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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIV., NO. 8151. ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VETERAN ALASKA SKIPPER MEETS DEAT To Provide Fire Protection Alaska Domains SEC. ICKES ANNOUNCES NEW PLANS Over ThinyTeven Thous- and Dollars Allofed fo Fight Blazes CAMPAIGN 10 BE | MAPPED OUT NOW Situation Is Acute Declares Interior Depart- | ment Chief WASHINGTON, July 10.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes‘ announced today the Interior De-| partment has inaugurated steps to| provide fire protection to the public domain in Alaska. The sum of $37,500 has been ap-| propriated by Congress for the work | which will be under the direction | of Senior Forester of the General Land Office, William McDonald, of Anchorage, who will institute an| educational campaign in Alaska. | This will be supplemented by the establishment of an organization | for prevention and suppression of | forest fires. The CCC and Forestry Service will cooperate. Secretary Ickes said the area in- volved is about 70 per cent larger| than all the Federal holdings of | forests in continental United States. | The Interior Secretary also said | there are widely separated tracts!| of forests of white spruce totaling 40,000,000 acres, 10,000,000 acres of | open wood and grassland and 100,- 000,000 to 150,000,000 acres of tun- dra. The Secretary also said the forest fire situation in Alaska is acute| as the Territory’s annual precipi- tation is less than 15 inches, FOREIGN SILVER | PRICE IS AGAIN | CUT; NOW AT 35 Reductiflill Enable Shipping of Mefal | Across Aflantic , WASHINGTON, July 10. — The | Treasury Department cut the Ior-; eign silver price again today and | set 35 cents an ounce as the quo- | tation, a figure sufficiently above | the London silver market price to enable shipping of the metal across the Atlantic for the first time in about two .weeks. The 35-cent an ounce price rep- resents a reduction of 1% cents| from the last quoted price last Friday. Treasury officials would not say | what disparity the new Treasury and London price meant but some observers commented that the dif- ference might mean the Treasury will once more intervene to sta- bilize the world- silver price. | LONDON PRICE LONDON, July 10.—The silver market declined sharply today for the price for spot delivery drop- ping fo 33.84 cents an ounce. Alaskan Elk Takes Panfs Off At Convention ST. LOUIS, July 10.—A del- egate to the Elks National con- vention here from Fairbanks, Alaska, was arrested in the lobby of a downtown hotel for walking around in his under- wear. He complained it was too hot (o wear pants. Scme of the delegates took up a collection to buy him a pair of khaki shorts. The name of the Alaskan Elk is withheld, Family Greets New Potentate 1 : {Walter D. Cline, i the shrine for North Ameri receives the congratulations of hi Dorothy and Helen. Cline succeeds i Falls, 0 o me:: lt:he,nnnunl convention in Baltimore, Md., is family. Left to right: | | Tex., named imperial potentate of Mrs. Cline, A. A. D. Rahn, of Minneapolis, Minn, OREGON LABOR LOSES BATILE, PICKETING. ACT Three Judges Decide Law Does Not Violate State Constitution PORTLAND, Ore, July 10.— This state’s picketing regulation act, passed by the voters last November, has withstood Labor’s first organized legal attack on it. A three-Judge Court, setting en blanc, has decided unani- mous]y the Act does not violate the state constitution. The picketing regulation’s act forbids picketing unless a dis- pute between employer and em- ployees exists; outlaws jurisdic- tional disputes; opens union books to members and prohibits interference in marketing of ag- ricultural products. CRUISER HERE FROM SEATTLE Betty Ann Lowman Has Chartey Party North for Six Weeks - A cruiser-yacht arrived in Juneau today from Seattle, with a party of eight aboard on a six weeks’ cruise of Southeast Alaska. The cruiser is the White Light, owned by Stuart P. Walsh, Boy! Scout executive in Seattle, and Ar- nold Challman, University of Wash- ington student. Aboard the ship are Challman and his assistant, Tom Gearhard, Betty Ann Lowman, Anacortes girl who is well known to Alaskans from her canoe trip to Ketchikan and her recent trip here with the Cham- ber of Commerce cruise; Mrs. Stuart Walsh, of Seattle, Maxine Smith, Marie Neff, Ellen Burns, and Ethlyn Berkely. Planning to visit in Juneau this evening, the party will sail for Skagway tomorrow morning. The White Light, moored at Fem- mer’s Float, is forty feet long, eleven feet in beam, and has a power plant of a 50-60 Miller semi-diesel. The boat is under charter ar- ranged by Betty Ann Lowman. POLICEMAN DIES MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 10.