The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 12, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8076. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1939. FISHING BOAT WRECKED IN LYNN C NAL Brita WAR TENSION ON INCREASE OVER GREECE London and Paris Will Hear Diplomats Warn Italy Tomorrow CHAMBERLAIN SEEKING BROADER BALKAN PACT Mussolini Writ es Athensi Government Not to Worry “"Now’ (By Associated iress) The British Government today undertook new efforts to protect Mediterranean trade routes to Brit-| ish Empire possessions and the| Orient. | A general warlike tension, evident today throughout the world, especi- | ally in the light of the Italian con- quest of Albania, spurred Great | Britain to fresh action. | London informants said Premier Chamberlain would announce to the | House of Commons tomorrow that; Great Britain will consider as “un-| friendly,” any act of aggression | against Greece or Turkey. | The French Government decided | that Premier Daladier will also make a declaration of France's po- sition tomorrow at almost the same | time as Chamberlain is expected to be speaking in London. | Toda; the Paris Cabinet gave final formal approval to drastic de- | crees strengthening national de- | fense. The decrees have already | . been put into operation, placing all industry on wartime basis. In London it is expected that| sreat Britain will reserve the nk,m to decide what constitutes aggres- sion, which in the case of the pledge | to fight for Poland's indepepdence may be left to Poland. London informants said the rea- | son for the reservation is that Prime Minister Chamberlain, hopes Italy | will guarantee, that having Albania, | the Mediterranean status quo mlu be kept. 5 The Italian Government sent a| note yesterday to Greece. stating| that no aggressien of that nation | is contemplated now. Great Britain hopes to make a| piedge with ‘Greece and Turkey on a basis of a wider Balkan Alliance | that will be brought into the Brit- ish, French and Polish entente. 587 > FRENCH WARSHIPS LEAVE NAVY YARDS | ON SECRET ORDERS Sudden Move, Number of Craft, Destinafion, Hid- den by Censorship PARIS, April 12.—All French war- ships at the Navy Yard near Mar- seille sailed out last night under secret orders. The purpose of the sudden move is hidden by censorship and the number of ships leaving is not di- vulged. ee— — STIKINE FISH COMPANY FIRM INCORPORATES With the stated object of “gen- erally engaging in the fishing busi- ness,” the Stikine Fish Company was incorporated at the Territorial Auditor’s office today. Incorporators are A. R. Brueger and Margaret Ann Brueger of Wran- gell and Vivian Sorsenson of Seattle. Stock consists of five shares of $100 each. Debt limit was fixed at $50,000. tl in Will Defend Mediterranean Sea Dixie Gets Sentence, Hope Loyal | Dixie Davis, left Nith the promise of Hope Dare, ais girl friend, shown at right, that she will marry him as soon as he gets out of jail, J. Richard (Dixie) Davis, one-time “mouth- piece” for the late Dutch Schultz, policy king, is given a year's term in jail, minus six months, on criminal conspiracy charges. Davis won leniency through the plea of District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey because Davis had aid- ed Dewey in gaining the convic- tion of James J. Hines, Tammany district leader, on charges of pro- tecting the Schultz racket. [FEDERAL JUDGE RESIGNS UNDER JURY PRESSURE | Quits as McKesson Rob- bins Probe About fo | Be Made Public | e WASHINGTON, April 12.