The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 31, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA NO. 7704. VOL. LI, ————————————————————————————————————————— “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 31, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS dH 13 7I;'ri(lr> MAKING GAINS, MARY POINTS Invaders Pushed Back at Several Strategic Centers PUSH JAPANESE INTO SEA IS NOW SLOGAN New Year's N(:t Being Ob- served — Money Is Saved for Bullets SHANGHALI, Jan. 31 — Chinese and Japanese troops fought a ser- ies of heavy engagements yester- day along the Tientsin-Pukow Rail- with the Chinese asserting they |made extensive searches to the had pushed the Japanese invaders %westward without results and other back at several strategic points. | parties returned to various places Japanese, attempting to drive ‘lxkemse. finding no trace of the northward along the Tientsin-Pu- three. kow Railway toward Suchow, the | No particulars were received in junction point of the Tientsin-Pu- kow road with the Lunghai Rail- way, are said to have been driven back to Mingkwang, 38 miles south- east of Pengpu. Pengpu, approximately 95 miles of Suchow, has been the focal point of the Japanese advance northward frem Nanking. Another column has been attempting to march southward toward Suchow bases in southern Shantung Pro- vince. Chinese asserted their forces have captured a large number of Japanese near Mingkwang and fur- ther announced that their continu- ous guerilla warfare as meeting with success on all fronts. NO CELEBRATING: Prince Paul of Greece, younger brother of King George II, and his bride, the former Princess Frederika Luise of Brunswick, are shown just after their marriage recently in Athens. The prince sports a menocle, just as his brother does. 'STANLEY REED Former Alaska TO | PAA Hopeful of | Getting Permit JAMES PARTY 1S REPORTED T0 BE ALIVE | | | | |Former Juneau Man, Miss- | ing Partners, Are Aboard Starr SEWARD, Alaska, Jan. 31. — The | Gateway publishers announce they | have received a message stating that Ray G. James, former Juneau car- penter contractor, and Mr. and Mrs, ‘Glen Collins, all trappers, who have |been missing since late in Decem- | ber, are safe and aboard the mail steamer Starr. The three left Johnson Bay De- |cember 27 and until word was re- |ceived by the Gateway had been ‘givrn up for lost. The Coast Guard | cutiers Morris and John C. Spencer | the message as to where the three were picked up, or as to their con- dition. For Seattle Trip {Extension of Air Service| from Juneau South De- pendent on Com. Dept. SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—E. E. Wyman, building at St. Hyacinthe, Que., while many slept. all that remained after the disastrous fire. as it lef( fire hoses, added to the terr MORE PO What Is Your PUSH JAPANESE INTO SEA Vice-President of the PAA, said HANGCHOW, Jan. 31.—The Chin- his company planned to start an cse New Year begins today. The immediate Seattle to Alaska serv- GRANTED NLRB News I Q , Year of the Tiger," as the “Year ice if the petition already filed with s ol 'TAKES SEAT IN Doctor Found 'SUPREME COURT Dead in Auto Brief Ceremony Held Then Physician’s Wife Also Vic- Tribunal Goes Right time of Indicated to Work Suicide Pact 1 i ol s With China today Setting its eyes ~ il on the goal, “Push the Japanese into| WASHINGTON, Jan. 31—Stan-, ELKO, Nevada, Jan 31—The bod- the Sea,” éhmnse dispatches said fl"ley Reed, 53, of Kentucky, today ies of a couple, identified as l)x: {I\ou>a)|.{i Japanese soldiers had been |S" bie “to give equal rights to the and Mrs, Harry L. Brewer, formerly killed in heavy fighting along the|Poor and rich,” then took his seat of San Francisco, were found in an Tientsin-Pukow Railway, whefe it|in the Supreme Court of the United automobile on the highway five & e s b Sy States. miles east of here. is reported Chinese have regained ] y i iz et much lost ground. ! Reed is President Roosevelt's sec-| Officer W. W. Cook, who investi MRS i |ond appointee to the Supreme Court,|gated _thn deaths, said a funnel hkxd\ The brief, formmal ceremony ov been fastened over the exhaust pipe APOLUGY MADE the Tribunal proceeded immediate- and a hose carried the deadly