The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII, NO. 7877. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ipindl - s CLIPPER MAKING 2ND JUNEAU FLIGHT U.S. SENATOR WILL FLY HERE BY PAA SUNDAY Reynolds in Fairbanks— Artives Tomorrow After Long Alaska Trip FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 20.— United States Senator Robert R. Reynolds, Democrat of North Caro- lina, returning from the Arctic-Al- {Anothcr Jewel Theft ’ aska cruise aboard the Coast Guard | cutter Northland as far as Point Barrow and Wainwright, where he hunted walruses and surveyed stra- tegic and other conditions, arrived in Fairbanks from Nome last night. He probably will leave here by plane Sunday morning for Juneau and hopes to reach Seattle at the earli- | ! est possible date and hurry east to|k address the convention of the Order | of Moose of which he is Commander. | For Tourist Trade Senator Reynolds ardently advo- cates the International Highway and a comprehensive plan to divert a big share of America’s annual five billion dollar tourist business to Al- aska; adequate National defense for Alaska, which Territory he declares is the most exposed strategic cen- ter. Senator Reynolds declares he will inform Congress of the tremendous importance of Alaska and urge speedy development of a defensive program, also tourist and economic resources. National Playground Senator Reynolds says Alaska should be made a National Play- ground instead of the reported sum- mer land of ice and snow. He said he found verdant land, marvelous growth and many other features to attract tourists both summer and winter. - Today Senator Reynolds is in-| specting the proposed United Statos Army Air Base site, University of Alaska, commercial airport and ma- jor gold mining operations. - Keep Him Down? Not One Bit MANDEVILLE, La., Aug. 20.—A veteran employee of the Gulf, Mo- bile and Northern railroad, despair- ing of ever becoming a railroad magnate, decided to build his own line. It took Sidney J. Thibodaux two years to finish what he calls the shortest standard gauge railroad in the world. It is only 500 feet long but it is complete with 60-pound rails and standard ties, switches, lamps, semaphores and telegraphic service, Thibodeaux, station agent here for the G. M. and N. with 48 years’ railroad experience, is 65 years old. He built his own railroad, called the Mandeville Northern, as a hob- by for $1,200. Rolling stock of the Mandeville Northern consists of a handear powered by a gasoline engine and a small flatcar. Schedules on week- days are accommodated to traffic, Thibodeaux’s half dozen grand- children and their little friends. A regfilar schedule is followed on Sat- urdays and Sundays. MARSHAL BRINGS TWO PRISONERS TO FEDERAL JAIL Deputy Marshal Walter Hellan flew to Sitka with Marine Airways Mrs. Orson D. Munn Theft of $30,000 in jewels from the Southampton, L. I, home of Mrs. Orson D. Munn, former Ziegfeld Follies beauty, adds an- other sizable burglary commit- ted in New York suburbs in the last month. The jewels were gifts presented to Mrs. Munn by her husband as an anniversary present last April. JOHNSON PARTY LEAVES IN BIG AMPHIB. PLANE Flight Made Over Gustavu Where Possible Air- base Site Exists § The $43 Army plane has left Ju- neau with the two Colonel Johnsons, Louis Johnson and J. Monroe John- son, Assistant Secretaries of War and Commerce. | That much is definite. At 7:50 o'clock this morning the | plane hopped off for Fairbanks, found weather poor, turned about, and started for Anchorage — but found weather poor again and re- turned for more gas—then left once more—presumably for Fairbanks. On the first flight out this morn- ing, the party flew over Haines and Skagway where they found the | | passes to the Interior blocked by low | | hanging clouds. Turning back, the| plane was then headed down Lymn| | canal and out Icy Straits as far as| | Cape Spencer, where weather again | looked poor. | Returning to Juneau, more gas was taken aboard, and shortly be- 1fore noon the party took off once | more, “4s though they were going | to Fairbanks,” one observer re- marked. } While making this morning’s | flight out Iey Straits, observations | were to have been made for a pos-! | sible Army airbase on the broad| beach meadows at Gustavus, at the| ! mouth of Glacier