The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1938, Page 1

THE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIII, NO. 7960. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1938. MEMBER ASS()CIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW THREAT BY JAPAN TO ALL NATIONS ULTIMATUM 1S ISSUED IN LABOR UNION DISPUTE Citizens Committee Is Ap- poinied to Act Unless Peace Made in 3 Days An ultimatum that peace must be established in the building trades indus in Juneau within three days and building activity resumed or taxpayers and citizens of Ju- neau will act was issued at a pub- lic megting called yesterday after- noon in the Elks’ Hall and which was attended by a\ crowd which filled the auditorium to capacity The meeting, which was presided | over by Territorial Representative | J. P. Anderson of Juneau who | served at the request of the build- | ng trades representatives, who call- | cd the public session, passed a mo- | tion that a committee of citizens | not connected with either faction | be named to negotiate with boia CIO and AFL representatives as well as the City Council in an ef- fort to bring about peace. The motion carried the provision that | three days be given the warring | groups to get together and if no agreement was reached by that| time, the committee would function | in conjunction with the City Coun- | __ cil under blanket authority of ye terday’'s meeting. No specific in- | structions were given the commit- | tee other than it was to act through, or apparently with con sent of, the City Council Cash Cole, transfer man, who had declared in a speech that something had to be done, was chosen chair- man of the committee and named to serve with him are the Rev.| John A. Glasse, minster; R. E. Rob- ertson, attorney; Allen Shattuck, insurance man, and J. C. Thomas, hardware merchant. | Chairman Cole said that his com- | | \Cunwmed on Page Eight) | SPECIAL LABOR COMMITTEE IS MEETING TODAY Conferring with Council on Present Deadlock and Plans for Future The Special Labor Committee, named Sunday at the Elks’ Hall mass meeting, will meet with the City Council today, it was announc- ed by Cash Cole, Chairman. The object of the conference, he said, will be to inform the Council of the events of Sunday's meeting and to ascertain what steps the municipal authorities plan to take to end the present labor deadlock. Is Labor’s Fight “The current labor difficulty is strictly a fight between union or- ganizations over a question of jur- isdiction between local AFL and CIO units,” a committee state- ment said. ‘It is not either region- al or national, affecting Juneau only. “There is no issue between em- ployer and employee. No question of wages, hours or other working conditions is involved. It is merely a dispute between two local. union groups as to which shall furnish certain labor for certain jobs. “The committee is convinced that the majority public sentiment is that the row has gone far enough and lasted entirely too long for the city's good; that it is squarely up to the dissenting factions to get together and settie their differ- ences permanently. Committee Is Impartial “Members of the committee ac- cepted their appointments as a civic duty and in the hope they can be of service to the communi As individuals and as a body they are unbiased and impartial. The committee does not and will not take sides for or against either faction, but will seek to cooperate with both and the city authorities in ending a situation which has become intolerable. “The committee feels that the cold reception that the Special Relief Committee met with last week was due very largely to the continued tie-up of the building construction industry in the city. The fact that there are a large number of jobs begging for men to fill them and hundreds of men des- | perately in need of jobs, unable to! " (Continued on Paxe Exglm jGHAMBERLAIN Fairbanks Man UNALASKA HAS ’bdnro sentence ‘was announced. Corps Erects Barrier to Check Arabs Defense Jewish defense corps with barbed wire barrier in Palestine situation has grown to war proportions as the Arab rebels are reported to have forced out the British troops from Bethlehem. FOUR OF SIX MUSSOLINI TO Passes Awayon DROWN;BOAT HAVE TALKFEST Princess Norah IS CAPSIZED COl,fmAcncevMirg»[“ Result in Bernard I‘Il\& Dl(’ Aobard dele(] Thanksgiving Par— Starting Broad Scale . Steamer Southbound— | ty Ends Fatally for Accord in Europe ‘ Remains at Ketchikan | Mill Workers homes from maurading Arab h settlers defense corps The To protect their bands, members of the Jewi erect a barbed wire barricade in Palestine. PORT ALBERNI, LONDON, Nov. 28. — It is an-| KETCHIKAN, Alaska,’ Nov. 23 ! B. C., Nov. 28. | nounced by the Government that|Bernard Friss, 72, of Fairbanks, ¢ A belated Thanksgiving party ended ! Premier Chamberlain and Foreign | aboard the southbound Canadianin death for four of six millworkers S ary Halifax will go to Italy| Pacific steamer Princess Norah, in|when a small rowboat capsized, in during the early part of January | port this morning shrouded waters of Central to confer with Premier Mussolini ss flew from Fairbanks to Ju- near here, 100 miles north of on furtherance of Premier Cham-|neau aboard a PAA plane and berlain’s European appeasement | boarded the Princess Norah there| Andrew McPherson, 48; Clarence policy. 