The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 14, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7562. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 14, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e e e vt e, bty " PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIET Japanese ARTILLERY, ALSO AERIAL ATTACKS MADE, SHANGHAI Two Terrifi.cfllslaughts by Air, on Nippon War- | ships, Takes Place | FOREIGN SETTLEMENT REPORTS DEATH LIST. Three Americans Reported‘ Killed — U. S. Marines Aided by Special Guard BULLETIN — SHANGHAIL Aug. 14.—At least three promin- ent Americans in Shanghai have been killed and two other Am- ericans wounded during the aerial warfare. Dr. Frank J. Warlinson, one of the outstanding missionaries in China; H. S. Honisbek, weal- thy motorcar dealer, both Shanghai residents; and Dr. Ro- bert Reischauer, Professor of International Princeton University, visiting in Shanghai, have been killed. Two American wounded are J. M. Kerby, of New York, and R. R. Rouse, of Saco, Montana. The total dead late this af- terncon is placed at 500 people who died -horfibly in the two terrific bombings. SAVAGE ATTACK BY CHINA SHANGHAI, Aug. 14. — China’s awakened warriors have blasted the Japanese with aerial bombs and ar- tillery, plus savage gunfire in the Shanghai warfare which has struck into the heart of the International Zone and endangered the lives of thousands of Americans and other foreigners. Over 300 is the estimated dead up to early this morning, killed out- right in the International Zone as bombs fell. Americans soon began to evacuate the danger areas. The United States cruiser Augus- ta, flagship of Admiral Harry E. Yernell, of the Asiatic fleet has ar- Relations of | LOYALISTS IN - SURPRISE MOVE. ~ ONINSURGENTS Penetrate @Mile Inti Rebel Ranks on Bru- ; nette Front HENDAYE, French Border, Aug. 14.—Spanish Government troops thrust forward one mile in a sur= prise attack on the Brunette front, | outside of Madrid as the Insurgents hammered out new gains on the long Terule spearhead 100 miles east of Madrid according to both Loy- Wido ws of Airvli;ays-M e;et { here. |clare they have forced the Insur- |gents out of the entrenchments in the Brunette sector. £ The Insurgents claim they have made gains in three separate zones| {in Central Spain. UNDER 2 col cut WIDOW OF AIRWAYS | Lady Charles Kingsford-Smith (left), whose husband was the first | {0 fiy across the Pacific to Australia, and Mrs. Fred Noonan met at | Oakland Airport when Lady Kingsford-Smith stopped to see a | | DANISH VESSEL BOMBED BARCELONA, Aug. 14—A com- | munique issued late today reported four Insurgent planes bombed and sank the Danish vessel Edith, 30| miles south of here. The crew of 20| members escaped, according to re-»i | ports. Viatd Py O 4 INDIAN CREDIT memorial to her husband. Mrs. Noonan's husband disappeared on | a trans-Pacific flight and Kingsford-Smith was lost in the Indian | ocean. PUBLIC ASKED :Wflgg-l'lllllrnflkialle!I - TO HELP TRIM ' s Pigeonholed |sypERviSORiS ~ BIG GflME B".L‘ D“fi!lg_SBSSiflflvfiwm ALASKA? i illi 1 Will Not| mlré;:lfl BYIE::,?Y Dsz)l,:a < s“ Leé?ve; sUi?}]’.lIa?;er,lUn_o {Critchfield Arrives on North g | X 5 Cottiies til Adjournment | Star—to Be in Terri- \ tory Two Weeks 2 LIRS | WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. — The| WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Unpre- Sendate Crime Committee has asked |cedented obstacles on the part of| Coming north for no one particular “aroused public opinion” to help|the Rules Committee impelled a1~}bltot business, but mainly just to see trim the nation's crime bill, esti- most everybody but House leader- conditions in Alaska in order to mated at nearly thirteen billion ship members to concede that me‘betber understand problems that dollars yearly. Administration’s Wage-Hour Bill is|Mmay come up concerning the Ter- i The committee cited that “the definitely pigeonholed for the ses-|Titory, H. M. Critchfield is now in {alist and Insurgent advices received | { Spanish Government forces de- | A large crowd of spectators overflowed the Los Angeles superior courtrodm as Albert Dyer, 32, went on trial for the triple killing of three young girls at Inglewood. An some of the would-be spectators at the doorway to the court. Crowd Masses at Triple My officer is shown here holding back ] Dyer on T-i;ial for Killing " FAVOR BLACK general conviction is that there has sion. been a breakdown in our law en- forcement agencies in