The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO..7889. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —— PRICE TEN CENTS ERMANS IN POSITIONS FACING FRENCH SOUTH SEWARD WIDENING 1S NOW ASSURED Property (3\:*;15 Contri-i bute $3,035 Toward $9,800 Improvement After receiving a check for $3,035 from property owners in the Seward Street district, the City Council at its regular meeting last night voted additional $1,765 for widening South Seward Street from Front to Willoughby, deciding to go ahead with the improvement m\medmte—" ly " Previously, the Council had voted $5,000 toward the improvement but when the property owners revealed their willingness in cold cash to partici e | cil unanimously voted the addition- | al $1,765 necessary to make the im- | provement possible. | Due to Public Works Administra-| in the project, the Coun- | § tion funds now being available for| sidewalks, the Council found could eliminate the sidewalk cost of $400, thus bringing the actual| cost to $9,800 instead of $10,200 as it had been originally fixed. The property owners now have put up $3,035, the city providing the re- maining $6,765. The city is buying the right-of-way and the property owners are moving their own build- ings. | Property owners effected are R. J. Sommers Construction Compan: Juneau-Young Hardware, Centra Properties, Inc,, of which J. B. War- rack is President, and Oscar Harri 33 Feet Wide The street will be widened to 33 feet, permitting for a free flow of traffic both ways. Allen Shattuck presented the check to the city from the property owners, pointing out that all were| heartily in favor of the improve- ment. Some of the larger donations toward the project were made by the properties which are directly effected, he said, but contributions toward the improvement were re- ceived from all over the Seward| Street district. It is expected that work will start as soon as deeds to the right-of-way | are presented the city, Mayor Hairy I. Lucas said. Haglund Gets Wharfinger Hilding Haglund, who has been acting as City Wharfinger since C. H. MacSpadden resigned, was ap- pointed by the Council to complete the city year in that position. Approval was given to the ap- pointment of Nellie Simpkins as election clerk in Precinct No. 2 and | the Rev. John Cauble in Precinct No. 1. They will replace A. B. Cain | and the Rev. O. L. Kendall, who previously had been appointed but will be unavailable for service on September 13. DOLLAR SHOOTS UP OVER POUND TO HIGH LEVEL Great Britain’s Depreciation May Stimulate Exports Which Have Dropped LONDON, Sept. 3.—Monetary re- laxation in Government control over foreign exchange markets shot the American dollar to the highest | level against the pound in three | years. | Great Britain's foreign trade, es-: pecially with the United States, | has been slumping. For political | and economic advantages, Great| Britain has subsidized exports to | some markets and the belief is now becoming widespread the deprecia- tion of the pound will be the sim- | plest way to stimulate exports and wipe out the adverse balance. Late in the forenoon today the pound was listed at $4.84%. .. FEELING WAS MUTUAL DALLAS, Tex. — Chicken snakes like chicken meat but Richard Crisp’s hen, Betty Lou, likes snake meat. So when Betty Lou met a chicken snake in the middle of a Dallas street there was a brief battle. Betty Lou, the winner, cap- ped her victory by eating the reptile. | S e - | During hot weather cows may drink 80 percent more water thany usual. Water is used in cooling| the body and enables the cow 101 tolerate the heat better. J [ i |away | | 1 4 | Territorial and Federal offices will | | be closed, stores will not open their | What’s in a name? Here are six of the eight daughters of Santiago Igle- sias, Puerto Rican resident commissioner in Washington, Posed against the capitol, the ladies are Peace, Victory, Liberty, America, Justice and Light. The two daughters in Puerto Rico are named Equality and Fra- ternity, The family should be i)lrm to Defend an extraordinarily happy one, Canada Against Aggressor Not OUSTING JEWS ALL COLLEGES ITALIAN LAND Elimination Also Hits Posi- tions in Practically All Public Places ROME, Sept. 3.