The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 24, 1937, Page 1

. . Chinese JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AL Thelma, Pretty Maid CRACK GUARDS OF DEFENDERS IN NEW MOVE Both Flanks of Invaders| Are Struck—To Pinch Off 30,000 | MAJOR BATTLE NOW | BELIEVED IMMINENT | Air Raids C—(;:tinue—War- s % R ships Shell Land Posi- | { o™k sl 81 & tion at Shanghai ‘ ' y: BULLETIN — SHANGHAI (Wednesday, Aug. 25) — Chin- | ese airplanes swept over Inter- | national Shanghai early this morning in awe inspiring recon- naisance flights while Japanese naval guns crashed in a pro- longed bombardment of Woo- | sung, Shanghai’s Yangtze River | | cutlet to the sea to cover the landing of troops. | The Chinese air force, fol- | lowing the example of their | Japanese enemies, scouted over | | | & | fresh Japanese the heart of the city after mid- night but dropped no bombs. Opposing land forces, hem- ming the International settle- ment, seemed content to hold their lines. | Maybe “Your Majesty” proper salutation for Miss Thelma Batchelor, 24, since she attained the royal robes of Queen of the Venice, Cal,, mardi gras. We could not help noticing her beauty at any »ate. is the ATTACKS FOUR WAYS TIENTSIN, Aug. 24.—Crack Chin- ese advance guards swept around ! both flanks of the Japanese army | southwest of Peiping, and struck simultaneously in an effort to pinch | off 30,000 Japanese troops immob- | ilized there by torrential rains. FRanEn UPUN ¥ A major battle in which at least | a quarter of a million men are en- | gaged is developing along a 150 mile front of China’s modernized | army, which is attacking from four | directions in an attempt to thrust| the Japanese army out of conquered northwest China. The Japanese front, thirty miles southwest of Peiping, is in danger of being snapped off by a surprise Chinese strategy. Grave apprehen- | sions are apparent in all Japanese areas. Fall Meeting Would Serve No Practical Good, Says One Leader o | Four Ketchikan BULLETIN — WASHING- | TON, Aug. 24. — Congressional | leaders, after a conference at | the White House, said the ques- “BIG OFFENSIVE” . | tion of an extra session of Con- SHANGHAI, Aug. 24—Japanese| gress in the fall was discussed planes, naval guns and landing par-| but no decision was reached. ties which smashed Shanghai prom-| Senate Majority Leader Bark- ised a “big offensive” against stub-| ley said the President may have born Chinese resistance. something to say on the sub- Two Japanese airplane carriers; jeet soon. anchored today near Saddle Island as the mouth of the Yangtze River. | Soon after they arrived, they cata- paulted planes, which threw air b()n;lbs into the Chinese machine gun positions near the Woosung Shore. In the midst of exploding hombs'wmng 8l and artillery shells, 212 Americans . The g)‘ound_ is tz\_ken that the spec- evacuated aboard the liner President |21 5659100 might increase party dis- Pierce for Manila, |sension. The Japanese landed thousands| ©One Democratic leader, who re- of reinforcements led by the suicide fused to be identified, said the spec- | detachment of the “white band of |ial session would serve no practical death.” They are sworn to die for|g00d and maybe some harm would | their Emperor. As they scrambled up 'come from it. | the low river bank, a Chinese land| Wage, hour and farm legislation mine touched off, and the band was Would be the reason for calling the enveloped in a lurid sheet of name,‘iswcml session. 1 | WASHINGTON, A=g. 2¢.—A group of influential House Democrats ex-| pressed strong opposition today to a special Congressional session this U. 8. VIEWS | UP TO ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. — A| WASHINGTON, Aug. 24—Demo- pointed public statement from Sec- Cratic leaders are worried over retary of State Cordell Hull em.‘sm(e within the party and predict-| phasized to Japan and China q_hefed that before Congress reconvenes, United States views on the world President Roosevelt must choose a! opinion demanding peaceful settle- |course of far-reaching strategy. One/ ment of thedispute between the two|Point to be settled is reconciliation, countries, telling China and Japan at the cost of abandoning some of| that they were causing a threat of his most cherished objectives, with| serious hostilities which would con-|P#rty factions which refused to| cern all other nations. support all of his program. | Hull said: “We urge that they set-| Another issue is a campaign to tle their differences according to the rally public support and hammer principles which in the opinion, of through his ' controversial issues, | not alone our people, but most peo- |risking disruption of the party be- ples of the world, should govern in|yond all repair. international relationships without ©Omne of the New Deal's most attempting to pass judgment re- trusted strategists said privately garding the merits of the contro- that President Roosevelt will base, versy. We appeal to the parties to|his decision on the trend of public refrain from resorting to war.” \opinion within the next few weeks. e\ ke o | e MARRIED | George Salo, Alaska Juneau em-| i playee, and Selma J. E. Hakala of | I e L as es Portland, Ore, were married here last evening by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray, following the bride's, WARSAW, Aug. 24. — Fourteen arrival from the South. They were Peasants were killed in apparent attended by Mr., and Mrs. Ivar | political demonstrations and clash- Martti, les with the police, | FLYINGBOAT | DROPS DOWN | Crashes in San Diego Bay has been found. tive September 1. han GIANT NAVY | While Making Night | Landing | 'FOUR OF SIX MEN ABOARD ARE DEAD | \First Disaster to Hit Cer- tain Aviation { Section | SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 24.