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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII, NO. 7857. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1938, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS _PRICE TEN €ENTS PREMIER HEPBURN, WEALTHY FRIENDS LOCATED, MISSING 15 HOURS IN AIR EVACUATION OF HANKOWORDER BY AUTHORITIES Kai-Shek Acts to Prevent Loss of Life in Ex- pected Air Raids JAPANESE PRESSING ALONG YANGTZE NOW Huge Ir\vad;giflachille Has Entered Eleven of 24 Provinces BULLETIN SHANGHAI, July 28.—Advices have reached here that the mission property of the Reformed Church of the United States at Yochow, Hon- an Province, was slightly dam- aged yesterday by bombs drop- ped by Japanese air raiders. SHANGHAI, July 26Tt is re-| liably reported here that the Chi-| nese authorities at Hankow, Pro- visional Capital, have ordered a| quick evacuation of all civilians in| the populous tri-city area as the Japanese war machine moved re- lentlessly northwestward from Kiu- | kiang. It is said that the Chinese au- thorities are showing growing fears for the metropolitan Wuhan area, Wuchanf, Hanyang and Hankow. | Kan Shek’s headquarters are at Hankow and in ordering evacuation | he did so to avoid needless sacrifice of lives of noncombatants in the ex- pected air raids. | The Japanese offensive has now | entered Hupeh Province, eleven of | twenty-four Chinese Provinces to be involved in the undeclared war. Alaska Given $45,357 Public Assis_tg[me Cas More than Fifty-four Mil-| lion Allotted in Na- | tion During July ‘ | WASHINGTON, July 28.—Grants to States and Territories by, the Social Security Board for pubh‘: as- sistance during the quarter begin- ning July 1 totaled $54,598,000 by July 19. The board estimated that 2,300,000 persons had received aid, including 1,699,000 aged, 39,200 blind and 602,000 children. Alaska was estimated to have 1,000 recipients who received $45,- 357 allotment. Washington State re- ceived $1,501,000. Crushed to Death, Mine Shaft Depths BOURLAMAQUE, Que., July 28. —The drop of a runaway hoist car this afternoon killed flve engineers in the depths of the shaft of the| Lamaque Mining Company's gold | mine. | Four men were crushed to deathi as the steel cage crumbled against a mass of masonry about one-third down the 2,000 foot shaft. | | £ TANKS WOUL diers, of Swilzerland are through which the solWary ot the war threats in Europe, troop movements through the Alps. Neutral Switzerland, infantry in GREAT BRITAIN, | JAPAN NEARING BREAKING POINT Protection of Interests in China Causes Serious Strain at Present LONDON, July 28. Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, said the Government is consider- | ing possible action if Japan refuses | to recognize Great Britain's inter- ests in China. “We are quite ready to consider and we are already considering pos- | sible action upon to use if we do not secure adequate consideration | for interests we have a right to| protect in China,” emphatically de- | ared the Foreign Minister and his |sentiment is backed up by other | | members of the British Cabinet. [ | Viscount | R L MARINES PATROL SHANGHAI AREA; ‘JAPS ENCROACH Commander Price Says Nip-| pon Violations of Agree- | ment Numerous ‘ SHANGHAI, July 29. — United States Marine have reestablished traffic patrols along the sector of The fifth nlan died in a hospi- the International Settlement here tal. [ SWAPS TO LEAVE MONDAY, COLUMBIA Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Swap and | baby Ralph will leave for a month’s vacation Monday on the Columbia. While in the States they will visit| in Mount Vernon, Wash., with Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Hastings, Mrs. Swap’s parents, and in Seattle they will visit with Mr. and Mrs. George Swap, parents of Mr. Swap. Six-months-old Ralph will see his grandparents for the first time| while on the trip. Mr. Swap is an employee of the Piggly Wiggly Com- pany. under their guard. | Col. Charles Price, Commander, | said: “There has been persistent and increasing violations” of the agreement reached three months ago with the Japanese Army authorities giving promise that Jap- anese military vehicles would be| kept away from the International Settlement. . | “Apparently,” Price said, “The | Japanese officers are still unable | to secure compliance with the agreement terms from their sub- ordinates. ————————— | D HALT at tortuous mountain passes their way. drills its “Miss Maryland” One of the first states to select its standard bearer for the an- nual contest at Atlantic City, Labor Day weekend, to select “Miss America” was Maryland, where pretty Yolanda Ugarfe, Baltimore belle, was given the ned finitefi States Gold Holdings Reach Big Peak WASHINGTON, July 28. — The ¢3000 a ton. A 1,500-ton destroyer| they are so narrow-girt they The largest pyramid contains 2,- |Treasury disclosed today that its costs 1300,000 blocks of limestone each gold holdings have passed the thir- lwemhmg one and a half tons, teen billion dollar mark, LOYALISTS IN SPAIN SPRING BIG SURPRISE [Have Stopped Advance of | Insurgents in Cate- | lonian Sector 'FRANCO TO RETALIATE, 'BLASTING RIVER DAMS |Issues Orders to Blow Up ‘ Sections of Elbo, Tributaries HENDAYE, French - Spanish | Frontier, July 28~—Insurgents are planning to blast the dams of the Ebro River and its tributaries in a| desperate effort to halt by flood the/ | four-day Government offensive, it is reported in dispatches from In- | surgent cities behind the 90-mile line front Gen. Franco has radioed his com- mand on the Catalonian front to | resist ‘with every means the Span- | ish Government’s drive which start- ed with the surprise crossing of | the wide Ebro River on last Mon-| | day, taking the Insurgents com-| pletely by surprise. | The Government forces are re- | ported to have captured 15 villages and 4,000 Insurgent soldiers and checked the Insurgent advance. JACK JUDGE " PASSES AWAY ~ INENGLAND Man Who Wrote “It's a | Long Way to Tipper- ary,” Is Dead LONDON, July 28.—Jack Judge, 60, fish dealer, who became a Brit- 'ish vaudeville headliner and wrote “It's a Long Way to Tipperary,” is !dead at Birmingham. His publishers retired him on a| life pension saying thaf Judge, in| writing the “Soldeirs’ Anthem, actually helped in winning the World War.” He wrote the song on, | New Year's Day in 1912, | e SOMMERS GETS ' """JOB ON CLEAR | |Canadian Pacific Railway Rumanian Ace Ready for Hop Over Atlantic The $60,000 monoplane o‘f Capt. Alex Papana, ace Rumanian air- man, is pictured at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York City, after a flight from Detroit, Mich. Papana (inset) expects to fly non-stop from New York to Bucharest, Rumania, in 32 hours. He will have his in- struments checked at Hartford, Conn., before he‘ftart,n out. O R :é() Alien F ish(;;-men Fined $200 Each for Violation of Alaska Laws, Bristol Bay NAKNEK, Alaska, July 28 | Eighty alien fishermen have been | convicted and fined $200 each for | violating the Territorial law for- | bidding aliens to fish. Twelve more aliens remain to be tried Million Dollar Fire Occurs at | The trial was the largest and | speediest in the history of the Bris- Vancguver b yUiUs One hundred and thirty-five were | originally indicted and some were | freed as they had not made out their first papers properly but ywnntnd to become citizens. Those convicted were sentenced eight days after Joe Green, Terri- torial Tax Collector from the Treas- urer’s office at Juneau, evidence of illegal fishing and wired Company Pier D Is Destroyed VANCOUVER, B. C. July 28 Fire destroyed one million dollars worth of waterfront property ye: d terday afternoon before controlled. United States Attorney J. W. Kehoe o | at Seward for action in the cases. Witnesses said a plume of smok . : first came over PlerpD of the Cana-| Green sald lack of transportation dian Pacific Railway Company and | facilities to the area prevented ear- a few minutes later the pier was a| ler discovery of the violation. S8 s roaring 80 feet into| Native fishermen, _unnble to ge mANRE R T boats to fish with this year, are in- R Lk i ) | dignant and said they planned to TRUITT RETURNING protest to the Indian Affairs Bu- ON MOUNT M’KINLEY ity of checking aliens prior to the uncovered | CREEK BRIDGE| Attorney General James S. Truitt, Bid of the R. J. Sommers Con- who has been in the Bristol Bay struction Company of Juneau for region prosecuting alien law viola- building a bridge over Clear Creek |tions, is returning to Juneau to- on the Seward Highway has been morrow aboard the Mount McKin- approved by the Secretary