The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1938, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - VOL. LII, NO. 7879. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY , AUGUST 23, 1938 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS s e JUNEAU AWARDED SMALL BOAT HARBOR JIMMY HINES IS New Light Cruiser to Be Named Juneau; FDR Okehs EMPLUYEES ARE NOW ON TRIAL, ALLEGED GRAFT Witness Cla;;:$500 Week- ly Paid for Protection of Policy Racket NEW YORK, Aug. 23. — George Weinberg, 36, ex-convict and once business manager of the multi-mil- lion dollar Dutch Schuitz “Policy Empire,” testified today in the Superior Court that Tammany Dis- trict Leader James Hines promised “protection” from police raids on Harlem policy banks. “I paid Jimmy Hines $500 a week for higher protection,” Weinberg said. Weinberg also testified that he once talked with Hines about the policy racket, saying there were too many arrests. Weinberg said Hines asked him if he wanted any particular cop “broken” and Weinberg said he re- plied “No.” “Broken,” Weinberg said, meant “sent to the sticks.” Weinberg said he would so some- thing about it and later the number of arrests decreased. “They used to average about 20 a day, but| after talking with Hines, who prob- ably gave instructions to the police, | arrests dropped to 4, or 5 or 6 a day,” said Weinberg. | B CHINESE READY FOR JAPANESE, BOMBING CASE HANKOW SECTOR CAUSES DAMAGE Millon . Soldiess, 200000 SUIT FBF_BIG SUM! Civilians Prepared for Invaders SHANGHAI, Aug. 23.—One mil- lion soldiers and 200,000 civilians are reported mobilized to protect the Hankow area should the Jap- anese break the deadlock that has kept them 110 miles from the capi- tal of China for nearly one month. The civilians have been trained in many lines of duties behind the | lines. Women have been given | important roles as nurses and mili- | tary aides. | - | WAR SECRETARY CONFERS ABOUT HIGHWAY PLANS Commission Members Go to See B. C. Premier Pattullo SEATTLE, Aug. 23.—Before hop- ping off from here today in his army | clipper plane to return east, Col.| Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, met with members of the newly appointed Alaska Interna- tional Highway Commission last/ night to discuss cooperative efforts between Canada and the United | States. The Commissioners left here | today to confer with Premier Pat- tullo of IMtish Columbia at Vie- toria. Only a few oldtimers are opposed to the proposed International High- way, Col. Johnson said on arriving here from an inspection trip to Al- aska. He said he couldn’t comment officially on whether Seattle would | be the terminus of the route or whether the terminus would be fur- ther inland. | | TWO-DAY EXTENSION | GRANTED FISHERMEN | IN CLARENCE STRAIT Extension of the commercial fish- near |with William Green, President of |there was absolutely no discussion HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 23. — President Roosevelt has approved of the names of eight new warships for the United States Navy. The next four battleships will be christened Indiana, Massachusetts,’ Alabama and South Dakota. conducted by a popular magaz Long Island, she displays Private Detective in Los| Angeles Implicates | 56 Persons ; LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 23— Private Detective Harry Raymond | has filed suit for $306,000 damages against Mayor Frank Shaw, Joseph | Shaw, the Mayor's brother and former secretary; Police Chief James Davis and 53 others. The suit is the aftermath of the fatal bombings of Raymond last January. ] Two police officers were recently convicted for their part in the bombing. Changes fo Be Made in Wagner Labor Act Now HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 23.—| | President Roosevelt today said that | representatives of labor, employers | and the National Labor Relations Board, will probably be called into consultation during the fall for pos- | sible changes to ‘be made in the | Wagner Act. The President said he agreed the American Federation of Labor, | that the law should be clarified but | as to what specific changes might | be made. 1 A.similar announcement was made by Green after his talk with the President last week. President | Roosevelt talking to reported said, in response to questions, that it is necessary to get views of quite a| number of persons before determin- | ing what clarifications Congress should be asked to make. | | — o STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 23. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 102'%, American Light and Power NEW YORK PRODUCT Frances Donelon carries a country-wide title, “Typical American Gi CIVIL SERVIGE Four of the new light criisers will be named Juneau, Diego and Atlanta The naming of the light cruisers, Juneau and San Juan, are compli- mentary names for the capitals of Alaska and Porto Rico. San Juan, San GIVEN WARNING Don't Monkey in State or National Campaigns —Watch Out WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — The civil Service Commission today warned 533,000 Federal employees against engaging in any state or | | national election campaigns. The warning said civil service employees risked immediate dis- | missal by participation in cam- | paigning. l 'CRUMBLE FOR - WEE ENTENTES Two Military Pacts Go with | Wind “In the Inter- | ) ests of Peace BLED, Yugoslavia, Aug. 23.—The | Little Entents today swept away all | the military clauses of another World War treaty and gave Hun- gary the right to rearm “in the in-| terests of peace.” The three nations, Czechoslovakia, | Rumania and Yugoslavia, agreed to | abrogate arms restrictions of the Trianon Treaty and grant militax: equality to Hungary. The action followed a similar move made by the Balkan Entente, which includes Rumania and Yugo- slavia, on July 30, which wiped out the Treaty of Neuilly, a treaty limit- | ing Bulgaria’s rearmament. | This pact had long been a sore ! spot because of vigorous complaint rising from Bulgaria's limitation to an army of but 35,000 men. ," as result of a poll At swank Atlantic Beach club, rm that helped her win. HERE IS "MISS CALIFORNIA" ¢ FDR QUESTIONS VOTE MORALITY | IN1DAHO POLLS 1 15,000 Republicans Said to | Have Voted in Demo- cratic Primary | | HYDE PARK, N. Y., Aug. 23. —| | President Roosevelt today said, in | discussing the Idaho political situa- | the party, raises the basic question | of political morality. | The President said between ten |and fifteen thousand Republicans |voted in the recent Idaho Demo-| | cratic Senatorial primary in which | Senator James Pope, Administra- tion adherent, was defeated. Miss Claire James (above), 19, ‘Great’ Grent | of Los Angeles, was adjuiged | Grandson of best of 40 girls in a beauty con- . test at Venice, Cal., to be “Miss ;Adam’ Dies California 1938” and to compete | for the national beauty crown at Atlantic City, N. J. Above Miss James holds the trophy which goes with the 1938 title. | —AP Photo. | PALMYRA, Maine, Aug. 23—/ James Franklin Adams, 76, great great grandson of John Quincy| Adams, sixth President of the Unit- | ed States, died today at the home lof his daughter. He is survived | by his widow, daughter and several | ! grandchildren. 1‘ PLANNING COUNCIL ; it WAR TREATIES - PITFALLS FOR THE WARY, these pits are dug every streets so that pedestrians can drop into them at first . ON HANKOW WATERFRONT stands above branch building of National City bank of New York—in possible line of fire should Japan storm China’s provisional capital. The U. S. en- voy and staff bave already left Hankow for Chungking. Hell-Raising American Doctor Shouts Down One General of Japan Army KING DAVID I | SHANGHAI, Aug. 23.—Japancse soldiers on duty in the Yangtze River delta area know him as the | “hell-raising American dector who | won't quit traipsing around our | territory.” He earned that sobriquet by banging his fist on a table and shouting down a Japanese officer who had called him & spy | The Chinese peasants of the | same area call him the “big white boss of the huge bfick house of Scoop Shovel Scotty Gives Nebraska Wheat Farm- er Tough Run 1120 miles of Shanghai and the | house of many beds is the Huchow | General Hospital, an American- owned institution. BRITT, Towa, Aug. 23. King| He is Dr. Frederick Manget of David I still reigns as “King of | Newnan, Georgia. For the last 25 the Hoboes.” vears he has been attached to the The Ashland, Nebraska, Wheat |Southern Methodist Episcopal Mk Scotty, his nearest rival at the among the Chinese annual hobo convention held here. Scotly’s followers opposed King David on the grounds he was only a part=time hobo. e ird Term? 1t's Double Question NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—After meeting with co-members of the Democratic National Committee, Gov. Richard W. Leche of Louisi ana said: “It is not a question| whether President Roosevelt wants|{¢ Shanghal by a Japanese military to run for & third term, but whether |9ard: i : we can get him to run.” " The Japanese military authori- _ | ties at Huchow believed he might Had To Flee When the war came Dr. Manget | performed operations upon wound- led Chinese soldiers while aerial | bombs fell just outside the mission compound. A few days before the Japanese occupation of the city on November 22, 1937, he evacuated the institution and took patients