The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EM VOL. LI, NO. 7639. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JAPANESE PLAN MARCH ON NAI Congress TAX QUESTION MAY COME UP DURING MEET Legislators, However, Al- [ ready Pledge to Take Up Crop Control PRESIDENT TO 'GIVE MESSAGE AT NOON| Program of Legislation Is Expected to Be Sub- mitted Then WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. — Con- gress will meet Monday to tackle the unfinished farm loan legislation The special session is already overcast by concern about the busi- ness outlook but legislators are al- ready pledged® to make crop control the first business. There are indications that some members of Congress have upper- most in their minds possible steps to improve the economic situation. Tax Revision Chairman O'Connor, of the House Rules Committee has suggested that Congress try to stimulate business by, immediate tax revision. Speaker Bankhead however, said the problem is too big for hasty ac- tion. i | \ | Douglas Van Vlack, Tacoma, Wash Roosevelt Program | President Roosevelt will send a message to Congress ggcAMoqdayi noon. Presumably the message will| set forth his views on legislation to| . be asked including crop control, ! wages and hours, governmental ‘re-! organization and regional planning. Photo. These may be the topnotch sub- | Jjects for the special session. | ., triple killer, shown in the corri- dor of the Twin Falls, Ida., courthouse after hearing—for the third time—a date, November 30, set for his execution. wen two reprieves in legal battling for his life.—Associated Press Van Viack (left), NAZI MEETING IN SEATTLE T0 | CHINA DEMANDS, ORIENT STRIFE Italian Representative De- clares Subject Not to Be Considered |OTHER NATIONS GO AHEAD, OTHER LINES Makes Calm Statement of What Should Be Done BRUSSELS, Nov. 13. — China’s jdemand to what virtually amounts to sanctions against Japan, was drastically opposed by Italy today at the nine power conference seek- ing to end the war in the Orient. Italian Count Luigi Aldovrandi- ! Marescotti said: tirely ruled out. for that purpose out side of the scope of this cou- ference We are not here T s Arrogant Attitude “Sanction are en-| entirely | | | | { { | NOVEMBER 13, 1937. Delegates of other nations mndel no comment, plainly observing that| the attitude of the Italian represen-! tative was entirely arrogant and he| was left to personally applaud his| {own action, if any approval was, \forthcoming. s e %R Notwithstanding the spoken atti- ! tude of Italy, the United States, NEw MAG ZlN | Great Britain and France delega- no saving effect. paratus eould approach. Damage tions prepared for a declaration’ stressing the illegality of Japan's military action, asserting that the strife in the Orient amounted to defience of the entire world. U. S. Position Previously the peace conference delegations heard Norman A. Davis, head of the American delegation, in *‘Alaska™ Is 24_Page Peri- | { | declare Van Viack Hears Death Date {s AN[}T]UNS ARE Alaskan Codfish Catch Destroyed by Fire An entire seasen’s Alaska codfish cateh and oil extracted from it are seen “going up in smoke recently destroyed the Union Fish Company packirg plant at Belvedere, Cal. The San Francis: boat, David Scannell, at left center, drenched the raging fire with powerful sireams of W ater but with Photo was taken from the highway which was the nearest peoint to which land fire ap- was estimated at $345,000, Whew! Spray Blown 800 Feet in Air by Storm, King Island KING ISLAND, Alaska, Noy. 13 —The Rev. B. R. Hubbard said his barometer dropped one inch in ten hours to 28.60 during the Nome storm reading, the lowest reading in his eleven years of exploration The cliffside dwellings of the na- === | Passes Awayal QUIET PREVAILS. pyayeiang Home BE PROBED NOW SPANISH FRONT Dispatches State It Is Only Calm Before Insur- gent Offensive Inition®*as a Wilson spokesman in‘cep: Nazi folk biology and race a Labor Opposes Him trol of American railways was pro- posed, Senator Pomerene was the! first Senater to openly oppose it and aided in the framing of the Esch-Cummings act. Because of hi Former Ohio Senator, Spec- |investigation of the German Club |lee Pomerene, 73, former Chairman Nazi songs sung. per Aragon front. everal ! an imminent Insurgent offensive. | As a member of the United States body during the first term of/ s f i representative of the President at| They MUS‘ Preach and + 2 Killed afety; | During the two terms in the