The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 8, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA KEKMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8073. 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 8, LMON FLEET IS AGAIN THREATENED Albanians Retreat Before Italian Forces FASCISTS IN TIRANEKING 15 IN FLIGHT | Mussolini’sWSofildiers Enter Capital City of Tiny Nation OCCUPATION FOLLOWS ROUT OF LITTLE ARMY Advance Column Rolls ir from Coasi-Scene of Terror, Disorder BULLETIN—ROME, April 8. —Count Galeazzo Ciano, Italian Foreign Minister, and son-in-law of Premier Benito Mussolini, ar rived at Tirane shortly after the Fascist forces entered the city. The Count renorts the Italians have pushed further ahead and have entered northwest Albania, along the Yugoslavia frontier. TIRANE, Albania, April 8 —Italy’s fast flying Fascist troops occupied!' this Albanian Capital City early today without hostile manifestations and after a night of terror and dis- order attending the rout of the little nation’s Mountaineer Army The advance Italian column rolled in from the coast, 25 miles away. just a little over 24 hours after the Fascist soldiers landed on the shores of Albania. The Italians met bitter resistance; from the poorly equipped Albanians who were fighting for life and in- dependence but the defeated defen- ders finally retreated into the hi]l\ King Zog, his Queen and baby son have fled to Greece. Previous reports said King Zog, with part of his Government, had moved to Elbasan, near the Border of Greece, with plans to defend the torturous trails leading to an al- | most inaccessible retreat. It is estimated that 25,000 Italian soldiers landed early yesterday morning under protection of guns of warships and warplanes soaring overhead dropping shells and bombs on the resisting defenders, NAZIPAPERS DECLARE 206 WASTRAITOR Claim Anti-Communist Pact Supporfed by Spain Hits Brifain BERLIN, April 8—Nazis hailed Spanish adherence to an anti Commitern pact in connection with | the Ttalian invasion of Albania as a | Fascist blow against Great Britain's efforts to form a front against the Rome-Berlin axis. General Franco's acceptance of the accord against the Communist In- ternational Iis interpreted as the logical outcome of the Spanish War, killing last minute efforts by West- ern democracies to bring Spain into their camp. Hitler gave Mussolini the complete backing of the German press and charged that King Zog sold out to the British, hence playing the role of political traitor to Italy, which nation lent Albania money. SWARTZ, ADAMS BUY 12TH STREET HOMES Two new homes built on 12th Street by Contractor James Lar- son have been sold to Frank Swartz and Arthur Adams, according to the FHA, which handled financing | of the construction, ‘Strikes Off Washington today | | LOUIS DELEBECQUE TO |crew took to the boats. |the 29 men | Guard | one Here is a shell-shattered street in Madrid, one of the many thorough- fares torn up by acrial bombing and artillery fire that occurred before the fall of the once- ploud meuupolis l- ranco’s Nationalist troovs. taking TAX - APPEASEMENT BILL WILL LIKELY BE SIGNED BY PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT By Pl{l‘l.\’TON GROVER BRITISHER HITS REEF AND SINKS WASHINGTON, April 8.—TIt does seem that there is more confusion than necessary over what is being done in Washington about “ap- | peasement” of business and indus- try. Much has been written to the ef- fect that the Treasury and the White House are at considerable |odds about what should be done ‘m the way of revis E ules so business will be encouraged lto help itself. Inquiry in essential | spots discloses that the appearance |of eonflict is more apparent than real. It need only be remembered that in Washington a certain film of politics arises, like mist on cold morning, to hide the land- ‘murks. Several weeks ago the Treasury took the initiative in proposing to |revise corporate taxes. Simplifica- | tion was the word, not reduction. Shore-All Saved by Coast Guard QUILLAYUTE, Wash, April 8.- The British freighter Temple Bar,| hit a rock a mile and a half north| of Quillayute Needle, a mile off shore and three lnil(‘fi south of the Quilla- 4 | yute River éarly this morning and The idea was outlined to tax com- has been abandoned as a total loss.| ‘m“wf members of House and Sen- | "The vessel sent out a frantic SOS |ate. There was considerable agree- ( t 4 o'clock this morning before the ment, If not quite complete, that| |simplification would help. There f|Wwas fairly complete agreement that the total of revenue from the taxes on corporations should not be reduced. This business was not carried on {behind the back of the President. He knew every step that was taken, as our information has it There is evidence of that in the for Yokahoma via the Washington |fact that Treasury officials con- coast and a call at Comox, B. C./cerned with taxation have sat in for a bunkers load of Japanese des-|with the President each week dur- tined scrap iron. ling the whole business. Master of the vessel was Capt.| They will continue to sit in with L. W. Tucker, who reported none the President and with the House were injured. land Senate tax' officials. The weather was clear when the|norgenthau vessel hit one of the numerous ro{:ks that at a press conference. scattered along the rocky shoreline| stretching south of Cape Flattery. | ROOSEVELT DENIES The Temple Bar was built in Scot | OWNERSHIP land in 1928, a 4,291 ton vessel not or-| o dinarily operating in the Pacific| THE confusion arises from the/ Goast trads. |fact that at one qf his own press 7 conferences, President Roosevelt | rather ‘\Lhac he had originated the pro- posed revisions. There may have |been outside reasons, as well as tax Louis Delebecque, Pacific Alaska [reasons, why he disowned the child Airways representative in Juneau, is With such a positive tone as he sailing south on the steamer Baranof \used at the press conference. One to spend a few weeks in the Seaftle “0[ these might have been that he offices of Pan-American Airways. had only freshly been advised that Delebecque does not know how|two hours earlier the Senate had long he would be gone, but expectsjput a harness on his Government to be absent for about two weeks| | at least, | | | a A Coast Guard crew brought 23 of aboard to the Coast | station and reported the other six men safe on the beach. Some of the crew got ashore in lifeboat while others drifted| near the wreck in the other boats. The Temple Bar sailed for Port Everglades, Florida, March 14, bound MAKE SEATTLE TRIP; WORK IN PAA OFFICE (Connnued on Page Three) ) Secretary | of the Treasury said| heatedly disowned any idea | e 'WAR (RISIS DRAWS FIRE | | | | k: i K ' FROM HULL Secrefary of State Flays 3 Italy After Phone Talk with FDR 'HITLER 1S WATCHED ‘ - WITH APPREHENSION ‘ Arms Em bar rgo Against Italy Rumored Under Advisement BULLETNI—LONDON, April 8. — Dispatches received here late this afternoon said new German {troop movements are being observed toward Poland. | | | | 8.—Secre- Hull, in a President ‘WASHIN 'ON, April tary of State Cordell statement approved by Roosevelt, said today: “The forcible and violent invasion of Albania is unquestionably an additional threat to the peace of the world “The invasion violates the all the peoples in the world that their governments shali lead them not toward war, but along paths of peace.” Secretary Hull condemned Ttaly's action after consulting with Presi- dent Roosevelt by telephone at Warm Springs, Georgia The Secretary of State expressed the belief that Ttaly violated the Kellogg, Anti-War Pact, signed by | Italy and Albania, and further indi- | cated that an arms embargo against Italy under the neutrality laws. might be effected. Such a plan is believed under dis- cussion by United States cabinet officers, but so far, the move has not been openly considered official- ly. will of CRISIS COMING WASHINGTON, April 8—A high Government official disclosed this {afternoon that the United States considered the Mussolini coup in Al- bania a prelude to a more serious | European crisis | ‘The official declared that the State | and War Departments are both inclined to the view that in a few days Hitler might precipitate a crisi over Danzig. Both Germany and Italy are con- vinced that Great Britain is guilty |of monumental bluff in negotiatin the alliance with Poland and other- wise acting to “stop Hitler.” R CHAMBERLAIN IS RETURNING FROM REST, SCOTLAND [ Albanian Situation May Be Cause of Parliment- ary Recall | | LONDON, April 8—Premier ille Chamberiain announced