The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e e VOL. LIV., NO. 8116. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, MONDAY, MAY 29, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS .E. ALASKA JAPANDROPS West Alaska SHELLS UPON Mount Now U.S.MISSION InEruption Heavy Dam_aaé Reported Earth Tremors Are Felt- from Air Raids Made by Navy Aircraft FOOCHOW BOMBARDED TWICE DURING SUNDA Five Previous Atfacks Are Made - Fishing Craft | Machine Gunned Far Info Air UNALASKA, Alaska, May 29 Strong earth tremors were felt here at 9:15 o'clock last night, believed | traceable to Mount Veniaminof on |the Alaska Peninsula, near Chig- nik, which has been in a state of eruption since May 25. The tremors lasted for 90 seconds. Lamps were extinguished, chan- deliers swayed in homes and the {cutter Heremes, in the harbor, {rocked heavily. No serious damage is reported Reports received here said the eruption is one of the greatest and most spectacular on the Peninsula in more than a decade. Flames and ashes continue from the mount at Binorts fiofi B D %0, the south- |TREUIAr . tatervals “eu (réached,) & west, said the American Methodist (high altitude. Ashes have covered Mission is one of the principal suf-|&" a more than 15 miles ferers from raids made last Thurs- 8round, reaching Perryville and Nel- day by Japanese naval aircraft. [S00'S Lagoon The American Methodist Church, girls’ school, girls' dormitory and foreign teachers’ residence were de-| stroyed but all attaches to the mis- sion fled to safety before the raids. The primary school of the British Church Missionary Society was also struck and badly damaged. Eye witnesses said in recent days the Japanese air raiders have turned to machine gunning many small fishing craft crowded not only with fishermen but also their wives and | children. FOOCHOW, May 29. — Japanese warplanes bombed Foochow twice Sunday killing and injuring an un- determined number of inhabitants and adding to considerable property damage caused by five air raids made last Friday. LEADBETTER MAKES REPORT In a radiogram received by the Weather Bureau in Juneau, Capt. Leadbetter of the Lighthouse tender Cedar reported a mountain west of Chignik was in a state of eruption and hea.y ashes were falling 35 miles south of the mountain. The ashes are believed to be those from Mount Veniaminof which is reported in a state of eruption - -, GermanShip 1CKES GIVES Is Boarded WARNING T0 —British, French Also Forfeifures Lodge Complaints WASHINGTON, May 29—Pros- SHANGHAI, May 29—The Ger-| pectors in the Western states and man Hamburg American Line an- nounces that its liner Sauerland was stopped and boarded by Jap- anese and a protest against the ac- Alaska were told today to go to work | or get off their claims in a warning | by Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes that Congress is in no mood | RUSSIA HAS ~ ALL EUROPE I SUSPENSE 'Big Question Is Whether | British and French 'PROPOSAL NOTES ARE ] Flames, Ashes Hurled | Soviet Union Will Join | DELIVERED IN MOSCOW |Graves of Americans Are Decorated - Foreign | TroopstoLeave Spain | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | The Whitsun holidays gave Euro- | pean diplomats and the rest of Eur- | | ope’s millions of persons at least a temporary respite from alarms with | the Soviet Union hoelding the s t | answer to the continent’s bi question—will Russia accept Great Britain's proposals, approved by France, for bringing the Soviet Un- fon into the British and French front? | Moscow is still silent regarding the | proposed alliance. | Identical messages were delivgred | |to Moscow officials on Saturday from representatives of Great Britain and France. The London newspapers report that the agreement has been prac-| teially made. | In France the graves of 30,000 | American soldiers, killed in the World War, were decorated Sunday | and today at memorial services in !advance of the Memorial Day in the United States. | In Spain the Nationalists said Gen. Francisco Franco will fulfill his promise to send home all foreign troops by the end of this week | p B is NAZIS BAN RELIGIOUS BROADCASTS jDevoul Protestants, Cath- | olics Listen in Vain on Sunday tion has been made by the German |to pass legislation suspending an- diplomatic representatives. | nual assessment work. The Japanese boarding party de-! The Secretary told miners they manded to see the ship’s papers and | have until July 1 in which to do then withdrew. | $100 worth of assessment work re- British and French have already protested against stopping and boarding of their vessels. TWO MILLION CHINESE IN WAR GRAVES Tokyo Announces Japan- ese Casualties in War as 59,809 Men TOKYO, May headquarters here have estimated that the Chinese suffered 2300000 casualties between the start of the Chinese conflict July 7, 1937 and April of 1939. The statement said 936,000 bodies of Chinese had been counted battlefields. The Japanese death toll 'fis set at 59,800. The announcement Ashowed the Japanese lost more than 12,000 since last December, indicating their casualty rate was increasing. To Investigale. Japanese Fishing In Bristol Bay SEATTLE, May 29.