The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 14, 1939, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE e —— —_— VOL. LIV., NO. 8155. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JULY 14, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YAKUTAT “FOUL P DEATH PROBED Japanese in Demonstration Against British HATREDIS DISPLAYED INTOKYO Embassy Surrounded by| Fifty Thousand Excited | Yelling Nipponese | GREATEST EXHIBITION | OF FEELING EVER STAGED Hand Grenades Thrown by | Assailants af Consul- | ate in Tsingtao TOKYO, July. 14—More than 50,- | 000 excited, velling, gesticulating | Japanese demonstrated for two hours today in front of the British Embassy in one of the greatest ex hibitions of feeling against an foreign nation in Japan’s history. | Some 1,000 policeman completely encircled the British Embassy’s ex- pansive grounds and massed espec- ially in front of the heavy iron | gates at the main entrance. The Embassy staff worked coolly | through the demonstration and the| only precaution was to move awnyY from the windows, Posters and handbills bearing such slogans as “Punch the Brit-|. and “Let's All " dotted ish on the Nose” Knock Down the British, ‘Tokyo. SHANGHAI, July 14—The Bl‘il.- ish Embassy officials disclosed to- day that two hand grenades were thrown by unidentified persons at the British Consulate in Tsingtao. The explosions shattered the win- | dows but no persons were injured. The Tsingtao Consulate was dam- aged previously in anti-British | demonstrations on Monday and Wednesday, which the British au- thorities said were inspired by v,l\ey Japanese. ! The grenade throwing was prob- | ably by agitators trying to aggra- | vate the British-Japanese rela- tions, the British authorities said. e ATLIN MINER MEETS DEATH Young Jim meson Killed! when Bank of Hydrau- lic Pit Falls In Jim Acheson, about 24, was killed yesterday by a falling bank of a hydraulic pit on Pine Creek, Atlin, according to a radiogram re- ceived in Juneau. Young Acheson was the son of Mr and Mrs, William Acheson, wellknown not only in Atlin but also Dawson and Fairbanks. The| Achesons e operating on Gold| run on Pine Creek. Junk Stocked In Mid-Ocean SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 14— The liner President doolige radioed that she had given meat and fresh | fruit to the 26-foot Chinese junk, Tai Ping, which is attempting a per- ilous crossing of the Pacific. Aboard the junk are Capt. Jack Anderson and his wife and a crew of four. They sailed from Shanghai April 22 and from Kobe, Japan in the last part of June. The family intend to make the west coast of the Untied States some time in August. They were about 880 miles out from Yoko- hama when they met the President Coolige. It was near that spot that Richard Halliburton was believed to have foundered. Glamor Girl Charms Prince i1 —_ Brenda Frazier, New York society NEUTRALITY LEGISLATION | 15 DEMANDED President Sends Shiifi; : ‘ Message fo Congress - Urging Action 'HULL'S STATEMENT J | ident Roosevelt told Congress toda\ | that neutrality legislation should b& 's No. 1 glamor girl, is pictured with the Prince of Pudhkutu. India, during intermission as they attended the | theatre in Manhattan. Brenda recently refused ‘a long-term motion | picture SOMENEVHDEAS W contract, BREAKS PULL WALLACE FROM POLITICAL DEPTHS Ickes Asking For New Law For Territory |Wants Permit fo Sell Lease. lands fo Cities and Towns for Purposes WASHINGTON, July 14.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes has asked Congress to pass a law | to permit the Interior Department to sell or lease land to incorporat- ied cities and towns 'in Alaska for| recreauona] or cemetery purposes. .- Pandora Now Juneau Bound KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 14— ¢ | After picking up mail, cancelling 2,- 500 letters for stamp ollectors and | getting supplies, Dr. Homer Kellem's Pandora expedition sailed north yes- terday afternoon planning to call (at Juneau before proceeding north in the attempt to make the North- | west Passage. Dr. Ketchem said the party will jalso troll for salmon in Southeast Alaska. e, 5. P. HEAD OFFICE MOVED T0 (OAST SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 14— President McDonald, of the South- ern Pacific Railroad announces to- day the transfer of the line's head office from New York to San Fran- cisco. McDonald said that only a skeleton staff would be maintained in New York. He also announced that the offices of the company’s Board of Directors will be eliminat- ed in the reorganization plan. Sav- ings by the transfer is estimated at $1,000,000 annually. | | |able that Congress, at this session, should take such certain and much| i By PRESTON GBO\'ER ; WASHINGTON, July 14-—Secre- | tary of Agriculture Wallace is stag-| ing what is politically known as a | comeback. When the election returns of | 11938 came pouring in to disclose heavy Republican gains in the farm belt, the stock of Secretary Wallace | {hit a new low. He had been given a goodly sum of money each of several | vears to restore the farm belt and keep it loyal to the party. Lowering prices and rising Republicans indi- cated that neither had been accom- plished fully. For six months after the No- | vember elections there was almost |constant talk of a mew farm plan to replace the whole Wallace set-| tup. But as time wore on the plans were pigeonholed and Wallace and his colony of farm thinkers down toward the Potomac waterfront began to advance ideas of their own. He continued to plug for crop | control allied with soil conserva-| tion. And he advanced two fresh| plans, one of which was instantly | popular and the other of which |was instantly controversial. The| country liked his idea of issumgl Ispecial stamps to relief clients with which they could buy up sur- plus products through the regular commercial channels. It pleased reliefers, retailers and farmers all in a bundle. Moreover, it had a special significance. For the first time it gave Wallace a clientele within the cities. The stamp plan| was designed for cities, and first was put to work in Rochester, N. Y., and Dayton, Ohio, SUCCESSFUL SCUFFLE The other idea was the subsidy of wheat and cotton exports. There |was a quick but modulated yarp labout the wheat subsidy but the cotton subsidy divided even the cot- ton people, some for it, some against it, and some against the type of direct subsidy which Wallace pro- posed. Many feared it would wreck prices for the vast bulk of cotton now in storage. But what happened after all this? | The appropriations he requested | were increased in several stances. What the House shaved off | here and there the Senate added in fuller measure. | A writer named John Steinbeck | wrote “Grapes of Wrath,” a hearty | novel about the dispossessed farm- | ers desperate and starving along the California ditch banks. It be- came a sort of “Uncle Tom's (Continued on Page Seven) IS FULLY APPROVED Roosevelf Belleves Now Is Time fo Move for Peace Inferest WASHINOTON July 14 —Presis enacwd at this session “for the cflust‘ of peace in the interest | ! American neutrality and securd In a 100 word special message, tl President forwarded the statemeri of Secretary of State Hull entit “Peace-Neutrality” in ~which the | Secretary referred to the “present situation of danger.” The President’s message to Cons | gress gave “full approval” of Sec~ retary of State Hull's statement. After reference to the 12-11 vote | of the BSenate Foreign Relations | Committee to defer action until the next session of Congress, President Roosevelt in his message said: “It is abundantly clear to me, and has been for some time, that now is the time for the cause of peace, that legislation be enacted on neutrality and security and it is highly advis- needed action, present world conditions. in the ugm of the see no |reason to change that opmlon Recall Move On Gov. Olson SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 14— Reports are made of a move to recall Six thousand petitions are being circulated. A total of 218,182 sig- natures are “required to bring a recall vote. The petition charged that the Governor is wasting money and permitting excessive expenditures by the state legislature.”He is also| | eriticized for allowing the vote on the ham and eggs proposal. In another statement, Gov. Ol- son is criticized for allowing his son, Dick, to run-his office. Said| the state leader of the Jeffersonian | Democrats: “We want to throw out Tom, Dick and Harry. We want them out of state politics.” He meant Tom Mooney, Dick Olson and Harry Bridges. BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores games played this afternoon: National League St. Louis 4; Boston 10. Cincinnati 1; New York 4. Pittsburgh 4; Brooklyn *14. of California Governor Olson. | Europe feared a general war as German and' Polish because of Hitler’s threatened seizure of the Free Port of Danzig, Polish ou Dr. Joseph (;oehbeh, Nazi propaganda minister, reviews ai | Goebbels, at left, is Alfred Forster, Danzig Nazi leader. [ revievis x()flh CANT STRIKE AGAINST U. §. DECLARES FDR Says WPA Workers' Watk- oufs Not Legal - Wage | Scale Basis Scrapped J WASHINGTON, July 14—Presi- | dent Roosevelt said today there ]‘could not be any strikes against| | the Government, making the state-! ment regarding WPA walkouts at| the Friday conferences with news-| men in response to questions. | The President said he agreed | with Attorney General Murphy that there was no such thing as a| | strike against this Government be- | cause of the new law which has! | scrapped the prevailing wage basis and also requiring 130 hours work |a momh Insbend of 50 hours, WHEAT PRI(E OTTAWA, July 14—The Cabinet, has set the price of the best wheat | for the new crop at 70 cents. The| new crop begins August 1. HEISEL ON PRINCE GEORGE ‘Walter B. Heisel, Deputy Collector of Customs, left last night on the Canadian National steamer Prince George for routine customs duty at Skagway. He will return on the same ship. PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD IN SOUTH INVITED TO COME T0 JUNEAU BELLINGHAM, Wash., July 14.— The Washington Presbyterian Sy- nod, comprising the state of Wash- ington and Northern Idaho, has taken under adyisement the invi- tation to hold the 1941 Synod in Juneau, Alaska. The invitation was extended by the Rev. John A. Glasse, of the FOR 1941 MEETv Northern Light Presbyterlan\ Church in Juneau, and coming| from the Presbytery of Southeast| The invitation excited unusuall comment and caused hundreds of questions regarding the “Gold| Belt” of Alaska to be expoundedl by the Rev. Glasse. Opposing Sides in Danzig Crisis troops marched KETCHIKAN CANNERIES PICKETED BULLETIN — KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 14.