today he will return to London from Scot- land to confer with the cabinet on the Albanian situation, The announcement of Chamber- lain’s return from his vacation, was followed quickly by an emergency meeting of the gcabinet after weig ing implications of TItaly's invas-| ion. ‘The Albanjan Minister announc |the situation is still obscure, with | a number of important factors still unclarified. Leaders of both Liberal and Labor parties demanded the immediate re- |call of Parliament, now in Easter recess, d | ———- Clovelly, the English village whose one street is all stairs and whose pedestrians mostly ride donkeys, conspicuously posts a notice that visitors whose weights exceed 9 stone, 3 pounds (129 pounds) may not ride the donkeys LOOKS LIKE A CATERPILLAR CLUB meeting aboard the British troopship Eftrick which sailed from Southampton, England, carrying soldiers and sailors to service in India. Viewed from overhead, the hammocks slung around the necks of the men looked like great caterpillars as the troopers moved about the deck. Many of these men will see prolonged service abroad. GRIM reality of Hitler's ag- gression through threat of arms has brought a sterner line to the face of England’s prime minister, . Neville Chamberlain (above), the cautious, unhurried promo- ter of a “stop Hitler” front among nations. NO SABOTAGE LINER CRASH SEATTLE, April 8.—Officials’ of the Civil Aeronautics Authority | report they have failed to find any ' evidence of sabotage in the crash of the Boeing stratoliner on March 18 and which claimed ten lives. The investigation into the ¢ has been concluded e - ARTHUR H. CHASE DIES, KETCHIKAN KETCHIKAN A1| ka, April 8— Arthur H. Chase died today in the hospital. He came to Ketchikan from Portland, Oregon, where he was with Remington-Rand for six vears h He previously lived in Omaha. Chase | New York.| in Ket-| was born in Kingsbury, Survivors are the widow. chikan; a son, Dwight A. Chase lighthouse official at Detroit; a daughter, Mary E. Chase in Omaha; grandaughter, Mrs. Archie Carpen- ter, Jv., at Lincoln braska, and grandson, Dr, David Chase at {ongment, Colorado, Hazaxd, | 'DECISION MADE AGAINST (LOSED SHOP CONTRACTS DR. THOS. . BAKER NOTED EDUCATOR, DIES, PITISBURGH Successfully Directed Car- negie Institute of Technology PITTSBURGH, Pa Thomas S. Baker, President Emeri- tus of the Carnegic Institute of Technology, died last night just two weeks after his 68th birthday. He ranked as one of the educators of the country his successful direction of stitute. During the dency, the institute the most remarkable velopment and enlargement in its thistory and took its place among | the leading technical colleges of the | | United States. In addition work, Dr. Baker in the scientific through the In- years of his pre 1joyed one of periods of de~ his educational interested himself side of coal pro- | \duction and rescarch. He gained ‘wmld wide recognition in this re- pect when he sponsored a move= (ment for and promoted an inter- I national conference on coal at Car- to ¥ negie Tech in 1927 raveled in Europe He traveled extensively through- out Europe while arranging for the ‘cunfcrcnc and succeeded in bring- \ing to Pittsburgh the leading coal technicians of the entire world. Several sessions of the conference |were held at Carnegie Tech resulted in the development of much valuable scientific data rela- tive to coal research.work. While in Europe Dr. Baker was received courteously by various wuumnc societies, before which he | was invited to speak. Addressing the | | Society for Lignite and Mineral on hu esearch at Berlin, he expressed the opinion that men of science were likely to be the best messen- rs of peace. He pointed out that modmn business demands two kinds }ul capital, money and scientific }knuwledm, and as there is inter- |change of credits among nations, ;Lhcre always will be an interchange |of scientific data. Studied Abroad Baker was born at Aberdeen Md., March 23, 1871, the son John H. and Cornelia E. Stockham Baker. After his education in the public schools of Maryland he at- tended Johns Hopkms University Dr. of " (Continued on Puge Two) April 8—Dr. most notable | il Sudden Sailing and | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, April 8. —The California District Court of | Appeals has ruled in