The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 7, 1937, Page 1

wil - 3 i % i o i » i () 0> v ? . [ > Ed 3 e . HE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY sanMBx R 7, 1937. ALASKA PLANE CRASHES NEAR INTERIOR CITY One Passen—g:Believed Killed—Two Others Are Injured RESCUE PARTY IS SIGHTED FROM AIR Anchorage Pilot Missing on Flight with Three Bound for Flat ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 7.— One person is believed dead and two injured in an airplane crash 50 miles from Flat, the accident occurring over the weekend. A Aviators arriving here yesterday reported sighting from the air a rescue party enroute to Flat bear- ing two persons on stretchersanda third wrapped in a tarpaulin, ap- parently dead. A plane piloted by Dan Victor left here for Flat on September 2 with Rita Harding, E. G. Morton and George Kreibel, the latter two pros- pectors, as passengers and probably it is Victor’s plane that crashed. - e e KIDNAP GASE IN WISCONSIN Woman Missi—n; Two Days Returned Unharmed— Officers Probing FELKHORN, Wisconsin, Sept. 7.— Mrs. OMvpp Borgia, missing two days, \and reported to officers as having been kidnaped, has returned to the summer home of her mother, near collapse, but unharmed. Mrs. James Koudie, the woman's mother, said her daughter, in hys- terical explanations, said she had been driven two blocks from her home in an automobile, and fhen pushed out. She found her way then to her mother’s home. The woman’s mother said her daughter declared two young men seized her, blindfolded her and then forced her into an aute. She could not remember whether she had spent the time®in an auto or some other place and did not know whether the $5000 her husband, John Borgia said was demanded, had been paid. The police are investigating. - e — REPORT SOVIET PATROL DETAINS JAP FISH BOATS Claim Russi:rTSubmarines Sighted in Korean- Siberian Waters TOKYO, Sept. 7—~A Japanese News Agency dispatch from Sei- shin, Korea, received here today said a Soviet patrol had detained eight more Japanese fishing boats in the waters off the Korean- Siberian coast. The agency said a Korean patrol boat rescued five of the (fishing boats but was threatened with cap- ture. Craft resembling Soviet sub- marines were sighted in Siberian coastal waters, agency dispatches Sunday said, and five Japanese- Korean fishing boats were seized in the same waters. Zadkov Returns To lcebreaker Soviet Flier Forced Down by Fog on Arctic Coast, in Air Again POINT BARROW ,Alaska, Sept. 7. Soviet Pilot Zadvok, flying a hydro- plane, returned to the Soviet Ice- breaker Krassin Sunday after he was forced down last Friday 500! miles north of the ship on account of a dense Arctic fog. He found no clie regarding the lost Soviet fliers, CI0-AFL Split Clouded ALEXANDER R. GEORGE AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 7. — The Nation observed Labor Day, 1937, with organized labor’s fiercest civil war, now a year old, raging on stead- ily expanding fronts. Despite sporadic peace gestures, the American Federation of Labor and the Committee for Industrial Organization continue their struggle for supremacy with drives and counter-drives to enroll working men and women in virtually every field of wage-earning activity. The split in the Federation over Industrial Unionism came just after Labor Day a year ago when the| craft-dominated executive council of the A. F. of L. suspended 10 un- ions affiliated with John L. Lewis’s CIO for “setting up a rival organi- zation within the family of organ-i ized labor.” Shazgy-browed Lewis ized the suspension as “crass stupidity dictated by person-| al selfishness and fear.” Craft un- ion chieftains, headed by Lewis’s, old friend, President William Green | of the Federation, contended that Lewis “was willing to wreck the Fed- | erations in an attempt to further his insatiable ambition.” Nevertheless, they left the ‘“door| open” for “Bad Boy” Lewis’s return to the Federation fold, providing he| disbanded his CIO. This he flatly refused to do. Then with the aid of a war che%‘ of millions of dollars and