The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 29, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL LV., NO. 8271. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESD.\\_',ANO\'I{YIJ%F,I{?Z‘E, 1939. MEMBER / SSO! CL\Tt l) PRl;SS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIA MASSES ARMY ON FINNISH FRONT COSTLY AUTO | STRIKEENDS MAKE DEMANDS; CONVENTION SERVICEIN AT DETROIT New Worki»IEAgreemenh Is Signed by Chrysler and CIO Union 54-DAY DEADLOCK COST 117 MILLION . Three Cents Per Hour Wage Increase Won by All Employees DETROIT, Mich., Nov. 29. — The longest and costliest labor dispute in automotive history, the 54-day dlock between the Chrysler Cor- tien d CIO United Automo- s ended today in agree- ment on terms of a new working contract. Chrysler workers lost $15,000,000 wages during the 35 working days of the controversy and it is estimated the dispute cost the corporation $102,000,000 in lost sales au wae siart of tne 1940 producuon season Only ratification by union is needed to put the contract into effecc and start 58000 Chrysler hourly employees back to work. It is estimated that 92,000 others in sales departments, automotive ts and rubber and glass affected by the long wtdown will be back (o work to- MOTow. i Wage Increase Wen med sources sald the new s provisions included a wage increase of three an hour for all Chrysler added increases at the Chrysler Marysville, Michigan, and Newcastle, Indiana, plants, a total increase of about $5,000,000 an- nual . Establishment of a four-man re- viewing board, two from the UAW | and two from the corporation, to settle any grievances incapable of adjustment through routine pro- cedure is also provided. An im- partial mediator mutually agreed upon by the four members may be called in as a last resort, it is provided in the new agreement. 2 Foes of New Deal ComeQut For President b- in locals eneral cents Represenlam Fish, Pu lisher Ganneft Are G. 0. P. Candidates ASHINGTON, Nev, 29. — Two free swinging foes of the New Deal, Representative Hamilton Fish of New York, and newspaper publisher Frank E. Gannett, added their names | to the growing list of possible Re- publican Presidential candidates during the last 24 hours. Representative Fish bluntly an- nounced that the present candidates are giving insufficient attention to the question of keeping America | out of the war. Representative Fish said if lh(‘ candidates “soft-pedaled” the issue he himself will enter the Presiden- tial race in various state primaries. Gannett more softly announced during a Washington State tour, that he had no political ambitions but “go American would decline iI the nmmnauon was offered.” Uses Radio fo Call | Cows from Paslure‘ LIBERTYVILLE, TIl, Nov. 20— | Notes on what we are coming to | comes final in 10 months. ALASKA SALMON UNIONS T0 IN JUNEAU GETS ENDORSED MAYBE SHE' LL BE JACKIE'S 2ND i SRl ‘ PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 29. — The | Alaska salmon unic 1 conference has concluded here with approval of “streamlined” demands for presen- | tation to employers next spring. The conference was called by the Mari- | time Federation of the Pacific | | Demands include wages, uniform | wages and picket cla The coisference delegates said | seascn wages are asked to “thwart | {the policy of the packers to spe ed | up and curtail operations during| the canning and to negate gains| |made by workers through agree-| ments with the industry.” The conferees adopted a tion asking Federal relief for thos who lose employment due to fish- | ing curtailments on Bristol Bay | Another resolution condemned the Waterfront Employers, Associated | Farmers and Mayor Angelo Rossi of San Francisco for a “vicious attack | j|against the maritime unions and ) Harry Bridges | The conferees endorsed the i| posed coastwise labor conference in {| Juneau, Alaska, sometime in Janu-| iary. resolu- | - Royal Planes Atfempf Raid Nazi Alrbase‘ IRLIN, Nov 9.—Low flying British Royal Air Force planes temped a raid on a German avia- tion base on Brokum Island at the mouth of the Ems River today bul.‘ were warded off, the official Ger-| man news agency said by heavy anti-aircraft fire and pursuit ships.| The agency said the English at-| tacked with machine guns but did not drop any bombs. i Earlier it was reported one plane | of a British squadron which flew | over Northwest Germany last night was forced down on a stormy North | Sea and probably was lost while another dodged over The Nether-| lands in order to avoid the sea. | | { Harriet Haddon (above), new playing in a New York Ice Revue, will be Jackie Coogan’s next wife, he said at Fort Wayne, Ind., after | " his divorce from Betty Grable be- ‘(aplure Nall ! FORMER HIGH Cargo Barges GERMAN DIES First Chancellor, Post-War Republic, Passes Away in Exile PARIS, Novv 29. ——Th(‘ French‘ Command announced today that| two German cargo boats, the Santa | Fe and the Trisels, have been cap-| tured at sea by French warships| and brought into French ports. - e e | BANY, N. Y. Nov. 20.—John| Joseph Schreiner, Jr,, has been one| up on most of us from the start.| Normal baby in every other re.spect.\ | John Joseph sported one tooth at ‘bhth COPENHAGEN, Nov. 29.—Philip | Schiedeman, 74, First Chancellor of the post-war German republic, died here today as the result of cancer. Schiedeman fled from Germany\ after Hitler came into power and | has been living in a small Copen- hagen flat. His only income was a dole as an unemployed photog- rapher. THIRTEEN DIE; ANOTHER SHIP SUNK BY MINE Four Survivors Picked Up| FOR ROOSEV By PRI 'ON GROVER 4 WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—A fairly ; thorough ecanvass of Democratic | House members who were defeated | in 1938 discloses that amazingly iew‘ of them want to run again in lm‘ | unless the Democratic presidential | candidate is Franklin D. Roosevelt. In part their attitude is deter- ‘mined no doubt by a feeling of | personal loyalty to the President and his New Deal program. It by Minesweeper Off EngI'Sh Coas' must be remembered that most of those Democrats who were nosed LONDON, Nov.29.—Another Brit- out last election were New Deal-| | ments, ANNOUNCING CANDIDACY ish steamer, the 1000-ton Rubi- ers. Further, however, their re-| slaw, has been added to the list|plies to interested questioners in- | farm here has Installed a micro- 0f mine victims off the British dicated they frankly thought that | phone loudspeaker cow calling sys- coast. |in their particular districts they | tem. An attendant (farm-hand)| The Rubislaw was sunk yater-;rould not Gvercome the native Re- | croons “so-0-0-o-ey boss” into the 'day two minutes after striking the | publican strength without the Roo- mike, the amplifier carries the call |floating explosive. sevelt influence. across the barnyard and pasture and | Four injured survivors were res- | the cows contentedly truck on down |cued by a minesweeper, while thir- | next: A modernized, mechanized dairy |MAY COME BACK lum U.S. OFFERS NEW CRISIS Secrefary of State Makes Statement on Finnish- Russian Case ‘ WASHINGTON, Nov. 29.—Secre- | tary of State Hull revealed this afternoon that this Government stands ready to extend the Na-| tion's good offices in a settlement of the Finnish-Russian dispute. |: It is explained that the offer n(,‘ good services is very broad and amounts only to an expression of | willingness to aid in bringing. about | peace and a full solution of lll(“ - present, dispute. 4 | Secretary Hull said the offer ls‘ not one of mediation. He made| the statement after a periodic tele-| phone to President Roosevelt cn relating Finnish-Russian develop- The President and Mrs, their annual Thanksgiving at (he Left to right: Basil O'Connor, the Mrs. - > - NAZI PLANE ' SHOTDOWN, AIR BATTlE sidents of Norihumber- land Coast Get Ring- | | side Seaf to Fight LONDON, Nov. 29.—A lone Ger- man air raider was brought down in the sea off the northeast coast of England today in an air battle with British, combat planes, ac- cording to a British announcement, The announcement said the Brit- ish fighters rose to meet the raid- er when he was sighted approach- | ing 'the Northumberland coast. Coastal residents lined the shore to watch the battle which was fought in full view of spectators at an elevation of around four thou- sand feet. After the invader fell, a lifeboat was unable to find a trace of the plane’s occupants. Scottish areas were excited to- day by aerial activity, although no raid alarms sounded. Planes were seen over the Firth of Forth and an air battle was reported over the Scottish town. A plane was also seen over an- | other town and identified as Ger- man. AIRMEN DIE LONDON, Nov, 29.—The Air Min- istry in a casualty roll made pub- lic this morning listed 304 members of the Royal Air Force as having died since the war began. Eighty- one were reporhed missing, Roosevelt, Re Lz other craft went to the rescue. ashore. MANY DEMOCRATS WAIT ELT BEFORE Also ace tained this information cautioned that it would be flying too fast to accept this as proof that only Presi- dent Roosevelt among the Dem crats can win next time, A muu.saml different factors bear on THAT situation. But it does indicate that nearly four-score Democrats who did not| come back last time think they| would be better off in a new race with Roosevelt as a candidate. Altogether the Democrats lost 70| seats in the House last election A few of this number represented retirements but by far the larger number were New Deal repre- sentatives who could not survive an off -year election in districts where Republican strength was solid and ¥ enduring. | Said the Naz age: : “The Brit- It costs quite a pocket full of cash |ish Admiralty has b(-cn prudent to run for Congress, and one de-|enough not to deny outright the feat chills the ardor even of an ar-|sinking of a British cruiser off the British Deny Large Naval Vessel Sunk BERLIN, Nov. 29. The official German news agency answered Brit- ish denials that o cruiser of the London class has been sunk with the assertion today that the warship night have been of a larger cla: the lane to be milked. ) teen others were reported killed. The sources from which we ob- (Coiitinued on Page Four) | Shetland Islands. The Admiralty wwelts at “Other sinking ship could be seen from thé shore. Roosevelt were in a holiday spirit as they arrived at Warm Springs, Ga., which Roosevelt calls his “other home.” Warm Springs Foundation, President, Thomas Qualters, aide; has contented itself with the denial that a cruiser of the London class has been sunk. There are two cruisers in the next large 55 the Norfolk and Dorie—laid down in 1928 and displacing 9850 and 9,900 tons, respectively.” --< BACK TO SITKA Mrs, Chris Ziegenfuss the Northland for Sitka, to her home there after a few left days’ PR P N RO VAN MAVERN IN on | returning | ”mne' for ”mnl.‘. sgiving for Secretary Margaret LeHand and Japanese Liner Sunk Off English Coast The Japanese liner Terukuni Maru (above), struck a mine and sunk off the East Coast of England. The Great spouts of water rose from her sides. She carried a crew o f 180 and 26 passengers. Some survivors were brought The Terukuni Maru was an 11,930-ton craft hound lrum anun to London. Held i in Abortuo Hitler Dcath Plot Lifeboats and George Elser (left) is accused by German secret police as the man who set the bomb in the Muninch beer hall November 8 which took eight lives and which exploded just 11 minutes after Adolf Hitler left. used are two British secret service agents, Capt. Richard Henry Stevens (center) and Sigismund Payne Best U‘I‘hlh seized by Nazis on the German- Dnu‘h h’unfitr WIllIAMS lOGAN NEAR VANCOUVER ‘Fairbanks Moforcyclists Getting South Toward B. C. City SPUZZUM, B. Nov, A | visit in Juneau \ | A. Van Mavern was an inbound | “Slim” Williams and Jim Logan, passenger on the Northland, re-|on motorcycles, neared Vancouver turning from a tour of Southeast|ioday after a trip of several months Alaska towns. e Dr. Rae Lillian Carlson, optome~ trist, returned on the Northland from a trip to Wrangell and Ket- chikan. | from Fairbanks, bound for YOrk City The. two travelers spent last night at Yale and are planning to chug- chug on to Vancouver today. EXTRA IN—MOSCOW, Nov. v broke off diplomat- ations with Finland to- ght. Premier Molotoff tele- phoned the Finnish Minister, then later dispatched a note stating relations were broken. BULLETIN—LONDON, Nov. 20.—Radio reports received here says Premier Molotoff, break- ing diplomatic relations between Finland and Russia, said the hostile policy of Finland “com- pels us to take immediate steps to safeguard the external security of our state The Red Army, also Navy, has been called to be prepared for an eventuality. BULLETIN-—HELSINKI, Nov. 29 ~Russia's action fell like a thunderc tonight through- CLASHES ARE REPORTED ON NORTH SECTOR Red Armyfiims Shells Fired, Burst on Their + Territory MACHINE GUNS USED T0 REPULSE ALL ATTACKS | Helsinki Government Re- plies to Soviet Pact Denunciation | Moscow, Nov. 29. Russia's smouldering dispute with Finland has been fanned by reports of fresh border clashes, The Red Army is said to have repulsed, with machine guns, the Finnish troops attempting to cross the frontier. As the result of the reported clashes in which the Finnish artil- lery is accused of sending shells screaming across the border, new Russian troops are said to have been dispatched to reinforce the frontier garrisons, 1,400,000 Under Arms | It is already estimated by observ- ers that at least 1,000,000 men of the Red Army are now massed on the border between Russia and Finland |and Finland has 400,000 men under arms, which is about one-tenth of the nation’s entire population. The reported clashes occurred late | yesterday when the Soviet radio declared two new clashes occurred between the Fihnish and Russian | frontier troops, The radio said three Finns were captured later. The report was also given out that two Finnish artillery shells | burst over Soviet terrtiory and Rus~ sian machine guns fired and re- pulsed the attempted crossing of the Finns. Naval Reserves Called At the same time the clashes were reported, the Communist Party newspaper, Pravda, disclosed that | naval reserves have been called up for training service with the Baltic fleet which is conducting maneuvers from the bases recently obtained from Estonia and Latvia. FINLAND PREPARES HELSKINI, Finland, Nov. 29— | This little nation, accused by the | Soviet Union of menacing Lenin- grad and actually trying to invade Russian territory, has prepared a reply which may determine the next turn of the “war of nerves.” Note Drafted A note is being drafted in answer to the Russian charge “of profound Ihosulxty of the Government of Fin- |land towards the Soviet Union” which Moscow cited as grounds for B bl N i 2% o (Continued on Page Eight) New' | |