The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 12, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LI, NO. 7921. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN LANDS TROOPS IN SOUTH CHINA Furious Forest Fire Fought By Thousands JUNEAU MAN SHOOTS, KILLS SHIP STEWARD OVER WIFE Germany Takes Another Slice of Czechoslovakia UVER MILLION | BLAZE RAGES ALONG BORDER CANADA, MINN. Wide Section Alleadv Re- ported Ravaged by Disastrous Flames TWENTY-ONE KNOWN TO HAVE PERISHED Thirty Persons Said to Be Missing in One On- tario Township BULLETIN — The finding of feur meore bedies in Dance Township, Oniario, forest fire area, has brought to 21 the known victims who have per- ished in the blazes. | Airplanes, National Guard trucks) and several thousand men are pa-| trolling the fire ravaged Canadian| border district on a 50-mile front| between Northern Minnesota and| Ontario on the twentieth anniver- | sary of the forest fire that took 100 | lives. Although lower temperatures proved conditions, the authorities said the weary fire fighters are watching the blazes from Waroad, Minn., eastward on both sides of | the border to prevent new out-| breaks { The forest fires, up to early this| moerning, had claimed 17 lives About 30 persons are missing in Dance Township, north of Fort Francis where fire yesterday killed 14 persons, including two mothers | and their seven children. Three men are reported to have| lost their lives fighting the forest| blazes on the Minnesota side of the border. scattered showers and| greatly im- ——— GERMANY TO o SALZBURG N (BRUNN) &a A @ BERCHTESGADEN ‘Lne shaded areas on this map show approximately the extent of the handed over to Germany by the criginal ceded districts. International Com mi: m in Berlin. ifth Zone” Numbered black areas show the in Czechoslovakia, The “Fifth Zone” was incluled in Germany's newest demands. ALASKA LABOR Alls Quiet Along Potomac FOR THIRD TERM FOR ROOSEVELT Two Conventions Meeting in Ketchikan Go On Positive Record KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. | Reconvening after a one-day recess, the Alaska Labor Unity Confe.~nce, |called by the Maritime Federa.ion SEEK TRADE PACTINU.S.: Economic Mlmster Makes Announcement of Pro- posed Intentions ANKARA, Turkey, Oct. 12.—Wal- ter Funk, German Economic Min- ister, announces he intends to start trade negotiations with the United States. Funk has left for Berlin after concluding a trade agreement with Turkey. PENNSYLVANIA T0 CONSTRUCT LONG HIGHWAY Sixty-one Million Dollars in Loans, Grants, Made Available for Work HARRISBURG, Pa, Oct. 12— The Federal Government has made | available $61,000,000 in loans and grants to Pennsylvania for a tun- | nel-highway from this Capital City | to Pittsburgh. The tunnel-highway will be four lanes wide and the 162-mile stretch will be the longest toll-road in the nation. S e — CARPENTERS WAGES Effective October 1 to April, Ket- chikan carpenters’ wages will be $1.15 an hour instead of $1, of the Pacific, unanimously adopted resolution urging the American | Federation of Labor and the CIO |to unite and hold an immediate peace conference. The conference also endorsed a third term for President Roosevelt and pledged support to the prin- |ciples of his New Deal. LABOR FOR ROOSEVELT KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 12.— | The Alaska Labor Party also in jconvention here, has endorsed a third term for Roosevelt and em- | |phasized the need for obtaining Territorial office holders who are committed to the President’s pro- gram, MORE SOLDIERS GIVEN RELEASE, - | BURGOS, Spain, Oct. 12.—Insur- |gent officials make the announce- ment that 12,000 Italian volunteers |fighting in Spain will be sent home |soon. The first order was that 10,000 Ttalian volunteers would be x‘cp'llnawd R JEWS IN ITALY " UNDER NEW BAN ROME, Oct. been issued forbidding issuance to Jews of licenses to open new shops cafes or restaurants. The order is signed by the Min-| ister of Guilds, SPANISH RANKS 12—An order has But There’ ALASKA CENSUS| COUNT TO START EARLY IN 1939 Secretary Rope r Outlines; General Plan for Enum- | erating Alaskans ‘ Decennial Census is not \(mdulcd to start in Alaska before next Octo-, ber it actually will get uhder way shortly after the first of the year, | according to a recent slatemcm[ | made by Daniel C. Roper, Secretary‘ | of Commerce, at a press conrerence.! | “A Federal nurse pushing her way | | by dog sled from Point Barrow east along the Arctic Ocean shore line early in 1939 will set in motion the far-flung machinery of the Census,” Secretary Roper said. “The main part of this Census will be taken in 1940, but climatic conditions m Alaska make it necessary to cover most of the Territory in 1939 in order that the convass may be com- pleted in time for the results to be| released along with the reports of Continental United States, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and all other outlying (Continued on "zlgP Two) a Night Watch By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Foreign correspondents who have done a turn in Russia always get a laugh when they see that an announce- ment from Moscow has been re- leased at 2 a.m, or 4 am. or some other unorthodox hour. It all dates back to the fact that Tchitcherin, Russian foreign min- | ister in the anxious “twenties,” suf- | fered from insomnia. He couldn’t ! sleep nights so he used to keep the| | whole foreign office