The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 8, 1938, Page 1

SETTLEMENT IN LABOR DISPUTE LO » THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ~ —— VOL. LIIL., NO. 7969. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1938. MEMBB_? ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ITALY MASSES ARMED FORCES NEAR FRANCE Tunisia Torn by Strife of Frenchmen vs. Ifal- ians in Tunis DELADIER, LE BRUN HOLD CONFERENCES Germany Reported Back- ing Rome’s Campaign for More Colonies (By Associated Press) Reports that Italian troop con- centrations are being effected in northern Spain within easy strik- ing distance of the French frontier, has caused grave concern in France as Italian Tunisia demonstrated its support of Fascist colonial claims against France. France’s worry of the Italian col- ony campaign was also aggravated by the widespread belief that Ger- many is backing Rome’s colonial as- pirations. Conference Paris President LeBrun, in Paris, sum- moned Premier Daladier unexpect- edly into consultation. They held a long talk last night, presumbaly on the new French-German "“no war declaration” agreement and the possibility of German support of Italy. Italians Arrested Scores of Italians were arrested in Tunisia as they began forming pro- cessions in the streets chanting the Fascist marching song after police had broken up anti- Italian demonstrations by French residents. Reports from Spain, that lacked official confirmation, said Italian troop movements, begun November 22, are still continuing and concen- trations include about 10,000 troops, motorized units and much artillery. The troop concentrations are re- ported massed at Logrono, in north- ern Spain, less than 100 miles from the border between Spain and France. L Thousands Are Made Homeless Typhoon Sweeps Sections of Philippines-Floods Are Also Caused MANILA, Dec. 8—A terrific ty- phoon swept several provinces southeast of Manila leaving thou- sands_homeless and causing floods over a wide area. Communication lines are disrup- ted and meagre reports listed sev- eral scores dead. The storm passed to the south- ward of Manila and hit Mindoro Island then swept China sea sectors, It is reported heavy damage to private and public property has been caused. Late this afternoon it is said fif- teen Provinces have been prostrat- ed by the typhoon. Two dredges, worth $100,000 each. are said to have sunk in Legaspi; harbor. Efforts to salvage the German Condor plane which sank in Manila Bay Monday have been abandoned in the face of the typhoon. Cardinal, Dean of Catholics, Is 79 BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 8—The Dean of the Catholic Hierarchy, in the United States, William Cardinal O’Connell, has celebrated his 79th birthday in a quiet way. He commented on world affairs briefly to the newsmen. He stressed holding faith in God to ‘cure- the evils of the present day world. | | | PARKING PROBLEM in Honolulu didn't prompt Dr. C. W. Yee to tilt his auto in this fashion. After a two-car collision, Dr. Yee found his auto up in the air, supported by guy wires. He step. received treatment for cuts. ped out of car, NEW TRADE PACTS MADE BY UNITED § of Tunis, | SPECIFIC NEW MEANINGS 3AIaskan Pioneer | Is Celebrating TATES HAVE By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer HINGTON, Dec. 8. — Scrape new trade treaties with Cana- JAPAN STATES " POSITION, OPEN ~ DOOR POLICIES Unsatisfactory Answer Is| | Given Powers on Trad- | ing in China Areas i TOKYO, Dec. 8.—Foreign Min- | ister Hachiro Arita told the United States and British Ambassadors to- day that “it may be necessary to revise the principles of equal op- | portunity of the Open Door policy |in China.” It is declared by circles that Arita foreign envoys, in separate inter- | views, there is no need for a | conflict between Japan and other | | powers over interests in China “if | T i i | those in the told the | inner |the powers recognize the realities |in the Far East.” | It is said the statements on the trading position are unsatis- factory to both the United States | and Great Britain. D 'AMBASSADOR | " T0 CHINA IS CALLED HOME = ‘Nelson Johnson Summon-| GUERILLAS IN | ed to Washington | CHINA ATTACK intorimre | NPPON FORCE Secretary of state sumner Vel Invaders Meeting with son Johnson, United States Ambas- SbebOI'fl ReSiSfan(e on Interior Drive | sador to China, has been summoned home immediately for consultation CHUNGKING, Dec. 8—The Chi- nese military spokesman announced | with President Roosevelt and other | officials. Johnson should arrive during the today that the Japanese drives have been halted on three fronts on the drive down the west side middle part of January, after a mo- tor, airplane and steamer trip by of the river from Canton and suc- cessfully checked. way of London. Johnson has been at his post con- | The Chinese spokesman also said the Japanese are having difficulty stantly for the past four years - 2 in holding their garrisons on the Hunan and Hupeh fronts. Guerilla activities in south Honan | da and the British Empire down to | their economic bones, and you have :Hs came Outside five years ago. { ers. Thi J 80th Birthday SEATTLE, Dec. §—Judge A. F.