The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1938, Page 1

| | A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE " “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7698. ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WAR PLANES OF| JAPAN BOMBING CHINESE CENTER New Attack Reported Made —One General Execut- ed—U. S. Note Sent SHANGHAI, Jan. 24, — Japanese war planes have bombarded the de- Hawaiian Isles Rocked hy Quake HONOLULU, HI. Jan. 24—Ha- waiian Islanders repaired minor damage resulting from an earth- quake Saturday night and kept close watch on the possible activity of numerous active volcanoes. The quake cracked plaster, tum- bled crockery from the shelves and frightened residents. No casualties have been reported. Mauna Loa, one of three great fenses of Suchow, center of the Chi- |volcanoes on the Island of Hawaii nese resistance along the east and west railway at Lunghai. The Japanese spokesman said the locomotive sheds, freight trains and nearby troop barracks have been de- stroyed in the attack. | Japanese columns are now rush- ing toward the city from the north| and south and have fought several indecisive engagements. At Peiping there are reports of activities of Soviet troops. These forces are reported to be moving in western Suiyuan Provimce and| are within a few miles of Paitow, railhead of the Toeipping system. HAN FUCHU EXECUTED HANKOW, Jan. 24—Gen. Han Fuchu, 48, who failed to prevent the| Japanese armies from conquering| most of the Shantung Province, the bread basket of China, has been| convicted of treason and has died at the hands of a firing squad. The General was Military Gov- ernor and Commander of Shangtung Province since 1930. Shortly after he abandoned his capital to the Jap- anese invaders, he was arrestted on orders of Chiang Kai Shek, accus- ed of disobeying orders of his su- perior officers in retreating from the province on his own initiative. He was also charged with misapprop- riating funds and forcing the sale of opium. AMERICAN PROTEST TOKYO, Jan. 24.—The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman said a writtem answer is expected to be giv- en within a few days to the U. S. against Japanese soldiers entering American property at Nanking. The spokesman said some ‘“‘necessary steps have already been taken by the Japanese authorities on the spot."” ITALY SENDS 3 AIRPLANES OVER OCEAN Experimental Flight Being Made — Mussolini’s Son Is on One ROME, Jan. 24—Three big tri- motored airplanes, one piloted by | Premier Benito Mussolini’s son Bruno, took off today from the Gui- donia Military Airport on an ex- perimental flight to South America. The planes, named the Green Mice, headed across Italy for the Sahara Desert with the intention of halting at Dakar, Senegal, 2480 miles from the starting point, be- fore crossing the South Atlantic to Natal, Brazil, then to Rio de Jan- eiro. Each plane has a five-man crew. MAKE FIRST LEG DAKAR, French West Africa, Jan. 24.—Three Italian trimotored planes roared into this section today com- pleting the first leg of a flight across the South Atlantic to Brazil. O 5 * | STOCK QUOTATIONS L +* NEW YORK, Jan. 24. — Closing quotation today of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 12%, American Can 81, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 327%, Bethlehem Steel 62, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 35%, International Harvester 64%, Kennecott 39, New York Central 18, Southerm Pacific 18%, United States Steel 58%, Cities Service 1%, Pound $4.99%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 129.89, rails 29.70, utilities 20.73. - CHAPELADIES TO MEET Announcement is made that the Chapeladies of the Chapel by the {Former Actress, might have originated the tremblor. This is expressed by Comdr. J. H. Peters, of the Coast and Geodetic Survey. FOUND DEAD FROM FUMES, EXHAUST PIPE Niece of Former Gov. Pinchot, Dies in Auto NEW YORK, Jan. 24—Police of the Second Nassau station said Ros- amond Pinchot, 33, daughter of ‘Go\'. Gifford Pinchot, of Pennsyl- |vania, has been found dead in an auto on the estate of Harry Alex- ander on Long Island For years the woman was a prom- |inent actress. It appears that she died, the po- lice, state, from the exhaust fumes of the car. She was identified by the servants of the Alexander es- tate. ELKS' PINSTERS TAKEBRUNSWICK TEAM INTO CAMP {Ed Radde Leads Best Five Match Started Yesterday | The Elks beat Brunswick on the | Brunswick bowling alleys yesterda iby the slim margin of four pins in the first of a five-game series | to see which sets of alleys can| dish up the best ball club. ! Ed - Radde led the Elks attack with 591 for the best ball of the 'evening. R. Galao with 578 pins (was high man for the Brunswick-l‘ ers. Emil Galao of the Brunswick' Alleys also announced today a ladies’ tournament for which reg- | istrations are now being made. | | | {there was a native woman murder- Amos Pinchot and niece of former| ‘CORPSE'RALLIES IN ‘MURDER' AT LEMON CREEK Officer Tell;; “Resurrec- tion”” Ride While Investi- gating Cabin Squabble This is the story of the “corpse” which woke up to have a drink as related to an Empire reporter by | § Deputy Marshal Walter G. Hellan, who officiated at the “resurrection” along with D. S. Hostetter, Federal Bureau of Investigation Agent. “Around 9 o'clock this morning we received a telephone call from the radio station out the Highway that| B Spéna Billion — Beat Sldmp"’ ed out at Lemon Creek. Hostetter| g and I got a cab and went out. We; tound Mike Fuchs, who lives about | ja half mile up Lemn Creek lxomi 3 |the road waiting for us. He said| |that he and a native woman, Cath- | |erine Cato, had started out to his cabin last night and had stopped | at Tom McGann's place at Lemon | \Creek before going on to the Fuchs| place. | |" “They had a few drinks with Me- | |Gann, we learned, and then Fuchs and the Cato woman went on to! |his cabin. This morning, Fuchs told | Marriner 8. Eccles, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, is shown as us, McGann came up to his cabin he appeared before the special Senate committee investigating unemploy- and accused the couple of taking| ment. He said that restoration of the consumers’ buying power is vitally |some money from his place. There importantif the current recession is to be curbed, and urged expenditure was an argument and Fuchs said of a billion dollars as the necessary stimulus. McGann took a couple of shots at him, hit the Cato woman over the head with a gun and left, riding into town with Joe Kendlex | “When we got to the cabin the Cato woman was stretched out cold, but investigation revealed she was still alive, although bleeding from a wound on her head. We had told | the hearse to follow us out and when it drove up we loaded the woman into the ‘dead’ basket and started for town. I rode in the hearse. As we were coming along near Salmon Creek I looked back at our basket WILL BE WAGED PLANNED T0 GET ON PARALYSIS 28, B. PLAYERS Doctor Explains What Work Dizzy Dean Was Onej Schec Will Be Done with Funds = uled for Snatch Crime, land found the ‘corpse' sitting up and pulling a bottle of whiskey out > . o oo s Lo ot from Birthday Ball FBI Declares “I told the driver, Don Skuse, to ¥ TR The new Infantile Paralysis Foun-| CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 24—Federal |stop, but he said if we stopped there in front of all the houses we'd scare everybody out of their wits, battling e with a corpse in broad daylight. But Ve!t dation, now being organized arot the celebration of President Roc birthday, intends to conduct agents and prosecutors are moving to speedy doom, John Henry (An- ders) Seadlund, and have decided | directly we passed the houses and 2 fight against infantile paralysis to arraign him under the Lmdburg!rnpfln_ rescued both the ‘corpse’ and the unique in American medical his- Kidhap law on charges of abduction whiskey. We took the woman to the tory, according to Dr. Paul De and slaying of Charles S. Ross. Government