The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7952. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1938. MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ANOTHER UJS. OFFICIAL LEAVES BERLIN SPANISH WAR NEARING END, FRANGO SAYS Insurgents Claim New Ebro Ri‘«'el‘ Gaill /W]Pans C'OV' ernment Whipped | | | | i i | REBELS BROADCASTING “WE HAVE CONQUERED Destroyed Land and Air Forces ZARAGOZA, in, Nov. 17. Insurgent military observers ex pressed the belief today that Gen- eral Franco's reconquest of - the right bank of the Ebro River has paved the way for an operation that should end the Spanish Govern- ment’s resistance. | Government and Insurgent lines| are virtually the same as when the Ebro campaign, one of the longest and bloodiest. of the Spanish Civil War, began on July 25, this summer. | However, Insurgents pointed out that the Government's land and air forces have suffered 75,000 casual- ties in the Ebro fighting and have andoned large amounts of mili- ry equipment. Insurgents further say that much of this abandoned equipment has been salvaged by Insurgent troops and with this gain and the loss of the Gevernment forces in men and equipment, Government troops are in a greatly weakened position to ward off General Seranco’s next blow. Sources close to Insurgent officers said at least 242 Government planes have been downed since July 25. An Insurgent broadcast to Gov- ernment forces and leaders said: “The hour*of surrender has been struck. We have conquered you be- cause God is with us. It wil be use- less for you to resist us further be- cause your army is destroyed.” - THREA S Here is He ters in Alaska and informed that censtanty calling for him and be He was located at King Cove. given an airliner trip to Chicago. ing Commander C. G. Roemer, of Hamilton for helping him make Francisco. NAZI aid and teok him some 4,500 miles to San Coast Guard Helps Alaska Youth B0LD STROKE ry Waither, 24, who was located by amateur radio epera- his mother, dying in Chicago, was seeching him {0 go to her bedside. ‘The Coast Guard then rushed to his isco where he was This photo shows Walther thank- the Coast Guard cutter Alexander the trip from Alaska to San IS ONCE MORE John Barrrcttr Was Man Whé MADE, WORLD € Defiance IsKeynote at Mar- tyr’s Funeral of Assas- ould Think Fast; Story of Court Ghosts ; Army Stumped By PRESTON GROVER sinated Official WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—John Barrett, minister to a half dozen U.S. POPULATION NOW PLANNED BY DALADIER French Premier May Dis- solve Parliament, Rule Nation Himself 'DRASTIC DECREES . TO BE ANNOUNCED ‘Socialisls and Communists | | Massing Forces to Fight \ \ | | | | | | Cabinet’s Proposals PARIS, Nov. 17.-—Premier Dala- dier is reported by Deputies as plan- |ning to dissolve the Chamber of | Deputies and rule France for a time | without a Parliament, especially if |it refuses to ratify his three-year | plan for revising the French econ- | omy system | Such a step is reported under, | consideration as the Socialists and ! | Communists massed forces to fight the Cabinet’s economic and finan- cial decrees. It is said that the General Con- | federation of Labor, with an enroll- | ment of 5,000,000 workers, has an- nounced a general strike will be Daughter Bom GIVES GOP HALF Today fo King Of All Egypt Salute of Twenty-one Guns Announces Birth to 17- Year-Old Queen CAIRO, Nov. 17—A daughter was |born today to Egyption King Farouk |and his seventeen-year-old Queen |Farida. As the baby is a girl, the {heir apparent continues to be |Prince Mohamed Ali, the King's |elderly cousin who was Prince| Regent during the King’s two years’ | minority. Officially, the announcement of {the birth was made in a message ‘derks.sed by the King's private cabinet to the prime minister and |!h9 governor general of the Sudan. ! It was then carried, by special {messenger and flashed to Khar- toum, 1,500 miles down the Nile. | This touched off a royal salute in Democrats Still Hold Big Edge in Congress Ballot Power WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—A post election survey of showed, by unofficial, counts, that the Republicans polled 515 percent of the vote compared with 40.1 per- cent in 1936. In 1934, percent of the vote Republicans polled votes to the Democrat's | | | | 14,886,356 14,010,223 cent,. Despite the indication that the Republican vote gained advantage. {in half the states comprising the populous centers of the East, west and West, Democrats elected 262 Representatives, or 60.2 percent cans have 39.1 percent of voting power in the Hous With 170 Congressmen, the Re- publicans have but 39.1 percent of | the voting power in the lower house. When Franco’s Planes 24 states today ' Republicans polled 46.1 |votes with a percentage of 485 per- | Mid- | Bombed 1 Here is a view of the interior of the popular Santa Catalina Market in Barcelona, after Gen. Franco's rebel airmen bombed the city in daylight. Four salespersons were killed, scores wounded. In the picture are shown some of the stall owners, digging in the debris to salvage some of their wares. “AFTER BATTLE" S A= SOUTHERN CAL. % e - AP e Zack . Marisa Morel, streamlined and | youthful coloratura soprano, is pic- CALLED HOME BY DEPT, COM. Commercial Attache to Am-~ erican Embassy in Ger- many Has Orders SIGNIFICANCE IS ATTACHED TO MOVE P Interest, for Present, in Nazi Land, Seems to Be Guing on Glimmer BERLIN, Nc¢- Miller, comme altache of the T nited s.ate: “'mbassy here, has been called to Washington, D. C, less than 24 hours after the departure of Ambassador Hugh R. Wilson, also recalled to the United States. Miller, according to an- nouncement by Ewubassy offici- als, has been directed to report in Washington not later than January 1. The calling home of Miller is regarded by the American Col- ony here as a significant indi- cation the United States De- partment of Commerce has lost interest in Germany for the present. No successor has been named, according to official reports, and Miller will probably leave dur- ing mid-December. Miller’s annual reports on the German economic situation is known to have gone far beyond the scope of business alone and is said to have reflected the in- sight of German psychology contained in general material of an analytical nature. COMMITTEE IS NAMED HERE ON UNEMPLOYMENT Suggestion Made at Meet- ing that Transients Be Shipped Outside Steps toward the formation of a Community Welfare Committee to 17. — Douglas 'SEES MONSTER ~ METEOR STRIKE |Flaming Ball Lights Wide Area—Los Angeles Is Terrified LOS ANGELES, Cal, Nov. 17.—A meteor, described as unusually large and brilliant enough to light the skies east of Los Angeles last night, | caused scores of excited residents to telephone newspapers that an air- plane had fallen in flames. The meteor fell somewhere be- tween Los Angeles and Albuquerque. Major Burgess, Commander of Headquarters Squadron at March Field, observed the meteor from an altitude of 10,000 feet as he piloted a plane. He said the meteor first appeared like an airplane light and then like a bomber in flames, falling first at icredible speed, then slowing down erceptibly as it entered the arth’s atmosphere followed by a long tail of flame and. corona. The flame was from five to seven times the size of the meteor proper, Burgess said, and completely sur- rounded it, meanwhile dropping a handle the unemployment problem in Juneau this winter were taken last night at a special meeting” of DUSSELDORF, Nov. 17. — With South American republics at var-|cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Khar- ious times and first director-gen- toum and all the chief provinces | The foregoing figures give a sketchy picture of the poll results| tured as she arrived in New York tail of incandescent debris “like a huge ladle of molten steel.” City Council members and repre- a rhallenge to the world, the Nazi ESTIMATED TOBE eral of the Pan American Union, today gave a martyr’s funeral to . assassinated diplomat Ernest von Rath, who died as a result of bullets fired by a Polish Jew, last week in Paris. Chancellor Adolf Hitler and other officials were in attendance. The whole nation heard by radio Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop close his funeral oration by the om- ! inous repetition of words Hitler used on like occasions in 1936: “We un- derstand and challenge any outside threat.” | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — The Von Ribbentrop extolled the|Census Bureau estimated officially young Embassy Secretary as a blood | oday that the population of con- witness of the Nazi cause and vowed | ,. i to fight against international Jew- :}:;;0‘;:;;1 Diited Slates: excencs 180/ ry unremittingly. Based on birth and death statis- OVER 130000000 Alaska Not Included in To- tal — Estimated at " 62,700 Persons Hitler did not speak but spoke tics for the first half of 1938, the man’s parents and two brothers and sat down facing the flood-lighted Persons lived in this country July 1 ccffin, between Frau von Rath and| The number does not include an faced and stood at salute before the |aska, or the estimated 405000 of casket, Hawaii, the 1,800,000 of Puerto Rico, —————— {the 52000 of the Panama Canal NoBEL PEAGE lands or the 22,000 on Guam and | the 11,000 mn Samoa. OSLO, Nov. 17.