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DAILY ALASK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7983. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 7 DIE - REACTIONTO ICKES TALK CALMS DOWN No Further Official Notice of “Incident”” Will Be Taken by Germany ITALY-FRANCE REMAIN AT LOGGERHEADS Senator Buri&e of Nebraska Takes Slap af Interior Secrefary (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany marked the “Ickes in- cident” diplomatically closed today while two great armies fought a crucial battle in Spain and Italy and France remained at loggerheads over Fascist demands for French possessions Although regretting that Sumner Welles, Acting United States Secre- tary of State, had “left a sting be- hind” in rejecting the German pro- test against attacks by Interior Sec- retary Harold L. Ickes, German pro- paganda ministry spokesman said no further official action would be taken Meanwhile in Washington cengressional criticism of the State Department’s stiffened attitude to- ward Germany developed. Senator Burke, Nebraska Democrat, said he believed the Ickes statement was un- wise at this time. “Secretary Ickes is the sort of person who can say Merry Christ- mas to you in a way that makes you want to fight him,” Burke said. In Spain fifm government resis- tance was reported to have checked the great insurgent offensive along all fronts in the most momentous battle of the civil war. Italian-French tension was in- creased by a defiant Italian note calling off the 1935 agreement con- cerning Tunisia. The French adopt- ed a wait-and-see policy as the It- alian press opened a new and vigor- ous anti-French campaign which observers saw as a prelude to formal | demand for concessions. The Sino-Japanese war maps were unchanged by Lhe week's fighting. some NORDLING YULE DISPLAY WINS FIRST AWARD Tom Allen Second, Trevor Davis Third in Chamber ; of Commerce Confest |t »: |tions between the Vatican and the|ies March 18. Homer G. Nordling of 531 West| 12th Street was awarded first prize| for the most beautiful —outdoor| Christmas display, it was announced by the Chamber of Commerce Christmas decorations committee today following its inspection last night. The Nordling display was an Arctic village in colorfully llgh[ed array. Second prize went to Tom Allen, 612 West 10th Street, for two light- ed trees and third prize to Trevor Davis, 114 Sixth Street, for a light- ed tree. | Honorable mention was given Charles Harland on 10th Street,| Walter Bathe on Irwin Street and| Mike Hendrickson on Star Hill for a lighted star. The Rev. John A. Glasse and| Frank Garnick made up the Cham- ber committee. MEMO PAD There’s room for all the notes and memos of a busy year on a roll of scratch paper with pencil at- tached. Small enough for a tele- phone stand, but yards and yards wound up like a bolt of ribbon.| Write your numbers on that, sir! J | fort Two Accused in Spy Cas Mikhail Gorin (left), sho Commis decuments te Soviet Russia. Alaska Will Broadeasi On Sunday Noon An estimated twenty million peo- ple will be listening on th r to- morrow noon, Juneau time, when Alaska, (qu)uu]) radio station KINY, will offici: broadcast Christmas Greetings ln the world At 12 noon, Sunday, Juneau time, an official broadcast will start here, through cooperation of the United States Signal Corps, and a nation wide hookup and Alaska will be de- | picted celebrating Christmas. An ef- will be made to secure Mary Joyce's dogs to give the Christmas howl over the broadcast. There will be incidental talks, the prin one by Attorney General James S. Truitt, | and carols will also be rendered by | various organizations from KINY’s studio, | POPE EXPRESSES SADNESS OVER ITALIAN PACT 'Mussolini's Marnage Llaws| Subject of Comment by Holy See VATICAN CITY, Italy, Dec. 24. Pope Pius in his Christmas addre |to his Cardinals expressed “bitter | s” at the vexations in rela-| Italian government. These vexations were mistreat-| ment of Catholic action in lay or- ganizations and “wounding of the concordat” between the Holy See and Italy by Mussolini’s promulga- tion of a law forbidding marriages between Aryans and non Aryans. BABY (lIPPER ~ OFF FOR SOUIH1 Pan America’s mby clipper flew | over Juneau at 11:25 o'clock this forenoon from the PAA airport| bound for Seattle via Ketchikan. The clipper may continue the| flight south from Ketchikan, it all depending on the weather, and reach Seattle before dark The clipper, Capt. Mattis, arrived at the PAA airport yesterday after- noon from Ketchikan where it had | been held up one day on account of snow storms in this vicinity and also low visibility. .- — Cakes of salf were once used for money in Ethiopia and Tibet. and Hafis Salich (right), n: handcuffed together after their arraignment before the U N ioner in Los Angeles on charges of transmitting U. 8. Naval Bail was set at soli | Republics Jfend continental solidarity agai on ive Ru: 000 each. First Details Of Patterson Wredk Related Capt. Harry Bune and Crew Members Brought Here by Cutter Haida The Coast Guard docked in Juneau with nine of sixteen s wrvivors from the motorship Patterson after near- ly two weeks at sea, effecting a res- cue { Harry Bune, 65, stocky skip- | Capt | per of the Patterson told a brief tale of the wreck and the hardships ashore that followed, punctuating | his story with praise for the Coast | Guard and the guides that aided the exhausted men to Lituya Bay and a rescue The Captain’s log tells how, with | a “tremendous sea and storm,” the| | Patterson, compass ‘‘crazy” with | empty oil drums confounding earth- |y magnetism, struck the beach at four minutes before midnight, De- | cember 11. 21 REPUBLICS SIGN PACT OF SOLIDARITY Ali Agree to Defend West- | ern Hemisphere from Foreign Intervention LIMA, Peru, Dec. 24. — Brazil's signature today gave unanimous h:\(mnu to the 21 American repub- lics to the Pan-American conference in their declaration for ity and defense. The signing by the head of the Brazilian delegation ended two weeks controversy. The agreement previously had been signed by other It proclaims a decision that every nation in the Western Hemisphere will maintain and de all intervention or activ- ities. foregin MexicoEyes Big Oil Deal With Japan MEXICO CITY, Dec. 24.—Mexico | is reliably reported to be negotiating a one million-dollar barter oil deal with Japan in a vigorous drive to find foreign markets for her wells expropriated from foreign compan- While it was denied at the gov- ernment petroleum department that a deal was pending, provide Japan with one million dol- lars worth of oil annually. It was proposed to make the deal a one-year basis, it was said, on such terms that the contract might ‘bv continued indefinitely. Mexico has disposed of part of her oil to two “totalitarian” nations, Germany and Italy, though Presi- dent Lazaro Cardenas once an- nounced he would deal only with democratic powers. He since has | indicated Mexico would sell her oil where she could. Recently Mexico completed neg- otiations for the sale of seventeen million dollars’ worth of oil in ex- change for cash and machinery and supplies, most of which are expected to come from Germany. — .- STREET GANGS BUSY Gangs of men were put to work by the city this morning clearing crossings and the scraper was also put into use on the streets. continental | other sources ! sald negotiations had been under-| | way for weeks on a basis that would The log then shows where the | engines were started and stopped repeatedly to “drive the vessel as ‘far ashore as possible,” Captain | Bune said, explaining the steering apparatus had been broken shortly | after striking, and that with the { wheel of no use, “it was just a qu tion of getting far enough ashore to give the men a chance to make the | | beacl At 12: with the Patterson heav- ACoanut‘d on Page blgm) SURVIVORS TELL GRAPHIC TALE | OF HEROISM Lashed fo Oil Drum Danng Seaman Lost Life Try- ing fo Save Mate “Are we men, or mice?” With these words James Moore | of the wrecked ship Patterson, which struck at 11:56 o'clock on the | night of December 11, started out after his friend, First Officer Gus |Swanson, and today somewhere in the surging waters off Sea Otter Creek the bodies of both Moore and Swanson are being lapped by the waves. This was part of the graphic story brought to Juneau today by the survivors aboard the Coast Guard cutter Haida. In thelr vivid account of two weeks of being buf- feted by wave and storm, the sur- vivors told of that hideous night when the Patterson struck in the raging gale. First Officer Swanson was at-| tempting to launch a lifeboat to | make the beach. A mighty wave came roaring along and swung the (boat free. Swanson hung to the gunwales as the small craft swung out over the raging sea. As it rocked back toward the ship again, the officer faced certain death by being crushed against the side of the Patterson. Choosing to take a chance in the sea, he released his hold and disappeared. Moore, working with him at the boat, the survivors related, had confidence the First Officer might make the shore. Demanding that his mates lash him securely to an oil drum, and with flashlight and a bottle of rum he was lowered over the side with the hope that he would be washed to the beach and perhaps aid Swanson. On board anxious men watched as the oil drum with its human cargo was swept toward shore. At the mouth of Sea Otter Creek from his light signals they believed he | made the beach. After that the light was missing. The survivors believe Moore lost his life while trying to swim the roaring Creek to the other side where he be- ITALY IS FRAMING UP ON 'U 5. REJOI(ING g Has He Come Yet JUNEAU READY T FRANCEDJIBOUTI WANTED, " 5 cimuas NOT TUNISIA NOR ISI-ANDS}CHY One of Most Colorful in Year as Community Plans Observance By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Dec. 24 At | times the ways of diplomacy are as clear as crystal if the right Juneau was preparing today for light is turned on them, and that one of its most elaborate Christ- is the case with the outbursts of mas celebrations. Last night light- Italmn demands for certain parts ed trees, windows and other yule French territory. |time decorations spread a holiday No Italian in his right mind ex- |brilliance over the community and . |pects to get Tunisia, which is a|today last minute shoppers very rich piece of French A!rica“hrouged the downtown district bordering on the Mediterranean. where store staffs were working at Nor does the right-minded Italian top speed supplying the last day |expect to get the Mediterranan|demands before the big holiday to- island of Corsica or Savoy on the morrow and Monday. Some of the Italian border. But competent stores are planning to keep open opinion here is that the shrewd until 8 or 9 o'clock so that every ‘Itahun.s who staged all this mon- one will have opportunity to do key business do expect to get Dji- their shopping. for world peace. | bouti. | For youngsters Christmas started In the United States a rewrd] Your memory has to be twolyesterday with release from school throng of Christmas travelers jour- Iyears long if you remember Dji- for a week and a free show by the neyed homeward for family reun- bouti. It is the little mud-flat city |Elks at the Capitol Theatre. An- jons. Snow, sleet and rain were on the east coast of Africa washed other free show was being held for President Exiends Greet ings fo Nation-Pledges Self Anew for Peace (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) America engaged in pre-Christmas | rejoicing today as President Roos velt greeted the nation with a prayer general from the Atlantic Coast to by the Red Sea. It is the entry | them this afternoon at the Coli- the Mississippi. Moderate weather port of Ethiopia. Italy wants it seum Theatre. sponsored by the prevailed throughout the south and because it needs a port of outlet | Moose. Some of the churches are to hold Christmas services tonight, and tomorrow Christmas programs will \be presented in all the churches /of the community. Special mid- a green Christmas was the order and inlet for Ethiopia. in the far west. Most of the shouting, it is true, Bus and railroad lines reported has been for Tunisia, Corsica and holiday traffic 10 to 15 per cent over Savoy. But the ruse of shouting for last year. On the New York stock one thing while wanting another is market a rise of railroad stocks con- as old as the hills and works as|night services tonight will be at tributed to the holiday |well as more complicated maneu- | Trinity Cathedral, Church of the Tl R ™ vers. Djibouti is an extremely im- | Nativity and Resurrection Lutheran. MoToRSHlp FER“ portant strategic point for Italy| Christmas eve gatherings are the in developing Ethiopia. {order for many homes tonight, and ls Sllll AGROUND {tomorrow and Monday large fam- |ily dinners with relatives and friends are planned. Many mothers knew the answer today of “why mothers get gray” UNALASKA, Alaska, Dec. 24— las they guarded closets and bed- The motorship Fern, with Christma: FOCRE" Ageitias. Lavanon. Dy YN mail and foodstuffs, also passengers, young eyes which just can't wait has settled higher on the beach near for the arrival of Santa Claus to- False Pass and attempts to refloat {night and tomorrow morning. herself at high tide failed. Aiding Santa Claus, the com- ‘The motorship Martha is enroute to the aid of the Fern which ground- ed yesterday. It is not believed the Pern however is in any immediate danger. The mails and passengers ENGLAND MAY BE GENEROUS However, its location is also im-| portant in England's empire con-| siderations. But England always has | evidenced a disposition to give away territory belonging to other |nations. Ehe might let France give up Djibouti even though it gives the Italians a dangerous outpost on the British-empire life line through | the Mediterranean and Red Sea. There is historical for Italy’'s demands. France got those in charge of the work as- Savoy from an Italian principality |sured that not a family in the com- before Italy had become a uni-‘muuity would be without a full lieved Swanson to be. 1 have been safely landed. (Continued on Page Six) | (Continued on Page Six) munity Christmas distribution was background |going forward at top speed and AS BOMBER EXPLODES IN MIDARR WRECKAGE IS SCATTERED OVER ACRES Terrific Blast Shakes Houses in Alabama City as Army Ship Crashes BITS OF BODIES FOUND SPREAD OVER WIDE AREA 4 Officers afi3 Privates Aboard When Plane Left California for New York UNIONTOWN, Ala, Dec. 24—A Douglas B-18 type bomber carrying nine persons exploded [n midair near here early today and struck the earth with a rainstorm of scat- tered wreckage which was spread over an area of 60 acres. Broken bits of the bodies of seven and possibly nine have been recov- ered. Effects recovered indicated there were !ine persons aboard the plane wi left Wamilton Field, California; ~Wediiesdiy en- route to Mitchell Field, N York. The terrific expiosion shook many houses in this vicinity. Hamiltor: Fieil said those aboard the plane when it left Hamilton Field v ‘o Tieut. Jaries D. Under- hill, 28, vioy; € 1 Lieut. John W. r.llard, Was o, Cali, co-pilot; Second Lieut. John Ii. Hydle, Pres- idio; Capt. Fied Ruebe, Jr., Medical Corps, San F'rancisco, and Privates Humbert Barro, 27, Los Angeles, Ben L. Grimes, Los Angeles, and Sheldon 8. Johnson, 20 - TRANS-ATLANTIC SERVICE COMING BY NEXT SUMMER Pan American Ready for Flying Service Within Next 3 Months WASHINGTON, Dec. 24. — The Civil Aeronautics Authority is mak= ing every effort to clear the way for the beginning of the Trans-At- lantic service by early next summer. It is learned authoritatively that Pan American is expected to be ready to start the service not later than three months. A Srock Quonflonl NEW YORK, Dec. 24—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today at the short session be- fore the two days holiday, is 9%, American Can 100%, American Light and Power 5%, Anaconda 34%, Bethlehem Steel 75%, Common= wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6%, General Motors 50%, International Harvester 56%, Ken- necott 42%, New York Central 20%, Northern Pacific 12%, Safeway Stores 26, Southern Pacific 20%, United States Steel 67'%, Bremner asked 1 bid 2, Pound $4.66%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 151.38, rails 32.02, utilities 22.02 .- — Flood control of the Mississippl was begun by French settlers more than 50 years before the American revolution. SHUFH‘W