The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1937, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VO L. LL, NO. 7670. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1937. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS * PRICE TEN CENTS 'THREE NEW DRIVES PLANNED BY JAPAN q - DURING TODAY * * * * * * » * » * * * * » * * * * * * * * * - ‘Hurried Orders Issued to U. S. Coast Fleet CONGRESS TO END SESSION House Already Recessed| Pending Action on Hous- ing Bill in Senate BULLETIN —WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—The Senate has pass- ed the Administration’s Hous- ing Bill. The measure is de- signed to encourage the flow of private capital to the lagging construction industry. A similar measure has passed the House. The Senate and House confer- ence committees will now seek to reconcile the differences be- tween the two houses and ad- | Jjournment is expected tonight, Ccngress quitting after a five weeks' session without carrying out any of the President’s rec- ocmmendations. R HORTEST DAY; THAT'S THU AY Cheer up—especially those who get up early in the morn- ing. It is admitted that recent mornings have been darker— but perhaps tomorrow will be darker because it is the short- est day of the year and the be- ginning of winter. Perhaps the days will be getting longer soon, but you will hardly notice it for several weeks, anyway. e e e 00 0 L3R TELEGRAPH RATES MAY 60 UP NOW | Two Major Companies An-| nounce Intention to Ask Increase NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—The West- CovernmentIs Showing Apathy, Alask_anefense Statement—Boosts for Air Mail Service Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said Imuch attention to detense of Ala: |ka as those of Mars or the moun- |of the Moon. “Just as important in the national defense is the air base in Alaska as the two additional battleships {the President is asking for,” said the Delegate. The Alaska Delegate made the statement after learning that Gen. Malin Craig stated that it is pot likely funds will be available tor ‘lht‘ Fairbanks' base nex* year. jern Union and Postal Telegraph able. WASHINGTON, Dec. 21. — The Companies have jointly announced | | House recessed early this afternoon intention to apply to the Federal Appropriations committee to provide a two hour period after Majority Communication Commission for a 15 for additional air mail service and for (Leader Rayburn announced the of Congress might| percent increase in rates. The increase, it is said, is needed The Delegate urged the House ‘said he encouraged the thought as |part of his recommendations are Delegate Dimond Makes, | WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Alaska | the Government is paying about as LABOR DISPUTE, PAC. NORTHWEST IS UP TOF. D. R Understood Facts Have Been Placed Before President by Perkins WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The La- bor Department announces that | | President with factual information in the Pacific Northwest. The officials described the action is purely routine but Senator Fred- erick Steiwer interpreted it as “pos- sibly a preliminary move of the President to intervene in the dis- pute.” 'on the current AFL and CIO dispute | Secretary Perkins has supplied the| g | Senator Steiwer recently conferred | with the President in an effort to 'obtain action for settlement of the |dispute in Portland, Oregon., where Delegate Dimond said Alaska is seven sawmills have been shut down | too close to Japan to be comfort- by refusal of the AFL to accept the| Labor Board's decision in naming | CIO employee representatives. 'OH COME ALL YE F AITHFUL ... "' and other songs of Christmas are echoing SEAPORTS OF CHINA ARE TO BE ATTACKED Land, Sea and Air Move- ments Feared Against Important Cities |MYSTERY CHANGE IN WAR VESSELS IN CAL. | Nine Destroyers Rushing to San Pedro—Person- nel Mobilized SHANGHAI, Dec. 21.