The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 16, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7873. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS TYDINGS,0’CONNOR DRAWSHARP ATTACK Million Soldiers Massed To Defend Hankow CHANG READY FOR CLASH IN RIVER SECTOR Japanese, Movmg Slowlv, to Meet Greatest Re- sistance of War SHANGHAI, Aug. 16. — Chang Kai-Shek is reported to have ma: ed 1000000 men around Hankow, his provisional capital, toward which the Japanese have advanced slowly since occupying Kiukiang on July 24. The outer fringes of Hankow de- “Modern Venus?” “ .* Japanese units on exploratory drives | Japanese unts on exploratory drives up both banks of the Yangtze River southward toward Nanching, the Chinese air base, nine miles away, but these scouting forces have been driven back under a withering fire, practically wiped out, according to unofficial reports. ICKES STOPS AT ANCHORAGE, COAST BOUND Secre!ary's—f’;ly. Enroute South, Stops at Chil- koot Barracks, Juneau ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 16.— Secretary of Interior Ickes, his bride and other members of his party, stopped an hour here yes- terday before embarking for Seward where they will take the Coast Guard cutter Spencer for Seattle. The party plans to stop at Chil- koot Barracks, Juneau and maybe Sitka. Secretary Ichs Seattle Augu SMITH OBJECTS TO SMITHUPON * is due back in SEATTLE BALLOT First Tom Wants Second Tom to Be Removed— Only Political Talk SEATTLE, Aug. 16. — Charging his political opponents with con- fusing the situation by filing a “second Tom -Smith,” for County Commissioner, North End Commis- sioner Tom E. Smith has asked the! Superior Court for an order to re- move the second Tom Smith from the ballot. Judge J. T. Ronald has ordered Country Auditor Earl Millikin to show cause on Friday why the sec- ond Tom Smith should not be re- moved, Commissioner Smith acted after he caused the arrest of John Dillon, 44, former Superintendent of a unit of construction at the Matanuska Colony in Alaska, on a conspiracy charge. Dillon said: “I am not for any particular candidate except I want to see Smith defeated.” T 'WEALTHY DODGE HEIR 1S DEAD, OLD DYNAMITE Bride of Tw—o—Weeks Badly Hurt in Summer Camp Exploswes Play LITTLE CURRENT, Ont, Aug. 16.—A honeymoon “testing” of old dynamite has resulted in the death of Daniel Dodge, 21, heir to the $9,000,000 Michigan motor fortune, seriously injured Dodge’s 13-day bride, and critically injured Lloyd Bryant, helper about the camp. Dodge was hospital across Georgian Bay by speed boat when he either fell or driven by pain, leaped into the water and drowned. Mrs. Dodge, a former telephone girl, married to Dodge August 2, suffered cuts about the arms, face and legs. She was operated upon at a hospital in the interior of Mani- toulin Island. Miss Etta Gervin, friend of the Dodge’'s said Dodge expressed a desire ao learn if dynamite left by | < | workmen in his summer camp eight . years ago was still in good con- | Ellisa Winston Judges at Steeplechase park, New York, selected Ellisa Winston, 1 as the “modern Venus” in beauty contest. We certainly don’t object. DARING BANDIT CAPTURED; RIDES OVER FIRE HOSE Robber of Bold $7, 000 Dayllght Snatch in Seat- tle Arrested at Renton SEATTLE, Aug. 16. — Running over a fire hose at Renton, near here, caused the arrest of George Turner, who State Patrolman Frank Wilson said was the bandit who ‘helc up the Black Ball Ferry Lme | cashier, W. B. Wilson, and escapd | with $7,000 in a daring robbery yes- terday afternoon. Patrolman Policemen Fred Illian and Dominic Carpme were patrolling the fire lines of an inconsequential Ren- dition. He selected a stick and instructed | Bryant to set it off. | § | Bryant touched a match to what camp helper should have been a three-minute fuse and a double explosion fol- lowed almost instantaneously. Dodge suffered a fractured skull and a shattered arm. Rushed to the speed boat, | hospital, but suddenly leaped his feet screaming with pain and stumbled overboard to his death. Camp helper Bryant was intern- | ally injured and may die. Anchorage City AN(,HORA(:F Alh%ka Aug. lb Elmer L. Williams ani Henry Thrall, Minneapolis mvestman bankers, haves purchased about| $200,000 worth of Anchorage City improvement bonds. Their res will be the first time Anchorage bonds have been sold outright. BRITISH SHIP IS BOMBED BY | Beached But Believed to Be Total Loss ton blaze when Turner drove over | | the fire hose, an offense. The officers did not suspect Tur- | ner’s identity but sought his arrest for driving over the hose line. Tur-| |ner drew a gun and was felled by Illian who used a flashlight. The officers found three pistols, a hand- kerchief mask and the $7,000 virtu- ally intact in Turner's auto which | he had stolen. | The robbery was the largest in Seattle in several years, } Turner refused to talk. — . e— | MADRID, Aug. 16.