The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 1, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 1, | VOL. LI, NO. 7628, S ALL THE TIME” 937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS sh Ship Briti Is Sunk By Italian Bombs zes to United States for Bombings ';?;sx;\,, PLANE SENDS CRAFT DOWN, SPAIN COAST Crew Given Five Minutes to Make Escape from Vessel, Report BRITISH ARE TAKING QUICK ACTION NOW Largest Cruiser in World Sent to Make Thor- ough Investigation LONDON, Nov. 1—~The Govern-| ment has ordered the battle cruiser Hood, the most powerful warship in the world, to Barcelona to investi- gate a “pirate” attack on the British merchantman Jean Weems off the Spanish Coast. i The huge battle cruiser, armed with eight 15-inch guns, steamed toward the Catalan Coast from Mal- | lorca where she was ordered last week. | Officers of the Hood were ordered | to interview the crew of the vessel. | All members of the Jean Weems were saved. A bomb wrecked the| ship which went down last Satur-| day. | indi recently for Reports reaching London indi- Japanese authorities formally apclogized to Americaz. o “inaccurac Nipponese s GREAT BRITAIN IS TO BACK UP UNITED STATES {Foreign Secretary Eden Makes Plain Talk on Brussels Conference LION, UNCLE SAM " GOING TOGETHER I Will Agree to Anything Re- garding Peace Move, Sino- Japanese Strife PHOENIX, Arizona, Nov. 1.— The “Blonde Tigress,” Winnie Ruth Judd, trunk slayer of two Juneau, Alaska, women, is pre- paring for a new fight to win her freedom from the State Hospital for the Insane. Threugh her father, H. J. Mc- Kinnell, the woman who wrought one of the Southwest’s ghastliest crimes, let it be known that her new appeal to Gov. R. C. Stanford may be cf a sen- sational nature, in which the foundation of the case against her will be attacked, Only recently the State Board of Pardons and Paroles reject- LONDON, Nov. 1.—Foreign Sec- retary Eden told the members of| the House of Commons today that |Great Britain will go exactly as far |88 the United States in seeking to lend the Chinese-Japanese conflict |when the conference is held at Brus- | sels. ‘The Foreign Secretary made it {clear that the United States is ex- | pected to take the lead in any def-| inite action to control the Far East- ern threat for world peace. Eden said Great Britain is “pre-| {pared to go as far as the United |States in any \agreement to be |reached at the conference and is |not being left behind in any de-| {eision in the present conflict.” { The Foreign Secretary said he Social Security Fund Working, | Even in’ Alaska WASHINGTON, Nov. 1.—The Social Security Board says that of $252,439,339 public assistance grants from February 1, 1936, thrcugh October this year, the aged have received $218,780,088, the blind $7,538,416 and depen- dent children $26,120,833. Apportionments include Al- aska’s old uge pensions which Slayer of Two Juneau Women Is Now Making | | Attempt for Freedom; | Recalls Ghastly Crime | ed Mrs. Judd's plea for pardon, ‘ holding that her crime was not | | COMMANDER OF MARINES BETS ACTION ‘P rotest to Movement | Around Shanghai Brings Fast Response committed in self defense. The “Blonde Tigress” was | charged with two murders. She | s was convicted of slaying her close friend, Agnes Le Roi, for- | BRITISH OFFICIAL mer nurse at St. Anns Hospi- | ALSQO WARNS JAPAN tal, Juneau, but was not tried | paeisfaiiy for th rd. f Hedwig Sam- o a4 e 8 Intense Bombardment Pro- veacher. posed Near Interna- tional Settlement It has been six years since the bodies of the two Juneau women were found dismembered, placed in trunks and suit cases, and shipped to Los Angeles by Ex- pre: WILKINS GOES AFTER BETTER FLIGHT AIDS Secures Eqiupment for Con- tact with Land Sta- tions and Plane | SHANGHAI, Nov. 1. — Japanese |Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa hag |apologized to the United States |Marine Commander who protested against the Japanese foray on the | American protected side of Soochow |Creek to the American sector uf the International settlement,. The apology came as 7,000 Japan- jese shock troops, undes cover of a | thunderous artillery barrage, start- |ed the charge across the creek west |of ‘Shanghai to attack the Chinese positions along the south bank. Major General A. P. D. Telfert Smollett, Commander of the British troops, refused to withdraw soldiers from the outpost of the western sec- tions of the city.'This was the Brit- ish commander’s answer to the Jap- cate that the crew was only given airplane bembers who sent high explosive missiles crashing into the United States defense sector of the Internaticnal Settlement at Shanghai. While intense battles raged in the Chapei and Hongkew sectors, five minutes warning before the| vessel was bombed by a plane| marked by the skull a¥xd cross bores | insignia that Bruno Mussolini might have flown. Bruno is the avia- tor son of the Italian Premier. ROBOTS TO BE USED, WEATHER REPORTS NOW Observations at