The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 24, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7931. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALL NIGHT FIRE RAGES AT ANCHORAGE Aerlal Bombs Are Dumped on Chinese Land BRIT, GUNBOAT | 1S STRUCK IN RAID BY AlR; Japanese Interfere with| Customs Regulations Aboard U. S. Liner HANKOW IS SHELLED ; INVADERS NEAR CITY Canton Fights with Dyn-| amite — Much Looting of Stores Reported SHANGHAI, Oct. 24.—Japan \e‘ aerial bombing of a British wa and a customs dispute over an Am- erican passenger liner, added two new incidents to the long list of In- ternational complications arising out of the China conflict. Bombs from six Japanese planes fell about and damaged the super-! structure of the British gunboat Sandpiper anchored at Changsha, about 200 miles southwest of Han- kow. There were no casualties. The customs dispute arose over the Japanese refusal to clear the Dollar liner President Coolidge early this morning for San Francisco with a cargo of silver valued at more than | $4,000,000 which the Japanese- sponsored Government apparently considers its property. | The Dollar Line agreed to unload | the silver whereupon permission was granted and the liner will sail tomorrow. British Navy officials have vigor- ously protested to the bombing of the Sandpiyer. Japanese planes bombed Hankow and rail centers all day today and yesterday. ‘ Today’s 20-mile advance brought the Japanese naval forces to Mlh- in 20 air miles of the China Capi- tal City. A small force of Japanese captors of Canton strove with dynamite to fight fires sweeping that city. Dispatches said shops were being looted in Canton. Thousands of Chinese have fled from the city. LIQUOR RING INDICTMENTS ARE RETURNED Forty-four I\El‘, One Wom- an Accused of Defraud- ing Government NEW YORK, Oct. 24—Forty-four men and one woman have been in-| dicted by a Federal Grand Jury on charges of defrauding the Govern- ment of at least $15,000,000 in taxes through an illicit liquor ring oper-| ating in five cities in the United States and Canada. Assistant United States Attorney Raymond Whearty characterizes the case as “one of the biggest the Al- cohol Unit of the Internal Revenue has developed. Conservative esti-| mates, based on Treasury Agems investigation of the case, convinces| us that this gang has produced at least 3,500,000 gallons of 190-proof alcohol for illicit distribution.” The indictment says the bulk of the illicit liquor was shipped be- tween 1931 and 1937 to Detroit, Bos- ton, Buffalo, Newark; New York and Canada. CALM PREVAILS, SPANISH FIGHT Both Sides Reported Pre- paring for New Of- fensive, However HENDAYE, Oct. 24—A calm con- | tinues on the Spanish war front but both sides are reported putting | on plans for the finishing touches| of a new offensive, MORAVSKA - OSTRAVA® SoLomoue MORAVIA ©BRNO ’ S Ko RTESCHEN, AR e Focal Point of Czech-Hungarian Dispute ORDERS POSTED FOR CZECHS T0 GET OUT (PO L Wl “ ’, 2 A Q,\W«.\\u«j\\. (A RN 1, m e A wi) R ) |/\ =N N ,s.\l:’/ ,‘:‘ ULTIMATUM EXPIRES NEGOTIATIONS HALT, TROOPS AT BORDER |IIIH||”“| NTRA e This clcseup map of the section of Czechosiovakia shows the area invelved in the border dispute with Hungary, and which for a time aroused new tension in Europe. Czechs offered about one-fourth as much tcrritery, and finally called upon Germany, France, England and Italy to arbitrate the dispute. Wars wants. CRUSH CHINA AT ALL COST, JAPAN PLANS |Complete “‘Cooperation” Is, Demanded—Then Ag- gression to Stop TOKYO, Oct. 24.—Japan’s de- termination to hold China indefin- itely under military occupation and compel her .to “cooperate” with Ja- pan in all vital matters after the present war is ended. is disclosed | in a statement emanating from ! Government sources. The statement is published by the | Domei News Agency and is appar- ently issued in anticipation of the| early fall of Hankow. ! ‘The pronouncement is also inter-| | preted as indication in the Japanese Government’s belief that the cap- ture of Hankow will end the purely | military phase of the conquest and permit cessation of further offen- sive operations of Japan in China. The declaration said that Japan will compel China to cooperate po- litically, economically and cultural-| ly after the fighting is over in China and China must accept industrial| and economic reciprocity. China must also join the Anti- \ Comintern accord with Japan, Ger- many and Italy and prohibit all| anti-Japanese movements. China must also abandon “all policies and ! forms of education likely to destroy with Japan (GERMANY WD CENT. EUROPE BOTTLED UP British Foreign Minister Claims Nohing Could Have Saved Czechs amity” EDINBURGH, Oct. 24—Viscount | | Halifax, British Foreign Secretary, declared that Great Britain, France, Russia and their allies could not have saved Czechoslovakia's de-/ struction by the German Army if| war had started several weeks ago| in Central Europe. His speech was the first since the