The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1938, Page 1

e ' the Tientsin-Pukow Railway crosses THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE (i “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7770, JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1938. * MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - DR TOWNSEND PARDONED BY ROOSEVELT OFFENSIVE OF | Miss Alaska and Theme Girl CHINESE NOW | PUSHING AHEAD Defenders Reported toHave Recaptured Important Railroad Junction YISHIEN BESEIGED, TERRIFIC ATTACKS Japanese Fighting Desper- ately, Attempting to Hold Positions SHANGHAI, April 18.—Dispatches received here report the Chinese have recaptured Hanchwang, where the Grand Canal. The Chinese offensive in Southern Shantung Province is pushing along, according to reports here. The Japanese forces, being be-| sieged at Yishien, 20 miles non.h-} west of Taierchwang, are still fight- | ing desperately against fierce Chin- | ese attacks. STEEL BRIDGE IS WRECKED IN AERIAL ATTACK Transporlallon by Rail In-| terrupted Between Heng- | kong and Canton Wearing a parka as her robe of royaity and graciously fitting her role as “Miss Ala " 17-ycar-old Grace Bailey of Anchorage, recently extended official greetings to the Golden Gate Exposition at San Francisco when she arrived there on a United Air Lines Main- Jined. Receivng her as representative of the Exposition was Miss Afton Bernard, lovely theme girl of San Francisco’s Treasure (sland. Miss Bailey is making a 5600-mile round irip, Fairbanks <o Hollyweod and return, via the United Air Lines, Alaska Steamship Company and Pacific Alaska Airways. In making the trip, she is demcnstrating the nearness of Alaska to cities in (he States by means of plane, steamer and plane services. “Alaska is almost as enthusiastic about the 1939 World's Fair as are San Francisco and Oakland,” Miss Bailey told Miss 8ernard. “We will be well represented, if we have to come by dog sled.” Alaska is due in Juneau tomorrow aboard the Aleutian. | “Neckmg” Lots, Supervlsed | By Secretary Ickes, Places Official on Spot, Sometimes Ickes' Department e MATANUSKA COLONISTS, HAPPY LOT Legal Counsel of WPA Says | 172 Families Now on Govt. Project WASHINGTON, April 18—Dr. H. M. Colvin, legal counsel for the Works Progress Administration, said the Matanuska, Alaska, colonists HONGKONG, April 18, The has been wrecked as the result of be required for repairs. made to the bridge. STEPSON PUT | T 1 ‘lckes is to supervise Washington's Stumbhng Throug concern that we learned not all | Oficers Home ~~ ABOUT TOFALL = el 270 booked as Stanley Brown, 26, whom Insurgents Place Semicircle should be but the job is delegated | arrested on a burglary charge after| of the Interior: The man was seized at the point| HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- |able distances apart on the Mount intruder in his home. | pears today to be imminent as Gen.- the tired automobilist may drive ment. of Brown today when Brown The Insurgents are reported m‘wn Monument across the Potomac, Long Island when seeking friends| The Army Corps broke through BROT. PATROLLED jthc troops back to the Ebro River. ‘smce the automobile faces into a |al city controlling the southern dp— dents of Washington in the spring |urge to go out and view the wild- |side by side. There they may view 7 PLANES LusT\pIECE is pretty well patrolled by lairplanes were destroyed last night !V had spring taken root in.these is between “0000 and $50,000. lighting system on that part of the excluding all automobiles after 7 are happy and ‘thriving. Why are these things as they corresponded with offigials. . sir, e not his e; large steel bridge, that helped to a Japanese aerial attack. Passengers will be ferried across —————— } By PRESTON GROVER | | UN"EH ARREST KEY GITY UF | WASHINGTON, April 18. — Ol\e‘ |of “necking” lots out along the Po- Secretary Ickes personally patrols the authorities identified as a step- to the N: ¥ ¥ ational Parks Service, which of Steel on Big Point, he stumbled through the home of The lots are placed at comfort- | of a gun by Patrolman Walter Har-|der, April 18—The fall of Tortosa, Vernon highway. Technically they Owii B Zaioe Vecninauk tian- Valinos's Insurgent Army Corps Off to the side of the rcad and was Tkidancl on 08 banl have made a semicircle of steel con- OF Just view the view. who lived in the vicinity of Rose- the outlying delense of the Spanish/ One or two of the places, how- Highly motorized units have blank wall of trees. But these proaches (u Tortosa. | time of life upon whom apartment |wood from the comfortable seat of |the trees, observing the proprieties l 1 o