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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. L., NO. 7621. JUNEAU, ALASK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS SHANGHAI BATTLE SWAYY BACK, FORTH ST[]CK PRICES | Rudy Denies She’s His Fiancee TAKE ANOTHER SLUMP TODAY Railroad, Steel Issues First Hit—Then Decline Spreads Out NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—The Stock Market swept into another broad decline at the short session today as offered shares swamped the trad- ers and forced prices down from $1 to as much as $9. Railroad and steel shares were the first to feel the selling wave which soon spread to all divisions. United States Steel year and Union Pacific, Louisville and Nashville, Santa Fe, and South- ern Pacific suffered wide losses. Investors were disappointed with the freight rate increases and this common | dropped to a new low level for the | | | b 1GAS EXPLOSION |ARMISTICE DAY BURNS TWO MEN ON SMALL BOAT Fire Dept. Extinguishes Blaze at Upper City oat PROCLAMATION ISSUED BY FOR President Expressing Wish that U. S. Pursue POliCy Of P(}ace WASHINGTON, Oct. 23. President Roosevelt took occa- sion today in issuing the Ar- mistice Day proclamation to express to the United States a “wish to pursue a policy of peace.” The President said: “International lawlessness and strife which now threatens In- ternational security and even civili'kation itself,” makes par- ticularly fitting that it should be expressed again and added that the world's situation also made it appropriate that this Two men Ivan Nicholls and Pete Flater, were severely burned about the face and hands last night as gasoline fumes exploded in the cabin of their 26-foot trolling boat Flying Cloud berthed at the Upper City Float. The Fire Department answered an alarm at 7:45 p. m. and exting- uished the fire in short order. Nich- jolls and Flater were rushed to the Juneau Medical Clinic where Dr. C. Carter, Dr. Williams and Nurse Bonnie Ramsay treated their burns. “We had just come in about an; hour before, Nicholls said through! Windsors Book Pas s;w ge .:V—m*’.»6 FIGHTING IS DESPERATE BY BOTH FORCES Struggle C;ntinued for 70 Hours Around Chief City CHINESE CLAIMS LINES HOLDING | Japanese State They Are Progressing—Severe Losses Reported SHANGHAI, Oct. 23. — A great battle for Shanghai swayed madly back and forth tonight in the moon- light over a maze of small creeks and meandering canals north of Tazang. country “adopt every practicable means to avoid war and work for the restoration of confidence fact, coupled with the fact that the | market had discounted them in| higher prices during the last few | Both sides admitted severe losses as the Jananese fought desperately to smash the Chinese defense lines the slit left in heavy bandages: |for his mouth, “and had gone up- |town for groceries. WHen we re- of the primary for nounced declines. causes STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 23. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau stock today is 10%, American Can 1%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Steel | 43, Calumet 8'x, Curtiss Wright 37%, | International | Harvester 72'4, Kennecott 35%, New | General Motors 37%, York Central 18%, Southern Pa- cific 19%, United States Steel 53%, Republic Steel 15%. Former Juneau Mining Man 1s nead_in Boston Ownei Muir, Jr., Passes Away Suddenly as Re- | sult Heart Trouble ! BOSTON, Mass.,, Oct. 23.—Ownie Muir, Jr., 53, Vice-President of the United States Refining and Smelt- ! ing Company, died suddenly heére this afternoon as a result‘of heart trouble. | Muir had been with the ¢ompany for 22 years, 15 years of which were spent at Salt Lake City as General Manager. mine | e S | good friends. Rudy visited Gloria. days, are said by bankers to be one| § ; nE ? ltumcd pro- - : 5 Despite frequent recent appearances together of Rudy Vallee stunning Gloria Youngbleod, movie actress, and the latter’s state- ment that they were engaged, the orchestra leader denied she was his fiancee and described their relation as no more than that of They are shown here together on