The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 12, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. LIV., NO. 8153. Pl BRIDGES 15 IDENTIFIED “Flash” Floods Bring Death, Couple Trapped 125 Feet in Air, Rescued Affer Dangling InBreezesf NEW YORK, July 12—Trapped 125 feet in the air when a guide cable jammed on the World's Fair Parachute Jump, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Rathbone, socially prominent of Old Westbury, Long Island, spent five harrowing hours swaying in the breeze before they were brought down early today to the accom- ing cheers of thousands of onlook- ers. or 5 Long Hours ‘ Their rescue was made after fire | ladders hoisting mechanism failed. | The rescue was affected when a | rope, attached to the stricken para- chute cable was cut loose and the human cargo was lowered on the three remaining cables by paying out tHe rope from atop of a 200- | foot. bell shaped tower. The couple was lowered large police net. into a WARNING IS GIVEN CONGRESS Defeat of Futralily Leg- islation Brings State- ment from FDR WASHINGTON, July 12—Fol- Jowing the defeat of neutrality leg- islation, President Roosevelt warns Congress that if there is any post- ponement of the revision of this act, the outbreak of a foreign war might make revision very difficult. The President later pointed out there is no law now to keep Ameri- can ships out of war zones, keep Americans outside of war loans, reg- ulate loans or credits to belliger- ents, or prevent solicitation of funds to belligerents. ‘The State Department later dis- | All Ready for 1950 { | 1 | | | puted the latter two points made | by the President, saying the pres-! SECOND WAVEOF | HEAT SWEEPING | SECTIONS OF U. s.’ All-time Record of Tem-i perature of 111 De- grees Reached CHICAGO, Ill, July 12, — Heat is sweeping the western plains fol- lowing the same general route as last week when 50 persons died. Sioux City yesterday had a tem- | perature of 111, an all time record. Every Nebraska Weather Bureau reports temperatures of over 100 | degrees, | Phoenix's thermometers hit 110 | degrees, Scotts Bluff the same,| Cheyenne 100, Salt Lake City and‘ Kansas City 100, Fresno 105, Den- | ver 99. | Forest fires are raging in the Black Hills and are menacing three | villages. | FOREIGNERS KICKED OUT | BY IL DUCE |Vital Area on Border Isf Object of Unexplained | Military Order | ROME, July 12, — The Italian| | Government disclosed today that Premier Mussolini himself has ord- | ered all foreigners cleared out of Bolzano Province as a ‘“political- { military” measure directed against ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e r—— | JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1939. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS AS COMM Destruction to Kentucky Towns Floods, which followed a night cloudburst, brought death and ruin to towns in eastern Kentucky where the Licking River surged over its banks. Some thousand persons were listed as refugees and the death toll may near 100. This aerial view is of Farmess, Ky., seven miles west of Morehead, where 38 were renorted dead. | anti-Fascism. | Two American women notified the | Flood Debris Covers Morehead Stre 1App"6inlvm'eni_ Of McNutt Is (au_sing Stir [ | | \President Insists on Ad- NI> FINGER IS POINTED TO (10 LEADER Government Witness Spots Man OQut at Deporfa- tion Hearing DAMAGING TESTIMONY IS GIVEN OUT TODAY Declares Labor Leader Was Elected Officer in Organization SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 12. —John Leach, former witness before the Dies committee investigating un-American activities, today tes- tified that Harry Bridges, labor leader and CIO leader on the Pa- cific Coast, Australian born, was elected a member of the Central Committee of the Communist party of the United States during the Ninth Annual convention group in New York City in June, 1936. Leach referred alternately to the defendant in the deportation hear- ing, as “Comrade Rossi and Com- rade Bridges." Bridges Pointed Out Thomas Shoemaker, chief of the Government counsel, asked Leach if he could identify Bridges. Leach replied he could. “Is he in this room,” Shoemaker asked. “There he is,” Leach replied as he pointed his finger at Bridges who did not look up from incessant note taking. Elected As Officer Leach, the Government's: second witness, said he was a former sec- tion organizer of the Communist e | United States Embassy they had re- ent law does cover the issues. AFL LEADER HAS CONFAB ON WPAPAY Blames Congress for Strikes of Workers in Protest to Wage Cut WASHINGTON, July 12—Will- jam Green, President of the Am- erican Federation of Labor, told two hundred union leaders at a policy conference today that remedy for the ‘“spontaneous” - protest against ‘WPA hourly wage cuts “lies in Con- gress rather than strikes on WPA projects.” Green summoned officials here for the extraordinary session to de- | termine how to get Congress to re- store the old prevailing wage pay- ments in WPA to the new relief act as a substitute for the requirements now that all on WPA work put in 130 hours a month for a “security wage,” instead of the former. There is on apparent indication that Congress will change the law | this session. President Roosevelt told reporters yesterday that he thought the Ad- ministration will stick to the exist- ing statute. Three Milifary Planes_(ollide Pilots of Machines Killed Pretty Jean Foster wears thc “bathing suit of 1950” to win ¢ tume prize at Alexandria Bay, N. The suit is of transparent oiled silk, ta give wearer complete benefit of the sun. PREPAREDNESS EXPENSE GIVEN BOOST IN G. B Cost of Army Expansion| Causes Another Big Appropriation LONDON, July 12.