kindly but observant officers. | wbv a fire which swept the Brawley parts than one of the mbst accept- highway was cut off and a chain Dr. Colvin spent half a year in the| are?” Mr. Ickes was asked. He said 123 babies have been bom ‘but the substanec is there) “The link Canton and Hongkong by rail, It is estimated that 90 days will the river while repairs are being 0.D. YOUNG'S the many duties of Secretary IS Selzed at POlI'lt Of Gun LUYALISTS IS |tomac River and it is with some NEW ‘YORK, "April:1ov—A' ‘man these spots to see that all is as is| son of Owen D. Young, has been is part of Mr. Catalonia a policeman in Rosedale. rington Who was awakened by the|key €ity in Southern Catalonia, ap-|8re known as “view points” where cler, was present at the arvaign-|closed in on it from three sides. |View the sunset, or view Washing- Brown said he became lost on Versing on a 10-mile radius. [ dale. | Government defenders and forced|ever, have no view to speak of, | fought their way to Amposta, coast-| places are popular for those resi- {life palls, Lads and lassies with an HANGAR BURNS, a coupe, park. their automobiles meticulously, of course, since the BRAWLEY, Cal, April 18- _Seven . At this point trouble enters. Bare- | Municipal Airport hangar. The loss 2Ple Places was despoiled. The was drawn across the parking lot, Matanuska colony and subsequently DIES AT HoME "M.aybe " said Mr. Iches (please t quotes since the Colonists settled there, 40| — Mrs. park service hasn't any money to NEW YOR.K April 18. families have moved out, 12 have Edwin Markham, 79, author and|pay for the lights.” moved in, making a total of 172|educator, wife of the poet, is dead | families now on the Oevemmcnt‘hfle at her home as the result of a | lp-m.lmc stroke, “Then why,” was the retort, “are (Continued on Page Three) project. ‘Rivers, Harhors | Attorney, said Mrs. Nowlin admitted Alameda, Calif,, Daylight Saving Governor Asks Alaska Labor | ToBack Leaders {Chief Executive Urges Unions in Territory to Support Representatives Urging organized labor in Alaska to support their representatives in the States in the latter's efforts to adjust the remaining differences mainly in San Francisco over sal- mon fishing this summer in Bristol | Bay, Gov. John W. Troy this after- noon addressed the following mes- sage to the unions: “Negotiations in the controversy between unions and Alaska salmon packers have reached an lmpasse because the proposals of the rep- | resentatives of Alaska organized la- bor have been rejected by unions in the south. To overcome this it is nec- essary for the unions in Alaska to| back up their representatives in! Seattle and to assure them they are unanimously behind them. These representatives are M. M.| Dunlap of Ketchikan, Harvey Smith of Anchorage, Chester Carlson of Cordova and Carl Brunstead of Kodiak. All are in Seattle now work- ing toward a peaceful solution to the controversy which threatens to sity of immediate action on the ____ paralyze Alaska industry.” The Governor stressed the neces- part of Alaska organized labor in getting behind their representatives in Seattle, ————— airlines, is shown in the plant at Santa Monica, Cal., ing made on the wing to the left. where it Note the three-fin tail on w] 'Svigts Holding Japanese Plane, - Down on Border Nine Craft Go Out, Only Eight Return — One Airman Held Captive AT KETI}HIKAN Pffl]fiflfS,Maska; Century.Old Indian Paid Biven Approval Fimsl Tebutc—Coun- cilmen, Pallbed rers | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 18. Citizens at Easter funderal service : paid tribute yesterday to Indian Available Chief George Johnson, who gied recently in Juneau. He is believed WASHINGTON, April 18.—The ' have been a century old. The Omn]buq bill approved by the Riv- body arrived Saturday on the North- |ers and Harbors Committee of the !and and burial was yesterday. For- House authorizes the Secretary of €St J. Hunt, pioneer and former Ter [to start construction as funds be- Fitorial Senator, was the principal come available on the following Al- SPeaker at the funeral : s and |aska projects: six Ketchikan councilmen were pall- Tiuliuk Habor $60,000, Skagway Pearers: flood prevention, $105,000 and Val- _ Chief Johnson was known for his dez flood prevention SEB 000. totem pole carving. One pole is a b Tl S g g SLAPS WIF WIFE, MAN KILLED YOUNG DELEO WINS recting a group of British Columbia Xx'diam to Mm.lakm.]a AVIATION POSITION, UNITED AIR LINES John DeLeo, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. DeLeo of Cordova and brother of Gretchen DeLeo of the Treasurer’s OKLAHOMA, CITY, Okla., April office here, has been appointed a 18—Claude Nowlin, 