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i “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” * THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ~ VOL. LI, NO. 7724. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JAPANESE ISLAND RAIDED BY CHINESE Strict Secrecy Ordered, Pacific Na MANEUVERS TO BE KEPT DEEP MYSTERY NOW Order Issued from Wash- MEN SEEN IN ACTION Flight of Navy Airboat from San Diego to Sitka Is Postponed WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The United States Navy has surrounded with war-time secrecy the forth- coming fleet maneuvers on the Pa- cific where more than 50,000 men and officers will test the fighting strength of 150 war craft. The officials disclosed the se- crecy order while the House Naval Committee heard Rear Admiral Dubose, Chief of Naval Construc- tion, testify that it will cost three billion, two hundred million dol- lars to provide a separate fleet to defend the Atlantic coast. The “secrecy” order has barred representatives from oll craft in the maneuvers on the Pacific from Alaska to Samoa to Panama Canal about the middle of March to late in April. The only explanation is the fleet problems are “highly confidential.” Chairman Vinson, of the House Naval Committee, told the news- men that neither he nor the Ad- ministration are giving considera- tion to a separate Atlantic Fleet. PLANE FLIGHT TO SITKA IS POSTPONED SAN DIEGO, Cal, Feb. 23— Rear Admiral Charles Blakely, Commander of the Aircraft Scout- ing Force, today announced that the flight of six airboats of Patrol Squadron 17, from San Diego to Seattle, originally scheduled for today, has been postponed to March 5. No reason is given for the squadron’s delay. The squadron will operate between Puget Sound and Sitka, Alaska. — e FAIRBANKS TEAM BEATS ALL- STARS Juneau Sql:aT Is Downed in Opening Contest in Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 23.— The Fairbanks Wolverines last night defeated the Juneau All-Stars 29 to 28 in the first basketball tilt the Juneau team has played in the * Fur Rendezvous tournament. The All-Stars climbed aboard a 12 passenger Star Airways plane at Valdez yesterday and flew to An- chorage, arriving there at 6 in the evening, to play the Fairbanks Wolverines at nine. The points: JUNEAU Smith e Lindstrom May Erskine Nelson Davlin Jensen ... Blacwmvan Total : ‘WOLVERINES Thompson Watkins Hoem ‘Wilbur Ringstead Quam ... Franklin 8| - Blowvwwdvon Totals ——l For every dollar spent in the United States by travelers from oth- er countries, eight dollars are spent by United States citizens traveling abroad, GREAT BRITAIN DEMANDED NOW ‘g‘ British Lab(;mlrty, Trades| Union Council Issue | Present Move Avoid- Premier, Chamberlain Saysi ing Question of War f LONDON, Feb. 23—The British| Labor Party and Trades Union| Council today issued a manifesto de- | manding the Government submit| its foreign policy immediately at a| general election. | “The Government holds no man-| date in the vital change made m[ the foreign policy,” the manifesto vy Moves T PLANES DROP TEN BOMBS ON FORMOSA ISLE Numerous Casualties Re- ported But Property Dam- First Time in Century that Earth of Japanese Empire Touched by Enemy BULLETIN — TOKYO, Feb. 23.—The Formosan Government General, in a radio, says the Chinese raiding planes killed eight persons, including three children, and wounded 29 adults. | No mention was made of prop- erty damage. X says. Premier Neville Chamberlain won a vote of confidence in the House of Commons yesterday 333 to 168 on‘ his policy to seek peace with Musso- | lini and Hitler to avoid the “fright-| ful question of war.” | Premier Chamberlain, answering the questions of members of the | House of Commons, said he “would Inot pledge himself in advance” con- | cerning the question of Ethiopia in| negotiations with Italy. | The Premier said the house will| m; be consulted later in connection “ with terms to be made to Italy. The Premier said no decision has EAST’S LOSS was west’s been made yet regarding a new | mh;erw'hen lgnry YBr:tlel. :Il:n Foreign Secretary following the re- rom New York went to ¢ i | Hollywood, She's Ak B ignation of Anthony Eden. ente CHAMBERLAIN S FASCIST, SAYS NATION EDITOR Says Premier’s Speech the Greatest Retreat Since Big War INSURGENTS LAUNCH BIg 3-WAY PUSH Land, Sea and Air Forces Concentrate on Fierce Attack PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb, 23. — Max Lerner, editor of the maga- HENDAYE, French-Spanish Bor- zine, Nation, termed Premier Ne- der, Feb. 23—The combined land, ville Chamberfain’s “conciliatory” |sea and air forces of the Spanish gesture toward Germany and Italy, Insurgents are toddy advancing “The most decisive retreat in mod- from all sides on the Loyalist ern history since the World War.” strongholds on the Mediterranean' The editor told the Pittsburgh coast. section of the Council of Jewish Insurgents began the new move- Women that Chamberlain, Lord ment after strategic Teruel fell into Halifax, Sir Samuel Hoare and their their hands as Loyalist troops were satellites are pro-Fascist. routed. Lerner urged concerted economic The advance threatens to preci- action by England, France and the pitate the greatest battle and most United States to halt the “spread decisive engagement of the long of Fascism contlict. i S S DB Military dispatches said that In-| surgent troops drove eastward while Pul-lcEMAN Is SHOT, KILLED warships ranged along the coast and attacking planes roared. over Loyalist cities behind the lines. Insurgent warships and planes bombarded Sagunto, Valencia, Con- R Battle Ensues when Officers Attempt to Question {lines of defense 160 miles east of Man in Cafe Madrid and the coast. | i —,,o——— | CHICO, Cal, Feb. 23. — C. J. | Bruce, 40, policeman, was shot and tions. | Government troops hastily formed Edwin Schutrum, aged 60, was the man, and he was finally subdued THROUGH PACIFIC WAVES SLIP WAR-MINDED DESTROYERS as U. S, fleet engages in maneuvers off California. Left to right are U.S.S. Perkins, Preston, Smith, Cushing, Flusser, Drayton. TOKYO, Feb. 23.