The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 1, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8067. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL | . 1939, MEMBER "ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER SHOUTS DEFIANCE TO WORLD Alaska Steamship Co. Changes Schedule WEDNESDAY SHIP DAYS CANCELLED Sailings of Mount McKin- ley, April 5 and Denali, April 11, Are Off LABOR DISPUTE GIVEN AS CAUSE FOR ACTION AFL Makes Threat in San Francisco — APA Is Given Warning SEATTLE, April 1.—The Alaska Steamship Company announces that six sailings on the Seattle-Alaska route have been cancelled because of the labor dispute which has tied up virtually the entire Alaska| Canned Salmon Industry. i The latest orders affects the steamer Mount McKinley, sched- uled to sail from Seattle for Alaska next Wednesday, April 5, and the Denali posted to leave Wednesday, April 11. Laying up of the vessels affects 400 men of the ship's personnel Meanwhile picketing of cannery tenders and fi: hin;f gear plants continue , This touching scene was enacted ington when Viadimir Hurban (lef slovakia, and Dr. Den Fernando rcfused to -turn ov his legal frem Prague, and de los Ric ontil the Enited States Government. rders bk DECL AFL THREAT SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 1 —American Federation of Labor Unions have served notice on the Alaska Packers Association that un- less every AFL craft union repre- _senting the Association’s employees are dealt with, no individual union will sign an agreement. AFL leaders said this action is taken to match pressure of CIO un- jons now picketing the Alaska Packers Association ships. and plants. LIBBY HOLMAN " ONHONEYMOON 7 CONVICTED FOR 2ND TIME ormer Torch Singer, Mutual Consolations at the State Department in Wash- ), Minister from the fallen Czecho- de los Rios (right), Spanish Am- bassador, met on visits to icarn latest developments abread. Hurban : to Germany even in the face of s is continuing as Ambassador from aets on recoghizing the Franco ARES ALASKA IS LAND ' OFOPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN, BUT CAPITAL REQUIRED ) | | SEATTLE, April 1—Alaska is a land of opportunity for young men | with initiative and a moderate | amount of capital, T. S. McDougal, | veteran Alaska mining man said | nere. “If a young man is willing to work and use his brain, I do not know of any place where opportunities | i 1 said McDougal. Expansion s Cry of Italians Mussolini Tells Peasants Somebody Must Sup- ply More Space NAPLES, April 1.—Premier Beni- | to Mussolini, in an address here t0- day, told the peasants that they lacked enough space for the famill somebody will have provide it.” The Premier’s hearers shouted for Tunisia expansion. SlAYfR OF SIX T0 LOSE HEAD ON GUILLOTINE Killer of Br_(;aklyn Dancer Is Convicted, Quick- ly Senfenced VERSAILLES, France, April Fidene Weidmann has been cor ted and senténced to death on the guillotine. Weidman killed six cluding Jean de Koven, dancer, in 1937. EDITORS HOLD CONVENTION ON BOARD STEAMER National Association Com- ing fo Alaska-Leav- ' ing South in June persons, in- Brooklyn since | THE FREEDOM OF ‘F i treaty to give Poland a seaport on the Baltic, gives conc making sweep eastward. Here is a view of Danzig harbor. With a dominantly German REE CITY’ DANZIG, which was created by Versailles ern to statesmen watching Hitler's empire- population, Dan- zig could breed trouble. To its east is East Prussia; to its west is the Polish Corridor. New European Trouble S Pot STATE DEPT. | The eyes of the world are now centered on Danzig, Baitic Sea free port. Hitler wants the port and also control of the motor highway across the Polish Corridor between Germany and East Prussia. The are greater, but it is advisable that| the young man have some capital,” | SEATTLE, April 1.—Through one ! of the most unusual charters ever| arranged, the steamer Aleutian will sail from here on June 13 for South-| like Lithuania. seaport of Memel has recently been ceded Germany, and if Hitler gets Danzig, Poland will have no sea outlet and will be bottled up, just east and Southwest Alaska ports as the convention ship of the 300 mem- OF OUTRAGES; * BOMBS USED Explosion Occurs as News- Widow of Tobacco Heir, Weds Actor NEW YORK, April 1. — Libby Holman, widow of Smith Reynolds, |young North Carolina heir, honeymooning with her second hus- | band, Ralph Holmes, actor, 23. | The bride, who sang her way to | fame on Broadway with her torch paper Presses Turn Out Christopher, one of the wealthiest LONDON, April 1—A bomb ex- | children in the world. The charge ploded on Fleet street today while of murdering Reynilds was dropped the presses along the famed news-|because of lack of evidence. paper row were turning on special - editions telling of the conviction Ot'A“"ExAl“o“ or Republican Army on explosive charg- | The blast today shattered the front of the News-Chronicle advertising | office and also shook other news- | "AIIS IS FEARED paper offices. ion of the bomb. | Ay e D e |Argentine Cabinet Goes NATIONAL DEBT Info Huddle as Result NEARS CEILING Newspaper Expose y RSl et officers, including Ministers of Marine and War, joined today in an ‘mvesugntion by police into news- r charges that the German Em- Treasury Statement Shows 22> H to annex Patagonia. U- S' "l Ho'e over | Patagonia is potentially rich in HIH | oil and wool, and thought of its an- 40 Bllllon Do"ars | nexation to Germany has aroused WASHINGTON, April 1—Tt was| Newspapers published a document has passed the forty billion dollar of a report on Patagonia from the mark, coming to within five bil- | German Embassy here to the Ger- lions of the statutory limit, the larg- | man Colonial Ministry. est in the nation’s history. | ——————————— $305 per person. CARDIFF, Wales—Running into A year ago the debt equalled $289.