The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 29, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1938. VOL. LII, NO. 7936. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN BLOCKS AMERICAN TRADE, CHINA' S — All““Stolen’’ Colonies Demanded by Germany HITLER MAKES MORE CHARGES Wants “Disgorging” of “Property Taken™ by Versailles Treaty SMILES ABOUT USING FORCE TO GET ACTION Hurls Veiléd Ultimatum at All Powers Concern- ing Issue LADEBURG, Germany, Oct. 29. —Germany demands return of all her colonies, withont exception, tak- en by the Versails treaty. This statement W made here today by Gen. Franz Ritter von Epp, Governor of Bavaria and Hit- ler's Deputy for Colonial Affairs. The official further declared that the future relations with other great powers in Europe and powers in general indicate that Germany depends upon their willingness to disgorge the property that Germany regards as stolen. The German General futher add- ed, with a smile: “We will never attempt to solve the colonial prob- lem by military force.” ALL QUIET ON BATTLEFRONTS IN CIVIL WAR Headquarters of Both Gov- ernment, Insurgents, Make Reports HENDAYE, Oct. 29. — Reports from both Insurgent and Loyalist government battlefronts in the Spanish Civil War indicate it is quiet. Unofficial reports, however, are that both sides are making great plans for offensives and during the n Little Beauty Sleeps O With her blue eyes open, golden-haired Mary Ellen Reardon of Chi- cago is shown on her third birthday as she sleeps through her seventh month of a coma into which she fell seven months ago after an attack of measles.—AP Photo. Navy Favors Alaskan Bases in New Program | By WALTER FITZMAURICE FOOT gx&% ~ bt RESULTS The following are final scores of prineipal football games played in various parts of the nation this afternoon and received from the Associated Press up to 3:30 o'clock this afternoon: Army 7; Notre Dame 19. Michigan 14; Illinois 0. Colgate 0; Holy Cross 0. Tufts 0; Brown 48. Dartmouth 24; Yale 6. Santa Clara 7; Michigan State 6. Duke 14; North Carolina 0. Fordham 13; Pittsburgh 24. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — Naval sources indicate the 1939 armaments program will include new air and fleet bases in the Atlanti¢ and Pa- cific, reducing United States vulner- ability to a “two-oce: attack Congressional tax experts, raising the slogan of “paying for prepared- ness as we go,” considered a 10 per- cent horizontal income tax hike, meantime, to meet the thumping | increase in defense appropriations iPl'(‘si(lt‘nL Roosevelt has forecast | , Naval circles predicted a recom- | mendation for strengthening the Hawaii naval base and for new bases in Alaska, San Francisco and Cornell 23; Columbia 7. | Puerto Rico will reach Congress in Washington and Lee 0; Richmond | January, at about the time the House Ways and Means Committee 'NOWAGE CUTS B PERMITTEDTO © RAIL SYSTEMS Investigating Board Recom- mends Withdrawal of 15 Percent Slash WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — 'I'he' Emergency Railroad Investigation Board has recommended that the nation’s railroads withdraw de- mands for a 15 percent wage reduc- tion. The board was appointed by Pres- ident Roosevelt to inevtsigate the |wage dispute. | The board, in the recommenda- tion report, says: “The wages are not as high as compared with wages in other com- | parable industries” and added: “A | wage reduction in the railroad in- dustry would run counter to the | |trend of wage rates in industry generally.” The wage dispute arose when the carriers served notice that they | would impose a 15 percent wage cut | I } land the railroaders voted to strike | = rather than accept the reduction. | RAIL SHARES DROP SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 29. —Stock of Southern Pacific dropped | $1.50 a share suddenly on annunce- | ment of the report of the Wage Investigating Board in Washington. | | The stock was selling at a 25- cent drop during the early morning ! trading before the wage board re- |port was made public ,then sudden- ly dropped $1.25 lower. REVISED ¥ D WAGE SCHEDULE AT AJ.NOVEMBER Base Pay and Overtime Pro- visions Announced by Asst. Superintendent A revised schedule of wages in | Althcugh they have made no claim to the title, the Loprinzi family of strongest and healthiest family in the world. physical specimens and a result of constant training in weight-liftin| Portland, Ore., considers itself the Their ages ranging from 18 to 33, there are ten boys, all fine g, boxing and wrestling. When cach bey reached the age of 16 he was put through a strict reutine of weight-lifting with gradually in- ereased weights as he grew stronger. Later the boxing and wrestling were