The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 28, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \ VOL. LIL, NO. 7935. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS H(ICE'I‘EJ{CB‘JTS AMERICAN MISSION BOMBED BY JAPANESE Tokyo Hurls Th CLAIMS FRANGE SUPPLYING ARMS CHINESE FORCES | Grave Concern Is Reported| Over Newest Develop- 1’ ment, South China | JAPANESE MAY OCCUPY HAINAN ISLAND AREA| Action Wo;ld Be Blow at| Very Heart of French | Oriental Possessions | | TOKYO, Oct, 28—A Foreign Of-| fice statement, issued today, says Premier Prince Konoye has warned France that Japan “might be com- pelled to take measures” if the French continue to supply China with arms. 1t is believed this means possible | Japanese occupation of Hainan Is- land, just off the South China coast, one of the points of the' French sphere of influence. If a blow were struck it would be a dagger aimed at the very heart of the vast French Oriental possessions. Prince Ronoye is said to have told French Ambassador Charles Arsene Henry that Japan is “grave- ly concerned with a possible devei- opment in the situation.” - Janan Moves f Glose Open Door Pulicy i," China Strained Relations with U. S. Loom Under Latest Tokyo Pronouncement TOKYO, Oct. 28.—The Japanese newspaper Asahi today declared that the Japanese Government con- siders as unsuitable the American insistence on a continued “Open Door Policy” in China. The newspaper says a new situa- tion exists in the Far East, follow- ing the capture of Canton and sub- jection of that portion of China to Japanese rule. The newspaper predicts that Jap- an will seek to induce the United States to accept this thesis. The Government has not official- 1y replied to the United States note detlaring that the “open door pol- icy” must continue and that unless Japan recognies this policy, Japan- ese interests in the United States and the favorable treatment ac- corded to Japanese trade may be jeopardied, also relations between the United States and Japan may become strained. GERMAN CONSUL IS DUBIOUS OF PRESS FREEDOM Nazi Representative Says There Are ‘Two Sides’ to ‘Problem’ NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—Dr. Haus Borchers, German Consul General | iln New York, reiterated that he| favored freedom of worship and | freedom of the press but pointed out that there are “two sides” to the latter “problem.” | The first German official to ap- pear on a public platform since Germany annexed the Sudeten area, Dr. Borchers spoke at a meeting in Yorkville. He said the Czecho- slovakia problem is an example of the necessity of studying the free press question on both sides. “Hardly anybody in informed of | the cosmopolitan character of‘ Czechoslovakia which is called a model of democracy,” he said. GARBO TALKS LOTS—NOT OF LOVE [ Greta Garbo (above), who re- turned to the United States after a long stay in Europe, talked a lot (for her), to news- pepermen in New York but re- fused to make any statement abcut her reported romance with Lecpeld Stowkewsik, the crchestra leader. “I never talk abcut my private affairs. I never have,” she said. “I prefer not to talk about it. I'm afraid if I were mairied you would know about it. Nothing escapes you." —AP Photo. AIMEE GIVEN LARGE SUM IN DAMAGE SUIT Picture Magazine Settles Case Brought by Evan- gelist Out of Court LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 28.— An out of court settlement has been reached in Evangelist Aimee Semple McPerson’s $1,500,000 suit against a picture magazine. The amount of the settlement is not made known but it is inti- mated that it is large. The evangelist charged that the picture magazine and article at- tempted to injure her career as a religious worker. — e —— $10 FIRE IS DEATH BLAZE FOR FIREMEN Fighters Overcome from Combination of Gas, Smoke—Succumb NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 28—Two | firemen were kiiled last night in fighting a fire which caused $10 damage in the basement of a butch- er shop. Acting Battalion Chief George Jacques, 39, and Fireman Frederick MOTHER IS DYING; SON IS SOUGHT | A persistent band of rgdio ama- f{teurs are trying to penerate the far | | reaches of Alaska, via short wave, to tell Henry L. Walther that his | mother is dying in Chicago of can- | | cer, complicated by heart disease that is threatening her life. | The mother is Mrs. Alice Walther, | aged 68. She calls constantly for her | son All “ham” stations and operators, working in relays out of Chicago, across to the Pacific Coast, and then | to