The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7967. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MINERS RIDE TO DEATH, RUNAWA PLUCKY PILOT TREATY PORT IS SEIZED BY NIPPON ARMY KongmoonTSB(cupied by Japanese Forces, Ac- cording fo Reports ANOTHER BLOW STRUCK ALL FOREIGN NATIONS Intensive }\?Raids Are Also Claimed Against Kai Shek Corps HONGKONG, Dec S*RG])mb re- ceived here state the Japanese have occupied Kongmoon, important treaty port, 35 miles northwest of the Portuguese colony in Macao. The occupation strengthens the hold on Canton and blocks trading by foreign nations not authorized | to do so by the Japanese Govern- ment which practically means “no trading.” Previously to the occupation of Kongmoon, the Japanese occupied Kowking to the north. The Japanese are today reported to be moving southward toward Sunwei, famous hometown of many thousands of overseas Chinese. INTENSIVE AIR RAIDS SHANGHAI, Dec. 6.—The Japa- nese Army spokesman said intensive air raids against Chinese troop con- centrations south of Lake Tungting, Hunan Province, has_shattered Chi- ang Kai Shek’s attempt to organ- ize a counter offensive against Yo- chow and Pingkiang sectors. -es - JURY IS TO GET MURDER CASE THIS AFTERNOON Mrs. Zin(kflm of Alleged Intimate Relations of Mrs. Smith, Colling With the defense resting its case shortly before noon and arguments being presented immediately after the noon recess, the Forrest V Smith murder case was expected to, .. " .. g g0 to the jury late this afternoon. | ;;'l“’d"“ airliner drop flares and Smith, who twice yesterday re-{ " | fused to testify in his own behalf, again refused to take the stand this DEp RI morning to tell the details of the fatal shooting of Thomas Colling HARRY BRIDGES in the Smith home here the fore part of October when the defendant alleges he found Colling and Mrs. American Legion Com- mander Chadwick An- nounces New Policy | Smith in a compromising position. | In addition to refusing to Leétiry. Smith again reiterated to the court CHARLESTON, W. Va., Dec fi— National Commander Stephen |Chadwick of the American lfqlon. that he protested against the at- tempt to his counsel to prove him in- |announced last night that he will |press for immediate deportation of sane, declaring that he had told his story to Assistant District Attorney George W. Folta and the Prosecu- tor had treated him fairly. He stres- | sed that there was no other story Harry Bridges, Australian born and | West Coast Labor Leader. | Speaking at a dinner here, Com- | mander Chadwick said: “Enemies in America will claim | to tell. the American Legion’s attention from now on.” | Commander Chadwick explained that the American Legion is “now grown up” and has nothing to ask | | for itself but is concerned with what it can do to preserve Ior posterity Seeks Damages Captain Charles Stead of Seat- tle, pilot of the ill-fated airliner which he was forced to bring down in the . Although out of commu n with his ob- landing field, Oakland, tead was in constant con- tact with Portland, Ore. He was lauded by company officials as being cool throughout the whole procedure. IS MISSING who was among the missing when the San Franci co bound Seattle airliner was ferced to 1 the Pacific off Point Reye Jsast Guards- men stationed near the scene Airing Given Despite the resistance which the government has been making all through the case to the introduc- tjon of evidence tending to portray the alleged relations between Mrs. Smith and Colling, who was then a cook on the Tongass, the de- fense through the questioning of | Mrs. Ed Zinck this morning brought | out most of the matter which had previously been aired at the cor- oner’s inquest. Mrs. Zinck was a passenger on the Tongass last summer when Mrs. Smith and her baby daughter Louise came north, she testified. In res- ponse to questions by Defense Coun- sel Paul Danzig, the witness said that Mrs. Smith and Colling were together “all‘the time” on the boat. | “If she wasn’t in his stateroom, he was in her’s or they were around Occasioned by togethi h Ise,” # . i o e i s ('lpper wr e(k told Smith of the occasion when | | LOS ANGELE», Cal, Dec. 6. e Colling cOMINg |nrs, Cleo L. Musick, widow of the o e:rl :omt:‘ hts)u: in his paj- Commander of the Samoan Clip- af y & Ly per, lost last January near Pago A ihfge'.i'&f:g x)e:nt(;::iz oo | Pago, has filed a suit in the Federal > Ple! Court, against Pan American Air- she said, went ashore and stayed | until 4 o'clock in the morning, and‘:D‘L’t‘hec‘”:lr;“o‘l"‘md"";a‘“é‘[)%gog:m“sg;: that she had taken care of Mrs.| h et A i Smith’s baby during their absence. fc LGRS, P : PRy / Mrs. Smith, the witness said was in | ness and recklessness in operating e T |the flying boat and blames the com- (Continued on Page Eight) |pany for the death of her husband. TWO NATIONS PIedges for Preserv- ing Good Relations DISPUTES ARE IO BE SETTLED, NOT BY WAR G(iod Neighbor Pact Con- cuded in Paris by Foreign Ministers Dec. 6.—France and Ger- signed a pact which two, nations to seek of future disputes by negotiations instead of war. Joachim von Ribbentrop and Georges Bonnett, Foreign Minis- te: of Germany and France, pul their signatures to two cream-col- ored sheets of vellum. One sheet is inscribed by the French and the other by the Ger- mans. The signing of the pact concluded negotiations of a “good neighbor accord” similar to the agreements President Roosevelt of the United | PARIS many today pledges the settlement s Lesing its radio beam Pe d W of Los Angeles w urukAu‘ of the ill-fated craft, it Reyes, Cal. rre saved hd running out of gas ¢ s washed ashere at the base of a tower The pilot said he saw the cther fiv fuselage smashed, and tail gone.—AP Photo, a flight from wings ripped, attle to Oakland g cliff. pers ons Airliner Crashes at Sea; Two Aboard Save, Five Missing a United Airlines Mainliner crashed into the sea near Two persons, Pilot Charles Stead and a passenger, I. R. Fdelstein washed into the raging sea. This aerial view shows the battered Watvr Soaked Mml Removed from I'lmw Wr('ck Ame"(ans States is signing with the nations on the Western Hemisphere. The ceremony took place in the same room where ten years ago the Kellogg-Briand pact, outlawing war, was signed. This is the famous | clnrk room of the French l"orclpn "oftice. 'GERMAN PLANE FORCED DOWN, SINKS, MANILA Five Members of Crew, One Passenger Escape Uninjured, Rescued MANILA, Dec. 6.—Unable to hold the altitude after one of its four Condor monoplane, made a forced landing and sank in Manila Harbor | as it neared the end of a nonstop | flight from Tokyo. The crew of five and one passen- ger were not injured. As the plane began settling in shallow water, about 200 feet off shore, the six men aboard clambered out on a wing and were rescued by | natives in small boats. ‘The plane was flown from ’I‘nkyo in 10 hours and 10 minutes. German interests here said lhnv would immediately investigate sal- vage possibilities, as the plane is| resting on a sandy bottom. The plane was recently fluwn from Berlin to Tokyo on a good will flight. Harold Turnblad Given Promotion By Asso. Press‘ NEW YORK, DPC 6.—Kent Coop- | er, General Manager of the Associ- ated Press, announces that Harold | Turnblad has been promoted to! News Editor of the Western Division of the Associated Press with his| | headquarters at San Francisco. The | appmntmenb is effective January 1.| Turnblad has been with the Asso- | ciated Press for 15 years, eleven of | which he has been Bureau r‘mu‘ at Seattle, which division covers the Pacific Northwest, Washington, | Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana and Alaska. Harold Turnblad is one best known newspaper men in the| Pacific Northwest and during his news days, before becoming asso-| ciated with the Associated Press, scored many scoops. He visited Al- aska last summer, accompanied by | Mrs. Turnblad and children. Alaska | newspapermen regret losing his valuable services but will compli- ment him on his deserved promo-| tion and hope his successor will be as efficient as he has proven to be, at all times, of the | ply, and numerous hotels While breakers ]ml Point Reyes, Cal., They recovered some TEN THOUSAND DOLLAR A 30 out of 34 sacks. the luxuricus United Mainliner rdsmen struggled to remsve mure than 400 pounds of mail the pl ‘B. (. Passes AP Photo. YEAR MEN ARE HANDLING U.5. BANKING AGENCY Death Valley Is Attraction For Tourists LOS ANGELES, Dec. 6.—There are at least 58,320 persons for whom the dry, scorching wastes of Death Valley hold no terrors. That is the | number of persons who visited the spot in the last year, according to the records of Superintendent T. R. Goodwin. Now a national park, Death ley has been improved with good roads and dependable water sup- have been established. Travel in the last five years h increased 550 per cent. .o — Hot Weather at San Berrardino SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Dec. 6. —The temperature reached 90 de- Val- grees here yesterday, the hottest De- | cember day on record, - By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-—Ameri- ca's biggest banking agency. the Re- construction Finance Corporation, is managed for the mosL part by men whose $10,000 a year contrast very sharply with the higher salaries paid by first string banks in metro- politan centers, or even in some of the second string banks of the coun- try. However, the salaries are the envy of many administrators of other Federal agencies who have found no opportunity to crowd so many $10,000-a-year men on payroll. In government service $10,000 a year salary is punkins, and no wonder, it being fair to middling pay in any field. Jesse Jones, the Texas banker and builder, whose own $10,000 Federal pay check probably isn't a tithe of his annual income, heads| the organization, whose credit been extended into many major and minor industries directly or indirectly since it was created un- der the Hoover administration really blossomed out under Presi- dent Roosevelt. BANKERS COME HIGH High class banking help always (Continued on Page Three) a the! quite some | has | Il.‘ Are Jailed In Vienna NINETEEN ARE KILLED; TRAIN TAKES PLUNGE | Haulage Cable Snaps as | Cars Are Traveling Down Steep Grade MORNING SHIFT 1§ ‘ PILED INTO WRECK (Worst Disaster in Nova Scofia in 20 Years- Many Injured SYDNEY, Nova Scotia, Dec. 6.