The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIR o~ VOL. LIIL, NO. 7979. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS -] NEW YORK MAYOR VICTIM OF ASSAULT Patterson Crew WEAKER MEN Six Leave Yesterday After- ‘noon, Others Catch Up Today HAIDA SURF BOAT GAINS BAY SHORE Cyane Landing Party to Aid Survivors With the sixteen remaining sur- vivors of the wrecked motorship Patterson walking from their beach camp at the scene of the wreck eight miles north of Cape Fair- weather towards Lituya Bay to- the cutter Haida reported this ng a landing party had been put ashore safely in Lituya Bay to i the march that may bring the unfortunate men home for Christ- mas. Radio mes s from the Haida last night said the Juneau guide Nels Ludwigson, who was landed with Shell Simmons yesterday at the wreck when that pilot negotiat- ed a dangerous landing in Sea Otter Creek- estuary, yesterday afternoon started walking the Patterson sur- vivors towards Lituya Bay, 30 miles east of the wreck. Ludwigson, according to barely discernibie flashlight messa; to the cutter from shore, started down the beach shortly after Simmons left for Juneau. The Juneau guide took with him six of the weaker men, and it was understood the stronger men would catch the lead party at a camp four miles towards Lituya -this morning, from where they would all continue to a camp tweive miles toward Lituya from the wreck Lieut. Comdr. N. G. Ricketts on the Haida, said communications would be established with the walk- ing party tonight if their camp fires can be located, and their condition Now Hiking for Lituya Bay ' Franco Bombs for Madrid Commander Garcia Morato of the Spanish Nationalist air force loads | the bomb racks of his plane before t and terror on the Madrid front. sixty enemy planes and has been San Fernando, SUPREM FORMER INDIANA " GOVERNOR TAKEN BY DEATH TODAY Warren 1. McCray, Once a Federal Convict, Weal- thy, Dies Suddenly ECOURT BROADENS FIELD OF FEDERAL POWER; RECENT DECISION IS CITED ¥ ] aking off from Burgos to spread death Morato is credited with bringing down | decorated with the Laureled Cross of | ciety Franco’s highest honor for wal,ol'7 By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. — Tt is getting so a man can hardly blow away the smoke from a cigarette | without finding himself engaged in | (or affecting) interstate commerce. | so broad is the scope of the Su- { preme Court decision in the case of nsolidated Edison Company of New York against the National La- bor Relations Board that a whole new scanning of the horizon of Federal-regulation seems likely. Consolidated Edison is a tremen- dous power company in point of PHYSICIANS INDICTED BY ~ GRAND JURY Government B;ings Action | Against American Medical Assn. 'FISHBEIN, DR. WEST NAMED IN CHARGES ‘Claims Madah_at Societies Violated Sherman Anfi-Trust Act WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 | American Medical Association, three local medical ieties and 21 indi- | vidual physicians Nave been indict- led by the Federal grand jury for | violation of the Sherman anti-trust |act The societies are the Medical So- of the District of Columbia,| | the Harris County, Texas, Medical ‘Socxely and the Washington, D. C., | Academy of Surgey Among the physicians indicted are | Dr. Olin West, Secretary of the Am-| erican Medical Association, and Dr. | Morris Fishbein, editor of the Medi- cal Association’s Journal. The Department of Justice insti- tuted proceedings against the Asso- ciation last October charging it was acting in restraint of trade, specifi- cally charging the Association, some local medieal societies and individu- al physicians were preventing other physicians from forming cooperative medical organizations for supplying | medical service and were refusing | membership in medical societies to individual physicians who joined such cooperative groups. e e————— MINING MAN OU | IDE | John Beaton, one of the two orig | inal discoverers of the Iditarod min- ing region, is a passenger south bound on the Mount McKinley, ac- companied by Mrs. Beaton for the winter Outside. The Beatons make their home in Anchorage. R Lt — The| New York Hello Girls Bring Joy to the Poor SLUGGED ON Miss Charmione Wheeler is shown rolling the call to other gifts the employes of the New York Telephone for the poor children in New York’s hospitals, PLANE AFIRE CRASHES;THREE arms on her drum. Atty. General 'May Defend |An Assassin | | MEN ARE DEAD WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—Friends | One Charred Body Found with Parts of Bodies of Others SAN ANTONIO, Tex A burning airplane crashed into un} - | army officers |open field near Boerne, Texas, 30 "L SEVERE (OLD and at least three men were Killed. One charred body and parts of | bodies of two other men have been miles northwest of here L found. - D HUFEISONS SOUTH BOUND of Attorney General Homer Cum- | mings said he is considering an offer to become a member of the counsel | for Merschel Grynszpan, Polish Jewish youth who assassinated a German diplomat in Paris last| month. | The Attorney General is leaving | Dec. 20.