The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 13, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” s o " LIV., NO. 8154. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1939. "~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. ‘TO BUILD ALASKA NAVAL AIR BASESNOW 12,000 MEN CANADIANINT.HIGHWAY CALLED OUT BY BRITISH Naval Reservists Summon- ed fo Colors for Two Months’ Period MOVE REGARDED AS MOST SIGNIFICANT European Observers Pick August, September as | Danger Period LONDON, July 13.—Prime Minis- ter Neville Chamberlain announced today that 12,000 of the Nation's| 70,000 Naval reservists have been | called to the colors for fleet man- euvers as part of the program to| make Great Britain ready for any| eventuality during the anxious part | of August and September. ‘ About 130 ships will take part in the maneuvers, Chamberlain told | the House of Commons. Twelve thousand retired officers and other reservists will report for duty July 31 to remain in active duty until the end of September. The Reservists will take part in the combined naval and air force war games. Informed quarters vregard th move as significant as the maneuv- ers will be in progress at the time| the Nazi party Congress is meeting in Niernberg which session begins | on September 2. Many European observers have picked September as a danger per- iod. TANK EXPLODES ABOARD PANDORA | ON ALASKAN TRIP MoIorboai,vBound for Arc- fic, Finally Reaches Ketchikan | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 13 k| Delayed by an air tank explosion.“ Dr. Homer Kellems, Olkahoma, evangelist-rancher, and his expedi- | tion arrived here last night on the| COMMISSIONERS ARE T0 BE IN JUNEAU TONIGHT Aboard the Canadian steamer Prince George, due in Ju- neau this evening, are members of the Canadian Commission the International Highway Commission making an inspection of proposed routes for the projected road National | of The members of the Commission, | who are going to Skagway, then to the interior, are the Hon. Charles Stewart and J. W. Spender, Com- | missioners; Arthur Dixon, Engineer of British Columbia; Dr. J. A. Stew- art and Mrs. J. L. Montgomery, sec- retary. Actress to Wed Millionaire to marry soon. motorboat Pandora attempting a trip to New York via the North-| west Passage. | The trip has been uneventful | since leaving Seattle last Friday | except for an explosion below Powell | River necessitating repairs but| “luckily” causing no injury to the! five men and Kellems' daughter | Vivienne. | The Pandora sailed north this forenoon after Kellems cancelled | 2,500 letters aboard for stamp col- | lectors. SRR G it DONOHOES FLY WEST WASHINGTON, July 13.—(Spec- jal Correspondence)—Thomas M. Donohoe, prominent Alaska attor- ney, with his headquarters at Cor- dova, and Mrs. Donohoe left yes- terday in the plane owned and| piloted by the attorney, for the| west. They are traveling west via, Boston. - KETCHIKAN-HYDER ROAD IS PROPOSED Proposition s Put Up fo. Canadian Members of Commission STEWART, B. C, July 13.—Con-| struction of a 40-mile highway from | Ketchikan to adjoining Hyder to connect with the projected Alaska| Highway, is proposed by the Ket- chikan Chamber of Commerce to the Canadian Section of the Alaska Highway Commission. The proposal is made if the west- ern route for the projected Inter- national Highway is chosen, Squalus to rise at any moment. | | Lyn Logan and Alfred Nathan, Jr, Screen Player Lyn Logan, leading lady for the French actor, maurice Chevalier; and Alfred Nathan, Jr., Nathan is president of a railroad supply company | and was divorced four years ago from Cornelia Wooley Nathan, New York socialite, : , New York multi-millionaire, plan Dear Uncle Sam: Having Fine Time and Wish By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 13. — When | you can't get anybody to listen while you tell about your trip to Europe, write a letter about it to the De- partment of Commerce. Every year for 15 years or more | the department has mailed out| thousands of questionnaires to| travelers chosen .at random from passport applications. They ask whether you traveled first class, second or tourist, how much you| spent in each country and how | long you stayed. | Primarily the department is after information to help deter- mine international balance of pay- ments. Last year American tour- ists spent a half billion dollars