The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7948. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH, GERMAN BREAK LOOMS AGAIN Two BODY FOUND ON BEACH BELIEVED T0 BE CAPTAIN Volante and Alphs Last| Sighted Off Kruzof Island Oct. 15 HAIDA MAKING SEARCH| FOR LOST GASBOATS| More Alaska Fish Boats Are Missing FOoOTBALL SCORES The following are final scores of football games played this after- noon as received by The from the Associated press time: ‘Washington 7; Southern Califor- nia 6. Pittsburgh 19; Nebraska 0. Minnesota 0; Notre Dame 19, Villanova 20; Temple 7. William and Mary 0; Washington and Lee 27. Ohio U 0; Dayton 13. Clemson 14; Kentucky 0. Duquesne 0; Carnegie Tech 21. Navy 14; Columbia 9. LaFayette 0; Rutgers 6. Press up to Empire | Vessels Reported Owned| Dartmouth 7; Cornell 1. by C. N. Robinson of Ket- | vab " princeton 0, - y \ 2 Yale 7; Princeton 20. chikan, M. McDermott Two more casualties among the small fishing boats which ply the | inland waters of Alaska are appar- | ently to be recorded in the annals| of the fishing industry The Volante and Alpha, last sighted off Kruzof Island on Octo- ber 15, are still reported missing by the U.S.C.G. cutter Haida, Lieut. | Commander Lee H. Baker, on its| return from a patrol of that dis- trict. Additional mystery was added to the probable boat tragedies by Lh?l discovery of a body cast below the| high tide line on the eastern shore of Kruzof Island. The body was| that of a blond man about twenty- | | four years old and was clad in a| George Washington 9; Kansas 7. | leather coat and long underwear | with a burlap sack serving as a| shoe on one foot. The body was| lying on a pile of gungy sacks. ' Body of Captain Found ! That this may be the remains of the one-man crew of one of the| lost boats appeared possible as meagre descriptions received here ;| tally with the description of one of | the missing craft captains. ! The Volante is a 60-foot ga,sboati of 20 tons gross. It is listed in the| Juneau Customs Registry as belong-? ing to C. N. Robinson out of Ket- chikan. The Alpha is owned by Monte McDermott. According to Lieutenant Com- mander Baker of the Haida the boats when reported last seen were battling an on-shore gale off the west shore of barren Kruzof Island | at which time the Volante was en-| deavoring to assist the disabled Al-i pha. If The body found is that of a man from one of the missing ves- sels he had apparently fought his way across the uninhabited terrain and collapsed where found. The unidentified body awaits| identification at Sitka where it was transported by Captain Corwin of | the Naval Air Station at that point. Wife in Hospital Increasing the importance of the tragedy, if tragedy it is, came the report that one of the missing *men from the lost vessels has a wife ill| in a Ketchikan Hospital expecting a child. The other man has a wife and family of five. { - Difficulty of ascertaining identi- | ties may be attributed by the large| number of fishing craft from Wash- | ington and Southeast Alaska ports taking advantage of the late sal-| mon run in the Sitka area. The boats are mostly one-man craft and | strangers to each other, consequent- ly they can only furnish the barest of details about the activities and personnel of other vessels. The Haida will continue the search. | £ ¥DENTIFY BODY KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 12— Exchange of telegraphic informa- tion between Lieutenant Comman- der John Roundtree of the United States Coast Guard cutter Cyane stationed at Ketchikan and Com- mander Knight at Sitka discloses that the body found on the beach at Kruzof Island has been identi- fied as that of George MeDermott by his wife. McDermott, 24, was the operator of the troller Alpha which disappeared during a storm last Oc- tober 15 while being towed by the Volante which was operated by C. N. Robinson who has not been re- ported since. Roundtree also in- formed that the coroner’s inquest at Sitka returned a verdict of “death by starvation.” e——— Sheriff Severyns Reelected, Seattle i SEATTLE, Nov. 12—William B.