The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 4, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” —_———=> VOL. LIL, NO. 7863. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIA, JAPAN STRIFE NOW INTENSIFIED Baby TEST FLIGHT IS TO START ON SATURDAY Dream of Years Is Brought Step Nearer for Air Mail for Alaska TEN-TON SHIP GETS SPLENDID WELCOME Iipr Joe Crosson Among Offic-‘ ials at Greeting—Comes North on Maiden Trip —ariiand SEATTLE, Aug. 4—Realization of a dream entertained for years by thousands of Northwest residents, was brought a step nearer when the 10-ton baby clipper plane of the Pan-American Airways from Mia- mi, twin-engined amphibian, land- ed safely on Lake Washington yes- terday afternoon and leaves Satur- day for Juneau, Alaska, blazing a new trail in airmail service for the Pacific Alaskan Airway The baby clipper, captained by Gerry A. Mathis, and carrying crew of three, was put down on her own wheels and taxied ashore under her own power yesterday after- noon. Rousing Welcome . The baby clipper was greeted by a host of company officials, in- cluding Joe Crosson, Alaska Mana- ger for the Pacific Alaska Airways; H. N. Bixby, of New York, Vice- President of Pan-American; Ro- bert O. Bullwinkel, Seattle repre- sentative, and DeWitt Vaile, Cham- ber of Commerce Department Man- ager and President. Telegrams of congratulations from Portland, Medford, Boise, Tacoma Everett and other cities were re- ceived and all expressed hope of early establishment of the pro- posed air mail service between the States and Alaska. Survey Equipment The baby clipper normally car- ries 15 passengers on regular runs to the West Indiés but most of the space is at present occupied by spe- cial survey equipment used in test flights together with a considerable amount of space for emergency gear. No passengers and no mail will be carried on the test flights which | will be three in number. One Stop to Juneau The first stop wil be at Ketchi- kan where the baby clipper will refuel after the hop over the oul- side route. Then the plane will take off for Juneau. The one-way flight will about seven hours. Joe Crosson will fly north on the maiden flight of the baby clipper. take CHAMBER PLANS CLIPPER CELEBRATION JAPAN’S DRIVE ON HANKOW and possible trouble at these barbed-wire gates will find these French ready to defend concession—the only foreign concession in Hankow. IN THE VALLEY OF THE YANGTZE Japanese soldiers rest in their far-from- ended attempt to capture Hankow, provisional capital of China. Flooded rice fields are in distance. Democrats Who ’d Like to Be RIVER FLOODS President? You Can Find ’Em i HALT ADVANGE MERCY FLIGHT HELPS MAN AT * ISOLATED CAMP ‘Kelchikan Doctor, Nurse Practically in Every Place By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—At least /one group of politicians would not like to see President Roosevelt run for a third term. They are the men | with their own eyes on 1940. For the President to run for a third term would break the hearts of more ambitious political aspir- ants than could be mended with all the patronage in America. - OF JAPANESE Risin Again Stall Invaders— | Guerillas Active SHANGHAI, Aug. 4. — Yangtze River floods again threaten to block | the Japanese advance | toward Hankow the | capital of China. upstream Provisional g Waters of Yangtze : i Right now the people who want| Guerilla warfare in various sec- HEATWAVEIS NOW GRIPPING UNITED STATES [Mercury Reaches Into Nine- | tiesin Some Sections, ] £ 100 in Others ELEVEN DEATHS ARE | [ | Entire Northern Hemi- sphere Seems to Be In- volved with Old Sol | (By Associated Press) | A general heat wave has gripped ‘t.hc Northern Hemisphere, | The United States is today ex- | perieneing a full share of sultriness |and high temperatures. Maine, Texas, California and the | Dakotas saw the mercury reach uvp | into the nineties. Intermediate reading are gener- ally equally hot in other sections. New York's metropolitan area en- tered | with a prediction that temperatures | will go as high as 92 degrees. 8ix drownings and five deaths are attributed to the in the New England states. Hot Spots Hot spots are registered as far west as Fresna, Cal. It was 106 deg day, and the temperature is hover- ing around the same mark today. At Needles, Cal, the mercury soared to 104 degrees yesterday. The New England states are un- comfortably hot and added to the | humidity, there is much suffer- ing. The mercury in the New Eng- land states is ardund 80 degrees. In some sections along the Pa- cific Coast there were heavy rair | | | | other heat 8 DIE IN CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 4. Deaths in Southern California’s | heat wave reached eight up to last night but temperatures are gener- | ally several degrees below the peaks registered recently. Three more deaths are reported from the Im- perial Valley, which brings the to- | tal for the season so far to nine in | that section, Vandals Damage Two Fish Traps Ketclyil@n Area |Nets of Lestor O. Gore and Beegle Packing Company Are Reported Cut KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 4.