The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 23, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1937. ]. S. Ambassador in JOHNSON MOVES . STAFF UP RIVER TOWARDHANKOW Personnel Leaves Chinese Capital for Point Further Inland JAPANESE CONTINUE TO MAKE AIR RAIDS Land Forceme Following Planes on Continued March to Wusih SHANGHAI, Nov. 23. — United States Ambassador Nelson T. John- son and members of his staff today embarked on the United States gun- boat Luzon for a long Yangtze Riv- er trip, from Nanking to Hankow, where a temporary Embassy will be established. Hankow is in the Pro- vince of Hupeh, one of three cities to which the Central Chinese gov- ernment has moved under threat of the advancing Japanese arm and lies about 280 miles, by northwest of Nanking, but consid- erably further away by water as the Yangtze 1iver winds in and out. Johnson left several aides at Nan- king. Another gunboat, the Oahu, has steamed to the assistance of Amer- icans at Wuhu, Kiukiang and other Yangtze ports upriver from Nan- Ring. A third gunboat, the Panay, is under orders to remain at Nanking. According to the Japanese spokes- man, the Japanese Navy planes are hammering at Musih. The land forces of the Japanese are still five| miles east of Wusih. — e, ALASKA BUDGET, INTERIOR DEPT. NOW BALANGED Secretary Ickes Proudly " Points to Fact in His Annual Report WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Secre- taty of Interior Harold L. Ickes painted proudly to the Department’s balanced budget in Alaska in his annual report to President Roosevelt at the close of the fiscal year. Secretary Ickes said a budget surplus of $1,315,133.51 is shown, compared to the General Fund def- E?:)f $1,527,944.49 for the 1933-35 biennium. Most of the Alaska Railroad’s def- icit is traced to the operation of vessels from Seattle to the Terri- tory last winter during the mari- time “strike, " Becretary Ickes said the “railroad deficit of $172,065 included expendi- fures of $174,588 for operation of ships during the strike, plus $7.449 for investigation of mineral re- sourges of the Territory.” EASTERN STAR WILL HONOR PAST MATRONS, PATRONS AT MEETING Past matrons and patrons of the Order of Eastern Star will be hon- ored this evening at a special pro- gram to be held during the regular meeting of the organization. Mrs. Glenn Oakes, worthy matron, and Walter Scott, worthy patron, are in charge of the affair. Mrs. Walter Heisel is chairman of the refreshment committee. MRS. JACOB CLARK DIES AT HOME HERE "Mrs. Jacob Clark, who has suf- fesed from tuberculosis for many years, passed away Sunday at her heme in the native village. !Bhe body is now at the Charles ‘W! Carter mortuary and plans for the funeral will be announced - as soon as word has been received from relatives in Tenakee. - e ——— Nerve impulses travel from the brain to the muscles at the rate of 400 feet a second. An Informal Conference The most important person in this picture, take it from WPA Adminis- trator Harry Hopkins, is Diane Hopkins, whom daddy is holding in his arms. The picture was taken when President Roosevelt arrived in New York to confer with the re-elected New York Mayor, F. H. LaGuardia, FARM BILL IS Wage, Hour Bill TAKEN UP IN Is Given Terrific SENATETODAY Blow ly Green Administration Leaders to President of AFL Says Attempt to Put FDR'S Measure, as Proposed, Program Across Loses Endorsement | { | WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. — The| WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. — The Senate went to work today on the|Administration’s wage and hour bill long range farm legisiation after suffered a major blow today when side-tracking the anti-lynching bill. William Geeen, President of the As this was done, the Administra- | American Federation of Labor, de- |tion leaders announced the attempt clared the organization could no to push forward the President’s pro- longer endorse the measure in its gram and abandoned hope of get-|present form. ting the wage and hour bill out of Green said the measure is not the House Rules Committee which safe as it entrusts the Government it has refused to since last -ummfl-,[Buum with determinations which and thus let the House consider the|would be necessary in administering measure. \the legislation. The farm bill, providing for sur-|{ Green contended the bill would plus crop control, was called up in{pmvide for a shorter work day and the Senate as soon as Senator Wag- shorter week to offset unemploy- ner withdrew his motion to take up ment caused by business recession. | o bill from the committee after Chair-| man O'Connor announced his com-; mittee refused to let the bill out. Program Modifying Pres- ent Corporate Laws Nuw UNEARTHEDIHouse Tax Sub-committee has ten- {tatively approved of a complete re- R, vision of the corporation tax system modified, of those large incomes. | The new plan, Chairman Vinson |said, is “particularly helpful in discoveries” in its drive to crush L . 