The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” B UNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1937. PRICE. TEN CENTS VOL. L., NO. 7593. CHINESE WIN FIRST GREATAERIALBATTLE ROOSEVELT TO 60 ABROAD ON SEATTLE TRIP President Starts Tomorrow on Energetic Cross Country Swing WILL MAKE MANY TALKS, COAST BOUND To Spend E and Night with Daughter, Then Visit Victoria, B.C. HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 21.— President Roosevelt will start to- morrow on one of his most energetic cross-country speaking trips since he took office In the short space of two weeks,| the President will make a score or more appearances, eight in the Northwestern and Middle Western! States. i The President will leave the Amer- ican shores for a brief visit to Brit- ish Columbia. The President is due in Seattle| next Tuesday night after a speech| at Bonneville Dam. He will spend! Wednesday visiting his daughter’s! family and in driving about the! city. | The Chief Executive will take a' = destroyer Thursday for Victoria where he will lunch with British Columbia officials, and in the af- ternoon in going to Port Angeles,' will visit Lake Crescend, drive about the Peninsula, returning to Tacoma' Friday nigit to board a train and' return East. 1 { —eto——— EXTRA SESSION NOW ADVOCATED BY SEN. M'ADOO Would Be Called for Pur- pose of Benefiting U. S. Farmers LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 21— crew had met with a mishap were! He called on the assembly to "call“ United States Senator William Gibbs McAdoo today urged a spec- ial session of Congress for next November. The session, the Senator said, would be for the benefit of the farmers. “There cannot be general pros- perity unless the farmers are pros- perous,” said the Senator. ITALY JOINS 2 | NATIONS IN SEA PIRACY PATRO Action Taken with Full Knowledge of German Government, Too ROME, Sept. 21.—Italy has agreed to join Great Britain and France in the anti-piracy patrol of the Mediterranean on the basis of par- ity. The Italian Government is also| said to have agreed to the demand | for a naval conference in Paris. Ttaly previously refused to join the patfel or any conference be- | cause given a minor role as guard- ian of the /Tyrrhenian Sea just off her own coast, The action of Italy, it is said, has| been taken with the full knowledge | of the German Government. | | Dread Disease Strikes Denver | | DENVER, Col, Sept. 21. — Mrs. Madeline Squier, 33, librarian of | Fort Collins, died as the result of infantile paralysis because none of the three children depending on their lives on Denver’s three iron lungs, could share the respirator. Mrs. Squier is the oldest of 15 Col- oradans who have died during the current prevalence of the disease. She succumbed an hour after rushed {BARR FLIES TO SITKA Miss Sheila Martin, 21, selected as the most beautiful girl in Australia, is shown as she arrived in New York on the Queen Mary. She attended +he coronation as representative of her country and is returning via America. WILKINS SAFE 'Scviet Attacks AFTER MAKING = Anti-Communists GOOD LANDING Bafura_l[ssemhly Fears of Mi;h:p Are Dissi- Nazis, Italy, Japan Using pated—New Flares Crusades as Excuse Reported Seen for ‘Invasion FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 21.— GENEVA, Sept. 21.—Maxim Lit- While snow storms kept the search- vinoff, Russia’s foreign commissar, ers aground at Point Barrow, Sir today bitterly attacked the anti- Hubert Wilkins awaited the lifting| Communist crusades of Germany, of heavy clouds over the Mackenzie Italy and Japan before the League | { \River Delta before proceeding to of Nations Assembly, terming them | sease Given O Aklavik, Northwest Territories, his only excuses for “invasion of other air base. |states and breaches of international Fears that Sir Hubert and his treaties.” dissipated late yesterday when the a spade a spade, aggression ‘an ag- party resumed radio communica- gr on or whatever slogan it deco- tion with the northern bases en- rates itself with.” gaged in the search for the missing! Hs asserted that anu-Commun- six Soviet fliers. It developed the ism often “signifies a yearning for Wilkins party went to bed Sunday tin, zinc, mercury and other ma- after radioing that a landing was terials.” to be made and thus failed to report| whether they had affected a safe! landing. [ - e HUGO BLACK COMING BACK FROM EUROPE Declines Any Comment on FLARES AGAIN REPORTED POINT BARROW, Alaska, Sept. 21.