The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1938, Page 1

THLE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIL, NO. 7925. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN FORGES . NOW CLOSING INON HANKOW Invaders Reported Moving on Provisional Capital in Three Directions CHINESE ARE MAKING STUBBORN RESISTANCE Heavy Arlil—leTy Duel Tak-| ing Place Today One Mile from Yangsin SHANGHAI, Oct. 17.—The Jap- anese forces are reported to have pierced the so-called secondary de- fense of Hankow and are rapidly closing in on the provisional capital city of China from three directions. | The Japanese Army Headquart- | ers here has issued a bulletin that | the Japanese forces are expected | to occupy Hwan Shiskang, 55 miles by air from Hankow, very soon. The Chinese, according to official Japanese statement, are making a determined stand, despite the com- bined land and air attacks. Further to the south, the Japan- ese forces are said to be within one mile of ,Yangsin, where a heavy artillery duel is now in progress. Northeast of Hankow, another column is said to be advancing down the highway toward Hankow. ON CANTON FRONT {.aborites Nominate Lehman ;0V. Hernert f, Lenman IS SNOWN In INew I10rk LIy acknowledging the heers of the delegates to the American Labor Party convention after hey had nominated him for re-election as governor. Senator Robert F. Naguer was nominated for the long-term Senate seat. Wagner is at left, ,ehman center, and David Dubinsky, head of International Ladies' Gar- ment Workers' Union, at right Hollywood Has H Shooting;Former Husband of Sensational Ruth Etting Is Held by Police HONGKONG, Oct. 17.—The Jap- anese Army commanders announce they have straddled the Canton- Kowloon Railway at several points but reports from areas farther north indicated the rapid Japanese drive on Canton is meeting with the first serious organized Chinese resis- tance. Severe fighting is reported t ‘Wongtong, 40 miles east of Canton in what appears to be the first ma- jor battle to decide the fate of Can- ton and the vital supply lines radi- ating from that chief city in south China. — e KYJSHU ISLAND TYPHOON SWEPT DAMAGE HEAV Nearly 200 Are Killed, 200 Missing, 244 Build- | ings Destroyed { TOKYO, Oct. 17—One hundred and ninety are known dead and 200 accused of stealing, is something one | AlJderman who was also once di- are missing in the wake of a ty- phoon which has swept Kyjshu Is- land at the southernmost point of Japan, The damage is reported to be heavy. At least 244 buildings have been destroyed, 85 ships are said to have been wrecked with 150 miss- ing, and roads are cut. Six thousand domestic animals have been killed. The island is one of the princi- pal ones of Japan. PLANES CRASH, MIDAIR; BREAK OUT IN FLAMES Two Sightseeing Craft Col- lide — Five Known Dead, Maybe More ‘i THREE ALLEGED GERMAN SPIES NOW ON. TRIAL Attorneys Declare They Are Framed—Prosecutor | Shows Them Up, However NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Attorneys for three alleged German spies des- cribed their clients as being framed land innocent after United States Attorney Lamar Hardy told the ) | Federal Court jury the three spies | had penetrated some of the inner- most secrets of this country’s mili- tary defense. The Prosecutor took and hour and 20 minutes to outline the Gover ment’s case against Johanna Hoff- man, Otto Hermann Voss and Eric Gilaser. | Glaser's attorney said his client | was a hard working boy and as-| serted the secret aviation code he is | might buy at news stands Johanna Hoffman’s attorney said | she was an innocent dupe who had been framed. | | Counsel for Voss asserted “there | is absolutely no connection between | my client and the other defendants | as far as this conspiracy is con-| | cerned. | Hardy asserted the three defen- | dants, with 14 others, now fugi-| tives, are members of a German Spy Ring which sent Berlin data on American artillery, forces in the| Panama Canal Zone, specifications of two of the United States air-| craft carriers, and information con- cerning the strength of the Ameri-| can Navy on the east coast. e Alien_Red Case To Come Before | | | HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Oct. Singer Ruth Etting charges jeal- ousy as the motive behind the shoot- | ing of her secret husband, Myrl Al-| derman, 30, in her luxurious home | Saturday night, but her first hus- | band, Martin Snyder, 42, told of- ficers that he fired in self-defense. Ruth Etting said Snyder is merely jealous and never satisfied unless he is making trouble. “He has| threatened to kill me before,” said the singer, “once telephoning me from New York.” | Snyder said