The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIVE” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8000. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLANE CRASHES, BURSTS INTO FLAMES Quarantine to be Lifted at 6 0’Clock Tonight EPIDEMIC OF . DIPHTHERIA 1S CHECKED Schools Resume Monday-| Sunday School and Church Tomorrow DISEASE TOLL WAS U ONE LIFE; SIX ILL | Children Can Leave Homes Tonight After Week of Confinement ‘ Quarantine of children here, im- | posed last Monday due to discovery | of six cases of diphtheria, will be | removed at 6 o'clock tonight, Dr.| W. W. Council, Territorial Health; Commissioner, announces. Schools which have been closed for a week will call students back to classes Monday morning in both Juneau and Douglas. Tomorrow, Sunday school and services will be held as usual in| all Juneau churches, and regular | lodge ahd ‘club meeting schedules will be resumed. The Public Li- brary will reopen Monday morn- | ing. The diphtheria epidemic took the toll of one life, that of Richard] Johnson, five, and struck six others, | all but one in the Johnson family. | All the victims were considerably improved today. Hundreds of children and adults were given Schick tests at the Ju- neau Health Center this week, but all the tests were negative, show- ing the disease had made nohead- | way here. [ | | —_———————— INSURGENTS ‘Gets 20 Foxes and Black Eye JAPAN'S IRE 1 AROUSED AT U. 5. ACTION | | Grave Concern Expressed Over Foritfying | Guam Island ' SEES NO REASON FOR Miss Kay Barker, New York society beauty, rétuimied with twenty foxes, and a black eye from a five-month lflf on Alaska’s Ushigak Island, where' she was the only woman. She had leased the island from the govern-| ment for a fox farm and brought back the animals to stock a farm she plans to establish in upstate New York. She said the black eye resulted from collision with a enat haneer. TWO RIVAL BLOCS IN BREAK DOWN AT LIMA; SIGNIFICANT OUTCOME NEAR COAST INADVANCE Reported About Three Miles Southwest of Tar- ragon, Their Goal HENDAYE, Jan. 14.—Insurgents report today that their Southern Catalonia Army has driven to about three miles from the Mediterran- ean, southwest of Tarragona, the goal. The Insurgents also report the capture of Montroig, on the sea- board, 16 miles southwest of Tarra- gona, which gives the Artillery Corps command of the important coastal highway leading to Tarragona. This capture has cut off the last 100 miles of Government territory. Meanwhile, at Barcelona, all Spanish citizens between 17 and 55, both men and women, have been pressed into the military reserve and all busi is militarized as well as all industries including the tran- sport and provision services. ——————— IS CONVICTED OF TREASON ON SLIGHT CAUSE Naturalized American Must Serve Six Month - in Prison, Hamburg HAMBURG, Jan. 14. — George Joseph Roth, naturalized American | citizen, has been convicted of treason and sentenced to six months. The authorities said he possessed copies of French Communistic newspapers. By PRESTON GROVER TAKING ANY SUCH MOVE ‘Comment W_iiiheld, How- | ever, as fo What Military Action to Be Taken TOKYO, Jan. 14—Rear Ad- miral Kanazawa, Japanese Navy spokesman, said Japan expresses grave concern over the United States Naval Beard’s proposal to fortify Guam Island, Personnally, Admiral Kana- zawa said, he saw no necessity to justify any foreigm power strengthening fortifications near Japan. “Japan will watch closely the progress of American defense plans,” the Admiral said, but he withheld comment on what Jap- an would do to meet the new bases in Guam, only 1,500 miles from Japan. FRANCE ORDERS " SUBMARINES T0 ~SYRIAN COAST ;Nalionalisis Start Agita- tion, Uprising for Inde- i? pendent Country Moon y Weeps Mooney M &rching - ATTACK GERMANS L AS THEY PARADE {Rotten Eggs, Decayed To- CUBAN WORKMEN WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. — One| pARIS, Jan. 14, — The French | significant development at the Lima | Ngyy has ordered three submarines | conference not formally recorded i, Syria where rioting. against | was the breakdown of the rival “or- | prench rule broke out while France's | bits,” one led by the United States|pediterranean and Atlantic fleets and the other by Argentina. | made ready for extensive war games | Ever since the