The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 27, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LiI, NO. 7883. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CHINESE, JAPANESE IN DEATH BATTLE CAPT. EYSTON MAKES SPEED RECORD, AUTO Previous M;rIs Shredded as He Hits 347.49 Miles Per Hour BONNEVILLE SALT FLATS, 'AH, Aug. 27.—Capt. George E. T. Eyston, ef Great Britain, smashed the world’s automobile speed record to shreds and beosted his own mark to 347.49 miles an hour. His previous world mark was 31142, made last November. He made a re- cerd several days ago but his speed apparatus was broken by the heat and therefore no offi- cial recognition could be taken. Capt. Eyston roared through a measured mile in two direc- tions within an hour. Capt. Eyston laughed when he said: “I had a very comfortable ride. Not once did 1 feel there was any danger.” The Britisher hit 347.49 miles an heur en the outward jaunt and 34353 cn the return. Capt. Eyston said his car Thunderbolt, was by no means at full throttle on either run. The speed is the highest ever attained by man in an automo- bile. -ee FOSSILIZED RUMINANT IS FOUND ININT, Discovery ]?fieported by Hydraulic Miners, Lit- tle Eldorado Creek FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Aug. 27— An apparent prehistoric carcass of a fossilized ruminant, with hide and bones of the legs attached, has been discovered by hydraulic min- ers operating on Little Eldorado Creek. University of Alaska professors said possibly the prehistoric rumin- ant is a super bison that roamed the territory ages ago. | The ruminant will be shipped to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. ! Birl's Fate Cause Of Father's Death ST. LOUIS, Aug. 27.—Notified his daughter had been involved in tn accident, William Martin Forman, seventy-five, jumped into his auto- | mobile and started for the scene. | Before reaching it he collapsed over the steering wheel and died of a heart attack. His daughter, it was learned later, was uninjured. S Fake Coin Passer | ~ Fined 20 Cents 1Honeymoon Over—Work Ahead 1[]ESE[}RAT"]N Returning from their honeymoon in Bermuda, John Roosevelt and his sride, the former Anne Clark, of Nahant, Mass,, Boston. As soon as they get their house in order, John reports for work ‘n a Boston depurtn: OF CHINAIS | KNOWN FACT |Scorched Earth Policy of | Japan Is Eye-Witness- ! ed by A. P. Man 'VILLAGES ARE FIRED; | PEOPLE ARE HOMELESS Plows Rust in Fields as| Crops Run Wild— Scene of Desolation YUANSHIU, Shansi Province, Aug. 27.—An Associated Press Cor- | respondent found on a 1,200-mile journey on foot and horseback | through the mountainous western battle areas of the Provinces of Hopei, Shansi, Shohan and Shen- si, that Japan’s scorched earth pol- icy has reduced to ashes 40 walled towns and more than 800 villages. | There has been left behind scenes | iof death and desolation | The correspondent found that Ja- | pan’s scorched earth policy meant | burning every Chinese town and village. Previous reports of destruction | are pictured arriving in nt wore. Tl‘t.under Over Dutch Indies Brings Influx of U. S. Planes NENANAPOOL WINNERS ARE COING TO WED That Is, Miss Waters’ Moth- er Says Marriage to Ner- land Is Quite Certain SEATTLE, Aug. 27.—Chris Ner- land, Fairbanks carpenter, who won half of a $16,000 Nenana ice pool last May, arrived on the Aleutian and was met by Miss Vivienne Wa- ters, of Seattle who won the other half. She went to Alaska last spring to seek her fortune and joined with Nerland in making a guess on the “going out” of the Nenana ice. Miss Waters' mother said Nerland and her daughter plan to marry and go on a honeymoon to Ner- land’s native Norway. When discovered he was being interviewed, Nerland turned bash- ful and said his name was Nelson and Miss Waters said her name was Johnson. However they kissed familiarly | when they met at the bottom of the |rich tropical commonwealth think|sam Bob giggled like a school girl, gangplank. e SHOOT OFF TO DECIDE CHAMP TRAP SHOOTER were viewed skeptically but what | the Associated Press man saw and photographed has led to an unes- capable conclusion that Japanese destruction of Chinese homes ex- ceeds in magnitude the thorough- ness of anything that has ever oc-| curred. : In other China war areas the As- sociated Press correspondent saw dozens of villages in which not a| By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, sug. 27. — For many months the Netherlands East | Indies, that vast Dutch territory | south of China and centering on | Jaya, has been persistently buying military airplanes and other War supplies from the United States. Each month the totals have been recorded by the State Department which administers the arms ex- port licensing act, along with the‘ totals of other foreign sales. They show that this internationally ob- | scure region has bought more