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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7902. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS —————— CZECHS STALL; WAR DANGER INCREASES TRAIN CRASH KILLS TEN ON S, P. RAILWAY Forty Injured when Two Passenger Trains Tele- scope, [mperial Valley MANY PASSENGERS: TRAPPED IN STEEL Argonaut Shunts from Main | Line to Siding and Hits Californian LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 20.— Ten persons are dead and about 40 injured following the telescoping of | two Southern Pacific trains in the | Imperial Valley at the Tortuga switching point. 11 miles east of Niland. | The dead were identified as H.| R. Parsons, fireman on the west-| bound Argonaut; P. E. Martin, fire- man on The Californian; Robert N. Richardson, engineer on The Cali- all three from Los An- Mrs. J. A. Hall and Emma Hall, of Lomalinda, Cal.; Florence Tator, Rinebeck, New York. Besides the identified dead, there | are four unidentified women dead.| Most of the dead and injured| were aboard The Californian. | Officials said after a preliminary | examination that the tragedy was apparently caused by a faulty switch that shunted the Argonauf onto the siding where the Californ- jan waited for the Argonaut to pass on the main line. | Among passengers in the wreck | was J. H. Dyer, Vice President of the Southern Pacific who was unin- jured. Dyer took charge of rescue work and reported that rescue work was delayed by the fact that many passengers were trapped in the twisted steel of the heavy cars, necessitating the use of acetylene torches to cut through. | | | | | | | 100 INJURED LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 20.— Victims of the train h at noon today numbered 11 with 100 in- jured. The wreck is believed to have been caused by the sudden un- explained decision of a brakeman to “throw” a siding switch. C. F. Donnatin, Superintendent of the Los Angeles Division, said he blamed the wreck to “man fail- ure, the unexplainable act of Eric Leonard Jacobson,” head-end brake- man employed on the railroad for 18 years. Donnatin said Jacobson's act was a violation of “one of the most important rules of the service and that is, when one train is standing on a siding to allow another to pass on the main single line, the brakeman must not approach the switch and must stand no nearer than 20 feet.” Donnatin said Jacob- son is dazed and hysterical over his sudden decision to “throw” th2 switch and is unable to explain his TRAIN RESUMES OVER .. GOVT. RAILWAY, Four Days Interruption Ends—Col. Ohlson Re- turns for Rest ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 20.—’ The first train in four days since| floods wrecked the southern di- vision of the Alaska Railroad, left Anchorage for Seward with freight) yesterday afternoon. | Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Manager of the Government operat- ed railway, returned to his Anchor-| age home late last night after per- sonally supervising repairs and going witheut rest for 72 hours. — .- Hunter Hunted By Moose | —_— | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 20.—Dr. J. H. Romig, retired physician and former Mayor of Anchoerage, drove 200 miles on a moose hunt only to find on | his return that a moose hady grazed on his lawn during his absence. Dr. Romig lives in a ranch four miles out of Anchorage. CRITICAL TIMES crease the brows of French cabinet members, bent on steering natio foreground is Premier Edouard D tice minister. At the right is minister. Group was leaving inyp n past war-producing crises. In aladier, followed by Pierre Gen- ister for commerce; beyond Gentin is Paul Reynaud, jus- Georges Bonnet, foreign affairs ortant cabinet meeting in Paris. LECIONNAIRES New York City TAKE OVERIN | Truckers Still LOS ANGELES 40,000 March in Parade— “Apaches” Dance— “Hail”” Storm LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 20.— The might of the American Legion went on parade here in a display of power and color which was one of the highlights of the National | Convention Officials estimated there were 40,000 in the marching line as rep- resentatives of Legion posts in every State and from across the sea filed shoulder to shoulder. Planes of the Army Air Force participated in the marching cele- bration with formation flights over- head and acrobatics over the parade’s end at the Memorial Coli- seum. This booming California *metrop- olis has either. become host to the American Legion or vice versa, but | at any rate, ghe boys of the Legion | have taken over. One group of playful Legion rep- resentatives appeared in war dance downtown dressed only in G-strings and danced harder when firecrack- landed in their midst. Yesterday afternoon a “hail”| shower startled downtown pedes- trians when pan after pan of ice windows | several cubes rained out of the of a downtown hotel for minutes. One