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; THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7655. “Big Th (FIVE BANDITS [STEAMER YUKON UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN, " FRANGE,RAPPED Mussolini's Press Makes Charges Against Three Great Powers 7Qilaker Pair Marry Themselves ESCAPE WITH | AGROUNC'; SNOW ~ BIG PAYROLL'STORM IS CAUSE \ Daring Robbery from Postal R £ Tk e B Craft Hangs Up by Fore lice CliehABducred fout in Natrows, ;i Miles from Valdez | LOCKPORT, Illinois, Dec. 3 % |Five men, carrying sawed-off shot- | ATTLE, Dec. 3. BULLET N— “The Steamer Yukon was float- MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'PRICE TEN CENTS ree’’ Democracies Accused by Italy Pretty Sarawaks Are in Again! J|CTORY PARADE OF JAPANESE IS BOMBED, CHINESE | Brief Panic Created in Cap- tured City with Rum- blings Heard COMMANDER OF U. S. RECIPROCAL TRADE |guns and machine guns, executed B8 it 12:15 o'clook this after- * AGREEMENT ATTACK 8 dariag postal robbery and escapel $L0' g procemdod et hee MARINES SAVES DAY shooting a postal clerk and JRIEL powsr to Visten. Hl08 e wes f P European l;e;e Also En- dangered by New Mili- | | ! tary Strength ‘ LONDON, Dec. 3.—The Italian press has attacked the “Big Three” | democracies, Great Britain, France| and the United States, and is ac- cusing Great Britain and France| of shaking the troubled search for Time was turned back a century Robert Shaffer in an unusual ceremony at Newcastle, Ind. European peace and security by in-| cordance with. the old Quaker custom, they “married themselves”. b=| eording to a radio received by the Coast Guard headguarters here. ducting the Chief of Police | The robbery occurred outside the Lockport postoffice. Employees were transferring the! |cash mailed by the First National| bank to meet the payroll of one of the Texas Companies’ largest oil refineries, The money was stolen as it was GROUNDS DURING SNOW SEATTLE, Dec. 3.—Steamer Yu- kon grounded in a heavy snow- stprm and darkness at 3:25 o'clock this morning, 25 mites from Val- being carried from the Postoffice. dez, in the narrows. It was ex- Chief "of Police Fred Linder was pected the vessel would be floated abducted by the robbers and he was at high tide, according to a mes- when Nondis Waltz becams Mrs. In ac- Mrs. Harry Roy Back in the headlines are the two Sarawak, white rajah of Sarawak Brooke of London Princess Diamond pretty daughters of the Ranee of . otherwise known as Sir Charles The younger of the two, Princess Diamond, right, also known as Valerie Brooke, has caused a major family | Dangerous Situation Avert- | ed by Positive Action of American SHANGHAI, Dec. 3—~The ex- |plosion of a bomb tossed at a Vic- tory Parade of 5000 Japanese sol- |diers precipitated a brief panic to- |day and has stirred up new ten- 'sion. The Japanese held the parade creasing their military strength, | ‘No minister officiated, the bride carried no flowers and wore an old ““;’”"fi on the truck half a mile gage received here from Capt } controversy by threatening to marry Bob Gregory, London wrestler. ~ despite the protests of American In a bitter editorial in Il Popolo| Quaker costume, and there were no decorations or music as the | before be’lvnl:‘fhro“vr} off. Ho fasl Charles A. Glasscock | Her sister, the former Princess Pearl, left, also came in for con- nd other foreign officials, includ- D'ltalia, Premier Mussolini's Milan| OUPle made their marriage declaration in the presence of the con- |the robbers fired twice in threaten- ~The Yukon was northbound to| siderable publicity when Mayfair was informed of her marriage ing the municipal authorities, who ' | gregation. ing his life. Valdez at the time and being op-| to Harry Roy, Lendon band leader feared an .outbreak from Shang- newspaper, Italy accused the three| John West is the wounded clerk erated on a slow bell. powers of planning an “economic| " |who also resisted the efforts of the Capt. Glasscock’s radio said: “We al's A 3,000,000 Chinese resicents. the aftermath of the cxplos- trangulation” of “have not” na-| 2 . ix(’:‘: SEh SOkl AR | En ‘F D H | vobbers. are hung up on the forefoot, rest- ion, in which three Japanese sol- included Italy, Germany and -’*"] [ ra“ce BS"ES ing casy and taking no water. ura 0" em“s | irrs and one British citizen were pan. The attack seemed to be directed at pending negotiations - between Great Britain and the United States for a reciprocal trade agreement. i Great Britain is drasucany‘INcREAsE lN 1938 streamlining its army organization, ¥¥ placing younger men in official po-| sitions to keep step with modern {Metal Trades and Cannery warfare developments. To Fortify Her ‘MINI‘NG*fifl'UIiSE