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THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIIL, NO. 7971. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 19 38. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS .. PREPARING TO MEET ALL INVADERS mith GOVERNMENT | WILL RETRY MURDER CASE New Trial Will Be Held After Present Docket Is Completed REPORT JURORS STO0D | 10-2 FOR CONVICTION 6 for MansFughler, 4 for| First Degree, 2 for Ac- | quittal, Report | After being out 55 hours and 10| minutes, the Forrest V. Smith mur-| der jury was discharged by Federal | Judge George F. Alexander at 9:50| o'clock last night when Fm'?nmn‘ Jaseph W. Flanagan reported to the | court that the jurors were hope- lessly deadlocked. Smith, who was brought into the | court room from the Federal jail when the Judge called to the jury,| was lead back to jail and Assistant| District Attorney George W. Folta| said today the case would be re- tried. Judge Alexander set it at the| end of the present court docket which means it probably will not go | to trial again before well along in| January or early February. | 10 For Conviction | | | | | 5 & GEARED FO i o % e R HIGH SPEED matic mounted on an all-around fire, four-w ¥ ENGLAND PLEASED WITH Confidence NEW U. 5. TRADE TREATY In Daladier By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. was glad to take any step, such as the trade pact with the U. S., offer- ing some offset against further German trade aggressions. , the army’s new anti-aircraft gun is a 37mm. caliber auto- heel towable trailer. It has a heavy volume of fire. g taking a nose dive into British eco- nomic and trade publications you get more of an idea why England By a system of trade inventions 9-POWER PACT " KNOCKED OUT ~ BY JAPANESE Puppet Governments fo Be Set Up in China- o AT Asia for Asiatics | TOKYO, Dec. 10.—Actual denun- ciation of the Nine-Power Treaty, relating to the Open Door Policy in China, is pronounced and the treaty is called obsolete by the Japanese | newspapers New Chinese governments will be | established under Japanese protec- | tion of the Japanese Army. This will probably be the final step in welding Japan and her pup- | pet lands. All conquered sections in China will be placed in solid political and economic units and will actually put into effect Japan's new policy of “Asia for the Asiatics.” " 32FOREIGNIERS ARE EVACUATED ‘Many Ameri;é;ls, Isolated| Since July 26, Taken Aboard Transport SHANGHAI, Dec 10.—Evacua- tion of 32 foreigners, about one- third of them Americans, has been | completed from the mountain resort of Kuling. | The evacuation was comp]cled‘ despite a raging storm. A party of men, women and chil- | dren descended the mountain path | gate DrasticDecrees R and boarded the Japanese Army { ks Approved French Premier Is Given Authority to Promul- LOCAL LABOR DISPUTE NOW NEARING END Strong belief was current today that building con- struction in Juneau would be going ahead full blast Monday morning with peace in labor ranks. This belief was expressed by Mediator John O’Connor of the Department of Labor this afternoon following “very encouraging conferences” with both CIO and AFL through last night and today. A committee from the CIO Industrial Union 882 was meeting with city officials and Mediator O‘Connor in the Council Chambers this afternoon in conference over a CIO proposal, the contents of which were not revealed, which O'Connor said “gives every hope that peace is imminent.” The proposal was to be presented to 882's rank and file membership late this afternoon with members of the committee concurring on the proposal saying they felt the proposal “should and would be accepted” and presented to the AFL for support and sanction, “probably tonight.” The outlook for settlement, O’Connor said, “Is extremely hopeful. We are getting admirable support from both sides and it does look like peace.” DEMOCRACIES OF WORLD NOW THREATENED:FIGHT, IS PLEA OF BRITISHER Jurors Fail to Agree; Discharged KEYNOTE FOR NAT.DEFENSE IS SOUNDED ‘Se(relary—t)T State Hull Makes Definite An- nouncement Today 'WARNS ALL AMERICAN NATIONS TO STICK CLOSE Tofalitarian S;stems Re- buked and Warning Given on Invasion LIMA, Peru, Dec. 10.—American | Secretary of State Co el Hull told ‘Lhe delegates attencing the Pan ‘Amerlcan Conference that adequate r i | | | | | | defense against foreign military and political invasion of the New World ‘15 the immediate and paramount | problem and he coupled his state- {ment with a stinging denunciation iur despotic forms of government in delivering the keynote address. Secretary Hull emphasized that while all nations of the Western Hemisphere must work together, |each Nation must decide by itself | what measure it wants to take. i “As far as my country is concern- ed,” sald Secretary Hull, “let no one | doubt for a moment that so long as there is a possibility of an armed | challenge existing, the United States | will maintain an adequate defensive | military, naval and air defenses.” | No nation mentioned in Secretary | Hull's rebuke of totalitarian systems, | which he said were not new in the history of mankind but he did say up for Report was that the jurors stood EARI.Y MORNING 10 to 2 for conviction. It was under- | stood that six stood for manslaught- Sroen er, four for first degree murder and 3 two for acquittal. Fifty batlots were| Ten Cars and Locomotive taken, it was reported, and there| was said to be little change since the| | @aye Track — Many early ballots. f Only one report had come from | Passengers lnjured the jury to the court since it re- tired at 2:40 o'clock last Wednesday | ppprancE. Ohio, Dee. 10.—The afterncon and that was in the o) o0 ang Ohio's Fort Pitt Lim- nature of a request to Visit the |y y.o Gerailed 10 miles east of s’l“’“‘ L’:’";e B 1("&32:1;?; ,l‘fh‘;:‘;‘: here early this morning and many where the fatal shoo s Colling took place. This request was | seriously. Thursday. Last night Judge Alex-|™a; ¢ tne fast train’s 10 cars andersummoned the ’m:_r‘i u;{to €€ and locomotive and tender left the if they were near a verdict. He was | told by Foreman Flanagan that they | i, (o0 o to Pitts- were not :md» there appeared no burgh from Chicago. hope of reaching one. The Court The track was torn . said he didn't have the heart to areat distance. send them back for further delib- ~ i i eration in view of the report and the 55-hour siege they had already stood | and discharged them with instuc- olD AGE SYSTEM tions to report in court Monday | morning with the rest of the jury OF I“SURA“(E IS panel. - TO BE BROADENED Look Tired Haggard and worn the"jurors walked out of the court room anhd departed rapidly for their respective | passengers were injured but non’ that amaze the English, Germany is able to buy and buy and buy food, cotton and other raw ma- terials, and sell her own manu- factured articles to countries which England once considered her own customers, An article in the London Econ- omist points out some of the mech- |anisms by which Germany sews ‘up trade. Suppose Tobacco, oil and wheat are needed. All these are |available in the Balkan countries. Germany offers to buy large sup- Iplies of these goods. She will pay aski marks, which are good only for purchase of German goods in return. Maybe the Balkan countries don't |like to be tied up to buying only | German goods, so they object to | the deal. Germany promptly offers to pay higher than the world mar- | ket price. Farmers, eager for an | opportunity to sell at a high price, |insist that the deal go through. | And ‘outnumber everybody else, they have to be satisfied. | POWERFUL PERSUADERS since peasants in the Balkans | PARIS, Dec. 10.—The Chamber of | transport at Kukiang. The members | Deputies has voted confidence in of the party had been isolated in Premier Daladier, 315 to 241, thus | the refuge since Japan's army cap- approving of his decree of laws and tured Kukiang last July 26. | strike smashing methods. | Y R D The vote came after an uproari- | | ous sesion 1 whieh Datadier souen ORQWERS VOTE ‘ |support for his stiff stand against | Ttalian colonial expansion at French | o" (oNIRol OF | expense. ! One of the strike laws is that any indication of a strike will result in (Rops I" 1939 men being sworn into the Army or | Navy and immediately subjected boi v vl military law. As the result of his| strike decree, longshoremen and | sailors called off their strike. Sev-| eral steamers were tied up as the | result of sailors striking and lhc‘ |Navy law was enforced but before | | swearing in took place the sailors| announced they would operate the ships. Navy officers were placed aboard all ships threatened with [Lie-ups and with power to act at the | slightest sign of infractions. His stand on resistance to Italy is also approved. Rice, Cotton and Tobacco! Farmers Are Deciding Course, AAA Powers WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The issue of Governmental control as opposed to unlimited production, | confronted growers today of three |major crops in 19 states, stretching from the South Atlantic to the Pa- cific. | Growers of cotton, rice, and flue cured tobacco, voted by secret bal- |lot on proposals that the Agricul- NEW YORK, Dec. 10.