The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 21, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” L VOL. LI, NO. 8056. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS EUROPE AWAITS NEXT MOVE BY HITLER » * L4 Nations May GARNER NOW TAKES LEAD * * » Royalty Head INBIG RACE Vice-i’residalfls Declared tfo Be Sitting Driver's Seat SON OF PRESIDENT MAKES BROADCAST Elliott Roos@i Gives His| Views of 1940 Cam- paign Last Night FORT WORTH, Texas. March 21. e-President John Nance Gar- ner is described as “on the driver's seat right now as the likely Demo- cratic candidate for the Presidency | in the 1940 elections” ‘by Elliott Roosevelt in his semi-weekly broad- cast last night. The President’s son stressed Gar- ner’s simple home life at Uvalde, | reticence toward public speak- | ng, also the power he carries in legislative matters. The “Garner for boom was szarted in ’l‘exas MAKE APPEAL TO INTERCEDE ALASKA CASE Fish Inferests Urge Senafor Schwellenbach, Dimond to Give Aid in Dispute SEATTLE, March 21.—Washing- | ton and Alaska Congressional dele- | s have been asked to use their influence in settling the labor jur-| isdictional dispute that threatens to| tie-up the Alaska salmon industry. | Parties in the dispute have ap- pealed to United States Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach and Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond. The dispute, also referred to the President” | | erick, recently sailed for London London to New York route. velt at both Washington, D. ported. Included in the International Exposition. * * * * s for S.F. Fair Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark, who, with Crown Prince Fred- on the first leg of their trip to the United States. The royal couple will travel directly by sea to San Diego, Cal, via the Panama Canal, instead of the customary After a cross-country tour the dis- tinguished visiters will be the guests of President and Mrs. Roose- and Hyde Park, N. Y., itinerary is a tour of the Golden Gate it was re- SECRETARY OF COMMERCE - HOPKINS MAY PULL NEW ~ ONE FOR POWER INDUSTRY » * * RESERVES GET CALL IN FRANCE ‘Men Beingfl;hed by Rail fo Maginfo Line De- fense Sectors EMERGENCY MEASURES EFFECTED IN PARIS 'New Degre;s—Are Made to Strengthen National Defense, Armament PARIS, March 21.—Premier Daladier's government today called an undisclosed number of Reservists to assume posts in the Maginot Line defense zone, near the German frontier. The call was made shortly after new decrees had been made, authorizing the Govern- ment to call Reservists and take other measures towards strengthening national defense and speed French armament programs. Standards were set up at East Station in Paris, bearing the legend, “This way, all Re- servists.” PAT HOLLYWOOD IN ACCIDENT; IS | BELIEVED DYING| ‘Well Known Soulheasi AI aska Guide Fractures Skull, PWA Project BULLETIN ~ KETCHIKAN, March 21.—Pat Hollywood died in a hospital here at 1:30 o'- clock this morning as the re- sult of a fractured skull. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 21. —Pat Hoilywood, WPA foreman, | - * * Addressing a joint ses years have proved their tyranny front row, left to right are: C. tice Hughes. Rooscvelt is at left U. . Note Is Giv | Germany {Blunt Slalemefll that Nazis Have No Legal Right fo Seize Czechoslovakia ) The rmany, not re- “for Bo- » WASHINGTON, March 2 United States, in a note to G says this Government “do cognize any legal basis exi Germany's protectorate over hemia and Moravia. Enclosed with the note is a copy on of Congress on the oc said “the United States will not approvingly watch the return of forms of government which for 2,000 Court and his Cabinet. In the galleries were three score E. Cropley, Clerk of the Supreme Court; Justice Frankfurter, Justice Reed, Justice Black, Justice Roberts, Justice Stone; Justice Butler, Justice McReynolds and Chief Jus- ‘W. B. Rutledge, Jr., Nom- » * » F.D.R. Hits At Nations Denying Freedom sion of its 150th Before plomats and their instability alike.” foreground, spmkmg " JUDGE NAMED NEW POSITION, BY ROOSEVELT inated Associate Justice, D. C. Court of Appeals WASHINGTON, March 21— President Roosevelt today nom- inateti’ Wiley Blount Rutledge, 44, Dean of the University of Towa Law School, to be Associate Justice of the United States Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, a new position created by the last Congress. Dean Rutledge was promin- " * * LJ anniversary, President Roosevelt him sat members of the Supreme of foreign governments. In the PR UNRESTIS L - * ombine to Stop Nazi Chief EXPANSION OF BORDERS IS OPPOSED Conierence—Proposed at Which Aggressive Pol- icy Is to Be Taken 'LITHUANIA 1S NOW FACING NEW THREAT Italy Calls More Men fo Colors—French Presi- dent in London BULLETIN—LONDON, Mar. 21.—Great Britain late today asked Russia, France and Po- land to sign a “Halt Hitler” de- claration binding them to “con- sult as to any action they may take,” in further German ex- pansion. It is also said that Rumania, Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia and Bulgaria will be asked to join the pact. LONDON, Mar. 21 —Europe today watched apprehensively some hint as_to Hitler’s next move to extend the borders of expanding Germany. Russia has announced a proposed ‘ conference of “six of the most in- terested” powers but Great Britain has found the suggestion “premat- ure.” Lithuanian officials are reported REPORTED, NAZI LAND | to be moving out of Memel and this rlends support to the belief that the Baltic region is marked by Hitler for his next Territorial advance. Nazi Leader Dr. Ernest N, Umann, Aannounces that he expected Lithu- lania to surrender Memel “in the Propaganda Is Radioed to Appease Populace- Gobbels Active BERLIN, March 21.—Germany ! reacting violently to the news that Great Britain, France and Ruuh" were organizing a powerful Euro-! pean bloc that might halt Adolf Hitler’s eastward drive. Dr. Joseph Department of Labor, is the juris- dictional conflict between the CIO and AFL that has resulted in delay- \was critically injured and is mim the statement made by Acting a hospital and not, expected to live, | secretary of State Sumner Welles, | |as the result of a strange mishap |made last Friday, containing con- Goebbels’ propaganda machine was, turned on full force to persuade the! German people that they —must stand . behind Hitler more strongly ently mentioned for the vacanecy on the Supreme Court bench for which position William O. ing cannery tenders ailing to Alaska. GEQ. T. BARRETT DIES, WRANGELL Was Well El;wn Alaska Trader, Also Scout for " General Custer WRANGELL, Alaska, March 21—| George T. Barrett, 85, wideiy known | Alaska trader, died here yesterday. | Barrett also had a pioneer re- cord. He was a scout for General Custer in Indiw.n campaigns 15 GIVEN LIFE IN KIDNAPING, ROBBERY CASE Seatile SeaE;n fo Spend Remainder of His Days in Penitentiary SEATTLE March 21. — Robert Campbell, 34, a seaman, convicted of kidnaping, has been sentenced to life imprisonment for abducting Mrs, Anna Grimson, steamboat owner, and her son, Capt. Harry Grun;on and robbing them of $500. .- — DBEDGE MASTER HERE REV WAGGONER athimabicls | oo | 15 MODERATOR Juneau Man Elected o Of- fice-Committee Coming fo Lay Cornerstone HOONAH, Alaska, March. 21 — (Special Correspondence)—The first |meeting of the Alaska Presbytery |and Presbyterial were called here | yesterday morning with all towns /in Southeast Alaska represented, with the exception of Craig and | Hydaburg. | The Rev. David Waggoner, of the Memorial Presbyterian Church of Juneau was elected Moderator, suc- |ceeding the Rev. E. E. Bromley of | Hoonah. At the close of the Presbytery, a committee will visit Juneau to con- |duct the service of the laying of the cornerstone of the building being erected for the Memorial Presby< itenan Church. { | { -ee - { FROM ST. PAUL Walter Frieberger, young St. Paul. Minn.,, man, was through on the | Alaska today, bound for Fairbanks | where he plans to go into business. | LEGlSLATUBL COMNDED Gov. John W. Troy and members of the Legislature received com- mendauon today from the Palmer | Democratic Club for so promptly OF PRESBYTERY in which he received a fractured WASHINGTON, March 21— g Harry Hopkins, so inside monm‘mL» Hollywood was found underneath has it, may sogn wheedle Secretary 'y pridge by workmen who were 1o0k- | Ickes out of his belligerent position 'ing for him to ask what next to| in the power picture and begin a qo. program to pacify the $13,000,000,- | Hollywood apparently fell about 1000 electric industry. [15 feet from alongside the bridge, If the thing develops as fore- striking his head on a rock. cast, it will mark the second time! Hollywood is known throughout | Hopkins has come out as Presiden- goutheast Alaska as a hig game tial No. 1 man in the recovery ef- guide. He has accompanied num. Douglas was nominated yester- day. Attorney General Frank Mur- phy said, regarding Rutledge: “He is a man of outstanding character and integrity, a legal scholar and with a reputation of being broad and liberal in his | viewpoint, a man eminently | qualified.” H The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia is one of ‘Lhmnalinn by the United States of at he described as Germany’s | 1 ts of wanton and lawlessness of | arbitrary force.” The nete also acknowledged re- ceipt of a note from Germany in- forming the United States of the Nazi Government’s action in Czecho- | slovakia, Fred Padersen, oldtime Alaska appropriating expense, money at dredge master, was through on the the recent session for Donald Mc- Alaska today bound for the Kant-|Donald, Alaska member of the In- ishna district after a trip Outside. ternational Highway Commission. fort, while Ickes takes a rear seat. Before, it was in the spending- ing was slow. WPA could spend Ifast; and Hopkins got most of the money. Ickes growled for months. For five years the power in- whipping boy. It came out of the prosperity period with hands dir- tied by the Insull debacle and was | a prime target for reformists like Senator Norris and the welter- weight left-wingers, Corcoran and { Cohen, They . first put through the pub: power production through Ickes- PWA and the Rural Electrification Administration. Now the power industry, in nor- mal times, spends from $400,000- 000 to $500,000,000 a year in plant expansions. Beginning about 1932 that type of power company spending stopped. COMPLAINTS OF COMPANIES The companies have complained that government interference on many fropts made it impossible to get new capital that their de- pression troubles have been aug- mented by: 1. TVA, Bonneville, and simi- for-prosperity effort. PWA spend- | dustry has been the New Deal's| . OF GOLD HOARD lic utility holding company act | and then helped to pump govern- | ment capital into publicly owned | erous California hunters. s NO INFLATION ' FEARED, RESULT Umted States N Now Has 60 . Percent of World's Supply of Mefal 1 WASHINGTON March 21.—Treas- ury Secretary Morgenthau declares that he had no fear that inflation would result from the ever increas- ing amount of gold being acquired by the United States. America’s gold hoard has steadily | risen and a few days ago went over the fifteen billion dollar mark—or |almost 60 percent of the world’s| supply of yellow metal. | Gold has been shipped to this country from the capitals of Europe since the series of European crisis made foreign banks an unsafe haven for their gold stores. — e — Deaths of hogs from cholera in ,l.he principal farming states show- (Continued on Page Five) nver 1937, and eastern | TERRORISM IN " CHINA CLAIMS ANOTHER LIFE Japanese Battling Anew | in Drive Once Frustrat- ed, on Nanchang SHANGHAI, March |ists, inactive for almost a month, | shot and killed Wong Shih Zung,| |official of the Japanese sponsored | ‘smpping Control Bureau today \while he was shaving in his hotel room in the International Settle-| ment Meanwhile, 13 Japanese units bat- | |tled five Chinese divisions along a,; 175-mile front in Northern Hunan and Kiangsi Provinces, as Japanese | forces sought to revitalize their istalled drive on Nanchang, capital| lof Kiangsi Province. The battle is raging over the| broad rain-soaked terrain between | | | | |eral Motors 46%, Lake Tunting and Lake Poyang, | 100 miles southeast of Hankow. the most important in the judi- ciary system, handling many cases involving. Government de- partments and constitutionality of Federal laws. | e ‘ Stocx QUOTATIONS .! NEW YORK, March 21.