The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL L., NO. 7569. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNI:AU ALASKA MONDA\ AUGUST 23 1937 Japanese Gunboa [Death Rides in ;Auto Through DESTROYER IS ALSO DAMAGED, NIGHT ATTACK Eye Wltness Tells of Battle s JAPAN TO BE Being Fought on Yangtze River DEFENDERS USING NEW “SUICIDE” SLED| Nippon For;Are Landed| Under Terrific Bom- ! barding Defenses SHANGHAI, Aug. 23. — Michael' Herman, American of Chicago, eye- ! witness, said he had seen one Jap-| anese destroyer badly damaged and Busy Traffic OAKLAND, Cal, Aug. 23. — The police said that anger over rebuff by a girl friend, led Donald Berg- man, 17-year-old drugstore messen- ger, to take his life by poison as he at at a wheel of an automobile while dnvmg through busy traffic. PLAGED UNDER WARTIME LAW {New Taxes Already Burd-! ening Industry—Diet Called to Meet TOKYO, Aug. 23. — Japan today | a Japanese gunboat sunk by Chin-|took further steps to mobilize the | ese air bombers as Japanese war-| economlc resources of the nation ships covered the landing of fresh by calling an extraordinary session Japanese troops near the Chin&se,of the Diet for next month. ‘Woosung forts during last night. ! The newspaper Asashi said Jap- Herman viewed the battle rxom anese industry and finance are both | the deck of a Texas Oil Company_already under severe regulations to tanker. |meet the war emergency and under | Herman said the Japanese de-|the proposed new regulations will stroyer hurried from the scene injbe under full wartime footing. tow of a sister destroyer. 1 Premier Konoye's Government hss The Japanese gunboat keeled at|demanded already, since July 1, re- an angle of 45 degrees and thenstrictions on Japan for war appro- went down. |priations and today ordered gold ; The air bombing battle, which |bullion to be purchased to bolster ; was one of many raged along the the yen. New taxes have been leg- Yangtze River as the néw Japan-(islated, also profiteering laws cre- i ese army sought a foothold on Chin- jated. ese soil under heavy barrage of 1 Japanese cruisers and -destroyers. Hefugee K Idd lfls Greetings at Mamla Fright- ALL-NIGHT BOMBARDMENT SHANGHAI, Aug. 23.—Supported | by an all-night bombardment, Lhe Japanese have landed remrorce— ments down the Whangpoo mver near the Chinese Woosung forts.| The Japanese Consular office re- ported that 50,000 fresh soldlers‘ were landed in the face of intense Chinese artillery fire. Chinese of-| ficers said not more than 15,000 officers and men were landed. Military observers expect the Jap-| anese will launch a heavy offensive tonight. | The Chinese headquarters claim ! en Children from Shang- hai, China, War Zone MANILA, Aug. 23. — Child refu- gees screamed and ran below decks as welcoming airplanes swooped |low over the liner President Hoo- |ver bringing 860 persons fleeing fmm that their new mosquito fleet, like sea sleds, have sunk several Jap-| anese war craft. The Chinese sea| P " Shanghai war zone. sleds are called “suiclde” boats and| ™y " Uocce) was held for several sip the Water and launch. torped-| 'hours at the breakwater while pas- bl fsengers were innoculated against (cholera, smallpox and typhoid. INJURED SAILORS RECOVEBIN(:I The children, memory ridden by | WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Admir- 'cheir experiences in Shanghai when al Harry Yarnell, Commander-in-|roaring planes cast death about Chief of the Asiatic American fleet, |them, were frightened by the wel-| now at Shanghai, reported today m\r‘omlng fllers the Navy Department that the sev-| enteen sailors wounded when a shell Alrplanes Bnmb G. B. Freighter struck the deck of the cruiser Au- gusta, are doing well. ———————— BEHIND THE GUNS. Foreign Minister Kcki Hirota, as chief formulator of Japan's policies toward China, is in the center of the international stage. HUNTED MAN GIVES UP TO SERVE LIFE Dethroned Republican Political Bass,. Convict-, ed, Kelayres Massacre SHELL SPREADS| DEATH; CRASHES SHANGHAI STORE Three Americans Wounded —SecondProjectile Hits U. S. Warehouse SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.