The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA VOL LL, NO 766] “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME”, JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1937. KA MI:MBLR ASSOCIA b hD PRLS " PRICE TEN CENTS JAPANESE ENTER GATES OF NANKING STORM HITS ALONG COAST, NORTH, SOUTH Gale of thraordmary Pro- portions Prevails— Planes Grounded NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HAS HEAVY RAINFALL Center of Disturbance Is in Mid-Pacific—Sweeping to Wash., B. C. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 10.- A storm of extraordinary propor- tions deluged the Pacific Coast slope today with gales from 50 to 70 miles an hour velocity that whipped the entire - coast line from Alaska south to the Mexican border and then farthér. Small boats have been driven to shelter and deep sea craft pitched in tremendous waves but none have reported being in distress Little damage was reported up to noon today The rainfall in Northern Cali- fornia ranged from one to five in- but damage has been nom- inal. Forecaster R. C. Counts, Jr., said a marked rise in rivers is ex- pected. He said the storm is “one of the largest ever seen and extends from the Pacific Coast to mid-Pa- cific, Hawailan Islan to Alas- ka. The center of the gale is 700 miles off the Washing Coast and is moving northeastward toward ‘Washin n and British Columbia The storm along the Pacific Coast has gmunded all p]anes‘ MERCURY SLIDES DOWN AS JUNEAU FOLKS SHIVER Weather Buleau Predicts Letup May Be Expected Tonight—3 Above Today The thermometer stood at above zero at 3 o'clock this af- terncon, it was announced by the Weather Bureau and still going down. caes Juneau experienced its coldest weather today since February of 1936 when the mercury sank to four above zero at 2 o'clock this after- noon and was still moving down- ward. The temperature has been gradually lowering since night be- fore last with no let-up. The previous similar cold wave was in February of last year when 5 below was recorded | The preseni cold spell is accom- panied by a strong northeast wind which reached a maximum velocity of 29 miles per hour at 11:21 last mnight, the Weather Bureau report- ed A break in the cold snap is fore- WH(ERE BEAUTY WAS DUTY, southeastern florists’ meeting at Memphis, Tenn., chose Miss Margaret Rowe, Mewmphis high school girl, as “Sower quezn.” PRESIDENT IS URGING AID TO U.S. RAILROADS Sanctions Inuease in Rates, Fares, to Obviate Govt. Ownershlp BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Dec. 10.—The Interstate Cemmerce Commission has over- ruled the petition of the Na- tion’s rail systems for an imme- diate 15 percent increase . in freight rates and 2'; cent crease in passenger fares. in- WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today said the In- terstate Commeree Comnission| should séek to preserve solvency of | the Nation's railroads with a view of retazining them under private management and ownership Discussing the financial situation of the Nation’s carriers at a press conference, the President said the quicker final determination is reached on the application of railroads for higher freight and passenger fares, the better will be all around The President said he wants to avoid Government ownership but at the same time he desired to re- mind all that railr could not continue steps being taken to adjust nancial setup. | Yesterday, railroad systems in the east, requested the ICC to grant re- quests for a 15 percent freight in- crease and 2% cents a mile in- crease in passenger fares, - o> BIG CONSPIRACY SUIT FILED FOR MANY MILLIONS Over Five ‘inousand Are Named Defendants in Damage Case some a fi- cast by the Weather Bureau as it| predicts clear weather tonight, but| not so cold. CI0, AFL ARE IN NEW FIGHT Lewis’s Organization Now| Forming Upholsterers Into Union WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.— The CIO has renewed hostilities with the AFL, announcing steps will be taken to bring upholsterers, affiliated with the AFL, into the new industrial union of John L. Lewis. 1t is said that the CIO has issued a charter to the new union to be known as the United Furniture Workers of America DIVORCED; WEDS NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Marcella Edwards, the fourth Mrs. Tony Nan- ville, and J. Freedorn Carlisle, Jr., broker, were married here last night. He obtained a divorce in Reno from the ashestos heir on November 29. now | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Ivan Francis Cox, depos Dec. 10.— ed Secre- |tary-Treasurer of the International) |Longshoremen’s Association’s Local, and its successor, the ¥aternational | ‘W‘nehomemnns Union, has filed a 39 100,000 damage suit charging con- spiracy against more than 5,000 de- | fendants. The action names among the de- ’andrmt\ Harry Bridges, Coast Di- rector of the CIO; Henry Schmidt| and John Shoemaker, of the Long- shoremen’s Union; Mrs. Alice Ros- siter, head of the local National Relations Board, and the Thirteen District Communist Party. Five |thousand others are John and Jane | Does. House Expected Pass Farm B||I the! it} THREE GRIME SUSPECTS GET OUT OF TRAP Abduction, Death Syndicate Members Escape from Paris Police IN—Paris, Dec. 10.— Reger “Scarface” Million and Jean “The Little One” LeBlanc, sought by the police as accom- plices in the kidnaping and s ing gang which murdered pretty Jean Devokan, American dane- ing girl, have surrendered. Mil- licn surrendered to the police here and LeBlanc to the police in Versailles. BUL i \ PARIS, Dec. 10.- The asserted Scarface Chieftain of the “abduc-| ,tion and death syndicate” whose “expert in murder,” slew Jean De- Voken, pretty Brooklyn dancer, has escaped a police net and he 15 nov ought by roving patrols on high- | wys in Southern Eastern France.| The police said the Chieftain’s| mistress, the third suspect, was with 1im. Three persons fled from the Ho- tel Nantna during the night after a mysterious telephone call to their apartment. The authorities have identified i the alleged leader of the band which sought to build up a profitable bus- iness by kidnaping and death, as Roger Million, a Frenchman. The authorities believe Million is the man who employed -Fugene Weidman, 29, former German con- vict and killer of the gang. Weid- man confessed yesterday, when placed under arre of the DeVoken girl, and also four Imen, one of them a supposed mem- ber of the crime syndicate. The hotel was surrounded this morning but when the police enter- ed, the trio had escaped. M QAL U GILLAM OFF FOR BARROW 'l i FTkob Chidsimas ML Ades Radio Transmitter to Aid Wilkins FATIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 10. Pilot Harold Gillam plans to fly to Point Barrow today, taking Christmas mail and a special radlo‘ |transmitter for broadcasting to Sir Hubert Wilkins when the Ilatter| starts searching for the six missing Soviet fliers during this month's full moon. | Gillam said: “While it is not likely | |that the lost Russians are still alive, |these Arctic flights are contribut- ling to the knowledge of winter (ly-4 'ing conditions.” SEMI-DARKNESS PREVAILS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 10. — to the Kkilling | DURING DAY WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The Ro,umg out into the black sub- House, reversing itself, has decided Arctic night, Gillam left here &t by a vote of 219 to 175 to restore 7:10 o'clock this morning for Point compulsory control of wheat in the Barrow. He planned to fly by way Administration’s farm bill and ex-|Of Alatna and expected to make a pect passage of the measure late Donstop flivht, arriving at Point today. |Barrow at 1:30 o'clock this after- ————— noon. Friends are congratulating Mr.| Point Barrow radioed there was a and Mrs. Victor Gill of Anchorage 2,000 foot ceiling this morning upon the birth of a daughter at the| Most of the flight in semi- Anchorage hospitl recently. arkness, is la IVORY MARKET FOR NATIVES OF NORTHPLANNED Individual Sales to Be Dis- continued in Hope of Building Industry of selling ivory goods made by the natives of the Arctic direct to individuals will be discontinued after this year by the Indian Office and efforts made to |build up a -more substantial com- {mercial industry along that line for the benefit of the native craftsmen, it was announced today by C. M. Hirst, Education Director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, who arrived at his headquarters ih(‘r(\ last night aboard the bureau |vessel North Star from the Arctic. | The Director said he had con- tacted dealers in native articles all the way from the Arctic ith and found that they were unatle to get sufficient supply to meet their demands. Thus in the future it is planned to dispose of such goods direct to the dealers in those ti with the aim of {creating an established market for the natives of the north and as-| {suring them a permanent income. | | “We could have disposed of twice of goods we brought | — BEING LEDTO | GALLOWS I found the dealer demand more | than we could meet. Right here in there is a big market for | Thbee tuiie’ Slayer Jumps 30 Feet, Breaks Neck, Witnesses Horrified The practice along are But in U. Ami Iast year. First foreign trade—b that with El S are at present inactive. n return, ag ivory products aside from the l()(ll< | trade of summer and we ,\huuld ’Lc able to build up an established market for our native people in- |stead of the custom of selling to individuals which has been fol- lowed.’ Furthering the program, {Hirst said that V. R. Farrell, has been teaching at Nome, been appointed to have charge of native arts and crafts work and will be stationed here to direct the |activities, Mrs. Farrell arriving here v\nh him on the North Star. Mr. |Farrell has had supervision of tk |work in the Arctic and has know ledge of what the natives can pro- |duce and the volume. { The idea may be extended to the reindeer trade, Mr. Hirst said, if' cooperation of meat dealers can be assured, thus creating another stablished market for native out- put. | | | Mr who has BO n & former wile and owed death to cheat He died a suicide at 12:24 o'clock is morning, Mountain Time, at ibout the hour he would have been | hanged Van Slack’s parents, who came! here from Tacoma to bid him fare- well, were among the horrified wit- nesses as he leaped 30 feet from a| gallery at the side of his cell tol 7 Ry |add his life to the three he had ‘Our ambition is to build a perm- taken two years ago. At the time anent industry for the native PeO- |1 had just started on the death Elf‘v?r lbhe north so that they may . e to the scaffold. ave the ccomi)mxc x{ldepeindence | by G. H. Wahle, Prison physi- Which they are entitled,” he said.|,,p “gaiq van Slack died as the On his extensive trip, the Di-| gy of g broken neck. Van Slack |rector contacted most of the In-|,ran gaid he would never hang. dian schools and reported them| " yap glack was convicted of slaying fetiing fighs in. #oed Kugpe {his former wife, Mildred Hook, 22, Do |whom he kidnaped from her Taco- ma home. He had never been tried ’STHIK l NG clfl |for the Kkilling of two officers, State |Patrolman Fontaine Cooper and {Deputy Sherift Henry C. Givens, {shot when they stopped him on a |highway to interrogate him about Indictments Are Returned Ford Worker Charges Assault | prisoner's upper lip. kidnaping and slayisg his former wife. ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 10. — Two| Secretary of State Ira Masters members of the striking CIO United jand also Secretary of the State| Automobile Workers Union in the| pPrison Board said: “It appears St. Louis Ford assembly plant, have Ithe blade was smuggled to the pris- been indicted by the grand jury nn‘oncr and this accounts for his bleed~ charges of assault to do great bodll\‘ ing at the moulh harm. [ The men are listed as Fred Beeler, | i | member of the Union’s Executive HEAvY SNuw Committee, and Russell Fairchild. They were arrested on November 24, | the first day of the strike. | The complaining witness is Gus Margelis Ford worker, who <laun‘ LONDON, Dec. 10. — The first |heavy snow of the winter hampered | | communication in parts of E:umpe | today. There has been a 20 hour fall of‘ he was dassaulted. snow in Germany and train and Five Are Kille, Slippery Stregts .- czx - two ofiicers, bor- the gallows. { INVESTIGATION ORDERED BOISE, Deec. 10.—An investi tion into the suicide of Van Slack {has been ordered after the cor- |oner reported the discovery of halfl‘ |of a safety razor blade under the LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 10.—! William Dieterle, film director, and |his wife Charlotte, were seriously injured and five passengers killed {last night in traffic accidents on |streets made slippery by the season's| first heavy rain. Claims Record For Flight, Nome 'To Fairbanks FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Dec. 10. ————————— Pilot Jack Jefford claims a speed| FIRST TRIP OUTSIDE |record for a flight from Nome w‘ Kenneth Porter who has resided Fairbanks. Jefford covered the dis- in Anchorage since birth, left re- tance of 540 miles in 2 hours and cently on his first trip to the States. “1:’) minutes. J ement in Secretary Hull's program to stimulate swapping trade privileges with other countries was signed with Cuba in 1934. tvador, signed last February. Of the eight negotiations pending, those with Spain and Italy One is to revise an wmun[ agreement with (,lnxdn f | Brazilian Government |contract with three British {for construction of six destroyers at t fereign customer, the United Kingdom took 18 percent ($440,122,000) of all U. S. Britain ranks second only to Cinada as a source of U. S. imports. international Mlssmg Fliers Found, Rescued From Ocean Isle MANILA, Dec. 10--Life on a tiny tropical island is not so bad if you pick the rizht islan. e ranking P igh i med ar d The officers had inhabitants of the isle led t Monday 0 tel lef where they eir plan with nk: Major General Santos, Chief of the Army staff and Col. Segundo, Chief of the Intelligence Corp. talked the dialect of the fisher folk who had never heard of Manel Que- zon, President of the Philippine Commonwealth. Army, navy planes and sea craft had been searching since Monday for the lost Philippine army offic- ials who were believed to have gone last down in the typhoon raging Sunday and Monday. e C10 WINS FIGHT WITH AFL TODAY AT OREGONMEET PORTLAND, Ore.,, Dec. 10—The American, Federation of Labor has been beatén in a test of its strength over CIO controlled employees in the Inman Poulson lumber mill, one of eight big plants shut down |four months ago following a union| jurisdictional dispute. In a meeting called yesterday by| Gov. Martin to allow mill employ- ees to choose a bargaining agency, CIO over AFL 376 to 183. “Qpen the mills!” Governor Mar- tin demanded. “Martin may open the mills, but he can't open the market!"” re- ‘lfi“dlcd Gust Anderson, Secretary or the Portland Labor Council to- Answermg the AFL threat of a boycott, George Brown, CIO offic- ial, said “AFL and a boycott could- |n't stop enough lumber shipments to build a smokrhou 8. Brazil flrdars Six Destrovers RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec, ha 10.—The ssued a firms |a total cost of about $14,400,000. Ceee— Walter Mickens left Cordova re cently to visit in California where he plans to attend the Rose Bow! | game, AMERICA’S TRADE TR[ATY TIE- UPS B Agreements signed ] Negotiations announced o State Department’s announcement that the United States and the United Kingdom (England, Wales and Seotland) scon will begin dickering for a reciproc al trade agreement represents the sledge-hammer blcw in Secretary Cordell Hull's effort to break what he sees as the shackles on world trade. Sixteen such agreements have been signed, and negotiations for eight others (counting one revision) S. exports involved, the prospective agreement with Britain tops them all As 5. exports business—particularly U. S. Latest is LANDON I$ NOT CANDIDATE IN 1940 Form er ’Repubhcan Nom- inee Ma Le\ Announce- nent in Washington four | nomin not ed in the announcement (o the n, on his arrival here his morning to attend the Gridiron Club dinner, Landon emphasized that he did not mean withdrawing from politics and said: T am taking this step so I can be more active in the Republican puarty affairs.” The former Governor of Kafs: soon after his arrival here, was invited by telephone to the White House for a visit with President Roosevelt this afternoon. The pur- pose was not disclosed. Senator | Arthur Capper will accompany Lan- ‘don to the White Hau.se LINER WITH 600 PASSENGERS ON BOARD, AGROUND Presideist Hoover Reported Stuck on Small Isand, Calls for Help MANILA, Dec. 10. — The Dollar Line steamship President Hoover is aground on a small island south of Formosa. The steamer Preussen is rushing to the aid of the President Hoover in response to wireless calls for help. Capt. Yardley has asked the Preu- sen how many passengers the ship can take aboard. Over 600 passengers are aboard the Pr lent Hoover I'he plight of were intercepted e Borly of Missing the liner became' > |NIPPONESE ARE INVADING CITY ON ALL SIDES Purple Mountain, China Stronghold, Is Stormed Then Captured FRONTAL ATTACK IN { FULL PROGRESS NOW | Terrific Bombardment Fol- lows Refusal of De- mands to Surrender BULLETIN—SHANGHALI, Dec. 10.—~The Japanese Command an- nounced late today that Kuan- chuan, the principle southeast gate of Nanking's massive walls, has been captured by a large detachment of Japan's Ninth Division and the Nipponese in- fantry has surged through and occupied adjoining sections of the walls. TOKYO, Dec. 10.—~The Dom- nei,. Japanese News Agency cor- respondents, have sent word here from Nanking that the Japan- vie troops have captured the city’s southeastern gate and are eniering the city. The dispatch o confirmed the capture of Mountain dominating the { Nanking. Squadrons of (nese planes- are sid to be for bomb attacks, 18 gates to blast’ th for Ja- concentra N ng on for raug sed Gen. sur- by Loday noon or 1 assault, Four hours the panese asserted that of the 100,000 soldiers encirc- ling the city had captured Purple Mountain overlockifig Nanking. This Chinese position is on top of a hill nd previously the artillery fire 'om the hill kept the Japanese rom making a frontal attack. ' Several hours later the Japanese spokesman said he assumed the Ja- panese troops already have pene- truted Nanking's great wall and were engaged in mopping up open- ions, which, he explained, meant szreet fighting. No report has been received as to whether Americans in Nanking are safe. Seemingly all communications inside Nanking have been sev- a gener ter J ered More than 50 planes supported the ground troops in the assault .on Nanking durlnq the a™ernoon. * s Found Dead In His Cabin Kougarok District Miner Passes Away — In- quiry Started | | | | NOME, Alaska, Dec. 10. — H. 1 Bronson has been found dead | his cabin in Yacklin Creek, Kougar- {ok district. He was associated with fartin B from and T Satic : claim. v has been started as to ath i A DOESN'T MOVE FAST EANS, Dec. 10.—Larry ha en with the New uthern association base= for 23 years as player, | f¢ Alaskan Found - D nd business manager. 1 Tt appeared n year ago during a bliz zard while enroute from Nome to his quartz mine, has been found by two Eskimo. - Simone Simon plays tennis to ‘keep her weight down. J