The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 25, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIL, NO. 7881. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1938. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, TEN CENTS FRANCE FEARS GERMANY SEEKING WAR WA O. K’s $170,000 for Juneau Projects WILLOUGHBY AVE, PAVING, SEWER PLANS APPROVED Undertaking Also Would Include Widening South Seward, and Sidewalks APPLICATION MADE FOR HARBOR FUNDS City’s Action on Street Im- provements Still Pend- ing, Mayor Says Coming on the heels of assurance from the War Department that the small boat harbor is now to be built, Mayor Harry I. Lucas received word from Washington this morn- ing that the city’s application for a PWA loan and grant of $170,000 for street and sewer improvements had been approved. The Public Works Administration has set aside the money, $93,500 of which will be a loan to the city and $76,500, or 45 per cent, a grant. What portion, if any, of the street improvements project will be ac- cepted has not yet been deter- mined, the Mayor said and would not be until the City Council has considered the matter. The fact that a bond issue will be necessary to carry out the city’s portion of the small boat harbor projects, now assured, put a different light on the gating unAmerican activ the purpose of the Nazi movement lish a vast spy network, form a Details Bund’s Work John C. Metcalfe, former Chicago newspaperman shown as he demon- strated the Nazi salute to the House commitiee in ‘Washington investi- , described the extent of the German- American bund in the United States, its size, its work and its am- bitions. As an investigator for the committee, he said he discovered in the United States was to estab- powerful sabotage machine, and develop the present Bund group into an organization encompassing as many German-Americans as possible. AP Photo. street improvements projects, Mayor Lucas said. City Must Raise Cash The ctiy’s cost on the boat harbor is estimated at $88,000 for terminal facilities, the Mayor said, and formal application was made today to PWA for a grant of $39,600 and a loan of $48400 for the under- taking. A bond issue will be neces- sary, he explained, to retire the loan of $48400 if the proposition is BRIT. OFFICIAL 1S SHOT DOWN fedéral Résenfi Says Business JUICHANG IS REPORTED T0 HAVE FALLEN Walled City o Yangtze River Said to Have ‘ Been Taken FIRST JAPANESE VICTORY IN MONTH Next Attack Is on Nan- | change, Which Is Air Base of Chinese Defenders SHANGHAI, Aug. 25.—A final and successful drive, according to Japanese sources, on Juichang, one of the major objectives in the Japanese drive toward the . pro- visional capital city of Hankow, is reported. The victory, if true, is the first notable Japanese avance since the invaders' occupation on July 26 of Kiukiang, Yangtze River port. The taking of Juichang was in sweltering heat of 140 degrees. Japanese observers maintain that the fall of the walled city of Jui- chang put the invaders in a posi- tion to outflank the 30 Chinese divisions deployed along the 90 miles of railway between Kiukiang and Nanchang, the Chinese air base, another objective in the Han- kow campaign - DEATH TOLL MOUNTING UP, INJERUSALEM O Swift Uptrend JAPAN GRASH Two Transport Planes Col- Arab Hunchback Pours Five‘Seven MonE;*Losses Are approved by PWA. If it is not ap- proved, it would be necessary for the city to raise the $88,000 in some other manner, which probably would necessitate a larger bond issue, he said. The loan and grant of $170,000 approved today by PWA for city improvements includes paving Wil- loughby Avenue from Winter and Pond’s corner to the city limits at Twelfth Street, cost $107,000; ob- taining right-of-way on South Sew- ard Street for widening that street, $5,000; constructing concrete side- walks in various parts of the city, replacing wooden ones, $9,000; build- ing and repairing sewers along Wil- | loughby and in the South Franklin | Street district, $31,200; engineering and contingent expenses, $10,550. | Josts Outlined | If the city goes ahead with the' street improvements as well as the | e e | | boat harbor, the total cost to the city would be $141,900 providing the e | PWA application for the city’s por- Packers Are Unable to Se- tion of the boat harbor is approved. cure Three-day Exten- If the latter should not be, the | * sion—Heavy Run Bullets Into W. S. | Moffatt JERUSALEM, Aug. 25.