The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1938, Page 1

4 - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LIIL, NO. 7974. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS il SHIPWRECKED Chamberlain’s Spee C. F. JOHNSON 'HITLER NAIZI FORCES ARE EMBITIERED German R:p_resentatives Fail to Attend Foreign Press Dinner RESENT CRITICISM BY BRITISH PREMIER Plea for Peace Counteract- ed by Reaction fo Sharp Remarks LONDON, Dec. 14 Premier | Chamberlain told the world last night that he was determined to follow his policy of European ap- peasement, but cautiously warned aggressors that “attempts at domin- ation would never long be success- ful” Speaking before the Foreign Press Association and its guests, which included German, Italian and other diplomats, at the 20th anniversary dinner, Premier Cham- berlain announced that Great Bri-| tain was ready to defend her Em- pire allies but also offered to join an international disarmament con- ference. | The Premier admitted he had re- ceived “checks, disappointments and | setbacks” but added: “I am neither disheartened nor deterred by those passing phases.” The German Ambassador, Ger- man legation and German news- papermen protested by their ab- sépce Chamberlain's speech which rofindly criticised the German Press because part of it had called for- mer Premier Earl Baldwin a “gut- tersnipe.” The Germans sent regrets just béfore the Foreign Press Associa- tion dinner after they had read advance copies of the speech.Their absence was considered an insult and a violation of ethics. ECH SEEN AS JOLT TO NGLO-GERMAN FRIENDSHIP (By Associated Press) A jolt to Anglo-German friend-| ship caught Europe's attention to- day while 21 American Republics meeting in Lima considered a de- clgration to withhold recognition of any acquisition of territory ac- quired by aggression. Premier MEN GET AID FROM AR 1S ELEVATED T0 HIGH HONORS Is west Salmon Canners Association SEATTLE, D: ;~c F. Johnson of International Packing Company has been elected to head the North- west Salmon Canners Association for the coming year, succeeding Humphrey O. Roberts of Uganik Fisheries who retires after serving as President of the organization for the past four years. Eric Fribrock, who served as a trustee of the association during the past year, was moved up to the Vice-Presidency, which’ was vacated the elevation of Johnson to resident. Arthur I. Ellsworth was re-elected Secretary-Treasurer. H. O. Roberts was elected to the board of trustees. Other trustees, all of who served during the past year and were re-elected for 1939 are: W. T. Hale of Wrangell Packing Com- pany, Lawrence Freeburn of Pyra- mid Packing Company, W. A. Estus of Cook Inlet Packing Company, J W. Parks of Pioneer Sea Foods, A. W. Wittig of Shepard Point Pack- ing Company, and A. P. Wolf of Hood Bay Canning Company. The Northwest Salmon Canners Association is a sister organization to the Association of Pacific Fish- eries and includes in its member- ship most of the operators of small- er salmon canning concerns. Dur- ing the four ar administration of H. O. Roberts as President of the organization, it has cooperated with the Association of Pacific Fishetries in seeking solutions to the joint problems of the industry. During Roberts’ term, the two groups joined together to launch the na- tional advertising campaign to in- crease consumption of canned sal- mon. Roberts has served as Vice- Chairman of the advertising com- mittee of the industry. —— - CZECHS MAY BE RULED BY DECREE LAWS Proposal for Empowering Act Is Submitted to Parliament PRAGUE, Dec. 14. The new Czechoslovakia government has sub- CHINESE MAKE | - NEW ADVANCES | ~ ORIENTAL WAR Elected President North- New Division of JapaneseSDeep Sorrow Marks Home Soldiers, Wearing Spec- tacles, Reach Frontier SHANGHAI, Dec. 14—The Chin- ese Army officials report recapture of the village of Sitang, 20 miles southwest of Yuchow, straightening their lines through the mountains from Tungting Lake to the southern tip of Hupeh Province, 100 miles southwest of Hankow. The Chinese press reports that a fresh Japanese division of 20,000 men arrived at the mouth of the|s Yangtze River during the past few | days. Most of the new arrivals wore | spectacles leading to the belief they | are business men and students who are now being drafted. - THOMPSON AGAIN | IS CANDIDATE FOR | MAYOR, CHICAGO Colorful Campaigner Firsi% fo Announce He Is | Entering Race ‘; —— | CHICAGO, Ill., Dec. 14—William | Hale Thompson tossed his sombrero | into another political campaign last | night, becoming the first candidate | to officialy announce he is in the‘ race for the mayoralty of Chicago. | A colorful campaigner, Thompson was elected mayor three times but was defeated for the fourth term in 1931 by the late Anton J. Cermak | and again in 1936 he was an un- successful candidate for Governor on the Union Progr e ticket. | S L P PIONEER FUND | DRIVE STARTS | HERE AT ONCE Gross Returns from South| | o Get Active for Old- | ' fimers’ Christmas | The drive to raise the usual funds for the pioneers in the Sitka Home | \ | mitted to Parliament an empowering | will be started at once. D. W. Gross, Chamberlain’s rebuke to|act which would place the country who has sponsored the fund for the | the German press and the conse-'in the ranks of authoritarian states. | past number of years, returned here quent absence of all the German | representatives from the Foreig Press Association dinner raised the’ speculation whether a barrier had | arisen to any full peace and under- standing between the two powers.| Chamberlain deplored the tone of | the German press for its recent| “vituperation” of former Premier | Baldwin. He reminded his listeners | “history teaches us that no form | of government ever remains the same.” | 3 “Frankly Astonished” | Fhe German Ambassador and all German press representatives after seeing advance copies of the speech | stayed away. A German foreign of- | fice spokesman said: “We are| frankly astonished,” but then added | the incident could be considered as one of the “ups and downs of | politics and not taken too seri- | ously.” Frenchmen said Chamberlain’s statement on Anglo-French rela-| tions “pass mere legal obligations™ and gave added strength to Pre-| mier Daladier’s hand, particularly | in' face of the Italian clamor for French territory. In Rome that| part of the speech was soft-pedalled and stress laid on his assertion he | would continue a policy of appease- | ment. This was interpreted to mean | Ttaly would get something when | Chamberlain confers with Musso- | lini next month. | SCANDAL, SAYS DIES | WASHINGTON, Dec. 14—Repre- sentative Dies said today that fallure of the Labor Department to report Communists, Fascists and Nazi aliens was becoming a na- tional scandal. Ae proposed, the law would give ernment the sovereign right to make constitutional changes by decree. —— - BABY CLIPPER IS IN KETCHIKAN; BE from the south on the Mount Mc- n | Premier Rudolf Beran and his gov- Kinley and will get busy at once. | The fund is being raised in Seat- |tle and while at Ketchikan Mr. Gross started the drive there. Wran- | gell and Petersburg Coliseum theat- | | srs will also start the money raising | | campaign. The funds are collected and sent from Juneau in time to reach the | ‘boys” in the Sitka Home for Christ- { MOTHER MAKES HEART-RENDING PLEA FOR 'BABY’ REARMAMENT RUSH IS By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. — So Following the appeal of high gov- | quickly was public attention caught ernment offficials to Alaska author- | by the rearmament excitement that ities to make every effort to try and |scarcely a flash of notice has been locate Wesley Wyatt, missing 21-|Paid to active and very energetic ear-old Juneau miner, came a let- | disarmament organizations which ter to Postmaster Albert Wile today | Will have their say before the next which tugs at the heart strings. It |Congress adjourns. of Wesley Wyatt in Camden, Tenn. was writlen by Wesley’s mother,| piulc enough it will be a for- Mrs. B. H. Wyait of Camden, Tenn. | ;oo 4 Drstitiess outburst be- ecember 2 and it tells its °“'“}cam-e the wheels are already roll- tory ing on an armament program that “Dear Postmaster: started up so fast it well nigh left “T have just heard that my SO, | pening even some of the foremosi Wesley H. Wyatt, has been lost sev-| jiiiayy Jeaders. eral days. Oh, please, let me knowj % lx;(v B IR (ot A Ay what is wrong. It will just kil me| A : o if he can't be found. Oh, please tell | Chief of staff, General Malin Craig, the people to do all they can. We are W":‘” into :“5 a';;:,"“' Eepdry. & poor folks and can’t go out there. He | Statement of confidence in pro- is our baby so. . . The last letter T|Eress of the army’s air force. Said got from him was mailed from Jun- | € in part: eau the 20th of October. | “Great progress has been made “All of you help all you can and |toward the attainment of the Baker God will bless you. board objective. Funds provided in ¥ | the fiscal year 1939 will permit com- “Mrs. B. H. Wyatt, Camden, Tenn.” pletion of this objective. Four searches for the young man,| (The late former Secretary of who was reported lost between Echo