The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1938. VOL. LIIL, NO. 7942. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S.REARMING PROGRAM FORCED AHEAD PRESIDENT IN APPEAL 0 VOTERS Calls on American People to Elect Candidates Who Are Known for Their Exper ience and Liberalism With- out Regard to Race, Color or Creed—Another Shot Taken at Dictatorships HYDE PARK, N. Y, Nov. 5— President Roosevelt last night urged the American people to elect next Tuesday, candidates known for their experience and liberalism and ap- pealed for the election of candidates without regard to race, color or creed. The President read his 3,000-word address over three National radio chains. The Chief Executive rejected the “negative purposes proposed by the old line Republicans and Commun- ists alike, for they are a people whose only purpose is to survive against any other Fascist uireat than their own.” Mentions Candidates President Roosevelt urged the re- election of Gov. Herbert L. Lehman and others on the Democratic ticket in the state of New York, mention- ing Senator Robert Wagner, veteran labor legislator, and Representative James Mead, seeking the short sena- toria! term of deceased Dr. Royal| Copeland. The President also praised the re- cord of ‘Gov. Prank Murphy “in handling the strikes in Michigan, saying Gov. Murphy had substitut- ed negotiations for bloodshed. Without mentioning Gov. Leh- man’s Republican opponent, District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey, by name, President Roosevelt said pointedly: “We need more active law en- forcement, not only against the lords of the underworld, but also| against the lords of the overworld.” Dictatorship Shot President Roosevelt took another GROSS ARRESTED FOR PENTHOUSE, CODE VIOLATION | First Such Case in City's History Revealed at Council Meeting W. D. Gross was arrested yester- day by the City of Juneau for al-| leged violation of the city building code in connection with the con- struction of the Twentieth Century Theatre project, and released on | his own recognizance. This unusual case was revealed | last night at the regular meeting | of the City Council when Grossi and his attorney, Frank H. Foster, appeared before the body to protest | what Foster labeled “an injustice.” City records show no parallel case in the history' of this muni-| cipality. It is simply a test case over the building code ordinance. “Wrong” Says Lagergren According to City Engineer Mil- ton Lagergren, Gross “went ahead and built the penthouse on his building when I told him not to.” Lagergren said: “The Twentieh Century Theatre building falls into a class of ordinary masonry walls with frame construction within. Our code prohibits no more than five stories of such construction, and the penthouse on top is certainly a sixth floor.” “Safe” Say Three Attorney Foster called on N. Les- ter Troast, architect on the project and member of the city’s building code committee, Al Dishaw, con- tractor in charge of construction, and Allen Shattuck, insurance broker, to testify before the council as to the safety factor in the struc- ture with the penthouse addition. Troast told the Council that in his opinion the building had a safety factor of “four to one,” and the penthouse “was built for better access to the roof in a fire protec- tion sense, and to house elevator machinery, all of which tends to make the building safer.” (Continued on Page Five) hot at dictatorships and declared that the New Deal did not assume that “all we have done is right, or all that we have done has been suc- essful, but our economical and s cial program during the past five and one-half years has definitely given the United States a more stable and less artificial prosperity than any other nation in the world has enjoyed previously.” Coercion President Roosevelt said he has told the newsmen at press confer- ESKIM[] MAKES ' War Problems —Can Generals Ever S peak Out OWN ICE BOX OF MA NATURE Forest Service Official Re—[ ports Arctic CCC Making Many Improvements | | Up where the lines of longitude sweep more sharply to the North| | Pole, just above the “Circle,” re- frigerator sales might have been difficult this summer for “Ice Box" Moran who