The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 14, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ' “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7949. CLERGY ATTACKN EXTRA CONVENTION OF CIO OPENED BY JOHN L. LEWI Chieftain Announces His B> Proposed Program §§ for Labor Group MAKES UNVEILED ATTACK ON NAZIS Speaker Deciares Hitler May Have His Eyes on Western Hemisphere PITTSBURGH. Pa., Nov. 14— John L. Lewis, militant leader of the CIO, was greeted by thunderous cheering and a fanfare of bands when he opened the first consti- tutional convention of the CIO here today. Slashing with a furious at- tack at his foes of industrial union- ism and European oppression of Jews in his opening addre: Lewis said the CIO was in its first step toward the formation of a perma- nent organization as a rival to the AFL. Lewis said his program was for “rational procedure and orderly conduct,” striking out criticism and slander which he said was levelled against his industrial union move- ment.* Lewis declared that the CIO stood for “protection of privileges of all Americans, whether Gentiles or Jews or any creed of religion or any school of thought that main- tains the respect of our Consti- tution.” filw in his attack on Nazi activities in middle Burope, Lewis referred to what he tesned. a-.‘mam, blood thirsty wolf, the German Govern- ment.” % Lewis said it was possible Hitler “would try to extend his realm to the Western Hemisphere.” AFL MAKES CHARGE WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Presi- dent William Green of the AFL last night charged that CIO Chair- man Lewis made a false report on the membership of the CIO. Green said the statement of several hun- red thousand more members being enrolled in the CIO than the AFL was a deliberate attempt to fool the CIO and the public. NEW PROGRAM FOR ECONOMY OF FRENCHMEN More Decrees Are Issued— Daladier’s Dictatorship Ends Tomorrow PARIS, Nov. 14—Premier Dala- dier's Government today moved to quiet opposition to Finance Minister Reynaud’s financial economic pro- gram by limiting its immediate op- eration to 32 decrees of laws adopt- ed Saturday and published this af- ternoon in the official journal. With his basic financial decree powers expiring tomorrow, Premier Daladier is expected to call his Cab- | inet for a meeting tonight and issue a second series of measures for guid- ed French economy of the Govern- ment in the direction of business and industry. It is stated however the Premier will announce no more decrees nor promulgate further reforms. Anglo-Halian Agreement in Effect Nov. 16 LONDON, Nov. 14. — Premier Chamberlain formally announced today that the Anglo-Italian agree- ment reached last Easter would be operative November 16. The agreement is designed to compose British-Italian differences in Africa and the Mediterranean. e TURKED SHOOT WEDNESDAY e The annual pre - Thanksgiving turkey shoot will feature the meet- ine of the Elks lodge Wednesday night, the big shoot to start at 9 o'clock, immediately following the| - regular lodge session. BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Nov. 14.—Secretary of State Cordell Hull, late this afternoon instructed Ameri- can Ambassador Hugh R. Wil- scn, in’ Berlin, to come to Washington at once for a re- pert and consultation in con- Elmer F, Andrews, wage-hour administra Eugenia Pope, study chart showing Andrews predicted the wage-hour and boost na Andrews Sees More Vjobs 3 nection with Germany’s anti- Jewish campaign. The action, it is said, does not mean a break in diploma- tic relations between the United States and Germany but it is characterized as an unusual step taken in only un- usual circumstances. tor, and his secretary, Miss recent upswing in nation’s business. act would accelerate reemployment tional income. ‘Alasku Pilol M ukes F light Out Over Pacific on Mercy Errand) EFFORT BEING MADE TO GET RELIEF MONEY Delegate Dimond Explains Setup to Unemployed at Meeting Sunday | Every effort is being made to ob-! | tain money through the Works Pro- | gress Administration to assist in caring for the unemployed in Al- aska, Delegate Apthony J. Dimond | told a meeting of the Workman’s Alliance yesterday afternoon in the| Union Hall, but, in view of the de- mands from throughout the nation on Washington, he stated he could not definitely promise anything. . “I have wired to Aubrey Williams, | | Assistant WPA Administrator, giv- ing the Alaska picture,” he said, | “explaining that_$300,000 will be| needed in the Territory to carry over until the first of March. The | city already has applied for $30,000.