The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL., NO. 7993. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 6, 1939. MEMBER AS SOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 DELAY SEEN IN STATES-ALASKA AIR MAIL Czechs Bombard Hungarian Border Town GRIM ATTACK REPORTED IN Nunkach Sc:n; of Newesi Border Friction af Troops Clash CANNON, TANKS, CARS THROWN INTO BATTLE Protest lodged at Prague as Italy, Germany Are Nofified BUDAPEST, HEungary, Jan. 6.— The Hungarian government report- ed today two Czechoslovak artillery bombardmets had been made on the border city of Munkach where a pitched battle between Cechoslo- vak and Hungarian forces has been raging. Reports of a battle involving can- nen, tanks and cars spread a wave of excitement throughout the na- tion. Munkach is in the territory Czech- oslovakia ceded Hungary two months ago. High officials of the government met and their session was continuing Martha Stephenson (above), blonde she was in boarding schocl. He and Elizabeu) Slaughter, of Dnilnp.Tex., were divurced last sumner, debutante who has been a night club singer and received a Hollywood screen test, will wed Hal Kemp, noted band leader. The New York socialite met Kemp four years ago while his first wife, the former Margaret today. The Hungarian foreign office an- nounced a protest had been made to Prague charging violation of Hun- gary’s border and said German and Italian legations at Budapest had been informed “Hungary waives all responsibility for what may hap- pen.” LINDY REPORTS BACK ON NAZ! Casualities, Both Sides | Official advices said both sidc» suffered casualities in the first bom- bardment at 3:40 am. (PST), and said a hotel, motion pciture theatre and the Munkach Municipal theatre had been struck by Czechoslovak shells. The second barrage began at 5:20 a.m., the Hungarian news agency said, reporting four hits on buildings. | Hungarian military advices re- ported at 7 a.m. the “assualt invad- ers” had been repulsed all along the line but intermittent shelling was continuing. Army Officers Forwarded Confidential Summary from Colonel PROTEST LODGED PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 6. —The Hungarian Charge d’Affaires WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — Col. called at the foreign office and lodg- Charles A. Lindbergh has given gov- ed a protest which charged Czech ernment officials a confidential re- tk];:;:“ invaded Lhe region of Mun- port on Germany’s air strength, it Czech officers attached to the joint | Was learned authoritatively wuav Hungarian-Czechoslovakian border ~ Army officers declined to “eonfirm delimitation commission were ord- repnm of the document but it was ered to the scene. Reports indicated assumed here Lindbergh submitted only a small detachment of Czech it voluntarily. troops was stationed in that area. The famous aviator still retains | his commission in the army air, CZECHS BLAME TERROR ‘corps réserve. HURST, Czechoslovakia, Jan. 6.—| Col. Lindbergh has visited Ger-| The government of the Carpathn many, as well as other European Ukraine autonomous division of | nations, at various times to study Czechoslovakia issued a denial today aviation facilities. of Budapest reports Czechoslovak troops had attacked and shelied the ! Hungarian village’ of Oroszpeg ter- rorists” crossed the’ border during the night, attacked Czech border patrols and wounded one soldier. , The communigue added the pat- | rols ehased the terrorists back across the border. | B e w ——— - ENGLISH CROWN IS NOW SHUNNED Ickes Shocked ; LONDON, Jan. 6. — The bhest By Death of hoarded coin of the realm, and| Sy {probably the least liked, is the E_ w. G""ln “five = shilling” silver piece or & “crown,” worth in American cur- yrency approximately $1.25. It is big and cumbersome, and mostly associated with “jubilees.” Traders don't like the coin, and when they get any they usually |send them back to the bank quick- ly. Expressing shock at news of the death of E. W. Griffin, Secretary of Alaska, Harold L. Ickes, Secretary of Interior, sent the following mes- sage today to the Governor's office: “I was shocked to have the news| of Secretary Griffin's death con- 4 3 tained in your radiogram on Decem- | In the liquor trade there is a ber 31. Please extend my sincere| superstition that any bartender ac- sympathy to his friends and asso- cepting one is destined for early ciates. The Territory has lost a dismissal. pioneer citizen and faithful public The extinction of the coin, some- official.” itimes called a “cartwheel,” has —_—————— been predicted periodically, but it A movement is under way in Cal-‘keeps cropping up. The Royal Mint ifornia to make three years' resi- recently announced no more would dence in the state a requisite for be struck for the remainder of relief. 1938, AIR STRGENTH| AS CUMBERSOME 3 000,000 Jobs Latein'38 Heip Bnghlen aDark Year By A. A. PATTON Associated Press Statistician NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—Although 1938 started with a severe slump in business adding daily to the number saw recovery take hold and the na- tion’s working force increase by al- most 3,000.000 mexn and women. ! Unique among depressions, the| recent setback was accompanied by | relatively little wage-cutting. Indeed, |a compilation by the National In- dustrial Conference Board based on | the average wage actually increased ifx'om 68 cents an hour last January | to 71 cents late in the year. | Hours of work, however, were ! slashed drastically, which amounts | to the same thing as a wage cut as |far as the employees’ pay-check is | concerned. Reemployment Starts At the low point of the slump in May, the Conference Board, a re- search organization supported chief- ly by large corporations, estimated 11,362,000 people were without pri- “vate jobs. This was a 100 per cent increase over the number only eight months earlier and lifted the jobless |army to the level prevailing early ‘m 1935. The spurt in business that got under way during the summer, however, put millions of men back on private payrolls. Industrial ac- tivity, measured by The Associated | Press seasonally adjusted index, | climbed from' 66 per cent of the 1929-30 average in May to 94 toward the year’s close, a record breaking | six months rise. | Close to 45% million men and women were drawing pay checks from private employers as 1938 pass- ed into history, compared with 421 million at the low in May, the Board estimated. Industry accounted for pratically all the improvement in employment during the last six months. Jobs provided by agriculture—roughly one-quarter of the total—showed virtually no recovery although crops generally were comparatively heavy. The number of farm workers was es- timated to have remained practically unchanged at 11,200,000 toward the year-end, only slightly above the year’s low, whereas industrial em- ployment jumped 2,500,000 to 16,- |~ Building Employment Gains The building industry chalked up the widest percentage gain over the (Continued on Page Seven) \ | of unemployed, the last half year| 25 manufacturing industries shows| Jeral Frank Murphy has given him. | DEPARTMENT _ JUSTICE NOW STARTS PROBE Inveshgahon of Alleged Violations, Crimnal Statutes Begins GENERAL ACTIVITIES OF GROUPS BE LOOKED INTO President P&éives Infor-| mation from Murphy— : Dies’ Demand Silent | WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt today said the De-| partment of Justice has undertaken investigation of alleged viola- of the criminal statutes by Communists and certaind in this coun-{ an tion Nazis, other organizations try. { The President said Attorney Gen- | this information in a letter. 1 The letter has not been made |public, but the President said the {alleged violations have been sub-: mitted to the Department of Jus- s{tice by the Dies Committee which | has beer investigating Un=Auderi- can activities. President Roosevelt did not make any comment on reports that he| |is opposing the request of Chair- |man Martin Dies for an additional $150,000 to carry on the injuiry. ANTI-FOREIGN MEDAL MEASURE IS PRESENTED WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—Repre- |sentative Harold Knutson, Reput 1imn of Minnesota. has introdues |a pill to prevent American citi |zens from accepting Dpresents titles of any kind from kings, princ |es, or foreign governments. | Suspension of citizenship for two years would be the penalty for vio- |lation. Knutson said the bill was not prompted by Germany’s recent |bestowal of honors on Henry Ford |and Col. Charles A. Lindbergh. Mid-Winter Robin Sighted, May Be Sign of Spring Maybe it’s a sign of spring, or| maybe this bird has taken to wear- ing long underwear, But at any rate, B. D. Stewart, Commissioner of Mines, and Mrs. Stewart while walk- ing on Calhoun Avenue near their home yesterday saw a Robin Red Breast peering intently at the world from a tree limb, “Perhaps he got his dates mixed and didn’t know it was January 5 and the middle of the winter,” com- mented the Commissioner, ‘“but there he was, and apparently en- joying it.” Pawtucket Battles Spcchcuhr Fire View of one of the most spectacular fires in the history of Pawtucket, R. L., sweeping the Eagle Dye Workl. ALL THOSE JOBS-TO-BE-FILLED STRENGTHEN FDR'S POSITION! IHREE HOLDUP KILLERS MEET DEATH, CHAIR Relatives T'u'rs‘. ed Oown Sharply in Request for Stay of Fxecution OSSINING ,,1 The killers werc Charles Berna and D Relatives attemnted of execution but this was turned down as the authorities said the men gave their victims “no chance, no mercy.” - SCHOOL LAND BILL FOR ALASKA GIVEN HOUSE BY DIMOND WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — Dele- | gate from Alaska, Anthony J. Di- mond, introduced a bill in the House reserving two sections each township surveyed from the public lands in Alaska for school purposes. | i R Uy LYBECKS RETURNING Bert Lybeck and Mrs. Lybeck are passengers for Juneau aboard the North Coast. They spent the holi- day season with relatives and friends | lin the States. stay in| FURTHER WORK IN ALASKA IS But the damage was merely $10,000. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — The expected independent disposition of the present Congress presents a problem for the President as well as his leaders. He is for that rea- | son enrm«dw*—w no weapons that ;mn be eful in a pi is 2 reasonable plana- the score more of appoimmems pending these many | mportant noaths. The type of apr nts | ;;’M'.