The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL LI., NO. 7649. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA MONDAY, NOVI:MBLR 15, 1037 REMOVE TAX INJU DRIVE OPENS FOR CAPTURE | OF NANKING Campaign Is Starled from Soochow Toward In- | terior Sections ‘ SECTOR DESOLATED | BY BOMB ATTACKS Seven Hundred Explosives| Are Dropped by ‘Nippon Planes SHANGHAI, Nov. 15. — Japanese | forces, according to the Japanese military spokesman, have endanger- ed China’s whole “Hindenburg Line” | defenses and pierced the line at several points. w The drive is on from Soochow,| an offensive westward. | Japanese officers said this drne‘ is opening the campaign against Nanking, China’s Capital City, 125 miles west of the “Hindenburg Line” | Advices said Soochow is a deso-| lated area made so by more thanl GASES GAUSED | EXPLOSION AT ALASKA MINE ;Qtatmnont Expected Soon By Government Concerning Invasion Salmon Grounds| WASHINGON, Nov. 15. — United Smtes Senator Lewis B. Schwel- lenbach, Democrat of Washington State, said he has urged the State Department to take the same at- |titude toward the Japanese invasion |of Alaskan salmon fishing grounds as taken with reference to the Jap- anese invasion of China. ‘.4laska Garden Pretty Likes Pajama Poet Commissioner Stewart Tells | of Tragedy Which Cost Lives of 14 Men Explosion in the Evans-Jones coal | mine which cost the lives of 14 mi ers was caused by a gaseous condi- | tion which had developed in the mine since September 1, according to B. D. Stewart, Territorial Com- missioner of Mines, who returned to Juneau on the Alaska from the scene of the tragedy. H. B. Hum- phrey, U. S. Safety Engineer, also réturned to Juneau after being with the Commissioner at the mine. !For 18 years the mine has oper- ated without evidence of gas be- ing detected, Commissioner Stewart sald, and last September 1, when he last inspected it there was no such evidence. Undoubtedly, he said, it has developed since that time, and was ignited when a miner start- | ed to Tight a cigarette, he said. The flame from the miner’'s match, he| explained, ignited the gas in the far, end of the mine where a powder| charge had just been set for firing| about an hour later. The flames| shot along the main tunnel, the gaseous substance exploding as 1?.; reached the air intake where most, of the miners were at work, he‘ explained. Only the nose of the man| who is believed to have lighted the| cigarette was burned. He and a| companion were suffocated to death as the flames shot along the tunnel; some distance before exploding, the ' Commissioner said. As a result of the tragedy, the official has issued drastic legula—! tions necessary to meet the haurds‘ of gas which means, he said, a com- | .petent Superintendent to replace| the superintendent who was badly,y injured and will be laid up for a| long time, the employment of an efficient fire boss who must enter| the mine before each shift, make a! through examination for gas and post his findings on the bulletin/ board before a shift may enter the mine. Mine officials at the Evans- ' Jones and the Eska, government op- | erated mine nearby, are cooperating, he reported. Closed lights also will be required from now on in the, Matanuska coal fields, he said. Before the mine can reopen, re- adjustment will have to be made in the price of coal, the Commis-/ sicner said, in order to meet the requirements which have now been placed in effect, and the Superin- tendent will have to be approved by the Commissioner, and suitable pro- (Continued on Page Five) |other than as Going into raptures over her new- est affair of the heart, Toby Wing, /blonde screen starlet, revealed in Chicago where she is making a stage appearance, that she had |fallen for a West Point cadet, whom she dcclined to identify ‘Lieutenant Jim- my"”, and admitted that she be- came interested in him after re- ceiving a pair of his autographed pajamas on which a romantic verse had been written. 6OLD BEARING GRAVEL T0 BE USED, HIGHWAY HELENA, Montana, Nov. 15. Gold bearing gravel will be used lin paving a seven mile section of a highway now under construction |near here. Henry M. Lancaster, mining en- gineer, said tests, in a pit which | will supply the gravel, showed about 60 cents worth of gold to the cubic ard. There is such limited water in the vicinity that it does not permit of placer or dredgmg however. Former Marsha| At Nome Is Dead CARLSBAD, New Mexico, Nov. 15. ed States Marshal at Nome, Alaska, |died here Saturday from an attack of pneumonia. Burial will take place in Chicago. The widow and one brother surviv e The total compensation paid in- |Jured workers is about $240,000,000 a year in the United States. After conferring with officials, the| Western State Senator said he is| convinced “some sort of a state- ment” will be made by the Gov-| ernment within a few days. Senator Schwellenbach arrived | here Saturday night ready for the| special session of Congress which| convened today Truck, “Gals” Boosted | SEATTLE, Nov 15—A. B. Holt, | clothing dealer, also Mayor of Pet- | ersburg, will not brag, but he in- .| sists that Alaska garden truck and| pretty ‘“gals” are about the ht_st‘ {in the world. Holt is here to arrange exhibits| | at the Pioneer Exposition His town| elected blonde Alyce Gustafson as| Miss Petersburg and she will be seen | at the exposition. | ; |No Official Copy of Instru- JAPANESE ARE CRITICIZED FOR ORIENT STRIFE Nine-Power Conference Takes Positive Action at Today's Session ITALY VOTES AGAINST DECLARED SUMMARY ment Will Be Sent Nippon Govt. Nov. BRUSSELS, Nov. i5:—A declara- tion summarazing the Far Eastern conflict and ecriticizing Japan has been adopted by the nine power con- |ference Italy voted “no” on the declara- tion and three Scandinavian coun- tries abstained from making ex- pressioin. The Italian delegate said he must MEMBER ASSOCIATI;D PRLS y PRICE TEN CENT‘ TICES, URGES FDR Japanese Are Reported Pzercmg Chma Line F ren('h Strengthen Shanghai Barricades Holt told of strawberries not quite|Vote against the summary because as big as door knobs, and squa.shln'a]y believed it presaged a course that would sink a steam schoonerl‘“h“:h might lead only to complica- tions French autherities in Shanghai :tren‘thcned bll‘rl(‘ldes such as this to prevent a possible stampede into the French concession as a result of a Japanese threat to bomb Nantoo, the old Chinese city adjoining the concession.—Associated Press Photo. {Pednk 39 ikt gvss, &0, fornier Thuip T businees 1148 to gamble /oy which he brought south and he is| also to have a mink exhibit. | Holt says about 2,500 mink are| raised around Petersburg every year | and many are shipped out for breeding purposes. SANDBAGGING IS GIVEN TO | U. S, SHIPPING Uprising of Nonunion Sea- men, Tirade on Kennedy, Etc., Is Bad Stuff By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—In all the hullabaloo over the marine la- bor unions’ blast at Joe Kennedy, chairman of the Maritime Com- mission, for his tirade against poor discipline aboard ship, it is almost overlooked that American shipping is getting the worst public sand- bagging it has had in many a day. The whole thing was set off by the uprising of the crew of the/ government-owned freighter “Algic”| in Montevideo. In that South' American port the crew for a time refused to handle the ship’s cargo; on the grounds that it would be de-| livered to a crew of strike breakers| hired during a Uruguayan long- shoremen’s strike. Kennedy, who is no sweetie-pie| executive, directed the ship captain to put the men in irons if they re- fused to work. It was a foreign port, and in such circumstances, in Kennedy’s view, a strike amounted to mutiny. P CONDUCT CRITICIZED | Well, the men went to work, the ship returned to Baltimore, its home | port, and then was ‘published the whole sorry business of disputes be- tween the crew and the officers, which latter assertedly were not members of any sea-going union. Kennedy accompanied the home- coming with a public criticism of the conduct of some American sea- men at sea. Disobedience, indisci- pline, lack of training, all contri- buted he said, to a very unsatisiac- tory picture of the Yankee sailor afloat. Following that, writers hunted out consular reports and other sourc- es of stories of the poor performance of American seamen in recent years. Instances of unruly conduct at sea,! especially in the Pacific trade, were stressed, to the exclusion of records of skilled and loyal seamanship. That sort of picture is not a good one to thrust before travelers, ship- pers, and insurance companies the prospects of a ship arriving safe- ly with its cargo in good: order. PR PAY LOWER As far as American shipping is concerned, such “advertising” spells! troublesome days. If trade should fall off there will be less profit for (Continued on Pnge 8ix) |\not toward a settlement of the con- {with 15 survivors from the foun- idris, docked here early this morn- The conference voted against sending an official copy of the dec- laration to the Japanese government land then adjourned until Novem- ber 22, a week from today. The Italian delegate, Count Aldro- gandi Marescotti, in commenting further on the declaration said: “Tt appears that the door is left open flict in the Near East but towards most grave complications.” - - .