the batt]e‘r cry » character- an act of| i “company unions must go,”} Lewis and his lieutenants moved' onto the great fortresses of thel open shop—automoiles and steel. | Strength Nearly Even l With the additional assistance of | the collective bargaining guaran-! tees of the Wagner labor act, they set out also to enroll hundreds of thousands of workers in textiles, rubber, glass, oil and other mass preduction industries. At the time of suspension, the 10 unions together with two other CIO affiliates — the Typographical Union and the Hat and Cap Makers’ union—which have not been sus- pended from the Federation, had an aggregate membership of about 1,100,000. ment around 3,000,000 and the A. F. of L. says its own membership| totals 3,200,000. For numerical strength in the future the advan-' tage would seem to lie with GIO, be- cause its purpose is to enroll all workers in the mass industries, while the traditional A. ¥. of L. ob-| Jective has been to organize skilled workers in various craft unions. A. F. of L’s Counter Attack , To meet this CIO threat, how- ever, the Federation is now taking steps to utilize the industrial type of organization wherever it will serve to bring in more members. It has started a counter attack on CIO organization efforts among ag- ricultural and white collar workers. The two labor groups also are waging a battle for control of wa- terfront workers on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Lewis has invited city, county, state.and Federal Gov- ernment employees to join the CIO and both organizations are seeking to enroll retail store employees. The’ Federation recently ‘launched an| ambitious campaign: to unionize 200,000 workers in New York City’s | food and drink emporiums. While Lewis and his collegaues exulted over winning CIO recog- nition in automobiles and “big steel,” Green denounced the sit- down strike and “CIO violence as more harmful to labor than the acts of any hostile employe Moderates Seek Peace Green ordered Central Labor bodies to purge themselves of CIO unions and leaders. The Federa- tion’s one-cent-a-month member- ship dues were doubled to bring an additional $330,000 monthly to com- bat the “rebel Lewis.” A. F. of L. organizers hastened to assure em- ployers there would be “no sit- downs or violations of contracts by our unions.” Infermittent conciliation moves from both sides and from friends of labor outside the unions mude little or no progress. Moderate ele- ments in both -groups continued to hope, however, for some sort of armistice. It is expected that the Federation at its convention in Zex:lfi; th:smhll may invite CIO 2 joint cor executive council, 5 il But some craft unionists urge fur- ther invasion of CIO territory and amendment of the Wagner labor Labor’s Holulay Honzon first and second grades into the Large School Enroliment Is Estimated Here A larger school enrollment than last year was estimated early this| afternoon by Superintendent A. B. Phillips during the first day of the | Juneau Public Schools this term. | “Just as we expected,” Mr. Phil- | lips said, “we had most of our big enrollments in the upper grades. For that reason’Miss Anna Colwell | was moved up from teacher of the| seventh.” Robert White of the University of Washington has been named to fill the place of Byron Miller, who reslgned recently, according to| Supt. Phillips. Mr. White, who is| leaving Seattle tomorrow, is ex- | \trippers, who were on the cruise to VICTORIA miNs AGROUND; TIDE TO FLOAT HER Seattle Bound Steamer Hits on Island in Queen Charlotte Sound SEATTLE, Sept. 7.—Steamer Vic- toria, of the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, ran aground on Headington Island, Queen Charlotte Sound at 7 o'clock this morning but is expected to float at high tide. for Seatt:c with the following pas- sengers from Juneau for Seattle: Dennis Coyle, Vivian Sweetaer, Howard Petry, Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Jones, G. E. Bassett, Barbara White, Berry Hatten, Karl H. Rob- inson, 8. J. McCormick, R. G. Cush~ {ing, Wilson Foster and wife. In addition there are 45 round- Siberian ports, 51 from Nome for pected in Juneau in a few days. Seattle, 26 for Seattle from Sand TWU NATIONS PLANNING T0 STOP PIRAGY, En }gland and France to Con- er in Raids Made on Mediterranean 7—England and vies are strong enough to stop lhe “Mediterranean piracy,” \\llh(ml help. The two nations are. determined to go ahead on a conference on the | The Victoria left Juneau at 7 o’-|isSue with or without Italy’s partici-| | Ma clock last Saturday morning bound {Pation as to whether they shall g0 n remote points, but when v |rnedUnl(ed States. ahea d, L] The conference will be held in| Switzerland on Friday. This much was disclosed this afternoon after | Russia announced it had made n. strong protest to Italy on the sink-| ibg of two Soviet ships. { England and France made it Known that the trouble between| Russia and Italy does not cxmngo‘ the situation in the least. The conference is designed to find |He will take charge of musical poing ‘ang 24 for Seattle from St.[® WAy to stop the mysterious attacks instruction for both high and grade | schools. * 4 The high school enrollment on| the first day this year is 192 and‘ last year the enrollment was only| 156. e Simmons, Barr Fly Many Trips For AAT, Holiday Pilot Sheldon Simmons of the M- aska Alr Transport. flew Dr. W. W.! Council, Dr. W. P. Blanton, Mrs.| Robert Simpson and Anabelle Simp-’ son on a fishing trip to Lake Flor- ence Saturday aftermoon and re- turned them to Juneau Sunday night. He made this trip in the Bellanca. Sunday morning at 9:15 o'clock 'filled and exhibits are being placed unloaded ‘he flew in the Lockheed to Sitka with Mr. and Mrs. Tom Morgan, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Foss, Ray Peter- full swing with a concert by the Spanish ‘man and Kelly Foss and returned Juneau City Band from 8 to 9:30 o'~ bound for Cartegenta, Today the CIO claims an enroll- for them Monday afternoon, carry- clock. ing back also Loraine Bell. | + Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, Pi- lot L. F. Barr in the Bellanca re- turned from Atlin with Mrs. H. 'Engleson and Miss H Gamble. Going to Atlin he bad taken Florence Du- rie, who was to enroll in school after spending the summer in Ju- neau. Saturday afternoon Barr had re- turned from Sitka with David ‘Young. Pilot Simmons, returning from' the Sitka trip, flew Mr. and Mrs.| Paul Sorenson from Neva to Hirst- Chichagof. Then he flew Mrs. J.| L. PFreeburn and daughter, Anna- bel, and L. Sawyer, from Chichagof to Juneau and Glenn Edwards from! Hirst-Chichagof to Juneau. | Monday at 1 p. m, Barr, after| flying empty to Taku Harbor, re- turned heré with W. H. Hayes, Matt Nykanen, T. Kerwold, Don Pape and George Barnes. He returned the‘ men to Taku Harbor this morning| at 5:30 o'clock. Simmons in the Lockheed today at 9:30 a. m. for Sitka and Chich- agof with Harold Wilson, Lillian Jackson, Daisy Olaf, Hazel Hanson, Herbert Bremmer, Harry Bremmer. He returned this afternoon. e STEAMSHIP AGENT HERE J. L. More, of Tacoma, Wash., of the Tacoma Steamship Com- pany; and his wife, visited in Ju- neau Monday while the Aleutian berthed here. They are round-trip passengers. 0dd Matrimonial Mix-up Brings Breach of Promise LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 7. — Vefa Reynolds, one time screen star, has brought suit against the man, known mofe than a decade as her husband, for breach of promise. The man is Robert Ellis Reel, who is a writer and an actor. The two - were married in Greenwich, Conneeticut, in 1926, five months after an interlocu- tory divorce had been granted Reel. It was learned two years ago that the two were not wed legally. Now Reel refuses to marry Vera and she asks $150,000 dam- {be dancing. | Health, exhibit; Columbia Lumber‘ |Michael, Golovin, Teller, Dutch Harbor, Akutan and False Pass. FAIR OPENING IS ALL READY FOR TOMORROW \Exhibits Are Being Placed — Entertainers Have | of some unidentified submarines that are sending torpedoes into the £hipping of many nations. LY AL BRIT. STEAMER IS SEIZED BY . SP.INSURGENTS Cruiser Runs Craft Into Naval Base, Confis- Arrived i Everything is getting set for the opening of the Southeast Alaska Fair tomorrow, with special enter- tainment during the evening. Booths are being decorated and in the various departments. Tomorrcw night the fair gets into Then the big floor show will be given with performers from the| States including Don La Vola, Helen Le Claire and Milly Davlo, from 9:45 to 10:30. The acts are ail new to Juneau audiences. The enter- tainers arrived in the clty on the| Aleutian and have “set up” for their ‘ performances. From 10:30 to midnight thezc will Manager R. B. Martin announces} the data on home cooking exmbits; and when awards will be made after judging: Wednesday (tomorrow), bread and biscuits; Thursday, cook- ies; Friday, cak Saturday, pies.| Exhlbfls The following are occupants of | booths at the Fair, either exhibns or concessions: Arrow and Green Top .Cab Co.,| cab stand; Juneau Dairy Associa tion, exhibit; Rice and Ahlers Co.,| exhibit appliancys and supplies; | Armour Duncan, Concession novel- ties; W. P. Johnson, exhibit General Motors products. A. Anderson, poker game and nov- elties; Libby, McNeill and Lobby,| exhibit products; American Legion, | washer and mangle; Juneau Fire| Department, Ford car de luxe. U. 8. Forestry, exhibit; Juneau Playground, exhibit; Chamber of { Commercee, exhibit; Bureau of| Company, exhibit; N. L. Troast, ex-| hibit. Associated Canneries, exhibit; Ju- neau Young Hardware Co., exhibit; | Pioneers of Alaska, exhibit; Empire Printing Company, exhibit; Ben, Phillips, Bingo game and novelties; ‘Women of Mooseheart, eating booth, and electric range; Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, exhibit General Electric products. Legion, Booth The American Legion booth at the fair this year will present a new and attractive feature quite dif- ferent from those of past years. In addition to the awarding of a wash- ing machine and mangle, the Legion will offer the “Legion Grocery” in which the prizes will be worth- while staple groceries. e OREGON PHYSICIAN HERE Dr. G. P. Winchell, physician of Eugene, Ore, and his wife, visited disputes act “to provide protection for craft unlom in all Industries, large or small.” ages and a division of the com- munity property estimated value of $100,000, friends in Juneau while the Aleu- ‘when the war vessel began droppmg - cate Oil Cargo PALOA, Spain, Sept. 7. — The British steamer Burlington was cap- tured off Palmero, Italy, by a Span- lSh Insurgent cruiser and brought |to this Insurgent naval base. Her jeargo, principally Russian oil, was and confiscated. The steamer was flying the Brit-| ish flag although chartered by the' government and was PROTEST MADE | LONDON, Sept. 7.—The British Government has made a strong pro- test to the Spanish Insurgents for capture of the steamer Burlington and confiscation of the oil cargo. ‘SHELLS FORCE BRIT.STEAMER BACK TO PORT [ Craft Waylmy Japanese| War Vessel Outside of l Hongkong Harbor HONGKONG, Sept. 7.—The Brit- ish passenger steamer Taishan con- fronted by a Japanese cruiser, was forced to turn baek to this port 'shells nearby in the river, The Taishan first sailed for Can- ton from Hongkong Sunday night and was met by the cruiser which played a searchlight over the ves- sel. Capt. Prichard ‘turned back for |instructions and the British Admir-l alty authorities started the voyage again: Again the Taishan was met by the warship and the cruiser began drop- ping live shells on the rocks nearby. Capt. Pritchard then ran for safe- ty. RAINBOW GIRLS HAVE ELECTION Officers elected for the coming| year at a meeting of the Rainbow |Girls Saturday® included Alberta Porter, Worthy Advisor; Edithbelle Heller, Worthy Associate Advisor; Katherine' Torkelson, Charity; Jane, Blomgren, Hope; and Phyllis Jenne,; |Falth. The session was held at the| | Scottish Rite Temple. Following the election of officers, a tea was held in honor of Mrs. Hattie S. Bourne, Mother Advisor |from . Colorado, who is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Thomas Taylor. For the beautifully arranged throughout the, tian, on which they were passen- gers, berthed at local docks. party room. A large number of| occasion flowers were |Hadley. SRR S 'Sino- Iapam’sv .Sltuatwn Is Awful Mess, Says Roosevelt; Final Warning to Americans| ABOARD THE YACHT INDIAN ! Sept. T.