TO START HERE Swiss Frontier ; L ARUU@ DEC. § VAGRANT DRIVE, 1Republic Seeking to Scrap POLICE MAKING Farm Bill with LOGAL STREETS c=» 13 Hour Talk gress Stilfi)oing Noth- WINS SEATTLE BEAUTY GROWN Miss Juneau Alaska Named ounded, the Japanese troops took the area where it oc- nol reported that pa- inspired Chinese (toss ind then jumped ‘o | roof of 't} Werld Amusement Building. U. 8. Officer Prevents Breal A wus prevented when Jup- Three of four members of a pow- | o | . ingOnRooseveltian | “Mi a’ i e iy erful army council in England have, Workers Negotla!mg | Another Section of H. G. Wilcox.of Universily g Progra.m i Mlss(:?:{?::‘ld n n m; (;fm([):] yie! l”((lg lPorl"iheUr‘\i:: been replaced by younger men. French Foreign Minister Yvon Delbos, on a 17-day tour through Now with Packers Seattle’s Cleaning Up Bring- Versailles Treaty = ing Dnifters to Extension Department | 3. — Con- WASHINGTON, Dec. SEATTLE, Dee. 3.—Twenty-five 1 States Marine Commander, and withdrew from the American de- [ ; I, Polish, Czechoslovakian, Rumanian, . SPATTLE, Dec. 3—Tom Shields,| papys, pec. 3—Edward Deladier,| Will Conduct Work G gress nears the end of the third week year old Juneau Alaska Moore ha. fended section of the International | " and Yugoslavakian capitols, is bear- | ScCretary of the ’,wem Trades COun- | prinister of National Defense, to-| e ity of its special session without com- been chosen “Miss Seattle” in coin lement ing a decision by France and Great ol said fpday. LA wagel mcrease.: day told the members of the Cham-| Howard G. Wilcox of the Mining 3 3 pleting any part of President petition with nine oijier contest- The Japanese troops encroached Britain not to give Germany a free °f from 10 percent to 15 percent pey of peputies, that France is scek- Extension Department of the Uni- _All questionable characters in Ju- Roosevelt’s program. ants at the Alaska Yukon Ploneers o0 the American defended territory hand in Central Europe. jare being asked for approximately ing to scrap that section of the Ver-|versity of Alaska, announces he Peau Wil henceforth be finger-\ pepate over the Farm Bill con- Civic Exposition, after the bomb explosion and the thrower had been killed. A second parade planned for to- morrow has been ealled off. British In Trouble {1200 workmen in negotiations be- printed and their records investigat- tinued at a leisurely pace today ed according to Chief of Police Dan wijth both chambers causing House Ralston. leaders to abandon hope of a final Tomorrow night “Miss Seattie” will compete with seven girls from Alaskan cities for the title of “Miss 4 sailles Treaty which forbids her to wi]l reach Juneau about December tween the Council and the Alaska fortify the frontier on the Switzz-|§ to conduct a five-week course e cannery. operators, erland boundary. |in geology and mineral determina- | The negotiations will have bear-| pelagier said conversations have tion. This will be the third con- |ing on the 1938 agreement bElwWeen peon eoing on with the lectures and SITKA BDUND\ The Central Labor Council in Se- French Republic from invasion by|work has been prepared for those {attle has announced that affilia-|Communists and others Who are who have enrolled before. This will |tion rights have been awarded 10 trying to overthrow the French be in addition to the regular geo- |the Alaska Cannery Workers Union, |government, which plot was recent-logy and blow pipe Work. {Local 2054. The Cannery Workers'|}y qiscovered when néarly ready to| Mr. Wilcox has completed mining [Union ‘36 also. condicting * xiEgotia- 1 sprung, courses in Palmer and Anchorage tions with the cannery operators Ofl g Ithis year, the total registration be- “Seattle has been cleaning up vag- yote this week-end. {Alaska,” who will be named “Queen Swiss goV-|secutive year the course has been 'ants,” said Ralston, “and a lot of genator Borah talked for an hour of the Exposition” tomo night,| A British lawyer, E. T. Mait- the cannery operators and the Met- ernment for the past year. The offered in Juneau and a series of 'hem have drifted into Juneau.ang a half against the bill on the Juncau Alaska Moore was named land, formerly Advocate of the al Trades Council. | purpose, he said, was to protect the'advanced Their presence here is undesirable|grounds that it would corplete after her Alaskan birthplace. The Shanghal Municipal Police, added laboratory to the tension by breaking a staff of a Japanese flag across his knee. and we will do some cleaning up of our own. If a man cannot ac- count for himself, he will be finger- | printed and his record investigat- ed.” It is estimated there are 300 or 400 men on Juneau streets who have no visible means of