the courts.” Efficient law enforcement and careful child training, the Commit- tee said, can go far toward lessen- ing the tribute paid criminals. e Committee fo - Gonvene with Matanuska Head Will Protest Ten Per Cent Wage Cut Recently Reported rived here. The American Emergency Com- mittee early today mapped out safety plans and hoped to protect the 4,000 Americans here. Other na- tions are doing the same but for the most part relying for aid from the Americans. Sixteen Chinese two and four mo- tored planes roared over the city bombing Japanese warships. Japanese planes immediately took to the air but were beaten back ef- fectively by the Chinese bombers. The Japanese warship Idzumo has been hard hit, according to reports, by the Chinese bombers. Bombs have fallen in the French Concession and perhaps a dozen persons have been killed. United States Marines have been called to duty to every available man, strengthened by a guard of 1,060 men, ' | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 14— U. S. MAKES APPEAL Leo B. Jacobs, manager of tae new WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Secre- Matanuska Colony, said the Alaska tary of State Hull said this Gov- Rehabilitation Corporation had ernment has representations” to the Japdnese hmi today to protest the ten percent and Chinese Governments to not wage cut reported here. use Shanghai as the “theatre of war Employees have voted to strike operations.” Monday if the cut is effective. DON ECK IS TO RUSH REINFORCEMENTS TIENTSIN, Aug. l4.—Japanese War Commanders reported with au- thority today that 12,000 soldiers are The leaders insisted publicly that |Juneau for a few days, having ar-| 1r1ved from the States this morning | made “most earnest named a eommittee to meet with| aboard the Indian Bureau motor-| ship North Star. He is accompanied | til adjournment. . ! S The Rules Committee has kept|PY Mrs. Critchfield, and is staying : spite “terrif- | here at the Gastineau Hotel. | ::] em::;ul;ugl;,tled i cmptie Mr. Critchfield is Supervisor - of | oo |Credit for the Bureau of Indian ]‘ |Affairs. He has charge of all Bu- {reau funds except those for Educa- tion and for the Medical Depart- - STRIKERS ARE | i BACK TO JOBS ment. “Right now,” he said, “the {Clerks of Newberry and main funds our department has in |charge are those under the new Woolworth Chains Compromise |they will not give up however, un- ! Wheeler-Howard Indian Re-Organ- ization Act, though there are some tribal revenues and other minor ac- i counts.” [ Mr. Critchfield stated that he“ { brought no news of any contemplat- | ed changes or new developments' of the Bureau in Alaska, as he has {been away from Washington, D. C., | |since June, visiting various districts | in the States. He would like, he said, | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 14.|!0 spend about two weeks in Alaska | —Leaders ordered the clerks of fif-|nd see as much of the Territory as teen San Francisco stores of J. J. he can within that time. “It is sure Newberry and F. W. Woolwonh;m“ we will have to have a c¢redit, chains back to their jobs as a re-|Fepresentative in Alaska perman- sult of a compromise settlement of Mtly soon, however,” he said. | “I have already seen some of Al- a four day strike in which five hun-| - dred employees were involved. |aska coming up on the North Star, The strike of six hundred employ- |he avowed, “and both Mrs. Critch- ees of the Foster Lunchroom chain, |field and I found it very much to comprising thirty-two restaurants, our liking. Before heading north was citywide. The commissary was We were promised rain all the way, ordered for 11 a.m. ‘but we are not disappointed that P T iy |we had fine weather most of the |George G. Sellman, 67. | Prosecutor Dudley M. Outcalt| He planned to leave later fory Albert Dyer (right), 32-year-old crossing guard, is shown with Wil- liam Neely, Assistant Public Defender, as he went on trial in Los An- geles for the attack killing of three little Inglewoed, Calif., girls he lured from a public park. Pleads Innocent | Tax Collector To Murder charge‘ Visits Anchorage CINCINNATI, Od., Aug. 14—Pret-| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 14.