The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1939, Page 1

THE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LIIL, NO. 8054. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 1939 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER MAKING DEMAND FOR RUMANIA - ~ ¥ | | | 3 KILLED AS | "~ PLANE FALLS IN CASCADES Experimen{til_Flight Ends | in Disaster-Company Withholds News New $500,000 Boei Senator Lewis Ignores Pickets { BULLETIN — ALDER, . Wash.. March 18.—A four- motored ship which witnesses said looked like the Boeing half million dollar experimen- tal Stratoliner, crashed a v quarter of a mile frem this Cascade Mountain town late this afternoon, killing a re- ported eight persons. The Beeing Company at Seattle, however, has refused to positively identify the ship as the Stratoliner. Arthur Jacobsen said the wship seemed to go into a nose dive. He said he saw eight bodies taken from the wreck- » age. The Stratoliner was sup- pesed to have ten aboard. Pilots have been testing the Strateliner here for sev- eral days. _ PROTESTTO INVASION OF CZECH LAND . Great Britain, France Send, Notes fo Government at Berlin‘ * MUNICH PACT SAID 10 BE REPUDIATED Nazi Official Declares that Procedure Is Per- fectly Legal 4 I » v o = i l JAMES ROOSEVELT | IS NAMED IN LEGAL | T Leoking straight ahead, Senater J. Hamilton Lewis (D.-1IL) marched right by the line of picketing strikers to get into the Swanky (May- flower hotel in Washingten, D. C.. where he makes his home . The hotel strike caused the cancelation of imporfant social events as well . as inconvenience to hotel guesis at the Nation's capital. Lewis was returning to his rooms after a day's work. SPEED MUST BE SHOWN BY UNITED STATES, BUILDING SPECIAL FIGHTING PLANES By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 18~+Facts and figures about our new defense | armament program, what direction | 1t may take, what developments af- it, and time lag and costs, are | comi more and more to light as Congress digs deeper. Here are some: ACTION BY GOVT. | SIX BODIES TAKEN FROM AIR WRECK Coast Guarmner Brings Grim Cargo fo Port Last Night DIED INSTANTLY, INQUEST DECIDES Plane App;e_ntly Spun in -Evidence of Ter- rific Impact The bodies of the six persons % aboard the ill-fated Cope seaplane were brought to Juneau last night on the Coast Guard cutter Haida after grim work of mnearly fifty Coast’ Guardsmen and civilians had extricated the bodies from the snow-covered wreckage in the woods of Glass Peninsula. Landing parties with _stretchers and metal shears were put ashore at 5 o'clock yesterday evening and after an hour and a half of work, all bodies had been taken from the wreckage and taken to the cutter standing by off-shore. Instant Death All aboard the plane had very evidently met death instantly, their bodies frozen in the positions in which they were when the plane struck, apparently having sprun di- | rectly in, striking nose-on Pilot Lon Cope’s radio micro- phone was frozen to his mouth and his earphones were on his head, indicating that the veteran airman had attempted to send out a last desperate call to the world inform- ing it of the plane's certain crash. Bodies Together All passengers were in their seats | within a space about six feel by | four feet, but the shambles of twisted metal and safety belts| forced workmen to tedious minutes | of work to take the hard»rrozen‘ \ | SHARES TAKE GREAT DROP ONEXCHANGE Many Issues Lose from $1 to $3-European Sit- uation Is Cause bodies out. atches Stopped Wrist watches were stopped at 3:19 Ketchikan time, indicating that Cope's last message, received here al 2:16, Juneau time, came only | two or three minutes before the fatal plunge { Cope had merely said, “Passing | Grand Island—heavy Taku wind.” — Icing conditions were noted in| NEW YORXK, March 18.