The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1938, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS' AILY ALASKA ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 7984. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESD AY, DECEMBER 27, 1938. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW PROGRAM FOR NATIONAL DEFENSES Italy Reported Massing SOUTH AFRICA NOW SCENE OF MOBILIZATION Il Duce’s Forces Being As- sembled on Frontier, Frenh Somaliland CAMPAIGN THREATENS GREAT PORT, RED SEA France’s Formal Note De- clares Territory Will Never Be Ceded BULLETIN—PARIS, Dec. . —The French Government late today ordered a warship to speed to Djibouti. Other vessels of the French Navy are also ordered held in readiness for action. PARIS, Dec. 27—Dispatches from South Africa report Italy is mass- g troops on the frontier of h Somaliland. = onial officials express fears that the massing of the Italian troops will start a campaign that will threaten Djibouti, the French Somaliland port of the Red Sea which is the only rail outlet to Italy’s Ethiopia Travelers reaching Egypt from Djibouti said dispatches have been sent the French newspapers re- porting the Government of Djibouti has demanded that troops and also naval reinforcements be sent there. | NEW ATTACKS ARE MADE ! ROME, Dec. 27. — A formal French note that not one inch of territory in Africa or anywhere else will be ceded Italy drew new attacks in the Fascist newspapers today. Il Messagero asserted that France herself has upset the equilibrium in the Mediterranean because she had not yet ratified the treaty with Syria which the newspapers claim gave France notable advantages and privileges of a military character. The new treaty is designed to ter- | minate France’s Syrian mandate and would establish Syria as an independent country. | g | "ALABAM” HERE WITH OPEN MIND FOR LEGISLATURE New Senator from Fourth, Has No Bills But Does | Have Some Ideas With 38 years of experience in the north country and an open mind C. H. “Alabam” La Boyteaux newly elected Territorial Senator from the Fourth Division arrived in Juneau on the Baranof for the 14th bien- nial session of the Territorial Leg- islature which convenes January 9.| And by north country, Senator La Boyteaux means just that for his 38 years have been spent in the In- terior, and as he puts it “I've never lived on the coast and I don't know one fish from the other when it comes to this fish business you talk so much about down here in the First.” The Senator, who prefers to be called “Alabam,” a nickname picked up many years ago in the north, hails from Livengood where he is and has been for years interested in mining, trading and a lot of other things. Mining is his pet and there aren’t many creeks in the vast In- terior that he hasn’t been on at| some time or another. On the gold tax, “Alabam”, has, he points out, an open mind. He| feels the little fellow who is spend- ing money trying to develop pro- perty should be entitled to some consideration. Might be, he feels, that there should be a $20,000 ex- ‘(Continued on Page Five) {Purge on Christma Trouble Brews in Darkest Africa f for which Italiang are agitating || menacing S aisrat e Mussolini strengthens | defenses for "time of need” {1 Tourists, Traveling Me Troops RECOMMENDATIONS TO BE (OLD WAVE HITS OVER 'NORTH U. 5. Travel and Communication Paralyzed in Many Storm Cenfers TERRIFIC SEAS POLND M (HIGAN Forced to Stop at Formerly GERMAN | | | TOGOLAND | Formerly GERMAN ROONS | | Suggested as | haven for ' German Jews Belgium says she won't give Congo to Germany Formerly GERMAN EAST AFRICA | hmrted gales had churned up the Formerly GERMAN. SOUTHWEST AFRICA BRITISH AFRICA > -]FRENCH R JAFRICA vvi/?’