The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. L., NO. 7625. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED " PRICE TEN CENTS PRESS HEROISM DISPLAYED IN MINE EXPLOSION ONE CHINESE FORCE FACES ANNIHILATION Lone, Defia;r Flag Floats in Midst of Rising Sun Banners BATTALION MASSES FOR FINAL STAND Last DefenseTChapei Sec- tor Doomed to Being Wiped Out SHANGHAI, Oct. 28.—A single de- fiant flag of a doomed but yet fighting Chinese battalion, §till flut- tered cver tne Chapel sector today in the midst of scoresc of Japan's Rising Sun banners. The main while shifted to Shanghai's western environs with the Chinese retreat- ing from Chapei. The lone Chinese force held out late this afternoon and was still fighting at dusk from the warehous- | es along Soochow creek adjoining the International Settlement’s nor- thern border. The final hour however is near, spelling doom for the brave defen- ders. z The Japanese Navy spokesman) said Nippon's bluejackets will be, sent ashore to mop up all scattered Chinese units and designated the Chapei Chinese force as the first to be attacked. The spokesman pre- dicted the battalion will soon be! killed. | IMPERIAL POMP IS EXHIBITED, PEIPIN: PEIPING, Oct. 28.—This ancient, city, once the proud Capital of, China was today treated to an ex-| hibition of Japanese Imperial pomp.‘ battleground mean- | Conter on l'ax Revision { | Representatives Robert L. Doughton (ri,ght). chairman of the House ! Ways and Means Committee, and Carl Vinson, chairman of the House “ommittee on Naval Affairs, are pictured leaving the White House after they had conferred with President Roosevelt on the revision of taxes to e brought up before the regular session of Congress next January. JAPANESE TAKE Do bk Day in Georgia 50 100 DOUGLAS ISLAND| o FORLOST WOMEN == SANTANDER g | 3110 A tale is going the rounds of Gas- tineau Channel today that is laugh- able now, but might have been tra- gic but for the dogged determina- tion of one woman and the cool headedness of two other women. It is a story of a search in the | blackness of a fog wrapt night in the wocds of Douglas Island for two wellknown Juneau women, Mrs. | Bert Elstad, bride of one and a half months, and Mrs. Victor Cuff. The / /\/ ( ~ JA.LBARRACIN OMADRID X B eTERVEL ®CuENCA SEcovine ) &5 1«11}[0;,/ S ALBACETE T0 SAVE 1 IN BLAST., 1 DIES — 3G I - Juneau Women Stranded| F—8 Insurgent nr;[};fiigty | Foreman, Near Death, Di- by Darkness at Law- —— i \; | | rects Rescue Work in son Creek Falls ADOLID J | [ | Evans Jones Disaster [ | 275d FORMER JUNEAU | MAN IS VICTIM [Hunt Continues for Two Missing—Information Given on Dead ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 28. — Victor Raide, foreman of the Evans e =L Ve heroine of the account is Mrs. Viva overnment Erri‘l‘ory Jones coal mine praised the search- Haviland ers and aided the hunt for victims | The three women walked up the ~ while he lay near death from severe | Douglas ski trail, turned down the *C0RDOBA MURCIA® Yoy, Blrnk hroken Tee KAA Cratu: |flume, and as darkness approached, ’\ g ribs. attempted a short cut to the beach " Raide gave the exact location of > {down the rocky groove of Lawson ] ,'G\MNQDQ {every man in the mine at the time : Creek | Coming to the falls, Mrs. Eistad land Mrs. Cuff hesitated at aitempt- MALAGA? . ‘or the explosion, which occurred |during Tuesday afternoon and en- “abled the searching parties to speed IRRAITAR ing the precipitous sides of the water chute and with darkness clos- ing in more definitely each minute, sat down to wait for help while Mrs. Viva Haviland started down the rock wall. Spanish Government troons surrendered Gijon, General Franco’s war machine, after a long siege. 