support. | “There is no place in Juneau for bureaucratic control,” over farm- Alaskan girls who are trying for the ers. |Queenly Crown are Alyce Gustaf- Senator Borah said this would en- son, “Miss Petersburg,” Miss Seigrid e sald the Japanese soldiers mo- |tall reduction of crops when mil- Seppala, “Miss Fairbanks,” Miss lested him. The British police im- lions of persons throughout the Ella Day, “Miss Seward,” Miss An- mediately surrounded Maitland and country were hungry. |geline Burnett, “Miss Wrangell,”|took him under guard. Backers of the Wages and Hours| Miss Betty Chase, “Miss Valdez”, An American business man, Vin- |Bill began a new fight to save the|and Miss Dolly Halmberg, “Miss Ket (°¢nt Read, was injured in the face \measure from critics plotting to|chikan.” when one of a group of Japanese Three More Take Off to Join Three Others at Alaska Base Alaska. - . GALE [ | * UP ATLANTIC NEW YORK, Dec. 3. — Closing! quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 12%, American Can| |85, American Light and Power 7%, 4 ;Anacondn 31%, Bethlehem Steel! _ (54%, Calumet 8%, Commonwealth| g land Southern 21, Curtiss Wright! Steamers Are Behind Sched- 3%, General Motors 36, Internation-| . |al Harvester 677%, Kennecott 37%.! ules — None Arriv- |New York Central 24, Southern Pa- ing at Boston |cific 22, Cities Service 2, Pound 184.99%, Bremner bid 2 asked 4, Re-; public Steel 18%. | SEATTLE, Dec. 3—Three more Naval planes of Squadron VP-19 %" tock off from Sand Point this morn- STOCK QUOTATIONS ing for the naval base at Sitka. % Three other planes, hopping for the/ north yesterday morning, over- nighted at Kendrick Bay and took the air from there this morning. The airplanes are under command of Lieut. Comdr. D. C. Allen. Stralfi;fiiififiv Hitting Babies BOSTON, Mass,, Dec. 3. — The worst gale of the season, out of the D {ing two hundred. | Interest in mining extension work {has grown steadily since its incep- ;non three years ago. Total regis- tartion in the Territory for 1935 was 469, topped by 612 last year. | | Mr. Wilcox was graduated from the University of Washington in 11919, later returning for his mas- |ter’s degree in ceramic engineering, and receiving his engineer of mines |degree some years later. He has had practical engineering experience |in Arizona and various parts of the | ‘Territory. | i The course is open to anyone |interested and is presented in such | 'a way that both the beginner and |the season prospector will benefit, ' |it is announced. | loafers,” Ralston said. ... ANOTHER CLUE, BRUNEMAN CASE Third Safety Deposit Box, | Containing Jewels, Is Discovered in L. A. LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 3.—| { els in a safety deposit box in Holly- Martinelli Quits | While Under Fire Tammany Leader, N. Y. County Clerk, Hands in Resignation R FLYINGFORTRESS IS HEADING EAST FOR TEST FLIGHT (Big Boeing Bomber Weighs Over Thirty-three ALBANY, N. Y, Dec. 3.—Albert Discovery of $50,000 worth of jew-|marintelli, Tammany leader, has submitted his resignation as New| Tons SAN RAFAEL, Cal, Dec. 3.—The officers punched him because he refused to move. The city was dangerously tense late today. Talks Straight Out Col. Price, in securing immed- iate removal of the Japanese sol- diers from the protected area in the International Settlement, reminded the Japanese military commander, in no uncertain terms, that the pres- ence of Japanese soldiers could and would not be tolergted. This took place in a spirited interview and U. 8. Marines, nearby, looked any- thing but passive. The Japanese Commander assured Col. Price that he was unaware Japanese soldiers had marched to the American sector sea, has delayed vessels due to ar-| There is no cost except for man- irive, but the harbor is calm. |ual and blowpipe, Mr. Wilcox ad- The following are today's Dow,| Nantucket Lightship reports the vises. Quarters will be announced Jones averages: industrials 127.55,|wind is raging with a velocity of 75 later. |up 241 which makes a jump of 544 mijles an hour frem the northeast| has struck infants in St. Elizabeth’s |in two days; rails 32.35, up .60; util-|ganq not a vessel has approached the | Hospital and ten babies have dledfmes 2251, up .01 entrance to the harbor. sflari" Head obaring within the past few days and nights | > —— A report from Norfolk Virginia, formed the Coast Guard that an| . . unidentified steamer is drifting in a | FI "d s s I l d e I’ heavy sea off Hatteras, probably‘ and eight more are ill. |c t_ f {says the tanker Gulf Prince has in- p | Beats Buzzard Midnioht Dynamit Midnight Dynamite DOW, JONES AVERAGES weod, held in the mame of George Bruneman, slain gambler, is an- nounced by District