The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1938, Page 1

ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” r ; THE DAILY JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIIL, NO. 7986. NEW BATTLES RAGE ON SPANISH FRONTS sou s o oo FLAME RAZED . v e EVEN TERMS as Secrefary for An- | Release After Payment | y other Term of Ransom by Friends | ol Views of Wrecked Patterson on Alaska Coast Charles W. Carter was re-elected President of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at the weekly lunch- eon of the group this noon at Percy’s | Cafe, the recommendation of the| Executive Board being unanimously | and Mrs. Ed Lane on Coughlin Is-| of theli. i Auk Bay, the flames taking | accepted. Other officers Chamber for 1939 are Wellman Hol- brook, First Vice President; C. D. ¢ Beale, Second Vice President, and +« and an appropriate sign will be ar- . ) »al " « retary Stevens revealed the Cham- “ v . R. H. Stevens, re-elected Secretary Serving on the Board during the coming year with the President and two Vice Presidents are H. O. Adams, T. J. Dyer, George W. Folta and Dr. M. J. Whittier. The officers take over their duties next week. It also was voted to establish headquarters of the Chamber again in a room of the Alaska Federal Savings and Loan on Seward Street | where it has been the past year ranged for the building. Estimating that $30,000 of new money will be brought to Juneau by | the Rotary Conference next May 18| to 21, A. B. Phillips, General Chair- | man for the conference, urged sup- port of the Chamber today in mak- | ing the biggest convention the north has ever had a success. He estimated | upwards of 1,000 delegates and their | families would be here for the big| v gathering. D. J. Conway of Jaxtheimer & Company, investment house, Port-| land, who last night bought the| City's improvement bond issue, was | a guest of the Chamber today, com- | plimenting the community on its| sound financial condition. [ Other guests were Territorial Sen- | ator C. H. “Alabam” La Boyteaux | of Livengood and C. E. Swanson, | Petersburg merchant, who is in the | city with Mrs. Swanson for a week’s | holiday, expecting to return home; on the Mount McKinley. Annual report submitted by Sec- ber spent $2,169.25 in promoting its | community activities during the | year out of a budget of $2,634.92 | leaving a balance in the treasury of | $4665.67. The budget for 1939 has been estimated at $2,780. In outlining the highlights of the Chamber’s activity for the year,| Secretary Stevens said in his re- « port: { “The year just ending has been ¥ one of accomplishment for the Chamber. Projects supported and | promoted in the past have reached | reality. In the meantime, worthwhile | movements have been launched | which should result in progress and | prosperity for the community. | “Outstanding, perhaps, on the list | of realized undertakings was the actual starting of work on the Jun- | + eau small boat harbor: For years, the | Chamber pressed for this valuable * asset to the commercial life of this| community. Data was gathered, sent to the proper sources on several oc- | casions only to be rejected, neces- sitating a new push toward the goal. During the past year approval was finally obtained and actual work (Continued on Page Eight) - e .Rescue o YasureMen Is Stalled " Crew of Wrecked Vessek Still Stranded as Gales Persist ON FOX ISLE Fire of undetermined origin yes- terday destroyed the home of Mr their toll while Lane and another | man were pelting foxes in the pelt house only a short distance away, ignorant of the hiaze behind them The blaze broke out yesterday morning a short time after Lane and Carl Swanson had gone to the pelting house and Dallas Kearn and Hugo Bergstrom had gone to | the other side of the island to trap.