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9, American Can 88%, American Power 5%, Anacon- da 27%, Bethlehem Steel 67%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtis Wright common 6%, Gen- International Har- vester 58%, Kennecott 36% New York Central 17%, Northern Pacif- ic 10%, Southern Paeific 16, Unit- ed States Steel 57%, Pound $4.68, DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 143.41, rails 30.03, utilities 24.17. NEW ORDERS FOR OPERATORS The Federal Communications ;commisslun on March 6 authorized operators holding Radiotelegraph 1xpoon-!ed solely by the official pro- paganda. Many tune their radio sets 4 30 per cent increase in 1938 ; At Wuning, where Japanese forces | are reputed to have made a vxclous First Class operator license to act bayonet onslaught, Nippon sources las Chief Operators at radiotele- claim one thousand Chinese were|phone stations in the Territory of killed. "Alaska until May 1, 1939, than ever in the face of this new threaf. Every newspaper in the Reich was filled with column after column of | scathing criticism and abuse, direct- | ' ed chiefly against Great Britain and Russia. Seldom have newspaper read- ers and radio listeners seen and| | heard such a violent attack against the democracies. The frenzied nature of the press ‘and radio campaign lent strength “to recent private reports concerning | i the state of public opinion .in Ger- | many. Many Germans no longer are to news broadcasts from other coun- tries—including the United States— and thus learn of events which are| censored out of their papers. Many responsible European cor- respondents recentfy have comment- ed on the atmosphere of discontent and uneasiness in Germany. The own news- people still believe implicitly in Hit- | ler but they wonder how long their sacrifices and privations will have to last. It is frequently impossible to buy eggs, butter and other necessities. These developments are among the reasons for the unprecedented flood of propaganda being released lately by Minister Goebbels. oo —— ‘KANSAS KNOCKS our SALES TAX TOKENS TOPEKA, Kansas, March 21.— Sales tax tokens have been ruled out in Kansas. The Senate passed a bill to abolish their use. The abolishment of the sales tax tokens was one of the major planks of the . Republican platform last November, near future.” Italy Calls More Men It is also reported that the Italian Government has called further mili- tary reserves to the colors, supple- menting the 60,000 men called out last January, President Albert LeBrun, of France, has arrived in London for (Continued on Page Six) —— Proposals Put Forward, Effort To Halt Hitler Two Waysfiigesled for United Front Against Italy, Germany LONDON, March 21.—Soviet Rus- ' sia has informed the British Gov« {ernment that it is ready to join the democracies and smaller eastern | European countries in a program of joint action to stop Germany. Great Britain which proposed the common front hoped that besides herself, France and Russia the bloc would include Rumania, Poland, | Turkey and possibly Yugoslavia and | Greece. No effort to draw the United | States into the European move was envisaged but authoritative British quarters believe that the United States would give strong moral sup- port to the idea. There are two ways in which ‘European nations may act together to present a strong united front against Germany and Italy. ‘The one favored by the British is to draw up a firm declaration that the nations would consult with each other on defense measures as soon as the security of any of them was threatened. The other method favored by Rus- sia is to call an immediate confer- ence of six nations to discuss meas- ures of mutual defense. Although Britain is understood to favor an international conference at this tine, Russia is understood to be willing to subscribe to Britain's idea of a joint declaration.