The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1937, Page 1

T VOL. LL, NO. 7676. HE ]UNLAU ALASKA WEDNESDA\ DLChMBLR 29, 1037 “ALL THE NEWS .41.[, THE TIME” MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRlCE TEN CENTS FOREIGNERS IN CHINA UNDER JAP LAW PARIS IS TIED UP BY STRIKE, P. S, WORKERS One Hundred Thousand Employees Lay Down on Their Jobs GUARDSMEN ARRIVE IN FRENCH CAPITAL Premier Chautemps to Use Force, If Necessary, to Restore Services PARIS, Dec. 29.—More than 100,- 000 Public Service workers, trom street cleaners to subway operators, disabled Paris today with a general strike. | Premier Chautemps ordered an emergency Cabinet meeting to deal with the situation, Subway and bus service is pm'u-! lyzed by a total shutdown. Water, gas and electric services| running on reserves | Squads of steel helmeted '\«Inblln" Guardsmen moved into the Capital City from the Provinces and other troops remain in adiness for call. Premier Chautemps condemns the strike and inferred that hidden reasons lay behind it, especially sig-| nificant in light of the recent Right-| ist allegations that Communis plotted to overthrow the Gover ment during the strikes of mid-No- vember The waikout, endorsed by the French Communist party, has halt- ed the services of the city's 3,000,000 workers. The strike is a protest, it| is claimed, against the wage And economy section of the 1938 French Budget which curtails automatic wage increases promised public employees in order to cope with thc cost of living. Premier Chautemps said force will be used, if nece y, to restore’ the various servici UNITED STATES WILL INCREASE SEA FIGHTERS Over “Growing Concern” ‘ International Affairs ‘ Is Indicated WASHINGTON, Dec. 29— Presi-| dent Roosevelt’s announcement ol the projected construction of t\\'o‘j new battleships and 16 lesser craft, left a distinet impression that his| “growing concern” over Interna- tional conditions might prompt him to ask Congress for even more na- val armament 1 “Facts are facts and the United States must recognize them,” the| President said in a letter to Chair- | man Taylor of the House Appro- priations Committee, citing failure of his own efforts to halt the world armament race. The President added: “The fact is that the world as a whole, and| not only a few nations, are not only continuing but enlarging on ar- mament programs.” are | | { | [ MATANUSKA FARMER IS HEADING BACK TO RANCH AT WASILLA Mr. and Mrs. Clyde V. King are stormbound passengers on the steamer Yukon, heading back to Matanuska Valley, where Mr. King has been “doing well” with a ranch about 5 miles from Wasilla. The Kings have been on a vaca- tion trip of about six weeks, visit- ing relatives and friends in Idaho. While in Juneau the Kings are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Se- bern. Clyde King is one of the “suc- cessful” ranchers in the long Mat- Valley, having built a six room house and supported three children and a wife on the earnings of root crops, principally potatoes In Mr. Clyde's opinion, “The Matanuska Valley is good to those who work.” - o The juvenile court originated in the United States. Rice, wheat and millets are the three greatest food crops of China. endangered i noon, | William M | hero, May Secure N Ann Corio, a top-ranking exponent of burl evmlu Dworrv sque’s 1r|p tease” art, announced she was planning to divorce her husband, Emmet Calla- han, an execut ive of the burlesqu said she may establish a Nevada MANY PERSONS ENDANGERED IN 3-ALARM FIRE Blaze in Larges! Hotel in Jersey City Quickly Controlled JERSEY CITY, N. J, Dec. 29 spectacular 3-alarm fire which the A lives of scores of the Plaza, was brought under con- trol quickly without tataiities. The fire started from a Christmas ree in the lobby Dozens of gu ladders to safety. Two men jumped safely from the sixth floor into life nets. Firemen carried others out from climbed down { the hotel. DEATHS REPORTED JERSEY CITY, N. J., City authorities, early said two persons were suffo-| cated in the hotel fire. Mrs. Ida| Thomas, 50, negro head maid, and arx, 24, houseboy, were overcome by dense smoke and