The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 30, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” » VOL. LIIL, NO. 7962. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARMY AIR BASE INALASKA AGAIN LOOMS FRENCH STRIKE BROKEN, BEFORE | STARTS, ALMOST y » . | Premier Daladier’s Nation- | \ T wide Display of Force Has Result UNIONS CONCEDE DEFEAT; AT WORK > Order of Federation of | Labor Not General- | ly Observed PARIS, Nov. 30.—Premier Dala- dier's nationwide display of force appeared early this morning to| have broken the back of organized labor on the day of the general 24-hour strike in protest against Gov. Lehman Visits Coast Labor Committee Hopeful; Freight Start§ _‘Muving Grace Period Ends Tonight for Warring Factions to Get Together Conierences between the Special Labor Committee and representa- tives of local unions continued to- day with announcement that no definite agreement had yet been reached toward solving the tieup in the building trades industry but that progress was being made and the outlook was hopeful In the meantime, following a meeting last night of CIO leaders and Mayor Harry I. Lucas, freight which had been held at the City Dock as “hot cargo” began moving Roosevelt Hails Crowd at Chickamauga Dam | DEFENSE PLANS MAY CALL FOR POST IN NORTH {Hint Given that President Is to Ask Congress for Large Sum PROJECTED EXPANSION FOR AIR FLEET IS SEEN Visit of Col. Lasiis Johnson to Northland This Year Recalled WASHINGION, Nov. 30— President Rooseveit's defense program, military circles heard, may include establishment of new Army air bases in several 4 his administration. | After some early morning hesita- | tion, public service workers in | Paris and most of the other cities, | took their posts under military | guard. | The Subway Union conceded its defeat and revoked its strike order four hours after the strike started. to its destination, the new Baranof | Hotel, today, with no interference reported. About 30 tons was in the | consignment which had been held | at the dock since last week when | |the final break came between the| |warring factions. | Today was the third since the public meeting on Sunday which | named the Special Labor Commit-| President, his back to the camera, was pronounced by President Roosevelt as an example of progress for other sections of the country. wiAPy The Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga, Tenn.,, one of seven power-navigation projects of the TVA, The is shown as he greeted a great crowd which turned out for his first Railroads throughout France, busses in Paris and most other cities, were running on regular schedules by noon today. Movement Breaks Inside of a few hours nothing was left of the movement directed by the powerful General Federation of Labor except a few isolated par- tial strikes in some private indus- tries and among dock workers at some ports. Trouble makers were quickly fer- reted out and hustled off to jail and will be kept there to let them see the Government means busi- ness. The first big break came at 8 o'clock this morning, four hours after the strike started, when sub- way workers conceded defeat and revoked the strike order. Premier Daladier’s order placing workers in public utility services under military orders, subjected Governor Herbert H. shine.” asked queStions concerning polit Oh, Yeah! Lo Lehman of New York and M pictured as they recently arrived in Los Angeles for Arriving on the same train with the Lehmans was John J. Raskcb, former chairman of the national Democratic committee, who, like Governor Lehman, refused to talk politics. Both men, however, deplored the Nazi anti-Jewish drive in Germany. “Beautiful weather you have here!” boos This Look Like Peaco? | oks Like Trouble‘TA KES HIS LIFE tee and voted that three days of grace be given the respective bick- |ering unions in which to get to- gether before the Special Commit- | tee would officially act. If no agree- ment is reached by tomorrow morn- ing, the Special Committee, headed by Cash Cole, is authorized to take | whatever steps it sees fit through |the City Council, according to the !|Sunday action. In the meantime, the committee has been going ahead with its conferences with |the respective groups and Chair- !man Cole expressed the belief tlial | definite progress was being made toward peaceable settlement . " ERANK NICH Lehman are rest and sun- When Governor Lehman just answered, OLAS visit to the half-completed structure.—AP Photo. NAZI JEWS KEPT | | BERLIN, Nov. 30.