first of the Pan- | off Africa. | American meetings some 40, years| Syrian Nationalists have started |ago two rival blocs have'stale-|an agitation for immediate separa- mated any true meetings of minds. | tion from French rule and this has Thus the evidence that these blocs led to a series of clashes in Damas- |famous “uncle of kings,” died of | bronchial influenza today. He was | | Britain. He gained his famous nick- | |name before the World War when |he was the uncle of the kings of | |had broken down was considered | tremendously important by offi- {- matoes and Oranges | Hurled a‘ v's"ors | cials looking for an increasingly | wholesome “get together” spirit in HAVANA, Jan. 14—A group of | the Americas. Cuban workmen pelted goose step-| Two conditions perpetuated the |ping German sailors with rotten pjoc through the first 30 .or more leggs, decayed tomatoes and years of the Pan-American confer- oranges. |ence series. First was the natural Officers, midshipmen and sailors |rivalry between Argentina and the of the training school ship Schles- | United States both on a commer- wig Molstein were marching behind |cial and political basis. Argentina their band down the fashionable‘wa_s the most rapidly developing Prado when workmen darted out|South American nation and fur- from side streets and let fly old‘ther. produced two classes of com- fruit. Much of the decayed vegeta- | modities which contested -directly tion found marks before police ar-|with the United States rived to halt the barrage. $South American market. The two | were: meat and the various by- | products (such as hides), and grain ‘F AMED UN(I.E OF ‘ products, principally wheat, | DOGTRINE CAUSED TROUBLE KI“GS DIES IN | The second condition developing {the blocs was the distrust of the SWEDE" 'I'ODA United States engendered by our “overlord” inferpretation of the | Monroe Doctrine. In its inception, COPENHAGEN, Jan. 14—Prince | the doctrine simply pronounced the Vandemar, eighty, of Denmark, intention of the United States to keep further European influences out of the western hemisphere. It N - was strictly a one-nation declaration the uncle of King Christian of iipoded’’ ipon: WBe” Herlsntibre by the United States regardless of whether it pleased the Latin-Ameri- can neighbors. In addition, the United States reserved a right of intervention in Denmark and youngest brother of the late Queen Alexandra of Great | |Great Britain, Norway, Denmark, | iong) affairs of certain of the | i | |Oreece and Russia, P | republics and exercised it notably | LEXINGTON, Ky—In Prof. J.|argenting always found herself Holmes Martin's genetics class ab yiph several adlies, including Bra- the University of Kentucky, three |, cnile, Peru and Uruguay as a students sitting in one row are = named England, Duke and Earl, (Continuea on Page 8ix) for the| |cus and other towns. BILLWOULD PUT LIQUOR ming the sidewalks and windows Tom Mooney leading his own Moulders' Union past the Inlte'ueuon of Francisco, the spot where a bomb killed 10 and injured 40 others. Mooney waved his hand to crowds jam- as Governor Hands Him Pardon/ g Laber’s werldwide, 22-year crusade to free California’s prisoner, Thomas J. Mooney, reached & elimax when Governor Culbert L. Olson handed him a fill parden on the rostrum of a jammed Assembly chamber in ‘Sacramento. Photo shows Olson (left) wn:rltfllnu'ng Mconey on his release, Mooney broke into tears as he thanked the governor for the ‘pardon. Past Historic Bomb Site * Stewart and Marke! i e streets, San during the parade, |GAS TAX URGED FOR TERRITORY ROAD PURPOSES Highway Engineer Also Wanfs Regulafions * for Traffic IN LODGES McCufcheon Authors Meas- ure fo Legalize Fra- ternal Body Bars A bill was introduced in the House of Representatives this morning that, if passed, will legalize sale of liquor to members of certain fra- ternal organizations in the Terri- tory within the club rooms of those | organizations. | Representative H, H. McCutcheon | of the Third Division introduced | ‘ ) the bill, which asks an amendment| A gasoline = tax, receipts from to existing laws of the Territory re- | Which would be used exclusively garding liquor sale. | for highway purposes, is urged in the Under the amendment, fraternal biennial report of the Alaska Ter- organizations named in the bill, will | Fitorial Highway Engineer. be authorized, under license, to sell| “Asa matter of p(}llcy thx?l s::tm and dispense cating ors | to be a good thing in nearly ery in club rooms mfl:t:’med by t’,‘,f:,“o,’.f civilized country in the world,” Wil- members of the body. |liam A. Hesse, Highway Engineer The organizations named by the | and Superintendent of Public ‘Works, bill are, the Elks, the American Leg- | 58Y8 in his report, “the gas tax as ion, the Loyal Order of Moose, the | affecting motor vehicles on the high- Independent Order of Odd Fellow: ays should be adopted. Fraternal Order of Eagles, Pionee No recommendation is made as to of Alaska, Arctic Brotherhood and|the size of such a tax. Gasoliné Redmen of America. (Continued on Page Five) Scarlett O'Hila Is Found at Last, Movie Role SENATE'S FIRST MEASURE READY FOR GOVERNOR Joint Resolution Comes Through Mill-Split on New Employees Developments in the Senate today saw the first measure of the Four- teenth Legislature sent up to the Governor for signature and saw too the first split vote of the session in that body. Senators disagreed on accepting the report of the Finance Committee seletcing Phyllis Jenne and Willlam MOTHER PASSES ON T Winn as extra help for the session. Mrs. John MeCormick, wife of | The vote was six to two, dissenters Representative MeCormick, l”8‘59“"|‘bomg Senate President Norman R. ed word today from Walla Walla | wyjker, who also had dissented in p'«:::e:" m‘)fly t‘;; m"ed Stiles | the committee, and one other Sen- away., 8. ator on the floor, it bel difficut Death came to Mrs. Stiles from a i complication of lingering illness. (Continued on Page Three) HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Jan. 14—The long search for the Searlett O'Hara part in the movie version of “Gone With the Wind” has ended with the announcement of the selection of Vivien Leigh, English actress. Miss Leigh has signed the contract to play the part, said David I Selznick. Several thousand women, includ- ing topnotch actreses, sought the role. MRS. McCORMICK'S FOUR KILLED WHEN CRAFT - TAKES DIVE Two Passengers and Two Members of Crew Burn- ed in Fafal Plunge ACCIDENT OCCURS TO N.W. AIRLINES SHIP FROM EAST Bodies Re:;;fed Charred When Found in Wreck- age by Search Party MILES CITY, Montana, Jan. 14, —A St. Paul to Seait/® bound North« | west Airlines passenger plane, car= rying four persons to death, fell in flames on the snow covered creely bottoms two miles west of here, af+ ter a normal takeoff. The four listed aboard the plane are Mrs. Clara Morris, wife of & Northern Pacific conductor, of Man= dan, North Dakota; Richard 8. Zahe nister, of Bismarck, North Dakota; Pilot C. B. Chamberlain, of Min~ neapolis, and .copilot Raymond B. Norby, of Minneapolis. An employee of the H. V. Hewitt the here. bodies from the ruins. One body had not hbeen this morni All bodies were ‘horribly burned, SNOW FALL IS GENERAL OVERNATION Rising Toll of Fatalifies Re- ported-Brush Fire in Australia By ASSOCIATED PRESS Winter’s heaviest snowfall blank- eted most of the Natlon today, end~ ing a springlike interlude with a rising toll of storm fatalities. Near New Madrid, Missouri, the police started to break up more than 1,000 share croppers shivering in the rain and snow soaked highway camp. The authoritis aid they are a “menace to health. In contrast, disastrous brush fires roared through the heat parched State of Victoria, Australia, killing at least 60, and making hundreds homeless. Property damage is re< ported in the millions of dollars. The New England states are cov- ered with snow and sub-freezing temperatures are registered and more of each is the prediction for tonight, Six fatalities in Indlana are ate tributed to the snow storm. OPEN HEARING OF GAME COMMISSION SLATED ON MONDAY With only about two days of ses- sion left for the Alaska Game Com- mission, an open hearing is sched- uled for next Monday from 1 o'clock in the afterncon to 3 oclock. Chairman of the Commission, Earl Obmer, of Petersburg, urged today that “anybody who has any- thing in the least constructive, or any complaint of any sort, is wels come to be heard.” — MISS ATKINS RETURNS Mis Clara Atkins, sten n the Indian Office here, returned to Juneau aboard the Princess Norah. yesterday from a one mofith's visit at Pasadena, California, il