War Newton D. Baker and a com- Cove and Eagle River Landing,|mittee of generals and civil aero- have been made without success and | hautics specialists recommended officials have abandoned further in 1934 that the army air strength searches. |be increased by 1,000 planes to a - - 11940 total of 2320.) { | OPTIMISTIC REPORT | OUTDATED | General Craig's statement on air |armament officially published now | for the first time, is as out-of-date as a Civil War musket, although it Ketchikan Voles Against Issuing $150,000 Bonds KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 14— it. Its now only publication em- STILL BATTLING;DEFENSE FOESARE GOING AHEAD phasizes the speed with which the change came. A month or so after Craig’s report that the board's goal was nearly reached, President Roo- sevelt junked its figures as “out of date.” He declined to name new fig- ures but others did it for him. In a speech during Thanksgiving wee Louis Johnson, Assistant Secretary of War, hinted that defense needs might justify an air fleet of 7,000 or even 9,000 planes, instead of the 2,- 320 which Craig had accepted as suitable only a few weeks before. “Yesterday,™ said Johnson, “we believed that program calling for 2320 airplanes of all types by 1940 would protect us against | enemies from the air. Today, these | figures are far below our immedi- ate needs. . To meet the tre-| mendous pace that the rest of the world is setting, we must double, yes treble and even quadruple our present air force with the best air-| planes that can possibly be pro-l duced.” | a AIR CORPS SITUATION CHANGES | There is a further comparison. In | August, General Craig wrote: “The | air corps is now being equipped with | airplanes and material that are the | equal, if not superior to any military planes in design, speed, endurance and suitability for the military use for which intended.” | But note the change of pace in| McKESSON DRUG HEAD ARRESTED, ALSO ASST. TREAS. Four Separate_ Investiga tions Made Into $18,- 000,000 Mystery FAIRFIELD, Conn, Dec. 14.— F. Donald Coster, President of McKes- son, Robbins, drug concern, George Dietrich, Asisstant Treasur- ,|er, have been arrested by Govern- ment agents after several warrants were issued charging them with vio- lation of the Securities Act. The warrants were issued in New York and served on the two drug officers at Coster’s country mansion where he is ill, by United States Marshal Bernard Fitch. The action took place as four sep- erate investigations delved deeper into the mystery of the company’s apparent loss of $18,000,000 of its $87,000,000 listed assets. Both Coster and Dietrich are ex- pected to post bonds later. - RUTH ETTING WEDS MAN SHOT BY EX-HUSBAND Ceremony Is Performed in Nevada While Trial of Snyderon in L. A. and | is only three months since he wrote | November. Now, Assistant Secre- tary Johnson says: “Our air su-| LAS VEGAS, Nev. Dec. 14—In premacy is threatened. From Eu-|swift moving accompaniment to the rope come reports of pursuit ships|trial in Los Angeles of her former and attack planes of greater speed | husband, Martin Snyder, for at- e — " |tempted murder, Ruth Etting today (Continued on Page Thi ued on Page Three) Imarried Myrl Alderman, her for- For the third time in less than one| yvear, Ketchikan's taxpayers have‘ turned down a bond issue proposed (AN“ERY HA“DS to wipe out the cit; cash deficit. S BJE S Six more “yes” votes or a change | of two votes would have carried | the issue as 65 percent majority Ls Two Big Organizations in Confab Over Jurisdic- tional Fields required. The vote at the special election | vesterday for the bond issue was 312 favoring and 171 against. | The Ketchikan City Council had | proposed a $150,000 bond issue to| wipe out about $100,000 deficit and | also provide for new street im-| provements. | BANKER (HARGED | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 14— | The Federated Fishermen's Council wr"ll FRAUD IN | delayed their convention program |today to go into joint session with Agricultural Packing Allied Workers | of America, woman c I a I m s She and diction of cannery workers in Alaska. the giant CIO United Cannery and | The joint session is called on the Two Daughters Cheat- | e UcApawa, cIo has turi-| diction over cannery hands, but an | amicable settlement is expected. ed Of "arge Sum Delegates from the Fisherme) : | council plan granting fishermen’s NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—Mrs. DOr-| gr5,ps and those who work full time othy Ledyard Knight charges in a |y, canneries to the UCAPAWA. question of their overlapping juris-| |mer