traveling abroad. Foreigners re- ciprocated by spending $160,000,- 000 here. The fun in the answers begins when the cash business is over and the tourists get down to the facts of life abroad. One sardonic soul, after jour- neying through Switzerland and England, bluntly stated: “It is bet- ter to stay half as long and pay twice as much for accommoda- tions.” FINLAND PRAISED ? It seems we will have to go to Finland some day. Besides being the only nation paying its war debts to the United States, it is a nice place. One tourist reported: “In PFinland, the honesty of the people is beyond reproach. Germany, Den- mark and France impressed me as being just the opposite.” One romantic troubadour told | subjects in Canada can speak or the department: “T sailed to Italy | | You Were Here for the purpose of getting married. | After I married I sailed back home.” The bulk of the travel to Mexico and Canada is, of course, by auto- mobile and the tourists are inclined to be matter of fact. To an automo- bile tourist a spade is a spade. One Yankee traveler in Canada, after reporting that the roads were not especially good, added: “The inadequate voilet facilities at practically all gasoline filling stations stood out.” “Our greatest handicap,” ob- served a Texan traveler in Canada, “was in the native's inability to understand us in small towns. Iron- jcal as it is, very few of Britain’s understand English.” CANADA GETS BOOST Another, who must have wandered into Quebec, complained that “every- body speaks French.” For the most part they praised Canadians, and especially the cus- toms officers, comparing them fa- vorably to gruffer Yankees. Mexico and Mexicans also came in for paeans of praise. Yet one traveler warned cryptically: “Don’t ever frown in Mexico.” Dozens of complaints came in about the quality of Mexican gaso- oline, which should soothe the feelings of Yankee oil companies recently dispossessed. One pleaded that Mexicans should mark the roads in English while another perhaps adventure bent, complained: | regulations | cases up to this time last year. “We went from Tampico to Villa "lcnnumxed on Page Two) l forests. SUNKEN SUB | BROUGHT UP THEN SLIPS s s } With Victory in Sighi,[1 Squalus Again Seftles | After Raised ; BULLETIN — PORTS- MOUTH, N. H, July 13.—The Squalus, which was lifted free from the ocean floor after an all day effort, apparently broke loose from the Naval salvage crew, which in a wild flurry, shot the entire bow of the craft above the water line. Twenty feet of the bow vanished al- most as suddenly as it ap- peared. It seems that the en- tire forward part of the Squa- lus broke away from at least one and possibly both of its lifting pontoons. ¢ICTORY IN SIGHT PORTSMOUTH, N. H, July 13.— On the verge of a complete vic- | tory, the Navy suffered at least | a temporary delay in raising the | Squalus and her 26 dead to thel full 85-foot level set as the goal for the first lift Virtually the entire length of the | submarine was lifted clear of the| muddy bottom by the cradle of/! seven pontoons. The tremendous weight of the waterfilled stern held that end of the craft on or near the bottom. Navy officers early this after-| noon announced they expected Ll):-} - e ICKES ORDERS LESS FISHING INBRISTOL BAY Weekly Op;P eriodls Shortened 24 Hours in | Kvichak-Naknek An order cutting one more day a week off the fishing season in| the Kvichak-Naknek District of Bristol Bay was signed today in| Washington by Secretary of the| Interior Harold L. Ickes, the Bu-| reau of Fisheries here was in- formed. Under the order, the midweek closed period is extended from mid- night Tuesday to midnight Thurs- day. The order, first change in the since the Bureau of Fisheries was transferred to the Department of the Interior July 1, is designed "to protect the run| in the Kvichak-Naknek district, where although there are 114 more boats fishing than last year the pack to date has been only 197- 274 cases as compared to 520,895 ————eveo—— JAPANESE FLIERS ON WORLD HOP Proposed Route of Good-| will Flight Is Across Part of Alaska LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 13.