The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1939, Page 2

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BEHRENDS CO., Inc. “Junea Leading Department Store” NEW(HAR]’ER GOVERHMENI 4 WORLD PEACE, |S pR OPOSED Loyalists Vldonous West Secrefary of Siale Hull Re- turns from Conference Held in Lima, Peru NEW YORK, Jan. 9.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull offers the| world the principles adopted at the Eighth Pan American Conference as the conduct.” | ‘The Secretary of State said such a charter is based on ‘“equality,| Justice and Freedom, indispensible | foundation for peaceful and frl:ndly[ relations among the Nations of the | ‘World.” Sun tanned and well rested, the Becretary of State arrived aboard | a steamer this afternoon ending his | six and one half weeks journey '.01 Lima. The Secretary added: “I retum from the conference with the firm conviction that the results obtained | will have a real and permanent \al- ue.” LIFE SENTENCE | PASSED ON ALL | FOUR, OLYMPIA Judge Adds Assault Terms| for “Torture Kidnap’ Defendants ' TLYMPIA, ‘Wash.’ Jan. ‘9.—Judge John M. Wilson today sentenced to life imprisonment Dr. Kent W. Ber- ry, William McAloon, James Red- dick and Robert Smith for the kid- napping of Irving Baker last Aug- ust. In addition the Judge sentenced Berry, Mc¢Aloon and Reddick to 20 ar prison terms for first degree assault and Smith to 10 years in prison for second degree assault, in connection with the same crime. Dr. Berry, Redlick and Sniith made statements in court objecting to their convictions and said they wished a grand jury investigation of the whole case. McAloon was silent. Judge Wilson said in Berry's case, if it had been in his discretion he might have given consideration to some facts alleged as important in the case, but that the law gave him no discretion. All four gave notice of appeal to the State Supreme Court. —————————— The West Indies are the summits “charter for Int““’"“““’“"]'now moving toward the Portuguese “} Mynicipal : Corporations, *began an ‘coppmlmm INSURGENTS, CLAIM WINS: Front, Insurgents March on Eastern Area | | HENDAYE, Jan. 9—Commu-| niques from the Spanish front re- | ports' victory for the Insurgents in | the east and victory for the Gov- ernment in the west. Troops under Spanish Gen. Mia- ji are said to have splashed through Gen. Franco's Insurgent lines :on the southwestern' front and are |border, having taken Grandja de | Torrenhermcse The Insurgents report their ma- chine has moved eastward and cap- tured. a series of small villages in the Artesa section, st S P R (BURGLARS TAKE | RICH BOOTY IN WASH. ROBBERY Warranis and Cash Worth $12,000 Taken from - County Treasurer | PORT ANGELES, ‘Wash. Jan. 9. | ““Twelve thousand dollars' in chsh and negotiable warrants were stolen from the County Tresaurer's safe in Port ‘Angeles last night. The safe, whic¢h was supposedly burglar proof, guarded by comibiha- tion and time locks, was jimniied | atcording to report of ‘Chief oI Pot lice' Rube Ide. Deputy Treasurer Mrs. Iva Foster discovered fhe theft when she open- éd the office at 10'0'clock tHils mdrn- ing. Numerous" locally ‘‘drawn war- rants were scattered on the floor. Janitor BEd Shields reported every- thing in order ‘when he Iéft the building at 10 am. Sunday. The blihds were up at that time-but were found drawn at the time me rob- bery was ‘discovered. New ‘County Treasurer . Walter Baer and Examinér Willlam Gil- liam, ‘for - the State Division for investigation today under aud}wr W. W. Kinney. PETITIONERS ARETO ATTEND 