The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1938, Page 1

'RUSSIA REJECTS CHINA' - Plans Made for Increasing THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE- “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7714. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS S PLEA FOR AID Strength of Navy EXPANSION BILL Alaskan Mountain Ranges T0 BE AMENDED, VINSON GLAIMS Chairman of House Com- mittee Announces His Proposals RETIRED OFFICER GIVES TESTIMONY Says National Defense, Se- curity, Now Football in Politics Suggestion Upon Las Pianist’s Bride WASHINGTON, Feb, 11.—Chair- man Carl Vinson told the House Na- val Committee today, that he will try to amend Nthe aval Expansion bill to authorize a fleet big enough to protect both the Ati#atic and Pa- cific coasts. At the same time, Chairman Vin- son made public the text of the amendment he has prepared which declares that it is the “fundamental naval policy” of this country to maintain a fleet adequate to defend both coasts and all insular posses- sions and to provide & Navy which should prove sufficient in strength to guarantee ‘“our national secur- ity but not aggression.” Maj. Gen. Johnson Hagood, re- tired Army officer, told the com- mittee that “our national defense and security is being made a foot- ball in politics,” because Congress neglected its duties to make rules and regulations for the land and naval forces. He said further, Con- gress is letting the war making power drift into the hands of the President. Mary Melville Clow, No. 1 glamor girl of Lake Forest, Ill,, younger set, is pictured after her marriage | poser, of Boston and New York. >se — ROOSEVELT ASKS MORE MONEY FOR ARMAMENT PLAN President Requests Con- gress to Strengthen Army Appropriation WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Congress for a supplementary armaments ap- priation to the extent of $1,- 880,000 to strengthen the Army. The House Appropriations Com-| Rumors of Eskimo Herders to Mario Braggiotti, pianist-com- | Are to Be Searched for Six Missing Russian Fliers Sir Hubert Wilkins Has New Theory Regardifig Disap- pearance of Soviet Plane Last August—Bases New t Message Received, Also EDMONTON, Feb. 11.—Sir Hubert Wilkins said Alaskan mountain ran- ges will be the next area covered in the hunt for the six missing So- viet fliers. | Sir Hubert said “There are those of us with Polar experience who still believe there is hope the Russians are alive, although many people seem to have lost hope. | “The last wireless message re- | ceived from the fliers said they were going to land about 83 degrees north |and 148 west. “Also the rumors that Eskimo reindeer herders heard a motor off the Arctic Coast on last August 13 |the day the fliers disappeared, has led us to the theory the Russians |might have flown over the coast linto the mountains.” Sir Hubert returned here Wed- nesday to get a new engine for his plane which was disabled at Akla- {vik. He also brought his propellor ,to be repaired here. ONLY SHORTTIME REMAINS TO AID Grand Old Man Of Rowing Dies, James A. Ten Eyck, Syra- cuse Coach, Passes Away at Age of 86 Years | MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 11.—James| A. Ten Eyck, 86, Syracuse rowing coach, is dead here as the result of coronary thromobosis. Syracuse University’s “grand old man of rowing,” once summed up in eleven words all he had learned of !the art in a lifetime by saying: “There’s only one way to row, and that’s the right way.” “Old Jim,” as he was known to; the hundreds of youngsters who had been his charges, was as much a part of the campus at the univer- sity as the many buildings he saw Committee Urges Full Com- munity Support—Car Award Tomorrow Only tonight, tomorrow and until tomorrow night at the Firemen'’s Ball in the Elks’ Hall when the award will be made remains for public-spirited residents of Juneau to participate in the unemployed fund-raising campaign, it was stressed today by the Juneau Un- employed Committee and city of- ficials. In addition to all the committee- men and City Councilmen who have tickets available for the car contest, the tickets were placed for the convenience of Juneau folk to- day in the following places, it was announced: New Alaskan Hotel, Triangle Inn, MILITARY RULE FOR RUMANIANS | DURING CRISIS Broad Powers ! BUCHAREST, Feb. 11.