The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 18, 1939, Page 1

- THE DAILY VOL. LIIL, NO. 8003. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TWO ALASKANS ARE KILLED,CAR CRASH France Not to Intervene, Spanish Conflict FIRM STAND TAKEN TODAY BY CABINET Must Keep British Support Is Claim-Nazi Govern- | ment Charges | By ASSOCI D PRI The French Cabinet's decision to stake its life on continued noninter- vention in the Spanish Civil War is reported as Gen. Franco’s Insur- gent forces edged closer to Barcel- ona and are said to have virtually encircled the Capital City of lhv Government of Spain. At a meeting with President Le- brun, the Daladier Government is reported to have rejected the Leftist demands to aid the Government of Spain. The decision was reached in | the Nation from top to bottom. It is| known that the Italian Government is supporting the Insurgents. Neutrality Necessary Foreign Minister Bonnet. told the Cabinet, according to reliable sourc- | es, that continued neutrality is nec- essary to hold the supoprt of Great | Britain in other European matters of a political nature. ‘The information is given out that | the Government will take a confi- dence vote on the nonintervention policy when the Foreign Affairs de- | bate concludes next Friday. ‘The British Government, it is authoritatively reported, has reaf-| firmed its similar policy of keeping | hands off the Spanish Civil War. Nazi Changes Meanwhile, rumors of far reaching changes in Germany's Nazi Admin- | istration are current but Berlin of- ficial sources declined to comment on the report that Field Marshal Goering will emerge more than ever | as Germany’s Number Two man, becoming Vice-Chancellor and Min- | ister of War while Propaganda Mln- ister Goebbels will become Chief o[ Germany’s District leaders in the| Cabinet status but surrendering the | important propaganda press duties. | In Spanish War Pushing toward Barcelona, the In- surgent High Command announces the capture of the Pons Lerida-Pu geerda Road as part of Franco's forces aimed at several of Spain’s comunication supply lines with | France, TANK ATTACK REPULSED BY LONE OFFICER Spanish Government Cor-| poral Credited with Halting Insurgents BARCELONA. Jan. 18 —Exploits | of a young Army “Dinamitero” is> officially credited with| halting, single handed, two Insurgent tank attacks, also wrecking and capturing | three enemy tanks and putting elev- en others to flight, aided by well aimed bombs. The exploits are acclaimed by the press, people and Government of Spain. Bomb hurling of Army Corporal Clestino Garcia Moerno is credited | with first destroying one tank in the | Saint Coloma sector where the In- surgents were pressing toward Bai-| celona, and breaking its back later by machine gunning. | The semi-official newspaper m-l vanguardia said the second attack was made on 13 tanks, two being| wrecked and the others “turning tail” and hastily lumbering away. Corporal Moerno took a pick-axe and broke open a door of one tank and took four Italian officers as| prisoners. ; The newspapers here spread his name in banner headlinep and Moerno has been congratulated by controversy that has stirred the| | war-frightened Europe accoum.ing | Adjusted deposits of federal re- Silenced by Whip? Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels (above) is reported lying in a Berlin hosp:tal badly beaten and virtually a prisoner. He is said have been horsewhipped by friends of actor Gustav Froelich, | |allegedly imprisoned by Goebbels so | 'he could court Froelich’s wife, Lida Baarova., AsPresident Gels Actio | CoIIeagues of Vice-Presi-| dent Urging Candidacy | -Speak Right Qut | WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. — Vicr‘ President John N. Garner is daily | receiving more recognition as a can- didate for the Presidency in 1940. Garner’s colleagues in the Senate | are urging his candidacy. Senator Edward R. Burke, of Neb- raska said: “To me, Garner per-| sonifies not only the average Texan | but the average American.” Senator Morris Sheppard, Demo- | crat of Texas, said: “I am for Garn= | er and if there is anything better | known than that fact in Texas, I do not know what it is.” | e | GOI.D FLOWS T0 UNITED STATES NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—The Unit- | ed States’ gold hoard hit a new rec- ord high in 1938, with imports from for most of the gain. The current total of $14,400,000,000 metal compared with $12,800,000,000 as 1938 dawned, and is approximate- ly 55 per cent of all the monetary gold in the world. BANK DEPOSITS TAKE INCREASE NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Bank de- posits of individuals and corpoar- tions soared to a new record high during 1938, as a result of the gov- ernment's pump-prithing spending. serve member banks in 101 leading center jumped to $16,000,000,000, al- most $2,000,000,000 above the level only nine months earlier. — - BUSY LINKSMEN IOWA CITY, Jan. 18.