The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 31, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “4LL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7886. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1938. CITY TAXPAYERS T0 VOTE SEPT. 20 ONBONDISSUE Council Call?gpecial Elec- tion to Decide on Pub- lic Projects $141,900 NECESSARY TO ACCEPT PWA PROPOSAL Paving, Sewer;, Right-of- Way and Boat Harbor Facilities Involved Juneau taxpayers whose names appear on the tax rolls will have opportunity September 20 to ex- press themselves on making im- provements in the city amounting to $208,000, including the small boat harbor terminal facilities, ing Willoughby Avenue, widening south Seward Street and installing sewers and sidewalks. The City Council at a special meeting last night passed a reso- lution calling for a special election on September 20 to vote on a bond issue to cover the city's cost of the projects. ! Four propositions will be present- ed the voters for their approval or | rejection as follows: | Four Projects (1) Paving streets and building sidewalks, $63,800, and incorporated | with this proposition will be an| '&‘ ) = ieg S of so7i tor ensineeeine o, Reported Break Between Farley, Roosevelt Is Not Showing Up; Here Is Proof 5,z e b, L i interest during course of construc-| tion and contingent expenses. (2) Sewers, $17,160. (3) Right-of-way, including the South Seward Street widening, $2,- 750. (4 PLEADINGS IN KIDNAP CASE Doctor, Two Others Say Installation of terminal fa- $48,400. Grant of $116,100 The total amount involved in the propositions will be $141,900, the amount the city must provide to ob- tain the improvements through grant and loan from the govern- ment. The outright grant from the government amounts to $116,100, making the total costs of the pro- jects $258,000. If all the projects are approved, the city’s bonded debt, which now stands at $196,000, will be raised to, They Are Innocent— $337,900. Mayor Harry I. Lucas said this morning money is now being $25,000 Bail Set set aside for retiring $10,000 of the 1 general obligation school bonds on| OLYMPIA, Wash, Aug. 31.—Dr December 1 and that plan also was |Kent W. Berry, 50, prominent Olym- under way to obtain some help from pia physician, and two companions property owners in districts effected. in the alleged kidnaping and tor- property owners in districts affected. turing of Irving Baker, 37, local One such a move already has been automobile dealer and former Seat- started on South Seward Street tle Coast Guard officer, pleaded and he said the Council had assur- innocent in the Superior Court to- ance from other property owners day when arraigned. The date of which will benefit that they would [the trial was not set but it is be- like to participate. It is probable, lieved it will be in October. he said, that local improvement dis- | Judge Wilson overruled demurrers tricts may be formed which would by attorneys for the defendants lessen the burden on the city's gen- who contended the facts in the eral obligations. complaint, failed to constitute first Notice of the city's action has degree kidnaping. been wired to both Col. H. J. Wild, | The Court said: “Nothing is am- District Engineer at Seattle, Who piguous about the statute.” will have charge of the small boat| Others who entered not guilty harbor construction for the War|pleas were William McAloon, forme: Department, and to the Public Montesano night marshal and friend Works Administration which “ap- of the doctor, and James Reddick, proved the Juneau projects in its taxicab driver. list of public improvements. Held on $25,000 Bail . Bail for the three was continued, $25,000 in each case. ‘The Court also upheld Prosecutor Smith Troy’s appeal for a joint trial. | Baker was kidnaped from his home, at the point of a gun, with a fake warrant of arrest on the |night of August 19, taken to a lone- ly spot, brutally beaten and tortur- ed by the abductors who used pinc- ers. Baker was found shortly after midnight wandering on the out- skirts of Olympia, seeking help. Doctor Was Jealous Dr. Berry is declared to have dlke GOId RUSh Days ?been extremely jealous of his beau- ‘H.iful