The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7740. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1938. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ADOLF HITLER RIDES INTO VIENNA TODAY * * * - * * * * * * * Decree Issued; Austrian Nation Ceases Exis SCENE OF FLEET'S WAR DRILL TVA INQUIRY 1S ' REQUESTED BY Japanese | NEBRASKA SEN. Invaders Repulsed oo, Bocked |ed States Senator George W. Norris > | today agreed to a sweeping Senate SHANGHAI, March 14.—Japanese invaders have been |inyestigation of the Tennessee Val- stalled on all of China’s far flung war fronts. |ley Authority and sought immediate i y ' Ri jles | authorization for the inquiry thus Shock trocps which crossed the Yellow River 20 miles iy A R west of Chengchow last week and disrupted service on.the the Federal Trade.Commission Lunghai Railroad, have apparently been wiped out or driven %hould make a study. hack. Traffic has been resumed over the vital Central China | Senator Norris introduced —the lite line resolution for the investigation but . = i his request for immediate action Chinese troops are stubbornly fighting along the Yellow |was blocked, however, by Majority iver and have succeeded in preventing further Japanese Leader Barkley, who said similar adv. is i i 3 : |proposals were pending in the {d\ ances. This is admitted by the Japanese spokesman in b i Sy (B LeaAer Mo Shanghai. Nary, who said he wanted more time to study the resolution. s o S Nation's Most Famous Defense | UNITED STATES £ | HOUSE CENSUS sl WL BE TAKE Clarence S. Darrow.Passes‘ : Away in Chicago at Foundaton to Be Laid by Administration for Age of 80 Years Permanent Program CHICAGO, I, March 14—Clar- ence S. Darrow, who went from a $30 a month country school teacher to the nation’s most famous de- fense attorney, died yesterday after a long illness with a heart ailment at the age of 80. With Darrow at the end were his wife Ruby, son Paul, and sister, Mrs. Darrow Morrow. WASHINGTON, March 14—The Administration has decided to lay the foundation for a permanent housing program by counting and classifying every dwelling in Am- erica. 1 The survey will be the first of ~ the kind in American history and special prosecutor upholding funda- is scheduled to be made a part of census of SLARENCE S. DARROW | | | Darrow fought for the poor and mentalism, Darrow defended evo- the regular decennial oppressed, the captive and the weak | lytion in the John T. Scopes “mon- 1940, prisons are practically always poor. science teacher was found guilty It is a game where the dice is of violating the anti-Darwinian latter is almost sure to lose.” |Supreme Court reversed the ver- Clarence Darrow, at the age of dict. BRGKER FIRM for a great railroad and assumed |garded Christ as an ancient phil- the role the world knew best: at- osopher and benefactor and was an AT HlGH MARK This was in 1894—the year of the virtues of mercy and charity. In American Railway Union strike, |his writings and appeals to juries leader. A Federal court injunction given by God. By this usage of i tivitie had . G against the union activities the name of divinity he meant the Gullty to Indictment railroads, and Debs had been In-|istence of such forces he readily of Grand Larceny dicted for conspiracy. | admitted. { strikers. Then a follower of Henry |Darrow participated in many joint Whitney today pleaded guilty to George, apostle of the single tax debates on religion, usually with a the grand jury indictment charg- “Progress and Poverty” and his|In these four-sided affairs each the estate of his father-in-law, views—political and social—were to | expounded his own views. | George R. Sheldon. the incompatibility of these views!ot labor. Few men were S0 un- age of the Richard Whitney and with his postiion as general counsel |flinching. Once his valor nearly Company, stock brokers, ran as system, many of whose workers par- | with a physician at his side fearing ————— . ticipated in the strike. When Debs death, he won freedom for “Big lawyer to conduct his defense, Dar- later the molder of the I. W. W.