The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 19, 1939, Page 2

] ! | ! ; s i { | | . C A A T p—y 4 WILSON BROS. AS LOW AS 2 DOLLARS Original Sanforized-Shrunk Arrow Wilson Bros. with the OBAN Collar in a variety of fabrics and patterns Arrow & Wedgelock Ties B. M. BEHRENDS CO0., Inc. “Juneau’s Leading Department Store” GAME COMMISSION MEMBERS LEAVING FOR HOME OFFICES After several confer: Legislative committees houses, the Alaska Game sion will break up its sions tonight Ohmer sails for Pet John Hadjukovich bot from Comm 1939 when Chairman Ear bur plans to re- turn to his Fairbanks home on the next PAA In Frank Willia plane, | will go to Seattle next iieral Storm‘Over Yafiht_ Monday to spend the winter before returning direct to St. Mich and Andrew Simons will go back to Lakeview in the Kenai on next Tuesda boat. Executive Officer Frank Dufresne will head for Washington on the thirtieth of the month with te recommendations of the commission and expects to be gone about six weeks., - e William Bosch, oldtime Juneau- ite, aves tonight the Nortl land for an extended visit in Cali- fornia on diss Margie G. Renn (left), secretary to former Secretary of Commerce Janiel C. Roper, was named as one of the persons alleged to have used she Commerce Bureau’s yacht Edla (below) for private parties. Roper was also cited. The matter came before Congress in the annual report of R . Eiliott (right) acting comptroller. He said flowers and other party accessories were vouchered as nautical supplies. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, THURSDAY, JAN. 19, 1939. HITLER MAY RESUME HIS ‘LIBERATOR’ ROLE T0 BRING Ri€H UKRAINE UNDER SWASTIKA The resources pictured in this 1l ) 2o | BACKGROUND For Years Hitlér has wanted to harvest the riches of the Ukraine. "His 'victory over Czecho- Slovakia, formherly the big barrier in' his path to the Seviet Russian republi¢, proved he wasn’t just dreaming about it. And there have been signs recently that the Ukraine would be the object of Germany’s next big drive. The following story discusses possible German strat- egy. By WILLIAM McGAFFIN AP Feature Service Writer LONDON—You're going to hear a Ukrainians—the 45 million-odd | Slavs who comprise the eastern Eu- ropean racé—have no nation as yet ;Buz they will have soon, if Adolf Hitler has his way. The German dictator, by all signs, | is getting ready to go hunting again. | An Eye on Four States | This time he is expected to train his sights on four European states |—Poland, Rumania, Hungary and Russia — in which Ukrainians are living. There are Ukrainians, too, in Czecho-Slovakia, ritery already is fixed in the Nazi | crbit Don’t get the idea that Der Fuehr- |er is going to take them all on at once, however. There is a subtler—and easier— way of gaining territory, or domina- tion over territory, which amounts | to virtually ‘the same thing. That way he learned fromr the Ozecho- Slovakian affairs—the - exploitation | of minority squabbles. Such squab- bles are festering all over eastern | Europe. Hitler, therefore, say: the political erator” cnce more—to champion the “self determination” of the neigh- | boring Ukrainian section of Poland, | which adjoins the Czecho-Slovak | section now in his orbit—with the lidea of setting up an autonomous republie. This would provide a pow- | erful starting off point for collect- ing the remaining sections. ‘a small percentage of the Ukrain- ians live in. Rumania, Hungary and i Ruthenia, the bulk reciding in Po- |land and Russia). | Dodging a Battle Poland is reported to have used stern methods to' stem agitators {among the millions of Ukrainians | in east Poland. - Hitler: might -argue | that the Polish Ukrainians. should :br freed from such “tyranny.” ground of any war between Ger- meany and Russia, Poland has court- |ed both' countries. Relations with J Germany cooled when Poland want- lot about the Ukraine from now on., but that ter-| prophets, is planning to turn “lib- | | | | 1 I8 ARES ¥ 5::?«",0»‘ { GEOGRAPHICAL o, TS ) ’ 1 / THIS BOUNDARY SHOWS EXTENT.OF AREA OCCUPIED BY PEOPLE OF UKRAINIAN DESCENT map illustrate why Germany would like to control the Ukra [ ed a strip of Ruthenia to be made into a common frontier with Hun- gary—and Hitler refused. Ruthenia, the Ukrainian section | i down in the southeast tip of Czecho- in the Slovakia, already has autonomy — \nmnks to the Vienna “arbitration S E N [4 T E | board™ that mopped up after the Munich conference sounded taps for | Introduced | old Czecho-Slovakia. Ruthenia was a wonderful catch, | Senate bill No. 13, by Roden, to for it gave Germany for the first | reduce the rate of interest on bonds time @ geographical link with the |Of the town of Wrangell _— ‘;rest of Ukrainian territory. And | Senate bill No. 14, by Walker byl don’t think the Nazis aren’t making request, to regulate the business of the most of it. | making small loans. They have set up a 25-man con- | sulate in this mountainous, unde- veloped little corner of Czecho-Slo- vakia. And while Germany trains potential local leaders of the future Ukraine at a “political science” school in Danzig, the Ruthenian government announces plans for es- . tablishing a university in Chust, | the “one-horse” capital of Ruthenia Passed | Senate bill No. 2, by Roden, deal- ing with copyright law. .o ALASKA SMALL LOAN ACT NOW UP IN SENAT 'Bill Would Es_irid Inferest Charge to Ten Per Cent A proposéd “small loan act” to| |regulate the' amount' of interest which may be charged on loans of $300 or less was introduced in the Senate this afternoon by Senator | Norman R. Walker, by request. The measure, Senate bill No. 14, defines, licenses and regulates the Culture or Propaganda? Observers say it's obvious that a university in a section of & half- million peasants is intended as much for political propaganda as for cultural enlightenment. Poland may be something of a | problem. But if it came to an issue of force, its 30 millions wouldn't istand a show against the over- | whelming might of Germany’s near- |1y 80 millions. | But Hitler may try to avoid| trouble, according to some reports, by offering Poland a share in the control of an autonomous Ukraine. Russia almost certainly would | fight if Hitler made a direct attack | on the rich Russian Ukraine. business of making small loans. i It is now capable of producing | Under its terms interest of more | {a third of the nation’s power and|than 10 percent a year could not| 80 percent of its sugar x'equire-'b(‘ charged on such loans. Interest | ments. Grain and cattle are raised |is restricted also to not more than | in abundance on its extremely fer-|3 percent a month. License fee of | tile soil which houses in addition $25 a year would be required of | mammoth stores of coal and oil. = |those operating loan businesses. | It’s hard to predict, however,| Another bill introduced: today, | what will happen if Hitler tries to |Senate bill No. 13, by Senator Hen- | PLACER MINERS Peition for Exemption of PROTEST WAGES | AND HOURS LAW Alaska Industry in Seasonal Clause Placer miners of Alaska have taken a step towards securing ex- emption of Alaskan placer mining from the provisions of the Wages and Hours law, ‘it was revealed in @ communication to the ‘House of | Representatives today from Glenn Carrington and Company, in whose | Fairbanks offices a - meeting of | miners was recently held. | Congress will be asked to amend | the clause wherein seasonal work | is ‘defined as [fourteen working weeks or less, and make placer mining in Alaska thoroughly ex-| empt. Strongest reason advanced by the | petition is that “extremely unpre- dictable weather” makes any s time for seasonal occupation far | as placer mining is involved, im- practical | 1t is brought out that should the law go into effect as is, many min- | ing properties will not be opened, and some may be abandoned. signers are Mike Stepovich, H., W. W. Acheson and | P. Sheppard, jons, H. I. Miller, C. H. Kraemer, | astleton and Keenan, F. C. Bleck- er, Edward Olson, William Sehodde, John Miscovich, J. E. Nasenius, Al- bin Martin, C. F. Sanborn, Middle | Fork Mining Company, Mrs. Park | Read, Isaacson Iron Works, J. J. * Price, John B. Huff, Fred C. How- ard, Martin Knuppe, Archie Laird, Andrew Miscovich, A. A, Shonbeck | and Luther C. Hess. e House Speaker Seftles ""Nafional Bird" Speaker Howara Lyng, in the House of Representati injected an international note into a bit of House levity today in the disc lon of a letter from Otto Geist, Univer- | | sity of Alaska archaeologist, urging ” passage of the bill repealing eagle | bounty payment. t Representive Davis remarked on our “national bird,” that ‘Russia| has two eagles and Germany two for their respective national emb-| U. 8. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WEATHER BUREAU THE WEATHER + 4By the U. ?. Weather Burcau) Forecast for Juneau and Wicinity, beginning at 3:30. p.m., Jan. 19: Snow flurries and colder tonight. Friday partly cloudy to cloudy with occasional snow flurries; gentle to moderate west winds. Weather forécast for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy to cloudy and slightly colder tonight and Fri with occasional snow flurries over northern portion; gentle to mcderate west winds except moder- ate to fresh over Dixon Entrance and moderate to fresh northerly over Lynn Canal. Forecast of winds along the Coact of the Gulf of Alaska: Moderate to fresh westerly winds tonight'#nd Friday from Dixon Entrance to vakutat and moderate to fresh north winds from Yakutat to Cape Hinchinbrook. LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity = Weather 3:30 p.n,, yest'y 29.51 36 89 w 4 Cloudy 3:30 am. today 29.68 35 92 S 3 Rain Noon today 20.83 34 m w 6 Snow RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4am. 4am. Precip. 