war | planes than perhaps any other | country except those actually at | war, China and Japan. | Anyone with a smattering of geographical and military knowl- edge could have surmised an ex-| planation. The islands, rich agri-| culturally and tremendously/ wealthy in oil, are nearer Japan than some parts of China. They lie| in a scattered huddle southward‘ from China across the equator. | | The total population is 60,000,- | 1000 of which 45,000,000 are sar- | single house was standing and no living persons, not even dogs re- mained. Plows stood rusting in sue | rounding fields while crops ran| wild. There are two million homeless in one part of Shansi Province. The Associated Press man was on | the road two months and crossed | the Japanese lines many times. | PR ) PrE—— | SAMBOB SEES | EMPIRE PLANT | { McKenzie Indian Giggles When Presses Turn | Out His Story Sam Bob, Mackenzie River Indian | Ledge Sitter’s Death Leap Foiled by Rescuers i Foiled in an attempt to plunge to her death after sitling ¢ a ienth floor window ledge, Noreen Leonard Macy, 24, was booked on a charge of intoxication in San Diego, Cal. The attr: ve young woman Wwas perched precariously on the ledge for almost an hour befcre a fireman and a civilian snatched her back 10 safety. Several times she threatened to leap, shouting at hundreds of spectators below, “Will you get out of the way? I don't want to hurt you.” Photo shows the woman as she sat on the ledge ten stories above the street. HAS CRITICISM Man Is Nailed | FOR ROOSEVELT, To Gross When ABOUT ESKIMOS NO SUGGESTIONS, Rafses Crng AS COMMUNISTS Wadsworth Is Republican|Former Convict, Attempt William Zimmerman, Jr., Keynoter at Corn- | to Go Straight, Assault- | Refutes Statement Made field Conference | ed by Underworlders | by Opponents—Coming WASHINGTON, Ind, Aug. 27—| RENO, Nev., Aug. 27.—Ed Collin.\’ SEATTLE, Aug. 27. — Willlam Representative James A. Wads-|27, former convict, was found|Zimmerman, Jr., Assistant Com- worth, of New York, today keynoted | stripped and crucified on a crude | missioner, United States Bureau of the Republican Cornfield Confer-|cross on the outskirts of the town. |Indian Affairs, is enroute to Juneau ence with the declaration that Lhe: Collins told the officers he met and Fairbanks, leaving here aboard Democratic Administration caused|two former underworld acquain- the Aleutian. the depression and was “gambling tances, known only as Joe and| Zimmerman told interviewers that with the fate of the Nation.” Swede, and they demanded that he the Government is not trying to The meeting opened the Repub- | accompany them on a series of rob- make Communists of the Eskimos. lican campaign in eleven midwest- | beries, ' “Our opponents say we are turn- ern states. Joe and Swede said: “All right,|ing the Eskimos into Communists Wadsworth also said that Presi- |you wanta be a little J—— C——,|whereas we merely are interested DENIES CHARGES | dent Roosevelt more than ever was | responsible for the second depres- | sion and declared that the Chief Executive’s Court we’ll make you one.” The two forced him to accom- pany them and he was nailed, hands in their living conditions. We are trying to make them self-support- ing. Housing is one of the prob- TERRIFIC DUEL RAGINGTODAY, ALONG YANGTZE RIVER SECTOR |Conflict Presages New Drive | Toward Hankow — Air- ;‘ craft, Gunboats, Infantry Massed for Attacks SHANGHAI Aug. 27— The Chinese and Japanese are en- gaged in a terrific artillery duel today in the Yangtze River Val- ley apparently presaging a re- newed Japanese drive to at- tempt to take Hankow before winter. Japanese aircraft and gun- boats, also infantry have joined in what one observer called the biggest offensive in the war. Terrific heat hampers the op- posing sides as the mercufy ranges up to 140 degrées. > LOYALISTS ARE HOLDING THER OWN, 2 FRONTS Pressing Advance Against Invaders—Insurgent Planes Captured HENDAYE, Spanish-French Bo. der, Aug, 27— panish Goys ernment claims the mflmurmf;ar'e- driving south from Peubla de Al- |cocer to Cascuera in an effort to cut off the Insurgent spearhead 1Lhrefitenmz the Almaden mercury | mines. | Five smail towns, have been taken by |in the advance. | The governmen! forces are hold- ing their own on the Ebro River |valley front. The Loyalists. claim 92 Insurgent |planes and 14 pilots have been cap- |tured 10 the past few months. The ‘planm when 10t too badly dam- |aged, are quickly repaired, repaint- ‘ed and sent into the air against | the invaders. ——————— | it is claimed, the Loyalists | dined on the island of Java, leav-| wno is seeing salt water and civili- | ing the vast remainder not thickly zation for the first time in his 55| populated — just a huge undevel-|years of life, last night saw his first | oped tropical empire. | newspaper plant when he was shown | Not until recently has there through The Empire while