The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1938, Page 1

~ v (& " mission welcomed the decision and THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE V()L LI., NO. 7689. “ALL THE NEW S AIL THE TIME” jUNEAU ALASKA THURSDAY JANUARY 13, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA SHIPPING STRIKE ENDS BLAST OCCURS IN MADRID IN CITY SUBWAY War Malenals Reporled low Have Mysteriously Been Set Off ONE TRAIN BLOWN TO ATOMS, 1S RUMOR rgents Sald to Be Los- ing Ground to Loyal- ist Forces BULLETIN—L ONDON, Jan. 13.—An explosion in a Madrid subway is reported to have killed between 500 and 600 persons, Details of the great disas- ter are hard to be obtained from Spain because of the strict censorship. One report reaching here, via Paris, said war materials, stored in a subway, mysteri- | ously exploded just as a train jammed with passengers, was | passing through the subway. The blast, according to an- other report, tore a hole, through to the surface andf killed many pedestrians on | the streets and demolished, many buildings. Direct reports received here from the war front in Spain _ assert that the Insurgents ap- pear to have lost half a mile of ground especially in the Teruel sector, the Loyalist Government troops driving them to the outskirts of the city in eastern Spam. .o DISCOVER PLO FOR OVERTHROW PORTUGAL BOVT, RE ELECTION TO | CONGRESS SEAT Delegale Manls Filing to‘ Represent Alaska as | Democrat Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di-| mond will again be a candidate for re-election as Delegate to Congress fon the Democratic ticket from the Territory in the fall voting, ac-| cording to a message to Gov. John {W. Troy from the Delegate toda; Dimond said he had signed b: declaration candidacy several days ago and that it was now in | the mail for official filing with the Territorial Auditor i The Delegate, an outstanding Democrat, is completing his third | term as Alaska's representative in! Congress. He was first elected in re-elected in 1934 and again| m 1936. In all his electicns he has ‘won by a handsome majority and| ‘one year had no opposition | | | STAR AIRMAIL ROUTE IS NOW SOUGHT, ALASKA, House Appropriations Com- mittee Recomm ends Congress Provide Sum | { | \ | mobilizes all her resources in a desperate effort to stem. the Japanese advance. Here is Mrs. Elsie Lee Sung, Chinese society leader, bound for the front with supplies from women who follow .he lead of Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of their zeneralissimo. SOCIETY GOES TO WAR in China as that nation 1 | | | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. The | House Appropriations Committee | | has recommended that Cong: =8 | provide $206,000 for a star route imail service in Alaska. | The recommendation is $49,000 below the amount asked by the Budget Bureau and $1,245 less than Unlawful Now to Photograph Any U. S. Defenses PANAY DAMAGED BEYOND REPAIR ; e ® the 1938 appropriation. : P]KIACIS&;I‘TN;‘SS?‘%J;: .3{1:v11('(| : The larger sum sought, the com- FR"M BUM B | NG o itio Pl protibiting miking of e }EaVioE St MOMKL be thred 05 ebo) & HEiGEE AL tkbtohes or maps | F e D8 CIEAIIATL D TRINGION Vi e of vital m]};“;n, O haval de. o Cordova, Valdez and Anchorage to | ® fenses o Seward. A similar sum was denied | Efiorts to Salvage U. S| oo oo oo e olast year when funds allowed a G b t Ab d d i S line from Juneau, via Whitehorse, | unboa andone: to Fairbanks. The Juneau-Fair-| by Naval Authorities . banks route is not yet established. | Preclflus Metals J. W. Cole, Deputy Second As-| SHANGHAI, Jan, 13. — United sistant Postmaster General, at a| States Naval authorities announced recent hearing, sought to justify the expansion for speed and econ- | ) HOLDING A DIPLOMATIC 'JAM SESSION" by Kyra Markham, IAh I(’d “Tne Dictators’ l!.lnd " Just lm\'enlt(l ina ented I’re\ dent R “« v Ld are the characters in this mural New York night club, it portrays alin, George Bernard Shaw and Premier elt, Adolf Hitler and Albert Einstein. included under the “dictator” label wasn’t :xnlamed _INEW RELIEF PROGRAM IS SCHEME NOW State and @ral Govern- ment Should Match Funds, Says Taft WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Charles Taft, Cincinatti attorney and son of | the late President Taft. today rec- ommended Congre Federal and State fund matching relief program in which states wiil match the Government according to a stip- ulated formu Testifying as Chairman