The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 9, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE s~ e —— Y VOL. LII., NO. 7867. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BARR LOCATED ALIVE ON FORTYMILE Shell Fire BOMBARDMENT REPORTED AS BEING FIERCE Continuous Rain of Missives Hurled Out from Ar- tillery Guns FOUR-MILE FRONT IS UNDER HEAVY ATTACK Village at Foot of Changku- feng Hill Is Said to Be in Flames YUKI, Korea, Aug. 9—So- viet Russia’s heavy artillery to- day subjected the Japanese lines on Changkufeng Hill to the most terrific shelling re- ceived since the current border trouble started on July 11. All this afternoon an Asso- ciated Press correspondent watched Soviet guns pour six- inch shells at the rate of at least six a minute along the entire four-mile Japanese front. " The Honeymooning Roosevelts Tpapy (finy, | ~ From Ketchikan, Seatt_le Bound Joe Crosson Adoountiis E. Robbins Is to Fly Big Plane | i \ KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 9—| The PAA baby clipper left for | Seattle at 10:47 o'clock this fore- | noon after being moored at i Cove, eight miles north of Ketchi- kan, overnight following the fllght“ from Juneau. } Before leaving, Joe Crosson, Man- | ager of the Pacific Alaska Airways, | announced that S. E. Robbins, with the PAA for several vears, will fly | the clipper to Alaska after the trial flights aré completed and Robbins becomes familiar with the plane. | To Return North Crosson also said the clipper is| to return north within a few days | on the second of the trial flights | and Crosson will probably be aboard | | Croson said it is hoped that regu- | lar air mail flights wili follow im- | mediately after the trial hops are SECOND DAY | MR RAID IS MADE.CANTON Scores Are Killed as Result of Bombardment Over City Today MANY REPORTED AS | BURIED UNDER DEBRIS %hr Planes T);op Leaflets Saying Shelling to Con- tinue for 10 Davs CANTON, China, Aug. y.—Japa- nese war planes, which dropped leaflets promising ten consecutive days of bombardments, unleased ex- plosives and killed at least 102 per- sons today and maimed 159, also buried uncounted scores beneath wreckage of buildings. The first of the air raids, made yesterday, killed 121 and total 180. Today's raid lasted three hours BURIED UNDER DEBRIS TOKYO, Aug. 9.—Japanese war| Grandchildren Picket Pickets missing | Carrying crayon-scribbled gns stating the stand of their . grand- father, Lee Mead, four of his grandchildren picketed pickets at his Veterans who witnessed the bombardment said it equalled anything seen during the World War. The village at the foot of the hill is blazing fiercely early this afternoon. Both Soviet and Japanese ma- chine gunfire is audible above steady rifle fire. Whether the Japanese fire is returned cannot be determ- ined. The Russians have never left off firing for more than two minutes at a time. Mr. and Mrs. John Roosevelt pause during a bicycle ride at Hamilton, Bermuda, to pose for this picture. The President’s yqungest son and his bride, the former Anne Lindsay Clark, arrived at the xsh_md after several weeks on Campobello Island, New Brunswick, JUNEAUROTARY |QUARREL LED CLUB IS GIVEN ~TO SHOOTING ' CONFERENCE NEAR SITKA d NEW ATTACK LAUNCHED TOKYO, Aug. 9—Both the War Office and Foreign Office report today that two battalions of Soviet Infantry have launched an attack on Suiliufen Hill, six miles north of Changkufeng which the Russians | occupied on July 29 and lost two days later. The Japanese War Office also announces the Russian forces are constructing new defenses on the southwest shore of Posiet Bay and concentrating cavalry and artillery, also tanks there. - e, District Meeting Bringing| Joe Armstrong Being Hel More than 1,000 Rotar- for Trial Following ians Awarded This City Coroner’s Inquest SRR | SITKA, Alaska, Aug. 9.—That | Peter Allard met death by a gun- |shot wound was the verdict of a | coroner’s jury which convened Mon- |day afternoon, August 8. | Juneau will be host to the district Rotary conference here next spring. This is the information re- ceived today by the Jumeau | ¢ ghe jnquest ‘which was con- Rotary Club from President |ducted by Henry Roden, who ar- Kelly Blake and Secretary O. L. ir‘VEd here by plane from‘ Juneau, Kendall at Longview, Wash,, ;‘{ 'fl";e chau'r;el of t}}:e affair, it v::s where they attended the dis- "?"