The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 12, 1938, Page 1

i > “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME N VOL. LII, NO. 7870. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 12, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS CHINA SECTIONS HAMMERED BY SHELLS - NATI GERMANY ON WARTIME FOOTING NOW Nation-wide Preparations Being Made for Gi- gantic Maneuvers BERLIN, Aug. 12—Nazi Germany is virtually on a wartime footing as the time for the annual autumn maneuvers hears. Nation - wide preparations are proceeding at top speed and the type of maneuvers, to be used for the first time since the World War, shows new units for training re- serves in from six to ten weeks. Military observers are unable to estimate the number of troops in- volved in the fall war games be- cause the maneuvers will occur sec- tionally rather than one massed display. Observers estimate however that there will be at least 1,300,000 re- servists alone in the maneuvers. The maneuvers are reported to he causing alarm on bordering states. FRANCE WANTS FACTS PARIS, Aug. 12—France has in- structed diplomats abroad to trans- mit immediately to Paris all infor- mation available concerning mili- tary preparations now taking place in Germany. The French Foreign office offi- cials declare that reports have been received that Nazi military meas- ures are of unusual size and “are being followed by diplomatic circles with the greatest of attention.” An authorized source said the in- formation received by the French Foreign Office indicates that “im- portant maneuvers will be held ‘in the Reich.” The statement is.made as reports are published in the French and British newspapers of huge Ger-| man troop movements. INSURGENTS INATTACKS . WEST FRONT . Invaders Reported Driving Toward Government Mercury Mines HENDAYE, sSpanish - French Frontier, Aug. 12.—Insurgents eore Hull Remains on Job Only cabinet member on the job persistently during the hot sum- .mer months in Washington, Cor- dell Hull, secretary of state, finds it necessary to forego a vacation because of the critical and ever- changing conditions of interna- Here he is at his desk. [ tional affairs. e | #7 Cordell Hull at desk MELLON PARTY WILL FLY FOR - WHITE SHEEP [Dall Specie Group to Be Taken for Museum mn [ New York | High on the bald mountain rang- | es flanking the valley of the Don- | jek River in the Kluane Lake coun- | try, the proud Dall mountain sheep | feeds on the sparse grasses of high altitude, and with those magnifi-| cent game animals so near at hand | Richard K. Mellon doesn’t want to| | comment on business. | { “I'm on a vacation,” Mellon said Mellon, nephew of the late An- drew Mellon, arrived in Juneau last night on the Prince Rupert with his wife, Robert S. Waters, President| of the National Radiator Corpora-| | tion, and taxidermist Robert H. | Rockwell, of the American Museum of Natural History. This morning the party was to Bad Weather Prevents Rescue Of Pilot Barr FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 12. —Bad weather has prevented airmen from flying to St. Jo- seph’s Village to get F. L. Barr, airman, forced down a week ago yesterday, 20 miles from there, on a flight to an isolated min- ing camp. e, W, W. MISCHLER IS HANDY MAN FOR BIG JUDGE Important Individual Breaks Into Limelight—But Through Writer By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — Per- haps the Attorney General doesn't know it yet, but he will receive an reported to be hammering Govern- "o o b pacific Alaska Airways | invitation next fall to confer with ment positions in western Spain. The Insurgents are said to be (Mellon is a director of Pan Am- erican) to Burwash Landing on| Chief Justice Hughes. Also the milk man will get a note driving rapidly toward the valuable|; .o Kiyane, where the party will | telling him to begin bringing sev- Government mercury mines. Portland Fliers Hop from Nome NOME, Alaska, Aug. 12.—Return- ing home after a flight to Point Barrow, Harry Coffey and M. F. White, of Portland, Ore., left here at 7:30 o'clock this morning on an- other lap of their flight. [ Interior Doctor Is Seriously FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 12. — Dr. Grafton Burke, head of the Hudson Stuck Memorial Hospital at Fort Yukon, has been flown here for treatment. He has been in iil health for a long time. [ { STOCK QUOTATIONS 1 - % NEW YORK, Aug. 12. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 96, American Light and Power 5, Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem Steel 55%, Commonwealth and Southern 1'%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 44%, International Harves- ter 56%, Kennecott 397%, New York Central 17%, Southern Pacific 17%, United States Steel 57, Safeway Stores 19, Pound $4.87 3/16, DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 136.48, down 284; rails 27.68, down .39; ~ utilities 19.64, down .19, i base for their hunt What They Are After Seeking four rams and a ewe to| | complete a Dall | group for the new North American | Hall of the American Museum of | fifty miles to the area near Donjek | | Glacier at the head of the river of that name. Louis and Jean Jacquot, big game guides, will meet the party at Bur- | This is the second time Mellon | and Waters have hunted in the| Kluane Lake country. They were In | tremely fine luck.” This time they are taking Mrs. Mellon along and, taxidermist Rockwell. Gets Her Brownie | Mrs. Mellon was with her hus- {band last summer in a Southeast | Alaska hunt when she shot her brownie and her goats. She weighs only in the vicinity of 122 pounds, is a trim and attractive brunette, and shoots the heavy 30-'06. i “She’s done a lot of hunting with | me in Canada and the States,” Mel | lon said, and added proudly, “She’s milk bottles, he must have caverns| |a darn good shot.” | | Rockwell, taxidermist, has been | | working for the past ten years mod- | |eling animals for the African ani-| Mischler is already way ahead lni mal exhibits in Akeley African Hall|his work. He has a stack of let-| | of the museum. The Dall group, he|ters written inviting the Attorney| House, | eral bottles to the chief justice’s door step every morning. Another note will put the power company mountain sheep |on warning to turn on the electri-| city in the Chief Justice's house. Probably even the Chief Jus- NAtural History, Mellon’s party will| tice himself hasn’t thought of all| |'go with guides and packhorses for|these (hings. But his secretary, W. W. Mischler, has. He has been thinking of things like that most of his working life. He began thinking about them for President Taft, continued thinking about wash and guide them on the hunt.| them for Mr. Taft when he became | Chief Justice. Now he does the job for Chief Justice Hughes. It would be awfully hard to find things as is Mr. Mischler. He is a short fellow who during the summer recess occupies enormous office in the Supreme Court building. It is right behind the court chamber. In it Mr. Misch- ler looks as if he had plunked him- self and his two desks in a ca- thedral. Yes, he has two desks, big ones, and he sits in the angle between them. If a person is care for such a variety of things as Supreme Court opinions and for files. AHEAD ON LETTERS Bund Influence On Ambassadors | {:raat_i!g Fumr; ik { Hans Luther Testifies He| Lost Job Because of | *“Non-cooperation” i | WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. — The | House committee for the investiga- | tion of unAmerican activities today | heard testimony from Hans Luther, | long time German ambassador here,i that he lost his job because he did | not cooperate fully with the Ger- | man-American Bund, Nazi organi-| zation in the United States. | John Metcalfe, German born| committee investigator, said he was | told this by Fritz Kuhn, Bund lead- | er who accepted Metcalfe as & Bund member and hired him for a speaking tour. During this tour, particularly in| Los Angeles, Metcalfe said local Bund members complained of a lack of full cooperation of German | consuls, especially with reference 10‘ obtaihing storm troopers’ uni[orm!h! Kuhn flew into a rage when Met- | calfe’s statements were reported to| him, and declared, “What's the| gmatter with them? TI've removed| | Hans Luther and I've secret rela-| | tions with Germany whereby I can| | get anything T want. These consuls | will be ‘removed and we'll get the| kind of consuls we want.” | | Dr. Hans Dieckhoff is present Am- | bassador to Germany. R TWO CUNMEN Grand Coulee Hit by $100,000 Blaze Grand Coulee, Wash,, typical western boom-town, suffered ifs first major disaster when fire razed a block of buildings, and brought death to a woman, The crowd is shown watching a flaming building fall. James Roosevelt Denies His ' Income Fabulous; Has Reply 0 TO DEATH . To Charges, Recent Magazine ON SCAFFOLD Slayers of FBI Agent Pay Penalty in Leaven- | worth Prison [ LEAVENWORTH PRISON, Aug 12.—Robert Suhay and Glen Apple- gate, New York City gunmen, cbn- victed of murdering W. W. Baker, FBI Agent, were hanged in the pen- itentiary here today. It was the first double execution in Kansas in more than 70 years. | Applegate went to his death with | the same indifference that nas characterized his stay in the prison. | Suhay gritted his teeth, making | an obvious effort to control him- self, as he mounted the thirteen steps to the gallows. | Texa;i’ulitics Is Given Shock, Ilaql.« Nomineg O’Daniel Makes Talk En-| dorsing Six Candidates in Next Primaries | FORT WORTH, Tex., Aug. 12— !In a move unprecedented in Texas | cratic nominee for Governor, in a | talk here gave his unqualifiel in- | Legislature, Administration and Ju- | dicial offices in the runoff primary lon August 27. i e Dean Terms : Fascism Rehash Of Old ldeas MANTEO, N. C, Aug. 12. — R. D.