The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1939, Page 1

L THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS 'ALL THE TIME" - — — — VOL. LIV., NO. 8100. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 10, 1939, - e — PRICE TEN CENTS _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED NEW MOVES IN EUROPEAN CONTROVERSY King, Queen AreinGale On Aflantic Royalty Giv_én—Tossing Up on Briny-Wind Rages, 60 Miles an Hour o gk | NEW YORK, May 10.—A radio | from the Empress of Australia s: ‘ | the liner is being battered by a 60- mile an hour gale. Tables have been upset and gener- al commotion has resulted. King George and Queen Elizabeth watched the mountainous waves | from port holes and are proving to | be good sailors | The British cruiser Southampton, | accompanying the liner, was forced to temporarily heave to after a life boat had been smashed by waves. e DOCTOR KILLS OWN DAUGHTER, ACCIDENTAL CUT Another Ph;si—cian Drops| Dead While Perform- ing Operation MOLINE, Illinois, May 10.—A cut | made by a surgical instrument in the pocket of her physician father | when he embraced her was revealed today as the cause of the death of 19-months-old Nancy McCreedy. A coroner's jury found that the child died from a blood infection 5 3 that developed from the cut. wnh Cusioms th(e The physician, Dr. C. O. McCreedy, used the instrument in performing a B minor operation, wrapped it and put A Hol it in his pocket intending to sterilize | Webb, barnstorming in the North- it and place it in his kit later land, is due in Juneau this after- When Dr. McCreedy arrived home, noon with his pontoon ship, and Nancy ran to meet him and he With Gladys Comstock as a passen- clasped her in his arms. The point 8€T- of the forgotten surgical instrument! Webb headed here from Ketchi- penetrated her body. The infection kan today with a $500 fine against developed in spite of physician’s him following a tangle with Custom: efforts to save her life. regulations in which it is alleged | he failed to give advance notice of | his arrival in the Frist City from has Mrs. Otelia Compton of who was picked by the Golden Rule Foundation Seen in'a family group are Mrs. daughter, Mrs. Mary Rice. Wilson, a professor at George Wash- president; and Arthur, a Nobel prize winner in physics. Arthur is at University of Chicago. R — e ——— ILLUSTRIOUS FAMILY Wooster, Ohio, as “American Mother of 1939.” Compton, her late husband, and her Left to right, rear: her sons, ington university; Karl, the M.LT. HOLLYWOOD MAN AND WOMAN DUE HERE BY PLAN Ray We bb Gets Fine af Ketchikan for Tangle Nazi Pabe.rs‘ ¢ Shouting of Pole Terror Allege German Properly Being Destroyed and Nationals Attacked BERLIN, May 10. | destruction of German property by | Polish mobs boycotting German goods were published here today in a revival of the German newspaper lywood movie flier, Ray Charges of campaign against Poland. PHYSICIAN COLLAPSES T The DNB, German news agency, DURING AN OPERATION 2 foreign port eported from Glewitz, German city Dr.| The Hollywood airman flew from reported from ) \ PEOME Loais, Ay {0—Dr. on the Polish border, that streams Alert Bay, British Columbia, to Ket- chikan. Webb said his clearance papers blew out of his pocket while taking off from Alert Bay, as he acciden- Bransford, a Peoria physician died today after collapsing during an operation. Two advising surgeons took over the operation after the doctor collapsed over his patient of bedraggled refugees were coming from Polish upper Silesia into the city. “Destruction of German property and attacks upon Germans in this {is not serious and the President | has no fever. He devoted the morn- ing hours to dictating a radio speech | to deliver on the New York program at 6 o'clock tonight, PST, dedicating the new Museum of Modern Art. L e B STock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 10.