The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7622. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'PRICE TEN CENTS Defeat at Shan JUBGERNAUT OF | INVADERS HELD UP BY CHINESE Defenders Repulse Nippon Forces After Batle of Six Days HEAVY ARTILLERY TO BE BROUGHT UP British Issue Orders to Firei Without Hesitation on Planes [ | SHANGHAI, Oct. 25.—General-| isimo Chiang Kai Shek’s Chinese armies have stopped the Japanese juggernaut offensive after six days and nights of heavy fighting on the! Shanghai front. The Japanese Army spokesmnn‘ admitted the general Japanese ad- vance of “more than 100,000 men,”| who have been aided by tanks, planes and a continuous bombard- | ment of Japanese warships, has| “slowed down.” Highways Mined Destruction of bridges, mining of highways and acres of barbed wire | entanglements halted the Japanese assault. A bitter fight amid the ruins of Tazang, the strategic com- munication point about five miles north of Shanghai, is still in pro- gress and the Japanese assert they have occupied the village. {the share of his STOCK PRICES | ghai Admitted By Japanese MAN MAULED BY VICIOUS BROWN BEAR et S———————————— Alaskan, Declared Legally Dead; Found Alive; Wants Share of Father’s Estate| ST. JOSEPH, Missouri, Oct. 25.— day. He explained he had been Charles F. McDaniel, of Fairbanks, In the Jar north for a number of | Alaska, has filed a motion in the|J6ars and was on his way to Joplin J ; Missouri to purchase mine machin: Circuit Court asking for a review of ery. judgment in which McDaniel was| Attorneys estimated that hl.‘ declared legally dead and in which share of the estate is from $20,000 father's estate, to $25000. Under a judgment| Daniel L. McDaniel, was invested handed down last October 15, to H. McDaniel, son of the man Charles F. was deprived of any legally declared dead. share in the estate because he had Local refatives had not heard of never answered advertisements or Charles McDaniel for nine years inquiries concerning him and he| until he appeared here last Satur-| was declared legally dead. AGAIN REPORTED ININLAND SEA Two Vessels Shelled from| ' : | vessel was struck squarely. tat the disposal of the Mediterranean “PIRATE" RAIDS| Air by Unidenti- fied Craft . PARIS, Oct. 25. — The Havas News Agency reported that a sea- plane of unidentified nationality bombed a French subchaser off the sland of Minorka setting the vessel afire. First reports said all members of | the crew were safe although the| The subchaser had been placed | patrol. Navy Go Across Pacific | And Lick Japan’s Navy? No! s By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 25—Ask a| competent navy officer if the Unit- ed States navy theoretically could g0 over to the Orient and lick the| Japanest navy and he will tell you: | That is an interesting sidelight on what the Governments practical | | TAKE ADVANCE { AFTER DEGIJNE minds are thinking about when they | L |talk of moral “suasion” in prefer- | . ence to sanctions and the like. | Purchasing Surge Largely, "5 “nut of the business is that| Speculative, However, it the. mayy _ever, sbauld. go 8000 miles across Pacific to fight a Assert Brokers ! Breathing Spell Foreign military experts said they war, it would have to outnumber the enemy two to one. And by| NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Stocks did The Navy Ministry reports the at- tack occurred this morning at Port Nells, the northern coast of the Admiral Farragut, First Commandant at Mare Island, Be Honored at Navy Day Ce s e T— e il Pon MORE SHIPS BOMBED LONDON, Oct. 25—The French| | freighter Oued Mellah has been | bombed in the Mediterranean by an | unidentified seaplane which dropped | two bombs. A submarine or sub-| chaser is also reported to have been | bombed. | Thie incidents apparently are | marking a new outbreak in “pirate” | attacks on the great inland sea. | CREW SAVED PARIS, Oect. 25.—Late this af-| noon a dispatch received stated that six men aboard the subchaser believe the Japanese will take a'a speedy about face today after an breathing spell to bring up heavy early retreat that put many leaders artillery with which an attempt will|to new low ground for the past year be made on a new drive toward or longer. The late net gains how- Nanziang. {ever ranged from one to more than It is believed that over 300,000 nine ‘points. soldiers have participated in ttwl Today’s transfers were around 2,- fighting of the last six days. 600,000 shares. Britisher Killed Brokers are inclined to attribute British authorities, as the after-ithe purchasing surge largely specu- math of the slaying yesterday