The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1938, Page 1

VOL. LIL, NO. 7801. R p—— e s oo AN L L A A AR R A A A A L e s s A HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS B PRICE TEN CENTS PRISON BREAK FRUSTRATED, ALCATRAZ TROUBLE BRENS ANEW IN LANDS OF MID-EUROPE Tension Increases as Nazi Troops Found Still Gathering PRAHA, May 24.—Reports of new troop movements on the German side of the Czechoslovakian southern frontier, combined with the result- ant effect of peace talks here be- tween Premier Hodza and Konrad Henlein, have brought gloom again to this country after the optimism vesterday, following Central Eu-| rope’s critical weekend. Konrad Henlein considers himself spokesman for three and one half million Germans, representing a strong minority in Czechoslovakia. Hodza is Premier and diplomatically at swords points with the minority Nazi-leaning group. In official quarters, reports circu- lated yesterday of withdrawal of German troops from the border area were minimized today when it became known that the German troops had only withdrawn a short distance. | Nazi forces withdrew only in Sax-| ony and fell back a distance of 20| miles, while on Czechoslovakia’s frontier facing Austria, the Nazi| concentration of troops has actu- ally increased. | ‘The sudden departure of Konrad | Henlein from Praha, caused sus-| pension of his negotiations with Beauty and the Wolfhounds A trio of beauties is fair-haired Anne Bowman, of Bryn Mawr, Pa., and Russian wolfhounds, Zorina, left, and Lady Ladogo, owned by Mrs. C. M. Peabody, of Mapleshade, N. J. The dogs were judged best of breed in their class at the 19th annual dog show of the Bryn Mawr Kennel Club. INFLEXIBILITY Two Are Killed Premier Hodza on the dangerous . issues between his sudeten German | ; | s n Ice ue party and the Czechoslovakian gov- ernment. | News of this diplomatic breach co- | incided with reports tat sudeten| Germans are demanding withdraw- al of Czechoslovakian troops mobil-‘ jzed over the weekend in sudeten | districts. | Praha officials indicated continu- ance of peace talks between major- | ity and minority leaders had be-| come “difficult.” | | U. S. SUPPORT ASKED | PARIS, May 24.—Foreign Office spokesman announced that France has asked the United States “to| support the French and British ef- | forts to prevent war arising as the | result of the German-Czech ten-| sion. BERING SEA IS COVERED WITH JAPAN FISHERS Capt. Shields Wites. Infor- mation — Asks Arms Shipment Be Sent SEATTLE, May 24.—Capt. John E. Shields, master of the codfis! schooner Sophie Christiansen Bering Sea has wirelessed the Pac- ific Coast Codfish Company thit “Bering Sea is covered with Japan- ese fishing boats and nets north of the Black Hills and there are no| cutters around. We have a God in- stinct to shoot straight. Please ship one dozen high powered rifles and| plenty of ammunition.” Capt. Shields «also asked that the same armament be sent to the com- pany’s schooner Charles R. Wilson Furnace Blows Up; 4 Men Are Fatfly Burned Explosion Occurs in Re- search Laboratory in Michigan City MIDLAND, Mich., May 24. — Four men were killed, fatally burned, in an explosion of a furnace in the Dow Research Laboratory. Molten metal sprayed over those near the furnace when it exploded during an experiment. The four men who died are John Hoy, Paul Reynolds, George ‘Weide- man and Phillip Ktysminski. Three others were seriously burned and taken to a hospital. —e,e—— Capitol of the republic of Andor- ra is Andorra, a village of about 700 population. & DEFEATED BADLY Coalition Crushes Determ- ined Efforts of Southern Bloc to Change Bill WASHINGTON, May 24—A coal- ition of Republicans and Northern Democrats crushed a determined Southern attempt to inject gre: inflexibility into the revamped wa es and hours bill by an overwhei- ming majority. The coalition rejected the subs- titute offered by Representative Robert Ramspeak of Georgia which would have permitted the establish- ment of wage differentials between industries or geographical areas. The substitute lost by a vote of 139 to 70, a standing vote The proposal would have estab- lished a graduated minimum wage based on “weighed average” in in- dividual occupations, also created an Administrative Board with power to grant exemptions, thus in effect the making of variations in wages possible between the north and south or between industries. e NAVY MAN REPORTED BADLY INJURED IN SITK A DISTURBANCE One Navy enlisted man is reported to be in the hospital in Sitka in a serious condition and another man is in jail following a disturbance in a beer parlor in Sitka, according|y,ng“ore. virgil Heath of the same | Proke out of the enclosure. to word brought here today. The Navy man is reported to have been hit by a policeman’s club during the ruckus with such force that his life| is said to be in grave