5 “ ; f .. Pair and capital structure.” )i:li:t, armed secret revolutionary so-; The plan will impbse on corpora- Y. tions with incomes up to $25,000 an Government to Make Reve- lations to Crush Armed the anti-lynching legislation as thej measure was tied up in filibuster. when the farm bill is out of the way. | B involving repeal of the undistrib- Secret Society ‘]hm’dshxp cases by corporations The bill will however, come up agninET A x Democratic leader Hayburn signed | uted profits levy on corporation in- PARIS, Nov. 23:-The Govern-{‘mmmg money for the purpose of a petition to take the wage and hour | House Sub - committee Has {comes up to $25,000 but ‘retention, ment is on the verge of "1mportam}dem payment, plant expansion, re- Max Dormoy, Minister of the In-| WILDCAT STRIKE WAS STARTED BY PAID AGITATORS ‘Revelations Are Made in| | Sitdown Trouble at Pontiac ! | DETROIT, Mich, Nov. 23. Charges that ‘“paid provocateurs acted in the Pontiac Fisher Body plant, a wildcat strike, were voiced | today steps were taken to make the newest peace in the auto labor | field a lasting one. | | Walter Reuther, member of the| union’s international executive| board, blamed unidentified outside | interests with seeking to “drum up”| a business-labor spy organization WY Grievances will be presented at a hearing scheduled for next Monday. 1 | | per, today says an ‘“unidentified; labor leader declares the sitdown| Tn PROPAGANDA populace to refuge. strike was started by agents of a labor spy organization which was not getting any ness because of the orderly manner our grievance procedure was beginning to work.” | ST | K.R.KINGSBURY, DIES ON SHIP: s Fedus ork State Power Author harg- | ing “widespread propaganda” COLON, Canal Zone, Nov. 23. — p,ijvate power utilities Kenneth R. Kingsbury, President — pisputing the propaganda, the| of the Standard Oil Company of aythority contended the Govern- California, died suddenly last night|ments hydro-electric power was aboard the Grace liner Santa Paula poquced at about half the cost of as the vessel passed through the pjyate steamer power. canal, | Frank Walsh, Chairman of the Kingsbury, who was 61 years of aythority, said it was “forced to age, was accompanied on his vaca-|iake cognizance of the propaganda tion criuse to Havana by A. B. fogtered by the committee of utility Swinnerton, San Francisco CONtrac-'executives which was designed to tor. The two left San Francisco mislead the public into accepting a week ago. unwarranted assertion that Hydro-Electric Power Pro- duced for Half Cost of Private Steam Power WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Presi- dyng Roosevelt sent to Cengress. mf} day a veluminous report of the New | China nese army horses following its being wrecked by shellfire. NGAINST BOVT. Quits CHINA'S CITIES GO BACK TO NATURE as bombs wreck buildings and drive Here is the Kiangwan civic center, which has been turned into a pasture for Japa- The building in the background is the mu- seum of the once palatial center. steam | The ship's doctor said death Was power is cheaper than hydro-elec- | f probably due to heart trouble. itric power and that in consequence Kingsbury started his career with (1o Government’s power program the Standard Oil Company in Penn- i not sound.’ sylvania as a pipe checker and fire- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS China’s First Dog Casualty " PRICE TEN CENTS Nanking | BOTH SIDES ARE MEETING IN SEATTLE Representatives of Ships, Union, in Discussion with Marsh CONCILIATOR TRYING TO BRIDGE TROUBLE K Passengers for North Flock: ing to Vancouver for Steamer Tonight BULLETIN — SEATTLE, Nov. 23.