|thing consumed by Lane told his wife, employed at |the First National Bank, that he room house and furnishings at be-| didn't know a thing about it,” until hie looked out of the pelting house window and saw Ralph Reischl’s boat the Treva C. come into the beach and Ralph called attention to the fire he had seen from his Fritz Cove home Tournament of Roses Queen Barbara Virginia Dougall, 17, Pasadena, Cal., Junior College sopho- more, who was recently selected to preside over the internationally | famous New Year’s Day Tournament of Roses in Pasadena. ing its Goiden Jubilee on January 2, 1939, the floral pageant will carry out the theme of “Golden Memories.” capped by the Rose Bowl football game between University of Southern California and Duke University. JERUSELEM, Dec. Bouvier, British Ottoman Bank, | | British concern, Lane told his wife he ran to the| house then. but just before he got | there “the whole front of the place | seemed to blow up.” Nothing was saved and the four | rived here unharmed. Le Bouvier, paid for his release. men lost “everything” including | e Bouvier, who speaks Arabic | clothes, jewelry and a little money. | flyently, brought with him a pass- The Llll}(’ losses include v.?ll of port assuring him of safe passage Mrs. Lane’s “good furniture” and signed by a widely known Arab a lot of her mother’s, Mrs. JO"“.‘Chxel Suleiman. Ptack ; | Le Bouvier said this leader and Last summer the Lane’s lost their| hine others stopped him last Mon- pelting house by fire | day on the Jerusalem-Jericho road No insurance was carried on any- | anq marched him to the barren the fire. MIS.|pjjis known as the “Wilderness of s of the four | christ's Temptation.” | Lane estimates the 1 the fire is believed to lie in a flooded | puplic the ransom paid. house. | ) . Perfedingon | | | | | 'avmwrs have developed from among on live targets. This is the opinion land when a hit is scored and many | results, then take the air for more | burner in the oil stove that was e 0y 1 Seventy-five fox pelts were in the | Live Target the world’s worst to among the best |of neutral observors. killed, mangled or only wounded killings or manglings. |tween $3,000 and $5,000. Cause Of |mjles from Jericho. He has not made jburning when the men left me‘j FI' pelt house but none in the home fire. | apan Ier \Inhuman Bombing of De- SHANGHAI, Dec. 20--Japanese bombers through their daily practice Defenseless Chinese are bombed Ithe fliers gleefully check up the - e BRIT. STEAMER BOMBED; CREW ESCAPE, BOATS Spanish Insurgents Believ ' ed Responsible for Sending Ship Down | LONDON, Dec. 29.—Lloyds agents at Gibraltar report they have re- {ceived an SOS from the 4,000 ton | British steamer Marionga Wwhich reads: “Bombed. Crew took to boats.” The steamer’s position is given as on Spain’s eastern coast between Celebrat- | The Marionga carried a crew of about 30 men. The steamer left Oran, Algeria, last Saturday, carrying a general The festivities will be U. 5. DISCOVERY |ARMY OFFICERS WAS GOOD THING: London Grammar School, Debate Finally Seffles | Important Issue - | cargo destined for Barcelona. SLEPT WITH EYE OPEN LIVERPOOL—An 1l-year-old boy hurt in a motor accident was un- successful when he sued the motor- ist for damages, claiming he was forced to sleep with his left eye open as a result of the injury. Fur farming in the United States 1 a comparatively . new industry, |most of the farms having been es- | tablished less than 10 years ago. ARE_ APPOINTED | 10 JOBS, WPA WASHINGTON, Dec. N.—Army“s officers have won two more high ranking posts in the WPA. Col. F. C. Harrington, who suc- 29.—Louie lof Manager of the: missing since last Monday, has ar- { said an Arab band | held him for ransom until friends | Le Bouvier was freed about two| | the Castellon and Balearic islands. | | | i Driven ashore near Point Fairweat members of the crew were drowned | an aerial view, showing the immens LIBEL ACTIONIS | FILED QUICKLY, | WRECKED SHIP Seattle Comhprévny Attaches | . Insurance Covering | | M.S. Patterson | | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 29.— | An admiralty action has been filed |in the Federal Court by the W. E. | Beggs Company of Seattle involv- ing lost cargo on the motorship Pat- | terson, recently wrecked on the Gulf of Alaska near Cape Fairweather, Alaska. | It is stated the company shipped $6,500 worth of sterilizers for the Anchorage, Alaska, hospital and at- tachment is on $35000 insurance {on the vessel until the loss is re-s| covered. i | reet the Coast Guard cutter Haida, with base at Juneau, remained for nearly two weeks, rescue. At right is another aerial view, a closeup, showing the Jacobs ladder down which the men escaped to the beach, between breakers, the day after the Patterson stranded. terson is being battered to pieces by the breakers. her, Gulf of Alaska, the motorship Patterson carried a crew of 18. Two and their bodies have not been recovered. The 16 others were finally rescued, mine brought to Juneau and seven taken to Ketchikan. At left is a picture of the stranded craft, Beyond the aiding in the e breakers. The white spol out to sea is a barrier reef. Latest reports are that the Pat- Nazi Go;);l w‘ill Pldne Wrecked TRAFFIC DEATHS " MOUNT UPWARD May Reach 31,500 Present ' Year, 8,000, However, | - Under Record 1937 | CHICAGO, 111, Dec. 29.—The Na- | tional Safety Council makes a pre- | |diction that traffic deaths in the United States this year will reach a total of 31,500 if the trend of the first eleven months of the year is| continued until January 1. | This total will, however, be a re- duction of 8000 from an all-time| high of 39,500 deaths as the result of traffic accidents in 1937. HOWARD HUGHES IS OUTSTANDING - AVIATOR FOR "33 WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. — The National Aeronautics Association has | elected Howard Hughes, wealthy |sportsman and pilot, who encircled |the globe, as the outstanding aviator | in the United States in 1938. ceeedd Harry L. Hopkins, apopinted | Secretary of Commerce, as Admin- | LONDON, Dec. 29.—Armahm,ed“5”’“‘"- has Selected Major B. M. CORDOVA, Alaska, Dec, 20.—Wild | debate, a local grammar school has | Harloe, of the Army Engineering gales sweeping across the desolate |established its conviction that the |COrPs. as Chief Engineer Assistant Copper River flats today were still |discovery of America was a good | Administrator, and Capt. G. E. Tex- precenting rescue of three flshel‘-‘zhlng_ |tor, of the Engineering Corps, has men waiting hopefully on their Ibeen assigned as Executive Assist- RAID MADE ON UNITED STATES These photos, first to reach the United States, show the wreckage of the German goodwill plane which crashed in Manila Bay December 6. The huge multi-motored Condor was on a Tokyo-Manila hop, which was to have been the first stage of its return flight to Berlin. Top photo shows Philippine constabulary guards and curious natives standing on the fuselage. All aboard were rescued by harbor craft. Lower photo shows, left to right, Paul Dierberg, engineer; Junge Heinrich, pas- senger; Walter Kobert, radio operator; Captain Alfred Henke, com- mander of the Gooedwill Flight (with cap); George Kohne, mechanic, and Co-Pilot V. Moreau. MORE SOVIET DECREES MADE BY.J. STALIN going?” Wersoski asked as he pulled alongside a speeding car. “Seventy-one miles an hour, of- ficer,” replied the motorist, “I was trying to see if this car would make eighty.” He'll lose his license for a few CHRISTMAS TREE CAUSES TRAGEDY: 1 DEAD, 1 DYING MOSCOW, Dec. 29.—A decree has been signed by Joseph Stalin dras- | tically tightening discipline imposed on Soviet workers in offices and Insurgents Claim Twénty Loyalist Planes Are Shot Down FRANCO-ITALIAN ISSUE MARKING TIME TODAY African Situa'iz. Appare ently Hinging on Con- ference Next Month (By Associated Press) Opposii = armies in the Spanish Civil War are battling on almost even terr . while the strife over Italian ¢ “‘ratons of French fer- ritory has narcwed down to two areas, Turisia, Ircnch Protectore |ate in North Afiica, and Djibouti, poit in french Somaliland, East Africa. Desp'te the St Spe 1 reports from ish war front that 20 Governmen' war planes hav. been shot down in the greate est air battle of the six-day-old battle, offensive against Catalonia, Franco's gains are apparently of minor consequence, Advices from both Insurgent intense fighting night and continuing today, es- pecially on the Central and Southern Lerida fronts, also on the Northern front where the Loy- alists have withdrawn to Mount Boala to the strongly fortified po- sitions guarding the Aretesa-Tramp Road. Franco-Italian Crisis The Franco-Ttalian issue marked | time today under the shadow of British Premier Chamberlain’s ex- pected visit to Rome on January {11, Premier Chamberlain is re- ported to have promised to keep the controversy over Djibouti out | of the discussions but Mussolini, it is understood, believes he will force both Tunisia and Djibouti into prominence. Meanwhile the French are shows ing firmness. Two warships are steaming to Djibouti and French and Sengalese troops are ready to embark to strengthen the East Af- rican garrisons and resist, with gun- shots, any aggression of the Ital- ians. HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES CHINA BATTLES Guerilla Warfare Takes Large Toll-Invaders Are Reillsed SHANGHALI, Dec. 29.—Heavy loss« es by both Chinese and Japanese |are reported as guerilla warfare con- tinued in widely separated areas in China. Severe fighting hroke out along the “Tsien Tang River in Chekian Province, southwest of Shanghal, where the Chinese assert thousands | of Japanese have been killed in & | series of clashes. Many Chinese | were also killed. It is al=o reported that 300 Jap« | anese were killed in southwestern Shansi rovirce when the invaders attemptec to cross the Fen River, | DAL e A Stocxk QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10, American Can {1007, American Light and Power MINT; BOLD FEAT IS REVEALED It took a lot of arguing, however, | wrecked fishing boat, the Yasure. Chief Engineer. factories. Anaconda 35, Bethlehem Steel. to override the debaters of an op- 1“"'- to the ¢ The Coast Guard Cutter Spencer and the Forest Service vessel Chu- « gach have temporarily abandoned rescue efforts in hopes the gale will subside. Yesterday afternoon, plane pilot Kirkpatrick, unable to land on the ice packed bar where the fishermen | are stranded, dropped food. The three men have been stranded since Monday when their craft drove ashore in a heavy storm. Bit- % ter cold and heavy ice cormbined with tempestuous seas have stalled 4 all rescue efforts. posing school. 1 Principal points- recited by pro- | ponents of the motion that “Amer- |ica should never have been discov- | |ered” were that America not only |has made no concrete advance- ment in civilization but had glori- | fied crime and encouraged cheap |manners and magazines. | The opposition won its case by | |shouting back that America not only was a great patron of all arts but of modern arts as well. Just to clinch the case, it cited an exam-. ple—Walt Disney. RSOt F AMOUS jEWISH | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 20— | The armor plated heavily guarded | United States Mint was raided last DO('OR SUIGDE ’nu;ht by two 15-year-old boys who BUDAPEST, Dec. 29.—Prof. Leo|got in by scaling the wall and, rais- Liebermann, well-known eye special- | ing an unlocked window. ist belonging to the faculty of mel Police Inspector Max Reznik iden- University of Budapest, shot and |tified the boys as Paul Francis and killed himself because of the im-| William Gallagher, residents of an | pending law that will rigidly restrict |orphanage at San Rafael. Jewish activities in Hungary and| “We wanted to see if'we could do drive Jews out of many professions. |it,” the boys said. Dr. Liebermann was a half-Jew.| Bedlam broke out in the huge fortress of granite and steel, suppos- edly one of the most impregnable of Government buildings in the country, when a guard saw two prowlers in the copper room and turned in an alarm. Lights went on and bells sounded. Angry voiced men, with machine guns appeared. Before the boys were discovered, they had tossed out of the window, through which they gained entrance, a big sheet of copper from the room where pennies are made, ELYRIA, Ohio, Dec. 29.—Survey-|5%, t | ors found that a Christmas tree that | 78%, Commonwealth and Southern: i | William Rosseau is alleged to h-ve{ 1'%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General \HONESI SPEEDER |taken for his children when he was | Motors 50%, International Harvester | |shot to death by William Case was 58%, Kennecott 43%, New York not on Case’s farm. |Central 20%, Northern Pacific 14, losis ll(E“sEn township road. |cific 197, United States Steel 69%, 300 T | Rosseau’s widow, wounded by Case, | Bremner bid 1 asked 3, Pound is in a critical condition. | $4.66%. 7 LY e AR “most honest motorist” has been| The pricxry peay, a form of cactus VERA found by State Trooper Stephen|native to the American soumwest,‘ DOW. JCABE & g ¥ | Wersoski | has spread idel The fllowne .SFe Joourts S ¢ spread so widely in Australia|jones averages: industrials 158.63, The tree was on a right-of-way uli‘Sareway Stores 28'4, Southern Pas TOPSFIELD, Mass., Dec. 20.—The | i l “How fast do you think you were as to cause widespread concern. rails 33.16, utilties 22.66,