The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 8, 1938, Page 1

R e TR o 1 e g TR | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII, NO. 7892. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'CENTRAL EUROPEAN WAR TENSION EASES Chinese, Japanese Battle on Yangtze MISS H. JONES SEVERE FIGHT KEEPS RAGING CENTRAL CHINA Japanese Spokesman Makes Claim Defenders Have Lost Heavily POSSESSION OF RAILROAD IS AIM Two Transportation Sys- tems Are Now Goal of Invaders SHANGHATI, Sept. 8—The Japa- nese Army Headquarters said fight- ing on the southern bank of the Yangtze River that has been raging since August 19, has cost only 2,300 Japanese lives but 25,000 Chinese casualties. Severe fighting continues in that sector. The Japanese spokesman declares the Japanese troops have advanced steadily toward the vital Peiping- Hankow Railroad after occupying Jushin, 90 miles east of the line in Honan' Province. The Chinese Central Govern- ment troops are moving in front of the Kieukiang-Nanchang Rail- road in an effort to block the Japa- nese drive on Nanchang. GEN. FRANGO MAY RESIGN, SPANISH WAR T Rumors Circulated Media-| tion May Be Outcome | of Civil War | PARIS, Sept. 8—Spanish In- | surgent representatives here | flatly deny reports that Gen. Francisco Franco, Insurgent leader, might resign in favor of some one who can lead who is | favorable to mediation. | It is admitted however he has not been as successful in the Civil war as he should be with the unlimited resources at his command. R LATIN AMERICA LABOR IN LINE ON2PROPOSALS Thirteen Nations to Fight | | | | ing, War on Fascism MEXICO CITY, Sept. 8. — The | dent was also notified at Hyde Park \Carrymg gasoline to Barcelona andf new Federation of Workers of Latin America are pledged to fight Fas- cism and also to fight for the right| of labor to strike for collective bar-| gaining. These steps were taken at a meet-\ ing here of representatives from thirteen Latin American countrics. B YRR 35 T | { PELAE et ek L) o STocK QUOTATloNS \ NEW YORK, Sept. 8. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can| 98'2, American Light and Power 4%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel | 59, Commonwealth and Southern| 1%, Curtiss Wright 5, General Mo- tors 48'%, International Harvester 61%, Kennecott 40%, New York Central 182, Safeway Stores 18%, Southern Pacific- 18%, United States Steel 59%, Pound $4.82%, Bremner‘ no bids asked 2. i DOW, JONES AVERAGES | sicians, TO WED DALL Katherine Miller Leas (ahove), whose engagement to Curtis Dean Dall, was announced by her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Don- ald Stewart Leas of Haverford, Pa. Dall is the former husband of Mrs. Anna Rooseveit Boet- tin daughter of President and Mrs. Roosevel AP Photo. To Operate Umm James Roosevelt At Mayo Clinic : Son and Personal Secretary to President to Go Under Knife ROCHESTER, Minn., Sept. 8. ! Mayo Clinic doctors announce that| James Roosevelt, son and personal| secretary of President Roosevelt, DIES, RESULT AUTO ACGIDENT ; = = | #{ Mrs. John W. Jones, Wife Delegate Will Be Heard at! of Juneau Business Man, Is Still Unconscious PUYALLUP, Wash,, Sept. 8.—Miss | Harriet Jones, 53, of Buckley, Wasn,, died in a hospital here as | the result of injuries received when the car she was driving, skidded on a wet pavement and overturned in a ditch four miles north of here on the Sumner-Dieringer Highway, last Sunday Also critically injured in the ac- cident was Mrs. John W. Jones, of Juneau, wife of a prominent mer- chant there, and sister-in-law of the dead woman. Mrs. Jones suf- fered a skull fracture and has re- mained unconscious since the acci- dent. Jones received only minor injur- ies but remained in the hospital to be near his wife and sister. The three were taken to the hos- pital soon after the accident. PIONEER IS LOST FOR 3 DAYS, NIGHTS Veteran Jack Hawthorne, Mayo District, Found by Searchers MAYO, Y.T. Sept. 8.