hospital where doctors Kruif. an authority on the discase Department of Justice officials itreated her and said she wasn't it an article released by the North also announce that the confessed very seriously injured, so we took American Newspaper Alliance. . |slayer of Ross and also his accom- her to fail; | Commenting on the campaign/plice in the kidnaping, James At- |which will be inaugurated with the|wood Gray, once contemplated plans UNIQUE BATTLE ROSS ABDUCTOR “We had Fuehs, and a little later we rounded up McGann, and we've funds raised from the birthday balls|to abduct two major league baseball | to be given throughout the countr (next Saturday night, the one in Ju- 'neau to be held at the Elks Hall, Dr. | De Kruif said: Cardinal pitcher, and an unnamed “With large amounts of money, imember of the New York Yankees, with really adequate sinews of war,|and hold each for $50,000 ransom. the new foundation plans to fight entually, the plans were abandon- the sickness on every front, inled. every region, with the war in its| Seadlund remains handcuffed to- § various phases planned by the Best|day to the bars of his cell in the Iscientific, medical, public health|Chicago FBI office on the f9th floor tars. They said Seadlund, alias| deter Anders, dropped the abortive plans to Seize Dizzyz Dean, St. Louis got them all up here trying to Snd out whatit's all about.” .- FEDERAL JURY CONVICT THREE RODEN FILES FOR MYSTERY DEATH "R fies v, IS BEING PROBED Sevire As i i ator Henry Roden of Juneau today filed with the B Fede Clerk his declaration of candidacy for re-election to the W h |Senate from this Division on the . | Democrat ticket The Senator Official Party Out Today|;;"%ried in the senate during on Lincoln Island D(-;\lh |the last two legislative sessions Daps % and was elected four years ago as —Partner in Juneau | independent | | - DEMOCRATS OF Forced back by storm condi- | tiens, the Yakobi sougnt shelter | at Auk Bay this afternoon and was unable to continue to Lin- coln Island h officers to in- there. Deputy Markle and Com- | | missioner Gray said another at- tempt to reach the scene would be made temorrow morning. While U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray and Deputy Marshal William Pty i et il {Club Formed at Nome— arkle were a incoln Island 0~ ~ v |day aboard the gasbost Yakoby| Strong Ticket to Be |Capt. Tom Smith, investigating the| Placed in Primaries |reported death of an identified man {there John D. Lane who, with his wife, 26, were brought to Ju-| neau Saturday aboard the Game| Commission vessel Seal, was being| NOME, Alaska, Jan. 24.—At a mass meeting of Nome Democrats, a per- manent club was the result and fhe club is prepared to present a strong 52 \qu«monfd by Assistant District At-ticket in the primaries, following torney George W. Folta . lout the policies continually urged Lane is the partner of Claud Phil-|pv the late Tom Gaffney, Seward :hp< and the latter is the man who |was using the boat of John SVe| The organization presents a unit- |which was located on the beach ODieq front and every indication points {Lincoln Island on Christmas EVE |ty o solid Democratic vote in the {with a dead man hanging over the|gecond Division next fall. |side, according to the report made A strong Democratic ticket will be {to the Marshal’s office by Thomas placed in the field in this Division. Townsend and Z. Goshgarian, " Tne Democrats enthusiastically trappers of that region, Saturday. |yeaffirmed faith and confidence in Peninsula leader. Lane, according to authorities, presigent Roosevelt, Gov. John W. said he and his partner, Phillips, Troy, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond had run short of food and that Phil-|ang ' the Territorial ihp.