—The Beegle Packing Company, which has operated its cannery here every season since 1917, announced this afternoon they would close down operations for the season today after discharging its Oriental crew for failure to go through the picket line estab- lished by the CIO cannery workers. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 14. —CIO cannery workers placed picket lines today around all local salmon canneries in Ketchikan to- day. Some plants have started minor operations with fish from Anan Creek which opened for fishing | Monday, but the so-called Ketchi- | kan district will open tomorrow. Machinists affiliated with the Maritime Federation of the Pa- | cific went through the picket lines | pending a decision of the Federa- tion to authorize the picketing. Agreements had been signed with outside CIO workers, AFL resi- dents and others but the CIO resi- dents are demanding a seasonal guarantee and preferential hiring, to which the packers have not yet agreed. e — Squalus 1ll-luck ~ Confinues fo Follow Sunken Sub PORTSMOUTH, N. H, July 14.—Ill-luck which dogged the submarine Squalus continied today as heavy seas prevented Navy divers from going doing to determine how much dam- age resulted from the wild surge which shot the craft above the surface late yester- day afternoon and then thumped back to the ocean floor when cables slipped from pontoons. - e DUNLOP IN PE1I-.R§BURG Herb Du. lop, food broker, left on the North Coast for Petersburg on a business trip. n honor guard of Danzig’s armed Nazis. With | Below, President Ignace Moscicki nf Poland, | troops in Tem:hem within' a few:miles of each other J tlet to the Baltic sea, At top, JAPANESE LOSE2,000 IS REPORT Soviet Commumque Avers | Victory in Mongolian Border Fighting MOSCOW, July 14. — A Soviet | Communique today reported Soviet ! Mongolian forces repulsed two| | Japanese-Manchukuoan offensives on the Outer Mongolia-Manchukuo | frontier from July 5 to 12, wlthi attacking troops losing ‘about 2,000 | killed and more than 3,500 wound- ed.” The statement said the Soviets lost only 293 killed and 653 wound- ed. It was claimed the Mongolians | shot down 61 planes and captured 254 prisoners, along with machine guns, armored cars and tanks, while losing only 11 planes. S A 2 IS EXECUTED FOR SLAYING First of Kind in State of| New Hampshire Since 1918 CONCORD, N. H,, July 14.—New Hampshire's first execution since 1918 took place in the state prison| early this morning. Howard W. Long was executed for killing a school boy. YANKEE CLIPPER ENROUTETO N. Y. BOTWOOD, Newfoundland, July 14.—The Yankee Clipper, returning from the first commercial passenger flight over the North Atlantic, has left here for New York City. e STOP SIGNS POSTED New stop signs have been posted at various streets in Fairbanks and motorists have been warned to take notice. OFFICIALS FLYTODAY TO VILLAGE Name of Vu?n] Details of Incident Unknown in Juneau INQUEST OPENED THIS AFTERNOON {Commi ssi_oner, Depufy Marshal, Asst. Attorney and Clerk in Parly The report of a death at Yakutat under conditions indicating foul play sent a plane load of Department of Justice men to the little Gulf of Al- aska fishing village today. Telegraphic information received by U. 8. Attorney William A, Holz~ heimer from Yakutat last night said a death had occurred there and that foul play was evident. The message did not say who the victim was nor did it enlarge on the “foul play” re< mark. U. 8, Commissioner elix flew to Yakutat today to hold an inquest. Accompanying him in the Alaska Air Transport plane piloted by BShell Simmons were Assistant U. 8. At- torney George W. Folta, Deputy U. S. Marshal Walter Hellan and Clerk | of the District Court Robert Cough~ lin, Back This Afternoon The plane took off at 10:30 this morning. Flying time between Ju- neau and Yakutat is *wo hours each way. Depending upon the length of time the investigation and in- quest would take, the plane should be back here sometime late this af- ternoon or evening. Yakutat has no U. 8. Commission- er, the village being the farthest outpos'. of Felix Gray's district. Renewed requests for a Commis- sioner and Deputy Marshal were re- | ceived here from Yakutat only this week in a telegram from Cyril Zu- boff, Grand President of the Al- aska Native Brotherhood, who said that because of free liquor traffic a condtiion of lawlessness prevailed in the village. Dom. (anada Highway Men Survey Roufe | Chairman Is—lfileresled in Atlin-Taku Road Possi- bility-Here Last Night Three members of the Canadian Commission of the International Highway Commission, visited inJu- neau last night while passing through aboard the Prince George enroute to Skagway. The Commission will hold hear- ings in Whitehorse and in Atlin on Saturday, flying to Atlin from Whitehorse. Heading the Commission, and aboard the Prince George, was the Honorable Charles Stewart, Chair- man, from Ottawa, ten years Min- ister of the Interior in Canada, re- tired since 1930. With Stewart on the steamer were Commissioner John William Spencer, of David Spencer Ltd., de- partment store in Victoria, and Ar- thur Dixon, Minister of the British Columbia Department of Public Works, from Victoria. Flying Over Route J. M. Wardle, Director of Survey and Engineering for Canada, an- other commissioner of the five, is flying over the proposed highway routes from Hazelton with Secre- tary of the Commission, Dr. Law- rence Burpee, both planning to (Continued on Page Eight)