The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 13, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Adn e — VOL. LIIL, NO. 7973. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SHIPWRECKED CREW STILL MAROONED - Chamberlain May Sound New Peace Note . AGGRESSORS . AREWARNED BY PREMIER Britain Is Ready fo Defend Empire Allies But In- vites Disarmament POLICY T0 BE OUTLINED, FOREIGN PRESS DINNER Prime Minister Is Not Dis- heartened by Criticism, He Declares to World ( SOCIATED PRESS) A series of new efforts to settle old world differences took shape in Eurcpe today as 21 American Re- publics formed new projects for increased trade in the new World, while cooperating for peace. Premier Chamberlain, of Great Britain, again in the key role for peace appeasement and it is ex- pected that tonight at a press din- ner he will give out a new foreign policy to an expectant Eurcpe as well as world warning that further aggression will not be successful and Great Britain will resist invasion of her colonies and allies. This course, if announced, is un- derstood to be one that will follow until Premier Chamberlain visits Premier Mussolini in Rome about January 14. The speech is expected to concern the prospect of German gestures toward Memel, former German ter- ritory. Some importance is also attached to the forthcoming visit in London of President Schacht, of the Reichs- bank, who will confer with Monta- gue Norman, head of the Bank of England. in which an opening wedze may be made in Anglo-German settlement considered possible by financial arangements to aid Jewis emigration and also some agree- ments in trade relations. Nine persons have been arrested in Kaunas, Lithuania, accused of fomenting poct ecton iy Other Officers of Concern| has put new obstacles in the way of Jews removing property from Ger- many, forbidding them to take with them anything except possessions necessary to strictly personal use. - e NAZI HAS NEW SCHEME T0 GET JEWS 10 LEAVE One Rich, Four Poor to Be Exchange on Propos- ed Export Basis BERLIN, Dec. 13. — The Nazi Government is considering a plan to get Jews out of the country by coupling emigration with Ger- man exports. One rich Jew and four poor Jews will leave the country as enough German exports are sold abroad to yield foreign exchange to meet the costs of emigration. One wealthy Jew will find one abroad to lend him sums neces- sary to enable him to start life in some other country. Germany will reimburse the foreign Jew if he buys German goods. ——————— "SONNY"* LUND GOES OUT T0 STUDY MORE ABOUT PLANE WORK wilfred “Sonny” Lund, promising young Juneau aviator, sailed for the Outside on the Alaska to spend three or four months in San Diego and flying school. Lund expects to ground course in aviation and other flying courses as well, | \ | ; ‘ Wurden fen U rhowa #th two wooden gy When the gung were wvie real or nog Lt of the state His Fist Foils Prison Break penitentiary at Stillwater, Minn., is w5 with which two convicts tried to escape. in his ribs, he didn’t know whe! t ed the break with a right to the leader's jaw. r they 16 TIME IN DIPLOMATIC SERVICE NOW ATTRACTING MANY YOUNG FEDERALISTI MCKESSON DRUG HEAD ORDERED UNDER ARREST fo Be Taken Info Cus- tody»by U. S NEW YORK, Dec. 13.—F. Don- ald Coster, President of McKesson- Robbins, drug concern, whose fin- ancial affairs are under investi- gation, was ordered arrested today by Federal authorities on a charge of violating Securities Exchange Act. George S. Dietrich, Assistant Treasurer; George Vernard, Mon- treal agent, and W. W. Smith, Eng- lish agent for the drug concer also were ,ordered taken into cus- today. e JOHNMIHALCHI, MINER OF NORTH, LEFT BIG ESTATE Sum of $96,000, in Bank, Is in Cash—Widow Gets $35,000 Plus | SEATTLE, Dec. 13.—The late John Mihalchik, pioneer Alaskan miner, left an estate of $115,000, of which 1$96,000 was in cash in a bank. | " The widow was awarded $250 a | month pending distribution, and | $35,000 1eft to her by the will. Brothers and sisters, and several | others, were left varying sums. | .- The 2885 students who eat in the Texas A. & M. college mess |hall consume an average of 2,000 |pounds of . potatoes daily; 190 ‘take a thorough Pounds of butter, 2,700 pounds ol‘ fmeat, 5600 hotcakes, and 9,000 biscuits. | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 The State Department always has been the aristocracy of government serv- ice—at least to those outside looking in—and this, coupled with the new —== Feell, emphasis now placed on Latin Am-/ erican relations, has brought on a | fever of ambitious yearnings among | young Federalisti. do big things in the government is the unheralded but sensational rise of Laurence Duggan. In five years this slendor son of Harvard bound- ed from his first State Department job to chief of the division of Am- erican republics—one of the top- rung places in the career service. ‘And he is only 33. Exciting to the lads who want to Scores of promising college grad- | uates are examined each year by the State Department for the half- | dozen openings in the career service |and numbers of employees of other |departments take after-hour train- ing in foreign service schools hope- ful that the lightning will strike them. (Imagine the thrill of being sent to Berlin as third secretary of legation or assigned | Buenos Aires.) DUGGAN HAD ADVANTAGES Duggan had something of a flying | I plentiful back- scholarship to had a ground of family begin with. His father, Stephen Duggan, is professor of political science at the College of the City of New York, and director in a half- dozen scholarly and diplomatic so- cieties, including the Council on oreign Relations of the League of Fi Nations Association, and the Insti-| tute of International Education. The institute sent young Duggan | to South America in 1929 to expan its work there. He learned a lot, made a favorable impression, an within a year was chosen by the State Department as research assist- ant in the Latin American division. His pay was $3,200 to begin with, | quite a leap above most starting aspirants, who do well if they push | above $2,000 at the kickoff. Duggan worked at his job by day and studied at night, won the at- tention of Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, and tried to shed useless elements of a slightly |shy disposition . By 193¢ he was | bringing home $4.600 a year. September 1, 1935, he drew $6,500 as assistant chief, and two months lat- (Continued on Page Six) | | to romantic | | By, - PLEADS GUILTY TO MURDER CHARGE; 1S GIVEN LIFE Quick Ending fo Ten-Year- | 0ld Mystery Case af Se- attle-Plea Changed BULLE ATTLE, Dec. —The jury, out only 19 minute: returned a verdict for life impri- sonment for Mrs. Smith, SOBS OUT “GUILTY” | SEATTLE, Dec. 13.—Mrs. Mary Eleanor Smith, 73 this forenoon sobbed out wildly and pleaded guilty to first d murder of James | Eugene Bassett here 10 years ago. She changed her plea immediately after Ba tt's widowed mother, Mrs. Marian Bassett, testified that she did not want the flicted A few minutes later the jury was empowered to decide between imprisonment and death and retired to deliberate on Mrs. Smith's fate. Mrs. Smith cried out that her slaying confession made last spring was not made voluntarily. “It was such a terrible thing to my son,” Mrs. Smith sobbed. The jury informed for the first time this morning that Mrs. Smith’s son, codefendant, had taken his life Sunday night in the jail Glances at his !brought out the information the jur benefit Mrs. Smith changed her plea to guilty by agreement of counsel after Superior Court Judge Batchelor re- jected a motion for a directed ver- dict of guilty. | There still remains the secret as to what became of Bassett’s body. MOTHER ONLY MOURNER, BIER OF SUICIDE SON ce was Small Spray of Yellow| Flowers on Coffin of Decasto Mayer SEATTLE, Dec. 15—Only a spray of small yellow chrysanthemums sent by Coroner Otto Mittelstadt was on the casket at the private funeral services held last night for | Decasto Earl Mayer, 44, who took | his life Sunday night in the county jail. He was in prison as a habitual criminal. Mayer’s bereaved mother, Mrs. | Mary Eleanor Smith wept near the bier, the only mourner, and then re- turned to her cell in the