- - COAST GUARDER MAKES HEROIC RESCUE AT SEA Plucks Doomed Seamen from Wreckage of Foundered Vessel JOBLESS CENSUS OPENS TUESDAY, Postmaster Requesls that! Unemployed, Partially Un- employed Fill Blanks Asking full cooperation so that cards may be returned in the limit- ed time, Postmaster Albert Wile today announced the opening of the |Unemployment Census tomorrow —|with the information that registra~ tion cards will be placed in all mail boxes, given to those who call dered Greek freighter Tzenny Chan- | for them at the Postcffice or at the sub-station at the Juneau Drug NOFOLK, Virginia, Nov. 15. The Coast Guard cutter Mendota,| ing. Ambulances were at the pier t.ofxuus pool halls. take the seamen, suffering from| The census starts tomorrow morn- \exposure during the 30 harrowing ng and must be completed by Sat- |hours after the freighter went down urday night November 20, the Post- off Cape Hatteras, before dawn master emphasized in requesting last Saturday, to the hospitals for that every one who is not employed treatment. \or is but partially employed fill out Also aboard the cutter, which|Postoffice’ before Saturday night plucked the exhausted men from Postoifice before Satuprday night. the wréckage Sunday, after sighted |No postage is required. by encircling planes, were the bod-| A listing of those who should reg- ies of four other seamen, one ofister is given on the editorial page whom died from exposure. of The Empire today, and the Post- Three men are still missing. master announces that further’in- The remaining six men of the|formation may be obtained at the crew of 28 were taken off a water- Postoffice. logged lifeboat by the Mallory tan- | > ker Smiftsure, five hours after the| E]j, 1l H freighter sunk. They were adrift Ehgfl"hty L on the stormy sea. Black Caxe Geb Another Turndown Konstantine “Balaskos, third en- gineer of the ship, told the news- men through 2 he bellev‘:z‘;‘ig nl]“::f il’:}t::p;:::h cgll:;(:‘ VARRINGION, Nov, 3. =7y Ho have Tiaen saved Hall ‘the BOS been Supreme Court today turn_ed_ back new challenges on the eligibility of Associate Justice Hugo L. Black when three Florida corporations given out five hours earlier. Balaskos charged that the dis- lost their second effort to gain a rehearing on litigation on the tress signal was not sent until he stood over the radio operator with ground that Black was not quali- fied to set in judgment. The high a drawn Fknife and threatened to kill him unless he sent out the SOS immediately. tribunal denied the petition for re- Ihearing. Mail Christmas Parcels for Foreign Lands by Saturday With only six weeks remaining between now and Christmas, Post- ———— Married On Golden Gate master Albert Wile announces that| H all Christmas parcels -destined rm} " gB! a B foreign countries should be in the posf office not later than this com SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 15— ing Saturday night to guarantee Noble Andre, 27, and May South- |@elivery. All should go south on|ward, 26, both of San Francisco, ed, in calling attention to the \)wr(,lled on . the Golden Gate bridge. time remaining for getting parcels Il‘he ceremony was performed while in shape and in the post office a smale gale was raging ENDS SATURDAY Presldent Urges Natwn To Cooperate in Taking Of Unem plo yment Census WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — From the White House, President Fl.mk- {lin D. Roosevelt, last night broad- cast an appeal to the nation to.co- operate in a “complete, accurate’ The President said that the cen- sus, startiny tomorrow, to furnish facts upon which the Administration hopes fo base a .sound and long range program for employment. | The ‘ President said unemploy-' !ment has delayed balancing of the 1budgé‘t The President said that unem- ployment relief is not a permanent cure adding that a “permanent cure is finding suitable jobs in in- dustry and agriculture for all will- ing workers. That it involves co- operative efforts and planning which will lead to absorption of this un- ueed man power in private indus- also said it should {store and will be available at var- b unhindered by any force - AGED VICTIM OF KIDNAPERS DIES, HOSPITAL Grand Jurv to Be ( Indict Three gm,, cis for Muder HUNTINGTON, West Virginia, Nov. 15—Dr. James 1. dar, 79, kidnap victim, held ten days in an sbandoned coal mine in what Fed- eral men said was a futile $50,000 extortion plot, is dead in a hospital as the result of pneumonia. Dr. A. Kessler, who attended the former State Superintendent of the| Antisaloon League, said death was undoubtedly caused by exposure iduring his captivity. | Prosecutor E. E. Winters, Jr, (announces he will immediately con-| fer with Judge H. Clay Warth for |the purpose of impeneling of a | {dictmenm against the three sus- |pects arrested by Federal agents. The suspects are Arnett A. Booth, 46; John Travis 23, and Orville Ad- {kins, 24. i e, WILLIAMS M. D. Williams, District Engineer | {for the Bureau of Public Roads sailed on the Alaska for a busin in connection with BPR activities. yHe expects to return before Christ- mas. honest and | census of unemployment.