The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 22, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV., NO. 8162. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JULY 22, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PANDORA REPORTED ON ST. ELIAS ROCKS SHARES TAKE ’ GREAT BOOST INTRADING Leading Issues Gain from One fo Two Points, Short Session AUTOMOBILE ADVANCE; HEAVY SALES REPORTED S . Coppers Are Enlivened by Price Increase on Do- | mestic Supplies NEW YORK, July 22—The stock market continued spurting upward at the short session today and lead- | ing issues gained from two or more point. About 800,000 shares transferred during the brief session of the New York Stock Exchange. It was the best Saturday since last April. | Many highs for the year were| reached. Antomobile shares were among the fast movers today. One of the lead- ing companies revealed that sales for the first 10 days of July topped the same period of last year by 631 percent. | Coppers were enlivened by the announcement of a boost of an eighth of a cent a pound in the do- mestic price following expanding de- mands. Bonds also gained. Steel production jumped to the highest level of the year. Electric, power, rails and traffic shares reached the year's peak. Large buying orders poured into the Stock Exchange. The Associated Press index on in- dustrial activity moved up to the highest point since January:. | SR T L NEW YORK, July 22. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session is 7'2, Amerjcan Can 96, American Power and Light 5%, Anaconda | 27%, Bethlehem Steel 65, Common- wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 487, International Harvester 581, Ken- necott 37%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 9%, United States‘; Steel 537, Pound $4.68%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 144.71, up 1.25; rails 30.20, up .34; utili- ties 2591, up .21. —————— BRISTOL PACK | T0 BE SMALL, | WILKIE AVERS Libby Official fo Visit Taku -Says Red Run Poor- est Since 1935 The Bristol Bay salmon pack this year will be the poorest since 193 according to E. E. Wilkie, manager of the salmon department of Libby, McNeill and Libby. Wilkie arrived in Juneau from Bristol Bay this morning aboard the steamer Mount McKinley with D. W. Creedon, Executive Vice Presi dent of Libby, McNeill and Libby. | Both officials, mhking their an-| nual trip north from their Chicago headquérters, advanced the opinion that the pack this year “will not| go over a million cases,” and place the biggest possible number of cases at slightly over a million, Wilkie said, however, that the red salmon of Bristol Bay this year are of “fine quality” and “larger” than in past years, about twelve| or thirteen fish filling a case this| season, compared with the normal | fourteen or fifteen. The Kvichak area in Bristol Bay closes tonight because of insuffic- ieat escapement, Wilkie said, while the rest of the district will remain open until Tuesday night, the 25th, as usual. At the Gastineau Hotel this morn- ing, both men were planning to go out to the Taku cannery sometime this afternoon to spend a few days on routine inspection. |lated the mine-power tre :anergic to mosquito bites,” com- Japan Treaty HATCHBILL WithU.§ .|St IS SENT T0 Now in Danger Senatorial Action Indicated WASHINGTON, July 22.—Unit- | Nullfiction Is Planned- | |ed States Senator Key Pittman, of Nevada, announces he will support Serjator Arthur H. Vandenburg’s resolution putting the Senate on record favoring action to nullify the commerce and navigation treaty | made with Japan in 1911 and also| calling for a conference of nations to determine whether Japan vm-‘ aty, and if | 50, to recommend appropriate action. i MINE FIELDS | BEING LAID BY JAPANESE Coastal Sireffies Protect- ed, Is Official Jap- | enese Warning | HONGEKONG, July 22—The Gov- ernment has been informed offic- jally that the Japanese Navy is lay- ing mine fields along several of the Kwangtung Province coastal stretches and across entrances of a large bay northeast of Amoy, also across two entrances of bays north of Swatow. The mine laying, it is said, will relieve the Japanese Navy of the necessty of patrolling all but the major ports, HUGE SHIP GOESDOWN MISS. RIVER Freighter with 8,000-fon Cargo Aboard, Sinks | After Accident NEW ORLEANS, La., July 22.