The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1938, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7966. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CONGRESSMEN MAY COMETO NORTHLAND [ LIBERALISM/ BIG SUBJECT OF ROOSEVELT Says United Staies WiII:‘ Continue to Move in that Direction ANOTHER WARNING IS | GIVEN, DICTATORSHIP Minority Persecution? Abroad Touched Upon | by Chief Executive CHAPEL HILL, N. C, Dec. 5— President Roosevelt today served no- | tice on the South that this Nation | is large and he will go forward for a “liberal” program despite the New | Deal election reverses. | Addressing the University of North Carolina students, faculty members and hundreds of others at the Student Forum, the Presi- dent declared that what America does or fails to do within the next few years “has a greater bearing on the influence of the history of the human race for centuries to come than most of us, who are here today, can ever conceive.” Dictatorship Warning In an implied warning to dictator- ships, the President asserted the United States is “not only the larg- est and most powerful democracy in the whole world but many other democracies look to the United States for leadership so that world democracy may survive.” The President reaffirmed faith in the political philosophy of liberal- ism, saying: “You have read that as a result of the balloting last No- vember, the liberal forces in the United States have often been killed and burned with the inevi- table result in short order that they come to life again with more strength than ever before.” Jew Persecution Without mentioning the minority persecution abroad, the President asserted “there may be those who believe in a regimented people, whose every thought and action is directed by one man. This may give some people the type of security, which is pleasing to them, but what- ever convictions I have, none are stronger than the abiding belief that security and well being of the American people can best be served by democratic processes which made this country strong and great.” e Demo Leaders Are Addressed By_!loosevell President Makes Informal | Talk ‘at Columbia; Smith Absent — » Robert Mc- formerly of chose El Morro fortress at San Juan, Puerto Rico, as the scene of their wedding. The historic fort has guarded San Juan’s harbor since 1541. Captain McBride, a native of New MAKING HISTORY in their own way, Capt. Bride of the 65th U. S. infantry and Sarah Jones, Fayetteville, N. C,, London, Conn., was recently transferred to Pr-rto Rico, 2 United Siates noececeion. gt;mrei Farmers Ar;ziGrlad to Bc In Debt; New Insightin AAA BARRED SO FAR IN MURDER CASE Smith Refuses fo Testiy, then Changes His Mind —Insanity Angle Pursued A vigorous battle by defense coun- sel to get before the jury subject matter which would tend to show that the defendant’s home had been violated and at the same time pre- senting the question of the defen- dant’s sanity featured the trial of Forrest V. Smith on charge of first degree murder in District court to- day. With the government resting its case last Friday, the defense opened this morning by calling two wit- , Bz v nesses, 'Arley Mullins and Charles DP,].(XIF” :'?ul"xltu gf:;s;“":;‘:"' o W, Carter, to testify as to Smith’s |y ot of farmers are doing it that actions. Mullins told of Smith telling way.” |him that he was a representative of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics| = e 2 and that he was in Juneau trying}pr,'_‘ssv;i “g:in “Zo;kfl; la:; use 1,000 to clean up the traffic in dope. This | bllsh‘eL% of corn. w teed my hogh: - | happened about 10 years ago, thelir vo, want to sell that corn to me Witness said. = at the market price, I'll be glad to “Linr” Is Testified | take it off yours hands, right where Carter, in reply to a question by |t jies in the bins on my place.” WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. ‘This story comes under the head of fun in the farm belt. Farmer Joe Doakes of lowa, an AAA cooperator, had 1,000 bushels of surplus corn in 1937 which he could not feed to his hogs nor sell for what he considered a good price. So he locked it up in storage bins on his farm. Because he cooperated in the crop control plan, the government lent him 50 cents a bushel on the corn, which was the security. The loan was more than the corn would bring on the farm in 1937; it is more than it will bring even now. The present price at the farm is about 40 cents a bushel. A HAPPY FORECLOSURE Well, Joe’s loan on the 1937 crop becomes due November 1, so soon after that Doakes will go to the local loan agency of the department and say: “I can't pay the loan, so the corn In turn, the agency is not sur- | “Fine,” says the government ANTI-ITALY | 'MOBS MARCH ~ INTUNISIA éDaladier Says France Will | | Not Gve Up Any Land | ‘I fo Anyl)ody RIOTOUS FRENCHMEN | C(RY "DOWN, ITALY" [lfalian Agitation Spreads | | o Other Mediterran- | 1 ean Ports | | (By Associated Press) ! Premier Daladier’s blunt declara- | | tion that France has no intention of | | giving up any part of her territory | | anywhere to anybody, highlighted the | | Pranco-Italian controversy today | | which is currently the most danger- ous situation in the world’s news. Adding friction to the troubled situation, the fighting French Pre- | mier announced his intention to| visit Corsica and Tunisia next year, these two areas figuring at presenl| |in the Italian clamor for French | territory Meanwhile, France asked “where’s the trap?” as police guards restored peace in Tunisia and Corsica where | anti-Italian agitation in these ter- | | ritories caused heavy police rein- | | forcements to be thrown around | | the Tunisia-Tunis, Italian consu- | late. | The action was taken after riot- | ous marchers demonstrated, shout- | ing “Down with Italy!” in both | cities. | } Mayor Ajacio, of Corsica, appealed | to the populace to remain calm | after the demonstrations. | Both Corsica and French Tunisia have been announced as the goals |of Italy’s expansion march, Fascist deputies who demonstrat- ed Wednesday at Rome, are also named as back of Italian agitation at Djibouti, a port in French Somali- land, and at Savoy and Nice. MOONEY LOSES ANOTHER TRY " FOR FREEDOM, \Supreme Court Turns Down Right to File Petition for Writ | WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — The | Supreme Court of the Uunited Stat- es has denied counsel for Thomas | Mooney the right to file a petition | for writ of habeas corpus intended to compel the California State of- ficials to show that Mooney is right- | fully held in prison. Apparently the next step in the [long contest for freedom for the convicted bomber of the San Fran- cisco Preparedness Parade in 1916, is an application for a pardon to |be filed with Governor-Elect Cul- | OUT OF THEIR KIMONA SLEEVES, Japanese experts pulled a trick or two, for the Chinese war. These parachutes are dropping food and supplies to troops far in interior China. LOVAUSTSBEAT Big Strike | OFF AIR ATTACK ?“ Ghicago | ON BARCELONA | Ended Now Cl0 Stock Handlers Vote Sunday fo Accept | Peace Proposals CHICAGO, Il1, Dec. 5—The two weeks’ old strike of the CIO stock The Insurgent bombers were scat- | handlers which paralyzed trading | tered in a brief dog fight in Chicago’s huge stockyards, has| Loyalists are now better equipped | ended. to fight off air raids in this sec- The striking members of the CIO tion than ever before and the In-|Stock Handlers' local, Sunday af- surgents are rapidly finding it out.| ternoon voted to accept peace pro- Insurgents Scattered in| Brief Dog Fight;Planes BARCELONA, Dec. 5.—This city’s | new air defense squadron early to- day broke up another Insurgent | raid. Many Insurgent planes have been | posal by the Union Stock Yards and shot down recently. the Transit Company. CIO union - o - leaders admitted the strike was not justified, in view of all um- stances, and when public indigna- Gen. Franto ls tion began to arise the peace pro- 2 : | posals, which are exceedingly fair, 46th Natal Day Third Term Talk 4 | BURGOS, Spain, Dec. 5—Gen- | G' B' B | eralissimo Francisco Franco, Span- | iven |g OOS| | ish Insurgent leader, today cele- brated his 46th birthday with news- F Se G " | papers in Insurgent Spain taking | ’om n' u ey recognition with editorials and also | o ; describing progress in reconstruc- tion of the territory destroyed in the Civil War by the regime which he now controls. ————— James Roosevelt Pennsylvanian Declares| State Delegation Is fo Support Roosevelt | | | | ‘; WASHINGTON, bsev. 5.— Third |term talk received an impetus to- lday from Senator Joseph F. Guffey, | Democrat of Pennsylvania, who de- |clared the Pennsylvania delegates Is Now Inferested : In Movie Industry ‘Lo the 1940 Democratic Convention iwnll back Roosevelt for nomination. | Relations |over a company operating in only | |to the ‘Snake Pays 9 Defense Counsel Paul Danzig whe-‘ COLUMBIA, South Carolina, Dec. | ther he thought Smith sane, said ISon of President Becomes “Wwe are to a man for Roosevelt. loan agency. So Joe Doakes has in |bert Olson when he takes office as 5.—President Roosevelt recalled the that some years ago, between the |effect sold the corn to the govern- association of the World War and | ment for 50 cents a bushel and Governor of California on January | 3. the late Senator Tillman, of South | (Continued on Page Eight) | Carolina, in an informal speech | —— e — | on the State House steps this fore- | noon which climaxed a two-hour‘FlIER (HEAIS | visit here on his way back to| Washington from Warm Springs. DE AIH BY JUST The President spoke to a huge| crowd that braved a steady rain to greet him. The President had just attended i a breakfast of State leaders of the Democratic group at which Senator Smith was absent. Smith, who was reelected for his sixth term last month after defeating Gov. John- | son for the Senatorial seat, despite the President’s opposition, previous- | ly announced he would not attend Plunges Down Suddenly, Caught by Leg Strap, Then Climbs Back bought it back for 40 cents. NEW CROP, NEW LOANS But that is not all. Joe Doakes | raised another crop of corn this| year and pretty soon the govern-| | ment will offer to lend him 57 cents or maybe 60 cents a bushel on it He is to store the corn on his farm as he did before. And what then? Instead of feed- ing part of his corn to the hogs as he did last year he will borrow 57 to 60 cents a bushel for his whole crop. He normally uses 3,000 Sudefenlanders Vole for Hitler, Sunfliy Election Send Thirty Deputies fo| Reichstag; Approval the breakfast because of failur: to receive an invitation. Gov. John- son, who arranged the breakfast, insisted an invitation had been sent to Smith. - D DOG BITES COW! ELYRIA, O—Biting cows about the head is the latest depredation | of stray dogs in Lorain county which | gives farmers many anxious mo- ments—and the sheriff’s'office much extra work. The cows have been bitten at night while tethered in BROOKLINE, Mass, Dec. 5. — Tossed out of his plane while 1,800 feet up in the air, dangling by a | single leg strap, while the pilotless plane hurtled toward the ground, | Daniel Cleveland, 24, of Somerville, | cheated death by a matter of a few | seconds. | Cleveland was attempting to take pictures when a door against which he was leaning, gave way. His down- | ward flight was halted by the leg| strap and in a few seconds he man- | aged to get back into the plane and right it when wihtin only a few hundred feet off the ground. | bushels to feed his pigs but Doakes |is no fool. He isn’t feeding his own | corn to the hogs when he can “sell” it to the government for 57 cents, and with the money buy corn at 40 cents a bushel from a farmer who didn't cooperate in the AAA con- trol plan. That is what is happening in the farm belt. Those farmers who par- | ticipated in the farm law crop- control act can get government loans. Moreover, the department of agriculture is quite willing that | they should take the fullest ad- vantage of the game. It serves the purpose of the farm act, which is (Continued on Page Five) Given Nazi Party | | | REICHENBERG, Germany, Dec.| 5.—Sudetenlanders lined up behind Hitler, their “Liberator” from Czech- | oslovakia, by 98.7 percent strong| |in the election by sending 30 Depu- | | ties to the Reichstag. | Returns from all 66 districts Ger- {many won in the Munich partition | showed 2,152,256 “yes” votes to 26,- | 1497 “no” ballots asked for in ac- knowledgment of Hitler as the Fuhrer’s endorsement of the Na-| tional Socialist Germany Labor Party. 400 Employees, . % | The Pennsylvania Roosevelts do not | Vl(e-PfeSldem of Sam- |want and 70 have nothing to :?; uel Goldwyn, Inc. 1wn.h any so-called middle-of-the- road candidates,” said Senator Guf- fey. HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Dec. 5. —| James Roosevelt, eldest son of | President Roosevelt, has entered the motion picture industry as Vice- President of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc.| The exact nature of his duties and his salary have not been dis-| closed. Young Roosevelt only last month quit a $10,000 a year position as personal secretary to his father. > Reduce-New Way | WASHINGTON—Jacquelin Coch- ran, the flier, says importart flights, such as the Bendix Trophy race, which she just won, are good | stream-liners as well as good fun. She usually loses five to ten pounds on each such flight. Packing Plant, Walk from Jobs| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Dec. 5— Four hundred employees of the Ar- mour and Company packing plant were reported to have walked out| this morning. ‘ ‘The plant is said to be completely | tied up. - The men have refused to work more than a forty-hour week. German Jews Are Facing New Threat BERLIN, Dec. 5—The German Jews were afraid today that they would be blamed for the deaths of the Iron Guardists who have been shot recently. | > - | Deer, reported to be the most common of all big game in the U. S, number about 1,450,000 in the national forests alone. SUPREME COURT GIVES DECISION IMPORTANT CASE Company Se—llfllg fo Other Concerns in Interstate Commerce, Involved WASHINGTON, Dec. %. — The Supreme Court of the United States today ruled that the National Labor ALASKA AR BASE AGAIN TAKES FORM Congressional Committee May Come North fo In- spect Proposed Site ROOSEVELT STARTS PROJECT REVIVAL Area Around Fairbanks, Also Near Juneau Are Considered Essential WASHI{GTON, Dec. 5—A Con- gressional celegai on may go to Al- aska to inspect site. for a proposed major air base Informed memnibers of the House Appropriations Committee expressed the opinion that the committee will insist on such un inspection before the Comunittee will vote funds for the project, Talk ot the se was revived as | result of President Roose« velt: projected expansion of mili« tary aviation. Base Authorized Congress authorized & base in Alaska together wily other con~ tinental air bases #1d the War Deparment asked for $10,000,000 to commence construction on the Ale aska Air Base site but the item was eliminated by the Budget Bureau. Proponents of the Alaska air base project, including Delegate An- thony J. Dimond, contend that such a base is essential for the National Defense system because it will be one of three vital points for pro- tection of the Pacific. The other Board has supervision one state but which sells products | to other concerns engaged in inter- state commerce. The decision applies specifically | Consolidated Edison Com- | pany of New York and gives broad powers, attorneys said, to the Board | administering the Wagner Act. The opinion was delivered by Chief Justice Hughes. The decision also held, however, that the Board exceeded its author- ity in directing abrogation of the| collective bagaining contracts pe-| tween the company and the Inter- national Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, affiliate of the AFL. The Board acted in the case on the complaint of the United Elect- rical Radio Workers of America, CIO affiliate. The latter contended the Company picked the Federation affiliate to represent the employees in collective bargaining negociations without giving the employees an opportunity to express preference. The decision denies this charge. e Victim's Hospital Bill ROLLING HILLS, Cal.,, Dec. 5.— E.‘ranklln French, 15, kept seven rattlesnakes for pets and eventual- ly he got bit. The boy's mother rushed him to the hospital, and after he was out of danger decided it would be a good lesson to make him pay his own hospital bill. The only way Franklin could raise the money was to sell the snake that bit him. e ANCIENT RACE BEING SOUGHT HONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 5.— Laura Thompson, young research assoclate at the University of Ha- wali, has embarked for Guam to spend six months in trying to un- ravel the mystery of the old Cha- morro race which Magellan found on the island. Among the archaeological re- mains she will investigate are two rows of ancient stone slabs that long have puzzled scientists. Globe Starts Fire | RICHMOND, Ind. — Firemen| blamed the sun for a fire in a local gift shop window. They said| a water-filled globe focused the sun rays on a window drape and started it burning. two projects are in Hawail and the Panama Canal. Why Base Necessary Delegate Dimond points out that Alaska, being on the Great Circle Route, and only a few hundred miles from the Asiatic mainland, is essen- tially in need of air bases both for the War and Navy departments. Col. Louis Johnson, Assistant Sec- retary of War, made a trip to Alaska several months ago, but his recom- mendations concerning defenses, made personally to President Roose- velt, have not been made public. Navy's Projects The United States Navy already has a small air base at Sitka, Al- aska, and wants $5,000,000 to build a large one on Kodiak Island. The War Department’s original plan for its base in Alaska contem- plated a force of 111 officers, 129 non-commissioned officers, and 600 enlisted men. Discussion of sites in Alaska for an air base centered chiefly in the area around Fairbanks, although a base in the vicinity of Juneau was also suggested. AUGUST TOBIN PASSES AWAY AT KETCHIKAN Has Distinction of Re- maining long Time Above Arctic Circle KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 5.— August L. Tobin, 173, resident of Ketchikan for 19 years, died at 8 o'clock this morning in a local hos- pital after a few da; - illness., Tobin came to Alaska 40 years ago from Boston, ic has the distine- tion of having remained above the Arciic Circle in Alaska, before going south of it, longer than any other man. ‘Tob. xplored the Koyukuk dis- trict where a wluin and river and oilier geographical features are named for him., He was born in Karingo, Bohus- lan, Sweden. Survivors are his widow, son Em- ery F. Tobin, and daughter, Florence Tobin, all of Ketchikan, and two sisters and a brother in Sweden, DAYS TILLEG . & CHRISTMAS Qe s