—Suffering | from exposure after belng lost for three ¢ and nights in the| bush countr; above Middlecoff Camp on Highet Creek, Jack Haw- thorne, prospector and pioneer sil- er mine operator on the Mayo dis-| trict, has been found and brought to the hospital here by miners searching for mm SEVENTEEN TEEN DIE IN HOLOCAUST, - SPANISH WRECK : will undergo an operation next week Passenger T r aln CO“IC‘CS for a gastric ailment. | Roosevelt started a hospital diet| today in preparation for the op-| eration, | Mayo Clinic physicians said re- | sults of treatments for a small gas-‘M least 17 persons are known l.o‘ “rather disappoint-|phave died as fire burned wooden | tric ulcer were ing” and it was then suddenly de- cided to operate. The decision was | practically made by Mrs. Roosevelt, first lady of the land, who came here after cancelling plans to re- would be performed and the Presi- — e LABOR BRIBE CHARGE MADE BY UNION MAN Hundred Thousand Dollars | Put Up to Avoid Strike, It Is Alleged LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 8—A $100,000 movie labor bride is charged‘ against Joseph M. Schenck, Presi-| dent of the Association of Motion | Picture Producers, by Jeff Bybre,| Chairman of the Film Technicians | Committee. The comy the National Labor Relations Board | and said Schenck paid a bribe to| with Gasoline Truck— Explosion Occurs PERPIGNAN, France, Sept. 9.—| coaches of a railroad train on the outskirts of Gerona, Spain, when | the train collided with a gasoline- ‘laden truck. ’ Explosion resulted when the col- turn east. Shortly after the confer | ision occurred and many victims 1 |ence between mother, son and phy-| died as they fought to escape the fOI' CO"CC“VC Bargaln | Dr. George Eusterman L“‘flames which immediately engulfed | sued a bulletin that an operation gerailed passenger cars. The truck was part of a convoy collided with the passenger train at a road crossing. The two occu- | pants of the truck fled, fearing ex- plmxon and two occupants of an- er truck, believimg them pinned | lin the wreckage of their truck went forward to help, only to meet al- | most instant death as a sheet of burning gasoline ‘burst over them with a roar that was heard fifteen miles away. Bartels Batk In Vancouver Complele Tnp to Skagway, Return in Sixteen- Foot Sloop VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept. 8— Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Bartels are laint has been filed with | Rlgiat o ed With |, ek in Vancouver after a 2400- mile trip to Skagway in a 16-foot The following are todsy’s Dow,|a union official to prevent 12,000 S00P. They left here on June 4, ar- Jones averages: industrials 142.19, down .89; rails 27.56, down .32; utili- ties 19.19, down .27, movie employees organizing for col-| lective bargaining under the Wag- | ner Act, rived at Skagway on July 9 and started on the return trip south from Skagway on July 11. DIMOND RALLY AT COLISEUM FRIDAY, 8 P.M. Democratic Meeting ‘ Here Tomorrow Residents of Juneau and the Gastineau Channel area will rally in the Coliseum Theatre tomorrow night to hear Dele- gate Anthony J. Dimond in his second public appearance in Juneau this summer to give a summation of his activities in Washington and to outline his plans for Alaska progress in the future. The program is being spon- sored by the Democratic Divi- sional Committee and is sched- uled to start promptly at 8 o’clock with National Commit- teeman J. A. Hellenthal presid- s al Chairman M. E. Monagle said today. The Delegate, who is in the southern end of the Division, is returning to Juneau tomor- row after a visit to various communities in the prior to the general election | | next Tuesday. His public ap- | pearance tomorrow night will be his second here this sum- | mer. He appeared on the Am- : erican Legion program in the | ball park Fourth of July. 1 - Hot Leads Are | plain' the French s French troops are shown in maneuvers French Troops March Not Far from Border -not far from the point where the French, Swiss and German borders meet—marching along near Valdahon, France, as France instructed her ambassadors to make and against any German aggression in Czechoslovakia, part of the French war games in the Basancon region and involve act The Valdahon maneuvers are y by 30,000 crack troops. This picture was flown to London and transmitted by radio to New York.—AP Photo. - Developing in Kidnap_ingcase Two Groups of Three Men Each Sought in Mrs. ‘ Meeks Abduction ALASKAN SUES MINISTER FOR SUM OF §23,000 [Charles Wheatley Alleges| Pastor Offiler Butted in on Love Affair | | | | | | | | MARYSVILLE, Cal, Sept. 8. ‘SP\(’rnl hot leads from various| | sources kept heavily armed omcvrs |on a constant search of roads and hlllv country in the hunt for the| pers of Mrs. Willlam Meeks, | a ranchers wife who finally ! caped from her abductors after held | for 48 hours and returned to her home. Being blindfolded all of the time| SEATTLE, Sept. 8. Charles | held in captivity, Mrs. Meeks is| wheatley, middle - aged Alaskan | able to only give slight clues as to gold prospector, has filed a second | her abductors, but two groups, of sujt in the Superior Court in an | three men each, are