— Fifteen hours after lightly grazing a ferryboat and then striking a concrete dock, the 3,700-ton freight- | er Edgar H. Luckenbach sank in the Mississippi River. The ship has a cargo of 8,000 tons aboard, including 300 barrels of whiskey, which may be salvaged. Panic (aused | By Mosquifos | HOUSTON, Tex., July 22. — The| Indian python and South American | | boa constrictor thrashed in tormert | when hordes of mosquitos attacked | | them in Houston zoo. Their keepers ;flnally had to sereen their cages. “The jungle snakes apparently are | | | mented officials. TYEE IS MAKING FIRST VOYAGE, JUNEAU BOUND SEATTLE, July 22.— Steamer Tyee, of the Alaska Transportation Company, making her maiden trip to Alaska, sailed north at 9 o’- clock last night. Among the passengers aboard is Mrs. Lenore E. Meader booked for Juneau. The Tyee is a sister ship of the Taku now on the Alaska route to Southeast Alaska. — e A miniature lighting rod placed in the hair is one of the standard medical practices in Korea. FOR'S DESK Senate Accepts House Changes—Curbs Polit- | ical Actions | minor | bill WASHINGTON, July 22 Senate has approved the House changes in the Hatch prohibiting political = activi of Government employees and the measure has been sent to the White House for the signature of the President, The action on approval of the changes came after an impassioned plea by Senator Carl A. Hatch, of New Mexico, to send the bill to] the President’s desk rather than s joint Senate and House conferer committee. SIGNING FORECAST | WASHINGTON, July 22.—Usually well informed Senators forecast that President Roosevelt will sign the Hatch bill, which prohibits activity by most Federal employees, despite the fact that he has made some criticism against the measure. | Some Congressmen contend the bill would prohibit most of the Fed- | eral workers from taking part in the | national political conventions thus weakening any administration at-| —— o S ™ " BRITISH FAIL IN Shof FIRST ATTEMPI 10 American RAISE SUNKEN SUE Down, Terrorist yiing vinbers sreak Ac- ording fo Wireless Re- Raid,‘Shaflghai; port from Scene I LIVERPOOL, July 22—The B‘rn- Chinese Language Newspapers the heavy fore end of the sub- marine Thetis from the mud in Liverpool Bay. The lifting timbers SHANGHAIL, July 22—A. F. Wil message stated. son, formerly of Philadelphia, Pa., was killed in a Terrorist attack on two Chinese language newspapers, one of which is American owned. — e, Wilson, a safe owner, was shot five times when he tried to seize ts. O Nine- other pagsans’ were wound.| WASHINGTON. July 23, — The Senate has confirmed the renom- | ination of Agnes Reinert to be ed. | postmaster at Ketchikan, Alaska. NEW AR BASE tossed about in the biling water, ai broke, the BRENNAN IS IN ] | WASHINGTON, July 22. — The FOR "oRIHlA“D Senate has confirmed the nomina-| | tion of Richard F. Brennan to be | Postmaster at Petersburg, Alaska. IS ANNOUNCED rematon, sy =~ GOLD RUSH IN e ey wil g I & new i MEXICO REGION = Rich Strike Eé;orted Made by Panner Affracls Thousands of Men EMBARGO AGAINST JAPAN COLLAPSES ‘ WASHINGTON, July 22. — The movement to clap an embargo on ] . | population of this village from 20 to war supplies to Japan because Of| o org) thousand in recent weeks. Francisco Arballo, panning for her campaign against China col- lapsed (n/the SRS Ixte yemierdsy gold, reported a rich strike on June 124, when Secretary of State Cordell The bow of the ill-fated submarine Squalus shoots high in the air plummeted oncé more to the bottom through a tangled net of lifting equipment 4 submersible off Portsomuth, N. H. i LIKE A FIGHTING FISH, SQUALUS BREAKS HER BOUNDS strous minute, seven wecks of salvage preparation were sly riear in small boat beyond. Thus, in one nd men dangero G-MEN HAVE INVESTIGATED 1,100 SPY CASES THIS YEAR NEW CAA HEAD " SAYS PROGRAM IS ONLY START Hoppin Is Flying North to | Supervise Million Dol- lar Work Plans The full significance of the Civil | Aeronautics Authority program for | development of air communication |and navigation aids in Alaska was | | brought home convincingly this| | afternoon in the statement by M. C. Hoppin, new head of the CAA in| period. Modern | Alaska, that a million dollars will| means of rapid | be spent by the authority during|transportation made crime suppres- | this fiscal year, “and we hope that | sion a perilous and deceptive task. {is jusf the beginning of it.” corrupt tentacles of By J. EDGAR HOOVER Director, Federal Burcau of | Investigation (Pinch-hitting for Preston Grover, on vacation.) WASHINGTON, July 