The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 23, 1939, Page 1

S v v . | » 4 by _Armed Forces Reported to e THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE NEW THREAT HANDED OUT FOR FRANCE ltalian KingP_radicaIly De-| mands Settlement of African Colonies PEACE IS WANTED BUT NATION KEEPS ARMING Fighting Slre_nath Must Not| Only Be on Land, But on Sea, in Air | ROME, March 23.—King VicLor‘ Emmanuel today told the members | of the new Legislature that Italy| has notified France there must be | a settlement on questions now divid- ing the two nations. Some listeners gained the impres- sion that the Italian Government is| awaiting French moves toward set- tlement of the issues regarding colonies. King Emmanuel said Italy wants peace to last “as long as possible” but Italy must develop her African Empire. The King declared that in view of the circumstances it is necessary that Italy continue rearming “in sky and on land and sea.” HUNGARANS IN SLOVAKIA: NOTE MAKES PROTEST Have Crossed Over Boundary Line BUDAPEST, March 23. =~ The Slovakian Government has protest- ~— ed to Hungary against the entry of Hungarian troops into Slovakia and the protest drew a reply that the vague boundary question was responsible. The Slovakian protest said the y v i . 14 g 3 i ¥ 0 =d y Hungarian troops crossed the front- jer from Carpatho-Ukrania, occu- pied by Hungary last week in the breakup of Czechoslovakia and en- gaged in military action on Slovak- ian soil. SEATILE PAPER GIVEN ORDER BY CIRCUIT COURT Echoes of (Mi Strike on Post:Infelligencer Heard | -Back Pay Decision | | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 21‘ —The Circuit Court of Appeals has | ordered the Seattle Post-Intelli-| gencer to reinstate Frank Lynch and advance him all of his back pay. | The court also instructed five newspapers of the Hearst string to cease and desist unfair labor prac- tices. Lynch was among the strikers of | the Seattle Poct-Intelligencer in | August, 1936. ! The opinion was on of the National Labor Relations Board which sought enforcement of its order of January 13, 1937. The court also ordered the per- sonal representative of the late Phil- ip Armstrong, who was also a strik- er, to be given Armstrong’s back pay. Lynch was a photographer and Armstrong a dramatic critic on the Post-Intelligencer. | e e —— GLASS GOES T0 SEA IN NEW WINDSHIELDS NEW YORK, March 23.—"“Around the horizon” visibility is featured in 1939 moturhoat models now on dis- play. Jay W. Smith, president of| Chris Craft Corporation, said yachts- | men, as much as motorists, demand | inated safety plate glass windshields. the petition o Votes Vindic;eg(»)ustedr:freacher \'I."NEs GHS Miss Hallin With the school committee which too modern voted out of office, pr “ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1939. HITLER MAY HALT|HIS REPARATI ALL THE TIME” MEMBER A Mrs. Hallin dismissed her on grounds of being etty Isabelle Hallin, Saugus, Mass., school marm, looks happy. Best of all, for Isabelle, her mother, Mrs. Annie L. Hallin got most votes of all the members of the new committee. PROMOTION 0 JAPAN WILL BE NEUTRAL IF WAR RAGES IN EUROPE Inner Government Report- ed fo Have Agreed on Future Policy TOXYO, March 23.—The Jap- anese Inner Government, com- posed of five key Cabinet Min- isters, is revorted to have agreed informally upon a policy of neu- trality in event of a war in Europe. B 20 PROJECTS ARE TIED UP BY WALKOUT Strike Called_by Union in Chicago Halts Much Construction CHICAGO, I, March 23.—The Bridge Structural and Iron Work- ers Union has called a strike on 20 construction jobs in Chicago as the result of a controversy over the) handling of the steel work on the $40,000,000 subway. SR P S SOVIET'S ELECTRIC TRAINS MOSCOW. — Electrified railway lines in the U.S.S.R. at the begin- ning of 1939 totaled 1,690 kilometers (1,055 miles). Another 172 kilomet- ers are expected to be electrified this year. - B FAST FOR FUGITIVES LEEDS, England—Sixty girl stu- dents here ate dry bread for a week and sent the sum saved on v ample vision for the pilot and Iam'lbutwr to help Spanish refugees. FWATSON BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HAS CAUSED FROWN, ARMY RANKS By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 23.—The Army was more than a trifle peeved when Col. Edwin Watson, the Pres- | |ident’s aide, was promoted to a brigadier general. There would have | been even more fuss if it had not ‘Tammany Chieftain Going| TERMOF 4 108 YEARS fo Sing Sing Prison on 13 Counts i JUDGE LENIENT DUE T0 PRISONER'S AGE Lottery Conspiracy Sends| Dutch Schultz Crony Up the River NEW YORK, March 2377&\1!\(“1 J. Hines, 62, a power in Tammany | politics for 26 years, was sentenced | today to from four to eight years| imprisonment. He was convicted on | lottery conspiracy charges in con nection with the late Dutch Schultz| numbers racket. | Judge Ct es C. Nott, Jr.. su pended sentence of one to two year: | on the first count in the 13 count| indictment for misdemeanor, charg- | ing conspiracy. On each of the first four felony counts the Court sentenced Hines to not less than one| year and not more than two years,| the sentences to run consecutively. On the last eight felony counts Hines received one to two years, to run concurrently with the previous| felony count charges. | “If it were not for your age T| wouldn’t be so lenient with you. The, evidence shows you were paid at | least $30,000 annually to protect this| vicious racket, In all previous cases | of this type I have been more strin- gent,” the Judge said. RUSSIA READY TO PLACE NAME, WAR AGREEMENT Will Sign Brifish Sponsor- | ed Declaration for | Consultation ' LONDON, March 23.—Russia has | Slashing Offensive Report- (% | southward in the direction of Nan- SSOCIATED PRESS On the march, Just like the French and Italian Al United States soldiers stationed at Fort & e she Minn,, engage in midwinter war m Iers on & Jer, skis. Above photos show ski infantry on the r 8 s referee. NIPPON ARMY Hollyx:ood Bound | IS ADVANCING ON 2 FRONTS - ed Progressing To- |/ ward Nanchang SHANGHAI, March 23. — The Japanese Army, in a slashing of- fensive northwest of Kiangsi, is re- ported to have continued to advance chang. The Japanese are also reported to have advanced along a 100-mile- long east and west battlefront with the objetcion being Wuning which gunner camouflaging his commander, nel Shalienbe: yun with At right is Col. Martin C. Third infantry, who et. ALASKA FISH TRAPS AGAIN BROUGHT UP Delegate Wants Curtail- ment Gradually — Then Absolute Elimination ‘WASHINGTON, March 23, — Al- aska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked the Bureau of Fisherles to curtail and eventually eliminate salmon traps along the Southeast Alaska coast. Delegate Dimond says the traps are wrecking the purse seine indus- try in the region and unless elim- inated it will cause a “first class been announced at the time that notified Great Britain she will sign he would move into retirement at the British sponsored declaration of once and clear the way for another immediate consultation among in- to be promoted. In retirement he terested powers in event of possible is holding out despite a terrific artil- lery and aerial attack. | fisheries war.” The Delegate said he has been | advised that an inquiry will be| made next summer but meanwhile | |no reduction in the number of | will become a presidential secretary.