The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ettty VOL. LIIL, NO. 8004. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 19, 1939. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BASE LEGISLATION IS INTRODUCED TAX INCOMES FEDERAL MEN IS PLAN NOW Roosevelt Asks Congress| to Bring Salaries Under ! Income Tax Law NO MORE TAX- FREE FEDERAL SECURITIES States WonTld‘ Benefit byt Reciprocal Features of President’s Plan | WA'%HINGTON Jan. 19.—Presi- | dent Roosevelt today urged Cong: to make all private income from all Government salaries and all future | Government securities subject to the | general income tax laws of Federal and States governments. Federal tax officials eshma(ed‘ Federal reevnue would increase as & | result as much as $300,000,000 an- | nually. State governments also| would benefit by large revenue in- | creases from reciprocal authority | given them to tax Federal salaries | and bonds. In a special message the Presi-| dent also advised Congress that re- | cent Supreme Court decisions made some State securities subject to taxes and asked legislation to pu:- vent persons whose income is thi taxed retroactively from su(fermg‘ inequalities. Mr. Roosevelt said u'nmunn.iefil granted the income from Govem- ment securities and employment were “not inexorable requirements! of the Constitution but the result of judiCTfl] decision.” DAVIS FlOODS HOUSE CLERKS GRAND MARCH—BUT of Wil [ Desperate thiing Is Re- b IS IT? featuring inaugural iam H. Vanderbilt as Republican governor of Rhode Island was led by the millionaire governor and his wife (above), who seem to be putting more swing than march tempo into proc. ATTEMPT ON LIFE OF SON OF BRIT. PREMIER THOUSANDS ARE KILLED, RESULT OF JAPANESE BOMBS Noncombaianfs Die as Re- | GAINS MADE ‘BY CHINESEIN MANY AREAS ported Especially in - | Shansi Provinee | 'SEVERAL CITIES ARE | RETAKEN BY DEFENDERS| 'Hundreds Are Killed Along| Borders in Attacks by Guerillas l velt, that the Long Fight Prediced, China War Ambassadflhnson Also| Says Bombing Does Not Win Conflicts WASHINGTON, Jan, 19.—Nelson | T. Johnson, American Ambassador to China, told reporters today, be- fore conferring with President Roose~ “Sino-Japanese War |'has proved beyond a doubt that bombing {rom the air does not win a war," Ambassador Johnson also reiterat- ed his prediction that the conflict| in China will continue for a long nese are reported continuing their gains in desperate fighting in the | | southwest of Shansi Province. The Chinese have retaken 'Siah- | sien, in the south central part and also derailed two Japanese mxlllary trains with fatal results. Gains and advances are also l'e- The Chinese authorities also claim | 1,800 Japanese have been killed in| guerilla attacks along the Kisngsi, | Hupen and Hunnn Province borders. SPAN. FORCES | | 'BEING SENT ~ NEW FRONTS Madrid Trtips Are Dis- patched to Cafalon- ian Battlefield HENDAYE, Jan. 19.—Catalonian militiamen today fought off Insur- |gent thrusts in the mountains west SHANGHAT, Jan. 19.—The Chi-| ported around Haouma and Kuwo‘ time. He also said he found the Chinese morale high and they “were | full of hope for the (ut\ne" PRESIDENT ASKS " FOR CONTINUANCE COIN AUTHORITY \Extension of Government's| Stabilization Fund Is Requested WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked Congress to extend for two years authoriza- |tion of the Government's stabiliza- tion fund, also the President’s | powe) ‘hange the value of the | dollai authority expiring June |30, | Morgenthau. {of these powers “enables the | United States to safeguard the Na- |tion’s interest to carry forward the | | International monetary economic | cooperauon e ——— — The White House announces the | request is made on recommenda- | |tion of Secretary of the Treasury | The President said the existence | there are three. Only Justices Butle laws. Hughes, New York, 76, appointed 1930, Hoover, ‘Wilson. nesota, 72, appoint- York, 66, ed 1922, Harding., | | | by New Dealers as out-and-out Conservatives. ing before the court concern the wage-hour and marketing-control Here’s the new court line-up: Charles Evans James Clark Mclle{( nolds, New Yo 16, appointed 1914, 1925, Coo KEEPING UP WITH THE SUPREME COURT OF U. . A year and a half ago there were no Roosevelt appointees