The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL IIIF TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7728. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY FE BRUARY 28, 1938. PRICE TEN CENTS SPY SUSPECTS SOUGHT THROUGHOUT US. Japanese Claim 25 Mile Advance in China Death in Barcelona HWOSIEN 18 REPORTED T0 BE CAPTURED Invaders Are Now Making| Sweep Toward Yellow | River Points THREE-DAY BATTLE | IS FIERCELY FOUGHT Chinese Holdmg Their Owni However Against Other | Nlpponese Forces | SHANGHAI, Feb. 28. — The capture of Hwesien and a 25- mile advance toward the Yel- low River in southern Shansi Province is reported by the Jap- anese authorities regarding the | field army operating on the ex- | treme western flank in the Cen- | tral China war zone. The Japanese claim to have forced back thousands of Chin- | ese soldiers opposing them in a | three day battle that has been | ficercely fought. The Japanese | claim the Chinese have retreat- ed southward from Lingshih. ‘ Five thousand Chinese are reported by the Japanese au- thorities to either have been killed or captured. At other peints, the Chinese are firmly holding their own against widely extended Japan- ese lrm:(w Although weeks have passed since the rebel airmen of Gen. Francisco Franco started pouring death from the air on the city of Barcelona, the work of digging out the victims still continues, with more bodies recovered every day. Here a searching party is shown carrying out a body which had lain in the ruins nearly a fortnight. New Constitution NAZI UPRISING SAYS JAPANESE For RumaniansIs IN AUSTRIA IS NAVY IS BETTER Ordered by Carol QUICKLY ENDED THAN Us FLEET Docisent Propeily Soaed | hlovs Al Taisbuntes Al Which Gives Masses tempt to Seize City of Own Parliament Graz on Sunday Talks of Possible BUCHAREST, Feb. 2—Dressed in a glittering blue uniform, King A War o P lelC |Carol has signed the parchment TOKYO, Feb. 28.—Rear Admiral 9ocument putting into effect Ru- Tota Ishimaru, Naval authority, de- Mania’s new constitution. clares that the Japanese Navy Is| The new constitution provides for - Rear Admiral Ishlmaru Also GRAZ, Austria, Feb. 28.—Incip- ient Nazi uprisings have been smothered by the alert Austrian Army and a swift reinforcement of the Graz garrison frustrated a Nazi scheme to seize control of this city and then march on Vienna. GERMAN VIEWPOINT BERLIN, Feb. 28—The Nazi re- gime in Germany is watching de- velopments of the attempt to seize the city of Graz. Authorities here dcclarr Premier Schuschnigg is lo.s— # ing his grip. . Bernard Baruch Talks About Economic System wASHINGTON Feb. 28.— Ber-| nard Baruch, testifying today be- [fore the Senate Committee, said: “We have attempted too much and wm determine the quantity ob- too hastily,” in seeking to adjust tained, it said. | the economic system to modern i L SN T times. Baruch also said: “It is with re- gret, that I s the Government policy is more responsible for un-| employment ‘/an anything else nnd the single missing element is the great forward movement of a feel-| | ing of seunri(y i Announces Soundln s’ Are to Be Taken in All States of Nation CHICAGO, 111, Feb. 28. — Glenn | Frank, Chairman of the newly (ormed Republican policy-forming \mmmm,ee addressing a meeting of | the Program Committee, said the | Nation’s ~ economy machine has stalled. Frank said: “A sweeping reduction | in polmcal and economic realities is necessary.” Snvml Aide in U.S. Embassy Arrested WASHINGTON, Feh. 26. State Department received from Moscow a cable confirming the ar- rest of Roman Biske, a Russian em- ployed as legal adviser to the Am- erican embassy at Moscow. State department officials | not indicate what action, would be taken. Biske is a Soviet citizen and| :theret‘ore, subject to Soviet laws. ———-——— did if any, +The| DOUGHBOYS URGE CHIEF T0 GET WELL Persons in All Walks of Life, Offer Encouragement to Gen. Pershmg BULLETIN — TUCSON, Feb. 28.—Gen. Pershing is definitely stronger and conscious most of the time and bas rallied so | strongly that Dr. Ronald Davi- son reported the outlook is “quite promising.” The General is taking fluids through his mouth for the first time in four days. He drank a glass of orange juice, also. Dr. Davison said he could not state the probability of recov- ery, however. TUCSON, Arizona, Teb. 28.-- Telegrams of encouragement and | suggestion from persons in all| walks of life are flowing into Gen. |John J. Pershing's sick room here. | Messages have been received from practically every service organiza- | tion in the nation, representing more than two million doughboys who served under Pershing. | One message, recalling the bitter feeling of World War days, im- plored the General to outlive Ule former German Kaiser. - .