-Presi- dent Rou.xeve]t said today he has accepted the resignation of Feder: | Judge Edwin Thomas of Cu!!x\(%‘, ticut, Thomas resigned in a letter dated | April 6. H Attorney General Murphy issued | Retrumng in (oasl Guard Is \Extended, Alaska WA%HTNGTON A[)Hl 12 The Hmm- Merchant Marine and Fish- ries Committee has acceded to Al- ka Delegate Dimond'’s request that a be included in the provis- ions of the bill providing training {of Coast (xuard recr\nls ALBANIAIS OFFERED TO a statement, | known that for | the financia! affairs of Judze 'I‘hw\—‘ |as and his action in certain case: saying: “It is well a number of wee! KING, ITALY have been under investigation b,\" John Cahill, United States Attor- ney. and a special Grand Jury. | “The nature of the evidence hasn’t | been made public, due to the umen‘ lattack of illness Judge Thomas suf- fered. He is at present under the | care of a physician and his resigna- tion made publicizing of the infor- mation relative to impeachment un-; necessary. The Grand Jury, how- ever, will continue its investiga- tions.” Judge Thomas was brought mtm the McKesson-Robbins inv e‘,ugaum\\ February 4, when the Department | of Justice ordered him to nllurn‘ immediately from a Latin-America | cruise to appear before the Grand | Jury. | FOREIGN FORCES LEAVING SPAIN; TWO DIRECTIONS, lfalian Soldgr;Embarkingi for Italy - Moors to Spanish Morocco CADIZ, April 12—Some Italian| soldiers, who have been marking| time in Spain, suddenly embarked | for Ttaly during the day and simul- taneously, Moorish troops are leav- ing Madrid with ordess, it is| claimed, to sail for Spanish Mor-| oceo. | Both troop movements are ap-| parently connected with the new‘ hreat of war in the Mediterranean. National Assembly Is Con- voked and Sefs Up Milifary Regime TIRANE, April 12.—The Albanian National Assembly today offered Victor Emmanuel III of Italy for a “personal union” of the two na- tions. The Assembly was convoked and | immediately set up a new regime under Italian lmman occupation. TWENTY-ONE DIE, 63 ARE INJURED IN THREE BLAZES CAIRO, Egypt, April 12—Twenty- one persons are reported to have been kflled and 63 injured in fires in three neighboring villages near Mahallan, lower Egypt. There are no other particulars. THREATENS T0 STOP MINING IN COAL INDUSTRY NEW YORK, April 12—John L. Lewis threatens to close the re- | mainder of the Nation's coal in- dustry unless the operators agree to demands made by the unions, especially in the soft coal industry. EXTRA! Baranof, Latouche Picketed Unions Claim that Alaska‘ Steamship Co. Breaks Previous Agreement BULLETIN—SEATTLE, Apri 12. — William Semar, of the Northland Transportation Com- pany, left for Tacoma this afterncon to appear before Fed- eral Judge Cushman asking for a restraining order ag picketing of Alaska steame! Seattle. Semar reoresents his own company, Alaska Steamship Company and Alaska Transpor- tation Company in the restrain- ing order proceedings. SEATTLE, April 12.—The Mari- | time Federation of the Pacific today picketed the steamer Baranof, sched- uled to sail for Alaska at 9 o'clock this morning, and also the freighter Latouche, scheduled to sail for the north on Friday. The Federation charges that the Alaska Steamship Company rescind- ed from a previous agreement not to ship cannery supplies to Alaska | during the prefent Alaska canned salmon dispute. George Downer, Assistant Attor- ney General of the State of Wash- ington, who has accepted Secretary of Labor Perkins’ request to act as| Special Mediator in the salmon dis- pute, and A. E. Marsh, Federal Conciliator, met this atfernoon to outline a course of procedure. Crew members remained aboard the Baranof. Although the long- shoremen stopped work, teamsters passed through the picket lines. | Late this afternoon Alaska Steam- *;ship Company’s offices posted the | Baranof to sail Friday morning at/ |9 o'clock and the steamer Alaska | for 9 o'clock Saturday morning, pro- | vided pickets have been withdrawn. | | i | | SAILINGS TO ALASKA | TEMPORARILY CANCELLED | H. O. Adams, General Agent for| the Alaska Steamship Company, Ju- neau district, received a radiogram | this afternoon from L. W. Baker, | Traffic Manager of the Alaska| | Steamship