The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 14, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. L., NO. 7587. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THL TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA TU[;SDAY Sl PTI MBPR 14, l‘)3 Chlnese, Japanese Fi lgbtlng in R * INVADERS PLAN Prests' Bloo * ATTACKNOWON MayBe Shedin " NEWEST FRONT PaganGemany Moving Up to:-Action on Vatlr‘an Newspaper Issues Second Defense Line | Warning—Right on of Defenders First Page REFUGEES KILLED |Romano, today warned. in a stirring VATICAN CITY, Italy, Sept. 14— The Vatican newspaper, Osservatore ON SA“‘lNG SH“’SledanMI that the blood of priests may be shed in Germany ‘“as it was Land Forces Are Now Out‘in Spain,” if the Nazi-Paganism |goes on and unless anti-Christianity of Range .of_Enemy |“ceases to shed hatred and villify Warshlps Guns |every sacred thing.” | The warning is spread on the SHANGGHAI, Sept. 14—The Jap-|{ront page of the newspaper. anese Army today splashed through P R o YT torrential rain in a massed attack against the second line of defense| A"archlsts set northwest of Shanghain. The Japanese spokesman report- ed that the strong fortifications| cof the Chinese civic center in Kiang- | p Ic a U[s Ip wan b been occupied by Japanese | troops who pushed deep into the delta. { Muddy roads are jammed with| Japanese reinforcements moving up to bolster the assault against the new Chinese line. The Chinese Central News Aj ency reported 400 civilian refuge were killed and wounded by Japan- ese bombs rained on flimsy saxlmg‘ boats ileemg from the -city. After a four mile retirement last| HENDAYE, Sept. 14 —Anarchists night, the Chinese forces now oc- Made a coup de’ etat at Gijun, the cupy new positions that extend al- 1one Spanish Government coastal most straight in a northwest line Stronghold in the northwest, and trom Shanghai’s north station on to €U Up an Asturian dictatorship. 30 miles along the banks of thel Insurgent officers announced at Yangtze river. The Chinese are/Irun that secret military advices now out of range of the guns of the |SaY Belarmino Tomas, anarchist, Japanese wa,~q]],pfi heads the movement. He issued ey 1k the decree breaking off relations {with the Spanish Central Govern- Iment and setting up a separate |anarchist state in Asturia with him- sclr as dictator. Chinese Planes and Guns of One of Tomas’ first acts was to worder the imprisonment of the en- | Fort Beat Off Bom- | bardment | | Belarmino Tomas Is Said to Be Head of New Movement |tire general staff of the Spanish Governmems retreating northern army. Insurgent headquarters stat- ed that he imprisoned foreign mili- tary experts with the government ‘torces - e, C10 CHIEFTAINS HONGKONG, Sept. H.—-Chinese war planes and guns from the Chm. ese forts at the entrance of the Canton river, are reported to havel defcated the Japanese fleet in what WILL ARRIVE IN A Japanese cruiser and two de-]Leo Pres sman and Jol’m stroyers bombarded the Chinese| Customs station at Samun near the| Brophy Expe‘_:tEd to Start Action British Crown Colony, but it is re- ported the Japanese war craft were | routed. \ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 14. The Customs station was badly_The arrival here tomorrow and damaged. \Frxday of two high chieftains of the One Japanese war craft Wwas CIO is believed to presage presenta- struck quarely on the bridge by 2|tion of the Longshoremen Team- shell and another was belching sters' controversy. sm_Okethel'e it was hit by a bomb,| The National Labor Relations Chinese officials said. ‘Board will possibly take action. Leo o Bagioiag, oo oot | Pressman, general counsel of the u. SI uf'ers s1 “uu JCIO director, is also expected. | These men aided in bridging the Fur Ba“k Rnbhers dispute of AFL teamsters over the| | |ington. John Brophy, executive In Guin,Spam‘ 1CIO, is expected here from Wash- | JUNEAU WINS 1938 ROTARY CONVENTION Presidents’ Conference Votes Conclave for Alaska —Bring 1,500 Here Juneau will be host to the District Conference of Rotary next May, according to word re- ceived here today by the Ro- tary Club from the Presidents’ conference which has just been held in Hood River, Ore. Juneau had been recommended for the Conference at the Spokane con- vention early in the spring. The vote at the Presidents’ meeting was 30 to 13 in favor of Juneau, according to a message received here. It anticipated that two or three steamers will bring the Retarians to Juneau, and to the biggest convention ever held in Alaska. It is estimated that at least 1,500 persons will attend the three-day session. T'/: Ro- tary District comprises Alaska, Idaho, British Columbia, Mon- tana, Washington and Oregon. Four Juneau High School gradu- ates who are going Outside to school | were guests of the Rotary at 1t< weekly luncheon this noon at P(‘r- cy’s. They were Lewis Taylor, who | has been appointed to Annapolis,| Joe Sterling and Walter Scott, Jr., who are going to the University of Washington, and Harry Lucas, Jr., who will attend Beinke-Walker Bus- iness college in Portland. David Reischl, President of the| High School student body, and D. S.