The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1938, Page 1

4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE: “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7719. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU MAN KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Seattle-Juneau A PLANS BEING TAKEN UP IN WASHINGTON Serious Consideration Is Now Being Given by Departments FIRST HURDLE TO BE JUMPED SOON Flying Oyer Daininion of Canada Taken Up—Seat- tle Man [s Enthusiastic WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Repre- sentative Warren G. Magnuson, Democrat of the state of Washing- ton, said today that the proposed airmail service between Seattle and Juneau is now under ‘“serious con- sideration by the Post Office De- partment.” Representative Magnuson said that he has been informed by Har- llee Branch, Second Assistant Post- master General, that several depart- ments of the United States Gov- ernment are working on the airmail and the “first hurdle” is reciprocal , ce)j near the electric chair in Cook county jail in Chicago is the since pome of John Seadlund, alias Peter Anders, confessed abductor- American aircraft will fly over the slayer of the wealthy Charles Ross. agreements with Canada Dominion. GIANT CLIPPERS TO BE PLACED IN SERVICE SEATTLE, Feb. 17. — Darwin Meistnest, Ch@irman of the Alaska Committee of the Seattle Chamber of Commerce said the Pan American Airways is prpared to put on giant cupper planes for the Seattle-Al- aska service if a $400,000 annual mail subsidy is granted. Joe Crosson said year-round veekly service is feasible. Meistnest said the Pan-Ameri- can need “not worry ahout permits from Canada. You get the subsidy and we will work out qhe details.” AIR NAVIGATION AIDS ARE ASKED Delegate Dimond Seeks Ap- propriation—Makes Statement WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked the Appropriations Sub-com- mittee to make some provisions for helping the Territory of Alaska to establish air navigation facilities and airways. “We need help and you ought to aid us,” said the Delegate. “I do not want to extreme my statements, but it may be a matter of life or death. We are generally fortunate in Alaska but some people have died in airplane accidents and they were generally killed because we do not have sufficient air transport facilities.” LONE MASKED BANDIT ROBS SPRAGUE BANK Waits with Janitor and Cashier for Time Lock to Unlock Vault SPRAGUE, Wesh, Feb. 17—A masked robber held up the Bank of Sprague this morning after forc- ing the cashier and janitor to wait, at the point of a gun, for the time lock to unlock the vault. Bank officials estimate the loss between $5,000 and $6,000. The janitor said the robber was in the bank when he arrived early this morning to build a fire and ed victorious, most of the larks had _ dust up. A guard is maintained for 24 hours a day, as pictured. 0INJURED BY TWISTER, TEXAS TOWN Five Duidings. Ave: Dénct- 1 ished—Many Others Are Damaged MERTZON, Tex., Feb. 17.—Twen- ty persons are‘known to have been injured in a twisting wind storm |that ripped through this West Texas town early today. Cne of the injured, Mrs. Sweet Davis, 36, is in a critical condition. Eight others are in hospitals. The remaining injured are being treat- ed in their homes. The twister, followed by a smash- ing rain storm, destroyed five build- ings and damaged about one dozen others. The estimated damage about $30,000 D FARLEY SUED FOR MILLION DOLLARS NOW Postmaster General Defend- ant in Big Damage Suit by Indiana Man WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.— Post- master General James A. Farley is named defendant in a $1,00,000 suit brought by John Minnec, Ham- mond, Indiana, Mutual Benefit As- sociation operator. Minnec charges that mail ad- dressed to the firms he heads or controls, has been ordered by the Post Office Department to be marked fraudulent and returned to the senders. R g Parisians Out for Lark Are Stopped by Police PARIS, Feb. 17.—The prospect of lark pie wi, cven moze frenchmen fight poiice reserves. A swarm of larks flying south for the winter, passed over the Inter- ‘national Exposition. Dazzled by the rays from the lighthouse set up in the exposition, the birds fell into the grounds. Hundreds of visitors rushed to grab the birds and a free-for-all tight developed. Police reserves were called but the lark hunters turned on them. By the time the police had emerg- made their getaway. Big Heartache Olive Brasno (right) is 21 years old and only 40 inches tall, but she has a full-sized heartache, and is telling it to her pal, Dolly Dawn, normal- sized showgirl. Olive was engaged to marry Billy Curtis, 27, who is 44 Inches tall. But Billy married Lois de Fee, 6 feet 3 inches, an ex-night- ¢tlub bouncer. Broken heart or no, Olive is Hollywood bound — and Jome press agent is going to get « hanna. MURDERERS PAY THEIR PENALTY VARIOUS WAYS Questions as to How Gov- ernment Executes Are Given Answers By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—One