The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 15, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e ——— | VOL. LIV., NO. 8156. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAR', JULY 15, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA DEFENSE URGED BY EXPLORER (OASTGUARD | SEAPLANE IN CRASH: 3 DIE Ship Was C;?rying Sick Man to Shore - Five Others Rescued NEW YORK, July 15.—Two Coast Guardsmen and the man they were flying ashore from the ketch At- lantis for hospitalization for ap- pendicitis, were killed when a sea- plane crashed in the ocean. The dead are Lieut. William Clemmer, Pilot John Radan and the sick man, named Priest. Five other Coast Guardsmen on the seaplane were rescued by a crew from the Atlantic, 150 miles south- east of New York. Two of the res- cued men were seriously injured with broken backs. The crash occurred at the takeoff. MAN IS KILLED INRIOT ON WPA PROJECT Score of Men, Women and Children Injured-Work Is Now Suspended MINNEAPOLIS, Minn,, July 15.— Strife that lasted all day yesterday, centering around a local WPA sew- ing project, brought death to one man and injuries to nearly a score of men, women and children. The strife resulted in an an- nouncement by the State WPA Ad- ministrator that all WPA work in! Minneapolis is closed indefintiely. The most serious outbreak oc- curred shortly after 7 o'clock last night when 100 women comprising the late day shift were escorted from duty amid gunfire, tear gas, bomb explosion, and brick and rock throw- ing. Emil August Bergstrom was shot in the head and died about midnight in a hospital. SEVEN FLY IN | TOFACEU.S. | CUSTOMS LAW Party Arrives from Ton-| asket in Hamilton Wheel Plane Frank Kammer, Prosser, Wash- | ington, pilot, flew in to Juneau yesterday afternoon in an eight- place Hamilton wheel plane with six other persons with him and got into hot water with the United States Customs for allegedly land- ing on a private field without cus- | toms and without advance notice | of arrival. Kammer is flying the big Hamil- ton, powered with a 450 horsepover Wasp, to Fairbanks, “looking for | work.” Aboard the ship with Kammer were W. S. McNeal, co-pilot, from Everett, Washington; Douglas Sil- verthorn, Tonasket apple grower; Dr. and Mrs. M. D. Wood of Ton- asket, and Dr. and Mrs. C. D. Rags- dale, of Omak The two doctors and their wives “just came along for the ride” and | will return south on the Columbia tomorrow, while Kammer continues | on to the Interior with his remain- | ing two passengers. The party flew from Tonasket to| Vernon, B. C., Prince George, Tele- | graph Creek and thence to Juneau after an overnight stop, making the flight in 10% hours flying time. The entire party stopped at the| Baranof Hotel and were seeing the sights of the Juneau area today. —————————— LOST LIFE FOR DOG BLOXWICH, England — The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has awarded a silver medal posthumously to David Harper, 11, who drowned in an attempt to save his dog. Wedding Belle | 28 MINERS - TRAPPEDIN MINE BLAST fNineieen Are Reporied fo | by an underground blast. The marriage of Aerielle Fraser, heiress to Willys motor millions, to the Hon. Michael Strutt, with whom she’s shown, will link this mon- eyed Yankee beauty to England’s top-rank nobility. Mr. Strutt is the son of Baron Belper and his sister is the Duchess of Norfolk, wife of Britain’s premier lord. The weddm: will be today at Newport R. L "HISTORI( FRAUDS OF 1920° S" REVIVED WITH GIGANTIC SUM FOR LENDING REQUESTED NOW By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 15. — The list of loans made to Latin Ameri-| | can countries in that “historic fraud | lof the 1820's,” as President Roose- [Velt called it, reads just like a PWA | announcement of the 193G's. | The “historic fraud” was the pe- riod when American bankers with floods of fresh cash in their jeans| began pouring loans southward. It | was grand business then, and per- 1 haps to some bankers looked like Adedlon Case | gilt-edged stuff at least for a time.| | Prosperity had hit South America | CHICAGO, Ill, July 15.