—The Nobel Peace prize for 1938 has been awarded to the Nansen Office for Refugees award has gone to an institution | rather than an individual. | Charlie Murray, gold dredge op- In 1922 the prize was awarded erator from Canyon Creek in the name is given the office honored:lerdfly by PAA plane enroute south with the prize this year. in connection with his mining Last year the prize went to Vis- operations. the League of Nations’ Union. ray has been developing, was in- - ., — stalled this sfimmer and got in a To bring back grass to western |few days work before the . season ment of the desert, more than 50,- |expected” cleanup. 000 pounds of carefully tested grass| Murray will leave tomorrow on seeds will be sown soon by CCC|the North Sea. He is a guest at words of condolence to the dead bureau has figured that 130,215,000 von Ribbentrop. They later arose, estimated 62,700 population in Al- Zone, the 22,000 of the Virgin Is- in Geneva. For the fourth time the to the late Fridtjoe Nansen whose Fortymile, arrived in Juneau yes- count Cecil Chellwood, President of The dredge on the property Mur- ranges and combat the encroach-|Wwas finished, getting a “better than workers. the Gastineau Hotel. HEADING BELOW died a few days ago but he long will be remembered for some of |the fastest thinking the State De- | partment recalls. The Pan-American Union build- |ing had just been completed and {Barrett was walking toward the doorway of the structure with An- drew Carnegie, who had come to inspect which he had supplied the money. “Anything else you need?” asked | Carnegie. Barrett hadn't given the idea a thought—and he knew that he had to speak out before Carnegie left. He saw an ugly patch of mud at one end of the building. It clicked. “If we had a sunken garden to replace that mud it would be mighty (handsome,” he suggested. | “How much would it cost?” ask- ed Carnegie. Barrett hadn't the foggiest idea, but he shot back: “Thirty thousand dollars.” Carnegie wrote out a check for the amount on the spot and the resulting garden handsomest one in Washington. GHOSTS OF THE COURT Not all ghost writers are in liter- ature or politics. Some of the most {forlorn “ghos " are lawyers. They |draft extensive law briefs on im- | portant cases, year after year, for presentation to the Supreme Court without having their names appear on them as counsel. Big shot mem- bers of the firm get that honor. But there are exceptions. Even youngsters occasionally get such breaks. Francis Kirkham, former secretary to Chief Justice Hughes, recently appeared at the Supreme |Court with the first brief to which his name had been attached as member of a large San Francisco law firm. As a ‘“ghost” he had firm. (Continued on Page Five) the costly building for | is probably the |of Egypt and the Sudan. | An Italian obstetritician, Dr. Caz- | zolari, who brought the young | queen herself into the world, was |recalled from a holiday in Europe |to attend her. | A royal salute of 21 guns was given. If the baby had been a boy there would have been a salute of | 1101 guns. A pink-and-blue handmade lay- |ette worth not a cent less than | $15,000 was all ready for the infant. | The baby colthes were trimmed, in | |many cases, with rare laces. IDA LUPINO IS T0 BE MARRIED land the nationwide popular vote cannot be tabulated until all states have been reported HAMILTON'S VIEWS HARRISBURG, Pa, Nov. 17. Chairman John Hamilton, of the Republican National Committee, said his Party’s minorities in Con- gress will be impotent unless they are joined with forces of “real and |genuine Democrats.” —_—ae——— BENSON TAKES DOUBLE SHOTS ABA President Discusses [ Old Age Pensions and 1' Govt. Expenses | |Screen Colony Actress and Louis Hayward May HOUSTON, Tex., Nov. 17.—Phil- Be Wedded Today lip A. Benson, of Brooklyn, newly HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Nov. 17. — elected President of the American | Actor Louis Hayward and actress Bankers’ Association, spoke out to- |Ida Lupino, two promising young day against the old age pensions members of the screen colony, are'and mounting costs of the govern- to be married, presumably today. ment, ‘The announcement was made by the | Benson said apparently those who mother of the actress, Mrs. Connie sought old age pensions have lost Lupino. sight of the fact they will be taking AMUNBSEN“‘BOUN‘D ‘sometmng they did not earn. | der the present system, is too ex- pensive, that in hundreds of cases, Johnny Amundsen i g |or 12, now engaged, if he would Transport pilot, is Weflf-herb"“"diwm, He also said there were too neau, lying at Bella Bella in Brit- | o nmeny nse, accomplishing ish Columbia waiting for skies topouirc’ .0 P Ketchikan reported zero-zero weather and other ports enroute | He also said the Government, un- n he work of 10 Klaska Ahuo e man could do t on a flight from Seattle to Ju-|,,ny Byreaus functioning, at gov- lift. —_——-—e——— Under our elecioral system a morrow if visibility improves. He|than his chief opponent. This has “What this country needs,” crack- has five passengers aboard his occurred three times, in 1824, 1876 | of civilization which have filled the| plane. 