The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 25, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIII, NO. 7958. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRID AY, NOVEMBER 25, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS WINTER STORMS TAKING LIVES EXTRA! GOVERNMENT IS TOLD TO BE CAUTIOUS British, Fr_o_n:h Premiers | Alarmed at Mobilizing on Czegh Borders PARIS, Nov. 25.—Premiers of | France and Great Britain have warned Poland against invading Czechoslovakia's eastern territory, Alarmed by reports from Ambas- sadors, Premiers Chamberlain and Daladier have both instructed their representatives in Warsaw to cau- tion the Polish Government against the “danger of such action.” France and England, along with Germany and Italy, agreed in the Munich pact to guarantee the new frontiers of Czechoslovakia. Both nations have been informed that Poland has massed 12 divisions of troops along the frontier of Ruthenia and Czechslovakia and are sending heavy reinforcements to eastern provir DALADIER MAY | BE FORCED T0 RESIGN POST Socialists Are Mustering Strength to Form New Chamber Majority —_— PARIS, Nov. 25.—The most power- ful Chamber Deputies of the Social- ist Party have decided to demand Premier Daladier’s resignation amid spreading agitation against the Government, The decision was taken by party | leaders after Daladier had sum-| moned additional mobile guards and gendarmes to curb the wave of strikes involving 100,000 workers protesting against the Premier’s suspension of the 40-hour a week plan and other decrees. Socialist chiefs conferred under| the leadsrship of former Premier Leon Blum and afterward met with left wing Radical Socialists. The last named group is under- stood to be attempting to form a| new Chamber majority. Police announced that all fac- tories in the P region occupied by strikers, have been cleared of | the “stay-inners.” | Among those plants cleared were the Renault automobile plants, where a clash occurred last night| between strikers and mobile guards. - e —— Juneau Hunter Reported Lost Near Echo Cove, Wesley Wyatt, 21, Missing for Week After Startmg Out to Get Help it 1 Search for Wesley Wyatt, 21-ye: old Juneau man, was being il tuted today following his disappear- ance on the trail between Echo Cove and Eagle River landing a week ago today. Wyatt was one of a party of six, who went to Echo Cove a little more than a week ago on a goat hunting trip. They were aboard Fred Pat- rick’s boat, the Fearless, and in ad- dition to Wyatt and Patrick, in the party were Don Gallagher, Shrimp Schroeder, Gerry Anderson and Nick | Grimm, according to report made today to the U. 8. Marshal’s office. The battery went dead on the Pearless and Wyatt volunteered to go over the trail to Eagle River! landing, leaving Echo Cove a week ago today, to come to Juneau to get another battery. Nothing has been heard of him since. Yesterday Jack Westfall towed the Fearless with the rest of the! party to Tee Harbor and Patrick said he started up ovet the trail in search of Wyatt, finding 5 feet of snow on the summit, but found no trace of the missing man. Another search was being planned today when he went out to Tee Harbor to| bring the Fearless to Juneau. Wyatt, a miner, lives at Tex" Boarding House. POPE SUFFERS HEART ATTACK THIS MORNING Said to Better This After-| noon Is Placed in Oxygen Tent BULLETIN—ROME, —Private advances from the Vatican early this evening state that the Pope is extremely il and it is claimed the last rites, with ceremonnal anoint- ments, have been administered. The report cannot be verified from the Vatican, however. At 10 o'clock tonight the Vat- ican reported that Dr. Mali the Pope’s personal physician, had left the sick room and that the Pope was in a peace- ful sleep. Vatican attendants said the doctor was not expect- ed to return before morning. Nov. 25. VATICAN CITY, Nov. 25.—Pope Pius suffered a serious heart attack this mornir according to an- nouncements from the Vatican. A trustworthy Vatican informant |said the Pope had been placed in .nv oxygen tent, but it is announced | officially this afternoon that his condition is improving. The eighty-one year old Pontiff was stricken suddenly as he was |about to leave his private apart- ment for his official ante chamber fand his daily round of private audi- ences. A Vatican medical bulletin des- cribed his illness as cardiac asthma. Another of the heart wall. Informed of the Pope’s attack, his sister Donna Camilla Ratti hurried to the Vatican where she handed attendants a letter to her brother. .- GERMAN JEWS ARE SUICIDING {Taking Their Lives as Re- sult of Worry Over Demanded Levy LONDON, Nov. 25.—Censored ad- vices received here from Berlin state scores of Jews are suiciding as a result of a new levy of 20 per- cent against fortunes over $2,000 to pay towards $400,000,000 for the as- sassination of Embassy officer von Rath in Paris. No estimate of the number of Jews suiciding is given but worry | :m(l hardships are causing scores w | take their lives, also members their families. S S SRS | 1 WARFARE NEAR HONGKONG;NEW ATTACKS MADE Chinese Starl Counter Of- fensive Southeast of | Fallen Canton HONGEONG, Nov. 25. — South China warfare is surging within 20| miles of this British Crown Colony as Chinese counter-attacked in the| vicinity of fallen Canton. The Japanese are reported have opened a pincer drive to wxpe out Chinese southeast of Canton. ‘ e Local Painters Are to Banquet Members of the Juneau Painters Union, local 1092, are in perfect harmony among themselves and with everybody else. Just to show | the public that everything is sin- | cere the painters are going to have| Helm, an employee of the Newton | heavy damage |a banquet at Percy’s Cafe tomor-|gtreet police station, in Los An-|causing an unestimated number of! 1row night, starting at 7:30 o'clock. Igeles informant said it was an| |inflammation of the muscular part Cellision of two “football speci: nesota game, injured seme 50 persons and shook up 950 others at South Bend, Ind. Abov motive of ¢ne train upset two cars " each Jamml'd Vlth ne-\rly 500 fz s in (he other. “Football Specials” Crash; 50 Persons Hurt R hmlnd for the Notre llame Min- how the loco- N[] AP[]L[][;Y S[] Elu'twn Sets New V alue On OFFICIAL IS TO Republican Nomumt LEAVE GERMANY | Colombian Official Mistreat- ed Relations Ex- tremely Strained BERLIN, Nov. 25.—Tafael Gara- millo, Colombia’s Minister-Desig- nate to Germany, announces he has been recalled because of strained |relations between Colombia and Germany resulting from an inci- dent on November 10 midst the anti- Jewish violence in Berlin. A dozen policemen surrounded an autcmobile wherein the Colombian Legation staff were touring Berlin taking pictures. The policemen tried to seize the cameras of the Colombian staff and also attempted to. take Garamillo to the police station telling him that his diplomatic position made no dif- ference A final plea to the Foreign Of- fice brought a reply that the police had done their duty and could not be reprimanded. The Columbian, staff members were finally releafed and escorted | to their Embassy but no apology ha ever been made and it is unofficially |stated none \vll] be made. - Baker Is leen Salute by Haida Commander Lee H. Baker, who relieved Comdr. N. G. Ricketts dur- ing the latter's absence in the south, left aboard the Northland yesterday afternoon for his own haedquarters. As the Northland sailed out of the harbor and down lhe channel, a farewell salute was blown by the Coast Guard cutter Haida and answered by the North- | land. “Lost Mine” Search Ends; Another Death LAS VEGAS, Nev., Mov 2J —Olu- timers of the desert nod i heads knowingly following lhe death o( Leonard J. Helm, twenty-two, of | Los Angeles, who was found shot through the head near Las Vegas as he was sleeping in his blanket. He had gone in search of the legendary “Lost Mine,” and the desert folk say that all who at- | tempt it never return. Identification of the body was made by his sister, Miss Louise 500 Are Guests At Dinner Given ' ByFDR and Wife qux' ples of Al Ages, and! Famxlles, Gather on Thanksgiving Night WARM SPRINGS, Ga., Nov. 25.