The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 10, 1937, Page 1

man of the Special Committee | them on the envelopes. Those get-|closing at noon. SHANGHAI, Nov. 10. — Jap- named to devise ways and means 3 SPTSAREERT, | AR 57 anese airplanes and artillery for protecting the nation’s fishing bombarded Nantao, Chinese resources. He has pledged himself SEVEN LABGR DEGLARES 3 quarters adjacent to the French to start on the prokiem at once. v ¢ Concession, plunging the foreign G 0 T B A | { area of Shanghai again into : FIG the midst of hostilities. GLUSED sHflP | s s ot - INTRODUCED ANOTHER WAR dropped explosives along the H | Nantao-Whangpoo river water- IS DEGLARED { | front and simultaneously Jap- ‘ ;Lo MR, anese artillery in Chapei sec- 1 —' ) | £ tor threw a stream of shells |When the National fesuty o I-E I- IN N Y They Are in Washington, Germany, Italy, Japan in across the International Settle- tago, Miss Myldred Creutz was i 1 D C N Settl' | Pact to Grab Terrl— ment and French Concession | chosen as “Miss Beauty, and 2 / . os. OW,‘ ng bl b C fl into the Nantao area. | Charm of 1937.” It's a long title, o \ Several Disputes tory by Contlict The attack, according to the | ¢ judging from looks alone she a8l Japanese spokesman, is designed | deserves it. Important Labor Decision v : | MOSCOW, Nov. 10. — The Com- to drive out the remnants of | -~ = I H d d D b | By PRESTON GROVER munist Party organ Pravda today the Chinese defenders who re- s Hande: own DY | WASHINGTON, Nov. ® treated from Shanghai during ‘L I] S. C. Justice |minute, we want to give you a the Italian, German and Japanese the early morning hours of | a flr eega es quickie introduction to seven labor anti-Communism agreement ,is to Tuesday. | {figures whose names have already grab territory in a new world war. A report has also reached here| NEW YORK, Nov. 10.—Jusitce figured or will frequently figure in| The Pravda urged collective that Nanking has been bombed from | Heal’ sa" Hnde" Mitchell May, of the Brooklyn Su-'the news, {action in the United States, Great the air by Japanese planes. | [ preme Court, has ruled that the By good luck we find five of Britain and France against the Japanese cruisers are also report- closed shop is constitutional in New them coming out of a corner suite other three powers “in the inter- ed to have shelled Port Amoy. \ 1 L York State. in the Willard hotel on Pennsyl-lests of peace. At present, Italy, A number of other interior places " razy a" Justice May denied the request yania Avenue. They are just break-| Germany and Japan is a bloc of are reportad alr mied. [ made by six subway employees that ing up a historic meeting in which war incendiaries. A united front of B0 ot | L they h)" I""C"S to join a union to they attempted to patch up the|countries should be formed and . . hold their jobs. split in the ranks of labor. !must be formed to strengthen se- Si"n_ apa“ese | Thirty Delegates to All-Al- " tne subway Roken ca the! " First to speak is Philip Murray, curity on a basis of world-wide | | i closed shop violated their consti-lvice president of the United Mine peace.” i aska L?bor. Palty.Con tutional rights to earn a “"e“h’mleorkgrs and chairman of the Sleel‘p R g = | vention 1n Sessnon and brought the suit to enjoin the |workers' Organizing Committee. He| & eace ee s | Brooklyn-Manhattan Transit Com-lhas a voice so soft and mellow n‘Kenrs cr "c | Thirty delegates to the All-Alas- bany Transport Workers Union of pours. He testified before a Sen-| § H 'kan Labor Party Convention openea America, CIO affiliate, from forc-iate committee during its inquiry| S a I“ euess i « . ing a closed shop agreement under into steel strikes. He didn’t an-| |session at an unrecorded prelimin- oy, employees of certain classi-|swer questions yes or not, but used| “[a al“ I“g' \ ary meeting yesterday afternoon in fications are to be discharged uUn-|every question as an avenue for s BRUSSELS, Nov. 10.