The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1938, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ._,;}:/ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ]UNhAU ALASKA THURSDAY JANUARY 6 l938 MHVIBER ASSOCIATLD PRESS UNRELENTING WAR AGAINST JAPAN LOOMS Eighty Full Divisions Ex- pected to Be in Field by Spring CITIES, TOWNS NOW Navy Plane | "/ TOBE ORDERED | | Message to Congle% Ex-| Is Down routine flight, where bound SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 6—Capt. Alva Bernhard, Chief of Staff, and where believed to SWARMING WITH MEN Officials Insist Enough Money, Arms, Available for Long Strife | 1 HANKOW, China, Jan. 6— The| man power of this Chinese Nation of 400,000,000 persons is being re-| cruited on a national mobilization | basis for unrelenting war against| Japan, All cities and towns outside of | the Japanese occupied areas swarm- ed with troops and in s recruits outnumber the civilians. By spring, China expects to have 80 full divisions in the field with | Gen. Chiang Kai Shek command- | ing. | Officials of the Chinese govern- | ment insist that the government has enough money and arms for a long war. NEW BOMBING RAIDS |has been missing since yesterday. Rear Admiral Ernest King, Com- mander of the Aircraft Scouting Force, announce that a Navy bomb- ing plane with seven men aboard, Believe the plane will be found. It is one capable of landing in any kind of sea.” Planes and surface vessels search- ed all night. The plane is believed to have disappeared at about 200 miles northwest of here. It is one of the new twin motored patrol planes built for the Na the Consolidated Aircraft Corpc tion available and aboard have No details names of the |not been released The bomber is xepo'wd to have been attached to Squadron VP-7. The statement issued by the of- ficials sa “The plane was on are men Actress, Heroine, in Real Life SHANGHAI, Jan. 6.—The Japan-| ese Nevy spokesman announces that new bombing raids have been made in the Shantung Province to pre- vent the retreat of the Chinese forc- es from the Peninsula. It is also announced, but only confirmed through Japanese and not Chinese forces, that 20 Japanese bombers are reporter to have at-! tacked the airdrome and also broad- | casting muun at Hankow. RETIREMENT OF SUTHERLAND IS NOW AGGEPTEI] President Felicitates Justice on Years of Public Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.— Presi- | dent Roosevelt, in acknowledging | the retirement letter of Associate Justice George Sutherland from the Supreme Court of the United States, felicitated the Justice on his “many years of public service.” The President also expressed the | hope that Justice Sutherland and | his wife will be present at the‘ White House dinner to the Su- preme Court members to be given | on January 22, after Sutherland’s | scheduled retirement. | | i | | | | ‘ i ‘ SUMNER RECOMMENDED WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — The House Judiciary Committee has| written a letter to President Roose- | velt suggesting that he choose Rsp-) resentative Sumner, Chairman of| the committee, to succeed Assoctate[ Justice Sutherland, on the Supreme| Court bench. The letter asked the Presmenfl to think about the Texan's ability and achievements, that he has a| “record in both private practice andj public service; has poise and ju-| dicial temperament, erudition, clar- ity brilliance and broad human- ity.” Woman Cashier 0f Bank Beaten By Two Gunmen' UNION CITY, Oklahoma, Jan. 6.| —Two young gunmen beat Miss Montye Kilgore, cashier, and tucked her and four other persons in a vault, Union City here of $300. ‘llerta Von Rohn, | star, world famed for her beautiful |last Tuesday from William Van Len- Gunther, then robbed the Bank of Santa Clara football scorer this The land battle of Manila was lasted five months, during which m Viennese opera legs, who recently found herself in | a real ife role of heroine in Los An- geles. She beat off a Negro who was attempting to molest a 4 year old girl. Miss Von Rohn chased the man | from a school underpass into the sunlight and obtained the license number of his car. Officers tracked the car down and held Haywood Williams, 21 year old janiter, who purportedly admitted the attempted | attack. GUGGENHEIM WEDS AGAIN Bride Only Iy Secuied D vorce on Tuesday—Hon- eymoon Aboard Yacht Jews Are Banned From Batfiiouses The City Council has decreed that | Jews be prohibited from using pub- {lic bathhouses. The decree is the result of frequent disturbances in- volving the Nazis and Jews. B BREAKS WIFE'S MIAMI BEACH, Fl, Jan. 6.