The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 18, 1937, Page 1

- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL LI, NO. 7643 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NOVEMBER 18, jUVEAU ALASKA THURSDAY, 1937. MhMBER ASbOCIATl:D PRhw PRIC I TI-V CENT‘ Northwest Demands Japanese Flsh Action opulahon of |United States Shows Big Gain WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. — The pupulduon of the United States jon July 5 was 129,257,000, the Cen- |sus Bure‘\u rsumm_» This is an ON STATE DEPT. P.-I. Points Out that Three Proposals on Invasion Under Consideration ' SEATTLE CALLS e onsi LABOR LEADER fok wmeoiare wors, SHOT DOWN IN - MINNEAPOLIS Urges Prompl ok Vigorous Representations to Tokyo e on Fisheries Question |Secretary-Treasurer of| Teamsters Union Slain Near His Home SEATTLE, Nov. 18.—The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says editorially today that the “Pacific Northwest asks an immediate report from Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull as to the action to be taken or contem-| plated on the guestion of the Jap- anese invasion of Alaska fisher- les.” MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Nov. 18.—| Patrick J. Corcoran, Secretary- Treasurer of the Teamster’s Un- jon and leader in Minneapoiis la- bor circles, was found slain near his home last night. His skull was fractured and there was a I)ullc(‘ wound in one ear. | The editorial says that three separate courses of action looking toward ending such an invasion have been proposed, as follows: One—The State Department plan locking toward a settlement of this and related questions through dip- lomatic representations. Second—Alaska Delegate A. J. Di- MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 18.—The po- lice today questioned a newspaper| columnist in the first move to hunt; for the slayer of Corcoran, the 45- leader shot labor down| HUNT FOR SLAYER | |China had no ullnrmlm- bm to iy, | tight for Shanghai, since it guards Three months of “sideshow” war |th@& approach to Nanking, capital for control ‘of the Shanghai deltal or General Chiang, whom the Jap- has effectively screened Japan's vir- | had determined to elimin- $a) odbghset. of Chink's Sive natiil: \uu from the Chinese government. lern provinces—an area equal to| 'IB those threc months probably that of France, Germany and Spain |One of the most concentrated battles combined and with a population|iR history has been fought for the oniy slightly less than the United |8re&, criss-crossed by canals and States. small creeks, northwest of Shang- By a strategic feint at Shangha, |Rak the Japanese have held the fluwer} Shanghai itself has probably of German-trained army to the|KROWn greater horrors of war than defense of 500 square miles of rice- |@nY Other modern city; thousands paddy terrain while they swept over |of elvilians killed in air raids, vast 500,000 square miles of North China, |areag of the native city wiped out, an empire twice the size of Japan, |bundreds of millions of dollars of The war at Shanghai started Aug- Property destroyed. ust 13—just three months and five | Chinese Forced Back days ago. But the real struggle| Military experts agreé that pos- began in North China last July 7 |sibly 500,000 troops have been en- when night mansuvering Japanese |888ed along the 25-milc battle zone troops clashed with Chinese 10 miles | from Shanghai northwest to the west of Peiping, Yangtze river as well as hundreds t . of warplanes and more than three- Such Incidents Before fourths of the Japanese navy. Under the protocol signed after| ‘ynder the continual pounding of the 1900 Boxer uprising of Chinese | |the guns of the Japanese fleet against foreigners, Japan, like oLher,am the daadly {6l of hér totern world powers, maintained a North |warplanes, the Chinese slowly have China garrison. Troops of that|peen forced back, but not without garrison engaged the Chinese guards | teprible losses to both sides. |at Marco Polo bridge at midnight| Three times they fought back |July 7. No one knows who fired|japanese efforts to land before suf- | the first shot. ficient Japanese troops got a foot- Similar incidents had occurred |hold for the drive inland. Then, | before, ending with Japan gaining | doggededly fighting each step of the | new concessions from China. Thxslway the Chinese withdrew to their time, however, a China made na-first line of defense after exactly tionalism-conscious by Generalis- a month of almost continuous bat- simo Chiang Kai-Shek began mov- tle. By TAYLOR HENRY mond’s proposai to extend the Unit. ed States sovereignity beyond thej obsolete three mile limit. Third—"Direct action of labor| calling for picketing of Japanese ships.” The editorial goes on to point out | Labor has temporarily suspended its plans but in advocating the boy- cotting of Japanese goods impllca-\ tions are tremendous as “Japan and other products it might de-| velop sources of supply elsewhere.” The editorial says Delegate Di mond’s plan raises the