The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 27, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8115. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ;RICE TEN Cl ESPIONAGE IS REPORTED IN NORTHLAND TOURPARTY IS ON WAY T0 JUNEAU Seattle Good Willers North Bound-Enterfainment | Is One Big Feature SEATTLE, May 27.—One hundred and forty-seven persons set sail at | 10 o'clock this forenoon on the | steamer Aleutian, the largest group of Good Will Tourists ever to go northward to Alaska during the an- nual tour sponscred by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce. The party will make 22 stops on the 16-day trip, returning home on June 11. Invitations will be extended to all Alaska to attend the Seattle Golden Jubilee Potlatch to be held here from July 25 to July 30. | | ENTERTAINERS ABOARD | SEATTLE, May 27.—An opportun- | ity for every citizen of Juneau to | see and hear one of the finest | groups of entertainers ever assem- bled in the Pacific Northwest! And all free, with the compli- ments of the Seattle Chamber of | Commerce Alaska Goodwill Tour! | This is the news sent in advance of the Seattle party's visit to Ju- neau on the steamship Aleutian, sailing today. The entertainers are none other ! than Captain Hugh Barrett Dobbs’ troupe of radio performers, whic will accompany the visitors on the | Aleutian, and be with them in the principal cities of the great North- land Territory. Ceptain Dobbs, affectionately known as “Captain Dobbsie” of the famous “Ship of Joy” radio pro- gram, well-known air favorite of millions of listeners along the Pa- | cific Coast for years, has assembled | his troupe as a result of a “talent quest,” conducted over Seattle radio | stations since last November. They | have already been received with ac- claim in big broadcasts in the at States. Besides giving a free show the Coliseum at 2:30 o'clock in the afternoon in Juneau on the tour's | northbound call on May 30, and at | some of the other Alaska cities to be visited, the troupe will entertain at the receptions, dances and meet- | ings aboard ship and ashore, at/ which the Seattle business men will get together with their Alaska busi- ness men friends. But these gather- | ings will necessarily be limited, and | so it has been decided to make the stellar performers available at free | shows for the general public at some of the Alaska cities on the itinerary—and Juneau has been chosen as one of these. In addition to the big free show at Juneau, Captain Dobbs and his performers will broadcast over Sta- tion KINY, giving other thousands a chance to enjoy their program. This broadcast will be from the Baranof Hotel from 2:30 to 3 o'clock, a na-'| tional hookup with KOMO, Seattle. | Over 85,000 people personally have taken a hand in aiding “Dobbsie” | in selecting the outstanding talent gathered for the Alaska tour. That is the number who voted on their choice of performers offered by him as candidates for the troupe} in his Seattle broadcasts and 85,000 | radio listeners can't be wrong! The “Ship of Joy” troupe, several | of whom, Captain Dobbs is positive will make their mark in the movies at Hollywood before very long, and In Mexican Oil Spotlight & Presence in Mexico City of the German Economic wizard, Dr. Hjalma Schacht (left), caused headaches in Washington, where it was feared h s trying to wreck Mexican-American oil negotiations being conducted b: onald R. Richberg (right), counsel for 17 American oil companies Richberg, who recently reported to President Roosevelt, returned t dexico to confer with President Cardenas about settlement of the expre priation problem. Mexican oil wells pictured at bottom. FLEET'S OIL TANKS IN HAWAII CAUSING WORRY T0 CONGRESS, NOT NAVY KAKE pI(KETS ! By PRESTON GROVER | the surprise sights for visitors to WIIHD Aw A | Hawaii is to see the Navy's mid- N S | Pacific fuel supply strung about | Pear] Harbor in surface tanks. IROUB[E ENDS’ Rep. Scrugham of Nevada. chair- | man of the appropriations sub-com- R ol | mittee handling the naval appro- % ! priations bill, calls it recklessness Arnold Fl|es 'o S(ene frOmAlo keep “lle supply above ground. - 4 “It ought to be buried,” he in- First City — North |sistea. ! Admiral Leahy, chief of naval Wmd Unloads | operations, did not appear disturbed | over Scrugham’s visions of the place | being bombed and the whole supply KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 27.