The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 8, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e e——— | VOL. LIV., NO. 8150. NAZIS BUILD DANZIG DEFENSES, JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 8, 1939. HEAT WAVE TAKES TOLL, FORTY -FIVE Hot Weather Is Sweeping Large Part of Nation- Warmer Sunday Royal Couple to Marry NEW STRIFE THREATENED FOR ORIENT Japanese -Manchoukuoan; Forces Ready for As- | sault by Soviefs | | is a " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS iy | EPORT GUNS PLACED ON HILLS IS " RUMOR NOW Armed Guards Bar Public 3 from Locality - War | Materials Taken in (By Associated Press) LONDON, July 8.-—There that h s possibility of the undeclared war on | | The report t huge gun em- CHIOAGOL T, @ity 8.4 heat China extending southwest with the | placements are being built on the wave in which a large part of the nation’s populace is suffering, con- tinues. | The death toll up to 3 o'clock this afternoon had reached 45. | The weather forecast is even warmer for Sunday. | At Atlantic, Towa, the hot sun| beat down and drove the mercury " at one spot to 135 degrees and| smashed the thermometer. i The drought in New Mexico has entered the fifth week with tem- peratures in the nineties common but many times zooming to more | than 100 degrees. Many places in the drought sec-| tion report 110 degrees. ‘ Duke of Spoleto Princess Irene | Marriage of Princess Irene of Greece and the Duke of Spoleto, nephew of the king of Italy, is expected goon. was announced May 27. Their engagement In Kansas City 21 have died from | Ul v e proartes = ALASKA JUNEAU u RECOVERY GOES ' OVER 1 DOLLAR On the west coast of Florida rain June Results Show Im- has fallen for 16 straight days and | flooded streets in which children swam. Career for Her Japanese-Manchoukuo forces ready for an assault by the Soviets who are reported to have received 60.000! soldiers as reinforcements during| the past 48 hours. - - Tax Revision Now Studied By Roosevelf Congressional, Adminis- trative Advisors Con- | fer at White House | WASHINGTON, July 8. — Presi- dent Roosevelt has set in motion a| 'PANDORA PARTY ] P NEW NAZI SKY QUEEN_Germany's LZ-130 made test flights over Berlin, a silvery 12 minder of the hydrogen-filled Hindenburg which exploded in 1937 at Lakehurst, SAILS ON TRIP | THROUGH FLOES Farmer-Evangelist Leaves Seatfle on Northwest | Passage Stunt | SEATTLE, July 8. — Dr. Homer 58 killing 3¢ hills above Danzig is said to be false, iaccord\ng to Berlin advices, but ru- mors prevail however, of renewed | military preparations in and near | the Free City. | Armed guards are said to be bar- ring the public from the crest of | the hills around Danzig, however, The building of the reported em- | placements is by the Danzigers, it | is said, and it reliably reported war | materials are being taken into Dan- zig. 'COUNCIL DEFERS ACTION ON PLAN TO CHANGE TIME Union fo Be_H_eard—Anfi- Soot Ordinance fo Be Prepared Here | | | | ONE TORS0 i 4 sweeping new program for revising mjint Kellems, Oklahoma farmer- | ki national taxes to stimulate business evangelist, sailed northward today and promote industrial expansion. |in a rebuilt 38-foot halibuter Pan- At a White House conference with' qora to challenge the dangerous ice Action on a request that Juneau turn its clocks permanently to Se- provement Over May- Costs Hold Steady i ,—The Alaska Juneau gold mine is\ s \ ireported to have brought an esti- | | mated profit for June up to $133- | 900 from $102500 in the month of | May, with a better gold recovery. | confession Is Se(u[ed in l_ In June of last year, the operat- |ing profit was $189,300. C|eve|and—“ Oihers 1 Gold: Tecovery, per, ton far. n:o‘ S"" Mys[ery Lmomh of June this year rose to $1.03 from the 93 cents averaged |in May. It is the first month this | year that recovery has gone over a | CLEVELADN, Ohio, July 8. — dollar a ton. | Frank Dolazel, former butcher, has| Operating costs held been arrested by Sheriff Martin 69 cents a ton. O'Donnell and is said to have con-| Preliminary operating profit for fessed to the slaying of Number|the first half of the year totalled three of Cleveland’s twelve famous 561,400 as compared with $1,002- torso murder vicitims. 598 at this time last year when Dolazel is quoted by the sheriff higher grade ore was being mined. as saying he hacked off the head: of Mis. Florence Polillo, 42, and dismembered her body, after a fight B m ed over money. | He threw the head and limbs g into Lake Erie. Other killings are similar and in| some cases dismembered parts have NEW YORK, July 8.