| I will follow it up as soon as I get| ‘to ‘Washington, but I can not say| | what portion we may get for Alaska, |or if we will get any at all.” | | The Delegate explained that seven | | million had been expended in Al-| aska since 1933 in relief work, in- cluding several million for the Mat- | anuska project. This, coupled with | ‘Lhe fact that conditions in many of | the large cities of the States are| worse than here, he said, made it | problematical what amount of| funds, if any, would be allotted the | Territory. gate Dimond said. ‘“There is just so much money and it must be put to the best use possible in giving relief assistance.” The Delegate estimated the un- employed in Alaska at the present time at around 2,000, the best avail- able figures giving 1985. This, he said, including many who are the heads of families, means between 3,000 and 4,000 are affected. While: efforts are being made to get Federal assistance, Mr. Dimond said it . was up to the cities and towns to do the best they can in (Continued on Page Eight) NOME, Alasl Nov. 14. — Mrs. Frank Daugherty, Bureau of In- dian Affairs teacher and wife of the famed Northland reindeer Sup- erintendent, was brought here by plane Sunday from Gambell, Eskimo village on St. Lawrence Island, for JAPAN TURNS DOWN PROTEST OF 3 NATIONS \ Denies Right of Foreign Ships to Operate on | Yangtze River Now TOKYO, Nov. 14—The Japanese |Government has rejected protestsy " |of the United States, Great Bri- |tain and France against the closing |of the Yangtze River to all but Japanese vessels. | In separate notes, handed to the ambassadors of the three powers, the Japanese Government declared that military operations still made navigation on the Yangtze River dangerous and for that reason for- eign vessels must be banned. lrwin»cufife’swéfis Slaying Artist’s Mndej}_ast Year Sculptor Pleads Guilty to Three Counts in Triple Murder NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Robert | Irwin, eccentric young sculptor on| | trial for the Gedeon triple slaying | |of Easter 1937, abruptly pleaded | |guilty to second degree murder when the trial opened today. The second degree murder count| carries a penalty of twenty years te| life, and to make certain the sculp- | tor never will be free again Judge' | Wallace granted the prosecution’s | request that Irwin plead guilty’to‘ :all three indictments and to have| | sentenses run consecutively. This| |would mean a minimum of sixty| years in prison. } | TIrwin asked to corroborate his plea of guilty jumped up and made an incoherent speech. Irwin, sometimes known as the “Mad Sculptor,” killed Veronica | (Ronnie) Gedeon, beautiful artists’ model, her mother and a boarder at JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1938. — ] £ E.D. -R»;’s “Dream House” Nears Completion | Here is a front view of the “dream cottage” designed, _Hyde Park estate. Workmen are busy putting finis| without radio or telephone. The C.H.MACKAY PASSES AWAY IN NEW YORK Financier, Builder of Inter- national Communica- tién Systems, Dies | the Gedeon home, Frank Byrnes, on | g | Easter Sunday of 1937 in New York, | | and was later apprehended in Chi-| | cago. | ——eo———— %1 i Booosseciod President and Mrs. the exactinx duties of by President Roosevelt, and hing touches to the buildi Roosevelt will use the seclu e White House. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS | % < nearing completion on his ng, which will be furnishe/l ded cottage to relax from ROYAL TOUR IS ARRANGED |British King:d Queen to i Cross Atlantic on H. M. 8. Repulse LONDON, y w. 1.—King George ‘xmd een %‘lll | Britaffrwill arrive § joc ABORTE the British battleship Repulse on | next May 15 for a tour of Canada, according to an official announce- ment made here. Following the Canadian tour, the PROGRESSIVES " IN CONFERENCE INWASHINGTON Gov. Murphy Makes State- ment After Session with ‘Bresident aud Otaers. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 1. — After | a conference with President Roose- | velt Sunday, Gov. Frank Murphy, | of Michigan, expressed his opinion PRICE TEN CENTS o s |, JEW PERSECUTION STRONG TERMS FROM PULPITS IN USE SUNDAY Both Protestant, Catholic Churches Have Sermons Attacking Germany MORE REPRISALS MADE IN BERLIN Newspapers Make Bitter Utterances Against English Statesmen NEW YORK, Nov. 14, — Clergy and lay leaders in the United Statés and also abroad used language of unspared strength Sunday in de- nouncing the German Government's subjugation of Jewish citizens. “Inhuman, bestial and barbaric,” were the words from sermons other public utterances on the first Sabbath since the newest Jewish oppressive movement as the 3 math of the slaying of a German Embassy secretary in Paris. Some of the strongest sermons were delivered in Protestant and Catholic churches in England. Outside of pulpits, strong ex- pressions came from the ranks of politics, labor, arts and many forms of human endeavor, GERMAN PROTEST LONDON, Nov. 14. — A strong British protest by Germany against the recent Nazl pros: attacks on British political les ! in connec~ tion with the killing of a in Parls, was disclosed today by Premier Chamberlain in the House of Commons, The Premier read an attack from Der Angriff, organ of Goebbels, British King and Queen will Visit| that Progressives must work through Which said in the Friday edition the United States, as guests of