The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 7, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” T VOL. LIV., NO. 8149. CABINET JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1939. TOKYO GLUM ONBIG WAR ANNIVERSARY ThousandsPTay in Resig-j nation as No Hint of Victory Is Seen HATRED OF BRITISH HITS RECORD PEAK Japanese Drive in Oufer Mongolia Stopped by Soviet Forces (By Associated Press) All Japan solemnly commemo- | rated today the second anniversary | of the undeclared war in China. In Tokyo, where the public mood is one of resignation to the trials of conflict and perplexity that a Japanese victory has still not come, Emperor Hirohito went to the shrines in his palace and prfi_ved‘ for the repose of those souls dead, | while at Yasukuni shrine, the Jap- | anese Arlington, thousands of rela- tives of warrior slain gave national service and offered prayers in turn. The war’s cost in lives, higher living, taxes, and greater costs in other restrictions on normal life left the public resigned as they would be toward a natural catas-| trophe such as earthquake or smrm.r Colonel Moriaki Shimizu, Director | of the Army Information Bureau stated bluntly that “never in the history have the Japanese people| borne in their hearts such an in- tense hatred for all that is Great Britain. | Another Oriental conflict near| Lake Bor on the Manchoukuo- | Outer Mongolia frontier raged today | in heavy battle for its fourth day with the Japanese Manchoukuo | troops apparently halted in their | drive against the center of the Mon- gol-Soviet line. SILVER PRICE IS UNCHANGED FOR | MARKET TODAY London While Metal, Im-| mediate Delivery, De- clines-Futures Held WASHINGTON, July 7. — The price of foreign silver was not changed today by the Treasury De- partment and remains at 36.75 cents | an ounce. LONDON PRICE DECLINES LONDON, July 7—~The price of silver for immediate delivery de-| clined 1-16 penny today to 17% | pence an ounce, which is equivalent | to 36.01 cents, American. Contracts for delivery of the white metal in two months are not chang- ed however, and remains at 17 FISHERY EXPERT o — S POLISH PREPAREDN ESS—Europe’s jittery nerves find no solace in Poland where maneuvers of troops and heavy artil- lery (such as above) reflect that nation's tense anxiety over an increasingly grave -international situation. Poland’s motto at present is the same as the Boy Scouts' “be prepared.” WRONG WORDS BY YARNELL MIGHT PUT UNITED STATES IN TOUGH SPOT IN ORIENT | | | By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 7—It makes cold chills run up and down your spine to think what a tremendous responsibility rests on a naval com- | mander in an outlying trouble-sta- | tion like China. If he backs away when he should shove up for some diplomatic in- fighting he loses face for the coun- ENROUTE HERE NAVY LIKES IT As a matter of fact the Navy is quite proud of Yarnell's punch lines jeven though the State Department may shiver in a sort of ecstatic hor- . i Dr. HUbbs Gomg fo P"b' try. On the other hand, if he closes | plosive national sentiment. Then we Dr. Carl C. Hubbs, 44, Univcrslty‘m telling Japan that despite her Harold L. Ickes to make a facl- cjyqe Swatow, where the Japanese dustry, arrived today on the steam- prought an even blunter reply. | He will stop at Wrangell . . | | in and slugs too hard he may start lIOfs Before StUdymg | a train of events running like a fuse S. E. Situation } would have war. That was the sort of thing Ad- of Michigan Professor for the past warnings, American naval vessels 20 years who was recently appoint-| w14 go where necessary to protect finding report on Alaska adminis- haq just ordered us out. Those Were tration of the Bureau of Fisheries plynt words, and circumstances can er Alaska, immediately boarding the Pisheries boat Brant for the Juneau enroute. Dr. Hubbs said he would spend a and Are Blown in; Decks Washed Five Succes;}\;a Raids Are Made by War Planes at Chungking CHUNGKING, China, July 7. —Doors of the 400-ton British gunboat Falcoln were blown in and the craft's lower deck was awash with water when four bombs from Japanese war planes exploded near the ship at the Yangtze River anchorage. The second anniversary of the undeclared war on China by Ja- pan was ushered in at this Chin- ese Capital by five successive flights of Japanese war planes that bembarded the city caus- ing at least 50 casualties, Some of the bombs narrowly missed the residence of the Counsellor of the United States Embassy, Whillys Peck. Four air raids were made on this city yesterday. NEW DIVISION " HEAD OF COAST GUARD LEAVING “ Thompson fo Arrive in Ju- neau Early in Week- Pay Clerk Coming | | | i SEATTLE, July 7.