The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29,1939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIIL, NO. 8064. ALASKA STEAMERS SCHEDULED T0 SALL g -Control of Sp rue for Memel BH_[S RING . Ol FIFTY-TWO PROVINCES QUIT FIGHT . BURGOS, March 29. — Con- trol of all of Spain’s fifty two Provinces is today claimed by the Nationalist headquarters, 32 months after the start of the Civil War. Gen. Franco’s headquarters formally announced the end of the Civil War and declared that only police operations remain to be carried out. Albacete was the Jast Republi- can Provincial Capital to sur- render and almost at the sume time radio advices told of the surrender of Cartagena, Repub- lican Naval base. * POLAND, GERMANY - MAY REACH PACT, | VARIOUS ISSUES Foreign Di;fibfiwfic Circles Believe Trouble Will Be Averted WARSAW, March 29, — Foreign diplomatic circles express belief that Poland and Germany may reach an agreement over Danzig, following Nazi assurances by Hitler that he wished peace with this country. Poland, it is said, wants annexa- tion of the free City of Danzig and authority over the German con- wolled motor road connecting Ger- many with East Prussia across the Polish Corridor. | Hitler seeks an “economic under- standing” with Warsaw. e (LYDE PANGBORN, DRESS DESIGNER, WED IN ENGLAND Flier, French Girl, First Met Two Years Ago in Snowdrift SOUTHAMPTON, England, March 29.—Clyde Pangborn, who flew nonstop from Japan to Wenat- chee, Wash., in 1931, and Swana Du- val, Paris dress designer, were mar- ried here today. The two met two years ago when Pangborn pulled the French girl from a snow drift at a Swiss resort. SToCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 29.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 9'%, American Can/ 1%, American Power and Light 57%, Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Stesl 65 Commonwealth and | Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright com- | mon General Motors 46, Inter- | national Harvester 58%, Kennecott 357, New York Central 17%, North- | ern Pacific 10%, Southern Pacific 15%, United States Steel 55%, Pound $4.68%%, | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 139.75, rails 20.75, utilities 23.87. e, —— GUARDS ATBANK JUST HANGOVERS LONDON, March 29—Every eve- ning at sundown a platoon of sol- diers with fixed bayonets marches through the City to guard the Bank of England. This guard was established in 1780 during the Gordon riots, and has been maintained ever since. | The riots started over the question of Catholic emancipation. 20,000 troops had to be called out| to quell the riotsy A Come T Signs i E “We demand less came true for Memell to Germany the territory w with the Reich reached increasing was the emblem of Memel Germans, designed to closely resemble the German swastika, nders when Lithuania formally gave back eded her by the Treaty of Versailles. anether advance in Hitler's recent territorial acquisitions. sign was one of many such put up recently as agitation for reunion AS FRAN(CO GIVES FOOD Madrid, Starvin g, Wel- comes lfs Defeat and Ends Privation . | NATIONALIST ARMY MAKES LAST MARCH q| . Speed of Wup Aflacks‘ So Great No Record Kept of Captures MADRID, March i !bells rang joyfully today to signal Nationalist General Franco's blood- less conquest of coastal and inland cities and towns where Republican Spain made a last hopeless stand | Madrid's hu inhabitants, af- ter months of near starvation, re- joiced over peace and the food broght to them by the ehtry of Franco’s troops. It was the will to fight, alone, that sustained the Republican forc- ese during the 32 months of civil strife that ended yesterday with Madrid's submission. Nationalist soldiers moved post- ! haste to com > oceupation of reedom, right and bread,” more or I The tempo. The rounded-edge swastika SPRING HITS THEM ALL; CHANGE IN ATMOSPHERE CAUSE OF FARMPARIY PAYMENTS ARE KNOCKED OUT, House Rejects Proposal by Vote of 204 fo 191- Senate Yef fo Act BULLETIN WASHING- TON, March 29. — The House Appropriations Committee, regarding President Roosevelt's estimates for relief needs, has voted $100,000,000 to run the WPA until July 1. The Chief Executive asked for $150,000,000. The approval was given by a vete of 25 to 13. Chairman Sa- bath said if a smaller sum was finally approved, WPA would have to stretch it out. WASHINGTON, March 29. — En- couraged by the House rejection of the Farm Parity Payments, Con- gressional economy leaders today counted on support of the disap- pointed farm belt members in ef- forts to cut President Roosevelt’s $150,000,000 WPA request. The House threw out the $250,- 000,000 Parity Fund by a vote of 204 to 191 last night after having approved it tentatively a few hours earlier. Many Senators predict restoration of the amount when the Agriculture | Department bill is considered in| their chamber. NEW MAP SHOWS INDIA'S CHANGES DELHI, March 29.