—It is esti- mated that 400 were killed and per- haps 1,000 injured, including mree“ Americans, by an artillery shell smashing into a crowded depart- ment store in a section of the Inter- national Settlement. Scores of Americans narrowly es- caped death when a second pro- jectile pierced the six story United States Naval warehouse, crashed to the bottom but failed to explode. Wounded Americans are Anthony Billingsam, staff correspondent of the New York Times; Hallett Abend, chief of staff of the Times in China, and Blanche Tenney, resident of Shanghai but born in the United States. B o SHATTUCK RETURNS Curtis Shattuck returned to Ju- neau aboard the Alaska this morn- ing following a vacation trip to the Interior and Westward, Attack Is Made Without Warning Near Barcelona PORTVENDRES, France, Aug. 23. —The British freighter Noemijulia | | NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Wearly of |dodging the police for eight months, Joseph J. “Big Joe” Bruno willingly faced return today to Pennsylvania to serve three life sentences for the 1934 Kelayres massacre of five men. The 54-year-old dethroned Re- SWISS FAMILY ROOSEVELT. Here are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., and his bride of a month, the former Miss Ethel du Pont, seeing the sights of Switzerland, 'l'hey are being piresented with a bouquet as they leave the hotel in picturesque Montreaux. Development of Alaska Is Put Up to Roosevelt; Action Taken by Congress, FIRE FIGHTERS - TRAPPED;MANY BURNED, DEATH {Grimy Rescue Workers Searching Smouldering Ruins for Victims CODY, Wyo., Aug. 23. — Grimy | rescue workers today hunted the smouldering ruins of a mountain whipped fire which burned 12 com- panions to death. Two score others were injured, the majority so seri- ously as to require hospitalization. Many of the victims were CCC en- rollees from Texas. The fire fighters were trapped while battling a blaze in the Sho- shone National Forest, northwest| ‘Wyoming. ‘Twelve bodies were recovered yes- terday afternoon and three more during the mgm HElNTZLEMAN BACK NATIONAL PARK MAN COMING NORTH SOON B. F. Heintzieman, Regional Fo ester and Chairman of the Ter torial Planning Commission, re turned to his Juneau headquarters | forest seeking more victims of a gale| MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRB}S ALASKA EMPIRE * PRICE TEN CENTS t Sunk By Chinese Bombers Uapmw.s(’ Aviator, Rv}mru'd | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 23.— | Acting on radio advices from Nome {stating that a Japanese flier was |supposed to be somewhere over Al-| flying around the world, the lookout | aska, Anchorage airport posted flares Sat- urday night to guide him. All air stations in Alaska were lgiven the same information and |airport officials, as well as fliers, | were watching for a roar of a Jap- |anese plane but nothing wi {nor heard of the supposed-to-be neau. States or Territory of Alaska. seen | quesled Making World Flight, Is Supposed to Be Over Alaska RUMANIAN COMING CORDOVA, Alaska, Aug N Japanese flier has been sighted here to Sunday night, although a was kept Saturday night and also Sunday. Recently airport officials were n*qmwwd to watch for a Rumanian flier who was reported to be on the way or was to attempt a world flight, The airport here was re- to begin “looking” begin- up | ning last Saturday. world flier, according to radio re-| ports here from Fairbanks, or Ju-| RUMANIAN TESTS PLANE LEBOURGET FIELD, Paris, Aug As far as could be learned here,|23.