—In the first | transfer of a Coast Guard officer in | connection with taking over the | Lighthouse Service as of July 1, Commander W. K. Thompson of the cruiser Ingham has been ordered to Juneau to assume his new duties as Commander of the new division which takes in all of Alaska. | Chief Pay Clerk C. W. Warmker, |also of the cutter Ingham, leaves| {with Thompson on the North Coast | for Juneau. | Seeking Quarters Permanent quarters for the new |officers of the Division headquar-| | ters here are still being sought, with | the Baranof Hotel to represent tem- | porary headquarters for Thompson land his staff. NORTH COAST JUNEAU BOUND SEATTLE, July 7. — Steamer North Coast sailed for Southeast Alaska at 10:40 o'clock this fore- noon with 275 passengers aboard, | the following booked for Juneau: Miss J. M. McTavish, M. Sim- mons, Mrs. Walter Hill, Miss Mar- | garet Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Law- rence Allen and children, Mrs. M.' A. Weiss, Leo Weiss, Ray Cable, Mrs. Joe Wehren, P. E. Johnson, George Bassford. There are also 59 round trippers‘ | aboard the North Coast. Monopolies MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ARICE TEN CENTS & Electrically charged sin during Nippon's blockade of that area in the China port. with Japanese sentries stationed at one of the seven blockaded exits of the region. ese Charge Barbed Wire, British Ship's Doors | Jore 5 ERLE § i1 o TR B u Area barbed wire entanglements have been thrown around the British concession of Tient- Photo shows part of the blocked off area Sentries have been ordered to search members of the colony seeking to enter or leave the compound. ALATNA IS THREATENED, HIGH WATER Koyukuk River Town Mov- ing Residences as Banks Cave In FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 7.—Ex- tra high water threatens the town of Alatna on the Koyukuk, tributary to the lower Yukon river. | Ed Weiss, arriving here by plane | from the Wilford Evans trading post, | reports that 70 residences have been moved back 30 feet from the caving river bank which is gradually being washed away. ! i | Will Be Hit By New Bil! Heavy Penalfies A sked- Officers Would Be Responsible WASHINGTON, July 7—A bil under. which the government could crack down on monopolies by exact- ing heavy damages from offending corporations and their officers has been introduced by Senator O'Ma- honey, Democrat, of chairman of the monopoly commit- tee, after conferences with Assist- ant Attorney General Thurman Ar- nold. The government would be able. to sue offending corporations for twice the amount of their total net in- | | | straight to our barrel of high ex- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July T——|,iq) yamnell faced out in China ed by Secretary of the Interior yangee citizens. That would in- and all phases of the fishing in- pe imagined where they might have Pribilof Islands. | few weeks in the Ketchikan vicin- i ror at such firm-lipped language. come for every month in which the TUfiion Members Say "No Go" On Time Change Miners of CIO local 203 an- nounced today that if the City Council acts favorably tonight on the suggestion of the Ju- neau Chamber of Commerce for daylight saving time, “Ju- neau will henceforth have two times instead -of one.” The miners went on record June 5 as definitely opposed to any change in Juncau's time, which the Chamber of Com- merce suggested. Lively discussion is expected in the City Hall Council Cham- bers tonight on the question of the time change. ALASKA TIMBER SALES RECEIVE OKAH OF HOUSE 'Rivermen of Alaska Rail- | road May Come Under Age Refirement WASHINGTON, July 7 | House has approved of the measure | | which will permit the Interior De- | partment to sell timber on Alaska |lands reserved /r educational uses | as provided under a 1915 act reserv- |ing lands. | The act will be amended to per- | mit disposition of timber and min-| | erals on the reserved lands with the | | proceeds to be deposited in the Ter- | ritorial Treasury for the support Of‘ schools under the direction of the| Alaska Legislature. Also the House passed