The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU ALASKA WFDNFSDAY DFCLMB!:R 8 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" 1937. Loya llsts, Insurgents Make RIVAL FORCES MAKE ATTACK, STRONGHOLDS Hundreds of Bulldmgs Are; Shattered During | Night Maneuvers VICTIMS ARE BEING | TAKEN FROM DEBRIS| Simultaneous Assaults Are| Reported with Dis- astrous Results MADRID, Dec. and Loyalists are today sifting the| debris of hundreds of shattered| buildings in their respective strong-| holds, searching for dead, following | fearful rival air raids. a Hundreds of casualties are report- ed from both Government held Bar- celona and other eastern coast towns and Insurgent Palma in the Baleric| Islands. 8. — Insurgents No more indignation against the Japane: Northwestern university co-eds at Evanst se invasiol Co-eds Lead Japanese Boycott silk hose! on, 111, are expressing their n of China by discarding silk stockings for cotton hose. Here are four of the leaders in the movement which the gals are hoping will spread to other schools. Judging by their appearance, they really aren’'t handicapped by not Fifteen Insurgent bombers swept | in from their Mediterranean base| last night to bomb Barcelona, the| WINTER STRIKES |ALONG ATLANTIC, MAINE, FLORIDA |Wave Bringing Snow, Icy‘ Temperatures — Ten ! Deaths Reported | | NEW YORK, Dec. 8—Winter to- ‘dav spread itself along the Atlantic iseaboard from Maine to Florida, | The wave is bringing snow. and licy temperatures in parts ‘of - the INew England and middle Atlantic states. ’ Threats of a fresh cold waye in |the south, northern and -<central tsections east of the Rockies are in- idimlm. | Ten deaths were reported up 0 Inoon today, all attributed to wea- ther conditions. Five deaths oc~ curred in the south from exposure. |Two children died from the = eold in Western Pennsylvania. One man collapsed and died from the cold in Pittsburgh and a man froze to death in Buffalo. | Icy roads are reported in many sections. One physician sKipped to death in a barge canal near Ful- ton, N. Y. “Moving clothing their shapely limbs in si! @ darned si Senators Woul(l Spanish Republic capital, with a pitiless rain of death. | Twenty-four Government air raid- ers spanned 1500 miles of open sea to Malorca in the Balearic group to strike a devastating blow at the Insurgent base at Palma. A heavy toll of dead and wounded is reported from Barcelona and nearby coastal towns caught in thel roaring sweep of the Insurgent rmd from the air, but Loyalist airmen reported dumping thousands of CHOSEN TO HEAD pounds of bombs on military ob- OREGON VARBITY GEAR COMING AR INDUSTRY Tricycle Eqmpmem Bemg Perfected — Advan- tages Are Extolled DAYTON, Ohio, Dec. s.fAmeri-l can aviation is about ready to set| forth on a tricycle landing and in/ so doing revelutionize not only the airplane industry but airplane land- ing as well. | Major Carl F. Greene, head of the| Air Corps Engineering and Pro- curement branch, said that as re- sults of experiments with three-| wheeled landing gear designed to! supplant the orthodox undercarriage already, there is suggested import- | ant changes in airplane designs, flight operations and also airdrome construction. Planes can be land- ed with less regard to prevailing wind direction or to altitude of the ship than in case of planes eqmpped with the present type of undercar- rige. Dr. Donald E. Erb, former pro- fessor of economics at Stanford University, who was selected at a Portland, Oregon, meeting 10 head the University of Oregon. Erb will be one of the youngest university executives in the country. He was 37 last August ‘ 3. In 1925 he won the coveted Bicardo prize for outstanding work at the Harvard graduate school. Constance Worth Granted Divorce From Geo. Bren LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 8. | R F } Fo IFTH TIME |In a hearing lasting only a few min- |utes, Constance ‘Worth, blonde film | DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., Dec. 18.| aczress from Australia, won a di- —Edward H. Armstrong, center of awvorce from Actor George Brent. political fight a year ago and which | Brent failed several weeks ago in resulted in mobilization of the Na-'his action attempting to annul their tional Guard, has been returned to Mexican mamago office for the fifth time as Mayor of Daytona Beach. IPARTY GIVEN AT | COFFEE SHOP BY ———————— ARMSTRONG IS M & M. Coffee Shop, this after- tuck Topping, soclety aviatrix, has njrs Russell Cook, Mrs. Drew Pain- s t N R n . Tom George was hostess at {noon, for which occasion guests for two tables of cards were -assembled. set an unofficial record of two hours | |ter, Mrs. David Burnett, Mrs. Ern- and 20 minutes for a flight from| e’ Stender, Mrs. William Reck, a bridge luncheon given in the NEW YORK, Dec. 8—Jane Shat- present were Mrs. C. C. Rulaford, Detroit to New York City. and Mrs. Walter Robinson | ) | ik, and, as one co-ed said, “They're | ght cheeper. Be Put On Spot If Roosevelt Decided To Be Candidate 3rd Term By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Should President Roosevelt decide to run for a third term in 1940, 17 Demo- cratic Senators now in office either will have to oppose him or adopt "~ STORM TIES UP BIG CITY INN.Y. STATE Twelve Inches of Snow Fall in 24 Hours——ngh Wind Prevails BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 8.