The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 25, 1938, Page 1

| ; t | | I ! | | | DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7932. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 25, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HANKOW IN FLAMES; JAPS ENTER CITY - » * PACIFIC COAST PREPARES LAWS RULING LABOR Campaigners Would Put Strikes Under Binding Restrictments SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 25.-—- As campaigners strengthened their positions on the Pacific Coast with measures proposed for regulation of strikers, the workers in California, Washington and Oregon in turn de- nounced them as “Hitler-like.” In California, sponsors said se- curity tq employe and employers alike was the objective of Califor- nia’s measure to prohibit sitdown strikes and picketing by anyone not actually striking. Oregon’s new measure is designed to prohibit picketing and outlaw any interference in the marketing of any product and will prohibit unions . from collecting any more dues than legitimately required. Washington's measure will require dissatisfied employees to file writ- ten demands with their employer and be forbidden to strike within 30 days while settlement of grievances is attempted. — e, UTAH SMELTERS NOW REGPENING; BUSINESS 600D Two Big Plants to Go Into! Operation with Better | Copper Outlook ‘ SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. 25. —William J. O'Connor, manager of the American Smelting and Refin- ing Company at Murray, Utah, said today the big operations of the com- pany will reopen Wednesday, em- ploying 300 men. C. F. Kelley, President of HIP‘ Anaconda Copper Company, an-| nounced simultaneously that the In- ternational Smelting and Refining Company’s smelter at Tooele, Utah, will reopen in November. i | Kelley said, “Things look decided- ly better and I feel definitely opti- mistic about the copper situation.” - FISH PACKER ETOLIN BURNS; 1S TOTAL LOSS Craft Reported Destroyed by Fire at Red Bay | Trolling Station KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 25— Fish packer Etolin, 53 feet long, operated by Manuel Loftus of Wrangell, was destroyed by fire last Friday according to word received by the Northern Fisheries Company for which it packed fish. A brief message from Wrangell merely said the Etolin, which was built in Astoria in 1912, was de-, stroyed by. fire last Friday at the Red Bay trolling station. NawFNfi Many Officers, In Gase of War SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 25.—\ Rear Admiral David Potter said the United States Navy would need | 40,000 officers in case of war. The Navy now has 8,000 officers. ! Talbot, leading man of the films, | 120 feet. * » » * * * Russia Preparing for War By Building N o-Man’s-Land N < Mining or destroying /% bridges and roads < Ny Russia is trying something new in the way of defenses against Ger- many, diplomats report. It's a No-Man's-Land, ranging from a few to a hundred miles wide, along the border. In that strip trees are to be cut down—so that an invader would have no cover—and other preparations made against attack. The map gives an idea of what is to be done. Note that Germany is not a border country. Hitler, however, often has spoken and written of “the land to the East” and | Germa! eastward expansion. Soviet alliances crumbled in the Czech crisis, so she looks to her guns along the broad, productive Ukraine, one of her richest possessions. To Europe, Say Fiscal Agents ACTORS TRAPPED BY FLAMES; ARE FORGED TO LEAP Lyle Talbot and Franklin Parker Severly Burn- ed in House Fire By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. So many loopholes appear in the John- son act that fiscal sharpshooters here predict that foreigners, if pressed for credit, could borrow im- mense sums here in spite of the act’s restrictions on loans to debt- defaulting nations. In war time, of course, a differ- | ent situation would prevail, as the Neutrality Act, when invoked, would prohibit loans of any kind to for- eign nations or their nationals. But the Johnson act was a peace- time loan embargo measure. 1t was passed by Congress in 1934 in| BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Oct, 25, |the wake of a flood of defaults in| —Trapped by fire on the second | Payments on war debts and other floor of his pretentious home, Lyle debts. It prohibits fgreign govern- ments from borrowing money in this country as long as they are in default in their payments. Since every important European nation/ is in that predicament, it generally | has been assumed that they could | Both were taken to a hospital| no porrow a red cent in the U. S. suffering painful burns and attend- | | ants said the condition of both is| serious. WAR CRISIS BROUGHT Talbot’s hair burned to the scalp. | SCRUTINY | Parker’s back is severely burned., The Czech war scare, coupled with The house was nearly demolished | talk of loans to help revive Czecho- by the flames, slovakia and perhaps other nations, The fire was discovered by neigh- | has prompted a closer look. bors. The cause has not been de-| The Johnson act, while prohibit-| termined. |ing loans to debt-defaulting gov- Police said that it was learned ernments, does not prohibit loans that Talbot 'dragged Parker to|to private concerns in those coun- and his house guest, Franklin Par- ker, also an actor, were forced to leap to safety, a distance of nearly | | Capt. Bockland's. Mkt of safety. It was also learned that a party was in progress at Talbot’s home until early this morning. Talbot was burned severely about the face and head besides all of his hair burned from his scalp. — - DIVIDENDIS DECLARED BY U. S. STEEL NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—Directors The Rear Admiral also said a of the United States Steel Corpora- large part of the trained officers/ would have to come from ships of | the Merchant Marine, l tion, at a meeting this afternoon, declared a quarterly dividend of $1.75 a share, preferred stock. | tries. Further, the attorney gen- | |eral has ruled that munlclpalines; lin the debtor countries can borrow | here if their municipal bonds are| * * * * * * * * * * * * * PAN AMERICAN GIVEN PRAISE, OCEAN SYSTEM Hearing Conducted for Pur-| pose of Certificate— PAA Permit Up WASHINGTON, Oct. 25. — The| Civil Aeronautics Authority’'s Chief of Foreign Air Carrier Inspectors, | Edward L. Yuravich, praised the| Pan American Airways record across 8,000 miles of ocean between Cali- | fornia and the Orient, and said the service was satisfactory in every.| respect. | He was the only witness called by the Government as Examiner F. A. Law concluded the hearing to pass| on the application for an operating | certificate under a clause in the Civil Aeronautics Act which says a company is entitled automatically to such a certificate if the estab-| lished service is rendered adequate | and efficient. Law began a hearing of evidence to support a similar application| filed by the Pacific Alaska Airways. | Vice-President John C. Cooper Jr., | and Col. Clarence M. Young, Pacif-| ic Division Manager, testified he| believed the service had been ade- | quate and efficient despite unusual operating conditions. BEGIN HEARING ON CROUNDING, NORTH COAST But their meetings Baruch, in a series of conferences invade the western hemisphere. Sleeping in Underwear Is Brought Out SEATTLE, Oct. J. Borkland's habit of sleeping in his underwear played an important | part in the Federal Board's hearing of the grounding of the Alaska bound steamship North Coast off Vancouver Island during a fog on October 8. The board charges Capt. Bork- land and Pilot O. E. Monsaas with negligence and inattention to duty. Capt. Borkland said it took nine minutes for him to reach the bridze of the North Coast after he was called because he had to dress be- fore confronting the passengers. Pilot Monsaas said the Captain was on the bridge four minutes after the ship grounded. Capt. Borkland said it was im- possible. The Captain’s chief defense was the crew heard no fog horn warn- ings from Cape Mudge. Capt. William Fisher, of San Prancisco, in charge of the hearing, said sound does not travel on the sea under certain conditions and suggested that Capt. Borkland read a book on the subject. The North Coast freed herself and returned to Seattle after the mishap. SIX RUMANIAN ARMY OFFICERS (ILLED, CRASH SEINER ALDEN LOST IN GULF SUNDAY NIGHT Eight Men Have Close Call as Craft Is Abandoned in Fierce Gale —Capt. Andrew Eight men came perilously close to losing their lives in savage gale- ripped seas in the Gulf of Alaska Sunday night when the 69-foot seiner Alden was abandoned to the storm for a total loss of an esti- mated $20,000. The seiner Christine, of Seward, brought the eight men to Juneau today after battling with moun- tainous seas to rescue them while their boat drifted towards the teeth of roaring breakers near Dry Bay. Both vessels lett Thumb Bay, Prince William Sound, last week t0 return to Seattle. Well out in the Gulf, the storm struck. An attempt {was made to find safe harbor in Yakutat, but a howling gale and a black night forestalled the effort and the vessels stood to sea again Off Cape Fairweather at 8 o'clock Sunday morning, the seas became too much for the two craft and the Alden’s engine was missing, so they drifted. Soon, the light plants of both ‘boats “went on the fritz,” and with approaching night, total dark- ness closed in on the two wildly wallowing vessels and they lost each Clouds of war and conquest were far removed when Bernard Baruch and President Roosevelt were photographed in this informal moment. in recent days mission to Europe, warned the President that Adolf Hitler plans to manufactured goods and also requires raw materials, the President that Hitler has a detailed plan in readiness for the egoromic conguest of South Ameriea, During First Half of Year | Than at Any Timein History FIRES BURNING CAPTURED CITY, INNORTH CHINA American Bluejackets Land | to Protect Nationals, ‘ Other Interests BRITISH FORCES ALSO LEAVE SHIPS| Terrific Explosions Heard | as Chinese Retreat— Planes Patrol Air HANKOW, China, Oct. 25. Great fires are burning in this former Chinese provisional Capital | | City which has been abandoned by the Chinese Army. The Japanese 1orces have entered | | Hankow's environs but are still a | far distance from the heart of the| city. | Bluejackets Landed | Thirty Unitea States Bluejackets | of the American Navy Yangtze Pa- | trol Flagship Lyzon have landed to protect American lives and in- | terests. The American Blusjackets were then joined by British sailors who are policing the British and Rus- sian Concessions. Two British gunboats moved down the Yangtze and have anchored off | the former German Concession. The were of more serious nature as following his return from a secret Germany needs markets for her Baruch told Health of Americans Better | tied Gine gutiioat Lgnan 468 |up a position off the British area, near the National City Bank, and the American Concession. | British Wait for U. S. The British sailors did not land, i nor did the British gunboats make KANSAS CITY, Oct. 25. — Dr,|®ny move until the American blue- Thomas Parran, Surgeon General Jackets and gunboat initiated the of the United States Public Health | Movements. Service, told the members of the| TWO general explosions rended the st eventh annual meeting of the | i this forenoon, one a mysterious American Public Health Associa- |P1ast In the French Concession, un- tion the people of the United States | €XPlained, and the other a terrific were healthier during the past six|€XPlosion which blew up the Pei- months than at any time in his- | Ping-Hankow Rallway Terminus. tory. ;The latter explosion was at the The death rate from all diseases Dands of the Chinese just before de- | quring the first half of the year| Parture from the city. | decreased 8% percent from the Japanese planes are patrolling the year's raté, being anly 11 deaths per | SKi€s- thousand. The only important cause of death which showed a higher rate is can- | | cer which is three percent greater | the retreating Chinesg to hamper |than a year ago. ithe Japanese advarice and let i | nothing but ruins fall into their Building Coungil < misonse e ~ Asserts Federal few uniformed Chinese soldiers were seen on the streets. Many wounded are still sprawled on the streets while others are stumbling : | o UnionUnchanged . - TRUCKERS ARE Newly Formed ]ndustrial)BE CIO Group Accused of | | In the backwash ot current labor | g disputes in Juneau, the following S press release was given out today by the Juneau Building and Con- struction Trades Council through s Secretary C. W. Wright. Verbatim, the statement reads as follows: Fires in 3 Cities Hanyang are apparently started by | with the retreating forces. Sound Contrivance, Seek- ing Repeal of $45 Law, Fires in Hankow, Wuchang and imrough the streets to catch upi “The Juneau Building and Con-| |struction Trades Council, which is| composed of representatives from | Is Also Damaged PUEBLO, Col., Oct. 25.—Two op- erators of a sound truck used by |not in default. For instance, the| |city of London, if not in default |on its securities, can borrow here.| As a matter of fact, twelve bil-| lion dollars or more of American money now is invested abroad, s exclusive of war debts. Americans| BUCHAREST, Oct. 25.—Six Ru- invested more than $5,000,000,000 manian Army aviation officers were abroad during 1936 and 1937 al- drowned in storms raging over the though the net flow of capital was Black Sea. in this direction because of tt_:e‘ Admiral Konstantin Negru, Com- rush of foreign investment in mander of the Naval Aviation De- America. partment, is reported to have { P |drowned with two officers when a MAY RUN INTO BILLIONS seaplane collapsed in a forced land- With such openings through ouriyng on rake Siutghoil. credit barriers, the amount of buying which Europe could fi-/,ng pelieved to have gone down nance in this country is consider-|ypen skimming over the Black Sea able. One important source sald ity o small seaplane and caught in (Continued on Page Three) & gale. Disasters Occur During Storm Raging Over Black Sea Three other officers are missing | other., The clutch of the Alden’s engine was broken and did a miserable job |of keeping way on the craft, but |when the crash of breakers was heard in the dark night, the bat- tered engine was again started and the crew sought the Christine. Finding the other vessel just as | the clutch was beginning to make fearful noise promising momentary complete wreckage, an attempt was made to get a line on the Christine, but the screaming wind threw all heaving lines back to the Alden’s plunging decks. The Christine made a pitifully small lee for the Alden and one Al- | den crew member leaped overboard | (Continued on Page Five) l (Continued on Page Eight) the Carpenters, Painters, Plasterers, an organization seeking repeal of |and Plumbers local unions, has for | Colorado’s $45 old age pension law, |the past 30 days been attempting | the most liberal of any statute in |to iron out the difficulties confront- |the nation, were beaten this after- ing the members of the local Fed- noon on a downtown Pueblo street eral Labor Union which consists |corner and the truck was dam- of men who ordinarily find em- | aged. |ployment as common laborers in| William Pitzgerald and Vernon Juneau. | Tucker, operators of the truck, are “The Federal Labor Union, Local quoted by Police Chief Arthur 20940, was formed a year ago and | Grady as saying a dozen men, who became affiliated with the Amer- appeared to be old age pensioners, \ican Federation of Labor, The set upon them when they stopped unjon since that time continued |the truck. |this affiliation with the American| Fitzgerald was struck on the jaw | Federation of Labor until a short and back of the head, and Tucker |time ago when certain members of was dragged from the car and |the local became dissatisfied with slugged. | being affiliated with that organiza- i B The common theatrical term, “encore,” is French for “again.” * * * Capture May Result in Undeclared Peace Get Ready to Fight, U. S. Told | VANGUARD OF ~ INVADERS IN CAPITAL CITY One Detachment Reported in Environs Far from Center, However MILITARY OBJECTIVE TAKEN, LONG STRUGGLE Defenders Wh draw to Other Areas—Blood- shed Is Prevented SHANGHAI, Oct. 25.—Japa- nese authorities have announced that a detachment of Japanese soldiers have entered Hankow, chief military objective of the invading forces. The detachment is said to have gone into the tity at night- fall, marking the end of eleven months of heavy fighting to gain entrance to the city's con- fines. Previously, authoritative re- ports said Japanese soldiers had entered the northern section of the provisional capital as the vanguard of a widespread Japa- nese front pressed relentlessly forward on Hankow from three CAPITAL MOVES AGAIN While Chinese officials an- nounced they would not defend the important Central Chinese metropolis, Government leaders reported that offices had been | moved to interior points. SWIFT ADVANCE The last stages of the Japa- nese advance were made with such great rapidity that large units of Chinese are said to have been cut off by Japanese columns. Nippon generals said several Chinese divisions have been left in “pockets” to be cleaned up later, HANKOW SIXTH TO FALL As motorized vanguards of the Japanese troops sped toward the capital city of Hankow, that metropolis became the sixth great city in China to fall to the invaders. Other cities falling to the Japanese were Peiping, Tient- sin, Shanghai, Nanking and Canton. PEACE A QUESTION Only lesser cities far in the interior remain in Chinese hands and whether or not Ja- pan is content to rest for the present in her conquests, thus opening a period of undeclared peace, remained a subject of conjecture. The withdrawal of Chinese defenders “for strategic rea- sons” apparently spared Han- kow the bloodshed which marked the capture of Nanking. - e —— Eighteen Killed When Australian Airliner Grashes AccidentOne of Dominion's Worst Tragedies—Plane Bursts Into Flames SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 25— Eighteen persons, including a mem- ber of the Australian Parliament, were killed in the Dominion’s worst ai rcrash. An airliner with the 18 aboard crashed in mist-shrouded Mouut Dandenong, 40 miles southeast of Melbourne, early this morning. Seven persons aboard the air- liner were thrown from the cabin by the impact, to their death. The others were trapped in the |burning ship which burst into | flames following the crash. C. Hawker, member of the Aus- tralian Parliament and former member of the Ministry of Com= merce, was among the victims.