The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1937, Page 1

THE DAILY ]UN!:.AU ALASKA WEDNESDAY DECEMBER |5 1937 MI:MBER AS ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SOCIAlP D PRLS Indzan Youth Killed at Cabin Party Lmhml mlh Bv gian Km o _ FATHER HELD s AFTER SLAYING THIS MORNING Two Others in _]all as Wlt- nesses to Tragedy as Of- ficers Continue Probe | DRINKING ALLEGED * | BEFORE SHOOTING One Shot fromvHigh Power | Rifle Reported to Have | Caused Fatality , Following an alleged drinking party in a two-room cabin just south of the City Cafe, early Lms‘ morning, Willie Phillips, 17, Indian, was shot and killed with a 30-30; rifle and his father, Henry Phillips, | 53, is held in the Federal jail on an open charge. Sam Carillo, Filipino, and his wife, in the cabin at the time of the| shooting, were placed in the City| jail as material witnesses. Autopsy | and investigation were being held | this afternoon, 1 According to officers, a gallon of wine was purchased around 10 o'clock yesterday evening and la-“ ken to the cabin. Shortly before 2| oclock in the morning, Carillo heard a shot from the next room,| he told police, and rushed in to| find Willie shot in the face and his, father Henry standing near the) body with a rifle in his hands. | “I'll shoot you too,” Carillo said the elder Phillips shouted, and Ca-{ rillo grabbed the gun wrenched it from his hands and fled with it to| the City Cafe where he found| Night Patrolman Jack Wilson eat-| ing. | “That man’'s drunk!” shouted Ca-| rillo, witnesses said. “He’s got three more guns there and he’s going m\ kill somebody!” Wilson phoned Roy Hoffman, who!| called Chief of Police Dan Ralston and the Marshal's office, then| rushed the Indian boy to the Gov- ernment hospital where he died at| 2:50 this morning. Willie Phillips is survived by his| mother, three sisters and a brother. \ The sisters are Mrs. Elizbeth John- son, Juneau; Annie K. Anderson,| somewhere in Washington State, | and Agnes Carillo, witness to the shooting. The brother surviving 15 Moses Phillips, now at McNeil IS- FOR FUNERALS release Sam and Agne.a Carillo tms ! afternoon. e |Soldiers Musl Lose Drills to Pay Last Respects | AGAINSTBUND | ™. %.on INCITY LIMITS 5 snssros csowss | WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—There lare getting to be so many military SOUTHBURY, Conn., Dec. 15— |funerals around this place that a This town, at a public meeting, soldier can't keep in practice on his adopted zoning regulations aimed fighting. | Lady Anne Cavendish-Bentinck, 2 Portland, whose name was recently of Belgium after unexpected ing Lady Anne. accident two years ago Leopold’s European prir STREAMLINING against the establishment of a Ger- | man-American Bund camp within| the city limits. CHAPLIN, WIFE NEAR DIVORCE HOLLYWOOD, Cal., Dec. 15. An officer who had done a spell at nearby Fort Mayer, from which ‘Washington gets much of its parade | material, said that some times there |are six or seven funerals a day in |Arlington and it cuts into an out- |fit’s drill time amazingly: The officers and soldiers are properly respectful of veterans of tne several wars, all of whom are ntitled to Arlington burial. But ‘afte: all, they don’t know one in a hundred of the men whose bodies The film colony is buzzing with ru-|are brought to Arlington for burial. mors that Charlie Chaplin and Pau-| The result is that funeral duty, lette Goddard are on the verge omn the eyes of the soldier and his a divorce. s o o el Maine Woolen Mills to Close AUGUSTA, Maine, Dec. 15—Gov. Lewis O. Barrows announces “pend- ing suspension of work in the woolen | mills in Maine.” The Governor said the action is understood to be taken because of competition, low southern wage scale being one of the chief factors. ——.