The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7930. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA FLIER IS MISSING TO WESTWARD Fall of Hankow Is Reported to Be CHINESE ARE NOW LEAVING CAPITAL CITY Mass Bomb;g—s Have Been Ordered to Break Last Resistance JAPANESE MAKING STEADY ADVANCES Shipping Warned to Get Out of Sector—Canton Completely Occupied (By Ass Japanese commanders claim that the fall of HWankow. Provicinmal Capital City of China, is imminent. 4SS DOIIDINGS NAVE DEell Uiucicu and this is foreseen as the last at- tempt to break Chinese resistance in the Hankow sector. Foreign shipping has been warned to immediately get out of the way. It is known that Chinese off: and their families have been ¢ instructions . in Hankow to evacuation immediately as the Jap- anese forces drive steadily toward that Provisional Capital City. The exodus of civilians al- ready taxing transportation facili- ties, it is said. Foreign shipping companies ex- press fear that it will be impossibic | to sail upriver after next Tuesday. October 25, when it is understood mass bombing will begin. The United States gunboats Guam and Luzon are reported still at Han- | kow and they will be utilized, as far as pessible, in evacuating Am- | erican officials, families and other | nationals. Reports from Canton, through | Tokyo advices, state the Japanese| have completely occupied that South China metropolis ciated Press) is Slot Machines, IHicit Liquer Salgfi Stopped Police Swoop Down on Gambling and By-the- Drink Violations Starting a campaign against slot machine gambling and places where MOP-UP IN CANTON CANTON, Oct. 22.—Preceded by | a mop-up detachment which clear- ed the downtown streets of Chinese stragglers, the main force of the Japanese invasionists entered this | city late today. 1 Rifle fire was heard in the down- | town section before the main ex-| peditionary force made a triumphal entry. There are no reports of looting. Fires which were started yester- day have been burned out. SPEED SHIPS TOBEBUILT the drink, Chief of Police Dan Ral- ston late yesterday ordered 12 slot machines out of business and serv | warning on several places where scld by the drink in violation of | the Territorial law. The Chief said that his inspec- tion today revealed the machines BUILDING CODE { WHERE THERE WAS SMOKE, there was fire when flames consumed 500-gallon oil truck on road at Saugus, Mass. temporarily endangered by fire. AGAIN BEFORE CITY COUNCIL Gross Penthouse and Mar- shal’s Rock Wall Head- aches for Officials Building, new and old, occupied the attention of the City Council it is alleged liquor has been sold by at its regular meeting last night in| | the City Hall. | Attention of the Council was called by City Engineer Milton Lag- ergren to the present construction of the new Gross Twentieth Century city’s building code was being vio- | lated through the construction of |a pent house on the top TROUBLE NEAR ALONG BORDER, CZECH-HUNGARY Hungarians Mobilized to Force Demands for More Territory LARGE FORCES ARE FACING EACH OTHER Germany and Italy Pressing Little Nation Not to _ Go to Conflict PRAGUE, Oct. 22.—The General Staff reports the killing of 12 Hun- garian terrorists and one Czech gendarme in southern Czechoslo- vakia Czech troeps captured a number of other alleged terrorists, seized arms and ammunntion and sur- rounded eight who made up the remainder of the band. Two Czech soldiers were wounded in a second skirmish. Meanwhile hundreds of thousands | of Czech trops are ready for action along the Hungarian border but the general feeling is that Hungary will not resort to arms to enforce terri- | torial demands. One source said 750,000 Czechs are concentrated on the Czech-Hun- | {garian frontier and another report declares that nearly half a million Hungarlan soldiers are facing the Czechs. Dispatches from Budapest said Germany and Italy are pressing Hungary to accept the Czech’s lat- est offer to cede half of the land demanded by Hungary. - e AMERICANS IN BIG LUCK FOR FOREIGN RACES Ticket Holders, Irish Hos- pital Sweepstakes, Lead in Drawings also DUBLIN, Oct. 22. — Americans took the lion’s share of luck of the twenty-fifth Irish Hospital Sweep-| stakes as they draw exactly half of 50 residual prizes of $530 each They went to American ticket hold- ers who also gained 781 of 1400 it was charged hard liquor had been | Theatre Building, charging that the | consolation prizes worth $500 each The Americans are therefore as- sured of winning $1,750,000 and on | | the law of averages should get half | While the original plans and spec- | or more of the money to be awarded | FOR PACIFIC Three 35,000-ton Vessels Are Planned by U. S. ifications called for a pent house, Mayor Harry I. Lucas explained, the | petition to build the pent house | was denied by the Building Inspec- | | out of business and reputed liquor-| | by-the-drink stopped. The| e | | Chief said there were three or four | es | places where it was alleged the| | liquor law was being violated. i S L L Y, tor and no approval has since been}4 HAL'BUTEHS | given. However, he said, work on| |on the outcome of the race. | The total prize fund is $7,026,500. | Maritime Com. | Several months ago & large num- ST | ber of slot machines were confis- WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—M. L. cated by the Marshal's office and Willeox, Director of Operations of | for a time there were no machines the United States Maritime Com-|{in town. However, recently they mission, said today that the com-|have been coming back one at a| mission is designing three 35,000- time, the Chief said, until they were ton trans-Pacific passenger ships | beginning to reach a point where|ihe Council voted to visit the Gross | as the next step in the development f flagrant gambling was going on. of the American merchant marine. | .- sconst;uctl:n ronwthenthrc: ::::'WAGN R PROPERTY gl KM iy LITIGATION ENDS six or eight months. The ships will cost between eight | and eleven million dollars and each | Several years litigation over the will carry 800 passengers, The craft | John Wagner homestead at Salmon will have a speed of 23 knots an|Creek came to an end today when hour and reduce the present round | Federal Judge George F. Alexander trip voyage between the Pacific|in District Court denied a motion Coast and the Orient by one week.|to have the confirmation of sale —— o> | set aside. Previously the court had “P " confirmed sale of the property to e ec "s a“ | Tom, Joe and Gus George of George Bros. . i It is over a portion of this prop- Ac "I“ed Mul’dersrty that the proposed new bridge ] |at Salmon Creek will be erected and negotiaticns are w underway for CHICAGO, Ill.,_—OcL 22— Rudolph complecix?g fighhof—w:y vtvransxer. Sikora, the “Perfect Husband,” has| gppCHIKAN COURT TERM been acquitted by a Criminal Court Jury on the charge he murdered| qpe spring term of court in Ket- | that portion of the structure now going on although the Building Inspector had orded it tinued. | Visit Building After discussing the building code {and its possible need of revision, discon- 5b\ulding at 11:30 o'clock this fore- noon. Members of the Council said this afternoon that the visit had peen made but no action had been taken and probably would not be before Monday. A special meeting of the Council is called for Monday for opening of the sewer bids which are returnable by 5 p.m. Monday. That Rock Wall Under the heading of old con- struction, the Council had before it the question of the rock wall be- tween the Federal Jail and the property of Councilman Sam Pel- don on Calhoun Avenue at Fourth. Councilman Feldon has asked that the wall be removed. City engineers declare the wall is in Fourth Street. Mayor Lucas said he had taken the matter up several months ago with U. 8. Marshal William T. Ma- honey and that the Marshal told him if he wanted the wall removed | | to go ahead and move it. A couple Edward Solomon who stole the love of his comely wife. The acquittal verdict was greeted with cheers by the crowd which thronged the court room, | chikan has been called for March‘of days ago the Mayor hired D. B. 14 when the grand jury will con- Femmer to start removing the wall vene there, it was announced today About the same time the Mayor from the District Court. The petit jury will convene on March 21, (Continued on Page Seven) : SELL, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Oct. 22. — Halibuters ;selling here today are as follows: From the western banks—Wes! ern, 40,000 pounds, selling for 12% | {and 10% cents a pound. : | From the local banks—Evolution, | 11,000 pounds, Alitak, 2,000 pounds, | | Bertha, 3,000 pounds, all selling for }12 cents a pound. | — e * e + STOCK QUOTATIONS | | - NEW YORK, Oct, 22. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session of |the New York Stock Exchange is 9%, American Can 104%, American |Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 40%, Bethlehem Steel 67, Common- wealth and Southern 2, Curtiss | Wright 7, General Motors 51%, International Harvester 63%, Ken- |necott 49%, Safeway Stores 20%, | Southern Pacific 20%, United States | Steel 65%, Pound $4.75%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 154.11, up 1.96; rails 31.59, up .46; utilities 23.69, up .16, C SQUADRO \ i LANTI NEWLY-AUTHORIZED ATLA off Norfolk. Left to is staff, shown aboard the flagship, Philadelphia, g‘msifh,ameut. J. W. Adams, Rear Admiral Forde A. Lieut. G. L. Caswell and Lieut. C. B. Wage-Hour Act Boss Sworn In ! pat s S e | Todd, who is in charge Laning. This will be first such squadron for U. S. since 1931 N will be under direction of right: Lieut. Commander H. W. of the 14-ship squadron; 3 NEW SIGNS BUSINESS IS ON RECOVER President Makes Note of Indication, Sighting Important Upturns HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 22— President Roosevelt sees recovery for business. The Presiaent hails the official report from industry of a general earing PILOT GLENN DAY NOT SEEN SINCE MONDAY |Was Last Sighted Flying in | Poor Weather, Rainy Pass Region | PLANE WITH FOUR " ABOARD ALSO DOWN \ iy {Pilot Ray Peterson Makes ‘L Landing Wednesday | —Out of Gas | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 22.— |One pilot is missing and another pilot and three passengers were |stranded last night in the stormy |Rainy Pass country northwest of |here in the McKinley Mountain | range. Glenn Day, private pilot and pro=- | prietor of the Day Navigation Com- | pany, riverboat outfit on the Yukon, ‘Wns last seen last Monday flying |alone in poor weather into Rainy Pass. | Pilot Jack Elliott flew over 500 |miles over the country yesterday |searching the valleys and little | frequented terrain unavailingly for iDay and resumed the search today. | Plane Down | Two small privately owned planes |carriea food and gasoline into the ‘mgged area to a stranded party. | Pilot Ray Peterson was forced to |a landing last Wednesday after bucking a 50-mile head wind and |running out of gasoline. Pilots Larry Larson and Jack Peck flew supplies to Peterson and his three passengers. Peterson’s plane | disposition to comply with the Fed- |js gmall enough to land and be | eral wage and hour law as one big sign. The announcement of General Motors Corporation that 35000 workers will be rehired is the sec- ond big sign as this also indicates |able to take off on a small creek. | Flier Injured A. W. Berry, private flier, was injured last night when his plane, /in landing at the airport, crashed linto another. Berry received cuts, . |a great recovery in the auto in- pryises and a sprained angle. He | on is pictured with hand upraised as he took |recovery is the report of the Inter-|pignes is estimated at $3,000. a gain of 260 percent in the num-| Elmer Andrews, of New York, the oath of office in the Labor Department, W: trator of the Wage-Hour Act. Administering th i Samuel J. Gompers. Andrews was industrial commissioner York State. Washington, D. C., as adminis- the oath is Chief Clerk for New Sorting Liberals from ConservativesIs Hard Business, Party Men Say | | | (leadership of President Roosevelt, | would run grave risk of cracking| |up on the rocks of state party or-| 2 i ganizations and state election laws.| fair to report at this point that| g,ch Jaws were planted long ago| this business of sorting Liberals py' the major parties to get a| from Conservatives is, in the minds gpart In this connection it was re- | By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 22Tt of Party Sergeants who must get|cgjleq that the First Roosevelt lost and Lee 6. out the vote, a slow business which ot poth in the convention and in| may never be completed. the election wMen he attempted We asked certain keen-edged such a move. In several states he vote-wranglers in both major par- couldn’t even get his name on the ty organizations what significar ballot. could be attached to the defeat in/ Keep in mind that these are not | New York of Representative John|the views of the intense liberals or| J. O'Connor. He is an important!intense conservatives who might| House Committee Chairman who like to see such a clear cut party didn’t suit the administration. O’- division, even at the expense of Connor was left by the primary ill‘wm;mmr_v defeat. These opinioml the anomalous position of losing come