‘ Severyns has been reelected Sheriff of King County according to an of- ficial vote of last Tuesday's polling. Chattanooga 13; Army 34. Northwestern 0; Michigan 0, tie. Duke 21; Syracuse 0. North Carolina 0; Fordham 0, tie. Williams 0; Amherst 41. Penn State 7; Penn 17, tie. Georgetown 14; West Virginia 0. Texas Christian 28; Texas 6. North Dakota State 13; South Dakota State 6. Tufts 6; Bowdoin 19. Centre 26; Ohio Wesleyan 0. Towa 3; Indiana 7. New Mexico U 6; New Mexico State 2. Missouri 0; Oaklahoma 21. Louisiana State 6; Auburn 28. George 6; Tulane 28. Rice 0; Texas A. and M. 27, Colorado 0; Utah 13. Miami 27; Case 12. Mississippi 39; Sewanee 0. Detroit 7; North Carolina State 0. Florida 21; Maryland 7. Southern Methodist 19; sas 6. Tennessee 14; Vanderbilt 0. Arkan- Alabama 14; Georgia Tech 14, tie. | Centenary 19; Mississippi State 0. Tulsa 7; Drake 47 . Ohio State 32; Illinois 14 . College of Pacific 32; Chicago 0. St. Louis 9; DePaul 20. Michigan State 20; Marquette 14. Towa State 13; Kansas State 13, tie. PREDICTS NO NEW TAXES AT THIS SESSION Senator Connally Says Fed- eral Revenues Would In- crease to Cover Needs WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. — Sen- ator Tom Connally, Texas Demo- crat and member of the Senate| Finance Committee, predicted today that the next Congress would not pass a new general tax bill. He said improving business conditions should increase the Federal revenues and make tax revision unnecessary. However, he predicted re-enact- ment of the nuisance taxes, many of which expire next year. Connally said he believed in the long run Congress would be forced to increase the tax rates on in- comes in the middle brackets and | consider lowering exemptions. !Hll)(l;?xAY REPORTED LED; SEAL TO TOW TO PETERSBURG | The Bureau of Public Roads | vessel | abled with a broken wheel at Wind- (ham Bay, according to District En- |gineer M. D. Williams, and the Alaska Game Commission vessel |Seal, Capt. John Sellovold, is leav- |ing in the morning to give her a tow to Petersburg where she will go on the ways for repairs, Capt. Sellovold is back on the , having joined her at Peters- rg after taking his regular com- | the Brown Bear, Outside |for the winter. Cat. Severyn Swan- |son, well known Southeast Alaska skipper, has been handling the |Seal during the illness of Capt. |K. C. Talmage and pending the larrival of Capt. Sellovold from the | south. bus e Skating is reported at Menden- hall Lake with ice being 4% inches thick. Good skating was also re- ported at the twin lakes at the Gla- cier Tavern, Highway is reported dis- | Two Hotels Are ROUYN, Quebec, Nov. 12— Flames, whipped by a high wind, | raced through two hotels and other | buildings early this morning and| police said they believed there are | possibly seven or eight persons who | lost their lives. The hotel records | were lost in the fire and an aceu- rate check is impossible. | A roomer who discovered the fire and gave the alarm, said he heard | “muffled explosions” just before the flames broke out. Wrangefi.fl. éite | Supgested by P.0. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. — The| joint treasury-postoffice commit-| tee has recommended that the new| postoffice and court house in Wran-‘ gell, Alaska, be built on the lot; | known as U. S. Reserve No. 1, front- | ing about 228 feet on the southwest | | side of 2nd Street between McKin- | | non Street and Crittendon Avenue. B Bomber ~ Crashes; 3 Die '1 RUGELEY, England, Nov. 12. — Three men were killed this after-| noon when a Royal bomber t'uugm’ fire during a forced landing. — e — I JUNEAU SKI CLUB ‘ | TO HOLD MEETING | ? TUESDAY EVENING| All Channel skiers and hope-to-be | | skiers will gather next Tuesday eve-| ; ning at 8 o'clock in the Grade School | Auditorium when the Juneau Ski| { Club holds its first meeting of the| 11938-1939 season, it was announced | today. i Club officers for the new season {will be elected, following which, | plans for the year will be discussed.