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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
MARINE NEWS
STEAMER MOVEMENTS
:


NORTHBOUND
Alaska scheduled to arrive
. at o'clock tonight and sails
for Skagway at 8 a. m. to- !
morrow. Should have 3 days
mail aboard
Baranof due tomorrow Time I
. indefinite. Should have one
. days NAH aboard
Princess Alice scheduled to ar
rive Saturday afternoon or
evening.
Duchess of Richmond due at
a. m. Sunday, Aug. 6, sail
. ing at 6 p. m. On special
cruise.
. North Coast due Tuesday.
. SCHEDULED SAILINGS
Tyee scheduled to sail from Sc
attic tonight.
. Columbia scheduled to sail
from Seattle tomorrow at 8 .
a. m.
Northland scheduled to .
. sail from Seattle 10 a. M to- .
morrow.
. Princess Charlotte scheduled .
to sail from Vancouver Aug .
. ust 5, at 8 p. m.
. Prince George scheduled to sail .
from Vancouver August 7 at .
9p. m.
Yukon scheduled to sail from .
Seattle August at 8 a. m.
. Princess Louise scheduled to .
sail from Vancouver August .
. 9 at 9 p m. .
. North Sea scheduled to sail .
from Seattle August IL at 100
a. m.
. Taku scheduled to sail from .
Seattle August IL at 8 p. m. .
SOUTHBOUND SAILINGS .
Mount Mckinley scheduled to .
arrive at midnight tonight .
and sails at a. m. tomor- .
. row. .
PTulce ROBERT ScneuuleQ 10 ar =
rive at a. m. tomorrow and .
sails south at a. m. .
Prince Rupert scheduled to sail .
. southbound midnight tomor- .
row. .
. Aleutian scheduled southbound .
next Sunday. .
LOCAL SAILINGS .
Estebeth scheduled 10 seal every .
Wednesday at pm. for Sit .
. ka and wayports. .
. Dart leaves every Wednesday
at am for Petersburg, Port
Alexander, Rake and way .
. ports .
. . Q Q
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
COAST HAS !
PASSENGERS ON
!. BOARD FOR HERE

SEATTLE, Aug. 4. - Steamer
North Coast sailed at 10 O'Clock
this morning with 80 passengers
aboard the following booked for
Juneau:
Miss Henrietta Stair, Mrs. Ray
Coble, Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Sher-
man, Don Johnson, Lorraine john
son, John j. Costello, Merritt
.Scheufler, It. Varnson, Steve Swan
son, George Daice, and "a round
trip passengers.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
TIDES TOMORROW

High tide-3:31 am, 14.6 feet.
Low tide-9:44 am, l.3 feet.
High tide-3:59 pm, 154 feet.
Low tide-10:l4 pm, 81 feet.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
Bombs, in Packages,
Explode in English
Post Offices Today

5 LONDON, Aug. 4.-Explosions of
bombs took place today in four post
offices in England. The bombs were
in packages and the police believe
it is a new reign of terror started
by the banned Irish Republican
Army as the result of many of their
members being ordered deported.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
CALL FOR BIDS

Bids will be received until Aug
ust 10, By the Supt. OF Schools for
washing all windows on the out
side of the grade and high scho u
bldos. Owner viii supply all ma
terial including falls. Those inter-
eeted should bid on labor only.
Specifications may be had at the
office Of the Supt. OF Schools at
the High School Bldg. y adv.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
HUBER BUYSL0TS

Chris Huber has purchased a So
foot front Iot On the Charles Way
nor tract
Mr.. Huber intends TO develop this
property immediately He has been
with the Alaska Juneau Gold Min
ing Company for over ten years.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
) HALIBUTER5
Sell, SEATTLE

SEATTLE, Aug 4. = Halibuters
selling here today on the Seattle
Fish Exchange are as follows:
From the western banks = Sitka
$4,000 pounds 8 ga and 49, cents a
pound; Sea Bird $4,000 pounds, 9A
and 81 cents. ~
From the local banks Faith g.
900 pounds. 9 and 8 cents; sable
5000 pounds, cents straight; Dawn
1000 pounds of sable at 4 ga cents.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
by adelaide Kerr

chums, 1,133,952 total, 1,8O8,223 last
year.
Totals-27, 226 kings, 1,670,869 reds.
1881 cohoes, 403,572 pinks, 217,-
745 chums, 2,334,943 total, 3,102,45
last year.
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results.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1939-08-04
PRICES AT RUPERT