of Agri-|ley, according to word received by culture, according to information his office here. Fines totaling to the Bureau of Public Roads here. $15,000 were assessed against alien The Sommers Company was recent- | fishermen in the Bristol Bay fish- ly announced as low bidder on the ing region, according to news $21,000 project. | dispatches. ‘Want a Tough Assignment? ‘ Try Destroyer in Wartime reau on account of the alleged lax- opening of the fishing season. A number of the convicted fish- ermen had a season’s stake of be- | tween $2,000 and $3,000. Each of those convicted were also given 30- day jail sentences, besides the $200 fines, but the jail terms were sus- pended. Attorney General James S. Tru- itt is also on the scene of action against the alien fishermen. NSRS L T { STOCK QUOTATIONS L |*NEW YORK, July 28. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11, American Can | 98%, American Light and Power 6, Anaconda 36%, Bethlehem Steel RESOLUTION ON BLACK TURNED " DOWNBARCOM. | American Association Will Not Ask Supreme Court batiigentt S o Rt | “Eligbility” Decision CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 28.—The | American Bar Association’s Resolu- | tions Committee has refused to | approve of a resolution which would | ask the Supreme Court of the Unit- ed States for information regarding |the “eligibility” of Associate Justice |Hugo L. Black. The committee also unfavorably |reported a proposed resolution sharply attacking the Nazis of Ger- many. The resolution cited “dis- |crimination against law-abiding i citizens solely because of their race, religion or political opinions.” | The Black resolution, the com- | mittee pointed out, that the Su- preme Court has already refused to rule on the Alabaman’s “ellglbllny“( |in proceedings brought by Albert Levitt, attorney. The Black resolution was pro-/ posed by Dean Edward Lee of the John Marshall Law School, at Chi- cago. | — eee —— | RELIGION RIOTS KILL 40; BURMA Buddhists and Moslems Fighting in Streets 1 —250 Injured | RANGOON, Burma, July 28— By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, July 28—Every time a destroyer slides down the | ways it launches 100 or more offi- cers and men on one of the most ‘mmanuc but hazardous jobs in the | Navy. Destroyers are those trim little | ships about 300 feet long, sleek as | a yacht, but in wartime loaded with concentrated Hell both for the crew and the enemy. They are the pawns in every naval engagement, sacrificed to save the bigger ships or even to force a change in the course of the enemy fleet. | Al the talk about the enormous expense of building up a navy hinges around the cost of battle- ships which, in all conscience, cost| enough. But destroyers are more than twice as costly per ton. A 35,- Contracts for four were let re- 59 commonwealth and Southern|Rioting between Burmese Buddhists | cently with scarcely a ripple in|y% curtiss Wright 5%, General|and Indian Moslems has caused 40 | the news. Motors 43%, International Harves- deaths and brought injury to 250 iy | ter 65%, Kennecott 40%, New York |persons in street fighting here. LIKE HUNTING SHARKE Central 20, Southern Pacific 19,| The fighting broke out yesterday Although the public interest Neg~| United States Steel 60%, Cities morning, subsided, then flared| lects them, the Navy doesn’t. With-| gervice 9%, Pound $4.96 1/16, Nor-|again near midnight last night. | out destroyers, life on the big boals thern Pacific 13, Safeway Stores 21.| Strategic streets in the center of | would be as hazardous in time of | DOW, JONES AVERAGES war as it is for the destroyers. They get the tough assignments of chas- ing down enemy submarines, which is something like swimming around in the ocean hunting sharks Somebody has to take the subs out of the line and the job falls to the destroyers. They are fast, doing 35 knot§ compared to 21 and 25 for battleships, and they can spin around almost on the crest of a wave, In heavy weather they are little The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 142.20, rails 28.54, utilities 20.88. 