from men whose principal the nomination of his own party business is seeing to it that their while winning the Republican nom- | party organizations win elections. ination. It was the Aammistration’s first VOTERS success in rooting out of the party a man it considered a “conserva- HAVEN'T CHOSEN The trouble is (and most of our sources agreed on this) you can't| g tive” s0 as to pave the way for|giyige the electorate up into liberal electing a liberal. That is snail's| unq conservative groups on the progress at best; we wanted a|pggis of national issues. In times smart opinion on whether a faster| ,a. the electorate, responding to pace might. be expected. |a business depression, has thrown —_— lout the incumbent, igrioring liberal| THREE ‘LIBERAL’ OPINIONS |or conservative principles. Tremen- | The composite opinion from | qou5 jmportance attaches also to sources important in both party or-|j,ca1 jssues and local figures. ganizations is: | One informant related the expe-| 1—The pace will be slow. The|yjence of representatives of one of | prospects of anti-New Deal Demo-|the prominent “straw vote” organi- | crats ‘being crowded out of the ,ations engaged in frequent sam-| Democratic party by 1940 or even|ping of public opinion. The agency | by 1944, are not great. | was making a house to house l:an-i 2—The outlook for a greal mass yass to determine the popularity | migration of liberals into one party of «ljperal” policies as against and conservatives into another m.‘uwm"va“vc-v policies. Masses of any near future date is equally|inose visited could not tell the cm-1 barren. | ference. Before their opinion could | 3—Any effort to launch a “pure| . liberal” third party, even under (Continued on "Pvnige Two) dustry. top of these two signs for ior Department which shows |ber of visitors to the national parks. — e FOOT BALL] RESTLTS The following-are final scores of principal football games played in various parts of the nation this af- ternoon: Washington 7; California 14 Carnegie Tech 0; Notre Dame 7. Syracuse 12; Michigan State 19. Tufts 6; Williams 6, tie. blames the crash to the unlighted beacon. The damage to the two BLAZE DOES " BIG DAMAGE I SEATILE Victor Franck Boat Com- | pany's Plant Swept— | Mother Is Heroine | SEATTLE, Oct.22.—A spectacular Wayne of Michigan 7; Ohio 52. W. Va. Wesleyan 0; Catholic U. 21./$25000 fire destroyed the Victor Kentucky 7; Xavier 26. Franck Boat Company's plant on Virginia Tech 0; Washington Lake Union and swept through the | adjoining Edison Vocational School. Several boats were also burned. Two firemen were injured and required hospitalization. Penn State 6; Cornell 21. Texas Christian 21; Marquette 0. Colgate 14; Iowa 0. Virginia Military Wwilliam Mary 0. Georgetown 14; Manhattan 13. Auburn 6; Georgia Tech T. Mercer 0; Tulane 51. Kansas 7; Iowa State 21. | Miami 6; Drake 18. Wisconsin 7; Purdue 13. Kansas State 13; Indiana 6. Duke 7; Wake Forest 0. Dartmouth 13; Harvard T. So. Methodist 7; Pittsburgh 34. Princeton 13; Navy 13, tie. Georgia 6; Holy Cross 29. Columbia 13; Pennsylvania 14. Chicago 7; Ohio State 42. Boston U. 0; Army 40. New York U. 6; Lafayette 7. Yale 13; Michigan 15. Temple 26; Boston College 26, tie. Mississippi State 12; Duquesne 7. Arizona 14; Loyola 12. Willamette 41; College of Idaho 0. Fordham 26; Oregon 0. Alabama 32; Sewanee 0. Centre 26, Presbyterian College 7. Tennessee 4; Citadel 0. Texas A. and M. 6; Baylor 6, tie. West Virginia 20; Creighton 13. Oklahoma 14; Nebraska 0. Montana 0; North Dakota 7. Missouri 13; Washington of 6t. Institute 14; | Mrs. M. D. Stewart and her two {children were trapped aboard a ‘cruxser, She grabbed the children |and plunged into the lake and was |later rescued. HOLDEN MAKES ' MERCY FLIGHT; COPE TO ATLI Alex Holden flew to Hoonah this morning on an emergency flight for Marine Airways, then flew to the Polaris-Taku mine, while Lon Cope came in from Fairbanks and then flew to- Atlin. Holden brought in Salina Carl- son from Hoonah for medical care | at St. Ann’s Hospital. On the mine trip, Holden brought in A. Soelk, D. Zarrelli and William Schriver from the mine, and stopped at Mary Joyce's to bring in Ed | Sweum and Bill Hixon. | Cope came in from Whitehorse | where he had been grounded by poor weather on a flight here from | Fairbanks with a new Fairchild 71 for Marine Airways. He then left for Atlin with W. J. Etherington, Louis 0. Texas Finland is called the “land of a thousand lakes.”