\ had left their cabin near Bear party. {Creek on December 16 to come to; i . |Juneau for supplies. He was using| found on Lincoln Island. That was |the last, Lane said, he had seen of {him. Officers checking here found that Phillips had come to Juneau nd gotten supplies and left here lon December 19 to return to Bear |the boat 31-B-118 which later | |Creek | ' | Tatie 114 offioms, -1t was ro- 1, L ic elceates fo e Coniral ba lported, thst they had sbeen hela|D%F Conudll abd one Titstes of the i Sy Junes ine and Mill Workers - {up’ for food and had gobten same |’ FeaU Mine and,Mill Workezs, Lo cal 203, were elected Saturday by | the latter body, according to voting \figures released this afternoon. Delegates elected were Chris |Hennings, W. A. Rasmussen, E. R. Lane, who was accompanied by his Ko v Schulz, Ted Danielsen a harles wife, w brought into Juneau by‘Cl’U'liL’l' b R e Game officials Saturday in connec-| ., i Gt s evan b . tion with investigation of game law:T;’\;:Lf;, ?i]l::: B n el o the violations, they said. 4 Whether the body reported in the boat by trappers Townsend and Goshgarian is that of Phillips awaits | results of the investigation hemg{ made today by Commissioner Gray, and Deputy Marshal Markle. | According to the trappers, the dead man’s wrists and throat had. 7pe Douglas Ski been slashed. There was a blood- ing place for clos stained saw in the boat, they said,|gnq twenty ski yesterday who but no other weapon. |took advantage of a fresh fall of Game officials reported that Phil-|snow and clear weather to spend the lips' gun was in his cabin near Bear day in skiing at the first meadow. Creek, | Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Kimball, Today officers were attempting to|piss Mary Vander Leest, Miss Bar- solve the problem of how Phillips, hara Winn, Bob Kimball, Lou Hud- if the dead man is Phillips, had son, Lu Liston, Eric Schutte, and gone so far past his cabin at Bear jack Mullins spent Saturday night Creek. The boat was on Lincoln gng Sunday at the ski cabin where Island which is north of Shelter they report excellent skiing condi- Island and the latter is north of the tjons. Bear Creek base, officers explained. The U. S. Forest Service today an- (from Augustus De Roux, asbestos mine operator at Bear Creek D. e Roux, officers said, confirmed the - 1120 SKIERS TREK UP TRAIL SUNDAY TO FIRST MEADOW rall was a meet- to a hundred Democratic { IPED OUT, SPAIN WAR 19 BATTALIONS OF VOLUNTEERS LOSE IN FIGHT Two Reports Received in London, Both from In~ surgent Front LONDON, Jan, ? es received here the Franco-Spanish frontier re- port that two American volunteer units have been “destroyed” out- side of Teruel. The units, known as the Third Internationale Brigade, was decimated by machine gun fire after assaulting Insurgent po- sitions. ter another report reaching here said the two volunteer bat- talions of the U. S, were wiped out by Insurgent and Moorish Cavalry. Both reports came from In- surgent quarters. Nothing ic given regarding from where the Americans enlisted. D ‘BOMBS DROPPED UPON SCORES OF 'SPANISH CITIES Both Insurgent and Govern-~ . ment Planes Make | Aerial Attacks ! PERPIGNAN, France, Jan. 24— |Aerial bombardments spread de= |struction throeugh a dozen Spanish |cities over the weekend, causing jat least 80 deaths and hundreds of wounded as Insurgent and Govern- ment fliers, ranging out widely be- hind battle lines, dumped explosives on city after city. In addition to the air bombings, five Insurgent gunboats shelled Valencia, standing a couple of miles off port and firing 40 shells. The Government officials report little damage done. JOE CROSSON IS PRESIDENT OF ICE GAMES Big Interior Carnival to Be | Held Early in March A poke of gold—$1,000 worth of glittering gold crumbs. That is the prize that the Fairbanks Ice Care |nival hopes to set up for carnival revelers at the annual big Interior party scheduled this year for March 10-11-12. Joe Crosson, President of the Fair- banks Dog Derby and Ice Carnival, flew into Juneau yesterday with ! Walt Hall and a plane load of pas- |sengers. At the Gastineau Hotel |this afternoon, Crosson told of plans SIMMONS TAKES LOCKHEED OUT ON ISLAND TRIP Shell Simmons hopped the Lock- heed yesterday to Sitka and way- points, taking five passengers out; and bringing back three. Going out, Jack Littlepageand Paul Sailo for Sitka; Anard Runquist and George Bolyan for Cobol, and Lee Boulier for Chichagof. Coming in, from Hirst, Max Saul| and J. Hardin, while Jack Little page made the round trip. MIXING MOVIES WITH HIS FLYING| Dr. Joseph Aronson is mixing movie-taking with his flying les- sons. Yesterday, Dr. Aronson took his second flying lesson from Tony Schwamm in the Gastineau Flying Last night's sl'c;;:‘r:s follow : EAvEsnRuPPING and surgical brains in the country.