— purned. W. C. Arnold, Ketchikan attorney,| «we are of the opinion,” Admiral representing the canned salmon in-_Leahy said, “that those tanks are dustry, returned today from Kake! gyfficiently widely dispersed to make with pilot Herb Munter, reporting|any general fire hazard remote.” that picketing of the Alaska Pacific | Leahy told the sub-committee Salmon company plant by Alaska that the British were planning to Purse Selner§ union men there had | spend $175,000,000 to bury 1,000,000 ended last night and men are back | tons of fuel oil far the navy. at work. | The steamer North Wind discharg- NOT SO MUCH DANGER? ed cargo after some delay and pro-| «rf the British Government is ceeded on its way early this morn-|going heavily into the construction | said | ng. |of underground oil tanks,” Arnold had flown to Kake with gerugham, “that bears out my union delegates and plant Superin-| thought on the subject.” tendent Clarence Witherow. | “There is this difference — that ” |the British oil tanks are much ;clossr to possible enemies than our D - MORGE"'I'HAU |tanks at Honollu are,” replied | Leahy. naval oil reserve fame and filled ENCIRCLING MEANS WAR, IS WARNING Goebbels Sounds "Final Warning” on Policy of Powers SPANISH FIRING SQUADS KILL 688 France Dickers for Mutual Assistance Pact with Turkey (By Associated Press) The French Cabinet conferred to- | day on a proposed Turkish mutual assistance pact as German Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlight- enment Goebbels sounded “a final warning” to powers accused of seek- ing to encircle Germany. Goebbels said every blow of the | B -French front would “be an- | swered with a deafening counter- | blow.” In Spain it was disclosed 688 per- sons had been executed by firing squads since Franco took over Mad- rid and suspects were going on trial at the rate of 380 per day. - MARCHING TROOPS . CRASHED BY AUTO . INEARLY MORNING | Others Reported | Injured | HONOLULU, T.H., May 27.—Pri- vate J. F. Carlson, of Jamestown, WASHINGTON, May 21.—One of | yy yas killed and 18 others hurt when a motorcar drove into the rear of a marching Infantry Company | during maneuvers in the early morn- | ing darkness. | The police said the motor car also demolished an ammunition cart. | - | MOWTHEM DOWN NOW ~ WITHLEAD Nationalists in Spain Are Sending Thousands Be- i fore Firing Squads MADRID, May 27.—1It is officially announced that the Nationalists’ specially constituted Councils of War and Permanent Military Tribunals have sent 688 persons to the firing squads since the fall of Madrid on March 28. The latest number awaiting trial is not announced but it is disclosed that less than one months ago, there Young Snite Starts Pilgrimage in “Lung” g . — - I | | | Fred B. Snite Jr, 28, will “make an earnest plea to God and the Blessed Mother for physical improve- ment” when he reaches the Shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France; but he will not be sorely dis- | appointed if his infantile paralysis is not cured. The youth is shown at Penn Station, York, as | he was transferred from a train (o a special trailer which took him and his “iron lung” to the liner | Normandie. | Mgm?fpp%fi ; DR.CH. MAYO OF FAMOUS - armigers' park CLINIC DIES SUDDENLY AS tj RESULTPNEUMONIA; CAREER Negotiations in Detroi . Auto Workers Strike Break Down {Charles H. Mayo, 73, of the famous Nipve e | medical center in Rochester, Minn,, | DETROIT, Mich., May 27—Mount- | gjeq a5 a result of pneumonia late ed police dispersed a Jarge group of |yecterday. He was stricken last automobile workers today Who were myurcday and remained critical de- attempting to picket the Briggs Sta- | spite transfusion from his son, Dr. dium, the Detroit Tigers' baseball charies W, Mayo. home. His wife, son and three daugh- Walter Briggs is owner of the club ' (or were at the bedside. and also Chairman of the Corpora- gijg prother, Dr. William J. Mayo, Won esring: his, e, 77, is in Rochester recovering from | Briggs announced that a new |, jacent operation. agreement with the workers hs | been made but turned down and ne- | | gotiations have broken down com- { pletely. Approximately 70,000 auto | part workers are jobless. CHICAGO, Ill, May 27. — Dr. STORY OF GREAT DOCTOR ROCHESTER, Minn, May 27. —, Charles Horace Mayo was the 4 younger of two sons of a country ATTEMPT CALLED OFF doctor at Rochester, Minn, who | DETROIT, May 27—Three thousand | transformed their - heritage of a | workers abandoned the attempt to|general practice into a clinic and | picket the Stadium during the af- research foundation that made the ternoon’s doubleheader baseball | pleasant little city in the dairy re- !game and the leaders instructed gion of Southern Minnesota the| | them to establish lines at the seven Mecca of the world’s medical ex- | Briggs auto part plants. ,pe;‘t.s-, S s ot e Arr o i P Tom ary's Hospital, a small-{ M“u“l‘ifiowfl‘i pe town in.stlcutmx)x] lu\m(’lml by their Property and funds of the Mayo | English-born father, they developed | Clinic and insure the perpetuity of CHARLES H. MAYO a set-up that embraced six capaci- | its work. ous hospitals, sk raper office and | Fruits of Father's Vision laboratory buildings and housing | The clinic staff grew until it em- | for literally hundreds of thousands|praced 150 physicians on its regu- SPIES MANY - "IN ALASKA, - STATEMENT | Attorney General Murphy | Says Military Impor- fance Great SAN FRANCISCO, May 27. — Espionage has increased tremen- dously during the past two years, especially around San Francisco, Honolulu and certain Alaska areas, Attorney General Frank Murphy said here today. The Federal Government has the situation well in hand, he said, and there is no cause for hysteria, the Government mere- ly being cautious. Murphy attributed the heavy increase in spying to the mili- tary importance of Alaska and the other Pacific areas. - .