The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 8, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM il Y VOL. LIL, NO. 7866. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDA! Y, AUGUST 8, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SECRETARY OF INTERIOR VISITS JUNEAU Clipper Ship South After Successful Hop Here BlE cmfi‘—n ON " Baby Clipper at PAA Airport HAND TO GREET PLANE SUNDAY Pan American Craft Blazes 818-Mile Over Water Route to Territory Actual Date of Starting of| Mail, Passenger Serv- ice Not Yet Fixed BULLETIN—The baby clipper arrived at Ketchikan at eight minutes after 3 o'clock this afternoon (Ketcikan time, or 2.08 Juneau time) according to a radiogram from the Ketchi- ‘kan Chronicle to The Empire. The radiogram said the clipper would remain at Ketchikan overnight. | After having blazed Pan Am-| erican’s new aerial trail from Seat- tle to Juneau yesterday, the Alaska Clipper hopped from Pacific Alaska | Airways field at 12:23 this after-| noon on the return flight to Seattle | which will complete the first round- | trip trial flight of the new service being inaugurated between Alaska and the States. With Capt. John M. Mattis in command, the Clipper arrived here at 5:57 yesterday afternon, landing at PAA field on wheels before a big crowd, after eight hours and twenty minutes of flying time from Seattle, Capt. Mattis said he was six hours and forty minutes from Seattle to, Ketchikan and one hour and 40 minutes to Juneau. About an hour’s stop was made in Ketchikan for refueling. Over Water Route The route traversed covered 818 | air miles, he said, skirting the outside of Vancouver Island and thence north over Hecta Strait and through Dixon Entrance to Ket- chikan and then up the channel to Juneau. “At all times we were at least ten miles off Canadian soil,” the Captain said in explaining the new route which is entirely over water until reaching Alaska. Perfect weather prevailed after leaving Se- e Here is the Baby 5:57 o'clock yesterday afternoon after completing the first test flight The auto alongside the clipper gives an idea of the size of the ship.—Photo by Ted Cowling. from Seattle. Clipper soon after landing at the PAA airport at | - ON PLANE HOP IN INTERIOR Former Juneau-Atlin Pilot Lost Between Big Delta, Chicken | | | Former Juneau and Atlin airplane | pilot, L. F. Barr, has been unre- | ported since Thursday on a 160- mile flight from Big Delta to | Chicken, in the Fortymile country, according to word brought here by Pacific Alaska Airways pilots. { Barr left Big Delta at 7 o'clock | last Thursday morning with a load | of drum diesel oil in his ten-place % | Pilgrim monoplane and should have . been in Chicken two hours later. The happy-go-lucky little pilot | was not reported lost for two days | because of the fact he was out of | touch with Fairbanks, flying out | of Big Delta without radio. Social Securty SECOND ROUND Act Approaching 3rd Aflliversary Seven of Ten Programs Op- erated in Alaska~—Gen- eral Report Is Made As the Social Security Act reach- es its third anniversary on August 14, seven of its 10 programs have been in operation in Alaska during the past year, Hugh J. Wade of the Social Security Board's office in Juneau stated today. Some 25,000 workers in Alaska have applied for | social security account numbers under the Federal old-age insur- ance program; 23,280 workers have earned credit toward unemployment benefits under the Alaska unem- ployment compensatiaon law; an estimated 1,000 of the needy in the Territory are receiving Federal-Ter- ritorial public assistance; and health and welfare services have been ex- tended throughout the Territory. The old-age insurance program is entirely under the jurisdiction of the Federal Government. Participa- Plane Search Begun Airplane search was begun imme- | diately, but no trace of Barr's plane has as yet been found. Frank Pollack, Fairbanks flyer, | made a freighting trip to Chicken |on Saturday morning, but reported |no sign of Barr enroute. Saturday | evening, PAA pilots Jerry Jones and PRfl GR Ess‘NG ;Blll Knox took an Electra out on | the hunt with Charles Burnett, As- | 5 | sistant Bureau of Aeronautics In- | With clear skies and warm sun, |gspector, and two PAA mechanics. second round tennis matches at| «we flew between 500 and 700 | Evergreen Bowl are being played | miles, using binoculars and combing joff quickly. - The: following-+are ai| the area in which Barr should matchings in men's tournament|have been,” Jerry Jones said today. and the women’s tournament. “Barr is definitely down, I think, Men—Fred Ball vs. Howard Day, |and definitely in trouble.” R. H. Stevenson vs. Bob Rowe | Al Monson, PAA senior pilot, was Arnold Swanson vs. Sam Duker, | scheduled to take Charles Bur- Pete Melseth vs. George Schmidt. | nett’s Bureau of Aeronautics Stin- Women—Jean Anderson vs. Mary | son seaplane out today with Bur- Wildes, Kathleen Carlson vs. Mrs. nett to continue the search. Pilot Dave Turner, Barbara Winn vs.