The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 31, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7937. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICF: TEN CENTS SIX RESCUED FROM DEATH, ALASKA GULF Great Britain, France Speed Up Armaments TWO NATIONS TAKE ACTION UPON DEFENSE Conditions in Europe Con-| sidered Far from Amic- | able Settlement [ CABINET SUMMONED | IN SPECIAL SESSIONS| Conflict Between Czechwi slovakia, Hungary Stav- | ed Off for Time ‘ | | } | | | and France are making new efforts to build up new armaments in face of Europe’s unsettled future. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain has called a special session of the Cabinet to meet on the eve of the three-day Parliament session which is expected to be a “grand inquest” on his Munich First Lady at Red Crc;ss Fashion Show Peace. | Reports are heard that Chamber- | lain is seeking to meet the demand of some of his minorities for the creation of a Ministry of Supplies with power to enforce a speed-up | in armaments. | French Premier Daladier has also | ~ summoned his Cabinet in the first of a series of meetings to draft a decree of laws rehabilitating the French finances and also to impress | on the people that one of the most | pressing needs is that of security. | Probable conflict between Czecho- | slovakia and Hungary, now dead- | locked in territorial dispute, seem | to have passed. Both nations have| CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 31. — The agreed to meet Wednesday in Vien- | poignant appeal to Henry L. Wal- na with representatives of Ger-|ther to come to the side of h many and Italy, to arbitrate the | mother, Mrs. Alice Walther, d territorial dispute. perately ill, has reached him in the Polish andGerman diplomats are | remote reaches of Alaska. meeting in Berlin to negotiate the| FPersistent efforts of amateur ra- legal tangle caused by Germany dio transmitters, through four days, suddenly arresting thousands of |were rewarded Saturday night when Polish Jews with about 22,000 Pol- @ message from Henry, relayed, ish Jews reported held in concen- |reached his home here. tration camps waiting for an agree- | The message said: “Message re- ment to determine their future resi- |ceived through K-7-ATO at King dence | Cove. Take at least month to re- . S0 S e turn.” Hope that Walther could make | the trip in less than a week devel- {(;D(‘d from a report of an amateur Government Positions in Spain Shelled—Advances | Are Reported Made HENDAYE, Oct. 31.—Dispatches | from Insurgent headquarters report | that Moradeebro, key to Spanish | Government positions throughout | the Ebro River Valley front, are being bombed by Insurgent artil- | lery which has moved forward as 3 5 rmi the result of a swift advance begun ‘ Con‘”ded ,Slayel # P(,rmlls vesterday. | of Electric Cardigraph The Insurgents assert they now Y hold the entire Caballos mountain | to Record Action region. ] Three Insurgent columns advanc-| gapT LAKE CITY, Utah, Oct. ed in a driving rain to smash the 31 A firing squad executed John Government lines on that front. Deering at dawn this morning in In Northeast Spain, the Govern- the Utah State Prison while an ment’s strongest positions are re-| ported broken through by the In- surgents and the drive is said to + have cost the Government at least 1,000 men killed and several hun- dred taken as prisoners. Fifteen Government planes are reported to have been shot down. Gives Birth To Twin Boys, Then Dies Marvin McIntyre; Mrs. Roosevel Mrs. Henry Wallace, wife of the Are Married; M SHOT THROUGH HEART ;SCIENCE 1S BENEFITTED ably for the first time, action of the human heart pierced by bul- lets. Deering, who sought every way to speed his death, participated willingly in the scientific experi- , ment to determine how long a heart will beat after struck. | Scientists said it would be a num- ber of hours before it could an- nounce the result of its findings. Convinced there was no place in !society for him after a lifetime NEW YORK, Oct. 31.—Mrs. Ger- spent in prison, Deering demanded aldine McAlpin - Webster, grand the State take his life. | electric cardigraph recorded, prob- | It; Mrs. Henry Morganthau, Jr., Secretary of Agriculture; s Appeals to Man in Alaska His Mother Is Dying, Reach ;) Him Finally at King Cove radio operator that three airplanes were located within reach of King Cove. Louis Walther, the young man’s father declared: “If some generous soul will pick him up and bring him home I will be tickled to death.” The young man’s mother keeps continually calling for him as she is dying with can complicated by heart disease which is threaten- ing her sudden death. Her appeals were finally taken up and “ham” operators from Chicago to the coast of Alaska ere pressed into service to get word to Walther | and these have proved successful. ade Under Oath LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. Springing a surprise, blonde Ruth Etting, one of the original torch | singers, denied under oath, she and 31 | Myrl Alderman, 30, radio music ar-| | ranger, were married at the time | her divorced husband, Martin Sny- .der. shot and wounded Alderman in i her home two weeks ago. It was ‘thr\ said she and Alderman had been married secretly. 