—A new map of India, on a scale of 50 miles tg the inch, showing all the changes brought about by the introduction of the Government of India Act. has been issued. The act involved the creation of new provinces and regrouping of Some | states into different political charges | hich made all previous maps of In- dia out of date, remaining enemy and took over Valencia without resistance. HUNGAR WON WAR MADRID, March 29.—This city began a second day of celebration today, heartening at the sight of long lines of social auxiliary, trucks | loaded with foodstuffs filing into the city. Hunger, as much as anything brought the Capital City to its knees NEW FEELING By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 29. — So! keen is our observation that in one day we detected a change in the Washington atmosphere. began 875 day: o 3 Along about mid-March or eafly g fast are the Nationalist troops April each year we yearn to drop|moving through Republican held ‘aH:nr.\’ of state and go over to see|territory it is impossible to keep ac- Larry La Rouche. La Rouche is t0|count of the towns captured. the Bureau of Indian Affairs what| Tt js estimated that 40,000 prison- Grover Whalen is to the New York ers were taken in the Madrid sector terical in its confusion. Medical sources estimated that more than 300 persons in Madrid died monthly from malnutrition in | the latter stages of the siege that {World Fair. He speaks for it, al-|alone, and tens of thousands in other | though he isn't the head of it, s places. | Grover Whalen is of his show. (We| | like to keep writing Grover—elegant |name, isn’t 1t?) Also La Rouche has a moustache, somewhat less magnificent than Grover Whalen’s, La Rouche is soused in Indian | ARMY OF G B stories. He has an office on the "N south side of the Interior Building and lets the sunstream in. | IS IN(REASED OH, FOR AN ADOBE WALL | In no time at all you begin to feel that it would be nice to sit on the warm side of a pueblo or hogan out in sunny New Mexico or Arizona | and count the buzzards in the blue. | Splendid peaceful thoughts come to| people who sit on the second terrace | ister Chamberlain of a pueblo, even though sometim | | the flies are bad. | LONDON, March 29.—Prime Min- After leaving La Rouche we hove ister Chamberlain announced in the }m to see Mr. Messersmith in the;House of Commons today that the State Department to see if Europe strength of the British Territorial Istill teetered on the brink of col-| Army has been doubled. |lapse. We went to see Senator Pitt-| This now gives the Territorial man about Europe and Nevada.|Army a total of 340,000 officers and | Both were troubled, And to see men. | Jerome Frank of the SEC about| The Prime Minister indicated how- troubled stocks and bonds. | ever that the Government will not | Then we came back to the office] introduce conscription to bring the to ponder and write and to read Territorial Army with correspond- what others had pondered and’mg strength 'of the National Guard | written. That was when we sensed |in the United States. the change in the atmosphere. | The Prime Minister said strength- ening of the Territorial Army is a | PASTORAL FOR A DAY move to prepare Great Britain in ef- Three learned men who also write | forts to unite against expansion of daily pieces out of Washingtcn had | Dictatorships. 5 blossomed out with a single idea., “We bleieve we can demonstrat | They were tired of carrying around | the possibilities of voluntary serv heavy international thoughts and |to meet our needs,” said Prime Min- were thinking it was time to sit on | ister Chamberlain. the side of a pueblo and sun awhile. | Unanimously they decided to lay off | eee Strength of Forces Doubled Declares Prime Min- | | for one day the job of being a pun- e | Rooseve!l Is As the swing linguists would have o“ on v"“ 'o |it, they were splug-fitten with the sun. by | duty to help clarify the troubled| WASHINGTON, March 29.—Pres- problems of the world, and pulled |ident Roosevelt left here this b — {ternoon for a 10‘day v They became positively pastoral. | . |Warm Springs They were hauled one way | 1Cn’niii{ued on Pag; Five) Springs, and the scramble for food was hys-| 29. — Church | CUTTER MORRIS LIFEBOAT - BATTLES GALE AND COLD treops were moving into place, Ger | An undisclesed number of French military Central Europe’s crisis caused by Adolf Hitler took over Memel Lithu; ching in the Champs-Elysees. man frem ms " 70 AID MAROONED SEAMEN Deposed Head 0f Cuba Dies “In Operation Gerardo M ;c.f; ado, Who | Shot Those Who Oppos- | ed Him, Passes Away ‘ Lo March 29. deposed in MIAMI BEACH, Fla | —Gerardo Machado, 67 | 1933 as Dictator President of Cuba, | died today while under an anaes- ( thetic for an operation for removal of a tumor. Swift transition from dency of Cuba to flight and exile, { first in Canada, then in the United ! states, mext in the Dominican Re- public and finally in Eurcpe, with| indictments for 1 der hanging| {over his head, was lot of Ger- ardo Machado. He was the victim in August, 1933, lof a revolt in the army which had| n the chief prop of his stormy; | administration. He fled by plane on| | August 12 A series of coup detats| followed with four men «nrnpvnm; | the presidency within five months. | All.dug inexorably into the acts of the Maehado administration | Charges Made They accused him of lulling the Cuban people into somnolence by an avagant program of public works le he and his intimates enriched mselves, They held him person- responsible for terroristic acts axed by a series of summary utions, indicted him on charges of murder and sought to extradite him, In the face of these developments Machado fled from Nassau, his first | | haven, to Montreal, then to Pough- psie, N. Y., to New York, to Phil- adelphia and finally, in July, 1934, to Santo Domingo. He remained in closely guarded seclusion there un- | til November 21, 1934, when |barked at Puerto Plata for Ham- g. Arriving in Germany Decem- 11, he announced that he was a sick man” and intended to take cure” at a German spa | But there was no rest for him| jin Germany. Berlin authorities said | he could stay as long as he wished but rumors arose that Cuba would ask for his extradition and on De- cember 14 he left Hamburg a frw‘ the Presi= he | ber a (Continued on Page “Three) ) SEATTLE, March — Fighting | winds of whale gale force and near freezing weather, a six-man life- boat ew from the nast uard cutter Morris succ 1 today ia reaching Tugidak Island south of | Kodiak in the Trinity Islands group, | taking food and smergency supplies four marooned seamen. The cutter radioed Seattle Divis- | ional headquarters that the lifeboat crew had landed safely on the is-| land’s rocky shores, taking supplies | to the four men, suffering for days from exnostre and lack of food The marooned e off the gasboat Swan, which had been miss- ing from February 24 until Mon- day, March 27, when Jack McCord, well knewn Al an oldtimer, ended a 20-mile rowboat trip from Tuigdak to Alitak to take news of the strand- ed party’s plight. | McCord left Alitak last Febru-; ary on a 20-hour trip to Chirikof | Island where he has a cattle ranch, but engine trouble forced the layup at Swan Island Aboard the craft with him when he left Alitak, were Alf Torgramson, owner, Dan Taylor, sailor, McCord | and three others. Those on the| beach, reached today by the cutter’s boat, are unidentified. Further advices from “the Morris said the Swan has béen broken up | by the gale and wreckage has been | scattered one mile out to sea. The men rescued are said to be Mike Kerr, Hans Gedrum, Alf Ton- gramsen, all of Wodiak; Robert Craig of Denver and Dan Taylor of | Seattle. 29, to men HITLER IS TO MAKE SPEECH | NEXT SATURDAY Is Scheduled fo Aftend Launching of 35,000- —eo - { French Troops Mass at Maginot Line the French scldiers And even a These French tory. ania, are " NEW DRUG AIDS TOT - old Earl was influenza njoying a book with her mother, apparently recovered, after Specialists at the University of Phyllis Baxter, daughter of Mr | Kansas Hospital, Kansas City, treated her with sulfapyridine, a new anti-pneumonia drug. They said it was the first time, they believed, the drug had been used for that purpose, and gave it credit for her recovery. STUDENT FLIERS FOR TERRITORIES ARE BEING URGE Gov. Winship, Delegates Dimond, King Appear | Before CCA Officials i WASHINGTON, March 29.