Legionnaire rolled up in his where they will board the chartered Creek an blankets on a busy street car track to spend the night and refused to move, tying up traffic for hours. Other Legionnaires got out buck- R. Fahr and son John of Meadville | three- ets of paint and with brushes in p. " Gho have chartered the yach(‘by water. passing automo- | Nooua They will go aboard the Noo- | hand, decorated biles. Los Angeles will these Legionnaires. never forget AFL UNION MAN SHOT.TO DEATH ST. LOUIS, Sept. 20. — Arthur! Schading, business agent for the| AFL Electrical Workers Union, was shot to death last night as he left his union’s headquarters. | Witnesses said two men dressed in dark- and shabby suits with hats | pulled over their eyes fired on| Schading as he came down the steps, then bolted to a car with the engine running and made their escape. o7 B | The vatican at Rome is the larg-| est residence in the world. Tt con-[ i tains several thousand rooms, Hold to Strike Three Thousand Jeer Down All Peace Proposals at Mass Meeting NEW YORK, Sept. 20. — More than three thousand truckmen at a story meeting Jast night howled down attempts of city officials and union leaders to halt the several days old trucking strike. The men, whose strike has crip- pled this city’s truck transport business for over a week, jeered every proposal for a truce. TWO FISHING PARTIES ARE ON COLUMBIA Both Leave Steamer at Pet- ersburg to Go Aboard Chartered Yachts KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 20.— Alfred Weames and wife of San Francisco, are aboard the steamer Columbia bound for Petersburg yacht Caroline for a three weeks' fishing cruise. Also aboard the Columbia are C ya at Petersburg and enjoy fishing and hunting for three weeks in Southeast Alaska. Both parties will return to Seattie aboard the yachts, Storm Warning Signglg Hoisted Hurricane of Great Intensity Expected to Rage Off North Carolina JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Sept. 20.— The Weather Bureau has ordered | northeast storm warnings displayed along the North Carolina coast. A tropical hurricane of great incensity is scheduled to pass east of Cape Hatteras tonight, LIGHT VOTE IS RECORDED IN BOND ELECTION [Less than 300 Had Cast Ballots Up to 3 P.M.— Polls Opento 7 P.M. A total of 244 taxpayers had cast ballots in the city's special bond election at 3 o'clock this afternoon from a tax roll con- taining approximately 1,000 eli- gible voters. Efforts were being made to get the voters to the polls this afternoon and it was being anticipated by officials that between 400 and 500 votes weuld be cast. Major grief of the eclection judges was the failure in many instances of the names of both husband and wife to appear on the tax roll. Many women ar- rived to vote only to find that they were disenfranchised by the simple fact that only their husband’s name was on the tax roll although the property was owned jointly. After considerable ,trouble on this score, officials f{nally ruled that where an affidavit was presented showing joint owner- ship in a cast of husband and wife both would be entitled to cast a ballot. Rather than go to the trouble of gelting such an affidavit from the recorder’s of- fice, most of the challenged voters went home. The polls will be open in the City Hall until 7 o'clock tonight and officials urge that all tax- payers whose names appear upon the tax roll make a special effort to get to the polling place. inflgs Keep Gm"g Rnpresvnlal{ve -O‘Connor Round and Round Coine Belore yoters it Roosevelt Opposition OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 20.—Dan| (By Associated Press) Gritfin’s little back dog keeps going | SUCCES oF Flu & B0 R | s .t dent’s efforts to defeat Chairman ot o tb ioania0! arooRl gEiE. Committee is being determined by | Unless the dog is tied up it|the voters of New York City today spends its waking hours going in a district including east side around. Tt starts slowly and picks | tenements and penthouses. O'Con- lup speed until it makes 50 revo-|nor whom Roosevelt 1'(‘(‘(‘11[1)? term - |lutionists a minute. And it keeps|ed “one of the most effective ob- this up for several minutes, then structionists” in the House seeks rests and starts again. both the Democratic and Repub- | The only explanation advanced lican nominations for his ninth lis that fhe dog has a “mental | term. The double contest was about the quirk.” 