danger. Just who was wielding the club was not definitely ascertained, but it was re- ported to be a specially deputized marshal. All Navy shore leave is reported to have been cancelled in Sitka, it is reported, and feeling is said to be running high. B el UL 70 i ST | BASEBALL TODAY L The following are scores of base- ball games played this afternoon in the two major leagues as received up to 1:30 o'clock: National League St. Louis 4; New York 9. Cincinnati 9; Boston 10. Chicago 10; Brooklyn 4. American League Washington 3; Chicago 10. New York 5; Cleveland 9. DR. SONIA CHEIFETZ LEAVES FOR SITKA Dr. Sonia Cheifetz, acting direc- tor of maternal and child health, is leaving aboard the Northland this evening for Sitka. The trip is being made in cannection with her work. . . Junior Auxiliary, Spanish War Veterans i | Labor Leader Is Arrested. —Angered Crowd Faces Bayonets KINGSTON, Jamaica, May 24— Mrs. Louise Thomas, and her son Stanley, 10, were killed today when .| police opened fire on a crowd as two d of disorder, growing ouf of strikes, came to a head. Alexander Bustamente, generally considered the leader of Jamaican labor, was arrested by a party of 15 policemen Thousands of people thronged the area before the jail in which Busta.- mente was confined, and when they became threatening, were dispersed at the point of policemen’s bay-| onet’s. HEINTZLEMAN ON WAY NORTH FROM WASHINGTON TRIP B. F. Heintzleman, Regional For- ester, left Washington last night on his return to his headquarters here and will sail from Seattle for the North next Saturday, according| |to word to the Forest Service office. | The official has been in the national | capital several weeks in connection with Forest Service matters. He also announced in his com-| | municatio to his headquarters of- |fice today the addition of Arthur | Hodgman, Junior Forester at Port- |rating at Portland, to the Alaska, staff. Both will be located at Ketchi- | kan under District Ranger C. M.| | Archbold, Hodgman as a Scaler :"Ji | Heath as Forest Ranger. 'KELSEY TO ANCHORAGE ‘[ON SCHOOL BUILDING | Louis D. Kelsey, Resident En- gineer-Inspector for the Public Works Administration, is sailing on the Yukon tonight for Anchorage | ‘wheru he will supervise for PWA }.the construction of the new school | building there. He will be in An- chorage the rest of this year at | least. B — DIMMITT HERE FEW DAYS Roy Dimmitt, representative of the Vocational Education division of the Office of Education in Wash- ington, who came north recently in connection with a checkup on voca- tional education possibilities in the Territory, expects to remain in Ju- neau probably until the first of the week, after returning fo Juneau from Fairbanks where he attended the Board of Education meeting last week. ———e— SIDES TO FAIRBANKS Deputy Collector of Customs M. H. Sides left by PAA plane this after- noon for Fairbanks on official busi- ness for the Customs office. MEMORIAL DAY [Japanese 0BSERVANGE " ile China ARRANGEMENTS [~ Legion Ceremonies to Be Held at Elks’ Hall at 10:30 A. M. Monday Plans were completed for the Memorial Day observance here next | Monday at a meeting of the Mem- orial Day committee of Alford John Bradford Post, American Legion, last night in the Dugout. The program will start in the Elks Hall promptly at 10:30 Memorial | Day morning with the regular Le-| gion memorial ceremony being pre- sented. Superintendent of Schools A. B. Phillips will be speaker for the occasion and Mrs. Lola Mae Alex- ander will be the vocalist. | Lieut. Comdr. N. G. Ricketts of | the Haida has assured the Legion| that his men will participate in the celebration, providing a color guard | and firing squad as well as a com- | plement of men. After the ceremonies in the hall, the various groups taking part will march to the Cold Storage on Frank- lin, thence to the dock and along the waterfront to the Alaska Steam- ship Company dock where ceremon- ies will be held for the sailor dead From that point, the line of march | will be up Seward Street to Fourth and thence to Calhoun and out to Legion plot in Evergreen Cemetery | where the closing tribute to the war dead will be paid. | Leading the line of march will be the Color Guard, followed by the| Haida escort, with the other units falling in as follows: City Band,| Legion Auxiliary, Legion| THIS AREA ENLARGED ON. ADJOINING MAP | Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Sons -of | Legion, Legionnaires, Fraternal or-! ganizations and such other groups as may wish to participate, followed by cars. SPANISH CIVIL WAR SEE-SAWS | ON WIDE FRONT Nine Hundred Loyalists Es- cape in Pamplona | Prison Rioting «drove through China, Result: The Results: munist guerrilla raids behind her weeks. FRISCO FLEET MAKING READY HENDAYE, May 24.