—Japanese troop and warship movements today aroused Chinese fears thau three of the nation’s great coastal cities may suffer the fate of fallen Nanking. It is expected that the Japanese will make drives from land, sea and air against the following three coastal towns: Hangchow, Chekiang Province, seaport, 110 miles southwest of | Shanghai. AFL AND CI0 ARE UNABLE REACH ANY AGREEMENT special session adjourn later. Leader Rayburn asked for the re- the two telegraph companies are cess, explaining the Senate leaders jeopardized by a decline in revenues. hoped to pass the Housing bill ati If the increase is granted it will 3 o'clock this afternoon and in that be the first in 30 years except dur- event the House will be able to re- ing the World War period when the |Fairbanks to Bethel, also Tanacross, ceive it and speedily send it to con- | Utility Government was in control.|Valdez, Cordova, Seward and An-| ference, thus completing this ses-| iChorage, | sion’s legislative business. ‘HOLI.DAY PARTIES ARE James’ Church as its famous boys’ choir puts Approximately 100 voices are blended in this beautiful stained glass windows. these days through the lofty beams of New York’s St. final touches to rendition of hymns for the Yuletide. group. Their church is also renowned for its great organ and |because the financial resources of incorporated in the Appropriations bill reported to the House in Jan-! uary. The Delegate @lso asked for| funds for a weekly summer alr‘ mail service, Fairbanks to Nome,| Canton, China's southern- metro- polis. e Tsingtao Shantung Province, sea- port to the north. A party of 300 American and Brit- BRITISH MAKE .- s VEILED THREAT oo % 5 st iy AGAINSTJAPAN |Hankow as the result of a military Premier Chamberlain Inti- boom across the Yangtze River at Matung, 100 miles above Nanking, mates ‘‘Something " May Occur obstructing the passage of their vefugee vessel, the British river LONDON, Dec. 21. — Premier SUDDEN ¥ieea MOVEMENT Chamberlain told the members of| SAN PEDRO, Cal, Dec. 21.—The 'Hearings on Measure for i & Protection to Fisheries | Deoven—All Negstitioek In Alaska to Start Feb. 1| Rl 01 | pigoN il " FDR SUPPORT, PRESENT TIME —_——aeo—— Black Rapids WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Chair- man Schuyler O. Bland, Democrat,! of Virginia, of the House Merchant Marine, and Fisheries Committee, announces that hearings will begin! |next February 1 on Alaska Delegate Dimond’s bill to protect Alaska sal- mon fisheries from exploitation by foreign interests. The measure authorizes the Pres- ident to set up “salmon fishery en-| steamer Woosung. The United States destroyer Pope has arrived at Tsingtao where the U. 8. cruiser Marblehead is due to- |day to aid in protecting 300 Ameri- |cans in that threatened port and |to evacuate them if necessary. } J WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. — The peace conference between the AFL and the CIO collapsed today after N N Glacier Quits; y It's T s fln n a half-hour session. | George Harrison, Chairman of |the AFL Peace Committee, came | FAIRBANKS, alaska, Dec. 21— out of the conference room and The migrant Black Rapids Glacier, told the newsmen: “The confer- : which attracted a lot of attention €nce is all off.” | WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Alfred | . | Ralph Anderson, deckhand on the Estebeth, owes his life to Gus Gus-| tafson, skipper of the well-known motorship. Anderson was knocked from the Standard Oil Company dock this morning by a truck, fell 20 feet, struck the Estebeth’s in- board guard rail, breaking his leg and falling into the icy waters of | Gastineau Channel from which he H was pulled by Gustafson. “ Immn“s B “r"s Anderson was working with a' fueling hose on the dock when a truck driven by Ralph Merrill, for-| Sheldon Simmons returned from mer schoolmate of Anderson’s, went a flight to Sitka yeste:/iy in the out of control, though moving slow- 'Alaska Air Transport Lockheed with ly, on the ice-coated dock, and two passengers from the Historic struck Anderson in the back, knock- City and one passenger from the Co- ing him into the harbor. Ibol mine. In falling, the young deck}umd! struck the guard rail of the Este- W, C, T. U. ADMITS beth, 20 feet below and fell inmi ous class rooms from 1 until 2 o’- | | | | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 21. ; | PLANNED TOMORROW Deckhand Breaks | Y GRADE sTuDENTs . i R . H With Christmas holidays just two| I-e In a r“m |days away, students at the Grade| | School are completing plans for par- . !ties which will be held in the vari- . 