The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7644, ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 193 NORTH SEA, ALASKA, TIED UP AT SEATTLE TOKYO CRACKS DEFENDERS' LINE IN MANY PLACES Push Indicates Nanking Government Will Soon Have to Move NIPPONESE CAPTURE STRATEGIC KASHING U.S. and mr Embassies Prepared to Follow in Official Move SHANGHAI, Nov. 19. — Japanese troops tos cracked the southern pivot of the Chinese line defending Nanking and struck blows along its central and northern fronts, fight- ing through rain and mud. The Japanese drove the last de- fenders from Kashing and occu- pied a vital southern link in the “Hindenburg” chain.. Central Jap- anese columns approached to with- in three miles of the Soochow lines, keystone of the northern detach- ments and threatened to make un- tenable Chinese positions at Chang- shu 125 miles northwest of the line. Twelve Chinese divisions under veteran General Tang Shen Chi en- trenched themselves in strong de- fense positions just outside of Nan- king, and an official Nanking spokesman said they were prepared to defend the city “to the last.” The United States and other for- eign embassies have completed ar- Y ements to evacuate Nanking and follow the Chinese foreign office to Hankow as soon as the Chinese officially announce their shift. R e PLOT TO KILL MEXICAN PRES. Japanese Drive on Toward Chines | i ,‘ It’s | Favorite | | At long last the Alaska fly-fishing \secret is to be exposed to public knowledge. That silent code of the north which has left wealthy sportsmen |from the States standing on a stream bank tearing their hair and ready to throw away their expensive |tackle while they watched an Alas- |kan with a simple rod flip a fly jacross the rapids only to have a slashing rainbow grab it almost be- |fore it hit the water is to be decod- ed. The trick is not in the quality of |the rod; not in the wrist action of the fishermen. No, devotees of Is- aac Walton, it's in that fly that |touches the water caressingly and lures the fighting trout to action. In brief, it is the “Alaska Mary Ann.” Has Romantic History What the Parmachene Belle has been to fly fishing in Maine, what the Yellow Sally has been to Mich- igan and the Roy Coachman to Califor the Mary Ann is to the {few Alaska fly fishermen who have been initiated into its secrets. And they have been few, for the Mary {Ann has never hit the commercial {trade, though it is destined to de {so for the first time next spring {Samples of the fly are being sent 'to the lsading fly manufacturers of |the country and it is anticipated |they will be in the spring fly cata- {logues of those concerns. i The Alaska Mary Ann is a fly of romantic history dating back to (an ancestor among the Eskimos of !the Kobuk. These native fishermen lused a hook on a piece of ivory to {which they attached polar bear hairs. It was large and not used |for surface fishing but more as bait The success with which the Eskimos |dragged out the trout with their {home-made wooden poles and un- lusual bait aroused the curiosity of \white fishermen, among them being Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Com- |mission, who was then stationed iat Nome as representative of the "Biological Survey. Alaska Mary Gets Them When All Other Ann that s Fail to Lure efforts resulted in what came to be known in the far north as the “Po- lar Bear fly.” It wasn't anything very delicate in the way of a trout fly, but it caught fish; and how it caught fish. Dufresne and a few of his friends kept making chang- es until today there has emerged from that Kobuk bait and “Polar Bear fly” a beautiful little fly lure known to the few initiates as the “Alaska Mary Ann. How the name originated is a little vague, but the report is that a fish- erman standing on the banks of Marten Creek in Southeast Alaska flipped one of the flies out on the water and instantly a big rainbow struck. After landing the 20-inch- er he was asked by a companion thow he liked the fly and is report- ed to have replied, “that’s the Mary Ann,” and Alaska Mary Ann, the previously nameless fly, has come to be. Wet and Dry Made in both the wet and dry model, the wet Mary Ann has an old ivory colored body with spir- aled silver tinsel winding and a fleck of a red tail. ackle body. In appearance it shapes up among the best in the fly box. ' might be just as well to pass along a few tips to those sportsmen from the Outside as well as Alaska who have experienced those days when rainbows seemed elusive, the cut-| throat appeared to have vanished or | the sturdy steelhead just was not interested. | “Those are the kind of days when | Mary Ann does her stuff,” says| fly fisherman Dufresne, the man who first tied one. “I've fished a great many of the streams and lakes of Alaska, during the last 20 years,” commented the angler, ‘from the far north to the South- east, and I've got the first one to see yet where old Mary Ann would- n't do the business. Why even you could catch a trout with a Mary Ann.” depots of secret military organiza- Its dry sister is simi- |police lar but bi-visible with a polar bear|as to the source of some vast sup- Now that the secret is out, it|gun and 800 cartridges. of the truck is under arrest. FASCIST PLOT | IS UNEARTHED, FRENCH NATION Secret Police Are Making| Searching Investigation | —Arms Discovered | BULLETIN — PARIS, Nov. | 19.—Premier Chautemp's Gov- ernment late today won a vote of confidence by 380 to 110 on pledges to crush armed enemies within France and also “limit” war abroad. PARIS, Nov. 19. — Communist members of the Chamber of Depu- | ties have voted to ask Minister of| Interior Dormoy to tell Parlia- | ment about what they call a “Fas-| cist plot against the security of the| state.” This action was taken as Agents of the Surett National extended an| inquiry to three more French cities| in an effort to ferret out arms tions and smash the conspiracy. The investigation assumed an in- ternational character when French asked the Swiss authorities | plies or arms already seized | The authorities at Lille seized one| truck containing a sub-machine The driver TRADE TREATY WITH CA NADA NOW PROPOSE Changes Contemplated in New Pact — Going After Brit. Business WASHINGTON, ;D&. 19. — The State Department is setting out on its most ambitious efforts to in- A ef Philip Piner, 2, of Pacific Grove, Open Pin in Boy’s Stomach Baffles Doctors Doctors considered the advisability of another oper: { MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS tien to remove an open safe Cal,, who was crilically ill in San Francisco. An earlier operation had pin from the stomach to be stopped because the child’s heart fluttered. Siice the X-ray at left was made, the pin was pushed into Philip’s stomach. With him in the other picturs BELL REFUSES TO COMMENT ON UNION CHARCES Dimond and Schwellenbach i Conference with | State Dept. WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—- of Fisheries Commissioner F Bell has declined to comment on| reports that the All Alaska—All La- bor Union Convention at Juneau has charged him and his Alaska Agent L. C. Wingard with ignoring the s Nurse Grayce Lamprecht. ‘ agda Barred from US V'SAi[mss OF — (tion system. " PRICE TEN CENTS e Capital TWO STEAMERS FOR ALASKADELAYED Crew of Alkska Steamship Liner Are Being Paid Off Today 'NORTH SEA IS STILL " HELD AT HER WHARF Union Meeting Is Called to ‘ Consider Refusal | of Demands | | | | The marine strike at Seattle held the Alaska idle today on the even- |ing of her scheduled sailing to- |morrow morning, according to an | Assoctated Press dispatch to The | Empire this afternoon. The North Sea, scheduled to have cafled at 10 o'clock this forenoon, is also idle, tied up at the whart, A union meeting has been called to consider the refusal of the Al- aska Steamship Company and the Northland Company on demands of the Marine Cooks and Stewards As- |sociation that all association men lon the Alaska ships work on a rota- The steamship offie~ |lals have turned this demand down tlatly and further state that in the ‘!murmme agreement there is a |clause “allowing thé companies to |employ the men in the steward's department permanently, if they are satisfied. The Associated Press dispatch sald the crew .of the Alaska is being ! paid off as the demands of the un- |lon have been rejected. L. W. Baker, of the Traffic De- (partment of the Alaska Steamship | Company, said the demands have ‘m:t-n refused and added that the | Alaska would not sail on schedule tomorrow “if at all” No cargo had been loaded aboard \ | i | the Alaska, | Commission ‘men have been in- jstructed to haul their perishable freight from the docks as “sailings (for Alaska aré indefinite.” | NIPPED IN BUD | Twenty Persons Reported, Right then this reporter decided to expose the secret of Alaska’s secret fly. So there you are, fish- Polar Bear Origin | Dufresne, a dyed-in-the-wool fly! fishermen, examined closely the American-Japanese fishing contro- | versy in Bristol Bay. { Alaska Delegate A. J. Dimond crease world trade and linked nego- tiations in a new Canadian trade treaty with efforts to do more bus- | | UNION STATEMENT | An Associated Pi dispatch this Under Arrest—Police Make Secret Raids MEXICO CITY, Nov. 19.