The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1938, Page 1

T HE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1938 'VII MBLR A%SOU\[I D l’R!,hS WALLIS - KING | AFFAIR STIRS GERMAN LAND Rumors of Cabinet Reor—f ganization Because [ of Marriage } \ \ WAR MINISTER WEDS; DECLARES HIS LOVE Hitler Conslders Grave Sit-| uation—Resignation Reported Given | | | | | | BERLIN, Feb. 2—Rumors of an| impending Cabinet reorganization is heard and many well informed | persons predict that War Mmme\} Marshal von Blomberg will no long-| er be head of the armed forces when he returns from his honeymoon. CLAIM RESIGNATION IN BERLIN, Feb. 2—Marshal Wer-| ner von Blomberg, Minister of War,| handed his resignation to Hitler before going to Capricon on his hon-| eymoon, a highly reliable inform-| ant disclosed this afternoon. It is disclosed there had been in- dications that the Qfticers (,orps\ was displeased by the marriage ot von Blomberg to Erkia Grohn on January 12, ANOTHER ANGLE | BERLIN, Feb, 2—Tt was report- | ed in official channels today lhal; Chancellor Hitler and his War Min-| ister von Blomberg conferred in the ‘War Ministry on January 21. Hitler| was seen to enter the Ministry of-| tices in great excitement and la-| ter he emerged pale and grave. | Soon thereafter, von Blomberg| left for Italy It is reliably reported that at an official dinner given by von! Blomberg in his home, reference| was made to the probable resigna- tion of the War Minister and sev- eral officers declared that it was another “Wallis Simpson atfair,” the War Minister declaring: “Well, I love her, and I would rather give | up my job than leave her.” The bride is 28 and the daughter of a carpenter. Gen. Werner von Flitch, Com- mander of the reischwer, spokesman for the German Army, who sug- gested the resignation of von Blom- | berg, has cancelled his leave of ab-| sence on request of Hitler, This is taken as a signiticant move as to who may succepd von Blombexg CHINA FORCES AUGUMENTED ON BATTLE FRONT Half Million Soldiers Lined Up for Impending | Engagement { SHANGIiAI, Feb. 2—Chinese re-‘ inforcements moved forward today by the thousands, under heavy shel! fire, to plug the widening gap in the southern defenses. The long awaited major engage- ment on the Thing-Pu battlefront, north of Nanking, is apparently be- ginning. It is estimated that half a mil- lion Chinese and Japanese troops are massed for the struggle over the corridor where Chiang Kai- Shek has urged the warriors not to yield a single inch. The Japanese claim they have occupied Pengy, the southern key- stone Chinese position along the, Tientsin-Pukow railway. Ketchikan Young Man Weds in East Father Travels Four Thou- sand Miles to Be at Mar- riage Ceremony BOSTON, Mass., Feb. 2.—Patrick J. Gilmore, former Mayor of Ket- chikan, Alaska, traveled 4,000 miles to attend the wedding of his son, Patrick J. Gilmore, Jr, and Miss Lena Waldecker, at the Cathedral |a six-da 'WRANGELL INST. lern Minnesota, of the Holy Cross. The young man is employed in Washington, D. C. Here are two camera studies of John Henry Seadlund as he stood mute, sneering and surly, at his arraignment in Chicago for the kid- A plea He was naying of Charles S. Ross. when he refused to plead. of innocent was entered for him indicted on charges of Kidnaping Ress and “doing bodily harm.” Seadlund was (o go on trial today before Judge John Barnes in Chicago. FOUR POLAR SCIENTISTS ON ICE FLOE Are Perilously “ Adift in Greenland Sea—Res- cue Parties Planned MOSCOW, Feb. 2—Soviet author- ities have mobilized rescue forces for a dash to aid four scientists perilously adrift on the Greenland Sea on a storm driven block of cracking polar ice The four men making polar weather since May, radioed yesterday storm has split their ice floe on which their camp is sit- uated and they are now about 700 miles from the North Pole. Commander Ivan Papinin qns he party is cut off from two re- serve food bases, storehouse andl technical equipment by the crack-| ing of the ice. The present camp who have been observations that and 650 feet wide, too small for| rescue planes to land on. ! Five planes and three ships are, preparing for the rescue work. | (ANDIAN NAMED PRINCIPAL AT | Announcement Is Made by Willard Beatty in Washington WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—In an- nouncing that George Barrett, 41,' Alaskan “go-getter,” mow employed | at the Cass Lake Agency in North- has been appointed’ Principal of the Wrangell Institute,| Willard Beatty, Director of Educa-| tion of the Bureau of Indian Af- fairs, said: “It is another instance that deposes the belief an Indian} cannot work among his own people and that he lacks initiative capacity | to compete with other racial| groups.” Beatty described Barrett as the| “go-between son of a full blood Thlinget mother and a Wwhite fa- ther.” Barrett graduated from the' Mount Angel College in Oregon. | e | Black Mana | Is Passe In Juneau The traditional “Black Maria” | will soon be no more—Chief of | Police Dan_ Ralston brought with him upon his return from the States last night, a new police It is underswod its passenger lcnpuity is one to thirty. 