The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1938, Page 1

e BTN AWNAT A Tr A rrAarTiAT A4 sAAn THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII., NO. 7880. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ma—_ INT. HIGHWAY COMMISSION AT WORK BOAT HARBOR IS PLAGED AT388,000 Bond Issue Will Be Neces-| sary to Put in Term- inal Facilities OFFICIALS PREPARING FOR FULL COOPERATION Chamber Hg_Direcled Ef- forts for Project for Over Four Years With the War Department setting aside the money for the Juneau small boat harbor and preparing to start work immediately, as an- nounced exclusively in The Empire yesterday, city officials today be- gan mapping out their immediate plans for cooperation. Figures com- piled by City Engineer Milton La-| gergren revealed that cost to the city*for completing all the termin- | al facilities will be around $88,000. This will -include floats, seaplane float, gridirons, guard rail, wharf, rock fill, hoist, fire hydrants, rights- of-way, streets and walks. The War Departmeny figure on cost of building breakwaters and dredging has been placed at $232,- 000, making a total cost for the pro- ject of $320,000, if the city goes| ahead with its terminal facilities at at present outlined. two By passage of a resolution years ago, the City agreed to par- ticipate in the construction of the harbor to the extent of $5,000, but that was before the present site was selected or terminal facility plans had been worked out. Bond Issue Mayor Harry 1. Lucas said today that it would be necessary for the city to float a bond issue to handle its part of the improvements and the Council expects to take the mat- ter up at its regular meeting Sep- tember 2. In the meantime, the May- | or was in conference with Public Works Administration officials and it was hoped to be able to get 45 percent of the cost from PWA under the grant and loan provisions. If this is accomplished, the city’s im-| mediate need of cash for construc- tion will be cut almost in balf, or around $40,000 to $45,000. “This is the best thing that has happened to Juneau in a good many years,” said Allen Shattuck, Chair- man of the Small Boat Harbor com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce today, who has headed the Cham- ber’s committee since the Chamber took the leadership in trying to get the boat harbor more than four years ago. Serving with Mr. Shat- tuck were Wallis George and Charles W. Hawkesworth. History of Project Recounting the history of the pro- ject today, Mr. Shattuck recalled that it was back in 1934 that a pe- | tition was finally sent to the War Department, signed by boat owners and others in the community, ask- ing for harbor facilities. Much agi- tation and ground work had been done prior to that time. But from 1934, definite progress continued to be made. Army engineers were interested in the project and came north to make surveys. The first plan was to build just north of Femmer's Dock. This was abandoned after the Army surveys had shown better bot- Above is the engineer’s sketch of the Juneau small beat harbor which will be located Jjust north of the Douglas bridge on the mainland side of the channel. acres, breakwaters will be built by the War Department, protecting the harbor on the west and south. These rock breakwaters will be 1,100 and 500 feet in length. The basin will be dredged to a depth of 12 feet at mean lower water. _Engineers’ estimates CAPT. HAWKS, ~ SPEED FLIER, KILLED, CRASH Famous Record Holder Dies, with Companion —Plane Hits Wires EAST AURORA, N. Y, Aug. 24— Capt. Hawks, famous speed flier, |and J. Hazard Campbell, New York | City socialite, were both fatally hurt late yesterday when Hawks' sport plane hit wires and crashed in flames. Bystanders hauled the two men out of the blazing ship but both | died two hours later. Capt. Hawks had set many trans- continental speed records, about 1930. He retired from speed flying tom conditions existed in the site about a year ago and said he was just north of the bridge. Hearings | “going in comfort and safety from were held with Col, H. J. Wild, Dis- | now on.” trict Engineer at Seattle. In this| An jronic touch preceded the fa- connection, Mr. Shattuck said: “Col. Wild has cooperated with us from the start. As early as No- vember 1935 he compiled a thorough and favorable report on the project and has worked steadfastly in our behalf ever since.” 