the movie set where TWO THUNDER ROLLS HEARD INTHIS CITY Evening Caused Citi- ‘ zens to Speculate A thunder roll, in fact two of them, both pronounced, the second following within a few seconds after the first, aroused Juneauitees at 10:43 o'clock last night. At first, many thought a slide had occurred in the Basin, but the noise was entirely different, and then they began speculating as to just what the unustal (and unusual is a word justifiably used) thing had occurred. ‘The rumble, to those sitting on i PatiensDie | - InMississippi By Elixir Drug FARM PROGRAM Unusual Happening Last Others Given Medicine Re- President Gives Warning to | { main Alive, But Fear Death MOUNT OLIVE, Miss., Oct. 23— and order among nations.” >~ ROY GARR IS ACQUITTED IN - MURDER CASE Another BrotTer Freed in Slaying of Brig. Gen. Denhardt SHELBYYVILLE, Kentucky, Oct, 23—Roy Garr was acquitted last rigiht by a jury of twelve farmers on the charge of murdering Brig. Gen. Henry H. Denhardt. Acquittal followed several hours lafter a younger brother, Fred Garr, \who was found to have been un- jarmed at the time the three broth- jers are claimed to have shot Den- and entered the cabin, I {threw the groceries on a bunk and {—boom!” The two men had only purchased |the craft only a few days ago and |yesterday afternoon refused an of- ifer to sell it. The cabin was badly gutted by the flames and the hull filled with water from the fire hose, |but the firemen teetered the boat [until the water was practically out. NEW TAXATION FOR INCREASES | | | | Chairmen, House, Sen- ate Committees WASHINGTON, Qct. 23—Presi- gionisceq the charge against him. hardt, was freed when the Judge| = | | Diike and Duchess of Windsor sail from Cherbourg, France, on No- vember 6 aboard the German liner Bremen for United States on their first visit together to American soil. | | | | | Remarks b}y })re“sident On . Keeping Out of War Gives New Surmisals at Present| W"iii(ins,“fln Way By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Before | |leaving for his Western tour, Pres-| !ident Roosevelt had included a {brief paragraph or two about for- {eign affairs into a speech he made and open a way to Nanking. The loss of Tazang would compel the Chinese to retreat to Chapei and Kiangman. The spokesman for the Chinese Army declares the Chinese have definitely checked the Japanese threat to take any positions after 70 hours of desperate fighting. The spokesman for the Japanese claims details do not mader, but Nippon forces are slowly but surely pushing the Chinese back and gain- |ing general objectives. FUR SMUGGLING HITS BARRIER Seizures Made in San Fran- cisco, Idaho and Nevada | From 1915 to 1917, he had charge the first floors of houses, was like of mining operations at Juneau, Al- SOmeone moving a davenport or Dr. A. S. Calhoun, Covington Coun- dent Roosevelt has notified Congress ty Health Officer and Veteran phys- that new taxes should be levied to ician of this rural community, said Meet any increase in the cost of that six patients to whom he lnno-‘Fe"e“l farm control. cently prescribed “New Elixir” have died, but that six others have shown Smith, .of South ~Carolina and i f the no fll effects from taking the drug. Obairman Jones of Texas, o He reported the deaths after his House and Senate Agriculture Com- friend, the Rev. J. E. Byrd died. Mittees, this notification is given The physician said that the six Some advisors to Secretary of Ag- living patients “show no ill effects Ticulture Wallace estimate that ev- but are like people facing a death €Iy normal granary program will sentence. Nobody knows what to- COst $700,000,000 and millions of dol- morrow may bring.” ;lars must be had for the soil con- | In identical letters to Chairman A third brother, Dr. E. 8 .Garr, is yet to be tried. His case was con- tinued to next February. The shooting of Denhardt took place the day before he was to go on trial for the second time on a charge of murdering his fiancee, Mrs. Vera Garr Taylor, wealthy widow. The brothers surrendered immed- iately after the shooting. Smashes [llegal Trade ‘about the Constitution. He said: “Fear