—A new government with dictatorial powers to govern Rumania has been com- missioned by King Carol to restore! national confidence that has been severely shaken by the six week anti-semitic administration of Pre- mier Goga. { The new Premier is Dr. Mn‘on“ Cristea, 68, patriarch of the Ruman- ian Orthodox Church. He will rule| without parliament by royal decree until a new constitution has been promulgated. Fealties of gassison officials have been temporarily dispensed with in four sweeping decrees which named garrison commandants in large cit- ies, Prefex of their districts. ! Premier Cristea also made nation-| wide “State Sies” by which persons| North Pole Invades New York Main Street School children of Catskill, N. Y., were faced with the same problem their cskimq cousins have to cope with, They are shown picking their way over ice cakes in West Main Street, on their way to their classes. ¥lood waters from the Hudson River jammed the street with ice floes. charged with serious crimes may be tried in military courts. The Prea' mier also postponed indefinitely the Chamber and Senate election set for} It becomes apparent that King Alaska Has Bank Balance dictatorship.” Business generally received the of January stood at $1,185990.51, an 2550 e, - PRARESS Gov. John W. Troy. The balance at i ws, |pack tax of 1936 ‘which was paid March, and ordered officials to call! assemblies for naming mayors and two assistant mayors in each vil- * SOUND SHAPE Carol had with Premier Cristea, con- | centrated much authority in the army, and some circles described The army was given the right to of $I ’|85'990 at End of search at all times and in all cases.| The control of the press was tight- - new government with evident relief increase of $2 61.73 over the same and government bonds rose two to date a year ago, according to fi- three points in an upward trending nancial report of Territorial Treas- the end of January, 1937, was $923,- 128.78. Major cause of the increase, the DIES H RESUI_T |during 1937. The fish pack was ’ |eight million cases in 1936 against a six million pack last year on UF AGBIDENT\wmch taxes will be paid during 1938. Increased mineral output also R |contributed to healthy Territorial lage, the new regime as “semi-military s Ba eped in stricter censorship. Alaska's bank balance at the end stock market. |urer Oscar G. Olson submitted to is due to the big fish bank balance. Son of Associate Justice,| Supreme Court, Falls Pr[]']flsmfliflfim from Car Window SOVIETS TURN DOWN LATEST HELP REQUEST Large Scale of Assistance Not to Be Given to Invaded Land FIERCE BATTLES ARE RAGING EIGHT FRONTS Chinése Resistance Is In- dicated — Reinforce- ments Are Rushed SHANGHAI, Feb. 11. — Reliable foreign sources declare that Soviet Russia has refused the Chinese plea for a large scale of assistance in the war against Japan. These sources assert that Sun Fo, son of the late Dr. Sun Yet Sen, has been pleading China’s cause at Moscow, but the Soviet Government has turned him down. The reason is given that Russia is not willing to flirt single-hand- ed with the possibility of a Rus- Point Barrow Eskimo Puts Up Protest to Japanese Fishing in Off to Europe Claudette Colbert, glamorous filn star, is shown as she sailed with he/ sian-Japanese clash through active aid to China. This report came as the Chinese torces, said to be under direct command of Gen. Chiang Kai Shek, fought to keep eight Japanese col- umns from closing in on Central China’s corridor along the Lunghai Railway. B It is understood here fierce bat- tles are being fought all along the front lines and so intense is the conflict raging that the Japanese are sending heavy reinforcements to conquer the great China valley. Alask_q Waters WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—E. R. Nihaka, Point Barrow Eskimo, came to Washington to protest to Japan- ese fishing for salmon in the waters off the Alaska Coast Nihaka went to Washington State Senator Homer T. Bone's office to tell of his mission here. He said JAPANESE ACE KILLED another resident would accompany SHANGHAI, Feb. 11—The Japan=- him later at a conference with Sen- ese disclosed today that Lieut. Ryo- ator Bone. *hei Ushioda, the Japanese Navy's | It is said that Senator Bone, the outstanding ace, was killed at Nan- | Eskimos and others are to soon con- chang on January 7 after his plane | fer direct with Secretary of Interioy was shot down. ;‘Harold L. Ickes on the subject Ushioda is credited with shooting ) Nisaka said he has statements, down five Chinese planes in encoun= and witnesses to show ters. Upholds Damage ~ INSURGENTS Ill:,imp‘,\(::n of Japanese fishing in P e SN0 e LOYALISTS Circuit Court ROUTED BY Award to MOYer ,........ roce ot Tereu Is Said to Be De- | | | | | mittee announced the money was| rise there after he became first requested to meet recommendations; made by the Fresident in his Na- |coach of the crews at the institu- tional Defense Message in January|tion in 1903. 