Yyoung wife, the former Betty Is On Last Trail |Kevin, who was prominent in Uni- SEATTLE, Aug. 31. — William | Versity of Washington campus cir- Clark “Skagway ‘Bill” Fonda, 82, |cles, and whom he married two former Alaskan and model for Vic-|vears ago, following his divorce. tor Alonzo Lewis' statue of the Baker is a native of Seattle, the| “Sourdough,” is dead. Death came |SOT of Dr. Lee Baker, well-known in the King County Hospital after |dentist. He graduated from Loweli blood transfusions failed to revive|Grade School and Broad%ay High him, His condition was critical fol-|School and attended the United lowing an operation for a ruptured‘SmLes Coast Guard Academy. He appendix. is thirty-seven years old, weighs/ “gkagway Bill” was a familiar 200 pounds and could easily have sight on the streets here. He was handled any one or two of his as- one of 23 street car conductors who |sailants alone, had they been un- quit work when the cry of goid was 'armed. [ RS [ heard in the north. | | Fonda boasted that he built the GUCKER GOES WEST | first cabin and the first bridge at Skagway and also laid out that town Jack Gucker is a passenger in 1897 when the Klondike rush was|aboard the Aleutian for Valdez and just at the start. l‘then to the interior, | ‘SKAGKAY BILL FONDA PASSES AWAY, SEATTL Famous Character of Klon-| | On a throne befitting a queen, Madeleine Carroll, eye-pleasing screen | | star, is pictured as she arrived in New York from a European vacation. | | tittle | to Roosevelt—adequately close, | FDR LOVES A FIGHT COTTON ED WINS SOUTH CAROLINA VOTE TTH TIME Senator Smith Far Outdis- tances Roosevelt Sup- ported Candidate ’McADOO TRAILING IN CALIFORNIA PRIMARY Second Administration De- feat Looms as Pension Advocate Leads (By Associated Press) South Carolina voters, by renom- inating Senator Ellison D. Smith for his seventh term by twenty-five | thousand majority in the primary % | election yesterday, rebuffed Presi- ‘d[‘nt Roosevelt in his first attempt to unseat a Democratic member of ‘Congresfi. | The California Democratic pri-| mary yesterday held possibility of | | a second administration defeat, with ‘Senawr William G. McAdoo, thrice praised by the Chief Executive,| trailing Sheridan Downey, $30-a-| week pension champion. | | Beats Hundred Percenter | Senator Smith, who long ago won | the nickname of “Cotton Ed,” won | ]‘over Gov. Olin D. Johnston, self- —|styled hundred percent New Dealer. | | Although Roosevelt did not men- | tion names during South Carolina’s | furious primary campaign, he re- | ferred to Smith as one who “thinks |in terms of the past.” i In California there was no New | M e |voiced outspoken criticism of By BRESTON GROVER ... j ng;_ney's pension proposal as had T'thie President. WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—For a| Downey’s pension scheme pro-| long time Washington has been | yides for the payment of $30 weekly hunting evidence of a break be- | in serip for all unemployed in Cali- tween President Roosevelt and Post- | fornia over fifty years old | master General Farley. What then s ey should show up but “Genial JIm's”| 1. o i Garoling Burnet May- series of magazine articles packed | ooy “outn el mayor of Charleston full of evidence. But the trouble| ;i on R ¥ s e | 18 ary eight-cormered governor'’s is it can be used to argue both ways. | race, based on fairly complete re- Farley in his series of articles in| ¢, s He will enter the run-off American Magazine concedes that| pumary geptember 13 against he likes to pull his punches just a|yonqpam Manning. bit in dealing with political| “giate genator Cuthbert Olson foemen, as well as those opposed| paoked by many CIO locals, Won the —politically or ~otherwise—to ad-| pemocratic nomination for gover- ministration policies. Also, he con-| o i California, while Governor cedes that President Roosevelt has|nerriam was renominated by the not pulled his punches at times Republicans. Philip BB!’:CWH‘ v\he![; IIL would l}mvnl‘ b:m, Sl“u‘]‘l"d | rancher, led in the Republican sena- | as Farley saw it—to have pulled| oo race. them. So there you have it. Farley is|g SENATORS SURVIVE at, odds with the President. | ROOSEVELT OPPOSITION But