% it out t(le shopting wa-sm ; trict Presidents’ conference |Culmination of an argument whic which had the fixing of next d}:"“lol’id during a l;:x;y -Ab;ard year’s convention city. the gasboat Eagle at Kaliana Bay, sPANIsH wAH | off Kruzof Island, Sunday after- | The message received by Vice- noon. T AKIN G HE sTAPresldem Rod Darnell of the local | According to the testimony, Al- club from Blake and Kendall this jard, who was trolling in that vi- morning said the Lon_gvlew meet- cinity, aboard his boat Whnpie.; ing was unanimous in favor of with his wife and four children, | Isolated Engagements Only Taking Place—Bitter Fighting for 2 Weeks holding the 1939 district sessions poarded the gasboat Eagle, oper- in Juneau. This year’s conference gteq by Charles Welcome, sometime | originally was scheduled f_or Juneau | sunday. 43::“‘2:‘! ;: g’:n I;ii:zfiz";:lt c;n-‘ During a party in the afternoon | % an argument over & minor detafl {moved to that city. 11 8rose, and it is alleged Allard be- The confer came abusive and was ordered from | ence, {will be held in June, is expected completed, however, he pointed out that no airmail contract has yet been awarded. He also said no passengers will be carried by the plane for an indefinite period. Landing Field | E. L. Yuravich, Chief of the | Airline Inspetcion Service on Inter- national Routes, Bureau of Air Commerce, sai after making a brief survey Botswick Inlet beach and adjacent flats, that the size of the field which could be devel- oped there depends entirely upon a diking project to besundertaken He said a mile long rinway could |be developed at Botswick Inlet, 14 ‘miles southwest of Ketchikan by boat and believed that one of the most suitable places for establish- ing a landing field is here. The city is, however, without funds. DIMOND NOW AT NOME ON | ! wAY SUUTH‘men to seek protection behind a | Delegate Campaigns in | Kotzebue, Other North- ern Alaska Points NOME, ‘Alaska, Aug. 9. — Pi]ot} King of the Ferguson Airways, ar-| rived here yesterday with Alaska | | Delegate Anthony J. Dimond from a tour of Kotaghue and other| northern psints. | Pilot King reported encountering heavy fog and rain. | Delegate Dimond plans to take off | | planes today bombarded Canton for | the second consecutive day and, |according to reports, left 121 dead |and burying perhaps hundreds { under debris. Cunfiruciinn of Monument to Post, Rogers Is Started g p gy HEIR IS SAVED HEROISM - OF HIS NURSE Prominent Couple Burned to Death in Mansion— Handy Man Also Hero TUXEDO PARK, N. Y, Aug. 9— the AFL i right, are: Mead, 5. The pickets are Robert Cement Is Hauled to Scene | of Crash, Located at Walakpa POINT BARROW, Alaska, Aug. 9. The expedition building the monument to Post-Rogers has started work at Walakpa, scene of the crash. Squalls several times forced the | point of rock. | Cement has been hauled to the site preparatory to cpmtrucnom inent were burned to death in a fire that de- | stroyed their big rambling home. ! Their 21-months-old heir was saved through the heroism of the nurse, Lillian Henion, aged 19, and 'E s A | & volunteer fireman, Anthony Ress, 2 % | flames sweeping the north end e |of the Adee mansion where the Coffey, White Leave Point |Adees gtept. - | Rushing to the scene he heard a Barrow—Enroute in eastern society, who sustained a broken arm. gazed out of his window and saw | woman screaming in the nursery | window, 37 feet above the ground 3 Democratic Primaries Today Arousing Interest Of Administration Chiefs Mr. and Mrs, William Adee, prom- | | handyman on & neighboring estate, bl e %j;;‘:fi?ng' i:"g:fi:‘w bring between 1000 and 1,500 S R Rotarians and their femilies to continues to be isolated engage-|y,...y from District 101 which ments. | T : | comprises Washingten, Oregon, Ida- Fighting is progressing slightly m‘ho and Al . It is anticipated the west banks of the Ebro River, that two steamers will be necessary Catalonia Province but both In- sdrgent and Government forces are |0 Pring the delegates north. Some of the sessions, it is expected, will i | apparently | restinf - after biger| ;i et the ships and prob- the guitar. | as, accompanied by Bob Laney on| b DosvitaRe by, Walkame. | for Pairbanks immediately. Refusing to go, Allard struck | — e Welcome throwing him into the | | hold, and when Joe Armstrong, | | an other member of the party, at- | | | | | tempted to interfere, Allard started after him with an axe. At this point, Armstrong declared he reach- ed for a gun and shot in self-de- fense, hitting Allard in the neck, resulting in instant death. Armstrong and Welcome brought | the body to Sitka aboard the Eagle | and reported the affair to the| authorities here, where both were held. Welcome was released follow-‘ ing the inquest, and Armstrong is | being held for trial. Allard, a half-breed, is a member | lof a pioneer family here, and be- sides his wife and four children, is |survived by his parents, Mr. and Body of Sam “Froglegs” Picciotto Found—Sev- | enth in Seven Weeks | CHICAGO, Ill, Aug. 9—Daylight z uncovered the seventh gangster | Mrs. W. Allard, and brother George |style slaying in Chicago within| |Allard, and numerous distant rela';seven weeks and the second within | b ) | 24 hours. Funeral arrangements have nov.