The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 20, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" 1939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LV., NO. 8264 GLACIER HIKER, EXHAUSTED, FOUND D JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 EAD ———————_y Unidentified Plane Reaches Edge of London AIR RAID ON BRIT.CAPITAL BEATEN OFF No WarninETssued But Anti-Aircraft Guns Blaze Away BOMBING ATTACK IS MADE ON DESTROYER Craft Flies Over English, Sections-Pursued | by Chasers LONDON, Nov. 20.—The Brit- ish Admiralty late today an- nounces that German aircraft “made an unsuccessful bombing attack” on a British destroyer in the southern part of the North Sea today. An unidentified airplane ear- lier drew anti-aircraft fire when flying low over the outskirts of London and Essex in Southern Kent, German scouting activities ex- tended north of Scotland. No air raid warnings were sounded, although anti-aircraft fire trailed the plane which did reach the edge of the British Capital City flying over the 1 | southeast coast at great height. The plane was greeted by a steady fire. British air chasers streaked in DIMOND GIVES HOPE OF MORE | ALASKAN JOBS: Delegate and Gruening Confer with Navy Of- | ficials on Base Work . i WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Hope that more Alaskans would be em- ployed next spring in construction; work on air bases authorized by Congress was expressed today by Al- | aska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. | The announcement followed after | Delegate Dimond and Goverxhr-} Designate Ernest Gruening had con- | ferred with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison and Rear Admiral Ben Morell of the Bureau of Yards and Docks. | Delegate Dimond said he hoped | major work would be rushed next spring and said he believed he had made progress in presenting his re- guests to the Navy. e ———— FORMER KAISER NEAR DEATH IN SUDDEN STORM Trees Uproofed in Castle| Garden Where Wil- helm Walking DOORN, Nov. 20.—Former Kaiser William had a narrow escape today when a sudden windstorm uprooted three large trees in the garden of | Doorn Castle. The former Kaiser, now 80, was walking with an official of his court only 50 yards from where the trees fell. He had just passed the spot and quickly returned to his castle in a highly nervous state. STILL QUIET ON WESTERN FRONT (By Associated Press) Both French and German com- muniques assert that the Western Front remains quiet as it has for the past two weeks. There is only CORNERSTONE OF 'RUSSIA AND " up sk JAPANNEAR AGREEMENT Nothing in Remarks of President Give Polit- 2 Diplomats Improve Trade, Border Relations of | ical Hints HYDE PARK, N. Y., Nov. 20. — President Roosevelt laid the cor- : nerstone of a library building | Two Nations which will house personal and pri- vate papers of the Chief Executive The library is expected to be open to the public in July 1941. ! Several hundred persons includ-| ing a score or more of political notables were on hand but did not hear in the President's remarks anything to give them a hint as to his political plans. | The $350,000 building is fin- anced by private donations. It is a story and one-half building. One wing and the central portion will be a museum containing the Presi- SURFACE PEACE IS RESTORED AT PRAGUE Finland Continues Under Press Attack from Across Border (By Associated Press) Russia's relations with her neigh- bors in Europe and the Far East improved feeling between Toyko and Moscow. In Moscow the Soviet News Ag- ency said Premier Molbtoff anid Japanese Ambassador Togo found “a community of views” on the mat- ter of a Soviet-Japanese trade agree- ment. In addition a Soviet-Japanese commission prepared in meetings at Chita, Siberia, to settle frontier problems left unsettled when the nations. reached a truce in border since he become New York Sena- ATTORNEY SHOT DOWN ON STREET &5 continued, accusing the Finns of = keeping “troops marching every- where” on the frontier which Fin- land refused to revise in conformity with Soviet demands. At least surface quiet was estab- ilished at Prague where 12 Czechs A were executed and several thousand arrested as a result of demonstra- tions against German and protec- Outer Mongolia. land Accused Girl Gels Man Who At tempted to Kill Her Last May DALLAS, Texas, Nov, 20. woman, armed with two gur shot down Brooks Coffman, 39, attor- ney, on the main street of this torate governments. city this afternoon. He died half Prague workers went to their jobs despite agitation for protest strikes Corrine Maddox. 