4am. Station last 24 hours | temp. temp. velocity 24 hrs. Weather Atka 34 32 32 40 03 Snow Anchorage 14 4 6 03 Cloudy Barrow -10 <30 8 0 Clear Nome -16 | -18 4 Trice Cloudy Bethel -24 -30 6 0 Clear Fairbanks -10 | -26 4 .08 Snow Dawson 0 -2 28 12 Snow St. Paul 8 6 20 0 Cloudy Dutch Harbor 26 | 26 20 0 Cloudy Kodiak 20 Is 12 8 0 Clear Cordova 32 24 8 06 Snow Juneau 35 3 Trace Rain Sitka | - - 0 Ketchikan 38 4 .33 Cloudy Prinee Rupert 40 4 22 Cloudy Edmonton 20 Calm 0 Clear Seattle | 46 24 02 Clear Portland £ 46 6 18 Clondy San PFraneisco 56 | 48 4 o Pt. Cldy New York 30 | 20 12 02 Snow Washington 34 | 24 4 27 Cloudy WEATHER SYNOPSIS The storm area noted yesterday morning as being centered over the southern portion of the Gulf of Alaska has decreahed in in- tensity during the past 12 hours and has moved inland to Alberta, with a secondary barometric depression:over ‘the upper Yukon Val- ley. A storm area of marked intensity was centered this morningover the north Pacific Ocean at latitude 46 dégrees and longitude 172 de- grees west, where a pressure of 2880 inches prevailed.. High baro- metric pressure prevailed over the interior and western portions of Alaska, the crest being 30.26 inch:s ‘at ‘Bethel. ' Precipitation has been general from the Alaska Railroad belt eastward to the upper Yukon Valley southward over Southeast Alaska to Oregon. Fair and old weather prevailed this morning over the Kuskokwim-and lower Yukon valleys and northward to Barrow, thé lowest reported tempera- ture being 55 degrees below zero at MeGrath. 20.—Sunr BEGIN 29 a.m.; sunset, 3 Juneau, Jan SEMESTER EXAMS ' INSTRUCTOR TO KETCHIKAN | 'H. G. Wilcox, instructor in min- Starting this afternoon final ex- |ing for the Extension Service of | Geist’s reference to the eagle as aminations covering the first sem-|he University of Alaska, has com- ester of study in the Douglas Public |pleted his courses in Juneau and School are in progress. Although g jeqve on the Northland for the present week is the first one of | getenikan where he will commence lems. I'm just a bit in doubt as to|the second half of the term it i | whose bird this is, anyway.” actually the last one of the f_s | Straight-faced, Speaker Lyng semester's work due to the pergod ! brought the House back to serious|lost on account of the guarantine business with the statement, “Those which will be made up during the a course of five weeks duration for the benefit of Ketchikan mining students. - e - birds over there are buzzards.” balance of the year. Today’s News Today.—Emplre. If 2 mon is a gude judge o’ gude whisky. . . sooner or later he’ll be sippin’ |achieve his aims not by a direct | clash but by undercover promotion | ry Roden, would reduce the inter- est rate on bonds of the Town of RED IA‘I'!EL. 17’5 sensible to stick with JoHNNIE WALKER (only | Afraid of being made 'the battle- | of the Russian Ukrainians’ griev- | ances. One possible barrier to any such | }scheme is the independence-loving | The Senate passed Senate bill Ukrainian peasant. He doesn't like |No n act in aid of the Fed- his Russian rulers any too well, buL“.,-u) copyright laws. he doesn't like the Germans, either | senate bill No. 11, appropriating | | — supposedly because Germanis;000 for expenses of the Alaska | troops that entered the Ukraine in|memper of the Alaska Internation- | | 1918 ‘"‘efj to reinstate the great|,) mighway Commission, was ' re- landlords on estates that had been |yrneq py the Taxation Commit- divided among the peasants. . |tee with minor amendments. | But Hitler may offer, strategi- Yesterddy Afternoon cally, an autonomous republic—| 1.0 “yesterday afternoon the Which Would give him access to the | senate amended Senate. bill 8, tich resources of fihe area. ADdYicjing with incorporation of vil-| that’s what Hitler has wanted .f0r| o005 11100 puptic- utility districts, to| years. provide that should any section of Wrangell, now held by the Terrl-j tory of Alaska, from 6 percent to 4 percent, effective July 1, 1939. OLD GLORY AND ITALY’S FLAGS waved at Buenos Aires, Argentina, when at same time as the Duca d’Aosta and Eugenio di Saveia (left), Italian ships touching South American T % v the bill be found unconstitutional or invalid, the remainder would not be affected. Another amendment provides that should any ction ‘of the bill be found unconstitutional or invalid, | the remainder would not be affectéd. The amendments came during second reading of the bill. Senator O. D. Cochran of Nome ‘was appointed to the Judiciary Com- mittee, Following enactment by the House of Senate joint resolution No. 2, the - Senate employed Miss Lucile Lyneh of Juneau as extra' commit- tee help as provided under the reso- ‘luuonA R FORCED BACK | SIMMON Returning from- Chichagof Shell Simmons; Alaska Afr Transport pi-| lot was forced to run back’ today | by hHeavy snowfall and zero-zero vis- ibility. He landed at Sitka where | 'he will spend the night. JUNEAUITES ON LONG TRIP J. C. 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