The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1938, Page 1

| | ! THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LL, NO. 7748. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH R/IILMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 23,1938, PRICE TEN CENTS 2 MILLION ASKED FOR ALASKA AIR BASE Billion Dollars Requested for U. 5. Army GEN. M. CRAIGIS MORE SOLDIERS Makes R ecomme [l(lulif}n to House Appropria- tions Com. DECLARES THAT LAND FORCES NEED BOOST LT Vi inEE Mobilization Plan Provides for Two Field Divis- ions in Nation BULLETIN—WASH- INGTON, March 23. — The 23. House Appropriations Com- mittee teday asked Congress to provide the Army with $447,000,000 for the fiscal year beginning July 1. This is $32,000,000 mere than for the current year and the largest in 18 years. LARGE ARMY REQUESTED WASHINGTON, March 23. —~Gen. Malin Craig, Chief of the United States Army Gen- eral Staff, advised the House A p propriations Committee, that an expenditure of one billion dollars is necessary to “bring the Army into a posi- tion to respond effectively in an emergency.” Gen. Craig said bolstering of the Navy, while permitting an Army weakness, is an inef- fective defense system where both forces are vital. Gen. Craig said a billion dollars is needed to provide essential equipment for a force of one million men. Gen. Craig said the War Department has a protective mobilization plan involving two field armies with half a million men each. NEW BOYCOTT IS ANNOUNCED BY UNTERMYER Bl Gubioah and Austrian Made Goods Come Under Ban SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., March 23.—Samuel Utermyer, New York Attorney, President of the Interna- tional Non-sectarian Anti-Nazi Boy- coit League against German goods, announced here that the League's campaign will be directed sagainst Austrian gocds as well. This is be- cause of the recent developments in Austria. PANAY BOMBING BILL IS GIVEN TO JAPAN NATION Amount Asked by United States Is Over Two Million Dollars WASHINGTON, March 23.—Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull dis- closed today that the bill sent Jap- an for the Panay bombing sink-. ing totals $2213,000. The property loss is placed at $1,900,000 and the remainder is for deaths an injuries. There is no bill for punitive dam- ages. A Kiss for a Crown 3 Benito Mussolini was one of the most delighted celebrants in the enthu- siastic welcome which greeted Marshal Graziani on his return to Rome from Ethiopia. When Graziani presented the Duce with the gold crown of Ethiopia, the dictator could not contain himself, and hugged his army chieftain, 'Pcace Talk in World Reveals However Many RED GUERILLAS RAISE HAVOC IN JAPANESE ARMY 500,000 Farmers with Improvised Arms Giving Trouble SHANGHAI, March 23.—An army of 500,000 Chinese farmers with Bol- shevist Leninism for their daily gospel are making the Japanese push into Central China increasing- ly hazardous. _The farmer horde is manufactur- ing its own rough armaments in 12 small arsenals or capturing them in battle. The troops are directed by Red leaders who fashioned a socialist state of 7,000,000 Chinese in Central Hopeh province which is nominally in Japanese hands. Striking suddenly in guerilla war- fare, the farmer army has in the past four months repeatedly severed Japanese communication lines in North and Central China and has wiped out about 1000 Japanese in 36 garrisons PEARL HARBOR WILL BE SHUT OFF FOR “WAR" ik AT Naval Base in Hawaiian Isles to Be Closed for Fleet Games HONOLULU. T H. March 23. - Naval orders were issued today bar- ring Japanese fishing craft and all other non-Governmental boats from Pearl Harbor during the April maneuvers of the United States Fleet. Army authorities urged the par- ticipation by civilians in the far flung war games to test Hawaii's defenses. The naval orders closing Pearl Harbor, affect 50 vessels, including 18 power fishing craft cperated by Japanese who customarily catch| bait within the limits of Pearl Harbor. Also affected by the orders ’are| | nearly three dozen pleasure boats. | Phases of War Fought Out in Secluded Rooms This Is The First Of Two Arti- cles On That Haven Of Mulitary Scholars, The War College. By PRESTON GROVE R WASHINGTON, March 23. — While there is