—Elimination of Jewish instructors and students from Ttalian universities is already underway. Three veteran Jewish professors of the University of Perugia have been dismissed, effective October 16. A report from Trieste declares that all Jews have been forced to resign from all state party and cor- porative syndical jobs of a public nature. Seventeen of 70 professors at the University of Milan will be elim- inated. - e e— CLOUDBURSTS PUT STREAMS FLOOD STAGES Five Persons Already Are Known to Have Drown- ed—Twelve Missing BULLETIN — DENVER, Sept. 3.—At noon today it is known that five are dead and twelve are missing as the result of cloudbursts and floods. STREAMS ROARI DENVER, Col., Sept. 3.—Cloud- bursts have fed streams until they are roaring out of the Rockies in Northern Colorado. The flooded streams have drown- ed two women and one boy and swept through three communities. Farm houses have been washed and also an undetermined number of bridges and automo- biles. Streams continue to rise as ab- normal rains pour down. — r,——— A farmer who a century ago could grow five acres of corn can today, by the use of modern ma- chinery and equipment plant, cul- tivate aud harvest 20 times that much, New; 3 Nations Are Cool By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Doubt-| +less President Roosevelt did not in-| | tend to rattle sabres in assuring Canada that the United Slales‘ would not sit idly by in event of| |an attack on the dominion, but the| statement helps to explain the cool | reception given by Germany, Japan and Italy to American peace pre- ouncements. For several reasons many per- sons in these three nations, as well many in America, have long looked upon the United States as @ sort of British ally. Repeatedly this | has been positively denied by Lnei State Department but the denials| have not changed these convic-| tions. Now comes the President’s state- ment in the speech dedicating the international bridge between the| U. 8. and Canada by which he m-; dicates that an attack on Canada would be, for all practical pur-| poses, an attack on the United | States. To a German, or Japanese, | | or Italian looking askance at Brit- |ish rearmament, it might easily | have sounded as if the U. §. had| promised to look out for one of| Mother Britain’s children in event| of trouble. | OLD HAT TO U. S. | But to students of U. S. defense| measures the statement about Can-| | ada carries no essential foreign sig- nificance. It has long been recog- nized that the U. S. defense line| | extends from Greenland south-| ward as least as far as Brazil, and on the West Coast from Alaska southward to a contact with South | America. That includes the whole Canadian coast line. | For a hundred years Canada and the United States have comforted themselves with the recollection that their faith and trust in each other has permitted 2,000 miles of | boundary to exist without a single fortification. But the people map-| ‘pmg out the national defense pro-| gram have looked with less senti- | | mental regard on that long unde- | fended line. ) When army aviation specialists sought to give due recognition to that problem three years ago by proposing a series of air bases along the Canadian border, how- ever, the sentimental attachment to that undefended border line was such that the idea was smothered under a storm of protest from both sides of the border. COMFORTING TO BRITAIN | The average Canadian probably | has not given this business of | continental defense much consid- eration. But suppose he were told that the United States would not attempt to stop a foreign invader| until its armies actually crossed Canada and threatened to march (Continued on Page Two) JUNEAU LABOR T0 GELEBRATE NEXT MONDAY 'Public Holiday Will Be Ob-| served—Parade, Sports —Dance in Evening Monday is Labor Day and Juneau will observe it as a holiday. City, doors and business will practically be suspended, even the restaurants and beer parlors, by agreement, locking their doors during the Labor Day parade. Monday’s Labor Day