—The BriLLSh freighter Neomi Julia is believed to be a total loss as the result of a bombing by Insurgent war planes at Alicante. The freighter was towed about a mile rrom Alicante and beached. BOMBS RAINED ON INSURGENTS being rushed to a| he was to have| been taken to the nearest available | to | le | ~ INSUR, PLANES | crew members. Osborne, who was his bride, the fcrmer Joan Dow Honolulu. AP Photo. Marriage at Honolulu two days before the Haw: on its flight between Guam and the Philippines saved Lloyd Osborne, ‘ its regular junior flight officer, from the iprobable fate of his fellow | Marrmge Saves Cltpper Officer KIDNAPERS SHO il Clipper disappeared on a month’s leave of absence, and sett, are shown honeymooning at ‘Memorial Marker to Wiley . Post, Will Rogers F mally Placed at Plune Crash Spot B“"ds Ara snld POINT BARROW, Alaska, Avug.|which were cancelled yesterday (0“‘ 16 Despite in-drifting ice, yacht Pandora with party Point Barrow * whites set out a | southerners, |and natives in skinboats, yesterday morning for Waleapa, 15 miles south, to participate in the 1r;ercmmm’s of the dedication of the ;Mrmurial Marker to Wiley Post and Will Rogers, who were killed in a | plane crash on August 15, 1935. At 8 o'clock last night the Eskimo | choir sang America and religious | songs. Solemn observances took | place at the spot of the crash where | the two men died. | Virtually the entire population attended the ceremonies. Sunday the whites and natives aided the Pandora party in address- the | stamp collectors. The sale of the | lonw-lop{\s aids in defraying Lh" *M(mmm] E.xpodmon expenses. |R()GER§ IIGHWAY DEDICATED | AMARILLO, Tex., Aug. 16. Jimmy and Bill Rogers, sons of the late humorist, attended the monies and parade at the opening of a 3-day celebration honoring | | their father’s memory and the dedi- | cation of the Will Rogers’ High- } way extending from Chicago to Los Angeles, The Highway was formally opened | by representatives of six states. Leo Carillo, film actor and friend of Rogers, headed the parade on| horseback. Rogers’ favorite mount, Soapsuds, saddle empty, had the | Indicates Cha WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—If you were a government clerk in Wash- | ington with an income of $2000 a vear a sore appendix, a wife with \an oncoming baby, and no rich ‘uncle probably you would join the \Group Health Association if it | promised to take care of your medi- | cal needs for $220 a month, $3.30 i | By PRESTON GROVER | \ in Medical Practice nges Pending insurance systems in vogue in Ger- many and elsewhere in Europe. | Such systems they denounced as| undermining high standards 0(, medical practice and likely to break | down the close relationship of the| physician and his patient. Besides,” here was a group with | steady earnings snatched right out| of the teeth of “regular” physi- ‘ | photographs by the two victims who cere- | i wilson and Renton | Craft Is Towed Ashore and ' ing and stamplng 16,000 enve]op-‘sula(‘e of honor in the parade. igun an (ryest AN, ‘Battle Over Group Health Plan § DOWNBY AGENTS OF FBI OFFICE Men Who Bound and Gag- | ged St. Louis Pair Are | Caught in Gun Battle ‘ —sT. i | BULLETIN—ST. PAUL, Aug. 16. — District Attorney Victor Anderson has filed complaints charging kidnaping against Meredith and Couch and said he will probably demand the death penalty. Anderson has asked $100,000 bail for each pris- oner. ST. PAUL, Mimn., Aug. 16. — FBI agents last night fought a gunfight with two alleged kidnapers on a Minnesota farm and arrested Otis Jones Meredith, 21, and Jonn| Couch, 23, for the kidnaping of Peg- | gy Cross, 23, and Daniel Cox Fahey | Jr., of St. Louis | The two kidnapers were located last night by special agents on the| farm of Charles Roots, father-in-| law of Meredith, and when they re- | sisted arrest were cut down by gun- fire. Meredith was critically wounded, while Couch was only superficially hit in the legs. Both men were identified from | | were kidnaped early Saturday morning while in a parked car in| St. Louis. They said they were driven in Fahey's care to a point near Cham- plin, Minn., hands and feet bound | — with wire and their mouths gagged | with handkerchiefs. Thrown from| | the car iV'o the woods, they were| not found for several hours until a | passerby heard their struggling against their bonds and they were released. EXPLOSION ON U3, SUBMARINE HONOLULU, T. H.. Aug. 16 | Oil fumes in the crank case of a| diesel engine is blamed L)y Navy of- ficials for an explosion on the sub- marine Nautilus that sent one offi- cer and six enlisted men to the Pear]‘ Harbor Hospital. The undersea cr: att was only slightly damaged. The explosion occurred when Lhe crew was making engine adjust- | ments shortly after a return sea trip yesterday. Forty of the ship’s complement of | /80 men were aboard at the -time| of the explosion. A Navy Board of Inquiry has be- None of the men were seriously | COLLISION SHANGHAI, Aug. 16.