The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 31, 1938, Page 8

CELEBRATION PLANNED FOR AIRMAIL HERE Chamber Arranging Event for April 26 when PAA Starts Service Movement for a celebration here on April 26 when the first air mail leaves here via Pacific Alaska Air- ways was started by the Juneau Chamber of Commerce today at its weekly luncheon meeting at Percy’s Cafe. A committee of A. E. Robert- son, chairman, M. S. Whittier and B. F. Heintzleman was named President Charles W. Carter to a range for the celebration which is {o be planned similar to the one held at the PAA field when air ser- vice was inaugurated between here and Fairbanks two years ago. Showing appreciation for the ef- forts of Delegate Anthony J. Dimond and Washington State Senators Ho- mer T. Bone and Lewis B. Schwel lenbach, the Chamber author radiograms to be sent the officials thanking them for the work they had done in getting the airmail for Alaska Calling attention of the Chamber » the city election next Tuesday Mr. Robertson urged a full registra- tion by Saturday when the books close and a big turn out of voters [ | & i S : THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 1938 ~ First U. S.-Bermuda Mail Hop FLYING PAIR Colonial Postmaster P. S. Ingham (right) of Bermuda, is pictured st R. 0. D. Sullivan of the Bermuda Clipaer FINED §1,000 BY CUSTOMS Mr. and Mrs. Louis Soukup Violate Entry Regulations ney from Port- regon, to Valdez, Alaska, to day was interrupted and marred for Mr. and Mrs. Louis Soukup by a 181000 fine assessed by the Customs Office here. Soukup and his wife flew to Ju- neau from Vancouver, B. C, arriv- ing her Monday afternoon at the airport in their six-place Travelair monoplane, and landing here wa fined, according to the Customs Of- tice, for “failing to give notice in advance of a foreign arrival and landing at an airport not designated as a Customs port of entry.” Soukup is flying to Valdez to make his hcme in that city. An aviator by the name of W. Harrell will come up later and fly Soukup’s ship com- mercially while Soukup examines mining propert| Formerly asscciated with Pan- American and Grace Airways in Chile, Soukup was in charge of ni- trate transfers out of Taltal. “It's sort of a half vacation trip, Soukup said. “My wife flies too, and we both get a it kick out of it New German Furope's often-changed map agai gAJ \x\ F RANC MEDITERRANEAN SEA New European alignm;nt ——— n stands revised, the new German 2,306,000 men |- = [, ; 4 «. il ed LITHUANR ™ 4 ~., OLAND 4 \,\ WA’RSAW Czechoslovakia 1,875,000 men s 0 \\_‘ Reich Is Now Larger Than France 2 [ A Y LETVIA Y . S [} \ £ Y ] empire. To this France is strongly opposed and looks to Great Brit-' Zamilton congratulating Capt. : on the arrival of the first airmail across the north Atlantic from she United States. Flown from Baltimore, 800,000 pieces of mail, weighing 800 pounds. was the clipper’s cargo. on election day. “Every ‘qualified voter should reg- She soloed in four and a half hours and spells me off for half hour stretches now. We've seen a lot of Reich combining Germany and Austria in an empire containing a population of 72,719,000 and an area of 220,000 square miles. Czecho- slovakia now appears to be the key factor in a tense situation since Reichsfuehrer Adolf Hitler is believed to have as his next objective 2in for support in helping the Czechs to maintain their independence.’ Poland, having signed a 10-year non-aggression pact with Germany, figures less actively in the picture, while Italy is apparently follow- ister and get out and vote next Tues- day,” he said. “It is a civic duty we should not shirk.” Regional Forester Heintzleman re- ported that he had obtained a var- iety of cultivated blueberry shrubs from New Jersey and that they would be tried out here and at Ket- chikan this season. The Chamber has been experimenting with ship- ping blueberries from Alaska to the Btates for several years, but last scason’s venture was not succvss{ul’ due to worms in the berries. Henry O. Harrison of the Colum- bia Lumber Company was a guest of the Chamber. —e——— Try The Empire classifieds results. for T Empire classifieds pay. TAX REVISION | BILL IS T0 COME OUT BY MONDAY WASHINGTON, March 31. — The | Senate Finance committee has voted to report on the tax revision bill. Chairman Harrison said that the bill would be laid before the Senate next Monday. The committee made several changes in the bill which Chairman Harrison said would pro- duce approximately 23 million dol- lars more than the House tax