—Prince Constantine Cantacue- |no permission had been granted by | zen, of Rumania, the United States government to today for a projected |any Japanese flier to fly over the around the world. No date has been rested his solo plane flight set for the hop off. HUNT FOR FLIERS Pilot Baird B Brings Radio | Equipment North from Seattle BULLETIN=Pilot Baird took off this afteruven at 2 o'clock for the PAA airport and landed on wheels. At the airport he will be in direct communication with the PAA regarding weather con- ditions. He did not know at 3 ¢'cleck if he wouXl take off via Whitehorse or wait until to- morrow. | | WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — Con- | gress has completed action on Al-| |aska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond’s| bill requesting President Ruosmelt ;Lo submit, early next session, a plan for orderly developments of Ala: ka’s natural resources with a view| {of expanding Alaska's commerce, | Voicing conviction that the search Sy | for the lost Soviet fliers will be suc- REAL OPPORTUNITY |cessful, King Baird arrived in Ju- HEINTZLEMAN SAYS Deau from Seattle yesterday after- v ¥iid noon aboard the Alaska Clipper B. F. Heintzleman, Chairman of Express Company Sikorsky, char- the Territorial Planning Commis- | tered by the Russian overnment to |sion, received a message from Dele- |take wireless equipment to Fair- gate Dimond this afternoon in which |banks to aid in the intensive search the Delegate stated that both houses for the lost Russians. 'of Congress passed the House reso-| The equipment, requested by So- lution requesting the President to|viet representatives at Fairbanks, submit within 30 days after conven- will ‘be rushed by plane to Point jing of the next session of Congress | Barrow, where further efforts to }a comprehensive plan on Alaska re- contact the fliers will be concentrat- sources with the aim of expansion|ed. and development of facilities of| Baird arrived here at 4:05 p. m., commerce between the United|yesterday, mooring his plane at the States and Alaska and within lhelMflrine Airways float. He left Se- Territory. The Delegate said that attle Saturday at 4 p. m. stopping \whtle the 10-year plan provision had |at Alert Bay at 7 p. m. where he {been stricken he suggested that of- spent the night. He took the air {lLlBls and private citizens of the early Sunday morning and after a | Territory cooperate on a plan which | brief stop in Ketchikan he pro- could be carried out over approxi- ceeded directly to Juneau. mately that period. Receiving word of the flight one President Roosevelt already has hour before his departure north, asked Delegate Dimond with the aid |Baird was contacted by A. Vartan- of U. S. Senator Schwellenbach of|jan, representative of the Soviet |Washington and other officials to| \prepare such a program for sub- |mission at the next Congress. “This is a wonderful opportunity for the people of Alaska to parti- cipate in a worthwhile = program, both intelligent and constructive,| |which is conducive to development government, now in Fairbanks as- sisting in the search. Special delivery of Soviet radio equipment to Fairbanks was requested. Accompanying Pilot Baird north |is his wife and Charles Foster. flight mechanic. The Bairds and Foster stopped overnight at the Gastineau SUPPLIES FLOWN JIM MATTERN'S HERE TO AID IN REFUELER DOWN NEAR FAIRBANKS Three Aboard Not Hurt When Plane Overturns —Out of Service FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug, 23~ Garland Lincoin, peov or Jiuay Mattern’s refueling plane, co-pilot Frank Tomick and Photographer MOSCOW SAYS RADIO PICKED UP ON SUNDAY All Stations Requested to Make Immediate Re- port on Search THREE RUSSIAN AIR CRAFT REFUELING Prepared to Take Off for Rudolph Island, Weath- er Permitting BULLETIN—MOSCOW, Aug. 23.—The Soviet Government re- ports that radio signals from the Soviet plane flown by Sigis- mund Levanevisky, missing since a week ago last Friday on the proposed flight from Mos- cow to Fairbanks, Alaska, were heard Sunday. The signals were on the wave length of Levanevisky's plane. Immediately all radio stations were requested to broadcast search planes in hopes that the fliers would be reached. Three more large planes, out- fitted here for long range fly- ing, were being refueled late Sunday night for a hop’toward Rudolph Island foday, weather permitting. ‘WHERE THEY ARE DOWN WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.— Cone stantine Oumansky, counselor of the Russian embassy, said he has advised searchers for the Russian Charles A. Marshall, were brought to Fairbanks late last Saturday af-!; ternoon from where the tri-motored Ford plane was forced down and overturned on a meadow near here.