The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 22, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ———— VOL. LIIL, NO. 7981. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS - PRICE TEN CENTS U.S.OFFICIAL DRAWS) HAIDA BOAT MAY RESCUE MEN TODAY Survivors ?pénd Night, Within Few Miles of | “lLituya Bay TWO OF CUTTER'S Cyane RushiTgEnsign and Seaman fo Juneau and Hospital While the 26 miles long trek of sixteen seamen from the wrecked Patterson to Lituya Bay neared an end today, word was received from | the cutter Haida that Ensign Ralph Dean and Seaman Van Gordon have been transferred to the pa-| trol boat Cyane and are being rushed to Juneau for immediate hospitalization. Ensign Dean was reported to be suffering from what is believed to be acute appendicitis. Van Gor- don’s trouble was not named. With ‘“conditions excellent” to- day, the Haida got a motor surf boat through Lituya Bay entrance with Lt. Cmdr. R. C. Surratt in charge, hoping to pick up a few survivors before tidal conditions prevented egress from the bay. | Where Survivors Are Six survivors spent the night last night at a cabin only eigm miles north of Lituya Bay, wh the other ten with rescuers, 5pem the night at a cabin on the banks of a river 12 miles north of Lituya. | With “Christmas where it's dry/ and warm” to urge them on, tired legs pulled sore feet painfully slow | towards Lituya through what flash- light messages last night from the river camp said was “tough going.” The message said “Took five hours to make raft—took three hours to get men across—men are all wet—some have colds—going was tough and had to help men across— leaving six in morning for Litu- ya.” On Last Leg With both groups of men start- ing out snowy journey on swollen feet at! before sunrise hour this morning, it was believed highly probable they all could have made Lituya by early afternoon, probably the first six| at least being able to reach the Haida launch in time to get through the harbor entrance before the tide changed. The Haida transferred Ensign| Dean and Seaman Van Gordon to the Cyane at 9 o'clock this morn- ing, which should put that patrol boat in Juneau some time this evening. Rescue parties from the Haida and the Cyane joined the march- | ing seamen yesterday afternoon at 4:15 o'clock with food and medic.sl‘ supplies, both parties camping last night together at the two cabins at “Twelvemile” and “Eightmile, ”i on the wagon road leading to Litu- | ya Bay. RELIEF FUNDS WILLBE URGED FROM CONGRESS Emergency Appropriation| for WPA Must Be Made | Early ih M Session WASHINGTON, Dec. 22.—In view | of the disclosure that the WPA will | be out of funds by February 7, Sen- | ate and House leaders have ar-| ranged to confer with President| Roosevelt on the amount to be re- quested as an emergency appropria- tion. John L. Lewis, CIO leader, de- clares that one billion dollars are needed for relief purposes until July 1, but Capitol Hill estimates do not range half of that amount and his figures are being turned down. It is said however, that unless| Congress turns over an emergency fund at once after the session opens, relief agencies must begin cutting its rolls by January 26 and close down entirely 12 days on the last leg of their = [FRANCE TAKING Clark Gable Seeks Divorce Clark Gable, screen actor, who admitted he would ask for a divorce from his present wife, Mrs. Maria Gable, in order to marry Carole Lombard, alsoa screen star. Gable has evaded the subject of diverce for some time, but broke the silence after a magazine articl I(‘ written wife saying he would be granted a divorce if he asked for it. ll\' is pictured during the recent campaign, among the movie folk, to promote the sale of Christmas seals, issued annually by the National Tuberculosis Association to finance {ubcrculine skin tests and chest X-rays among high school students. JAPANESE ADVOCATING FORCE AGAINST UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN TOKYO, Dec. 2 e newspapers foday urged the use of “actual ferce” in Japan's dealings with the United States and Great Britain in the Asiatic sphere. The newspapers boldly demanded that the British Crown colony of Hongkong be returned to Chinese sovereignty. The official sources are not named but leading newspapers pub- lished almost the identical statements which are said to be the result of a canvass of Government opinion. FURTHER MOVES MADE TOKYO, Dec Premier Kono- ye declared today that Japan is pre- | | pared to help China abolish foreign | conces 2 Russians Indicied On SpyCharges * Claimed Th;firansmme Naval Intelligence on National Defenses LOS ANGELES, Dec. 