| dean of Administration at| | explained, will be part of a reno- | General, several of his assistants,| the University of North Carolina, vated North American Hall. |and senior members of the circuit| believes the trouble with most na- i “They will probably be the finest, courts to confer with the Chief|tions today is that “living in the | well said. “We send artists and taxi- | dermists into the field with the hunters to get as close a reproduc- tion of the original animal as we | can.” | Geerge Mason Coming | Rockwell said George Mason, ar- | tist, will come north in September | and Mt. McKinley area, the latter | Dall sheep in any museum,” Rock- Justice. Another pile contains the | fear of the future, they are look- | messages to the milk company, the| ing far back into the past.” power company to Chief Justice Hughes’ butler, to his personal mes- senger, and even to the newspapers to start deliveries. The Chief Jus- tice takes three Washington dailies, one evening and two morning. The milk and butler notes will '|to paint landscapes in the Kenai| be mailed as soon as Mr. Mischler knows when the Justice is to re- (Continued on Page Six) (Continued on Page Two) “Germany is not looking to the future. She is looking so far into the past that she is trying to turn | Papan again. Italy is not looking | to the future. She is trying to re- |live the Roman Empire. Russia has merely swapped the Czar for Stalin. Japan is using modern machinery to bolster up a Pagan idea. And Spain is committing sui- lcide in the same antique manner.”| | incident involving JAPAN,RUSSIA AGAIN READY FOR TROUBLE Incident on Shakhalin Island Starting Another Disturbance TOKYO, Aug. 12—A new border Japan and So- viet Russia is reported from Sakha- lin Island where Japan and the So- viet Union divide control. Domei dispatches from Shikika, one of Sakhalin’s principal cities, declare that the tempers of the Russians and Japanese flared again over the alleged shooting of a member of a ‘“Japanese inspecting party” by a Soviet Secret Police Agent. The Japanese police rushed to the scene, the dispatches state. The scene of the incident is near the border that separates the Japa- nese and Soviet halves of the long northern Island coast. The name of the man wounded, nor the reason for the reported in- cident, is not made known. The incident came while the Rus- | of the Arctic, has landed here in a| ‘sian and Japanese troops observed plane | the armistice on the Siberian-Man- | stricken missionary picked up at an choukuo border where serious hos- tilities waged from July 29 to Aug- ust 11, It is reported that the “inspec- the Japanese Parliament and in- cluded numerous prominent Japa- an | dorsement to six candidates for the | nese. —— e — EXPEDITION IS AT FAIRBANKS FORMANSTUD Party of Six_f;;m New Mex- ico Complete 2,580- Mile Trip FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 12— Wesley L. Bliss, anthropology in- structor at the University of New Mexico, and five student members of a scientific expedition, have ar- rived here after a 2580-mile trip through the Canadian Northwest {and Yukon Territory by canoe, mo- tor, automobile and boat. The expedition is here to possible archaeological sits for fur- ther investigation, Bliss said. The party is especially interested in the possibilities of early man’s move- rams instead of purebred stock for| trol of the United States Biological ment in relation to glaciation, seek NEW YORK, Aug, 12. - James Roosevelt, in a magazine article entitled “I'm Glad You Asked Me,” | made public his income tax returns | for the Jast five years showing. an annual income ranging between | $21,714 and $49,167. The total shown | on five/Teturns is $172,978.03. | The President’s son invited an in- | vestigation of his affairs by “some hard-hitting anti-New Deal Sena- tor. My trouble seems to be a mix- ture of being a President’s son, plus not failing in business. In a recent magazine article, young Roosevelt’s earnings from his | insurance business was estimaied somewhere between $250,000 and $2,- 1 000,000 a year. MERCY FLIGHT UNDERTAKEN BY PRIEST FLIER !Rev. Schullfies to Arctic Island — Returns | with Ill Father CHESTERFIELD, NWT, Aug. 12 —The Rev. Paul Schulte, flying priest bearing Father Cochard, | Arctic Island in Baffin Bay. | The famed priest-pilot flew ithe Arctic island Wednesday | bring out the priest, dangerously to to in that country in 1935 and “had ex- a person so felicitous about such politics, W. Lee O'Daniel, Demo- tion group” was led by a member of | with fever. e — ASKS PASSPORT, JAILED INSTEAD | NEW YORK, Aug. 12.