- | the propellor during the launching 17 per person, but the total debt has|of a seaplane, a young aircrafts- increased $2,850,000,000 in the last|{man received injuries which led to seven members of the outlawed Irish i ~ PATAGONIA FOR No one was injured in the explos-| REPORT TODAV BUENOS AIRES, April 1.—Cabin- alen bassy harbored an incipient plot considerable diplomatic fear. announced today the Treasury debt| which it was said was a facsimile The debt is equivalent to about KILLED AT LAUNCHING year alone. death. More roads and more airplane| is, crying needs of the great Territory. | McDougal said the prospects are | good for the success of the Matanus- | ka colony if préperly developed. Military defense should not be forgotten as “Alaska is at the mercy 1of a hostile foreign nation,” con- cluded McDougal. (OLSON, DIMCND “START ON NEW " OFFICE TERMS [Treasurer Takes Oath Here —Delegate at Nation- | al Capital Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Ol- son began a new term of office to- day, being officially installed as Treasurer for four more years. Olson was given the oath of of- | fice by J. G. K. (Bob) Toussaint. | Another who begins a new term on April 1 is Alaska Delegate An- thony J. Dimond, who took the oath today in Washington, D. C. — e NAVY OFFICERS T0 BE GUESTS OF ARMY ‘ JUST FOR TONIGHT | Lieut. Cortland Brooks will hold open house for visiting naval of- | ficers at his room at the Juneau Hotel this evening, beginning at 9 o'clock. Eight officers are here from Sitka wifh the vessel Teal. * e % There were 1,527,000 tractors in use in the United States in 1938. landing fields are among the most bers of the National Editorial As- sociation, Besides a convention program aboard the steamer, there will be welcoming functions at every port of call from Ketchikan, including Juneau, to Seward. - ee—— GERMAN FUER KILLED; CRASH ~ ONTESTTRIP Capt. von Moreau, Long Distance Aviafor, Dies s in Accident | | BERLIN, April 1—Capt. Baron | Rudolf von Moreau, 29, German long | distance flier, was killed today in a crash during a test flight. Von Moreau was a member of the crew of the German plane Condor which made a flight to New York last August. Many_(ars Stolen By Bo_y_s_lor Thrills SACRAMENTO, April 1.—A great number of automobile thefts in California can be traced to young- sters who “want a thrill and a joy ride with it,” E. Raymond Cato chief of the California Highway Patrol, has declared. The worst part about the whole business, Cato said, is the fact that the youngsters generally endanger their lives and the lives of others when they “appropriate” some one else’s car. “They like to hit it off from fifty miles an hour upward,” he said. UNCLE SAM CUTS MELON; POOR INDIAN BENEFITTED By PRESTON GROVER against the Government for $5,000,- 1 000. WASHINGTON, April 1-—One of | the ways to win a war is to lose it, and certain bands of Indians now are cashing in on such a loss. | Some of the best stories surviving from the twirling twenties arose from the division of spoils from sale of Indian oil lands in Oklahoma. Hundreds of Indians found them- selves wealthy overnight from oil leases. Earlier they had been driven out of the sunpny south of Georgia ind Alabama to be deposited on the near desert stretches of sections of Oklahoma. When oil was hit they cluttered up the highways with rich cars and shiny hearses, and of course there were a few fortune-hunting Wwo- men eager to marry a befuddled red man to get a nip of his fortune. Present day divisions are on a lesser scale. Congress and the In- dian office took over control of the big money, but even now there are | ome nice pies to be cut | | POOR INDIAN! | Years ago the Klamath Indians of Oregon were granted a re ervation. At* the time it as thought they were being dealt a shyster trick, for they were herded into some of the heaviest timber in the northwest. It wasn’t worth 50 much then. Now it is almost priceless, After the grant was made, the government, by some odd mistake, gave a part of the Klamath res- ervation to the state for park | purposes. The Klamath Ind brought suit and a while back the lsupreme Court, upheld their claim | Only part of the money will be split up among the 1,400 Indians on the reservation. The balance will be held in the Indian office here for use later in improving the reservation and to help out future generations of Klamaths who might like a share of the kitty. Even so, the cut is likely to be two or three thousand dollars apiece, although the terms of division have not yet been written. Shoshoni Indians on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming come in for a like piece of change. They were living quietly (more or less) on their reservation in 1878 when the Government suddenly decided that California had too many Indians. Several hundred Arapahoes were gathered up and delivered to the Wind River res- ervation. It took 60 years to decide it, but the Supreme Court has upheld the Indian claim for $4,500,000 for the part of their reservation occupied by the Arapahoes. Each of the 1,190 Shoshoni Indians on the Wwind River will get =$2,350, which is nice money. That. also leaves some for future Shoshonis, RE OF THE SOUTH U. S. military attaches in South America are getting a break. They planes, light bombers and the like, to fly about -in for advertising pur- poses. Their colleagues in pean eourts have to get along with ordinary commercial planes. . . . Most disappointed in Congre (Answers on get spanking new military | Euro- | 'RECOGNIZES GEN. FRANCO Arms Embargo Is Lifted by Presidential Proclam- ation at Same Time WASHINGTO! April 1.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull announced today that the United States has recognized Gen. Franco's Spanish Government & Secretary Hull said he has cabled to Spain stating the disposition of the United States to the American Foreign Minister in establishing dip- lomatic relations meant for formal recognition of the new regime. At the same time the State De- partment announced ; President Roosevelt had signed a proclamation lifting the embargo imposed two years ago on shipments of American arms and war material to either side of the recent Spanish conflict. SCIGN OF BAKER FAMILY IS SLAIN,. MYSTERY ASSAULT Blows Administered in Y. M. C. A. Dormitory Prove Fafal PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 1.—The victim of the YM.C.A, Dormitory slaying mystery has been identified as Louis Marshall Baker, 47, scion of the Baker chocolate family. Baker refused to give his name when found and he would not name his assailant who gave him such a beating that blows proved fatal. Baker spent a fortune and ended up on the WPA rolls. He was once the host to Queen Marie of Rumania and also a boyhood friend of Admiral Byrd. - MULLENS (OMING BACK ON ALASKA Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mullen are re- turning on the steamer Alaska, ‘W“X(']I left Seattle today. Mr. Mullen joined his wife a few weeks ago in California, where Mrs. Mullen had been spending the win- iter with her daughters, Virginia and Beatrice Mullen, attending school. - D During 1938 North Carolina ac- quired 120 new industries; including 42 hosiery mills, and 68 plant addi- SAYS NAII LAND WON'T BOW DOWN Cancelling of 1935 Anglo- German Naval Accord Is !nlimated 'DIRECT CHALLENGE GIVEN ALL NATIONS Hurls Thré éml—ai Poland~ Condemns Wilson and All Democracies WILHELMSHAVEN, April 1. —Adolf Hitler today warned that if she is heading for war with Germany, ke will not hesi- tate to cancel their Naval Ac- cord of 1935. Hitler’s speech lasted one hour and five minutes and was de- livered to 50,000 people gathered at this North Sea naval base to hear his discussion in which he replied to the British-French pledge to aid Poland in case of attack. WARNS POLAND Hitler warned . -Polang. saying: “He who is willing to pull the chestnuts out of the fire for |others must expect to get burned.” | Says Desired Peace | Further, Hitler said, he had once 1(-m1uluded a naval agreemeqt with Great Britain with the fervent de- sire that Germany and Great Brit- ain might never have war again, “If, however,” Hitler said, “That wish does not exist on the other side, then the practical pre-condi- tions for concluding such a treaty have vanished.” Hitler also said: “I am 50 con= vinced that what I did in Czecho-~ slovakia and Memel was right, that ’I determed three weeks ago to name the next Nurnberg Party Convention, ‘The Convéntion of Peace.”” | | “Never Again” “Germany will resolutely resist all attempts at encirclement. The regime of prewar days had one fault; it knew the develish plan of |encircling was for attacking us, yet it lacked the power or the will to ward it off and it permitted things to advance to a catastrophe and no power in the world can ever force us again to our knees.” Hitler heaped derision upon Great Britain, France, and Democracies in general, but he made no posi- tive statements as to his inten- tions with reference to them. Broadcast Fails A waiting world was kept on ten- derhooks for more than an hour to hear Hitler's answer over a short- wave radio broadcast. The broad- (Continued on Page Two) e .- — HITLER'S TALK CAUSES SMILES FROM BRITISH Naval Experts Express Confidence They Still - Have Advanfage LONDON, April 1.—Adolf Hitler's threat to denounce the Anglo-Gers man Naval Treaty was greeted with smiles in British Naval quarters where experts expressed confidence that Great Britain could maintain her three to one advantage over the German Navy no matter what Hitler does. BROADCAST INTERRUPTED LONDON, April 1.—Radio officials said Hitler's speech, broadcast from Wilhelmshaven, was cut off because of German fears it would be re= broadeast to Germany. The broadcast was interrupted shortly after Hitler began to inofi Later the speech was picked up from S #b) ions of which 36 also were for hos- & Tebroadcast from France and also from the United States.