0" nflsk tfl Bay clock tomorrow afternoon. Holidays will be Thursday, Fri- T day, and Monday, beginning after Ralph Anderson Knocked 2 pm. tomorrow. Into Water by Truck M " on ley Dock Whizzer” Wins —Byron “Whizzer” White, Uni- versity of Colorado All-American halfback, ran through the right answers and has won for himself one of the four Rhodes’ scholar- ships. .- 1 | | last spring by starting to move down into the Big Delta river valley, ap- parently has gone into hibernation with the bears. | A member of the CIO delegation M. Landon, former Governor of also indicated the same thing. |Kansas, has given President Roose- | Harrison asserted that he saw no |velt a pledge of ‘“cooperation and use for continuing and said: “We [support in the difficult foreign sit- Col. Harry Revell, a roadhouse have nothing more to offer so we uation contronting your Adminis-| keeper, telephoned he hears occas- ional noises from the glacier across the river, but that it hasn't moved for two months, and he believes the thrunders are from ice pinnacles falling and the glacier adjusting it- self to the moraine beneath its feet. The glacier face still is 2,000 feet from the river bank, but puts out onto the gravel flat which the river floods each springtime. PHILLIPS BOUND OVER TO G. JURY AFTER HEARING Henry Phillips, Indian, charged with manslaughter in connection with the fatal shooting of his son, the water beneath the dock. Cap- tain Gustafson leaped to the rail| and grabbed Anderson, half sense- less, by the neck, until Archie FOUR NEW MEMBERS Four new members were admit- ted to the Women’s Christian Tem- Beaudin, Estebeth cook, reached the 'perance Union at the organization rail and aided Gustafson in bring- |meeting yesterday, at which Mrs. Willie Phillips, here last week, was bound over to the grand jury by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray to- day following a preliminary hear- ing yesterday afternoon. The shooting occurred in the Phillips cabin on lower Franklin ing Anderson to the deck. With the tide too low to take Anderson up to the dock, Captain | Gustafson forced the Estebeth at | {full speed to the Ferry Float where‘; a waiting ambulance hurried An- derson to the hospital. An examination by Dr. William P. Blanton, Standard Oil Company physician, revealed a left leg brok- en above the knee. Yesterday was Ralpp Anderson’s 22nd birthday. Thursday, Ralph was going to go Outside to radio school. His Christmas will be spent in bed. e ,————— ALASKA SNOW FALL {d. E. Click, president, presided. Mrs. C. G. Bloxham, Mrs. Charles Personeus and Mrs. H. L. Wood were speakers at the meeting. New mem- bers were Mesdames Stanley Jack- son, Weiss, Turner, and Harold | Smith. The next meeting will be January 17, ————— OFF FOR KETCHIKAN Kelly Foss is aboard the Yukon for Ketchikan to spend Christmas with his parents. — .- SOUTH FOR HOLIDAYS Lisle Hebert, Alaska broker with his headquarters in Juneau, is a passenger aboard the Yukon for Se- Street during a family argument, according to officers. Phillips said at the hearing that he was trying to wrest the gun from his son when the tragedy occurred. SON IS BORN TO LIVINGSTONS ON PHILIPPINE ISLE A letter from Mr. and Mrs. C. W. ston. have decided it is no use to dis- cuss peace any further.” B e LATOUCHEDOCKS | |criticises members {both parties and said that “by their |actions INJUNEAU WITH BIG DECK GARGO | Thirty Tons of Machinery Aboard for Sommers Construction |W. Westerholm and Purser Tom o'clock last night with a heavy load of freight for Gastineau Channel. | Principal freight was about 30/ tons of machinery and equipment | belonging to R. J. Sommers