The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1937, Page 1

VOL LI§ NO 7645 HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 20, 1937. PRl(‘F TEN MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS SEATTLE-ALASKA SAILINGS CANCELLED 'Chinese Defense Keystone Reported Iaken CAPTURE OF SOOCHOW IS MADE TODAY nese Spokesman Says Japa most Amazing Things in Annals of War NOT ONE SHOT IS REPORTED FIRED Fifteen Invaders Enter Town, then Defenders Take to Their Heels SHANGHAI, Nov. 20.—The Jap- anse spokesman announced this af- ternoon that Soochow, keystone of the Chinese Hindenburg line, was captured by 15 Japanese soldiers, without firing a shot. The spokesman said it was one of the most amazing captures of an important city in the annals of war. The invaders were met only by a small and apparently dazed group of Chinese. The invaders went di- rectly to the big pagoda and hoisted the Japanese flag. Only then did the defenders flee. Soochow is about 125 miles from Shanghai. It is announced officially here that the Chinese Government has evacuated Nanking. - — CHINA CAPITAL IS NOW TAKEN T0 CHUNGKING Defending Forces Resisting Advancing Japanese on New Line NANKING, Nov. 20.—The Chin- ese Government has formally an- nounced removal of the Nation's Capital to Chungking in the Pro- vince of Szechwan. Officials reiterated their determ- ination to resist the advancing Jap- anese hordes to the last man. . The new Capital City is 750 air miles farther inland from Nan- king. 3 According to advices received here the Japanese are making stubborn resistance from reinforced Chinese lings. SHOOTS MATE 4 TIMES, THEN TRIES SUICIDE SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—Mrs. William Henke, 39, shot her husband four times, then herself through the left breast in a friend’s room in downtown hotel last night. Detective Lieutenant Ernest Win- ters said the woman explained that her husband had . been drinking and started to curse her. She said he had been spending money fool- ishly. The man is near death with bul- Jet wounds in the abdomen. Mrs. Henke said she hoped he would die and she regretted that she had not been successful in killing herself. - e — o L | STOCK QUOTATIONS | kS NEW YORK, Nov. 20. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at the short session today is 11%, American Can 84'%, Ameflcnn Light and Power 7%, Anacol Bethlehem Steel 47%, Caumel 77.‘, Commonwealth and Southern 2%, Curtiss Wright 3%, General Motors 3¢%, International Harvester 61, Kennecott 33'%, New York Central 17%, Southern Pacific 18%, United States Steel 53%, Citles Service 2, Thanksgiving Alaska, as a day of Thanksgiving and for generations having descend Proclamation I, Edward W. Griffin, Acting Governor of the Territory O hereby designate Thursday, November Holiday. twenty-fifth, The observance of Thanksgiving Day has been Iho custom ed from our forbears, and in- tended for our people to gather together in places of worship and homes. We, in this great Territory of ours have much to be thankful for and it is appropriate on this day for us to publicly in places of worship or privately in our homes._gl\'e thanks to Him who rules the Universe and pray that His blessing may follow us through the coming year. Let us, therefore, renew our observance of this day with our hearts full of gratitude and love for our Supreme Being and our people in the Territory. In Witness Whereof, I have hereto set my name an d caused the Official Seal of the Territory of Alaska to be affixed this 19th day EDW. November, 1937. GRIFFIN, of ARD W. Acting Governor of Alaska e eeeeeeeed 0, V@YdiCt Of de@th by 6. 