|Jim Dodson has been searching Mrs. Bob Davlin. steadily, and Noel Wien also sent Winners of these tournaments |out a plane to search for Barr. will play winners of first round | Chances Slim tournaments (Fred Ball and Mary | Barr was flying with wheel land- Wildes) for the bowl champion-|ing gear. He had no passengers. ships. Pilots believe that if Barr cr | his chances of coming out ‘s | ing up” are slim, as a drum fuel oil | cargo would be thrown forward into | the cockpit. { Weather on the day Barr left was | >oe Visitors Are Becoming Veteran Salmon Strippers “perfect,” it is said. Was Resourceful Mrs. Stanley Young and daugh-| Chunky pilot Barr, who “never ter, Alice, wife and daughter of had a care in the world,” is known ‘| “is determined that in the future, CONTINUES AS - i PARLEYS STALL {Soviet Forces in Retreat| | According to Tokyo | News Releases | \LITVINOFF REJECTS | '~ NIPPON PROPOSALS | 'Russia Warns Japanese that “ncroachment Means j Full Fledged War (By Associated Press) Two new clashes on the Manchou- kuoan-Siberian border today wid- ened the gulf between Japan and | Russia, whose efforts to negotiate a || peace on the disputed frontier have ; | so far been unsuccessful. | Maxim Litvinof, Soviet Foreign | Commisar, said the newest border clash occlrred near Suifenho, 250 | miles north of Changkufeng where Russians and Japanese have been | embattled since July 29 on heights |near the junction of Russian and Japanese frontiers. The Japanese Foreign Office said the Soviet forces have been repulsed in a “heavy engagement” on the almond shaped hill which both| forces have at various times pos-| sessed since fighting began. | neau’s guests yesterday afternoon iBARR MISSING [RUSSO-JAP WAR : S""d('y Visitors in Jmtm Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and Mrs. Ickes who were Ju- during the stay of the steamer Mt. McKinley. They will return to Juneau within a couple of weeks, remaining here for several days.—Photo by Ted Cowling. | An army communique said the| {Ru'sians were in general retreat| | to the north. This report followed] ¥ information yesterday which said | Soviet forces had been driven from | the disputed hill by Japanese troops. | Litvinof and Mamoru Shigemi su, Japanese Ambassador to Mos- cow, conferred again today, but ap- peared to be no nearer a solution of FATAL SHOOTING INSITKA AREA to be growing shorter. Litvinof -re Peter Allard Dead After jected the Japanese stand that| © o d i fighting “could be considerea” a| Sunday Fight Aboar Trolling Boat | frontier incident. | Litvinof also warned that Russia | Peter Allard is dead Srog & | Armstrong and Charles Welcome croachment will demand that Rlls-lnre being held in jail in Sitka in T]l:fp:e!;?‘l:iutg"::et;ngm:::vi}u;r:fi::;'connw“m‘ with the fatal shooting and giiRtion » 4 | of Allard Sunday afternoon on a | trolling boat in Kalinan Bay near }sltka, according to word received Mlaska Transport ™. 5 and such similar cases of frontier en- According to a special dispatch to Joe | SEN. BARKLEY RENOMINATED IN KENTUCKY Gov. All)enrvé. Chandler Concedes His Defeat, Pledges Support (By Associated Press) Gov. Albert B. Chandler conceded his defeat to become Unit- ed States Senator from Kentucky, as Senator Alben W. Barkley's lead continued to climb as tabulating was resumed after the Sunday re- cess of counting the votes. The Sunday recess is required by law. On the basis of the unofficial re- today | HAROLD L. ICKES IS PLEASED WITH ALASKAJOURNEY {Is First Secretary of Inter- | ior to Visit Territory in Fifteen Years KENTUCKY PRIMARY DELIGHTS NEW DEALER Secretary and Bride Will Return to Juneau for Four-day Stopover With the finest weather South- east Alaska has had this summer accompanying them on their jour- ney north, Secretary of the Inter- for Harold L. Ickes and Mrs. Ickes arrived in Juneau yesterday aboard |the Mt. McKinley, visited here briefly while the ship was in port, then sailed away, bound for the Westward and the Interior, looking forward