The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 7, 1938, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE NO ALLIANCES | ARE EXISTENT, - LEAHY INSISTS Hull Says United States Will Render Navy Adequate ‘ ‘WASHINGTON, Feb. 'l.—Admlrall Willlam D. Leahy today told the House Naval committee that the Navy expects to solve its defense| problems “without alliances or for- eign committments.” Leahy made the statement, as- serting that he wished to clear up any misunderstanding that may have arisen previously from nsser-; tions that the United States was collaborating with Great Britain on naval problems. The Navy's highest ranking offi-| cer said “The Navy has no thought of obtaining assistance from any| other nation and has no thought of giving any assistance in the solving of the problems of other nations.; There have been no understandings with any country regarding assist- ance that might be given or receiv- ed. There has been no talk of giv- ing or receiving assistance.” i Meanwhile, Secretary of State Cordell Hull expressed his willing-| ness to take part in any general| plan for reduction of armaments,' which expression has given rise to widespread interest following the Japanese note of disapproval on United States’ naval building pro- grams, In an address last night, Hull said “While we are compelled in a world which is increasing in armaments, we are faced with the regrettable fact that we must render adequate our naval building program, but we stand ready at any.time to join other nations in a common effort to bring about a general limitation or reduction of armaments.” -oe — — TWO RESCUES ARE MADE IN ARCTIC AREA Gillam Refuels, Takes Air,' Reaches Barrow—Seal | Hunters Are Saved POINT BARROW, Feb. 7. — The second act of a drama that might Ana Saavedra de Miravete Escape of Ana Saavedra de Mira- vete after allegedly confessing she hired two mén to slay her hus- | band, the wealthy Miguel de Mira- | vete, former congressman and high customs official, has aroused | national interest in Mexico. Ob- servers predict grave political ex- , posures if she is recaptured, and hint that her escape was sanc- ' tioned by certain officials. | | H. S, FIRESTONE DIES IN SLEEP, FLORIDA HOM Tire Manufacturer Passes i Away During Winter Sojourn in South MIAMI BEACH, Fla.,, Feb. 7. arvey S. Firestone, aged 69, tire manufacturer, passed away in his sleep according to his son Russell. The elder Firestone had suffered intermittently for the past several years but his health was good when he ariived here for his annual so- journ at his winter home here. Interest manifested by the people of Detroit in a rubber-tired buggy, which he was domonstrating, con- vinced Harvey S. Firestone of the dawning of a new industry. That was in the early '90's. The noiseles feature of the vehicle at once appealed to all. Some with 13 DONE IN EAST be entitled “Man Again the "Arc- broader vision of the possibilities tic,” ended happily yesterday when of the new idea realized the shock- a party of seal hunters was rescued absorbing qualities of the rubber from drifting ice floes while Harold tire as compared with the steel band Gillam and his mechanic, George in general use on the wheels of all Saunders, rested here after being vehicles. down 80 miles away from last Mon-| Interested in Tires day to Saturday morning. They were, Up to the time of the demonstra- reached by a rescue party carrying|tion, Mr. Firestone was concerned gasoline for their plane. labout the rubber tires principally Parties were organizezd here' to as a means of selling more buggies. take off to seek the missing sealiin which he then was engaged as hunters when word was recelved sales manager. But it occurred to that floes on which they were locat- him that the success of rubber tires ed came near the shore. One res- on buggies was merely a forerunner cue party put out in a skiff, butiof their use on whgons and other was beaten back by the wind. {vehicles, and he decided o devote The floes finally drifted near the shore and the hunters quickly made their way to safety. Gillam has not decided when he will return to Fairtsnks. He arrived here Saturday noon after he refuel- ed at the place he was down. Elev- en natives and white trappers went to Gillam’s aid, using dog teams. COMPULSORY TRAINING IN GAS ATTACKS WARSAW, Poland, Feb. 7.