% | The Army—and the Navy, too— | |have always wrinkled a bronzed | nose at “White House Soldiers.” The | Navy disliked it when President | Wilson made Dr. Grayson a rear | 1admi.ral. and didn’t like it much better when President Roosevelt| recently made Dr. Mclntire, the White House physician, a rear ad- miral and surgeon general of the Navy. The Army thought it was free of “White House” promotions until Colonel Watson was moved up. His career record seemed to be good enough, ‘but harness-hard- ened Army men felt he hadn’t been out with troops enough since the war to qualify him for a general- ship ahead of clusters of other ‘righting men. The Army's viewpoint was not the President’s. With Jimmy Roose- velt in the movies and Secretary McIntyre not too robust, Secretary Steve Early has been swamped. Army men like Colonel Watson as a person and so does almost every one else. He is a sort of White House Grover Whalen, affable and pleasing. He will get $10,000 a year as sec- retary, more than two times what he would draw in retirement as a prigadier general. He can be put on active duty whenever the Presi- dent needs a high ranking mili- tary aide. He likely will need one when the King and Queen of Eng- |land arrive. Watson probably will |be secretary one hour and general the next, just as in Gilbert and | Sullivan. | BOMBS AND DEBT LIMITS | Bombs: | The Navy has officially conceded ithat a bomber can sink a cruiser. | That doesn't include heavily armed |battleships, however. The Navy won't give up THAT ship, not on paper anyway. But as to cruisers, whose armor isn't so thick, Ad- miral Leahy, chief of operations, ? (Continued on Page Five) . | William Seeds, (CUTTER HAIDA further German aggression, the So- viet Embassy spokesman says. The spokesman said Foreign Com- missar Litvinoff announced his na- tion’s decision at Moscow to Sir British Ambassa- dor. ‘The British Cabinet, however, is reported to have failed so far to make up its mind on this issue. 10 GO SOUTH Coast Guarder to Have An- nual Overhaul-Leav- ing Tomorrow Surprise orders came through from Divisional headquarters in Seattle late this afternoon for the | Coast Guard cutter Haida to sail immediately to Puget Sound for annual overhaul. The Haida had planned to sail on pre-season halibut patrol Mon- | day, but will leave for Seattle at| 8 o'clock in the morning instead, | expecting to be back within a Iew! weeks. GIRL USESRAZOR WHEN 'DATE' LATE WATERTOWN, N. Y. March 23— Dorothy E. Parody’s feelings grew warm and her feet cold as she waited for Arthur D. Gravelin, two | hours late for a street corner ren-| dezvous. The twenty-four-year-old woman slashed her forty-four-year-old ad- mirer of six years with a razor. Today she admitted she struck because Gravelin kept her wait- ing, pleaded guilty to second degree assault and received anm eight-month jail sentence. Gravelin is recover- ing. | generations. | Train Is Struck by | Bctty‘ Field, beauteous Broadway | TOKYO, March 23-—Japan and! Italy have concluded a cultural I treaty stipulating an exchange of | cultural works through science, art, musie, literature, theatre, photogra- phy and radio. LONDON, March 23.—Fishermen wround the coast of Great Britain can be identified by the woven paz-\ terns of their perseys. | The patterns have been handed | down from mother to daughter Iori an | star, touches up her shoe as she A | packs to leave for Hollywood for a " o | part in “The Primrose Path.” Fireman Killed when Lo- | Broadway is stini tops with her, she § .I, B | said, declaring her contract pro- | vides she may spend six months out (om()hve' wo aggage of every twelve on the Main Stem. | Cars Forced Off Track OSCEOLA, Wis, March 23.—Frank CI"JURAI_ pA('I' Dietl, of Minneapolis, fireman, was killed, and Engineer Walter Robin- | son, of Minneapolis, was seriously ' s injured when a landslide forced the| locomotive and two baggage cars of | "Alv GERMA“Y a Soo Line passenger train off the| ¥ tracks near here early this morn-| ing. T ; N IDE"TIF| E BY A similar pact has also been sign- ’RS;YS ed by Japan and Germany. EXIL sl o $3,000,000 BRIDGE KITTERY, Me., March 23.