The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8036. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PEACEBETWEEN AFL AND CI0 REQUESTED NEW PURGE OF JEWERY Egypt’s Queen Attends Opera s L IN BERLIN < Order Issued for, Emigra-‘ tion of 100 Jews Each SABOTAGE BLAMED FOR LOSS OF 1937 OVER-POLE PLANE 'Radio Ope;for Admits Measure of Guilt in Public Trial { :M. Foznesensky for sabotage of Arctic MOSCOW, Feb. 25.—Radioman M has been charged radio com- Secret et Army Plane Damaged as It Ends Hop slabor Groups Instruded fo Gef Together President Sends Warning Letter fo Both Green and Lewis Week-Starts Monday BERLIN, Feb. Police today | | |munications during the flight in { which Sigismund Levanevsky and| b acted speed the emigration of s by serving notice to this city’s v community that it must each day furnish names of 100 Jews, who then will be required to leave the country within two weeks. The order becomes effective Mon- day. Jews, caused added consternation by the measure, said they had hop- ed to be able to straighten out their affairs before being forced to leave “Police said as soon as 100 names are furnished, necessary deductions 1 es on the billion mark fine levied last November will be taken from fortunes of nominees. The fine was levied after the kil- to ling of Ernst Con Rath in the Paris| Nazi embassy. A special levy will also be made for the support of aged Jews unable to Pmlgxuw Five Rallroad (ars, Loaded, Jump Tracks FIVE - CENT WORD NEEDED Vacationists Are in Acci-| dent-17 Persons Injured LARAMIE, Wyo. Feb. 25.—Over- turning of five railroad cars loaded with westbound vacationists, left 17 injured Four Pullmans and a club car of the Union Pacific’s 15-car Pony Ex- | press, carrying visitors to the Golden Gate Exposition and skiiers to Sun Valley, Idaho, careened down + a 15-foot embankmvnt ARMISTI(E SPAINWAR, LOOMS NOW BULLETIN—PARIS, Feb. 25: ~Spanish Government officials here announced tonight that the Government of Premier Ne- grin had accepted the British propesal fer an armistice to end the Spanish Civil War. At the same time it is said President Azana had resigned, declaring that the British and French recognition of the Fran- co Government, which seems a certainty, had cnded the legal life of the Spanish Republic. - — CHILDLESS T0 BE TAXED BY NAZI} MEASURE Hitler Also Raises Levy on Spinsters, Bachelors in New Plan BERLIN, Feb. 25.—Nazi Germany has imposed new income tax regula- tions on bachelors, spinsters and childless married couples. The new measupe raises levies on the unmarried by ,"é per cent and creates a new ta./% roup on couples who are childless after five years of marriage. Nazis hastened to say the new taxes are estimated to bring from $80,000,000 to $160,000,000 annually, but the measure is not based on a need for further funds, ¥ » Princess Fawzia, Queen Farida and Princess Faiza Photographed for the first time since the birth of the baby princess, Egypt's queen, Farida, center, is shown with her sister-in-law as they attended the Royal Opera House in Cairo. | five companions were lost in 1937 on | the flight over the North Pole from | Moscow to Fairbanks, Alaska. | is accused of having failed to post Fozesensky pleaded guilty at the opening of a public trial He is a radio operator at the far! northern Tikhaya Bay station and | Levanevsky on weather reports, and | | also failing to relay messages con- cerned with the fliers and the search [for them. At the left is Prin- cess Fawzia, who is to become ‘the bride of the crown prince of Persia, March 16, and at right, her sister. Princess Faiza. f - MEANING ISOLATION FROM ~ WAR, NOT FROM NEIGHBORS POLISH MOBS RIOT ‘AGAINST NAZI CONTROL ‘Students Break Windows| ton - and Shout Anfi-German Songs and Curses WARSAW, Feb. 26— Twekve hun- | dred Polish University students to- ddv demonstrated against Germany |on the eve of a five day friendship | visit of Foreign Minister Ciano, of | Italy, Germany’s axis partner. At Poznan, 500 mobste. broke ‘\\n dows in a rman library and in a building housing the Posener ’ragoman newspaper organ of the | | German minority in Poland. | - Police kept students from the Ger- | man consulate in Warsaw, where 700 students massed, singing anti-Ger- {/nman songs and shouting anti-Ger-| man slogans, swarming fhe streets in a protest against treatment ac- | corded Polish student of the Poly-|with France | technic School at Danzig, Nazi con- |end the war against England with- trolled. GIRL SLUGGED, ASSAULTED, IN GRUESOME CASE! [Prefty Danseuse Criminal-| ly Attacked-Dies from Blow on Head LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 25.— | Without a single clue, police today | seek thi ‘ru!al slugger who fatally | wounded] | ittractive Anya Sosayera, student, her. The gross act took place on the then criminally assaulted he found the girl on the campus near midnight. ‘Someone hit me on the head,” ” Meyers told police. tion established the fact the young ' woman had been assaulted. lof \ | | the leaders of the country, | Yankee leaders |fully and finally violated by sign- iing a peace treaty By PRESTON GROVER ‘ | Felix Gray, WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. — Part| of Washington's present entangle-| ment over entangling alliances due, observers here believe, to a mis- | understanding of terms. No one recently has taken trouble to explain fully the differ- ence between a policy of mld-‘ and a policy of avoiding “en- tangling alliances.” There was a time when some of | notably preferred complete | Lamenting the insistence | hardy American mariners on trading with all nations, he said “If all intercourse between Europe | {and America could be cut off for-| lever, if every ship we have were | burnt, and the keel of another | never to be laid, we might still be the happiest people on earth, and in fifty years, the most powerful.” the | John Adams, isolation. | area AN ALLIANCE EVEN THEN But even in those years the coun- try was forced to abandon any such idea of isolation and engage in a hard andfast entangling alli- ance. - To obtain aid from France, this country pledged itself jointly that neither would out notice. giving the other six months It was a commitment that entered into rue- without Iu]l‘ knowledge of France, althougn | there were no bitter feelings about | it at the time. ‘ That was just about the last “en- | tangling alliance” this country has | made But it has been anything| |but isolationist. Some of our com- | mercial treaties date back a hun- dred years and more. We haw; treaties of sanitation, armament, copyrights, commerce and culture. Every such treaty has been a| step away from “isolation.” But has | this type of arrangement led toward | “entangling alliances,” of the kind| Washington cautioned against? In his Chautauqua speech dur-| 27, Russian dancer and dramatics|ing 1936, President Roosevelt ex~[ plained the administration view- point: “We are not isolationist except | | FRENCH ALLIANCE DIED “She collapsed right after she said: f 1 [ After the World War an honest- | to-goodness entangling alliance was written into the Versailles Treaty Death was attributed to a frac-| by creation of the League of Na- tured skull and a medical examina- | tjons, One of the collateral treaties —_——— . (Continuea on Page Three) {ine Airways, Further, the accused man is said | } | | | | to have given false weather wporLs, to searching fliers. The accusation of Foznesensky is| under the criminal code which pm- vides the death penalty. He insisted he was guilty on only part of the charges. e OIL SLICK CLUE | Damaged secret plane and, inset, Lieut. Ben 8. Kelsey Wreck of secretly built army pursuit plane near Mitchel Field, L. I Lieuvt. Ben S, Ke]sey. crack army corps pilot, hit a tree after fi ying cross-continent from March Fuld Riverside, Calif., in 7 hours, 46 minutes, making brief stops at Amarillo, Texas, and Dayton, 0., a near record. Lieut. Kelsey was only ahghtly injured. A balky motor, when circling fol' a l.ndm‘, was bllmod " PUTSHAIDAON FISHING REGULATIONS FOR [FISHING BOATS NEWPLANETRY OMING SEASON DEFENDED; Running down one more lead of the lost Marine Airways plane, mis- sing now for 14 days, States Coast Guard cutter Haida | the United | at 10 o'clock this morning in res- | ponse to a message received from a gasboat who reported seeing oil slick on the water near Wyndam | Bay. The latest clue appears some 45 miles to the southward of the Grand Island area where Pilot Lon Cope ln.xl. radioed his position. According to U. S. Commissioner the government boat will survey this section of water and proceed across Stephens passage to is| Pybus Bay and Gambier Bay for\ more searching. After patrolling the Bay scctors the craft will proceed up the East| Nzow of Glass Peninsula for a thor- ough survey once again of the waters they have canvassed repeatedly dur-} |ing the past fortnight. The boat will return to Juneau either Sunday night or Monday morning. Party of 16 searchers aboard the | | Fisheries* flagship Brant are still on the site conducting their survey. "I‘nnv are expected to return to Ju-| neau tonight. Alex Holden, Chief Pilot of Mar-| was over the search | for two hours this morning with his observor Martin Feist, in the wheel equipped Falrchild. P 55, (GERMAN PLANE DISAPPEARS IN MEDITERRANEAN Mystery Shrouds Fafe o Ten Passengers and Crew of Nazi Ship BERLIN, Feb. 25.—Lufthansa, ma- | jor German aviation company, has announced that a plane carrymg Len passengers and crew has bec; somewhere in the Medjterranean on| a special flight from Germany. It is undetermined where'the planr ‘uent down, but the company said merely that the ship had “gone.” First news of the plane’s flight came from Lands End, England, where a radio station picked up an Ttalian station message saying | the' German ship had not reached its destination. It is believed, actually, that the | plane left the Balearic Islands, a | | group of five islets off the Spanish | Coast, where that locale has been | |Los Angeles City College campus.! insofar as we seek to L;olaq,e our- | the scene of much aviation activity | Wally Meyers, fellow student, Sflid‘selves completely from war.” during the Spanish war, last Friday. —————e NEW YORK, Feb. 25.—Apparent- ly in response to the latest Gov- ernment-business peace speech made by Secretary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins, stock market prices sprinted upward at the short session today from one to more than two points. Reply fo Protesf by Ket(hlkan Commlflee on Shorten- ing Time fo Take Salmon Is Made by Assistant Secrefary, Department of Commerce; Says Legal ; Responsibility Also ?esls With All Alaskans Italians in Exodus Move | " From France | o Thousands Leaving Paris-| ' Action Called "Slap . " s in Face | 2!' ~—Several thou- rance pack-| ;m up and are pynp....w to board | | trains today for a mass return to | their native land. ‘ Two special trains were posted to leave Paris. this afternoon to get| e exodus under way. | Other cities reported similar emi- grations, Corsica also advised of emigration. ’ Italian dispatches set the num-| }bex leaving continental France Iis | put at 3,000. | Foreign circles in Rome are re-| | ported to regard the mass home go- ling as a further gesture of ill feeling |toward Frarce, and is viewed in! !many quarters as a direct slap| ‘agumst France. ——— e | PARIS, Fch. | an TItalian | BUILD TUNNELS | 10 ESCAPE AIR ~ RAIDS IN CHINA (Coolies Burrowing Info, ‘, Mountains fo Provide | Thousands Shelter ‘ SHANGHAI, Fab. 25.—Foreigner |in Chungking, China’s temporary {Capital, report that a tremendous ‘project of building tunnels in the mountains surrounding the city as shelters against the Japanese air raids, is in progress. | Coolies are burrowing into the | mountains in an effort to dig out | shelters for 300,000 in Chungking, | which has a population of 500,000. Chungking is marked by the Jap- enese for air raid attacks. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. 25.—| Replying to the protest from the | local committee in shortening the Ketchikan salmon district season by 12 days and other nearby dis- tricts by 10 days, in the regulations announced last week for this sea- son, R. C. Patterson Jr., Assistant Secretary of Commerce said: “This Department has the legal responsibility for perpetuation of the Alaska fisheries, but every Alas- kan has a moral responsibility as well as personal interest in perpetu-) ation of this valuable resource. “The sole purpose of the regula- tions is to assure such perpetuation like that of 1927 when the season, | was sharply curtailed because of the .scarcn.y of salmon in Southeast Al- | aska. “The | drastic a necessary. The message also said that the best information “indicates that salmon runs are seriously depleted in the vicinity of Ketchikan in odd years.” Patterson said observation will be made during the season and the ‘Department has authority to ex- tend the season if the situation war- rants.” Patterson also said the regula- | tions as issued will continue in ef- fect until there is conclusive proof such be hopes not again Department ion will that salmon runs are not jeopar-; dized. Gooperation is solicited by the De- | partment of Commerce "“in carrying out its legal responsibility to pro- tect the fisheries for your future use.” BB AL Historic Puzzlels Solved Now HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Feb, 25. — Director Robert Florey, who 'is I making an historical movie in which one character is Napoleon, an- nounced today he had solved one of the puzzles of history—the little corporal's famous posture with one {hand inside his coat. His chest itched, Florey said. Napoleon suffered from skin di- sease and was always scratching lhfls chest, OFFER TO DRAG FOR COPE PLANE, WILL ASSURE PERPETUATION et men wout bo- | cleared from the Government. W( | ¥ &y nate Services for Steph- ens Passage Task | An offer of local halibut fisher- | men to drag Stephens Passage be- | tween Grand Island and Point Ar- den in hopes of hooking onto the missing Marine Airways plane which disappeared in that area two weeks ago is under consideration by offic- ials here. Oscar Oberg, Juneau fisherman, appeared at last night's special City Council meeting to propose system- atic dragging of the waters. He sald that he and several other fishermen would donate their boats and their services for the work. Oberg outlined a scheme of hook- ing small boats in tandem to drag a long cable across the bottom, say- ing that six boats could trag the entire area in three days. All that would be needed for such dragging operations is a quantity of wire cable, Oberg said. It was |and prevent recurrence of a failure 5u¢ge,sted that sufficient equipment .could ‘be borrowed from several | firms here to do the work. .- Terriforial Bldg. Money Bill Is Passed Unemployment Compen- safion Act Changes Broaden Effect Four measures passed the House of Representatives yesterday after- noon after the lengthy Workmen's Compensation Act had been rele- gated to Monday's calendar for further discussion and amendment, First measure passed was House Bill 92, which opponents call the “Guinea Pig Bill.” Getting House approval by a ten to six vote, the measure goes to the Senate, asking $17,960 for maintenance and repairs to the Territorial Building. Unemployment Compensation got a boost when House Bill 50 was passed, making such compensation applicable to employees working where there are three or more em- ployees instead of the minimum of eight as previously Benefits Lauded Representative Karl Drager, speaking for the measure, lauded the benefits of Unemployment Com- pensation. “When this compensation thing 'BASES REQUEST ON DISTINCT GROUNDS Demands for Peace Are Emphaticaly Stated- Reasons Why MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 25.—It is revealed here that President Roose~ velt has written to William Green, | President of the American Federa- tion of Labor, and John L. Lewis, of the Congress of Industrial Organ« ization, that “labor faces a challs enge in finding itself divided in op- posing camps.” ‘The letters to the two labor chief- | tains called for the appointment of a ‘commmee to negotiate and “make EEDE In the letters, President Roosevelt ;ba.ud his request on four grounds: First—Because it is right. Second—Because responsible of- | ficers of both groups “seem to be ready and capable of making nego- tiations for just peace.” Third—Because “your membership apparently desires peace and unity for the better ordering of their res- ponsible life in trade unions and in communities.” Fourth—The Government of the United States and the people “he- lieve it to be a wise and almost nec~ essary step for the future develop- ment of cooperation between free men in Democratic society such as ours.” HOPKINS HAS PLAN TO HELP BUSINESS MEN Includes Policy of Urging Labor fo Be Fair fo Emgliyers DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. 25— Secretary of Commerce Harry L. on a “desire to create an envir- onment in which private capital will be encouraged to invest.” Hopkins asserted that such an environment can become a real- ity without compromising the great reforms that stand as hall- marks of the Administration. The declaration included state- ments that no general rise in Federal taxes and amendments for the farmer. U.S. HOUSE IS PRAISED BY JAPANESE Turn Down—o—f_ProposaI fo Fortify Guam Wel- come News TOKYO, Feb. 25.—The newspap- er Asahi “welcomes from a stand- point of United States and Japan- ese relations “the action of the Am~ erican House of Representatives at Washington, D. C,, in turning down the proposal to fortify the Island of started,” Drager said, “most work- ers gave it little thought, and didn't (COnunued on Page Eight) Guam in the proposed Naval Air Base system on the Pacific. Other newspapers commented sim= ilarly.