1 She testified at a deposition hear- ‘;mg. as defendant in a $150,000 love | theft suit filed by Alderman’s for- | mer wife, Alma, whose divorce de- | cree is not final until next Decem- ber. | Ruth said she and Alderman never had marital relations. Asked whether she loved Alder- | man, she said: “Love is a hard | thing to defin She denied she gave Alderman money in numerous occasions. ‘ Snyder is awaiting trial on charges of kidnaping and attempt- | ed murder. | Alderman is in a hospital recov- ering from his gunshot wounds. R Skagway ‘ . | Pioneer Is Dead, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is shown with a group of distinguished ladies Cross tea and style show, where uniforms of past and presen Mrs. James Roosevelt, her daughter-in-law. Left to right: Mrs. t were shown, Frederick Warren, daughter of Colonel wife of the Secretary of the Treasury; wling in rear, the Red Cross, and Mrs, James Roosevelt. the | Ruth Eliiug Denies She mufl Man Shot by Former Husband who participated in the Red at the Washington home of Norman Davis, chairman of hostess. JUNEAU HARBOR WORK TO START WITHIN 10 DAYS Breakwater Construction to Be Done by Day Labor, Colonel Wild Says Work on Juneau’s small boat harber will start within 10 days and will be done by the gov- ernment with day labor, accord- ing to a message to the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today from Col. H. J. Wild, Division Engineer in Seattle. In his message Col. Wild said: “Authority bhas been received to proceed with the breakwater construction by hired labor and under the government plan. Will consider partial use of lo- cal trucks and yardage delivery basis similar to procedure adopted by the Alaska Road Commission on the bridge fill if satisfactory offers are made. Work will be started within 10 days.” Construction of the breakwaters has been delayed following the opening of bids in Seattle, the low- est of which had been 14 cents over the engineer’s estimate of 40 cents a yard. Col. Wild had recommended that the bids be rejected as too high. In the meantime, the Cham- ber radioed the Colonel pointing out the advantages of doing the work this fall, and that trucks and men were now available. Today’s response, President Charles W. Carter of the Chamber said, reveals the War Department is going to proceed, with the work on a day labor basis. ©. A. Novi, Inspector of Dredging for the War Departiment Engineers, arrived in Juneau this morning on the Alaska in connection with small boat harbor work here. Novi said he was still awaiting for in- structions and said that within the next few days he expects to begin survey work on the breakwater. Matthew Rogers, who supervised the Cordova boat harbor project, finished last Thursday, was also on the Alaska, and went through to Ketchikan for a few weeks work in connection with harbor work there. Novi said Rogers would probably re- turn to Juneau soon. Novi is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. THOUSANDS OF CANDIDATES IN FIERCE BATTLE Final Week of Off Year Campaign Witnesses Whirlwind Efforts }LEADERS OF BOTH PARTIES MAKE CALL 'Record Polling Indicated | President, Others Are | (By Associated Press) Thousands of candidates for Con- gressional and State offices today | the country swamped newspaper of-|panic gripped the campus for half | hegan the final week of campaign- | fices and police station switchboards | an hour, many students fighting for record 8 indications of a vote in the November ing amid off year election. Politicians agreed that the total of ballots will be far more than the 33,000,000 cast in the 1934 Congres- sional election even though the bal- lots are not expected to reach 45,- 000,000, the mark set in the Presi- dential contest two years ago. Both Democratic and Republican party leaders are calling out all | their reserve forces. Campaign speeches this week are to be made by President Roosevelt ang hy half of the members of his binet, Hoover and Landon also !slated for addresses, Landon today in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, before returning to help the Republicans in his home State of Kansas. President Roosevelt will speak Friday night to a radio audience to support the New York State Demo- cratic candidates. Herbert Hoover and John Hamil- ton will close the Republican cam- paign. Hoover is to speak in Spo- kane, Wash.,, on Saturday and Hamilton will make a final radio appeal for the Republicans next Saturday. e RODSEVEL CALLS DOWN £.0.P. MAN President Resents ‘‘Deliber- ate Misuse” of Name by Pa. Candidate PHILADELPHIA, Pa, Oct. 31 President last night objected to what he called “deliberate misuse” of his name in Pennsylvania’s hec- tic political campaign by Judge Ar- thur H. James, Republican candi- date for Governor. The President wrote: “I felt that I had every right to object to James saying in his speeches that I deliberately re- frained from meddling in local is- sues in Pennsylvania because I am unwilling to put my hands in that dirty muddy water.” Gommander of Allied Armies, Rhin_el_aml. Dies World War General Passes Away in French Village —On General Staff LYONS, France, Oct. 31.