The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 10, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1939. PRICE TEN CENTS VOL, LIIL, NO. 8074. i » GREAT BRITAIN GIVES ITALY WARNING ® * * L4 * » * * »* * * » » * » Ld - * * * * * * Seizure of Greek Isle Will Mean EUROPEAN SITUATION ALARMING Congressional Leaders Turn fo Roosevelf, New Neutrality Policy IMPORTANT MEASURE GOING TO BE DRAFTED Charles A. Lindbergh Will Also Be Questioned When He Arrives BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, April 10. — President Roosevelt returned to Washington late this afternoon from his southern va- cation but before leaving the special train he received Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull for of the European Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau also joined the conference. WASHINGTON, April 10.—Alarm- ed by unsettled conditions in Eu- rope, Congressional leaders today turned to President Roosevelt for help in drafting a new neutrality policy. The Congressional leaders have decided to lay the controversial prob- lems before Roosevelt as soon as he returns from Warm Springs, Geor- gia. According to Associated Press ad- vices received here, the President, before his departure from Warm Springs yesterd: told a crowd at Czechs Kiss Flag of Freedom | ing her appreciation of American liberty, Elizabeth Zak, dressed in the costume of her native Czecho-Slovakia, kisses the flag, while Marion Fiala looks on. The ceremony occurred during the “Stop Hitler” parade in New York City, in which 20,000 persons marched while 500,000 spectators cheered. Ea POPEMAKES ELOQUENT PLEA - TO NATIONS OF WORLD FOR | | PICKETING ~ DISCUSSED BAYAREA Union Leaders Holding | Meeting Today - Nego- tiations Have Failed SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 10, —Leaders of the unions of the Mari- | time Federation of the Pacific are| meeting today to consider possible| restoration of picket lines at piers and headquarters of Alaska salmon | ships tied up by unionists who de- clare the negotiations with the cans ners have failed. The piers were picketed for eral days last week but they withdrawn last Thursday after ionists announced negotiation: proceeding satisfactorily The effect of the restored picket lines will be to prevent loading of | supplies in preparation for the ships | to sail for the northern waters, es pecially the Bristol Bay section NO PICKETIN G YET SAN FRANCISCO, April 10.—A | decision not to return pickets im- | mediately to the Alaska salmon fish- ing ships at the docks and in the yards here is announced late this afternoon by the unions involved mi the negotiations with the employ-|{ 'DRAFT DODGER ers for labor contracts Ray Brown, Secretary of the Bay | UN"'ED S"A"'E Area district of the Maritime Fed- eration of the Pacific said represen- | tatives of the Unions, at a meeting, | decided to “leave things alone a lit- | gecided to ewne wnings wione » 2 Grover Bergdoll Is Coming te“”:l:‘l‘(: later should (I('\'elopuwm\} Ba(k 10 Serve Remaind_ ot erof 5-Year Sentence Brown said the salmon pack | sev- | were un- | were | Alread nnder omed to wearing o military training to prej dra Pilsudski, widow of P\ | | | | | meeting with the union leaders re- gularly and willingly but without getting down to talking terms. Polish Women Ready to Arm Against Hitler attacks on Poland, interpreted as a prelude to demands upon the country for Dan Poland’s women (shown on parade in Warsaw) may soon re them for a place in the fighting line, in answer to an appeal by Mme. oland’s first marshal. Her plea was made in answer to German press ig and the Polish Corridor. | SENATOR JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS DIES SUDDENLY.IN - WASHINGTON; FINE CAREER 1 | WASHINGTON, April 10.—United States Senator James Hamilton | Lewis, 72, of Tllinois, died yesterday in the Garfield Hospital as the re- » War SITUATION NOW TENSE IN EUROPE British Cabinet Takes Def- inite Action in Pres- ent Crisis FLEET ORDERS ARE SENT T0 WARSHIPS Invasion of Aibania May Be Followed by An- other Conquest (By Associated Press) British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain is reliably reported to have told Italy that any attempt to seize the strategic Greek island of Corfu will be regarded by Greab Britain as an invitation for war. This action is backed by the Cab=- inet. This report followed emergency British fleet orders sent to Malta and urgent British Cabinet meetings which highlighted potential doings in European strife following the oc- cupation of Albania by Italian troops, an intimation that Italy might invade Greece. Purpose of Invasion The invasion of Greece, according to reports, would be for the purpose of further consolidation of her cou- quest in Albania. It is unofficially reported that Great Britain has decided to guar- antee independence of Greece, Al- bania’s southern neighbor. The British Cabinet is also under= stood to have decided to recall Par- * * \ | l WEW YORK, April 10. — Mrs ORI liament from the Easter vacation Vs | fall if we do not have war.’’ [ Charles A. Lindbergh will be in- vited to present his views before the House Foreign Affairs Committee late this week, it is also announced Lindbergh is now enroute to the United States from France. - ALBANIANS AR STILL FIGHTING ITALY'S FORCES Armed Mountaineers Re- sorf to Harassing Guerilla Tactics LONDON, April 10.—Advices re- ceived here state the Italian invasion of Alabania is being resisted stub- bornly by 10,000 to 12,000 trained Mohamedan mountaineers in the rough southern districts. Almost without leadership, with their king a fugitive in Greece and many of their head men gone over to the Italians, the Hill tribesmen fought on as best they could, aided immensely by the rough terrain of their native land. The chief center of resistance is understood to be between Debar apd Elbassan although it was said the Ttalian troops were advancing with the greatest difficulty in all parts of southern Albania due to the effective guerilla warfare by the hardy natives. Albanians are trained ‘in arms from youth and great numbers of them are accustomed to go armed at all times. During the World War their guerilla bands held off far superior forces of crack Austrian army units. According to sources here, Bishop Stylian Norli, now living in Boston, Mass., is being suggested to head the new Albanian state]s; wheih Italy is expected to declare a protectorate. When King Zog, then styled pre- sident of Albania was overthrown and forced to flee to Yugoslavia, Norli took over the gmvernment. During the brief tenure his revolu- tionary government succeeded in stabilizing the Albaniar. state. — et BACK IN DAWSON Harold Malstrom is back at his desk on the Dawson News after spending the winter visiting friends in Seattle and Vancouver, Girl Publi Enemy Caught, Easter Crowd Estelle Dickson, 18-Year- 0ld Blonde Sharpshoot- er, Is Under Arrest Unarmed and alone, Estelle Dick- KANSAS CITY, Mo, April 10.—| | [ VATICAN CITY, Italy, April 10.— Pope Pius XII raised his voice in | an Easter message from the throne | of St. Peters with an eloguent plea ‘ for “peace of justice and charity.” | With scholarly Latin phrases, the | plea was delivered affer the Easter | mass. The plea was cloaked with specific suggestions for averting the “dull flashes of war,” which the | Pope . said might blow out the | “longed for dawn of peace.” | The Pope pointed to the “sacred rights of humanity, liberty and dig- nity” and to a fair distribution of { the world’s goods as a way to peace. ! He exhorted Nations to combat unemployment and wipe out the strident contrast” between luxury and poverty and halt the spread 'of “destructive theories.” The Pope implored the nations of the world to cultivate internal peace | Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, wifesof | Sult of an ailment of the heart |the notorious World War draft dodger, announced here on her ar- rival from Europe, that her husband will sail next week from Germany and surrender himself to the Unit- ed States Military authorities to serve the remainder of his five-year sentence imposed upon him before his escape in 1919. Mrs. Bergdoll arrived here on the Hamburg American liner St. with four of her five children. She went to Europe last December with the announced intention of per- PLANE CRASHES INTO MOUNTAIN Pilot and OWIEr, Also One| Passenger, Insfant- | Oy Killed VAN, W. Va,, April 10.