The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1939, Page 1

. . P THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” MPIR 1 VOL L]II NO 7989. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 2, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS CONGRESS OPENS SESSION PRICE TEN CENTS Alaska Nearly Breaks ~ Nazi-U.S. Relations Strained 'M URPHYIS 1938 RETURNS‘ IN MINERALS MADE PUBLIC Terrifory Estimated fo Have Produced Over | $21,000,000 YIELD LITTLE SHORT ‘ OF BANNER YEAR 1906 Platinum AIso Enters Inlo} Events Placing North- ! land, Upper Ranks | WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Alaska, the $7,000,000 Government invest- ment, paid $27,036,000 dividend in minerals in 1938, the Bureau of Min- | es estimates. | “This is the value of gold, platin- | um, copper, silver and other miner- | als taken from the hills and the steambeds during 1938. Of this tctal the gold producnon is given as $21,917,000. The total mineral yield of Alaska Sumner Welles U. S. state department’s refusal Dr. Hans Thomsen to apologize !o?}erman_v for Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes’ denunciation of dictatorships in a recent Cleveland speech projects these men into the news spot- light. At the same time, diplamatic, and commercial relationship between the United States and Germany was seen as edging toward the breaking point. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles blunt- Iy rejected the Nazi demand for an official American apology. Welles told Dr. Hans Thomsen, German charge d’affairs, that his govern- ment’s request came with ill grace and impropriety \in light of per- SUCCESSOR T0 CUMMINGS gan Appointed Attorney | General by President WILL BE SWORN IN AT WHITE HOUSE STUDY ' New CabirF Member Is Firm Adherent of New Deal Policies WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Frank Murphy, fcrmer Governor of Michi- gan and firm adherent of New Deal policies, came to the National Cap- ital today to be sworn in as Attorney | General. He was appointed over | the weekend by President Roosevelt | to succeed Homer S. Cummings, | | whose resignation was effective nt noon today. “I face a difficult job but I would not have it otherwise,” he said in | Detroit yetserday, just after chm Former Governor of Michi- TOMORROW 1 | | Hére is the U blimp, the K-2 as it wr fRAN(E SHOWS Akron, O, SEC.GRIFFIN dock fiight. The bltmp wit a few more tes HEAVY GALES, ecord, Gold Output Navy’s New Blimp Given Test Flight in Akron, O. ROOSEVELT MESSAGEON WEDNESDAY :lmmedlate “Clashes Over Relief and Defense Policies in Prospect 'REPUBLICANS HAVE STRONGER MINORITY Democrats Are Confidenf - | Wishes of Administration Will Be Carried Out WASHINGTON, . 2~—Immed~ | inte clashes over velief and defense policies were in prospect as mem- bers of Congress began assembling in Washington for a crucial session h promises to put President velt's leadership to new tests. Vice-President John Garner and Speaker Willlam B. Bankhead will | call the session to order at noon | tomerrow. President Roosevelt will |deliver his annual melun on | Wedpesday. Members of (he strengthened Re- sistent attacks on American leaders by the controlled Nazi press. Dr. Thomsen is taking Ambat that envoy remai | publican minority are m_ wagmumtion of WPA activities since the purchase from Russia in | White House announcement of his | i 1888 is more than $776,000,000 nearly I “ador Hans Dieckhofl’s place' while |aonointment. SIRENGTH IN RAIN SWEEPS : m v |sence of anything British except| The Michigan Senator said he|janders that “Corsica is French,’ :::ds:;;;;‘;;? t‘:eufiorfi; l:if:u?}:c A]' WH|IE Hous[ recollection - that his majesty’s | believes .such selections are the|premier Daladier stepped ashore in| 4 A Cedar Creek While he and his . precious metal. ! | soldiers once burned ‘the place | President's personal privilege. Ajaccio, Corsica, from a warship on Burlal W|" Be at Seward brother, Robert, 21, were trapping. by down. Senator- Vandenberg recalled that|a tour of French territory which s & h A landslide blotked the Olympic g H |« than the smoke marks, [T and Governor Murphy are Per- s being coveted by Ttaly, A fiect| BESIde Wife Who Pass- |ntenway near Hoguiam and several ener af:the Washinglon, Igh S(hool Coup|e ON |long since painted over, there x.slsansl friends deéspite political dis-|of French fighting ships rode at . inches of water 1ay in the Streets | y: % 1iks ‘SADE"A ROSE & white marble mantel in the |agreements’ and from purely per-|anchor in the harbor waiting to ac- ed Away in 1930 at, Raymond ‘last night, More: than | Clark Oriffth, djan't like Bl to to three inches of rain fell in Hoqui- | 1§ _remarks. ' Jookers. 111 times more than the Territory! cost originally. ‘while ted gold production for last year is $199,000 less than the record year of 1906, officials will not | be surprised, when the final re-| ports are received, that the actual| output last year will eclipse that of the earlier period. The estimated value of platmum’ for the last year is $1,025,000, copper $2,932,000, coal $570,000, silver $287.-/ 000, lead $102,000, and other metals' $303,000. The Bureau of Mines said there bhas been an enormous increase in the output of platinum which has formed “one of the most notable events of the year,” placing Alaska FESTIVAL IS GALA BUDDED AFFAIR Fiftieth Celebrafion Mark- ed by Five-mile Long Parade of Bouquets | PASADENA, Cal, Jan. 2.—This| city opened a flower bound memory\ book today to ceiebraie the fimeth\ Tournament of Roses. A five mile parade was spocted with sixty-five blossom decked floats | with “Golden Memories” the theme | of the Rose Festival with floats| harking back to yesteryears before| the gaze of probably a million on- | Budding beauty, civic sponsored, extolled the wonders of the festival from 1889 to 1939. There were horse drawn vehicles and an oldtime band plaiying old tunes to form the pro—, logue in the style of 50 years back, preceding the mobile bouquets foll- owing Shirley Temple, Grand Mar- shal of the Tournament. - FIVE LOSE LIVES IN HOTEL BLAZE RUMFORD, Maine, Jan. 2.—State, county and town officials today pushed investigation of a hotel fire that snuffed out five lives on Sat-| urday night. | —— r COPS' MANNERS REWARDED ELKHART, Ind. — A South Bend motorist startled the Elkhart police department the other day by send- s sai thad indefinitely” in Germany. # \ MAY SLEEP IN CREAKY BED ON VISIT T0 WHITE HOUSE 'WOMAN TRIED T0 CRASH GATE Scavenger Hunt Gef Aufo- | graphs, President, Wife | WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—An un- invited young woman attempted to gain admission to the White House today while Secret Service agents| |sought to fix responsibility for in- trusion by two high school pupils into the Executive Mansion Satur-| day night. Today's visitor, a man, walked to the front porch after being shown the Executive | offices and she was hurrying| toward the front door when police- | men stopped her. The woman was | about 20 and threatened to bite an| officer as her escort made efforts| to restrain her. The officer did not | disclose the woman’s name but said |she was from New Jersey, appar- ently on her way to Florida for her health. Officials said that Joseph Measel and Beatrice White, both 16, on a |New Year's Eve scavenger hunt walked into the Executive Mansion | and obtained autographs by the President and Mrs. Roosevelt. B MNDON RETURRS FROM CONFERENCE the Pan-American Conference at| Lima, Peru, where he was a dele- | gate representing the United States. Landon said the success of Fas- |cist propaganda in the South Am- erican countries “has been exag- gerawd but there had been no exasgermon in the amount of pro- paganda.” Y e The number of members of the | accompanied by | WA'%HIN(:[‘ON Jan. 2. - King | George and Queen Mary will move into the White House next sum- | mer to find almost a complete ab- Green room, brought from Eng- land in 1792, and the state dining room is paneled with English wal- ,nut Other foreign touches mostly | |are French and Belgian. Probably it is no. ill omen, but the last reigning monarch who ‘vlsited the place, King Prajadipok of Siam, no longer is on the throne. [He came in 1931 as a guest of | President Hoover. Hoover lost his | job, too. There aren’t any historic ghosts in the White House, no records of ibloody plots such as distinguish ‘Brltish castles. But the White House is a distinguished place none | the less, although a bit crowded even for a democratic king. There are seven bedroom suites on the upstairs floor, which tradi- tionally is the family quarters. | Present plans are for the king fo | occupy an east end suite contain- ling the nine-foot Lincoln four- | poster bed, which probably creaks. The place overlooks the Treasury, also a matter of some interest to |the British. | | MIGHT CROWD THINGS UP Goodness knows what would hap- pen if the Roosevelt clan decided |to come home for a family visit |right at the moment. Doubtless {Mrs. Roosevelt would make every- body comfortable, even if it meant |a bit of doubling up. She has a lwhere people speak English with | a funny American accent, he prob- |ably will be made right at home ! soon enough. It is a fact that stories about the | place are comic as often as digni- rned Abagail Adams, first of the ’lme of first ladies, almost froze, whai with the wet walls and in- complete fixtures. She bhung the He Jeft Detroit at once for Wash~ ingte i Las been invited to take A el Lo e B m, gk U1 imhes Hudy where Christmas eve | | Harry L. Hokpins was sworn in as | Secretary of Commerce. OATH IS GIVEN WASHINGTON, Jan. 2. — Gov. | | Frank Murphy was sworn in in President Roosevelt's study, the oath being administered by Associate Justice Stanley Reed of the Su- |preme Court of the United States. There is strong indication that Murphy’s confirmation will come as Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, [ol‘ Michigan, said: “T do not expect | to oppose the appointment.” Isum;l standpoint, I am glad commend him for his many splen- did engaging personal qualities.” - .- TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR SERVICEIS TO START NEXT JUNE LONDON, Jan. 2—The Imperial Airways announces the beginning of the weekly Trans-Atlantic air- ways announces the beginning of the weekly Trans-Atlantic air ser- vice between North America and England, beginning next June. Three 24 ton !lying boats wfll be used. DERELICT PROVES 10 BE PROMINENT DOCTOR NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Penniless, James Harrigan, who died a Bow- ery derelict, was buried by the city. The pauper has been identi- fied by police as Eben True Al- drich, prominent New England phy- sician, last seen in a Cambridge., P N Display Being Put on by Premier Daladier for Benefit of Italy (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) France showed Italy a digplay of | power today in the Mediterranean while Great Britain prepared to meet Germany's threat to match her ton for ton in submarines. To shouts of tnousands of is- company the French Premier Tunisia in his = demonstration to Ttaly that France means to hold her possessions. In London, the Herald said Great Britain would add several million pounds to her 1939 naval estimates because of Germany's move toward submarine parity. Germany has served notice that she intends to use her treaty privilege to discard the 45 to 100 ratio set up in the past with Britain. A new insurgent offensive ap- parently is developing on the long dormant Valencia front in eastern Spain. While the Catalonia bat~ tled raged in its eleventh day, Span- | ish government advices said three| insurgent battalions had attacked government fortifications guarding the road to Valencia on the Medit- erranean. 3 CHILDREN PERISH AS FARM HOME BURNS SPENCER, Wis,, Jan. 2—Three small’ children of Mr. and Mr Russell Benson, farmers near here, perished in a fire which last night destroyed the familiy’s two-story’ Na Mass., bank four years ago. home. SILVER PRICE ( WASHINGTON, Jan 2.—Pre- sident Roosevelt has continued ONTINUES AT 64.64 CENTS AN OUNCE; PROCLAMATION IS ISSUED ected the silver must be deliver- ed to the United States coinage Final Respect Being Paid Prominent Official Who Died Friday Night REV. JOHN A. GLASSE DELIVERING EULOGY Funeral services for Acting Gov- ernor Edward W. Griffin, Secretary lof Alaska, who died here suddenly | Friday night, are being held this af- ternoon in the Elks hall, the Rev. John A. Glasse, pastor of the North- ern Light Presbyterian Church, de- livering the eulogy. The services are under the aus- pices of the Elks lodge of which the Secretary was a member in Butte, Mont., for more than 40 years. Respect of the armed forces is being paid by Simpson MacKinnon, Aide to the Governor, representing the Navy; Lieut. Frank Metcalf, the Army, and Commander Noble G. Ricketts of the Haida, the Coast | Guard. Pallbearers Active Pallbearers are Willlam A. Hesse, Territorial Highway Engin- cer; George Eohlhepp, of the B. M. Behrends Co, Inc; Senator C. H. Boyteaux, Tom Dyer, of the ndard Oil Company; James J. . Collector of Customs: May- 1., Lucas; B. D. Ste € Bo w. Distriet ALL” ney Wil w K cil; Holzheimer; ulkner. torial Board of E mu' H“H‘llh‘lh.fll |{M. Hust, € Superint |of the Bureau of Indian Affl John Newmarker, Eteamboat In. pector; Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Com- mission; the Rev. A, P. Kashevaroff, Curator of the Alaska Historical Lib- YOne Man loses Life-Moth- ; | pounds because of Ger y; for submarine rary .and Museum; W. 8. Pullen, last .. NORTHWEST er, Three Children Res- cued in Wind Storm SEATTLE, Jan. 2. — Gales and heavy rains ushered in the new year in some sections of the Pa- cific Northwest, One life was losv. Maylon Gill, 18, of Hoquiam,| Wash., was believed to have been drowned yesterday when a 60-mile- an-hour gale struck the Grays Har- bor area. Gill was thrown into am in 24 hours. An’ 80-mile-an-hour gale in: the lower Columbia. River country top- pled buildings, tieing up ‘'shipping and snipped off power service in one community. Eight ships clung for protection in Astoria harbor- to await recession of the white water running over the bar. Three other freighters swung at anchor in the rough sea outside the river mouth. American Legion members res- cued Mrs. A. A. Boyle of Seattle and three children after the wind had rolled their home off its foun- dation. No one was injured. A fall- ing tree wrecked a barn on their place. GREAT BRITAIN T0 GO STRONG, NAVY VESSELS LONDON, Jan. 2—The London Daily Herald said Great Britain will revise her naval estimates for 1939 upward by illion 's move pa THREE OF FIVE [TOPEKA, Kansas, Jan. 2.—~Al- | friendly touch, and if King George al- Welfare Dir \ [fred Landon is home again from VI feels a bit strange in a place TRl A £ B WHO BROKE JA". 4 Sreaining i Agamsi Govf. ARE BACK, CELLS| YAKIMA, Wash. Jan. 2—Three - of the five prisoners who escaped. from the Yakima County jail last Saturday are back in jail. Roy Wright. 18, convicted slayer, surrendered to the Toppenish pnllm aud ursm‘ unuon ln m Washingion Outhdder ls Ihs-ls L G X Griffith_ dnnounced yum-dp\ % he had sold Simmons to the’ P Bees of the National ' ue. Reports were fhat it was riot Qiffi- wult for the Senators' owner to get waivers on Simmons from the erican League clubs. not seem to get nla&} 'lfll :' tors’ Manager wu bought from ported $16,000 just a few h,l fore the start of the 1938 season. Simmons continued his marks early in the 1938 season he charged that the Wi ball club was cheap and pay fines imposed on fts: e Later, last season, when both Grif- fith and Simmons had calmed down and incidentally while S8immons was in a slump, the Senators owner of- fered to pay his out.flox?« & bonus if he would wind up the geason m a 300 average. Al just w hit 300 on the last day of the sea- INSURGENTS ARE TAKING ADVANCE I TWO SECTIONS * Smashing Atacks pon- ed as New Thr?ais d A ’ HENDAYE, Jln. 2. — Insur dvances in the extreme no nd extreme southern sectd Catalonia " 2gainst the Span ing in $5 because he had been wash in the gorgeous imperial| at 6464 cents inf e b ugnost. couriaty | Ramam: Stbalic G Oin . Bav et B v il LN Poa ] ai e IR mint not later than Jure 3, iGencral Manager of the Aasea B ot ! p while passing through the city.” He | York City is 1,733,000 to make it the | with shimmering chandeliers. ed domestic % The President’s silver’ h“.. ectric Light and Power ; R. or -were taken early Sunday b e weindo’s 8 s gested that ‘the money be ap-| plied to the police fund. second . largest church group. The* Jewish denomination leads. ' In the East Room hangs the (Onnunuedmh‘o!"w mation is effective only up to that date. LA SRR R A 7 i RN mnumud on Pue Seven)' E. Robertson, Juneau attorney, and‘mm |and Eugene Terwilliger. Still at large are Rector ‘Watson trom Barcelona itself. front_which is from 75 to