The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 20, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” *f‘ VOL. LIL, NO. 7928. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1938. MEMBER AS SOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DAMAGING LETTERS ENTER SPY TRIAL Four MEN CAUGHT CANAL IONE, FACE TRIALS Were A’ppn;f;ded Taking Pictures of Fortified Sections MOTION OVERRULED TO DISMISS ACTION Photographs, According to| Army Official, Useful to Forelgn Power CRISTOBAL, Panama Canal Zone, Oct. 20.—Four youthful Ger- mans, accused of photographing fortifications in the Canal Zone, are held for trial in the District Court, Judge Edward Tateiman overruling the motion for dismissal. One of the suspects, Hans Schac- kow, 26, is held under $25,000 bail. The others, arrested last Sunday and held for trial, are Ingeborg Gutman, 19; Wilhelm Gross, 26, and Ernest Khurig, 29. Their bail has been set at $10,000. Private Steelman, Government witness, testified the prisoners, who declared they had no cameras, but which they had secreted, inspected batteries and had taken pictures of the channel guns and batteries at Fort Randolph and Caleta Point. Lieutenant Colonel O. L. Spiller, who ordered the pictures in the cameras developed, said the pic- tures owuld be highly useful to a foreign power. CCC WORKERS TRAPPED, DIE, Germans Held on Espionage Charge e ALASKA FIRMS FILE SUITS ON - AWARD,WAGES Attack Pari’()T Fact Find-3 ing Board Reports— Union Members Sued SEATTLE, Oct. 20.—Three fishing | and packing companies, Pioneer Canneries, New England Fish Com- | pany and Pioneer Sea Foods, havej filed suits in the Superior Couxt| | attacking part of the report of the| G U.S. PARADED WAR GAMES before the military observers of three nations, who watched the recent military drill near Fort Knox and Louisville, Ky. Left to right: Col. T. C. Kuo, military attache in Washington from the Chinese army; Col. Teofilo C. Jasso, military attache from Mexico; Capt. M. C. Pang, Chinese air force; Maj. A. G. Little, British army. Diplomacy, Journalism, Not 4 Men at Munich, Nor Roosevelt, Averted War in Recent Crisis SERIOUS WATER By MILO THOM N Chief of the Washington Bureau, WASHINGTON, Gct. 20—A feel- Fact Finding Board which was ap-| pointed to settle the Alaska Can- nery Workers dispute last spring,] as “arbitrary and capricious.” } The three companies asked for| declaratory judgments against five individua] members of the Copper River and Prince Willlam Sound | Fishers Union, holding they are not entitled to additional compen- | sation awarded by the Fact Finding | Board. | The sums listed in the suits total around $1,000. Appended to each suit are copies of letters of two members of the Fact Finding Board, Chairman De- | lancy S. Smith, of San Francisco, | and August Buschmann of Seattle, | which admitted certdin vital fac-| tors were not taken into considera- | tion in fixing the scale for the Cop- | per River and Prince William Sound | areas. | The letters said the two members | of the Board expressed a willingness | to reopen the matter but the: third | member, Henry P. Melnikow, of San Francisco, representing the un- ions involved, objected. Under the Fact Finding Board’s findings the suits contend that the Copper River and Prince William | Sound packers are required to pay | more for their fish than their com- petitors in other Alaska waters. — .. SIX DIE IN NEW SHORTAGE NOW ¢ PALMER Hurried Surveys Are Being Made for Installation of $25,000 System ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 20.— Palmer, the Capital of the Federally sponsored Matanuska Valley Colony Project, is facing a serious water shortage. FOREST BLAZE. S Suddenly Caught in Gully| by Smoke, Flames— Bodies Recovered 1 | EMPORIA, Pa, Oct. 20. — Five C€CC workers died in a forest fire which trapped them in a small wooded gully late yesterday after- noon. “The men went down quickly when the wind.turned the smoke and Tlames on them, almost like| Surveys are being hurried for the they had been gassed,” a funeral | installation of a new water system parlor attendant said. | estimated to cost about $25,000. Almost immediately a heavy rain| The community center includes began to fall and extinguished the|the school, warehouses,s creamery, fire. hospital, trading post, Administra- The bodies of the men were re-|tive offices and many homes of | | | Associated Press | i | ing is growing in Washington circles that it was not primarily four men at Munich, or a British prime min- ister rushing by air to the doorstep {of Hitler, or appeals by neutrals Ifor peace under the leadership of President Roosevelt, that averted war. It was just as much, or more, the development which made all these | things possible: modern commu- (nications and journalism, and back |of that the inventive genius which | made this efficiency possible. The increased availability of im- proved communications facilities is the chief difference between 1914, when war was not averted, and 1938, when, under similar circum- | stances, it was. Never before this time were diplomatic gestures so instantly known, arguments so | speedily disseminated and cove- | nants so openly arrived at. ‘CIECH DISORDER OVERSUDETENS One Soldier, Three Police-| | men, a Mayor and | Farmer Killed PRAGUE, Oct. 20.