of the Mobilization of Human Needs and to {CARGO LOADING DISPUTEIS TO BE ARBITRATED Pending Further Discussion of Issues, Steamers Load, Will Sail 'CHEDULES GIVEN FOR NORTH CRAFT Port of Seattle Formally Reopened at 10 o'Clock This Forenoon The cargo handling dispute which closed the Port of Se- attle a week ago Wednesday at noon, totally suspending Alaska, Pacific Coast and Deep Sea sailings, was settled amicably at 6:40 o’clock last night. This was the Associat- ed Press bulletin received last evening by the Empire and immediately all concerned were notified. The bulletin was followed by a statement from M. G. Ringenberg, Manager of the Seattle Waterfront Employ- ers’ Association, which said: “The Port of Seattle will cpen at 10 o’clock Thursday morning. The longshoremen voted to return to work and the employers accepted the peace proposal suggested Tuesday night. The dispute has been settled.” SAILINGS SCHEDULED Immediately Juneau agents |were notified that the strike was temporarily over and an- nouncement of sailings were Imade as follows: Actlm, Agent Glenn TTvner W iformed b, tSteamship Compa t 2 Baranof - would sail on her \regular schedule, leaving Se- lattle at 9 o'clock Saturday morning and besides the regu- I today that efforts to salvage the United States gunboat Panay, bomb- ed and sunk by Japanese bombers Revolt Planned First in last month, have been abandoned. Army, Navy—Sensa- tional Revelations This announcément was made af- ter the ship’s safe and official pa- pers had been recovered by the sal- \vage crew and taken to the gun- LISBON, Jan. 13.—The authori-|Pot Oahu, anchored near Nanking, ties are attempting to smash what(2nd near they termed a widespread foreign inspired plot to foment a revolt| within the Portuguese Army and| Navy. Already a numifer of persons have | been arrested, including one wo- man. The arrests have made sensational| revelations concerning a Terrorist group, with Communists abroad, the| police said. e —— Big Corporation Registers Under | Holding Co. Act | | — The| WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. Federal Securities Commission an-| nounced today that the Columbia| Gas and Electric Corporation, one of the largest electric and gas utili- ties in the United States, has reg- istered under the Holding Company Act. Chairman Douglas said the Com- the indication is other large corpor-{ ations will follow the action of the; Columbia Gas and Electric Cmpor-l ation. wiere the Panay was Discussed with View toChanges Morgenthau Believes “Cost of Production” Best omic development of the Territory. | “These routes could not be justi-| fied from a purely postal stand- | point,” said Cole. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond told | the committee the shuttle service to the Juneau-Fairbanks route will | expediate the coa.st service by ‘aL‘ Two of Europe’s most ancient royal lines, the former ruling houses of Russia and Germany, will be united when Princess Kyra, 28-year- old daughter of Grand Duke Cyril of Russia, becomes the bride of Prince Louis Ferdinand, grandson of the ex-kaiser of Germany. 'gram costs National Association of Community'|ar ports of call would stop Chests, Taft recommended that the 'amount of character work and relief at Skagway, Yakutat, and La- of those eligible should be left pri-|Touche. marily to the state and under stan-| Agent Fred C. Charman, of dards the Administration will set the _Northland . Transporta- Taft asserted that the PWA pro- tion Company, was advised “just exactly twice as that the Northland would sail much as it should,” and added local from Seattle tomorrow (Fri- | twisted wreckage. FRANK NOYES ‘Lhe Associated Press for 38 years. sent down. | @ The members of the salvage crew Silver Plan |announced the Panay was damaged g |beyond repair. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Secre- Some personal belongings of the tary of Treasury Morgenthau fa- crew were also recovered from the vors “cost production” basis instead of subsidies on American silver pric- Examination revealed that the hull es. was blown out when one Japanese bomb exploded below decks. ALASKA YoUTH, HITCHHIKER, IS HELD IN SOUTH | It was further brought out nm SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Jan. 12.