—Carried the view of Senator Ashrust that in- in off the Great Lakes by a 47-mile- | consistency is the proper course of an-hour gale, the worst December| snow storm in 10 years, all but para-| | These 17 Democratic Senators are lyzed New York State's second larg-| |true statesmen. recorded in the following language est city. |against third terms for Presidents: Eleven inches of snow fell during Drive viaduct GUNGRESS TALKS FARM ALD WITH COTTONBOOMING Mandalory onos to Covd Growers Practically Approved | WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Cungress is still talking about farm aid, but i “Resolved, that it is the sense of 24 hours and the temperature drop-|a report has been received from the the Senate that the precedent es- ped to 22 degrees during the night. Department of Agriculture that the - | tablished by Washington and other | Presidents of the United States in |retiring from the Presidential of- |fice after their second term ha.s become, by universal concurrence, | a part of our republican system of government and that by deparlure from this time-honored - cust |would be unwise, unpatriotic, and | frought with peril to our free insti- | tutions.” . |AIMED AT COOLIDGE The resolution was adopted by the Senate in 1928 as a means of tell-| ing President Coolidge how the members felt on the subject. lidge already had sai “I do not' Cool-| TWO KILLED WHEN PLANE HITS HOUSE Crafl Comes Out of Mlst Crashes Dur Night thht AUSTIN, Tex., Dec. 8.—A two- year-old boy, Leonard Albright, and ) choose to run for President in 1928" |Capt. F. A. Avelino, of the Mexican but there was much uncertainty. Army, were killed last night when a| Those Democratic Senators now Kelly Field attack plane, piloted by | |in office who voted thus against|,yeing nurgled out of the mist into third terms are: Ashurst of Arizona, | Barkley of Kentucky, the present ma)orfi.y leader, Copeland of New York, Gerry of Rhode Island, Glass |of Virginia, Harrison of Mississippi, |Hayden of Arizona, King of Utah, |McKeller of Tennessee, Neely of | West Virginia, Pittman of Nevada, \Sheppard of Texas, Smith of South'g—— BS olina, Tydin of Maryland, Wflgner of New York and Wheeler |, |of Montana. The 17th is Sena- |tor George of Georgia, who was | paired but announced he was (ur. | the resolution. Incidentally, two incumbent Re- publicans and a Democrat voted against the resolution. They are | Senators McNary and Steiwer of| |Oregon, Republicans, and Walsh of | Massachusetts, Democrat. PR | | ASHURST BRIDGES UNBURNED | senator Ashurst has already indi- cated his belief that President Roos- evelt will not seek a third term. However, it was Ashurst who made a virtue of indonsistency in defend- ing his quick switch to the Presi- |dent’s side on the Court bill after earner deploring any idea of in- creasing the Court membership. “Inconsistency,” he once said, “will save the United States yet.” Coolidge had politicians really up a tree, but perhaps no more than (Conunued on Page Two) | | |bright’s escaped with bruises, plane hitting the sleeping quarters.| | the residence of Spencer D. Al- bright, Jr., instructor at the Uni-| versity of Texas. A three-year-old Al- the son of PP B N STOCK QUOTATIONS il NEW YORK, Dec. 8. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11%, American Can 82%, American Light and Powe: |T%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Sl(‘t-l |57%, Calumet 9, Commonwealth and‘ Southern 2%, Curtiss Wright 37 oty | |cotton crop this year is a half mil- |lion bales over the forther record or‘ !1926 | | The House has tentatively ap-| |proved an amendment to the Farm | |Bill to provide for mandatory loans | to corn growers. In the Senate, Senator McNary |sought unsuccessfully to remove the |Senate Farm Bill provision giving |{the Secretary of Agriculture the (power to require corn and wheat |farms to store up to 20 percent of lhelr current crops EIGHT THUUSAND HAITIANS KILLED IN BORDER FIGHT Struggle for Exxs!enne Causes Death of Bor- der Crossers | PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti, Dec. 8. | —Haiti’s President Vincent today| estimated in an interview that 8,000 |Haitians have been slain on Santo |Domingo soil since October. | ‘ Vincent declared the slayings and sassinations of Haitians took place on Dominican soil, far beyond the | |Haitian-Dominican boundary.” \ This is the first time an official Haitian version of the situation M[:.MB!;R ASbOCIMLD PRLS m Los Ange from SEATILE Ot ol o WINS Mrs. Frank E. Hayward, 62, of Seattle, who recently won the national crocheting title. Mrs. Hayward entered a bedspread, which required 15 years to make, in the contest. She was invited by long distance phone to