panicked Juneau a few months ago. { In the Kotzebue Sound area and| to the north, the Eskimo, working under CCC, has been building him- self tunnels and chambers within the frozen earth in which to keep his reindeer meat and other perish- ables | Eskimo Activity | | This was the feature point in a report of Eskimo CCC activity given| today by Harry Sperling, Adminis- | trative Assistant of the Forest Ser- | vice who returned yesterday by PAA | plane from a month of touring by | air in the Interior on CCC inspec- tion. Sperling flew to Fairbanks from ences that political coercion of WPA | Juneau, thence to Seward Peninsu- workers by either party is being made by the Administra- tion to keep it down. The President also indicated may seek some clarification of the Wagner Labor Relations Act,. So- cial Security, and other New Deal social laws at the next session of Congress, explaining that all laws need improvements, and always will. Nation Warned President Roosevelt warned the Nation against any weakening of the liberal government lest it check, what he called, the recent trend among business men to accept the New Deal objectives. “I have been very happy during the last six months to see how swift- ly a large majority of business men are coming around to accept the objectives for a more stable econo- my and certain necessary super- vision of private activities in order to prevent a return to serious abuses and conditions of the past,” con- cluded the President. FooTBALL SCORES The followir:g are final scores of important football games played on various gridirons this afternoon as received up to press time by The Empire from the Associated Press: he Notre Dame 15; Navy 0. Penn 13; Michigan 19. Princeton 18; Rutgers 20. Temple 0; Holy Cross 33. Franklin Marshall 12; Army 20. Virginia 0; Columbia 39. Lafayette 7; Penn State 0. Tulane 0; Alabama 3. Wisconsin 20; Northwestern 13. Ohio 20; Miami 12. Kentucky 18; Georgia Tech 19. Sewanee 0; Vanderbilt 14. Wake Forest 6; Virginia Militar: | Institute 6. (Tie) Towa 0; Minnesota 28. Chicago 13; Harvard 47. Indiana 0; Boston College 14. Purdue 12; Ohio State 0. Auburn 12; Villanova 25. Colgate 0; Syracuse 7. Brown 14; Yale 20. North Carolina State 0; hattan 3. 8t. Mary's 0; Fordham 3. Lehigh 0; New York 45. Dickinson 6; Dartmouth 44. Carnegie Tech 20; Pittsburgh 10. Drake 0; Iowa State 14. Rice 3; Arkansas 0. Michigan State 0; Mississippi 6. Nebraska 16; Kansas 7. Texas College 21; Tulsa 0. Kansas State 14; Oklahoma 26. Baylor 14; Texas State 3. Washington and Lee 0; Centre 7. . MRS. HAMILTON DIES, KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 5.— Mrs. George Hamilton, 59, died in a hospital afier a lingering illness. Mrs. Hamilton was born and reared in Boston. She first came to Alaska with her husband in 1907, going to Fairbanks and later to the Iditarod. She came to Ket- chikan 13 years ago. Survivors are her husband, in Ketchikan and a son, John, in San Francisco. Man- is wrong la's and he repeated that every effort| Noatak, Point Hope, Kivalina, Nome, to Kotzebue, Noorvik and back by the of Unalakleet in | Norton Sound, to Nome, Fairbanks, and thence to Juneau. 7 Work of the Eskimo CCC'’s, begun in August of 1937, has resulted in many improvements for the Bering Coast villages, Sperling reported, | with new landing fields, reindeer corrals, shelter cabins, reindeer herders’ cabins, natural cold stor- age plants, trails, sanitary improve- ments in villages, community ware- houses and halls as well as a pro- | gram of predatory animal control recently completed. i Villages Benefitted Some of the villages benefited have been Buckland, Kivalina, Kot- | zebue, Noatak, Noorvik, Point Hope and Shungnak. As many as 170 Eski- | mos at once have been enrolled in CCC work under foreman Darrold ‘Wagner. The work will be completed by February 1, 1939 Thirty other natives have been authorized for St. Michael and vi- cinity and ten men for Akularok. The St. Michael crew was put to work tearing down the old Fort buildings there with the salvage being used for repairs to Govern- ! ment schools and construction work lof other sorts. Foreman Archie Payne has been in charge. This lower Yukon River CCC work is expected to be