and | staff to Hangchow, some 40 miles |away. | In Pebruary the doctor returned | to Huchow and found the hospital |and mission in Japanese hands. Before the doctor had an opportu- nity to star negotiations for the return of the institution to the mis- on, he was arrested and escorted MEETS WITH BESSEY | [)on’t S ON ALASKA PROGRAM Meeting of the Alaska Planning Council and members of the Ad-| <« visory committee was held yester@ny‘ By PRESTON GROVER afternoon in the Governor's office,| wASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Noth- the officials going over plans for|ing jrritates the State Department Alaska with R. F. Bessey, represen-| <, much as the spnts-and-cocktail: tative of the National <ResoUrces aroma about its career service, | g G " lbe a spy and were taking no | chances. Turning him over the U l Y S .l . D ° S Settlement, they told him to stay | there. ntless Iou dnule in vyomng o CLE b el | But the doctor didn't y. By the end of March, he was back again. On this occasion, he found the hospital and mission buildings in a sorry condition. Trouble is that the tea table stories are the kind which get to congressmen, often of a rustic turn of mind. That plays havoc With 8°| "o oompound was being used | many beds at Huchow.” Huchow is| ing season in Clarence Strait dis- 51 Anaconda 35%, Bethlehem Steel trict from 6 p.m. tonight to 6 pm.| Thursday night, August 25, has| been granted by Secretary of Com- | merce Daniel C. Roper, accordlngi to information to the U. S. Bureau of Fisheries today. The area effected is south of a line from Approach Point to Caam- ano Point. This is the fourth extension | granted in Southeast Alaska so far. | Previous extensions were granted in the Ketchikan, FEastern and| Western districts. | 60%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Mo- tors 49, International Harvester 591, Kennecott 41%, New York Cen- tral 19%, Safeway Stores 19, South- ern Pacific 19%, United States Steel 597%, Pound $4.877%, Bremner asked 2. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 143.70, up 2.78; rails 28.96, up .71; utilities 20.11, up 42. Committee, who has just complet- ed four weeks survey work in the hands among the career diplomats.| reputation of being the most pinch- Territory. } John E. Pegues, secretary of the Council, said Mr. Bessey gave vari-| ous suggestions in which the Na- | tional Resources Committee can be helpful to Alaska in working out an orderly plan of development. The visiting official, who is also Executive Secretary of the North- west Planning Council, sailed for the south this morning on the Aleutian, Naturally there are few plow- | By the nature of their jobs they | travel with “nice people.” But the number of choice spots in the serv- ice is equalled by the pest holes to which the Department has to send its men. A cruise through the tropics looks well enough on travel posters but a four-year stay at a sweaty consular post like as not will fill a man'’s liver full of equatorial worms 1and his blood with malaria. f;:zfi::u&n: éorstiir;e;;m}e‘;lsez;zras a fortress against Chinese guer- by g illa attacks. Holes had been made lin the brick walls and were being |used as machine-gun emplace- | ments. The mission church, he re- lates, had been stripped of pews, | DEA’ | | % BX VIOLENOE altar and other furnishings and | Secretary Hull recently pointed out that tropical malaria had| oS being used as 4 crematory for | brought down another career man,| ~p, dzcwr demanded to see the ddin v g A o & fo:die 8 who alteady haielJapanue colonel in command, but died DERIES JKuled (o Mty |was denied. The commandant of “The recent death of John J. O'Keefe, vice consul and clerk m;‘he dvpanies mittienr Syetice de- (Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) penny of any major nation in fin- ancing its foreign staff. MONEY IS MADE AVAILABLE FOR - LOCAL PROJECT Work to Start Inmediately, According to Information from Washington, D. C. 'BREAKWATER WILL ' BE BUILT THIS FALL 'War Department Earmarks Funds for Construction to Start at Once The War Department has ear- marked the money for building of the Juneau small boat har- bor and plans are ready for starting work immediately. This was the information re- ceived in Juneau today by Gov. John W. Troy from Gen. M. C. Tyler, Acting Chief of Army Engineers, in Washington, D. C. Gen. Tyler said that the Army Engineers hoped to get construction of the breakwater completed during the present calendar year and that Col. Lee, Division Engineer in Portland, had been advised to proceed with ironing out the last few remaining details. Gov. Troy said, after a con- ference this afternoon with Mayor Harry