1asi important city in of Gijon. throughout Spain. Slips, Stumbles . | She slipped and stumbled to the Insurgent control of Gijon left the Valencia govern- ment troops holding only a tiny bit of the Bay of Biscay coastline (indicated by arrow) a few miles west The map also indicates anproximately the territory currently controlled by opposing forces northwest Snain to capitulate w0 removal of the victims. . Hjalnar Houeser told how Otte (Mikkola died a few feet from safety after a futile attempt to save his | comrades. Dash to Shaft Houeser said he and Mikkola, iworking together, dashed to the L Y bottom, leaving the two women be- WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. The hind—and also some parts of her Duke and Duchess of Windsor may wearing apparel, it is said. Coming eat their Thanksgiving Day din- out on the road, she flagged Johnny ner in Georgia. It is expected they Marin, who drove her home to Ju- will visit Atlanta November 24 to neau, where Bert Elstad and Victor | November 26 and visit PWA tech- Cuff were notified and a searching One Authority Says Nippon wood houses in the housing devel- |parly was organized at the Fire & f opment for white persons and also Hall Nation Will Accepl homes, the housing! It was shortly after 5 o'clock in| Suggestions NEW RULES ON | project for negroes. | Douglas that the fire siren there was i | The Duke desires to inspect s\lch‘50“"d€d to send out volunteers| PARTS. Oct: 28.Japan is - dis: |Profects. and a party took to the woods im-| Short Selling May Be Avert- | R e P L gl el 2 mediately. : posed to accept the friendly conver- | bt S LR ed Buying to Be and seek Augustine Yerbich. They went back but fumes forced them | | ventilation shaft after the explosion. He Held the Fort “ME FUR ME ¥5 | Mikkola said they should return ’ S T ALSO GERMANY, CRIES BENITO and Again Denonunces Bolshevism ! to abandon the search. Mikkola was overcome near the surface and Houeser was unable to carry him out after repeated efforts and was then forced to crawl to safety hime self through the engulfing fumes, il i | List of Victims . Mussolini Supports Hitler |- rhe fonowing s a comptete tist of the victims of the explosion, and general information taken from the Evans Jones Company records: surprise as the streets were cleared The Chinese watched in awed sations of interested powers, mclud-} ing particularly the United States; in looking toward an eventual res-| of all traffic while Col. Shitei, the Japanese Emperor’s aide-de-camp, a personal messenger, visited the captured city and brought gifts from the Emperor to the officers and men of the American and other foreign contingents. Chinese were shoved off the streets and when they did not move quickly were knocked down, kicked and beaten, then thrown aside. The Colonel arrived in a dip- lomatic automobile bearing license plates of immunity. The automobile of the Colonel and also others with accompanying Japanese, were gaily decorated with bunting and flags. ——.— JAPANESE WAR TOLL IS GIVEN TOKYO, Oct. 28—The Japanese War Office officially places the Japanese casualties in the China War at 9,640 1. This is on records up to October 24. The same records show that 5,173 soldiers have been killed in the Shanghai front campaign. The North China campaign took the re- mainder of the death toll. ————— BRITISH SHIP IS FIRED UPON LONDON, Oct. 28. — Al British warships within radio range have been instructed to go to the aid of the British steamer Stanray, after it was fired on and halted by an armed Spanish Insurgent trawler in toration of peace between Japan and | |and altogether, approximately two Iscore of searchers took the fields Encouraged FRANK JOSEPH MELZNEK, 31, China, a high Japanese authority | STEEL cnRP lN said here today. ] The indication, regarding the Japanese stand, was given as the American delegation entrained for Brussels enroute to attend the Nine Power conference which Japan de- clined to attend. The Japanese authority suggesied that the conference might give man- dated powers to open peace negoti- ations in Tokyo and Nanking. NAZILIFTS ~ CHURCH BAN BERLIN, Oct. 28.—The ban on merrymaking, heretofore effective in Prussia and other parts of North Germany on two protestant church holidays, was ordered lifted today by Dr. Josef Goebels, Min- ister of Propaganda. | Dancing, light music and light theatrical and movie performances will be permitted hereafter on these two church holidays, and with the exceptions of on the second | Wednesday before Advent .and Me- !morial Day, and the last Sunday before Advent. FISH SHIPPED ~ ON NORTH SEA The Alaska Coast Fisheries shipped 106,000 pounds of frozen halibut to San Francisco via the North Sea and 25,000 pounds of - NEW MAKE-UP (Younger Hands Named as ! Heads—Common Stock I Dividend Declared | NEW YORK, Oct. 28—Rule of the