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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMF” L ———— VOL. LIV., NO. 8127. n pe— ] MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 10, 1939. PICKET HEARING SET FOR NEXT TUESDAY KING, QUEEN FARM- AID SETUP BEING AIDED BY PRESENT DRY IS PASSED SPELL, WHEAT, CORN BELT INNEW YORK - BRIEF TIME 4 Tumuliuous_W;Itome Giv- en Royal Couple - Mil- lions Watch Parade BULLETIN — NEW YORK, June 10.—Delayed by the great welcome while visiting the Brit- ish and Dominion of Canada ex- hibits at the New York World's Fair, their British Majesties left late this afternoon for Hyde Park to be the guests of Presi- dent Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose- velt over Sunday. NEW YORK, June 10.—Hundreds IFIRST HUSBAND, MARY PICKFORD IS FOUND DEA Owen Moore Passes Away in Apartment - Dis- covered by Wife i ! | BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, June 10.— | Owen Moore, 52, former matinee idol and the first husband of Mary Pick- x \ By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, June 10. — May- | be it is Roosevelt luck or Wallace | luck, but at any rate the drought |is hitting the wheat and corn belt | | just as it did in 1936 to give the Ad- | ministration a wide open opportun-| ity to show the effectiveness of its| | farm-aid setup. | Most people don't look upon drought 2s anything but a calamity but poli- tics find strange bedfellows and if |a drought comes along and crawls under the sheets with Secretary Wal- | lace he is not obliged to complain. | Lately Secretary Wallace has about been written off as a presidential | candidate for 1940 because of farm | program difficulties. If he came | handsomely to the rescue of the Mid- of thousands of Old World immi- ford, was found dead in his apart- | West he might have to be written on grants and descendants, gave a tu- ment yesterday afternoon. He lay again. And President Roosevelt could multuous welcome to the British fully clothed on a bed and was found i ¥, st e expect enhanced popularity in the Majesties on arriving from Fort when Mrs. Kathryn Perry Mooreice‘:“m] states wherelRepubchns in Hancock aboard a United States destroyer for a brief visit to the World’s Fair. The Governor Island’s guns boom- ed a salute, all vessels in the harbor tied their whistles- down, fireboats geysered and airplanes whirled over- heard in the hot sun. An audible gasp came from the crowd when Admiral Cantu, Italian Commissioner General at the World’s Fair, gave the Fascist salute | when presented to King George and Queen Elizabeth at Perylon Hall. Police Commissioner Valentine es- “timates that 3,000,000 persons saw the King and Queen enroute or at' the fair but the open bullet-proof cars with the Royal Party moved so swiftly across the city that many were disappointed in even getting a bare glimpse of the majesties. c e 6 WPA PROJECTS FOR S. E. ALASKA ARE REINSTATED Juneau Sewer, Recreation Applications Pending for Fiscal Year Six WPA project applications for Southeast Alaska will be reinstated next week at Washington, the Gov- ernor’s office announced today fol- Jowing notification from Ernest Gruening, Director of the Division of Territories and Island Posses- sions, that the jobs could be sub- mitted for the 1940 fiscal year. Projects are as follows: Douglas dock improvement, $2,980. Juneau sewer construction, $4,891. Douglas street improvement, $8,- 160. Craig sidewalk construction, $11,- 590. Juneau recreation facilities, $4,264. Ketchikan retaining walls, lmlar\cel of $42,750 in addition to $9,728 al- ready allotted. The Governor's office was also asked to submit new project appli- cations for the year beginning July 1 S e, FISHERMAN SOUGHT Al Safron, 28, last heard of in San Francisco 18 months ago when he returned from a salmon fish- ing trip, is being sought by his sis- ter, Mrs. R. Markow of Chicago, according to a letter by the U. S. Marshal here, o Pet Squirrel At Large; Don't Shoot There is a pet Oregon gray squirrel running wild out the Glacier Highway near or around the William Fromholz log cabin home now under construction, not far from Salmon Creek. The squirrel is the pet of Eckley Guerin who released it to the woods while he is to the Westward for the summer. The squirrel is perfectly tame, so if the little gray animal comes running up and bidding acquaintanceship, treat it kind- ly, and those with firearms are also requested not to shoot. This applies to the youngsters with air rifles, .22 guns or sling- shots. returned home from work in a mo- tion picture studio. Mrs. Moore said her husband had been brooding recently because of his inability to find work in pic- tures. Tifle Fight InSeattle ThisMonth Champion S_o—lly Kreiger Is Coming West to Meet Al Hostak NEW YORK, June 10.—Solly i Kreiger, middleweight champion, is leaving tomorrow for a match with Al Hostak at Seattle during this month. 1 Kreiger is guaranteed “consider- 'ably more” than the champion’s purse to meet Hostak whom he {knocked out for the title last year, iil is claimed. | HOSTAK TRAINS HARD SEATTLE, June 10—Hostak is training hard for his match with Kreiger, hoping to regain the mid- dleweight title which he claims he lost because of injured hands. Fllie i PRISON BREAK PREVENTED BY WOMAN'S GUN Jailer Is Rescued by Wife Who Beats Back Three Attempting Escape ROCKWELL, Texas, June 10.— Mrs. Gene Eagle snatched a pistol | form a kitchen table and rescued her jailer husband from three es- caping prisoners. She fired twice over the heads of the prisoners and drove them back into the jail stairs aftet they had grabbed Eagle and were beating him. Mrs. Eagle said she used to be afraid of weapons. BASEBALL TODAY ‘The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two Major Leagues: National League St. Louis_5, 3; Philadelphia 6,5. Cincinnati 6; Brooklyn 7. Pittsburgh 2; New York 6. American League Philadelphia 0; Cleveland 6. ‘Washington 5; Detroit 6. Chicago 2; Boston 1. ———————— NURSE RETURNING Bertha M. Tiber, Supervisor of Nurses for the Office of Indian Af- fairs, is due back at her Juneau headquarters tomorrow from the Westward. Miss Tiber traveled to Unalaska with the North Star last month, going from there to Kan- akanak by Coast Guard cutter and returning by way of Anchorage and commercial transportation lines. She wil come in on the Yukon, | dates. There isn't the slightest intima- tion in this that any member of| | the Administration is delighted with '(the appearance of drought.' From President Roosevelt down to the last outlying county agent drought means economic loss. But in 1936 it meant political gain and in that light it may show up again this year. WHEAT AND CORN HIT Already both wheat and corn crops have been damaged by a dry spring and a current shortage of | rain. Crop prospects shrink with every sunny afternoon. But the re- sult, while hitting individual farmers is to absorb more and more of the| surplus of corn and wheat which | has troubled the Department of Ag- riculture for two years or more. Until recently the prospects were | that a healthy new corn harvest! would come on while the country still had 400,000,000 bushels hanging over from the 1938 crop. The past surplus of corn has swelled pork pro- | duction so much that the depart-| ment has been issuing warnings that pork was going to be almost a drug | on the market. There has been come unofficial exploration of a bar- ter trade of pork and lard to Ger- many in exchange for Nazi thresh- ing machines and barbed wire. But with the shrinkage in pros- pect now, this carryover may come in handy. Even considering the cur- rent surplus, a real drought such as hitr in 1934 and 1936 could leave the country shy of corn. That would increase prices of corn and pork at once, | (Continued on Page Seven) LIZETTE RIGGS IS PRESENTED T0 KING, QUEEN Former Alaska Governor’s Daughter, Empire Cor- respondent, Honored WASHINTON, June 10.—One of the remarkable incidents attending the visit of the British Majesties to the United States was the pre- sentation yesterday to King George and Queen Elizabeth in the rotunda of the Capitol, of the Washington news writers and correspondents, both men and women. Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, her- self a columnist, personally intro- duced the writers to the King and Queen. Among those favored at the pre- sentation was Miss Lisette Riggs, daughter of Thomas Riggs, former Governor of Alaska. Miss Riggs is the special New York and Washing- ton correspondent of the Daily Al- aska Empire. Shook Hands 1938 did in his Congressional candi- | GREAT BIG BILL BY HOUSE Social Security Law Goes fo Senate with Amendments WASHINGTON, June 10. — The "House has passed and sent to the | Senate, with far-reaching amend- | ments, the Social Security law de- signed to extend benefits and light- en the burden on business. | The House shouted down the 0. P. attempt to have amendments | G. Committee. These amendments would freeze the present payroll tax | rance at one percent | instead of increasing | it half of one percent next Janu-| ary, also extending benefits to em- | for old age ins for three year: ployees of national banks, seamen | and persons over 65 years. | that the vote was 361 to 2, the opponents being Republicans, Smith of Ohio and Thill of Wisconsin. B b BRITAIN NOW READY FOR ALL PROPOSALS Willing to En—gage in Con- ference Table Talk with Nafions BIRMINGHAM, England, June 10. —British Premier Neville Cham- berlain, in a speech here last night, said Great Britain is “still ready to discuss, around a conference table, claims of Germany or any other country provided it seems reason- able as to prospect of a settlement.” i el R 3 LABORATORY FOR ALASKA IS PLANNED Delegate Dimond Iniro- duces Bill for Plant to Cost $50,000 WASHINGTON, June 10.