wound up by mid- | December, Sperling said. | Natural Cold Storage | The natural cold storages are sys- tems of tunnels and large meat hanging chambers dug out of hill- | | sides at Noatak and Kotzebue where | | the Arctic frost is always within a | | few inches of the surface. | | In landing fields work, a field al | Point Hope, on the beach, now has (Continued on Page Eight) FLAG CEREMONY HELD TODAY 0 BARANOF HOTEL Payroll of $4,000 Paid Out Since Beginning of Work, July 12 The American flag rose in tradi- tional ceremony over the now roofed over seventh floor of the Baranof Hotel this morning while AFL pick- ets marched Franklin Street below. The ceremony is traditional with completion of top floors of Ilarge buildings, contractor A. W. Quist said. Raising the flag were Maydelle George, daughter of Wallis George, Secretary-Treasurer of the hotel corporation, and Lois Davis, daugh- ter of J. V. Davis, Vice-President of the corporation. The work of erecting the seven' floors of concrete and reinforced steel, from beginning of excavation to completion of the seventh floor roof yesterday, probably set a re- cord for Alaska. The first bite of earth in excava- | Kennecott 45%, | Bay by the Richmond Fisheries. |tion was taken out by the power | shovel on July 12, and since that time, 236 tons of steel and 20,000 sacks of cement have been shaped into modern architecture. ‘The large sum of $64,000 has been BALLOT BATILE IS EXPECTED ON NEXT TUESDA Candidates :['hroughout Na- tion Pressing to Cam- paign Climax (By Associated Press) Candidates throughout the na- tion pressed today toward a thund. erous climax to the most intense vote in a rousing off-year election campaign in the nation’s history. The great popular interest is re- flected in predictions of an un- precedented ballot total for next Tuesday. This interest has spurred both Democratic and Republican leaders in efforts to turn the tide of victory. There are scores of apparently close races. In Washington, D. C., the Cam- paign Expenditures Committee has warned its investigators to keep s 'a vigilant watch on the voting in Pennsylvania, New |North Dakota, charges and counter charges were made by both parties. Approximately 40,000,000 ballots are forecasted to be cast. On next Tuesday elections will Jersey, and especially after be held in 47 States, Maine hold- | September when | ing election last a Republican Governor and three | Republican elected. The voters on Tuesday will choose Representatives were 35 Senators, 423 House members | and 32 Governors along with other State officials. - [Sross Quemmoms NEW YORK, Nov. 5. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session of the New York Stock Exchange is 9%, American Can 100, American Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 3%, Bethlehem Steel 68 Com- monwealth and Southern 2, Cur- tiss-Wright 6%, General Motors 507%, International Harvester 64, New York Central 197%, Safeway Stores 27, Southern Pacific 19%, United States Steel 64%, Pound $4.76 1/16. DOW, JONES AVERAGES “rhe following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 1562.12, up .02; rails 31.78, up .02; utilities 23.59, down .01. S e ASKS PAY IN SUIT Wallace Doe today filed suit in the ¢ | District Court here for the sum of | Journal $150 which he alleges is due him for work and labor at Red Bluff CAPT. NESS LEAVING | FOR SOUTH SUNDAY ; Capt. Tom Ness, skipper of the ,Emma, will begin his annual jour- Iney south tomorrow. He will go |to his home in Seattle where his |wife and daughter reside. This is his - first trip south since last March and he plans to sail again for Juneau next spring. He will carry a crew of five on the trip. Mr. Ness was the first ohe to re- port the recent sunken “mystery vessel” which was later proven to bethe gasboat Eliza. HOLIDAY BRIDGE The lights of the Douglas Bridge will be lighted for two months of the holiday season this winter, ac- cording to acceptance by the City ! Council last night of a proposition from the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company. The city will pay $50 for one month of lighting and the light company will donate the other month. — e TO WIDEN FRANKLIN STREET The City Council last night