The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 4, 1938, Page 1

e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LI, NO. 7708, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAVAL BASE SUGGESTED FOR NORTHLAND o Martial Law Declared at Canton, Report SOUTH CHINA METROPOLIS ARMED CAMP Trouble Is Caused by At-| tempts to Set Up Puppet Government, Advices Say DEFENDING RIVER FORTS ATTACKED Bombs Dro;Tped by Planes, .Thrown by Destroyers— Mayor's Life in Danger HONG KONG, Feb. 4—Martial law, according to reports, is in force in Canton, South China's metro- polis, amid reported attempis to sef up a South China puppet gov- ernment under Japanese guidance. Four Japanese destroyers have attacked Bocea and Tigris forts, de- | fending the river approach to Can- ton Japanese planes flew over Can- ton all day yesterday and are re- ported continuing flights today.| The flights sometime veer to the south. Bombs have also been dropped on the two forts. . Hongkong is full of rumors of the| impending coup de'etat at Canton! either by a pro-Japanese group or by Chinese politicians independent of the Chiang Kai Shek govern-| ment. One reliable report said an at-| tempt was made yesterday to as- sassinate Tseng Yangfu, Canton's‘, Mayor. Several shots were fired at| him but he escaped unhurt. | ONE CHINESE DIVISION 1S * UNDER ATTACK Reported Cut Off from Main Force — Surround- ed by Bayonets ! SHANGHAI, Feb. 4—A ring of| bayonets have closed in on a Chi- nese division reported fo have been cut off from reinforcements and supplies on the frozen bottom land battlefield north of Nanking. ThlsA is according to Japanese sources. The same source reports a terrif- fic struggle along the Hwai River Valley. It is said the Chinese division cut off was in retreat from Pengpu| when a swift Japanese movement| isolated it, the Japanese fighting at| close range with bayonets and rifle| fire to .wipe out the entire divisinn.i HOUSING BILL SIGNED TODAY | BY PRESIDENT Measure Is Expected to Stimulate Private Home Building WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today signed the Housing bill which is designed to stimulate a vast private home build- ing program. The measure, which! is now a ‘law, liberalizes mortgage insurance. It is the first major ad- ministration recommendation en- acted at the present session. e e — DERICK LANE REPORTED RECOVERING, SEW ARD SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 4—Derick Lane, Clerk of Court in the Third Division, who entered the hospital here last week, has rallied from the effects of an operation and his condition is reported satisfactory. It was stated by atending physi- cians this morning that he was definitely on the road to recovery. Imperial Conferen ce C;lil;ed;:l)iscuss China War For the first time since war was declared on Germany, in 1914, Emperor Hirohite summoned Army and Navy officials to his palace at Tokyo for the “Gozen Kal or Imperiai Conference. The object of the meeting was to discuss whether Japan shou’{ officially declare war or tender peace offers to China. Conservatives won their point and efficial before the silk screen is the Emperor, whils at right are Army leade declaration of war C_h-inese Craf; Sinks A}’ter J ap;mesé B;)mb;ng was passed over. At left are Naval dignitaries. In the background Sinking near the mouth of the Yangtize River, this Chinese warship was pictured shortly after a ter- rific conflict with Japanese bombing planes. Several other ships, similar to the one photographed, were reported sunk during the air raid. Strangely encugh a number of these war vessels were built in Japan a few years ago and were purchased by the Chinese government. BIC STRIKE | CALLED OFF { Seventy Thousand Workers| Seeks Connection, Matan-iBri(ish Police Take Action; Back on Jobs—Settle- i ment Is Made e J MEXICO CITY, Feb. 4 — The| strike of the electrical workers in the Chihuahua district, which halt-| ed mining activities for the past| eight days and deprived towns of lights and power services, was set- tled last night. It is estimated that 70,000 workers were out of jobs on account of the strike. \ IS SAVED FROM ELECTRIC CHAIR INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Feb. 4—| Just 12 hours away from the electric chair, Heber L. Hicks, 40, the last of the four slayers of Harry R. Miller, retired Fire Department; captain, gained a third stay of exe- cution. The last date is now set for May 7. e France is planning to install the world’s most powerful station in the Eiffel Tower, Palmer Colony BRITISH SHIP BOMBED, SENT DOWN AT SEA Two Insurgent Planes Are Charged with “‘Incident” Rescue Crew, Observer CRAFT ATTEMPTING TO RUN BLOCKADE | Vessel Flying National’s | Flag, Also Non-Interven- { ¢ tion Patrol Emblem | LONDON, Feb. A Reuters dis- bpau-n from Barcelona says the Spanish Government Defense Min- {istry announces the British steamer | Aleira was bombed and sunk by two | Insurgent planes. " The bombing occurred about miles southwest of Barcelona | Mhe entire crew of the Alcira, and lan observer for the Non-Interven- tion Committee, were rescued and itaken to Barcelona | The dispatch said the planes twice flew over the Alcira and dropped |three bombs, the first time and {two the second time. ‘, The ship sunk immediately. The crew, numbering 25, and the observer, also a Britisher, were re: \cued by a British Government sloop. r The Alcira was carrying coal in s avtem 40 gt thioug) |surgent blockade to the Govern- !ment port. | The ship vas flying the British flag, also the flag of the Non-Inter- | vention Patrol. DIMOND CHARGES DISCRIMINATIO %AGAINSLALASKA | Delegate Protests Farm Bill Provision at Unfair to Territory } WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Alaska ‘,Delesflte Anthony J. Dimond has. |enlisted the aid of President Roose- |velt and Interior Secretary Harold | i 1L. Ickes in an attempt to remove {What he termed discriminatory lan- guage from the pending farm . biil. | The provision which irritated Di- mond would set aside five per cent |of the available funds for benefit |payments, administrative expenses, |naval stores and payments to Alas- ' ka, Hawaii and Puerto Rico. Dimond said there was no valid |reason why Alaska should be treat- |ed differently from the States. 20| TWO JAPANESE 1 Anbther Death House Trip? Michael Alex, shown above with his wife and baby, was trie_d four times and twice sentenced to the electric chair for a holdup murder in New York | City seven years ago. He has just been rearrested by New York police, | charged with another murder. Alex, recently released on bail pe'nding his | fifth trial, was picked up in connection with the slaying of an insurance | agent last December, SN | Col. Lindberg| | Celebrating 1 36th Birthday ! NEW YORK, Feb. 4. Col. Charles A. Lindbergh celebrated his 36th birthday today at Englewood, |New Jersey, on the estate of his | mother-in-law, Mrs. Dwight W. Morrow. He made no announce- /ment of his plans for the day. POLITICS ARE BUBBLING OVER INOL'KENTUCK {Senator Barkley and Gov- | ernor Chandler Very Much in Limelight By PRESTON GROVER JUNEAU WOMAN 'IS ARRESTED IN - “SLAVE" PROBE Fanny Weiss in Custody Here Following Mann Act Indictment in Seattle What officials declare to be white slave ring operating in Seat- |tle and on the Pacific Coast with its tentacles reaching into Juneau was revealed here this afternoon proprietress of the Fairbanks House |on lower Front Street. The Weiss woman was indicted \by a Federal Grand Jury in Seat- tle yesterday on charges of con- I spiring to violate the Mann Act, |transporting women in interstate | commerce for immoral purposes. On 'a telegraphic fugitive warrant she !with the arrest of Fanny Weiss, | ALASKADEFENSE LEAST ADEQUATE OF TERRITORIES ‘Leahy Says No Other Re- gion Under Flag So Poorly Protected | JAPS SUSPECTED IN ALASKA SEAS Joint Naval Conference in London Not Report- | ed Publicly | b | WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Before |the House Naval Committee today, ! Admiral William D. Leahy made |the statement that in his belief, na- val base facilities should be estab- |lished in Alaska, but at this time |he was unable to give any detailed | recommendations. | This statement ardse out of Lea= {hy's answers to questions put to him |by Warren G. Magnuson, Represen- jtative from the State of Washing- | ton. Leahy #aid “the least provision for defense™ of any United States | Territory, existed in Alaska. He |said, however, he had no knowledge jof a purported Japanese fishing {fleet operating in Alaskan waters as an “auxiliary” Japanese Navy. Leahy said also that he had never jheard that Japanese Naval cadets |were being trained aboard vessels of |the alleged fleet. | Alaska Experience |‘ Representative Magnuson told Ad- {miral Leahy he wanted to know | whether or not the United States (fleet had ever had any experience in Alaska waters. “No large part of the fleet has ever operated north of the Aleu- |tian Islands,” Leahy said, “although |individual units have done so.” | Leahy reiterated a statement of ‘three days ago in which he in- |sisted that the United States Navy las 1t now stands is incapable of defending both Atlantic and Pacific seacoasts at the same time. That Visit to London Representative Ralph Church of |Illinois questioned Admiral Leahy lregardlng published assertions that |Capt. Royal Ingersoll, Chief of the War Plans Division, had spent ‘three weeks in London discussing |the United States’ proposed naval ?expuns\on with British naval ex- | perts. Admiral Leahy replied to Church’s |questioning by sayihg that he would not make a public statement con- |eerning what he implied as con- | versations Ingersoll had with Lone ] WASHINGTON, Feb, 4—There is|was arrested here today by Deputy don naval officials, but would make lan old negro plow song which goes |ble in de Land of ithat is the situation in Kentucky (Marshals and D. 8. Hostetter, Fed- | Commissioner Felix Gray this after- la full and frank statement to the |“Trouble O Lawd, nuttin’ but trou-| eral Bureau of Investigation agent |Hause Maval Gommittes” before i Canan,” and and was to be taken before U. S, |°Xecutive session. uuvman) Wants Highway ARE DETAINED uska Valley with Rich- ardson Highway PALMER, Alaska, Feb. 4. — The Palmer Colony Council, represent-' ing the Federal Farm Colony, has cited the need for construction of a highway from the Matanuska Val-' ley to the Richardson Highway to open new markets for products. The highway would connect with Valdez and way points, passing through the Nilchina and Nabesna mining districts. The Council also voted to request 'Anchorage to help promote the pm-i’ ject. | i Seaking 20000 For Nome Project WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked Congress to authorize a $200- Following Raid on Nippon House SINGAPORE, Feb. 4.—The Brit- ish police have detained two Jap- anese after a raid on a house in the Japanese section of this inter- national port, now the center of large scale war games to test the strength of Great Britain’s new naval base. Documents that have been seiz- ed, the police state, however, have no connection with the present maneuvers. Film'Act'r’e;s Seriously Il HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Feb. 4—The condition of Simone Simon, French film star, suffering from pneumonia, is reported unchanged today The actress was taken to the “Not only the dignity of the Ter- ritory is at stake but also the wel-| |fare of the farmer,” the Delegate |said. “If the language remains in the bill Alaska receives only a nib- ble of the farm payments.” Russian Savants Wait On lce As Rescue Underway Radio Contact Maintained with Vessels from ‘ Iceberg | s MOSCOW, Feb. 4—Four scien- |tists in the Russian North Pole camp watched from a tent house, |their home of eight months, sink ;in'o the sea as they awaited rescue {{rom their perilous perch on an ice ‘cake off Greenland. Maintaining radio contact witn the vessel Murmanets and Jan |Meyer Island the scientists expect- ed to see the sun today for the |first time since last September 23. Vassly Molokoff, Polar flying ace, 000 appropriation for construction hospital from her home yesterday has been mamed chief of the all- of the Nome waterfront bulkhead, after having been ill with a severeim civil audition, succeding Ivan destroyed by a severe gale. cold for two weeks, Tkacheff, - - - |w1th regard to the reelection of Sen-/noon. Bail has been set in the | lator Barkley, so much desired by|Seattle indictment at $5,000 ac- | the Administration . | cording to.complaint filed in Com- | It wasn't alone to show their sup- that his friends for him One \port of Barkley |ave a testimonial dinner (in Louisville the other day. lobvious purpose was to emphasize dent Roosevelt wants them to send | missioner’s Court. | Specific charge in the complaint is that matronly appearing Mrs. | Weiss, long a resident of Juneau, conspired to bring a girl named | Seattle aboard the steamer Mount L 'ONFILIBUSTER i | |to all good Kentuckians that PNSX-‘Hflrriet Mathews to Juneau !rom} B"_l.’ FA ILURE |Barkley back to the Senate next McKinley to lead a life of shame.! | fall, ?lmportam pile driver ministration. | Here's the situation according to | be: st reports here Barkley’s political troubles in {his home state lie in all directions, but the main one is A. B. (Happy) |Chandler, 39-year-old Governor of the State, ambitious for more po- |litical honors, head of a political lorganization almost as effective as the late Huey Long’s in Louisiana land personally a very amiable gen- tleman. . s |INTEREST MOSTLY LOCAL Another Barkley trouble is that | Kentucky takes its local politics wn.h| (such deadly seriousness that the in- {habitants almost forget who hap- {pens to represent them in the na- |tlonal Congress at the moment. | Barkley has been in national politics for 25 years and during that time had little opportunity to build up) ‘a personal following such as has Chandler, operating wholly in the local field (Continued on Puge STve;) 1 He is majority leader and an;One man, believed to be in Seattle, | for the Ad-|is named in the complaint as her | jalleged accomplice. | Officers reported finding a large {number of telegrams and other |communications in Mrs. Weiss' ef- fects at the Fairbanks House, re- | vealing alleged contact with sources |in Seattle on which Federal author- IILIN have been centering. FAMOUS RESORT HOTEL ABLAZE HEALDSBURG, Cal., Feb. 4.—Fire has left the Geysers, famous resort |hotel and most of its valuable rec- jords, in ruins. The hotel was built 1in 1848, -> M. D. Williams, District Engineer of the Bureau of Public Roads, sailed on the Northland for Peters- |burg in connection with road mat- | ters, expecting to return next Tues- day. Measure’s Opponents Hope for Pigeon-Holing Next Week WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. The Senate today refused to lay aside the Anti-Lynching Bill by a vote of 52 to 34. The vote was called after a mo- |tion of Senator Carter Glass re- |quested the pigeon-holing of the long filibustered bill in favor of ac- tion on the $1,400,000,000 Independ- ent Offices Appropriations Bill. Senator William E. Borah prev- iously attacked the constitutional- ity of the measure. Despite the vote, opponents of the bill are confident the measure will be sidetracked with a new shelving move next week. RSB R e LA COUNCIL TONIGHT Regular meeting of the City |Council will be held in the Coun- leil chamber at 8 o'clock tonight |with matters of routine business |scheduled to come up. |