The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7927. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SO ————— PLANE CRASHES IN FLAMES, PILOT HERO .Jdpanese Advance Rapidly in CANTON NOW THREATENED AT 2 POINTS Foreign Ex;);;s Are Puz- zled Over Light Resist- ance of Defenders CZECH-HUNGARIANS REPORTED LINED UP French Conferring with Nazi Ambassador-—lasur- gents Repulsed in Spain (By Associated Bress) Japanese troops today continued to advance in South China toward Canton while British forces started a drive to clear armed Arabs out of Jerusalem. The British Cabinet met in Lon- don to consider the Palestine prob- lem, home defense and other weighty problems. At the same time, Czechoslovakia and Hungary are Kkeeping heavy troop concentrations facing each other on their border. Other Troubles The French Government is besef with new labor difficulties on long- REARM | r COL. LINDBERGH GIVEN HONORS; OF U.S. 1S s SPEEDED UP WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. — The War Department’s orders for muni- tions totaling $19,187,000 in six weeks' period provides a hint that the Army is speeding up rearma- ment in anticipation of President Roosevelt’'s new National Defense proposals. Orders have been placed for mu- nitions from private manufacturers. Ordnance officers have worked day and night to close contracts with manufacturers without delay. The forces of some manufacturing arsenals have been doubled. Among the contracts awarded during the last six weeks are the following: DuPont de Nemours Company— $4,000,000 worth of giant demolition bombs. Colts Fire Arms — over $2,000,000 worth of Browning machine guns. Orders have also been issued for adaption of the wartime French 75 millimeter cannon and also to speed transport trucks. SPY AS WITNESS TELLS AMAZING TALE, INTRIGUE COMMUNISTS STARTED BIC STEEL STRIKE er hours, especially in the airplane| Jury Hears of Mails Being Originated Sitdown Affair industry. The Spanish Insurgents are re- ported to have been severely re- pulsed on the Ebro River Valley front. Negotiations Another development in the Euro- pean situation is the report, from authoritative quarters in Paris, of preliminary negotiations looking to- ward a fuller settlement of dif- ferences between France and Ger- many and these negotiations are said to have started as Premier Daladier conferred with Count von Welczeck, German Ambassador to France, on the latter’s return from | Berlin. The envey also arranged for a talk with Foreign Minister Bonnet. South China Front The Japanese forces appear to have slashed their way through the Chinese defenses in South China and are threatening Canton both on the northeast and east. | Robbed, FDR's Signa- ‘\ ture Faked NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Nazi Ger- | man agents opened a mail bag on | the liner Europa and obtained a copy of a contract between the | Bethlehem Steel Corporation and the Amtorg Trading Corporation, it was testified by the Government's principal witness today in this city's big espionage trial Two men and a woman, members of the same group, the witness swore, engaged his younger brother |as a spy in Prague in anticipation | of Germany’s march into Czecho- } slovakia. | Gustav Rumrich, former army Isergeant who deserted and became |a spy, made these startling disclo- sures after telling the Federal Jury of a scheme to forge President Roo- at Steel Company Is | Testimony Today NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—The House committee investigating unAmerican activities, today received testimony that Communists engineered the first sitdown strike in the Michigan Midland Steel Company. Thirty-six-year-old Clyde Morrow, employee of the Ford Motor Com- pany in Detroit, said the strike was led by John Anderson, Communist candidate for Governor in 1934, and Nat Granley, described by Morrow as a Communist and member of several unions at one time, under |various names. “These men uneaded the strike and with the aid of a Communist nucelus in the union, kept the workers at fever pitch by saying Receives Order of the Ger- man Eagle—Presenta- tion in Unique Way BERLIN, Oct. 19.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh has received one of Germany's highest decorations, the Order of the German Eagle The unceremonious presentation was made last night by Field Mar- shal Goering. The decoration was made to the flier at a reception Ambassador Wilson gave in honor of Col. Lind- bergh. As Goering was passing down the receiving line, he paused when he came to the American flier, telling the latter that he had orders from his chief, Adolf Hitler, to give him the decoration of the Order of the | German Eagle as a token of Ger- many’s esteem for Col. Lindbergh |in the work he has done for avia- tion. Col. Lindbergh modestly replied: “I thank you.” - Al for Man Arrested, Nome, In l.fiAr. Slaying Books of Mirow Service | Show Ryan Was There | | When Crime Committed | NOME, Alaska, Oct. 19. — The Mirow Air Service books disclose that Herbert Dudley Ryan. ariested here in connection with the alleged slaying of George “Les” Bruneman, Los Angeles gambler, one year ago, |was working here on the day of the reported slaying. | | Hans Mirow said: “Daily entries in my books disclose that Herbert Dudley Ryan worked on October 25 and October 26, 1937, as evidence. sevelt’s signature on faked White strikebreakers were brought in to ;. i own handwriting appearing | House stationery. take their jobs and the militia on my book of entries.” What Hungary | Japanese Inva after German occupation also are shown. Is Demanding of Czecho "’ ; WARSAW ® de South China S Forelgn' axpérts areh unabl; :D Rumrich said the forgery was in- understand what has happened 10| yo,4eq in order to procure informa- the Chinese defenders and €X-|yon apout two U. S. Navy airplane press amazement at the mp‘d“'y‘carners. of the Japanese advance. which i | 415 pumrich said Karl Schiuet- one week has carried the Rising|er messenger and payoff man for Sun flag 80 miles to the interior|ine spy ring, told him about open- from Bias Bay. ing the mail bag when he appeared RESIRI B i T skeptical and Johanna Hofman, hairdresser on the Europa, one of Iv | the defendants, showed him a pho- | tographic copy of the contract. eaking in a dispirited voice, 0RDERS 0 uT get a lot of money for\ the informa- | tion of the Navy's airplane carriers. TO STEEL CO. pp wORLEY I Must Offer Reinstatement| came down for the purpose of aid Bruneman was slain on October ing them,” said Morrow. l95 1937, Morrow said he joined the Com-| Ryan was arrested here on a tele- !munists for the purpose of getting|graphic warrant from Los Angeles, first hand information and asserted |gent by the Bureau of Investigation that he was on hand when the sit- |at Los Angeles charging unlawful down strike began. flight to escape prosecution in con- YO nection with the slaying there of Bruneman. The Los Angeles authorities are also seeking Pete Pianezzi and |Jackie Kane, indicted with Ryan. NEW YORK, Oct. 19.—Closing |It is alleged ,"he trio put Bruneman quotation of Alaska Juneau mine O the spot in a shabby beer parlor stock today is 9%, American Can | and killed him, also Frankie Greuz- 100%, American Light and Power ard, a bystander, when he attempt- 6%, Anaconda 38'%, Bethlehem Steel [ed to get the trio’s auto license | |62%, Commonwealth and Southern |number. | 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General | |Motors 50, International Harvester g s | - £ STOCK QUOTATION: ¢ L oo e | RYAN MUST GO SOUTH Attempting a giant pincer offensive against Hankow, the Japanese landed a new expeditionary force at Bias Bay in South China under the protection of big navy guns for a thrust to cut off Canton from Hongkong. Troops landed at Hachung and advanced inland (arrow on big map) toward the Canton-Hongkong railroad, hoping to capture the line and the Canton River mouth and thus stop the flow of war supplies to Hankow via Canton. Inset map shows the drive against Hankow from the north and west (arrows); heavy black line, Japan’s “front” line; Sinyang, whefe the Peiping-Hankow railroad was re- 62, Kennecott 48%, Safeway Stores | LOS ANGELES, Cai, Oct. 19. —/| ported out; and Changsha against which another drive was directed. slovakia | MILES The shaded areas just above Hungary on this map show the part of dismembered Czechoslovakia de- manded by Hungary as the latter’s troops prepared to occupy Satoralja Ujhely and Ipolysag. ticns continued in Komarom, with frequent disorders reported. Borders of old and new Czechoslovakia Self-determinaticn for Ruthenians is another point in the Negotia- UNDER RULE OF ~ARMYFACTION Strict Martial Law Prevails Under Syrovy and Re- orgamzatlon MOVC PARIS, Oct. 19.—(Copywrighted by Associated Press)—Increasingly stern military control of Czechoslo- vakia has become evident under soldier-Premier Juan Syrovy. The government of this trouble- beleaguered little country has as- sumed authoritarian characteristics | of German and Italian regimes. An uncensored account said the Army General Staff now dominates all official activities, believing the government needs reorganization and the constitution a revision while the country attempts to adjust it- self to new conditions. Nevertheless, necessarily dicta- torial methods are leading to some dissension among ordinary govern- ment functionaries. The Army General Staff has or- ganized a separate propaganda sys- tem from the existing organization, and it is assumed this new body has higher rank than formerly. Persons leaving Czechoslovakia are allowed now to take only 200 crowns ($6.80 in American coin) out of the country. The Army is maintaining strict control of all telephones, telegraphs, and railroads, with all trains being| halted before reaching borders in | fear of confiscation by Germans or | Poles. South China 14 - PASSENGER SHIP, AFIRE, IS LANDED SAFELY ON DARK NIGHT Pilot, Hands Seared by Flames, Fuselage Burned, One Motor Dropped, Executes Flying Feat MONTG OMERY, Alabama, Oct, 19.—A new hero of airways was acclaimed as a mass of burned wreckage marked the spot where Pilot Dave Hissong, with flames leaping about him, brought eleven passengers and three crewmen safely to earth in his burning Eastern Airways plane. With one voice of gratitude, passengers and members of his crew testfied that “He saved us.” The 14-passenger, twin-motor- ed plane, Houston to New York ship, burst into flames near midnight a few miles from Montgomery. Although his hands were seared, fuselage burned and one motor dropped out, Piot His- song stuck to his controls and put the craft down in a dark, strange field. After he, passengers and crew mates alighted, the flames de- siroyed the ship. —————— TWO BRITISH BOMBERS HIT; IS SUSPICIOUS [Note Indicates Sabotage— | Member of Crew Is Be- lieved Responsible LONDON, Oct. 19.—Two Royal Air Force bombers collided in mid- air and six were killed. A mysterious note, indicating that a crash was anticipated, was foun near the wreckage. - The note read: “What will the plane look like within a few mifi- utes?” That a suicidal sabateur was ac< tually aboard is the explanation of officials. CRACKS UP ON ATTEMPTING TO FLY,BUCHAREST Capt. Alex Papana, Prev- 1ously Twice Grieved, GUEST SPEAKER 20%, Southern Pacific 19, United | Instructions have been given to the ~— to 5,000 Employees Who Walked Out ‘WASHINGTON, National Labor Relations Board has ordered the Republic Steel Corpora~ tion to offer reinstatement to about 5000 employees in six Ohio plants where a strike was called in May, 1937. The NLRB also ordered the com- pany to stop interfering with the formation of any labor organization discouraging membership in the Amalagamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and Steel ‘Workers organizing committee. The board, in a 100,000-word de- cision, held unfair labor practices of the corporation as the cause for the employees joining in the walk- out. If the corporation does not rein- state all striking employees, it must pay remedial wages, - e VALDEZ COURT SESSION The District Court of the Third Division will convene at Valdez on November 6. There will be a grand and petit jury called and the Ses sion will probably last several | | Dr.J. F. Worley, in his talk at the Oct. 19. — The | Norlitemen dinner last evening held | {in the parlors of the Northern Light Presbyterian Church, explained the | organization and some of the ac- |tivmes of the United States Pub- {lic Health Service. | Sixty were present for the din- |ner and community singing was enjoyed by all, accompanied at the piano By Stanley Cox. Plans were mage for entertaining the Norlitemen Boy Scout Troop at the November meeting, and it was, | also decided last evening to sponsor |a show in the near future, the pro- .ceeds of which will be used for the | church budget. | e 'THOMAS TRIAL SET FOR NEXT MONDAY Trial of Joe Thomas, charged with |reckless driving and driving an au- | tomobile while under the influence |of liquor, has been set for next Monday in U. 8. Commissioner’s ! court, it was announced today by | Assistant District Attorney George W. Folta. Thomas was the driver of the machine -in which. Alex Conn met death last Sunday morning. States Steel 62%, Bremner bid % asked 1, Pound $4.707%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: Industrials 150.02, down 2.08; rails 30.71, up .08; util- ities 2345, down .91 —ee—— KING FAROUK TAKES T0 AR ALEXANDRIA, Oct. 19.—Eigh- teen-year-old King Farouk, after | United States Marshal's office to act | at once in the matter of returning | to Los Angeles, Herbert Dudley Ry- | ary, held at Nome, Alaska, as a sus- pect in the slaying of a year ago | of “Les” Bruneman. This action was taken after Capt. ‘Walhs, of the Los Angeles Police | Homicide Squad told Federal au- thorities “we have positive evidence to blast Ryan’s alibi to shreds.” Ryan, according to advices from | Nome, contends he was working |in the north when Bruneman was shot down in a Los Angeles beer parlor. | Capt. Wallis would not disclose the evidence he has. | The authorities estimate that it will take three weeks to get Ryan Supreme Court Now in Session; Justice Black Continues in Spotlight NEARLY SEVEN HUNDRED ARE GALE VICTIMS taking his first flight in a plane, | 400, sieamer unless he is flown| PROVIDENCE, R. L. Oct. 19, — |decided to become a pilot. | The King will at once take a ‘speclal course at a military school ! -, Concentration Camp For Jews Established LINZ, Oct. 19.—A new concentra- lnon camp with a capacity of 7,000 |prisoners has been completed. The |camp is intended especially for Jews, |to Juneau and a steamer is con-| | tacted there. P { MARRIED AT WRANGELL Miss Margaret McCormick and | Mr. Robert Murphy were recently !married in Wrangell. Owing to the |recent illness of the bride’s mother |no formal invitations were issued, but the father, P. C. McCormick, | cordially invited all friends of the| |young couple to attend the cere-! mony in the Catholic Church. Red Cross officials’ recheck of the death list shows that 682 persons lost their lives in the hurricane of last month. ——e——— CELEBRATION HELD At the 25th anniversary of the Petershurg Daughters of Norway, celebrated Saturday night, October 15, Mrs. Marie Berglund, Grand Presidant of the Daughters of Nor- way at Tacoma, was the special guest By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 19, — Well, here we are again with the Supreme Court on our hands, including Jus- tice Black. Insiders say that whatever the members’ may think of Justice Black’s technique in writing major- ity decisions, they are increasingly wary of his dissents. When a justice is assigned to wrile a decision of the court, the wording must satisfy all members of the ma- | jority before it is released. But a | justice can write a dissent as he pleases. In one instance, Justice Black held that Federal courts were | bound to accept interpretations of state courts as to the common law. | Already the Federal courts are obligated to accept the interpreta- tion placed by state courts on (Continued on Page Five) '|VISITORS WILL BE CHAMBER SPEAKERS TOMORROW NOON| Karl K. Katz, representative of {the Northern Pacific Railway, Carle F. Williams, Assistant Manager of | the New Washington Hotel, Seattle, {and Leonard Soholt, of Ketchikan, | District Deputy of the Elks Lodge, | |are invited guests to the Juneau |Chamber of Commerce luncheon {tomorrow noon in Percy’s Cafe. A special surprise program also is being arranged, it is announced. {SUPPER HONORS | R. E. ROBERTSON In celebration of the birthday of R. E. Robertson, Juneau at- torney, Mrs. Robertson entertained llast evening at her Gold Street residence with a buffet supper. | Twenty-one guests were present | |for the occasion and the evening | was spent informally. - KERK& TO SITKA Lawrence Kerr left on the North | Sea for Sitka, accompany a pioneer | to the home there. Kerr will make | the round trip. Abandons Flight MIAMI, Fla., Oct. 19.—Capt. Alex Papana, of the Rumanian Air Force, has abandoned his proposed flight to Bucharest following an accident the third in a series of misfortunes. Capt. Papana escaped injury yes- terday when his plane went into a ground loop while speeding down the runway at the takeoff. The undercarriage crumpled. Capt. Papana one month ago was grieved when his young and pretty wife died in child birth. Four months previous he cracked up in New York when taking off on a proposed nonstop flight to Bucharest. A DS Revolutionary Plot I$ Nipped RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 19.—The Brazilian Government announces that a revolutionary plot has been thwarted. The movement is considered a link in the putsch of last May.