0. P. BATTLE “BREAKS OUT A CITY COUNCIL | Light Rate Argument Gets Into Politics on Nation- | al Scale at Meeting | An argument which started out with public ownership of utilities and wound up at the Republican| convention in Cleveland last year was the feature of last night's meet- ing of the City Council. Albert White, who represencem one faction of the Alaska Republi-| can party at Cleveland, appeared | before the Council requesting that| investigation of power rates in Ju- neau be made toward the end that| the city fix rates and eliminate| meter deposits. W. D. Gross made a similar request, stressing the pos- sibility of public ownership, and Henry Benson, also a delegate to Cleveland, presented petitions bear- ing several signatures asking that an investigation of electric rates be made. He said that the petitions; would have 800 names when all are| H L. Faulkner, who was a non-; seated delegate at the clevelsnd‘ convention, appeared in behalf of the | light company and crossed verbal swords with White both as to profits| of the light company and financial | support of the Republican cause dur-| ing the memorable Republican party split of last year, dating back | to the famed Douglas convention. After listening to the verbal bat- | |ifornia’s lof cCalifornia, Duke, Duchess of Windsor May Come 'To U. S. in Dec. PARIS, Nov. 20.—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were welcomed by the Rev. W. H. F. Couldridge ,when they attended a Charity Ball | sate given under British sponsor- ship. It is said that the welcome marked a truce between the Duke ,and the Anglician church. Reports ,are current in Paris that the Duke ;and Duchess will visit the United States in December but this is not confirmed. CALIFORNIA LEADS CARDS IN BIG GAME Golden Bears Contmue Vie-| torious Run to Rose Bowl PALO ALTO, ga:, Nov. 20.—Cal- Golden Bears plunged through a bewildered Stanford line | on their non stop drive for Rose Bowl honors, this afternoon, as| 89,000 fans witnessed the “Big |Game” of the Pacific Coast in the; Palo Alto Stadium. The score at the middle of the fourth quarter was 13 to 0 in favor with Vie Chapman, Meek and Anderson, out- {standing on the Golden Bear team. Two fake reverses in the first half| SKAGWAY MAN HANGS SELF IN CITY JAIL HERE Wilbur Storey Takes Own Life While Sobering Up Coroner’s Inquest Finds | Wilbur Storey, 46, of Skagway,| committed suicide by hanging him- | self in the city jail at 12:20 this| morning. The body was found short- ly afterward hanging by a pants belt tied to a top bunk about six| feet from the floor. Storey, offi-| 'cers said, apparently had made a | noose of thé belt around his neck | and either jumped or rolled off the | bunk, ! An inquest held in the U. 8. Commissioner’s Court this morning | before Judge Felix Gr: returned icide. | ! Chief of Police Dan Ralston said | that Storey, who was a widely knuwn pile driver man at Skag- lway, having worked for the White | Pass and Yukon, came to the clt.y. jail about 1 a. m. on November 17! —. and piunged through. Luckily THEY DISHED IT OUT, BUT COULDN'T TAKE IT teria when a freigh? car, last of a 24 car train being backed on a siding, employes in an adjoining office esc: siding, sheering ANNOUNCEMENT GIVEN OUT BY 3. 8. OFFICIALS ! Schedules A b andoned to Northland Pending Union's Decision 'PROPOSAL VIOLATES FEDERAL SAFETY ACT { | Statement Sets Forth Com- | pany Views on Present Strike Situation SEATTLE, Nov Ithe operators of steamers to Alaska, officials of the Alaska Steamship Company and Northlend Transpor- tation Company, announced can- !cellation of passenger steamer sail- !ings to Alaska “pending willing- | ness of the Marine Cooks and Stew- {ards Association of the Paeific |Coast t6 conform to its agreement with us.” 20.—Last night at this Kansas City cafe- crashed into the brick wall it was several hours past lunch time an 'no one was in the room. Six aped without in jury. The train hit the end of Fisher Body plant’s the car from its trucks before it struck the wall. and asked that he be taken in so he could sober up. He had arrived! several days earlier from Skagway. The Chief said he had been im- proving in the jail and seemed on Shrimp Smke Question Finds Body Favoring the road to recovery. He expressed surprise at the act. | Slnkmg Group At the inquest, Chiel Raiston, and Ray Thomas and Edward Lloyd, who were in the jail at the time of the tragedy, testified and.gave jn- dication that Storey was in a de- pressed mood. Coroner’s jury hear- ing the case were Howard A. But- ton, Robert L. Duckworth, Douglas |Oliver, Joseph Hill, Percy Reynold: and Kenneth Junge. | The body was taken to Carter’s pending funeral arrangements. | Storey is not known to have any immediate relatives, officials said. lived at Skagway since laround 1900 and made frequent trips to Juneau in the winter, dur- mg the off season NAT. GUARDS Yesterday's heated discussion at the All-Alaska—All Union Labor |Convention, relative to the Peters- burg shrimp strike called by er's Union, came to a close with the body going on record in favor of the CWFL action. The general consensus of the group 'was that the Federal Labor Union, opposed to the CWFL, was a com- pany union and was taking priority rights from the striking union. The \CWF‘L all the bodys “moral sup- Disc ssion came to the floor thls | IN sTRlKE afternoon concerning the actions of the CWFL and its effect on resi- | dent cannery workers in Alaska the |, Cannery Workers and Farm Labor- |almost overwhelming vote gave the Bottari, | ‘Units Mrs. F. Moran, of the CWFL lo- ‘Um!s Al’E Ordered Ready cal in Ketchikan, described th efe- fect of Filipino labor importation |on the resident workers of Ketchi- kan, in Sitdown Crisis at Akron, Ohio PORT CLINTON, Ohio, Nov. 20.— The Akron National Guard units Delegates Act It was also proposed in 'odAy',s' | To the union demanding stew- lard’s work be rotated among the unionists for the benefit of the job- less stewards, the operators replied {this will prevent them from b= iserving Federal safety requirements. “We have no alternative other han to cease the preseni operation of our passenger vessels. The arbi- trary change in the entire person- ml of the Stewards' department on ca,ch voyage, demanded by the un< In" disregard of its agreement u)urh provides that men may eon< tinue their employment without in- terference by the union, would re- {sult in vessels sailing with more than a majority of the crew per= sonnel changed on each voyage." Stronghold of KETCHIKAN MEN ~Insurgents Is FOUND GUILTY Raided by A|r OF FISH PIRACY va Returns Verdict After ™ Brief Deliberation—First Conviction in 12 Years Spamsh Govelnment Bomb- { ers Retaliate for In- i vader's Oflensne MADRID, Nov. 2. — Thirty-five| Guilty on two counts of larceny Government bombers blasted Zara- of salmon was the verdict returned goza, Insurgent stronghold, in re- by a jury m‘ Federal District C“"”i SITUATION UNCHANGED taliation for two recent Insurgent in the fish piracy case against Har-| ds on Spanish Government cit- ry Ek, Elmer Bealty, Alvin Mer-| SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—L. A. Baker, ick and Albert Inman. The sealed Traffic Manager of the Alaska The fliers are believed to have verdict which was brought in by Steamship Company, announced at inflicted heavy damage on the city the jury after brief deliberation late noon today that the strike situation which is the Insurgent stronghold 3‘-~mduv afternon was opened when is not changed. of the Iragon sector. |court convened this morning. It Max Watson, Business Agent of The Air Ministry said 300 persons | is the first fish piracy conviction the Marine Cooks and Stewards As- were killed three weeks ago when |here in 12 years, officials said. (Sociation, a radiogram promis- nine Insurgent planes raided Ler-| The four Ketchikan men were ing support and sympathy has been ida, a small town. |charged with taking 10,000 salmon received from the All Alaska Labor Zaragoza has a population of 250- from traps of the Pacific Alaska Union Convention now in session.in ooo_ | Fisheries and the Astoria and Pug- Juneau. 