— 'ty blonde Mrs. Anna Hahn pleaded T W. Henrickson, acting Internal innocent today to a murder charge Revenue Collector, visited here to- in connection with the death of|day to discuss plans for speeding the filing of tax returns in Alaska. turned to new leads in what he|Fairbanks, accompanied by Thomas { 3 " termed “one of the biggest ma.ss;w' Winter, Seattle attorney. murders in the country.” He said SR o o i :gutfs investigating three mprc"['ra“ic Stopped; Explanation Given SENATE GROUP MRIORITY. T jTen Members ¢;f Judiciary | Committee to Vote i for Alabaman WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—State- ments from the majority members favorable report, probably Monday, Lafayette Black, for the Supreme Court of the United Sta Ten committee members said they would vote in. confirmation of the Alabaman. wrder Trial . of the Senate Judiciary Committee | indicated that they would make a| on the nomination of Senator Hugo' POLAR FLIERS FORCED DOWN, Immediate Hunt Begins as Planes Roar Out “rom Fairbanks JIMMY MATTERN WANTS T0 GO OUT Embassy Officials Express No Anxiety, However, for Six Airmen The Soviet plane, piloted by Sigismund Levanevisky, flying from Moscow over the North Pole, bound for some point in the United States, with first stop at Fairbanks, Alaska, to re- fuel, is lost, A search is now underway, from Fairbanks, for the missing | eraft, Today, Gov. John W. Troy, is- sued the following statement: of the United States Army at the nearest Signal Corps Sta- tion.” Planes Leave Fairbanks Following positive reports that the Soviet plane is lost, three airplanes, carrying Russian flight representa- tives, dashed out from Fairbanks' |this forenoon in search of the miss- ing Boviet plane. ‘The planes roared away from |Fairbanks in fan-shape courses, traveling eastward, northward and | westward. Joe Crosson was -the first to lift |his plane into the air. He is pilot- ing the giant 12-place ship and Is accompanied by Murray Hall as co- Moscow to Fairbanks. This ap- peal is to request ‘who “ Boviet re- | Three members are definitely op-,pilot. He headed northward follow= 1| ISSUED UNDER NEW * Iten more agents have been issued | l HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 14.—A whis-| | posed, while four others are still noncommittal. Two of these are! leaning toward confirmation. two | against. 13 MORE - PERMITS INSURANCE CODE Supplementing the forty-seven insurance firms previously qualified for Territorial licenses under the lact passed by the last Legislature, |licenses by Territorial Auditor Frank Boyle, as well as two additional |non-resident licenses. ! A Mutual Benefit Soclety permit (has been issued to the Alaska Mu- |tual Beneficial Association. The ten new resident licenses were granted to: E. R. ’I‘nrwater.| of Anchorage; August W. Conrad, Elsie D. Schrank of Fairbanks, John Barrett, of Juneau; T. S. Elsemore, of Petersburg; J. W. Honea, of Ru- by; H. S. Balderston, E. D. Webb, of Seward; J. J. Conway, and Neill | Andersen, of Sitka Qualifying for non-resident li- censes were: W. J. Holpa and Charles O. Peteet. Up to August| 12, a total of 55 resident and four | non- resident licenses have been| ing the 148th meridian, the route the lost fliers. were to take to the United States. Clyde Armistead, hopped off in a Fairchild pontoon plane, eastward. Pilot Murray Stuart took the air and headed westward. The pilots of the three planes in- tend to search the Arctic coast. Mattern is Ready Jimmy Mattern in Los Aneejes, is also prepared to take off for the North Pole. He is anxious to aid in the search. Levanevisky and Lev- chenko, both aboard the Soviet plane, rescued Mattern when he crashed in Siberia four years ago. Soviet officials in Los Angeles asked Mattern if he is willing to direct a search and Mattern is awaiting word from his sponsors. Down in Arctic ‘The last word Moscow received from the plane was when the chiet pilot radioed that one of his trans- polar plane of four engines was fail- ing. This was just before a Russian radio station lost contact late last night with the plane bearing six-atr- men to the United States. Down—Where? An Empire Associated Press dis- patch from Washington said the Soviet Embassy declared that there is no real anxiety, so far as the safety of the crew is concerned. The Pilot 8. E. Robbins and mechanie being massed in Mukden and Man- chuokou as reinforcement for a quick dispatch to China. ftry to attempt to describe. I have |seen quite a bit of scenery in my j HERE SUNDAYETALI‘Y GnINs |time. Alaska is too beautiful a coun- Itle screamed, and a glant switch LITTLE DAMAGE AT engine ground to a halt at a city | ! { JAPANESE BLOCKED | Don Eck, Chairman of the Trans- PEIPING, Aug. 14—The fighting 'Portation Committee of the Nation- Chinese and also the regulars of al Editorial Association of Chicago, the 89th Division have blocked the i making the round trip on the northwestward advance of the Jap- Baranof, due here tomorrow. He has anese forces and today hold stra- & letter from the President of the tegic Nonkow Pass in the face of NEA and desires to get in touch with hot artillery fire and aerial bom- governmental officials in connection bardment. ,with the proposed 1939 National The Japanese took the abandoned Convention which may be held in town of Nankow yesterday. ( laska. o A | Arrangements have been made VERNE SOLEYS MOVE !whereby Mr. Eck will have a con- {ference with Gov. John W. Troy. — . Mr. and Mrs. Verne. Soley have moved from their home in the MRS. SULLIVAN VISITS Marine Apartments to the Douglas Mrs. C. J. Sullivan, wife of a Mead Apartments on Sixth Street Haines merchant, is visiting in and Park Avenue, where they are Juneau and is stopping at the Gas- to make their future residence. tineau Hotel. The U. 8. Coast Guard cutter Tal- lapoosa, after berthing at the gov- ernment docks for several days fol- lowing a protracted voyage west to Soviet territories, will sail Sunday at 9 a.m. for Seattle. Capt. Chet Anderson is in com- mand. This will mark the first time the Tallapoosa has been in the Se- attle port since March. From there it will sail through the Panama Canal for the East coast. It will be stationed at Savannah, Ga. The sole passenger for Seattle is Dan Putnam, Pederal Disbursing Agent. SOUTH SUNDAY MINERS’ HALL BLAZE lerossing here. Brakes screeched as The Fire Department was called traffic stopped on each side of the| out to the Miners’ Union Hall, op- jron rails. “Mrs. Critchlield and I hung to posite the cold storage plant, last| The engineer leaped from his cab, the ship’s rail all the way up the‘mght at 10:50 o'clock, but the m‘“",stwpod over and peered at the Channel hefe this morning, and I iature blaze was extinguished be-|payement. Suddenly he paused, bent‘ jecannot tell you how much we were fore the Fire Boys airived, Fire gyer, picked up something and re- |impressed by the sight of Juneau,|Chief V. W. Mulvihill announced tuyrned to his throttle. The switch| surrounded by all these mountains.” today. ]engine slowly puffed away as motor | sl LB o ) The fire started as a result of cars honked impatiently. | |travels, but none, I believe, that |can equal that in the section around | Petersburg. | Kathleen McAlister was brought |Smoke was stopped in about 10 min-| by ambulance yesterday from the lutes. Damage was negligible, ac-| iy iNuggeL Creek power house, having cording to the Fire Chief. 1 Cl‘lclflllfif Mmuters fallen near there and received a| e .- - ‘ | severe head injury. She is reported | JEANNE HERE TODAY NEWBERRY, 8. C—Three minis- |to be in a favorable condition at The Jeanne, Capt. William Strong, [€rs gave sporlsmen a lesson in isz, Ann's Hospital. }nrrived here today at noon for Shooting on a recent deer hunt in ————— |freight from the Princess Louise,|the vicinity of Newberry. The min-| There are national forests in 37 which is scheduled to dock here |isters killed three of the seven states. tonight at 6:30 o'clock. !deer hagged by the party of 20. | | {Kansas 3.2 Beer KATHLEEN MALISTER HURT |defective wiring, Mulvihill said., The engineer had found a i granted under the new act, as well las the one Mutual Benefit permit. R Not Intoxicating, Says Jury WICHITA, Kan., Aug. 4. — Kansas 3.2 beer is not intoxicat- ing. Such was the verdict rendered by the jury which today cleared William Leifhit of drunken driving charges. Leifhit clalmed to have partaken only of the mild beverage which Kanshs offers. Embassy officials believe the fliers were forced to land in some region between the North Pole and Alaska. Specially Built Plane The plane, a four-motored ship, was built by a Moscow group of Rus- sian engineers, Victor Bolkhovitin- ow, engineer in charge. The wings are lettered URSS, 209. ‘The plane is equipped with about six weeks' emergency supplies, in- cluding hot coffee, tea, black caviar, chicken sandwiches and Levanevis- ky's favorite warm clothing. 11 HOURS OVERDUE SEATTLE, Aug. 14.—Authorita- The jury was instructed to consider only whether or not Leifhit was intoxicated when his truck was involved in a erash on July 17. tive sources close to Russian trans- polar headquarters here became: convinced at 1 a.m. that Levanevis- ky and his five companions are B \Conum;ed on Page li‘hm‘)— ARCTIC AREA PLANE LOST; SEARCH STARTED re Blasted by Bombs of Chinese