The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 18, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, 939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LV., NO. 8263. NOVEMBER 18, | 'CZECH REVOLTERS SHOT DOWN BY NAZLS A German Plan AIR FLIGHTS ARE SUCCESS, NAZIREPORT Triple Vido;plade Public| in High Command Communique w GERMAN NAVAL BASE PHOTOED BY BRITISH Daring Reconnaissances Executed Over Shefland and Orkney Islands BERLIN, Nov. 18.—An official communique by the Supreme High Command claims a triple victory in air flights over France and Great Britain plus driving back three British planes at- tacking Wilhelmshaven. Although official advices re- ceived here claim the British l Ministry reports that nation’s | planes with having successfuly photographed the “important German naval base,” the Nazi report asserts the planes were beaten back before they got over | the base. | The Supreme High Command claims Nazi planes penetrated through the entire sky line of French air space as far as Bor- deaux and also executed most da g reconnaissance missions over the Shetland and Orkney islands. ->-eo DOCK STRIK ATNEW YORK _ REACHESEND Ryan Claims Moral Vicfory | Though Unions Fail in Demands ‘ NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Five thou- sand striking longshoremen voted last night to return to work Monday morning, ending a two weeks’ strike | that tied up nine coastal shipping lines and affected 73 vessels. While the union demand failed in the request for a $1.05 wage and 40 hours a week, Longshore President Joseph Ryan claimed a moral victory in an operators’ agreement to rec- tify unidentified “unsatisfactory” conditions on the waterfront. Ryan says wages will be boosted from 95 cents an hour if the ma- jority of longshoremen in other At- lantic ports are granted a wage in- crease, through negotiations start- ing in January. e e EXPLOSION INLONDON Three Blasts Throw The- afregoers Info Con- | fusion Tonight BULLETIN — LONDON, Nov. 18.—Three sharp explosions, the authorities blamed to the out- lawed Irish Republican Army, shook Piccadilly - Circus, cor- responding to the New York Times Square, tonight. Theatregoers were into confusion but it is mnot believed anyone has been in- thrown es Drive Over Britain, France Reds Rush Na to Estonia CAPONE IS o7 permanent garrison in the republi Estonian Army Commander Reek, EGerhiany, Al Territories Under Nazi Control, Are Placed Upon Economic Blacklist by the U. S. | Bishop | Brown Palsse;sl Head of Me-flgdisi Churthz of Three States and | | Alaska, Dies ‘ PORTLAND, Oregon, Nov. 18.—| | Metbodist Bishop Wallace E. Brown, | 71. in charge of Oregon, Washing- | | ton, Idaho and Alaska, died today | | at a hotel | Bishop Brown only arrived here | | from Chattanooga on November 7| | to succeed Bishop Titus Lowe, trans- ferred to Indianapolis. | Bishop Brown's widow and his| brother, the Rev. Dr. William Wal- | lace, of Youngstown, Local Area Di- rector of the Church’s World Serv- ice, were with the Bishop at his death. He had been ill with a sud- den heart attack for only two days. HAIDADUE ONSUNDAY Coast Guard cuvter Haida, in command of Lieut. Comdr. R. C. Jewell, is scheduled to arrive about 3 o'clock tomorrow morn- ing. The Haida has been at the Brem- erton Navy Yard undergoing the annual overhauling for the past| several weeks. 'MOTORSHIP DART . jured, apparently because the night crowds aré small due to the nightly black outs. One shop window was shat- tered and steel shutters twist- ed and pavements torn up. A fourth explosion occurred in fashionable Park Lane near a bank but no damage was done, l | IN AFTER SNOWY . TRIP WITH MAIL | The motorship Dart, Capt. Einar Haugen, came in from its weekly| | island run yesterday afternoon,| | bringing in two passengers and re- | porting “snow nearly all the time.” Passengers arriving were Bert Griswold and Clifford Patten. Russia hastily takes advantage of its new treaty with Estonia permit- ting the Soviet to base warships in Estonian ports and establish a (left), in charge of Red naval forces there, is welcomed to Tallin by navy lies at anchor in Tallin harbor. | Guardia and District Attorney Dew- ~ CRY QuITs . fal, Has No Malice | Against Anyone ‘ | At f | BALTIMORE, Maryland, Nov. 19. —John Capone, business man of Vil- | lanova, Pa., said today his brother | ‘Scarface’ Al Capone, now bedridden in a hospital here, “is in a cheerful | mood and does not hold a grudge against anybody. He is a little on edge—nervous like as anyone coming | out of Alcatraz Prison.” ? John Capone declined to comment | on the clinical aspects of Al's paresis case. John Capone was never associated | with Al's crime syndicate in Cricago | and indicated that the ex-big shot is humble and ready to cry quits. - NOWREADY, Former Big Shot, in Hospi-‘ : Finnish infantrymen charge again stage war maneuvers near the R | WASHINGTON, Nov. 18.