Fairbanks, | Two Other Places, Are } Partially Successful | |Francis Joseph Heney, 78, one of 5 1 the west's fearless pioneer lawyers IWASL”;'“G;“O.’" 3 aN""‘ IEV;'S:;B and jurists, died suddenly yesterday elimination of airplane weather ob- .o the result of complications re- server(s)fifs_ ;‘)rleimtsd;;’rglsz:ther BU- | ulting from - influenza. He began reau Official L. P. G Ihis legal career at Tucson and be- He said experiments with robot ... sttorney General of Arizona radio observations and balloons have me. it,ry and distinguished himself proved so successful that they are o ,rocecutor of Oregon land frauds! Emperor Hirohito of Japan sanctioned establishment of a supreme council to guide Japan in the unde- clared Chinese war., The' government appointed tem members to the council. Photo shows a view of the International Settiement as firemen battle flames caused by exploding bembs. FRANCIS HENEY Six Moreto DIES SUDDENLY, Be Executed, OF EPIS. CHURCH SANTA MONICA et Purge DIES N GALIO Famous Prosecutor Brib-|Nearly Seven HundredHave *‘Heretic” Clergyman Caus- ery, Land Fraud Cases | Now Died on Charges, ed Great Furore by Passes Away Mismanagement Writings, Doctrines ; 1 | | | | | | | SANTA MONICA, Cal, Nov. 1.—| MOSCOW, Nov. 1. — Six more | GALION, Ohio, Nov. 1—William | persons are reported to have been Montgomery Brown, 82 deposed given death sentences for misman-'Episcopul Church leader, is dead agement of Soviet argricultural St |enterprises in Siberia. | % ) | 1he death sentences brought to! The most important events in the 694 the total executions of anti- life of the “heretic bishop,” as Wil- | Communistic wreckers in the past liam Montgomery Brown came to six months. call himself, took place in Trinity Joseph Stalin told a delegation gathedral of the Protestant Episco- |ried. There in 1898 he was conse- |created as the fifth Episcopal Bish- by an ecclesiastical court, found guilty of heresy, to be deposed from his office later by his colleagues in the House of Bishops. Famed as “Builder” Famed ‘as a “builder” and eccles- iastic administrator in the days jwhen he was an earnest worker in {the ministry, he was the first Bish- {op of his communion to be tried for heresy since the reformation and |{the first Bishop of any creed in America to be deposed for heretical ix‘:jglsg.e:s.be in general use within a;,é: gh: stan Fl;n?kcx]:(?eni;i“ cases | of managers and engineers fl.nd‘pfll Church in Cleveland, O. The present use is confined to e the umf) 3 4 workers in outstandng 1pdus|rl95; There he was baptized and con- Fairbanks, Alaska; Burbank, Cali-| Two-Fisted Fighter {during a Kremlin reception that'firmed, received = his first com- fornia, and Boston, Massachusetts.| Heney'became known to the gen-llh_e “people’s trust in I,h(:lr econo-'munion and was ordained to the “So far our work is not entirely eral public through his pmsecut:ion‘mlc lez_ndcra is a very important!geaconate. There he preached his successful but we have some very of the now famous San Francisco matter.” promising results,” said Harrison. |eraft cages in 1908, in the course of | - Harrison said some experiments one of which he was shot down in/ at Fairbanks have not gone off as Open court, and also by reason of | M A TE expected because of extremely se- his prosecution of the Oregon land vere conditions, however, he pre-|grant fraud cases in connection with, dicted the difficulties would be Which several men prominent inj overcome. public life were indicted. Sensation-, “Our troubles in the Far North al developments in both cases are small matters, such as a plate aroused great interest and made Mr.! being too tight. There is nothing Heney's name known thmughouune‘} SURPRISE TR'P fuhdamentally wrong however and jcountry. { we expected trouble. Remember| Even his enemies admitted that these are only experiments,” said ' “Frank Heney was a lwo-flsl.edx’._ 7 ! < Harrison. | fighter.” | Exnest Slmpson Arrives n Harrison added that the loss of |. Born in Lima, N. Y. March 17| York Ab i instruments in each set, costing ap- 1859, Heney was taken to San Fran-| New or. oar proximately $23, has been reported. . cisco in 1863 when his parents moved Liner Queen Mary High winds at Boston send about!west. |teachings; ’:?leger:::!]::: l::c:::; AJ'WB“‘;::::‘J 3 o N_‘FM hchoulx i l‘l NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—-7‘ravvling} He was born of Scotch-lri;l; par- 6N | Having received a publle schoolj,, oo pni, prmest Simpson, former|entage near Orville, Ohio, on Scp- ments fell in the mountains ‘and|edycation in San Prancicso, youngi o =r > = R O B L o ember 4, 1855, ‘and was ‘left an . at Fairbanks they.were lost because Heney worked n his father’s furni-| g .'0 2 l;)“e. e L;e:crp))an s:’mn alfter the civil war falling in sparsely populated areas iure and carpet store while he at-| %% arrived on a business surbrise TR E 008 T e VL FOC Duade. recovagy RICK tgfided nigh schao) sy night. Later, FIP Shosrd therlles Gueen MR 2\ b