of lative in the belief that the list was i soldier by a Japanese war-i“over sold.” ssued orders this morning for all defense posts to fire with-! out warning and without any hesita- | tion, in self-defense, against anyJ airplanes. | Seven Americans and about one score of other foreigners were en- dangered yesterday when a plane sprayed machine gun bullets near | STOCK QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Oct. 25. — Closing' quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can, 89%, American Power and Light' terms of the old, now repudiated,|bombed were saved although the naval limitations treaty, the United |vessel is expected to sink. | States agreed not to build a navy Officials also said the seaplane| twice as strong as Japan's. That | 21so machine gunned the ship. was intended to make the Japanese| French frontier police said a feel safer, | plane with a maltese insignia, simi- | | Thus the ratio was 5-5-3, or five lar to that pdinted on Spanish In- units of naval power for Great|Surgent planes, bombarded Ports- I Britain, five for the United States,|?0U. Spain, just across the Franco-| and three for Japan. Neither the Spanish border early this morning. GEN, FRANGD British nor the United States Navy under that arrangement had enough fighting power to upset Japan in its own waters. That was the se- curity Japan sought. . three powers is not vastly different 5%, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem Steel 487%, Calumet 8%, Commonwealth DOV, even though the treaty has and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright been repudiated by Japan and main- | Fourteen units of the United States Navy will participate in the celebration of Navy Day, October 27, in the San Francisco Bay area. At Mare Island Navy Yard, oldest in the West, the Navy Day program will include ground-breaking for a new $3,500,000 drydock and.keel laying of the Navy's latest submarine, Swordfish. Photo shows the famed Civil War hero, Admiral David G. Farragut (top left), first comman- dant of Mare Island when it was opened in 1854. First of the warships to be built at the yard was the U. 8. Frigate Mohican (top right). Helow is the U. 8. §. California, present flagshin of the U. S. battle fleet, also built at Mare Island, while inset shows Rear Admiral C. 8. Kempff, present commandant. itler, Duchess of Windsoi - LEG]SLATWE remonies ANDREW DAHL ATTACKED ON - HUNTING TRIP Vicious Brute Charges, Grabs Rifle, Tosses It Into Woods SECOND ASSAULT AS M REVIVES Fisherman Brought Here Suffering Lacerations, Loss of Blood Mauled and torn by a brown bear last Saturday at Hood Bay, Andrew Dahl, 54, today lies in bed at St. Ann's Hospital ruminating on what the famous author, Stewart Edward White had told him about the gen- eral “affability” of all bears. The bear jumped on Dahl from behind a tree without warning when Dahl was deer hunting, about a mile back from the beach across the bay from the hunter's cabin on Hood Bay. “He jumped on me with an awful roar,” Dahl said, “grabbed by gun from my hands, shook it viclously and threw it several feet! “I stumbled backwards over a log as he came for me, and he bit me about the legs as I pulled by knees up to protect my head and stomach, Bear Leaves—Returns “He went away then and I reach- \ed for my gun, but he saw me before I could get to it, and tried to bite my head as he rushed back at me.” Dahl paused to inspect a badly ripped left hand. “I fought him off with my hands to protect my face,” he continued, “and after standing over me, growl- ing for a second or two, he went away again, 1 Gets His Gun | “That time, I nanaged to get my 6un before he got back, and I fired from my knees hitting him in the shoulder, about four feet from me and he dropped dead. “I was so mad,” Dahl added, shot him again for good measure the edge of the International Set- Actually the relationship of these| NuRTH SPAIN» | Bleeding and weak, Dahl stag- 13%, General Motors 41%, Interna- tained only in a very hazy form hy{ tional Harvester 77, Kennecott 38%, the United States and Great Bri-| {New York Central 20%, Southern tain. But the British building pro- Pacific 21%, Pound $4.95%, Brem- 8ram will make it very different— ner bid 1 asked 3, Republic Steel When and if completed—and the gered down the slope toward the beach, Once he saw fresh bear tracks and had to detour to keep from meeting another bear. Once be fell down a bank and lay there tlement. Dart Grew Saves Concentrating Soldiers for| Final Attack on ‘Fall’ for Each Other When Visit Made at Country Home PROGRAM TO 17%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 