added to the workout. Joe Lo- prinzi, fifth from left, was weak and sickly as a boy, but won the 1936 Oregon and Northwest weight-lift- ing contest. He executes a 485-pound dead lift from the floor. Joe left, is claimed by an athletes’ magazine to be the “best built man in American Company Holds Contract with German Co. For Zeppelin Ocean Service WORLD CONFAB 1S ENDORSED BY FRENCH PARTY nvention Delegates in Paris Act on Roose- velt's Suggestion By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — An| merican corporation has a con-| | tract with the German Zeppelin | company to lease a Zeppelin for | transatlantic traffic—if and when| it can shake 20 million cubic feet of helium gas from the tight clutch- | | es of Secretary of the Interior Ickes. | The contract under which this | arrangement was reached is one of the unexpected things drawn up | in the drag-net law enacted by the t Congress. It requires the regis- | tration of all agencies in the Unit-| ed States which have foreign con- nections. The company with the contract Col PARIS, Oct. 29.—Premier Dala- dier's Radical Socialist Party has is American Zeppelin called for a world economic confer- Inc., of New York. There is noth- | ence “in accordance with the wish-| £ es of President Roosevelt.” ' The party, in a convention, de- clared in a resolution, that on such (Continued on Fage Six) . temporary respite are replenishing 6. takes up the 1939 revenue bill. their forces with war material. | Mississippi 25; George Washing- ton 0. Expansion at Hawaii accordance with the wage and hour |, .onrerence proposed by the Am- |law provisions covering base Pay ejean President, depended better and overtime will become effective q)q4iong petween Great Britain and Pioneer Ganning Cincinnati 12; Ohio 13. Ohio State 32; New York Uni- versity 0. Alabama 26; Kentucky 6. North Carolina State 0; Virginia Tech 17 William and Mary 0; Virginia 34 John Hopkins 7; Haverford 6. Indiana 0; Wisconsin 6. Jowa State 7; Marquette 0. Missouri 13; Nebraska 10. Purdue 0; Iowa 0. Minnesota 3; Northwestern 6. Louisiana State 6; Tennessee 14. Texas Christian 39; Baylor 7. Kansas 27; Kansas State 7. South Dakota 7; South Dskota BERLIN, Oct. 29.—Thousands of State 0. Frantic Polish Jews are held at DePauw 14; Chicago 34 German concentration points await-| Mississippi State 0; Tulane 27. ing deportation to their homeland. Carnegie Tech 27; Akron 13. More than 1,000 were shipped to| Miami 16; Wesleyan 20. Poland in a roundup last night by Texas A and M 13; Arkansas S the secret police and hundreds of Southern Methodist 7; Texas 6. others are ready for eviction. Georgia Tech 7; Vanderbilt 13. Polish efforts to block mass de-| Auburn 0; Rice 14, portations are failing. Navy 0; Penn 0, tie. s Harvard 26; Princeton 7. IRIsH BRIDBERS | Penn State 33; Syracuse 6. POLISH JEWS ARE ROUNDED UP, DEPORTED Thousands Held at German Concentration Camps | for Ousting The navy board, which the last | Congress directed to study sites for | bases safeguarding the continental and territorial possessions and sea- | borne commerce, officers pointed out, is under mandate to submit a | report by January 1. Rear Admiral | Arthur J. Hepburn, former fleet | commander - in - chief, heads the | board. Although the report remains con- fidential until its submission to con- gress, the board’s findings are un- understood to include recommenda- tions for the following: | 1—Expansion of the Hawaii base to permit the berthing of a fleet |being augmented by fifteen to twenty new ships, and with dry- |dock accommodations for battle- iships larger than the existing 35,- 000-ton limit. —A combination fleet-air base in | the Gulf of Alaska, setting up the second leg of the tripod Pacific strategists consider necessary to maintain American - Asiatic sea lanes in event of a Pacific naval war. 3—A submarine base midway be- at the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company on November 1, it was announced today by J. A. Williams, Assistant General Superintendent. | Notices of the new plan were be- ling posted on the company’s bulle- tin boards today and read as follows: “Effective November 1, 1938, the |recent wage adjustment is being revised upward in order to have it apply more evenly to all employees and furthermore to compensate the employee for the overtime he might !lose occasionally through no par- |ticular fault of his own. “As pointed out previously, we are making this arrangement tem- porarily and in accordance with the provisions of the recently enacted wages and hours law,—although we have been advised by our counsel that the provisions of this law will not likely apply to the gold mining industry in Alaska.” Explaining the schedule further, 'Mr. Williams said: “The plan in general has been to 'make the employees new weekly earnings, that is, by regular rate France on one hand and Germany and Italy on the other. President Roosevelt, in a tele- gram dated October 21 to the Inter- national Chamber of Commerce, in session in Paris, said: “Improve- ment of a basis of natural and profitable economic relations be- tween countries” is essential to the “establishment of any satisfactory and secure world order.” Circuit Court of Appeals here from | The message did not specifically | juqoment of the District Court in mention a world economic CQ"']Alaska which levied a fine of $2,- gress, 1500 against the company after con- |viction for engaging in the salmon: e e 06060600 0 0 oo o o cannery business in Alaska without HALLOWEEN IS ON o (o License, MONDAY, NOT SUNDAY o | At the second trial, the company o alleged the acts of 1932 were barred e by the statute of limitation. The e court agreed the statute of limita- e tions applied but judgment was o upheld, however, because the Presi- e dent of the company executed two e |affidavits relating to the number of e cases of salmon packed in the Al-| e aska plant. * Gompany Appeals From $2,500 Fine SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 29.—The Pioneer Packing Company has filed an appeal in the United States .- Chief of Police Dan Ralston this afternoon issued a warn- ing to youngsters, and others, that Hallowe'en is next Mon- day night and there is no “starting” to be done Sunday night, nor tonight. o0 0000000000 e e, — weighs 155, America.” CITY SCHOOLS OF DAYTON ARE Sam, 26, sixth from TROUBLED NOW Board Orders Closing Be-| cause Money Shortage —Court Reopens DAYTON, Ohio, Oct. 29. — A shortage of money has forced the closing of the city schools for an indefinite period. Thirty-four thousand children and 1300 teachers left their class- rooms yesterday afternoon. Officials have. appealed to Governor for aid. the DAYTON, Oct. 29. — Common Transport, | Pleas Judge N. E. M. Hodapp, this | afternoon issued a temporary re- straining order prohibiting the Day- ton Board of Education closing the schools . The board, under the order, must open the doors as usual on Monday and continue operations pending a hearing on a permanent injunction. Richard Withrow, Board of Edu- cation member, dissenting from the decision of his colleagues, said the | “closing order this time.” DIES TO REPLY T0 CHARGES OF CH. EXECUTIVE WIil Read Letters of Presi- dent, Other Officials, is unnecessary at WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Chair- man Martin Dies of the House Committee investigating unAmer- ican activities, said he will make public letters of President Roose- velt and other Administration of- ficials in an effort to show “they |plus the overtime rate, equivalent to the weekly earnings prior to| | STOCK QUOTATIONS | October 24, 1938. The present sched- | #————— ——————————— T3 Ellis Lands Waco ~* On Reservoir; REPORTED, HOONAH enemy raiders of American com- | merce eluding the battle fleet. ule of wages, however, exceeds this | equivalent by from 1 to 2 cents per | NEW YORK, Oct. 29. — Closing Walks Home (have refused to cooperate” in the |investigation of rising Communism |and Fascism in the United States. Chairman Dies said he will broad- St. Louis U 13; Catholic U 0. e — B | tween Yerba Buena ‘and Treasure RUN W|Ln UVE MYSTERY DEATH IS |islands in San Francisco Bay, from which undersea craft could waylay | ARMY 19 Tfl 7‘ Report of an inquest being held| 4—A fleet-air base at San Juan ] in Hoonah this afternoon over a Puerto Rico, bestriding the Carri- | native reported to have been found |bean approaches to the P:nsma | dead aboard a fishing boat there|Canal and Mexican Gulf and sup- NEW, FORK Oct: .29'_ qure\ was received here last night by the|planting the Guantanamo (Cuba) e pru_duced § Lh{mmg Passing | pureau of Indian Affairs. Details|base as a rendezvous for a perman- and running attack in the second|of e geath were meager, no report| ent, expanded Atlantic naval force. half - today to score three ftouch-|paying peen received by the Mar-| Income Taxes to' Finance downs and defeat the Army again qy5”office or the District Attor-| Naval quarters indicated no new 19 to 7 in the 25th anniversary game | ney. installations will be recommended hefogs 90,199, ¢ i | According to the report the man|for Guam, the Western Pacific is- After scoring the first time they | was prought into Hoonah dead. An|land formerly envisioned as the got their hands on the ball in the| mgian Office nurse said the body| third point in the Pacific naval tri- opening minutes of play, the Army| wa¢ gtj)] warm when she was asked bod, but now regarded as more gridders didn't threaten again dur-| ¢, examine it. Other men aboard the | suitable for air equipment alone. ing the game, as Notre Dame strode| pogt aid the man had been dead| Treasury officials estimated a 1 over them rough shod in the last| g4 hours The victim's head also was s ot half. reported to bear ugly bruises. (Continued on Page Seven) 0 quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session is| /9%, American Can 103, American| Light and Power 67¢, Anaconda 37%, | Bethlehem Steel 66%, Common- wealth and Southern 2%, Curtis | Wright 6%, General Motors 49%, Charles G. Burdick, Administra- |, ternational Harvester 63%, Ken: tive Assistant in charge of CCC|pecott 461, New York Central 19%,|Y: by high wind in the wrong work in the Territory for the U. 8. Safeway Stores 23, Southern Pacflic‘d‘"c"mn for takeoff, kicking up a Forest Service, and Mrs. Burdick|19% United States Steel 63%, CDOPPY sea on the lake, prevented are passengers aboard the Bnranollpound $4.76%. ‘his return flight. which sailed from Seattle this Walking in the three mlies to | morning for Juneau. Mr. Burdick DOW, JONES AVERAGES |town last night, Ellis announced | has been visiting regional offices| The following are today's Dow, he would attempt to take the ship | Outside while Mrs. Burdick has| jones averages: industrials 151.07,|0ff again today, but at a late hour been visiting with relatives in Mon- | ynchanged since Friday; rails 31'Bgvi‘lms afternoon, weather conditions tana. down .24; utilities 24.44, down 23. Still kept him on the lake. hour. This excess will on the aver- | (Continued on Page Six) - e o — BURDICKS RETURNING Ketchikan Pilot Bob Ellis flew a load of freight in his Waco sea- plane to small Lake Ketchikan yes- terday, the First City's reservoir, but had to walk home. Ellis landed the freight load safe- |cast Monday night at 10:45 o'clock, | Eastern Stanard time, on a Mutual \network and his reply will be es- |pecially to President Roosevelt's criticism of the committee’s hand- {]ing of the charges against Gov. | Murphy of Michigan, which are of jan alleged treasonable nature, - e TALMAGE ON BARANOF | Capt. K. C. Talmage of the Al- aska Game Commission vessel Seal |15 a passenger aboard the Baranof from Seattle today for Juneau, re- turning to his duties here after undergoing medical attention at the Marine Hospital in Seattle. ' Portland, Ore., Family Has Ten “Strongmen” N|PPON PL/iNS DRIVING 0UT COMPETITION Foreign Products to Be i Eliminated in Commerce with Conquered Area BRITISH-U. S. AGENTS ARE HOLDING SESSION Invading Forces Mopping Up Around Hankow— Canton Controlled SHANGHAI, Oct. aerican |and British Chambers of Commerce !met jointly today to discuss a unit- |ed front against Japanese efforts to monopolize the trade in China. The Chinese press reports that | Japanese firms are rapidly estab- lishing sales offices in all conquered |cities and towns to handle only | Japanese goods while foreign trade |is blocked by the Japanese armies and Japanese sales agencies. | The Americans in Shanghai de- clare that Japan is already sup- planting all foreign goods and this |is designed to oust American busi- |ness from China as well as British business. Advices received by the Japanese Military headquarters state the Japanese forces are driving deeper | Iy completed mopping up operations around Hankow. In the Canton «r nese forces are in of that section. ——— - — ‘ar, the Japa- plete control DEATH LIST, - FRENCH CITY FIRE, MOUNTS Believed Hundreds Have Pe:ished in Flames— Soldiers on Guard MARSEIL LE, PFrance, Oct. 20.— | The official death list from yester- day’s fire has mounted to 56 and may reach 100 as scores are missing who are believed have been | burned to death. Troops with fixed bayonets are |guarding the smoking ruins to pre- | vent looting. The fires, in the heart of the busi- | ness district of this great port, de- stroyed ten large buildings, includ- ing two hotels. The cause for the various fires, in the same district, has not yet been determined. CONVICT LOSES VOICE, AS GOES T0 TRIAL, COURT {Alcatraz Prisoner Actually Speechless as Faces Murder Charge SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 29. —James S. Lucas, 26, Texas robber, appeared in court late yesterday and was ordered to trial soon for the murder of a prison guard at Alcatraz Island Prison in a vain at- tempt to make his escape. Lucas became hysterical in court and a psychiatrist said he became scared and is speechless now, un- able to utter a sound. Benes Accepts U. of Chicago {Professorship | cHIcAGO, T, Oct. 29.—Former President Eduard Benes, of Czecho- slovakia, has cabled the University of Chicago he has accepted the visiting professors: ifered him, into the interior and has practicgle_