3 foir 0 only one giving national aspect to the primaries being held in New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts ‘HEAVY RAINS CAUSE and Wisconsin, and it marked the | DAMAGE TO HIGHWAY president's fourth attempt in this IN SEwARD DISTRICT year’s primaries to unseat lawmak- | lers whom he called conservatives. He lost Democratic Senatorial bat- | Heavy damage to roads in the Se-|tles in South Carolina, Georgia | ward region is reported by the Bu- and Maryland. | reau of Public Roads due to the tor-| James Fay is supported by Roose- | rential rains in that vicinity. The|velt as O'Connor’s Democratic op- | approach to the Victor Creek bridge ponent, but no matter who wins |on the “missing link” of the Moose the nomination Fay's name will Pass Highway, a 1,500-cubic foot fill, appear on the November ballot as has gone out. The bridge is out at he is the candidate of the Amer- |11 Mile on the Moose Pass route, ican Labor Party. |and two old structures, one at Running against O'Connor | Frenchy Creek and the other at the Republican ticket is Allen Dul- ‘Pass Creek, have been swept away, les, former State Department aide. | according to word to the BPR of-| Wisconsin and New Jersey vot- fices here from District Engineer ers are choosing Senatorial nom- | M. D. Williams, who is in the West- | inees. Senator Duffy is unopposed ward. The floods have caused a clos-|for the Democratic renomination ing of the Seward Highway at False in Wisconsin and in New Jersey d Mile 4. | William Ely is the only Democratic | R A candidate for the seat of Senator The superficial area of the earth john Milton, who decided not to Corrigan scorted by a flight o and found himself in Ireland. stop. shert rest, Corri TH VO | on | Corrigan, surveying the crowd anxiousl wouldn’'t want anything to happen to it!” bronze plague erected by the city of Long Beach to commemor an will fly to San TETEST FORMER STAR, FOR PRESIDENT STAGE, SCREEN ' SEIZE DRUGS; INN.Y.TODAY DIES SUDDENLY ARREST 4 MEN | when lis 196,950,000 square miles, nearly|run again. Former Senator Barbour | quarters of which is covered A - { (Continued on Page Two) Con ference Ideal Winsin | | Disputes of U. S. Neighbors (pan American conferences, this | one to be held in Lima, Peru, early |in December | A glance at the record helps ex- plain this comparative quiet on the American front despite the war —Peace | clatter elsewhere in the world. 1t/ “A Century of By DR. L. 8. ROWE Director General of the Pan American Union (Guest columnist for Preston Grover) WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 in the Western Hemisphere is the | reads almost like | business of every government in| Progress.” NiEts And sgnth Amegect | A 1ittle more than a century ago, That principle was confirmed 2|, 1496 gimon Bolivar, the Great few weeks ago when Bolivia and| pipergtor, called a conference of Paraguay decided to submit their| nationg which assembled in Pana- Chaco war to arbitration, after a|,. " Ajthough U. S. delegates ar- | century of intermittent fighting. | jyeq after the meeting adjourned Thus the conference method Of| seyerg] Latin American represen- | settling international disputes tri-|istives got together in time for a | umphed again on this side of the| e friendly discussion. Atlantic. Even now the family of By 1889 the First Pan American American governments is prepar- __* ing for another in the long line of (Continued on Page Ssix) Welcomed Home at Long Beach, Cal. ships, the “Cerrigan Clipper” Long Beach, Cal., for the first time since Douglas Corrigan tock off fromp New York, headed for Los Angeles Huge throngs of people surged forward as the “flying crate” rolled to a “Look out for my bplane! The wrong way flier is pictured standing beside a mounted , called the police, the World'’s Fair site. LITTLE LAND PLEADING FOR MORE PARLEYS {Mussolini Says Fascists on March that Will Not 1 oo, recently landed at i Gosh! 1 aviator's achievement. After a ncisco, where he will be guest of honor at Treasure Island, Pauline Frederick, Known to Millions of Fans, Passes Away, Cal. o —————————— i i at $85,000. i PAULINE FREDERICK BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Sept. 20. Pauline Frederick, 53, once a great star on the stage and screen, is dead. The end came suddenly she was strick>n with an acute attack of a 1a which weak- ened her heart. Pauline girl with the topaz Frederick, “the rose from Beatrice chorus ranks to become, in her hey- | day, America’s most popular actre: A stately dark-haired beauty, she achieved fame as a reigning stage and screen star but was less for- tunate in private life. Her five matrimonial ventures ended in di- vorces and deaths. She was fired from her first role a small part in “The Roger Brothers at Harvard"—by A. L. Erlanger, the producer, in 1902. But the willowy 17-year-old girl who had come to New York to try her luck in the theatre against the will of her parents, persisted. She had no wish to return to Boston, where she had been born August 12, 1885, and become an elocution teacher as her stern father, Richard C. Libbey, wished He never forgave her and disin- herited her upon his death in 1922, Changes Name Because of the attitude of her ((alher, the young actress dropped her family name and adopted the name of Frederick. She quickly graduated from small singing parts to leading musical comedy roles. She was a featured ingenue for five years. Then her ambition to enter the legitimate theatre was given impetus by Harrison Fisher, the artist, who proclaimed her “the | purest type of American beauty.” Producers immediately began (Continued on Page Seven) . NARCOTICS MEN 1$85,000 in Contraband Is Taken by Federals in Chicago Raid CHICAGO, S:pt;() —A smashing raid by Federal offic here last night netted four prisoners and 650 ounces of contraband narcotics. | The seizure is the largest ever made in this area, the total value of the contraband being estimated B HARRY KIRKE 1S T0 REMAIN WITH MOTHER Former Matanuska Archi- tect Reported to Be Im- proving—Court Action SEATTLE, Seprt. 