28. | “Old Jim says,” and “Old Jim In his original request, Roosevelljv.mnks.” were pharses often on the asked Congress to provide $8,800,-|lips of the men of the shells. His 000 for additional aircraft material, Word to the oarsman was law. For $6,080,000 for guages and dies and & long time he kept his exact age other aids in manufacture of army a secret, and that was a little joke material, and $2,000,000 to make up| the boys had on him, for none who deficiencies. |know the coach thought of him as ————————— |an old man—despite the epithet. BLOCK DELAY oo i i e ON FARM BILL |old, baggy clothing. He was dog- matic, but in a manner that nettled only for a moment. He had few |hobbies. Particularly he disliked | walking. Once he said: “If T had to go 10 miles, T'd rather row than | walk.” Senate Votes Down Pro-|" me even rememberea nis age by POS&I to Send Meas- associating it with a yacht race. ure Back to House it is that 1851 was the year that the |yacht America won the racing cup; WASHINGTON, Feb, 11. — The from England,” he said. Senate this afternoon defeated a| In that year, on Oct. 16, he was move to delay action on the Ad- }bom at Tompkins Cove on the Hud- ministration’s farm bill and voted son. He lived at Peekskill as a “The only way I can remember Butler Mauro Drug Store, Juneau GREENSBURG, Pa., Feb, 11. — Drug Company, Race Drug Store, geyin Butler, 33, building firm exe-| Hollmann's Pharmacy, Juneau Li-|ouiive and son of Associate Justice Z quor Store and the White Spot pierce Butler of the Supreme Court| WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — The Liquor Company. lof the United States, died less than|House Appropriations Subcommit- Deposit the stubs from YOUr g4 nours after he was injured in|tee, studying President Roosevelt's tickets in the big container which . ron rom a speeding Pennsylvania request for additional funds for will be found in the window of the :Rallway train. said they had and_yp in Gom, husband, Dr. Joel Pressman, for 1 short vacation in Europe. Miss Col | bert spent little time in New York | stopping only briefly on her way from Hollywood. Passengers Are Not Partici- pating in Aeronautics Is Decision moralized SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Feb. 11 —Insurgents have estimated Gov- ernment forces have lost 60,000 men SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 1l. jp casualties and prisoners since |—The United States Circuit Court the start of the Government offen- Triangle Inn, the committee ad-| vises. No accurate check has yet been made of the actual number of tickets sold, the committee repon‘,-) ed, but there are still many re-| maining, and all Juneau will have | to get busy in the short time left| if the unemployed fund is to take substantial size, it was stressed. Hope has been expressed by the| committee and Council thatatleast | $3,000 or $4,000 would be cleared | above the cost of the car, $1,000,! the funds to be administered by the city in providing work for the unemployed. The city already has such a program under way and the funds from the car contest are expected to supplement the re-| sources so that the work can be carried forward. No Federal relief | down, 48 to 31, the request of Sen- young man and began his rowing so|funds are now available for helping ator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, of | young that he could not, as he put Washington, to send the legislation it, “remember that far back.” back to a conference with the First Race House which has already approved His first race with partner in com- the measure. petition for a purse was in 1864| Senator Schwellenbach asked that the bill be sent back because of changes made in the provisions intended to protect dairy and live- stock producers from competition by farmers who reduce plantings of cotton, wheat, corn, tobacco and rice. From then on he lived in boats. He learned all about the rigging of craft, learned how fishermen weather and in foul with little fa- - The guitar, one of the oldest deductions. This knowledge came musical instruments, traces’its un- IR L i D ORI interrupted lineage to 550 B.C, (Continued on Page PFive) when he was 13. At 16 he rowed and | won his first single scull race at) Sing Sing, now called Ossining. 1 the unemployed here. -ee — ARMY OFFICER IS NEAR DEATH HONOLULU, H. I, 11.—Brig.-Gen, went about their long trips in fair, gy;ton K. Young, Commander of Ithe Army’s Air Force in Hawaii, tigue and then worked out his OWD parrowly escaped death in the crash' ney and fancy in battleships. {of a single-seated pursuit plane he |was piloting today. Trainmen expressed the opinion and his skull was fractured as a result. i emergency relief, heard nothing yet “to justify the |Butler was jolted against a wash-|proposal for a $250,000,000 appro- {room window, from which he fell, |priation.” Representative John Taber was the spokesman for the subcommit- The train was going 50 miles an|tee following the first session on hour at the time. the rearing on the proposal. Armament Race Now Similar To Conditions Just Before World War; U. S. Is Noisy 1 By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Stu- dents of foreign affairs whose mem- ories go back to pre-war days find similarity in conditions then and conditions now with regard to naval and armament building. Germany then was making the most aggressive gestures of any Eu- ropean nation. Now an aggressive disposition is found in at least three nations—Germany, Italy, and Japan. In the three or four years before the World War in 1914, there was the same uncertainty and suspicion as to who was building, and what, as now. England would hear that Germany was building something In- stantly there would be a public de- mand that England build bigger and faster ships to preserve her pol- icy of maintaining a navy equal to the combined powers of any two nations except the United States. Then the war broke out, and ul- timately it was discovered that much of the big talk of what was going to be built was simply talk and nothing else. But then it was too late, AGAIN BIG TALK By 1917 the United States had become convinced that a German victory might mean, among other things, military invasion of South America. Now Tlaly comes along to take a bite out of Africa and threaten to break the Byitish life-line of em- pire through the Mediterranean. (Continued on Page Five) Austria Chianges Military Terms VIENNA, Feb. 11.—The Austrian Government has extended the term | of compulsory military service from 11 months to 18 months, and changed the age for such service from 21 to 20 years. D A sl STOCK QUOTATIONS | 0 bl e NEW YORK, Feb. 11. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12, American Can 81, American Light and Power 4%, Ana- conda 32, Bethlenem Steel 55%, Commonwealth and Southern 1'%,{ Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 32, International Harvester 63': Kennecott 37%, New York Central 17%, Southern Pacific 187%, United States Steel 53%, Cities Service 1%, Bremner bid 2!z, asked 4'z, Pound $5.02' DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 124.94, down 60; rails 2896, down .15; utilities 18.74, down .11 > Bicycle polo is being revived in London. { holds that a person does not par-|sive on Teruel, two months 8go, ‘”"”"“’: in aeronautics by flying | according to a well-informed source. as a passenger in a commercial| The informant said hundreds of plane |thousands' of Government troops The decision is rendered by the|which assembled for a successful Court in upholding a $1452 damage pecember drive on strategic Tereul, Judgment awarded to Tom MOYer, nave now been utterly demoralized against the Mutual Benefit Health gn4 scattered. ,and Accident Association. Remnants of the attacking forces Moyer was injured in October of naye withdrawn into the mountains 193¢ when an Alaska Southern Air- a5t of the provincial capital, In- ways plane crashed at Pinta Bay, surgents said. near Chichagof, Alaska. He sought > ->oo 'to collect insurance for his injuries received in the crash, but the com- GERMAN PLANE pany with which he was insured declined to pay, stating that a clause in the policy stated the linsurance did not apply to death y or disability loss ause of or while participating in aeronautics. An Alaskan court upheld Moyer’s contention and also awarded $350 L for attorney’s fees. The Circuit ‘yCourL reversed the decision as ap- Three Of Cl’e!\’ Make ES— {plied to payment of the fees. cape by _]umpmg in Para- Tom Moyer and his wife have I’l La d S fl ibeen Juneau residents for several chutes, naing Salely years, recently moving to Seward. | Sl B A BERLIN, Feb, 11.—The crash of { Germany’s largest transport plane, | ROCKLIN, Feb. 11. — Although during a trial flight Tuesday, is |this is an incorporated city with a disclosed. | population of 742, it gets along with- Only the factory crew of five men lout a city attorney, police chief, po- was aboard. Two men were killed llice judge or jail. For years the but three escaped by using para- Council has declined to build a jail chutes, landing safely and unin- or appoint a police chief, arrests jured. when necessary being made by a. The plane was built to accom- county deputy sheriff, modate 40 passengers.