—The Army |General Staff today reported that |six . persons were killed during dis- orders provoked yesterday by Sude- |ten Germans in two separated dis- | tricts. | It was sald wne Czech soldier land three Czech policemen died |during rifle attacks from Sudeten Says the First Lady to Another First Lady— ESPmNAsE H'N[; Mrs. George Earle and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt First ladies of the U. S. and Pennsylvania chat at 2 luncheon given by the women’s Democratic club At the left is Mrs. George Earle, inPF uelphia. Hitler N eeds Trade H unters, . Not Storm Troopers; Mention Is Made About Walter Foote Fear Fishing Boat Lost With One Man Ahoard Small Craft Last Heard from *Fighting - 80-Mile Storm in Kalinin Bay BULLETIN—Late this after- noon the Customs office was informed from Sitka that the Eagle was safe in a harbor on Chichagof Island. The 30-foot fishing boat Eagle, owned by the late Ray James, Jr., | of Sitka, has not been seen since Monday when it was fighting a terrific 80-mile-an-hour gale in Kalinin Bay at the north end of Kruzof Island, according to a mes- the U. S. wife of the Penn: By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.— Whut Hitler needs for trade penetration | is not Storm Troopers but a corps | of plump fellows like Walter Foote | of Texas, or some of the other U. 8. trade hunters. Foote is the man who taught jungle Scotsmen drink soda pop. | He's one of those singular fellows 'in the state department career serv- ice to whom red tape is simply | something you find in piccaninnies’ hair. He looks like the ruddy Dutch- | men Rembrandt liked to paint. | Foote 5 in the consular service His job is to see to it that Ameri- can goods get a fair break in world markets. There are scores like him in the service. They're stuck away | the headlines, the the | They never make |but their work shows up in |trade statistics. That's where |soda pop popped up. | YE AMERiCAN NATIVE For generations many people }lwing in the jungle countries of the East Indies have soothed their Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the president. Fioosevelt was visiting in Philadelphia. NAZI BUSINESS sylvania governor, and right, Mrs. Mrs. IS DEVELOPING N PHILIPPINES |Washington Getting Inter- ested in New Condi- tions in Islands DISGLOSURES ARE STARTLING |Ex-Army Private Alleged to Have Furnished Secret Information 'TIEUP WITH GERMAN " AGENTS REVEALED ;Blank Passports Obtained | by Impersonating State Department Officer | L NEW YORK, Oct. 20. — Letters |tending to implicate Erich Glaser, | former United States Army private, a German in the alleged spy ring, were read before the Federal jury here today at the trial of Glaser jand two others on espionage {charges. | The letters were identified by |Gustav Rumrich, United States | Army deserter, who pleaded guilty |to spy charges at the opening of |the trial and turned State's evi- | dence. Glaser sat motionless as the let= ters were read. The letters were addressed to Rumrich and signéd “Erich Glaser.” gl Inside Story Told | Rumrich testified that Glaser 1turm « over to him, without request |on nis pari. a list of Coast Guard stations in the United States. | “Once he told me his outfit was is«:heduled to go to the maneuvers lin the south and there was a good chance to pick up something,” Rumrich testified. The prosecution read a letter, | purportedly written by Rumrich, to | Mrs. Jessie Jordan, of Dundee, Scot- land. Previous testimony had |brought out the information that British agents were intercepting letters to Mrs. Jordan. Short of Money to| |in the trading marts of the world. | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Guard- | The specific letter read by the |ed German inquiries on commercial | prosecution told of receiving a visit prospects in the Philippine Islands or a4 man and women who arrived has produced official speculation as on the Europa, supposed to have |to whether or not the Hitler regime peen Karl Schlueter, alleged mes- \is eyeing the Far East as well as genger of the Spy Ring, and Johan- | South America for trade outlet. |na Hoffman, former hairdresser The most recent inquiry Was|ghogrd the Europa. In the letter, made by business men described gumrich asked: as influential Nazi trade counsels| «am 1 justified in dealing with and caused government officials | people from the Europa?” concerned with Far East affairs to ~ 1, the same letter, Rumrich also scan late commercial reports care-|caiq. fully. | ‘I am very short of money.” These officials learned that Ger- | Gets Passport Blanks many, along with Japan and Italy,| pumrich, deseribing efforts to ob- |last year shared in increased sales gqin passport blanks for German }m the Philippines despite free | soents seeking to enter Russia, said |trade ties between the United States | o impersonated a State Depart- and the Philippines. ment official, a Mr, Weson, request- By s BT TS ing the blanks by telephone, amd requetsing that the blanks be sent German Freeé Corps members while sage this morning to WAREHOUSEMEN covered during the night by search- ers. SIXTH BODY FOUND | EMPORIUM, Oct. 20.—Following,| a checkup of the CCC membership it was found that six workers were missing as the result of the fire and searchers, soon after daybreak, returned to the scene and found another body under a log. Suffoca- | tion was given as the cause of the worker’s death. | The death list is now as follows: | Gilbert Mooney, 33, clerical em® | ployee; Basil Bogush, 19; Howard May, 16; John Boring, Andrew| Stephenic and Ross Hollobaugh, all 18. staff members now on short rations | during the crisis. The farmers are generally from shortage as they have their own wells on their tracts of land. Ecunhmfsfiafis free| BISMARCK WORKED IN SECRET | The difference is even more strik- | ing when one compares the events| of 1938 with the times when Ger- |mam"s Iron Chancellor Bismarck, by diplomatic methods devious and secret, confident of the right of| German might, welded together a| German empire. | But it is not necessary to go be- | yond 1914. At that time, as Mr.| David Lloyd George of Great Brit-| ain once said, “No one at the head of affairs quite meant war. It was| Unempl | oymentis | Now On Decline g something into which they glided, | |or rather staggered and stumbled, | Anonymous Spokesman | the Czechs were on military patrol In Zelochovice, in northern Bo- hemia, a communique said the fifth victim was that town’s mayor when he was killed “because he was armed.” The sixth fatality occurred when a farmer was shot down while working in his field and a Ger- man soldier fired on him. The trouble was said to have be- gun when the mayor, protesting against occupation of neighboring villages by Sudeten forces, visited the commander and urged him to withdraw Free Corps troops. Free Corps members then went |to a nearby village and returned Customs Office from Deputy Col- |lector N. E. Bolshanin of Sitka, | asking that the Coast Guard be notified. One man is reported aboard the vessel. Local airplane pilots mak- ing that region have been asked to keep a lookout. Some fish buyers who arrived in Sitka yesterday from Chichagof said they had seen no sign of the vessel and fear was expressed for her safety. When last seen, the Eagle was being whipped by a gale estimated at 80 miles an hour from the southeast, according to the message. The Eagle, gas-engine equipped, is 30 feet long, has 1l-foot beam | feelings with Scotch whisky and soda. But while Foote was consulat- ling in the Dutch East Indies, he| recalled that back in torrid Ameri- ca the natlves (you and 1) were achieving the same effect with soda | . he began |the Indies why soda pop. | “No demand,” asking dealers in | they didn't serve was the invari- able reply, “and it tastes awful.” Foote didn't believe that last| crack. He investigated and found| the trouble was they were getting soda pop that was not made in America — usually a sallow mix- ture of fruit juice and pep-less nzz]l water. And it was served without 1 AND EMPLOYERS REACH ACCORD |San Francisco Dispute Is Settled After Nearly Fifteen Weeks SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 20.