Alderman was shoot- | ing at him and he shot bacl | Snyder is however held on sus-| picion of kidnaping and attempted | murder. His claim of self-defense contrasts with other police reports| that he forced Alderman, at Lh(“ point of a gun, to drive him to the | Etting home where he shot Alder- TUG IS DRIVEN ASHOREALASKA ISLAND, BY GALE Seven Men in Need of Im- mediate Assistance— Patrol Boat to Scene SEATTLE, Oct. 17. — Driven by an 85-mile an hour gale, the Seattle tug Macray is reported to the Coast Guard headquart- ers here as being grounded at Wingham Island and in im- mediate need of assistance. Seven men, including Capt. Clyde Dell, of Sedro Woolley, Wash., are reported aboard. Mountainous seas tore away | the pilot house before the tug was driven ashore. The patrol boat Morris left Seward last night to make a dash to Wingham Island, which is off Controiler Bay between Katalla and Cordova. Heavy gales are reported on the Gulf of Alaska and a report ved here says the Alaska Steams Company steamer Alaska is riding out a storm enroute to Juneau from the Westward. BRITISH KING WILL SET FOOT | ONU.S.CROUND George and Queen Will Visit Roosevelt Follow- ing Canadian Trip LONDON, Oct. 17—The London Daily Herald says that a State visit will take King George and his Queen to the United States at the end of a Canadian tour next spring. The Herald says this will be an- nounced by the King in his speech from the Throne at the opening of Parliament on November 8. It will be the first time a reign- ing British Sovereign has ever set foot on United States soil. GET BUSY WITH PLANS WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — The| | | | [ | gress cease allowing the waste of| | public funds in such enterprises and also denounced John Grey, AFL Rivalry Forgotten During Air Travel We Traditional rivalries were forgotten when airline pilots and stewardesses flocked into San Francisco to participate in the celebration in honor of National Air Travel Week. The tenth year jubilee was marked by many social events for the personnel of the leading ai Photo shows three attractive steward- s who “buried the hatchet” and launched into the spi tion workers. They are, left to right: Louise Rudquist, American Airlines; Echo Jensen, United Air Lines, of Transcontinental and Western Airlines. e ALASKA LABOR UNITY SESSION COMES T0 END Final Resolutions Adopted at Sunday Meeting at Ketchikan KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 17.—| The final session of the week long Alaska Labor Unity Conference, | called by the Maritime Federation of the Pacific, unanimously adopt- ed a resolution Sunday demanding that persecution of CIO leaders | Harry Bridges and Harold Prechett, be stopped. The resolution further denounced the “Red Hunt” Dies Committee as ridiculous and demanded that Cony This British Embassy to Washington,|leader, for his attempt to paint pro- S|and the State Department of the|gressive leaders as Communists man as he sat in a chair started a gun duel, Ruth joining in.| United States is now arranging a The singer said Snyder told them | ;. vicional program for approval| to sit down and then declared: “I| ot mino creorne s <t | lutions asking for relief for unem-| High Tribunal = | of King George and President Roo- will kill you, this is going to be| o ¥ the end of you all” Then bullets whizzed. | Ruth said she obtained an uncon- tested divorce from Snyder last No- vember and 17 days later married vorced before he married Ruth. TURKEY'S HEAD SERIOUSLY ILL President Ataturk in Grave Condition with Bad Liver ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. official communique today President Kemal Ataturk, gravely ill The communication said: “The condition of the President, who is suffering from a long ago contract- ed liver complaint, has suddenly grown worse. “The sudden serious turn was not- ed yesterday, and although a slight; 17.—An said 58, is improvement occurred over night, e President’s illness still main-| tains a grave character.” sevelt. The program provides for a stay of three days and two nights at the White House and one night aboard a United States warship, with a naval review as the crown- ing event of the visit. - e — Plane Crashes Info Mountain in Snow Storm; Five Killed STOCKHOLM, Oct. 17.—Five per-| sons were killed in Northern Swed- | en yesterday when a military hos-| pital plane crashed into a mountain during a snow storm. HAIDA EXPECTED BY END OF WEEK' Word received here today indi- cated the cutter Haida is due to| sail from Seattle either today or! tomorrow to return to its Juneau| base. The Haida has been south for overhaul for several weeks and is| expected back at its moorings at the Government Wharf around the end add them to the meringue just be-|Eram J The conference also adopted reso- ployed in Ketchikan and Southeast| Alaska and approved of the demand | of the Post Office Department, in- sisting on better boat service for| Kodiak Island. The conference also approved of setting up a sub-district council of | the Maritime Federation in Ketchi- kan. | Radio Station WLW May Be Cut on Power WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — Three! members of the Super-Power Com- mittee of the Federal Communica- tions Committee, have recommend- | ed to the ful membership, discon-| tinuance of the authority to Sta-| tion WLW of Cincinnati to’ broad- cast with power of 500 kilowatts. The station is the only one in the United States using more than 50{ kilowatts. | ° | To give crunchiness ds well as |added flavor to meringues for pies, |Saturday, add one-fourth cup shredded nut| meats to each two egg whites. Sprinkle the nuts over the top or| fore it is spread. | DETROIT, Mich,, Oct. 17. — At/ g . least five persons, including a 5-| Supreme Court Will Review year-old boy, were killed yesterday | Instance Whlch May Af vj'hen two sight-seeing planes coi- 4 lided in midair. Affect Harry Bridges Witnesses said the pilot of one of the week. 'Radio Singer, Member of a Turks Ordered ines. of the week by forgetting they were opposi- SUSPICION IN SHAN Will Hitler March Again | For the Oil He Requires? COPPER OUTPUT RESTRICTIONS ARE TAKEN OFF Great Britain Announces Removal Everything Re- tarding Production LONDON, Oct. 17.—Copper com- panies, which have been operating under a restriction scheme, an- nounced today that all restrictions on production were removed last October 15, “for whatever period is considered advisable.” The strong demand brought about by the British rearmament pro- contemplated and the in- crease in American defenses, has resulted in the removal of the restrictions. COPPER FUTURES NEW YORK, Oct. 17. — Copper futures broke from two-fifths to GHA\ hits high peak as wave of lawlessness forces police to search natives for firearms. By PRESTON GROVER 1 WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — The| reason military experts expect Hit- ler to become dissatisfied with his present situation is—oil. Careful computation of Ger- many’s domestic oil production places it at an outside limit of 2,- 000,000 tons annually. In a war,| !that amount, even if available all| at one time, would last Germany six to eight weeks. Military sources quoted from abroad estimate Ger- many’s war time consumption would | be 12,000,000 tons as a minimum and possibly 20,000,000 tons. At present Germany can buy from the United | States and Mexico. In event of war with England those sources would be cut off by blockade. Then what? That question explains why every German move is interpreted by mili- tary observers as directed toward | gaining access to the Rumanian oil | fields, one of the world's best. That | | field could not be cut off from Ger-| ;mzmy by the British navy. "COULD MAKE IT, BUT— It is one of the sorrows of Cen- tral Europe that despite its wealth !in iron, coal and food, it has almost no natural oil resources. There is little in Sudetenland, taken from ONE MAN KILLED, HIGHWAY AUTO CRASH DRIVER 1S JAILED AFTER ACCIDENT SUNDAYMORNING |Joe Thomas Facing Reck- | less Driving Charge, | Prosecutor Announces GEORGE KEZAK SUFFERS FROM FRACTURED NECK Two Others Hurt When Fast-Traveling Machine Plunged Off Curve BULLETIN—Late this after« noon Assistant District Attorney George W. Folta filed two counts against Joe Thomas, driver of the auto in which Alex Conn was killed Sunday morn- ing. He is charged with reck- less driving and drunken driv~ ing and bail was fixed at $1,500. Une man was killed, four others injured, seriously, and the driver is being held in the Federal jail on a charge of recklessness as the result of the automobile in which they were riding leaving the Glacier Highway at Morris Curve om the Juneau side of Salmon Creek about 6:30 Sunday morn- ing, turning over three times" and landing some 75 feet from the highway. Alex Conn, 24, « recent arrival in Juneau, dicd from a lung hemorrhage shortly after being taken to St. Ann’s Hos- pital. Geonrge Kezak, Alaska Juneau employes, is in the hospital suf- fering from u fructured neck, but aitendinz physician, Dr. W. M. Whitehead, said he probably | would recover, Melvin Rogers, A J employee, suffered a broken rib and G. A. Caldwell, also an A. J. em- pleyee, is suffering {rom a head injury. They were both able to leave the hospital, DRIVER IS HELD Joe Thomas, 30, driver of the machine which was owned by Kezak, has