The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 3, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. L., NO. 7579, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1937. JAPANESE SHELLED IN SURPRISE ATTACK Foreign War ships Threatened Mattern Reaches Los Angeles, Fast Time from Juneau LOS ANGELES, Cal, Stpt. 3. —Jimmie Mattern, who took off | from Juneau early yesterday | morning from the PAA airport arrived here at 4:12 o'clock yes- terday afternoon. He made the nonstop flight SEA RAIDER NOW HUNTED BY BRITISH Four Destroyers Rushing to West Mediterranean Sea on Search FRENCH WARSHIPS \ | GIJON HARBOR IS BOTTLED UP; SHIPPING HELD Insurgent Cruiser Guards— Entrance Is Report- ed Mined GIJON, Spain, Sept. 3.—The In- Nome Miring IS |LOYALISTS AND|fimmy Walker Back in the Fold Best in Years, | May@d States LflGKEgI,_BATTLE Expects Better than 1936 Despite Dry Season Handicap Headed for the best gold mining SENT TO ALGIERS from the Alaska Capital to Los Angeles, a distance of 2,100 miles, in 10 hours and 50 min- utes. Soviet Steamer Sent Down by Sub Flying Span- ish Rebel Flag LONDON, Sept. 3.—Four lithe destroyers of Great Britgin's fleet today furrowed a swift water path to the eastern section of the Med- iterranean Sea to track down guer- illa submarines which have been terrorizing International shipping in torpedo attacks. The British Admiralty announces destroyers are in a heavy concen-| tration off the Spanish East Coast to blanket a wide area about spots| whpre the destroyer Havoc and| tanker Woodford were torpedo tar-; gets. WO FEDERAL | OFFICIALS DIE, AUTO ACCIDENT Five Lives Are Snuffed Out When Two Vehicles Collide BALTIMORE, Maryland, Sept. 3. —Elmer D. Mays, Assistant Coun- French Are Active isel of the Federal Communications) French warships Diberville, Ipi- Commission, his wife and son. James | ceni and Verdun have arrived at R Leech and his son, a member of Algiers to protect French shipping the Federal Board of Tax Appenh,' lanes. lwere killed yesterday in a collis- Advices have been recelved here jon of an automobile and a bus. from,Athens from Capt. Denis Ka- L Hony, sk nthe Asgesn oen, BUGAS BACK FROM that bis vessel was uitacked by« [NTERIOR; WILL GO e e e Gaptany 35 mom-| TO BIRMINGHAM| surgent flag. The Oaptain, 36 mem- | | bers of his crew and three women passengers, were picked up as they After a trip through the Interior drifted in lifeboats by a Greek on bugsiness of his department, fishing boat. John Bugas, who has been in Suspicious of Italy charge of the Federal Bureau of In- A dispatch from Athens party vestigation office here since it was| confirms the British views that opened this year, returned to Ju-| Italian subs are flying Spanish In- neau yesterday by plane from Fair-| surgent flags and doing the toped- banks. The Federal agent will be, oing. Two Italian submarines were here a week or ten days before leav- in Athens harbor only recently and ing for his new position as head of no undersea boats of other nations the Bureau of Investigation office have been reported in adjacent for the State of Alabama with| waters. headquarters in Birmingham, a| has passed through Bellot substantial promotion. Strait. D. S. Hostetter, who arrived here The Nascopie started from several days ago from the Seattle] Montreal, picking her way Woman Is Seized As Alien sm“ggleriflms MIROW NAMED . —rmmigra.. ALASKA AGENT FOR tlo“MI:;ch{al? a'nzféfii ?s;ablelle xéas-‘: TIN COMPANY, NOME trell in connection with a plot to| smuggle a family of four aliens| Articles of incorporation were filed into the country from Cuba. Mrs. with the Territorial Auditor today Castrell reputedly the wife of An- by the Alaska Tin Company with toni Castrell, ringleader of a notor- offices at Seattle and Nome. Hans ious smuggling band that operated Mirow, widely known Alaska avia- from Caribbean ports to the Flor- tor, and head of the Mirow Airways, ida Coast several years ago, was ta- is named as Alaska Agent of the ken into custody as she prepared corporation which is capitalized at to board a Pan-American Airways $150,000. Incorporators are Jack plane for Cuba. |McIntyre and Gardiner B. Kennedy —————— of Seattle and Leslie W. Roe of NEW HOSPITAL autser ' |HALIBUT BOAT SELLS {12,000 POUNDS, ACF FOR ANCHORAGE -2~ e o halibut on thie Juneau Exchange for ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 3.