The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7745. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1938. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CONFLICT AVERTED AS LITHUANIA BOW . Der Fuhrer Is NAZIS DEMAND CIECHS SEVER WITH RUSSIA Hitler Says He Expects Lit- tle Nation to Meet Proposals GERMANS RECEIVE NEW CONCESSIONS Border District Will Be Governed by Hitlerian Supporters PRAHA, Czechoslovakia, March 19.—Diplomatic sources today assert- ed that Adolf Hitler has demanded that Czechoslovakia renounce its military alliance with Russia as the price of peace with Germany. Informed persons said it is being made increasingly apparent that Czechoslovakia must become a satel- lite of Germany to avoid war and to do so, must sever military alli- ances before it can fit itself into Germany’'s economic order. Although Hitler has pledged his personal word that he dces not in- tend to use force, he has said he expects the Czechs to meet Ger- many’s proposals. Following receipt of the Hitlerian demands in Praha, the Czechoslo- vakian government moved to meet the demands of its nearly four mil- lion German population. Hitler had said in his original threat, he will “protect all Nazi na- tionals bey f1d Germany borders.” Czechoslovakia will meet the de- mands by granting proportionate representations in the District Gov- ernments of Bohemia, Germans to get 33 percent of the government posts. In the District of Cheb, close to the German border, nearly all offi- cials will be German. Two of Czechoslovakia's leading newspapers said editorially today that the nation should try to im- prove relations with Germany rather than maintain the present alliance with Russia. It was charged in the editorials that Russia is shattered morally and is incapable of giving effective mili- tary help to Czechoslovakia. e ———— INSURGENTS SLOW DOWN SPAIN FRONT Franco Mopping-up Con- quered Territory—Air Raiding Barcelona HENDAYE, Franco - Spanish Frontier, March 19.—The smashing Insurgent offensive, slowed down today while Gen. Franco consoli- dated the gains and mopped-up his conquered territory. 5 Air raids on Barcelona ‘continued. driving citizens to the shelter of subways from the surrounding countryside. — -, RAILROADS AGREE O WAGE CUT One Million Workers Are to Be Affected by Economy Move hreatening Mayor in Transit Tempest Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia, of New York, fought it out tooth and nail with members of the Transit Commission at Albany, N. Y., when he demanded that the body be abolished and control over New York City’s transit problems be vested in the city’s Board of Estimate. He is shown in a hyddle with Senator Esquirol (left) and Assemblyman Robert Crews (ceater) during the hearing. Gusty, .LusAty Days of Coal Commission Are Predicted To Be O FOUR MATRONS DIVIDE POOL IN STORK DERBY Court Divides Half Million Dollar Estate Between Mothers of Nine Each TORONTO, Canada, March 19— Justice W. E. Middleton of the On- tario Supreme Court has ruled that the half million dollar Charles Van Millar stork derby estate be Annie Smith, el divided among Mrs. Mrs. Kathleen Nagle, Mrs. Isa McClean and Mrs. Alice Timloc] who each registered nine children. The estate was to go to the Tor- onto mother bearing the most child- ren in the 10 years after Milla death. WORLD FAIR I8 THREATENED BY STRIKERS CIO and AFL Bickering May Hold Up Treasure Island Program SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 19.—Deadlock between the CIO and the AFL, today threatens the $1.- 000,000 construction program on Treasure Island, the site of the 1939 Golden Gate Exposition. Strike loomed as AFL ordered the’ Pile Drivers Union, affiliate of the Brother of Carpenters, to with- draw from the Maritime Federation of the Pacific. The Pile Drivers refused to with- draw and the Bay Building Trades Council retaliated with a refusal to issue working passes to Mari- er; Down to Earth By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 19—You would hardly recognize the Coal Cemmission these days. It has had a reformation, & rejuvenation People around here a few short weeks ago were saying, “Oh, my goodness, have you heard the lat- est about the Coal Commission?” But all that now appears to be changed, at least for the nonce. created by the Guffey coal act. It is supposed to open the way for coal producers, dealers and con- sumers to agree on some sort