El e or B brough AT iy g SV, he taught . night school, attending Hle said he has come to the United Whose A g |the University of California in the;States to visit his, mother and to complalmt to gounty authorities, he Is anT DOWN iday and was principal of an Idaho look after some brokerage business. Was given to the care_of a devout |high school for six months. He re- Simpson parried all guestions re- 'woman under whose influence Iie |turned fo San Francisco to attend ferring to his divorce’and also to Was inclined to the ministry before OVER ARGUMENT‘XBW school and was admitted to the his former wife, i o 27 |bar in 1883, but ill health forced R A RS r "d 89 Gemolman e |him to go to Arizona the next year. J*} ncouraged by a Cleveland clergy- | Four years on the cattle ranges and l m a er “ man, he was introduced by M SPRINGTOWN, Tex., Nov. 1. —pj " Ty qon trading store af Fort Mary Scranton Bradford of Cl Ellis Holdbrook, 26, was killed, Bnd‘Apache improved his health to a land, wio employed the youth as Frank Buyers was shot three Hmes qooree that would permit him to Ru“awa Hflrs her coachman and financed his edu- and is in a serious condition yes-|enzace in oy practice again in the . cation. tedday. R. C. Bell, of Fort Worth, |gjtjeq. | Thus he met and married Mis end Clay Shawn, a farmer, Sur-| 1n Tyeson, Ariz., Heney undertook 4 |Ella Bradford, daughter of his bene- rendered to the officers. |the practice of law in ’lsss.d'l‘wnc! CHICAGO, Cal., Nov. 1.—Olivia de|ctress, They purchased a home The shooting is blamed to an ar- he was chosen Attorney General of Haviland, attractive film plaver, es- a¢ Galion, Ohio, and with that as gument over land and cattle. |the Territory of Arizona by Presi- caped possible injury when the a center he began his ministry in e, dent Grover Cleveland and he took 'horse she was riding bolted. The 1443 1 gight years he first es- Factories and the factory system a prominent part in litigation by|animal was stopped only after aliapisheq his reputation as a vigor- were unknown before the 18th cen- ——— |chase by Artie Ortego, HollywoodJ e 25z tury. stunt man. | (Continued on Page Two) ontinued on Page Six) DEPOSED BISHOP wanted to make it plain that the United States took the initiative in {eonvoking the conference and also suggested Brussels as the best place fo~ holding it. The statements were made be- cause of the general rumors that |Great Britain was “laying down” and not taking any initiative in the | Oriental trouble and appeared to be letting the Jgpanese do as they | pleased. | NO COMMENT | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — State Department officials declined to I make any comment on British For- | eign Secretary Eden’s statement im- |plying Great Britain looks to the ijted States for leadership at the | Brussels conference. Statements made by President Roosevelt and also Secretary of | State Cordell Hull that this govern- |ment is willing to “cooperate” with jother nations to restore peace in |the Orient, are not interpreted as |meaning the United States is pre- 'pared to take the initiative at the | conference. Chingse Tongs | Bury Hatchet | NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—Mortal ene- | | and Hip Song tongs, paraded |through Chinatown last night in a Air Service Over | North Atlantic Is NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—A new cy- cle in the preliminary path toward an air route to Europe for the first winter flying over the North At- lantic, starts next month with the| opening of the Baltimore-Bermuda air service. | Columnists Just For A Day ELEN MENKEN, Billy Rose, Hope Hampton |Yand others famous on | { Broadway will write for The Empire. H While George Tucker, {New York columnist, is on { vacation, these notables of | stage, screen and radio will | { pineh-hit for him, each tak- | ing one cut at the ball. \ ! Read what these amateur { columnists have to say for || themselves. The first ap- | pears today. - e anese who disclosed that Chinese tetal $66,506. h machine gun nests near the British Planned for Winter| SECURITY ACT REVISIONS T0 BE CONSIDERED Advisory Council Plans Conference to Be Held This Week | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — Com- plete revision of the Social Secur- ity Act, in its benefit provisions and its creation of a huge reserve fund, will be studied by the social security advisory council at a con- November 8 or 9 and will fly to the| ference opening here November 5, Mackenzie River Delta by way of| Fairbanks or the Mackenzie Valley,| Chairman A. J. Altmeyer of the se- curity board, announced. Employees, employers, the public and Congress are represented on ''the council, It will consider proposals to start benefits before January 1, 1942; to increase’ monthly benefit payments, and to extend them to new classes of beneficiaries. In addition, it will study plans for a complete revision |of the huge reserve fund, estimated first sermon and there he was mar- |mies of other years, the On Leon to reach forty thousand million dol- lars in the future. Complaints Made !op of Arkansas. And, in 1924, in the join’ demonstration to raise funds| The council was created at the |same Trinity Cathedral, he was tried | for Chinese refugees in the war instance of the senate finance com- mittee, aftér many complaints |were leveled at the present law and |particularly ai the creation of the huge reserve fund. The social security board re- |vealed the council would consider advisibility of: 1—Starting monthly benefit pay- ments before January 1, 1942. persons retiring in early years. capacitated before sixty-five. {4—Extending benefits to survivors | of beneficiaries. 