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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7550. FOUR SECTIOEIS—TWENiTY-EICHT PAGEé ’ PRICE TEN CENTS BATTLE RAGES NEAR'PEIPING; IN FULL FORGE Japanese Reported Com-| pleting Encirclement of Ancient Capltal ANOTHER BATTLE IS i ON NEAR HSIYUAN, United Sta!es—Senalor Says‘l U. S. Will Be Involved Over Neutrality PEIPING, China, July 31.—Jap- anese machine guns sprayed de- struction into the ranks of the re- treating Chinese west of Peiping; today as the Japanese war machine virtually completed encirclement of; the ancient capital. A battle is in progress northwest of Hsiyuen where thousands of Jap-; anese soldiers, with machine guns; and armored cars, are locked in a fierce fight with the Twenty-: Nmth} Division of the Chinese Army. i WARNING BY U.S. SENATOR WASHINGTON, July 31 —United States Senator James Hamilton | Lewis, Democrat of Illinois, said | the United States will be at war with China or Japan, or both, with-l in an hour, if the nation complied -msswith - the -demands for immediate enforcement of the Neutrality Act. - e, CRUISE UNDER POLAR ICE IS | WILKINS PLAN Secret Submarine Is Being Built—Aims to Reach Coast of Alaska NEW YORK, July 31.—Sir Hubert, Wilkins, Polar explorer, said con- struction has begun secretly, in a British shipyard, of a submarine in| which he hopes to cruise under the Polar ice. The cost of the undersea boat| outfitted is estimated at $150,000. Sir Hubert Wilkins will start from Spitzbergen or Norway next May and plans to make a sub-ice Cruise of about 2,200 miles to the Alaska coast. The submarine is equipped with| an electric drill to bore through the| ice to permit surface observation. The submarine will carry a crew of seven men. — - —— [ i Above are some of the wellknown .lapznne conflict. Some Sting Is Of Wage-Hour Legislation In Redraft of Old Measure NEW DYNAMITE »ioeress., BI.AST AWAKENS BELFAST TODAY Terronsls Reported Renew- g Outbreaks—Search Is Made by Police BELFAST, July 31. — Terrorists | awakened the city this morning with dynamite, a fresh outbreak of violence which greeted King 'George and his Queen on his visit to Northern Ireland three days| ago. # The explosion was a land mine, 50 yards from the police barracks. The explosion sent the officers 1in search of political extremists. B G 'MATTERN IS T0 BE AIDED BY . GOVT. EXPERTS MOTOR STOCK PRICES SOAR, SHORT MEET suommcror v o2 ! NEW YORK, July 31.—Slow but'merce, said experts will help Jimmy persistent buying of motor stock to-fMafl.em to prepare for his Polar! day provided lifting power to the|flight next spring. final July stock market session. The experts will make prelimin- Gains of fractions to more thanjary surveys in Alaska and locate two points were made. { possible ground bases. There was some profit taking, — .- the tops. Transfers at the short session Is Airplaned i y For Emergency I but leaders finishea out far fromINSURGENTs were 300,000 shares. Operation Preliminary Surveys to Be Made Preparatory to Spring Flight WASHINGTON, REPORT NOW Chinese “Knife Squad”’ awaiting word to go over the top in the Sino- The Weapon is a fierce one when in hand-to- hmd action. PLEAD BULTY " IN BOMBINGS, STEEL STRIE Taken Out By PRESTON TON GROVER w.«snmc'mu Jity 31 ~Exiough ‘has been knocked out of the wage- hour bill to permit Congress to ac- cept it without feeling it had sold Go on Tnal both labor and industry down the {3t | WARREN, Ohio, July 31.—Seven| The old bill was a stem-winder. of the eight defendants indicted in | | It missed hardly any element of in- the Warren steel strike bombings, dustry or labor. The President in pleaded guilty in court this morn-| his message urging wage-hour leg- ing to illegal possession of ex- |Islation said he wanted to give a plosives and sentence will be pass- ;break to the lower one-third of the ed next Wednesday | population. The Labor Standards Gus Hall, CIO leader deposed be- | Board provided by the bill had pow- cause of the disorders, pleaded in- er under the old measure not only nocent and will be tried in Sep- | to help out the lower one-third, but tember. ‘; |to step into the affairs of some of the upper crust ‘of labor, those getting up to 80 cents an hour. But even more sweeping was the power the Board could have e: cised over industry. By its aubhor— ity to fix a different wage level in |one part of the country from that lin another, it could have choked | off enterprises it felt for one reason or another were “uneconomic” Or pelegate Anthony J. Dimond has unsuitable to some *“national plan- proposed House legoislation which ning” scheme. Those were the youlq authorize Ketchikan to issue possibilities of dictatorial skull-dug- ponds to the amount of $25,000 for gery in the old bill. various city improvemen | Not only did ndustry kick, but [the leaders of lapor saw their own One Clothes Ringer, Iron-| He Is Innocent—Will DIMOND'S BILL AIDS KETCHIKAN WASHINGTON, July 31.