The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 18, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7565. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1937. Terrific Bombardment, Sea, Air, ATTACK MADE IN MOONLIGHT IN'WAR REGION Japanese Bombers Swoop Into Air, Chased Back by Chinese EXPLOSIVES DROPPED DURING BRIEF FLIGHT Defenders mhing Back Nippon Land Forces —Snipers Busy SHANGHAI, Aug. 18.—The most | terrific bombardment since the Shanghai warfare started, took | place last night, continued through- | out the night, with shell and rifle fire predominating today. Japanese war planes acended sud- | denly last night in the moonlight and crashed with bombs the Chin- Sending in the name with a list Supreme Court bench. ese positions and also the advanc- ing hordes of Chinese who are push- ing the Japanese back. lations The air attack took place as Jap-| = e g e anese warships shelled the Chinese | positions northeast of Shanghai. SE ALASKA PAGK‘ Equally as suddenly, a mysterious | fleet of Chinese bombers took the | | air, from somewhere, and the Jap-| | anese war planes were beaten back'M I l L I 0 N cAsEs { to their ships. | In Air in Moonligi.. ‘ Just as the moon shed its faint| glow over this section, eight high' 7= " & 75T T e el ' flying Japanese ~bonibers passed‘ s | westward over the foreign areas, dropping explosives in the direction of the Chinese Hungjo airdrome, The Japancse planes had ap-| peared in the air for only a brief | Districts Have Less than | Half Last Year's Salmon | time when out came, from some di- | rection not known, twelve Chinesel 'rangell Yakutat, Icy Straits, bombers. These bombers cut be- and the Eastern salmon districts tween the Japanese planes, ascended °f the Southeast Alaska division over them and began an attack not continue to trail jus lightly be- only by bombs but machine gun hind last season, according to pack fire. |figures up to Saturday, August 14, Taken by Surprise |this year, released today by the U.| The Japanese, taken by surprise,|S: Bureau of Fisheries. sped inland, chased by the Chinese SOutheast Alaska pack is more air fleet then quickly dove down than a million cases behind 1936. and swooped over Shanghai back| Ketchikan and the West Coast to their base, but several planes were districts are still far not in the formation, believed to have Year's banner season, Ketchikan been shot down. Hundreds of bombs 'unning less than fifty percent and, were dropped during the brief the West Coast even further behind. | flight. 'The Western district is trailing last The sky was cloudless and thou- S€ason by about 130,000 cases. | sands of foreigners went to the| Figures, none of them final, on! rooftops of the concessions to watch |the Southeast Alaska salmon pack| the warfare. The shells fired from this season, by districts, with thc} the Japanese warships, could be!packs for the comparative period plainly seen bursting in the air or last year, are: | exploding on the ground in Chinese Ketchikan district: Reds 31,088;] positions. ¥ kings, 940; pinks, 369,827; chums,| Terrific Bombardment 189,035, cohos, 12402; total, 504,-92 The outlying areas were given afcase& 1936 pack for comparative! terrific bombardment. {period—1,087,946 cases. Meantime, Chinese forces, called! Wrangell district: rteds, 19,265; | out, began an advance on the ground kings, 1,958; pinks, 248,061; chums, | of Japanese soldiers and slowly;fl‘ozz; cohos, 9,013; total, 325319/ pushed them back in the northeast- |cases. 1936—328,004 cases. | ern sector, until warship fire stopped, Yakutat district: Reds, 16,665 cas- the movement. les; kings, 1,737; pinks, 5,602; chums, From Shanghai to the mouth of |20; cohos, 47; total, 24,071. 1936— the Yangtze more than 50 Japanese|30,772 cases. | men-of-war lay at anchor or shut-| Icy Straits district: Reds, 39,481; tled back and forth, the decks un- (kings, 405; pinks, 200;735; chums,! der fire of Chinese snipers. 156,356; cohos, 6,702; total, 308,709 Volleys fired by Chinese riflemen |cases. 