—A series of police raids have brought about the arrest of more than 20 persons |Kobuk bait and decided to try his| |hand at adapting it to the fly. His | o FRANK E. BURNS ermen. When it comes to fly fish- the whole darn Mary Ann. ling, it Slashes Wrists, Woman Walks Into iness with Great Britain. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced last night that a revis- ion of the reciprocal trade treaty, with Canada is contemplated Unofficial observers suggested that is likewise silent concerning the un- | afternoon to The Empire said that ion demands that a Congressional investigation of the Bureau of Fish- | eries in Alaska be conducted. | Dimond said, however, “Some | progress is being made” in the State { |Max Watson, Business Agent of the |union said: “The men voluntarily |left the ships North Sea and Al- aska to give some of this work te | members of crews of other ships \which have been tied up for the that an authoritative source sald| {Ocean with Baby Canada may be actuated by the Department’s efforts to “do every-| | winter. The operators told us this are suspected of plotting to assus-; —_— hope of obtaining new concessions Lhi{m in its power to work out Bi ul’l';lnxcmrn‘t v'w nn\' wccv;;table sinate President Lazara Cardenas. 9 | san DIEGO, Cal, Nov. 19. — An|with the United States to offset satisfactory solution of the dis- ! 5 = s 5 ferring with State Department of- They have not asked us to confeg, | 1t is said the alleged conspirators | unidentified young woman slashed |any losses the Dominion may suffer pute.” ) Viish pha A t intended to dynamite the Execu-| SE ATTLE TODAY her wrists, then walked into the|for deeper American penetration Delegate Dimond and Senator . ‘:;m d‘:’r‘w‘l‘l‘; \“"r"“:é‘i‘o:b‘_ ‘;: tive's special train the next time he ocean at La Jolla late yesterday af-|of England's agricultural market. Lewis B. Schwellenbach are con- lcancelled sailings, We are willifg left the Capital on one of his fre- quent visits to the interior. SPEED RECORDS AT BONNEVILLE Roars "Thufi;boll" Over Last Mile in Less than EYSTON CRACKS {One of Founders of Alaska | Steamship Company ‘\ Passes Away SEATTLE, Nov. 19.—Frank Edgar |Burns, 67, pioneer banker and one of the founders of the Alaska |Steamship Company at the start |of the Klondike rush, died in a hos- pital here as the result of a sudden illness. He went to Skagway in '97 as General Agent of the Alaska |Steamship Company and remained |there five years, belng succeeded by |ternoon. She carried a six months lold baby girl with her. The baby was rescued but the woman died after being pulled from the surf. HIGH COST OF LIVING T0 BE INVESTIGATED SOVIET PILOT FLIES SAFELY. SIBERIAN PORT Graciansky and Four Com- panions Leave Fairbanks —Reach Providence Bay ficials regarding the alleged invas- ion of the Alaska salmon banks by the Japanese. a2 ERESG Rnus&elt's Jaw Is Badly Swollen President Remains, Fourth Day in Room—Con- fers with Farley Magda De Fontanges, who shot the former French Ambassador to Italy, Count Char Les De Chambrun, after she said he ended her love affair with Premier Mussolini, was barred from entering the United States by a board of U. S. immigration commissioners on grounds of “moral turpitude.” Mme. Fontanges is shown in her cabin taking a peek at New York’s bright lights. WILKINS OFF PEACE MEET EARLY TODAY AT BRUSSELS FOR AKLAVIK BROKEN DOWN SITDOWNERS " DEFY ORDER TOLAYDOWN |Between 20 and 600 Re- sponsible for 14,000 | |Elmer A. Friend, then came to Se-|, > | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 19.— Men Being Jobless Twelve Seconds attle and had remained here since. Pres’erer:i! 0 Crders l':'ederalism,iel EHat, Chiolamaky’- who Jett| BEREEE o ot s J Mr. Burns remained with the rade Commission I : A & = PP M v | i {here Wednesday with four compan- dent Roosevelt's jaw sticks out “like gt | . BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, Utah|Alaska Steamship Company and dandes ATCH | g /b st Lve A ¥ 2 g $ PR PONTIAC, Michigan, Nov. 19.