sought in par- ticular. os- | William Offiler, Patsor of Bethel /M \Temple, on the grounds the pastor NAZI YOUTHS | GET EXCITED Jingoistic Cards Are Now Contained in Cigar- 1 ette Packs fiancee, Bertha Keck. case. The first case ended last |di June when Attorney Lincoln Tyler | presenting t.he evldence Lmlenages Book vorite pictures are of a military| characters. These cards started with war- Littlepage and Demaree Bess, is| {off the press and first copies have | 2 " |been received in Juneau by the| ships and war planes of all nations, | , \yy,or from the publishers, Har- German army ‘umrorms and lélpricuurt, Brace and Company, centered on military action """‘”"York One series of these cards pictures % | the World War from beginning to end. Captions on the back of the cards describe the pictures, With the scene shifting from the | front in France to Russia, from the‘ Italian front to the Balkans and to Palestine, the series touches—| s neau very shortly and as it is writ- ten by a wellknown Juneauite, | prove a ready seller. thi war. The part played by the Germans | |is glorified, and the grim aspects of the war are not shown. Only a small ing for Stalin. - - {in COUPLE WED HERE | Nick Giatros, employee of war. All gory features appear be taboo, to|day by the U. S. Commissioner, Felix Gray. |- purchased |turned the affections of Wheatley's |general perienced flag officers, determines specifjcations Littlepage, as the American en-,Was | gineer, tells what he saw and mdlullow the losses of one year to be {15 JapuBly = o sil nhoses:iof thia) | during the ten years of gold min- carried over for the next succeed- ing income taxable year in determ- number of pictures give a|Alaska Juneau, and Mattie Kasko|g)) hint of the realities of modern|of Angoon were married late yester- gions of the Walsh-Healey act of Buying a Battleship for U. S. Takes a Lot of Bookkeeping y CHARLES EDISON (Assistant Secretary of the Navy) (Guest Columnist for Preston Grover) WASHINGTON, Seut. 8. |involved reaches $50,000,000 the re- sponsibility is definitely great. But when the $50,000,000 or more is to be used to purchase a battleship there is a dual responsibility—~first to see that the public gets a dol- lar's worth of ship for each dollar of the purchase price, and second, to be certain that the battleship | the desirable | characteristics to make it of max- {imum_usefulness in the defense of | |effort to win $25,000 from the Rev. our country throughout its 26 or has all ore ye: of service, This responsibility is divided. The ex- board, composed of Wheatley's first action was based |the characteristics which includes on the same grounds as the present |tonnage, armament, cruising us, speed, vulnerability, etc. The technical bureaus study the obtained a voluntary nonsuit be- |general board characteristics, work rore Superior Court Judge Roger UP general and detalled specfica- Meakim after the court ruled prev- | tions, provide plans and conduct iously against Tyler on matters of Various tests in the model basins, at the boiler and other laboratories, /in ordnance plants and in outside | commercial plants. This work crys- |talizes in the form of plans and which are furnished In the actual buying of a battle- |ship the basic law which governs |+ the Vinson-Trammel act |March 27, 1934. In any contract in New‘excess of $10,000, this law provides for reports in detail to the Secre- The book will be on sale in Ju-|tary of the Navy on costs and for payment the | Profits in excess of 10 per cent on | narrative, starting off with scenes the contract price. It further pro- and incidents laid in Juneau, should | Vides against subdivision to avoid The act into the Treasury e restrictions of the act. amended June 24, 1936, ing excess profit, if any. In addition to the Vinson-Tram- the \mel act, there are incorporated in building contracts the provi- — The | | expenditure of any public money is | a responsibility. When the amount ra- River HITLER MAKES MOVE TOWARDS - SAVING PEACE Sudeten Protector Orders Negotiations with Czechs Renewed HIGH BRITISHERS ASSEMBLE, LONDON French Strengthen Defenses with More Planes and | Army Experts BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 8.—The Brifish Cabinet has been summoned to a special session Monday, a few hours | before Hitler is expected to make a speech at Nurnberg and tell Europe what to expect, war or peace, over Czechoslovakia. Hitler’s speech is scheduled to be the climax of the Tenth Na- | =zl Congress. BULLETIN—PRAGUE, Sept. 8.