to their return to Juneau | August 19 when they will spend | more time here. | The first Secretary of the Inter- ior to visit Alaska since Secretary | Work was here with President | Harding in 1923, Mr. Ickes comes north with a knowledge of the Ter- | ritory that is unusual in one who | has never lived here. He Is making | the trip to increase his knowledge of Alaska, so much of which is under his dominion. Asked what Interests him especi- |ally in the north—the answer is “all of Alaska.” Then this is broken ‘down to include specifically the In- dians, the national parks, the Mata- | nuska colony, Alaska's resources, | mining, highways, airways — and ‘}flshlng, sport fishing. The Secretary |is a frequent companion of Presi- | dent Roosevelt on the fishing trips | that afford the President his prin- | cipal relaxation, and a fishing trip | is definitely on the program when | he returns to Juneau. Beyond their arrival at Seward, | the Secretary and Mrs. Ickes have made no plans, Their itinerary is n | the hands of Col. Otto F. Ohlson, general manager of The Alaska Railroad. It will include a trip to | Palmer, for the operation of the Matanuska colony is of especial in- | terest to the Secretary. They will | be joined along the way by Dr. Er- | nest Gruening, Director of Terri- Stanley Young, Chief of the Preda- | t0 pilots as a “smart flier.” The Empire, Armstrong is alleged 0 turns, Barkley has 227,000 votes to| tories and Island Possessions for the |tion in the other nine programs tory Animal Division of the Biolo-| The belief has been expressed have interfered in a fight between attle, he reported, and much. of the flight was made at around 8,000 feet. Being purely a test flight, he said, no attempt was made at speed and at times he flew at virtually half throttle, communictations, bearings and other data being assembled by the crew for study in perfecting their undertaking. Last evening at the Gastineau Hotel, the officers were pouring over their information and this morning were in conference with the Alaska Aeronautics and Com- munications Commission relative to | further communications facilities. calls for action by the Territory. | These are public assistance pro- |grams providing for financial aid' |to the needy aged, the needy blind, |and to dependent children; unem- ip]oymem compensation; services for |maternal and child health, child | welfare, and for crippled children; | vocational rehabilitation; and pub-| |lic hetlth. Alaska does not as yet |have approved plans for aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, or vocational rehabilitation. | Administrations The Social Security Board ad- ministers the old-age insurance pro- | Allard and Welcome and is accused gical Survey in Washington, are be- that if something did go wrong with of firing the fatal shot. coming veteran salmon fisherman |Barr's plane, “there is a chance he while vacationing here during the Might have f"“"d"” way to get visit of Mr. Young to the Interior,| 40Wn in one piece. H ! A message to U. 8. Marshal Wil- “rlng Be " liam T. Mahoney from Deputy it was revealed this week. Forced down in the Wolf Lake | Bahrt said that Armstrong and | On their first attempt at strip country near Atlin a few winters| Johnny Amuncsen took the Al-lwelcom(‘ took Allard’s body into fishing Saturday, in company with 380, and smashing a propeller, Barr aska Air Transport Lockheed out| Sitka at 9:15 o'clock last night and |Lance Hendrickson of the Alaska fashioned a new propeller with a|this morning to Sitka and Chicha-|said the shooting occurred between Game Commission, the visitors Jacknife and adhesive tape, trued it|gof, while Shell Simmons made a|4 and 5 o'clock in the afternoon. hooked two each off Marmion Is- perfectly and flew in with his stub | flight to Berner's Bay with two pas-| Bahrt said he was holding both land. Sunday off Point Lena with °f @ Prop and a patched wing. sengers. |men in jail, Armstrong in connec- Mr, and Mrs. David Wood Jr., Mrs. Forced down a number of times. Amundsen took George A. Moser, tion with the actual shooting and | Young again scored heavily, bring-‘w“h wheels on soft snow, Barr has Post Office inspector on a round Welcome as a material witness. ing three salmon to gaff, one of made skiis for his plane from barn trip to Sitka, and dropped off P.