}\L/AN ‘j AFRICA FORMER GERMAN AFRICA Italy's clamor for Tunisia has turned the news spotlight again to the Dark Continent. It's been there ! many times the last few yvears as Italy conquered Ethiopia (now. part of Italian East Africa—where Italy must still keep troops), as Germany demanded her lost colonies, and as Italy, Britain and France built up their defenses aloag the Mediterranean’s south shore. This map shows recent developments. Defense minister sounds out European powers on colonial issue from FOR FIRST TIME, CHRISTMAS pugivG HoLpaYs f | ¢ e I i Fon e et sime 1 cneir youns| Aufomobiles Are Largest lives, the Dionne quints were per- . DIES SUDDENLY mitted Christmas to eat roast tur- | Smgle Fador-ZZ Per- | key, the dressing and ice cream. H . H sons Killed in Fires 0“ CHRISTMASM]umLs and six other children held |a happy Christmas reunion in the —_ | nursery here. It was an unusual vViolent deaths marred the three | gathering because it also marked|day Christmas celebration Fa" from 13.1001 Bal(ony the first time the quints have been| A total of more than 500 lives is| |allowed to dine formally Wwith| the toll, about the same as last year, |the Associated Press. Deaih' However | | Automobiles were the VE‘I‘ERA“ BR"’ single death factor taking 395 lives. | SEATTLE, Dec. 27.—An autopsy | . Twenty two persons werc discloses that Roy R. Thornton, 45, | manager of the Alki Natatorium, There were 19 suicidee. | Twelve persons were killed 2| natatorium at 3 o'clock Christmas| PASSES AWAY railroad crossing accidents. morning, died of an attack of the| Six deaths are reported heart. | hio led in the death toll. Thornton, who fell 13 feet from 8| 1 ONDON, Dec. 27—Sir James Ohio E:l 1008 eath tol died as the result of the fall but it is i G leader, is dead at his home here. | now thought that heart trouble "I weather-beaten gray felt FOUND DEAD 0“ ,;h""us';' . : hat, a muffler around his neck like : ornton formerly operated night ., mnglish laborer and his every-| FISHI"G VESSEI. in Seattle. " . “Jimmie” Sexton, the Liverpool dock s A m:nno:r‘q;eilgh‘rr‘s‘dg; R e 1o i workers' member of Parliament, | 4 | went to Buckingham Palace on| . . | February 24, 1931, to be dubbed su,‘Oldtlme Resident of Kef- I E ', R P In this dress, and with his ter- |ribly scarred face, the result of H s kvent in Russla [ov, -2 T e derrox Asphyxiated MOBCOW. Dec, 27~8oviet Russia| 220y years before, he looked any- | carried out & Christmas purge at the | (ing but the conventional PARSE) wpropIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 21— | | Pred Crast Nelson has been found | Soviet Railways are printed. The| 7 & Director of the plant and six em-| p. . dlgnigrm:f‘ ;{':“;]I:;‘::od weighed | E- T. in the Thomas Basin on his| ployees were arrested on charges of | light]y on this veteran of the British | 63rd birthday. Death was apparent- | bootlegging tickets at cut prices. "‘labor movement who was born m\.ly caused by asphyxiation. | sentenced to death under the So- came to the United States when five | viets sabotage laws. GPU agents T2mPed 1o London as a lad T8 .oor oid. He came to Ketchikan in said that the employees had heen':".l ;'! e: f;;‘;e ;fin yem,sb ! Jo10 | indjammers T aving beel ‘ N smuggling tickets out of the plant drugged in San Prancisco and Papers found in the cabin of his | DURING HOLIDAYS ROY IHOR“ION CALLANDER, Ontario, Dec. 27.— Papa and Mama Dionne, thcé (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) H | Not Responsible for |sromups. | xcording to a compilation made by in fires. who was found dead outside of the| drownipgs. balcony, was first believed to have g ton g2’ veteran British labor clubs in Ketchikan, Alaska, and also| g,y clothes wrinkled and worn, James Sexton by King George. . . chikan Is Believed printing plant where tickets for the | dress i dead aboard the trolling boat Louise | they are found guilty they may be| p o= g 0 "o Novoactle in 1856, Nelson was born in Norway and and selling thém at a'20 percent re- . boat indicate that Mrs. M. Miller of lontinned on Page FIV(:)_V duetion | Pancy, Wisconsin, is a sister, lel in some places and delayed it | gam eastern shore in “many years. | Holland. | |as far south as Texas. largest |, Farm Houses i 0, D £ winds whipped across (h half of the continent yesterdas oday, driving the mercury i eaching 37 degrees below zero, the bitterest cold wave of the sea- | son. | Relief is forecast in some of the Plains States, but to the east and| southward, more cold is due to ar-| rive tonight or tomorrow. | The storm paralyzed holiday trav- | elsewhere. Last night the Coast Guard re-| stronkest sea along the Lake Michi- Breakers swept clear over a pier and | into Lake Mactawa Channel near Communication was disrupted be- | tween Petoskey, Michigan, and Sault | St. Marie, that center of the storm unable to maintain telephone con- nection with other cities more fort- unately situated. | In Minnesota, snow drifted ten feet deep along highways, stopping motor travel and sending tourists | to farm houses for shelter from freezing temperature following gen- | erally mild weather over Christmas At Warroad, Minnesota, on the Canadian border, the thermometer | registered 37 degrees below zero and | residents of Devil's Lake, North Dakota, had temperatures as low as 22 degrees below zero. — e~ SOVIET RUSSIA HITS JAPANESE ANOTHER SWAT Closes Consulate at Hako- date-Is Blow fo Fish- ermen Over Treaty +OKYO, Dec. 27—A Japanese received here says | sulate at Hakodate d on account of ithe <apanese relations tiations for a new fish- | As the result of the closing of thpi Consulate there will be increased | MADE CONGRESS BY FDR OF UNPRECEDENTED MAGNITUDE Two Messages by President Will Disclose Proposals for Rearmament Plans, Made at Secret Sessions; E Army, Navy, Air Force fo Be Developed; Thou- | sands of Pilots, Mechanics Are fo Be Schooled; Agaression lo Be Resisted “Horrified” By Nazis ion since nsettled ty o A ent of no Avail gressive Dic One wet ional Guards comp 1 with planes. Juipr | The Civil Aeronautics Authority """ 2 and National Youth Administration will assist in the schooling of one many during the recent violent anti- It has developed the new rearma- | hundred thousand new pilots and Semitic attacks, Miss Robinson de- :ment program has been completed | 25,000 mechanics as a military back- clared she was horrified by the ichind closed doors, the President | log atrocities perpetrated. and Gen. Malin Craig, Chief of Staff| American aircraft plants will be of the Army, and other military ad-expanded, new air bases will be visers, meeting in secret sessions. tructed and deficiences in anti- The decision for a gigantic de-| aircraft and artillery tanks will be Framo on j;fem-e program has convinced all o!. remedied. > NINETY - THREE NIPPON-CHINA March for - ™yoe wuiep w ~ BATIE Slows Barcelona R.R.COLLISION N WIDE AREA Insurgent Forces Gaining‘TWO Trains, Crowded witthew Year Babe Rumored Ground Slowly in | Christmas Merrymak- | to Be Peace Dove ers (rash Headon | Over Good Earth Broad Thrust = BUCHAREST, Dec. 27.—Fatalities] SHANGHAI, Dec. 27.—Japanese . HENDAYE, Dec. 27.