—Col. M. Robert Guggenheim, 52, copper| magnate, and Mrs, Rebecca Polland | |Van Denner, 34, member of a prom-| inent Virginia family, have been | married here and immediately talled |on the yacht Firenze for a cruise to Cah!orma The bride secured her divorce omy‘ It was Christmas Day in their ca- hee |bin in Robert’s Row and Kenneth The marriage is the fourth one Gothberg “twisted his wife’s arm| for Guggenhelm | until the bones therein were cracked R |and broken.” | pended hentence by U. 8. Commis- ]sioner Felix Gray. ; For this offense, labeled “Assault land Battery,” Kenneth Gothberg NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 6. — Bill| fullback, is the ]ead)ngr - season, fought on August 13, 1898. Men Aboard not at liberty to s\v' have been when lost radio contact. | ARM ON HOLIDAY |has been given a three month’s sus-| EXPANSION OF U. S. FLEET TO pected to Give Broad Navy Policy | CONSTRUCTION FUNDS Islands Is Going to Be Increased WASHINGTON, Jan | William D. Leahy said the Presi- dent’s forthcoming message on the ] by | |naval policy of the United States for a basi¢ |is “apt to be” a call |expansion of the fleet and the | fifth shipbuilding program, since |the World War, will be started Admiral Leahy said this call will be in addition to other calls for funds to begin work immediately on one group of new warships and he added that the Government’s exist- |ing policy authorizes orderly con- ‘s(ruclmn to provide by 1942 a fleet | |of full strength permitted by treat- ies now elapsed. INCREASE NAVY AIR FLEET | SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jjan. 6—Of- |ficials of the Fleet Patrol Wing an- |nounce that the aireraft forces of |the Navy in the Hawailan Islands ‘\ull be increased by several squad- rons of multi-motored long-range patrol bombing planes before the end of this year. ARTIST'S BODY IS DISCOVERED IN BLOODYBEDROOM | Tragedy Revealed in Holly- | wood — No Clues Im- mediately Announced | e | HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Jan. 6—The |body of Harry A. Raynes, 57-year- |old artist, was found in a blood- |spattered bedroom in his bachelor ‘nparlmcm last night, his head smashed in . Police and surgeons expressed the belief he had been dead for at (least 24 hours. The bathroom was also blood- |spattered and the place gave evi- dence of a terrific struggle. There are no clues. - JUNEAU HARBOR 'ALLOTMENT IS RECOMMENDED |Other Plo;ects in Alaska Are Also on Fav- ored List \ i NURNBERG, Germany, Jan. s.—-‘ WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — Chief |U. 8. Army engineers have recom mended that Congress provide the following allotments for Alaska for the 1938-1939 fiscal year. For the Juneau harbor, $232,000, completing dredging and break- |water. Lowell Creek, $197,000 for diver- smn. dam, tunnel, control of flood waters and $5,000 for maintaining |the flume. Ketchikan, $8,000 for dredging and |breakwater repairs. stikine River, $600 for snag re-| |{moval. ‘Wrangell maintenance. Narrows, $25,000 | Nome, $25,000, dredging and jetty | revetment repairs. Salmon River, $1,000 for flood con- trol and dike repairs. i S Ancient Hawalians observed a fes- tival known as ‘makahiki” which nobody worked, ARE TO BE ASKED FOR Bombing Fleet in Hawaiian 6.