The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. L., NO. 7627. ]UN[;AU ALASKA SATURDAY OCTOBE.R 30 1937 ME.MB[;R ASSOCIA]LD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CHINA'S “LOST BATTALION” IS DISARMED * * * Japanes * * * * * * »* * * * * * - * * * » SPANISH GOVT. FORCES DEFEAT INSURGENT BAND Gen. Fran;o_'s Attacking Army, Near Madrid, Beaten Back LONDON, Oct. 30. — A Spanish Government communique received here by radio said the Insurgent surprise attack on the Guadalajara front, northeast of Madrid, has been beaten back. The communique says the rebels suffered heavy losses. Gen. Franco’s troops were driven| back and down into their trenches,| leaving a great number dead and | wounded on the battlefield. e AMBASSADOR OF ITALY TO PARIS,LEAVES Strained Relations Indicat- ed Between Two Nations PARIS, Oct. 30.—Italian sources said Vittorio Cerruti, Italian Am-| bassador to France would leave France tomorrow on “leave of ab- sence” and diplomatic circles ex-| By SIGRID ARNE AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—Behind closed doors here theres some very| vehement fingernail biting going on because 15 years ago the finger- nail-biters were ignoring two ladies | they very much wish they hadn’t. One is the Duchess of Windsor, and the other is her aunt, Mrs. Bu- chanan “Aunt Bessie” Merryman. Fifteen years ago the Duchess |was just part of Washington’s so- cial fringe a pretty, brown-haired, |young woman whose husband, a na- |val officer, had left her. She was! |invited around some on the gold-' coast but mostly because her second |cousin was the wealthy Mrs. George | |Barnett, wife of the one-time com- |mandant of the Marine Corps. The Duchess's aunt, Mrs. Mer- {ryman, has always “lived a very | quiet life.” She still keeps a small,| five-room apartment on a side; |street. And so now the Duke and Duch- ess of Windsor are coming to Amer-“ |ica; to Baltimore, Washington and! | Virginia where once the Duchess| had some hard social sledding. Embassy Plans Watched The really big question of the day is, “What will the British Embassy do”? In Washington lingo that means, “Will the British Ambassador, Sir Ronald Lindsay ,and his wife, Lady| Lindsay (one of the Oyster Bay Hoyts) invite the Windsors to the | Embassy. It is understood the Em- bassy must wait for a “Go ahead” Wally’s New Ratmg in Of United States National Ca pital City Jittery ociety Has Hostesses They Didn't Know Her... ...THEN signal from London. But if the pressed beliefs that this meant a|signal comes, the affair will be as| more serious turn in the already royal as anything at Buckinghom. strained Franco-Italio relations. | The Embassy is a huge and austere Ttalians here said the Ambassa- building, and Lady Lindsay®:an take dor was going for a holiday of “more her royalty or leave it. or less duration.” | If the Embassy entertains, the There is also another reason, it is social flood-gates will swing wide- said. France has not supplied an\open Other Embassies will dust off | Ambassador to Rome and left only their footman and light up like| a charge d’ affairs representative birthday cakes. there. i | Here and there a hostess with| PAJAMA cLAD |a large enough house and gilt-edged |social standing will turn up in the {line of people sending out engrav-| led invitations to meet ‘“Their | Highnesses, |the Duke and Duchess | |of Windsor. i And, of course, there will be the' omcml entertaining by Govern- ' FOUl’ld n Huntlng Cabm mem heads, and the parties by members of the Duchess's family. Rifle by Side—Com- ‘ May Meet Lewis panion Held ‘ Her family is led off socially by| ' _ {Mrs. Barnett who gave the young SALTE STE. MARIE, Ontario, wallis Warfield, of Baltimore, her Oct. 30.—Vernon Spencer, 40, of|coming-out party. And it is at her| Wixson, Michigan, is held as a ma-|virginia estate, Wakefigld Manor, | terial witness in the death of preny‘m miles south of w%hfing:on, that Helen Grier, 27-year-old stenograph|the Windsors are expected to visit. er, in a northern hunting cottage.