134.43, rails 34.04, utilities 22.11. ——-————— Motorship Dart R o Returns to Port to. a bell buoy near Kake for 17| mpe hours in a howling gale was toldi ,,“nmu";f:;“}z m:mx:;:v;dn: in Juneau today by members of ty port Alexander and way ports the crew on the motorship Dart, Who yesterday with Frank Wyan, Teben- rescued the men from what would|gofr Bay fox farmer, aboard. have shortly been death. Leaving next Wednesday morn- Three Men from Bell @y Haven One Man Lashed to Bell Nearly Dies from Exposure two fancydress battleships ordered | iby the United States Government | NORLITEMEN T0 MEETTOMORROW AT GATHERING Reservations are due tonight for the Norlitemen dinner to be held tomorrow evening from 6:30 until| 8 o’'clock at the Northern Light Pres- " (Continued on Page Three) Madrid Sector ' LONDON, Oct. 25—Gen. Fran-| cisco Franco, Dictator of Insurgent Spain, is preparing for a new of-| fensive, according to radio advices, in an effort to end the Civil War in Spain before fighting becomes bogged by wintery weather. His grasp on Northwestern’ Spain is secure and Franco is now con- centrating his soldiers, over half Ttalians, at Zaragoza, 175 miles northeéast of Madrid, his next ob- Jjective. GLOOMY OUTLOOK LONDON, Oct. 25.—British For- eign Secretary Eden sees little like- lihood of success to get France and Russia to favor the new Insurgent Government in Spain. Italy and | | | BERCHTESCADEN, Germany, Oct. 25.—Adolf Hitler played the host to the Duke and Huchess of | Windsor here last Saturday after- | noon. | | Hitler's face, was wreathed in |smiles during the two-hour visit of the ' couple at his country Rival Labor Organizations h Are Attempting to Get Together WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — Labor leaders met here today in a peace conference between the AFL and home ere. The visit climaxed a 14-day tour of Germany by the Duke and Duch- | ess. Members of the entourage report | that the Duchess was visibly im- |pressed by Hitler's personality and| apparently they became fast friends. | Hitler took both of the Duchess’s| BE BRIEF ONE Administration Leaders Propose Action Only on FDR'S Plan . WASHINGTON, Oct. 25.—Admin- istration leaders may propose lim- iting legislation at the special ses- sion of Congress to the President’s five point program, informed per- sons declare. This proposal will require adop- |tion of a resolution by the House and Senate. for awhile, getting his strength. Tortuous Travel Finally, after a mile of tortuous travel, he reached the beach and his skiff. His cabin was nearly an- other mile away cross the bay. Hands too torn to hold an oar, Dahl managed to row after a fash- ion, with the oar handles under his arm pits. After what seemed an endless time, he beached his boat, and fell exhausted from loss of blood. Herman Waldemar and Oscar | Peterson then brought the wounded man to Juneau on Valdemar's boat after a 20 hour run, where Dahl CIO. Indfcation that some progress! |might be expected late this after- {hynerinn Church. Germany have already recognized hands, saying a long goodbye, af- ‘ter which he stiffened to a rigid| Nazi salute when the Duke ap- Whether the leaders will decide|yas carried to the hospital and Dr. to go ahead with only the five point|gohert M. Coffee began to sew up program will depend on the senti- ment of the rank and file of the The men, Earl Roach, Francis Roach and Roy Skinner, were head- ing from Kake to Saginaw Bay in Skinner's troller when the engine breke down and the men took to the skiff in mountainous seas. ‘With the rowboat swiftly filling with water, the men managed to make it to the bell buoy. All through the night, they clung there in driving spray, hanging on to the cold metal E (do};tinue on Page Eight) SCORES LOSE Dr. H. A. Bauer, technical adviser g, we Dert il il 9% %0 x"ke‘ror the Alaska Planning Council, DORCAS SOCIETY MEETING e, shors Tm. iwill speak informally. Wesley Bar- ' rett, pianist, will play for commun- . _ug g |ity singing, and Robert White will Puur vlslhl" }be presented in vocal selections ac-! companied by Miss Edythe Young.