—Gen. (By Associated Press) Hysteria among radio listener: throughout the nation and actual | panicky evacuations from sections | of the metropolitan area in New | York City, resulted from a too real- | istic radio broadcast last night des- | cribing a fictitious devastating visi- | tation of strange men from Mars. | “Is Tt True?” Excited, weeping persons all over | | | { | with questions “Is It True.” The broadcast was purely a fig- | ment of H. G. Wells' imagination | with some extra_ flourishes in a ra- ;dm dramatization by Orston Welles, | broadcast by the Columbia Broad- | casting Company, but the anxiety | was immeasurable. | Excitement Intense At Fayetteville, North Carolina, people with relatives in that section of New Jersey where the mythical visitation had a locale, people swarmed the newspaper offices in tears seeking information. An Associated Press dispatch re- ceived by the New York office from Providence, Rhode Island, said “weeping hysterically, women swamped the switchboard of the Providence Journal, newspaper, ask- ing for details of the massacre and destruction.” “Turn Off Lights” In New York City, officials of the electric light company received scores of calls urging that they “turn off the lights so the city would be safe from the enemy.” Mass hysteria mounted so high in some cases that people told the po- lice and newspapers they saw the “invasion.” Heard in Middle West In Minneapolis and St. Paul switchboards were deluged with calls from frightened people. In Atlanta there was worry in some quarters that the end of the world had come. One woman rushed into a church in Indianapolis shouting: *“New York City has been destroyed. It is the end of the world. You might NATION IS ~ SWEPT BY ~ HYSTERIA & MEN RESCUED (IN SAGA OF SEA BY 8. S, ALASKA {Freak Sea Hits Halibuter— Crew Spends Seven Nights Adrift Near Death |BATTLE WAVES WAIST | Just as well go home to die. T just | DEEP, RAW OIL, WATER | heard it on the radio.” Services were | dismissed . immediately. | Extras Are Issued ‘ Newspapers in practically every | city in the nation issued extras with | | flaring headlines to attract atten-| | tion and then gave the gist of the| |cause for the hysteria and there| Six halibut fis was nothing to be alarmed about. |With raw oil and salt water, are | Five boys in the Brevard, North aboard the steamor Alaska today, Carolina, College, fainted and a|récuperating from one of the most nightmarish experiences with neazr death on stormy seas in the history of seafaring men of the fickle North Flares Burned Early in Morning Brings Aid— All Are Burned ermen, burned telephones to inform their parents to come and get them. | Pacific. | In Pacific Northwest The Alaska early yesterday morne In Concrete, Wash., women faint-|ing saw flares in the black of the ed and men prepared to take their (night and put over a boat to take families into the mountains for|a half dozen pitifully weak and | safe-keeping when the electric|injured men from the thoroughly power failed during the realistic ra- | wrecked and all but sunk 59-foot dio dramatization of Wells' “War of |halibuter Angelés, of Seattle. the World,” with meteors and gas| Captain H. J. Hansen, skipper from Mars. For a time the villagers of the Angeles, resting his tortured of Concrete verged on mass hysteria |flesh in a stateroom bunk on the | because the power failed and many |Alaska this morning, told of a thought the invasion had reached monster freak sea that swept the Washington State. {decks of the Angeles with terrific In Seattle force during a gale of wind a week Fisewhere in . the. Pacific m‘mm R0y | west calls poured into the news- | for a hideous six days and seven | paper and Associated Press offices nights of battle against a seemingly by the thousands. |relentless approach of death at sea. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer and | Hit by Big Sea Seattle Daily Times switchboards| At four o'clock in the afternoon were a white blanket of lights. lof the twenty-third, the big sea Incoming calls reached the Asso-|hit just as Captain Hansen was ciated Press office in Seattle from |going below to relieve the engineer a distance of 300 miles from persons‘standmg by idling engines while asking about earthquakes and 1n-!ll\e boat drifted in the storm. | vasion from Europe, tidal waves,| “We didn't see the wave,” Cap= and “what have you.” Many asked |tain Hansen said painfully through if anything was left of New York swollen lips, holding his blistered | city. Some asked if New York City cheeks. “All we know is that . sud= had disappeared beneath the At- denly it hit us and tore everything lantic Ocean. loff the decks, pilot house, gear, Volunteers boals and everything. It was lueky In San Francisco, offer to volun- none of us were in the house or on teer to stop the invasion from Mars geck.” came among the hundreds of tele-| A gaping rent was torn in the phone calls received at Police Head- |starhoard side of the vessel, three [ anriate and newspaper offices. |seven-inch square beams amidships | During the broadcast one patriot|yere broken, pots, pans, fish cargo iox(’(lbdly roared into the telephone: ang jce were flung into a mess. in | “My God, where can T volunteer my | the pilge, and to add to the de~ o T D B afwul | geryction, the main ofl pipe to the thing.” | engines burst and flooded the craft | Conferences f By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 31.