—More than {100 Chinese passengers were [ drowned today when the small Chi- nese coastal steamer Hansas sank after colliding with the British| | steamer Tungwa. “Fatuliva Bird” {Eggs Prove Near Souvenir At last the rare “eggs” of the “Fat- ‘includmg family. That situation in a nutshell, is| r\lhd.t started the controversy be- Bll- tween Washington’s Group Healtn | Assocmuon and the American Med- 'ICEI Association, a controversy which _ARMY PLANES BY BOVT, FORCE ~ IN COLLISION i Forces Engaged in STOCK QUOTAT!ONS NEW YORK, Aug. 1s.wlosmg ter round cians, leaving them still with the| o | uliva Bird” have been found in Al- burden of caring for the md'“"““nka on the famous “cruise of the | without the sustaining aid of bill- Kawa,” and a complete “nest” of paying patients. | four “eggs” has been received at the | Game Commission office from Wild- | ENTER THE GOVERNMENT | life Agent Sam White of Fairbanks.| |COMMUNISM BEING BARED Jchn P. Frey, chairman of the metal trades department of the AFL and bitter foe of the CIO, who is the chief witness as the American Federation of Labor, reports results of its long secret investigation of communism in the United States before a spe- cial House committee. The Fed- eration committee is attempting to show that many Midwest sit- down strikes and violent labor disturbances were planned by communists and that commun- ists are making a concerted campaign to take over the Am- erican hbor movement. 5 NAVY FLIERS KILLED IN TWO PLANE Cf CRASHES ; {Four Others Are Reported| Injured in Accidents in California SAN DIEGO, Cal.,, Aug. 16. — Five Navy fliers were killed and four others injured in two separate crashes here. Three men died when a plane mysteriously fell upon the Camp Kearney mesa’ during maneuvers. | None of the crew resorted to par-| chutes. A giant patrol bomber, practicing lapdings in preparation for a | flight to Coco Solo, Canal Zone, crashed in the bay, killing two crew | members and injuring four others | of the crew, ade ——————o———— ‘Mrs. Holzheimer Named President 0f Demo Women New Officers Are Named at Meeting of Club Monday Night Mrs. William A. Holzheimer was named president of the Democratic Women's Club of Gastineau Chan- nel at its meeting at the Governor's House last night. Other officers elected for the re- mainder of 1938 are Mrs. Walter A. | Hellan, first vice-president; Mrs. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can| 97%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 337%, Bethlehem Steel | 56%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 45%, er 57%, Central 18%, Southern Pacific 17%, United States Steel 57%, Safeway Stores 19, Pound $4.87%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 138.44, up 146; rails 27.76, up .20; utilities 19.80, up .39. International Harvest- | Kennecott 39%, New York | 1500 FEET UP Two Cadet Pllots, Bot Young Men, Hurtled to Death in Texas SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Aug. 16.— death. ‘Modesto, Cal, and Robert Kempser Whitehouse, 21, of Evanston, Il 1 | Two Army planes from Kelly Plend, ‘coulded 1,500 féet in the air near Government Air Squadrons not only | | Dilley, hurtling two cadet pilots to| oy tn Tncuspens pianes on equnl Fighting Troops Are Shelled HENDAYE, Spamsh - F‘!ench Frontier, Aug. 16.—Radio advices | received here report that Spanish | Govetnment and Insurgent war Lplanes are battling viciously for the upper hand in the 22-day blistering | battle in Ebro River Valley, South- [em Catelonia Province. Three apparently reorganized | terms’ but are adopting Insurgent Edward Delancey Willard, 22, of| tactics, bombing and machine gun- ning the invading troops on the ground, !now is on the way toward a history- | | making anti-trust battle. Group Health, counseled by the Twentieth Century fund, an en- dowed research organization, of- ! fered its members hospitalization and full medical and surgical care| for this small monthly sum. It was | altogether a voluntary organiza- | tion but in a few months, 2,500 Fed- |eral employees had joined. These, with their families, amounted to 6,000 potential patients. The District (of Columbia) Medi- | cal Society, an AMA affiliate, promptly attacked the plan as lead- ing toward the compulsory medical The Medical Society fook steps.