perplexing question of economics and Interna-| tional law, but that the Pacfl'lL‘ Northwest looks to Secretary oi‘ State Cordell Hull to make “prompt! and vigorous representations to Ja- pan,” meantime reporting on the/ status of such action. Salmon Fishing Regulations Are ToBe Formulated Commission?Bell to Con-| fer with Alaska War- dens in Seattle , | WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—Frank | T. Bell, United States Fisheries Commissioner, said he will meet Al-| aska Wardens in Seattle December 4 to formulate the 1938 salmon fishing regulations. Commissioner Bell said no ma-| terial changes were contemplated. ——————— CLOUDS BREAK year-old near his home last night. Cederic Adam, of the Minneapo-| lis Star, is the columnist being| ’questioned especially regarding an| item in his column of November 9| which said a prominent labor lead-| er of Minneapolis will be “taken |for a ride within two weeks.” Adams attributed the mformahnn to an unnamed friend but said the| buys heavily of our lumber, cottonitem referred to another labor lead-| er and not to Corcoran who was' dead, a bullet in his brain, and the body discovered lying on| a sidewalk at the rear of a neigh-| found bor’s home. The sum of $400 in a wallet was not disturbed. The Treasurer of the Union and also) :o( the joint labor council often car-| ried large sums of money. The police disclosed that Corcora was recently attacked in umon |headquarters but they gave out no details concerning the attack. Gov. Elmer Benson has offered a |state reward of $500 for apprehen- sion of Corcoran’s slayer. RACKETEERING IS UNCOVERED IN CLEVELAND Special Gt Jury to Be Summoned—Charges Against Unions CLEVELAND, Ohio, Nov. 18. {The Nation's sixth city has sum- moned a special grand jury “to put the finger” on racketeers. Elliott Ness, Municipal Safety Di- rector, said that four months of undercover investigation showed ex- Secretary- | |ing in troops for determined resis- tance. Northern Defenge Crumbled There they held out for six weeks 1 # Those troops, ill-trained and half- luntl. they retired Oct. 26 to~thehm | equipped provincials that they were, | countered the Japanese drive for a| month, while the national govern- ment prepared to move in its well- trained regular army. At that point | the pattern of Japanese strategy took on familiar shape and the war shifted suddenly to Shanghai just as in 1932. Shanghai Battle Rages On August 9 Chinese killed two Japanese marines outside a Shang- ‘ hai airdrome. China said they were spies. Japan asserted it was the | latest of a long series of unpro- | voked attacks and her internation- JAPAN INVADES al settlenient guards began to take | Over the top of a steep slope defensive measures. | Japanese soldiers carry their Chinese troops rolled into the i flag as they advance on Techow, | area and on August 12 fighting along the Tientsin-Pukow rail- | broke out in the northeastern quar- way in Nerth China. ter of the lntermtional Settlement. THIRD TIME IN DETROIT PLANT Present Sltdown Demon- stration May Last Long- er than Before (Yesterday The Empire pre- sented an article on the Labor vote by Preston Grover, Asso- ciated Press writer. Today an- \ other writer gives his views.— Editor) By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer PONTIAC, Mich., Nov. 18—The| WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. — The | General Motors sit-down strike here November elections prove one thing |has in three days drawn |7m]—deuoes will be wild in America's |workers into idieness, and the local | political poker game next year, and | Fisher Body plant briefly occu- | 8gain in 1940. pied by strikers two times previous-| And labor will hold the deuces ly, is once again in the hands of the against the old-line Republican and sitdowners. Democratic parties. Indications are that the present| While local issues cluttered up tieup of the body making plant | | 'WORKERS SEIUAT Labor Vote—-What It Means; November Elections Probed ,cast in 1936. |candidates were supported. |body’s language. long-prepared “winter line” about five miles to the rear and complete- ly out of rang ofe the Japanese fleet. Against that line the Japanese | have massed the full force of their superior mechanized army for re- peated smashing efforts to cut off the Chinese right flank from pro- ly out of range of the Japanese al Settlement. But while the Chinese south held the Japanese advance to a scant 20 miles, Chinese resis- tance to the north all but col- lapsed without the support of the Chinese regulars being used at Shanghai and Japan began con- solidation of her conquest of North China’s five provinces of Chahar, Hopeh, Shantung, Suiyuan and and Shaml ‘ This time, mind you, Republican and not Democratic Likewise in Detroit, where labor took a sound beating. The CIO,| nevertheless rolled up more than| 150,000 votes on its first election. That's a big chunk of votes in any- 2. Labor groups, especially, if| they should unite, are in a po- in the i CHINA DEFENDS Chinese communist scldiers, harrying the invading Japanese army in North China, turn tele- phone linesmen and rig up a communications system. JAPAN SHIPPING 'WAR MATERIALS BY FRENCH RAIL |F rance Denies Havmg Giv- en ‘‘Ultimatum” to Japan on Shipments PARIS, Nov. 18—The French For- eign Office and the Japanese Em- [ Christmas Trade “'l o Break Record Predicts Roper WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Secre- tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper made the prediction today that the Christmas trade will be slightly higher this year than last year and 1936 was exceptionally high e - | HEAVY FIGHTING IS REPORTED ON SINO-JAP FRONT | Invaders Pressing Toward Interior—OQuter Gate of Kashking Captured SHANGHAI, Nov. 18.