—The confer- Union Hall with Eric Shulz pre- less they are union members by to- largument. He leans toward the| 3 * ence of nine powers to ‘mediate in siding. night. theatrical side and becomes tire-| I e a“ga the Sino-Japanese conflict, has ad-| Mayor Thomas Judson, in extend- R s O some to a few, but ranks as the best journed until Saturday. |ing the greetings of Juneau to the negotiator for John L. Lewis' CIO.| _ Belgian Foreign Minister Spaak,'delegation said he “hoped labor FLURES cAsE Is T BT Experts Working on Trans— President of the conference, an- delegates meeting here would get |FOR CIO | o P ” nounced that Japan’s reply to the the things they were working for.” | David Dubinsky, president of the| lallon Whlcl'l Wl“ BC conference’s peace nole is expected| Senator Henry Roden followed |ladies garment workers, pops out Substi[u[ed to be received by Saturday. {Judson, having been introduced as through the door and heads for the ! - |a (orme_r members of the Western lelevator. He seldom talks to mass-| WwASHINGTOON, Nov. 10--Treas. Sedemslon ob b ekl and) 2, R ]es of reporters, and his only com-|yry officials said it is only a matter |“fifty years behind labor,” express- Fishermen Arraigned on/ment is that he is,going to New|of time now before Rockwell Kent's . ' ‘?‘j' surprise at Soolng: the predom- 1l | Fithing Count— York to help elect La Guardia. He|oryptie Kuskokwim (Alaska) mes- inance of young faces in the meet- egal g is chunky and short, comes about sage will be painted out of his Al- et ! Holiday Tomorrow up to your vest pocket. He has a/okan-Puerto Rican mural hanging | T hope SoUmRUAK- (RS Rag. CHEY. white-toothed slice-of-apple smile o, the Post Office Department |a torch that we older men will soon | and talks with a cli t. He P 5 | 1 After closing arguments and court ppy accent. Building walls. no longer be able to bear. May you , ' ctions this morning, the case|'S & master at keeping his organ-| The officlals said: “We WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. — Sec-|light the way fo a beiter world— f Tony Flores, chargedl with as_iization of garment workers loyal. experts working on the official retary of Navy Swanson has named 1ot for just the Democrats—not ° 1t '{h dangerous weapon, went | He Is a CIO man. |translation and as soon &s the trans- Admiral Claude C. Bloch, Comman- (for just the Republicans—but for a Sufs With & “AnEw M BRI WO anq o ‘third CIO man, over six|laion is completed it will be sub- der-In-Chief of the United States better world at large which means 10 the Jury ot 18:20 048 BERMOICH oo “taller even than Murray, barg- siituted for that now appearing on Fieenmicprediug’ SHRE M Ainls 5.t labptiog TS0 Ll |vid Phillips during an altercationeS out of the door. It is Joseph|the murals and which caused S0 Hepburn, who has been given com- | ‘Crasy Land 5% Batarat Curran, president of the National myuch comment.” © mand of the Twelfth Naval District| Roden used as a keynote for the In Petersburg. 1, not Maritime Union. - He is young, in| it AR at San Francisco. rest of his speech, a poem called| Members of the jury panel, motj - Aty e ok like the| The transfer is effective next Feb-|“Crazy Land,” that referred to re- hearing the Flores case, have been‘plctures o 1 o T o dventure ruary 1. cent Letory with certain adapta-|excused by Federal Judge Georgegmagazmes o A el el TS tions. {5 CAlexandes UDuL Mahdley o |flat-cheeked first sr:a',ee\;lsm? a 4.:, “We had not enough to es in)ig at 10 oclock, Ine court Wil LT n doy and a table Tep;xw‘ BY jUVE those last few years” quoted Sen- e It recess LomOrmow in obeVANCe . “ouper pegting off & band of TAKES POISON ator Roden. “Yet we burned wheat|f the Armistice Day holiday. South Sea islanders trying to board |and we killed off pork. | George Ward and Tom Long werev gy 8 g e i LONDON, Nov. 10.