and sent Senate a gill that will bring| | | to the Wyoming, | Fiver boatmen, employed by the Al-|Inlet cannery jobs, boarded |aska Railroad under the benefits of | steamer Alaska Thursday night for | the Railroads Retirement plan. Geom;ber | | | BUCK CHANGE 34SENATOR NEUTRALITY Johnso n,—a California, Serves Notice of Plans of Big Group WASHINGTON, July 7—A dec- laration which Senator Hiram W. Johnson, Republican of California, said was signed by 34 Senators, stat- FFICIAL PASSES AWAY TODAY Japanese Bombs Crash Near British G nboat SECRETARY SWANSON OF NAVYDIES Announcement Is Made by President Roosevelt with $ta|ement WAS FOR YEARS IN U. 5. PUBLIC SERVICE Senafe Ad}auns Until Monday When State Funeral fo Be Held | | | | WASHINGTON, July 7.—Presi= | dent Franklin D. Roosevelt early this | morning announced the death of | Claude A. Swanson, Secretary of the | Navy, at Rapidan Camp, in Virginia, | Secretary Swanson, former Gover- |nor and Senator from Virginia and Secretary of the Navy since Presi= dent Roosevelt took office in 1933, was 77 years of age. He had been in ill health for many months. President Roosevelt issued the | statement regarding the death and | expressed sorrow as follows: _ | “He brought to the public service 'not only ability and integrity, but | loyalty and principle to duty from which no consideration could move +him. - By ‘his example. hé providéd inspiration for all public servants, I personally mourn the passing of & steadfast and intimate friend for The | ed the group would fight any change lin the existing neutrality law “by | every legitimate and honorable means at our command.” | The statement was issued by Sen- ator Johnson after a conference in his office with Senators. The statement was immediately interpreted as a threat to engage, in a prolonged debate on the Ad- ministration‘s neutrality proposals. e FILIPINO CREW FINALLY SAILS | FOR WRANGELL AFL Union Men Travel by Steamer when Tender Sailors Balk KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 7.— Sixteen Filipino AFL cannery | workers who had been prevented | by CIO pickets since noon Wednes- day from departing for Burnett the Wrangell where they anticipate no difficulty in getting passage to the cannery. The Filipinos finally boarded the cannery tender at noon yesterday | with police standing by, only to i | "CLAUDE A. 6WANSON | —— ! more than a quarter of a century. Dies Early Today The widow, Mrs, Lucille Swanson, was at the bedside when her hus< ' band passed on. | Other survivors are a stepson, Douglas Hall; brother Henry and | sisters Misses Sallie and Anna Swan- | ginia, son will live at Swansonville, Vire Had Hemorrhage Secretary Swanson died at 8:06 o'clock this morning, EST., after a cerebral hemorrhage yesterday. He had been at the Rapidan Camp for more than a month resting and con= valescing from his long illness. Assistant Secretary of Navy Charles Edison automatically be- comes Acting Secretary. The Senate récessed until 11 o'- | have the crew refuse to sail. Fili- | clock Monday morning when there |ity in the latter part of the sum-| Hard-nosed language has been | pinos were forced off and awaited | will be a state funeral in the Senate pence for futures. The market held steady today in the face of the policy of adopting a day by day price fixing on im-| ported silver by the United States Treasury. | | Stock QuoraTions NEW YORK, July 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 95, American Power and Light 4. Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 52%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 427, International Harves- ter 542, Kennecott 32, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 7%, United States 45%, Pound $4.68%.| | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 132.26, rais 26.75, utilities 23.61, mer, studying both salmon traps the habit of American naval offi- and seine fishing from a conserva- cers in the Orient ever since Ad- tion standpoint. MET BY JUNEAU MEN Seton Thompson, Acting Alaska Agent of the Bureau of Fisheries, and Frank Dufresne, Executive Of- ficer of the Alaska Game Com- | miral Perry bluffed his way into Japan. For some reason beyond | the understanding of this corre- ! spondent, the U. S. always has ex- |ercised a stern fatherly attitude | over China, and did for a time over | Japan, althqugh in recent years it {has not been particularly wel- CANADIAN CHAMP IS GIVEN DECISION | IN RODAK MATCH TORONTO, July 7.—Dave Cas-| tillous of Montreal Canadian violation occurred. Heavy Fines Provided In addition, officers and directors would be made personally respon- sible for anti-trust violations by their companies and upon convic- tion could be fined twice the amount of their total compensation for every month the violation occurred and barred from any further connection | Passes Away At Fairbanks FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 7. —| George Weber, 70, Alaska pioneer, | the steamer. Conrad Espe of Seattle, Interna- | Chamber. Long in Public Life mission, both of whose agencies with the company. | went under the Department of the Interior under the recent reorgani- comed there. | But the heavy naval hand hasn’t ! always been so successful in other featherweight champion, scored the unanimous decision of the referee| O'Mahoney expressed the opinion ;{amon syrve, Taek Dby at| juarters. Doughty Captain Wilkes etchikan and will accompany him | ¢jeq it on the British during the fo Juneau, whete he Is expected to| Givil War. He stopped a British » ship and took off two Confederate i B agents, Mason and Slidell, who 3 were bound for London to whip up BAll GAME' support for the cause. . The Union went crazy with glee over the brilliant escapade-but we Moose and Douglas are scheduled | jolly well had te back out of it. for a ball game tonight in Fire-| Not in a long time has Britain al- men's Park, but at 3 o'clock this|lowed her ships or passengers to afternoon after several hours|be treated in such high - handed straight of slow drizzle, it appears| fashion.. The Union apelogized for very much like a postponed con-|the affront under severe pressure test (Continued on ;;\Ee Seven) and judges last night at the end of | a ten-round bout with Leo Rodak. R HOLZHEIMER RETURNING | TONIGHT ON ALASKA William A. Holzheimer, United States Attorney, is returning to Ju- neau, arriving on the steamer Al- aska, Judge Holzheimer has been in| Ketchikan for the past two weeks recently appointed to the office, in a statement that “bringing anti- trust law violations home to offi- cers who are themselves responsible for these practices will go far to cure many of the restraints of trade.” COURT OF HONOR POSTPONED WEEK A Boy Scout Court of Honor scheduled for tonight has Committee announced today. | manager and heaviest stockholder of | the Pioneer Brewery of Fairbanks, is dead as the result of a sudden heart attack. Weber was an active leader in sev- eral lodges. COUNCIL TO DISCUSS CHANGING TIME HERE| | The Juneau City Council meets | tonight at 8 o'clock at the City | | Hall, with a discussion of a Cham- !ber of Commerce recommendation | x | | ' consideration, | tional President of the CIO Can-| Over forty years of public life, nery. Workers Union, said the union |36 of them as a member of Con- | contemplates bringing suit- under gress in both the House and Sen- | the Wagner labor act against A.|ate, was the background of Claude | R. Breuger of Wrangell, operator A. Swanson of Virginia when Presi- {of the Burnett Inlet cannery, if he|dent Franklin D. Roosevelt in persists in employing AFL union- March, 1933, selected him as Sec- s | retary of the Navy. Espe claims the cannery will still| Included in Swanson’s experience have to pay regular salaries to ;“‘were many years of service on the | similar number of nonresident CIO GUNNER'S MATE LOSES HIS LIFE AS SHELL EXPLODES SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, July 7.— been | that the City turn its clocks per- Gunner's Mate Rollie Jackson Ble- establishfing Patrick Gilmore Jr. | postponed until July 14, Chairman\manenuy to Pacific Standard Time ' cher, 28, was kille dtoday when a Assistant U. S. Attorney, who was| Charles Burdick of the District| heading the list of matters for shell he was decapping aboard the | cruiser Louisville exploded, | Naval and Foreign Affairs Com= mittees of the Senate. He was chairman of the Naval Committee in the late stages of the World War. In 1916, a year before the United States entered the conflict, | he spbnsored a $500,000,000 three- | year building program which pro- vided for 16 capital ships. His activities at that time brought him into frequent contact with the future President Roosevelt, who was then Assistant Secretary of the Navy. The two were considered in ((}tmlmu:d:fi;ge Five)