| The White House is expected to| The pajama-clad body of the wo-|lead off the official entertammg—— man was fourd with a bullet wound|if any. Mrs. Cordell Hull, wife of in the head and rifle by her side. |the Secretary of State, is expected | Authorities said the wound Was!to follow. While next in line would ' not self-inflicted. |be Mrs. Summer Welles, wife of Spencer said he and the girl oc-|the Assistant Secretary of State. cupied the cabin while on a hunt-| ing trip. Mrs. Sumner Welles Her white Colonial nome filled with fine antiques should certainly be adequate seiting for the meeting of |Windsor and Lewis. And Windsor And could it be that the modest, has announced he wants to meet one-time school teacher who is now | Lewis. of John L. Lewis, the labor ing Wabhmgton hostesses cmlly is, Mrs. Johfi L Lewis | Will the Duke, who says he is com- ing here to study housing and la- bor conditions, turn “thumbs down on all parties? Or, will the Duchess have the say if there is entertain- |ing? She’s American, you know, One other question that is keep- and the United States is her home- F land. CCC'S WORKING ON THREE JOBS Approximately 65 Civilian Con—‘ servation Corps workers are engag- ed in construction work on three | projects in the Juneau district at! present. |Fernch Leglon in Command| Twenty-five Indians making up‘ an Tndlari OO0 cande Bee batlasly Of F_’rmcnpal Cities in Morocco the Point Lena truck trail; 10 cCC men are working on the Douglas| Ski Trail, and a crew of 30 is work- | ing on the Montana Creek road. The Montana Creek road, under the supervision of Bill Frombholz, | 1leader may play hostess to the pair? | | | ARAB REVOLT National Guard Raising of Status [s Because of “Militarism” in World MONTGOMERY, Ala., Oct. 30. — The National Guard Association of the United States has called for im- mediate increase in the Guard’s CASE BLANCA, French Morocco, | |Oct. 30.—The French Legion has es- tablished military control in the| Increase Suughtl has now reached the Ross cabin about three miles from the camp on Montana Creek. It is intended to extend the spur as far as Mc- Ginnis Creek before the first of the year. FUMES KILL 4 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Oct. 30. Faulty operation of an illicit whiskey | still is held by police and firemen | as the cause of death of four as fumes swept their dwelling early this morning. A man, wife and two daughters are the victims, apparently over- come by the fumes. |streets of Morocco’s chief cities to crush what is said to be a National-| | enlisted ranks “due to a spirit of | miiitarism throughout the world.” The current strength of the Na- | tional Guard is less than 200,000. ist plot to overthrow the French| Protectorate and set up an inde- pendent Arab kingdom. Yesterday the Arabs made at- tacks on the French Legion and many on both sides were killed. | BI MERGER i Today the Arabs are controlled | and arms are being confiscated. . | BAR ASSOCIATION MEETS | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., . |—Consolidation of three Pacific | Northwest pulp companies under A regular meeting of the Juneau the name of “Rayonier, Inc.” has Bar Association was held this noon been approved by the stockholders |at Percys Cafe, with Judge H. B. of the Rainier Pulp and Paper Com- |LeFevre presiding. Informal dis-|pany, Grays Harbor Pulp and Pa- cussion marked the luncheon gath-| per Compepy and Olympic Forest ering. Products, Oct. 30.| (COMMUNISTIC INVESTIGATION at Work on “Influences” Merchant Marine to Be Probed WASHINTON, Oct. 30. — Chair- man Royal Copeland of the Se ate Commerce Committee, took pre- limniary steps today to investigate what he called “Communistic | fluences’ at work on some American | ships. } Chairman Copeland mentioned |the recent strike of the merchant marine vessel Algic which he sald was “mutiny. e MRS. SULLIVAN R Mrs. O. S. Sullivan is dboarri | Northland for her Juneau home after a visit in the States. She I the wife of the Internal Reyvinic Bureau agent in Juneau. — e An average of 15,21 6 boys girls were in school cach d the 1933-34 term in 41 of the ;Stules. 1- in- NG MOONEY PLEA TURNED DOWN, STATE COURT Highest Trlbunal i’ Cali- fornia Rejects Writ of Habeas Corpus | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 30.