—An Arab hunchback is held on charges of the assassination of W. 8. Moffatt, Brit- ish Assistant District Commissioner. Moffatt died last night from five bullet wounds suffered at the hands of the gunman who invaded the Dis- trict Administrative headquarters late yesterday afternoon. The authorities said the Arab was captured while trying to escape after the shooting. cost would be $181,500 as the city would have to raise all the $88,000 in addition to retiring the loan por- | ASTORIA, Oregon, Aug. 25.—The | Columbia River fishing season has closed despite efforts of eight sal- mon packers to obtain a three-day extension from the Oregon and Washington state fish commissions. B. M. Brennan, director of the Washington State Fish Commis- sion, advised that the extension |was impossible because of obliga- | tions to the Federal Government to |restock the Columbia River and tributaries on the northern side. I Packers said they acted because |the heavy August run entered the (Continued on Page Two) OF 4 CONVICTS CAUSING STIR Elghl to Be Arrested as river a few hours late. Punishment Cell Pris- oners Succumb |NORRIS PORTERS 1 END VISIT HERE Mr. and Mrs. Norris K. Porter | ended a several days’ visit in Ju- neau yesterday evening when they | embarked on the Mt. McKinley for| Seward, from where they will go/ to Flat where Porter teaches school. | PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Aug. 25.-- The arrest of at least eight pergons | is predicted in connection with' the “paking death” of four convicts who| led a hunger strike in the county prison. The prediction was made by Coro-| ner Charles Hersch who said at the| investigation findings indicated at least eight were implicated in the| s of the four convicts who| :ie:;h;n Dswam heated and almost| American exports to Soviet Rus-| i ia amount to $42,900,000 in 1937, air tight punishment cells. i . 31, Two guards are already being held| TI08tly in machines and industrial as material witnesses. ! equipment, He was marrjed shortly before re-| turning for this year's teaching. P Gained Back in as Many Weeks, Is Report WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. — The Federal Reserve Board today re- ported that United States business is “much better.” The Board estimated that indus- try had gained back in the last seven weeks all its losses in the past seven months and that the index of industrial production has climbed from 77 percent of the 1923-25 av- erage to 83 percent, as figured in July. e — - STOCK QUOTATIONS * e * NE WYORK, Aug. z. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 10%, American Can 101%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 35%, Bethlehem Steel 61, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 49%, International Harves- ter 60%, Kennecott 42%, New York | Central 19%, Safeway Stores 19%, Southern Pacific 20, United States Steel 61%, Pound $4.88%, Bremner bid 2. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 144.07, up 54; rails 20.61, up .41; utilities 20.25, up .17. FUNERAL SERVICES FOR C. G. GREN TOMORROW Funeral services for Carl (Charlie) | Chinese passengers or crew mem- who died at St bers of the 17 aboard, are still miss- | Gynnar Gren, Ann’s Hospital Tuesday evening, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 oclock in the chapel of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary, with the Rev. John L. Cauble reading the service. Interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery. —,,—— FLY TO KLAWOCK N. Lester Troast, Juneau archi- lide, Fall on Foundry, Sets It Afire TOKYO, Aug. 25.—The death toll of the city’s largest aviation disas- ter grew to 28 victims with 130 still in hospitals, 20 in critical condition. The disaster was the result of a collision between two transport planes which plunged into an iron fourtdry, setting the plane afire with exploding gasoline. - e — SHOOT THEM DOWN ORDER 1S GIVEN OUT Civilian Planes Flying Over i War Area in China ‘ to Be Shelled | SHANGHAI, Aug. 25.