1936—346,678 cases. | “Surprises Are whizzed over the decks of the Am- | Western district: Reds, 15,286; Best, Senator” of other nominations, President Rocsevelt named Senator Hugoe Black (right), of Alabama, to the It surprised his colleagues on Canitol Hill, but here’s the Vice-President, Jack Garner, offering his congratu- Cal, Lindberghfo Buy Small Island On Brefon Coast Alexis Carrel, Col- laborator PARIS, France, Aug. 18. — Col Charles A. Lindbergh is reported negotiating for the purchase of Milio, a small island once owned by Aristide Briand, near Trebeurnd on the Breton coast. Reports sald the flier is buying Carrel, author of “Man, the Un- known” and other books. Col. Lindbergh and Dr. Carrel search to prolong human life. CONGRESS HAS COST COUNTRY §12,000,000 Longest Session in Recent Years Requires $50,- 000 Per Day WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—This ses- sion of Congress is one of the long- est in recent years and already has cost the Government approximately $12,000,000. Bach day that Congress is in ses- sion cost the Federal Government approximately $50,000. JUDGE BLACK CONFIRMED BY .S, SENATE Effort Made to Prevent His Seating Despite One- Sided Favorable Vote WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. — Albert Levit, former judge in the Virgin Islands, today sought to prevent Senator Hugo L. Black from taking his seat on the Supreme Court bench following his confirmation yester- day by the Senate by a one-sided vote of 63 to 16. Levit asked Supreme Court per= mission to file a petition praying that Black be required to show why he should be permitted to serve as | Associate Justice and contended {that Black was prohibited going on the court bench beca he was a member of the Senate tincreased by legislation permitting: jurists to retire on full pay. He also asserted that Van DeVanter, re- cently retired, was still a member of the court. Senator Black said he would re- |tire from the Senate at once to take his position on the bench and pledged himself “to serve the peo- Iple to the best of my ability.” Charge has been made against Black that he once has belonged to the Ku Klux Klan but the Sen-| | from} ] when “emoluments” of Justices wu‘%' Farm Land i MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS at Shanghai W“\," b 5 general view of the area. INSURGENTS IN STIFF ADVANCE | |ate confirmed his appointment by | |overwhelming vote in the face off ateusations by opponents. X4 Alabama Congressmen said today‘ \Keichikan and West Coast Wishes to Be Near Dr.|they understood that Gov. Graves {had decided to appoint his wife | Dixie, as temporary successor to | Senator Black. She will serve at |least part of the 1938 session, they indicated. | PLENTY OF WORK AHEAD WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Sena- tor Hugo L. Black, newly appointed Supreme Court justice, will have plenty of work as soon as he takes The whole the property to be near Dr. Alexis Office. The court has 300 cases al- ready filed for the new term. It is Ito pass on the constitutionality of ‘govomnu'nt loans and grants to short of last have collaborated on scientific re- finance municipal power plants. The Justices also will announce whether | they will review the new challenges {to the Wagner Labor Relations Act jand controversies involving the 1936 |law broadening Federal regulations on power plants. NORTHWEST IS ~HIT HARD OVER ORIENTAL WAR’ iLumber Shipments Order-| ed Held or Are The former ground level 's visible, Approximately 100 acres in the area were sinking. ON SANTANDER- Government Says Soldiers; Are ltalians, Aided by German Plill’l(‘S HENDAYE, French Border, Aug.| 18—The Spanish Insurgents, de-| scribed by Spanish Government au- thorities, as rebuilt around the Hn]-i ian Black Arrow Brigade, bolstered | by 200 German planes, battered a| way toward Santander today in| what may prove to Be a cruicial campaign in the present Civil War. Columns of the Insurgents are operating in parallel lines along the highway into Santander. The in-| vaders are now said to be within 25 miles of the outskirts of the city,' but advance is being met by stiff resistance from Government Loyal- ists who are using machine gun and also rifle fire. | R JOSEPH OGDEN ARRESTED FOR TRUNK MURDER Claims to Have Shot Sine-| { Cancelled i ‘ 3 cal Over Struggle | i SEATTLE, Aug. 18—The Sino-| for Gun Japanese troubles are already af-| e |fecting the Pacific Northwest trade | somewhat adversely, a spokesman NEW YORK, Aug. 18.—Joseph " SOVIET FLIERS, RANDALLSAYS. |Arctic Natives Report Hear- ing Motors Four or | Five Days Ago ! it & | AIRMAN FAILS TO FIND MISSING CRAFT [Sir Hubert Wilkins to Join: | in Search with Fly- ing Boat | [ | [ POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug {18.~Bob Randall, Canadian airman, |reported here today that Barter Is- |land ‘Eskimos told him they had |heard what they believed to be air- | plane engines “four or five daya |ago.” | ‘'Randall returned here after a search in which he said he made |many landings along the Arctic | Coast. | “Wherever I could find a native | to talk to T stopped,” the flier said. i"Burtcr Island natives claimed they | heard engines and believed at first i“‘ was a boat. They were unable to locate a boat and later decided it |must have been plane engines they ‘heard. There fs a possibility it might |have been the Russians.” Randall will resume the search tomorrow. Today's flight was made through murky weather most of the * time. | FLYING BOAT JOINS SEARCH WASHINGTON, Aug. 18.