The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 19, 1939, Page 1

BONGRESSIONAL LIBRART ““THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8134. BRITISH SURROUNDED BY ‘HOT WIRES TORNADOIN MINNESOTA KILLS NINE Seven Towns Are Crashed by Terrific High Wind Sunday MANY BUILDINGS ARE DEMOLISHED Family of Four Die When3 Auto Lifted Info Air then Dropped MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, June 19.— A tornado, jumping along 25 miles of countryside like a giant grasshop- per, killed nine persons yesterday afternoon, injured upwards of 60 and caused property damage pos- sibly reaching over $500,000. | Sections of seven towns were hit. The towns are Corcoran, Maple Grove, Champlin, Anoka, Cedar, St. Francis and Bethel, lying between 15 and 3 miles west and northwest of here. Anoka, a town of some 5,000 pop- ulation, suffered most seriously. There some 45 buildings were de- molished, Five persons were killed | there. | The dead also includes a family | of four whose automobile ran head- | long into the wind at Corcoran. | | | £ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JUNE 19, 1939. Green (Dem.-Fla.), of walrus tusk and was | GCAZE AT THE GAVEL that now be shown at Washington, D. C. given Mr. Green by Alaskans in tribute to R @ longs to Rep. Lex The gavel is made his work as house territories committee chairman. PROBE STARTS INTO SINKING OF SUBMARINE Faulty Induction Valve May Have Been Cause for Disaster PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire, June 19—The full dress Naval I The auto was lifted into the air poarq investigating the sinking of | and crashed with b - MAN BURIED 12 HOURS REVIVES IN TWO MINUTE BOMBAY, June 19. — Witnesses today watched the emergence of a Hindu who had himself buried alive for twelve hours to demonstrate the, power of Yoga philosophy. Shree Bhagwanswamiji was bur- jed in a sitting position while huge crowds looked on and the ceremony ‘was broadcast by the All-India radio. | ‘When the grave was opened twelve hours later observers said he was| found sitting as he had been left but apparently in a trance. In two minutes he was fully awake, they) said, and stepped out amid wild cheering and hymns of praise. Observers said no sweat was vis- ible on his face and that flowers buried with him were completely fresh. He grinned and told ques- tioners he would repeat the per- formance any time for five rupees; (about $1.75.) | Before a huge crowd and with the | ceremony broadcast by the All-In-| dia Radio, Shree Bhagwanswamiji | proclaimed he would he unharmed for twelve hours in the sealed grave. Bhagwanswamiji said not only would he be unharmed but that flowers that wreathed him would be unfaded when the grave was open- ed. He sat on a deerskin, praying to 3 picture of the Hindu god Krish. na, at the bottom of the grave while bystanders piled in the earth. When the hole was filled corrugated iron sheets were placed on the top and the edges were cemented. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of g:imes played this afterncon in the two major leagues: errific force. which is stili the tomb of 26 us, men, has produced testimony that a fauity induction valve may have allowed tons of water to pour into the vessel. Commander A. I. McKee, Plan- ning Officer of the Portsmouth Navy Yard, told the Board of In- quiry that it is “possible for au indicator (flashing light on the con- trol board of the submarine) to show closed while the valve is still open.” McKee is the first witness called by the Board of Inquiry in the probe to determine the cause of the sinking of the submarine. | s ol el I STock QUOTATIONS l NEW YORK, June 19.—Closing quotation on Alaska Juneau mine‘ stock today is 7%, American Can | 914, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 556%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 44, International | Harvester 58'2, Kennecott 32%, New | York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 814, United States Steel 47, Pound | $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow,} Jones averages: industrials 136.40,‘ rails 27.33, utilities 23.55. HOLDEN FLYING | PARTY OF FIVE 10 BELL ISLAND Held up by unfavorable weather Saturday and yesterday, Pilot Alex | Holden left late this afternoon with | |a party of five for Bell Island Hot Springs. The plane was to remain | overnight and return to Juneau to- MOrTrow. Passengers are Mr. and Mis. Harry Watson, Los Bernard, A.| Fehst and Lawrence Kerr. |the United States submarine Squal- | | | Aerielle Frazier Aerielle Frazier, Toledo, 0., and, | Newport, R. L, society girl, will marry Michael Strutt, of London, second son of Lord Belper, in July. The wedding will be at the Frazier home in Newport. Aerielle, 21, is the daughter of Joseph W. Fra: wealthy automobile manufactu; FREAK BLAST STARTS REAL ol rer. ~ HOT AFFAIR MARYSVILLE, Cal., June 19, —The valve of a gasoline tank truck was snapped off by a tree at Sly Creek Meadow in the high Sierra and here is what happened in rapid fashion: Gasoline spurted out and several miners rushed from their near-by camp to stop the flow. Vapor extended to their camp fires and ignited, exploding the truck. Douglas Powers, the truck driver, jerked off his flaming shirt and flung it. The garment struck a min- er's leg, which burst into flames and set another machine afire. Carl Fargo, a miner, had his whis- kers burned off. His machine and one owned by James A. Sanders was destroyed. Powers said he had $500 in cur- |rency in his pocket. He and the | miners fled and escaped serious in- jury. The fire was spotted from two| The | forest lookout stations and crews _PRICE TEN CENTS Confesses ~ ToKilling Infant Son Mother We;p? Hysterical- ly af Grave Then Ad- mits Murder FREMONT, Ohio, June 19.—Mrs. | Velma Baker Fink sobbed hysterical- ly at the graveside of her slain 10 weeks' old son Sunday and a few hours later confessed to Prosecut- | ing Attorney Hyzer, who announced she suffocated the child and then | tossed the body into a creek to “get rid” of him. It was first announced the baby | had been taken from its crib sev- | eral nights ago. After an all-night search, the body of the baby was found in a creek by deputy sheriffs and the FBI was called into the case, believing it was a kidnap | mystery. | | WEEPS DURING VISIT | FREMONT, Ohio, June 19.—Mrs. Fink, confessed slayer of her baby ‘boy, wept this afternoon as she |received a visit in jail from the |pastor who officiated at her mar- |riage last year and also at the funeral of her child. The minister was the Rev. Frank Jordane, of the Evangelical Lutheran church, who declared at the funeral that “God \will avenge the baby's killer.” The pastor left a testament with Mrs. Fink, who thanked him. Sheriff Myer quoted the young woman as saying she was deter- |mined to get rid of her baby after a quarrel with her .mobther as to| ithe care of the child. ! | LGN NG B sTopples - Over Cliff; 11 MenDie ;Twenly-onexe Reporfed | Injured on Sight- seeing Trip | | | | | i | | | | | 19.—Eleven German farmers were| | killed and 21 injured when a sight- | | seeing bus toppled over a 70-foot cliff on the Gross-Glockner moun- | tain road. HEIKIGENBLUT, Germany, June THREE DIE FROM EATING MUSSELS; OTHERS ARE ILL Marine Biologists Issue| Warning-Pacific Is Highly Toxic OAKLAND, Cal, June 19. Three persons have died from mus- ‘sel poisoning, tw ohere and one at Gilroy. i | Marine biologists have issued a |new warning that the waters of the Paacific ocean are now more highly toxic than for several years.| Beveral other mussel eaters arc under treatment in hospitals. John Galli, 21, died at Gilroy | and his father-in-law, Peter Agun- submarine Squalus, in which CALLING ON ‘DAVY JONES’ Piver Harry Ross of New London, Conn. He" & 26 bodies are entombed. N sank May 24, resulting in the —To the bottom of the ocean off Portsmouth, N. H being lowered from the rescue ship Falcon to the su val officers now seek to lift the sub whic dramatic escape of 33 persons by means of a diving bell. NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD—Here's the NLR.B. with its newest member, William S. Leiserson (left), Chairman J. Warren Madden and Edwin S. Smith. Smith re- cently told the senate labor committee he doubted there could be “any satisfactory legislative sub- stitute for the discretion vested in the board” for settling collective bargaining disputes. NEW REGULATIONS ON FOOD, AND DRUGS GO INTO EFFECT ON JUNE 25; MAKES LIFE SAFER By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 19.