parade will start promptly at 10 o'clock, headed by the Juneau City Band. All marching organizations and floats will assemble on Lower Franklin Street not later than 9:45 o'clock. The parade will move up lower Franklin to Front Street, to Main Street and out Willoughby Avenue, rain or shine, to the ball park. Following the Juneau City Band, the following will be the order for floats and organizations: Central Labor Council float. Central Labor Council delegates. Miners Union float. Miners Union organization. Painters Union float. Painters Union organization. Carpenters Union float. Carpenters Union organization. and C. F. float. sters organization. Bartenders float. Bartenders organization. Cooks and Waiters float. Cooks and Waiters organization. United Canneries organization. Pacific Coast Union Fishermen, Sawmill Workers Union floaf. Sawmill Workers Union organiza- tion. I L. W. U. Locals 16 and 41, float. I. L. W. U. organizations. Retail Clerks Union organization. Transport Workers Union float. Transport Workers organization. Federal Labor Union float. Federal ravor Union organization. Safety First, float. Doings at san Park The parade will disband at the ball park and all those on floats and members of the marching or- ganizations will gather for speeches and band concert. At 1 o'clock cash awards will be paid to winners of the following events: 100-yard dash—Boys, 16 years or under. 50-yard dash—Girls, under. 100-yard dash—Adults. 50-yard dash—Women. 3-legged race — Boys, years. 3-legged race — Girls, years. Sack race—All comers. 40-yard dash — Boys, under ears. 40-yard dash — Girls, under 10 14 years or 10 to 15 10 to 1 10 | years. Following the track events there will be a tug-of-war between the Miners Union vs. Federal Labor Union and Transport Workers vs. Carpenters Union. The winners of each group will then pull in the finals. At 3 o'clock there will be a ball game between the Truckers and All-Stars. The day will be topped off with a dance, entertainment and refresh- ments in Union Hall under the supervision of the Arrangement Committee. - +* | p STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Sept. 3. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session before the holiday is 10%, American Can American Light and Power Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem 59%, Commonwealth and Scuthern 1%, General Motors 48, | International Harvester 62%, Ken- necott 41%, New York Central 18%, | Ssafeway Stores no sale, Southern | Pacific 177%, United States Steel 59%, Pound $4.84%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 142,48, up 1.10; rails 27.78, up .45; utilities 19.59, up .15 — .- BACK IN JUNEAU Mrs. H. O. Adams; accompanied by here daughter Louise Adams, and son Horace Adams, Jr., return- ed to Juneau aboard the Yukon after a brief visit in Petersburg. 5 | engineers_ for revi tail rudders and newly d RANCHER SAYS HE CAN'T GET RANSOM MONEY |Officers Taken Off Kidna, er Trail to Leave Clear | Field for Husabnd ; YUBA GITY, Cal, Sept. 3—Will- | iam R. Meeks, rancher, whose wife | {was abducted by “two kxdnnpcrs' yesterday morning, said today as |fears were -sounded for his wife’s | | safety, that he “couldn’t raise the | |$15,000 ransom” if he sold his ranch | and all his possessions. | All officer State and Federal | and National Guardsmen, were tak- | |en out of the hunt today to give Meeks a chance to contact the kid- |napers unhindered. | { Sheriff Bert Ullery expressed fear | |for the life of Mrs. Meeks. No definite clue has been found as -to Mrs, Beeks' fate . She was | | taken from the Meeks' ranch home |early yesterday morning while her |husband lay bound on the floor. Air Mailfrom Fairbanks to June_a_u.‘Paying‘ P~ | | |Two Thousand Pounds | Weekly Sent by Planes— | Nearing Financial Basis FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 3.