The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 2, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7939. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS RICE TEN CENTS HAIDA NOW WORKING, MYSTERY W Spanish War Is Carried to England’s ECK oast VESSEL CARRIES PURSE SEINERS UNION PENNANT | Cutter Is Awaiting Tide to KIDNAPED, THEN . MURDERED; CASE © ' AT LAST SOLVED Pilots Are Switched in Endurance Hop SEA BATTLE |s‘ Arrested in Dll(fl Wife Case REPORTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON L Mystery in Disappearance | Warship Makes Attack on Spanish Freighter—Gun Roar Is Heard Ashore BOMBARDMENT SETS | CRAFT AFIRE, CLAIM Fate of Stricken Vessel Is Shrouded Tonight by North Sea Mists CROMER, England, Nov. 2.—A Spanish warship attacked a Span- ish freighter off Norfolk bringing the Spanish Civil War within sight and sound of England’s East Coast. Th identity of the ships and the outcome of the one hour bombard- | ment is shrouded by night mists of the North Sea. Reports received trawelers and other vessels differ as to whether the warship was ap- parently a large trawler and flew the Insurgent or Spanish Govern- ment flags. The freighter's name is reported as Carthagena but no such vessel registered by Lloyds. Cromer fire brigade officers said the sound of heavy gunfire at sea could be heard for about an hour starting at 3 o'clock this after- noon. The freighter is reported to have been damaged considerably and caught fire. A Cromer life boat has put off to pick up possible survivors. The freighter apparently defied the warning from the warship, “Hove to or I fire.” Fishing trawlers did not dare to go near for fear of getting in- volved, officers arriving tonight, report. Accused of leading an amazing double life with two wives, maintained unknown to each other in separate households, James B. Sherrill (2bove), was recently charged with bigamy in Seattle. Complaint was brought against him by his first wife, Mrs. Derothy Sherrill (above), mother of a daughter, 3. Miss Lucille Balch, 25, whom Sher- rill is charged with bigamously marrying last year, gave birth to twin gi from fishing % s two months ago. And CIO Aren’t Just Fooling BRIT. VESSEL UNDER ARREST the difficulty of halting labor’s internal dispute. In his article, Japanese Police at Yoko- hama Makes Serious the second of three giving the background of that dispute, Charges on Mariner Preston Grover discusses sample AFL-CIO fights. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. glance at sample cases of labor dis- putes will dispel any idea that a quick and easy peace can be reached between the American Federation of Labor and John L. Lewis’ CIO. President William Green of AFL concluded the Houston convention with an appeal for reconciliation with the major units of CIO in such tones as to indicate a resumption of negotiations was not far off. But a workable reconciliation evidently e FOREIGNERS NOT ALLOWED UP YANGTZE Frdiiar Japanese FOrbld Property | The Pacific Coast has felt the pd . | hottest of the conflict between the Owners Going to Hankow Pmneers Aux L] L} | two labor - organizations. From to Inspect Damage Hold Joint Mest TOKYO, Nov. 2—According to advices received here from Yokoha- ma, the poice there have arrested Capt. Beddie Stephen, skipper of the British freighter Antigone, on suspicion of violation of military se- crets and the Japanese Protection Law. SHANGHAI, Nov. 2. — Reports say that the Japanese are not al- lowing foreign property owners to go up the Yangtze River to Han- kow. The refusal was made on grounds that it is a military danger zone. Foreign boats are also turned | back. # Many people who own property are anxious to get to the city and see how bad their property was damaged when the Japanese gov- ernment took over the city. As the Chinese left, they set fire to many of the houses and dynamited the public buildings. The water supply was cut off at the source, thus leaving the city to burn there come instances of the fruit- Here Last Night less wars they have waged with ach other. Take the lumber work- | ers dispute in the Pacific North- Following the meetings of the Pioneers of Alaska and the Pio- neers’ Auxilidry, a joint social was held last evening in the Odd Fel- lows’ Hall, Cards were played and refresh- ments were served, in charge of |which was Mrs., E. F. Rodenburg |and Mrs. J. C. Michaelson. | During the meeting of the Aux- iliary, Mrs. Pearl Burford was in- |itiated into the order, and mnom- | inations of officers was held. Plans {for the meeting December 6 were |discussed and the following enter- tainment committee Was appointed: |Mrs. William Carlson, Mrs. George |Kerin and Mrs. J. G. Giovanetti. | Nomination of officers also took Iplace at the meeting of the Pio- neers, which was then followed by initiation ceremonies. Those re- ceiving the degrees last night were: Everett Nowell, James MecNaugh- ton, S. P. Raymond, Hans Loken, John McCormick and Gudmund Jensen. Arrests in Dope Ring A@_ Now Due 23.90, down .04. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 2. — Fed- b i e |eral Agents announced that they Jack Littlepage came in from Lisi-|are on the trail of a dope ring anski today with Alaska Air Trans-| operating around the District of port expecting to be here for'a feW| Columbia and will make eight days on business. arrests soon, STocK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Hwv. 2. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 101, American Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 37%, Bethlehem Steel 68', Commonwealth and Southern 17, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 497, International Harves- ter 64'%, Kennecott 46%, New York Central 19%, Safeway Stores 257, Southern Pacific 19%, United States Steel 64%, Bremner asked 1, Pound $4.75%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 152.21, up .82; rails 31.66, up .16; utilities west. Sometime about August 1, 1937, | the woodworkers federation with- | drew from the AFL and affiliated | with the CIO. The resulting fight continued for more than five | months and ended only in a sort of exhaustion — without truce or | permanent basis of peace. | WAR IN THE LUMBER CAMPS | "The AFL building trades unions of Portland and other Northwest cities refused to handle lumber produced in mills with CIO agree- ments. In Portland, eight lumber imills employing 7,500 workers !were closed. Lumber camp vio- lence rivaled the days of the IW.W. State, city, and Federal conciliation agencies intervened| with only moderate success. Final- ly, last January, mill owners posted notices saying simply they would deal with a “committee of em- ployees elected by a majority of said employees.” Neither CIO nor | AFL. was mentioned. The two or- | ganizations had fought almost to |a standstill, so peace ensued, with- out any formal declaration. It re- mains now in that tenuous state. | Again there is the experience of the Shephard Steamship Company. | In the spring of 1937 this company | signed an agreement with the sail- lors union of the Pacific, an AFL unit, which was to run until Sep- tember 30, 1938. Later the National | Labor Relations board held an elec- | tion and determined that the na- | tional maritime union, a CIO affil-| |iate, was the 1ngency for the employees of company. SHIPPING TIEUP—THEN TRUCE Last April 13, the company Ic- proper bargaining the (Continued Aor;}an Four) of New York Man Cleared Up J. EDGAR HOOVER HAS SOLVED STRANGE CASE Four-Man Syndicate Is Rounded Up—Confes- sions Made to FBI 2 NEW YORK, Nov. 2—The mys- tery surrounding the disappearance of Arthur Fried, young business man who vanished eleven months ago, has been cleared up with disclosure of J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the, Federal Bureau of Investigation. According to the announcement, Fried. who was 32, and head of a Bronx sandstone company, met death at the hands of a four-man- kidnap-syndicate which had tried for weeks to collect a $200,000 ran- som, After murdering Fried, the ac- cused kidnapers, William Gula, 30- year-old pinball operator; William Jenkins, 27, WPA playground in- structor; John Virga, 34, clothes presser, and Joseph S. Sacoda, 27, Sing Sing prison parolee, cremated the body in an apartment house fur- nace. Hoover obtained confessions from the men of $14,000 collected in} | hitherto unrevealed Brooklyn Kkid- napings of Benjamin Farber, coal dealer, and Norman Miller, son of the head of a stevedore concern. BRITISH | | | SH KING, QUEEN, COMING T0 VISIT U, S, Royalty AcceptsPresident’s Invitation to Be Guests at White House | LONDON, Nov. 2. — The Daily | Herald said a letter has been sent by King George accepting Presi- |dent Franklin D. Roosevelt’s invi-| ‘Labion to visit Washington, D. C, | next summer. | The British King and Queen will be the guests of the American Presi- | | dent at the White House for three | days and two nights, at the conclu- sion of their Canadian tour. —————e—— ‘ Aeronautics Man Here on Business W. T. Miller, of the Civil Aeronau- tics Authority, assistant to Ed Yura- vich, in charge of “foreign” air line service, arrived in Juneau on the Baranof last night in connection with airw: communications facili- ties in Alaska. Today Miller conferred with Sig- nal Corps officers here. He came {north with Glenn Goudie, Super- | vising Engineer for the Alaska Aero- nautics Commission who has just returned from Washington, D. C., in connection with communication needs for airlines in Alaska. Yuravich said in Juneau on his Clipper flight, “The Seattle to Ju- with further communication and airport developments. - e SPECIAL W.C.T.U. MEETING On Thursday afternoon at 2 o'- clock, there will be