—A second meeting be- tween the representatives of operators of steamers to Alaska and Marine Cooks and Stewards Association is being held this afternoon behind closed doors with E. P. Marsh Federal Con- ciliator in attendance. He said he may have a statement to make following the meeting. CONFERENCE AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, Nov. 23.—In an effort to settle the dispute which is tying up Alaska shipping, representatives of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Association, Alaska Steamship Com- |pany and Northland Steamship |Company met with Federal Labor Conciliator E. P, Marsh yesterday affernoon but. the conference ads-. 'journed last night. Max Watson, Association business |agent, announced no agreement was reached but that the conference would be resumed again today. Watson said “We charged the com- |pany with violation of their agree- : 'ment in tying up their ships with- jout going through the proper chan- |nels to settle the controversy.” ‘; Watson, W. Pottle and D. Ross |stated that the union demands are {that employment on ships be alter- |nated among all unemployed union !members, which is about 500. The present tieup extends to all ‘slups including freighters and oth- ; lvr ships now enroute to Seattle from _ {Alaska and posted to sail this week, |schedules having been cancelled. man in December, 1897. In 1919 he became the youngest President in the group of the world’s largest oil BUSINESS MAN Qi ; A Chinese soldier is pictured at a dressing station near Shanghai with, one of the new corps of trained dogs. The canine warrior had caught a first aid treatment and returned to the trenches. VANCOUVER SHIPPING CENTER | SEATTLE, Nov. 23.--Vancouver, | ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 23. — The corporations, Kingsbury was born in Columbus, Ohio, and wag a Princeton graduate | ks o 3y BIG HOLDING COMPANY TO © - DEFEATLAW \Will Distribute Shares to| Largest, at Top, | ; Stockholders NEW YORK, Nov. 23. — Stone, SOCORRO, New Mexico, Nov. 23, ‘and Webster, leading public utility —W. B. Cassidy, 43, Cocorro busi: {combination, has moved to divest ness man, is charged with first de itself of holdings of power operating gree murder. He has been spirited | units to avoid designation as a com- out of town less than 12 hours after pany and subject to federal control. the discovery of the horribly mut- Directors voted for distribution to ilated body of Rose Garcia, 19, ser- | |shareholders at the top of the com- vant in his house, in a sand grave !pany, its major holdings. north of here. | The company holdings are distri- A crowd estimated by sheriff’s | ]buted in twelve states, principally in deputies at 250 masged grimly in| the south, middle west and north- front of the court house as details west. It is also proposed to distrib- of the case leaked out. | The body of the girl, a servant| KILLS SERVANT, HORRIBLE WAY tl's Body Is Found Miles| Away from Home, in Sand Grave “ BULLETIN—SOCORRO, Nov. 23.—Cassidy waived preliminary arraignment and pleaded inno- | cent, The sheriff said Cassidy | gave confession of shooting the girl last Sunday. | i splinter of shrapnel in his paw. He got WILKINS IS ARCTIC BASE EDMONTON, Alberta, Nov. 23. — The Royal Canadian Signal Corps |reports that Sir Hubert Wilkins, in his big plane piloted by Hollick Kenyon, arrived at Aklavik yester- day afternoon, completing the 1040 mile nonstop flight from Fort Res- olution. Wilkins will make Aklavik his ase in the renewed search for the lost Soviet planz and six fliers aboard. POLLUTION MAY BE CONTROLLED | GIANT CLIPPER ~ ATAKLAVIK, FOR SOVIETS I | British Columbia, became the Paeif- ;i(: Northwest's only gateway to Alas- {ka as passengers unable to sail from | Seattle, because of the strike of the Marine Cooks and Stewards Asso- clation, left here this morning by rail, plane and water routes to em- bark on the Canadian Pacific steam- er Princess Norah sailing tonight at 9 o'clock for Ketchikan, Wrangell Juneau and Sagway. Canadian Pacific representatiyes sald that if the strike is not settled . Margland, Nov. 23./by mid-December, and business ~A giant clipper, built by Glenn L.!reached sufficient volume, an exta Martin for Soviet Russia, was|ship will probably be placed on the LAUNCHED HERE BALTIMORE, eyes of 100 spectators. | vancouver December 3, 14 and 2. ing radius of 147 miles an hour for the creek into which the craft was| | : The tug Arthur Foss arrived in launched yesterday, sliding down!Southeast Alaska route. The Prin- Engines