—Estab- lishment of a $50,000 fisheries pro- ducts laboratory in Alaska is sought in a bill introduced by Alaska Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond. HollfiMfi&lor On Steamer Baranof AlasKa in technicolor—that's what Juneau movie goers will be seeing within a short while, according to James E. Fitzpatrick, director for Metro-Goldwyn Mayer, who is mak- ing the round-trip on the steamer Baranof, now in port. Accompanying Fitzpatrick, who 1s acclaimed one of the most out- standing directors of technicolor pictures in Hollywood, is R. W. Carney, cameraman; H. P. Nelson, assistant camerman; and Mrs. H. P. Nelson, secretary. Upon their arrival in Juneau the party was taken to Mendenhall Glacier in one car, and equipment for picture-taking in a second truck SPENCER DELONG AND With King; He's Selling Out FORT HUNT, Virginia, June 10.' —John Draganza, CCC boy from| Rochester, Pa., did a big business| among his acquaintances selling handshakes. Draganza shook hands with King George during an inspection of the camp yesterday. shook the King's hand, ranged from Prices for shaking the hand whichi FAMILY ON VACATION Spencer DeLong, linotype operato: on the mechanical force of The Empire, will leave for a vacation trip to the States tomorrow on the steamer Yukon, accompanied by Mrs. DeLong and son David. After spending a month visiting with relatives in Seattle and Spo- kane, Mr. DeLong will return to Juneau. Mrs. DeLong and David plan to remain south for the sum- la bottle of pop to & free shoeshine, M’ recommitted to the Ways and Means Speaker Bankhead announced | Talking Alaska Film NOT HURT | POUND, Va, June 10. — Mmu‘m"i iShertt stood on his front porch | with his two young sons, watching | a driving rain. There was a flash of lightning Vietor, aged 14, was struck and fell into the arms of his father. Shortt looked around in time catch Kermit 8, also struck. Both died instantly. Shortt was not hurt. HILLCREST WILL OPEN ITS DOORS Cify's Mosfi?—ecent Apart- ment Is Complete fo Last Word Tomorrow afternoon, Mr. and Mrs. G. Emil Krause, pioneer residents of this growing Capital City, will sce the fruits of ambition and long held dreams realized when their new Hill- crest Apartments at Eighth and Gold will be opened to the public for in- | spection. | ‘Tastefully designed and achieved |in_modern lines, the latest addition |to Jun€du's housing is three stories {with 18 amazingly complete apart- ments, oak floors, and finished from can openers in each kitchen to bari- tone and tenor doorbells. The main entrance, on Eighth Street, one of three ground floor en- trances, is trimmed in glass blocks with a charming entrance-way door done in heavy glass and chromium | trim, giving way to a tile entrance- |way and terra cotta steps. ‘Two things strike one forcibly whep entering. One—you are walking on beauti- | fully grained oak floors everywhere |in spacious halls or well appointed apartments. Two—wherever possible, doors are' !full slab, with no panels to break | the beauty of well brought out wood | grain and the only objects on the | door faces are door handles and the apartment numbers. 18 Apartments All told, there are eighteen apart- ments on the three floors, two of them on the southerly corners of | the ground floor, both above street | level. Apartments vary in size, but each | has living room and kitchen and ' bed closet or bedroom. | | The kitchens come somewhere near |a bride’s dream. Drainboards are of rubber tile, clean and noiseless. Cup- }boards are deep and designed for full use. Hotpoint refrigerators and Gener- | al Electric stoves are of the latest' jtype, attractive, and endearing to the housewife for their many new work-economy features. Sinks are double and deep with single faucet line above in chrom- iumn. A can opener is on the wall —the sort of can opener which you turn without effort. Flour, sugar and bread drawers —a remarkable feature—are not only metal lined, but the metail lining is removable for washing. Drawers, as well as cupboards, are deep. A Kkitchen closet is also roomy | and full of utility. Even down to the ironing board, the kitchen is admirably done. The ironing board is adjustable as to height with large and small boards for trousers or sleeves. In the bedroom closets, larger than most. such closets, rollaway | beds are found—and all are double, ' Furnished—Unfurnished | Furniture is tastefully chosen and full of solid comfort. Apartments | will be rented either furnished or un- furnished as the rentor desires. | As you pass from one room to another, you note another signifi- cant construction system. There arz no door casings. In place of the square cornered door casings, metal bull nosing, covered with plaster, makes casing corners round and pleasing to the eye. Bathrooms are roomy and effec- tively toned in colored tile floors | to | {Douglas Pioneer Will Re-| SONS KILLED BY STROKE OF LIGHTNING; FATHER IS INFLASH BOLT CZECHS FACING MORE THREATS FROM GERMANS. Slayer of Police Sergeant Is Not Apprehended- Further Reprisals PRAGUE, June 10.—New restrict- ive measures are threatened against the Czechs unless the mysterious killing of a German police sergeant at Klando is solved today. Hun- dreds of suspects have been arrest- ed and practically martial law will prevail unless the slayer orslayers are found. HITLER HAS PEACE PLAN 1S REPORT Said fo Be D;?Iing Actions fo Allay War Threat Fears PARIS, June 10.—It is reported here from Berlin that Chancellor| Adolf Hitler is drafting plans for international action to allay war fears. It is said the plan will be made public next month when he will make an address at the launching of a battleship. IT'S A SURPRISE BERLIN, June 10.—The report in Paris “is a surprise to us,” said a source today close to Hitler. Nobody | seems to know anything about in- ternatinal plans to allay war fears. MRS. GRAY ENDS HER DUTIES AT BEHRENDS STORE fire fo Privafe Life After Today Completing a six week’s job that| stretched out to 13 years, Mrs, Felix Gray, pioneer Douglas resident and wife of the present U. S. Commis- | sioner for the Juneau district, to- day greeted patrons of Behrends| store for the last time. Mrs. Gray, who joined the B. M.| Behrends department store staff to| help out with the Christmas rush some years ago, remained with the store to rise to the position of man- ager of the dry goods department. She is now retiring to private life! Mrs. Gray now plans to take it easy at her Douglas home and next week will greet and entertain her son Douglas and his recent bride when they arrive on the Alaska Game Commission vessel Brown Bear, after their trip to Washington, D. C. | After a short stay here, Douglas | Gray will go on to the Aleutian Islands for his summer duties, then Commissioner and Mrs. Gray plan| to do some traveling themselves, Leaving Douglas shortly after the Fourth of July, they will motor from Seattle along the coast, visiting S8an Francisco and Los Angeles. From there they plan to go to the Mid- West and possibly will continue East to take in the World's Fair at New York City. R g CAMP OPEN TOMORROW Boy Scout camp at Eagle River Briton Given SHOW CAUSE ° HisRelease ‘ ORDER GOES By Japanese' T0 SEINERS One Officer I Set Free But Union Given Chance i_o Be Another Britisher Heard on Steamship Being Held Restrainer | A decision on application by Alas- SHANGHALI, June 10.—Dispatches | ko steamship lines for a restraining received here from Pieping report order against picketing by seiners that the Japanese have released |wi]] be rendered by Judge George F. Lieut. John Cooper, Britisher, who | Alexander after a hearing on the was arrested at Kalgan while at-|matter in District Court here Tues- tempting to see Lieut. Col. C. R. day afternoon at 2 o'clock. Spear, military attache, charged with | A show cause order, returnable at | collecting military information in-|that time, was issued by the Coyrt | side the Japanese operations zone.|late yesterday afternoon, directing | The dispatch said Cooper was not‘me Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners' | permitted to see Spear. | Union, George Weiss, E. C. Suckow, e | Red McLeod, the Union’s branch No. 1 |1 at Ketchikan and 50 John Does DouGl AS DUPREE to show cause why they should not ey |be restrained for interfering with A | interstate commerce of the Pacific IRIA[ NEX' FOR | American Shipowner’s Association, Alaska Steamship Company, North- land Transportation Company and DISIRI(T (OURI’AIHSKE Transportation Company. 4 | Application To Be Heard The application of the companies Two Divorces Granted af|, e spplication of the companics i will be heard at the time the show MO'IO" Day Before xcause order is argued Tuesday. Unions thus are given until Tues~ JUdge TOday day to prepare their arguments and las far as legal restraint upon pick- Trial in the case of City of|eting is concerned the matter is just Douglas versus Robert Dupree will where it was before the application begin Monday afternoon at 2 0'-|was filed yesterday by Attorneys A, clock, resuming the work of the H. Ziegler, R. E. Robertson and H. District Court, which today heard L. Faulkner. a score of motions. Douglas is Steamships have been picketed at suing for an accounting from Du- |various Southeast Alaska ports al- Pree, former wharfinger for the legedly because. they carried sup- Oity. Mo | plies for canneries which the Purse Two divorces were granted today, Ls:ll:';;zty t‘::::‘demlnda abolish cer- Marie Mead Nelson from Henry | iy T. Nelson and Ronald Wiley from WORK STOPPED AT CRAIG ‘f‘{:]""l‘f f’aivl'; w’]"‘:'l;“i:"’m,rr:;‘; Capt. Pred Svensson, Manager of CRAHIUE e R 4 | Libby, McNeill and Libby, today for Wednesday at 2 o'clock. Grounds “;:’L: at::'ae:‘;rt: i ;“m:.‘w:n in this case also is mcompambmny.:m“mpe"' that no trouble existed The Rita McCaul versus Thomas at the company's salmon cannery J. McCaul divorce case was dis- missed today. Mrs. McCaul disap- “oiflt‘g'e ’i;&i‘;’r";c'&lm el peared from a northbound steamer | . .. that work n’t the .cnnnermywu ll)x::st,':];;‘);’cember and is presumed Lo‘now stopped, and the cannery has ¢ Zamora Motion Denied bberi: piakhtect By (B Ssse e Judge George F. Alexander de mon Purse Seiners Union which has rge . 2 e- o - nied a motion to reopen hearlng‘g:fi:lbgn::::emfndumgnnzzwwn_ on a motion for new trial In the |y, o " ang other employees, includ- \ \ i | | i case of the United Stuv.eslversus.mg e of the Al Pisher- Miguel Zamora, convicted of &rson peng ynion, from working, and at McNeil Island. |work at the c 51 On receipt of a mandate rrom‘w e Ny dor e pae four days. the Cireuit Court in the libel of Tom Sandvik, the case was ordered for retrial next fall. ewspaper Gas Screw A-502, owned by George Wilson, was dismissed. BARROW NATIVE Accidentally Shot by Eskimo Is Advised fo Kill Hunfing Trip Purps Rather than Use | as Sled DOgS | MOSCOW. Idaho, June 10. — | west newspaper man, and publish- tured seven wolf pups the omer‘killed yesterday in a hunting acci- day won't atterapt to make sled 'dent, by his 12-year-old grandson. vice of the Alaska Game Commis- rels from the back seat of their sion, whose officers believe the only jauto when the weapon was dis- good wolf is a dead wolf. charged accidentally, a bullet strik- teacher at Barrow, asked the Office the front seat. of Indian Affairs here by radio-| AR o e o ol would be required for the Eskimo | to keep the wolves for use as sled dogs. 0. Closing i | NEW YORK, Jue 10. — was consulted, advised that the| 4 wolves would be a menace to the Quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 1 village if kept alive and should [ America 264, da 25, The pups, three or four weeks}‘“"’l‘:;h":‘m 5::; m-"'“»mml'; old, were captured alive after the|%Weal't 2 o 1%, Gl GRier, WeR, S _fternnnonal Harvester 61%, Kenne- i i ott 34, New York Cenual 15%, kimo will be able to claim a bounty o ' of $20 apiece, or $140 for them. Northern Pacific 9, United States ., — and now serving a 20-year sentence the picket lines have stopped all Pete Lowe versus I. Goldstein and Libel of J. J. Schmitt versus the | " Grandson While on George Lamphere, pioneer North- A Point Barrow native who cap- er of the Moscow Star-Mirror was dogs of them if he follows the ad-| The grandson was shooting squir- Howard Burkher, Government ing Lamphere who was sitting in gram whether special permission| s | STOCK QUOTATIONS i | The Game Commission, which| be |stock at today's short session is 8%, | killed. | Wright 5%, General Motors 45, In- If the wolves are killed, the Es Steel 49%, Pound $4.68 5/16. and tile wainscoting four feet high. will be open to visitors tomorrow The medicine closet is faced with a from noon until 5 o'clock. Those, full-bled mirror, with tube lights visiting the camp around mealtime for diffused, effective and pleasing are asked to bring their own RANGER IX IN Forest Service launch Ranger IX returned today from Skagway with (Continued on Page Two) Risnes. I District Ranger W. A. Chipperfield aboard, DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 140.14, rails 28.33, utilities 23.91,