cager talk of pe a dozen phases of the next war are being fought out already in seclud- ed Washington class rooms Selected army officers, them many headed for generalships at an early date, drill their agile minds on war business for eight to ten hours a day—then break up per- haps for a baseball game or a round of winter golf. among The officers are scholars at the Army War College. When Admiral Leahy, chief of naval operations, told the House naval affairs committee that the government was not drafting war plans against any nation he was hewing a close line. As a matter of fact, both navy and army have col- leges wh principal business is ,to study how to conduct war. More- over, these colleges work out specific war plans—how to meet an attack {from any direction from one country or combination of countries. It is doubtful whether they pre- pare plans for combat with par- ticular countries or groups of coun- tries. We ran into conflicting pri- vate information on that. But it is certain the Army War College course, at any rate, trains its men on ‘absract” problems of such a nature that they would apply close- ly to actual international combat. The Curriculum In an article In a recent edition of The Military Engineer, an Army War College graduate indicates that the course is broad enough to in- clude almost everything bearing on war. He outlined the course as pro- bable causes of war that may in- volve the United States; essent peacetime preparations for war; preparation of specific war plans; conduct of war. Mostly the assignments to the War College are from the ranks of major,, lieutenent colonel and col- onel. That tween 40 and 50 years of age. It is the top ranking school in the army. Any officer who hopes to be a general needs to wangle himself an assignment to it. The normal course for an officer is to go first to a school of his own branch of the service, such as the cavalry school at Ft. Riley. Kas. In the next step, the staff and command school | | puts the students be- | | RODSEVELT LASHES AT DIE-HARDS Blames Selfishness of Few | for Retarding March | to Prosperity | TELLS SOUTH THAT WAGES STILL POOR President Flays Critics Who Cannot Offer Bet- ter Ideas } GAINSVILLE, ., March 23 "L President Rcosevelt declares that! “selfishness on the part of a few die-hards’ gress t President statement in an was replete with special privilege. The President also told the South that wages are far too low and ask- ed cooperation “all along the line” in the rebuilding of the nation along sounder lines He said he proposed to go for- ward and not back, and hitting at Administration critics in Congress, said, “a selfish few” had the same type of minds as those who ‘“vote against legislation to help social and economic conditions while at the same time proclaiming loudly that they are for the objectives, but don’t like the methods by which they are achieved. Then they fail utterly to offer a better method of their own”. Skiers o Meet By Moonlight at Meadows Tonight Skiing by moonlight and flood lamp JuneauSki Club members are bound for new experience on the Douglas trail tonight, when they meet at the Shelter cabin meadow to ski for several hours on newly fallen dry powder snow. Planned on the spur ot the mo- ment after reports of the excellent snow conditions on the trail, the gathering tonight will be marked by toasting of weiners and marshmal- lows over an open fire. Many planned to leave at 4:30 p.m. after the Federal offices closed while others are leaving as late as 7 pm. It is suggested that skiers carry flashlights in order to be able to return to the road without dif- ficulty. is retarding national pro- rds prosperity Roosevelt the address here that fresh attacks on - Former Alagkan's Wife Sues Seattle For Mate’s Death SEATTLE, March 23—The widow of William Hynek, formerly of Pal- mer, Alaska, has sued the city tor $25,000. He was killed by a street car on February 22 and she claims the operator of the car was negli- gent. MORE BODIES IN WRECKAGE IN BARCELONA Death Toll from Insurgent Air Bombings Reach Nearly 900 BARCELONA, March 23.