The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRK - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” T VOL. LIII, NO. 8049. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS S PRICE TEN CENTS JOHN BOBEK’S BODY FOUND IN CHANNEL CROWN POPE | > e AT IMPOSING CEREMONIALS Great Golden Triple Tiara Placed on Head of Catholic Chief MEDIEVAL SPLENDOR WITNESSED BY THRONG Firsi*Ouisof-doors Corona- tion to Take Place in Almost a Century VATICAN CITY, Italy, March 13. —The Crown of Popes was placed Sunday on the head of Pope Pius XII at a joyous ceremonial of med- ieval splendor while a festive crowd of 350,000 thronged the great St. Peters Square to watch the corona- tion on the balcony of St. Peters Basilica, the first out of doors cor- onation in almost a century. Within the Mother Church a huge congregation of Princes, Prelates, diplomats and pilgrims witnessed the stately progress of the coronation.| Seventy one thousand admission tickets were issued to the Church. The Pope was slightly fatigued by the long ceremonial and rested in his private apartments for the re-| mainder of the day, I j sl Anya Sosoyeva With only a few clews to work w seeking a career in the movies. girl, was assaulted and beaten on a revue. Her partner in the skit actor, into whose arms the beate: hospital shortl For ‘the first time, the radio car- ried a sound description of the pre- vith, police in Los Angeles hunted the slayer of Anya Sosoyeva, 32-year-old Russian dancer who was sollege as she was en route to the college auditorium to appear in recker! VSIire — He;i Puzzles Police Wally Myar | | Miss Sosoyeva, a San Francisco the campus of Los Angeles City | was Wally Myar, 24, pianist and | n girl staggered. She died in » v afterwards. ) | GERMANY GOING T0 'Brown Shirf, Black Shirt | many will intervene in the present | rope has developed just as peace New Trouble Looming Now Euroge Land Dispute Between (zecho- slovakia; Slovak, Grows Alarming INTERVENE, REPORT Troops Said fo Be Marching Out (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Official Nazi disclosures that Ger- Czechoslovakia issue is causing fear that a new tension in Central Eu- reappeared, t The Foreign Office spokesman in | Berlin indicated that only a diplo matic step will prevent conflict be: tween the Czechoslovakian Govern- ment and agitators for Slovak Indé-| = pendence. Not only are Brown Shirt, but| Black Shirt troopers are moving in detachments to the southeast. It is said however that this movement is | only to participate in a parade in | Vienna when Adolf Hitler appears| ™ | s SKIING ISN'T GREEK rear) of Greece as they try out St sort o — e TO THESE—Princesses Aspasia_(left) and ‘Alexandra (left, . Moritz runs with Lord Donegal. St. Moritz is a favorite winfer re- f many of Europe’s royal sports lovers. WINS §50,000 FEDERAL BOARD | | | BOAT (00K 'LOSES LIFE ‘Corpse Is Discovered This Morning at Lower City Float DEATH IS BELIEVED FROM HEART ATTACK Popular Gall_:y King Had “ | Been Employed in { 1 | | Alaska 30 Years John Bobek, 56, veteran Alaska camp and boat cook, was found dead this morning in the Channel water at the Lower City Float. No water was in Bodek’s lungs, and a heart attack is believed to have caused | his death. Bobek was cook on the Game Commission vessel Seal, moored at the Government Float behind the rock dump, He was last seen late yesterday afternoon, and is believed to have been overcome by one of his frequent severe coughing spells while returning to the boat, falling into the water. The body was found by Clarence Cove at 9:30 o'clock, floating near his gasboat, moored at the lower float. Burial is being deferred pending word from relatives. & Bobek is known to have a brother [ cedent coronation around the world in half a dozen languages enabling all to ghare in the placing of the! great Golden Triplé "THara on the Pope’s head as the climax of the Tites. The Fellow Who Is in That The ceremonial lasted five hours. The ‘United States, for the first time since 1846, had a representa- tive at the coronation, Joseph P. Kennedy, United States Ambassador to London. Stafe Dept. Says Nippon Trefly Okeh UNITED STATES MAKES PROTEST T0 JAPAN GOVT. Charges of Restriction Against Foreign Trader- ers in Peiping Section | TOKYD, March 15—The United States is reported authoritatively to have protested to Japan against fin- ancial restrictions imposed on for- eign merchants by the Japanese sponsored North China Government at Peiping. It is understood that the note charges restrictions have discrim- inated against all foreign traders ex- cept the Japanese. Japanese Are Given Carfe Blanc on Island Fortifi- cation Charges | WASHINGTON, March 13—The State Department today informed the Senate Naval Committee that| as far as it was known, Japan hadn't| violated its treaty forbidding fortifi- | cation of former German Islands in| the Pacific, now under Japanese| mandate. Big Casein Supreme Court it 1 By PRESTON GROVER ! WASHINGTON, March 13.—Pos- | sibly the unluckiest (or the luckiest) | | man in the country today is Joseph George Strecker of Hot Springs, | Ark., who is being used as a legal %gumm pig to decide whether Harry | Bridges, West. Coast CIO longshore- | | men’s leader, shall be deported. | The U. 8. Supreme Court has | Strecker’s case in hand and a de- | cision will be down soon. But the | big game in the woods is not in-| consequential Strecker, but con- sequential Bridges. | The law says an alien advocating | overthrow of the 1. S. Government by force must be deported. The Jus- tice Department in prosecuting Strecker argued that Communism advocates overthrow of the Govern-| ment, and therefore an alien Com-| munist can’t stay here. | District Judge Wayne G. Borah (nephew of the Senator) decided that was so and Strecker must go. The Fifth Circuit Court disagreed and reversed the decision. From/ there on Wednesday in c()lel:rratlonK of German annexation of Austrlaf“ B".I-S F just p year ago today. | Upheavals have taken place in| Hous[ pASS | the Government of both Czechoslo- | |.vakia and Slovak as the result last| BOTH BODIES | guards and the dismissal of several 1 high officials of both Governments. | — | Several high Nazi officials, who have been out of Berlin, have been | summoned there, ‘For'y P'er cent Of lower R Y | | House's Measures Sur- ENCIRCLING | vive Axe This Session { ! Bixty-four House bills were passed | ORIE".I. w A by both the House and the Senate | | one was vetoed, and another is still | o hanging fire in the Governor’s or-‘\ 1 | fice. Two Adlons Take Pla(e | The number of bills passed rep- 1 resents forty percent of the bills | week of attacks made on frontier MOVEMENTS, during the past fourteenth session'| isidered a good record. CONTEST WILL ACT NEXT ON RADIO HERE in Chicago, and a woman named Mary Adamck, in Hammond, In- iana, is bellevad to be his sister. Born in 1882, in Danzig, when that Baltic port was still German sofl, 'U. 5. Commission fo Inves- figate Private Air- line Operators | WASHINGTON, March 13—The | Federal Communications Commis- sion announced that it will call a hearing next fall to correct the “ev- ils in the Alaskah Aviation Com- munication system.” Object. of the hearing will be the | private radio operations maintained by the numerous aviation concerns in the Territory. All licensed com- Bobek came to the United States as a young man and received his naturalization papers in 1905. He was employed by the U. 8. Lighthouse Service in 1911 and 1913, cooked on many halibut boats, cooked for the Forest Service, and Game Commission, cooking on most all of their vessels at different times. Homer Jewell, Assistant Executive | Officer of the Alaska Game Com- mission, said today: “ was one of the best boat cooks that ever came to Alaska and he didn't have an enemy in the world.” 4 The barrel chested and genial Bobek was known everywhere as a in 1935 went to work for the Alaska Annihilation SHANGHAI, March 13.-—Japanese authorities -announce - their forces have surrowfqded 2500 Chinese troops in the northern part of | Kiangsu Province and they race‘ annihilation. The Chinese authorities assert they are making an enveloping movement against the invaders and claim 10,000 Japanese have been | surrounded northwest of Taiyuan 07 Wolves and coyotes |and all supply communication lines | have been cut. | House Bill 66, which would hnve: appropriated $5,000 for bank exam- inations, was the bill vetoed, and' |House Bill 127, the Gordon chain !store tax bill, is the measure still in the Governor's Office. Measures which will be incorpor= ated into the 1939 session laws are | follows: House Bill 1, Smith, setting up a new system of bounty payments House Bill 6, McCutcheon, legal- izing cocktail bars in club rooms of | fraternal organizations. | I “cracking good cook.” At one time, Bobek was cook on the old Margnita, operating out of Juneau, and also cooked in lumber and mining camps all through Southeast Alaska. K TWO STEAMERS OF ROTARIANS 10 COME HERE panies in the aviation service of Alaska will be parties in this hear-~ ing. Explaining that Alaska, with an air traffic 16 times greater than that of the United States on the basis of population, the commission says that keen compétition has made it impossible for private companies of the Alaska Aviation System to organize among themselves. enewal applications for all aero- nautical and aeronautical point to point stations in Alaska will be called for by the Commission. Applications for new facilities in The information was given in re- sponse to a committee inquiry re- | cently arising out of a hearing on | charges that Japan had excluded Amercan Islands from violation of the same treaty. THIRD SET OF LOCKS PLANNED, PANAMA CANAL auins o Be {Presented fo 4 ll(mq and Queen | CALLANDER, Ontario, March 13. | —Oliva Dionne, father of the fa- sider Project ; | mous quints, announced today that WASHINGTON, March 13—Ad-|ne has accepted the invitation of option of a third set of locks in the | the Ontario Government to take his Panama Canal will be considered daughters to Toronto to be presen- by the House Merchant Marine teq to the British King and Queen Committee tomorrow. lon May 22. This project is a link in the Ad-| B g ministragion’s defense program, | PASSES AWAY Refused Presidential Nom- a canal across Nwaragrura":_ | ination on Prohi Tick- ef Three Times $450,000 FIRE SPRINGFIELD, Iil. March 13.— Robert Patton, 79, who three times declined the nomination of Presi- DEMING, New Mexico, March 13.— |dent of the United States on the One of the largest fires in the histoy of this southwestern New Mexico | Prohibition ticket died here yester- | day. House Merchant Marine Committee to Con- town destroyed the Holy Cross San- itorium early this morning. The Saniterium was vacant at the time, only the caretakers oc- cupying it. The loss is estimated at $450,000. Goldfish were introduced inte England from China in 1728, there the case went to the Supreme | | Court. | HOW BRIDGES FITS IN | Bridges comes into the picture| ithis way. His many critics, incltd- | {ing Representative Dies, investigat- |ing un-American activities, have contended that files in the Labor | Department prove that Bridges not only was a Communist but had-per- | sonally advocated violent overthrow of the Government. Secretary of Labor Perkins per- | sistently has dened this but in 1937 the department discovered more | substantial evidence and began de- | portation proceedings against Bridges. It was ticklish business for |an administration supported by la- bor. Bridges is a big CIO figure. Then up came the Circuit Court | | decision in the Strecker case hold- |ing that an alien couldn't be de- | ported just because he was a Com- | munist. The Labor Department| grabbed it, suspended proceedings |against Bridges and apnounced | that no decision would be reached until the Supreme Court decision in the Strecker case showed the | | way. Since Strecker’s case became the proving ground, strong left wing or- | ganizations have come forward with attorneys. To the left wing labor movement Bridges has been worth his weight in gold and not one to be given up easily. For five years Bridges, an Aus- tralian with a hatchet face and a winning way with waterfront work- ers, has been a pain in the side of most West Coest ship tors. He organized dock workers from Seattle (Continued on Page Five) THREE DIE, House Bill 12, Davis, appropriat- ling $80,000 for transportation of MASSACHUSETTS IS WINNER FOR BIG ESTATE TAX Supreme Court Makes De- cision in Col. Green Inheritance Case House Bill 13, Davis, limiting traveling expenses of Territorial of- | ficials. House Bill 14, Ways and Means, appropriating deficiency monies. House Bill 15, Rogge, providing |for escheat of estates to Territory. | House Bill 16, Davis, providing | for bids on Territorial purchases. House Bill 17, Coffey, setting minimum teachers’ salaries. House Bill 18 McCormick, defin- . ing an habitual criminal. WASHINGTON, March 13—Mas-| House Bill 24, Lyng, an act to sachusetts has won in the Supremc prohibit erection of obstructions on Court its contest with three other . near Territorial airfields. states over the right to collect the| gouyse Bill 25, Rogge, to reim-~ inheritance tax on the. $36,000000 |y, 56 library associations, estate left by Col. Edward Green, son | ponce Bill 26, Martin and Lyng, | of Hetty Green. b G . |appropriating $10,000 for Nome | The Supreme Court decided that . 1" onctmction, Massachusetts was the legal domic- = r: i House Bill 27, Davis, appropriat- lle of Col. Green when- he died in ing funds for school construction 1936. The . _|at Haines. state of Massachusetts claim- | ™y e "my 28, MeCormick by re- | ed almost $5,000,000 in taxes. The | Federal Government has already 1uest, return of unused Restaurant collected $17,500,000. Liquor License tax to Shirley| e S George of Sitka. House Bill 29, Davis, setting up | the Alaska Pioneer Home Trust | Fund. | | House Bill 31, Walker, appropri- ating funds for school construction | E at Craig. | House Bill 3, McCormick, appro- | priating funds for school eonstruc- | 125 |tion at Douglas. s COLUSA, Cal. March 13.—Roy| House Bill 85, Gordon, making Crabtree, 31, a laborer, and two ol‘mmor marriage license changes. his children were burned to death| House Bills 36-37-38, Gordon, re- when fire destroyed their home eflrly‘ this movning. 1 (Continued on Page Five) locations where there is no dupli- cation involved will be granted con- | ditionally pending outcome of the _|general hearing. All applications re- questing duplicate facilities or sub- mitted by other than aireraft oper- ators designated by the hearing will not be issued a conditional au- thorization of any character. Mrs. Elizabeth Benincasa of Francisco, who recently “took the $50,000” but was too over- come to say anything about it. Wife of a tailor who lost his shop during recent lean years, Mrs. Benincasa, earned $1,000 a word in a nation-wide movie quiz contest. Although she does not know definitely what she will do with her prize money, Mrs. Benincasa said she would “buy a home for cne thing.” She wrote the winning 50-word essay on why she likes a certain picture. Told she was one of 5404 win- ners, she expected to receive only $206. SOVIET SOLDIERS. ARE TANTALIZING Cross Over'Siberian-Man- According to reliable authorities in Juneau, the.Federal Communi- cations law states that no licensed aeronautical radio station may be used for purposes other than con- cerned with the safety of the pass- engers. Trouble in Alaska arose from the lack of co-operation between the | various airlines, some of whom were |unable to obtain a license for a | station due to the lack of avaflable | frequencies, These stations without radios | complained of lack of cooperation | having stations. The stations being put to commercial use, the utiliza- |tion of them among all the com- | panies for purposes of safety opera- | tion was not effected, according to the complaints. | In Alaska there are 50 private aireraft radip stations, which oper- ate from the plane itself, 30 aeron- choukuoan Border for Some Distance | autical point o point land stations, |and 41 aeronautical stations which TOKYO, March 13—A dispatch|provide contact between the ground from Hsinking reports that 70 Soviet ' and the plane. Russian soldiers crossed .the Sib- | AT, erian-Manchoykuoan border and| LEMON GOES LONG WAY penetrated a considerable distance| DELPHI, India.—Mrs. John Hol- guards. |the juice of one lemon she brought No casualities on either side are home from Florida. The lemon reported. lwmg]\ed two and .one-half pounds. Aleutian, Prince Robert Under Special Charfer for May Conclave Two large steamers carrying Rotarians each have been for Juneau, where the vision conference is to be held, m ; a 18 to 21, and there is that one more ship may be chare tered for the convention. $eg The Aleutian is to leave Seattle Monday morning, May 15, wit} representatives from Rotary’ clubs throughout ~Washington, Oregon and western Idaho. The Prince Robert sails from Van~ couver later that day with British Columbia Rotarians. at 7 o'clock the morning of the . 18th, tying up for the duration of the conference and serving as. Salling time is 1 o'clock Sun= day morning, May 21, after a final conference’ celebration and dance. . Seattle Rotarians will be able to squeeze the Alaska trip and 4 vention Into eight days from time they leave home until they are back at their jobs. . LEGION TO MEET Alford John Bradford post, Ame erican Legion, will hold its regular | before driven back by Japanese singer baked ten lemon pies with|Weekly meeting tonight at the Dugs out. Plans for the Legion annivers- ary dinner and celebration Wedness day will be under discussion. Both ships will arrive in Junesu “floating hotels” for the delegates. WELLKNOWN