spreads throughout the First step insmashing a fur smug- world—fear of aggression, fear of gling business which has been tak- North, Is Sighted ortm, IS Slgnie Over Minneapolis [ p invasion, fear of revolution, fear of ing about $9,000 in illegal fur out |death. The people of America of Alaska annually is announced | 1 are rightly determined to keep that by the Alaska Game Commission Plane L.eft Cleveland 'rhls‘[',ruwing menace from our shores. |and the Biological Survey. Furs val- Morning — Next Stop | “The known and measurable, sed 1o Cooemrsle ol Gokis S 2 danger of becoming involved in war been confiscated In in North Dakota !wv face confidently. As to that,|Where it is chargec they had been R E B, !your government knows your mind, t8ken by smugglers, and similar sei- MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Oct. 23. —Sir Hubert Wilkins and his pilot pinq 5 and Idaho, another outlet for i~ aska. A widow, son and daughter sur- vive. 6. H. LORIMER ~ PASSES AWAY RN ] 1 Editor Who Guided Satur-| day Evening Post Up Through Years, Dies PHILADELPHIA Pa., Oct. 23— George Horace Lorimer, Editor who guided the Saturday Evening Post to its present rise from a little known magazine, died last night at the age of 69. He had been ill with pneumonia: since Thursday of last week but was believed to have passed the crisis. Lorimer retired last January and was succeeded by Wesley Winans Stout, who had been Associate Edi- tor under Lorimer. Flier Off On Record Attempt ATHENS, Oct. 23.—Jean Batten, of New Zealand, took off from the Tatoi airport for London on the last leg of a flight in an attempt to break the Australia to England flight record. Success seems in the grasp of thke flier who is well ahead of the record of H. F. Broadbent of 6 days, 10 hours and 55 minutes made last May. e CORDOVA FIREMEN MEET Members of the Cordova Fire De- partment met in Cordova to make plans for the New Year's masquer- ade, one of the highlights of the year. Committees were appointed to make plans for the event. |other heavy piece of furnishings on ‘the floor above. To those on the istreet it was something few had heard before. Then, following the rumbling, jcame two distinct flashes of light- |ning in the southern skies, appear- ‘ing to those in Juneau as over |Douglas Tsland. Then there. was a |few minutes extreme silence, fol- |lowing which there was a terrific force of wind and a brief downpour |of rain. According to the Weather Bureau |officials, there had never been any |thunder heard in Juneau in October isince the records have beéen kept !from 1917 and there has never been thunder recorded in the same period of time from September to March. The weather lately has been chan- |geable and one peculiar incident is \the gale like forces of wind, ac- companied by heavy downpours, that have occurred from 2 to 4 o'- clock in the mornings of the past |three days. That Juneau was excited over last night’s thunder is evidenced by the scores of telephone calls received by The Empire following the first 1umble asking “what was it?” These calls continued until after 1:30 o'~ clock this morning. Regarding the wind last night, there was a sustained five minute velocity of 30 miles an hour be- ginning at 2:35 o'clock this morning according to the Weather Bureau. The extreme short spurt of breeze |was 35 miles an hour. The total precipitation in Juneau from October 1 to noon today has been 13.07 inches, which indicates the ground has been thoroughly soaked. The normal rainfall for October is 11.11 inches. Ketchikan Man to Wed Seattle Girl SEATTLE, Oct. 23.—A marriage license has been issued to Lyman S. Ferris, of Ketchikan, Alaska, and Sybil A. Templeton, of Seattle, both legal age. Dr. Calhoun said he began pre- scribing an elixir sulfanilmaide to| several patients after “a represen- tative of one of the leading drug ho interested me in elixir prep- | aration drugs.” The dead are Mrs. J. E. Penn, Ed Sullivan, Otis Coulter, the Rev. J. E. Byrd and two negroes. DRUG RECALLED CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 23. — The| American Medical Association of- ficials stated that more than 30 deaths, possibly 37, have been veri- fied as having been caused by the elixir a new drug, which has been recalled by the manufacturers. Jnhn; Elaine to Act in Movies HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. 