The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 26, 1938, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” S S———ra VOL. LI, NO. 7777. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA WORKERS ACCEPT CHENEY PLAN NIPPON ARMY MAKING DRIVE FOR RAILHEAD Chinese Evacuating Area in Vicinity of Strate- gic Suchow JAPS GAIN GROUND IN SAVAGE THRUST Farmers of a;d Earth Are Fleeing According to Shanghai Report SHANGHAI, April 26—Japanesé troops today are driving their wn savagely forward only 12 miles from the East-West Lunghai Railway their objective in the past four months of fighting. It is reported that the entire Su- chow area is being evacuated by Chinese civilians. Japanese spokesmen said an aer- e ial observation showed all road 4 | ey in the sector choked with Chinese | farmers carting their belonging: ¢ southward and westward in appar- ent expectation of a rapid advance of the Japanese upon Suchow. The city of Suchow is located at < # ‘. the strategic junction of the Easi- 3 T West Lunghai Railway and the North-South Tientsin-Pukow Rail- way. ¢ ———-—-eo——— FRANCO'S MEN PUSH FORWARD WITH BIG GUNS snaryve oo eeve | film prn'pecu in Hnllywood- e ALARMED AT WAR DANGER National Defense Bill Intro-| duced—More Arms | Also Requested 1 DOW, JONES AVERAGES der, April 26 —Insurgent forces are front from Albocacer to Alcala De Franco’s troops pulverized the Gov- high explosive bombs from the air.! and De La Plana, important Med-|The Federal Council, which is the e e, ,rope, today sent to the Federal As-| and also increase the <upplv of arms. ![ ——— Premier Chamberlam and | approved of the bill of Senator Ed- ing Circuit Court of Appeals juris- LONDON, April 26—British Pre-| in Islands. Free State, have signed an agree-| | STOCK QUOTATIONS and solve their trade defense dis- | The list was generally below the touch the larger issue of a pam-\ 1were also off fractional. U. 8. Gov- put farm products of Ireland on the | | Closing quotation of Alaska Ju- is believed the two countries have Bethle- Anfl"ler I.allnr ‘General Motors 30%, International United States Steel 44, Cities| | s4.98%. Other mn Cannenes | The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 113.94, SAN FRANCISCO, April 26.—CIO ——— table canneries in an attempt to velop the newly conguered sreesi HENDAYE, Franco-Spanish Bor- reported to have made a general advance all along the coastal battie- Chivert. The wide push forward came after ernment defenses with heavy art- illery fire and bombardment with Dispatches said the Insurgent A army had pushed toward Cmtel]on‘ BERNE, Switzerland, April 26— iterranean seaport 25 miles south Swiss Executive Authority, alarmed | of Castellon. | by the growing war dangers in Eu-| sembly a National Defense bill to GREAT BRITA IN | enlarge the term of military servlce |For Alaska, Vlrgm JHINGTON, Apri 26. — The Senale Judiciary Committee has ward R. Burke, of Nebraska, extend- || President de Valera 1 diction to all cases arising in the Slgn Trade Pad District Courts of Alaska or the Vir- mier Neville Chamberlain and Pres- | AR . ident Eamon de Valera, of the Irish ment intended to end the old en-| itles etween fhe two countries| wpw yopk April 2. — Stocks putes. | remained dull and irregular today. Thy o, Seroepient Ihie Jmever, w‘prekus close. The foreign list of tion of Ireland. bonds drifted lower. Domestic bonds The ct ned yack signad 1s pabefiiea | ernment bonds were easy on small same preferential basis as Great YOUMe: Britain accords h 2 : 7 g, 1‘1 neau mine stock today is 10, Ameri- agreed to abolish retalitory duues‘ can Can 84%, American Light and and will reduce tariffs. | Power 4%, Anaconda 27% hem Steel 47, Commonweanh and | | Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, | Harvester 58, Kennecott 33%, New\ \York Central 12%, Southern Pacific | Flgnt meln service 1%, Bremner no bids asked 2 Fennsylvama Railroad 16, Pound | CIO and AFL to Buck Each! in California down 227; rails 2183, down 26;| g | utilities 1843, down .18. leaders announced today their re-' Japan hopes to obtain American| entry into California fruit and vege- and British capital to help her de-. organize workers in opposition t0 in China, Japanese economists and the AFL. Jomclgh say. 1 |of the staggering rearmament pro- | chequer, DIVIDEND BRITISH GIVEN TOUGH JOLT ON INCOME TAXES Levy Boosted from Twenty- five to Twenty-seven One-half Percent STATEMENT MADE IN BUBGET SPEECH |Extra Revenues Needed for Staggering Armament Program, It Is Said LONDON, April 26—The British Government jolted the Nation to- iay by boesting the income tax from 25 percent to 27% percent. The boost is to help pay the costs gram. B e Sir John Simon, Chancellor of Ex- in his annual Budge IT WAS JUST /\ ] peech before the House of Com- s SIeah A RTER Walk mons, shocked the gathering by an- nouncing the increase in the income shillings to five shull ing six pence. The Chancellor announced fl\’l he Government needs a total four billion seven hundred an: wenty-one million dellars. This sum | an increase of four hundred anc ven million dollars over the pre- vious year. The Chanceller also announced an increase in duties on tea and| oil. AIR MISSION COMESTO U, 8. . T0 BUY PLANES Britishers Arrive in Wash- ington—May Be Heavy Aircraft Purchasers WASHINGTON, April 26.