— several weeks, disposing of 12,000 Mother Superior Petronilla said thelpounds to the Alaska Coast Fish- Sisters of Charity of Providence will eries at 9 and 6 cents per pound loffice of the Bureau, will have |charge of the Alaska office here after Agent Bugas goes south. construct a 40-bed air-conditioned| Salmon packers brought the fol- hospital here next Spring. lowing amourits to the ACF today: A S oIy 131-A-14, Capt. Jack Clauson, 1500 2 . pounds; 31-C-122, Capt. A. Siika- {maki, 700 pounds; Secure, Capt. Predlct slacler John Brandvi\ 400 pounds; 30-A- 27, Capt. John Pademeister, 1,000 H ipounds; Tern, Capt. Andrew Ros- Will Soon Break =z s | ‘Taking ice today were the Celtic, Capt. Henry Moy; the Avona, Capt. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 3.— Olaf Larssen; and the Oceonic. Stage drivers predicted that the|Capt. Ole Westby. H Knik glacier will break next week, IS oo BT emptying lake George for the first| TIEDEMAN BODY TO time in several years. The glacler BE SENT TO CORDOVA failed to break last month. —-——— The body of Mrs. Madrona Tiede- | man, who died recently at the Gov- MISS MARY METCALFE \ernment Hospital, will be shippe SAILS ON CHARLOTTE to Cordova on the Yukon next Tues- | day. Miss Mary Metcalfe sailed south| Mrs. Tiedeman, who was 49 years on the Princess Charlotte to enter old, is survived by her husband, her senior year at St. Helen's Hall August Tiedeman, and by three sons at Portland, Ore. SBhe was accom- and two daughters. The body is at panied by her mother. Charles W. Carter Mortuary. 'surgent cruiser Almurant Cervera today blocked this Bay of Biscay | port, bottling up International ship- "|ping including seVen British mer- chantmen, The British steamers are engaged in evacuating refugees. It is said that mines have also been layed outside of the harbor, closing all possible escape. The Insurgent Army is reported 20 miles away but Government forces continue to hold this town and fiercely fighting the advancing invaders. SEA ROUTE TIES EAST AND WEST CANADIAN SHORE Dream of WTYears for Arctic Water Pas- sage Fulfilled PRINCE REGENT INLET, Sept. 3.—The Hudson's Bay Company’s ship Nascopie and the schooner Aklavik fulfilled a 400-year-old dream of Arctic navigators when she charted a new course across the top of America, linking Eastern and | Wetern Canadian shores by sea | voyages. A new Northwest Passage was mapped . through Bellot Strait south through the hazaradous : Lancaster Sound and Point Bar- | row Strait passage. This is the first time a ship through the Strait, came upon the Aklavik when the latter ves- sel suddenly nosed around a rocky headland. Soon the two vessels nosed alongside each other. The Aklavik came from Cambridge Bay in the Western Arctic. MAKES DASH “FOR LIBERTY Leader of Former Bloody Break Escapes with Guard as Hostage MCcALESTER, Oklahoma, Sept. 3. —Malloy Kuykendall, leader of the bloody Granite Reformatory break in 1935, broke. out of the Mec- Alester Penitentiary, with a guard as hostage, The guard was later freed but Kuykendall sped south after seiz- ing another automobile and ab-| ducting the mechanic. AVIATRIX 18 WINNER, RAGE CLEVELAND, Ohio, Sept. 3.— Jacqueline Cochrane swooped over the Cleveland Airport at 10:30] o'clock this’ forenoon, finishing the 2,042-mile grind from Burbank, Californid, in the Bendix Trans- continental Derby, which inaugur- ates the National Air Races here. — ., RELEASED Ralph Cushing of Fairbanks, who has been detained here in the Fed- eral jail on telegraphic warrant from the Interior city, was releas- | ed today and is sailing for the south. Settlement of an account on which he was detained was made, officers said. | possible season in recent years, the Nome ‘area should produce “at least sevs Eernl thousand dollars more in gold” than in 1936 when in excess of $2, 000000 was mined, Russell May- nard, manager of the Nome Daily ‘Nuggett, told The Empire today. iMr. Maynard arrived in Juneau yes- |terday afternoon by PAA plane to |attend a session of the Alaska Pub- lic Welfare Board. | At the Gastineau Hotel, Mr. May~ Inard said the season probably would |be more favorable despite the han- dicap of a slow July and August, |at which time little water was avail- |able with which to operate the dredges. The dryness, too, mater- ially hardened the placer ground, resulting in slow mining progress. 