| | The meeting is open to the gen- eral public, and fine entertain-| i ment is promised in two ski moving | | pictures which have been obtained | | for showing at the meeting. The| | pictures are expected to be of par-| | ticular interest to those who are| attracted to the snow slopes and trails for the first time this sea- son, e e FIVE GOBBLERS UP | AS THANKSGIVING | AWARDS, CAPITAL Five of the plumpest gobblers that ever arrived in Juneau will top the| Thanksgiving feasts of five patrnns: of the Capital Cafe in this city,| according to Charlie Miller, cafe proprietor. The five gobblers are offered by Mr. Miller as door prizes at his re-| sort and are to be awarded on Thanksgiving Eve. Everyone drop-/ ping in at the Capital to listen and| dance to the music of Lillian and| Roy each evening between now and | Thangsgiving Eve will receive onei chance to capture one of the tur-| key awards. FEDERAL GRAND JURY | TO CONVENE TUESDAY The Federal grand jury will con- vene at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and the petit jury has been called | for one week later, November 22. JUDGE HUPP, DANZIG, MOSIERNOW LAWYERS| Carl Hupp and Paul Danzig of| Juneau and Ed Mosier of Ketchi- kan were admitted to practice law | in Alaska at final oral bar examina- | tions held this morning in district| court. ! MRS. OVERBY RETURNING | Mrs. W. C. Overby, an employee in the office of J. C. Cooper, Certi- fied Public Accountant, is returning | from a vacation trip to Portland, Ore,, on the steamer Yukon. | STEEL SHARES Destroyed, Early ~ GIVEN BOOST, g8 Morning Blaze ON STOCK EX6. Z Prices Soar Upward During Short Session Held in New York Today NEW YORK, Nov. 12—Steel shares sprinted at today’s short ses- sion of the New York Stock Ex- change. The shares went into new high ground for more than a year. | ‘While steel shares went upward, | | advancing tendencies of most of the | other market groups were restrained | from hitting peak levels. United States Steel, Bethlehem Steel, National Steel and Youngs- town and Republic shares went up in the boost. Transfers at the short session were around 1,000,000 shares. The steel spurt was caused by re- ports of enlarged mill operations. Ilemn‘cfrgl*s‘fiefid | - House Cleaning, Nucleus of British Women’s Army T Poe | ENGLISH PEOPLE AROUSED OVER JEWISH ATTACK European Peace Efforts Halted by Latest Anti- Semitic Actions PERSECUTIONS IN GERMANY CONTINUE | | | | | German Jews Assessed Bil- A squad of the newly-formed women's auxiliary service is pictured at Chelsea, England, undergoing drill at the Duke of York's headquarters. The women will form the nucleus of a new women’s army, of which they will be the officers. They will taks regular army drill, except that the regulation army step of lion Marks as Penalty for Von Rath Murder BULLETIN — LONDON, Nov. 12.—British resentment of Ger- many’s widespread campaign against the Jews has threatened to halt Premier Chamberlain’s laborious efforts to forge a last- ing European peace. The government’s reaction to the burning and looting of Jew- ish property in Berlin and other German cities indicated Britain may yet find occasion to quar- rel with the nation she nar- w 30 inches has been shortened to 27 inches to suit the female stride. Lewis Declares Léader Takes Crackint CHINESE FLEE BEFORE RAIDS BY JAPANESE Air Bombings Intensify Fear Among Thousands in Yangtze Valley CIO 1 Results in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 12— CIO Chairman John I. Lewis said at a press conference today that the election of Tuesday indicated the need for house cleaning in some quarters of the Democratic Party and closer cooperation among liberal groups. “Labor itself cannot sustain pres- tige or democratic organization in states where the conduct of that organization or its representatives of Chinese civilians fled toward: in office is such as not to warrant villages along the upper Yangta the confidence of the electorate,” Valley today as Japanese carriec Lewis said. their invasion into hitherto un- culture held The CIO leader said he meant touched areas a thousand miles|missioners in the Kansgs City particularly Pennsylvania, New Jer- inland. stockyards =were chaiging exces- sey and Ohio. The mass migration was inspired | SiVe ralv.