- and passengers for arms. SEARGHERS T0 CONTINUE HUNT | FOR RUSSIANS Sir Hubert Wilkins and Ivan Chuvanoffsky to Soar Out in Mdldl WASHINGTON, Ft’l) 28. — Air- plane rescue squadrons from both American and Russian sides of the top of the world, are scheduled to renew efforts next month to find the six lost Soviet fliers, The rescuc squadrons will be headed on the western side by Sir Hubert Wilkins, now at Aklavik and Ivan Chuvanoffsky, crack Rus- sian air scl»nmt DOORKEEPER, - Bus Ilnvars End Six-Day Strike With Contract Year's Agreement Is Made Between Union and Trol- ley Coach Company FLINT, Mich, Feb. 28. — Bus drivers wheeled their vehicles out on regular runs yesterday, provid- ing Flint with transportation serv- ice for the first time in six days. Contract for a year signed by the management of the Flint Trol- ley Coach Company and the United Transport Workers, CIO, ended the second bus strike in less than a year. E 1 " y G L S P”fl UII w‘”‘ WASHINGTON, Feb, 28.—Virgin Healy, 65, veteran doorkeeper of the United States Senate, killed himself shortly after remarking that “after a man reached 60, he isn't much good.” Healy made the remark while discussing General Pershing’s ness, and '.hcn later took his life. 8 Monfhs fo Live, He’s Jailed for 4 | CHICAGO, Feb. 28—Harry Tur- ner, forty-nine, began a jail term | for four of the eight months he is expected to live. | Suffering from an incurable dis- | FREE BRUKE}M and reported by jail physi- | | cians to be near death, Turner was | L | sentenced for the theft of $1000 i in securities from his sister, Mrs. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 23| Ruth Hortop. ‘Paul Wright convicted of shooting | i i S b |his wife and best friend, then freed B ih t T I k ’ by a jury “because of insanity at | |the time the crime was commit-| PARIS, Feb. 28. — Investigation has been ordered into the death of "Ed" said he is flat broke but lanxious to forget the tragedy. Leon Sedroff, thirty-two, son of Leon Trotsky, to determine whether March 15 Will | Bring Rush | of Late Returns to In- | ternalRevenue Office WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — Em- |ployees of the Federal Internal Revenue Bureau expect about 6,- 1000,000 income tax returns to pile onto their desks between now and the deadline for filing, midnight, March 15. | e e PAUL WRIGHT Wright walked out of the Coun'y | Jail a free man, absolved from legal blame for killing Mrs. Wright and | John Kimmel, freed because the jury |found him sane now although in- sane at the time of the killing. | ———ee—— A truck on the highway outside of Jerusalem i two of whom were convicted of murdering a Jewish chauffeur, The executions brought the total to seven since Britain began a drive against terrorism last September. now superior to that of the United ® Parliament selected by Guilds, workmen and professions. “America is unable to have any-| b 2 thing like confidence in her Navy's ability to cope with Japan's navy,” to r hase said the Rear Admiral. |1 i is because Japan has defeated the Un- 1 ited States in building. | pp es I" § Ishimaru also expressed doubt if} the United States and England ficiency in case of a possible war on | Federal Surplus Commodities Cor- the Pacific Ocean. poration announced today addition- St flerieiet | al supplies of apples would be pur- | chased in the Pacific Northwest for Balkan Entente It said it would pay market prices | prevailing in the region at the time | the purchases are made. Relief | needs and the supply on the market ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 28. — Balkan Entente countries, Greeoe Yugoslavia, Rumania and mrkeyw ognize Italy’s conquest of Ethiopia. ——,,———— Nicolai Buchann P 20 in Moscow This Week MOSCOW, Feb. 28.—Newspapers Pravda and Izvestia indicated today that death awaits Nicolai Bucharin The trials start on Wednesday. The defendants are charged with killing Maxim Gorky, famous Rus- sian author and writer, and two States fleet. The Rear Admiral said this would be able to cooperate with ef-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — The | relief distribution. Now HBGUEIIiZiIIE are reported to have decided to rec- | Others to Go on Trial and 20 others in the latest purge. others. The Chairman of the Program Committee also said that “we will| + TONSILECTOMY immediately take soundings, state| Charles Mohr underwent a ton-| by state, to determine what the rank |silectomy this morning at the Ju-| and file is thinking.” {neau Medical and Surgical Clinic. | NEW DAIRY BUILDING | The Creamer’s Dairy of Fair- banks is to be moved to a 36 by 100 Gothic style building to carry ‘on operations, poison was a cause of death. Britain Stamps Out Terrorism in Palestine .