—1It is a safe bet that the fate of Czechoslo- vakia promoted President Roose- velt's good neighbor policy as much in a short time as could have been accomplished by 10 years of con- ferences . It has dawned on at least one |of the Latin American republics that it is nice to live on this side |tions do not need to fear that | four large nations will sit around a | table and divide them up, with ra- dio accompaniment. The last time anybody was divided up on this continent was in 1903 when the | United States had a hand in break- {ing Panama off from Colombia to facilitate acquiring a right of way for the Panama Canal Elie Lescot, minister to the United States from the Negro re- public of Haiti, called at the state department immediately after the Czechoslovak shouting was over io | tell Acting Secretary Sumner Welles | how grand his nation felt as being | so far away from Europe. Over here, | Haiti is safe enough. Off the coast Word was received at the City Joseph DeGoutte, former commnnd-}or Europe it might be just another Hall this afternoon from the War er of the Allied Armies in the colony to be fought over. Department asking if Engineer Novi Rhineland, is dead a tthe age of | could be given office space there. 72. | PATENT OFFICE FLOODED, TOO Cris;es May be Better tha; Of Good Neighbor Policy |of the ocean where the little na-| niece of the late John D. Rockefel-| Deering was convicted of the Death came to the aged general| The New England storm and flood | with sickening raw fuel oil. All six men recovered their feef, lin water and oil to their waists, some of them seriously injured, and {began to bail furiously with five |gallon cans fishermen use to keep | halibut livers in. All through that night, the next | day and the next night, Scandinav= |ian arms flailed in the flooded hull to keep the craft afloat. They ate nothing and they drank nothing or Promotion bullets, tank trap devices, and soldiering gadgets of every descrip- tion. {in that time. The patent office is pmenq 40 Hours of Torture enough. Never can tell when a jig| Regaining senses after 40 hours of tremendous national importance might come out of some barn-loft shop. The odds are against it these | days, because life is so complex that| it takes a technologist in a fancy| laboratory to do much now. l The patent office never makes | public the nature of any design | sent in for patent until the putent{‘ ‘ls granted. There is a law against| iit. But to merit any consideration at all, the device must propose | some useful service. For that reason | the office never would patent al.s poison-carrying bullet or a projec- tile for spreading disease germs. The | United States would not use such a | device in a war, and it would have| no legitimate use in peace times. | MEN ON TRIAL, PRISON MURDER Toughest Gu; on Rock” Is Among the Many Witnesses Called SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, Oct. 31— James C. Lucas and Rufus Frank- lin, two young bad men with long criminal records, went on trial to= day for their lives in a heavily guarded court room. They are charged with the murder of a guard during a futile escape al= tempt from Alcatraz prison om May 23. £ Harvey Bailey, known as the WASHINGTON ON THE SPOT So many tourists put their fingers on the city of Washington in a big map of the U. 8. hanging in the Li- brary of Congress that they wore a hole through the map, through its cardboard backing and into the wall behind it. The lbrary lately re- placed the map with a new one. And did you know that: ler, died yesterday after the birth of | twin sons, both of whom survived. —_— e — Late summer, When the cover crop is seeded, is the best time t0|yitp the introduction by the depart-| apply lime on land that needs it for growing vegatables. murder of Oliver Meredith, Jr. —— e~ ‘The date inaustry, about 25 years old in the United States, originated ment of agriculture of the choicest dates from old world gardens. | SKAGWAY, Alaska, Oct. 31 —| | Mrs, Margaret Ward, wife of F. F/ | J. Ward, former United States Com- missioner here and a pioneer resi- dent of Atlin and Skagway, passed |away Saturday afternoon. She had lbeen ill for about one year. r e e S John Pujimori, a Japanese, been fined $25 in Commissioner’s court in Hoonah for illegal posses- Charnay. Dispite his long retirement from h8s .4 his home in the little village of | brought a storm and flood of ap- plications to the patent office for patents on life-saving devices and slon of venison, according to word |, yive service, Gen. DeGoutte was | storm signals. It happens every time. to the Alaska Game Commission Douglas Gray at Hoonah, |a member of the General Staff e | headquarters from Wildlife Agem,nmm his death. It is the same way with a war. The mails bring in designs for trick The government has begun to train its radio voices, it has so much business or the air. Pirst class is in connection with a WPA bureau of education job in New (Continued on Page Three) “toughest guy on the Rock,” is among the witnesses, to be broughé from the island prison to testify. The prisoners are heavily mans acled and armed guards questionm and search all those permitted' te ' enter the court room.