The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 1, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE' ) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7705. JUVEAU ALASKA TUB DM FI;BRUARYI |938 MhMBER ASSO(L\IH) I’I’[ 55 ARMED CONELICT FEARED, BERING SEA NO REPORT OF ALASKAN FLIER SINCE MONDAY Pilot and M_echanic Last Heard from North of Endicott Range BELIEVED DOWN ON SLOPES, JOHN RIVER Plane Is Mounted on Skiis| —Had Radio Supplies for Soviet Agents BULLETIN — Fairbanks, Al- aska, Feb. 1—A radio report frcm Point Barrow received here this afterncon says Gillam has wirelessed he is down on the Chandalar River or lake waiting a break in the weather. He said his gas was low. Gillam had not reperted since 10:15 o'clock yes- terday forenoon. FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 1. Radio operators are listening for| some word from Harold Gillam, Al-| askan flier, not reported since 10:15 c'clock yesterday forenoon on a| flight from Fairbanks to Point Bar- Tow. | Observers conceded Gillam and his mechanic, George Saunders, are down beyond John River, over and north of the Endicott Range. Gillam left here at 7:45 o'clock yesterday morning with radio sup-| plies for the Russian representatives, | Smirnov and Cooke, engaged in the search for the missing Soviet fliers. The last word from Gillam aboard his ski mounted plane said he was| over John River, about 150 miles| northwest of here. It is believed | Gillam was forced to sit down either | on the slopes of the Endicott or| beyond. | On a prior trip Gillam was forced | down by a black fog but eventually reached Point Barrow | | | | ) ALASKA SEEN | THROUGH EYES | OF CHEECHAKD Woman Avnatlon Editor Writes Impressions of Trip (Editor's Note: Mrs. Alice Rogers Hager is one of the foremost avia-| tien editors of the country, associ- ated with the North American Newspaper Alliance. A writer of avi- | ation material for several years and the wife of a flier, Mrs. Hager has | seen a great deal of airplane history | in the making. Her trip to Alaska| was for the purpose of understand- | ing Alaska’s aviation problems and seeing them first-hand. | (Somewhat trapped into it, Mrs. Hager wrote a request story on an Empire typewriter this artpmoonl that is an appreciated compliment to Alaska). —— | By ALICE ROGERS HAGER | Alaska is a strange medley — a| tremendous composite picture of old | and new, a shifting kaleidescope of { color and blankness, long blue shadows on white snow, silvered wings of planes fantastically held aleft by human ingenuity above as savage terrain as the world boasts, | plodding men on foot in a pitiless, wilderness—stark courage, living re- | duced to its lowest common denom- | inator and a grand hail fellow well' met camaraderie laced through it. | No Tourist That’s the Alaska I've seen in the two short weeks that have been my lucky lot here in the North. And | I'm convinced that, beautiful as| the other seasons may be, the real country is more visible in the win- ter. Because tourists are noticeable by their absence, and you can’t see any country as it really is through tourist’s eyes. Too many of them (Contiriued on Page 'rhree) A]ab.mn Saores‘ Though Alabama didn't do very well in the Rose Bowl, the state still can win a contest. Miss Helen Carter, Birmingham, weas awarded the title of Miss Paim Beach in a beauty contest at the Florida resort. There were 65 in the competition. 5 U, 8. NAVY PLANES ARE SAFE, SITKA Squadron Completes Flight| North from Seattle— One Craft Lost SITKA, Alaska, Feb. 1. — Five| planes of patrol squadron VP-16, undex Lieut. Commander C. C. Champion‘ arrived here yesterday |afternoon from Prince Rupert, B. |C., where they remained Saturday | night, | The sixth plane, lost Saturday night {near Goose Island, and whose crew Sunday and Sunday night. of five men were rescued Sunday, found in a rubber emergency boat,| were brought here aboard the other| | five bombers. The five planes left Prince Ru- pert yesterday noon and arrived here completed the flight from Se- attle which started last Saturday | morning. The cause of the crash of the sixth plane has not yet been an- nounced. Squadron VP-14 replaces Squad- ron VP-19 which has been here for the pasc two months. NOMINATION OF MOZEE IS OKEH WASHINGTON, Feb. 1—The Sen- ate Judiciary Committee has report- ed favorably on the nomination of Benjamin Mozee to be United Statés Marshal of the Second Divis- lion, Alaska, with his headquarters at Nome. MORO OUTLAWS ARE SHOT DOWN MANILA, Feb, 1.-~Four more out- {laws were killed and four Philippine Army soldiers were wounded when 140 steel helmeted troops, support- ed by artillery, attacked a Moro fort in Lanao Province. 