--The Nip- i pon forces made another dent in the defense line, Army “Chinese Hindenburg” wccording to, the Japanese pokesman. ese troops thrown against line between Shanghai and 4 captured one gate of city of Kashking, the stone of the line, it i walled m ki Chiness and Japanesé hay vy fighting in the are {ashkine, which is 60 mile; shanghai and 30 miles f Soochow, the main point the Chinese efonses. The news of the Japanese push against the somhnm wing dr'"n,rs came a few h X Chinese governmen purred a mass m ns from Nanking. - New Trade Pact Between London And Washington Reciprocal —:I‘;iff Adjust- | ments May Become Real- ity After Long Work | WASHINGTON, Nov. 18It was announceéd tGlay that the United States and England have agreed to negotiate a reciprocal trade pact. The decision is fraught with far m‘\chmg economic and political {implications. It is the first formal step toward an objective long sought by Presi- dent Roosevelt as an indispensable feature of a program for the liber- alization of world commerce. The proposed move was made pub- lic by Secretary of State Cordell Hull who asserted merely that the | United States ‘“contemplates” such negunauons Actual Work Plan | The actual work on the plan ls expected to begin in a few weeka vest of of war ion sition to hold a balance of passy have denied that France has|cUmaxing more than a year of e power between the old line| Democratic and Republica parties in thickly populated cities. That’s why labor can hold the deuces in the political game that | the results this year in such cities will run through the Congressional | United States, eived an “ultimatum” that Japan ease transporting war materials to | China over the French owned, rail- road from Indo-China to Yunnan. Nevertheless, Senator Henry Ber- enge, former Ambassador of the Chairman of the | ploratory work by represontatives |of both the London and Washington |governments. | It appeared there was good rea- son to believe the British govern- ment had probably consented to consider grantinz American treat- 35 MEMBERS OF NORTH SEA OUT, STRIKE Marine Cook—s_z:nd Stewards Association Make New Demands TWO COMPANIES HAVE TURNED REQUEST DOWN Seven Ships Will Be Hit If Conference Fails in Negotiations SEATTLE, Nov. 18, — Thirty five members of the Steward’s Department of the Northland T rans p ortation Company’s steamer North Sea are on a strike. The steamer is scheduled to sail at 10 o’clock tomorrow forenoon for Southeast Alas ka ports. The Marine Cooks and Stewards Association served demands that all stewards’ de- partment work on Alaska ships be rotated among the members of the unions. Officials of both the North- land Transportation € om- pany, operating the North Sea and Northland, and Al- aska Steamship Company, op- erating a large fleet on the Al- aska route, denied the de- mands. The Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship Company is posted to sail at 9 a.m. Saturday. A confererice is slated be- tween union officials and those of the two steamship lines in an effort to avert a tie-up. The steamship companies, in refusing to grant the demands, said they wish to retain the men now employed on the vessels instead of changing the crews each trip. The officials say the agreement with the union contains a clause allowing the companies to employ the men in the Steward’s Deparf- ment permanently, if they are sat- isfied. Seven Alaska ships will be hit it the tie-up takes place, the North Sea, Northland, Alaska, Yukon, Dellwood, Bering and Evelyn Berg. ST LR Insurance Rates Decline Presage Peace in Europe Decrease of War Tension Knocks Down Cost of Cargo Insurance tortion and intimidation by at least four labor leaders and by three un- ions. The announcement caused the| greatest excitement and is reported to have sent scores “covering up” but it is believed to be too late. e e Franco’s Regime ToBe Recognized By JapaneseNow TOKYO, Nov. 18. — An official | Japanese source disclosed that Ja- pan is preparing an accord of of- ficial diplomatic recognition to Spanish Insurgent Gen. Francisco Franco’s regime in Spain. OVER CONGRESS ON FARM BILL WASBHINGTON, Nov. 18. — Near agreement on the Senate Agricul- tural Committee Farm Control leg- islation today brought a promise of a break in the aimless debate that| has dominated the special session of Congress. Senator Bailey carried a southern filibuster against the anti-lynching bill, but Chairman Smith, of the Senate Agricultural Committee, toldl reporters, “Every normal” Gramry farm bill is patterned after Admin- instration recommendations and will be ready Monday to displace the lynching measure. — .