The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 13, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LII, NO. 7922. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1938 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HUSBAND FACES MANSLAUGHTER COUNT CHINESE ARE RUSHING MEN, NEW SECTORS Reinforcements Dispatched to Meet Invaders in South China ‘ \ ROAD TO WAICHOW BLOCKED BY TROOPS | Expected First Clash Will| Be Fought on High- | way from Bias Bay | HONGKONG, China, Oct. 13— Heavy reinforcements of Chinese are being rushed from the East | River district to the Bias Bay area | here with indications they might | soon come to grips with the large | Japanese expeditionary force land- | ed on Bias Bay from Jabanese transports and estimated to be between thirty and fifty thousand | % soldiers. | Roads to Waichow, 80 miles east | of Canton, the garrison city nearest to Bias Bay, are chocked with com- | mandeered red trucks and busses | filled with Chinese soldiers. | Waichow is believed to be one of the first objectives of the Jap- | anese contingents landed at Bias | Bay. Bias Bay is connected with the | South China metropolis, Canton, by | a good highway. { The Japanese, according to re- ports, appear to be pushing stead- ily inland towards Tamshui town, 10 miles from the coast. From there the invaders have 25 miles to go | across a comparatively flat conntry | to reach the vital Kowloon-Canton- Hankow raliway at a point about 30 miles from the Hongkong frontier. ALASKA LABOR UNITY SESSION GETTING ACTION Many New Deal Measures| Endorsed—Resolutions, Various Kinds, Passed KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Oct. 13.--| The Alaska Labor Unity Confer- ence today endorsed many New Deal | measures and condemned attempts! of “reactionary Fascists and open | | tion of Labor 3 R - i HE'S SAFE FOR THE TIME Bl war refugee is too unhappy t and many other children and homes by bombs or bullets, are quartered in a big camp near Hankow, China’s temporary capital, toward which & the Japanese Peace F1 REELECT CREEN AS PRESIDENT, A. . OF LABOR Vote Is by Roaring Ac- clamation Which Is Re- ply to CIO Chairman HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 13. — The delegates to the American Federa- this afternoon re- elected William Green President by roaring acclamation. Green has served continuously as President since 1924. Green was nominated by Vice- President Frank Duffy, who de- manded the vote by acclamation to i Doc§ R(;lio Ii el prl‘)m’(’. ' FIERGE FLAMES ' RAGE THROUGH - 21 FUEL TANKS Millions of Gallons of Oil, Kerosene, Gasoline Consumed NEW JERSEY FIRE | SEEN FOR MILES 1500 Men Egit Spectacu- | lar Blaze Marked by Frequent Explosions | LINDEN, N. J., Oct. 13.—A rag- ing inferno here has destroyed mil- lions of gallons of oil, kerosene, and gasoline and injured a score of | men. The combined efforts of 1,500 firemen and volunteers smothered the flames under control, leaving eight acres of the Refining Com- pany’s tank farm field a charred Fire Chief Frank Miller, who es- | timated the damage at more than | |a million dollars said the fire was finally localized in one tank con-| y taining 1,500,000 gallons of fuel oil. Approximately 20 other tanks were destroyed by explosions and flames lAFL Convention Approves Fifty of the 1,500 firemen and vol- . . Forming International | unteers remained through the HIL'II',’ to play streams of cold water on| Seamen s Um(m | the tank skeletons to cool them Py sufficiently so that company offi-| are driving. | cials could investigate the cause of | RIVER BOUNDS RUM often called the soviet granary. bia EING, but this litlle Chinese o finish his bowl of rice. He grown-ups, driven from their HOUSTON, Tex., Oct. 13.