bill. The revisions included: Loosen- ing of tax provisions against hold- ing companies which show they are not avoiding tax payments, and re- storation of the present law exempt- ing gifts to colleges from taxation. The House bill had placed a tax on donations to colleges. BIMIDJI, Minn, March 31, — A forty - mile - an - hour blizzard was sweeping over the Northern Lakes region today with temperature be- low freezing, which kept the snow from melting. EFFICIENCY TICKET The EFFICIENCY TICKET has for its purpose that which its names implies; it is non-partisan, non-political and non-sectarian and is the combination of all these for the general welfare and prosperity of the com- munity. We favor combining the offices of Mayor, Street Commissioner and Building Inspector under one head; since all boundaries and grades are established the services of an engineer can be dispensed with, thereby saving his salary. We recommend that the City Clerk and Deputy each receive a fixed salary for their services which shall include the duties of Secretary of the School Board and, by agreement, shall turn the percentage from the collection of the five dollar school tax, and all other fees which might accrue, over to the City Treasurer. We shall use all means of economy, consistent with good business, which will enable us to retire the outstanding bonds. The most pressing being the School and Sewer Bonds, which are of long standing and bear a high rate of interest. In addition we have our Federal Bond Issue which brings our total bonded indebtedness to approximately $200,000.00, an amount which can only be retired by planned saving. We will use every effort to secure the Small Boat Harbor. iate attention. cost of cement. Councilman 't We ‘endorse id” advertisement) We are unalterably opposed to any increase in taxes on residential property. The sewer escapement on the lower waterfront has long been neglected and will receive our immed- We favor the replacement of board walks, as soon as they dare worn out, by cement sidewalks. pairs of the wooden walks has greatly exceeded the The re- We promise efficient police protection and en- forcement of traffic regulations. We wish to compliment the Fire Department for its efficient service and pledge our support 100%. Our stand on Union Labor is clearly evinced by our affiliation with them which is shown by the display of our Union Cards. For Mayor—————FRANK L. GARNICK Councilman ——GEORGE JORGENSON HENRY MEIER RALPH BEISTLINE beautiful scenery and have enjoyed the trip a lot—except of course. this regrettable blunder I made in not thoroughly understanding the cus- toms regulations.” Soukup will continue on to Valde: either tomorrow or the day after, he hopes. S e SEX CRIMES BAININN. Y, NEW YORK, March 31.—There were 640 more sex crimes in New York City last year than in 1936, . the citizen’s committee on the con- trol of crime in New York reported In a ‘study by the staff of the committee, of which Harry F. Gug- genheim is president, the increase was termed “shocking.” “Warning at its coming was given a long time ago,” the report said, “though evidence is lacking that any of those with official ‘or lay concern in the matter paid heed to the portent. “So indifferent had they been, indeed, that last August when the community was led to believe that a ‘wave of sex crime: sweeping the city, no one was prepared to set forth the facts.” The committee, citing police de- partment figures, showed 1891 sex crimes occurred in New York City last year, as compared with 1251 for 1936. > SKI CONDITIONS REPORTED POOR Unwelcome news to skiers is re- ported by the several who observed Beward’s Day on the Douglas trail meadows yesterday, and found the snow badly crusted and full of pits. Nevertheless, many are planning to try the trail again Sunday in hopes that the snow higher up may still be adequate for skiing. e, — Try The Empire classifieds for results. Skating Champion + eline Horn of Beaver Dam, Wis- oo women’s North American speed skating champion, flashes her best smile as she returns from a tour of Europe and competi n the international cham; L at Oslo, Norway, tion the incorporation of 3,500,000 people of Germanic descent now liv- ing in the war-created state of Czechoslovakia into the new Nazi REPORT 150,000 JAPAN TROOPS TURNED BACK Invaders Reported Facing Annhiliation by Chinese Guerilla Forces HANKOW, March 31.