The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” “VOL. LI, NO. 7727. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1938. ] P MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WARNING GIVEN GERMANY BY FRANCE ' Major Battle Developing On Yellow River JAPANESE ARE STALLED FROM NEW ONSLAUGHT Temporary Resistance Halts Invaders in Shansi Province DEFENDERS PROTECT VITAL CONTROL AREA Nippon Forces Preparing to Move Up Yangtze —Town Shelled SHANGHAI, Feb. 26—A major battle has Heveloped at Lingshih in the Shansi Province as the Jap- anese sought to cross the Yellow River in a flanking maneuver after stalled in an attempt to wrest con- trol of the section vital for the conquering of Central China. The Japanese are meeting with a determined Chinese resistance and several hundred thousand soldiers on each side are engaged in to- day’s fighting. The Chinese admit the loss of Lingshih will mean the loss of con- trol of the corridor of Central China. The Japanese forces have been driven back across the Hwai, River, Pengpu area, where gains of the last several weeks have been thus nullified. The Japanese are prepared to advance up the Yangtze River and Japanese gunboats are reported shelling S8anshan, 13 miles up river from Wuhu. PRV PO A I, U. S. WAREHOUSE INSHANGHAI IS SEALED BY JAPS Consul Gen;;rcauss Files Protest with Nippon | Authorities | SHANGHAI, Feb. 26. — United | States Consul General Gauss today | protested against the Japanese seal- ing an American owned warehouse | in the Intérnational Settlement. The Japanese sealed half of the warehouse oceupied jointly by Com- mercial Express Company and the United States Naval forces. PACIFIC COAST SHIPYARDS MAY BE BIVEN AID Chairman Vinson Suggests Differential When Bids Are Considered WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Chair- man Carl Vinson of the House Naval Committee, has proposed to | improve shipyard facilities on the | Pacific Coast as part of the Na- | tional Defense expansion program. Chairman Vinson urges a 6 per- cent differential favoring the Pa-| cific Coast shipbuilders in bidding | for Government work. | The Committee Chairman said he expects to conclude the Naval Bill hearings and get committee | Figures in Rumanian Crisis In a surprise move, King Carol IT of Rumania sets himself up as dic- tator-king, “abolishes parties” and names as premier Patriarch Mi- ron Cristeau, president of the Holy Synod of the Natiopal Orth- odox Church of Rumania. The move followed the resignation of Premier Octavian Goga, the anti- Semitic Fascist who has been in office since December and who wag forced out by rising tide of ‘anti-Fascist feeling. King Carol and Goga are shown above in one of the last pictures taken before Goga quit. Dr. Cristeau is shown below. By his move, King Carol #avoided” s forthcoming election, ‘which was expected to show the " Fascists in & small minority. Dr. Miron to.n Town of Greenbelt Starts Out Cooperatively;Now Has Store, Filling Station; Profits Paid SIX BOMBERS, U.S. ARMY, ON HOME FLIGHT ng Fortresses Are Re- turning ‘from S. A. Good-will Trip If you will recall from our pre- CRISTOBAL, Feb. 26.—Six Boe- | yjous documents on the subject. ing flying fortresses of the United Greenbelt is the community just| States Army, returning from a good oytside Washington where ulti- will flight to South America, landed mately some 850 families will here today for servicing before con- share low cost rents, govern the| tinuing the flight to Miami. city according to the dictates of | The Army bombers are in splen- their own conscience, and decide did condition and the officers and whether or not dogs shall be al-| crews aboard are highly pieased with oweqd. performances. ‘To date only about a third of the "~ f APl dwellings are occupied, others being | AuTn ancERN filled as rapidly as earpenters and plumbers install sash boards and, plumbing. | T | General Motors Announce Reduction of 10 Per- cent UP l0$|0,000 (an official of a large grocery chain Lokl who knew how to do these things.| NEW YORK, Feb. 26.