—Attor ney General Murphy said today| that the Federal Bureau of Inves- tigation is watching the activity in Miami, Fla., of certain members | of the old Al Capone gang. He said the Justice Department is not | | guarding Capone at the present | |time and the department will cen- |ter its attention on the former king of the Chicago underworld only if he resumed his racketeering ac-| tivities, ¢. Soviet Commander Menetshoff while the flagship of the Russian - | D s SEWARDMURDER TRIAL BEGINS; WOMAN IS HELD : Halleft Accused of Killing many and ui terstoncs ador | Wife, Burning Two ler has acquired in the last few| Ends Of candle years, are lumped together on the United States economic blacklist. SEWARD, Alaska, Nov. 18—Gene Hallet, 50, went on trial in Federal This is proclaimed in the recent Court here yesterday facing a charge trade agreement with Venezuela. President Roosevelt expected Ger- | of murdering his wife on a stormy night a year ago. many and the territories under Nazi Mrs. Hallett disappeared from control from the tariff concessions granted Venezuela. REERT 2= A Kodiak Island on the night in ques- tion and her body was never found. District Attorney J. W. Kehoe said Hallett first reported his wife had WITNESS SEA'I’ left the island aboard a boat, but o later related a story of finding her dead or near dead on the beach where she had wandered during a storm. Dewey Under Verbal Fire for Half Hour by Bund Leader's Lawyer In that phase of the story related by Hallett, he said her body was NEW YORK, Nov. 18. — Defense attorney Sabbatino called Mayor La carried away from him as he at- tempted to carry her to the cabin on shore. Jessie Dreslien, 38, who appeared four days after Mrs. Hallett’s dis- appearance; has been at liberty on bond as a material witness. Kehoe said Hallett met Miss Dres- lien on an Orient-bound boat nn' which she was a beauty operator,| ey to the stand yesterday in an ef- fand since have been joint owners of fort to prove that the forces of law |3 Kodiak boat. were seeking to destroy Fritz Kuhn| Hallett, in addition to being charg- and his German-American Bund. ed with murder, is charged with Dewey spent about 35 minutes on |jllegal cohabitation. the witness stand while La Guardia - eee - - was on and off in 90 seconds. Dewey denied charges of animos- ity toward Kuhn but said he re- garded the Bund as a nuisance to SMITHISTAKEN with a big grin on his face. | Sabbatino asked the Mayor: “Either in February or March did| BATON RAUGE, La. Nov. 18 you write a letter to the Secretary | Dr- James Monroe Smith, former of State regarding Kuhn?” President of the Louisiana State Before LaGuardia could answer,|University, who attempted suicide|; superior Court hearing opened on|which his tightly-knit organization the prosecution objected to the ques- [in His jail cell Thursday, was to-| tion as being irrevelant. day transferred by ambulance to| Judge Wallace sustained the ob-|the State Penal Farm at Angola jection and excused the Mayor, who | to start serving his term for for- left the court hurriedly. gery. uulofif—om ER | Warden L. A. Jones said Smith CHANGINGREGISTRY WASHINGTON, Nov. 18. — The Maritime Commission announces the other prisoner and probably will be set to work cutting cane. e BARRAGARS ON YUKON James Barragar, of the Alaska El- ectric Light and Power Company,| Union Oil Company of California |accompanied by Mrs. Barragar, are| has applied for permission to trans- | Passengers aboard the Yukon for| fer one of its tankers to Panamian)Juneau after vaeationing in the registry, south for several weeks, 18t |suit of Mrs, IN SEATTLE, 10 BE LOBBIED, CONGRESS METEOR GROUNDS NEAR KETCHIKAN ON LEWIS REEFS Cyane Pumps