| Hostetter, who has charge of nml Federal Bureau of Investigation, also were gucxxx SOVIET SEARCH PLANE CRUSHED IN ARCTIC ICE, Pllot Zadkov, Companions, ‘\ Down Near Flaxman Island POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept. 14—Soviet Pilot Zadvok and the ‘crew with him on his hydroplane escaped unhurt when the plane was crushed between two large icebergs| last Sunday when on a search for |the six missing Soviet fliers. The hydroplane was crushed 50 miles north of Flaxman Island, and |the wreckage sank. Pilot Zadkov and his companions |were taken aboard the icebreaker | !Krassin. Some of the navigation in- struments were saved from the hy- droplane. | KRASSIN AT BARROW POINT BARROW, Sept. 14—The icebreaker Krassin has arrived here from the ice pack base and pre- pared to leave for the south at once. TWO HALIBUTERS SELL AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, Sept. 14. — Halibuters |headquarters disclosed that petmans- from the western banks selling here control of warehousemen, CIO| |were circulated by the warehouse-| WASH’INGTON. Sept. 14—A re- men and were designated to estab-| ward of $1,000 was offered by Attor- lish their CIO affiliation. ney General Homer S. Cummings| for the arrest of Alva Hunt and| Hugh Grant, alleged to have robbed | mere than a score of banks in SD“"TU cflNFER uN thern states during the last three years. | 1 " The report characterized the pair | B NU as “desperate criminals” who bhave committed numerous crimes of vio- lence throughout Florida and ad-| joining states. s s SU L S, Ship Operators, Maritim- | ers Called for Ses- { sion on Sept. 22 | WASHINGTON, Sept. 14— The | Maritime Commission announces it MOSCOW, Sept. 14—Rusaln has |has called a conference between the Japanese Consulates Closed by Russians withdrawn official recognition of | ship operators and marine labor| the Japanese consulates at Odessa representatives to consider labor de- and Novosibirsk, effective tomorrow, | |mands for “war bonuses” into the and declared the offices closed.|Far Eastern and other danger zones. There are no Japanese residents at| The conference is scheduled to be the two places named, held September 22, today included the Wizard with 40,- 000 pounds, at 12% and 9 cents and Radio 39,000 pounds, 12% and 9| cents. The Presho came in from the lo- cal banks with 15,000 pounds of sable, selling for 4% cents and the Swift Second with 13,000 pounds, disposing of the catch for 4% LANDIS QUITS WASHINGTON, Sept. 14—Chair- man James Landis, of the Securi- ties Commission, has handed Presi- dent Roosevelt his resignation, ef- fective immediately. Landis becomes Dean of the Harvard law school. - e, — STOCK IN JUNEAU R. H. Stock of Wright and Stock, Sitka road contractors, arrived in cents. | GUARDIANS OF AN EMPIRE'S LIFE LINE, Britains dreadnoughts of the aeep sped to the defense of merchant vessels in the Mediterranean afier submarines had torpedoed vessels without provecauen. were ordered to frn'n the waters off the Spanish coast and send attacking U-boats to the bottom. 1 and ordere? r 'n' rcements to rush imme i theatened » ¢ to ind by LEGALLY WED, | COURT RULING Marriage in Tm;uana, to Constance Worth, Ex- ecuted in Faith LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 14.— George Brent, film star was legally |married to Constance Worth, blonde Aam- s, the Superior Court ruled to- |day. Brent peitioned for annulment of the marriage, but his wife fought the suft on the grounds that the marriage in Tiajuana was contract- od in good faith and they together afterward in Los Angeles Brent did not make any an- nouncement of what his next steps,’ if any, would Iw taken Ruger Bahsun Predicts Good Year's Business Economist Forecasls Boom in Auto Industry or Building BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 14. — Im- provement in general business con- ger Babson, noted economist, who addressed the Boston Chamber of Commerce. Babson said that careful study of business cross currents showed that furthermore “for the next year or two at least favorable factors far outweigh unfavorable factors. Gen-| eral business is bound to be better this fall than last. With tremen- dous crops, nothing can stop it.” The economist believed that higher prices would be placed on most commodities next year and de- clared “it is costing too much to move goods. It will be better