22 Dredges Operating Twenty-two dredges were oper- ating full force on the Seward Pen- |insula when Mr. Maynard left for Juneau. The only dredge in the area not being used is at Teller, where |litigation tied the mine up for such |a long period it would not have been profitable to operate. The Kougarok section, about 70 play this year, Mr. Maynard said. |Some of the finest mines imthe area are located there. (are responsible for opkration of Imines in this area, for while it has been known for years that minerals existed in paying quantities at Kou- garok, it has always been impossible to get supplies and materials into operation before July. With air- planes, work is started in the middle of May and can last for a much great time. Hydraulic, Sluicing In addition to the dredges, 100 or more hydraulic and sluicing oper- ators are at work. Mr. Maynard said it would be im- to announce the exact amount of gold taken out of the area until Federal figures are made public next year. He bases his fi- gures on statistics gathered from various miners, This is Mr. Maynard’s second vis- it to Juneau this season. He at- tended the first meeting of the Wel-! fare Board last May. He said the gold mining season in the Nome district would be com- pleted the latter part of October, giving miners about two more months of operation this year. Awarded Damages In Rock, Dirt Slide ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 3.— The District Court has awarded {Charles Isaacs the sum of $4,300 damages for injuries suffered when rock and dirt fell on him last year while an employee of the Bralas- ka Mininy Corporation, at ‘their property northwest of here. Many Alaskans Purchase Stamps WASHINGTON, Sept. 3. — The Internal Revenue Bureau reports to- day that 881,158 purchased special stamps for the privilege of doing business in certain taxable occupa- tions during the 1937 fiscal year. Five hundred and seventy four purchasers were in Alaska. ——e———— — Patsy Ruth Miller To Wed Scenarist LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 3. — Patsy Ruth Miller, former screen actress, and John Lee Mahin, scen- arist, have filed notice of intention to wed. miles from Nome, is receiving & tou[.l Airplanes | INSURGENTS ARE Both Sides Claiming Vic- tory in Area on Ara- gon Front HENDAYE, French-Spanish Bor- der, Sept. 3.—Both the Spanish Government and Insurgent foes laid claim today to victory in the major battle struggle for domination on the Aragon Front. Contradictory reports filled in a graphic picture of the fighting which is centering on a huge circular bat- tlefield in the region of Briand Lakes about 20 miles south of Za- razoga, midway between two strongholds, Belegiard and and Bel- chite. Housewives Are Warned to Buy For Holiday Next Monday 1s Labor Day in New Move CHINA ARMIES SHIFT BATTLES BACK SHANGHAI Sudden Action Late Today Takes Nippon Forces Off Feet After & lapse of two weeks less than five years, Walker is back on the New York City public payroll as assistant counsel to the Transit Commission. The appointment saved his pension of about $15,000 a year. He resigned as Mayor Sept. 1, 1932. The law provides that & person off the city payroll five years loses pension rights. He is shown (left) being interviewed after his appointment. ex-Mayor James J. and will be observed here as a | holiday as far as stores are con- cerned. Stores will remain closed on that day and also city, Territor- ial and Federal offices. Housewives are urged to get their orders in early tomorrow for the two day suspension of TWO OFFICERS, HUNDREDS OF BODIES FOUND, CUNMAN SLAIN AFTER ROBBERY TYPHOON AREA Tk { Wreckage of Vessels Strewn Gun Battle Takes Place in| Alone Beachese M ; | g Beaches—May Ohio After Gang Robs Strike Again i Cafe Owner | HONGKONG, Sept. 3.