The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1937, Page 1

HE DAITY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L, NO. 7626. * JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1937. MEMBER_ASSOCIA TED PRESS BRITISHER 1 BAIN STOPS FIGHTING ON SPAIN FRONT Floods Result from Heavy Downpour—Hostil- ities Disrupted ZARAGOZA, Spain, Oct. 20.—In- surgent and Spanish Government armies on the broad Aragon front quit fighting each other today to combat a common enemy — flood. High waters sheet wide areas of the valleys of the Ebro river. The water at this Insurgent base is at the highest level in 20 years, 21 feet above normal. The Ebro is 22 feet above normal. Heavy rains are responsible for the rise of the Ebro. Roads and railways in the Gov- ernment territory to the north are flooded and great damage is being done. The rain has filled the trenches, driving the Valencia troops to| higher ground. Hostilities are disrupted. DECISIONIN | CLARK GABLE | CASE CHANGED Woman NoEilty of Mail Fraud But *‘Specie of Blackmail” SAN FRANGISCO, Cal., Oct. 20. —The Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed the conviction of Violet| New Expedition from Moscow To Search for Missing Fliers MOSCOW, Oct. 20.—Four large|tion which relieve$ that headed by planes equipped for flying in the Pilot Sherveleff, who has been Polar night, are to be entrusted for |searching since September 10. the search mission for the six miss-| The four planes commanded by ing Soviet fliers. Sherveleff have been recalled but Ivan Chukhnovisky, veteran avia-|he remains on Rudolph Island to co- tor, is in charge of the new expedi- operate with Chukhnovisky. 9 Maore Bodies Are Recovered, Mingfxplusinn Death Toll Now 14—All Men in Workings At Time Accounted For ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 29. —The bodies of Pete Olson and Joe Lucas have been recovered from the tunnel of the Evan Jones coal mine. This raises the death toll of the explosion to 14 and accounts for all those in the mine at the time on the day shift. Hallowee"n Is fo - Be Celebrated | At Mgn_y Parties Jack-o-Lantern Holiday]| Events Are Already Starting RIVER WATERS OF OHIO HIGH; AREA FLOODED Monongahela Also on Ram- page But Cool' Weath- er May Check PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 29. Flood waters at the watersheds of| rivers in West Virginia and west- ern Pennsylvania that rolled down the Ohio river have been checked by the cold wave. Several days of heavy rains, how- ever, have sent the Monongahela past the 27-foot stage. The river is expected to rise six inches more | before receding. The Weather Bureau sald the danger of flood in the “Golden Tri- angle” has passed. 2 SPECIAL MEN BEING SENT HERE ON STAMP SALE Soapy windows, ringing door bells, BRIT. PREMIER ATTACKED BY LABOR LEADER Tells Minister to Display Some “‘Roosevelt Spirit” it LONDON, Oct. 29.—Herbert Mor- rison, Labor leader, presented a motion of “lack of confidence” in Premier Chamberlain’s Govern- INTERVENTION | America’s IN SPAIN WAR —— |your eyes on the International din Germany and Rus‘sia BlOCklm the moment, turn back the clock 64 |twenty-odd years, and you glimpse Proceedings on Bel- | Woodrow Wilson trying to assert ligerent Rights By MORGAN W. BEATTY ’,Amm'lca‘s rights in the community |of nations without taking sides in a war. LONDON, Oct. 20.—Germany and| Everybody knows now that he Russia forced the subcommittee of failed in that effort, and America the Spanish Intervention Commit- moved inevitably into the World tee into a new and tighter dead- conflict. ment which he charged with pur- suing a policy of isolation and “run- ning the risk of drifting into first| class war against a first class| power.” 4 Morrison charged that the Pre-| mier is a “man who has passed the' crude mercantile class outlook” and he urged Ministers to make spooches‘ in the “Roosevelt spirit, calling the world to a great crusade for peace, economic and social cooperation, | “|hoping that those speeches will fil-! ter through to the peoples of Fas- cist states. U. S. Takes Tip From Britain | LONDON, Oct. 29.