The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 28, 1938, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE /~) “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7805. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 28, 1938. y MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE§EN CENTS 00 KILLED IN AIR RAIDS ON CANTON SERVICES WILL Royal Kiss for MARK MEMORIAL DAY ON MONDAY Legion and Va)rfinmunity Ob- servance to Be Held at Elks’ Hall at 10:30 A. B. PHILLIPS TO e DELIVER ADDRESS f Coast Guard Will Head Parade for Ceremonies— Waterfront, Cemetery Business will cease in Juneau Monday as the community pauses with the rest of the nation in an- nual observance of MZmorial Day. All public and virtually all private | places of business will be closed for . the day and featuring the observ- ance here will be the annual cere- monies conducted by the American‘ Legion. These ceremonies are scheduled to | start at the Elks Hall at 10:30 Mon- | day morning and will include serv- ices at the waterfront and at the cemeteries in Juneau and Douglas, following a parade through the city which will be headed by a detach- ment from the Coast Guard cutter | Haida. |2 The complete program for thu‘ Memorial Day observance as an- nounced today by Field Marshal Waino Hendrickson follows: Formation of marching units at the Legion Dugout at 10:15 a.m. in the following order: Color Guard, 'King Haida escort, City Band, Junior Le-| his mother, gion Auxiliary, Leglon Auxiliary, George VI of England is pictured at London, bestowing a kiss on ‘\‘e.he Dowager Queen Mary, as Queen Elizabeth looks on. They met at the service in the Royal Military Chapel, W : The King’s corps of guards attends divine service at this chapel ‘THREE MOTOR Regal Mother N0 PICKETING, Farmingdale Takes Its Bombardment Lightly SALMON SHIPS, | ALASKA BOUND Two Companies Dispatch Boats from San Francisco —Others Scheduled SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 28— The long delayed exodus of fishing boats for Bristol Bay have started | with the picketing threats failing to materialize. ” The Alaska Packers Association has dispatched the small motorship Kanak from Alameda and the Red Salmon Canning Company’s Ma- + drona left last night for Bristol Bay. | The problem of the shipwrights' jurisdiction between the AFL and | District Council of Carpenters and | Maritime Federation, was settled | | with the company hiring the same | | men as used last season. The Alaska Cannery Workers Un- | jon and Alaska Fishermens Union | sent 250 men north by bus to Se-| attle to join the Pacific American | Fisheries expedition to Karluk and | Chignik plants, Other salmon boats are scheduled to clear the first of next week, in- cluding the Red Salmon Company's large vessel American Star. " Turkey Making ~ Gharge Against French Gonduct Demands Explanation of “Maneuverings” Alex- . andretta Campaign Wellington Barracks ANKARA, May 28—The Tur- kish Government has lodged a charge against France for “acts of flagrant mad faith” and is demand- PUT 0N SPUT ing explanation of “maneuverings” i an election campaign is in progress in the state of Alexandretta where Fifty Individals Indicted by Grand Jury |to determine whether that state on Finance Charges Are Also shall be Turkish or Arab. France is supervising the election |under a mandate of the League of Nations. SOUTH BEND, Indiana, May 28.— R A Federal Grand Jury has indicted‘wlll AssEss the General Motors, Chrysler Corp-; oration and Ford Motor Company | ALASKA FISH a monopoly by coercing dealers to finance car sales through the com- panies own finance firms. g While the lights of Farmingdale, America, these townspeople took refuge in th the town as the invading aerial bombers o: hEckener Enters Plea for Helium FLUUD WATERS ‘ L. 1, were turned out for the first wartime aerial x_n.tnck drill in e cellar of a beer garden. Not a pinpoint of Ahght showed in f the “Black” forces sought to wipe it out with “bombs.” Dr. Hugo Eckener, world’s best-known expert on lighter-than-air craft, is shown in Washington wi supply of government-contr FIVE NATIONS TO BE NEUTRAL Governments Make Pledge in Case of War Between Spanish War Veterans, Girl Scouts, Boy'Scouts, Sons of Legion, Legion-|_____ naires, Reserve Officers, 'awrml‘PH - ARED TALK lips, Superintendent of Schools: reading, Flanders Field, by Pre dent Betty McCormick of the Auxi ner, where it will swing in back of the dock and proceed north on Ad-| miral Way to Ferry Way where it/ o y0 gy 0'connell, of Mon- After the graveside services the before he could deliver a prepared column will move back to the Le- speech assailing Hague. gion Dugout where it will be dis-| O’Connell said he would return Education for the Office of Indian a meeting of Hague’s cohorts an Affairs, delivering the addigss. when he attempted to make a speech Inaugurating Memorial Day ob- in defiance of orders, hundreds Secretary Hull Says Briand- Kellogg Pact Still Con- organizations. The column - will proceed to the Elks Hall where the services will in- clude: Opening ceremonies by Le- gion officers, solo by Mrs. Lola Mae | ary; concluding number, “Going Home,” Mrs. Alexander; benedic- e tion. shAe ontana Congressman Runs Forming outside the hall, the col- . T ity (i k| Afoul of.Jersey Police —Whisked Away will move to the face of the dock. Here the waterfront services will| tana, bitter foe of Mayor Frank be held. The column will then march | Hague, made a brief appearance at up Seward to the Federal Building, | pershing Field last night and was along Fourth to Calhoun and thence y, .\ opiveq away by the police missed, a Legion delegation going and “perhaps make my speech from W o “to the Douglas cemetery for brief the witness stand in the Federal | B A Y services there. | Court.” At 7:45 o'clock Monday evening,| His wife is nursing bruised ngsHAlRTHIGGEH the Legion is sponsoring a Memorial and knees which she said her hus- servance in Juneau, women of the ryshed him from all sides. American Legion Auxiliary, assisted| The police formed a protective by the Junior Auxiliary and the Sons | ring about him and escorted him of the Legion, today held the an-/nim gafely outside of trouble. nual sale of poppies on the streets, Ror | sidered Pledge WASHINGTON, May 28.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull today re- minded Europe's hairtrigger nations that the Briand-Kellogg war re- Alexander; address, by A. B. Phil- Street to the Winter and Pond cor“ JERSEY CITY, May 28.—Repre- to the cemetery via Twelfth Street.| Day Americanization program over band suffered when knocked down radio station KINY, Charles W. in a crowd. | Hawkesworth, Assistant Director of | O'Connell walked unnoticed into| and before noon there were few and their affiliated finance com- | panies, also fifty individuals, on Superior Court Ruling Is Made — Shipments of charges of conspiring to promote| [ Other Europeans 3 Herring Involved H STOCKHOLM, May 28—Repre- sentatives of Norway, Sweden, Den- mark, Iceland and Finland have signed a resolution pledging their governments to a common neutral- ity policy in event of war between other European States. American Share 0f Sweepstakes To Be Handsome | SEATTLE, May 28 —Under a Su- Yperior Court ruling, the King County | assessor moved to assess aproximat- ely one million dollars worth of hitherto unassessed fish and fish | products stored here after shipment |from Alaska. | The court ruled that 35,000 barrels ;o( Alaska herring stored in 1936 is| | taxable because a portion was sold | |for delivery outside the state and |had not been earmarked or separ-| |ated from those barrels for which no buyer had been found. Deputy Prosecutor Lloyd Shorett said the decision means that the i“assessor now has a right to assess lapels not adorned with a bright red commemorating flower. \Removed TVA Chairman STEAMER LINE ON PACIFIC T0 STOP-OPERATING = o & . . WASHINGTON, May 28—Arthur Thirty-Day Notice Is Given . morgan today said he was “cert- Out to Bnployees Of ainly considering” court action in American Company |challenging President Roosevelt's power which ousted him as Chair- man of the TVA. tice of termination of services. One high official of the line said approximately 300 men, and shore proffered Federal Court decree for staff of 75 have received their 30- settling many of the points in the SEATTLE, May 28.—Threatening No Compromise in the move is made because the Gov- ernment mail subsidy expires in day notices. controversy between Jersey City Cessation of operations of the|and the CIO and others. cessation of the American Mail Line operations, employees of the com- pany have been given a 30-day no- Jersey City Case June and negotiations to obtain an- % ~ e other subsidy have failed. | JERBEY CITY, May 27.—Mayor Crews of three liners, numbering Hague today refused to accept the American Mail Line will mean an-| Mayor Hague declared he will other Pacific Oriental route will be|not “enter any compromise with without the American flag service.