—Americans remaining in war wrecked China faced a warning from President Roosevelt that they ‘du so0 at their own risk In language that ignored macy, the President described the Sino-Japanese situation as an awful reported by radio that shefFrance have decided that their na- mess. The President said there are 7,780 |Americans, mostly missionaries and teachers, peatedly to leave, while a great {many others have declined to leave, any, the President admitted, are diplo- who have been urged re-| of the present danger, ity are embarking The President did not es deadline for completion of evacua- tion. PROTEST IS MADE SHANGHALI, Sept. 7:.—The Amer- the m;um- tablish a :I]EFENDERS ON ' NEW ATTACKS | UPON INVADERS ‘Lmes on Shanghal Battle- front Are Battered Again Today ican Chamber of commerce of LOST GROUND IS Shanghai has protested vigorously to in President ! Roosevelt's warning to American citizens remaining in China at their Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Washington, against own risk. The protest says this ser- iously damages the prestige of the, “Intvr:m” Roply Mado to British by Japan, Account Machine Gunnmg Official SOVIET PROTEST " GETS TURN DOWN BY ITALIAN GOVT. Demand for Repn‘nhnn fo qubmarmm- Russian P(‘y‘( ted 2 Soviet Gov- ROME, sept. - ernment @livered, & protest to of two tern Medit- declared that Ttaly sinking of The protest was responsible for the the ships and ascribed witacks as being made by an “unider and unknown submarine.” The Moscow note formally de- mands that Italy pay reparations (and punish the guilty officers. The TItalian government flatly rejected the protest. BLUNT WARNING MOSCOW, 8ept. T.—Soviet press outlets warned bluntly that Ital- ian “Fascist aggressors” have be- gun a game in the Mediterranean “which may result in terrible eon- sequences.” Russia has protested to Italy’ on the sinking of two ships and Italy is represented in the newspapers as viewing the aggressions “with cool contemp.t” Pravda criticizes other powers, | particularly England, for, failure to act against the “Fascist robbers who have absolutely become inso- lent only because some bourgeois democratic states have tolerated the aggression and they are still undecided whether to take determ- ined st,eps to hrldle the pirates.” GRAND ARMY VETS GATHER MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 7.— Outnumbered 10 to I by affiliates, but still able to jig to tunes of the United States Marine Band, 187 Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic assembled here for the first session of the Annual National Encampment. i IS CHAMPION PISTOL SHOOT CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Sept. 7.— Lieut. E. E. Jones, Los Angeles po- liceman, shot 277 out of a possible 300, which is one point - better than his one year old record, to win the National Individual Pistol cham- pionship. HENRY HADLEY PASSES AWAY NEW YORK 8ept. 7. — Henry distinguished American |composer and conductor of orches- \Rainbow Girls attended. a long illness, tifjed d | LONDON, Sept. 7—The British Foreign Office announces that Ja- pan has made an “interim” reply to protests against machine gun- ning of the British Amba dor to China from a Japanese plane. The text is not disclosed pend- ing “consideration of its contents” by Foreign Secretary Eden Authoritative source concern over this developmer sald the “interim” reply ently Indicat England expressed nd \ppar ed t it ynless vitlish demar War Minister speech in the Diet t as to what the b Hirotla doubt o Jap- bl panes¢ ina anese 1o SRl “807 R ETET 16T no. tangible proof to show that the y in which the British ambas- wor was driving was attacked by Japanese war plane.’ Public indlgnation i d over the attitude of Japun as expresied by Hirota. e eee Merit System Is Demand of Fed. Employees Battle Cry Is Again Raised at Convention Held in Illinois SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Sept. 7—A demand for extension and strength- ening of the merit system held the attention yesterday of the dele- gates at the opening of the meet-' ing of the National Federation ol Federal Employees. Long the battle cry of the Fed- eration, the demand was pushed to !the forefront as a climax of the ac- tion at the 1935 convention which | voted a “merit system defense fund | ‘and a two year drive to obtain leg-: islation to place all policy maklng positions under such a system.” e COPELAND IS AGAINST CI0 NEW YORK, Sept. 7. — United States Senator Royal 8. Copeeland ilast night issued a Labor Day | 'statement from his mayoralty head- quarters declaring he is bitterly op- posed to the efforts of Jobn J. Lewi and others who are usin: merely as a vehicle.” | : MATTERN OFF T0 CLEVELAND BURBANK, C.ll Sept 7.—Jimmie Mattern, who recently flew here from Juneau, Alaska, after an un- successful flight in the Arctic to locate the missing Soviet fliers, took off Sunday night for Cleveland. Mattern was accompanied by Jimmie Stewart, film actor, and Jack Clark, the flier's manager. Mattern is to act as referee in labox tras died at his home here after the Thompson Trophy Rade in the|rails 44.37, utilities 25.35. National Alr Meet, | REPORTED RETAKEN Paoshan Reported to Have Fallen—Nippons Take U. S. Mission SHANGHAI, Sept. 7.—The Chin- ese Army has abandoned the de- fensive ard counterlcharged with desperate fury at the Japanese lines on the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers on the northern Shanghai battlefront. Major O. K. Yui said the sudden Chinese thrust drove the Japanese from the Jukong Wharf district, midway between Shanghai and the confluence of the two rivers, split- ting the Japanese front. Ground Recaptured The Chinese are reported to have recovered much lost groun daround Woosung and Paoshan and are now threatening the Jananese forced within Paoshan’s wall. Other reports declare that Poa« shan has falled before the Chinese onslayght end’ the. Japanese hava retr - Still further up the Yangtze, twe, Jopanese destroyers and a Ja cruiser guarding troopships. - at- tempting to land reinforcements, were bombed before dawn this morning by Chinese war planes. One trover is said to be in flames and une homb caused a terrific explosion thoard” the Japanese crufser. = © '» — U.S. MISSTON PROPERTY SEIZ¥D ese have seized the huge *American Seventh Day Adventist Mission property in the Yangtzepoo dis- trict north of Shanhai for military purposes, The property lias been confiscated despite protests of its owners and the fact that the Mis- sion flew the flag of Lhe Uniled States. TERRIFIC OFFENSIVE SHANGHAI, Sept. 7—The ap- anese fought yesterday with virtu- ally no essential progress in the tcrrmc offensive against the Chin- (Continued on Page Two) e, STOCK PRICES ~ REEL DOWN ON FEARS OF WAR 'Some Issues Drop as Much { as $10—Commodities Take Advance NEW YORK, Sept. T—Apparent- |ly unnerved by war fears, the stock | market reeled today under fresh |waves of selling and losses of lead- {ing issues widened as much as $10 a share in contrast to most of the ?commodny shares which advanced. So heavy was the selling waves at times that the ticker tape dropped a few minutes behind the transac- | tions Among the hardest stocks hit to- day was United States Steel and International Nickel. | STOCK QUOTATION§4 NEW YORK, Sept. 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneaul mine |stock today 1s 11, American Can |97%, American Light and Power 8, | Anaconda 53%, Bethlehem . Steel 231., Calumet 12%, Commonwealth |and Southern 2%, Curtiss Wright 5, General Motors 50%, International Harvester 99%, Kennecott 53%, New York Central 37%, Southern Pacif- l‘l' 33%, United States Steel 97%, | Cities Service 2%, Pound $4.95 9/16, Republic Steel 30%, Pure Ofl 16%, Holly Sugar 27, United States Treas- ury Bonds 2%s 97.11, Atchison Gen~- eral fours 110, DOW, JONES AVERAGES t The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 164.39, —————— SHANGHAL Sept. 7—The Japan-