| Stowe, pioneer, formerly of Fair-| banks, and Anchorage, Alaska, and formerly United States Commis- | sioner at Kodiak for eight years, is| observing his 80th birthday today Judge Stowe was a member oll an expedition sent to Alaska to re-;| lieve the reported suffering of min- was in '98. He took $200,000 worth of supplies, mostly furs and | clothing the Government thought was needed, but what was needed most, was food, although they had | gold dust | The ill-chosen fur coats and other | wearing apparel were auctioned off for what they would bring. | “When I saw all that gold, T just | could not return to the practice of {law and took my share of the yel- |low stuff,” said the Judge. ° Judge Stowe lost an eye in 1925 | when opening a packing box. e ELLEN BERLIN IS AN HEIRESS | IN OWN NAME {Communications Magnate | Left Will Making His | Daughter Wealthy MINEOLA, N. Y., Dec. 8—Clar- ence H. Mackay, communications magnate, named his daughter Ellen, | | whose marriage more than a decade | ago to song writer Irving Berlin, caused a three-year estrangement, ans as heiress, in his will | Mrs. Berlin was named to share equally with three other children, his vast estate, and his widow, the former Anna Case, Metropolitan | opera star, received $50,000 in cash and $2,000,000 in securities. | - “MIDGET” ANN ARBOR, Mich.—John Bren- nan, Michigan football guard, is just a little fellow at home. A 6-ft.- 2 200-pounder, Brennant says he’s the smallest man in his family in cine, Wis. I, i | American Secretary of State, | Isles three generations. He lives in Ra-|— left a fairly simple agreement that will test out two opposing principles of international trade—regular tar- iffs vs. rigged tariffs. It's really a small-scale experi- ment, for the great bulk of trade between the two nations will re- tain its greay burden of tariff| duties. A few outstanding reduc- tions in duties will provide the basis for the experiment. Practically all nations today are high tariff nations. Most have gone a lot farther; they restrict imports by imposing quotas, and prohibit the exchange of money between foreign sellers and domestic buyers. Germany is the outstanding ex- ponent of these “rigged” tariffs, bating foreign sellers with higher prices, and at the same time pro- tecting important industries with subsidies. Foreign sellers, how- ever, must spend in Germany most of the money they collect for the goods they sell there. Meanwhile, Cordell Hull, the has insisted that the whole scheme of things is heading to a ruinous eco- nomic war that eventualy will deadlock world trade. HIGH TARIFF PRINCIPLES FIXED Mr. Hull agrees that the principle of high tariffs is too well established everywhere, especially in the United States, to throw overboard. It would be like yanking the roof off your greenhouse in mid-winter to let in more air and sunlight. But he in- sists a little tariff window should be opened here and there to en- courage trade, and, above all, tariffs should be equal to all comers. On that principle the Secretary struck bargains with 18 minor nations between 193¢ and 1938. The idea was, “You lower a few duties, and I'll lower a few,” and —most important of all—share the benefits of the reduced tariffs with all nations except Germany, the only trader refusing equal treat- ment to the United States. The treaties with Canada and the United Kingdom (the British and colonial possessions) represent his crowning achievement because Great Britain and the Unit- ed States together do almost half of the world’s 40 billions of dollars worth of swapping every year. Two questions remain: ibonmufi on Page Seven) Province are said to have forced - WRECKED PLANE Surf Gives TJp—One Victim of Recent Disaster Off Pt. Reyes | OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 8—A body identified probably as that of co- | pilot Lloyd Jones, of Seattle, has |been recovered from the surf near | Point Reyes while the Civil Aero- | nautics Authority Board inquiry | pursued investigation into the air transport disaster. |” Pive of the seven persons aboard the liner died in the ocean when |washed from the plane. ISLANDS IN PACIFIC TO AID FLYING Brifish Land Engineers, | Surveyors-Purpose. Is Explained the invaders to reinforce their gar- risons in that region. Further reports from the Canton battlefront state that fresh and well equipped Japanese regiments continued to leave for the west while exhausted units are retur ing, indicating that Chinese re- |sistance is still delaying the drive {on to the interior. BLOWS STRUCK, FIVE ARRESTED, IN GUILD STRIKE Truck Driv;fsiRun Picket Lines Around Hearst Chicago Offices CHICAGO, 1, Dec. 8. — Five Chicago Newspaper Guild members have been arrested and blows fell a dozen heads during a melee along a picket line around the Hearst Building where Guild mem- bers are on. a strike against the Evening American and Morning Herald-Examiner. Those arrested are Harry Wohl, | President of the Chicago News- paper Guild; Don Stevens, Execu- tive Secretary of the Chicago Guild; Mrs. Don Stevens, a re- porter; Virginia Gardner, reporter, and Nat Aleskovsky, Herald-Exam- iner copy reader. SUVA, Fiji Islands, Dec. 8.