—————— Scientists have classified the So-| lenopsis ant as a thief, which raids the homes of beetles, 'boss means jerely a half hour ride in a truck to the grave side, a | period of standing at attention while |taps is blown and then a bangaway ’mw the air with blanks in the sa- [late to which each warrior is en- | titled, STEADILY INCREASING Fort Myer, right across the Poto- mac from Washington, supplies the funeral escorts since it adjoins Ar- |lington cemetery. The other near- iby forts, Belvoir and Washington, |are several miles away. One effic- ient officer tried to have a special |detail assigned to funeral duty at |Fort Myer so it would not interrupt |training so much, but the Com- {manding General would not permn (Continued on Page Twn) 1, grflnddlu‘hler of the Duke of linked with that of King Leopold s to England of Leopold, Queen Mother Elizabeth and Prince Charles, the king’s bachelor brother. Official denials followed rumors that Belgium’s king visited the Duke of Portland’s Welbeck Abbey estate on a romantic mission concern- Since the death of Queen Astrid in an automobile name has been connected with 5-Year-0|d Glrl To Be Queen, Tournament Roses , Cal,, Dec. 15. — Miss Cheryl Walker, 15-year-old SouLh | Pasadena girl, has been chosen from more than 2,000 high school junior college coeds, as Queen of the Tour- nament of Roses parade on New Year’s Day. e H. 0. ROBERTS REELECTED AS HEAD, N.S.C.A. SEATTLE, Dec. 15—Humphrey O. Roberts, of Seattle, has been re- elected head of the Northwest Sal- mon Canners Association for a fourth term. Roberts is President of the Uganik Fisheries on Kodiak Island, Alaska. e BAKERY WAGON DRIVERS SEEK HIGHER WAGES Sanction to Be Sought for Strike — Action Will Cover Wide Section SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 15.— George Kidwell, Secretary of the Bakery Wagon Drivers’ Union, an- nounces the union will seek sanc- tion on Monday from the Central Labor Council to strike for higher wages and a rearrangement of the hours. The strike call will be for all drivers in the San Francisco o area and nearby counties, AID TAKEN T0 PILOT GILLAM FROM BARROW Sergt. Morgan Takes Tools to Repair Damaged Plane at C. Halkett POINT BARROW, Alaska, Dec. 15. —A driving snowstorm kept Harold Gillam grounded at Cape Halkett after he completed repairs yester- day to his damaged plane with tools |taken to him by Sergesnt Stanley |R. Morgan, of the United States Army, Signal Corps, in his snow- mobile. Morgan carried hacksaw blades and other tools to Gillam and then came back to Barrow with |a motor generator and part of the isuppll?.s Gillam was carrying from | Fairbanks for Sir Hubert Wilkins. Gillam is expected to take the air at Cape Halkett as soon as the weath er permits. He will only make a brief report by radio as he must use |his starting batteries in the trans- | mission and l‘ls batteries are low. ALASKABILLS ARE REPORTED ~ ONFAVORABLY Committee on- Territories in House Act on Measures By J. J. Secretary to Delegate Dimond WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—(Special Correspondence) — Favorable report was made by the House Committee on Territories on three Alaska bills on December 1. One of these was the bill intro- duced by Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond to authorize the transfer ofj| the city lot on which the old court house at Ketchikan now stands from | the Federal Government to the City of Ketchikan. This lot is desired| by the city as the site for a pubuc school building, and as it will no longer be required by the Govern-| ment after completion of the new | Federal building which is now un- der construction at Ketchikan, little,| {if any, opposition to the transfer of | the site to the city is expected in| Congress. The transfer of title is especially justified in view of the for approximately $13,000. The transter has not been objected to by any of the departments concerned. Exploratidn Bill Another of the bills reported is one between low and mean high tide on aska within the jurisdiction of the |United States. Present law pro- fact that the city provided the site| the new building at a cost ol‘ to extend the right to explore and! mine for gold and other precious| metals to all land and shoal water| all shores, bays and inlets of Al-| BOMBING OF PANAY TOLD Visibility Excellent at Time —Japanese Launches Also Made Attack SHANGHATI Dec. 15. — Jim Marshall, Far East correspondent of Collier's Magazine, one of the survivors of the bombing and sink- ing of the U. 8. gunboat Panay last Sunday, and who has arrived here, (said the Panay opened fire on the |attacking Japanese planes when the bombs started dropping and “kept her guns blazing until the last minute.” plane from Wuhu to which place he made his way after the attack on the Panay and the sinking of that craft. “The Japanese planes dropped 12 bombs around the Panay and Stan- dard Oil vessels and they came so the pilots not to know that the 3Panay was a foreign vessel,” said Marshall, “Visibility was excellent. The first bomb hit the forecastle of the Panay and when the vessel began sinking, then the Captain ordered her abandoned. “All the members of the crew and the passengers jumped over- side. I Janded on the deck of the Standard Oil ship Meian and was |statitk on the shoulder by sharpnel” Marshall said he had not seen Japanese launches machine gun- |ning the Panay before she went down as reported here by Colin McDonald, correspondent of the London Daily Times, who was an- other survivor. | Other survivors reaching here said the Panay anti-aircraft gun- Iners and machine gunners remain- ed at their posts firing at the | planes and launches until they were forced to flee from the sinking vessel. ALL FOREIGNERS IN NANKING ARE SAFE, IS REPORT New Chinese ve Riinn 1s Being Formed at Punchen to Resist Japan Advance SHANGHAI, Dec. 15—The Jap- anese Embassy has received advices |that 27 foreigners, including 18 Am- ericans within the walls of Nanking when that city was captured by the Japanese are all safe. ‘The Embassy report also said 150,- 1000 Chinese were in the “safety zone” but no foreign diplomatic of- ficlals were remaining in the Nan- king area or along the Yangtze BY MARSHALL, Marshall arrived here Lodny by close that it was impossible for | vides for this only in the Bering Sea}River fighting section. area. Enactment of this measure | Another battle is reported loom- would also amend existing law su‘m! as the Chinese have apparently as to transfer jurisdiction of suchrallied about 140,000 strong on a mining operations from the Secre- Inew line at Punchen in a desperate | tary of War to the Secretary of the| atwmm t6 halt the Japanese Interior, which would be in line wm)‘ for the purpose of undertaking pub- | lic works. In 1935 the Territorial Legislature made provision whereby the general laws relating to nammg on all public lands. The other bill reported out would‘ authorize public - utility districts in| Alaska to incur bonded mdebtedness any village or settlement in Alaska| UN WAB nEBT not in an incorporated municipality and having 200 or more population, WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — The could incorporate as a public-utility| Hungarian Government has paid district to construct and maintain the United States a partial remit- any kind of public utility. However,|tance of $9,000 on the war debt the initial investment in most pub-|and became the first nation, out- lic utiilties is so great that the dis-|side of Finland, to resume pay- tricts cannot set them up without ments. obtaining money through the issu- S RO ance of bonds for the purpose. It Fnrmel’ Reside“t unea, vies was to meet these situations where |a district proposes to provide itself| SEATTLE, Dec. 15—Funeral ser- vices will be held here Saturday for with an eletcric generating plant ;n-} a water system or other public util- Alex Ross, 78, who died Monday. Ross lived in Juneau for 30 years ity that the Delegate introduced and after goihg there in 1887. is sponsoring the proposed legisla- tion. Bonded Indebtedness The bill prévides that bonded in- (Continued on Page Five) Actress Penlvd Costume I gnites Jean Rogers, blonde actress, who recently held up the tradition that | | Ifuture of American rights Here NIPPON NOTE IS ANXIOUSLY AWAITED HERE Reply to American De- mands on Bombing Inci- dent May Make Issue BROADER QUESTION MUST BE ANSWERED Whole Future of Rights in China Involved in Re- cent Warlike Raid WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.— The United States protest to Japan on the reckless and un- warranted bombing and sink- ing of the United States gun- {boat Panay on the Yangtze River last Sunday, informed persons declare, has raised the broader question of the whole in ! China. President Roosevelt and “the show must go on” when she reported back to a Hollywood studio after she had been treated for burns caused when her costume caught fire. former Olympic swimming champion, Playing in an ancient setting with Larry (“Buster”) Crabbe, Miss Rogers’' flimsy dress whisked over one of the temple urns and immediately the garment went up in flames. blanket before the damaging flames irplane Price Going Upin ’38 CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 15. — Th(‘ heavy demand of governments for! military aircraft is announced by J.' B. Manning, President of the Avia 2l tion Corporation and is the reason for predicting higher retail nlrplam" prices in 1938. S RS [lueslmnmg Citizenship Of F. Kurhn WASHINGTON, Dec. 15. — The House Immigration Committee has asked the Department of Labor to| investigate the activities of Pritz Kuhrn, leader of the German-Am- erican Bunds before he became a citizen of the United States. The committee has not decided whether to recommend cancellation of the citizenship. | Gold from Japan | Arrives on Liner SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 13‘ —Gold valued at approximately | $5,000,000 arrived here today aboard the liner Tatsuta Maru from Japan and was taken under heavy guard to the new mint here. | — - e - TERS LEAVE Louise Nelson and her sister Mrs. Margaret Burke were passeng- ers this morning on the steamer Al-| aska for Ketchikan to spend the holidays with their parents. | Louise works at the Juneau Ice| Cream Parlors. Mrs. Burke is the‘ wife of Art Burke, who works for| the Pay n’ Takit grocery store. |a right to picket” ! the union will keep pouring pickets Crabbe quickly wrapped the young aciress in a reached her face. [}REAT BRITAIN GIVES WARNING, WAR INCIDENTS Secretary of State Cordell Hull today awaited a direct reply to the formal note sent to the Japanese Government the Panay. The note not only requested adequate repara- tions for the sinking but also a guarantee of no further “un- Jlawful interference” of Am- {erican rights. It is on this latter issue that responsible persons declared a showdown - 'might come in American and Japanese relations, unless Ja- pan agrees unconditionally to the United States terms for an amicable settlement. A majority of the House members have signed a peti- [tion to bring about a vote on the Constitutional amend- ment requiring a popular ref- erendum before the United States declares war. Secretary Hull said: “I am unable to see Jthe practicability of this. pro- Recurrence of Attacks on posal l‘mm a standpoint of Shipping Will Im- ~ |peace.” pair Relations LONDON, Dec. eign Secretary Sir 15.—British For- Anthony Eden today informed the House of Com-) \mons that Great Britain is seeking definite action by Japan to guard against a recurrence of attacks on British shipping. The said that the Japanese Government must realize that recurrence of such incidents in the Far East must im- {pair the relations between Great Britain and Japan. e PICKETS ARE ericans Kille ]un(hrr consideration. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 15—Efforts at mass picketing by men, women and children was undertaken at the Ford Assembly Plant here this [morning and the police immediate- ly herded the first 150 in the picket lines in patrol wagons and took them to jail. Included in the numbcr were 22 women and eight | children. Carl Stevens, the CIO, asserted that representative of “we have aroun dthe plant “if we have to '|ill every jail in Kansas City by ! is all about | night.” The trouble getting the employees of the plant to become members of the CIO’s Automobile Workers of America. e The ancient name for the river of Lvdm Asia Minor, was Pactolus. British Foreign Sccxetaryv and he declared |- OFFERS INDEMNITY TOKYO, Dec. 15.—It is of ficially announced here this afternoon that Japan, already ‘having apologized and offered indemnity for the warlike at« itacks on the U. S. gunboat Panay is prepared to go “even {further if necessary” to meet the diplomatic emergency. Government officials also said that as an additional ges- ture of regret, a National Sa- lute to the American flag and military honors for the Am- ans killed Sunday are ——————— ANTI-JAPANESE PARADE STAGED CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Dec. 15. —An anti-Japanese parade was staged in the streets here today by 0 members of the crew of the Pan- ama-Pacific steamship California. SHOPPINGY DAYS T CHRISTM » C " - LL \ R