The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 4, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIIL, NO. 7941. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SABOTAGE CHARGED IN SH SHIP HURTLES DOWN QUICKLY, BURSTS FLAMES Big Air Vessel, with Motor | Burning, Comes to | Earth with Smash [ EXPLOSION FOLLOWS | WHEN STRIKES GROUND Nine Men, Four Women, One Child in Accident | on French Island i ST. HELIER, ISLAND OF JER- SEY, France, Nov. 4—Fourteen per- sons were killed today in one of Great Britain’s worst airplane disas- ters. An airliner crashed in the field after leaving for Southampton, Eng-~ land, on a flight across the English Channel. The victims were nine men, four women and one child and included the pilot, Capt. Cary and wireless operator, and 11 passengers. A man working in a field where Labor’s Chief the plane crashed, said the air-| liner seemed to have difficulties | when flying over St. Peter Port f“_“"iii TS Smoke and flames were stream- | tors | The airliner suddenly turned| around, apparently in an effort m‘ GUNFESSES Tu return to the airport, but quickly | hurtled to earth, narrowly missing | a hotel | The plane fell with a terrific KILLING FR!ED crash, toppled over and burst into flames and a few minutes later a = loud explosion occurred. ‘The plane was a 4-motored De- Haviland, and engaged in regular| * passenger service between France| Flled as Furlher In' and England. vestigation Made e ROOSEVELT GOES ON AIR, MAKING NEW YORK, Nov. 4-—Murder York District Attorney against the of the kidnap syndicate who are accused of kid- naping and murdering Arthur Fried, White Plains business man, and of kidnaping two Brooklyn residents who were later released after ran- members so-called Pilot Richard Schnackenberg and Edward Abajian, Island when the motor began smoking. Schnackenberg Hempstead. A minute or two later the plane burst into flames, uestion Is Who’s Head of the House? | Additional Charges May Be| charges will be pressed by the New| Pilot and Student Escaped in Nick of Time a student, were flying this craft 2,300 feet over Long brought the plane down on a golf course at East which consumed it, as shown. DOZEN STATES FLAME SWEPT, gether again to try to harmon- | | ize the House of Labor? In this third and last article on union labor’s schism, Preston Grover writes of the prospects for peace ameng organized working men. Fighting Crews Are Nearly Trapped During Night —Make Hasty Exit (By Assoc } By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 The sh of policies and personalities certain to develop around the coun- cil table that seeks to harmonize AFL and CIO will make the parti- tion of Czechoslovakia look like a [ game of pinochle by comparison. | | | are eared in Hundreds of forest fi creeping across the drought- timber and prairie lands today more than one dozen states. The forest fire area extends from the Atlantic seaboard to west of the Mississippi On the fire lines are forest ran- gers, convicts, farmers, CCC and WPA volunteers. Some crews in Kentucky and West Virginia withdrew hurriedly during the night to avoid being trapped by the flames spreading Neither backed down an inch from those forlorn daj last fall when three negotiators | from each side met day after day in the Willard Hotel in downtown Washington. Their conference cracked up on shoals which have |grown even larger since to inter- fere with reconciliation. Stripped side has the Ohio River to the Gulf and from | sections | Elopes with WAGE CUT ON [P EXPLOSION Wife’s Sister ‘ INVESTIGATION US. RAILROADS 18 WITHDRAWN |Nearly OnehNTillion Work-| | ers Are Affected by | Today's Decision ‘ CHICAGO, 1, Nov. 4—J. J. Pelley, President of the Associa- tion of American Railroads, an- nounced early this afternoon that the major railroads of the nation will withdraw the pres- ent notice of a 15 percent wage cut for nearly 1,000,000 workers. Pelley said he was sending a telegrar to President Roosevelt informing the Chief Executive that “the railroads were taking this action mnot because they ‘have agreed to the conclusions reached by the Fact Finding Board, but because they recog- hize the gravity of the situation and also because they hope that out of it will come thorough co- operation of all concerned for a sounder and more equitable transportation, policy in this country.” IS STARTED IN ~ OAKLAND CASE Terrific Ex;)l—c;ion Occurs Below Waterline, Out- side of Ship | | | | 6 DIFFERENT PROBES REPORTED UNDERWAY |Four Members of Crew In- jured — Ship Appar- ently Is Sinking OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 4. — Evi- dence of possible sabotage arose | today as six separate investigations got underway into the sinking yes- terday afternoon of the German liner Vancouver, of the Hamburg- American Line, after a terrific ex= plosion, below the waterline. | Four members of the crew were | injured in the blast. Eight passengers on the ship were - Huge'rs Memorial Dedication Today | At!lklahu_maTuwm |Daughter of Famed Philos- | opher Unveils Bronze Statue at Ceremony AVERS SOME REPUBLICANS MAY GET IN Frank K n»(;rxiMakes His Prediction on Next Tuesday's Polling CLAREMORE, Okla., Nov. 4.