‘ in the -\uux are | inot the usual flow of patronage { They are super-gifts far beyond| | the realm of postmasters and trave ! elix presentatives of the Fed- ral T Commi: on | R { STRATEGY | To some it Is sacrilege to talk of 8 1w Court appointment in | ame sentence with patronage, | uch offices are stategic w»np- in (he hands of a President | facod by a laggard or unruly Con-| bi Hp doesn’t need to make the| {appointment in order to persuade | |2 particular congressman to vote, \ this way or that on a piece of legis- | lation desired by the Administra- | tion. He may fill a vacancy with a certain type of candidate simply (to indicate his pleasure ‘- or dis- pleasure with congressional action. | Certain it is that the appoint- {ment of Senator Black to the Su- preme Court was more widely in- terpreted as a whack at the Senate | for -defeating the court bill than |as a recognition of Black’s attain- | ments as a jurist. The kind of appointments the President has in reserve are these: a Supreme Court Justice to succeed | the late Justice Cardozo (made yes- terday), an Ambassador to Russia, | Ministers to Canada and Iran (Per- ‘|sia to me and yow), a cumpt.roller, General, three Olrcuit Court Jus-| tices, one Distriet of Columbia judge, | |16 district judges, eight district at-| Giant breakers, trailers of the four | been sh GOVERNMENT LINE BROKEN- ONONEFRONT HO HEARING SCHEDULED YET, REPORT Pan America_ntlipber on Last Experimental Flight North UP TO AERONAUTICS AUTHORITY, SAYS PAA Three lines—l-\_r; Applicants - % for Service fo Territory Twenty - four - Hour Drive FRANK BEI.I. by Insurgents Report- ed as Successful Th HENDAYE, Spanist Govert on the Ce front has at the talonia two place end of a 24 hour Insurg The driv ing southw known as ti Hr celona defense The line has been held firm for [two wecks bofroe the general Insur- gent offensive began or gember | 23 and cu L tinmitous | drive for 2 Seas Lash Oregon’s Coastline One Killed, Six Injured in "Tidal Wave” Affer- math of Storm ASTORIA, Oregon, Jan. 6.—Tow- ering seas which smashed the coast- line yesterday and roared inland | killed one, injured at least six others and tore out seven hundred feet of newly placed Southern Pacific rail- road track. Many homes and cottages were wrecked. fortified line | | | RESIGNS AS FISH CHIEF Commissioner Will Re- enter Private Business . in Washington State WASHINGT Yan, 6.~—8ec- retary of Comn ‘cc Harry Hop- kins today annonced the resig- nation of Frank T. Bell, Com- missioner of Fisheries, who, he said, will return to private busi- ness in the State of Washington. He said he did not know when former Secretary Daniel Roper. e — CONGRESS MAY BE ASKED T0 BUY REINDEER Carl lomen_-s—ays He and Brothers Own “About WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — The Federal Communications Commis- sion told Congress that there is “further work to be done” in co- ordinating operations of the various radio stations in Alaska. In the annual report submitted to Congress, the Commission says there has been “material improvement in the communication system in Al- aska,” pointing out that communi- cations of Alaskans with the United\ States largely depends upon radio. The Commission says that in the| PROPOSED IN REPORT OF FC( torneys, one member of the Federal | |day storm which apparently had | Reserve Board, one Federal Power‘mo“n itself out, took the propor- | Commissioner, two Interstate Com~mons of a tidal wave. merce Commissioners, one member| Roy Saubert, 48, owner of the sea of the Federal Home Loan Bank|jjon caves north of Florence, drown- Board, one TVA director (made eq when a comber carried him to yesterday), one Districs of Colum-|sea, The body has not been recoy- {bia Commissioner, and no end of | ered. subordinate positions likely to grow; out of the shift of Harry Hopkins to the Cabinet as Secretary of| Commerce. >ast it has employed “a very lenient ittitude with regard to waiving cer- ‘ain technical requirements in the natter of hoth operator and station icenses” and added that the recent stablishment of an office in An- chorage has been of considerable benefit in the regulation of Alas- kan stations but recognizes the fact there is much room for improve- ment, therefore will continue to co- operate in every manner possible with the Alaska Communications system and other Government agen- cies in Alaska. Former Star of Silent Days Is A NICE HELP | With the exception of some of the Granfed Divorce | District Attorney posts, these johs‘ all pay $10,000 and up, which is nice;, CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 6.—Mrs. Con- money even measured in terms of\slance Talmadge Netcher, former Federal patronage. Jstar of the silent screen, has been There are those in Congress who granted an uncontested divorce from l’l'ownsend Netcher, wealthy Chica- goan, (Answers on Page Six) 250,000 Deer”’ WASHNGTON, Jan. 6. — Carl Lomen, following closely the at- tempts of the Government to leg~ islate him out of the reindeer busi- ness, said, however, he is “not wor= reid” about losing.any business. Congress has authorized $3,000,000 to purchase all reindeer herds and turn them over to the natives. It is expected the new Congress will be asked to carry out the pro- gram. Carl Lomen said he believed he and his brothers owned about 250,= 000 deer: “You can't count them any more,* he said. “The number has just been estimated.”