— A cold rain and muddied dirt roads around his mguntain cottage caused President Roosevelt to cancel his| plans to attend Thanksgiving Day services in the little White Chapel here for infantile paralysis patients. Last night the President and Mrs. Roosevelt were hosts at a turkey dinner to the crippled patients of all ages at the Warm Springs foun- dation and their families. Places were \t‘L for 500. POLICE HUNTING FACE MAKER FOR PRETTY DUCHESS k \ | English Peeress of Norfol Says Stranger Fright- ened Her HOVE, Sussex, England, Nov. 25 —Police of this seaside town are searching for a mysterious dark- haired youth on the complaint of pretty Eb Tremely, wealthy Duchess of Norfolk, wife of England’s pre- mier duke. The blonde peeress who lives with her husband and five-months-old daughter in Arundel Castle, told au-| thorities she was followed around at the “autumn fayre” Wednesday by a stranger “who made grimaces at me.” | Police became alarmed at the re-| port because only Wednesday the body of Patricia Owens, 4, was found near Hove, Sussex, and an ice sales- ion, 1940 By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Nov. 25.— Elec-| non returns indigate that the coun- |try can take a turn to R.onsevelt liberalism or modified Republican comm\ansm by a shift of five or tén percent of the vote Statisticlans fore this that a five percent switch ut votes te the Republican side in lQ’iB in certamn key states would | have d Roosevelt’s \shvl eléctoral vote very sharp- ly while a gwitch of ten percent in other feated Now percent of (l' vote in certain of those fairlystell-balanced sectors has given the Republicans a re- sounding gain in the House and an emphatic and more important gain among the governorships. (Where party success is concerned, gov- ernorships are far more important than House or Senate places.) n A NEW DEAL BLOW-OUT In the House, both Democrats and Republicans: alike who had held their places since pre-New Deal days — before 1932 — survived the | present election with scarcely an exception. The Democrats elected in (h(‘ tide of 1932, 1934 and 1936 were | > ones blown out of office in 1938. AII of which means that in spnp‘ temporary losses the two r-| |ties are pretty well bed-rocked, | each in its own bailiwick. Wise | politicians such as Postmaster General James A. Farley and Charles Michaelson, admiral of | Dlmocranc party publicity, said| ! before the election that the major political battles would continue to| of | be fought between Republicans and | Democrats “at leasL through my | time, and yours.” | NEW HOPES FOR 1940 i Also, the Republican gains put a! new value on the G.O.P. presidential | nomination for 1940. Anybody who atlended the 1936 Republican na- | tional convention could tell that the ‘party considered its presidential | nomination wasn’'t worth a dime then, except for a paragraph of his- | tory. But it will be a choicer piece of real estate next time. AND HERE’'S SOMETHING ELSE And that brings up another thing. | From all appearances, President | Roosevelt believes, and his friends nave computed be-| over- | y fsections would have de- | . the switch of five or ten SNOW, SLEET SWEEP AREA OVER NATION Many Deaths Reported in| | First Gales of Season —Distress Mounts (By Associated Press) Forty mile an hour winds are |piling up snow and sleet over a |wide area already seriously crip-| plvd by the worst Thanksunm,‘ | storm in years. The storm threatened nddltlonal‘ |distress this morning for transpor- | tation facilities in many parts of | the nation. Icy winds struck sections of the | |North Atlantic coast soon after | midnight by severe and freakish thunder and | lightning disturbances. | In |the Coast Guard said sections of Long Island have been battered by high seas, but no serious damage to shipping was reported. At least 34 deaths have been attributed to winter’s first real, on- slaught in most sections or'the country. New England reported the hlgh-, with ten | est holiday death toll auto fatalities, icy pavements ac- counting for five deaths. In south- ern Ohio, four were killed in traffic | accidents, in Pennsylvania, three, New York, five, Michigan and In- | diana two each, and one each in |Nebraska, Missouri and Maryland. - eee last night accompanied § New York and New Jersey, | PRICE TEN CENTS BULLETIN—LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.—Although the fierce flames are believed under con- trol, extra precautions are being taken this afternoon and wo- men and children are being eva- cuated from the crest line in the San Bernardino mountains. Flames are breaking out in var- ious places but apparently are quickly gotten under control although fire rangers’ messag- es state the hazard still prevails. A flareup in Mandeville Can- yon sent fighters there late this afternoon and efforts will be made to keep them away from the palatial Brentwood district, suburb of Los Angeles. BULLETIN—LOS ANGELES, Nov. 25.—Estimates this after- neon climbed toward the $5,- 000,000 property damage mark as thousands of exhausted fire fighters have apparently con- quered the blazes through the brush and timber of four coun- ties, two of them suffering the most disastrous results in Southern California history. Scores of persons have been treated for burns. Arrowhead Springs, above San Bernardino, noted as a favorite rest spot for film celebrities, many hotels and over 350 homes have been de- stroyed but no loss of life is re- ported. | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 25.— Two disastrous mountain fires in | the Santa Monica and San Bern- MANY HOMES FOR REFUGEES IN PALESTINE Zionist Organizatoin Raises| Funds to Aid 25,000 amilies | NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Dr. Israel | Goldstein, President of the Jewish | National Fund for the Zionist land | purchasing agency, announces on his arrival from London, that a fund has already been raised to furnish German Jewish refugees enough land in Palestine for the im- | mediate settlement of 25,000 fam- ilies. — - BOLIVIA IS TODAY UNDER MARTIAL LAW State of Siege Declared Ef-| fective at Dawn—Acts of Rebellion Occur LAPAZ, Bolivia, Nov. 25.—The Bolivian Government has proclaim- | ed a state of siege in the form of martial law throughout Bolivia. The statement issued, said: “At dawn today, in view of acts of rebellion committed against the legally constituted authorities, it is considered the duty of the Execu- tive to safeguard and conserve pub- lic order, therefore the Council of Ministers has decreed invocation of the article declaring a state of | siege throughout the Republic.” The staetment did not say what copstituted acts of rebellion and | the public is not being informed. Stock QUOTATIONS man was arrested for murder. e :Barceluna Is Alr and many critics alike agree, that | | his personal popularity still contin- \ ues at a high level. Moreover, he re- | | mains determined to push his pro- ‘gram which is not entirely comple'.e‘ land still subject to revision or re- | peal by its foes. Now comes a resurgence of Re-| | publicans and an increased propor- | tion of independent Democrats re- maining in Congress because of the| defeat of New Dealers, both hazards | y to his program. What may happen? | % There are many here ready to guess | 3‘; BARCELONA, Nov. 25. — Insur-| that if he saw likelihood— gent bombers bombed this city for| Of election of a Republican the eighth time in 22 hours, doing president in 1940, or— to property and of nomination of an anti-New NEW YORK, Nov. 25, — Closing | | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9%, American Can | 99'%, American Light and Power| | 5%, Annconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel 73%, Commonwealth and Sout.hern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7, General Mo- | tors 49%, International Harvester | 60%, Kennecott 44%, New York | Central 18%, Northern Pacific 11%, | Safeway Stores 29, Southern Pacific United States Steel 65%, Pound | 4. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, _|Jones averages: industrials 150.10, $4.64%. Aiats (Continued on Page Five) ardino ranges, checked by a desperate army of fire hghter.s Property damage is uumaud over have finally been | FIRE RAGES, TWORANGES, CALIFORNIA $2,000,000 and 12,000 acres of watet- shed lay blackened. Only One Death Only one death is indirectly at- tributed to the Santa Monica blaze | which scorched Topanga, San Tay- nez and Los Flores Canyons after | being kindled in the dry brush. | Mrs. Louis Silver, wife of the mu- | sic director of Twentieth Century- | Fox, was found dead in her home. Nerve-worn by the menacing near- ness of the flames during the night, she apparently took an overdose of sleeping powder. The coroner has ordered an inquest although he is certaln the overdose caused her death. 