—Rescue at Fort Leavenworth, latest tactics S4uads brought 57 bodies from build- in battle practice are studied. An Honorary Alumnus At the War College, which comes next, the problems are vastly broad- 7 lCon?hT\}ed on Page Two) | ings wrecked in last week’s insur- gent air raids. This raises the list of known dead to 872 Officials said many buildings bombed and wrecked are yet to be explored, Vienna German | 1 i i United German and Austrian armed forces to Vienna as they paraded through Ringstra the treops marched along the great circular boulev: planes roared overhead. Armored cars, tanks, machine-gun and artillery uni din, Hitler stood on the platform facing Heroes' Square to review the for London to New York by radio.—Associated Press Photo, aged a spectacular ciimax to Adolf Hitler's annexation irip se while hundreds of thousands of Viennese watched. As in the heart of the city, several hundred war- participated. Amid the s picture was sent from Hitler Revieuw: New Might Gained by His Coup Adcl Mitler (circled), reviewed the parade of his new might ‘taken lock, stock and barrel with Austria. A tank cerps wen the Chancellor's salute as it rumbled by his reviewing stand in Heroes' Square, Vienna. The review followed Mitler's broadcast speech. He left Vienna soon after by airplane {or Munich. This picture was radiced from London lo New York.—A.P. Photo. oy —— 1 wiiss Wright 37, General Jones averages: industrials 114.38, i | s 317, International Harvest- down 2.73; ralls 2175, down .87, ,,E-IECK_QE"ET,&T'ONS' er 58%, Kennecott 33'% utilities 17.30, down .26 NEW YORK, March 23-—C e - Centre 12 suthern Pacific quotation of Alaska Juneau mine United States Steel 48, Cities Serv- stock today is 9%, American Can jce 1'., Pounds $4.96 5/16, 84, American Light and Power 4, e Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 50, Commonwealth and Southern | BOUND FOR SEATTLE Mrs. Dell Cooper is a passenger) south aboard the Yukon for a visit with relatives, S Dow, AVERAG! are today's DOW, JONES The following DIMOND URGES ARMY DEFENSE FOR TERRITORY Delegate Declares Work Should Start Immediate- ly as Protective Move PENNSYLVANIAN IN ACCORD WITH PLAN Danger of Hostile Foreign Power Seizing Posses- sion Is Stressed WASHINGTON, March 23. —Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond today urged an Army air base for Alaska in testi- meny given before the Mili- tary Appropriations subcom- mittee. He said Congress should appropriate at least two million dollars to start work immediately. Represen- tative J. Buell Snyder, Demo- crat of Pennsylvania, agreed with the request. “Something should be done to protect that great posses- sion,” Congressman Buell stated. Dimend said that funds for the undertaking had been dis- approved by the Budget Board, adding, “so that we have under those circum- stances a Budget Board mak- ing military policy obvious. “Any hostile foreign power seizing possession of Alaska could inflict untold damages on the Pacific Ceast before a corresponding defensive force could be brought in.to stop them,” the Delegate said. MORE STEAMER SAILINGS ARE CANGELLED 0UT No Progress Being Made in Union - Canners Wage Dispute BULLETIN— BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 23.—The wage dispute between cannery workers and packers has halted spring preparations for Alaska ings of the Pacific American Fisheries vessels. The machine shops are idle and further lay- offs are predicted. The crew of the Mary D is reported to have been dismissed. Officials said the company’s operations depend on the cutcome of the Seattle ne- gotiations, SEATTLE, March 23.—Two more Alaska Steamship Company craft have been tied up in Seattle in ad- dition to the four tied up yesterday when dispute over wages between cannery operators and unions became stalled in deadlock. It was announced today that the Mount McKinley and the Tanana sailings have been cancelled because of the dispute. Also tied up and sail- ings cancelled are the steamers La- touche, Cordova, Oduna and Derb- lay. The Mount McKinley was posted to sail March 30 and the Tanana March 25, both for southeast as well as southwest ports as far as Seward. All boats are heavy cargo carriers which had been expected to take heavy loads of cannery equipment north. Glenn Kinney, Acting Business Agent for the Machinist’s Local 79,' said the union was willing to resume negotiations with the packers bat (Contlnu;d on Page IWO)’