| A coroner’s inquest was to be held Some Obstacles {gram and the Federal aspects of “There are some obstacles to be;l.he programs for public assistance overcome,” said Capt. Mattis, “but land unemployment compensation. I feel certain that the route will The Federal aspects of the remain- be worked out successfully. There ing programs are under the juris- is need for further communications diction of other Federal agencies. and field facilities, but no doubt| In Alaska more than 1,000 needy these will be established.” {old people were receiving assistance H. M. Bixby, Vice-President of in July, according to estimates of Pan American Airways, who made the Social Security Board based on the initial flight on the Clipper,|past reports from the Territory. said that improvements would have | By the end of June, 40 single cash to be made in the PAA field here payments under the old-age insur- them a 40-pound king which put doors and boxes with which to take J. Lane, Tom Pashvan and Archie in Sitka this afternoon. up a terrific battle and broke her roc. just before she brought him to gaff. Mrs. Young and her daughter are the guests of Mrs. Frank Dufresne at her cabin out the highway. WANDERER PAR FISHES MARMION E. Herrett hooked and landed an eighteen pound king yesterday for the honors of a party going out on the Wanderer to Marmion Island. off. 4 Gates at Chichagof. | It is this resourcefulness which Shell took Frank Knudsen and | gives rise to a faint hope that Barr Rodolph Lesage to Berner’s Bay. may still be “okey.” Sunday morning, Shell took the, Wife in Fairbanks Fairchild out to Sitka and Chicha- | Barr was married to Mary Kay gof with Henry Roden, Charles | Sands, of Atlin, last summer. Mrs. Raatikainen, W. A. Chipperfield to| Barr is now in Fairbanks. Sitka and Art Thane to Chichagof. | The couple was well known here, After Shell had gone out Sun- where Barr flew for about two day, Amundsen took the Lockheed | vears, flying between Juneau and out with Arthur and Hilja Remi—] Atlin for a time, and then working kka and Clyde Bolyan to Cobol, and for a while for Alaska Air Trans-| Joe Douglas and A. Van Mavern to port here. Hirst. " (Continued on Page Two) Returning Sunday afternoon, QUEEN MARY SETS RECORD OCEAN VOYAGE NEW YORK, Aug. 8. — British liner Queen Mary has set a new west bound trans-Atlantic speel and that facilities would need to be established in Ketchikan. “This is the only equipment we have for the route at the present time,” he said in referring to the big 10-ton Sikorsky ship which yes- terday became the Alaska Clipper, “and before we can put the large four-motored Boeings, now under construction, on the route as we plan it will be necessary to do a great deal to the field here .and also make further arrangements at Ketchikan. I can’t say just what they will be. In the meantime, we will make at least three test flights, two more in addition to this one, before carrying any passengers.” Mail Service Date Indefinite Mr. Bixby said he was unable to tell just when air mail and pas- senger service would start, as much " (Continued on PageiEight) jance system totaling $3,141.87 had |been made to workers at age 65 land to heirs of deceased workers |in Alaska. From the time the act was signed by the President on August 14, 1935, to the end of June this year, grants of Federal funds had been made to Alaska totaling $189,816.37 for public assistance and $42,269.97 for administration of its unemploy- | ment compensation law. In addi- |tion, according to Treasury state- ments, the Territory has received a total of $141,923.12 in Federal funds |under the four health and welfare services. These are programs to pro- |mote maternal and child health |and child welfare, and provide serv- ices for crippled children, and pub- |lic health services. (Conu_nued on Page MS’ev’e’x’x’J d Amundsen brought in Ernest Hayes| yecorq with unofficial time of 3 |from Hoonah, Joe Douglass from|gays and 20 hours, which is 3 Hirst, and the following from Chi-| o6 faster than the record set by a + chagof: Glenn Keiser, John SChluss, {he prench liner Normandie one Those making the trip were E. Lee Dolan and Grady Phillips. Herrett, J. Ritter, Mr. and Mrs.| NEW YORK, Aug. 8. — Closing Shell came in Sunday afternoon Fred Schmitz, Mr. and Mrs. Tom quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ‘.. Mrs. W. A. Gallemore from Harrett, W. Peterson, Rondi Molver, stock today is 11'j, American Can Hirst, A. V. Holman from flirst. and A. Koskey, Jim Ramsay, Miss L. 103%, American Light and Power - - Chipperfield from Sitka. Shearer, Mrs. H. Corlis, Bill Corlis, 5%, Anaconda 36%, Bethlehem Steel . R Jr., J. Bertholl, Tex Lovet, Alex,59% 6 Commonwealth and Southern Fllfl' Comgan Sturrock, G. Battello, H. Sturrock, 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General l . Roy Visher and Kell Larsson. Motors 47%, International Harvest- COI'Ilp 0‘ PRy .