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

T HE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7985. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS KA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENT3 [TALY BEING DEFIED BY FRENCH NATION Winter Blows Blast Across Northern U.S. 'U.S. Hunts $27 000,000 Swindle “Master Mind” EXTR A FOR(B ICY GALE IS SWEEPING ON LONG STRETCH Thermometefi)rops to 34 Degrees Below Zero in One Section WIND HITS 100 MILES IN SEVERAL LOCALITIES Eighteen Deaths Is Toll So Far in Severe Cold Wave in Nation (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Winter blew another blast of shiv- ers and shakes across the northern| belt of the nation last night from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Seaboard with icy gales noted in some localities over one miles an hour, The mercury slid downward to as low as 34 degrees below zero in Min- nesota, while in the southern part of the nation, freezing temperatures extended from the Gulf of Mexico to the borders of Florida. Great Plains states enjoyed a brief respite from yesterday’s intense cold, but another cold wave is reported on its way. At least 18 deaths are attributed to the cold or hazarddus traffic con- ditions accompanying the cold wave. Temperatures reported from up- state New York showed ten below zero recordings in the Adirondacks and 18 above zero at Albany. Three deaths and widespread pro- | ; perty damage are laid to a hurri-‘ cane snowstorm that swept off the Great Lakes. Mount Washington, New Hampshire, in the path of the winter typhoon, recorded eight de- grees below zero and a wind velocity at one time of 112 miles an hour. WHITE PASS 10 OPERATEPLANE | FROM JUNEAU Canadian Transporiahon Company Gefs Permis- sion fo Use PAA Field Another air line will soon be op- | erating out of Juneau, according | to permission granted through the | Collector of Customs as of De- cember 19 to the White Pass Air- | ways, Inc., of Skagway, to lnnd‘ planes from foreign ports at the Pacific Alaska Airways field here. The White Pass line operates now out of Carcross and Skagway to Mayo, Atlin, Dawson, and other points in tiie Dawson country and it is understood the service will be extended to Juneau in the near future. EIGHT FLY HERE WITH PAA AND SIX 60 NORTH Six passengers-flew to Fairbanks today with Pacific Alaska ‘Airways and eight came in from . the In- terior city. Outbound with pilots Monsen and Knox were Mrs. A. H. Crum, G, McMurray, Mary Joyce, Gladys Abel, Alma Chatnnet, and Henry Spall. At Whitehorse, the northbound plane was to meet the southbound ship and pilots Crosson and Hall, changing there to let Knox and Hall bring the eight inbound pas- sengers to Juneau. The passengers are Grant Jack- son, S. Ruiz, Joe Flakne, K. Knight, Mrs. John Cross, Patsy Cross, Em- ma Davadivich and H. Meyers. - e Platinum was known to the an- cients but its high melting point prevented their working it. First Lady Watches “Her Dance” Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt is pictured in New York City, watching he protegee, Miss Mayris Chaney, arnd Edward Fox execute the “Eleano: Glide,” the new dance which has been named for the First Lady. hundred _ FAMOUS WRITER, YASURE CREW LONA GALE, DIES FROM PNEUMONIA, Novelist Wgo—D epicted Life in Midwestern Sec- tion Dies in Chicago i | k ZONA GALE CHICAGO, IIl, Dec. 28—Zona | Gale, novelist, best known for her portrayal of life in small midwestern towns, is dead here in a hospital as the result of pneumonia at the age of 65 years. Her best known work, “Miss Lulu Bett,” won the Pulitzer prize in 1921 and the play had a long and successful run, both in New York and on the road Zona Gale believed that since she wrote about folks in small towns, she must live in one z Therefore, “home,” for her, was Portage, Wis., where she was born Aug. 26, 1874. Living in Portage, she could make practical application of her credo that the middle west is unsurpassed as a place for the crea- tive artist to live and work “How can an artist function in New York, with so few hours and so much food—or so little?” she once asked And her “function” was not only the writing of novels and plays, but an active participation as well in the affairs of her city and her state. Her years of greatest service coin- cided with the rise of the late Sen- ator Robert M. LaFollette and with the growth in political influence of his two sons, Philip and Robert. In private life she was Mrs. Wil- liam Breese, her husband being a manufacturer and banker of Port- age. They were married in 1929. A prolific writer, Miss Gale never- theless found time to speak when one of the LaFollettes was cam- paigning. At first, she made politi- cal talks before clubs and civic meetings. Later, she used the radio frequently. This in addition to the writing of more than seven books and two plays. Midwestern Scenes The midwestern scene was consis- (Continued on Page Six) | 'Moumamous Seas and lce INSURGENTS CARRY PUSH 'Wide Advances Made by . Franco’s Men Along 15-Mile Front 7,000 LOYALISTS TAKEN PRISONERS Vntal Tarragona Reporied as Surrounded by At- tacking Forces HENDAYE, Dec. 28. — Insurgent armies are reported as continuing their drive in Catalonia, “on all fronts,” along the 75-mile line be- tween Tremp and Ribarroja on lhs' Ebro River. Insurgent newspapers said the six- ik !day old offensive toward Tarragona | and Barcelona on the Mediterranean had resulted in the capture of more than 386 square miles. The papers further said at least sixteen towns have been captured, scores of villages and seven thousand | prisoners. Fresh gains are reported especially | southeast of Lerida, Insurgent base of operations, where Grandellas has been taken. which city is an im- STILL ASHORE NEAR CORDOV way transportation. Tarragona, a major objective is| said to be completely surrounded by | a ring of Insurgent troops and its fall is expected momentarily. Prevent Rescue by Two Launches CORDOVA, Alaska, Dec. 28.—The Forest Service launch Chugach and a motor surf boat from the Coast Guard Cutter Spencer were forced back to port yesterday by terrific offshore winds ahd mountainpus breakers in an attempt to run the channel to reach three stranded sur- vivors on the wrecked boat Yasure. | The two rescuing craft came with- | in 1,000 feet of Grassland Bar, where the Yasure is ashore, before being | driven back by breakers estimated | as 45 feet high. Airplane pilot Kirkpatrick flew over the bar and reported sceing tracks of men in the snow about the ship, completely surrounded by snow and ice. ; The tracks seen by Kirkpatrick gl were the first indication of a?w mo] 0u' In New York c"y remaining on the wrecked craft. Kirkpatrick was to take off again| NEW YORK, Dec. 28—Brenda today and fly over the ice studded | piana Duff Flazier, widely publi-| channel and direct the movements |cized America’s Number One debu- of small boats in the tortuous chan- | tante glamor girl, made her formal nel which is hard to navigate even bow to society last might in a set- in favorable WPthl‘l‘ ting of gold in the Ritz Carlton % S Hotel. | Twelve hundred guests were in-| | vited. FIVE INDICTED R e e IN FRAUD CASE | - Decorations were white ostrich Diana Makes $50,000Party 'America’s Number One Glamour Girl” Brought | furnished NEARER SEA' portant center for highway and rail- | Her Debut al - | Paul NEW CAUSE FOR CRIME IS TOLD; SLUMS, HOTBEDS Many National Industrial Leaders Responsible, Declares Speaker RICHMOND, Va, Dec. 28. — Dr. Schroeder, of Chicago, told the American Assoclation for vancement of Science at a meeting | last night, that many national in- dustrial leaders were indirectly re- | sponsible for the majority of crimes committed in the United States. Dr. Schroeder said the slums around factories produce most of the criminals, both old and young. dren as families move to better resi- dential sections R THE BITE THAT FAILED NORMAN, Okla—A big red ap- er's recent trip to a hospital. His jaw bone slipped out of place when he attempted to take a man’s sized bite. | feathers and Christmas trees. The bars were stocked on a scale N . " |of two quart bottles of champagne O"Kers of Blg Corporailon for every three persons with heavy » & | reserves ready to be drawn on. Nlpped Pubh( for | The cost of the party is estimat- e |ed over $50,000. Over Million | Diana is only 17. | e, INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Dec. 0" wn’H WAR 28.—A Federal Grand Jury has con-} victed five officers of the Contin-| ental Credit Corporation, of Win-} TOKYO, Dec. 28. — The lower chester, Indiana, for using the mails|House of the Japanese Diet has to defraud, the schemes, the Gov-| adopted a resolution pledging sup- ernment contending, having cost,pon to the Chinese war. Midwest business houses and indi- | viduals approximately $1,200, | John Moore, Sr., presldent uf the corporation, and his son John have been convicted on all 12 counts of | indictments against them, The Gu\emmem contended thaH by senmg notes to customers then kited the checks and issued worth- less warehouse receipts through me connivance of associated firms, .- One Thousand fo Get 0ld Pensions dent Roosevet has ol 5L ‘;zlan in giving a course of instruc- NEW BEDFORD Mass, Dec. 28.|tion to 20,000 college students an- —Announcement is made that the|nually. huge Dartmouth Mill plant will re-| The officials of the Aeronautics open soon, giving jobs to more| Authority said that only by such an than 1,000 textile workers. approach can the United States ade- COLLEGE STUDENTS T0 BE cionEeac INSTRUCTEDIN AVIATON; U. WASHINGTON CHOSEN | quately safeguard itself against vast aerial and militarization problems underway in foreign countries. The University of Washington at Seattle is one of the first colleges chosen for instruction. Army and Navy fliers will be em- ployed as instructors. Ad- | There is a fairly regular decrease| in crime rate, he said, among chil- | ple was the cause of Homer Arch-| Government agents recently sought a “master mind” who, they believe, was the “brains” sensational financial career of the late Philip Musica, alias F. Donald Coster, ex-convict and swindler, who ccmmitted suicide as he was about to be arrested in connection with a $27,000,000 drug company loss. In a fiction-like career, the Musica family were charged with swindle in 1913. Then, with names changed, they became directing officers in one of America’s larrest drug companies. Top photo shows (left to right) Arthur Musica, alias George Vernard; the late Philip. alias Coster, and George Musica, alias George Die- trich. Lower left shows Charles F. Michaels, San Francisco business man and executive vice president of the ccmpany, who will head reorganization of the firm, it was announced. Lower right shows an old file print of the entire Musica family when they were arrested in New Orleans for swindle in 1913. |Post Office Dept. |Goes Info Red; There's a Reason WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. — Postmaster General James A. Farley reports the Post Office Department has spent $43,- | 811,556, more than the income for the 1938 fiscal year. He said the Post Office De- partment should have made more than $4,000,000 profit if it had not the expense of free ser- vices estimated to cost $48,000,- 000 to carry free, Congressmens’ | mail. - > FRAME HOTELS | ABLAZE, EARLY ~ MORNING FIRE |Firemen Use Exfra Lines of Hose-Water Freezes, 20 Below Zero Dec. 28.—Fire destroyed two hotels in 20 degree below zero weather early today. Before the fire was controlled however the two frame hotels, and one housing a large bar, were des- troyed. Several times water froze in the hose lines and new lines had to be run out. No lives were lost. ot et DE VALERA IS T0 DUBLIN, Dec. 28. — Eamon de Valera has accepted President Roose- White House in Washington next spring. ed States on May 6 according to present plans. INTERNATIONAL FALLS, Minn. | several adjoining frame structures, VISIT ROOSEVELT velt’s invitation to visit him at the | De Vaiera will arrive in the Unit- | " behind the InferiorMan Is Killed; Body Snow(overad Julius Manling Is Found | Dead Near Mess House | on Gilmore Creek Alaska, Dec. 28— { The body of Julius Manling, 32, was tound partly covered with snow, a | few feet from the mess house of the Gilmore Mine Company on Gilmour Creek. There was a double barrelled shot- |gun lying by the side of the body | one barrel was empty and there wae a gaping wound in Manling's head The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of accidental death. The jurors heard testimony that Man- ling often hunted wolves in the vi- cinity. The search for Manling started after he failed to appear for Christ- | mas dinner. FATRBANKS, Stock QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, Dec. 28—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 99, American Light and Power 5%, An- | aconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel 78, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors |50, International Harvester 57%, | Kennecott 417%, New York Cen- (tral 20%, Northern Pacific 13%, !'Sarewny Stores 26%, Southern Pac- ific 19%, United States Steel 67%, | Bremner bid 1 asked 2, Pound $4.66%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow. Jones averages: Industrials 15145, rails 3212, utilities 21.88. BEING RUSHED 10 DJIBOUTI Garrison arITnporfant | Town, French Somali- land, Slrflgfhened DISPATCH BOAT IS ALSO ON WAY, TROUBLE AREA Scouting Plfikepons - 000 Italian Soldiers Concentrated PARIS, Dec. 28—The Minister of Colonies announces that a de- tachment of Sengalese troops have been sent to strengthen Djibout! now threatened by the Italians. Djibouti is the important port of French Somaliland. Reinforcements to strengthen the rarrison at Djibouti were requested by Gov. Gen. Hubert Deschamps. Officials here said the reinforces ments were to “assist in maintaining order” and amid reports Ifalian troops were being concentrated near the French Somaliland port. Colonial authorities sald they did not know the exact number of Ital- ian troops being conmcentrated but pilote of airplanes off ‘& soouting trip estimated at least 2,000 extra soldiers were already as- embled in concentration camps. The French press and public be leve the Italians are bluffing in he Djibouti campaign. There is & eral feeling that France will be to defend her colonies a symbol of French defiance, French dispatch boat Diberville 1as arrived at the Suez Canal on the way to Djibouti. i CUTTER ALERT TAKING THREE T0 HOSPITALS Rheumahsm Broken Leg, Baby, Send Coast Guard on Another Job A few days ago off the storm toss- ed shores of a bleak Gulf of Alaska coast, Coast Guardsmen were bat= tling heavy seas to save men who had been wrecked—a heroic and mantic picture to contemplate, but yesterday and today, the cutter Alert, out of Ketchikan, was “sav- ing” a man with rheumatism, & woman with a broken leg, and & woman expecting a baby. The Alert was proceeding to Ju- neau, but a wire was received from he radio operator at Cape Pole on Koskiusko Island that a fisherman there was in desperate condition with rheumatism that d mmedhte hospital attention. The Alert proceeded to Cape Pole snd picked up the sick man for hap“- alization at Wrangell. Just before picking up this fish= erman, a wire was received from Port Alexander, where Mrs. Ralph Hilmer, a fisherman’s wife, had “in- jured herself in a fall and needed a doctor.” When the Alert arrived there this morning, Mrs. Hilmer was found to have a broken leg, and another wo= man, expecting a child, was also in need of hospital attention. And so, according to wires receive by the Haida today from ¢ Alert, one fisherman with rhe: ism “not so bad as first reported,” ng taken to a hospital one woman with a broken leg and ane other with a baby coming, are also going to a hospital. Not especially heroic or romantic in the common sense of the word, but it is still another little sags of the sea with the Coasi Guard building the tale. e A farmer in Avery m tern Nor'h Carolina, reported & net profit of $270 from 1.1 acre d,u’ bage. ed