The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. LII, NO. 7874. PROPOSED NORTHERN ROAD GIVEN BOOST Hull’s Remarks Arousing Fascist STATE DEPT, HEAD MAKES | PEAGE APPEAL Rome ]nlelprels Address } as Attack on “Have Not Nations™ of Europe BRITISH, FRENCH OFFICIALS PLEASED Secretary Offers Seven Pro- posals for Enduring In- ternational Harmony Secretary of 3 in a broadcast last night ap- pealed to the world to “turn the tide of lawlessness” through economic and moral reconstruc- tion. The State Department head warned all governments to “guard against certain danger- ous developments which imperil them.” He made seven proposals which he said were the only ones capable of placing the world firmly on the only road to enduring peace and security. These embraced economic re- construction, adherence to in- ternational law, observance of treaties and their orderly modi- fication when necessary, absten- tion of the use of force, no interference in the internal af- fairs of other nations, peace- ful settlement of differences, disarmament and cultural col- laboration. The Secretary’s appeal atous- ed enthusiasm among British and French officials who are worried over recurring war threats but dispatches froem Rome, on the other hand, told of mounting Fascist displeasure with the speech which was not distributed by Italian papers but by the Stefani News Agency. saw in the speech the counselling for a swing from force to arms reduction and economic reconstruction as the basis for world stability as an attack upon “have-not nations” such as Germany and Ttaly. EIGHT CONVICTS INJAIL BREAK; 6 ALREADY DEAD { HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Aug. 17.—8ix of eight convicts who escaped from the Fgstham State Prison Farm are dead. Four were killed by posse bul- lets and two have been found drowned in the Trinity River. One was captured by the guards shortly after the break and is in an isolated cell. Bloodhounds are on the trail| of the eighth escapee. - ONE DEAD IN SUB ACCIDENT HONOLULU, H. I, Aug. 17— Clarence B. Shepard is dead from injuries received in an explosion aboard the submarine Nautilus. Six, others who were injured in the same explosion aboard the under-| sea craft are reported improving in the Pear]l Harbor hospital. Well-known Juneau Woman Turns Out to ‘ Be “Missing Sister” Yesterday a short news item in | The Empire reported that William K. Hunt of Denver was seeking his step-sister, Ruth Armstrong to noti- fy her of the recent death of her father in an automobile accident. This morning bright and early| Mrs. G. H. Pearce, pioneer resident of this community, arrived at the Marshal’s office to.answer the in- quiry. Mrs. Pearce is the” former Ruth Armstrong. She has lived in| this vicinity for about a -quarter of a century and raised a family here. { pecially in the Yangtze River Val- |Hankow, TWO AAT SHIPS | Wants Government 3abs Goes Swimming | I N s U RGENTS IN ;%4, " W Blow Dealt to Great Britain and France—Govern- ment Forces Rally (By Associated Press) According to reports reaching Paris, the Spanish Insurgents have cast their lot definitely with Italy and Germany, thus ending perhaps hopes of Great Birtain and France for withdrawal of foreign volunteers from the civil war in Spain. On the battlefronts, the Govern- | ment militiamen continued to show new force and held their gains made during the past three weeks on the Ebro front. It is reported | forces have halted Gen. Franco's drive on the southwestern front. - e - Strike Closes 19 Warehouses, Mflmmm | Laundry Dispute Settled— | Other Labor Troubles ‘Deadlocked Trying to forget for a while her or- deal, pretty Barbara Carroll, whose father is on trial for murder and whose boy friend is serving life on the same charge, is shown at South Paris, Me., ready for a plunge. CHINA WAR SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 17 wquility has returned to the | laundry industry but a dls pute on another labor front clo: 19 public warehouses by a :mke of the retail clerks against four | DUWN TUDAY‘Kress-Newberry_ stores. There is also a continued deadlock with !freight handlers. The CIO workers have been noti- rmd that they will not be reem- ployed until they handle freight from the strikebound Woolworth warehouse. - eee Ickes Arriving In Hoonah Today Aboard Cutter @ M Hirst Flles from Here Meet Interior De- partment Head Japanese Trylng to Find Soft Spots in Defense’ to Reach Hankow EZ: o (By Associated Press) | The war in China continued to| remain bogged down today, es- ley. | The Japanese are skirmishing | along three alternate routes in the |hope of finding soft spots in the | Chinese defenses through which they might direct the drive on provisional capital of China, and where Chang Kai-Shek