—Brit- ish cruiser Leander has landed an engineer and surveyors on Hull and Christmas Islands, small South Pa- cific Islands. This has assumed significance in development of trans-Pacific avia- About 100 persons were on the . | picket line when truck drivers The two islands form 1mponam‘pulled up to load afternoon news- links of any air route between west- | papers and the melee started When ern Canada, Australia and New|ipo police began opening a line L and, in the pickets to let the drivers Christmas Island has lalwm‘mrough_ suited for the landing of seaplanes.| The Guild made a statement P ST N saying the “drivers attempted to crash the line, wielding rubber yrus Woods . | Both papers are continuing pub- | lication. Guild members are seeking job security and collective bargaining rights. FATHER MAKES GOOD Passes Away PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dee. 8—| Cyrus Woods, 177, former United States Ambassador to Japan, died| [EXINGTON, Ky.—Chance Play, !1ere today. He was the only_envoy;stre of Psychic Bid, Grand Slam in Tokyo who remained at his post|and Good Gamble, himself won the during the earthquake in 1923. . | jockey Club Gold Cup, Saratoga Woods had been in the hospital cup, Merchants and Citizens Handi- for the past five weeks, cap and Toboggan Handicap. NATION’S MOST FAMOUS FACES afforded this camera study when the President weld an open-air press conference at Warm Springs, Ga., and told reporters that business conditions are improving though industrial re-employment lags. Mrs. Foosevelt is listener at left. Pays for o Slaying, In Chair Mrs. Hahn,fifieading for Mercy, Electrocuted in Ohio Prison COLUMBUS, Ohio, Dec. 8. — In the midst of a prayer, Mrs. Anna Marie Hahn, 32, died in the electric chair in the Ohio Penitent] for |one of four murders of which she was accused. She was the first wo- man in this state to die in the elec- tric chair. As she moved through the death house corridor, 12 convicted men, awaiting a similar fate moved to the front of their cells and stood in silent attention “Goodbye, all of you. God bless all of you,” she called out. Clad in blue pajamas, with a brown top, her blonde hair dishev- elled, her five-foot form slumped, and moaning and pleading, she stumbled and then collapsed. Pleads to be Saved She was picked up bodily placed in the electric chair. She cried out to the warden: “Mr. Woodward, don't do this to me Think of my boy. Can't you think of my baby?” Seated in the chair, she spread out her arms to witnesses and mum- bled: “Isn’t there anybody who will help me? Is nobody going to help me?” “I am sorry, but we have to do it, Mrs. Hahn,” Warden Woodward re- plied. She beckoned to the Chaplain and said: “Come close.” Lord's Prayer The Chaplain intoned with her, the Lord's Prayer. In the midst of the recital, the current was applied and her voice was stilled as the current arched her body. Her last words were: “and | deliver.” She never finished the sen- tence. Her little 13-year-old son, who had been given the freedom of the | prison for the past several days, was | in the death cell for some minutes | with his mother and was then led | away, smiling through his tears say- ing: “Mother, T'll be good and meet you in heaven.” | All efforts to secure modification | or stay of sentence failed. She way found guilty of poisoning an aged man, a boarder for his insurance, Others, it is alleged, suffered the same fate. During her trial she was | called the “blonde vampire.” | . s Libel Suif s | Filed on Ickes, | WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—A $750,- | 000 libei suit has been filed against Secretary of Interior Harold Ickes. The man who filed the suit is John Glass, a lawyer, who alleges that he was libelled last November by the | Secretary and that this has damaged his professional standing with the| bar, | and NEW DRIVES BY CONCILIATOR IS DIRECTING ~ AGREEMENT Quick Pea?e]niicipafed in Juneau Trouble if | Green Consents 'COUNCIL DEFERS | ORDINANCE ACTION Plan for AFL and ¢lo: | Workmen fo Work To- gether, Building Jobs_ | Quick, peaceable settlement of | the labor dispute in the Juneau building trades loomed here today as the result of a r g last night of U. 8. Labor Concilialor John O’= Connor of the Department of Labor, the City Council and representatives |of the disputing labor groups "in- _ | volved. | Mr. O'Connor wired his chief," Br, Steelman, in Washington last night' | following the meeting, talked to him lagnin this morning on the radio- | phone and later said he expected INSURGENTS ARE ooz i e e BEING pI.A | morrow to a proposal which he he- NNED | lieves will result iu agreement. | Up to Green s ‘The proposal, it was explained, French Frontier Is Closed puts the matter directly up to wil: i“"m Gueen, President of the Ameri- to Prevent Leakage |can Feueration o tavor, through v ‘Dn “teelman 0' Fl’an(o S PIO‘ 1 At last night's mecLing, which was lnuemled by representatives of the HENDAYE, Dec. 8.