1BRITISH SHP TORPEDOED OFF | SPANISH GOAST 1 Merchantme?ls Sent Down | | with Loss of Eleven | Lives | ADMIRALTY RUSHING DESTROYERS TO SCENE | SSpanlsh GovernmenL | Charges Italian Under- t ; sea Boat with Attack | | LONDON, Feb. 1.—The British| |Admiralty has rushed four destroy-| lers, armed with depth charges, in] search of a mysterious marauding| submarine which sank the British| merchantman Endymion, off Southeastern Spanish coast, with a| loss of 11 lives. | | The destroyers are under orders| }tn drop depth bombs without hes- |itation if a submarine is sighted and | |attempts to resist capture. | The flotilla centered the patrol {about the Cape Timso area where| the Endymion sank following the |attack by the submarine. | Among the dead {Larson, of Sweden, official of thel ‘Euxopenn non-intervention Spamsh | committee. A Spanish. Government commun- |taue receivea here nttributes the torpedoing of the British vessel to! lthe Insurgents. Spanish Government Ambassador | Pablo Floriz charged that Italy a signed four destroyers and two sub- |marines to the Spanish Insurgent tleet and also charges that an Ital-| {lan submarine sank the Endymion.| | The Envoy declared that his ‘Gm?rnment is “amazed that the| {nations in the non-intervention blnc‘ permitted the Spanish Rebels re-| jceiving important units of lnrm(,l‘ |tleets to their naval fo) the | ; | & is Charles M.| Miss Frances Wood, 25 (above), of Detroit, wanted to share her apart- ment with another girl. So she ad- vertised: “Wanted—a homely girl to share.my apartment with me.” She explained that if you want to keep your boy friend you don’t have a pretty girl for a roommate. TICKET DRIVE FOR JOBLESS STARTS TODAY afety First | States as a nation, ADM|RA|_|_E AHY AL e 1o Smallpox Scare ASKS CUNGRESS 'FOR MORE SHIPS |Says Foreign Navy Build- | ing Program Forces Us to See Danger WANTS SUPER BATTLESHIPS Describes World Condmons Most Threatening Since 1918 | WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 | Na Chief of Operations, miral William D. Leahy, toda {Cengress that “enormous increases”| 'in naval strength undertaken by Great Britain and Japan has made| it imperative that the United States {strengthen its fleet immediately | Testifying before a House Naval {Committee, Admiral Leahy asserted the country's national security is | jeapordized by the armament pro-| |gram launched by foreign powers since the expiration of the 1920 Lon- |don Navai Treaty, | Admiral Leahy appeared fthe Committee to discuss legisla 'tion intended to carry out Presi- ident Roosevelt's recommendations | {for an $800,000,000 naval expansion| 'srogram. Admiral Lesohy deseribed Ao rld conditions” today as - “far| more threatening than at any time' since 1918,” and added that he saw — The Ad- y told before no improvement of conditions in sight One of 75 taxi dancers in Detroit to undergo vaccination following International Respect discovery one of their members had cohtracted smallpox is Carol The United States Navy should Lally. Dr.James A. McVeigh is doing the vaccinating. i be strong eneugh to insure inter- | national respect for the United Leahy said, and should “make any attack upon this Japanese Boycott as Result |country or its pn\srwlnm too zudlv wnt too bz oy i O Wear on China, Bombing of Admiral Leahy further told Con-! |gress that the United States should build battleships larger than 25,- Panav, Ju (,emn,g Underway PRICE 'il:" (LNTS BRISTOL BAY FISHING MEN MAY ATTACK Delegate Dimond Appren- hensive Over Trouble on ‘»almon Grounds STATEMENT PREPARED, COMMITTEE HEARING Bill Introduced for Protec- tion of Fisheries—Main Points Explained — WASHING- 'he House Mer- Committee this heard Representative BULLETI chant Marine aft William L Sirovich, of New York, rnoon suggest that awplanes and bombers be sent to Alaska to “get rid” of the Japanese fish- ing boats. “It is time this pussyfooting of the Japanese is done with, I am in favor of sending our tor- pedo boats, airplanes and bomb- ers of the United States there and getting rid of all of them,” said Sirovich. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—A move to protect the American salmon fishing resources in the Bering Sea is being supported by Alaska Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond, who as- serted today that “an armed con= ict” might follow Japanese “en= coachment” of Alaskan fishing grounds. Delegate Dimond suggested the possibility of conflict in a state- ment he prepared for the House | Merchant Marine Committee hear- ings on the bill to protect Alaska | fisheries in the North Pacific. Gravely Apprehensive (omml!tee Hopes to Raise Several Thousand for dy by Contest PAA BIDS FOR Hopeful of raising several thou-| szmd dollars which will go toward| plovldmg employment for unem- | ployed persons in this community,| the Juneau Unemployment commit- |tee last night at its meeting in the |City Hall decided to start its full | Submits P”CC for Service|automobile ticket sate drive today to Interior Via | planning to complete the campaign 3 | by February 12. Whitehorse Acting Mayor G. E. Krause re- WASH!NGTON Feb. 1. | ported at the meeting that he al- — The ready had disposed of nearly 500 Post Office Department announces|tickets and other members of the |that the Pacific Alaska Arways sub-. committee volunteered to go out and mitted the only bid for the contract| canvas the town, starting this morn- {to carry the mail recently author-|ing., Councilman Lockie MacKin- | |ized on the route between Juneau non, who was elected permanent land Fairbanks, Alaska, via White-|chairman of the committee, zones horse. jthe city as follows The company offers to conduct a| Harry G. Watson, Charles W. weekly round trip service at a cost | Hawkesworth and Chief John New of approximately $68,000 figured on ————— = a basis of 80 cents a mile between| (Continued on Page FlVEI | Juneau and Whitehorse and 3150. Py a mile between Whitehorse and) Fairbanks. Officials of the Post Office De- partment said they will study the bid before tdkmg any action. By MORGAN M. BEATTY ) PI.ANE (}RASH RN | |den Naval Treaty, because ' perdreadnaught as had 000 tons, the limit fixed by the it is al- most certain that the treaty na- tions would invoke the escape clause |and build larger ships if it were de-| termined that other countries were 'doing so.” New Japanese Shi In response to a question Imm the Intelligence department, L(u\h\ said he did not know whether or not Ja- pan was building a 43,000~ tnn su-| been pub- lished in Italian papers. He further asserted that this country did not know anything of the tonnage or gun calibres of the new Japanese ships. Questioned as to how might defend Washington, | the Navy| in the Pacific, Leahy sumed that the Army |fleet could reach thc " | emphatically opposed the division of |0f Wwarfare. the United States fleet between the| Atlannc and the Pacific Oceans. Lon-! — D. C.|Japanese armies today are clashing have in the event the fleet was D(;Cupled‘ln hand to hand combat in a strug- war. said he pre-|8le for the 190 mile corridor separ- would be left | ating the conquered areas of China, mainly to in defense positions until the Ndvv‘“"w under Japanese military juris- markets in which to sell export ne, but he|diction, after nearly seven months good |tered along the southern border of even more desperately to bottle up| { “T am gravely apprehensive,” By PRESTON GROVER |Dimond, “that unless suitable 2 ation is passed, there will WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 It you| sy have not heard much about the Ja- “Ef‘ggf;’-::”[‘fi;‘o‘;dflmgfdsxfi " panese boycott is may help to bring|, € R BRI HOEC at Ame you up to date to report that num-| & bl'~ of impressionable girls in these evican fishormen faced (he e y ) T stonlitnn ledge of Japanese encroachments g '”]' \:x:x‘:xn:: (WJ (']:;n;lg:] dzb |with certainty and that such con- and a promine ast plr 3 T ])u” ent store. has' botight no Jap-|nued practice ‘will mean (e g haustion of the Bering Sea salmon se goods since the sinking of the said leg- be CHINA FIGHTING (CENTERED ALONG RAILWAY ARTERY - I’\ fisheries. The American fishermen (T will resort to force against the * Just what the girls or the store 2 . # Reports Confllct —_— ch expect to accomplish by this boyeott|J2Panese fishermen if the Govern 4 A T et o LT x |ment does not protect them and Side Claims Heav_\ Toll s not alogether clear at this mo- their jobs, further said the Dele= fE 'l § ment, but some of them are dete rm-‘gm, 5 ol Lnemy 1roops ined about it. The general idea| e S seems to be that if Jaj can't| 3 The bill intr h le- SHANGHAI, Feb. 1.—Chinese and sell goods to the U will | ftaciged ‘0¥, the el |gate would make it unlawful for anyone to fish for salmon in wat- ers adjacent to the Alaskan coast except under Department of Com- merce regulations. The bill also {would declare United States jur- |isdiction over all Alaskan waters |east of the International Boundary in Bering Sea where the depth is less than 100 fathoms. less money to carry on thej is roping in China itself additional | Japan, however, i If the United States sto] ; from the Japanese it seems a 1ess that the Japanese will try| buy cen- faly The engagements are now | the corridor at Mingkwang, 75 exira markets in the Orient. That Enforcement Areas miles northwest of Nanking. sounds like more war, instead of| v president