Bay. | Much interest was evinced by Army pilots and the Colonels alike CHINESE HAVE JAPAN FORCES SITTING BACK Every Offensive of Invaders Checkmated—Nippons Make No Denials SHANGHAI, Aug. 20. — Chinese sources declare that Japanese of- fensives have been checkmated on all fronts, ® It is insisted that guerilla bands in the Shantung Province are harass- ing the Nipponese constantly. It is also said that regular forces have won a smashing victory ove: the Japanese forces seeking to d embark west of Kiukiang and the Japanese rushed back to positions, It is also claimed the railway trackage in Shansi Province, re- cently repaired by the Japanese, has again been destroyed, prevent- ing either troop or war munition movements. | Surprisingly, none of the claims| made by the Chinese sources have been officially denied by the Japa- nese spokesmen here or elsewhere. — e | INSURGENTS IN SPAINCLAIM BIG VICTORY Government Forces Make Emphatic Denial on Franco’s Advances | | HENDAYE, Prench - Spanish| Frontier, Aug. 20.—Dispatches from Insurgent sources claim a major victory in the important offensive south of Gandesa. The reports claim that 5,000 Loy- | alists have been captured and other | thousands killed | Bulletins from Barcelona state the | Government lines held against the assault and denied that the Franco forces have gained an inch. Heavy preparatory bombardments on all fronts indicate that Gen Franco plans large scale attacks. Air raids over Barcelona have taken an estimated 150 lives. e S g i S0 LABOR LAW T0 BE CHANGED IN SOME RESPECTS William Green, President Roosevelt in Conference —Complaints Made | S 1 HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 20.—| William Green, President of the | American Federation of Labor, said he and President Roosevelt “are in accord on the necessity of mak- | ing some changes” in the National | Labor Relations law. | Green conferred with the Presi- | dent at the latter’s home here, and said he called attention to com- plaints against the administration of the law by the Labor Board. Green did not outline details or changes proposed. HOLY LAND IS Swearing In the New'Air Control Board Harold M. Stephens, associate justice of the United States Court of Ap- peals, is shown at Washington, D. C., adminisicring the oath of office to members of the Civil Aeronautics Authority, the new board created by an Hitler's Gestapo Arrests British Passport Officer Sharp Note Sent Germany by Great Britain— Situation Strained BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. 20.— Capt. Thomas Kendrick, veteran British passport officer, mysteriously seized by German Secret Police, has been ordered ocut of Germany after an offi- cial German statement charg- ing him with conducting espion- age. Kendrick has been released and reported to have left for Vienna, LONDON, Aug.®20.—The British Government today informed Ger many that it “takes serious vie of the unexplained arrest of Capt. Thomas Kendrick, British passport officer, in Vienna. The British official was arrested by the Bestapo (German Secret Police) on the German-Swiss border last Wednesday as he and his wife were about to go over into Ger- many on a vacation. Mrs. Kendrick was allowed to retwrn to her home in Vienna, while Kendrick is believed held in the Hotel Metropole, Secret Police headquarters in Vienna. Foreign Office circles speculated as to whether or not Kendrick was arrested because he had granted more British visas to Austrian Jews than the German Government con- sidered as discreet. - Miss Hobbis Is Reigning Queen flnnig_c_uveryllay Dawson Celebrates Finding of Gold — Fairbanks’ Queen Also There DAWSON, Y. T., Aug. 20.—Miss Antonette Hobbis presided over the Antoinette Hobbis presided over the third and last day of Dawson’s an- nual Discovery Day celebration com- memorating the discovery of gold. She was crowned queen at the big dance. Miss Dorothy Murphy, Fair- bank’s ice carnival queen, was at- tendant. —,e—— IS RIDICULED BY . TOKYO OFFICIAL %Japan Refers to Speech as | “Idealistic Diplomacy” —Keep to War | TOKYO, Aug. 20.