The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 6, 1938, Page 1

3 THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LII, NO. 7838. MEMBER AS SOCIATED PRESS e ——— Y PRICE TEN CENTS ooz > JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1938. N, FLOODS RAVAGING JAPAN N CHINA BOLSTERS Princes: DEFENSE ALONG - WIDE WAR FRONT | First Anniversary of Sino Battles Finds Fighting Still See-Sawing CHINESE REPORTED TWICE VICTORIOUS Great Biftain Steps Into Spanish Situation with | Evacuation Plan The »-Japanese war end- ed its first year today while Europe sought to hasten the termination of the Spanish Civil War by speed- ing the withdrawal of foreign soldiers from the battle areas. Chinese are trying desperately to block the invading drive on Han- kow, provisional capital. New mines were laid in the Yangtze River above Hukow and a defensive boom s acr the river 30 miles above Kiukiang, was considerably strength- ened. Reports are the Chinese | given the Japanese setbacks on two | other fronts along the Yellow River | and along the coast northeast of | Nanking. | In Tokyo, the War Office an-| nounced the Japanese forces had occupied 775,000 square miles of Chinese territory and had caused | 1,300,000 casualties in China’s armies. | Japanee losses were listed at 36,-‘ 629. In Spain, Insurgent troops rush-', ed heavy reinforcements to a twelve-mile front along the Medi- | terranean coast to take advantage of a series of thrusts which have | forced the Government militiamen to fall back at four points along | the front. ! Great Britain sent special mes- sengers to the Spanish Government and Insurgent capitals today asking for urgent consideration of the European non-intervention commit- tee's $13,750,000 plan for evacuation of foreign volunteers from Spain. CHAMBERLAIN KETCHIKAN CITY NOT HURRYING COUNCIL ACTING ON AGREEMENT IN PICKET CASE Ordinance Passed Regard- ing Men to Be Assembled have white Rajah of Sarawak, still is b things for a baby expected about the child would succeed to the Charles Vyner Brooke, father of Of Anglo-Italian Pact Not in| Operation Yet—Rea- Right now the blond Princess Baba, disinherited daughter of the husband, Bob Gregory, but pretty socn she'll be knitting ti usy mending socks for her wrestler y littie At their home in next November. Palo Alte, Cal, they said they hoped it would be a boy, but whether rajahship was up te stern-faced the pi ess, LOUISVILLE. | DOCKS HERE FOR 5 DAYS 600-foot C;uiserr and Over‘; 600 Men to Be Guests | | of City of Juneau \ | The 600-foot cruiser Louisville. | | with a complement of 611 men and | 43 officers, docked in Juneau unsl morning for a five-day visit to the Capital City. | The big craft’s arrival was pre-| ceded and announced by aerial| maneuvers of the Louisville’s four scouting-observation planes which circled, dived and climbed over Ju-| neau for a half hour before the| | Louisville’s arrival. | The Louisville was in Alaska | waters last summer but aid not| stop in Juneau, then calling only| at Ketchikan, Valdez and Yakutat.| | On this trip, the Louisville has Jjust | arrived here from Sitka, where she stopped over night after a cruise| from Bremerton | | Next Monday the Louisville will | sail for Ketchikan for a three-day | stay before continuing south to Bremerton again. | Visiting Hours | | Capt. R. W. Mathewson, Com- | manding Officer, announced toda | the ship will be open to visitors be- | tween the hours of 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. Shore leave for men on the| | ship will be from 1 p.m. to midnight | daily | Piloting the craft is Lieut. R. F.| Farwell, USNR. University of/ Washington professor to whose lot| it has fallen for several years the job of piloting Navy vessels through the island dotted waters of South- east Alaska. | The Louisville is one of a group !ol six sister ships known as the| “Augusta” class, the others being | the Augusta, Chester, Chicago,| It parks Rails Underground Tramway, Sets Gasses Afire; 3 Miners Killed Houston and Northampton. | Built at the Puget Sound Navy Yard at Bremerton in 1931, the Lou- ‘xs\'xll(‘ has a displacement of 10,000 tons, is 600% feet long, has a beam of 66 feet and a maximum draught of 23 feet. Armament consists of nine 8-inch 55-cal. guns, four 5-inch anti-air- craft guns, two 3-pounders, and MICHEL, B. C., July 6. — Three | eight machine guns. | men were kiiled late yesterday inl! 4 Airplanes Aboard | an unexplained explosion in the| The four airplanes aboard are Crows Nest Pass coal mine. launched on two catapults. The | It is believed that a lightning bolt| planes are single float, 500-horse ‘.