The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 19, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7978. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1938. SECOND SECTION—PAGES 1 TO 8 PATTERSON SURVIVORS FLOWN HERE Japan Aroused by Proposed U.S.- China Loan TOKYO VOICE CALLS PLAN 'DANGEROUS’ Foreign Minister Says It Will Cause Strengthen- ing of "New Order” WHICH MEANS CLOSING OF OPEN DOOR POLICY "Inopportune and Regret-| able Act” Says Spokes- | man of Nipponese (By Asscciated Press) Warning the United States that its Export, Import Bank’s plan to lend $25,000,000 to China was a “very dangerous political gesture,” Japanese Foreign Minister Arita to- day described the proposed loan to China as an “inopportune and regrettable act.” He declared Ja- nan mioht reeard it as a “form of political pressure and Tokyo will u.usupteaty find in it new grounds for strengthening the proposed new order in east Asia.” The new order means closing the open door in China which the United States has protested vehemently. As the added strain between Washington and Tokyo showed it- self, Italian colonial demands on France again worried Europe. Meanwhile, new anti-Jewish meas- ures developed in two countries of Central Europe. The Rumanian foreign office disclosed the removal of 510,000 Rumanian Jews to Pal- estine and certain British colonies envisaged. Diplomatic negotiations already are in progress with Great Britain. The Hungarian Cabinet, meanwhile, gave final touches to a bill to impose new social and economic restrictions upon Hun- gary's Jews, possibly limiting their voting rights. The Jewish popula- tion of Rumania is about a mil- lion and that of Hungary about 450,000. S e WARNING GIVEN WORLD POWERS AT LIMA MEETING Declaration Made that United States Will Not Stand for Aggression LIMA, Peru, Dec. 19.—Alfred M. Landon, Republican candidate for the Presidency of the United States in 1936, told the world that the Uni- ted States, regardless of party power in Washington, will “not tolerate any foreign Government gaining a foothold on this continent.” In a world wide broadcast from the Pan-American Conference, the former Governor of Kansas declared that the people of the Americas are horrified and shocked by the in- credible brutality in the world on both sides of the United States, not mentioning the persecution of the Jews by Nazi Germany and slaught- ering in the Spanish War, nor Jap- anese butchery of Chinese and des- truction of cities and countryside in the undeclared war. Landon preceded his declaration by a statement that unless “we be- come so soft we are no longer con- cerned as to whether other countries get a foothold on this hemisphere then the time has come to go beyond mere world gestures.” He also de- clared that the Monroe doctrine, however, is one policy the United States has pursued over a century that will be continued regardless of election results. e ee—— CANNERY WORKERS BUSY The Cannery Workers Auxiliary Union at Wrangell plans a busy time. Officers are to be nominated January 5 and elected January 17. On the latter date two delegates are | to be elected to the convention at Petersburg in February. He’s Held on Fraud Count 1CKES FLAYS ‘[ Balbo and His - (CARMAGNATE AND “LINDY" Says Flier and Ford Have Given Up Their Amer- ican Birthright ' ADMONISHES JEWS 10 "WATCH STEP" Declares Palestine Can Take in Thousands of Those Persecuted WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes said today that he felt any American who accepts a decoration from any dic- tator, automatically foreswears his | American birthright. “How can any American accept 'a decoration from the hand of a brutal dictator, who with the same hand is robbing and torturing thou- sands of fellow human beings?” Ickes said, adding: “Perhaps Henry Ford and Colonel Lindbergh will be willing to answer that.” Addressing a Cleveland banquet of the Zionist Society, Secretary Ickes admonished wealthy Jews to exer- cise extreme caution in the acqui- sition of their wealth and great serupulousness in their social behav- ior. Wealthy William P. Buckner, Jr., 31, close friend of screen actress Lo- retta Young, is pictured (left) he was arraigned in New York and nneld in $2,000 bail on charge of mail-fraud. Left, top, is Doris Donaldson, nd bottom, Noel Carter, Broadway showgirls, who denied report they were among the party of showgirls at the alleged “Congressional