—The Japanese | Foreign Office has indicated that | Secretary Hull's seven-point pro- gram for “international order” would | receive no support from Japan. At ;Lhe same time, the government in- | tensified efforts to conquer China. | | The Foreign Office spokesman said the most important statement \in Hull's international broadcast {was that the United States could 'best previous record forstransport |not remain aloof from foreign con-} | flicts. He said the remainder of the |speech was a repetition of previous ;dm:lm‘a(ions, He referred to Hull as an “idealist” and to his speech ia “idealistic diplomacy.” | Fighting to Continue Meanwhile, the cabinet approved a broad program drawn up by five of the most important ministers to speed the campaign in China with | more drastic economic control at| home and greater pressure by arm- ed forces. The cabinet did not disclose de- tails of the program, but an official | announcement said the fighting would continue, until Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek's regime has been | crushed. This indicated the Japan- ese would try to smash farther in- land along the Yangtze River when and if Hankow falls. Word from Moscow The Foreign Office was awaiting word from Moscow of the disposi- tion of Japanese protest that So- | viet Russian troops had violated the truce which on August 11 ended the month-old Changkufeng incident on the Siberian-Manchukuoan border. | | The Japanese authorities are| watching closely the projected set-| tlement in the disputed sector by | a joint demarcation commission | with a “view to determining the | | Soviet attitude for future settlément |of all border problems of Man- chukuo and Korea.” | — | | FASCISTS AND - GATHOLICS ARE ~ NOWIN AGGORD act of Congress. Left to right, they are: Harlee Branch, vice-chairman; G. Grant Mason, Jr.; Oswald Ryan; Robert Hinckley and Clinton M, Hester, administrator of the authority. HULL PROGRAM Hughes Crosses ICKES PARTY Continent With New Uggen Mask Makes Record for Trans-| port Plane Speed on Research Flight NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Howard Hughes, flying his round the world plane, today made another record incidental to a research flight across the continent, winging from Los Angeles to New York without a stop to test a new type of oxygen mask at high altitude. Hughes made his flight in 10 hours and 34 minutes, beating the type planes by almost 30 minutes. He flew at an average altitude of 20,000 feet and averaged 238 | miles per hour. His time was about | three hours over his cross cuumry! racing plane record. Putting his plane down at Floyd | him over much of the Interior and Edward J. Noble, chairman; SAILS SOUTH ON SPENCER Secretary Discusses Small Boat Harbor with May- or During Stay Here After conferences with Gov. John W. Troy and various other govern- ment officials, Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes sailed last evening for the south aboard the Coast Guard cutter Spencer accompanied by Mrs. Ickes, completing a two weeks' trip in Alaska which took Westward as well as points in Southeast Alaska. During the afternoon, the Secre- tary took up with Mayor Harry I. Lucas the matter of the small boat harbor for Juneau and took with him all the information on the pro- ject and also the proposal which has been advanced to request the Bennett Airport at 7:56 a. m,| Hughes said the new type of light- | weight oxygen mask opens great| possibilities for future flights Bl‘ high altitudes. Hughes said: port operations will be conducted at altitudes of around 30,000 feet.| This is a good oxygen mask. It permits the pilot to breath oxygen | and air of the same density as that | at sea level and will do much to make high altitude flying ‘easy and | efficient.” Passengers Wwill nov be expected to wear masks, however, Hughes | explained. He said oxygen will be injected into the cabins of trans- port planes instead, the air auto- matically adjusting itself at dif- ferent altitudes. R 105 2 SR S0P GIVEN MINORITIES Attempt Is Being Made lol Settle Troublesome Czechoslovakia Case “Ultimately trans- | PRAHA, Aug. 20.