The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 17, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 8053. NEURALITY JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 17, s e e i e e e [SSING COPE FRANCE 1S GERMANY'S LAWLESSNESS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS PLANE FOUND CONDEMNED Puerto Rico's ‘Queen’ ACTCHANGE PREPARING | NEEDED NOW Revision af Present Ses- sion of Congress s Urged, Roosevelt FORMAL STATEMENT IS ISSUED BY STATE DEPT. World Peefle_lhreaienedf as Well as Structures, Modern Civilization BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, March 17. — President Rocsevelt, this afternoon, said European developments demenatrated the need for a re- icn of the American neutral- ity act by the current Congres- sicnal He did not go into details relative to pro- posed changes. | | I | LIBERTIES OVERRIDEN WASHINGTON, March 17.—T States Government - today condemnation at Ger- yanton lawlessness and ar- fore2 in occupying Czecho- | many’s bitrary slovakia With proval, Sumner statem ap- | State President Roosevell's Acting Secretary of Welles, issued a formal) which spoke of Ger- many stion of Czechoslovak- ja as a temporary extinguishment of the liberties of a free and in-| dependent people. | The statement also says that when the Czechoslovakia Republic attained independence, the people of the United States maintained specially close and friendly rela-| tions. “It is manifest that acts of wan- ton lawlessness of arbitrary force are threatening World peace, plus every structure of modern civiliza- | tion,” the statement says. The statement was issued after Acting Secretary of State Welles conferred with President Roose- velt, ik ab: I | { | | 6OV, FTIGERALD, REPUBLICAN OF MICHIGAN, DIES Passes Away as Result of Heart Atfack Combin- ed with Influenza | FOR FIGHT Bill Draflefiiving Pre- | mier Semi-Dictatorial Powers for Move IRON CLAD HOLD IS PUT OK CZECH REGION zi Secret Police Making Roundup of All Un- _desired Persons ted Press) Trance has drafted a bill to give Premier Daladier semi-dictatorial decree powers to I e the French nation ready to fight at a moment’ notice. France has constdering Na ed Greal Britain making protests to Czechoslovakia. state that the Nazi re- clamped awm . iron ciad hoslovakin. Britain has instructed Sir Neville Hender Ambassador to Germany, to return b e immedi- ately to report on Nazi gains in Ceniral Europe. The recall is considered a gesture of disapproval of Hitler's metheds. Arrests and suicides are reported increasing among the anti-Nazis and Jews in Czechoslovakia. Secret police are reported mak- ing a systematic cleanup of Nazi undesirables. Hitler's movement from town to Ge Rl jtown is shielded in secrecy. Armored cars are reported travel- ing with the Nazi Chieflain and the care are also ruthlessly travel- ing to all parts of the seized ter- ritory enforcing drastic regulations. Thousands of university students lin Sofia and Bulgaria have been chased by the police after demon- strating against dissolution of Czechoslovakia. TRUITT 6OING 10 9TH CIRCU COURT IN MAY ' Compensation Case Calls Attorney General to San Francisco Attorney General James S. Tru- itt will go to San Francisco again in May to appear before the Unit- |ed States Circuit Court of Appeals in connection with the Workmen's {Compensation Act case of the Ter- Iritory of Alaska, versus the Alaska GRAND LEDGE, Michigan, March | Juneau Gold Mining Company. 17.—Gov. Frank D. Fitzgerald, Re-| The Territory is appealing from publican, who defeated Frank Mur-|a judgment of the District Court phy, now United States Atmrney‘here last September which denied Senorita Besosa As “Miss Puerto Rico,” Senorita Myrtelina Besosa of San Juan, Puerto Rico, will rule the Ponce de Leon carnival, annual festival of the istan< 5. CENSURE OF LABOR SECY. 1S SOUGHT i . Committee Demand ‘ Criticism WASHINGTON, March 17—Re- ! publican members of the House | Judiciary Committee have decided to | insist that the committee incorpor- ate strong criticism of Secretary of Labor Prances Perkins. in its re- port. Most of the Republican members of the Committee agree privately with the Democratic members that Labor Secretary’s procedure in the deportation proceedings ~against Harry Bridges, CIO Chieftain on the Pacific Coast, were not illegal but they said some steps in the case were unifsual enough to merit cen- sure, —— e ——— ‘ Repub|ican7e mbers of o General, for reelection last Novem- ver, is dead as the result of an at-| tack of the heart. Gov. Fitzgerald had also been suf- | fering from a severe attack of the flu. | Gov. Fitzgerald began his second | term as Govenor of Michigan last| January 1. He was the first Chief Executive of the State to be returned | to office after once being defeated | for reelection. He previously was defeated by Murphy. Lieutenant Governor Dickinson, 80 next month, himself confined to| his bed with an attack of the in-| fluenza, succeeds to the Chief Ex-, ecutiveship. —————a—————— ROAD BOARD IN | SESSION TODAY Territorial compensation in con- nection with the accidental death of Eugene Quackenbush in 1935. While Attorney General Truitt |is at the Court he hopes to be able to plead further in the case of Carscadden versus the Terri- tory of Alaska, which called him to San Francisco several weeks ago. - Plans for road construction for the biennium were being outlined in { prelimindry form today by the Terri- Thomas Jefferson Randolph old- | torial Board of Road Commissioners est grandson of the third President | which met in the office of Gov. of the United States, in 1829, in-|John W. Troy. NEW YORK, March 17.