—The de- SPRINGFIELD, Ohio, Sept. 3.—vastating typhoon that roared out one bandit were killed today in & por strewn with dead and wreckage {gun battle at Crystal Lake, 15 miles|of boats, is expected to reach China’s southwest of here, after a S&lwlcoast again, not far south of war robbery. |torn Shanghai. Robert Smith, cafe proprietor and| Over three hundred bodies have i three of the bandit gang of four es-|been recovered here so far. ’caped uninjured. A tidal wave, sweeping inland, has The slain officers are Martin Ran- destroyed the village of Etaip. dolph and Edward Furry. The dead| Many fishing fleets are reported gunman was still unidentified. |to have been destroyed. Smith told police three bandits| AR forced him into their car at a| . |downtown street and carried hlmisrave D' ers to the country where they robbed | him of money and obained the cafe payroll. * Veterans Ask that 1 U. S. Forces Abroad |Operations Resumed Today \ Be Withdrawn Nowl in Five Cemeteries o 157 ,‘ Under Guards BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 3. — The National Convention of the Veterans! KANSAS CITY, Sept. 3.—Grave of Foreign Wars have telegraphed giggers began work today under the President Roosevelt at Hyde Park protection of armed guards in five \demanding the American armed|cemeteries where a strike had pre- forces be withdrawn from foreign vented burials since August 5. soils. The veterans proposed how-igince the beginning of the strike, ever to make exception only in case 150 podies have been placed in re- of mintmum troops needed to Pro-|cejving vaults. tect United States goverrmen| s USSR property. . | T - em— .———=—, Refugee Party ~ Landed, Manil dnaed, mania quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 11%, American Can; MANILA, Sept. 3. — The Dollar 100%, American Light and POoWwer Liner President Lincoln has arrived 9%, Anaconda 53%, Bethlehem Steel here with 100 additional Shanghai T ! STOCK QUOTATI ONS o + A | NEW YORK, Sept. 3. — Closing | * and Southern 2%, Curtiss Wright|are 31 American and the others are 5%, General Motors 52%, Interna- pilipinos. tional Harvester 103%, Kennecott| N i it 55%, New York Central 33%, South- | ape ern Pacific 38%, United States Bwe]:‘Nlne NGW'flCI!;! of § Infantile Paralysis 103%, United Corporation 4%, cmes; Service 2%, Pound $4.96, Republic . . Steel 33%, Pure Oil 18, Holly Sugar Reported in Chicago 29%, United States Treasury bonds 2%s 97.17, Atchison General fours and nine new cases of infantile 110%. paralysis was reported to the Health DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘The following are today’s Dow, ed in the current mild epidemic Jones averages: industrials 172.17,|which is however believed to have rails 4721, utilities 26.80. reached the peak. Stefansson Coordinating In Search for Six Soviet Fliers Lost in Far North By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Sept. 3.—Efforts |at rescuing the Russian fliers lost {in the Arctic open again a quaint little chapter in northern explora- HIDDEN GUN NESTS SPRAY FORTH SHELLS |Heralded Advance of I vaders Stalled—Japan War Budget Voted BULLETIN — SHANGHAI Sept. 3.—Stung by the Chinese counter attack, the Commander of the Imperial Japanese Third Fleet tonight proclaimed stern Ppunitive action to “terminate Chinese activities in Shanghai.” SHANGHALI, Sept. 3.—~China’s ar« mies surprised the Japanese late to- day by a smashing counter offensive _'and shifted the Shanghai warfare Iback to the city proper and placed lin new Jjeopardy the lives of Amer- ican and other foreigners. The attack by the Chinese stalled |the long promised push of the Jap- janese and forced a quick revision ihy the Japanese of their strategic positions. Nests Belch Forth | Chinese big gun also chine gun bn’-u sprm m‘): the Japanese warships and troop transports, Eight Japanese transports quickly |A policeman, a deputy sheriff and of the northward leaving the har-| » mflm Strike 88%, Calumet 13%, Commonwealth war refugees Included in the party| CHICAGO, Sept. 3—One death| authorities this morning, | bringing around 140 persons afflict- | A weighed anchor and sped down