—Premier Hod- za disclosed that the Czechoslova-| kia Government is to give choice| political plums in an attempt to pacify the clamorous autonomy seeking Sudeten German minority. The Premier made the disclosure at a conference with Viscount Run- ciman, unofficial British Medmwri in the troublesome minority issue. | | appropriation is made by Congress. | attle. |Confesses Poison ing Girl Public Works Administration to ad- vance to the War Department the $232,000 necessary for the undertak- ing with the provision that the lat- ter would reimburse the PWA when The Mayor reported the Secretary as questioning whether the latter action could be taken. He did, how- ever, assure the Mayor he would do what he could to get action on the Juneau project and suggested that the City follow up its requests to the War Department for early ac- tion. Before sailing at 7 o'clock last evening, the Secretary and Mrs. Ickes were guests at the Governor’s House. He was planning but one stop, at Metlakatla, enroute to Se- MINSTERIS | BIVEN LIFE IN MURDER CASE Whom He Had Wronged, Setting Parsonage Afire MANDAN, North Dakota, Aug. 20. —The Rev. Heio Janssen, 51, who confessed to the poisoning of Alma Kruckenberg, 16 - year -old house- maid at the parsonage, and burn- ing the parsonage in an effort to conceal the murder, was this morn- ing sentenced to life imprisonment. PAN AMERICAN SHIP HEADING FOR NORTHLAND First Air Express Shipment Is Aboard Plane that Is Alaska Bound WEEKLY SERVICE IS TO BE STARTED NOW Authority Granted by Bureau of Department of Commerce BULLETIN—The FPAA Alas- ka Clipper is scheduled to ar- rive in Auk Bay at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. The clipper left Ketchikan shortly before 3 o'- clock, according to a radiogram from the Ketchikan Chronicle, after refueling. There is ap- proximately 75 pounds of ex- press aboard for Juneau. BULLETIN — KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 20.—The PAA Clip- per landed here at 3 o'clock ihis afternoon (2 o'clock Juneau time), bringing 29 pounds of air express for Ketchikan. There are also express packages aboard for Juneau. The Clipper will continue north to Juneau this afternoon, hopping time in- definite. The baby clipper of the Pan American hopped off from Se- attle this morning at 8:45 o'- clock at 7:45 o'clock, local Ju- neau time, on the second test figiht between Seattle and Ju- neau via Ketchikan, The first air express shipment ever sent to Alaska from the United States is aboard the baby clipper according te District Manager R. O. Bullwinkel, in an Associated Press dispatch to The Empire. It is also stated that the Air Bureau of the Department of Commerce has granted author- ity after today's flight for a regular weekly express service to be maintained throughout the year, weather permitting.” Beginning next week the de- parture of the baby clipper from Seattle will be on Fridays and the clipper will leave Juneau on the southbound flight on Mon- days. The baby clipper will proba- bly land on arrival here this afternoon, weather permitting, on Auk Bay near Juhnkes, President of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, Charles W. Carter, will receive the first express pack- age off the Alaska Clipper this afternoon and several business houses in Juneau will be receiving the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, this morning’s issue. 8. Kauifman, Assistant to the Chief Enginecr of the Pan Ameri- can Airways s aboard the Alaska clipper and the crew is the same as on the previous trip except T, Donnelly is engineer. oo — BASEBALL TODAY | The following are scores of base=- ball games played this afternoon in the two major leagues as received up to 2:30 o'clock: National League Boston 3; Brooklyn 2. Pittsburgh 5; Chicago 2. Philadelphia 8; New York 7. Cincinnati 4; St. Louis 2. American League BATTLE SCENE; today, bringing two prisoners to the | in ajr field possibilities at Gustavus Federal jail. Joe Armstrong, who is| where Charles Parker, wellknown charged with the killing of Peter|pomesteader of that section, has Allard near Sitka recently, and | cleared a rough site for a landing Nick -Kitka, a native sentenced (0| fie]d, sérve six months and a fine of $200| Parker, who enlisted in th Ma- | on two counts for attempted assault| rine air force during the World War, | | | | | been bound over to the grand jury, regard to the Gustavus facilities,| = . |rived in Juneau. 