—Com- pulsory training in gas attack de- tense - will Begin soon for 10,000 men and women to be selected by the Society for Air Defense. Each apartment building will have a trained occupant responsible for organizing tne defense of other ten- ants in event of danger. In other cases one person will be responsi- ble for severgl houses. ! Persons who would not go to the! front in case of war or by pl'ut'es-" sion are likely to be in their homes regularly will be selected for the; special course: el 2l I The United Statés patent office - grants about 40,000 patents a year. |was set up in a made-over machine |shr.n with a force of 17 men. He established his ‘business in Chicago and with the advent of the automobile, impetus was given to the manufacture of rubber tires. In the early days of the motor-driven| vehicle, when many thought of it only as a crazy invention, Mr, mre-} stone clung to his belief that even-l himself exclusively to tires. | | tually -it would become the most common form of transportation and on_ rubber tires. First Venture ! Mr. Firestone’s first venture in’ ‘the rubber business was with two ical martyrs. partners in the Victor Rubber Com-| pany. The business flourished un-i til it became involved in litigation over the use of a welding machine and after as adverse decision Fire-| stone and his partners moved to, Akron, Ohio. Later the Victor com-! pany was merged with the concern| that owned the welding machine pa- tent. The company was reorgan- ized by New York capitalists and Mr. Firestone was named as its| Chicago manager. After holding that position for| six months, Mr. Firestone sold his interest in the company, returned to Akron in the fall of 1899 and or- ganized the Pirestone Tire and Rub- ber Company. The new business Business Grows With the rapid growth of the OFFICERS, BANK CONVICTION IS UPHELD, COURT! Old Age Pension Advocate Faces 30 Days in Jail and $100 Fine WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—The Dis- trict of Columbia Court of Appeals has attairmed the conviction of last March of Dr. Francis E. Town- send on a charge of contempt of the| House. Unless the Supreme Court con- sents to review the case, the old age pension advocate must serve 30 days in jail and also pay a $100 | fine, § The contempt citation was brought |after Townsend, on May 21, 1936, walked out of a House Committee hearing on his plan for old age pensions. The committee refused to allow him to read his statement E— e SENATOR READY, TO FILIBUSTER NEXT 30 DAYS Mississippian Begins Talk-| ing Again on Anti- | Lynching Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 7.—Senator Theodore G. Bilbo, of Mississippi, | today warned in the Senate that the attack on the Anti-Lynching bill is not alone from the Slmthi and other sections are fighting it. | Senator Bilbo took up the fili- buster and said that he is readyi to give the balance of his ‘30-day speech” which was halted last week while the Senate considered minor '~ legislation. i > | FLOODS RECEDE; GREAT DAMAGE Streams Swollen by Unsea~% sonable Rains—Tem- | | peratures Drop DETROIT, Mich,, Feb. 7.—Swollen‘ streams which have flooded high- ways, homes and many thousands of acres of land in the north and !central States and also Western mishap at its slip. The ferryboal Canada, receded as unseasonable rains ceased falling. ! Low temperatures have also chgcked melting snow and ice inj the wake of the flood waters which broke dams, filled basements and washed out bridges and highways. Michigan and Wisconsin bore the brunt of the flood which has caused hundreds of thousands of dollars of damage. GOVERNMENT USING MIGE WASHINGTON, PFeb. 7. — Pedi- greed mice—$24,804 worth of them— are stooges for Uncle Sam’s health service in its investigation of can- cer. But not all mice can be med- '“We buy our cancer mice from Bar Harbor, Me, breeding center, where their parentage is known,” says D. L. R. Thompson of the Pub- lic Health Service. “Then we can| use them understandingly and Yor: particular work.” ROBBERS FIGHT, COLUMBUS, Ohio, Feb. 7.—Two bank robber suspects were slain by the Ohio State Police this after- noon in a raid on a gang hideout and three detectives were critically wounded. Two other suspects were placed under arrest. The raid fol- S (Continued on Page Three.) noon. | rivers, swelled by heavy Rising | Ice-Choked Rivers Bring ice, overflow their banks in several midwestern states, driving hundreds of families from their T atapErigg t EYEY IEEIRE gRaRLERELRE 2 | e Tl imamu s [Rockford family takes to rowboat B rains and jammed | hories. Fight on Hol(liné‘Companies ' HUNDRED ARE MAROONED ON FERRY VESSEL Craft Finally—greaks Loose from Buoy Entanglement and Lands at Slip TARRYTOWN, New York, Feb Going Ahead;Explanation Due By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—Perform- ance of the Securities Exchange Commission under the public utili- ty holding company act sheds a soft light on the President’s state- ment to the effect that he intend-; ed to eliminate all holding com- panies. The President, himself, indicated| later he would like his position clarified. And inquiry at the Se- curities Exchange Commission, | which the President appointed, dis- closes a tolerant policy toward hold- ing companies So far only two companies have wh re the Rock river went on a rampage. necessary to dynamite the ice. |ana 21 automobiles. submitted plans for reorganization in compliance with the act One was a comparatively small 7. — Marooned