—When Amer- ica takes its voluntary unemploy- ment census it will be borrowing a page from the British. British un- employed register every week at one of the some 2,000 government offices. The weekly registration keeps the government posted and guides employment offices. The October 4 report showed 1,090,967 wholly unemployed, 191- | | | | {737 temporarily unemployed, and 56,500 normally in casual employ- Wells Norton for mail fraud in con- nection with a letter she sent to Clark Gable. The woman was convicted on the basis of the letter the Prosecution charged she sent Gable from Mani-| qy, gpecial representatives of the toba, Canada, naming him the fa-| postoffice Department are being ther of her daughter Gwer_ldolm. sent here from Washington, D. O The court held the letter did nob|¢, g4 postmaster Albert Wile and come under the statute concerning staff In handling the greatly in- :"“il fraudr bu::orl: :l;swa Asme';z‘creased business which is resulting o coerce or extort And Was & SPECe from the Alaska stamp. The rep- of blackmall resentatives are leaving Seattle to- Washington Dispatches Representatives to Aid Postmaster with Stamp — o i “nnd eerie howlings will reign un- (contested over the week-end — as Hallowe'en, armed with its black cats and pumpkins, takes hold of Capital City activities. Dozens of children’s parties are jto be held in Juneau tonight and tomorrow, with apple ducking, skel- eton games, and black cat mystery contests to be the order of the |evening. | Among the many parties sched- uled will be the one at which Al- thea Rands, daughter of Mr. and iment, making a total of 1,339,204. |This was an increase of 30,000 over August 23 but a decrease of 236,- 000 over Sept. 21, 1936. BUDGET BALANCE CENTERS AROUND lock today. But the same broad question that Joachim von Ribbentrop, Ger-|faced Wilson in 1914 faces Roose- man representative, again declared velt today: that granting belligerent rights is| How can America remain at essential as a preliminary condition peace? to withdrawel of foreign volun-| Nobody can answer that question, teers in the Spanish Civil War. lof course, but there are similarities Russia insisted that withdrawal and difference in the world situation of the bulk of the foreigners should |in 1914 and in 1937 that will help be ordered before belligerent rights| Roosevelt chart a course for are granted. | United States. his means the committee cannot| Today the big powers of the world proceed further. lare rapidly rearming themselves B, !with new and terrible machines of = | war, just as they were in 1914, In those days the nations were just |paratively new machine-gun, air- | plane, Zeppelin and submarine. To- wn a es |day they're experimenting with re- ‘tm('d samples of the same things . |—“flying fortresses,” “pocket bat- Dlas s“ddanlv tleships,” and “motorized armies.” . eoe | Stage Differently Set 1 L | And then, as now the President R. P. Hill, Democrat of Ok- |, forced to divert his attention lahoma_ PaSSES Away frequently from the domestic politi- H A k cal scene—a scene in which he pre- —reart ttac ferred to operate. Wilson preached |the “new freedom”; Roosevelt up- OKLAHOMA CITY, Oct. 29. — holds the “New Deal.” R. P. Hill, Democratic Congressman | yp 1914, the Balkan war was fresh- from the Fifth Oklahoma Congres- |y recorded on the pages of history sional district died today as Lhe‘_a sinister prelude of what was to| resilt of a sudden heart attack. come. What can be said today of Congressman Hill is one of the ghe conquest of Ethiopia, the Span- few men who ever represented tWoO ish Civil War, and the Sino-Japan- states in Congress. He was first gge warfare in the Orient? elected in the Illinois Twenty-First, again nobody knows the answer. district in 1912. Later he came t0 A5 g matter of fact, when we ask Oklahoma and was sent to CON-|that question we come to the end| gress from this state. of possible similarities between tur-| - e bulent 1914 and equally dislurbed‘ M d ch 1937. { The common props on the inter- Holding Woma Foreig Just What Does It Mean? the S SHELLED T0 DEATH, CHINA on Policy; cies of peace. And the signers of those actually at war without so much as breaking off formal relations with each other or formally declar- yet some of treaties are {ing hostilities. And where does this confused sit- uation leave President Roosevelt in his announced desire to fashion an American foreign policy with peace as the keystone? . Treaties Broken First of all Roosevelt was in Wilson's Cabinet as an Assistant Secretary of the Navy. He says himself that he learned in Wilson's troubled day some of the things to do, and other things “not to do.” He knows: America did not save the world for democracy even though she entered the World War to at- tain that ideal. The League of Nations, as now set up, may be a moral force for peace, but it definitely has failed to stop powerful states bent on getting what they want by force. No important peace treaties since the World War—the Kel- log - Briant pact, the Nine- Power pact, the Four-Power Pa- cific treaty, Locarno—has yet prevented some of the nations that signed them from taking up arms against each other. Most post-war International conferences have failed to put the world’s political and econo- mical machinery in a sane bal- ance. The