The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1937, Page 1

w THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LI, NO. 7660 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1937. AMERICAN GIRL KIDNAPED, THEN SLAIN IN PARIS Beauty's Bo?Found Bur- ied in Shallow Grave— Killer Is Arrested VERSAILLES, France, Dec. 9.— The body of pretty Jean Devoken, 22, Brooklyn, N. Y, dancer, miss- ing since last July, has been found buried under the porch of a St. Cloud villa, where police were di- rected by a German emigre, Eugene Weidman, 29, who confessed to the slaying. Weidman also confessed to the murder of four men, police said, l)e-; cause he needed money. Pretty Jean Devoken’s body was found under two feet of hard clay and seeped water. The bodies 01, two men were buried nearby. Police said Weidman came to| France last March to escape mxh-‘ tary service in Germany. He led | investigators to the villa outside of | Paris and pointed out where he had ouried Jean Devoken. The two men disposed of by Weid- man were Raymond LeSobre, found | dead ten days ago in the same villa | and a young man named Roger Le- Blond The fiend also did away with a taxi driver named Couffy, and Arthur Frommer, once a friend of the killer's. i Arrest After Gun Fight | Weidman was arrested at the villa yesterday after a gun fight in which two officers were wounded by shots from Weidman's pistol. After an all night seige of questioning, police said Weidman broke down and ad- mitted that he had kidnaped Jean Devoken, taken her to the villa and | strangled her the next day. Rob-. bery was his. motive, he said. i The killings were all traced from the discovery by rental agents of LeSobre's body in the cellar of the — villa. Investigators got on the trail of Weidman and found him living in St. Cloud where he was captured after a gun fight. “Who else have you killed!” de-. manded the officers, presenting evi-! dence of the LeSobre killing. Weidman wrote on a piece of pa- | per, “Jean Devoken.” ‘ MOTHER GRIEVED ference to a salmon whether he is| NEW YORK, Dec. 9—Mrs. De- Nationals Wlll Be Barred, Mrs. Mrs. Robinson and hotel of N eaten by a Christian or by a Bud- fioja)s saiq they they did not know| koven, gray haired mother of the murdered beauty, was prostrated with grief upon hearing of her daughter’s slaying. i “What an ending. It means the' last ray of hope is gone"‘ she cried. CAPITAL,LABOR SPLIT WIDENS | AT CONVENTION Charges Are Mad by Both| Sides at Chmc in New York NEW YORK, Dec. Q.VModxtica—} tion of the National Labor Relations | Act in favor of the employers was‘. vigorously opposed today by Charles' Fahy, General Counsel of the Labor Board. He was outspoken at the “labor clinic” session of 3,000 indus- trial leaders attending the National Association of Manufacturers con- vention. The industrial leaders listened in silence to those seeking an olive branch and found no comfort from! Fahy who said further: “You want to impose on labor| unions more drastic regulations. You advocate putting the unions out of business.” . Ernest Weir, Chairman of the National Steel Corporation, told the association delegates that -capital and labor “must not only get along asserted that the Government’s at- titude in the “present situation, is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in a rational get together.” KILLED MATE; T0 FACE JURY GOODING, Idaho, Dec. 9.—Mrs. Genevieve Pruett, 33, has been ordered to stand trial in the District Court on a charge of murdering her husband, Donald Pruett, 25, of Los Angeles, on November 24. M Hahn Loaws for Prison Oscar, 12-year-old son of Anna Marie Hahn, carried his mother's luggage from the Cincinnati jail as officials prepared to take her to a cell in Ohio Penitentiary at Columbus to await execution next year for the poison slavmg of Jacob Wagner. U.S. MARSHAL | AT NOME, DIES One of Delaratic War Horses of Alaska Pass- es Away in Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 9—Thomas Gaff- ney, United States Marshal of the Second Judicial Division of Alas- ka with his headquarters at Nome and one of the Democratic war horses of the Northland, is dead here at the age of 70. Death was caused by diabetes. The body will be sent to Nome for interment on the first steamer next season. Thomas Gaffney had been in Se- attle since November 5 when he ar- rived here with Federal prisoners from Nome. He had been a resident of Nome for 37 years interested principally in mining. He was a former mem- ber of the Territorial Legislature. Gaffney had been Marshal of the Second Division since the first Roosevelt Administration. Survivors are a brother in Ireland and a sister in Boston Gaffney was not married. American Couple Disappears from I nvasion of Ja panese Fishermen i Waters Vexatious Case, soscow, Predicts Japan Will Take Step, Alaska Fishing . Declares Miller Free- man, of Seattle SEATTLE, Dec. 9—Miller Free- mdn, of Seattie, Chairman of the t Committee for Protection of Pacmc Coast Fisheries, predicts |that Japan will bar her nationals rmm fishing This will be done, Freeman says, in the interest of harmonious relations between the United States and Ja- pan. NAVY PLANES MAKE REGORD NONSTOP TRIP {Fast Flight from San Diego to Canal Zone — All Craft Land Safely SAN DIEGO, Cal, Dec. 9.