The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 29, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7858. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, | ULY 29, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE. TEN GENTS = GIANT FLYING BOAT DISAPPEARS ON PACIFIC OCEAN; FIFTEEN ARE ABOARD JAPAN RAIDERS ‘China’s Women Go Over the Top KILL HUNDREDS OF INNOGENTS One Camp of Three Thou- sand Refugees Is Re- ported Bombed BIG AIR BASE IS ALSO UNDER ATTACK Bombardments Gener ally Reported from Middle Yangize River Area SHANGHAI, July 29.— Japanese fliers are acccuser, in Chinese re- ports, of causing death to hundreds of civilians during persistent bom- bardments of the middle Yangtze River region. Chinese dispatches from Nan- chang said the Japanese raiders, in one incident, sighted 3,000 refugees in the Kushan mountains, south of Kiukiang, and circles over them repeatedly, dropping bombs and killing uncounted hundreds. Another report asserts that Jap- anese airmen raided Nanchang, important air base, 90 miles south of fallen Kiukiang, gateway to the Hankow region, dropped 30 bombs and killed or wounded 600 persons and destroying many homes. BANK DEPOSITS SHOW INCREASE FOR TERRITORY Mount More than Half Mil- lion During Last Fiscal Year, Report Reveals An increase of more than a half million dollars in Territorial bank deposits during the fiscal year end- ing June 30, is revealed in the re- port Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Olson submitted to Gov. John Wl E g Preparing for the defense of thelr city, the women of Canton, China, have sanded themselves together into the Canton Women’s Defense Corps. A platoon of the corps is shown during a training period, scaling a wall. The woman do valuable work building bomb shelters and caring for civilian victims of Japanese air raiders. 'Prunes Put FSCC THIRD TERM IS T0 BE OPPOSED Troy today. The complete report| follows: | H LT Eleven Territorial and four Na-| 1 tional banks were doing business| in the Territory at the close of the| year covered by this report. The Territorial banks are located at Ketchikan, Wrangell, Petersburg, Juneau, Skagway, Cordova, Valdez, Seward, Anchorage, Flat and Nome. National hanks are located at Ket- chikan, Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks. The Territorial Banking Board, composed of the Governor, the Au- ditor and the Treasurer of the Ter- ritory, maintains supervision over Territorial banking institutions. All such banks were examined during the year and reports of condition and published statements were made under call as required by law. Combined deposits in the several Territorial banks at close of busi- ness June 30, 1938, totalled $8,663,- 501.68, as compared with total of $8,376,601.71 on June 30, 1937. Com- bined capital of all Territorial banks totalled $565,000.00. One June 30, 1937, under call from the Comp- troller, the National banks of the West Virginian Announces | He Will' Introduce Formal Resolution WASHINGTON, July. 29.—Rush | D. Holt, Senator from West Vir- ginia, critic of the Roosevelt Ad- | ministration, said today he will ask the new Senate at the next session of Congress, to express formal op- position to a third term for Presi- | dent Roosevelt. Senator Holt said he intended to announce such a resolution at the last session of Congress and ,‘added “but I held it up pending the proper time.” | Senator Holt explained the reso- ! lution will be similar to the one the Senate passed 56 to 26 while ‘Cooli:lgo was President. — e — in Big Business TON GROVER ! WASHINGTON, July 29. — So | rapidly is the government expand- | ing its purchases of surplus commo- | dities for relief distribution that | the outlays of last year wil be nearly | doubled during the coming 12 months. The purchases are specifically | intended to peg prices by remov- ing temporary surpluses, princi- pally those affecting farmers. Nev- | ertheless, a second purpose is rec- ognized. That is to get the surplus of food to hungry mouths in the | shortest possible way. The Federal Surplus Commodities | Corporation, an agency of AAA, does most of the buying. Recently the WPA stepped into the field to buy $10,000,000 of surplus men’s, women’s, and children’s clothes which the garment trades com- plained were depressing the mar- ket and preventing employment of thousands