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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7773. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 4 YEAR OLD GIRL SHOT IN FIREARM PLAY ' Dragon Forces Now Giving Tokyo Trouble CHINESEHAMMER AT NIPPON LINE ON LIN| FRONTS Japanese Crash Through to Northern Part of City with Artillery TOKYO SEES_LEGIONS LEAVING FOR BATTLE Reinforcements Are Said to Have Been Wiped Out in Mountain Fight HANKOW, April 21. — Chinese forces today beat stubbornly at a strong Japwrese line at Lini, in Shantung Province, and threatened to force the Nipponese to give up ground gained yesterday. The Nipponese crashed their way into the northern part of Lini to-| day, behind a furious artillery bom- bardment, but the Chinese forces stabbed at the Japanese line left of Lini, and began a flank attack 03 that threatened to encircle the Nip- pon army. Chinese commanders at Hankow reported that a division of Japan- ese relief troops trying to get PRESIDENT FOR FRIENDLY CHAT Auto MagnETells News- men He Is Going to White House Next Week 'WILL BE ONLY AS MAN; | ' HAS NO FAVORS TO ASK. ¢ Will Naturallyv‘Discuss Busi- | ness Conditions—"‘Back Republic to Rehire Strikers ‘F[]RDT[] VISIT HereIsthe TVA “Inland Empire” that Is to Be Investigated By a Congressional Com. DIES: BROTHER : | ; | | ) to Farm™ Movement J SUDBURY, M: ! Henry Ford, auto magnate, wld‘ newsmen here today, that he will| | confer with President Roosevelt during his visit in Washington next| | week. | Ford added that he will go to the | White House as a man who has no| | favors to ask. s., April 21. — By The AP Feature Service g Year in year out, the best shows ! Ford and his Wl[[“l"(‘.\u‘d here last in Washington are the congressional night at the historic Wayside Ton|jpoectivations. Tt's a poor season | e Festored & A1 carly AM when the Capitol Hill dramatists Boston where Mrs. Ford attended | S Das o v S the convention of National Women's "'l g0 /ovo relior probe drew Farm and Garden Association. oA Further discussing with the nEws- good crowds for awhile, then petered men, his proposed visit to the White of ed to gevelop any real fireworks. President Roosevelt himself wrote the prologue to the drama when he fired TVA Chairman A. E. Morgan develop its natural resourses. 2. Below system, with its 4,000 miles DOUGLAS CHILD ~ “BUMPS” RIFLE Clara Bro;vn Is Shot and Killed While Cutting Paper Dolls LOADED GUN LEFT IN CHILD’S REACH Coroner’s Jury Returns Verdict of Death by Accident | Because a loaded gun without the safety catch on, was left in the I reach of playing children last night, little four-year-old Clara Patricia Brown, granddaughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Stevens, of Douglas, lies dead in the morgue today with a | part of her left shoulder and the The power distribution|side of her neck shot away. of Mr. and Mrs. Stevens were visii- as the climax of a series of charges|lines, and the areas in which it| ing neighbors. Little Clara and her and - counter-charges between the chairman and his fellow directors of TVA, H | Litienthal | - And now Congress is | investigate the whole thing going to TVA of its private competitors, erves 40,000 customers. | brother Charles, 7, were playing To date the government has spent|in the house alone. Clara was cut- money it has: 1. A power system about 8,500,000 kilowatt hours out. The House naval hearings fail-|its power policy and the activities month, which is being sold wholesale | to municipalities and rural coopera-| ested in cutting her paper dolls-- producing | A. Morgan and David about $155000000 on TVA. For its| ting out paper dolls. Charles was playing with the gun, a .300 Savage. “Look!” he shouted pridefully, a “I'm a cowboy!" Clara did not look. She was inter- through to the Yi River, had been House, Ford said, smilingly, that he wanted to shake hands with the | Bt ‘now it appears Congiess may| These two maps show the phy- have another hit in production— sical setup which the congressionai| trapped and annihilated in the mountains north of Lini. Japanese sources denied the re- port. TROOPS DISPATCHED TOKYO, April 21.