The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 22, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBI R 22, 1939. PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LV., NO. 8266. ASSISTANT LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER SUICIDES ~ GERMAN RAID ZERO HOUR - ON SHETLAND " NEARS FOR ISLANDS FAILS GOLD BOWL Six Planes Drop Bombs- ‘Starfing Lineups Show Big. No Damage - Scouting | s L | Assemblage of Meat Plane Is Shot Down o e ’ 1 and Muscle | B FORD TAKES LIFEDURING NIGHT TIME ‘Brief Message Regarding | Tragedy Received from . Capfain Leadbetter Queen Appealsto Women : e 0 . . ) 30 Agie | Assistant Lighthouse Keeper ; ¢ ¢ Ford, at Cape Spencer, took his life during the night. This is the briet radiogram received this morning by United States Commissioner Felix Gray I W. the Lighthouse WEEK'S 15TH SHIP DESTROYED BY MINE | Confession Claimed from Beer Hall Bomber- Spies Held BULLET 22.~German ed the Shetland Islands again today and set fire to a Royal | Air Force seaplane in two sharp thrusts, | The British communique says | the Nazi raiders first made an attack on shipping and then at- tacked the seaplane at the moor- ings and set it afire. No other casualties were suf- fered. The British Air Ministry also anncunces that the Royal Air rorce made successtul fughts Monday and Tuesday over Stutt- gart, Frankfort, Hamburg and Bremen, Juneau is pulsing today with the| | intensity and excitement of an American University town on the eve of a homecoming football game, and although there will be no mass meetings, no che sessions fet- ing the home t as both teams | involved in tomorrow's first annual Gold Bowl championship are home | teams—there is 1o less football feel- | ing in thi$ Capital City as the open- ing whistle’s deadline approaches. Adherents of the Sourdoughs, con- | fident that their favorites will come ocut on top, are betting large sums; on the boys in purple and gold, while | the supports of the gold and white | the Baranof Bears' colors — are | taking Sourdough mor without | batting an eyelash and telling the | world at large that the Sourdoughs haven’t a chance. Betting on Sourdoughs | As a matter of fact, the betting | is about 6 to 5 on the Sourdoughs, | which, as betting goes, is fair money. Be that as it may thing can happen in a football game, | but coaches Tom Dyer and Conrad |Puhr feel safe in predicting that when their two teams take the field {tomorrow they will at least treat Juneau to a rousing game, and that ! | the best team will win. | Tomorrow’s game—the first ma- jor contest held in Juneau on| Thanksgiving Day under inter-col- legiate rules—brings to some fifty | P48 ey S Suh W | young men the climax of. six arduous | - o . 3 il e . it \ z e D *}‘;iy"’;“,flfifg";gi‘,j‘ ; ’ & AR e ATE WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—Muni- I 2 p | 3 s’ B { \ cipal ordinances prohibiting distri- ALASKA CHROMIUM ORE IS == B | SR et lish coast where more than ten | i e Do g £ | % i : G |circets of Los Angeles, Cul, Mil- ships, including five neutral vessels, | that football is a game that can| . ¢ 3 s 8 > ‘hwaukae‘ Wis.,, and Worcester, Mass., are held by the | | have gone down in the past five I I I e re, g s { i o : : BOUGH BY REASURY DEP .\”‘" Pworid that Alaskans can siagel | Supreme Unite { the world that Alaskans can .»Larze? The German freighter Bertha Fis- ik ST DR SR ser fell prey to a British warship | residents of any other part of the| 160 S0 RED e P 1 as good a game of football as the | S ; ) e ! T i s % & | near Iceland. f United States. ; ; : G e ; T e i | valid the Irvington, New Jersey, or- These new casualties, added to| | 1 ith. the list of 15 ships which mines and | minor bruises and a couple of black | D e . | Thursday in a quick increase,| | “ARso spurred Britain to retaliatory meas- | | Army Depot at New Cumberland, |during the six weeks of practice. | orts ‘(mge J‘mfce e c res i erts delivered the combined opinion ures against Germany. Pennsylvania, |And this practice period—which | ing mines, but the charges were de- original bids had been rejected |assert contribute to more injuries | midte clusay esec nied in Berlin. | nounced a blockade of all German | due to the lack of time, as a similar . " g " mf%’,',’f"fm&fx:fg had upheld the et o et i | @l BOMDING Brings ifler ' . banned by British contraband con-| trol imposed at the war’s outset. Be: E 1 ' P : i d [tention for their hurts durir ry (4] siate — Fainting an I time, in addition to the expert : | tain to bring counter-retaliation H s a e vices of a qualified trainer, who has Moose for Territory i hig : | : | Unaccustomed light was thrown X | on the conflict of plot and counter- onv'( S""' PR U f R | i of statements British GRUEN'NG agents the for the | Herr Hitler doesn't sleep well these Nor G fo lun(h 0 nights wondering if some of his FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Nov. 22— go iInto mourning over any tra edy which might overtake the authorities locked all of the 2,900 % inmates in their cells precautioning I_e aves Imenor Deparf. o ing of It is noteworthy that, aside from | dinance prohibiting canvassing submarines have destroyed since last | st R 1 T prlsanl AR e | out first obtaining a permit from | 8 ] ., T inion The contract was let after the|leading sports writers and coaches | in the civil rights case. The op! FOR pROBATE S o wonlks b than does an actual game—has been | freadout. of SRORER, In retaliation Chamberlain an- exports designed tochoke the Reich’s | the ule. The players of both teams have Sanviation = JOSRSREIES R E) lin declared the British measure cer- from Germany. given his time freely to the mass: plot. between secret agents by a Ger- | P — | . | | Object to Sour Mush for, [Munich beer hall bombing, it is bet- friends had a hand in the business. | Nine hundred prisoners staged a 3 | Reichskanzler. But if the British possible disorders. | Ledbetter, of Tender Cedar. It is also stated that the Ce- dar is off the Cape Spencer light but stormy weather had made it impossible to transfer Ford's body to the ship. The remains will be brought to Juneau by the Cedar, as soon as possible, with witnesses, and an inquest will be held here, Commissioner Gray said. DECISION IN 4IMPORTANT CASES MADE U. S. Supreme Court Rules Handbill Ordinances Are flalid y (By Associated Press) Mounting maritime losses and re- criminations over the foiled Muich plot on Hitler's life further embit- | tered warfare between Germany and | Britain today. | Six German planes bombed the Shetland Islands north of Scotland | but British sources said the raiders | failed to hit any objectives | The Italian steamer Fianona, 6 600 tons, struck a mine off the En Radiophoto from London shows Queen Elizabeth as she broadcast an appeal to the women of the British Empire to join the struggle for victory in which their men are engaged at the front. Speech was part of England’s observance of Armistice Day. unconstitutional Court. of the WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 The Treasury has bought $846,000 worth | of chromium from Dorothea | Reddy Moronney, of San Francisco, | who contracted delivery of 25,000 ore c Men at works PRESIDENT ON THANKSGIVING VACATION NOW. nours o strain | To Spend H]Eday, Sever- al Other Days, at Warm Springs cester ordinances. BRITISH STILL SENDING OVER MENTO FRANCE Belisha Says Thousands of English Troops Going Over Weekly LONDON, Nov. 22.—War Secre- tary Hore Belisha told the House of Commons today that British troops were being sent to France “by thousands weekly.” By PRESTON GROVER (in Berlin in these and trouble. More than one country history the story of a r wunted | quite as much by distrust of 1\1.\‘} friends as by fear of his enemies. In | the tragi-comedy tone of so many | L e % stories of the Orlent comes the an-| WARM SPRINGS, Georgia, Nov. cient tale of Chin (or Tsin) Shi|22—Reds and golds which autumn Hwang Ti, who first brought China | 1avished on the hills of Georgia, under one rule and left it his name, | 881y Welcomed President Roosevelt Master once of only the huge|back to spend Thanksgiving and a northwest interior of China the | few extra days at the famed Infan- | Emperor Chin Shi conquered all | til¢ Paralysis Foundation. of Ching proper. To keep out ex-| A special train brought the Pres- \ | ternal enemies, he built the great|ident: Mrs. Roosevelt, personal job but it friends and staff from Washington and then the party motored from Begeauthing property vatued con- | servatively at $23,100, the will of the late James Wickersham was offered for probate today at the office of U. S. Commissioner Felix Gray. The will, drawn by the former - ’ (Continued on Page Five) WASHINGTON, Nov, 22 on In spite { in its | hs two British secret operatives and arrest of a Munich man in the No- vember 8 bombing attempt on Hit- | Judge and Delegate just 10 days be- ler's life. | fore his death, left the bulk of the The announcement said the man, estate to the widow, Grace Wicker- . George Elser, confessed setting the |sham of Juneau, and his son, Dar- explosive which killed eight persons rell Palmer Wickersham of San soon after Hitler left the Munich | Francisco beer hall, |" To the Territory of Alaska was Though the captive Britons were |left a large oil painting of William not linked specifically with the as- |H. Seward to be hung in the Gov- sassination plot, they were accused |ernor’s office and a great mounted of organizing attempts to overthrow | moose head for the Territorial Leg- the Nazi regime, |islative Hall. The moose head, now tons from Seldovia, Alaska, to the 1O serious injury to either team Fhe DB W S Britain accused Germans of loos- | , o e Associate Justice James Clark Mc- AR, just as strenuous, if not more so| ey F [ trade. Most imports were already | H oo |r| e WIdOW, Son Left $731100 ! {had the benefit of free medical at- Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Wor- British Spies Ceased - man announcement of the seizure of !ter than an average gamble that v ge g reakfast, Won'tWork, | QUITS HIS Doubtless the British would not food strike yesterday and the prison | did it Hitler son Lo reor ganize his pol ng dictator is a nice Chinese Wall which has lasted Two men captured trying to enter |in the Alaska Game Commission Germany from The Netherlands|office, was a gift to Judge Wicke were said to be Germans. |sham by friends in Cordova in 1912} Bomb Suspect Held | following passage of the Alaska Or- The British foreign office denied ganic Act. Britain had any knowledge of Elser| Outside of the widow, son and the and said there was no connection | Territory, there were no other br-nn-" between the bombing and capture ficiaries. of two Britons. i Library Left Widow War remained quiescent on the| The famous Wickersham library Western Front where France said|of Alaskan literature was left to “there was nothing important to re- | Mrs, Wickersham with the hope that | ! | Warden Clyde Plummer said the/ convicts objected to sour mush for breakfast and later refused to work | or return for lunch. | ment to Become Al- aska’s Governor WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Ernest Gruening said he will today vacate _Six hundred Folsém Prison’s | his office as Director of Terri- “tough men from the lower yard”|tories and Island Possessions in refused food for the: second dayL‘he Interior Department, and pre- and wer8 returned to their cells, |Pare to leave for Alaska to assume Warden Plummer said he has|the Dost of Governor. eleven asserted strike leaders in| Gruening will leave tomorrow STRIKE CONTINUES FOLSOM PRISON, Cal, Nov. 22.1 port during the night.” | it might be sold in a body to “some Germany said scouting flights over | institution of learning.” In the pe-| the British sles cost one plane. The | tition for probate, also filed today, | British announced yesterday a Ger- | the library is estimated as worth | man raider had been shot down. $10,000. The collection consists nl’} The day saw penetration of ene-| books, histories, pictures, baskets | my aircraft on scouting flights over | and anthropological specimens, ! several parts of the United King-| The will chose Mrs. Wickersham | dom. as executrix and Darrell Wicker- | - sham as executor. Witnesses to its 's GE"IUS signing on October 14 were Mildred | R. Hermann and Russell A. Her-| AUSTIN, Tex., Nov. 22—Travis mann. Mrs, Hermann is represent- | Raven, backfield ace, made 39 points | ing Mrs. Wickersham in the probate | for Austin High School -against the |procedure. A hearing on the widow's San Antonio football squad. Austin |petition for probate and appoint- | won 39 to 6, which left Raven’s 10| ment of executrix has been set by teammates without a point to theiri— credit, V\VConti;uPd on PagerTh;ee) 5 solitary confinement and further|With Mrs. Gruening, to visit stated: “We'll just sit around and Son, Peter, in Phillips Academy at| talk to a few of the boy: Hanover, Mass. Approximately 2300 other con-| From there the two will pro- yicts in the prison are not involved. | ceed to Seattle and leave the Puget The incident started yesterday Sound city aboard the steamer Yu- when the men were served sour|kon on .December 2, arriving at mush at breakfast and refused to Juneau, the Capital City, on De- eat it. | cember 5. e CANNERY MAN HERE ! The Gruenings have rented their :Wa-shington home to Representa- P. H. Cunningham, of the PAFtive Carolina O'Day, of New York. cannery at Larsen Bay, passed Interior, Department officials say through here on the Alaska, going|nO successor to Gruening has been south after attending court in mentioned for the position of Di- Seward as witness in a murder} rector, Territories and Island Pos- trial, lsfissions, has its drawbacks. A man can't trust even his friends. Often enough the rise to power is measured in sword- thrusts. So it was both in Germany land Russia. The purges in those two countries caught up old friends and foes alike. The victims often were merely suspected of wanting to |do what someone in Germany actu- |ally tried to do in planting the bomb in the beer garden in Munich | In dictatorial Ttaly, the purge |accomplished in rough humor with arts of castor ofl forced down the hroats of hapless suspects. There the method ms to have produced less bitterness than in the .other two dictatorships but even Mussolini has been fired upon and now car- ries a nick in his nose from an as- sassin’s bullet, | { HISTORIC PARALLELS | Tragedies have been written a- | plenty about just such situations as |that in Germany. The haunted | sleep-walking of Lady Macheth and |the tormented waking hours of Mac-" beth himself hint at the mental tur- moil that one might find paralleled through 2,000 years. He destroyed books and litera- ure in a cuitural liquidation not squalled until modern days across the Atlantic. Scholars were huni- ed out and advisors put to the word as the great emperor sought to preserve his mastery and his peace of mind. lly, fearing even god fter him, he built a monster »alace of a thousand rooms. There he believed neither god nor man would know in which room to lurk on any given night. the LOT IS NOT HAPPY ONE “Unnatural deeds breed un- natural troubles,” commented the doctor in Shakespeare’s trage as he observed the disintegration of the Macbeths. “Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.” In what manner the nerves of the Reichskanzler react to the at- tempt on his life is a matter almost wholly of speculation. Yet it takes no especially profound imagination do sadly (Continuea on Page Six) the station to the little Pine Moun- tain cottage the President calls the “other home.” .o - FROM INTERIOR Tom Babcock, Interior mining man, went through on the Alaska from the Westward - - X Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, No quotation of Alask: stock today is 7, 110, American Power 4%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Steel 83%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 54', International Harvester 61%, Kennecott New York Central 19%, Northern Pacific 10%, United States Steel i Pound $3.92. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 150.34, rails 33.55, utilitidy 25.58. 22 Closing Juneau mine American Can and Light 0%, The War Secretary said that the British expeditionary force is con- siderably larger than when he placed its size at 158,000 men sev- eral weeks ago. AR S A DICKS GO SOUTH Noble Dick joined his wife and two children aboard the Al- aska ‘and continued south with them for a visit of several weeks in the States. He has been attend- ing the Territorial Compensation Thanksgiving . . . . is the topic of this weeks’ News L. Q. test—a hard- er one than usual. To test your knowledge of the hdliday’s b ack ground and recent developments turn to another page in today's Empire.