—Great Britain | has added about $370,000,000 to her 1939-1940 expenses for preparedness. | The Government annourqxd to-| day a supplementary estimate of| the named amount to meet the cost of the British Army expnasion, in- cluding the Territorial Army which corresponds to the National Guard in the United States. The added amount also will cover | the cost of the recently launched conscription program. The increase boosted the defense appropriations to a total of about three billion, eighty-two million dollars, HOFMANN T0 GO-ON ISLE PHILADELPHIA, July 12.—Josef Hofman, world-famous pianist, shortly will give up his residence | here and take his family to a new |home on an isle off the Pacific | Coast. | | | | | | | ceived orders to leave Bolzano with- | | in 48 hours, but the representations of Ambassador Phillips brought a promise of ‘“every consideration” | for their case. | | Dorothea Watts, of Newport, ' | - Rhode Island, one of the women, | maintained that leaving on such| | short notice would endanger her | | mother’s health. | The famous Brenner Pass be- | tween Italy and Germany is in Bolzano Province, el A 0 P Burgunder, Jr. Talks Ouf To Phoenix Jury i a | F ‘ PHOENIX, Ariz, July 12—The| college student, Robert Burgunder | Jr.,, told the jury trying him for his | life today that he would rather be | sent to the death chamber of the state prison than to be sentenced | to life imprisonment. Burgunder, a student at the Tempe Teachers’ College near Phoenix, is accused of murdering two Phoenix automobile salesmen.| The youth told the jury: ‘I hud: two years in the reformatory, that was more than I could stand.” Burgunder’s mother wept as he spoke to the jury. He publicly said: “Please ignore my mother, who! will probably take the witness stand and ask you to spare my life.” Burgunder’s father is a former Seattle prosecutor. He has already testified. The defense is attempt- ing to show that the youth is in-| sane in spite of his brilliant college | record. { { Burgunder Jr. is charged with kill- ing Ellis Koury and Jack Peterson | in the desert near Phoenix. The men were demonstrating a new car. | He was arrested later in Johnson City, Tenn with the car in his pos- session. He had previously served a term in the Washington State reformatory for a drugstore holdup, where he was a University of Wash~ | Heavy property damage and reports of death by drowning of at least 38 persons was reported from Morehead, Ky., following “flash” floods caused by a night cloudburst which sent the Licking River sweep- ing over its banks, This picture shows some of the debris scattered on one of the streets in the Ken- tucky mountain town of 2,500. Those "Stupid’ (o Get in Congressmen’s Hair By SIGRID ARNE WASHINGTON, July 12—Some- nsfifuents “H'its my husband reads tlv," papers,” she said. “And after din- ner he don't like to talk.” OF CERTAIN KIND IS SIDETRACKED Action Eliminafes Another ministrative Ability Not Politics | WASHINGTON, July 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt’s insistence that ad- ministrative ability instead of pol- itics dictated his selection of Paul McNutt, now Amercan High Com- missioner of the Philippines, as | Federal Security Administrator, has | failed to stop talk in political circles. | The appointment of McNutt has | increased the Indiana man'’s chances | for the Presidential nomination de- | clares United States Senator Sher- man Minton, of Indiana, after | President Roosevelt, at the usual | conference with newsmen, discussed the background of the McNutt ap- | pointment. | “I think McNutt will do his job so satisfactory that the Democrats | won't want anybody else,” said Sen- ator Minton. A highly placed Democratic Sen- |ator of the “old line” school, who | asked not to be quoted by name, said he thought McNutt owuld be | “satisfactory to the anti-Roosevelt Démocrats.” McNutt has accepted the appoint- ment’ of Federal Security Admin- | istrator, one of the new agencies | created under the ‘government’s re- organization plan, giving him con- trol of the Security Board, CCC, National Youth Administration, and other agencie: S, | | party in Los Angeles. He told the Dies committee in Washington, he was successful in seeing Bridges elected to the State Central Com- mittee of the Communist party in California. Leach said he attended a meeting in Redman’s Hall in San Francisco either in January, February or March, 1936, at which Bridges “made a report pertaining to an impend- ing crisis in the maritime situation of 1936." The witness sald Bridges spoke for an hour at the meeting before he left. LABOR ACT CHANGED BY NLR BOARD Employers my Call for Collective Bargain- ing Elections WASHINGTON, July 12. — The National Labor Relations Board, re~ acting to Congressional criticism, has revised the rules and now per- mits employers to ask for collective bargaining elections when multiple times Congressmen let down their | | back hair to each other and crab| Barrier fo Adjourn- SENDER OF FIRST —Poor Visibility | Priends said the former child Is Cause | prodigy, who made his debut a half- CLUJ, Rumania, July 12.—Three century ago, is leaving lifetime as- military planes collided in midair | sociations for the sake of an eight- this morning killing three pilots. |year-old son, Edward, who is al- The accident is attributed to poor | lergic to dust and pollen and might visibility. | benefit by a change in climate. o | - R R BACONS ON TRIP | UP FROM FLORIDA ington student. e {No Change in Foreign Silver Price Today Mrs. Elsie M. Bason, of Vancou-| Mrs. Fannie L. TenEyck is a ver, accompanied by her three chil-| round tripper aboard the Princess dren, is making the round trip Louise. She is from St. Petersburg, aboard the Princess Louise. lF’lnrldn. WASHINGTON, July 12— The Treasury Department made no change today in the price of foreign silver which remains at 35 cents an ounce. about their jobs. Such talk fests usually get around to how stupid the folks back home are, and how hard that makes it to write laws. Here are two sample stories: Up in the Kentucky hills there was some kind of a celebration this year and curious townfolks drove up to find out what was going on. Hill folks from all around had gath- ered for a farewell for eight of their men. They were going “off to war.” What war? They didn't know. Some war, though, because the only time people in those parts had been summoned for medical ex- aminations was during the World War. And now these eight men had summonses. The visitors untangled the rid- dle. The men were called for ex- aminations to qualify for WPA jobs. Outside Baltimore a Maryland Congressman found a farmer's wife who had never heard there was a World War. She lived just 15 miles outside the city. The Congressman was fascinated by such isolation He asked how she happened to miss the news. | tabulates 24 states which still deny | Nicest “I do” scene around here this season tied the knot for a/ nurse-maid and a chautfeur. But the guest list was big-time. The, President of Nicaragua gave away the bride. Half the diplomatic corps attended. Afterward the party adjourned for the wedding supper to the home of handsome Larry Duggan, chief of the Latin-| American division of the State D partment. That's very good society around here. The brown-eyed groom was Jose | Garcia who chauffeurs for the Nicaraguan Legation, and the young | bride was Leficia Martinez who| nurses at the Duggan home. So society turnea out in toppers and long chiffons to give the two youngsters, far from home, a real wedding scene, The League of Wamen Voters women the right to sit on juries. The deep South and the cornbelt are the hold-outs. Some boarding-school girls here have just given Uncle Sam an un- (Continued on Paz:fl:-ven) ment of Congress WASHINGTON, July 12. — The House Ways and Means Committee has voted to sidetrack, until the next session of Congress, legislation to prohibit future issuance of tax exempt securities and reduce sur- taxes of individual incomes from the higher brackets. The action has eliminated an- other possible barrier to adjourn- ment of Congress. Chairman Daughton said the com- mittee felt there was too little time left to attempt passage of the leg- islation at this session. KING AND QUEEN 10 VISIT BELGIUM LONDON, July 12.—King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, recently returned from Canada and the Unit- ARMISTICE FLASH IS FOUND HANGED NEW YORK, July 12—The body | of a man found hanged in a Chicago | forest preserve was identifed as |that of Easop E. Truxton, forty- | tive, of Toledo, credited with being the man who tapped out the first telegraph message of the World War armistice. His body was found in the Sauk Trail Preserve at W. 22nd and Mannheim Road. The bureau of missing persons here found a Toledo street car token unions claim to represent the em- ployees and also liberalizes proced- ure rules. D. W. Shelfon, Pioneer, Dies KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 12— |D. W. Shelton, 79, Alaska pioneer, | died in Seattle last Monday night, | according to advices received here, He is survived by his widow, in Se- ‘Eaule; son James of Ketchikan, in | Seattle at the time; and two daugh- | in his pocket. Further identification | ters, Mrs. Clyde Cagel, of Seattle. was established by a canceled check |and Mrs. Herman Precht, of Pay- and $20 in Confederate money which | ette, Idaho. Truxton carried as a souvenir. His| Shelton was a native of -Illinois wife said he had been despondent|and came to Alaska in the early because of illness and failing eye- | days. He operated butcher shops sight. | in many northern cities, prospected, Truxton, a United States Signal|and cooked in several mining |ed States, announce they have ac-|Corps operator, manned the tele- !cepted an invitation to visit Bel- graph key in Marshal Foch's pri-| camps. ————— glum from October 24 to 27 The visit will be in return for Jtu London in November, 1937, | vate car, hidden in the Compiegne| More than 700 cities in the | forest, from which the Allies’ gen-| United States now operate with |one paid by Belgian King Leopold | eralissimo announced, November 11,| €IVl service provisions for their J’wm, the signing of the armistice, | Personnel.