\ymxkrd 3,900 feet along the rails|power Wright Cyclone engined, of the underground tramway and|Scouting Observation Curtiss type. ignited gases | Their flying speed is not great, their ghtning | design and work labeling them “eyes | at the time the blast occurred. Edward Morrison, William Cart- wright and John Phillips were killed but eleven others in another part of the mine were unharmed. { It was thundering and of the fleet,” rather than fighting | type. Wing flaps give them short | landing efficiency. The Louisville is powered with| Parsons geared turbines, four shafts | Montana Flood Takes Nine Lives Sudden floodwaters following cloudburst rains caused theusands of dollars of property damage along the Milk River north central Montana, besides taking nine lives and leaving one person missing. Worst . hit was Hayre, Mont., where this picture, showing an autemecbile washed from a street into a pit, was made. | Ambassador ‘Buck BUILDING IS ON INCREASE. ™z OVERNATION € % FHA Is Doing. Tremendous | Amount of Insurance —Business Aided WASHINGTON, July 6.—Stewart McDonald, Federal Housing Admin- istrator, said the FHA will insure one billion dollars worth of new buildings this year McDonald said the FHA did ninety-six million dollars worth in June and further declared the up- turn in building “considerably brightens the business picture.” BLAST DOES BIC DAMAGE, TEXAS TOWN Joseph P. Kennedy, Back in the United States from London to report on foreign af- | Tt was a slack day in the mine or|of 107,000 shaft horse power. Speed [ the death toll might have been!is 3274 knots, and cruising radius Fuel @sFank Explodes—| fairs and possibility of a settle- ment of Great Britain’s war debt, Joseph P. Kennedy, ambassador EMBELILER IS ARRESTED ~ INSEATILE Man Wanted for Alleged | Taking of $58,000 Nabbed by FBI | - ‘ SEATTLE, July 6—R. C. Suran, |in charge of the FBI office here, announces the arrest of David L. | Strom, 33, indicted for alleged em- bezzling of $58,000 from the San Jose, California, branch of the Am- |erican Trust Company. Strom was arrested last night living in a fashionable apartment house. He had lived there for sev- eral months, spent lavishly and drove an expensive new automobile, Strom did not resist arrest. | He denied he was Strom and ‘insisv.ed he was D. W. McKay but |Suran said identification was from pictures. Suran said an undisclosed person supplied the tip which led ILO the arrest. ;Natiunafififi ATION RN Ll ! ] HUNDREDS ARE DROWNED:KOBE 1S INUNDATED 1600 Japanese School Chil- | dren Are Reported to i Have Lost Lives {NIPPON SECTIONS ‘ ARE WATER-SOAKED | Landslides K;Said to Be ; Threatening Many | Cities or Towns SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 6. —The liner President Cleveland, by radio, reports that at least 600 Japanese school children alone and | 40 Europeans drowned when three water reservoirs, overtaxed by rains, collapsed at Kobe, Japan. Aitch Estep, chief radio opéra- tor, said the school building col- lapsed. He expressed the opinion that hundreds of other Japanese were drowned because of the col- | lapse of the reservoirs. Estep said the city faces a water | shortage. ~All transportation is | halted. The liner President Cleve- land's passengers are marooned | aboard ship and passengers board- ing the liner waded through waist- | deep water to the ship. | Reports from Tokyo late yester- | day said 500 lives have been lost at Kobe, according to early reports and reports of deaths in floods from all sections of Japan are being received. AMERICANS IMPERILLED TOKYO, July 6.—Scores of Am- | erican residents are imperilled in floods in water-soaked Japan, but none, apparently, according to re- ports, are dead. The death toll is estimated, ac- cording to early réports, to be be- tween 400 and 500 persons. The greatest toll of death is said | to be at Kobe. Frederick Taylor, American, in a | radio received in Tokyo, said it is | still raining in Kobe and “am head- ing for higher g: * Another message irom Kobe says: “Hills around Kobe are sliding up to the residential section.” This afternoon radio reports from Kobe said scores of Japanese are missing and the death toll “may go higher, possibly 1,000.” | Part of Kobe's business section is ‘under water. The floods have | stopped traffic between Kobe and Osaka. Bridges are out and break- | waters have been swept away. Strong buildiw:zs have been | smashed in various sections of Ja- pan by landsiides caused by the heavy rains in Plant Troubles LONDON, July 6—Prime Minis- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, July 6.