1CC MEET 1 Alaska petitioners concerned with | the abandonment of the Copper | neau cooperate in the enforcement ,epidemic were being made by mem- | bers of the Health Department staff | diptheria ‘15 Shown | from the nose and throat of healthy ‘charges from ¢ase or carier. (c). In | direct by “milk ‘contamfnated with | | Schick> fest,” and “if ‘permission’ is THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, JAN. 9, 1939 EPIDEMIC OF DIPHTHERIA HITS JUNEAU ‘ {Quarantine Ordered.on All} Children b’y"‘Territéiial Health Officer (Continueq.from Page One) some of these sick children. It is requested that every parent in Ju- of these regulatigns.” Further luquem Dr. "Council ‘asked “farther that parents ‘do not take' theih children out on the highway: Up until 3 o'clock this afternoon the Schick test had been given at the Health Center to 188 children 'and 78 adults: Sixty-six’ *others had been administered toxold for im- munization purposes. Many of Juneau's mndol children have been immunized over a period of the past, three ygars Adulta.,al. | though one Was among Qrck ! en, generally are not . qmpflbe té the_disease, health officlals said Shot Ta‘Amm o0 - Tmmutization consists of giving a’ ‘shot ‘iti ‘the arm” of oneé-half a cubic’ centimeter: of ‘toxoid,” which i made' of ‘the virusiiitself. The fm- munization tréatmetit s oomfllaed in one dose. The Territoriel ' Health departs |tent here’ has dhough ! toxoid” on hand to'sdminister it te ‘everybody |, in .mnenu‘lf stieh conm becomes Dlpmem mu-mm &n “entirely different ' ‘produét: from the’ toxold used in immunization, has been ad-| ministered the, known ‘cases. The five persons were all reported | to be improving late this afternoon. All are being treated at their homes. Efforts to trace the source of the s lization” Nazis' curseéd ‘their cri today. It .was apparent the disease was not .transmitted in Juneau's milk or water supplies, officers said, because all cases ‘reported have been “contact rases qymm»hs, e, In response to ‘nurfireds of quer-| ies, the follwoing in(ormauon on| Incubafioh Period-<-éarly " signs and symptoms: ‘Incubation périod two to five days. Onset usually grad- | ual with headathe( general tching #nd ‘slight ¢hilliness. May affect the pharynx, nose, larnyx and occasion- ally other surfaces. Where the dis- ease affects the pharynx sore throat | with grayish white patches over the tonsils and palate will first be no- ticed; in the nasal type a blobdy | discharge is usally present; where the larnx is involved it is character- ized by a croupy cough. This is the type of diptheria known as “mem- braneus croup” and is the most ser- ious form of the disease. Source of Infection: Discharges from the dipt.hermn lesions of nose; throat, etc., of cases, and djschargel carriers. ! "Method ‘of Transmission:*(a). Dir- e¢t by personal contact with case or carrier.’ (b). Indireet by contact with arteiles freshly sofled with dis~ discharges from case or carrier. ‘Control of Case: ‘Isolation for a nminimum of twenty-oné days or fourteen days'if two successive cul- tures* taken'‘ffom ‘the ‘nose and throat ot less ‘thén' twenty-four hours apart ‘are tiegative.' 3 Adult ‘contadts d¥e to be'qilaran- tied ‘until releaséd by health of- ficer, as afe ‘immuneé children and suscéptible childrer, Adult contact: may lea¢e honfe“and be relieved of all restrictions ff ‘giveh an immun- zing"dose of antitoxin or known' to be imune by reason of a’negative Schick tést. Immune children ‘may leave home if given an ‘immuniz- ing dose of antitoxin or known' to be immune by reason of’‘a négative [hc’es such as’ those a | With Representatives in prayer led L. .H. H. McCutcheon, Representa- | lflflwmm 1938: © 2 o s By VOLTA 'rommv ‘ AP Feature Service Writer Republicans went “woo, woo!” at theé voters @nd won 'In November, | 1938. 