again, maybe you don’t have| y it. Farley was at odds with the| President about those tactics al- most before Mr. Roosevelt had seated himself in the White Hou: WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. — Re-| nomination of Senator Smith in, South Carolina yesterday brought| to four the number of Democratic And the instances he cites of per-|Senators who have survived the| sonal differences with the Presi-| primary elections despite differenc-| dent for the most part preceded es with the administration. Others the 1936 election. And in that cam- | are Clark of Missouri, Van Nuys, paign it was generally understood | Indiana, and Gillett, Iowa. that Farley was adequately close| White House aides to the Presi-| in|dent yesterday predicted that smm;[ | would win the Democratic nomina- | | tion by 40,000 votes. President Roo- | | sevelt commented: “It is often true| Here is a sample of the evidence | that it takes a long, long time to| of a breach the articles present:|bring the past up to the present.”| “A fact which few people realize The quotation was relayed to r»-{‘ | spite of the differences. about President Roosevelt,” says|porters through Secretary Early. Mr. Farley, “is that he dearly' - loves a fight. Indeed, this battling | nature of his is the key in many | B respects to his whole character. I| PE N s I u N Pl A N am frank to confess that there have | been times when I have felt that the President, from sheer joy of fight, battled too hard, when a com- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS i WOMEN BEHIN racket conspiracy trial of Tammany Leader James J. Hines—p| * HE SCENES at New York’s most stirring court drama—the policy lay their quiet roles and watch the men showgirl friend of J. Richard “Dixie” — Y PRICE TEN CENTS NAZI CHIEFTAIN ONLY AWAITING BRITISH ACTION Crisis in Europe Probably Depends Upon Atti- tude, Czech Issue FRANCE MANEUVERING ARMIES TO BORDERS Observers Believe Firm Stand to Be Taken by whose destinies are bound up with theirs. Hope Dare (left), EnfihSh Government Davis, is eredited with having persuaded him to testify for the state. Attractive Mrs. Thomas E. Dewey e visits Supreme Court to watch her husband conduct his biggest case. In spite of Defendant James J. Hines’ wish that “she’d stay home,” Mrs. Hines (right) is determined not to miss any sessions. (By Associated Press) War clouds hang over Europ today as Germany awaited the St. Lawrence Waterway Has Bobbed Up Again; Roosevelt Reopens Issue, Canadian Talk PRINCIPAL WORK ON ST. LAWRENCE WATERWAY WOULD BE DONE HERE Creation of the St. Lawrence waterway would mean deepening the Welland canal and building dams and locks in the International NAVY PREPARES By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's excursion to the new Thousand Islands bridge be- tween Canada and the United States boosts onto the front page an inter- national issue that has boiled back and forth across the St. Lawrence River for nearly a century and a | half. Submits Estimates for Next Fiscal Year to Presi- dent Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Aug. 31. — The Navy Department has given Presi- | dent Roosevelt an estimate of $750,- 000,000 as necessary to conduct the Navy Department for the fiscal year beginning next July 1. Admiral William D. Leahy said the increase over the $546,000,000 plus this year is needed to continue construction of new vessels and con- tinue work on those now bnilding. SHARK FISHERS FIGHT SEINERS Coast Guard Cutter, State| Patrol Vessel Acting as Convoy SANTA CRUZ, Cal, Aug. 31. — That issue is the proposed St. Lawrence deep waterway connect- ing the continent’s Great Lakes ports with the Atlantic Ocean, thus making ocean ports of such inland cities as Duluth, Chicago, Detroit, Fort William, Ont,, Toledo, Cleve- land and Buffalo. The deep waterway has been of- ficially defined as a waterway with a channel at least 27 feet deep to accommodate 90 per cent of the vessels sailing the seven seas. Any- thing shallower than 27 feet would choke out much ocean freighter tonnage. There are two natural’ barriers for most ocean tonnage between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic Ocean. One of is the 30-mile stretch lower St. Lawrence River. (The Canadians have built canals and locks around the rapids, but these works accommodate only smaller vessels requiring 14 feet of water or less.) The other hurdle is the 30-mile | strip of land separating Lakes Erie | and Ontario, along which runs the famous Niagara River. oaring International Rapids on the | That river | JAPAN REJECTS U. . PROTESTS, PLANE GUNNING Foreign Office Spokesman Admits Craft Attacked After Forced Down TOKYO, Aug. 31.