&{ LAMP-POSTS WERE made less conspicuous when Leicester, England, was “blacked test air raid precautions, out,” to Uniform Marriage, Divorce Law Legislation Not Likely At Present Session, Congress ill- | By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 2 With- out public announcement, Senator Capper of Kansas evidently has | given up hope of putting acros: his plan for uniform marriage and divorce laws this session. | The versatile Kansan, who knows way of intriguing offered a con- bill more than one midwest sentiment, stitutional amendment and designed to abolish gin marr six-weeks divorces and child wed- dings in one swift blow. Many things have arisen to claim | his attention, so that now it seems unlikely even hearings will be on his legislation. Capper's cipal interest continues to be agri- culture and he has worked long and painstakingly on the farm bill in| committee, in the Senate and in ' conterence. Also he has become a command- er of the troops battling for the vote for Washington's voteless 500,- 000 residents, and with all the local newspapers whooping it up for | the campaign he is busy no end. — South Agin It But the thing which perhaps was | most effective in secuttling Capper’s s shown stopped by British police who searched both truck This incident took place a few days after the triple hanging of three Arabs, and the third of firing on British troops. » | never held | prin- | FBI AGENTS SPREAD OUT OVER NATION G-Men Traveling by Train, Also Plane After Al- leged Conspirators ARMY, NAVY SECRETS "ARE REPORTED STOLEN German Woman Are Already Under Arrest NEW YORK, Feb. 28. — By plane and train, G-Men today fanned out across the Nation in quest of a score or more of known suspects in a high or- ganized spy ring which has pried to Army and Navy secrets for cash from an unnamed Europe- an Power. Reed Vetterli, head of the New York FBI office clamped down strict silence on appar- ently fast growing ramifica- tions of a plot which broke last week with the arrest of two soldiers and a red-haired Ger- [ men woman. Meanwhile Col. Thomas Han- ‘\ ley has tightened guard at the | big Army base at Mitchell Field, | Long Island, where valuable Air | — Corps secrets have allegedly been stolen by the conspirators. e OVER THOUSAND ARE KILLED IN NAVAL ATTACKS Air Raids (:n_—Calalonia Province Take Heavy Toll of Deaths BARCELONA, Feb. 28. — Febus, Spanish News Agency, announces that Insurgent Naval aerial attacks on 28 cities in the Catalonia Prov- ince since the Civil War began, have resulted in the death of 1,542 persons and that 1979 persons have been wounded. This toll is up to February 5. There have been 17 sea bombard- ments, 212 air raids and besides the death and wounded lists, 361 — buudmgs have been debtroyed LABOR BOARD RULING GETS 'COURT'S OKAY CAMOUFLAGED ana |as the marriage bill, but the South- — |ern Senators picked out the mar-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. — The ‘na"u bill for incidental potshots Supreme Court has sustained the as they worried through the weeks. Labor Board's orders directing two | Senator Ellender pictured it as bus companies to withdraw recog- 1 to weaken southern marriage nition for collective baraining pur- so there would be a wholesale poses from labor organizations they commingling of the white and purportedly formed and dominate. Negro races, Both Labor and Government at- “apper. and the women’s | torneys studied the decision closely supporting his campaign | to determine the effect upon com- has contended it would be Pany unions. | possible to enact uniform Federal| The decision was made in the marriage and divorce laws without cases of the Pennsylvania Grey- a constitutional amendment, but a | hound Lines, Inc., and Pacific Grey- {bill has always been introduced hound Lines. It was contended that right along with the when the Labor Board acted, no ever since the drive election had been held to determine ated about 1923. whom the employees wished to rep- The bill contains many provisions | T="Y them in collective bargaining gt and it was unfair to discriminate | which would irritate patrons of free against the unions of company em- |and easy marriage and divorce. No ployees. The Court stated there was :lonucr would marrying New York- ample basis for the Board's conclu- ers be able to speed into Connecti-| Gono cut’s Greenwich, for the bill pro-| |vides a two-weeks waiting period Senat groups amendment was inaugur- e — No Conscription |after the license is issued. The li- mnw mu\l be obtained in the 1 | |provides, but once the license is LONDON, Feb, 28.—Prime Minis- |obtained a couple can be married | yor Neyile Chamberlain recently re- in any county in the country. But newed the pledge of his predeces- Sedoff died in a Paris hospital. marital legislation was the anti- A police surgeon said death result- | lynching filibuster. Not only was the license. ed from intestinal perforations due mucn time consumed which might {have been given over to such issues | to perikonitis. (Continued on Page Six) advance so it can be written on they must decide on the county in sor, Stanley Baldwin, there would be no conscription in Britain in | peace time. He added the pledge ap- | plied to all forms of compulsory service, civil as well as military.