is said to have 1,000,000 men ready for resistance. ———————— | Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes | was scheduled to arrive in Hoonah BL 4 o'clock this afternoon aboard |the Coast Guard cutter Northland, Gov. John W. Troy said today. The Governor dispatched General Sup-| UUT UF JUNEAU erintendent C. M. Hirst of the Bu- reau of Indian Affairs to meet the| Shell Simmons flew out to Sitka official, and the latter got away by ! today to spend the night with one Alaska Air Transport plane about Alaska Air Transport plane while 1 o'clock this afternoon. Johnny Amundsen flew to Ketchi- kan where he will spend the night. away from Hoonah late tonight or| Shell took Al Skaflestad, Mar- in the morning for Juneau, perhaps garet Bean and Claude Hirst to making one or two stops enroute. Hoonah, and Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Secretary Ickes has been accom- Goudie to Sitka. panied from Seward aboard the Amundsen took Harry Davidson Northland by Regional Forester B. and Charles York to Warm Springs F. Heintzleman. | Bay, W. D. Simonds to Petersburg, Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of land Jack Webb and Ralph Miller | the Division of Territories and Is- Jr. to Ketchikan. land Possessions, is now in Anchor- Yesterday Shell brought in R. J. age, the Governor said. Sommers, Wallace D. Simonds and Al Skaflestad, the latter two from - Hirst and Sommers from Sitka. 8| —— L, '*H STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 NEW YORK, Aug. 17. — Closix\g ‘quomuon of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11, American Can| The Secretary is expected to geL‘ Roosevelt Serves as His Own Chauffeur the Government As usual, President Roosevelt when he visits Warm Springs, Ga., drove station. at the V ated for the Senate seat now held by Senator Walter F. George. mander Danicl Callaghan. arm Springs Foundation Hall, saying he hoped Lawrence S. Besid, ‘al., Aug. 17— v }Llll\ Bridges, ¢ Coast CIO (hl('l must go on trial September 1 two counts for alleged con- ‘mpL of court, according to a rul- Western Electric, a subsidiary of the American Telephone and Tele- | graph Company, bought aeveral basic radio tube patents. The Lubfs‘ werent a striking success at first| but the idea was right and experi- | ments ultimately brought them | around. Radio developed, along with loud speaker systems and talking pictures, and Western Elec- | tric truly had something. | Patent laws have been enacted| to protect such developments. If| a company wants to keep its pat- ‘Ean all to itself, it can. If it wants| to permit their use under strict ilease. it can, but if it sells them outright across the counter—well, Mhere is where the Supreme Court \comefi in. Harry Brid ges Pacific Coast | CIO Chief, Must Face Trial For All(’ged Cont(’mpt Court FACES PROBLEM 2. 1 mogmze mu right of any group NEXT SESSIG N‘of men to strike and compel an employer to come to terms but I do not recognize the right of a man {or a group to compel a court to P o come to terms,” Judge Bishop said. RCVCTS?{' ‘0‘ Mos‘l Tmportant| “ge. allegation of the charges is De(;ls]ons Sald to Be ‘tlmL Bridges called a half-day strike . of longshoremens’ local as disap- Indicated | proval of Judge Ruden Schmidt ‘wh»n the AFL sought a receiver for By PRESTON GROVER | the CIO union funds, claiming jur- WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—There|isdiction. |is just a possibility that when the| The second charge asserts that Supreme Court reopens next fai]‘Bx-mges sent a telegram to Labor Justice Black may be leading his/ Sorrvmry Perkins criticising the de- colleagues into a reversal of one | cision of Judge Schmidt, of its most important decisions otv the session just ended. DEPORTATION CASE It has to do with radio tubes,| WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 talking pictures, “patent pools”|Department of Labor disclosed this and monopoly, Now don’t get afternoon that the Immigration Bu- rnghtcm-tl Court cases are fun if reau records in the deportation case | you escape being led down a dark against Harry Bridges will be turned alley by a deceptive whereas or a. over tomorrow to the special House sly certiorari. \Lummlmfle investigating unAmeri- On one of the last decision days|can acuvmu before the court recessed for Lhe {summer it decided a S loomed big on the financial pach but didn't show up often on front| | pages. Here's the lay of the land: In the years from 1912 to 1916, Is TRANSFERRED I K. Mc\Vllllams, of Los Angeles to Succeed Al- aska Air Inspector Hugh Brewster, Senior Inspector |for the Bureau of Air Commerce in Alaska, has been transferred to| Burbank, California, and will succeeded in the Territory by I. K McWilliams, of Los Angeles. Brewster and McWilliams passed | through Juneau enroute to Anchor- age aboard the Aleutian this after- SOLD—BUT NOT ENTIRELY noon, The President was just back in the United States after an ocean cruise. ing m'\dn hy Superior Court Judge | The | his own automobile away from the He spoke at luncheon Camp of Atlanta would be nomin- e Roosevelt is his naval aide, Com- AP Photo. 