The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7876. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1938. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS ARMY MAY BUILD LANDING FIELD HERE Sec. Ickes Urges Change in Alaska A SEES fiEn FURI German Plane Completes Surprise Hop to U.S. LEVELING SIGHTS ON STATEHOO0D Territor;gzould Have Greater Share from Prof- | its of Industry, He Says LABELS DEVELOPMENT ALASKA’S PROBLEM Uses Gold Tax as [llustra- tion of Future Ex- ' pansion Picture Alacka needs to change its psychology. Alaskans need to get away from the idea that | they can build a state by taking out all the natural resource wealth and putting nothing back in its place. “You can't build a modern civilization on mining.” These were some of the gen- eral impressions expressed by Secretary of the Interior Har- cld L. Ickes when' he arrived here today with Mrs. Ickes abeard the Coast Guard cutter Northland after a two weeks’ trip through a large part of the | ‘Westward and Interior regions. There is nothing wrong with min- ing, or with the big fishing indus- tries as such, the Secretary ex- plained, but Alaska, he declared, isn’t getting its fair share of the return from those industries to build up other industries and wealth for the Territory against the time when, for example, mining is ex- hausted. Theory of New Deal “The whole theory of the New Deal is to place fair taxation on those persons and industries who are profiting and able to pay in order to build up further industries and spread the benefits to those who are not so well off,” he said. The Secretary pointed to the three percent gross gold tax in Alaska in enlarging on his point. “That isn't a fair portion to the Territory compared with the mil- lions that are taken out,” he said. “You can't ever get back any of| those hundreds of millions of dol-| lars of mineral wealth which have been taken from Alaska. If you don’t get it when the industry is profiting, you'll never get it. “Look at che Kennecott, one of the largest copper mines in the world. Now that its supply of wealth | is exhausted, it is closing up. What has the Territory to show for it?| Has any thought been given to the employees? I supposed they have! been paid for their work and that| is all there is to it. And what will| become of Cordova? What is there| to replace the Kennecott? It will| revert back to just a village, the people .doing the best they can. Change Psychology “You need to change your psy- thology up here. You have every- thing. Excellent climate, plenty of timber; as fine an opportunity for development into a state as any- where on the face of the earth. But| unless Alaskans change their psy-| chology of just making a stake and| getting out, to the viewpoint of Al-| aska as a place to live and raise | | | . & New Yorkers got their first glimnse of the German’s “Brandenburg” when it landed at Floyd Bennett Field (above), after completing a scheduled flight and was well over the ocean before it was known to be in the air. surprise flight across the Atlantic. The plane left in advance of its The 19-ten craft carried a crew of four on the 3,942-mile flight, making the distance in 24 hours, 54 minutes, Berlin to New York. No passengers were aboard.—AP Ph Clacier Bay National Park Area May Be Enlarged; Sec. Of Interior Visits Hoonah HOONAH, Alaska, Aug. 19. (Special Correspondence) — Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes and party inspected the Glacier monu- ment on August 17 as part of the itinerary on the Alaska tour. The United States Coast and Geo- detic Survey motor vessel Westdahl received the party from the Coast | Guard cutter Spencer at the mouth of the bay and navigated the area throughout the bay. The Westdahl is and will be engaged in mapping and charting the heretofore un- charted areas of Glacier Bay. May Enlarge Glacier Bay Secretary Ickes made the inspec- tion trip to Glacier Bay with a view toward the possibility of enlarging the National Park area. The Gla- cier Bay vicinity is one of the few| remaining areas representing the| recent glacial activity. The aim of an enlarged monument is to pre-| # tural beauty of Alaska. serve intact and as a unit the na- Visits Indian Village Secretary Ickes and his bride vis- ited the Indian village of Hoonah on August 18. Claude Hirst, Gener- al Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Alaska, met the Ickes party in Hoonah and will accompany them to other villages. B. F. Heintzleman of the Forest Service, accompanied the party to Glacier Bay. Both Secreétary Ickes and Mrs. Ickes inspected the Hoonah village, showing keen interest in the native home art and customs. Secretary Ickes and other mem- bers of his party viewed with ap- proval the gardens, greenhouse and improvements of the Office of In- dian Affairs here. The Interior Secretary showed much concern over the housing con- ditions of the natives and expressed a desire to improve this condition as soon as possibie. WASHINGTON PEOPLE DON'T KNOW CAPITAL Ventilating Systems Bob Up | —Ickes Came to Alaska to Get Warm | By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Coun- try visitors get to see more of what there is to see in this town in their | usual three days’ stay than thel average native sees in a whole life- time. That may sound foolish but I have Salmon Fact Finding Com. Ha_rd at Work SEATTLE, Aug. 19.