5—Increasing social security taxes less rapidly in future years. |6—Extending benefits to groups (such as farmers, domestics) not | now included. |T7—Revising: the size, character and disposition of reserve funds. Congress will be represented by three members of the Senate Pin- ance Committee, Chairman Harri- (son, Democrat, of Missouri, Sena- (tors Byrd, Democrat, of Virginia, and Vandenberg, Republican, of | Michigan. Labor Represented Employees will be represented by G. M. Bugniazet, electrical work- ers; Harvey Fremming, gas well workers; John P. Frey, metal !trndes; Sidney Hillman, clothing (workers; Philip Murray, mine work- ers, and Matthew Woll, photo en- gravers. Marion B. Folsom of Rochester; Walter D, Fuller of Philadelphia; (Continued on Page Three) CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 1—Sir Hu- bert Wilkins has left by plane for pedition preparatory to renewing his search for the six missing Soviet fliers. GOES AFTER EQUIPMENT NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—8ir Hubert | Wilkins returned here last Satur- day night by a passenger plane from | Winnipeg to obtain equipment for {land to plane radio contacts. He plans to return to Winnipeg Mon- day. Sir Hubert hopes the new equip- 'ment will enable land stations to contact his plane even when he is 1,200 to 1,500 miles out over the Arctic. Wilkins expects to leave Winnipeg MANY PILOTS IN NORTHLAND | Ratio of Airmen to Popula- tion Is Reported as Very High WASHINGTON, Nov.’1.—The Air Commerce officials reported today ,that there are 78 registered Alaskan 'air pilots as of date, October 1. ! Bixty three of these are transport mercial licenses and a dozen hold 3—Paying benefits to persons in- Private licenses. Three others are, |amateurs, Officials said the ratio of pilots to the population is unusually high Winnipeg to rejoin his aerial ex-| MAKE RECORD outposts were to be subjected to an Intense bombardment. The British Commander ordered | the Union Jack flown over all Brit- ish dugouts and sandbag barriers so that the Japanese would have no |excuse for shelling or firing on | them, —_————— Five of Seven Children Dead, Mulhfr_’s Hands NORWALK, La., Nov. 1.—Neigh- bors today aided a grief stricken father to make funeral arrange- ments for a 35-year-old mother, Mrs. G. R. McAninvh, who shot five of her seven children and then her- self. The mother fired a charge from & small bore shotgun into the fore- head of each child and then did the same to herself. A note left sald: “I did not have enough shells to take all of their lives.” Two of the surviving childrey, Ray aged 15 and Gail aged 11, came upon the bodies Saturday night. Their father was in jall when the tragedy occurred. R S 178 KILLED ON HIGHWAYS CHICAGO, Ill, Nov. 1.—At least 178 persons died in auto accidents i | 12—Increasing monthly benefits for pilots, three fliers hold limited com-!on the Nation's highways over the | week-end. Seven young persons were killed /in Alabama when an automobile plunged from a mountain road near Huntsville into a ravine, I_Vhlte H buse Pl WASHINGTON, Nov. matic society of the nation’s capital is a-twitter over the prospect of ‘one of the gayest social seasons of recent years, topped by a program 'of White House dinners and recep- tions. The official program of White House social functions disclosed a sul sion of entertainments by President and Mrs. Roosevelt for ‘Washington's official and diplomat- iec society beginning Tuesday eve- ning, December 11 and extending through February 17. Invitations to White House func- tions are the most sought after of "all the social events in the capital. 1.—Diplo-| anning Very Big Social Season The cabinet dinner on Decem- ber 14 will open the White House social season and the gay and bril- liant diplomatic reception will fol- low on December 16. Other social events will be the Vice President's dinner on January 6, the Judicial reception January 11, the Diplomat- ic dinner January 18, dinner to the Chief Justice and Associate Justic- (es of the Supreme Court January 120, reception toofficials of Govern- Jment departments February 3. The Speaker’s dinner is scheduled Feb- ruary 8 and the Army and Navy reception February 17. Social affairs for the Duke and Duchess of Windsor are still in abeyance.