22. Federal Grand Jury here has re- turned indictments against two Rus- sians on charges of transmitting to Soviet Russia several Naval Intelli- gence reports concerning American |IAlY FRAN(E National defenses. Those indicted are Hafis Sallch,‘ FA(E IRO“B[E 33, former police officer of Berke-| ley, Cal, and Mikhail Gorin, 34, manager of a Soviet Travel Agency. | Mussolini Serves Nofice Laval Convention Is Considered Invalid e g (By Associated Press) | Jjoyed by some foreigners in China | for nearly one century. In a formal statement, Pmmmr Konoye U»mll'rlr‘s as InHO\\ “hina but is )u-vpurnd xo give posit ritoriality sarily wi pendom" for China.” By China, the Premier manifest- concessions which neces- has already announced she expects — The to emerge in her current conguests | cal, economic and cultural bloc set up in her Manchoukuo pro&eclomte. | | PRECAUTIONS ON POSSIBLE FIGHT ions and the extra territori- | ality system of special privileges en- | e consideration to the | question of abolition of extra ter-| follow to give full inde-| v]_\' referred to the state that Japan | | to be linked with the strong politi- | IN INSURGENT SPANISH AREA| One Thousand Arrests Are Reported to Have Been Made by Authorities SECRET PLANS REPORTED British Vice Consul Is Ab- solved from ""Case of Dirty Shirt,” Claim (By Associated Pres) A great spy hunt in Insurgent Spain, which some quarters said might affect the entire course of the Spanish Civil War, is reported officially in London Approximately 1,000 arrests have been made. ish Insurg s to the British For- |[‘1L{n Ministry acknowledges docu- ments have been seized “designed | to inform” the Spanish Government Command “about our future mili-| | tary operations.” IN HANDS OF LOYALISTS | An official statement by the Span- | a “case of the dirty shirt” because | incriminating information was wrapped in a shirt in the baggage of British Vice Consul Harold Good- man at San Sebastian as he was about to leave Insurgent territory Goodman is however reported to| have been absolved from guilt for several employees of the Consulates in Insurgent Spain dare | rrpnr(ed “under suspicion.” e CONFERENCE OFROTARY HEREMAY 18 Delegates W|I| Come on Aleutian, Princess Char- | lotte for 3-Day Meet ‘1 Juneau will be the convention of | the District Conference of District | No. 101, Rotary for three days, May 18 to 20, inclusive, it was decided today a tmeeting of the Juneau Rotary Club Board of Directors with District Governor Marshall Cornett of Klamath Falls. All sessions of the Conference will be held in Jun- | eau, it was announced. According to the present sched- ule the delegates will leave Seattle |and Vancouver aboard the Aleutian and the Princess Charlotte on May 15, the next day they will be in Prince Rupert and May 17 in Ket- chikan, coming then direct to Jun- |eau for the three-day convention | Returning the vessels will make Petersburg and Wrangell on the 21st, Ketchikan on the 22d and arriving in Seattle on May 24. A minimum for 600 visitors is be- ing arranged for and it expected that the number will run well over | 1,000, according to Rotary officials. A. B. Phillips, Past President of | the local club, has been named General Chairman for the confer-| ence and committees will be named | shortly, he said, to handle the var- ious details e Stock QUOTATIONS According to advices received in the United States by the Associated | Press, Italy has given France no- Itice that she considers invalid the | | Mussolini-Laval convention of 1935 | |eoncerning Tunmisia Rome is reported waiting for France's® offer as regards a com- promise. Diplomatic quarters express the Ibelief that Mussolini is determined | [to make the Rome-Berlin axis bene- | fit him in the present: issue. The Senate of Eire by a 38-15| Looking for New Sources, for Supplies in Case of Fascist War PARIS, Dec. 22.—France is count- ing on the West Indies and Soutm America to supply her food, oil and | military supplies in case of war. Extensive battle maneuvers in the South Atlantic early in 1839 is an- nounced, Naval and military experts assert- ed that in case of war with the Fas- cists, the Mediterranean will be closed to France and she will lose her present supplies. vote declined to elect Senator Pat- | rick Baxter to position of vice-pres dent because he had not a compet- ent knowledge of the Irish language. NEW YORK, Dec. 22. —ClosmL,\ quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9%, American Can 99%, American Light and Power |5%, Anaconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 74%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 49'%, International | Harvester 56%, Kennecott 42, New | York Central 19%, Northern Pacific | 11%, Safeway Stores 25%, Southern | Pacific 19, United States Steel 66, Bremner bid 1 asked 2, Pound $4.66%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today’s Dow,| Jones averages: Industrials 14053‘ ‘There was no other nomination. rails 30.60, utilities 21.36. Information here that it is called | - British | -an incinerator This is the emply chair which jolted German-English friendship. Herbert von Dirksen, tion in London, zed the German press for recent a Lord Snell, Ambassador, ®ign Press Assoc! friendly speech, erit to right), Robert Cru, NUDE, SLASHED BODY OF GIRL FOUND IN BAG Po?