—Seven Chinese GEN. PERSHING NOW FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE Alaskan Killed In Seattle; Hit By gmet Car | Commander of AEF During Jumps to Safety on Dim- | World War Suffers Sec- ly Lighted Street | ond Relapse, 12 Hours SEATTLE, Feb. 23. — William BULLETIN—TUCSON, Feb. 23.— Hynek, 38, recently from Palmer, Physicians attending Gen. Pershing Alaska, was killed by a street car this afternoon issued a statement last night as his horrified wife that he was “definitely better, lungs | jumped to safety. | perfectly normal, blood pressure The couple was running for a |better and condition of heart en- street car and misjudged the dis-tirely satisfactory.” tance on a poorly lighted street.| | The operator of the car did not; TUCSON, Arizona, Feb. 23. — see them until too late to stop.. |Gen. John J. Pershing, Commander Hynek was thrown 60 feet when Of the AEF. during the World War, struck by the car. is fighting in a sanitarium here as| a rheumatic ailment weakened his| heart and threatens his life. - D H | Yn"n Ama"ca" | Lt Col. S. U. Marrietta, Army | cardiac specialist, has been sum-| Wife of William Hynek war planes have raided the Japan- Nazis in Austrian Saddle Z . - moned here from Fort Sam Hous- | Fller |s Kllled I" ton, of San Antonio, Texas. Ire, Piane uras The General’s sister, Miss Mae: Pershing, maintained a vigil] New Yorker, Flying Mili- tary Plane in Honduras, is scheduled to arrive here by plane tomorrow from Palm Beach, Flor- ida. throughout the night as “Black Jack” slept restlessly following a Victim of Accident o I second relapse in 12 hours. General’s only son, Warren Per- shing, New York investment broker,' IS LAST SURVIVOR TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, Feb. 23.—Paul J. Walker of Poughkeep-, NEW YORK, Feb. 23.—Of the sie, New York, was killed when a commanders of the principal armies Honduran military plane he was |in the World War, Gen. Pershing is piloting caught fire at a high alti- |the last to survive on the Allied tude and crashed near here. Walker side. i was 22 and had been flying for the | Marshal Foch of France, Field Honduran Government for several Marshal Haig of the British forces, months. - .- Fourteen of the 144 members of the London county council are wo- men. | Gen. Diaz of Italy and Grand Duke Nicholas of Russia, are dead. Also passed on are German gen- iuses of the Central Powers statt, 'von Hindenburg and Ludendorff. Search for Secréts of Stars Is Ended; World Renowned Astronomer,Dr. Hale, Dead Feb, 23.—Dr. fascinating PASADENA, Cal, George Ellery Hale's stitution. Given Scientific Books Sixteen years after his birth in by Officer T. C. Jones and jailed ‘mrch for secrets of the stars has\cm“so’ June 26, 1868, Dr. Hale be- with a charge of murder to be ended. The world renowned as-|came jmmensely interested in the astal, Barcelona and Tarragona, | killed last night by a man he and { . made against him. Two United States Good- while Insurgent Spain hailed the his fellow officer attempted to will Planes Remain for age of 69, | tronomer, who has been ill for some o, ang thought the universe should {time, it dead in a sanitarium at the yn,w more about the closest star which so greatly affects daily exis- fall of Teruel with street celebra-| question in a downtown restaurant. Time in Santiago :lot his home seeking new worlds to|of “Robinson Crusce,” and “Arab- SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. 23.—Four | | conquer, Dr. Hale developed into jan Nights” and placed in Hale’s United States Army bombers, good- BLOOMINGTON, Iil, Feb. 23— one of the world’s leading astrono- hands books of a scientific nature. will planes to South America, left George Black of Arcola is feeding mers, He was virtually founder of | Always treasured in Dr. Hale's today on a leisurely homeward | his hens harmless dyes of various the Yerkes Observatory of the Uni-library was “The Book of Sports flight after a visit to Argentina. |colors so they will lay many-hued versity of Chicago at Williams Bay. and Pastimes,” an English publica- One bomber remained here, de- ®885- |Wis., “father of Mt. Wilson” obser- tion something like the boycratt layed by motor adjustment, and| Black says the dyes do not vatory in California and one of the books of the present day. It told another also remained to accom-|change the taste of the eggs &nd organizers of the astronomical work — ; pany its companion north, R‘Dl*al to color-rhinded- customers.’at Pasadena of the Carnegie In-| — o —— | From a 16 year old boy with a tence. His mother, almost an in- | |home-made telescope on the roof valid, banned modernized editions (Contitued on Page Three) (left), Austria’s new minister of member of the Hitler-approved cabinet. of “cooperaticn” between these nations. ¥ ‘T % Austria’s German-endorsed minister of the interior, Arthur Seysz- Inquart (right) conferred with Adolf Hitler regarding the new basis Prof. M. V. Adamovitch justice, remained in Vienna as a These pictures were trans- mitted by radio from London to New York. Just Wha By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The easiest way to make sense out of the latest Act of Conress and of receht constitutional decisions Federal courts is to ignore the po- litical fog for the moment and take a cash-register view. What actually is happening is this: The Federal Government is mak- ing strides into economic territory that has been reserved for a hun- dred years or more for private - citizens and corporations. R No Gobbling This does not mean state socialism or communism is just around the corner. Nor does it imply that the Federal Government is going to gobble private business. So far, the government has given to the public services which the Supreme Court says are “affected with the public interest,” or it has gone into business fields that are not profitable for private compan- ies. Take the latest law—the bill to revise the Federal Housing Act of 1934 What the revised law does is to shove the government deeper into the mortgage insurance business. The government expects to lose some money. It already has lost six odd millions of dollars in this field, a little more than 1 per cent of its “investment.” That's because its terms are liberal. But Uncle Sam is willing to take a comparatively small rap on the chin in hope that the bill will encourage building and = Government in Business; t Is the Meaning ;th('reby get heavy industries going. |That would give employment to more people and spread profits among private citizens. | Can't be Bothered Now turn tg the Supreme Court’s January decision upholding the con- stitutional right of the Federal Gov- ernment to lend, or give, money to Icities for power plants, public build- ings, sewer systems and the like. The real meaning of that is that Uncle Sam can’t be bothered about the survival or death of a private enterprise, so long as he is giving the public a legitimate service. Couple with that decision, the lower court ruling that approved the Tennessee Valley Authority—one of the biggest real estate develop- ments launched anywhere. That de- cision okeyed the whole scheme, in- cluding the right of the government to produce and sell water power in the valley. The meaning of the lower court decision 1s substantially the same as that of the Supreme Court, al- though, because it approved the whole Tennessee project, it is much broader. This does not imply that the gov- ernment is going to supply all the electric current carried in the na- tion any time soon, if ever. The Government only controls 15 per cenf of potential water power sites anyway. A Governmental Trend Nevertheless the enlarging pow- | (Continued on Page Five) ese island of Formwosa, off the sou- thern Chinese coast, inflicting nu- merous casualties. This is according to the Domei ‘apanese news agency. e air raid Is the first time in centuries that an enemy has touch- ed the earth of the Japanese Em- | pire. The air rald was executed broad daylight this forenoon. | The air raiders swung over the Japanese air base on the outskirts of Taihoku, Formosan Capital | City, and dropped ten bombs. The raiders then bombarded other points. Taihoku is a city approximately 120 miles east of the southeastern coast of China. The news agency reports that aside from the casualties to citizens little property damage resulted from the bombing. THREE JAPAN COMMANDERS ARE RECALLED |Another Shakeup Takes | Place—Hata, Successor to Matsui, Leaves Field TWO OTHER OFFICERS " SHORN OF AUTHORITY Success of Chinese Forces North of Nanking Given as Reasons for Changes in SHANGHAI, Feb. 23.—The recall of three of the highest Japanese commanders is announced officially |here today in the midst of reports that the Japanese have suffered a sharp setback on the front north Nanking. The announcement |comes officially from the Japanese Army headquatiers here. General Hata, Inspector of Mili- tary Education in Japan, who stepped into the shoes of Gen. Mat- sui, has been recalled because of the success of the Chinese counter attacks, breaches in the discipline of the Japanese Army and friction iwith other nations, inciuding th2 United States and Great Britain. The other two officers ordered back from the front and shorn of authority are Lieutenant General Prince Aska, Commander of the Japanese Expeditionary forces, and Lieutenant General Yanagawa, Commander of the Hangchow Bay landing forces. | No announcement is made as to successors of the three recalled. e — MRS, NEILL SAILS Mrs. K. N. Neill, wife of the PWA auditor, left on the Princess Norah for Seattle where she will visit for 'some time before proceeding to Florida for the remainder of the winter. - She will return in the Fall to Portland where Mr. Neill has been transferred, PRICE TEN CENTS ™~ . ington — Problems Are : | L L 3 | “Highly Confidential” Maflffsm | age Said to | Be Slight | e . CHANGE IN FOREIGN | DARING MANEUVER | 150 VESSELS, 50,000 POLICY CAUSES STIR S EXECUTED TODAY

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