[ Huddled near the wall of the| | been made. icmcago White Sox Field, the body Church-Fighter | to Nome KOTZEBUE, Alaska, Aug. 9. — Amateur pilots Harry K. Coffey and W. P. White, of Portland, Ore., are| safe here, awaiting better weather to fly to Nome where they will be entertained by the Nome Chamber of Commerce. Coffey and White arrived here Saturday after an easy hop from Point Barrow. It was erroneously reported by a sensational news agency the two| men were missing and this was be- cause one amateur radio operator | grew alarmed at inability to con- tact the Coffey plane. | e nsie- % . . Belng urga"lzgd‘m the voleano district of Hawaii. | | | MOSCOW, Aug. 9.—Soviet school | and then saw the nurse with a baby in her arms. Ress shouted: “Jump, girl.” The nurse jumped, holding baby tightly in her arms. Ress broke the fall by catching the weight on his left side which broke his arm. The nurse and baby were safe and uninjured. No cause is known for the fire, The mansion was totally destroyec WILD EARTH the SHOCKS FELT LO, Hawali, Aug. 9.—A series | of wild earth shocks was felt today No damage is reported to have been done. R wrecking and building supply establishment in Los Angeles, where ecking to organize his employees, The children, left to Deide Smith, 2; Sally Mead, 2; Gayle Smith, 5; and Glen Hillman (left) and S. W. Lee. WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. — The [Kmtucky victory of Senate Leader Alben W. Barkley increases hopes of the Administration Lieutenants for a three-fold triumph in today’s senatorial primaries. Democratic Senators Robert L. Bulkley of Ohio, Hattie W. Cara- way of Arkansas, and James P. Pope of Idaho are up for renomination as loyal Roosevelt backers. Senator Popes race against Rep- resentative D. Worth Clark may | bring the only clear cut test of the | Administration policies. Senator Pope, who helped write the Crop Control Act, has not opposed any of the Roosevelt policies, while | Clark, as a self-styled Conservative, voted agalnst the Government’s re- | other White House proposals. | In Arkansas, Representative John | L. McClellan, told a rally he was |as loyal to the President as Mrs, Caraway whom he is opposing. The only woman Senator is now com- | sevelt last month as “an old friend.” | Former Gov. George White, of | Ohio, like Senator Bulkley, campaigned as a Roosevelt support- {er but it was Bulkley who received kind words from the President in |at the south end of the mansion|his speech at Marietta. Ohio’s Republican Senatorial con- test between Robert Taft and Ar- thur Day has also aroused wide- spread interest. FIRST RETURNS IN | BRISCOW, Ark., Aug. 9.—Upper | Hill Township is the first to report |on today’s primary, giving Senator Caraway 29, McClellan 0. — - ASPHYXIATED BY MINE GAS One Man Dies Attempting to Rescue Another, Abandoned Pit MINERSVILLE, Pa., Aug. 9—Two men were asphyxiated by mine gas | organization bill and also various| has | | of Sam “Froklegs” Picciotto, 23, authorities are teaching 10,000 per- BIRTHDAY REMEMBERED about 12 feet from the mouth of an Poured Into Japanese By Soviets JIMMY DODSON 'FINDS FLIER BESIDE PLANE |Former Juneau Aviator Is | Apparently Unhurt— Sign Says “Grub” FAIRBANKS RUSHING ' SUPPLIES TO SCENE |Forced Down on Hillside 20 Miles from Jo- seph’s Village L. F. Barr, former Juneau air- plane pilot, now operating out of | Fairbanks, who was yesterday re- |ported missing since last Thursday jon a flight from Big Delta to | Chicken, has been found alive and | apparently unhurt while his plane |is believed to be not badly dam- | aged. | According to an Associated Press wire to the Enipive from the Faire banks News-Mincr, Barr was locat- | ed last night by Pilot Jimmy Dod= |son, on an open hillside on the | middle fork of the Fortymile River, | twenly miles from Joseph's Village. } Pilot Hungry | Dodson said Bair was walking |around his plane and had written the word “grub” on one wing tip, and the two words “Joseph’s Vile lage” on the fuselage. 2 Dodson said he Lclieved the signs |meant Barr was badly in need of {food and intended to walk the 20 miles to Joseph's Village. | Pilot Dodson also said “it didn’t |seem as though the plane was bad- |ly damaged, and Barr was walking |around healthily enough.” | A plane was being fitted out with | supplies this morning in Fairbanks |for a rush flight to Barr’s position jand drop him food. | Barr Walks Again Local and PAA pilots were not surprised today when informed that | Barr had been found alive, for Barr apparently has a faculty for “get- ting out of messes.” Records show that Barr has had |the public worried over his fate many times in the past, but today, |as usual, Barr is “walking out, all |in one piece.” Long Search | Barr left Big Delta early Thurs- day morning for the approximately 1160-mile flight to Chicken with |drums of deisel oil for cargo. It was this cargo that pilots beleived ;hnd “finished” Barr, with the supe | position that in case of a forced |landing, the drums would be flung {forward into the pilot’s cockpit. | Search was begun for Barr on | Saturday morning when he was twq Ress was awakened by smoke. He) pleting her seventh year in office|days overdue. A PAA Electra made | ‘ i | {and was greeted by President Roo- | e search Saturday evening, Noe] Wien sent out a searching ship, Bil} | Lavery joined the hunt, Frank Pole {lack also searched, and this morne |ing, an organized air hunt for Barp |was to have started. Pilot Jimmy Dodson began searche ing for Barr Saturday afternoon {and spent Sunday and Monday | continuing his scouring of the country in which Barr might have been forced down and finally lo= cated the lost pilot last night. B — LOVE IS GRAND BUT JEALOUSY, THERE'S A RUB Two 60-Year-Olds Dead in | Tragedy Over Affec- tions, Youuy Woman BEAVER, Okla., Aug. 9.—Love of two 60-year-old men for the same | young woman, resulted in the slay- |ing of oue and the suicide of the Tpdns tor lbe HesEAp0 Wecks. |ably some of them ashore here. | News of the coming convention weekly luncheon meeting at Percy’s |Cafe this noon where the feature | entertainment for the club mem- ARE cLAsHING bers was hillbilly songs presented IN HuI.Y LANn‘ycungsters, recently here from Tex- | R L S | British Troops Continue “smflss ge" Fighting Armed Bands 0‘ Ulli[lfl |S SIII]I JERUSALEM, Aug. 9—Arabs and Jews are still fighting in the Holy Land. Several Arabs have been slain| CHICAGO, I, and Arabs have been wounded in|G. Dungan, Business Agent of the shootings elsewhere. Painters Union, was shot and killed British troops are fighting armed |last night by gunmen as he sat in bands of Arabs in the hills. ARABS JEws |was given to Rotarians at their 5 by Guthrie and Eddy Thomas, n Hills in old Jerusalem and several Jews front of his south side home, Aug. 9.—James | HOLZHEIMER ON CASE | District Attorney William A.| Holzheimer flew to Sitka this morn- | ing with Marine Airways in con-| nection with the shooting case there in which Joe Armstrong is being held. A preliminary hean.n” is expected to be held in Commis- sioner’s Court in Sitka. was found by passersby shortly after daybreak, less than a mile from where James G. Duncan was slain last night at his home. Tire skids indicated the body of “Froglegs” had been thrown from an automobile, The police sald “Froglegs” only a minor criminal record. sons by correspondence how (0| MONDRAGONE, Italy. — An in- campaign against religion. The cor-|gcription on the recently uncovered respondence courses for anti-relig-|tomp of Lucius Germanus reveals lous. propagandists, organized bY | that in 43 A. D. he bequeathed the .commissariat of education, are|s o) sesterces (about $85) to furn- |sent for seven month to students i jocal poor people with free wine A d!enlll'od among lecturers in various every March 7 so that they might ! regions. celebrate his birthday. abandoned shaft near here this|Other Sheriff Fo:d Householder an- forenoon. nounoes. One man had taken refuge in| " Sherilf .oid Ben Bogue, hotel |the pit from a storm and the other ProPrietor, shot and killed Tom was trying to rescue him from the Angleton, feed store operator, be- fumes when overcome also. cause of jealousy over a 30-year- The dead are Joseph Foran, aged |©/d woman. Bogue then killed him~ 45, and Edward Woll, aged 32, 'self.