The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL L,, NO. 7567. JUNEAU ALASKA FRIDAY AUGUbT 20, 1937 PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICAN NAVY CRAFT SHELLED IN WAR H—YfiRUPLANE 5 " AT BARROW FOR RENEWED HUNT Russian Craft Reaches Arc- tic Point — Krassin Crashes Ice Pack SIR HUBERT WILKINS MAKING SPEED NORTH Refueling Plane at White- horse Last Night— Weather Man Coming BULLETIN — FAIRBANKS' Alaska, Aug. 20.—Jimmy Mat- tern left at 1:10 o'clock this af- terncon, PST, and headed for Point Barrow to join the Rus- sian and Canadian Airmen and alsc the Russian icebreaker Krassin. Marian Hall, Universi- ty of Aiaska co-ed, gave Mattern a small Alaska flag to carry. Vartanian, Soviet Representa- tiv. who arrived here Monday frem Juneau, gave Mattern a letter to Levanevisky. BULLETIN — WHITE - HORSE, Aug. 20—Garland Lin- coln left here at 11:30 e'clock this morning on the last lap of his trip to refuel Mattern's plane. POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug.! 20.—A Russian hydroplane, with a crew of four aboard, arrived here last night to join'the search for the missing Soviet fliers. The fliers| planned to hop eastward from Akla- vik, in their search, Canadian Pilot Bob Crandall, fly- ing a plane chartered by the Sovlet‘ government and who reported the, Barter Island Eskimos as stating they heard the roar of an airplane; engine, is still held here on ac-' count of the weather. The Soviet icebreaker Krassin, with supplies of oil and gasoline, also -four airplanes aboard, neared' Point Barrow today through the ice pack. WILKINS SPEEDS NORTH PORT ARTHUR, Ontario, Aug. 20. ‘The huge flying boat, equipped for the Arctic, commanded by Sir Hu-| bert Wilkins, which took the air from Long Island Sound at 8:40 o'- clock, arrived here last night in less than four hours after taking off from Ontario where it landed for refueling during yesterday after- soon. Sir Hubert announced last night that he intended to take off at 3 o'clock this morning on a proposed‘ nonstop flight to Fort Smith, North- west Territories, 1200 miles distant. Sir Hubert said: “The Soviet fliers have every chance of beimu alive,” and added that he believed they could exist six or eight weelu. at least on the food supplies Lhey carried with them when they hopped % off from Moscow. Sir Hubert plans to make his base at the mouth of the Copper Minei River. His seaplane has a cruising radius of 4,000 miles and can remiin in the air 20 hours without refuel-/ ing. i LINCOLN AT WHITEHORSE | WHITEHORS, Y. T, Aug. 20— Bad weather here last night ground- ed Garland Lincoln, Hollywood flier, piloting Jimmy Mattern’s refueling plane to Fairbanks. Lincoln landed here at 4:45 o'clock yesterday aftermoon from Zazleton, B. C., 500 miles south, where he had been forced down by fog yesterday morning after taking off from Vanderhood, B. C. Lincoln said he expected to take the air today for Fairbanks, weath- er permitting. PRAISE FOR MATTERN PITTSBURGH, Pa. Aug. 20.—M. L. Benidum, millionaire oil mag- (Continued on Page Tw;:;h B |rails 51.87, utilities 27.65. Elizabeth L-’Adami, Hungarian danseuse and continental prize-winning beauty reput.d o h-ve received mor performer in V’ revue, Regarding qu avis, is shown on her arrival in New York to star in a ostion whether American men might supply the marital answer, the talented Miss remained gay but non-committal. BATTERIES OF CHINA BLAST Defenders Dropplng Bombs on Property of In- vading Hosts SHANGHAI, Aug. 20.—Great fires, the result of savage Chin- ese air bombing of Japanese properties in the Pootung and Hongkew districts, and the Chinese land batteries blasting the Japanese defense lines in the eastern district, are the out- standing features of today's warfare in this sector. For the fourth time, a great conflagration is raging here this afternoon. Several American owned buildings are believed afire or are in danger. Sl el ‘Alaska Reindeer Bill Is Approved Today by House ' Amendment Carries Appro- | priation of $2,000,000 to Carry Out Proposal | | | ! | | | | | | | | | e marriage proposals than any other : ! | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — The | House today approved, after more ———— than three hours’ debate, the Sen- \SENATE LEADER HINTS CONGRESS NEARING CLOSE House Heads Not Optim- istic for Adjournment Before Tomorrow WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—A move has been started in the Capitol to' end the present enduring session of Congress sometime tonight. The move received its first impe- tus on the Senate side, where the majority leader, Barkley said there is a chance for a wind-up of the seven-months session before tomor- row, the time previously set. House leaders are not so optimis- tic. The Representatives have accept- ed the conference report on the re- ,vised Sugar Control Bill and have apprcved minor Senate amendments to the Administration’s Tax ‘Loop- hole measure. Both bills have been sent to the Whitehouse. ———— .4 || sTock QuoTaTions { NEW YORK, Aug. 20. — Tuere was no sale of Alaska Juneau mine stock todey Closing quotation or American Can is 107%, American. Light and Power 10, Anaconda £7%, Bethlehem | Steel 97%, Calumet 15%, Common- wealth and Southern 2%, Curliss ‘Wright 5%, General Motors 56%, International Harvester 114%, Ken- necott 60%, New York Central 38%, !Southern Pacific 44, United States Steel 114%, Cities Service 3, Pound $4.98%, Republic Steel 36%, Pure Oil 19%, Holly Sugar 30, United States Treasury bonds 2%s 988, At- chison General fours 110%, Brem- ner bid 4% asked 6. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 182.95, e The Eiffel tower of Paris weighs more than 15 million pounds. ate bill which advocates said will |have the effect of “giving Alaska’s reindeer back to the natives.” e measure was offered by Sen- ator Schwellenbach in the Senate and Delega'.e A. J. Dimond in Lhc Franco’s Ground Troops Closing Upon Santander Fog and Rain Puts Burden' It was met with strong R.epub- lican opposition on‘ the grounds that it put the Government in the ,reindeer business. ‘The bill gives the Secretary of | the Interior authority to purchase of Drive on Infan!ry as or acquire public domain for rein- deer range, equipment and other | | Planes, Guns Useless Iproperty necessary ‘to the reindeer | | industry. These, in turn, will be | | RENDAYE, France, Aug. 20. — passed on to the Eskimos and| !Franco’s conquering Rebel legions Indians. lhave slogged their way through the The measure was returned to |mud of the Biscayan hill country, the Senate for action on the | 'toward apparently doomed Santan- amendments. der. { The bill carries a $2,000,000 ap- | The drive was contined to infan- propriation for carrying the project | try attacks against the last stands forth. of the Government defensive, as —_——————— | g menese ot ALASKA SALMON 1S 0BJECT OF the Insurgent aerial and rendered Pranco’s field pieces useless because of low visibility. —e——— ONE BIDMADE SENATE STUDY FOR AIR HOPS Weather Bureau Recom- mends Harold Gillam for Fairbanks Observations Committee to Con serve Aquatic Life Hears Details WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — The 'Senat.es special committee for Con- iservation of Aquatic Life today learned details of its far-reaching WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—Weath- | problem from Bureau of Fisheries er Bureau officials today announced ' experts. that Harold Gillam of Valdez is| The paramount problem is, they the only bidder for airplane ob- said, the protection of salmon in servation flights to be made out Alaskan waters where, in recent of Fairbanks this winter. months, there have been indica- They recommended acceptance tions of uncontrolled invasion by | of his offer of $60 for every flight, | Japanese fishermen. to be made every third day be-i Chairman Schwellenbach of | tween next September and March. Washington said offices set up The air observer would report on here will make studies to be in-| thick air conditions. augurated this Fall. 2 R i ON VACATION WADE TO KETCHIKAN | Hugh Wade, Federal Social Se-| Mrs. E. F. Clements of the Ter- curity representative in the Terri- ritorial Department of Health is tory, sailed on the North Sea this | taking a month’s vacation from the ,morning for Ketchikan, Petersburg office, remaining at her home in and Wrangell in connection with Mead Apartments. his duties, | | | 1t e Threat of Japanese air raids on Nanking, capital of China and reported next objective of the Nip- dents. Nanking. pon forces, caused large scale evacuation of resi- Governor of Alabama Appoints Own Wife to Succeed Senator Black| MUSSOLINI AIRS PEAGE DESIRES, ITALIAN NATION Premier Pomts Way to Closer Harmony Between Italy and England PALEHMO, Italy, Aug. 20.—Pre- mier Benito Mussolini” today told two - hundred thousand Italians gathered here that a “lasting re- approachment to England can be reached if Italy will be disposed to give its collaboration .on all prob-| lems touching political life and | hope.” The Premier’s address was mostly a declaration of peaceful intentions, with the exception of his asertion that, “We will not tolerate a Medit- erranean Bolshevism, or anything similar.” BASEBALL TODAY, MONTGOMERY, Alabama, 20 —Gov. - Bibh Graves ’Lhe appointment of his own wife to succend Senator Hugo L. Black, who has been appoml.ed and confirmed oclate Justice of the Su- preme Court of the United States. Gov. Graves said his wife will serve only until the Democratic nominee is selected for the special election on April 26, next year, and then he will appoint the nominee |as soon as elected. BLACK RESIGNS AS SENATOR WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Senator Hugo L. Black’s office disclosed that he had taken the oath as As- sociate Justice of the Supreme Court before Charles Page, financial clerk of the Senate, last night after |Bluck formally resigned from the Senate. | The new Associate Justice will not exercise the authority of his office until he takes the Judicial Oath before Charles Elmore Cropley, Clerk of the Court, probably in Oc- tober. Aug announces ——————— Four Kansans there. Found Hacked To Ilaath Today Husband Held for Murder of Wife and Three Children HUTCHINSON, Kansas, Aug. —Mrs. Eugene Paul Warner The following are scores of base- | ball games played in the two major leagues and - received up to o'clock this afternoon: National League Boston 6; Brooklyn 5. St. Louis 4; Pittsburgh 7. American League Washington 3; Boston 1. Philadelphia 7; New York 8 D JOHN KEYSER ON VACATION TRIP| John Keyser of the U. S. Weath-ed to death today in the er Bureau left for the south on a home. month’s vacation, sailing aboard | Warner was arrested by County the Princess Charlotte. |Attorney Wesley E. Brown, who! 20. and family Mr. Keyser will visit for a week quoted the husband as admitting| in Seattle and then proceed (0 |the quadruple killing. Spokane to visit with his parents| “I guess I just went haywire,” her three children were found hack-| | | 'Brown quoted Warner as saying 1““"- " Residents fleeing previous_disorder Foreigners in the city were warned to flee or take refuge with their respective embassies in WORST QUAKE IN 40 YEARS HITS MANILA ‘Many Injured — No Fatal-| ities—Shocks Occur Just After Refugees Land MANILA, P.'T, Aug. 20—Residents | homes and from streets here fled from their hotels into darkened shocks in forty years swayed this city, shortly after American refu-| gees from Shanghai had landed| here off the President Jefferson. Light wires, thrown in tangled masses on many of the blackened thoroughfares, were the source of several fires, panic. Several large buildings, and number of churches, were damaged. Other major structures swayed no- ticeably. Many injuries resulted from the quakes, but no deaths have been reported. Amid the confusion following the | first shock, about 8 p. m., the second | tremor, about 20 minutes later, add-| ed new terror. The shocks were felt at least 200 miles nway NO MARITIME “|ternational Settlement, which added to the| al WASHINGTON, UN!]ER ATTACK ORIENT RIVER One Sailor Killed, Eighteen Others Reported to Be Injured | PROJECTILE DROPS ON AFTER DECK OF SHIP Acudent Occurs During Furious Fire of Two Fighting Nations SHANGHAI, Aug. 20.—One Unit= ed States sailor, Freddie Faglgout, of Raceland, Florida, was killed and |eighteen others were injured, none seriously, when an anti-aircraft shell, of undetermined origin, struck the after well of the deck of the cruiser Augusta, flagship of the American Asiatic fleet today. The cruiser Augusta was lying in the Wrangpoo, River, a little down stream from the heart of the In- the evacuation of American refugees, Shell Plunge The shell plunged from a high |angle, hitting the deck of the cruis- |er. Both the Japanese and Chinese artillery and anti-aircraft batteries were firing furiously when the shell struck, shortly before three big shells, believed to come from Chin=- ese guns, concealed on the root tops in the Northern Chapel area, plunged into the river close to the Augusta. Ordered to Shelter The crew of 800 officers and men were immediately ordered to shel- ter below decks following the burst- |ing of the shell as it was not known it others would hit the cruiser. ‘The one-inch projectile fell while most of the officers and crew were at lunch; otherwise the casualties | probably would have been greater. The Augusta is a 9,500 ton craft and valued at $10,000,000. UP TO ROOSEVELT | WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—Presi- |dent Roosevelt said that whatever llate today as the worst earhquake| PCHON 18 deaniia svisatie il e nection with the shelling of the {cruiser Augusta at Shanghai, will ibe determined by officials on the ground there. The President said such things |are almost bound to happen, such as that at Shanghai. | FOURTH AMERICAN KILLED Aug. 20. — The |death of the sailor aboard the Au- |gusta by a shell is the fourth Amer- |ican to have been killed in the eight ‘d\lya of the present “undeclared IS UNFORTUNATE WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull termed the shelling of the Augusta as an unfur!unule incident.” Secretary Hull reiterated that the Urllled States’' position is that this nation will protect its nationals and they will be protected in Shang- {copper hai while they remain there, but are being urged to evacuate that city. STRIKE SLATED:; = === SAYS STANNARD gyE aLIBUTER there would be no maritime strike| gEATTLE, Aug. 20.—One halibut- when the contracts expire next| |er arrived in port today, the Celtic month. |from the western banks with 39,000 Stannard also sald the Kennecott pounds and selling for 11% cents. mine will be operated for| The vessels came in with sable another year. selling for 4% and 4% cents a Further explorations for new ore pound. will be conducted, Stannard said, ——— but the fate of the mine after one| The first city directory in the more year of operation is uncer-)United States was printed in New York In 1786, ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 20.—/ E. T. Stannard, President of the Kenhecott Copper Company and Al-|