party” in Washington where political leaders were “charmed.” SOME CONGRESSMENHOP FROM FRYING PAN INTO REAL HOT FLAME BLAZE NOTRUCEIN | s SPANISH WAR | | By PRE | WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. — Mem- bers of Congress who like to get | their teeth into a resounding phrase like “downtrodden farmer” or Ickes said: “A mistake made by a non-Jewish millionaire reflects not upon his group, but upon him alone, while a false step made by a Jewish man of wealth reflects upon him and his whole race. “This is harsh and unjust, but the fact must be faced.” The Interior Secretary also said a great Jew had advised him that Palestine is capable of absorbing 50,000 Jews a year for years to come. e NEW CONGRESS FACES CHANGE OLD AGE PLAN Insurance May Be Given to Nearly Every Worker l"f’qu.llll}' of opportunity” are taking | BY (HR'ST AS‘an awful beating in the early days Insurgents Preparing for Offensive But Held Up by Weather HENDAYE, Dec. 19.—Hope for a Christmas truce in the Spanish civil war faded as Insurgent dispatches reached the border. These dispatch- es tell of continued military prep- arations for a drive which will, how- ever, depend “on the weather.” Bitter cold is sweeping Europe and has hit Spain. This cold wave is delaying the Insurgent offensive but is giving the Loyalists time to strengthen the Government de- fenses. - Judge C. Parish Dies in St. Loui ST. LOUIS, Mo., Dec. 19.—Unit- ed States Circuit Judge Charles Farish, who first ruled on the monetary policy of the Roosevelt Administration and the right of Congress to abrogate the gold clause in private contracts, died here today at the age of 74. TR R . EMPIRE'S CHRISTMAS . EDITION ISSUED . TOMORROW . ® The annual Christmas edi- e tion of The Empire, 28 pages, ® will be issued tomorrow. It is full of Christmas suggestions to o shopper as well as the usual © news section. It is issued to- morrow. Be sure and read it. 00000000000 | of the monopoly investigation. | In Unl'ed Sta'es ; They brought it upon themselves, | for they invited economists to put| WASHINGTON, Dec. 19. — The the bedrock under the inquiry and | Sccial Security Council has recom- | the economists set about doing it mended the eventual extension of lin a way that only economists can Federal old age insurance protection | devise. For four solid hours Isador |to virtually every man, woman and | Lubin, Commissioner of Statistics | child in the country. |in the Labor Department, pinned| This expansion will be brought | congressional and departmental | about by providing benefits for | members of the committee to their | Wives, widows and dependent child- | seats with a presentation of statis- ren of insured workers and estab- | tics that sum total of which ran|lishing insurance protection again:t far beyond billions. | permanent and total disability. | Lubin is no fan dancer when it| New Provisions s {comes to holding an audience and | These new provisions will bring in 20 minutes he had emptied a|into the program over a period of |fourth of the seats in the once|Y®arS, many new groups of workers, | crowded Senate caucus room. Two- ranging from domestic labor to self thirds of the spectators had had|employed business and professional enough by lunch time. | men, mechanics, farmers, and !"'But the members of Congress|Others. { : lcould not walk out on their own| Substantial changes in the finan- | hearing, especially since they had|Cing of old age insurance, as now | bally-hooed it to the skies. They | Provided, have been recommended |had to sit while Lubin told them,|8ls0- The suggestion now calls for |among other things, that based on{Setting up a comparatively small 1929 national income the country contingency reserve fund instead of 'had lost $133,000,000,000 duflngt"m’m’”mfllfly $47,000,000 in reserve the depression, or, if figured an-;“ct"mu‘fl!w"v as under the present ther way, the loss was $225,000,000- | SYStem. 800‘ £ | The Federal Government, under | the recommended plan, would bear one third of the insurance cost, N LET'S 'EM HAVE IT | 5 9ed LUBIN LET'S 'EM HAVE KT ¢ for |sharing equally in the total cost with figures and Lubin was in there:t‘mplo{)’i«:‘sfland emplney:;i“a::e, pitching. He was born with @ Sta-| v 4 g15 recommended that rev- $ surance be set aside in a special .S d er, add ?;"::_"gm:;‘;':;p;; :é“;‘; :ls:ll:;?:L:eract trust fund rather than turned into > .. |a general fund as at present. ;}lxe square root and the answer IS |~ g...