-—The Boston Red Sox have performed a feat un- | never been found. | | | precedented this year in stopping { Sheriff O'Donnell said he is sat-| isfied with the confession but wants| the Champion New York Yankees | in three successive games and five to question Dolazel further in order | | times in the past six contests when to have an airtight case. R | they won a doublebeader this after- noon. ARMS EMBARGO LEGISLATION IS | up O_NJUESDAY 'RECREATIONALIST Key to Situation Reported Isl. ;:Elggzsavsg; 6 Walker, Forrest, Duck- Held by Vote of Two Senafors worth Flying Monday ~To Meef launch | steady at WASHINGTON, July 8—Senators Gillett and George appeared today to hold the fate of the Adminis- tration’s efforts to clear the way for arms sales to Great Britain and Frange in oAvo ol yar | To look over recreation facilities The two Senators hold the key,lm d possibilities in the Admiralty to the votes of the Foreign R:L‘"Ilsland Recreational Unit, ErnestE. tions Committee which will meet ON| w1y o of Washington, Chief | Tuesday to decide on the motion to| = | _ pe Architect for the U. S. strike the modified arms embarg0| ;o oot ervice, with Linn Forrest, which "he, House msie‘f-_ | Assistant Architect, and Robert . | Duckworth, Administrative Assist- MINING MAN GOES patpgeroagh g o0 B g INSIDE WITH PAA| Lake Hasselborg. They will be met Tuesday night |at Mitchell Bay by the launch Frank Reynolds, incle of Dud- | Ranger IX which District Ranger | ley Reynolds, Assistant to the Sup- | W. A. Chipperfield will take out | 4 Esme O’Brien Love and marriage may be all right for some girls, but not for Esme O'Brien, popular debutante of New York, who is taking a whirl on the stage. Miss O'Brien says that “every girl should do something. You get stuffy if you just eat and drink ,.nd do nothing else,” BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues: National League New York 8; Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia 0; Boston 4. St. Louis-Pittsburgh, postponed, we tgrounds. American League Boston 3, 3; New York 1, 2. Washington 5,. 6; Philadelphia 6, 2. Detroit 5; Chicago 10. Cleveland 5; St. Louis 3. 30,000 POUND OF SALMON SOLD Thirty thousand pounds of sal- mon came in on the Juneau Fish i | study. The results of the study will be used as a basis for new tax ret vision legislation to be introduced at the next session of Congress. Those at the conference included Treasury Secretary Morganthau, House Ways ‘and Means Committee Chairman Doughton and Senate Fi- nance Committee Chairman Harri- son. BEEGI CONVICT HERO 1S SOUGHT ON j CHECK CHARGE iRichard Ha;rison 'ls Also . Wanted for Skipping | with $1,800 Cash | AUBURN, Cal., July 8.—The con- vict hero of the 1937 break at- Fol- | som prison, Richard Harrison, | being sought on a bad check ;cllargo. It was the same trouble | that originally sent him to the big house. The owner of a 1,400-acre | ranch which Harrison managed, | H. B. Whitten, told authorities that the ex-convict vanished with about $1,800 in cash. The money was the | ranch payroll. Instead of cash, the | owner said, Harrison paid the men off with worthless checks. Harrison gave the alarm when a | group of convicts broke out of the prison on September 19, 1937. Later Harrison appeared as a state wit- ness at the murder trial of the re- captured convicts. Harrison was | paroled from his third bad check sentence in December, 1938. A pub- lic appeal for a chance to go straight got the job as manager of the ranch. i STtock QUOTATIONS l NEW YORK, July 8. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 7%, American Power and Light 4, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel is 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 42%, International Harves- ‘ter 54%, Kennecott 32%, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 45'%, Pound $4.68 3/16. 