— Nineteen men are known to have been killed and many others ser- iously injured in Nr: a Scotia's worst mine dizaster in * ears. Nine 1 bodics were brought to the smface, two hours after a string of 26 cars, carrying 250 workers, | broke loose and plunged out of con- | trol on a mile long incline wall. It is feared there are many other | bodies, than those recovered, re= maining in the wreckage. The tragedy oceurred in the Prin- cess liery of the Nova Scotia Mine and Coal Company just as the morning shift was riding to work, ‘The haulage cable snepped as the string of 26 cars, ktnown as the “riding rake,” was going down a 10 percent grade. PLAN ANOTHER | . ATTEMPT T0 SOLVE DISPUTE [Are Convicted of Violation' of Currency Laws of Germany, Fined VIENNA, Dec. 6.—Dr. Michael George Albert, of New York, and Dr. Oscar Lavina, of Mount Rainier, Maryland, both Amer- ican citizens, have been con- victed of violation of Germany's currency laws. Dr. Albert has been sen- tenced to one year's imprison- ment at hard labor, plus a fine or two months’ extra imprison- prisonment in lieu of the fine. Dr. Lavina has been given six months’ imprisonment, with- out hard labor, and also fined, or two manths’ extra imprison- ment. Both men reserved the right of appeal. The exact nature of the arges against the two doctors is not sed. Iying on a rocky beach near carried. Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 6 Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 95, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel % Cmnmonwm]t)\ and Southern ‘w,, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 48', International Har- | vester 59%, Kennecott 43, New York Centrfll 17%, Northern Pacific 10%, Safeway Stores 27%, South- Grant for \ Inf. Road leglslafure Approprlales‘ Sateway Siores 2T, 50 ern acific Y%, nites States $25 000 fOl’ Pl’ellmmary Steel 63, Pound $4.69%, Survey of Highway |™ """ VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 6. — The British Columbia Legislature today granted $25,000 for a preliminary |survey for the proposed Interna- tional Highway route, Defending the grant against at- tacks of the opposition, Premier Pat- tullo disclosed the United States of- fered to lend the money, without |interest, to British Columbia for the highway's construction. He said he intends to continue negotiations in the east early next year. “The Alaska Highway survey is | unrs wnmble, unnecessary and ex- | travagant,” said R. L. Maitland, Conservative, and leader of the op- | position against the grant. | Premier Pattullo replied that the | United States wanted the highway built and it is a “good - neighbor” {policy to permit the United States |access from one portion of its ter- ritory to another. There was little opposition and the grant passed. Dow, J()NEN AVERAGES The Jones averages: industrials 148.33, rails 29.13, utilities 21.77. - e o (00K MAKES TRIP DOWN FROM ATLIN AND MAKES RETURN Northern Airways Pilot Les Cook brought four passengers in from Canada this morning just as the Alaska was docking and took off a short time later for Atlin and Dawson with five aboard, including two children Inbonud were, Mr. and Mrs. Her- bert F. Glassey and Mrs. W. James from Atlin, and Thomas McKay from Carcross. Outbound were, Alec Lowe, for Dawson, and Mrs. Leslie Epton and two children and Bessie Carmichael ltor Atlin, Bremner | following are today's Dow,| Committee wnh Endorse- - ment of Large Group fo | Meet Council Tonight | At a special meeting of Juneau | citizens held last night in the Scot- | tish Rite Temple at the call of the | Citizens Special Labor Committee, appointed a week ago last Sunday at the public mass meeting in the | Elks Hall, it was voted to go again before the City Council at a special meeting tonight with a plan that is ‘almerl toward settlement of the present labor dispute in the build- ‘ing trades industry. [ The Citizens Committee reported to the 91 men gathered at last even- |ing's meeting that it had worked | persistently for a week in an effort | to arrive at a settlement but that |its effort to work out an agreement | so that building activity could con- | tinue had been unduccessful. In | view of what the committee des- | cribed as a threat to the community | that all boat shipments to Juneau might be tied up unless an accord was reached, the committee said it | was prepared to go once again be- {rorc the Council in an effort to try and find a solution. It was given the unanimous endorsement by the 91 gathered for its efforts to date ‘and the support of the group in its | further attempts to protect the in- | terests of all the citizens In the community. No Antagonism The committee stressed, and it | was the concensus of those meeting iwllh the committee last night, that | there was no spirit of antagonism against any labor group in the com- munity and that its only aim was peaceable settlement. “The committee has taken the position that we can't settle na- tional problems in Juneau and we 7 to do it,” R. E. ommittee express- ed it. “We bay ept our minds open he ed this problem as strictly a Juneau problem with the best interests of the city as a | whole at heart. We hope to contin- | ue that course.” | Ships Discharge | | are not going to Robertson of the In the meantime, the Alaska and the Northland discharged as usual here today with theexception of the goods destined for construction jobs (Continued on Puse Elght) SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS