The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS EMPIR ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESD: \\ NOVEMBER 15, 1939. VOL. LV., NO. 8260. EUROPEAN WAR STALLED; JAPAN ACTING Back with Mother PARTS OF 4 STATES GET SHAKEN UP Earthquake—DE) es Some Damage in Eastern Section af Night PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Nov. 15. — An earthquake of considerable in- tensity was felt last night in parts of four states. Windows rattled, dishes were | shaken off shelve: clocks were stopped and plaster cracked, but no| serious damage was reported up to late this morning. The quake extended from Bridge- ton, New Jersey, west to Baltimore, northward to Allentown, Pa., and also touched Delaware. NORTH STAR SAILS WITH HOLDS FULL First U. S. Expedition to‘Three I_OSI ible to believe I reunited at a Holbrook, Ariz., the mountains s days. Near se Rice and two passen- Mxke MacKallion and D. H. gers were oldtimers of the Dawson No Uacc has been found of the bodies of those aboard the plane. A search continues but weather is cold and stermy. No cause is known for the crash. S R S Srocx QUOTATIONS Steel i TAX LEVY IS SET | The City Council at Anchorage has set a 10 mill tax levy, based on |a true valuation of real and per-| \sonax property. The levy should ‘produce $50,566.22. IN ALASKA 1S WAGE, HOUR WASHINGTON, Nov. 15. — The | Wage and Hour Division has grant- |ed seasonal exemption from the | v Census takers are rushing their| Wage and Hour Law for open cut | placer mining in_ Alaska and the work in the Matanuska Valley and Willow Creek districts. John Q.|Pacific Northwest. The exemption entitles the indus- Adams is in charge of the enumer- ators. try to work employees 56 hours Antarctica in 100 Years Wh Pl BOSTON, Mass.,, Nov. 15.—With- out the slightest fanfare, the first Dl la e half of Uncle Sam's first Antarctic [ expedition in 100 years sailed away on the first leg of a long journey % the troeehs svlthiAnE: Wreckage in LeBarge, Y. Just before day broke, the Motor- ship North Star, loaded down with T., |deni|f|ed—Bod|es everything from phonograph rec- ords to sled dogs and a 37 ton snow Not Recovered Army base wharf and slid quthV‘ WHITEHORSE, Y. T., Nov down the harbor. ‘Anplan? wreckage found in Lake From here the North Star will go | Lebarge has been identified positive- to Philadelphia and then to Pan- ly as that of the Whitehorse-Yukon ama, through the locks, to New Zea- | Route Airways plane that myster- land, and finally to its base in the |jously and suddenly disappeared af- i | I)a\\son | Pilot | 8 { | | Brifish Lose Coaslw1se Tanker - Nine of 12 | xzw vork. wov. 15 — closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can LONDON, Nov. 15.—The 790 ton 4%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem British coastwise tanker Woadwwn‘sl(.el 83%, Commonwealth and is reported to have sunk after an|southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, explosion. Nine of the crew of 12| General Motors 54%, International members were lost, Three survivors | gayvester 63, Kennecott 40, New were picked up, taken to land and|yo . Central 19 , A Reuter dispatch received here 697%, Pound $3.93'¢. from Kaunas reports that two Li-| Lhunnian freighters, the 1600 ton | DOW, JONES AVERAGES een sun! | ndustrials 149.53, Estonian coast. ‘Jones averages: 1 S e cargo. - e, SAN PEDRO, Cal, Nov. 15.—7%e Dutch motorship Damsterdyk has | sailed with five twin motored Doug- the Southern France, a British Line passenger vessel, is at her dock be- lieved to be waiting for a cargo or 12 fast pursuit planes built for | the British government by the North American Aviation Corpora- The Southern Prince has already taken on board 20 bombers built in California aircraft factories and re- leased for shipment by the rvepeal of the arms embargo. .- from Boston just before dawn today cruiser, cast off its lines from the e Antarctic [ ter leaving here last Thursday for Crewmen Killed 111, American Power and Light fo 3 bosptial, [cific 10%, United States The Nida carried a British coal|T2ils 3321, utilities 2568 las bombers crated on her deck and tion. RUSHING CENSUS TAKING Crozier, shown with her seven-year-old son Bruce when they were hospital after Bruce had been lost in exhaustion, Bruce wandered into a hulllmg camp while a ;m\\e of 150 men hunted him 20 miles away. 15.—| Ander&on were aboard. The passen- | Northern Pa-| PLACER MINING INDUSTRY MLMB[R AS SQ(‘IAT hD PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS sk LONG BEACH “ MAYOR DIES | BY GUNFIRE Thwarted Policeman Shoots City Head and His Bodyguard LONG BEACH, N. Y., Nov, 15.—| Mayor Louis Edwards cad of this seaside resort’s local government, | was shot and killed in front of home today in an exclusive residential sec- tion near the Atlantic Ocean, and! his body guard, Police Sergeant James Walsh, was critically wound- ed. Soon after the stocky little Mayor, | 48, slumped to the sidewalk, Pa-| !trolman Alvin Dooley, 45, who was defeated by Mayor-supported Ses geant Walsh last week in a race for | the presidency of the Patrolmen’s | Benevolent Association, presented lmmsolf to police, and was charged | with homicide. ‘ One shot from Dooley's revoiver, | |a pear] handled .38, struck the hand of a passing postman, Fred Schrat- weiser, and wounded him slightly. Police Lieut. Leo Nolan said when Dooley surrendered, he skipped up the steps at the entrance of the | * | station, threw his revolver on the| desk and shouted, “I killed the | | Mayor.” i 1 The Mayor was an active enemy | i of gambling and gave Long Beach | its first tax reduction in six years with his 1940 budget which was| ‘pa.\sed by the City Council last b » - 've got him back,” cried Mrs. R. E. 'PROMINENT GUGGENHEIM ~ PASSES ON gyer 40 0il Elghty -one-Year-0ld Cap- | ifalist Dies af Fifth (Oll(ems Are ‘ B i Indicted Now NEW YORK, Nov. 15. — Murry Guggenheim, 81, capitalist and member of the famous copper mining family, is dead. He passed away at his Fifth JAvenue home after an illness of several days and | is survived by his widow, Mrs. Le- | 1 onie Bernheim Guggenheim, son | Of P”ces | Edmund, daughter Lucille who were 1BL the bedside, and three brothers.| LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 15—A Guggenheim organized the firm special Grand Jury has indicted | of Guggenheim and Sons in 1881 |more than 40 major and minor ofl and then merged its smelting and |companies on charges of conspir- refining branches in 1901 with the iNg to control price of retail gaso- American Smelting and Refining lmn thus violating the Sherman Company. Act. LR SR AT G Special Grakmiijury Com-| plefes Investigation The indictments have been re- Names Suggested (turned after months of quiet inves- In the neighborhood of Wall|tigation of the “remarkable stabil- Street, the name of Murry Gug-|ity” of gasollne prices. genheim for decades suggested cop-| per, silver and Chilean nitrate, the stock in trade of the famous family firm of which he was | member. Farther uptown, the name meant | band concerts on the mall in Cen-| tral Park on hot summer nights. | All over the city, it suggested the dentist’s office to hundreds of | thousands of school children who could not afford the services of a private practitioner. ’ The millions of dollars with which | Murry Guggenheim and his wife | endowed their dental clinic and\ other charities and helped sup- port the Goldman band concerts, | came from one of America’s great | | family fortunes, founded by Meyer | Guggenheim, a Swiss immigrant, | and enlarged by his seven Ameri-| DAHLONEGA, Ga. Nov. 15. — A can-born sons. |new gold strike baring a vein bon- | Murry Guggenheim was the third |anza which the state’s geologist |of those sons, born in Philadelphia | |said assayed $60,000 to the ton| August 12, 1858. He entered the mmlw&s disclosed today by operators| |of M. Guggenheim’s Sons when ,L‘of the century old Calhoun mine, was established in 1881, and re-|three miles south of here. | el -| State geologist Garland Peyton ‘described the strike as a ‘“vein of |quartz two inches in thickness of | unknown depth, so thoroughly im- prcgnated with gold that over ap- | | proximately ten inches of it ap-| peared to be one continuous nb-\ |bon of metal.” 1 Peyton asserted the vein the richest he has seen in 25 years| in Georgia, and is “definitely | | classed as a bonanza,” with an ap- parent richness comparable to the famous Comstock Lode which yield- ed $340,000,000 in the yellow metal. o KILLS COYOTE :$60,000 ORE VEIN IS HIT IN OLD MINE Century OIWorkings in Georgia Reveals Near- ly Solid Gold 4Contmued on Page Five) is EXEMPT FROM REQUIREMENTS weekly without paying time and one half overtime, The exemption runs for a maxi- mum of fourteen weeks. The Division of the Wage and Hour noted that weather and lack of water forced such operations to close for about six months of the year, Pilot Hakon Christensen recent-| sighted a coyote while flying in| the Cook Inlet section, He circled altitude, then set the plane down and shot the coyote. Passengers on the plane were given a thrill. Dr. Gruening Snowbound {In Southland the brute several times at a low|for Governor of Alaska, was bound for 24 hours andoah National party could be rescued by a snow 'the torpedoing of the Athenia and'in the U. 8. HITLER IN MUNICH BEER HALL IN 1938 age to the Munich beer cellar lirich Graf, who was credited beside bottle of soda water; when Adolf Hitler made his 1938 pilgrin that failed was launched. Left to right: and was himself injured; Hitler, center, pal aides. This was the scene a year where his famous 1923 putse with “prote " Hitler in 19 and Rudolf Hess, one of Hitler’ ~ HITLER IN MUNICH BEER HALL IN 1939 prinel This radiophoto, transmitted from Berlin to New York, shows Adolf Hitler (behind rostrum) as he sal- uted members of the Nazi Party old guard, gathered at the famous Buergerbrau beer cellar in Munich to celebrate the anniversary of the 1923 abortive putsch that failed. A few minutes after Hitler left the beer hall, an explosion killed seven persons and injured more than 60, | Bomb Wrecks Beer Hall But Feuhrer Escapes Terrific destructive power of the explosion that smashed Buergerbrau Beer Mall at Munich, only a quarter of an hour after Adolf Hitler had left, is well illustrated by this view of the wreckage. Directly behind the spot. where ceiling touches floor is where Hitler stood while speaking. This picture radioed from Berlin to New York. Seven persons were killed in the explosion and 63 injured. Hitler's life may by the Russians. Hv* 1id the Athenia“s loss reacted Germany and that Russia ' nmum invade Germany in case the | Allies win. Y [ | NS OF THE 93312 miles of passen- ger train runs throughout the world over which schedules of a mile a minute are maintained, 48247 are the attempt of have been made plow crew, rom according to a clipping | eastern newspaper, - | | F | an D BOSTON, Mass., Nov. 15. Rev. Dr. Edmond A. Walsh, Georgetwovn University Dr. Ernest Gruening, appointee The gent ts now- ently at Shen- | r Park before his of SugR: | to bases. FIGHTING IS RESUMED IN SOUTH CHINA Umls of Japanese Army, Navy Landed - Third Powers, Waich Out TOKYO, Nov. 15—The Impermal headquarters announce that units jof the Army and Navy have landed near Pakhol on the South China Coast, 300 miles west of Hongkong, and are attacking the Chinese | forces. | The announcement is the first |sign that the South China campaign has been revived and the Govern= {ment “will adhere to a policy hither= to pursued toward third powers." Scene of New Drive The Japanese landing forces, starts ing the new South China drive, give promises of major military | developments sooner than Furope’s | stalemated western front where highly equipped armies of great powers face one another in relative inactivity. The combined forces landed in | South China immediately headed in- land against the Chinese defenders, The scene of the news drive is ap~ parently aimed at getting a stronger grip on the South China coast, only 75 miles east of French Into China and about 300 miles west of Hong- kong. European War The European war moves along | principally as a conflict at sea, | also a battle on economic lines, France reports “reduced activity on the front last night,” and Ger- many reports “no special events ex- {cept minor local artillery fire.” | Sub Sinkings The German High Command cred- |its submarines with sinking 26,000 tons of enemy craft and returning One submarine is reported escorting an unidentified prize ves- sel. New trouble flared in one German | protectorate in Czechoslovakia when 2,000 students demonstrated against the government over the death of one student, aged 22, but were dis~ persed before clashing with the po- lice. 'HUNDREDS DIE AS FIRE BURNS SOAKED SHACKS 0il Town Built on Stills Is Destroyed by Roar- ing Flames CARACAS, Venezuela, Nov, 15— As previously announced, bulletins from Languinillas, a town built on |stilts on Lake Maracaibo, oil port, has been swept by fire and between 800 and 1,000 persons of a population of 2,500 are dead or missing. The flames roared through 200 oil« soaked shacks of the natives, trap« ping many hundreds who were un« able to reach shore. The exact toll of death will nof be known for days due to difficulty experienced in rescue work and counting the fatalities. Volunteer workers are today searching the lake for bodies of the 500 to 800 estimated to have died in the fire. Other searchers are paddling through the floating debris and charred stilt-piling. The natives were all employed in the great oil fields nearby. The Government has mobilized resources to aid the survivors, e ENTERTAINED LONDON, Nov. 15.—King George and Queen Elizabeth entertained the exiled Premier of the Polish government today. Foreign Secre= tary Viscount Halifax was among the guests. Prime Minister Chamberlain pre« sided at the weekly cabinet meet- ing today. Chamberlain appeared to be greatly improved from his recent attack of gout. CONFISCATION BRUSSELS, Nov. 15. — Belgian police, without explanation, con= fiscated all editions of three French newspapers this morning.