—The Japa- nese Naval spokesman served warn- ing today that any civilian plane | flying over what Japan designates as the war area in China, is in dan- | ger of being shot down. The spokesman declared that the | airliner, piloted by American Woods, |owned and operated by the China | National Aviation Corporation, | forced down near Canton and then machine gunned, was mistaken for |8 Chinese bomber. | It is said that at least twelve ing. CHATHAM IS DUE IN | PORT THIS EVENING | i Freighter Chatham is scheduled i"o arrive in port at 11 o'clock to- 'nlghL After discharging freight here, the vessel goes to Skagway Roosevelt Pledges His Support to Canada President Roosevelt served notice to the world that “the people of the United States will not stand idly by if domination of Canadian soil is threatened by any other emnire” than the British, shown at Kingston, Ont., where he was greeted by Prime Minister Mackenzie King Later President Roosevelt received an honorary degree from Queens Matthews, Lt. Gov. of Ontario. High Court Wants Western Expert on Mining and Water LOYALISTS ARE HOLDING LINES ON EBRO RIVER Admit Insurgents Have Taken Only Few Advance | Posts in One Month HENDAYE, French-Spanish Bor- der, Aug. 25. — Government dis- patches report that the main line of defenses on the Ebro River Val- ley front in Southern Catalonia are holding against the diminishing fury of the Insurgent attacks. Although the Government troops admit the Insurgents carried some advance posts by storm, they in- sist the actual battle lines have changed little since established a month ago. Nazi Bamners - Stream Before Hungary Ruler Hitler Shows Ofi |6‘000;port1ng brief the government lays| Men in Reaffirmation of Border Agreements BERLIN, Aug. 25.—Nazi Germany | today followed up its guarantee of | integrity for Hungarian frontiers display in history. | The maneuvers were held before | Admiral Horthy, Regent of H““ whose origin could be as mysterious | necessary to close within the next gary, in a riotous display of swas- | to a resident of a rain-watered state |48 hours if the dispute is not ended | tika banners and file on file of | marching troops. | In an exchange of toasts at a | sumptuous state dinner last night, | Hitler promised the Hungarian rul- | er that “We as neighbors have found {our definite historic boundaries through historic events,” meaning, tect, and M. M. Custard, of the Al-/and then calls at Taku Landing on |t js peljeved, the Austrian annexa- by AAT plane this morning for Kla- wock in connection with construc- tion on the water system, a PWA project, in that town. ——— A camel has twice the carrying power of an OX. Last year Porter taught at Aniak.|aska Construction Company, left |the way south. RETURNING TO ANCHORAGE Miss Betty Casey visited friends here during the stay of the Colum- bia. She is returning to Anchorage after a visit Outside. | tion. Hitler showed Regent Horthy a two-hour parade today of 16,000 men marching_with a nearly for- | gotten old Prussian spirit before a | display of ~ sixtéen-irich howitzers that are larger than any ever seen in Germany. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—This department gathers that the Su- preme Court would like Mr. Roose velt to appoint a member who knows western irrigation and mining law —and that calls for a western man. And the western men most often menfioned hereabouts for the job are William Denman of San Fran- cisco and Sam G. Bratton of Al- buquerque, New Mexico, members respectively of the ninth and tenth circuit courts. Senator Norris of Neb himself could easily be | westerner, already has mended Felix Frankfurter, vard law professor. Lacking on the Supreme Court bench just now is a specialist in irrigation and mining law as it is known in the west. Besides native sons, potatoes and cowpunchers, the west has contributed two com- plete branches of basic law, those dealing with water rights and metal mining Justice Van Devanter of Wy- oming handled the bulk of such cases when he was on the court but he retired a year ago. raska, who called a recom- Har- | WATER—NOT EVERYWHERE | Just now a really serious test of |the whole basic law of irriga- | tion rights is arising in Nebraska, | Wyoming and Colorado. The U. S. | Bureau of Reclamation has inter- |vened in a suit involving alloca- tion of waters of the North Platte among the three states. In its sup- | claim to certain water which here- | tofore the states have claimed ss | subject wholly to their own juris- diction. While the west is young, it | nevertheless has built up a law ex- perience in mining and irrigation dating back nearly 100 years. That with the greatest post war military | oider than most corporate law.