— i | lows: ter Chamberlain refuses to hasten The AFL and CIO jurigdictional the Anglo-Ttalian agreement and| g, o hag prompted the KoLchi-‘;Tfl IRUN 0” | 3%']’]‘9'"*‘1’;"3“;;"_ %fi::;:‘ CC"S"'E? J- exploding fuel gas tank, fatally ; | G i - C. D. Bdgar, |y ned two persons, injured twelve BUYING URG i cord operative have not been ful-{, . 000000 former employees of | U.S.N.; Lieut. Comdr. R. E. Duncan The blast occurred as Jimmy | weeks ago with the AFL Cannery One cannery was picketed U.S.N.; Lieut. N. Phillips, USN. put it into effect or even name WA GE scAI—E | {others, destroyed a cafe, one resi- filled. These conditions, it is said, 5 1 sEan STUGKS ; the plants picketed. | | (MC), USN.; Lieut. Comdr. M. C.| i Davis, San Antonio truck driver so far, to make any move for "wnh-l week by the CIO cannery work | Lieut. W. L. Turney, US.N.; Lieut. | | higher as usually several hundrrd.‘ at 15 knots is 13,000 miles. | ;mun are in the workings. | The list of officers, Navy, Naval | - e e - | Reserve and flying personnel, fol- | i Are Gwen to the court of St. James, went to Hyde Park, N. Y., to confer with the president. He admitted the economic outlook abroad was not too bright. | ~Windto1in Annual Gontest American Leaguers Shut Out Up to Last Half of Ninth Frame CINCINNATI, O, July 6.—Bril- |liant pitching and timely hitting gave the National League All-Stars | a 4 to 1 victory over the American | Passengers BOOked League All-Stars today in the sixth | X W annual charity battle. | SEATTLE, July 6—Travel to Al It was the second victory for the |85ka 15 belleved approaching the Nationals and upset expert opin- | Peak for this summer, according to |officials of the Alaska Steamshi TWO PC]‘SOHS Ki"e(], : 12 Injured ALASKA TRAVEL NEARS PEAK ON NORTHERN LINE |Five Steamers, Alaska S.S. Co., Have Over 1,300 ol sostes GEORGETOWN, Texas, July 6.— Capt. R. W. Mathewson, USN. |, 1oaring sheet of flames from an The Prime Minister said he felt|entrance of any plant involved and| that conditions or making the ac- Eihoired e ! | also specifying that the pickets must | | Lieut, Gomar. M. 8. Stoker USN.. Lieut. Comdr. W. G. Livingstone,|, .4 ¢ of gan Antonio, and John Lytle, negro cook in the cafe. the Ttalian Government has failed | Nerymen signed an agreement two | Workers and AFL purse seiners, all| 3 | Menocal, U.S.N.; Lieut. W. E. Gui- former workers for the canneries Rest.Jmes While Ap- | USN.; Lieut. J. W. Smith, & "5 & A% "0 '% s e pointed Board Acts of Ray's Cafe. one Brokers Are Optimistic— a 2 definite date for its coming into | kan City Council to enact an’ ordin- | force. ance limiting pickets to two at each| | US.N., Executive Officer. ledt ams. Qe Wile, Lo dence and three automobiles. AT ANcHuRAGE The dead are Patsy Jean Morris, include one most paramount, settle- | ment of the Spanish @ivil War, but | The trouble started after can-| | D 4 | Roberts (SC), U.S.N.; Lieut. Comdr. | UPWARD TuDAY {Pickets Withdrawn, Work E. P. cook, USNR. Lieut G. L. Pavis San Antonlo wuck oouer ;lmwal Ot{. S il i ing up & hose to refill a tank in| nsurgents. Rnns ve" Cannerics hope to be in ope tion during today. Improves, Clnc g ggp WATERS NOW RECEDING, ROCHESTER, Minn.,, July GfA’ bulletin issued by the Mayo Clinic| reports the condition of Presiden-| tial Secretary James Roosevelt has shown marked improvement. The President’s son is under treatment at the Clinic for a small stomach ulcer. X-ray pictures were taken on | Monday. | The bulletin said: “Mr. Roose- velt’s condition has shown marked improvement under medical treat- ment. He probably will leave the CHICAGO, I, July 6. — Yellow flood waters are creeping gradually back within the banks of streams in the Fox and Des Plaines River valley: hospital within two weeks.” | Porecasters predicted a cessation | of rains which caused an estimated | crop damage of five million dollars |in three states. Record-breaking —————————— irdins fell in southeastern Wiscon- BBMES DUWNIsm, northeastern Illinois, and west- | ern Indiana, flattening crops, dis- rupting both rail and highway traf- | fic, and flooding basements. As the Skagway pilot Verne Bookwalter | floods receded, health officers issued flew to Juneau yesterday afternoon | general warnings against the dan- with the Rev. Edgar Gallant and F.|ger of typhoid deep in the muck E. Walker, the former returning| which covered city streets and with Bookwalter this morning. choked storm sewers. THRE STATES | | Pickets have been withdrawn and|J. Roudlbush, US.N.; Lieut. (jg) M. | work will be resumed at once on|B. Brown, USN.; Lieut. (jg) C. W.