— The California Supreme Court has denied Thomas J. Mooney's plea for | freedom on a writ of habeas corpus. | The decision was 5 to 4. | Chief Justice Waite said: “The | court concluded that Mooney failed | to establish substantial or even| | credible evidence that his convic- | tion was the result of perjury on the part of witnesses for the prostcu- tion.” e ONE THOUSAND ARE DROWNED NEAR DAMASCUS | Ten Thousand Are Reporl— ed Homeless in Flood- | 1 ed Sections PARIS, Oct. 30.—More than 1,000 |persons have been .drowned in| ¢ floods northeast of Damascus. Ten thousand, at least, are home- | less. | Several villages are known to have been destroyed. The greatest losses are in the re- gion from Damascus, 35 miles north- east toward Alleppo, Palmyra and Bagdad | Five hundred are missing and be- lieved to have been drowned at Dmeir on the Alleppo road. French troops have rushed medi- | cal supplies to t#Z devastated region. | The floods have been caused bv repeated cloudbursts. LA GUARDIA IS . BEING WATCHE NEW YORK RACE Mayoralty Campaign Push- ing Him in National Prominence This is the first of a series of articles in which Preston Grov- er, Washington columnist, will | analyze the New York mayor- alty campaign as a segment of the national political picture. | By PRESTON GROVER | NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—Win or lose iorello H. Guardia appears| likely to be pushed by this mayor- alty campaign into a position of national prominence. | Just where he will land nation-| ally is anybody's guess. The Dem-) ocratic organization in New York| City is opposing him, even lhoug,h‘ he has been stamped as pro-New | Deal and has been kindly served by the National Administration. The Republican city organiza- | tion is concededly hooking itself to his popularity mainly for what it can get out of it in the way of party build-up. While always AConunued on Page Eughn She’ll Be Tommy’s N 0. - l in Reno. ALRIGHT—LETER GO—THEY CAN WED NOW Oct. 30.—Marcelle Edwards, the former BULLETIN—RENO, Nev., Nina Pierson is scheduled to become Tommy Manville's No. 4 wife, as soon as No. 3 wife, the former Marcelle Edwards, obtains a divorce Nina and the asbestos heir are shown whiling away the time at Tommy’s suburban home in New Rochelle, N. ¥., while wait- ing for Marcelle to shed her matrimonial bonds. * * * » * * * e Make Charges Against British CHINA FORGE, CHAPE! AREA, WALKS FORTH Annihilatlor:—:f— Brave De- fenders Prevented Final Hour NIPPON AROUSING GT. BRITAIN'S IRE Claim Made Chinsee Being Aided in Present Conflict in Orient BULLETIN — SHANGHAI, Oct. 30.—The British police re- ports that China's famous “lost battalion” in devastated Cha- pei is laying down all arms and will soon come into the In- ternational Settlement sanctu- ary. The surrender is said to be the Tresult of urging of foreign Consul Generals who sought to end the situation considered dangerous to the International Settlement. The Chinese will be disarmed and will not be permitted to par- ticipate further in hostilities. This is under the terms of the internment. The “lost battalion” is the remnant of the Chinese defen- ders _in the Chapei sector and they are surrounded by Japan- ese bent on mowing them down. New York showgirl, has given the self-styled blonde Thomas, Franklin Tommy Manville, Jr., his freedom from his fourth wife at a reported BOMBARDMENT STARTED 142, a farmer; | strong, 45, of the Clerk of turning to Juneau aboard the Yukon price of $200,000. fourth wife. or cash settlements. Three Killed, Three Injured; Road Accldenl GIVE UP SECRET Aulomobne Coilides with | Hrdllcka Flnds Evidence of Semi-trailer of Cat- tle Truck LIVERMORE, Ohio, Oct. 30. |Three persons were killed and three | historic an |possessed an amazingly high degree auto collided with a semi-trailer of |of |a cattle truck severely hurt last night when Twenty of the animals dumped out. The dead are were Seward Thornton, Mrs. Charles Arm- his sister-in-law, and | Miss Fern Hewitt, 19, Armstrong’s employee. Mrs, Thornton and two sons, and 17, were seriously injured. e, Trapped Miners Are All Saved VVALENCINNES, France, Oct. 30 —=8Seven miners, trapped 60 feet un- derground by a cave-in, were res- cued this forenoon by their com- rades who burrowed all night long L eee MISS McLEOD DUE Miss Peggy McLeod, in the office the Court, is re- 15 following a trip to the States. She obtained her divorce yesterday as Manville's Each previous wife is reported to have won large alimony He is the ashestos heir. SHANGHAI, Oct, 30.