—Large num- bers of troops are being sent to China where recent Japanese mili- tary reverses have created high po- litical tension at home. No figures were released as to the extent of the troop movement, but it was the first large scale move- ment in many months from Tokyo. Streets were filled with departing soldiers, marching in seemingly end- less columns under arms and pack- sacks. Premier Prince Konoye made his first active move after several months of illness when he gained audience with Emperor Hirohito. What passed between the two was not revealed. -, — FRANCO BOMBS BORDER TOWN; DAMAGE GREAT Rain of Steel and Death Falls on Puigcerda at High Noon 1\ PERPIGNAN, France, April 21.—| Insurgent bombing and pursuit planes yesterday attacked Puigcer- da, one of three Franco-Spanish border passes. | The pass is still under Spanish Loyalist control, but the bombing and ground strafing attack claim- ed the lives of an undetermined number of defenders and caused a staggering amount of damage. | Exactly at noon, Franco’s planes, | four bombers and four pursuit| i Replying to the sweeping decision of the National Labor Relations Board verdict on the “little steel” strike, Tom M. Girdler (above), chairman of the board of Republic Steel corporation, said the com- pany would rehire employees who have not worked since the strike Jast summer, as ordered by the beard, as soon as possible. At the same time, Gird! aid the company would fight other parts of the board’s order which found Republic guilty of violation of the Wag- ner labor act on eight counts. Cempliance with the RB edict would mean reinstatement of 5,000 men in Ohio steel plants, TRAPPERS ATE BIG MEAL, THEN ™ WENTTODEATH (€ -3 in Ocean Takes Interior Post | Like doomed men about to die, Roy Mathews, 32, and his brother, Cass, 23, Lituya Bay trappers, ate a hearty meal last October 26, load- ed their small boat with most of their wordly goods and pushed off into the Pacific never to be heard, from again. This is the story brought back to Juneau last night* by the relief expedition which left here 10 days [Ebert K. Burlew is pictured in ago to seek them in the storm bound 'Washington, as he was sworn in as country of Lituya. The search party, Assistant Secretary of the Interior. Capt. Tom Smith and his vessel, Burlew will be chief aide to Secre- Yakobi, Game Warden Douglas tary Ickes. Gray, Jack McDaniels and Elliott, | Fremming, reported no trace of the | missing trappers, the only clues be- | ing a diary kept by Roy Mathews and a few articles left at their perm- anent base, Three-Mile Camp, three miles north, up the beach, from the entrance to Lituya. Search Four Days Four days in the area by the search party convinced them, they reported, that the Mathews brothers | SHAKES PERSIST President “as an old friend, and chat the inquiry into TVA by a joint with him.” 1 Senate-House committee of 10.Ad- Asked whether he will express any views regarding the New Deal during the chat, Ford said: “I shall not give the President any advice.” lent press notices. sleuths will examine: 1. Above: The Tennessee river vance reports have received excel- and the several dams completed, not be accurately evaluated in doll- .und(-r construction and planned to| Ford said later that naturally he would discuss business condi- tions with the President. Ford said his solution of the present troubles is “back to the farm” movement. “This entire land is just yearn- ing for sound men to go to work. All a young fellow needs today is the habit of work,” said Ford. The auto magnate said he has known the President for 30 years and added: “When he was Assist- ant Secretary of the Navy, we built ships, boilers and engines together.” ————— WISCONSIN GOVERNOR, E IS tives. - | she probably did not hear the roar 2. Facilities for flood control, ero.| Of the rifle as a soft-nosed - siug sion prevention, navigation and the Smashed the life from her body and manufacture of fertilizer which can- gflssed on out through the win- ow. James Stevens, son of Henry Ste- vens, had left the house only fif- teen minutes before. Hearing the shot, and seeing the terrified young- ster rush from the house crying for | help, Stevens entered to find baby | Clara shot. | Douglas City Marshal Charles | Schramm and Deputy Marshal Wil- liam Markle went to the scene with | Dr. E. F. Vollert, Government phy- sician; Deputy Marshal Walter Hel- |lan and Government Nurse Mary Ellen Speanburg, but Clara was dead. “I don't know how it happened!” Charles cried to officers. “I just bumped the trigger.” A coroner’s jury chosen by U. S. Commissioner Felix (ray, brought ars, Will Offer His Own Plan Congressional Issues Move | Along Same Old Way; Now of Mastering Busi- ness Slump MADISON, Wis., April 21. — Gov. Philip F. LaFollette, who disclosed dent Roosevelt over recovery poli- today promised to offer his cies, own plan of mastering the business program. He also sald the Adminis- ships, began the bombardment of |had lost their lives while attempting Pandemonium and Terror | too soon. the frontier town. | The rain of steel misfles of | to make their way in their small 16-foot boat back into Lituya Bay. | Is King Over 50,000 death lasted almost a half hour,| According to best information with a bomb blasting earth, streets, they. could piece together, Warden or huildings every minute of the Qray said, the two young men, who prolonged, period. | had been left with their supplies A number of Puigcerda’s biggest on the west spit inside the entrance buildings were laid in shambles|to Lituya by Capt. Tom Smith last and the railroad staion was left a|September 1, had decided to move! smoking and tangled mass of steel |their base up the beach. They first and concrete. moved to what they called Mile-and- :a-mx( Camp. From that point they e, —— | were able to get up a creek in there’ BASEBALL TunA “small boat, thus avoiding the open |ocean, to Three-Mile Camp which :they apparently made their perm- The following are scores of two Anent base. Storms came on, the Naticnal League games played this| iraplines they had put out failed afternoon and received up to press ‘© Produce fur and the food, of tiioa: which they thought they had ample Chicago 2; Cincinnati 6. supply, began to run low. In Oc‘boher‘ Brooklyn 9; Philadelphia 0. they decided to make it back to Lit- g uya, Gray and Capt. Smith believe, Milan’s famous La Scala upeflll"he"e they hoped to get a larger house was hu\lt‘hgll'l’m,‘ - (Continued on Page Five) - | o Fear-Stricken Persons ANKARA, Turkey, April 21.— Anatola’s earthquake toll of dead | and missing has soared to at least DRIVING SPIES shocks that caused pandemonium . . . nd terror to 50000 fear-struck | Nationwide Action Started st —Over 1,000 to Be Deported Terrific underground rumblings, | accompanied by intermittent earth | PARIS, April 21. — The French shocks, shook & wide area in West- | ern Asia bordering on the Aegean 3 Interior Ministry announces that a Panic-stricken refugees fled from |nationwide drive has begun to clean crevices full of boiling water. |spies out of France. Eighteen villages are utterly de-| More than 200 known spies and stroyed and 22 others are badly |suspected espionage agents have al- damaged. ready been given their walking ‘Whole families are buried under |papers. tons of mountainous debris and| Government officials estimate that most of the victims are women and |more than 1000 aliens will be de- children, ported before the drive is relaxed. Economic In | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, April 21. — Notes {on statesmanship: | last night he has split with Presi-| ' | { TURKEY | slump. | Just-around-the-corner note: Ul- | The Governor announced that he“ timately the country may become | will discuss recovery tonight in the|confident and prosperous by a pro- TUI-I- SoARs A | third of a series of four radio ad-|cess of elimination. A year ago pros- | | dresses. perity was held back by the court Gov. LaFollette intimated he has| plan. Now that's out of the way.