The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8031. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1939. MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 e ———————— | CONGRESS RUSHES NAVAL AIR BASE BILL | | AMERICANS | ASSAILED BY ITALY Charges U.S. Leaders. Have Started "Demo- cratic War’ Feb. Ciano’s c ROME ter Count Telc “Impe American | dent Roosev United State tic War.” ivani Ansalado, in the news- er's leading editorial, wrote: The arming of American minds is even more dangerous than the| enormous material of armaments.” He further states the Italians do not believe providence has given| the Americans a “blank check” by which thye write any victory they want 20—Foreign Minis- | newspaper 11| Ay rged that the | Puritan minority” of aders, headed by Presi- t, have started the toward a “Democra- par | - NAZIPRESS ISSTIRRING UP TROUBLE Attacks Pr@ent Roose- velt-Calls Him Disturb- | er of Peace, Efc. BERLIN, German press today struék at Am- erican President Roosevelt for re- ports he might shorten his cruise in the Caribbean because word has Feb. 20. — The entire | Hope's Mate Arrested 1 Hope Hampton Shooting of Jules Brulatour, 68- year-old millionaire film man and husband of the former secreen queen, Hope Hampton, brings about the hospital bedside-arrest of Brulatour on charges of illegal possession of the pistol that wounded him. Brulatour insisted from the first that he shot. him- SHOTDOWN BY GUNMEN IN NANKING Former Distinguished Chinaman Assassinated for Joining Japanese SHANGHAI, Feb. 20. Tcheng Lon, Foreign Minister of the Japan- ese-sponsored Nanking Reform Gov- ernment, has been shot to death by 20 Chinese gunmen who broke into | his home, | Tcheng Lon had a long and bri liant career before joining the Jap- | anese. | The slaying eries of more sinations since | occupation. the latest ih a than 50 political the Japanese is R AMERICANS T0 LEAVE BATTLE 10N, KULING Cut Off for Months, Tour- ists o Leave with Jap- anese Escort SHANGHAI, Feb. 20.—Nine Am-| ericans are prepared to leave the | where they have been stranded for months while Chinese and Japanese bfltll?s; mountain resort of Kuling; raged all around them. A message from the U. S. gunboat | v Oahu informed the U. S. Emba at Chungking that 45 foreigners at Kuling, including Americans, hoped to leave Wednesday for Shanghai aboard a transport provided by the | | | i | Committee members in front of the White House after thelr conference with President Roosevelt. Left to right, front row, Senators J. Hamilton Lewis, Robert R. Reynolds, Josh Lee, H. Styles Bridges, Warren R. Austin, Chan Gurney, Morris Sheppard, chairman; Edwin C. Johnson After one of the most momentous conferences in Washington since the World War, the Senate military affairs committee is seen leaving the White House. Called there by President Roosevelt for a secret parley, SPANISH PEACE OVERTURES ARE NOW UNDERWAY French Senator Goes to Franco’s Headquarters for Discussion | | PARIS, Feb. 20—France and Great Britain today sought a new approach to peace in Spain on a | Started Congressional s i o AR S Senate Committee After Secret Parley on and Elbert D. Thomas. Holman, Gerald P. Minton, M. M. Logan and H. H. tion to secrecy, they came away with the impression possible length, short of war, to back the de! conflict with the dictatorships, Nye, Bennett Cham Schwartz. Senator Nye voiced oppesi- Preparedness Back row, Senators Ernest Lundeen, Rufus C. p Clark, Lister Hill, Sherman that the President would go to every mocracies of Europe in any PLANS FOR DEFENSE T0 BE PUSHED House leafirs Promise Measure Goes on Floor for Two Days RULES COMMITTEE WANTS QUICK MOVE Milifary Secrefs Not fo Be Divulged If Nye Pro- posal Enacted WASHINGTON, Feb, 20. — The $53,000,000 Naval Air Base bill sped forward in Congress today with im- petus in new evidence of determina« tion to bolster National Defense, Speaker Bankhead and Represen< tative Rayburn, of Texas, majority leader in the House, announced that the House of Representatives will de- REVOLT SHORT LIVED; LEADER 1S SHOT DOWN Minister of Inferior, in Peru, Starts Something He Can't Finish LIMA, Peru, Feb. 20—Gen. An- tonio Rodriguez, Minister of Inter- ior, taking advantage of the absence vote tomorrow and Wednesday to the consideration of legislation concern~ ing National Defense. The decision for action came after the Rules Committee had voted un- animously to ask the House to start voting. After six hours of general debate, the Rules Committee sat on the question of how long the palaver should continue, their decision re< sulting in the request for action. Meanwhile, Senator Gerald P. Nye proposed that a law should be writ- ten providing Army and Navy reg- ulations do not release any secrets of military aircraft to foreign govern= ments. Senator Nye introduced the bill as a measure designed to safeguard the self accidentally. Miss Hampton is shown departing from the hos- |Japanese. pital after visiting her husband. reached him that developments | abroad require his personal atten- tion. The German newspapers assert- that all American newspapers are excited by the “new baiting by | peace-disturber Roosevelt.” | The newspaper Nachtaisgabe whether the President’s aseless war gossip” is intended to push Europe in a war to aid| American arms industry. KIDNAP-KILLER RECEIVES STAY FROM GOVERNOR Franklin MéCaTl, (ash Boy lcebreaker Is Helpless, Arclic Area Soviet Craft Is Reported Making Record in Driff- ing Near Pole MOSCOW, Feb. 20.—The Soviet Russian icebreaker Sedoff, which has floated helplessly in the Arcl ed a [ | ‘ \ | in the north ever reached by a sea- | Murderer, Misses Chair | North Pole than Nansen’s Fram in | HAIFORD, Florida, Feb. 20— | 1595, DU Franklin Pierce McCall, head shav- - ed for the electric chair, was grant- | ed a stay of execution today until | BEITIG I-OSES POSITION; OUT 1] next Friday with permit to appeal to the United States Supreme Court. McCall was convicted in the death | of James Bailey Cash, 5, kidnaped and killed last May. ‘ McCall was to die on the State Prison Farm today, but Superin-‘ | tendent Chapman said he had ord- | 'MORE TROOPS WILL BE SENT NORTH AFRICA 'Soldiers fo Be Dispaiche Immediately fo Libya, Mussolini Orders [ the British gram Under Secretary of Foreign Af- fairs Butler, said Italy told Lord B! : Perth, British Ambassador in Rome, for the past 15 months, is reported | {nay Premier Mussolini has ordered to have drifted to the farthest Point | more troops for Libya to provide sec- urity for the territory. S ROOSEVELT 1S TO WATCH WAR GAMES OF NAVY President, A_board Cruiser basis of recognition of Gen. Fran | cisco |as the legal Spanish Government. Franco's Nationalist Regime | LONDON, Feb. 20.—The TItalian| 8 % 4 ' b Ces the Spanish Embassy in Lo: vele decision to send 30,000 more soldiers |oeoce T ¢ SP ¥ in| pital bed, in Los Angeles, to Libya, in North Africa, was today | | announced in the House of Commons | Government sought pproval of a costly rearmament pro- Only cautious optimism is evi- dent in the French official quar- ‘Lr‘l‘s over the prospects of success Ifor the mission of Senator Leon- | ard Berard to the Spanish Insur-| gent Capital at Burgos. It is said | |he found General Franco's spokes- | Iman and discussed the question of | restoring normal communications | across the Pyranees frontier. | The terms for the formal recog- | ’mlum of the Franco regime were | ltaken into consideration. The | French Government will permit the | Loyalists to hold political confer- Paris The spokesman also = protested vigorously against the action of bomber crashed gnd killed plane, closure that C! built for the U. S. Army, brought about a Se: ‘hemidlin had the approval of President Roosevelt. Paul Chemidlin Paul Chemidlin, of the French air industry, rests comfortably in his hos- | from injuries received when a new Douglas its pilot. Chemidlin’s presence aboard the nate inquiry and dis- |the French in holding a number of Insurgent prisoners. | Senator Berard had two confer- lences with Count Jordana, special French emissary. He reported that | his reception by the Insurgent lead- | lers had been most cordial and that | |the negotiations had been carried | {on in a friendly attitude. It was | |understood that today's interview | {will be the last between Senator | Berard and Count Jordana and | that any further negotiations will | be carried on by the other mem- | — bers of the Insurgent Foreign Min- | By PRESTON GROVER istry. WASHINGTON, Feb, 20. — Any- Senator Berard planned to cross pody who thinks it is fun legislating the frontier at Hendaye today to|for this rich and enterprising de- report to Foreign Minister Bon- mocracy can obtain an earful of | net. | education in practically no time at The belief is expressed that if the al) if he will drop in at the right | i LEGISLATE FO IT1S TOUGH SLEDDING T0 R THIS RICH ENTERPRISING DEMOCRACY bacon to Cuba, so they lower the duty on Cuban sugar so Cubans will have more money to buy Iowa products. But Colorado grows sugar, and her market is lost. They let cattle come in from Canada so Can- ada will buy other American pro- of President Oscar Benadvides, at- | pnited States on any alrplane or ap= | tempted to seize and overthrow the | pliance built under Government con= government. The General was kill- ered the postponement under auth- ority given in the death warrant to hold executions any day of the week set by the Governor. Chapman said he acted after a| telephone call from Governor Cone. The stay was obtained after rela- tives had bade tearful goodbyes. ROBBED T0 WED; GIVES HIMSELF UP VANCOUVER, Wash,, Feb. 20.— Love didn't laugh at locksmiths in the case of Bruce Evanson, twenty- year-old mechanic; it closed jail doors on him, police reported. Evanson was charged with rob- bing a drug store of $35. A few hours after the robbery he appeared at headquarters with the money. He was “broke” in love and got the money, he explained, “my straight.” “And T am going straight,” he in-| The payments included Alaska, sisted. He is without previous police | where claims were certified for eight record. Director of Amer. Branch, Student Exchange Sys- tem, Is Dismissed | Student Exchange system, | closed. | | < ;be virtual spies. | announced. OLD FOLKS G ET e today | claimants during January. | payments in January. ] | BERLIN, Feb. 20.—The dismissal| of George Bafttig, Director of the | American Branch of the University is dis- Gen. Von Masson, head of the sys- tem, said Bettig acted without or- |ders in asking German students to No successor of Bettig has been | OVER MILLION WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — The wanted to get married. But after he Social Security Board announced at more than $1250,000 in girl” insisted that she wanted none\old Age Insurance Benefits were of it and wanted him “to go |certified for payment to 18700 Houston, Is Now Off Cuban Coast MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 20—Cruiser Houston, with President Roosevelt aboard, has arrived off Guantanamo, Cuba, as the contending Black and White Naval Forces assumed posi- tions for one of the most significant war games in the history of the Am- erican fleet, the defense against any foreign power. PREFERS REICH BUT GETS JAIL used to live in Germany made it clear that he would. rather go to Germany than to jail. However, he went to jail. He is Paul Beyram, and he was brought before Judge Justin F. Mc- Carthy in Town Hall court on a charge of disorderly conduct—so- liciting contributions. “I wish I could buy you a ticket to Germany,” the judge told him. “But all I can do is fine you $200 and send you to Bridewell.” CHICAGO, Feb. 20—A man who | report of Senator Berard is at all |favorable, the French Government {will decide to recognize General | Franco’s regime at the meeting |scheduled for * Thursday. FUR TREASURE " RAIDED FROM . QUEEN'S SHOP Thieves Get $25,000 in Pelfs But Pass Up Eli- zabeth’s Models LONDON, Feb. 20.—Thieves broke ;un.o the Mayfair Salon, dressmak- |ers for Queen Elizabeth, today, and stole furs valued at $25,000. The thieves, however, passed up several exclusive models selected by the Queen for her forthcoming visit to Canada and the United States. Evidence indicates the raiders took along a woman to act as a man- nequin in making their selections. | | Jauets. But it hurws the market for | Colorado cattle. They let England | woollen goods in so New England and the South in turn can d a market for their goods. But it hurts the Colorado sheep industry., We want some reciprecity for Colorado places. Up comes Senator Smathers of New Jersey to protest in the Sen- ate any reduction in the relief ap- propriation. “If we desire to practice real economy, let us stop handing out i $266,000,000 a year to the cotton | 00 | farmers,” he shouted. “Let us stop| And the various states act on | handing out $50,000,000 a year 10| their own account to add to the | sugar farmers. Let us stop handing| pusiness of dividing the country out $60,000,000 a year to wheat ggainst itself. farmers, $70,000,000 a year o COM| qjitornia was first vo find that growers, and $300,000,000 a year t0|,qo. o fancy interpretation of the build schools and university hulld-jz‘st amendment, it was possible to ings. Let us stop spending billions | embargo beer, wine or whisky made o dapies A in other states. The amendment, New Jersey, he sal seeking to protect states which lief money most. It has no cotton, | yored to yemain dry, stated that no corn, no sugar beets, but hun- liquor could not be shippedinto & dreds of hungry unemployed | state in violation of its laws. Since | Even before he could sit down |4y on california, Indiana, Michigan, | senator Connally of Texas (they|anq g host of other states have put grow cotton in Texas, as YOU Te-| ecirictions on “foreign beer” (made member), was on his feet to pro-|i - come other state) so as to pro- | test the idea of cutting out aid to tect the home market for home- cotton growers. | production, | That is only a sample. YOUu ™ sngq the Supreme._ Court has up- |speak to Senator Adams of Colo-|peiq guch legislation. |rado about the reciprocal trade fact. | WHAT NEXT? THE, STATES CHIME IN | Truckil ompani - “They want to give Iowa farmers ckig compages MInIIG: ap lan opportunity to sell hams and‘: | { needed re- (Continued on Page PFive) ed by loyal troops. Gen. Rodriguez was killed by Ser- | geant Major Rizo who challenged Rodriquez’s assertion he was Act- ing President because President Benavides was sailing for Europe. One police officer, two patrol- men and a Japanese pedestraian |are reported to have been killed and 36 wounded in the brief fight- ing that followed the attempted coup d'etat when Gen. Rodriguez seized the Presidential Palace and proclaimed himself head of the QGovernment, also issuing a mani- replacing that of Benavides. He ordered Capt. Ismodes, the Machine Gun section quartered in the Palace to relinquish com- mand. Capt. Ismodes pretended to obey the command but telephoned to the Presidential Troop quarters, then trained machine guns on the entrance to the palace to prevent anyone entering until the loyal troops arrived. LOCOMOTIVE, IN RUNAWAY, TAKES TOLL OF LIVES Crashes Headon Into Pas- senger Train During Fog in Night into a Great Western passenger train near here. Two trainmen of the passenger train were killed and 23 passengers were injured. Loosened prakes caused the loco- | motive to runaway and the steam valve also became loosened. DOUBLE PLANE CRASH; 1 LIFE IS TAKEN, 2 WRECKS WALDO, Florida, Feb. 20. — An Army airplane pilot watched his companion crash to death in Lake Santa Fe then wrecked his own plane as he landed in an effort to give aid. The body of Lieut. Theodore Prox- mire, Jr., sank with his plane in '15 feet of water. festo that his new Government was Chief of HARLAN, Iowa, Feb. 20.—A wild runaway locomotive hurtling through the fog-shrouded night from 50 to 75 miles an hour, crashed headon tract, according to Government spe- cifications, or through the aid of Government funds or research. SITE POSITION OF LOST PLANE STILL SURMISE Search Goes Info Ninth Day with No Solution to Baf- fling Disappearance Completing a program of aerial photography, mapping the Grand Island area where a Marine Aire ways ship went down with six occupants eight days ago, two Navy bombers and one local airplane turned in yesterday some 100 pice tures of the locale. Drifting clouds made shots diffi- cult and perusal of the photographs today by airmen offered little aid to the searchers. Alex Holden, flying companion of Lon Cope, pilot of the lost plane, was in the air again this after~ noon with Martin Feist as observer. Sent out on the scene yesterday was the Bureau of Pisheries boat with eleven men aboard prepared to scour the Point Arden section on skils and snowshoes. On the scene in addition to the Brant is the gasboat Wanderer with a party of six searchers. The two craft will remain in the area until something is found or {the search abandoned. The two vessels were anchored yesterday in Tanglefoot Bay and Green Bay. Navy Bombers at Scene Two Navy bombers were over the scene yesterday for three hours with the Haida serving as tender. Pictures taken by one of the planes were brought into Juneau on the cutter after being picked up from the plane between Cove Point and |Marmion Island. The Haida returned here Sunday |afternoon and will remain in port awaiting further plans. Herbert Neff operated an aerial camera borrowed from the Navy at Sitka Saturday by Shell Sim- mons while he was in the coast town on a passenger trip. Pictures made by Neff from Simmons' plane Sunday were shot through the cabin aperture, made by removal of the door. In the ship was Dr. Jo- seph Aronson of the United States Indian Service. Tony Schwamm of Petersburg (Continued on Page Five) |