The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1938. VOL. LIIL, NO. 7950. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PATTERSON AGROUND, ALANKA WATERS MILK INDUSTRY ~ ¢ | OFFIGIAL SAYS | German Machine Gunners o Westward Sixteen Firms, Seventy-two Individuals Must Face Charges in Chicago VIOLATION OF LAWS CITED BY GRAND JURY Investigation Has Been Go- ing on Quietly for Years, Report CHICAGO, Il Nov. 15.—Sixteen firms and 72 individuals in the dairy industry, organized labor and health organizations, are accused of violation of the Federal anti-trust statutes in indictments returned by a Federal Grand Jury. Among the defendants are Dr. Herman Bundesen, President of the Chicago Board of Health, Daniel Gilbert, chief of the Cook County States Attorney's Office, and po- lice., Indictments Kept Secret The indictments were returned on November 1 by the Grand Jury that climaxed years of inquiry and by the Department of Justice in the last 16 weeks of its own inves- tigation. The announcement of the indiet- ments was supppressed at the Gov- ernment’s request until today. Charges Alleged The indictments allege that the anti-trust statutes have been vio- lated in the sale of fluid milk in the Chicago area, an illegal com- bination of nation-wide proportions existing in the ice cream industry. The fluid milk indictments charge conspiracy to fix the wholesale and retail milk prices to throttle independent competition and con- trol in the supply of milk moving in Chicago and the surrounding States. Other Indictments The ice cream indictments charge that firms and individuals named, have been combined since January, 1929, to restrain the sale and trans- portation and counter freezer de- vices in the manufacture of ice cream on the premises where sold. JAPANESE T0 REPLY T0 U, §. " ON‘OPEN DOOR Statement Is Expected Fri- day—Will Ask Re- vision of Pact TOKYO, Nov. 15—The Domei, Japanese News Agency, says Japan will reply next Friday to the United States protest against closing the “open door” in China, with a de- mand for revision of an “under- standing respecting China which was made immediately following the World War.” Reference, it is believed, means the 1922 Nine-Power pact in which | the signatories, including the UniL~: ed States and Japan, pledged re-| spects for China’s territorial integ- | rity and the principte of the “open | door’” policy. | VIC. ENSTROM PASSES AWAY, SEATTLE HOSP. Former Cir@laska,Min- er, Later in Siberia, Is Dead SEATTLE, Nov. 15—Victor En- strom, 46, Circle, Alaska, miner, died in the Swedish Hospital as the result of a brain tumor. Enstrom went to Siberia about 10 years ago to teach placer mining at the request-of the Soviet Govern- ment. Recently he checked the Goodnews Bay area for the Recon- struction Finance Corporation. Funeral services for Enstrom are being held here today. Arriving in Los Angeles from Australia, Sir Hubert Wilkins and his wife, Suzanne, recently declared their intention of attempting to reach the North Pole by submarine. Lady Wilkins will accompany the expedition, due to leave for the Arctic regions in March. Sir Hubert is directing installation of equipment on a submarine de- signed to navigate under Aretic ice floes. Photo shows the scientific couple on their arrival in Los Angeles. AMBASSADOR TOBUILDUP OF U. S, WILL ~ U.S. SHIPPING QUIT BERLIN FOR DEFENSES Wilson, Summoned to Wash- Merchant Craft to Be Con- ington, Leaves Ger- | structed for Use many Tomorrow in War Time BERLIN, Nov. 15—United States WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. A Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson said Special Senate Committee, report- this afternoon he had cancelled ing improvement in maritime labor his planned visit to England and conditions, has turned attention to will leave tomorrow for the United registration to build up the Am- States as a result of urgent sum-!erican Merchant Marine as a sup- mons to Washington. plement to National Defense. The Ambassador did not disclose ~Senator Josiah W. Bailey, Demo- | the purpose of the summons but ! crat of North Carolina, Chairman informed circles took it for granted of the Special Committee, said the he has been called to Washington group will try to hasten construc- to go over the entire German sit- tion of merchant ships which might | uation with special emphasis on be converted into government use | |the anti-Jewish wave of the past|in war time. ‘ week. TR e e e | Wilson is prepared to leave to- | morrow and sail from Le Havre F GRMER M AYUR | OF AKRON, OHIO, 5 3 | Thursday on the U. S. liner Man- | hattan. The summons home came in the Is Asked to Tell of Com- munists Actions in Tire Factory Strike midst of the German press attack on Great Britain for “inhuman |manhunt against the Arabs” in Palestine, evident in exasperation of the British ecriticism in Ger-| many'’s drive on the Jews. | MAY BE INDEFINITE | WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—Secre- |tary of State Cordell Hull, who | |summoned Ambassador Wilson |home, at the request of President | Roosevelt, would not undertake to, WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — The say how long Wilson will be kept House Committee investigating un- | in the United States. | American actitives, has called Nel- | Informed persons believed that son Sparks, former Mayor of Akron, | Wilson might be absent from Ber- Ohio, to discuss the part played by | lin indefinitely. communists in the strike at the SITKA BOUND | Capt. Elmer Jakeway, captain- : |owner of the M. S. Roamer, will| "¢ Women of the Moose sponsor |leave for Sitka this afternoon with Another of their much anticipated| |a general cargo f “pubhc card parties. ; | ";‘he Roamegr h(;.z l:,i:::a:;fio;zei;'eg The affair will start at 8 o’clock, | |cargo at Juneau docks for the past | Prizes Will be awarded during the | |three days. It arrived from Seat- evening and refreshments will be . | served. last Saturday with 100 tons| ™, (o i charge are Mrs. Lydia| | Smith, Mrs. Anna Bodding and Mrs. | John Torvinen. NORWOMEN DINNER | Ll IS NOW OPEN POLARIS-TAKU MINER FOR RESERVATIONS SUCCUMBS HERE TODAY All anticipating attendance of‘, Bert Maloney, who was flown to| | the Norwomen dinmer Thursday | Juneau last evening from the Po-| | evening are urged to make reserva- laris-Taku Mine, passed away at| | tions with Miss Mary Jeannette| St. Ann’s Hospital at 2:30 o'clock Whittier before tomorrow evening.| this afternoon. | The affair will take place in the Maloney had been ill for the past | parlors of the Northern Light Pres-| week and was taken from the mine byterian Church, starting at 6 o'-|yesterday, entering St. Ann’s Hos- | clock. | pital late in the afternoon. He is Thursday evening Mrs. A. M. Ug- believed to have a wife living in gen will entertain those present with | ‘Washington. As yet no funeral ar- piano and vocal selections. rangements have been made. MOOSE WOMEN CARD | PARTY IS TOMORROW | Bridge, whist and pinochle will be | played tomorrow eveuing at the Odd Fellows Hall when members of 1 tle | consigned to the Capital City. | .- Bargaining Agency Will Be Decided at that Time, NLRBMan Announces At an impromptu meeting con- ducted by Arthur Hailey, represen- tative of the National Labor Rela- tions Board with representatives of A. F| of L. and CIO labor groups and Alaska Juneau mine officials aboard the Yukon today, it was decided that the election among the Alaska Juneau mine and mill employees will be held on Decem- ber 2. Mr. Hailey arrived here from the 19th Regional Headquarters of the NLRB at Seattle on this forenoon at 11:30 o'clock. He was dispatched here to conduct the coming election to decide which union, if any, shall be the bargain- ? the Yukon | ing agent for the A. J. employees. | The election was previously decided on by NLRB Trial Examiner phael and NLRB Attorney Thomas Graham at a hearing last September 15. Polls at City Hall The election will be held in the Fire Hall located in the Juneau City Hall. Polls will be open from 8 a.m. on the morning of December 2 to 8 p.m. that evening. It is nec- y that the voting booths be kept open for at least 12 hours in order to permit all mine and mill employees an opportunity to cast their ballots, he said. At the meeting, representatives from the American Federation of Labor group, Committee for Indus-| trial Organization and the Alaska Juneau mine also decided that each union would place two ob- servers at the polls to check and | challenge all voters. The election will be in charge of Mr. Hailey. Voting Requirements Voting lists will be made from a (Continued on Page Two) - eee METZGAR BACK FROM BUSINESS VISIT OUTSIDE Official Comments on Em- ployee Election, New Wage-Hour Setup L. H. Metzgar, General Superin- tendent of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, returned to Ju- to San Francisco. Mrs. Metzgar, who accompanied him Outside, is stav- ing over in San Francisco, and Mr. | Metzgar says he may rejoin her in the south for the holidays. Commenting on the forthcoming | election among company employees for the purpose of determining a bargaining agency, Mr. Metzgar said “the company does not