ac-| cepted a proposition from the Baranof Hotel Corporation whereby the city is to be given a 1%-foot strip of the hotel property on a 176-foot front on Franklin Street if the city paves that strip. paid out since beginning of excava-| |tion on payroll alone, and A. W. | Quist said the figure will be over $150,000 before the job is com- Ipleu‘d. ? . By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, mov. 5. — Army officers can’t spkak out on contro- versial subjects while they wear the army pants but until Secretary of War Woodring clamped down on !Gen. George Van Horn Moseley, they had thought they regained :treedom of speech when they re- tired. | The net result is that army of- |ficers (ever so quietly) and the semi-official journals of the mili- | tary services (ever so loudly) have loosed an anguished cry against the sort of suppression they IM\O\lght Woodring had attempted. The thing started when Mose- {ley, on the day he recently retired i Stand Is Taken from the army, issued a public = tatement boiling over with criti- cism of certain administration pol-| Y ASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—Secre- | fcies. | tary of State Cordell Hull indicates | - |that the United States will not| THE GENERAL FIRES | abide by Japan’s intentions to link | “Not since the days of the seces- | Japan, Manchuokuo and China to- sion has the future of America hung | gether, politically and economically. | by so narrow a thread,” he said. He| In a formal statement, Secretary | criticised Aubrey Williams of the | Hull gave the world to understand | National Youth Administration for| that this country will not accept| predicting that U. S. contributions | any denunciation by Japan of the| to relief were here to stay. "Increas-i Nine Power Treaty guaranteeing | ed paternalism will inevitably be-| China's independence and open door come dictatorship,” said Moseley-!m commercial opportunities there.| He called some projects “visionary” | Japan's Foreign Office spokesman | |and said “others appear to cloak a|made the statement yesterday in| | sinister ulterior motive behind a | Tokyo that Japan intended to de-| | humanitarian front.” nounce the Nine Power Pact. | | In truth these were sharp words| The Secretary of State served no-| and the general run of officers were | tice that the United States stands| 'a bit surprised at the heat, but not - half so surprised as when Wood- | | ring issued a brief but biting state- BAHANUF HUTEL | . y - | R Secretary of State Hull Dec Power Treaty—Sharp S ment saying Moseley's remarks | were evidence of “pique” at his failure of selection for Chief of |Staff, a job that went to Gen. AFL Sign Bearers Retaliate | for CIO Action—Over ‘ Hundred Men Off Jobs | the strong words of Secretary | Malin Craig. Altogether, said Wood- ring, it was a “flagrantly disloyal swatement.” Woodring.” | Approximately 126 men working Moseley himself retorted that he on the Baranof Hotel project were | had not been eligible for the job|‘“given Saturday afternoon off,” to-| of chief of staff. He said he had day, A. W. Quist, contractor, said, been too closely associated in an| when AFL pickets of the Federal | official capacity with the Hoover Labor Union 20904 walked r‘ranklm? administration for that, and fur-|Street before the hotel and also ther, that he hadn’t enough time to| marched before two other building | serve in the army before retire-| projects in retaliation for CIO pick- ment to justify his appointment. ‘elmg of the Dishaw project. | “Army -officers,” said the Regis-| Pickets were placed also on the ter, “have been brought up to be- | Hillcrest Apartments construction | that ‘loyalty’ works both job of Emil Krause's and on the| ways; that a man who expects residence construction of James loyalty from subordinates must Larson's on Twelfth Street, both| display loyalty toward them.” those jobs shutting down by noon,| The Journal said the general had | it is understood. | “performed a public service in The Building Trades Council lsst‘ suggesting that we forget foreign| night passed a resolution asking affairs and tend to our own while|the CIO Industrial Union to present| | we settle our own problems.” | its case in the jurisdictional dispute, | - with the Building Trades Council to| | SOME PRECEDENTS CITED |an impartial committee for consid-| ! A,Em .i‘mmed‘m precedent, the | €ration and the CIO union tabled | suggested that General| the letter at its meeting in Union| ‘Murun, just defeated for re-elec- WOODRING “SHOCKED” THEM It was on that last point that the soldier services balked. The Army and Navy Register and Navy Jour- nal, semi-official publications, car- ried editorials expressing “shack at| | lieve { Hall last night for future reference. | Asked today for his stand on| this turn of events, Secreuuy‘ Charles Hardy of the Industrial | Union replied, “We're going to stand | pat.” Contractors were still uncom-)' municative today as to whether or| [ (Continued on Page Six) Pittsburgh Loges U.S. WARNS WORLD OVER JAPAN MOVE MANY PLANTS REOPENED FOR WORK BY GOVT, Ordnance Institution at Charleston Be Devoted to Secret Purposes EW ORLEANS YARD PUT IN OPERATION | | | | lares This Nation Will Not | Abide by Nippon's Intentions .to Denounce Nine'!Magnilude -o—f_Eflorls of tatement Is Made, Positive | A Swatiein to. Gat Busy Is Indicated on existing treaties with Japan andi RO China. | WA‘SH;NG';‘O');; « is _r 'l;hn: He did not indicate what action Magnitude ol e ciiorts of the United States will take but de-| UDited States to rearm swiftly in nied reports that he had been con-|the troubled world was emphasized sulting with other powers to induce | t0day with disclosures that long them to denounce their commercial | UnUsed Army plants are to be re- treaties with Japan. |opened at once and steps are alsg The fact that Secretary Hull|being taken to cut down delays in twice mentioned China and Japan |construction of warships. is interpreted to mean that the| President Rooseveli announced United States will even refuse to|that the $22,000,000 ordnance plant concede that Japan has a right to|at Charleston, West Virginia, will | make any peace in China prejudicial to the Nine Power Treaty and will| also refuse to recognize the right of China to make peace with Japan which would injure the rights of the United States as well as other be reopened at once and devoted to secret purposes. The New Orleans Navy Yard, in=- operative since 1921, will also ‘be reopened immediately. Other important plants and yards are also to come within the range of early operations. All these will result in a large saving of | money. The decision to reopen the New Orleans Navy Yard indicated that the temporary Atlantic Squadron, created last September, might be- |come a permanent sea force. EARTH TREMORS FELT, 4 REGIONS, UNITED STATES |Los Angeles Area Shaken | Up—Also Sections in Three States LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 5. — | Two slight earth tremors shook this |area during the night. No damage has been reported. Quakes, according to Associated Press dispatches, ~re reported also {in various portions o North and — | South Dakota and Nebraska. No . {damage in those sections is report- ed however although some excite- | ment was caused on account of the | tremors, | QUAKES FELT ABROAD FOUND, DROWNS LONDON, Nov, 5—According to |a Reuters Agency dispatch, a pro- longed earthquak: followed by fre- quent ufter-shock:, sent Tokyo, Ja- pan, residents into the street short- ly after midnight, Pacific Coast ‘Time. A Tritish News Agency dispatch also s Lhat no damage has been NEW STAND. 1S TAKEN UP BY CHINESE Chiang Kai - Shek With- draws to Honan Province —Plans Are Announced SHANGHAIL, Nov. 5. — Gen- eralissimo Chiang Kai Shek, with a group of Soviet advisers and more than 100 new tanks, recently arrived from Russia, and with a strengthened Artil- lery Corps, has withdrawn from the Hankow area and chosen Southern Honan Province in | which to make a new stand against the Japanese invasion. With an estimated six months’ supply of munitions and un- limited man power, it is be- lieved that the Chinese may slowly wear the Japanese down. PN S Body Taken from Gastineau Channel This Afternoon —Was Pioneer To Carnegie Tech PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 5. Carnegie Tech’s unpredictable team blasted Pittsburgh this afternoon by a score of 20 to 10 as 60,000 watched the twenty-fifth meeting of the neighborhood rivals. The win by Carnegie Tech breaks the Panther's string of 22 consecutive wins. R COUPLE CLUB MONDAY | Monday night at 6:30 o’clock, the jusual potluck dinner will be a fea- (ture of the meeting of the Couple Club, hosts and hostesses for the |evening being Mr. and Mrs. Ed| Jahoda and Mr. and Mrs. R. B, | Lesher. | Plans for the show sponsored by [the club and which is to be given November 22, at the Capitol The- atre, will be discussed. Part of the social hour will be devoted to the rejuvenation of toys for Christmas. | - e MRS. COUNCIL RETURNING | Mrs. W. W. Council, who has | been visiting with friends and rela- tives in Washington for the past |few weeks is a passenger north on the steamer Alaska. | —— | | Apparently having met death by drowning, the body of Emil Carl- | ;son, 67, pioneer Alaskan, was found by pickets of both ranks to six, the | not work will resume Monday. Today’s picketing has now brought the total number of jobs affected done inn Tokyo i the epicenter i belicved to be in, Northern and Cential China. The Metecrological observatory in ‘on the tideline this afternoon Dithaw consbrobing o the 1 icas under the Charles Warner Machine Twentieth Century Theatre and two| Shop at the City Float. | renovation projects on Juneau-| C. H. Bownar, former Bureau of | Young Hardware and Oscar m"fll’ublkz ds employes, . Jeoariad Machine Shop, under contractor J.| his discovery to police and the body B. Warrack, shutting down yester- | Japan also says landslides and tidal waves are feared. Miyagi and Fukushima Prefec~ tures are apparentiy the sections where the heaviest shocks have taken place as communications to the scenes are disrupted. was taken to C. W. Carter’s Mor- day pending settlement of the dis- tu:’:flz:dir:fiscor::pe‘::e;mmmg te. | Lo L R o | Wednesday and at the time of the |report, had not been seen for th EPWORTH LEAGUE MEETING |past few days. The body showgde A large attendance was present signs of having been in the water | for the meeting of the Epworth go, several days. | League last night in the social The elderly pioneer had been a| room of the Methodist Church, with |resident of Juneau for the put‘} Miss Lola La Paugh, President, year, having come here from the| presiding. | Pioneers’ Home at Sitka with in- Following the regular business tent to troll with a boat he pur- session games were played under chased at the time. the direction of Miss Merian Pen-| Carlson was last seen by dergraff, During the latter part of Loukko, proprietor of a be:,r ’:::f the affair refreshments, under the lor on South Franklin Street. umk.l supervision of the Rev. G. Edward ko said Carlson left his place early | Knight, were served. |on the morning of October 27. | - vty | the steamer Alaska. | | SALOUM RETURNING | | — e | J. M. Saloum, who has been visit- MRS. McNAUGHTON ON ALASKA| A rejuvenated Washington Husky ing in the south for the past sev-| eral weeks is a passenger north on| ———— RICKETTS GOES SOUTH MONDAY Lieutenant Commander N. G. Ricketts of the U. 8. Coast Guard cutter Haida will leave on the Baranof Monday morning. While Outside he will take his prelimin- ary examination for the post of permanent commander. He expects to return to Juneau about Novem- ber 22 and resume his duties as commander of the Haida. During his absence, command of the Haida will be taken by Lieu- tenant Commander L. H. Baker who is transferred from the post of Executive Officer of the U. 8. RANGER 9 DUE Mrs. Guy McNaughton is home- |eleven marched all over Stanford |C. G. cutter Ingham. Baker re- ‘The Ranger 9 of the Forest Serv- |ice fleet is due today from a rou- tine administrative trip with Paul bound on the Alaska, after spending |terfitory in the first half of phyélruns to the Haida after fourteen the past few months in Seattle, in today's football game, carried|vears, as it was on this ship, as where her daughter Mary Jean is the fight through the second half |an ensifn, that he received his Judge, Head Forest Guard. George lSnrvelll is skipper. enrolled as a freshman in the Uni-{and won its first victory of the |first training in the United States versity of Washington, season by a score of 10 to 7. Coast Guard.