The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1939, Page 1

» TEN PICKETS ARE y 9 - Spanish war. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL T{IE TIME” VOL. LIIi., NO. 8060. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, V \RCH 20,1930, MhMBhR ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MUSSOLINI WATCHED FOR NEXT MOVE End of Spanish War PEACE MAY BE SIGNED BY TONIGHT Final Negofi:ti_ons Report- ed in 32-Month- 0ld Conflict. FIGHTING SAID TO BE AT STANDSTILL, ALL FRONTS Rome Newspapers Assert that Unconditional Sur- render Is Demand ing to unofficia ed here from Madrid, final r tiations for peace in the 3 menths-cld war in Spain are nearly completed and may end by nightfall and Gen. Franco's troops might march into the city within a few hours. Imminent peace is reporied seen in preparations for early resumption of railway traffic cut of Madrid. Fighting is reported standstill on all fronts. at a SURRENDER DEMANDS ROME, March 25.—Newspap- ers in Rome announce that an unconditional surrender has been arranged to end the Span- ish cenflict. This is said to be in accordance with the demands of Gen. Franco. - - Frontier ol UnderGuard Reserves Called Up—Mines' at Strategic Points | Being Charged BERNE, March 25.—-The Govern- ment of Switzerland announcved to- | that all border posts have been | forced. Orders calling up the Frontier Reserves to guard the German bord- | executed swiftly. at all strategic points, such as tunnels, bridges and passes, are being (ha:ged on all frontiers. - | | | | UNDER ARREST IN SAN FRANCISCO Defy Policfiemands fo| Stop Marching in Front, German Consulate SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. March 25i —Ten persons were arrested today in front of the German Consulate £fter the police demanded they cease | picketing and carrying banners pro- testing the German march Lhroulh Czechoslovakia Several of those arrested identified | themselves as veterans of the Lin-| coln Brigade which' fought in the| Anchorage Man 1o . Wed Seaftle Girl | In Spokane, Wash.| SPOKANE, Wash, March 25.—A marriage license has been issued to Charles W. Francis, 24, of Anchor- age, Alaska, and Wanda Cooper, 24, l of Seattle, | Machinists, "CElERY QUEEN” , whe was recent- ly crcwned queen of the Na- tional City, Cal, twelfth an- nual celery celebration. Pictured in a costume of celery slalks, Miss Hayes presided over the jubilee to celebrate the recent $1,000,000 harvest. PICKETING EXTENSION INDICATED {Unions at Seattle Give No- Switzerland fice to Alaska Canned Salmon Industry SEATTLE, March 25.—Offic- jals of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific announced they will picket packers in the Al- aska Canned Salmon Industry whe don’t “censcientiously neg- ctiate agreements with the un- jons affiliated with the Federa- tion.” Tc date, picketing has been confined to the AFL Cannery Tendermens’ Union who have picketed the three cannery tend- ers of the P. E. Harris Company and sailings were prevented when CIO Lougshoremen would not handle cargo for the ships. A. E. Harding Executive Sec- retary of ther Maritime Federa- tion of the Pacific said the af- filiated unions embracing the picketing policy are Alaska Fish- ermens’ Union, United Fisher- mens’ Union of Copper River, Shipwrights, Radio Marine Cooks Unions. SPOUSE BREAKS DOWN; ADMITS Telegraphists, and Sewanls MURDER OF WIFE Confesses When Freedom Is Only Probaby Few Hours Away OKLAHOMA CITY, March 25— The body of socially prominent Mrs | Eudora Cunningham was dug up to- | ter | . her husband broke his stubborn 19 !day silence with a dramatic la.st\ day from a deep sewer grave afl minute confession to the crim The confession came just a fe hours before a scheduled habeas | Corpus hearing which would have SHELLING I ' RESUMED ON ' CHINAFRONT $50l) ()()(P \lrutoluwr (,ru.slma on | Japanese Warships Start| Bombardment of Coast - Near Shanghai CHINESE REPLYING, VIGOROUS MANNER Defenders Contfinue to Hold Wuing After Week of Bitter Fighting SHANGHAL Mach 25.—J y resumed ports after four off. Ningpo, south of Shang- the heavy population out of town as they of Japanese landing lo jam roads fled in fear parties. Foreign reports stated that the Chinese were repl vigorously and making any immediate landing of troops unlikely Japanese reported that heavy fighting was continuing in Kiangsi Province west of Lake Poyang and st that more ‘than a thousand Chinese have been killed east of Wuning. The Chinese forces continue hold Wuning after more than week of bitter fighting. to a BLOODY BATTLES SHANGHAI, March 25. — More than 2,000,000 Chinese and Japan- ese troops are engaged in bitter fighting on three widely separated fronts along Chinese rivers and four other sectors with a steadily mount- |ing toll of casualties now past a million since hostilities began more | than 20 months ago. I The Japanese have succeeded in crossing the Yellow River north of | Chengchow, 300 miles north of Han- | kow. The bloodiest battles are being | Test l« ght, K Ten aviation experts, including two Netherlands' representatives, die d in a terrific plunge of the half million dollar stratoliner one week ago today in the mountain foothills near Alder, southeastern Pierce County, Washingten. after the which was thrown cut of the liner’s cockpit. ten, went into a spin. Photo above shows shattered nosc speed indicator, just to right of crack in fuselage, fought in northern Kiangsi Province | along a 100 mlie front where the . Japanese are making a general of- | fensive southward toward the pro- | vincial capital of Nanchang. > CIVILIANS ARE BEING ~ CHECKED UP Army, Na;y*Conduding, | | 'Purely Informative’ 1 Survey Now | WASHINGTON, March 25—The J‘Nacy Department discloses that all 'clvman employees enrolled in the | Navy and Army Reserve forces, are bemg checked as to whether they should fill military or civil posts in time of National emergency. The survey is described as “purely infromative.” MANY REGISTER - FOR VOYAGE T0 ALASKA IN MAY Reservahons for Seattle C. of C. Exceed Those of Last Year W | ended in freedom for Roger Cun- | ningham, husband of the dead wo- man. | The well known FHA inspector | yions for the Chamber of Commerce broke down and directed police to| | Goodwill Alaska tour, scheduled for |are passengers arriving here on the his wife’s body, telling police '“h“"‘\‘lay already outnumber the entire Mount McKinléy. They return from | he killed her in a fit of rage by.number of persons who made the a Visit of several weeks in the | strangling her, SEATTLE, March 25.—Reserva- A tour last year, J PHANTOM THUG OF MOVIETOWN ENDS IN JAIL San Francisfioli'(e Make Arrest-Recover For- fune in Jewelry SAN FRANCISCO, March 25.—A man named Ralph Graham w rested today as the phantom burg of Hollywood’s wealthy motion pic- ture colony. Graham is being held for Los Ar geles authorities while police check a possible connection with slaying of a woman in Florida. The phantom thief admitted the eft of jewels from numerous homes in the Los Angeles area. Approximately $110,000 worth of ¢l the Japanese News agency Jewe]ry lool has been recowrul |t anslation of his story of that i AR | terview—the story he sent to Dom- ML'DONALD'S BACK By PRESTON GROVER curious about w pondents in Ame home papers overs ted to read di ent from in this Not long ago Hirosi Saito, former | Japanese ambassador to the United tes, died in his apartment here fter a lengthy illness. The last man | ith the story he sent when Presi- dent Roosevelt supplied a cruiser to take back to Japan the ashes of the dead envoy, Japan is one of the three “axis” jnations repeatedly scolded by this Mr. and Mrs. H. L. McDonald States, "| erican papers. sadors comment in the first dis- | patch, not before printed in this | to interview him was Masuo Kato, ‘ | Washington correspondent for Dom- | ple,” were the last memorable words | in Japan—is included below, along | | The ship plunged into a maze §. News Breaks It has a censored press. Nevertheless the stories sent from here to Japan are strikingly in har- mony with stories printed in Am- The former ambas- country, throws a new slant on Jap- | anese reaction to the Guam affair ‘Acted With Common Sense’ The dispatches, slightly cut down réad: “Washington—1 helieve in the cmoemon sense of the American peo- the writer heard from the late Am- bassador Hirosi Saito, who lived in this country for 18 years as & diplo- mat, “These words can be taken as his firm belief in the people of the Uni- ted States. Saito had many friend among the Americans in all walks (Continued aze Six) passenger piane, first of a fleet of of stumps in a ravine, Photo by International Illusirated News. Note the air Here is another view of the wreckage of the stratoliner, experiment al high altitude plane, which crashed a week ago this afternoon. The ship fell from about 8,000 (ect, first in a terrific dive and then in a flat spin. Photo by Associated Press. lnnghl Given as fo What Foreign Correspondents Do Send Out, U. | couritry. NEGRO BUTLER FOILS KIDNAP PLOT ON BABY Arfist’s Daughter Safe as Colored Man Re- fuses Bnbe NEW YORK, March 25.—A fifty year old Negro butler, Thomas Wil- oyed in the home of Grif- socially prominent ar- e today he had folled to kidnap Coale’s daugh- fith B. Co tisg, told pol an attempt ter. Wilson said he refused a $1,000 bribe to aid in the kidnaping of the 3 year old girl, granddaughter of viscopal Bishop Manning, and frightened two men away from the | house. - TO NOME George Folger, an employee of the Lomen Commercial Company, is heading back to the Seward Pen- insula country after spending the 'the Mount McKinley. Now Believed Near Umg 10 onph’ NEW (R'SIS - LOOMS OVER OLD AFRICA I Duce May ¢ Turn on France for Colonies in Sunday Talk GERMANY AND JAPAN SHAPING WAR PACT Berlin Levies Fresh In- come Taxes fo Pay In- creasing Overhead LONDON, March 25—The Gov< ernments of Europe today looked to Rome where Premier Mussolini may give some indication of what the Nazi and Fascist powers hope to do next. Il Duce makes an important ad- dress tomorrow and there is some belief he might enunciate Italian demands on France for African col- onies. If he does, there is likely to re- sult another high tension period similar to that of the last ten days during which Hitler obliterated Czechoslovakia, regained Memel land and thrusting the Nazl econ= omic machine to the Black sea with Rumania’s economic pact. There is a possibility, also, that England may conclude fromation of a triple entente with France and Russia and then make a separate agreement with Poland. MORE NAZI TAXES BERLIN, March 25. — Germany coped with its pressing financial problems today under a unique plan of borrowing on the future with new taxes put into force with a scheme of tax credit bills. With these bills, the Government may use them in part payment of its debts and holders may use them for full payment of taxes. A new tax icvy was placed on any income increases in last year over 1937, The new tax is to be thirty per cent of the increase. WAR PACT TOKYO, March 25.—Government circles said today ‘that Germany is exerting powerful pressure to bring Japan into a military alliance. While the Government itself was officially silent, the belief spread that the pact would be concluded. — e - - ARMISTICE IS ORDERED, ONE FRONT Iemporaryruce Declared Between Hungarian, Slovakian Troops BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, March 25.—Semi-official sources said an armistice has been ordered in east- ern Slovakia where Hungarian and Slovakian troops are engaged iy border fighting, It is uncerstood that Germany is trying to smooth out the dispute regarding boundary. Nine Hungarian bombers dropped 50 bombs and part of the town of Spiseka is reported to have been destroyed. Casualties are not given. DOWELL AWARDED FAIRBANKS WORK L. J. Dowell, Inc., of Seittle has been awarded the $150,000 Fair- - banks sewer contract, the PWA office here announced today. Dow- ell submitted the low bid of four which were opened in Fairbanks A unwr below. He is-a passenger on|this week. Work is to commence as soon as weather permits,