a bump on his head but is reported as otherwise un- hurt. He is being held in the Federal jail and Assistant Dis- trict Attorney George W. Folta said he was filing a charge of reckless driving against him. Themas is associated with Chris Bailey in operating Bailey’s bar on South Franklin. According to Deputy Marshal Walter Hellan, who investigated the accident, the party of five was head- ed out the highway with Thomas at the wheel after having been ‘in Douglas. Hellan said the car must have been traveling ut a high rate of speed, he estimated.st least 60 miles an hour, as it went around the Morris Curve. It was traveling so fast, he rpoerted, that the tire one (Continued on Page Three) - e — WAGE, HOUR ACT 1S APPLICABLE TO TERRITORIES Ruling Is_D:finilely An- nounced by Admin- istrator Andrews WASHINGTON, Oct. 17.—Admin- istrator Elmer F. Andrews, of the ‘Wage and Hour Act, today said the Act applies to employees in Ter- ritories and possessions of the Unit- ed States just as i does to workers in the 48 States. Tlic Act does mot cover the Philippine Islands. Administrator Andrews said: | “Congress might have extended the | Act to purely local commerce with- |in the District of Columbia or with= ship was flying directly into a bright sun and appeared to have been blinded by the glare. The pilot of the second ship climbed rapidly in a vain attempt to avert a collision. The two planes burst into flames | when they crashed together. One man was thrown clear from one of the planes and his body fell with the air vessels into a field. The victims were all from Detroit and the planes and the bodies were burned so badly that it is impos- sible to learn the exact number of the victims. Orchestra, Plays Her Way | Supreme Court has agreed to pass on litigation that may affect pos- sible deportation proceedings [ aoainst Warrv Rridoes CIO chief- tain on the Pacific Coast, €/ BTN} Acung on a uovermuent petition, the high tribunal consented to re- | view the decision of the Fifth Cir- cuit Court of Appeals reversing the deportation order against “Joseph Strecker,”. born in Austria and now in Hot Springs, Arkansas. The controversy may bring a rul- ing on whether or not an alien Com- munist is subject to deportation. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — The| T" Shuut Ravans { t Into Nome Miner’s Hear ISTANBUL, Turkey, Oct. 17— i ley. “Every man between the ages of DeCORR K itlde of Whaley. SEATTLE, Oct. 17.—When Mar- eigteen and fifty must produce the | Jorie Brodt, former Seattle radio ge:’;m:b?;::tui a;};;r:gt 3; (x;::(l—:v’ body of a dead raven.” | singer, was a member of orchesuas‘me A Naael i sdll for Nun;n.; This order has been issued by|aboard Alaska Steamship COmPany uneil next June. | the Governor of Tekirdagh, in the | jners a few years ago, she playedi ML Gles. diaynard, wifs ot} . e, . |ner way into the heart of George| the Editor of the Daily Nugget, at| The reason for the governor's ac- | g, Whaley, Nome miner. The cli-| Nome, and her daughter-in-law, tion is that the district is at Pres-| max is coming because she sailed| Mrs. Russell Maynard, are also| |ent infested with ravens which are|apoard the Mount MecKinley 1ast | aboard the Mount McKinley for the causing a great deal of destruction. | saturday for Nome where she will Seward Peninsula metropolis. |half a cent a pound on the New York Stock Exchange today after announcement in London of the international copper cartel. Ammy Air Base Chief Is Dead MARCHFIELD, Cal, Oct. 17. Col. Percy E. Van Nostrand, 51, commanding officer of the Army Air Base here, died yesterday as the result of a sudden heart attack, 4 | Czechoslovakia, Germany has em- B & Territory or posesssion in vir- ployed its most skilled scientists to tue of national legislative powers make fuel oil from coal but has ©Ver such political units, but Con- | been only moderately successful.|BTeSS did not do so, however. The fuel can be supplied but it| ~Emplovees inusi be engaged in would take an army behind the|ommerce or production of goods {lines to make fuel for an army in|for commerce. Commerce is defined |the field. The consumption of coal meaning trade commerce in the in making the oil would rob other U nsportation, transmission or com- industries almost equally important Mmunication among the several States in war time. or from State to any place Just how long Germany could outidc fherefor the State is de- Icontinue to fight on without an|fined as meanine any State of the | adequate supply of fuel oil is prob- United States or District of Co- {lematical. In the World War she lumbia or any Territory or posses= (Continued on Page Seven) |slon of the United States.” 3