The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 26, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7933. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIRE RAGES ABOARD SHIP, FURIOUS GALE NIPPON ARMY POURING INTO WUHAN CITIES Chinese Take Up New De-| fense Lines Southwest of Captured Hankow KAl SHEK REFUSES TO SUE FOR PEACE Japanese Rush Fresh Troops | to Scene to Break Stiff Resistance SHANGHAI, Oct. 26. — Chinese troops are digging into new defense lines southwest of Hankow today while the victorious Japanese took possession of the once ‘proud and now nearly isolated Wuhan cities. Japanese warships steamed cau- tiously through mine fields in the Yangtze River below Hankow and its sister cities of Wuchang and Hanyang. Street Fighting Infantry units made forced marches from the northwest to help the advance forces of the Rising Sun flag overcome street fighting | in flaming Wuchang. | Machine gun fire blazed in the suburbs of Hankow, indicating that Japanese vanguards were meeting | with resistance in their attempts‘ to consolidate their positions in the | erstwhile capital which they en- tered yesterday. Dynamite Retreat Explosion after explosion rocked the metropolitan area today where Chinese, retreating, blew up build- | ing after building so that no more | than was necessary would be left to the conquerors. | Chinese Won’t Quit Dispatches from Chungking quot- | ed high Chinese officials as saying | Chiang Kai Shek is determined to| conduct a prolonged resistance | against the Japanese without’ any | intention of suing for peace. | DUKE OF KENT IS APPOINTED |a | walk to the nearest river bar where King Names Brmsh Royal| Socialite as Gov. Gen. of Australia LONDON, Oct. 26—King George| announced today the appointment of the Duke of Kent, Great Brit-| ain’s Royal socialite, as Governor General of Australia, The appointment is believed to be a move to strengthen the British Governmen: ties of a sprawling Empire which is now threatened in many duecuom All Is Fair in Pinochle Game; | Even Biff Wife ROCKFORD, Ill, Oct. 26.—At- tempting to strike one’s wife during a pinochle game does not constitute grounds for divorce in the opinion of Judge Arthur E. Fisher. Judge Fisher refused to grant a woman a divorce on her charge that her husband tried to hit Her Asia’s No. 1 Modelin U. S. | i A Japanese bomb dropped directly beside “the most beautiful girl " during a Nipponese raid on Shanghai, but miraculously failed to explode. United States en a daughter of H. G. MacKe hai. Her picture, in advertising of peric DAY IS ALIVE, ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 26.— Pilot Glenn Day, missing for more than one week, has becn found alive, well and walking in Ptarmigan Valley in the mcuntainous Rainy Pass country when he vanished, flying alone. Pilot ‘Don Goodman radioed late yesterday afternoon that he had sighted Day alive and O.K Goodman said Day. message dropped, will have to |a plane can land and pick him up. Goodman estimated that it will take two days for Day to reach the bar. Pilot Goodman dropped Day food and supplies. 'Dimond, W hite, Her experiences in W recently in Los Angeles by Lucy Cherckov. most phcicgraphed girl in Asia and Europe. , was born in Siberia and is the adopted , former U, The finding of Day came as avia- | T0 HIGH PBST[_. torn China were related model, known as the Cherekova, in the icer in Shang- poses, has appeared in thousands FOUND WELL tors and seven planes were planning to abandon the nine-day search. Day, private pilot and proprietor |ef tile Day Navigation Company, | river outfit on the lower Yukon, was last seen on Monday, October 17, | flying alone, into poor weather into Rainy Pass. customs of icals lhruughou( the world. WIFE OVERCOME WITH JOY cording {0 | SPOKANE, Wash.,, Oct. 26.—M Glenn Day, after almost despairing for the fety of her aviator hus- band, was overcome with joy at word of his safety. | Mrs. Day received the good news | from her son Clyde in Seattle, who ! had been informed of his father’s safety by the Associated Press. (;rtgsby File Report of Ex pemhtures and Contributions SPANISH CIVIL WAR LAPSES TO INACTIVITY NOW | butions of $87 and expenditures the i urgents Make Attacks on Loyalists But Make No Headway MADRID, Oct. 26.—The Spanish le War has lapsed to rnmplete mactmtv despite the Insurgent at- tacks on Government defenses. These attacks have all failed not only according to Loyalist official 'xeporls but also according to broad- cast by the Insurgents. e — during a pinochle argument. MECHANICS IN - AVIATION ARE TOBE TRAINED President Studies Plan in Program for Nation- - al Defense WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has announced that £ 14 ‘he is studying the need of training PR 13 !of a large number of aviation me- Kentucky is planning. to estab- ‘chnnlcs This is in connection with lish a 2£00-acre game farm in Pike|¢yo niang for an increased National County. Defense. F i;'ebugs BISMARCK, N. D, Oct. 26— Within five minutes after receiving | a report of a fire the State Fire | Marshal’s office can tell whether the owner or tenant of the dam- aged property had a fire anywhere | in North Dakota during the lssb 20 years. Deputy Fire Marshal Charles Schwartz says the system was per- | fected to help authorities trace| arsonists. Last Campaign WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, re- elected last September 13, has re- ported to the Clerk of the House of Representatives that his campaign | expenditures amounted to $1,655 | with contributions of $1,440 from the Alaska Democratic Committee. Albert White, Republican candi- date for Delegate, réported contri- | same amount. George B. Grigsby, Independent | candidate for Alaska Delegate, listed his expenditures at $1,930 and con- | tributions totalling $643. EGYPTIS TO BUILD NAVY Light Crulsers, Mine Lay-| | ers, Submarines to Be Considered CAIRO, Oct. 26.—The Egyptian Council of Defense has voted to {build a fleet of 36 vessels costing | $18,000,000. The bulk of the fleet will be light | cruisers, mine layers: and sub- | marines. THOMPSONS VISIT HERE FROM HOONAH| Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Thompson |aays. The Thompsons came in from the island port on their vessel the Nuisance III. —————— Farm machinery sales in the United States have exceeded more than $400,000,000 a year. COMPENSATION || ACT CASES T0 - BE CARRIED UP Attorney General Files No- tice of Appeal from lell’lcl Court Attorney General JJII)(-& S. Truitt | | today filed notice of appeal in the | District Court from the decision | | recently handed down by Federal | | Judge George F. Alexander, holding | unconstitutional amendments to the Alaska Workmen's Compensation | | Act. | Six cases are involved, all brought | U.»y the Territory against the Alaska | | Juneau Gold Mining Company and | one of these will be carried up for | a test case before the Circuit Court of Appeals, the Attorney Gen- leral said. In substance, e PR o the cases involve payment to the Territory in cases of death of employees where no descendants are left. The amend- ment law provides that where an | employee dies, burial expenses up to $195 must be paid by the em-| ployer as well as an amount up to| $4,000 from the compensation fund | into which each employee pays | 250 per month. Where the de- | : é | abcut him ceased leaves no descendants, the| law provides that the entire $4,000 | after reverts to the Territory. Where a |~ widow and children are left the entire amount goes to the family and where parents are left percent- ages are set aside, depending on whether they live in the United Stats or a foreign country, and | part going to the Territory. \ The law was attacked by the de- | fendant company in the District| Court on grounds that it was un- | constitutional; violated the Organic | Act as well as the 14th amendment | of the Constitution. In denying the ‘Tenllorys demurrer, Judge Alex- ander held for the defendant and the appeal is being taken from that decismn | The passengers evaci plane the fire was exting - Roosevelt Takes Severe Slap at Dies cnmmitlee‘ Comes to D_ef;nse of Gov. Murphy, Who Is Ac- cused of Treason | WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — Presi- dent Roosevelt has come to the de- fense of Gov. Frank Murphy, of | Michigan, against charges of trea- son levelled at the Governor by wit- nesses before the House Committee making an investigation of unAm- erican activities. In so doing, the President took oc- casion to give the Dies Committee a severe dressing down and accused the Committee of letting it be used in a flagrantly and unfair attempt to influence elections while it made no effort to get at the truth. Pilot Dave Hiswng (right) and Co- ing airliner at Montgomery, Ala., passengers to safety. The pilot, scriollsly injured, By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — From Spain, China, and the United States army it is possible now to assemble a good picture of what will be nec- DIES COMES RIGHT BACK WASHINGTON, Oct. 26—Chair- man Martin