on the Supreme Court. Now that Professor Felix Frankfurter is confirmed, r and McReynolds are now classed Important cases com- Louis Dembitz Bran- deis, Massachu- setts, 82, appointed, 1916, Wilson, Pierce Butler, Min- Hatl-n li‘. stnu New Owen J. Roberts, appointed Pennsylvania, 63, e, by Hoover, 1930., Huzo Black, Ala- Stanley Reed, New Felix Frankfurter, TWO ALASKA AREAS WILL BE IMPROVED Sitka and Kodiak Recom- mended for Enlarge- ment for Air Fleets PACIFIC ISLANDS ARE RECOGNIZED IN PLANS Authority for Pro posals Have Sanction of Pres- ent Administration WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, — Legislation to authorize a dozen new bases for the Navy, includ- ing an air and submarine base in the Island of Guam, has been introduced by the Naval Com- mittee Chairmen of the Senate and House with the approval of the Administration. The Navy proposes only to do some harbor dredging on the Is- land of Guam and will not con- , struct bases for air and submar- ine fleets before 1942. The bill also authorizes the Navy to establish or expand ex- isting facilities at Kodiak and Sitka, in Alaska; Kaneone Bay and Pearl Harbor, Honolulu; Midway and Wake Islands, in the Pacific, also Yohnston and Palmyra Islands: San Juan in Puerto Rico, and Pensacola and Florida, patrol squadrons at Kodiak. WARNING GIVEN 10 (LUB WOMEN BY FIRST LADY suit of Air Atfacks by of Barcelona while the Govemment‘ sought to run the Naval blockadew and rush reinforcements from the| Massachusetts, 56, by Roosevelt, 1939, York, 54, appoint- bama, 52, appomted ed 1938, Roosevelt,, 1937, Roosevelt. May Find Themselves IN MEMORIALS Also Inmmces Bill to] Make Terriforial Office Purchase at Bid Representative James V. Davis| took Speaker Lyng and his “hurry up” talk to heart, it would appear, for Davis must have broken some sort of record today when he im.row duced seven memorials, one resolu- | tion and one bill on the House floor. The bill, House Bill No. 16, intro- duced by Davis, is potent. It is an act that would provide for obtain- | ing bids and awarding contracts| for all purchases in excess of $50 made in behalf of the Territory. Under the measure, all Territor- ial offices would have to submit bids in writing for purchases be- tween $50 and $1,000, and would have to publish bids in sums great- er than $1,000. An exemption clause would make the law inapplicable to common carriers, specifically. boats, air- planes and busses. Estate Escheatment The only other bill introduced today in the House was by Repre- sentative Rogge of Fairbanks, made with regard to escheat of certain estates in Alaska. Under the act, proceeds of sale at public auction by the Territorial Treasurer, of property of estates unclaimed for seven years, would revert to the Territory, bank bal- ances included. The memorials and resolution by Davis, cover a wide variety of | subjects. House Joint Resolution No. introduced by Davis, calls for charwoman and janitor to named by the Governor for tidying the House chambers. House Joint Memorial No. 4, memorializes Congress, the Biolo- gical Survey. the Bureau of Fish- eries and Delegate Anthony J. Di-| mond with regards to sea otter. The memorial says sea otter now number around 2,000 in the Aleu- tian Islands Refuge, and that this once near extinct fur bearer gradually coming back into its own, RUSSIA LACKING s | Victim of Bomb Plot in Tralee, Ireland TRALEE, Ireland, Jan. 19.—Po- lice have doubled guard over Frank | | Chamberlain, 25-year-old son of the | | British Premier, after an apparent attempt to take his life by bombing. ! Explosion of the bomb damaged the hotel at which Chamberlain was a guest but he was not injured. The explosion shattered hundreds of windows and blew a hole eight feet in diameter in the wall enclos- ing the hotel yard. Several persons in nearby build- ings were shaken from their beds. | The bomb exploded shortly after | the breakfast hour. Immediately following the explo-| sion police became active and thej| force of Uniformed Irish Civil| Guards began dogging Chamber- lain’s footsteps in this stronghold of the outlawed Irish Republican Army which is blamed for a series of explosions in England and Scot- - RIEGELS FIGURE IN DIVORCE SUIT SACRAMENTO, Jan. 19. — Roy 'Riegels, who became famous by run- ning the wrong way in the 1929 Rose | Bowl football game, today was sued for a divorce. Mrs. Josephine Riegels ‘in a divorce petition filed here, as- serted the former football player was morose and critical of her. She sought custody of their two daughters, Alexa, four, and Helen, | two, and asked $50 a month for their support. SCHOOL TEACHERS MOSCOW, Jan. 19.—A shortag> of 133,000 school teachers exists in the Soviet Union, according to Izvestia, organ of the Soviet central execu- tive committee. Preparatory schools alone are 17,000 teachers short of the required number. For the 1938- 39 scholastic season, as many as 123,- 000 additional teachers will be re- (Answers on Page Six) quired—59,000 for the higher schools, and 64,000 for secondary schools. Frank Chamberlam Near| Invaders of China SHANGHAI, Jan. 19.—The Chi- nese National Relief Commission re- | ports that Japanese war planes Kill- ed 35,000 Chinese civilians, all non- combatants, and wounded 44,000 in Chinese towns and cities in 17 months cndmg last November 30. APA Passes Up Dividend SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19.—Dir- ectors of Alaska Packers Associa- tion voted at their January meet- ing to pass the quarterly dividend which normally would have been payable February 10. The company has paid $1 a share quarterly since May 10, last, prior to whcih time a quarterly rate of $2 a share had been maintained since February 1935. No announcement was made as to the reason for passing the cur- rent payment, but the move is thought to be to conserve cash be- cause of the uncertain outlook in the food packing industry. The company is a subsidiary of California Packing Corporation. i e LA ASKS FOR RELIEF AND BLAMES WIFE NEWTON ROAD, B. C,, Jan. 19.— Because his wife would not support him, E. C. Elliott has applied for re- lief. Elliott came here a year ago from Ontario. Soon after he arrived he inserted the following advertise- ment in a local newspaper: “An educated man wishes to meet a refined widow with means.” The advertisement was answered and the marriage took place. Now Elliott has applied for relief be- cause, he claims, his wife “will not support me as she promised.” ———————— WOODEN PEAR SYDNEY, Australia—Native pears, a great curiosity among the flora of Australia, are an attraction here. The “fruit” looks like an ordinary pear, but you can't eat it. It is solid wood. Ide and Madrid fronts. Twelve thousand Madrid troops, | the first contingent of 60,000, and | geographically divided and the Gov- 'ermnvm hopes to shift the hard ]preused Catalonian fronts. | Advices reaching the French fron- ner said Government troops em- ‘barked last night at Valencia and others are expected to leave short- ly. An undetermined number of In- surgent warships, three of which yesterday shelled the Government | lines northeast of Tarragona, have been ordered to intercept the trans- fer of Government troops. The manpower on the Catalonia front is about evenly divided, it is said, 300,000 each, but the Insur- gents have the advantage of planes, artillery and other equipment. BRSPS e e ELECTION CLOSE TO A DEAD HEAT DENVER, Jan. 19.—The Novem- ber election was the closest Denver ever has experienced; if one contest had been any closer it would have been a dead heat. Archie G. Maine, Republican can- didate for state auditor, carried the city by one vote. He had 61729 and his opponent, Homer F. Bed- ford, 61,728. Bedford, however, had a bigger plurality outside of Denver. Dimond Infroduces Bill for Carrying 0f Mail, Westward WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has introduced a bill to authorize the Post Office Department to contract mail from Seward to Unimak Island and points on Bristol Bay. —— PIGEON A VISITOR LONDON—Patients in the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children were delighted to see a pigeon which flew in through a window after lights were out, had meal of biscuits and departed in the morning. for a power boat service to carry| Evade State Tax, Spiking OfNearBeer ficials are going to ask the legisla- ture to tax it. Director A. J. Gerlach of the state a pint instead of real beer at 15 cents and then fortifying the non- intoxicating malt with grain alcohol which retailers and wholesalers are selling “at almost cost price.” He said the practice is “com- pletely disrupting the North Dakota liquor market and routine operation of the tax system.” THUGS BEING (REATED NOW Tactics of T;;an ese in Peiping Area Creafing Criminal Reign PEIPING, Jan. 19.—A new racket is growing out of the widespread practice begun here by the Japa- the street for guns and evidence of “communism.” Chinese gangsters disguised as police halt merchants and other innocents, lead them up dark al- leys, and deprive them of theh' valuables. ———e—-— DUMMY PROTECTS CAR MELBOURNE, Australia—To pro- | tect his automobile from thieves, a Melbourne motorist leaves a life-like dummy of himself seated at the wheel when he parks his car. It is BISMARCK, N. D, Jan. 19.—Near | beer spiked with grain alcohol has | become so popular with North Da- | kotans as a beverage that state of- | regulatory department said consum- | ers are buying near beer at 10 cents | nese of searching pedestrians on| GOVERNOR OLSON RECIPIENT, MANY - NOTES OF THREAT Pardon of Er; Mooney Is Resented-P. 0. and F. B. 1. Given Lefters SACRAMENTO, Cal, Jan. 19.— Ten or a dozen letters, some very threatening, have been received by Gov. Olson because of his pardon of Tom Mooney. The letters have been turned over | to the postal authorities and Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation. | TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR SERVICEIS T0 BE STARTED SOON French Permit, for Six Months, Granfed to American Lines 5 WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.~—The| State Department announces that the Prench Government has grant- ed the United States a six months | permit for one or more American | Air Transport Companies to operate | a Trans-Atlantic air service to/ France to carry passengers, mail| and goods. ‘The Pan American Airways and American Export Airlines are two of the companies mentioned as plan-| ning the service. dressed in a business suit. SLIP-UP BREAKS RED TAPE ON BIGGEST STORY OF NAVY By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan, 19. — Con~ gress was barely in its seat this ses- sion when it was startled by one of the most amazing slips of years— the accidental, premature publica- tion of the Navy’s plan for extend- ing its fortified zone right up to the Japanese door step. For a foreign spy to have gath- ered this advance information on what the Navy hopes to do in the Pacific and around the Canal Zone would have assured him at least a stiff raise in pay. Now the whole thing can be had for perhaps a dime—the price isn’'t set yet—from the Government printing office. The report told of the Navy's hopes for building 25 new bases for planes, submarines, destroyers and mines over a zone that encom- passed half the Pacific Ocean and all of the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. It told of the number of air- planes and men advisable for each (Continued on Page Five) Under New Government If Democracy Fails WASHINGTON, Jan. 19, — Mrs. Franklin D. Rooseve!t told National Women Club leaders at a confer- ence here that they might find themselves under some other form of Government if they don’t work for Democracy. The First Lady of the Land said club women have even more respon- sipility than the individual eciti~ zen because they have more power to reach more people, CCC PERMANENCY IS RECOMMENDED Director Fechner Also Asks Personnel Be Placed Under Civil Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—KRobert Fechner, Director of the Civilian Conservation Corps, has recom- mended to Congress to make the organization permanent. Director Fechner also asked that his salary be raised from $10,000 to $12,000 and the Administrative per sonnel be placed under the Civil Service. JAPAN FEARS UNITED STATES MAY CROSS PACIFIC, ATTACK: TALK BY NAVAL OFFICE CHIEF TOKYO, Jan. 19. — Japan feels that the United States Naval ex- | pansion program in fortifying the | Pacific Islands is in preparation “for a long distance attack across the | ocean against Japan.” The Naval Offices spokesman said: “Fortification of Guam will be like placing a gun ag:inst the gate of a neighbor.” Rear Admiral Shozaburo Kanaza~ wa, the spokesman, also said: “It seems unnecessary to treat Japan that way in view of our Naval policy of non-attack and non-ag= gression.”