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| i f THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” [ s e remrig i s VOL. LIIL, NO. 7991. JUNEAU ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FDR. STRIKES OUT AT DICTATORSHIPS » * * Urges Un jAPAN fORMS U. S. Mint ‘Easy Mark’ for Boy NEW CABINET, KONOYE OUT Fascist - Inclined Privy Council Head Named by Emperor fo Act MILITARISTS DEMAND NEW POLICY IN CHINA More Rigid Control of Economic Life of Jap- anese |s Forecast TOKYO, Jan.. 7Empcxm Hiro- hito has commanded Baron Hira- numa, 73-year-old Fascist inclined President of the Privy Council to form a new Cabinet to succeed com- paratively liberal who resigned. Declaration was made that the war in China has come to a stage where new policies “under a new Cabinet” should be formulated. The Konoye Cabinet fell before a strong militarist demand for re- organization at home and abroad for renewed efforts to hasten Jap- an’s will in east Asia. The Fascist-minded elements want a single political party in Japan and more rigid control of economic life and a new administrative pollcy in Chhm COMMISSIONER Prince Konoye, | * * * Although the new U. S. mint pregnable as Fort Knox, Ky., two 1 “fortress” by merely climbing a drain pipe and raising a window. A guard hearing a sigral alarm, fsund the yeuthful “invaders” in. the copper rcom, where pennies are point of a machine gun until pelice arrived. According to autho they said they were not trying to to see if we could do it.” Paul Francis after they had been shal’s off * * | San Francisco, was declared as im- 5 year old boys recently entered the | 1 stamped. They were held at the | ies, ‘ rob the mint, but merely “wanted Photo shows William Galagher (left) and booked at the United States mar- HERE FOR GAME GERMANY LACKS FOREIGN MeerING TUESDAY EXCHANGE; THIS BROUGHT John Hajdukovi(h, Wild- life Agent Sam White in from Fairbanks For the annual meeting of the| Alaska Game Commission which | convenes here next Tuesday, John| Hajdukovich, member of the Com- mission from the Fourth Division, | arrived in Juneau this afternoon by PAA plane. Also aboard the plane| to spend some time at hea’/Zuarters | during the Commission session was | ‘Wildlife Agent Sam White of Fmr— banks. Other members of the Commission are expected to arrive on the next boats from the west and south, ac cording to Executive Officer E‘rank Dufresne. They include Earl N. Ohmer of Petersburg, Acting Chair- man since the resignation of Irving McReed; Prank P. ‘Williams of St. Michael and Andrew A. Simons of | Lakeview. WRECK HEARING SEATLE, Jan. 4—The progress of | the motorship Patterson in the storm on the Gulf-of Alaska which ended in the craft Piling . up on the OUT IN JEW EXPULSIONS s eluinte” (hmese Winning Force Crossmg Along Sui River-Move Forward Also on Border SHANGHAI, Jan. 4. — Severe fighting on widely separated fronts is reported after the holiday lull. The Chinese, claim they have | broken the long stalemate along the | Sui River, 50 miles south of the forcing a crossing and recapturing two towns on the north bank. Far- | ther west, along the Hupeh-Hunan border, the Chinese assert they have | recaptured Tawuntsun, in the north. The Japanese are continuing the ‘oflemxvo in Shansi Province. s e i beach near Cape Fairweather, was| described today at the Federal Mar- | ine Board inquiry. by.Capt. Harry | Bune. to log only seven miles in a two hour | period before sheé grounded. Prev- | iously the Patterson had logged 23 miles in four hours. Large Sum For Navy Bases In Northland WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Al- aska Delegate Anthony J. Di- ond has introduced legislatitn to authorize the Navy to spend $100,000,000 on whatever Alaskan bases the Navy Department deems necessary. Capt. Bune said the storm was so violent that tHe Phfterson was able< 'ARGUMENTS BEING HEARD IN SCOTT DELINQUENCY CASE | Testimony was completed and ar- guments started this afternoon in the case of Sam Scott who is being | tried before a jury in Federal Dis- | trict Court on charges of contribut- ling to the