Con-| struction Company, loaded at Hyder to be discharged at Juneau. The Sommers . shipment included four trucks, one gas shovel and miscel- laneous equipment. ‘Two narrow guage railway coaches are also on deck as well as drilling and bulldozer machinery. The rail- way coaches are going to Skagway Route. One of the coaches was used | recently in the States for the film- packages” Santa left for the “best ing of a pioneer picture. |gram and made public by the State ! | Department. |said: The freighter Latouche, Capt. A. these troublous times.” Keating, docked in Juneau at 10:15 LARGE ATTENDANCE, inight in the Legion Dugout, more |than fifty being present for the for the White Pass and Yukon Santa Claus, but the feature of the of a son to Mr. and Mrs. Living- dise, freight for the Alaska Juneau 'O!Ng for “best looking woman,” tration.” | The pledge is contained in a tele- | The G, O. P. nominee for the Presidency in the last campaign in Congress of helped to create the im- pression with foreign nations that they do not trust your Administra- tion of foreign afiairs and they would hamstring your conduct of an extremely delicate toreign situa- | tion.” President Roosevelt, in replying. “The generous spirit of your telegram helps me in the problems which confront our country in the tield of foreign relations during CHRISTMAS PARTY OF LEGION GROUPS! With a Christmas tree, Santa| Claus and everything, members of Alford John Bradford Post, Ameri- can Legion, and Auxiliary enjoyed their annual Christmas party last gala event, Every one received a visit from evening was the awarding two “big | looking man in the house” and for| Livingston, rormer}y of Juneau, now; Coal was being unloaded today at the “best looking woman present.”| quotation of Alaska Juneau stock | resident in Baguio, Philippine is-jthe Pacific Coast Dock and also| 10y Sandness won the best look- toqay s 11, lands to Mr. and Mrs. Wilton Lager-|aboard for Gastineau Channel is|/ng man honors without a struggle,’ gren of this city, tells of the birthja consignment of general merchan- Pt a close contest developed in the ( forcement areas” in any waters ad- jacent to the Alaskan coast where| foreign operations threaten to de-| plete the fish. PG GRS A | FIGHT FOR POSSESSION OF TERUEL Spanish Loyalists, Invaders Are Locked in Ter- rific Battle [ | | | HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Fron- tier, Dec. 21.—A battle of strategic| Tereul, and one of the greatest in the House of Commons today that sudden order last night transferring “no attempt has ever been made by hine destroyers from the San Diego Japan for a peaceful settlement” ot base to the main body fleet at San the war in China. Pedro, and for the entire personnel ese Government shows it is not un-| mindful of the rights and interests| of foreigners and their assurances and apologies mean something more than words,” said the British Prime Minister, “or something may occur.” “It is now time that the Japan- FISHERMEN IN MERGED UNION Officers Are Elected at Meeting Held in Astoria, Oregon ASTORIA, Oregon, Dec, 21.—Matt| the 17 months’ old Spanish-Insur- | gent Civil War, raged into the sixth Barinovich, of San Francisco, has| day today. been named Executive Secretary of All last night the civilian popula- the new United Fishermen of the tion of the battered Spanish pro- Facitic, with headquarters at Se-| vincial capital cowered in under- attle. ground tunnels awaiting word re-| The new union has been formed by a merger of the Purse Semeraj Union of the Pacific, the Salmon| Purse Seiners of the Pacific and| garding the city’s fate. Searchlights played over the bat- tle scene and illuminated the var- fous areas and shots of machine |Deep Sea and Herring Fishermen's guns and pinging of rifles echoed URion. E through the streets. i The new union started with a membership of 1,000. Delegates to the Federated Fish- % ermens’ Council of the Pacific have| STOCK QUOTATIONS elected John F. Jurich, of Seattle, OB Lo Dl B U s President; Charles Carlson, of Cop-| per