— Policeman Jack Gerraty was in- jured during a riot of 1,000 PWA workers today at the court house. He was taken to a hospital and died one hour and a half later, Film Blaze Takes Lives - 0f7 Persons |Peculiar Fire Starls on Bus| with Fafal ‘ : Results | | MARSEILLES, France, July 10. | seven persons were burned to death |when a package of photographic | film caught fire in a bus near | Roqueviare, 19 miles from here. | The blaze started in a package |of film which was resting on a | heater behind the driver's seat. | ST 5 Thompson Is Here Tuesday | Commander W. K. Thompson, of | the new combined Coast Guard and | Lighthouse Service for this district |is aboard the North Coast for this | city and due here tomorrow. ! He intended to spend several days | jin Ketchikan, but the office here| | must be opened immediately and he could not delay his trip north. The lighthouse service workers { will be given ratings commensurate | with their duties which will prob- ably mean an advance for most, |at least from a salary standpoint, | he said in Ketchikan while there | yesterday, according to an Empire| | dispatch from the Ketchikan Chron- | | icle. MeNUTT IS SLATED FOR NEW OFFICE WASHINGTON, July 10. A strong hint that President Roose- |a greatly increased |end on the Baranof on his FOR HIGHWAY IS FAVORED Hazelton Brief Presented fo Alaska Highway Commission 'ROAD WOULD TAP ' RICH MINE AREA ;Norlhern Gu_ides Recom- | mend Westernmost of Proposed Routes HAZELTON, B. C, July 10. | The Canadian section of the Alas- ka Highway Commission, under the | | chairmanship of the Hon. Charles | | Stewart, has before it a complete | brief prepared by the Hazelton |Board of Trade on the proposed | highway from Washington State through British Columbia and the Yukon Territory The brief, presented by E. J. Kenney, liberal member of | British Columbia legislature for Skeena, said the farther west the highway is built the better acce it will give to Meziadin Lake, Hyder and Stewart It was said only two percent of | the Province’s population was north| of the Canadian National line but| this district represented more than half of the Province’s area and produced 12 percent of the Pro- vince's mineral wealth, Would Pay For Itself With increased population and better highway facilities, the briefl stated, the region would produce | percentage of | mineral wealth and, with another | mine as the Premier, pay for the cost of the road many times over. ‘The Commission heard views of pioneer northern guides who fa- vored construction over the west-| ernmost of the two proposed routes The western route would take| the road 300 miles almost directly north from Hazelton and from there it would angle westward to Atlin before entering the Yukon Territory and Alaska. B. C. OFFICIAL URGES ACTION, HIGHWAY PLANS Harper Reed Warns that Alaska - Canada Road May Be Lost fo Coast If Southeast Alaska doesn't “wake up,” a certain bloc of In- terior Canadians will have the route of the proposed International Highway run up the route known as the Rocky Trench, far back| from thé coastline. That was the advice today of Harper Reed, British Columbia In- dian Agent from Telegraph Creek who arrived here over the week- way to Atlin. Reed said Ketchikan “has gone flat on the idea,” and that ‘“no- body in Juneau seems to be tak- ing an interest in the road any more.” A party of surveyors and ad- vance men of the Canadian Com- mission appointed to make inves- tigations as to the best route for the highway are now in Telegraph | Creek and that another party should be in Skagway and come to| Juneau in the next week or so, Reed said. velt might announce tomorrow the selection of Paul McNutt to head | the new Federal Security Adminis- | tration came this afternoon from well informed circles. McNutt called on the President today but declined to discuss the| appointment aside from saying le- gal technicalities require him to retain his position as Philippine High Commissioner for another month in order to sign official papers, The group that is sponsoring the| Rocky Trench route, which would be inaccessible from the coast, “have a lot of strength,” Reed said, and warned again that Southeast Alaska towns are going to be left in the.cold if they don't wake up.” | Reed is at the Gastineau and will fly in to Atlin either from Juneau or via Whitehorse either tomorrow the | ndank, NAZI COUP AT DANZIG MEANS WAR lain Outlines Policy If Poland Attacked (By Associated Press) lain, outlining in detail the Gov- ernment’s policy regarding Nazi desires for the Free City of Danzig, told the House of Com- mons today that any attempt to settle Danzig's future by “unilater- al action, organized by surreptiti- ous methods,” would threaten Po- land’s independence. b Since Great Britain has already pledged to help maintain Poland’s meant that any attempted Nazi coup on the Free City will bring Great Britain. Prime Minister Chamberlain de- fended the status quo of Danzig the situation there might be dis- cussed but he gave a plain warn- ing that Great Britain is not favor of any negotiations under- taken under pressure to win con- cessions not otherwise obtainable. D s 2 DESPERADOES, BANK ROBBERS, ARE SHOT DOWN GARDEN CITY, Kansas, July 10. —Two desperadoes from Denver have paid with their lives for a $10,000 bank robbery at Fort Mor- gan, Colorado. Myron E. Howen, 20, was shot early Sunday by a State Highway patrolman ,and Kenneth Allen, 22, was slain in a gun battle with peace officers at Sidney, Nebraska, late Saturday. RN 0DDS IS ILL NEW YORK, July 10. — Former many, William Dodd, is undergoing treatment for a serious throat ail- or the next day. be serious. . S, avy tug, is shown at Portsmouth, N, I, to be used in attempts to raise the submarine Squalus and its load of 26 dead from the 240 feet of water off the Isles of Choals. The Squalus went down May 23. Prime MinEEr Chamber-! United States Ambassador to Ger-| leaving Rich Widow Is Kidnaped By Qyn Son Seven Others Involved in { Plot-No Mercy fo i Be Shown STOCKTON, Cal, July 10. — A "on charges of kidnaping her. | he law must take its course even if it breaks my heart,” she is |said to have told Sheriff Martin | Onsbro. Mrs. Middlecoff was kidnaped 'furcxbly by her son, Huggard Mid- dlecoff, 36, and six others on Sat- urday night from the home of a independence with armed strength, friend, Mrs. Olga Chadd, near here. Prime Minister Chamberlain’s state- | | The police found her later in a San Francisco hotel. | |w E S'l' ROU]’H Pontons to Be Used to Raise Squalus the navy yard with two pontoons TRIAL-OF BRIDGES ~ STARTED |Charges that (10 Leader s Member of Communist Party Being Heard i SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 10. British Prime Minister Chamber- | rich widow, Mrs. Eliza Middlecoff, | —Harry Bridges, west coast CIO 67, refused today to intercede for| the her son and six others held in jail| leader, today denied on the witness stand in his deportation hearing, ,that he was or ever had been a member of the Communist party. Bridges was called as the first witness as the hearing opened at the Angel Island Immigration .sta- | tion in San Francisco Boy. | Bridges made the denial in an- swer to direct questions by Thomas Shoemaker, Deputy United States Commissioner of Immigration and chief counsel for the Government. Shoemaker put the questions af- [Ler a brief opening statement in CAPT. NORD 'DROWNEDIN - AUTO WRECK | Car leavesio;d at Haines fo Plunge Into Chil- kat River MASTER OF ALASKA SAVES ROY WHEELER 'Soft Shoulder Gives Way- Four Are Given lcy Bath in Stream Capt. John Gus Nord, 71, one of the last of the Klondike gold rush days skippers, and veteran of many ocean storms, met his death by drowning in the muddy Chilkat river |at Haines Saturday night when the automobile in which he was riding left the road. Capt. Nord was the guest of Capt. Roy Wheeler, former mate on thq Baranof and now skipper of the Army tender Foynance. Also in the fatal car were Capt. O. C. Ander- son, master of the Baranof, and Pilot H. Luken, The aceident occurred near the nine and one-half mile post on the Chilkat River road when the party was _returning. from a_drive with | Wheeler. On Soft Shoulder The car left the highway on a | soft. shoulder where the river had eaten into the bank, and the auto- mobile turned over three times, roll- |ing down the slope to come to rest |In ten feet of water. Capt. Anderson