26, whom Coff- | 8gainst the authorities, who prom- man is charged with stabbing witn;ised to give consideration to pro- an ice pick last May, surrendered | teStS against rising prices and other to the police soon after the shoot-| BTIEVANCes ing. | Kwangtung Campaign Coffman was under charge of .'Ijhou;zh the European war pro- aseault with intent to commit mur- | 5TSssed slowly, the Japanese cam- der for stabbing the girl who was paign on the South China coast add- e e ear Trving|d @ new clement to the Far Eas- iern war where Japan is trying to Texas. She recovered after sev-| e { eral weeks in a hospital. eut Chinese supply routes from F The girl is quoted as saying: “He rench Indo China and Burma. hounded me to death. I did "m‘!ang:rl‘\ifie r:']:z:';v ii:?de??:]ov‘}lalz- want to do it but what else could|g.." Hoghx i |ern Kwantung province and more o. He c: n h i I ds called on me at my home ! ein¢orcements are being brought up and told me he would kill me if\pouny for an inland drive. I appeared against him in court.” o AR kukwan Testig | COURT TERM SET TENTATIVELY FOR AS STATION FOR AIRWAY WEATHER JANUARY 22 HERE {Ketchikan Term Adjourn- A test schedule for radio-telephone | weather reports from Klukwan has ing Today-Judge Go- ing on Vacation | been arranged by the U. S. Weather Bureau with the Alaska Aeronautics and Communications Commission. If the test proves satisfactory,| Klukwan will go on the air regularly as an airway weather station, giving four reports daily. Klukwan re- Convening of a regular term of ports are valuable, as the village lies | District Court at Juneau has been set tentatively for January 22, ac- cording to word from Ketchikan, where a term is ending today. Judge George F. Alexander plans |to reach Juneau about January 15 | after a vacation in the States. Both on an alternate course from Skag- | petit and grand juries will be called way to Whitehorse. S A { for the January term here. an hour later. DUKE DYNAMITES NORTH CAROLINA DURHAM, N. C., Nov. 20.—Duke exploded in the third quarter last Saturday afternoon to blast North Carolina by 13 to 3 into the ranks of the defeated and take a long stride toward at least a tie for the Southern Conference Crown. SUNK LONDON, Nov. 20, — It is an- nounced tonight that an unidenti- fied French steamer has been sunk. This makes the tenth to be destroyed Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 20. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 113%, American Power and Light 5%, Anaconda 33, Bethlehem Steel 84c, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 11, General Mot~ ors 54%, International Harvester 63, Kenecott 40%, New York Central 19%, Northern Pacific 10%, United States Steel 70%, Pound $3.91%%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 15169, minor patrol and scouting skirmish- €es, : by mines or submarine action since Saturday, rails 34.08, utilities 25.98, dent’s collection of ship models, naval prints and the other wing Continue to occupy primary atten-) will hold 6,000,000 papers amassed tion of diplomats who see signs of warfare between Manchoukuo an d’ | | o their intention of marrying. sweethearts in AIR BASE WORK DRAWS FIRE OF (10 MARIIME iNavy Is Gi;éh'Demands— Resident Alaskans Must Be Hired Possibilities of jurisdictional labor dispute on the Sitka and Kodiak naval air base projects loomed to- day following release of a radio- gram to the Juneau Mine and Mill Workers local here, CIO, from the cil No. 1 in Seattle. The radiogram read: “The Mari- time Federation District Council No. 1 last night took the following stand on naval air base projects. 1—Resi- dential Alaskans regardless of union affiliations must be hired for these projects in all ports in Alaska where the Government maintains employ- ment service. 2.—Alaskans hired for the jobs must be paid transporta- tion to and from the projes 3. The District Council demands that the Navy Department respect jur- isdictions and sign agreements with all established unions regardless of their affiliations for work in their customary jurisdictions.” The contractors for the Sitka and Kodiak work announced prior to be- ginning work on the jobs that agree- ments had been signed with the AFL Building and Trades Council in Seattle whereby no discrimina- tion would be made against any workmen employed on the jobs, but that workmen must apply for AFL union cards in their respective worl fields within two weeks from the date they begin work. JAPAN MAKING IT TOUGH FOR WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, said the Japanese are creating new embarrassments for Americans seek- ing to transport food to foreign con- cessions in Tientsin | Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman e et Tdut Screen Players Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman have announced of her crew of 13 landed at an They first met when cast as screen English port. AIRPLANE ORDERS FROM ABROAD PASSED AROUND Maritime Federation District Coun-| U. 5. CITIZENS FOUR SHIPS SENT DOWN _ OFFENGLAND Caused by "“German Mines” on Coast |ONE ITALIAN CRAFT IS AMONG VICTIMS One Hundréd and Fori Lost Aboard Simon Bolivar, North Sea BULLETIN — LONDON, Nov. | 20.—Sea warfare has destroy | three more British ships, the Pensilva, Wigmore and ch- bearer in the which has sent the total known ships loss of all Nations to 135 ships with a total tonnage of 538,000 tons. The British Admiralty an- nounces the 4200 ton Pensilva sunk by “enemy action” but the crew has been saved. The sinking of the Torchbearer, 1267 | | | More than 177 persons are dead or missing over the past three days, bringing sea warfare casualties to over 2,000 and British shipping losses rising to 71 ships, five times the German known loss of 14. Brother Rat.” | | | LONDON, Nov. 20.