—The Gen- | An ordinary merchant, no doubt,| By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — This| is our quarterly report on the pro- gress of our favorite test-tube vil- lage, the town of Greenbelt which was set up by Rex Tugwell to show the country the way to the orderly life. More particularly this deals with the business cooperafive set up with an advance by a foundation estab-| lished by the late Edward A. Fil- ene, a Boston meichant endowed with the liberalist tendencies of a Minnesotan. Flyi FIRST, A GROCERY | The community began its coopera- | tive venture by opening a food store (grocery and meat shop). It is, a self-help job and its operation was assisted in -the early days by ALLEGED PLOT France Sends Food to Spain’s Hungry IS DISCOVERED BY FBI FORCE Three Men Under Arrest Charged with Selling U. S. Army, Navy Secrets WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — FBI Chief Hoover announced today the arrest of three persons in an alleged plot to sell United States Army and Navy secrets. The men are in custody in New York City. The three are Johanna Hoffman, of Dresden, Germany, a hairdresser on the liner Europa; Gunther Gus- | tave Rumrich, former United States Army Sergeant, allegedly a deserter, and Erich Glasser, a soldier sta-| tioned at Mitchell Field. Hoover said Rumrich confessed that he has obtained various sums of money from persons purporting to be secret agents of a foreign | Government, in return for infor- mation concerning the Coast Ar-| tillery and other fortifications, alse Fifty huge motor vans filled with food were sent Spain. Above, the long motorcade gets under way, dren in the towns where Franco’s bardment which has cost many lives. mobilization forces in cunnccmon‘ with the defense of the Canal Zone. DEER ARE FAT - SARBER FINDS B, C. CHARGED DURINGPATROL Warden Reports Animals Are Weathering Winter in Fine Shape ORIENTALS IN . Problem Is Acute, Declares Member of Provincial Legislature VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 26— Capt. MacGregor MacIntosh, mem- ber of the Provincial Legislature, at a Conservative Party rally last night, urged a bill requiring all aliens to carry identification cards Deer in Southeast Alaska have had a fine winter and there have been few winter-kills, according to Warden Hosea Sarber, who returned to Juneafli yesterday on the Game Commission vessel Seal, after a three week post-season patrol. “Out on the west coast of Baran- of Island, there was no snow at all,” said Sarber, “and in the Icy| Strait district, what snow did fall, | melted quickly.” | Sarber explained that this win-| ter should be the beginning of a good stock of deer, with all animals seen showing healthy condition, and few fawns dying off. While on patrol through the ma- | jor portion of the archipelago, Sar- ber reported only a few game law and trapping violatigns. 1 Monday, Sarber will leave with| Capt. Ken C. Talmadge on the Seal for Petersburg. TAX PROGRAM 1S AL READY FOR CONGRES Final Attempt of Republi- cans to Change Meas- ure Is Failure WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — The House Ways and Means Committee has reached a complete agreement‘ on the proposed tax revision pro- gram after defeating the final Re- publican attempt to obtain wm-‘ plete repeal of the undistributed | profits tax. ! Chairman Doughton said the only | the in- to solve the ‘urgent Japanese prob- lem” in British Columbia. “We know that smuggling of Orientals into the Province is go- | ing on notwithstanding the gentle- man’s agreement limiting immigra- tion to 150 Japanese yearly. This is only a blind," he said. MacIntosh claimed 40,000 Japan- ese are now in Canada and nine- tenths of this number in British Columbia. He predicted 80,000 Jap- anees in the Province within a decade and scored Dominion Pre- mier Mackenzie King for failure to act. GRAND 16L00 MEET IS OVER Will Chase of Cordova Is Named President to Succeed Carter CORDOVA, Alaska, Feb. 26. Thirty-nine delegates have closed the doors of the Grand Igloo, of the Pioneers of Alaska, and adopted re- solutions asking for more exten- sive highways and a Territorial home for the insane. Anchorage was for the next convention, and officers were elected for the ensuing Will H. Chase of Cordova chosen term was approval by next Wednesday. |eral Motors Corporation has an-| would enjoy the exclusive right to Lot |nounced a 10 percent slash in all | sell food to the 3,000 or more resi- - Q}ularies up to $10,000 and deeper | dents who ultimately will take over | ‘ STOCK QUOTATIONS ‘\mus in salaries over $10,000. NEW YORK, Feb. 26. — Closing | Board of Directors, said the re-|food store. To a degree it is a mono- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine duction in business has caused the | poly, but the residents who choose stock today as the short session is move. | to join in the cooperative venture 11%, American Can 90, American| —————— | by buying a membership will get Light and Power 5%, Anaconda | Want: to Marry at 102 }a cut-back on the profits. 