—Working day and night, the Fact Finding Com- mission appointed to determine wages in the Alaska salmon canning fishing industry for 1938, expects to complete recommendations and submit them by September 1. This is according to statements made by the members of the commission. BRISTOL BAY HAS oto. CHINESE GIVE INVADERS BIG |Offensive R;pulsed in New | Sector—Two Towns Are Captured SHANGHAI, Aug. 19.—The Japa- nese Army has switched the Han- kow offensive from Kiukiang to ;Nam'hang and pushed along the | shores of Poyang Lake. Simultaneously, an offensive opened against Singtze, Hunan Pro- vince, to the south, but the wily | Chinese counter-attacked and re- | pulsed the move, killing many of the Japanese invaders, estimated into the hundreds. | Chinese irregulars attacked Sin- siang and Siachicsen, Honan Pro- | vince, and captured Japanese forces, | then took possession «of the two | cities. The Japanese were over- | whelmed by the sudden attacks. e, BIG PUSH IS INDICATED IN ~ ORIENTAL WAR {More than One Million Jap- | anese Told to “Stand ~ by” for Service | TOKYO, Aug. 19. — Indica- tions are that Japan is plan- | ning an augmented big push in an effort to end the “undeclared war” in China quickly, This indication is contained in an order instructing all males | of 20 to 31 years of age to “stand by” for military service. SHBGEAGTI(]Ni | run into more than one sample of | native Washingtonian who never | has set foot on the White House E the of | s ea‘;:gpsw”\grounds although they are open every day. Even part of the White ypo o H. Bradford, wellknown | al ;{::sneg T:i::o::ir'fgmbfioc::u?; folk| operator of the Lowe Trading Com- | EIGHT market for poultry and eggs,” he| 'S Bieichlioe b it SRR pany in the Bristol Bay area, flew| said. “They can’t raise corn, true, ‘ne.lg F £, mine bas lived 50y, Juneau yesterday afternoon by but they can grow mearly everything | Ye&rs in Washington — was born| ppp glectra from Fairbanks and M EN DIE IN else. There are countless other val-| hglre—uz:nd (:" t‘:“ “mi has repeat-| yeng on south to Seattle this morn- i e country east and ;ng on the Princess Alice. | SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 19—R.O. Chrisinger, third class machinists leys in Alaska where similar agri-| - ey anotar Mo cultural development can be carriedez‘:s' : p; gY ;po a San| wrhis has been one of Bristol ancisco, New York and New Or-| g,y finest years” Mrs. Bradford | mate, has succumbed, bringing the death toll of last Monday's three on. But nothing is being done to| s leans. But he has never seen the | caid. “We had a wonderful run of | naval plane crashes to eight as the hutld"ap sgrisgiure \Wih e ex- Senate in session, has never seen cep*ion of the Matanuska | President Rooasvelt | fish and everybody is prosperous. | special Navy Board started a prove. ‘The other victims were Junior Territorial Needs { } el and Says he| Mrs, Bradford said her brother| Commenting on the meeds of the | 30¢T't Want to), and was In the g v Griffin, will remain at Dil- Territory, the Secretary said: | Smithsonian Institution only once|jngpam with his wife during the “You need internal | when a visiting relative insisted Grade Lieut. Clarence Emory Kas- ¥ hite House and remarked that in| R. J. Sommers, Juneau contractor, | Parek, Radioman H. P. Boeckman, to travel; we like to see things. You| WV g R need hotels and other fu‘l'lxlm w‘;eleven years in Washington he left on a business trip to Seattle Machinists Mate F. Freeman, Ra- accommodate these travelers, And|DeVer set foot in the building, al-|this morning on the Canadian Pa- | dioman B. T. McKenzie, Machinists improve- | | winter to look after the Lowe Trad- ments; you need roads, you need| you can get them if a fair share of though he had wanted to ever since |cific steamer Princess Alice. Mr.|man Don Fay Smith, Ordnanceman | on, being taken there. |ing Company interests. airports. You need to develop the| ————————— tourist industry; the finest oppor- HOME TOWN PRIDE " Sommers plans to return within the A man Don Fay Smith, Ardnanceman (Continued on Page Five) next ten days. 1Rnlph ‘Thomas Carter. The order is expected to make GOOD YEAR, SAYS MRS. A. BRADFORD Iy Lisooun men svai- their families and build up its in- dustries you won’t get anywhere.” Secretary Ickes the Matanuska Valley greatly impressed, he stated: “Marvelous peas, wheat, oats, — e tunity in the world for it right upt After lunch the other day a young| ~SOMMERS SOUTH TODAY here in Alaska. We Americans like | €Pgineer walked with me past the (Continued on Page Two) NEW AIRLINE IS POSSIBLE ~ OVER ALASKA Lindberghs Ma)-' Be in Mos- cow for Purpose—Fliers See Great Air Stunts MOSCOW, Aug. 19.