of needle workers. This was the largest single pur- | chase but a stream of smaller ones by the commodities corporation | more than makes up. IT'S GOING UP The buying program, started in 1.1933 in connection with the destruc- | tion of “little pigs,” ran to about Dams of Ebro River, All Tributaries Broken, Franco’s Orders HEND AYE, French - Spanish threat, Gen. Franco has ordered his | Spanish Insurgents to drown out |the Spanish Loyalists on the Cat- | |alonian front by opening all dams |in the Ebro River and its tributar- |ies in an attempt to sweep away | bridges behind the advancing army |of the Government. | Today torremts made the | impassable, the lowlands are flood- | Frontier, July 29.—Making good his“ | river led but the Loyalists failed to be| caught in flood-water traps. GREEKS REVOLT, CRETEISLAND Insurgents Take Possession of Canea—Dictator Is Being Fought ATHENS, Greece, July 29.—In- surgents have seized the Capital |city of Canea on the Island of | Crete, in a revolt against the Greek Government Dictator John Metaxas sition with stern actions. The Dictator is said to have ex- claimed: “I am determined 1o smash all rebellion by every means.” Four hundred armed men, re- ported to be sailors, executed the | coup it is said. They took advantage | of the weakened garrison at Canea as most of the troops there had | been dispatched to Northern Greece vacation reliefs for other garri- sons. Dictator Metaxas has ordered the Army and Navy air forces to the island. Communications with the island are suspended and ships are warned away from Canea which has a population of 26,000 and is an CAPITAL CITY,| who has been suppressing all oppo- | | | ( Point Barrow | | HEPBURN SLEEPS THROUGH JUNEAU AFTER “RESCUE” Premier and :Se“ "Em Ben’ | Smith Go South on Princess Alice “rst erop insurance policy issued by the federal government under its new program for farm aid went to Vincent Meyer, farmer of Johnson county, 'Rev. Hubbard, Pur;y, Reaches important po: . Premier Mitchell Hepburn of On- tario, and Bernard E. “Sell ‘em” | $1,300,000 a month during 1936 and | Latest Version Of “The Worm Turns”- DE KALB, I, July 29.—For a long time Clarence Baie's shepherd dog picked on the pet rabbit. But instead of scapering away the other day the rabbit turned on the dog, leaped upon his back, sunk its teeth into his shoulder and would not let go. Baie had to shoot the rab- bit to pry it loose. e e— o+ 4 ‘ STOCK QUOTATIONS > e % NEW YORK, July 29. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11, Ameican Can 99%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 35, Bethlehem Steel 58, Commonwealth and Southern 1Y%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Ben Smith, New York stock broker, who yesterday had the North Am- erican world turned topsy turvy when they were reported lost in an airplane between Whitehorse and Juneau, passed through this Capi- tal City today on the steamer Prin- cess Alice, “sick of needless publi- city.” J. P. Bickell, millionaire mining man who was with the Hepburn party on the plane which was forced to land at Carcross by bad weather, is still in Carcross, accord- ing to Smith, waiting for favorable weather to continue with the plane to Vancouver. Sleeps, Doors Locked of Alaska on his first trip to this little metropolis, but was reported- ly sleeping behind a locked state- room door. In Skagway, when asked to speak over a National Broadcasting Com- Premier Hepburn did not get up| this morning to see the Capital City |s ATTEMP"NG ' First Crop Insurance Goes to Kansas Farmq: TO DROWN 0UT SPAN.LOYALISTS B Vincent Meyer signs policy, Kansas, who endorses the policy presented by Roy M. Green of‘the Washington bureau of the Federal Crop Insurance corporation as his family looks on. POPE BLASTS RADICALISM, NATIONALISM Important Statements Are Issued Following Speech at Vatican City in Open Oomiak | POINT BARROW, Al July | 20— After a 20-day trip from King | Tsland through Bering Strait and |the Arctic Ocean, the Rev. Ber- nard R. Hubbard and party has ar- 1nvm off the lagoon | comiak which is propelled by an| ‘oulhuurd motor The explorer said high seas, while | landing at Point Hope almost A, in an open CASTEL GANDOLFO, July 29.