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau Mine stock today is 8%, American Can |87%, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 56%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Mo- tors 43%, International Harvester 59%, Kennecott 32!, New York Cen- tral 15, Northern Pacific 87, United States Steel 47%, Pound $4.68. jor and incidentally the visit is a surprise one to his son and wife. Who, Bat T ISR tally opened the throttle wide. The patient who was undergoing _Gladys Comstock = boarded the and an emergency operation because of Plane at Seattle and was to get off region of Poland have become a the results of a fall is expected to 2t Juneau. | daily and constant occurrence,” the s e e |DNB asserted. o LARGE MILITARY = o POWERS ON peservaTiON AT VISITHERE ANCHORAGE NOW COR. T N L M. Povers, ne of the adtime Presidential Order Sefs, T e i e sccmmnes Aside 44,520 Acres | Roosevelf Remains Awa is visiting in Juneau, accompanied by his wife and they are at the ASIde 4 (res Rooseve .e a. s y ::;‘::osfe:obel. They arrived on the | Sou'h of Town from O“Ke—D]dates Powers, in the old days when the | 3 wasals Radio Address Treadwell mine was operated, open-| Announcement of the withdrawa ed the Signal Corps office in Douglas | ©f 44520 acres of public lands at An- o A r-in- _ | chorage for use as a military reser- ___Presic D e e T | vation was received hero today from| WASHINGHON, May 10--Fres: neau and was on the staff here for| Washington by the Public Survey ', “orsice today on advice of the a number of years. Powers was “_“,Omce, g ... | White House physician. The Presi- the Sitka cable office and during the | AR executive order setting aside| g "0y cold"the third in recent World War served in France. He has the large reservation, which ad"DmS\nmth fi % 244 ‘Anchoruge on the south, was signed | P also been attached to the Seaule_by President, Roosevelt April 29, Signal Corps office. He retired four | i P 2 years ago. | Powers and his wife, who received F D R plAN IS much of her education in Juneau, § s&7s¥lz . are having a hard time locating | themselves here. There are few of G I v E “ F I R SI the old landmarks that they knew so well remaining as Juneau has (OM AppR VAl grown to such an extent. They will L] remain here until the Northland, then go to Sitka to visit relatives . . and friends and return south on the R@OTganization Proposal next trip of the North Sea. . Ernest Powers, son of L. M. Powers, | NO Two WI" Probably like his dad, has joined the Signal | . Corps and is now sationea | Be Given Okah Juneau, a member of the local staff. i And by the way, Powers senior | NG ; returns north with the title of Ma- sa}fi;’}f“i{‘efi,’,fiiwi‘o‘,‘;‘ aidn it ;has approved of President Roose- AT B S ‘vens reorganization plan,_ number = | two, announced yesterday in a spe- _ BEAUTY RESTORED ol masags to Conggess. HEDDON, England—Las{ of 10| " qpe genate will probably take aj advertising signs on the Roman Wall |vote on a resolution to disapprove here was removed because of a drive | the plan during this week. If the to oust blemishes from the ocuntry- resolution is beaten, the plan will be- side. ’ lrome effective in 60 days, DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 133.83, rails 27.38, utilities 23.40, White House attaches said the case | FishDispute Negofiafors AreReduced small Commitiees Named in Seattle o Reach Labor Agreement SEATTLE, May members 10.—Committees of three from the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry and CIO Cannery Workers Union, are meeting today in an effort to reach a labor agreement. each It is hoped that the smaller com- mittees will facilitate negotiations. The former committees consisted of five members each. - e EARTHQUAKE REGISTERED | BERKELEY, Cal, May 10—A “small” earthquake was recorded on the seismograph of the University of California early this morning, esti- mated by Prot. Berry By as about 3,000 miles distant “probably in the vicinity of the Aleutian Islands.” The recording began at 11:52 o'clock last night and continued for 40 minutes. D BARANOF HAS 13 PASSENGERS FOR THIS PORT SEATTLE, May 10.