The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 11, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW S ALL THE TIME” VOL. LI, NO. 7764. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MON DAY, APRIL 11, 1938. — PRICE TEN CENTS CHINESE PLAN " OFFENSIVE IN CENTRAL CHINA Gigantic Drive to Be Under- taken in Effort to Re- capture Nanking NEW VICTORIES ARE GIVING INSPIRATION Strong Defending Force, Awaiting Japanese Thrust, May Change Tactics China, April 11— nders of the defenc ing forces are reported here preparing for a gigantic drive to- wards the Yangtze River in an ef- fort to retake Nanking Reporling new and sweeping vie- tories along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway on the Taierchwang front, the Chinese see the asserted victor- ies as a new inspiration for a new otfensive. A strong Chinese force along the railway awaiting the expected Jap- anese drive northward against Hs chow, is reported ready to change tactics and strike out toward Peng- fu ,about 100 miles north of Nanking. SHANGHAI, Chinese comn JAPANESE RAIDERS STRIKE HANKOW, April 11.—The Tsing- hau University and Hunan Unive sity have been hard hit as the re- sult of Japanese bombing planes raiding Changsha and Hunan Pro- vinces. Reports from Changsha said sev- eral university buildings were des- troyed and 50 students either killed or wounded. §1.5000000000 May Be Spent in Next Few Months White Hou—s——ei(:onference Finds Need for Pump Priming Great WASHINGTON, April 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt and Congressional departmental leaders today agreed that $1,250,000,000 is needed in ap- propriation for work relief during the first seven months of the fiscal year beginning the first of July. WPA alone has compiled a bud- get estimate of a round billion dol- lars which was submitted to Con- gress in January as the need for the entire new fiscal year. The billion and a half to be ap- propriated will be spent in WPA and other relief activities during tius fiscal year. The White House conference also agreed for an additional $50,000,000 to be appropriated for the CCC dur- Engineer Clarence Lovell and Fire flames swept through the cab of their en truck at a Jersey Central grade crossing in Wood The towermar of the truck was severely burned. jammed. Here is a view man Alex Brysett ware kil had hit a gasoline J. The driver ng gates of t after the crash FREIGHT TRAIN JUMPS TRACK:5 MEN ARE HURT Engineer Killed When Loco- motive, 21 Cars Go Off Rails, Burn ATOKA, Okla., man Killed last night wher motive of the Missou Texas southbound freight tramn jumped the track and partialy burned, Fred Miller, of Denison, Texas, the engineer, was killed i el s FIVE BURNED TO DEATH AS AUTOSCRASH Mother and Four Children Die—Father Badly Burned YAKIMA, April 11.—Mrs. Lyman Thew and four of her children were burned to death near here last night when their car caught flire after a smashup. Lyman Thew was repairing the ‘car when a car driven by Marvin Eekins, struck the parked Thew car at high speed. Thew was critically burned April 11.—One and ftive injured cars and a - i, Ka was at- 2 WOMEN FOUND SLAIN, TEXAS ing the next fiscal year to enable yopniing to rescue his screaming\‘ the CCC to maintain its existing 1,250 camps. If the money is not appropriated, three of the camps will be abandoned July 1. Senator Barkley said the propos- ed expenditures would be half “pump priming.” Public Works Administration needs for the year were discussed, but no details of the discussion were released. 5 Billion Dollar Tax Measure to 6o to Conference Senate Bill Passed Far Dif- ferent from One Ap- proved by House WASHINGTON, April 11. — Late last Saturday, the Senate approved without an audible opposing vote, the five billion dollar tax bill de- signed to encourage business. A joint conference committee will now seek to adjust the differences between the Senate measure and the far different House bill. Informed tax authorities said Sen- ator Borah's proposal to tax future securities issues, which was in- family, but managed to pull one of his five children, Ruby, out of the | firey trap while nearby residents| rescued Marvin Eakins and bis | son Bobby, 7, before the Eakins flu-; tomobile also burned. | A, J. B. Thola quenched with a garden hose the flames that lapp- ed Ruby's body, the critically in-| jured child took a look at the pyre and cried: | “Let’s pray. My mother, my sisters and brother are dead.” | Mrs. Thew, Eugene, 6, Helen, 8, Marion, 4, and Douglas, four months, represent the dead list. Witnesses said the Thew car was| standing on the highway in the| thoroughfare and was unlighted. 