|those Red Groups.” nunciation pact is no less binding gy fish and fish products which today than when it was signed in|come here from Alaska unless it Paris ten years ago. | definitely appears the products are Secretary Hull sald he makes the e for skll)iI:menL ourslde of the statement in re-emphasizing the |gpa4e » anti-war pledge because he wanted | no false interpretation of the for-| | eigh policy to grow up. ———e——— P CRICKETS ARE SWARMING T0 Thirty-nine in U. S. Have Lucky Tickets n Big Lottery. DUBLIN, May 28.—Thirty-nine residents of the United States drew chances today for sudden fortune in the Irish Hospital Sweepstakes, the world’s biggest legal lottery. The English Derby, occasion for the lottery, will be run off next CEDELLO IS STILL FREE Mexican Rebel Chieftain | Eludes Capture by Gov- | | ernment Forces { MEXICO CITY, May 28.—Rebel | Chieftain Cedillo still escapes cap-| ture of Federal forces and is believed hidden in the bush country near San Louis Potosi but closely pur-l sued by Government Lroops. Cedillo bas had two narrow es- capes from capture. The report of his capture yesterday was incorrect. Wednesday. The gpinning cylinder gave up seven American hopefuls on Pascy, number one favorite to win, 10 hope- fuls on Golden Sovereign, 11 on Scottish Unin, six on Pound Fool- ish and five on Bois Sousel A quarter of a million dollars is tty” for the winners. MONT. TOWNS Millions Are Being Fought by Entomologists and Relief Crews i OVER SEVEN MILLION SHERIDAN, Wyoming, Mary 26— DUBLIN, May 28.—At least $2,- Millions of crickets have invaded 054564 of the Irish Hospitals Sweep- the towns of Sheridan, Parkham stakes prize fund of $7,290,395, is and Manchester while entomologists' #ssured of returning to the United and relief crews sought to control States, it was shown in today’s draw- the invasion, ings. Workers are using poison sprays Holders of tickets in the United and are also pouring oil into irri-| States are certain to get 57 per cent/ gation ditches to stop the invasion.|Of the prize money. i th Dr. Hans Dieckhoff, German Ambassador. i ssing Germany’s plea to the United States to release & | o\ o oo are expected to go out! b L el olleg h}e)lium for commercial use in a new TS BErts. ate. eapecihd 0 49 | giant dirigibles U . S. K(’(!};s Traditions Even If Britain Slip S By PRESTON GROVER ASHINGTON May 28—Even the dictionaries and encyclopedias will have to be changed as a result of the discovery that the Lord Chan- cellor’s woolsack is filled with horse- hair, and it may fall to the United States to become the nation willing and eager to uphold tradition when England fails. For hundreds of since Elizabethan days Chancellor supposedly has sat on a sack of wool, later framed into the seat of a chair, while dispens- ing orders. It was designed as a gesture to recognize the impor- tance of wool in British commerce. Yet oniy a few days ago it be- came known to the public that the famed woolsack seal for many years has been filled with horse- hair. Even our office dictionary and encyclopedia report in all inno- cence that the seat is filled with wool and there isn't as much as an asterisk to refer a guileless reader to the foot of the page where he might learn that the wool has been displaced by horsehair. But Washington has its traditions, even if it has no Lord Chancellor and they are preserved intact—-that is, almost intact. years, ever the Lord SNUFF—NO TAKERS Bo far as we know not a single Senator takes snuff,-although some may do so in the privcay of their offices. Yet beside the cloakroom door in the Senate chamber sits little enameled snuff box filled to the brim with snuff. It was put there when post-revolutionary war mem- bers took their snuff and brush a the stray bits off with lacy hand-| kerchiefs. Long ago blotters proved to be superior to sand for drying off sur- plus ink, but each senatorial desk is supplied, not with a blotter, but with a sand cellar from which sand may be sprinkled upon a stray sig- nature or letter the Senators may choose to write while in session Not in generations has a lawyer appeared before the Supreme Court depending upon a quill pen to dot his “I's” or cress his “t's” but never- theless a fresh supply of quill pens (Continued on Page T}/ol NIPPON BOMBS LEVEL BLOCKS IN BIE CITY |Haichow Also Attacked by Planes — Church Is Demolished CHINESE SURROUND JAPS NEAR LANFENG Kweites Ofl;iciully Taken by Invaders — Much Plunder Seized HONKONG, May 28.