pianist, whom Snyder is ac- {cused of shooting. GERMAN SpY | The ceremony was held in the (o N v I (IED | chambers of Judge William Orr and i | immediately after the ceremony| |the party left for an airport and| MSSEETSES ARSI ch Causes Stir Abroad PLANES DROP SUPPLIES TO0 SHIP'S CREW Navy Bombers and Shell | Simmons “Bomb” Men with Food \VESSEL ACCESSIBLE BY ROPE, LOW TIDE Guiding Party May Be Sent fo Bring Party fo lituEPay BULLETIN—Late this after- noon it was announced from U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray’s office that two guides will be sent out with Alaska Air Transport pilot Sheldon Sim- mons tomorrow morning to guide the stranded Patterson survivors to Lituya Bay. The guides will walk over from Lituya Bay. | | | | A Juneau seaplane and two Navy bombers this afternoon dropped several hundred pounds of clothing and provisions to the eighteen sur- vivors of the wrecked motorship Patterson, north of Cape Fair- weather where the crew has been stranded since early Monday morn- ing when their ship was piled high on the surf-pounded beach at Sea Otter Creek. Shell Simmons made the flight with mechanic Go~'~n Graham in the Alaska Air Trun:port, leaving at daybreak today and returning this afternoon. Could Get Guide Simmons said he landed at Li- tuya, Bay, 30 miles south of the wreck scene and took off the plane door to permit of throwing over ( AN AI. ZONEjretumed to Los Angeles in a char- ?g': f}“’:‘"‘:lmz‘deg"n;:: :;:u :"‘:: |tered plane. e > | Lituya Bay he taled with Jim - [, The Rev.i0.'H, Siceh pefuiel Huscroft, veteran resident of the |the ceremony. Miss Etting gave ‘her age as 37, and Alderman gave| his as 30. Young SteamshipCompany | Employee Found Guil- | fy of Espionage "] DON'T CARE" | CRISTOBAL, Canal Zone, Dec.| GIR[ SERIOUSLY 14—Hans Schackow, 26, German steamship company employee, has Ill HouYWOOD 1] 'been convicted here of photograph- | HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. 14. — |ing Canal Zone fortifications in the | |zone's first espionage case. The| Schackow is one of four young;Physxcmns hold forth little hopes ‘F‘ederal jury deliberated two hours. 11 for recovery of Eva Tanguay, for- go on trial later. They were ar- | mer vaudeville star and the original rested last October 16 at Fort Ran- | . Don't Care” girl. She is seriously |ill in a hospital here. |dolph which defends the Atlantic .- Germans accused. The others wil |entrance to the Canal. During the | trial military officials testified they | |took from the defendants several] | pictures useful to foreign govern- | ments. | ———-———— NORWOMEN DINNER EVENT TOMORROW An event of tomorrow evening will | e | mas and give them some “loose sworn information that Thomas H.| Those cannery workers whose HERE TOMORRO Survey Fligmhip Expect- ed fo Be in Juneau Un- fil Saturday or Monday Pan American’s new Baby Clip- flights on the Seattle-Alaska run, left Sand Point at 8:34 a.m. this morning and landed at Ketchikan |at 2:10 this afternoon. After re- fueling in the latter city, Capt. John Mattis, pilot, announced the ship would remain in Ketchikan tonight and continue to Juneau tomorrow, weather permitting. According to report, the Clipper will stay here after arrival tomor- row until Saturday or Sunday be- fore returning to Seattle. B | change” for “their very own.” | e 'MISSIONARY GROUP | HAS SOCIAL HER At the Lutheran Church yesterday | | afternoon, members of the Interde- | | nominational Missionary Society convened for a short business ses-| sion, followed by a social program. Miss Leslie Reed spoke on the motto “Prayer Changes Things,” and Mrs. C. G. Bloxham gave an inter- esting talk on “Palestine and the | Jew,” touching mostly on the Arabs land Jews struggling for control of | Palestine. | A vocal selection “Stranger of Galilee” was sung by Mrs. R. B. Lesher, and Mrs. J. Cameron gave |a short closing talk on “Peace” | following which refreshments were Wilson, Vice-President of the Unit-| wo king year is divided between ed States Trust Company has de-| anning and agricultural pursuus‘DEFENSE (HIEF frauded her and her two infant| o) pe offered a joint organizing | ISSUE A' lIMA daughters of their share of the $14,- | program, the fishermen's delegates 000,900 estate of her late father,| suggested with the proposal that Lewis Cass Ledyard, Director of the | o1, groups go into convention to- LIMA, Peru, Dac. 14.