The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 23, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7982. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1938. MEMBER AS; SOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PATTERSON SURVIVORS ARE RESCUED of Commerce Hopkins Is Named Secretary (yet.s First Chnstnms Thrill WPA CHIEF APPOINTED T0 CABINET Succeeds Daniel C. Roper Who Recently Handed Resignation fo FDR (OL. HARRINGTON IS SHOVED UP IN LINE Aubrey Williams Is Named to Be National Youth Administrator WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has named Harry L Hopkins, 48, to succeed Daniel C Roper, resigned, as Secretary of Commerce, Stephen Early, President Secretary announced this morning. Hopkins will be sworn in tomor- row taking his oath in the Presi- dent’s study room. President Roosevelt, according to Early’s announcement, has desig- nated Col. F. C. Harrington, 51, as successor to Hopkins as WPA Ad- ministrator. Aubrey Willams, Deputy WPA Ad- ministrator will become National Youth Admniistrator. Hopkins must be confirmed by the Senate of the next Congress. Col. Harrington is an Army Of- ficer. He will head the WPA on de- tail from the Army, draw regular Army pay and receive no compen- | sation from the WA, Hopkins has been drawing $10,000 but as Secretary of Commerce will now draw down $15, 000 a year. Col. Harrington been Chief Engineer and Ass laut Adminis- trator of WPA since September 1935, when the War Depamnex\l lent him to the WPA administration for that special duty. During the World War he was temporary Col- | onel on duty, part time in France. Smallpox Epidemic, Shanghai vear-cld Alice Harris (above Claus, thrilled at the sight of goodi mother, COMMISSION “CONFESSIONS OF NAZI SPY" WILL BE FEATURE NOW. Warner Brothers fo Make, Picturization Despite German Protests HOLLYWOOD, Cai, Dec. 23. — Warner Brothers announced today that work will begin immediately on the )nuune ‘Confessions of a Nazi Spy.” This announcement was made | SHANGHAI, Dec. 23. — Foreign notwithstanding the protests of th Health officials announce that German Consul. Edward G. Rob-| smallpox here has now reached the | inson will have the title role. proportions of an epidemic. . --— A vigorous preventive campaign‘ is announced and 10,000 vaccina- Iw NIY SAVED tions are being administered daily. | | FROM SHIP IN | { —_— | -, JEWISH MEDAL BRINGS NAZI who had never heard of Santa s and her first Christmas tree at Uniontcwn, Pa., after being released from a farm bedroom where it was reported she had been confined for five years by her unwed INTERNATIONAL HIGHWAY OF CANADA NAMED BY PREMIER KING OTTAWA, Dec. 23—Prime Minis- | ter Mackenzie King announces that the Canadian Government -has ap- pointed a five-member Commission to consider the project involving the construction of the International highway through British Columbia and Yukon Territory to Alaska. The Commission named is as fol- | lows: Hon. Charles Stewart, Chairman, International Joint Commission. Brig. Gen. T. L. Tremblay, of Que- bec. J. M. Wardle, Department Mines and Resources. Arthur Dixon, of Victoria, B. C., Public Works Department. of J. W. Spencer, of Vancouver, B.C. | This Commission will cooperate with the Commission appointed sev- eral months ago by President Roose- | | velt. Defenders Defealing Invaders SCORN ON FDR Use Roosevelt Slams While | Ickes-Hiler Ten- sion Grows BERLIN, Dec. 23.—Nazi controlled newspapers today ridiculed Presi- Two Women Are Among' Those Rescued by Am- erican Freighter li | r Chinese Ciaim Successes on Two Fronts Deep NEW YORK, Dec. 23. — Twenty | | . in Interior Areas | persons, including two women, have ;een rescued _f;om the disabled| gSHANGHAI, Dec. 23. — Chinese| ho‘rweglxan {reighter Smaragd in|,unorities report gains over the | tl e gale-swept Atlantic, 600 m]les<"dpd,mw on two fronts, deep in the | | southeast of New York. Imlenor of China. | The American freighter Schodack | Japanese defenses before Yochow.