-— |The dedication of the Will Rogers | Memorial Museum approached a limax this afternoon with the un- | | veiling of the large bronze statue | | “Cowboy-Philosopher” in the center | lof the foyer. | Gov. E. W. Marland told of | ! Joe Davidson’s creation of the sta- |tue which is “gratefully accepted” jon behalf of the State. | Mary Rogers, beautiful daughter James Mabe, 35-year-old farmer of Walnut Grove, N. C., left his 24- year-old wife (shown with one of their two small children) ostensibly to pay a farm loan in Winston-Salem. At the same time, Nell Mabe, 15, James’ cousin and sister-in-law, left her school telling schoolmates she was “going to get married.” Authorities of North and South Carolina started an intensive manhunt when Nell’s father lodged kidnaping charges. Denouncement of Nine-Power Treaty Is Indicated by Japan not harmed. | District Attorney Earl after an investigation, said: | “We are of the opinion that the explosion was not in the engine room or aboard the ship anywhere.” German officers and crew mem-= _| bers declared the blast was not acci= | dental. Capt. W. Moessinger said the ex= plosion was “damned suspicious.” Three members of the crew, standing at the control board in the engine room, six yards forward from where the blast occurred, said the detonation must have happened outside of the ship or they would not have been alive to tell the story, Warren, | TOKYO, Nov. 4—Japan's For-| eign Office spokesman disclosed to- day that Japan considers obsolete the Nine Power Treaty, of which the United States is a signatory, guar-| ‘anteeing territorial integrity in| | China. | | CRIMINAL SABOTAGE OAKLAND, Cal, Nov. 4. — Baron Manfred von Killinger, German Consul General, with headquarters It is strongly intimated that Ja-|in San Francisco, declared that yes- pan may denounce the Treaty. | terday's accident was “an act of The spokesman also revealed that| criminal sabotage and this was re- Japan is considering replacement| sponsible for the explosion.” | of the treaty, signed in Washing-| The Consul General further said ton in 1922, with a new 3-power pact; that a small clique is aiming to | among Japan, her puppet empire, destroy, by secret warfare, the basis | Manchuokuo, and her new regime | of ordered society and “I deeply in China, envisioning the displace-|regret the attacks against my coun- CAMPAIGN TALK President to Work Up Campaign to High Pitch —G. 0. P. Waiting (By Associated Press) Democratic efforts to retain over- whelming majorities in Congress and also Governor’s chairs, will reach a high pitch tonight with President Roosevelt’s only address of the fall campaign. Although the President will speak | primarily in behalf of New York's | Democratic State ticket, he is ex- pected to touch on national sub- jects as well. Among the listeners undoubtedly | will be high Republican _officials | eager to gather material for a| som payments. Possibility that additional charges| of murder will be placed against the syndicate arose when police digging in the basement of an East Side social establishment where the kid- nappers said they had cremated Fried's body, discovered a jawbone with the teeth intact which medical | examiners claimed belonged to a person recently killed. Fried was kidnapped last Decem- ber 4 and killed four days later. Joseph Stephen Scoda confessed to the District Attorney that he fired the shot which killed Fried as the victim sat bound and gagged in the basement headquarters of the gang. After all night questioning, confes- sions were obtained from Demetrius Gula, 30, William Jacknis, 7, John |its policies? quick rebuttal, and one of them,|Virga, 34, and Joseph Scoda in which | of all parsley, the issue is: Whose and what will be outfit will rule, THEY SPLIT IN 1935 In 1935 when John L. Lewis, an AFL vice president, formed the Committee for Industrial Organiza- tion, the moderate differences might have been patched up between lead- ers less crusty than Lewis and Wil- liam Green, president of the fed- eration. Already there were sever- al industrial unions in AFL, nota- coal miners and Ladies Garment Work- But in the other mass industries, such as steel, automobiles, tires, where Lewis wanted ganize the labor on a mass basis, were certain old-line craft unions. then David and to or- swiftly through the dry timber. [of “Will” who pulled the cord Rains early this forenoon checke]l!which dropped the silken coverings | some of the flames in the far-flung|from the figure, said not a word | fire area but in other sections, stub- but blinked her eyes and looked | born blazes spread despite efforts upward as the curtain settled down. | of weary fire fighters. Sculptor Joe Davidson said: “This | Fires dot an area of 1,600 square|labor of love never has had a| miles in Southern West Virginia. |statue with such a beautiful set- B ting.” ‘ i % President Roosevelt in his broad- | |cast from Hyde Park, said: “The | American nation to whose hearts 01 being Appiied, : | Alaska Railroaders | | he brought so much gladness will . Boettigers Are CANTON, Tllinois, Nov. 4.—Frank | Knox, Publisher of the Chicago Daily News, who went down in the Democratic landslide two years ago when he was a candidate for Re- publican Vice-President, predicts | that 60 or 70 Republican candidates for the House, out of 432, and six | or seven Republican candidates for the Senate, out of 35, will emerge | from the nationa lelection mnext | Tuesday. ment of the Chiang Kal Shek Gov ernment. war. STOCK IS GIVEN BIC CONTRACT Chairman James A. Farley of the Democratic National Commit- tee, veral days ago predicted that perhaps 50 Republicans might be elected to the next Congress. - | Such a new pact ostensibly will be | a guarantee of China’s territorial| narbor, is reported taking water integrity after cessation of the pres-!faster than three pumps can dis- ent Japanese-Chinese ‘“undeclared charge it. AT ANCHORAGE ~|try which have now resulted in a concrete disaster The ship, now anchored in the Members of the crew declare that | a bomb fell on the ship’s deck. CLAI MTWO MEN KILLED - | HAMBURG, Nov. 4—Officials of | the Hamburg-American Line said | two members of the crew of the | Vancouver were killed in a bailer | tube explosion after leaving Ham- burg on September 3 but maintains | that this has nothing to do with | yesterday’s sinking of the vessel in | the harbor of Oakland, U.8.A. The newspaper Borksen Zeitung captioned the explosion “From The Herbert Hoover, who speaks tomor- row night in Spokane, Wash., may be the first in rebuttal. On next Tuesday, millions of vot- ers in 47 States will choose 35 Senators, 432 House members and 32 Governors. Maine voted last September, re- electing a Republican Governor and three Republican Representa- tives. A survey made by the Associated Pr indicates that about forty miliion citizens will ballot on Tues- day and this will set a record for an off-year election, but five and | one-half million belowe the high | mark of 1936, the Presidential year. | e - Green insisted they should be al- all admitted helping cremate F""’d“klu ed to keep their separate iden- body in the basement furnace. tity apart from any mass union. R KING PRAISES PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES British Monarch Thanks FDR for Aiding to Avert Lewis pulled nine industrial un- ions out of AFL with a million mem- bers, the bulk of them coal miners. The CIO quickly brought in or or- ganized 23 more unions to a grand total of 32 and a membership of perhaps 3,800,000, and it swung ac- tively into politics, in sharp viola- | tion of an old AFL credo. TILL A FIGHT FOR CONTROL As the price of reconciliation | Lewis demands that all 32 unions be | chartered in AFL before they begin negotiating terms of union jurisdic- | tion. With his new strength he| Colonel Ohlson Says Would Mean Increased Cost for Opeartion ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 4. Col. Otto F. Ohlson, General Mana- ger of the Alaska Railroad, an- nounces that President Roosevelt's Executive order extending civil ser- vice to various departments, did not affect the Alaska Railroad workers and he is doing nothing toward complying. Col. Ohlson said civil service would increase the road’s operating costs and would have other undesirable features. He said the workers agreed with the road’s management in op- Mrs. C. Maughiam, Heroine of World War, Passes Away Chauffered Field Marshal Haig Through Many Conflicts ATLANTA, Ga, Nov. 4 Mrs. hold him as an everlasting remem- | brance.” Expecting Stork rDaughter of President Roosevelt Looks for | Child in March | SEATTLE, Nov. 4. — President |Franklin D. Roosevelt and Mrs. ! Roosevelt are going to have a new grandchild next March. The President’s daughter, Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, revealed that she is expecting a child in a signed article in the Seattle Post-|Catharine Maugham, 52, who chauf- | Intelligencer published by her hus- | feured Field Marshal Haig through |band, John Boettiger. | several World War battles and re- Mrs. Roosevelt, visiting here for |ceived three wound strips, the and Awarded $95,000 Job for | Paving and Other Improvements ANCHORAGE, Aiaska, Nov. 4— The Anchorage City Council has awarded a $95,000 contract to R. H. Stock Company, of Wrangell, for paving Fourth Avenue and in- stalling a light conduit system, also certain sewers and water mains. Work is scheduled to start De- cember 6 and may be completed by July of next year. WORD RECEIVED HERE PWA officials here also an- nounced the award and said the blocks be nine Land Of Gangsters.” The newspaper commented on the “peculiar stan- dards of morality in the United States and the American habit. of interferring in the happiness “of totalitarian states.” Stock QUOTATIONS | NEW YORK, Nov. 4. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 101, American Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 36, Bethlehem Steel 68, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 40%, International Harvester 64; cing them under civil|a few days, promises to return | Croix de Guerre from France, paving will long, [here for the event. the Silver Palm from Great Britain|down Anchorage’s 56-foot wide main +- for bravery, is dead here. { street. A ribbon of concrete will be Kennecott 45%, New York Central 19%, Safeway. Stores 26%, Southern Pacific 19%, United States Steel European War | probably would have voting control | position to pla |in the merger. He then could de-|service. | cide jurisdictional disputes in favor Skagway Pioneer - LONDON, Nov. 4—King George terminated the present session of | Parliament today with a prayerful | hope that a “new era may have opened for Europe.” King George also gave warm praise for American President Roo-‘ sevelt’s “timely action” to avert a war time crisis. | The King was not present but his | speech was read. 5 Found Dead in Greek Near Cabin Willis Hern, 81, Apparent- ly Stricken by Sud- den Heart Attack | "The British Monarch reviewed | the grave events of last September SKAGWAY, Alaska, Nov. 4. —!and declared the “cause of peace willis Hern, 81, father of Perry M.| was powerfully aided by the timely Hern, of Skagway, and an oldtime | action of the President of the Unit- resident of this town, has been|ed States in a desire that all peoples found dead in a creek near his cabin.|should not be drawn into a war Death was apparently from a heart| with one another. There is mani- attack. | fest significance everywhere by men Hern came to Alaska in 1913. He and women who share with me a| lived at Glacier Point until lB%}feeling of deep thankfulnes to the then eame to Skagway where he re- | American President in averting an| sided since then, 1lmmmem war peril.” of his own industrial unions. That would weaken the craft unions and | leave many craft officials jobless. Green refused. He proposed in- stead that only the old CIO unions be rechartered at once. That would assure Green a majority and leay, P d f Lewis' fledgling industrial sl r()pose to the mercies of fhe old line crafts. | Lewis would not accept. , There are dozens of points of| conflict. The Amalgamated Cloth-| SHUNGKIANG, Nov. 4—Japan’s announced intention of bringing ing Workers of America (CIO) is| China into an economjc and politi- | in the men’s clothing field now oc-|cal bloc for domination of East cupied by the United G“’"‘”“iAsia, brought angry retorts from Workers of America (AFL). | Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek’s SR i Government, WORKERS WANT PEACE China will continue resistance un- The newly chartered AFL seafar-|(; japan abandons the policy of o0 Hu.on.0. 8 bigtet yivpl of ‘the Na- |, ouression and encroachment, mem- tional Maritime union (CIO). SEVEI- | yors of the Peoples Political Coun- al AFL crafts claim jurisdiction in cil. now in session here, declared. (Continued on The Council members said there Page Five) Decletres Japan H oodwinking World Regarding Government or Conquered China ‘ Baranef ; Hotel |To Celebrate |At Flag Raising Tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, | a flag raising ceremony will be held | atop the Baranof Hotel, celebrating is no hope of a respectable compro- | completion of the construction job mise with Japan at present. to the extent that the roof is now The Chinese spokesman also said | finished over the fourth floor and the Japanese statement concern-|interior finishing work will begin. ing an economic and political bloc| Maybelle George, daughter of is an attempt to “hoodwink the|wallis George, Secretary-Treasurer western -countries into the belief| of the hotel corporation, and De- Japan is fighting to protect the|maris and Lois Davis, daughters of world from Communism.” James V. Davis, Vice President, will The spokesman also said that for|raise the Stars and Stripes. 15 months the world has witnessed how the Japanese have tried to cre—‘ ate a new order “by killing andi bombing civilians.” |l - - Lucille Fox, who has been south on her vacation, returned home board the Princess Norah. i | put down the center line for a 22- street will be of asphalt, the first | such street in Alaska | Preliminary work will be begun | by the first of December, but the job is not likely to be finished until preventing work, e — WINDSORS TO LIVE IN PARIS PARIS, Nov. 4—Freinds of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor said the pair will live here. They have taken a home with the intention of occupying it permanently. | foot width and the sides of the| next summer with winter freezing | | 64%, Pound $4.76. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 152.10, down .21; rails 31.76, down .80; util- ities 23.60, down .35. e YUKON CONSOLIDATED GOLD CO. IS MINING Operations of the Yukon Con= solidated Gold Company will com- tinue until the middle of this month, according to reports received from Dawson today. - The Yukon Consolidated is now operating nine dredges and a tehith is under constructien. Employees at the present time number around 450 men ineluding dredge, pipeline and point crews.