The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 21, 1938, Page 1

I ! HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL, THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIL, NO. 7903. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CZECHS FORCED TO BOW, ALL DEMANDS JUNEAU VOTERS APPROVE PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS All Five Pr;i;OSltiOI]S Given | Endorsement at Special Election ‘ TOP-HEAVY SUPPORT, | HARBOR FACILITIES Sewer Work to Be Under- taken Immediately, - Mayor Announces Casting 499 vores, cuneau tax- payers yestercay approved the five bond issue propositions presented at the special election, giving in all instances more than the 65 percent | endorsement required by law. The vote was approximately 50 percent | of the eligible voters on the tax roll | The City Council will meet in| special session tonight to canvass the vote and make formal notice of the acceptance of the Public Works Administration grant and loan, Mayor Harry I. Lucas said. Work on the sewers will be undertaken immediately, he said, or just as soon as specifications are approved by PWA engineers here and bids can be called for, which is expect- ed to take about two weeks. Pav- OCONNOR IS | LOSER, DEMO NOMINATION Roosevelt Scores Partial | Victory in His Last Four Starts Hines Case Called | Mistrial REPRESENTATIVE TO | RUN, G. O. P. TICKET Curley Comes Back in Mas- | sachusetts—LaFollette ‘ Has Big Lead (By Associated Press) | The defeat of Representative John O’Connor for the Democratic | renomination jn New York gives| | President Franklin D. Roosevelt his first and only victory in his per- | sonal campaign against four Demo- | cratic legislators. The sole triumph | is not complete however because O'- ‘Connux' will be on the November ballot, having won the Republican | | nomination by 1,000 votes over Allen | | W. Dulles, former State Depart- ment aide. O'Connor lost the Democratic| nomination to James H. Fay, New Dealer. O'Connor is chairman of the pow-| erful House Rules Committee. He attributes his defeat to election dis- honesty and hinted today he will| Aoreement Near Germany's Biggest Guns—ss Seen in Nazi Papers | 771 £'NATION - GIVES UP FOR - SAKE OF PEACE Pressure Is Brought to Bear | by Great Britain and France \OFFICIAL STATEMENT MADE THIS EVENING Territory to Be Ceded— Prague Crowds Listen in Silence to Decree PRAGUE, Sept. 21. — The Czechoslovakian G overnment announced at 7:25 o'clock to- night, acceptance of the Brit- ish-French plan of meeting peace terms of Adolf Hitler, Nazi Chieftain. News came to the Czecho- slovaks by radio broadcasts car- ried by loud speakers on the streets of Prague. Premier Hodza issaed the communique, saying :“Our friends, to whom we have been attached for 20 years, have advised us to secure peace by naming territorial sacrifices. | CZECHS TURNED DOWN “Czechoslovakia suggested a | settlement by judgment of an Internativnal Court but the sug- Modern “Big Bertha” on parade barrel 25 feet in length and possesses a range of | about 20 miles, reminiscent of the “Big Bertha” which shelled Paris during the World war, firing | shells a distance of 75 miles. Although press dispatches told of confiscation of pictures of Germany's biggest guns outside the Reich, newspapers in Berlin were permitted to use them as this picture shows. This giant gun has a “Little Hitle.rs” DotEl;:});anPEKflE PRAYERS rMap as Minorities Gof {Vam ' ARE REQUESTED 'BY POPE PIUS By WILLIAM McGAFFIN AP Feature Service Writer LONDON, Sept. 21.—A group of, college students, burlesqueing tiwe | dictators, marched down the Strand ing probably will not be undertaken until spring, but the other work will be done as soon as possible Preference to Local Labor | The Mayor said that local labor would be given first opportunity on all the jobs and that contractors would be asked to give preference to Juneau workmen. It is anticipat- ed that the public works projects will provide jobs for many local residents during the winter months. ___ Results of yesterday’s election on IV’s the Indepen A pert and cocky Jimmy Hines is the five propositions follow: (1) Issuing $48400 in bonds for terminal facilities at the small boat 7y ~ harbor—461 in favor and 30 op- W,“) I{ll()(uts