The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 27, 1939, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ‘ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIII, NO. 8011. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1939. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e e | ' SMITH IS GUILTY, 2ND DEGREE MURDER How Democracies Are Aiding China LIVING ARE COUNTEDTO TOTAL DEAD New Method Used fo De- termine Fatality List i in Earthquake TEN THOUSAND VICTIMS BELIVED IN ONE TOWN President Rooievelt Takes| Quick Action fo Aid | 3l v 3 Stricken Area R earthquake and limped and labored | wood. Film drew 12,000 persons alongside the creaking carts to bury before it was withdrawn, v sons and daughters, mothers and | Tl = fathers and life long friends. | Mayor Tapia believes 10,000 are | J [ "Down with The living are today being counted instead of the dead in an effort to| reach an estimate of the quake vic- 1 4 o " France (ry UNITED STATES AIDING | ! ’ WASHINGTON, Jan. 2 Presi- dent Roosevelt assisted personally 0' Rome MOb in setting up machinery to speed relief to earthquake stricken Chile.| The President cabled President AT, | Cerda: “We are desirious of doing H everything within our power to as-}POII(e Prevent Demon- sist you and have instructed the H 1 Army to send a bomber from the | Strahon Aga"m Fren( Panama Canal Zone with medicine i and food and also carrying :\n;’ EmbassyICheerSpam American Red Cross Director. e “The American Red Cross is tele-| ROME, Jan. 27.—A crowd of stu- graphing $10,000 and also arranged | dents, shouting “Down with to send further medical supplies prance,” tried to reach the French " and personnel to Chile.” Embassy today after cheering Pre- T T ! mier Mussolini but the crowd was turned back by the police Go 'I'o DEAI'H | The students, swelled by many & | Fascists, raised a clamor under the |balcony of the Palace until he giving a salute Musl( SOUNDS The nts, unable to reach the Fren sy, marched to — |the two Spanish Embassies and Ihree Youn H Id SI ;'x-hovrul with cries of “Free Spain.” g Holdup Slay-| hifilccs: 00 i L4 CHILLAN, Chile, Jan. endless file of ox drawn funeral carts slowly made their way through ruined streets of this historic Chil- ean town today and in somber des- | pair men and women lived again the | horror of last Tuesday's midnight | ers Electrocuted - 2 | Companions Live | OSSINING, N.Y., Jan. 27. — To| the echoes of Death House phono- | graph music in their ears, three| young holdup murderers died dur- | ing the night in the electric chair a few hours after Gov. H. H. Leh-| man had commuted the death sen- tences of two of their companions. The five were convicted of shoot- | ing Detective Michael Froley, of | the New York Metropolitan Police | force, when caught red-handed in a holdup. | BOEING CLIPPER | OFF ON FLIGHT; OPERATED BY PAA SEATTLE, Jan. 27.—The Boeing Clipper No. 2, with 18 men aboard, left at 11:49 o'clock this forenoon for Tongue Point, Astoria, where | it will be turned over to the Pan | American Airways. The PAA plane to operate six of the 74-place passenger planes in the Trans-Oceanic Service. FINGERPRINTS | BEING STUDIED OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, Jan. 27—1It's only a hobby with her but | Mrs. Lonas Oden, widow, has clas- | sified more fingerprints in two| years than many police identifica- | .tion bureaus handle. She started studying fingerprints “just for fun”| and has classified more than 5,000 of them. In spare moments at a depart- ment store where she is employed and at social affairs in the evening she searches out stray fingerprints and identifies the person that made them, 21—An| S o CENSORSHIP trouble in Richmond, Va., cut short the run of “Ecstasy” starring. Hedy La- marr (above), mow in Holly- CONFIRM WASHING- —The Senate has confirmed E. L. (Bob) Bartlett to be Secretary of Alaska. AL $40,000 SMELL IS UNCOVERED; 0DD, BUT TRUE By HOWARD W. BLAKESLEE AP Science Editor WILMINGTON, Del.—The story of uncovering a $40,000 smell is told by James K. Hunt of the du Pont Company. ‘The smell is synthetic musk. The real musk, from a Tibetan deer, is estimated to be worth $40,000 a pound if it could be had in a pure state. The artificial article is the equivalent of pure musk. It was found by accident. Chem- ists were investigating the structure of rubber, gelatine and cellulose, which are made of chain-like mole- cules. These molecules are like a string of snakes each hanging to the tail of another. As a rule these materials have no | smell. But occasionally an unex- pected fragrance was found. It was identified as coming from mole- cules which had curled up into rings, as if the chain of snakes had let go of each other and each swal- lowed his own tail. This difference in structure was the sole reason for the fragrance.| The ring structure, moreover, was like that of musk and the frag- rance the same. . Formation of the rings in the rubber-like materials was a . rare occurrence. By learning how to make all the molecules behave in this unorthodox manner the chemists produced synthetic musk, 'BARTLETT | served from April, 1811, to F'ebruary" mn,fiance Guerillasin {| Relafions Are | China Repori ~ Now Srained | 2 | ‘}Paris Refuses to Accepl Nippon Ambassador— Charge Revealed One Viclory Force of One Thousand Japanese-Manchou- kuoan Men Routed SHANGHAI, Jan. 27 TOKYO, Jan. 27—The Foreign | Chinese | Office discloses that French and |guerilla forces report they have| | Japanese relations are further |defeated 1,000 Japanese-Manchou- | | strained by France's rejection of |kuoan troops at Sinlo on the Pei- iMa:»:«l,\‘uki Tani as Ambassador to|ping-Hankow Railroad, 150 miles Paris. south of Peiping, in a clash. | | France has refused to accept Tani| In North Anhwei Province, the | | as Ambassador on the grounds he|Japanese assert they have routed | erroneo accused France of aid- {ing China. | The Foreign Office revealed that | Japan has repeatedly protested to | France against making munition 'NEWELL SANDERS PASSES AWAY AT TENNESSEE HOME Early, Always Regret- ted His Move CHATTANOOGA, Tenn —Newell Sanders, 88, Industrialist and former United States Senator, | died at his home here last night. Newell Sanders, amassed wealth from a small beginning as a plow | manfacturer, turned to politics, serv- | ¢ Jan. 27, | ed a brief term in the United States Senate and took a prominent part in the campaigns for National Pro- hibition and Women’s Sufferage. He spent the declinging years of a long life regretting his retirement. That event took place in 1927 and six years later he said: “I have not enjoyed doing nothing. a large band of guerillas armd | with trench mortars and machine | guns, near Pengpu on the Tient-| sin-Pukow Railway, northwest Nanking. st 2 B SO, APPOINTMENT " BY PRESIDENT IS PROTESTED Refired fn;; Adtive life;PUb“( Hearing on Thomas Amlie to ICC Ordered- Communist Claim WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—A pub- lic hearing has been ordered on President Roosevelt’s appointment {of Thomas Amlie of Wisconsin, known as a Progressive, to the In- terstate Commerce Commission, | Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Chairman of the Senate ICC Com- | mittee, has named a sub-commit- 4 of three Demoerat and two 'Republican Senators fo conduct the ! hearing. | The Wisconsin Legislature adopt- ed a resolution calling Amlie a Communist and protesting his ap- | pointment. ! Anti-Administration Senators said of %, < 1 E_."“.\.\" o ! FROM MONGOLIA BRITISH ARMS SHIPMENTS CHUNGKING FROM RANGOON | Hard-pressed China now is United States in recent months have made available $50,000,000 in shipments are made possible again over a new road from Yunn VERDICT IS HANDED OUT EARLYTODAY Jury Arrives at Decision Shortly After 2 o'Clock This Morning RECOMMENDATION FOR LENIENCY, UNANIMOUS beginning to receive aid—indirectly—as this map shows. England and the credits for supplies. British arms afu to Chungking, connecting with through | rail and motor routes from Rangoon on the Bay of Bengal. And supplies from the Soviet Union are i coming to Sian on a road rebuilt for motor traffic from the part of Mongolia controlled by the Soviet. 1 | # T | By PRESTON GROVER ]l WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.