vast Empire of steel mills, ore |and coal mines, railways and {steamship lines of the United States |Steel Corporation passed into new and younger hands Edward Staiittineus, Jr., 38, son ‘of the J. P. Morgan partner, be- |comes Chairman next April 4, suc- | cceding Myron Taylor. Benjamin Fairless, 47, son of a ‘coal miner, becomes. President, suc- ceeding William Irvin. | The new posts were assigned yes- |terday at a meeting of the Board of Directors. The Directors also de- clared a dividend on common stock |for the first time in 5% years. - - - | SIMMONS IN SOUTH; - BARR FLIES ALONE Alaska Air Transport Pilot L. F. {Barr came in from Atlin at 11 o'- clock this morning with Oscar Johnson and Mabel Williams as passengers. { He went out at 12 with S. Chris- tiansen, Jack Greager and George | Williams to Lisianski, and Al Alex- [son and Art Wyman, Axelson going |to Chatham and Wynan to Teben- koff Bay. Sheldon Simmons, AAT pilot who in pairs every few hundred feet with| wASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — The flashlights to comb the area be- pederal Reserve Board, apparently |tween the flume and the road. |seeking to stem the tide in stock | Gordon Gray and Frank Siragier,|market selling, has issued regula- § ROME, Oct. 28 —Premier Musso- {lini celebrating the Fifteenth An- niversary of the Fascist “March on {Rome” declared that “it is neces- sary that Germany be restored to of Chicago, previously worked at the Lucky Shot mine, bachelor, no rela- tives. AXEL HUITILLA, 48; oldtimer in Alaska; brother in Ketchikan. going up the creek bed, reached the tiong which in effect will make it women first at 8:20 pm. and aided gggier to buy securities than to them in the descent to waiting cars ge)y them. at the road. While waiting for aid.| The regulations, effective next! Mrs. Elstad and Mrs. Cuff had saved ponday, will cut from 55 to 40 per- & their voices and provoked MI5. \cent the amount of cash traders {Cuff’s terrier Sketter into “speak-|must put up to purchase stocks and | 1ing” for them. |require 50 percent margin for short : | Mrs. Elstad and Mrs. Cuff, who gajes and readjustment of credit controls. i !spent the waiting hours above the ’ Js:l; pncl?g back and forth in the 7¢ js expected by Washington of ’_______———— jcold night air, already battered and ficigls that the new regulations will | " 241 e of body, Tested at home (0day encourage buying and erect & bur- L Bagton, seond secretary of the with telephones well plugged. = |rier against short selling. [United Statés Embassy at Nanking, Mrs, Cuff is the wife of Victor SRR, ¥ ito go on & whisker campaign. But| | Cuff, employed at the AJ mill and behind that spinach is a man whom iMrs. Elstad is the wife of Bert El- * A T ~— the Japanese air force with all its stad, Juneau insurance man. Mrs. STOCK QUOTATIONS bombs couldn’t scare. Paxton stay- |Haviland is the mother of Betty i — - - e % ed at his post during the evacuation | Haviland, Mr. Elstad’s stenogra- | — { of the embassy staff. | | pher. | NEW YORK, Oct. 28. — Closing — - | Second Pair Lost lquotation of Alaska Juneau mine H Among the searchers were two in-!stock today is 11, American Can as es lme Imates of the local bastille, a Fire 94, American Light and Power 6%, Ever Made by | Auto Reported Department crew, Chief of Police Anaconda 30'%, Bethlehem Steel 51,| |Dan Ralston and crew, and firemen Calumet 8%, Commonwealth and| |from Douglas. Southern 2, Curtiss Wright 4, Gen- BONNEVILLE SALT F’LATS,‘ IUmh, Oct. 28.—Capt. George Eyston | roared down this saline straight- Many of the searchers in the field, eral Motors 42%, International Har- benind hills or too far away to hear | vester 76, Kennecott 35'4, New York the signals fired in the creek bed Central 21%, Southern Pacific 21%, {when the women were found, and United States Steel 62%, Cities Ser- |1ater when the Douglas fire siren|vice 2%, Pound $495%, Republic| was blown, continued searching the Steel 19%. woods until as late as 10 o'clock, | not knowing that the women had! been found. | A second searching party was sent Jones averages: out to search for Tom #apovich and rails 33.74; utilities 22.11. Glenn Kirkham who had not heard | o T the signals. It developed that Papo- vich had fallen in the creek and had | lost his flashlight. They were guided in by a second blowing of the fire DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘The following are today’s industrials 13522; but mechanical trouble forced him | |to cancel the assault on the world Jland speed record of 301 12/100 miles an hour. | | Eyston's 24-cylinder streamlined {monster frayed a tire while pass- |ing through the measured mile and | | Wwhistle. Ihe “cut out” his motors just before N |passing the red flag. Official requirements call for runs i Totem Musage jeach way over the course but the Dow,|away at 309 miles per hour today |, dressed silver salmon to New York.