| | i the half million dollar grade school| . and hospital constructions, the (Coniinned.on Page RN - PR i ANCHORAGE, Alaska, July 6.— R. F. Farwell, USNR.; Lieut. (jg) | New York State Is Out of Red; 8ur|1_lu_s Shown . ALBANY, N. Y., July 6.—The State of New York is out of the red for the first time in seven years and has a surplus of $6,- 469,000. Democratic Gov. Herbert H. Leh- man, who inherited a deficit of $100,000000 when he succeded Roosevelt, announced today that the State wiped out the deficit at the beginning of the new fiscal year. — .. FUNERAL SERVICE HELD Coppers and Oils Are [ Given Good Boost } NEW YORK, July 6.—The buying |urge returned to the Stock Market today as brokers remained cptim- istic. | A late buying wave, mostly in | coppers and oils, sent prices up to ‘mur points for the strongest mov- ers. 4 TODAY'S PRICES | | NEW YORK, July 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 100, American Light and Power 6%, Bethlehem Steel 61%, Common- wealth and Southern 1%, Curti | Wright 47%, General Motors 3 | International Harvester 677%, Kei |necott 42, New York Central 17%, | Couthern Pacific 17%, United States | | unions, involved with the McDon-| LR | ald Construction Company, con-| H | named to iron out the wage scale| controversies. — e | . -A@amre Dr. Ernest Gruening, Director of | |the Division of Territories and | land Congressman Millard F. Cald- well of Florida are due to arrive in | message to the Bureau of Fisheries | OAKLAND, Cal.,, July 6. — The| block long warehouse of the Pa-| swept by a fire during the night which resulted in a 6-alarm fire | selecting a fifth arbiter for a board to which four have already been An’ive T“mm’mw The strike halted construction | work for 15 days. | Abuard Bra“t\ |Island Possesslons, Frank T. Bell, | a nu" e [l U. 8. Commissioner of Fisheries, | flakla"d BIaZflEJuneau early tomorrow morning aboard the Brant, according to a| cific Coast Canning Company, fill- ed mostly with empty boxes, was department call. The loss Is estimated at $25,000. today from the Commissioner. The | Brant is in Wrangell today. | The party will continue on to the | Westward from here, Dr. Gruening and his son planning to make an| extensive trip over the Interior. Congressman Caldwell is accom- panied by Mrs. Caldwell. 4 Funeral services for John D.Rob- | steel 60, Cities Service 10%, Pound inson, negro, who passed away in 4941y, Northern Pacific 11%. St. Ann's Hospital June 29 were held this morning in the Catholic | Church of Nativity, with the Rev. | Father E. C. Budde reading the| The following are today's Dow, euology. Interment was in Ever- |Jones averages: industrials 137,78, green Cemetery, rails 2759, utiities 22.19. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | ions. The three National League chuck- ers—Johnny Vander Meer, Bill Lee, jand Mace Brown—allowed only sev- |en hits and had the formidable American League batters shut out until the last of the ninth. | In the meantime, the Nationals ‘kept pecking away, scoring once in | the first inning, once in the fourth |and twice in the seventh when the American defense cracked wide The winners scored their only | earned run off Johnny Allen in the |fourth inning on a ringing triple by Mel Ott, of the Giants, and a |single by Lombardi of the Reds. In the first frame, Hack singled |and went to third on Cronin’s error. Ducky Medwick brought him home with a long drive to center. Lefty Grove was the unhappy |victim of two errors by his team- mates when he took over the pitch- |er's box in the seventh inning. | Frank McCormick singled, Duro- | cher bunted, Foxx pegged the ball |into right field where Di Maggio, ‘coming in fast, picked up the ball and threw it into the National's dugout while runners crossed the plate standing up. | Company. . | Five ships sailings during the period from last night to next Sat- |urday morning will carry over 1,350 passengers to the northland. | The Alaska, sailing last night has nearly 300 passengers aboard for Southeast Alaska ports. | The Mt. McKinley, sailing this | morning for Southeast and South- |west Alaska, has 200 passengers. | The Dellwood, sailing tomorrow \for the West Coast and Prince of |Wales Island, will have 150 pas- | sengers aboard. | steamer Yukon, saling for South- |east Alaska PFriday will have over {300 aboard and the Columbia sail- ing next Saturday morning will carry 400 passengers for Southeast |and Southwest Alaska. HAIDA RETURNS FROM CHILKOOT The Coast Guard cutter Haida |returned from Haines this after- |noon, after carrying 140 soldiers |and 12 officers back to the Chil- koot Barracks, following the Fourth of July celebration here.