of the first questions to reach Wash- ington after a murderer or a kid- naper is captured by J. Edgar Hoo- ver'’s G-Men is: “How does the Fed- eral Government execute murder- Until last summer tne answer was “hangifg.” Now the answer is that the method is as varied as the meth- ods in the 48 states. On June 19, 1937, the President signed an act providing that “the manner of in- flicting the punishment of death shall be the manner prescribed by the laws of the state within which the sentence is imposed.” Thus, in Nevada and Arizona a prisoner may be gassed to death. (Continued on Page Seven) CHINESE WIN VITAL POINTS NORTH CHINA Red Arm;“l';orces and| | Bands of Guerilla Fight- ers Score Victories JAP PLANES BOMB CHINESE BRIDGE Nippon Finance Ministry Plans for More Ap- propriations SHANGHAI, Feb. 17. — Chinese | Red Army troops and Chinese guer- illa units are reported to have cap- tured every station along a 75-mile stretch of the Peiping-Hankow Railway. The stations captured are all be- hind the Japanese lines in North China and are vital points in that | irmail Japanese have been using the line | at that particular point to feed | troops based on the Changte River | in Honan Province, with supplies and reinforcements. Japanese units are attempting to push south of the Yellow River, supported by Nippon war planes which have bombed China's longest steel bridge north of Chengchow. | The severing of this artery has cut off the retreat of Chinese troops now facing powerful me- chanized ferces. At the same time, Japanese troops resumed a long delayed of- fensive to occupy Shansi Province, south of Taiyuan, provincial capi- tal. FOREIGN LEGION BUSY CHENG CHOW, Feb. 17.—China’s daring Foreign Legion fliers, in- cluding a number of Russians and Americans, are reported to have in- flicted severe losses on Japanese Army air forces. Chinese authorities said the for- eign war birds had wrecked more than thirty Japanese tanks and a dozen airplanes in addition to kill- ing and wounding hundreds of soldiers in the ranks. marching forward at Sinsiang. APPROPRIATION FOR WAR TOKYO, Feb. 17—The Japanese Finance Ministry has announced the completion of a special appro- priations bill to pour financial foundations into the Japanese offense in China. The new bill would hand the Japanese Army and Navy a sum of $1,392,000,000 to continue the Chinese warfare, a war that each day becomes increasingly costly to troops far from the coast and home. Fur Ren&éfvnus Queen Selected; Slle'ia Blonde Will Also Go to Fairbanks Ice Carnival—Affair Opens Saturday ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 17— Grace Bailey, blue-eyed blonde, has been selected Queen of the Fur Rendezvous, which starts here next Saturday. Officials said she will also be Miss Anchorage at the Fair- banks Ice Carnival.: Trappers and miners have begun converging here by airplane from interior points to attend the annual event. There is already assembled more than $10,000 in furs. Skiing teams, basketball teams and boxers are coming here from Juneau, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Fairbanks, Palmer and points along the Alaska Railroad Belt. Sulphur is the chief substance used by cotton growers, grain farm- ers, orchardists and poultry raisers in combating insect pests and plant lice, Service Loomin g Now Two men described as heads of the $100,000,000 ottery racket left by the late “Dutch” Schultz, were arrested in a Philadelphia apartment by de- trail of a red-headed tectives who foilowed the showgirl. GOVERNMENT CASHES IN; SEAL SKINS Japan and Canada Get Cut from Sale of Prib- ilof Furs WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — The sale of last year's take of Pribilof seal has netted the United States Government $278,037 The amount also included $19,000 in fox skins and $8,000 in seal oil Commissioner of Fisheries Frank T. Bell told a House committee that the gross sales amounted to about a million dollars, but Japan and Canada each received 15 per- cent of the sum. The costs of processing the furs were deducted from the total reve- nue. Japan took $73,000 in cash TEMPERATUR EXTREMES ARE NOW FOUND OUT Weathermen in Interior Make Known Oddi- ties Discovered FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 17— Special Weatherman W. B. Draw- baugh and L. A. Coifin of the Wash- ington, D. C. Bureau, have determ- ined extraordinary inversions of temperature extremes at high and low altitudes. To high altitude, radio robot ob- servers recorded temperature of ‘4 fahrenheit” at an altitude of 46,260 feet. At the same Time the tem- perature on the ground was 22 de- grees below zero. At 702 feet the temperature was 9 degrees above, at 1,302 feet 13 degrees above and at 5400 feet, 18 above. The warmest zone in the winter is approximately at the 5,000-fcot altitude, R The wise old owl that lit on a power transmission line near Tipton, Kas., wasn't so smart. The power lines were out of commission tem- porarily—but the owl was out for good, One of the men was J. R. attouney for Schultz who was shot down in a New- vark. N. J.. restaurant two years ago. Captured in $100,000,000 Lottery Raid (Dixie) Davis, The girl, ES released on $2,500 bail as a suspicious pérson, was Hope Dare, alias Rose Richert, who appeared in a Broadway production, “Life Begins at 8:40". second man was George Weinberg. Davis, who has been a fugitive since 1937, and Weinberg, were set at $300,000 cach, highest ever set in Philadelphia. The Bonds for GRIM REMINDERS of four horsemen of Apocalypse— conquest, famine, estilence, death—are cavalrymen near Teruel. scene orSpanish civil war’s bloodiest battles. Do You Blush Very Eusil&? : Statues Test You S.F. Fair SLAYS FATHER AFTER 2 YEARS CONTINUAL HELL Fifteen-Year-Old Boy Makes Confession, Explain- ing His Crime TEXARKANA, Texas, Feb. 17— Sheriff Henry Brooks says a 15- year-old boy has confessed he slew his father “because he put me through two years of continual hell by beating me.” The sheriff quoted Fred Parsons as saying he shot and killed his father after deciding upon the deed “in five minutes, maybe less NO CHANGE IN ALASKA FISHING REGULATIONS WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Frank T. Bell, Commissioner of Fisheries, said today that no material change in the Alaska salmon fishing regu- lations would be made this yesar, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 17. Harris Connick, in chief of the 1939 Golden Gate In- ternational Exposition, has given his veraict on wne fair's sculptural plans. Said Connick: “They're terrible!” Connick, appointed only recently, summoned a special meeting of the fair’s architecture commission and land photographs of models of some of the statues before it. He said they would make mothers hurry the kiddies past, and make strong men blush, The architecture commission al- ready split on the issue, heard Con- nick forcefully remark: That “Abundance,” David Sliv- ka's nude male figure representing the bounty of the West, looked more like a failure of the fig leaf crop. That the same sculptor's com- panion piece, a female entitled, “Fertility,” was “embarrassing.” That Jacques Schnier’s “Occident and Orient,” also female and nudes would have been barred from bur- lesque That “Agriculture,” a full-figured goddess by William Gordon Huff, could use more drapery than a few limp stalks of wheat strategically placed. That “Phoenix,” the fabled bird representing San Francisco’s rise from the ashes of 1906, which will top a 400-foot tower, looked like a rooster choking back a sneeze. - Vinegar was first obtained by the natural souring of wines new director FRED ORDWAY IN ACCIDENT; DIES,HOSPITAL Flying Pho@apher Vie- tim When Cabin Mono- plane Dives Down WAS ALONE AT TIME; USING RENTED CRAFT Local Business Man Making Cross Country Tour When Meets Death Fred K. Ordway, known as “Alaska’s Flying photogra- pher,” about 35 years of age, died today in a hospital in Oregon City, Oregon, as the result of a fractured skull, one hour after his cabin mono- plane crashed on a farm at New Era, five miles south of Oregon City. This is accord- ing to an Associated Press dis- patch received by the Empire shortly before the noon hour today. | Mrs. Alfred Izaceson, whose farm was the.scene of the crash, saw the plane circling in the air and thought possi- bly the motor was missing. Then the plane suddenly crashed. No fire followed the crash and gasoline was found in the tanks. Ordway was flying alone in a plane rented from the Wash- ington Aircraft, Seattle. The plane had been rented by Ord- way for cross country photo- graphing trips and at the time of the crash, Ordway was on his way from Salem, Ore- gon, to Seattle. Mrs. Ordway left Seattle last Sat- urday for Juneau and is said to be (Continued on Page Threw' CHAMBER ASKED TOBACK MOVE OF UNEMPLOYED Movies, Speakers Feature Meeting of Commercial Group at Luncheon Unemployment, the proposed In- ternational Highway, messages from visitors, all climaxed with the show- ing of interesting Alaska motion pic- tures, presented by A. E. Karnes and taken by Father Hubbard, fea- tured the meeting of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today at Percy’s Cafe. It was one of the best attended meetings. of the group in many weeks. Judge Simon Hellenthal, former Juneauite and now District Judge in the Third Division, three mem- bers of the Alaska Game Commisy sion—Irving Reed, Anarew suuuis and Earl Ohmer—and Deputy Col- lector of Customs George H. Hartle of Prince Rupert, were guests of the Chamber. Jack Lang, Secretary of the Ju- neau Unemployed League, accom- panied by Lee Rox, appeared before the group asking support of the Chamber in seeking Federal work- relief funds for Alaska. He said that it appeared that a large appropria- tion would be made for such relief in the States and that Alaska should be entitled to a share of the money. President Charles W. Carter turned the matter over to the Executive Committee for action. “We do not want work relief in my district,” said Judge Hellenthal during the course of his remarks.