Attorney Buron Fitts. The District Attorney said the box is the third found by the inves- |tigators in their effort to learn the |identity of the men who shot Bru- |neman down in a beer parlor last 'month and also killed a bystander, | Frankie Greuzard. York County Clerk to Gov. Lehman!Army's greatest flying fortress left {in the face of charges of Public here today enroute to Wright Field, |Prosecutor-Elect Dewey that he is Dayton, Ohio, after landing at this |unfit for office. city’s airport yesteréay at the end Dewey asserted Marintelli is a po-iof a flight from Seattle. ‘ litical ally of racketeers, harbored The great bomber, weighing 67,000 a Federal fugitive and consorts with pounds, was built by Boeings in Se-i known criminals.” attle. Major John Corkille is flying | > the big craft as test pilot with nine HY H observers aboard. u lllca arIIB The craft has a cruising range of 4000 ies 2500 gallon . wg ol .~ Dissolved, Brazil 3 and immediately ordered them out and this was done with dispatch. PULLMAN RATES T0 BE BOOSTED WASHINGTON, Ix 3—~The In Commerce Commission has <l of a fare increase on west~ railroads, effective within 10 s and means an increase of about CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 3.—Dr. Her- man Bundesen, President of the| Chicago Board of Health, announc- es that a deadly intestinal malady | | | wsoline ery and refused to take any obstet- rical cases. — e, | THOMPSON TO FAIRBANKS U. S. Meteorologist Howard J.| nd ea The type oft he malady has not been determined. | 2 {with a disabled steering gear. | Is erme" s a | Messages received from out on| By IFC Chairman The hospital has closed the nurs- the Atlantic says the storm has | spread there and big liners are roll- | | n OLD UNION OIL I ing and tossing. | MI. s R e . | e ien e bee % oo BlastWrecks BMgs RIO DE JANERIO, Dec. 3. — DOCK COLLAPSES 2500000 for the. travelir. puntie | gaged for the next several weeks at| JUNEAU HlGH TO ‘mght, Lewis Barringer, of Phila- 1 President Vargas, who, _under the o 1]);: basic h::mt :s Pulliy 1 rates - i ther station fur- . delphia, tol il newly drafted constitutional rules n Ol whar! on the|Which are raised from 2 cents to the Fairbanks weal 8 | SEATTLE, Dec. 3. — Fishermen elphia, told a group of state avia L it e " ; e ppeos il nishing data for the Sir Hubert|and fishing boat owners have been, ~ HOLD CHRISTMAS |tion otficials here today. | CAMDEN POINT, Mo, Dec. 3— |Brazil with broad powers, today collapsed and only | - Wilkins expedition which is mak-|asked by the International Fisheries ing another search for the missing‘ct)mmbflm in session here to co-| Soviet fliers. ‘opera'.e in the rehabilitation and o ‘prowctlon of halibut resources in ROWE TO ANGOON |the North Pacific. R. R. Rowe, water power engineer| “It is your opportunities that will for the U. S. Forest Service, flew to be conserved and your investments Angoon today with Sheldon Sim-|in boats and equipment that will be mons in connection with the wnter]stabillud.” said Edward Allen, power survey he is making in thnt|Ch.lfirmnn of the IFC, in presenting area. the appeal. . | Barringer, who is General Man-|Two persons were injured serious- CONCERT DEC' 211“" of the Soaring Society of Iy when three business buildings ;America, said motorless flight will were demolished by a midnight dy- Plans are underway at Juneau put more people in the air because namite blast. The origin is un- high school for the Christmas con- it is the “cheapest way to fly.” | known. cert to be held on December 21,/ Mechanical wings, said Barrin-| when the Glee clubs, quartets, and ger, can gain altitude with no moluri a capella choir will be presented in | power, faster on upward currents of | a program of musical selections. |air than the buzzard or the hawk,| Diverce was granted in Federal Outstanding Christmas songshave | the finest soarers in the feath- Court today to Stella George from been chosen for the occasion, ered kingdom. Gus George. - DIVORCE GRANTED decreed the dissolution of all poli- tical parties. Gl e GOLDSTEINS ON NORAH Mr. and Mrs. Charles Goldstein are returning to Juneau next Mon- day after a trip to California where they have visited with relatives and frionds. The Goldsteins will come North on the Princess Norah. of the spproach remains. wharf caved in due to “sub- terranean lag.” Only a few months ago the Union Oil Company moved its equipment to a new. location on the Alaska Juneau rock dump. No real loss resulted from the dock’s collapse, although it had been the Union Ofl Company's intention to give the structure to the City of Juneau for a garbage dump. | | DAYS T/ 'Me CHRISTMAS o A

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