|fioy 1 Seattle day before yesterday PORT ANGELES, Wash,, Oct. 28, Englishman was unable to make the the Bay of Biscay. Sebastian-Stuart shipped 30,000, wity, A vVartainan, arrived there Advices received by Lloyds said go\:ntdsgl:_sable fish and frozen hali-| 5y 430 yesterday afternoon after the 88 ton craft was attacked three Put to Chicago. 4 |spending the night at Ketchikan. miles off Aviles, Asturian port, oc- ! 1he Juneau Cold Storage shipped LA e 3 e i i |8 tierces of salmon to Seattle and| cupled Ingh week 3 Mhe Insurgents. 5 (ierces to Kelchikan. |ROLL CALL HELD BY 50 coPgh Today, Capt. E. O. Swanson sold| ELKS LAST EVENING U- Was| 4000 pounds of salmon t e Al-| llmgton to s on to the A A large group of members at- P"'be lnvulon |tended the Roll Call meeting of the : ALEUT CHIEF DIES | : w4 Fishing Industry Alexie Mororgict. Yatehmenefr, |[Benevolent and Protective Order of last night, meeting for gen- SEATTLE, Oct. 28—The threat- | Elks, {at Unalaska according to advices | €ral business discussion in Elks’ Hall ened invasion of the | Was “Jailhouse” | |—Game Protector Fred Rice tele- For Sailors phoned from a ranger station on the Totem poles carry strange me.-,-‘Huh river that Raymond Smith, sages and Hugh James and Albert 38, of Port Townsend, was drown- A. Hambeau of the crew of the ed when a truck overturned in the North Sea are of the opinion two |swollen river. totem poles in Sitka spelled “jail-| Rising waters are endangering house,” but they weren’t up on their |the elk hunters camped in the low- Totem language. Result: They are lands. basking in the Federal jail in Ju-| neau while investigation is being| made of reported thett of two totem| SKAGWAY CUSTOMS poles from the Sitka Bazaar operat-| !return trip. His mark sets the fast- est time however, that has been |achieved by an automobile but is un- oificial. | TAKES IN LEGION | CONVENTION, FRANCE ’ Milton H. Howarc, whom many will recall as the Department of Justice Inspecw’r who was in Ju- |neau during thé latter part of the !summer, writes to Clerk of Court Robert Coughlin that he attended AUGUSTINE YERBICH, 23; Nebish, Minnesota. Juneau Man Vietim JACK SAARTELA, 33, of Juneau; no relatives, closest friend, David Davis of Juneau. ROBERT NAKKI, 46, wife and two daughters in Anchorage; came from Finland. JOE CERNICK, 28; in Alaska two years; parents in Cle Elum, Wash. PAUL WILLIAMS, 40; worked in mine three years; came from Rus- sla, no known relatives. OTTO MIKKOLA, 41; worked in mine two years; came from Finland. Survived by Daughters ABEL ASIKAINEN, 42 two daugnters in Crosby, Minnesota. PETE FERRENI, 40, from Bressi- her place in the African Sun.” of The 11 Duce thus voiced support for Germany's desire for return of the war-lost colonies. Mussolini told the massed hun- dred thousand Fascists that “for durable and fruitful peace, it is nec- essary Bolshevism be eliminated in Europe.” The Italian Dictator inferred that only Fascism is the big thing in the world and that all “isms” are noth- ing. It is Taly first, last and all the time against the world, aided by Nazism, right or wrong. To Fight for Insurgents Mussolini also indicated that Italy will plunge into the Spanish Civil ‘War on a grand scale if the London Nonintervention negotiations col- da, Italy. lapse. | JOHN MATTSON, 57, brother in Il Duce conferred with his sub-'Aberdeen, Wash. ordinates on stern measures to cope| LESTER LAMPSON, 25 in Alas- with any situation arising from a ka one year; mother, Mrs. W. C. decision by Russia and France to Lampson, in Sanborn, Wash. resume “Liberty of action” in Bpam." The two missing men, Joseph Lu- In addition to four regular army cas, 55, has a sister, Mrs, Mary Wal- divisions shipped in recent weeks to|enchik, of Roslyn, Wash, and Peter Libya, North Africa, Mussolini was|N. Olson, 32, is from Noiway and said to have ordered the mobiliza- |relatives are there. tion of at least one division of black shirt volunteers to be kept ready on call from Rome for immediate dis- patch to Spain, but if the necessity ises, Fascist leaders added, Mus- s i probably could rush between | fifty and eighty thousand men to| aid in the Spanish civil war. | VARTANIAN 18 BGUND EAST Simpkins, Miss Barbdra Winn, Miss |Elizabeth Terhune, Miss Mary Van- SEATTLE, Oct. 28.