— | his post on January 1. | —es WAVE LEAVES SCORES DEAD | | 1t’s for the hundreds of dolls and Company have contributed to make a happy Christmas institutions and poverty-ridden homes, T0KYQ PLANS " S.YEAR DRIVE INNORTH CHINA Japan Indicates Long Cam- paign Be Necessary fo Pacify Vast Region SHANGHAI, Dec. 20. — Japanes: have outlined plans for a five-year campaign designed to pacify North China and to itubum a strong Chinese govern- ment friendly to Japan. It was seid | that troops were being moved nortt | ward from the Yangtze Valley to |help in this campaign. Spokesmen | said the swiftness of the invasion C. W. Hufeison, who was super intendent in charge of construction | |of the Pioneers’ Home at Sitka, and | of North China necessarily left many | |unconquered pockets in which guer- |illas are now operating. ENTERING CHY HALL 11Beafeninsensible by Irate Crowd Watch- ing Building Razing MAN BELIEVED TO BE FORMER WPA WORKER LaGuardia S.»:: s Aftacker Had Been "Hounding Me for Four Years” mounted heavy set gre tively identified as The assailant Mayor from behi down with a blow of hi man was sel upon by \:\Iu! police and beaten “He been hounding LaGuardia said Mayor did not amplify but led C Hall employees Hagen was a disappoint= seeker. th him The nders 1sible me for ur years? The the rem |to supp: ed offic The attack occurred in of hundreds of per: ered near City Hall watch demolition of the eral Building there The Mayor's assailant was later definitely identified as James Hagan, 48, form WPA superintendent at the Pelham Bay shops for the Cily Park De tment | Investigators obtained no coherent story but said they believed Hagan held a grudge because he had been laid off ence ons pla to old Fed- the - NEW BOMBING PLANE TURNED OUT FOR L. 5. Dec. 20.—Produc- d 6-ton 2 plane, miles an Vultee Manu- Heavy Tollmives Is At- the number of kilowatts of energy it shoots along its network of wires and cables. Nevertheless, it oper-| ates in New York State almost (but| not quite) to the exclusion of all| | | At present, according to neutral DOWNEY, Cal estimates, the Japanese actually tion of a highly | control only 13 Hopeh provinces out single seated att of 130 in the district, 31 in Shansi' with a top spe fributed fo Winter | tung’s 100 and 95 in North Honan. Alrcrs LONDON, Dec. 20.—Winter roiled | The remainder of the 200,000 square facturing 4 - up heavy toll of lives in many Eur-|miles north of the Yellow River to ment on Ester Creek. 0. S. Sullivan, Deputy Collector | opean countries in the last 48 hours. | the Lunghai railway is held by Chi- > |of Internal Revenue, returned to, A ferry boat creeping through | nese irregulars and guerillas. GALEN GOES SOUTH | Juneau on the Baranof today after the icy Tagus river at Lisbon, struck | R 5. v S James L. Galen, General Man- & trip Outside. | a dredge and sank. SPEED MOVING | | Mrs. Hufeison are south bound from Fairbanks aboard the Mount Mec-| Kinley. Mr. Hufeison has been con- structing the Lathrop building in Fairbanks and other structures. SIS EPG SULLIVAN BACK' MCGINN SOUTH BOUND John L. McGinn, one of the out- standing attorneys of the Territory and widely interested in mining, is a passenger south bound on the Mount McKinley from his home in Fairbanks. Mr. McGinn is interested now in doing some mining develop- learned. In addition to the Haida land-| ing party of chree enlisted men. One ensign, one medical officer and the three Juneau guides, Vic Manville, Anthony Thomas and Howard Hayes, it was learned also that a Janding party of one officer and four | €31 enlisted men were to be flown today ' A struggle for fortune and fame from the cutter Cyane at Port Al- marred by failure and temporary thorp to Lituya to aid in getting the | disgrace, but followed by a “come- survivors out. back,” epitomizes the life of Me- The Haida landing party went Cray. into the dangerous and small ent-| Yet when stream KENTLAND, Ind, Dec. 20— Death as the result of a heart at- tack put an