The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 6, 1939, Page 1

» THE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA KEMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1939. ML.\IB[R ASSOLI ATED I’thb PRICE, TEN CENTS VOL. LIIL, NO. 8071. EUROPEAN SlTUATlON CAUSE OF FEARS INDUSTRY OF THIS NATION ISMOBILIZED Assistant Sé&eiary of War | Makes Most Gratify- ing Assertion DEMAND OF ARMED CONFLICT CAN BE MET Col. Louis Johnson Touches 0Off Observance of Army Day NEW YORK, April 6.—On the Twenty Second anniversary of America’s entrance into the World War, Assistant Secretary of War Col. Louis Johnson, found the Nation's indus “substantially mobilized” to meet the demands of an armed conflict. In an address touching off the Army Day observance, Col. | Jehnson told the American Con- | ference of National Defense, that Industry is now equipped to turn out, within a period of six menths, all but 55 of the 7,000 industrial items required by the United States Army in event of war e SENATE FINDS WALLSTREETER HAS WAR FEARS Financier Baruch Favors Cash and Carry Plan on Arms Sales WASHINGTON, April 6. — The Senate Foreign Relations Committee today heard the warning of Bernard Baruch, Wall Street financier and confident of President Wilson, that an economic war against aggressor | nations, might lead this country into | military war. Indorsing the principle of placing | arms and ammunitions purchases on a “cash and carry” basis along | with other products when other| countries are at war while this| country is neutral, Baruch said he believed this could be done without affecting this country’s neutrality | status. | He said he thought it unjust to' prohibit the export of war weapons to belligerents without also prohibit- ing the sale of food. - e - HERE WAS BORN the American Legion March 15-17, 1919, and officers of the French army joined with Americans in paying tribute at the tablet which was unveiled in the city of Paris when the Legion celebrated its twentieth birthday. The plaque is in a new building which is located at 14 Rue Ernest- Psichari, on the site of the old Cirque de Paris. NEW TEST CASE OVER VALIDITY OF "POCKET VETO" BEING PREPARED AVIATION NEEDS RADIO SYSTEM, SAYS EDWARDS Major Tells Chamber Air Transportation Is Slighted Now Alaska’s greatest need, in the eyes of Major Paul 8. Edwards, officer in charge of the Alaska Communi- cations System, is a network of radio and weather stations t6 aid aviation. Major Edwards, who has just com- | pleted an aerial trip throughout the Interior and to Point Barrow, spoke at todays Juneau Chamber of Com- merce luncheon. “Aviation is going to be Alaskas | basic means of transportation for Japanese | Offensive Refarded many years to come,” he said. From Juneau to Nome, he declar- ed, there is not a single Government aid to transportation, cofitrasting this condition with the modern fac- ilities provided on the comparable route from Fort Worth, Texas, Los Angeles. There, he said, besides the major highways and railroads, there are airplane beacons every 20 By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 6. — The silly prospect that the United States might have a hundred or more laws suddenly brought to life after being killed by various Presi- dents during the past 125 years has stirred members of Congress to pave the way for a new test case on the validity of the “pocket veto.” In order to maxe wue test case pos- sible without upsetting the whole IC{"“‘LU_ a bill is being routed | through Congress repealing all the old bills, some dating back to 1812, which were killed by a pocket veto, or some procedure akin to it. Rep. Hatton W. Sumners of Texas, chair- man of the House Judiciary Com- mittee, already has steered n through the House. Ten years ago the Supreme Court upheld the validity of the “pocket veto,” a device used by Presidents to kill bills without the necessity | of giving a reason in a formal veto| message. But in its last session, the | Supreme Court took a step which Sumners said went a long way| | toward a reversal of the ten~jear-‘ lold decision. He hopes to bring| about a reversal so as to end pocket | vetoes but he thinks the slate ought‘ !to be first wiped clean of all old | legislation which has been accept- ed as dead these many years. ABOUT 130 VICTIMS | | | Altogether about 130 acts of Con-| NAZI AGENT ARRAIGNED, PLOT (ASE% Argentina Federal Judge Brings Two Charges Against German BUENOS AIRES, April 6.