—Great importance is placed here on flares reported seen off shore by Eskimos ten days ago. It is also rumored the icebreaker Krassin had | seen flares a few days ago, 200 miles, westward of Point Barrow. | study of the flares indicate that they may be from a small quantity of gasoline set afire by the £ ~ missing Soviet fliers. vihe| Membership in Ku Pilot Gratciansky is prepared toj Klux Klan take off from here today, as soon, as weather permits, to invesr.xgate} LONDON, Sept. 21. — Hugo L. the flare reports. !Black, recently nominated and con- b B o firmed as Associate Justice of the | Supreme Court of the United States, !le(! for the United States today still |declining to make any comment on ! newspaper accounts contending he {is a member of the Ku Klux Klan. { Black caught a small ship, the y iCity of Norfolk, at Southampton, ———— {two minutes before she sailed. The 5 . + !ship is due to arrive at Norfolk, Fourteen In]ured In MOVIe‘Virginia, on September 299. Theatres in Troubles of Operators NO COMMENT FROM F.D.R. HYDE PARK, N.Y., Sept. 2. — President Roosevelt declined to NEW YORK, Sept. 21.—Fourteen make any comment on further persons were injured last night charges that Black is a member of when tear gas bombs exploded in the KKK. It was definitely learned seven Manhattan and Bronx mo- that he has received no communiea- tion picture theatres in continua-'tion from Black since the confro- tion of the motion picture operators versy began. dispute. ' 'RAMSAYS RETURN | FROM WESTWARD WITH 2 TODAY, AFTER, David Ramsay, purser on the Es- | 2 INSURGENT ARMY FORCES ANNIHILATED Government Has Decisive Victory on Southern Front in Spain 'BRIG. GENERAL DENHARD SHOT DOWN, KILLED Three Brothers of Sliin Woman Take Vengeance Into Their Own Hands SECOND TRAGEDY IN |IRON RING IN MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING NORTH PIERCED Army Officer Was to Have Hammer Blows Are Struck Gone on Trial Today Against Mainland De- for Second Time fense Near Gijon SHELBYVILLE, Kentucky, Sept., MADRID, Sept. 21.—Annihilation 21.—Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhard, of two Insurgent battalions is re- due to go on trial again today on ported on the Southern war front charges of murdering his wenlthy‘belween Cordoza and Badajoz where fiancee, was shot to death last night the Government forces thrust for- by three brothers of Mrs. Verna ward in important gains. Garr Taylor, whom the former| Government dispatches declare Lieutenant Governor of Kentucky that one Insurgent battalion was is alleged to have slain. destroyed at Sima in a Government The three brothers surrendered counter attack after the Insurgent |immediately after the shooting advance had been protected by a which occurred on the main street heavy artillery barrage. 'of this city. | A second battalion, rushed up to | Patrolman Jeptha Tracey said renforce the weakened defenses at Roy Garr admitted firing the fatal Granja de Toresharmosa, was also shot. He was jailed without charge!wiped out where the Spanish Gov- along with his two brothers, Dr.'ernment lines are drawn within 100 \E, 8. Garr and Jack Garr. miles of the Portuguese frontier. | The first two shots missed, but| ;‘anolher struck Denhard in the back; IRON RING PIERCED as he ran down the street toward! HENDAYE, Spanish-French Fron- his hotel. ‘tier, Sept. 21.—Seventeen villages, Mrs. Taylor's body was found on east of Riva de Sella, in Gijon's a lonely road, over a year ago, with fron ring mountainland defense, are a bullet wound in her head, and a'reported to have fallen to the ham- pistol nearby. Denhard was ar-imer blows of Gen. Francisco Fran- rested, denied any connection with'co’s besieging army of Insurgents. the shooting, went on trial, but the! It is said the Asturian backbone jury disagreed. {of the northern Spanish Govern- - lment‘s army defending Valencis last foothold in the northwestern P UI- I 0 M YE L ITIS part of Spain, put up a stiff fight in resistance and in'a torrential| | rainstorm, but were forced to retire, before coordinated infantry drives to save annihiliation. i BY HEALTH DEPT, OV, STRESSES Information Relative to Di-’ IMPURTANGE flF | ut by Offic- | ials in Checking Spread ’ FISH INBUSTRY The following notice was Lssuoa‘ by the Territorial Health Depart-! L ment today: | ‘The Health Department has re-‘Has Gl’OWn from qu'(;an' nery Start to 50 Million ceived a great many inquiries for" Dollar Enterprise information concerning Poliomye- litis, or Infantile Paralysis, there- | fore, this information is released by | the Department of Health. The dis- Stressing the importance of the' ease is transmitted direct from a|fishing industry to Alaska on this, | case or carrier, or indirectly by con- |the 59th anniversary of the begin-| tact with articles freshly soiled with |ning of salmon fishing in the Ter- nose or throat discharges. Where ritory, Gov. John W. Troy today the case is severe, the onset is sud-|called attention to the act that den with fever, headache, frequent Within one generation the industry, vomiting, stiffness and pain in the | Which began with two small can- neck, tenderness on being handled.|D€ries, moved to a mammoth indus- | Paralysis develops usually after 48|ty producing last year in excess of | hours, although there is a sudden 8000000 cases of salmon. appearance of weakness and para-| ~1he industry started with two said the Governor. “They. packed a' total of 8,159 cases of canned sal- mon. From that small start, the in- dustry has grown to annually pro- It is estimated in recent epidem- ics that paralysis only occurs in| about one case out of eight, the other cases being so mild they are| never diagnosed. The disease is nc‘t\’duee around 50 million dollars in highly contagious and does nm‘wealm to the Territory with a pack spread rapidly except in very hnt"“""m frop. six o sighit million weather. Epidemics usually die out ®S€s: with the advent of cold weather, | “The industry employs thousands Two years ago we had four or five of Alaska residents and expends cases of Infantile Paralysis develop millions of dollars in materials, in villages along the Alaska Penin-|(F¢i8ht and taxes in addition to sula. These evidently were trans- WaBbh &nd .1t provides & very' i mitted by a carrier following the terial proportion of the revenue for trade route. They occurred during!me support of the schools and Ter- the winter and no more than one|"'%0rial agencies. case ever occurred in the same vil-| Vhile most of us are conversant lage, showing that it does with what the industry means to rapidly. not spread | o merritory it is fitting that we, There is no cause for the people | Alaskans, join in this anniversary of Juneau to become panicky over|°f the industry known as the 59th the case here, and there is no jus_‘salman pack festival.” tification for keeping the children “PHOOEY” out of school unless ‘they should have come into actual contact with WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. — John Hamilton, Chairman of the Repub- the case. All such actual contacts should be isolated until all danger lican National Committee, asserted today that his party workers are of contraction of the disease by them is passed. reporting “the trend is away from Roosevelt.” The Health Department has iso- Hamilton made his statement at (will be sent to the Dominion Assay Raising her arms to thank God cording to Mrs. Bishop, assaying woman said she was too excited future. Bishop is pictured on her property, near Cantil, Cal, which was re- cently reported to be rich in radium bearing pitchblends, and, ac- Mrs. Bishop was informed a large deposit of helium gas had been discovered less than half a mile from the previous rich strike. for her good fortune, Mrs. Jcse at $7000 a ton. Nine days later The to make immediate plans for the TELEGRAPH CREEK, B. C,, Sept. | 21.—A spectacular appearing old | nugget weighing 53 ounces, left here | with the Gold Commissioner by the finders, Mr. and Mrs. Vern Shea, office. The big blob is irregular in shape, | seven and one-half inches long and | four inches thick. The nugget was found on an ex-| posed bed of Alice Creek, tributary of Boulder Creek in the Little| Muddy district in Northern British Columbia, The couple had a second nugget| weighing 15 ounces. They kept their find one year before tellir)g about it. e S Restore Traffic On Alaska Railroad; Washouts Repaired Light and Power Also Be- ing Served at Seward Following Flood SEWARD, Alaska, Sept. 21. 1 Washouts on the Alaska Railroad| have been repaired, traffic resumed,| the Seward Light and Power Com- pany have been restored after last week’s heavy rain storms which caused a disastrous flood. All-Sourdough Wedding Unites One}i’uggét Weighing 53 Ounces, Another 15, Are Found in and all electric light and power !romf) Northern B. C.. RICH STRIKE OF ORE MADE, OREGON AREA Values Reported Carrying’ $100 to $400 a Ton, Argonaut Mine BAKER, Oregon, Sept. 21.—Oper- ators of the Argonaut mine, 50 miles east of here, report one of the| richest gold strikes of the season. Tests show the ore carrying values ranging from $100 to $400 per ton. Tom Bascom Parker, Jr.,, and F. N. Bonine, both of Niles, Michigan, re theowners of the Agonaut mine. BASEBALL TODAY CHICAGO, 1ll, Sept. 21. — The Chicago Cubs staged a two run eighth inning rally this afternoon to defeat the New York Giants by a score of 7 to 5 to cut Terrymen’s Na- tional League lead to one game and a half. in the opener of the crucial three game series. Scores of games are as follows: National League New York 5; Chicago 5. Brooklyn 5; St. Louis 8. Boston 2; Pittsburgh 9. Philadelphia 3; Cincinnati 6. American League ® Fairbanks Couple DAVENPORT, Wash,, Sept. 21.