|of a loop skyscraper | At least there will be adequate| Ed Connelly, FBI Inspector, said Metcall 157 y, , 88 L:Venuf( 130 ffi; ;Z:: ggs % . |means of research, with knowledze the prisoner’s mother, a widow, Mrs. Boggan N I 52| Concealed Microphones in of the discoveries of each worker Paul Seadlund, (alked briefly with H 180 1 . {orad rapidly available to all the others,|her son and then returned to her gagn w0 198— 53| Offices of Colorado i the virus of the plague i ik Radde 213 168 210— 591 ! plag |home in Ironton, Michigan. She TENCLOE PR it Governor {known in all its strength andlsaid she was happier now that Totals 870 884 913—«2667i Sk weakness. her son had been captured because Brunswick DENVER, Col, Jan. 24—A jury Te Aid Threatened Uvizmunities |“he can't get in trouble any more E. Galao 170 179 180— 529 |in the Federal District Court has “With means of pre ention that| - i 1 eavesdrop- 100k very hopeful experimentally, Hendricks 161 197 158— 516 |convicted three men of eavesdrop- Halm 149 172 179— 500 Ping by concealing microphones in hf‘a_lthmgn of threatened commu-| w"-KlNS HAS MADE R. Galao 220 182 176— 573“}19 oftices of Gov. Teiler Am- hities will have the wherewithal LO‘ ONE FL]GHT lNTO . i fight epidemics instantly and on a mons. | Carnegle ... 13 151 16— 540 M0 e convicted are Earl Eilis, scale til now unneard of. The rank | ARCTIC FOR FLIERS sus| d file of our physicians will be| e Te 3 r |Denver attorney already suspended an . ozals__.l&asg B by the State Supreme Court; Wal- 8iven opportunity to learn the early| Sir Hubert Wilkins, who is mak- den Sweet, former newspaper re- diagnosis of the acute disease, ing a search for the missing Soviet porter, and Jack Gilmore, private‘““fl the modern treatment that can|fliers in the Arctic, made one flight investigator. now prevent its horrible deform-jcn Jenuary 14 and covered 1425 District Judge Walsh granted the ities. Communities that lack or- miles, according to Howard J. defense motion to allow 22 days in thopedic facilities to bring wrecked Thompson, U. S. Meteorologist at| which to file a motion for a new Victims back to all possible sirength|ihe Weather Bureau here, who re- trial. that science can give will be aided|turned from Fairbanks Sunday by The jury acquitted the three on by grants of money. |PAA plane after being in Fairbanks other counts of maintaining a com- “The neyu foundation will not clgarmg weather reports for the Wil- mon pleas nuisance, conspiracy to seek to regiment the fight on these kins expedition. maintain a nuisance and conspiracy | '210US sectors of the battle, bult| On the one flight, the only to eavesdrop. MILLERS ON BARANOF (o tne country, and SomBOUNDwESDAY@hosu competent to carry |scientific, public health Mr. and Mrs. Geoige Miller, for- and surgical war against mer residents of Juneau, when Mr. alytic plague. ing the February full moon and Miller was safety engineer here for| “It has been discovered by physi-| Thompson will return to Fairbanks the U. S. Bureau of Mines, are pas-|cal therapists and surgeons at the ahout the first of the month to again sengers aboard the Baranof from|Children’s Hospital School in Bal- take charge of clearing weather Anchorage, according to advices to timore, at Georgia Warm Springs data. B. D. Stewart, Territorial Commis- and other institutions that. h:‘, The McGregor expedition, locat- sioner of Mines, today. The vessel is quick, accurate diagnosis of infan-'ed on the northwest tip of Green- due to arrive here in the morning. tile