of sy ,temized mining, selling and hand- ling program that would put the ailing soft coal industry back on its feet. The first Guffey coal act was born in 1935 under threat of a coal strike. It died at the hands of the Supreme Court. The segond act, much like the first but modestly hopeful of escaping the court axe, came into being something over a year ago. The essence of its performance is this: The country, for adminis- trative purposes, is divided into districts. Each district is allocated a certain production quota and the local producers form a committee in conjunction with representa- tives of labor and the public. This committee apportions the quota among the mines. The National Commission, in turn, holds hearings, determines fair and acceptable prices for the hundred and one classes of coal and thus attempts to bring order out of chaos. . % | DEFICIT GREW For months the commission was a house divided against itself, Its seven members split four and three and tke four ruled while the three protested. They scrapped over inkwells, over salaries of each | other’s private secretaries and over patronage. Before long, it seemed, everybody was trying to pacify everybody else by creating jobs wholesale. | In July, the beginning of this fiscal year, the commission ended the month with a surplus, but by October, so rapid was the expan- | sion, this had been concerted into CHICAGO, March 19.—The Asso- time Federation of Pacific backed an $11,000 deficit. Each month the ciation of American Railroads to- day voted to ask employees to ac- cept wage reduction. ‘A committee was named to meet with representatives from 21 bro- therhoods representing 1,000,000 workers, to discuss slashes but spec- ific cuts were not announced. Decreased revenues are held as the cause for the move. Pile Drivers and said they would refuse to furnish transportation of men and materials to the island ———— ARRESTED Joe Brady of Douglas was lodged in the Pederal jail last night by deputy marshals following his arrest ! on a charge of being drunk and dis- orderly. 3 | deficit ‘grew until it reached a high | of $76,000 for January. ! Meantime a mild winter brought e crisis in the coal business. Deal- ers began bidding desperately for | business. The city of Cleveland bought coal for 74 cents a ton. | Fact-finding hearings proceeded, not fast enough to save the (Continued on Page Three) » | but | 'MEXICO SEIZES ALL OLL FIELDS OF FOREIGNERS President Cardenas Takes Over Millions in Property MEXICO CITY, March 19.—Pres- ident Lazaro Cardenas today or- dered the expropriation of Ameri- can and British oil properties valued at $400,000,000 in a bold stroke to end the two year conflict between |labor and foreign capital Cardenas charged that the com- panies had defied the courts in re- fusing to accept an arbitral award giving workers in the oil fields extra wages In a radio address, President Car- denas bitterly denounced the for-, eign oil companies, in justifying their seizure. “The companies have carried on a sordid, skillful campaign against the Government. They have sent all their cash out of the country to| prevent the enforcement of the labor order. They have sought to injure the economic interests of Mexico,” said President Cardenas. Supplemental government orders| suspended dealings in foreign eur-| rency and it is said the devaluation of the peso is contemplated. It was announced that the seized oil fields will be eperated provisionally under the Department of National Econ- omy. Operators said the drastic Carden- as move was a surprise as they had expected receiverships and not con- fiscation. SUSPECT UNDER ARREST, LEVINE ABDUCTION CASE Man Believed Involved in Kidnaping of 12-Year- 0ld Boy Seized NEWARK, N. J. Ma 19.—The first arrest in the three week old Peter Levine kidnaping was made today when Federal men seized a suspect at Newark. The arrest followed a busy 24 hours of activity since federal men found a toy typewriter which they believe was used in writing the ransom note. The suspect gave his name as Stanley Thomas Jasosky. Federal men refuse to discuss the arrest but made not attempt to con- ceal the fact that the suspect was being questioned in the Levine case. 12-year-old Peter Levine disap- peared from his home in New Ro- chelle, N. Y., three weeks ago last Thursday, His father has made numerous efforts to contact the kidnapers and to pay the $30,000 ranson which was demanded. The suspect was held in $25000 bail on charges of extortion. Police said that Jasosky sent six letters to the father of the Levine boy, since March 1. The suspect was said to have digected Levine to deliver the ranson at the corner of west Market and High streets in Newark. ————— KIDNAP SLAYER GOES TO CHAIR FOR HIS CRIME CHICAGO, Til, March 19.