- (CAPITAL NEEDED IN ALASKA, SAYS WILLIS R. TEBO |Small Business Man ;fl | Northland Testifies Be- | fore Commitfee WASHINGTON, May .—~Pros. perity for the Pacific Northwest will accompany developments in Alaska, | Willis R. Tebo, small business man, who operates In both Seattle and | Alaska, told the Monopoly Commit- tee yesterday. He was introduced as one of the few small business men operating in “America’s Last Front- ier.” | Tebo told of his difficulties in ob~ taining financing for deveolpment |of his industies, based solely on | salvage operations, | “It is tremendously difficult for | small business in Alaska to find | captial,” said Tebo } ‘When asked by Chairman Senator | Joseph C. O'Mahoney, of Wyoming, | about the possible future Gevelop~ ment of Alaska, Tebo said: | “It is a paradise because the coun= | try is now so little developed.” 1 With credit available, Tebo de- | clared, small business could develop industries that “would furnish de- lvelopmtnt for thousands. Alaska is carrying Seattle along today. De- velopment of Alaska would bring prosperity to the entire Pacific ‘ Northwest.” Tebo predicted industrial develop- ment in connection with minerals, | coal, timber and fishing in Alaska. | Ernest Hopkins, committee in- | vestigator, described Seattle as “def- | initely the gateway to Alaska, which | means financing and has endless in- | vestment possibilities.” Hopkins said Seattle bankers are |to capacity in exchange for naval | Wwere 46,000 scheduled to face tri- PRISON TERM { Kansas Cin—fian Is Sen- tenced-Also Must Pay Fine of $5,000 ior annual patients and visitors. Mil- \lar roll and the Foundation pel‘son-‘ {lions of dollars flowed into their|ne] included 150 “fellows.” About 75| hesitant to invest in Alaska because | coffers, but, with the exception of | of these latter were chosen annu- | they regarded loans as outside of fixed modest salaries for themselves | ally from among 1,200 to 1,500 appli- | their territory while banks in Alaska and adequate pay for their resident|cants who came from all parts of | were “not large enough to swing staff members, the money, after | the United States. They Were ex-|loans needed up there.” - 1919, went back to projects for the pected to undertake some research, | | perpetuation of the clinic and for make diagnoses subject to confir-| the training of future diagnostici-| mation by staff physicians, and as |ans, physicians and surgeons capa- | sist at operations. Specialized nurs- | ble of carrying on the work. es, dieticians and other experts also ! Clinic Fo;minlly Or:anlnfl were on the staff. | When the clinic was formally or- 5 | ganized in 1012, it Was deslgned 10/ s by e b OUk of the prac- {care for 14,000 patients & year. Bub| uy Mayo, father of the famous |in 1913 there were 24,000 registrants, brothers and known, until his death - BASEBALL TODAY | The following are scores of games played this faternoon in the twa major leagues: National League Boston 2; Brooklyn 4. New York 10; Philadelphia 1. KANSAS CITY, Mo, May 27— |in 1925 there were 62000 and in|.y he age of 90, as “the old doctor.” all of whom constitute what he says | o (Continued on Page Eight) DIVERS READY | AT ATTEMPT T0 | RAISE SQUALUS Sixty Men A—ssembled for Hazardous Undersea | Work on Sub 1 PORTSMOUTH, N. H, May 27— With more than 60 divers at the scene to take advantage of all cnlml weather, Navy officials said the in- | tricate salvaging plan may take one | week or more to raise the $4,000,000 | submarine Squalus with the 26 dead. The undersea craft went into a steep dive last Tuesday morning. Thirty-three were rescued by means of a diving bell. ed the Treasury would not oppose | any specfic schedules but informed | The tanks at Pearl Harbor were FOR REvISIoN ’supplled by the late Doheny of | TAX S(HEDU[ | oil acreage in California. The whole | bunals. and 1,200,000 informations | oil deal, in which Teapot Dome en- | tered as one phase, created a smell Suggests Con gress Re-|that st can be detected in remote : 4 | corners of this capital — but the move Profits Tax | Navy got the tanks and the fuel. B o | Oil seems to be like gold these on y days. It is no good until it is dug usiness |out of the ground, but once out it WASHINGTON, May 27.