—The Loyal- ist offensive on the Lerida-Bela- guer front has developed into some | of the heaviest fighting in the two- | year-old Civil War. i The little village of Larepita has | struck » War Engine Struck Snag, Temporar Blow, Nation’s Self-Def P O NN 1. Japan, attempting now to close the gap between her northern and southern congues stopped in her tracks—even thrown back from China’s “Hindenburg line” north of the Lunghai railway. 2. In the northwest, Japan's drive to cut off Soviet supplies to China has been hampered by Com- own lines. China is putting up a better fight than most people thought she had in her. fall of Suchow, in the important railroad area where the Chinese staved off the Japanese for several But the war is not over yet. N ew Crop Law Makes Slide Rule Just Farm Implement | By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, May 24. — When the back to the farm movement | starts, we will be absent because our | mathematics, while thorough, is slow and we would not be able to work out MANCHOUKUO (Conquered by Japan in 193% )uP Last summer Japan's military machine rolled down upon China from the north, and most people | evounted it a matter of months until the Japanese would take what they wanted—as they always had before. .. Down the north-south railways from Peiping and up the Yangtze River from Shanghai the Two separated Japanese-conquered areas—one comprising most of five northern provinces; one along the Yangtze from Shanghai to Nanking. , after the fall of Nanking on December 13, China struck back. has been Latest reports tell of the JAPAN ARMIES MAKE ADVANCE CENTRAL CHINA changed hands eight times since Sunday as opposing forces success- ively attacked to gain the impor-| tant bridgehead. { Insurgent dispatches admitted the Loyalist drive had met with some success, but claimed Loyalist losses were heavy. The Insurgent push on the Tereul | front has advanced three miles to | ers planted 49,000,000 acres which | | produced 2,600,000,000 bushels. That, | the department computes, is 350,- ‘000.000 bushels more than we can [em or sell abroad. So the plan was| adopted of reducing the present |year’'s plantings so the country El Castellar, while behind the lines, e | would produce 350,000,000 mushels Insurgents were pushing a wide SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 24— |less than it needs—so that the corn, manhunt, seeking 900 Loyalist of- | Ships of the salmon fleet made ready | canned over, added to the amount| ficers and men who mobbed the t0day to sail as the eleven unions grown, would just equal what we Pamplona prison camp guard and involved in the industry, and the can eat and sell. Eleven Unions Signing Up with Packers for 1938 Salmon Season that Toward Kaifeng, Stra- tegic Defense Point |our soil conservation contract in re o T AIL NURTHI time to get at the fall plowing }lnvadels Reported Moving | Take corn. Last year the farm-| SHANGHAI, May 24.—The Japa- nese advance in Central China 1is reported to be rolling on toward Kaifeng, Capital City of Honan Province, 40 miles east of the impor- tant rail junction of Chengchow. Kaifeng is a strategic defense point and is surrounded by dikes. ‘The population of about 250,000 is reported to have already evacuated ily. GUARD BEATEN ense BY 3CONVICTS, ISLAND PRISON Long Termers Hammer Man Brutally in Attempt to Gain Freedom IMAKE WAY TO ROOF; | WOUNDED BY SHOTS Stabber of Al Capone Makes | Second Try to Gain His Liberty | BULLETIN-SAN FRANCIS- €O, May 24—Convict Limerick | is dead as the result of a wound | in the head received in the at- tempted prison break. Guard Cline is still unconsei- cus and his condition is eriti- cal, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 24, —Warden James A. Johnston, of Alcatraz Prison, reports that Prison Guard R. C. Cline was brutally beat- en and wounded, and convicts Thomas R. Limerick and Rufus Franklin, wounded by rifle fire, in an attempt of the pair, and also convict'James C. Lucas, to escape. The trio attacked Cline with a hammer, then climbed to the roof and attempted to surprise the guard there, who shot them. Limerick is serving a life sen- tence for kidnaping and bank rob- | bing. | Lucas and Franklin are serving 30 years for a bank robbery. Lucas was once sent to solitary confinement for stabbing Al Capone with'a pair of scissors. 