for all |eoncerned if some money now spent for advertising is used to increase wages and to give dividends.” A boom in either the automobile industry or building is forecast by |Babson, who said he had a hunch that “before long people will see home and kids as a better invest- ment than a car and gasoline.” e Judge Simpson Named To Washington S. C. OIYMPIA, Wash,, Sept. 14—Gov. Clarence D. Martin has appointed Judge George Simpson, of Van- couver, to the State Supreme Court to succeed Judge Warren Tolman, resigned. Gov. Martin named Charles Hall, Juneau by AAT plane and is a guest. at the Gastineau Hotel, attorney and former State Legis lator, to Judge Simpson’s seal.. the sink lived, 72 of a merch GE[]R[,‘E BRENT ‘Amen;can Dollar in China Not So Much; Japan and Great Britain Have Stakes| 14.—1In try-| By 'WOR(-AN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Sept 1ing to understand what's happening | {in the Far East today. keep this| fact in mind | I Japan in five become the bigge China, By 1 mean the citi-| zens of Japan, and by “investments” the capital they now have in Chin- ese commerce, trade and industry. Foreign investments in China at ent stand about like this: Japan $1,500,000,000 Great Britain 1,250,000,000 | United States 250,000,000 | France 200,000,000 Germany, Russia, Belgium and| the Scandinavian countries hold | |most of the rest of a total colse| to $3,500,000,000. ! These approximate figures, rep- lresent a consensus of totals struck 'by various “experts.” years probably has | . Peculiar Business | Now, investments often have a| good deal to do with fights between | nations. They have a particular| and pu,-r:uhux' beurmg on the Sino- Japanese “war,” because the invest- Iment of money in China is nothing if not peculiar. | Peculiarily No. 1 is the way China | was opened to rureign investors. | Congress in Adjournment J ditions this fall, is predicted by Ro-| | But Politics in Session « By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Sept. 14.—Con- gress has adjourned, but not poli- tics. | Take Colorado, for instance. Sen-| ator Adams, a Democrat, is up next | year for re-election. In private life, | the Senator is a banker at Pueblo, | usually conservative, While he did| not speak publicly against the Pres-| ident’s Court bill, he was commonly numbered among the opponents. He has fought blanket appro-| priation bills, but because he is a| major figure on the Appropriations | committee he has had to shoulder| much of the work of drafting them and putting them through Con- gress. Adams’ political opponents in cnl-\ omdu roped Senator Edwin C. John- } son, a former Governor, would break | with mm and help bring about his defeat. No break occurred. In one of his first statements to the press in Colorado upon his return from | Washington, Johnson told the Ster- ling Advocate that “I am interested in the renomination and re-elec- tion of the four Democratic Con- gressmen of Colorado.” Adams has foes in Colorado. He was not always on good terms with Senator Costigan, a pronounced lib- 1, whose retirement because of ifailing health made possible John- | Business | Chinese, ‘mely above Zie compuls it ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS ain and Mud | s of the world’s mightiest fleet esmen in London ‘were roused tely to the scene of recent inci- SEN. WALSH - ATTACKING HUGO BLACK Declares that if New Su- preme Court Member Is Klaner, Should Say So CLINTON, taass., Sept. 14.—Unit- ed States Senator David I. Wl\l,\‘h‘ declared today the former Senator | Hugo L. Black, now Associate Jus-| tice of the United States Supreme| Court, “owes it to the President,| the Senate and the country, to de- clare publicly whether he is a mem- | ber of the Ku Klux Klan, and if so| to declare in unmistakable language his repudiation of the Klan and its principles.” s T & e Senator Walsh declared however, | (‘unvmc ar, BHQ ERUM (0.8 hhaf any action in the case must! ball with the rest of the world now come from the President. Having forced China into the in- Yesterday, Imperial Wizard Evans, | ternational ball game, the Japanese of the KKK, declared in Waycross, and the western mations found the Goooiq “that Black was not a e {China of a hundred years ago was p.. o tho organization, noL an ideal place for investors. ALy WS e . EUROPEANS DO NOT WANT WAR The Chinese have their own rules of business conduct, for one thing. Governor of Pennsylvania Returns to U. S.— s a personal thing to a and he clothes it with so- Gives Views ambiguities. Business is en- on of law, he believes, and it is rather low 1Connnusd on Page Four) NEW YORK, Sept. 14. — Gov. eorge H, Earle, of Pennsylvania, | declared here on his return from Europe that the sentiment of the people of Europe is unanimously against war. » “If war does come in Europe n! 3%, will break out in those nations in| BOOM FOR LEE which the people have no voice in| On another front, in Oklahoma, the Government,” said Gov. Earle.