—Officials of the Bureau of Fisheries said Capt. Ole H. Elveness, of the Bureau’s motorship Crane, will survey the Bristol Bay salmon fishing area to determine whether Japanese fishermen are still operating there. The Crane is due in Bristol Bay late next week. ’ 29. — Japanese | on quired by law on their claims. ; The Senate and House mining committees shelved suspension legis- | lation for this year, and unless as- sessment work is completed by the| | first of July, Secretary Ickes said | mines operating on public lands in | | the Western States would be subject [to relocation and those in Alaska, | outright forteiture. DN BB S | | QUINTS GIVEN RABBITS FOOT, FIFTH BIRTHDAY {American Wellwisher's| | Gift Brings Beams fo ; Little Faces CALLENDER, Quebec, May 29.— | Gifts and greetings were showered jupon the Dione quints on their fifth birthday but none thrilled them so much as a neatly wrapped‘ | rabbit’s foot sent by an American | wellwisher with a card: “This | should bring you luck.” ‘When one of the nurses explained |to the quints the meaning of the words, their cherubic faces beamed. TOM PENDERGAST LEAVENWORTH PRISON, Kan-| sas, May 29.—Tom Pendergast, Kan- | sas City political boss, today drove | through the Federal Penitentiary | gates to begin a 15 months' sentence for income tax evasion. GOES T0 PRISON ! BERLIN, May 29—Devout Prot-| estants and Catholics listened in| vain for Whitsunday religious pro- | grams on the air yesterday but in-| | quiry disclosed that Germany has/| banned radio broadcasts of religious services. The Government is also putting a curb on the sale of Bibles and church tracts. — - — MINER SAVED AFTER 3 DAYS UNDERGROUND Pennsylvania Coal Worker| Uninjured by 65-Hour | Imprisonment SHENANDOAH, Pa, May 29. — Laughing and joking with rescuers, Robert Galligan, 38, anthracite coal | miner, was dug out of a coal hole| apparently uninjured after 65 hours’| imprisonment under tons of rock| and dirt. | A sudden rock slide trapped him | Friday as he worked in the mine. Lioose dirt covered Galligan's refuge, a small chamber, which did not cave in, made the rescuers’ tak doubly difficulty. DR. GRINNELL PASSES AWAY BERKELEY, Cal, May 29. — Dr. oseph Grinnell, 62, professor of zoology at the University of Cali- fornia, died today as the result of a sudden attack of the heart. Survivors include a son, Willard Grinnell, mining engineer now in Alaska. § i i i s Signal of D tress of | unken Submarine A red smoke bomb (arrow) which bobbed to the surface of the Atlanti ¢ Ocean three hours after the U. 8. submarine Squalus went down in a reutine dive, signalled the craft's distress. ground is a Navy tug from the Navy Yard at Portsmouth, N. H. Helpless to aid their comrades 240 feet below the of the Squalus, are shown standing by at the spot where the with 59 officers and men. The Sculpin established contact with the submerge line sent up by a buoy, but this contact later was lost. A sister submarine, Sculpin, is shown cruising the area where the Squalus went down, Sister Submarine Stands by Stricken Craft e e surface, members of the crew of the Sculpin, sister ship Squalus sank off the New Hampshire coast d craft through a telephone NEW CARIBBEAN DEF ENSE DEPARTMENT IS CREATED BY AN EXECUTIVE ORDER By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, May 29. — The executive order making San Juan in Puerto Rico the center of a new caribbean defense department promises to make the old Spanish town a new pleasure spot for the Army. The limited number of Army of- ficers who have had a trick there in years past say it equals or sur- passes even Honolulu in many re- spects as a place to live. Among other things, costs are low so an Army officer can save a lump of change to offset the price of living in some of the costlier spots, such as Washington and Boston. As an Army post, San Juan ne has ranked alongside Honolulu, big pleasure spot. But the centrali- zation of the Caribbean defense seems likely to multiply the num- ber of officers on duty there. Al ver a (bresent there are 52 officers and 850 men, GOLF IN A MOAT In their off hours, Army officers play golf around the old Moro Castle, which still is surrounded by | remnants of the moat which once ! guarded it. Two holes, the first and |second, are played in the moat and | the second is a stickler. From down in the moat the players loft a shot across a bastion to land down in | the moat on the other side—if they are lucky. | “Abajo," shouts the caddie if the ball lights down in the moat where it is supposed to. “Arriba,” he shouts if it fails to hit the moat and lands on top. Then the player has to climb out of the moat, play the ball out of the over- hanging thickets, and scramble | (Continued on Page Five) SITKA, KODIA AIR BASE BIDS BE ASKED SOON Officials of Navy Depart- ment Announce Plans for Work By J. J. ECRLES Secretary to Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, May 20. (Special; Correspondence)—Marking the fast est action taken on any appropria-| tions bill this year, Congress sent the Navy Department appropria- tion bill to the White House on May 19. The bill provides $773,000,000 for the needs of the Navy for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1939, These In back- VANDENBERG IS WILLING TO BE GOP CANDIDATE Says He Will Seek Reelec- fion to Senate, But Qualifies It | WASHINGTON, May 29.—United States Senator Arthur H. Vanden- \ berg? Republican of Michigan, an- | nounced today that he will seek re- | election to the Senate in 1940 but added: “If there are subsequent responsi- bilities of a broader nature, I shall meet them to the best of my abil- ity The statement is made in a let- :uer replying to a request from |Michigan Republican officials that he be drafted for the Party’s presi- dential nomination next year. | D U. 5. SEA FORCES ARE ADEQUATE T0 PROTECT COUNTRY !Admiral William Leahy Gives His Impressions on Navy Strength WASHINGTON, May 29.—Admiral William Leahy, Chief of Naval Oper- |ations, said the United States sea | forces are adequate to protect this country from any single foreign | power. he would have some difficulty guard- (ing America’s sea frontier against | possible combinations. PRESBYTERIANS . ADOPT PENSION PLAN FOR HELP \Employees Such as Jani- fors fo Be Placed Under System CLEVELAND, May 29.—Hoping to Admiral Leahy said however that | plans include the construction of tWo |, y6iq inclusion in the Social Secur- 45,000-ton battleships, the purchase|jiy et the Presbyterian Church in of 500 fighting planes for the Navy, |75 A General -Assembly Council general expansion of the fleet, and establishment of a number of shore facilities, including enlargement of the naval air base at Sitka and es- tablishment of one at Kodiak. The temper of Congress toward (Continued on Page Three) today recommended church-wide |adoption of a pension plan for all |employees such as janitors not in- cluded in the present ministerial system. The plan was adopted by the As- sembly this afternoon. CANNERIES TO BE PICKETED Red Smoke Gia SEINERSTO ~ - MAKE MOVE ~ OVERTRAPS :Water Pairafig Reported o Be Started During Today by Union 'EFFORT IS T PREVENT ' SHIPS FROM UNLOADING | Pre-season. Work, How- | ever, Will Not Be Infer- ferred With Is Claim | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 29.— | W. C. Arnold, attorney for the Al- | aska Canned Salmon Industry, said | he was advised Sunday by George Weiss, Business Agent of the Alaska | Salmon Purse Seiners Union, thav “water picketing” of Southeast Al~ | aska canneries would start today. The picketing is in an effort to force elimination of 20 per cent of | the traps. | The union has blacklisted certain traps and asks their elimination. Weiss, according to Attorney Ar- nold, said the picketing will not interfere with the pre-season work but the pickets will seek to prevent | steamers from unloading cargoes at cannery docks. | Similar picketing at Craig and Kake was halted recently and ships | were able to unload cargo without going through any water picket | lines, | - eee— [ ROYALPAIR * SEE WATERS ~ OFPACIFIC | | IhousandsAof Americans | Welcome King, Queen | in Vancouver VANCOUVER, B. C, May 29. — The King and Queen of England |saw more Americans this morning 'when they arrived here than they have at any Canadian city they have | visited. ‘The big welcome here for the Royal Pair was marked by chilly weather | that threatened rain, but cleared | just before the silver and blue Royal |train arrived at ten o'clock this | forenoon, “ ‘The arrival ended the Trans-Cans |ada run from Quebec with the King appearing in the dress of his posi- tion as Chief of the British Air Force | for the first time during the tour. Queen Elizabeth was dressed in | blue with a matching hat. It is believed that between 500,000 |and 600,000 people were in Vancou- {ver today, doubling the city's size |as autos from Washington, Oregon |and California streamed through Pacific Highway port of entry. Five American coastal steamers |brought a thousand persons from Seattle and special trains brought { hundreds. FORMER ALASKA DOCTOR HELD AS DOPE PEDDLER Brooks Conspired fo Sell Narcotics in Seattle Jail, Charge SEATTLE, May 29. — Dr. B. F. Brooks, Skagit County official phy- sician and former Government doc- tor in Alaska, was held for the Grand Jury today on charges of conspiring with Chief Jail Janitor Willilam H. Drummond to sell nar- cotics to. prisoners. Both' were arrested in Mount Ver= non and pleaded innocent here. g it FERRY K. HEATH DIES DETROIT, May 29. — Ferry K. Heath, 62, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Hoover admin- istration, is dead here. Unmarried, he was a wartime Major overseas.