Bering Sea Mail Boat Dry-Off This Morning KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 18 The Coast Guard cutter Cyane last night freed the Bering Sea mail boat Meteor from certain founder- ing on jagged Lewis Reef, three miles north of Ketchikan in Ton- gass Narrows. The Meteor, mail boat between Michael and Kotzebue, now Se- attle bound, grounded at low tide last night in thick weather. The Cyane crew pumped and bailed water entering the hatches before buoyance enough at- tained to float the vessel. Capt. L. H. Jennings, surveyor, said the keel and fore- foot of the Meteor were badly damaged, but the hull was making no water and Meteor skipper Cap- tain T. Pedersen was permitted to proceed without prejudice. The Meteor floated this morn- ing and proceeded under her own power, was - - MRS. PANTAGES PUTS HUSBAND UP AS WITNESS |Embarrasses Husband with. Jibes About His Lady Friends HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 18- | Mrs. Beatrice Pantages put her hus- band, Rodney, on the witness stand yesterday and had him asked a num- ber of embarrassing questions, as her divorce suit. The son of the late theatre mil- lionaire, Alexander Pantages, de- nied that he was overly friendly with other women during his eight stormy years of married life. He will be treated the same as any|also denied that he continually plied was told his wife with liquor, and insisted | that she drink even when she pre-| Washington wanted support for the ferred not to. The Court refused to dismiss the Pantages, after com- pletion of the heraing of his side of the story. Pantages and his wife each de- mands custody of their children and charges that the other is unfit to be a parent, Finns Prepare to Defend Homeland Finns prepare to defend by force, if necessary, their little republic against Red demands for military bases, DAVE BECK, LABOR LEADER, [BRITSH NAVAL marine | | { half hidden by a smoke screen, as they ist barbed wire barricades, Soviet’s mighty military machine, the an border. Unimpressed by the BELLIGERENT; | “F0gt saN oo Senafor Holt Makes De- mand for Explanation GRAVER [ Ere from Navy Men WASHINGTON--The American | Pederation of Labor has promised |y \cuiNGrON Nov. 18 United | to lobby in Congre ‘mlu session “T Bibto MAnALe L Bk Ds Hotk ot rescue Dave Beck's Seattle Wb\ yoo " yirginia, has demanded the domain from the wrath of outraged | rr e T it Washington apple growers explanation of why the British light Beck, shrewd and hard bub noj .. ... caradoc was allowed to load roughneck, has been labor kin fuel at the San Diego Naval depot Seattle for a dozen years or more | g dozen years o Meal | 185t Thursday under a tacit agreement with local| “gonqaor Holt, is a member of the industry. He takes no nonsense | | Senate Naval Committee. from his subordinate labor groups. | > Pt Lt LI R anation, There few “quickie” strikes | gopnior Holt said it appeared that| among outlaw labor organizations | o T ke rricials were trying to| in Seattle, In turn, Beck exacts ¥ O oot Bt this country involved. from industry an extensive code o s Sl are a cooperation, | Beck is head of the Teamsters Union. In Seattle that is a broad S(ORES ARE | term. The big Washington porL‘ |city is not surprised when steno- graphers, waiters and beauty operat- ors are listed as members of Llw‘\ | teamsters union, | BECK HAS A FRIGHT MISSING IN But a rebellion of eastern Wash- | HI lA | ington apple growers gave Beck and | his organization a fright last year.| | | Hes the story as it is told here.| {80 iron-clad was Beck’s control of | the trucking business that farmers | from the upland part of the state | could not drive their own produce- | Up - 260 Saved, | |laden trucks into Seattle. At lhrmr‘ behind Seattle, Beck’s men stationed | “ LONDON, Nov. 18—A Neth- | patrols. Farmers with their trucks | were stopped, compelled to seat a| erlands liner, Simon Bolivar, jdrxw‘r and pay him a day’s wages| was sunk by a mine today in | ‘Xt\r the final few miles into Seattle,| the North Se: with 144 of the even though the farmer continued| 400 persons, including women to drive his own truck | and children, missing. It was a jolly arrangement for the | A total of 260 survivors were truck drivers, but the farmers re-| picked up, many of them badly |belled. They advanced a piece of injured. 