The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . VOL. LIIL, NO. 7964. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1938. _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRFSS PRICE TEN CENTS ——— 'BREAK LOOMS BETWEEN FRANCE, ITALY - Gigantic War Approved by Japan EXTRA! DEPT. OF LABOR TO TAKE ACTION NIPPON WILL CONTINE 0 FIGHT CHINA Four Million Dollars Daily to Be Spent in Conquest, Undeclared War LARGER BATTLESHIPS TO BE CONSTRUCTED United State—s_;lso Plans to Increase Size of Naval Craft, Report - Commissioner O’ Connor Will Board Alaska for Juneau Tomorrow Commissioner John O'Connor of the Department of Labor, is leaving Seattle tomorrow morning on the steamer Alaska for Juneau to at- tempt to iron out this city’s labor | problems. | BULLETIN—TOKYO, Dec. 2 —The Japanese Cabinet has ap- proved of the submitted Bud- A FLAIR FOR THE A peace in Gen. Oscar Benavides country will be host Dec. #Aag Fascist Editor ‘Warns Italians May Ma[ch Again | | Trouble Over Tunis Protec- | torate in North Africa Cause of Dispute {LABOR UNREST STILL PERMEATES FRANCE TBelgiqm, Rumania Grap- | pling with Menacing Internal Problems TO WELD BONDS AGAINST BONDAGE of any foreign power seeking a foothold in the western hemisphere, representatives of American republics will meet early in December n Lima, Peru—city of beautiful buildings such as above municipal palace. Discussing the conferencc. Under ( By Associated Press) “Italy is ready to march even against France if it becomes nec- RMY combines with a love of (above), president of Peru, whose get for continued war in China and general new armaments. TOKYO, Dec. 2.—An authorita- tive prediction is made that a bil- lion, three hundred and fifty mil- lion dollar war bill will face Jap- an next year as the largest budget in the Empire’s history is being made and will be presented during today to the Cabinet for approval. It is indicated that Japan will continue spending $4,000,000 a day on the undeclared war in China and this is in addition to ordinary ex- penditures of the Government, in- cluding the Army and Navy. U. S. AROUSED WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—Private | advices received by the War De- | partment late this afternoon from Tokyo, says the Japanese Cabinet | has approved of the submitted Bud- | get and incidently, it is revealed | here that Japan is building a battle- ship of 10,000 tons greater capacity of any naval craft of the United | States. | Iimmediately it was revealed that| steps are to be taken by the Na\'_v“ Department for the recommenda- | tion that the United States at once Citizens Committee Will Act e start construction of super-dread- | naughts. | Secretary of War Harry H. Wood- | ring stated he will also make a re-| commendation that the Panama| canal be immediately enlarged to| take care of the greater sized navy | craft and also merchant marine| vessels. The War Secretary also stated the | receipts of the canal exceeded $14,-| 700,000 last year. e FIREBUG IS ACTIVE NOW IN SEATTLE Has Mania for Setting Blazes in Apartment Houses | —3 Incidents \ | SEATTLE, Dec. 2. — Firemen blame Seattle’s elusive firebug for another apartment house blaze last night, the third in 24 hours. No damage was done in any of the fires owing to the quick - response and effective work of the firemen.| FRAUD CHARGE ELECTION VOTE Defeated Republican Candi-i date for County Prose- | cutor Is to Fight SEATTLE, Dec. 2—Henry Clay Agnew, defeated Republican candi-; date for King Country Prosecuting| Attorney, has filed charges of frau-i dulant voting, in the Superior court, seeking to contest the reelection of Prosecutor B. Gray Warner. | by both O'Connor’s sailing plans followed | a long distance call from -Seattle to Washington D. C., by Gov. John W.| Troy, who talked with Dr. John R.| teelman, Director of Conciliation Steelman said O'Connor had been authorized to leave tomorrow for| Juneau, and assured Gov. Troy the Department would work on a "sol-| ution of Juneau's labor difficulties | from the Washington end as well. Foster McGovern, Assistant Sec-| retary of the Chamber of Commerce | in Seattle, and for many years head of the Alaska Department of the Chamber is credited with having afforded every assistance in bring- ing about the action from Washing- ton. —r-—— LABOR PEAC PLAN ADOPTED BY BOTH SIDES as Clearing House for C()"l"l()“ La])()l’ Chairman Cash Cole of- the cifi- zens Special Labor Committec an- nounced this afternoon that the plan suggested by the committee | whereby common labor on build- ing jobs now underway in Juneau would be furnished through the committee for the next 60 days would be put into effect immedi- ately. Details were being worked out this afternoon. Verbal agreement has been given the AFL and the CIO, Cole said, adding “we haven't got it in writing,” and he said he ex- pected the plan would go into ef- _ fect tomorrow. Under the arrange- ment, the committee said it under- stood that pickets would withdraw immediately. FLOOD WATERS TAKES T2 LES Thousands of Cattle Perish, Many Homes Are Re- ported Destroyed ISTANBUL, Turkey, Dec. 2. — ;Seventy-two persons were drowned, The town of Warm Springs, on the |thousands of cattle perished and railroad, consists of a small hotel, | houses were wrecked when flood @ Station, and a cluster of homes. MAnE SEATTLE | waters swept the Urfa region on TWwo miles away is the “foundation” | ] - the southeast Syrian border. Hemingway Sees Insurgent Defeat NEW YORK, Dec. 2. — Ernest Hemingway, novelist, has returned [from Spain with the declaration Presidential guard begins. that the Insurgent forces in Spain were “fought out.” Hemingway predicted the food situation would become acute by January and said the Insurgents “know they can’t win” and “will| try to starve out the Loyalists.” ! 9 to the eighth inter-American con- s 5 d kes it essary that there should a58! . g s Secretary of State Sumner Welles said: “The world situation today makes it necessary ha X | essary,” authoritative Fascist Editor expected to be ;;n:g;?:\lfto‘rh(;xzo\':lgcs:;::‘::.lemisphere & not exist between the American republics any shadow of misunderstanding or suspicion.” 1 Virginio Gada in Rome warned . ; ¥; France in and editorial today as | Itallan agitation turned against ference at Lima. A defense 'SMITH MURDER LETHAI‘ GAS .‘DETAILS AIRED TAKES LIVES weourrmoni nF anVIcTs’PackedCourlRoomon Hand for Sensational Case —Hellan Star Witness The government rested its P case at 3:35 this afternoon and SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Dec. 2— |into sulphuric acid when levers on| Judge George F. Alexander California used . the lethal gas |the control board outside were pull-| Ccontinued the case until 10 o'- chamber, for the first time today [ed, and a white vapor started to| ¢leck Monday morning shortly when Albert Kessell, 99, and Rob- |rise, enveloping both men ifi a dim| thereafter, at the request of ert Cannon, 30, died together for |haze | the defense counsel, to permit the slaying of Warden Clarence| Gannon shook his head and gasp-| ‘oo """"('“, g sthor idme Larking in a futile attempt to es-|ed for breath while Kessel's head| T rrore 's case cape from Folsom Prison in Septem- dropped down as though he were ber of 1937 | 1 e ol Before a packed court room, the | majority of which were women, the Cannon was led into the little | xecution chamber first, and Kessel | Action Recorded | sensational Forrest V. Smith “cookie escorted in a few minutes later,| Then Cannon threw back his head | jar” murder case reached the testi- upported by guards |and looked straight at the ceiling| mony stage shortly before noon to-| and within a minute, Kessel's head | day as the jury was finally selected Preparations Death | fenl forward while h Doomed-to-die Cannon smiled | quivered and his he: and appeared interested in his sur-|ly from side to roundings as he watched guards |stopped. make the death preparations, but| Neither man uttered a sound. Walter Hellan, who accompanied Kessell only nodded grimly when |Their faces became pasty and a| Assistant District Attorney George Cannon smiled at his partner in|prison physician declared them as W. Folta to the Smith residence at death and said a few words. “dead, 16 minutes after entering the 269 Gastineau Avenue on October It required about a minute and a | cell.” 11, last, when Smith is alleged to whole body and this afternoon the government d moved slow- | was presenting its case. side and finally| Star witness for the prosecution half to strap