—Res- cuers today searched the wreckage of a giant $150,000 Navy flying boat for the bodies of four of six men | who were carried to their deaths | when the plane crashed in San Diego Bay while making a night |landing last night. ! Two bodies have already been re- covered. The crew included three officers. | This is the first disaster to strike | the Navy’s flying boats which have made mass flights to the Honolulu | Canal Zone during the past two| years. | E ANOTHER ACCIDENT H | BREMERTON, Wash, Aug. 24. | Navy officials today started an in-| quiry into the crash of a U. 8. Ne- -vada warplane on the strait of Juan iDe Fuca yesterday. They are at- tempting to determine the cause of the accident which cost the life of Aviation Machinist Mate William Heotis. | | Officials believe Cadet Victor| Schatz of Walla Walla was piloting the plane when it became entangled | in a sleeve target towed by Lieut.| Joseph Murphy. | A gust of wind is thought to have | thrown the target in the path of | the plane flown by Schatz. ‘ Schatz escaped by parachute, but no trace of the plane or of Heotis e Men Arg Alive Atter Explosion § Accident Occurs on Small; Cruiser—Rescued by Cyane | | [ KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 24.—‘ Four men, aboard a small criuser which exploded Sunday night, are! safe. | Martin Bugge, miner, was burned | seriously about the face and hands by the explosion. | W. A, Bates, banker, was less| ——— - seriously burned. | HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Aug. 24. — Jack Clark, Jimmy Mattern’s agent, has received a message from Mat- tern, at Point Barrow, Alaska, ask- ing him to purchase another® tri- motored refueling plane to replace the one that was wrecked near Fairbanks in a forced landing, Clark said it will be difficult to find such a plane plus the extra Ifuel tanks. HAGKETT QUITS gASEBALL TODAY WASHINGTON, Aug. 24. — Col.| Horatlo B. Hackett announces his In the National League this after- resignation as Assistant Adminis- noon, in the only game scheduled, trator of the Public Works Admin- Pittsburgh lost to Boston 1 to 0 istration. His resignation is effec-' In the American League Detroit heat Philadelphia 6 to 3. Edward Bates, son of the banker,| Following the explosion all took Lo‘ the shore in a small boat. | The four were seen near Smug-| glers’ Cove by Pilot Bob Ellis who boat Cyane which went to the scene j I M MATTERN and picked them “up and brought them to Ketchikan. | . Garma“ Flymg | Fliers Instructs B t T k 0" ‘ His Agent . For Trip, N. Y. Aug. 24—The flying boat North Wind left here today on the first leg of a flight to New York City and Arndt Bue, were not injured. radioed the Coast Guard patrol {Flier in Search for Soviet TRAVEN MUENDE, Germany, by way of Lisbon and the Azorts. and across the river in Peotung industrial arca (1) Where ! International Settiement (3) and fires raged in the Chinese the Japanese military quartered 1,590 Japanes: This view of Shanghai’s waterfront shews (1) The roof of th warfare, (2) The Japanese consulate, hit by Chinese bombers and injuring several, (B) the water of the Whangpco River between the Ja) 200 Chin ese were entrenched. ction of Chapei (4). MAN BURNED TO DEATH Make New Attack on Ja anese ghai Waterfront Swept by Flames Following Bombardment T O, T This airview of the Shanghai battle area shows the customs Jetty (A) where American women and children were ceed amid shellfire down the Whangpeo River, as indicated by black dotted line, to American ships. e NYK ship ping company’s warehouse and office, where a bomb struck during aerial | The landing stage destroyed by a bomb which struck panese consulate and the spot (X) where the cruiser Tdzumo of the Japanese fleet, Across the river in Pootung (4) the Chinese were erecting artillery positions in the latest Sino-Japanese conflict, NEWREFUELER Barkley Looming as Big Jupanese ships sprayed western sections of the | Before the famous Astor House (C) | refugees there. Bursting sheils shook the heart of the French Concession (2). BODY IS FOUND ABOARD BOAT AT SHELTER ISLAND May Be Harold Grimstead, | Fox Farm Operator | on Hump Island 'MAN LAST SEEN HERE YESTERDAY MORNING Mount McKinley Reports Tragedy While En- ‘ Route Skagway | Harold Grimstad, widely known ‘}m Juneau and operator of a fox | |farm on Hump Island, is belleved | [to have been burned to death aboard || his gasboat Mergoe, No. 31-B-369, according to information received in Juneau last evening from the | steamer Mount McKinley Capt. A. Ryning of the McKinley radioed the Steamship Inspectors here that his vessel had found the Mergoe burned to the water's edge off Shelter Island and there was one human body aboard, the appar- |ent victim of drownting. Seen Here Authorities