—Harry Lundeberg, head of the Sailors Un- ion of the Pacific, has declared war on the Government’s hiring halls T the fire and estimate the damage. | The blaze was seen for more than | | ten miles. y Faster? | By PRESTON v(i“(l\'l‘i“ | WASHINGTON, Oct. 13. — When President Roosevelt suee . |for training ships. This declaration | The first tank exploded yesterday | .. ‘ynade shortly after the dele- afternoon and six other tanks ex-| 3 Uiz ploded in swift succession, shaking‘g""e" attending the Axfu-ncan Fed- ¢ g o : | eration of Labor approved establish- bulidings mehy Dlee, By ment of a new AFL International — eee Urden for Seamen. } | il ”W:PULAND USTS ‘ LUNDEBERG'S NEW UNION | fast communication facilitated SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 13. | keeping the peace in Europe even M i Harry Lundeberg’s new continent- though at the same time it speeded [ |wide AFL Sailors Union of the up the crisis, he revived a chain of | Pacific, is to be called the Seafarers historical memories of times when International Union of North Am- lack of such fast communication ISSUED TunAY;erica. with headquarters at San | played fancy pranks with this ! Francisco. ! coun affairs. | The Sailors Union of the Pacific | Probably it never will be known N . I f L l N . |officials announce through Lunde- | just what influence the radio and iVationals of Little INation perg that the SUP will not give up | fast travel had in the Czechosl-| Must Leave Ceded |its name but will preserve its iden- (vakian affair. The same doubts |tity as the parent body of the in- | continue even now over affairs of Areas November | | ternational union and will start is- many years ago which were af- Sy suance of local charters as soon as fected by communication distin- TESCHEN, Poland, Oct. 17.—Ord- |its own AFL charter is signed, Ed. guished not by its speed but by its ers have been posted throughout Coester, assistant secretary of the slowness this Teschen district that all Czechs union, said. A case arose right at the begin- Who settled since November, 1918, Coester further said: “We will ning of the republic to show a in this newly-acquired area by Po- |take in everything that floats. We | sharp contrast with present times land from Czechoslovakia must |have already requests for charters | Benjamin Franklin in 1778 nego- leave by November 1. from the fishermen's unions, in- | tiated with France a defensive al-| Most of those affected by Lhejcluding four in Alaska. | liance to bolster the Revolution. 1t order are government employees,| The Alaska unions are the Unit- was to be kept secret from Eng- school teachers, engineers and fac- at the Ukraine, towards whi shoppers” to repeal or change the ‘Wagner Labor Act. 1 The conference adopted a resolu- tion from the Juneau Labor Coun- cil calling for freeing of all classes of war prisoners, mentioning spe- cifically Tom Mooney, Warren K. “answer John L. Lewis, CIO Chairs/ man, who offered to resign if Mr. Green resigns the Federation Presi- dency.” Green promised to bend every effort to restore peace in the labor movement land. But Franklin's trusted secre- tary, Dr. Edward Bancroft, was |also a British spy and he promptly informed the British of the pro- posed alli England had al- led to seek a reconcilia- tory supervisors. The Havas, French news agency, says in a dispatch from Maehrish Ostrau, the Czech school teachers there have already been forcibly ejected from the schools. quarters at Kodiak; Alaska Tro'lers Association with headquarters at Ketchikan; Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners Union with headquarters at Ketchikan and the Copper River Billings, Ray Decker and others. The conference also adopted reso- lutions calling for support to the| Spanish Loyalists, repeal of the Neu- | trality Act and. pledging suppord to the Territory in attempting an| early investigation of disconunu-! ance of the Copper River and| Northwestern Railroad at Cordova. | e | MAKE IT HARDER. T0 GET MARRIED Several States, District of| Columbia Raise Minimum Age WASHINGTON, Oct. 13,—Mar-; riage was becoming an increasingly | $20-88 for dyed safari browns,| difficult state of bliss to acheive SHghtly lower than the sale last in the United States during 1937. Three States and the District of Columbia raised the minimum mar- riage age for one or both parties. Four States and the District asked | a new waiting period between the | application for a license and its issuance, and New York now re- quires a waiting period between | the issuance of the license and the | marriage. Measures requiring health certificates were passed in five| States and