The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 30, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8144. JUNEAU, ALASKA, JUNE 30, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FRIDAY 'JAPAN BOMBS, DESTROY AMER. SCHOOL | British Issue Warning, Nazi TIME EXTENDED FOR 60 DAYS, ANNUAL ASSESSMENT WORK The measure to extend the time within which the annual assess- ment work on mining claims held on location in the United States proper and Alaska, has passed the House and Senate and goes to the ‘White House for the signature of President Roosevelt according to advices received by The Empire from Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. The time extension is from 12 o'clock noon, July 1, to 12 o'clock noon, September 1 of the current year. FDR URGED TO SIGN | WASHINGTON, June 30.—The on of time for ment work on mining claims was sent to the White House this morning and members of Congress from the western states are urging the Presi- dent to sign the speedily passed legislation. The extension of time for the an- nual assessment work is for sixty days. The House measure was for 90 days but the Senate agreed to only sixty days, to September 1, and the House concurred Representative Murdock, author of the bill, said he and other wes- terners have dressed appeals to the President to sign the legisla- tion at once. bill granting exter he annual as GEN. CRAIG URGES WORK IN ALASKA Retiring Chief of Staff Is for Preparing Line- Lightning Force WASHINGTON, June 30. — On the eve of his retirement as the Army’s Chief of Staff, Gen. Malin | Craig today recommended that five small seasoned hard-hitting Army divisions be created to strike with lightning rapidity against any en- emy attacking the Western Hem- isphere. They would be infantry and ar- tillery divisions and would be avail- able for instant dispatch to seize or hold naval air bases or destroy enemy bases, the General said. Gen, Craig also recommended the Alaska-Hawaii-Panama-Puerto Rico outpost line be prepared for imme- diate action. AR U T T Jack Dempsey Under Knife in N.Y. Eospilal Emergency Ap p e ndicitis Operation Perform- ed Last Night NEW YORK, June 30. — The stamina that carried him to the top of the boxing game is stand- ing Jack Dempsey in good stead following an emergency operation for appendicitis, his physician said. The former heavyweight shamp- jon apparently withstood the op- eration last night very well and early this morning his general con- dition was reported as excellent. SERIOUS COMPLICATION NEW YORK, June 30—A. A Jaller, Superiniendent of the Polk Clinic and Hospital, said Dempsey. who underwent an emergency ap- pendicitis operation, last night, had a serious complication amounting to gangrenous appendix and peri- tonitis. AMERICAN GIVEN HIGH RATING IN GLIDER SOARING ELMIRA, N. Y., June 30.—Offi- cials of the National Soaring Meet announced today that Aviation Ca- det Robert M. Stanley, by his al- titude flight of 16,400 feet, has be- come the first American glider pi- lot to qualify for the Golden C. Award, the highest International rating available to sail plane fliers, * ALIMONY PICKET . ment of our pledges.” A Joan Manners of Los Angeles, who recently seized the weapon of domestic picketing after she lost custody of her daughter in a court fight with her husband, John Langan. Charging her husband owes her arrears in alimony Miss Manners picketed a studio, where her former hus- band is employed, until police prevailed on her to leave. THREE FAIRS ASK FOR AID OF TREASURY Fairbanks, Kelchikan, Ju- neau Seek Territorial Funds for Shows Applications for fair money un- der the recently amended law al- lowing agricultural and industrial fairs to receive from the Territory a grant equal to the amount the fair association has on hand and actually spends for the exposition have been received by the Gov- ernor's office from three Alaska fair groups. Today is the last day on which applications may be made. Grants of $1,000 each were re- quested by the Tanana Valley Fair Association for a fair at Fair- banks from August 31 to September 2; Ketchikan Industrial Fair As- sociation, Ketchikan, September 1 to 4, and Southeast Alaska Fair Association, Juneau. Still pending from last year is an appplication from the Northwestern Alaska Fair Association at Nome. No application was received from Matanuska where a fair is usually held. ., The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two Major Leagues: National League Cincinnati 1; Chicago 5. American League Chicago 1; Detroit 3. New York 10; Washington 2, 1770eC, PWA, WPA Al NEXTMOVE ~ WILLMEAN | SURE FIGHT Foreign Minister Halifax Gives Blunt Advice to Germany BRITISH OFFICIAL MAKES STATEMENT Europe Puzzling Over Var-| ious Rumors, Gen- | eral Alarm (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Europe is puzzling a jumble of rumors, alarms and solemn warn- ings by high official spokesmen and the usual tangible bases of fear | are apparently grave. Declarations have been made by | both the British and French that | “further aggression” will be met| with force and these matched ru-| ! mors that Germany is preparing | for a new coup, perhaps against | Danzig. | British Foreign Secretary Halifax, | in a speech, warning against “fur-; ther aggression” which will be met by force, is the gravest utterance | by a Foreign Minister to another power since the World War. The Foreign Minister bluntly ad- vised Germany that “further ag- gression” in the world will be met by “our whole strength in fulfill- In the face of all this, official | Germans simply shrug their shoul- | ders and say: “We are conscious of our strength and are supremely | calm.” B OFFICES FEEL REORANIZATION HERE SATURDAY Fisheries, G;Ee, B..P. R, Being Shifted Reorganization, as outlined 1n two plans of President Roosevelt and later approved by Congress, | goes into effect at midnight to- inight, touching half a dozen Ju- | neau offices of Federal agencies. Just what the various changes will mean, however, is not known |even to the heads of departments here, none having received more | than brief notice that the transfer was effective July 1. The Bureau of Fisheries is shift- “ed under the reorganization plan | from the Department of Commerce | to the Department of the Interior. | The Alaska Game Commission, | with its Bureau of Biological Sur- | vey staff, leaves the Department | of Agriculture for the Department | of the Interior. | No Information | Neither Seton Thompson, Assis- tant Chief of the Alaska Division |of the Bureau of Fishtries, nor Prank Dufresne, Executive Officer |of the Alaska Game Commission, | was able to predict today what the | change would mean here, outside |of a change of wording in official letterheads. Said President Roosevelt in his message accompanying the reor- ganization plan: “These two bureaus have to do with conservation and utilization of | the wildlife resources of the coun- try, terrestrial and aquatic. There- fore, they should be grouped under the same departmental adminis- tration, and in that Department ‘which, more than any other, is directly responsible for the admin- | isiration and conservation of the | public domain. However, I intend to direct that the facilities of the Department of Agriculture shall continue to be used for research studies which have to do with the protection of domestic animals from (Continued on Page Eight) | Aggression Claire Serene Low and Kenford Kong Aren't they cute? Yes, and so agreed judges in a Chinese children’s contest at the San Francisco internmtional exposition who selected Clair Serene Low, left, and Kenford Xoryg as the “cutest” Chinese girl and boy in ti. centest. Spotlight's Glare Is Now (rowded But Paul McNut s Slaying Right in_ There FILIBUSTERING IS ATTACKED BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE Says Senafe May Resulf fo Such Tactics on Mone- - fary Powers BULLET! WASHINGTON, June 30.— Senate Republican leadership annourices that the Administration’s compromise monetary bill will be talked to death, The announcement came from Senator Warren R. Aus- tin, of Vermont. following the President’s talk to the newsmen at the Friday conference, that the country would not be sym- pathetic to a filibuster to delay tactics. WASHINGTON, June 30.—Presi- dent Roosevelt this morning con- sidered the possibility that a Senate filibuster might block renewal .of his expiring monetary powers. The President remarked that the people would not be more favorably inclined toward filibusters if one developed. The President’s remark about the people of the nation is readily un- derstood as meaning that any fili- buster situation is evidently de- signed to focus attention on an ef- fort to delay Congressional action so his emergency monetary powers will expire at midnfght tonight He added that he considered his filibuster remark as rather a mild one. BURDICK DUE FROM INTERIOR TOMORROW Forest Inspector Charles G. Bur- dick, who has been in the Interior for six weeks arranging for a num- ber of new CCC camps under the summer program of the Corps, is returning on the Baranof from the Westward, due here tomorrow af- ternoon, By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, June 30.