—Col. Chafles A. Lindbergh and his wife, who flew here from France, watched a daring | Soviet air show here. Dozens of sail planes did whole- { sale stunting. Some of the gliders were carried up in trains numbering as high as nine at a time, behind a single ferrying plane Hundreds made parachute jumps| and the sky in front of the specta-| tors seemed to be completely filled| for a moment. } Observers conjectured on the| presence of the Lindbergs as in-| vestigating the possibility of a new airline between Moscow and New York via Alaska. Col. Lindbergh was silent on his | plans however. 2 OFFENSIVES NOW PLANNED BYNSURGENTS Gen. Franco May Take Command of One Move- ment—Attack Madrid | HENDAYE, French - Spanish Frontier, Aug. 19.—The Insurgents| have closed the French frontier and also loosed a heavy air raid on Bar- celona, according to all reports. The two moves are made in a general offensive planned by the| Insurgents. | Military leaders confirm reports| that Gen. Franco, instead of setting far back behind the lines, is to lead the Insurgents in new drives. Other offensives planned are to| | be directed against Catalonia, pos-| | sibly coupled with a simultaneous | Rdrive against beseiged Madrid. | — e — Hooriah Cannery . Puts Up Normal | Paclflhis Year, \Frank Wright Is to Ask| | Change in Season for | Next Summer | Frank Wright Ji., Superinterfdent | ;or the Icy Straits Packing Company | | at Hoonah, is preparing to sail south | on the steamer Yukon after a “fairly good season.” | Wright said they packed a little | over 40,000 cases this summer, with | the aid of a good run of fish at the | tail end of the season. | “We put up a little more fish this| | | year than last year,” Wright said, | “but the last minute run of fish saved us. Right now there is the heaviest pink salmon run on in the| history of Hoonah, but the seasoni is closed for us.” | Wright said he and other can-| nerymen, along with native fisher-| men, are going to ask for a change in season next year that will start| the season a week later and end it a week later. | “The early runs are being deplet- ed, it appears, and the later runs | are being built up heavily,” Wright | | said. With the late run of fish appear- | ing to be general throughout South- | east Alaska, Wright believes the salmon pack in the Southeast dis- trict will be normal, although not large. i “The pack’s not being large Iis| rather a blessing the late pack did it good as well.” |bers of the French Embassy's mili- | Official Visitors in Juneau Here are Col. Louis Johnson, / Monroe Johnson (consulting watch) stant Secretary of War, and Col. J. Assistant Secretary of Commerce, shertly after they alighted from the Army plane at the PAA airport yesterday afternoon.—Picture and etching by Ted Cowling. Japan Seizes | Two of French Embassy Staff Diplomatic Commission! Strongly Protests Guard'’s Detention PEIPING, Aug. 19. — Both the French Embassy and the commis- sion of foreign diplomats which ad- ministers the Peiping diplomatic quarter lodged strongly worded pro- tests with Japanese authorities against the detention of two mem- tary guard. The protests alleged the French soldiers had been seized by armed Japanese -inside the diplomatic quarter and were held by Japanese Embassy police in the Japanese Embassy compound. This followed an early morning fracas in a cabaret. | Request Denied The Japanese returned stony re- fusals to all French requests the soldiers be turned over to be dealt| with according to their own laws. | The Japanese version is that sol- | diers had a fight with Japanese na- tionals in a cabaret in which a Ko- rean (Japanese subject) was in- jured. A Japanese party, some in uniform, followed them into the diplomatic quarter and seized them.| e e—— | | ALASKA SALMON OF RECORD PACK CARRIED SOUTH Fishiaioiién, L with 82| 500 Each as Their Share | of Season’s Fishing SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 19. Steamer Etolin, formerly the Mat- sonia when she was the flagship of the Matson Line, has returned from the second voyage as a member of the Alaska salmon fleet, carried more than 5,000 tons of salmon and 650 men aboard including 250 fish- ermen each with $2,500 as their share of the record catch. MEMNON HAS FISH ASTORIA, Ore, Aug. 19. — The - floating cannery Memnon, owned by the Columbia River Packers Asso- ciation, is unloading 107,000 cases of Alaska salmon, the largest cargo ever brought to this port, her own season’s pack taken in Bering Sea and a portion of the pack from the company’s shore cannery at Nusha- gak. i The government’s schools inspec- in disguise,| tors of music report a great im-| thouygh,” Wright said. “It won't|provement in the standard of sing- hurt the price of fish at all, and|ing in country schools of the Union| of South Africa. EVIDENCE THAT HARRY BRIDGES 1S COMMUNIST House Investigating Com- mittee Has Important Witness at Hearing WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.