county ja to wait for resumption of her t for first degree murder in connec- | tion with the death ten years ago of James Eugene Bassett, of Annap- olis, Maryland. Mrs. Smith implicated her son in a confession made while she was serving time in the Walla Walla ison, She now faces the trial alone e DIDNT RETURN . HITLER SALUTE; GIVEN BEATING American Newspaperman Handled Roughly by Uniformed Guards WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. — The United States has made a protest over the reported beating of Robert Sellmer, American free lance news- paperman, last Sunday at Kaunas during the Memel Diet elections. An official of the American Con- sulate made a special trip to Kaun- as to investigate the case. Sellmer, native of Milwaukee, Wis- consin, and resident of New York City, said he was beaten by three | uniformed guards for not replying {to a Hitler salute as he was crossing | a Memel Street. vacant chair | for Wilson to “Remain Home Indefinitely” death penalty in- | life | Hugh R. Wilson (left), United States Ambassad: capacity in the State Department, | CZECH LEADER GIVES NATION'S FUTURE COURSE Premier Saysrlt Will Be Based on Nationalism, Not Infernationalism PRAGUE, Dec. 13.—Premier Ber- an told the Parliament of the Czech- oslovakia Republic that relations with Germany will be based on friendship of Nationalism instead of internationalism and this will de- termine this nation’s future cou Premier Beran appealed to Germ- | any, however, to understand the “pyschological effects of the loss of the territory which we have over-| {come.” - PAABRINGING PASSENGERSIN ~ * FROM INTERIOR BULLETIN—The plane pilot- ed by Monsen and Hall was forced to turn back to W horse this afterncon with d: light failing and flying condi- tions uncertain. Both ships will come in tomorrow. GRAPEFRUIT narvest in Florida, which reports a record crop this season, wouldn’t be official without a “Girl Among BULLETIN—Only tB-plane Grapefruits,” She’s Sally Lyon and Hall afternoon, pi- loted by Nonsen will from Clearwater, Fla. come through this the — other ship to arrive tomorrow ALASKA CABIN Counting three children, two Pa- | cific Alaska Airways Electras we sengers this afternoon from the ~ DEATH OF TWO One plane is piloted by Al Mon- sen and Walt Hall and the other | —— by Bill Knox and Gene Meyring. e 3 2 Passengers with Monsen and Hall Fa'allhes in In'enor Are are Mrs. S. E. Robbins and three A children, A. Retzlaf, Mrs, John| Reporied by Game White, ¥. V. Mills, Mrs. Al Grab,| s Evan Duggan and Luella King Warden O'Connor Ted Mathews, Ann Dwyer, E i Wood, George Hellerich, And Miscovich, A. G. Thommen, Julius ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Dec. 1 Shaffick, Walter Heisel and F.|Cabin fires on November 29 in iso- Wood are coming in with Knox and lated points of the Interior, killed Meyring, A two and burned another critically, Both ships will return to Fair- according to game warden Jack O'- banks tomorrow, weather permit-|Connor, returning from Iliamna. ting. | Simeon Neketa, Indian @hief, and - PPNIPED |an expectant mother, were the two 4 | victims of fires. 0’CONNOR LEAVES 1 o C. J. Johnston, Secretary-Treas- D . |urer of the Goodnews Bay Min- John O’'Connor, Commissioner of | ijno Company, was a .\om}hbound Conciliation for the Department ai‘p, ssenger on the Alaska yesterday Labor, sailed south on the Alaska| johnston said the big new plati- |for his Seattle headquarters after num dredge on his company’s ln;edh'.lng,ln Juneau’s recently end- | ground, “performed even better ed building labor troubles. than we expected.” or to Germany who was recalled by President Roosevelt during the recent anti-Semitic terrorism in Germany, is pictured in Washington as he conferred with the press, It was announced that Wilson will remain in the United States indefinitely, § | Japanese occupation. HEAVY SURF FRUSTRATES RESCUE OF 19 'Haida Molo?Taunches on Patrol Outside Line of Bfireakers 'TWO MEN BELIEVED LOST DURING STORM Airplanes M—a—y— Be Used fo Ferry Stranded Sur- vivors to Yakufat BULLETIN — U. 8. Customs officials said late tais afternnon “there is a strong