\_ for handling the sale of Labor must have an increasingly by fear of intensified air bombings cattle shipped greater part in government and by the invaders who occupied You- | The Department ordered a sched- not continue as “just hewers of \chow, 120 miles up the Yantgze uletof dower rates wood and drawers of water for the River from Hangkow. Democratic Party,” be said, A dispatch from Chungking, pro- A DIFFERENCE OF $500,000 By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Nov. 12—On a quiet Friday afternoon when the -apital was drifting into its week- end doldrums Justice Brandeis leaned across the high court behch ind opened a line of questioning and wrgument that brought broad smiles .0 New Dealers In the court cham- sers and well nigh sent the conser- ative and mid-way elements of the ourt into convulsions. This was the situation: SHANGHAI, Nov. 12.—Thousands that livestock com- New Deal Legalites Pleé;ed With Nine Men on the Bench In 1933 the Department of Agri-| there by farmers.| | rowly missed fighting two } months ago as English indigna- K tion is high. TRIKES FURTHER AT JEWS | | GOERING 8 i | BERLIN, Nov. 12—Jews in Ger- |many have been assessed a billion The Court found that the commis-|Marks, or four hundred million dol- sioners had not been given a fair|1ars, as penalty for the murder of hearing so the new schedule was Ernst Von Rath, German diplo- held invalid. If that ruling held, Mat in Paris, official sources an- the commissioners would get the|nounced today. impounded half million, "x Fl;d hélnrshnl t;ier:mn GoeJrina But the Department argued that|iSSueéd a decree effective next Jan- the money should be returned to|Uay 1 prohibiting Jews from con- the farmers who had paid the fees ducting retail business. in the first place. So, it came to the| Semi-official sources said 1,600 Supreme Court again with a new JeWs had been arrested in Berlin appeal. This time the department alone. argued that it should be allowed| An announcement said “further to correct the error. Why not hold | decisive measures for elimination of hearings at which the commis- JeWry from German economic life sioners could present their case? and for prevention of provocatory That would give the department an conditions will be issued within a opportunity to legalize its schedule short tl!:ef' i ieals of rates. Jews have en: order to pay Frederick H. Wood, of New|damages to Jewish property from York, attorney for the commis-|the recent Nazi attacks. The Goer- sioners, denounced such a proce-|INg decree ruled insurance claims dure. The department made a mis-‘by German Jows wosild be. eon- take in fixing the rates, didn't jt?|fiscated in favor of the German The commissioners should be en-|State. |titled to. the impounded moneys, 3 B""fld;“;:'m:':b"; "l;" shouldn't they? | Propagan er Joseph Goeb- [ i |bels issiied an order forbidding the | BRANDEIS PUTS A QUESTION |Presence of Jews in any movie | At that point Justice ande,&‘:memre or concert hall and from all | intervened with his series of ques-|Public presentation: after the two tions, which were phrased in the|days of auti-semiiic terror. nature of arguments. Wouldn't it| The Jews have{ recelv;‘ed ;n addi- e - mrma e |tional threat « a showdown as Hitler’s newspapers said there would (Continued on Page Three) ‘ing at the lower schedule of rates, lision today between two special | | i 2 | football trains enroute to the Notre | ‘KSHARP UAKE Dame-Minnesota football game. One IS REGISTERED train of the Grand Trunk Line | | plowed into a New York Central| SASKATOON, Sasgatchewan, Nov. RIS S visional capital, said a thousand| The commissioners went to court. F h I . civilians had been killed or wound- | A decree resulted under which the (mt a I Tralns planes raided towns in Hunan |the lower new rates would be im- Province. [pounded, It amounted to more than -es The commissioners won a deci- ]12 PASSENGERS | sion, the Supreme Court holding SOUTH BEND, Ind, Nov. 12— | had erred in his method of arriv- Approximately 50 persons were in- | | train overturning two coaches. In- | o Jjured were rushed to the hospltal.i SEATTLE, Nov. 12. — Steamer‘ ed Thursday when 18 Japanese | difference between the old fees and . . 