staff on duty on' which the PWA, from dusk to dawn. At any hour of the night an im- authorized to accept project ap- ., columbia’s coastal | portant pronouncement might come FOR TERRITORY IN PWA FUNDS Approval Given This Year to Projects Costing Total, $1,351,300 Public projects calling for a total expenditure of $1,351,300 have 'hus fay been approved by the Public Works Administration for Alaska {and many of them already are under construction. it is revealed in figures made available by the PWA office here. Additional applications for improvements to cost $655,000 have been made but so far no word of action taken on them has been received here. With the approvals given this year, approximately three million dollars has been spent by the PWA in Alaska since its in- ception ording to officials. The approved projects and their | total cost, including both grant and loan, include: Klawock, water Ketchikan, public utilities including water, telephone and electric plant, $30,000; University of Alaska for establishing fur farm experimental istation at Petersburg, $10,000; .l\pau streets and sewers, 1, sewers, $30,000; Haines, water Jc stem, $25,000; Skagway, sidewalks |$17.800; Skagway, schools, Seward, light plant addition, $6,000; Seldovia, water system, $25000; An- chorage, school, $250,000; Anchor- age, paving, sewers and water, $100,- 000; Fairbanks, paving, sewers and school addition, $492,000; Territorial schools, at Hope, Takotna and Aiek- system, $30,000; $170.000; | $61,000; | Thomas Oliver Colling, 44, Steward on the steamer Ton- gass, was shot and killed this afternoon by Forrest B. Smith, Alaska Juneau employee, at the Smith home at 269 Gastineau Avenue, Smith, 44 years old, who im- mediately called the District Attorney’s office, told officers Colling had been intimate with Mrs. Smith, who is 30. The shooting occurred about 1:30 o'clock this afterncon in the front room of the Smith home. Smith said in a signed statement given Assistant Dis- trict Attorney George W. Folta that he had suspicioned his wife and Colling. He said Mrs. Smith had traveled south on the Tongass with Colling and had returned on the vessel this morning from Seattle. Smith said that he told Smith this morning that he going to Taku hunting but inst he remained in town and later went to his home and hid in the basement, getting a taxi driver to drive in front of the house to attract Mrs. Smith’s attention while Mrsg w 1 Ju- | he got into the basement. | He lay in waiting in the ment, he said, until Colling to the house. He alleged that he heard conversation and actions which further aroused his sus- picions after Colling’s arrival and that he burst suddenly in upon them with a .22 liber automatic pistol in his hand. “I've been suspecting you and nagik, $34,500; University of A'aska, = power plant, $70,000. Projects for which npphmuons have been made for PWA assist- ance but which have not yet been approved are: Juneau, small boat harbor, $88,- 000; Ketchikan, public utilities, $15,- 000; Douglas, gymnasium, $22,000; Valdez, power plant, $54,000; Ko- diak, hospital, $200,000; Anchovage‘ water system, $175,000; Territorial | radio station, $54,000. Sepwmber 30 was the last date under the| terms of the 1938 PWA act, was is plications. The next deadline Japanese Methods of Fish ‘| office ' iman here * | member E-X-T-R-A | and I'm Smith now I've muu;m you, going to let you have it,” aid he told Colling. lling made a dive for Smith said, and he fired twice One bullet struck just above the heart, coursing downward, Dr. Will- jam P. Blanton, who examined the body, told officers. The second bullet apparently went wild, officers said. | Mrs. him she had been Assistant Dis- Smith denied intimate with Colling, trict Attorney Folta said Jolling had made a certain kind of alad to she had dressing which She said | NEW CAMPAIGN IS MAPPED QUT, ~ ORIENTAL WAR ' Between Thirty and Fifty Thousand Men Placed in New Battle Area ALL POWERS GIVEN WARNING BY JAPAN Told to Give Ten Days’ No~ aken a fancy while on the Ton-| tice R(‘x,ardlm_, MoVCant and that he had come to the show her how to make it she @ the salad dressing when her husband charged into the room and fired at Colling. Immediately after the shooting Smith called the District Attorne and said: “I've just shot a at 269 Gastineau Avenue. You'd better, come up.” Smith later told Felta shot in self-defense when made a dive for him Colling’s body was taken to the C. W. Carter Mortuary where identification card found in pocket revealed that he was of the Marine Cooks and Association of the Pa- and lives at 708 North Seattle. questioning l!mn\u to |She said that |were discussing that he Colling Stewards cific 1 Street, Folta was and M said Smith was being held at least pending the outcome of the inves- tigation. both Mr. ng For Cod, B. C. Coastal Waters, chorte(l to Bv Destructive VANCOUVER, B. C, Oct. 12- | special Civic Commission which has probed the codfish industry. recommended a Federal investiga- | tion into the charges t the cod- fish are being exterminated in Brit- waters by | meth- has destructive Japanese fishing { from the foreign office so it kept January 1, when work on all proj- | 4 While taking of the Sixteenth|the correspondents on almost a 24- ects must be Slfll'«fld hour basis. . But the worst part of it is, the foreign office got in the habit of working at night and hasn’ L‘ stopped yet. Even during the pa week it issued a statement at 4: 50. am, which is an unmns()onablv‘ hour in anybody's language. THE NAVY NEVER SLEEPS In Washington midnight pro- nouncements are extremely rare ex- cept in instances arising from| emergency situations, such as air or sea disasters. Even so, the Navy | keeps an officer and staff on duty | throughout the night. The sun that/ never sets on the British Empire also never sets on the U. 8. Navy There is no telling when something might break in an odd quarter of the globe that might compel a Navy | (Continued on Page Three, ‘ STRIKE THREAT DISPELLED NOW Tie-up of Nation’s Busiest| Harbor Is Averted at Eleventh Hour NEW YORK, Oct. 12.