three opm)om {that Closed Shop Union contracts | are contrary to the public policy The decisions were handed down on the ground that a closed shop re-| stricts individual workmen in their | cht of self organization and ne- gotiation, LINDBERGHS GO * ABOARD LINER FOR TRIP HOME Secrecy Shrouds Pufpose ' of Heckled Flier's France, April 8, Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife sailed aboard the liner Aguitania to- | day for New York and took unusual in an attempt to avoid CHERBOURG precautions | being ‘seen. They hurried from a special boat | train out of Paris, directly to a tend- fer that took them to the liner ahead ‘or other passengers. Newspapermen who managed to | talk briefly to the ('nnpllu received | the answer: “I'm sorry,” when they | asked the reason for the sudden de- parum- to the United States. D e RUSSIA SENDS DESTROYERS T0 MEDITERRANEAN \Balkan Stafes Are Alarmed | Over Rome-Berlin Axis Possibilities Turkey, April 8.— Four Soviet Russian destroyers teamed through the Bosphorus to- day from the Black Sea enroute to the Mediterranean The movement was interpreted as indicating Russia’s close interest in the present situation in the Mediter- ranean and her determination not to be caught unawares by any de- velopments following the Italian in- vasion of Albania Increasing alarm of Balkan st over the possible intentions of the Rome-Berling axis was demonstrat- ed by the hurried visit of Rumani: ISTANBUL, | rejection NEW CHARGE OF STALLING AGAIN MADE [Pickets May Be Thrown Around Plants, Docks, San Frannsco Bay SAILORS UNION ALSO (OMPLICATES MATTERS ;Make Demand that Able Bodied Seamen Be Plac- ed in Cerfain Jobs SAN PRANCISCO! Cal. April 8.— New trouble threatens to delay the departure of the fishing fleet for Alaska next week, and this less than 24 hours after the picket line was withdrawn from the Alaska Packers Association plant at Alameda and Alaska ship docks. New union charges of stalling on the part of the Alaska Packers As- sociation is the new trouble and the Maritime Federation of the Pa- cific has called a meeting for Mon- day to decide whether to restore pickets if an agreement is not reach- ed by that time. Sailors Make Demands The situation is futher complicat- ed by demands of the AFL Sailors Union to furnish every able bodied seaman as winch drivers and boat- swains on all Alaska vessels. In the past, fishermen have done some of the sailors’ work. Harry Prevost, Assistant Secre- tary of the Sailors Union of the Pa~- cific, said that since the fishermen | have joined the CIO the picture has | cnanged The Maritime Federation of the Pacific pickets, which were with- drawn Thursday, will be placed at the Alaska Packers Association plants and salmon fishing docks in protest to what the Federation calls stalling tactics of the employers de~ signed to hold up agreements until the last minute before the deadline for the vessels to sail north. SITUATION AT SEATTLE SEATTLE, April 8.—Agent Wi~ liam Hecker said the Alaska Fish- ermens’ Union still stand pat on of the proposal by the anned Salmon Industry to accept the same wages and hours as lask year. 'AIRPLANE ICES, FOUR BAIL OUT BUT ONE DIES Pilot's Parachufe Fouled- Man Carried fo Death with Plane EL PASO, Texas, April 8.—James A. Dinan, radio operator of a Coast Guard plane that had been missing since taking off from here Thursday telephoned in from a ranch near Alpine this morning to report the death of the plane’s pilot and the safety of the other three men aboard |after an epic disaster of the air- | ways. Dinan said the wings became heavy with ice when the plane ran into a snowstorm and that all four men “bailed out” with parachutes, but pilot Lieut. Robert L. Grant- ham’s chute became entagled with landing gear of the crippled plane as he jumped, and was carried to his death. The other two passengers, along with Dinan, came safely to earth. RS Ls 0,r to Designs of a coke burning ap- paratus intended to lift fog from aerodromes have been submitted to the British Royal Air Force and | will be tested in the near future. —— . The number of depositors in the British Post Office Savings Bank on Foreign Minister Gafencu, to Turk- ey's Foreign Minister Coglu, for ur- gent consultations, January 1 was 11,200,000 and the amount of their deposits about $2, 546,500,000,