The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 26, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIV, NO. 8165. S—— 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, ‘THREE TOWNS JOlN TO FIGHT BLAZE McNUTT'S NEW JOB MAY O0CCUPYING WHITE HOUSE By MORGAN M BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, July 26. — Paul McNutt believes the job of Federal Security Administrator will carry him to the White House, because 1. His public career to date has been administrative. 2. The security job is pnmml\ administrative, giving him oppor- tunity to repeat in full view of the whole nation his performances as Governor of Indiana and High Com- | missioner of the Philippines. | 3. His new job has a direct bear- | ing on the welfare of millions of | voters, including the powerful old- age pension group. 4. Opportunities will develop to show himself to audiences in vari- ous parts of the country and dis- close his general ideas of what the American government should be, what it should do, and where it| should go. 5. He has assurances of a free rein to do the job his way, without interference. 6. He thinks he can prove in the next 10 months that Federal Se- curity Administrator McNutt should become Democratic Candidate Mc- Nutt. That'’s the barest outline of what the McNutt appointment means to the man who accepted it. It comes from people who are in a position to know what he thinks about the | job. McNUTT WON'T TALK As for McNutt himself, he says it | ought to be plain he's not going | around discu.\sing these things. ALASKA PROJECTS ARE SIDETRACKED UNTIL NEXT YEAR Senate Commerce Com- mittee Postpones Ac- fion on Measure PAUL V. McNUTT Thinks new job will lead to something. The boxt po)mc: for me, “is to do this security job, and do it right.” Behind all this is the question of a third term for President Roose- velt. My inquiries lead me to bchcve (Continued on P(:,:C Two) |SAYRENAMED TO SUCCEED McNUTT IN PHILIPPINES ' Assistant Se(—re_iary of State fo Is Be High Com- missioner — The' in sidetracking the omnibus rivers andl harbors $407,000,000 appropriation, | postponed action on several Alaska | projects until the January session of Congress. Alaska projects thus sidetracked are as follows: $2,700,000 for Wrangell Narrows | $120,000 for Metlakatla harbor. $189,000 for Wrangell harbor im- | provements. | $109,000 for Sitka breakwater. | $70,000 for Kodiak harbor im- provements. | $25,000 for Myers Chuck harbor. R Seattle Has New Myslery SEATTLE, July 26.—Sheriff's de- puties are dragging Lake Sammam- | ish for the body of 21-year-old Carl Leon Vaughn, the central figure in a double mystery. The Portland youth's bloodstained car, identified by its Oregon license plates, was found burning a short time after a man with a gasoline can was seen running from the scene. A bloodstained overturned boat was found floating on the lake about 15 miles from the car. Vaughn’s mother told police that he | had received threats from a man| believed to be jealous of his atten- tions to his sweetheart, Dorothy Price. Miss Price was questioned by police and said that she knew of no one who would wish to harm Vaughn. S EEBNICE TSN Postmasiers May Soon Take Oaths WASHINGTON, July 26. — The Senate Post Office Committee has' recommended passage of the House WASHINGTON, uly 26. Senate Commerce Committee, | ppines. | Nutt who resigned to become Fed-| | eral Security Administrator. WASHINGTON, July 26—Pres dent Roosevelt today nominate Assistant Secretary of State Fran- cis B. Sayre to be United States High Commissioner of the Phili- Sayre will replace Paul V. Mc- Sayre was named Assistant Sec- retary of State by President Roo- sevelt in November 1933. He has been in charge of Secretary of State Cordell Hull's trade agree- ment program Sayre married the daughter the late Prcsidenv, Wilson. of JudgePratt Renominafed | WASHINGTON, July 26—Presi- dent Roosevelt has nominated | Harry E. Pratt to succeed himself as Judge of the Fourth Division in Alaska with his headquarters | Juneau FBI Office fo Be CARRY HIM TO HONOR OF Peoered ose W'\blllN(-'IOA , July 26. Attorney General Frank Mur- phy announces that Ralph C. Vogel will direct