The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 21, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIL, NO. 7929. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CANTON FALLS TO INVADING JAPANESE Alaska Rivers Sent They’re Still Bombing Barcelona TWO COMPANIES FROM CHILKOOT FIGHT FLOODS Over HundredMen on Trail Work Detail Washed Out by Cloudburst HEAVY DAMAGE DONE TO HAINES HIGHWAY One Detail ivgks Out Short Rationed—Fornance Rescues Other Scldiers on the Army tender For- nance, making a brief visit here from Chilkoot Barracks near Haines, tell a story of flood and storm that early this week marooned two er s of soldiers on trail work de- tail, put one group on short rations and endangered the lives of all Two work details from Company E and Company F were working from opposite ends of a trail pro- ject, over fifty men in each group. Company E was ¢amped about 15 miles up the Chilkat River from a base camp at Wells, 24 miles out the highway from Haines. Company ¥ | was camped at Chilkoot Lake, near | tidewater, a short distance north of | Haines. i Rivers Sent Up Heavy snow in the mountains over1 the weekend, followed Monday | night by high wind and torrents of warm rain, suddenly sent the| Chilkat and Chilkoot rivers raging out of their normal channels, with water rises of an estimated five feet in a few hours. Company F, near tidewater, spent Monday night moving and remov- ing camp equipment with new chan- nels of water being cut every hoif until the fifty-some men and their tents and equipment were stranded on a slowly disappearing island not over a block square. Frantic radio pleas were sent to the barracks for assistance and the tender Fornance was rushed to the scene, but because of heavy seas was | unable to take the endangered com- | pany to safety until Tuesday after- neon when several trips were made in wave-drenched lifeboats from the shore to the tender. Are Cut Off are still the greatest sufferers as war goes o are out of the public spotlight, but plane Here is a recent picture, made after a b Women and children pushed the Spanish warf their missiles of death. airmen. All eyes, save those of the most blase, are turned skyward, - Jack Doyle’s Trou.ble;Mountd Withdrawal of Stump Charges Now Requested | Industrial Union Council Acts on Passed Labor Unity Resolution KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 21- The Industrial Union Council, which sponsored a resolution at the recent Alaska Labor Unity Confer-i ence condemning Assistant United States Attorney W. C. Stump, yes- terday requested withdrawal of the resolution although the resolution had already been passed and the conference adjourned. The members of the Industrial Union Council said delegates still| remaining in Ketchikan agreed to the withdrawal. | No reason is given except to say a “correction” has been made. Stump specifically had been. con- | demned for his official action in| the case of two trap watchmen who | | were sentenced to jail when a trap Woe has ceme to the life of Jack Irish Rose” of pugilism. Elinore n in Spain. The Czech crisis may have s still fly over Loyalist cities, dropping ombardment of Barcelona by Franco's whence death may come at any moment, INGREASES IN INCOME TAXES NOW PROPOSED Congressional Experts Con- sidering Ways and Means to Raise Cash gressional tax experts are studying several proposals for increasing in- conte taxes to finance an expanded armament program. Authoritative sources said an em- ergéncy ten per cent increase in incbme taxes is one method under cornsideration to apply to both in- dividual and corporate incomes. It will yield about two hundred mil- lion dollars annually, it is said, but the levy would be imposed only for a year or two. Chairman Walsh of the Senate Naval Affairs Committee, revealed the Navy is prepared to recommend expenditure of fifteen million dol- lars for West Coast shore stations, including seven million dollars for an Alaska air base. Consideration also is being given to taxation needs in the event of war. Senator Connally suggested imposition of a drastic income tax increase in such a contingency. The President already has said an extra hundred and fifty million dollars would be need for naval construc- tion. fienator Walsh said: % “It is quite apparent from what is happening in the world that more and more attention is géing to have to be given to airplanes. 1 am convinced we must build up [that feature of our national de- fense.” LEHMAN PUT ON SPOT BY LAGUARDIA ’New York Mayor Withholds Support Until Governor Talks on New Deal Doyle, the Irish thrush and “mild Troy (left), who said they'd been Raging WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — Con- | T \ JAPAN IS HIT 'BY TYPHOON; ~ LIVES LOST { | 21, — A typhoon| Thousands of trees are uprooted.| to-| Tokyo's communications and at | transportation systems are partly| TOKYO, Oct. | roared in from the sea early day taking, at first estimates, | least 250 lives and injuring hun- | paralyzed. dreds of others. Tens of thousands of workers | The typhoon hit about 2:30 o'-|were unable to reach their places clock this morning and lashed |of employment this morning. | through the surrounding watersand | Most of the schools are closed. | then on inland. i All sailings from Yokohama are All points along the coast report |suspended. being hit. ‘ Seven passenger ships scheduled In Tokyo and Yokohama districts | to arrive in Yokohama this morn- and elsewhere nearby an estlmated‘mg failed to dock and are riding 35,000 are homeless and thousands |out the gale | of dwellings have been destroyed. | About 20 fishing vessels are re- Some buildings in the flooded | ported missing along the coast and | Tokyo area have collapsed. | all have large crews aboard. “Parti; t;)yaltl)r’; by Dnervnocrats Publicly Urged by Farley Now| | | . . ‘ PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 21.—| Ame"ca“ Le Iu“ Chairman James A. Farley, of the | Democratic National Committee, ! w 0 2 - Weex rrociaime speaking last night before more than 3,000 who paid: $100 each for Observances Planned in Alaska to Be Climaxed |a steak dinner, called for “party loyalty.” with Armistice Day Farley said the Republicans have | chosen Pennsylvania as the “special battleground” for the November elections although many other | states are balloting next November in the “national election.” | He declared that if the Republi- | cans are able to win even a partial | victory they “will parade it as proof | that the New Deal is waning, but| 4 |T do not think there will be any| American Legion Week, Novem-‘like parade.” |ber 4 to 11, will be observed this| pgey declared the Republicans year throughout the nation and the | ;v striving to get enough men| following proclamation was 1‘““ed}clccted to Congress to “make| | today by Gov. John W. Troy setting | youple” only. | |aside the occasion in Alaska: } DOROTHY HALE A PROCLAMATION | Plans for a greater nationwide | celebration of the twentieth anni- versary of Armistice Day will be Out of Banks SOUTH CHINA SUPPLY CITY 1S CAPTURED Hundreds of Thousands of Inhabitants Flee in All Directions PUBLIC UTILITIES ARE ALL DYNAMITED Parts of Cit;‘l_?eponed to Be in ['lames as Enemy Forces Enter HONGKONG, Ocl. 21.—Jap- anese troops have entered Can- ton, South China metropolis and the vital supply center of the Chinese forces. The entry was made after & fast overland offensive, which started more than 100 miles away, on October 12. Utter confusion reigned as the invaders pierced the first line * defenses of the city. Chinese Government officials fled to Yungyum, 92 miles north of Canton. UTILITIES DYNAMITED Before evacuation, fhe Chi- nese Cantonese dynamited the power plant, cement plant and all major utilities before the Japanese entrance, carrying out the defender’s “scorched earth policy.” Nothing is to have been left behind that the in- vaders might utilize. INHABITANTS FLEE Hundreds of thousands of in- habitants fled in all directions and only a small fraction of the original population is left. As the Japanese approached, the Cantonese tried furiously to dig trenches and make machine gun emplacements. CITY IN FLAMES Parts of the city are reported in flames, Fourteen hundred Chinese. are reported to have been killed by the Japanese in making en- try to the city but about only 40 invaders were shot down by the defenders, Reports received here state that Gen. Chiang Kai Shek is started with Presidential and Con- TAKES PLUNGE preparing to leave Hankow, the other main objective of the Japanese. ——————— engaged for two days, walked up to Doyle (right) in a New York night club, punched him on his nose in the presence of his companion, Michi Taka (center), Japanese dancer who stepped between them and waved Elincre to a neutral corner. Then Doyle was hailed into Company E, a few members of which trickled into the barracks yesterday morning, fared less for- tunately. Cut off from their sup- | gressional approval in Washington, | HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 2L—Ip ¢ At 11 o'clock on the morning | |Mayor F. H. LaGuardia indicated,|or November 11, President Roose- | lafter a conference with President | ye1t will participate in the cere- | which they were watching was| | caught fishing one Sunday during | | the recent season. | plies by washouts on the highway and the trail as well, short rations were ordered. Trucks from the post usually take “mess” from the barracks 24 miles to Wells where pack horses from the trail camp pick up the food. When the, floods hit, a landslide buried the highway twelve miles out, and washed the road out in| three other places, taking out two small bridges and a new bridge ap- | proach. The newly-built trail was)| also washed out in a mumber of| places. | “Walk, Starve, Drown” With the Chilkat River ‘swollen | and filled with rushing debris, out- board motors could not be used | with the few boats at the camp, mot DuPont, internationally known | REMOVAL OF TAXATION 1 BEING URGED Lammot D;E)nt Makes Recommendation—TIs Not a Complaint United States.