350 Homes Destroyed The greatest loss in the history of Los Angeles County is reported as the conflagration cstroyed 350 homes and cabins and swept the mountain crests to the Pacific Strand, across the watershed un- touched by a fire for a quarter of a century. Families Flee Families fled on foot and roads were jammed. The capricious flames spared Ace tor Richard Dix's 25,000 estate and 150 homes in tue vicinity of Fern- wood, while encircling them in the fierce advaiice, Arrest Is Made Accused of siurting the fire by dumping live coals from a stove in the bec.°f they weirr dead, David Treweit 3, runch workman, is held while Los Angeles Fire Depart- ment uison investigitors are work- ing on the rase. Treweitt was em- ployed on the Trippett ranch in San Taynez Canyon. Deputy Sheriff Carroll said Treweitt told him he tried to stamp out the fire only to have it get beyond L' control and !race to the tinder biush lands. HARRY BRIDGES IS ONCE MORE IN LIMELIGHT L. Com;lder Chad-| wick Protests to Futh- er Delay, Deportalion NEW YORK, Nov. 25. — Stephen F. Chadwick, National Commander of the American Legion, has re- newed protests to Secretary of La- | bor Perkins over the delay in bring- ‘xng about the deportation hearings | of Harry Bridges, Pacific Coast CIO leader. Commander Chadwick said Bridg- es should be deported on his own | life record but such a record could | only legally be established by an early hearing of the many charges brought against him. e FORMER JUNEAU WOMAN DEAD IN TENAKEE POOL Margaret Erickson Drown- ed While Bathing, Ac- cording to Report Margaret Erickson, the for- mer Margaret Callahan of Ju- neau, has been found dead floating in a pool at Tenakee, according to a message to U. S. Marshal William T. Mahoney this afternoon. The woman ap- parently had gone bothing in one of the pools formed by a warm spring there, according to the muslge. GODOWSKY DIES NEW YORK, Nov. 25.—Leopold Godowsky, 68, Russian composer |and pianist, died here today as the |result of complications after an |operation performed last Wednes- dBY Godowsky was a child prodigy whose reputation increased with years. He was born in Vilna and began his touring as a pianist at the age of 9 years. He made his first American tour in 1884. Godowsky's wife died in 1933. Three children, Dagmar and Leo- pold, Jr, and Mrs. David Saperton, survive, | | NEW ACGORD IS MADE BY JAPAN, NAZI TOKYO, Nov. 25.—Japan yester- day celebrated the second anniver- sary of the anti-Communist pact with Germany by signing a cultural accord. This is designed to bring the peoples of the two nations closer wgether NEAR RECORD GOAT IS SHOT Percy Reynolds Spends Night with Dead Billy on Mountain Top Percy Reynolds climbed approxi- mately 4,000 feet of cliffs and slept with a near-record size mountain goat a few days ago that was dis- played Wednesday night in his cafe window. Reynolds went to Tracy Arm with Simpson MacKinnon and Oscar Oberg on the Hyperien, each hunter getting his bag of two. The big billy that graced Percy's windows weighed close to 330 pounds, Oberg estimated, and haa horn lengths of 10% inches and 10% inches respectively, the biggest goat on record beiug only about 12 inches for horn length. Reynolds shot the big boy late n the afternoon and had to spend the night on top of the mountain. He spent half the cold night prancing around on a big rock fo keep the blood circulating, and the other half of the night he spent cuddled agains. thie venerable old billy's shaggy white coat. The near-reco:d trophy will be mount« 1, head, shoulders and front feet, and given a spot of honor on the Reynold’s mantelpiece in their game room. g lasde LS AR LIS all the new doe- beginnir sractice in Ten- are reported to be gradu- Twe tors ness e ates of the University of Tennes- see. SHUPPFNh DAYS HlL CHRISTMA