—Work Mrs. C. W. Thompson, who has | has begun on the proposed three mil- made a close study of the various|lion-dollar ‘“double-decked” bridge patterns, said, “if a fisherman is|linking Maine and New Hampshire drowned it is known by the pattern | M;_O:'s L‘Y;e mfil?qu River. e is jerse; ich village he comes | e five-mile-long span wi vj' gy viiase | constructed with the help of WPA P e S | funds and with appropriations voted 3 | by both states. Two years will be re- TONGUE-TWISTER COVENTRY, England—More than quired to complete the bridge whose 20 years after it was shrapnel was removed from the ton- | 8utomobile highway, and lower rail- gue of a Great War veteran here, |T0ad tracks. | dict embedded, | upper deck will carry a four-lane| { PRICE TEN CENTS ONACTS AGGRESSION 1S BELIEVED " ENDED NOW Nazi Chief Makes Import- ant Statement But with Loophole SPENDS EIGHT HOURS IN ASQUIRED SEAPORT Makes Trium_phal Entry af Memel-Has Repaired | "Damace” Done MEMEL, Lithuania, March 23. —Adolf Hitler concluded his eight-hour visit to this Ballic st ition_to when he de aboard the boat Leopard d destina ived here this German battle snip Dentsehland, accompanied by a large part of the Navy, Hitler formally weleomed war lost Meme! back “into the great German Reich.” Lithuania yielded the port part of its 1,088 square miles of territory, yesterday. After a triumphal landing, Hitler indicated Germany’s swift absorption of one stretch after another of European territory may come to a halt. Hitler gave this indication in an eight-minute speech to the Memellanders after he stepped triumphantly ashore, “I believe that now, in the main, we have arrived at the end of this unioue process of reparation,” Hitler declared. Previously Hitler explained that Germany, while not want- ing to harm no one, was com- pelled to repair the “damage” done Germany. Hitler’s assertion that the period of reparation might be at an end, is apparently veiled, however, by the phrase “in the main,” which left a loophole for possible further reparations. German tory aboard the INDEPENDENCE FOR SLOVAK'A traps has been made. Considera- tion of the problem, the Delegate said, has been retarded by the res- ignation of Frank T. Bell, No successor to Bell has 2 named- but informed persons pre- that Acting Commissioner |Charles Jackson will get the posl-i tion. | Delegate Dimond said sAlaskans | want the post for orman R. Walker, of Ketchikan, - AT BOAT HARBOR; DREDGING NEXT City Work Finished with Connecting of Bulk- head of Rock the north ar x weeks Ben Rodi 2 ontractor Some 21,000 yards of rock from the | Alagka Juncau mine went into the 1100 foot bulkhead. Today the City went to work wid- |ening the Government breakwater {next to the Douglas bridge, so that |the top of the rock may be used for two-way automobile travel as one approach to a float which is to \be built at the harbor. | Next step in development of the | harbor will be dredging of the basin by the U. §. Army. Meanwhile, con- tractors are getting out float logs and piling for the floats which the | omous sovereign state DIKE (o M plEIED | Germany will not establish a for- City is to install at the harbor. — e Farmers in the United States re- 1S INDICATED Treaty s Signed Belween Germany and Liffle Na- fion Regarding Future BERLIN, March 23.—A treaty has |been concluded between Germany (and Slovakia, akia “auton- The treaty provides that & retains the status of an mal protectorate over the region |as she did in the case of Bohemia |and Noravia buf agrees to protect Slovakia in case of attack by any side whatsoever. Slovakia will have her own For- eign Minister and also diplomatic representatives abroad. ’ > e ATTY. GEXERAL PLANS CHANGE IN PATRONAGE {Would Put Federal Judges on Sort of Merit Sys- tem for Future WASHINGTON, March 23.—At- torney General Frank Murphy is working on changes in a setup of Federal courts that will hit patron- age minded members of Congress right where it hurts. The Attorney General wants to introduce the merit system into the courts, taking upward of 1,000 nice plums out of the patronage basket at the outset. ————————— The 1,613 head of purebred Here- ceived a cash income of $5,546,000 ford cattle sold in Texas in 1938 from hops in 1938. brought $354,832.