his story | |come to us a first hand opportu-|pecame type. | nity to learn what residents of this| When the presses started to turn, of their situation, but the oppor-|and when Mrs. Bill Strong, wife of | tunity has come and the result is|the riverman who employs Sam Bob communicated here. | in the Liard country, read Sam Bob | the story in The Empire, he giggled LOOKS TO BRITAIN | more. Beginning early in the thirties| He left The Empire with a bundle there was a feeling of a]a!:m of papers to take back to Lower among the Netherlands Indies at| post and headed for a store where the aggressive attitude of Japan in he could ™2y cups for his five | the Far East. This vast territory is | daughters in the *brush. | subject to tiny European Holland,| “I'm buy pretty cups with flowers | although it is a hundred times as|on 'em,” Sam Bob laughed, explain- large and its population several|ing, “T’ey drink wit tin cups. I take times as great. But obviously it|seal skin to show ’em t00.” plan |and feet to the cross made of fash- caused the setback. | ioned lumber stolen from a lumber Wadsworth failed however to yard. |the liquor situation, which Com- make an announcement of any cam-| Collins is recovering in a hospital, | missioner John Collier announced paign “spurt”. Neither did he an- doctors said, although his nail pe wil survey. nounce any plans to change things.| wounds are serious ones. | Secretary of Interior Harold L. | Collins was released on August 3|jckes made the charge that the ———— i“"m San Quentin Prison. whites were debauching the Indians | T R in Alaska by plying them with i nestm er Im | tigated by Ztmmerman. DELAYED AGAIN MEE [ Damaged, Battle FAIRGHILD OUT Alex Holden took the Marine Air- liquor and this would be inves- | g P { Juis Diez Cet UIS UIBZ bEIS | ways Fairchild to the Polaris-Taku Supreme lems.” Zimmerman did not comment on The Alaska Clipper, Pan Ameri- can Airways Seattle to Juneau Si- korsky amphibian plane, did not leave Seattle today for Juneau, but will make the flight tomorrow| morning, according to PAA agent Louis Delebecque. | Two Men Make 99 Out of MALONE, N. Y., Aug. 27.—Harry Ginsburg, New York City, is out 20 cents as a result of pleading guilty to two charges of attempting to pass counterfeit money. Ginsburg, in custody since spring, was fined 10 cents on each charge by Federal Judge Frederick H. Bry- ant, who said the fine was man- | datory. The defendant was placed on probation for a year. Farmer Finds Way To Get Into Jail AIKEN, S. C, Aug. 27. — Lloyd | Meyers, a farmer, could not pay his | government crop loan and decided | he ought to serve it out on the| county chain gang. County Jailer Frank Sorge said that could not be Meyers went to the crop | loan office and raised a ruckus| about the matter. He was jailed for | disorderly conduct. | - .- — Automotive exports from thej United States to Colombia rose| from $199,243 in 1932, to $3,489,860 | in 1936—an increase of 1,652 per-| cent. 100—Deciding Round Is Won 23 to 22 VANDALIA, Ohio, Aug. 27.—0. W. West, 46, of Coshocton, Ohio, won the Thirty Ninth Grand American handicap trap shoot here, defeat- ing Parr Rhines, 37, of Marseilles, TlMnois, 23 to 22 in the shoot off after they tied 99 of 100 in the regu- lar shoot. e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Aug. 27. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session is 10%, American Can 98%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Curtiss Wright 5%, International Harvester 59%, Ken- necott 41%, New York Central 19, Safeway Stores 187%, Southern Pa- cific 19, United States Steel 59% Pound $4.87%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 14195, down .99; rails 28.71, down .60; utili- ties 19.89, down .23. # | impetus to the Dutch Indies’ de- + | defense. General Motors 48%, | could not look to Holland for pro- | tection against a major first line | power in the Pacific. Instead, it has looked for years |to Great Britain for protection, |just as has Holland in Europe. | English trade, in return, has ex- acted favorable treatment in these |Indies as a sort of quid pro quo for the protection. It was not offi- cial but expected. It riled the Dutch. Further the British atti, tude of “hands off " displayed | when Japan first began sweeping in on China in 1931 and later, gave | sire to provide more of their own| They began buying a few bomb- | ing planes. Obviously this was the | best protection for a - territory| | sprawled in big and little islands| |over an oceanic zone far larger| than the United States. | The buying took on some im- petus in 1934 and 1935 and then | there arose, in May of 1936, a | strange crisis. ‘Early that month | there came a report to Dutch East | Indies’ officials that a Japanese | fleet of considerable size had left under sealed orders and was bound {for a_surprise invasion of this rich | territory to