—-Carmello |Malaspina mistakenly thought he |would need a passport to go to Cuba. | He walked into police headquar- ters and asked that his fingerprints ‘he taken so he could show them in applying for the passport. | Police, suspicious because his fingertips had been burned with acid, checked his prints and found he was wanted in the fatal beating of Hans Bloom in front of a Brook- lyn bar and grill in July, 1935. They 'had sought him for three years. Malaspina went to jail instead of to Cuba. —ee IT PAYS TO USE THE BEST KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Livestock experts estimate that Tennessee sheep growers are losing more than 1$235,000 annually by using scrub | breeding purposes. IS TALKED OUT OF LEAP FROM WINDOW LEDGE [Young Man Heeds Plea— Taken to Hospital to See Wife, Son HOUSTON, Tex., Aug. 12.—James | Wells, 26, sat on a window ledge on the thirty-first floor of a skyscraper here and for 30 minutes threatened | to jump before talked out of a leap. | After his rescue, the police ',()ck\ | Wells to a hospital where his wife | has been since the birth of a son| | last Tuesday and there he saw his son for the first time. i Wells said he planned suicide over, | failure to get work. | Detective Lieutenant L. B. Mor-| Erisrm. who talked Wells out of his | contemplated leap, promised to find {a job for him | SKINCANOE EXPEDITION - ATKOTZEBUE The Rev. Hubbard, with | Party, One Week on Voyage from Barrow KOTZEBUE, Alaska, Aug. 12. | The Rev. Bernard Hubbard's skin | canoe expedition has arrived here on the last stop in the north. He | plans to remain until cessation of | | the storms and winds which buffet- | ed them ashore at Point Hope dur- 'ing a voyage of one week from Point | Barrow. | ‘The leader of the expedition said: e had only five @ays of calm travel in five weeks in our walrus| skin oomiak which is as good as the day it was launched. Everyone is pretty well exhausted.” Game Officials ~ Are Alarmed at ~Increase, Wolves Predatory Inroads on Game | Animals Causes Meet- * ing at Fairbanks | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 12. — A steady increase in wolves in the Interior has prompted a meeting of game officials, Alarmed at the predatory inroads on game animals, the officials conferred with Stanley P. Young, Chief of the Division of Predatory Animal and Rodent Con- Survey, 100 PLANES IN RAIDS OVER ? INTERIOR AREAS Japanese Craft Bomb Han- kow, Vicinity, with Disastrous Results HUGE OIL TANKS ARE REPORTED SET AFIRE Railroad Terminals Attack- ed at Wuchang—Wu- chow Air Raided SHANGHAI, Aug. 12, — A Japanese Naval communique issued late this afternoon an- nounces that mere than 100 Japanese war planes have car- ried out a spectacular and successful raid on Hankow, headquarters of Chiang Kai Shek. The communique declares that the raid has been “one hundred percent” effective in attacking the military estab- lishments and railways, especi- ally at Hankow and Wuchang. It is believed that casualties have reached between 500 and 1,000. The communique declares that no Chinese planes took the air in defense. DARING AIR ATTACKS SHANGHAI, Aug. 12. — Daring Japanese air attacks today caused heavy damage and large casualties in two areas deep in the heart of China and terrorism has gripped the Chinese, it is claimed. Ofl tanks believed to belong to the Standard Ofl Company or Tex- aco Well Company have been set afire in the teeming industrial tri- city around Hankow by the shells from the air raiders. The bombings are called the most destructive of any before in the area and struck at properties not only in the industrial centers but also on the outskirts of the tri-city, es- pecially Hankow and Wuchang. Fifty bombers at noon dropped 200 missiles on Wuchang across the Yangtze River from Hankow. Light bombers dived through the curtains of Chinese anti-aircraft fire to within 1,000 feet of the ground to score accurately on the ‘Wuchang Railroad Terminal packed with freight cars and surrounded by warehouses. In Kwangsi Province, further south, war planes heavily bombed Wuchow, river port, 120 miles west of Canton. Great damage to prop- erty and heavy loss of life is report- ed in the sector. Fires are reported raging on the outskirts of Hankow, especially in the vicinity of the huge oil tanks that are blazing as the result of the shells dropped in the air raids. —— . ARMED TRUCE KEEPS FORCES WITHIN BOUND All Is Seemingly Quiet Along Disputed Siberian- Manchoukuo Front TOKYO, Aug. 12.—Both the Japa- nese and Russian armies are ob- serving the armed truce on the Siberian-Manchoukuoan border, ac~ cording to all reports. The two forces are in the same positions as they occupied at mid- night, August 10, when the truce was declared. Hoover to Begin Campaign Talks KANSAS CITY, Aug. 12—Former President Herbert Hoover will speak in the municipal auditorium here September 28, officials of the city’s Republican clubs announce. The speech will be broadcast over a nation-wide (Columbia) radio hookup. Mr. Hoover announced several days ago his speech here would be the first of a series in behalf of Republican congressional candidates in the fall campaign,