failed to respond to treatment Witnesses said Marx died like a arousing the guests in their rooms by this after- ee e Former Ford Worker Is to Wed Pringess . DOORN, The Netherlands, Dec. — Prince Louis Ferdinand, 30, of the former Emperor of Germany, has become 29, grandson Wilhelm, engaged to Princess Kira, daughter |5 of Grank Duke Cyril, Pretender to the non-existent Russian throne. The Prince was once a mechanic in the factory of the Ford Motor Company at Detroit. GOP Chairman' Is Divorced by Mate TOPEKA, Kansas, Dec. 29. — Mrs. Laura Hall Hamilton has been granted a divorce from John Ham- ilton, GOP chairman, by Judge Otis Hungate. Mrs. Hamilton charged her hus- band with gross neglect of duty, abandonment for more than one year, and extreme cruelty, The divorce was not contested. Dec. 29.—| pounding on_their doors, | [before falling in & hallway e chain which headlines Ann. She residence. Admlralty Nicke! Found Wanting of Values in Report Mansfleld Penmsnla Ore { Suggested as No Com- ‘ mercial Threat l WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. — John C. Reed, government geologist, has reported that his study of the min- eral deposit on nickel content, field was on the the Is- Alaska, shows little The Alaska nickel a trocolite sill associated with Mertie Lode on properties in northern section of Admiralty land. | The property showed a nickel |content of 0.025 percent and a cop- \per content of 0.06 percent Other geologists expressed the |belief, privately, that this field will |offer no commercial threat to the !extensive Canadian nickel industry. Reed made survey of the Mansfield Peninsula area last sum- I mer i > British Flying a | AUCKLAND, New Zealand, Dec. |20— The British flying boat Cen- tau of the Imperial Airways, landed heie today after flying 1,300 miles across the Tasman Sea from Sydney, Australia in eight hours. as, e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 29. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 107¢, American Anaconda 297, Bethlehem Steel Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 37, General| Motors 292, International Harvest- er 64, Kennecott 35, New York Central 16%, Southern Pacific 18% United States Steel 537%, Cities Service 1%, Pound $%.99'%, Brem- ner bid 2, asked 4. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: up 1.22; rails 29.15, up .24; utilities 19.88, down .09, \Former President ! Is Honored by FDR WASHINGTON Dec. 29. — Presi- dent Roosevelt observed the Eighty First birthday anniversary of for- mer President Woodrow Wilson, by sending a wreath of bay leaves to the tomb of the War President. B | | 2t L Mansfield Peninsula, jpersons in the citys' largest hotel, o, Aqmiralty Island, near Juneau, Boat on Cruise Can | 69, American Light and Power 5%, | industrials 120.15, | PAC. NORTHWEST MENACED TODAY BY HIGH WATER More Rain g;ding Rivers Out of Banks — Com- | | ‘ munities [nundated ! SEATTLE, Dec. 29.—Floods now menace the Pacific Northwest as additional rain and melting snow ‘s[‘nl rivers out of their banks, in- undating farm communities and in- creasing travel hazards. | The rising water added to toll of the storm period and four are now reported killed in addi- tion to those who died in railroad wrecks. | Highway and communication paired. rail facilitie facilities are im- Chinese va ugees the | and | Rainfall records have been shat- | |tered. Additional | forecast for precipitation is tonight and tomorrow. | Small craft have been warned {and storm warnings have been posted for the Washington and |Oregon coasts. FAMEDWRITER PASSES AWAY ~IN NEW YORK Author ofi 'V;Archie and | Mehitabel” Dies of Long Il]ness i B ! NEW YORK, Dec. 20.—Don Mar- quis, 58, pioneer newspaper column- st whose satire won him fame in literary and theatrical worlds, died of a long illness yesterday. Marquis was described by Chris- topher Morley, who was a close friend of the columnist, as “the Imost philosophical humorist this cuunLry has ever known.” Don Marquis had been ill since 1936 when he suffered the first of a series of paralytic strokes that sapped his strength and finances. With him at the end were his two sisters, Bernice and Neva, un- married, who attended him almost constantly. Marquis is his inimitable *. abel.” remembered best by ‘Archie and Mehit- .