—Their 3,000 mile flight completed in 24 hours and 20 minutes, 14 Navy planes that left here yesterday morning for Coco Solo, Canal Zone, landed there at 8:40 o'clock a.m., Pacific Coast Time. All fliers landed safely, the Navy advices said. The flight was without incident although the planes fought storms for the last few hours. The time bettered by 5 hours and 38 minutes the nonstop flight of 12 " but can get along together,” but|planes on the same route last \yun,‘%Bn.sLol Bay. But they have not ta- !Munkeys toBe Used, Fighting Infant Diseas NEWARK, NJ Dec. 9.—A plane has left here for Chicago with 15 rare Rhesus monkeys which doctors planned to use to make serum for seven infants who have been stricken with a rare intestinal mala- dy in St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Chi- in the Alaska area.; i | in Alaskan By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. — Right when the United States was trying to toe-dance out of the spotlight of the Brussels conference, the so- called Japanese “menace”’ bobbed ff our own Alaskan c The Japanese, it is claimed, have dropped their nets in our own Vi best salmon run. Maybe it doesn't make any dif- dhist but it makes so much differ-| ence to west coast salmoneers who catches the salmon that a labor| boycott of Japanese shipping Is threatened. 1 A boycott of Japanese ships which | {might have resulted in refusals to| unload or load them in U. S. harbors |was once tentatively set to go into| ;Pflect November 15. The day pass- ed without the boycott starting. TREATY DRAWN UP This government has had trou- ble before with Japan over manage- ment of sea-going crops. The pro-| longed contest over who could Kkill the most fur seals brought that once profitable business to such a low| ebb that it was threatened with ex- tinction. To save the situation, a treaty was drawn up under which all in- terested parties, including Japan, the United States and several other nations, agreed to permit Yankee sealers to handle the crop each year,| killing only what the safety of the herds would permit. Japan gets a cut out of the profits, along with the United States. But in the case of salmon the United States never has been dis- posed to share the crop, contending that since the fish were fostered in American waters they were almost American citizens. By a sort of gentlemen’s agreement, Japan has abided by this unofficial agreement! —until the past summer. For several years Japanese ships in considerable number have op- erated off the Alaskan coast along the shallow banks running out from ken salmon. They have scraped the bottom with trawls te pick up “rough fish,” such as flounders and the like. In addition, they have caught and canned crab in that vicinity in copious quantities. American fishermen have had no yen for this business. They could not compete well with the !Jupanese whose crab-canning crews often were mere hoys working for pennyweight wages. But a “factory ship” that appeared joff Bristol Bay last summer began taking salmon, or so the Bureau of Fisheries feels certain. The State Moscow Hostelry (New Yorl—(—e;s Object of Search by United States Embassy Dec. 9.—The myster- and Mrs, York, | ious disappearance of Mr. |Donald Robinson, of New {has been reported to the United| (the December full moon. States Embassy. Mrs. Robinson told acquaintances last night that her husband had| disappeared, but she was not alarm- ed. She said officials at the hotel |where she was staying, told her| that her husband had been taken 1Y (to a hospital where he had developed | with the six {pneumonia and had been placed in| {down between the 80th Parallel and England states to Amarillo, Texas. an iron lung. the name of the hospital. Callers| this morning found Mrs. Rnhmson {had left the hotel, but omcmls v.here denied any knowledge of the |whereabouts of the coup]e FIRE TRAP IS FUNERAL PYRE {Flames Raze Tenement| Early This Morning— 22 Make Escapes ‘ KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Dec. 9. Firemen today dug the bodies of| nine victims, seven of them chil- dren, from the ruins of a flame- razed tenement house fire. C. M. Johnson described the old Chief | - capital. WILKINS WILL * MAKE SEARCH - ATFULL MOON Believes Lbfiiers Can Be Seen ey're Near Plane ; POINT BARROW, Alaska, Dec. 9. —S8ir Hubert Wilkins said he ex- |pects to make a search flight for the missing six Soviet fliers during Wilkins said: “For two or |days on each side of the full moon, la man can be seen at three miles. |1f the men have not wandered |{from their plane they can be lo- cated quite easily.” Wilkins believ the Soviet plane men aboard went e North Pole. Wilkins will work from here, also |from Aklavik as long as his gaso- |line supp]y ld.sLs RAILROADS T0 RAISE TARIFFS; REQUESTMADE | FUR 9 PERans Freight Rate and Passenger | Fare Increase Sought from I. C. C. WASHINGTON Dec. 9.—The Ab- |sociation of American Railroads to- |day asked the Interstate Commerce |Commission for an immediate in- ments must be made. R. V. Fletcher, General Counsel cquipment to more strategic points. three crease in freight rates and passen-| |ger fares, saying there is need of | immediate relief or service curtail-! Y 5 As Chinese troops deserted the besieged city of Shanghai, Japanese invaders' moved their strength Field guns, heavy artillery and tanks were moved closer in (o the retreating Chinese troops as the Japanese made a new stand in their advance on Nanking, the Chinese Photc shews a Japanese tank leaving the outskirts of Shanghai over | which only a few weeks before Japanese shells had partially destroyed. Japan’s Conquest in Chum, oans, Told Ter What It M TEMPERATURE GOING LOWER, ~ WIDE SECTION Biting Win;is Pi|ing Up‘ Fresh Snow Drifts—21 Deaths Reported NEW YORK, Dec. 9. has settled down cold is more severe through the |south, east and west, with sub-| freezing temperatures in many uu‘ ies in many cities from the New | — Winter | deeper and the Renewal of biting winds harrassed upper New York State. Temperatures in the metropolitan area is expected to drip to 15 de- grees above zero tonight. | A 52-mile an hour wind blew J( ross Buffalo and parts of Western | ‘Ne\n York state piling up fresh snow | Deal]\s attributed directly or in- dlreclly to the weather stand at| {21 with five in the south, eight in New York State and eight in Penn- sylvania. BLIZZARDS ARE RAGING,CANADA Highways Ave Duhed in | Many Provinces, Halt- ing Traffic TORONTO, Dec. 9—Real (is chilling Canada. | Blizzards blanketed various Pro- two story structure a regular fire for the Association, made the mo- vinces and highway traffic has been trap. The fire swept through the tene- guments of the carriers for a 15 per! ment shortly affer midnight. Twenty-two, most of them chil-| dren, jumped from windows or ran| out to safety. The dead are Mrs. McKinley Con- | naster, 35, and three children, rang. ing in age from 4 to 12 years; Mrs. Cora Tate, 56, her son 17, and three |grandsons aged 6, 9 and 12 years. The blaze started on the second| floor, apparently from a defective flue. U. S EXPORTS HITTING HIGH Secretary Roper Predicts| Will Exceed Imports by $100,000,000 WASHINGTON, Dec. 9-—Secre- tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper estimates that the exports of the United States this year will exceed | Department declines to be so posi- (Continued on Page Two) the imports by $100,000,000, or more than three times as large as last{phrey Cobb wrote books entitled | The company is affiliated with the . year’s trade balance. |tion for the increase during ar- |cent flat freight rate increase and 2% cents a mile increase in pas-| |senger fares in the eastern ter-' |ritory. - Harold Lloyd | Insures lHu Glasses | HOLLYWOOD Cal Dec. 9 Harold Lloyd has insured his lens-| less ten cent store horn- nmmed glasses from Lloyds of London for $25,000. | The cheap stage accoutrement the famous movie actor has worn in the first scene of every picture he has/ made since he first crashed movie-| |dom, have been insured against “all | | risks.” {halted by drifts in many places Temperatures tobogganned to 30 degrees below zero CERTAIN MINE STOCK TAKEN . OFFEXCHANGE 'Requests Strlklng from List i of Mother Lode Coal- { ition Company NEW YORK, Dec. 9—The Gov- erning Committee of the New York chk Exchange said it will ask the and renamed it Manchoukuo. |Nanking as so much mopping up. \lem of keeping her wings over Man- sai winter MPMBLR ASSOCIAI‘! D PRLS PRICL: TLN CENT‘ & and a flimsy wooden bridge, By M()R(x\N M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The eastern military terms and Chinese labels galloping through the news- papers these days can be translated into one simple English sentence: Japan has hands on about all of China she wants, or can hold, the time being | far Now let’s see what that means to| China, Japan, and the map of Asia. We will have to go back to 1931 when Japan took over Manchuria That | brought a half million square miles under Japanese influence. The recent foray into the five provinces of North China has given| the island empire another half mil- lion square miles. It's easy enough to add these |two chunks of territory. They to- tal a million square miles of Moth-~ er Earth. In United States mileage, that would be the eastern half of| the country, from the Atlantic ocean |to the Mississippi, with Louisiana and Arkansas thrown in | There's a reason why Japan prob- | ably will stop where she is. Most | competent authorities wnl tell you| a