—Capt. An-|that “fundamentally they are the thony Eden, former British Foreign same forces that for centuries held | Secretary, told business men gath-|Men in bodily slavery and spiritual | ered at a banquet last night in his | degradation.” | honor given by the National Asso-| Secretary Hull further declared T p< ] Air Bases |ciation of Manufacturers, that the “there must not be a shadow of a | Democracies of this world must doubt anywhere as to the determin- I d. I d summon all energies to survive the ation of American Nations not to naicaied ruthless challenge now being made. | Permit of invasion of this Hemis~ | former homes to catch up on the sleep they indicated they needed badly. The defendant, Smith, who is Social Security Advisory | tural Adjustment Administration be |given sales limiting power for 1939. i & NEGROES DIE, 1 That leaves the Balkan |loaded with aski marks with which | The huge audience cheered the phere by armed forces of any power British Cabinet member OF any possible combination of pow- — | spontaneously for several mlnubezi‘er-"'-‘v ., |8t various intervals' during his b ., g Both Army and NGVY Will straight from the shoulder talk. ]BUILDINGS ARE t1adinnt Stifling Moves | Seek Appropriations . " DESTROYED BY | “It would indeed be the greatest| '0 Star' work irony in. human history if mankind | should allow all progress to be| IERR'FI( wl"D stifled by setting up a new form of | WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Fresh|idolatry and worship of state to Ay indications of forthcoming authori-|which all men must bow down and | . tative military legislation is again|to which they must sacrifice rree.;Walls CO”BDSO in Street- hinted. |dom of speech, actual freedom of Official circles declare that sev-|person and also worship. Yet such is Ya(h's Are Blown eral Army and Navy air bases are|the new doctrine in many lands at included in the Administration’s de- | present and which has passionate Ashore, S‘{dney fense plans. and ruthless devotees,” said Capt. The Navy Department announces | Eden. . SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 10. — a special survey board has agreed Capt. Eden said the United States| Widespread damage has been to recommendations to Congress for (and Great Britain must show the|caused as the result of the worst certain air bases. It is also known that high Navy officials want a base in Alaska and | way for the solution of the problems | facing the world’s Democracies. | Council Is to Make Recommendations they can buy only German goods. | | Now if a Balkan importer has been used to buying British shoes or fab- |rics or steel, he will be persuaded | WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — The |instead to buy in Germany because | Social Security Advisory Council has | the banks have to use up this Ger- charged with slaying Colling, a former steward on the Tongass, in| the Smith home here over alleged intimate relations Smith claims Col- | ling had with Mrs. Smith, appeared as the Foreman announced the th | pleased with the result and smiled drafted sweeping recommendations man exchange. Thus Britain loses | deadlock. broadening the Government's old & customer. | : There has been so much of this age insurance system that wouldl 3 eph Jurces o 4be ogse REes IPeBR e nerall ot iinaes. and in|thal the Belkans sie loaded. with| W. Flanagan, John Niemi, Jenkins Officials estimated 2,500,000 farm- ers eligible to vote cast vallots. The outcome is expected to indi- |cate the fate of the present Crop | Control Law in the next Congres- sional session, ELECTRIC CHAR FOR KILLING 4 Largest Number Execufed o in Georgia's History Daughter of Civil M. Williams, Oscar Christenson, John Clausen, Alvin H. Anderson, H. L. Cochrane, Chester L. Williams, first payments. Plans are also made to broaden the Act to include sea- Mrs. Isabelle Jorgenson. Alleine men, bank and charitable workers. Council, Elsie Johnson and Hugo V.| Officials of the Council said they Fredrickson. hoped liberalizing the law would e defeat “unsound” pension plans. Thousands Left pemonsirations Destitute from | preaking Out in Vicious Typhoon ~ African Empire MANILA, Dec. 10.—Over crippled communications come reports of 56 TUNIS, Dec. 10. — Anti-Italian deaths, thousands are homeless and | demonstrations spread westward destitute and uncounted numbers through France’s Arab Empire and injured in parts of the Central the crack North African troops Philippines where a vicious ty- guarded the Tunisian-Libyan front- phoon swept two days ago, then |ier- : whirled away over the China Sea. | Hundreds of mobile guards and Relief workers counted 12,000 mounted police patrol the streets homeless in one district alone on | to prevent demonstrations, some of Samar Island. them getting almost out of hand. some cases moving up the date of aski marks. They can’t spend them | 2 for anything except German goods. And Germany isn’t always willing them what they want. The may want steel building | materials but Germany instead wants to sell toys and glassware | Yugoslavia was compelled to buy |huge quantities of aspirin, Ru- | mania bought thousands of type- | writers, and Greece bought mouth organs by the hundred thousand. to sell Balkans BIG MUNITiONS MARKET In an effort to use up more of the growing supply of aski marks, many Balkan countries agreed to buy Ger- man munitions. Now why should Germany, engaged in an armament race, sell munitions? Simple, says the London Economist. Germany obsolete for a first class power. They still are satisfactory for smaller countries. . Much of this same type of trade goes on with South America. Sell- (Continued on Page Six) sells munitions which are growing | in One Day -~ War Officer Dies REIDSVILLE, Georgia, Dec. 10.*‘ Six young negroes, buoyed by song BOSTON, Mass., Dec. 10.—Lady and prayer, died in the electric Anne Elizabeth Grenfell, 53, wife chair during the night for the ©f Sir Wilfred Grenfell, and his co- slaying of three white men and a worker for many years in the fam- young mother. |ous Grenfell missions in Labrador, | The executions were completed in | dead here. 81 minutes. She was the daughter of a Civil The six are the most to die by | War Colonel who fought under Gen. executions in this state in a|Robert E. Lee. JANNE NILSSON, ™" agoarD LocKnEED FORMER AlASKAN, Shell Simmons, flying the Alaska Dl[ Air Transport Lockheed, made a trip 5, STOCKHOL to island points today, taking three STOCKHOLM, Dec. 10: — Janne in. passengers out and bringing three | Nilsson, 56, Swedish Defense Mlnis—" He flew R. G. Adams to Hirst, ter, once a prospector for gold in Al- | Leslie Melvin to Hoonah and August aska, is dead here. | Chopp to Lisianski. He brought back Nilsson prospected for gold near Mrs. John Maurstad and Bertha | Fairbanks, Alaska, and later worked | Tiber from Hoonah and L. C. Clark !as foreman and contractor. from Hirst. civilized country.” the Army also has declared for nn’ Democracy Imperilied Alaskan }l,mse. | “Whatever else the world may Chairman May, of the House Mil- |have been made, it has plninlx not itary Committee, favors appropria- | Peen made 5‘1“ for Democracy,” said | tions for the start of work in Al-lcap"' Eden. “We are not calling for aska., help to others, we are not seeking to lure others to pull our chestnuts from the fire. We have no such in-| | tentions. We know we are destined | in our own land, in our own time | and our generation to live in a peri- B Investigation Is Bringing Forth | see the end.” H R k Goes to Roosevelt (aus"‘ emar s Capt. Eden arrived late yesterday LR |afternoon and was driven directly !from the liner Aquantina to the | Waldorf Astoria Hotel where he quickly dressed for the dinner given in his honor. Following his speech, which was also broadcast over a national hookup, he said he intend- ed to Washington and will probably have a long talk with President Roose- | velt. He intends to return to Eng- land, possibly aboard the Queen Mary on her next sailing. He re- cently resigned on account of the “lay-down” policy of Premier Cham- | berlain. - e, Private Utilities Compare with Fascism at TVA Hearing WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. — Two memers of Congress compared pri- vate utilities with Fascism before the TVA investigation committee. Senator H. H. Schwartz, Demo- crat of Wyoming, co-author of the TVA Act, said: “I wonder if inte- gration of private utilities is not a form of Fascism?” ! Senator Fred H. Brown, Demo-| In a modern turbine steam en- crat of New Hampshire, replied: ters at a temperature hot enough “It is the most powerful and cor- |t burn wood and 3-100 of a second rupt influence ever organized in a later it leaves at a temperature too | cool for a comfortable bath. lod of emergency which nome can | leave sometime today for | series of windstorms in the history of this city. | Walls of 2 number of buildings | collapsed in the streets. Dozers of yachts in the harbor have been blown ashore. Communicatio are disabled. One terrific gu ¢ the wind shook the new $50,000,000 harbor bridge, blowing a street car, also passenger |trains from tic rails. as it may seem, no casu- been reported although hundre<; are oo ed to have been seri injur bv flying debris or bouig blown abo 'LON COPE TAKES | THREE UP TODAY | Lon Cope took a Marine Airways plane to Sitka and Warm Springs Bay today, taking three passengers out and bringing back one. Mr. and Mrs. William Doe flew to Warm Springs Bay and Oscar Tilson flew to Sitka, while a Mr, Olds was brought in from the His- toric City. SHOPPING DAYS TILL s CHRISTMAS 7

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