The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1938, Page 1

v L] THE DAILY ALA “AIJ, TIIE NEWS ALI, THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS “KA EMPIRE PRICE. TEN CENTS NAVY BOMBERS MAKE RECORD, MASS FLIGHT Eighteen Planes, in Two Squadrons, Fly Paci- fic to Honolulu TIME OF PREVIOUS AIR VOYAGES CUT| Craft Glide fiearl Harbor Waters in Moonlight, Glare Floodlights HONOLULU, H. I, Jan. 19. Swooping down through the bright tropical moonlight and into the glare of spotlights, 18 big United States Navay bombing planes from California, landed at Pearl Harbor before dawn this morning pleting the greatest mass flight in aviation history and in record break-| ing time. The first plane landed at 5:48 o'clock this morning, just 20 hours| and 30 minutes after the “official| takeoff” from San Diego. The second plane, blue flames from its exhaust flashing in the darkness, alighted two minutes la-| ter and other craft followed in quick succession. The unofficial time bested the previous naval mark of 21 hours and 25 minutes set by a squadron of 12 planes in another routine transfer from San Diego, nine months ago.! Speciators lined the waters of the channel and the big bombers alight- ed on the waters. Comdr .S. B. Warner said the squadron flew through unfavorable weather part of the way. The 18 ships carried 127 men and flew in two squadrons of nine planes each, e 15 REPORTED DEAD, MISSING, COLLEGE FIRE Twenly-one Are Seriously Injured in Making Escapes ST. HYACINTHE, Quebec, Jan. 19.—Forty-five teachers and pupils are reported dead or missing by the| Sacred Heart College authorities at-| ter fire destroyed the collge build-, ing with half a million dollar loss. Seventeen are known dead and)| 28 are stil unaccounted for. Twenty-one of the inmates of the college were seriously injured in‘ escaping from the flames, | The authorities are unable to de- termine the origin of the fire whlch' broke out shortly after midnight and had half an hour start before being discovered. Firemen waited for hours for the ruins to cool so they could make a search for bodies. Some of the missing may have found shelter in nearby farm hous- es. Over 100 were in the building at the time, the majority being asleep. —————— ANCHORAGE . C. MAKES PROTEST Objects to Withdrawal of 525 Square Miles for Reservation ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 19.— The Anchorage Chamber of Com- merce has voted to protest to the withdrawal of 525 square miles from the public domain for a new Indian reservation at Eklutna. The domain would come within 13 miles of Anchorage and the pro- test is based on the contention that this city has spent five years in developing the area and would be excluded from it. B MARRIED William J. Nelson, Juneau work- man, and Mabel Shafer, who ar- rived here recently from Chehalis, Wash,, were married this morning by U. S, Commissioner Felix Gray. com- | | Cromwell, husband of wealthy Doris | | Duke, {House Ways and Means Committee, |tax. |vision of estate and gift taxes and| |a sales tax on finished consumers ithe distribution of wealth and en-| hance Labor’s bargaining powers. Couple Is Jailed Under Suspicion Russian Oral Reply to Washington Note Ad- mits Arrest of Two WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. — The Soviet Foreign Office has informed |the United States Government that Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens, Ameri- jcan citizen, according to a passport, had been arrested in Moscow in connection with suspected espion- | The communication said Mrs. Ru- {bens had been arrested following the jailing of the man with whom she had entered the Soviet Union as Mr. and Mrs. Donald Robinson, American citizens. An American note of January 7, requesting information as to the| | whereabouts of Mrs. Rubens, under {the American right to know of the actions of an American citizen, was answered in an oral reply at Wash- ington. It was said that Robinson had | been arrested in Sverdlivsk by secret |police on suspected espionage charges and Mrs. Rubens (Mrs. Ro- binson) had been subsequently ap- | |prehended for questioning ! The oral reply further added that I(hc Soviet investigation had not| |progressed sufficiently enough to] warrant placing of a formal charge | against the jailed woman and l)m' examination is being continued. Immediately upon receipt of this .linformation, Secretary of State Cor- | dell Hull dispatched instructions to| the Moscow Embassy requesting So- viet permission to interview Mrs. Rubens. Cromwel Urges Quitting Taxes | Put On Incomes Advocates Sales Tax on| Finished Consumers’ Goods as Cure-All WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.