50 re- i Mrs. George Turner Dies initiative legislation last fall strictive in its nature that strikes as they are practiced on the Pacific Coast—would have been tly han- dicapped. By such a narrow margin was it defeated that Beck's advisers | warned him that he had bettér pla- | sich farmer opposition before cate it, really hit him HE SEES THE LIGHT | — Beck I5 belligerent but not stub-| SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 18.—Mrs. | born He quickly saw the light, George Turner, 79, widow of the |To the recent convention of the former Federal Judge and United | American Federation of Labor, of |States Senator from Washington, | died at her home here today. Sen- ator Turner died in 1932, | siigteseodl The apple growers of the state of Washington wanted the r»gummn.x;]'o lnves‘iga'e 'or against apple spray residue modi- | fied. So did Beck, the uunvn-nuoni Iron Ore Dep°si|s 1 Wash. and Oregon Washington authorizing $300,000,000 ‘ » | lof additional farm credit refinanc-| WASHINGTON, Nov. 18—Secre-| ing. So did Beck, the convention |'&rY of Interior Harold L. Ickes, at | was told. ia press conference, said Government | | " The convention did not include XPerts are investigating the possi-| the items specifically among its for- | Pility that there are large deposits of iron ore in Oregon and Washing- ton states, |is an affiliate he conveyed his wish- es The apple growers of the State of ihill by Senator Swellenbach of | (Continued on Page Two) ‘ REBELLIOUS ACTIVITIES INTENSIFIED Seething Senfiment Runs Underground Against Protecforate TREASON LAW FORCED UPON ALL CITIZENS Three More Executions Re- ported Today - Stu- dents Imprisoned BULLETIN — PRAGUE, Nov. 18. — Martial law was tonight proclaimed in Greater Prague, Pragueland, Kladno, Beraun and Horchiwitz districts by the Ger- man protectorate officers. The martial law does not affect Ger- man citizens, only the Czechs. THREE MORE SHOT LONDON, Nov, 18.—A bulletin from Prague this afternoon of- ficially announces that three more Czechs, including two po- licemen, were shot today for “acts of violence” against Ger- many. The third person execut- ed is not identified. TREASON LAW EXTENDED BERLIN, Nov. 18, — Nazi au- thorities last night and early to- day broadened their power to deal with the alleged rebellious activities of the inhabitants of Bohemia and Moravia by ex- tending the treason law to the protectorates. This was after nine Czechs were executed yes- terday and all high schools and academies were ordered closed for three years following student disturbances on Thursday. SHOT THEM DOWN Meager details indicate that the nine executed yesterday in- cluded two Czech policemen and seven Prague University students who were accused of assaulting German citizens during anti- Nazi demonstrations. Official sources declare order has been restored and that 90 per cent of the population dis- approve of what is termed sow- ing dissension by the youthful followers of form er President "Benes. Other sources indicate, however, that there is a seething timent beneath the sunface with secret meetings being held that may break out in a tre- mendous revolt never before threatening Hitler, DISSENSION GROWS LONDON, Nov. 18.—It is un- officially reported in advices trickling from all parts of Czech- oslovakia, that the 2,000 students arrested Thursday are being placed in dungeons. This further adds flame to the feelings of the people, and notwithstanding Nazi reports, 80 per cent of the population is prepared for re- volt. Conditions during the past three days have become so se- rious that Nazis police and sold- iers are traveling in groups in- stead of singly, to resist assas- sination, it is learned here. StoCcK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov, 18. — Closing quotation of American Power and Light at today's short session of the New York Stock Exchange is 5%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Steel 85, Commonwealth and South- ern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, Gen- eral Motors 547%, International Harvester 62%, Kennecott 41, New York Central 20, Northern Pacific 10%, United States Steel T0%, Pound $3.89. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 151.53, | rails 33.85, utilities 26,09, PE