The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1938, Page 1

I | | | { ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE FIME” THE DAILY JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN €ENTS e i A — RUSSIANS, JAPANESE IN MAJOR BATTLE Chinese Cut Dikes To Halt Japanese Drive VOL. LII, NO. 7861. ADVANGE OF INVADERS I8 SLOWED; LOW LAND FLOODED Breach Reported Ten Miles Above Kiukiang — For- ward Movement on Hankow Interrupted SHANGHAI, Au 2. — ZJapanese headquarters here reports Chinese troops along the Yangtze River have ent the dike above Kiukiang and flooded a huge area of farm land w slow down the drive against Hankow, the Chinese Provincial Capital City. The breach is said to be ten miles above Kiukiang, and important river port, 30 miles down the river from Hankow and the center of bitter fighting for several weeks. A similar strategy halted the =7 Japanese drive westward along the Lunghai railroad when the Chinese cut the Yellow River dikes early in June. | General Franco, wife and daughter These ‘exclusive portrait studies of Gen. Francisco Franco, Spanish insurgént leader, and his wife and daughter Carmen, were made in their home at Salamanca,’ Spain., | W?mi Anl slc;nr(’l UNITED STATES OFFICIALS REPORTED LEAVING HANKOW SHANGHAI, Aug. 2.-—According to advices received here, United States Ambassador Nelson Johnson and six members of his staff have ——— s s left Hankow aboard the U .S. flag- ship Luzon or gunboat Tutila, bound for Chungking, 500 miles further up the Yangtze River. The Chinese office moved during the last week, prompting Johnson to make a sim- ilar decision. | - TO PT. BARROW ———.—— | | INVADERS LOSE CONTROL, MANY i ot Oeson A CHINA SECTORS = * "= VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 2. - : ; Harry K. Coffey, President of the Communists, Guerillas Play-| Aero ciub of oregon, and William | White, Secretary of the Oregon Here’s Bargain for $3,500 ing Havoc with Jap- anese Forces SHANGHAI, Aug. 2—An unof-| ficial survey reveals that the Japa- nese forces in China are threatened with the loss of effective control of several areas captured since the in- vaders came to China on July 7| Sportsmen’s and Pilots’ Association, hopped off yesterday on the second leg of a holiday flight to Point Barrow. They planned to land at Prince George, B. C., and therr hop to Fair- banks enroute to the Arctic out- post. S eee 1937, | Reports have been received here‘44 Nav Planes from many sectors asserting that the Chinese Communists and guer- A o I B illas have already occupied numer- | ous districts, sometimes without a| fight and after tactical withdraw- | als of the Japanese. | | F"’"l Nunhland Return Safely to San Diego After Maneuvers, Alaska Coast STORK DERBY IS PROPOSED | force, has returned to the base here 3 | after summer maneuvers which took Somethmg Has Got to Be|the force as far north as Sitka and | k as) Done on Account of |“jmes Maska. 5 i Forty-four planes completed a Fallmg Birth Rate | nonstop flight from Seattle without SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 2—A incident, in 10 hours, Alva D. Bernhard commanded the stork derby with sweepstakes prizes| fliEht Which returned 80 officers for prolific parents is proposed in #Md @pproximately 200 men to their the New South Wales Legislature Nomes here to boost Australia’s falling birth LT g i First Fatalty, I"dIaPnIEi;'itgs[sin Nev, i RENO, Nev., Aug. 2. — Dewey |Sampson, full blood Piute Indian, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Aug. 5.— ngs announced his candidacy for Fred Magnuson, 35, @ CAIDENter,| e Nevada legislature on the Demo- fell 50 feet to death on Treasure ..,(ic ticket. Island. His is the first fatality on Sampson is currently engaged in the site of the Golden Gate EX- 5 fight against a congressional Position. | proposal which he says would give Magnuson slipped while carrving wpite settlers title to several thou- lumber to the top of a building. |.nq acres of Indian land, 2—Pa- Kingdém? | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — Next to dreaming about life in the South Seas and the rustle of grass skirts we can dream best about life in the sobbing greezes of the West Indies, s0 it was soothing to learn that a| fellow can buy himself a little is-| land Ringdom in the Bahamas and become master of the place from coast to coast We wrote to Mr. H. G a real estate dealer in ask more about it. Mr., Christie is| not reticent about the enticements| of the sub-tropics and such a spell he wove about us that not until| we bored through a stack of litera- ture did we discover