23. John Barrymore and his young| wife, Elaine Barry, have been given three year term contracts by Para-“ mount and will appear together in the near future. John's contract is supposed to be for $1,500 a week and his wife's $500 a week. Road Network On Kenai Pen. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 23— As another link in the contemplat- ed Kenai Peninsula road network, 34 cCcC workers will spend.the win- ter on the peninsula and will also build bridges and other projects. Sidney V. Dennison, of the Forest Service, is in charge of the work and he said officials are considering having a crew work on the road to Kenai Lake which will eventually connect with Seward, thus complet- R. R. FREIGHT servation program. [Holhck-l(eny(m, enroute to Alaska’ 'to resume their hunt for the six |and you know your government’s|?ures have been made in Nevada Then he made the Western trip. 'high STREAMLINER STRIKES BUS; Eighteen High School Stu- dents Are Injured in Crossing Accident MASON CITY, Iowa, Oct. 23. — A new streamlined Rock Island Rocket train crashed into a bus, loaded with school students, killing 10 persons and injuring at least 18 others. The streamliner struck the at a crossing. - The students had been touring the city’s industries and were from Renwick, Iowa, High School. «Bodies were scattered for blocks along ‘the track. The streamliner was not dam- bus two ‘aged. ——————— 'Interior Miners Leave for South ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 23 The annual southward trek of min ers continued as 253 left for ¢ tle. Many miners expressed satis faction over the work this summer. Anchorage Builds Fine New Ski Run 23— ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct 10 ARE DEAD Higher Operating Costs, In- cluding Wage Increas- es, Responsible WASHINGTON, Oct. 23 —Execu- (tives of the Nation’s Class One |railroads, which have been granted |$47,000,000 freight rate increase, said higher operating costs, includ- ing wage increases, is responsible. The Interstate Commerce Com- mission yesterday announced the |rate incregse for many commodities (handled by the One rail- roads. | e e ‘The following are final seores of several important football games played this afternoon: Pittsburgh 21; Wisconsin 0. Princeton 6; Rutgers 0. Yale 9; Cornell 0. Brown 7; Columbia 6. Fordham 7; Texas Christian 6. Ohio State 7; Northwestern 0. Holy Cross 6; Westeern Maryland S5 Michigan 7; Towa 6. Navy 7; Notre Dame 9. Army 47; Washington University 7. Drake 30; Iowa State 0. Dartmouth 20; Harvard 2. Alabama 19; George Washington 0. Duke 13; Colgate 0. sity 0. - e START CCC WORK ‘With equipment and supplies for starting CCC work at Sitka, the A fine new ski run is being con-{Forest Service vessel Forester will othy Durie, and C. L. Dickey. RATES 60 UP Lafayette 13; New York Univer- He talked to a lot of people and missing Soviet fliers, flew over this tyey talked to him. On his return city at 1:15 o'clock this afternoon trip he made the Chicago speech, |headed for Fargo, North Dakota. tajking of the desirability of taking | Sir Hubert informed the Depart- .positive” action to “quarantine” ment of Commerce Radio station gy.¢ 19 per cent of the world’s here that he was experiencing fine population which wouldn't keep its | flying weather. He left Cleveland hands off its guns. |this morning and did not stop at; rppat speech surprised a substan- Chicago as he had planned. Itial part of official and unofficial | | Washington. Maybe, after all, Wash- | ARRIVES SAFELY lington merely thought it knéw | FARGO, North Dakota, Oct. 23.