—Reports from | Junead Bullding Trades Council, both Insurgents and Loyalists indi- | the carpenters union, the longshore- cate that Gen. Franco is preparing |men, general labor forces of both for a new offensive on the eastern |the AFL and CIO, Mr. OConnor, the Civil War front as they have done City Council, and Arthur Hailey, before launching previous drives. |representative of the National La- The Insurgent authorities have | TIp-ramament closed the French frontier to pre- (Coritinued on Page Three) vent leakage of their plans. | i Advices received from Barcelona said the Government's secret scrv-}HopE EprESSED ice reports large concentration of | Insurgent troops behind the Ebro | BY 0'CONNOR iN River front while the roads leading | troops and ammunition convoys. > to the battle line are covered with lABOR DISPUTE A | BRUTAL MURDE IS CONFESSED BY RAILWAY CLERK Stabs_Girl eriend Many Times fo Make Sure Life Is Extinct SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 8. —Police Inspector Jewell today said Rodney Greig, 21, railway clerk, has confessed he fatally stabbed Leona Flught, 19, former Univer- sity of California student. The body was found in the Oak- land Hills today badly gashed and beaten. Jewell reported Greig told him that he and Miss Flught, tall and athletic, had quarrelled early Wednesday as they sat in the back of Greig’s automobile. Greig told Jewell he thrust a six-inch hunting knife into the girl's breast. The confessed murder- er explained additional gashes on Chamber Passes Resolu- | tion Endorsing Action-of Acting Gov. Griffin™ | | - | A note of encouragement pof |toward a settlement of the | dispute in the building industry™n |Juneau was taken to the Juneau | Chamber of Commerce at its lunch- | eon meeting today in Percy’s Cafe by Labor Conciliator John O’Connor | of the Department of Labor. While | not going into the details of the ac- tion being taken, Mr. O’Connor said "he felt hopeful. He pointed out that | of 23,000 cases handled by the Con- | ciliation branch of the Department, settlement had been reached in 96 per cent of them, and that he optimistic about the situation hare. Other guests of the Chamber %o- | day were Dr. Joseph O. Rude of ‘Pét- ersburg, who is here as a witness in | the Sarff case now being heard E District court, and Dr. George' of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, | who has just returned from an ex- | tended trip to the Westward. | Griffin’s Action Okayed Giving unanimous approval to the the girl's throat as measures he recent reply of Acting Gov. E. W, took to make sure she died. | Griffin to Congressman Charles A. Further, Greig said he punched ; Buckley of New York which polated her three times to see if her heart out that Alaska was not in finameial was still beating strongly enough | position to assim ¢ European re- to keep the blood flowing through | fugees, the Char.ocr ndopted a.pe- her throat arteries. solution to bring to attention of ‘the T - | President and Congress the true Panlt Du"ng | conditions of unemployment i -the | Territory. It also approved a letter Funeral for |to be sent to President Roosevelt |and another to the Territorial o“een Maud chambers in connection with the resolution which reads as follows: OSLO, Dec. 8—One man was killed and seven others injured, in- cluding two women, when the roof of a small building collapsed dur- WHFREAS, Congressman Chatles ing the funeral services of Queen A. Buckley ol Ne inquiries with a W to evolvhs a Maud. A small panic was caused. The building was across the plan whereby cerlain European, pal- itical refugees might be permitted to scitle in Alaska, and has telegraphe | Acting Governor E. W. Griffin'fo street from Our Savior's Church and was used as a vantage point to watch the funeral cortege of | Norway's first English-born queen. his opoinivu; and, WLREAS Acling Governq‘:“. -~ — Nearly fifty Japanese newspaper | W. Oviffin has telegraphed Cone gre wnan Bugkley that Alaska correspondents and photographers have been killed ‘“covering” the in a position to absorb any in China war. of persons without capital; | NOW, THEREFORE, BE m?. | SOLVED by the Juneau of (Continued on Page Eight) \ S Wi