—A Brit- ish Air Mission has arrived here on quest for hundreds of military air- planes to bolster the Royal Air Force. One high authority estimates that | the Mission might purchase 1,000 planes in the United States. The British air experts said they would discuss with both the War land Navy Departments to determine the types of American planes they would be allowed to purchase. The experts said they expected to visit all aviation manufacturing centers while in the United States. HITLER PLANS T0 SWEEP JEW FROM AUSTRIA Drive to Be Made Which Will Force Jewish to Leave Country By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 26. — So thinned out are the ranks of elder statesmen in this country that if Chief Justice Hughes should resign from the Supreme Court now he probably could have the chairman- ship of the group. | In reality there is no such thing as a chairmanship of statesmen but it would be hard to point to any of the remaining sen- jor statesmen who could present | such credentials. o All this develops, of course, out VIENNA, April 26—The Vienna o¢ the death of Colonel House, edition of Chancellor Hitler's news- whose rocket-like career paper said today that a new drive president Wilson's regime gave him will get under way soon to drive the g high rank in history, although in Jews far into the background of the just what Capacity will be known Austrian scene. only a century from now. The newspaper said a four year Within the past year or so death plan will be inaugurated to bar has taken such figures as Newton Jews from the ownership of any D. Baker; wartime Secretary of store or financial institution. State, and now House. Among The article further said that all those remaining are Bernard Ba- actors, physicians, musicians, au- ruch, chairman of the War Indus- thors and composers, will be called tries board in 1917-15; President upon to prove their Aryan ancestry Nicholas Murray Butler of Co- before being allowed to take part in| lumbia—and Hughes. Others could the country’s professional life. | be named, but we have to stop some- The anti-Jew drive will be earried time. out chiefly through Austria’s new Hughes, on a showdown, could Aryan-materials-for-Aryan peoples“polnt. to service Secretary of system under which raw materials State; two periods.on the Supreme will be withheld from Jews. Jewish Court, the second as Chief Justice; owned agricultural lands will be governorship of New York; and a | taken away, forcing the Jews to emi- | presidential nomination | grate. as | | SOUGHT PEACE Doubtless Hughes would have his | eritics, and House had his. Even when House died there were some here who would not comment at all upon the event. Propriety pre- vented their saying anything bad NEW YORK, April 26—The DIr-| gpoyt him and they would not be ectors of the United States Steel caught saying anything good. Corporation at a meeting today de-| House fit and bled trying to lead clared the regular dividend of $1.75 the United States into the League preferred 'stock. of Nations. He said recently in an e ——— the elder | during’ — T TN CUUK INLET MEN VOTE SUPPORT T0 SETTLEMENT |Declare Selwea Willing to Put Faith in Commission v to Get Fair Returns \WALKER URGES ACTION \BY LABOR DEPARTMENT Bristol Bay Packers Hint Cancellation of ( Jperalions Unless Agreement Soon it ¢ an ‘injured” American Airmian Of Air Bumhmgs o o e 1 work to the Siay Held in Japan—May Be Killed fac 1 should have, the price of salmon and cannery erations. The Governor notified pleted the examinats G | Mediato ON NAZI GOOD WILL MISSION to South America, this German plane Dornier Do- No. 18 anchors at Rio de Janeiro after nonstop flight from deck of German plane carrier, Westfalen, off Southampton, England, to Caravellas, Brazil. Flight tock 43 hours and five minutes. Elderly Statesmen of U. S. Are Passing; Many Figures Of Prominence Go to Bo interview that he ‘wrote the first draft of the League, after discuss- ing it generally with President Wilson, Both he and Wilson wers ailing at the time they returned from France to present this new cooperative peace move to the United States. Beside that, Wilson had strangely cooled toward House. It was a sample of the disunion of forces which peace-planning so- cieties experienced so often after- ward that House, about two yeai: ago, set out to do something abou it, although he then was 77 years| old. He brought about a meeting of himself, President Butler of Co- lumbia, Newton D. Baker, and Senators Thomas of Utah and Pope of Idaho, The Senate had just re- jected a further proposal for U. S. ’ adherence to the World court. The five were virtuaily unanimous in the opinion that failure of peace organi- zations in the country to work to- gether was responsible for defea of World court adherence. MONUMENT TO HOUSE Subsequently representatives of the many peace organizations wer- called to a general conference