The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1938, Page 1

i » | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIL, NO. 7926. JAPANESE ARE FIGHTING WAY TO CANTON Hea Partof U. S.; Temperatures | Break All Previous Records (By Associated Press) A record breaking heat wave put the eastern half of the nation back in summer weather yesterday. Top coats were doffed and thou- | sands went to work in their shirt| sleeves. | A 30-year high temperature mark was shattered in New York City when the thermometer reached 83 degrees. Swimming was back in vogue at Coney Island. It was 90 degrees in Newark. The temperature ranged around the middle eighties in Missouri and Connecticut, and sbveral persons were prostrated for the first time in 16 years at this season. The animals in the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago were permitted to remain in outdoor cages for the first time after October 1. BUT GET THIS HELENA, Mont., Oct. 18. — A snow storm has blanketed parts of Montana and Wyoming. Five per- sons are reported missing in the blizzards. Airplanes are grounded. | § STILL SUMMER CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 18—Middle westerners and easterners continued to enjoy summer weather today while residents of the plains and mountain sections of the west shiv- ered. The weather bureau advises that| summer is passing however. In the North Central states rain is falling. Snow flurries are expected to hit northern Michigan tomorrow. Some 30 inches of snow has fallen in some sections in Montana where| temperatures continued unseason- ably low. Crew of Wrecked Tug Rescued from Gale@gaten Isle Patrol Boat Morris Battles Mountainous Seas to Save Six Men KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 18 After battling mountainous seas for over 48 hours, the patrol boat Morris, out from Seward, has res- cued the six-man crew of the Scat- | tle tug Macray which ran aground on Wingham Island during the gale on the Gulf of Alaska. The rescue of the men is reported by the Coast Guard patrol boat Alert, stationed here. The Alert re- ceived a radio from the Morris, stat- | Amer ing the men had been taken off the gale-beaten island. The tug is believed to be a total | wreck. The men aboard reached shore and the Morris is now taking them to Cordova. General Motors Is to Reemploy 35.!1@ Workers| Auto Int.:‘ustry Reports Greater Interest — To Step Up Production NEW YORK, Oct. 18. — General| Motors announces that 35,000 addi- | tional workers will be reemployed | within the next two weeks., | Alfred Sloan, Chairman of the! Board of Directors, said the salary| cuts to officials, made last winter, will be restored. “Our new models have been well received and jt appears there is' greater interest in automobiles now | than a year ago and production must be stepped up,” said Sloan. .. - MISS CARLSON RETURNS Miss Virginia Carlson, nurse at the St. Ann’s Hospital, returned on the steamer North Sea from a va-! cation trip to her home in Minne-| Wave Hits Certain Sections Fiercely May Iry Hines | | | | | Judge Charles Nott, senior jurist of New York’s General Sessions Court, | is pictured above. He has been men- tioned as the likeliest to preside at | the new trial of Tammany boss James J. Hines. Judge Ferdinand WAR DEBTS 0 UNITED STATES MAY BE PAID Financial Newspaper of Paris Makes Certain Prediction Today BRITISH, FRENCH CHANGE ATTITUDE : | France, If Settlement Made, : May Seek to Float New Loans PARIS, Oct. 18.—Toda paper, predicts that both settlement will be made after the Novemher 8 election. The newspaper says that as the result of the paying of the war debt there is a possibility of France obtaining ‘important credits” in the United States as at present the Johnson Act forbids defaulting na- tions in floating any new loans in America. The French Government is today beset by new labor problems and an increasing political trouble. Attempts of Premier Daladier to lengthen the work week in aviation plants from 40 to 45 hours is meet- ing with labor opposition, 's Agence | Economique, French financial news- Great Britain and France will pay their war debts to the United States and 1 \ Smiling despite his se trial, District Attorney Thoma: members of his staff as he mapped seated, are: Charles P. Grimes, tback in the Hines case, which was dec}nred a mjs 1 s E. Dewey of New York is pictured witl Dewey and Sol Gelb. Standing, Hogan, Livingston Goddard and Herman McCarthy. Mapping New Racket Fight } SITUATION IN JERUSALEM IS - MOSTSERIOUS ITwenty Tl\éllsand British Soldiers Are Mobilized BOMB OUTRAGES TAKE PLACE DURING NIGHT for Protection Jewish, Armenian Districts BULLETIN — JERUSALEM, Oct. 18.—Virtual martial law has been proclaimed through- out Palestine. The annouce- | ment was made early tonight | by Sir Harold MacMichael, Commander - in - Chief of the mandated area, that the entire A ® Teft to right | country has been placed under a new drive on rackets. Le ght SHEY GORERoL Frank § | | JERUSALEM, Oct. 18. — British Historian S Safe from Least Ten Years |troops are at double guard strength |today lest the Arab rebels attack |the modern districts of Jerusalem |after a night of terrorist bomb out- |rages in the old section of the | city. | Columns of British armored cars |and truck loads of polioe are patrol- ling the streets outside of the old city’s walls. ees America War for at |Extra Guargi?ushed Out ‘ Pecora . formally transferred the | case to General Sessions at the fe=+ g quest of District Attorney Dewey. Neobody doubts that Ger- our world trade. Today the first will many’s bloodless victory eover |con.inue negligible in spite of the Czechoslovakia, smashing one |great numbers who want to come to The situation in the old city be- came so.eritical shortly before mid- night that the authorities rushed JOHN BARRETT, DIPLOMAT, DIES OF PNEUMONIA Former Director General of Pan-American Union Had Fine Record BELLOW FAiysS, Vermont, Oct. 18.—John Barrett, 71, noted arbiter in international ecoonmic disputes and former Director General of Pan-American Union, is dead here as a result of pneumonia. John Barrett, as a diplomat and Directer General of the Pan- American Union for 13 years, did more, perhaps, than any other per- son of his generation to promote closer cultural and economic rela- tions among the American re- publics. The skeleton of the present Pan- an Union had existed for 20 years as the Bureau of American Repubiics, but had achieved little international importance, when Bar- | rett took the directorship in 1907. Under his guidance its activities were greatly expanded and the present Pan-American building in ‘Washington—a million dollar struc- ture made possible by the muni- ficence of the late Andrew Carne- gie—was erected. Barrett, a bald, six-foot Vermont- | er, worked long hours to put through his plans. Lights frequent- ly burned in his office until 2 a.m. President Theodore Roosevelt, paying tribute to Barrett's success, once said: “He reorganized and developed it from an unimportant dying govern- ment bureau into a world-recogniz- ed " international organization for Hlaska Woman Wins National Auxiliary Post Mrs. J. A Talbot Appoint- ed Chairman of Member- ship, Western Division KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 18.— Mrs. J. A. Talbot, Ketchikan, has accepted appointment as chairman of the membership committe of the western division of the na- tional American Legion Auxiliary it was disclosed today by Mrs, E. M. Goddard, President of the Ket- chikan Auxiliary Uuit. This is the first time an Alaskan has received such a high appointment for the nationml auxiliary. Mrs. Talbot is a Past President of the Alaska Department Auxiliary which received the trophy at the recent national convention for win- ning the membership contest. R HERB HOOVER CAMPAIGNING Tells Electorate Just What to Do in Connecti- cut Speech HARTFORD, Conn. Oct. 18. Herberi Hoover, making a political | speech here, called on the Ameri- can Electorate to elect independent minded Congressmen in order to halt what he termed New Deal as- saults on a representative Govern- ment. more section of the World War peace treaties, changes the course of Eurcpean history. But what does it mean for the Unit- ed States? Where are we head- ing in foreign affairs? These questions are discussed in the following article by James Tru- slow Adams, a spectator at the Paris peace conference in 1919 and a distinguished historian. By JAMES TRUSLOW ADAMS Auther of “The Epic of America,” “The March of Democracy,” Etc. Written for the AP Feature Service You ask what the present Euro- pean situation holds for America in the long run. First, what is that situation? War has been averted, probably for a number of years unless some- thing unexpected occurs. But there remain sore spots, ambitions, and 1919 boundaries that may yet have to be redrawn. The system of col- lective security has broken dow: Force or the threat of it, regardless of treaties and the Kellogg Pact, has been successfully used. The latest case, which brought us to the very edge of a world war, is important from that respect rather than from that of the par- tial dismemberment of Czechoslova- kia, which I thought, when at the Peace Conference, was badly con- structed and which is only 19 years | old. | THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH ‘What does all this mean to us? Fifty years ago it would probably have meant a great internal exploi- tation of a half empty land, from immigration, and an increase in |us, which means that our internal|military and police reinforcements | development of resources and busi-|there to protect the Jewish and Iness will not have that stimulus.