Alaska on a world flight. Whether the |globe flight has been cancelled" or enger plane is around the world, is also kept a secret. - - B. HAVILAND ON YUKON Today Are to Visit Juneau Harold L. They then come to Juneau for a three- PICKETS LABOR TEMPLE Edgar E. Waybright (above), did his own picketing, in front of the Spokane (Wash.), Labor Temple because he said the AFL ‘ieamsters’ Union put pickets with “unfair” signs at his es- tablishment. Waybright claimed he was trying to arrange a con- ference with the temple offi- cers when the plcketlng began. The following are scores of base- ball games played this afternoon |in the two major leagues as re- ceived up to 2 o'clock: ational League Chicago 0; Boston 1. St. Louis 7; Philadelphia 6. Cincinnati 11; Brooklyn 6. Pittsburgh-New York game post- poned on account of rain. American League Washington 7; Chicago 1 Boston 14; Detroit 8. Philadelphia 8; St. Louis 4. New York 7; Cleveland 3. Ickes, Secretary of Interior, and Mrs. visit Juneau briefly during the stay of the steamer Mt. Mc go to the Westward, Interior, then return to the coast and Ickes who are (o inley. day visit on their way south. INT, SECRETARY HAROLD L. ICKES - NOW IN ALASKA Ketchikan — States Primary Interest KETCHIKAN, Ala Aug. 6.— Secretary of Interior H(lr()]d L. Icki said upun his arrival here this after- | noon: “I am primarily interested in | | the welfare of the Indians and feel | they are entitled to the same priv- | ileges and protection as the whites.” The Secretary was taken to the | Indian school and Indian church on an official visit and goes to ,,he Elks Club later where Territorial Senator N. R. Walker, of Ketchi-| kan, will present this city’s needs | for an airport. Mrs. Robert Bender, of Juneau, | and E. W. Griffin, Secretary of Al- aska, were among the welcoming party. | Secretary Ickes is accompanied | by his bride aboard the steamer Mt. ‘McKlnley on his present, his first ‘trip to Alaska, SIMMONS AND RINEHART TO ARRIVE TODAY ‘i IS AGAlN_ ATTACKED | fl | apparent preparations for a | Cabinet Official Greeted at| TWENTY - FOUR - SHIPS ARE IN BOMBARDMENT | Shells Are Dropped Along Tumen Rashin Railroad, Disastrous Results CHANGKUFENG HILL Russians Hurled Against Japanese Position— Crisis Nearing | KOGI, Korea, Aug. 6—Soviet | troops have resumed a steady bom- bardment of Japanese positions on Changkufeng Hill and have made large scale attack to retake the disputed ground Three battalions, including 40 tanks, have taken up positions for | the new attack, | The Japanese claim Russian bat- teries have been silenced in change for shells and declare their position is impregnable, Eeye-witnesses declare that 24 Soviet planes have raided Korean territory and bombed the Tumen Rashin railway. This is the first time Russian planes have made so intensive a raid on Korean terri- tory. Communication on the railway is practically interrupted. The situation is believed to have caused a crisis in the grave turn of | events as the Japanese declare re- taliation is only a question of time. ex- that NO AGREEMENT YET TOKYO, Aug. 6—The Japanese Foreign Office discloses that con- | versations between Japanese Am- bassador Mamoru and Russian For- eign Minister Maxim Litvinoff, at Moscow, are still unproductive of an ‘ngreemem to end the border dis- | pute, Japan has asked a cessation of hostilities while diplomatic neg gotia- tions to settle the dispute are tak- ing place. The Soviets demand the with- |drawal of the Japanese forces im- medmwly, evidently believing they !would strengthen their positior durlng procecgle of conversations to settle the dispute. \The Soviets also demand the Japanese study the Russian - Chinese - Hunchun treaty of 1886, declaring the Japa- |nese are cntirely wrong on their pumuun of c:/ in br,ux.duu' LOYALISTS IN NEW ATTACKS ON INSURGENTS Important Headquarters of Franco Subjected to Charge HENDAYE, French - Spanish Frontier, Aug. 6.—Spanish Govern- Shell Simmons is due to arrive in Juneau this afternoon around 4| o'clock in the Alaska Air Transport Lockheed from Seattle with five passengers, and Jimmie Rinehart, ment troops have launched an at- tack on Noguera, important road Junction dominating the Insurgent |lines of communications northwest of Teruel. of Petersburg, is scheduled to bring lin Seattle also, at 7 o'clock this eve- ning in his Fairchild. Passengers with Simmons are Charles Waynor, Mrs. Bill Barnes! and infant, Mrs. Albert Clithero *# and A. W. Quist. Tom Morgan is arriving with Rinehart, and it is believed H. R. VanderLeest may also be a pa:- senger. Simmons was due in Juneau last night, but was fogbound at Alert Bay. ———.—ee THREE BECOME CITIZENS | ‘Three persons were admitted to U. 8. citizenship in Federal court | yesterday and today. They are: Mi- haly Gulyas, of Juneau, native of Hungary; Ernest Lemert Hiltz of Juneau, native of Great Britain, and kxarl Emanuel Tagg of Haines, na- tive of Sweden. one or two passengers from | | Noguera is just west of Albarraci- an, Insurgent headquarters in the | Teruel area. The Loyalists .also drive in the Pyrenes. Government headquarters an- nounce that gains have been made against the Insurgents on all fronts }und no denial s made by Gen. Pran- co’s commanders. AL CLITHERO’S WIFE ARRIVING Mrs. Albert Clithero is a passen- ger aboard the Alaska Air Trans- port Lockheed, arriving in Juneau this afternoon. Mrs. Clithero is joining her, hus- band, new desk clerk at the Hotel Juneau, and brother of Russell Cli- thero, Traffic Manager for the Al- lnskx Air Transport. launched a