The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 30, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LIIL., NO. 8065. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 30, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLAR * Great Britain May Flght if Poland Att DIPLOMATIC COURSETO Arms’ Helress Visits Americas BE BOLDER London ngilmpression Lion Will Roar If Nazis Go East CHAMBERLAIN SPEECH AWAITED, TOMORROW Debate on Foreign Affairs| Monday May Reveal Poiish Stand LONDON, March 30.— The im»! pression in the deep end of London is that Great Britain might fight if Germany invades Poland. Officials wouldn't discuss the matter, but reliable sources said, “The British Cabinet is now con- vinced that a bold course is the best course.” Informed Parliamentary circles said Chamberlain will make a state- | ment on the European situation to- morrow morning in the House of | Commons, not waiting for the full affairs | 1T'S DUCE'S MOVE; ANY dress debate on foreign scheduled for Monday. It is expected that Polish Am- bassador Count Raczynski will be heard on his country's position on the situation in an interview with Foreign Secretary Halifax. e eee BRITISH NAVY AIR EXPANSION IS INTIMATED Chamberfain Drops Hmi that Such Plans Are Being Considered LONDON, March 30.—Prime Min- ister Neville Chamberlain today in- timated to the House of Commons that Great Britain’s Navy Air force | w llibe considerably expanded. In answering a question as to such expansion, Chamberlain said, “A statement will be made at a time | when conclusions have been reach- ed.” CANADA-US. TRADE PACT IS APPROVED House of_(ianmons Ads Favorably on Agree- menf After Debate OTTAWA, Ontario, March 30— The House of Commons has rati-| fied the Canada-United States trade agreement signed last November. The ratification followed a debate that lasted one week. L e MUSICA BROTHERS FACE PENALTIES, SECURITIES LAWS NEW YORK, Mnrch 30.—Three surviving brothers of the masquerad- | ing swindler, F. Donald Coster Mus- | ica, have been indicted with six others on charges of mail fraud. Also, the nine are charged with| violations of the Securities Ex- change Commission law on conspir- acy. YANGTIE PIRATES FIRE HITS NOME acked RAIDING Italian Steamer Is Board- ed, Ransacked of Food, Clothes GUERILLAS TAKE 7 JESUIT PRIESTS Bloody Wafir—e Continues as New Rnti-British Trouble Looms SHANGHAI, March and kidnaping reports and rumors of imminent campaign against the British, shared importance today in detailing severe fighting | y war-scarred China an steamer Romolo re- !ported that pirates had raided the ship at the mouth of the Yangtze River. The Romolo reported that the pirates took baled cotton, chickens. goats, and nearly all the clothes of 30.—Piracy | The Countess de la Guere, the former Peggy Bielefeld and daughter of Mac Bielefeld, associate of the late Basil Zaharoff, munitions magnate, arrives in New York from France, with her Borzoi wolfhound. Sh en route to South America, reputedly to clean up some business affairs of her father. HE MAKES MIGHT START REDHOT EUROPEAN WAR sgiuin WAVE FRENCH-ITALIAN RELATIONS NEAR BREAKING POINT Fascists Say Daladier "Wants an End"” All Negotiations ROME, March 30.—Premier Mus-| solini today affirmed Italy’s inten-| | tion to remain “in prison in the | | Medditerranean” while Fascists stud- | jed with disfavor the address of | | Prench Prime Minister Daladier | made last night. Virginio Gayda, leading Fascist editor, summed up Daladier’s speech with the assertion: “He wanted to | shut tight the half closed door” on French and Ttalian negotiations. Mussolini spoke only briefly on the question during an inspection tour of Calabria Province in the toe of the Italian boot. ———e— TAX RECEIPTS - OVER ESTIMATE | BY PRESIDENT i Roosevelf’s Calculations on March Income Levy Are Far Exceeded WASHINGTON, March 30. — March income tax collections will| run over the half Billion mark, ac- f cording to figures compiled today,! exceedmg by more than $75,000,000 he sum President Roosevelt figur- ed in his budget estimates. | Although above budget estimates, ‘collections lagged behind March of | | last year when $723,000,000 was the | | sum received. t | | | | | three hundred Chinese passengers. Messages received by Augustinian officials from Nanking said that| seven Spanish Jesuit priests are be- ing held after capture by Chinese guerillas in the wild Lake region. Continuous bloody battles raged | throughout Northern Kiangsu Prov- lince and Southeastern China as Japanese officials reported that Nip- pon armies had advanced southward along the Kan River after occupy- |ing Nanchang and Wuning. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 30. — If | there were interesting questions in| Eurcpe instead of merely appaling ones, one interesting question would | be whether Mussolini has not waited | too long to. press his demands for| territory. An official to whom we talked | said: “If I could answer that, I} could tell you whether there wili| be war in Europe." { The implication was that what Hitler now is doing in his march toward the East does not carry the | threat of war that Mussolini’s ac-| tivities do. Hitler is moving in on| | little fellows whose mdependcnne‘ | it is impossible to save without run-| ning the risk of a world war. | But if Mussolini moves, that is| another question. There is virtual-| ly no move he can make of any | importance which does not at once‘ carry a threat to Britain and France. And the meat on those bones is tender meat, not to be prodded | roughly, even by totalitarian states. | -~~~ SUPPORT UNCERTAIN When he had the undivided at-| tention of Germany, Mussolini was | in a better position to press his| claims. But he always had to makei up his mind whether he could de- | pend upon Hitler’s support in event‘ he pressed his demands for African | and Mediterranean territory. It has‘ been a tough decision to make. | France and England have not made‘ it any easier for him. They have‘ made very plain to Mussolini the| risks he might run in event he, guessed wrong as to Hitler. For some weeks now segments of the British home fleet have joined the French fleet and the| British Mediterranean fleet in pa- trolling the Mediterranean. They | | have patrolled it almost as if war | already had begun. The patrol has had two effects. One has been to prevent any mine laying by Italy in the path of French or British operations. Per- haps none was intended by Mu: solini but he is being told, in the| language of battleships, that he| cannot do it. { The other effect is psychological. Both Germany and Italy have tre- HITS MARKET IN FINAL HOUR Leading Issues. Drop from One to Four Dollars or More NEW YORK, March 30.—A selling wave hit the stock mar- ket in the final hour of trad- ing today and leading issues dropped from $1 to $4 or more a share after a day of creeping declines. Brokers are not quite sure as to the reason for the rush to liquidate but said it apparently was touched off by selling orders from London where private cab- les said there are reports of in- creasing tension between Germ- any and Polxnd PICKET LINES AT KETCHIKAN START FRIDAY Letters Are—Sat fo All Es- fablished Firms Deal- ing in Supplies KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 30 —Officials of the Sub-district Coun- cil of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific sent letters today machine shops, steamship agents and trap wire factories, saying that picket lines will be established at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning against |all firms doing work for the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry. The action is in accord with 2 | similar move by the federation in Seattle and San Francisco against “stalling.” Union officials here said picketing will probably be confined to the two wire factories which manufacture lican Spain. These raised the total, wire for traps but “maritime police” | The deficit for the last fiscal year mendous air power but they have | Will patrol the waterfront and start | amounts to $2.321,000000, with the public debt now calculated at $39,- 972,000. not yet demonstrated that they| (Continued on Page Six) picketing any steamship line or| other firm found doing work for the Alaska Canned Salmon Industry. Taihu to | i OVER THE LEFT SHOULDER of F.D.R., you'd glimpse his gadget-littered desk on which stand 8 donkeys, 5 pigs, nautical doodads, a rooster, fish, a 1937 almanac and writing gear. JUNEAU PASTOR TURNS - OFFICER; PLACES GUARD PILOT POINT. Alaska, March 30 —With the United States Marshal 100 miles away, L. Wood, of Juneau, Alaska, Super- intendent in Alaska of the Missions of Seventh-day Adventists, assumed law onrmu-mcnl duties and (h-pu- nearest Pastor H. OVER MURDERER OF 61 RL tized two guards for Tim Murphy, of Aleutuk, who he reported, shot and killed his stepdaughter, Annie Olym- pie, following her marriage to Willie Zungunak. Murphy became angry at the mar- riage and the shooting followed, it is 1epmted by Pastor Wood. BOAT EXEMPTIONBILL SIGNED BY PRESIDENT| AUTOS PLUNGE ~ INTC WASHOUT DURING NIGHT \Four Persons Are Drowned Eight Injured with five Missing BULLETIN — VICKSBURG, Miss., March 30.—Seven bodies have been recovered and seven cthers are sought in the swollen Clear Creek Bayou where nine cars plunged last night in the darkness after the bridge was swept away. VICKSBURG, Miss, March 30.— A line of motor cars plunged into the Clear Creek Bayou last night as the result of a bridge being washed out. Four persons were killed, eight in-{ jured and five are missing Six or more cars dropped 50 feet into the Bayou which had been swelled by torrential rains. The floodwaters loosened the bridge ap- ‘]noach and the bridge itself col- ! lapsed, The washout was not discovered by the drivers of the cars in the in- tense darkness and the machines, following each other in close or- der, plunged one by one into the Bayou. Taken by Franco In Civil War BURGOS, March 30.—The head- quarters of Gen. Franco announces that 85,000 prisoners were captured during the final collapse of Repub- taken during the war to 600,000. .. The most prominent mountains | visible on the moon are a range 450 miles long known as the Appenines. ! WASHINGTON, March 30.-—Just previous to his departure yesterday afternoon for a 10-day visit to Warm Springs, President Roosevelt signed the bill exempting less than 200 gross tons from the International Convention requiring certification of competency for all wateh officers, The legislation was passed under a provision of the convention, spe- permittihg exemption of | cifically by national_ laws or such vessels regulations, The convention was signed at the | International Labor Conference at | Geneva in 1936 and was ratified by |'the United States last year. | During hearings on the bill be- fore the House merchant marine committee, representatives of com- mercial fishing vessels were its prin- cipal advocates. Representatives industry asserted that requirements of the convention would bankrupt it. AIDS FISHING FLEET SEATTLE, March 30. — Puget Spund boat operators expressed sat- isfaction at the signing of the bill exempting vessels of less than 200 gross tonnage from cafrying watch officers with certificates. of compe- tency. Harold F. Lokken, Manager of the Pishing Vessel Owners Association, made fishing “almost prohibitive as vessels would have to carry dead- weight crewmen who knew seagoing but nothing ahout flshlng FDR SPEAI(S 10 NEGRO STUDENTS TUSKEGEE, Alasbama, March 30 ~Presiderit Roosevelt today told udents and facultw of the famous Negro school, .Tusheese TInstitute, that he is proud of what its gradiat- es have done in human services The President, also stressed the need of cooperation befween States and Peoples in this work. The address was made while the President was enroute to Warm Springs, Georgia. | by his wife. said the original bill would have | " CAROLE LOMBARD, C(LARK GABLE ARE WEDDED IN UTAH Two of Hollywood 3 | Brighest Stars.Steal Away for Ceremony KINGMAN, Utah, March 30. Clark Gable and Carole Lombard, ‘Lwfl of the brightest of all of Hol- lywood's film stars, were -married here late yesterday afternoon The two walked into the Marri- age License Bureau an hour before | the ceremony was performed and 50 startled the woman clerk that | she could hardly speak. Gable drove his own automobile here from Hollywood. The couple made no announcement informing their friends of their plans, The marriage was the third one for Gable and the second for Miss | Lombard. Gable gave his age as 38 and Miss wombard as 21. Gable was only recently divorced HATCHET FIGHT CAUSES DEATH OF KODIAK MAN Mike Boskofsky Is Killed in Trading Post Bat- fle Yesterday CORDOVA, Alaska, March 30.— Asisstant U. 8. District Attorney H. P. Noggle said today he had re- ceived word from Kodiak of the vio~ lent death of Mike Boskofsky, of Kodiak. Boskofsky was sald to have been killed in a hatehet fight at a trading | post last night. -+ HONOLULU LEG OF CHINA HOP IS COMPLETED \California Clipper Arrives| at Island Port This Morning SAN FRANCISCO, March 30.— The, huge California Clipper flew over Honolulu this morning and landed gracefully in the harbor at 8:24 am This is the first leg of a San Fran- cisco-Hongkong flight with the larg- est passenger load ever to fly the Pacific Ocean. -ee — Tennessee ekperiments indicate dry buttermilk can be mixed advan- ageously with green feeds in mak- ing ensilage for livestock feed. HOTEL BLDG. DESTROYED BY FLAMES Garage on First Floor of Structure Also Gutted with Confents PERSONAL EFFECTS OF ROOMERS ARE BURNED Fire Dep artment Plays Five Streams of Salt Water-2nd Alarm NOME, Alaska, March 30.— The first disastrous fire since 1934 when the city of Nome was wiped out, occurred late yester- day afternoon when fire com- pletely destroyed the Nome Ho- tel and Nome Motors Building on Front Street opposite the Nome Fire Department Station. The loss is estimated at $50,000, not including personal belong- ings of some twelve persons oc- cupying apartments on the se- cond floor above the garage which is also a total loss. l loss s loss on caterpillar, auto part and general equipment is placed at $25,000. The loss is partially covered by insurance, Nothing was saved except one taxi auto, the property of Keith Hedrine. Origin Of Fire The fire was started by a gas pump back-firing when pumping diesel oll into the tanks of the heat- ing plant of the hotel and garage. An explosion resulted and fire spread rapidly throughout the entire build- ing, forcing everybody to flee for safety with only the clothing thep had on their backs. The Fire Department played five (Continued on Pue Five; e it Senafor Hofman Is Dead Well Known Legislator, Seward Pioneer, Suc- cumbs During Night Senator Joe Hofman, ploneer Seward resident and Alaska Legis- lator, died last night, according to = word received in Juneau today by The Empire from Seward. . The pioneer Sewardite had been ill since his return from the Four- teenth Session of the Territorial Legislature in Juneau, Death was . caused by heart trouble. X Hofman has been a Seward resi- dent since 1905, when he first came to Alaska and built a log hotel that still stands in the Gateway City. He was born in Germany on May 14, 1873. From 1924 to 1929 he was a member of the Seward City Council and served in the capacity of United States Deputy Marshal in Matanuska and the Bristol Bay region from 1935 to 1938. An esteemed statesman, Senator Hofman has been characterized by the humanitarian motives of his legislative enactments, and his hope for a bright future in Alaska was jbased on a belief that a lessening - degree of Federal interference in Alaska will bring a greater measure of prosperity and happiness to Al. askans. He was Speaker of the House in 1935 after having served in the 1933 session of the House. He elected to the Senate last year his death comes in the middle his term, leaving an unlooked vacaney to be filled in the upper house for the 1941 Legislature.