2 cfl"lde m Ind o a half million dollars in four year. 1] | that the Secretary of Agriculture jured, twelve seriously, in a col-| ABDAHD YUKUN | Yukon, of the Alaska Steamship i T T |be more grief in store for German H |Jews 1! vad didn't cease 'c' D' BEALE To “'ml. cpresentation and distortions™ | SPEAK AT VESPER of hippenings bere | | The arre of Jews, many of | Tomorrow evening at the regular| them prominent, is continuing. Vesper Service held at 6 o'clock at| |the Northern Light Presbyterian | Church, Charles D. Beale will be | Brensdal, FIVE ADMITED T U. S. CITIZENSHIP | The following, all residents of Ju-; neau, were admitted to U. 8. citi-| zenship this morning at a naturali- | zation hearing in Federal District Court: Sivert Svendsen, native of| Norway, who had his name changed | to Sig Swanson; Bror Allan Karl-| sson, native of Sweden, who had his | name changed to Allan Wilbur Fair- | banks; Knute Janson Solbakken,| native of Norway, who had his name | changed to Knut Solbick; Olaf native of Norway, and Vera Martha Maier, native of Ger- many. WILLIAMS LEAVING FOR STATES MONDAY | District Engineer M. D. Williams of the Bureau of Public Roads is| sailing Monday on the Alaska for| a conference at the regional office | |booked for Juneau include Mitzie Company, sailed at 9 o'clock this| | Buest speaker, his topic being “Mo- morning for Southeast and South- | 12— Saskatchewan University seis-| tjon picture and the Public.” west Alaska ports with 62 first|Mograph recorded the sharpest| ne young peoples choir will of- class and 13 steerage passengers duake in years occurred between fer several selections during the aboard, |1:23 and 5:00 a.m. today, centered nhour, and Ernst Oberg, organist, Passe approximately 1250 miles distant.'ywy)) pe heard playing favorite Pie, 2 boagd th Stukon It was undetermined whether’ it npymng, nre Thomas A, Was in the Northwest Territorities W. C. Oevrby, R. W. Eyman, LM:.“Or z C"’L“nmm. ‘EASTERN STAR PLAN Kreider, Cifton 7. Tabor_and| JOHN NELSON DIES BRIDGE-LUNCHEON il sy Yong an. Beller AT HOSPRVATTHERE! "o o i o e Onder Kalley, Leo Flynn. | - o Thrilling Air , J. R. Fowler, Haigh, Mrs” W. R. Proctor, John Neison, 79, long time resi- for a bridge-luncheon, November 19, dent of the Territory, passed away | to be held at the Scottish Rite Tem- this morning at St. Ann’s Hospital, ple, this proving an excellent means where he was admitted for medical ' for returning pre-holiday social ob- | care Friday. | ligations. | Nelson was well known in this| Reservations may be made by call* | city and was a ship builder by trade. | jng 525, Green 504, or 67. | No definite funeral arrangements | | have been made and the remains Broadcast Cause LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 12. 721 Thé Columbia Broadcasting Com-| pany is still in trouble over its re- 'DIMOND TO' ADD | UNEMPLOYED GROUP SUNDAY AFTERNOON Sl 3 AP LAST RITES FOR CHILD Funeral services for Ralph Phil- | of Eastern Star is formulating plans | Excited Crowds - Storm Palace of | cami_@I.Municn | Attack Follows Address in Which Catholics Label- ed Allies of Jews | | MUNICH, Nov. 12. — Excited crowds attacked and stormed the | palace of Cardinal Michael Von Faulhaber and broke all the win- dows following a Nazi address which | referred to Catholics as allles of | the Jews. The attack followed the speech | last night by Adolf Wagner, Nazi | district leader, in' which he read a | letter from the Cardinal asking po- | lice protection in case of attacks in San Francisco and then to at-| cent “super thriller” drama, “The | lips, four-year-old native child who tend meetings at Dallas and San|war of the Worlds” An actress, passed away Thursday, were held Antonio, Texas, of state highway| pretty Sarah Collins, is suing the| this afternoon at 1:30 o'clock at the officials and BPR district engineers company for $50,000. She alleges she| Salvation Army Barracks. to be held between December 5 and | suffered severe nervous shock when| ~Services were read by Capt. Stan- 12. He plans to be nome for Christ-'spe heard of the invasion which|ley Jackson, and interment was in 1o, turned out to be only fictional. the Evergreen Cemetery. /2:30 o'clock. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond will| on the catholic clergy. peak at a meeting of the unem-| “If Von Faulhaber mends his ways ployed tomorrow afternoon in the he will be protected better than Union Hall, it was announced by | police can attack” Wagner said. the Unemployed League today. The| The attack recalled the assault of | meeting is scheduled to start at'October 8 on Cardinal Innitzer's palace in Vienna. i8] |