— | The Vatican City News Service to- E 1t ruine | swamped the boat and ruined Lhe;day quotes the Pope as terming portable radio set. After storm-| o bound there for six days, the party |T@dicalism and exaggerated nation- “barriers raised between continued to Wainwright and the 8lSm 85 i Imen and men, people and people. The service says the Pontiff’s | declaration is part of a long speech delivered to a group of students. | oomiak was again-driven ashore by | high waves. All hands took a drenching The Rev. p r | e Rev. Hubbard intends to rim| The Pope is also quoted as de- the Alaska top to Demarcation | ; . Point and: then Hikus' to return to) crding: the Oathollo Actits, saving e ’ |that some one has said “between Nome in the same craft, the Catholic Acti d the Pascist Oldtimers consider the feat quite | (e Catholic Actlon and the ¥asc | emarkable; 48 a such Jong comisk [E%71Y there exists an iugursble doo- | trinal divergence.’ | voyage has previously been made. The Pope's concluding remarks ‘The mileage is about 1,400 miles. - repo‘r'.ed as: “Who injures the Catholic Action, injures the Pope and who injures the Pope, dies.” | This is interpreted to mean dies spiritually. - Threatened FDR; " Says He's Guilty Mr., and Mrs. Edward Neves, par-| KANSAS CITY, July 29.—John ents of eleven children, seven of Dean, 65, today pleaded guilty be- them minors, have been found shot |fore a United States Commissioner to death on the Newark-Decato to sending two letters to Washing- highway, near here. |ton, threatening President Roose- PARENTS OF ELEVEN ARE FOUND DEAD CLIPPER SHIP MISSING: BIE HUNT STARTED Air, Sea, Underwater Craft Take Up Search— Army, Navy Orders FEARS ENTERTAINED FOR SAFETY, CRAFT Six Passengers, Crew of Nine Drqp from Sight— Rain, Visibility Low BULLETIN — SAN FRAN- CISCO, Cal, July 29.—~The Pan American officials said the Army transport Meigs has reached the clipper’s st re- ported position. No other word came from the transport, how- ever, MANILA, July 29.—An intensive search by air, sea and underwater craft, was early today ordered for the Pan American Airways giant Hawaii Clipper which has disap- peared with 15 men aboard, on a Guam-Manila flight. Within 12 hours after the last radio call was sent out from the 26-ton flying boat, the most in- tensive three-way search on the Pacific Ocean cvor -undertaken i the vicinity of tie Philippines was ;ordered by the Army and Navy Commanders. Big Fleet on Hunt Seven planes, cight navy ships, six submarines and an Army trans- port have been thrown into the hunt for the $450,000 Martin flying boat which has literally vanished in the air, midway on her 1,600~ mile flight. Fears for the safety of the six | passengers and crew of nine in- |creased as the hours dragged by without any word since the last message flashed from the clipper’s radio at 8:09 p.m,, Pacific Standard Time, Thursday. Meigs Near Scene The Army’s transport Meigs is the nearest ship to the clipper’s position in an area where it is believed the clipper was forced down. Shortly before 6 am., Pacific Standard Time, the Meigs began sweeping the sea with powerful searchlights. Rockets were sent up every 15 minutes. Rain is falling and visibility is poor and a 15-mile an hour wind has made it possible that the clip~ per, if landed, is being blown from the course. Last Radio Report In the last report from the clip~ per it was said the ship was buck- ing a 14-mile an hour head wind at an elevation of 9,000 feet and was between two clouds banks. Capt. Leo Terletzky is in com- mand of the Hawaii Clipper. He is 40 years old and a naturalized Russian. Passengers on Plane Passengers aboard the plane are: Major Howard French, of Port- land, Oregon. K. A. Kennedy, of Piedmont, Cali~ fornia, Pan American Airways, Divi- sion Traffic Manager. Dr. Earl McKinley, of Washing- ton, D. C. i AMERICAN IS Territory showed combined capital| in total of $275,000.00, surplus and | wn“NnEn flN | most of 1937. It speeded up to $2,-|Motors 43%, International Harvest- {600,000 a month during late 1937 |er 64, Kennecott 41%, New York {and early 1938. This past May and|Central 19, Southehn Pacific 18%, June is swelled abruptly to about|United States Steel 58%, Pound Fred Meir, of Washington, D. C. E. C. Wyman, of New York City. Was Sun Choy, Chinese restau- rant man of Jersey City. pany radio hookup through KINY | in Juneau with the aid of the radio telephone in Alaska Air Transport's e Deputy Coroner Dallas Paul call- | velt, ed it murder and suicid | Dean i heid on $10,000 bond. Lockheed, Hepburn was irritated. | " deposits, $6644,673.04. Aggregale banking figures for the Territory | on, June 30, 1938, were as follows: | Capital, $800,000.00; surplus and net | net undivided profits of &391.675.054 undivided profits, $1,078,123.61; de- posits, $15,308,174.72. Totals for the year previous were: Capital, $840,- 000.00; surplus and net undivided profits, $987,672.46; deposits, $14,- 774,663.02. From the above figures it will be noted that the increase in deposits | | BARCELONA, Spain, July 29.— James P. Lardner, 24, son of the late Ring Lardner, is reported wounded on the Ebro River front. | Lardner gave up newspaper work |last April and enlisted in the Span- $9,000,000 a month and is sched- uled to average $7,000,000 monthly | for another 12 ménths. The cor- poration asked even more but Con- gress rejected its request for $50,- 000,000 extra. The corporation does not buy major crops. It buys primarily surplus portions of perishable crops and processed products in local areas where removal of even a small | $4.91%, Northern Pacific 12%, Safe- He - og 1o way Stores 21. said: “I do not care for any more publicity and I do .not care to have anything to do with a na- tlonal hookup. “We were not lost and there has DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 141.20, rails 28.44, utilities 20.69. (Continued on Page Seven) | | ' Auto Trade to Lead ~ DOES DAMAGE VIOLENT RAIN Hoover fo Take ~ Stump This Fall { I $ | SAN FRANCISCO, July 29— | [Storm Centers in New Former President Herbert Hoover| | e . |says he plans to participate in the | | Hampshlre RR. Tracks Republican Party’s CtmgressiomuI Crew Members Crew chiefs are: M. A. Walker, First Officer, of Detroit; G. H. Davis, Second Of- ficer; J. M. Sauceda, Third Officer; J. W. Jewett, Fourth Officer, all of Oakland, California: H. L. Cox, of Alameda, California, Engineer Of- ficer; T. B. Tatum, of Honolulu, Assistant Engineer Officer; W. Mc= Carty, of Alameda, California, Radio amount affects prices. For instance, | recently there was a surplus of dairy products in the Wisconsin| area. PSCC took off $200,000 worth | to keep the price from sagging.| Similarly, in a 10 months period | ending May 1 the corporation| bought 70,550,000 pounds of rice, 45,- | 100,000 pounds of dried prunes; 5,- 600,000 bushels of apples, 1,720,000 (Continued on Page Five) amounted to $533,511.70 during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1938. e — HE LEANED TOO HARD —_— Officer, and I. Parker, Flight Stew- |ish Government forces. | ard. e campaigns this fall and would| Parade of Recovery — Are Washed Out compions whis iail and would “ | BOSTON, July 29. — A violent [Various parts of the country. DETROIT, July 29.—An outlook (and an advanced announcement of rainfall, centering in New Hamp- | O, 3 o< more favorable than at any time|DeW Models “more from necessity shire, tore out railroad tracks, tore | ICE-WAGON GOT HOT, TOO Giose e mabine s Iast 1 | 5| than anything else.” gaping holes in heavily traveled| TULSA, Okla—Even the ice- P &y “The automobile industry,” says highways during the night and|Wagon got hot in a recent Tulsa noted in the United States motor|the survey, “is moving definitely to|caused an unestimated damage to| Warm spell. The motor over-heated, car industry by Ward’s automotive | take its traditional place in the | crops. backfired and the truck caught reports today in a survey that pre- | recovery movement—at the frontof| Communications are disrupted in|fire. Firemen reported the damage dicts a car shortage in September | the procession.” all directions. was $10, mostly in melted ice. ————————— China ranks third among the cotton producing countries of the world, behind the United States and India. Chinese cotton, how- ever, is coarse, uneven and short staple, and attemipts are now being made to improve it through using American seed. 'HOPPERS BRING DARKNESS HUNTINGTON, Ind. — When| SIDNEY, Mont—When millions Prank Keefer leaned against a Of young grasshoppers sprouted street light pole as he talked to a| wings near here recently and took friend the pole fell into the street.| !0 flight, residents reported the| swarm was so dense it partially ———— Oak trees are mobre numerous in|darkened the sky for more than |an hour. the U. S. than in Europe.