posed. (2) Issuing $65,800 in bonds for regrading and paving—387 in favor and 91 opposed (3) Issuing $5,000 in bonds sidewalks—400 in favor and against. (4) Issuing $19,200 in bonds for sewer sconstruction—404 for and 76 against. (5) Issuing $3,000 in bonds for purchase of right of ways—370 in favor and 99 against. Streng For Boat Harbor Of the total vote of 499 cast it was necessary to have 325 in favor on each project for approval. All pro- 5 jects received the necessary major- Indicated ity, most of them by a wide mar- i gin. The vote on the small boal! gprCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 21— harbor facilities was especially P pyigencing the proposed permanen- heavy in favor, only 30 vuyas bol_“‘i cy of the Alaska-Seattle air serv- cast against the undertaking. Bids ;.. which route is now being tested have been called by the WAr De- |} iyeen Seattle, Ketchikan and Ju- PRERELY §0 ‘BiNTy construc?xon o neau, the Pan American Airways breakwaters at the harbor site, Just|,nnounces that a permanent man north of the Douglas Island bridge| wi o stationed here s airport on the mainland side, returnable ,;aper Emmerson Bassett, October 6, and it is expected the o peen with the Pacific Alaska work will start immediately there-| py.wqvs at Fairbanks for the past sileh 3 ; five years, has arrived and will be PWA money is available for all i (ioned here the projects with the exception of ppj| Berst, Maintenance Superin- the small boat harbor terminal fa- tengent of the Pan American, who cilities, the improvements having ;.5 peen here in connection with been approved by the Federal gov-| e present test flights, leaves here ernment on the usual 55-45 per-| witnin the next three weeks. cent basis. The city puts up 55 per- = >0 cent of the cost and the govern- UNFA IR LI sT for T PAN AMERICAN PUTS MANAGER AT KETCHIKAN neau Air Service Now ment 45 percent. Application for a similar arrange- ment has been made to PWA for, the terminal facilities and favor- able action is anticipated in view of the action of Juneau's t‘.axpayem no = definite | yesterday, although word has yet been received, the IS ANNUUNGED Mayor said. | . S | Alaska Association Now at | Odds with Pacific Coast Fishermen’s Union Cannot Escape Hillbilly Music Even in Alaska ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. | 21.—Tom Hunter, unsuccessful candidate in the Texas guberna- torial nomination, ran into mountain music here he was seeking to avoid. Hunter was defeated by Lee O’Daniel, hill- billy crooner who sang mountain music while campaigning. Hunter came here on a fish- ing trip and disembarked from the train while the Anchorage City Band, welcoming the tour- ists, played “I Like Mountain Music.” KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 21.— Eddie the Alaska Trollers which body is affiliated with the Alaska Trollers Association mem- bers at the meeting in Sitka voted to place the Pacific Coast Fisher- | mens’ Union members, who are CIO, on the unfair list. No reason is given for the action. Buyers of troll caught salmon in iSoulhensv. Alaska are advised to re- fuse fish caught by the Pacific Coast Fishermens’' Union. Harvard astronomers announce that they have found a tempera- ture drop 1500 degrees between| rp. Free City of Danzig was the surface of the sun and its oVer-| created under the treaty of Ver- lying atmosphere. Lsailles to furnish a port for Poland. Permanency of Seattle-Ju-| who Word received here from Sitka, from | 2 { are ny states in which a voter Sukow, Acting Secretary of‘,an many.sta Association, | Sailors Union of the Pacific and-/has | g 5 e gets either a joint ballot, both bal- AFL tendencles, announcing thatiy,i; or whatever ballot he asks for. shown with his wife just before he entered court in New York to hear Supreme Court Justice Ferdinand Peccra grant a defense motion for a mistrial in the state’s case against the Tammany district leader on conspiracy-lottery charges in connection with the Dutch Schultz policy racket.