The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 5, 1937, Page 1

THE VOL %) NO. 7605 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA TUESDAY OCTOBER 5, 1937. ATLY ALASKA EMPIRE United States Marlnes Sprayed Wzth Shrapnel FORCES FLEE AS JAPANESE | ON AIR RAID Two-hour Bombardment Is Reported Over Shanghai Sector JAPANESE REPULSED ALONG DEFENSE LINES Invaders Clai They Have; Wiped Out Defend- ers’ Air Force BULLETIN — SHANGHAI Oct. 5—United States Marines | were sprayed with shrapnel and forced to evacuate the defense posts along the boundary of the International Settlement this afternoon during a two hour bombardment by Japanese war planes. Fifteen bombs were dropped on one of China’s largest flour mills just across the forty yard wide Soochow Creek. JAPANESE REPULSED SHANGHAI, Oct. 5—The Chin-‘ ese defenders have inflicted heavy blows on the Japanese invaders in! the hotly contested land battle for| Chapei, the north station on t,he‘ northern fringe of the Internation- al Settlement. The Japanese admit_ they bave| been blocked by the Chinese' resis- tance. Are Wiped Out The Japanese army officials claim | they have wiped China’s warplanes | from the air, the spokesmen as-| serting that some 300 Chinese fight-| ing craft have been destroyed with- 1 in three months. For some time only one plane has been observed flying | in the Shanghai area and there| have been only occasional reports | | | | Kavanagh, 20-year-old Iowa girl, Signs for F. D. R. SOVIET FLIER MAKES SEARCH, IN FAR NORTH No Trace of Missing Air- men Found — Others Give Their Opinions POINT BARROW, Alaska, Oct. | 5.—Pilot Alexsei Gratciansky flew about 280 miles north of the 75th | parallel and 256th meeridian with- (out finding trace of the six missing Soviet fliers. | Gratciansky had installed new \radio parts brought from Fairbanks | by Pilot Gillam, and was in 15-min- | ute contact with here during the | flight. The Soviet flier was recently | held down by fog and snow. WILKINS’ OPINION | SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 5. — sn‘ | Hubert Wilkins conferred here with | lofiicials of the Consolidated Air-| ‘craft Company which build the fly- | 'ing ‘boat he used on his recent search for the missing Soviet fliers | Sir Hubert said he believed the lost airmen are alive “if they brought their plane down safely™ Jeanne Kavanagh ‘Youngest person ever appointed to the position, pretty Jeanne was recently delegated to sign the president's name to the thousands of routine documents which re- | quire his signature each year. | 3 CHANCES IN ¢ ! NEW YORK, Oct. 5—Explorer Stefansson said there are about three chances in four that the miss- ing Sovlel fliers landed safely and chance they can survive | for nx months on the ice. “We hope to organize a sky search 'in time so there will be three or| four more weeks' work done by day- light and after that flying will be done by moonlight,” said Stefans- | son, who is speaking for the Ex- | plorers’ Club of New York. e HOOVER URGES HEATED DEBATE AT MEETING OF AFL DELEGATES Labor Relfions Board Chairman Gets Little Hand | DENVER, Col, Oct. 5—J. War- e O e Reveling in temporary respite from the cares of state, President Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown in this intimate fireside scene visiting with members of his family in Seattle at the Lawtonwood home of his son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. John Boettiger. Seated, left to right, are Mrs. James Roosevelt, the President, his granddaughter, E leanor; Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs, Boettiger. Standing at STRAIGHT OUT ADDRESS MADE BY PRESIDENT Cwlllans Includlng Women and Children, Are Being Murdered ANARCHY SPREADING THROUGHOUT WORLD | America to Remain Out of War But Will Resent At- tempts to Block Peace CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 5—President Roosevelt today bitterly arraigned aggressor nations here before the “bar of world opinion” and called upon peace loving countries to join in a “concerted effort” to restore | international tranquility, withhold~ | ing any definite proposal for an In- | ternational Conference or invoca- | tion of peace pacts, however. The President asserted bluntly, in !dedicating the outer link of the Michigan Boulevard bridge here hat “there must be positive endea- vors to preserve peace.” To Stay Out of War President Roosevelt said America lelermined to stay out of war would not remain aloof from ris of peace loving nations who nust make a concerted effort in op- usition to those violations of trea- ties, and those ignoring human in- stincts which today are creating a state of International anarthy and instability from where there is no escape through mere isolation or neutrality.” Defenseless Murdered Speaking of recent disorders, the President said: ‘Without declaration of war and without warning or justification of any kind, civilians, including women and children, are being ruthlessly Imurdered with bombs from the air !in times of so-called peace. PARTY'S DRAFT of aerial combat elsewhere. |den Madden, Chairman of the La- Foreign military experts estimate bor Relations Board, bluntly told China’s fighting planes numbered |American Federation of Labor dele- | “Ships are being attacked without Jeft is Mr. Boettiger, and at right is the President’s son, James Roosevelt. Grandson Curtis is seen petting the Irish setter.—International | | Tllustrated News S pecial Service Pictures. oAlise end: sationy. axe fomenGHe and taking sides in civil warfare in only 200 at the beginning of the! war. CHARGE JAPAN HAS VIOLATED ALL TREATIES League of Nations Commit- tee Drafts Report on Invasion of China GENEVA, Oct. 5—The League of | Nations Sino-Japanese sub-com- mittee has officially drafted a report that Japan has violated all treaties| by invading China. The Drafting Committee has agreed that signatories of the nine| power treaty, including the United | States, will be invited at the earliest possible moment to examine the| situation. COMMENT WITHHELD | WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. — The State Department officials cautious- ly withheld comment today on the proposal of the League of Nations Advisory Drafting Committee, that the United States and other signa- tories of the Nine power treaty con- sider the Sino-Japanese conflict. STRIKERS ARE UNDER ARREST | | | | Police Swoop Down on| Picket Lines of Dye Unionists in Frisco SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 5.— New wholesale arrests have been made of striking CIO cleaner un- ionists. They occurred as the police made a swoop on picket lines and| made the arrests, charging disturb- | ing the peace. ‘Twenty three men and three wo- men were arrested on a riot call sent in from the F. Thomas and J. Allec dye plants. | martialed. |Matanuska Wins OF PRINCIPLES Mid-term C_O—n—ffl‘ence Now Underway by Repub- lican Leaders gates today, that the amendment to| the Wagner Act, proposed by the! AFL might make the United States a “happy hunting ground for the company union.” | ‘Taking notice of American Fed- | eration of Labor accusations, Mad-, den said that the board was pro-| CIO, the Committee for Industrial| Organization, likewise accused the] CHICAGO, Oct. 5.—Former Pres- board in some instances of being ident Herbert Hoover urged today | pro-AFL. |that the Republican Party propound Madden argued that the proposed i“a positive, courageous draft of AFL amendment say5 in effect that fundamental principles”.as a foun-| employees are entitled to be repre- dation for the mid-term Nations\l sented by union employers of their Party conference, and for the 193 own choosing. | campaign. Many charges resulted from the| After conference with Frank Knox¢ heated conflict precipitated by the Hoover stated “Col. Knox and I dis-| address. Madden, though telling the cussed the proposal which will come | convention that his board was|before the Republican National strictly impartial with regards to Committee meeting on November| labor’s civil war, received only scat-'s5 tered applause. Courtmartial For U, S. Flier Harold Dahl Is Shot Down' by Spanish Insurgents —Now On Trnal SALAMANCIA, Spain, Oct. 5. Harold Dahl, Illinois, U. S. A., flier| who joined the Spanish Government air forces and was shot down by Spanish Insurgents, has been court- “We favor creation of a com- mittee of distinguished Republicans who will formulate and draft fun- |damental principles to be submitted to the general conference of party leaders some time in the Spring. The voice of young members in the party should be given a place in| these party councils;’ he empha-| sized. Hoover, Knox and Alf Landon will ymeet former Gov. Frank Lowden| at the latters’ home over the week- | end. REPUBLICAN CALL WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—A call| went out today for the Republican | National Committee to meet in Chi- cago on November 5 to consider t holding a midterm National Con- Dahl told the military tribunalivention between the 1938 congres- he came to Spain as an air lrstruc-lsmnfl elections. tor but was forced to join the fight- o | |ing forces and make air raids. The court withheld judgment un- Ga"ada nrders | Planes i anes in U. S. til Thursday. The results of the Oct. 5. — The courtmartial must be approved by Gen. Francisco Franco. BURBANK, Cal, first of seven speedy transport Fleece from planes ordered by the Dominion- Canadian Company for service of At Exhibition |® WORLD o000 000000000 SERIES BETTING ODDS NEW YORK, Oct. 5.— Bet- ting odds on the world series is 2 to 5 against the Yankees and 8 to 5 against the Giants to win the series. se e e AGHIBULTURE IS BIG ISSUE FOR CONGRESS If There Is No Specnal Ses- sion, Then It Comes Up First at Regular By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 5. — It is amazing how the defeat of the Su-| preme Court bill abrutly shut off | |the triumphant blizzard of speech- es and handouts that blew from Government offices through long months of the fight. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace ears ceased when the court went down for the ten count. During the progress of the debate Wallace would be speaking before colleges, groups and over the radio a as three or four times a wee speeches always dealt with some phase of agriculture, but it was un- canny the way he could weave into almost any farm subject an argu- ment to make room for younger men with plow-'em-under ideas. Advance copies of speeches land- ed on correspondents’ desks in Washington in columns of twos to the bewilderment of persons who didn’t know how well the Wallace lathe could turn out nice-rounded plan court found farm k. The the often | PORTLAND, Oregon, Oct. 5. Bernice Anderson, of Matanuska, Alaska, has exhibited here the best Hampshire ewe fleece. The display is at the Pacific International Live- stock Exhibition here, the newly formed Trans-Canada airlines, has left the Lockheed Air- craft factory. The plane took the air yesterday for Vancouver. The total cost of the seven planes has been fixed at $475,000. speeches. But the present dearth of speec lace, like Roosevelt, has “just be- (Continued on Page S1x) es is only a temporary affair. Wal- | What I t Ml’ans--Rebutldlng Merchant Marine of U S PI.ANES ARE IN | By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 5—Over at the United States maritime mis- sion, they're using harsh words to | describe the plight of the American chant marine, They're saying won't have any merchant mar- time, we ine to speak of in five years’ if we don’t watch out. And that’s rather disheartening, because the American taxpayer has sunk billions in ship bottoms, and the merchant marine is going to get many more tax dollars, \ This ‘merchant marine headache is as sure as death and taxes. There are three reasons: 1. Foreign powers subsidize their merchant fleets to keep them in the international race for trade, and to provide auxiliary ships for nav- |ies in wartime. Shipbuilding and operating costs are less in every foreign country |than in the United States. (Exam- |ple: In one big country, merchant seamen receive one-fifth as much |pay as American seamen.) 3. Every nation must either build |is a prime example of those whose |its own merchant fleet or allow for- |verbal bombardments of the public eign shipowners and their ments to dictate rates. If there were no American ships, nothing |would permit foreign groups from establishing prohibitive rates for carrying American exports. Hard to Allot Money | And those are not the only rea- |sons why you can't toss off this merchant marine headache with an |aspirin, Joseph P. Kennedy is one, ‘:flld the American shipping inus- |try is another, Kennedy is the man who runs the Invw Maritime Commission, a bureau | eated by Congress to subsidize | American shippings and thereby encourage the building of an Amer- lican merchant fleet worthy of the | name. | Congress told the commission to let American builders have 75 per cent of the cost of building new ships, PLUS a differential between /American and foreign operating govern- * building a similar ship in a foreign costs. (Example: A shipping firm wants to build a ship and operate it be- tween New York and leenpuol The government will advance 75 pu- cent of the cost right off the bat.| The builder must then agree toj pay part of the money back in 20 years. That “part” is the cost of | yard. This actually may be a third| or a half of the cost of building the vessel in the Uniled States. Then the government will figure out how much less it costs a Britisher to op- erate a similar ship on the same route, and pay that additional sum to the American builder.) But Kennedy is having a hard time distributing the government’s money on that basis. Somewhat puzzled, he has decided to canvass the whole situation. Within a week | or two he’s going to tell you what the trouble is. ‘Lousiest Job’ in Capital Ail the facts aren’t in yet, but Kennedy already can tell you that| the brand new Merchant Marine Act probably can't buck up Ameri- can shipping. He thinks many of the private companies cannot raise enough money to pay 25 per cent of the cost | of new ships. There are several rea- sons for this. One is that shipping companies often operate through obscure holding companies. Bank- ers don't like the looks of their earnings. And the industry has had too much labor trouble to suit investors. Then too, the government’s nose isn't any too clean, Lavish with money for a while, it has been too tight in other periods, leaving ship| operators high and dry at odd times. This vaccilating policy has not helped the companies put their, own houses in order, but rather has, invited them to keep on running Lul the government. Now the companies are complain-| ing that the new law has too many‘ safeguards for the govemment and (Continued on Page Five) | i {lini, ITALY'S CRACK RAID, VALENCIA /1l Duce's Son Bruno Re-| ported to Have Piloted One of Bombers ROME, Oct. 5—Fascist aviation es disclose that Bruno Musso- son of Il Duce, by the flower of Italy’s bombard- ment aviation forces, has seen ac- tive service as pilot for the Insur- gent armies in Spain, Bruno is a member of the crack squadron of 23 bombers believed | to have made the first air raid on the capital of the Spanish govern- ment at Valencia. The squadron is made up of the Savio Marchetti 79 type of fa.st bombers, the best in Italy. The pilots of the crack squudmn include veterans of Marshal Italo |Balbos mass flight to the Chicago |Fair and winners of the recent Paris-Damascus air racee. cird Disappearance Is Believed Solved Skull of Mi;si;lg Anchorage Man Is Found in Wilderness ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 5— The mysterious disappearance of E. R. Ennigar, 70, two years ago, is be- | lieved to have been solved by the finding of a skull by W. E. Davey while moose hunting in the wilder- ness south of here. Dr. J. H. Romig identified the iskull as that of Ennigar and Enni- e gar's son-in-law is going back with |Davey to make a further search. . A wide search was conducted at|e the time Ennigar disappeared. accompanied | ozher nations that have never done Lhem any harm.” Policy of Peace The President said his determina- tion is to “pursue o policy of peace land to adopt every practical mea- sure to avoid involvement in war.” Upheavals appear to be spread- ling and not declining, said the President, and these upheavals ap- pear to be moral, economic and po- litical. | The President received a rousing | welcome as he rode up the crowded |Michigan Boulevard to dedicate the |outer drive bridge. Greeted by Throng Officials estimated that 750,000 |persons joined in the mass demon- |stration. Spectators stood six to ten feet deep on both sides of the two mile parade routes and cheers and yells came from the crowd as a blizzard of confetti and streamers swirled down from the loop sky. | Dines With Cardinal ' President Roosevelt dined today |with Cardinal Mundelin, an old |friend when he was Bishop of Bos- ton, and then left for Hyde Park where he expects to arrive tomor- Paachas IS Now Seeking Divorce RENO, Nev.,, Oct. 5—Mrs. Fran- ces Heenan-Hynes, the former Peaches Browning, has established a residence in a Reno hotel and in- tends to file a suit for divorce from Bernard Hynes, Denver theatre man, after she has been there for {lhe necessary six weeks. | e e o 000000000 ® WHERE YOU CAN GET YOUR EMPIRE Butler-Mauro Drug Store. Hollmann's Pharmacy. Juneau Drug Company. Smith’s Drug Store. Race's Drug Store. Gastineau Hotel. Hotel Juneau. Hayes Shop. Alstrom’s News Stand. ®ev0ccececscsee