fly to New York to accept the award and prize money. Mrs. Hayward is shown working with her steel needle, which is the only imple- ment used in crocheting. NO JUSTICE IN COLD TOES, "PRICE TEN CENTS Air Raids Mountain” Slide S mmlws L.A dem‘t LEVE]_ WAI_LS " VILLAGES T0 EXPOSE FORCE Bridges Are Blown Up in gaule Sector Near Former Capital 'LAST MINUTE PANIC BELIEVED OBVIATED | British, American Gunboats on Yangtze River Receive Orders BULLETIN — SHANGHAIL, Dec. 8. — The possibility that China may form a new govern- ment without Chiang Kai Shek, to make peace with Japan, is advanced late today in authori- tative quarters. Chiang has left Nanking in face of the ad- vancing Japanesc armies. The various authorities reason that 5 is likely to cause his sub- rtes to undertake whatever ment is obtainable. Dec. 8. Chinese blown up bridges and 1lls in Nanking's in an effort to le cover Japanese in frontal. at- N© burbs of China was the thuiider of an W_ it ies ‘malntainad he sleady stroat the semi-safety REGURI] COTTON 0P PREDICTED - FUR THIS YEAR . Agncullure Department Es- 1 3 "ma“?s ,Neafly IB /1 River to avoid consequences of an M]Illon Bales ‘ivxpv(').rd bombardment of the Nan- |king Bund. s Thnf The United States gunboat Guam Agriculture Department forecasts | V& ordered to Wuhu because of | 18,741,000 bales, a record (_(momlxmrmslng danger to American lives crop, for 1937. A bale is figured at|2nd property there, 500 pounds, gross weight. The battle lines of the two war- The previous record was 17,078,000 in8 factions approached closer ta Wuhu, the Yangtze River port, 60 |bales in 1926, the heaviest record yield up to that time. miles south and slightly west of Nanking. This year's field has caused a |new high average of 264 pounds to P T S an acre from almost 34,000,000 ALASKA sHIP TIE-UP RUMOR acres. Operating Manager of One Company Says Has No Information all ho civillans to I'he military defense preparations are far advanced obviating any pos- |sible last minute panic. During the night the British gun- iboats Cricket and Scarab ved a mile and one-half up the Ya WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. e - Five Gonvicts Sentenced to Lethal Death SACRAMENTO, val, Dee. 8— Superior Judge Lemmon has sen- tenced five Folsom convicts, con- victed of murdering Warden Lar- |kin, to die in the lethal gas cham- ber at San Quentin. | Larkin was killed | break. | The defendants were previously found to be sane and all were de- nied new trials. | The five to die are Ed Davis, Wasley Eidy, Fred Barnes, Robert Cannon and Albert Kessel - ‘RECITAL IS GIVEN \ BY 16 STUDENTS O CAROL BEERY DAVIS SEATTLE, Dec. 8.—Rumors of another tieup of Alaska steam- ers effective December 15, brought the following answer fo- day from M. M. McKinistry, Operating Manager of the Al- aska Steamship Company: “No information absolutely. A pos sible strike is unknowmn' fo ws* VISITS GOVERNOR b in a prison - from General Motors 37%, Interm\nonal has been made public. ; Harvester 71, Kennecott 38%, New| Haiti’'s Foreign Minister, George, York Central 20%, Southern Pacific|yeger, said earlier that the killings 22%, United States Steel 59, Cities |uq gocurred when Dominicans or- Service 2, Pound $4.99%, Bremner gereq a roundup of Haitians for ex- JUDGE | RULES . oo by students ()1 Carol Be was held last evening at ern Light Presbyterian where sixteen children t ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 8.— Chu A United States District Judge com- bid 2 asked 4, Republic Steel 19%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 129.80. rails 32.64, utilities 22.52. - - DAVIS GOES ON YUKON George Davis, purser aboard the Silver Wave, shuttle ship on the Lynn Canal route for the Alaska Steamship Company, is a passenger south aboard the Yukon for Seat- tle. pulsion from the republic and the |cane fields they were working in. | \ The Haitians, compartively crowd- led in their portion of the island, |which is half the size and nearly| |double the population of Santo Do- |mingo, have driften over the indef- |inite border into the more prosper- ous fields of the Dominicans, seek- ing the better life e, — - | Albert Norman, a medical patient, was dismissed from St. Ann’s Hos- pital today. |ing sessions pelled to wear sheepskin shoes dur- does not meet with Judge Simon Hellenthal's concep- tions of judicial decorum. Therefore, he instructed U. S. Commissioner Thomas C. Price to find suitable quarters here for the District Court session to open De- cember 18. Judge Hellenthal complained that during previous winter sessions here he had to wear extra shoes because of drafts and “caught cold any- way.” the evening program Participating were Lodema son, Harriet Stonehouse Hudon, Dorothea Hudon, e derson, Irene Williams, Patsy Davi Margaret Rands, Mary Margaret Femmer, Joan Hudon, Jean Bults, Constance Davis, Althea Rands, Doris Cahill, Patsy Shaeffer, Thea Hansen As a special attraction for the occasion, each student was dressed in a costume to represent the ‘selecuon presented.