— An all-Sourdough wedding took Detroit 7, 4; Boston 15, 1. Chicago 4; Philadelphia 5. —ee - AIR ATTACK BEATEN OFF OVER CANTON Daring Death Defying Av- iators Locked in Com- bat High in Air INVADING JAPANESE PLANES REPULSED Nippon Ships Crash in Fight —Half of Fleet Re- ported Destroyed HONGKONG, Sept. 21. — Daring, death defying aviators have fought the first great aerial battle of the Sino-Japanese war The battle took ciace high in the air over Canton and extended to 100 miles north of here. At least six and possibly ten Japs anese planes crashed in the twist= ing “air dog fight.” One Chinese pursuit plane was seen to crash in flames. A fleet of 21 Japanese ralding ships started the battle, appearing early this morning, in an offensive against the far south China city, Ten planes made a second attack shortly after noon. Only half of the Japanese squads~ ron reached Canton, the others bes ing brought down by Chinese de= fending pursuit planes. NO BOMBS ARE DROPPED UPON CHINA CAPITAL Threatened Air Raid on Nanking Fails to Mater- ialize, Grace Hour NANKING, Sept. 21.—U. 8. Am» {bassador Nelson T. Johnson and his staff evacuated the Chinese capital at the expiration of the Japanese ultimatum that foreign lives will not be spared In the efforts to de-~ stroy the “base of Chinese resis- tance,” after noon today. Three hours after the hour of grace passed at noon not a Japan- ese plane appeared over the tensely silent city, but the U. S. gunboat Luzon, carrying the Ambassador and his staff, sailed up the Yangtze. J. Hall Paxton, veteran embassy sgcond secretary, remained as a vol- unteer protector of American inter- ests:. With him were 17 American civilians, PROTEST BY HULL WASHINGTON, Sept. 21.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull announc- {ed that the United States has made representations to Japan to protest against the announced intentions of bombing Nanking from the air, The protest was made through Am- bassador Grew at Tokyo and Japan- ese Ambassador Saito in Washing- ton. The Secretary conveyed to the Japanese Foreign Office its oppo- siton to the contemplated bombing. Secretary Hull said the protest was based chiefly on the grounds that the bombing of noncombat- ants was a violation of the Inter- national and Humanitarian laws. Early Roadhouse Keeper on White Pass_T_ rail Dies SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—Mrs. Eva May Ferry, 75, who with her hus- band, Vernon Ferry, operated a roadhouse at White Pass, on the overland trail from Skagway to the Klondike for a number of years dur- ng the gold rush, is dead. Her hus- band and two sons are in Oregon, one son in Ketchikan and two daughters, in the east survivefl MISS MURRISH RETURNING Miss Louise Murrish, of the repor- {RETURNING YESTERDAY {Henry Roden and Mr. Klausen as|the steamship Alaska. |tebeth, and Mrs. Ramsay returned|Up- !‘wdav from a vacation of several Pilot L. F. Barr honped off at 10 weeks at Homer, Kenai Peninsula. o'clock this morning ior Sitka wuh‘They arrived from the Westward on ————————— The world’s most powerful com- mercial television broadcasting sta- tion is to be installed at the foot passengers and was to return late| Ramsay today assumed his duties Of the Eiffel Tower, Paris, with the this afternoon with Ewar Sande. [on the Estebeth. During his ab-|antenna projecting from the top of to the hospital here. Her death is the third in Colorado within two days. [cunnn and Lee Samuelson. Yesterday at 4 p. m. Barr return-|sence, Robert Coughlin acted as|the flagpole of the tower. The| ed from a flight to Sitka with Jim | purser. Coughlin® will resume his|txansmitter will have a peak puwer: |duties in the District Clerk’s office.|0f 30,000 watts. i lated all the children who are known to be contacts and these children a strategy conference of Republican | leaders of ten of the nation’s big- will be kept isolated until the full length of the incubation period is gest cities to plan a campaign. The campaign plans of the group include recapturing Congressional seats. The keynote of the campaign will be urban next year. . place here Sunday when Roy E. Mathews and Mrs. Lucia B Wyuu,llml staff of the Empire, who has both of Seattle, were married by been visiting in San Francisco for Justice George E. Herring. |several weeks, is returning to Ju- The trio, along with two mem- neau on the Princess Louise which ibers of the wedding party, Mrs.|sailed from Vancouver last eve- George R. Brown, sister of the ning. bride, and Pred Frey, both of Se-| . ELECTRA NORTH Jacg O’'Conmnor left today at 11 o'clock for Fairbanks on the PAA Electra which winged north from the Juneau field with Pilots Joe Garlic salt gives a qiquant fla-[attle also, attended school wgemw; Saul was the first king of Israel. in Fairbanks, Alaska, 30 years ago. iHn- began his reign in 10256 B. C. ) vor to lamb. Crosson and Bill Knox at the cone trols.