—Alaska | {fields invaded, saw the danger of la Pederal Board taking over the |business of negotiating wage and hour terms virtually independent of |labor organizations. | ing Board, Other Cast | COMPROMISE | 3 y So much disturbance developed 0“ Artlcles AlSO Wanted — One clothes wringer, over the bill that the Senate La-| bor Committee recognized that if anything were to be undertaken this also one ironing board. year, modifications were necessary. That is the call sent out by May Senator Thomas of Utah was cred- Jernberg who is in charge of Min- July 81 — J.ijted with suggesting the tone of the nie Fields home for children while| i |compromise that found its way into Miss Fields is in the south for | |the new bill. medical attention. | He pointed out that distrust of 1In a communication to The Em-| ‘thé legislation was based on the pire, Mrs. Jernberg says the ringer| |sweeping scope of its jurisdiction. and ironing board need not be | The solution, then, was to reduce new, but that perhaps some good-| |the jurisdiction. The new bill does spirited Juneauite now has, and \that and by that step mitigates, not using and stored in the base-| although without removing, some of ment. |the abhorrent features of the old Mrs. Jernberg says that other| bill. articles are also needed, those per- In the first place the President’s haps cast out of use but needed at |suggestion for benefitting the low- the Minnie Fields home. er one-third was heeded. Instead of reaching into the 80-cent brack- ets, the labor standards board now Defllflficahon |has jurisdiction only among groups Belleved Hnlted In Shrinking Man earning less than 80 cents an hour |and working more than 40 hours la week. Before, only executives, . 125 MILES OUT NIPPON FI.EET SEEN JULY 17 Officials Aboard Brant See| Mother Ship, 14 Trollers Back State Dept. The Japa:-ese fishing fleet, con- sisting of a mother ship and 14 trollers, was seen operating 125 miles off Nelson Lagoon in Bristol| Bay on July 17 by the official ’"'; vestigation party aboard the flag-| iship Brant of the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries which was returning from' the Pribilof Islands to Naknek. This information was brought ihere by members of the official jgroup who came to Juneau aboard {the Brant, which berthed at the Government docks today at 3:15 a.m. The Brant likely will sail for {the south Sunday night. The Brant, Capt. William Olsen, did not stop in Juneau enroute to Bristol Bay early in July. At that time Gov |John W. Troy flew to Sitka to vmembers of the official party lherc Take Bottom Fish ‘The Japanese fleet appeared to be taking bottom fish on July 17, ac-| cording to members of the party.! They saw no salmon aboard. The, mother ship was an 8,000-ton ves-| sel while 11 of the trollers attached to it were approximately 110 feet long. Of. 132 official gsoup. Cémmissioner Charles D{:"‘Y Deposed CIO 10 Leader Says |and Jobhn McFall, B of the ' House Appropriations Commit-' tee, will ge south to Seattle with the Brant. From Seattle, they will mo- tor to Washington, D. C. Mrs. Mc- |Fall is expected to meet the offici- lals in Seattle and drive east with |them. Ward T. Bower, chief of the Alas- |ka Division of the Bureau of Fish- |eries, .will remain in Southeast Al- aska for several weeks longer. He/ |will make Juneau his headquarters during his stay. Also in the official P iparty is Kilbourne Castell of the Isaac Walton League of Washing- ton, D. C. Department “Alive” All officials who came here on the Brant said that nothing could be added to the statement made by Leo |D. Sturgeon, representative of the |Department of State, who announc- ed in The Empire Wednesday that {his department was “alive” to the Bri.swl Bay . fishing situation and that it would not allow any “vital national industry, such as Alaska |fisheries” to be sacrificed to foreigu | interests. They agreed that it was a matter | {entirely within the jurisdiction of the Department of State and that Inol.hlng they could say would throw |additional enlightenment upon the situation. Mr. Jackson expressed the willlng~ ness—and eagerness—of the ! reau of Fisheries to turn over all m-! {formation now on hand or to be se- ' long and three of them were 130 reeti 'jewelry and expensive table furn-| WOODMAN. A striking character study of the President is afforded in this expression of pride, caught while he was inspecting the results of tree plantings on his day from the s Hyde Park estate during a holi- White House. Homes of Movie Celebrities Are Robbed at Night Gary Cooper Prlncxpa} Suf- ol ferer to Ex;&;t ’ LOS ANGELES, Cal, July 31.— The palatial homes of two cinema celebrities have been robbed of jewelry and other valuables, mated worth approximately $35,000, in daring night burglaries. Approximately $25,000 worth of ishings were taken from the home| of Gary Cooper. Gems worth over $7,500 were stol- en from the home of Tol Wurtzel, | producer. | At the Gary Cooper home, some- one cut a screen on a bath room| window and entered the residenec| while the servants and the Coopers; were absence. Mrs. Cooper is anj| expectant mother, but it is said none| of the valuable baby dresses were| taken. Lexington Back After Fruitless Earhart Search Aircraft Carrier Returns to Port — Putnam Be- lieves Wife Lives SAN DIEGO, Cal, July 31 LONGSHOREMEN T0 KEEP PEACE, WATERFRONTS Not to AskKRevision of | ents Which SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 31.—~Another year of peace on the West Codst waterfronts ap- peared in prospect when Harry Bridges, head of the Longshore- men on the Pacific Coast an- nounced that the organization will not ask for a revision of the present working agreement with the Waterfront Employers’ As- sociation, The Longshoremen’s Associa- tion has notified the Waterfront Employers’ Association of will- ingness to extend the present contracts for another year be- yond next bepumber 30. ATTACK GUARDS IN STRIKE ZONE Skulls Fractured in Out-| break of Truck Drivers in Phlladelphla PHILADELPHIA, Pa., produce for the Great Atlantic and | Pacific Tea Company, were injured,'cduse of that fact, four seriously, in a fresh outbreak present strike. Skulls were = fractured. July 31— |8ix guards, escorting trucks hauling by a group of Indian fishermen, ATTUHNEY IS FOUND GUILTY ON § COUNTS Charges of M_is;onducl and Deceit Sustained by Bar Association Tribunal 'ASK REINSTATEMENT | IF ACCOUNTING MADE }Wldely Known Lawyer Al ! leged to Have Appropriat- ’ ed Money to Own Use } All eight charges of willful deceit .and. misconduct in his profession as attorney and as an officer of the {court which had been brought ‘agamst William L. Paul, Juneau at= _'torney, and in charge of Indian reorganization work in Alaska for ithe Bureau of Indian Affairs, were |sustained by the Juneau Bar 'As- |sociation tribunal before which hearings on his disbarment was 'pleaded March 8. Thé findings of the committee was announced in Federal District Court here this morning by Judge George F. Alex- ander. Judge Alexander exprened the opinion of the Court that Paul had had the benefit of a fair and im- pcruu.l hearing, despite the Mond- After d icurrence in the findings, Judge Al- |exander then passed judgment that the defendant Paul be per- |manently disbarred from the prac- |tice of law before the courts of Al- .aska. Charge Fund Misappropriation However, “in view of the defend- |ant’s offer to account for and repay ’euch funds as he was charged with (appropriating to his own use under paragraph six of the complaint, and 'ln sympathy with the family of the |defendant,” Judge Alexander stip- |ulated that at any time within one !year, Mr. Paul may make applica~ ition for reinstatement to the bar, 'after having made full accounting of the funds and full apologies to the Court for his misconduct. In passing judgment upon Paul, Judge Alexander stressed. that the Court is an impersonal institution, which depends upon the actions and fldelny of its officers to maintain lits own position. “Offense such as that sustained [ngnlnst the defendant in paragraph ix of the complaint is particularly ‘grave,” the Judge averred. Under paragraph six, Paul was charged with having accepted employment members of his own race who, be- had infinite faith in him. Supposedly in the |of violence of truck drivers In me interests of his clients, Paul brought ‘cmm against a packing company and obtained judgment of 2,153 cas- * icured by it to the Department of The aircraft carrier Lexington wllh‘ State. He also said the Department 74 Navy airplanes aboard, returned could have full use of vessels and here today after an unsuccessful personnel, or whatever will be need- !search for the missing Amelia Ear- ed in its invéstigation. {hart and her co-Pilot Fred Noonan | Cooperation Appreciated in the South Seas. | “On behalf of all of us,” Mr. Jack- son said, “I want to express thanks | BELIEVES WIFE ALIVE NEWARK, N. J., July 31.