Alaska, hope the message will be picked up by amateurs in Alaska and passed on to Walther whose last known address was King Cove, Aleutian Peninsula. Associated Press dispatches re- ceived by The Empire late last night, | | from Chicago and Seattle, stated that the chances of getting a mes- sage to Walthers was through co- | operation of a Vancouver, B. C., amateur working with amateurs in| | Alaska. A dispatch from Reginald Tebbets, | of the California State Police, said he had sticcessfully forwarded the | message to Juneau, enlisting the powerful short wave station at Hol- lywood. The Associated Press message was received in Juneau, notwithstanding atmospheric conditions prevailing | last night, but as far as could be| | TWENTY INJURED, AS HUGE BLAZE HITS MARSEILLE Daladier Halts Conference as Resut of Conflagration | in Which Three Killed | | mn MARSEILLE, France, Oct. 28.—| | A huge fire which swept 10 build-| ings near Marseille and is believed | to have ‘caused three deaths led|thousand Polish Jews living in Ger-| ment financing was. involved but Premier Daladier to suspend until | yony pack to Poland after a nation- not in the form of grants, rather it tomorrow the Radical Socialist con- ' ference here. Twenty are known to have been | injured in the fire which destroyed | Polish Jews weresrouted from their | |a large department store, the Noal- les Hotel, spread to two other hotels | land a bank. Daladier has completed his break | with the Communist party and to- |day warned Parliament that if it {failed to approve reforms in the | government he contemplates carry- ing the issue to the people. At his | request the policy committee has| approved a resolution saying the| Communist party has “excluded it- | self” from the People’s Front, made | up of radical socialists, socialists and communis e Hired Assassins Charged With Killing Rector Two Negroes Implicate Re- sort Owners — Vice Cause of Murder BRUNSWICK, Georgia, Oct. 28.— Two resort operators are charged with hiring two negroes to kill Dr. Charles H. Lee, eight months ago, |so the vicg-hating rector no longer | could oppose illicit gambling. One of the negroes implicated the (resort operators, Henry J. Cofer | i | ascertained, the message from the State Police was not picked up lo- | cally by an amateur in this section After being appraised that a call was urged, several amateurs in Ju- neau were to go on the air at 2 o'- | clock this morning trying to con- tact stations or amateurs to the Westward. The 2 a.m. calls from Ju- neau would be heard to the West- ward at midnight, the time differ- | ence being noted, as at that time communication between amateurs to the Westward is generally carried on. No contacts were reported made, however, owing to atmospheric con- | ditions but the call was sent out “wild” in hopes it would be picked up. One amateur teicpuunea in at 2 o'clock this morning .that maybe Mary Joyce, at Taku Lodge, had caught the call for Walthers and was relaying it to the Westward as indistinct words of “King Cove,” then “mother” then “dying” were heard being sent out but the com- plete message was not picked up because of “fading.” Wireless operators on steamers and little craft with radiophones, are also sending out calls, hoping that some may reach young Walther to acquaint him with his mother’s condition. Anyone are asked getting any infermation to notify The Empire. HITLER CHASING POLISH JEWS ACROSS BORDER Hundreds Routed Out o Beds Under Pretense of New Polish Law BERLIN, Oct. 28—Authoritative sources said today that Nazi au- thorities already have sent several wide roundup. In Berlin alone, several hundred beds in early morning raids which were semi-officially explained as in- tended to forestall application of the new Polish law which might deprive thousands of Jews in Germany of Polish citizenship. The German government esti- mated 150,000 residents of Germany were Polish citizens. The Polish law becomes effective Sunday and all those by that date must have pass- ports revalidated by Polish consu- lates. Failure to obtain revalidation means they can never again enter Poland. Between four and six thou- sand Polish Jews are affected. — e HANES NAME AS SUCCESSOR T0 R. MAGILL Assistant Secretary Treas- ury Dept. Appointed Undersecretary WASHINGTON, Oct. 28. — Presi- dent Roosevelt announces the ap-| pointment of John Hanes, 46, Assistant Secretary, has been named Undersecretary of the Treasury De- partment, succeeding Roswell Ma- Herrmann, 58, were overcome by @ lanq - W, H. Cofer, middleaged“m' resigned. combination of escaping illuminat- ing gas and smoke and died this in a hospital. | brothers. I | “The negroes are accused with | the brothérs in the murder, [ml.ulan Hanes’ home is in Winston Salem, N. C. He is a former Securities Com- er. now | Here is one of the United States Army’s newest weapons, a 1 which can fire one shell a minute. The range of the rifle is 15 mi feet. The gun, complete with ten-w position in a half hour, Utilities Join Governmentin " Defense Program Big Companies Will Double Output to Speed Up | ArmsManufacturing ‘ les, and [“Hot Goods” Hot Stuff Is Warning WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—El- mer F. Andrews, Wage and Hour Administrator, teday hinted that buyers might be in trouble if they knowingly purchased “hot goods.” By “hot goods” is meant those produced at standards lower than the law. provides and circu- lated in Interstate Commerce. | S WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—A dozen : big utility companies are joining | | hands with the Federal govern- Haru Madal Is | ment in its national defense pro-| gram, and, it was disclosed today, | Awardfld Palmer Girl for Rescue | will spend two billion in the next| ixwo years to expand the output of | Posthumous Honor Extend- ed Margie Snyder—Died | electric power. ed Edison Company said the amount | After Saving Brother was virtually double the present ex- | penditures for such expansion As the first step the utilities an- | nounced “definite commitments” of | | enough factory orders to supply| generating power capable of pro-| | ducing a million kilowatts. The com~ | mitments were given as part of the| | administration’s effort to strengthen | power facilities for the nation's | strategic war material manufactur- ing’ centers. | Carlisle said substantial govern- ‘ PFloyd Carlisle of the Consolidat- PITTSBURGH, Pa., Oct. 28. The Carnegie Hero Commission to- day recognized the gravery of Mar- gie Jean Snyder, 15, of Palmer, Al- | aska, who lost her life saving Eu- gene Patrick, five, her younger brother. A bronze medal was award- ed posthumously in her honor to her father, Thomas Snyder of Palmer. Margie ran into the flaming Sny- der home at Palmer last July 27 and i rescued her little brother. She died 18 hours after the rescue from burns NE suffered in the effort. | Twenty-seven awards were made | by the Commission, covering all | parts of the United States and Can- | ada. | probably would lend money or buy | | securities in the same manner as | a bank. JACK DELA 18 MISSING - TOWESTWARD Anchorage Hunter Fail STOCK QUOTATIONS e * | I | NEW, YORK, Oct. 28. — Closing s 10 quotation of Alaska Juneau mine Re[urn mll Da%s fl’Om |stock today is 9%, American Can . 11037%, American Light and Power Three-Day rp 7%, Anaconda 38%, Bethlehem Steel 667, Commonwealth and Southern ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 28.— |21, Curtiss Wright 6%, General |Jack De Lane, hunter, is still miss= |Mowrs 49'%, International Harvest- |ing 11 days after he was due home |er 63};, Kennecott 46%, New York {from a three~day hunting trip in | Central 20%, Safeway Stores 2214, llhe Knik River Mountain district. |Southern Pacific 20%, United States | George Speilgelberg has returned Steel 64, Pound $4.76%. |from a search for DeLane. He| | believes he found one of DeLane’s| |camp fires, six days old. A cigar-| The following are today’s Dow, ette package, DeLane's brand, and|jones averages: Industrials 15107, hobnail bootmarks leads Speilgel-|down 162; rails 32.13, up .19; util- |berg to believe that the camp was |jties 24.67, down .52. |that of DeLane’s but further search | S P |was abandoned because he ran out | i {Silver Dollar, RN L |Stamped, Delivered POWDER SNOW LURING Thrmh M SKIER TO MOUNTAIN | | OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 28. Joy | Narada Coomora, Juneau’s cur- Miller, 4, received a silver dollar as rent top skiing enthusiast, this|a birthday gift from her grand- morning reported “powder snow” on |father, J. E. Thomas of Birming- |Mount Roberts and already is lay- ham, Ala, |ing plans for a session on the, Thomas pasted Joy's address on | hickory slats atop the moum.ami | tomorrow afternoon, mitting. DOW, JONES AVERAGES was made promptly. heeled rubber-tired caisson, weighs 15% tons This picture is an official Army Air Corps photograph. 55-mm. which throws a 95-pound projectile and the shell rises to a height of 30,000 and can be set up in firing DAY CRASHED ONMOUNTAIN, ~ RAINY PSS Solo Flier Flown Out After i Accident—Is on Alas- | | ka, Spokane Bound ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 28.