—Fed- | eral Judge Jantus has formally ar- raigned Alfred Mueller, chief agent in Argentina for the German Nazi Party, on a charge of threatening the sovereignty of Argentina and also a charge of threatening to in- volve the nation in war. The arraignment is the first court action in connection with the dis- covery of a plot to annex Patagonia, the southern tip of Argentina CLUBS SWUNG BY POLICE BUENOS AIRES, April 6—Police, swinging clubs, broke up a parade late today of several hundred per= Madrid Stages Joyfuf Greeting for Victors i Madrid throngs the Spanish capital, ending the civil war. This picture was transmitied by telephone and radio sons marching with posters saying Viva Hitler,” Viva Mussilini Viva Franco.” z Fourteen a ts were made and one marcher was sent to a hospital with a scalp wound. | The demonstrators attempted to march down Avenida De Mayo, upon the offices of the newspapers who have been exposing the Nazi plot that threatened to plunge the nation in war, -ee ALBANIA NOT OCCUPIED BY ITALIAN FORCE Great Dlsplay, However, Reported Off Coast of Liftle Nation BELGRADE, April 6. Reports reaching here from Tirana tell of an elaborate Italian display off the Albanian Coast while private diplo- matic reports agreed there has been no landing of Italian troops yet on Albanian soil. Italian destroyers are darting about the harbors of San Gioann: de Medua in the north and Valona in the south. It was indicated late yesterday that Italy would occupy Albania sometime during the night and place the little nation of King Zog under complete protection. - - ROYALTY FROM DENMARK NOW VISTING U. 5. Crown Prince with Pretty . Princess Arrives for Tour of 34 Days LOS ANGELES, Cal. April 6.- Crown Prince Frederik, of Denmar | miles, emergency landing fields ev-| | ery 60 miles, teletype and radio wea- | ther reporting all along the way, ter- minal beams, landing lights and per- Bombing Planes Ordere | gress have “died” by pocket veto. | The first was a mcumuzauon bill | and pretty Princess Ingrid have ar- killed by President Madisou. He also rived here aboard the liner Canada knocked off the second one, a bill é"mi"’" a 34 day tour of the United es. are shown as they went wild with jo A iruckloai of France’s men are shown in the Calle de Alcala., . Jean de Luz, on the French frontier, (o L at the entry of don and then e to ) York. Nazi Coup Raises Problem That Fmally Got Napoleon (LuB STARTED FOR T. DEWEY FOR PRESIDENT 0rganizaii6n Is Launched in Birthplace of N. Y. Racket Prosecutor OWOSSO0, Michlgnn April 6.—An organization of a “Tom Dewey for President” club has been launched here, the birthplace of New York City’s racket prosecutor The club is nonpartisan and the first member to put his name on the roster is Mayor John M. Axford, a Dumocrat Dewey is a Republican. D TAX CLAIM 'ISORDERED T0 BE PAID Eleven Milh;);Dollars In- volved in Esfate of A. 1. Dupont JACKSONVILLE, Floida, April 6. -County Judge J. Ollie Edmunds said he has signed orders authoriz- ing the Alfred I. Dupont estate to pay Federal and State inheritance tax claims of more than su 000,000. - Qut fo Break Chinese Resistance 1 SHANGHAI, April 6.——-Apparently\ blocked in the westward offensive| toward Changsha, the Jflpanesei Command is again reported to have ordered bombing planes out over a vast section of Central China to break up the Chinese resistance.| Many air raids are reported, dir- ected, it is said, against military | establishments with emphasis on stations along the Chekiang-Ki- i angsi Railway, communication cent- | er along the Kan River SPEEDINGAUTO, TRUCK COLLIDE; | 7 PERSONS DIE WESTMORELAND, Cal., April 6.| —Seven persons were Kkilled near| here last night in a collision between a speeding automobile and a heavy truck. Three persons were injured. fectly kept fields. Alaska Slighted The responsibility of the Govern- ment is just as great toward avia- tion in Alaska as to that in the Stat- es, the Major declared, and these| facilities are as greatly needed here| |as anywhere. To provide adequate weather re- porting for existing plane routes, the Weather Bureau would need 146 more men and $150,000 worth of| equipment in Alaska, he said. In telephone conversation with Se- attle yesterday, the Major said he was informed an item of $1,070,000 has been approved in the Civil Aero- | pautics Administration budget for, use in Alaska, but that the appropri- | ation has not yet been made. High-Speeded | Concerning his own Signal Corps| system, Major Edwards said all cir- cuits have now been high-speeded so that the system could handle five times the amount of traffic which is| going over it at present. The system employs 186 men, 1“0 | of them in Alaska. The permanent policy of the Al- | aska Communications