The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1938, Page 1

THEQDAHX’ALASKALENHHRE ) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE ’lllll"” PRICE TEN CbN’[S VOL. LI, NO. 7729. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARC H | 1938. NESE ARMY, CENTRAL AREA, FLEEING Boy Kidnaped; Is Held for $60,000 Ransom ABDUCTION OF ‘M[)RE MONEY ?nbwlmund Train Freed in Northern California []NETIHN DRED l.AUlI'.AST WEEK IS SUGGESTED | THOUSAND MEN NOW REPORTED FORU. S. NAVY, BEING ROUTED Thivaaed A s Defenders, Outnumbered Son 6 New Bochalle Ar 860,000,000 Is by Z 1o J, Reporeed mmeyfi“fi!fi]:fi b V;ay Recommended gt e on Lasl a; i ] STRAGGLING FORCES HIDDEN NOTE TELLS ITED %Eg#fi,‘,}’@';h% Yia BOMBED FROM AIR s F I Groups Trapped in Snow i Police Lay-off Case ait Re- Safigmélt:; S:fa I:ST:_ s: Bll;anl(leledd M?ua_!ams i questAof thher:ic o ance for Defense ‘ R St i re Awaite NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. March 1 i —An anxious father today awaits New Panda for Chicago Zoo SHANGHAI, March 1.—The Chi- nese Army of 100,000 soldiers has turned in flight through Southern Shansi Province leaving the Japan- | WASHINGTON, March 1—Sena-| tor Key Pittman, Democrat of Ne-| vada, today suggested a $600,000.000 i a clue as to the whereabouts of his increase in the $1,000,000900 Naval| ese in control of virtually all of i missing 12-year-old son, while he building program. A | the vast area to the northeast of | sought, without police aid, to “meet Senator Pittman said: “This in- the Yellow River. crease is asked in view of the con-| tinued foreign preparations for war | and the alnmsv. total absence o{1 | plans for peace.” Senator Pittman, Chairman of th( Foreign Relations Committee. did ! not offer the plans for spending the extra money but did say the Navy Department could work the plans| out for the additional grant. “We must be prepared to win,"| |said Senator Pittman. “In my opin- E | fon we will 1ot be attacked but the | only answer to such a threat is tow | increase our Naval program. It ls‘ | the cheapest ™ insurance, both for | The Chinese, reported to be out- numbered 2 to 1 by the invaders, are being bombed continuously by Japanese airplanes seeking to make the rout complete of whatever Chi- nese armed forces are remaining along the gigantic Yellow River's course through mid-China. Japanese military accounts de- |clare the Chinese are totally. de- Ak moralized and are abandoning the 1 Red Returns RELEF FuNn |Shansi defense. p— i Large straggling groups are trap- ped in the snow-blanketed moun- tains by the rapidly tightening ring of Japanese troops. the demands of those who may be holding my boy.” Murray Levine, attorney, refused to confirm or deny reports that he has raised $30,000, half of the re- ported $60,000 ransom demanded for the safe return of his son Peter, who disappeared last Thursddy. ¢ Levine also declines to say whe-| 4 ther contact has been made with the abductors. The police said a-mysterious lele- phone call directed Levine where| he would find a hidden note de-i manding $60,000. ‘The police cancelled eight M.nl:v Eight passenger trains of the Southern Pacific were trapped between Dunsmuir, Cal., and Klamath Fails, Ore., in a record blizzard, part of the 19-day storm which lashed the west coast. Here is one of the trains, the engine covered with snow after it was released from the mountainous drifts. No. e e — e Diana, a rare sz‘la‘ arrived from the Orient in care of its captor, Mrs. W. H. Harkness, Jr., and was rushed aboard a plane in Seattle, Wash,, for Chicago where it will join Sy Lin, the only other Panda alarms at Levine's request. ‘The father first believed that the| boy, fond of dtective tales, had tricked his parents, but Phillip Til- den, Director of Public Safety, said he is now convinced the kidnaping is authentic. TREASURY AND POST OFFICE BILLS PASSED Fight in Senate byKing and Vandenberg to Cut Ap- proprlatlons Fails WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. — The Senate has passed the combined Treasury and Post Office Depart- ment ' appropriation bills, totalling $1,402,000,000. Of this sum the Treasury’s appro- priation is $610,937.000. The balance is for the Post Office Department. Senator William H. King, Utah, led a futile fight to cut the appro- priations. He charged that all ef- forts to balance ‘the budget had been abandoned. Senator Arthur H. Vandenburg, Michigan, said the appropriation was “outlandish.” The bill goes back to the House for approval of minor changes. ——— JAP FISHING OFF ALASKAN COAST IS UP Senator Bone Chides State Department for *“Con- siderate Action” WASHINGTON, March 1.