started the four 1,000 - e horsepower motors, which are capa-| BIG TUG GnEs more than 4,400 miles. i ‘The craft has a wing spread of | 157 feet and this necessitated re-| launched. The great wings spanned the entire width of the stream |Juneau at 7:30 o'clock last night and left this morning with the rudder- the consiruction ramp before the cess Norah is scheduled to sail from ble of carrying the craft on a cruis- | moval of three limbs overhanging| - > oo - 5 terior, great importance were seized in a told the Cabinet members today that numerous documents of income tax of 12% percent, on the'ute holdings not only of the Engin- first $5,000 earnings, and 14 per-| cent on earnings from $5,000 to $25,- Company. eers Public Utility Service company in Cassidy’s house for the past five| but also the Sierra Pacific Power months, was found in a sand grave | near Iosolado, 17 miles north of here., Waters Between United States and Canada TURNS ABOUT less Evelyn Berg for drydock’ in Seattle, in tow, at 9 o'clock. The Arthur Foss will tow the raid last night, details of the docu-| " " . e i ments not being revealed. | Chairman Vinson said the plan |will yield about the same revenue Secret polige searched the apart- mént. 6 Bdouard de Tondle, engin-{25 the eXisHag comatate fax:law e eering consultant, in what Dormoy . . termed the latest foray and hunt 2 Hltch Hlkers Die in Flames for evidence of the secret revolu- tionary society. REDDING, Cal, Nov. 23.—A girl D¢ Loncle’s wife told the secret police that her husband was travel-| ing in Italy. Many valuable incriminating pa- pers were seized, Dormoy announc- | ed. | ————_——— ,‘tlames north of here after a truck FINED FOR DOE lon which they were riding turned Frank Uberwimer of Ketchikan over and caught fire. has been fined $25 for taking a doe| The girl has been identified as deer, it is reported to the Alaska Edith Curtis, 16, Idaho hitch hiker, Game Commission from Warden W. and the man as William McKay, of R. Selfridge at Ketchikan, I compton, cal. {hitch hiker and a man died in| o= The girl had been shot and mutil- ated with a penknife. REBEKAH MEEilfiG Tif noblock sai ‘assidy, af- SET FOR TOMORROW tc aa. aitoniont ariiing. was. caken | to the county seat at Los Lunas. Announcement is made that the i e R, SRR regular meeting of the Rebekah Lodge will be held tomorrow night oo o it e 2t POPE SUFFERS Fellows Hall. [ | The meeting will be marked by { plans for Christmas activities. .- District Ranger W. A. Chipper- field of the U. 8. Forest Service re-| VATICAN CITY, Italy, Nov. 23.—| turned to his Juneau headquarters Sources close to the Papal house-| yesterday on the Estebeth after & hold, said the Pope suffered a sink- | several weeks trip to Sitka, Angoon ing spell last night, but unpe.ued? and way points in connection with|to be improved today after the us- | setting up CCC projects. ual medical injections. May Be Surveyed WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—Gov- ernment officlals indicated the United States and Canada contem- plate a new survey to control pol- lution in boundary waters between the two countries. Chairman A. C. Stanley, of the Americar section of the Interna- tional Commission, said he would not be surprised if the Commission received a request from the two governments to undertake the sur- vey. N Grubs of the Japanese beetle, an ° insect pest, are located by their enemies, a variety of wasp, by the wasp's sense of smell. |Berg as far as Wrangell Narrows |today and will anchor there until tomorrow mornigg to go through in |daylight. Tt is expected the tug will |reach Seattle with the Berg late | Saturday night. CIO Officers Are Supplant- ed by Those of AFL Affiliations ; oy o Lobeeers st TOW 9 S jocted & vov| LESTER INGLES set of officers a has elected a new| the former officers | went CIO. Congratulations are being ex- Leo Flynn, Northwestern organiz- |tended to Mr. and Mrs. Lester In= er of the American Federation of 8le upon the birth of a son yester- Labor, said the union voted to co-|day afternoon at St. Ann's Hos- operate with the Japanese local No.|pital. 2454, Cannery Workers, for an| The child, who was born at 2:40 agreement with the Alaska salmon|P. m., weighs six pounds and five packers for the 1938 season work- ounces. Mr. Ingles is employed at ing conditions the Alaska Juneau mine, SEATTLE, Nov. Labor Union of F Cannery Worl