— | The Fairbanks Post Office records | show that more than 2,000 pounds of mail weekly was handled during ‘Augu»L on the Fairbanks-Juneau air mail route established last May 3. Officials said this far exceeded | the advance expectations and indi- | cated the route will be self-sustain- | | ing at the end of the first year. | o | HARRIET BROUGHTON } VISITING S.E. ALASKA | Harriet Broughton, free lance | writer of New York City, is making ‘lhe round trip aboard the Yukon | from Ketchikan. Miss Broughton is | visiting her uncle and aunt in Ket- chikan, Dr. and Mrs. George Dick- inson, and decided that while in the | north she would see other sections | of Southeast Alaska. Incidentally the writer may locate in Alaska. | SECNPUS TE | | MRS. LINGO AND DAUGHTER | RETURN FROM TAKU LODGE Mrs. George A. Lingo and her| daughter, Joan Morgan, returned on the Mary J. from Taku Lodge last night after a week’s visit with Miss Mary Joyce. S eee RETURN TO HAINES Miss Harriet Lawrence, Superin- tendent of Haines House Mission, and her niece, who have been visit- ing here the last two days, house guests of the Rev. and Mrs. David Waggoner, returned to Haines on the Yukon. | igned hydry new assembly was successful. No flight will be attempted until the new parts pas ‘Pla | Commissioner in Canada, Sir Fran- Giant Clipper Tries New Tail Assembly i) REPORT CRISIS 'PREVAILS ALONG 'WESTERN FRONT [50,000 to 60,000 Hitler | i i ‘; Troops Eye Frenchmen abilizers. Test Pilot Eddie Allen announced her firs stress te nsurgents in 193 FISH PACK Spain Are Not | RUNS SIX, HALF Making Advance MILLION CASES iy | Loyalists Wearing Them Nearly Complete Returns| Down with Repeated, | Reveal Salmon Take Com- Sudden Thrusts | parable, Last Season HENDAYE, French-Spanish Frontier, Sept. 3.—Spanish Govern- ' exception of one dis ~ ment forces are reported to have v Sk Bouth aunched a new offensive on the |°0St Alaska and three in the West- Estra Madura front after a lull of |Ward Which are nearly complete, | several days. the salmon pack for the 1938 season The Loyalists are apparently try- | totals 6,487,961 cases, acctording to ing to wear down the Insurgents in | L R i | a series of swift thrusts. |2 Tt acleseds b, a0 21 The Insurgents have attempted to | BUreau of Fisheries today. This| | With final figures in, with the | a Across Barriers MOVEMENT REPORTED ALONG ENTIRE FRONT French Cabinet Kl it sed with Series of Threatened Strikes METZ, France, Sept. 3. — Strict border control was clamped down on the Nazi side of the French- German frontier today as troops moved into Germany’s new line of fortifications facing France. On the French frontier, observers and travelers estimated that be- tween fifty and sixty thousand Ger- mans have been sent in to occupy forts and barracks facing France’s line of steel and concrete fortifica« tions. The movements are said to have occurred along the border from Lux- embourg to Kehl, across the line from Strasbourg. FRANCE FACES BAD STRIKE SITUATION PARIS, Sept. 3.—Thousands of workers occupied the textile mills in the Amiens region of northern France today as a series of strikes were threatened by French labor to force the Cabinet to “respect labor laws.” The workers are piotesting the recent decree of Premier Daladier extending the 40-hour week. It is estimated that 500,000 workers have threatened to strike against the extra hours. The situation is tense and the Cabinet feared the serles of strikes would embarrass it in its negotia- tions in the strained European situation. nts Will Manufacture Aircraft for Use of Great Britain OTTAWA, Sept. 3.—British High advance on the Ebro River Valley |compares with a total pack of front without success, however. 6,598,383 cases last year and 8280,- | Absence of Insurgents’ reports in- (796 in 1936, the biggest year in | dicate Gen. Franco's forces are not history. | 50 hot in their movements during | Of the pack for this season, West- | the past five days, notwithstanding |ward districts produced 4,042,530 | reported reinforcements from Italy. | cases and Southeast Alaska 2447.