¢0r vandenberg expressed the - 2 belief that the Republican Congress lost in the depression amounted to pemocrauc majority in enacting $110.354,000,000 man-years of labor |nto the law the changes recom- lost ran to 43,435,000 while coupon (Continued on Page Seven) and worthy of commendation,” Troops Manning Libyan Border Marshal Italo Balbo (bearded) is Tunisia indicate that the marshal shown reviewing Italian colonial troops in Tripoli: Reports from Frenct . who is governor general of the Italian north African colony, is moving troops to the Libya-Tunisian border, where France is said to have a “Maginot Line” in the deseri CHANGE IS PROPOSED IN ~ ALASKA RAILROAD ROUTE: SURVEY NOW BEING MADE Japan Plans New Adion China Front Punitive Expeditions Now Mopping Up Guer- rila Warfare SHANGHAI, Dec. 19. — Marking the turning point in Japan's in- vasion of China, Japanese punitive expeditions are beginning wide- spread attempts to clean up guerilla | bands infesting the already occupied | regions, instead of extending their lines for Japanese conquests. | Foreigners believe the Japanese eventually may be forced to fight down the Hankow-Canton Railway in order to smash Gen. Chiang Kai Shek’s forces entrenched in Kwangsi Province. | - e, — FRANK GORRIE NAMED CHIEF OF AP AT SEATTL Succeeds Harold Turnblad? Who Is Promoted fo News Editor, . F. SEATTLE, Dec. 19—The Associa- ted Press announces the appoint-| ment of Frank Gorrie as chief of the | Seattle Bureau of the Associated Press effective January 1. | Gorrie succeeds Harold Turnblad who has been promoted to the Sflnl Francisco Division of the Associated Press as News Editor. | Gorrie has been Sports Editor of the Pacific Northwest for the past nine and one half years. He joined| the Associated Press more than 20 years ago a check boy in the Seattle office. | — e RADIO INSPECTOR Harvey Gennings, chief of the mended. He also praised the report | Government radio service at White-lclub, One of the vi of the council as “highly practical'horse, is now official Radio Inspector [It is said he was robbed of of the district, |ard, tidewater terminal. TROUSERS OF ~ |cosTER CaLLED BIGGEST ILLICIT Late Drug Firm Head Also Figured in Gun Running, Some Officials Believe NEW YORK, Dec. 19. — Boston Lawyer Frederic Wingersky to- day swore he drafted, at the behest of F. Donald Coster, a contract to purchase Enfield rifles by McKes- son-Robbins drug firm and Stan- or August. dard .Oil of England. He made the Simultaneously with the an-|statement to Assistant State Attor- nouncement of Col. Ohlson, came ney General Ambrose McCall who is a radiogram to the Seattle Post- conducting the inquiry into the af- Intelligencer from Mayor D. C.| fairs of the McKesson-Robbins cor- Brownell of Seward, disclosing that | poration of which Coster, who com- the citizens are militantly Dppuflng‘mitted suicide last week, was the the plans as it would eliminate Sew- | President. At the same time, Col. Ohlson said the protest is/ Mahon, Assistant United States At- immature inasmuch as no recom- | torney General, arriving from Wash- mendations have been made to the ington, described Coster, whose true Federal Government but when the | name was Philip Musica, as probably study of the proposed cutoff is made, the “biggest illicit liquor dealer in facts and figures will be presented |the country.” to the authorities at Washington| Emphasis was placed on the gun and a decision will be left up to|running angle. Investigators ad- them whether a change will be|advance the theory that missing made. | assets might be in the form of un- Col. Ohlson said the new route|paid bills for shipments of guns and is much shorter than to the one now ammunition. Wingersky said the to Seward, will eliminate two moun- contract was never consummated. tain grades, reduce operating costs - >-ee and also reduce freight rates from 10 to 30 percent. Kllls ll'wo I“ LOVE AFFAIR; 1] Enamored Young Mexican Also Hacks Two Others in Texas Escapade AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 19.—Frauk Salazar, enamored young Mexic; field hand, who slew Mr. and Mrs. Paul Kennedy, hacked their two young daughters and kidnaped an- other daughter, has been captured | by officers who surprised him in the | home of his sister. Wilma Kennedy, 16, with whom iSal)lzm' is in love, was with him and unharmed. She was ignorant of the fact that her parents had been |shot and her sisters hacked. She claimed she was never in love with the Mexican 1g ;4 e STATE HAS SNAKE-HUNT CHEYENNE, Wyo.