President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roose- velt. Rt b TONGASS SAILS Steamship Tongass heaved off from Femmers Dock at 7 o'clock last night. The Tongass will pro- ceed to Skagway and Haines and expects to arrive in Seattle Mon- i day. It will not stop at Juneau on | the Democratic party rather than | unite in a third party movement. | Murphy also conferred with. Mayor | P, H. LaGuardia and Ser., Robert | J. Bulkley -of Ohio. | Mayor LaGuardia said they dis | cussed the possibility of a third | party if the New Dealers lost con- | trol of the 1940 Natignal Conven- | tion. Gov. Murphy would not state what opinions Roosevelt expressed but said he himself thought the out- look for advance of Progressivism |that “it was mo coindence that® a Polish Jew killed Ernst von Rath who “took the samc line as” Win- ston Churchill, Anthony Eden and |Alfred Duff Cooper. Caustic Comment The newspaper then went on to say how FEden resigned as Foreign |Secretary. Cooper as first Lord of the Admiralty, bouh because they disag: o with Preiuer Chamber- lain’s foreign policy. - Premier Chamberlin spoke in re- ply to questions regarding the anti- an appendicitis operation. | Pilot Hans Mirow said the flight! over Bering Sea was difficult be-| cause of weather conditions. He re-| | ported ice floes lined the Siberian| Found Frozen the return jaunt. Next sailing of the Tongass is | scheduled from Seattle a week from Tuesday. in government was good. Gov. Murphy, who was defeated in the November gubernatorial race, shrugged aside questions about re- ports that he might be appointed | coast. Pilot Mirow arrived on St. Law- rence Island at 2:05 o’clock Satur- day afternoon, on a frozen lake of glare ice, two miles distant from the | village. Accompanying Mirow were Wil-| liam Miller, radio operator, and ob- ~ ToDeath, Mont, CHINOOK, Mont.,, Nov. 14 — | George McLeslie, 34, was found| frozen to deatlf on a small island in | a reservoir near here. The body was discovered by a A330CIATED PRES s CLARENCE H MACKAY NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Funeral services for Clarence H. Mackay, 64, towering figure -in American server Ross Dobbs of the Nome| Posse sent out to search for Mc-| g, nses and builder of the inter- weather bureau. The trip over was made by a cir- cuitous route due to a heavy 45-mile headwind off St. Lawrence Island. Mirow used his fast Lockheed Vega, eight-place plane. It took him three and one-half hours to make the flight going but he cut the time on the return flight by a more direct route. Mrs. Daugherty stood the flight remarkably well DIMOND SAILS ON ALASKA FOR WASHINCTON Delegate Expects to Go Di- rect After Brief Stops in Seattle and Portland “It is a case of where we must| Alaska Delegate to Congress, An-| Dr. and Mrs. Hilton Rose arrived | cut the coat to fit the cloth,” Dele- | thony J. Dimond, is sailing this af- | from Seattle on a honeymoon WD | . ccutive committee of the Interna- Leslie and his companion after they | had become lost in a blizzard while | hunting. | Srock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 14. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 10, American Can | 99, American Light and Power 6%, Anaconda 36%, Bethlehem Steel 75, Commonwealth and Southern 2, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 51%, International Harvester 66%, | Kennecott 46, New York Central| | Pacific 20%, United States Steel | 68%%, Pound $4.71. DOW, JONES AVERAGE The following are today's Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 155.61, rails 32.36, utilities 24.05. |HONEYMOONERS ON ! VISIT TO JUNEA national communications system, will ‘be held tomorrow. , Mackay was Chairman of the| Board of the Postal Telegraph Com- pany and President of the Mackay Radio Telegraph Company. He died last Saturday night from the re- sults of a throat ailment. Ambition to enlarge the tele- graph and cable 'system inherited from his father dominated the busi- ness career of Clarence H. Mackay.! Money from Mine With the huge Mackay fortune, which originated in the famous Comstock lode, at his command, he devoted his efforts constanly to the message service of his telegraph and cable companies to approxi- | | mately three-quarters of the dis-|tomorrow. The A.N.B tance around the earth. In 1928 a merger of the Mackay | Companies and the International | Telephone and Telegraph Company | brought together a system which | reachea to all parts of .America and to European and Asiatic countries. and & director and member of the ternoon aboard the steamer Alaska | via the Princess Norah for a short . .., Telephone and Telegraph to return to his duties in Washing- ton, D. C., after having been in the Territory since Fourth of July when he appeared at the American Le- gion celebration here. stay in Juneau. The newlyweds will | |embark on the Norah on jts return| trip south, Dr. Rose was formerly associated {with Dr. W. M. Whitehead of this Company. Born in San Francisco Mr. Mackay was born at San Franeciseo April 17, 1874, the son of John Willlam Mackay and Marle | - DART ARRIVES Capt. Einar Haugen brought the motorship Dart in Saturday on his regular weekly run with three pas- sengers aboard, Bud Dugger from Turnabout Island, George Drowley {and C. Calhoun from Windham. | Jim Sawyer returned to run the galley on the Dart after being away ;from the pots and pans since last {July. - et |OFFICIALS WILL " ATTEND ANB MEET To attend the annual sessions of the Alaska Native Brotherhood | which are being held at Sitka this | week, Claude M. Hirst, General Sup- erintendent of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Dr. J. F. Worley, Medical 20%, Safeway Stores 28', Southern |(nat - end. He eventually extended |Director, and Dr. Joseph D. Aron- son of the Public Health service are | planning to sail on the North Sea . sessions will | continue all this week in Sitka. {LANCE HENDRICKSON GOES TO WASHINGTON Lance Hendrickson, fiscal agent afternoon, enroute to Washington, D. C., where he will confer on fis- cal matters with officials of the Bio- logical Survey, expecting to be gone about a month. He will be accom- panied by Mrs. Hendrickson. — .- - PHIL O. HERRIMAN to the Supreme Court or become High Commissioner in the Phili- ppines. He is expected to resume | private law practice at the end of | his term. WORLD WAR ACE IS DEAD; Two Killed When Ship Hits | in Fog-bound Moun- tains in Tenn. NEW YORK, Nov. 14—Lansing C| Holder Jr., New York National Guard Aviation Lieutenant, and Raymond W. Krout, one of the World War ace fliers, were killed last night in the fog bound Ten- nessee Hills. The pair was enroute to Nashville on a hunting trip. The plane burst into flames and | the bodies burned and mutilated. Krout was a member of the 35th| | Pursuit Squadron and brought down | | |Mr. Mackay became chairman of |for the Alaska Game Commission,irlve enemy planes and received |the board of the merged company { is sailing on the steamer Alaska this|three citations. | LTS A Trapper Loses | Life in Storm {Jewish violence in Germany after |the Paris shooting and sald mo one in Great Britain would seek to defend the killing of von Rath “but there is a deepening, wide- spread sympathy here for those |who are being made to suffer ‘so | severely.” - He said the British Charge d’Af- fairs in Berlin had taken steps to | safeguard British subjects and “we reserve the right to present claims for damages.” — MORE REPRISALS BERLIN, Nov. 14.—Minister of Education Bernhard Rust today ex- pelled all Jewish students from all other institutions of higher learn- ing in the latest move toward sep- aration of Jews and Germans. This means the final elimination of Jews of all ages from the Ger- man school system. Jews in Germany faced another mounting bill against their wealth and in fear and desperation wond- ered what will henceforth be their fate. Bills up to $60,000 each have been presented to 100 of the wealthiesh Jews in Berlin payable to repair damage to their rented shops by angry crowds in violence last Thurs« day. These bills are in addition to |the $400,000,000 assessed against the Jews in general for the slaying in Paris of Ernest von Rath, Em- bassy Secretary, by a Polish Jew youth. BIG CROWD ON HAND FOR LEGION DANCE A large crowo was on hand l& \ |the annual Armistice Day dance held Saturday night by Alford John Bradford Post, American Legion, in the Elks’ Ballroom with Wes Bar- The Delegate says he plans to city. stop briefly in Seattle and Portland and then go direct to the national capital where he will follow up re- quests already made for Federal re- lief assistance in Alaska. He made his last public appear- ance on this ‘trip home yesterday afternoon, ~addressing an unem- ployed group in the Union Hall MOTHER OF DR. : COFFEY IS HERE Mrs, R. C. Coffey, mother of Dr. | Robert M. Coffey of Juneau arrived from Seattle on the Princess Norah jfor a visit here. | Louise Hungerford-Bryant Mackay. His father, an Irish immigrant, joined the "49ers in the gold rush |to California. Ti-fortune, which |dogged the footsteps of the elder | Mackay, suddenly changed when a shaft he and three others sunk in the Comstock lode resulted in the (Continued on Page Seven) | DIES; REMAINS ARE ON BOARD ALASKA | Phil O. Herriman, former resident {of Juneau, for several years Chief | Inspector on the Alaska Railroad, | died at Anchorage November 1. The remains, accompanied by Mrs. Her- taken to Twin Falls, Idaho, for in- | terment. | riman are aboard the Alaska, being | WORLAND, Wyo, Nov. 14—The| body of Andrew W. Wilson, aged 60, | a trapper who perished from ex- haustion, has been found by L. B., Bailey, crippled war veteran who had continued the search in a snowstorm after the posse had Jabandoned efforts. rett’s orchestra providing the musie. Feature numbers of the evening were a Spanish dance by Sylvia Andersop and a little drum major number ‘by Willane Roff, both puplls of Dorothy Stearns Roff, dancing instructor. ol Preceding the dance, Legionnaries and Auxiliary members held a mixer in the Dugout.