for hours in the Hudson River, the ferryboat Man- ;xd;:::t ik ol ‘;:‘;mfidzlmuun in New England and the other | night and landed without further|the American Water Works andj ¢/ Electric Company, which operates| in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia| { West Virginia and owns a fruit farm lin California and an office build- ing in New York. Its other inter- jests, in addition to power distri- | bution, include bus companies, a toll |bridge, water .systems, appliance carried several hundred passengers SOVIETS GRANT ! stores, coal mines and gas distribu- u s R I G H T T 0 " ] 1] s s e |ONE TIER REMOVED SEE MRS, RUBEN American Woman Jailed in Russia Will Talk with Diplomat WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. — Soviet 'officials have. granted the United States request to interview Mrs. Ruth Marie Rubens, American citi- zen incarcerated in Russia on cs- pionage suspicions. It is said Moscow has agreed 0 permit a United States official to |talk with Mrs. Rubens who with| a Mr. Robinson was jailed by Rus- sian officers several weeks ago. The Soviet Government had prev- jously informed the world they would mnot permit an American diplomat to see the jailed woman until after the Russian police had terminated their investigations re- garding her case. Loy Henderson, Charge d'Affairs, said he had asked that he be per- mitted an interview with Mrs. Ru- bens today or tomorTow. What has happened to the man named Robinson was unrevealed e A 10,000-watt sister station to the 75,000-watt transmitter XEPN, near lowed the robbery of the Ohio Na- |Piedras Negras, Mexico, is being tional Bank branch early this fore- |constructed nearby at El Centinela plantation. Compared with such sysiems as Electric Bond and Share and the |Associated Gas and Electric, the American Water Works is a peewee. |Like many another system, it “just |growed,” Topsy-like, from an inter- urban electric car system. It wasn't long before distribution of power be- came more profitable and the pas- senger business less so. New pow- er plants had to be built and they invited consolidations of local dis- | | tributing systems. Mergers like | that often result is creation of hold- |ing companies which can pool the |shares of the independent compan- ies and distribute new shares on the basis of values contributed 1 The American Water Works never |became excessively complex, in a/ icorporate sense, and its plan of re- organization called for sweating !out only one layer of holding com- panies. By contrast, the Associated Gas and Electric has a dozen lay-| ers, | The original aim of the holding| company bill was to sweat out all such companies except one Which! could be used to coordinate the per- formance of a ‘‘geographically in- |tegrated” system. But Congress in 1935, at the time of the passage of | {the “act, displayed solid opposition 'to gény such drastic shakedown. It |was- that Congressional attitude— | perhaps strengthened now — which (Continued on Page Four) | January Hardest hit of all spots is Rockford, IIL, It was _‘—Human k-Ray 7 Kuda Bux, of India, who is said to possess the power of seeing through blindfolds in the manner of an x-ray. He is shown after his arrival in New York. Recently, traffic, blindfolded, on a bicycle. BABY BONDS BEING SOLD Over $133,000,000 Worth Disposed of During Last Month WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. — The Treasury sold a record amount of baby bonds, $133,000,000 worth, in ment made today by Secretary of Treasury Morgenthau. In the past three years more than 3,320,000 persons purchased the baby bonds. phat s ooy CHOR RS B. P. W. C. MEETING SET The regular meeting of -the Bus- ness and Professional Women’s Club will be held at 8 o'clock to- night in the City Cquncil Cham- ber. Miss Caroline Todd, president, will preside. - - Archeologists say the dog was the only domestic animal of the early Indian tribes in the lower Missi sippi Valley | The strange eyes above belong to | WORLD STAGE SET FOR WAR, ALSO INTRIGUE All Powers Making Prep- | arations for Struggles in Near Future |SPY TRIAL IS IN \" " PROGRESS, LONDON Protestant Churchman Faces Nazi Judges at Berlin Session (By Associated Press) | With two wars in progress and preparations by all powers for wars that may come made the world to- est, together with other “incidents.” Japan debated whether she will reveal her well cloaked naval plans to the United - States and Great Britain. France and Great Britain were thrilled with a sensational spy trial and Berlin when a famous pastor went to trial on charges tantamount to treason “Spi at Work In London, “Miss X,” blonde, trimly tailored in black, testified in had been on a “trip” which finally trapped four men, now on trial in London, on charges of copying mun- lition plant plans. She told of cli« maxing her investigation on Janu- lary 21 in telephoning the British Intelligence Service the