| . | Hallowe'en decorations will form | the setting for the traditional men's $ OBVBMELN seeee { | Seventeen Pacific Alaska Airways —_— passengers, are held in Whitehorse _Announcement is made that the today by poor flymg conditions. Dorcas Society of the Seventh Day | Both Electras were scheduled to Adventist Church, will meet Wed- arrive yesterday afternoon, but nesday at the home of Mrs. Sophia the Insurgents. The four nations are not even agreed as to the manner of with- drawal of foreigners from the Span- ish armies. The Non Intervention committee goes in session again to- mOrrow. MRS. ALEXANDER, DAUGHTER ARE TO | HONOR MRS. HAYES{ Mrs. A. B. Hayes, who has been! entertained at a number of infor- turned back when visibility kecame poor. One ship left its load there and returned to Fairbanks. The other craft tried to get through today, but weather conditions had not improved. THEIR LIVES IN ACCIDENTS Passengers held at Whitehorse are mal affairs since her arrival in Ju- neau a short time ago, will be the guest of honor at a large bridge party Wednesday evening at which | Mrs. George F. Alexander and her| |daughter, Miss Jane Alexander, will be hostesses. Johnson in Douglas. The affair, a luncheon, will begin at 1 pm. ———el LEGION MEETS TONIGHT | First regular meeting of Alford noon was given by George Harrison, | Chairman of the AFL Peace Com- mittee. At the close of the morning| conference he said: | “Maybe some news late this af- ternoon.” Harrison said the rival labor groups spent the forenoon “talk- ing about procedure.” As Harrison/ talked to the newsmen, Phillip Mur- ray, Chairman of the CIO group, who stood at Harrison’s side, nodded ascent, WILKINS IS T0 PICK UP SKIS peared. | v 5 @emMrs of Congress. . » Bride Killed; j E AIRCRAFT, - diMflRE AIRCRAF |} time rulers today faced possible ! ed to Be Flown to David Kalakaua Kawananaka Ka-| HONOLULU, H, I, Oct. 25. — A| \ 'blood descendant of Hawaii's one| et Seaplanes Being Construct- slaying charges in connection with | Ithe death of his pretty wife. | { L £ | TWO Zones wananakoa is held for investigation.| Arvilla Kinslea, the 22-year-old| (bride, was found dead in a Waikiki cottage, the body in a sitting posi- tion wrapped in a blood soaked sheet. The artery of the girl's neck| "lmd been severed. | RS T SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 25.—The/ navy, completing plans for routine| \delivery of 26 seaplanes to Hawail| and Coco Solo, Panama Canal Zone, | will dispatch 14 of the ships to Coco ISolo during the first week in De- | the wounds. | Flesh Bitten Away A piece of flesh was bitten from Dahl’s right leg, the left leg was torn and chewed, both hands were bitten, the left hand being laid open with a vicious bite, and there were many minor cuts and scratch- S, | | Andrew. Dahl Is the brother of M. |B. Dahl, of the Dahl Transporta- |tion Company, operating the Silver (Continued on Page Eight) ———— Belgian Premier Slated to Resign BRUSSELS, Oct., 25.—The semi- W. A. Street, Dr. A. R. Carter, A. CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 25.—At least Vartanian, Marco Vuyovich, James 144 persons lost their lives in auto-'Keenan, Sam Palmer, J. K. Lucas, mobile accidents on the nation’s Dr. E. 1. Butler, Mrs. Burch, Mr. streets and highways over the week- and Mrs J.ames Frawley, Paul Da- end. Twenty-five persons lost their vidovich, C. N. Hoberg, H. Morten- lives in the state of Pennsylvania sen, J. Larsen, A. Anderson, F. Grif- alone. fin and R. Lindblad. John Bradford Post, American Le- gion, with new Commander Walter Bacon and his officers in the chairs wil: be held in the Dugout tonight at 8 o'clock. Commander Bacon ex- pects to announce his standing com- mittees for the year and several other business matters of impor- tance are scheduled. The affair will assemble guests for nine tables of bridge, and will be held in the banquet room of Percy’s Cafe. Among other events which have been given in honor of Mrs. Hayes was the party at which Mrs. R. H Williams and Mrs. W. W. Council entertained, Saturday afternoon. | WINNIPEG, Oct. 25.—8ir Hubert Wilkins flew here Sunday from Fargo, North Dakota. He will pick up skiis here which will be at- Scotch Influence? LONDON—Thrifty Britons had | $6,892,000000 in the postoffice say-| cember. official newspaper Independence The remaining planes will be Belge says Premier Vanzeeland will flown nonstop to Hawali in March. |resign tonight. His projected resig- The ships are under construc- nation apparently is connected with tached to his plane farther north. ings bank on March 31, $205,000,000 tion at the Consolidated Aircraft his desire to combat the charges Sir Hubert and his pilot Hollick- more than the previous year's to-|Corporation here. Kenyon are bound for Point Bar- row or Aklavik to resume the sear for the six missing Soviet flie 1 record, tal. The total was the highest on the national savings com- mittee reported. |of Belgian Fascists that he re- ->oe |cflved unwarranted payments from The German language contains'the National Bank of Belgium of about 300,000 words, which he was formerly an officer,