33%, Bethlehem Steel 59%, Com-| ISTANBUL, Turkey. — Karraman| A gasoline filling station also has monwealth_and Southern 1%, Cur-| Aziz Tchavouche, 102-year-old re-|been opened, and ultimately the tiss Wright 4%, General Motors| tired sergeant of the Crimean war, | town will open its own beauty, par- 35%, International Harvester 68%,|is peeved with his children, grand- | lor and barbershop, drug store with Kennecott 39%, New York Central| children and scores of great-grand- | lunch-counter attached, and movie 18%, Southern Pacific 19%, United | children. o States Steel 66%, Cities Service 1%,| They sternly oppose his pro Pound $5.02%. ! marriage to a woman of 45. | must await the arrival of enough (Continued on Page Seven) | the place. Such is the concession | Alfred P. Sloan, Chairman of the | the residents are giving to their | theater. These ventures, however,| formality remaining was troducing of the bill, perhaps next | elected the new Grand President of Tuesday and formally recommend- |the order, succeeding Charles W.| ing the bill to the House. Carter of Juneau. Other officers| The measure will probably be!:lected were, Vice Presidents, Merle |brought on the floor next Thurs-| P, Thomas, Cordova, and L. M. |day, two days after its introduc- | Churchill, of Wrangell; Secretary, | tion. | H. R. Shepard, Juneau; Treasurer, | The Ways and Means Committe¢ John Reck, Juneau; Chaplain, Mrs. Lmade no changes in the proposed James Climie, Anchorage; Histor- legislation which contemplates a | jan, Otto Koppen, Cordova; Ser- |broad modification of the widely geant at Arms, Joseph Rose, Ket- criticized undistributed profits. and | chikan; Grand Reporter, Charles W. capital gains taxes along with the | Carter, Juneau; Trustees, O. D.| imposition of new surtax on large | Cochrane, Nome; ‘Harry Donnely, incomes from corporations controll- Flat; Luther Hess, Fairbanks; Ed-| bringing succor to rebel airmen have pSMUGG”NG OF Further Search to Be Made For Two Navy Men Lost on Alaska Island to Westwar GEN. PERSHING IS WEAKENING HOLD ON LIFE Failed to Rally at Midday Which Makes Case Most Serious TUCSON, Arizona, Feb. 26 —Gen. John J. Pershing clung tenaciousl. to life this afternoon despite the weakening of his heart which he has carried through his lifetime of battle. The General lay in a coma ex- cept for a few intervals of con- sciousnes Dr. Ronald Davison said no change is observed in the recent hours but the situation became most grave when it was observed he did not rally at midday as he did yesterday. Since dawn today the General’s hold on life has been wavering. ISCLOSEDAS =~ - Referendum on War Proposed; 12Senators Act WASHINGTON, szb. 26.—Twelve Senators including Wheeler of Mon- tana and Bone of Washington, have offered a constitutional amendment providing for a nation- al referendum before the nation could engage in an ‘“aggressive” war. The amendment would neces- sitate a war referendum except in cues of attack on American pos- scssions or any nation on the west- ern hemisphere. cutfun fifiscfinus" Drive Np! Started BEVERLY HILLS, Cal, Feb. 26 —Society women have started a campaign here to make America “cotton conscious.” More than 100 social leaders, dressed entirely in cotton, met and announced plans for a Cotton Ball | in the spring. They hope to en- from Paris to hungry cities in war-torn Republican been carrying on a campaign of air and grnum? bom The picture was taken as the trucks‘stnrwd from the Porte d’'Italia and headed for the outskirts of the French cavital. KEEP HANDS OFF LITTLE ENTENTE HITLER IS TOLD |Foreign Minister Delbos | Declares for Austria as Independent | WILL GO TO AID OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA Also Willing to Follow Eng- | land In geace Treaty with Italy PARIS, Feb. 26.