million square miles all any| modern nation can digest in a cou-| ple of gulps. That would menn‘ you could charge off all the blood‘ and thunder around Shanghai and That leaves Japan with the prob- chukuo and the five North China | provinces—Chahar, Hopei, Shansi, Suiyuan and Shantung. Yardsticks of the Future What has she gained? I asked that question the other day—of a man who has spent his| life in important posts in the Onenu and in Washington. Here's what h(-“ d “Japan does not know what she | has gained because all her newly won ground is relatively undevelop- ed. But of course, there are yard- sticks to indicate what the future holds . . .” First, the political yardstick. Japan will be responsible for the welfare of 110,000,000 or more peo- ple, who for many years have been | | | | for | NEW REGIME | nancier ]'(]M GAFFNEY Japmww Troops Advance on R(’trvatm o C huwsv |NVADER8 ARE HELD BACK BY DEFENSE FIRE Artillery On glr-ongly Forti- fied Mountain Re- peal Attack DAY-LONG BATTLE BRINGS NO RESULT Former Capital May “Be- come Scene of Horrors of War”—Ultimatum BULLETIN — NANKING, Dec. 9. — Japanese aerial at- tackers pounded this former Capital of China all day long but tonight the Chinese still held positions around the ecity, the artillery hammering stead- ily. The Japanese are closing in on the south and southeast but thus far the Japanese are able to bring enly the lightest artil- lery into play. BULLETIN — SHANGHAL Dec. 9.—The Japanese command has issued an ultimatum de- manding the surrender of Nan- king by 8 o'clock tonight, Pa- cific Coast Time, threatening otherwise that the city will “be- come a scene of the horrors of war,” JAPANE BLOCKED SHANGHALI, Dec. 9.—The Chinese artillery bombardment from the strongly fortified Purple Mountain overlooking Nanking has blocked the Japanese attempts to assault the Nanking walls. The Japanese spokesman here ad- mits that the Chinese defenders on the 1,300 foot hill have kept the Jap- anese from the frontal attack on the barriers through which an invading foreign army has never passed. Eighteen American citizens, in- cluding newsmen and photograph- ers, remain in Nanking. The Japanese forces are said to {be about five miles southeast but mm]l detachments are skirmishing with the Chinese within the shadow of Nanking's settlements. The Japanese admit losses in the battle now raging JAPANESE NEWSPAPERMEN ARE REPORTED SHOT DOWN SHANGHALI, Dec. 9—Several Jap~ anese newspapermen and photo- graphers have been killed in the present conflict and within the past {few days. One was shot down on the |Nanking front today. Three others have been killed in the fighting on the Shanghai Peninsula. - NORTH CHINA, IS INDICATED Wang Keh Min May Head Government—He Makes Demands on Japanese PEIPING, China, Dec. 9.—Reliable |sources report the. arrival here of Wang Keh Min, veteran Chinese fi- and statesman, around whom it is said, a new automous Government for North China will be formed with Nanking’s fall pre- dicted soon. A regime under bled white by war lords. Frequently ithe countryside has been overrun by | |soldiers. Business has been stunt-| ed, mines have been shut down,| transportation tied up. ! Japan already is beginning to bring order out of chaos in Man- choukuo. The point is, can she complete the job, and do the same thing for North China in the near future? Nobody knows. But it's| pretty clear that she can give North | China stable government, and stable government is the keystone of de-| velopment and progress. | Next, the military yardstick. Japan has driven a broad wedge | Lloyd is said to have few super- Securities Exchange Commission to into Asia between China and pow- |stitions, but when that first scene striké from listing and registration erful Russia ¥y taking Man- ,s shot, the spectacles are put into|the capital stock of the Mother choukuo, Japan cut off Russia from la special humidor and returned to Lode Coalition Mines. Company on year-round rail and port connec- a bank vault for safekeeptg. The big insurance policy is cost- ing Harold Lloyd $531 annually e | Both Irvin 8. Cobb and Hum- “Paths of Glory.” February 1, or such later date as the Commission may fix. | The governing committee said the |report of the mine indicated little jore is remaining. “Kennecott Copper Company, i tions with the Pacific, only Vladivostok, with ice leaving her a port that clogs in winter. Wealth of Natural Resources |preme political Wang Keh Min is predicted in all foreign circles. The Chinese statesman arrived here, reports claim, with Major General Helichi Kita, Japan's su- strategist in North China. It is said Wang has demanded the ‘end of warfare in North China and withdrawal of all Japanese troops before he will head a new govern- ment e UNDERGOES TONSILECTOMY Patsy Walthers underwent a ton- silectomy yesterday afternoon at the Juneau Medical and Surgical Clinic. €HOPP!N(J DAYS TILL (éulltixnlexl on Page Two) .