—The N Government carried on its sweeping anti-Jewish campaign | a step further by publication | | The Jews are now hastening to comply with the quirement for special identifi- cation cards which they must new’ re- ‘ Work—Recommend ‘ Law Change TERRITORIAL LIQUOR STORES URGED BY JURY Grand Jurors Complete Establishment of Territorial liquor | | stores with sale of liquor under a | permit system was recommended by | the Federal Grand Jury in its re- of the nation’s sirategic out- posts. C ials said the President may ask Congress for a large sum for funds to build bases in New England, Florida and Alaska. Col. Louis Johnton, Assistant Secretary of the Army, pro- duced a hint that ihe Pyesi- dent may seek funds for the long projected base in Alaska. Col. Johnson made an air flight to Alaska during this year in connection with the projected expansion of the Army air fleet bases. - NO TRAGE OF PLANE DEAD FOUND TODAY Coast Guardsmen Risk Lives to Find Victims | port submitted this morning to| of Crash of Airliner them to drastic punishment if|—— BT e AR N AN of orders empowering the po- Judge. George F. Alexander at the| they failed to obey instructions to 5 3 ¥ lice to tell German Jews when carry. | conclusion of its 13 days sessions. | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 30. g LONDON, Nov. 30.—Sir John Si- & < " | |—A Y keep working. . | they may or may not leave The Government prescribed Commenting on the report prior | score of Coast Guardsmen to- —ae—— | mon, Chancellor of the Exchequer, Former Candidate for GOV‘; their homes ,and where they that the first name of all |y, discharging the jurors, Judge Al- 98y risked life and limb in the German Plane On Good Will Flight, Tokyo TOKYO, Nov. 30.—The four-mot- ored German Condor plane landed here this morning after flying 8,300 miles on the goodwill flight from Berlin, Unofficial flying time was forty- AT TERRORISM, DRASTIC MOVE Fourteen Prisoners, Charg- ed with Treason, Shot Dow in Ruse BUCHAREST, Nov. 30.—Cornelieu | Zelea Codreanu, 39, Rumanian Fas- cist leader, and 13 others serving prison terms for treason, were killed one hours and twenty-four minutes, | as Rumanian authorities struck at the journey being made in four terrorism attributed to Codreanu’s hops. outlawed Iron Guard. YA s 4 OB An official statement said the 14 | men were killed while attempting | |to escape from prison ten miles | from Bucharest. i The statement added that the bodies of the 14 killed were imme- . | tery. Tu cuT nan: Codreanu was sentenced last May to imprisonment for one year after convicted on a treason charge. | The police reported that the 14 | prisoners were placed in open cars NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Associated | 4nq were being brought to Buchar- Gas and Electric Company, one of | et for questioning concerning an the largest utility holding systems attack attributed to Iron Guardist in the country has announced that | plory Stefanescu Goanga, Rector of its directors have approved of the|the University Club on Monday. He integration plan to reduce to SIXty | was critically wounded. or less 172 subsidiaries a!(iliated\’ A short distance from the prison corporations in the present system.| ihe police said the automobiles were | halted by armed men who rushed e | to the roadside from the woods. | | The 14 prisoners are reported to! have disregarded the orders of the | guard to remain in the cars. There | was a blast of firing and all of the | prisoners were killed. The authorities believe they face NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—Red-hair- | what seems to be a nationwide con- ed Johanna Hoffman, 26, German | SPiracy to !oment an Iron Guard ship coiffeuse, and Otto Herman rebellion. It is now believed that Voss, 38, airplane mechanic, have | Codreanu was aple to direct the been convicted by a Federal Court Iron Guard activities from prison. jury for cons it R Y i, TR 1 i A mmm';m;g“'; steal United| 1, \N-r YAWN IN SLEEP! | STEUBENVILLE, O. Joseph Thi = senwe;wt;/o TOWANeE M7PE Wion Harvey, 25, yawned and stretched AR - s |in his bed at 5 am., and poked a hand through a nearby window. et s Tixn dur. | Three stitches closed the wound. ing his term of office and cannot . ;an 0000 perina’ fhouh be reduced. However, it is permis- p isited Sweds sible for the president to tum |aPout 60 mations v ke back into the treasury any amount during the first eight months of he may choose. 1. | | | | announces that he wants a huge unspecified sum for armament next year. This is in addition to $1,800,- 000,000 already authorized. Word has also been received here from Paris that the French Cham- ber of Deputies is also studying next year’s budget which includes $1,- 046,000,000 for defense. NAZI INCREASES ARMY BERLIN, Noy. 30. — Germany's standing army has been increased by four corps. This has just been disclosed. The standing army is now credited with 1,000,000 men, second only to Russia's 1,300,000, The standing army has been may or may not go. The new regulations appear in the official Gazette. ernor of Two Western States Is Suicide | searmie, nov. . — run = | Persecution of Jews Has ‘ Nicholas, one-time Democratic can- didate for Governor of Washington and also Neveda, killed himself | last night because of illness. | | Nicholas sought the Washington | | gubernatorial nomination in 1932. | | - e — Revived Old Dr, Hache Is Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 30. — Closing | As Hitler Hears Protests Jewish men is to be Israel and | of all Jewish women the name is Sarah. commended the jury for |its intelligent work and said he |was wholly in sympathy with the | recommendation for the establish- ment of liquor stores. “Something has to be done to cor- rect the existing situation,” the court said, “or we will wake up one of these mornings to find that Con- |gress has passed a prohibition law for Alaska which I do not believe |any of us want.” | Judge Alexander said he had been given to understand by men high |in the government service that a ‘proposal of prohibition for the Ter- ritory would be presented to the | Congress at its forthcoming session {unless steps were taken to remedy exander Issues Even By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, Nov. 30. Even | before the President spoke out, it| was evident that the return of Am- raised from 35 divisions to 51, in-|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine cluding three specially equipped |stock is 97%, American Can 98'%, mountain divisions and five nr-‘Americnn Light and Power 5%, mored car and tank divisions. Bethlehem Steel 70%, Common- i <o o o wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss N Wright 67, General Motors 49%, International Harvester 60, Kenne- urres ml cott 437%, New York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 11%, Safeway | stores 27%, Southern Pacific 18%, l"’ er ase m‘l | United States Steel 64%, Pound $4.- | 67%, Bremner bid 1 asked 2%. T"al Tum“rrnw The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 149.82, i | rails 29.76, utilities 22.15. Sensational Cookie Jar Slay-| ing Will Be Aired in Federal Court DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘ Trial of Forrest Smith of Juneau, | charged with first dgeree murder in the slaying of Thomas Colling| here a few weeks ago, is scheduled | in Federal District Court tomor- | By PRESTON GROVER e WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—David o, ;(})]ri peit i3 being ordered | o, o¢1, head of the Radio Corpora- Binith is ‘alleged to have shot|H0n of ‘Alneties ‘atid. pose- 0l the realm in his field, came to Washing- and killed Colling, a steward on‘wn sk gl ) o o e My il the steamer Tongass, in the kitchen | o oW th‘e monopoly lnvesggu— of the Smith home on Gastineau| o "0 " "Hi Toret dozen sen- . | Avenue when, he says, he found| .o o dropped a hint of horrors to Colling and Mrs. Smith together. | » Smith-accused Colling of being in- | “ge (%% Ubbanceome polticlans, timate with Mrs. Smith. The latter | around the cornér. said Colling only brought her a‘ Now such & warning coming AP of cepkles, {from Sarnoff is not to be biffed George Grigsby and Paul Danzig | ,qiqe like a fly on the butter. He have been appointed by the court ;o o the inside track. His state- as defense counsel and Assistant yony puts solidly behind all the District Atorney George W. Pulta| . mers and reports of television will prosecute the cgse for theyeord heretofore. government. And when it comes, what will })éliiiéians M usi ‘Soon Take To Considering Might Be Chqnge in Speaking ~ New President, cze_lLMsluvakiaz | PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Nov. 30.—Dr. Emil Hacha, formerly head |of the Supreme Court Administra- tion, has been elected President of Czechoslovakia by the National | Assembly. | Dr. Hacha succeds Dr. Eduard | Benes who resigned after the Mun- ich cession of the Sudetenland to | Germany. Their Faces; haprfilk to our bustle-faces | cia have depended i supe logic, wise cracks an | torian voices to overcome th | that their noggins don't look well in print? NEW MAJOR CONSIDERATION It may sound silly, but to us it seems a better than fair bet that by 1940 one of the important con- siderations for a President will be: Is he good looking? Does he have a “strong” face? | W is not to be forgotten the part radio has played in the past two elections. Roosevelt, master o' the mike, made Hoover in 1932 sound | like & man with his head in a duf- $ (Continued on Page Five) | come about as bassador Wilson was a direct slap at Nazi persecution of the Jews. As disinterested experts have it, the American Stale Department must have calculated the attention the world would pay to headlines heralding Mr. Wilson's orders to come home. It must have known what a shock those headlines would be to Ameri- cans remembering the break in dip- lomatic relations with Germany in 1917. On that occasion, of course, the U. 8. ambassador actually was recalled—Mr, Wilson comes home only for “report and consultasion.” But the experts say Mr. Wilson's departure means Uncle Sam has near as he can to protesting against maltreatment of the Jews without actually grabbing by the tail that age-old problem— the Jewish question. And it's no | simpler to let go a bear’s tail in di- plomacy than it is in the wilds of Wyoming. FINAL SOLW®TIO! OT NEAR As for the br P aspeets of the international Je quedtion his- torians agree there's little hope for a final solution in the near future. Through the centuries, the ups| and downs of the Jews have been | unequalled by those of any other | race. In the middle ages, the Hebrews helped build in Spain one of the great civilizations of all time. From Spain they penetrated all parts of Europe, then as the spirit of nationalism rose around them, they sank under wave after wave of persecution. | Some historians assert that the t.!ews of early modern times may not have deserved equal treatment (Continued on Page Six) the conditions which now exist in| the Territory due to the handling | of liquor, a condition, he said, which | | doubtless has resulted in many' of |the criminal cases which are brought before the courts, involving |native people as well as whites. Under the present system, sel.upl |by the last Legislature, granting of liquor licenses was turned over to the Federal courts, who act on the recommendations of City Councils. | The complete report of the grand | jury follows: | | “We, the Grand Jury, duly im-| | paneled for the regular May 1938 term of the District Court, First Di-| | vision, District of Alaska, held at| Juneau, Alaska, composed of ten lwomen and twelve men, beg leave to submit the following report: | “We have been in session thirteen !days and have considered twenty- | 2our cases and have made titee in-/ | vestigafions. We have returned | twenty-three bills and one not true bill and have examined eighty- seven witnesses. | “We recommend that the Terri- | torial dLegislature pass an act es- tabl g Territorial liquor stores for the sale of intoxlcating liquors, {such sale to be made under a per- | mit iy’em “We recommend the reestablish-| ment of #he office of the Federal | Bureau of Investigation in the Ter- |ritory foc the reason that local au-| ! thorities are not financially able to! cope with the criminal offenses that jare committed in the various out-| | lying districts. | | “We recommend the sale of liquor | to natives be regulated, as we feel | that the three murder cases which | have come before us in which na- [’- (Continued on Page Five) (hazardous descent along hundreds |of feet of rock cliff at Point Reyes |to search for five bodies of persons lost after a passenger plane was |forced to alight in the surf 35 miles northeast of the Golden Gate during the darkness early yesterday |morning on a flight from Seattle to Oakland with seven aboard, three members of the crew and four pas- 'sengers. Only two escaped, Pilot Charles |Stead and passenger Isadore R, | Edelstein. Watchers can see a portion of the plane’s fuselage, all that re- mains of the UAL liner. The wreck- age, as it hammered against the rocks, made weird noises as the waves continued a relentless at- tack, ——“‘ - HOSPITAL AFIRE; INMATES TAKEN 0UT TO SAFETY | Three Hundred and Sixty March from Flames— 12 Insane Escape STOCIZTON Cul, Nov. 30.—Fire broke out in e Stockton State Hospito, early todav as 360 inmates were led to safety. About one dozen, described as criminally in- sane, broke from the ranks and fled and all but five were quickly rounded up. YThe police the belief that the gghers will soon be apprehended. All inmates were dressed in their night clof The fire termined. The demage to the hospital s estimated at affout $40,000. 21 SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS has not been de-