The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 16, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — ————— JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 16, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIV., NO. 81 32. NATION’S EDITORS IN JUNEAU TODAY TIENTSIN REPORTED First Casualfies Result as, Japanese Blockade | Confinues BRITISH PLAN T0 TAKE ACTIVE STEPS. United States Is Concerned as Guards Move Around | in Restricted Area TIENTSIN, June 16.—Two Chin- ese, handing food into the British Concession, are reported late today to have been shot dead by Japan- ese guards blocking the foreign area. The shooting occurred near the United States Marine barracks. The informant, who reported the incident, said the Chinese were) caught as they handed up a basket of vegetables. There is some lessening of the present tension this first report of casualties since the Jaapanese es- tablished a guard about the Brit-, ish and French Concessions on Wed- | nesday morning. The Japanese continue to search persons entering or leaving the Con- cessions. ACTIVE STEPS PLANNED LONDON, June 16.—The British Government declares it will take “immediate active steps” against any attempts to restrict British rights in China as the.grave issue at Tientsin is threatening to develop a show- down for prestige of power between Japan and other foreign powers. It is announced that two British naval vessels have been dispatched to Tientsin, up the Hai River, where Japanese naval forces have been in control, and up which food ships have to navigate for a distance of 25 miles. CONCERN EXPRESSED WASHINGTON, June 16. — The Japanese blockade at Tientsin has evoked an expression of concern from United States officials. It is announced that Eugene H. Dooman, American Charge d'Affairs at Takyo, has told the Japanese Foreign Of- fice, this government is concerned oover the possible effect of the block- ade of American interests. The American Consulate General in Tientsin is located within the British concession which is under blockade. e e— BRITON HELD BY JAPANESE IS RELEASED Newsreel Cameraman Is Kept in Custody for Two Days, Tientsin TIENTSIN, June 16.—Eric Mayell, Douglas plane over New York Largest land plane in the United States, this huge 42-passenger Douglass DC-4, is shown in flight over New York City. The foutt GERMANY NOT RECOGNIZING AMCC RULING Says No Nafih_al on Board Making Awards in World War Disasters BERLIN, June 16.—A semi-of- ficial announcement made today said the German Government does | recognize the validity of the American Mixed Claims Compis- sion’s decision, holding the responsible for the World War Black Tom and King's Island munitions disasters in 1916 and 1917. not British newsreel cameraman held by German sat on the Commission. the Japanese military since last ' Wednesday for photographing Jap- anese positions near the blockade of the British and French conces- sions, has been given his release. It is said his films have been con- | fiscated. | | Stocx QUOTATIONS || | NEW YORK, June 16.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 91'%, American Power and Light| 4%, Anaconda 22%, Bethlehem Steel 54'%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 43%, International Harvester u7, Kennecott 32', New | York Central 14, Northern Pacific | 8, United States Steel 46, Pound | $4.68 3-16. The Commission, which announc- ed the decision yesterday in Wash- | | | | them Reich | (hat have been booted around the motored. 65,000-pound craft cost $2.000.000 te build. CHANCES ARE CONSIDERED GOOD FOR INSURING BANK LOANS TO "LITTLE FELLOW By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 16. — The latest legislation intended to hit the jackpot of hoarded savings and broadcast them into the channels of hungry business is the Mead Bill providing insured bank loans for small industries. In a broad sense it is patterned after the Federal Housing Act un- der which the Government insures 80 to 90 per cent of loans madc by banks and loan companies for house building. In its preliminary hearings before a Senate banking committee it al- ready is found to contain the usual grist of difficulties. Nevertheless there is better than a fair prospect that they will be met with revisions in time to permit the bill to get through this session. Part of the support for the bill is from banking groups who would oppose it except for the fact it is less obnoxious to than other credit measures capital. One such rival proposal is a bili to 1set up an intermediate