'GERALD GAME COMMISSION Gerald Banm’,_rt;merly employed ;by the Forest Service, has joined the Alaska Game Commission as a | deputy game warden, it was an- nounced today by Executive Officer 000-ton battleship costs around | different from submarines for the Frank Dufresne of the commission. | $70,000,000 when $7.500,000 * to $8,000,00, or| {35.000 and more a ton. And the fleet needs many. : slice with & crash into every sea. One of their duties is to act as (Continued on Page Seven) fuly armed or|big waves roll over their decks and| Banta, who is widely known here, will be in the Juneau office for a short time and then probably will |be assigned to the south end of Ithe division, Dufresne said, the capital city are barricaded by | reinforced British troops. -*- e 2 | BASEBALL TODAY | S5 el b, L | agsni | The following are scores of games played in the big leagues this after- noon as received up to 1:20 o’-| clock: National League St. Louis 1; New York 2. Cincinnati 4; Boston 2. Pittsburgh 9; Philadelphia 2. American League Boston 13; Chicago 8. Philadelphia 0; Cleveland 0. Game called at end of third inning on account of rain, PARTY DROPS OUT OF SIGHT LAST EVENING Plane with Notables Aboard Takes Off from White- horse for Juneau FAILS TO REACH ALASKA’S CAPITAL “Sell "Em" Smith, Well- known Here Aboard— Great Excitement For fifteen hours last night and early this morning, Premier Mitch- ell Hepburn of Ontario, and twa widely known millionaires accom- panying him, making a plane flight from Whitehorse, Y. T, to Juneau, were lost to the world. Leaving Whitehorse at 5:15 yes= terday evening for Juneau, Hep- burn and his party were out of touch with all communication and believed lost in the mountains until an Associated Press dispatch was flashed to the world by The Empire at 8:15 o'clock this morning that the plane party was safe at Car- cross, between Whitehorse and Skagway on the White Pass and Yukon Route, forced back by bad weather on the Taku River, within a few minutes of Juneau. Smith on Plane Accompanying Hepburn on an aerial tour of northern Canada, be- gun on July 21 from Toronto, were Bernard E. “Sell 'em Ben” Smith, famous New York broker, and J. P. Bickell, millionaire mining man. Premier Hepburn left Carcross by train for Skagway this morning accompanied by Smith and Bickell. At Skagway, the party will board the Princess Alice to continue south |to Vancouver, arriving in Juneau at 5:30 tomorrow morning and sail- ing from here at 8 o'clock, two and one-half hours later, according to advices received here. The plane in which Hepburn has been touring Canada with his two friends, will continue to Vancouver to meet the Princess Alice there as soon as weather is favorable. Juneau Remembers “Sell 'em Ben” Smith is one of the most .widely kpown bears in Wall Street and reputedly made millions of dollars by selling stocks short during the depression. Juneauites remember Smith for the time several years ago when he visited the Alaska Juneau gold mine |%ere and paid hard cash for a $25,- 000 gold brick which he took back to Wall Street and displayed in a prominent spot on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. A spokesman for the Wall Street firm of Thomson McKinnon, where Smith maintained offices, accord- ing to Associated Press dispatches to The Empire, said the broker left ten days ago to inspect mining properties in the Northwest. The spokesman saild Smith had joined J. P. Bickell and then Hepburn for an aerial tour taking them as far north as the Dawson country. Bickell is President and Smith Vice President of the McIntyre- Porcupine gold mine in Ontario. Smith recently attracted atten- tion by a reported deal with the Mexican government in connection with oil leases after Mexico expro- priated American and British owned oil properties. Were Near Juneau Taking off from Whitehorse to come to Juneau and spend the night before flying south toCamp- bell River on Vancouver Island, the Hepburn plane ran into fog near ,Mury Joyce’s Taku River Lodge only thirty miles from Juneau. Turning back in the face of the unfavorable weather, the plane landed at Carcross, where more fog was closing in. With the weather unimproved this morning, Hepburn decided to entrain for Skagway. No missing plane has caused such a furor since Post and Rogers crashed in the summer of 1935. Dis- patches from all leading news ser- vices in the United States and Canada poured into the Signal Corps station in Juneau all night and this morning, to correspon- " (Continued on Page Fight)