—Admiral for | charges it was hp.m -owned a nd had evaded pm"t duties. The tuna clipper “Nancy Hanks” is shown tied up in San l’edro, Cal,, afler seizure by the government on . Measure Has SEEKS ACTION, ALIEN FISHING IN ALASKA WATERS D elegate Dlmond Pressing Action, Especially on Bristol Bay Area By J. J. ECKLES Secretary to the Delegate | | |— (Special Correspondence) — In |view of the apparent certainty that |the Japanese will again invade the <Bermg Sea and Bristol Bay with ‘lll(’lr floating canneries when the |Alaska salmon run in that area starts next year—and that these an- nal raids may be expected to con- {tinue on an expanding scale long as the salmon exist in these waters—Delegate A. J. Dimond has made clear that he will do all that he possibly can to rush action on prohibit in Al-| gress that will definitely foreign nationals from fishing aska Territorial waters. In orddr that the bill which he purpose may be delay after the regular session of |requested Hon. S. O. Bland, Chair- man of the House Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, to arrange that hearings be had on the |bill early in the session—preferably in January—so that the proposed |legislation may be undertaken by Congress in time to halt any pres- jent preparations that are being |made by the Japanese for the 1938 fishing season near the Alaska |Coast. | Public sentiment in this country is definitely against the thought of our engaging in any war with Ja- ‘pan but there is a ve apparent |growing reaction against Japan, re- sulting from her violation of accept- ed international rules of conduct as exhibited in the present conquest of |China. This sentiment has been particularly strengthened on account of the unnecessarily harsh treat- |ment accorded noncombatants who |have been unable to leave the zone of conflict. In the ruthless sinking |of the United States gunboat Pan- ay and the American river vessels |anchored alongside the Panay, with consequent killing and wounding of American citizens, it seems nkely that Japan Tias placed herself in a| situation from which it will take a long time to be cleared dasplw any (Continued on Page Six) WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 18.|, legislation now pending before Con-’ has introduced in the House for this| taken up without | Congress convenes, the Delegate has| \Ace-in-the - Hole Farm Plan Is Proposed by Sen. McAdoo; | Good Features By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGT Adoo farm plan for surplusse ting n quarters ked upon as an n measure now being 1 out in confcrence committee to be a flop when it is tried McAdoo idea combines cer- of the domestic allot- with a device for putting s on competitive ba- sis with such cotton goods produc- ers as the Japanese. McAdoo explained his plan to the enate only a few hours before the | Pope-McGill bill was adopted and {sent to conference with the House. N, Jan. handling special atten where it is ~in-t hole 6 rke ment pla It had not been considered by the Agriculture Committee afid, as a result, the members were wary of taking such a pig in a poke. But !many disclosed an intention, to ls‘u(ly it further. The McAdoo plan would apply to the usual basic crops, such as cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco, rice and hogs. Ea | DOMESTIC ALLOT T | Here, roughly, is the Senator’s |explanation of how it would work |with cotton: The Secretary of Agriculture esti- vmntea about what the crop for the year will be. He then computes lwhat domestic demands for cotton {will be. Suppose ‘the domestic de- mand calls for about half the crop. Then each farmer would turn over half of his crop to a cooperative corporation with authority to mar- \ket the cotton abroad for what it could get. The other half would be sold on the domestic market with- out cbmpetition, McAdoo incorpor- ated in his bill machinery fixing a cost-of-production price for the domestic portion of the crop. That brought opposition, of which more later. But the trick in his bill that pleas- ed several Senators was this: Instead of dumping the surplus raw cotton on the world market at any price it would bring, McAdoo suggested selling part of the Amer- ican millers at a special low price so they could make cloth cheap enough to compete with Japanese textiles. That idea immediately at- tracted New England members, who would like to see their mills get back into the world trade. Of course, goods made with the cheap cotton could not be sold in the United States. McAdoo quoted a Southern mil- ler as predicting that if American millers had a price advantage of 5 cents a pound over foreign mills, they could win back a lot of for- eign trade. P PRICE FIXING | Now back to the price fixing. (Continued on Paze Four | DEADLOCK ENDS FIRST MEETING, SEATTLE STRIKE No Notice of Second Meet- ing Is Reported to Be Announced ILWU PRESS MEN GIVE OUT VIEWS Doubts Wh;Er Alaska Will Be Affected Ad- versely by Conflict SEATTLE, Jan. 6—Burt Nelson, Chairman of the Press Relations committee of the Internation shoremens’ and Warehousemens’ Union, said this afternoon that he doubted if Alaska will be affected too much by the present labor “strike,” pointing out that there is not much shipping there at this time of the year and there is usu- laily a months’ supply on hand dur- ing the winter, If it does get tough, Nelson said, he “assumes that the United States ng AUTO INDUSTRY HARD HIT, TW MONTHS IN 1937 ors lestities of Unem- ployment Situation WASHINGTON, Knudsen, President of Gener: tors Corporation, told special Senate Unemployment Committee y that his company experienced severest sales drop in history in last November and Detember, making a layoff of men essential. Knudsen said 30,000 men were laid off on January 1. Taking a quick look at the future, however, the auto builder told the' committee members he hoped for the upturn in business early in the spring. Knudsen said the lay-off of men was only considered ‘“temporary” and added that the automobile bus- iness ordinarily picks up in the spring The auto manufacturer also as- serted that manufacturing costs rose sharply during 1937, labor in-! creasing 25 per cent and material prices swinging steeply upward. He| said the overall increase in car costs | alone amounted to 13.5 percent in 1937, Knudsen said one hope for im- mediate stabilization in work and industry is that the “people gener- ally should feel a little more con- fident as to the future and need more assurance all the way down about this year and the year after.” Knudsen blamed the decline, not on car prices, but to the view held by the average man that ‘work is going to be slack.” Knudsen said he knew of no way to forecast the sudden sales drop such as took place in November and last month. e i R STOCK QUOTATIONS | William 1 Mo~ Jan Uk o+ o+ Government will charter ships again. However, we don't think this strike will last long enough to affect Al- aska adversely.” The first meeting between the Waterfront Employers’ Association nd the ILWU ended in ck ling loadings. No provision was mhde for a second mectin 1 sbip: idlle port ing diverted to other crop President of (jenenn Mot- ports ave been made to - THREAT MAD UPON I.IFE l]F RUTH ETTING Stage and Screen Star Calls on Police of L. A. for Protection ¥ g I5LE LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. Ruth Btting, stage and screen sta has asked the police for protec ion. Miss Etting said she has received a telephone call from a man wha threatened to fly from New York. He said he would kill her and then commit suicide. APPROPRIATIONS BEING SLASHED IN WASHINGTON 'House Committee Wields Axe with Abandon in Economy Move WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. The House Appropriations Committee, beginning an economy drive by NEW YORK, Jan. 6. — Closing| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11, American Can 79, American Light and Power 8%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 60%, Commonwealth and Southern Curtiss Wright 47%, General Motors 33%, International Harvest- | er 66, Kennecott 40%, New York Central—18, Southern Pacific 19%, United States Steel 59'%, Cities Service 17, Pound $4.997%, Brem- ner bid 2, asked 4. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 12897, up 4.31; rails 3058, up 1.41; utilities 2143, up 1.10. L Y W S5 L Polk County claims to ship near- ly one-third of the Florida citrus | thirty recommending big appropriations slashes, cut one bill's appropriation | by $118,000,000. The so severely cut appropriation was from the sum of $414,000,000 set up for the finance of more than independent governmental agencies during the coming fiscal year. ‘The TVA appropriations for sup- |plies monies were slashed $123,000,= 000. Civilian Conservation Corps funds were reduced almost $38,000,~ 000. The Veterans’ Administration was cut $23,000,00. The Railroad Retirement Board |Committee sharply criticized govern~ mental publicity expenditures, the primary purpose of which, the com- mittee said, “was to build up a big demand for the services of an agency crop. issuing publicity.”