—Vilhja~ \mur Stefansson, President of the § | Explorers’ Club of New York, said A Art French (in white cap with camera) had his camera broken when he attempted to get pictures of fist fights that followed attemnts of the American Newspaper Guild pickets to halt publication of the Seatile, Wash., Star. Three men were arrested and several injured in the skirmish. mtge, Hour Bill Hearings Bring Forth Great Mass Of Hints; Some Real Gems By PRESTON GROVER problem, the story was quite a dif- | that a large flying boat had been ob- | tained by the Soviet Embassy and | probably will leave North Beach ajr- |port, New York, tomorrow in quest |of the missing Soviet fliers. The | search will be under command of 8ir Hubert Wilkins and was ar- | vanged by the Embassy through the Explorers’ Club which will coordin- late search activities throughout the areas where the fliers are believed |to be down. Wilkins will first take the ship |to Toronto, then God's Lake, Mani- |toba, then non-stop to the mouth of the Coppermine river where gas~ oline and supplies dre awaiting. He | will make a base at Aklavik, The Soviet Embassy was informed |that three commercial planes of | Canadian companies were assem- bling fuel and supplies from Arctig, Red River, Good Hope and Norman with the view of concentrating them ;al, Aklavik. | Stefansson said he believed the | fliers are in the area bounded by |iatitude 80 north to 85 north and | 100 west to 150 west. |MATTERN HELD BY WEATHER FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 18.— |James Mattern said here that the | weather to the northward was so |thick today he thought it unlikely |that he would be able to start on a search for the missing Soviet fliers. While awaiting better weather ha AR I 1o | (Continued on Page Two) { |ogden, 36, roommate of Oliver George Sinecal, whose doubled-up nude body was found late yesterday | Iferent one. Nearly every one of WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—If you (ney gongributed an intelligent, | {are looking for good, light, SUMmMEr pepry) thought to a committee that at the Railway Express Office, is Feading, don't you dare '“"]‘ UP &y struggling with an almost hope- being held by police today. i}ulum« of the Congressional hear-| g taqy about, $18,000,000. celled. | The clue which led police to hold ings on the current wage and hour, The biggest item is the salaries| Other Northwest companies made Ogden was a number “839” left bill. | of members, secretaries, law draft- Similar reports of “hold” orders or inadvertently on the trunk. Police | That ambitious, opus stacks up to [kmgs, 17,179; pinks, 116,168; chums.;ing experts, and se forth. This to-|cancel them. found that the luggage dealer who! That ambitious opus stacks up lu:(lmll with the fixing of general min- 124210; cohos, 11,390; total, 187,479 tals $10,000,000. For 12 months the| Pulp companies have also filed had sold the trunk lived in thethe thrills of the three decker novels|imum wage standards by a govern- cases. 1936—421,017 cases, | Congressional printing bill is close|R0tice that hundreds of tons of|same block as Ogden and gave |Kipling loved so well and has little ment fiat for men in private indus- 'to $2,500,000. |products may not find a Japanese|them Ogden's address. but size in common with "Gone|try would be strenuously opposéd by ‘ 3 \ Bill Is Designed to Outlaw Cut Rate Prices Clerks made the estimate on the 53id here today. basis of eight months of the ses-| Reports come from the Grays \sion' and explained that actual op- Harbor district is that some orders erating cost of the Legislative De- for the Far East have been de- partment for the entire year is/!aved and others have been can- erican liner President McKinley asikings, 24; pinks, 144,680; chums, 66-] that craft was anchored in the 776; cohos, 4,202; total, 230,968 cases.' Yangtze river, and more than 300|1936—354,516 cases. American passengers, watching the| Eastern district: Reds, 8,600; maneuvers ashore, fell on the decks | kings, 8,113; pinks, 280,352; chums, to escape the fusillage. |61,749; cohos, 5815; total, 364,629 # |cases. 1936—378,892 cases. Huusevelt slgns ) ‘West Coast district: Reds, 18,532;| Tax Legislation THREE KILLED, PLANE CRASH, INCALIFORNIA Bodies Are Burned Beyond Recognition—Identified by Personal Effects Here are a colple of real gems William Green—“Any proposal to Totals of the Southeast Alaska | " | pack up to August 14 this year, com- ‘market on account of the present| The body was discovered yester-| With the Wind. 'Uhl’ American Federation of Labor day afternoon when a clerk noticed | We can't take it upon ourselvesias contrary to our conception of de-| | pared with the like period last sea- troubles. " le handed bl 1t m ' th son are: Reds, 148,917; kings, 30,- M ( H | blood dripping from a trunk which single handed to blame a 10s€ | mocracy, and as violating the car- | - orse Code Helps Ihad just been checked by & tall, |witnesses because they did not enter-|dinal principles of self government 856; pinks, 12365455; chums, 346,- . {068: ‘cohos, 49.571: total, 1940367 Judge Decide Case MURDER SUSPECT red-haired man, The luggage was tain the American public. That is| prevailing private industry in |cases. 1936—2,947,825 cases. St ordered sent collect to Joe Mar- not their business, | this - country.” | B WMVES HEARINGv shall in Memphis, Tenn. The man| But why did most of those folks| George . Davis, WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—Presi-| Ta Lt Garter | TO FACE JURORS vwho checked the trunk left hur- individually insist on reviewing the|States Chamber of Commerce—If s |the Morse code in his youth before | ‘rledly without getting a tag. lmnmtmn of labor in the United business men are threatened by he became familiar with the ohlo; D. P. (Pete) McCluskey, alleged | criminal code as attorney andliconfessed slayer of Arthur Phillips| dent Roosevelt today signed legisla- | tion to permit manufacturers to| BERLT A A bullet hole was found in the States getting to the point? chat in costs in the future pe- RLIN — Ml: imum measure- back of Sinecal's head. Ogden| Such preliminaries use up an aw-|riod they must confront, through ments for suspenders, garters and |judge He used is to advantage|at Tyee last week, has, through when a defendant charged Wwith | his attorney, Mrs. Mildred Hermann, contract for minimum retail prices for their goods. The President ex-‘ claimed to have shot Sinecal while |ful lot of type, and most of them|hour and wage orders from an offic- pressed displeasure over the bill,;"mnds are to be lald down by they struggled for possession of a werely summed up their introduc-|ial board, they are bound to hesi- however. |the economic subcommittee which | qrunkenness told the court he was ALHAMBRA, Cal, Aug. 18 Three persons died in a crash of a rented plane near the airport here, The plane burst into flames as it struck the highway and the bodles were burned beyond recognition. The bodies, identified from per- sonal effects, were.those of Craw- United of the - [ TOLEDO, O. Aug. 18. — Police |Judge Homer A. Ramey learned | gun. The legislation was attached as a|is coordinating LheA German sus- rider to the District of Columbia |Pender industry with Four-Year Tax bill. The sponsors said it wns;Plan requirments. | designed to outlas tail | % the retail shorg Trees left standing after a forest practice of selling widgly-known | advertised goods at cut rate prices! to attract customers, fire make good lumber if felled promptly. a telegrapher. The judge tapped pensively on the bench with a pen- cil. The defendant immediately translated the tappings, and won dismissal. Judge Ramey decided he waived preliminary hearing before U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray. He |is held here in Federal jail until the convening of the Federal Grand {Jury here this fall, when he will answer to the Grand Jury on first {tions with the same thought, name-[tale and keep their future commit- Sinecal had a police record in!ly: “Nobody believes more strongly ments down to the minimum they Seattle and other citles, the police than I in raising the standard of [thimk they dare risk. Healthful claim. living for American workers {business activity that gives employ- ——— e William Gilbert, an Englishman $ W ment and steady earnings to work- HELPFUL OPINIONS lers depends upon reasonable cer- really was a telegrapher and Wwas |degree murder charges filed against POrn in 1640, is called “the father| ‘Of course, when the witnesses|tainty as to the future.” not drunk, him. of electricity,” finally got down to the meat of the (Continued on Page Five) \ford Waterman, 38, of Glendale, the pilot; Mrs. Gladys Reynolds, 37, 1his flancee, and.a men named My- ers, a former army flier. The plane went into a spin 300 feet in the air after it had circled {the airport once. |