—Powerful In- |, "o " orce raflway accident in Imperial Headquarters announced surgent fighting columns were today . IJdiers | Rumania’s history mounted to 93 as|today that 47.133 Japanese soldiers badgered on every front by fierce | ot . Catalonian counter attacks, but more victims of the Christmas Dnu\‘have died in action during the 17 ? i ; * collision of passenger trains, near months of Chinese-Japanese war- forged their way slowly eastward i w 8 | Etulia, succumbed to injuries. fare to date. over rugged territory. | The advance is being made in Investigations indicate some trains| Chinese losses in the same period the dircction of the Government | ™ P8 °pf‘afi°}‘:f deflp“e,p‘:‘]’:‘i estimated by the Japanese stronghold in northeastern Spain, qh 'wd OF(ihe, TAUWRY.S I8i0- 2.000.000 men. 3 attempting to cripple the Loyalist frePf &% As the old year wanes, battle defense “once and for all.” ne, < are noted zig-zagging through On this, the fifth day of Geners res hina, with actien t cmated, although intense guer- Franco’s offensive, aimed ; at Barcelona, Governmer varfare of Chinese ‘“farmer J courred behind frout casualities on both side above ten thousand men o 000 fighting. o S, G Ioné Robinson, lovely American painter who went to Germany to study Nazi culture, is pictured on her return to New York. In Ger- are telephone dispatching | the same time, nebulous ru- FISHING BOAT ™™ -- WITH3ABOARD 7 SHIPWRECKERS - said .o RUNS A@RGUMD LAND, KETCHIKAN * i it nomeve, lee, Wind and Snow Pre- Survivors Flown fo Sitka oroci for ponch” Al vent Rescue by Coast by Navy Planes, Taken difficulty for Japanese fishermen in ting visas for entering Sovie i | - 1 | | MAHAN IS RATED MOST NOTORIOUS SPRINGFIELD. Mo., Dec. 27— Now that Gaston B. Means is dead, No. 1 ranking as the most notorious prisoner at the U. S. medical center here goes to William Dainard, more familiarly known as William Ma- han. He is serving two sixty-year sentences for the kidnaping of George Weyerhaeuser, Tacoma boy. | The kidnaper is listed as a mental | patient. | hidpame Dol | Tunnel (ollapse; TOKYO, Dec. 27. -—— Thirty-nine | | workmen were killed today in the | collapse of a railway tunnel in| southeastern Korea. FAIL T FLOAT WO1"RHIP FERN S Anathar Attempt Is fo Be Guarder Spencer South by Cyane CORDOVA, A D 27 KETCHIKAN, Alaska The C t G fting en aboard the fish- | ar e la boat Yasure, aground on Grass| with seven men nd, Copper River. | Patterson aboard. The The Coa;t)rGuard cutter Spencer!wm go south on ¢ N?’f" TOdB‘{ '0 PU“ - unable to get a small boat|or Baranof. They are "n ! cra" I-'o Sea hrough the river channel ice to the|for the rescue i the C ered thre, asure and an airplane rescue at- | Guard. They were | 1 At X tempt was halted by snow storms,|Bay to Sitka by Navy plane | UNALASKA, Alaska, Deec. 27— X wind and gale. Bt | Thwarted Sunday and yesterday in There is a report here that an un- '] H |attempts to free the grounded mot- dentified fishing boat is ashore Chrisimas EXNOSIOH ‘orsmpp Fern near False Pass, the down the channel and the ice is re- 1 iddi motorship Martha is to make an- ported 18 inches thick. | KIHS ““ee Klddles other n"?empt at high tide today. —— - | If this fails, the Martha is expected ‘ PUEBLO, Mexico, Dec. 27.—|to proceed westward with mail and lEBRu" w‘ll “ol | Christmas brought sorrow to this|passengers and complete the Fern's | city. Three children were killed and | trip. 8 SEEK REE[E(“O“mm others were injured in an ex-| If the Fern is not refloated by | plosion of fireworks. The Mexican | December 29, it is understood here |children ~ celebrate Christmas by |that another vessel will be obtained PARIS, Dec. 27.—President Albert touching off wireworks. |for the Seward-Unalaska service. Lebrun informed close friends today | TS T % B dafinttely decided” not to| Tulane University scholarships| Cameroan, m jrench wASGESvHE seek reelection in May, 1939, It had |and student loans during the 1937- o Nn Denm mm th' been rumored he might try for a |38 school year totaled nearly $150,- b :{;L mn!l'ehruary Py captured second seven-year presidential term, | 000. 4 Lok o