4 .- | ? . | | sTock @QuoTATIONS | | ¢ ekt o i) | NEW YORK, April 11. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| stock today is 9%, American Can| 84%, American Light and Power | 4%, Anaconda 26'%, Bethlehem Steel | | 46%, Commonwealth and Southern | 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, General | Motors 32, International Harvester | 607%, Kennecott 32%, New York Central 127%, Southern Pacific 12. United States Steel 45, Cities Serv-| |ice 1%, Pound $4.97%, Bremner bid‘ 1%, asked 3, Pennsylvania Rail- road 17%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, | I NANCY EUDORA FROME Mrs., Hazel Frome and her 23- year-old daughter, Nancy, who were recently discovered fiend- ishly murdered near Van Horn, Tex., while enroute from Ber- keley, Cal., to Parris Island, 8.C., to visit Mrs. Frome's mar- ried daughter, Mrs. Benjamin McMakin. Weston G, Frome, husband and father of the dead women, is well known in the San Francisco Bay region and is an executive of the Atlas Powder Company. FAIRBANKS WEDDING Carl E. Mattson, engaged in min- ing at Chatanika, and Miss Betty L. Ross, recent arrival in the inter- serted before the bill passed, will| Jones averages: industrials 11293 |ior from Oakland, Cal, were mar- probably be removed by the confer-| down 239; rails 2248, down .27; ried last week in Fairbanks by the ence committee. ¥ Jutumes 17.83, down .61. Rev. C. P. Shelton, AIDS FOR RAIL SYSTEMS NOW ASKED BY FOR Special Message Sent Con- gress Today—Strong Hint Is Given TON, April ssevelt today, in ked Congress for ‘“‘some immediate legislation” to forestall prospective operating ditticulties for the railroad systems of the Uni- ed States The President made no 3pecific recommendations but gave the leg- islators rong hint however that he believed any long time legisla- tion should provide for incorpora- ion of all executive agencies deal- with transportation in one De- partment, President Roosevelt also sent the report of the three man ICC com- mittee he had and as 1 for a study of the situation. One recommendation was made and that was for $300,000,000 to be made available immediately in Gov- ernment funds to purchase railroad equipment, DR, TOWNSEND LOSES APPEAL, SUPREME COURT Highest Tribunal Refuses to Review Jail and Fine Sentence WASH. dent F message, 11. a Presi- special 11 WASHINGTON, April Dr Francis E. Townsend I tailed, through the Supreme Court, to es- cape a 30-day jail sentence for con- tempt of a House Committee The highest tribunal in the land today refused to review the de- cision of the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Col- umbia which upheld the jail sen- tence also a fine of $100. The Supreme Court consented to review the decision of the Kentucky Court of Appeals which held that the proposed consitutional amend- ment to abolish child labor, is no longer before the states for ratifica- tion, The Supreme Court refused to re- view the litigation in which the Government, is seeking a ruling on the constitutionality of the Bank- head cotton production control act FRANCE, ITALY PLANNING GET TOGETHER NOW New Government of Pre- mier Daladier Is to Fol- low British Policy PARIS, April 11.—Quick eft to end the differences with Italy is predicted in Parliamentary guarters where the new Government oi Pre- mier Daladier is said to be planning to fall fully in line with the Britisn Conciliatory policy. It is reported in high quarters that an extraordinary envoy will be sent to Rome promptly to discuss a set- tlement of problems disturbing the relations of France and Italy. Discussions, it is said, will follow the British negotiations for Italian iriendship and understanding of problems, primarily the question re- garding the warfare in Spain and recognition of the Italian conguest in Ethiopia. 11 ARE KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENTS PASTTWO DAYS 4 CHICAGO, Il April “.—ACCF'; dents of the highways of the Na-| tion over the weekend killed at| least 71 according to tabulations made by the Associated Press. } Four deaths resulted in a single collision in Florida where an auto mobile with Georgia residents, crashed into a moving freight train Tweo hundred members of the Washinglon Commonweaiih Federati walk demonstration at a downtow delegaticn was admitted to the of ‘Doors Are Clo Of St. James U. S. Citizen WHITNEY GIVEN 5 T0 10 YEARS, ERAND LARCENY Bankrupt f%mior. Former President N. Y. Stock Exchange, Sentenced Richard and for York NEW YORK, April 11 Whitney, bankrupt broker n President the Stock Exchange was tenced to serve from years in prison for grand larc Whitney pleaded guilty to indictments charging first degree nd larceny in misuses of secur- ities entrusted to his care by the New York Yacht Club and also his family. Judge Owen Bohan Whitney. five to ten ye indictment, the sentences concurrently. Whitney took the judge calmly. He will serve sentence in Sing Sing Prison Charles Tuttle, Whitney’s attor- ney, made a long plea for leniency District Attorney De recom- mended a “substantial | tence.” Under time off and be- havior, Whitney can his sentence in about threc ahd one- half years. t five y ten 1y two sentenced rs on each to run the word of ve sen- good complete e AMERICANS DYING FOR SPANIARDS Many Internationals Are Wounded in Fighllng Around Barcelona BARCELONA, April 11—Many Americans are among 300 wounded International fighters brought to Government Spain’s capital here aboard a hospltal train. The fourteen car train included four cars that were filled with wounded on stretchers. Besides the Americans there are many Brittons, Canadians and Spaniards. MOROS KEEP UP FIGHTING MANILA, April 11.—Eleven Mor- os have been killed and one Phili- ppine Constabulary private wounded in a renewal of fighting in the Lanac Province, n office in Seattle e to present a profest. Some of th »d to Court for Some of s; Kennedy Acts WASHINGTON eph P. Kennedy bassador Great Britain, ha of the Court of James to American women who merely visiting London, Ambassador Kennedy has written to-Benator Henry Cabot Lodye publican consider ti ADi Americar to o the t d doors Ambas: small of American ecting each year numb young ladies “from list of 2 |very few, if any whom the Ambas ador n Accordir Ambas Ken- nedy has concluded to contine pre- sentations of only milie of American officials in Eng and members of American familie domiciled in England AP L Reoroanization Plan Scrapped, Is !LMniun Now A long 1« ha evet tho: 1 Administration HasNo Def- inite Plans to Revive Defeated Issue WASHINGTON. administration . author that President Roosevelt initely scrapped plans for ment reorganization. White House officlals admitted that the Chief Executive was deep- v disappointed at the House action in defeating the bill. The Presi- dential aides said that Mr. Roose- velt seemed non-plussed and very reluctant to discuss the House rebellion. The President did, however, dis- cuss the bill with the man who successfully piloted reorganization legislation through the Senate, Sen- |ator Byrnes of Mississippi. Upon |leaving the White House, Senator Byrnes told newsmen that the ad- ministration has no definite plans to revive the issue. President Roosevelt sought to close the breach in the House Democratic ranks caused by the embittered debate over the reor- ganization measure. The President sent a letter to Majority Leader Rayburn and told him that he did not want any personal recrimina- tions against the Democrats who repudiated his leadership and kill- ed the bill, The tone of the letter was quite in contrast to the words that the President used after the Senate lapproved the reorganizaton bill. At that time, the President declared that the Senate vote proved that the upper House could not be pur- chased by organized telegrams bas- ed on misrepresentations. All in all, it is generally con- ceded that government reorganiza- Ition is dead. House leaders have started feeling out the Representatives in an effort to determine whether the revolt was merely against the reorganiza- (Continued on Page Seven) 11.—High disclose def- govern- April h in protest of sci BN groups staged a sid rap iron shipments he participants AUSTRIA VOTES T0 UNITE WITH NAZI CERMANY Two Countries Give Hitler ’l‘l‘(’lllcndous APP l'OVal for Annexation to Japan. A wre pictured above. April Ch than 99 perce »proval of his n of Austria in an official ld Sunday in both Ger- stria Germany voted in tavor of the annexation by 48,700,- 000 and only 450,000 against Austria herself voted 4 annexation only 11 The affirmation vote an intense campaign to win a popu- ir demonstration to support Ger man BERLIN, yave ncellor nnexs plebiscite he man h and expansion Chancel Hitler, as soon as the was announced, broadcast that hour the proudest of my life . Votin, orderly. Jews were not permitted to parti- ate Nazi rousing morning, lor vote this i was ci designated officials began at 7 o'clock Sun- reminding them to idents day vote Thou ried to porta 1ds of the poll ballot for bed bedridden were car- on stretchers and boxes W taken those il o re to hospital too leave Iy picke their voter Reich, 0 elected Hitlex's HITLER, IN FINAL PLEA GIVES WORLD WARNING VIENNA, April 11.—Last Satur- day night, Chancellor Hitl in his final speech of the referendum campaign on the union of Germany and Austria, served a warning on the world that Germany has re- armed in order assert herself. The German leader indicated plain- ly his belief that he was a direct Commissioner from God to unite Austria with Germany. The Fuehrer defied the world to starve Germany into submission. aid Hitler: “I do not intend that German people shall capitulate o foreign countries, If the world (Continyed on Page Six) ,ee - NAZIS SCORE POLL VICTORY ON HIGH SEAS Genllal S a“d /\U.\'h’yians GO Outside Albion Limits to Vote TILBURY, England, April 11.—A gay, beer drinking crowd of Ger- mans and Austrians aboard the German steamer Wilhelm Gustloff, voted 1968 to 10 in favor of an Austro-German union The vote was cast in the English Channel outside the three mile limit, |by German and Austrian nationals |living in England L » Labor . Collector of Customs at Seattle, < COMMISSION PLAN BELIEVED AS SOLUTION Propose Operations to Re- sume on ‘Best Scale’ with Adjustment Season End SENATOR WALKER AIDS IN DRAFTING OF PLAN Commissioner Bell Also En- ters Controversy in Se- attle to Help Agreement SEATTLE, April 11.—Basis for a settlement of the Alaska salmon dis- pute has been worked out by tive negotiators and awaits ratification by the Fishermen's Union and the salmon packers. Joseph Cheney, Federal Mediator, announced ceptance of the plan late last night, He said that details remained to be settled but said he was confident it would be ratified by both factions The plan provides that the work- ers would assume their duties at the “best scale” offered by the pack- ers, providing 10 to 20 per cent cut trom last year, but higher than the 1936 scale. A three-man fact-find- ing commission would be appointed which would ascertain whether the packers are representing the true tacts in asserting they could not afford to pay iast ye: scale. The Commission would report at the end of the present season and the find- ings would be accepted by both sides. Up To Commission Cheney said that if the Commis- sion finds the packers are correct n "the wages offered they would determine up to certain limits how much additional wages would be paid. The Cheney Frank Walker Alaska; ac- proposal dratted by Fisherie Commissioner T. Bell, Senator Norman R. of Ketchikan, representing Ernest P. Marsh, Federal Conciliator, and Saul Haas, was “I am assured that as far as physically and financially possible all salmon operations in Alaska will be resumed,” Cheney said Presents Alaska Viewpoint Senator Walker arrived here to assist Cheney and Bell in the dis- pute. Bell entered the negotiations last night predicting a settlement shortly. Walker said Gov. John W. Troy was alarmed and that a settle~ ment must be reached shortly or it would be too late to operate. “A prolonged delay would be an economic death sentence for Al- aska as 80 per cent of the revenues of the Territory come from the fisheries,” Senator Walker said. r the fisheries were not operated this year it would be a great economic loss, the spawning grounds would be over-seeded causing depletion of the tollowing le. Over-seeding is al- ways followed by depletion within the next two ye: . iR Lo L Y Nenana Ice Is Almost 4 Ft. Thick Ice on the Tanana River at Ne= nana still is nearly four feet thick —approximately the same as it was six weeks ago. Reports from Nenana today, says the Fairbanks News-Miner of last Friday, were that the average thick- s is only a fraction of an inch less than four feet despite thawing weather. The daily melting of snow on the ice forms a slush which freezes at night. To date, the ice has not showed of rotting. The jce is firm, with no open water on the surface of the ice sheet. The snow has melted from the river banks, and the hills across the river from Nenana are almost bare of snow, sign ANDERSON TO TALK ON GARDENING FOR J.W.C. BROADCAST Foremost authority on Alaskan plants, J. P. Anderson will be the speaker on the Juneau Woman's Club radio program tomorrow at 5 pam., giving a 15-minute talk on Spring gardening. Mr. Anderson will discuss what should be planted and when, in the discussion which is presented through the American Home De~ partment.