System, as enunciated by Congress, for the War Department to operate perm- (Cnntlnued on Pnge Three) i lto permit free importation of stere- | ‘otvpe plates used in printing. His }wcm not truly pocket vetoes but the process and effect were the same. Among the first real pocket vetoes, ‘where the bill was just stowed away {in a pigeon hole, was applied by President Johnson to the Nebraska statehood bill in 1866. After that the device was applied often. If it should ! be held unconstitutional all sorts of things would become potentially valid. Sumners says later legislation {or changed conditions have nulli-| | fied many of the measures but the| | possibilities are enormous. | IT HAPPENED THIS WAY | | The pocket veto problem arose | this way: There usually are two sessions of |each Congress. The Constitution |gives the President ten days after receiving a bill either to veto it or| {approve it. If he does neither, it| ‘htcome= law regardless. If he ve-| | toes it he has to get it back to Con- | gress within the ten days or the| | veto doesn’t count. There is an ex-| Lcepuon. Bills jammed through in| the final days of the last session of | a Congress obviously cannot be re- ‘l (Continued on Page Three) {stock today is 8%, imon 5%, General Motors 40, The two members of Royalty will visit Washington and the New York | World's Fair after a tour across the | continent and following a visit to the Golden Gate International Ex- position on Treasure Island at San Francisco. StoCcK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April 6. — Closing quov.acion of Alaska Juneau mine American Can American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 22%, Bethlehem |Steel 55%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss. Wright com- AND SEE MOVIE In- Firemen meet tonight for their ternational Harvester 52, Kenne- annual election of officers and |eott 30, New York Central 14, Nor- launching of the baseball’ season. thern Pacific 8%, Southern Pacific| First business to be taken up will |12%, United States Steel 48, Pound be election of Fire Chief, Assistant $4.68%%. Chief Secretary and Treasurer and two fire company foremen. | Disposing of that, election will be DOW, JONES AVERAGES |held for President, Vice-President The following are today's DOW, |and Secretary of the baseball league. Jones averages: industrials 126.32,| Trevor Davis will run off pictures . rails 25.76, utilities 21.57. luf the Goldstein Building fire. MEXICANS PULL OFF RIOT OVER FASCISTPAPER MEXICO CITY, April 6—Work- ers erying “Down with Facism” last | night stoned the windows of plants of three Mexico City newspapers. It is admitted the newspapers are controlled by foreign owners — e FIREMEN WILL ELECT TONIGHT 8%, By MORGAN M. BEATTY | | AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, April 6. jyou're ifclined to take the head- lines at their face value, and get the idea that nothing can stop Hitler —consult a historian. | He'll tell you that Hitler has come to a hurdle—a hurdle the Reich- fuehrer would have done well to avoid for a year or two at least; a hurdle that may yet be his undoing, come peace Or war. In short, Hitler has run into the| handicap that always confronts em- pire builders once they get going—| the handicap of nationalism. Nationalism works two ways. 1t tears up empires, or it binds them together. Or it may do both at the same time. Thus nationalism may help the wise empire builder; or| it may wreck his plans like a run-| away hurricane. In either case, no! {man can explain just what hap- pened. | Until now Hitler has achieved all 'his success within the orbit of his| |own German nationality. National- ism, therefore, was no handicap to reckon with. Rather it was his great- | est asset, His appeal to Germans to | ibe loyal to their racial and cultural | | fatherland always brought a natur- |ally sympathetic response. No man | likes to turn against his heritage. BUT TROUBLE'S AHEAD But once Hitler creates the so- called protectorates of Bohemia- Moravia and Slovakia, and tucks them under his- wing, he begins to mother a chick of another color. It's | the same chick that broke up the |first great empire of modern times | —the empire created by Charles V| of Flanders, almost exactly 300 years ago. It is historically accurate to say that Charles V retired to a monas- tery without knowing what hit him. | Ask Dr. Lowell J. Ragatz of George | Washington University, an outstand- | ing authority on central European | history. l “Charles V inherited a large Eu-! ropean empire,” explains the hls-» wrlan “His genius made it even, larger, until finally, he ruled over| ore of Europe and the world Lhan- any of his contemporaries. “At the pinnacle of his power he ‘had Austria, Hungary, the Nether- | ilands, Burgundy, Spain, most of | |Ttaly, and the lion’s share of the | | Americas. But the whole thing pru- tically fell apart before his eyes | in 1547, | | “When Charles V stepped down | and divided the empire between his | |brother and son, he wrote a letter to a friend. He told how he had never spent more than five days in one place, so busy was he fighting wars attending peace conferences, and otherwise trying to hold together what he had accumulated. He reck- oned his empire was too big for one man to handle, but he didn’t know why.” In the perspective of the indus- trial age, historians explain the situation. It sprnns from the new i tculmnued on Pue Thr(u — It | | = | b 11 | victorious Nationalist troops into | HELEN REYNOLDS SEEKING RENO | DIVORCE Mrs. Helene Fortescue Reynolds, | 25, who recently arrived in Reno, Nev, to seek a divorce from Julian Reynolds, wealthy tobacco tinfoil manufacturer. Mrs, Reynolds sought services of the same lawyer who represent- | ed her sister, Mrs. Thalia For- tescue Massie, of Honolulu “at- tack case’ fame, when she won | a divorce from Lieutenant Thomas Massie. Mrs. Reynolds is prominent in New York so- ciety and married Reynolds three years ago. JOB SELLERS GOTOPRISON 5707 YEARS Senfence Passed on Civil Service Commission- ers, Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, April 6. — Joe| w St brother and former Secretary ! to recalled Mayor Frank Shaw, also former City Civil Service Commis- sioner, and Willlam Cormack, an-i other Commissioner, were today sen- tenced from five to seven years| in prison on charges of altering Civ- il Service records. ’I'hvv were recently convicted in the “job sale” scandal, changing | grades of men seeking jobs or pm- motions. l RECIPROCAL PACT SIGNED FOR DEFENSE Polish Eai_ssary An- nounces Trealy with Greal Britain IL DU(E ALBANIA Fasclst Press Says lfaly Is Ready for Anything at Moment (By AbSOLlATFl) PRESS) Premier Neville Chamberlain an= I nounced today that Great Britain and Poland had reached a “perms anent and reciprocal” defense agree= ment, The announcement came as Eu- |rope’s fears increased over reports of Ttalian occupation of Albania | now impending. Three Italian warships arrived at Durazzo, a port in Albania, the lit- tle kingdom wedged between Yugo- slavia and Greece, across the Adria- | tic Sea from Italy. Polish Foreign Minister Beck, nov in London, gave assurances that Po- land considers herself “under the ob- ligation to render assistance to His Majesty’s Government under the same conditions as those given in the temporary assurance of His Maj- esty’s Government to aid Poland in case of attack.” Prime Minister Chamberlain told the House of Commons that many reservists have been mobilized in Al- bania, Although some sources expect the Albandans will try to resist any Ite ailan aggression, there are also those who entertain the possibility that a formula might be found to make the Ttalian occupation acceptable to King Zog's country. 11 Duce himself, handling the con- trols, flew an Italian tri-motored bomber today to the military air- port of Jesi, near the Adriatic sea= port of Ancona. Later, Mussolini returned to Rome where the Itallan press proclaimed, “Italy is ready for anything, at the moment,” but both press and Fascist officials were silent on the Albanian question, In London, Sir Samuel Hoare, | Home Secretary, said the British had taken steps to deport members of the German Secret Police and other Nazi organizations in Great Britain, SAYS TREATY HAS FAILED IN PURPOSE ‘German Official Dedlares Chamberlain fo Be Taught Lesson BERLIN, April 6—One Nazi of- ficial declared the British-Polish mutual assistance pact reached in London is far from what Chamber- lain desired. Nazi confidence is also increased by the Tact that Col. Gen. Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German High Command and Hitler's closest mili- tary adviser, and Gen. Alberto Par- iano, Italy’s Undersecretary of War, have conferred at Innsbruck for the past two days. German comment centered on im- plication that the conference is intended to “teach Chamberlun a lesson.” Just.what the lesson is to be is noL revealed, ———.—<—— ‘U §., Great 'Brifain Sign ¢ Island Trealy WASHINGTON, April 6.—The United States and Great Britain have signed a 50-year agreement for joint occupation and admin- istration of the islands of Can- ton and Enderbury in the Pacific Ocean for use as transoceanic stations,