—Stock the area at the time as a bitter | prices on the New York Stock Ex- cold 62-mile-an-hour wind howled | change took further drops at the down out of Taku Inlet, and it is|short session today on nervousness believed that the plane had iced |over European events ng Stratols UNIDENTIFIED ROBBER I NOW MAKING LIFE TOUGH FOR ALL MEDICAL G-MEN s | By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, March 18—Down on Constitution Avenue in the mas- sive building labeled “U. S. Public Health Service” there is a quiet tension. | The graphs and charts that rep- resent your sneezes, chills, aches, |and fevers are near the peak, as | [ | usual between January and April And the experts are watching the curves, locking for clues that may one day solve one of the greatest mysteries of medical science—in- | fluenza. With the common cold, it | 1s the No. 1 enemy of public health, | even though it doesn’t take as many |lives as heart disease | It robs the world annually of mil- | lions of hours of working time and | comfort, presenting a staggering ec- | onomic loss. | Medical science is frankly baf- |fled. The experts can’t put their THE MAIL COMES THROUGH, non-stop, at Coatesville, Pa., scene of recent preview of air mail service to begin May 12 for 55 communities in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Vir- ginia, It works like this: mail for delivery (right arrow) is released through plane’s trapdoor, The pick-up mail, attached to a “free rope” supported by two poles, Is snagged by a grappling “hook. NEW GOLDSTEN BUILDING WILL BREAK SKYLINE Announcement Is Made Structure fo Be Begun by May First A new building of reinforced con- crete and steel will rise again on the site of the flame razed Goldstein Building, it was revealed today by Charles Goldstein. Goldstein said plans are indef- inite as to size of the structure, but said A. W. Quist, contractor will have several sets of plans drawn up, from which will be chosen the structure to be erected. Quist is leaving for Seattle to- morrow night on the Yukon and will have the plans for the new building prepared immediately. Goldstein said he hoped to have the new con- struction work begun by the first of May. The only thing definite about the new building, Goldstein said, is that space will be provided for a “bigger and better” fur store. ner Crashes KING CAROL DELIVERED SHARP NOTE iNazi Chief's Emissary in Bucharest Hands in | Ultimatum 'QUICK CONFERENCE IS ' CALLED OF ARMY HEADS Fronfier Guards Ordered fo Be Immediately Strengthened LONDON, March 18, — Adolf Hitler, having completed taking over Czechoslovakia, has through his emissary in Buch- arest, delivered an ultimatum on Rumania, demanding that the country must place itself under control of Nazi Germany if it desires the frontiers to remain sccure. The ultimatum wis in the form of a sharp note. King Carol's Government is reported to have bluntly reject- ed Hitler's demand that Ru- mania cease development of | trate on agriculture and sell her | ofl, grain, cattle, timber, and |‘ food supplies only te Germany. CONFERENCE CALLED | King Carol has called his Army {Chiefs together for a conference. ! Frontier guards have been In- | creased. | King Carol met in asecret session {with his General Army Staff dur- ling this afterncon in discussing | Hitler's demands. From military angles, Rumania {is rich in oil and wheat and would |be a rich addition to Germany's {economic sphere of influence. Al- |most_half of the Nation’s surface is tilled soil, producing wheat, rye, barley, oats and corn, and has rich vineyards, orchards and forest | lands. | In 1937, Rumania was the world’s sixth largest ofl producer. Her | mines yleld salt, lignite, iron, cop- |per and zinc. The principal industries of Ru- |mania are flour milling, brewing AIR FORCES Meanwhile, workmen are carry- ing out debris from the basement of the ruins and cleaning up for the new work. Source of the quarter million dol- lar fire that consumed the bEild- LONDON, March 18.—The British Government through its Berlin Am- bassador has told Germany that Great Britain regards the invasion of Czechoslovakia as a complete repudiation of the Munich agree- Of the 2000 or more fighting down, the controls had frozen, and| Many stocks lost from $1 10 $3, PIUS | fingers on much information that |and bombing planes we now have,|the ship had spun in, probably from | big¢ declines of yesterday makes rhyme or reason. The best less than 900 are classed as late|a lofty height. { Heading the list in ase dur-|they can do right now is to tell model effectives. The rest already| It was believed Cope had been N the Past two days were shares|yoy there is no nation-wide epi- are obsolescent—outspeeded. |flying at about 2,000 or 3,000 feet, | °f United States Steel B"‘““‘“"'“;demm of influenza this year, and It will take close to LWO Vears 0anq the nature of the wreckage Svcch General Motors, Chrysler, AM-| there is not likely to be, because the Is Defendant in Anfi-frust Suit Against Mofion OF GERMANY ment without a legal basis. The British Cabinet -was-this af- * ® terncon summoned to an extraordin- ary session'.to study organizing the pepartment of Justice has named European balance of power against| james Roosevelt £ ment’s - anti-trust suit against Following the extraordinary ses- Motion Picture Industry. Hitler's new regime. sion a meeting was to be held with the Rumanian Minister to London. dent was one of several substituted for other names as defendants. EMPHATIC DENIAL BERLIN, March 18.—Immediately the Board of Directors of United upon receiving sharp notes from Artists, Great Britain and France, the Ger- man Foreign Office spokesman de- clared that absorption of Czecho- slovakia was absolutely legal, and the German Government will stand firmly on its ground. i FLYING CADETS 10 BE ENLISTED WASHINGTON, march 18.—FPre-| parations to enlist 4,000 flying cad- ets to meet the President’s expan- sion program of the Army Air Corps program was launched today by the War Department. K NEW DOLLAR | Stabilizing Measure Intr destined to put into circulation ap-| .. ..h as eight years. The life of the get delivery on an appreciable num-| ber of the 3,000 or more new fight-| ing craft ordered, although deliv-| eries of some can b almost. at | once, as the factories are already | under contract for certain types. | Full capacity of American fac-| { tories is about 12,000 planes a year. | With unlimited funds to buy the| output of ail factories, 2,500 could | be delivered to the Army the first| year, 7,000 or 8000 the second year, and the full 12,000 production the third year. From General Arnold, Chief of the Army Air Corps: “The pursuit plane has the shortest life of any plane due to| the almost constant improvements performance, The 300 - mile| | plane of yesterday is almost obso-| | lete today. We believe as a result | Q- of changes in design, methods of construction and materials that {from now on until the next few | years the life of the pursuit plane | | will not be much more than ‘two vears, four years at the maximum.| The bomber plane has life of | from four to six years, maybe as Picture Industry WASHINGTON, March 18.—The the Govern- the in ‘The name of the son of the Presi- James Roosevelt is-a member of - IS PLANNED |in duced in Congress by Senator Thomas WASHINGTON, March 18.—A bill is |erican Smelting, Goodyear and DU- | woret season is passing and the bears out the supposition. et Engine Buried (P The engine is buried deeply in! 5 e oo n nion s Hung@rians gttt L D f The tops of only a few t el T k o fiifiirauni:i;ug: o: Pag;wEi::::J a Ing ver comnG HRE (zech Lands TO INVESTIGATE Dragging Heavy Artillery, Fighting in Snow, Oc- PLANE CRASH | cupy Annexed Area |"5ped°r Glenfl Rlddle:‘ SATORALJA UJHELY, Hungary lOS Ange|es’ Ordefed |March 18—Tens of thousands of | Hungarian soldiers today poured fo Juneau |into annexed Carpatho-Ukraine, WASHINGTON, March 18—Tom Hardin, Vice-Chairman of the Air Safety Board of Civil Aeronautics e e |snow and fighting pitched battles | with Ukrainian Guardsmep. By early afternoon, the Hungarian | soldiers completed the occupation | hauling heavy artillery through the! Authority, announced today that he of more than half of the country. curve recently has been around the 3,000-case mark for the nation. Ten | times that number of cases are re- ported in an ipidemic. | ‘INFLUENxz% % bgkqj gkq ‘Influenza’ A ‘Fashion?’ The experts, ploddlngv;\ with | their work, don’t agree i many facts along the way. They don't even |agree on a definition of the disease. | The word is Italian in origin and | means, roughly, “the influence.” One | researcher says it first was used |during a coughing epidemic that swept Italy in 1743, Another says the English had that name for their own epidemic of sore throats |and aches and pains the same year, Still another adds: “ ‘Influenza’ in Italian not only means flux, but also something fluid ‘The mattress that was supposed to have been placed, smoldering, in the basement of the building and was blamed for the starting of the fire, was found two days ago in the debris, only slightly scorched, dis- pelling any supposition that it was| the cause of the fire. PRy FIRST OF SEASON'S HERRING IMPOUNDED IN SITKA'S HARBOR As Juneau halibut fishermen pre- pare to start a staggered schedule of sailings to the halibut banks April 1, word comes from Sitka of the first | | ing, is still unknown. | | | INCREASING \New Unit for Command of Eastern Domains An- nounced, Berlin BERLIN, March 18.—Field Mar- shal Goering announces the forma- Ition of a new air force command |for Germany in the eastern do- mains, which is officially described as a tremendous sirengthening eof |the German Air Force. | It is learned that the step means 'exceeding all plans hitherto made for building up the Reich’s already powerful military machine. and temporary, the fashion, and impounding of fresh herring for bait.| The new command will be offici~ therefore, also, a temporary pesti-| lence, a disease of fashion. . .” | Medical men for the most part| that there is a definite changeless | disease that can legitimately be tag- | ged influenza, Nobody knows where a cold leaves off and grippe or in-| A wire received by I. Goldstein says several thousand barrels of herring have been impounded in and the Martle. PRINCESS LOUISE ally known as Number 4 and em- braces Austria,., Bohemia, Moravia jand parts of Sudetenland Silessia. admit they don't know, for a fact, | Sitka harbor by the boats Sveta Ana| pjeyt, Gen. Alexander Loehr has |been promoted to General and he Js |given the command of the new avi- |ation unit. o MIMEOGRAPHS LETTERS SAN MARINO, Cal—Allan B. Maxwell doesn’t bother to write fluenza begins, nor where umu.ennd I‘KES "ou" IRIP leaves off and pneumonia takes hold | in a complicated case. '!'hm(oreJ Canadian Pacifis steamer Princess | observation plane years.” The Department said every effort proximately five billion doliars of about eight WhulA be thade to have & list of ac-|NieW’ ‘non-rslireable - currency is sending Glenn Riddle, Inspector| Remnants of the Czech army have stationed at Los Angeles, immediat- | been pushed into the southwest cor- sl the price level to that of 1926 ceptable flying cadets ready for in-| T#15¢ sk e i gnd stabilizing it there, has been qpppipic COST OF UPKEEP introduced by Senator Thomas, Overall zosts of keeping up, operat- Democrat of Oklahoma. ing and replacing the contemplated The weight of the gold dollar Will| ., i be set at twelve and nine—tenths‘au‘ Tietk by 5,500 Hisnee Sl Ee $23, (Continued on Page Two) grains. stant enlistment when final appro-| val of the program was made. ‘ Air Corps Medical Officers were| & ordered to travel by air to the prin- cipal colleges in the United States -4 and examine applicants. ely to,Juneau, Alaska, to investi- | ners. gate the crash of the Lon Cope| Newsmen are surprised at the plane, strength of the Hungarian army Riddle will be assisted by I. K. Mc- | and they are far superior in numbers Williams, inspector stationed at An-|and also better equipped than the chorage, Alaska. Czechs. medical reporls on these diseases| can't be accurate. } Besides, one man’s influenza may | be another’s grippe. This year's in- | ) " (Continued on Page Seven) Louise is leaving Vancouver Tues- day night in place of the Princess |10 1is relatives. He mimeographs Norah. Agent V. W. Mulvihill re-|® Small newspaper, giving all the ceived a radiogram stating that an|f@mily news he can gather and |extra large number of passengers Malls it to more than 50 of his caused the change to be made. kin,