—Secre-| Ihas to be buried again to be kept tary of the Terasury Henry M s Or=| While w subj genthau suggested today that Con- o M5 e Subloct e gress revise corporate taxes to re- | overseas matters we might men- move, bisiness Bindeanies st hbst- tion that there is a steady sale here 1of “foreign mail stationery,” very | light and thin. 5 repeal of the AmMiatkibuked pratice| et S0d VEEP RN, (ToC Yo' can evy. |is to make foreign air < The Secretary did not recommend | ake foreign air mail cheap. | Postage on a bulky air mail letter ito China on ordinary paper will hit you for a dollar or more. The light | paper will put it over for 40 cents. the House Ways and Means Com- mittee that “one major task before | write on both sides of it. The idea | us is to do everything we can to promote lasting business recovery.”| Morgenthau also renewed Admin- istration advocacy of removal of the tax exemption from Federal securi- ties. - ‘The boundary line separating COURT BATTLES LAWYERS And you might like to know that the Supreme Court’s rapidly chang- ing liberal slant is a bit baffling to Washington lawyers and judges. In a trial in Federal District Court here an attorney quoted a dissent- Canada and the United States is about 3,000 miles long. (Continued on Page Four) had been filed against suspects in all of Spain. l Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 27. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 8%, American Can |89 American Power and Light |4%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 158%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 44%, International Harves- |ter 60, Kennecott 32%, New York |Central 15%, Northern Pacific 9%, |United States Steel 49, Pound 1$4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 136.80, rails 28.18, utilities 23.65. e | The United States and her pos- |sessions, the British Empire, and China occupy more than a third of the area of the earth. |Robert Emmett O'Malley today pleaded guilty to evading Federal |income taxes on a $62,000 payoff. The Government alleged he en- gineered a $9,500,000 insurance rate settlement for Boss Tom Pender- gast. O'Malley was immediately sen- tenced by Federal Judge Merrill Otis to one year and one day and fined $5,000. BANKER, WIFE ARE KIDNAPE DEWEY, Okla., May 27. — Three youthful gunmen kidnaped O. A. | 1936 an esumawu‘m.ooa What "}'m‘ Born in Manchester, England, and patients, members o.f their (amlM'eS | himself a pioneer in surgery, he ini- and scientists, it was estimated that i t0q his sons into medical work, upwards of 250,000 transients visit- ed Rochester that year. Three stages of development marked the eclinic’s growth, At first it was merely a group of hospital practitioners caring for patients at- tracted to Rochester by the deft surgery of the Mayo brothers. Then the surgical successes of the group operated to limit its medical work to diagnosis only. Finally it became | the present comprehensive organi- | zation providing diagnosis, treat- | ment, hospital management and | convalescence for its patients from general and specialty viewpoints in both medicine and surgery. | Along with the clinic there grew Patridge, Vice-President of the First | up the Mayo Foundation for Medi- National Bank, and his wife. The gunmen obtained $75 after failing to gain access to two safes containing more than $13,000, liber- ated their captives and escaped. e — Radio receiving and transmitting units in airplanes costs some $600 for the smallest unit. | cal Education and Research at Ro- chester, in affiliation with the Uni- | versity ‘of Minnesota. The brothers | gave $1,500,000 to establish this pro- i]ect in 1915 and added $500,000 to its {fund in 1935. The foundation also | shares in the income from the clinic. Hrequently taking them on his visits to patients and afterwards explain- {ing his diagnoses and methods of | [ treatment. Sons Carry On f‘ In 1883, when a tornado shat- |tered part of the village of Ro- chester, leaving many dead {dying, the Mayo home was con- | verted into an improvised hospital. | The “old doctor” labored mightily, | assisted by William, who had just !won an M.D. degree from the Uni- versity of Michigan, and by Charles, still in his teens. Four ers from ia convent school conducted by the | Order of St. Francis also lent aid. | The next day the Mother Super- {lor of the convent told Dr. Mayo |that in the night she had visioned a large hospital in Rochester, per- petuating his work and name, “How can I, at my age, hope to do the thing you have pictured?” he responded. Pointing to the two and | | In 1919 they formed the Mayo lPrnperues Association, to hold :«111- AcununuedA on Page E;‘Vlrxvh;)r i Pittsburgh 9; Chicago 1. American League St. Louis 5; Detroit 12, first game. Washington 4, 6; Boston 11, 7. Philadelphia 2, 9; New York 8, 11, Chicago 6; Cleveland 7. 'EPIDEMIC 1§ © TAKING LIVES MANILA, May 27.—The death toll of an unidentified epidemic in Neuva Vizcaya Province, first believed to be cholera, has jumped to 28 as health officers sent out a call to Manila for medical supplies AP ireerred LARSEN T0 BUILD 12TH STREET HOME Contractor James Larsen Wwas granted a permit by City Building Inspector Milton Lagergren today to construct a residence at 705 West 12th Street. The home is to cost $5,000 ex- clusive of plumbing and heating.