| is necessary | !grand jury and ask for murder in-| REACTION OVER MESSAGE;USUAL COMMENT 0UT One Leglslator Says It Is Best Ever Given — other It Is Only Rehash dent Roosevelt’s message to special session of Congress ‘mlxed reactions among the legisla- tors and comment is divided largely along party lines, as usual, Senator McNary said the message h “concilatory and lacks the fire of former messages” and he drew from the President’s remarks that he is a “little less confident of his position.” speaker Bankhead said: “The message is one of the most construc- tive and well thought out ones yet o Congress and the best (he 1t ever delivered.” anell said: “The n other me: Here Cutter Is Brought 1} i by Coast Guarc Haida running aground yesterday a few minutes after 6 o'~ ¢ on Point Vanderput, 14 miles north of Petersburg, on the eastern shore, the motorship Evelyn Berg was towed into Juneau at 2:42 o'- clock this morning by the Coast Guard cutter Haida, Commander N. G. Ricketts. The Evelyn Berg struck the beach while Capt. Eldred Hansen was off xduty The weather was clear and | thére has been no explanation of the mishap. An investigation will be held ‘here‘ probably tomorrow when the |ship will be beached to ascertain the lextent of the damage. According to the log of the Eve- llyn Berg, soundings were completed shortly after 7 o'clock, an hour after she had struck, and two lifeboats had been cleared for use in the ad- vent of need. | As 7:15 am. the ship’s whistle was |sounded for assistance and three shrimp vessels went alongside to render aid. They were the Kiseno, the Garfield, and the Louise 8., from Petersburg. Rudder Damaged After |the first of the week boat, he stat-|became the first couple to the mar- |trip to Seattle and San l"'nmcx.sco( With the shrimpers towing the |Evelyn Berg whose rudder had been |damaged to the extent that the 1 (Continued on Page Seven) | WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, — Presi- | the drew | MESSAGE GIVEN CONGRESS; PLAN OF LEGISLATION Productive' Enterprises Must Be Encouraged Throughout Nation ECONOMIC RECESSION MUST BE HALTED NOW Four—Pointfii’Togram Sub- mitted for Action at Special Session WASHINGTON, Nov. 15.— President Roosevelt recom- mended removal of tax injus- tices to ‘“encourage produc- tive enterprise” in submitting a four point legislative pro- gram to Congress. The recom- mendation was made in his message at the opening of the special session of Congress to- ;day. This recommendation |was made for natipnal cooper- ation to halt the economic re- cessinn. he message was read by clerks in the Senate and House of Representatives. The galler- ies were crowded with specta- tors and members of both Houses listened silently and attentively, offering a possi- |bility of further disruption of N~ |the Administration’s legisla- |tive desires. FOUR POINT PLAN The President submitted a four point legislative program and asked for “early action” on farm crop control, wages and hours for labor, reorgani- zation of the Executive branch and planning national resources. TAX QUESTIONS . The highlights of the message. are as follows: On taxes: “Unjust provisions should be removed, provided such removal does not rm!,g injustices. Nor can we at this time ac- cept revision of our tax laws which involves reduction of age revenuws or increase Sate hurdens (o r them, <peciad Pning gregate the the tax bie o be sideration burdens ¢ cquitable 1 ente i nation ECONC th and small b men of CONTROI y also b Iound IMIC “In « S WAY I e TAX QUE STION ALREADY UP IN COM. OF HOUSE Exemptions to Corporations Tentatively Agreed Upon, Report WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — The House Tax Sub-Committec has ten- tatively agreed to exempt all cor- porations $5,000 net income or less, undistributed profits tax. Chairman Vinson, in announcing |this step, said it was to meet the growing demands for tax relief for business. Chairman Vinson said the ex- emption will apply to two thirds of the corporations who have a net in- come loss of some seven million dol- lars in annual revenue and also added that the “sub-committee is still considering added relief pro- visions for corporations having ‘& net income of $5,000 and extending up to the bracket net, tentatively agreed on but to a net income of ‘at least $50,000 or more.”