-~Steamer Bar- anof sailed for Southeast and South- {west Alaska ports at noon today with 258 first cla and 84 steerage passengers aboard Passengers booked for Juneau in- clude A. H. Jinkham, Dr. W, W Council, J. B. Brinkley, Mrs. R. Hoffman, L. J. Dowell, D. C. Byers James McLane, Lorraine Allen, Mrs. Douglas Gray, James Ramsay and wife, n, M SOVIET ENVOY NAMEDTO U. S. MOSCOW, May 10.—The Tass |News Agency announc that the | President of the Supreme Soviet has appointed Constantine Oumansky, | Counselor and Charge d'Affairs at the Embassy in Washington, to be | Soviet Ambassador to the United | “Stales.‘ He has been in charge since | Alexander Troyanovsky returned to | Moscow from the United States last | June. %Toronlo (elebranis | Reserve Rooms, Seals TORONTO, Ontario, May 10. — Hotel rooms on the route the Brit- ish King and Queen will travel here on May 22 are being reserved at bids of $8 and the market is strong. | Grandstand seats along the 28- mile route of the couple are going at $5 each and indications are that seats will be considerably higher by |the time the Royal couple arrive here. NEW PHARMACIST ARRIVES IN CITY John Mclver arrived here on the Yukon from Tacoma, Washington, and today took over his duties as pharmacist at the Butler Mauro Drug Company. Mclver will be on the staff of the company during the summer months and is replacing Gordon Ferguson who, accompanied by his wife, will leave Monday on the steamer Denali for a month’s vacation trip in the States. The Fergusons will spend most of their time visiting with relatives in Everett and Seattle. -ee - TWO SALMON Tom Jones and Holger Larsen went out to Auk Bay today and came back with two fine King sal- mon, one about a 30-pounder. , . J. Hedgden. 1 Nvu")'urk Fair Crowd Hear Her President Roosevelt emphasize the world in his address opening the s part of the crowd which ga atheied in the “Court of F for is the United States’ desive placid ir. In the background familiarly known to New Yorkers as the “ball and bat.” at the New York World's ¥ living famed Trylon and Perisphere, more to hear among the nati of the As President Opcned New York World’s Fai_; | | Places U.S. N GROVER By PRES' WASHINGTON, May 10 State Department refuses to come excited over the establishment | The be- of a “totalitarian” government in Bolivia. | Technically the change from a theoretical democracy puts the | | United States in a slightly difficult | | position. ‘L'ne policy in | | Latin America tor nearly 40 years | has been to support the government | in power, with a few exceptions, ‘When the inevitable attempt at a 'revoluuun comes to confront self- | counury’s installed Dictator German Busch, | the United States will have to smile | upon him, ‘The fact is that under the cur- rent administration this country | has been less disposed to have a hand in the internal affairs of Latin | American governments than of yore. If they seem ‘likely to re- | spect “international obligations,” | which means foreign investments, | they do fairly well with us. By bitter experience, the Latin American governments, especially those in the Caribbean, have dis- covered that if the United States withholds ~recognition, they don't| in Difficult Spol; last long. That sort of influence has been applied far more in the Carib- | bean than in South America, where lies Bolivia. i TOUGH ON REVOLUTIONS We used to be pretty high handed | about the thing in the Caribbean, wouldn't do them any good to win because we wouldn't recognize them Busch was recognized by the United States before he proclaimed himself dictator. 80 he had no trouble in that respect. Naturally the State Department is keeping an eye on what he does with Ameri- can and other foreign properties down there, | Bolivia tried the business of seiz- ing foreign property (Standard Oil holdings) in 1937 and the President of that day, Col. David Toro, lost his job in a revolution. German Busch, who led the revolution, suc- ceeded Toro, Busch’s father descent, explaining the non-Latin name. There is much German racial stock in Bolivia Bolivia, like the United States, has a mining-indu section and an agricultural section. Their infer- of German dictator's was (Continued on Page Five) Bolivia, Going Tofalifarian, For Visit of Royalty| | wite President Roosevelt, Mayor La Guardia and Mrs. Roosevelt | ouring the New York world’s fair site after of- | Roosevelt is shown smiling happily in the car with | IHE" FOU"DERS deially opening the mammoth exhibition, President | his wife and Mayor La Guardia of New York City. EMPLOYERS MAY CLOSE PORT OF PORTLAND, ORE. Longshoremen Refuse fo Go Through Vanished Picket Line PORTLAND, Oregon, May 10.