seize a desperately- needed source of oil. (Continued on Page Six) | And so with Empires, pretty cups with flowers on them, and a seal skin hide under his_arms, Sam Bob is going back into the deep brush of the Liard country with “lotsa tings to tell people what I see.” SIMMONS MAKES WINDHAM FLIGHT With four passengers aboard, Shell Simmons flew to Windham | Bay this morning in the Alaska Air Transport Fairchild 71. Passengers were N. B. Randall, Mrs. Randall, R. D. Sudman and William Tate. On the return trip, Shell was to bring in George Folta and Percy Reynolds from Lake Kathleen where they have been hunting. Last night, John Amundson flew five passengers ona glacier hop over Mendenhall and the ige cap. They were Dr. and Mrs. B. N. Hastings, Helen Campbell, Pauline Mestrezat, and Arlene Hastings. Also yesterday evening, Shell Sim- mons flew to Atlin with Roy Noland, Al Zenger, Clayton Gibbs and Eric Whiting, Weather was poor for the trip Loyalist Craft Makes Heroic mine today and picked up four pas- and the flight was delayed another 24 hours. Weather Man Says Attempt to Run In- | vader Gauntlet | . 3 A g = | liams, James O'Connor and D. W. Skies Will Drip | GIBRALTAR, Aug. 27.— The maggerty from Sitka. A Bit Sunda | Spanish Loyalist destroyer John| After returning from the Sitka un y Juis Diez, has been crippled in a trip, Holden then flew to Tyee for | two and one-half hour battle with| g charter trip with C. James of the Even knowing he will lose a lot|four Insurgent naval vessels. Sebastian-Stuart Fish Company. of friends, Meteorologist Howard J.| Twenty-two men aboard the Dicz B Thompson, Juneau’s weather man, | Were killed. predicts showers and cooler for| The ship was repaired recently Sunday. at Havre and was seeking to reach Thompson said today that the| Valencia but failed il running the eleven days of clear weather ex.:,gauntlet of Insurgent ships and perienced this month, seven of them | has put’in here. consecutive, have broken the record.| The destroyer put in here and| (ne two major I s as recei 3 | leagues as received And Thompson explained that 8Ppears to be badly damaged by up to 2 o'clojck: o “clear” weather means blue sky |the bow and in a sinking condition. National League sengers. Yesterday Holden brought in Mr. o+ l BASEBALL TODAY | The following are scores of base- | ball games played this afternoon in | | S | Boston 8; Cincinnati 1. ZENGER IN ATLIN New York 3; St. Louis 12. Al Zenger flew high and far last| i night, from Juneau to Atlin at an | Monte Pearson pitched a no-hit, no-run game against his former mons. Zenger is looking over his old stampede grounds today, according| SYDNEY, Australia, Aug. 27. —| Chicago 6, 0; Boston 19, 1. Detroit 12; Washington 11, returning late in the day to Juneau. pleasure craft will piace their| Incidentally he is looking for a|yachts and services at the disposal| In 1876 there were only 200 tele- with no more than 8/10 of it| R - Philadelphia 1; Pittsburgh 6. cloudy, from sunrise to sunset. Brooklyn 4; Chicago 1. YACHTS MA American League - Cleveland 7, 0; New York 8, 13. altitude of about 8,000 or more feet in a plane piloted by Shell Sim-!| Cleveland teammates. St. Louis 8, 6; Philadelphia 3, 5. to a radiogram, and intends to do|Under a scheme inaugurated by! the same thing tomorrow belore‘ Sydney motor yachtsmen, owners of | W “streak” or a “pocket” he claims|of the navy in the event of a na-|phones in Europe and 376 in tne to have lost years ago. tional emergency. | United States. and Mrs. Peter Williams, Hazel Wil- | SEINER SEARCH CONTINUES FOR MISSING CREW |Seven Men Now Believed to Have Been Aboard Vessel Eidsvold | An airplane, a Coast Guard cut- ter, seven seine boats and searching |parties ashore on Dall Island con- |tinued today to hunt for survivors |of the wreck of the seiner Eidsvold off Cape Lookout on the West | Coast. . Ketchikan Pilot Herb Munter flew over the area yesterday. The cutter Alert is still combing nearby waters. The Alert wired the cutter Haida |that clothing of crew members from |the Eidsvold and wreckage of the boat have been found, but no trace of survivors other than footprints on the beach leading into the woods as though some crew members at least, were trying to reach View |Cove and the limestone quarries op |the east shore of Dall Island. Footprints of “about four men"” | were found on the beach, but wire- |less reports received here spoke of “the seven men in the crew.” Lt. Stober, of the Alert, com- manding officer, said he believed the craft had either sunk or blown up. K One report received by short wavy radio last night said the captain of the crew of the Eidsvold hacy walked into View Cove camp, but no verification of this report has Miss Bernice Waugh is aboard the Aleutian for her Juneau home after spending the summer visiting her grandmother in Seattle. She will enter high school again next month,