he had not quoted prices. We had to get those elsewhere. Christie, A MASTER OF INNUENDO The Bahamas are strung out east- ward from Florida as if Paul Bun- yan had stood at Miami and flung them out of the front yard. They| | range all the way from dots that| the waves wash over to big jobs of several thousand acres. | “Most of the islands have great | agricultural possibilities,” says Mr. | Christie, whose cable address is | Christland, “and are abounded | with very fine fishing and sea food |of every description, also coral beaches which are incomparable in the Universe.” The temperature desn’t seem to vary much, ranging from a low of about 65 degrees in the winter |months to a top of 88 degrees in the summer. These temperatures were measured in the “shade.” Tt | may get hotter out in the sun and | no doubt does. | The Bahamas are right in the old-time pirate belt in the triangle | between Florida and Cuba. They belong to England. When you buy an Island you don't become an | Englishman, but you have leisure| to practice an English accent. On| one or two of the larger islands| there are forts erected to beat off the freebooters. During the Civil War the islands were a favorite stopping place for blockade runners | heading for Confederate ports. | MR. GROVER WAXES POETIC i But the attractions are obvious to \any South Sea dreamer. Palms grow | | there, the seas are as blue as coat | linings, little breezes nibble at your| | linen slacks and the mail is deliv-| fered every once in a while by boat| {or you can hop into your own skiff | | and sail over to the village for it, (cawhmg fish on the way. Take Goat cay. (Down there,| they call islands cays. It is in the| | Exuma range of the middle of the | Bahamas. “Goat island,” says Mr.| | Christie, “is one of the prettiest of | | the Exuma cays, with its perpendic- | |ular cliffs and high hill sloping down to a coral beach. A sea gar- (Continued on Page Five) NINE JUNEAU MEN QUALIFY, PERRY SHOOT | Alaska Rifljham Named|" = | with Wendell Andrews in No. 1 Spot Nine out of thirteen men who will | represent Alaska at the Camp Perry | rifle matches beginning August 21, | are from Juneau, and the other| | four from Seward, according to an- | nouncement by George Leonard, team captain. After final shoots, thé Alaska Rifle Team has been named as fol- lows: 1. Wendell Andrews, Juneau ..464 2. Ken Junge, Juneau 455 | 3. Roy Hoffman, Juneau 454 4. Harold S. Horton, Seward . 448 5. John Osborn, Juneau 447 6. Lester Gossage, Seward 446 7. Oscar Waterud 443 8. Louis Garrett, Juneau 443 9. George Leonard 437 10. Fred Kielcheski, Seward 434 11. Albert Slagle, Juneau 430 12. Dr. W. P. Blanton, Juneau .. 425 | 13. Charles Gilliland, Seward ..425 Art Berg, of Juneau, qualified for number four rifle, but was unable to make arrangements for the trip, and Oscar Mangsol, qualifying for number eleven rifle, also was un- | able to make the trip. | The actual team is composed of | twelve men, captained by Georgn} “Tex” Leonard, and will leave Ju-| neau a week from Friday on the steamer Mt. McKinley, entrain at Seattle with a National Guard team and two civilian teams for Chi- cago Going to ffhicago on the North- ern Pacific line, the team wil trans- fer in the Stockyard City to the | New York Central, arriving at Camp Perry on August 20. The shoot will begin on the 21st, with close to 5,000 participants fir- ing over the ranges until the shoot ends September 10. Five cents a mile traveling ex- penses will be given team members and subsistence money will be pro- | vided by the Government for food at the matches. Captain “Tex” Leonard reminded team members that each shooter must provide his own shooting coat, gloves and miscellaneous equipment. The Juneau Chamber of Com- merce has donated $60 for appropri- ate emblems for coats and hats of Alaska Rifle Team members. The entrance of Alaska into the invitational Camp Perry matches, famous the world over, will be the first time the Territory has been entered since 1919. C0OP MEDICINE CAUSING FIGHT AMONG DOCTORS Federal Medical Aid Plan| Advanced to Cope with | Growing Need | WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — The American Medical Association to-| day is faced with a Federal Grand Jury investigation because of its fight against the Cooperative Health group, and is virtually challenged by the Administration to a court| struggle which may have profound effects on the future of American medicine. Assistant Attorney General Thur- man Arnold said organized medi- cine “broke the anti-trust laws” while opposing the cooperative as- sociation. The