- PLANE TAKES PLUNGE; THREE PERSONS DEAD Pilot, Bl1 nded by Heavy Fog, Attempts to Landton Ice TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec, 29.—Three persons were drowned early this fore {noon when a plane plunged into Lake Erie near Put-In-Bay. The \pilot was saved. The dead are Delbert Watkins, | Anderson, 45. | The pilot, |was rescued. The pilot fell into the open water iwh(-n blinded by a heavy fog and| N. Howard, 4 30, and Albert William Somogy, 37,! | lwhile he was trying to land on ice. *“|SCOTTISH RITE | OPEN HOUSE TO New Year’ Day will be marked |by the iraditional open house held| by the Scottish Rite Masons 1n [the Temple from until 5 o'clock. yassembling all Masons cf the tineau Channel district A large W. Hawkesworth as chairman R Memorial To Miners FAIRMONT, W. Va., Dec. 28 Funds will be raised by public sub- scription to erect a monument to the the Monogan mine disaster, the greatest in American mining his- |tory. The memorial will be placed |on the Clarksburg-Fairmont high- way. BE. ON SATURDAY9 Gas- | group of members will be| in charge of the affair with ('hzu'll.‘sl |352 men who died 30 years ago in} | Natives of Nanking foliowed their government in evacuating the Here are refugees trying to get the city. Hv’ml‘u Chine range of Japanese guns. IN QUEBEC AREA GOV(‘llllflf‘l]l Ol’del§ Ralbfl in Pay for All Under- paid Workers MONTREAL, Dec. vince of Quebec Fair 20.- Wage Board The Pro- hes issued an order providing for for workers minimum stand- wage increases is below the ards. The specific categories for 10 per cent wage ad legally fon wage increases will be in 5 per cent to ances in mini- fixed mums now cent of t Province's 670,000 wc 155,000 women > HIGH FLYING PROMISED IN NEXT 5 YEARS ers, including whose aboard a Yangtze river boat to be’ ce of Attack capital as Japanese troops shelled carried upstream and out of TH“USANBS WILL British Ace Diplomazt Relaxes (GET MORE WAGES 'MILITARY ACT IS APPLIED TO ALL SECTIONS This Right Is Claimed by Conquering Army of Nippon Nation SUSPECTS TO BE ARRESTED, TRIED Concern Now Felt Regard- ing Debt Owed—Cus- toms Go to Japan SHANGHAI, Dec. 29. — Japan's conquering army claimed “in prin- ciple” the right to extend the pro=- visions of its military law into | Shanghal’s International Settlement |and French Concession. “ Under this claim, the Japanese |troops could enter the foreign areas | still outside of Japanese control and arrest and try all persons suspected of crimes against Nippon's armed forces. The “military law” would bring |every foreigner under Japanese jur« | isdiction. | Debt Apprehension Growing apprehension in Shang- hai over the future of American and |other foreign firms of the China | nation’s ability to pay her debt One of the rare photographs of Sir Anthony Eden. British foreign minister, in other than a mood of intense concentration on interna- tional affairs is this one taken when he visited a London supper club with his wife. 155 Stk wn towr. - UNEARTHPLOT ~ PWA SPENDS 5 or 6 Miles Up INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. The traveling public will be offered air transportation at altitudes of six or seven miles with a speed of 275 miles an hour within the next five years. This is the prediction made by D. W. Tomlinson, research flier, to the members attending the Am- an Association for Advancement (II Scien OPIUM SECRET - SOLVED, 2 HELD CHICAGO, Dec. 28.