The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 19, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LII, NO. 7849. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY; JULY 19, 1938. s ALASKA EMPIRE ALL THE TIME” —_ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SEND ‘TONY’BACKTO CONGRESSSAYS ‘JIN * BOMBS RAINED - ON HANKOW, 3 OTHER CITIES Thirty-three Japanese War Planes in Action—Smoke .Indicates Big Damage SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, July 9 The Maritime Federation of the Pacific has informed the Waterfront Employers Associa- ticn that eleven unions in the Federation are ready to renew the existing contracts as they stand. Almon E. Roth, President of the Waterfront Employers As- sociation, did not make any | | | | | (By Associated Press) | Thirty-three Japanese war planes | today made an intensive attack on Hankow, Wuchang and Hanyang. Huge clouds of dark smoke are arising above Hanyang and Wu- chang, giving evidence that fires| have been started and material damage has been done. Hankow is the Provisional Capi-| tal of the Chinese defenders. HIT AMERICAN PROPERTY HANKOW, July 19.—Four Japan- | ese bombs fell on an American church mission and the Boone Uni- versity campus in the raid today. Twenty Chinese were killed in one place seeking shelter under old walls which were shattered by bombs dropped by the war planes. Missiles hit within a few yards of the convent of the American Catholic Sisters of Notre Dame. Total casualties are estimated at 150 dead and hundreds wounded. SPANISH FORCES BREAKING DOWN UNDER ATTACKS Insurgent Warplanes B_or-nb- | ing, Machine Gunning Loyalist Troops HENDAYE, France, July 19. Resistance of the Spanish Govern- ment along the Teruel-Mediter- ranean Highway has virtually col- lapsed as Spain’s Civil war swung | into the third year. | Dispatches from Valencia and Barcelona admitted that large num- bers of Government militiamen are retreating along the highway toward Sagunto, 15 miles north of Val- encia. Insurgent war planes flew over the routed troops, bombing and{ Maritime Federation of Pacific Ready to Renew Contracts with Employers comment. Recently Roth indi- cated the Ass n might for modifications in the exist- ing contracts which expire Sep- tember 30. The Federation statement said: “We feel that elimination of uncertainty in future labor relations in the shipping in- dustry will go far to offset fears shippers have of the future.” Chiéago Crowns Her Queen Violet Sheets A brunette, Violet Sheets, 24, of Chicago, was crowns§ “Queen or Chicago” in a pageant staged by the American Legion #efore 80,500 -.persons in Soldiers’ Field. Miss Sheets weighs 114 pounds. machine gunning them. An Insurgent communique said one entire division of Government forces have been caught in the rugged mountain passes and virtu- | ally annihilated by systematic | aerial attacks. Guards Jam Dime-less Fed. Reserve Building ON TOWARD TERUEL 1 LONDON, July 19.—According to| radio advices received here, the In- , You sink to your armpits (well, al-| In|most) in the rug and look through By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 19. spite of all these spy stories, the War and Navy buildings are not the most carefully watched buildings in Washington. Most guarded is the Federal Reserve building. One afternoon, just to be hectic. we walked through the Navy a tall window into a garden. There are several red leather chairs and a long couch and a fireplace with three logs in it that never m‘c\ lighted so far as we could tell. The| place is air conditioned. In the back of the fireplace is a metal seal say-| ing: “Board of Governors Federal Reserve System.” WHY, MR. GROVER! There are polished ash trays here and there and new pads of matches by each one. We have been in the room several times but never once have seen any ashes in a tray to in. dicate somebody was nonchalan enough to smoke there. We weren't, but snitched a pack of matches, for a souvenir. Presently the guard came for us/ with a “this way, please.” We thought we would be allowed to| take the next 10 steps to our goal| without company, but that was a mistake. Guard Number Two pro- duced a Negro attendant who showed us to the doorway down a marble lined hallway behind which was our man. Inside was a tall blonde secre: dued by the magnificene of it all,| experiences. She never seems up- for of all the buildings in Washing- | set, in fact is just as imperturbable | Two*Jims’ and ‘John’ Have Great Reunion Today Farley, Troy and Connors Recount Many Incidents | | | | j of Gala Convention Days Two *“Jims” and “John” had a great reunion here today. The two ‘Jims” were Jim Farley, Democra- tic National Chairman and Post- | master General and Jim Connors, Collector of Customs, The “John”| was John W. Troy, Governor of All- | aska | For years these three have been friends. They knew each other back in the days when all three saw who was coming up in the political | world as Governor of New York. His | | name was Franklin Delano Roose- | velt. John Troy, then Editor of The | Empire, was the first editor in the| nation to predict in his editorial columns that in this chap Roose-| velt was Presidential timber. A | great deal of water has gone over | the political dams since then, but| the man “John” and the two “Jims” | had selected as “their man” be-| {came President of the United | States, and two years ago was re- elected by the greatest landslide in | national history. There was lots to recount today as the three old friends chatted up |at the Governor's House. There was many a humorous incident of con- vention days, but none of them more glamorous than that occasion in Chicago when ‘“their man” flew into the convention city to capture | the nomination and subsequently | | sweep the country. | Yes, two “Jims” and “John” a great reunion today. ROOSEVELT ONE *OF “CREATEST, FARLEY SAYS DemocralicWChief!ain De-| | claresF.D.R. Among Great Leaders of All Time | | | | Labeling President Franklin D.| Roosevelt as a man who “will go| down in history as one of the great- | est Presidents of the United State: | Postmaster General James A. Far-| | ley, Democratic National Chairman, | chatted to Alaskans this afternoon | for a few minutes ovei KINY, out- | lining briefly some of the major achievements of the Roosevelt Ad-| ministration. | He pointed expressly to the Home Owners Loan Corporation, farm leg-‘ islation, beneficial legislatiory for | labor and for business. Countless homes were saved for the owners through the HOLC, he declared, and never before in the history of the nation have the farmers benefited | to as great an extent as under the | policy of the present administra-| | tion. Labor has been given assis-| | tance in reaching its goal and busi- | ness has been fostered and revived | under the existing Roosevelt policy. | “The Banking Day address made |by the President shortly after his | inauguration was in my opinion one of the greatest utterances ever made by an American President,” he said. | Reciting that when the Roosevelt| administration, took over, everyone | had lost confidence in the country and the government, Mr. Farley de- | clared that the banking day speech was the turning point in restoring | that confidence and bringing busi- | ness back on an even keel. | The works that are being carried |on under the PWA and WPA will | be known for centuries, he stated, | pointing to the great Golden Gate _br!dge, Bonneville and Coulee dams as examples of public Wworks which | will bring better conditions to mil- lions. Touching on Federal buildings in had | | great possibilities in a young fellow | | feel most acutely the “grandeur that| tem. was Rome"—or was it Greece? ~ | The strange part of it is that | The second guard snared us in a When you get into the place you | little circular hallway from which |can't even cash a check. There ipassages led in several directions.:isn't a dime of bank monéy in the “Are you, looking for someone?” |building. IGuard Number Two asked us. {0| — T . surgent armies are continuing the advance on Teruel while Govern- ment Suicide Squads fought des- perately in the Espina Moum.ains‘ to cover the retreat of the mainbody | of Loyahsks_to new ‘defense “ncs'\buildmg, down one corridor and about 34 miles northwest of val-|into another, and then toured the encla. B | Army’s in addition. Not once were | we stopped, or even eyed. so far as we could tell. But when we crossed Constitution Avenue and entered the Federal Reserve build- ing a guard stopped us in the first TERRORIZED BY. = % {, Nothing gruff about the guards.| | They are pleasant enough young 2 MASKED MEN fellows, dressed in dark blue uni- | ferms with a nick or two of braid | “Can I help you?” said Guard T | Number One. Canadian, Wife and Son| X have an appointment.” . 3 | “With whom, please?” Threatene.d Thirty Min- So we told him. He passed us utes, Chicago Suburb |throush and we went up to the { second floor, heading for an office CHICAGO, Tl Jyly 19.—A. C. We had visited repeatedly before. Tarn, wealthy Canadian turfman, R s his wife and son, were bound in‘GgVARDwNUMBFR T™WO i i o e were winging confidently v‘f)::)m::::p:dy ;r{g ;g;;nd s 0o along when another guard nailed L_ary and we peaved a sigh of re: The gunmen threatened Tarn to | Us: BY that time we were a bit sub-| lief. She didn’t seem upset at our kidnap his son for ransom. The robbers spent 30 minutes at the cottage in suburban Zurich which | is ‘occupied by Tarn during a brief | vacation in the United States. ————————— MAN KILLED, F He was taking no chances but| | plunked himself smack in front of| | us. We named our name as well as | the name of the man we came lo H MISSOULA, Mont., July 19.