— Seven Japanese fliers employed in the aeronautical departments of the two newspapers, Mainichi of Asaka | and Nichi of Tokyo, plan to cross| the United States from the. west on a round-the-world goodwill flight about mid-August it is announced here from Oriental advices. Starting at Tokyo, the proposed route is from Tokyo to Nome, Fair- | banks, Whitehorse, then south to Seattle, Oakland and Los Angeles New York. ———— Elephant paths are important arteries of travel in the African ] HUGE SPIDER WEB CATCHES "FLY" IN SAN DIEGO; "RENT” PILOT MIRACULOUSLY SAVED FROM DEATH Unusual photo above shows the skeleton of a plane rented recently by a U, S. seaman, C. B. Thomasson, ‘who crashed the ship into high tension wires while attempting to land in San Diego, Cal. crawled along wires to miraculous safety after the current automatically went off. Meantime, the plane In photo are shown firemen attempting to extricate remains of the huge was burning beside him. _“fly” caught in the giant spider web. EXPLOSION, FIRE HITS U.S. RANGER Giant Aif&faft Carrier Is Scene of Accident at Norfolk Navy Yard ORFOLK, 13,— Rear Admiral mons, Commandant of olk Navy Yard, said the explosion and caused by a welder’s spark ig- niting a “pocket” of gasoline. The damage is estimated at about $3,000 as the paint was seared on the starboard side for a distance of 60 feet. BULLET EXPLOSION-FIRE NORFOLK, Va., July 12. — Naval officials sought the cause for the explosion and spectacular fire which damaged the aircraft carrier Ran- ger and injured seven enlisted men A muffled roar came from the waterline amidships of the 735- foot craft, witnesses said, and then flames swept over the plane decks for a breadth of 200 feet. Firemen at the Norfolk Navy Yard, where the Ranger is docked for repairs, were on duty for three hours. Capt. H. E. Keys, Captain of the Yard, said: “We do not know what is responsible for the explosion.” Unofficial reports said gasoline being loaded aboard the Ranger was probably touched off in some manner. FDR SAYS NEWS SERVICE MADE FALSE REPORTS United Press Charged Guilty of Falsification on Neutrality WASHINGTON, July 13—Presi- dent Roosevelt said in a formal statement today that the United Press has “been guilty of falsifica- tion of actual facts” in reporting that he and Secretary Hull have disagreed on the language of his neutrality message to Congress. The story, as reported by the United Press, said a disagreement was reported in Administration quarters and President Roosevelt was described as wanting to use forceful language in the message while Hull was said to have opposed such language as it might anger the | . o0 ¢ ¥ i | s Mreey | art treasures, which ex- measure passed by the House and then to Kansas City, Miami and | Rome-Berlin s}xls furlhe""’“_“'s”“'FperLs estimate worth between $25,- sent to the Senate authorizes the tagonize the already rebellious Sen- 000,000 and $30,000,000, to make a Secretary of War to grant Erik Os- ate. The President’s statement of the | i pe one ’ . | of the world’s outstand- | for a gasoline and fuel oil pipeline alleged falsification ran about 400{ing centers for:the study of Italian right-of-way across Chilkoot Bar- words. Paul McNuft Is Confirmed; Takes Office Speculaiion}fie on Polit-| ical Changes - Also | His Successor i July 13.—Paul | | | | | WASHINGTON, McNutt took over his new office | as Federal Securly Administrator | today amid_increasing speculation | over the bearing it may have on his chances for obtaining the 1940 Democratic ~Presidential nomina- tion. McNutt was sworn in the office] of Surgeon General Parran, head of the Public Health Service, one of the Bureaus whose functions it | will be his task to coordinate. | Speculation also arises over who | will succeed McNutt as High Com- | missioner of the Philippines. This | speculation centered in the name of Francis Sayre, Assistant Secre- tary of State. 3y The Senate confirmed nomination yesterday. McNutt's GOLD BRICK 70 BE SOLD Gift of Freadwell Em- ployees fo Joe McDon- ald fo Be Disposed of PASADENA, Cal,, July 13. — Mrs. Clara McDonald has received per- mission from Superior Judge Col- rwicr to sell a gold brick given to| | her late husband, Joseph McDonald in 1904 by employees of the Alaska | Gold Mining Company at Treadwell, Alaska. Judge Colwier ruled that reten-| tion of the gold brick did not con-| | stitute gold hoarding. The brick is worth $1,800./ - Art Treasure ~ Given Nation | NEW YORK, July 13.