—Foreign Minis- ter Delbos, late this afternoon, is- sued an implied warning to Ger- many to keep hands off France’s | Central European Allies and warned | also that Austria must be kept in- ‘depondem and that no “political | hegemony” be set up in Central Eu- | rope. Informed circles said Delbos is ; undoubtedly warning Germany that Loyalists starving non-combatants and chil- France remains faithful to Austria as well as the Little Entente Allies, Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia and Ru- mania, as under treaties, France is bound to send military aid to Czech- oslovakia in case she is attacked. | Earlier in the day, the Foreign | Minister told the Chamber of Depu- ties that France is willing to fol- low the English lead to reach a WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. — Navy| Deace accord with Italy, but sald officials have promised Senator Carl| France intends to keep her obliga- A. Hatch, of New Mexico, that fur-| '1ons to Czechoslovakia and retain ther search will be made, when wea- | he mutual assistance pact. ther permits, for two Navy men, in-| Delbos further said the indepen- cluding a New Mexican, lost from | dence of Austria, which has gone the Navy Aerological Station on | PArtly Nazi, is necessary to Euro- Kanaga Island, Aleutian Group, Al- Pean peace. BRIT, PREMIER 1 aska. The two men have been lost since January 19, Senator Hatch appealed to the Navy Department at the request of Mrs. J. N. Gibson, of Elida, New Mexico, whos NOW ATTEMPTS son, Royce Rainey Gibson, Chief Pharmacist, is one of those lost. He disappeared while hunting with Clyde Musick, known as the ship’s cook. ITALY AGCORD e |Former Foreign Secretary Chamber Pughes Eden Save Go Abead | ‘ an iere srioping Jungau - Seatfle Alr Ma" Plans Former Foreign Secretary An- Y S ‘ thony Eden declined to embarass the 3 . > | Government by leading the oppo- Territorial Body Gets Be-|sition and wished the Prime Min- hind New Move with | ister success but said he believed an Wire Campaign LONDON, Feb. 26.—Freed of | domestic opposition, Premier Ne- ville Chamberlain today moved to effect an agreement with Italy. |accord with the Dictators of Eu- | rope, Hitler and Mussolini, is not | likely. The Territorial Chamber of Com-! Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg’s merce, meeting this afternoon in re-| speech demanding independence gular monthly meeting at the Gas-! from Germany is hinted as an in- tineau Cafe, initiated a “pressure” dication that Italy is backing Aus- movement to push legislation con-| tria’s freedom. | ducive to airmail between Juneau It is reported here that the Aus- |and Seattle. | trian Nazis are furious and plan “We are wiring Chambers of Weekend demonstrations. Commerce all up and down the coady ——————————— to have them urge Senator Lewis En|80N URGES B. Schwellenbach, of Washington and Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- Assistant Secretary of Navy States Peace Depends mond to ‘give it all they've got’ In pushing the deficiency bill in Con- Upon Naval Parity gress which carries appropriation manies for establishing the Juneau- Seattle air route,” said Secretary Curtis Shattuck. According to advices from'Seat- tle to the Empire, it is understood that negotiations are stalemated for settlement of over-foreign-soil fly- ing of the mails as between Juneau and Whitehorse and Fairbanks. | By reason of this reported stale- mate, it is believed that Pacific WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Charles Edison, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, told Congress today that the Alaska Airways will operate from | Seattle to Juneau to Seward with | flying boats if a mail contract is provided for. PRINCIPALS SWAP J0BS BERKELEY, Cal, Feb. 26. — To | get a new slant on their jobs, nine| Berkeley school principals traded schools for several days. Superin-| future peace of the United States depends directly upon maintenance of a defensive force. This force must be “sufficiently strong and expertly trended so that other nations will not like war with us. It is certain our Naval needs are for parity in strength with other e L T Dolls from Queen Mary HULL, England. — Queen Mary has given Hull a collection of 600 dolls left to her recently under the will of a Reigate spinster. The dolls are exhibited in the |ed by one family or a few lnd\-‘ward Kerr, Ketchikan, and Cal M. courage similar cotton celebrations | viduals. | Brosius, Seward, |in every cotton-producing State, i tendent Virgil Dickson said the ex-} Wilberforce museum where special periment was “most gratifying.” collections are devoted to children,