—A|see. All these he telephoned somej Fm' He’smgfflrs falling snag struck and killed John |place or other and then told us Jones, 21, of Joliet, Médnt., in the|politely to wait five minutes in a| HELSINGFORS, July 19—Fin- western mountains. This is the|side room. land today accepted the invitation first forest fire fatality in this| That side room, for casual guests,| to hold the 1940 Olympic Games i section this year:” i - |is a President’s suite all by n.seu_igms city. ton the Federal Reserve makes us|as the whole Pedera} Reserve Sys-| Alaska, he said that an addition to the Juneau bilding was in the | otfing, a new building is under con- istrucnon at Wrangell and he dedi- | cated at Ketchikan “one of our best ;bulldmgs." He pointed out that| Federal buildings such as he men- | tioned are not erected unless the| | postal receipts are over $10,000. Unable to make the trip to the announced that the Postoffice there would be officially open tomorrow. I The official expressed apprecia- | tion to the people of Alaska for the| | fine reception tendered him and| (Continyed on Page Eight) l | Shrine of St. Terese, Mr. Farley| - President Makes First Speech of Long Tour » at Marietta, Ohio, in which President Reosevelt (above), made his first speech 01 his cros he had words of praise for Senator Robert Buckley. The F ent addressed the crewd gathered in aticn of the 150th anniversary of the settlement of the Northwest Territory. for Motor Tour g Roosevelt Leaves Train his transcontinental train at Crockett, Cal, President Roosevelt began his motor tour of the San After inspecting the Mare Island Navy Yard at Vallejo, the President continued Leaving Francisco Bay region. through San Rafael to the Golden Gate bridge and into San Francisco Presidio. Following a brief inspec- tion of San Francisco’s Civic Center the Chief Executive went a: the Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge to Treasure Island for luncheon and a radio broadcas Photo shows President Roosevelt, Governor Frank F. Merriam of Cal nia and William Gibbs McAdoo, United States Senator from California as the President arrived at Crockett. Presidential Motorcade Arrives, Treasure Island 58 San ik Arriving at Treasure Island, site of the 1938 Golden Gate International JExposition, President Roosevelt is pictured in the executive automobile with Governor Frank F. Merriam of California and William Gibbs McAdoo, United States Senator from California. In the background is the Elephant Gates of the almost completed Exposition. Roosevelt luncheoned at the Administration Building on the island and made a nationwide broadcast before leaving for Oakland, Cal, where he boarded the U.S.S. Houston for a review of the Battle Fleet, Some 61 battleships gave the President the formal 21-gun salute during the review exer cises, | DIMOND IS DOING EXCELLENT JOB FARLEY REPORTS Definite Upward Trend in Business, Postmaster Gen- eral Reports Here INT. HIGHWAY PROSPECTS BRIGHT Ait Mail Program Is Being Pushed Both in Terri- tory and to Alaska “Alaskans will be making a ter- rible mistake if they do not send Tony Dimond back to Congress,” Postmaster General James A. Far- ley, Democratic National Committee Chairman, said as he visited in Juneau this afternoon during what he described as a “rest” trip on the Aleutian. “Tony is doing an excellent job for Alaska,” Farley said. “We like him back there. It would be a terrible mistake’ if the people of _|Alaska do not return him to Con- gress.” Reluctant to discuss the political aspect in the States before the pri- mary, the Cabinet officer said there was a very definiic pturn from what has been called the “de- pression.” Business Upturn “There has been a noticeable im- provement since about the time Congress adjourned,” he said. “The business slump was confined pri- marily to the large industrial cen- ters. The heavy industries were most. affected, but (here is now undoubtedly an vpweid trend as business returns indicate.” One of the best indications, he pointed out, is the sharp increase in postal receipts and postal savings. Touching again on air mail, the Postmaster Genera! declared “we are doing every (hin. we can for air mail in and to Alaska. We want it, but it's up to Congress to appropriate the money.” There is no definite date for the starting of the new service from Seattle to Juneau, so far as he has been in- formed, he said, but he predicted that it would start within the fiscal year, Highway Prospects ‘The International Highway pros- pects are particularly bright at this time, the official said, bringing out that President Roosevelt and the Administration are heartily in favor of the projected route and are do- (Continued on Page Two) James A, Farley SmilesinRain On Iligqnharking Says Trip to Alaska Made for Escape from Tele- phone Bells In a drizzle of rain, with the City Band playing, and the dock crowd- ed with the biggest throng in many months, Postmaster General James A. Farley walked down the gang- plank from the steamer Aleutian this noon with his proverbial smile and a hand wave of greeting. He caught a fleeting glimpse of | the oil cloth sign on the Alaska Steamship Company warehouse— “Juneau Welcomes ‘Jim’”—and the smile broadened, Flashlight bulbs of a dozen cam- eras illumined the dull noon, and one cameraman, catching a shot of Farley's appreach, dropped a bulb that popped like a muffled gun- shot. The sound, bomb-like, did not faze the Postmaster General and he chuckled at the cameraman’s dis- comfiture. Driven immediat > the Gov- ernor’s House, he was received by Gov. John W. Troy and Mrs. Robert Bender. Standing in the reception room, with but a few officials about him and the rush and noise of arrival behind him, Postmaster General James A. Farley looked relieved. When asked what he expected to find in Alaska, Farley sighed: “Prankly, I am taking this trip to get away from telcphones and tele- (Continued on Page Two)