International erisis. The British Foreign Secretary also said the British-Germany Alliance is the “strongest guarantee thatl could be devised” against repetition of European war dangers. He ad- vised the people to aid Great Brit-| ain’s rearmament program. | Prancisco general strike and chaos o Famous Totem Pole Landmark, Seattle, Doomed Incendlary Flre All But De- stroys Carved Monu- | ment, Pioneer Square | SEATTLE, Oct. 24—One of the| city’s oldest landmarks, the famous old Indian totem pole in Pioneer Square,' in the downtown section, is about doomed. Almost a complete loss after an incendiary fire, a guy wire holds | the totem pole while City Park Of- ficials debate its futurg. Someone piled paper bags at the| base of the pole and then set the| bags afire. The totem pole was broughf here| from Tongass, Alaska, forty years ago. } SAYS BRIDGES CAUSED STRIKE, MARINE CHAOS Caleorma Le glon naire Shows Up CIO Chief- tain as Communist WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Harper | | Knowles, California Legionnaire, told the members of the House Com- | mittee investigating unAmerican ac- | tivities, that an organization headed by Harry Bridges, CIO chieftain on the Pacific Coast, began agitation which “brought about the San in the maritime industry.” Knowles further testified that Dr. Louis Block, a member of the| Maritime Labor Board, was at one time a member of the professional Unit of the Communist Party in California. Knowles said he was chairman of the Radical Research Committee of | | declared that Bridges' Communist m‘gammnon was known as the “Equality Hall Group.” Knowles further testified that as/ early as 1922, Bridges entered the tried to gather about him “a group of radical progressives.” Two years later, Knowles said, R RIE L g, cuig))) TO, UJHELY The shaded area shows what Hungary Near Wurs, Gives Worries. to H ostesses in Washmgton Pacific Coast Gompany Bought i | {Three Local Business Men | Now Own Large Wat- ' erfront Property \ U, One of the largest transfers of | property to take place in Juneau ‘m several years was effected today when three Juneau men compris- }m the Alaska Dock and Storage | Company purchased the buildings |and property of the Pacific Coast Comapny of New York. Incorporators of the new com- pany are R. L. Bernard, President; A. B. Hayes, Vice-President, and M. E. Monagle, Secretary-Treasurer, who filed incorporation articles to- day for $75,000 capital stock. The corporation is closed. 0SICE uznozon | lU'rHE NIA MARTIAL LAW FOLLOWS DISORDERS | warehouses, offices | Alaska Steamship Company, the | American Railway Express Com- |pany, and the coal bunkers, offices Iand business of the Pacific Coast ,Conl Company. There are also two apartments on the second floor of the warehouse structure, | H. L. McDonald, manager of the Pacific Coast Company before the ‘truns.wnnn will carry on as man- ager for the new owners and no change in personnel is anticipated, | according to officials of the Alaska ]Dwk and Storage Company. | 'Officials also said extensive im- | provements and alterations will be made to the property which extends By PRESTON GROVER |from the Juneau Cold Storage north- ward for 587 feet. WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 — 1Tt "rpe ge) was made through N. doesn’t really matter much o US|p npooe Seattle agent of the Pa- but a general European war would | ;.. cooct Company. mess up the Washington social bus- | Incorporators of the new com- pesd pany did not announce the amount With a couple of common-law of money involved in the transac- wars already in progress a lady who |gjon wants to get glong has to keep her mind on her place cards. What, then, would be the case if a half! dozen nations were having it out toe to toe? It is fairiy easy to avoid seating Ambassador Chengtin T. Wang of China next to Mrs. Saito, or Am- bassador Saito of Japan next ‘o something pretty from the Russian Embassy. But if you muitiply the difficulties by adding a half dozen European nations, all the coal in Pennsylvania could not thaw out the official chill. used by the ——————— Jury Selected In Death Auto Dnvars Trial Defense Will Attempt to Prove Negligence on Part PITY THE HEMSTITCHERS Transfer of property includes | other We went up to the White House to see about these things, be- cause the White House each year of Road Management Trial of Joe Thomas, driver of the| has ‘the first go at the diplomatic | car in which Alex Conn was fatally corps, with a reception about injured a week ago, on charges of Christmas time. We got an inside reckless driving and driving while tip that if a really good-sized war | under the influence of intoxicating | came off the diplomatic dinner and |liquor, was started in U. S. Com- | reception likely would be can-| | missioner Felix Gray’s court v,th celled. If that happened, it would morning and early this afternoon start such a flood of party eancel- a jury had been selected and the lations that flocks of fancy dress calling of witnesses started. shops would be sent to the showers.