the reopened Federal Bureau of Investiga- tion in Alaska with headquar- ters at Juneau. SPEED DRIVER A.B. Jenkins s Caught i in| | Cockpit of Auto- Fumes Ablaze BULLETIN — BONNEVILLE FLATS, Utah, July 26. — A, B. Jenkins, Salt Lake City speed driver, is suffering from serious burns received when his auto- mobile caught fire during a pro- jected 24-hour endurance run on the Salt Flats late this after- noon. Observers said gas fumes ap- parently filled the cockpit dur- ing a brief stop to check a rum- ble in the rear end and when the motor started flames from the exhaust ((niud the fumes. FIGHT, FIRES ~RUN I’AI!AllIEli | - VANCOUVER, Wna.h‘ July. 26.— | Joe Louis either has to make his | | fights last longer or Vancouver | residents have to refrain from turn- ing in alarms during broadcasts of | championship bouts. When Louis fought Jack Roper | Vancouver firemen settled back to! listen and a lumber yard blaze | started. Before they got back Roper | was through The flame tamers were waiting for the opening gong of the recent Louis-Tony Galento fight when the | alarm buzzed and they sirened away | from the station. When the fire was | out, so was Galento. [ | | | | | change of mates. Idaho resort. 'MAIL SERVICE T0 Sitha Is 10 "yes araska mas Show Growth BEEN GIVEN B0OST Town Adive, First Bank Senate Post Office Com- Organizer Finds on | Mmittee Approves of Recent Visit ‘ Better Vessels | ¢ William A. Bates, Cashier-Mana-| VWASHINGTON, Jjuly 26. ger of the Miners and Merchants| Senate Post Office Committee has | Bank at Ketchikan, and organizer: approved of the bill of the First Bank of Sitka, arrived|the Ppost Office Department V i \ | to |in Junesu from Sifka yesterday {spend up to $125,000 annually for | afternoon by plane. Bates said the new Sitka insti- tution will be located temporamy;ger mail boat service between Se- | in quarters near the old Russian|ward, Alaska, and Bristol Bay, via n combination freight and passen- | at Fairbanks. | — e, POLICEMAN, WIFE, | THEIR PET CANINE, DEAD IN SHOOTING Tragedy Revealed When' Fellow Officers Go fo | Comrade’s Home [ SEATTLE, July 26.—Two police' officers who went to the home or. Patrolman Ralph A. Thomas, 50, to | notify him to report for duty, found | , Thomas, his 18-year-old wife and their pet dog shot to death. Sergeant W. Scott expressed the | church on the town’s main street, i s i | and should be doing business ubout}xenm‘ Kodiak, Ala?ka Peninsula, | mid-September. Aleutians and Umiak Island. Business at Sitka is in a henlf.hy:‘ Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, | state, Bates said, and predicted | Democrat of Washington, who in- | much activity and growth there|troduced the bill, said the present in the next few years. | mail boats are not licensed to st at the Baranof Hotel, | carry passengers or freight and the Baws is conwmplatmz a trip to|residents of the western section of Fairbanks in connection with busl- Alaska are therefore muchly iso- ness there. | 1ated. e L T b Gianis Gel 'DOUGLAS FINALLY GAINS AMBITION " Passing Ace‘ ! YAKIMA, Wash., July 26.—A one | time farm boy has realized an am- NEW YORK, July 26. — Eddie!bition that dated back to the days Miller, forward passing ace with|when he earned his living from the | |the New Mexico Aggies, will join ¥soil. Membership in the Yakima | the New York Giants this fall. Last| Bay Association. | — The| authorizing | J greatest monument . Adrienne Allen (upper left), British p(-l.reu\ whose former hushand, Raymond Massey (uppér right), U 5. stage and screen: star, recently married Mrs. Dorothy Whitney (lower left), was married in London to William Dwigh Whitney (lower right), thus complet Massey and his new wife g the were reported at an ex- SENATOR, EX-MISSIONARY, DECLARES CIVILIZATION IS NOW AT STAKE IN CHINA By SENATOR ELB Democrat, RT D. THOMAS Utah Pinch-hitting for Preston Grover, on vacation.) WASHINGTON, July 26.