The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1938, Page 1

ERVSE S S L g S i i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE/( VOL. LL, NO. 7774. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1938. MEJ_V—IBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS T0 CHECK ALASKA DEFENSE THIS SUMMER Nippon Armies Face Critical Situ JAPAN SUFFERS MANY SETBACKS IN CHINA WARS Determined Counter Thrusts of Chinese Breaking Lines DRAGON FORCES GET SEVEN MORE TOWNS Invaders Moving from One Section to Strength- en Another SHANGHAI, April 22.—Japan is sacrificing much of the Hopeh Pro- vince area which she won early in the war. The sacrifice comes of the nec- essity to throw more troops into Central China on the widespread battlefront where Chinese counter- thrusting has imperiled the Japan- ese position in China as a whole, according to military experts. The greatest concentration of Chinese forces since the war began was noted in Central China and Chinese guerilla raids against Jap- anese outposts have created a cri- tical situation for the Japanese. Fighting is centered in Southeast- | The scene—Cleveland. degrees, a record for the date. Nuf sed. P. 8.: ‘weather didn’t'last. After all, it's only March. On a Balmy Day in Spring! ‘The water—Lake Erie. The weather—83 But the “hot” ern Shantung Province, along the | Peiping-Hankow and Suiyuan Rail- ways. Capture Seven Positions Chinese commanders today claimed the capture of seven towns in northern Honan Province where the Dragon forces have slashed at weak spots in the Japanese line. Although most of the towns taken were little more than hamlets, two PORRECIRE cities captured were the fairly im- portant metropolii of Tisyuan and Japanese forces resisted the Chin- ese counter drive at every step, but/ STATIUN MAY are definitely out-maneuvered at this stage of the fight. BE c H A N G En “If the Chinese can break through the Japanese line in a few more Effort Being Made in Con-| gress to Get Funds for places as they have done in the past few days,” a neutral official| Army Highway Plant said today in Shanghai, “The Jap- anese resistance will be reduced to a minimum and will leave them in perilous position for numerous Chinese flanking movements. The Chinese appear to be carrying on a modern type of European battle.” | $900,000 in PWA Alaska Projects Now flait Cash Plans on Government Ap-| proved List Include Pro- | posed Juneau Library WASHINGTON, April 222—Con- gressman Andrew J. May of Ken- tucky, Chairman of the House Mili- tary Affairs Committee, said today that he would ask a hearing before the Appropriations Committee in an effort to earmark $349,050 for Chilkoot Barracks; $34550 for Jun-' eau, and $21,150 for Anchorage as part of the Army posts housing pro- gram requested by President Roose- velt. According to information avail- able here the Juneau project re- ferred to by Chairman May is for |moving the Army Signal Corps Public works projects costing ap-|transmitting station and quarters proximately $900,000 are now on the|from Twelfth Street to the Signal approved list of the Public Works| Corps reserve nine and a half miles Administration for Alaska and|out the Glacier Highway as has would be in line for construction if |been planned for several years. The the vast public works program now | project, if funds are made available, before Congress is approved and|would include the construction of funds made available, according to|larger transmitting station at the Gov. John W. Troy, PWA Adminis-| new site and construction of quart- trator. In the majority of these ers for men as well as additional | projects cities costs have been ap-|new equipment. | State Dcpartment Is Forced to Study Supplies Sent Abroad; . Peculiar Angles Now Revealed By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 22—Peop:e who hurry about this city a great deal are apt to find short cuts and thav is how we encountered the garden rake packed among diplo- matic bundles going to Albania. INSURGENT FLEET WIPES LOYALIST CRAFT FROM SEA Score of Government Ships Sunk or Captured in Night Battle MADRID THREATENED BY FRANCO’S TROOPS Late Reporgfieclare Tide of War Changed in , Defenders’ Favor HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- der ,April 22.—The Insurgent war fleet, led by the heavy cruiser Can- arias, captured or sank a score of fishing boats loaded with Govern- | ment militia attempting to escape| Catalonia’s coast to go southward and join forces of General Miraja Insurgent dispatches said the smallest of the Government ships tried to get through the blockade by running close to the shoreline,| but were taken by Insurgent armed fishing boats, It was reported that the Canar { and other large units of the Insur-| gent fleet captured a number of| small Loyalist steam craft. | The one-sided sea battle took place | last night in the glare of Insurgent | ships’ searchlights. } MADRID THREATENED I HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- | der, April 22.—The fall of Madrid to the Spanish rebels was threat- ened last night as the Insurgents pushed deeper into the city over an enfeebled Loyalist resistance. | Late reports last night said the Insurgents had penetrated Madrid | further than at any time since Nov- ember 1936, when the Insurgent column rolled into the ufiiversity city on the western fringe of its limits. | However, according to Government | dispatches today, Loyalists had the| upper hand in man-power, almost ation Record Crowd 1 Duel Between Stag Although By MAURICE MERRYFIELD NEW YORK, April 22.—Rumors L (CONGRESSIONAL Now Expected to Jam Louisville, May 7, for Kentucky Derby PARTY TO COME ehcn?i andfiFithinq Fox Looks Probable an Impressive Field Is Entered i Rl no Stagehand | NORTH FOR TASK Atr, Destr.oyer, Submarine, Mine Base Needs to Be Studied by Com. PART OF PROGRAM TO BUILD UP WEAK SPOTS Chairman May Points to Naval Effect on Japan- ese Fishing Fleet WASHINGTON, April 22.—Mem- bers of the House Naval and Mili- tary Affairs committees will make a thorough check this summer of | the nation’s defense from Maine to the Panama Canal, to Hawaii and A e RN " Alaska. The objective will be to ob- s ’ tain information to be used as a basis for future legislation to streng- then the weak spots. [ The tour may start in June and | will cover 20,000 miles, Chairma Vinson of the Naval committee s A sub-committee will make a spe jal trip to Alaska with reference to | military needs for locating air, des- troyer, submarine and mine bases there. Chaidman May of the Military | group said that it was noticeable |that as soon as the United States served notice on Japan that it in- |tended to build more battleships, the “Japanese government withdrew tishing fleets from Alaska waters.” Skttt KLONDIKE:KATE | _# SERIOUSLY HURT, e\ ORUEETEM )70 ACCIDENT the front when they pay off. e roaiins by winnara, ot Bo ARD HEAHIN Wellknown Alaska and Yu- kon Character Rush- | steps. When you learn how, you canj,, wo to one, and apparently had dodge into a tunnel under the| State Department, g0 through‘swmmeu the Insurgent advance in 4 | eastern Spain. swinging doors into the packing| A late Insurgent communique Sepe 1R "he, ey and 'here“spoke merely in terms of con- find an elevator up to Secretary .. g - Hull's press conference It savesr"nued advance down the coastal roads towards Castellon and De La We were saving these steps when Plana. we passed by the odd-shaped crate S . containing the garden rake. If you P should set out, with plenty of time PANAY INGIDENT and timber, to build a crate to ship| a garden rake all in one plece, handle and all, no doubt you would | make a crate just such, as this one.! | | AROUND THE WORLD proved by bond election, Juneau! with a project of $30,909 for a lib- rary being an exception. The Juneau library project was approved more than a year ago by PWA but the city has taken mno further action toward a bond election which would be necessary to raise the city's share of the money, approximately half. The Anchorage project is under- stood to be construction of two dup- lex buildings as quarters for en- listed men of the Signal Corps. Plans for improvements at Chil- koot have not been made known here. | ble. Nine projects in all are now on the approved list. They include: Skagway, wood sidewalks, $17,818; Anchorage, paving, $95,000; Juneau, . library, $30909; Klawock, water nuflawad "I Ala ' system, $30,000; school buildings 1 for Territorial schools, $36,336; Fair- banks, municipal improvements, in- MONTGOMERY, April 22.—A rul- cluding sewer, cement walks and ing by the Alabama Supreme Court school buildings, '$492,000; Sitka,| today outlawed voting machines in sewer, $30,000; Ketchikan, public|the state. utilities, $30,540; Fairbanks, school| The court held that the law failed building at University of Alaska,|to provide proper safeguards against| $127,272. | fradulent voting. | Voting Machines | Rakes are not usually found in| diplomatic circles but inquiry‘ about this one led to all sorts of | things. For those who have lost| page 72 out of their geography, we will explain that Albania is across the Adriatic Sea from the heel of | Italy and the rake was going tu| the consulate at Tirana, Albania.| Our agent in Albania has not yet| reported why the consul wanted | a rake shipped from America but| perhaps he simply wanted to rake| about among the cabbages and‘: tulips. Shipping rakes seems to be all a part of life in the State Depart- ment. Sometimes they ship shov- els and washing machines, and wash bowls and door jambs. It all grows out of the policy of supply- ing our foreign agencies with American goods wherever = possi- They can be shipped, duty free, to consulates and diplomatic posts. We ship rugs to the consulate in Baghdad, which is the very heart of the Persian rug industry. Where necessary supplies can be bought by the consulate from nearby | shops, and that is done—except in| the case of furniture and house- hold equipment. With few excep- tions these must come from America. CONSIDER THE ANT Moreover, just any furniture won't do. Furniture going to Cen- tral American posts must be built to resist ants and termites. Metal or special wood is required. And (Continued on Page Six) PAYS INDEMNITY Over Two Million Dollars Given Navy and Stand- ard Oil Company TOKYO, April 22—The case of | the bombing and sinking of the United States gunboat Panay and three Standard Oil vessels, last De- | cember 12, during the Japanese seige of Nanking, was officially closed today. Japan paid full indemnity for “the regrettable accident,” in sums to- talling = $2,214,000. Seijiro Yoshizawa, Director of the Bureau of American Affairs, gave Eugene Dooman, Counsellor of the American Embassy, a large white envelope containing a check note. At the Foreign Office, Yoshizawa started to make a speech, but stam- mered so violently that he finally halted in his efforts and held out his hand to Dooman without speak- ing, gripped it and departed. The Standard Vacumm Oil Com- pany received more than half of the payment. The United States Navy was given over $180,000, covering the loss of the Panay, the ship’s equipment and supplies, and per- sonal effects of the crew. A sum of $268,000 was alloted 2s a death and personal injury item. D e ce— Alvin Bloomquist was admitted to St. Ann’s Hospital as a surgical pa- tient yesterday. | have been going 'round that there’s | going to be another running of the| dear old Kentucky Derby this year! and that all the jolly colonels are getting their goatees trimmed for | the event. j Having made something for a| tradition of trying to jam into Churchill Downs on Derby day, I !shall probably have another go atl/ it, regardless of the fact that one | gets a stiff neck and a rare set of | corns attempting to barge through the crowd and get a glimpse of the three-year-olds doing their stuff. There is another formidable| hurdle in the way of properly view- | ing the turf classic, and that is the obstaeles put in your way on Derby |eve in this metropolis of the Blue | Grass country. Said handicaps consist of numerous well-meaning | but misguided friends who appar- ;enuy conspire to help one down the | primrose path. ? Seriously, though, there are sev- | eral interesting angles to the derby this year, one of them being the| absence of any entry by Col. E. R. Bradley whose nags have copped four derbies and whose horses are always heavily backed by the native | sons. | | One of the reasons why the Cunnel will be merely another spectator is because he sold one of his most promising bets to Mrs. Emil Denemark of Chicago. This| candidate is named Blind Eagle and | can really carry the mail by alil reports, being able to pick them up and lay 'em down both far and fast. Fighting Fox Formidable All of which leads to the interest- |ing topic of whether a lady wil| own the derby winner this season. ! rail to repeat. Both Mrs. Payne Whit-} ney, who scored with Twenty Grand in 1931, and Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloan, whose Cavalcade led the pack in 1934, have candidates nominated. Although only four women have won the derby since its inception back in 1875, there are about 18 who have entries listed. With all due respect to the ladies, | however, we will string along wm” men this time. Fighting Fox looks | like a honey to sneak up along the| if the dope issuing from the stable of William Woodworth, wh canny Sunny Fitzsimmons is train- er, means anything. And it should | mean something for Woodward has had two derby winners, Omaha and »| —The Board today opened a hearing to de- BRISTOL FIGHT NLRB Attempts to Decide If Election Needed Over Unions ‘ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 22. Nattonal Labor Relations cide whether or not to call an elec- tion to determine what union will bargain for Alaska cannery workers numbering more than 300 men.% | trained by Earl Sande, will probably| Most of the men are wearing CIO| be favorite but beware of Fighting|buttans and paraded in front of| Fox. |the post office building, where the hearing is in progress. | g The AFL, CIO, and and indepen-| M !dent Filipino union, and three .salw a In’ evers |mon packing companies are repre-| sented at the session which is pre- Gallant Fox. Of course, Stagehand, ——eo—— sided over by Trial Examiner Mar-| 0 ummversy Is (iR ; The Alaska Packers Association, | . the Red Salmon Canning Company,| Nuw I" cuul’t‘und the Alaska Salmon Company,| | torney. @ § The companies challenged the Lieutenant Governor Peti-'woard’s jurisdiction, contending that | the companies had no employees at are represented by a counsel at- ed to Hospital VANCOUVER, Wash., April 22— Mrs. Kate Pockwell Matson, known as “Klondike Kate,” was seriously injured in an auto accident north of here this afternoon and was rushed to a Vancouver hospital. She has head and internal injuries, it | is said. W. L. VanDorn suffered an in- | jured knee. He was driving the car. Mrs. Matson and VanDorn are both from Bend, Oregon. PAY BOOST LIKELY ON ALASKA R, Dimond Believes Appro- priation Will Get Con- gressional 0. K. WASHINGTON, April 22—Alas- ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond predicts that the House will accept the conference committee’s decision and provide $160,000 for a ten per- cent pay increase for Alaska Rail- tions State’s -Highest Tribunal for Verdict | this time. roa employees Geotge. . Andanidi representing| 020 Fopiore - 1 This appropriation item was in- CI0, objected. He conceded that the . ioq’ in the Interior Departments | unionists were not now doing phys: supply bill th tes by YMPTA, Wast i ag (AT £ : e supply bill, among other items by OLYMPIA, Wash., Apri ical work, but said that his union \p "senate and accordingly went Lieutenant Governor Victor A. had for the past three years sup- » bacl House conference. Meyers has filed in the State Sup-plied all workers under contract for| "% ‘© ‘¢ for ‘oniseeg reme Court an application for & the canneries | Chances seem to be fairly bright}wm of mandate against Secretary Byron Coleman, AFL atorney, said for them because, in addition to of State Belle Reeves to obtain legal| he agreed with the contention that the aforesaid Blind Eagle of Mrs, | recognition for his special session|the employers now have no employ- { Denemark’s, there are about a score of other promising bobtails owned by the fair sex. | Mrs. Ethel V. Mars, one of the | outstanding horsewomen of the country, owner of the big Milky |Way Farms stable, has the fleet }leer in the race as well as three | other nominations—Mountain Ridge, Farrell and C-Note. Tiger flashed impressive form as a two-year-old |and is picked by. many to be up near of the State Legislature proclama- | ees. tion. |the motion of the company attor- The petition asks that an order be| Trial Examiner Raphae! denied issued compelling the Secretary of ney to petition for an election. The State to affix the seal of the State motion was dismissed, Raphael said, to the proclamation, file and pub- because the Labor Board lacked the lish it. The petition also asks| juridcition, inasmuch as the com- whether Gov. Clarence D. Marun'sipanies had no employees. revoking and rescinding the call for| e o SR % | the special legislature is valid. Tom Shearer, a medical patient,| Meyers contends he was “quali-| was admitted yesterday to St. Ann's| | Hospital, (Continued on Page Three) Plant Is Fired; 2 Men Convicted WORCESTER, Mass., April 22. — Two officials of the Cavebon Spin- - ning Company were sentenced to- day to serve frem two and one-half to three years in prison on an arson conviction. The officials were found guilty on charges of burning the plant.