| In the jury box as the case got Yet all these reports of icy greet-|under way were Isabelle Jorgenson, J ings between belligerent diplo- Mary Miller, Walter P. Scott, Vera mats should be taken with a dash Mead, Ruth Geyer, E. E. Ninnis, | of sherbet. Naturally Ambassador|Aileene Olson, Gwendolyn Lager- Fernando de los Rios of Spain isn’t|gren,. Minnfe Goldstein, William sending any choice bottles of Bosch, Warren H. Wilson and Jo-| sparkling Madeira around to the seph A. Thibodeau. | German embassy, nor does Saito. Government Negligence | invite Wang out to split a bottle Defense Attorney George Grigsby | two oriental diplomats accidentally clared he would show negligence on met face to face at a White use the part of the government, or the party and exchanged seasof .ble|government agencies in charge of | greetings while their brothers were | the road, for not having the road blasting blazes out of each other|well marked to give warning of a* along the Yangtze. Diplomnuc\curve He won immediate challenge blood doesn't run very hot. \fmm Prosecutor George W. F‘olw,, ‘who declared marking the road| DEMOCRACY CAPTURES | wasn't the case at issue and that| CASTLE whether or not it was marked would Democracy note: A turreted soci-| make no difference on the quesuon ety castle out on Sixteenth Street,| of whether Thomas was driving once the haven of the high, has rcckleuly or while under the inrlu- lately been split up into penny-ante ence of liquor. l housekeeping apartments. Guv'ment! Judge ruled for Folta and the| stenographers wait for the buss at Prosecutor called Dr. W. M. Whne- the entrance to a driveway that‘head who had treated George Ke- once wouldn’t admit an automobile sak, who is still in the hospital with | the California American Legion. Helless than a half block long unless a broken neck; Melvin Rogers lnd} it carried a gilt coat of arms. In G. A. Caldwell, who also were in-| olden days callers in top hats drove! jured in the crash which occurred s‘ ‘up the palm-bordered driveway to week ago Sunday when the machine, | | call for the lady fair. Now the lads driven by Thomas, went off me} make a down payment on a clatter- Glacier Highway at Morris Curve‘ | Riggers and Stevedores’ Unioh and |car, drive up to the doorway and at Salmon Creek. honk. .| Dr. Whitehead said he did not Political democracy has been as-| treat Thomas as the latter said he cenda.nt for five years and more, | was not hurt and could not mury as (Continued on Page Seven) | (Answem on Page Six) (Continued on Page E‘lghn WAGE, WASHINGTON, Oct. 24, — The Wage and Hour Administration dis- closes that employers will have to keep records, of some sort, for eleven million workers under the Labor Standard Wage and Hour Law which went into effect at midnight Sunday or 12:01 o'clock this morn- ing. Officials estimate that the law will result in wage raises for a quar- ter of a million workers, and shorter hours for one million and a half. Records. must also be kept for millions, employees in terstate Commerce, whose wages and working conditions already ex- ceed the standards of the statute, or whose occupations exempt them from the law. Administrator Elmer Andrews dis- closes there is no specific form to be required for records as long as| data is kept for all desired infor-| mation and accessible to the Ad- ministrator. Following are some of the jvems requested for information: Employers subjected to the Labor are those engaged in Interstate In-| Out in Juneau LABflR LAw | -~ EFFECT NOW Commerce. They must keep records — full| name of employee, home address, date of birth, if employee is under 19; hours worked each day and each work week; regular rate of pay each work week, excluding ex- tra compensation attributable to excess of overtime rate over regu- lar rate. Additions to cash wages, at cost deductions from stipulated wages, in amount deducted or cost} item for which deduction made, whichever is less total wages paid for each work week, and date of payment. The Act provides for a work week | no longer than 44 hours during the| first year of operation of the law; 42 hours the second year, and 40| hours thereafter. i 1 | The Act also provides for a mini-| {mum pay of 25 cents an hour tor‘ or §200,000 1S - DAMAGE DONE, IS ESTIMATE Alaska Rallroad Ware- house, Cold Storge Plant, Commissary Burns FOUR FIREMEN ARE OVERCOME BY SMOKE ' Steam Shovel Turing Over Debris as Water Poured on Glowing Embers ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct. 24.