pulled Wheeler from the driver's seat and Capt. | Luken made his own escape through the rear door. All three escaped |with nothing other than severe shock. Nord was trapped in the back |seat. His body was recovered at ! three o'clock Sunday morning when | the car was pulled from the river. | 'The body was brought to Juneau and is at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary and will be shipped south on the Baranof next Friday. Capt. Nord’s only survivor is a daughter in Seattle, Frances Nor- dine. In Gold Rush Days Alaskans from the Arctic to Met- | lakatla knew Capt. Nord; a genial, | skillful pilot of the North from Sweden, who first went to Alaskan waters as a seaman, long before the Klondike rush. Since that time he worked his | way to stripes and is remembered | best as skeper of the old Jefferson | In the complaint against her son|yhich he announced the Govern-|and Farallon and during and after a threat of armed intervention by'and seven others it is charged she|ment would offer affidavits and tes- | the Klondike rush. During his long tw“ struck in the face and other-|timony of persons making the affi- | successful career as a mariner, he wise bruised during the abduction.|davits in support of the Govern- mel only once with accident when | The eighth person, a woman, was The son denies the charge. HEAT SUBSI DES | | , CHICAGO, I, July 10. — The heat wave which has gripped the | nation for a week, is subsiding but | relief is only temporary, according gefense motion for removal of the| | to weather bureau officials. The nation's cooler belt lies in a belt | | men t's contention that Bridges is view of the deportation laws.” Dean James Landis, of the Har- vard Law School, is presiding. as ]mal examiner. It was previously announced, in response to a defense motion, the %Gavernmem. specifically charged | that Bridges was a member of the | “Communist Party in America.” | Landis took under advisement a | trial to the Federal Court room in San Francisco. Pending a de- | the tirst Aleutian, then under his and said possible improvements in | released on her own recognizance.|a “deportable alien within the pur-|command, struck an uncharterted | rock in the Kodiak Island area, and was lost. |COPIES OF NEW 1939 TAX LAW | RECEIVED HERE An abundance of reading matter arrived today at the Internal Reve- from North Dakota to Kansas and cision, Landis said the sessions will| nue Office, where Deputy Collec~ eastward to Ohio. POLARIS HEAD VISITING MINE T. F. Fields, major stockholder in the Polaris-Taku mine at Tulse- | quah, arrived in Juneau over the weekend from his home in Duluth, | Minn., and left for the mine today to spend a few days there. Mrs. Fields is accompanying him. | They went to Taku Glacier on | the Triton today to meet the river | boat Taku Chief and continue their | trip aboard that craft | e | COUNTS THE C LONDON.—8ir William Joynson- Hicks, now Lord Brentford, esti- |mated at the time of his elevation ! to the peerage that his years in ment. His condition is reported to| the House of Commons had cost him | $125,000, /be held daily in the Immigration | station, | NEW YORK, July 10. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau | stock today is 7%, American Can 195, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 24'%, Bethlehem Steel 152'%, Commonwealth and Southern |1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General ‘Mamm 42%, International Harves- ter 54'., Kennecott 32'%, New York | Central 13%, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel IPmlnd $4.68 3/16. | i | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 133.79, rails 26.70, utilities 23.87, | i Jl StTock QUOTATIONS || mine | 5%, | tor Wesley Overby is busy scan- I ning copies of the revenue act of |1939 and a new 750-page Internal !Rcvenue Code, containing all the | regulations of the Bureau. Al BARR VISITING TOWN | Mrs. L. P, Barr, wife of the well- | known Atlin-Juneau pilot who was |in Juneau for several months, ar- |rived in Juneau on the Aleutian, |on her way to visit with her par- ents in Atlin, Mrs. Barr said her husband is flying for Akin Transport and work- | ing on his big Pilgrim plane in which |he was forced down last fall and | hopes to get in the air again with |1t shortly. | For a few days Mrs. Barr will visit her many Juneau friends and then fly to Atlin for the summer, (MRS. L. F.