—Officials to- day estimated that 500 are dead and 1,000 injured in Canton all day series of Japanese planes. The bombers dropped their high explosives on the crowded gateway city of Southern China in almost a steady rain of death. Entire city blocks are ruined and the raiders flew low to follow their bombing attacks by machine gunn- ing rescue worke Attacking planes concentrated on the Wongsha station of the Hankow- Canton railway line, a vital link of communications. Japanese aerial attacks over Hai- chow, wrecked a women's school ar the church of the Presbyterian M: sion It was reported to the United States Consulate, however, that no foreigners were injured. after an 30 DEFY FIGHTERS IN IDAHO STATE Four Thousand Acres of Crop Land Reported Al- ready Inundated KWEITES OCCUPIED 20 SHANGHAI, May 28.—The Jap- 25 - {anese army officially announced BONNERS FERRY, Idaho, May|last night the occupation of the 128—-One thousand men are today|city of Kweites, after fierce hand- fighting a losing battle against ris-|to-hand fighting. ing waters of the Kootenai River. | '{‘(l]xe N”’p‘mdr“'i‘"""' cinjinues e A ; e are alrendy | PAUHIE westward along the Lunghai Four thousand acres are already | panuay towarg the strategic junc- flooded and dikes guarding 1,000 tion at Chengchow. Several Japanese columns fanned |out southward through the heart n|of Honan Province. | Officers in the Rising Sun army said they had seized 26,000,000 rounds of rifle and machine gun Many families have already been ammunition, 40,000 hand grenades, washed out and others are threat-|15,000 anti-aircraft shells, 60 loco- | ened. | motives, and 1,500 freight cars. ‘ ; - Chinese fought with fierce re- AER'AI- SURvEY sistance, and it is reported a Nip- rounde: UF INTERInR Is | COVERAGE MEN DIE T0 START snuN TOKYO, May 28.—More than 50 pon division was forced back north- Japanese reporters and cameramen any time. Most of the flooded section is i expected to crope which are be ruined. }mst of Lanfeng and completely sur- have been reported killed or wound- ed in covering the Chinese war. | Some newspapers have more than a hundred men following the troops and they are organized in military style as Captains, Corporals, and Privates. B — FREIGHT FOR LOWER YUKON MOVING NOW Nine Hundred Tons Trans- ported from Nenana to Tanana Filzgeral_d_;nd Haynie Charter Plane for Ex- tensive Work FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 28.— The United States Geological Corp: with Gerald Fitzgerald, topographer, and J. M. Haynie, both from Wash- ington, D.C., will start on a syste- matic aerial survey of the interior of Alaska during the next few days. The two men will cover 10,000 square miles between here and the Yukon Boundary along the route of the International air mail service. A plane is being equipped by the PAA which has been chartered for the survey work which will last| until .July. The survey may extend | north to the mouth of the Tanana River. YOUTH FREED ON CHARGE OF ~SLAYING CIR FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 28— | Nine hundred tons of freight have | been moved by the Alaska Rail- road steamers Alice and Nenana from Nenana to Tanana. The freight has or will be loaded on barges and | later taken to lower Yukon River points. S A B e oo™ Killer of Sweetheart, About | sTock QuoTATIONS I — 4 NEW YORK, May 28. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine t come - 0 BE n Mother, AC stock at today’s short session and the last until next Tuesday, is 9%, quitted by Jury —_— American Can 85, American Light NEW YORK, May 28—A jury and Power, 5, Anaconda 22%, Beth- has acquitted Donald Carroll, Jr., lehem Steel 41%, Commonwealth 16, who shot to death his sweetheart, and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright Charlotte Mathiesen, 18, 4%, General Motors 27%, Interna- The youth testified that the girl tional Harvester 49%, Kennecott was about to become a mother and 28%, New York Central 114, South- she begged him to shoot her, ern Pacific 10%, United States Steel The girls' mother urged acquit- 41 Cities Service 8%, Pound $4.94%. tal saying: “I knoew my little girl would' like the verdict.” | DOW, JONES AVERAGES Nothing was introduced at the The following are today’s Dow, trial to indicate a suicide pact ex- Jones averages: industrials 108.90, isted between the two youths. i ralls 2838, uilikgs 1812,