AT Prince Rupert today $4,000
pounds of halibut were sold at
$40 and $50 cents.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Ink Remover Found to Check
Royal Curse of HemophiIiu

acid was taken from the shelf, in
jected into rabbit and reduced
the animals blood clotting time
from 21a minutes to IL.
Hemophilia has been called the
Course of kings" and Course of the
Hapsburgs" because it is common
in the Hapsburg royal family and to
some extent in the Spanish and
Russian royal lines.
Six American hemophiliacs, the
report stated, had their time of
stopping hemorrhage cut to less than
that of normal persons by injections
of oxalic acid.
One was child who had scratched
his throat eating rock candy. His
normal time to end bleeding was As
minutes. The acid reduced this
time to As seconds.
It was necessary to continue CIV
ing the acid from time to time until
the wounds healed in these hemo-
philiacs.
The report told Of the acid stop
ping childbirth hemorrhage where
all other remedies had failed. IT
stopped hemorrhage of obstructive
jaundice in Is to 80 minutes, after
vitamin K, the new clotting vitamin
had failed. It was used for several
different types Of ''bloodless" opera
tions successfully.
Evening star., 1939-04-30

At the same time, the city fire
board at the District building re-
ceived q call from a woman who
did not reveal her identity. She
announced:
MY husband called and said
there's a big fire at the Naval Air
Station. He said he could not get
line through to the Fire Depart
ment."
The dispatcher at the Fire Board
switchboard said he asked the in
formant why the box at the station
had not been pulled and was in
formed that her husband did not
go into detail.
With sirens screaming, 13 pieces
OF apparatus careened through the
station gates. A fire boat chugged
into the river harbor nearby. There
was no fire to be found.
Police laughed. Firemen laughed.
The Fire Board dispatcher laughed
and noted on his book Local, Naval
Air Station, false alarm"
The honor guest laughed. I'VE
are having . swell time.' he an
nounced later by telephone.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
By the Associated Press.


TORONTO, April "a startling
discovery that the common hat
cleaning fluid and ink remover
oxalic acid, stops the royal curse
hemophilia and all other kinds OF
hemorrhage was announced here to-
day.
The report was made to the Fed
Grafton of American Scientists for
Experimental Biology by Arthur
Steinberg and William r. Brown OF
Kensington Hospital, Philadelphia.
At first the assembled biologists
gasped in surprise and refused to
believe. Oxalic acid is poison and
is known, in test tubes, to do exactly
the opposite of helping blood to
clot quickly.
Even when the Philadelphians dis
closed that more than 500 humans
in more than dozen large hos
pitals, have had their hemorrhages
stopped, and in some cases their
lives saved, with oxalic acid, the
biologists continued skeptical.
The fact that tiny amount OF
the acid injected into living body
acted exactly the opposite from its
test tube ways was finally demon
strated before the eyes of . group
Of doubters. They went to q Uni.
versity Of Toronto laboratory, where
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Ten Fire Trucks and Boot
Get Navy Officer to Party

Eight fire engines, two fire trucks,
two chiefs, deputy and a fire boat
roared to the Naval Air Station in
Anacostia last night repeatedly to
impress an officer he was wanted
at the Officers Club where a party
was being given in his honor.
A telephone informant at the
station said the unusual invitatio l
to the honor guest came about in
the following manner:
Fellow officers had arranged a
party at the club for one of their
number who is to leave within a
few days for duty in the Canal
Zone, but were having difficulty
Turing the guest from his quarters
without giving the surprise away
One of the party sponsors finally
had an idea that would bring the
officer around and announced by
telephone:
"The Officers' Club is on fire and
I expect you'd better come over
To make the call more realistic,
the local fire apparatus was hauled
out with q clang and . whistle.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
MISCOU ISLAND, New Bruns-
wick, April 29-Two Soviet airmen,
whose attempted nonstop flight
from Moscow to New York ended
here in a forced landing relaxed to-
night at the home of one of this
islands merchants.
Although Brig. Gen. Vladimir
Kokkinaki, the ace pilot, and his
adio-operator r-navigator, Maj. Mix
hail Gordienko, refused - leave the
island on rescue ships which flew
to this sparsely-s island at the
northeastern tip of New Brunswick,
they accepted the invitation of Law
renee Vibert to remain in his home
The two flyers declined to discuss
their ill-starred venture with
strangers, but in New York Con-
stantine Oumansky, Charge DAFT
faires of the Soviet Embassy at
Washington, said Gen. Kokkinaki
informed him by telephone from the
islands lighthouse that freezing of
the planes radio compass and ex-
haustion of their oxygen caused
them to decide on forced landing.
Leave Island Tomorrow.
The two men were joined here by
compatriot, Peter Baranov, chief
engineer of the Amtorg Trading
Corp, and DR.. Louis S. Specter Of
New York, who will remain here
until the aviators are taken off TO-
morrow in separate flights in light
plane.
Baranov, after quick con-
ference in Russian with the avia-
tors, said his report would be sent
to the Russian Embassy in WASH
ington and he would have moth
ing to say here about the flight.
Gen. Kokkinaki and Maj. Cor
dienko left Moscow Thursday night,
intending to reach New York in a
single hop in time for the opening
of the Worlds Fair tomorrow. They
cracked up in the half frozen tun-
dra of Miscou Island last night, TOO
miles from their goal.
The general suffered two broken
ribs in the forced landing, but his
assistant escaped with a slightly
wrenched back. DR.. Specter gave
Gen Kokkinaki emergency treat
ment and the pilot soon took charge
of making arrangements for leav-
ing the island.
Chartered Plane in MOncton.
Apparently noting the skillful
landing of light rescue plane by a
Moncton aviator, Joseph Anderson,
Gen. Kokkinaki asked Anderson to
fly here tomorrow at 8 am. E. S. T)
to take him to Moncton, where a
huge chartered monoplane from New
York is waiting. He declined an Of
fer by the pilot of Royal Canadian
Air Force flying boat to take the
pair to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
The narrow cow pasture in which
Anderson must land precludes re-
moval of more than two of the men
Evening star., 1939-04-30
7 Persons Wounded
Seriously by Bandits
In Robbery Attempts
Cab Driver and Elderly
Chinese Victims
Of Gun Attacks