—The Jap- anese, at dawn today, began a me- thodical bombardment of the ware- houses in which China’s “lost bat- talion” still hold in the blackened Chapei sector. This bombardment is a prelude to the assault on the defiant citadel with 4756 military guns mounted 100 yards away. The Japanese artillery began slowly, firing shells in an attempt to batter holes in the warehouses through which a hand grenade charge could be made. HOT CAVERNS IN 'ALEUTIAN CHAIN (Continued on Pnge”rhrce) U. WASHINGTON MEETS IDAHO SEATLE, Oct. 30.—Idaho took a High Early-day Al- askan Culture WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — Pre- peoples in Alaska once civilization, recent findings in i strange Aleutian Island caves have "l”‘tomz lfad‘ A tZe tum :;ry ‘;‘ proved, according to Dr. Ales Hrd- {7287 nEUORS S0cORC WM (H BF licka, well-known archaeologist- | cr00R, late in fthe first quarter. circled the right a Knapp, left end, end from the 10-yard line for touchdown. Washington scored earlier on a safety, downing the Idaho man be- hind their own goal line. anthropologist Dr. Hrdlicka contended that the} existence of the vanished race has been proved by unprecedented dis- coveries In a “hot cave” in an Aleu- tian Island known as “the island of four volcanoes.” The discoveries include weaving,| FOOT BALL ceremonial clothing, ivory carvings| and - many other well-developed forms of art manufacture. BES@& Ifi‘g This long dead race, according to the famed student of early Alas- kan peoples, once covered all of the |Territory, its seafaring warriors |navigating the ice of northern wa- ters, making war with enemies, and trading wsh friends, S eee Hunted Gangster The following are final scores of several principal football games played this afternoon: Harvard 34; Fordham 6. Cornell 14; Columbia 0. Pennsylvania 14; Navy 7. Michigan State 16, Kansas 0. Yale 9, Dartmout 9, tie. Pittsburgh 25; Carnegie Tech 14. Northwestern 14; Wisconsin 6. Syracuse 19; Penn State 13. Notre Dame 7; Minnesota 6. Fordham 14; North Carolina 0. Santa Clart 39; Marquette 0. e |Ice Grips Interior Is Under Arrest Frank Bird Is Captured by Klds Are (rwen Warnln o, Federals—Not One the '} Hallowe’en Qver Toni ht Hallowe'en is over tonight. This is a final warning, given by Chief of Police Dan Ralston to all s, youngsters and “Soaping of windows, etc., will not be tolerated after tonight and that means just what il says,” de- lared the Chief. “The kids began almost a week carlier than usual to do their stunts Merchants have been required to wash their windows every morning since last Monday. There have | oldsters. been scores of complaints and not only from the merchants but resi- dents also are complaining about ringing of door bells, ect., in some instances this nuisance starting even last Sunday night off after tonight, and not only paddling but also the bastile awaits those guilty of any more celebrating after tonight, and the force has so been instructed. Several special policemen, including high school boys, are on the extra force to in- sure enforcement of the order.” 8o it is all a Nine Days Earlier Shl.)l F}red Thav:Lact Yaar CLEVELAND, Ohlo, Oct. 30.—The — Department of Justice announces| The Interior is frozen in. That is the capture of Frank Bird, nation-|the word received by the Weather ally Hunted gangster. |Bureau here today. No shots were fired as the Federal Chena Slough at Fairbanks was agents surprised Bird and his little frozen from bank to bank this band in a house which they had morning with the temperature at watched for a couple of days. Bird is one of the notorlous Bird 8 o'clock being 4 degrees above zero. This year’s freeze comes nine days \brothers. They are at the head of earlier than last year, when the |the Government's wanted list |Chena froze over on November 8. - > | also Anchorage reported that The head waiter in many London there was 1'¢ inches of ice on Lake restaurants greets you in full dress Spenard this morning, which means —whether it is breakfast, lunch or the end of seaplane work at that dinner. airport for the winter,