—Closing , quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9, American Can 90, American Power and Light 5%, Ana- conda 27, Bethlehem Steel 677%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 6, General Motors 47, International Harvester 617, Kennecott 35%, New York Central 17%, Northern Pacfiic 11, Southern 1 Pacific 16%, United States Steel 57%, Pound $4.67 17-16. DOW, JON AVERAGES The following are Jones averages: Industrials 143.89, Irails 30.19, utilities 24.35. e MRS. EK, MOTHER LEAVE FOR COUTH ON NORTHLAND ‘ Stock QUOTATIONS l VAR A R AT i S BB | today's Dow, | WAR CLOUDS | GATHER NOW INFAR EAST Tension Reporfed Increas-| ing Between Japan | and Soviet Union 'NIPPON FORCES BEING RUSHED 10 NEW AREAS 1Troop Movements Indicate Clash Likely, Present Bitter Dispute SHANGHAI, March 17. — Heavy movements of Japanese troops to ! Sakhalin Island and also Manchou- kuo, Japan's Protectorate bordering Soviet Russ are reported by neu- tral foreign observers. The movements of the forces have been underway for the past | week, it is said. | The report arouses apprehension | because .the troop movements coin- cide with the present bitter dispute between Japan and the Soviet Un- ion over t ese fishing rights off the erian Coast. is claim that most of the are from Japan proper, ting a possible slowing down Chinese and Japanese hos- HALIBUTERS IN AGREEMENT FOR PLAN ON LAYUP Area Three Boats to Take Ten Days Additional Holdover This Year | | SEATTLE, March 17, — Veme]l owners and union halibut fisher- men have agreed to the proposal vessel owners regarding layup of vessels for this season. Under the agreement, Area Two boats have the same layup as last year, Area Three boats take ten days additional layup and all Area Two goats going into Area Three will be compelled to take an addi- tional layup time to a limit of ten | days. ( The agreement is that vessels in Area Three will lay over in port' tifteen days after each of the first three trips and ten days after each trip thereafter. | Area Two boats will lay over 30 days after the end of the first | trip, twelve days after the second trip and ten days after each trip therefater. Secretary of the Fishing Vessel Owner’s Association Harold Lokken says the opening date of the sea- son will remain April 1, the same as last year, but vessels will leave here March 23 or 24. In Area Two, boats will go to the banks between April 1 and April 10, and in Area Three be- tween April 1 and April 15. ‘ Reason for this staggering of sailings is to prevent all from heading for the banks the first | day. | Supplement Sex Appeal with Stomach Appeal | | | BATON ROUGE, La., March 17. | —Co-eds at Lousiana State Univer- | sity don’t depend on their home eco- nomics courses alone to learn how | to handle a skillet. { | Kitchenettes in their dormitories led when & small monoplnne- Two men, pilot and passenger, were kil crasi Two Killed as Plane Hits Water Tower water tower (seen in ined into a background) on outskirts of East Northport, N. Y., bounced off and hit a telephone pole and finally smashed to pieces in a grove of trees as shown. The plane was so badly wrecked that rescuers had to chop through the fuselage to extricate the bodies. The aviator was identified as Al Beech, Roosevelt Field, N. Y., pilot, Once Again the Question| Who Owns fhe Ocean'’s Oil} Subjed Isfl}gally a flol Baby By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, | century-old battle States and Federal | over which owns the sea bfttom out |to the three-mile limij has blos- somed anew with the conflict cen- | tering about a politically danzerous commodity—oil. Charles Edison, Assistant Secre- | tary of the Navy, has just asked | Congress in a letter to lay clalm | to California’s off-shore oil lands. The idea, he explains, is to give the iFederal Government a strongel | basis for a suit to determine whick | —state or Federal Government— may grant leases or refuse leases, as the case may be. ; The thing started on a far broad- BIRMINGHAM, England, March er scale. Senator Nye of North Da- 17.—Premier Chamberlain declared |kota (no sea coast of its own) in- here today that “tremendous events | troduced a bill last session laying which have taken place in Europe]l"ederal claim not only to Califor- this week have thrown everythtng“nia’s off-shore oil beds, but to all else into the background.” {off-shore sea bottom — Atlantic, The British Premier spoke before | Gulf of Mexico and Pacific. It di- the Birmingham Unionist Associa- récted the attorney general to be- tion on the eve of his 70th birthday. gin suit to establish Federal owner- “One thing is certain,” said the|ship before the oil was all Premier,” and that is public opinion pumped out. | of the world has received the sham-‘ Nye steered the bill through the Senate before anybody really took March 17, Al between the Government Nazi Regime Gives World Sham Shock British Premier Declares Public Opinion Re- ceives Blow est shock ever administered by the German regime, As to what may be| notice. When it reached the House, ultimate result of this profound dis- | glert Texas and California mem- | turbance cannot be foretold but I\ pers shunted it into the judicfary am sure the effect on the future is far reaching.” e MRS. TOM MORGAN IS RETURNING HOME; MOTHER 1§ (OMING ing to her Juneau home aboard the North Coast, accompanied by her young son. They have been spend- ing the winter months in California Also aboard the North Coast is Mrs. J. F. Hogin, who resides in Ark-/ ansas, mother of Mrs. Morgan who is coming morth for a visit of three months with her sons. —— e ‘FROM WINDHAM BAY Tom A. Morgan is return-| fcommittee headed by astute Repre- {sentative Sumners of Texas, and gave it the ride of its life, | THREE ST. 3 LEAD FIGHT : Practically every sea' coast state | in the union sent lawyers to fight! it. Most concerned were: | TEXAS—Which has valuable off-| shore oil fields returning fat in- come to state schools. LOUISIANA—With newly devel- oped off-shore fields. CALIFORNIA—With - tremendous~ ly rich oil beds near Los Angeles | Harbor and at Long Beach. Navy lawyers asserted that the| Federal Government should lay| | | SAYS JAPARESE FISHING BOATS DOING SPY JOB Nippon Fishermen Charg- ed with Following U. S. Navy Fleet LOS ANGELES, ., March 17.—United States District At- torney Ben Harrison, today charged that Japanese fisher- men operating out of West Coast ports “know every foot of the North and South American coasts, including where cables are locatcd and where mines could be laid”. Harrison said it had been re- ported that Japanese fishing boats followed the American fleet all the way to the Carib- bean Sea. ‘It seems strange,” Harrison said, “That they chose that per- iod to find for the first time, that any fishing was there.” Harrison suggested that all fishing boats operating out of American ports be registered strictly to American citizens. R ARMY OFFICERS SEE NEW MODEL BOMBING PLANE Six-MiIe-a;r:{ifiute Atfack Ship fo Be Made by Hundreds WASHINGTON, March 17—The Army got its first official look to- day at several of the world’s fastest light bombing planes which will be turned out by the hundreds under the Air Cor expansion program. The new model bombers are at- tack planes with two motors. They were submitted by their builders at Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio, in Air Corps design competition, The accepted plane is reported in claim to every inch of sea bottom |official circles to have speeds ap- —and all beneath it—out to the three-mile limit. By the time New | | York, Florida, Mississippi and a covery of other coastal states had | troduced a bill in the Virginia legis- | lature for the gradual abolition of | slavery, but the proposal was defeat ed. Other members of the Board are Oscar Olson, Territorial Treasurer, nd William A. Hesse, Territorial Highway Engineer. Mrs. E. E. Ek, accompanied by her | are almost in constant use, The girls mother, Mrs. Oscar Carlson, left|say they believe in the old saying for the south on the Motorship a man’s stomack is the best way Northland. to his heart. | L J Ed Eismann of Windham Bay i put in an appearance, advocates in Juneau on business in connec-| __ { tion with his mining claims, (Continued on l;aze Slx) | proaching six miles a minute. - DOLPHIN BACK Pred Dolphin, National Grocery Salesman, returned on the North- land from a trip to SitRa and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. CRASHED ON - - WING, GLASS PENINSULA Chas. Ashby—Siahts Wreck- age Four Days Ago- (laims Reward 'HAIDA LEAVES T0 PICK UP REMAINS ‘Two Bodies Seen in Tail of Plane-Sample Case Is Evidence The Lon Cope seaplane missing since February 12 at 2:15 o’clock in the afterncon with five passengers and pilot Cope in the vicinity of Grand Island, 18 miles below Ju- neau, was found today a short distance back of the beach on Glass Peninsula across from Grand Island, all six aboard apparently killed \instantly. The news was broughi te Juneau this afterncon by Charles Ashby, young min- er-prospecter who found the wreckage four days ago enly a scant six hundred feet be- hind his camp on the beach. Ashby was put off on the, beach below Doty Cove nine days ago and found the 'wrecked plane five days later, ‘but was unable to come to Juneau with his small skiff until today because of rough seas. i Ashby brought with him for proof of the wreck, “a heavy black briefcase, exain- ination of the contents of which, proved it to be the property of Earl Clifford, traveling man who was a pas- senger on the ill-fated plane: | Passengers aboard th plane with veteran Alaska pilot Lon Cope, were: E&H Clifford, John Chappell, 8- surance man; George Cham- berlain, traveling man with headquarters at Anchorage; E. E. Ek, a traveling man on his: first trip to Alaska for Swift Company, and Jack Lennon, former Juneau High School student. Ashby said he found the plane “right behind camp,” and that it was in a “little clearing about as big as the plane.” “It apparently spun straight in and hit on its nose and one wing,” Ashby said. “It’s badly smashed up. I could see iwo bodies in the rear end of the plane, but the rest was such a mess couldn’t see much.” The Coast Guard cutter Haida left this ' afternoen with a Commissioner’s party to bring the bodies in. It was on the afternoon of February 12, at 2:15 o’clock, that Cope, enroute to Junean from Ketchikan with four i (Continued on Page