—In 1854 Japan was opened to world trade. Persons of the west therefore as- sume that her strength and her progress should be measured from that date to the present. Japan became a significant world power during the World War. But Japan had been a very powerful state, maintain-Senator Thomas mz an advanced civilization and cul- ture for hundreds of years. When Japan closed her doors to the for-| eigners it was deliberate. Christian missionaries and foreign traders hnd access to Japan during the 16th centiity when the people of Europe were spreading over the globe. Japan did not like the foreign contact and its probable political significanceé. So she turned her back on the west and adopted a foreign policy copied from China whose theory was represented by the Chinese wall — the world’s to a foreign | I \ | policy. When Japan decided to make herself a national state on a west- ern model, she accepted western theory of conquest and control which was so popular among the imperialistic states of Europe dur- ing the last half of the 19th cen- tury. Japan now is conspicuous in | the continued application of this theory and in her attempts to be imperialistic according to the west- ern fashion as it was revealed to |=——Youth In The News Young .F.olk.r House Scheme Go Visiting ToAidF.D.R.| 48 Call for Caucus fo Put Over Two Big Measures of President ScaupYT | WASHINGTON, July 26 ~Fifty- | one House Democrats, determined to force early action on President Rooseveit's big lending program, have compelled the Democratic leaders in the House to call a caucus of the Party members for QUFENS CALLER next Friday night They call young John anland | Representative Joseph A. Gava- the “Freddie Bartholomew™ gan, one of those who signed the| of Britis films. One of his { petition for the caucus, said the fans is Queen Mother Mary, aim is to solidify Democratic sup-| and here he's got a big bunch | port for the Administration's legis- of carnations for her. | lation in view of the recent re- | { | buffs suffered by the Administra- tion when Democratic factions | joined hands with Republicans. | The petitioners, said Gavagan, want to commit the House Demo- cratic majority, as a caucus, has the power to bring the $800,000,000 Housing bill and $2,490,000,000 | Lending bill to the floor without delay | The' former | measure is tied up * | in the Rules Committee and the 4 3 | ter is in consideration in the ! - Senate where several provisionsen- ‘ b | countered opposition of Democratic ‘ members. | TEXAS CHEER Katherine Shaw of Weather- AMA w‘“s ford, Tex., among the 4-H club campers at the national meeting, Washington. She’s MEDICINE Jaughing here at a joke cr acked by another Texan, Vice-Pres- dent Garner. Sweeping Victory 0ver‘f Governmeni-Practice Is Not a Trade WASHINGTON, July 26. — The | American Medical Asw(mnun won | a sweeping victory over the Gov ernment today when the Federal District Court held the Hh"rnmni Anti-trust Act could not apply to Ithe practice of medicine, Justice | Proctor ruling out the indictment | in which the Department of Jus- | tice charged the AMA and fellow defendants restrained “trade” of a group of a health group, the in- corporated Cooperative Health As- sociation of the District of Co- lumbia. Justice James Proctor medical practice a trade | meaning of Section 3 of man Act? In my opinion, it is not. The Department of Justic offi- cials, while not commenting im- mediately, indicated an appeal will | be asked. ! The Court agreed to the demur- rer filed by the defensed counsel who argued that medicine was a |learned profession rather than a | trade.” PROMISED LAND Sure and ’twas the red hair and the eyes of her that made | Maureen O'Hara as pretty a sight to New Yorkers as Goth- pictured arriving to work ir films with Actor Charle: LaughtonA PO | | | | | e said: “Is within the the Sher- | | | | | | | JAPAN, RUSSIA MAY TANGLE IN FAR EAST AREA s gty o HITLER L, - REPORTNOW for New Fleet (By Associated Press) Japan, confident that her new agreement with Great Britain has WARSAW, July 26—It is re- smoothed her course in Asia on one|ported that a prominent Warsaw | front, apparently turned to the|neurologist has been asked to rush| problem with Russia, by calling out | to Adolf Hitler'’s home to treat mm 15,000 Naval reservists for active for a nervous breakdown. duty for organization of a new The newspaper naval squadron. report asid that the physician had | Neutral observers believe the new declined. The paper said that the fleet will be for strengthening na-| Chancellor had called together his val forces in the dispute with Russia ' closest advisers, accused them of over the Sakhalin Island. Japan|guarreling and weakening the party CAROLINA QUEEN Patricia Poole, 8, of Charlotte, N. C., was one of the drum ma- jors accompanying her state’s governor on a visit to the New | | damaged. 