—| anADRBN 16 row resigned his railroad job. \who, with other members of the criminal conspiracy charge against tion of Miners, was tried for the AT sEATTLE { ' Debs when a juror's illness halted |murder of Former Gov. Frank Steu- | jurors reported themselves as ten Willlam E. Borah was a special 1o one for acquittal. | prosecutor. Darrcw once said, “led me away | g...01 Gom | ) pers sent Darrow 0| gpATTLE, March 14—Naval Pa- from the world of wealth to that |y, gefense of the McNamara | 4o Squadron 16, under command making it, I've had no regrets.” |, dynamiting of the Los An- brought | | Champion, manned by about 25 it e » dahion. ies ‘mW‘l" Times building in 1911. With | o¢ficers and enlisted men, arrived humanitarian many renowned vic- | g, | ; | Scripps, and Lincoln Steffens, Dar- | afterncon from the Sitka Alaska, | tories in the defense of his social !, o & eceeded in settling the case!naval base. Darrow hated capital punishment. | gyiormey however, was indicted for | | In an inflamed Chicago, amid the a¢tempting to bribe a prospective | Leopold, Jr., and Richard Loeb, he " Arig alegations that he was be- | and cruelty will not control the | ctors Association, a jury acquitted | DIES |N suuT“ hearts of men” and gained SeN-|phiy in ten minutes. He closed his | kidnapers and slayers of BObbY ' ‘“where men toil with their| SAN JOSE, Cal, March 14—John| Franks hands, where women—worn, weak | McNaught, 89, retired newspaper! Darrow strove for freedom Of ¢4 pe worn by the rich, I know |1y after the turn of the century he | worked on several newspapers in (Continued on Page Two) because he said: “Those found in key trial” The Dayton high school -, - loaded against the victim and the Jaws of Tennessee, but the smge*s‘sHuRTAGE 0F 37, walked out as general coun.‘seli Darrow was an agnostic. He re- torney for the defense. |earnest pleader for the Christian headed by Eugene V. Debs, Socialist he frequently spoke of qualities Rivkard Wil—it—ney Pleads been granted upon petition of the forces that motivate man. The ex- Darrow sympathized with the| In the leisure of his later years NE;W YORK, March 14—Richard theory, Darrow’s Bible was George's |Jew, a Catholic and a Protestant. ing grand larceny of $103,000 from the left. He felt embarrassed over| Darrow crusaded for the cause ' Meantime estimates of the short- for the Chicago and Northwestern exacted his life. Dangerously ill|high as one million dollars ! persuaded the young corporation Bill” Haywood—then a Socialist, The government dismissed the one-time militant Western Federa- | the trial. The remaining eleven nenberg, of Idaho, during a strike. | FR(]M SITK A “The decision to defend Debs,” Faces Jury Bribing Charges of wreichedness and misery. FOT | prothers, charged with murder in|of Lieutenant Commander C. C. to the soft-volced, twinkle-eyed|fhe aiq of Freemont Older, E. W. gt Sand Point Base last Saturday views and theories. lon the basis of prison terms. The | S G b . clamor for the lives of Nathan juror. ’JOHN M NA“GHT | pleaded for a time “when hatred yng wramed” by the National Er-| tences of life imprisonment for the appeal to that jury with: | Del@ Freedom of Thought and weary—sew tears into garments | Man and writer, is dead here. Short- Alaska. thought. Against William Jenhings Bryan when “the commoner” was a ) | WASHINGTON, March 14.—Unit- | * * * SEA POWER OF | U.S. FLEET IS BEING TESTED |Grand Maneuvers Starting | Today—Secret Instruc- tions Are Issued SAN PEDRO, Cal, March 14— | A secret test of America’s sea power |is under way today. | Changes in the announced plans, however, left the bulk of the 105 |warships in San Pedro or San | Diego harbors although some have |left secretly and others are ready |to make the dash at an instant’s | | notice. I | The war game will extend from | the Aleutians, Hawaiian Islands to | {the Panama Canal Zone and last for six weeks. NAVY BUILDING | | | | * » * WAKE 1. ° UAM Pacific PROGRAM SURE | TOBE PASSED Hitler’'s Coup in Austria Facilitates Enactment of Measure, It Is Said WASHINGTON, March 14— Adolf Hitler's coup will facilitate passage of the Administration's bil- lion dollar naval expansion program legislation, it is claimed today at the start of the debate in the House. Foes of the armament bill are openly pessimistic at chances of blocking its enactment and it is understood they will seek primarily to modify some of the provisions. R Gt NEW HELP FOR ALASKA FLIERS Plans Drafted for Weather Forecasting Stations in Territory WASHINGTON, March 14. — Charles C. Clark, Assistant Chief of the Weather Bureau, said plans are being .drafted to establish a full time weather forecasting Air- way Station at Anchorage. He said there is a possibility of several other stations will be established in the Territory but the location is not determined definitely. The stations will be opened about midsummer. A e e | sTock QuoeTATIONS ‘ e ety S NEW YORK, March 14. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 10%, American Can 85%, American Light and Power 4%, Anaconda 32%, Bethlehem Steel 56%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 34%, International Harvester 62%, Kennecott 37, New York Central 15%, Southern Pacif- ic 16%, United States Steel 52'%, Cities 8ervice 15, Pound $4.98%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’'s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 123.68, rails 2635, utilities 18.68. MRS. ARNOLD CURTIS WILL RETURN HOME TO SITKA TOMORROW Many informal affairs have been given in honor of Mrs. Arnold Cur- tis who has been visiting in Juneau for the past several days and who is returning to her home in Sitka tomorrow. Saturday afternoon Mrs. Verne Soley, daughter of Mrs. Curtis, en- tertained at luncheon at her home in the Meade Apartments. St. Pat- rick’s day decorations and Spring flowers provided a setting for the luncheon which was followed by lyhmn; and sewing. appropriations, o by official x Ship Officers | To B Provided Fur@.Marine Maritime Commission Out- lines Plans for Appoint- ment of Cadets WASHINGTON, March 14. — The Maritime Commission said between 300 and 500 young men will be ap- pointed annually as cadets and cadet officers under a program now out- lined This movement will provide of- ficers for the American Merchant Marine, it is claimed. FIFTY PERSONS ARE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS [llinois and_\a'ginia Lead in Death Toll, Penn- sylvania Next CHICAGO, Ill, March 14. — Ac- cording to a tabulation ny the As- sociated Press, automobile traffic accidents throughout the Nation over the weekend brought death to over 50 persons. % Illinois and Virginia led with five deaths each and Pennsylvania re- ports four deaths. s WILKINS AGAIN IN AIR; OFF ON SEARCH, FLIERS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 14.— Sir Hubert Wilkins hopped off from Aklavik at 7:30 o'clock this morn- ing, heading north on another search for the six missing Soviet fliers. According to a radio from the plane, the weather is good. SHELL GOES WITH FOUR FOR POINTS ON CHICHAGOF ISLE Four passengers ieft for Chicha- gof Island points wth Shell Sim- mons this morning in the Alaska Air Transport Bellanca. They were M! J. Gray for Hoo-| nah, Keith Hawkins for Hirst, and' Edgar Aznoe and Dan Buskirt, for Chichagof. * * » x * * * . 'SAN PEDRO! MIDWAY 1. Z //s//}}/n/se OAHU =» PEARL HARBOR IEGO awaunn]s// A \ 7 // Equator ° AMERICAN SAMOA Z2] & actual fleet maveuvers will be clease only. Adolf Hitler, dictator of the Nazi Reich, is pictured in Bel AS COMMANDER ~in-chief of the battle fleet, Ad- miral Claude A, Bloch will direct tactical defense against imagin- ary foes. Fuehrer and New Army Chief with his new army chief, Gen. Von Brauchitsch (left), as they reviewed a mobile guard of honor. The occasion was their arrival at the Kaiserdamm exhibition hall for the annual German motor show. [Hpttaiait ¥y PN Amazmg War Debt Proposdl : Made by Hungary; Congress Is Given Good, Hard Jolt By PRESTON GROVER ' WASHINGTON, March 141t is a fair-to-middling bet tiat by the time Congress gets through talking