22. — The tempo of our times is rather accu- rately reflected by the activities of | the Federal Bu- | reau of Investi- | gation and the | demands made upon it — parti cularly so dur- ing the past de- 9 cade, Lawlessnes s a national men- ace, was nur-} tured by the recklessness of the post - war MR. HOOVER | The vicious, » . |the army of crime spread through- Hoppin arrived in Juneau ea'lymul the nation. this afternoon from Bell Island after | |a conference with Gov. John W.J | Troy .and members of the Alaska Aeronautics and Communicnllons! Commission. ; ! Following the passage of Fed- Hoppin, whose title In Alaska 8s'era) Jaws to bulwark local law en- head of CAA work here, is Super-| forcement authorizing the FBI to |intendent of Airways, boarded a|ga.¢ pank robbery has decreased PAA Electra immediately after his ver gy percent in the past seven | | 1urrlva] here, and flew to Fairbanks. | years and kidnaping seldom oc- He had disembarked from the|curs today. steamer Baranof, on which his wife | continued to Anchorage, where Hop- | pin will make his headquarters. At Bell Island, a tentative plan“"’ aid in the fight against crime. | of development work was drawn up, | T0day in the Crime Laboratory of | in - Washington, D. C. Hoppin said, embodying the con-|the FBI | struction and equipping of eight|Youtine examinations clear up my: Organized crime, aided and abet- ted by public indifference, grew into a big business. Law enforcement pressed into service the mighty arm of science s it broke loose from its lifting pontoons, reared like a giant fish and a Navy salvage crew sought to raise the partially flooded ‘| were used to discredit Bridges and Hull studiously avoided an expres- | MORE CHARGES INLA. SCANDAL NEW ORLEANS, La., July 22— New repercussions were heard to- day in the Louisiana state univer- sity scandal. Former University President James Smith saw legal difficulties multiply when a Fed- eral Court Grand Jury returned a second mail fraud indictment against him and contractor Monte Hart. They are charged with diverting $14,000 in money spent on estate involving the sale of a hotel to the university three years ago. Smith lost out on a petition seek- ing his release from the Federal jail so that he could attend in a parish court Monday on other charges. real | The news of the discovery quickly | spread and attracted at least 3,000 | miners and their families L B 2 GIANT BRITISH FLYING BOAT IS GIVEN FIRSTTEST |Craft Built fo Accommo- { dafe 150 Passengers, on Trial Trip LONDON, July 22—Great Bri- tain’s biggest flying boat, built I_x) carry 150 passengers in transoceanic service, at a speed of 185 miles an hour, has made the first test flight which is reported to have been most successful. | major radio range and communica- |7 (Continued on Page Eight) EAST ORANGE, N. J, July 22. —Arthur J. Baldwin, 71, million- | aire corporation attorney, who was interested in raising reindeer in Alaska, operated the Grosvenor | Hotel in New York City and was Tammany’s delegate to the 1920 Democratic National convention, is ‘dead here after an illness of a year, suffering from an attack of the heart. Baldwin's business ventures as 1‘ poration. teries which would have remained (Continued on Page Five) | all but nullified. Note pontoons CHARGES HURLED IN BRIDGES CASE CRAFT PILES AGROUND:AID NOW ON WAY Vessel Bou?d_on Project- ed Northwest Passage Route Wrecked LITTLE BOAT IS SAID 10 BE FULL OF WATER Coast Guard Boat Morris Leaves Seward for Scene ~Meager Information The Coast Guard has received a report from the St. Elias Lighthouse, on the Gulf of Alaska, that the 38-foot dlesel powered Pandora, carrying Olklahoma Kellem's expe- dition on a projected trip to New York through the Northwest Pas- sage, has run aground on the rocks off the Cape. There is no explanation as to why the rebuilt halibuter ran aground but the craft is said to be ful of water. The Coast Guard cutter Morris has been dispatched from Seward to the scene. The Morris left Sew- ard at 3:50 o'clock yesterday af- ternoon on the thirteen hour trip to where the Pandora is reported aground, Nothing has been received con- cerning the fate of those aboard. Left Juneau Week Ago FOR DEPORTATION Witnesses Testify C10 Leader Proud of Be- ing Communist SAN FRANCISCO Cal, July 22— Charges that the Dies un-American Investigation Committee was used to discredit Harry Bridges were hurled yesterday at the hearing of the deportation proceedings of the Australian born CIO leader. Defense attorneys declared during cross examination that the Con- gressional Committee staged prop- aganda hearings in an effort to damage Bridges' reputation before the present deportation case. Chief Consul Carol King declar- ed: “The Dies committee hearings the maritime unions and definitely for propaganda purposes.” Most of yesterday's session was given over to efforts by the defense to break down the testimony of Aaron Sapiro that Bridges is a high- ranking Communist. Bapiro was followed on the stand by seaman William Howard of Port- land, Oregon and Joseph Marcus who both testified that they knew Bridges as a Communist, Y Marcus told Examiner James Lands that his cafe formerly served as Communist headquarters and ‘The Pandord arrived in Juneau last Saturday afternoon, and left during the evening after checking the compass and engine and mail- ing 2,500 cachets for souvenir col- lectors, Aboard the Pandora is the evan- gelist skipper Dr. Homer Kellems, his 21-year-old daughter Vivienne, and the remainder of the crew is made up of another evangelist from the Christian Church, Cecil I. Brooks, from Oklahoma City; Ira Jones, engineer from Siloam Springs, Arkansas; A. Y, Owens, photograph- er from the Oklahoman and Times, and radio operator Lee Clark from Bartelsville, Oklahoma. — TIME CHANGE PLAN KILLED FOR PRESENT Council Fails to Second Motion-May Go on April Ballot that Bridges often went there. He[ A motion by Couneilman Kelly stated: “Bridges told me he was a Communist and damned proud of it. He is the high muck-a-muck of Communism on the Pacific Coast.” WEEKEND RECESS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 22—A second weekend recess found the deportation hearing of Harry Bridges, Australian bound Maritime leader, less than half over with several Government witnesses still waiting to be called to testify. Defense attorneys indicated it will require a monfh to present their side of the case in support ARTHUR BALDWIN, RAISER OF ALASKA REINDEER, IS DEAD; HAD MANY VENTURES Baldwin and his brother, 000 reindeer, the world. their | together throughout and general contracting. ard, who died in 1938, owned 250,- the greatest herd in | Baldwin and his brother worked | Their firms, Baldwin and Dill and | later Griggs, Baldwin and Baldwin, | | ventured into such fields as lum- Alaska was the scene of one Of| ber, transportation, publishing,ded itself in the ground several | glass manufacture, fire protection | inches. They recovered it and found backer of the Lomen Reindeer Cor-| devices, silver goods manufacturing |one side resembled granite; the oth- of Bridge's flat denial he is a mem- ber now or ever was of the Party advocating the overthrow of the American Government, | Meteor Missed Them CLYDE, Kans, July 21.—Mem- bers of the Lester Hess family, near hve,‘_ihere, heard something shooting through the air. A meteorite, 13 inches in circimerence, had missed the house by inches, struck the radio aerial, grazed a porch and embed- Leon- { Blake to put Juneau on Pacifio Standard Time permanently start- ing August 1 died without a second at last night’s City Council meet< ing, apparently ending for the pres- ent at least the campaign to set the city’s clocks an hour ahead. Arguments for and against the time change proposal were pres- ented at the session by Curtis Shat- tuck, representing the Chamber of Commerce, and a committee of three from the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Unifon. On the union com- mittee were Walter Heisel, Jr., Chairman, John Covich and Ernest Stender. Both factions finally agreed to abide by the decision of the people if the proposal goes on the ballot here, with Shattuck predicting the plan would carry two-to-one and the miners confident it would be defeated by the same margin. The Council voted unanimously to lay the matter on the table. Shattuck Vs. Winn Shattuck tangled verbally with Grover Winn when the City Attor- ney advised the Councilmen not to give assurance that the measure would go on the ballot next April, such assurance having been asked by the Chamber representative. Winn said the Council should not “legislate” on a matter which would affect areas outside the eity, such as Douglas and the Glacier High- way. Shattuck accused Winn of try- ing to run the Council to “prevent “pr a house brick. the people from expressing their pre- (Continued on Page Three)