- | SR o g T 431. The Southeast pack is virtually | up to last year while the West- | LARGE PLANE tWard shows a gain over the 1937 season. Final Southeast pack figures, s with the exception of the West | Coast district which is not yet complete, and comparative figures for last season follows: A; Yakutat — Reds, 26,857; kings, 11,448; pinks, 6,928; chums, 285; |cohos, 2,358; total, 37,876; last sea- | |son, 27,134, | Ketchikan — Reds, 44,165; kings, | |485; pinks, 712,474; chums, 147,114; |cohos, 25811; total, 930,049; last season, 844,999. | Wrangell—Reds, 18,222; kings, 78; | pinks 164,998; chums, 50,980; cohos, | 18478; total, 252,756; last season, cis Floud, announced today that |483784. | two big aircraft mnnufacturing“ West Coast—Reds, 19.971; Kkings, plants will be erected in Canada. |9,067; pinks, 238,930; chums, 60,967; The plants will furnish war planes | cohos, 26,692; ttoal, 355627; last for England. The planes will be season, 453,764 flown over the Atlantic to England Eastern—Reds, 14,244; kings, 4,- upon completion. 794; pinks, 260,145; chums, 58,041; T e |cohos, 13,245; total, 350,469; last | season, 418,571, as a u "“ | Western—Reds, 20,714; kings, 48; | | pinks, 163,377; chums, 55.891; cohos, | 18,237; total, 248,267; last season, Int. S. R. Elects == 1 V1 i | TIcy Strait — Reds, 46,526; kings, PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 3. — The 215; pinks, 158,698; crfums, 52,890; Alaska Yukon International Sour-|COhos, 14058; total, 272387, last dough Reunion has elected T. W.|season, 312,020, : Bucholz, of Los Angeles, president;| Totals—Reds, 190.699; kings, 16,- Lee B. Loomis of Portland, and 125; pinks, 1705550; chums, 426,- Henry C. Macauley of Vancouver,|168; cohos, 108879; grand total, B. C., vice-presidents, and Lulu M. |2447.431; last season, 2,823,701. Fairbanks of Seattle, secretary- | e | treasurer. | . The reunion will be in Oakland, | d —— | | y . . o enomey Up for Dismissal HOMEFROM EXTENDED ~ UP | TRIP TO CONTINENT . ~— TACOMA, Wash,, Sept. 3. — The H. L. Faulkner, prominent Juneau Seattle Broadcasting Company has attorney, and son Malcolm, are sail- | dismissed the $250,000 damage suit ing from Seattle tonight aboard | vs. Senator Homer T. Bone, Col- the steamer Columbia bound for lector of Customs Saul Haas and| their home in Juneau. Mrs. Faulk- | Queen City Broadcasting Company, ner is staying in the States for a by stipulation. further visit with friends and rela- | Attorneys said only a technicality tives for a time, it is understood. | prevented dismissal against the Co- The Faulkners have been on an lumbia Broadcasting system. extended trip abroad, visiting Eng-| The case involved Station KOL's land and the continent the greflteri loss of the Columbia Broadcasting part of the summer, | franchise to KIRO. land other scenes. ——— e JAPAN FORGES CLAIM SHARP ADVANCE MADE Chinese Shc;—f;alieries Be- ing Silenced—-Defend- ers Make Denial SHANGHAI, Sept. 3. — After a week of intense fighting, 3,000 Japa- nese are reported to have succeeded in landing on the Yangtze banks 90 miles downstream from Kuiki- ang and began immediately to con- centrate on silencing Chinese shore batteries which have menaced gun- boats and helped stalemate the of- fensive in the Hankow area virtu- ally since the Japanese occupation of Kiukiang on July 26. The Japanese report they have definitely broken the outer defens- es of Hankow but the Chinese de- clare that counter attacks have stopped the invaders. DR. GRUENINGBACK FROM INSPECTION OF GLACIER BAY After several days in the Glacier Bay National Monument region, Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of Terri- tories and Island Possessions, Inter= lor Department, and George A. Parks, District Cadastral Engineer, returned to Juneau this noon aboard the BPR vessel Highway. Dr. Gruening was looking over the region in connection with the pro- posed plan for enlarging the Monu- ment area and developing its re- creational features. The Director has been in the Territory for the last six weeks, making a thorough study of the problems of Alaska, and looking toward its further de- velopment. 5 e i HAS BROTHER'S GREETINGS Dr. Cannaday, M.D., of Sedalia, Mo., was the guest of the Rev. Da- vid Waggoner while the Princess | Charlotte was In port yesterday. Dr. Cannaday is an clder in the Rev. Mr. Waggoner’s brother’s church in Sedalia. Dr. Cannaday, a rose ex- pert, took many feet of colored movies of flower gardens in Alaska