3 ICKES SPRINGS REAL SURPRISE; WEDS IN DUBLIN |Secretary of Interior, 64, | Announces Marriage to | Jane Dahlman, 24 | | WASHINGTON, May 24—Harold | L. Ickes, 64, Secretary of Interior, |Sprung a surprise today by cabling |from Dublin that he married Jane | Dahlman, 25, of Milwaukee, Wis- | consin, at the Adelaide Road Pres- byterian Church at 9 am. toady, Dublin time. Only a few intimates knew that he had gone from Washington and few- | er still knew that he left the country, 50 secretive was his sailing on the Normandie from New York on May 18. Employees in his own press sec- tion were under the impression the Secretary was in his office down the hallway. The new Mrs. Ickes, is the Secre- tary’s second wife, a niece of John Cudahy, United States Minister in Dublin, who she is visiting. She is also a sister of Mrs. Limarth Ickes, widow of the Secretary’s step-son | packers, met to sign contracts for| The department computed GERMAN PLANE SEIZED, FRANCE METZ, May 24—A German mili- tary training plane has been seized by the French authorities when forced down in French territory after flying over France's Maginot line of steel and concrete fortifica- | the 1938 season. | A verbal accord was reached late | yesterday and the unions and the| packers expect that all contracts| will be signed this afternoon. | More than 3,000 men are expected |to sail for the north as fast as ships can be loaded. Many of the ships | have steam up already and supplies aboard. FREIGHTER HITS 1 tions. The crew of three, when they landed, said they became lost in 4| storm. | ——————— JAP SILK LINER | sTock QuoTaTions | Slight Fog, Confusing Pass-| ¢ el onaictaad o' L A bl — ing Signals, Blamed NEW YORK, May 24. — Closing o Accid quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| or Accident stock today is 9%, American Cm:‘ 86%, American Light and Power| SAN PEDRO, Cal, May 24—The 5%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel | Mitsul Line motorship Arimasan, 43%, Commonwealth and Southern |the 500-foot silk liner, was struck 1%, ‘Curtiss Wright 4%, General Mo- | #midships in the outer harbor by tors 28%;, International Harvesm.-ilhe freighter Walter A. Luckenbach. 51%, Kennecott 30%, New Yorx Damage estimated at $100,000 was Central 11%, Southern Pacific 11%, done to the Japanese ship which United States Steel 417%, Cities Ser- | W8S ¥ipped open below the water- vicé 9%, Pound $4.95 3/16. ‘ ne., The Luckenbach four DOW, JONES AVERAGES | Plates. The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 112.35, rails 21.43, utilities 18.78. sprung fog and confusion of passing sig nals, The aceident is blamed to a slight | | 40,000,000 acres would produce the desired amount, a cut of 9,000,000 acres below last year. the corn belt went the order to cut acreage 20 percent. That sounds very simple, for if a farmer last year had 40 acres in corn he could plant 32 acres this year and put the rest in beans or catnip. It does not work out so simply. ill()OM FOR ARGUMENT | First, it should be understood that the farmer is paid for abiding by the regulations. His farm is assigned a quota of corn, based on how much corn he has grown in the past, the | kind of land he owns, the kind of | farming he has done and how much | tillable acreage he owns. That leaves room for differences of opinion When the quota is determined, the farmer is promiséd 10 cents a bushel of “benefits” if he ‘“co- operates” or abides by regulations. Moreover, he is promised a gov- ernment loan on his crop. Suppose his quota for his 40-acre farm is 30 bushels an acre or 1,200 bushels. His benefits then will be $120. But if he decides that maybe the market price this year will be good, he may want to plant five acres more than his 32-acre allow- ance. Go to it, says the Depart- ment of Agriculture, but reduce your benefits by 50 cents a ushel. Five acres, times 30 bushels "7 (Continued on Page Five) 8o out tol the city. | who died in 1936. The bride is des- e |cribed as red-haired and beautiful. | The first Mrs. Ickes, the former HUHSE BAGE |Anna Thompson, was killed in an | automobile accident near Sante, New Mexico, three years ago. They GALLED UFF married in 1911, | —— CRA NEW YORK, May 24.—The $100,- | SH H E A HI N s 000 match race scheduled for next Monday between War Admiral and| UPENS BURBA Seabiscuit, leading rivals for horse | 1] it will This followed a tement by Charles Howard, Seabiscuit’s owner, who re- ported the colt was not in fit con- dition. g - WANTS $40,00 AS COMMISSION LOS ANGELES, Cal, May 24— racing honors, has been called off.| Federal Probe Starts Into | Accident Which Took Toll of 9 Lives BURBANK, Cal, May 24—The | Federal hearing into the crash of the airliner last week in which nine lives were lost, opened here today with Robert I. Hazen, Sr., Airline Inspector for the Department of Commerce, heading the Investigat- | ing Board. Capt. W. B. Hall, claiming to be the| The Cororner's jury has already only survivor of the original La- Fayette Escadrille, has renewed his suit for $40,000 commission from the Douglas Aireraft Corporation. The suit is renewed in the Federal Court. Hall claims his commission for selling 20 planes to the Chinese Government in 1931. The company avers there is only $3,000 due. blamed the crash to the faulty Jjudgment of the pilots and recom- mended that all planes fly over 1,000 feet above the mountain rang. es. _————— The great seal of the United | States was used for the first time {on Sept. 16, 1782.