1TH VICTIM, . “MAD KILLER” | IS DISCOVERED Detectives Unearth Anoth- er Torso Slaying City of Cleveland CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 17.—De- tectives have found an arm, leg and rib bones on Cleveland’s lake- front garbage dump. Coroner Samuel Gerber said they are parts of the body of the twelfth victim of this city’s mad “torso killer.” ‘The bones, Coroner Gerber said,! match the skull found Monday | night, and are those of a man. Sunday night the torso of a wom- | an was found, the eleventh victim and the arm and leg belong to that! torso. Coroner Gerber said the snme5 | method of disarticulation of sur-| gery has been used upon former victims, all found since September, 1935. The two latest victims show they also came to their deaths at the hands of the “mad killer.” i LINDBERGHS INMOSCOW ng Couple Arrive i mv Chief City of So- viet Uniort Flyx | | | | (OSCOW, Aug. 17.—Col. Charles | ]A Lindbergh and his flying wife, | landed here at 9:35 o'clock this| morning, having made two stops| enroute from Minsk. They left ‘Warsaw earlier in the day. Prior to their arrival plans of the flight were kept secret by the | Soviet authormes - PRESIDENT IS OFF T0 CANADA of Alaska iFive Members val Highway Internatior Commission Named by FDR WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—President Franklin D. Roosevelt has appointed the following as members of the Alaska International High- way Commission: Congressman Warren G. Washington, who pressed through appointment of the Commission. Magnuson, Democrat of the state of the legislation in Congress for the James W. Carey, Vice-President of the Washington Soclety of Professional Enginecrs, of Seattle. Thomas Riggs, of New York, former Governor of Alaska and member of the International Boundary Commission, Ernest H. Gruening, of Main and Island Possessions. e, Director, Division of Territories Donald MacDeonald, of Fairbanks, Alaska, known as the “Father of the International Highway.” The Commission was authorized at the last session of Congress and will work with a similar Canadian Commission and plan for the proposed British Columbia-Yukon Territory-Alaska Highway. TWO COLONEL JOHNSONS TO COME,ALASKA Ready to Leave Seattle on Amphibian Plane Over Int. Highway Route BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Aug. 17.—The two Colonel Johnsons postponed their flight today until 6 o’clock tomorrow morn- ing because of unfavorable weather. { TWO OFFICIALS TO FLY OVER PROPOSED INTERNATIONAL ROAD SEATTLE, Aug. 17. — Ool. Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of | War, and Col. J. Monroe Johnson, | Assistant Secretary of Commerce, |arrived here late yesterday by air- | plane from Grand Rapids, Mich- expecting to reach Fairbanks late | this afternoon. “We are going to fly over the route of the proposed Alaska High- way and also inspect the Fairbanks airfield. We may visit Chilkoot | Barracks and it is just possible, we may do some fishing,” Col. Louis Johnson said. The plane aboard which they will make the Alaska flight, is a duplicate of the Baby Clipper the PAA is using on survey flights for the Seattle to Juneau service. Col. Louis Johnson, when inform- ed the President had appointed the International Highway Commis- |sion, expresed pleasure that the proposed project had received an- other substantial boost. GETTING WEA'I'I’IER REPORTS The local Weather Bureau has been asked to furnish weather re- ports tomorrow and Friday for the flights north of the Army plane, which is due to fly from Seattle tomorrow, and for the Pan Amer- ican Clipper, scheduled to test hop on Friday. — e (GROSSON SAYS CLIPPER SHIP COMING FRIDAY The Alaska Clipper will leave Se- attle day after tomorrow on its sec- ond trial flight from Seattle to Ju- | neau, according to Joe Crosson, | General Manager of Pacific Alaska | Airways. | Crosson arrived in Juneau on the steamer Aleutian this forenoon after | | several days in Seattle during whicn he made the initial flight in the big ‘len ton clipper ship. * “It was a successful trip from all standpoints,” Crosson sald. “Land- ing field improvements will have to be made here and at Ketchikan, and perhaps more radio facilities, igan, and intended to take off for | Alaska at 6 o'clock this morning, | To WatchVolcanoes MANILA, P. I, Aug. 17—As a re-| sult of the recent eruption of Mayon volcano, a “volcano watch” by the government is advocated hy: Dr. Jose M. Feliciano. Dr. Feliciano, head of the de- partment of geology at the Univer- sity of the Philippines, points out that there are 11 active volcanoes | in the island and eight between the active and extinct stages. 