| Lincoln became lost in dense| clouds on his flight from Burwash Landing, went down in the mead- ows and the plane turned over Sat- transpolar fliers that the lstter may ihave landed near the 148th meridian between 82nd and 83rd lecitudes, be= |tween Alaska and the North Pole. ‘The conjecture was based on pro- bable flight directions chosen by the fliers. WARMED UP FOR SEARCH urday afternoon. His plight was learned by Bill MOSCOW, Aug. 23.—Three huge polar planes warmed up for a search | for the six lost Russian aviators to= Lavery, of the Pacific Alaska Air-|gay ways, who had taken off to guide| Mihail Vodapyanoff, Vasily Moli~ Lincoln to the Fairbanks airport.ikofr, Anatoli Alexieff, three of Rus- Lavery spotted the accident from|gia's most famous veterans of Arctic the air, returned here and Crosson flying will wait favorable weather immediately left for the scene. None of those aboard the refuel- ing plane were hurt. Sunday an examination of the| overturned plane was made and it| was found that the front engine and gas tank had been torn off in the crash and probably the plane! cannot be wsed again. | PITTSBURGH, Aug. 23. — M. L. Benedum, Jimmy Mattern’s finan- cial backer, authorized the aviator | “use your own judgment” regarding the possible purchase of a refueling | plane. KILLS MOTRER: to take off on the first leg of their flight, Rudolph Island. Then they will make a nonstop voyage to Al- aska, ‘The planes will fly twelve to fif- teen hundred miles apart, scanning a stretch of about thirteen hundred miles of virtually unexplored ice and water within the Arctic circle. The |planes will be equipped with mod- lern ! ments. radio and navigation instru- TWO SEARCH PLANES ARE WEATHERBOUND, BARROW POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 23.—Jimmy Mattern and a Russian plane, which flew here from the icebreaker Krassin, were weather= bound here all day Sunday. SIR HUBERT WILKINS OFF ON SEARCH FLIGHT COPPER MINE RIVER, North- CALMLY TELLS | POLICE STORY i v, S ‘but Wwilkins, in a larg eflying boat, ook off from here at 5 o'clock PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 23. Sunduy morning, Pacific Coast | this port. has arrived here undamaged by publican political boss of the Kel- bombs. ‘ayres slayings, was arrested by New Two mysterious airplanes in the York and Pennsylvania police Sun- western Mediterranean near the day as he was nearing a rooming Spanish civil war waters made an house where he has lived since Feb- attack. The captain said the planes ruary following his escape-last De- began bombing without warning| |cember from the Pottsville, Pa., jail around Barcelona. The crew swung |where he was held pending a hear- the ship around and started for ing on appeal. — e Measure Aiding Metlakatlans Is Sent to Roosevelt THREE MARIAGES HERE AT WEEK-END It was =z week end of marriages on the Mount McKinley after a| lof the Territory on a wide scale,” carried him to Washington, D, C. menting on the news. “With such He took up several matters with of- |cooperation from the Fresident, ficials in the national capital rela- | every public official and Alaskan reports are expected to be forth-|wholeheartedly and aid in getting coming soon. | together a comprehensive plan that The Forester reported that W. H.|will bring the Territory into its Horning of the National Park Serv- own.” ice would arrive in Juneau within| Delegate Dimond in his message | the next 10 days and Mr. Heintzle- suggested special emphasis be man will accompany him on a visit |placed on airports and roads, but ment with the aim of determining |every possibility that will be advan- what further use can be made of |tageous in developing Alaska’s com- trip Outside on official duties which |said Chairman Heintzleman, com- | tive to the Territory and on which should get behind this movement | to the Glacier Bay National Monu- ithat the general plan should include | Hotel. Calmly, Howard Finstead, aged 27, unemployed draftsman, told the po- lice how he ended an argument with his mother last night by knocking her unconscious with his fist, chok- WL R L R Ly Ten Italians Are Killed, R. R. Wreck GENOA, Aug. 23. — Ten Italian sailors and trainmen were killed and 40 sallors injured, in a headon collision of an excursion train and ‘a freight train. It is hinted that sa- | botage is the cause. The sailors were enroute to the mountain town of Casella to en- joy a fiesta. the death job by beating her on the head with a set screw from a bench vise. S8he was a partial cripple as the result of infantile paralysis. Finstead attended church in the morning and a picnic in the after- noon. . DUNNS RETURN ing her with his knee and finishing | in Juneau. This morning Clarence! Irvian Trout, cab driver, and Helen Lee James, both of Juneau, were married by U. 8. Commissioner Fe- lix Gray. They were attended by Mr. and Mrs. John D. Abbott. Saturday Bennie Peter Mahlum, |Alaska Juneau employee, and Mar- jorie I. Elswick of Juneau were married by the Rev. O. L. Kendall. The ccaple was attended by Ernes- tine Tyler and Harry Ellingen. Also on Saturday the Rev. David Wag- goner united in marriage Henry C. Aknge, Killisnoo fisherman, and |Margaret Osborne of Hoonah. At- tendants were Mrs. Albert Clark and Calvin Shortridge. WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — The action of the Senate has sent to/ the White House, for the President’s! signature, a bill providing that any funds obtained by the Government from gold or silver ore from leased lands of the Metlakatla Indians, or the Alaska Annette Islands, be placed in the Treasury at 4 percent izterest to be paid to the Indians on deposit. B An 81-year-old English clergyman claims he is the world’s champion letter writer. He says he has written 9,000 letters to newspapers all over the world. the area. | | e GRIZZLY, MARTEN FOR SOUTH Imerce and industrial ncuvity FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 23— lat 8:08 o'clock Sunday morning, ! Pacific Coast time. No damage has been reported although sleepers were aroused from their beds. The University of Alaska's seis- mograph registered another quake Again F elt at Fairbanks| The Game Commission vessels ‘Severe Earth Shocks Are o ghse. Sbiten. sl |the south today, the Grizzly with at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, 5001mg to her base in Petersburg. Fed- direction. |Pegues and his assistant, | No damage from this quake had| Vestal, are travelling to Ketchikan been reported up to late last eve-on the Grizzly on official business ning. — - — Pilot Joe Crosson, as well as all| | Sunday on account of a dense 10g. Y., in 1848. Capt. Claire Groegh bound for her & V station in Ketchikan and the Mar- arTived in Juneau on ten, Capt. Howard Jensen, return- Mr. and Mrs. Dunn expect to remain | night that he will hop for Fair= FROM INTERIOR| John Dunn, former Clerk of Court here and now resident of Pasadena, who, with Mrs. Dunn, has been on isit to friends in the Interior, the Alaska. here a week or so before continu- |severe earth shocks were felt here Miles distant in a southwesterly eral Housing Administrator John E. ing south to their home in Cali-| Nadja fornia. | Rain isn't particularly peculiar to Juneau, Mr. Dunn reported, as they encountered rain along the Rich- The first woman suffrage con- ardson Higway, in Anchorage and| |other fliers, were grounded hzre}wnuun was held at Seneca Falls, N, other places. He reported fine wea- ther, at Fairbanks. time, to search for the missing So- viet fliers, bound from Moscow to Fairbanks. Sir Hubert's plane carried gas |for a 4,000 mile flight. OCEAN AVIATOR COMING NORTH, SOVIET SEARCH Cabin Plane, Flown by | Roger Q. Williams, Is Chartered for Hunt NEW YORK, Aug. 23—Pilot Rog- Ver Q. Willlams announced Sunday banks, Alaska, with co-pilot Charles West, to aid in the search for the | missing Soviet fliers. Williams will fly a cabin mono- plane which has been chartered by the Russian government. Williams made a non-stop flight over the Atlantic in 1929 and won his international spurs as a flier,