L. Lucas and James G. Truitt of the Army En- gineer's office in Seattle, who is In the city, that apparently all barriers had been removed, indicating that there remained nothing to keep the project from being undertaken immed- iately. The Juneau project had previous- ly been approved by the Army En- gineers, to be built at a cost of $232,000, but no money had been | made available. With the War De- | partment setting aside the funds, few yards along Kaifeng, China, sound of air raid. | | LOYALISTS ARE HOLDING THEIR OWN, ONEFRONT Fighting n Iwo Sectors| Considered Heaviest | in 25 Months HENDAYE, French - Spanish| Frontier, Aug. 2 The general In- surgent offensive appears to be blocked in the key sector, the Ebro River front, as the Government troops are not only holding their own but making advances. In Central Spain, however, along the Tagus River, Government troops are reported to be giving ground. | Military observers consider the fighting on the two fronts as the| heaviest in the 25-month-old Civil| | war, with artillery, tanks and air-| | planes used by both sides on a scale | | scarcely approached before. the long-sought project appeared - D today to be on its way. | T | Major D. M. Shearer, assistant to | |Col. H. J. Wild, District Engineer in Seattle, is arriving in Juneau BRISTOL BAY tomorrow aboard the Mount Mec- Kinley and local officials were | planning to confer with him upon |his arrival relative to further de- Materials Leaving Soon— Fall Pack Will Be Put Up If Possible side and will include about 10 R . lacres, according to plans. There ASTORIA, Ore., Aug. 23. — The L) pe room for a large number of \:S;:xing of the fall season, if pos- and the city will supply certain | The American Fisheries floating walks, lighting and other features. |tals of the undertaking. The small boat harbor is to be constructed just north of the Doug- las Island bridge on the mainland Columbia River Packers Association | small boats and probably airplane :::'x\lxz‘:n:l’:cm:i;n::;y ur‘:’ ot';‘]g ;;2:: hangars. The War Department will Af Bive: i Britsol By tor tya|DUI 08 BeIR DN SRS e to the plans worked out previously, | tion, that the intervention in the|g...;o. encountered strong opposition | sion in China, where he has prac-|cannery Memnon will leave with | | party primary by members opposing .+ was elected over Scoop Shovel | ticed medicine on a charity basis materials as soon as the present H - | EUROPE REACTS | Wing Sympathy TOU. S, SLUMP For Motorist SOUTH BEND, Ind., Aug. 23. — HARTFORD, Conn. Aug. 23— Kuropean financiers are uncertain “Sneezy”—one of the Seven Dwarfs about the economic future of the|had nothing on Samuel Kramer. United States, according to Chris-| Facing a charge of passing a | topher Hollis, British economist, |traffic signal, Kramer told the who has become a member of the |court when he last saw the signal faculty of the University of Notre|light it was green. Dame. | Then he had to sneeze. “Heavy recent withdrawals of ear-| When he looked up again, the marked gold by European powers is'light was red, he said. proof of growing pessimism withre-[ “I know that sounds foolish,” gard to America’s business slump,“lKramer told the judge, “but when Hollis asserted. “The vast store of |I saw the red light it was too late American gold will prevent any to stop.” 2 harmful reaction from this move-, “Your excuse is movel if nothing ment, but it indicates some anxiety | else,” grinned the court, and judg- abroad as to the possible enlarge- ment was suspended on payment of ment of the economic cavity you $5 and costs. are now calling the ‘recession’ into ——————— one of depression depth. So as not| | to be caught unprepared, Europeans | | BASEBALL TODAY l think it wise for the moment to have their gold closer to home.” | | The following are scores of base- | games played this afternoon | in the two major leagues as recefved up to 2 o'clock: i National League Boston 6; Pittsburgh 0. Philadelphia 0; Cincinnati 3. New York 6; Chicago 2. American League Chicago 1, 11; New York 3, 3. Detroit 8, 13; Philadelphia 3, 5. Cleveland 3; Beston 13. — e, FROST LEAVES Arriving in Juneau tomorrow aboard the Mt. McKinley is O. K.| Anderson, from Oakland, Cal. He is enroute to Fairbanks to suoceed\ | R. L. Frost, in charie of the weather | station there. Prost has been trans- | ferred to the weather bureau at the| Richmond, Va. airport. | Anderson will remain here. for| RAMSTEAD IN:JUNEAU several days, consulting and getting| E. O. tead, of Petersburg, is pointers from H. J. Thompson who|in town while here is making has supervision of the weather sta-|his headquarters at the New Alas- | tions in Alaska. kan Hotel.