The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1939, Page 1

¥ 1 v o THE DAILY AL “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” iy VOL. LIIL, NO. 8051. JUNLAU ALASKA, WLDNI:...D/\ . 1939, \I\R(H l5 Ml-MBER ASSOCIATE: I) PR[ S5 PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA SALMON lNDUSTRY F ACES T.IE-UP " Hitler Takes Possessmm of Czech Country NAZ! FORCES POUR ACROSS BORDER LINE Deep Thrust Is Made Info. Central Europe by Grey Clad Armies DREAM OF EXPANSION 1S AT LAST FULFILLED Bohemia Voravva to Become Provinces, Cultural /\utonomy ASSOCIATED PRE S) (BY and his grey clad armies ,11\ ng over th remains of Czeches thrust The the borde ic and ccc her pri chs stood by 1tion came unc 4 German forces also moved into Slovakia, the new born Republic east of Bohemia and Mcravia, Prague’s old domain, and FimGary’s army swept e re- arthest eastern section of slovakia of army poured the van Prague, , while gion. the f old Czeche The advance Hitler’s armie: brought about at least partially, the fulfiliment of the ancient German dream of expansion eastward The action came after Czo>ch Presideni. Emil Hacha, capitu o lesh nignt to Hiter's demands tha the Czech army be broken up that C ch foreign affairs be su rendered into Nazi ha J 3ohemia and Moravia will become prov with only ural auton omy under German don Cries of “Pfui! Piuil,” the c ental v the Bronx ¢ greeted Hitler’s marching legic: Prague and other ci but no re- sistance. on of ies HITLER MAKES ENTRY RLIN, March 15.--Adolf Hitler, his forces, entered his new Protectorate of Bohemia in broken zechoslovakia triumphantly late ging to a climax a day changed Europe’s map for the 1 time in little m than one year. Hitler Reich’ ing the Eudetan Liepa In lessly on the Nazi ion by cross- er from the litte town Boehmish first set. foot new era; German Prague, Czeechs jeered at Hitler's mechanized help- army . (Continued on Page Five) - - OCCUPATION NEW LANDS REGRETTED Premier Chamberlain and Foreign Secrefary Ex- press Britich Opinion h J5—Prime Min- /@ the House that he “bitterly LONDON, Ma ister Chamberlair of Commens teda regretted” German occupation of Bohemia and Moravia but added “Do not Jet us be deflected irom course of trying to reach peace b agreement.” The Premier spoke to the mem- bers of Commens after Foreigr. Sec- retary Halifax told the House of Lords that Germany's march into the Czech areas was “bound to ad- minister a shock to confidence and is all the more regrettable confidence was beginning to be re- 1000 mail fraud scheme involving a since | fictitious millionaire, Reading a newspaper account of preparations for the coronation of Fope Pius XIT are Miss Elissa Marzani (left) and her sister, Mrs. Ella D'Amiani, both of Peckville, Pa., who are reported to be third cousins of the new Pontiil, LABOR FACES BIG CRISIS IN PRESENT CONFERENCES TO BRING P%A([ N RANKS w&l’g?‘h:.fi Epi WASHINGTON, March 15 RQ%% !IA ngflFSE in the sun if the President’s brin: e conflict be CIO tc an early end Nippon Kingdom Threat- ens fo “"Act in Self-De- - - - 1 peace efforts without suff TOKYO, March 15.—The Japan- g of public good ese Office disc s that Russ been warne: Tap- an n in self-d to and the adn maint the bitterly cc wreed that ing rights off 1 coast cf he ern Siberia. () e of "\m“,:l\'\ dis The Foreign Offi ments is labor sirife. The admin Russia {raticn quite evidently feels that s to wha the National Labor Relations act The warning been given and cerlain other aids represent a Foreign Commissar Litvinoff stantial job done for labor For Japanese Ambassador Togo. continue internal wran- The Foreign Office spokesman ng in spite of this leaves the New said Russia refused the reguest fo poor way to defend its pro- postpone auctions of fisheries bed nd so the President schedued to be held-today in Vlad- ac ivostok at the annual sale dnring v h the Japanese usually obtain a contrely of certain fishing areas. By PRESTON GROVER een failure to end it al- ymptoms of pect to suf- the labor tong lahor an- s assert has ght irst off, bot stance. uraging ele- to Once before he publicly scolded labor faction, but scolded busi- ress at- the same time by saying “a plague on both your -houses' when the General Motors-CIO dis- pute had Rit a new hi In his recent letter to the nv.‘! labo" T MOTHER, SON FRAUD S(HEME directed at labor, A BATTLE OF I DERS The fight has long since degener- ated intc a battle between leaders— it is not a battle over labor. side has made offers which, if ac- cepted by the other, would end most of the discord. But the difficulty lies in finding a means of merging the two groups, and at the same time saving to each a fair portion of power. AFL has offered to take CIO unicns back into the organization they left in 1935. But AFL terms leave AFL leadership in control, In turn, CIO has offered to return to AFL if it can retain its crgani- zation intact. That would put AF‘L Given Ten Years Fach for Bilkina 30 Persons of $125,000 DANVILLE, Tl mother and son were 8 tenced tc ten years each for a $125,- March tod fictitious millionaire bootlegger’s es- tate. Mrs. Maud Ault. 49, and Robert Ault, 29, were convicted of obtain- ing at least $125.000 from 30 persons between 1630 and 1938 in proposed 'leaders in a secondary position, settlement of the estate. The thirty cause membership in mdn.stnal persens claimed to be heirs of the - d (Continued on Page Five) IS PI.ANE%IMG LAST ATTACK Swifl Offensive Is to Be Underfaken to Con Rebellious Area ARMY CORPS BEING MASSED, FINAL DRIVE Troops Are lined Up on Madrid-Valencia Front Ready fo Strike March - 15. ance is report virtually leted plary swift offensive that it until all ¢f Spain js his, nquest or surrender of the ] m'lmbl Adv o que DAY compl Span- or town sed his d-Val- sition over- ) 14* ma long the. M and ar> in a pe r entertain peace Army ercia to s tures. 1t is reported fgom Madrid is no letup ‘in preparations for expected Franco drive Fran-no 10-10N BOAT ROWED WHEN POWER FANS Five Fishermen 'Rise from Dead” with Makeshift Masts and Qars ike there the CORDOVA Mar: Pive fishermen when their ten the Hawel was reported mi en days, decked safely and triv f 1y in-this harbor teday, engine d and her only make shift .sail and oars irem grow trees The men left Seward several ‘days nd were due in Cordova a The cutter Morrls was ing for them in the vicinity of Sew- ard when the craft came up to an anchorage at Cordova teday. The feat of Captain Tom Ja d his crew of four in saving tham- selves and their 37-fcot boat on th trip through seas usually lashed by winter stcrms, is regarded as noth- than remarkable. Jacksony id the engine went dead and a coil burned cut cff Mon- tague Island, halfway from Seward to Cordova Alaska given up for ton fishing dead boat ago ¢ ago. keom With no power, the crew put over s a skiff and towed the craft into Hll' shelter of a bay, went ashere ar made masts and oarsweeps cut of timber they felled in the woods. A sail was made of pieces of tar- paulin and raised on the clumsy mast and boom. The sail carried them to within eleven miles of Cor- dova, and from there on in, the men rowed the ten ton vessel with leng and heavy timber sweeps they had cut with the masts. With Captain Jackson in strange adventure of the sea, were Jim Nelson, Stanley Austermar George Finmdre, and cne other un- identified man. thi SIUDENTS (AUGHT IN EXAM FRAUD BLOOMINGTON, Ind., March 15 —Four hundred Indiana University freshmen will have to take anothe: final examination in English litera- ture as the result of a discovery by facuity members of a question- peddling scheme. Prof. S. H. Carter. head of the English department said a majority of the students swered identically two questions lthe examination. cn SHE'LL BE PANAMA BOUND—tnis 10,000-ton passenger and cargo vesse!, led by U. S. naval architects “the safest ship h h of her trial runs, i5 said to be vlr'ually s 1 WITH A COURTLY BOW, Mayor LaGuardia greeted Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt when the First Lady attended New York opening of the WPA federal theater’s Negro swing version of “The Mikado.” In center, with a toothy smile, is Harry Hopkins. MUSSOLINI NOW ON $01 FOLLOWING GEN. FRANCO'S VICTORY IN SPANISH WAR r MORGAN M. BEATTY Wesiln triat ne v Feature Service Writer | tic step to protect HINGTON, Mrach 15.—Mus- | shevism, or communizm on the ¢ in Spain! | —kindred evils s the international piano'§| He gently remir now that General | racies and Russia > has won | were permitting volunteer pow- | republican Spain or (democ erful France and|you prefer). He reasoned Great Britain—to recognize the new | demoeratic or communist Spain with dictator and to go along with him |a working arrangement with Mos- is the nickel that started the piano|cow would be a menace to fascism, going |a cannon aimed in Ttaly's direction way the| g3 Repeatedly, Mussolini has situation, sured England and France that he {had no de on the indenpen- | MUSSOLINY { dence of Spain, or the integrity- lene diplomaiic note put it—o zical order, m"}S]Jnil"‘ islands or cclonfes, There- fore, he willing, off the record, to promise time and again and the Balearics to get out of Spain as so0on as the civil war was over, 4. Never too trusting of vyerbal| | promise: 4l Britain, in the per- | tory for any one of these sys-|son of Neville Chambérlain, dec f government in Spain would | ed to get 11 qu:u on paper with hi « feather in that system's cap, so | assurance: peak. Therefore, “volunteers” |arranged. Chamberlain succesded poured in—from communist Russia, |last year, and those assurances fascist Italy, nazi Germany even | reached the world in the form of dll demeccratic France, Britain and the | | Anglo-Ttalian Mediteranean accord. pain m bel- or- h to that demoe- they, too, to hzlp ratic, 1 his At any rats, that’s the ts here interpret the wiy IT'S ‘WATCH Here } in en main 'rom the very outbreak of civil n presented an opportunity ng ideologists strug- *macy ,in the world democracy, com- | 5 quite United States, Intervention in Spain | who might be interested that Italy' blcssomed into a sort of business!was by no means intent upon up-{ for ideologists and military strate- setting the Mediteranean status quo From there on Spain became | (apple cart, to you and me), where world’s stamping ground. , Britain and Italy shared the driver’s 2 When Mussolini began to ship | seat. Therefore, Mussolini was quite s of Ttalian troops to Spain, | - 'thd to alarmed Britain and 4(‘uh'.‘l|lt'fl on Page Two) | ICHANG ATTACK that a' . if that could possibly b | FIRSTLABOR TROUBLE HAS STARTED NOW Three Tenders Prevented from Sailing for False Pass PICKET LINE FORMED AT WHARF AT SEATTLE No Agreements.Reported to Have Been Signed for 1939 Season SEATTLE. March 15—The Alas tra Salmon Industry today faced thuo first tic-up of the 1939 season when | labor dispute prevented throe R afloat.” The Panuma, s! non able and s fi~~ cannery tenders from sniling lo Falce Pass, Alaska. The tie-up is the resuit of jurisdictional quarrel. Pickets c¢f the Cannery Tender- men's Union of Alaska and Pysot Scund, an AFL affillate, halted " (S ‘final loading of the tenders, Tro- jan, Morzhovio and Amelie. | Blooked by Picket Line | Membgrs of the Tezmslers Union g . and Truck Drivers, alto AFL af’fl: fated, refused to go threugh tie ! picket lines. Borl"e!l”e Admlflls'fa'of, The tenders were scheduled 1o north yasterday. thher Of SEa"Ie I_lgh', Officlals of the Alaska Fisher- . mens' Unfon sald the 50 men Dles Suddenly laboard the tenders were the same TR R in personnel as those who cporal- YOCHESTE o _led them last year, members of the 1 i oot | AFU, which voted nnd affiliaied trator and father of Seattle light, With the CIO. | died cuddenly as the result of heart Caught in Dispute uble at the Mayo clinic here latz Operators of the P. E. Harris yesterday following an operation. Company said: “We are caught in The death of Ross deprives Pres- the middle of a dispute. We have ident Roosevelt of the foremost pub- no differences with either union, lic power advecat? who was active There are about 259 tendevs ue | years before the Bonneville, Coulee ing the Alaska Salmon Industry.. |and Tennessee Valley projects were “No wage, hour or work condi- even thought of. Ross envisioned tions for 1939 have been signed carrying Columbia power New York- yet in any branch of the industry ward |but the AFU. relsased the ships The future successor to the pending negotiations of new labor Fcnnewm projwl is problematical, ngreemene.s " TRIBUTE IS\ ROONI- WASHINGTON, March 15 | {ident Rofsevelt paid a toibute to {J. D. Ross as “one of the greatest o Americans of our generaticn,” in a fcrmal statement The President added: “He an outstanding mathematician ' Fails fo Re?);t on Acii;- :MPAN PLANES \ ities on Mandated AGAIN RESUME Lands ! WASHINGTmnrch 15.—Ja= equally as great os an an has not reported her annual ac- lccmbined this with pi ity to make things work in a sphere ivities on the mandated Pacific 5= ‘ands. lof public opinicn and business.” Nme Alr(fafl D ro p Fi"y :‘ ’:‘hcn;rpgn "\;I:AI\;I:C‘:?‘ l;c; r;:lm ! Bombs on Yantgze Riv- | Jit by the United States tast 13: i er Port - Many Killed sember. The fact that no report has been SHANGHAI. March 15.—A Brit- ‘l.\h gunboat at Ichange reports Jap- recéived was uncovered today when | the Senate Committee requested the State Department to report on {ancae planes have rencwed devan. | Whether Japan has violated the | ? - mandate, | Wting attack nuize River {pert, nearly 1.000 miles upriver from |, Th¢: Senate Committee, debating I Bhanghal. | ‘mprovement of Guam, expressed | Raonat B85 | the opinion that Japan has decided {, The reports from the British gun- | [ © 0 0 Omn hasent lll.l’ say nine Japanese bombing P P g pef nently. Jplum-\ drappe bombs withir Ichane's % or wounding | doing exten- damage | | | | I ( i was and He on the Y SRITISH BUYING JUNFAU COUPLE ":;i:flslfln 10 WED, SEATTLF DETROIT, Mich, March 15—The i \athhwwnhtryhldmorder & i R | dlaced with a Detroit firm today for EATTLE, March 15.—James L |1125.000 worth of airplane lgnm McNamara, 37, and Ruth A. J | aquipment. Anderson. 31, both of Juneau, Al-| The order was believed to be the aska, have obtained a licensé ' | first of a series to be let to lflchlv wed. | 1an firms.