—Ted Lead- er, pilot and owner, and Del Macon a passenger, were probably instant- ly killed late yesterday afternoon after sentenced for evasion of the y;non a cabin monoplane crashed |draft and finally escaped to Ger- into a mountainside during a’ mist. | many, : the United States Bergdoll fled from military guards FINGER-PRINTING TAKE Louis suading her husband to return to and conscience to promote respect| Son, 18-year-old blonde sharpshoot- ¢ | for legitimately constituted author- A Democrat, and a staunch sup- porter of President Roosevelt, Sen- ator Lewis died six hours after re- turning by train from Chicago, his home. He became ill on the train | and was taken by ambulance to the | hospital. | Mrs. Rose Douglas Lewis, his wife, | was with him at the end. [ Senator Lewis was known through- | to the Senate halls of Washington | ian manners. | As Democratic whip of the Sen- | ate, he followed few departures from | |leadership of the Roosevelt Admin-| |istration, his most outstanding: dif- ference was over the ratification of !the St. Lawrence seaway pact with | | Canada. | In the early days, Senator Lewis! was a resident of Seattle and was | well known throughout the Pacific | Northwest. | Perfect Gentleman JAMES HAMILTON LEWIS cratic majority early in his first term in the upper House. His war experiences embraced the er, submitted meekly to arrest last Saturday afternoon amid a bustling | crowd of Easter shoppers in the heart of the business district. AlIE REOUESIS ity. The arrest ended the seven months’ crime career of the Nation’s | Public Enemy couple No. 1. The girl's outlaw husband, Benny | Dickson, died in a hail of Federal Agent’s bullets in St. Louis™ last| ‘Thursday. Mrs. Dickson may be taken to De- troit for trial for violating the| s President May-Place For- . mer Gov. Benson for Sto UOTATIONS [ stocx Quomsmons | T P NEW YORK, April 1Q —Closing | v ASHINGTON, April 10.—Thom- quotation uf_Aluika June_au mine| s Alie, former Progressive member stock tOdBv 15 74, American Can of the House of Repres?ntflli\'es of 85, Ametican Power and Light 3%, | wiconsin. has asked the President A""“"ggfnnfi;&;gflfif)“‘;:‘f’;wLifren‘;w withdraw his nomination as a 1%, Curtiss Wright 4%, Gener: |member of the Interstate Com- 7 Wl "o merce Commission. Motors 39%, International Harvest-| .y is ynderstood the President has er 50%, Kennecott 297, New York | # e 12 o Yo |acceded to the wishes of Alie and Ce"'lml 18 ".r"""]”}"’"upii;é“;t;‘ there is a report that President S;’u"l‘i:,',m;" 1<‘dl i ©5| Roosevelt might nominate former e %) Poutin 9AAck | Gov. Elmer Benson of Minnesota to the ICC post. — - DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 124.03, rails 2474, utilities 20.95. | P. Page, former chief steward on N T the Yukon River steamer White- Sixty thousand letters containing horse, died at Whitehorse recently. money went to the dead leiter of- He only recently came north to pre. fice in 1938, \pare his craft for the season’s run P. PAGE DIES 'BE WITHDRAWN UP AS SOCIAL ISSUE, NOT By PRESTON GROVER tion. Its primary v WASHINGTON, April 10.—Public has been in running down crimi- | finger-printing seems to have ar-|nals and it does not aliogether re- |rived socially and President Roose-|lieve the antipathy to know that it | velt is leading a move to drive away'|also is useful in identifying people | the police court odor clinging to the |who have lost their memory or have jalue in the past FOR CRIMINAL PURPOSES { soldier, diplomat and Senator—but|Staff Colonel, first with General always James Hamilton Lewis wfls‘Brook in Cuba and later with Gen- | the perfect gentleman. |eral Fred D. Grant in Porto Rico.! His courtly manners were known ' Sent to France in 1918 by President |from the water front of Seattle,| Wilson on missions for the War and | | where he labored in young manhood, | Navy departinents, he became an| to the Senate hals of Washington'aide on the staff of Gen. ('-eorgcf 3nnd the capitols of Europe where his Bell on the Chateau Thiery front | | striking career took him. | and was returning on the naval ship ! Perfectly tailored suits, harmoniz- | Mt. Vernon when the vessel was | iing shirts, ties, socks and handker- | torpedoed and forced to limp back ;chlefs‘ a rakishly tipped hat, spot-| to Brest. | {less gloves, beribboned !!ylwlmacs‘L His diplomatic work included | business. ‘heen burned up'in automobile acci- and a carefully parted beard that | The President announced at a|dents so that nothing remains but|Was astonishingly pink until creep- press uonrcr_once recently that he|finger-tips to show who they are. |ing age grayed it, made up a per- had been finger-printed long ago.| Nevertheless a large number of sonal ensemble that almost obscured At a subsequent conference he sug-|the country’s nicest people have|the man’s abilities. gested §millngly that it would be|had their finger-prints recorded | interesting to note those who re- with FBI. That is true of a lot of the | fused to be finger-printed. | country’s less nice people. But FBI The President has suggested that|observes the social amenities and employees of all Government de-|keeps its criminal file completely partments be finger-printed. Many apart from the “civil identification” of them, the Civil Service employ ile. are already finger-printed. So are| Such interesting personalities as soldiers and sailors and their of-|“Timmy the Gook” and “Pork and | ficers. | Beans” are registered in the crim- | inal file under their various aliases. “The Great Dude” Early in his Congressional carcer |Champ Clark of Missouri dubbed him “the greatest dude in the Unit- ed States” Speaker Tom B. “Czar” | Reed called him ‘the garrulous rain- bow."” But men who knew him best said he was a master politician. Court verdicts testified to his effective membership on a joint high com- mission on the Alaskan-Canadian | boundary which met in London and | to which he was appointed by Presi- dent Wilson. In 1914 he was a| United States commissioner to Lon- don to execute laws for increasing safety at sea. In 1923 he represented | American concessionaires in Turkish oil fields and in 1924 handled a $28,000,000 loan to Mexico. The fol- | lowing year he handled the legal | details of a loan of $100,000,000 to| continental European nations. | Reared by Relatives NO GREAT RUSH _ {That is a fairly busy file as these We went over to the FBI—that's| people are forever being finger- pleadings at the bar. Votes reflected| Col. Lewis was a Virginian by the power of his oratory. Citations| tragic chance. His mother, Julia of his legal and historical works Hamilton Lewis, was hurrying from | G-man Hoover’s place — to see printed in this jail and that. Their whether the department or the prints reach Washington at the country in gemeral had responded rate of about 5000 a day | actively to the business of being! The nicer file contains, besides finger-printed. There was no great the President’s prints, such proper rush to get in, although the FBI | finger tracks as were left by Shirley professes to be puzzled that people Temple, Sir Ronald Lindsay, the should object, | British Ambassador; Hon. Sir Bede The trouble with finger — is that it has a jail-hous | evidenced his acumen. He had the rare distinction of | having represented two States in| the national legislature, He was a| Congresman-at-Large from Wash- ington 1897-99 and Senator from I1- | ‘lmois 1913-19 and 1931-43. He was |the first Senate whip, having been | named to that post by the Demo- | -printing reputa- lcontinued “",. P;w Thrv:; | the family home in Augusta, Ga., to Richmond, where Major John Cable]‘ Lewis, her husband, was near death from the after effects of ‘wounds incurred in the Confederate Army. At Danville a son was born on May 18, 1866, and Julia Lewis died. Major Lewis was an invalid the (Contipued on Page Three) and the first sessions will probably be held on Thursday of this week. Shore Leaves Cancelled | The order sent to Malta called all crews back from shore leaves and also sent the 35000-ton’ battleship |Malaya toward an undisclosed des- | tination with decks reported cleared for any possible action. In Paris, both Great Britain and | France are reported considering joint military and naval demonstra~ | tions to back up their eastern Euro- pean allies against further Italian and German expansion. | Troops Are Massed On the other side, authortitative Fascist Rome discloses that Italy has reinforced her troops in the | Dodecanese Islands which lie in the | Aegean Sea off Greece. Conservative estimates in Athens !said the Italian troops now on Rhodes Island, the largest of the | twelve Dodecanese Islands, exceeded 145,000 soldiers with between 800 and For a time he was a teacher, then | Spanish-American conflict and the ;500 scattered proportionately on a stevedore, lawyer, Congressman,|World War. In the former he was a | ¢ the other islands. ITALY MAKES NEW THREAT OVER ALBANIA Gives Warning fo British Not fo Dispute Move Made, Little Nation ROME, April 10—Italian Foreign Minister, Count Ciano, arrived ‘back in Rome yesterday from Tirane where he had flown as a represen- tative of his father-in-law, Premier Mussolini to arrange the establish- ment of a provisional government. Lord Perth, the British Ambas { sador in Rome, informed Count Ci ano that Britain desired positive as- surances that Italian troops would | be withdrawn from Albania as soon as possible and that the indepen- dence of Albania would not be im- paired by Italy’s action. The reply which Count Ciano gave the British envoy was not disclosed but the semi-official Foreign Office spokesman, Vrvigino Gayda, Italian editor, said in a published article that Italy had not violated the Ang- lo-Italian Pact. Gayda declared that (Continued on Page Four)