The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1937, Page 1

T VOL Ll NO. 7642. HE DAILY “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, W] DAY, NOVFMBFR | ¥ 1937 MEMBER ASSOCIAH l) PRES CHINESE STRIKING ALASKA EMPIR PRICL TEN CLNT‘ CK AT INVADERS TWO ESCAPED CONVICTS ARE TAKEN EASILY Officers Bu;;fnto Lodging House Room and Make Capture ONE HUNTED MAN JUMPS TO SAFETY House to House Search in Syracuse Brings Good Results SYRACUSE, N. Y, Nov. 17. —| Détective Sergeant Metzgar an- nonces that the police have cap- tuted John Oley and Harold Crow- ley; two of three convicted of the| ..aapers of John O'Connell, Jr, | in 133, and who escaped from Lhe‘ Ondndaga Penitentiary at Janes- ville early yesterday morning. It is said the two convicts were takea by three officers without re- sistaace in a rooming house in the auwmown business section Matzgar said the officers were maokine a house to house search and | came to a two rom apartment on the second floor. The door of the rom was locked but the key was in the door. They | turned the key and burst into the room ! Crowley and Oley were in chairs and submitted to arrest without a| struggle. Percy Geary, third member of the escape convicts, is reported to have‘ escaped by jumping 156 feet td the' ground from a bathroom wmdow‘ of the apartment. Sovernmentls Presenting Case In Plracy Trial - Jury Chosen and Nine Wit- nesses Called by Prose- cution Up to Noon | Nine government witnesses had heen called up to noon today in t.he fish piracy case in Federal stmct Court before Judge George F. Al- exander and seven witnesses re- msmed to testify before the defense would start its case. Four men—’ Atun H. Merick, Elmer Beatty, Rlny Ek and Albert Inman—all of Ketchikan, are charged in the| tna with raiding traps of the Pa-' ciffe American Fisheries and the Astoria and Puget Sound Canning Company last July 28 at Gull Cove and also near Strawberry Point in Icy:Straits. At Gull Cove, the de- fendants are alleged to have taken 10,000 salmon and 7,000 at Straw-| berry Point. Selection of the jury was com-| pleted yesterday afternon and it includes the following: James Ed- mistan, Mike P. Karry, Mrs. J. W. McKinley, Joe Riedn, John Mills, E. S. Evans, George| Shaw, T. W. Sanford, George A.| Fleek, L. M. Ritter and Mrs. Ruby‘ Elstad. | Assistant District Attorneys George | W. Folta and W. C. Stump are han-| dling the prosecution and Mrs. Mtl- dred Hermann and George Grlgsby‘ the defense. GOVERNOR TROY | ISIN OLYMPIA OLYMPIA, Wash.,, Nov. 17.—Gov. John W. Troy, of Alaska, was the honor guest at luncheon at the| Country Club here today. He is| visiting his nephews, Prosecuting Attorney R. Smith Troy and State Senator Harold Troy. The Gov-| ernor is now on his way to Juneau| after visiting in California. e BELL COMING WEST BY PLANE WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—United States Commissioner of Fisheries Bell will leave by plane next Sun-| day to attend the Halibut Com- mission hearings at Seattle which start on December 2. | Proves that Washington 17.—President Roosevelt said George| led in his own words New Younger Executlves Now Hcad U S Steel o s made vice chairman of the board, a new post. M. Voorhees, vice chairman of the finance com- mittes, takes over the position held by Stettinius, all changes effective April 3. At the quarterly board meeting at which this reorganization was announced, an $8,700,000 dividend was deciared on common stock, t.h. first in five years., RCRAFT - SUBSIDIES SUBGESTED Right Now There Shoul Be Provisions for Con- struction Loans Lo Change in executive personnel of huge Umted States Steel corporation places 38-year-old Edward R. Siettinius, Jr., now head of the finance committee, .as chairman of the board, succeeding Myron €. Tayior, 63. Benjamin F. Fairless, 47, now head of the subsidiary, Carnegie-Illinois Steel Co., becomes pmxdent, lucccedmg William A. Irvin, 3, who is | Labor Vote, J ust What Is I t? Recent Elections Still Leave Room, Splendid Argumenls SOVIET PILOT e GRACIANSKY IS LEAVING NORTH Flier and Four Associates' Abandon Arctic | | | 17.—Before about the WASHINGTON, Nov. we go into a tailspin sweeping significance of labor's demonstration in the recent elec-| tions it might be well to keep in| mind that the votes cast by thel men who labor have been the 'bu]-; WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — The ance of power” numerically in many, Maritime Commission has recom- if not all, elections in the United mended to Congress that loans and States in many years |subsidies be made available for de- This year these votes were lhe‘volopment of transoceanic aircraft. balance of power in the important; The report emphasizes however, 4 New York City election. They were there is no need at present for air- Search for Fliers likely the deciding influence in the cruft subsidies comparable to those Pittsburgh elections. grénted surface shipping but the FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 17— But what makes this “balance ot principal need now is for 75 per cent Russian pilot Graclansky and his'power” stand out this year is that,|for construction loans to help swing crew of four associates, left Fair-|for the first time, it can be meas-|high initial engineering cost of huge banks at 7 o'clock this morning for|ured numerically in the big city of {P€W fiying boats. 4 Providence Bay, Siberian coast, op- |New York. There Mayor LaGuar- Informed persons say commercial posite Nome, in their Sikorsky am-|dia was re-elected by a margin of [SCTVIC® aCIOSS t‘he. North Atlantic phibian plane. The flight should!454425 votes over his Democratic will start next spring. take six and one half hours. opponent, Jeremiah Mahoney. NS e Graciansky has been engaged in| LaGuardia was the Repumman-}Ru“sgve" Is { |searching for the six missing So-|Fusion candidate but was support-| vieta fliers. He is now returningleq as well by the American Labor |to Moscow. Party—which delivered to him! SR gt T T 482459 votes. That was more than his margin of victory. Without FOR IS READ, CELEBRATION —All Engagements Cancelled .BUT LOOK AT DETROIT | But to say, because of the New York victory, that labor can slep\ out into the national field and ex-| lercise the balance of power in 1938 | and 1940 would be excitingly haz-| ardous, at least. First off, there is the example of the Detroit election. There one faction of labor, the CIO, put up its own ticket and was beaten about two to one. In several Ohio cities where the CIO endorsed candidates the vote was against its candidates 5 % Now let us go back to New Yor! estful night. Washington's career made “it al-|City. There Mayor LaGuardia was W SRR T ol most certain’ that the First Presi-)tremendously popular. He had giv- dent would have favored the pres-ien the city an administration soRETIREn A P ent “Government action to aid far-\handsome in contract with racket-| sl mers.” rzidden previous administrations Washington, Roosevelt said, show- |that vast conservative sections sup-| “he considered ported him in spite of his known| agricultural production, even in his|radical leanings. time, was much more than a locall The Republican organization, matter.” which does not especially love La-| JACKSONVILLE; Fla., Nov. 17 Because the President is laid up|Guardia, was glad enough never- | Elmer Roberts, 74, war correspon- with the toothache, Secretary of|theless to nominate him because uf“dent and long chief of the Berlin Agriculture Wallace read the ad- what his popularity might bring 8nd Paris Associated Press Bureaus dress at the gathering in Wash-|them. It brought them several of-'is dead here. ington’s homg in connection with|fices and soms premgg Roberts = served the seventy-fifth anniversary of the * Press for 35 years in his 40 years establishment of the Department of| poWER NOT YET PROVED of newspaper work. He retired eigh Agriculture. There is no need to look for like Years ago. reasons for the American Labor S e b Party huppor[[ng LaGuardia. The! The basis of Chinese social organ- |ization is a closely knit and hig organized family. to remain in bed all of today and the second consecutive day. Would Have Approved Present Farm Plans MOUNT VERNON, Virginia, Nov.| tead of extracting it. The President however, had R Administration of the Virgin Is- lands was transferred from the navy to the Interior Department in 1931. (Continued on Paue Ftve) "and' I was twenty, 'picture contract stipulated that I | ETTY WED ' UN SATURDAY Former Chl]d Actor and Blonde Movie Star to Be Married HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 17 Jackie Coogan, who rose to fame and fortune as a child actor, Betty Grable, blonde movie will be matried next Saturday. Relaxing in Jackie's arms, the blonde Miss Grable so announced today, smiling at one and all and punctuating her announcement with kisses—for Cocgan. Their decision was