out of which was developed a sort of peace ‘“chamber of commerce.” Tt has been functioning since. House was a sort of patron saint, although he did not attend the conference at which it was formed. All is not peace, even among the | peace societies. They have diver-| gent views on many things but the bulk of them look to a greater par- ticipation by the United States in world affairs as the real hope for peace. They got together suffi- ciently a week or so ago to agree to ben and placed the findings be- Ct fore the Tokyo Court of Appeal for a _decision as to whether to try him on charges of assisting the Chinese Air Force against the Japanese. The decision piv- ots on the question of whether a foreigner can be prosecuted by Japan for an alleged offense committed outside the Japan- ese Empire. YOKOHAMA, April | Gibbon, 27, American avialor, home is in Seattle, Washington, uthorities about his ies with the Chines alieged air foree actiy the Japanese indicated decide whether or not i under the stringen State Department | Implies Japan and \,.m ph taly Bad Anturs‘ v ind law dealir afety aw carri maximum with the leath or life A Friday he rrive e Comm unication Intimates U. S. Frowns on China- | Ethiopia Wars ; Kin China’s theatre of war American consular officials permitted to interview him na Jupan day for the first time. D treaties their operations against Eth mpm ‘and China, respectively. Chairman McReynolds read lt- McLEAN AS dd Cilbbon eor th in ¢ ent 26 implicd t Commi WASHINGTON, April State Department foda the House Foreign A tee, a belief that It l\ violated International ters from Sumner Wells, Acting, ‘nm:re\nrv of State, which cited pre- idus departmental expressions of its views regarding observance of inter- national obligations, { The letter came as a response to | a request for the State Department’s (opinion of the resolution of Rep- | resentative Scott, which asks the ‘Presxdcm to specify what nations in recent years have violated treaties | to which they and the United States | pledged. | After hearing the letter read, House reported the Scott resolution adver- phia Bulletin, has |sely by a unarimous vote and rec- President of Associated Press, omme: ldl'd be tah!ed McLean succeeds Board of Directors Executive Board, Are Chosen at Meeting the; NEW YORK., April 26.—Elwyn whose |in for another grilling by J‘\pmcfle ers’ ¢ When they finish questioning him imprison PRESIDENT . Also Foreign Affairs Committee McLean, President of the Philadel- been eljecte Frank Noyes, y of the acceptance ident fishermen in the Cook In~ wea this morning et previously t on the proposal Loca had | SENTOR WARNS TIME Is SHORY 26 R. Wa > had made that Depar Labor effect a quick tlemes £ present Alaska Cannery Work= pute. kacv said cannery April an the the is by next week \‘(H be can- that ce einent is rea Senator came t ago from Gov W. Troy, with in- He re- t trip to San morning and plans tomorrow telegraphed the Dey to pu ictions turned from 4 Francisco th fly north I have ment, to I more pressure i tarted, Unle omne 10t open Wa tomorrow distr bomb wore PACKERS CONCERNED OVER BRINTOL BAY SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, A 26. Possible of the Bris ol Bay fis 1938 wa hinted by ual La- bor Rela to de termine i at Hed dispute lu(ul Ca ry Work fependent Fili- union Red Sal- a2 Salmon Puckers AFL and an i Association The boats must leave by May 15 26 —Robert to make the necessary preparations for the season,” said B. Baltzer Pet- erson, manager of the Red Salmon Company. Alaska Salmon Company officials d President of the Washington Star, said it is “questionable” whether op- who retired yesterday after serving erations will be continued this year, in that office for 28 3 BASEBALL TODA H. Cowles, of Spokane, The Board of Directors elected W. first Viee, The Alaska Packers spokesman dne to the time lost in labor dis- putes. | President, and Paul Patterson, of merely said that ordinarily, several The following ar played in the two Major this afternoon as received up to 2 o’'clock Leagues sident National League Brooklyn 1; Boston 4 Chicago 5: Pittsburgh 3. for the past year. - seores of games the Baltimore Sun, second Vice Pre- of their vessels have salled by now. Edward D. Matson, attorney for Other officers were reelected, in- the Filipino’s union urged an agree- cluding the Executive Board. Mc- ment, saying: Lean had been first Vice President union send an equal number of - “I propose that each workers to Alaska.” George Anderson, CIO counsel, stump the country for Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade progrgm. I is a sort of first stone in a monu ment they will try to build for House. Philadelphia 8: New York 12. American League York 5: Philadelphia 3. ngton 6: Boston 2 and 10; Chicago 6. New Approximately 94 per cent of the rejected the proposal, and said the electricity in the United States is CTO was the only leslflmnw uniosy, g generated by privately-owned com- in the field. panies which have an invested cap- “If the Filipinos want work, ital of $13,000,000,000, (Continued on Page Two) let )