4 | Sunday morning. He was reported | Brenne, 25; John Ferguson, 65; Ed- Informed persons describe that|in ill health | ward Benson, 53, were the victims Premier Chamberlain is confident| Friss’ roommate said Friss Clifford Newwler and Pard Miles | that by personal contact with M restless during the night and c the other members of the party, the solini he might set in motion nego- | the .ward’s Department officers only ones of the six who could swim, tiations to start a broad scale ac- |this morning and a doctor was sura- | made for shore and aid while their cord in Europe. moned but PFriss died before the companions clung to the overturned Premier Chamberlain told the | physician arrived boat House of Commons that Great| The body is held here pending| Apparently numbed by the chill word from friends or relatives in|waters, the four had disappeared Britain has not committed herself to send an expeditionary force into Prance in case of war. ‘ \ when the rescue party reached the = ano Shingl Nal 100 MAROONED Found, TisSUe By DRIFTS OF fMansLung SNOW, MAINE ‘Do( tor in Wlllmms, AllL., l{(‘l)()rts Ral’(’. M(.‘.(h‘ cal Phenomenon P | UNALASKA, Alaska, Nov. 28. WILLIAMS, Ariz,, Nov. 28. — Dr This viclnity experienced an earth- |Frank Edel reports what he des- quake at 9:20 o'clock last night. | cribes as a medical phenomenon. Dr. Edel found a siin:gle nail en- Fairbanks e —— EARTHQUAKE ON SUNDAY NIGHT Movement l‘.-asts for 20 Sec- % . * } R(’HLUC Cl’('ws Alr[)l(”l( S ons Causing Panic, No ‘ \ | Used to Make Rescues Property : [?amagc —Releases Due Tonight AURORA, Maine, Nov. 28.—8now plows manned by rescue crews to- day bit into the heavy snow drifis The shock was intensifying, rock- | 4 sy A . @ ing buldings, causrs chandeliers|cased in scar tissue within a pa- over a wide ares -in northeastern I S, CauStug s tient’s lung Maine and are gradually releasing to sway and rattling disl more than 100 hunters and CCC 7 roperty amag was > The patient, a sawmill worker, has No property damage was done 1o recotlection of ever swallowing a Youths imprisoned in the forest area but inhabitants were panicky ) since Thanksgiving, . - | shingle nai i s B :l'“‘ movement lasted for 20 sec- |50 TR P T of the lungs caused| Other rescue units, mobilized by nds. ¥ . i s rder 30V ATTOWS vhe -oo trouble and an operation was nec-)order of Gov. Barrows, when the chingle nail was then hunters failed to emerge from the | woods, bucked drifts and State Po- |lice chartered an airplane and flew cesary. The shing ROBERT IRWIN - B {over the widely scattered townships lin the desolate territory and Is SENTENGED Nu Lahe"" uf dropped parcels of food | The Governor expressed the | opinion that most of the snow- TU 134 YEAR "‘ d | marooned men and youths will be 00 s e u e uwuml by angm Wage, Hour Act TONGASS STAYS er of Three Persons WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. — The 'N NDRTH LuNG Makes Futile Plea 1 | wage and Hour Administration has NEW YORK, Nov. 28. — Robert | gdvised employers they are not re- | Irwin, cccentric young seulptor, Wno | quired to label goods or stamp in-{ Steamer Tongass, scheduled to pleaded guilty to the 1837 Easter| yoices to show compliance with the arrive from the south tomorrow morning slaying of Veronica Ged- | pair Labor Standards afternoon about 4 o'clock, is going eon, pretty model, her mother and| —————— ito be in this section for several Frank Byrnes, a boarder, was today | g s E days according to advi ived 4 3 SOUTH y 2 vices receive sentenced to 134 years in the state ot il by Agent D. B. Femmer. The Ton- prison by Judge James Wallace. |gass is to call at several ports § Miss Sylvia Berg, daughter of Mr. P Standing before the bar, sur-j, ., M”ymm Birg left for Port- after leaving Juneau but will re- rounded by four husky attendants,| .4 Gre on the Princess Norah,!turn to Juneau southbound from | Irwin made a futile plea to be heard oeeo’ o"ch s’ Uicit yare with her par- Sitka, about a week from today, lents. December 5. 1937 Easter Morning Slay- POLICY OF U. S. TOWARD EUROPE KInNAPERs BEING OUTLINED TuRT“REHs [President ls Now Holding Conferences with 2 Ambassadors ezt ARE GIIII.TY FIRST HAND VIEWS GIVEN EXECUTIVE Wilson fmm(,('nnany, Phil- lips from Italy, Are at Warm Springs WARM UPRINGS, Georgia, Nov. 28. fent Roosevelt held the Ambassadors o Ger- | Ttaly here for further discussions on problems of op-| pressed racial and religious min- | orfties abroad. | | After a four-hour dinner confer-| ence last night, the President sent the Ambassadors to bed with in- structions to come back for lunch- eon today to resume the inter- | change of view: | The conferences are expected to | erystalize the developing of an Am | erican policy which thus far has embraced condemnation of perse | cutions of Jews, Catholics and Pro testants in Europe and efforts to | protect American citizens. The Ambassadors here are Hugh | R. Wilson, recalled from Germany, and Wiliam Phillips, from Rome, | who came to the United States to attend the fyneral of his brother. PERSECUTIONS “ABROAD ARE T0 Mrs. Elizabeth Berry The four bail each, Baker, 37 Guard office operator, men, were tried for year-old in an isolated gravil pit 525 000 forcing | retired Coast an automobile agency | from his home and tor- | turing him with a belt and pliers| K/}, & while he lay bound, hand and foot, ,‘W ng OUl Gue"“a Re held on 1 | BIG MILITARY BASE IS BEING BUILT, WOOSUNG Foreign Counlucs Now Facing New Appren- hension from Nippon 'GIGANTIC AIRFIELD | UNDER CONSTRUCTION {Thirty Thousand Chinese Laborers Are Laying Crushed Brick Carpet SHANGHAI, Nov. 28.-—Japanese construction of a vast military base near Woosung, at mouth of the Whangpoo River downstream from Shanghai, s adding to the appre- | hension of foreign nations over Ja- | pan’s future plans in China. Foreign observers said the Jap- anese military authorities are now constructing a gigantic airfield, two miles from Shanghai’s north sta- tion. | It is caid that about 30,000 Chi- nesc lshorers are laying a carpet |of crus, ks over the marshy groutd wui probably have the | airfield completed within the next | three months. . JAPAN MAKING MOP UP RAIDS, CANTON REGION | sistance at Border of BE FUUGHT Nuw Berry claimed, as a defense, that| British Colony | aker raped Elizabeth Berry, 27, B | former University of Washington| HONGKONG, Nov. 28. — Japa- co-ed, his wife, in an automobile, nese troops are mopping up Chinese at a July 4th party Committee Formed to Com- bat Racial, Religious charge. guerilla resistance on the borders Baker, on the stand, denied every {of the British Colony territory and are reported to have inflicted 1,000 Intolerance Dr. Kent W. Berry Prosecutor Smith Troy, threat-|casualties. i x: e ened many times before and during| The mopping up forces are now NEW YORK. Nov. 28—Forma-| OLYMPIA, Wash, Nov. 28.—Dr.|the trial charged that Dr. Berry|turning their campaign against ton of & wommittes of Tive men |Kent W. Berry and three co-de- |instigated and directed the assault|scattered Chinese units farther In- and women, including a Cabinet fendants have been convicted of |on Baker because of jealousy OVer | land in the Canton district. Mt and “leafiers of national|lat degres Xidnaping as their sen- | the gtientions pad (3RS wife. Japanese fleld advices indicate affairs, to combat raclal and re-|Sation-packed trial for the torture Judge's Instructions |that the present drive, which ligious intolerance, is announced and abduction of Irving Baker ended Superior Judge John Wilson, in|brought fighting to the edge of this jointly by Senator-Elect W. War- D the Superior Court. delivering his instructions to the British Colony, was designed to ‘de- ren Barbour, Republican of New _ While many of the citizens of the| jury, said no man had a right to!stroy whatever faith the Chinese Jersey; William Allen White, Em- Capitol City of the state of Wash-|take the law into his own hands. 'may have left that “protection” is poria, Kansas, newspaper Editor, ington were on their way to church| Dr. Berry received the verdict|afforded by having foreign inter- and George Gordon Battle, New Yesterday forenoon, the jury, after| with trembling lips. | vention. York lawger. 10 hours of deliberation, recom-! Mrs. Berry, who sat beside her Nearby villages are reported The purpose of the organization mended life imprisonment for Dr. ln.hgnn throughout the trial and burning fiercely and . refugees by Berry, 54- r-old society testified in his behalf, burst into| the thousands, many of them is for a “provisional council against Anti-Semitism” and will be a fight for intolerance in a “factual analy- William McAlloon, 55, impas- Montesano night mar cian; sive former e Semitism. dissemin. | “hali James Reddick, 27, taxi driver Berry shouted at the jury ated through forums by the pre and Robert Smith, 32, Grays Har- “The prosecution rigged up this Listed members include Secretary [POF_ country farmer whole thing. Of course we will ap- of Interior Harold Ickes, Gov.| The jury also convicted Berry,|peal. If therc ever was a frameup, Herbert H. Lehman, Senator Car- |MCAlloon and Reddick of first de-| this is it.” | ter Glass, former Secretary of the | | gree ult charges carrying 20-| A woman juror leaned toward the Navy Josephus Daniels and Alfred |YeAr maximum sentences doctor from the jury box and said: Smith. | Leniency in Smith’s case was rec-| “Sir, you perjured yourself.” V12 | ommended by the jury and led to| Judge Wilson said arguments for |speculation that the Kkidnaping |a new trial will be heard in | charge against him will be suspend- | weeks and he set no time for sen- SLASHER I ed by the court it('m‘mu the. four. Women Are Warned to Re- . . | By PRESTON GROVER main Indoors at Night | (ber 2, 1823 [%age embodying it . siie | WASHINGTON, Nov. 28 For | . " " y it 5 @ ! Eleventh Victim | ttose who' ba¥b. lomkiiien. ‘Bh ezl St Whe aps dmpioens i wrope paid little attention |school book history and wish alpreic announce HALIFAX, England, Nov. 28.—|quickic review, we give you—The o Won f this gri North Eng- ’ stalled the French. omen of this grimy North Eng-|Monroe Doctrine, one big reason| land town have been ordered by |the U, S. is building a bigger navy the authorities to remain indoors| py 1820 Spanish colonies in the |after nightfall because of a Phan-| americas were shaking off Span- tom slasher who strikes unseen |jgh control. The United States diplo- '~ |along darkened byways. matically recognized them as fast The slasher added his eleventh | ¢ tpoo did s | vietim to his list early today. sip-| “prance was casting covetous eyes| mis, the doctrine provided: ~It does not comport ,,”n.y of the any tears when she heard the verdict. As soon as court adjourned, Dr.| two! AT WORK IN Btg Reason Why U..S Is Now LITTLE TGWN‘ Building Bigger Navy; Just ZL e Remember Monroe Doctrine sent to Congress a mes- Some historians | As outlined by the authoritative Yale historian, Samuel Flagg Be- WEATHER REPORTS | with the United States part in the polities or| F of European wounded, are pouring across “the lorcAgn borde-r into Hongkong. .. R B S0, California Is to Represent West,Rose Bowl | 1.0S ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 28. — | Southern California was today of- | West in the Rose Bowl on January President of the Conference, made the announcement as the result of the vote of 10 members of the Con- ference. | california was the date for the honor The Trojans have Hugh Willett, other candi- never been de- sture. ‘rq.d ed in Pasadena’s famous pest- The season game. They have defeated ment already had|Pittsburgh twice, Penn State lnd | Tulane. PO L AR FROM ELDRED ROCK i v.eather 1) reLorts were recetved powers | today by the U. >. Weather Bureau ping up behind Mrs. Constance upon America. On October 9, 1823,| relating to them- from Eldred Rock on Lynn Canal | Wood, mill worker, only & feW|pyoi0nd cerved a virtual ultimatum | where radiophone equipment has just | yards from her doorway. on France and the rest of Europe to| 2—The United States would re- been installed by the Lighthouse The slasher knocked Mrs. Wood | ot ‘Tatin America alone. To a de-| gard as the manifestation of an|Service. The reports, Meteorologist down, hacked through her heavy gree that jumped the gun on the| unfriendly disposition to mculfloward J. Thompson said, are eX= coat to inflict two gashes in her ;o ;, announcing a 'mn of “Mon-| the effort of any European pected to be of considerable value |left arm. The slasher escaped. | ="y oo | power to interfere with the po-| to small boat at operators : All but two of the slasher’s vic-| "o ipap fode . Jebo an.---‘ litical system of the American areng tims have been women. Adanes, . Sharatiet B BNals had| continents, or to acquire any - —— BROTHER CARRIES ON new territory on cautioned Russia against establish- | nents, ing itself on the Pacific coast. i | | Nevertheless, we did not take| England when seized the strategic Falkland Islands from Argentine in 1833. We did not \oppooe France in 1838 when it block- BATON ROUGE, La.—Woodrow Barrett, Louisiana State end, is a brother of Little Jeff Barrett, captain of the 1935 L. S. U. eleven that won the Southeastern con- | ference title, “IMPUDENT” arms against Adams, Thomas Jefferson “and| President Monroe are variously| | credited with conceiving the Doc- llruw President Monroe on Decem- ME CALL IT these conti-| (Continued on Page Three) LAl SHOPPING DAYS THL