1"‘ Sound Canning Company at Gull, Watson further said it will be up 58 |Cove and 7,000 salmon from traps to the union members of the steam- |of the same concern near Strawber- | er Yukon and Motorship Northland |ry Point in Icy Straits. The defend- arriving here neyt week from Al- |ants contended they had taken the aska ports whether or not they will ‘llsh found aboard their boat, dur- Wulk off the ships when the vessels !ing their regular commercial op— urrlve here, erations. George Grigsby and Mildred Hr'r-; mann represented the defendants| ‘nud Assistant District Attorneys' l(wmg( W. Folta and W. C. Stump Ithe prosecution SHAKES UP HIS CORPS. AGENT ADAMS INFORMED The following message was re- ceived today by Horace O. Adams, Juneau Agent for the Alaska Steam- tle for several hours, the Council|accounted for the successful Cali- laid over the matter of rates to nlfomla touchdowns. future date and declined to com-; ment on the Republican convention troubles. Th» next meeting of the Council is se\ for December 3 when‘ it is understood the light compuny\ will present n.s case to the Coun-| cil. In Army 45 Years, | S0 He Will Become | Citizen of U.S. Now NORMAN, Okla., Nov. 20. — “Ser- geant Major Henry Janz has served in the U. S. army for 45 years and now discovers the government con- tends he isn't an American citizen. He arrived in this country from Germany in 1891 and later obtained naturalization papers. ! Recently he was notified there was a technical difficulty over the papers, that he should appear in district court. He will become a citi- The final score is California 13; Stanfurd 0. - llragnns Fooled by Camouflaged Food PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 20—Offi- cooperation in fooling a pair of dra- gons by contributions of half-shells left over from breakfast eggs. The dragons, recently arrived from the Dutch East Indies, prefer two or three dozen eggs a meal and won't eat the hamburger offered on the zoo menu. Dietary strategists discovered that hamburger camou- flaged in egg shells was devoured with relish. B W. J. MULVIHILL, MAYOR OF SKAGWAY, IS HERE ON BUSINESS zen in Jnnunry, Lhe Judge said. | w. J. Mulvihill, mayor of Skag- iway, arrived in Juneau yesterday aboard the Bookwalter Ford plane | g w on city business, and is scheduled lto return to his home in Skagway “"ma" s Eon the return trip of the plane | sometime Sunday, weather permit- A Iting. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 20.—| Mr. Mulvihill, who has many William S. Hart, original 2-gun man |friends in Juneau where he often star of western film silent screen visits, is chief train dispatcher of \cials at the zoo have asked publh:l {are prepared for possible service at session that a state charter be asked the Goodyear Tire and Rubber for from the American Federation Company where a sitdown strike of Labor for Alaska, which would lis idling 12,000 men. !set up a Federation of Labor in Al- The Thirty-seventh Tank Corps aska—a leading body for all unions Infantry have received orders for other Territories. mobilization. “We joined the CWFL in Ketchi- Officials of the company announc- kan,” said ‘Mrs. Moran, “under be- ed the plant will reopen Monday. 'lief that our wages and working Union officials immediately said conditions would be improved. They picket lines will be placed around were not. Instead, we found more the plant to prevent the opening. < CWFL help coming from the out- The sitdown strike was called as side in batches of a dozen to forty a protest to scheduled layoffs on Filipino hands that pushed us out account of the off-season. \of work. —————— “Some of the women in our city got in a little work—others were HUSKIES GRAB on the beach. Those who worked made exactly $9 for the season!” Virginia Pittas, representing the EARLY MARGIN women workers of the Prince Wil- liam Sound Cannery Workers Un- ion explained that CWFL outside labor was forcing them out of work instead of giving them assistance in |stabilizing wages. “Resident labor in Cordova was SEATTLE, Nov. 20.—Oregon kick- getting $125 a month, board and ed off this afternoon to the Wash- room,” said Miss Pittas, “but the ington Huskies' 26 yard line on the Filipinos came in and worked for rst play and Merle Miller, Wash- $70 to $80 a month—or minimum ington back, ran 67 yards down the wages of 33 plus cents an hour and sidelines to the Oregon 7-yard stripe. 