—Often enough the candidate who first tosses his hat in the presidential ring lives sorrowfully to see it trampled upon. Such a risk is being taken by Paw V. McNutt of Indiana, but a few of the wise ones here are advising against scratching off his name too early. The gentleman, it seems, is smart. Political comets nearly always |teave a train of scorched lesser lu- | minaries. McNutt had some o those. When he left for the Philip- pines they said he was off for poli- | tical Siberia. And after that affai with President Quezon over who | should be toasted first, the ridicule reached historic proportions. Yet his current return to the | United States, this time presum- {ably to stay and run for the Demo- | cratic nomination, finds him as | much in the spotlight as a man could be coming back to a country so busy with important affairs. His gampaign organization pavec the way for part of the show, in- cluding a statewide demonstration in Indian and a wholesale distribu- tion of publicity material. STOOD UP FOR U. S. From the Philippines have come reports that by his hard-handed attitude in the cocktail affair he saved face for the United States in | the Orient. In the Orient that is |important. It seems that at a dip- lomatic party someone proposed a | toast jointly to the President of the United States and the President of the Philippines. McNutt declined to let it be used as a precedent. He notified each foreign consul that a toast for the President of the | United States is to be separate and not jointly with the President of the Philippines. If more toasts are desired, then one may be given first to the U. 8. high commissioner (him- self) and next to the President of the Philippines. The United States, said McNutt, comes first until the islands are independent. Filipinos boiled for a fime with indignation. Just where McNutt stands with | President Roosevelt is anybody’s |guess. It is reported substantially |here that before McNutt let his name be put up for 1940 he went to { Roosevelt and asked if it would em- barrass the President. Mr. Roosevelt (Continue&‘ on Page Seven) Cute Chinese? Judges Said So 1CKES SAD; LOSES PWA | TOMORROW Secrefary Hopes He Can Take It Under New Reorganization WASHINGTON, June 30—Sec- retary of the Interior Harold L. today said farewell to his -old public works organiza- tion in a voice choked with emo- tion and mumbled the hope he could take it. “I've taken a good many things on the chin. I ought to be able to take this,” he said On July 1, John named by President Roosevelt to the new Federal Works Agen- cy, takes over the PWA program. Ickes, who will continue as Sec- retar yof the Interior, addressed 2500 PWA employees, some of whom may lose their jobs under reorganization. D BEATS MOTHER 10 DEATH; MAN HAS CONFESSED Police Attempting fo Link Slayer with Kill- ing Dancer HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 30. —| Police, claiming confession of mat- "rlr‘ld(‘ from Campbell McDonald, heavy set 25-year-old student, are { grilling him at length regarding the bludgeoning to death, five months {ago, of a pretty young Russian | dancer. | McDonald, arrested at Santa | Monica shortly before midnight last night, admitted beating his mother, | Mrs. Margaret Campbell, former si- lent screen actress, to death last | Sunday night because, he confessed, she was going to place him in an institution. McDonald so far has however, denied knowledge of the fatal slug- ging of Anya Sosyeva, former Zieg- | feld Follies dancer, LARGE VESSELS ARE WANTED ON WESTERN ROUTE 'Legislation Asked for Con- cerning Mail Boats Ply- ing from Seward WASHINGTON, June 30. — Ap- proval of legislagion to require mail boats .operating between Seward and numerous points along the Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians, Bristol Bay land Goodnews Bay, to be large | enough to accommodate freight and possengers, is urged before the House Post Office committee by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimind, J. W. Cole, Deputy Assistant Postmaster General; Gen. Huntington Morse, Assistant to the Chairman of the Maritime Commission, and Paul Gordon, Division of Territories. The four testified that residents of villages along the 700-mile route are now virtually without water transportation facilities with the present mail boat and they are not licensed to carry passengers and freight: - D MINING MAN HERE A. Schubach, of San FPrancisco, with mining interests in the Inter- jor, arrived in Juneau from Fair- banks yesterday with Pacific Alaska Alrways, While in Juneau Schubach is a guest at the Baranof Hotel. He will go south tomorrow on the Baranof. - eee— - MARRIAGE LICENSE A marriage license has been is- reputedly said the more the mer-|sued by U. 8. Commissioner Felix |the Tongass National Forest and Gray to Earl Brussman Wilson and Dorothy Bessie Whittaker. M. Carmody, Apple for Teaches | Doris Geisinger An Atlantic City schoolteacher, 24-year-old Doris