tip . that brought about. the arrest of the four :|men, all at one time employees of the Woodwich Arsenal. Trial in Berlin In Berlin, the Rev. Martin Nei- !moeller lashed bitterly at the secre- cy of his trial on charges of malig- nant attacks on the Reich and Nazi | Party and misuse of his pulpit for | political purposes and public incita- | tion at law breaking. { “Why I am here under accusation 1of being a traitor?” said the Protest- ant churchman who declaimed in a 45-minute speech against the de- court room. A great crowd gathered outside the court building. To Attack Subs In the House of Commons this afternoon, Foreign Secretary Eden |said that British warships will at- tack any submerged submarine in the western Mediterranean and “re- |taliate” against any further Span- |ish Insurgent airplane assaults on British ships. : Weekend Trafic Accidents Take Toll, Fifty-five CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. T—At least 55 persons died as the result of {ing to reports received by the As- |sociated Press. Ohio led the states| Bux amazed |Week-end traffic accidents, accord- cision to bar the public from the! 'NIPPON FIGHTS FOR CONNECTING { Vast Amount of China Now | Under Japanese Invaders | Gk /BOTH NATIONS ARE | LOCKED IN COMBAT Total Dead and Wounded Over One Million, Observers Agree (By Associated Press) The Chinese-Japanese war pic- ture after seven months of hostili- ties, shows™ both Oriental armies | day a stage of melodramatic inter-|locked in combat along the Hwai River north of Nanking in a major battle which may decide the fate of vast areas of China’s richest ter- ritory Not only the rich soils of China’s bread basket are being fought for, but also the major railway lines of the country. Since the war began with a skir- mish of scouting parties near Pe- king, July 7, last summer, the Ja- panese troops have swept south- |ward along the Tientsin-Pukow rail- low tones that for three years sheiyay overrunning an area Approxi- I mately 350 miles wide on either side of the vital rail artery. The Tientsin-Pukow Railway is |parallel to the Peiping-Hankow route, Japanese occupy most of {Shantung, Shansi and Hopeh pro- vinces. Peiping has been captured and key cities in Chahar and Sui- ‘ysn provinces are also in Nippon hands. | Japanese troops marching north- | west from Shanghai, have covered iapproximately 320 miles of distance lin an attempt to close the gap be- |tween the conquered areas which varies in width from 80 to 200 miles. The battleground of Japanese in- vaders and Chinese defenders, ligs |along the third Chinese rail line and China’s lifeline, the Lunghai rail~ way, running east and west. Japan has gained control also of China's capital city Nanking, |Shanghai, and the important cities go( Peiping, Tientsin, Tsingtao and Hangkow. i Nippon forces hold the lower | Yangtze Valley, most of the valley of the Yellow river, and the Grand | Canal. | Observers agree that the total |of dead and wounded runs into more Ithan a million, while the war dam- |age in dollars and cents runs into |an untold number of millions. | - e JAPAN NAVAL " PLANS TO BE KEPT SECRET No Reply Drafted for U. S. and Britain Regarding AREA IN ORIENT London by riding through heavy« with five deaths. This was the announce- | Large War Craft TOKYO, Feb. 7.—The Japanese Foreign Office spokesman declared today that Japan “has no plans for construction of 43,000-ton battle- ships as widely reported abroad.” Navy officials however are report- R SRR Dies in Attempt ¢ ed as decided agalnst disclosing de- tails of the Japanese naval program Man and Children Gojto either the United States or Great | Through Soft Ice on |Britwin. o | Poreign Minister Hiro'a said the Mill Pond, Drown | Japanese Parlizment and the Gove WOONSOCKET, R. 1, Feb. 1 |ernment have reached no decision as how to reply to the requests of Three children, and a man who tried|the United States and Great Bri- to rescue them from sofe ice, lost!tain concerning the Japanese naval their lives yesterday in a mill pond building program. Both nations, ac- in the center of the city cording to press dispatches, have The victims were Muriel Valieur, stated that if Japan builds large |aged 5; her brother Norman, aged battleships, they will go the Nippon {7; Alfred Picard, aged 7 and Mich- Kingdom one better and beat their |ael Cherwinsky, aged 25. ‘1"““- ONE DEADIN Textile Workers PLANE CRASH - Bet Cut in Wages BALTIMORE, Maryland, Feb. 7—| PORTLANL;, Maine, Feb. 7. John Fenwick, aged 22, was killed,| Wage cuts of 12': percent, affecting and his brother, G. Bernard Fen-|approximately 8,000 workers, is ef- wick Jr., 24, was injured probably|fective today in the Maine cotton tatally, when their airplane crash-{and textile mills, with similar cuts ed yesterday 300 yards from their|predicted for the remaining four home in the exclusive Wrothingjconcerns in the State betore the iVulle,\'. lweek-eud.