ex- ly to work, reading opinions and haust gas into the car. Sentry Involved Is Going to hearing arguments. Friends here said Dr. Brewer once Marshal Frank Green escorted practiced medicine in Anchorage, Be Courtmartialed, Is Report of the Ox” comes to a close Zodiacal animal signs of the 12 vears' Chinese calendar mark the Oriental annual circuit, but the us- ual festivity accompanying the turn of the year will not be in evidence. The traditibnal firecracker cele- bration has been banned, with sav-| ing of gunpowder for Chinese bul- lets destined for Japanese soldiers, the order of the day. Reed to his seat and Associate Jus-| Alaska. Letters found indicated that tice Stone leaned across Cardozo's he had applied for a license to again vacant seat and gripped Reed’s Practice in Anchorage Enfgwflmw Fighting Begins ON WAGE, HoUR |~ Anew or Spanish BILL IS piveN Waring Fron New Assocge- Justice ofj Supreme Court Once Gave Opinion WASHINGTON, Jan 31. — The United States has accepted Japan's cxpression of regret for the slapping, administered by a Japanese sentry, of John Allison, at Nanking, last Wednesday. Allison is Third Sec- retary in Charge of the American Embassy at Nanking. The Japanese apology was oral and it is said the sentry will be courtmartialed. in Worst Aerial At- j tack of Conflict | By PRESTON GROVER | HENDAYE, Spanish-French Bor- WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Stanley der, Jan. 31.—The Insurgent army Reed, the President’s choice for Jus- has taken the offensive north of tice Sutherland’s seat, and who has|Cordoba in Southwestern Spain and been confirmed to the Supreme is rolling back the thinly manned Court, committed himself last July|Government lines, as action is to a view that the wage-hour bill brought again to the long dormant pialin Rl 08 R BALL REGUHBS is constitutional in spite of a land- battle front. {mark decision of the court that| General Francisco Franco, Span- | seems against it. ish Insurgent leader, retains su- | His idea was that this landmark |preme dictatorial powers over Spain idecision, Hammer vs. Dagenhart,|after reorganizing the Ministerial {cannot stand up. |departments of his government, Hammer vs. Dagenhart was the| In Barcelona, the provisional Cap- 1918 case in which the Court held ital of the Loyalist troops, rescue {that the Federal government could squads were working wearily to clear not exclude from interstate com-|away debris of the two worst aerial merce the goods that were manu- attacks of the war, which killed 300 NEW YORK, Jan. 31 —Incomplete yo.t,10q by child labor. The argu-|and wounded 700 yesterday. { reurns from the President’s Birth-Imen ypnelq by the Court was that| This bombing was apparently the | day Balls given throughout the g}, jegigiation was designed to af-|Insurgent answer to the proposed United States and possessions last go.¢ working conditions within a armistice on city-mobing, offered by Saturday night indicate that all TeC- | state and therefore transgressed the| the Loyalist tl‘oop§ in prole;swuon ords for attendance and receipts poundary between State and Fed-%"’ “cruel” warfare in which civilians were shattered. This is according 0 !era) authority. were as endangered asssoldiers. Keith Morgan, National Chairman ! —_—————— and the announcement was made pspTERN CITED A movement is under way to enact following only partial returns from| pne majority opinion in that case,|legislation to set up a state police thousands of chairmen. (Continued on Page Six) patrol system in Georgia. National Chairman Morgan Makes Gratifying Announcement i Barcelona Bombed Agam the Department of Commerce is ap- proved. Application to extend the air line service from Juneau to Seaitle was made during the recent strike in Seattle, when the ships were tied up, in an effort to facilitate mail and passenger transportation GRACE LINER ~ BY HIGH COURT Decision Upholds Rights to Conduct Important Hearings WASHINGTON, Jan. 3i The Supreme Court of the United States today in a decision .upheld the right ! of the National Labor Relations Board to conduct hearings to deter- mine whether companies subject to PURCHASED BY | Associate Justice Louis D. Bran-| Each question counts 20; each T Be A I deis delivered the opinion in two Part of a two-part question, 10. A o Named ‘‘Denali”— cases involving the Bethlehem score of 60 is fair; 80 good {Shipbuilding Corporation and the 1. Who is this king who kicked out his prime minister? 