- this port at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning unless longshoremen begin | loading the vessel Willlam Lucken- bach during today Longshoremen have been refusing | to pass an imaginary picket line which was established after the court’s injunction against the CIO Office Workers Union. The office workers picketed in protesting to the failure of the com- pany to comply with the Labor Board order to reinstate three work- ers with back p Eight longshore gangs were dis- patehed to the ship today, marched to the dock where the pickets were before the injunction, then turned back. SUSUTRELR RS, HAPPY DAD AT 9% NIKSIC, Yugoslavia Dzoganovic, a Montenegrin veteran, is father to a healthy baby boy mother is 31 | BURGUNDER | merely telling revolution leaders it , Employers today threatened to close i - - T, Law L] (CHAMBERLAIN TELLS PLANS OFNEWPACT Says Soviet Part in Lineup of Three Powers Is Misunderstood YUGOSLAVIAN HEAD | MEETS MUSSOLINI Russian Ambassador Is in Conference with Po- i land's Minister (By Associated Press) Premier Neville Chamberlain to« day disclosed to the House of Com= mons that Great Britain has asked Russian military aid in Eastern | Europe, only in the event that Brit |ish and French forces are already | launched in any future conflict. Chamberlain’s statement threw | the first official light on Great Bri~ tain’s latest efforts to gain Russian | support in an attempt to offset the | consolidation of the Rome-Berlin axis, The Premier said British proposals made it plain there is no intention that the “Soviet Government should commit herself to intervene irrespec- tive of whether or not Great Britain or France should already have done | Clears Up Misunderstanding The words of the Premier were de- | signed to clear up what he said Is a misunderstanding of the proposals. In Moscow, prewious British over= tures were met by Russian counter suggestions for a broad British~ French-Soviet alliance with guaran=- tees for Europe's smaller states. | Mussolini is exerting his best ef- | forts, meanwhile, in an attempt to |draw Yugoslavia closer to the Rome- | Berlin axis as Prince Paul, Regent | of Yugoslavia and his Foreign Min- ister, Alexander Markovitch, reached Rome for a state visit, | Some diplomats thought Regent | Paul would be reluctant to such close affiliation with Hitler and Mussolini | despite Italy's wishes that Yugo- slavia sign the Anti-Comintern pact that links Italy, Germany, Japan, Hungary and Manchoukuo. | « Vladimir Potemkin, Russia's first assistant Foreign Commissar, length- ened his stopover in Warsaw, on re- turning from Turkey, and cor ferred today with Polish Foreign Minister | Beck, —————— BRITISH SHIP ~ RUNS ON REEF Crew of Sixty-six Rescued by U. S. Destroyer 1 Answering SOS | MANILA, May 10.—The British freighter Lindenback sank in the | Sulu Sea following grounding on a reef, The United States destroyer Pope, summoned to the scene following SOS calls, rescued 66 members of the crew who had escaped from the | sinking ship in life boats. | e [ BEING BROUGHT BACK T0 SCENE |Accused Slayer of Two Men Enroute from Knox- ville fo Phoenix KNOXVILLE, Tenn., May 10 — Sheriff Jordan and County Attorney Harless are headed today for Phoe- | nix, Arizona, with Robert Burgunder, | Jr., Seattle young man and son of a prominent attorney there, who is accused of killing two auto sales- (AP)—Mile | men, Jack Peterson, 35, and Ellis war | Koury, 25, ‘The trio left in a car Burgunder his second |$8id he had taken from the sales= en, !m