- er 61%, Kennecott 42%, New vork 1,200-Ft. Altitude | JACK NEWMARKER RETURNS |Central 19%, Southern Pacific 20%, Fishing was “fair” the party said, | and the sun “better,” All told, about | 4. 25 fish, mostly cohoes, were brought j in, — e STOCK QUOTATIONS year ago. DR. FROMM IS DEAD, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Aug. 8—Harvey E. United States Steel 60%, Safeway NEW YORK, Aug. 8—A slight al- Fromm, 30, Seattle dentist, died | Chandler’s 188,000. Gov. Chandler has sent a con- gratulatory telegram to Senator Barkley, pledging active support to the nominee in the November elec- | tion. | Gov. Chandler said in his gram to Senator Barkley: “The President said he desired your return. The majority of the Kentucky Democrats have agreed to | return you. I bow to the will of the majority. I have no excuses, alibis, | or regrets.” | Senator Barkley is leading in | seven of the nine Congressional dis- | tricts, including the first, his home, and the sixth, the home of the Gov- ernor. In the Republican primary, John | Haswell, of Hardinsburg, |face of unofficial returns, is far } ahead of four opponents in the race | for the senatorial nomination. CANTON AGAIN BOMBARDED; 30 KNOWN KILLED | \Nine Japanese War Planes Swoop Over Business Area of City — Drop Shells f CANTON, China, Aug. 8.—Thirty persons were killed and 40 persons wounded when Japanese war planes !dropped two bombs today into the crowded square in front of the Catholic Cathedral. tele- on the| i!nzerior Department, who has been in Alaska for the last month. Ike Taylor, Chief Engineer of the Al- aska Road Commission, will prob- ably meet them in Fairbarks as will B. F. Heintzleman, Regional For- ester and Frank Dufresne, Game Commission executive. They plan to | drive over the Richardson highway | to Valdez where they will catch the Baranof southbound in about ten days. As enthusiastic as any tourists about Alaska and its scenery, the |Ickes are both genuinely interested |in the Territory, its past, present | and future. Before they return to | Juneau they expect to see much of Alaska and then, they say, they will “have more to say about it.” Kentucky Primary of Interest Of especial interest yesterday was the result of the Kentucky primary election, | “I am delighted with the out- | come of the Kentucky primaries,” Secretary Ickes said. “The reac= tionaries did everything possible to | defeat Barkley. They poured money, | the prestige of the state machine, | every possible influence into the campaign against Barkley in an ef- fort to prove the President’s weak- | ness. Barkley's nomination and the defeat of Governor Chandler there- fore proves definitely the Presi- | dent’s strength.” | Dimond Wonderful Delegate | The Secretary’s enthusiasm for | the Territory includes an equal en- | thusiasm for Alaska's Delegate An- | thony J. Dimond. “He’s a wonderful | representative for the Territory, a | hard-working capable man who has | the interests of Alaska before him | every moment,” the Secretary said. Arrival in Juneau | After spending two months south, Stores 20%, Pound $4.88 5/16, North- titude of 1200 feet made Douglas yesterday after a short illness. He | Jack Newmarker returned on the ern Pacific 13%. Corrigan, who recently spanned the was the son of Mr. and Mrs. Luther Mount McKinley yesterday. While| Atlantic from New York to Dublin, Fromm of Nome, Alaska. | there, he attended the YM.CA.| DOW, JONES AVERAGES complain Sunday: “My ears hurt”’| Dr. Fromm lived here most of |camp oh Orcas Island, before re-| The following are today's Dow, When'he visited the observation the time since graduation from the A summary statement of Drogress yyming nome, he vjsited With' Jones averages: industrials 14433, |toWer of the Empire State build-|North Pacific Dental College at| The Catholic Cathedral | friends in Seattle. rails 29.60, utiiities 20.77, | ing, the tallest in the world, ' Portland nine years ago. | Met at the dock when the Mt. Nine planes took part in the raid, McKinley arrived early yesterday attacking the central area of the|afternoon by Harry G. Watson, sec- city where the Government build- retary to Gov. John W. Troy, M‘ayor ings are located. Harry I. Lucas, Charles W. Carter, (‘C’ol;&!lled on Page Two) slightly damaged.