éibly Lured from Home! by White Slavers, then Murdered TUNKHANNOCK, Pa., Dec. 22. The nuds slashed body of pretty 19-year-old Margaret Martin of Kingston, has been found in a bur- lap bag, half submerged in a creek near this isolated hamlet The attractive brunette ll-ll home last Saturday to keep a stre corner appointment in hopes nl get- ting a position as stenographer. IN'I The authorities believe the girl was lured from her home b; a “roundup man” for a white ve ring, and wa became too hot. e . UNNATURAL MAN CONFESSES 10 3 SORDID CRIMES Killed Wife Who Knew He Was Intimate with Daughters LOS ANGELES, ;fll., Dec. Police Captain Wallis announces that Williag Spinelli, 59, has con- fessed he killed his 45-year-old wife lain when the ¢ Rose with an axe last December 12, cut up the body and burned it in| in the backyard of | his home. The police said Spinelli admitted improper relations with two of his daughters and his wife threatened to tell the school authorities. OVER MILLION DOLLARS, GOLD, DIAMONDS GONE Uncut Sparklers and Yel-| low Mefal Ingots Stol- en from Ship’s Safe BRUSSELS, Dec. 22. — Theft of more than a million dollars worth | of uncut diamonds and gold ingots from the safe of the Belgian steam- |er Elizabethville was discovered | when the ship arrived at Flushing today. It was crowded aside when the German ed to attend the dinner of the For- England, at whith Prime Minister Chamberlain, in an otherwise {acks en England. Diners identified are (left George Ormshy, and Sir John Simon. This picture was radioed from Lendon to New York, OBSERVERS EXPECT FDR TO ASK FOR AIR FLEET OF TEN THOUSAND SHIPS BIG SWINDLER —— BLAMES CRASH FOR TROUBLES available reports are that the Presi- dent is thoroughly sold on the na- tional necessity of an air fleet ap- proaching 10,000 planes and will ask Coster Musica Says Wall Street Bled Him White with Blackmail Congress to finance it, perhaps over whe was to have cocupied it a two or three year period Estimated cost is pure guess work because of the varying cost of different types of planes but an outlay of a half blllion dollars should not be surprising. It may be considerably more but it is not likely to be a great deal less. Not |only must the planes be bought but many of them will have to be re- NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—F. Donald”)laccd by different types before the Coster Musica said in a suicide note, | program is complete. | made public today, that “bankers,| In turn, each plane requires sev- auditors, apprai; , incompetent eral additional men in the air and highly salaried executives bled | force. The present air force aver- McKesson-Robbins drug firm white.” ages 10 men to a plane, even at who shot activities company The amazing swindler himself to death as his were discovered, said the he headed “should have been in re- ceivership at the time of the t-ms,h,‘ |a year after its reorganization. I've tried to hold it up and stave off thelBerlin as to the potentiality of the inevitable, No man ever worked| German mass production of air harder and received less pay for|planes. It is gene: expected making an attempt to work things|that President Rooseveit will make |out for the best interests of all ‘puhhc some of them to bolster his “There has always been Inruon{proposfllh Lo Congress. within the Board of Directors be- _ cause the wholesale business is a | OUTPUT POSSIBILITIES rotten bhusiness at the best. The UNCERTAIN wholesale part of the business wrote| There is contlicting iformation off millions of bad debts available as to how fast present fac- “As for inventories, there is nnlh-rtm—y equipment in the United States ing to be said about that. The|can put 10,000 planes in the air, trouble was brought on by that 1929 | The aircraft yearbook published by | crash. That crash was responsible | the Aeronautical Chamber of Com- for all difficulties.” [ mere —quite authoritative—reports Coster-Musica's