—A new batch of food and drug regulations bottles and jars indicating they may contain more food or cold cream or { hair tonic than they really do. The food and drugs administration has ALASKA HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS GIVEN APPROVAL - Sen alé Commerce Sub- Committee Takes Ac- ion-House Rejected i t ke life o« " | go into effect June 25 to make a “chamber of horrors” among which| wASHINGTON, June 19. — The safer for fat people, bald heads and are exhibits of cold cream bottles| genate Sub-Committee has approv- sun bathers. But life may still be fairly expen- sive for them, needlessly so, per- haps, for the food and drugs admin- istration is unable to step out and|men will buy. A six-ounce bottle of s tell people that sometimes a 50 cent variety of cold cream or ointment is as good for beauty or sunburn as a $3 item. One zone of danger is constantly narrowing—that is the field of pois-| onous cosmetics. That part of the (which hold barely a spoonful al- 'though from the outside they would { appear to hold half a pint. ‘i The administration is constantly |surprised by the sort of things wo- perfumed salt water now abolished | had a good sale at $1 a bottle as a shampoo which would not remove | the wave in the hair If the salt waier had been called ia food or drug the bottle must have said what it contained. But Con-| | ed of the Omnibus Rivers and Har- bors bill authorizing $407,000,000 | for projects or $324,000,000 more | than. voted by the House. | The projects added include Sitka arbor, for the sum of $109,000 and for improvements of Kodiak harbor, both in Alaska. SANFRANCISCO LINE RINGS CONCESSION Chamberfain Still Hopes fo Settle Incident Peaceably | WATER SHORTAGE IS NOW AROUSING FEARS Women and Children May Be Evacuated by Passenger Boat BULLETIN, TIENTSIN, June 19.—Japanese military authori- ties today erected a 1,000 volt electric wire barricade around the British and French conces- sions here. A Japanese engineer, shortly after the last wire had been hung, pulled a switch that sent the heavy current surging over es strung com- pletely around the concessions. The aim, it is said, in erect- ing the barrier of “hot wire,” is to prevent anyone from trying to steal through the blockade under cover of darimess and pass fresh food across the bar- riers behind the backs of Jap- anese sentrics. PARLEYS CONT LONDON, Jduisgs 18- of Commons heard British Pregucr Neville Chamberlain say today that British and Japanese governments 'are conferring in both London and Tokyo in an effort to settle the tense blockade incident between the two nations at Tientsin | Premier Chamberlain said it is 'still hoped that a local settlement can be made possible, although he said the incident is confused “by |the introduction of larger issues of |general policy.” | The British Government believes Japan’s CGovernment “shares the | British desire not to widen the area of disagreement, or render mors acute the already difficult situa- tion,” Chamberlain said ay Evacuate The removal of British women (and children from the International jnmc»sion.a of Tientsin is being con=- Isidered by British authorities as the |blockade siege by the Japanese inwu'mi the end of its sixth day. Water Low | With a shortage in foodstuf milk already felt, the new me has appeared of watler shortag ibility. The and pos= concessions yesterday (Continued on Page Five) BT S SIS U.S. CONCERN IS MANIFEST ATTIENTSIN ‘Broader Aspedis of Situas tion Being Watched, Says Hull WASHINGTON, June 19.—See« act went into effect immediately National League { when it was signed last June 25 by| Watsons and Bernard are to Visit|rushed to the scene but the wet, Brooklyn 3; Chicago 3, tie, call- dez, is reported critically ill. Governor John W. Troy and return | gress didn't go that far in the m} BAY Il[.up lS with cosmetics. It was skittery | retary of Stale ordell Hull today ed at end of eighth inning on ac- count of rain. American League Detroit 5; New York 8. St. Louis 2, 1; Washington 1, 6. SILCOX CHANGES PLANS; (OMING BACK BY BOAT Insteaa of tlying from Sitka to Juneau this afternoon as his sched- ule provided, F. A, Silcox, Chief of the U. S. Forest Service, is staying with the launch Forester and re- turning by boat Wednesday, the office here was notified this after- noon. Accompanying the Chief are R. F. Hammatt, his assistant, Well- man Holbrook, Assistant Regional Forester, and -W. A. Chipperfield, District Ranger. green grass and trees prevented a tomorrow. Kerr will spend several | forest fir weeks at the resort on vacation. | DOG LICENSES FOR | NEW YEAR ON SALE Though city ordinance requires licensing of every dog and though old licenses expired May 31, the call for new ones has not been heayy, | City Clerke Harley Turner revealed today. New dog licenses, good until May | 31, 1940, cost $1. | - NEW YORK, June 6.—Rising edu- | cational standards in Southern states resulted in college enroll-| ment increases of from 75 to 255/ per cent during the five-year per- iod ended in 1938, the National Bu- reau of Private Schools reports. Total loss to miners and oil com- pany was about $8,000. MINES PROFESSOR IS VISITING HERE Livingston Wright, mines profes- sor from the University of Alaska, arrived in Juneau on the PAA Electra Saturday from Fairbanks. Registered at the Gastineau Ho- tel, Wright plans to be in the Ju- neau area for several days in con- nection with mining work. e — NASHVILLE, 'Tenn., June 6. — A 112-year-old, two-story log build- ing on the River Road was torn down—so that its firm, hahd-hewn logs might be used in building a home of more modern design. Oakland victims are Michael Lu- | bis, 48, and Anthony Silva, 58. | B LA R A EXPLODING BOMB IN CITY MARKET | KILLS EIGHTEEN Arabians, Men, Women and Children, Are Among Victims JERUSALEM, June 19.—Eighteen | Arabs were killed at dawn today| and 24 wounded by an explosion of a bomb in the Haifa Market Place. The dead are nine men, six wom- en and three children. | cosmetic will be considered | pranded if its labeling is false or |that she is paying $6 a pint for per- of the United States Maritime the President. Poisonous hair dyes eye-lash dyes, and many varieties of violent skin bleaches have been taken off the market already as dangerous. All of the balance of the act was to go into effect this June 25 but an amendment is about complete to postpone some of the honest label| provisions until next Jan. 1, or per- haps even July 1, 1940. Some Restriction Going into effect June 25, how- ever, is a provision stating that a mis- misleading in any particular.” So if a sunburn oil says it con- tains certain elements good for shielding off the hotter rays, it bet-| ter contain them, or fines may be heaped upon the faulty manufac- tuter. Outlawed also will be ‘“cheater” | about making excessive regulatio: jon cosmetics without more exper- | ience. They were not subject to reg- | ,ulfluon at all until this bill went into | effect. { i Expect to Widen Out ‘ Aministration people believe it ! | won’t be long until the law is chang- | |ed to require hair tonics, face lotions | and creams to say what they con- tain. PFor our own personal satis- |faction we hope that time will come soon as we have tried for months |to persuade a young lady we know “fumed horse liniment. We should |like to have the Government prove | it. Just now the Government is doing its best to stamp out harmful re-| ducing compounds but is having no| tend of trouble doing it. The food | " (Continued on Page Three) = | NOW ABSOLUTE Twenty-four Boats Flee to Other Ports fo Avert * Shutdown SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 19 ~—~The CIO. Ship Clerks and their employers are hea for a con- ference, Chairman Robert Bruere, A~ the bor Commission, announced as the unionists warned tha any shipping tieup might spread up and down the coast. The San Francisco bay has been virtually deserted since Saturday after 24 vessels fled to escape the shutdown. ‘Huluml\v expressed concern of the | United States on the “broader as= pects of developments at Tientsin where the Japanese army has bare ricaded by a blockade the British jand Prench concessions b Because of this deep eoncerm, Secretary Hull said this government: is observing h “special interest all related developments in China At the same time the Secretary of State issued the formal stafés - ment, Hull told ‘the newsmen it has been suggested that the good offices of the American Consul Gen- eral in Tientsin, John Caldwell, be used for the purpose of mediation, The Secretary of State sald Caldwell had made the offer before the blockade started and related only to the coutroversy over the refusal of the British authorities {o turn over to the Japanese four alleged Chinese terrorists ~accused of murder,