| friends of Senator Josh Lee are plc o A AL TN | wa *w Buropean ovis v THE SPLIT This is the way the foreign dol- lar in China today is divided among the principal investors. cial son’s rise to the Senate last elec- tion. . s | munitions, GREAT BRITAIN, - FRANGE LINE UP IN INLAND SEA |Powerful Armada Immed- iately Swung Into Ac- tion, Mediterranean ENGLAND RUSHING WAR CRAFT SOUTH France Sends Torpedo Boats to Join in Patrol to Protect Shipping BULLETIN — ROME, Sept. 14.—A usually reliable source. . said Italy has refused to par- ticipate in the plan against Mediterranean piracy unless ad- mitted to equal terms with Eng- land and France. GENEVA, Sept. 14.—Nine Euro- pean powers have signed a pact binding them in a dramatic scheme |to rid the Mediterranean Sea ship- ping routes of pirates and submar- ine warfare. Great Britain and France imme- diately swung into action to con- centrate a mighty fleet on the in- land sea. Nine torpedo boats from ‘the French Atlantic fleet, with fresh cargoes and supplies, . including . were drawn quickly toward their patrol posts. Formidable Fleet The torpedo boats were augment- ed by a formidable fleet of British war craft already at Mediterranean stations. Together, the Anglo-Fleet war vessels, comprising the backbone of the International fleet, have over |60 vessels on patrol duty. )y The nine powers await Italy’s de- cision on invitation to share res- ponsibility in arrgngements for the patrolling of the Tyrhenian Sea off the Ttalian Western front. BRITISH FLEET DOUBLED LONDON, Sept. 14.—England has more than doubled her Mediterran~ ean fighting strength to hunt sub- |marine pirates. The new Admiralty orders dis- closed England will have 90 war ves- sels in the Mediterranean within a few days compared to the regular patrol of 42, 3 The latest orders sent 10 men-of- war from outside waters into the inland sea to cooperate with the augmented French fleet. The mightiest warship afloat, the battle cruiser Hood, rides at Great Britain's Malta base awaiting or- ders, FRENCH WAR VESSELS PARIS, Sept. 14.—The Naval Min- istry said 24 French destroyers will be placed in France's share of the Mediterranean pntrol Farmers Flght Light Company; Cut Poles Down pushing him as a Democratic Vice- . Presidential candidate in 1940. Lee, cnm““""st Ba"ut Thrown Out, N, Y for several years an elocution in- structor, orated himself into the House and then into the Senate. Recently he has been speaking in several parts of the country in sup- port of the Administration. He DapPe g 1 looks almost boyish, although dur- ALBANY, N. Y. Sept. 14—The ing the World War he was overseas @ppelate division of the state su- for 10 months. His family hes been Preme court unanimously upheld a Democratic a long time. His fa- decision barring the Communist| ther'’s name was Thomas Jefferson Party from the 1937 primary Bnd Lee and his middle name is Bryan, general election ballots in New York.| And down in Texas, Roy Miller, The court handed down a statement | who is sort of ex-officio Jim Far- saying: ley in that state, is promoting Vice- “The Communist party in 1936 President Garner for President in Polled less than 50000 votes for| 1940. Garner would be 70 then, The Governor and thereby lost its right| argument is that he would carry the 0 be considered a political party.” solid south and that his type of s conservatism would go well in the First President of East and Middlewest. . The idea surprises some of Gar- Czechoslovakia Dies| | ner’s close friends who believe he wants to retire from political life. PRAHA, Ca‘dwflcwkm Sept. 14. . . —Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, first . WAR ON ‘COTTON ED' President of the Republic, is dead | South Carolina, in turn, finds at his chateau. President Edmoured | (Continued on Page Two) ")z'm“, was at the bedside, BELLEVUE, Ohio, Sept. 14—One |hundred angry farmers sawed off 14 newly painted poles at Fireside, south of here, last night in a dis- pute with the Lake Erie Power and Light Company over stringing power poles through their district. Earlier in the day one farmer pulled up three poles in an effort o prevent the company turning power into the linu Spemal Election To Name 5 Judges SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 14.— Five Northern Illinois judges, two |of them for circult court, will be elected December 7 to fill vacancies. Governor Horner called the |election. e Circult judges will be elected in the Fifteenth and Seventeenth cir- cults and county judges in Lee, Stephenson apd Iroquois counties,