disclosed when Jackie returned to Hollywood — where he made a million dollars as A ¢hild star — after a 36,000-mile | toty with the orchestra he leads. “You see,” smiled Betty, been waiting for a long time. Jackie first asked me to marry him three years ago, just after we met. But | We were too young then. JACKIE AND “we've | Platmum Lures Dob To Aleutian Islumls | and | § star, | § | | \ i | 12 i s #He was twenty-one last October, couldn’t wed until I, tog, had at- !taiped my majority. “Well, that's all taken care of,| now, because I'm twenty-one and | there’s nothing to stop us. We ha { | long, | cefemony, planned to be married in Decem bgr, but we don't want to wait that 0 next Saturday, at a quiet we'll become man wife e --.t PERIL NOW Four Riding Out to Open Sea on Ice Floe—Res- cue foBe Attempted MOSCOW, Nov. 17.—Four Rus- d sian Arctic campers are now riding an ice floe down from the North Pole, according to a radio report, 'and are only 125 miles off the north- |eastern coast of Greenland. In Bed Today | Tooth Still ases Trouble' a The four men will probably be taken off in January before the ice raft reaches the open sea and be in danger of breaking up. The campers have drifted more than 400 miles. They will probably be taken off the ice floe between Greenland and Spltzbergen FALLEN WIRES KILLS FATHER, TWO CHILDREN 'ORT ANGELES, Nov. 17—High tension wires grounded in heavy weekend snow, cost the lives vesterday of a father and two of his children. Gilbert Hendrickson, 40, shingle weaver, was killed in a futile effort to save his two children, Merle, 9, and Ardith, 6. Three other members of the fam- ily watched but were powerless to WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Presi- pelp as the three were electrocuted dent Roosevelt has still a slight in an alley near their home. Mrs, temperature as the result of an in-| Hendrickson was fected tooth. Doctors ordered him the time of the tragedy. seriously ill at The children were playing in an all engagements were cancelled for alley and came in contact with the n The fallen power lines. Hendrickson at- dentist wishes to save the tooth in- tempted to free them and was elec- trocuted himself. (PR S TAXCUT IS FAVORED NOW MAN IS DEAD Industrys PronouncedKick Evidently Bearing Some Fruit WASHINGTON, Nov. vey discloses there is almost a unanimous sentiment of the mem- the Associated Pers of the Senate Finance Com- mittee for modifying the corporate ¢ surplus tax. All but two of the 20 members expressed themselves in favor of re- vising the levy which has been hly criticized by industry in outspoken Jopposition. and | the | 17.—A sur-| but my motion | 4o Kay Barker, New York society beauty, who recently decided to aban- | don her luxurious home in New York and “rough it” in uearch of | platinum, gold and valuable pelts, in four of the Aleutian islands. Miss Barker holds a lease from the Department of the Interior on Chirikof, Ushagat, Sirkalidak and Chagach islands, on which she will make the search, Photo shows Miss Barker with Chirikof, her Alaskan husky, which will remain in New York because his mistress says she is &lnnl he will not- be able to “take it.” Halda Renders FRANCO BUILDS AidfoHungry ' AIRBASES FOR Humers Tuday NEXT ATTAGKS The Coast G\uud cutter Haida Plannmg Majol Oficmwe has returned to port with news that| A t R all hunters storm bound over the gamnst Remaining Loyahsts week-end are present and account- | HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- der, Nov. 17—Gen. Franco is re- ported to be rushing construction of airports behind the Aragon-North- eastern front to assist in the pros- pective major offensive eastward. The newest base for the Insur-| ;gent aerial armada is said to be lo- cated af Tudela, w of the Tudela- Pamplona highway. Others are scattered across the vast battlefront from the French f{rontier to the mountains, A SR S QUESTION MAN, ed for. i Leaving Juneau yesterday after- noon, the Haida steamed to Doty Cove where two Port Snettisham prospectors, Sanders Wilson Henry Olson, have been bound for several days. On arrival off the entrance Doty Cove last night, weather too heavy for a small bcat to put off into the cove In search of the missing hunters. An anchorage made at Oliver Inlet and the cutte returned to Doty Cove this morn- and storm- | to was wa 2. Sanders and Olsori were found to have become stormbound for ten |days, their 10-foot open boat boat| beigg too small for