Dies of the House committee investigating unAmeri- lcan activities, said Cabinet mem- |bers have aided in a “well planned campaign of misrepresentation, ridi- |cule and sarcasm,” which he also said is being conducted by persons who hoped to discredit the inquiry committee. Replies to Rebuke Rebuked yesterday by President Roosevelt, Chairman Dies today read a formal statement in reply. His statement said that when criti- cism against the committee failed, air attack in the next war—to the extént they can be protected. The stage was set at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, for a sample dem- onstration of one of the most pre- tentious air shows the army ever prepared. At the fort were assembled all the anti-aircraft guns east of the Rocky Mountains (it is.a tiny hand- ful, if you want to know). Assem- bled also were fleets of bombers, Eleven passengers and three crewmen escaped age of Pilot Dave Hissong, who brought a blazing a'rplane safely to earth even while flames lapped . Heroes of F laming Pluno shortly after they received medical aid following landin§ their flam- | Hissong landed the huge passenger liner when he discovered it was | ablaze. Steward Frank Gibbs stood by the doorway and directed the | | | suffering severe burns about his neck and arms. Solvmg Problem to Protect American Cities from Attack By Air; Demonstration Given essary to protect our big cities from | and daughter Geraldine, of Hoonah, | are visiting in Juneau for a few the next move was to “exert every | conceivable pressure to stifle this investigation. ‘This has been aided now by the President who has been indueed to permit the prestige of his great office to be used for the purpose of discrediting the investi- gation. FDR Misinformed “That the President has been wholly misinformed is obvious. His statement, of course, has not help- ed. He has not read the record, |evidently relying upon the reports that have reached him from pre- judiced sources.” e Lot TILLACUM SELLS Only fish arrival on the Juneau exchange today was a load of 5000 pounds brought in by the packer | Tillacum. Poor weather is keeping | most of the boats out of port and holed up in harbors, fast pursuit and combat planecs from all over the country. The problem was simply to test out how to beat off a strong enemy | bombing raid on an important air station. For practical purposes it could be Pittsburgh's steel mills, or the Warren, Pa., oil fields. Over a zone nearly 200 miles in all directions from the fort, ob- servers were posted in church steeples, fire towers, on water tanks or other elevated points from which they scanned the skies for approaching planes. Every eight miles there was such an observa- tion post so that nearly half of North Carolina was checker-boarded with watching men. CIVILIANS LEND A HAND Two thousands civilians manned the observation posts. Each volun- teered his services for the test, just| Pilot Lands Burning Plane Safely; Saves 14 : CERM Mfi. IN ER 'BURSTS OUTIN iery d-ath at Mentgomery, Ala., through the skill and cour- uated the ship whon it landed, and this was all that remainéd of the ing Plane NEW DEMANDS NOW MADE BY ADOLF HITLER Seeks Return ok Germany's| rewar African Colon- ies—Threat Implied LONDON, Oct. 26.—It is reliably reported that Adolf Hitler bhas de- manded the return of all of Ger- many's prewar African Colonies, totalling more than 1,000,000 .squun' miles, It is reported that this demand | has unofficially reached the British Ministers and this is further sub-| stantiated that a discussion on the issue was made at a secret Cabinet 'meeting. It is asserted Hitler has said he | will back up his demands by (orws from sea, land and air. LLOYD GEORGE SPEAKS OUT ON | MUNICH TREAT Declares Greal Britain Has Lost Respect of World, Own Self-Respect Pllol Clyde R. Russell, are pictured | and saving all aboard from death. last to leave the ship, was most | s as he might be called upon to do in LONDON, Oct. 26—Lloyd George, thne of war, |former Premier of “Great Britain, Each had a telephone connecting!proke his silence on the Munich directly with the central control|gagreement regarding Czechoslovakia, room of the defense center. Two‘w warn Premier Chamberlain this | miles outside the fort a ring of anti- {will end in “war without friends” aircraft batteries was stationed. The | {for Great Britain, batteries were 2. miles apart so| that a fleet of planes coming from ! |any direction would be under fire of at least two bat'eries of six guns In his first speecn since the pact at Munich was declared, Lloyd George said it was a “bad peace ch. The guns, can shoot high ex- and a'bad peace is no péace ab all plosive shells six miles—30,000 feet |1 tell you what—we shall find we | —into the air. shall have forfeited our honor, lost i e res f the world Two rings of machine guns cir- dihpmanwet. of, ihe AU WAt - is still worse—lost our r:]:.d fhe: “datty, yiile Pewterieg of respect. ln the end there will be search lights were spotted far enoygh away to illuminate the o0 peace. s quest planes the moment they came Answering questions, Lioyd George e o said he believed that “totalitarian | ini o mnge.. f nations would have been crushed Far out on tne rim of lookout sta- like an eggshell” had there been tions the observers reported the ap- proach of bombing planes by tele- phone to central headquarters. Pur- suit planes were ordered into the air, or, if already aloft, they were told where the planes had been sighted. Other observers reported the | planes. This sometimes gave direc- tion of attack, bit not necessarily. Enemy planes may fly for a time| at a tangent to the city, then swing around from another. direction to line up bomb sights on the target. Other observers reported in to check the line of flight. An observer far on the other side of the defense |net may report planes, indicating SOFTA, Bulgaria, Oct. 26. — The a bombing attack from two direc- ' National Assembly of Bulgaria to- tions. day voted an appropriation of forty- | three million dollars which will be lused for National armament. fense weakness. Bulgaria Plans Natl, Armament Forty-three Mxlhon Dollars | Voted to Put Pro- gram in Effect (Continued on Page Three) J __|of the Deutschland, own self- | {a war despite Great Britain's de- FLAMES ON SEA Electrifying-ggnals Flash- ed Out Over North Atlantic at Night 'NEARLY ONE THOUSAND 'PERSONS IN DANGER |Ships Are Sent Scurrymg to Scene Until Notified Blaze Controlled NEW YORK, Oct. 26. Fire |aboard ship in a perilous gale that swept the seas of the North At- lantic, remains a night-marish memory to 591 passengers and 392 members of the crew of the Ger- man liner Deutschland plodding towards port with her insides charred by flames. Electrifying SOS signals were flashed out thArough the air early last night when fire broke out in |the ship’s number two hold after an explosion from an unexplained nature, | After a two-hour fight with the | flames, Capt. Carl Steinecke, master , radioed that the fire was under control and passengers and crew were pacified. Later the Hamburg office of the |steamship company was advised by the master that the fire was com- pletely controlled, the ship and pas- |sengers were no longer in danger land not a single passenger had been injured. The captain said he hoped to |continue the voyage to New York “very soon” indicating that great damage must have been done laboard ship. Responding to the SOS, several vessels In the North Atlantic sud- denly changed courses and were rushing to the scene when the radio annonuced the fire was under control and the ship was in no |danger. TAXPAYERS OF ' KETCGHIKAN ARE AGAINST BONDS Proposed Sunday Closing | of Alcoholic Dispen- saries Rejected KE'TCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct, 26.— ‘axpayers rejected the plan to bond the City of Ketchikan for $150,000 to wipe out a deficit and |finance minor street improvements |at the special election held yes- ‘Lerdny but the plan lacked only |four votes in doing so. | Voters in favor of the plan were 1286 and those against were 156 but |65 percent majority is required. ‘ A straw vote for the council’s ordinance gave 519 against 300 in |favor of Sunday closing alcholic dispensaries. | Vacation of old street surveys was ratified by 477 favoring lnd ‘269 opposed ABOLISHMENT ALASKA FISH TRAPS IS UP \Maritime Federation of Pa- cific Council Takes - First Steps. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Oct. 26. —Efforts to bring about abolish- ment of fish traps in Alaska have been set in motion after approval lof the Bay Area District Council of the Maritime Federation of the | Pacific. The resolution declaru traps are “mpldly pauperizing” the Alaska fishermen, Z. R. Brown, Council Secretary, said, and the California delegation in Concress will be ap- proached at once in behalf of the plan which is to eliminate 20 per cent of the existing traps each year for five years. The action is prompted by a resolution passed by the Alaska Labor Unity Conference recently in session at Ketehikan, Alaska.