—A Vartanian, der Leest and Miss Louise Kemper, representative of the Soviet Gov- will also meet with the group and ernment in the search for the six plans for the season’s activities will missing Soviet fliers, has arrived be outlined. here from Juneau in the plane pi-| - e loted by Sheldon Simmons. ‘Saturday l‘.t Vartanian is on his way to New # York City and Washington, 0. c., Day for Shooting He had nothing to say here regard-‘D“ck‘ ill Soutlleas! ing the continued search for the lost fliers nor future plans. | HIGH SCHOOL GIRL SCOUT TROOP WILL MEET WEDNESDAY Announcement was made today that the High School Girl Scout troop will meet at the Episcopal rec~ 'tory at 7:15 p.n. Wednesday, No- vember 3, with the new leader, Mrs. Charles G. Burdick. Associate leaders, Miss Mary Only two more days to shoot ducks, the Alaska Game Commis- |slon advises. The season closes of- |ficially at 4 p.m. Saturday and no 72, chief of all the Aleuts, is dead| American |received in Juneau. He was born With Norman Banfield, Exalted Ru- west coast fishing banks has re- near here during the Russian re-|ler, presiding. gime and reigned thirty-five years,| Many visitors were present, and Enoteu‘ among his own people for his| Dutch luncheon was served later in (skill as a sea otter hunter. He was'lhb‘ evening. sulted in a decision by the Univer- sity of Washington to jecin in an ex- tensive study of the entire coast fishing industry. Dean S. J. Coons of the Univer: College of Economics and Busines: said the survey will be in collab- oration with Stanford University faculty and members of the Insti- tute of Pacific Relations, 2 y highly regarded by the whites. i s o DN | foliEiiad - on s A ey MISS GUBSER SAILS TRINITY GUILD MEETING - | — “Z Announcement is made that the' Miss Fay Gubser, step-daughter next meeting of the Trinity Guild of Harlan Gubser, sailed for the will be held on Friday, November 5.|south aboard the North Sea to visit No meeting will be held this week.|her mother in Kelso, Washington, ed by Mrs” George H. Peterson of MAN ON VACATION |the New York Convention of The shooting will be permitted on Sun- that city. | James and Rambeau, new mem-| F. J Vandewall, Deputy Collector bers of the North Sea's crew, were of Customs at Skagway, is a pas- taken into custody last. nigh{ bY|senger on the Princess Norah for U. S. Marshal William T. Mzhoney |3 month's leave in the States. Mrs. and Deputy Ben Picken when the vandewall is now in the States and | North Sea arrived from Sitka. The Mr. Vandewall will join her there.| SIMPKINS GOES SOUTH totems, said to be valued at aboul George G. Miiler will be in charge! George Simpkins left for Seattle $100, are alleged to have been |of the Skagway port during Dep- aboard the Princess Norah on a| found in the sailors’ room yuty Vandewall’s absence. three week business trip. American Legion and joined the Le- gionnaires who went to France after the Convention. The message was sent from England where he was at the time with his sister. | - | DAMASCUS, Oct. 28. — A great day, hunters are warned. flood rushed down the hills north-, The duck season, established by |east of Damascus early today and|proclamation of the President, is swept the town of Dmeir, where | for 30 days only and does not in- almost all houses were swept away.|clude the last day of this month. Dogens of bodies have been recov-| As the season draws to a close ered and 100 persons are missing. |flights of ducks are coming more The flood followed a cloudbust. (and more in evidence, indicating A sheet of water nine feet high|that the present season is too early, rolled down on the town. sportsmen contend.