—AP Photo. dent Voter U. S. Presidents | P s | By MILO M. THOMPSON Chief of the Washington Bureau of The Associated Press (Guest columnist for Preston Grover) WASHINGTON, Sept. 21. — If John M. Hamilton, the Republican il\a(mnnl chairman, was wrought up | |over what he called the “strange argument of President Roosevelt,”| head of the Democratic party, in behalf of political morality at the primaries, what of the typical prac- tical politicians of either party who are not party leaders? Their job, as they will tell you| and have told us, is not to deter- mine rights and wrongs but to get| things done politically. To them, | the high morality involved lies in not | the rightness of objectives, | methods. Theirs is the task of influencing | public opinion and getting out the | | vote. They try to make news, to| | stir up talk, to get influential per- | sons to speak effectively, to make | | things happen for political effect, | |to turn public indecision to de-| ;rision and, last but not least, to | herd the voters to the polls. ;SAN('TITY OF THE BOOTH They argue that by whatever | means they accomplish their ends, :all is made moral by the fact that | when the voter is alone in the vot- ing booth, he can do what he| | pleases without let, hindrance or| | anybody’s knowledge. | But the President questioned | that. He said at Hyde Park thnLE | the situation is probably not moral | | if the voter happens to be a Repub- | lican voter in a Democratic voting | booth. This leaves the practical politi-| cian wondering what a Republican voter is and what a Democratic voter is and what a Democratic | booth may be. He knows that there is permitted to choose his party freely for the purpose of a current | election. In such a state, the voter| | He names his party at the polling | place or in the booth and may | make up his mind at the last min- | ute. | | And there is no Democratic booth, | !no Republican booth, but a com-| imon booth used by partisans of | |any color. Even in states which re-| | quire party registration, where vot- | ers are checked against the party ‘usts when they appear to vote, it seek a recount. Fay also won the Labor Party's nomination without opposition. Curley Comeback In Massachusetts, the Democratic triumphant primary witnessed the comeback by former Gov. James M With S. S. Lines, Alagk_a Service, Curley who won the guhernawria\.‘sailors Union of Pacific Ex- nomination Charles F. Hurley. from Gov. In New Jersey Former Senator W. Warren Bar- the nomination representing the Sailors Union of bour was an easy winner for Republican Senatorial - pect New Signing Up . During Week Jres piv . R SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—Peter Hill, in New Jersey. William J. Ely won the Pacific, said the agreement be- the Democratic Senatorial nomina- tween the steamship companies op- tion without opposition In Wisconsin In Wisconsin, the in front in his campaign for fourth term nomination. Robert H. Henry won the Demo- Progressives cided upon put Gov. Phillip LaFollette far out settled within a few da; his erating on the Alaska route and the SUP has “not quite been de- but will probably The mooted question is regarding discharging of ships at ports in Alaska where there are no longshore- cratic nomination but lost the Re- men organizations and the freight publican nomination. s et STATES CORPS KILLED, CRASH BURBANK, Cal, Sept. 21.— Major General Oscar Westover, Chief of the United States Army Air Corps, and his Ser- geant Pilot, were killed today in a crash of Westover’s plane. The accident occurred while the plane was nearing the land- ing field. Major General Westover was coming here after presentation of trophies to the Nineteenth Bombardment Squadron at March Field, near Riverside, Cal. Westover was 55. He was en- route to attend the American Legion Convention at Los An- geles. The plane was flying low, preparatory to landing when the engine stalled and back- fired. The plane fell into a bunga- low court, setting fire to two houses. The wreckage of the plane caught fire and the bod- ies of both fliers were burned. The pilot was Sergeant Sam Hynes, the general’s pilots for the past three years. B o 2 GUIDE RETURNS FROM TRIP WITH NEW YORKER Big game guide and barber V. P. Williams returned to Juneau today |on the steamer Columbia after sev- eral days afield with W. D. San- sone, New York hunter and his party. S S KARNES TO WESTWARD A. E. Karnes, Commissioner of Education, left on the Columbia for the Westward in connection with school matters, SEA SCOUTS "~ AREHONORED TTwo Ketchikan Members | Taking Training Cruise Aboard C. G. Alert KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 21.— Two Ketchikan youths, members of the Sea Scouts, left on the cutter .Alert on a 800-mile training cruise while the Coast Guarder is on ‘halibub patrol for several days. | It is believed this is the first time | such+an opportunity has ever been | afforded Sea Scouts in Alaska. e We're Sorry, Lou | NE YORK, Sept. 21.—Lou Gehrig, | awarded a free sedan for being the ‘moat. popular first-baseman in a | poll of fans, had bought himself a |new car two weeks before he won | the contest. - | — —— || sTock QUOTATIONS |- - — | | NEW YORK, Sept. 21. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 9%, American Can 97, American Light and Power 42, An- [aconda 33%, Bethlehem Steel 57%, | Commonwealth and Southern 1, Curtiss Wright 4%, General Motors 46%, International Harvester 59%, | Kennecott 41%, New York Central | 16%, Safeway Stores 17'%2, Southern | Pacific 16%, United States Steel |57%, Bremner bid % asked 1%, | Pound $4.82%. ‘; DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 139.29, up .88; rails 25.86, up .29; utilities |18.88, up .18. — BACK TO ANCHORAGE | Mrs. O. Weeda, who operates a |jewelry store in Anchorage, passed | after a trip Outside. be | (structor, belligerently demands, turned to her Juneau home aboard |— the other day wearing cabbage leaf hats to represent the spread of na-| zism. | It was a timely .observation. How far the nazi cabbage patch | will spread nobody knows, but it| is doing nicely these days. In neighboring lands on all sides, lusty shoots are growing in the fertile soil of German minorities cut off from the fatherland after the war. Come and see: In Czechoslovakia — population approximately 15,000,000 — a ma-| jority of the country’s 3,231,688 Germans belong to the Sudeten German party which is led by Kon- rad Henlein, with Hitler's backing (Less than 85 percent, says the gov- ernment; more than 90 percent, says Henlein.) Henlein, an ex - gymnastic in- among other things, autonomy and the right to practice nazism — or else. An “unofficial” British medi- ator is attempting to bring the two sides together. Polish Nazis Divided The Nazis in Poland, which has| 33,310,000 people, are divided into| two camps of about 375,000 to 400,- 000 each — despite a campaign to unite them. There are approximate- ly 200,000 Germans who belong to neither side. Senator Erwin Hasbach, 62-year- o0ld member of a wealthy, land-own- ing family, heads the leading nazi group—the Deutsche Vereinigung, or German Association. It controls a number of influential cooperative societies and banks. Hasbach’s rival is Senator Rudolf Wiesner, leader of the Jungdeutsche (Young Ger- man) party. Still in his forties, he possesses the dynamic personality and oratorical qualifications asso- ciated with nazi leadership. Most of the Germans in Poland live in Silesia, Pomorze and Poz- mania on the German border. Danes Can’t Agree Approximately 50,000 of the 3,- 684,000 peoplg in Denmark are nazis. But they are scattered among 12 to 14 movements. The majority of the nazis live in North Schleswig, which Denmark got back from Germany by a post- war plebiscite. (It was a North Schleswig nazi who fired two blank shots in the Danish parliament a few months ago as a demonstra- tion against parliamentarism.) Led by a half - German veteri- nary surgeon, Dr. Jens Moeller, and a Danish doctor, Fritz Clau- sen, the North Schleswig nazis are agitating for frontier revision. De- spite a ban on uniforms and for- eign flags, their storm troopers puf on thinly disguised uniforms and paraded with swastika flags at the party congress held this spring in Haderslev. They March In Belgium | Belgium is enjoying great im- proved relations with Germany | despite the fact that two nazi| Had Hot Time With Animals youth clubs — one for each sex - have been marching in the ex- German cantons of Eupen, St. Vith | and Malmedy under cover of the| “Heimatbund,” which purports to be a purely cultural organization. | The youths frequently have vis-| ited Germany on free parties ar-| ranged by their leader, Stephan | fl(conun;ted or; Pnfi Seven) X One Hour for Adora!ion,| Next Sunday, Be Observ- ed in Rome Churches | CASTEL GANDOLFO, Sept. 21.