| 17757 cents an ounce paid for silver —Probation authorities are holding last year was not based on the Bu- Billy Baxter, 12, who said he was reau of Mines cost of production OrPhaned in Fairbanks, Alaska, last estimates by experts. August Morgenthau said improvement of The boy said he was hitch hiking | ‘monemly conditions in Europe has in search of a sister Barbara, who P. causca a “lot of gold to go out of was last heard of in San Diego.| ithis country.” |He said his father was oncg a singer For the past four years the Treas- 'in Tulsa, Oklaholma‘; and later a; 1 1 lury’s $35 an ounce price for gold mine doctor in Alaska. Years in Office Ihas been the highest in the world. Probation officers are trying to NEW YORK, Jan. 13. — Frank On last September 30th, the Treas. learn more de‘“”fi {B. Noyes, 74, of Washington, an- ury owned $12,741,00000 in gold nounces his retirement from the which amounted to 53.6 per cent CONNOR HJNERAL Presidency of the Associated Press Of all the gold owned by all the at the expiration of his present TO BE TOMORROW‘ various governments in central banks and 45 per cent of all the setin I AEL ' Funeral services for William B. |Conner, who was found dead a few Noyes has held the Presidency of 80d in the world. | e e—— N e ! Pive states, Massachusetts, Maine, 'days ago at Slocum Inlet, will be Thirty-five states and 10 foreign Kansas, South Dakota and Iowa, held at 1:30 p. m. from the chapel |countries are represented in the have greater Republican represen- of the Charles W. Carter Mortuary 5,800 enrollment of the University of !tation in the new congress than in! Interment will follow in Evergreen Oklahoma. the preceding one, lCemetery ) The testimony of the House Ap-| propriations Committee showed Morgenthau to be in favor of such consideration of silver buying. WILL RETIRE Leaves PreSIdency of A. in April After 38 | ! kins might start his search but it is I ecng“lze believed it will be near the 15th vul.h a full moon prevailing. HERB HOOVER ‘Wll.KlNS E AT AKLAVIK GOING ABROAD Accepts Invitation to Visit|Plans to Renew Search for| Belgian Wartime Re- | Six Missing Soviet lief Scenes | Fliers This Month L | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 13.] RATRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 13.— —Friends of Herbert Hoover dis-|gir Hubert Wilkins has landed safe- closed today that he has eccepted |y at Aklavik after a flight from an invitation, extended by the Bel-!point Barrow and found snow land- gian Ambassador, to revisit the field ing conditions much better than at |of his famous world war time relief (1. far north Arctic base | activities. It is said he will sail wilkins plans a renewal of his from New York for Belgium on Feb-|gearch for the missing Soviet fliers. ruary 8. | A message to Beliakov, Soviet Ag- et ent here, did not indicate when Wil- An electrified map in the Los{ the Automobile Calitornia an- Franco Regime BUDAPEST, Jan. 13.—Austria and Angeles office of Club Southern of Hungary taday announced intention ¢wers motorists’ mileage queries of recognizing the Insurgent Span- flashing the number and also ish regime of Generalissimo Fran- i jocation of the points mentioned. cisco Franco. it contains 13 miles of wire, DOCTOR'S VIEW Associate Justice of High Court Is Better—FDR Visits Ill Man WASHIN(:TON Jan. 13 Dr. John Ernest said there is a “slight improvement” in the condition of Associate Justice Benjamin N. Car- dozo, of the Supreme Court of the United States. The Associate Justice is ill with a combination of grippe and heart attacks. President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt visited Cardozo -yesterday. - - Kansas farmers, who harvested only 75 per cent of the wheat acre- age planted last year, have seeded 16,500,000 acres—the largest acre- relief work Is less costly 2 day) morning on scheduled JUDGE CARDOZO IMPROVING, IS |time at 10 o’clock. Agent D. B. Femmer, of the ‘Ala\ka Transportation Com- |pany, was informed that the Evelyn Berg would immedi- ately sail from Seattle, get- ting away from that port to- night or tomorrow morning {for Southeast Alaska with ‘freight only. WORK CARGOES Associated Press dispatches |today said that 350 men, 200 'ot‘ them stevedores, were sent to the waterfront in Se- attle this morning to work cargo ships at the port re- opened after a week’s tie-up. Keith Middleton, Manager of the Border Line Transpor- tation Company, according to the Associated Press dis- patches, made the statement that his company, operating the Border Prince which age in the history of the state- for 1937. 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