the convicts in their| While these two convicted men have shot Thomas Colling, Steward chairs and guards and witnesses |drew their own deaths into their of the steamer Tongass left the chamber for glass windows | lungs, Warden Court Smith, who Shot A Man and observation points outside. |had declared he “abhored capitall Hellan testified that he found Dim Haze Little white sacks of cyanide, hung beneath the chairs, | punishment in any form, particu- | Smith sitting in the living room of larly by gas,” sat in the room ad- the Smith house and that he told were dropped | joining. | him he had just shot a man. Smith | turned a .22 caliber pistol over to him, the officer said, and then told | him the body of the man he had | shot was in the kitchen. Smith told him, Hellan continued, that he had suspected the Tongass steward, whom, Smith said, he didn’t know by name, for some time of being in- timate with his wife and he (Smith) had laid a trap for him. Found In Embrace Hellan said Smith told him he had told his wife he was going hunt- ing and then had returned to the house without her knowledge about 19:30 in the morning and hidden in ¢ . the basement. About 1:30 in the _ The President’s house, located on |, ¢ omoon, golling is alleged to have a southerly slope, is not pretenti-|com tg the house, and Smith, Hel- ous. All on one floor are three bed- §,, relateq, listened for some time rooms, one large combination liv- to e conv;ersatir)n Hetigben His wite ing and dining room, a reception ¥ room and kitchen. |and Colling and then went up stairs At the rear, on the uphill side nearest the Warm Springs founda- tion, is a combination sunporch and patio much enjoyed by the President. A separate building pro- Liule White House at Warm Springs, Secluded, Guarded; President Partially Isolated By PRESTON GROVER rines in bad weather. There is BE WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—By com- | ceremony each evening as the parison with the holiday rush at-|guard detail is changed. mosphere around the White Hous the President’s Thanksgiving holi- day at Warm Springs was as placid as a midsummer Sunday on a farm. Quiet is what the President wants when he goes there, and he gets it. HOUSE NOT PRETENTIOUS Smith sitting on Colling’s lap em- bracing him. Hellan said Smith told him that Colling jumped up when where infantile paralysis victims are treated. It is supported largely by profits of the President’s birthday | this afternoon was Deputy Marshal | |liam Brown, father of Mary Brown, | through the kitchen from where,|e could pay a ransom. Smith told Hellan, he could see Mrs. | | thing, | ( . v ; | France’s North Africa protectorate Jewish Refugees Seek New Home ruiic S, v & v o |over the reported break, although the editorial was said to be designed to emphasize unity of the Italian nation rather than reference to | Tunisia. Il Labor Troubles Labor troubles continued to share the spotlight in France with the latest Italian incident and confront- ed with new strikes and continued labor bitterness, Premier Daladier warned French employers to handle the question of rehiring workers with care. Through the labor minise | ter, the hard-hitting French prem- fer, who smashed the one-day gen- | eral strike Wednesday, told em- | ployers to rehire all strikers possible. Two other European governments, | Belgium and Rumania, also grapple ed today with menacing internal site uations. In Brussels newspapers said the resignation of Premier Spaak ap- | peared Inevitable. Spaak incurred Socialist wrath by agreeing to send a commercial representative to in- surgent Spain, recalling the Belgian dipiomats to Barcelona, Spanish goyernment capital. Iron Guard Arrests Pressing a campaign to crush the Nazi style Iron Guard, the Ruman- (rest in Bucharest of six student | members of the guard and said |and outlawed “guard would be ar- rested soor > - of the group of 150 German-born Jews who sailed from Vancouver, B. C., on the steamer Aorangi for new homes in Australia and New 23 IDENTIF'ED | the steamer sailed. | | 'Many Bodies So Mangled SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 2. | : N | —With y - ductors TO[(J Fa!her U"_ y Takes Partmg Shot at | death toll of youth mount. able to Pay Any Ransom One Legion |school bus and train disaster ever 41 | - known, the number of identified OXON HILL, Md., Dec. 2—Wil-| |, 2 o | LATUR DECAROL, France, Dec.