—One hun- dred and fifty thousand Japanese attacking Suchow began a general retreat to the north. The attack on Suchow was abandoned because Chinese guerillas stopped the move- ment of supplies from the north over the Tientsin-Pukow Railroad. As the retreat of the invaders be- gan, the Chinese managed to cut off a brigade of Japanese. The Japan- ese detachment sent to help the cornered troops was defeated and forced to join the main army in re- treat. The cornered Japanese bri- gade was short of both food and munitions. Field commanders said the Jap- anese force must either surrender or face annihilation in a battle againht .ten to one odds. DISPUTE OVER ISLES RECALLS STRANGE PACT Story of Priest’s Rise Through Convict’s Money Is Brought to Light HONOLULU, T. H, March 31—/ A compact between a priest and a fugitive convict may have diplo-|fore he finished he suggested, in| matic repercussions if the United States presents new claims to stra- tegic Pacific islands. Attention was directed at the Phoenix group when the United States and Great Britain became |involved in a controversy over ownership of Canton and Ender- bury islands, 1,300 miles southwest Housewives Keep Your Husbands Happy with Crescent Products: —BAKING POWDER —COFFEE —CORN STARCH —EXTRACTS —FLAVORS —MAPLEINE —SPICES —TEA Write for Free Recipe Books to MARION BELL, CRESCENT Mig. Co. Seattle, Wash. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR CRESCENT PRODUCTS Dan Noonan Alaska Bepreseptative | of Hawail | Reports here that Secretary of State Hull may be scanning charts; to pick out islands of aeronautical |importance which America may | ‘Clflim stirred afresh the story of | the late Father Emmanuel Rougier, ne time virtual “king” of a vast Pacific domain. Aided by Felon Two of the many islands the | priest controlled with money sup- plied by Pierre Cecil, escaped con- ! vict from the French penal colony at New Caledonia, were Christmas |and Fanning. The aeronautically |important lagoons of these islands now are under British jurisdiction. Cecil, who reached the Fiji group by sailing across 1,000 miles of Pa- cific waters in an open boat, gave Father Rougier $500,000 for the priests’s help in obtaining a pardon. The cleric built a fortune of fabu- lous proportions in copra. He pur- chased Fanning Island from Wil- liam Greig, a Scotch resident of Honolulu, for $350,000 and later sold it to a British syndicate. U. S. Discoverer The sale to British interests was made despite the fact Capt. Ed- mund Fanning, discoverer of the atoll, was an American. Rougier later leased the island from the British government. His adopted son, bearing the same name and residing in France. now holds the lease. Father Rougier renounced the church when reprimanded for {marrying Cecil and a Fijian girl |He died five years ago, still a dominating figure in the Pacific's | fantastic history [ et | Young Canadian | - Girlg Leave Farm | | OTTAWA, Canada, March 31. — Farmers, said R. J. Deachman, legis- | lator, aren’t getting enough money. | He said it loud and long in the | House of Commons here, and be- a nonpartisan way, that the gov- 420’s s, FUN - ing a laissez faire policy as regards the Nazi expansion. - German military strength cannot be accurately estimated because of secrecy shrouding Nazi war machine./ farmers, provide them with a simple cost-accounting system, and| find out exactly what an average farmer did make in a year. In any event, he emphasized, the position of Canadian agriculture | was the most serious factor in Canada’s economic position. It must | be. For didn't the census report| show that there was a decrease in the number of girls of marriageable age living on the farmi? Rain of ! Humor DENVER, Col, March 31.—Some- body started a rumor and the weath- er bureau switchboard was flooded with dozens of calls: The rumor was that when the air corps began practicing with aerial bombs the explosions would | ernmtnt should elect a group of | cause clouds and bring rain. “When the army air corps school in Denver is opened next week will it bring rain?” the callers asked. “Decidedly not,” replied Albert W. Cook, assistant district fore- caster. U. S, Desert Had Its Camels, Too WASHINGTON, March 31. — The geological survey announced recent- ly government scientists had found new evidence of prehistoric life in Death Valley. The discoveries — footprints of camels, pigs, one-toed horses and wading birds—were made by Dr. T. P. Thayer of the geological sur- vey and Donald Curray of the Na- tional Park Service. ATTENTION—— LOCAL 871 HOTEL & RESTAURANT —— EMPLOYEES — [ SPECIAL MEETING TONIGHT UNION HALL——8:30 P. M. 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