—Author-|just as handsomely as it had hit ites in four states hunted today f0f|the United States. |an escaped Oklahoma convict, Jack| The large banks lent the money ESCAPED CONVICT BEING HUNTED IN | FOUR STATES NOW thorities Want fo Ques-| tion Him on Killing, Au | first trips to summer |in the first of peacetime cons Have Died - Others Behind Sealed Doors PROVIDENCE, Ky. July 15, — Operators of the Duvin Coal Com- pany announce that rescue squads have reached the entries in which 19 of the 28 miners were trapped Word has come to the surface the 19 men are dead. Some of the remaining nine men are believed sealed in behind air tight doors and are in a safe spot for the time being, 185 feet down | from the surface. .o MAJOR GEORGE IS APPOINTED 10 ‘Northwest Passage’ Voyage ALASKA WORK Will Have Charge of Con- struction of Army Air Base Stafion FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 15— Major E. M. George, of the United | States Army Quartermaster Staff at Washington, said he has re- ceived word of his appointment as construction quartermaster for the |Army Air Construction works in xAlaska I Major George will have chaege | of installing an experimental Army air station here. Surveys will begin next month. Major George came here with the party now touring Alaska under Col. C. H. Lee. He will return to | Washington with the party after !a survey trip to Bethel and Nome cxpvctm;, to return here in August g S FIRST CONSCRIPTS CALLED OUT, GREAT ~ BRITAIN, IN CAMPS Thirty - four Thousand Youths Are fo Learn Shoulder Arms LONDON, July 15.—Thirty-four | thousand militiamen, handled as careful as boys, are making their camps to- reported for service ipts in Great Britain's modern history. Some of the militiamen are going | day, having |at Here are the members of the expedition seeking to navigate the “Northwest Passage.” the 38-foot Pandora which arrived in Juneau this forenoon. evangelist is in charge of the expedition. ' Cecil Brook, Vivienne Kellems, left to right: ORIENTAL LABOR IN ALASKA ArcticBound SALMON INDUSTRY MUST GO, Pandora Here DECLARES PIONEER; PlANIS\ With Cachels ARE NOW FACING SUSPENSION 5.t v e Round World Trip Record Is Made,Woman ‘Commercial Air Lines Are Exclusively Used in Fast Inme NEWARK, N. J., July 15 modern Nellie Bly, Mrs. Clara Adams, of New York City, arrived the Newark airport after set- ting a record for a round the world trip on commercial airlines. Mrs. Adams stepped from a - A | Russell, former cowboy, to question him about the killing of Billy L. | Hamilton, 23, Kansas fraternity man south and then floated considerable | quantities of bonds out among the| people through the country banks.| to camps in limousines, others on|transcontinental United Airliner to- Dr. Dr, KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 15. J. R. Heckman, pioneer of Alaska, former early day member of the Territorial Senate, former Terri- ‘U:Tldl Fish Commissioner and in- | ventor of the floating fish trap, busi- n man and banker of Ketchikan, said: “It is up to the Salmon Industry to clean house, If the industry | doesn’t do it, the peoplg of the Ter- ritory must. “When Oriental labor is picket lines and labor troubles will also disappear.” Heckman was for many years Superintendent of the Alaska Packers Assoclation = cannery at Loring, near Ketchikan, but is not now active in canneries Change Needed Now Heckman further said change and people change worn systems must be overthrown and discarded, Oriental cannery la- bor was right 50 years ago. Now, with larger local population, both native and whites, with modern | Times Homer Kellems, The six members of the party are shown in the above picture, Kell(‘m\. Ira Jones, A. Y. Owen and Leo Clark. gone, out | Arrive in Juno(m \STEFANSSON BOOSTS FOR TERRITORY | Declares Narthland of They are aboard Oklahoma rancher- 1 sons Are Heading for | Northwest Passage The 38-foot diesel powered boat| Pandora arrived in Juneau this fore- noon, headed for a West-to-East | "crossing through the ice flooes of | the Northwest Passage, evangelist- | skipper Dr. Homer Kellems at the wheel with a crew of five crowding the cabin behind him. Loaded with three tons of food, thousands of souvenir cachets, and the nondescript paraphernalia co- incident to an Arctic expedition and a proposed circumnavigation of the North American continent, the Pan- dora presented a gross appearance as it moored to Femmer's Float, with the waters of Gastineau Chan- Inel lapping four inches above the vessel’s normal waterline. Dr. Kellems confessed the boat looked more like a houseboat than an Arctic cruise ship, and explained | that the cabin had been widened {to the gunwales and the pilot house at Elgin, Illinois. Some bonds were “high pressured” | Bud Egholm reported he was ab-|out but we remember distinctly at ducted in Wisconsin last night by a|least one moderate investor who| |man he identified as Russell, whom |was grabbing every Chilean bond he drove to near Chicago before the| he could get his hands on because man kicked Egholm from the car|the interest was six to eight per- bicyles. All militiamen are 21 years old| and represent the first group of more than 200,000 who will learn to shoulder arms by the end of the year, hailed as an insurance against war. Queen Mother Mary inspected |day just 16 ds ys 19 hours and 4 minutes after