— Nov. 10 TravoHins Ui6 Tasteet seen to Act Now |ions, after abandoning the search a grape fruit,” said one of his aides. May Make Two Stops En- French Foreign Minister|, PONTIAC, Michis et man has ever made in an automo- bile, Capt. George Eyston of Eng- Puget Sound Navigation Company in Seattle until about 20 years ago| when he resigned his offices and {for the six missing Russian flier: Siberia, is ex- |reached Providence Bay, He The tooth infection has kept the Proelient th s voom Zov toils daya V. ronteto Base to Search Replies to Commun- Automobile Workers of America, to- remained |day thundered rejection of the plea Today the President upstairs in his White House rooms WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Presi- after a six hour flight. for Missing Soviets i dent Roosevelt has asked the Fed- pected to put his plane aboard a from the International Union to abandon the sitdown strike in the land, flashed his 24 cylinder racing|pecame a banker. ist Attacks Thé new record exceeds Sir Mal- colm Campell's record set in Sep- tember, hour. Eyston roared through the meas- ured mile and returned again shatter all existing automobile rec- ords. thin scholarly man and a retired British army officer. On the northbound mile he clipped 19.—Fiery William H. 11.79 miles from the record and av- eraged a speed of 305.30 miles per‘ms one-mule farm and is seeking| hour. On the return lap he sped back 1935, of 301.129 miles an to MURRAY OUT FOR GOVERNOR Capt. Eyston, 40 years old, is a' uF UKLAHUMA BROKEN BOW, Oklahoma, Nov. “‘Alfalfa” |Murray, came from retirement on another term as Governor of Okla- homa. |that there has been a “marked in- |crease” in the cost of living.® This increase is attributed to “monopo-| |listic practices and other unwhole- some methods.” e, Soont Younger ~ Dies, Oklahoma | TULSA, Okla. Nov. 19. — Scout Younger, 64, Wild West bad man in 11.33 seconds to set an al.mosl} Murray punctuated his announce-|in the early days of motion pictures, unbelievable record with an average ment with th& demand for rigid is dead here as the result of a brain of 317.74 miles per hour. economy. ailment. SEARCH PARTY AID MEN FLY TOPT. BARROW FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 19.— Pilot Harold Gillam left here yes- terday for Point Barrow, taking A. Smirnov, Russian radio engin- eer, and R. W. Cook, Canadian dioman, to aid in the search for the six missing Soviet fliers. - —— These Kids Won’t Lag On Way to School Now PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 19.— Philadelphia school children will see movies at school this year, but not the kind they save nickels and dimes for. Dr. Edwin W. Adams, acting su-! perintendent, says the pictures m.[ be shown as an experiment in teaching youngsters “an insight into human relations ans needs.” “Our pictures are not for enter- |tainment,” he says. ] after being in the air for more than two hours. A heavy blan- ket of fog setiled suddenly over the country and he came back when flying became more and more difficult. ¥ warfare at the Brussels confes has failed ese ence tion must be taken at Geneva. The Foreign Minister took the| EDMONTON, Nov. 19.—Sir Hu- Speaker’s rostrom to bert Wilkins left at 10:15 o'clock this CGovernment’s foreign policy aft forenoon, Pacific Coast Time, on Communist Leader Peri accused the| * giant, “Thunderbolt” to a new His widow and one daughter, y % i- |treighter fi hi; Sl o ssi - t to V1adivos- and had only one appointment and 4 l fld’s recor: 41142 miles 5 eral Trade Commission to investi-|freighter for shipment al y S {ant s pahas ) Kgyxds St B [olR P Cromer, SrYIve, gate the report, as soon as possible, tok. that was with Postmaster General| BULLETIN EDMONTON, PARIS, Nov. 19.—Foreign Minis-|1on < et i, epri James A. Farley. Nov. 19—Wilkins returned here |y Delbos told the members of tF €| The auto workers voted to pro- Chamber of Deputies today that ef-|ceeq with the strike after Fred forts to conciliate the Sino-Japan- | Peiper, member of the Internation- {al Executive Board, urged them to leave the plant and return to work. Delbos said new steps in media-|It is said between 200 and 600 men |are sitdowners As a result of the strike 14,000 defend the men are jobless er - D PROVIDENCE, R. I, Nov. 19. — a 600 mile flight to Fort Resolu- Government of failure to receive|Arthur Thibodeau, fifty-eight, and tion, with another stop probably to President Roosevell’s speech recent-! his wife, fifty-four, died within a be ‘mide at Fort Norman or Ca ly made at Chicago, US.A., with suf- | few hours of each other. The cou- eron Bay before arriving at Akla- ficient enthusiasm and support Iple went for a walk, and Mrs. Thi= vik - - {bodean collapsed on their return. Hollick-Kenyon is piloting the air- Florida was discovered by Ponce Grief stricken, her husband died plane. de Leon on Easter Sunday, 1513. |shortly after midnight. l