'MA” DUDLEY IS |on my land and part of the land as just a nurse on the second floor vantageous in location.” as one of Spokane’s leading busi- be made into an airport with “a few ley will proceed to Spokane, Wash., “Forts at Inian Pass, farther out on the Straits, would command sea and drunk and disorderly, were the hag corresponded with War Depart- accused of slaying Allard during an | and talked at length with Army | “Pve got aout 3000 feet by 200 comc To SPOKANE | adjoining,” Parker said. “It’s as level at St. Ann’s Hospital. From now on| Parker said a level stretch a half ness women. thousand dollars expenditure.” where she plans to go into business (Continued on Page Seven) 65 ARE KILLED | Hundreds Reported Wound- ed in Clashes During Past Few Days l | JERUSALEM, Aug. 20—A fresh | battle between Great Britain's| scrappy Irish Guards and the kilt-| ed Scotsmen against the Arab guer- illa bands brought the total casual- | ty list of two days bloody fighting to 65 dead and hundreds wounded,‘ The first conflict occurred on the | Plains of Sharon and the second on the outskirts of the ecity near Acres. Sixty Arabs bit the dust in the Acre conflict and five on the Plains of Sharon. Pive British soldiers were wound- men brought to jail. Armsfgong has ment officials in Washington with altercation aboard a trolling boat. | pilots Wednesday when the S43 ar- | feet cleared off of brush and grass This was “Ma” Dudley’s last day|as Front Street and certainly ad- Mrs. George Dudley will be known mile wide and two miles long could Leaving here August 29, Mrs. Dud- for herself. ed eritically, |57, Commonwealth and Southern |friction between Fascism and the 4+ STOCK QUOTATIONS | | : i i : | Must Observe Certain NEW YORK, Aug. 20. — Closlng‘ Functlons, HOWCVCI’ oy o o i quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | . . stock at the short session today is| ROME, Aug. 20. — The Fascist P rsh"‘l v “ 10%, American Light and Power Party announces a new agree- e 5%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 'ment, ending the recently growlngi A . 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Catholic Action, lay organization | welmmfl m Pa"s Motors 48%, International Harvest- of the Catholic Church. | er 57%, Kennecott 40%, New Yorl The conference resulted in an| _ Central 18%, Southern Pacific 18%, agreement to conform to earlier| PARIS, Aug. 20.—Gen. John J. United States Steel 59, Pound $4.88. accords which permitted the Cath- %pe,sh,ng received a hearty welcome lollc Chureh Action to function in|today on his “homecoming” to DOW, JONES AVERAGES |Italy but only in religious and paris for a visit as chairman of The following are toddy’s Dow, spiritual matters. the American battle monuments Jones averages: industrials 141.20, ——ee—e—— | commission. rails 2845, utilities 19.79. | GETS BAUSAGE WREATH i —— e - — Ty ‘ | Y. T. SCHOOLS TO OPEN E. E. PETRO SUICIDES VANCOUVER—The only decora-| Emery E. Petro, 38, well-known in |tion to adorn the statue of Captain| The schools of Yukon Territory Fairbanks, recently sent two bullets | Vancouver, discoverer of the inlet|wil open Tuesday, September 6, the | into his chest and died a few hours lon which this city stands, was a day after Labor Day. R. Hulland, later in St. Joseph's Hospital at string of sausages on April Fool's|formerly of Whitehorse, will be Fairbanks, | Day. principal of the school at Dawson. larger communities will be given | the Sudetens. Lay Organization of Church, seven postmasterships in the| | | ened to tell Mrs. Janssen of her con- | dition. In the confession, the Rev. Jans- sen admitted the girl was pregnant and was slain because she threat- ‘The parsonage was destroyed by fire last Monday. B McAdoo Doesn't Fear Dictatorship LOS ANGELES, Aug. 20.—United States Senator Willlam G. Mec- Adoo, Democratic candidate for re- election, told a mass meeting that “President Roosevelt will not run in 1940 if he can find a good St. Louis 4; Detroit 6. Chicago 2; Cleveland 8. New York 11; Philadelphia 3. Washington 7; Boston 10. e S University of Alaska, PWA Grant, Approved PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 20— The Regional PWA office an- nounces it has approved of the application of a grant of $27,- 315 for a power plant at the University of Alaska. The total cost is to be $60,700. S Y ST DYERS PURCHASE GEORGE HOME ON GOLD BELT AVE. [— 1 liberal to be a tandidate.” Mr. and Mrs. Tom Dyer have pur- The Senator added that he is|chased the Wallis George home on “not in the least worried about the | Gold Belt Avenue. Thev will move in possibility of a dictatorship.” shortly.