-—Publi- | cation of the confidential Naval re- port on air and submarine bases turned a bright light on a major item of National Defense often All this time I have wished I was the Amlie appointment, if approved | overlooked. It is: | still in the game of life. Such things at all by the Committee, will get | When this country has to defend as being foreman of a grand jury, through the Senate by a narrow | the hemisphere from foreign ag- sitting on Boards of Directors of | banks and railroads and trying to keep my money invested s 6 per cent do not satisf: Active Republican | An active Republican, he was for eight years chairman of the party | state executive committee in Tenne- | ssee, a delegate to seven of its na- | tional conventions from 1900 on, and | for one term, 1912-16, a member o | the National Committee. He was the first Republican sgnt to the Federal Senate from his state lin 40 years. Gov. Ben Hooper ap- pointed him to a vacancy and he 1922. In that brief time he fathered | a bill to preyent shipment_of liquor | from wet states into dry states and | it was enacted over President Taft’s | veto, to become the first federal leg- | islation regulating inter-state com- | merce in liguors. i Backs Sufferage | Woman's sufferage he backed with | his time and money, the latter al- | ways being available to forward { causes or charities in which he was | interested. | Another of his hobbies was devel- |opment of mid-continental river traffic. He organized a steamboat | company operating boats on the Tennessee Ohio and Mississippi riv- |the old Tennessee River Improve- ment Association. | sanders was born in Owen county, | Indiana, July 12, 1850. In 1873 he |diana. In the same class was Miss | Corinne Doods of Bloomington. They married and became the parents of six children, three of whom died in | childhood. | Mrs. Sanders died in 1929. She claimed to be the first woman to cast a vote south of Mason and Dixon's line, CHALLENGER OF ' HOOVER IS DEAD | PORT DEPOSIT, Md, Jan. 27.— |Joseph I. France, former United States Senator who challenged | Herbert Hoover for the Presiden- |tial nomination in 1932 and was ejected from the Republican Na- tional Convention as a result of dispute on credentials, died here ttoday at the age of 66. margin. | o it as to net| U. S. AIRCRAFT - T0 MANUFACTURE - PLANES, FRANC \President Rac;;eveli Asked | About French Observer in Recent Test Flight WASHINGTON, Jan. 27. — Pres- ident Roosevelt today said that the United States Aircraft manufactur- lers had agreed with thiz govern- | ment’s knowledge to supply France |with an undetermined number of | planes. The President when asked |at the press conference whether Isteps had been taken to facilitate the French purchase of planes, is said to have replied negatively as the question was put, but added that since many American plane !racmncs were idle it would be a |good thing if they accepted the | French plane orders to get them { | started. When asked why the French ob- |server was aboard the bomber {which was being tested for the | War Department has no objection |to other countries ordering planes {from private manufacturers. The | President - has se nt a |to Speaker Bankhead for an imme- diate appropriation of $50,000,000 to {speed airplane purchases in the ;Army's $300,000,000 procurement | program. 160 T0 MUSEUM 10 GET LIQUOR PARIS, Jan. 27. — The city of Paris believes it can claim titie to being the first city to install a bar and tea room in a museum. The bar and tea room is a popu- lar part of the new Musee de I'Homme in the Trocadero, a hall dedicated to scientific exhibits. request | | gression it will do so by attacking | the enemy as close to his home | shores as it can get. Tt will not wai | until the enemy planes are roaring |over New York City or his naval | guns are shooting down the Golden | Gate. | 1In time of war a defensive force must be converted into an offen- sive force unless the country is | willing to fight the war in its own dooryard. That, at least, is the Navy viewpoint expressed on more | than one occasion and clearly im- |plied now in the report on pro- | posed naval bases which was made | public because of a slip by a house clerk. | That is why the so-called “de- fense” weapons look so “offen- | sive.” If the war is to be fought a | few miles off the Atlantic, Pacific |or Gulf Coasts, long range bomb- | ers are not necessary, nor are_sup- | ply ships. But every defensive | plan this correspondent ever heard |of calls for meeting the enemy 2,000 miles or more from Ameri- | can shores, whether the battle be | in the air or on the sea. And that | calls for location of supply bases |as far out to the front as possible. ATLANTIC OPPORTUNITIES | ers between Chattanooga and St.|Substantially under way before a|LIMITED |Louis and was first president of larger American air program is| myere ig little opportunity for out- reaching bases in the Atlantic. We |have to be contented with Puerto | Rico, the Virgin Islands, and a naval base in Cuba to backstop the graduated with a degree for bachelor |army when it crashed in Califor- | defense both of the continent and of science from the University of In- [nia, the President replied that the | ne panama Canal. But in the Pacific it is different. }Hawnfl is already a formidable base and now the navy is hanker- ing for funds—and authority—to extend its string of supply bases 2,000 miles or more, westward, in- | cluding Midway Island, and more | important, Guam. | In Guam, the report discloses, | the Navy believes it has found a | key to national defense which will | be effective both in the Pacific and the Atlantic. It is 1,500 miles from Japan. “With adequate air and sub- marine protection securely based lon Guam,” says the report, “the lisland could be made secure | against anything short of a major effort on the part of any probable | enemy. . . . Supported by a garr‘i- |son of only moderate strength in | comparison to the important mili- tary issues involved, with appro- priate anti-aircraft and coast-de- Plans Show Navy Sfill Ranks " Good Offense as Best Defense indicate major bases proposed by Navy experts. Stars fense equipment, it seems that such a defense force should be able to hold out to the Imit of time that its supplies lasted, a period long enough in ordinary probability for adequate support to arrive.” THREE STRONG POINTS The island, comparatively small as islands go, is geographically de- signed and situated for a fleet base, says the report, and the naval board which compiled it adds: “A strong advanced fleet base at Guam, developed to the practical limits which the natural resources invite, would assure— “1.—Practical immunity of the Philippines against hostile attack in force. “2.—The most favorable conditions that could be brought about for the prosecution of naval operations in the Western Pacific arising from whatever necessity. It would reduce to its simplest possible terms the defense of Hawaii and the contin- ental coast of the United States, “3—~The ability of the fleet to operate with greater freedom in meeting emergency conditions that might arise in the Atlantic.” (The idea here would seem to be that even if the fleet should bé busy with an enemy in the Atlantic, Japan could not attack the Pacific Coast as long as Guam could send out planes and submarines to cut off the Japa~- nese supplies.) Whether the Navy wul get its way with Guam is anybody’s guess. By the 1922 naval treaty we agreed not to fortify Guam, but Japan ended that treaty by formally de- nouncing it three years ago. Even if Congress refuses to takd such a step, it. gives the government an ace to play in Pacific negotiations. g 3 DISHAWS GOE SOUTH Mr. and Mrs. Dave Dishaw are passengers south on the North Coast for a visit with relatives and friends in the states, a. INSURGENTS ON NEW OFFENSIVE, BARCELONA AREA 'Flushed with Success, Gen. Franco's Forces Keep Pushing Up Coast BARCELONA, Jan 27—The con- quering Spanish Insurgents, flush- ed with success in capturing Bar- celona, pushed up the coast today and seized the village of Badalona in an offensive designed to wipe out Spanish Government forces in Cat- alonia. miles, by road northeast of Bar- celona and lies on the main highway that follows the coast northeast for 30 miles then cuts inland due north to Georna Pigueras, thence to the frontier of France. Hundreds of demonstrations have taken place here, men, women and children