paralysis and proper treatment|land, also is supplying valuable one| {keep in constant contact with the|Wilkins was in, the air nine and reach on theibelieved to have nn»rh('ul."Thompson reported. the par-| The explorer will try again dur- disappeared, Whether he had met with foul play or taken his own life also remained a mystery pending further investi- nounced that register books have for “the biggest, the most stupen= been placed at the shelter cabin, dous, carnival ever.” located at the flume and at the Skii Don Adler has been appointed lits sclentific men will survey and which thus far has been possible,on the refreshment committee. |needs of local fighters in every part|one-half hours but did not {Club will be held on February 12. then aid all|the area where the Soviet fliers are| gation. icahm, All skiers are asked to sign !the registers. It is also asked by the Forest VIKING CLUB CARD 1t it tho askea by e PARTY, DANCE ARE " elt and walke mionzsice E. F. CLEMENTS TO SAIL ABOARD YUKON ON OFFICIAL TRIP E. F. Clements, Territorial sani- tarian, is leaving tomorrow aboard the Yukon for Westward and In- terior points on official duty for the Territorial Department of Health. ATTENDED BY MANY the trail in order to keep the snow O. F. Hall Saturday night when the| Sking was also enjoyed on the Viking Club held its card party and |Perseverance road, over 20 making the club program for the season. ! _—re Mrs. Peter Oswald, Mrs. T. Ha-| M‘GRATH MINER on the entertainment committee,| GO[NG OUTS]DE and Fred Newman, Henry Ander-| |was a plane arrival from Fairbanks The next meeting of the Viking yesterday aboard a PAA Dplane |arrival of the Baranof, McDonnell {is “taking a short vacation.” |the Candle Creek country where he |held ground under the old Kus- | property is now being worked by la dragline outfit under Dave A capacity crowd filled the 1.0,/In good sking condition. dance as an outstanding event on 'h¢ trip the entire distance. gerup and Mrs, O. Flobergsund were | son and Mrs. Mary Lindstrom were! D. S. McDonnell, of McGrath | Stopping at the Gastineau to await McDonnell is a mining man from kokwim Dredging Company, which Strandberg. - - ‘TS TONIGHT Alford John Bradford Post, Am- Mr. and Mrs. Miller are going|in its acute stage, astoun re-|weather information, the meteoro- through south, it is understood. Lake will meet at the home of Mrs.|Club Aeronca. While in the air, thel Mr. Miller is now connected with |now possible. Garry Banta on Wednesday eve- ning. doctor took several feet of color movies. Quick Diagnosis Now Possible (Continued on Page Four) W. E. Dunkle mining interests in the Westward. |sults in preventing deformity .'uv‘lolnsl said. The Soviet polar base, Thompson reported, has row drifted |south to latitude 78 off the Green- xland coast. He will be engaged in sanitation work in Seward, Cordova, Valdez, Fairbanks, Anchorage, Palmer and vicinity. erican Legion, will hold its regular | business meeting tonight in the |Dugout, Commander Walter Bacon presiding. ) ! manager of the carnival and Mrs. Clara West, field marshal | Tre regular queen contest in Fair- |banks will be expanded this year {to include a representative from |every town in the Territory if plans develop favorably and a “big prize” will be in store for the lucky Queen of 'em all. - ~ FAST OF DEA - COMES TO END | MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 24. — A Iphysician attending Israel Harding | Noe said the Episcopal clergyman, whose fast to attain immortality was ended against his will has a “chance” for life, e The doctor, who asked that his name be withheld, undertook to restore the strength of the former dean, 47, after he was taken to a hospital last night. He fell into a deep sleep after 22 days of fasting. The fast was officially broken at 8:35 o'clock last night when the first intravenous injection of a saline solution of 5 percent glucose was made. A second similar feeding was made early today. The attending physician said Noe’s heart condition was good.