— ATTRIBUTED WEATHER the eleventh consecutive day _ Farley in Alaska = 2ostmaster General James A. Farley is pictured as he addressed one of the largest audiences Ketchikan, Alaska, has ever seen, on the occasion of the dedication of Ketchikan's new federal building and postoffice, March Her Down? es in Prescott, Ariz, yester-| | The Japanese and the Russians are having another one of those bor- der disputes that keep the alarm gongs sounding. Japan protested when Russian troops marched up a hill in the Changkufeng area, claiming the hill for her own. Russia denied the claim. The question is complicated because the borders of Korea, Manchaukuo and Rus- sia converge near the disputed area. Nearby Possiet Bay is one of the few points on the coastline suitable for a submarine base. ANOTHER MOVE | IN CANAL ZONE, ON INSURGENTS TANNED, RESTED Reaches Seattle, Juneau Bound TWO NATIONS ~ ARE FIGHTING OVER BORDER Nippon Claims Soviets Have Lost Out in First Clash at Hill 'DIPLOMATS ENGAGED, ' FIERCE CONTROVERSY jTerms for —Se?lement Ad- | vanced While Armies | Face Each Other | fursiss’ BULLETIN—MOSCOW, Aug. 4.—Foreign Commissar Litvin- off this afternoon told the Japa- nese Ambassador to Russia he is willing to open negotiations for a peaceful settlement of the border controversy under con- ditions that fighting must cease, artillery be withdrawn and all Japanese soldiers evacuated | from Soviet Territory and that “ Japan must recognize the Rus- | | sia-China treaty of 1886 with border maps attached to it. (By Associated Press) | Strife between Russia and Japan on the Siberian-Manchoukuoan | frontier has intensified in danger | but still remains & “local” incident. | Japanese and Russian diplomats have exchanged sharp protests about fighting on the ill-defined frontier and each nation is accus- ing the other of invading its terri- | tory. Japanese Statement F The Japanese Army communique |said the Russians sent four bat- | talions against the Japanese and | pow hold Changkufeng and Sha- |crofend but have lost 200 men, 15 |tanks and 25 cannon when the | Japanese repelled them. Japanees officials issued a state- ment that Japan is on the de- | fensive and is fighting only when |attacked by Russians, | In Moscow, hundreds of thou- |sands have signed resolutions de- | manding vigorous action, | WOULD CEASE FIGHTING TOKYO, Aug. 4—The Japanese | Government has proposed to Russia that hostilities cease on the Siber- !‘mn-Manchoukuomv frontier pend- |ing terms for a setilement, | The Forelgn Office announced |that the proposal has been made by Kensuke Horinouchi, Japanese | Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs, at {a two-hour conference with Con- stantin Spetanian, Soviet Charge d'Affais At the same lime the two na- tions exchanged stern protests over the border conflict. It is understood that the terms for cessation of hostilities pending a settlement, are as follows: First—Japan will withdraw from ;;m territory around Changkufend il Two—Russia not undertake to to be the Democratic nominee in|tions are causing much worry (o |Fishermen have reported to the au- 1940 extend from McNutt in Ma-|the Japanese command. occupy the Hill which will be de- A celebration to mark the arrival| Flown to Flagslafl of the baby clipper in Juneau this weekend is planned by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce and a com- mittee was named at the weekiy luncheon today to arrange for the event. C. B. Arnold heads the com- mittee, and serving with him wiil | Mining Co. | KETCHIRAN, Alaska, Aug. 4.— | Dr. A. N. Wilson has returned here |after a mercy flight to an isolated {island where he performed an emer- be Tom Dyer, Mayor Harry I. Lu- 4 cas, Wilbur Wester and President | €€nCy appendectomy on a stricken Charles W. Carter. | miner in an improvised bunkhouse The clipper is scheduled to get|gperating room. away from Seattle Saturday, hop-| pjot Elis flew Dr. Wilson and a ping direct to Ketchikan where it|p,c0 to the Flagstaff Mining Com- will refuel, and come on to Juneau.;bam. camp, 40 miles west of here rasiatgising o | be de-after Leonard H. King, 3, had suf- 4 “| fered a rupture of the appendix. known before publication time Sa(-; The p]a:n alighted onppa Siiail :;di“: ;;‘:rg’?:x}:%;:;’”sfim;;‘lakc, two miles from the mining 9 |camp, and the doctor and nurse EReng A8 Smd;y for the informa- | sirypgjed over muddy terrain for tion of those Who may want 0 g0|an hour and a half to reach the to the field to welcome the plane which means the forerunner or regularly scheduled air mail and passenger service from the States to Alaska. . FORGET TO GET CHECKS SACRAMENTO — Certain Cali- fornians may be out of jobs but they don't seem much worried about it. Checks totaling $10,000 issued to claimants under the new employment insurance law lie un- claimed at the state capitol. | camp. STILL JUMPING | NEW YORK, Aug. 4—It’s been | six years since Edward Gordon, | University of Iowa negro star, won the 1932 Olympic broad jump championship, but he’s still going strong. Now approaching 30, Gor- don recently won the broad jump and high hurdles in New York's Metropolitan A.A.U. meet. | nila to Barkley in Paducah, with branch lines running excitedly in all directions togather in the others. And what might happen to them| if President Roosevelt continued in office until 1944? Take Mr. McNutt as an example. He is in his forties at present and would age some by 1944. But M- McNutt and his friends have been pointing him toward 1940 with such persistence that it would be! hard to delay the climax of his boom until 1944. Besides, he might have to come to the United States to hunt a new job to keep himseif in the limelight. It takes an awful lot of limelight to reach Manila. AS GOOD AS NEW The jobs open to an aspiring pres- idential candidate are limited. Mr. McNutt might spell off the time with a term as Indiana governor, but he already has been governor. He has one advantage over many another candidate, that he really is young enough to be available six years hence. If the President chose to put him in cold storage by ap- pointing him to a cabinet post, he could be taken out in 1944 almost as good as new, and probably still smiling. The same might be true of Sena- (Continued on Page Six) Mrs. G'Ifi*rfie? Is Missing on Seattle Trip Wife of Ketchikan Editor Disappears in South After Arrival There SEATTLE, Aug. 4—Mrs. Mildred Charles, of Ketchikan, Alaska, has appealed to the Seattle police in aid of her search for her mother-in- daw, Mrs. Sidney Charles, 56, wife of the Editor of the Alaska Fishing News, at Ketchikan. Mrs. Sidney Charles arrived here July 19 aboard the North Star and | has not been seen since. e BIRDS GO TO CANADA MANTEO, N. C.—Nine fledging mocking birds from a wild fowl fuge near here were flown in an airplane to Detroit to be taken across the border and placed on a large Canadian migratory bird re- fuge, | thorities that vandals have dam- aged two fish traps at Tree Point, | forty miles south of here. Lester O. Gore said his nets have | been slashed and anchors unshack- | led, letting the trap drift. The other ’trap is owned by the Beegle Pack- | ing Company. It is reported the nets | were cut and the watchmen’s shack | ransacked. DON'T MIX, S0 CONVENTION IS Bartenders, W. C. T. U. to | Meet Same Hotel Same | Time, But Not Now | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 4 —Because the Women's Christian Temperance Union chose the same hotel for its convention, the Ameri- | can Pederation of Labor's affiliat- |ed Bartenders’ International Alli- ance postponed the opening of its | convention, scheduled for today, until August 15. |Shift Offensive Suddenly from Ebro River to | Mountain Retreats | | | HENDAYE, Frenci: - Spanish Frontier, Aug. 4—The Government forces continue to harass Chief Executive Expected| to Inspect Great Water- way System Friday BALBOA, Canal Zone, Aug. 4— President Roosevelt .rrived here at SHOVED ALONG | Franco's forces. Time, tanned and rested. | The Spanish militiamen, shift-| He reached the Canal Zone aboard | | ing from their still active Ebro River the cruiser Houston after a 540- | offensive, stalged at the Insurgent|mile run from Cocos Island. | | mountain defenses west of Tereul It is expected the President will The Insurgents admit they do not| inspect Panama Canal tomorrow. 1 | know where the defenders will strike | —_———————— next. It is announced that the drive !on Valencia has been hesitated while | | forces are withdrawn and set to| | other troublesome areas. | . MAKE WHISKEY ;Japane;e Flags Wave | In Philippine Churches | | | MANILA, P. I, Aug. 4—Use of LYNCHBURG, Tenn., Aug. 4.— 4‘ Japanese flags In church services | em Motlow of Stillhouse Hollow |and worship of Japanese-made ®XPects soon to begin manufactur- images were reported in the Ba- |ing the first legal whiskey turned buyan islands of the Philippine Out In Tennessee since 1910. group by Elpidio Quirino, interior| Authorization for his distillery secreatry of the commonwealth. was voted in a county local option |'The Babuyans are fairly close to election provided for by state leg- Japanese Formosa. |islation sponsored by Motlow, a After his inspection trip to thepre-prohibition distiller. His out- | Babuyans, the secretary recom- ! put must be sold outside the state, mended a more rigid patrol of the)for Tennessee is dry as faras intra- islands by Philippine cutters. state sale is concerned. \ clared a neutral zone pending de- marcation of the frontier by a commission. —————— | S S [ Gen.| 10:30 am. today, Pacific Standard | | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 4. — quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 11% (same as yes- terday), American Can 100, Ameri- can Light and Power 5%, Anacondas. | 35%, Bethlehem Steel 58, Common- wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 44%, International Harvester 62%, Ken- necott 41%, New York Central 19, Southern Pacific 18%, United States Steel 59%, Safeway Stores 20%, Pound $4.89%, Northern Pacific 13. U ey DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 142.13, up 40; rails 2816, up .11; utilties 2048, up 10. e Browned pears make delicious garnishes for veal or pork chops. Allow half a pear to a portion. Dip each pear into flour and brown it in a little fat in a frying pan. Sprinkle with salt, pepper and cinnamon.