-—James | today recommended to the| an immediate reduction and the ul- timate repeal of all forms of income Cromwell also advocated the re- |the adoption by manufacturers of | goods. “Such a scientific tax would end the unjust economic dis- crimination between taxation of cor- porations and unincorporated busi- (ness enterprises,” said Cromwell. Such a move, Cromwell further said, would also tend to encourage| Chairman Vinson of the House Ways and Means committee said the sales tax must be 18 per cent to make the four billion dollar loss which would accrue through the elimination of existing excise tax-| es. MISS ALASKA NOW ENGAGED Romance Revealed — Love Match Blossomed in Palmer Colony ANCHORAGE. Alaska, Jan. 19. Miss Virginia Berg has announced her engagement to Stuart C. Camp- \ bell, Assistant General Manager of the Palmer Colony in the Matanus- ka Valley. Miss Berg was the Miss Alaska at the Fairbanks Ice Carnival in 1936. The romance blossomed while both were in the colony. — - THOMPSON RETURNING U. 8. Meteorologist Howard J. Thompson of the Weather Bureau here is expected to return to Juneau from Fairbanks by PAA plane at the week end, having completed for the present, handling of weather observations at Fairbanks for the Sir Hubert Wilkins missing Soviet fliers' search, " PILOT KILLED By Soviet Police Nick Mamer (above), veteran pilot of Spokane, Wash., was in command of the Northwest Air- lines transport which crashed in flames in the Bridger Moun- tains near Bozeman, Mont, bringing death to ten occu- pants, {CO-PILOT ON TRAGEDY Fred W. West, 29, co-pilot of the plane which recently crashed into the side of a mountain near Bozeman, Mont., killing its ten occupants. Two woodcutters, C. A. Larsen and Glenn White, said they saw the plane go into a tail spin and burst into flames as it struck the earth some 200 feet from them. West was the son of a San Francisco business man and a graduate of the University of California in 1934. The Wests' family home is in San Mateo, Cal. Former Mining Man, Fairbanks, Dies at Bulodo SEATTLE, Jan. 19.—Friends here have learned of the death in Bulodo, New Guinea, of Charles Dustin, 48, formerly Fairbanks and who was also connected with thed Kennecott copper Corporation at one time. Superintendent Exploration of the Company Dustin had been associated with the Bulodo Gold Dredging Company for the past three years, SHIP; 'SNATCH-KILLER ANDERS HELD IN ST, PAUL, MINN. G-Men Question Confessed Man in Connection Other Kidnapings ST. PAUL, Minn, Jan. 19.—Fed- eral Agents today kept close mouthed and watched over Peter Anders, confessed kidnaper-slayer |of Charles Ross, retired manufac- turer, and a partner in the crime, James Atwood Gray. Anders was flown to St. Paul af- ter his arrest in Los Angeles in a surprise move led by Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation J. Edgar Hoover. No announcement came from Hoover except that Anders was be- ing taken to Chicago, and no ex- planation was made of the St. Paul stop-over. This morning, several automobiles left St. Paul for an un- disclosed destination. No one was permitted to accompany them, but it was considered possible they were seeking the bodies of the two men |it is alleged Anders siw, or money from the $50,000 ransom, cached somewhere. Anders said he slew Ross and an accomplice, Gray, two days after the big ransom had been paid near Rockford, Illinois. Over a long trail of lavish spending, ling bets and other expenditu; FBI agents followed three time: across the continent before his cap- {ture in Los Angeles | Hoover said the suspect was not |being questioned in connection with !the Mattson kidnaping, but Anders {“wasquestioned about some other | kidapings,” according to the G-Man Chief. WM. KEMPER PASSES AWAY N HUSPITAL Banker, Railroad, Execu-| | tive, Prominent Demo- ! | crat, Dies in K. C. | i horse rac- | Here is the charred and blackened mass of wreckage of the Northwest Airlines Mont., ing in the snow and in the background is the crashed into the Bridger Mountains 14 miles northeast of Bozeman, In the foreground are parts of one wing I wrecked fus cccupants. selage. Flying Zephyr” which bringing death to the ten xansas orry, s 10-wi-| W here N orthuest Airliner Crashed in Montana lmm Kemper, 71, financier and pro-| ! minent Democrat, died in a hospital | here today. He underwent a ser- |lous operation last month. | Casting aside ambitions for a po-| !litical career, the goal to which he| | looked forward in his younger years, William T. Kemper became a suc- cessful banker and railroad admin- | istrator. | What was regarded as the out- |standing achievement of his busi- |ness career was saving the Kansas |City, Mexico and Orient Railroad from being junked. ‘ “Streak of Rust” | Mr. Kemper became receiver of, that road in 1917, when it was re- ferred to as “a streak of rust run- ning off nowhere on the prairies of ‘lhe great Southwest.” Seven years {later the road showed a profit of ‘5142 000, the first time in years such |a condition prevailed. | The Orient railroad, one of the |dreams of Arthur E. Stillwell, was |conceived as a short route to the |west coast and with a terminal at |Topoloampo, Mex., was said to |trim the shipping distance to the |Orient by 1,000 miles. Stillwell in- terested British investors and fairly good building progress was made un- ‘til 1914. | With the outbreak of the World |War, the British investors began {withdrawing their