—The Wyom- SEATTLE, Dec. 19.—Plans for re- routing the Alaska Railroad to cut | off 53 miles is revealed by Col. Otto | F. Ohlson, General Manager, who | has ved here enroute to Wash- ington, D. C. | Col. Ohlson said engineers will study the feasibility of the route and this will be completed by July TO PORTAGE BAY According to recent announce- ments appearing in The Empire, the | new route would be to Portage Bay | on Prince William Sound. It is said the new route would cut off the| present right-of-way at about Mile 63 and would run 10 or 12 miles to Portage Bay. It is estimated the cost would be approximately $10,-| 000,000. Such a change would leave Seward without railroad connection. | >ee THIRTY MEN ARE RIFLED Youthful Gunmen Stage Unique Holdup of Exclusive Club PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. Three youthful gunmen last night forced some 30 .men to remove their | trousers, then rifled them of be-|ing fall rattlesnake hunting season tween * $10,000 and $30,000 in a has opened. Three Cheyenne men hold-up of the exclusive Beacon | killed 54 of the reptiles in a den 30 ictims fainted,| Miles north of here, first mass | slaughter reported this year. The snakes were hibernating in a den. $6,000 roll. LIQUOR DEALER Brian Mec-| ’Engine;,ra 3rd - Mate Brought ~ To Hospital Sheldon Simmons Makes | Rescue When Lands - Near Beach Camp |OTHERS ARE REPORTED FAIRLY 600D CONDITION |Juneau Aviator Flies Through Severe Weath- er in Heroic Dash Two of eighteen survivors of the |ill fated Patterson wreck were help~ | ed out of Shell Simmons’ Alaska Air | Transport Lockheed in Juneau this |afternoon weak from six and a half | days of exposure to bitter elements on a storm battered beach nerth |of bleak Cape Fairweather on the | Gulf of Alaska. Pilot Simmons early this after- | noon negotiated a landing with his | pontoon equipped plane in the rough | water of Sea Otter Creek behind | the poor protection of a s2nd spit on which the wrecked Patterson is pil- ed, asked for the “two worst” of the | marooned party, took them aboard {and brought them into Juneau. Survivors Here | The two brought In are Chief | Engineer Claire McDowell and Steve | Johnson, Third Mate. Both are | weak and wet and tired eyes looked |out of a week’s growth of whiskers. Taken to St. Ann’s Hospital im= imed\a!ely for medical attention by Dr. L. P. Dawes who smiled at John- on’s first request for a “drink o' whiskey,” spoken through a rack- ing cough that hinted of near pnue- | monia. | 'Both men got their whiskey and | were pronounced “sound” except for | the rigors of expbosure. | Story of Wreck The story of the wreck, as told by both officers in their hospital rooms, is a tale of blind sailing, terrific Isurr. death of two, and fearful cold winds burdened with rain and snow. According to the officers, the ship struck the beach in thick weather Sunday night December 11, four | minutes before midnight, engines |under full steom and the tide near | flood, rolling up hungry mountains |of white surf that smashed over stern quarters and boiled forward | with crushing force. Swept Overboard Trying to get lifeboats over, Chief | Officer Gustaf Swanson, leaning out to hold the wildly swinging craft steady in its davits, became the frist of the two lives claimed by the sea. A heavy breaker struck the lifeboat and swep’ Swanson into the sea. Later, seaman James Moore, who made the beacii with a lifebelt and attempted to cios the eight knot curreni of Sea Otter Creek, was knocked from his feet in the flooded stream and was also drowned. Neither body was recovered. Four men made -hore in a lifeboat and (1 other: got to the beach at extreme low t vheu the bow went ry and a Jacub's ladder was put over. Week of Torture Then began a weck of torture, the | first two days and nights of which | were spent on the gale swept beach, just back of the bexch line, without | shelter or dry eclothing. Chief Engineer McDowell said on the third day two men managed to reach the bow of the ship at low tide and brought ashore an automobile tarpaulin with which they made & shelter, their first since the wreck occurred. The brief day by day notes of (Conuriued on Page Two) ‘;q, %, 4 (L) SHOPPING * ‘fi\‘ i DAYS TILL ] CHRISTMAS ".i’