'Elections hoisted their U. S. Senate standing to 23 (a gain of 8), their House strensth to 170 (a gain | of '82), ‘and 'gave ’em 17 out of 32 o,:é\ gibernatorial jobs. FYoht pages Were enifivened by new | of Senators- | Elect Taft of ‘Ohio and Downey o\“ California and ‘Governors-Elect Sal- | tonstall of Massachusetts, Vander- | ‘BNt ‘of Rhbde sland, Jatnes of Penn- | sylvania, Heil of Wisconsin, and‘ Stassen of Minnesota. j Michigan’s Murphy and other| liberals lost. Downed, too, was Cali- (férnia’s $30-Thursday dream. ‘“Democrats still were supreme| £ 9n” New York, they dermu\df . Dewéyibut Republican Program | FOR DEAD LEADER .. Projector Glenn Prank found “the| memorial tribute to Kamal Atatu; nation” stoppea, and the stock| mart perked up the day after the\' election, I Shot Heasd 'Round World The day before America ballot-| B8 ed, Herschel ‘Grynszpan, 17, a Jew, [ . shot.and killed a -German embassy aide in Paris. And in Germany a | Super-pogrom ensued; ‘so - shocking - hat* President --Roosevelt “could | aeareely belive that such things, I fes ‘and ' fined thé Jewish people ! $400,000,000 for Grympans gun- ! mnnahlp ‘American Ambassador Wilson wi i called home to report on the Reich’s | ‘rioting--and Der Puehrer yanked his envoy back from Washington to | explain Mr. Roosevelt’s' “queer at- 'tifude.” 2 Uncle '8am ‘and : muddling John NAZIS . . . .mounted Nome; Garnet Martin, Nome; IN S‘E S’Slo “ lace Porfer, Haycock; W. J. Dow >l i, Kotzebue. Third Division—Carl Drager, An- ¢ chorgae; Harvey Smith, Anchorage; ¢ Edward Coffey, Anchorage; H. H. 4 vy MecCutcheon, Anchorage. : Fourth Division—Jesse Lander, & Fairbanks; Leo Rogge, Fairbanks, Gov Iroy 0 ' f ic |a ies af Chester Spencer, Fairbanks; Frank | S. Gordon, Fairbanks. - — “Convening .of Both Seu,ale,. House (COnunueu Trom i’age One) SENATOR CAMPBELL | RECEIVES BACKING IN THIRD DIVISION | Candidate, Office of Secre-| fary of Alaska, Sup- ported in West ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan, 9.— Mike Haas, chairman of one of the Third Division’s three division- al committees, advises that - his group is backing former Territo the curtains of the Fourteen Con- vening of the Alaska Territorial i ¥ 2 | A crowded gallery bowed heads by the Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff; roll call was read, Representatives | sworn in, and temporary chairman | and ‘ temporary: clerk ‘named, fol-} loweéd © lzy' appointment ‘of Help | Committee and Mileage Committee before’ the House adjourned until 8 o'cloek this afternoon. tive from the ‘Third Division, home in’ Anchorage, was voted in as Speaker Pro Tem and Stella Young grantéd: by ‘the health ‘officer. ‘Sus- ceptible children, with approval ef the health offiter, may ‘be allowed. | to laave, home ;if ;given am immun+ izing dose of antitoxin or known. to be imune by reason of a negativ Schigk test, . _t -t H{-r;z o t the Baranof enroute to Seattlé to attend the Interstate Commdrce Commission hearing sobedulefl '!or Jantiry’ 16'%n tHat city. ¢ ' ¢ Walter H. Hod ge, representing !-ha Gordoya Chégnl e, and John H. Rosswog, representing the towni 6T Cordova, will 'effer petitions protesting the abandonment of ‘the railroad. ‘- F. A. Hansen, Superxnupdent of the railroad, will appear in ‘Tavor 'of discontinuing operations of. the road. The railroad, popularly known as the Copper River Hmd and known to literature as the “Iron Trall,” was permanently closed by the Kenne- cott Copper cmnwn, owners, when_producf of their mines at the head of their railroad was dis- continued. While i Juneau, Mr. Hodge and Mr. Rosswog consulted with Gov, John W. Troy about an airport project in Cordova. 'They continued south aboard the Baranof. The Government now that wines labelle:l requires | River and Northwestern -Railroad @4 @ submerged mountain chain, came through Juneau today aboard California, ‘‘California wine” must be made 100 per cent in o {ial Senator James Campbell for ads ’k‘":}a‘:h:’“;;m:im”' LemPOYATY | socretary of Alaska, succeeding E. Gl ted on the Mileage Cm.,.”"" Griffin, who died ten da mittee were J. P. Anderson, First "% e Divistons - Wirg. Dowd. Second Di-| Thomas Donohoe, Cordova, s vlsion“’"‘,cm Drager, ‘Third, Divis. |Chairman of another _divisional | fonaod Praik’’s. Gordon, Fouréh‘commiltw and it is not known iy what action his committee has A JRID. Commitice membe”‘mlxu.:’:m»r\ of the third faction in hy K, ; 3 2 g&z‘g‘“ "“em"r‘:]e’l‘ “xf_g:’"::c_ Third Division Democratic politics m“’“"n_‘m“m Cottey 'Tmm}haw not taken any action in 'Division; and Chester Spcm:cr;"m maser, ¢ e | P";‘m 9""5‘;3‘.“0" Secrolary to| A loud protest o The Empire] m“é‘;’umor called the roll. Only folowed the publication of a_story mnhflvt’s B prescnt whs . Saturday which announced the !V“prDavls Pirst Division Represen- candidacy of various prominent o ’ men for the position of Secretary tative Irefirning to his Juneau| . ... honie;‘on the North Coast this'eve- |5, (0 30 of E. W. Griffin. Committee given out this after- { *ifersops' Damed to fill the seven | being in g £ uons ‘" as follows: Margaret ing in the running for the office is seeking the position. If their let Johnson, Fairbanks, Assistant Glerk; Catherine Ghezzi, Fair- bapks, Engrossment Clerk; Marie Williams, Skagway, Enrollment | ial fq h “Watchman, Mona Graves,,bena or the secretaryship. |ing announcement: House Membership “I am not now and mever have Representatives holding seats Inly..; o candidate for the office kthc House are; First Division—A.* .. Murkish throngs weep unashamedly during { vacant since the death ning. i 4 No candidacies should have: amit e Staff Line-up o 2 g % sl ol s ‘two- men . wWere | |been announced, and The Empire apologizes to those »\)mm its story s te« positions in the HOUSe |, ... aced. So far known, ! of ‘Réprespntatives {or this session., ;1o o11o” rornial applications that according to a report of the HEID\p, o heen made for the position | iare those of E. L. (Bob) Bartlett [f °°;' wl;ao::kths House reconvened |, genator Campbell. at el None of the men mentioned as Grishans! Jyheau, Chief Clerk; Vio- |,opmes have been mentioned as \posslble candidates for the posi-{ t,lon, it has been by friends who ‘muy have suggested them as ma- From Anchorage The Empire re- |1 Juneau; Doorkeeper. Mary Pearce, | | ceived a telegram from Mayor Her- Duugln.s, Messenger, A. B. Cain,| bert E. Brown in which he asked | Juneau, and Sergeant-at-Arms, | J : el g |The Empire to make the follow- P BOBS.UP WITH BIG GAINS; PARIS SHOT STARTS BERLIN PROGRAM rk, founder of new Turkey. Bull,* meanwhile, ‘signed a trade| AGAINST sgicaion Kpop IR P00 [ the Mty. King Géorge said he and Bremen in New York after Germany starts anti-Jewish drive, the quéen would be in Washington B 1 o TS =g a $is next ‘June. ‘Both -English-speaking | yetary of State Hull with a delega- and went to auto shows. The Di- | powers tackled the German-Jewish | tion that included Alf Landon and onne quintuplets lost their tonsils. refugee issue. After abandoning|Jjohn L. Lewis’ daughter, sailed for | Robert Irwi Manhattan murderer | lafis for splitting up Palestine, |54 Pan-American pow-wow. | of an artists’ model, got a 139-year andlord Chamberlin suggested Germany and France agreed to|sentence sanctudries for the Jews in South | jet their well-fortified frontier stand.| Don Budge turned pro. Midwest America and Africa—and the idea | Britain’s good-will deal with Italy |and southern football stars shone of le_mng'them have land that Ger- | went into effect. Chamberlain went | brightest. many used to own' made Berlin's|to Paris to consult labor-lambasted | Railroad pay-cul orders were can- '"093 boil. Premier Daladier. And Italian depu- | celed. CIO became the Congress of ‘The Ramparts We Watch’ ties demonstrated for French Tuni- | Industrial Organizations. Attorney By Armistice Day, the world|sia General Cummings’ resignation was was blowing about $20,000,000,000 a| To Egypt's teen-aged king and|revealed, and there were rumors of | year to beat plowshares into swords, | queen, a princess was born. And |other cabinet substitutions. jand Monroe Doctrine fences 'were| Turkey mourned its modernizer,| On Thanksziving, the President being ,mended: . Cuba’s Colonel-in- | Kamal Ataturk quoted Eddie Cantor: “I am thank- Chief Fulgencio Batista was hon- The Changing Scene ful T can live in a country where Eed‘pnffismnlyn Mexico agreed | Americans learned to play “Chi-|all leaders can sit down . . . and yinginext.year for land [nese checkers,” cheered a Broad- | carve up a turkey instead of a| Lnke.n from U. §. citizens. And Sec-| way biography of Abe Lincoln, | map.” P. Walker, Craig; James V. Davis, [of Secretary of the Territory.” HES Juneau; J. P. Anderson, Juneau; | oOthers who requested that the | John M('Cur‘mvwk. Juneau. Empire retract the announcement Second Division—Howard I that they were in the running for | the office are Collector of Customs | James J. Connors, J. E. Pegues, | executive secretary of the Plan-! ning Council, and Representative Ed Coffey. To these and the other mentioned in lhr‘ same story, Empire sa e're sOI] e (ouldn'l Buy Legs, ! f He Made His 0wn‘ men The | OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Jan ~ _Unable to buy a pair of artifi- |} | cial limbs after he lost both of his egs in a train accident, Henry, Falls, Negro youth, whittled some |from an old cottonwood log. Representatives of artificial limb manufacturers who later saw the | h !pair of wooden ones Falls made, |, said they were a ‘“remarkable piece of workmanship.” Falls was lguided by the illustrations in a | catalogue of artifciial limbs be ob- tained. His only tools were pockefl knife, rusty saw and hammer. iy .o | Empire Ads Pay. | | DRESSES, Downa Go Prices To Stay! Triplex Cleaners ANNOUNCE Cicaned and Pressed e H1s00 LABDIES’® SUITS and TRIPLEX CLEANERS All Work Guaranteed U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER 8 (By the U. 8. Weather Bureau) < ! | | Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 3:30 p.m., Jan. 9: 4, Showers tonight and Tuesday, slightly cooler tonight; moderate '% southeast winds. ey Weather forecast for Southeast Alaska: Showers tonight and ‘_s Tuesday, slightly cooler tonight; moderate southeast winds, except B moderate to fresh over Dixon Entrance, Clarence Strait, Frederick @ & Sound, and moderate to fresh south wind over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coast of the Gulf of Alaska: Fresh = = southeast winds tonight and Tuesday from Dixon Entrance to Cape< | Hinchinbrook, except fresh to strong tonighc from Cape Spencer to cape Hinchinbrook. .6 LOCAL DATA -~ Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather sty 2971 40 88 E 12 Lt.Rain * b 3:30 am. today ... 20.94 38 91 E 3 Lt. Rain Noon today 30.04 42 80 SE 9 Cloudy RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4ain. 4a.m. Precip. 4am. v Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka 40 34 34 22 17 Lt.Rain ¥ ¥ Anchorage 28 16 26 4 0 Pt.Cldy Barrow -8 -18 -18 8 0 Clear® K, Nome -2 -1¢ -8 4 0 Clear Bethel 6 0 6 2 02 Cloudy™ ¥ Fairbanks 10 | -2 6 4 0 Cloudy 3 Dawson 6 | 4 6 " 14 0 Cloudy % St. Paul ... 28 | 14 16 22 g Cloudy ; Dutch Harbor 36 . 28 30 16 41 Cloudy Kodiak 40 36 38 16 02 Cloudy . ) Cordova 38 34 36 L 123 HVvYRn Juneaa 2 | 38 38 3 56 Lt.Rain , 4 Sitka 44 33 — — 16 y Ketchikan 44 | 42 44 Calm 93 Cloudy 4, y, Prince® Rupert 44 40 42 4 38 Lt.Rain Edmonton 42 20 24 4 0 Cloudy 44 Seattle 48 44 46 12 T Cloudy 1 Portland 52 2 42 6 03 Mist San Francisco 58 52 52 8 0 Clear New York 46 | 34 36 8 0 Clear Washington 60 32 32 4 0 Clear WEATHER COWDITIONS AT 8 AM. TUDAY S Seattle airport, cloudy, temperature, 45; Victoria, cloudy, 44; * . Bellingham, raining, '44; Alert Bay, raining; Bull Harbor, raining, 42; Estevan, raining, 45; Prince Ruvert, cloudy, 43; Ketchikan, rain L& ing, 42; Craig, cloudy, 43; Wrangell, cloudy, 38; Petersburg, cloudy, 37; Sitka, raining, 40; Juneau, raining, 40; Cape Spencer, cloudy, 40;€% Hoonah, cloudy, 36; Tenakee, cloudy, 34; Radioville, raining, 38; skagway, cloudy, 41; Haines, cloudy; Tulsequah, cloudy, 36; Eldred Rock, cloudy, 40; Cordova, raining, 35; Chitina, cloudy, 18; St. Elias, partly cloudy, 32; Seward, raining, 88; Anchorage, cloudy, 28; Hot, Springs, cloudy, 3; Tanana, snowing, 6; Fairbanks, partly cloudy, -1;"‘ Nulato, snowing, 4; Kaltag, snowing, 4; Ruby, snowing, 0; MocGrath, snowing, 11; Flat, snowing, 12; Stuyahok, snowing, 5; Crooked Creek, cloudy, 11; Bethel, cloudy, 8; Nome, clear, -3; Solomon, clear, -10; Gambell, clear, -8; Taku Lodge, raining, 33; Windham Bay, raining, g 34; Kluckwan, cloudy, 30. Juneau, Jan. 10.—Sunrise, 8:42 a.m.; sunset, 3:3¢ p.n WEATHER SYNOESIS S Low barometric pressure prevailed this mornwag throughout Al- aska and over the northeastern portion of the North Pacific Ocean, there being two storm centers, one over the lower Kuskokwim Bay, lowest reported pressure 20.10 inches, and the second storm area was a short distance south of Atka, the lowest reported pressure being 29.00 inches. High barome'ric pressure prevailed from Dixon Entrance Southward to California, with the crest of 30.60 inches over the Pacific Ocean at latitude 36 degrees and longitude 136 de- grees. Precipitation has been general along the coastal regions from the Aleutians southeastward to Oregon and over much of the in-g¢ terior and western portions of Alaska. Temperatures were above the seasonal average today over most of Alaska. b Winter Clearance USED CARS 1937 DELUXE SIX FORDOOR TOURING SEDAN hot water heated, mileage 8,740 1937 MASTER CHEVROLET COUPE, radio, hot water heated, mileage 7.208 1937 G. M. C. PICKUP TRUCK, mileage 11.610 1935 PLYMOUTH FOURDOOR TOURING SEDAN, heater, mileage 34,007 1936 CHEVROLET SEDAN DELIVERY, mileage 13,148 1931 CHEVROLET COACH 1932 V8 FORD COUPE Connors Metor Ce., Ine o - o 40 There isno suhsntute for Newspaper 2 Advermmg $1.00 Plain =e=ammnme= (SAM THE TAILOR) We Call For and Deliver o