—The 02-day had locked up 138 warehouses and left 2500 men unemployed, was set- warehouse dispute which | by a Commercial Telegraph officer. Rumrich said he had arranged to have the blanks forwarded to a nearby restaurant and then sent a boy to call for the parcel at the | restaurant. | “He brought me the parcel and then two detectives stepped up and arrested me,” Rumrich said. —_————— HUNDREDS LOSE " LIVES, TYPHOON TOKYO, Oet. 20. — A dispatch perhaps through folly; and a dis-| gy, o getachment of Sudeten Cus- y | n, . L Bave - denbl, wouldlmms Guards who opened fire on tled today. from Kagoshima said the death toll ice. Settlement was arrived at subject | in the typhoon which struck Kyushu District Attorney Tomkins said an | Savs 'Jobless Ranks Much Foote finally persuaded a few and capacity of nine gross tons. investigation revealed that the boys | have averted it.” | rushed into the flaming inferno without proper supervision but after being warned Four fires had broken out within an eight mile area and the men entered this area under what he termed as’ “most unusual coincid- ences.” —— - OFFICIALS ON FIELD TRIP The Forest Service vessel Forester with Districc Ranger W. A. Chip- 1 t time th i | i perfied and Territorial Highway | Present time there are only 9,.- opinion about war and peace, eVen|ypartin gnyder, former husband of shooting occurred last Saturday | Engineer William A. Hesse aboard 2 |in 1914. Nations found it desirable| puer"meine radio singer, has been | night or early Sunday morning in| Smaller than in June There was plenty of discussion in 1914, as a matter of fact, but it| WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—A lead- did not circulate fast enough to| ing government economist has esti- overtake the onrush of the flames mated that business improvement of patriotic passion. There was cor-| since June has reduced unemploy- | respondence between the chief ex-| ment by one million men and ecutives of countries involved, be-| women. tween chancelleries and foreign of-| The economist declined to be fices. quoted by name. He figured, how- The flow of publicized commu- ever, there were 10,250,000 persons nications testified to the existence cut of work in June and at the of a new and influential public| 50,000. NG 8 it {to appeal to that public opinion for the Czechs. ‘Her license number is 219,169. Rl;th Etting’s Former Mate Indicted in Shooting Affray; She Is Sued for Alienation LOS ANGELES, Cal, Oct. 20. —/ Alderman is recovering. The dealers to take on small consign- ments of American pop and to serve it with ice. American soda pop didn't sweep' the Indies like a plague. But it took on so well that one company now has its own botfling plant in Java. It can be had at the better bars at 15 cents a bottle. The dealers won't handle it for a nickel a bottle. Foote says his primest recollec- tion is seeing two Scotsmen at a fashionable club in Batavia, sip- ping Yankee pop through a straw. (Each had a bottle, not two straws U to ratification of the agreement by |Island last Sunday has reached 430 Dr. he unions and employers. Paul C. Smith, newspaper man, Executive Mediator in the dispute, announced warehouses the accord, and said should open Monday. oo Townsend Talks About His Plan LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 20.— Frances E. Townsend has re- sailed . today for Lisianski Inlet where the Ranger is going to confer | with the new Pelican Cold Storage plant officials relative to additional | Regular meeting of the Cit; permits and Hesse is looking over a|council will be helg in the cnz couple of proposed Territorial road |ga) tomorrow night. Only routine pites. business is scheduled. COUNCIL TOMORROW NIGHT moral support. THE WORLD ON THE WIRE In 1938 such appeals had become |not only desirable but practical- (Continued on Fage Six) | indicted by the Los Angeles County the luxurious apartments of Ruth] Grand Jury on charges of shooting Etting. 3 Myrl Alderman, her accompanist,| Ruth Etting has been served with and present spouse. | papers in a $150,000 alienation of af- The indictment accuses Snyder of | fections suit, filed by Alderman’s| attempted murder, kidnaping and divorced wife, Alma, to add to the| violation of the gun laws. 4 family mixup. }) for one bottle.) turned from a trip to Honolulu and after reading letters and telegrams YE OLDE MINT JULEP |on his desk, made the prediction Anf] again, there is the business that a majority membership in the of mint juleps. They had to be put next Congress will be favorable to " (Continued from Page Oney ' 1is Pension plan. | persons. | The dispatch also said a number of villages have been totally de- stroyed. ————.——— ® ® 0 0 0 00 00 0 0 READ HOLLYWOOD . IN THIS ISSUE . OF THE EMPIRE e . Juneau breaks into Robbin e Coon’s Hollywood column to- day. It tells about the recent visit here of the man who came north for the purpose of selling a refrigerator to an Eskimo, and did. It tells many things e about him that all readers will ® enjoy. . e 00000000 ey