98, American Light and Power 5| Western Electric intended to Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel| make money from sales of tubes. 155%, Commonwealth and Southern (There’s one or more in millions of /1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General homes.) But it wanted to hold for Motors 45%, International Harves-|itself and its allied companies the ter 57Y%, Kennecott 39%, New York"rlsht to use them in talking pic- | Central 18'%, Safeway Stores 19,|ture machines and certain other Southern Pacific 17%, United States| commercial fields. | Steel 57%, Pound $4.88%. 1 So each dealer selling Western | Electric tubes had to agree to sell DOW, JONES AVERAGES | them only to amateurs or for use The following are today's Dow,|in home receiying sets. Jones averages: industrials 139.03,) But a company known as Gen- The Bureau of Air Commerce in transfer is routine, he having com- |pleted his tour of duty in Alaska.| — > MRS. COUGHLIN SOUTH Mrs. Alice Coughlin is leaving this evening on the Northland on a three weeks' vacation in the States. 8he plans to visit with friends in both Seattle and Porbs up 59; rails 27.94, dt 02; utili- e L T (Continued on Page Six) __{land before returning home next | month, Will Recelve University De-| but regular service should begin in| Washington, D. C, said Bewster's gree, Also Make Ad- dress at Int. Bridge WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has left for King- ston, Ontario, where he will receive a degree at Queen's University to- morrow and also make the dedi- catory address aft the opening of the new International bridge. The President plans to return ;‘w Hyde Park Friday, | the near future.” Crosson will be here for the Fri-| day flight of the clipper and will probably fly north with PAA next Saturday. e e———— | HARRY DAVIDSON FLIES OUT TO WARM SPRINGS| Harry Davidson, of the A. J. force, is taking a vacation and flew out this afternoon to Warm Springs Bay with Pilot Johnny Amiundsen ACTIVE WORK IS T0 START OVER HIGHWAY Chairman M—ag—nuson An- nounces He Will Call Commission Shortly WASHINGTON, Aug. 17. — Con- gressman Warren G. Magnuson, who has been named to the Inter- national Highway Commission, said he will take immediate steps to cail the Commission members together, probably the call setting Washing- ton as the meeting place for the first conference. “The naming of the International Highway Commission means that we can now go ahead,” sald Represen- tative Magnuson. “Evérything here- tofor has been propaganda but now we can discuss the project with some authority. I am confident we are on the way.” Congressman Magnuson said he and James W. Carey, and probably | Donald MacDonald, both visiting here, will get together today or to- morrow for informal talks. Congressman Magnuson estimates the probable cost of the road will be approximately $15,000,000. He said besides the Department of the In- terfor, the highway is actively being backed by the War and Navy De- partments which regard it an essen- | tial link in the defense of a huge territory. MASON CALLS 8 GOVERNMENT MEN COMMUNIST High Ranking Officials Are Included in Investi- gating Net ‘WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—Repre- sentative Noah Mason, of Illinois, on the House committee investigat- ing subversive activitics, today nam- ed eight government officials as “acknowledged members” of the American League for Peace and Democracy. Officials he named were Harry Lanbertson, assistant rural electri- fication administrator; Dallas Smythe, of the central statistical board; Fred Silcox, head of the Forest Service. Robert Marshall, of- ficial of the public lands service in the Department of Agriculture; Os- car Chapman, assistant secretary of the Interior; John Carmody, elec- trification administrator; Mary Anderson, director of the Women's Buresu, and Alice Barrows, of the | Office of Education. v e ———— ALASKA WEEKLY EDITOR AND WIFE PASS THROUGH ON S8 ALEUTIAN TODAY Mr. and Mrs. Earle Knight were passengers through Juneau on the Aleutian for Seward today and a visit with Mrs. Knight's brother, Jack Graff, of the Seward Light and Power Company. Earle Knight is editor of the Al- aska Weekly and is making the trip “just for the vacation.” He is also President of the Washington State , Press Club. ‘While in_the Westward, Mr. and Mrs. Knight will take a fishing trip to the Russian River, and also con- template a short trip to Fairbanks aboard an AAT plane, over the railroad.