not exonerated his| United States aircraft production in three brothers of implication in the | 1937 as follows: masquerade | Commercial, 2281 | He asserted: “T have been a victim| Military, 949 {of Wall Street plunder and black-| Export, 629 mail in a struggle for an honest ex- That is not nearly capacity pro- | istence Irim-lmn At almost any given time eight men to a plane, the new pro- gram would mean an air force of 80,000, half the size of the whole army at present. The 1938 airforce is 20,000 men and officers. Exciting reports have come from Louis Johnson, assistant Secre- Book in H d tary of War, has taken steps to Slaye’ D|es rowing experience of England, just e |pow getting into mass production A thonsand manufacturing plants his hand, Stephen Figuli, 21, of | coniribute on Cleveland, died in the electric g st | - e one or more of the plane factories w“h praye' ‘wfll be found short of orders. !speed up American production with a view to avoiding the har- |after starting rearmam COLUMBUS, Ohie, Dec. 22— | vears ago. " Gy e With a prayer book clenched in |~ v X . | different types of parts that go into chair for the slaying of a Co- | yanufacture of a modern fighting [ lumbus ity detective when re- | piane. A slowdown in any one would sisting arrest. create a bottle neck and throttle the e - ‘.\pm'(l of the whole. [ wuse FOR COLORED MAN S of Will Woods, a middle-aged colored | CONFLICTING MILITARY VIEWS | man, missing since December 4, is The diamonds and gold came from | being searched for in the Rampart Belglum 's wealthy African and Con- o colonies, district. He is a newcomer in the| north, There is real conflict within mili- tary ranks about such a huge air arm as seems contemplated. The —_—— | (Continued on Page Seven) | | | | { NAZI PROTEST FILED AGAINST ICKES' SPEECH {Goebbels” Paper Flays Man “Who Shoots with Mail Bags™ QUICK REPLY IS MADE BY ACTING SEC. STATE Tells German Ambassa- dor’s Representative Some Cold Facts BERLIN, Dec. 22.—A strong Ger- man protest to the of Secre- tary of Interior Har L. Ickes, at- tacking dictators, was submitted to- day to Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles by the German Charge d'Affaires in Washington. Foreign Office circles revealed the information and said Germany re- garded Ickes' statements “impudent and insulting.” Propaganda Minister Goebbels paper Derangeriff, continued its at- tacks on American statements, this time in connection with a request attributed to Ickes that no Ameri- can mail be shipped on German ves- sels. The attack was under headlines reading, “Ickes Shoots With Mail Bags.” The newspaper said, “This bark- ing man will shoot against Germany with mailbags. We are trembling. By the way, travelers from the United States gladly take German boats be- cause of their clennllness and relh~ bility.” QUICK COMEBACK WASHINGTON, Dec. 22—Sum- ner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, disclosed this afternoon the United States has rejected Ger- many’s demand for an official apology for Secretary of the In- terior Harold Ickes’ speech iIn Cleveland last Sunday attacking dictatorships. “Poor Grace” Welles told Dr. Hans Thomsen, {German Charge d'Affaires, that the {request came with singularly 11 grace and impropriety from a gov- ernment whic o far has persis- tently p I it< controlled press and officials to attack American leaders, inciuding President Roo- sevelt and former President Wil- son, and members of Roosevelt's Cabinet. Voice of People Welles told Thomsen that Ickes' remarks represented the feeling of an overwhelming majority of Am- erican people who are profoundly shocked by recent events in Ger- many. Strong Launguage - The statement made by Welles to the German envoy was couch®d in strong and uncompromising |terms which the United States rarely uses in diplomatic discus- sions with a friendly government, Thomsen was told that the Ger- man government must now surely know that the recent policies Ger- many has pursused, have shocked and confounded public opinion in the United States more profoundly than anything that has taken place in many decades. Welles added that expressions of public indignation such as Ickes made, are inevitable. Hitler, Urbsys fo Meet in Jinaryfo Discuss New Moves BERLIN, Dec. 22 —Chancellor Ad- olph Hitler and Lithuania's Foreign Minister, Juozas Urbsys are to meet early in January to discuss the fu- ture of the now Nazified Memel authentic sources said. In some quarters it was expected that the meeting might result in union of the Autonomous State with the Reich, SHOPPING = DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS