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

+ —A private plane crashed on the THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8019. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLAN CONFERENCE, IN SHIPPING TIE-UP BRIT. ROYAL FAMILY IS UNDER GUARD Authorities Take Extra Pre- cautions in Terror- istic Campaign FEAR SABOTEURS MAY | MAKE NEW ATTACKS Thirty Suspgtg Under Ar-| restin Bomb, Dyna- | mite Outrages LONDON, Feb, 6.—The members | of the British Royal Family are| today guarded as closely as any | Dictator because the authorities fear | saboteurs might make an attempt | | | | | at them next in the three weeks’ old terroristic campaign. | Extra guards have been thrown | around the royal residences at Buck- | ingham Palace and Windsor -Castle, | which ordinarily are carefully| watched. | Everyone entering the grounds must present credentials. { High Scotland Yard officials an- nounce that 30 suspects are under arrest as the result of the bomb and dynamite outrages. Notwithstanding extra police on ! duty at hundreds of places, terror- ists continue to slip through the lines with bombs. Incendiary bombs are believed to have been placed by women and set off at four stores in Coventry. .- — PRISONERS PULL | OFF RIOT; TEAR (GAS BEING USED Blasts from Shotguns Fin-| ally Put Down Demon- stration in Alabama MONTGOMERY, Ala., Feb. 6.—A barrage of tear gas and several | blasts of shotguns are reported by Warden Lindsay to have broken a riot in Kilby Prison. About 150 of Kilby's 1,600 prison- ers staged a riot today in protest against the rations served. Armed with knives taken from the vegetable- kitchen the prison- ers staged the demonstration. All available State Patrolmen were rushed to the prison and the Montgomery City Police joined | them with machine guns. Tear gas was used and the bar- rage was laid down when the pris- oners involved refused to heed Warden Lindsay’s orders to return to their cell blocks. R PRIVATE PLANE IN CRASH: TWO PERSONS KILLED MONTICELLO, Arkansas, Feb. 6. Monticello A. and M. campus yester- day afternoon, killing Bill Sumner, ‘Warren, Arkansas, pilot and owner of the craft, and Kenneth Cruce, college student and the passenger aboard the plane. Tells Customers They Are Always Wrong MEMPHIS Tenn. Feb. 6—“The Customer Is Always Wrong.” A sign with such a legend greets the customers in Albert Picard’s undersized restaurant in Memphis’ buisness section. It is not offensive to his patrons, however, since they are mostly store| executives and clerks who often have told him the same thing. Picard said he receives complaints with the prelude: “You're wrong. You're just as wrong as you can be. But go ahead, Ill listen to you. What; is it?” SIX REPORTED Mr. and Mrs. Mack Gordon Well known for his song writing, Mack Gordon, half of u.. team of Gordon and Revel, is pictured with his bride, the former Elizabeth Cooke, film actress, in Hollywood. The two elopedqto Yuma, Ariz WAR TALK SENDS STOCKS Huge T0 CONFER ON ENDING (IVILWAR Premier Negrin Calls Brit- ish and French Envoys fo Special Meet PEACE TALK BELIEVED 10 BE POSSIBLE NOW Insurgents Are Reported fo Have Demanded ‘Uncon- ditional Surrender’ (By Associated Press Premier Negrin's Spanish Gov- ernment has called British and French envoys to a conference at the border town of Perpignan amid electric expectation tiat mediation in the 30-month-old Spanish Civil War might be discussed. Spanish leaders are reported abandoning all of Catalonia to the Insurgents and are fleeing to France. It is believed that a discussion with possibility of ending the Civil War might result in surrendering Madrid and Valencia. According to advices received in London, the Insurgents will de- mand ‘“unconditional surrender.” e Sum U.S. MARKET MOVES ALONG RESCUED FROM UNDERSEA BOAT Operations Continuing on Japanese Submarine Sunk in 330 Feet TOKYO, Feb. 6.—The rescue of six members of the crew of the Japenese submarine I1-63, which sank in 330 feet of-water in Bungo Channel last Thursday, is announced by the Japanese Admiralty. The fate of 81 others aboard the vessel, one of Japan's best under- sea craft, when she collided with another submarine during maneuv- | ers, remains unknown. Rescue operations are continuing it is said. BANDIT SLUGS GIRL IN OAKLAND STREET SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6.—Mar- garet Chekalovich, twenty, was slug- ged three times on the head and, once on the shoulder by a blackjack wielded by a pursesnatcher on an Oakland street. The bandit, described as a dark youth, fled without loot when Miss Chekalovich’s young brother, Dom- inic, began screaming for help. The attack took place near the girl's home. - e They Spend Spare Time in Odd Way SEATTLE, Feb. 6. — Recovering the bodies of suicide leapers is a sideline of Elmer Francis and Percy Stubbs. They live in a houseboat on the Lake Washington canal, beneath the 178-foot high Aurora bridge. Eight times in the last two years Francis, 24, and Stubbs, 22, have dashed from their houseboat, un- tied their dinghy and rowed into the canal after someone had leaped. Stubbs says that of the eight leapers they recovered, only one was a woman—and she was the only one to survive the jump. | By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Evident- ly Europe never will understand us Americans. The other day Ambassadors Ken- | nedy and Bullitt told a congression- { al committee of the terrible prospect lof war in Europe. (It was told in | secret session, but enough leaked out so everybody knew something of what they had said.) ~ For Govl. Independer;i_Agencies Get Large Amount for Op- erating One Year WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. — The House Appropriations Committee | operate more than a score of inde- TWO NATIONS LINED UP IN CASE OF WAR | Great Brita'ir;,— France Are | Pledged fo Help One ' Another in Conflict 'DIRECT STATEMENT IS ' MADE BY (HAMBERLAIN !Remarks li; Caused by l Threatening Signs in Fascist Newspapers | LONDON, Feb. 6—Prime Minister | Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that “any threat vital to the interests of France, from | whatever quarter it comes, must | evoke immediate cooperation of this | country.” The declaration follows a state- | ment made yesterday by Virginio Gayda in the Italian Fascist news- | | Mr. and Mrs, | papers. He is considered spokesman for Mussolini. | Gayda said that Italian troops | remain in Spain until Franco's political as well as military | victory is assured. | Premier Chamberlain said the | British are “in complete accord” | with the statement made January | 26 by French Foreign Minister Bon- |net that “all forces of Great Brit- | ain wiil be at the disposal of France, ! just as all froces of France are at | the disposal of Great Britain” in | case of war. | The'statement made by the Prinie | Minister came in reply to questions |of Laborite Arthur Henderson re- garding Anglo-French relations, and | was greeted by tremendous applause | from all sections of the House. 30,000 FLEE FROM FLOODS has recommended $1,898,000,000 to| IN oHIo AREA And what happened? The Euro-|pendent Government agencies for | | pean stock market sagged in alarm. {European speculators evidently thought Kennedy and Bullitt knew more of what was going on in Eu- rope than Europe did. Maybe so. | But the New York stock market, | hearing the same reports, pubbled |right along, undisturbed by wars| |or rumors of wars. Wall Street at-| | tributed the Bullitt-Kennedy show | to “politics,” EASY TO BE WELL READ IF— One of the privileges enjoyed most by wives of members of Con- gress is their priority access to new | books in the Congressional Library. Before the new members had been | sworn in several wives were at the |library desk explaining who they | were and insisting on taking out some of the newest and latest with- | out so much as a day's delay for identification. ‘ A half dozen or more copies of every book copyrighted for sale in the United States must be sent to the Congressional Library where }copyrights are recorded. In addi- tion, the library biys extra copies| of books likely to have special de- mand. Requests by members of Congress, either for themselves or for their wives, take priority over all other | requests. If lay readers with library ‘prlvuegas happen to be reading the‘ book, they can be told to bring it back on 24 hours notice. A messen- ger may be sent for it if the con- | gressional lady is impatient. BREAK FOR MUSIC LOVERS Tucked away in one corner of the big library building is a concert hall Seating perhaps 1,000 where knowing ones enjoy some of the choicest mu- sical treats available in the country.| These are concerts financed by| foundations, one established by Eliz- | abeth Sprague Coolidge (not of the President Coolidges) and Mrs. Ger- trude Clark Whittall. | ‘Whittall concerts are played on| Stradivarius instruments Mrs. Whit- tall donated to the library for their| Stradivarius instruments, nearing 200 years old, are the choicest in existence and the group of five do- (Continued on Page Six) the year starting July 1. This is an increase of more than $288,000,000 over the present year. - MAKES MONEY WITH SKUNKS| Uses All By-producs buf Odor - Negro Has Good Business OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Feb. 6. —Lonzo Hill, Oklahoma Negro, has figured how to utilize most every- thing about a skunk except the olor. Seventeen years ago Hill discov- lered skunk fur brought a good price on the market so he has been trapping them ever since. Mean- while he has been developing ways of utilizing the “by-products.” “Skunk meat, broiled like chicken with red pepper on it. and then baked, is better than 'possum,” saysj‘ | Hill, i “Skunk blubber is good for any- thing from ghflbains to general deviltry.” The skunk’s oil he sells for $1.20 a pint and sometimes gets a quart from one animal. What he doesn’t sell he uses at home to treat the croup. C. W. KRESS unTs ASHEAD OF CHAIN NEW YORK, Feb. 6. — Claude | Washington Kress, sixty-two-year- old President of the S. H. Kress and Company chain of 234 stores, has resigned. The presidency was immediately assumed his his seventy-five-year- old brother, Samuel Henry Kress, Company officials said C. W. Kress resigned in order to take a “much-needed rest.” |More Homes Being Evacu- ated as Waters Cover Land in Valley CINCINNATI, O., Feb. 6. — New refugees moved from the path of the flooded Ohio River today. | Homes at Huntington, W.Va., and other wupriver points are -being evacuated. Light rains were general over the | flood conditions. WPA trucks have evacuated some 250 families from the Cincinnati flood area and also other families in nearby towns. Thirty thousand refugees are being cared for up to noon today. e CHINESE MAKE NIGHT RAIDS; KILL JAPANESE SHANGHAI, Feb. 6.—A fortnight |of ambushes and night raids by Chinese irregulars along the borders of Hunan, Hupeh and Kiangsi prov- | inces have resulted in several thou- sand Japanese being killed and many taken prisoners. | Considerable quantities of arms, munition sand other supplies have also been taken or destroyed. PLANES CRASH " INMIDAIR ;ONE FLIER IS DEAD BUFFALO, N. Y, Feb. 6.—A stu- historical and educational value.| founder of the company and chair- | : of the a dent pilot, Irving Kelberer, was |killed and another, Bernard Mintz, | was critically injured, when their Ohio River section, adding to the| 5 | [ | ) this time to Allen Ransom, of | real estate operator. The ceremony took place in Detroit. scialite Weds Wealthy Realtor | | | Former wife of Leon Mandel II, Chicago millionaire department .| store owner who wooed and won her hand when she worked as a model in his store, Virginia Moran Mandel of Detroit weds again, Kalamazoo, Mich., wealthy young PLANES, | SMITH HOUSE "BILL PASSES FLEVEN - FIVE Wholesale Liquor Meas- ure Runs Gamuf on Way fo Senafe The Territorial Wholesale Liquor | bill passed the House of Represen- | tatives this morning by an 11 to § vote after a brief flurry of semi- filibuster by its opponents and hur- ried progress from second to third reading. 4 The bill, as now amended, for the Senate's consideration, provides for a salary of $4,000 a year for the Ad- ministrator of the act, acting under a $60,000 bond. Roll call vote showed those vot- ing against the bill were, Davis, Gor- don, McCutcheon, Rogge, and Lyng, Saturday’s afternoon session saw the only definite fireworks on the measure, with nearly three dozen amendments being submitted and 15 being accepted. The charge of “railroading” again was flung at “Huey” Drager, who urged consideration of the bill in final debate after amending was ended Saturday, and launched the House precipitately into a mess of Parliementary trouble. Involves Rule 83 It seems the past several Legisla- tures have been accustomed to mak- ing motions to suspend the rules and advance bills to third reading, with- out objection ,but when Drager made such a motion Saturday afternoon, and received a 9-7 vote in favor, Davis, opponent of the measure, dug into the rules of conduct and invok- ed rule 83. The rule in question calls for a two thirds majority on any motion to suspend the rules, and so, after the Rules Committee was called in to straighten the tangle, it was found today that House Bill No. 7 was still second reading, although it was ad- vanced this morning to third read- ing with little trouble. Today, the measure went to third reading and final debate at 11:3f with a recess customary at noon. Op- ponents fought against it. Surprise Move Twice, motions to recess were vot- planes collided in the air above the airport here, (Continued on Page Seven) NEW PLAN SUGGESTED COMING YEARS WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—Chalr- man Andrew J. May, Democrat of Kentucky, said the House Military Affairs Committee is considering the staggering air force expansion pro- gram over a number of years to pre- ! vent the Army accumulating a sur- plus of obsolete planes. Chairman May said it has been suggested that the Army be limited in 1940 to acquisition of 1,880 addi- been authorized, then restricted to buying 500 annually over a four- | year period. Such a plan, Chairman May said, would ultimately give the Army a Mail for Pefersburg The Princess Norah, sailing from ‘Vancouver tomorrow night, will call at Petersburg both ways, nortn and' southbound, carrying mail. This is according to a radiogram re- ceived this afternoon by Postmas- ter Albert Wile. Tracked tional planes which have already PEACE TALK IS PLANNED FOR TUESDAY Union Members in Walk- ouf and Ship Owners May Get Together SITUATION DECLARED AGREEMENT VIOLATION West Coasf.Rebresenlafivo of Labor Men Gives His V_e;sion SEATTLE, ¥eb. 8.—-A peace pariey on the Alaska shipping tie-up is planned for tomorrow by Capt. May, West Coast head of the Masters, Mates and Pilots. Capt. May terms the walkout & violation of the agreement be- tween the Union and shipowners. Capt. May said he was in full sympathy with those who walk- ed out but stoppages of work or strikes are prohibited in the signed agreement between the ship owners and union members. Capt. May said the men walk- ed out complained that the com- panies involved in the agree ment had provided certain over- time provisions and these were not lived up to. It is understood other union representatives will attend the peace parley tomorrow which will probably be held in San FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND ARE KILLED, RAIDS Jananese Planes Swoop Over Wanhsien Area, Disastrous Resulfs SHANGHAI, Feb. 6.—Chinese re< ports received here from Chungking said Japanese bombers have caused 500,000 casualties in the Wanhsien area, 125 miles northeast of Chunge total of about 6,000 planes and pro- | king. Hundreds of bombs were dropped, the reports said, before Chinese planes were summoned and chased the invaders away. Children Are Burned When Slo!e_Explodes Richard and Anna Tonsgard re- cetved minor burns on the face when the stove in their home on Willough~ by Avenue exploded about 10 o'clock this morning. The two children were taken to the Governmert hospital where they were treated. ————— By Train CINCINNATI, Feb. 6.—Luck rode with Richard Ebenschweiger early today as he drove his automobile down a rallroad track. He told Patrolman Frank Scudder he drove into a dead-end street and turned down the tracks hoping %o find a grade crossing. 3 But, reported Scudder, here what happened: Ebenschweiger found two high | trestles ahead, negotiated them and | continued ahead of a fast passenger | train, the while three tires went flat with impact with the ties. Just as the train was catching up with him he turned from the rails—unscathed and, said Scudder, greeted pursuing officers “smiling |and not a bit excited.” He was charged with trespassing. | - ee——— ! HALAII DECLARES WAR | HONOLULU—Hawaii has declar- led war—against the glant African | snail. One hundred men have taken the field to eradicate the pest, con- sidered one of the most dangerous enemies of the territory’s plant life. The snail has been found on two of l is the five major islands. Enough Relafives To Starf a Town GRACEVILLE, Pia. Feb. 6.—Wiley Willlams says he has more than 3,000 living nieces, nephews, great, great, great, greatbskqgkqikqjkqikqf great-great, great-great-great nieces and nephews. Wiley, aged 69, is the youngest son of the Pioneer Andrew Elton Wil- liams, who reared a family of 22 children. Each of the 22 children— save one who wa: killed by light= ning—had families of eight to 18 children, BENNETT TO MAKE HOME IN LONDON ST. JOHN, N. B, Feb. 6—Rich= ard Beford Bennett, Prime Minis- ter of Canada from 1930 to 1935, has sailed for England to make his permanent home near London. —r United States’ Library of Cone wress is now the largest library in he world—contains more than 5= 000,000 printed books and pamphlets,