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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
CARNER'S NAME
IS PUT FORWARD.
FOR PRESIDENCY
Vice President Suggested
for 1910 by Texas
Demo Leader

DALLAS, Texas Aug. %. = The
first move in what Texans say may
be strong campaign for John
Nance Garner for President in 1910
came today from Roy Miller, Di-
rector of the Democratic National
Campaign Committee in Texas.
Miller said in an interview that
ce-President Garner is the best
qualified candidate in the field.
Garner was a strong presidential
candidate in 1882 before the con-
vention surge to Franklin Delano
Roosevelt.
The quiet Texan has kept pretty
much in the background since his
induction into the Vice-Presidency.
Essyever, he is generally credited
with being one of the most able
Congressional tacticians in Wash
ington.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
is BOMBERS
MAKE ATTACK
EARLY TODAY
Nantao, Oldest Chinese
Quarter in Shanghai,
Air Raided
BUILDINGS ARE SET
AFIRE MANY KILLED
Nippon Reported Landing
10000 Soldiers-March
from Coast Towns

SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.-The jap
anese airmen early today let loose
a deadly sky fire on the winding
streets of Nantao. Shanghai's old
est Chinese quarter and it is esti-
mated that more than 600 were
killed.
Sixteen bombers participated in
the air raid.
Many of those killed died as a
result of being trapped in flaming
buildings, set afire by the bombs.
Early today battle was In pro-
gress between opposing infantry and
artillery at Woosung, about IL miles
northwest of Shanghai.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
PREACHER KILLS
Wife OVER her
PREVIOUS LOVES

LINDEN, NJ, Aug. 28.-Los An
geles farmer-evangelist Lloyd Pussy,
A. stepped out of an automobile
here and told a policeman that II
killed her."
Prosecutor Abe David said that
Pussy confessed he killed his wife,
who is also a preacher, with a ma
sons hammer after quarrel lasting
all the way across the continent in
an automobile.
The dispute was attributed to Pu-
sey's discovery that his wife had
been married four times before he
wed her last year.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
MAGIC CARPET
CLAIMS z LIVES
UPON COLLAPSE
Film Props Capsize in Lat
est Eddie Contor
Film

HOLLYWOOD. Cal. Aug. %. =
The magic carpet" replica using
heavy timber props for the filming
of the movie version of the Arabian
Nights claimed its second victim to-
day.
Harry Harshka, 80, property man,
died this morning following the
death of Philo Goodfriend last night.
The Magic Carpet" collapsed on
the sound stage yesterday. The
carpet fell from the rafters while it
was being used in a scene of Eddie
Cantor's picture. Cantor is sched-
uled to ride" the carpet sometime
today.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
RUSSIANS STILL
ALIVE is CLAIM,
RESCUE FL|ERS
Roger Williams and Co-pilot
near Seattle-W Wing
North Soon

BILLINGS, Mont, Aug. 49, -
Roger @. Williams, who flew non
stop flight from New York to Rome
in 1929, and his Co-Pilot slim"
West of New Bendix, NJ, today in
sisted the Russians are still alive.
They refueled their big twin-mo-
tored condor and set out for Seat
tie as their next stop on the rescue
flight to Skagway enroute to the
Arctic. The pair is expected to ar
rive in Seattle late today and con-
tinue as soon as possible to Skag-
way, Alaska, where the plane will
be equipped with skis and addition
al fuel tanks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
Alaskan Youth
Proves to Be
Little Hero

KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Aug. 3D.
The six-year-old son of Lawrence
Atkins, Metlakatla power house OPP
orator, saved the life of his father
and baby brother while rowing from
cannery to the power house yes
terday.
Atkins, the father, suffered a
paralytic stroke. The 6-year-old
boy, instead of jumping from the
boat. which would have capsized it,
held his fathers head out of water
until Earl Conkle and Roy Camp
bell of the patrol boat Vepcedor,
went to the rescue.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
CHICO MARKS
ALASKA BOUND
ON YACHT TRIP
They and DR.. Francis Crit
fins Go Unnoticed for
Time in Seattle