Geisinger, was chosen to act as official hostess at the annual beauty pageant in Sep- tember and to make a national “good will tour” in August. Miss | Geisinger is five foot four, has ash blonde hair and weighs 118 pounds. ‘1. P. WILLIAMS - RETIRES FROM FOREST SERVICE jChief Ranger Reaches Age, | Limit Affer 30 Years in Service | Having rounded out 30 years of | service in the U. 8. Forest Service, J. P. Williams, widely known as forest officer, wildlife specialist and sportsman, today retired from Gov- ernment service on account of age. His title on retirement was Chief Forest Ranger. All members of the Regional Of- |fice and District Ranger's Office| lof the Forest Service attended a Juncheon at Percy's Cafe this noon honoring Mr. and Mrs. Williams, Assistant Regional Forester Well- man Holbrook, on behalf of all Forest Servi personnel in Alaska, presented the retiring Ranger with a fine pair of binoculars, suitably engraved. Born in Wisconsin, Mr. Williams attended the Unlversity of that state and participated in the Span- ish-American war from the spring of 1898 to January 1899 as a mem- | ber of Co. L, Third Wisconsin Vol-| unteers on the Puerto Rico cam- paign, To Alaska In 1903 He made his first visit to Alaska in 1903. During the summer of 1904, 1905, and 1906 he was a mem- | ber of the International Boundary | Commission acting in the capacity | | of boatman, packer and hunter. Mr. Williams' first position with | | the Forest Service was that of | | Forest Guard on the Wenatchee | National Forest, at Leavenworth, | INSTITUTION ATFOOCHOW 1S WRECKED Shells Dropped on Plainly Marked United States Building BRITISH BLUEJACKETS LANDED AT CLOSED PORT Nippon Pafis Reported Defeated by Chinese on Pingstan Isle SHANGHAI, June 30.—Japanese planes have destroyed the plainly marked American school at Foo- chow in the opening of the coastal offensives which the Chinese de- | clare have been repulsed thus far. At the same time the British gunboat Grasshopper landed 36 bluejackets at Foochow, the port closed by the Japanese to protect British interests. The damage to the American owned Union Middle School two miles west of Foochow is estimated at $50,000. Two projectiles hit the large building which is one mile from any other structure of similar character. There were no casual- ties, according to unofficial reports. Chinese dispatches tell of the de- feat of a landing party of Japan- ese at Pingstan Island, 45 miles southeast of Foochow. e — WESTERN TRIP OF PRESIDENT IS UP IN AIR Says He Plans fo Begin Tour, Possibly 4 Days After Adjournment WASHINGTON, June 30—Presi- dent Roosevelt sald he probably will start his trip to the west coast four days after Congress adjourns, but the newsmen at the press confer- ence today are not sure just how he meant the remark on the date. Quite frequently his western trip, possibly extended to Juneau, Alaska, has been a topic at press conferences. The President tossed off his lat- est comment on it today with a quick grin and told his questioners faacetiously that thus they knew all about the subject. The newsmen professed however, that they are as much in the dark as ever, FOREIGN SILVER REMAINS TODAY, 38 CENTS, OUNCE |Compromise May Permif | Washington. This was a tempor- | |ary position begun on August 1| 1909. He took the Ranger exam-| ination that fall and received a| permanent appointment as Assist-| |aant Forest Ranger on the Chi-| waukum district of the same forest on May 1, 1910. He was trans-| | ferred to the Tongass National For- est here as Forest Ranger in July, 1915, He resigned on March 1, 1918, for the purpose of enlisting | in the World War. but was rejected | on account of age. He later went to Camp Perry as| |a member of the Alaska civilian rifle | team on invitation of Governor| Riggs, and was chosen to remain for | | six weeks longer for intensive train-| ing and examinations to fit him as| rifle instructor for the 31 to 45| year draft. Mr. Williams re-en- tered the Forest Service on Janu-| |ary 16, 1920, as Forest Ranger on i (Continued on Paz; Two) Treasury fo Confinue Purchasing WASHINGTON, June 30. — The price of foreign silver remained at 38 cents an uonce today, set yes= terday by the Treasury Department. It is believed that a compromise on the monetary bill between the |Senate and House will provide for continuation of the Treasury's for- eign silver buying. Silver buying from forelgn lands, as the issue now stands without a compromise, prohibits purchases after midnight tonight. LT T S BROADCASTING TONIGHT Bettie Sale is broadcasting to- night at 6 o'clock over KINY, one of a series of monologues in negro dialect, she has broadcast over a period of years from Seattle, New York and, Hollywood,