possibility” one or more airplanes will be dispatched at daybreak tomor- row fcr the scene of the wrecked Patterson in an attempt to ferry surviving crew members to the nearest port. Lt. Cmdr. N. G. Ricketts wire@* in just before press time thal flashlight “talks” last night had revealed the shipwrecked men had food and blankets, but a REPORT CHINA " HAS RECOVERED | 1 2ot i | Haida launches or surf boats With two men reported lost from the wrecked motorship Patterson, piled on the beach at Sea Otter Japanese Driven Out of Al - Sedlors by Counter Bty - vt | OffenSIve MoveS |nineteen members of the crew is still unknown. | Having stood by since early yes- SHANGHAI, Dec. 13. — Chinese terday afternoon, the Coast Guard | troops are reported to have recover- | cutter Haida reported this noon that ed virtually all territory they lost rescue of survivors ashore was still in the Hunan Province since the being frustrated by heavy surf. | Lt. Cmdr. N. G. Ricketts radiced The invaders have been driven the Customs Office here at 10:30 out of all sectors by counter offen-|o'clock this morning, that Haida | sive moves. | motorboats are patrolling outside the | Captures include three villages breakers waiting a chance to get | east Yochow and then the Chinese | through to the beach. moved across the border and are| During the night, flashlight sige inow within three miles of Tung-|nhals were exchanged between sur- cheng. |vivors and the Haida, but sleet, ‘ ool snow and rain squalls prevented ac- CLOSING IN ON CANTON |curate interpretation of the flashes HONGKONG, Dec. 13.—Chinese 0f dots and dashes which were be- troops are reported moving closer lieved to have said “two men lost.” to Canton in a big semicircle caus-| Rough Seas Prevail | ing the Japanese to withdraw into| With rough seas failing to mod- the city from previously conquered |€rate late today, Lt. Cmdr. Ricketts territory in South China queried the Customs House here as wi - to the possibility of employing air- erving 1n an advisory | | | | |planes on wheels or float to take Y EDE" |off the undetermined number of survivors seen around fires on the U. 5. PRESIDENT | - |Former B ritish Foreign A pontoon-equipped plane could be landed in the Sea Otter Creek estuary behind a protecting Spit, Pilot Sheldon Simmons believes,“if wind and tide conditions are right.” | sSimmons flew over the scene yester- day, but with low tide leaving little |water in the estuary, and wind | .. . j MIn|S|er Dedmes '0 COIn- ‘slgong from the southeast, was un< able to land. | ment on Conference | 7 | Plane Landings e Another possibility entertained, is WASHINGTON, Dec. 13—Anth- that at low tide, a wheel equipped | ony Eden, Great Britain's former | Plane could easily land on the hard | foreign minister, and President Roosevelt sat down in the White packed sands of the long beaches characteristic of the Gulf shore be- | House today to exchange views.| tween Cape Fairweather and Yi | When the visit was concluded Eden | tat. | chatted with reporters for a few| If planes are used to take the ill- minutes but all he would say was| fated crew from their wilderness | that he had enjoyed the talk with |refuge, they will probably be flown the President. | to Yakutat and to Juneau. h VIEWED FROM AIR Viewed from the air yesterday af= | ternoon at low tide, the 604 ‘ton , wooden hull motorship had appar- | ently been driven head on into the 13. — Closing | breakers at the mouth of Sea Otter - StoCcK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec 4 i quotation of Alaska Juneau mine|CIcek and was deenly imbedddisi stock today is 9%, American Can m:rzafi?lwnh a thirty degree star- ‘95". Commonwealth and Southern Three .ruu Rl R {14, Curtiss Wright 6%, General| o' Biinilgpud pans | Motors 49%, International Harv-|_ 0 e ester 59%, Kennecott 42%, New| York Central 18%, Northern Pacific 11, Safeway Stores Southern | Pacific 18%, United States Steel 64! emner bid 1, asked 2, Pound | [ $4.66% (Continued on Page Five) | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages, all showing an up | from yesterday: industrials 149.54, irails 29.86, utilities 21.60.