—Samuel H Kress, New York merchant, has| presented the Nation with his col- |new National Gallery of Art. It| masters, J | erease ‘Haines Man Is fo | | | Thomasson SUE BRIDGES FOR $100,000 FOR DAMAGES Oregon a n d ; Washingion f Council Files Complaint | Against ClO Leader SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 13.| —A libel complaint asking for $100- 000 damages was served on Harry| Bridges by the Oregon and Wash-| ington Council of the Lumber and | Sawmill Workers of America, AFL,, as the CIO leader boarded a boat| this morning for Angel Island to at- tend the deportation hearing. The complaint charges that an article published in “Timber Work- er,” the official organ of the CIO group, sought to “destroy, defame | and disrupt the Oregon and Wash~ ington Council of the Lumber and| Sawmill Workers of America.” The sum of $50,000 is sought for general damage and $50,000 for pu-| nitive damages. “It is just one of those things| and I have no comment to make,” said Bridg - BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of games played this afternoon: National League Cincinnati 7; New York 0. St. Louis 1; Boston 3. American League Philadelphia 12; Chicago 10. Washington 3; St. Louis 4. New York 6; Detroit 10, FOREIGN SILVER PRICE IS KEPT AT 35 CENTS, OUNCE WASHINGTON, July 13. — The Treasury Department retained the| foreign price of silver at 35 cents| an ounce todhy for the fourth con-| secutive day. This price is kept despite the in- in the price of the metal in London to 3542 cents an ounce. Build Pipeline on Mililafl_Sedlon WASHINGTON, July 13, — A/ lund, of Haines, Alaska, the right racks Military reservation, ROOSEVELT HAS ISSUED HIS ORDERS Interests of Nafional De- fense Require Con- struction at Once LABOR CLAUSES ARE WAIVED BY PRESIDENT Three Isfifis in Pacific Also Have Stations— Work Authorized WASHINGTON, July 13.— President Roosevelt decreed to- day that the best interests of “National defense require the establishment of naval aviation bases at Palmyra, Johnston and Midway Islands in the Pacific, and at Kodiak and Sitka” in Al- aska at the earliest practicable date. For this reason, the President said in an Executive Order, he is suspending for this work the eight-hour day required by law on government contract con- structions. The President also emphasized the isolated places as regards supplies and als olabor. Congress authorized construc- tion of the Naval aviation fa- cilities and the five point act was signed April 25. - ee—— KRAUSE, MAYOR CANDIDATE, SUES UNION SECRETARY Covich AmE;J of Libeling Miner in Lefters to Bristol Bay Claiming that his reputation and business have been injured by | allegedly false statements contained in a letter from John L. Covich to all delegates of the Alaska Pisher- men’s Union in Bristol Bay, Ed- mund J. Krause late yesterday afternoon filed a libel suit in Dis- trict Court against Covich. Krause, candidate for Mayor in the April city election and formerly a miner for the Alaska Juneau Gold | Mining Company, asks a total of $8,100 in damages. Covich is Secretary of Juneau Mine and Mill Workers Union, Lo- cal No. 203, a CIO affiliate. He is accused in the suit of ad- dressing a letter May 19 on Union stationery to the Bristol Bay dele~ gates as follows: Letter From Covich “This is to inform you that one man by name of Edmund J. Krause, who is a strike breaker also one of the greatest Union dis- rupters there is in the Country is leaving on the 8.8. Yukon for Bris« tol Bay to go fishing there. “This man has made the state- ment that he will never join any Labor Union, and he also made the statement that if in his power he will try to break all Labor Un- ions. “We beg you to take care of thfs man as best as you know how and make him like it. With best wishes for the United Labor Fronmt, I remain Fraternally yours, (signed) JOHN L. COVICH, Secretary.” The leiter bore the seal of the Mine and Mill Workers Union, the suit alleges. Statements Termed False Krause's complaint alleges the statements: “Edmund J. Krause, who is a strike breaker also one of the greatest Union disrupters there is in the Country” and “he also made the statement that if in his power he will try and break all labor unions” to be false and libelous and to have been made by Covich for the purpose of in- juring Kranse in his reputation and business, and that they did so injure him. The statements referred to in the suit as having been in Covich's let- ters to Bristol Bay are believed to be an outcome of Krause's cam- (Contipued on Paée Eight)