—|yphat was in the Government's mind. Sir Hubert Wilkins arrived here dur-| g, maybe the Government, after ing the afternoon and will remain e (o), West, had discovered some- overnight. He expects to leave for|ning in the country’s mind that it | Winnipeg Sunday. |hadn't suspected was there in such E | force. . At any rate, the talk was so much |more aggressive in tone than the !stand taken by the State Depart- /ment in its several proclamations \about the peace-mindedness of the |Unlted States that some surmised Ithe President had bhecome a bit im- patient. LINER SAILS S FREIGHTER |Steamboat Inspectors| Abruptly Halts Trip of | President Jackson . INEUTRALITY ACT'S FIRST T | Another surmise: That the Pre |ident had discovered a rising swell| lof American sentiment against sit- ting on the international fence . . SEATTLE, Oct. 23. — Federal steamboat lmpi'r'lurs‘ abruptly halt-| what actually has happened in |ed the salling of the President'yiey of many here, is that the Neu- |Jackson to the Orient this afternoon trality Act has been put to its first |and required that she sail as a test before the public. It wasn't! freighter with only 12 passengers put to g test in the Ethiopian affair, |aboard. The ruling was made be- which occurred before the present |cause the second fire alarm sys-iget was passed. |{tem had not been installed as the| gpain was not much of a test law demands. IBoth sides seemed to be fairly well | About 100 passengers were forced pyaiched, and civil wars among {to leave the liner, | Spanish-speaking peoples have been | e Irather frequent affairs on this con- 'BARR MAKES ATLIN |tinent for centuries. T iental war— | FLIGHT WITH THREE Put the current Orienta | if one may yet call it that—is dif- |ferent. It brings out American The Alaska Air Transport Bel-|sympathies which it is difficult to lanca got off the harbor this after- prevent being translated into action. noon with Pilot Barr at the con- . . trols for Atlin, with three passen- yue TwO VIEWS gers aboard. | But Congress debated that ques- They were Howard Rineburg, Dor-| ;0 o Jong time before passing the |Neutrality Act. Senators Nye, Clark, Lot 3 B Sy |the smuggling legal skins out of the Territory. One conviction already has been ob- tained in Alaska and it is reported that further prosecutions will re- sult in the States. One beaver skin coat and a quantity of beaver skins have just been received by the Game Com- mission from San Francisco where leak was actually plugged. They will be sold later at auction. Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of the Commission, explain- ed that the furs have been smuggled out of Alaska aboard fishing and other craft and taken direct to San Francisco. There non-union “sweat shop” establishments took over the furs and made them into garments, using women and chil- dren as employees and paying star- vation wages. These garments were then thrown on the market through “fences” as legitimate goods com- , manding often the same prices as legal goods. ' Working in cooperation with State and Federal officials and le- gitimate fur dealers both here and in the States and with the union -|shops in San Frantisco, the Game Commission was able to run sev- eral of the smuggled shipments down and confiscate the goods. Tarough the smuggling ring, bea- ver skins worth $15 in the legal trade were being sold Outside for $4 apiece, the official said. Many of the furs taken in sez- ures reported yesterday from Ida- ho and Nevada originated in Alaska, Dufresne said, and had been rout- ed by smugglers through that syn- dicate. ——paaan SLUICEBOX THEFT Sluice boxes on the claim of Liv- engood Creek, operated by Heenry Spall and Jay Livengood were robbed recently. Several thousand |dollars is believed to have been ta- ken. Livengood is one of the dis- coverers of the creek. ELECTRA AWAY The Pacific Alaska Airways Elec- tra that has been held here by bad weather, got off today for Fair- banks. An attempt yesterday was structed by the city in preparation|sail in the morning with a scow for for the annual winter sports pro-|that point. Dan Moller is to be in ing the network. gram, charge of the CCC activities there Vufiudenberg and others insisted that umsuocessful. Wikl low Bl p Alaska has had commercial avia-| 3 | spoor visibility a short distance out. Ition for 14 years. | (Continued on Page Three)

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