— Pope Pius, who chose the name for his Pontificate, hoping it would | mean a peace era, has asked all Catholic churches in Rome to de- vote an hour next Sunday to prayers for peace. The Pontiff has instructed all| churches in Rome to hold an hour gestion was rejecied. “What is to be lost is still a subject of negotiations. “Your Government, in the in- terests of peacc, has decided to make some sacrifice to aveid suffering and loss of its whole existence.” No suggestivn of the amount of teiritory to be ceded is made. Silence fell over the crowds and the soldiers were asked to remain calm. of Adoration for the purpose. When the Pope was elected in 1922, he said: “I was born under | Pius I, came to Rome under Pius. | Pius is the name for peace, then Pius is my name.” Paul Motion for Time Extension Denigt[ by Court Former Attorney Asks More Timeto Meet Provisions of Disbarmment Order Motion of Willlam Paul, dis- barred Juneau attorney, for an ex- tension of time in which to meet the provisions of the disbarment| order handed down on July 31, 1937, was denied by Federal Judge George F. Alexander this afternoon in Dis- trict Court. Paul was charged in the disbar- ment proceedings with failure to turn over money he had received for some 3,000 cases of fish. In dis- barring the attorney, the court or- dered that the money be paid into the registry of the court, as one of the provisions of reinstatement. The time for complying with the order expired on September 15.The court held today that it was with- out jurisdiction to amend the pre- vious order. Senator Henry Roden and George Grigsby appeared for the defendant today and Assistant District Attor- ney George W. Folta for the gov- ernment. Roden said the motion today was not a request for rein- statement but indicated that such a motion might be made at a future date. Folta held the court was with- out jurisdiction to act on the order, given at a previous term of court. e Plane Pilot ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Sept. 21.—Pilot Roy Dickson had his hands full on a flight to Lake Clark with Mrs. J. G. Gordon, who had twe dogs and a cat aboard. Dickson tied one dog to the tail of the plane, put the cat in a box and had his passenger hold the third animal to keep peace aboard the plans. PRESSURE IS EROUGHT PRAGUE, Sept. 2i.—Early this afternoon the Propaganda Ministry disclosed that Czechoslovakia would |accept the British-French peace plan, the little nation yielding to pressure from London and Paris. The British and French legations were informed of the decision to transmit to their governments. The offfcial announcement was expected to be made later in the afternoon or evening and crowds of excited Czechslovakians crowded the streets in an ugly mood and worried the authorities. Some of the crowd yelled: “We want dictatorship rather than war,” while others cried: “Long live our army, long like Czechoslovakia.” Windows on all important thor- oughfares were crowded as masses surged through the streets awaiting the “fate of the nation.” NIGHT RAIDING WEISS, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 21. —A night raiding force of Sudeten Germans last night attacked the Czech customs house on the front- ier near Eger and seriously wound- ed one Czech soldier. At least one of the raiders were believed to have been wounded. GENEVA, Sept. 21.—Maxim Lit- vinoff accuses France and Great Britain of capitulating to Hitler's demands. He disclosed they ignored Russia’s offer of military help to protect Czechoslovakia. TPASSENGERS ABOARD ALASKA FOR THIS PORT Steamer Calls at Haines and Skagway Both North and Southbound SEATTLE, Sept. 21.—Steamer Al- aska sailed for Southeast and Southwest Alaska ports at 9 o’'clock this morning with 36 first class and 4 steerage passengers. Passengers aboard the Alaska booked for Juneau include Mary McAlpin, Mrs. G. E. Barnes, Frank L. Garnick, Mrs. K. J. Marvin and two children, Frank J. Good. The Alaska, on the present voy- age, calls at Ketchikan, eliminates Wrange!l, Petersburg, Juneau, Haines and Skagway then goes oi- rect lc Seward. Returning south- bound the Alaska calls at Valdez, Cordova, Haines, Skagway, Juneau, | Petersburg and Ketchikan.