- C.D.A. SEWING MEET Mrs. H. G. Walmsley was hostess this sfternoon at the sewing meet-( This accord is to be taken in ing af the Catholic Daughters of|View of the recognition that it is| America. The affair, which was held believed Franco will join the anti- at the Walmsley residence, assem- comintern pact which links Italy, bled both members and friends, Germany and Japan. |some tooth. may last longer. The number of men holding the plant mow is esti- mated all the way from 70 to 600, with hundreds picketing the out-| side. AGHING TOOTH OF FDR YANKED President Loses Trouble- some Molar—Remain- ed Abed Today WASHINGTON, Nov. dent Roosevelt has lost his' trouble- Extraction was made necessary when the official dentist| decided that infection could not be| cured otherwise. The President’s temperature is ex- pected to go down immediately. The Chief Executive, however, remained | abed today. 18.—Presi- | as New York, Detroit, Pittsburgh, elections next year, and the Presi-|Senate Foreign Relations Commit- Canton and Akron, Ohio, the labor dential race of 1940. Both old-|tee, still insisted his statement held vote played a conspicuous part in line parties necessarily will be on good as he had not used the world these and other municipal elec- necedles and pins. They can’t af- “ultimatum.” | tions. ford to shoot off their traditionally| Foreign Office officials said that Through them all, however, four conservative supporters, and yet!the transportation of war materials important facts stick out to plague their easiest chance to win may through Indo-China had been for- the regular political party organ- rest with the labor vote. bidden “in principle” for a number izations. yw's of years 1. Labor groups can organize big An Item For 1940 blocs of votes in eastern indus- The balance-of-power princxple trial areas, without the help was demonstrated more or ‘ of any outside forces. clearly in New York and Pltts- J This most important fact was burgh the other day. Labor in New | " demonstrated in New York City. York threw 400,000 votes to Repub-| There the American Labor party en- lican-Fusion LaGuardia for mayor. | | tered the political ring, for the first That’s almost exactly his margin of | |time a year ago to vote for Presi- victory. 1In Pittsburgh the labor dent Roosevelt and Governor Her- group again identified loosely with “ben. H. Lehman, the Democratic the CIO, helped put the city in, |candidates. The labor party sur- the Democratic fold. Conceivably, the American La- Man Who’—/{ttempted to | Get $1000 from Marion prised everybody by polling well | Davies Faces Trial over 200,000 votes. bor party, the label used in New| The Vote in Detroit York, could pile up enough votes o~ This year, the New York labor or- to swing the whole balance of pow-| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 18 | ganization gave its support to a Re- er iniNew York state in 1940—and A Federal Grand Jury has indicted | publican-Fusion mayor and a Re- New 'York has 40-odd electoral John Timmy on charges of attempt- | publican candidate for district at- votes. ing to extort $1,000 from Marion torney, and mustered another sharp 3. Labor’s direct political action| Davies, film actress, by writing her |surprise. Its vote stood well over —————————u_ —— |a note demanding that she leave 1400,000—aimost. double the number (Continued on Page Three) |that sum in a certain place. lS INDIETED ment equal to that which London now accords goods of Britist Dominions. Secretary Hull invited int persons in the United State submit suggestions to the St partment to aid in deten ng 4 Orlent list of produce te inean rules of the pact edie Valuable Exporis t marir LONDON, Nov. 18. — War risk wrance rates for International time Commerce, one barometer n of war, have been fuced on cargoes going and to the Western ten jon, announced by insurance under- eved due three de- first of these is the transfer -Japanese hostilities from the he second, an ap- the Mediterranean I United Kingdom. ndr ' v of the Spanish Civil War's n ming quiescence that has eased e political situation throughout kurope. oo U. S. Ambassador to -e- Take Bride Saturday MccAIN To HAVE PARTNER Harry G. McCaih, Ketchikan at- RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov. 18. lorney, announces he has formed a Plans are disclosed for the marriage partnership with J. O. Stearns, Jr., on Saturday of United States Am- youthful attorney of Portland, Ore- bassador Jefferson Caffery and Miss gon. The latter is a graduate of the sertrude McCarthy, of Chicago. Willamette University law school The bride-to-be is due here today and will come north to Ketchikan |by airplane from New ork |this month