52%, Commonwealth and Southern | | Northwest Passage. i | Waterfront men here are skepfi- !cal of the ship's seemingly frail ability to buck the floes, but Kel- lems is confident of success and) predicted he would arrive in New York in four months, | Other members of the expedition are Kellems' daughter, Vivienne, 21, Ira Jones, Leo Clark, Cecil Brooks, land A. Y. Owen, all of Oklahoma. ‘ Kellems said a veteran ice pilot | will be taken aboard at Nome where | the ship wili be refueled for the last | | time and be sheathed in iron. i | ' Near the mouth of the Colville | River, the expedition will pause to renew the search for the missing | Russian fliers. - vy Roald Amundsen piloted the only | | ship ever to navigate the Northwest Passage in the East to West direc- | tion. i The craft is to touch northbound | at Ketchikan and Juneau. D TUNA REPORTED " CAUGHT, SITKA | | ‘ £ 1 By PRESTON GROV 3 WASHINGTON, July 8. Every jonce in a while a wrathy Congress acks down on one of those pleasant |ways of making money in this racket-gorged city and so it did to the profitable business of peddling | Halibuters Planning to Troll fo and from Banks Across Gulf of Alaska The startling claim that a tuna| After all, Barnum made a good fish was caught off shore near living for a long time exploiting Sitka, has been causing consider-|suckers. He played for the low able comment among salmon trol- priced variety with his dime-a- lers. | throw sideshows. In Washington The report, sworn to be authentic, the best mcf:y is to be had from but which could not be thoroughly | wealthier contributors, although a verified, was that a few days ago, long list of dollar-a-year contribu- a deep sea troller, fishing the sal- tors is not to be sniffed at. mon banks approximately 200 miles| The latest racket o be knocked off shore, took a 40-pound tuna of | off was the distribution of lists of the albacore variety—the finest of 'people earning high salaries in in- the tuna family, pure white in meat.ldust,ry. In a way, the present ad- and bringing good.prices to fisher-| ministration was responsible for men. |the evil. Three years ago, in an As a result of frequent reports energetic hunt for tax dodgers and that tuna have been seen or caught in an effort to show that big money in more northerly waters than ever continued to go to executive help | before, Area Three halibut schoon- while labor was being exploited or ers, among them Magnus Hansen of | something, there was enacted a Juneau, with the Explorer, are now law requiring publication of names planning to troll across the Gulf of 'of people with salaries of $15,000 Alaska on their way to and from a year or more. the halibut banks. | Tuna have been ranging more LISTS PUBLISHED northerly every year, records show,| Newspapers published the lists as with the major centers of tuna they were released but that wasn't packing auguring well to be in|the end of it. An enterprising Washington and Oregon instead of Washington agency compiled them California, and the report that tuna | again and offered them to magazine have been taken in Alaskan waters, circulation agencies and other po- FUEL FOR WAR—Stumps remain along some Madrid streets testifying to a shortage of fuel during the war that ended in March with surrender of Republican armies. Held by govern- | ‘ment forces, Madrid was under siege almost 29 months. The war, ! in which Franeo was supported by Italian and German arms an men, began in July, 1936, cost a million lives. PEDDLING LISTS OF BIG SALARIED MEN NOW UNDER BAN BY (ONGRESS ACTION back home to be marked up that way and Senators and Representa- tives have been hearing much about it in the mail. Senator Danaher, of Connecti- cut, took the case to the Senate and without much epposition at- tached an amendment to the tax bill prohibiting circulation “for sale” of such lists. He specifically exempted newspapers, which was a safe enough bet of course, as they would not re-publish the lists since they already had published them. It is always a source of surprise to this city’s innocent bystanders when it hears of some new revenue raiser suffering from exposure. Only and Electric paid $55000 to a Washington Representative for ser- vices so intangiblesthat the Secu- rities and Exchange Commission held an hilarious hearing to learn about it. SOME HONEST SERVICES People claiming, honestly or otherwise, to have close acquain- tance with high public figures can make jack out of their connections. Someé of them supply an honest ser- vice by steering troubled people out of blind alleys in dealing with the Government but others operate just plain rackets. When we were a comparatively fresh arrival on the Washington scene we’ had our eyes opened by recently .the Associated Gas | congressional and administrative | fioes across the top of the world, *:ue tl‘lmle was deferred by the City | advisers, the President approved R aiming for the first West to East Ict;gncunl::\t ;uh;:nmh:nmen of SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 8. proposal