| | Moreover, much mining and irriga- tion law is based on local practices | as the fourth dimersion. | At present Justice Butler “farthest west” member of the court, and he is from Minnesota. That may sound “far west” to a Broadway habitue but to the Rocky Mountains and Pacific Coast states Minnesota is about as far east | as Rhode Island. | THERE'S NO HURRY | Both Justices Bratton and Den- man were suggested for the high | court at the time of the Black and | Reed appéintments. At one time { (Continued on Page “Four) Rt is | 'FRENCH PREMIER ‘GRIES ALARM IN NEARING CRISIS | |German Maneuvers Said to Be Hastening Toward Major Campaign |DALADIER INSISTS FRANCE ENDANGERED | Asks Immediate Increase in Production to Prepare for Eventualities BULLETIN—PARIS, Aug. 25. —The Radical Socialist Party has given its President, Premier Daladier full backing for his plan to abandon the 40-hour This announcement came after the Premier had warned France that German military preparations made it necessary that France strengthen its de- fense. PREPARES 10 ACT { | | PARIS, Aug. 25—A Socialist | Party demand for a special session | of Parliament was closely followed by an account quoting Premier Da- ladier as declaring, “Germany’s mo- bilization of two million men” con- fronted him with “a situation which | no Governaent chief has known WORK ONINT, =5 | [] ’ Newspapers wit!i sirong political | connections, said tic Premier's de- HIGHWAY MAY | claration was made last night at a START, SPRING He is (left), and Albert | closed meeting of the Executive | Committee of his own radical Soci- |alist party, at the conclusion of | which the committee voted him “complete confidence ” { Deputy Alfred Wallach, of Alsace, | declared Germany’s army maneu- Chairman Magnuson, of‘ vers are now in progress and are | designed “to only shorten delays in- Commission, Finds B. C. | cident to beginning a campaign.” Premier En[husias[ic | Prench press reports said Premier | Daladier, in speaking his demand SEATTLE, Aug. 25. — Congress- | to drop to the forty hour week, said, man Warren G. Magnuson, Chair-|"“T can’t wait for slow changes. I am man of the American International |held by the throat and France must Highway Commission, who has re-! be ready immediately—not within turned from a conference with Brit- | the year or even six months. We ish Columbia Premier T. D. Pattul- | Must begin to produce immediate- lo, said actual work on the Alaska |-’ highway may start next year. He| T said he found the Premier enthu-| siastic about the undertaking and NEw A'RLINE wants to get work started in the spring. Imperial Airways May Op- erate Between Calif- BIG STRIKE IN SAN FRANCISCO ornia, Australia All Wholesale Grocery and Liquor Warehouses Gradually Closing SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 25. —Treasure Island, man-made, in SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 25.|San Francisco Bay, may become —The warehouse industry and labor the terminus of an America-Aus- dispute spread today to 57 plants |tralia flying service. and a forecast that was made that| Utilities Manager E. G. Cahill a general closing of the wholesale announces that if the international grocery and liquor warehouses would | negotiations are successfuly con- result began to materialize. |cluded there is a distinct possibility Ten more wholesale grocery com- |the Imperial Airways of Great Bri- panies and two liquor dxsmbuwrs‘mtn will establish and operate be- are closed and two other wholesale | tween San Francisco and Australia. liquor concerns, while not closed, | e said they could not fill orders. The spokesman of the Wholesale | Liguor Distributors Association onseal Take Is Northern California said a dozen | Record One, smaller plants will probably find it I Pribilofs The dispute started when the| warehousemen refused to unload aiReponed OVCI' 58,000!““1’5 freight car of school supplies on| o Be Shipp«-J~—Larg- the ground the car was loaded by | . 4 7 “strikebreakers” of the Woolworth | est in 49 Years plant. QiR el and all of the city’s 30 or more wholesale liquor houses will olose | by the end of the week. | ——,-— FAIRBANKS BOUND | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 25. —The Bureau of Foreign and Do- mestic Commerce reports that seal hunters of the Pribilofs took 58364 Mrs. Cyrias St. Amand and daugh- furs which is six percent more than ter Dolores passed through Juneau in 1937 and the largest take in 49 years. on the Columbia bound for Fair- banks,