The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7718. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN MAY QUIT ALASKA FISH WATERS ver 1,000 Killed in Japanese Air Raid CHENG GHUW IS J"I"”"’M’ Army, Lacking Artillery, Weaknesses BOMBED; PLANES IN NEW ATTACK Women and Children Killed or Injured in An- other Foray NIPPON FORCES ARE ON YELLOW RIVER Four Patrols of Japanese Blocked by United States Marines CHENG CHOW, Feb. 16. — A squadron of Japanese planes bomb- ed this railway junction city for more than two hours today, leav- ing over 1,000 persons dead or in- jured, many of them women and children. The attack was made by 12 planes and the raid was similar to those that terrified Nanking and Canton in the earlier stages of the pres- ent “undeclared war” in China. DRIVE CONTINUES SHANGHAI, Feb. 16--Japanese troops, on the-vast Lunghai corri- dor battlefront, today fought to es- tablish a base for crossing of the Yellow River in a drive to sever the Lunghai railroad connections be- tween the inland and coast and thus threaten Hankow, the Chinese tem- porary capital city. S MARINES STOP ANOTHER JOB PATROL SHANGHAI, Feb. 16. — United States Marines today turned back, for the fourth time in three days, an armed Japanese patrol of 13 men who attempted to enter the Ameri- can Defense sector of the Interna- tional Setilement. The incident came as the Marine officers and Japanese authorities conferred in an attempt to settle amicably the issue of authority in the Settlement. The Americans maintain they are perfectly able and competent of patrolling the area without any help from the Japan- ese. . DEBATE LIMIT PROPOSAL FOR BILL IS KILLED Anti-Lynching Measure Ex- pected to Be Shelved Shortly WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. — United States Senate today refused to limit debate on the Anti-Lynch- ing Bill. A proposal to limit talk on the measure was rejected by a vote of 46 to 42. It is predicted on the strength of this vote, that the much wrangled over measure will ‘soon be shelved. Today was the 28th day of fili- buster on the bill, Senators of the southern bloc still delivering long harangues on everything from mlce to dice. S et — o : ] STOCK QUOTATIONS ! NEW YORK, Feb. 16. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 12%, American Can By JAMES CRAIG SHANGHAI, Feb. 16.—Brave un- der fire to the point fanaticism, Ja- panese soldiers still would have dif- ficulty gaining a victory over a tirst-class western fighting power. This opinion, backed by years of expert observation and analysis, is shared among the high command of the U. S. Army. Those who have served in the Orient, especially dur- ing the present Sino-Japanese war, point out that Japanese fighters never have been tested against a modernized foe. An outstanding fault of the aver- jage Japanese soldier, as noted by American military observers, is his “over discipline.” Accustomed to harsh treatment by his superiors, he is lacking in initiative when the 'command is gone. The | Helpless in Emergency Handicapped by his agricultural training, the Japanese fighter is un- able to make even the simplest re- ers Are Brave to P01m of Fanatlmsm, But Military Observors Says Troops Are Over-Disciplined, Helpless at Times FISH INTERESTS IN AGREEMENT WITH AFL LOCALS Leo Flynn Flays Fly-bv- nghters in Organiz- ers’ Ranks NEGOTIATIONS ARE Organlzer Says Certain Groups Have Mislead SEATTLE, Feb. 16.—Arthur Eils- |worth, Chairman of the Labor | Committee of the Canned Salmon | | Industry, has written to Leo Flynn, {AFL organizer for Seattle, that IJulmnose soldiers wounded, but they smile[¥ | packers are ready to negotiate with = T { American Federation of Labor affil-| iates. The letter said: “This is to advise| you that at a meeting of the labor committee of this industry, I was Instructed to recognize and to open negotiations with locals affiliated with the American Federation of Labor having jurisdiction over can- nery workers employed by this in- dustry in Alaska.” Organizer Flynn then made pub- lic an open letter to resident can- (Dety workers in Alaska, denouncing fy-Jy-tiight organizers who have been ‘“misleading resident Alaskans in regards to their affiliation with a labor union that would quality them to work in canneries of the Territory.” Only American Federation of La- bor Unions will be recognized for cannery workers, Flynn averred, which statement, Chairman Eils- worth confirmed. pairs to his equipment, Faced by the emergency of a jammed ma- chine gun or rifle, he looks around helplessly for an officer. Because his religion holds it an honor to die in battle, he is not halted by fear of death or mutila- tion. This fact, together with the fierce nationalism which Fascism has propagandized into his brain, makes him a Spartan in courage. He fears nothing but the possibility of disgrace. In this connection, it is signifi- cant to note that the Japanese army trains on offense, having a fine dis- regard for considerations of retreat. Quick frontal attacks are preferred to the slower, safer enveloping movements. Of primary interest to those who ask whether Japan at present con- stitutes a military threat to western powers is a comparison of its air force, and artillery with those of the Unn,ed stabes Indian Woman of Alaska Is Fighting for Her Son In Federal Court, Seattle PUBLISHERS OF NUDIST PAPERS HAVE TROUBLES Post Office Department Has Not Rescinded Ban But Exceptions Taken By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Pub- 85, American Light and Power 4%, lishers of nudists magazines are Anaconda 31%, Bethlehem Steel again battering their sun-and- 55%, Commonwealth and Southern wind- persons against the Post Of- 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Mo- fice Department in an effort to get tors 33%, tral 17%, Southern Pacific United States Steel 531, Cities Ser- vice 1%, Pound $5.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES International Harvester permission to distribute their mag- 63, Kennecott 35%, New York Cen- azines by ‘mail, 18%, And they are not having much success. Iisley Boone, managing editor of “The Nudist,” has published a blast against the Department for classi- fying certain issues of his maga- The following are today’s DOW, zine among the lewd, obscene, las- Jones averages: down .03; rails 28.71, down .33; utili- ties 18.92, up .02. industrials 124.90, civious and indecent publications (Continued on ;llt Three) SEATTLE, Feb. 16.—Mrs. Margar- | et Lewis, Alaska Indian living here, |is battling in the Federal Court to| Coincident to the issuance of the 's to de- open letter, Flynn made an appeai termine the exact number of batile tq cannery workers to organize planes each nation has. Such in- ynder AFL, chnrtors formation is a closely guarded military secret. However, it Is a well-known fact that Japanese vis- ual handicaps preclude their attain- ing excellence as fighting fliers. From an artillery standpoint, Jja- pan is vastly inferior to the United States or any other sizable western nation. Equipped for fighting the impoverished hordes of the Asiatic mainland, the army has a low ra- To Arctic Hunt With New Motor tio of artillery to riflemen. How the troops of the Rising Sun empire would fare in combat with Will Search Mountains for the mauling drumtire of western 3 cannon is a matter of conjecture LOl‘lg M]SS.lng Rus- sian Airmen Those in a position to know believe they would not fare well. But no one expects Japan to cross EDMONTON, Feb. 16.—Explorer oceans to fight, nor that western na- sir Hubert Wilkins today left this tions could possibly send troops to city on his way back to Aklavik the Cyient. All discussions are with a new engine for his damaged purely theoretical. plane, A Wilkins left aboard a MacKenzie ; Air Service plane with his new | search for the lost Russian fliers, BE GIVEN LIFE { i i } or along the Arctic slope, those reas not having been thoroughly missing since last August on their i wrched it is thought. wnkms Returns over-the-pole-from-Moscow flight. It is the explorer’s belief that the fliers may have come down in the mountains of, the northern Rockies | TO BEGIN SHORTLY| It 11 Started j 3 Alaskans : i e e He who gets slapped may win the beauty queen.” Harry Neigher, newspaper columnist at Bridge- port, Conn.,, did. When Marion Bergeron was selected as the most beautiful girl in America in 1933, Neigher commented in the newspaper: “It’s too bad a sweet kid like that should be exhibiting her torso in a.cheap vaudeville show.” For that, Miss Beregon gave Neigher a good slap in the face. But the slap led to romance and the two will get mavffed fn June. BRITISH WILL KEEP POLICY OF HANDS OFF Concern Fclt Over Fate of Austria in Surrender to Nazi Regime LONDON, Feb. 16.—The British; Cabinet today considered Germany's new thrust toward absorption of Austria but there is no indication| Great Britain is pianning active steps to prevent such an outcome over developments in Vienna. The British Foreign Oftice is in frequent consultation with Paris and the French Government 5 The London press, while reflecting British concern over the fate of Austria and other Central European countries also voice a desire to keep a hands-off policy Austria’s vital concessions to Hit-| ler in the reorganization of the Austrian Cabinet is widely inter- preted as a prelude to eventual sur- render of that nation’s independ- ence and a more active Nazi policy !hroughuut Central Europe. e With a Slap SHAKEUP IN CABINET OF AUSTRIANS Chancellor Schuschnlx:,g Makes Accomplishment Without Bloodshed VIENNA, Feb. 16, — Chancelior Schuschnigg today announced a abinet shakeup. Arth: Seyst-Inquart, friend of Hitler, has been named Minister of Interior and will have charge of the Nation's police. Prof. Ardamovitch, pro-Hitler, has been named Minister of Justice. The Nazis call the appointments a bloodless coup, accomplishing what the assassination of Dolfuss, in the 1934 xm\s(h failed to gain. THOUSAX /\KF FREED VIENNA, Feb. 16.—More than' 2,000 amnestied Nazi political pris- oners began leaving Austrian prisons and concentration camps today as the reorganized Cabinet of Nazi |influence and in a powerful role ssumed control. Thl release of the prisoners is one |changes brought about by the new lwholly \agreed to terminate CLAIM MADE AGREEMENT IS NOW REACHED | Statement of Withdrawal of Nippon Fishing Craft Made by Fish {DECLARES COUNSELLOR |GAVEHIM lNFORMATlON Magnuson Says If Removal Not Done, Blood Will Surely Be Shed BULLETIN — WASH- INGTON, Feb. 16.—Asked to ccmment on the Fish state- ment, Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull this afternoon said it seemed to him that Moore was misunderstood by Fish. Moore declined to com- ment further but officials took the remark to mean the Japanese have not yet made such a promise as staled by Fish. TO MGVE OUT WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.— Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, today told the House Naval Committee that State Department officials had informed him that Japan has agreed to stop all salmon fishing off the coast of Al- aska. The statement was made after Representative Warren G. Magnuson, of the state of Washington, asserted “there will be blood shed in Bering \m\ if foreign nations are not kept out of the fisheries that rightfully belong to Ameri- cans.” Magnuson further had said: “If trouble comes to Japan, it is going to come to Alaska. There will be blood shed there unless the fisheries invasions come to a stop.” Representative Fish said R. Walton Moore, Counsellor of the State Department, had in- formed him that Japan had all its salmon fishing ‘“off our coast.” Fish said he assumed all boats would soon be with- drawn from Alaskan waters, but Congressmen said they ALASKA 'BWN ;“1 the first results of sweeping ynderstood there is still some dispute with Japan over crab TO WESTWARD | (‘hm(rllm who is surrounded now by Austria’s powerful sovereign neighbors, Hitler and Mussolini. Puppet Nation Some circles now declare that fishing. According to Representa- tive Fish, the State Depart- prevent deportation of her son, Ern-| est Maynard, 20, to Canada. Jury Convlcts Them of Kill- On the day the plane was de- clared missing, Eskimos west of Ak- Austria has just become a puppet ment declined to confirm an nation to be guided especially by a agreement reached with Ja- FLAME SWEPT. The woman’s first husband was a Brm.shel. but she claims she return- the Metlakatla Reaerw!ion nlter she and her husband separat-| ed, and was there in 1932 when all fullbloods there were granted Amer- ican citizenship by a Presidential decree. | ship with her. The boy recently served a year| for petit larceny. Attorneys are preparing to file habeas corpus writ action in his be- half. The case is the first of its kind. FARM BILL 1S SIGNED BY FDR WASHINGTON, reb. 16. — Presi- dent Roosevelt today signed Lhe farm bill, declaring the measure rep- | resenting the “winning of one more battle for the underlying farm poli- \cy that will endure.” She claims her son was| then a minor and acquired citizen-, ing in $2.10 Holdup —No Appeal lavig, reported they heard a plane’s engine roar, It is this slim clue that Wilkins believes may lead to NEWARK, N.J, Feb. 16. — Judge discovery of the mlsamg airmen, R Nation's flefense Dange@sly Low Statement Is Made by D. J. herty, Commander, Amer. Legion |Daniel T. Brennan said he will sen- tence to life imprisonment iwo girls, one a policeman's daughter, who {have been convicted of first degree |murder in a $2.10 holdup and slay- ‘mg of a bus driver, William Bar- horst. Counsel for Mrs. Ethel Sohl. and Genevieve Owens. 18, said | will not appeal. The verdict was reached late last night by a jury composed of 12 middle aged married men. Patrolman Strouge, who testified INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Feb. 16— that his daughter Ethel was insane, The standing of this nation’s de- wept as the verdict was read. fense is dangerously low with re- - >>e spect to that of other world pow- Germany, the United States, ers. |Great Britain, Soviet Russia, Japan, This is the statement made today Italy and France are now the by National Commander Daniel J. |world’s leading producers of coal- Doherty of the American Legion in Jtar dyes. indorsing National Defense Week. 20, he Nazi regime. ‘The Italian Premier, according to Sawmill, Lumber, Cannery, advices received here, is represented as saying that the change has Other Bu'ldmgs De- brought “internal peace and am- stroyed, Portlock sewoiir | |nity abroad.” | Approval of the new set-up by ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 16.—| Austria’s two powerful neighbors, A dispatch to the Anchorage Times Promises new guarantees for her in- reports fire destroyed the sawmill, |dependence, under their guidance 100,000 feet of lumber, cannery and DOWever. other buildings at Portlock, south| Monarchists now consider the of ‘Gdldovia. |change might restore the House of The fire, it is reported, was caus-|Hapsburg. ed by a blacksmith’s forge. | There Wwas no insurance carried on the buildings. No estimate of the loss is given. D FORESTER IN PORT After being storm bound enroute| from Petersburg, the Forest Sery-| ice vessel Forester, Capt. B. M.| WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.—Alaska Aikens, arrived in Juneau last night.|Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has The storms which swept Southeast |intreduced a bill providing that cus- Alaska last week forced the For-|todial service employees in the Post ester to seek shelter in Portage Bay | Office Department in Alaska should on the trip north, Capt. Aikens re-{receive 20 per cent higher pay thaxn ported those in the United States proper. -+ A.sks Better Pay, ‘P 0. Custodians In Alaska pan, but salmon officials said the United States has known of a Japanese vessel making a survey of the disputed North Pacific fisheries for the past several years. BUN GOES OFF; FATHER KILLED; SON IN CUSTODY NEWPORT, Riode Island, Feb. 16.—A blast from a shotgun killed Patrick J. Hayes, Jr., retired naval man, and left his son Donald Hayes, 16, in custody of the police. Young Hayes is protesting being held and declared he seized the shotgun to protect his mother. The gun went off during the scuffle with his father, the youth declared,