—Sena- | tor Homer T. Bone, of the Btate of Washington, today criticized the State Department for lack of zeal | in obtaining withdrawal of the Jap- anese fishermen from Alaskan wat- ers. Senator Bone said the contro- versy has reached “dangerous pro- portions. At the same time the State Department is sending stern notes to Japan because of her in-| vasion of China but the State De- partment has been most considerate |y the sole charge brought unum! can’t give you that information of Japan’s exploitation in the fish' resources in Alaskan waters.” | in mpuvny. | Wru('r Lhu.ws I)mm Pflteut To Find Out What Happened Toli; Hc Does, Then Explains ; Senator s Brlde | | [ | Mary James Foley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James W. Foley, of Winter Haven, Fla., is pictured shortly before she became the bride of William H. Smathers, Senior United States Senator from New Jersey. The ceremony was per- formed, with only a few friends ':esent in a romantie little church near the national capxtfl. TRIAL DATE IS SET FOR J. SEADLUND | Asks Courl to Get Thing] Over in Hurry with Death Sentence CHICAGO, March 1.—John Hen- | ry Seadiund, confessed kidnap-slay- er of Charles Ross, has been ordered | |to trial in Federal Court March 14, after pleading guilty. Seadlund plead guilty to kidnap- ing and slaying Ross only, evident- | the man, al he also was said (to have killed an accomplice. | money and human life that I know | |of.” i During the afternoon the House | | Naval Committee recommended a | $30,000,000 experimental fund for the Navy Department and of this sum $3,000,000 is earmarked for con- the Los Angeles. 'This afternoon, Representative » |Frank C. Kniffen, Democrat of Ohio, proposed a defense line from By PRESTON GROVER the Aleutians, Alaska, to Midway WASHINGTON, March 1 One | Island, thence to Panama, the Vir- of our more earnest ‘readers asked 8in Islands and north to Maine us to learn what had happened to| Under his plan, the Navy's “hos- an invention of an air-reduction tile opeartions” would be restricted motor about which, he was told, !0 that area. Colonel Lindbergh had once K b pressed some interest. Accommodation is our aim, so we DENY BuMnR called on the Patent Office. The Officials of Ninth Corps ex- chief clerk remembered a machine of the type we described and said it was presented to the Department in 1928 with a request for a patent.! It turned out to be one of those per- ennial attempts at perpetual mo- tion, and the clerk was mildly amused that we should be bother- ing about such things. ‘We pressed for an explanation struction of a dirigible to replace of the patent, and he explained that the inventor had something like this in mind: A current of elec- tricity is sent through water, oxygen and hydro- ponent parts, ozygen and hydro- gen. The hydrogen is captured and burned under a boiler which gener- ates steam which is used to run a dynamo to generate electricity which is passed through the water| to produce more hydrogen to heat the boiler and so on arnd on into utopia. i O CLOSED CIRCUIT It sounds pretty slick when you read it but the clerk said the Patent Office took bne glance at it and refused to issue a patent. “We just don't give mese closed— circuit machines a second he said. “There is a guod nutur-l law which prevents inventors from getting more from their machines than they put in, and it applied as well to this enterprise.” He seemed to remember news stories indicating Lindbergh had | taken some interest in the motor, but so far as he knew the colonel never had called at the Patent Of- fice. 7 | “Have any manufacturers or| | promoters sought to get in touch | with the inventor?” we asked. “I'm sorry,” the clerk smiled, ‘but. we can't give you that infor- mation without consent of the in-| | ventor.” | “What is his name?” we per- | sisted. | “I'm sorry,” the clerk said, smil- ing even more sweetly, “but we (Continued on Page Six) Army Headquarters Explain Seizures SAN FRANCISC, Cal, March 1 Officials of the Ninth Corps Army headquarters today denied a spy plot in the San Francisco Bay re- gion. The rumor started Sunday when guards impounded cameras of pic- nickers which is a routine practice. The films will be developed as usual but it is not expected that anything more than somebody’s best girl or best boy friend will be re- vealed, the Army spokesman said. - — INT. HIGHWAY ‘GETS BOOSTED BY SEC. ICKES Interior Deparlment He d Would Like to Drive to Alaska WASHINGTON, March retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes today boosted for the Seattle-Fair- | banks Highway, saying: “I would like to drive to Alaska before my term of office is com- plete.” Secertary Ickes further said he ‘was hopeful the United States and | Glnndx will agree soon on plans | { |for the International Highway. 1—8ec- | PACIFIC- WiLL BE EXTENSIVE 150 Ships and 500 Planes Will Be Engaged 1 Defense Maneuvers SAN PEDRO, Cal, March 1— Navy sources said the United States Fleet will hurl more than 150 ships and 500 planes this month into the largest war nes ever played in the North Pacific for defense purposes off the Hawaiian Islands. | | Later the fleet will work out a| test attack north from San Pedro| to Alaska and later sweep down from the Dutch Harbor naval base in time to participate in the Ha- waiian action early in Apnl | - GERMAN AIR FORCE READY TODOBATTLE ™ Fild Mardhal Goering Say: ALASKA'S GAME THREATENED BY ALIEN ARRIVAL ful in Action” 3 Laws Revealed as Morc Often Broken Than BERLIN, March 1. — Germany's Air and Field Marshal, Hermann hver Before Wiiere Alaskans used to say Earl Browder, head of the Com- munist party in the United States, is pictured aboard the liner Aqui- tania, as he returned to New York from a visit to Europe, Goering, today intimated that the | Nazi Nation’s gigantic air force may find its first use for protection of German minorities outside .the Reich borders. Speaking at the celebration of the third anniversary of the acrial force founding, Goering asserted it was created as a safeguard for peace but| f forced to fight it “will be awful, i “too in action.’ | much law” in speaking of game law e enforcement, they now ask for “more Jaw and more wardens.” s ac flna That . startling revelation was ! made today in records of the just concluded conference of the Alaska Game Commission. Complaints poured in from all corners of the Territory and from all serts of peo- ple, that game was passing, that newcomers were the cause of the bulk of the trouble, and that morc rigid enforcement was necessary Executive Officer Frank Dufresne d today: “Without a doubt the root of the greater part of our trouble now lies with newcomers to the Territory, for the most part aliens.” “The old rourdoughs are being Wedded in London Hosless of Formor British Prime Minister Mar- ries House Pam(e | LONDON, Murch 1.—Ishbel Mac- | Donald and Norman Ridgley, house | decorator, were married here today The bride was once intimate with royalty as the hostess of her late | father, Prime Minister Ramsay " MacDonald, of Great Britain. She :’nl::eg(::\l [L;,‘:'f,vf;'v’,';',’fi” SR | st occasionally dines with the King ____ |and Queen, ! (Continued on Page Five) y BILLIS ON- WAY TO FOR gey, PERSHING gt 13 IMPROVING T SAYS DOCTOR WASHINGTON, March 1.—Final House approval has sent to the . - White House the quarter of a bil- Patient Slept for Six and lion dollar emergency relief appro- priation for the next four months. . | At the same time the WPA an- Last nght | nounced an increase of half a mil-| TUCSON, Arizona, March 1— lion jobs bringing the total to Gen. John J. Pershings slept six |two and one half million to be|and one-half hours last night and filled at the discretion of the State Dr. Ronald Davison said “recovery Administrators of WPA | seems quite probably if his pa- Rosasmssis. i tient continues the present pace iwastigatim "R L Onehalf Hours During T0 RUN -AGAIN 0f Activities New York chresenlatlve Doubts Faith of Ger- man Officials ‘WASHINGTON, Mar. 1. — Rep- resentative Samuel Dickstein, Dem- | | ecutive, or Thomas Judson today an- nounced his cundldncy for re-elec- tion as Mayor of Juneau at the city election April 5. Mayor Judson, who has served seven terms as the city's chief ex- was first elected in 1926 and served consecutively in that position until 1932. He was elected ocrat of New- York, questioning the |MAYOr again in 1937. good faith of a Berlin edlmrlnl‘ against German membership in the | Amerika Deutsche Volksbund, de- |ceived medical attention, Recently returning from a trip |to the States during which he re- Judson manded a new investigation o( Nazi | says he “feels e"‘"y bit fit.” activities in the United Stat “I wouldn't believe (xerman offi- cials under oath,” Dickstein said. Official quarters in Berlin an- nounced bidden States, Nationals in the United about 500,000 persons, from future membership in the Volks-| bund or similar organizations and said that those already members must resign. A Bund spokesman in New York replied that it would not affect the membership of the organization be- cause all members were Americans, although of German origin. 175 FISHERMEN ADRIFT ON IGE MOSCOW, March — Three planes, an ice breaker ‘md two ships are working to rescue 175 fishermen on drifting ice on the Caspian Sea since a storm®blew them away from the shore 10 days ago. Of 470 originally set adrift, all but 175 have reached land, that Germany had for:| {the bolt, NEW OFFICIALS ARE APPOINTED ON WHITE PASS VANLOUVEH M.trch 1.—Presi- dent Wheeler, of the White Pass and Yukon Route, announces the appointment of C. J. Rogers, of Seattle, as Vice-President, and Paul E. Mason, of Seattle, as Assistant Purchasing Agent. E. B. Barteau becomes Purchas- ing Agent in adition to General Agent here. CLEBURNE, A W. Smith cotton planter, ran frcm his howse to a near-by cotton field with his heart in his mouth after a bolt ci lightning knocked three Negro cot- ton pickers to the ground. All re- covered, but one Negro woman said she had one tooth knocked out by