SEATTLE, Aug. 28.-The Chico
Marks, of the famous Hollywood
cutups, flew here today to join
friends on a yachting trip to Alaska
The names Of the Marks and
those of DR.. and Mrs. Francis Crit
fin went unnoticed on local hotel
register until it was learned that
Mrs. Griffin Dunn Marx is Chico,
of the famous brothers.
The Griffins expect to leave on a
"well-earned" trip to Alaska on the
steamer Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
MARINES ARE BUSY
AT FORTIFICATIONS

SHANGHAI, Aug. %. - Uncle
Sans Marines have built new sand
bag Notifications in the American
Sector of the International Settle
ment and are prepared for fresh
outbreaks.
Barbados have been thrown up
at street intersections and in front
OF the chief buildings. Twenty five
hundred Americans, including zoe
women. are still here.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
Roosevelt Is Coming West
During Month of September

SEATTLE, Aug. 28.-The Seattle
Post Intelligencer today says that
President Roosevelt intends to visit
TENDER and will inspect the Bonnie
vile and Coulee dams and then go
on a tour of the Olympic PENN
sula.
AS the publisher of the Seattle
Post -Intelligencer, John Boettiger,
is a son-in-law of the President,
the newspaper undoubtedly makes
the announcement OF the Chief Exc
cutive's plans with authority.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
JAPANESE REPORTED
COMPLETED LANDINGS

+ NANKING. Aug. %. Observers
IsaiaA Iapnn has almost completed
landing Of the expeditionary forces
estimated at 10000 soldiers.
An advance is expected to start
from coastal cities.
The Chinese are reported TO have
mines in large sections to catch the
unwary Japanese.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
LOOKS OK.

HYDE PARK, N. Y, Aug. 28.-
Informed sources let it be known
that the chances are good for the
President to make a trip, but there
is neither denial nor confirmation
Of the Seattle acknowledgements
report
1t is known, however, that the
President has planned cross coun-
try trip to obtain first hand infor-
nation on the New Deal accom-
plishments.
The last word from the President
was Friday, week ago yesterday,
when he told the reporters at a
press conference that he did not
have any engagements beyond Sep
TENDER II when he would deliver
an outdoor Constitution address
near the White House.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
S0v!ETS take
g LIVES FOR
WRECK ACTS

MOSCOW. Aug. %. - Thirty-two
more persons were executed for
"wrecking" at the behest of the
Japanese secret service, including
the wife OF a Polish nobleman who
was accused of poisoning water
pitchers of excursion trains, it was
diyulged here today.
The executions were in Eastern
Siberia and brought to a total of
1873 persons who have been executed
in the past two weeks.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
APPROVED BY ARMY


The small boat harbor for Juneau
included in the rivers and harbors
bill is based on the recommends
ton of Army engineers for site
just north of the Douglas Island
bridge on the Juneau side of the
Channel. Plans, as recommended
by the engineers, call for basin
IL feet deep and 10 acreas in area
which will accommodate approx
mately 400 boats and provide flo
tation during extreme low tides for
vessels drawing as much as eight
feet.
Provision also is made for an adj
ditional one and one half acres for
seaplane ramps and hangers which
would make the total area 11k
acres.
In reporting on the site north
of the bridge the engineers report
said:
Advantages of Site
This site affords the best nat
ural protection from the prevailing
winter winds and is partially pro-
tected from southerly winds by the
bridge fill. A basin IL feet deep and
liz acres in area, protected on the
northwest by an L-shaped break
water 1,340 feet long and on the
south by a 600-foot breakwater ex-
tention to the existing bridge fill,
could be provided at an estimated
cost of $232,000, utilizing rock-mine
waste for the breakwaters. The bot
tom material is reasonably firm, and
maintenance costs should be negli-
gible.
THE proposed improvement
should eliminate damages to small
boats by commercial steamers due
to congestion in the harbor, which
averages $500 annually; eliminate
further damages averaging $4,000
annually caused by the grounding
and swapping of small boats an
chored in exposed localities; and
permit the servicing and repair of
the larger boats Of the fleet at a
marine railway to be constructed
at the proposed basin and obviate
the necessity for their transfer to
Ketchikan and Seattle for overhaul,
with further savings of $4,000 an
nually"
On Approved List
Approval of the rivers and har-
bors bill with the Juneau small boat
item included means that the War
Department now places it on its list
of authorized projects for which it
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
FOUR KILLED IN
PLANE WRECK

ALBANY, N. Y, Aug. 28.-Bodies
of four persons were taken from
wrecked airplane after 1t had
crashed mile from the airport.
The plane nosed down on the rain
soaked woodland as the ship bounc-
ed back and overturned, shearing
off trees for a distance of fifty
yards.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
NANKow PASS OCCUPIED

PEIPING. Aug. 28. Japanese
Military authorities claim complete
occupation of the strategic Nankow
Pass, twelve miles away, the lone
gate way to inner Mongolia.
The Pass was occupied after 16
days of battle in which the Chinese
contested every inch. surprised the
Japanese commanders at the resis-
lance.
The Japanese are reported to
have lost l.500 men in the battle.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
SHELL ExPLODES NEAR
U. s. CRUISER AUGUSTA

SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.--A Chinese
shell exploded early today near the
United States Cruiser Augusta send
ing the crew dashing to shelter. No
one was injured. The Chinese are
believed to have aimed at the Jap
anese position in the Honkchew Sec
ton.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
NOTED AvIATRIX
MANCLED WHEN
PLANE CRASHES
Mrs. Genevieve Savage Is
Killed in Mexican
Mountains

PRESIDE. Texas, Aug. 28.-The
daredevil career of Mrs. Genevieve
Savage, nationally-know speed av-
iatrix, ended today as her plane
crashed in the Mexican Mountains,
west of the Rio Grande.
Her body was mangled. She was
enroute to Cleveland where she had
been scheduled to participate in the
Amelia Earhart Trophy race.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
PEACEFUL "TRIP, REGUGEEs

SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.-One hum
dred and sixty American refugees
made the most peaceful trip down
the Whangpoo river today of any
contingent since hostilities started.
They reached the President Lincoln
before the japanese started an
other air bombardment.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
$4,000 fire
AT WRANCELL
Dormitory for Boys at In
dian Affairs School
Is Blazed

WRANGELL, Alaska, Aug. 3D.
Fire in the Boys Dormitory of the
Bureau of Indian Vocational Train
ing School Friday caused damage
estimated at $4,000.
The cause of the fire has not been
determined.
The dormitory was not occupied
as the school is not in session.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
BRIT. SHIPS
ARE BOMBED

LONDON, Aug. 2S.-Two British
steamers were bombed today by war
planes as they left Gijon, port
on the north Spanish Coast. No
damage was done. Insurgent planes
are suspected.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
BOMBERs FOR CHINA

BALTIMORE. Md, Aug. 20. -
The United States Shipping Board
steamer Wichita sailed from here
today bearing beneath the stoutly
protected decks cargo of 10 pow
erfui bombing planes and large
tonnage of steel products. also hun
dreds OF large rolls OF heavy barbed
wire. The steamer is destined for
Shanghai.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
Bill
Is Signed by FDR

HYDE PARK, N. y, Aug. 28.--
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill authorizing two years extension
permits allowing prospectors to
drill for oil or gas on government
reserves.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28

The term cloudburst first was
used in the United States about 1910
and in India about 1860. 1t seldom
is used unless at least six inches of
rain fall in an hour.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
MARINES FOR CHINA

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 28-The U.S.S.
transport Chaumont sails from here
Sunday with 1900 Marines for
Shanghai 1t was announced offici-
ally today.
The cruiser Marblehead with 800
Marines. will act as convoy.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
LOCAL PR OJECT
NOW MOVES TO.
AUTHORIZED LIST.
War Department Can Pro-
coed if Funds Available,
Blanket Appropriation
ARMY ENGINEERS PLAN
$4,000 EXPENDITURE
Both Juneau and Silk a
Projects Included in
Rivers, Harbors Bill

WASHINGTON, Aug. %. - The
Rivers and Harbors bill, including
two Alaska projects. Sitka harbor
and the small boat harbor at Jul
neau, has been signed by President
Roosevelt The Sitka project calls
for an expenditure of 100000 and
the Juneau-Douglas small boat har-
Dor an expenditure of $232,000.
In the same bill surveys are au-
thorized for Seldovia harbor, Ten
akee Inlet-Port Frederick waterway,
Wrangell harbor Craig harbor,
Grantley harbor, Sinuk river, Elfin
Cove, Myers Chuck hArbor and
Unga harbor
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
FUNERAL HELD TODAY

PITTSBURGH, Pa, Aug. %. =
A private railroad coach, something
he never owned in his life, bore An
drew w. Mellon back to the city he
loved last night.
This afternoon public funeral SER
vices were held for the 82-year- old
bankers son, who founded Five
Hundred Million dollar fortune, in
the East Liberty Presbyte r / a n
Church.
Many of the city's prominent men
stood reverently as the car was
shifted to siding and then taken
to the church.
Burial was in the ivy covered vault
in the nearby Allegheny cemetery
beside his brother, r. B. Mellon.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28
MELONS DEATH
HAS NO EFFECT
ON U. S. SUITS

WASHINGTON, Aug 28.-Offici-
ais today said that Andrew Melons
death would not have any effect
on the Governments three million
dollar tax suit against the former
Secretary of Treasury nor on the
antitrust suit against the Alum
mum Company of America.
They said any judgment the Gov
eminent may win would be appli-
cable against Melons estate.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1937-08-28

Miss Esther Watson was admitted
to the Government Hospital yester-
day for medical attention.
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Continued on Page Four
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-14

The French monarchy began to
give way to the first French re-
public in 1891.
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Man Who Mailed
Threat Notes 10
F. R. Sentenced

BOSTON, Sept. 14.-(UP)-
Former Deputy U. S. Marshal
Morton D. Wainwright, ", of
Winthrop, was sentenced to one
wear in Jail yesterday after plead
ing guilty to a charge of threat
ening the life of President Roose-
welt.
The white-haired defendant col
lapsed and was carried from the
federal courtroom, screaming:
"Im q nervous wreck and |
can't stand it. / nearly died over
there in Cambridge Jail. Oh, God,
save me! | can't stand it"
A staunch Townsendite and
former cereal salesman, Vain
wright was arrested July / after
secret service agents had traced
to him several threatening letters
received at the White House.
Wainwright, who repeatedly al
so wrote several letters threaten
ing the life of Miss Ethel Du
Pont prior to her marriage to the
presidents son, Franklin, Jr., at
one time served as a deputy U.
S. marshal at Seattle, Wash.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-14
Maritime Labor
Wings Battle For
Coast Supremacy

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. IA
(UP)-The Committee for Indus
trial Organizations western head
quarters announced yesterday
that the Clio. was accepting an
American Federation of Labor
challenge to make the Pacific
coast the scene of a finish fight
between the two labor organiza-
tions.
The C. l. o. arranged to bring
Lee Pressman, its general coun-
sci, and John Brophy, national G..
/. o. director, to San Francisco
to help plan its strategy.
Primary objective of the two
leaders, it was explained, would
bee to determine steps to be ia
ken by the c. |. O.'s International
Longshoremen's and Warehouse
mems union to defend itself from
the A. F. of LIS Transfers union
attack in a jurisdictional dispute
over control of warehouse work
erS.
The transfers, demanding the
Longshoremen relinquish control
of all warehouse workers, have es-
tablished an embargo on cargoes
in San Francisco bay ports. The
embargo gradually was stagnat-
ing shipping in the nations Sec
ond port. It's full effect will be
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-14
NORTHEAST STORM
WARNING IS ISSUED

MIAMI, Fla, Sept. Ia. (UP)-
Northeast storm warnings have
been ordered up north of Boston
to Eastport, Me-, the weather bu-
reau said last night.
A disturbance over Long Is
land sound, which is moving
northward, and a tropical storm
of somewhat diminished intensity,
moving OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, will
cause shifting gales on the east
Maine coast, an advisory said.
Storm warnings posted earlier
from New York City to the Dele
ware breakwater were ordered
down.
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-14
FIND ONLY US.
COULD CARRY
ON LONG WAR
Neither Japan, Italy or
Germany Would Win in
Prolonged Strife
LOUIS J. SCHAEFLE
I1.;,.d Press Staff Correspondent