1t was two years later, August 26, 1937, that the War Department gave its official okey to the project and placed it on the list of approved river and harbor projects for Al- aska. . | Mr. Shattuck pointed out that the city officials, government officials, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, all have cooperated wholeheartedly on | the undertaking, and some assis-| tance was given by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. | Includes 11 ‘Acres | Actual construction of the har-| bor calls for the dredging of 11% | acres just north of the bridge to| a depth of 12 feet at mean low wa-| ter. Two rock breakwateys, 1,100| and 500 feet respectively, will pro- tect the basin on the west and south. | The city will extend streets leading| (Continued on Page Seven) | tal crash when a by stander picked a four leaf clover and handed it to | Capt. Hawks and wished him good | luck, just before the takeoff. A minute later the plane hit the wires. Seward Woman Killed Hunting, Accidental Discharge of Gun Fatal to Sylvia Martin, Cooper Lake SEWARD, Alaska, Aug. 24.—8yl- via Martin, 30, was killed by the ac- cidental discharge of a gun at Coop- er Lake while on a sheep hunting expedition. The party was preparing to leave the scene of a successful hunt when the tragedy occurred. She was with her brother and four others, all of Eeward. Details are lacking until the ar- rival of a plane late today. Japanes o Plais: Collide Over Iron Factory Which Is Set Ablaze TOKYO, Aug. 24.—Fourteen per- sons were killed and at least 150 in- jured when two planes collided over an iron foundry which was set afire by exploding gasoline. Ten of the dead are workers burned in the foundry. CLAIM GAINS ON 2 FRONTS SPANISH WAR Insurgents Report Loyalists Are Driven Back, East and West Sectors (By Associated Press) The Spanish Insurgents claim {they are making gains on two fronts. The Insurgents also assert that the Government lines gave way be- fore the vigorous Insurgent thrusts |on the Ebro River front in Eastern in the west. On the Tagus front the In- surgents reported conquering 309 square miles in the past three days. Fighting Paralysis EDMONTON, Aug. 24 — More hospitals in Alberta. The opening of schools in the Turner Valley will, in all likelihood, be delayed through the spread of infantile paralysis. | | Covering 111 Fourteen Killed, | JAPANESE ON 'Miner Kild, Crash, Explosion NEW ACTION, - CHINA FRONT 'Reinforcements Poured Into| Drive on South Bank ‘ of Yangtze (By Associated Press) | The Japanese are pouring rein- |forcements into the drive up the |south bank of the Yangtze River. | The intensification of the south ibank offensive came, the Chinese ‘report.s declare, after the Japanese | |gave up as a bad job their attempts |to reach Hankow along the north )bank and withdrew from Hwangmei, 25 miles noth of Kiukiang. The |first major objective in the new drive is now Juichang, 25 miles | west of Kiukiang, a little more than {100 miles southeast of Hankow. —_—————— Body of Captain Arey, F@@d, Beach Skipper, AlaskaSalmon Co. Spain, and along the Tagus River | “iron lungs” are being ordered for | Vessel, Believed to Have | Fallen Overboard | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 24. —The body of Capt. Charles L. Arey, |79, skipper of the Alaska Salmon ic<7mpfiny's_ steamer Elwyn C. Hale,| | has been found on the beach near Bolinas. Deputy Coroner Robert Russell| |said there is not evidence of foul| | play. It is believed Capt. Arey renf from his ship and the body was car- | | ried out of the Golden Gate by the | | e g i Zine bullets will penetrate “bul! | let-proof” steel vests according to an inventor who has received a| patent based on the claim that a zinc bullet is faster than any other | tional encampment here, has adopt- | SUNGESTEDYLAYOL > o B [PrRoPosED I oaT HARBOR, JUNE. AU Parasxa” M A L aGERGREN P . . * PR . | SCmaLe T nen e 00 FEET /i seeremeea s 7\ that the work can be accomplished by dredging 375,000 cubic yards of loose material, and placing 50,000 cubic yards of loose rock in the breakwaters. The project calls for an expenditure of $232,000 by the War Department and city officials have estimated the total cost to the city for buildings, walks, streets, floats and other facilities at around $80,000. FOUR CONVICTS 0dd Accident ARE SUFFOCATED Caught by Shaft Cable, T0 Man DEATH, CELLS Hauled Dangling il to Surface ;Horrible Revelations Made TRAIL, B. C, Aug. 24—August| by Coroner in Pris- Beckman, 30, a miner in this Koote- nay district, has succumbed to in- | on Tragedy juries received last week in the| LeRoi mine. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 24— Beckman, while working at the A picture of death among convicts bottom of the shaft, was caught by |driven “stark mad” by steam heat | the leg with the shaft cable which in an “airtight cell block” is drawn hoisted him dangling to the sur-|by officials investigating the deaths face. lof four of 600 striking inmafes of — eee - |the Philadelphia County Prison. ] Coroner Charles Hersch said R"ss’a" P'a"e autopsies disclosed that the four |inmates, described by Warden Will- iam Mills as agitators in the strike of 600 prisoners, died in horrible |agony, suffocation in the punish- ment cells where their nude bat- [tered bodies were found last Mon- |day. ( Coroner Hersch said his evidence |showed fhat the four prisoners| |were placed in their cells Sunday night, windows were closed and POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug, steam turned on in the radiators| 24.—The Post-Rogers Memorial Ex- by the guards. He said he will con-| pedition returned to Barrow today tinue his investigation until he| |from Oliktuk where they dragged learns whether heat was turned on i adjacent walers unsuccessfully for intentionally or was an act of care-| the Russian over-the-pole plane lessness. He said he firmly believed lost over a year ago. the heat was turned on intention- Party leaders, however, Interview- |ally. ed Eskimos who claimed they saw | the plane in question disappear | last year. Their stories are con- | T vincing, it is said. | Dea“‘ Pans Hufl Fruitless Post-Rogers Party Says Es- ! kimo Stories of Ship | Warrant Search lowa Twins SHENANDOAH, Ia, Aug. 24. — Death has ended the 81-year-old companionship for Henry and John Banner, believed to be Iowa's old- est bachelor twins. Henry died last | night after a brief illness, L AFTER BRIDGES COLUMBIA, Aug. 24—The Vet-| erans of Foreign Wars, at the na- | ed a resolution demanding immed- iate prosecution of Harry Bridges, CIO Chief on the Pacific Coast, on charges of labor racketeering. CITY'S COSTS UH Engineer’s Drawing of Juneaw’s Small Boat H(trb(;r on Which Work Now to Start U.S. AIRMAN MEMBERS A FORCED DOWN GUNFE%ENTGE BY JAPANESE N vicTORIA |Plane Madfi Gunned— : (& 14oF 1 AbsRdRe Premier Pattullo to Press for Action on Domin- | VICTORIA, B. C., Aug. 24—Am- | erican Congressman Warren G. Magnuson, Donald MacDonald and James W. Carey, United States | members of the International High- way Commission completed a con- ference with British Columbia’s Premier Pattullo and returned to Seattle. | Premier Pattullo assured the three Americans he will take the appoint- por[ed Killed . RS ion Government HONGKONG, Aug. 24—The Am- . R erican pilot of a Chinese airliner reported Japanese war planes forced HIGH OFHCIAL ls him to set his big plane down near STRONG FOR ROAD Canton, then machine gunned it,| — killing or wounding at least 14 of S 2 el {MacDonald Gives Estimate | H. L. Woods, of Kays, Kansas, | Regardmg Construction (the pilot, reached Macao unhurt, M | All of the others on the plane| Cost Per Mlle |were Chinese. Pilot Woods said he made a| , BULLETIN — WASHING- |forced landing on a small river| TON, Aup, 56 000 30 | between Canton and Macao, Portu- | "_“h“”“' Amistant Secrefary of |guese Colony, 50 miles south. Codimeres; | Why. Bas SR | Woods sent messages to the China | turned here from a flight ofer | National Aviation Corporation, own- SSctiiny of Ats userk“d . ers of the plane that he “landeq| International Highway is “Justi- jon the river Okay. Japanese ma- fied and feasible. " |chine guned us, killing or wound- The