‘ wirelessed the reports and said thel | the New Japanese Ambassador Ken- SPANISH WAR FLAMES ANEW IN BIG AREA Insurgents Claim Four Ad-‘ vances-Border Re- ports Say None | GERMAN-AMERICAN SITUATION TENSE lDaIadier Gets Approval of | Budget-Looks Stern- ly at ltaly (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Spanish Insurgent high com- mand said today the Governmem‘s’ Catalonian front has been broken in four places in the first blows of a new campaign in northern Spain. Border reports reaching Bourg-| madame, France, said the drive is aimed at the strong Govemmn‘nt‘ fortifications along the Segre River near Tremp, but Government troops repulsed six waves of Moorish troops | without yielding an inch to lhvl | thrust. | The drive was made in a heavy| | showfall with near zero weather. | | Insurgents hold sources of hydro electric power formerly having serv- ed important Government war in-| dustries in Barcelona. | Reports from both sides of the Civil War in the past month said a major Insurgent offensive is fore- |seen by which it is said France hoped to end the war which is now in its thirtieth month. International Issues | ! Three International issues hum,\ |in the balance today while the | Spanish continued their fight. A growing strain is apparent be-| | tween Germany and the United | States, Italy still expresses aspira- | tions for French territory, and the Pan American question of a united front against aggression is still at loose ends. In Berlin, an official said, “It is premature to forecast Germany's | reaction t» the rebuff of Sumner nWelles Acting Secretary of State for | the United States.” | American Rights | Welles yesterday told Germany in |no uncertain terms that Americans would say what they want to say as long as that right was accorded Ger- mans. His bitter message to Berlin | was an answer to Secretary of Inter- ior Ickes' condemnation of dicta- torships and the resultant Germay | demand for apology. Fortified by a victory in the | Chamber of Deputies, when his bud- get proposal won that body’s approv- al, Premier Daladier in Paris today turned to meet Italy’s denunciation of the 1935 agreement between France and Italy concerning Tun- | isia. The Premier’s friends said he is prepared to refuse flatly to go be- yond the agreement in territorial concessions if Mussolini follows up | the unofficial clamor with an offic- nal Italian demand for French pos- sessions. ROOSEVELTHAS | TALK WITH NEW JAPANESE AMB. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today was visited by Santa Claus Joins Picket Line in San Francis 0 Santa Claus (five strong) and Mrs. Santa Claus joined the picket line in front of a San Francisco depart- ment store when strikers donned Christmas attire as their strike dragged into its 18th week. management refuses to sign a contract, the pickets charged, WAGES TWO they Christmas. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT FIGHTS: GETS Because the were being deprived of a Merry FISHERMEN SEEKING BACK WAGE FOR 38, THEM BOTH COMING GOING ‘Union Claims Cook Inlet s0LI DARITY IS BIG ISSUE AT LIMA SESSION New Formula Reported to| Be Worked Out by Southern Group LIMA, Peru, Dec. 23—Presidents of Argentina and Uruguay, and the foreign minister of Brazil are re- ported to have acted to show the pan-American conference the way out of its impasse on the vital issue of western hemisphere solidarity and defense. Reliable Brazilian infor- mants said the conference received copies of the solidarity declaration which has been agreed upon by President Ortiz President Baldomir of Montevideo and Foreign Minister Aranha of Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian spokesman said nearly all the delgations approved of this of Buenos Aires,! By PRES' ()N GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Neatest | trick of the week is performed by the postoffice department in en-| forcing its laws against obscene publications and fraudulent adver- tising. The department conducts a per- ! petual warfare against the lewd and lascivious literature which dribbles into the mail. It recently banned from the mail a whole issue of a| magazine which contained remin- | iscences of a west coast harlot. | Nevertheless the trade in ob- {scene literature and pictures is al |thriving one and at times boldly | advertises its wares in magazine: That puts the postoffice depart-| ment on guard on another front. | Many of these advertisements are | written to lead the prospect into| believing that if he will send in 25 cents or a dollar he will receive a book of lascivious stories and pic- | tures. WITNESSES | NATURALLY RELUCTANT But when the order is delivered it is found to be nothing more than a comic cartoon pamphlet such as new formula which is likely to bei{can be brought from the corner substituted for the Argentine doclab?dmg store to amuse the kiddies on ation on which agreement was an-|a stormy night. The postoffice pro- nounced by Conference Chairman |secutes anyway on the grounds that | Workmen Not Given In- crease by Board Order SEATTLE, Dec. 23 he Alaska Fishermen’s Union said today it plans to institute legal action to re- cover wages for Cook Inlet fisher- men, The Union maintains the fishermen, at the end of the 1938 season, were not given the wage in- creases provided for by the Fact- Finding-Commission. The Union is collecting the claims of the individual fishermen and es- timates the wages involved is more than $100,000. The action will not be filed, however, until disposition of a similar case involving the Copper River and Prince Williams Sound fishermen where the Union is su- ing the packers in King County court. Edward Medley, attorney, said the action was started against three | canneries asking declaratory judge- ment. He said the Fact-Finding- Commission didn’t have all the facts | and its findings were void. Two members of the Commission, Medley said, submitted letters saying they didn’t have all the facts as to the Copper River and Prince William Sound packers. Suggestion was made for reopening the wage scale ad- justments by the Fact-Finding- Commission but the Union declined, dent Roosevelt as Germany's of- gateway to Hunan Province, are ficialdom press awaited word from escue was completed this morn-|giq o have been completely Hitler for the next move in German- |1ng after a night of anxiety dur-|smashed. American tension arising out of Sec- | ing which time the Schodac stood retary of Interior Ickes' speech |bY Waiting for a lull in the weather. | against dictators, The Smaragd was out from Nor- The German press is apparently|folk for Fort William, Scotland, under instructions to mark time in|laden with oil cases, sprung a leak regard to the Ickes affair until the 2nd then radioed for help. Government has time to formulate N o i R a stand after Acting Secretary of CHILDREN WENT GYPSY State Sumner Welles’ firm rebuff of the Nazi request for official apology | for Ickes’ Cleveland speech. evidence when This wife was As a result of this “marking ume,"‘charged with unfitness to care for bitter press attacks on Ickes gave her four daughters, aged four to way to expressions of scorn for|14, the father said while he was President Roosevelt because he had|away working the children had received a medal awarded by an Am-(been allowed to wander about like | erican Hebrew magazine. gypsies. GRAVESEND, England,—Giving The Chinese spokesman said guer- illa fighting has inflicted 2,000 casu- alties on the Japanese along the Yellow River during the past two weeks. . MARRIES AT 81 LONDON .—Notice has been post- ed at a London register office of a marriage between Sir Andrew Hislop Pettigrew, aged 81, to Miss Joan Cottam, 28. ., A child’s dining chair should be only deep enough to support his back and yet shallow enough to al- low his knees to bend. suke Horinouchi. The two parted with assurances that each would co- operate in the promotion of good will between the two nations. GOVERNOR TROY NOW IN SEATTLE | SEATTLE, Dec. 23.—Gov. John W. Troy has returned from a visit |in California and will spend the holidays here. He intends to sail north shortly after the first of the year and arrive in Juneau in time to open the biennial meeting of the Territorial Legislature. Dr. Carlos Concha of Peru premat- [the article advertised was not|Medley said. urely, It developed |naughty, as advertised, but not ————— true. . That way the department gets Gl[l Sanla (Iiu! RAIL COMMITTEE HAS BROAD PLAN {Would Set Up New Board of Transportation fo Save Railroads WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—Presi- dent Roosevelt's Committee on Railroads today recommended the | creation of a transportation boardl charged with responsibility of regu- | lating all modes of transportation. The committee would be com- posed of three representatvies each |of railroad managers and labor. ‘The proposed comprehensive pro- gram is for immediate rehabilita- tion of all carriers. .- — Canada has more miles of mxl-‘ road in proportion to its popula- J tion than the United States. them going and coming. If the stuff naughty it is illegal, and if it is not naughty it is fraudulently ad- Fafally Burned; Dies in Hospital LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dec. 23.— Miss Mary Curran Day, 20, handicraft worker, volunteered to play Santa Claus each after- noon in the Community Center. vertised However, the department has to-| dig up much of its own evidence on the fraudulent advertising busi- ness. Practically never does a per-| son protest that he ordered an ob- scene book, expected to get an| obscene book, and was not to be satisfied with a pocketful of funny- papers. | ITEMS AT RANDOM Also you might like to know that: | December 2 was the 115th anni- | versary of the proclamation of the Monroe Doctrine. . A policeman is on guard at the German em- bassy at all hours just in case a | crank might want to start some- | thing that would create an inter- national incident. . Usually also) there is a cop in the vicinity of | the British embassy, but for more or less historic reasons. Back in e | tCommued on Pnge 8ix) She appeared on the job yes- terday. A spark from a cigarette, being smoked by one of the on- lockers, ignited her flimsy cos- tume and she was quickly en- veloped in flames. The girl was rushed to a hos- pital and died soon after from burns. ANCHORAGE HOOL WORK The work on the new Anchorage school building has progressed so satisfactorily that it may be com- pleted by the first of next Febru- ary. HAIDA TAKES OFF 9; NAVY - PLANES SEVEN Shlpwrecked rew Mem- | bers Finally Enroute | to Juneau, Sitka |GUIDES, LANDING CREWS ARE ALSO HGME BOUND Last Chapter,Almost,Writ- fen in Sea Tragedy Off Alaska Coast Sxiteen exhausted and cold survivors of the wrecked motor- ship Patterson ended a 26 mile trek to Lituya Bay last night through snow and across swollen rivers to be rescued today by two, Navy bombing planes and boats | of the Coast Guard Cutter Haida. | Nine of the survivors were taken through the dangerous little neck of water that con- nects Lituya Bay with the Gulf of Alaska in a Haida surf boat this morning shortly after day- break. The rest were flown to Sitka early this afternoon by two Navy seaplanes. Thus closed this latest drama of | the North Pacifie, with a chill wind | creeping dismally down from the snow burdened glaciers that saw the | historic old wooden hulled Patter- |son pile high on the surf pounded ‘sands north of Capt Fairweather |a week ago last Sunday night in a blur of snow and rain, and saw also | the struggle of the illifated vessel's crew in surviving a vicious combina- | tion of blizzard, sleet and gale that | ended in victory for the human ele- ment in the battle when tired feet | dragged into the confines of lone=- some but sheltered Lituya Bay last night. Survivors on Haida Those survivors taken aboard the Haida are Capt. Harry Bune, Lester Campen, Freeman Hobart, Edward K. Boyce, R. M. Ingram, P. Malk- olff, Ray Neilson, L. R. McCourbry, and not forgotten, the ship’s cat. These nine men were taken aboard the Haida at 8:40 o'clock this morn~ ing and the surf boat returned*to the beach just after noon to bi off four guides and three Halda men left on the beach by the Navy | planes, already loaded to capacity with men and geu The guides were, Ncis Ludwigson, (Continued on Page Eight) * MOTORSHIP FERN RUNS ON GROUND NEAR FALSE PASS Passenger§ and Mail Tak- en Off-Report Made - from tkefan UNALASKA, Alaska, Dec. 23. = The motorship Fern, carrying Christmas mail and foodstuffs for Unalaska, went aground yesterday near False Pass, according to word relayed here. A radio messare said the mall and passengers were removed safe- ly by a P. E. Harris Company can- nery tender and taken to l'\b Pass. Henry Peterson, one of the pas- sengers, hiked over the snow and ice-covered trail from Falde Pass to Ikatan to make the report The ship is believed to be in no immediate danger. Pete Wold is master of the Fern. DAY TILL CHRISTMAS