—Golfers of the University of Iowa will play in seven matches between May 1 and | Nation |at the | first consecration in yellow; May 27 this year. Then on the ALASKA AIR BASE NEEDED ~ SAYS ARNOLD Chief of Army Air Corps| | Makes Recommendation | Before Committee V\’AQHYNGTON Jnn General Arnold, Army Air Corps Chief, told the House Military Af- fairs Committee today that new air bases should be built in Porto Rico, | | Alaska, and two in the continental United State$ and that the Hawaii base should be expanded. Arnold testified at the Opl‘nl)]l., of the hearing on President Roose- velt's $552,000,000 defense program. Arnold told the committee fur- ther that within three years this could turn out war rate of 12,000 a year. He further said that an Army survey showed ductive capacity now is about 1500 planes yearly but this could doubled and quadrupled. S e THIRD SET OF PANAMA LOCKS BEING URGED ‘Garner Boom ond issue of 200,000, 000 Recommended by Secrefary of War WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Secre- tary of War Harry H. Woodring, it is learned, has recommended a bond issue to finance a third set| {of Panama Canal locks. The War Secretary suggested | s'*oo 000,000 as part of the defense | program, contending the bonds | could be retired out of the canal receipts. 'CHURCH OFFICIAL FOR ALASKA WILL BE CONSECRATED Bishop Coefi'ulor-Eled fo Be Inducted Info High Office at Spokane SPOKANE, Wash,, Jan. 18—The of a Catholic Bishop in the Spokane Diocese will take place here next month when the Rev. Father Walter J. Fitz- gerald, Bishop Coadjutor-Elect for Alaska, takes his new office. After the consecration he will be stationed at Fairbanks, Alaska. He is now at Port Angeles, ‘Wash. GOLD PRODUCTION FALLS OFF, REPORT WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. — The Bureau of Mines reports that in- crease of gold production is falling off. Last year the production only in- creased six percent over 1937. The increase from 1933 to 1937 was ten percent. Chapter One of 1939 Session Laws Now on Books Chapter 1 of the 1939 Session Laws has been written. With Gov. John W. Troy’s signing late yesterday afternoon of Senate Bill No. 3, that measure became the first of the Legislature’s finished accomplishments for the present session. ' The bill, introduced by Senator Henry Roden of Juneau, provides a twenty-ninth and thirtieth comes number of amendments to the Un- Premier Negrin. the Big Ten conference champion- ship at Chicago. employment Compensation Act pass- ed by the 1937 special gession. 18.—Major | planes | the aircraft industry’s pro~. | | i 5 e R THREE WASN'T A CROWD, THIS TIME, for a more congenial a-plate Jackson Day dinner in Washington. Left ta richt: Vice President Garner, FIRST EXPONENT FEDERAL RELIEF, DIES IN DENVER Edward Cosli_g;n, Noted in Many Ways, Passes Away Suddenly Last Night DENVER, cui, Jan. 18—Edward P. Costigan, 64, who in 1931 became one of the first Senators to demand direct Federal relief for jobless, died | last night at his home here as the result of a sudden heart attack. Long a disciple of liberalism and | reform in politics and government, | | Costigan twice changed his political Party allegiance before he was elect- ed as a Democrat to the United | States Senate from Colorado in 1930. On April 9, 1936, he announced he | would not seek re-election becausu‘ of ill health ¢ Costigan’s first venture in nation- al politics had come in 1912, when he left the Republican party to aid in| organizing Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party in Colorado. He was the “Bull Moose” candidate for | governor of Colorado in 1912 and 1914, Supported Wilson Two years later, Costigan swung to the Democratic standard, sup-| porting Woodrow Wilson in the 1916 presidential campaign, President | Wilson appointed him to the federal | tariff commission in 1917. He re- mained on the commission until 1928, when he resigned with a strong denunciation of the body for as- serted incompetence. Costigan was sent to Europe in 1918 to represent President Wilson in tariff and trade discussions with foreign powers. The special mission | took him into intricate conferences on reciprocal trade treaties and tar- | iff adjustments with the allied ‘na- tions in the closing months of the World War. He also studied Euro- pean industrial plants, assembling ! data on comparative costs of their| products and similar Amerlcan‘ goods. Gathers Data The material he gathered was laid | before President Wilson as a possible | basis for proposed tariff legislation and treaties, but it was several years before the tariff commission ally made use of his data. The end of the war, Wilson’s trip to Paris for peace negotiations and his sub- | sequent ill health, plus return to| power of the Republican party in| 1920 forestalled the tariff reyision | Costigan had proposed. In the Senate, Costigan won early | recognition by co-authorship of the | Jones-Costigan bill, designed to aid sugar beet growers through bounty payments, He was the vigorous spon- sor of anti-lynch law legislation, a supporter of labor movements, and | an ardent adherent to President Roosevelt's New Deal. Practices Law Costigan was born in King Wil- | liam county, Virginia, July 1. 1874.| He came to Colorado with his par-| ents when he was a boy. He was threesome couldn’t be found at the Democrats’ $100- President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley. MAN WITH FLOWERY WORDS BUT WITH WIT AND HUMOR HOW NEEDED WALKER'S BILL WOULD LICENSE COCKTAIL SALE Hard liquor—by Drink Is Provision of Sena- for's Measure A bill to license seling of hard liquors by the drink in addition to beer and wine was introduced in the Senate yesterday afternoon by Sen- ate President Norman R. Walker of Ketchikan. The measure, Senate Bill No. 10, provides for a license fee of $1500. This is five times the present license. Senator Walker’s bill reads as fol- lows: A bill for an act entitled: “A bill for an act to amend Chapter 78, Session Laws of Alaska, 1937, defin- ing the sale of intoxicating liquor in beverage dispensaries.” Be it enacted by the Legislature of the Territory of Alaska: That Section 13, sub-section A, be amend- ed to read as follows: “(A) Beverage Dispensary Li- censes: A Beverage Dispensary Li- cense shall give to the holder thereof the right to sell or serve on the premises beer (and) wine and hard liquors for consumption on the premises only. Provided, however, that the premises for which such li- cense is issued shall not be con- nected by doors or otherwise with premises covered by any other - cense under these regulations; and provided further, that the sales under Beverage Dispensary Licenses | are limited to less than five wine gallons to any one person in any one day. A Beverage Dispensary License Fee is Fifteen Hundred Dollars ($1,500.00).” MARRIED TWICE, SEPARATE TWICE Juvenile Fil]?Star, Society Girl, Don't Seem fo Make It Go LOS ANGELES, Cal, Jan. 18— Tom Brown, film juvenile, and Na- talie Draper, society girl, who went through two marriage ceremonies in 1937 just to be certain their union was legal, are again separated for the second time, Neither Brown nor his wife would | make any comment regarding their (Continued on Page Six) living apart. INU. S. SENATE By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 18, — There is an opening in the Senate for a man with a flow of fine flowery words edged with wit and humor. It would be possible, in fact, to forget the fine and flowery diction if only a new face would show up with wit and humor. It is too late to pick one out of the electorate, That chance passed last November. But there are a number of new and comparatively untried senatorial fledglings who could make a public career for themselves if they only would barb their quips and at the same time grace them with good humor, Of the dozen or so “Young Turks” of the 1932, ‘34, or '36 vintage, there were many serious minds but not a solitary one has blossomed yet into a worthy ribber. It is a dangerous business — at least more dangerous than simply being a placid senatorial stick. Sena- tors jabbed by a prickly wit will gang up to take him down a peg, and be it recorded there is nothing so flat as a deflated wit. But a man who can take it from all sides can be the subject of headlines and parlor conversation until the end of time. HUEY THE MASTER ‘The late Huey Long was the latest complete master. He once took on three Senators at a time, backed one after another blushing into his seat by pointing out their own political tomfooleries and then rubbed it in mercilessly by adding: « “When you want a fight, don't pick on a porcupine.” He spent hours goading the late Majority Leader Robinson into a lather of fury and only once was taken into camp. Senator Ashurst of Arizona, scholar, wit and gen- tleman extraordinary, left Huey fairly jibbering by excoriating him in exquisite but telling language to which even the Kingish could not reply. He didn't bite another Senator for days. There are only two Senators now with a flair for wit and the bravery to exercise it, and each is proficient only in limited fields. Besides Sen- ator Ashurt, there is Senator Tom Conally of Texas who will boldly wave aside a telling point in argu- ment in order to make a wise crack or point up a good story. HOLT LOOKED PROMISING Young Senator Holt of West Vir- ginia came up with a reputation for sharp wit and telling punches. But he has spent four years of his six- year term in an unpromising cock- fight with his colleague, Senator Neely. Senator Reynolds of North Caro- ! |ing expenses of Territorial em- lina, youngish, widely traveled and brassy as a cornet, has the makings. His home state political speeches WAYS, MEANS DEFICIT BILL IS BEFORE HOUSE Spencer Memorial Asks Legislative Session fo Be Held Every Year A $170,000 dollar general defici- ency bill was placed before the House of Representatives by the Ways and Means Committee, and Representative Spencer of Fair- banks introduced a memorial ask- ing Congress for an annual legis- lative session in Alaska, during this morning’s House business. ‘The deficiency bill apportions the following amounts to the offices named: Office of Attorney General, $500 for travel expenses, $200 con- tingent office expenses, $250 court costs; Auditor, $2,000 for vital sta- tistics, $1,000 for contingent office expenses, $600 for extra clerical help; Public Welfare, $6,894.46 for office expense and $72,49241 for re- lief of destitute, needy and indi- gent; Treasurer, $4,000 for salaries, travel expenses, clerical assistance, contingent office expense and Ter- ritorial liquor stamps; for wolf and coyote bountries, $85,000. These items were all mentioned in the Governor’s deficit message. The item of $1,750 for office ex- penses of the Commissioner of La- bor is being taken care of in an emergency bill introduced yester- day by the Ways and Means Com- mittee. The bill was passed to second reading. 30-Day Session The joint memorial proposed by Representative Spencer, asks Con- gress to amend the Organic Act, which provides for a biennial ses- sion of the Territorial Legislature for sixty days, so that the act will also provide for a 30-day session on even numbered years, Under this set-up, the Legisla- ture would meet here in “long session on odd numbered years and in “short” session on even num- bered years, the idea advanced, ac- cording to the bill, because of “ad- vances in development of natural resources and conditions affecting such development and problems arising from the conservation of natural resources, and because of the need for a more active associa- tion between the National Govern- ment and the Territorial Govern- ment.” In the report of committees to- day, the Ways and Means Com- mittee reported in House Bill No. 12, regarding an $80,000 appropria- tion for transportation of school students, with recommendation of amendment to make the bill read with reference to the $80,000—"or | as much thereof as is necessary.” House Bill No. 13, a bill on limit- ployees and officials traveling out- side of the Territory, was recom- (Answers on Page 8ix) (Continued on Page Two) FAIRBANKS MAN, WIFE MEET DEATH Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hayes Fatally Injured When Auto Hifs Truck MERCED, Cal, Jan. 18—Frank Hayes, Alaska tavern employee, his wife, were almos' instantly kill | When their car crashed headon inf |a truck on the Golden Gate way, nine miles south of here. SOUTH ON VACATION SEATTLE, Jan. 19. — Attorney Herbert Onstad sald Hayes was about 35 years old and his wife Peggy was several years younger. Hayes was owner of a tavern at Fairbanks. The two left here Monday for & brief holiday in California and planned to return north soon. Mrs, Hayes arrived in Seattle last week to join her husband. HOPKINS IS APPROVED BY SENATE (OM. Nominafion Wil Probably Be Finally Acted on Tomorrow WABHINGTON, Jan. 18. — The Senate Commerce Committee has approved of Harry L. Hopkins' nomination to be Secretary of Come merce, Wililam Harriman, New York banker, Chairman of the Business Advisory Council, testified and gave his support to the nominee, The nomination will probably be taken up in the Senate for final ac« tion tomorrow. NEW YORK, Janu. 18—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 9%, American Can 98%, American Light and Power 6%, An- aconda 31%, Bethlehem Steel 73, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright A 24%, General Mo- tors 47%. International Harvester 55%, Kennecott 39%, New York Central 19%, Northern Pacific 12%, Bafeway Stores 33°:, Southern Pace ific 187%, United States Steel 64%, Bremner bid 1'%, asked 2, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The folowing are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 148.99, up 06; rails 3201, up .13; utilities 24.18, up .05, CHAMBER WILL MEET THURSDAY The Juneau Chamber of Comse merce will hold the usual Thursday noonday luncheon and meeting to- morrow at Percy’s cafe. Several members of the Aeronautics Com- mission and Game Commission will be special guests and President Charles W. Carter will also announce the standing committees for the year, DOG COMES FIRST; MAN GETS DIVORCE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 18.—= Gaetano Merola, maestro of the | San Francisco Opera Company, has obtained a divorce from Rosa Merola on the charge, among others, that her pet pomeranian “came first, he second.” Other charges of m stated Mrs. Merola searched pockets after he went to bed. ¢