Puerto Rico. e e — | HALF-MILLION TO SKI | WASHINGTON — More than a | half million people will spend some | leisure hours skiiing this winter, | the National Park Service esti-| mates. l — e SEALSKINS OF PRIBILOFS SOLD BY GOVERNMENT Over Twenty-four Thou- sand Bring $522,863, St. Louis Auction WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Sccre- tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper announced today that the Govern- ment has sold 24,290 Pribilof seal skins at auction in St. Louis for $522,.863. This is an average of ay. Jacobs Honored, Farewell Party PALMER, Alaska, Oct. 13:-Leo B. Jacobs, former manager of the Matanuska Valley Farm Colony, recently resigned when the coleny passed from the FERA into the Interior Department, has been hon- ored at*a farewell party here. — e When buying a chicken, press the breast bone. If the bone is flexible, the chicken is probably not more than five months old. tion with the colonies by repealing| The Polish Government is trying \men’s Union with headquarters at all the “intolerable acts.” Learn-|to facilitate the enforced exodus by | Cordova. ing of the proposed alliance, the issuing special departure permits. | | British sent a fast ship to America | — - ,ee - | with the terms of reconciliation. WILL PROP”SE \GHINESE ARE | i miia PACIFIC COAST JAPAN FORGE | hugely enjoyed by the French and | - e B B A b T pe SRR ol Pl letn s wop |California Representative|Shot, Bayoneted, Burned to Will Seek Between 5 to | Death in Effort to Wipe | What would have happened if the British, learnir f th - 1e British, upon learning of the Ten Million Dollars ‘ Out Guerilla War ——eto———— PEACE BOAT WAS LATE But the French treaty also was speeding to America from Paris for ratification by the U. S. The French treaty ship won the race. The Erll—; ish arrived later. The choice wines | and terrapin they sent to American | | | preposed secret French treaty, had broadcast or telegraphed from Lon- | | don the terms of the proposed re-| SAN JOSE, Cal, Oct. 13—Con- | conciliation? |gressman John W. McGrath said | SHANGHAIL Oct. 13.—The Eve- —_— he will propose at the next session ning Post, daily newspaper, pub- BATTLE AFTER PEACE MADE | of Congress a bill to appropriate lishes a story declaring that about The lack of communication which from five to ten million dollars for 100 persons were shot, bayoneted or had a hand in diplomacy at the end a west coast army air cadet train- burned to death when a Japanese |of the Revolution also played its|ing station. He will suggest in the detachment wiped out a village | part in the beginning and end of bill that the station be established [near here in anti-guerilla opera- the War of 1812, The British, hard here. |tions. | pressed in their war with Napoleon, - eee - ; The story says no mercy was | belatedly decided to end the hated |shown by the Japanese who shot “orders in council” interfering with T"'m“m Comes Out lonly a few but tortured many with | American commerce. The United For Senator Clark |bayonets, herded others in shacks, | States, unaware of this overseas saturated them with gasoline or change of heart, and urged on by WASHINGTON, Oct. 13.—Senator ©0il, then set them afire and they | other elements, declared war against Harry S. Truman, Democrat of [Were burned alive. England on June 18, 1812. Five days|Missouri, said he will support Sen- | e (i ARt ST later the British, in turn unaware ator Champ Clark if t) that they were st war with the U.|sects the. Desourslic. nointic,| CHINESE BUY BONDS 8., repealed the “orders in council” | for President at the Democratic Every school boy is familiar National Convention. | with the famous battle in which | SAN FRANCISCO L |safety vault of the Bank of Can- Andrew Jackson defeated the Brit-| Dr. H. E. Curry, Missouri State|ton here now contains $3,000,000 in lish at New Orleans after the treaty veterinarian, has estimated the Chinese Liberty bonds. These rep- of peace in the War of 1812 had been | equine sleeping sickness .epidemic |resent money loaned to finance the signed. Neither army knew of it,|will kill 2500 horses and mules in [Chinese war by residents of San (Continued on Page Seven) Missouri during 1938. Franciseo’s Chinatown. The new ANIA on the east, separating A lone Rumanial ich—some observers b Normal Takef ! - Salmon Eggs | Byflatnharies Oregon Fish Commissioner Makes Report of Op- erations for Year ASTORIA, Oregon, Oct. 13.—Hugh Mitchell, Superintendent of Fish |Culture for the State Fish Com- mission, said today the commission hatcheries made better than a normal take of approximately fifty- two million Chinook salmon eggs this year. | The McKenzie River and Bonne- 'ville hatcheries headed the list |with fitteen million eggs each. ITALY LOSES HUNDREDS IN - SPANISH WR | | |Nearly Three Thousand Of- | ficers and Men Killed ! in Civil Conflict | ROME, Oct. 13.—Ttalian forces |are being withdrawn from Spain’s |civil war. It is announced that 2657 Ttal- |ian officers and men have been {killed in the conflict from the be- additional 278 died from service | causes. | { i 1 Do E |and Prince William Sound Fishex-~lsurplus Farm | Products Wil WASHINGTCN, Oct. 13.—Secre- |tary of Agriculture Henry A. Wal- |lace announces that a giganaic pro- igram to dump surplus farm prod- jucts into the hands of poor Am- |ericans is taking shape in the |department. | e P S SR A L g l STOCK QUOTATIONS ! T T NEW YORK, Oct. 13. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today, following the one-day |recess yesterday on account of Co- lumbus Day holiday, is 10, Amer- ican Can 105%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 40%, Bethlehem Steel 65%, Common- wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 5%, General Motors 51%, International Harvester 65'%, Ken- necott 50%, New York Central 20%, Safeway Stores 18, Southern Pacific 20%, United States Steel 65%, Brem- ner bid % asked 1'%, Pound $4.73%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 152.46, |up 3.05 since Tuesday over Wednes- |day’s holiday; rails 30.50, up .06; | utilities 22.57, up .77. — e — | The 1938 production of turkeys in Missouri is expected to be five percent greater than in 1937, n sentinel at Tighina gazes across elicve—Hitler has cast longing eyes. ed Fishermen of Alaska, with head- |ginning up to October 10 and an | | | i her from Russia’s fertile Ukraine, the Dniester river WIFE CONFESSES “RED BAT” NOTE SENTTOVICTIM Endearing Letter Written| by Juneau Matron to | Tongass Steward Mrs. Forrest B. Smith, the for- mer Thelma Archambault of 1920 East Thomas Street, Seattle, over whom her husband shot and killed Thomas Oliver Colling here yester- | day, admitted today at the Coro- ner's inquest that she was the “Red | Bal.” | The signature “Red Bat" was| signed to a“letter delivered to Coll= ing aboard the Tongass at 4:456 yesterday morning which was found | |in his possessions. It was addressed to “Dearest Tom” and reads as fol- | lows: | 269 Gastineau Ave. Juneau, Alaska Oct. 11, 1938 | Dearest Tom, | | ©Oh how I've been waiting for you | | to come back to me, so I can hold | you again near to me. It seems years since I've seen you, and am just/ waiting till I can be with you. I'm sending this by cab driver| as I've been unable to get down to, Femmers. | Tonites latest report on the Ton- | gass is that you'll get in at 5 am. | | Now I must tell you “Our” good | |luck. The A.J. has taken over the| | Claimes Jack lost thru not keeping up the assessment work. And as he| staked all that property he has! been hired to go & restake them | with 3 other men. He's to be gone Be Given Poor from Juneau till Sat. AM sometime. He is now on Graveyard shift 11| PM. to 6:45 AM. He plans on com- |ing home around 6 AM. Taking a | hot bath, Eating a big breakfast, Wearing his hunting clothes & leav- | ing here by taxi to Thane and from there going the trail to Grindstone Creek where the other 3 men are with a boat. So Tom I'm telling you all this so youll have some idea what its all about. Now you know how long the Tongass will be here and I want to see you all the time I can, that you can spare me. Oh I've so much to tell you — just wish you were here now. Little Louise has been very sick with a cold but Thank God she’s better but I can't leave her, and I was wondering if you would come to me? I'll be patiently waiting for | you. I do wish you'd