—Feder- !al Judge Barnes denied a motion for a new trial today and imme- diately sentenced the convicted kid- nap slayer, John Seadlund, to die in the electric chair on April 19. Attorneys for Seadlund said they were prepared to appeal immediate- ly to the higher courts. Seadlund was convicted on Wed- nesday by a Federal jury of the ab- duction and murder of the elderly Chicagoan, Charles Ross. zechoslovakia King Zog Is Engaged, and This : For His Three Pefite Sisters to Follow Suit WINS DEMANDS : » i Eb’un!esu Apponyi, his fianceq ) Maxhilde b S 3 Sisters of King NEW YORK, March 19. — Have the efforts of King Zog of Albania to link his three sisters with Eur- ope's aristocratic families failed? That was the question being heard in New York society as the three petite and attractive misses from mountainous, feud-ridden Al- bania reached the United States for a “sightseeing tour.” And though the ostensible purpose of the girls' visit was to “study Girl Scout methods,” the talk along Park Avenue is that it's husbands for which they are scouting. This the girls have denied. The princesses are Myzeyen, 29; Ruhije, 27, and Maxhilde, 26. They were the first women in Albania to abandon the face veil traditional with Moslems. Following their lead, Albanian women have become “em- LABOR ARBITER WILL BE SENT T0 SAN PEDRO Attempt at Compromise‘ Blows Up When Own- ers Reject SAN PEDRO, Cal. March 19— The Waterfront Employ Associa- tion today announced receipt of a telegram from the Department of Labor saying an arbiter will be ap- pointed to seek a solution of the difficulties which have tied up Los Angeles shipping since Monday. A tentative compromise was re- ported reached by representatives of the Waterfront Employer's Assacoa- tion and the Longshoreman’s and Warehousemen's Union vesterday, bul it was rejected by the ship op- erators, B s 0 CONFISCATED FU SALE ON APRIL 27 Another sale of confiscated furs is announced by the Alaska Game Commission for April 27 in the base- ment of the Federal Building. The furs include a large number of beaver skins, some dressed beaver, red, blue and cross fox, marten, mink, land otter, wolverine, wolf, coyote, weasel and muskrat. Virt- ually 300 fur articles will be offered. ancipated” in the last decade. One of the interesting tidbits of recent European gossip concerned the zest with which King Zog dis- tributed’ pictures of his charming sisters among all the ruling families of the continent. Photographs ac- centuating their dark-eyed charm flashing smiles and colorful co tumes are common throughout Eu ope, which has become well ac- quainted with Albanian royalty through Zog's capable publicity Offered to Marry 1t will be recalled that King Zog himself once offered to marry any suitable American girl with a dowry of $1,000,000. For years matrimonial agents searched for a bride for the 42-year-old ruler. But that's all over now for King Zog—since his engagement to the beautiful Count- Spring Officially Starts at 9:43 o’Clock Sunday Evening ° Spring, from the looks of the weather, is here and the U. S. Wea- ther Bureau reported that there is no fooling about it. The vernal equinox, which the meteorologists know as the start of spring, 1s scheduled to slip into Juneau in the night, according to the Weather Bu- reau. It will occur at 9:43 tomor- row evening, March 20. The sun rises at 6:04 tomorrow morning and sets at 6:13 p.m., mak- ing 12 hours and nine minutes of possible sunshine. On Monday, which is actually the first day of spring, Old Sol gets up at 6:01 a.m and sets at 6:15, giving 12 hours and 13 minutes of possible sunshine. 