'langled in the affair. {HOW IT WORKED |pervised preparation of |camps. He made out vouchers for |al Park in Virginia. Everybody in- “Alaska Nellie” Prefers Her Own Wild Country ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 2—"Alaska Nellie,” a pioneer of the north, found herself buffaloed by city trat- fic. | “I would rather tackle a grizzzly bear any day than the traffic in & big city at the rush hour,” she said during a visit here with her niece, Miss Nellie Banister. Alaska Nellie” is Mrs Lawing. She went to years ago from Missouri. Since then she has made money trapping, mining, and keeping lunch rooms. FORGER MAKES FORTUNE WITH Nellie N. Alaska 24 {is on an ice floe 1,000 feet long| ypoll — Collects Twice a Ilclals were irightfully |spent much effort passing the buck | to the War Department, which was Witnesses testifying before a Sen-| ate Committee were considerably at| variance on dates, but evidently it} was some time in the spring of 1931, ‘that Reno E. Stiteley, age akout 30,| began his little game that escaped detection by Secretary Ickes’ 325 departmental detectives through nu, the interventing months until lastl March, P The evidence came out piece meal| and a bit disorganized, but this is a rough pattern of the business as told to the committee: Stiteley, chief of the voucher unit| of the National Parks Service, su-| vouchers and payrolls for several dozen CCC only the salaries of foremen and| supervisors—about 15 for each camp, ! For months these lists had been coursing through Stiteleys unit. Several clerks and chiefs of section initialed them. It was purely rou- tine. Nobody paid much attention to names. So one day Stitely inserted a vou- |cher for an entirely fictitious group of employees in Shenandoah Nation- itialed it along with the rest. think President | “The lof Fred Roth, ute BUSlNESS MEN [Future H()(ulquur!m. ~ RAISE ECHOES AT BIG MEET “Little Fellow” of Indus- try Has Field Day in Washington WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — Hun- dreds of small business men today trie¢ to out-talk and out-shout each other at a Business Men's Yeneral Session in the Commerce Department’s huge auditorium, en- deavoring to set down what they Roosevelt should do to improve business. The meeting was a disorderly and noisy affair as scores of in- dustry’s “little fellows” tried to all talk at once, and when they could not get the floor to talk, attempted to vote a ban on speeches. Secre- tary of Commerce Daniel C. Roper shouted through a loudspeaker in vain, attempting to still the pan- demonium of noise The General Session was broken down within an hour into ten discussion groups. FDR Greetings President Roosevelt sent greetings to the conclave in which he said he was looking forward to seeing a committee tomorrow and predicted suggestions resulting from your conference, I am sure will be very helpful to me.” A roaring hub-hub of shouting and applause followed the election Cleveland shoe wholesaler, as Permanent Chair- man of the Session. Suggestions Out of the first hectic session came several suggestions, he cheil one being advanced by Roth in which he said “The little fellow, with a Permanent Advisory Council | similar to the Business Advisory Council, represents the larger busi- ness interest without a doubt.” Another creation of a special Government agency to handle small loans. Bishap Gnmnm Reception Will upset and ' | Wesley Barrett and his orchestra | Anderson, Pete playing. Committees from the Catholic Daughters of America and the Knights of Columbus have made| arrangements for the event, and a large assemblage of Gastineau Channel residents will be present for the affair. - PARKS RETURNS AFTER| PLEASANT HOLIDAY IN DENVER, OTHER POINTS! After a pleasant holiday visit with his mother in Denver, a brief trip to Washington, and a visit to the bay cities in California, District Cadastral Engineer George A. Parks, former Governor, returned to Ju-! neau last night on the Baranof After the holidays in Denver, Parks spent four days in the na- tional