The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1938, Page 1

THLE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIR. VOL. LI, NO. 7746. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1938. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS FAIRBANKS FIGHTS FIERCE NIGHT FIRE Shock Troops of Japanese Are Repulsed BLGUDY—_B_AT TLE Windsors to Mark ” 1S NOW RAGING, CRAND CANAL Defenders Cling to Trench- es Under Terrific Ar- tillery Shelling ADVANCE FORCES OF INVADERS SENT BACK Heavy Losses Are Reported on Both Sides—Coal Mines Are Seized SHANGHAI, March 2l.—Japan- ese shock troops have failed to crack Chinese defenses in a bloody battle along the ancient Grand Canal Despite a terrific artillery shell- ing, the Chinese clung to the trench lines along the south bank of the ‘Grand Canal, 18 miles north of Suchow. An advance guard of Japanese cavalry, attempting to swim the canal, were driven back by machine gun and rifle fire. The Japanese are fighting des- perately to effect a crossing to continue the advance down the Tientsin-Pukow Railway line to Su- chow where the line crosses the railway. Both sides admit heavy the present fighting Chinese coal mines are reported to have been captured by the Jap- anese at Tsanch in Shantung Prov- ince. The Chinese leaders at Han- kow said the Japanese would have great difficulty in transporting any of the coal, however. The capture of the Tsanch mines, however, has cut Chinese produc- tion about 50 percent ———.ee— - ITALO - BRITISH ACCORD MAY BE loss in Great Britain May Recog- nize Ethiopia—Italy to Leave Spain ROME, March 21.—It is predicted that a British-Italian accord will be concluded by the end of this week, following the arrival in Rome of the first detachment of 4,000 Italian troops withdrawn from Libya as a concession to the Brit- ish Lion. The agreement is expected to provide British support and rec- ognition to Mussolini’s Ethiopian conquest and through the League of Nations, the withdrawal of Ital- ian combatants in Spain. - RAILROAD MEN MEETING WITH FOR AND ICC Special Committee Expect- ed to Make Report Later in Week WASHINGTON, March 21.—Rail- road executives were to meet with President Roosevelt's special rail- road committee this afternoon to try to work out a program satisfactory to the carriers. Although the meeting was sched- uled for this morning, all the con- ferees did not reach the political hub city in time, and the meeting was postponed until this afternoon. The President’s committee consists of Interstate Commerce Commis- sioners Eastman, Mahaffie and Splawn. The committee is expected to submit a report on rail problems Anticipating the first anniversal Duke and Duchess of Windsor entertainments at their home at Described as “happier than at Windsors are busy outfitting the ersary = ] ry of their marriage in June, the are planning a series of elabo_rau Chateau de la Maye near Versailles any time since their marriage”, the ir home, with the duchess making frequent trips to Paris where she is shown above. Sultan of M usmtrls Pdfin g Visit to United States; He’s Here in Real Oriental Style 1 LOVE YOUI' say crossed arms in dance language of the “Papio,” as performed in New York’s Hotel Lexington by Lei Le Son of Tahiti. LAW PROFESSOR TAKES JACKSON POST FOR GOVT. Thurman Arnoid Replaces Robert Jackson— Anti-trust Chief WASHINGTON, March 21—The former Yale law professor Thur- man Arnold. was sworn in this morning as Chief of the Depart- ment of Justice’s Anti-trust Divi- sion. Arnold succeeded Robert Jackson who left the post to become So- licitor General, taking the place of to President Roosevelt later in the Stanley Reed, who moved into the week. Supreme Court. By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, March 21.—This is the story of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman, who came to Washing- ‘on aboard the good car Robert Peary in a fog of Oriental perfume. Sultans don’t commonly make this circuit, and the sight of a be- jeweled turban something to draw hundreds of people to the walls of windows which flank ylvania avenue. We are sur- u don’t know more about the Sultan of Muscat but will ex- cuse it on the grounds that when he came to Washington a day or so ago, there were not five people in the city, including the State De- partment, who knew where Muscat was, or whether it was a grape or an animal. America first had the Sultan’s little egpire on the scaling southern tip of Arabia when Andrew Jackson was Presi- dent and American clipper ships sailed the seas without benefit of subsidy. In that early day, 105 | years ago, the two countries ne- gotiated a treaty providing that any American sailors wrecked on the coast of the Sultanate should be cared for tenderly and sent | home at the expense of Muscat. is dealings with 1 | HARD TIMES IN MUSCAT Just why the Muscatans promised |to be so generous with our sailors is not too clear—unless it was the recognition on both sides that mighty few sailors ever would get to shore through the sea of sharks. and those who did would be slaugh- tered as Christian dogs by the Mo- hammedan tribesmen before they could get to Muscat'and claim a free ride home Muscat in those days was impor- tant because it was right on the corner of Arabia where the clipper ships swung out of the Indian Ocean into the Persian Gulf to pick up cargoes of the nicer things of life to which Yankees rapidly were becoming accustomed. But that prosperous day for Muscat waned. The shins stopped calling because there weren't any Yankee ships any more. Muscat used to sell scads of fine pearls to the United States when pearls were nice to give to the wife or the sweetie. Times changed for Muscat when it became fashionable or more persuasive to give the blond pretty an automobile instead. (Continued on Page Seven) OFFENSIVE OF INSURGENTS IS AT STANDSTILL Rebel Forces Are Reported Resting Near Cata- | lanian Border 1 ADVANCE BASES ARE | BEING CONSOLIDATED Death Toll of Air Raiding, | of Barcelona Placed | at Over 800 BULLETIN — BARCELONA, | ritish subjects n advised eral to leave the city at once. The Consulate stated the British cruiser Pen- elcpe will arrive here Wednes- day te take off British subjects. The Penelcpe will land the Brit- ish refugees at Marseilles, France. HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- der, March 21.—The offensive of the Insurgents on the Aragon front is at a standstill today, just short of the Catalanian border. Advance bases are being consoli- dated for a new drive in the Torre Vevilla sector. The latest survey of casualties on the demoralizing air raids on Barcelona and surrounding suburbs has been placed at 843 killed and 1,279 wounded Many important positions are re- ported by the Insurgents to have been captured along the Guadalupe River, preparatory to the drive to- ward the Mediterranean coast. The Insurgents claim that territory just recently captured inhabited by 160.000 persons. The rebels claim they have taken more than 10,000 prisoners and captured 76 artillery, 56 tanks and armored aircraft guns during one week of fighting The Government contradicts the statements of the rebels the LOYALIST STATEME HENDAYE, March 21-—The Loy- alist spokesman announced this af- ternoon that the Rebel advance toward the Mediterranean has been stopped and the Government forces will hold the Insurgents in their present position. The Loyalists made the siatement in the face of rebel claims the Gov- ernment troops on the Aragon front are demoralized and incapable of effective defense and that the rebels have gained ground. The Loyalists assert that the dif- ficult mountain terrain with which (Continued on Page seven) FARMERS JOIN WITH BUSINESS NEAR 'FRISCO Committee Will Seek to Keep Trade Going Through Bay City SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 21.—A joint Business-Farm Com- mittee was named today by the Associated Farmers and the San Francisco Businessmen’s committees to seek to maintain the free flow of northern and central California products through San Francisco. The committee was named after the farmers had threatened to boy- cott the city as a trading center, claiming that unnecessary labor disputes had hampered trade D Money Goes Begging JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.—Three million dollars awaits Missouri World War veterans who have not claimed a state bonus that was ap- proved in *1921. ——————— There are 11,500,000 women ‘Germany who earn their lving. in WATTNG 14 S0t 3 IWTEREERES Witw ERPLOTES i DELAYS § BEGNPT SESWCE 1) oad L YOU ST WA GAS INSTEAD OF CALLOWS will be used for legal executions in California when this lethal gas chamber, which was built in Denver, is installed in San Quentin penitentiary, All California executions will be in San Quentin when gas legally replaces noose. \ | | Field as Security @ Baby Paul McCalister o ‘When County Judge Fred S. Reese ruled that “human flesh and blood cannot be held as security like personal property,” Baby Paul McCalister, eight-month-old son of Mr. and Mrs, Fred McCalister of Newville, Pa., was returned to his parents. Neighbors, Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Miller had held the baby as security for a $2-a-week board bill because they had taken care of the child while Mrs. Mc- Calister was in a hospital for an operation. ; GOP TROOPERS MAKING DRIVE FOR NEW SEATS Republicans Will Seek to Get Block of House Seats This Year WASHINGTON, March 21—Re- publicans are seeking to wrest a sizeable bloc of seats in the House from the Democrats in the ber election. Spokesmen for the GOP clan said the attack is being centered in 113 Congressional districts, mostly in Northern and Eastern States Lawrence Sullivan, Secretary of the Republican Congressional Cam- paign Committee, said that in 52 of these districts, Republicans had gotten within five per cent of enough yotes to win in 1936, Democrats scoffed at the claims and said their strategy would offer a good offense as the best defense. New Search Route for Six Missing Soviet Fliers Is Said to Be Indicated Now W YORK, March 21.—Vilhjal- Stefansson, Arctic explorer and President of the Explorers Club, the hunt for the missing Sov plane in the Arctic, with six aboard, f the Canadian and Al- askan has been abandoned because experts believe the missing fliers, if still alive, drifted across the Arctic Ocean toward Norway or the Russian mainland, on ice floes. “As I undersiand it,” said Stef- ansson, “the search will not be abandened entirely but will be con- tinued from Russia along the area across which the scientific expedi- tion to the North Pole drifted before picked up recently.” The Explorers Club President said it is estimated that Sir Hubert Wil- kins fle more than 000 miles all north of the Arctic during hi: recent search flights for the miss ing Sovi bases, > > Pleasure Boai Overturns:; Five Lives Are Lost Mistake and Misfortune An- swers Name in San Francisco Bay SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 21—A pleasure cri ironically named Mistake and Misfortune was found overturned in San Fran- cisco Bay last night. One person was rescued and five others are believed to have been drowned Auto Accidents Take Toll of 66 During Weekend Michigan, Té;a; Lead with Eight—Several Other States Report 5 Each CHICAGO, Ill, March 21.—Auto- mobile traffic accidents throughout the nation during the week-end brought death to at least 66. Cali- fornia reports five deaths, Michigan eight, Pennsylvania five, Texas eight and Missouri four. NAVY BILL S PASSED BY HOUSE Republican Attempt to Knock Out Provision Is Killed SHINGTON, March 21. — The today passed the billion dol- al Expansion Bill by a vote re was passed after Dexn defeated a Republican attempt to re-refer the bill to the cemmittee with instructions to eli- minate the provision for three new battleships. The bill now goes to the Senate for approval by that body. It authoriz the construction of 46 rships, 22 auxiliary vessels, and 950 airplanes and permits of an expenditure of $30,000,000 for experimentation with small craft mystery ships, aircraft bombs and torpedoes. Earmarked for expenditure is a sum of $3,000,000 to replace the airship Los Angeles. i 2 ABDUCTORS - BAPTIZED ON - EVE OF DEATH | Thice W8 Keadnd Gallows Tonight for Kidnaping Of Dr. Seb(‘l’s el MOUNDSVILLE, West March 21.—Two of three doomed kidnapers were baptized today in a fountain in the State Peniten- tiary on the eve of their execution Arnett Booth and John Travis were blessed the Protestant Prison Chaplain The two men, with Orville Adams, will go to the gallows tonight for the fatal abduction last November of Dr. James I Serber, retived dry leader and former missionary. D s The eldest son of the kings of France was known as the Dauphin. Virginia, by FLAMES SWEEP HALF BLOCK IN BUSINESS AREA Meclntosh Building and Ad- joining Structure Are Gutted THREE FIREMEN GO TO HOSPITAL Ice Covers Fighters as Temperature Drops to 20 Below FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 21.—Fire, breaking out shortly after midnight, destroyed half of the Mcintosh Block in the heart of this city with an esti- mated loss of at least $150,000 as firemen became walking blocks of ice to bring the flames under control this morning in 20 degree below zero weather. Three firemen were taken to s apartments of the two-story building escaped in scanty attire. The fire broke out shortly after midnight in the McIntosh Building and spread rapidly to the Nevada Bar adjoining, sweeping the inside of several business houses and consuming large stocks of merchandise and fixtures, The McIntosh Building and the adoining structures razed, front on the corners of First and Cushman and Second and Cushman. These establishments badly damaged included the Ne- vada Bar, McIntosh and Kub. on’s Drug Store, Horseshoe Li quor Store and Cigar Store, both owned by Harry Philli the Comet Barber Shop, own- by Max Behlke, and the Hollywood Style Shop, owned by Lipman Simpson. These establishments saved were, the First National Bank, the old Fairbanks News-Miner, and the Bredlie Shoe Shep. The offices of Dr. H. W. Blyth, dentist, and other ten- ants on the second story of the Mcintosh Building were badly gutted. The thermometer fell from 12 degrees above zero when the fire first broke out to 20 de- grees below zero, early this morning. FIRST LADY OF "LAND VISITING * SEATILE AGAIN also, | Mrs. Roosevelt to Give Lec- ture Tonight on Peace at Univ. of Wash. SEATTLE, March 21.—M; klin D. Roosevelt, First L Land, arrived here yesterday by air= plane to visit her daughter, Mrs, Anna Boettiger, and also to fill an engagement for a Peace lecture at the University of Washington to< night. The Figst Lady’s grandchildren, Curtiss and Ann Eleanor Dall, tum- bled into their' grandma’s arms when she alighted from the p.ane. Ethel Anderson, United Air Lines stewardess was thrilled speechless when Mrs. Roosevelt unpinned a | corsage and gave it to her. The First | Lady thanked the stewardess for the kind attention she received on the flight up the coast. This is the second visit Mrs. Roo- sevelt has paid to Seattle in recent months. She came here in Decem- ber and spent Christmas with the Boettiger family. - - FLOWER LEAGUE Tonight is Ladies Night at the | Brunswick Bowling alleys, with two matches scheduled for the Flower | League Tournament.