1 — am’s skyline was to her. She's| that issued the! CHEHALISIS THREATENED, EARLY TODAY Entire Downfown Section Menaced as Flames Spread HOTEL GUESTS FORCED T0 LEAP FROM WINDOWS ‘One Man Plunges fo Death —Fire Blocks Exit Passages | CHEHALIS, Wash., July 26.—The combined fire departments of three towns brought under control early today a fire which swept through an | entire block in the business district and for a time menaced the entire downtown section. | Early this forenoon it was unof- ficially stated that the estimated | 10ss will be over $200,000. The Palmer Lumber Company, | Forget-Me-Not Ice Cream and Dairy | plant were destroyed and the Gus- taveson Iron Works damaged. Firemen from Centralia and Win- ¢ |lock came here in response to calls for help to assist the Chehalis Fire Depflrtment NEW HOTEL AFIRE | LINDEN, Texas, July 26.—Eight | persons trapped on the third floor | were forced to leap from the flam- |ing new George Hotel early this morning. One person was killed. ‘The fire broke out in ‘the linen room and spread quickly to the head of the stairway, blocking the exit to the fire escape. L. E Lumus, of Paris, Texas, trav- eling salesman, was killed in his plunge from a window. Others suffered burns and other injuries. { The third floor was entirely burn- led and the remainder of the hotel eaten by the flames and otherwise Alaska Has ~ Shorfage of Skilled Men ' Indian Service Is fo Bring Workers North-Fare Paid, Both Ways WASHINGTON, July 26. — Fred | Brown, Comptrolier General, has authorized the Indian Service to hire skilled workers in the United States and to pay their transpor- tation to and from Alaska where skilled workers are unavailable. The Indian Service asked Comp- | troller General Brown about the | problem, because of the skilled laborer shortage on certain con- | struction jobs in Alaska. | The service said it needed work- lers who would not voluntarily go to Alaska because of the short | work season in the north unless | the Government paid the transpor- ‘tuuon costs. Dentand Selllemenl " 0f Oi Controversy Between U. §., Mex. MEXICO CITY, July 26.—Mem- bers of the oil workers union have demanded that President Cardenas attempt to settle soon the oil con- | troversy between the United States and Mexico, The oil field employees passed a | season Miller completed 114 passes | The ex-farm boy, is Willlam O.| pep, |owns the southern half and Russia| and then ocllapsed. [ ER i Ay approved bill authorizing Postmas- ters to administer the oath of af- firmations. el ———————— Forest fires in the United States| g, i | yroscopic motor cars, with only averaged 172,000 a year in the five one front and one rear wheel, have years from 1933 to 1937 inclusive. |peen successfully operated. belief that Thomas shot and killed‘ his wife and dog and then sui- cided. out of 194 attempts for an average Douglas. He was ‘elected to the | |of nearly 60 per cent. | Bar Association on his first visit| NEW LAW OF WAR . —— |to the City of Yakima since Pres-| Her actions seem crude to us for the northern half. - it n g i e | T open negotiations with Washington t Ellis Island once was famous as| The gopher snake, so called be- | officials upon his return to Mexico Un’l;k:d t.rsn‘fic death rate in the| lélem mevuflltj n:flg-d thmsfl Jus- | ywo reasons: First, her imitation is|a place where pirates were hanged cause it preys on gophers and thus f’:‘: ;":"m The "’““:“’m pointed tes ' Iast year was 129|tce of the United States Bupreme ————— and for years was called Gibbett| protects crops, is protécted b; e argument would drag | ¥ g P ¥ on unless he made a fresh effort for every 100,000,000 vehicle miles.| Court. Island for th: many western farmers ; S pamaom j ¥ g to settle the @ifficulties personally, (Continued on. me Two)