—Two Chinese |were held on charges of operating an opium den. Confiscated in a |raid there was $1,600 worth of op- ium, two opium pipes and an op- ium lamp. The raid was led by Lieut. Wil- liam Cusack, twice before being thwarted in his quest for evidence ;there, Baffling in those previous raids was not only the absence of the drug, but the fact that people who had been seen to enter were not found Iby the officers | Recently Lieut. Cusack got infor- Imalmn that the third step on the |second flight of stairs to the third- |floor den was wired to give an alarm, |affording time to throw opium— but hardly customers—out a win- dow or down a drain. Lieut. Cusack and his men care- lnmy avoided the third step, sneaked |up to the flat and battered in the |doors with axes., Moy Tong, al- leged to be the operator, and Moy 1Yut were seized . IN MEXICO; 30 LARGE SUM; to the United States and other powers, is increasing. Daily landings of mer- cantile cargoes from Japanese ves- sels without customs examinations or duty payments is causing con- cern of China's external and inter- nal indebtedness, which has Leen guaranteed by the customs revenues, and which has been estimated at £110,000,000. BLOWING UP TSINGTAO TTANGHAL Dee. 0 € apparently pr handon the threalencd ! )f Tsingtao and began afgn of destruction, blowing up eleoraph, cable and radio fermin- fthe € i on: wer ke in Central Peru mas Eve according pitches received here today. damage is also reportu killed or injured in a n Christ- Heavy UNDER ARREST REPORT MADE ‘Big Business' Is MEXICO CITY, Dec. 20.—Secret Agents of President Cardenas reported they have arrested 30 p including public 11 women, on charges of implication plot the ave sons, officials and in an anti-agrarian State of Guanajuato ‘The pistols and ammunition is also nounced in seizure of a supply of rifles, an-| - Historic Place For Apartments LONDON, Dec. 28. — Norfolk House, town house of the Dukes of | Norfolk since the 17th century, is giving way to London’s current craze for streamlined flats. | The preseut Duke of Norfolk, . who has used the house only [(Jl’ coronation occasions as hereditary | earl marshal, has sold the mansion to a firm of contractors. Modernis- tic apartments with curved glass windows and the best of what Lon- | | gasboat, WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. — The' Public Works Administration rcporL'n it has expended one billion, one| hundred and seventeen million, six | hundred and seventy five thousand | dollars, from date of inception| through June 30, 1937. This includes | Alaska with a m.-nu total of $805,000. SMALL GASBOAT SINKS AT FLOAT: A 24-foot gusbont I:L’lum; to John Fagerheim, painter, was sunk at |the Lower City Float today as ice encrusted craft bumped violently against each other under the stress lof a howling Taku wind A City Street Department crew under Bert Lybeck, put lines on the craft and pulled it from its moor- ings to the gridiron piling next to the roadway, using Irvine Noble's| moored alongside, to* sup- port the sunken craft while it was Qbemg towed to safety | Fagerheim will make an attempt Charged With New Deal ‘Strike’ {U. S. Attorney Says Effort Being Made to Stifle Government Effort PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 29.—As~ sistant Attorney General Robert Jackson today accused “big busi- ness” of going on “strike” against the Government’s efforts to “liqui- date the New Deal” The Administration’s anti-mon= opoly crusader told the American Political Association that big busi- ness had seized upon the recession “as a cudgel to whack concessions out cof the Government.” They wish, he added “to liquidate the New Deal, throw off old gov= ernment inter™rence with their in- corporated initiative and their aris- tocratic anarchy.” Jackson said the Government is the “only agency with power to condition capitalism and industrial- don calls central heating probably |t0 repair the craft and refloat 1ty 5 syrvive” and suggested that will take its place. “ The price was not announced, but the Duke, in 1930, v\xthdr"w\ the house from auction when a bid of $1,250,000 was reached 1 George 1II, against whom American colonies revolted, tomorrow > Sled Stops Thief SOUTH BEND, Ind.—A boy coast-| business was blind to advantages it derives from the process. D e FRED HAMBERG HERE Fred Hambarg, who Wi hec i the ling down a hill on a sled frightened membered by patrons of Goldstein's WAS| 3 man who was attempting to wrest Emporium, in former years, now & born in a back room of Norfolk|s purse from Mrs, Mary Gluchokski, fur buyer, is aboard the Yukon on House in June, 1738 The would-be thief fled. | his way to the Westward.