American Medical Associa- tion, presidented by Dr. Irwin Bell, said from Chicago: “Apparently it remains to be determined whether or not the Federal Administration can use the laws of the courts and the people to aid its beliefs in every phase of living, or whether or not the fundamental principals of com- mon justice which have prevailed in this country in the past are to be relegated to the limbo of forgot- ten things.” (Continued on Page Five) } German Transatlantic Survey Flight Ends Riding gracefully at anchor off Port Washington, L. I, the German catapult plane Nordmeer is pictured shortly after her 2,397-mile flight from the Schwabenland, her catapult ship, from whose decks, in the Azores, she left for her survey flight of the second transatlantic route. In the lower picture are the crew. Left to right: Capt. J. H. Blankenburg, commander; Wilhelm Kueppers, radioman ; Alfred Eger, mechanic, and Otto Brox, co-pilot. They made the hov in 17 bours, 89 minutes. i Baby Clii)pcr, Juneau B(;und, ‘IGKES T0 SAIL Due in Alameda This Evening; TH URSDAY FOR May qu to Seattle Tomorrow ALASKA_SHURES PRIMARIES IN | ] FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 2.—| Pan-American’s 10-ton baby clipper, | | enroute to Seattle for experimen-| Will Inveshgate Probiem of tal tlights to Alaska, landed here at| Reindeer—Wants Pub- 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon after . . lic Ownership a short hop from Houston. KANSAS UDA e, clippar 8w Rs being] SEATTLE, 2,—Secretary of l I e " .| SEATTLE, Aug. 2. rel of | schedule on account of bad weather {Tataitos “Farol- To: Yokas 4na- hik | from New Orleans, on the way from|j uqe arrived here at 8 o'clock this Roosevelt Administration Miami, Fia. morning and left immediately by . f | The plane had a minor landing plane for a visit to the Olympic Hopes for Victory o Pl {accident at Houston on Sunday. ‘Pe““m“l& McGill in Kansas Capt, Johm H. Mathis, . veteran| - Secretary and Birs Iokés Are e PAA pilot, said last night he planned | 8uests of Mrs. John Boettiger, mc‘d““gm" of President Franklin D. to- | Roosevelt, and wife of the publish- er of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The Ickes will sail for Alaska WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — The to take off today and reach Roosevelt Administration hopes to Alameda Trans-Pacific base by balance the expected re-nomination |night and will hop off for Seattle| tomorrow. of Senator Bennett Champ Clark of Missouri today with an over- whelming primary victory for Sen- ator George McGill in Kansas. These are the only two Democratic Senatorial contests today in four statewide primary eletcions which Thursday morning aboard the Al- aska Line steamer Mt. McKinley. Mrs. Ickes told interviewers: “I'm just thrilled to death with the idea | Capt. Mattis, leaving here today, | | planned to make stops at El Paso,| Phoenix and Glendale, for refuel-| g |of going to Alaska.” S — | It will be the first trip to Alaska TAKES OFF | FORT WORTH, Tex, Aug. 2.— for both Secretary and Mrs. Ickes. The Secretary said he is par- The baby clipper took off at dawn | : T8 ticularly interested in Alaska’s rein- have provided few out and out tests | today after spending the night here of the President’s policies. |at the Alameda base of the Pan- | American. Senator Clark opposed the court | bill and various other White House | 0 5 measures but administration adv!s-‘ «CROSSON IN SEATTLE ers took for granted his victory | SEATTLE, Aug. 2.—Joe Crosson, because he has the backing of both | veteran Alaska airman, arrived here Democratic factions in his state. | yesterday afternoon in a plane from Neither the President nor any of | Juneau, piloted by Sheldon Sim- his lieutenants took any part in|mons. Crosson will await the baby deer herds, and wants to make the | reindeer herds control a public |charge to end the conflict between |natives and white owners. “The Lomen Brothers, who own la lot of the deer, have agreed to isell out, but Congress has not ap- | propriated any money as yet. It is |quite hard to keep track of the {young reindeer and there has been | erance. | | the Missouri campaign. In Kansas, McGill made only a| nominal campaign, Representative Gerald Winrod, one of the aspir-| ants, accused him of Nazi and Fa- scist sympathies and some of his opponents charged religious intol- | | Kansas voters also were choosing | today nominees for Governor bu this was not true in Missouri, Vir-| ginia and West Virginia. All four |of the States, however, were select- ing nominees to House seats. One House contest in Virginia