—Threats of an immediate strike of 2,000 boat employees that might have halted traffic in the nation’s big- gest harbor, were dispelled parly today when union officials and em. |ployers agreed to resume negotia tions ror contracts. The recommendation is contained in a report to the Civic Marketing | Committee by Chairman H. J. De- | Graves. The report also said the Com: mission has investigated the charg- es that fishing licenses are being | issued to other than British sub- jects and a contravention regula- tion is recommended also a Federal probe. IERE " L R i |Fortitude of |Columbus Is Praised by FDR WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today observed Co- !lumbus Day by praising the forti- tude of Columbus and his compan- |lons. on the voyage 'world. Was It Columbus - Or Perhaps Four Other F cllows. In all the ;m.n since Christopher Columbus “discovered” America in 1492—an event being celebrated today—apparently no one has been sure exactly what the intrepid navigator looked like. The New York ¥ ublic Library has scores of pictures of Columbus. He is a different represen tative ones, man in each. Sometimes he is dashing, sometimes timid. Some pictures make him bald; others give him a magnificent mane. Here are five to the New| : 6ROSS GOLD TAX. DRAWS FIRE OF MINE OPERATORS Law’s Repeal and An- other One Enacted ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 12 Mine operators, meeting with Third Division legislators last night con- demned the three percent gross gold tax and urged that law's repeal. It was urged instead that a gradu- ated net profits tax be enacted to take its place. Mine op aid they did not | expect less tax sssment, but seek only a more equitable distribution | of the taxation They sai graduated scale on net profits hits operators making | the largest profits while the small ! operator, operating on low grade ore and marginal properties is unham- pered The tax was attacked unjust and a contributor to retard- ing mining development by making it more difficult to attract outs | capital to Alaska Legislators at the meeting | gested the mine operators draw up a bill along the lines desired. B HARLAN STONE HAS BIRTHDAY | WASHINGTON, Oct. 12.—Harlan yF Stone, Associate Justice of the ‘Supnme Court of the United | States, was 66 yesterday. He spent )mo day hearing arguments by |attorney Bross as sug- and the steward | an his | a| Smith this afternoon and | | troops. Westward Conference Asks “heer of Ships and Soldiers N — TOKYO, Oct. — The Japanese effected a nding in South China early today according to an official announcement made by the War Ministry. The landing of the Japanese forces, according to the official communication is for the pur- pose of cutting the flow of munitions te the Chinese war front from Canton and the British colony of Hongkong. TOKYO, Oct. 12.—Late this afternoon it is reported official- ly that between thirty to fifty thousand Japanese have been landed in South China on the shores of Bay for the new drive. WARNING TO POWERS TOKYO, Oct. 12—The Japanese Government today urged the Unit~ ed States and other powers to “re- frain, as far as possible, in moving arships or aircraft in South ina,” in view of the land- ing of the Japanese expedition, pre= sumably for the drive on Canten. Notes have been sent by Tokyo to the embassies of the principal powers asking for cooperation to prevent incidents in connection with nw South China campaign. e notes designate the area be- L\\mn Swatow, 200 miles northeast of Hongkong, and Pakhao about 350 miles scuthwest of that British colony as the area in which neutral powers are asked to refrain from moving forc Japan has asked that a 10-day notice be given the Japanese if necessity should compel” such movements. S. INVOLVED Oct. 12, Regarding U. TOKYO, | movement of fleets in the new area in South China to be campaigned by the Japanese, the United States gunboat Mindanao is hit. The gunboat has arrived at Hongkong with provisions and is perparing to return {o Canton. The gunboat presumably comes within the scope of the Japanese warning. BRITISH GIVES WARNING LONDON, Oct. 12.--The Foreign Office, replying to a warning from Japan regarding ship and troop movements in South China, has reminded Japan not to encroach on British interests in South China. Lindbergh Has No Statement, Soviet Charges BERLIN, Oct. 12.—Col. Charles A. Lindbergh is silent on the mat- ter made against him by a prominent group of Soviet ussian airmen. They charged he belittled the Russian air force, thus foreing Premier Chamberlain to Jive in to Hitler's demands regard- ing ceding of certain sections of Czechoslovakia in order to prevent War. Col. Lindbergh is here to attend the annual meeting of the Lilien- thal Society for Aerial Research. of charges