leaving Port Wash- | ington, Long Island on Pan Am- erican’s first passenger f{light. The old record was held by H R. Elkins, reporter of New York. made in 1936. The trip cost Mrs. Adams $1,935, plants and with labor unions con- | lengfhened seven feet to make it trolled outside of the Territory and | possible for the voyagers to live “in- and drove quickly off. | — e CAA OPPOSES MONOPOLY OF AIR SYSTEMS | Ryan, member of the Civil Aero-| nautics Authority, told the Chamber | of Commerce directors here the | authority will halt any efforts to create a monopoly in air transpor- | tation. Ryan said friends of American | aviation had expressed concern over “rumored plans of important inter- | ests to acquire monopolistic control | of air transportation through merg- {ers and consolidations and the ac- routes. “The authority will not give its | approval,” he declared, “to any pro- posed consolidation, merger or ac quisition of control which would re sult in creating a monopoly or in restraining competition, to the in- jury of another air carrier nor a party to the transaction,” LOS ANGELES, July 15—Oswald | | quisition of certificates for new air | mem. That was good money to sleep on during one’s declining years. Of course the story is old now. | Except for Argentina, all the coun- tries to the south which borrowed have defaulted on their notes. Cuba | | has largely revived her stock and | likely others will try from time to nme especially if they have to ake a good showing to get any [of the $500,000,000 which President | | Roosevelt proposed to make avail-| able under the new lending-spend- | ing bill. | FOR “INTERNAL | IMPROVEMENT” The purpose of the proposed loans made then was internal improve- ment, a definition not far from that outlined by the President in his an- nouncement of the lending plan. He | planned to have the loans spent for | U. 8. goods, however, The port of Callao in Peru borrowed $25,000,000 in 1928 for port improvement, That same year found Rio de Janeiro in Brazil borrowing $1.770,000 to move Castle Hill out of the way of city expansion. Six years earlier the Govern-| ment of Brazil borrowed $25,000,- 000 for electrification of a suburban |division of the government-owned | central railway and for other pur- poses. . (Continuea on Page Four) the first arrivals. passages on Pan American planes ‘acmss the Atlantic and Pacific, - — | on European lines, Hongkong from WII.UAM You"G DIES France and San Francisco-Newark AT HOME OF MOTHER ™~ _ 3HALIBUTERS William Young, native, passed | away last evening at the home of his mother, Mrs. Jennie Young. The remains were taken to the Charles W. Carter Mortuary. | Funeral services have been for Tuesday afternoon at 2 o'cl in the Memorial Presbyterian Church. The Rev. G. Edward Knight will deliver the eulogy in the absence of the Rev. David Waggoner, pastor of the church.| Interment will ‘be in the Ever- green Cemer/ery set | ing halibuters arrived and sold here today: | From the western banks—Trin- ity 40,000 pounds, 8% and 7% cents a pound. From the local banks— 11,000 pounds, 8'2 and 7% cen! ‘Forward 12,000 pounds 8% and 7% RUTHERFORD 8 BASEBALL TODAY - The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the l\uu Major leagues: National League | Pittsburgh 2; Brooklyn 6. | Lumber Chicago 5; Philadelphia 2. Cincinnati 8; New York 4. St. Louis 3; Boston 7. 1 American League Chiladelphia 3; Chicago 7. | New York 10; Detroit 7. Boston 9; Cleveland 5. the Juneau from the Roy Rutherford, of Mills, returned er Baranof. Rutherford spent about a month in the Westward and Interior in | connetcion with lumber business, | going as far as Fairbanks in the | Railroad Belt, SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, July 15.—The follow-| BACK FROM TRIP, | Westward last night on the steam- | labor racketeers seeking to enrich themselves at the expense of the Territory, a change is called for. innery work nowadays is white | man’s work and draws a white man’s pay. Local residents, both white and native, are competent and reliable. If they are not here in sufficient numbers, young men from colleges tions in Alaska, earning good wages.” Picket Lines Formed The statement of Heckman came all Ketchikan canneries and one | cannery, the Beegle Packing Com-| | pany, one of the largest here, an- nounced plans to close for the sea- son. Many Filipinos belong to the CIO local here which is affiliated with the locals in Seattle and elsewhere, having a hip. Conrad Espe, International Vice- | President of the CIO Cannery Work- ers and Agricultural Workers Un- jon, here from Seattle, denied that the present picketing is a dispute {of jurisdiction and he also denied the Salmon Industry’s statements that picketing is to force employ- | ment of more help from the outside {at the expense of local workers. Espe said: “The Cannery Workers Unions from Portland and Seattle | have agreed with resident unions not to increase quotas” Plants Must Close (Continued on Page Five) would be glad to spend their vaca-| as the CIO Cannery Workers Union | threw picket lines yesterday around | large Filipino member- | | W. C. Arnold, for the Salmon In-| | side, out of the weather.” | With Dr. Kellems is his 21-year- Io[(l daughter Vivienne, an art stu- |dent at the University of Oklahoma, | who is official artist for the expe- | dition and cook. The remainder of the complement |is made up of another evangelist |from the Christian Church, Cecil 1. Brooks, from Oklahoma City; Ira | Jones, engineer from Siloam Springs, Arkansas; A, Y. Owens, photograph- |er from the Oklahoman and Times, and xadio operator Leo Clark from Barteslvlle, Oklahoma. ‘With a new 150 horsepower high speed diesel engine, and fuel tanks \for 750 gallons, Dr. Kellems esti- | mates the Pandora’s cruising range at 2,000 miles, but explained that| at Point Barrow, extra fuel oil, to be brought north on the cutter Spen- | cer, will augment the vessel’s fuel| supply by 1,250 gallons, giving the craft an estimated 6,000 mile cruis- ing range. The party expected to remain in Juneau only until this evening,| | checking the compass and engine, and mailiz 2500 cachets (souvenir letters for collectors), before getting away directly for Seward, non-stop. | Dr. Kellems said they hoped to make the Northwest Passage this summer and go on down the East Coast, and through the Panama Canal, back to Seattle. And if they don’t get through the | passage, they'll “spend the winter” if they can't fly out. “There are lots of things worse | Great Imporfance in Case of U.S. Atfack WASHINGTON, July 15.—Vilhjal- | mur Stefansson, Arctic explorer, to- day sald the United States should strengthen the defense in the Far North immediately. “It is very important that we has- ten development in Alaska for in case of an attack on the United States, Alaska will be of vital im- portance as a base for a counter at- tack,” sald Stefansson. “Secretary Seward knew in '67, when we bought Alaska, the great importance of the Territory. He said Alaska will dominate the Pacific. “Apparently we have forgotten this.” Stefansson is here conferring with Government officials on probl-.-ma concemmx Alaxku NATIVE HELD "IN YAKUTAT DEATH CASE Autopsy Report of Heart Disease May Cancel Manslaughter An autopsy report that Fred George, 39, died of heart disease and not of a head injury or broken neck as had been supposed former- ly changed the complexion of the Yakutat “foul play” investigation today. The body of George, a Yakutat native fisherman, was brought here by plane last night after a coro- ner's inquest at the Gulf of Al- aska village resulted in a verdict that George had died as the result of injuries suffered in a fight with Peter Louie. Louie was placed under arrest at Yukutat, charged with man- slaughter, bound over to the Grand Jury and released on his personal recognizance because there was not room in the plane to bring ano- other passenger to Juneau. Myocarditis Dr. L. P. Dawes made the autop- sy here this morning, signing a death certificate which says the cause of George's demise was myo- carditis. A nurse and interne at Yakutat had said at the inquest yesterday that they believed George to have died of a head injury and that he also apparently had a broken neck. Louie, about 30 years old, admit- ted fighting with George outside | the Yakutat powerhouse last Sun- day and said he “slapped” him, George died Wednesday. Fight Over Woman Testimony at the inquest, over which U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray presided, indicated that the fight was over George's wife, who was described as “an old sweet- heart” of Loule. Both George and Mrs. George were intoxicated at the time of the fight, witnesses said, while Louie was described as having “been drinking.” Commissioner Gray, with Deputy U. 8. Marshal Walter Hellan, As- sistant U, 8, Attorney George W. Folta and Clerk of Court Robert Coughlin, flew to Yakutat yester- day with Pilot Shell Simmons of | Marine Airways. They left here at 10:35 o'clock yesterday morning, stopped at Lituya Bay to visit the cabin of Jim Huscroft who died (Conuinued on Page Two) CHIROPRACTORS ARE IN COMBINE SACRAMENTO, Cal, July 15.— California chiropractors have volun= tarily started a system of finger- printing, to identify those in prac- tice and also students in chiroprac- tic schools. They expect to elim- inate use of forged or stolen certifi- |than eating seal liver,” Dr, Kellems averred, oates,