| other dead are so badly mangled who reappeared at her home 2.—Planes of the Spanish Insurgent that parents are not allowed to see sence, said she had been abducted sign, today took a parting shot fllt Sixteen of by two men who mistakingly thought | the Government's Lincoln-Wash- | 1 PUS are |fan government announced the ar- |other alleged revolutionary plotters This family group, with food and clothing in paper bags, was part | - Zealand. They had arrived in Vancouver by train shortly before KIDNAPED GIRL BOMBS SOUND ~ | - ASTOLLGROWS T | Allowed toSee Them Release Is Made when Ab-'Insurgent Spanish Air Force| j!ng today in the nation's worst | dead rose to 23, while some of the last night and after a 34-hour ab- |air force, either by chance or de- | the bodies. therh critically the youths riding in verely injured, some of When his daughter, bu“m,%}mmlm battalion of American vel-; With a sleet storm prevailing, visi- Ischool student, convinced thg men | Unteers | bility was said to be practically nil, her father was unable to pay any-| Five Insurgent pianes plunged|and it is believed the bus apparently hteen bombs on the railway out- stopped at the tracks, ther started de of the Spanish border town of | again. released her. arrived home, they girl The haggard balls. vides quarters for servants. | i Bt and "‘WT,S";ILL"L",‘; and with clothes tattered. Alp, shortly after more than 300 The freight train struck the ve About three miles southward on| The President drives about the |9 “TVe got you i arted | e girl said the men freed her | dcmobilized American volunteers | hicle broadside at sixty miles an Pine mountain, is the President’s|place in his own car in good weath- toward the defendant. Hellan testi-) " 15 0o L le & short dis-|left the station and crossed into|hour. . Emian ; fied Smith told him then that he el home, the “little White Houw. It/er. In bad weather the dirt roads _ 2 iden- | tance from the house in which France. | SRS e i 5 & is approached along a winding, about the place are likely to be h_hufi the? man, \k.ho was ’lflter .n-;mfl family resides. The girl was| This is the largest exodus of Am-}M pine-studded road. A few other|muddy and difficult. Each morning | ‘iried 88 Thomas C‘(’].l'"‘" |in fairly good condition |erican fighters from the Spanish | h ONr0€ - cottages, occupied by patients, are he drives to the “foundation” for| .R"_'_"'d r:“"ummu to-| A physician called said the girl War since the Barcelona Govern-|Doctrine along side the road but none nearer! his warm-water swim. lq er W“"“N;{ oo e lv'v o 'had not been assaulted | ment decided to release all furPlgn-‘Ann' than a half mile. At that point the There are two outdoor swim- ‘};}anz‘"e;:“Dm?;"r‘“‘”mw'ph Lep.| Mary does not know where she|ers from its International Brigades.| Iversary ming pools at the “foundation |isto and A. W. Huntington. Hogins was taken he was seized while o o WASHINGTON, Dec. 2.— Today The guard around the presi- One is semi-public and the other,| dent’s home is in the hands of ma- glassed in, is preferred by the tesiaL e wade rines, about 70 of whom are de-|President. There he swims and | ;_ isf tailed to Warm Springs during the exercises much as he does in the :‘:":,“:";?:w::da:fdlfi“fi:fi”fix:;:efi chief executive's visit. They patrol white House pool in Washington. to Smith ‘g 1. Duker told of front % Glrclit: moRieel arcind: the DIce; | i ot PR T B Tker, )4 of fronts Little sentry boxes shelter the ma- (Continued on Page Five) the arrangements for Smith to get the gun from Lep- (Continued on Page Three) walking home from school, thrown| Japanese newsboys carry clusters in a truck and carried to some|©f bells to supplement their cries house. She twice became uncon-|Of “Wuxtry." scious and said she thought she) - e nd beo had been struck in the stomach, | Pictures for children’s rooms ran;e ;3 tuL' ‘om; ?:ew aod, - The girl's father is an employee | be made washable by covering them | gt:)l;‘rel;e":sue“n U:;) M;Americnn of the Bureau of Printing. with white shellac. ey Bl is the 115th anniversary of the Monroe Doctrine which may play an important part in all of the Am-