20. Federal District Judge Bower has ruled that Harry Kirke, 34, former assist- ant architect at Matanuska, will |remain with his mother, Dr. Kath- |erine Wolfe, Seattle physician, and inot be sent to the Government's |hospital at Morningside for treat- ment of a nervous ailment. Psychiatrists said the architect is showing signs of improvement while in the care of his mother. Kirke was taken from a steamer several weeks ago upon arrival here |through a writ of habeas corpus |by attorneys acting for his mother and placed in her care. Girl Reopens - Damage Suit LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 20.— Patricia Douglas, twenty-year-old film extra, has field in Federal court an amended complaint against a group of prominent film execu- tives whom she charges with con- spiracy to “defile and debauch” her. She seeks damages of $500,000. The defendants, who include Hal E. Roach, head of his own studio, and Edward J. Mannix, general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studio, are alleged to have directed a number of extra girls to attend a party at Roach’s ranch in July, 1937, during a film convention. The amended complaint declared there was no screen work and that the conduct of the men guests was | “vile, ungentlemanly, shocking and |disgraceful.” | Be Stopped 'HUNGARY, POLAND, ASK PLEBISCITES Rumania Says Soviets Can- not March Through to Aid Czechoslovakia BULLETIN—PRAGUE, Sept. 20.—Czechoslovakia today gave answer to the peace plan of British Prime Minister Cham- berlain and French Premier Daladier in a note which said she hoped would leave the way open for further “diplomatic negotiations.” The reply was not made pub- lic, but an unofficial source said the note was an “accept- ance in principle, but makes a number of important reserva- tions.” STILL KEYED TO WAR (By Assoclated Press) Czechoslovakia has made a last minute effort to get Russian sup- port against Hitler's demands while new complications in the crisis are injected by border clashes and visits of Hungarian and Polish en- voys to Hitler at Berchtesgaden. 11 Duce Sounds Off At Udine, Italy, Mussolini declar- ed: “It is time the world became acquainted with this new warlike and determined Italy.” However, Mussolini made no re- |ference to Ozechslovakia, but sald the Fascist march “is not yet fin- ished. Nobody will stop us.” Border clashes occurred ~while | Czechoslovakia stalled for time and Chamberlain’s and Daladier’s plan for the ceding of Sudeten territory to Germany kept Europe keyed to war dangers. Hungary Jumps In In Germany, a communique said Premier Bela Imredi, in Han Kan- |va, Hungary, had placed before Hit- {ler a demand that 700,000 Hungar- |ians in Czechslovakia be given the right to self determination of al- |leglance. | [ | | Poland Mixes Too Poland’s views are understood to be similar to those of Hungary, and were presented to Hitler by Joseph | Lipski, Polish Ambassador to Ber- lin. Soviet Promise Rumored | Reports emanating from Geneva |said Czechoslovakia has received a |Soviet promise of support if Ger- |many tries to seize the Sudeten areas in Czechoslovakia. | A possible barrier to such aid | was found in Rumania, which coun- |try took the position that she coutd | (Eonunued on Page six; - W. E. DUNKLE WRECKS PLANE NEAR NENANA Prominent Mine Operator and Friend Uninjured —Both Walk Out ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 20. —W. E. Dunkle, gold mine operator, and Arthur Erickson, of Seattle, crashed Saturday in Dunkle’s plane in Nenana Canyon, according to word recelved here today, but neither was injured. ael Advices sald Dunkie was forced to land his ship on a river bar when clouds closed in. Striking the bar, rocks overturned the plane. Uninjured, both men walked 35 miles until they met a native in |a small boat who took them to | Nenana. Dunkle, prominent mining man |developing a large lode gold prop- |erty in the Broad Pass area, has flown his own plane for the last few years. This is his lirst serious |accident. He said he would go to the scene of the crash by plane as soon as the weather clears, and |take a mechanic with him. It is believed the plane can be repaired and a take off field cleared. {