| It threatened expulsion of the dozen | | or so. physicians employed in the group health clinic here. Expulsion | is truly serious for a physician. Fur-| ther, the hospitals, following the| pattern of the physicians practicing in them, declined to permit Group Health physicians to operate in| them. That was a sore handicap. To ful- fill its oblizations, Group Health, had to call on “outside” physicians at regular fees for needed surgery| for their members since G-H phy-| (Continued on Page Five) | | But report is that fair members|Oscar G. Olson, second vice-presi- of the Commission office staff are|dent, and Mrs. Kenneth Junge and considering bringing charges|Mrs. Alice Coughlin, re-elected sec- gznmt wildlife Agent White. After | retary and treasurer. n intense search for the “Fatuliva| Elected to the executive board erd" in many wild life books, it de-|were Mrs. Charles Fox, Mrs. Wil- veloped that the “Fatuliva eggs,”| llam T. Mahoney and Mrs. Dolly all four white and shiny, were ping | Krause. Other members of fhe ex- | pong balls which Howard Hughes,| ecutive board, which is meeting at | famed round-the-world flier, leftat| the home of Mrs. Holzheimer Fri- Fairbanks on his recent flight when | day night, are Mrs. J. J. Connors, he left duffle behind to lighten his Mrs. Crystal Snow Jenne and Mrs. {plane for the speed run into New:'l‘heodore Hellenthal. Included as | York. | board members are all officers of “Real souvenirs, and they won't|the organizations. be used in any ping pong games this Mrs. Holzheimer succeeds Mrs. E. winter,” was the final verdict. H. Kaser as president of the club. FOR PROPOSES EXTENSION OF SECURITY ACT Mention of Representative Lewis Is Seen at Move Against Sen. Tydings WAGNER, HARRISON, DOUGHTON PRAISED Presxdent Urges Liberaliza- tion of Old Age Insur- ance, Other Features WASHINGTON, Aug. 16— President Roosevelt in a pre- pared statement today made a sharp attack on Senator Tyd- ings of Maryland and Repre- sentative O’Connor of New York, both of whom opposed some administration legislation. The President read to report- ers an editorial from the New York Post which he said now could be regarded as a state- ment from him. The editorial described O’Connor as “one of the most effective obstruction- ists in the lower House.” It was entitled “Why President Inter- feres.” WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—Presi- dential - praise for Representative David Lewis as a social “seeurity | pioneer received interpretation here |as a boost to his campaign to unseat Senator Tydings of Mary- land. President Roosevelt referred |to Congressman Lewis last night lat the end of his radio speech in |advocating extension of the Social Security Acz which the Legislator, dra The Prealdent named Congress- man Lewis, Senators Wagner and Harrison and Repruenuuve Dough- ton, saying: “They deserve and !have the gratitude of all of us for this service to mankind.” Lewis quickly followed up the President’s address with a radio speech of his own to Maryland | voters in which he criticized Tyd- ings as merely voting ‘“present” |when the Senate passed the Social Security Act. The President in his remsrh ex- pressed the hope that the next Congress would extend and improve the social security program, now |limited to old age pensions and unemployment insurance, and men- tioned as possibilities provision for medical service, liberalization of old age insurance and inclusion of ad- | ditional groups of citizens in the | program. 40 Million Effected Five years ago, the President said, Social Security was & new term in this country, but today it effects forty million Americans, or approxi- mately a third of the population. A million seven hundred thousand old folks are being cared for, he said, and many workers are being afforded the service of unemploy= ment insurance. In the short five years much has been accomplished, he pointed out, adding “but if the reactionary element had been chosen social se- curity would still be a visionary Declaring that the hazards of life are today more complex “under our complex civilization,” the Presi- dent declared that provision must be made for protecting the weak as well as the strong. The millions living in poverty are being “drained of self confidence and self respect,” he said, and it is increasingly dif- ficult for many to lay the founda- tion of security, thus the need for St e SRS A R B2 (Continued on Page Eight) el i BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of base- ball games played this afternoon in the two major leagues as re- ceived up to 2 o'clock: National League Cincinnati 0; Pittsburgh 10. Brooklyn 7; New York 3. Boston 6; Philadelphia 7. American League New York 16; Washington 1. Philadelphia 14; Boston 11, |