The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8013. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 30, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS e e+ s ey e CHILE IS SHAKEN BY SECOND SHOCK WIDE SECTION [ SUFFERS FROM - SEVERESTORM Traffic Iiedil_p—in All Direc- tions — Plows Are Put at Work SCHOOLS FAIL TO OPEN; | COMMUTTERS ALL LATE| Cars Are Stélled—Airpanes‘ Held fo Ground, Gale Continuing CHICAGO, Tl Jan. 30.—Paralyz- | ing blizzards whipped across the southern Great Lakes states and the | Ohio Valley last night and today, bury! Chicago under one of the heaviest snow falls on record Forecaster C. A. Bonnell said that| if the storm continues all day the Nation’s second city might have a snow fall totaling more than the ex- isting record of 17.2 inches which | hit in March, 1931 Approximately one foot of snow was on the ground at 9 o'clock this| morning, making the worst storm in| Northern and Central Illinois and| Northern Indiana in years. Schools Close Both public and parochial schools failed to poen this morning. | Thousands of commutters were| late at work when the suburban| railroads, elevated trains, street cars and busses were delayed on ac- count of the heavy fall of snow. Motor traffic is paralyzed in all seotions on the lake front and the outer drives are also closed on a- count of the depth of snow. | Mounted policemen were ordered to keep their horses in the stables. Board of Trade Delayed Chicago's Board of Trade took an | unprecedented action and delayed the opening of the grain exchange GLAMOR GIRLS ARE HELPING GOVERNMENT | SHE SELLS BONDS WASHINGTON—Officials wor mit it, but there’s a sex angle in United States Sav- ings Bonds. The Treasury has slowly straight-laced ladies who formerly graced its pos- ters and now prospective bond buyers see & full- blown glamor girl. Her eyes are blue. . . . Her hair is that toss- up between bewitching blonde and fetching red. . Her gown has brought gasps from coast to 't publicly ad- series. Early repor in as many or Uncle Sam who streamlined the Army Needs Yo The Army girl—just like Miss Savings Bonds— doesn’t say any' stands there wi SHE CALLS FOR RECRUITS And the United States Army recently replaced commands with curves for a recruiting poster ts are that the flamor girl brought more recruits than did tne grim used to point and command, “The W] thing or give commands. She just th a fresh breeze rippling through coast. her hair, HOPKINS INTERVIEWED BY NEWSMEN; IT'S JUST LIKE THIS AND JUST LIKE FHAT from 10 to 11 o'clock this forenooi because traders and clerks could not | get there on time, The storm broke about midnight.| Hundreds of cars are stalled. Airplane traffic is halted as is al- so the city’s transportation system. More than 150 snow plows and sweepers have been put to the task to try and keep facilities operating. | MILLIONS DANCE, THAT OTHERS MAY BE ABLE T0 WALK Dimes in Campaign fo Fight Infantile Paralysis Pour Into White House WASHINGTON,: Jan. 30.—A Na- tion eager to stomp out infantile paralysis help President Roosevelt to celebrate his 57th Birthday an- niversary. Dimes poured into the White House from all parts of the Nation while movie and stage stars gathered in the Capital City and other cities for birthday balls. Millions danced so that others may walk. KINSHIP TRAGEDY END OF MARRIAGE FITCHBERG, Mass, Jan. 30.— Discovery that they were uncle and niece one month after they were married in Greenvlle, N. H., today led to annulment of the marriage of Beatrice B. Brisson, of Fitchberg, and Alexander Brisson. The annulment was granted by Probate Judge Harry H. Atwood after he received a “touching” letter from Brisson ,who wrote that he did not become aware of the rela- tionship until the couple had been married a month. They were married December 13, 1937. b STORMS TAKE THREE LIVES, THREE STATES High Wind, Thunder Bursts and Lightning Cause Dealhfl South NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. 30.— Three deaths, one each in Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee, are listed | as the toll of the wind and thunder storms which lashed widely separ- ated setcions of the south on Sun- day. Charles Butler, 65, a farmer, died of internal injuries after a squall struck and razed his home in the northeast corner of Louisiana. Mrs. Carrie Willard, 47, was killed at Etta, Mississippi, when a high wind demolished a farm house. Five other members of the family were injured. Mrs. Gay Ables, wife of a Fay- etteville, Tenn., farmer, was Kkilled when lightning struck the family home. - — AIR BASES FROM ALASKA TO GUAM GIVEN MORE URGE WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Assist- | ant Secretary of Navy Charles Edi-| son is scheduled to be the next high official to urge Congress to fortify the Island of Guam in the Pacific. The bill, now before the House Naval Affaise Committee, calls for | retary of ‘Commerce. As to B"y“elgh Hours from Seattle,” will be |conferenecs. a sum of $65,000,000 for new naval bases, Atlantic and Pacific. On the latter coast it is proposed for a string from Alaska to Guam. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. — It is time somebody gave a semi-blow by | blow account of what goes on at| | some of the more active press con—‘ | ferences in this perpetual world’s | fair. Harry Hopkins’' conferences are ‘ |as good as any, especially since he | has become Secretary of Commerce |and so endowed with new govern- mental dignity. Forty or more reporters are seated | jin two rows around a long mahogany ; table as Hopkins strolls in. He sits ‘down, then nervously bounces up | |again and a battery of photograph- | ers blast away at him. | “Well, Mr. Secretary, what about| business?” Hopkins grins that| starter away. He knows it is a bit of spoofing, as he hasn’t been on the job but a few days. “What have you to say about | ‘spend and spend, and tax and tax {and elect and elect?”” It is a pert| | girl reporter questioning him about | flhe statement attributed to him but| repeatedly denied by him. | “Arthur Krock is the authority jon that” (Mr. Krock of the New York Times is one of the several |who attributed to Hopkins the| | statement that spending, taxing |and electing was the business of | | New Dealers.) | “That’'s the thing the Senate] | committee asked you when you came | | up for confirmation,” twitted the gixl’ | reporter. Hopkins brushed it aside | | a bit sourly. | HE'LL WAIT AND SEE “What do you think of the gen- eral level of commodity prices?” It is another teaser, and he grins. | “Now listen—" he begins, then explains that he isn’t going into| la long comment on business or the| Department of Commerce until he| finds what it is about. | “Have you any definite ideas about the department, or are you | just seeking your way around?” “Of course I have some definite ideas as to criteria that determine | whether somebody is a good Sec-‘ | thing new, I am asking advice and assistance of everybody I can.” He (Continued on Page Seven) lLodBe for a benefit of Mooseheart, |President Pranklin D. Roosevelt. lincreased by 1,500,000 since 1935. U.S.CIRCUIT JUDGE QUITS INNEW YORK | 'Resigns in Face of Charges Made by District At- forney Dewey NEW YORK, Jan. 30. — Martin Manton, Second Judge of the Uni- ted States Circuit Court, accused by District Attorney Dewey with hav- ing accepted more than $400,000 in loans from litigants, announces his resignation from the bench on which he has served for more than 15 years. At the same time, Judge Manton protested inocence of any wrong doing and said he has dbne nothing for “which I am in any way asham- ed.” The resignation will be sent to the President not later than Wed- nesday. e ——— U. 5. AIRPLANES BEING SHIPPED, GREAT BRITAIN First Consign_ment of 400 Aircraft for Air Ministry Now Going Abroad SAN PEDRO, Cal., Jan. 30.—Four- teen airplanes built in this section fo rthe British Air Ministry have been shipped aboard the motor-liner Lochavon for Liverpool. | The consignment is the largest | single shipment to leave this port in a ship. The part is part of one for 200 bombers from the Lockheed Aireraft Corporation, costing $18,000,000, and a like number of training planes from the North American Aviation Company, costing $7,000,000. MOOSEHEART BENEFIT | A musical comedy entitled “Forty- presented by youngsters at Ketchi- kan on February 22 by the Moose Frankfurfer Takes Oath, Supreme (gurl WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. — A Solemn ceremony has made Vienna born Felix Frankfurter a member of the Supreme Court of the United States. In the seclusion of the ante- chamber, the jurist took the eath to support the Constitution and then before a packed court- reom swore with upraised right hand t¢ administer justice im- artially. —————— DEFIANCEIS HURLED OUT BY HITLER | Will Tolerate No Inferfer- ' ence from Western Pow- ers, Nazi Chief Says SELF DETERMINATION | Attacks Bolshevism-Prais- es Insurgents, Musso- lini, Chamberlain BERLIN, Jan, 30.—Adolf Hitler today warned Western Powers| against interfering “in matters con- | cerning us alone, with the purpose of preventing natural and sensible | | solutions.” The warning was made before a | Reichstag that was crowded from doors to rostrum. Hitler further said, in his warn- ing: “We have established our right for self determination,” and in Aus- tria and Czechoslovakia “we have shown this right.” No Interference Hitler said Germany only defend- ed herself against attempts at inter- ference and in the “future we shall tolerate no attempt at intereference in any matters that concern us along with the purpose of preventing nat- ural and sensible solutions.” In his address, in celebration of the sixteenth anniversary of Nazi rule, Hitler lunached a bitter at- tack against Bolshevism and hailed | the success of the Insurgents in| Spain as onther “valient defeat of the newest universal attethpt to des- troy the “European cultured world.” Six Years of Nazism Hitler, in the opening 50 minutes of his speech, reviewed the condi- tions of the Reich In the past six years since the National Socialist Party, known as the Nazi’s came into power. The practical abolishing of the Communist Party from all of Ger- many was stressed greatly. Hitler went on to state how the annexation of Austria came about, when he said that since January, 1938, “I have dreamed and deter- mined to return to the third Reich, my homeland, Austria. Millions of Sudetan Germans, under yoke \of oppression in Czechoslovakia, yearn- ed to return to the Fatherland. Praises Two Men “This we accomplished with the " (Continued on Page Bight) OFFICIAL FROM BRAZIL COMING, UNITED STATES Foreign Minister Is Invited by Roosevelt for Series of Conferences RIO DE JANERIO, Jan. 30— Foreign Minister Eswaldo Aranha has sailed for Washington to discuss mutual interests between the United States and Brazil in a series of IS RIGHT OF GERMANS Mrs. Ruth Reider of Los Angeles, 5 I : who, according to police, admit i R ted being “queen of the shoplifters” when thousands of dollars worth of fur coats, silver, lingerie and miscellaneous articles were discovered in her residence. lifting syndicate.” The loot, police declare, was stolen by a “shop- Arrested in connection to Mrs. Reider, were Gus Dinkleman, Roy Dinkleman and Jack W. Means. RUSSIA NOW ' MOBILIZING - HER TROOPS Are Strengthening Forces Along Border at Two Principal Points SHANGHAI, Jan. 30—Semi-offi- cial news dispatches, claimed to be reliable information, state the So- viet Government is concentrating a huge number of troops on the Man- choukuoan-8iberian border, at the towns of Omnsk and Tomsk. The concentration is said to be due to Russian uneasiness over the strengthening of the anti-Commun- ist pact between Japan, Germany and Italy. IRISH POET DIES, FRANCE PARIS, Jan. 30.—William Butler Yeats, the Irish poet, died Sunday on the French Riviera where he has been staying. He was 77 years old. Yeats was once awarded the No- bel Prize. "PROXIES" USED IN HITCHHIKING RIDE DENVER, Jan. 30.—Patrolmen R.| R. Richardson and Floyd Whipple turned up a new wrinkle in hitch- hiking. They arrested two seventeen-year- old youths after watching them use | five small boys for decoys. When the youngsters “thumbed down” a motorist the two older ones climbed in. —— O The number of people borrowing Aranha is going to the United States at the special invitation of books in English public libraries SENATE BEATS ASSAY CHARGE BY TIE VOTE Liquor Bill Advances a Session — Reindeer Measure Passes Free assays will remain one of the services of the Territory of Alaska. The Senate this morning killed by a vote of four-to-four a bill which would have imposed a 25 cent fee for assays. The original bill intro- duced by Senator Norman R. Walk- er of Ketchikan provided for a charge of 50 cents, which was re- duced by amendment and finally dispensed with altogether by today’s action. After being battered considerably in its two previous appearances on the floor of the Senate, the bill of Benator Walker allowing sale of hard liquor by the drink sailed through second reading as a matter of course today without a word be- ing said for it or against it. The mea- sure now takes its place in the gen- eral file and will come up for final pasage as soon as it is engrossed. Assay Charge Argued Senator Walker relinguished the chafr for the first time this session in order to speak briefly in favor of the assay bill this morning. He cited figures showing 3,676 deter- minations were made by the Fair- banks assay office, 1,782 by the Ket~ chikan office and 532 at Nome in the past year. This was in an at- tempt to refute arguments by Sen- ator O. D. Cochran of Nome that imposing of the fee would be very unpopular in the Second Division. Senator Joe Hofman of Seward explained the purpose of the act as being to protect the assay offices from “nonsensical assays” they were called upon to make for schoolboys and irresponsible persons. Senator Henry Roden of Juneau argued aganist the measure, saying the free assay service was for the benefit of “the ordinary prospector who never has a dollar.” To these men Senator Roden said, even a fee of 25 cents would be considerable, since a great number of assays us- ually are necessary to learn anything " (Continued on Page Eight) . Blizzard Paralyzes Chicago; Snow Buries City NEW PANIC AGAIN HITS QUAKE AREA Earth Disturbance Felt in Stricken Sections During Night MOVEMENT REPORTED T0 HAVE LASTED 2 MINUTES Twenly-fiV(e_Tfiousand Es- timated Dead-Toll May Reach Thirty Thousand SANTIAGO, Chile, Jan. 30. — A new panic is reported among the survivors of Chile's disastrous earthquake of last Tuesday mid- night affer more shocks, described as ‘“very strong,” occurred in the same region during the night. The new shocks lasted for more than two minutes. ‘The entire region of Chillan and Concepcion was shaken, spreading terror among the homeless sleep- ing in the public plazas. Several sources sald the new shocks were almost as strong as those of lasi Tuesday midnight. Heavy rains have made mires of the roadways and rescue work is difficult. Sufferiug is reported intense. Walls have caved in at Concep< qlon as the result of the latest quake and the few remaining buildings left standing from last Tuesday’s shocks were tumbled down last night in the latest earth movement at Chillan. 25,000 Victims The government now reports that between 25,000 and 30,000 persons are victims of last Tuesday’s guake, The death list at Chillan is esti~ mated at 15,000. _The number of deaths in last night'’s movement is not available, the Government reports, CONDITIONS VERY BAD WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. — Re- ports of conditions in the Chilean earthquake zones are even worse than first indicated and this has caused Red Cross Chairman Nor- man Davis to direct chapters throughout the United States to accept rellef donations. DIMOND ASKS HIGHWAY ACT FOR ALASKA Bill Would Bring Territory Under Federal Fund Benefis A bill to extend the provisions of the Federal Highway Act to the Ter- :‘xlltocrz of Alaska has been introduced ngress by Delegate Anf A Dimond. s i i The measure would allow Alaska to share in appropriations made by Congress for road purposes, just as the States and the Territory of Ha- wall now share. Under the Federal Highway Act, apportionment of highway funds to the vaiious States and Territories is regulated by formula. Under this, it is claimed, Alaska would receive & much iarger fund for road purposes than she now does. Passing of Dimond’s act, officials here said, would result probably in consolidation of the work of the Bureau of Public Roads, the Alaska Road Commission and the Territor- ial Highway Engineer’s office under one powerful road huilding agency. In Road Committee The bill, H. B. 1955, was intro- (Continued on Page Five) s