2. Men of what two nations are planning submarine expedi- ticns in North Polar waters? 3. Which side made the greater headw Spains’ civil war last year? Dorothy Alexander to | n |Newport News Shipbuilding Co. He announced there was no dissent. | Be Renamed Also {Benjamin Cordozo, ill with heart SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—The Alaska trouble, did not participate in the Steamship Company today an-|opinion Inounced the purchase of the steamer| Associate Justice Brandeis said |Curaca from the Grace Line Steam- |the Supreme Court is of the opinion Iship Company, for use in the Alaska that Federal District Courts are 4. Have government experts trade. l“without power to enjoin the Na-| Predicted that 1938’s national { The Curaca will be brought to tional Labor Relations Board from| Inceme weuld (a) show an in- Seattle and renamed the “Denali”|nholding hearings” and added that| ¢rease, (b) make additional taxes unnecessary, (c) or show a decrease? 5. What is the new name of the former Irish Free State? Answers on page 2 ARMY 1S TO BE REORGANIZED: |to take the place of that vessel|the Supreme Court was of the opin- |which was lost recently off Duni a5 jon that the “Federal Courts were | i {Island below Ketchikan. {without jurisdiction to enjoin the| | The vessel will have accommoda- hearings because the power to inves- | ,onps for 300 passengers, it is said. tigate persons engaged in untair (It is 324 feet long, 3,280 tons gross, practices affecting commerce had | Reports of Military Experts ' Received—Big Change Now Contemplated | Steamship Company officials, that { It is expected also that the Alaska | ‘Hutcmnson, 73, Washington's Se War Department has received re- {the steamer Dorothy Alexander, last | { | Steamship Company will purchase P . % Washington's Secretary of ! | FIRE swEPT He Ports from military experts which, | | | |46 feet in beam and 25 feet deep. peen vested by Congress in the She was built in 1920 in Mobile, | oard.» A year purchased from the Pacific |Coast Steamship Line, will be re- |another craft for the Alaska run before the summer rush begins. Slate Passes Away at His Home \retary of State, died yesterday |had been in ill health for some time, it i reliably predicted, will result in complete reorganization of the | Alabama. e - A |conditioned this spring and named He was elected in 1932 larmy by introducion of streamlined It was also announced by Alaska | i the Columbia. | | SEATTLE, Jan. 31. — Dr. E. N.| WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.— The “He was a man of the most lov- ;Damage to Canning Plant | Is $250,000 — Fire Truckin Accident | | able character,” said Gov. Clarence |divisions D. Martin, The proposed new divisions will It is expected that Gov. Martin be half the size of the present one, As- Will be largely motorized, move fas- SEATTLE STREAMLINED Forty-five teachers and pupils are reported dead or missing after fire destroyed the Sacred Heart College The gaunt, grim entrance to the building was about $Sub-zero temperatures, which froze water almost as soon or. NEW NOTE SENT JAPAN RELATIVE T0 ALASKA FISH State Department Seeks Adjustment for Salmon Taken by Nipponese WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — A usu- ally reliable informant said today that the State Department had dis- patched a new note to Japan with the hope of obtaining final settle- ment of the dispute over salmon | The new note is aimed at obtain- ing some adjustment for fish taken by the Japanese off Bristol Bay dur- ing the last season, it was stated. Previous notes were understood to have dealt only with future prac- tices between the two countries. The Jape reply in the first instance was said to be satisfactory to the State Department although not ex- (pected to meet with complete ap- }pxu\ 1l of west coast fishing inter- ests HOUSING BILL UP IN SENATE | l WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. — The Senate today took up consideration |of the Administration’s housing |legislation, temporarily laying aside | the anti-lynching bill ‘The Housing legislation would lib- leralize the Federal Housing Admin- |Istration’s insurance mortgages per- | mitting the purchase of small homes with a down payment of 10 percent of the total cost. | The Senate Judiciary committee |especially members King and Aus- tin, said they desired to question Robert Jackson, nominee for Soli- |citor General, on his recent speech- |es about business, - Lieut, Col, Ord ~ Dies in Crash MANILA, Jan. 31 Lieut. Col |James B. Ord, Assistant to Gen. fishing rights of the Alaska coast. | |will name Charles Reed, present |sistant Scretary of State, to succeed ter and much more heavily armed MacArthur, was killed Sunday in a TIPTON, Indiana, Jan. 31.—Fire, |fanned by a strong wind swept |through Stokely Brothers canning Dr. Hutchinson. A son, B. N Hut- chinson, former publicity agent, i§ !now head of an advertising agency. per man | > VACATION IN SOUTH Philippine Army training plane. He crashed at Bagulio according to of- [ficial reports received here. NAVY PLANE, ALASKA BOUND, GOES DOWN er -VTwor Scm(; Rv portwi boml in Fire ifi Quob& CRAFT STN kS BUT CREW OF ' FIVE RESCUED Engine Trm:b‘le_Developk— Landing Forced Near Goose Island VESSEL TOTAL LOSS, IS OFFICIAL REPORT Men Take to—R;bber Emer- | gency Boat — Picked Up Sunday Noon SEATTLE, Jan. 31.—The five- man crew of a United States Navy plane was rescued near Goose Island, British Colum- bia, Sunday noon after the plane had been forced down by en- gine trouble on Saturday en- route to Sitka, Alaska, from Se- attle. The Canadian ship Catala and an unnamed fishing boat picked up the five men found in a rubber emergency boat, after the plane, a total loss, is said to have gone down. The men spent a wild night in their rubber emergency boat in a tossing sea. The men aboard the plane, and rescued, are Lieut. J. A. Horton, Aviation Cadet L. A. Matthew, Machinist mates H. W. Robinson and G. V. West, and Radioman D. P. Reigand. None of the five were injured. Late yesterday the rescued men were proceeding to Prince Ru- pert aboard the U.S.8. Teal, where the other five planes of Squadron VP-16 landed safely Saturday night. HOP FOR SITKA PRINCE RUPERT, B.C., Jan. 31. Five of the United States Navy bombers left here at noon today for Sitka, carrying five members of the crew of the plane wrecked Saturday near Goose Island. The planes ex- pected to reach Sitka during mid- afternoon. 3 NEW CASES " OF MENINGITIS AT NUNOCHUK Local Indian Office Receives | No Word of Reported | Appeal Made Here BETHEL, Alaska, Jan. 31.—Roy L. Jameson, Government teacher, has appealed to Claude M. Hirst, educational director, of the Bureau of Indian Affairs at Juneau, for additional medical aid to isolate car= (riers of meningitis, which has claim= ed the fourth death. There are ;mrez- new cases at Nunochuk NO APPEAL RECEIVED HERE Dr. J. F Worley, Medical Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, said here this morning that no ap- | peal had been received thus far from the reported meningitis stricken |area. The sickness has been re- |ported, he said, and Dr. E. Wer- bel, Indian office physician at Beth- el, has flown to the scene. The fact that no word has been received from Dr. Werbel since he left for the stricken district would indicate, Dr. |Worley said, that the situation is under control and Dr. Werbel has not found it necessary to call for further assistance MANY DIE IN ACCIDENTS ON PAST WEEKEND At .Leas! 83 Lose Their Lives—Weather Con- ditions Blamed CHICAGO, IllL, Jan. 31. — Traffic accidents took at least 83 lives throughout the Nation during the |factory early today, causing a dam- lage of $250,000. ! Seven persons were hurt when a \fire truck backed into a crowd of Jspccmlurx -- The law of England still requires |that members of the Church of Eng |land attend divine service on Sun- day. | ->>> | price of 100,000 pounds was placed on the head of Dr. Sun Sen, “fatier of the Chinese re- week-end, according to reports com- piled by the Associated Press. Wea- ther contributed to the toll it is claimed. Mr. and Mrs. Behlke of Fairbanks A left recently on a two month vaca- once tion trip to San Francisco and Los| Y’ | Angeles. jpubl