A cab driver and an elderly
Chinese were critically wounded
last night by armed colored bandits
who got no money from their two
victims.
The cab driver was Malcolm
Crockett, 35, 100 Reed avenue, Alex
andria, Va, operator of Blue Light
cab The Chinese was 62-year- -old
Lee Tew, owner of a laundry at 521
@ street NV.
Police said Mr.. Crockett appar-
emily had been ordered to drive to
Fenton place NV. by his colored
passengers. When he arrived there,
one of the men shot him and both
men then fled west toward First
street, firing the gun as they escaped.
Staggers Into Store.
Harry Sander, owner of a grocery
store at so Fenton place, said the cab
driver staggered into his store and
told him to call the police. The
grocer reported the driver as saying,
IF they'd asked me for my money,
Id have given it to them" Before
he collapsed, the driver, according
to Mr. Sander, moaned, "Oh, my
wife and baby"
The description given by witnesses
fitted, with minor variations, the re-
port given by the Chinese of the
men who attempted to hold him up.
At Casualty Hospital, where he
was taken, little hope was advanced
for Crochett's recovery. The bullet
had entered his mouth and was
fixed in the mastoid region of his
head.
The Chinese victim, speaking
through an interpreter, told police
the bandits entered his laundry
while he was having his dinner in
the rear 6f the store. He said the
taller of the two men flourished q
(See SHOOTINGS, Page A-5.)
Evening star., 1939-04-30
New York Prepares
To Open Fair Today;
28 Warships Arrive
Presidents Speech to
Launch 1t Officially
At 1:3O PM.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, April 29.-Stirred by
the arrival of % vessels of the Navy's
Atlantic Squadron, the biggest city
in the Nation prepared tonight for
the opening of the biggest exposi-
ton the Nation-and the world-has
seen, the New York Worlds Fair.
Although thousands of visitors
poured into town from all parts Of
the country, the city's traditional
throng was not noticeably aug
mented, but flags and bunting, full
hotels and festive air presaged the
debut which fair officials expect will
draw 100000 people to the $780,
OOO. 900 affair.
The fleet dominated the day.
before activities, attracting thou
sands to the water front as the YES
sells steamed majestically up the bay.
beginning in the early morning, to
anchor in the Hudson River.
A hundred newspaper publishers
and advertising executives, here this
week for the American Newspaper
Publishers Associations annual con-
clave, were guests of honor at the
arrival reviewing the flotilla from
the deck of the battleshlp Tennessee.
Later Mayor La Guardia and
delegation of fair officials boarded
the battleship New York. the squad
ron flagship, to extend the city's
official welcome.
%4 EnSr
Then hundreds of bluejackets
sWarmed ashore for holiday, and
thousands of New Workers sailed out
to the vessels by every type of water
front jitney.
The next-ranking activity was
extensive preparations for the visit
of President Roosevelt, who will
officially open the fair 31a hours
after the gates swing wide. The
President will address short
speech to an expected 100000 spe-
cial guests in the fairs Court of
Peace" at 1:30 (E. S. TD tomorrow.
The event will be picked up by
television-the first time an Ameri-
can President has been televised-
and the speech will be broadcast
throughout the world by all major
| networks.
The President will come from his
Hyde Park home by train to the
Bronx and thence by car over the
new Whitestone Bridge to Queens
for lunch at the fair grounds. He
must get back to Hyde Park to re-
ceive Crown Prince Frederick and
Princess Ingrid of Denmark.
The Presidents wife and mother
will accompany him, as will John,
his youngest son; Mrs. James Roose-
welt, jr., his daughter-in-law; Mrs.
j. R. Roosevelt, his Hyde Park
neighbor and widow of his half
brother, Maj. Henry S. Hooker, an
old Hyde Park friend; Brig. Gen.
Edwin M. Watson, secretary and
military aide; Rear Admiral Ross T.
Mcintyre, White House physician;
Capt. Daniel j. Callaghan, naval
aide, and members of the White
House Office staff.
Some $500 police were detailed
to the presidential route and the
midtown area.
Secret Service men took charge.
(See WORLD FAIR, Page A-4.)
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Quiz Faces Man Found
Hiding in Destroyer
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
PHILADELPHIA, April pa
man found hiding in destroyer in
the Philadelphia Navy Yard after
he leaped from an automobile speed
ing through the yard was held in
$1,000 bail today for a further
hearing.
Naval intelligence men said they
wanted additional time to investi-
gate why he was in the yard with
out permission.
A postal inspector said the man,
docketed as Frank Milas, IS, Of
Wilkes-Barre, Pa, haG 81 ,08O in his
pockets when taken into custody.
In his pockets also was an air.
line ticket for flight between Cam
den, N. j., and New York. The man
said he had intended to go to New
York to seek job. He did not ex-
plain why he was in the Navy Yard.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
6. 0. P. Fails to Name
Illinois Committeeman
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SPRINGFIELD, ILL.,, April 20
Republican State Committee men,
bers tonight postponed selection OF
a G.. o. P. national committeeman
to succeed the late George F. Hard
ing after nine ballots failed to break
the deadlock between four principal
candidates.
Unable to give any one candidate
the necessary majority of 403 ,3l9
votes, the committee ended four
hour session with the decision to
meet again June 10, after the judi
cial elections.
The chief contenders were Phil w
Collins, Chicago, an American Le-
gion leader; Charles R. Walgreen
Chicago, head of the drug store
chain; Thomas ]. Houston, Chicago,
an insurance adjuster and member
of the State Central Committee, and
Hill Blackett, Chicago, advertising
executive.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Kidnapped American
Is Held for $4,000
By the Associated Press.

