The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 21, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL.. NO. 7955. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1938. 2000 DIE; F1 S. A CONGRESS IS _STARTING HERE TUESDAY Commissioner Carpenter and Wife to Be Welcom- ed Tomorrow—Program The Salvation Army Alaska Con- | gress will get underway tomorrow with the arrival of Commissioner George L. Carpenter and Mrs. Car- penter aboard the steamer Alaska The Congress will continue for the remainder of the week. Already 75 delegates to the Con- gress are in Juneau and scores of others are expected during today Nearly* every town and village in Southeast Alaska will be repre- sented. Juneau Relief Committee Has Initial Slep~Will Be to De- | termine Need for Relief and Deserving Cases The committee appointed by the Mayor to look into the matter of the | necessity for relief of indigent dur- ing the winter months met Satur- | day afternoon at the office of H. L Faulkner. The committee consists |of Capt. Stanley Jackson of the Salvation Army, Charles Burdick of | |the Forest Service, Charles W. Hawkesworth of the Bureau of In- dian Affairs, Mrs. Thomas Haigh of the Juneau Women's Club, and Mr. Faulkner. A statement from the | committee follows: Capt. R. Sauren, of Yakutat, was the first to arrive Saturday and was followed by a large delegation from Hoonah, including the Hoonah Sal- vation Army Band. Sergt.-Major Charlie Walters of Tenakee arrived by plane. A welcome meeting was held Saturday evening in the Sal- vation Army Hall Adjutant Charles S. Newton, with his famous Kake Salvation Army Band arrived Sunday afternoon. Crowded meetings here held at the Army Hall all day Sunday, and in- terest is running high for the suc- cess of the Congress. djutant ana mrs. Belkovich, with delegates from Ketchikan, Metla- katla, Wrangell and Petersburg are due in Juneau. Mrs. Brigadier W. J. Carruthers will arrive on the Al- aska with Commissioner and Mrs. Carpenter tomorrow morning. An official welcome will be given Commissioner Carpenter and Mrs. Carpenter on arrival of the Alaska. E. W. Griffin, Acting Governor of Alaska, and Harry G. Watson, sec- retary to the Governor, will be on hand with a welcome in behalf of the Territory; Mayor Harry I. Lu- cas will extend the welcome for the city and present the official key to the Commissioner, and Charles W. Carter, President of the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, will be mas- ter of ceremonies. The ilake and Hoonah bands will also be at the dock, and, of course, Brigadier W. J. Carruthers, who has been busy since his arrival here last week in making efficient plans for the wel- come of the Commissioner and also details pertaining to the Congress. Commissioner Carpenter will be a guest of the Rotary Club tomor- row noon, he will address the High School students in the afternoon and then be at the public welcome session at night in the AN.B. Hall. All sessions of the Congr: will be held in the AN.B. Hall with the big exception of The big doings Fri- day night, which take place in the Elks Hal Commissioner and Mrs. Carpen- ter, National Leaders of The Salva- tion Army, for Canada, Newfound- land, Bermuda and Alaska, are com- ing north to pay Juneau a five-day visit and will lead the Alaska Con- | gress. For the past six years Commis-| sioner Carpenter has been in charge | om the work of the Salvation Army, In South America, with headquar- ters at Buenos Aires. He has com- pleted over 46 years service as an officer. He was born in the town- ship of Raymond Terrace, New South Wales, the Mother State of | Australia, in the country he became | a Salvation Army officer, and where | “The committee aecided that the first thing necessary to be done was to make an investigation to de- termine the need for relief and the number of deserving cases. It was pointed out that the committee was wholly without funds, and that it was going to be difficult to raise funds for the reason that most em-| ployers and employees had consid- ered that the extra taxes they have\‘ been paying during the past two vears into the Social Security funds, | both Federal and Territorial, would take care of relief, and it was also| pointed out that there was much more work which could be carried on | in Juneau to furnish employment tc unemployed if it were not for the labor union troubles and for the parading pickets. The committee considers its task to be to explain these matters, neither of which has |any connection with those who may | happen to be destitute through no |fault of their own. However, the committee’s task will be exacting! because of the opposition which it/ will encounter due to these (wo | arguments. Not In Anv Quarrels “The committee authorized the statement that it would not be put in the position of being drawn into any quarrel between labor unions or any quarrel of any nature involving | unions. “It was decided first to make an| effort to send back to the States a considerable group of men who have |lashed Bering Sea from | night. PRESIDENT AT American Jews First Session T.V. A, PROJECT Thrown OpenNow ATTACK ON FOR Certain Group Urges Roose- velt to Make Over- tures to Britain lnspeds Ch_ickamuga Dam and Lock on Sunlit River Today CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., Nov. 21. —President Roosevelt stood on the north embankment of the Chicka- muga TVA dam, pronounced more | than a half completed structure, example of the progress of others in this section if the country, and inspected the concrete navigation locks on the sunlit Tennessee River. President: Roosevelt, representing the executive branch of the govern- | ment, had his personal attention directed to this big New Deal pow- er and navigation project. Two other departments are also | e interested in the project—the Su- [000 to aid the refugees. preme Court, a test suit on the con- | stitutionality of this TVA yardstick | on the power program, while a joint| LONDON, Nov. 21. — Premier| Congressional committee is proce?d-IClmmbt‘rlnm told the House of| ing with an investigation into its |Commons today that Great Britain ! for German-Jews seeking refugei The Premier also disclosed favor- | A s stfl r m E al s | merly German East Africa, and in | British under a League of Nation's |ish are not considering its return| Front Street Busi- aaministration: | plans to lease 10,000 square miles in | abroad as the result of the Nazi| able progress for a settlement rm-‘ & ‘olhrr territories in Africa | At Foundations |mandate and last week Premier | to Germany to satisfy Hitler's col-| ness Houses WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. — A group of American-Jewish leaders are urging President Roosevelt to ask Great Britain to throw open Palestine to the expelled and perse- cuted German Jews. The urge was at a meeting which pledged the cooperation of the Am- erican Jews in a large scale settle- ment scheme which would insure| the absorption of Jewish refugees| and economic system in Palestine. | Rabbi Israel, of Baltimore, issued | an appeal to American Jewry to! | impose a voluntary fine of $100,000- | PLANS ANNOUNCED | PRGN 5 o iy | British Guiana to provide homes Nome Gale-Swept s ‘ ‘vax.sh refugees at Tanganyika, for-| Tanganyika is now held by the ) | Chamberlain declared that the Brit- Raging Bering Sea Floods | onial demands. | | BOMBSHELL ‘ BERLIN, Nov. 21--British Pre- | mier Chamberlain’s disclosure that Tanganyika, Germany's former East African colony, might be used MM a5 a settlement for Jews, fell like tearing, 5 hompshell here and the Nazi press on Front|his afternoon warned that “any % such attempts will meet with the Part of the seawall in front of | charpest protest,.” the electric light plant was swWept| The announcement by Chamber- away and part of the Lomen wharf | jain came amid signs of abatement| collapsed into the sea during the ¢ Germany’s eleven-day anti-Se- | mitic drive which has deprived Ger- The Lincoln Hotel and nearly |man Jews of virtually all freedom every business house on the south and reduced tens of thousands to side of Front Street has been flood- | destitution NOME, Alaska, Nov. 21.-~Volun- teer firemen patrolled gale swept streets here today after an all- night battle to prevent a storm away the foundations Street. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LONDON, Nov. 21.—Queen Maud, | of Norway ed 68, aunt of King George of Great Britain and last surviving child of King Edward VII, died yesterday from an attack of the heart following an abdominal operation last Wednesday Death was so sudden that King Haakon, of Norway, staying at Buckingham Palace and who had been most con- stantly at her bedside, was out of | the room at the time and only a nurse was present. ! Maud, Norway's “little queen,” was the third daughter of Edward VII of England, the first cousin of her husband, Haakon VII, and three years his senior. She was a wisp of a woman, the top of her head coming below the shoulder of her tall husband when| they stood alongside each other. The | queen weighed less than 120 pounds.! They were married July 22, 1896, when Haakon was Prince Charles of Denmark, second son of the crown of that country, They were called to the throne of Norway in 1805 when the country divorced it- self from the domination of Sweden. One Newspaper Calls Presi- dent **Prototype”— Other Remarks BERLIN, Nov. 21. — Newspaper Boersen Zeitung today renewed at- tacks on President Roosevelt. The Nazi controlled press calls the Am- erican President a “prototype” of the Anti-German wave arising from the Nazi campaign against the Jews. The Boersen Zeitung asks why the “Presiden! so-called conscience?” ‘The newspaper continues by say- ing that conscience did not trouble him over burning of churches in Spain. “That does not interest Herr Roosevelt—that leaves him cold,” says the newspaper. Hitler's own newspaper, Voel- kischer Beobachter, publishes what it calls the histsory of the ejection of Mormons from Missouri and Il- linois, describing this as an “Am- erican Parallel to the Jewish Prob- Tough M“"‘"""'Fflw , lem in Germany.” | The queen's early married life in| R | Copenhagen was far from pleasant. | Her mother-in-law, Princess Louise LAB B of Denmark, was a domineering woman more than 6 feet tall who had planned to marry Prince Charles to Queen Wilhelmina of Holland, thus obtaining thrones for ourt Action on Labor, Group Records Will Be Heard by Commissioner* both her sons. When he balked this scheme by falling in love with Prin- cess Maud and insisting upon mar- ng her his mother was bitterly disappointed. | The court atmosphere in Copen- hagen was, in fact, so hostile to the shy little English bride that she| spent most of her time in her home | country. It was even proposed at| one stage that Charles should re-| Hearing on the replevin action|nounce his Danish citizenship and‘ old Central Labor Council were|King Christian of Denmark, “grand- seized has been set for next Satur-|father of Europe,” refused to con-| day in U. S. Commissioner’s court. sent to the plan. In the meantime the records of| * Swings Back in Favor the Council are in custody of the/ Instead the old king interested U. S. Marshal. himself actively in his grandson’s| ‘The action to get control of the wife and when a son was born to charter and records was brought by Maud and Charles and her father the American Federation of Labor|ascended the British throne, the| in the name of William Green, its| balance of court favor swung to her | President, the suit being filed by ! Attorney Frank Foster, represent- ing Green. Since the court action, the AFL has reorganized the Coun- g i QUEEN MAU" side. Her mother-in-law’s opposi- tion was completely defeated when Norway summoned Charles to its re- newedly independent throne. Queen Maud's son, born July 2, 1903, was her only child. The boy was christened Prince Alexander but when his parents went to Nor- way and his father revived the king- ly name of Haakon, a royal decree changed the son's name to Olaf. The boy was trained as crown prince of Norway and on March 21, 1929, mar- ried Princess Martha of Sweden. Spi of Fun Queen Maud was noted for a spirit of fun and for her “way"” with | children. She romped with her son through his boyhood days and in the snowy months it was a common sight to see her coasting with the boy on a sled down the slope that led from the winter lodge near Oslo toward the city. | thwough which the records of the| become a British subject, but old| _ouee she nearly collided with a horse and sleigh plodding up the hill. She barely had time to throw Olaf into the snow and then steer| her sled into the ditch to avoid the | crash. The woman who was driving did not recognize the queen and gave the latter a sharp scolding for not managing her sled better. Adept at Skiing Maud also become an adept at the Norwegian national sport of ski- ing. Neither she nor Haakon had at- tempted the sport when they first ed, but merchants reported dam- | Many Germans interpret the cil, allegedly wresting control from | went to Norway, but while the king Harry Walmsley learned to manage the long, narrow RE RAZES CHINESE CAPITAL RUINS ;FLAMES REPORTED SET Three Officials, Charged with Incendarism, AreExecuted JAPANESE ARE STILL FORTY MILES DISTANT Chinese Recapttre Thung Yang—500 Nippon Soldiers Killed | SHANGHAI, Nov. 21.—The 5-day !Ixre which has razed Changsha, | Capital of Hunan Province, is re- | ported to have caused the death of 2,000 persons and brought execution to three Chinese officials accused (of starting the counllagration. | The fires, ste)icd in anticipation |of the city's capture by the slowly advancing Japanese columns, re- duced Clangsi to ruins. Dispatches received here state | that Cen. Feng Ti, Garrison Com- mande *hi °t Police and also the Commande: of ihe local guards at 'he Provincial Capital, are the three officinls repoiied to have been executed. The Japanese are still 40 miles north of the city. Reports also received here claim | the Chinese have re - utured Thung | Yang, 20 miles eas: of Sienning, which is 50 miles south of Hankow. It is asserted that 500 Japanese were | killed in the engagement. JAPAN HOGHI "HAS ATTAGK, .. POLICY |Says Japanese Navy Ar- gues for Control of Paci- fic Ocean Trade Lanes TOKYO, Nov. 21.—The newspaper Hochi, in an outspoken editorial, been in Alaska less than a year and | who are destitute and who are not | any part of this communiti’s prob- | lem. This undertaking, however, will| require exfreme care, and it was pointed out by a member of the committee that the committee is not | receiving applications for transpor- tation to the States, and in no case will trafsportation be furnjshed ! where the man is able to pay his| own fare. | “Some information was given the committee regarding work to be! done in Juneau this winter, such as| tearing down and repairing build- ings. Due to the fact that the days are short and that men can not work efficiently, work is going to be of- | fered wherever it is available at sufficient wages to furnish food and | clothing and shelter for men who age is small. ‘plam to settle Jews in the former The storm has raged for three|German colonies as a move to pre- days with high winds and heavy | vent their return. They were lost to snow that blocked streets and im- | Germany after the World War. peded traffic. | - The volunter firemen were put on for precaution against fire. the CIO. | Pending the court hearing next Saturday and the Alaska Juneau | employees election of December 2 at | which a bargaining agency decision is expected to be reached, the juris. dictional labor dispute continued to Passes Away in Seat_fl_e Sunday | snow shoes only at the expense of | several head-first plunges into|cently by the United States in pro- drifts, friends said that they never| test against discrimination of China, saw Queen Maud lose her balance.|lies not in China but an ultimate do- In summer the queen was a hiker | mination of the entire Western Pa- and equestrian, She rode side saddln:cmc in a determination of who will and had a favorite white mount|finally be master of the Western declares that- the issue raised re- — —eee SITDOWN CASE INHIGH COURT Decision Will Be Rendered by Highest Judiciary dy in Land smoulder today. CIO pickets con- | tinued to be in evidence on various constructidh jobs in the city while |workmen, said to be AFL affiliat- | ed, were at work. This morning Leo F. Flynn, AFL | organizer, held a meeting in the| | Odd Fellows’ Hall for employees ol‘ British, Fren rl Is 5 re c the Alaska Juneau at which time | s he outlined the advantages of AFL | | ¥ affiliation. About 50 were reported ‘Asks Why “Sawours of in attendance. CIO charged some | Humanity" Are Silent of its men were barred from the | meeting. Flynn said no men known on German Tumult to be mine employees were exclud- Soviet Russié | | | which she used to take with her on . . her annual visits to England. Long Time Juneau Resident | IR Thnksging George Harold (Harry) Walmsley, | . Proclamation 42, many years a resident of Ju- neau until leaving here several weeks ago because of ill health, died yesterday morning in Seattle in his apartments, according to Not since twenty years ago, word received in Juneau. in 1918 when peace was de- Death came from an aggravated| clared, have we more to be are destitute and who are willing| WASHINGTON, Nov. 11. to work. The community is in no Supreme Court — The to any person who is not willing to jower court decision that an em- A ! of the United | mood to furnish relief of any kind States has agreed to review the | MOSCOW, Nov. 21.—Soviet Rus- ed. A similar meeting is scheduled for 7:30 tonight in the same hall. A meeting of business leaders | heart condition brought on by palsy. | Burial will be in Vancouver, B. C., | Wednesday, under the auspices of thankful for in our Nation, when, throughout the civilized world there is strife and con- world there is strike and con- . work on these terms. Central Clothing Bureau i “It was decided to establish a central clothing bureau where old | ployer may dismiss a workman en- gaged in a sitdown strike. A ruling in the Federal Circuit Court of Chicago upheld the Fan- |sta’s press today assailed the Ger-|was held with Acting Gov. E. W.| man Nazis as “contemporary canni-|Griffin this morning to go over bals,” for their, Anti-Jewish cam- the existing situation, but no state- | paign and at the same Mme» the| ment was forthcoming from this newspapers ask why Great Britain | gathering. | the 72nd Seaforth Highlanders, |with which regiment Walmsley serv- flict followed by oppression, mis- ery and starvation of untold millions of people. Therefore, I, EDWARD W. GRIFFIN, Acting Governor of ed during the World War, receiving 22 bullet wounds in his legs which many doctors blamed for his fatal illness. Pacific. The Hochi says the Japanese Navy has long held the view and con- stantly argued that control of the Pacific Ocean trade lanes are equal- ly as important as control of the areas on the Asiatic mainiaid. — e MICHIGAN IS VICTOR OVER OHIO STATERS {Final, Most Pciiiie Defeat | Suffered by Buckeyes | | This Season he served for a number of years in | ‘sv.eel Mettalurgical Corporation jn Hitler at Munich, are now remain- various branches of Army service. Commissioner ~Carpenter spent many years in close association with the late Gen. Bramwell Booth, and had the oversight of the General's literary affairs. Mrs, Commissioner Carpenter is widely known in Army circles as an author. Among her books are “The Angel Adjutant” and the “Life of Miriam Booth.” Mrs. Carpenter is also a native of Australia. - e SToCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 21. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 97%, American Light and Power 6, Anaconda 35'z, Bethlehem Steel 74%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7, General Mo- tors 49%, International Harvester 61'., Kennecott 43%, New York Central 187, Safeway Stores 28%, Scuthern Pacific 19, United States Steel 67, Pound $4.69%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Jones averages: industrials 150.26, rails 30.77, utilities 23.13. clothes fit for use could be deposited | discharging employees Who seized Immediate members of his fam- |and distributed. It is expected to secure some place within the next day or two where this work can be carried on. “Joseph Flakne of the Unemploy- ment Bureau met with the commit- | tee and furnished some very valu- |able information and suggestions, 'and the committee announced that it would seek his cooperation and |that of Mr. Kirk of the Welfare Board, both of whom have promised | to furnish the committee all infor- mation from the files of the Social | Security Agencies which might bfl pertinent and necessary to the com- mittee’s work. The committee will work in cooperation with these two bureaus, and it is sending letters to all lodges and all organizations in| | Juneau which might in any degree be carrying on or interested in re- | lief, so that whatever relief is done| | | this winter in Juneau will be done! | through the central organization. i | “Ed Jahoda, who is one of the| | employees of the city, will work with | the committee and make the nee- | essary investigations and checks and report to the committee. “The committee will be known nd designated as the Juneau Re- Tief.” | | | neer railroader was invalided in an “mind its own business.” He made| ing silent. “Why,” asks the Comsomol Prav- | da, “are the ‘Saviours of Humanity’ | silent? | “They are silent because thi |bloody tumult in Germany is on | their conscience. Their own hands |are dipped in the blood of the Jew- |ish women and children and old| | men. They are silent because humar | feelings are benumbed by mortal fear of their own people. They pre- ‘ler Hitler, with all of his medieval ‘barbarxanisms —all of his bloody deeds and they prefer Fascism.” — - — Butler Talks Out Once More, Deputy Collector of Customs M.| BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Nov. 21.— S. Whittier, acquainted with Web-| Major General Smedley D. Butler. ster for many years, said the pio-{advocaws that the United States two key buildings last year and after retaining possession of the buildings for nine days, were fin- ally driven out by tear gas used by policemen. MBI I Frank Wehster Dies, Skagway SKAGWAY, Alaska, Nov. 21. — Frank Webster, aged 59, for many years locomotive engineer on the White Pass and Yukon Route, passed away this morning after sev- eral years illness. He is survived by | his wife, in Skagway. | | accident eight years ago. ‘the remark in a talk here last He was a member of the White night and termed Roosevelt's re- Pass Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite armament plan and defense of all Bodies and the Elks. He is survived countries on the Western Hemi- by his sister and mother in Skag-|sphere as a “pump priming device way as well as his widow. which may bring on war.” | Bea:s in Waco. Princeton Tigers |ily surviving him are his widow Margaret, and son George, 14, at 2317 Tenth Avenue, Seattle. Walmsley came to Juneau with his family in 1923 and had almost |a continuous residence here until |the latter part of last September 80, METHODIST BEATS BAYLUR]when ill health caused his retire- ment. from his position as manager WACO, Tex.,, Nov. 21.—Southern of the Pacific Coast Coal Company Methodist stopped Baylor's fine/offices here. aerial machine last Saturday after-| He was an active member of the noon by a score of 21 to 6, demolish- |jocal Elks Lodge, joining in 1924.| ing the 22-year-old jinx which has|He was also an active member of | never let the Mustangs conquer the|the American Legion and was a | charter member of the Juneau Ro- }tary Club. Active also in the Ju-| /neau Chamber of Commerce, | Walmsley was a past Secretary of |that organization. Hundreds of | | friends mourn his passing. nefeated h Arm | N. D. Moore, of the Pacific Coast :Compnny offices in Seattle, wired Mules, Rain Game ies, hain bame The Empire: “He was long a high- | ly valued member of our company. | PRINCETOR, Nov. 21.—The Army at last knows the glory of a victory N. His associates feel his loss keenly. He was of outstanding loyalty.” over the Princeton Tigers after 45 vears of playing. ‘Walmsley was born in Rochester, The Army Mule cadets marched . Y., January 16, 1896, Word of his passing was received through the rain last Saturday af-| ternoon to a 19 to 7 triumph. and Prance, having made peace with 't SRS 'by the Elks, H. L. Faulkner and to The Empire. Alaska, do hereby designate Thursday, . November 24, 1938, as a day of Thanksgiving that our people may congregate in their homes and churches to give thanks to our Creator for the blessings we have and now enjoy under our American form of Government, guaranteed by our forefathers in our Consti- tution. In Witness Whereof, I have hereto set my name and caused the official Seal of the Territory of Alaska to be affixed this 21st day of November, 1938. EDWARD W. GRIFFIN, Acting Governor of Alaska. FALSE ALARM CAUSES PANIC GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, Nov. 21.— A false alarm of fire in a theatre, during the showing of a film, start- ed a panic and eight persons were killed and 32 others seriously in- through Associated Press dispatches jured by trampling of those strug- gling to get out of the theatre. | | | | COLUMBUS, Ohio, Nov. 21. — | Michigan’s prowling Wolverines, im- | potent acainst Ohio State for four years, turned and beat the Bucks last Saturda: aftcrnoon by a score of 18 to 0. It was the 1 defeat and the most decisive oue suffered by one ol Coach Schmidt’s elevens in five years and knocked the Buckeyes out |of a shate in the Western Confer- ence crown. -oe—— Pitis’ Paniiiers Daze Eann State Lone Junior i Backfield | Races During Game to Three Touchdowns | PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 21. 4 | Pitts’ hard-driving Panthers bowled |over the dazed Penn State 26 to 0 | last Saturday afternoon. Dick Cassiano, the lone Junior in the back field, raced for three touchdowns.