for comprehensive taX|rip ever recorded through the 0. , who are re- |ported to be opposed to the plan, have an opportunity to explain their reasons. | Curtis Shattuck, who presented to the Council the Chamber of | Commerce recommendation that the | change be made, said the miners, who had no representative present at last night's meeting, stfjuld be |heard. He sald, however, that he ihnd been discussing the plan for |several years and had found “al- | most nobody against it.” Frank Metealf, original proponent |of the change, said he believed |that when the miners understood ;nu- plan they would not oppose it |as L2 couldn’t see “where it would __|make a particle of difference to the union and it would be of marvel- ous benefit to the rest of us.” Same Time Zone Metcalf sald Juneau is 12 degrees of longitude west of Seattle in- stead of 15, which measures an hour, so we are really in the same time zone as Puget Sound city. Ketchikan, which is only eight min- utes east of here in sun time, has found Pacific time to be of benefit and not a hardship, he said. The point 15 degrees west of Seattle at which the time zone should change one hour, Metcalf said, lies between Cape Spencer and Lituya Bay, a convenient place for ships to turn their clocks back as vessels in the Soutlyeast Alaska service would then all be on the same time system and a change would be made orly by those heading across the Gulf; No one spoke in opposition to the plan last night. War On Soot City Attorney Grover C. Winn was instructed by the Council to draw up an anti-soot ordinance to compel owners of smoking furnaces to have them repaired. Mayor Harry |I. Lucas said the soot problem is | becoming serious here and that in the past month his personal ex- | perience with it has been that smok- ing chimneys next door to the As- sembly Apartments, of which he is manager, have caused him to lose two tenants and to have to do $500 worth of cleaning on the apart- ments, A good burner, properly installed, will not smoke or soot up, it was claimed at the meeting. R. E. Robertson, Juneau attorney, first broached the proposal that some- thing be done about the city’s sooty atmosphere several weeks ago at a Chamber of Commerce meeting. Willoughby Sidewalk The likelihood that at leas: two blocks of concrete sidewalk wi be built along Willoughby Avenue r -th from the Juneau Motors appeared when a petition was received from | ervisor of the Alaskd ' Aeronautics | Monday. The party will then pro- is not beyond reason. | tential buyers. A nicely tabulated | gisclosures of the s which : ion, | ceed to Sitka, where Walker, For-|Exchange today on the packers| pow JONES AVERAGES i4 : : pla can 5,000 4 . ; e i | Poperty ewiees gaquensing Sugk s and Communications Commission, rest and Duckworth will leaye the Nuisance and Elfin from Icy Strait. ——e list of people earning $15. A year,|reputable industrial barons paid|walk. Contracts are to be prepared arrived in Juneau on the Alaska The following are today's Dow a valuable “sucker list,” could be|for sy services during the boom this morning and flew to Fairbanks with Pacific Alaska Airways. The elder Reynolds is mining on Goldstream, near Fairbanks, and is returning to the diggings after several weeks Outside, launch to fly back to Juneau. | The Nuisance had 18,000 pounds Chipperfield will then proceed|8nd the Elfin 12,000, selling at 13- with the IX on a regular adminis- trative trip in the Admiralty Di- vision, returning here in about two ‘lweeks‘ 8-6 cents a pound. “ ———ete The United States produced 1,- 200,883,000 barrels of crude oil in 1938, Jones averages: industrials 133.24, rails 26.66, utilities 23.80. — .- — California is segregating its tu- bercular insane in two hespitals l{or more effective treatment. Since the population of New York i had for $50. The trifling Arizona City is expected to reach a total|list could be had for 50 cents while of 10,800,000 by 1960, the hospital|the New York list cost $17.50. system must replace 24300 beds| The publication of such lists al- and provide 25,500 new beds within ways has been a pain to the upper the next 25 years, | salary brackets, If is embarrassing | days of NRA and the early alpha- bet agencies. An f{llustrative story told then stands good now, of a manufactur- (Continued Tm Pfl"g; Séven) by the city, which will bear one- third of the cost of the sidewalk, Mayor Lucas said. Light poles along South Seward Street have been spotted faultily, (Continued on Page Five)