35 cents maximum. We can't work On the third play following, Mil- for those wages and we can't work ler went over for a touchdown, Cru-|if we aren't employed. ver kicked good for point, but the “There were 250 in our union, Huskies were penalized for holding but because of these low wages, 100 and the point was disallowed jor us were without work. Many of Early in the second period, Erick- our women made only $14 for the son blocked a punt from the Ore- whole season!” gon gval line that rolled out of At a late hour this afternoon, no bounds behind the sacred stripe ruling had been voted on the con- and gave Washington another two|troversy, but the concensus appear- points. Score, Washington 8, Ore- ed to favor greater and also medical units of the 148th in the Territory as in the case of Changes Made in Cabinet, Colonial Administra- tion of Italy ROME, Nov. 20.—Premier Benito Mussolini announced today a shake- up in his Cabinet and Colonial Ad- ministration. The Duke of Aosta has been nam- ed Viceroy of Ethiopla and 1l Duce has assumed the African portfolio Besides the lini is now Minister of Interior, Navy, War, Air and Colonies, APPEAL MADE BY PERKINS SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Nov 20.—Secretary of Labor Perkins has | appealed for increase tional standard of living, reasonable shorter hours, more wages mensurate with the value of se tions, also no child labor. IT'S WARM AT BARROW POINT BARROW, Alaska, Nov. 20 ~—Weather is warm here, the ther- |mometer registering 14 degrees Premiership, Musso-| in the na-| com- | vices and first class working condi- |~ led ship Company, from L. W. Baker, {Traffic Manager of the company in Seattle: | Another fishing e is schedul |to go on trial Monday and jurors have been instructed to report at 10|~ la. m. when it is expected the trial| The Cooks and Stewards Un- lof George Ward Nick Dick, Tom‘m“ are demanding change of the |Long and Panty Ernest, charged entire personnel of their union at | with fishing in a closed area will be|c2ch sailing on each vessel. This’ls Wtavbad in violation of our agreement with E U. 8. citizenship was granted to {them and would necessitate change Ethel May Johnson of Bkagway in/of the entire crew each sailing, As |court this morning. Mrs. Johnson {you. kiiow, this 18 impractical “.‘d {arrived here yesterday on the Book- |\t Would be impossible under sgth walter plane, bringing her witness-|COnditions to give satisfactory ser- vice. For that reason we are dé- g Y ferring sailings of all passenger " e vessels until the matter is adjust- R'SWIFE ACTOR'S WIFE GETS B|G SUM yesterday to Max Watson, Business |Agent of the Marine Cooks and | |Stewards Union in Seattle, from the All Alaska—All Labor Union ‘Charll(- (Hdn Must Pay|convention in Juneau: b | “This convention goes on record 5]70\15-0 $_,J)() Month pledging its sympathy and full sup- Maintenance port to your union in protesting the i |steamship companies’ sponsible SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Novfl 20 |lockout action. The move was Mrs. Edith Oland, wife of Warner |against the public welfare and is Oland, film actor, has won a judg- |causing an unnecessary isolation of ment in a maintenance sult Alaska Labor Wires The following wire was sent late She | the Territory of Alaska. Your com= has received half of all of her hus-|{mendable rotation system equaliz- pand's property, plus $2200 a(ing the opportunity to work, is pat- month |terned afier the Government werk Olund plays the part of Charlie Program. policy and meets with our Chan in the movies. |hearty approval.” = .o BAR ASSOCIATION MEETS | Watson Answer | The following wire was received |in answer from Max Watson: “The Members of the Juneau Bar As- Marine Cooks and Stewards Asso- sociation met today in regular ses- ciation deeply appreciates your ex- on in Percy'’s Cafe. Judge H. B. pression of support and sympathy consideration'apove zero and there is open water LeFevre, president, presided at the in our lockout by Alaska operations, Pound $6.00%, Republic Steel 17%.days, is reported to be seriously ill. 'the White Pass and Yukon route. gon 0 at this stage of the game. for Alaska resident workers. near the shore. luncheon gathering. (Continued on Page Five)