The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 22, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESD VOL. LIIL, NO. 8057. ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SKA EMPIRE AY, MARCH 22, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU POST OFFICE THIEF CAUGHT Boundary Patrol Captures YUKON WOLF BOUNTY RING NOW BROKEN Two Arrested, Convicted in Dawson by Interna- hona| Palrol ON TRALL OF ONE MAN THREE YEARS Mounties &)o_laeraie with! Game Commission i | Catching Pair Smashing of a major fur smug-| pling ring, which must have cost the Territory of Alaska thousands | of dollars in bounty money, was announced today by Frank Du-. fresne, Executive Officer of the Al-‘ aska Game Commission. | The arrests, resulting in convic- tion of one Canadian and one Unit- ed States citizen at Dawson yester- | day, was the first accomplishment | of a new Cooperative Boundary Pa-| trol, which has been functioning | only a few days on the Aluska~ | Yukon border. Jack Dolan, Yukon mail carrier, convicted at Dawson yesterday on | four counts of violation of Yukon | game laws, was found in possession of 80 wolf and coyote pelts with leg bones attached, the only explana- | tion for which was that they were to be smuggled into Alaska and submitted for collection of $20 bounty apiece. | Thus, the Territory was saved $1,600 by interruption of this one | shipment. To Stand Trial Louis Lyckens, also arrested by #he Boundary Patrol and also con- victed in Dawson yesterday, agreed to go with Wild Life Agents to Fairbanks and stand trial for vio- lations on the American side of the S R G H Y (Continued on Page Five) SRS SR B Changes Are ToBeMadein Govi.Bureaus i Reorganization Bill Is Ap-| proved by Senaie—Goe s | Back fo House for 0.K. e BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, March 22—The Senate this afternoon approved the | Government’s Reorganization bill by a vote of 63 to 23. The legisiation now goes to a joint Senate and House con- ference to adjust difference be- tween the separate measure passed by the two chambers. WASHINGTON, March 22—The| Administration forces in the Senate today struck from the Government’s Reorganization Bill the amendment curtailing Presidential powers in re- shutfling the various Bureaus. The amendment was eliminated | by a vote of 46 to 44. It was insert- ed yesterday by a vote of 46 to 43. Republicans and many anti-Ad- ministration Democrats favored the Amendment but the Administration leaders fought it vigorously. The vote on striking the amend- ment out came shortly after the Senate voted 46 to 44 to reconsider yesterday's action. .- — DR. HAYES LEAVES Dr. Marcia Hays, Director of Ma- ternal and Child Health for the| Territorial Department of Health, | is on her way to the Westward for | compared with $750 for the same | Jones averages: lralls 30.02, utilities 23.26. work in Anchorage and Fairbanks. Fourth Ship of | isdictional dispute between CIO Al- | week in the same kind of a jurisdic- Fur Smugglers Der Fuehrer Likes Her, Too! SE Apo R]‘ 0N|Na~1 Troops Enter Pruguo' (,ermay Moves East ( ONFES“ON k | | | | | | | | | Miss Miriam Verne The second American dancer to win applause and admiring glances from Chancellor Adolf Hitler is Miss Miriam Verne of Pittsbuirgh, Pa. The Nazi fuehrer sent Miss Verne flowers and candy foll her performance in the Metropol ving theater, Berlin. Herr Hitler re- cently complimented Miss Marion Daniels, acrobatic dancer from Chicago, on her ability. Salmon Fleef IsinDispufe Steamer Mary D, Under| Charter of Alaska Steam- ship Co., Is Tied Up SEATTLE, March 22—The fourth essel of the Alaska salmon fleet, e Mary D, which has been chart- ered by the Alaska Steamship Com- pany, was today tied up by a jur- aska Fishermens’ Union and the AFL Cannery Tendermens’ Union. Three cannery tenders of the P. E. Harris Company, tied up last | tional dispute, are still tied up and | remain idle although they could sail ‘wxmm 12 or 24 hours if the dispute |'was settled. - — TONGASS GOES SOUTH WITH 7 FROM JUNEAU Seven passengers sailed south on'6 the steamer Tongass last night when that vessel left here for Seat- | tle via Hoonah, Tenakee and Sitka. Those leaving were Howard Tel-| lesen, Charles Kilsman, Charles Kils- | man, Jr., Mrs. Charles Kilsman, R.| Berg, Betty Sparks, Mrs. Glenn | Sparks. - e, Building permits in Paducah, Ky., 11%, in January, 1939, totaled $20,850 | month of 1938. FOOCHOW IS SHELLED BY WAR PLANES \\\mbmg Resumed ien Province Capltal First Since July 7 FOOCHOW, China, March 22— In the first air raids on Foochow since last July 7, eight Japanese planes made an assault on this city twice today. Shelling concentrated on the Chi- nese barracks, customs sheds and power houses. Casualties are believed to have been slight. Nine of fifty Americans here are | said to have been injured. This city is on the Southeast China coast. It is the capital city of Fukien Province. l Stock QUOTATIONS ! P R e et R L MR | NEW YORK. March 22—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9, American Can 89%, American Power and Light 63%, Commonwealth and Southern Curtiss Wright common 5%, General Motors 45, International | Harvester 57%, Kennecott 35, New | York Central 16%, Southern Pacif- ic 15. Northern Pacific 10, United | States Steel 543, Pound $4.68%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, industrials 139.51, %, Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel | BALTICSEAIS SURRENDERED 'Memel Is Given Up fo Ger- many by Little Repub- lic of Lithuania ‘THREAT MADE BY NAZi " REGIME GETS RESULTS| Imporlanl Clty Was Lost| Through Versailles Treaty KAUNAS, March 22. — This little Republic of Lithuania has surrendered Memel, the seaport she acquired after the World War and this gives another an- swer to the intentions of the advancing German Reich. Semi-official sources said the threat that the entire Republic of Lithuania would be taken over if the little nation did not comply with surrender of the seaport, was responsible for the action taken. Thus Germany has been re- turned the Baltic seaport she lost under the treaty of Ver- sailles. The semi-official newspaper Lietuvos Aidas says: “In the face of dire necessity, Lithuania was placed under the cruel dilemma of either transferring Memel to Germany or endan- gering the independence of the entire Republic. The German demand was based on force and Lithuania must heroically sub- mit.” PLANES FLY OVER CITY LONDON, March 22.—A British news agency says German planes |were flying over Memel when the 1 J i Speedy motorcycle corps of the German army were among the first of the Nazi troops to enter Prague, Czech Bohemia and Moravia directly under German control. This picture was transmitted by telephoto and radio from Prague to New York. control. | Lithuanian Parliament met to rati- fy the cession of Memel. A state of emergency was de- clared and reserve called to the colors, replacing the | Memellanders, released from serv- |ice. lllhuama Was Threa ened by Nazl War Lords - British Governmeni Offic- ial Discloses Background in Latest Land Cession LONDON, March 22.—The British Government said today that Ger- many had threatened Lithuania with “actions in a military sense,” if she refused to surrender Memel. In answer to questions in the | House of Commons, Sir Samuel | Hoare, Home Secretary, substituting |for Premier Chamberlain, said: “Lithuania’s Minister of Foreign Af- fairs, who recently went to Berlin, received demands from the German Government while there, for im- mediate cession of Memel and that threats that would be carried out in the event of resistance or appeal for support elsewhere. “The matter was not dealt with diplomatically,” Hoaré said, “but rather in a military sense.’ Previously, Sir Hoare said, the British Government was considering calling a special meeting of the League of Nations to consider Ger- many’s rapid expansion. It was also disclosed that Great Britain is conducting military staff talks through military attaches in France, Russia, Denmark, Sweden, Yugoslavia, Rumania, Turkey, Greece and The Netherlands. troops were | k. lovakia. as Chancellor Hitler began his move for more territory to the east, His action brought A short time later he put Slovakia under Nazi ~ | Sparks, a slight Sccne in Slovakia The Prelude to Independence Stench bombs and smoke bombs were used in Bratislavia, Slovakia, when police drove back this mob, demonstrating against Germans as about the time the Slovak parliament was voting independence under Nazi wing and Prague admitted dissolution of Czechcslovakia, This picture was radioed from London NEUTRALITY ACT DEBATE MAY RESULT INREMOVING - SHACKLES OF LEGISLATION By PRESTON GROVER to New York. STRATOLINER T0 BE BOUGHT, DUTCH CONCERN Not Perturbed by Sat- war, American nations excepted. He | considered it certain that existence Officials of Royal Airlines| WASHINGTON, March 22. — AS of the Neutrality Act had contrib- Congress approaches debate of OUI uieq more toward war than toward urday’s Crash neutrality policy it becomes plain as day that the administration wants all legislative shackles re- | ved wherever they interfere with | he free exercise 0( diplomatic ac- tion. Just now it wants to be able to: 1.—Refuse supplies to aggrcssor the Reich coupled the demand with , ,¢jons. The only active aggressor | affray breaking out in Europe. now is Japan, but likely Italy and | L;erma.ny will be included. —Keep foreign diplomats from | \mckerlng up their sleeves over ex- | traordinary legislative restraints imposed upon the Chief Executive and his foreign ambassadors when they deal in foreign affairs. The Administration considers the second &8 most important just now as a peace preservative. The Presi- dent as much as said so in his carefully guarded statement about | the Neutrality Act. That act re- quires the President to shut of all | military supplies to nations at ace. Capt. George Black of Fairbanks, | oldtime Yukon riverboat operator and pilot, was visiting friends and relatives in Juneau yesterday on his way from the States to the West- ward. He had been vacationing on the Coast for two months. He will visit his mother at Skagway be- fore returning to the Interior. ! (Continued on Page Hv;) IS SIGNED BY ~ JACK SPARKS Custodian (fiies Night Fireman Stealing U. S. Mail 'ADMITS DESTROYING ABOUT 200 LETTERS at Home-Held With- - out Charge | ! Caught red-handed rifling Unit- |ed States mail at the postoffice | here at 5 o'clock this morning, Jack Sparks, 32, Federal Buildirig night | fireman, confessed to having car- ried on a two months' career of |letter opening and petty thievery in |the Building, U. 8. Marshal Wil- liam T. Mahoney announced today. ey-haired man who operates L deral Bullding slevator on a relief, s gred a statement, the Marshal's office seid, admitting he had opened and destroyed “about 200 letters” over ‘the past two months and estimat- ing he had taken “about $25" in while Post Oftice Inspectors at Se- attle Nave been notified. Long Suspected te o t early this morn- it Wile and ge Gulluf- last night more, pointed Wil !tion of being re |who said thal at 4:30 cn..m.l. he | saw Sparks go to the drop box, take |several handfuls of letters and stuft them in his pockets. He tore open several of the letters on the spot, Gullufsen said, walking away witn the rest. Letters in Furnace Gullufsen slipped downstairs to the Signal Corps office and tele- phoned Wile, who hastened to the building. They found Sparks in the furnace room, they said. Surprised by them, he threw the last few let- ters in the furnace as they ap- proached, but Gullufsen managed to snatch two of the Jetters out. of the firebox. Charred, but still legi- ble, they will be evidence against Sparks. “I'll give up, | the whole story,” 1 (Contin Albert. Tll teil you Wwile reported 1ed on Page Eight) e g TRADE PACT SIGNED BY 2 NATIONS Germany, “Rumania Ex- ecute Agreement This Afternoon, Bucharest BUCHAREST, Rumania, March 22 —Germany and Rumania have sign- ed a trade treaty. Rumanian officials jubilantly an- nounce that the country’s “political and economic independence” has been preserved under terms of the treaty. The trade agreement was comse pleted and signed this afternoon by Dr. Helmuth Wohlthat, head of the German Trade Mission, and Jan Dujoiu, Rumanian Minister of No- tional Economy. It is said that Germany has not been given monopolistic or economic concessions which it is reported she. previously asked. | SEATTLE, March 22—Officials of the Royal Dutch Afrlines are still | SHUTS OFF ALL HELP ‘planmng to purchase Boeing str:to-f | Why? He did not say, but his'liners notwithstanding the test |line of reasoning is plain. England flight crash last Saturday in which | ,and France, rightly or wrongly, ten aviation experts, including two {count this country probaoly sym- officials of the Airlines, were | pathetic, possibly an ally, in any killed. This intention is revealed when The Neutrality Act makes that,n group of Dutch Government of- | “alllance” less certain and lessficials arrived here last night. They valuable to them, It would lock sajd they are still satisfied with the | up all American arms and ammu- |extensive tests given the stratoliner, nition the very day war broke out. | ————————— President Roosevelt has known VE | that! ‘the - fwo" mENEEE T .y RIVERBOATMAN THROUGH |the act a handicap to their diplo- matic position. They considered it —and s0 did their foes—as a factor contributing to their weakness. at Munich. It may be that this country sheuld not give a rap whether the