—AP Photo. BOSTON, Mass, Oct. 21.—Lam-| By PRESTON GROVER court by Themas McGovern, who claimed he brought Doyle to this country in the first place to fight, He was released when an out- And when he arrived in Los Angeles several days after the night club affair he was arrested as he stepped from an airplane and charged with “illegal entry” when he obtained a visa to enter the What Do Séfi(;,téfs Do W”l’wn Abroad? Rey Alaska; Shoots Bull—-Walrus| [Roosevelt, that he will withhold his | monjes of laying a wreath at the support to Gov. Herbert H. Leh-|pomb of the Unknown Soldier in man’s reelection unless the Gover-| arjington Cemetery. His address will| nor states he is firmly behind the pe proadcast to the Nation. { New Deal. | " Naturally a large part of the cele- Talking to newsmen, Mayor La-|pration of the twentieth anniversary Guardia criticized Gov. Lehman for of Armistice Day will be directed avoiding a direct reply recently to|through the American Legion by reporters’ questions whether he|H. L. Plummer, assistant Legion na- would stress support of the Na-|tional adjutant. | tional Administration during the| The American Legion calls for a New York campaign. simultaneous outpouring of patrio- “Gov. Lehman should have an-|tic sentiment, organized in 11470 swered the question you boys put to | communities of the nation through him the other day after he visited | Posts of The American Legion and | President Roosevelt,” said Mayor | Units of the Auxiliary. From The: LaGuardia. American Legion’s humanitarian | Gov. Lehman is a Democratic | program through the years has come candidate for Governor for the|a rich contribution toward the bet- |fourth term. He also received the |terment of community, state and and wanted a share of his profits. of-court settlement was reached. nolds Goes to in Europe. “There of | T0 HER DEATH Motion Picture Actress Falls| from Window, 16th Floor Apartment NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Dorothy Hale, motion picture actress, plunged to her death early today from a window of her sixteenth floor room in an exclusive hotel overlooking Central Park. Years ago she was described as a great movie find. Dorothy Hale was the widow of Gardiner Hale who was killed in 1931 when an automobile went off a 500-foot cliff in California. 13 INDICTED BY GRAND JURY IN NEWMEXICO WPA Sweeping Probe CallsMany Prominent Officials for Graft | ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., Oct. 21. |—New and farther reaching actions are hinted as impending in the isa't a good drink 21.—What whisky in Europe,” he snorted. industrialist, urged removal of tax- | 3 | |ation and labor legislation from the nation. | Reports were circulated last sum-|wake of indictments by the Federal | endorsement of the American Labor November 4 to 11 has been desig- | mer that she was engaged to WPA G,.,,,1 Jury usgainst 73 persons (Continued on Page Seven) Party of which Mayor LaGuardia WASHINGTON, Oct. R JORNBULLIS CIVEN POINTER BY UNCLE SAM Bluntly Told to Make Trade Concessions or Treaty Is All Off with US. | WASHINGTON, Oct. 21. — The| United States has given Great Brit-| ain to bluntly understand, it is| reliably reported, that she just grant substantial concessions re-| garding certain American products | or sée the end of negotiations of | the Anglo-American trade treaty, fall through. 1 Products causing trouble are au-| tomobiles, hams,” lard and bacon. The United States has already made substantial cencessions, irealm of partisan politics. |do politicians do when they go to DuPont said the proposal is recommndation, not a about taxation, but added: “The a | Europe? Egad, sir, they get about. complaint | Here's Senator euffey of Penn- Industrial System, which | sylvania, for instance, who is just has been charged with failure and back from several weeks in Europe impotence, has paid nearly nine billion dollars in taxes to support|representativ | where he went as one of the several ty es of the United States the services of the Government dus- at the Interparliamentary union at ing the past nine years.” Have You a Little Television in Your Home? Get Busy Now NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—Tele- vision is finally ready for home use. David Sarboff, President of Radio Corporation makes the announcement. He said his company is ready to market receivers and other The Hague. From the boat he went directly to Paris. It was hot there. Paris calls it “unusual weather.” (Where have we heard that before?) “What did you do there?” asked. “Oh, I toured about the city to | see what there was to see.” | “Folies Bergere?” | “Folies Bergere,” confirmed Gui- fey. “Some very pretty girls there he added, “and all the pretty ones are Americans.” Senator Guffey did not pretend to be an infernational | diplomat. He is an American poli- He later modified this slightly. | At the Deauville home of his | friend, Ralph B. Strassburger,| owner of the Norristown, Pa. Times, he got a drink of the “Best Scotch I ever tasted in my life.” He moved on to St. Jean de Luce to visit Claude Bower, American ambassador to Spain, who is com- pelled to live in this French city | just across the border instead of4 in Madrid. Together they went tal the border and looked across into embattled Spain. They did not 1Continu:‘;i on Page 8ix) is an active ‘member. — ., —— GOVERNOR TROY SAILS Gov. daughter Mrs. Robert Bender will leave on the North Sea tonight on a business and vacation trip south. short time and will probably con- tinue their journey to California. Gov. Troy and Mrs. Bender plan to return to Juneau before Christmas. 'Nazis of Germany, Austria, Are Denounced, Pope’s Talk CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy, Oct. The Pope is said to have used SOUTH ON NORTH SEA John W. Troy and th-‘ They will remain in Seattle for a| nated as American Legion Week. It is singularly appropriate that the 1938 program of The American Le- gion will be “for enduring peace.” In many states November 11 has been designated as a national holi- |day to be observed as such. Following the program in Wash- ington, D. C., starting one hour af- terward at noon, November 11, The American Legion will be on the air in a nationwide broadcast of its hour-long program dedicated to en- during peace and the deeper sig- nificance of the first Armistice. Na- tional Commander Stephen FP. Chadwick will address the nation over the facilities of the National Broadcasting Company from Wash- ington. Assistant Adjutant Plummer as- sures us that, “we are confident that more than one-half million vet- erans of the World War will cele- brate this twentieth Armistice as Administrator Harry L. Hopkins |but these were later denied. | e Man Arrested at ~ Nome Ordered to Be Released Now NOME, Alaska, Oct. 21.—Herbert Dudley Ryan, arrested here in con- nection with the alleged slaying of George “Les” Bruneman, gambler, in Los Angeles, apout a year ago, has been ordered released. United States Marshal Mozee said the ‘“release” 'order, on which he is to act immediately, came in instruc- tions from the Seattle office of the | tician, | THOSE DRINKS AT DEAUVILLE The Senator likes a good noggin lof whisky now and again, so we asked him about the liquor supply companies are expected to fol- low suit. Television service will be available Before the opening of the New York World’s Fair next April, |21.—The Vatican News Service said “very strong language” in reference the Pope denounced the Nazis in| to events in Germany and Austria. Germany and Austria. | His remarks were directed in part The denouncing was in a discourse | to the recent attack by a mob of before delegates to the Christian Nazis on Cardfal Innitzer's palace Archeological Congress. |in Vienna, members of The American Legion, | pederal Bureau of Investigation. re-enrolled in advance for 1939." Ryan denied implication in the Steps have been taken for genu-|myrder and his employer said he ine celebration of Armistice Day|was at work in Nome on the day the (Continued on Page Three) ' slaying took place. | churged with political graft in New Mexico's WPA. Dozens of persons prominent in IStal.e and Pederal politics have |been indicted on charges of con= ispiracy to defraud the Government |for political purposes. Among those indicted is U. 8, District Attorney Stanley Miller, son-in-law of Senator Chavez, and two Democratic county chairmen, Mrs. Anita Tafoya, sister of Senator Chavez, and Mrs. J. A. Werner, wife of an Albuquerque postmaster. Fred Healy, former State WPA Administrator, is also among the prominent persons indicted. Agents of the WPA under Specjal Agent C. E. Goranson who have worked for the past month with the Grand Jury are still pursuing their investigations. Federal Judge Colin Neblett, who |demanded the probe September T, sent instructions to agents to “spare no one,” and order defendants .ar raigned Thursday. The judge also directed that each " (Continued on Page Three)