money. The road |ran into a maze of financial diffi- |culties, dissolution was threatened, litigation was instituted and remain- ed in the courts until 1928, when American interests gained control Performed Miracles Meanwhile, Kemper was perform- |ing miracles, completed the reor- A‘gan.lzauon of the road and became president in 1925. Two years later |he and his counsel were awarded |more than $1,000,000 in fees for their ten-year services. During the reorganization period |the most extraordinary economies ever practiced by a railroad were put into effect by Mr. Kemper His {work was described by B. H. Meyer. |Interstate Commerce Commissior as a “model for thrift, and econ- omy in the operation of a railroad.” In order to save and conserve, Mr. Kemper had the terminal shops (Continued on P-ILP e PLANE FELL NEAR FLAMING ARROW DUDE RANCH j GROUNDED ® Boise IDAHO i | ; T UTAH NEV. The cross on this map marks the “Flying Zephyr” crashed. It was the first major air disaster of 1938, Rance, 10,000 feet above sea level. Two Btg Dv rvlopnwnts iu News Takes Place; Japanese Duty Evasion; Navy’s Plans while other ‘nations are o pay duties, the other including the United iy be squeezed out of that By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. — Two seemingly unrelated news develop- ! ments of recent days, when added * together, make sense Japanese ships oaded with goods to be distributed in China docked at Shanghai and paid no duty to the Chinese government. What does the House that mean? Simply, that if Japan tee that brings her own goods into China compelling b event was Pres- Roose statement at conference and in a letter to Appropriations Commit- world situation was to give attention to econd news ident a press the m approximate spot in the Bridger Mountains where the Northwest Airlines Nearby is the Flaming Arrow Dude the question of a bigger navy. The Presiflent emphasized that he had not committed himself to| more vessels than already are or-| dered, but that “if” the situation| warranted it, he would send to Con- gress a supplementary request for ships. Repeatedly he empha- sized the "if.". THE BIG STICK Diplomats know which can hit hardest gets the most attention. Roosevelt is aware of that. The other Roosevelt once said “Speak softly, but carry a big stick.” Of course the President did not \],\(’.\k out his navy plans simply that the nation (Continued on Page Six) | |other |called to the colors and there NIPPON MAKES THREAT WHICH GIVEN QUICK ARMED REPLY John Bull Authorities Re- sent Dare—Marines and Other Units Called to Make Resistance BULLETIN — SHANGHAI Jan. 19.—Authoritative Brit- ‘ish circles report a tension between the British and Jap- anese at Tientsin and a threat- ened clash of armed forces has only been staved off for the time being. The source of the informa- tion declares the Japanese |threatened to invade the Brit- |ish concession at Tientsin un- less Chinese, suspected of an- ti-Japanese activities are ex- pelled from the area. The British officials quick- ly declared any aggression would be resisted and then the Japanese threatened to enter the concession forcibly. The British marines and units were quickly was a hasty, placing of guards and arranging of troops at all strategic centers. The Japanese halted in their intention but the situa- tion remains unsettled and acute. FRANCE ASKING BIGGER BATTLE CRUISERS PACT {Topsy Turvy Europe and Asia Struggle in Flood of Trouble (By Assoclaied Press) In troubled rrance today, that government recognizes a need for cannon as well as butter. An attempt is being made to wipe |the limitations in size of battle- |ships. A high French authority said “there has been an exchange of views” with American, British and French governments concerning a revision of the London Naval Trea- ty to permit construction of battle~ ships exceeding 35,000 tons. A new French cabinet today walks a political tightrope, while in Rou- {mania, and in Russia, those nations also battled with internal tsrife. The fighting armies in Spain and China maneuvered in apparently decisive struggles. Under all these shadows of in- ternational tension and retroactive pressure, Camille Chautempts strained to keep with his reorgan- ized cabinet a delicate balance dis- turbed by new labor troubles. In Moscow, Stalin ordered an end to mas sexpulsions of Soviet party members. Foreigners thought this move might signalize an end to wholesale denunciations and ar- rests, In Roumania, 16 political parties began campaigns in new elections after King Carol dissolved the Rou- manian Parliament, creating a test {of strength of Premier Goga. The nw movement caused the exodus or thousands of .Jews seeking ha- vens abroad. DR. CHEIFETZ SAILS FROM SEATTLE SOON Dr. Sonia Cheifetz, Director of Maternal and Child Health Wel- fare for Alaska, is sailing from Se- attle on January 25 enroute to Ju- neau following a vacation of the past few weeks in the south. Dr. Cheifetz, who attended a health conference in Washington, D.C.. this month, has been visit- ing also at her home in Philadel- phia