passage of | |Frederick Sound. Their food was gone and they were subsisting on the meat of a deer shot by Olson. Three days' food were left the men by the Haida and with the| weather considerably moderated since yesterday, it is expected that the men will be able to cross to; their mainland home today or to- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 17. s, —A man who described himself as William Fleck, Dale Fleek, and a structural steel worker and gave Bert Stedman, reported missing when the Haida left, was storm- bound behind Marmion Island. Dale had wilked the beach to Douglas to ’notity worried relatives while his fa- ther and Stedman brought the boat around Loday Woman Senator I Getting Busy Proposes Th_o;; of Her Sex Be Drafted as Well as Men in Wartime Composite Description ““Al- most Perfect” Of- ficers Declare of Gary, Indiana, came in today for renewed questioning concerning the kidnaping and death of ten-year-' old Charles Mattson at Tacoma, al- most one year ago. Officers said he continues to deny he has ever been in Tacoma. The; declare he fitted “almost perfect- kidnaper, except his age. The kid naper is believed to be several year: younger than Rapaich P Second Typhoon MANILA, Nov WASHINGTON, ‘Nov, 17. — The Senate’s newest women member, Mrs. Bibbs Graves, Democrat, of Alabama, has proposed a resolution that the Government draft women as well as men in time of war “When war exists or is imminent, men, women, money and material should be available for unlimited use and service without proiit,” Mrs |Graves resolution says. the Islands of Cebu and Panay, in Central Philippines, and radio stations. Power plants and power lines are destroyed. This is the second twphoon within days' o ee. i bane of southern rankest during the 5iX Wild onions dairymen, are spring MATTSON CASE his name as Ely Rapaich, about 45,/ ly” the composite description of thel - Hits Philippines: 17—~A !yphounl swept in today from the ocean over} disabled | fGflUNTERATTAGK 1S REPORTED BY INTERIOR FORGE | | Thousands of Fresh Troops Rushing to Winter Defense Lines COMMANDERS MAKE DECNVE STATEMENT Will Not Capitulate Nor Compromise But Will Fight to Finish SHANGHATI, Nov. 17-—Heavily re- inforced Chinese armies today strucl) back at the Japanese invad- ers in a counter attack along the winter defense line defending Nan- king, some 125 miles away. Thousands of fresh troops tmm the interior marched eastward (o |bolster the forces southeast of the | Capital City. At the same time civillans are fleeing from Nanking and evacua- tion of Chinese government offices is undew way. Chinese commanders said: “We will not capitulate or compromise with the Japanese. We will fight to the last ditel GOVERNMENT OF JAPAN IS UNIFIED NOW Sk N A0 ] [ mperor Hirohito Approves Creation of * [mper- ial Headquarters” TOKYO, Nuyv. 7.~Emperor Hiro- hito today approved of the creation ,of an “Imperial Headquarters” whlch consolidates the Government ln one highly centralized Adminis- trative body with sweeping powers. | * The creation of the “Imperial Headquarters” places the chiefs of |the Army and Navy, General Staffs and their aides, in a unified com- mand, and presumably coordinates the war operations. Press reports said the new body will include two of the Royal Princes. The Emperor is Chairman of the “Headquarters.” R INVOKING OF NEUTRALITY ~ ISBLOCKED WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Imme- diate consideration of a resolution by Representative Hauthoff de- {manding President Roosevelt invoke (the neutrality act in the Sino-Jap- anese crisis, was blocked in the House this afternoon by Chairman McReynolds of the House Foreign Affairs committee McReynolds objected to the res- olution and it was referred to the ‘usual committee. | Senator Bone announced that a |group of Senators will fight shortly for a general “tightening of the (provisions for neutrality legisla- tion.” FIRE RAGING IN HEART OF OHIOCAPITAL {Half Block :f—Business Es- tablishments Destroyed —Firemen Hurt COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 17.—Fire destroyed half a block of business establishments in the heart of the city today causing a damage unof- \ficially estimated at half a million dollars and resulted in slight injuries to more than a score of firemen. Fanned by a brisk wind, the flames shot high in the air. The blaze district is only two blocks from the State Capitol Build- ling. ,v‘&‘flk »x{m.u« el can?