57, a widely first officer in the flying service for| known Oklahoma City attorney, was United Air Lines, according to word| shot and killed in his home last received by his sister here. Young night. DeLeo recently completed an avia- Walter Marlin, Assistant County tion course at the Boeing school at| and was one of) firing a shot during a quarrel after three students who moved into com- her husband slapped her face. mercial positions. . Mrs. DeLeo, who has been with | her son in®Alameda, is sailing from | Seattle April 26 for home and ex: peets to spend a week here with her | daughter before going on to Cordova. — e Used, Alaska Mine ., .. |By Using ANCHORAGE, Ala#:a, April 18— y U The Robin Montgomery Indepen- Dyullute dence mine is operating on day- light saving time to hasten con-| RUSSVILLE, Indiana, April 18.— Frank Taylor, 79, ended his life struction on a new bunkhouse. It is - iy £ belleved that this is the first time here by placing a charge of dyna- | Which they sometimes let the Antl mite beneath himself and then | NeW Deal Democrats direct the as- in many years daylight saving has ’ S Sk saults on the Administration meas- A ignil . | been used in the north. gniting it i Work Will Be Undertaken as Soon as Funds TOKYO, April 18—The Foreign Office spokesman asserted today that Russia has detained a Japanese Suifenho, north of Vladivostok. Nine planes were patrolling the border and only eight planes re- turned, the spokesman said. It is reported here that only one member of the plane forced down was found alive by the Russians. Tokyo asked the Japanese air- men’s release to which reply the Soviet Union made a protest against flying over Soviet Territory but did not produce the captured flier REPUBLICANS MAKE ATTACK Prowinest Oklshoma City Oil Man Shot Down in His Home ohn Hamilton and Senator Vandenberg, However, Offer No Solution | WASHINGTON, April 18. Re- publicans have taken the lead | denouncing President four billion and one half million dol- !lar relief and recovery program, ap- parently giving up the strategy by Juneau Bound Fishing Boat Mysteriously Explodes;Five Persons Are Believed Dead John Hamilton, Chairman of the | Republican National Committee, and | Senator’ Arthur H. Vandenberg, of | Michigan, criticized what they called the huge “pump priming” proposal, | but offered no substitute for getting more jobs for the unemployed or beating recession. Hamilton and Vandenberg made | their attacks in radio broadcasts BELLINGHAM, Wash. April 18.[ Other victims of the explosion are| Senator Hill, elected last winter —With two bodies recovered, three | believed to be Earl Cummings, Rex in New Jersey on an Administra-| others are being searched for as the| Campbell and Charles Peterson. tion platform, said former President result of an unexplained explosion| The party of five, in Cumming's Hoover, when facing business re- aboard an Alaska bound tlshlns boat, left Priday for Juneau, Alaska, cession, waited so long to act that boat off Orcas Island. lor the salmon season. |it had turned from a slump into a The bodies found are those of‘ An Indian said he heard the ex- major depression and he criticised Mrs. Earl Cummings, of Burnng-‘plnshm a mile off shore. When he Senator Vandenberg for sitting| ~|ton, Wash., and Frank Smith, of reached the spot there were no| “mute as a mummy” during the‘ Bedro Woolley. | survivors. 4 Hoover economic crisis. H uge Transport Plane Nears Com pletwn FOR PROGRAM, |won't be as important as it seemed in | Roosevelt’s | The DC-4, big four-motored transport plane being built by Douglas Aircraft Company, for the nation’s is nearing completion, Load tests h mechanics are working. First flight tests on the huge craft are scheduled (o be made late this sprirg. CHIEF JOHNSON ‘RFC’ Billion and a Half Authorized to Fight Slump; Is LAID AT REST Just What Docs This Mean? By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, April 18. — The headlines tell you that Congress is authorizing the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to fight the business slump by lending a billion and a half dollars to deserving States, cities, private corporations and business men But you can take it from' Chair- | man Jesse Jones that the RFC isn't going to sling a billion and |a half dollars across the nation’s financial landscape, willy nilly, and expect a quick harvest of pros- perity. NOT ALL AT ONCE In fact, Chairman Jones thinks Army plane that was forced down at|it will lend a scant fraction of a billion and a half dollars during the next year. Then why did tHe admmmratlon back such a law? And why should Congress pass it with lightning speed? Plain-spoken Jesse Jones tells you in his Texas drawl that the new law: 1. Responds to demands from all business for a more sympathetic attitude in Washington. 2. Answers ‘the recent plea of the little business men’s conference ‘fur long-term Federal loans—loans they can't swing in banks because |such deals tie up money too long |for the bank’s peace of mind. 3. Acts as a financial life pre- server whose mere presence on the business boat may inspire the pas- sengers with confidence. “If a going concern knows money is ready and waiting in Washing- | ton,” explains Jones, “maybe a loan before the Federal purse strings |were loosened. . “Then, again, the nation might snap out of this recession in a comparatively short time. After all, there’s no true basis for a depres- sion now, as there was in 1929. “We need government and busi- ness co-operation.” Co-operation, in the Jones view, should help restore confidence, and confidence will lead people to buy what they want and need And when people buy, business men will get orders for their goods. THE IHLAL WORRY “As a matter of fact,” says the man who has made several good- sized fortunes, ‘“boil this thing down, and your typical business man is worrying more right now about orders than he is about loans. “Unless a business has orders, a loan might prove to be a serious drag. Take a solvent business man without any orders. Give him a loan, put his people to work and turn out goods. He will pile up the goods on his shelves, and pay in- terest on the loans that produced the goods. What's missing in this picture is orders for goods. “Now, take it the other way lConunu:dion Page Seven) [time he actually left the stand. he ADVOCATE, 0LD AGE PENSIONS, IS AT LIBERTY Saved from Entering Jail in Washington, D. C., at Last Moment WAS TO HAVE SERVED SENTENCE OF 30 DAYS Executive Clemency Exer- cised in House Com. Contempt Case WASHINGTON, April 18.—Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt today pardoned Dr. Francis E. Townsend, 71, old age pension advocate, as he was about to enter a jail to serve a 30-day sentence for contempt of a House Committee. Dr. Townsend had already re- ported to the District Attorney’s office to begin serving his sentence when the pardon was announced. Dr. Townsend was convicted on February 24, 1937, of contempt, by | walking out of the hearing of a | Special House Committee investigat- 'mg his plan to pay $200 a month to all persons over 60 years of age, The White House announcement | of the pardon cited a telegram sent ,m President Roosevelt on April 15, |last Friday, by Chairman C. Jasper ’Bvll of the House Committee, say- |ing: “Dr. Townsend is an aged man. I am firmly convinced that at the | time of the so-called walkout, that was planned prior to his being called to the witness stand and later at the was under the influence of men stronger in will and intelligence than his own. They are far more responsible for his offense than the Doctor himself.” ALASKA BONDING BILL APPROVED BY HOUSE COM. Dimond’s @a:ure for In- debtedness Up to Two Million Gets O.K. WASHINGTON, April 18.—The House Territorles Commiitee has approved the bill by Alaska Deleate Anthony J. Dimond to authorize Al- aska to incur a bonded indebtedness up to two million dollars for a public works program. Former Senator C. C. Dill, repre- senting the salmon canning indus- try, opposed the measure at the committee hearing, on the ground that no source of revenue is in sight for repayment except by taxing the salmon canning industry. Delegate Dimond said the projects the money will be used for include buildings at the University of Al- aska, public schools, hospitals, air- fields, air navigation aids, public roads and bridges. Delegate Dimond said 90 percent of the salmoh canning industry is controlled by absentee owners who pay less taxes to Alaska' than if | doing business anywhere else in the United States. The House Territories Committee has also approved of the Dimond Bill conveying 36 acres of land in Ton- s National Forest, near Peters- burg, for a fur farm experimental station, contingent on approval of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace. Shell Takes Five Over Sitka Route Five passengers went out to Sitka and Tenakee with Shell Simmons this morning in the Alaska Air Transport Lockheed as follows: To Tenakee—Joe Meherin, Earl Clifford. To Sitka—A. Van Mavern, Ray Pederman and Clarence Rands. ——— SCOUT TESTS TONIGHT A meeting of the Board of Review o of the Boy Scouts will be held in * || the High School at 7:30 tonight, ac- cording to District Chairman Charl- es G. Burdick, all scouts from Sec~ ond Class up taking their tests for promotion,