a special W.C T.U. meeting held at the Alaska Electric Light and Power Com- pany’s Pent House. The meeting has been called by the President. Mrs. J. E. Click, that the members might hear Mrs. C. W. Wade give the report of the W.C.T.U. conven- tion held in San FPrancisco, and also other matters of business Everyone who is interested in the W.CT.U. is invited to be present. After nearly three days of flying over a dry lake near Lancaster, Cal, record, Thomas H. Smith became ill and quit the plane by parachute. a rope ladder, by which Harley Long climbed inte the ship from the shown being hauled up from the car—AP Photo. JAPAN PLANNING ARABS AROUSED; ECONOMIC BLOC ANTI - AMERICAN FOR EAST ASIA SENTIMENT NO Indications Point toChina’s' Action of Governors, Rep- Becoming Puppet of resentatives and Senators Nippon Empire Causes Bitter Feeling TOKYO, Nov. 2.—Japan bluntly | announced to the world that she intends to create a political econom- ic bloc consisting of the Japanese Empire, Manchoukuo, and China in ying out her “immutable poli- of Asiatic reconstruction. A possible loophole for peace was offered the present China govern- ment “if it comes forward to join in the establishment of the new order.” The JERUSALEM, Nov. 2.—A wave of anti-American sentiment has swept Arab communities, it was learned by British authorities today. The anti-American feeling has been aroused by action of a large number of American Governors, Senators and Representatives, also prominent churchmen, in submit- ting a memorandum to President Roosevelt urging him to intercede with Great Britain to maintain a Jewish National Home in Palestine and permit Jewish immigration to} |the Holy Land. announcement expressed gratitude to “those nations which are in sympathy with us” presum- ably Germany and Italy, which na- tions, with Japan, compose an anti-| communist tripartite pact. No men- tion was made of other countries. It is indicated that China’s fu- ture role in Asia will be similar to that of the puppet state of Man- ‘canadiafitael arrival here with the initial Alaska | ‘uhoukuo if the Japanese will per- | sists. Final statement of the release |from the Mikado's | claimed, “establishment of a new | order in East Asia in complete con- formity with the spirit in which the | Japanese Empire was founded. Our | generation is entrusted with ‘the | exalted responsibility to achieve this | task.” o — HUNGARY GETS CZECH SLICE; AWARD MADE | Transfers Will Affect About 1‘ Eighty -six Thou- | sand Persons has of VIENNA, Nov. 2--Hungary | been granted the greater part slovakia. | The decision is announced late this afternoon by the arbitrators, Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop of Germany, and Count Ciano, of Italy. The award transfers to Hungary about 86,000 persons who since 1918 have been citizens of Czechoslova-| kia. ‘The Hungarigns will begin occu- pation November 5 and complete Jjt by November 10 in the areas which were disputed, Bratislavia and Ni- tra, Southwestern Slovakia will main Czechoslovakian. re- Strikg Threatens TORONTO, Nov. 2.-—A steel strike is called for November 16 in protest over working hours. The men want a six-hour day but émployers say it would place too | heavy a burden on the industry. \ e b |“M. D.” Decides There Must Be {“Juneau Strong Boy” government, | | They used to cali the late John L. Sullivan the “Boston Strong Boy,” and now there is a “Juneau iSLrong Boy” in the belief of M. D. | Williams, District Engineer of the | Bureau of Public Roads. | his conclusions on the following: Mr. Willilams had a gate on his | Sixth Street property; a perfectly | Bood gate, it was too, made of iron | Monday, realizing that the forth- coming evening was Hallowe'en and neau route has great possibilities| her territorial demands on Czecho- |the goblins would be around, the engineer and flower fancier de- |cided to remove the gate to safe- | keeping. He tugged and pulled and | heaved. No soap. “Ah,” id Mr. gate secure enough so that no Williams, “that | goblins will carry it off,” and he left| | the gate secure in its place. Came Tuesday morning, and, in | fact, came today and the engineer |1s still looking for his gate. | “If the strong boy who was able | to remove that gate will send his little brother or sister home with |it, T'll stand treat,” commented the | official. “He must have been some {lad. I couldn't even budge it."” He bases | ? Vs , seeking light plane endurance | Co-pilot Clyde Schlieper dropped servicing auto. A can of fuel is FLIGHT IS ENDED ACCOUNT BREAKAGE LANCASTER, Cal, Nov. 2—The | endurance flight of a light mono- plane ended after it had been flown continuously for 218 hours and 23 minutes by Pilots Clyde Schlieper and Thomas Smith who | were forced to land the plane be- cause the auxiliary gasoline tank | sprang a leak and could not be repaired in the air. 1 | The two pilots, however, broke {the former record for small craft.| The former record was 136 hours jand 10 minutes. | Schlieper and Smith failed to| |approach the record for the all-| type endurance mark of 653 hours ! and 34 minutes. Plamning Gouncil - Opens Sessions I Jn@u Today Hess, Arnold, National Re-| sources Representative Here for Meeting * | Members of the Alaska Planning | Council met here today for the| Drag Craft Up on Beach for Inspection NOT KNOWN WHETHER ANY BODIES ABOARD Unidentified Boat Lying 200 Feet South of Light at Point Hugh Efforts were being made today by the Coast Guard cutter Halda o solve the mystery of the sunken eine boat reported about 200 feet outh of the light at Point Hugh t the south end of Glass Penin- ula on Admiralty, about 45 miles uth of Juneau. The Haida left here yesterday af- ternoon for the scene of the wreek and this morning radioed the cus- toms service that the sunken ves- sel's protruding mast carried the pennant of the Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners Union, The cutter was staying at the scene awaiting low tide to pull the vessel up on the beach for inspection. It had not vet been able to ascertain the name or whether any one was aboard. There was a low tide at 2:17 o'~ clock this morning but it was so dark then that it is anticipated the Haida was unable to make any pro= gress. The next low tide, 45 feet, is ot 3:02 this afiernoon. The Haida’s message indicated the sunken craft was small but gave no detalls. Capt. Tom Ness of the halibuter Emma, who reported the wreck yesterday, said he believed the ves=- | sel was 60 to 80 feet long and it appeared to be white in color. The= ory is that the craft struck the reef going over it and had sunk in deep=- er water. There was no signs of life {around, Capt, Ness and Martin Bor- |lick, his companion, reported, and they went in as close as they dared in an effort to make a closer ex= amination, ARCHIE SHIELS IS HERE FOR ALASKA PLANNING COUNCIL SESSIONS On one of his many trips to Alaska, Archie Shiels, of Belling- ham, President of Pacific American | Fisheries, arrived in Juneau on -the Baranof to renew his wide ac< quaintanceship in the north and, incidentally, to attend the sessions of the Alaska Planning Council |last regular session before submit- ting their report to the Territorial | |Legislature which convenes in| January. The Council is expected | to be in session several days, ac- | cording to Chairman Ike P. Taylor,] going over the work which has | been done in gathering data about various resources of the Territory, The last Legislature, which cre- ated the body, authorized is to “make inquiries, investigations and |surveys concerning the resources of |all sections of the Territory” and “to assemble and analyze the data thus obtained and to formulate |plans for the conservation of such |resources and the planned and sys- |tematic utilization and develop- | |ment thereof.” | Virtually all industries and sev- eral potential ones have been out- | lined by the Council and it is to| agree on a master plan of con-| structive development that the Council is now meeting. This plan will be presented to the Territorial Legislature. Here from out of town for the sessions are Luther C. Hess of Fairbanks and W. C. Arnold of Ketchikan, members of the Coun- cil, and James C. Rettie, Associate Consultant for the National Re- sources Committee, who is assigned to the Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission. The latter will be here for about a month as- sisting the Council, and is accom- panied by Mrs. Rettie. Other members of the Council here for the meeting are: Acting Governor E. W. Griffin, Vice-Chair- which opened today. Mr. Shiels, author of “Seward’s Icebox” and several other Alaskan books, self-admitted Alaskan by | desire if not by residence, reports he just came north on another of the many trips he likes to make to meet his Alaska friends. VISITORS GUESTS OF JUNEAU C. C. TOMORROW NOON Archie Shiels of Bellingham, President of the Pacific American Fisheries; Luther C. Hess of Fair= banks and W. O. Arnold of Ketchi= kan, members of the Alaska Plan= ning Council, and James C. Ret= tie, Associate Consultant of the Na=- tional Resources Committee, who is here to assist the Planning Coun- cil, will be guests of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce at its week< ly luncheon tomorrow noon in Per- cy's Cafe, it was announced today by Secretary R. H. Stevens. e MARINE AIR MAKES TWO ISLAND TRIPS Alex Holden brought in five pase sengers from Chichagof today and Lon Cope took two to island points, scheduled to bring back a full load. Holden brought in J. L. Freeburn, John Schloss, Gus Makris, Arne Mack, and Mike McKallick, all from Chichagof, and Lone Cope flew J. H. Gaynor to Hoonah and C. E, (Con Mniu;dAon, Page Two) Smith to Sitka.