Sen- Germany comes word that that all Statitn coal mine this morning. ‘ms independence in voting on others!wherevar they may be must preach night shift| was preparing to leave. Created FTC crats,-and advocated the Colombian He also voted for res- Buy Home, France 7~ - Y In the voting on the prohibition Prance. This indicates there is lit- | referendums opposed them. E can you justify that? If it is an |offense to do what majority of of K. N. Neill, Resident Project Au-| in Juneau for the past three years. - e SEATTLE, Nov. 13 ity Coun- . iy cilmen David Levine and Hugh De- ial Prosecutor, Teapot Dome Scandal, Dies |meeting nere tast Tuesday at which lit is reported that the Nazi flag was HEND.YE, French-Spanish BOr- of the RFC, special prosecutor in the! A R A der, Nov. 13.—The Spanish Civil peapot Dome oil scandal and for| series of skirmishes along the up-|Ohjo, died last night at his home A I_I_ THUSE UF m fro Insurgent dis- here. He had been ill for sevel patches said it is only a calm before weeks with bronchial pneumonia. GERMAN Bl-uun |Senate from Ohio, Atlee Pomerene | M' E I H !became one of the leaders of that L] 'ne xp 08'““ 3 President Woodrow Wilson. | His close association with the| 35 craWi uut 10 tor's designation as the accredited No Matter Where They Are the Democratic National Convention | ~ lat st Louis in 1916, at which Mr.| Practice That Creed | By PRESTON GROVER PRINCETON, Indiana, Nov. 13.—/ate, Mr. Pomerene supported the| Two men were killed awd one in- Democratic position on many legis Thirty-five men crawled to safe-|finally cost him much of his recog-|and practice Nazi idealogy and ac- ty through an air shaft. The cause for the explosion has| genator Pomerene helped create| not been determined. {the Federal Tariff Commission,| | treaty and the Washington arms conference in the face of his party’s Versailles Peace |Treaty, but supported the League PARIS, Nov. 13. — ¥riends dis- closed that the Duke and Duchess and woman suffrage amendments, Senator Pomerene was recorded in tle prospect for an early journey to the United States, it is said. | | “How else can I justify my action unless you want minority rule?” he | Ohi e 2 a Announcement is made today from n;;:‘dve';?fs want done, then I have ditor for Alaska, to the PWA of- fice at Portland, Oregon. Ivory or white satin is very be- coming to most dark-haired dark-| lacy announce they plan an official | CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 13.—At- displayed, the Nazi salute given and War has apparently dwindled to a 13 years United States Senator from | White House resulted in the Sena-| |Wilson was renominated. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13— From jured in an explosion at the Kings|lative matters of importance, but who happen to be of German blood The explosion occurred just as the the Senate. ; |which was opposed by the Demo-/ Duke Windsor to opposition. | |of Nations. | of Windsor plan to buy a home in the negative, because, he said, Ohio e |asked, defending his votes, “and how the PWA office here of the transfer Mr. and Mrs. Neill have resided eyed young women. (Continued on Page Seven) ‘When the Plumb plan for the con- |1 policy and all that it may imply. Moreover, says Colonel General Hermann Goering, “foreign nations and foreign statesmen must rec- ognize that in the future fruitful relationships between German and other world peoples can take place only on the ba: of the organized activity of foreign Germans as na- tural agents of German culture and commerce.” It so happens that there are a very great number of people of German blood in the United States. Herr Goering did not mention American Germans ®ut his phrase- ology appeared to include all per- sons of German stock. Germans abroad said Goering, can be divided roughly into two classes, the concious Germans and the un- conscious Germans. The conscious Germans are those deeply aware of their German origin. These, he said, “must feel with the National Social- wholeheartedly.” MANY INCLUDED In that group perhaps he would iiclude the parading Nazi organ- stand on the Plumb plan labor un-|izations in New Jersey and else- (Continued on Page Seven) t ideology and eventually accept it quiet but forceful terms, there are “compelling reasons” why Japan should cooperate in a search for peace. The members of the Italian dele- gation moved uneasily in their seats as the calm but expressive eyes of Davis and gaze of others fell upon Mussolini‘'s representatives. The Japanese note, the second “turn-down’ of an invitation to at- tend the peace conference, was read without comment. Alaskan Maffit Draws Interest 0f S _lgel Firm A. E. Perkins Ending Busi- ness Trip Here from New York Bringing to a close a business trip of the past few days, A. E. Perkins, western division manager of the Crucible Steel Company of Amer- ica, plans To leave Monday for head- quarters in New York where he will present to company officials a plan for extension of the Cruicible Steel Company activities to cover Alaska Mr. Perkins, who is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel, made Juneau his oniy szop in Alaska this year The potentiality of the Alaskan market for steel mining equipment leads him to believe, however, that main points in the Interior will be contacted next year. Arrangements for extending acti- vities of the company to the Ter- ritory will be under discussion this January, Ui S S Last Rites for Former Alaskan SEATTLE, Nov. 13.—Funeral ser- vices for E. T. Smith, 70, retired Al- aska Government school teacher, who died last Thursday, were held today, followed by cremation. Smith was an early gold rusher and lived in Alaska until two years ago when he moved to Bremerton. | | | | and brother, survive. tives were encrusted in ice by the spray blown 800 feet above the water's edge. No damage was done. U, WASHINGTON UCLA PLAYING GAME IN RAI FINAL SCORE—U. Washing- ton 26; U.CLA. 0. odical to Be Published Monthly in Juneau A progressive step in the Alaskan journalistic field has been taken by Albert Taylor whose magazine, “Alaska,” is now off the press, to- vtaling 24 pages of articles on the Territory with accompanying illus- trations. The magazine, which has been en- dorsed by various leading Alaskans, includes a variety of articles, among | which are “Alaskans—Are We?" byl Forest J. Hunt, former president of the Territorial senate; “Reminis- cences of a Sourdough,” the first of a series by Alexander Cameron; “gitka the Beautiful” by the editor, including six scenic views of the picturesque city; “To Him Who | | | | SEATTLE, Nov. 13—Fifteen se |onds after the opening of the jond quarter, Husky Caplain Fritz Hath,” an article on mining laws . = by T. Douglas Hagan; and a num- | Wascowitz looped a 26-yard pass 3 1 through the driving rain into the ber of short, informative features. | U “Alaska” will be published month- waiting hands of Halfback Merle v, with headquarters at Juneau. |Miller who stepped across the goal Emphasized in the editorial sec- to put the University of Washing- tion is the editor’s article, “Airmail |ton out in front of U.CLA. in the for Alaska,” in which he stresses the | Washington Homecoming tilt at advantages of the coastal route. The (Seattle this afternoon. expected high price per letter, es- Cruver kicked the try-for-point timated at 30 cents for one ounce,|to send the Huskies on their way is criticized. |7 to 0. Late in the second quarter In explaining the purpose of the:lhv Huskies let slip another touch- magazine, Taylor writes, “This mag-| down when Fullback Al Cruver fum- azine proposes to become a vehicle bled on a fourth-down drive into for an exchange of ideas on all Al-|the line on the one-yard stripe 1 askan problems, a forum where all| can have their say, pro or con, sO that the best solutions can be reached, and where the knowledge of some can save others the neces- sity, the time, and the misery of learning from experience. “I want stories and articles about Alaska and the men and women who have made Alaska what it is, and who are now building its fu- ture. I want articles and stories about prospecting, mining, forestry, fishing, farming, fur raising and trapping, and any and all other stories of life in Alaska and about places and things in Alaska.” - - CHRISTHAS! WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Sena- tor King, Chairman of the group of Senators and Representatives who visited Hawaii to study application of that Territory to become the Forty-Ninth State, may have an answer “before Christmas. Dessert knives and forks often are His widow, Beatrice Smith, a sister more practical for the young bride las, and R. J. Bruce. !than the dinner size. A meagre crowd of 5000 ardent pigskin followers challenged the downpour to watch the Bruins and |Huskies battle through a scoreless first period. Taking the opening kickoff on their five-yard line, the visitors drove down the field to the Wash- ington thirty-four before losing the