—George !Palmer Putnam arrived here today (from California. He gtill has hope| Ithat his wife, Amelia Earhart, and |Fred Noonan, her co-pilot, are suu\ |alive, although a search for thsm‘ |has been abandoned. He said they| {may be on some small island. } Much informotion of a general na- |ture concerning Alaska, its princi-| e — i | pal features and outstanding lndus-l sHuuTs MATE ‘ |tries, as well as the many new de- | |velopments in the Territory during THEN HIMSE Al ' |the past year is contained in this Member of Famons Trapeze | Progress and Development Ediclon§ ‘ur The Daily Alaska Empire fori Family Takes Part | n [ (cantmued on Pnge six: e~ — Extra Coples of i Special Empire |Edition On Sale 1937. The edition also contains the latest official Federal and Terri- torial Directory. Anticipating that, as in past years,| The guards were attacked by 40 es of salmon, the complaint alleges, men as they drove to a gasoline and further alleges that having ob- service station and were dragged tained the judgment he converted from their trucks and beaten with‘the proceeds of the sale of the sal= baseball bats. mon, some $3,000, to his own use, Several arrests were soon mude.‘wlthout making accounting to his > clients. AR GROWTH PHENOMENAL “Novel Defense” Categorically admitting the action, Paul in his answer to the complaint, employed what the Court this morn- ing declared to be a “novel defense”; namely, that all but two of his clients had no valid claims against GLENDALZ, Gas, July 31.—Maior {0 (Lo obtained from the sals Corliss Moseley, pioneer aviator, of the salmon, and that he, as at- said that the air transport business ¢, oy =~ wog liakhia % .make. 803 has grown in the past ten years by counting because he could not de- 19,8242 per cent in passengers, 3.~ termine to whim such accounting 14449 per cent in mail and 128,933 should be made: per cent in expr(’\b‘ | Such a defense, challenging the o , .rights of his own clients, is hardly acceptable, the Court declared; m"mrs a as further, though it might have been (Continued on Pqe 8ix) e ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 31. —Ted Clark, of Bethel, was airplain- ed here for an emergency appendec- tomy. Dr. Corthell, who is the physician in charge of that area, now fighting an epidemic of spinal meningitis, sent a noté with Clark saying: “I am up to my neck With menin- | gitis cases. Please uke care of this man.” b Clark will undergo an immediate operation in the hospital here, Discontentenith General Franco — Fighting Within Ranks HENDAYE, France,” July 31. — Spanish Government sources assert |that a revolt is spreading through | the Insurgent rear guard. Discon- 'tent is mushroomed into open fight- ing with the Gen. Franco forces on the Southern Coast, ! professionals and agricultural wor- kers were exempt. The new meas- lure exempts those and also seamen, fish-handlers, railroad employees |subject to rail wage-hour legisla- Ition, and employees in local retail :encerpri.ses. | SAFEGUARD The Board still has power to make different wage levels in various i_ \Cuntinu;d—an Page gevcm MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., July 31.— /many Alaskan residents will wish Hans Nelson, who shrank ten in- to mail copies of the edition to their ches in five years, has credited a“rtflflflv&s and friends in other parts parathyroid gland operation wnh‘ saving his life. He is gaining his an insight into conditions in the, strength. He is still five feet tall. Territory, The Empire has printed Tragedy l LONG BEACH, Cal, July 31— famous of the noted family of high trapeze performers, shot and prob- | James J. Connors, recently nom- -|inated and confirméd for another of the world, in order to give shem!Alfredo Codona, one of the most four years as Collector of Customs for Alaska, has taken the oath of office. The oath was taken yes-’ Tram Wrecked; 28 Are Killed Decalcification is apparently halt- a number of extra copies of the|ably fatally wounded his wife and terday afternoon before United| VILLENEVE ST. GEORGES, ed. \edmon which will be available at ——————— {the business office of The Empire.| Bicyclist Clyde Killingbeck of| Also, many Alaskans will wish| Michigan City, Ind., was struck by|to keep copies of the edition on two hit-and-run drivers the same hand for use as a reference of facts about the Territory. day. then killed himself. The couple was in a lawyer's office discussing the couple’s division of property when | the shooting took place. Mrs. Co-!| States Commissioner Felix Gray. R To save the life of a boy ill from digestive trouble, milk from a mo- France, July 31.—A number of pas- |sengers and crew men were killed this morning in a wreck of the Paris-St. Etiene express train. The dona was rushed to a hospital nnd ther donkey was rushed to a London toll of 28 grew with the death of Codona was taken to the morgue, ’ hospital another passenger this afternoon, | i | !