The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 9, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LI, NO. 7635. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE. TEN CENTS SHANGHAI FALLS INTO JAPANESE HANDS Presi;lerit Calls on Nation To Give Thanks on Nov. 25; U.S. Has No ‘Selfish Designs WASHINGTON, Nov. Roosevelt today called on th to give thanks on Thursday, dant harvests and blessings many people. 9 9. — President Franklin D. e people of the United States November 25 for the “abun- for stable employment,” for In his Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, the Presi- dent called attention to stri ke and war threats in many parts of the world while the United States enjoys peace and cherishes “no selfish de: signs against other nations.” WIFE IN ARMS OF ANOTHER: 2 SHOT DOWN Prominent Californian Makes Discovery n Home Early Today BULLETIN — GLENDALE, Nov. 9.—Kimmel died this after- noon from wounds received in the head and chest. GLENDALE, Cal, Nov. 9—Chief of Police E. G. Browne said Paul Wright, 38, President of the Union Air Terminal, confessed early this morning that he shot and killed his wife Evelyn, 33, then critically wounded John Kimmell, . traffic manager of the airport, after he found them in an embrace in his palatial Verduco Vista home. The shooting took place shortly after 4 o'clock this morning a short time after Wright and Kimmel, for years close friends, returned from Hollywood where they participated in the initiation ceremony of a club organized for aviators. Physicians said the chances Kimmel surviving are slim. Wright told Chief of Police Browne that he suspected his wife of “stepping out” but “I never thought it was with my best friend.” The Wrights have one daughter, aged 3 years. SIX ROTARIANS HONORED TODAY of AT GATHERING Stamp Officials Speak at Regular Meeting of Club Six Rotarians were honored at the regular meeting of the Rotary Club today in celebration of their birthdays which occur in November. Three of the honorees claim Armis- tice Day for their birthdays, Alex Holden, Bert Caro and Howard Sta- bler. Also honored today were J. C. Cooper, Jack Hayes, and Ed Sweum. G. L. Rogers, superintendent of| the philatelic office of the U. S.‘ Post Office department, and his| LABOR GROUPS ARE RESUMING PEACE TALKS Industrial Type of Organi- zation in Vertical Unions Now Up i | | | ‘ | WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. — Peace negotiators of the American Federa- tion of Labor and the Committee of Industrial Organization have agreed | tentatively to an industrial type of | organ #ition to prevail in a group| of industries where vertical unions predominate. This is indicated as discussions for a settlement of the differences| of the two labor groups were re-| sumed today. Leaders of both groups however said a definite list of fields where | |the CIO will have jurisdiction has not been prepared. | George Harrison, AFL conferee {said: “There is not much difficulty in spotting coal mining, for ex- ample.” | Charles Howard, CIO conferee, ex- | |pressed the opinion that if an agree- | ment in all fields is reached, this| |agreement will be sent to a joint| |AFL and CIO convention for rati-| !fication. — e — LABOR PARTY SESSIONS ARE BEGUN TODAY All Alaska Convention Dele-i gates Hear Mayor Jud- son, Attorney Roden | | | | | The All Alaska Labor Party Con-| vention got under way this after- noon shortly after 3 o'clock with E.| R. Schulz calling the meeting to/ order. Among those scheduled to make opening day speeches at this an,er-l noon’s session are Mayor Thomas B.| Judson, and Attorney Henry Roden. | It is expected that committees may be appointed but only routine, | business may be transacted, await- ing delegates from the southern sec- | tion of the First Division expected |to arrive on the steamer Alaska this evening. REV. BOVILLE | 3 tending in an unofficial capacity. assistant, F. J. Salb, were the guest} speakers. Also present, as guests werej R. E. Hardcastle of Ketchikan, R.| 8. Bragaw of Anchorage; Norman| ‘Banfield, John McLaughlin, Curtls| Bhattuck, and E. 8. Calhoun. ‘Walter Peterson was presented in vocal selections, accompanied by Lola Mae Alexander. Mr. Banfield spoke on the Red Cross, and A. B. Phillips led in group singing, ac- companied by James McNaughton. DIESINN. Y. YONKERS, N.Y., Nov. 9. — The Rev. Robert George Boville, 86, who 'founded the Daily Vacation Bible| School movement 36 years ago, is! deall at his home here. { WHITTIER SAILING TO CORDOVA ON PORT BUSINESS Assistant Collector of Customs M. S. Whittier is sailing on the Alaska itonight for Cordova where he will |attend to placing Cordova on a full e H|T IN GUURT time basis as a port of entry. L. J. Chilberg, who has been in charge WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Robert of the Seward port, will be deputy- Jackson, Assistant . Attorney Gen- in-charge at Cordova, and the Sew- eral, before the Supreme Court' of ard post for the time being will be the United States, said the Alumin- left vacant. e e rearding musincss re-| MRS. SANDERS BACK FROM TRIP SOUTH covery early this year. | The company, Jackson said,! Mrs. F. R. Sanders returned to Juneau aboard the North Sea fol- raised the price of its product,| used in that industry.” loging a vacation trip of two months cute dissolution proceedings against ka, Salt Lake City and Seattle while | i COMMUNISTS TO BE BARRED, SEATTLE MEET Mayor Dore Issues Order Preventing Session— Taken to Court BULLETIN — SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—This afternoon King County Superior Court Judge Hall up- held Mayor Dore’s order pre- venting a Communist meeting in the Civic Auditorium. He held that the City Building superin- tendent had the right to cancel the lease on reasonable grounds. SEATTLE, Nov. 9.—Mayor John F. Dore was haled into the Superior Court today by counsel for the Civil Liberties League. Mayor Dore had warned that a riot threatens if the Communists are permitted to hold a mass meeting in the Civic Audi- torium tomorrow night. The Mayor was cited to cause why he should not be strained from cancelling the Com- munist lease on the Civic Auritor- ium. The affidavit, as read in court, {said Mayor Dore had reached “the honest conclusion that if this meet- ing is permitted to be held, it will | .xho\k“ Te- | |relations between Russia and Japan are nearing a fracture, grows out of the recently strengthening of the German-Jap !with the entrance of Italy. There is also friction over the fishing concessions. | tives. The Japanese success came as the tension increased Japanese anti-Bolshevist pact. are uncertain what the anti-Bolshevist pact may lead to. the three-nation front against International Communism | relations with Tokyo and also Rome. | Soviet Frontier, the Japanese dominated Manchoukuo. cause a riot.” | Mayor Dore said the riot would have to be suppressed by the | lice with great danger to life and| limbs of those present. | Before the hearing started, Mayor Dore said that irrespective ' of the court action, there would be no Communist meeting tomorrow night. | COVERNOR TROY ATTENDS MEET, ADP.FISHERIES Japanese Encroachment of Alaska Salmon Waters to Be Brought Up DEL MONTE, California, Nov. —Delegates registering from Aias- ka to the Mexican border, opened the annual convention of the Asso-| ciation of Pacific Fisheries, with! Gov. John W. Troy, of Juneau, at-, | Gov. Troy said he would not take part in the sessions, but while here vacationing, he would take the op-| portunity of keeping in touch with the fishing industry. Discussion of the proposed fish- ermens’ boycott of Japanese boats, in a protest to Japanese encroach-| ment of the Alaskan salmon wa-| ters, is expected to come before the convention at the single business session tomorrow. et MOVIE STRIKE ENDS QUICKLY HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 9. Settlement of a strike of 400 work- lers of Columbia Studios, which tied up production for one day, was an- nounced this morning by Harland | ternational Alliance of the Theatri- cal Stage Employees. —pe Wage, Hour Bill Denounced by NCC WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—The Na- tional Cooperative Council has de- nounced the Administration’s wage and hour bill, contending it will cause a large increase in farmers’ production and distribution costs.| A formal statement said the bill for farm wage earners themselves will give the board “despotic pow- er” over all commerce and indus- try. American Decorated Britisher Is Dead LONDON, Nov. 9—Major General Douglas McLaughlin, 68, British (military attache at Washington during the World War, died yester- day. He held the United States thereby “discouraged the building] industry insofar as aluminum was Jackson is arguing in support of in the States. e the Government's effort to prose- Mrs. Sanders visited in Nebras- the company in the Southern New in the s_oulh. Mr. Sanders is on York Federal District Court. ‘the staff of Percy’s Cafe. lDi:Llngui;lwd Service Medal. {woman and was the father of two i Sharpe. Other {in the ecity. measures to bolster her Far Eastern Army. FOREIGN MINISTER LITVINOFF SUDDENLY LEAVE New Crisis Nears in Far East Now (By Associated Press)—The capture of Shanghai and reported important gains in North China today brought the Japanese forces steadily nearer the Chinese military objec- on the Manchoukou-Siberian border and the diplomatic world pondered the potentialities of the new Italian-German- With the Japanese hurrying military operations in China before the winter settles down, and also concentrating a powerful army on the Siberian border, European Powers early today with the retreat of Generalissimo Chiang Kai precipitated the question of whether Russia, regarding the pact as “not friendly” might one day break off diplomatic POWERFUL JAPANESE ARMY DEPLOYED ALONG SOVIET FRONTIER TOKYO, Nov. 9.—One of Japan’s most powerful armies is today deployed along the While the Japanese and also neutral observers shared almost unanimous belief that a strained diplomatic situation anese anti-Communism front renewal of the Soviet granted The Tokyo newspaper Hochi today reports that Soviet Russia is taking strong S BRUSSELS FOR MOSCOW BRUSSELS, Nov. 9—Commotion was shown early today in the Nine Power Peace Conference seeking to end the Sino-Japanese sian delegate to the conference, suddenly announced he sar, when Foreign Minister Litvinoff, Rus- yas leaving tonight for Moscow. Litvinoff’s departure is generally regarded as a protest against the move he thinks is under way to eliminate Russia in the major conference activities, particularly in an effort to placate Japan. lin committee conferences and he believes such a move, to exclude Russia, is presumably NOME BRAWL Fire Last Night RESULTS, ONE Damages Rear of MAN KILLED Burford’s Store Six Held in Jail While In- Flames Ruin $2000 Worth vestigation Made of of Typewriters and Night of Disorder Adding Machines NOME, Alaska, Nov. 9—One man| Fire caused by defective wiring, is dead and six others are held in|gccording to Acting Fire Chief Bill jnil for investigation as to the out- Neiderhauser, yesterday evening a night of drunken disorder in the| He was|and Co's. store on Seward Street about 45 years old and was found to the extent of between $4,000 and fatally stabbed. coroner’s jury that they saw a white | SUTenCe men: man stab Bogan and the police Loss on stock and furniture will pector, who bore marks of the con-|insurance coverage on those items. flict. |The huilding itself, belonging to |damaged approximately $1,000 in extent, is fully covered. Fire Department at 6:40 p. m., but |the last spark of the fire was not ex- JOB COMMISSION |'n%: STARTS SESSIONS' Principal damage was to $2,000 3 ’ |writers in the back end of the store. With the arrival of Commissioner ,y windows were broken in the rear rowth of what the police said was £ » gutted the rear of the J. B. Burford cabin of John Bogan. 4 $5,000, according to estimates of in- Eskimos told the members of the booked Lou Berry, about 50, a pros-|run perhaps $1,500 over the $3.500 Bogan was married to an E.‘sk)mo:Mrs_ Arthur W. Fox, which was The diarm was answered by the tinguished until shortly after 8 o'~ i‘worth of adding machines and type- R. E. Hardcastle of Ketchikan On|,¢ tne store and several plate glass the North Sea early this morning, panes in the front display windows the Alaska Unemployment Com-|.,q ghowcases were cracked. | | children. HARDCASTLE HERE; its deliberations this afternoon IN,¢ tne fire and stock was consider- the officé of Director Walter P. o members of the| prang Heinke called J. B. Burford Commission, Chairman E. L. Bar-|yhen he noticed the windows of the lett of Miller House, and R. Ao heavily fogged when other Bragaw of Anchorage, already ‘"elwindows were clear. | Prompt action by the Fire De- The Commission will take up the parbmen‘i saved the Valentine build- appointment of a head for the un- e in which Burford's store is lo- employment offices to be estab-|..taq from serious damage. lished in the principal cities under| ;B Burford and Company will the new law and will frame rules| oo ™ and regulations for the administra-| tfice one door north of the store e '}':':;{::;’;’_’“"“‘ °°’“P"“"”“""i while repalrs are being wade. JUNEAU YOU { ke mrsr e | Rented Plane OUTSIDE ON YUKON| - Grashes; 2 Die Carl Hagerup, Forest Service em-| ployee, graduated from Juneau High| Schol four years ago, is making his, NEWCASTLE, Pa. Nov. 9. — Two first trip Outside. men were killed in a crash of a Hagerup left on the Yukon to rented airplane near here yesterday. spend several weeks looking at tall| The dead have been identified as buildings, trains, and all that goes|Aleck Srocynaski, 19, of Newcastle, with high pressure life on the Out- who was pilot, and Daniel Buritk, side. He will visit relatives in/26, of Chewton, Pa. Washington and Idaho and expects' The plane looped downward three to return on the Alaska December times and crashed into a field sev- 1 2. jen miles from here. 5 100 BUILDINGS DESTROYED IN ~ MORNING FIRE | Chinese Section of Walnut Grove Wiped Out— Many Believed Dead WALNUT GROVE, Cal.. Nov. 9.— Several persons were burned to death 1n a fire of mysterious origin early today. The fire destroyed the Chinese section of this town, levelling about 100 buildings. Five bodies have been taken from the ruins and officers said there might be as many as 15 others taken out when it is possible to make a search after the embers are cool. Loss P rovisions On Tax Taken Up WASHINGTON, Nov. 9. — The House Tax sub-committee has vir- {tually agreed to modify the loss pro- visions in the capital gains tax which has been the target of com- iplaints from business on financial income. Members of the sub-committee {over losses but under such a system Iably damaged by smoke and Water. josses might be used to offset gains| over a period of one year or two. The Treasury reported it offered no resistance to the alteration. J - Willd Estate LONG BEACH, Cal, Nov 9. — Dr. | move temporarily into the vacant gyancis E. Townsend, old age pen-| sion author, and his wife, are the isole beneficiaries under the will of Elizabeth J. Lautitzen Hoffman. The estate is estimated at less than $10,000. } Stores ~(lil;;se ; All Day on Next Thursday Stores will be closed in Juneau next Thursday, Armistice Day, according to an agreement made several years ago. Housewives are therefore given warning that they must make purchases for the one day holiday and make them early tomorrow or place their orders early. i i said that there is “no opposition” | | Holmden, Vice-President of the In-|Pensation Commission was starting| piaster was broken from the heat|y, gn amendment to permit carry- Defenders Retreat Orderly way Communication wil |Shek’s Chinese warriors who The city was asleep and taking place. Shortly after midnight the Chinese defenders began an | | HAITIANS ARE MASSACRED IS - CHARGE MADE Thousands Killed in Expul- sion Order from Dom- incain Terr. WASHINGTON, Nov. 9.—Foreign {Minister George Leger, of Haiti, to- day said that between 2,500 and 5,000 |Haitians, including women and chil- |dren, have been killed or wounded since October 5 in the Dominican |Territory. Leger said these casualties were rom “consequent attacks” on Hai- ians “well within the Dominican territory” by Dominican police, and also covilians of the Territory. He contradicted a statement by Dominican Minister Andres Pastor- iza, who said the stories of “collec- tive slayings” in the Dominican Ter- iritory were “wholly absurd.” ‘The attacks, Leger said, began as the result of the Dominican Gov- ernment’s expulsion of Haitians from Dominican Territory. No notice of such expulsion has ever been served on the Haitian Government, said Leger. ELECTRA BRINGS FAIRBANKS LOAD Pilots S. E. Robbins and Murray Stuart were scheduled to bring a Pacific Alaska Airways Lockheed Electra into the Mendenhall air- port this afternoon. Those scheduled to arrive are Thelma Hunt, Dave Renni, CIff Hawkins, Harold Jacobsen, E. O'- Laughlin, Jack McCord, J. E. Hop- kins and H. B. Harrls L. H. Lewis Dies DALLAS, Tex. Nov. 9—L. H. Lewis 57, PFirst International President of the Lions’ Club, is dead here. e CRUISER VIDA MAY MAKE LONG JOURNEY BY BOAT AND TRAIN Hal Damon’s little cruiser Vida, came to Juneau from Vancouver, but it has never plowed the waters of Queen Charlotte Sound or Dixon Entrance. Now the Vida may take another trip to southern waters — and still it will not breast the waters intervening. ‘The Vida was shipped to Juneau on the deck of the Princess Louise and it may go out the same way. Hal Damon has received a wire from Salt Lake City that offers a hand- some price for the craft from con- cessionists at the park there who want the craft for sightseeing pur- poses. And so the Vida, trim little Ju- neau cruiser, that never saw Dixon Entrance though it was built in the south, may now take a train journey as well as a boat journey and still never see Dixon Entrance, or Queen Charlotte Sound B BUD JENNE HONORED Charles Jenne, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Jenne, will be honored this evening at an informal dinner in celebration of his eighteenth birthday. 1i ti CHINESE FORCES ( METROPOLIS EARLY IN MORNING AFTER BEING ATTACKED 88 DAYS QUIETLY LEAVE to Winter Lines as Invaders Awaken to Find Seaport Evacuated—Band of Steel Immediately Thrown Around City—Railroad, High- th Interior Cut or Blocked— Lage Mass of Nationals, Refugees, Americans and Other Foreigners Bottled Up SHANGHALI, Nov. 9.—This city fell into Japanese hands held out 88 days against the Attention, however, turned abruptly and definitely today toward Soviet Russia 88! combined Japanese Army, Navy and Air forces. unaware of the fate that was orderly but quiet retreat toward the winter line protecting king, the Chinese National Capi- tal City. The Japanese apparently did not learn of the retreat until 8 o'clock this morning. The withdrawal of the Chin- ese enabled the Japanese forces to place a ring of steel around China’s greatest port, cutting off the metropolis from the rest of the nation:and bottling up 3,- 000,000 Chinese residents, 1,000,- 000 refugees and many thou- sands of Americans and other foreigners, Railroads and highways in all di- {rections are cut or blocked by the Japanese, leaving only a few Jap- |anese and foreign vessels as the |sole connection with the outside world. American and other foreign com- munities breathed more easily as |the long seige was suddenly lifted. | Before the departure of his Chin- ese forces in the qulet of the early |morning hours, Generalissimo Chi- jang Kai Shek declared that the | Shanghai operations were purely lo- (cal and did not form a vital part of | the nation’s chief defenses which he |said were about the Yellow River | Region. DAVIS AGAIN " HELPS MOOSE |Former Director Genessl Is Back Again in Fra- ternal Organization | SHARON, Pa., Nov. 9.—William Egan, Supreme Dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose, announced {that United States Senator James |J. Davis, Republican of Pennsyl= |vania, has resumed active leadepr< ship of the order of which he wus Director General. Senator Davis relinquished his active duties with the Moose seven years ago because of a press of public affairs. GIRL LOVER OF IL DUCE DENIED US, ENTRANCE Moral Turpitude Is Grounds for Barring French ‘ Girl | NEW YORK, Nov. 9—Magda De- fontagnes has been barred from entering the United States by the | Board of Immigration Commission- lers who heard her case at Ellis Is- land. The grounds for refusal were “moral turpitude.” Miss Defontagnes is the French girl who shot the former French Ambassador to Italy, Count Charles Dechambrun, after he was said to |have ended her love affair with Benito Mussolini. She was refused the right to enter the United States by a board of special inquiry. e | ASUNCION, Paraguay, Nov. 9. — |A state of war decreed in Paraguay as the result of the recent abortive |rebellion at Conception, has been lifted and the police have freed many of those arrested in the up- rising.