Company, with head- | ‘quarters at Seattle, that all sailings |for Alaska have temporarily been cancelled because of picketing by | | the Alaska Cannery Workers and Maritime Federation of the Pacific. DOGS WORRY MARY SEATTLE, April 12—Mary Joyce, | the crown of the Kingdom to King |Planning to sail on the steamer Bar- {anof this morning, was much dis- | turbed when informed that the ves- | |sel won't sail until Prldx,y becausr‘ |1t is picketed. Comely Mary is worrled because she has a dog team she was using “to haul dudes around in the moonlight,” at Sun Valley, and the dogs in question are crated in the baggage room at Union Station. “My poor dogs,” said Mary. | S.S.VANDINE, | DETECTIVE TALE WRITER, IS DEAD NEW YORK, April 12. — Willard| Huntington Wright, 51, who becams famous as “S. 8. Van Dine,” author | of numerous detective novels, died today. - HUNGARY QuITS LEAGUE, IIATIONSI BUDAPEST, April 12.--Hungary has resigned from the League of Nations definitizing to stand aluug- side of Germany. 'l Urges U. S. Take o L] Members of the Senate F Sides in Event of Foreign War ign Relations Committee gave rapt attention to Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under President Hoover, as he urged Congress and the Nation to throw isolation overboard and take sides in any for general view of the left side of picture, left to right: Senater. H. W. Jchnson (R.-Cal); Senator E. D. (D.-Utah) R.L); (end of table). Tom Connally (D.-Tex.); hem Senator IV(!D:) Facing camera at table: Planes Crash H ou gn conflict which threatened the “safety and defense” of the United States. rowded hearing shows Stimson (scated at end of fable, right) as he testified. nator W. E. Borah enator Pat Harriscn Senator L. B. Sch wellenbach (left fo right), Se R. R. Reynolds (D.-N.C.). Jlls(‘ph F. Guffey (D.-Pa). bet A (R (D.-Miss.) ; Ch or (D.-Wash.) Back to camera at extr This From (D.-Nev.) ; (D.-N.Y.); Key Pittman ator R. F. Wagner Senator T. F. Green (D.- Barkley (D.-Ky.); Senator left, Senator a A flrc, Four Dead All that remained of a navy biplane (twisted steet at left), and lhe home it destroyed at East Braintree, Mass., after a mid-air crash of two navy planes man uvering ever the launching of the Navy's big aircraft carrier Wasp, was twisted metal and charred wood. The cther plane alse crashed into a house. None of the pccupants of the homes were hurt but the four Navy fliers perished. The dead were identified by Navy NAZI PAPER | farewell to his friends ‘Splixlx& Ga., sources as: Lt. Com. W. H. Brown; Aviation Cadet E. Benson; Walter John Ausiellc, aviation chief machinist’s mate, DISPLEASED, FDRREMARK Propag anda Minister's Mouthpiece Says “Im- | perfinence” Shown BERLIN, April 12.—Nazi Propa- ;anda Minister Goebbels’ newspaper Der Angriff characterizes as “im- pertinence” President Roosevelt's 1 emark, “I'll be back in the fall if we don't have war.” The American President is quot- ed as making the statement in a at Warm last sunday. e Nazi newspaper says the re- mark is “coarse and barking up the “rong tree.” The newspaper publishes state- ments attributed to the American President with banner lines and uses the entire front page, with the exception of a short daily editor! ml,‘ for five news stories from the Unv-. t‘ll States, three of them (unugl- g President Roosevelt. Last Gang , Leaderls TakingRap Notorious M Torriols Caught by Uncle Sam on Income Tax Evasion NEW YORK, April 12.—John Tor- | rio, former notorious Chicago un- | derworld leader, was today sen- tenced to serve two and one-half years in a Federal prison for in- come tax evasion, Torrio pleaded guilty last Monday to the indictment charging evasion of payment of $86,000 income taxe: Counsel Max Steuer made a 45 minute plea for, leniency and an- nounced the $104,000 cash bail Tor- rio posted when arrested in 1936 is conceded the Government. Torrio is the last of the big-name prohibition racketeers and gang- sters to be punished. It is said that | Al Capone learned all he knew of mob methods from Torrio. Al and Johnny cut their first gang fangs as kids together in th tough old Brooklyn Navy Ysrd dis- (Continued on Page Three) Kirk of the Naval Reserve, and SENATE PASSES APPROPRIATION FOR WPA RELIEF Only One Hundred Million Dollars Approved-FDR’s Request Turned Down WASHINGTON, April 12. — An economy-minded Senate rejected a | last-minute squeeze play by the Ad- mmmm-mn late yesterday after- {noon and passed the $100,000,000 {WPA appropriation, declining the President’s request to add $50,000,« 000 to the relief bill for aid {o June 30. The vote came after the Admin- istration exerted its full pressure on the upper Chamber of Congress by announcing that they would demand a billion and a half dollars for the WPA for the next fiscal year. The announcement of the President’s in- |tentions was made by Majority | Leader Barkley. It failed when the Senate voted down the proposed amendment to raise the WPA sum to the full $150,000,000 repeatedly asked for by President Roosevelt. The Senate action was a double ’n'hml to the President. Adoption of \mn' $100,000,000 figure, already ap- |proved by the House, followed a (Continued on Page .Three) LITTLE SHIP IS PILED UP, SMALL ISLE Craft Eviderfiyfl Ran Ashore During Rough Weath- er Last Night '(REW 1S SEEN ON LAND; FLAG WAVED;FIRE BURNS Eldred Rock Lighthousé. | Keeper Makes Report -Seal Goes fo Scene Driven ashore sometime during the night by rough weather in Lynn Canal, a small fishing boat is in distress today and its crew, which reached shore, is waving .a white flag_for aid. This was the word received here iwday from the lighthouse keeper | at Eldred Rock, who says the boat, whose name he could not make out, is beached on a small island about two miles southeast of his station. Water is too rough, the keeper said, to enable him to put out across the Canal in his tender, The Alaska Game Commission boat Seal left Juneau af noon to- day for the scene of the wreck, ex- | pecting to reach the spot sometime this evening. Eldred Rock is about 100 miles from Juneau by water. The keeper said he saw the boat early this morning. Through his glass he could make out that the craft was ashore at a bad angle and that the crew on the beach had built a fire and one of the men was waving a white flag, The number { of men in the crew could not be de- | termined. | The keeper notified U, 8. Com- missioner Felix Gray by radio and the Seal rescue expedition was sent out hy the Commissioner. { Although the scene of the ground- ing is much nearer Haines than Ju- neau, no help is available from the north because the Army tug For- nance is on the ways at Ketchikan as a result of itself going aground several days ago. The Coast Guard cutter Haida, which ordinarily would answer the call, is in Seattle. Captain of the Seal is K. C. Tal- madge. Besides the regular crew, he will be assisted by Ken Williams, Juneau WPA Engineer, who was sent along by the Governor's of- fice. ALASKANS MAY SEE . ECLIPSE Northerns Told fo Be on Lookout on Morning of April 19 LOS ANGELES, Cal, April 12— { Dr. Dinsome Alger, Director of the Griffith Observatory, pointed out today that Alaskans may be able to see the total eclipse of the sun on April 19. The eclipse should be seen by Alaskans at 6:36 in the mom- ing. LOCKHEED IS FLOWN TO ISLES WITH SIX Six passengers boarded the out- bound Alaska Air Transport Lock- heed with Shell Simmons today for island ports. Jack Littlepage, K. D. Bradley, and Jerry Tindall went to Chicha~ gof, D. Keuhey to Pelican City, and Lisle Hebert to Hoonah. B The United States has a radio to every five persons against one to 17 in four other leading nations; a telephone to each seven persons against one to each 35 in the other natious.