tion. stream, Vilhjalmar Stefansson, top-flight, Shells of the attack late today explorer of the dog-team days, is crashed in the French concession coordinating the rescue efforts, with and one projectile struck the roof headquarters in the Rossian em-'of the Second United States Ma- |bassy here. Stefansson is generally rine Battalion barracks but failed conceded to know his Arctic. But to explode. Officers said the shell he had one noted critic, the late was a one pounder, anti-aircraft. |Roald Amundsen, himself lost amid |the ice floes with several compan-| JAPANESE MAKE THREAT ions who set out in a plane to SHANGHAI, Sept. 3—The Jap- |rescue the second and ill-fated No- anese Navy today threatened to ibile flight into the Arctic in 1928, open heavy bombardment from Stefansoon says there is no dan- Pattle positions directly in front of ger of the Russians starving if they the American and other foreign landed with any equipment. More- Warships, bringing them squarely over, he says, they probably could in line of fire. land their plane safely on the ice,] The Naval spokesman said the Years ago, Stefansson and a pair fleet rather than continue to take of college youths traveled afoot heavy pounding from the Chinese across part of the ice area in which 1and batteries will shift into posi- {the present search is being conduct- tions where they could reply ade- |ed. |quately regardless of danger to which it exposed foreign warships. Charges Are Made The Naval spokesman charges the Chinese with using trench mortars and field artillery to bombard the sinih SEAL DIET | They couldn’t carry enough food to last them for the two months or, they expected to be on the ice. AROKe SE0y whpe |Japanese warships. |Stefansson planned that they should live “off the country,” by eating| The Japanese occupled Hongkew seal meat. It was an experience, 042y Without warning and many of but they survived in good health, |JAP8N'S own nationals were Rilled lor wounded. Several consular of- Since then several experiments '"\flcinls were slso wounded and im- various colleges have been conduct-| ,.qiate and definite Ja pcn gl led to prove that man cannot live ribution has been dem-ndpu ad‘”” on meat alone. Stefansson was re- . minded of one midwestern school which put several students on a — |meat diet. At the end of two weeks cjfig"&fifi;&:fi,"&?x the men almost turned inside out|e.gency war budget of six hundred {at the sight of meat, cooked or raw.|yminion dollars to push the unde- Worried experimenters promplly‘clared war in China. ended the test with a conclusioB| . huge appropriation is more |that it would not work. They put|p,, Japan spent on the last Sino- their men back on a balanced dlet. ;,pqnece war and the Russo-Jap- Out on the ice with his two com- | nece war combined. panions, Stefansson had the same ity gupplementary budgets experience. At the end of two WeekS wore approved and the sum now the men could eat no more meat.|.qiceq for the Chi - Their stomachs rebelled at the sight oo, Ching war fs. Mt o0 of fresh seal blubber or any other| kind of blubber. But Stefansson Tu UPERATE UN waited. He had been through it.| After a day or two of eating noth- ing, the men’s appetite for blubber HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Sept. 3. — Grace Moore, film actress, will un- dergo an operation within a few returned. It had to. There was| no. balanced diet of cabbage and; in/days, it was announced this after- {noon. BIG WAR BUDGET spinach they could turn to out there on the ice. They had to eat seal and like it. They did AMUNDSEN'S DISSENT Part of Stefansson’s purpose 1maxklng the journey was to estab- {lish that animal life existea on or under the ice regardless of the dis- |tance from land, and that men| \could survive on what they could kill. That's where Amundsen comes in, e — MISS CORINNE JENNE POSTPONES JOURNEY Miss Corinne Jenne, who planned to leave for Mills College on the He scoffed Princess Charlotte, was forced to tention, delay her passage because of a “Pah,” he told this reporter dur- slight illness. 2 - She will probably sall Monday on the Princess Louise. at Stefansson’s con- (Contlinued on Page Four)