WASHINGTON, Sept. IS. (UP)
America is the only major world
power capable of carrying on a
prolonged war as an individual ma
ton and even this country needs
certain raw materials that go into
the manufacture of arms and am
munition, military officials indi-
Gated today. =.
Neither Japan, now engaged in
an undeclared war IN China, nor
Germany and Italy, focal points
of the current unrest in Europe,
have sufficient financial and COM
modify resources to bring a long
war to a successful conclusion,
statistics show.
In a survey based on the avail
ability of "a essential minerals
and commodities, Colonel John A.
Wagner, U. S. Quartermaster
Corps. retired, gives the United
States a self-sufficiency rating of
22.35 per cent and places Ger
many a poor second with $40 per
cent. Japan trailed the seven pow
ers with a rating of only LIT per
cent.
Other ratings are: France, 5.57
per cent; Russia, 4.95 per cent;
Great Britain, 4.50 per cent, and
Italy, 1872 per cent.
Writing in the Quartermaster
Review, Col. Wagner warned that
the militaristic powers are hoard
ing manganese ore, an essential
product in the manufacture of
steel, and urged that this nation
acquire a reserve of l,50O,O0O
tons of the ore. He said Russia
is the only nation in the world
that is self-sufficient as far as
manganese is concerned, that it is
the only country adequately sup
piled with chromium, which IS
needed for hardening armor plate,
projectiles and gun carriages.
"The important inter-depen-
dence of the great powers in raw
materials would, with one excep-
ZION, make lHnpOsSipie Vic SuNSSo'
full conclusion of war by any one
nation, the exception being the
United States" Wagner wrote.
"The complete isolation of any
two powers at war soon would
have the effect Of economic sane
tions provided for under the
League of Nations
In addition to manganese ore,
Wagner said, this country needs
nickel, a substantial amount OF
which it could get in an emergen-
CIV by melting five cent pieces;
tungsten, which could be replaced
by molybdenum, a recent discov-
cry; anthony, one of the most
important alloy metals which is
needed for hardening lead in bull
lets and percussion caps and mica,
which is used in automobile tires.
Wagner urged haste in develop
ing substitutes for rubber and pro-
posed a rubber conservation pro-
The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1937-09-14
CLAIM CANCER
NOT INHERITED.
Early Rigid Treatment Is
Held More Important
Than Learning Cause
BY PHIL NEWSoM
limited Press Staff Correspondent


CHICAGO, Sept. l4.-UP)-
Early treatment and strict adher-
ence to a medical program are I'M
perative in combating cancer sue
cessfully, radiologists said yester1,
day at their fifth international
congress.
Fifty per cent of the cancer
cases coming to us, come too late
usually because of fear" the
congress said. "Of the other 90
per cent, perhaps half are cured
Those who are not, refuse 10 1oi-
low advice and assume they are
cured when more treatment SUN
is needed" ,
eve have reached the point,
said DR.. John T. Murphy, Toledo,
Ohio, "that some of us are not so
much interested in the cause as
we are the cure. We know how 10
cure cancer and we know how TO
prevent it. The real fight now lies
in education of the public"
DR.. William H. Stewart, New
York City, said it had been proven
that cancer treated early us cur
able"
"The incurable cases." he said,
usually are those which have been
allowed to spread through the re-
mainder of the body through the
lymph and the bloodstream.
"When it reaches that stage 1t
may appear cured at one point
and then break out on another"
Irritation" said DR.. Arthur c.
Christie, Washington, d. c., presi.
dent of the congress, "is a chief
source of cancer"
Eliminate irritation and you
eliminate cancer"
The scientists explained that a
wound or scar which becomes
chemically irritated may easily
lead to cancer. Frequent physical
examinations, they said, may elm
mate them.
DR.. Christie explained that can
Ger roughly may be divided into
two divisions-that which is radio
sensitive and that which is not.
Cancer" he said, sis a wild
cell growth. Cancer which still is
comparatively young, has a ten
dency to grow swiftly, to devote
most of its time to the develop
ment of new cells.
"This type is particularly sensi-
tive to X-ray or radium treat
ment."
The other type is that which is
older and in which cells attempt
to fulfill normal functions.
"This," he said, may be seen
in cancer of the breast. The cells,
while definitely cancerous, may at
tempt to fulfill the purpose for
which they first were intended
in other words, to produce milk.
"These, because they are nearly
normal, are radio resistent-they
may be destroyed, but in doing so
YOU destroy all the tissue both
normal and subnormal."
Cancer of the womb, formerly
considered practically incurable,
now shows a high percentage of