by the Associated Press.
MEXICO CITY, April ga ran
som note demanding $1,000 pesos
($13,000) for the release of Oscar
Lampe, kidnapped American mining
company manager, was received at
his home in the city of Guanajuato
today.
Lampe, a Coloradan who has lived
in Mexico for 80 years, was abducted
by an armed band from in front of
his home Thursday night.
Lampe is assistant manager of
the Guanajuato Consolidated Min
ing Co.
A report from Guanajuato dis
closed the ransom note was deliv-
cred this morning. A previous note,
delivered yesterday to Lampe's wife,
threatened death to the prisoner If
the authorities were notified.
The car in which Lampe was kid
naped was found abandoned in the
foothills Of Mount st. Nicholas.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Roosevelt Praises
Government League
For Utility Work
Message Is Read at
Anniversary Dinner;
Ovation for Norris

President Roosevelt in a message
last night to the National Govern
ment League said electric power IS
of such concern to civilization that
"it cannot be allowed to rest un-
controlled in the hands of a few
any more than all the lands and
waters of the earth can be-"
The Presidents message was read
at the leagues 25th anniversary
dinner at the Raleigh Hotel and
credited the league with much of
"the achievements of recent years,
particularly in the field of public
power"
"As a result of following for six
years a policy which your organiza-
ton laid the groundwork" Mr.
Roosevelt said, two facts can be re-
ported: First, the cost of certain
utility products has been greatly
reduced; the people are paying less
than they previously paid for their
light and power; second, although
this has not been a period of pros
perity, nevertheless nearly every
electric utility has made a fair re-
turn on the cash investment in its
Notwithstanding, of course, wa
tered stock and inflated values.
Successes Hailed.
''These are little things in them
selves" he added, land they are in
dicative of a still bigger thing: the
use of the peoples Government in
the peoples interest, the interest of
all the people. That, as the record
of your group reveals, has been the
ceaseless theme of your educational
and organizational efforts. The
country may we'll be grateful for the
fight you have made and for the
many successes you have achieved"
Discussion of power in its relation
to conservation, one of the guidine
purposes in the formation of the
league Is years ago, took prominent
part in addresses on the silver an
niversary program.
Senator George w. Norris of Ne
braska, one of the founders of the
league, declared that conservation
has more to do with history, the
happiness of people, the perpetual
ton of our institutions. than any
thing else"
The production of electric power
ICoo n0JIyEp po1o El
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Driver Sees Girl in Path
Of Train, Saves Her
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
OAKLAND, Calf, April 29.-The
wig-wag danger signals were op-
Grating at the Albany grade crossing,
and Policeman William Hyde
stopped his car today to wait for the
Santa Fe streamliner to pass.
He looked down the track and saw
a tiny girl standing between the
rails. Mr.. Hyde leaped from his
car, raced to the tracks and snatched
3-year -old Sharon Bucklin to safety
Just before the train swept by.
The parents Of the child missed
her a short time before, and asked
police to search for her.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Government Raises
Income Tax Claims
On Pendergast
Charges He FoiIed by
$443, $50 to Report
Two-Yeor Figure
BY the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, April 29.-The
Federal Government raised its
claims on Boss Tom Pendergast to-
day in a grand jury indictment
charging he failed by SAB $50 to
report his full income for 1885 and
1896.
An accusation that he received
unreported income from business
interests under names of other per-
sons was listed in the new indict-
ment against the man who rose from
saloon bookkeeper of the 90s to
the head of a Democratic organiza-
ton that has swung many State
elections.
Previously, on April Z, the grand
jury charged Pendergast failed to
report S3l5,0O0 he was alleged to
have received in connection with
the compromise of a s9,500,000 State
insurance case. Today's indictment
took in that earlier figure, raising
the basis for Government tax claims
by s128,550.
Pendergast, who attributed his
success in politics to the fact that
he handled his city organization as
business, is accused in the indict-
ments of paying only $25 ,946 in taxes
for 1856 but in reality now owing
the Government $437,316 in taxes
and penalties, as well as interest.
Even as the new blow fell, the city
government which Pendergasts Or
ganization has dominated without
interruption since 1926, underwent a
further shakeup. In the face of per-
sistent criticism, R. Emmet OMalley
requested and was granted leave
OF absence as head 0f the water de-
partment until Il have cleared N.Y.
self of charges now pending against
me in Federal Court"
Pendergast in all the years his
organization has been the balance
of power in Missouri has worked be-
hind the scenes as a businessman
uninterested in political office him.
self. He has kept his hand on an
assortment of businesses including
a concrete company which has bid
successfully on many city contracts
Today's indictment accused him
OF obtaining income from those firms
under other names. An example is
the allegation that in 1885 $12,5OC
was paid in dividends on $50 shares
OF stock in Pendergast's ready
mixed concrete company owned by
Pendergast but recorded in name OF
E. H. Matthews"
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Daylight Saving Time
Effective Today
1y thelAssociated Press.

Dy theiAssociated Press.
NEW YORK. April 2s.-Daylight
saving time becomes effective in a
number of States at 2 am. tomor-
row, and will continue until Sunday
September "a, at 2 am.
There will be Statewide observ-
ance of daylight saving in New Jer-
sey, Massachusetts,, New Hampshire
and Rhode Island, virtually State.
wide observance in Connecticut
Most of Maine will set the clock
ahead, a substantial part Of Vermont
and those sections of Indiana and
Illinois in the vicinity Of Chicago
There will be limited observance OF
daylight saving in Michigan, Idaho
Georgia and Delaware.
In New York State 352 cities and
towns will be on daylight saving, and
121 in Pennsylvania.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
8 AIoskons Divide
$4,000 by Guessing
Time of Ice-Breok
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NENANA Alaska, April 90
Eight Alaskans divided $97 900
prize money today by guessing
the Tanana River ice would
break on April % at 1925 pm.
(6:26 pm. E. S. To. Nearly
100000 guesses were registered in
the annual all-AlaSka contest.
Elaborate preparations are
made to record the first ice
movement each spring. A wire,
attached to a stake in the ice,
stops an electric clock to record
the time.
Today's breakup was unspec-
tacular.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Josh Lee Backed for 40

OKLAHOMA CITY, April 70 (P.-
Senator Josh Lee, Democrat, OF
Oklahoma was recommended for the
Democratic vice presidential nomi-
nation In 1910 today in q resolution
passed unanimously by the Okla
ioma Senate.
Evening star., 1939-04-30
Mountuin Climbers Killed

BRUSSELS, April 20 P.-Count-
ess Sybille de Liederkerke, 81, and
her brother, Count Phillip, Belgian
society leaders, fell to their death
while mountain climbing tonight.