—This city's| “We had not enough,to cover °“'.a;mdin:l :_.:::mn;?:,’;ni;:m:h;::;f Soon they will be seeing Lewis, SEATTLE, Nov. 10—Erik Hartell fashionable Mayfair district is|bodies,” he continued. “And yet WE,;’n anfi bail fixed for Ward at $250|Who is sitting in his office on a high about 70, resident of Cordova, Al- .y y startled by two robberies that took ploughed under the cotton.” | nii Long at $500. The men are|fl00r a dozen blocks away. Youlaska, for the past 37 years, died : place last night. The robberies net-| Following a murmer of apprecia- |2 8 s ) o lknow him already |yesterday after taking poison in his ted jewelry valued at $94,000. tion, ‘the Senator shook his head,charged with purse seining during s 3 s BN el g sadly. the closed season in Saginaw Bay,‘Fo 1l recily * Matanuska Colony “The whole cause is the economic|Kulu Island. ;A.F. (!)l-‘ L. : S Saads Given to s s e L asnions. Budosntion o faror to production for use—and until a man FB“R b Diem d gets out what he puts in and there MISS MAR]E STORMS come out from the room is George LABUR GRUUPS y on are no riches, we will live in an IS VISITING HERE [Barison, president of the Railway WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—Alaska | Re2tistactory world." glern' & SR fepng o wel TAK'NG REGESS , Nov. 10.— The Senat: & s ressed, but Harrison rhaps is Delegate Ant:ony J. Di":;mdt ?:: gation of icsorai::fr efas:;heindeéi- H";“SS 1;3“6 S“’":&D;‘::if g’w‘r’;‘f: Tote: oareful t Brese than the Test | \ sent to President Roosevelt al iz elen orms an » | He looks i a ce- » ganizing a third political party. icived T the Saath Abserdr i s a bit like a bank vi 1 VOL. LL, NO. 7636. . OVEMBER 10, 1937 " MEMBER ASS OCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " PRICE TEN CENTS FOREIGN AREA UNDER FIRE AT SH ANGHAI Beaiity 3}1 Freaneag JiNV AS|UN OF : JAPANESETO BE EKEN Up Senator Schwellenbach Plans Protection of Al- aska Fishing Waters SEATTLE, Nov. 10—United States | Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach |said the means of preventing in- |vasion of the fishery resources of | Alaska by the Japanese will be the first order of business when he returns to Washington, D. C. next week. Senator Schwellenbach is chair- SHELLS SENT | HURLING OVER - INT, SECTIONS | Planes Make Air Raid, Ar tillery Sends Explosives Into Nantao MOP-UP CAMPAIGN IS NOW UNDERWAY Drive on Remnants of Chi- nese Defenders Start- ed in War Zone Alaska Stamp Sale Opens Friday; One Special Hour The Alaska stamp sale officially tifg & small supply of stamps need au at 8 o'clock nex[‘nat take advantage of the half hour : al; midnight, postal officials ex-| FEUIRy; SDEOIng: Mub - ingd, as the postoffice will open| Postmaster Albert Wile is giv-|agi glo'clock Friday morning and ing purchasers of large amounts an ;refimlh open until everyone has been extra half hour in which to make sérved. | their buys, place the stamps uni SThere will be plenty of time dur- | the envelopes and get them in th;Inl Friday for the average pur-| mail and dated November 12, 1937. chaser to get his stamps,” O. L.| This special half hour is from | Rogers, Superintendent of Philaletic | midnight to morning—or in other words, half hour, starting at midnight. |tom, $aid. “Purpose of the half This special half hour gives op- hour at midnight is primarily to aid portunity to those who are getting!those who are mailing a large num- large numbers of stamps for send- ber of covers.” ing out a volume of “covers” to get| Also, the Post Office is taking a their stamps early so they can get half holiday tomorrow, windows opens at June THREE TIMES PREMIER, BRIT EMPIRE, DIES James Ramsay MacDonald | Passes Away on Steam- er—Was Seeking Rest LONDON, Nov. 10.—The death of 12:30 o'clock Friday agencies for the Postoffice Depart-|James Ramsay MacDonald, son of | one ment who is here from Washing-/a poor Scottish farmer, who lived | to decline an Earldom; divided Great | Britain in appraisal of his life against those who lauded him; three times Prime Minister, and known as a savior in the dark days| of 1931, and by others as a traitor; and was the Empire’s first Labor Premier, also the first Prime Min ister to visit the United States, i dead. The seventy one year old British statesman died last night aboard a | South American bound ship on quest for peace and happiness, which he failed to find in his unique and stormy political career. He sailed last Thursday in search of what he called the “most elusive of all forms of happiness—rest.” Death apparently was due i heart attack following a long