Versailles peace treaty end- ing the World war did not alter human nature, it merely redrew the world map, and, some im- partial observers think it is a breeder of war. A revised Monroe - doctrine which puts all American repub- licts on an even footing is the topmost star in the American diplomatic crown. The “open door” for trade in| China for all nations may or may not be open the next time we take hold of its latch, B Moral Boycott Therefore the President has turn- ed to a new instrument—a moral boycott against war-makers. His State Department has told the League of Nations we are willing to U. S. Business {word to the Postmaster. morrow for Juneau, according toiMrs. Clarence Rands, will entertain | Also the'tomorrow night, a group of 22| first shipment of the new stamps guests. The affair, which will be will leave Seattle tomorrow. They peld at the Rands’ residence, will be go one sale here November 12, one jn celebration of Miss Rands’ birth-| Monroe Doctrine in the Americas, stand up with other peace-loving v '3 RIFLEMEN ARE KILLED AT SHANGHAI |Members OFF_oreign De- tachment Bombed While at Post of Duty |ENGLAND AROUSED OVER NEW ATTACK [Invaders Halted in One Move—Besieged Chinese Still Holding Out BULLETIN — LONDON, Oct. 29.—The greatest indignation is manifest in British official cir- cles over the killing of three Royal Ulster riflemen at Shang- hai, the latest on the lengthen- ing list of British casualties at- tributed to Japanese gunfire. The House of Commons ad- journed for the weekend before the killings became known. Formal comment is withheld pending official report. KILLED BY ARTILLERY SHANGHAI, Oct. 29.—Three Brit- ish Ulster riflemen were killed and several wounded during Japanese shelling of Hungjao, a suburb west of the International Settlement. Many Americans and other for- eigners were also subjected to the shelling and aerial attack between the Chinese and Japanese in the undeclared war. Damage has been caused among the American mission property, also on the British defense lines. One unidentified foreigner and |several Chinese were also killed by ,Japanese shells falling inside the British lines. Seven Chinese non- combatants in the shelled disurict were also killed or wounded. } BRITISH HALT JAPANESE SHANGHAI, Oct. 29. — British military authorities early today halted two Japanese naval launches steaming up the Soochow to attack {the Chinese lost battalion in the !beleaguered Chapei sector. The | Chinese are still firing from ware- houses in the midst of Japanese troops that have them appargntly surrounded. The launches entered that sec- tion of the Soochow which passed through the heart of the Interna- national stage in 1914 were imper- ial governments, the delicate bal-! ance of power between the Central powers and the Entente of Europe, the ‘“opfen door” in China, the PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 29. —Still'and so on, muct as it was in Queen maintaining her innocence and Victoria’s era. complaining of stomach trouble,; But the war changed all that. Mrs. Agnes Ledford remains in the Now we have a League of Nations,| county jail while an investigation We have the labels of Commun- LOW WAGE SCALE President SaysBuying Pow- er of Small Income nations and be counted for peace. | But neither the President nor the| State Depadtment has committed| us to a policy of fighting for peace. tional Settlement. The British re- fused them permission to pass. Pounding Chinese Positions Japanese forces are pounding elsewhere. Postmaster Wile estimates he has in the neighborhood of 150,000 cov- ers in the Postoffice now for can- celling on the day the sale opens and it Is estimated that ihe figure will Tun to more than a quarter of a millisn by November 12. Given Support By Vandenberg, Michigan Senator Address- day before they go on general sale day, Hallowe'en day. | Another affair will be the party tonight at which Sharon and Caro- line Coffey, daughters of Dr. and Mrs. Robert M. Coffey, will be hos- tesses. Fifteen guests will be pres- ent for the event. Miss Betty Mill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Minard Mill will enter- Group Must Be Raised HYDE PARK, Oct. 29.—President |Roosevelt indicated today that bud- 'get balancing studies center around the hopes of increasing the income of between 32 and 40 million per- sons, who, he said now have no into the deaths of her two step- ism, Fascism, and Democracy to daughters and a former husband mark off blocs of world powers, and continued in two counties. -there’s no delicate balance of power The Columbia County sherUf'S:beLween them, merely vague hostil- office said information charging ity and distrust. her with first degree murder in! We have a train of post-war trea- connection with the death on Sep- ties committing the influential pow- tember 8 of Ruth Lepford, he"iers of the earth to national poli- }Nor have they been willing to try; to cut off the supplies of warlikej nations, that is, to carry on an econ- | omic boycott. And that means we are not com- mitted to use force against any na- tion, and we won't use it, unless— well, it is anybdy's guess what would make us go to war. Chinese positions in the Pootung area across the Whangpoo from Shanghai and are prepared for a new offensive on the battleground ad- joining the International Settle- ment. The freighter Steel Traveler nar- rowly escaped shells from Japanese destroyers and airplanes when it es Community Club A special cancelling machine al- tain 16 guests tomorrow evening at Purchasing power. | husband’s daughter by a former docked at the Pootung wharf to ready has been received to aid in her home, where colorful Hallow- | The President told a press con- Meeting the work. \MILES GODKINS TO HONOR MR. CASHEN NOW VISITING HERE GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Oct. 29. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, ad- dressing a meeting of the Com- munity Clubs stated “if legitimate American business doesn’t have a fair chance to survive profitably, none of us has a chance to survive. “It is a fine ideal to shage the wealth. Wealth ought to be shared as widely as possible in a democ- Ishpenning, Mich.,, who arrived in Juneau aboard the Alaska accom- | ‘Welcoming Mr. Frank Cashen of | ference he proposed wages and hours legislation and surplus crop con- itrol measures aimed at boosting the bility of citizens to buy. The Chief Executive made no di- rect comment on the speculation that capital gains and undistribut-} ed surplus taxes be revised, but| said he noted newspaper stories from Washington speculating on| that subject made no reference to| that | e’en' decorations will setting. i At the home of Mrs. B. R. Glass, | Adrienne Glass will entertain a @ !small group of friends this evening, | playing a variety of Hallowe'en ! games. provide the An unusual affair will be the, treasure hunt which will be given| tonight by Miss Virginia Worley,, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. F. Wor- marriage, will be presented to the| grand jury Monday. TWO THOUSAND: ARE T0 STRIKE LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 29. — COLONY PLEA OF MUSSOLINI PEASES NAZI racy. But wealth has to be created before it is shared. “Business has succeeded before and can make jobs. Money must go to work before men go to work.” NEW NATION ESTABLISHED PEIPING, Oct. 28. — Establish- ment of a new independent “Inner Mongolian Nation” in the North- western Chinese provinces, recently conquered by the Japanese Army, has been formally proclaimed at Ke- wisue, Capital of Suiyan Province. Prince Teh Mongol, a prince long associated with the Japanese ex- pansionists schemes, has been nan.ed head of the new state. Governor Troy Boosts Coast Air Mail Route SEATTLE, Oct. 29.—Gov. John W. Troy, of Alaska said he favors making Seattle and Juneau ter- minals of the proposed air mail route. He said he believed the coast route is the most logical although the inland route is ‘better than none at all.” panying Mrs. William Franks north, Mr. and Mrs. Miles Godkins will entertain this evening at their home entertaining a large group of rela- tives. Mr. Cashen is the brother of Mrs. Franks and the uncle of Mrs. ley. The affair will assemble a; dozen guests, and upon the success- ful conclusion of the hunt, the group will play Hallowe'en games at the! portion of the population|s strike of 2000 Pacific Electric which has very little money on Rajlway trainmen and bus drivers, which to live. The President said serving 250 Southern California he was struck by the fact that all communities, has been ordered for ¥peculation was from the view-/next Tuesday. Higher wages and a point of people who have and not|change in working hours are the de- from the viewpoint of those who, German Press Says Marks Another Gain in Drive for Islands BERLIN, Oct. 29.—The German have a low standard of living. e e——— Gold Hunters Now | Doing Other Work AUBURN, Cal, Oct. 29. — The army of gold hunters who went | into the hills during the depression, partly because gold was $35 an| ounce and partly because they had no other jobs, is gradually dwin- dling So says Stuart Schwab, Towa Hill storekeeper, who used to buy $500 worth of gold dust a week. Now his weekly trade is less than $100. - eee Of the 48 States, 28 had sterili- zation laws of some kind in 193 Most of the persons sterilized in this country have been insane or feeble- minded. Only about five per cent have been criminals. Worley apartment. - | . Mothers Signto | Previous to the party tonight, a small dinner gathering will honor' Jerry Godkins upon the occasion| of his birthday. Hallowe’en decora-| Lear“ Tap na“cg‘ tions will form a colorful setting “3 the Godkins home for the evening. NEW ORK, Oct. 29.—Parents in ‘ ' |suburban Maspeth believe in keep- New Grucel’ Bu |ing up with the younger genera- |tion—and how! The Parent-Teach- 4 ‘er Association announced twenty mothers have enrolled to be taught Legacy Puzz““ tap dancing and a dozen fathers have signed up for basketball. The 'fathers and mothers also will rol- KENNETT SQUARE, Pa., Oct. 29. ler skate. —The will of Mrs. Stella H. Tingley, . proved a headache to Chester Coun- ty legal authorities. ‘SILVER WAVE lN 1t contained bequests of $300 each | FROM LYNN CANAL to the “ice man” and *milkman”; | $150 to the “laundryman”; $100 to The shuttle-ship Silver Wave, re- “the cdlored lady” and $50 to the tyrned from Skagway today with “new grocery boy.” Itwo passengers from the head of The task of identifying them was Lynn Canal. They were Lyman up to the court. Ritter and Mary Dolan from Skag- - eee 'way. The medicinal waters of the Sara-j This afternoon, Capt. M. B. Dahl toga Spa, New York, have been fa- and Purser George Davis were mous since the time of the Revo- scheduled to make the northbound lution. trip to Haines ond Skagway. Income tax receipts constituted 35 per cent of Federal revenue in the fiscal year 1936. mands presented. ———ll VAN VLACK T0 DIE, SCAFFOLD TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Oct. 20.— Douglas Van Vlack, 33, of Tacoma, Wash., slayer of his former wife, during a kidnap attempt, and two policemen, two years ago, today heard that he was sentenced to die on the gallows December 16. He evaded two previous attempts at going to his death by legal phas- es. ————,—— This Is 0dd; Divorce Plea Turned Down ROGERSVILLE, Tenn., Oct. 29.— Chancelior George McCandless has dismissed the petition of Mrs. Ellen Jones, 83, to divorce her husband, William Jones, 84, who were mar- ried 57 years ago. press hailed the support of Premier Mussolini to the Nazi claims to colo- nies lost as the result of the World War and said this marked another gain in the Reich’s drive for the re- turn of the lost possessions. The press also took advantage of the notice of the changing atti- tude of the English press toward “respect for German Colonial argu- ments,” In Rome yesterday, Mussolini said “it is necessary that Germany be restored to her place in the Afri- can sun.” TWILLING TO MANAGE OAKS OAKLAND, Cal, Oct. 20—E. W./ “Dutch” Zwilling has been named manager of the Oakland team of lthe Pacific Coast League, replacing | Bill Meyer who will take up Zwil- ling's duties as pilot of the Kansas City Club of the American Asso- ,ciation, MME. CHIANG IS INJURED IN AUTO ACCIDENT Wife of Head of Chinese Government Suffers Broken Rib, Shock SHANGHAI, Oct. 29.—An injury to Mme. Chiang Kai Shek in an automobile accident while traveling between Nanking and Shanghai last Saturday is disclosed. She suffered a fractured rib and also suffers from shock. Mme. Chiang is the Wellesley Col- lege (United States) educated wife of the head of the Chinese Govern- ment and herself Secretary-Gen- eral of the Chinese Air Force. AUTOS COLLIDE HEADON:5 DEAD VINTON, Iowa, Oct. 29.—8ix per- sons were killed and three injured in a headon collision of two auto- mobiles near here last night. The dead are Mrs. Raymond Brown, of Cedar Rapids, Towa; Marie Lee Brown, aged 3, Mrs |Brown’s daughter; Mrs. O. A. New- ton, Mrs. Bud Shaw, Mrs. Harry Newton, all of Grundy Center, Ta. and John Roach, of Vinton. discharge a cargo of steel. ATTA BOY, CHINA BOY NANKING, Oct. 29.—Members of the Chinese Cabinet are apparently unperturbed by the Chinese evacua- tion of the Chapei area at Shang- hai. Cabineteers declared that de- fenses inland are prepared and China can hold out against Japan for five years if necessary. JAPAN TO TALK WITH CHINA ON ENDING STRIFE That Is If Head of Invaded Land Makes Such Request TOKYO, Oct. 20.—The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said Ja- pan will not hesitate to enter ne- gotiations to end the conflict in China if China proposes such talks directly to Japan. The spokesman said the main thing is “to persuade the Chinese to change their attitude and aban- don anti-Japanese policies.” Death Hangs On Door Handle Of Automobile SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 29. —Mary Lee Moses, 27, San Francisco artist, died a few hours after her skull was pierces by an automobile door handle. She walked into the side of the car. |