delinquency of minor | girls. The Jerome J. Armstrong murder | case is scheduled to open tomorrow. Armstrong is charged with the death of Peter Allard last summer aboard | & gasboat at Kalina Bay. e, 1 To get the most vitamin C, keep vegetables in the refrigerator, for this vitamin deterioratees rapidly at any but cool temperafures. By PREST()N GRO\ ER } | tivities, was $3,423,059. | property improvement. | follows: | (loans accepted for insurance) $192,- | * * * » * » * ALASKA GETS| ___ aprasncal il MILLIONS, ‘38 | Territory's Share in Special Federal Spending Is $3,423,059 WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Alaska’s | estimated share in 1938 actual Fed- eral expenditures, in addition to funds for routine departmental M'i 'Also the Territary reecived a total | of $433395 from the Reconstruction | Finance Corporation in loans auth- orized, and from the Federal Hous- ing Administration in loans accept- ed for insurance, small home and A breakdown of the expenditures Works Progress Administration— $1,500. Public Works Administration—$1,- 937,159 in grants for non-Federal projects. Civilian Conservation Corps—$820,- | 000 Reconstruction Finance Corpora- tion — (loans disbursed) $73,000; (loans authoried) $173,500. Army Engineers—$470,000 for riv- | ers and harbors and $1,400 for flood | control. Federal Housing Administration— 700; (loans acepted for small ho.ac and property improvement) $67,195. Social Security grands in aid— s1zoooo " INAZI BOMBERS NOW REPORTED IN HONDURAS ' Sixty of latest Designed (HAMBER ER CHIEF SAYS BUSINESS GAINED IN 1938 Plea fo Congress Is 'No New Fangled Shori- Barfer Agreement | | cufs to Prosperify’ SAN DIEGO, Jan. 4—The Daily * * * * nearest relatives, The remaining three lots were split intc twenty-three shares for inw loh. - » - The ancient whaling town of New Bedford, Mass., witnessed one of the strangest drawings on record when Banker Benjamin A. Tripp held the hat for heirs to draw their respective shares in the $137,600 for- tune left by David Levasseur. First the fortune was split into five lots and a drawing was made by the two mt_gtdubdnh ALASKA SCHOOL TEACHERS ARE PROPOSING LIFE JOBS;. | GOING BEFORE LEGISLATORS ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan. 4.— It is said here that Alaska teachers are subscribing to a fund to send a lobbyist to Juneau to seek passage of a Tenure Act providing virtually life jobs. As proposed by Anchorage teach- ers, the act will give all teachers who have been in Alaska schools for two years or more, permu.nem posts, subject to discharge only after for- mal hearing on proof of mental in- competence, dishonesty or neglect of duty. ‘The act would strip school boards of the power to make them pay- WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — When?san Diego Union today says that indignation over mistreatment of |60 German bombing planes, with Jews is set aside, the cold fact stands | crews, are now in Honduras, 600 mil- | KANSAS CITY, Jan. 4—George 2 Fronfs | Yangtze River at Port Kiukiang by| IS IN PROGRESS ‘mn, that Germany has not enough | international money to allow Jews[ to leave with pockets full of gold | and foreign exchange. That must |come from other countries before-| hand. That is the view of competent financial authorities here who have | as good information as is available outside of Germany as to the amount of foreign exchange which Germany can lay her hands on. This does not arise as an excuse for the German program of driving Jews out of Germany. But the purely financial difficulty of getting the Jews out of Germany will bear ex- plaining. Germany’s latest maneuver is to propose tentatively that wealthy for- eign Jews advance enough foreign | exchange for German Jews to get a | {new start in life elsewhere. Ger- many’s part of the program would be to repay the wealthy foreign Jews by shipping them German goods. German Jews, of course, would deliver a corresponding value in property or securities to the Ger- man government to complete the three-cornered trade. WHY MANEUVER IS NECESSARY | Now why is such a complicated maneuver necessary? Best sources here indicate there lis not enough gold and foreign ex- :change available in Germany to per- | {mit German Jews to get out of the country with their wealth, even if ‘ the Reich turned over to them its whole hoard. And the Nazi govern- | ment is not likely to deplete its| “war chest” of gold and foreign ex- ichange by take it out of the country. Here are figures on the situation. Last April Germany ordered Jews | to register all their wealth. It was officially reported to total 8,000.000,- 1000 reichmarks, or $3,200,000,000. A | British publication, the London Banker, estimates that since then one billion marks' of value has shrunk away and that two billion . (Continued on Page Seven) H. Davis, President of the United States Chamber of Commerce, noted | the opening 6f Congress with the observation that business is “at a | level definitely better than the level at the end of 1937.” But Davis tempered his optimism with the statement: “Whether the upturn is to con- tinue in 1939 depends entirely upon Mister Average Citizen. For many years we watched the experiment of | trying to make water run uphill. Everyone realizes now there are no new fangled short cuts to prosper- ity INSURGENTS ONADVANCE es from the Panama Canal. ‘While the type of planes is not reported, it is said they are “large | jobs” the latest design. It is stated the planes were sent to the Central American Republic under what is reported to be a barter | agreement whereby Honduras will pay for them in coffee and other | products. Germans are reported to be ins- tructing Honduran pilots and mech- anics. BABY (LIPPER FROM SEATTLE; LANDS AUK BAY The Baby cupper of the Pan Am- erican Airways zoomed over Juneau | this afternoon and landed at Auk | Bay about 2:05 o'clock. | ‘The clipper will remain until to- | morrow morning, and weather per- mitting will fly south again, via| K;Lfi}::figm the third on the winter | Reporfed Arteska, Key fo flying from: Seattle to Juneau. Ca'alonia' co n ’ r OI < WALKER, LYNG' AND- Point, Captured AR"OI-D 'o BEG“B'S HENDAYE, Jan. 4—Two Insur- gent columns, (“‘MBER 'omm | through the Government fortifica- | | tions, are reported to have captured Senator Norman R. Walker and |the little textile town of Artesa, Judge W. C. Arnold of ngmkun,,known as the key to Catalonia. and Representative Howard Lyng of | Aitesa is highly important to the letting Jewish lcmgeearNome, member of the Territorial | | Insurgents because of its position| b)Soard of Public Welfare, have been’as the control point for three main invited to be guests of the Juneau | highways. Chamber of Commerce at its weekly | N A S luncheon tomorrow noon in Percy's MINING FIRM INCORPORATES Cafe, it is announced by Secretary Articles of incorporation have | R. H. Stevens. | been filed wtih the Territorial Au- wprdiirlpom—— | ditor by the Sonny Fox Mining Com- In Palestine bread is not con-|pany of Seward. Capital is listed at sidered ordinary food, but a special | $100,000 and directors are E. D. gift from God; until 1844, it was not Webb, C. E. Orlander and R. E. sold, but only given or exchanged. Baumgartner, ONE SECTOR blasting their way | masters. S ee— RARE INCIDENT TAKES PLACE IN SENATE OF U. . Wife of Former President Witnesses Son Taking His Oath WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.-—Capitol historians said the attendance of Mrs. Willlam Howard Taft at the seating yesterday of her son Ro- bert in the Senate, marked for the first time in 136 years, .when the wife of a former President of the United States had seen her son so honored. In 1803, Mrs. John Adams saw her son, John Quincy Adams, take his oath as Senator. SPECIAL SERVICES FOR SECRETARY AT | SEWARD ON SUNDAY At the request of his large circle of Seward friends, special funeral services for Edward W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska, who died here last Friday, will be held in the un- o'clock next Sunday afternoon, ac- office today. Prominent citizens of ‘Seward will serve as pallbearers |and the distinguished official will | there in 1930, Services were held