'and 1888, from Paris, to make a bid for fame and fortune at the Metropolitan Opera. Unknown in America, she | has achieved fame in Europe. PLANS WPAIN CIVIL SERVICE | Administrator Harry Hop- kins, Citing Politics, Makes Suggestion | | WASHINGTON, Nov. 17.—Saying that the American people resented the injection of petty politics into | the unemployment relief work, WPA | Administrator Harry L. Hopkins | proposed today that the WPA and other relief united be put into the | “stock barrel” under Civil Service. D AMER, LEGION ISPLEDGEDTO | STAND BY FOR :Inlernational Policies of’; i President Are to Be Upheld INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 17.— The American Legion is pledged to| [uphold the policies of President| | Roosevelt in the International situ- ation as its National Executive Com- mittee began a two-day meeting. National Commander Stephen F. Chadwick, of Seattle, said the Am-| | drafted dozens before, all t be report similar weather. Amundsen |President may be elected although erican Legion is in accord with| signed by senior members of the js expected to come through to- he :receives fewer popular votes the President’s action in regard to| “shocking reversals to the tolerance| | press of the world in recent weeks.”) Major Burgess said the bright sentative citizens of the community. { Governor in 1894 and 1895. Mayor Harry I. Lucas served as chairman and, following two hours discussion, the Mavor was instruct- ed to appoint a skelcton committee of five to make an investigation of conditions and suggest ways and means to approach it. In the mean= time, effort will be made to contact every organization in the commun« ity in order to form a general cen= tral committee with full represen« |tation from all groups. Mernoers of the skeleton commit- tee were announced by Mayor Lucas this afternoon. They are H. L. Faulkiier, attorncy, Charles G. Bur- dick, Forest Service; Charles W. Hawkesworth. Indian Office; Cap- ACKSON PASS_ES AWAY sy oo e |of the Junean Woman's Club. This |committee is witiiorized to name its loww cuairmai, the “layor said. 5 | Concensi:: of the meeting was nor of Jowa Dies at |iat a caretul study of the trie California Home condition should be made to ascer- |tain the actual number of unem- REDLANDS, Cal., Nov. 17—Frank | Ploved and determine those who are | D. Jackson, 84, former Go\crnor‘“m‘my in need of speistynce. B of Towa, is dead at his home here. ‘p"' ts to the meeting varied consid= Jackson served as chubl!can‘e"g:;‘m Tiatathie. e of Ak , chairman ‘mchen committee operating in the Union Hall, said that between 50 |and 60 unemployed men are fed | there daily. W. B. Kirk, heaa of the Territory’s Public Welfare Depart- ment, reported that his records re- veal that there are not half as 2 Brothers Meet For First Time =, =55z, o e s last year. Mayor Lucas reported a HANCOCK, Mich, Nov. 17— Frank Dixon, seventy-seven, Clats- knumbel of men eoming, i S P kanie, Ore., salmon fisherman, nndjua“ in s of work.. JOREN TR his fifty-six-year-old brother, John |Flakne, head of the Employment Norgool, met here for the first |Office, sald today that there were time recently. approximately 500 men at this time Dixon left Pinland in 1881, before | "é8istered on the active unemployed his brother was born. They neveri"Jllx in Juneau, corresponded. | Stressing the need for determin- The different surnames are the|iNg the true condition, Mr. Faulk- result of the Finnish custom of |Ner Pointed out that if reports are changing names upon moving to a |COrrect that there are a large num- new home, (Continued on Page Five) light illuminated the cockpit of | his plane and lighted up the earth and sky for a great distance. Meteor hunters numbering sever- | al hundred, it 1s estimated, have gone afield in search of remains of | the fiery ball, hoping for the righes | of fiction supposedly found in prec-| ious and rare minerals from an-| other world and the more material wealth of high prices paid by sci- entists for meteor fragments. F. D, JAGKS [Former Republican Gover- -, —