ball on downs. Washington then came back to the U.CL.A. thirty- four before yielding possession on a fumble. Cruver’s smashing line thrusts ripped wide holes in the Bruin line, {through which the Huskies paraded to their touchdown \ 'HEINKE FUNERAL TO BE HELD TOMORROW Funeral services for Mrs. Frank {Heinke are to be held tomorrow af- ternoon at 1:30 o'clock, with the Rev. John L. Cauble officiating, from the chapel of the Charles W Carter Mortuary, | Pallbearers will be William Nei- |derhauser, A. F. McKinnon, D. J Oliver, Howard Button, H. W. Doug- Interment will be in the Evergreen Cemetery. " PRICE TEN CENTS KING AN AV o] D P Meets Monday, Special Session ADVANCE UPON - CHINA CAPITAL NOW INDICATED Mines Being Removed from Whangpoo River— Also Soochow Creek 'TWO ROUTES TO BE | USED, INT. CAMPAIGN | Air Raids Continue But No Serious Damage Report- ed by Spokesman SHANGHAI, Nov. 13.—One Jap- anese gunboat has successfully crossed the partly broken boom ob= strucing the upper Whangpoo river ter armed Japanese launches swept the stream of mines, several of which exploded, but doing no damage, during the exploratory voy= age up the river and also Soochow Creek. It is indicated that the Japanese plan to use both streams to trans< . port military supplies and armies for an advance on Nanking. Aside from the movements on the Whangpoo it Is quiet on the Shanghai front today. Air raids continued towards the interior during the early morning hours “ut no reports of anything disastrous have been given out by (the Japanese spokesina CONFESSESTO &b e SLAYING TWO FLAKNE NAMED LAST WINTER TONEW OFFICE Will Be Director of Employ- ment Offices Through- out Territory Finn Arrested on Another Charge, Confesses to Double Crime [ | | | | Announcement was made today MOUNT VERNON, Wash.,, NOV. by the Unemployment Compensa~- 13 —Prosecuting Attorney Richard tion Commission that Joseph T. Welts said Toivo Hautaneimi, 25, Flakne of Fairbanks, formerly cof- Finnish logger and former trans-'nected with the Agricultural Exper- jent camp worker, has confessed to imental Station at Fairbanks and slaying Floyd Orinam, his brother|glso at Palmer, has been appoint- Ernest, 29, and disposing of the hud-‘é(vd to the position of Director of ies on the Grimm farm, near here,| Employment for the Territory of last winter. Alaska. Welts sald Hautaneimi was held| Flakne, who was graduated from on a charge of mistreating his|the University of Alaska in 1934, brothers and 13-year-old sister and|will arrive in Juneau soon to assume their story led to his arrest and|his new duties. He will bring Mrs. confession of the slayings. | Flakne with him. The confession indicated that/| i L {the two Grimm brothers were slain FASGIST PA | Dissolution Announced— because they objected to Hautan- dimi's attention to their sister. President Vargas Is Almost Dictator -ee FOOT BALL RESTULTS RIO DE JANEIRS: Nov. 13.—Bra- |zil's Fascist Party has been dis+ The following are final scores of football games played this after- solved as a political organization. Political circles interpret this as noon and received up to 1 o'clock: Notre Dame 7; Army 0. ‘Yale 26; Princeton 0. Cornell 6; Dartmouth 6, tie. Holy Cross 7; Brown 0. | Boston College 13; Kentucky 0. |reply of President Getulio Vargas Temple 0; Bucknell 0, tie. to the criticism that his new eo- Manhattan 15; North Carolina Oberative constitution has made State 0. Brazil a Fascist state. Pittsburgh 13; Nebraska 7 President Vargas is now almost Minnesota 7; Northwestern 0 a Dictator. He sald his new consti~ North Carolina 14: Duke 6 tution made political parties un- Alabama 7; Georgia Tech 0 | mecessary Southern Methodist 13; Baylor 7 TR Purdue 7; Missouri 7, tie A"acfl"da Hepuns . Income, 3 Months | Syracuse 6; Columbia 6, Lic George town 6; NYU 0 Harvard 15; Davidson 0 Ohio State 19; Illinois 0 Michigan 7! Pennsylvania 0. | At Portland—California 20, Or gon 0 at end of second quarter. .. MRS, CARTER PASSES AWA SANTA MONICA, Cal, Nov Murs. Leslie Carter, 75, the toast of the theatrical world in the late —Frank H. Richards, 80, United nineties, is dead at her home here, States Marshal in 1897 and 1888, the result of a heart ailment|is seriously ill here, suffering from following a long illness ipncumonlu. NEW YORK, Nov, 131" ‘x-nnda Copper Mining Com;any and subsidiaries report a consolidate in- come for the nine months ending September 30 of $26,965,164. e y Former Alaska ~ Marshal Is I CARLSBAD, New Mexico, Nov. 13. e Ana- | 13—