—Gov. Blanton Winship, of Puerto Rico; fon Battleship | Dele hony J. Dimond of | Ale and Samuel W. King of Ha- waii, conferred today with the Civil ain Now Under Gen. Franco PICKETING HALTED ON TWO SHIPS 9 SEATTLE, March —Pickets of the Washington District Council of the Maritime Federation of the Pa- cific began demonstrations this morning aimed at halting all sup- | plies and crews for the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry for this | season until operators agree to | start negotiations with the various unions involved. The picketing has delayed for several hours the sailing of the eamer Baranof for Alaska por The steamer was scheduled to sail |at noon, then posted to sail at 2 o'clock but is now scheduled to leave at 5 o'clock this afternoon. | The pickets appeared at the Al- | aska Steamship Company dock this morning and the longshoremen im- mediately stopped loading the Bare anof. More than half of the Bar- ‘anof's crew also left the ship. Alaska Steamship Company of- | ticials protested that no cannery supplies nor crews for canneries | were aboard. The pickets were sub- | sequently called off, the men re- |turned to the ship and the long- |shoremen resumed loading opera- tions. Loading of the Tongass was also stopped until assurances were given that no cannery supplies are being loaded. The Tongass is scheduled to sail for Southest Alaska ports this evening. | A, E. Harding, Secretary of the | Washington District Council, said 1175 pickets were sent to the docks this morning at which the Baranof and Tongass were loading but after {conferences at which ft was shown there was no “hot cargo” aboard, the pickets were withdrawn from [the dock Picketers are still on duty at all docks where cannery tenders are i |tled up, especially in Lake Union, >, France Answers « Threat Premier Daladier Replies fo Mussolini’s Speech of Last Sunday | | ' PARIS. March 29.—French Pre- \mier Daladier, answering Italian | Premier Mussolini's speech of last | Sunday, offers to negotiate France’s differences with Italy if definite {proposals are made by the Itallans |regarding the “faithful accords | France signed in 1935 with Italy.” | The Premier said further France |is ready to pursue complete and {loyal execution of the accords in |spirit and will not refuse to ex- amaine propositions that may be |made to France by Italy.” The Premier added that France will not cede one foot of her own |territory and not one of her rights. | Premier Mussolini in his speech in Rowe Sunday, declared that Italy would take African colonies, through proper negotiotions, but would get them nevertheless and the first move is up to the French nation. i i by HUNT FOR WATCH THAT SAVED KEMAL WILHELMSHAVEN, March 29— Aeronautics Authority officials_on| Word has spread here that Hitler |plans for training of aviation pilots,| SMYRNA, March 29—A reward will deliver a speech in this eity's largest square next Saturday. Hitler is scheduled to be here on | Gov. Winship urged that the Uni- | versity of Puerto Rico be given a | large quota of student fliers. equivalent to $250 is offered by a Swiss watch manufacturing concern for the discovery of the where- that day to attend the launching| Delegates Dimond and King made abouts of a silver watqh. of the 35000-ton battleship von Tripitz. PSS o3 ELKS TO INITIATE A class of ten candidates will be iritiated at tomight’s meeting of the Elks Club, Secretary Mervin Sides said today. similar pleas for their territories. D Y ON ELEVATOR Sweeney, former Fed- employee for many added to the staff SWE Edward C Building has been eral years It is said to have saved the life |of the late Kemal Ataturk on the Dardanelles front by stopping a bullet while in his breast pocket. | Kemal later presented the watch to a German general and it is be- again as elevator operator, replac-jieved that on the latter's death his ing Jack Sparks, who has charged with robbing the ‘mails, been ! widow sold it to an American,