55,000 BLAZE IN KETCHIKAN Seven Men with Buckets Fight Fire Until De- partment Arrives KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 19— Pire damage, estimated at $5,000. was done to the Alaska Lumber and Shingle Company early this morn- ing. The mill is five miles from town and seven men formed a bucket prigade until the Ketchikan Fire Department, summoned to the blaze by telephone, had arrived. > May Be Year ess Geraldine Apponyi, of an old Hungarian family, and daughter of the former Gladys Virginia Stew- art of New York. The countess’ mother was a daughter of the late | John §S. Stewart of New York, whose widow married Strale Dikna, Swedish diplomat. Prospective husbands of the three sisters of King Zog of Albania should know that existence in Al- bania can be hair-raising at times, with its perennial threat of blood feuds. One of the Countess Ap- ponyi’'s tasks as King Zog's mate will be to supervise the royal kitch- en at Tirana to make sure no! poisoned food is prepared by her husband’s political enemies. There are many turbulent elements in King Zog's realm, and some of the feuds date back five centuries. NO AGREEMENT IS IN SIGHT ON SALMON DISPUTE Cannery Operators, Work- ers Standing Pat on De- mands—Wide Variance SEATTLE, March 19.—The can- ned salmon industry and union can- nery workers are standing pat on the dispute which may keep Al- aska canneries closed this season, it was reported today. An industry spokesman said the canneries could not operate without a loss at the wage scales demanded by the union and said the plants would close rather than run up a deficit 1. A. Sandvigan, union agent, said the workers were determined to bold out against the proposed 10 per cent wage cut. - - DEMOLAYS TO ATTEND DEVOTIONAL SERVICES The Order of DeMolay will at- tend the Holy Trinity Cathedral to- morrow morning at the 11 o'clock service. Once a year DeMolay members set aside a Sunday for Devotional Day, and all attend the same chureh en masse. Holy Trinity Cathedral was chosen for this year's Devotion- al Day, POLISH MIGHT WAR AVOIDED Europe Breathes Easier as L]lhuanlil” G()\'f‘l'""lf‘.n[ Concedes to Poles WRATH VENTED ON JEWS IN WARSAV/ Diplomatic Relations to Be Re-established with Po- land Holding Whip Hand ! KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 1 The Lithuanian government and parliament has bowed grimly to Po- land’s army and navy hacked ul- timatum and saved herself from invasion, and Europe from possible world war Lithuania has fully accepted Po- land’s demands for re-establishment of diplomatic relations, broken in 1920 when Poland seized the an- cient Lithuanian capital of Wilno. At the capitulation it was esti- mated that 100,000 Polish troops were concentrated on the border, five times as many as the entire Lithuanian army. It also was re- ported that the Polish fleet was steaming toward Lithuania's coast. | Predictions were that there would be changes in the Lithuanis inet as a result of the we sis. DISAPPOINTED WARSAW, Poland, March 19, The Lithuanian capitulation caused disappointment to the mobs in War- saw who vented their wrath on the Jews. Large crowds tried to break into the Ghetto which was blocked off by a police ring. On the way to the Ghetto the yelling demon- strators stoned windows of Jewish shops and an undetermined num- ber of Jews were' injured. No fatali- ties were reported. Street fights de- veloped earlier when Jews were seen standing with other worried depositors waiting to draw funds from banks. The country as a whole was widely jubilant over the showdown victory. INTER - UNION FIGHT FLAMES UP ONCE MORE Court Battle for Control of Longshore Hiring Halls Begins LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 19, The inter-union fight for the con= trol of the San Pedro longshore hire ing hall became a live issue again today when Judge Ruben Schmidf set aside an order naming a receiver for the Longshormen’s Union. Setting aside a receiver would have given the old AFL union con- trol of the hall. Judge Schmidt also dissolved the temporary injunction forbidding a majority CIO member~ ship from switching its affiliation from the AFL. Testimony in the AFL suit to re- tain control of ILA funds and re- cords is set for hearing beginning April 7 to give CIO time to show articles of incorporation amended as necessary to change the union’s affiliation to CIO. L L TROYANOVSKY IS RE- CALLED, REPORT SAYS WASHINGTON, March 19.—The status of the Soviet Ambassador to the United States Alexander Troy- anovsky, is in doubt. Dispatches from Moscow stated he had been recalled were contradicted at the Russian Embassy here. The Moscow dispatch said that ‘Troyanovsky had been ordered back to Russia to report on his activities. The Washington Embassy spokes= man made no comment on the Mos= cow report other than to deny that |Troyanovsky had been recalled. B