| | in mind self-liquidating of the works Then it was the wage-hour biil. | And that seems to be canned for a back but now the Senate has taken | the first step toward eliminating | them. More recently the reorgani- zation bill was responsible. But Con- | nothing will stand in the way ex- | cept those darn adverse economic influences. Emphasis note: The Department | of Justice building, with its stecl |and glass corridors, is as quiet as a tomb. Yet in one corridor, where | G-man Hoover teaches stealth to | up-country policemen, is this sign: | “Quiet please. School in session.’ . v o | A NAVAL JOKE | Navy officers still chuckle about this one. British, Italian and American fleets conducted a joint patrol of the eastern Mediterra- nean during the World war. Sup- the British ship Dago. One day the | commander of the American con- tingent flagged a message to a U. 8. destroyer saying: “Go alongside gress has put that away. Soont ply ship for the combined fleet was | fluences Bob U ,Dago for meat.” The destroyer shuffed alongside an Italian cruiser Good-neighbor note: From dip- lomatic channels came this wry definition of the difference be- tween the old and the new attitude of the United States toward the smaller American republics. Tn olden days, when a Latin-Ameri- can country began seizing prop- erty of foreigners, this country | tration, believing the depression war| while. The taxes on undlst,rihut,cdiwould say: “You can't expropri- | had been won, disbanded its forces| profits and capital gains held us|ate foreign property without pay- ‘mg for it.” Now it says: “You can | expropriate foreign-owned prop- | erty, but you must pay for it.” | smei the ditference? i | JAMES'S METAMORPHOS | 1t seems that the first party of Swedes to reach Minnesota didn’t| | do so well as those coming in later | ’years. Alexander D. Fraser, asso- ’cmu professor of archaeology in | the University of Virginia; relates | that a party of Norsemen reached | the present area of Minnesota by | way of Lake Superior. An inscrip- tion found near Kensington, Minn., | 175 miles southwest of Duluth, dis- closes that the party was attacked by Indians, meeting a tragic fate about the year 1362. Viking axes and hatchets have been found in the neighborhood. | President Roosevelt is credited with telling familiar White House | guests that when Jimmy Roose- " (Continued on Page Three) | S e - — ,< TRANSMISSION LINES PLuT Tn s E I Z E TVA POWER. NO SPECIAL NIPPED, REPORT s E s s I u N | N Fifteen Hundred Iron Guard : Members Are Placed WASH. STATE . | BUCHAREST, April 21. — The i Ministry of Interior announces that . |are under arrest. Clamahon !SSUC(J by Lt' ‘ The arrests followed disclosure Gov. Vic Meyers of plans for seizure of King Carol N State. Wash,, April 20.—Gov. Clarence | MR, R D. Martin has met the chal- lenge of Lieutenant Governor the purported proclamation” | s, s, e WITH WIFE. IS sion of the state legislature. | ) waes | KING CAROL IS Under Arest Gov. Martin Revokes Pro- | another 1500 Iron Guard members J land the setting up of a Fascist BULLETIN — OLYMPIA, Victor A. Meyers, by “revoking Informed of the Governor's action, Meyers, who earlier said the session would convene des- pite the ruling made by Attor- ney General Hamilton, said he had ne comment to make now. Asked if he would take court action, Meyers said, “I do not know.” NOW MISSING Prominent Socialite of New York Mysteriously Drops from Sight ACTION PLANNED EARLIER OLYMPIA, April 21.—Early this mffmvf?,if w“sfl'{h::t_h‘:um forenoon there was no doubt in the ing socialite, F. Whitfield, had ai mind of Lieutenant Governor Vic-|gponmeng with Nia wite “;st belm: tor A. Meyers that there would be he dropped out of sight. a special session of the Washington Whitfield has beenghu' ted sinos State Legislature and he placed re-‘m Priday, when he '.oo: f 1) sponsibility squarely on the state Roosevelt 'Held n pl ot legislators. He predicted there would | only & f hours’ % i be a quorum in the House on Mon-| 'flx: i kg i day, the date for the call of megwmm fl;m&";fi: special session and he would recess| field 1 oub. of Bie last | (Continued on Page Three) the -Senate from. day to day until! ki {.__ v __|Thursday after an argument with (Continued on Page Three) his wife, e 7