was fought principally on the Roosevelt issue. Rep. Howard Smith, rules committee member, who helped de- | lay the wage-hgur bill, was opposed by Willlam Dodd, Jr., son of the former Ambassador to Germany. | Hunters Are Asked To Pass Up Big Ones KERRVILLE, Tex., Aug. 2. — Tarleton Smith, biologist, has asked cooperation of Texas hunters in an experiment to determine whether bullets can aid nature in improv- ing the breed of Texas deer. “Instead of aiming at the biggest and best buck in a herd of deer the hunters should concentrate on big deer so much that the runt deer are getting the top hand on the range,” { |clipper and supervise the experi- mental flight north to Ketchikan and Juneau, next Saturday. FIVE BOYS DIE IN FLAMES; CAR = =i ES AFIRE Mai. Gen. McRea gt Is Here Tonight Auto Fails to Negotiate| | Tum' CraShes I"to | Major General A. D. McRae, of Culvert, Blazes | vancouver, B. C., dredge operator |of the Yukon Territory and also LaGRANDE, Ore., Aug. 2. — Five |interior of Alaska, is a passenger boys were bifrned to death when|aboard the Princess Louise. He is their automobile struck a culvert|enroute to Skagway and Whitehorse and caught fire two miles west of ‘and from the latter place will go quite a bit of trouble between the Indians and the whites over owner- ship of the herds,” said Secretary Ickes. “The problem is the same that was faced by western cattle own- |ers except there are no cowboys or |six shooters,” Ickes concluded. Union early today. |to Dawson, then down the Yukon The victims have been identified River to his American holdings. as Berton Bushman, 15; Clinton| SR s o S Tl Bushman, 17; John Foley, 17; Leroy | Foster, 16, and Robert Myrick, 13, all of Perry, about six miles west of | here. i . The car, it is believed, failed to! An alarm from box 21 was sound- negotiate a turn and apparently ed at 10:30 o'clock this morning but left the highway when the driver| it was a false one. It is said that applied the brakes too sharply. | the alarm was turned in by Indian Gasoline spread over the oceu- | boys who scampered from the scene pants of the car and they were|immediately the siren started to burned to death. sound, The police are investigating. TANKS, PLANES, INFANTRY ARE USED, ATTACKS Situation Reported Excep- tionally Serious, Dis- puted Border KOREAN VILLAGES REPORTED BOMBED Moscow Government Issues Warning to Tokyo— Terrible Results (By Associated Press) The Russian and Japanese troops have fought what ap- pears to be a major battle on the Manchoukuo-Siberian bor- der. The Japanese War Office an- nounces that Russian tanks, airplanes and infantry begun a general attack upon Changku- feng, on the disputed border and “we consider the situation exceptionally serious.” The Soviet Government has instructed its charge d'affairs at Toyko to warn the Japanese Government of possible terrible consequences resulting from the invasion of the Japanese and Manchoukuian forces into Rus- sian territory. The situation is considered by foreign observers in Tokyo and Moscow as far more serious than at any time since the border trouble stated on July 11, JAPANESE REPORT TOKYO, Aug. 2—The Japan- ese Government this afternoon announced in an official com- munication that Japanese forces have repulsed a large scale two edge attack of Soviet troops in a disputed area on the Siber- ian-Manchoukuian frontier. A later communique charged that the Russians repeatedly bombed Korean villages in the vicinity of Changkufeng, a focal point since July 11 between the Japanese and Soviets. The Japanese communique places the losses, from first re- ports, of the Soviets at 250 and lists the Japanese losses in the border fighting as including three officers and 27 soldiers killed and 67 soldiers wounded. e — CORRIGAN IS LYING OR THIS IS FAKE NOTE Bottle Picked Up on New Brunswick Beach— Ireland Goal ST. ANDREWS, N. B, Aug. 2— While playing on the beach, Nancy Chandlet, aged 6 years, picked up a bottle floating on the water and in it was the following undated note: “Flying about 6,000 feet above Nova Scotia. Tall wind taking me about 120 miles per hour. Should sight Ireland about 5 a.m. tomor- row at that rate, Corrigan.” Douglas Corrgan, who landed in Ireland July 18, claimed he thought he was flying to California from New York and instead “wrong wayed” to Ireland. YUKON SAILS, JUNEAU BOUND SEATTLE, Aug. 2—Steamer Yu- | kon, of the Southeast Alaska tour- ist route, sailed at 9 o'clock this morning with 207 first class and seven steerage Bassengers aboard. L. Kann, M. Simpson and R. C. Felix are aboard the Yukon booked for Juneau,