end to the career of Warren T. McCray, 73, a million- ” |aire farmer, once Republican Gov- FOlien IRETiory ernor of Indiana and once a Fed-| It sells power to city docks, to ! railroads and to enterprises which | | operate the tunnels operating under the Hudson, connecting New Jersey with New York. At no point does it | | transmit power under its own con-| | trol outside of New York State. It sells a very small portion to com- | panies which in turn use it in inter- | Divi Corporation D Record Loads of Pilgrims fo Be (arried, Holy Land ft o ation convict. | - ager of the McKinley Park Trans-| Twenty-five of 70 passengers are WADE HOME he returned to his | portation Company and owner of | missing. More than 20 deaths are attribut- | rance of Lituya Bay with a dory loaded with supplies and a motor surf boat, catching the tide at flood , the few minutes during the day that entrance is possible through the heavy current and rip tide there that has claimed so many lives in the past. It was considered possible today. that shou!d the Patterson crew be “standing the gaff’ on the march fairly well, they may reach Lituya Bay or the cabin at “Twelvemile,” at the end of the wagon road that reaches West from Lituya Bay some- time late this afternoon or tonight. Clare McDowell, Chief Engineer, and Steve Johnson, Third Mate, the two men brought in by Simmon: o loa sterd: n the Al 5= yesterday in the Alaska Air Trans-| "y ooy denied intent to defraud | port Lockheed, sailed for Seattle on the steamer Mount McKinley today. “feeling much better” after their first night's sleep between sheets and on “honest to gosh” beds in several long days, CITIZENSHIP OF BUND CHIEFTAIN T0 BE CANCELLED LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 20— The United States District Attorney has asked the Federal Court to can- cel the American citizenship of Her- man Schwimm, West Coast Director of the German-American Bund. It is asserted that Schwimm’s papers were illegally produced. |home state after serving three years lin the Atlanta penitentiary, no sting of ignominy remained as his bur- |den. Through friends a new finan lcial start was afforded and at his | :farm home near Kentland he gath- ered new herds and was moderately successful in rebuilding his for- | tune. | Financial Disaster | Rated as a millionaire, when he |became governor of Indiana in 1921, McCray suffered financial disaster in the collapse of farm values in| {1923. Efforts to recoup his losses led to his indictment on charges that he misrepresented his hold- ings in letters to banks regarding ns but . was convicted of using the \mails for that purpose. He was sen- tenced to ten years’ imprisonment, entering the Atlanta prison May 1, 1924. He was paroled three years later and for a brief period the glare of publicity again fell on him. He was a prosecution witness in the trial |of BEd Jackson, then governor of |Indiana, charged with attempted bribery. Jackson was acquitted by a directed verdict because of the statute of limitations. McCray testified when secretary of state, had offered him $10,000 if he would appoint a certain man as prosecutor of Mar- ion county, but he had rejected the offer as “unthinkable.” " (Continued sn Page Eight) that Jackson, state commerce. JI‘ZMPHASIS ON ‘AFFECTING’ | Act provides, roughly, that Federal apply to companies engaged in in- terstate commerce, or whose busi- ness “affects” interstate commmerce. Under this act, the Labor Board claimed authority over the relation- ship between Consolidated Edison and its 40,000 employees. It is agreed that none of the Edison employees engages in interstate commerce. But the Labor Board contended that sale by the firm of a small portion of its power to companies which use it in interstate commerce brought Edison under Federal jurisdiction. The board held that in event of labor trouble a power shut-down would “affect” interstate commerce. The Supreme Court agreed. In the nearest recent approach to this decision the court upheld the Labor Board in its contention that a California fruit company fruit in interstate commerce directly subject to the labor act. Now it reaches out to extend the to those who do. pointed out that a labor would leave lights, thus “affecting” (Continued on Page Six) Now the National Labor Relations regulations of labor bargaining shall which shipped 35 percent of its| was | act to a company which of itself | does not engage in interstate com-| merce, but simply sells its product In explaining its case, the court| strike | the docks without