send we word |by cab driver or come up. Now I don’t know the exact hour Jack will leave but imagine he won't stay here longer than 9:30 or 10 AM but I don’t know. I know you have your lunch to get but thought | if you could come up we could talk a little anyway. If you can’t come up till afternoon or Evening would you send up a note to let me know | “when” I can look for you as I'll | be counting the minutes till I can see you. If you did send up a note | & Jack was here it wouldn't make any real trouble if you sign “Mrs. | Zinck’s” name I'll know but I'm | positive he'll be away from here by |at least 9:30 AM. that gives him 3 | hrs here and it can't take him any longer. I know this is on the Square as Sam Duker (lawyer) came here to house and they made the deal i he went over to his office yesterday at 1:30 P.M. to settle everything. Gee I could write pages tonite to you, there I go again “Bothering” you but you've been so swell to me I can’t understand what you can see in me, all I do is cry around _AEonunlled on Page Eight) | | JUNEAUITE HELD AFTER SHOOTING WIFE'S “LOVER” Smith Bond Fixed at $10,- 000 After Coroner's Jury Brings in Verdict WIFE ADMITS SENDING LOVENOTE TO STEWARD |Tale of Shattered Romance, Alleged Illicit Relations Told on Stand Charge of manslaughter was filed by Assistant District Attorney George W. Folta this afternoon against Forrest B. Smitht, who yes- terday afternoon shot and Kkilled Thomas Oliver Colling, Steward on the Tongass, in the Smith home at 269 Gastineau Avenue, because, Smith claimed, Colling was inti- mate with Smith's wife. Bail was set at $10,000. The charge was filed by the prosecutor after a coroner's jury, shortly after 1 o'clock this after- noon, brought in a verdict that Col- ling had met death from a “gun shot wound inflicted by Forrest B. Smith.” The jury, Folta, said, failed to follow instructions of United States Commissioner Felix Gray to include in its verdict whether or not the homicide was justifiable. “In view of the jury’s verdict we are filing a charge of manslaught- er,” Folta said. Smith in the meantime is being held pending arraignment in Com- missioner’s Court. Story A story of jealousy, shattered romance, threatened divorce and |alleged illicit relations was folded at the inquest this morning in Commissioner’s Court. Smith, on the stand, told much the same story that he gave in a signed account to the District At- torney's office yestergay. He sald he |faked a trip to Taku, returned to his home because he was suspicious of his wife and hid himself in the basement until Colling arrived and then listened to their conversation and “actions,” he said, until “I lost my head I guess and walked in on them.” R Suspicious “I hadn't intended to interrupt them,” Smith said. “I was just try- ing to find out what is was about. Mrs. Smith had told me she wanted a divorce, but she wouldn’t say why. I suspected a man on the Tongass, whose name I didn't know.” Smith said, his wife had gone south in June, aboard the Tongass. “She was sick,” he said. “Had been having trouble with her teeth and I wanted her to go south for treat- ment. Later when she wanted to come home, I sent her money, Al- most as quick as she got off the boat here she told me she wag going to get a divorce on the 15th. <2 « (Continued an Page Eight) ———pe SEATTLEHOME MOURNING OVER JUNEAU TRAGEDY White Haired Wife Tear- lessly Received News of Killing from A. P. SEATTLE, Oct. 13—Jeanette B. Colling, 53, white-haired wife of Thomas Oliver Colling, of Seattle, ship's steward aboard the Tongass, slain in Juneau, Alaska, yesterday afternoon, heard tearlessly from the Associated Press, the news of her husband's death. ‘““My husband seemed always faithful,” said Mrs. Colling. “There had been no rift in our relations. I kissed him goodbye when he left last Thursday. We loved and re- spected each other for 18 years. It is hard to bellelo he died under the circumstances you describe io me.”’ The 13-year-old daughter, Bee Colling, Junior High School stu- dent, wept when informed of the tragedy. The widow does not intend to go to Alaska as intended and will pro- vide proper burial for her husband if she can raise the money.