— An all night fire was finally brought under control early this forenmoon and Col. Otto F. Ohlson announces that the damage is estimated at $200,000 to the Alaska Railroad warehouse, cold storage plant, com- missary and contents including large Thangsgiving Turkey shipments and large quantities of canned goods. It is said the first started in a work car between the main shops of | the Alaska Railroad and the ware- house. The flames spread rapidly. Four firemen were overcome by smoke and one fireman suffered | the first year; 30 cents an hour for .badly burned hands. |the next six years, and 40 cents| |an hour thereafter. | Al standards are imposed only gaged in mtermte commerce. PINK PAJAMA CLAD WOMAN FOUND SLAIN Pretty Brunetle Housewife Murdered in Luxur- ious Apartment CHICAGO, Ill, Oct. 24. — Mrs. Mary DeVuono, pretty 28-year-old brunette housewife, was found late last night mysteriously slain in her luxuriously furnished apartment. The woman had been shot twice. The victim of the slayer was clad only in pink silk pajamas. AR S ONE HUNDRED MEN MISSING, RESULT, STORM |Several Boats Are Reported Sunk, Others Driven Out to Sea BUCHAREST, Oct. 24.—At least 100 men are missing after storms caused havoc in the Black Sea. At the port of Constanza, several boats sank and two boats have | of sake on a cool evening. But these in outlining his case to the jury de- peen blown out to the open sea. — .o —— SEATTLE FIRM GETS CONTRACT SURVEY GRAFT {Coast and Geodetlc Ship Will Be Used to Chart- er Aleutian Isles SEATTLE, Oct. 24.— A $892,000 contract for the Coast and Geodetic Survey ship Explorer has been awarded to the Lake Washington shipyards. The new vessel will be used to charter the Aleutian Islands. S e, Prussia is the largest state in CGermany, - AJEMPLOYEES BEGIN WORKING UNDER NEW LAW Full Time Workers to Ge t i Slight Wage Increase ! —No Cuts I Approximately 1,000 employees of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining| Company, Juneau’s largest pay- roller, began work today under tem- porary arrangements in comp]lanv‘e | with the Wages and Hours Law, ef- | fective this morning. | J. A. Williams, Assistant General | | Superintendent of the mine, acting | i General Superintendent in the ab-| |sence of L. H. Metzgar, told The | Empire today that “no employee! A steam shovel is turning over the debris at noon as Col. Ohlson and his aides are taking further | Standard Wage and Hour Law|on employers and employees en.lstock of the damage. Firemen were still using water ~n zhe embers at 1 o'clock. Operation of the railroad will not be affected, Col. Ohlson said, and congres.sxonnl appropriation will be asked to cover the loss. The Aluk. Rallrond will use the | Matanuska Colony cold storage plant in the meannme COLD WAVE IN - MIDWEST HAS GRIPPED AREA Snow Also Fa"s in Three States Disrupting ™ Communications Oct. 24—A cdld CHICAGO, 11, | wave is sweeping the midwest. Several Nebraska state readings | of the A. J, working full time, will give temperatures of 14 above zeres | suffer any wage decrease, but in, Snow has fallen in Minnesota, !mosz cases will make a few cents Wisconsin and Michigan and com- | more in the aggregate.” The following notice was posted for employees: “In order to comply with the Wages and Hours Law and not re- duce the weekly earnings of our | employees, we will temporarily, and | subject to change when other ar- rangements or determinations ars | made, adopt the following plan: { “Forty-eight hours per week will be worked as usual—44 hours regu- lar time, 4 hours overtime. | “Wages will be adjusted so that |44 hours regular time plus 4 hours! overtime will approximately equal the present wage. “In the case of those few men who work seven days a week, ad- justment will be on the basis of 44 hours regular time and 12 hours overtime.” Mr. Willilams further said, in ex- planation: “We wish to point out that the present plan is temporary and subject to change when other determinations regarding the law are made, for it is quite probable that the gold mining industry will not come under the Wages and Hours Law. “In the meantime, however, we feel that this particular wage sys- tem is the best for all concerned— the employees, the company, and the community. “No doubt some little difficulties in the operation of the plan will arise, but we will do our best to overcome them so that no one shall suffer any hardship.” ,The forty-four hour schedule is worked out on a slightly reduced scale, but rate and a half is to be paid for the overtime, falling on the sixth day, which an employee ! must work in order to receive.” | jmust work in order to receive the increased scale” | 3 HISTORIC LINK munications and transportation sys= tems have been disrupted for a.. time. .- — 'CHINA WITHUSS, IS NOW SEVERED Capture of il by J anese Cuts Off Birth-"* place, Open Door WASHINGTON, Oct. 24.—Japan, in capturing Canton, has severed the historic United States link with China by cutting off the birthplace of the Open Door Policy. Japan’s occupation of South China, it is assumed by officia)s here, will have an important econ- omic effect on American commerce in that region. : Celebrates His 113th : Birthday NEW YORK, Oct. 24.—Ben- jamin Kotlowitz pointed with pride to 100 descendants as he celebrated his 113th birthday yesterday. - eee— OSCAR HART HERE Oscar Hart, veteran traveling' man, is in Juneau. He arrived heré aboard the Denali, >