here on Mon- | day for the Secretary and his body | placed aboard the Baranof Tuesday | official lived in Kodiak and Seward for many years. dertaking parlors at Seward at 2| cording to word to the Governor's be buried beside his wife, who died | for shipment to' Seward. The late| * |BOMBING CRAFT DROP DEATH ON High Explosives Also Rain- ed on Tarragona, Port Area BARCELONA, Jan. 4—At least forty persons have been killed and more than thirty wounded in Tar- ragona today as Insurgent planes rained heavy bombs on two pas- senger trains loaded with refugees from front line areas. While rescuers dug in the debris of Tarragona's port area, 25 more Insurgent plapes circles overhead dropping more missiles of explosive death with bomb after bomb. It is definitely one of the Span- ish Civil War's worst behind-the- lines attacks. Extent of casualties in Tarragona and surrounding suburbs is not fully known. LEGISLATORS PLAN FORMAL CAUCUS SUNDAY Expected fo Decide fhen on President and Speaker ~Lander Arrives Conferences with Territorial of- feiials and informal caucuses occu- pied the attention of members of the 14th Territorial Legislature today as they awaited the opening of the session next Monday. Present plan is for the two houses to convene at noon Monday. First formal caucus of the two groups is tentatively fixed for Sun- day afternoon when they are expect- ed to decide on President of the Senate, Speaker of the House, Chief Clerk and Secretary. Senator Nor- man R. Walker of Ketchikan, serv- ing his fourth term, has indicated he will accept the Presidency if his | fellows tender him the position and lRepresenmuve Howard Lyng of | Nome appears to be slated for the Speakership, according to legisla- | tive expression. Representative Jesse D! Lander of the Fourth Division arrived in Ju- neau today by PAA plane, bringing | to the city all the out-of-town mem- bers. e e FOUR FLY WITH AAT Shell Simmons took four pas- sengers aboard the Alaska Air ‘Trampon Lockheed today for Hoon~ |ah and Hirst. SPANISH: TRAIN;SE e Senety ood X ited Nation to Prepare for War Heirs Pull Fortunes Out ot a Hat SAYS MUNICH PACT DID NOT ASSUREPEACE American Religion, De- mocracy and Good Faith Threalengdi,_ He Avers SLAPS UNDECLARED WARS AS A GROWING MENACE Recommends fo Congress Legislation fo “End Fac- tional Labor Strife” WASHINGTON, Jan, 4. President Roosevelt told Con- gress today world peace has not been “assured” by the Munich pact. “Storms from abroad” di- rectly challenge American Democracy, the President said. Addressing a Juint session the President “undeclared wars, M & maments and new aggress sion” threaten three institu- tions indispensable to Am- |ericans: Religion, Democracy and International Good Faith. UNITED NATION Only through a nation united, both physically and spiritually, he added, can these storms be kept from American shores. “War which threatened to envelop the World in flames has been averted, but it be- comes increasingly clear peace has not been assured,” Roosevelt declared, without mentioning by name the Mu- nich pact. Nor did the President name any foreign nation. But the President referred to “events in Europe, Africa, Asia,” places where Czecho- slovakia was dismembered, Italy conquered Ethiopia and Japan invaded China. “All about us rage unde- clared wars, military and eco- nomic; all about us grow more deadly armaments, mili- tary and economic; all about us are threats of aggression, (Continued on Page 8ix) FINDS FAULT WITH MESSAGE OF PRESIDENT GOP Leader Says "“Uncon- structive”-Demo Man Says “"Masterful” WABBINGTO?._JML 4.—Repre- sentative Joseph W. Martin, of Mas- sachusetts, Republican House lead- er, said today in commenting on the President’s message: “I am sorry there wasn't something constructive offered in the messaze which would give a measure of hope for ten mil~ lion unemployed.” Representative Sam Rayburn, Democrat of Texas, House Demo- ' Dr. Joseph Aronson and Irma|cratic leader, called the address a Parr flew to Hoonah and Reginald |“masterful Lee and Ralph Effner flew to Hirst, affairs and trends.’ ctting forth of world