credit bank The statement points out that no | ington, promptly granted motions | for American damage awards total- ling $50,000,000. —————————— KING, QUEEN FAREWELLED Expressions of Pleasure af Visit Radioed by Roosevelts ABOARD EMPRESS OF BRI- TAIN, June 16—Farewell wishes to DOW, JONES AVERAGES the couple and expressions of “ex- The following are today's Dow,’lreme pleasure” at the Royal visit, Jones averages: industrials 134.67, |were received today by radio from rails 26.98, utilities 23.25. | President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose- — - |velt by King George and Queen MARRIAGE LICENSE | Elizabeth. A marriage license was issued to-| The King and Queen left Halifax day by U. S. Commissioner Felix |last night on the return voyage Gray to Ray Robert Hagerup and England after visiting Canada an Mary Constance Metcalf, |the United States. akin to the Government-sponscred agency now lending money w FRENCH SUB GOESDOWN, 63 ABOARD Undersea Boat Makes Dive -Fails to Reappear- Search Being Made | PARIS, June 16 The French Navy Ministry announces that the French submarine Phenix, with four officers and 59 men aboard, has failed to reappear after a dive Thursday in the Bay of Camranh, French Indo-China. The official communique says: “There is serious anxiety con= cerning the fate of the first class submarine Phenix, at present at- tached to the Indo-China forece, after a dive carried out in exer- cises on the morning of June 15 off the Bay of Camranh. “The submarine did not reappear and Far Eastern Naval forces as well as unattached ships of the Navy of Indo-China began a search which ftinues today.” | The submarine sank in deep |water but the depth is not given. PR ST T e A 'DRAGGERS PULL TWEED'S BODY FROM CHANNEL still con- |Plane lierd—Erly ~ Pilot Died from Drowning, Doctor Says The body of pilot Charles Tweed, |40, who died in the crash of the Yukon Southern seaplane here yes- terday afternoon, was recovered late last night from the floor of the Channel. Dr. W. M. Whitehead said Tweed had died by drowning. His body was horribly burned, and was cut and bruised The body was picked up at 10:39 last night as Chief of Police Dan Ralston and a dragging crew were about to quit because of darkness. The plane itself, badly smashed, and in a number of pieces, appar- ently struck the dolphin with ter- rific force, head on. Fire ravages from the burning gasoline melted metal framework and left it a blackened skeleton. Jake Cropley’s pile driver and tender was taken to the scene and raised the wreck about 5:30 p.m With Cropley’s tender, and the boat Snuffy, with Bill Crowe, Ing- wald Peterson and Jack Roberts as- sisting, Ralston spent several hours dragging for the missing pilot's body before it was found, and pull- ed up miscellaneous bits of wreck- age. LONGSHOREMEN, WAREHOUSEMEN, MAKE DEMANDS immediately farmers. This would operate inde-! pendently of the private banking | system and the Federal Reserve| System. It thereby runs into op-| position not only from private bank- ers but also from the powerful re- serve system under Eccles. Six - hour Day, Increased ' Wage, Improved Work- | ing Conditions Sought eagle-eyed | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 16. b —Members of the CIO Internation- 75,000 ‘Small’ Businesses al Longshoremen’s and Warehouse- Even the bitterest opponents of men’s Unjon have voted more than the legislation concede that small g ¢ 1 to open negotiations on the business enterprises have trouble present Pacific Coast waterfront just now to get money at low i’“e"’:agreemem. est rates for reasonably long periods. | The union, with only a few hun- Of 200,000 corporations in the coun-| 4.4 Alaska Longshoremen votes try, approximately 175,000 are in m‘,inol counted, voted to present de- “small business” class with net earn- | .. 0. s straight six hour day, | terly critical of the bill, says menis‘x’s'i‘gx‘l‘s‘""&v ei::‘l:dl?:e Sg‘;mgl o would be no need of the legislation | * if business men could Jook with any [0ards, and recognition of hona fide confidence into a future free of ex- Picket lines. cessive governmental tinkering and| The dock workers voted to seek blundering. That is approximately similar conditions. the core of the opposition. = > - |afternoon when Ketchikan Attorney | Alaska Purse | George Weiss, | | ot The Alaska dock was thronged this morning when cruise ship Aleutian pulled in. Front row, left to right: Mrs. Don Eck, in charge of conver n and President of the June President of , and Past NE Rear row, left to right: ¢ the National H u Chamber of Commerce; Virginia C: JUNEAU MEETS NEA Editorial Association convention Here’s a shot of a few greeters and a few NEA's. Walter H. Crim; her husband, NEA Treasurer; Marjory Eck, daughter of n tour; Charles Carter, who now and then gets ahold of a live one, mor- onrad, daughter of W. H. Conrad, resident W. W. Loomis, one of the fathers of N tis Shattuck, Juneau Chamber of Commerce Reception Chairman; Tom Dyer, | President-elect of Juncau Rotary; Mayor Harry L Lucas; Brooks Conrad, son of NEA President; W. H. 'onrad, NEA President. ARMY ENGINEERS ARETO FLY T0 ALASKA T0 STUDY SITES FOR NEW AIR BASE | WASHINGTON, June 16. — A DEPUTY H_Y'NG |Board of Army Engincers will fly to Alaska on June 22 to study sites COURT'S ORDER for the Army Air Base the War Hellan fo Serve Restrainer Department plans to establish the Territory next year. on Purse Seiner Union at Island Port The War Department notified ‘ALI.\K;’! Delegate Anthony J. Dimond |that the Board of Army Engineers {will leave the Sand Point air station on June 22. The Army planes will proceed to | Ketchikan, Juneau, Sitka, Anchor- age Kodiak, Unalaska Bethel, Nome and Fairbanks. Dselegate Dimond said teday he |understood the War Department (still favors Fairbanks for the Army Deputy U. §. Marshal Walter Hel-| Air Base, lan left Juneau by plane this after-| The trip noon for Waterfall to serve the re- check.” straining order issued iy District| Court here yesterday on Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners Union mem- bers who have been picketing the| steamship Lakina at the Prince of Wales island port | The order, issued by Judge Gearge | F. Alexander at the end of a three day hearing, resttrains the union | | from interfering with interstate com- | merce of the Alaska Steamship | Company, Northland Transportation | Company, Alaska Trans) mrtatloui Company and Pacific American Ship | is merely a “double > Fast Service ToAlaskals Inaugurated J. O. Stearns, who represented the ASPSU in the hearing here, accept- ed service. Defendants in the action are the Seiners’ Union,its branches at Ketchikan, Metlakatla, | Hydaburg, Crajg, Klawock, Wran- gell, Petersburg, Hoonah, Sitka, An-| goon and Kake, five “Doe” unions, | E. C. Sukow, Red| specifically prohibits patrolling by eamer fo Gei Holden. They left Juneau at 1 Lakina has been tied up unable to| SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., June 16— Attorney Served four day plane and steamer service the restraining order late yesterday |ing can be in Juneau early the fol- day noon. -,— Owners Association, mentions par-| ticularly the case of the Lakina and | Planes, St picket hoats. | et g witn piot aiex| Passengers from South Sologk Yhls. siemntan mdwere se<| 10 Notih Quick Time ported at Petersburg before 3. The unload cargo at Waterfall since a The United Air Lines announced week ago Thursday. |today the inauguration of a new Technically, fhe defendants inlto Alaska whereby a passenger leav- the case were served officially with|ing San Francisco Saturday morn- lowing Tuesday morning and in Whitehorse or Fairbanks by Tues- Connections are made at Juneau with PAA service, SURVIVOROF ' PLANECRASH - INHOSPITAL [ Pilof's Bodmund - Wife | and Three Children Survive ! Recovering from severe shock suf- |fered in the tragic airplane crash in Juneau’s harbor yesterday in which pilot Charles Tweed, 40, was killed, mechanic Cecil Pickell, 23, lay in his hospital bed this morning and | feebly told the story of his harrow- ing experience. Tweed and Pickell were just tak- ing off with a load of gasoline, |bound for Dease Lake after their |first flight to Juneau, when their plane struck a dolphin on the |Douglas Island shore and burned. |cape from the burning ship, was |rescued from the water by two 13- year-old Juneau boys, Jerry Cole, and Wayne McGee, Daily Al- |aska Empire paper boy, who were |near the plane in young Cole’s out- | board craft at the time of the crash. Lads’ Courage Lauded Pickell lauded the courage of the | { | the blazing gasoline and held on to Pickell, managing to make his es- | two lads who rowed to his side near | 250GUESTS - OF ALASKA ON CRUISE Juneau Cha—mier of Com- merce Enferfains Convention ALEUTIAN SAILING WESTWARD TONIGHT Visitors Admif Territory Entrancing - First Trip for Most Thinking seriously of changing their NEA title from National Edi- torial Association to Now Entranced with Alaska, more than 200 editors of small town papers were in Ju- neau today basking in the sunshine and in a warm greeting from the Juneau Chamber of Commerce. Arriving on the convention ship S. 8. Aleutlan at 8 o'clock this morning, the NEA deicgates split into two groups, one visiting the Alaska June mine while the other went by bus to Mendenhall Glacier. This afternoon the process was re- versed, At noon 267 NEA'ers and Juneay hosts sat down to luncheon at the | Baranof Hotel, the" diners over- |flowing from the Gold Room into the Bubble Room and forming the largest party ever served at the hotel, outside of the opening night. King Salmon King salmon pormandie, pghe specialty of Chef Ray Harrington, {was the main dish and won de- |lighted comments from the visitors, | Tables were decorated with iris and marigold. Speakers were W. H. Conrad, President of NEA, who spoke on “The Spirit of Alaska;” Howard W. Palmer, foremost candidate for elec~ tion as next President; Donald Eck, Convention Chairman; H. L. Faulk- ner, Juneau Attorney, who spoke on “The Truth About Alaska;” and F. A. Silcox, Chief,of the U. 8. Forest Service. | Decorative maps of Southeast Al- aska, prepared by the Forest Ser~ vice, were presented to each editor by the Juneau Chamber of Com- merce. Charles W. Carter, Chamber Pres- ident, was luncheon toastmaster and Curtis Shattuck was in charge of arrangements for entertaining the visitors. Tony Del Santo, Ju- Ineau boy, played several accordion numbers at the luncheon. Out At 6 | The Aleutian is salling at 6 |o'clock this evening for the West~ |ward. The editors will be back in ——— e it (Continued on Page Five) Visifors Here " From Various U. S. Sections him until help arrived. “Those boys had a lot of spunk,” 'Pickell reflected. “They had to jcome awfully close to that fire and they must have known there was still danger from exploding drums. |I'm not much of a swimmer and I'd never have been here if it hadn't |been for those kids. I fainted right |after I got to their boat, I gues: Pickell sald the plane struck the {dolphin head on and apparently had struck nothing else. In Blind Spot | “It was right in our blind spot in front of the engine,” he said, | explaining how an airplane motor obscures a pilot’s vision while tak- |ing off, with the tail low. “We were just about up on the {step ready to get in the air, I |guess,” Pickell said, “and then there | was an awful crash. I was thrown |on the floor. I managed to Kkick the door open and get out. “I yelled to Charlie, but he didn't | McLeod, Oliver Olson, Whitey Nich- | The following are scores of games answer and I went back in after Supporters of the legislation in- clude Senator Wagner of New York, Jerome Frank, Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commis- sion, and the author, Senator Mead. These look upon it as a means of to | getting banks to go in for smaller| 4 | industrial loans with the billions of [tra and went out on the North (Continued on Page Two) TEACHER THROUGH Delmer F. Boyer, Government teacher at Noorvik, with his wife and child passed through Juneau yesterday enroute to Willamina, ‘Oregon, to spend the summer. Boyers flew in on yesterday’s Elec- | Coast. The | | ols, Brady Edenso, Pete Carrier, Les- | played this afterncon in the two |ter Gelson, Tommy Francis, Joe| Major Leagues: | Krause, George Case, Wilbur Ridley, | National League | Tommie Thompson —— Inman and| Boston 2; Pittsburgh 4 |50 “Does.” American League | The order, quoted in part, is as| Cleveland 3; New York 4. | tollow Detroit 8; Boston 7. — St. Louis 10; Philadelphia 11, (Continued on Page Eight) Chicago 2; Washington 5 him. I got a hold of what I think |was his sleeve, and then a can of |gas blew up between us and blew |me out of the plane. I didn't see |Charlie any more.” | Suffers From Shock | Dr. W. M. Whitehead, dttending (Continued on Page Two) Complefe List of Delega- tion on NEA Tour fo Alaska Is Given S, Editors and their families, from all sections,of the 'states, are. in. | Juneau today, members of the NEA | convention - tour party to Alaska. !The following is a complete list of |the delegates and others by states: | California Fred M. Rolens, Review, South Pasadena. Fred M. Rolens. | Louis Meyer, Leader, Oakdale. Mrs. Louis Meyer. Dr. R. S. Sabine, Review, South | Pasadena. | Mrs. R. 8. Sabine. Mrs. Helen M. Stevens, Vista Dan L. Beebe, Mercury-Register, | Oroville, Mrs. Dan L. Beebe. Dan L. Beebe, Jr. Mrs. Bertha Phelps, Sausalito. Mrs, D, C. Kennedy, Compton. Connecticut | Howard W. Palmer, Press, Green= wich. lConflnue}i (;n Pag; ASe\vr;n)