celebrating the end of hun- ger, other privations and bombings of the war, LOSE FIGHT, RELIEF BILL BULLETIN — WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—The Administration forc- es have lost their fight in the Sen- ate to add $150,000,000 to the $725,- 000,000 relief bill. The vote, considered as a meas- ure of Administration strength, was 47 to 46. The Senate then proceeded to consider other amendments before the final vote on the measure to supply WPA funds until June 30. el KING OF SWEDEN ASKS MORE ARMS STOCKHOLM, Jan. 27. — King Gustay V, opening the riksdag (parliament) with new budget pro- posals for increased armaments, declared world events demand “ceaseless vigilance." Sweden intends to spend an es- timated total of 1,642,443,000 kroner (about $394,186,320) in the next fiscal year, but there will be no new taxation, and reserve funds will assure a balanced budget. B LONG TREK AHEAD EDMONTON—Plans for a 700~ mile tractor-train freight haul are being completed by Frank Corser, lumberman. He plans to haul freight from McMurray to the Yellowknife mining feld. Defendant Expressionless -Wife Silent-Sentence in Two Weeks Forrest Smith faced a jury of ten men and two women this morming at 10 o'clock thsi morning in Judge George F. Alexander’s District court and heard, without a change of ex- pression, a verdict of murder in the second degree for the killing of Thomas Colling in the once-before- tried case of the “Red Bat" triangle. Edwin Sutton, foreman of the jury, told the court that the jury was unanimously in favor of a re= commendation for leniency. Second degree murder, defined as killing purposely and maliciously with the element of premeditation absent, brings a penalty of not less than fifteen years in the peniten- tiary. The jury recelved the sensational case at 4:27 o'clock yesterday after- noon and returned a sealed verdict at 2:20 o'clock this morning, ‘ap- proximately ten hours later, in com- parisan with 56 hours of session held by the first trial jury that was hope- lessly deadlocked. No Unwritien Law In giving instructions to the jury yesterday afternoon, Judge Alexand- er said the “unwritten law” was non- existent and had no part in the case, Mrs. Smith, star witness for ‘the Government, bowed her head. briefly when she recelved the news of her husband’s senterice with only a small show of emotion while feeding her sixteen-months-old baby girl in a downtown restaurant, and sald she had no comment to make and had no definite plans. Jurors on the case were, Adolph Hirsch, R. E. DeWitt, Walstein G. Smith, Paul Schnee, Alfred Bon- nett, Elmer Howerter, Edwin Sut- ton, 8. J. MacKinnon, Warren Wil- son, Mamie Bucher, F. A. J. Gall- was and Mrs Henry Hanson, Sentence will be passed sometime within the nex! two weeks. Juneau’s Lively Case The verdict, with the exception of the sentence, ends one of Ju- neau’s most famous oriminal cases. Thomas Colling, steward on the steamer Tongass, was shot and killed in the Smith home on Gastineau Avenue one afternoon last October. Smith claimed Colling and his wife were intimate. It was first intimated that Colling went to the Smith home to show Mrs. Smith how to make salad dressing. Lafer it was ascertained Colling * took to Mrs. Smith, a cookie jar she had admired while a passenger on the Tongass. Smith according to the evidence, hid in the basement of the home and when mysterious sounds were ‘heard in a room above, in which Colling and Mrs. Smith were con- versing, he went up stairs and steal- thily entered the room. Words were exchanged, Colling rushed toward Smith, the latter fired, Colling drop- ped dead. Then Smith calmly call- ed the authorities, stating he had just killed a man. Smith was not formally placed under arrest for two days later when a charge was made and he was placed in jail under $10,000 bond. - e, = ( MEXICAN POLIC ON EXTRA GUARD, TROTZKY'S HOME MEXICO CITY, Jan. 27.—The po~ lice today sent 50 extra officers to guard the suburban home of Leon Trotzky, Bolshevik exile from Soviet Russia. ‘The move was taken as precaution following an anti-Jewish disturbance in the heart of the city. The dem~ onstration was qu_elled by the police, oy