~—Sudeten German officials declare there is no prospect of renewed negotiations with the Government until the whip- ping of a Sudeten German leg- islator is explained. BULLETIN—PARIS, Sept. 8. ~The French Ministry has can- celled all leaves for Army and Air Corps officials and men and cancelled all leaves of men of the Atlantic fleet. The fleet has started loading munitions and food supplies for 60 days. This | has heightened the European 'FRISCO STRIKE SEES VIOLENGE; Police Act when Workers Go Through Picket Lines for Second Day in Row SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, Sept. 8. —Violence characterized by slug- ging and hair pulling by men and women pickets respectively marked this morning's opening of two big stores in the Retail Clerks' strike against 35 leading department stores. Seven arrests were made and two persons were treated for injuries. Disturbances were quieted by po- lice at The Emporium, this city's |largest department store, and at |Hale Brothers. The scene today was similar to the turmoil yesterday at the start |of the walkout. Five pickets were booked on charge of refusal to |“move on” at The Emporium. Patrolman George Badger picket Herman Eimer, once ar- rested, obtained his release on bail and returned to the picket line, iwhere he felled Louis Byers, Em- porium buyer, with a blow to the BERLIN, Sept. 8.—Cards inserted the prosm tive bidders several side of his head that cut Byers' in packs of cigarettes are catching | Is Nflw 0ff Pras months in advance of bid openings, |ear. He was again arrested and | | the fancy of German youths now. [to enable them to make proper booked on a more serious chnrge | At first the cards were on such| | estimates. with large bail demanded. | innocent subjects as flags, auwm,-i o >3 PIRLCEE.I —_— - | n Search nf Soviet Gold,” the i % 2 | biles, and sports; but now the fa- book written by John (Jack) D.| BUYING A BATTLESHIP e | ! BASEBALL TODAY || st abbat il | of The following are scores of base-| ball games played this afternoon in the two major leagues as re- ceived up to 2:15 o'clock from the Associated Press: National League Chicago 7; St. Louis 4. Boston 4; New York 6. American League New York 4; Boston 0. Detroit 4; Cleveland 1. Philadelphia 2; Washington 5. - >-ee - McDONALD COMING Regional Forest Inspector W. J. McDonald has left Fairbanks for Kenai, Seward and Cordova where he will visit before coming to his of to (Continued on Page Seven) headquarters in Juneau. SEVEN ARRESTED said | tension. (By Associated Press) Adolf Hitler today ordered Sude- | ten German leaders to renew nego- tiations with the Czechoslovakian ‘govemment after the break in au- tonomy conferences had given Eu- rope its sharpest war scare and | severest tension in weeks. Hitler, self-styled protector of | Budeten Germans in Czechoslova- | kia, ordered negotiations suspended yesterday. It is said he changed his mind because of his desire to con- vince the world he is leaving noth- ing undone in an attempt to find a peaceful solution of the crisis: There was evidence however that | German patience with both British and Czechoslovakian peace-making efforts was at an end. Alarm was apparently becoming more intensified in London and Paris as the British “inner cabinet” —Premier Chamberlain, Sir John Simon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Viscount Halifax, Foreign Sec- retary—assembled in London. British labor has demanded that Parliament be summoned as soon as possible, while closer to the troubled zone, the women of Lor- raine prayed for peace as 350,000 French soldiers manned the Magin- ot Line of sunken fortresses facing Germany on the Prench frontier. French air strength has been re- |inforced and the FPrench Army's High Command has been jockeyed about to put military experts in the German-French frontier zone. {GRIGSBY CONTINUES | CAMPAIGN TRIP TO SOUTH OF DIVISION George B. Griuby, independent candidate for Delegate to Congress, | was a passenger aboard the Bar- ‘anol to Juneau last night from the | Westward. Mr. Grigsby continued on the Baranof to Ketchikan. For the last ten days Mr. Grigsby, who was accompanied on his trip | by Mrs. Grigsby, has been cam- paigning in the Interior and In | Westward towns. e e— HELD ON BURGLARY COUNT | Charged with burglary in a dwell- | ing, Billy Young and Tom Short- | ridge, natives, are being held in the | Pederal jail following their arrest last night by city police. The men are alleged to have entered the room of Ben Jackson in the Keystone rooming house and taken $23 and a pen set, District Attorney William A. Holzheimer said.