Commerce Del “ . |ing 12 passengers, also the co-pilot | OffiCIal SRl the' found Ah::‘ land steward. Radio Operator Loh, | getting oy o tmpoctunt. te, S | w United States every day in a one passenger and myself sul ial also a tour- Ship sunk in river.” o bk o ‘ R A | st center. KANSAS MAN, HOSTETTER | o L] - HUNTS GAME | | et Not the FBI Man, He Will ment of a Canadian Commission up Hunt. Goats-and Bear « | ¥AE the Dosinkn Guvernment e with Oscar Oberg MacDonald said he saw no insu- | perable engineering problems in Samuel E. Hostetter, lumberman | construction of the highway and from Hutchinson, Kansas, wants it| estimated the cost for a 32-foot | understood he “hunts big game” and | 8ravel roadway at $6,500 per mile. | not “men,” and that he is no rela- | He said the gravel road will be ade- tion to D. S. Hostetter, former FBI|Quate until resources developed jus- man in Juneau. | tity paving. Hostetter arrived in Juneau with | T S TR his wife this noon on the North Sea |and will spend two weeks in the cul. JUHNSUN | Juneau area with guide Oscar Oberg L] on the boat Leota, seeking brown | They will hunt Tracy Arm first for goat and then will go to a few | | pet spots Oscar has for brown bear! | in the Peril Straits area. | 1 MAGILL QUITS AS TAX EXPERT TREASURY DEPT. |Resignation Is Accepted by President Roosevelt with Regrets HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 24— | President Roosevelt has accepted the resignation of Rosewell Magill, Under Secretary of Treasury, with an epression of “genuine regret.” Magill, who had been the Treas- ury Department’s top tax expert for the past one year and a half, re- | called in his letter of resignation to | the President, that the appointment | was with the understanding he could return to his professorship at the [ |To Make Report on Project | Also Army Air Bases, | Direct to Roosevelt | PRCEIER 2 | WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. — Col. |Touis Johnson, Assitsant Secretary lof War, who has just returned |from a brief flight to Juneau, Ket- |chikan and Fairbanks, Alaska, said !“much surveying” will be required | before construction of the Interna- | tional Highway. Alternate routes across British Columbia must be considered, he | sald. | Col. Johnson was noncommittal |as to whether he favored construc- |tion of an Army Air Base at Fair- | banks or other sides, especially one |at Point Gustavus, near Juneau. He |said he will make his report direct to President Roosevelt on both projects, International Highway and Army Air Base. Planes, said Col Johnson, are the answer to the transportation prob- | Columbia University Law School, this September. | Magill said that if the occasion | arises, he might serve again and hoped the President will call him. lems in Alaska. “There are 30 planes at Fairbanks alone. No greater service could be done in the Territory than to develop air fields,” said Col. Johnson. — e ALASKA LABOR MEET DELAYED SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 24. “Some of the Alaska scenery is | more gorgeous than any I saw in |a long tour of Switzerland, either by air or road,” said Col. Johnson. “Many more tourists are sure to go there in the future to the econ- |omic benefit of the Territory.” | —The Maritime Federation of the |Pacific headquarters announced that the Alaska Unity Conference set for September 5 at Ketchikan, Alaska, to bring the CIO and AFL |and independent unions together |has been postponed to October 10 OLAF SWENSON IS FOUND DEAD Baid one part, ber Their | p iory ta Bib bant dna fusthar search | 81 Year Uld agecsc. RO Wellknown Seattle Fur Mer- | should be - - | 3 i pde |SITKA HAS SUNNY chant Might Have Been TRIP TO JUNEAU| Killed in Accident Capt. Bill Doucett brought the| SEATTLE, Aug. 24—Olaf Swen- schooner Sitka into port today with| son, fur merchant, was found dead thirty tons of freight aboard. | in the office of his fur store, a rifle | Doucett said the trip up from Se-"flefll'by. attle was practically cloudless—the Detectives said it appears the rifle “first time in 15 years we haven't| might have been discharged acci- | had rain on the trip north,” Doucett | dentally while Swenson was clean=~ | said, ing it