not only the Alaska Transfer Company ot‘ Cordova as well as being interested in other transportation concerns in! the Westward, is a south bound passenger on the Mount McKinley for the winter. L | GORHAM RETURNS | Henry Gorham, wellknown car- penter contractor, arrived from the Westward aboard the Mount Mc- | Kinley. Hugh J. Wade, Federal Adminis- trator of Social Security Territory, returned today on the|in England today. Baranof after a trip Outside in con-| Paris suburbs counted nine dead. nection with Social Security mat-fHundrrds of barges are caught in ters. | the frozen northern France canals. Fifteen deaths in Belgjum are at- tributed to cold. Germany Clears R | TRADER DIES J. Drolette, 65, trader at Stephens Village on the Yukon, recently died | in the lhmpilal at Fairbanks as a result of heart ailment. i Mrs, T. J. McCaul, 60, well known Juneau resident, is being sought by relatives and officers today, follow- ing report that she failed to disem- bark from the motorship Northland this morning when that vessel dock- ed here at eight o'clock. Officers said Corinne Duncan, Mrs. McCaul's roommate, reported she last saw Mrs. McCaul at three | o’clock this morning, six hours after | the boat had left Petersburg, and that Mrs. McCaul was sleeping inI | her berth at that time. Investigating when friends re- ported Mrs. McCaul's failure to get off the boat, officers said they found | Disputed Point O_n_lflherilance WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. — Ger- many notified the United States to- day that all inheritance credits due Americans on estates of persons de- ceased in Germany hereafter will be transferred to beneficiaries in full. \The announcement was brought to < the State Department by Dr. Hans her unpacked grips in the state-|rhomsen, German Charge d'Affair- in the ed to the cold. It was 23 above zero OF JEWS FROM - LAND OF NAZIS | LONDON, Dec. 20. — Field Mar- shal Goering has invited George Rublee, American Director of the International Refugee office, to | visit Berlin and complete a German financial plan for getting Jews out | of Germany. Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 20. — Closir quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 99%, American Light and Power 5% Anaconda 33%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6 General Motors 49%, International | Harvester 57%, Kennecott 42%, New room and her nightgown, indicat-|es and clarified in one letter points | York Central 184, Northern Pacific ing she had gotten up and dressed.|a¢ conflict between the two govern- 10% Mrs. McCaul has been ill for some | ments, time, friends said, and suffered| G BB AT A T from fainting spells. With a cold | ANCHORAGE GIRL TO night last night and decks frosty,| SPEND HOLIDAYS IN the possibility is entertained that Mrs, McCaul might have fallen ov-| erboard. | Genevieve Strandberg, She had gone south several weeks |of My, and Mrs. Dave Strandberg, ago in the interests of her helath.| prominent Anchorage residents, is She is the estranged wife of Tom|ja passenger on the Baranof, taking | | McCaul of the McCaul Motor Com- | advantage of her Christmas vaca- VISIT WITH PARENTS daughter ' Jones averages: Safeway Stores 26%, Southern | Pacific 18%, United States Steel 1657, Bremner bid 1 asked 2, Pound $4.67%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are toda; Dow, Industrials 150.46, , rails 30.09, utilities 21.86. MEDICAL PATIENT SOUTH Ted Bohell, who has been receiv- pany. She also has a son here Mel\uun from studies at the University ing medical care at St. Ann’s Hos- Seattle, with her parents. | Leath, and another son, Victor, in|of Washington to spend Christmas|pital, left for the south today on the steamer Mount McKinley. JERUSALEM. Dec. 20.—Bus driv- ers and taxicab operators are making plans for carrying record loads 'of pilgrims to Bethlehem on Christmas and Yea British au s announced that the curfew lations will be sus- pended on the holidays. The bus and taxicab regulations will be relaxed to provide transpor- tation for persons who want to at= tend serv Holy Birth at Bethle - Garner Supporfers Gef State Charler SPRINGFIELD, Ill. Dec. 20. — llect Garner Presideni for Security, he title of a not-for-profit eor= poration chartered by Secretary of State Ed d J. E 1es. The in- corporat william M. Bannon, Pat Kay and Joseph F. Ryan, all of Chicago, said they were organiz= throughout United States for the purpose of electing Garner President. ing the SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS