The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 19, 1938, Page 1

L THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7954. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARMY BOMBER CRAMHES; 6 MEN KILLED Japanese Turn Down all A CHINA IS CUT OFF IN TRADE FROM ABROAD | Open Door Policy Knock-| ed Out in One Ter- rific Sweep NIPPON REPLIES TO NOTE OF U. S. Foreign Business, Also For- eigners to Be Regulat- ed in Future TOKYO, Nov. 19.—Japan has de- nied, point by point, every charge in the American note demanding the maintenance of the open door in China. It is asserted that the ideas and principles no longer apply to Chi- na's new situation. The note opened with a declara- tion of Japan’s intentions to dic- tate the conditions under which foreign business may continue and foreigners may live henceforth in China. NO CHANGE IN IMMIGRATION LAW FEASIBLE MASS MEETINGS AWARDED FOR Borah Is Against Letting Bars Down or Revis- ing Present Act WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—United States Senator William E. Borah, of Idaho, expressed the opinion that any attempt to revise the im- migration laws, to admit additional German refugees would arouse tre- mendous opposition in Congress. “I do not believe it is desireable to undertake any change in the immigration laws at this time and any possible change is wholly in- adequate for relief,” said Senator Borah. OREGON BEATS WASH. 370 0 The University of Oregon nosed out the University of Washington Huskies today in a 3 to 0 win. Oregon scored a field goal in the first quarter and held her lead with | little danger throughout the rest of the game, the bulk of the contest being played in Washington terri- tory. AMUNDSEN NOW STOPPING OVER | IN PETERSBURG A combination of high winds and‘ frequent snow squalls is still giving Alaska Air Transport pilot John Amundsen a leisurely trip to Ju- neau from Seattle with the Lock- heed seaplane and five plasterers for the Baranof Hotel. Amundsen is in Petersburg and will spend the night there. He has already visited Alert Bay, Bella Bella and Ketchikan, having left Seattle Monday and became storm bound at those ports enroute. He is expected to arrive in Ju- neau tomorrow morning. e .- | COPE BRINGS FIVE | PASSENGERS FROM | TWO ISLAND PORTS, Lon Cope flew a Marine Airways plane to Tenakee and Sitka today, taking out two passengers and bringing in five. Carl Graham and O. J. Sampson went to Tenakee and Sam Mackoff, W. A. Shields and a Salvation Army Captain came in op the plane from| Tenakee. flew in from Sitka. Rescuers prepare to blast to reach imprisoned dog For more than two weeks a five-year-old beagle houad h_as been | trapped in an underground cavern in the Spelter mountains near Clarksburg, W. Va. Rescuers are the dog, which is being fed by food dropped through a hole in the mountainside. The dog fell into the stone prison while on a hunting Photo shows rescue group with drill penetrating sandstone for trip. a small blast to NN TO HOLD FLY FOR A. J. MINERS AFL Organizer to Speak on Labor Movement in Juneau Leo F. Flynn, AFL organizer, who recently arrived in Juneau in con- nection with AFL and CIO’s jur- | isdictional dispute here originating | in a question of bargaining rights on local building projects, will ad- dress two mass meetings of Alaska Juneau mine employees Monday. It was announced today that Flynn will meet with “all A. J.! employees” Monday morning at 10 o'clock in the Odd Fellows’ Hall and again Monday evening at 7:30 o'clock to take care of workers on all shifts. The announcement said Flynn | “will explain the labor situation as ! it exists in Juneau,” and will “dis- | cuss fully the principles of the American Federation of Labot labor | movement.” Z | The sponsors of the meeting are Federal Labor Union 21001, Inter- | national Association of Machinists, | 542, and International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, B-462. } | SPANISH FRONT 1S DEADLOCKED HENDAYE, Nov. 19.—The Span- | ish War remained in deadlock to-| day as Generalissimo Franco car- ried forward operations to consoli- date his newly gained positions on the Ebro River front. Franco has claimed the “war is over,” but no acknowledgement has| been forthcoming from Government headquarters of any intention to! sue for peace. | e | Rethenian Bnfier | Sees New Disotder PRAGUE, Nov. 19.—Official news |reports in this bewildered metrop- | five-year-old wife. olis informed the public today of | new disorders on the Ruthenian | border. The reports said terrorist bands |from Hungary and Poland have|quarreling?” Claude Hirst and Dr. J. F. Worley |caused six deaths on the Ruthenian | Petitioner—“September 6, 1873.” border. 1 Trying to Reach Imprisoned Dog ROOSEVELT T0 | y g ‘ p ; g ' LEAVE SUNDAY,;ALASKA PH“POSED A “wwsnncs HAVEN FOR REFUGEE | WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Presi- sk oy dent Roosevelt worked today to NEW YORK, Nov. 19.—A haven in Alaska for poli I refugees from Germany is proposed by Repre- clear his desk of all important| sentative Charles A. Buckley, Democrat, of New York, in a letter to President Roosevelt. matters before leaving tomorrow “Alaska is a land well endowed by nature,” writes the New York Representative, “and her resources for Warm Springs, Georgia, for stay of two weeks. The President expects to confer with House and Senate Democratic leaders at Warm Springs on the‘ 21 will enable refugees to live there and live well without any need of continuous reliance on outside help.” Representative Buckley also points out that Alaska “is practically uninhabited” and that Alaskans “centinually apveal for new settlers.” The New Yorker said he will be happy to introduce in Congress, a bill excluding Alaska from quota restrictions and other provi of the Immigration Laws and said, furthermore, that Central European |To Spend Two Weeks in? | Georgia — Important | | Conferences Scheduled ‘ FoOTBALL SCORES || The following are final scores cfl important football games played | this afternoon and received up to| | press time: | Oregon 3, Washington 0. | Notre Dame 9, Norwestern 7. | Baylor 6, S. M. U. 2L | Colorado College 7, Grinnel 21. | Texas Tech. 17, New Mexico 7. Utah 39, Wyoming 0. making double efforts to reach merican Charges BIG DOUGLAS SHIP SMASHES DURING STORM \Flames Break Out as Craft | Hits During Night in | Wooded Area | DISASTER IS SEEN; | AID IS SUMMONED One Flier D;;‘aler in Hos- | pital—Eighth Member ‘ of Crew Missing new legislative program and may sign several important appoint-| refugees undergo no severe changes in climate or diet Alaska. | LA GRANGE, Georgia, Nov. 19.— ments P s e — ot | The crush of a tvin-motored Army e e S ‘ 1 NO COMMENT bombing planc i1 a storm last i‘ Alaska officials declined to be night, killed siv Ariiy fliers, seris | | quoted on the Buckley suggestion ously injured sther and the | of sending German refugees to this eighth flier, believed to have been | Territory but pointed out the seri- aboard the biz Douglas plane, is | ous question of assimilating such unaccounied fo: and searchers fear | immigrants into life of Alaska due his body is still in the smoulder= |to limited vocations in the north | ing wreckage | and means-of making livelihood. The bomber was on a routine is no need for Tfurther flig)t from New York City to ‘ There stores, business houses until further Monigomery | resources are developed, Alabeina, and crash= theyled during ilie storm in the woods | stressed, and agricultural activity is|nearby, | limited due to climatic conditions| jand general nature of the country, reach the dog. | e = 2 North Dakota State 0, Crexgh(oni 38. | Centre 14, Louisville 0. t DePaul- 9, Centenary 48 { Wichita 14, Oklahoma A. M. 6. Nebraska 14, Towa 0. Missouri 26, St. Louis T. 0. Illinois 34, Chicago 0. Kansas State 41, Washburn 14. | Sewanee 0, Tulane 38. Johns Hopkins 25, American U. 7. S. W. Louisiana Inst. 0, Louisiana State 32. | Auburn 23, Georgia 14. T. C. U. 29, Rice 7. Michigan 18, Ohio State 0. Tulsa 14, Detroit U. 39. | small numbers of like individuals, but the most serious problem which must be considered is the means of a livelihood for persons coming north regardless of nationality. On this premise, officials question seriously the advisability of sending any large number of refugees here. 15,000 JEWS BATTLESHIPS Consktucton of New Navy Craft Will Be in At- lantic Coast Yards | Marshall 7, Ohio 14. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 19. — The| Lehigh 0, Lafayette 6. LUSE JUBS |N Navy has awarded contracts for| Indiana 6, Purdue 13. construction of three battleships. Oklahoma 10, Towa State 0. One battleship will be built at| Minnesota 21, Wisconsin 0. Newport News, Virginia, another at Florida O, Georgie Tech 0, tie. Quincy, Mass., both private yards, Temple 0, Michigan State 10. and the third at the Norfolk, Vir- ginia, Navy Yards. Four Days’ Commerce | Purge Puts Thousands on | Streets Out of Work ROME, Nov. 19. — Authoritative sources in Rome today said that 15000 Jews have been dropped from Italian Government and pri- |vate jobs. | | [ Values Reported to Run More than $100 Per Ton Found Near Anchorage ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. The discovery of a new gold veinf with values of more than $100 to| the ton in the Independence Mine has been made, it is announced. The property is owned by the Al- aska Pacific Gold Mining Company | of Seattle and is already one of the| i foremost producers in the district. | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Nov. 19.— The discovery of the new vein is|Mrs. Roy W. Ferguson, 65, gold star expected to double production. | mother of Fairbanks, died this| drowned in a hole Army 19, Princeton 7. | Syracuse 13, Columbia 12. 5 o i s North Carolina State 0, Duke 7. RIBH GULD vEIN | George Washington 0, Bucknell 16. Georgetown 14, Maryland 7. DISCUVERED IN Villanova 39, Boston U. 6. | | Penn State 0, Pittsburgh 26. | A milk-white Arabian horse, ridden by Sheik Khalil-Ben-Ibrahime- % PIUNEER ALASK A< Al-Douiff, a chieftain’s son from Najd, Arabia, caught the fancy of |Ployees from Italian commerce has R | | wpectators at the National Horse show in New York but failed to |been effected in the last four days. it R L ‘ ‘ ” { AWAY IN SOUTH Wage-Hour Law Doesn’t Fall Under Ban 9.—| i . . | e Seem to Affect Tipping Al Taken by Death at | By PRESTON GROVER erma“y 3 " P . Tucson, Arizona hopeful (or fearful) that tipping Jehovah” to Be Erased in TAKES leEs would be ended by the wage-hour | act can abandon the idea. The act 5 ’ Edict Demands - 5 & ~ 2 P of the tip-gathering help unless a Ten men have been tunnelling in| morning at Tucson, Ariz., according | 7 cH I L n R E N person spends his time mostly rid-| BERLIN, Nov, 19—Nazi Germany months, hunting for the vein which| Mrs. Ferguson first came to Al-| ing on trains or getting on and off |today banned the name of Jehovah geologists figured should be there.|aska 36 years ago with her first| AL 2 g A s ‘ B | The act doesn't apply to em- Testament from Protestant church- 3 1t wi v continue for an- | S| v - Fhe hunt Jy8 BN, o0 { husband, Walter O, Baker, who dled| WALEESBARRE, Pa, Nov. 19, ployees working for outfits “the es as the anti-Jewish drives con- % v o greater part of whose selling or|tinued in Germany and Italy. | i ith | near the Anthracite Colliery when |merce.” That exempts bell boys in Jehovah was issued by President | was named. He died in service with gy hotels, elevator operators, waiters Friedrich Werner of the Supreme South Caroline 0, Fordham 13. Harvard 7, Yale 0. Sheik Khalil-Ben-Ibrahime-Al-Rouiff and mount w 0 M A N PASSES; win any ribbons. The sheik and his horse are shown. | | i . . | | Biblical Names i | Mrs. Roy W. Ferguson Is }A“Tfl PLUNGE WASHINGTON, Nov. 19.—Anyone |, All Printed Forms doesn't seem to reach into the zone the mountain during the past SsiX|to word received here. them. and all the prophets of the Old other vein believed to be in the|in 1907. She was the mother of DOT-|geven hoys and one man were i el S S S S servicing is in intrastate com-| The order banning the name of . nivm-ce E"ds Hls {an Alaska continent in the World| an automojile plunged into 20 feet | | One official said some excellent 19 gclock last nig | Jewish people are living in Alaska, nere for help. many of pioneer stock, making ex-‘ | cellent citizens and important force! cyars in reachi: the scene. | in the development of the Territory, | 8. ” and Alaska might well welcome:and Private Joseph J. Nanartowich ' were finally brought to a hospital ; This mass removal of Jewish em- | A negro heard the crash and - saw flames rising fromm a thicket at and rushed Rain and mud delayed the res- Second Lieutenant John Madre here but Naratowich died later. Immediate identifiaction of the | bodies is impossible, due to burns, | Army Air Corps Officers an- nounced that others aboard the | plane when it left Mitchell Field, |New York, were Second Lieutenant | Kirkland Black, Rolf McKechnie, Al- !lan M. Howey, Sergeant T. Jones, First Lieut. James W. Stewart, and Corporal Galloway. It is one of the worst disasters in the history of the Army. S e $30 LD AGE ' PENSION FOR ~ WASHINGTON Supreme Court Upholds Present Setup — To Cost Large Sum OLYMPIA, Wash., Nov. 19.—The |State Supreme Court today ruled |that the $30 old age monthly pen- |sion must be paid those of that |age without any income, regardless of whether they are receiving sup- port from relatives. i It is estimated that it may cost |the state an additional ten million idollars annually as the result of a ‘loss of Federal matching money. e FRENCH ACCEPT ITALIAN MARCH ~ UPON AFRICANS ‘New Ambassador from Par- | is Prescnts Palm Branch io Rome in cafes and even hat check girls. Evangelical Church Council, who War. | of water. > i g » ROME, Nov. 19.—France today She was a prominent Legion aux- o 3 Ab the Ume We are Wrlting this said the name musi be erased gave Ttaly recognition of her Afrie iliary and Eastern Star member and The car was on the highway, the|the case hasn’t been decided as to wherever it appears. can conguests uar rEIS had pioneered in Rampart and other | Property of the Wyoming Valley| Whether messénger boys are in in-| T ey | The recogn wac said to have y % w4 terstate commerce enough to come be: 5 g | Alaska camps. shg was born in Ra-|Coal Company. under the act. But we asked one of | e iade officia when Andre | venswood, West Virginia. The hole was opened three months| Western Union’s brightest and best| Francois Poncet, new ambassador . ; | Surviving members of the farmily -I:E’;ftlx?i(o;::rjpesié:n‘?-l::in O;Earsv include a son, Forbes Baker of Fair- ago when the mine shaft settled . a The road had been blocked by a pile | old appeared in court recently and‘ba"k‘s' printer and Legionnnire,. & i ¥ _ | daughter, Mrs. Roberta Ferguson of ashes. asked for a divorce from his eighty | | Kroll, now of Tucson. The dead children were all crip-| e o ¢ | pled and were being driven to a| and he said his tips didn’t amount | to more than a dollar.a month. That is a fairly small rate of tipping. ABOUT PORTERS, REDCAPS | The ones who do come under the SHANGHAI Nov. 19.—In China BROWN LEAVES hospital clinic. The man was the| act are pullman porters, dining car | 048y the Japanese Rising Sun R, R. Brown, Manager of United | CFiVer of the car. waiters and redcaps in railroad sta- {‘e""'e? Lphkerced deeper into the cen- Food, sailed on the North Sea for| The bodies were all in the car| tions. At least the wage-hour admin- l;-lzw ve coumryetdr;;m Hankow. Ketchikan, He expects to be in the| when lifted from the hole by a rail-| istration is working on this basls A e o : |yl it Cudh = ____\fensives by Chinese troops are per- First City a few days on business. el 4 (Continued on Page Six) ceptibly slowing the Nippon mareh, The court—“When were you mar-| ried?” | Petitioner—“September 6, 1873 | The court—“When did you start | The court—“Divorce granted.” from France to Rome, credentials from in Paris. R LUCKY BALDWIN SELLS Lucky Baldwin 'as sold his groe- ery business at Anchorage to N. F. Nelson, who will operate the store with Louis Odsather as partner. Baldwin does not intend to go outside but will remain in the Cook |Inlet metropolis. presented | his government