River, Vice-President; and Mar-‘ NEW YORK, Dec. 21. — Closing |tin Olsen, of Portland, Secretary. i | VISITS LOCAL CLUB| | | A SR | S L American Can 74%, AR[ American Light and Power 7, Am:- | ROT AN s' CLAUS conda 3%, Bethlehem Steel 62'%,| of the aircraft scouting fleet to re- port immediately for duty was des- cribed later as a ‘“serious mistake.” But the movément continued how- ever. The sailing of the destroyers under, forced draft and the hurried gather- ing of personnel of the aircraft scouting fleet recalled wartime | scenes. The order for the movements fol- |lowed a few hours after the publi- cation of a letter by Seeretary of State Hull saying the present time was not an opportune time to with~ draw American war craft in the Orient. Today there is apparent secrecy in naval ship contemplated move- ments. It is known there has been secret orders issued to the Asiatic |fleet now in Oriental waters. It is also rumored that there might be a “hasty” dispatch of some ships of the coast fleet to “unknown™ des- tinations. e ee—— Wilkins Delayed On Polar Flight Account Weather POINT BARROW, Alaska, Dec. 21. —Cloudy weather Sunday night pre- vented Sir Hubert Wilkins trom making a flight in search of the Russian trans-Polar party missing since last August 14. Wilkins plans further test flights, weather permitting, but should bad Commonwealth and Southern 2%, | |the men graciously contending all The following depts of snow were reported on the ground Monday af- ternoon, December 20, at stations of the U. S. Weather Bureau in Alaska: Bethel, 3 inches; Cordova, none; Dutch Harbor, 6 inches; Ketchikan, none; Kodiak, none; Fairbanks 8 inches; Nome, 2 inches; Juneau, none. The ice on the Chena river at Fairbanks was 26.5 inches as against 24,0 inches Dec, 21, 1936. attle to spend the holidays. He is accompanied by Mrs. Hebert. ——.—————— GOES TO KETCHIKAN Jesta Timmerman is aboard the Yukon for Ketchikan where she will spend Christmas, then proceed south later for a brief vacation trip. — Mrs. Charles Whyte, who came from Petersburg to attend the last rites of her father, returned to her home aboard the Yukon. dock, and dynamite for Dupont. The new arrival was born on No- ounces and was named Ross Wal- ter. The Livingstons made their home in Juneau for many years, leaving here three years ago for the Philip-} W. A. Pries, who has been in Ju- pine Islands where Mr. Livingston|neau in connection with the bidding is an engineer with the Baguio Gold|for the leasing of the Metlakatla Mining Co. While in Juneau, Mr.|cannery, accompanied by his wife, Livingston may better be known|is aboard the Yukon for his Ket- as “Curley”, a ball player of ability./chikan home. go to the Westward. PRIES LEAVE Unloading may be completed by !he women were attractive. vember 13, weighed 9 pounds, 9|tomorrow night. The freighter will|a close ballot, honors went to Edith |Sheelor who was awarded a powder !set. {and Auxiliary will join in giving a agked 4. ‘Pmt. Curtiss Wright 3%, General Motors | 33%, International Havrester 71, Kennecott 39%, New York Central L 20%, Southern Pacific 22%, United States Steel 61%, Cities Service 2%, Next Monday night the Legion pound $4.99 15/16, Bremner bid 2 After Christmas party for Sons of the Le- gion and the Junior Auxiliary. The' DOW, JONES AVERAGES affair is scheduled for the Dugout The following are today's Dow, at 8 o'clock, taking the place of the jones averages: industrials 12998, regular business meeting of the yp 90; rails 32.65, up .07; utilities 2181, up .39. | Rotarian S. Claus paid a visit w‘ the Juneau Rotary Club at its week- | ly luncheon in Percy’s Cafe this| noon and brought along a full bag | of “presents” for the Rotarians, | ranging from “hula dangers” to| | “financial statements.” The visiting | Rotarian mfssed nobody and with the aid of George Walmsley and Charles Carter distributed gifts lustily. It was a gala fun event for the local clubmen and visitor Claus won a warm reception. | weather continue he-may be forced to abandon his flight until the next full moon.