immediately checking S ar put into tenders to pro- Battle lines were drawn from the area north of Shanghai centering on North Sechewan Koad (B) through the fringes of Hongkew (5)—Scene of scores of fires—to the Whangpoo |y0.0 “jearmed that Grimstad was getting halibut “heads at the eity float at 11 o'clock yesterday morn- ing for feeding his foxes and was believed to have left for Hump Ts= land ghortly thereafter. Sam Burk- could be closed, Where Shells Have Burst, Conflict Raging in Heart of Shangluai = . s or ormisdt i iy fox farm, was not seen in town and |t is believed that he had remained lon the island while the owner came {Lo town for supplies. | Details of the tragedy were lack= ing, but the Mount McKinley re- ported that she had turned the body over to H. C. Bryson of Juneau to |be taken to Shelter Island. With- lout definite information to guide |them, officers were of the theory ithat Bryson probably was in the vicinity in a small boat, possibly hunting, when encountered by the Mount McKinley and they expected |that he might come into Juneau jon the high tide this afternoon. In case he does not get in, the Mar- |shal’s office was prepared to fly to {the scene later this afternoon. It |also was possible that Bryson was |standing by the wreck awaiting |help, following the message from |the McKinley. Explosion Possible | 'The message from the Mount |McKinley, which was Skagway |bound, was sent at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, indicating that the Mer- lgoe must have run into difficulty a few hours after she left Juneau. The boat, a 23-foot cabin vessel, was built in Doulas in 1933 and |was powered with a T0-horsepower Durant gasoline engine. Officers were of the theory that both boat and owner had been burned fol- |lowing an explosion. | JEL FLIER MAKES - DARING RESCUE, » AT NO TRACE OF Shot; Maybe Candidate in | ‘ Next Election; W ho Knows? SOVIET PLANE MARGONED MEN By P¥ TON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 24 The political dopesters are giving some attention these days to President Roosevell’s “good friend”, Senator Alben W. Barkley of Kentucky as a likely candidate for the Demo- cratic Presidential nomination The floor leader of the Democrats in the Senate has pot indicated publicly that he is nurturing any hopes of moving from Capitol Hill to America’s No. 1 residence at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, but several veteran politicos here are betting that the Kentuckian will be in the intra-party derby of 1940, They point out unav Barkley as! Senate leader for the Administra- tion will be a party “big shot, his name appearing regularly in the newspaper headlines, during the next two years. If he bangs up a good record and watchos his poiiti- cal P’s and Q's, he should be in a irong position when the (ime comes to choose the head of the next national Democratic ticket ASON ALWAYS OPEN All this Presidential speculating is pretty long-range, but the can- didate guessing season is seldom closed in Washington. Of course, the outlook for Barkley or any other potential Democratic Presidential nominee is contingent upon wheth- er President Roosevelt himself is “drafted” for a third term. The Kentucky Senator nas been a staunch Rooseveltian with a re- puted talent for keeping on good terms with anti-administration Democrats even during the fiercest stages of the battle over the Pres- ident's Supreme Court enlargement bill. He was quoted recentiy in an in- terview as being for “the advnce- ment of liberalism” as a Democratic party objective, That was no rad- cal bombshell for even the most conservative of old-line Democratic politicians, When was there a Democratic, or for that matter, a Republican aspirant for the Presi- dency who didn't contend he was a (Continued on Page Five) Pilot Art Woodley Pushes Plane Through Ice Cakes, Lake George ANCH()RAGE:, Alaska, Aug. 24— Pilot Art Woodley has effected a |daring rescue oi three men who |were left stranded on Lake George FOUND, ARCTIC Sir Hubert Wilkins Makes Wide Search in Area of North Pole COPPER MINE RIVER, North-|when rising water and icebergs west Territories, Aug. 24.-—sir Hu- |sank their moored seaplane. bert Wilkins, in his Arctic flying| With co-pilot Charles Diamond, boat, has returned here after scour- Who climbed out on the pontoons, ing hundreds of miles of territory| Woodley pushed through ice cakes, near the North Pole without find-|taxiing close to several large bergs, ing trace of the missing Soviet|s distance of 7,500 feet and finally plane, reached Pilot Roy Barnhill, George Kolp, of Texas, and “Red” Shaw | Barnhill, Conference of War The three moored their plane on |the lake shore last Wednesday while Veterans Requested tney went on a prospecting trip in g the mountains. NEW YORK, Aug. 24. — Milton| When they returned they found Solomon, chairman of the commit-|high water had floated the plane tee sponsoring the Veterans' Temple [away and ice had punctured the at the New York World's Fair,, has pontoons, sinking the craft. asked President Roosevelt to call a| All of the party's food was lost conference of war veterans of all except some canned beans, which nations in Washington in the inter-|they ate, until Pilot Woodley ar- |est of international amity rived. -