—The Japanese Government has rejected on all counts, the protest of the United States against the destruction of the Chinese-American airliner near Canton in which 14 of the 17 per- sons aboard were killed when the craft was forced down and then machine gunned. An American was the pilot. He escaped alive. The “ac- cident” occurred on August 24. ‘The Japanese reply to the pro- ‘tests admits the attack on the plane | continued after the airliner was | forced down and alighted on a small river between Canton and Macao. Those killed, it is also admitted, | met death either from bullets or by drowning. The Foreign Office spokesman |said Japan is compelled to reject | the protest because Tokyo's infor- Lmauon differed from that appar- | ently that reached the American | authorities. NAVY BOMBERS OFF ON FLIGHT {Fourteen Long Range Patrolers Take Air for 3,000-Mile Trip SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 31. Ninety-eight officers and men, | manning 14 13-ton long range patrol | bombers, take the air today on a \‘ proposed flight of 3,000 miles to Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone. It is expected that the flight will | be made in 25 hours. Strouts Reach Seattle After expected message from Great Britain as to her attitude to- ward the dangerous Czechoslo- vakia situation. Adolf Hitler has prepared the Reich’s armed forces to move at top speed should occasion de- mand for sudden. action. French army maneuvers con- tinued and France’s powerful Army Commission met with Premier Daladier to weigh the possible effects of the German mobilization. British secret ol .crvers are watching developments in the vicinity of Czechoslovakia where the Nazi dominated autonomy seeking Sudeten Germars pre- dominate. Political circles in Great Bri- tain believe that Sir Neville Henderson, British Ambassador to Berlin, will give Hitler a message exprossing evenm more clearly than di? 8ir John Simorn. Chancelior of Exchequer, in his speech ai Lanark last Saturday, in which he sald Great Lritain will find it diffi- cult to stay out if war is started in Europe | - - EXTRA! CHATHAM AFIRE ATWARD'S GOVE NEAR KETGHIKAN |Wooden Feighter Reported to Be in Flames, Bob Ellis Says The freighter Chatham of the Alaska Transportation Company was reported “burning flercely” this afternoon at Ward's Cove, eight miles north of Ketchikan. | Bob Elllis, Ketchikan flier, saw the well-known wooden steamer, formerly the Evelyn Berg, while flying over the cove and gave the |alarm in Ketchikan, The Ketchikan fireboat and the cutter Alert immediately left for the scene. The Chatham, a wooden hull steamer of the lumber schooner type, is captained by Olaf Hansen. D. B. Femmer, Alaska Transpor- Twenty boats of the shark fishing drops several hundred feet between vessel, have started for the banks|ing beauty of Niagara Falls. (The | after a controversy with the Monte- | Canadians also have built the Wel- rey purse seiners. land ship canal around the falls, fleet, guarded by a United States|the two lakes. Part of the drop,| Coast Guard cutter and state patrol |incidentally, creates the breath-tak- | World Cruise tation Company agent here the Chatham was loaded with one SEATTLE, Aug. 31. — Roge'r S-thousand tons of general south- iuout and wife, of Portland, Maine, | hound cargo, including Polaris-Taku ave arrived here in their 37-foot|concentrates and cased salmon. promising attitude might have ac- complished more than a direct line| drive.” | Does that indicate Farley feels" that the President’s belligerent atti-| tude is truly harmful. Hampering re- covery? Maybe, as some believe, it | does, but the balance of the Brfible‘ he loads on the President enough | outright praise—if not worship—to| call for thinking twice. | In the current article there are| two other odds and ends of some- what whimsical nature. Louis Howe, who was at once the President’s light and shadow, made a mistake, Traditionally he was well nigh in- fallible in political instinct until the | day of his death. It was Howe, re-| lates Farley, who urged the Presi- dent to speak out early in his 1932| campaign for a balanced budget.| Instead, the President held that off until almost the last thing.. | “The budget speech” says Far-| ley, “came back to trouble Roose-| he ever delivered.” (Continued on Page Four) GOES ON BALLOT State Supreme Court Makes' Ruling on “$30 a Week for Life”” Scheme SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Aug. 31. —California’s “$30-a-week-for-life” pension plan has weathered one le- gal attack made by its opponents. In the State Supreme Court the plan won a right to go to a vote of | the people in November. The Supreme Court also refused to grant writs to keep two other initiative measures off the ballot in November, the so-called single tax plan and a picket regulatory meas- ure framed by a “Committee for Peace” in industrial relations. The State Supreme Court did not |velt more than any othet speech|Pass on the constitutionality of the pension plan but held merely legal requirements were met to put it on the November ballot, The sharkers claim the purse sein- ers were cutting their nets and| |armed themselves, determined to re- sist new attacks. The sharkers surrendered their| weapons when the Coast Guard and | State Patrol agreed to convoy them.| JUNEAU BOUND, HUNTING TRIP SEATTLE, Aug. 31.—Frederick A. Sansome, of New York City, and | Margaret D. Sansome of Ridgfield, | Connecticut, boarded the yacht | Caroline here and have left for a| hunting trip to the islands near Ju~1' | neau, Alaska. e RETURN FROM SOUTH Mrs. Helen Webster and daugh- ter Mildred arrived aboard the Aleutian. Mrs. Webster is a public school teacher here. but its channel is only 25 feet deep.) |in 1934. They have been around the | world. R Strout and his wife left North ~ THE SCHEME | Carolina in January, went through Here is the deep waterway scheme | the Panama Canal, then to Honolu- itself: lu and came here via Kodiak and First, dam up the 8t. Lawrence|juneau, Alaska. River at one or two places along | R S G the International Rapids, and build | locks to 1ift and lower ocean ve'sselsiPuPE NUT Tn around the dams. The channel| would be dredged in spots to 27| feet. Second, the dams would supply | 2,000,000 horsepower of electric pow- | er to be divided between the United States and Canada—or rather the| WASHINGTON, Aug. 31.—United countryside along the river on both |States Senator James P. Pope, of sides. |Idaho, defeated by Representative Third, the Welland Canal around |D. Worth Clark for the Democratic Niagara would be deepened to 27 | Senatorial nomination, said he will feet, and Niagara Falls would be Dot enter the general election in beautified and improved to deliver 1daho as an Independent. more electric power than the pri- AR s AT vate interests leasing it from the OUT TO COLLEGE two governments now provide, | Tom Hellan, son of Mr. and Mrs. in Juneau| pourth, Canada would be credited | Walter Hellan, plans to leave next| week for the south to enter St. Mar- | tin’s College in Lacey, Wash. (Continued on Page Seven) ketch Igdrasil, which Strout built The Chatham was built in Ever- |ett, Wash,, in 1905, She is 179 feet |long and 39 feet of beam and 650 |gross tons. Her normal crew is nineteen men. She carries no pas- sengers. 'DELEGATE DIMOND, | ZIMMERMAN WILL ADDRESS CHAMBER | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, William Zimmerman, Jr., Assistant |to Commissioner John Collier of |the Bureau of Indian Affairs; Har- |old Knight, new Northland Trans- |portation Company freight agent, and John Williams, dredge inventor, {have been invited to be guests of the Jurcau Chamber of Commerce lat its weekly lun heon tomorrow noon in Percy's Cafe. | Purther report on the National | Editorial Association convention next year also will be given, according to Acting Secretary Curtis Shat- )‘tm:k. —