—Delegates to the Pan-American conference re- port rapid progress in their plans for Chase National Bank. = et Mrs. Knight also accuses Wilson | of perjury and falsification in in-| come tax reports and falsified the| the defense of the Western Hemis- report required of the Trust Com- phere in case of any attack from any nation desiring to take any of the rich territory of South America or Central America, pany by law. Secretary of State Hull of the Uni- ol s < DN BT | ted States has been very active in DI DDE“[Y Approximately eighty persons at-|the proceedings. Former Gevernor tended the Christmas dinner of the A of Kansas and former presidential | Norlitemen last evening, held in the | candidate Landon is also taking a | Parlors of the Northern Light Pres- very active part in the development | byterian Church, with dinner ar-|of the plans for defense. rangements in charge of Mrs. Vena Crone. Charles W. Hawkesworth, guest speaker for the evening, spoke on the i Norlitemen Christmas| Dinner Well Attended | | | | Pioneer Barber of Skag- way, City Treasurer, 20 | OFF TO SKAGWAY | be the Norwomen Christmas party, | starting at 6:30 o'clock in the Par- |lors of the Northern Light Presby- | terian Church, with reservations closing tonight, being made with Mis Mary Jeanneatte Whittier. Guest pianist for the occasion | will be Miss Francis Wheeler, with | confmunity singing of carols on the program for the evenings entertain- ment. Each person attending is request- |ed to wrap and bring any simple | gift, suitable for distribution to the needy, to the party tomorrow. An- | nouncement being made that food and money are o the list of accep- table gifts. e | ParceI.P;m Windov; Lituya ay sectivi. who told him Sea Otter Creek was but a little betier thun a half day's walk from Lituya Bay by good trail and hard- packed cand beach. Simmons said Huseroft told him: “I'd go over an. uide them to my cabin liere where you could get | them out ea:ily, but I've had rheu- matism for pretty bad.” This afternoon, making his re- port to the Customs House here, Simmons was discussing the pos- sibilities of flying a guiding party to Lituya Bay tomorrow morning and leading the stranded men there. Guide To Lituya Bay This morning, wires from the Coast Guard cutter Haida said Navy planes would pick up the stranded men at Lituya Bay it they could walk out from where they are now camped. Placer mining operations north of Lituya Bay have been developed by several trails and short roads that would cut a few miles from the beach route around to Lituya Bay, according to men who know the country. Mechanic Graham dropped the supplies on the sand spit with Sim- mons flying low over the beach, “hitting the bull's eye every time.” The bow of the Patterson was dry, with the tide at extreme low, Simmons said, adding, “there is a rope over the bow and footprints leading up to it.” Graham said the craft now is resting on its port side. While Simmons and Graham dropped supplies, two Navy bomb- ers from Sitka, circled them and also dropped food. the past three years Will Remain Open Until 8 P. M. Tomorrow served by members of the Church. YeaI'S, PBSSOS AWBV | ——.— — | | MARINE AIRWAYS SHIP SKAGWAY, Alaska, Dec. 14.—Os- MAKES TRIP TO SITKA car Selmer, 62, pioneer barber of TYPHOON DEATH | 'l'Oll “ow 305 Johnny Amundsen flew out to Sit- | Skagway, and for over 20 years ka with one pasengers and brought | City Treasurer, passed away sudden- MANILA, Dec. 14—Three addi-|back three in a Marine Airwaysly this morning. tional casualties has swelled to 305 Fairchild today. Mrs. Selmer, five sons and three the known death toll from last| Outbound was W. F. Smith and|dgughters, all of Skagway, survive. Thursday’s typhoon which swept the | inbound, Gillis Royer, Carl Grehm! He was a member of the Masons, central ‘Phitippine provinces. l and C. L. Durgen, Elks, Eagles and Eastern Star. The Misses Venetia and Gerald- | topic “Christmas,” during which he|ine Peero left aboard the Mount read several selections from Kate| McKinley for Skagway for a holi-| The parcel post window at the Wiggin§ book, “Bird’s Christmas|day visit. | Postoffice will remain open until 8 Carol.” S G N R s o'clock tomorrow night to enable Three tenor solos were given by | POLLEYS ON TRIP late mailers to get their packages Stanley Cox, accompanied at the| in the Postoffice in timet to catch piano by Miss Cynthia Batson, and| g M. Polley and Mrs. Polley left the North Coast which sails south comunity singing df Christmas car- | on the Mount McKinley for Skag-|at 8 o'‘clock Friday morning, it was ols were by candlelight and Was| way for a visit with their gon, Dr,nnounced by Postmaster Albert a feature of the evening. | Clayton Polley and his wife. ile. The cutter Haida is still standing (Continued on Page Eight) m SHOPPING & 7 oavs TiLc e CHRISTMAS (Y 2. N