want to take any part except to see that the law is observed, and it makes no difference which group might be iselecwd as the bargaining unit or agency, but we hope that all the company's employees will vote at the election, which is to be held December 2.” “It is the policy of the company to get along with its employees so far as humanly possible without any friction,” he said, “and we should held here | Ra-| At an unnamed spot along the “Siegried” or “Limes” line, German machine gunners, ensconced in a con- dj‘rle fort, go through a drill. A half a million of Der Fuehrer's followers have been at work for the last two years on the western frontier defehses, and troops are occupying them. pictures to reach the United States. NO PEACE IN LABOR WORLD NOW IN SIGHT Cld Convention Adopts Re- port of Committee, No Recommendations PITTSBURGH, Pa., Nov. 15. The CIO convention today adopted its “peace” committee’s report which |did not recommend any new steps |to deal with the breach with the AFL. The CIO delegates to the conven- tion adopted the report unanimous- ly, by a standing vote. The report was read by Phillip Murray, Vice-Chairman of the con- vention, who declared there could be “no compromise in the CIO's fundamental purpose and aim in organizing workers into powerful tindustrial unions, nor obligations to fully protect the rights and interests of all its members af- filiated in the organization.” | Van Bittner, Region Director of the Steel Workers Organizing Com- mittee, opposed the move to table the report which was made by Heywood Broun, to permit of ad- |neau yesterday afternoon on the ditional debate declaring: “While I | Princess Norah after a business trip Want and desire honorable peace in labor unity in the United States that is not the paramount ques- |tion before this convention. The paramount question is establishing the CIO of organizing unorganized {workers in this country.” |Murray said: “The resolution I read and does not deny the President’s | desire for peace in the labor ranks.” - Gold Business in " Atlin Area Soon { | Broun withdrew his motion after opens wide the door of labor unity Magino Above: “Siegfried” This is among the first t Line Has Ri;alh | | the Patterson was B LT With Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Germany speeding work on fortifi- cations along the French frontier, German troops already are occupy- ing the underground net of steel and concrete forts at Kehl, Germany. at an unnamed spot along the line variously known as the and the “Limes” line, two German machine gunners emerge from one of the man-made caves after a test of its facilities. This picture was among the first shipment to reach the United States.—AP Photo. I PASSENGERS | Cold Wave Grips AFTER MIDNIGHT Coat Guard Cutter Haida Sounds Alariu, Ready to Leave for Scene 'PATROL SHIP CYANE | ALSO ANSWERS CALL {Radiogram Tater Reports Little Freighter Re- floats, Proceeding Three distinct blasts of the whistle, followed by the siren of the United States Coast Guard cut- ter Haida, and continuation of the alarm for 15-or 20 minutes, stirred Juneauites shortly after 1 o'clock this morning and caused frantic | telephone calls to be made as to what it was all about. Men ashore rushed to the Haida in response to the alarm call. Citizens, with the wind howling and rain falling, did not envy the guarders but felt for those in peril. The alarm was sounded as the result of an SOS from the motor- ship Patterson, 604-ton trading ves« sel owned by the Northern Whaling and Trading Company of S8an Fran- cisco, which went aground on Eye Opener Rock, a ledge near the mid~ dle of Sumner Strait, 3% miles northwest of Point Polypos in Wrangell Narrows, at approximately 1:15 o'clock this morning. The Haida made immediate pre- parations to leave for the scene and i was just about ready to cast of when a radiogram was received from the Coast Guard Patrol ship Cyane that she would immediately go to the assistance of the motorship Patterson. Lieutenant Commander Lee H. Baker, of the Halda, knowing the Cyane would reach the scene first, {on account of then being only a short distance away, awaited fur- ther advices if any further assis- tance was needed to float the Pat- terson or if she floated, required a tow. At 6 o'clock this morning radio- grams received by e Haida In- formed that the Fulterson had | worked herself loose and was float- ing free to proceed to Anchorage, | Beldovia, and Kodiak with no dam- age of consequence. First alarm of the Patterson’s dis- | tress reached the Haida via a re- |layed radiogram from the U.8.C.G. |cutter Tngraham stationed at Port | Angeles, Wash. The message stated on Eye Opener | Rock with a 45-dcuree list and “may have to abandon ship.” | At 3:55 the Haida received a ra- | diogram from the U.8.C.G. cutter | Cyane stating she was on her way | to the scene and rcported the Pat- | terson had wmed that her list | had decreased ‘0 41 degrees and she | was luking no mater, | While a 11a1f hour out of Juneau the Haida received word from the | Cyane that the Ketchikan cutter | was proceeding to her moorings at the Pirst City and ‘he Patterson had worked free and needed .ng further assistance. The Patterson was built in 1881 and was originally a U. S. Coast and | Geodetic Survey boat. It carries a ] crew of 20. Srock QuoTaTiONS - Gaughtin Freeze believe that if all the employees will| Gold mining operation in the At- vote at the coming election and|)ip placer district is gradually slow- express their choice, there will be|ing down to minimum capacity in less cause for complaint by any | preparation for the seasonal winter group or union or set of employees shutdown, according to Emmanuel than if a small vote is cast. If all|Ojsen of the Colpe mine in Atlin employees do not vote, there is like- | who has arrived in Juneau by plane. ly to arise the claim that if all had| The mines have not as yet been voted, the result would have been otherwise.” | ploy approximately 60 men. With reference to the company's| Mines on Spruce Creek owned by policy under the wages and hours|Gus Johnson and Axel Nelson have bill which went into effect on Oc-|their sluice boxes open and men on tober 24, the official said: the payroll to date. Alder “It has been brought to my atten-| mines and the Colpe Mine are also tion that a few complaints have | engaged in some activity been made that in some instances| Jim Nolan has temporarily ceased the paycheck at the first payday production but may reopen in a under the new law was a little lower | ghort, time. William Atchinson has than the previous paycheck, other|syspended his Pine Creek operations things being equal. The reason !or[unm spring. that is that the new law went into| Results of the prospecting pro- effect on October 24, which Was|gram in the Blue Canyon district Monday. The hours under the new |are pending the success of the drill- law must be regulated by weeks, and | jng crew in reaching bedrock before (Continued on Page Eight) cold weather stops them. like to see avoided all source of fric- tion among the employees them- selves or groups of employees. We | completely frozen in and still em-| Creek | ARRIVE HERE, CODK'S PLANE | Northern Airways Pilot Les Cook ‘rlnw his low-winged land plane (from Atlin today with four pas- (sengers for Juneau as follows: |Joseph B. Achison, W. W. Achison, F. Geremcres and C. Baker, all of Atlin, Pilot Cook left immediately after discharging his passengers with a | load of gasoline and perishables ifor Atlin and is expected to return late this afternoon with four men from Peace Lake, R. Denning, C. Currie, O. Lunde, and C. Reim. - eee - Over 46 percent of all the crop- land of the Northwest was brought under the Agricultural Adjust- ment Administration’s 1937 pro- gram, - ,e— Columbia University received a total of over $403,000 in gifts dur- ing the past year, S0, California “wew vos, vor = — cone Cr op Damages Estimated at Between $200,000 and $300,000 LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 15.— Cold, which caught Southern Cali- fornia in an early grip last night, |did crop damage estimated at be- | | tween $200,000 and $300,000. The cold wave nipped fall peas and asparagus in the Imperial Val- ley. Lon Gape Fls, Tulsequah Mines Lon Cope flew J. Dalles to the Polaris-Taku mine today in the Fairchild wheel plane. He returned with C. Chrysler, R. Larman, and S. Ostergard. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 9%, American Can |98, American Light and Power 6%, |Anaconda 36%, Bethlehem Steel 175%, Commonwealth and Southern ., Curtiss Wright 6%, General | Motors 51%, International Harvest- jer 65%, Kennecott 45%, New York Central 20%, Safeway Stores 28, | Southern Pacific 20%, United States | Steel 68%, Pound $4.71%. | e DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 154.66, |rails 31.95, utilities 23.87. | Economic Trade |Sanctions Against Nazi Proposed SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. 15. | —Economic trade sanctions against Germany are asked of President Roosevelt by Bruce Hannon, Secre- |tary of the Maritime Federation of |the Pacifie, for that nation’s action |agatnst the Jews,