perfod of poor health. Man of Destiny James Ramsay MacDonald, man of destiny of the British labor movement, was probably one of the | elect few who will be remembered ] | | (RAMSAY MAC DONALD BUSINESS WILL STOP IN JUNEAU DURING HOLIDAY Legion Program Planned in Schools—Open House at Dugeut—Dance:- - Business will pause in Juneau to- morrow as residents of this com- |munity along with the rest of the TERRIFIC GALE, POUNDING SEAS, BATTER TOWN Eastern End of Shore Line for Half-Mile Laid in Ruins STORM WORST SINCE TIDAL WAVE OF 1913 Main Busings_eclion Piled with Driftwood of Splint- ered Buildings NOME, Alaska, Nov. 10.— A terrific storm, the worst since the tidal wave wrecked this town in 1913, battered this Seward Peninsula metro- polis late yesterday, all night, and continues today. The high seas, backed up by a regular gale have already torn away foundations of nearly every business house on the waterfront and the noon doing more damage up- town as the storm keeps up. The entire waterfront at 10.—Just aldeclared that the real purpose of when the ages have selected the sig- the eastern end of Nome for nificant from the insignificant of his time. From obscurity and abject pov- erty, as dire as ever faced a back- WOO American boy dreaming of the White House, this Scot struggled from the bleak North Sea fishing village of Lossiemouth on Moray Firth, to become thrice prime min- ister of Great Britain, director of the destinies of a world-wide em- pire. His first cabinet was formed in 1924, the second in 1929, and his third in 1931. Three times the world felt his in- fluence asan outstanding statesman, a worker for the common weal, a 'crusader for enduring peace and disarmament after the cataclysm of ithe world war. | His career was unique in British history. No prime minister before him had been born into such pov- erty. None had ever entered the historic portals of No. 10 Downing street as bearer of the political ban- \ner of the laboring class. In Great Pageant | Passing years, it has been pre- |dicted, may give MacDonald a blace in the Anglo-Saxon pageant along- side that of Abraham Lincoln. Agon- 'izing misery and unremitting toil finally rewarded both; humanitari- an characters touched with genius, mellowed by romantic love and darkened by personal tragedies, their stories seem strangely woven from the same life thread. Each, steadfast to an ideal, sought a new social order, Lincoln as the liberator; MacDonald as the prac- tical idealist who worked a lifetime for a socialistic Britain and a paci- (fied world. Ramsay MacDonald, as he was generally known, was combined | prophet, organizer and administra- tor of the distinctive brand of so- |cialism that is British. It differs| nation mark the annual Armistice Day holiday. All stores and offices e planning to be closed for the y as it is a Territorial holiday and most of the offices in the Fed- eral building. A few of the Fed- eral offices will remain open, main- ly the Forest Service and Bureau of Public Roads, the latter having received instructions from Wash- ington that Armistice Day is not recognized by the department as a holiday. The Postoffice will close at noon. The Governor's office and. all Territorial offices will observe the holiday. The schools will continue classes as usual, some of the afternoon session being given over to an Ar- mistice Day program. The Alford John Bradford Post of the American Legion is planning a full program for the day. At 1:15 p. m. Vice Commander E. M. Pol- ley will speak at thes Douglas school and Supt. A. B. Phillips is in charge of Legion observance in the Juneau schools. From 4 p. m. to 7 p. m,, the Legion will hold open house at the Dugout for all ex-ser- vice men dnd members of the Legion Auxiliary. The Legion dance will wind up the day's ac e starting at 10 p. m. in the Elks' Hall. Dance Chairman Homer Nordling has a special pro- gram of features in connection with the affair and prizes are to be awarded at 1 p. m. e eee— ASSASSIN PAYS; DIES, GALLOWS BEIRUT, Nov. 10.—Crooning “Sae White House, a sack of choice Mat- anuska Colony potatoes which was a part of a cargo brougly here by a truck driven here by A! Radero. Another sack went to WPA Ad- ministrator Harry L. Hopkins. “It will take hard, hard work, but it is not impossible.” The remainder of the meeting {was taken up by representations of | *- (Continued on Page Five) Alaska to visit with her brother' and sister in Juneau. Miss Storms comes from her; home in Chewelah, Wash., and will remain here for some time. president and talks man-to-man with high railroad officials. Presi- dent Jeffers of Union Pacific once introduced Harrison as speaker at (Continued on Page }lve‘)' i {from the Marxian creed of Russian rpyrkish” Meguerdich Karayan, 29, communists in that it is evolution- gecacsin of United States Consul ary rather than revolutionary. It General Marriner, died on the gal- denounces capitalism and commun- 1owe this morning at dawn. ism in the same breath, supplanting | the violence of class war with the doctrine of the “inevitability of gra- ' dualness” ‘The assassin’s last statement was: |“An insult motivated my crime.” | Karayan was angered because towntd univerkel detoaostes Sl l');ot receive pcgrmnsswn from |the American official for right to |re-enter the United States on ac- count of insanity prevailing in his family, An example of this doctrine, Mac- Donald was active in politics for {hotel room. He had been seriously neariy 20 years before he got to par- |liament; it was 18 years more be- | |fore he captured the highest prize 1in the gift of the British people. He - | ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 10. — The Peace Conference between the AFL and CIO recessed last night until November 16 without reaching any ld(»mxma agreement. : trudged down the middle of the road, denouncing the “socialism-in- | our-time” slogan of the British ex-| tremists as a flashing futility, and | fighting communism at every step.| Life-Long Pacifist { A life-long pacifist, he announced on the eve of August, 1914, that he would have nothing to do with the world war. Through 1914-18 he was G-MEN DO 600D WORK WASHINGTON, Nov. 10.—G. Ed- gar Hoover, head of the Federal Bu- reau of Investigation, said the Gov- ernment’s pursuit of bank robbers netted $41,000,000 in fines and loot recovered last year. (Continued on Page Five) a half mile stretch has been wrecked and nearly every building swept away by the storm, Hotel Vacated The Lincoln Hotel, one of the city’s largest hostleries, has been vacated by order of the authorities as it is feared it will collapse as waves are pounding the foundations. Several buildings along the waterfront were literally smashed by the pounding waves and disappeared almost completely. Other foundations were washed away and the build- ings tipped over. PILES OF DRIFT WOOD The main section of the city is piled with drift wood from the demolished and splintered buildings. More than 200 men worked throughout the night building temporary bulkheads, especially in the vicinity of the fire hall, A Polet’s branch store and three other buildings and many private homes are already dam- aged. At 9:30 o'clock this morning workers began moving stock and fixtures from the Nome Drug store. The weather Bureau reported a low barometer last night of 29 and at 9 o'clock this morn- ing of 29 12/100. JETTY BADLY WRECKED The Government Jetty at the west end of Nome is already badly wrecked. Waves are breaking over the former site of buildings on Front Street, before the 1935 fire, The officers of the Coast Guard “iave made an early estimate of the mage at $40,000 but a check this forenoon by property owners set he loss at the present time at more than $125,000. Buildings and foundations and stock in buildings hit, range over hree quarters of a mile in area. The Lomen docks, east end of the Ciovernment harbor revetments, western tip of the municipal build- ing and fire station are endangered by the pounding seas. ‘The storm has sent the seas rush- ing up Snake River harbor, past the anchorage basing the Belmont Point floating derelict schooner. All men that can be spared are attempting to keep other boats from being swept away from their winter moor- ings. s .