— Mar- garet Kerr, Patriotic Society Work- er, identified for a House Commit- tee, photostatic copies of an affi- davit declaring Harry Bridges, West Coast Labor leader, attended meet- ings of the Communist Party as “Harry Dorgan.” Modishly dressed, the witness, ob- viously nervous, told the Commit- tee investigating unAmerican ac- tivities, that she was an active worker for the Better American Federation for 18 years and closely investigated many phases of sub- versive activities in California. She is now Secretary of the Federation and lives in Los Angeles. Miss Kerr identified a photo- | static copy of an affidavit of Irving N. Markheim, stating he joined the Communist Party in Los Angeles at her suggestion and met Bridges on several occasions. The affidavit said Markheim's first contact with Bridges occurred at a party session in Belvidere Gar- dens, Floral Street, Los Angeles, in the spring of 1933. There were 8 or 10 persons present, Later Markheim advised her that threats had been made against his life. Thomas Shoemaker, Deputy Com- missioner of Immigration, delivered to the Committee the Labor Depart- ment’s file on Bridge's deportation case and asked the committee to keep secret the names of the in- formers because they feared re- sults if their part became known. REPRESENTATIVES ARE NOW INVOLVED WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—A wit- ness told the House Committee in- vestigating unAmerican activities, | that Representatfves O'Connell and Bernard gave the “regular Com- munistic salute” after addressing several hundred American youths | fighting with Spain, Alvin Halpern, who late yesterday told the committee about his ex- periences in the Loyalist Army in Spain, said the two House members spoke at the dedication of the Pil- lars Hospital, in Benicasim, Spain, (Continued on Page Five) + | BASEBALL TODAY | — The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues as received up to 2 | o'clock: National League | Philadelphia 2; New York 4. | American League Washington 3; Boston 4. | chicago 7; Cleveland 2. St. Louis 7; Detroit 8. New York 5; Philadelphia 2. ttitude JUNERU ARER MAY BE PART U, S. SYSTEM Constrgclion of Air Base at Fairbanks Means Facilities Here ASST. SECRETARY OF WAR GIVES OPINION Inspection Party, Aboard Plane, to Fly to Inter- ior, Then Return BULLETIN—At 3 o’clock this afternoon, the Johnson party gave in to the attractions of Ju- neaw’s salmon fishing and the unfavorable flying weather be- tween here and Fairbanks and decided to postpone the Fair- banks flight until early tomor- row mforning. Tired of waiting for a break in the nearly 0-0 weather, both Colonel Johnsons are going fishing for salmon again. If the proposed Army air base is built at Fairbanks, the Men- denhall Flats at Juneau may be- come an integral part of an auxiliary air base system. This belief arises out of a statement made in Juneau this morning by Assistant Secretary of War Col, Louis Johnson, when asked if landing fleld ac- commodations would be made at Juneau for Army planes should the Fairbanks base be con- structed. “If the Fairbanks base is put in, I believe there would be cer- tain improvemerits to landing field facilities in Juneaw. A flight from Fairbanks all -the way to Seattle is too far with- out an intermediate stop.” Yesterday, the Assistant Secretary of War arrived in Juneau in an 843 amphibian plane with Col. J. Monroe Johnson, Assistant Secre- tary of Commerce, on an aerial In- spection tour of possible Army air base sites and the International Highway. Col. Louis Johnson said on hisar- rival here that if the Fairbanks base is put in it will be “a big base and a first class base.” Building Large Planes “Those Martin bombers that were in Alaska recently, had wingspreads of 95 feet, I think,” Col. Louis John- son said. “Now (liey've bullt bigger planes and still bigger pianes with wingspread well over one hundred feet—and the end is not in sight yet.” In conncction with building of “first class air base facilities” to ac« commudate “nny plane,” at Falre banks. it is generally conceded that similar “first class” facilities would be put in 4. Juneau. Expecting to fly to Fairbanks this afternoon, after an early morning takeoff was forestalled by bad wea- ther, the Johnson party will fly straight through to Fairbanks. Last night with plans to leave early this morning, the party was planning to spend but two and a half hours in Fairbanks, then go to Anchorage to spend the night be- fore returning to Juneau, either via Fairbanks or via the coast of the Gulf of Alaska, probably getting into Juneau again on Monday. At Chilkoot Barracks After visiting Chilkoot Barracks, the party will then go to White~ horse, or in the vicinity, and pick up the trail of the International Highway for the southward flight where they begin the northward flight over the route to Fairbanks. Strip Fishing Last night both Colonels and thetr party went strip fishing for salmon off Shelter Island as guests of Simpson MacKinnon, Aide to Gov. John W. Troy. With MacKinnon and Secretary to the Governor, Harry L. Watson, showing the Army party the intrie cacies of fishing for salmon with light tackle, all members of the party caught fish. The Assistant Secretary of War, Col. Louis Johnson, the Assistant Secretary of Commerce, Col.J. Mon= roe Johnson, both tied into battling young king salmon at the same (Continued on Page Two) %