would designate Chinese and Japanese reports of less | & e, i d the tide of battle are conflicting. s .. [those. areas’ss Saiman, WieREEES ‘Holding Company Debate—- | Just What It Really Mean )Amercan financial device to put |capital to work to market natural resources and services. Just a Service Fee Both sides assert they have taken zyanag S (heavy toll in enemy lives near Ming- \kwang on the railroad running north from the Yangtze River. Japanese troops after repeated bay- |onet charges in the face of |and un'plane% |forcement Areas. Vessels found in ‘MOSTLY TALK’|guch areas could be boarded by the | American officers and seized if any violation of the law was evident. ‘R SAYS i reports indicate that boycott has become sort of a game in New York City where the girls| Japan has repeatedly denied compare notes on the number of silk!what Delegate Dimond has said tockings they don't buy, One anti-|that Japanese are engaged in com- 2 partisan bought herself a|mercial salmon fishing in Alaska pair of lisle stockings as a n\o.\n\‘rmrlmnul w.xlers Chinese told of hurling b: the tanks nese CAUSE BIVEN ri et e Prmxdem is at| WASHINGTON. Feb. 1.—The In- vestigation Board of the Depart-| ment of Commerce said structural! failures of upper vertical fins and rudder caused the crash of the| plane near Bozeman, Montana, on Janunary 10 with a loss of the ten' occupants. | The Lockheed company has re- designed other ships of this type to eliminate the possibilty of further| failures. B | TO CLOSE COMET P.O. The postoffice at Comet, near the Kensington mine in Berners Bay, will be discontinued on February 28, according to notice from the Post-| office Department to Postmaster Al- | lberl. Wile here. taking pot-shots holding companies, and the holding companies are firing back. People vare talking about financial pyramids|pel its children to adopt efficient and what not, without going very of depriving the Japanese of muni- ‘ tions money, only to find un arriy- fal hom that “Made in |was stamped on them | At the same time, the parent, or top holding corporation can com- methods and put out a uniform pro- " ARABS, BRITISH CLASHING AGAIN |growed—and became a peculxarly{ deeply into what these things are.|duct, A few store clerks here Well, what is a holding com-| But, the holding company dcvice bers of patrons, espe ally «l\um.h pany: ihns grown so popular that promot- 1 L] {the Christmas holiday ed for| goods not made an but a _~um-‘ Technically, it is a corporationjers have been tempted by the possi- in a position to control or influence sibility of pyramiding profits. Some lother corporate structures throughj holding companies have slipped wa- |ownership of securities in those, Iter into their stock issues as they structures, \plled one parent company on an- ‘The primary activity of a holdmg‘,umer, and some have tforced oper- company is to pump capital and ating corporations to pay enormous | lefficiency into the smaller operating|fees for “services” or have even bor- units it controls. Operating com- rowed money from them. panies often welcome holding cr)m-‘ The number of financial tunes it |pany control because powertul 1i-|is possible to play on the holding nancial groups can issue and to sell company piano, in fact, is about as the public securities that never |great as the flood coming from Tin could be marketed by an Mlazed |Pan Alley. company. Thus it was that the| The holding company made pos- holding company, like Topsy jus’|sible such top-heavy financial em- (Continued on Page Seven) mint jof & ¥ Business Usual, at High Speed is no business recession in the Phil- adelphia pla January the mint produced 26,1 000 coins with an aggregate value Albanians are subject to military service from the lhh you of the amount of was “less than imount manager as discrimination would e Continues New Oulbreak Occurs in t from you hear : jpropaganda about 1t | Strife-torn Palestine in Govt. Plant However, he says some textile| . — mills are turning out new designs| n Holy Land PHILADELPHIA, Feb, 1-—There of lisle hosiery and a few sh(’('r} types have ap ed. He seemed] JERUSALEM, Feb. 1.—Two Brit- nt of the United States not especially enthusiastic Abo\lt“"h soldiers and 11 Arabs were Officials report that during them and expressed doubt if the| |killed early today in a battle in the »s would give up their silks, Samaria Hills, clerks in New York are more| The new outbreak in strife-torn Izealeus about suggesting what goods|Palestine oceurred as the police not made in Japan. pursued Arab terrorists who yester- learn from a news clipping{day tossed two bombs into the Na- (Continued on Page Six) blus police station. 388. are We D - age of 17 to 50,