— Glenn Day, private flier, whose plane hit a mountain in Rainy | Pass at full speed in stormy weath- er late on the afternoon of October |17, arrived here late yesterday, lit- tle the worse for his experience. He left here today for Seward there he will board the steamer Alaska for Seattle enroute to his |home in Spokane, Wash. | Day said the air was so rough on the day of the crash Lhat he thought his plane was out of con- trol and suddenly found himself dangling by a safety belt. | Day stayed by the plane for a \week, waiting for the weather to clear, and then started walking. He | was located by Pilot Don Goodman, !who dropped food to him and then returned to Anchorage for a rescue party. \Larry Larson whose plane was |mired in a marsh, loaded with lequipment and three passengers. | | They all walked 10 miles to a river | |bar whence Pilot Chet Brown took |them to a trapper’s cabin for over- | | night then continued here by plane, Day’s injuries are only minor, cuts and a back sprain, ——e- + Unemployment American Federation of La- bor Issues Report Show- ing Decrease, Jobless I8 Going Dow i ing WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—Amer- ican Federation of Labor officials |estimate that 10,539,000 persons were |unemployed in September against 111,087,000 in August. “Lickings” Uncovered WICHITA, Kan,, Oct. 28.—Razing the old Lincoln school building, workmen discovered a bundle fo 35 switches hidden under a stair- way that had been walled in when an addition was constructed 22 years ago. Miss Hazel Watkins, one side of the dollar and a three- |principal, said they were relics of | together weather per-|cent stamp on the other. Delivery the day when “lickin’ and larnin’” |the first letters of each word and \went together. Day told how he came upon Pilot | — e reat at French Government bne 95-Pound Shell Every Minute 3-YEAR-OLD GIRL KILLED N (A% RAID \ jMother and Sister Are Also Wounded During Shell- ing of Building {AMERICAN FLAGS ARE DISREGARDED Father Sen_cis—Belated Re- port to U. S. Ambassa- dor, Chungkiang | | HANKOW, Oct. 28.—An Ameri« can child was killed and the mother |and sister wounded in a Japaness air attack on October 24 on the Lu- theran Brethren Mission, according to a belated report received here. The censored dispatch stated Phoebe Olive Nyhus, 3, was killed and her sister Ruth, 8, and mother were wounded by Japanese planes bombing the Mission at ‘Tongpet, Southern Honan Province. The bombing was done although American flags were flying to mark the building as American. The report came from the father of the dead child, Arthur Nyhus, of Fertile, Towa, the only member of the family unscathed. He moved the dead child and injured to Tang= ho from where he telegraphed Am- erican Ambassador Johnson at Chungking. That Fighting Spirit A Central Agency dispatch from | Chungkiang says Gen. Chiang Kat Shek has declared that China will | fight on to a “decisive battle” be- tween United China and Japanese armies. Gen. Chiang Kai Shek, according to the dispatch discounts the loss of Canton and Harkow and said “Japan's desperu! invasion in | South China was prompted by | realization of the danger that she | has exhausted her strength.” | ——————— HEADACHES FOR THOSE SEEKING PARKING SPACE | CHICAGO, Oct. 28. — Lack of proper parking fueiities costs Amer- I_ca* motorists $150,000,000 annually in . time. That is the estimate city traffic engineer Leslie J. Soren~ son of Chicago gave municipal of- ficials meeting here. “Traffic engineers have for years concerned themselve: almost ex- clusively with the iusk of provid- ing highways for moving vehicles,” he said. “Now we must fturn our attention to the problem of accom- modating vehicles that are stand- ing. The problem is fast becoming |-our most annoying municipal head- | ache.” ———————— Counci Fiddd, Wind Handles Job SUPERIOR, Wis, Oct. 28. — A Ihlsh wind did in one minute what the city council had argued about |for several months. | The council wanted to raze an old 180-foot brick chimney, claimed to be unsafe. Finally the council awarded a Chicago firm a contract to tear it down. After everything was signed a high wind came along and blew down the chimney. No damage was Rifimetic” EL PASO, IIl,, Oct. 28.—Margaret Ann Willlamson simply could not spell “arithmetic” until her teach= er gave her this sentence to think |about before trying: “a rat in the ' house may eat the ice cream.” Now Margaret strings | | | i Jgets it.