capital in connection with affairs of his department and re- ported a great amount of travel everywhere. He took opportunity to ride one of the new trains, traveling from Chicago to Denver in 15 hours, and said it was more comparable with riding in air airplane than in one of thr' older style trains. “I never was any more glad to get back home,” he remarked. “The Taku was zipping a little last night when we came in, but I only had to ;Ithink of that day when I was In Chicago and the wind was howling (Continued on Page Three) in off Lake Michigan and it seemed " |warm here.” suggestion requested the | business | Mxl streamlined | ,,,lmmmiml Press,in N. Y. INFLAMMATORY UTTERANGES ARE 70 BE £UT OUT j Chairman Blaer Makes Rul- ing at House Commit- tee Heanng Today ITROUBLE IS EXPECTED BRISTOL BAY SECTION ) Senator Walker Gives His \l("vs 7Bone Sflys SUb‘ ject Is Ticklish One | | | | WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Chairs man O. Bland has ruled out any jmore “inflammatory” remarks at | the hearings before the House Merchant Marine Committee on | legislation to protect Ala sal< |mon fisheries from Japanese in< vasion | The | afternoon |liam T. W R B eR - e e remarks made yesterday by Representative Wil Sirovich, of New York. |brought out the ruling made by |Bland. Sirovich advocated sending |airplanes, bombers and torpeda boats to Bristol Bay, Alaska, and | “getting rid of the Japanese fishe lermen and their boats.” | Biff Then Bang ‘ Chester Carlson, Cordova fishs |erman, said at the hearing late This architect's drawing depicts the future general headquarters and New York office of The Associ- | ated Press, world's largest cooperative news and picture gathering organization. To be erected in Ro {Yestarday: “:We are, nos. goihg e feller Center, the structure will be known as The Associated Press building and will be completed in the |°-y behind our mets and catch autien ‘nolhmu. We .vull sail out thera x and cut up their nets. That prob= ' ¥ ably would provoke the Japanese and they might fire shots at us.” This was Carlson's answer, in diss »cusmg the Dimond bill, when ask= ‘ed if there was any likelihood of larmed conflict between the Japan- ese and the United States over the salmon encroachment, Norman B. Walker, Alaska Sen- ator, testified that Alaska salmon runs would probably be extinct within five years unless protected Thrce Seek Nomma(lon to and fishing of Japanese restricted. A Diplomatic Course Senate—Seven Out Senator Homer T. Bone, of.,the for House State of Washington, who has filed A a similar bill to that presented in FATRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. m#'&fngfiiu“‘;q?g fi“;’?’“‘,‘e.,k'“"m";‘y i There will be several Democratic ™ oNe SHE A et Awh[cose‘y contests at the primaries in April | e (OUC With Secretary of State in the Fourth Division. The com- |Cckdell Hull who is trylng to work out, through diplomatic channels, a CITIZENSHIP FINALLY WON {INDEPENDENTS "IN PRIMARIES, - IND DIVISION FOURTH DIVISION n | FILINGS SHOW . DEMO CONTESTS Democrats Have Strong Ticket in Field—Re- | pubhcans Limited { ! NOME, Alacka, Feb, 2—Fiings |for the Primaries in April were com- pleted on time yesterday in the Sec- jond Division. It will be noticed many Tndependents are entering the plete filing for the Territorial Leg- | * & 8 Primaries for no apparent reason islature is as follows: sttustien which is o hed Shal i B H |d T nl I“ as party lines are drawn close, The | Democrats bas -taken, 81 omicus (HAE AR e e u g Democrats have a serong tickel to ‘ For Senate—John B. Powers, in- o Fompucnlcd »l.rcr.nendously .b:" |choose from with indications of an| lcumbent, of Eagle; Dan L. Green,|hrcecnt, diplomatic relations with !Sets Up Dummy CCC Pay ; 7 . |easy victory in September. { fof Manley Hot Springs; O. H, L Jepan ol S Affair Is to Be Given in The filings are as follows | Boyteaux, known as “Alabam,” kg T Democrats | Livengood LT Parish ‘Hall_ Beginning ‘Gm_r Senate—John . Devine and | For House—Erick Nelson, Jesse Navy P'a“e smks Al i at 9 o'Clock eorge Laiblin. | |D. Lander, Chester T. Spencer, y e { For the House Howard Lyng, Frank S. Gordon, Alfred J. Ghezzi, By PRESTON GROVER | Garnet Martin, Walter J. Dowd, Fred Sorri, all of Fairbanks; Louie WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—Japan' The Catholic Parish Hall will be walace Porter, Jack Solomon, {A. Smith, of Circle Hot Springs. ler s esc“e {made a name for herself by setting the setting this evening of the ginrs giffert. Tex Cockburn, Albert s | Republicans up a dummy state in Manchuria, but public reception honoring Bishop J. Mepe, E. B, Dutty O'Connor, Fred 4 | For Senate—Louis F. Joy, of It remained for an enterprising clvil|R. Crimont upon the occasion of gypop, | A special act of Congress, the |p. ... .o i Li Ad L Fs 5 G Iservice employee in the Interior De- | his eighty-first birthday, when resi- Republi | second h act in the history | For House . Pradl B TAnabion, ieut. ams scapes 0= |partment to set up a dummy CCC|dents from Juneau, Douglas, Tread- por Senate—Lero Sullivan,| ©f the United States, was passed | 60100 0 Fowler, Louis D, Col- ing Down by Using {payroll and collect on it two umes|well and Thane will assemble be-! For the House—W. E. H. Crewer| L0 €hable James Lincoln Hart- ‘br-xt Jessie F. Bryant, all of Fair- Ribber Ba month for three years before|tween 9 and 10 o'clock. and Sam Taggart, only two. | ley, 32, to become a U. S. citi- | ubber at finally he was caught and pleaded! Following the reception, which will Independents { zen. He is shown in Seattle look- WIS | * lguitty to a string of lolgely be marked by several musical selec-| Fopr the House—Edward M, Sei-| \RE over his papers. Hartley had | NORFOLK, Va ¥eb. 2—Lieut. S. |charges. Interior Department of-!tions, dancing will be held withi |denberg, B. J. McCo Edward| Deen taken to Canada when he | |M. Adams, attached to tne aircraft was a child, and, not knowing | he was not a citizen, failed to declare his intention of becom- ing one within ten years after he returned to this country. ARMSTRONG IS WHITE, GRIGSBY or. oL VAP ENTERRACEFOR 5 'y s | | Iwg. ature lms sent to (aov E. | out 1n Thlrd Round | DELEBATE SEAT Rivers the county option liquor bl“ Over L. A. Negro ! {repealing the state dry law which u flvwe es TR |was enacted in 1915. Coast Shipping | LOS ANGELZS, Cal, Feb. 2— | Gov. Rivers announced he Californian Declares Marine {Henry Armstrong, featherweight rormer Files as Republuan ign the mt,usurl‘ |technical knockout night in| , | Filing of Albert wmite, Juneau Act Now Threatens ’PICTURES USED IN bl ticket a the filing l publican tefer a0, Mo Lk oHiRequirements for Pilots to pendent featured the final hour of | |carrier Enterprise, escaped without injury when his plane was forced down in Hampton Roads at the Nor= folk Navy base yesterday The plane sank immediately, but Lieut. Adams, in his inflated rub- |ber emergency raft, remained afloat until he was rescued by craft which rushed to his aid GEORGIA DRY LAW REPEALED LLglslature (,hanges Meas-| ure Enacted in 1915— Governor to Slgn Blomquist. It 1s sald the Republicans wiil nick that |ticket in the mll ‘ will WASHINGTON, Feb. 2.—Repre- sentative John F. Dockweiler of | California, told the House Merchant Marine Committee that the Mer- - chant Marine Act threatens destruc- CHICAGO, Ill, Feb..2—The Exe- tion of west coast shipping. cutive Committee of the National| The Californian urged an amend- Aeronautical Association has voted ment to restore construction and to request the Secretary of Com- Operating subsidies for intercoastal merce to appoint an Advisory Com- shipping to revive the west coast mittee ont private flying. It is rec- industry. ommended that the Advisory 2om- AR 0 il mittee consider changes in require- Sherman Goodpaster, commission- Iments for certificates to pilots and er of insurance in Kentucky, says L|take in qualifications as to com-| 446 insurance companies are author- |ized to do business in the state. champion, unleashed a terrific b.u- .3 rage of punches and scored a| and Grigsby as Independ- | P . . the third round over Chalky Wright, | ent — ?E)lfs Uowd "vate Flylng | Los Anxeles nep,ro | for Delegate to Congress on the Re- lndustry ! TODD ARTlCLE ARE George Grigsby, also of Juneau, as OBJECTS COMMENT candidate for Delegate as an Inue-\ Be hxammed Mole Closely, Request | With the many compliments that| pijino¢ here before the books closed {have been paid to Miss Caroline i 5 m yesterday. jTedd since publication of her arti- wwite is 4 former United States cle, “Alaska From the Skies” in the nurenal here and has controlled |January 12 edition of the Chrisian ¢, 1uq two Territorial Republican Science Monitor, many comments conventions. Grigsby is a former |have also been man on the photo-|pnajeoate to Congress. The latter, (,r::vhs accompanying the article. |, ., jndependent, presented a peti- o of the pictures were taken ;. pegring 311 names. A total of| lY flYd Jarman, well known avia- o5, ,ve yequired on such a petition lon flight mechanic, and the other,| (it filings officially closed, the| an airplane view of Juneau, was|__ s taken by Pilot L. F. Barr. i (Continued on Page Eight) petency.