—The British Admiralty disclosed this morning that four ships have been sunk off | east coast “by German the last 24 hours | England’s | mines," in By PRESTON GROVER | | | | WASHINGTON. Nov. 30Brif.|. Vietims ‘sce the Jialian Grasia, 'WABHING - 20.Bril- 5 g57 ons; British Blackhill, 2,492 lish and French airplane orders| ool CUR EE M B c e on, 1 | SR 2 the lifted embargo|ges "iong and Yukoslavia Carica @ eing passed around AmMONE| nrion 6471 tons. manufacturers where they will do|“ofice BP0 VAR et Ttalian the most good for Yankee Prepar-| ., gk gsince the war started. edness at the same time they get| " cuquaities show six lost from the results for the Allles. |B. O. Borjesson and five from the Here is a sample of what has|Grazia. been done, The French have taken | Sedsih fon Ruawivars a strong liking to the hot little Planes and lifeboats have Curtis pursuit plane, known as P“fienrchml the sea for 140 lost in 36. They say it is out-fighting the the sinking Simon Bolivar last much - feared German Messer-| gaturday schmidts, which were held up as| gurvivors of the Simon Boliver tops among fighters when the war (514 of how “oil pipes burst and started. Likely the French would|people in the cabins were smoth- prefer to buy about all the Curtis|ered to death, Some of us who plant can produce. However, the|could not get into the boats slid army has prior orders with Curtis| . jumped into the wat Others for a faster and handier plane juyst stood on deck and watched than the P-36. It is called the P-|yg go.” This was the statement 40 made by a middle-aged man witn The French therefore have - toja smashed nose. shop around among other factories. | “Just Like Hell” That isn’t such a hardship. A| “It was just like hell” said a half dozen other plane makers|young Hollander. “I was blown have submitted plans to the army|down three decks by the first ex- and navy for ships considered only|plosion. I saw people blasted to shade less effective than P-40.|death just like knocking down nine ‘pins." ! Many of the survivors were im- a WILL CAUSE EXPANSION is not able exactly to tell the reaching land. French and British where they must| The Simon Bolivar struck a mine buy but force of circumstances com- |in the North Sea. She carried 400 pels them to buy from plants which | persons, including women and chil- are not filled with U. S. plane or-|dren, ders. That means expansion of plants which can not be boosted to| EIGHT SHIPS SUNK | mass production by U. S. orders LONDON, Nov. 20-—Th afte alone, noon the British Admiralty an- Incidentally, it puts money in|nounced, after a thorough checkup, ihe pockets of some of the plants|that mines exacted a toll of eight less | ships since Saturday afternoon when which heretofore have been well-heeld. Then they too can ex-|the liner Simon Boliver struck one periment on better and better and went down. | planes. | A British trawler, the Wigmore, And, incidentally, long before has been reported sunk by a mine repeal of the embargo was voted |With 16 of the crew lost. A British by the Senate, the French had |freighter and a Lithunian vessel placed additional orders with Am-|have also been added to the offic- erican plane manufacturers—on a |18l list. The Lithunian vessel was 'soon 8&” basls, The British, more|Sunk near Rotterdam. JERMANS MAKE DENIAL fearsome of creating a backfire . e | sgaifigth et an; to have| BERLIN, Nov. 20—The German withheld until the House acted, |High Command denles the charge |of England that mines have been | p1 by the Nazis in or near com- mercial shipping lanes. The mines were torn loose in all possibility by | heavy weather and drifted into the shipping lanes. AREN S AR 1 MARRIAGE LICE} I A marriage license was issued here today to Sigurd Jackson and | | Helen E. Hallberg, both of Elfin| Cove, ODDS AND E Historical note: Naval hero Paul| Jones once put the U. S. in prac-| | tically the same position as Ger- | many now is with respect to the captured City of Flint. Jones cap- tured three British merchantmen and stowed them away at Bergen, (Continued on Page Three) ' Brifish Claim Losses Are/ The Army-Navy Munition Board | mediately taken to hospitals upm)' CHWELLENBACH SURPRISES ALL AT KETCHIKAN ‘Senator Shows Up in First City - Declines fo Make Comment, Judgeship KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 20 [ Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach was |a surpris visitor in Ketchikan this S morning, ‘declining to comment on| his possible appointment to the Fed- eral Judgeship of the Western dis- trict, succeeding Judge Webster of Spokane. Senator Schwellenbach was “awufully tired” after Congr ended, and whenever he was tir he “liked to rest up by taking a boat trip.” The Senator revealed he was four days in his Seattle home while news- papermen and others were seeking him in Spokane to query him on | the judgeship | Senator Schwellenbach arrived | from Seattle on the steamer Yukon this morning and is leaving for the south again via the Alaska tomor- row night J. Stanley | | sald ,e-— — Seward Jury (an't Agree, Murder Case Gene Hallett Held in Jail for Retrial at Anchor- age Court Term SEWARD, Alaska, Nov, 20— After 20 hours deliberating, the District |Court jury reported it was dead- |locked in the case of Gene Hallett, 50, accused of killing his wife on a | stormy night at Kodiak, Alaska. The jury was discharged. Hallett, former Seattle maritime | | operator, will remain in jail and will |be retried at the Anchorage Court | term, District Attorney J. W. Kehoe and his assistant H. P. Noggle an- nounces. Mrs. Hallett disappeared last year, several days after she had arrived there from Seattle. S eee SPECTATORS ARE RULED OUT FROM FRITZ KUHN CASE NEW YORK, Nov. 20.— Peter Sa- bbatino, defense counsel for Fritz Kuhn, demanded a mistrial today after Judge James Wallace excluded the public from Kuhn's trial and re- | buked the lawyer for disputing the | order Judge Wallace cleared his court- | room of all spectators today shortly after resumption of the trial charg- mg the German American Bund leader with stealing money from his organization Judge Wallace said that the spec- | tators had been unruly. Only newsmen and persons con- |nected with the trial were permit- ted to remain The defense attorney objected to the move and made a demand for a | mistrial after the- ousting of specs | tato The first wittness today was Irv- ing Williams, from District Attorney Dewey's office Williams admitted that he led the raid on the Bund | headquarters last May. He denied | that the raid was illegal - DELEGATE A, J. DIMOND 10 BE HERE FRIDA Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond will be in Juneau Friday, ac- cording to a telegram received today | by Gov. John W, Troy. The Delegate is leaving Washing- ton by plane tonight and will arrive here on the Princess Norah, | he | | turn with the cutter yester YOUNG MAN DIES AFTER HARD (LIMB Burford Plum'mer, Grocery Clerk, Succumbs fo Heart Attack COMPANION TRIES RESCUE IN VAIN Darkness Veils Death of Goat Hunfer Unil Daybreak Today Burford Plummer, 25, died of a heart attack while goat hunting on Lemon Creek Glacier yester- day despite valiant efforts of his brother-in-law to carry him through deep snow to medical aid. After carrying Plummer, un- conscious, through deep snow for nearly two hours down from the glacier as far as he could, Phil Sloan wrapped his coat around his unconscious brother-in-law and staggered six miles down the trail for help. Returning in the darkness with aid, Sloan could not locate his landmarks, and Plummer was not found until 9 o'clock this morn- ing, dead, where he had been left. Had Shot Goat Sloan said he and Plummer had just shot a goat and were climb- ing the cliffs after it, about 3:30 in the afternoon, when Plummer was suddenly stricken and gasped his heart was giving him trouble, then fell unconscious. Sloan told Chief of Police Dan Ralston he carried Plummer “as far as I could” down off the gla- cier, wrapped his coat around him and “made him as comfortable as possible,” before going down the trail to the Charles Switzer Dairy, where he was employed. ¥red Orme telephoned the Ju- neau Fire Department and the emergency alarm, 2-9, was sounded for a stretcher party, After telephoning, Orme, Sloan and two other dairy employees went up the Lemon Creek trail at 7:30 oclock last night to hunt for Plummer, but were unable to locate him, Second Party Out A volunteer party from Juneau started up the trail with stretcher, blankets and stimulants a halt hour later. In the party were Karl Alstead, Verne Dick, Fred Harris, | Dick Harris, Louis Anderson, Dick | Mundeick, Jim Orme, Kelly Blake and LeRoy Vestal. Both searching parties built fires near the spot Sloan left Plum- "mer and spent the night waiting | for daylight to continue the search, finding the young man's body shortly after daybreak. Bringing Body At 3 o'clock this afternoon, the body had not been brought out and more stretcher carriers were being sent in to aid tired stretcher carriers who had already gone in the approximate six miles distance from the road. Five CCC workers joined the work early this morn- ing under William Fromholz. Plummer is swvived by a wife and six-year-old daughter, both in Juneau. His wife is employed at the Baranof Cafe. His mother and two brothers also survive in Kao- sas, | The Plummers, married in Jan- juary of this year, came to Ju- nau in April from Portland, Ore- gon. He had been clerking in vari- ous Juneau grocery stores, at the Thrift Co-Op, Case Lot Grocery, |and most recently at Jim Ellen’s. 1 e, 'TTER IS TRAVELING IN EAST Mrs. R. C. Foutter, wife of Lieut. Foutter, of the Haida, did not re- day. Mrs. Foutter has gone east for a | few weeks' visit with relatives and will rejoin her husband here later. -, WALDRON ON LEAVE Ensign Robert Waldron, popular young Coast Guardsman and ath- lete, is in the States on leave and did not return with the Haida yes- terday. He will rejoin the ship L S Y W ‘ MRS, FOU'