|Armenian quarters. The two sec- | World trade is not likely to expand [tions were the only ones under lvwxlh rapidity for any nation, and|complete control of the government no more for us than others even|military, with uncertainty in Europe and a| Commands from garrisons in the {more or less assured certainty of|outlying sections were deployed to | peace here. recapture insurgent held areas. The British forces in the Jeru- salem sector now number 20,000 men, matched against about 10,000 | Arabs. The British are especially defend- ing the Jews. Trade barriers, exchange dif- ficulties, and the fact that former importing nations have tried, in manufacturing and food supplies, |to become largely self supporting | under the new nationalism tend to | preclude in the future any such| | swift development as placed Eng- |land in the van in the last century. | What the present situation offers |us is perhaps, at a minimum, 10 | years in which to set our own house - - ik | | PRIESTS UNDER in order without the disturbing rac-; tors of war, and to adjust our indus- {try and agriculture to the new world | | conditions. Doing what we can, for| ARREST vIENNA | our own sake and that of others, to| L] rebuild international trade, we can | | concentrate on our serious domestic { problems without the economic, so- leial and psychical deflections due |Nazis Continue to Harass Cardinal Innitzer— | to war. i | . | oups Smashin |A GLORIOUS OPPORTUNITY | Groups g | This is an opportunity which | 3 scemed lost only a few days ago.| VIENNA, Oct. 18—Six Catholic | What we make of it, both in our| priests and one official of Theodore domestic policies and our efforts| Cardinal Innitzer's bureau, have to restore slowly a larger degree of | been arrested by the Nazis in con- interpational trade in whatever | nection with the publication of an | ways it can be built up under the|anonymous leaflet giving a full re- | new conditions, will depend upon |port of the anti-Church demonstra- | ourselves, | tion at the church where Cardinal | What the European situation and | Innitzer was wounded. | our own geographical position mean} Nazi groups continue to smash to us is just that we may HAVE windows and pews in Catholic | churches. ! (Continued on Page Five) Crisis; It Is By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—Native Capital Has Not One Single “ Aottt Very Sad Thing Demonstration tween a Washington crisis and Lhel common up-country variety. A New Endurance peace, friendship and commerce, and increased Pan-American trade many-fold.” | Washingtonians, returning after a Washington crisis must be ominous. month’s absence, will not recognize | It must have the seeds of war, or the old city. For several days now, point to a possible re-direction of Is Pulled Off SALZBURG, Germany, Oct. 18— Barrett went to the Pan-Amer- ican Union with a world-wide back- | ground of experience in the diplo-: matic service, | First Post in Siam | As a 28-year-old newspaperman, | only five years out of Dartmouth College, tt had occasion to| B: Record 18 Set, Small Airplanes RICHMOND, Ind., Oct. 18. — A new endurance record for small airplanes has been set by Bob Mc-| call ‘on Presidents Grover Cleve- | Daricic ang Russ Morris, both 24.| |with the backing of Western Sen- land. The President was impresed | Tney were in the air for 134 hours. by the young man and Barrett,| The previous vecord was 106 ators he had met as a newspaper- i man in Seattle, Portland, Tacoma and San Francisco, was appointed minister to Siam in 1894. In this post he distinguished him- — e ENDS VACATION Ernest Gilligan, power house op- erator at Annex Creek, returned to Juneau on the North Sea after a sota, (Continued on Page Seven) yacation trip Outside. {1t has been without a crisis. That is one of the exciting things about living in Washington. There nearly always is a crisis. The crises this city has are not the penny-anfe variety. They are whoppers. Hollywood can have its crisis about - whether Bette Davis or Fanny Brice will play Scarlett O’Hara in “Gone With the Wind."” Columns will be written about it. But it is peanut stuff. It ranks along with the current crisis over whether woman shall curl their | hair low or curl it high. | 'IT’'S GOTTA BE GOOD It is hard to draw the line be- the nation’s policy. Anti-Clerical demonstrations have Most crises move under their tgyen place here and windows of own power, but some have o be| churches and parish houses have whooped up like Grover Whalen's| heen smashed. The attacks are di- jworld fair, or whether the com-|yected against Archbishop Sigmund munity chest will go over the top.|waite, whose province includes a The Ethiopian crisis was like that. large part of former Austria. It took a lot of boosting to give it crisis standing. The Ethiopiaus| were a long way off and they never had done our laundry, like the Chi- nese. The Spanish crisis did better. It — e MRS. CASHEN RETURNING A week from today. Mrs. Thomas Cashen will be enroute home from Ashland, Montana, where she has Trouble Spots Today Are Far East, Near East (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) INVADERS ARE NEARING CITY, Terrorist bombings in old Jerusalem and spreading war- fare in South China today make the Near East and the Far East the centers of con- the world’s most One Column Pushing To- ward Forts Guarding Great Waterway YANGSIN REPORTED CAPTURED IN NORTH Chinese Defense [Position Taken After Bitter 84-Day Drive HONGKONG, Oct. 18.—The Jap~ anese, driving against Canton, are reported to have approached within 50 miles of the outskirts of the city. One Japanese column is said to be pushing toward the Boccatigris forts guarding the water route of Canton and Kwansi Province. Chinese reinforcements are rush- ing to Canton in junks to aid in the defense of that city. War has pace because of In- surgent preoccupation in inter- IN OTHER SECTORS SHANGHAI, Oct. 18.—The, Jap- anese Army officials announce the capture of Yangsin, vital Chinese defense position, 50 miles east of the Hankow-Canton Railway, cul- minating a bitter 84-day drive up the Yangtze River from Kiukiang. Yangsin is the center of the Chi- nese defenses southeast of Hankow and its fall put the invaders in a position to smash through Siening and cut the Hankow-Canton Rail- way, China's principal supply line. D o STAR WITNESS IN SPY TRIAL IS ON STAND Gustav Rumrich Tells of Secret Information Secured by Nazis NEW YORK, Oct. 18—The Gov- ernment’s star spy case witness, Gustav Rumrich, Army deserter, who turned secret agent, told Judge Knox and the Federal Court Jury today that Nazi interests shifted from American Military secrets late in 1937 to industrial information. Rumrich said he was given this in- formation by two agents with whom he was in contact, one whom he knew only as Weigand and the other as Schmidt. - Weigand was apparently impor- tant, Rumrich testified, as he showed photographs of himselt taken at the German Embassy in Washington, D. C., purportedly in company with Ambassador Dieck- hoff and Capt. Fritz Wiedmann, Adjutant of Adolf Hitler. Rumrich said Weigand first ap- praised him of Germany's shifting interest from military to industrial information and wanted particular- ly information on American reafm- Al \ | HEAVY BURDEN rests | on Secretary of State Cordell tull who shapes much of U. S. foreign policy. FORTY SCHOOL CHILDREN ARE BLOWN AROUND Part of Heating System Ex- | plodes in Grade School | ~—Building Shattered FRANKSVILLE, Wis, Oct. 18.— Forty children were injured this forenoon, none seriously however, when an air tank of the heating system in the grade school exploded with terrific force. Fifty other children | hurt. The explosion shattered the in- | terior of the building. | The janitor said the safety valve failed to function. | - e HUNTED MAN ament. RUN nan IN Rumrich said the shift was ex- | plained on account of an agreement NOME, ALASKA ==mrits, ™ " and someone in Berlin. EEx-Convict Wanted for Al-| | leged Murder in Los An- | DIPHTHERIA, geles Is Under Arrest | IMET| AKATLA LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 18. — The Federal Bureau of Investiga-! v tion announces that Herbert Dud-| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 18.— ley Ryan, ex-convict, was arrested|Coast Guard patrol boat Alert left |at Nome, Alaska, today on a war-|fo. Metlakatla this morning taking rant charging ulawful flight to es-\ s quantity of diphtheria_antitoxin cape prosecution in connection with|t, that village where the illness the slaying here of George “Les”|,r Clifford Benson, six-year-old son Bruneman, Los Angeles gambler, of Henry Benson, has been diagnos- were not still is sort of a crisis, some members of Congress coming back pledged to work for lifting| (Continued on f’lxé Three) been visiting her parents on their | what with ranch for the past six months.|, ¢ |She plans to leave there on Ocm-?ll phablzy heer pslos and \ber 24, arriving here about Novem- ! ber 1. auto license number. | trio put Bruneman on the spot in killed him, also Prankie Greuzard, a bystander, when he attempted to get the trio’s OVEE B JORT B0 led as diphtheria, The authorities are also seeking » ; Pete Pianezzi and Jackie Kane, in- dicted with Ryan. It is alleged the It is the only case but all school children are to be inoculated as a precautionary measure. The boy's father is now in Ana- cortes, Wash., where he took a load of seine boat caught chums for ‘salc to the Far Western Cannery,