about Hungary’s proposal to settle the war (really post-war) debt the cost of printing the discussion in| the Congressional Record at $55) a page will equal two or three an- nual payments. Rumors of the Hungarian debt settlement offer got about the Capitol several days before the| announcement was made formal- ly and the members of Congrgss could hardly restrain themselves. | “Let the debtor nations pay us| in things we don’t have” said| Senator Schwellenbach of Wash-| ington. (Mr. Schwellenbach, we/ don’'t have any Hungarian leather knee-pants nor do we have a Brit- ish gas mask, and if we get those we will call off our part of the debt.) | Actually the debts don’t figure up to so much when spread among the population, If the! debtor countries were making their payments now it would be in the | neighborhood of $275,000,000 a year, | or $2.20 a person. What the Hungary offer seems almost certain to do is to revive, the whole debt discussion. If Hun-| | needed food gary is granted anything like the terms it asks, other countries wiil try to edge in with a settlement equally easy. HOW IT STARTED In announcing the proposal, John Pelenyi, tall handsome and Ameri- can-toned Hungerian minister, called reporters to thé Chancery, an apartment on 16th street. Choicest item served was a little decorated test-tube of Hungarian peach bran- dy, which burned softly, like hot cotton, and smelled of blossoms. Then the chubbyish financialad- visor passed out copies of the Hun- garion proposal. This is its basis: In 1920 Hungary, wasted from fighting the Allies, desperately and the U. S. sent tons of flour worth 1924 interest totalled $253,000. In funding agreement reached that year the two sums were lumped together and Hungary began paying. By 1931 it had paid $478,000 and then stopped. No money in the till. Now it asks the United States to credit that $478,000—nearly all of which was interest—against the original $1,685,000 due for the flour, over 13,850 $1,685,000. By a (Continued on Page Three) » * » t w2y FUHRER WILL BE WELCOMED ON TOMORROW Flag Waving Nazis Clamor for His Appearance at Impenial Hotel 'JEWS ARE REPORTED ATTEMPTING TO FLEE ment Is Abolished— Chancellor in Charge B U LLETIN—VIENNA, Marsh 14.—Fully one million | shouting, flag waving persons [in a state of mad frenzy, | greeted Adolf Hitler today on his arrival here. Hitler rode | in an open automobile through the streets to Imperial Hotel. Thousands of persons around the hotel demanded his ap- | pearance and continued to in- | sist until it was announced he | will be officially welcomed to- | morrow in Hero’s Square | Traveling down the street, | at ome stop; Hitler said: “No ferce on earth can shake us.” (By Associated Press) Adolf Hitler motored into Vienna today while France and Great Britain, accepting his Austrian coup, maneuver- ed to keep him from cutting {deeper into Central Europe Hysteria swept the Aus- trian Jewery. Hundreds sought to flee with little sue- cess. Many have been ar- rested. France, with the new Peo- ple’s. Front, headed by Leon Blum, sought an understand- ing with Great Britain to tol- erate no further Nazi expan- sion, with Czechoslovakia, with more than three million Germans, as the likely objec- tive. Hitler, hoping to bring Italy into line, rested today follow- ing his Austrian coup. BRITISH MOVE In London, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, addressing the House of Com- mons, plainly warned Ger- many that Great Britain will expand armaments to match force with force. In Vienna, Baron Carl von Werkmann, prominent leader, liquidated the Monarchist movement. He is reported dy- ing from bullet wounds at the hands of Nazi guards. The (Continued on Page Two) -ee LEGATION OF AUSTRIA HAS PASSED 0UT Official Headquarters in Washington Closed— Germans in Charge WASHINGTON, March 14—Aus- tria’s Legation in Washington has passed out of existence. Legation officials believe Edgar L. Prochnik, veteran Austrian Minister. will im- - mediately return and the affairs will be taken over by the German lEmbasy.