The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 15, 1939, Page 1

ISl THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL ’IVHI' TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8079. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, \I’RH k31939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER, MUSSOLINI ARE PUT ON SPOT - * * » * * * * * * * » * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ~. Roosevelt Asks For Ten Year Peace Pact U. S. FLEET TORETURN 10 PACIFIC Navy Department Issues Unexpected Orders— No Explanation WARSHIPS WILL MOVE AS SOON AS REFUELED{ World Balance of Naval Power fo Be Restor- ed, Is Concensus WASHINGTON, April Navy today unexpectedly the American fleet back to the Pa- cific Ocean without official explana- tion. Secretary of the Navy, Swanson, announced the fleet will move back to the Pacific, and when refueled, will with the exception of a small for erating areas. Naval circles were quick to r‘om- ment that the move was made, tend- | ing to restore the world balance of Naval power, upset when the armada | moved into the Atlantic in January | for a 5 months stay, leaving only & small force on the West Coast The sudden order presumably | me; cancellation of the formal| fleet review off the Virginia Capes, | April 27, and also the scheduled visit | to the New York World Fair. HIRING HALL CONTROVERSY SETTLED NOW Sailors Will Not Be Chosen ; from Lists of Com- | missioners ‘g WASHINGTON, April 15.—Secre- | tary of Commerce Harry L. Hopkins | has ruled out the use of Govern-| ment Shipping Commissioners’ of- fices as “hiring halls” for the Mari i- time Commission ships. The Sailors Union threatened to | strike if the commission continued the practice of selecting the crews for the ships from the commission- er's seamen lists followed in the/ past. Claude A. COL. LINDBERGH RETURNSTOU.S. FOR BRIEF STAY‘ | Refuses fo Talk fo News- | men on Plans-Family | Remains Abroad NEW YORK, April 15.—Col Charl- es A. Lindbergh arrived from Eu- rope last night aboard the liner Aquitania. The flier displayed his customary | reticence and positive reluctance to| meet the crowd and refused to leave his stateroom until after the ship had docked. Lindbergh declined to talk with | newsmen and refused to issue any‘ statement although he insisted to| others his trip was for purely per-{ sonal business reasons. He was not| accompanied by his wife nor two, sons who remained abroad. 1t is said Col. Lindbergh has been | invited to appear before the Senate| Foreign Affairs Committee. | —————— | Black locust trees produce good | timber for posts, furnish blossoms | for honey, checks soil erosion and | enrich the land with nitrogen| stored in nodules on their roots. 15. — The | ordered | e, return to normal op- | | rocks of Gibraltar. U. S. Maharanee JAPAN MAKES 'NEW ATTACK SUPPlY BASE jPlanes Bomb Railway Leading Into French Indo-China Section MUMTION SHIPMENTS ARE BEING BLOWN UP German -Chin—ese Airliner| Shot Down-Anxiety Caused in China SHANGHAI, April planes, for the first time, have; bombed the railway leading into | 4 i French Indo-China, whence the Jap- | " anese insist important munition > shipments are going to the Chinese armies. The station at Mengtsz, 70 miles from the border, was destroyed by bombs which also struck the rolling | stock. The British Ambassador was to ' have passed through Mengtsz Sat- urday enroute to Chungking. | ’ Japanese planes also shot down | | at. Eurasia, near the border, a Ger-| y 3 § man-Chinese airliner. The German | 15.—Japanese | | : TR pilot was injured but his passengers were not hurt The question of supplies is becom- | ing of increasing importance to the Chinese as the South China rainy season begins and the main high-| way will be extremely muddy. '!‘h(-‘ | situation may determine whether | the war against Japan can con-| tinue. American observers say the Chiang Kal Shek Government now lacks artillery and ‘other heavy armaments for a concentrated of-| fensive. | Marguerite Lawyler Maharajah of Indore A romance which began when Miss Marguerite Lawyler was a nurse and Yeshwant, Maharajah of Indore, India, was a patient in a Los Angeles, Cal,, hospital, has resulted in their marriage. In 1928, the maharajah's deposed fa- ther, Tukoji Rao Holkar, married Miss Nancy Ann Miller, a Seattle, Wash., girl, ’ ReEEE S 4 EXILED QUEEN - FROM ALBANIA | ENGLISHMEN ~ SREOaG RUSH PLANS ool OFDEFENSE 5t LARISSA, Greece, April 15— | Queen Geraldine has virtually re- covered from the ordeal of her flight from Tirane, Albania, with her new, born son following the occupation of her little nation by the aggressive Ttalians. The Queen has been removed from a hospital to a hotel. King Zog has rented 25 rooms in the hotel for his exued family and | retinue. Welsh Guards to Be Sent to Gibraltar to Aug- ment Army There | LONuun, April The War Of- fice announced today that the First Battalion of Welsh Guards will leave soon for Gibraltar. | This announcement came in the wake of reported anxiety over Ital-| ian troop concentrations in Morocco and Spanish concentrations near the BSRINEC P Sty Stock QUOTATIONS |! ; NEW YORK, April 15.—Closing| Fresh defense moves are being ' quotation of Alaska Juneau mine made by Great Britain in many stock today is 7%, American Can| parts of the Empire today, with new | | 88%, American Power 4%, Anaconda barricades being ‘thrown up and| 23%, Bethlehem Steel 57%, Com- other defensive measures are being monwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss| speeded up. | Wright common 5%, General Mo- In Kenya Colony, more troops|tors 417%, International Harvester | were mustered and sent to Malaya | 56%, Kennecott 31%, New York| to strengthen standing forces there, | Central 14%, Northern Pacific 8%, while at home, an additional million | Bouthern Pacific 12%, United States pounds was voted for defense prep-'swel 49%, Pound $4.68%. arations. In Hongkong, a British decxep will place all alien suspects in con-| The following are today’s Dow, centration camps without trial, while | Jones averages: Industrials 129.61, in South Africa, a registration|rails 26.15, utilities 22.69. scheme makes all males under 45| - — years of age available for defense duty. { | Suit of R. H. Williams versus A. W. BUILDING PERMIT York and S. A. Wilson over eject- A building permit was issued by|ment for non payment of rent for a City Engineer Milton Lagergren|cabin was settled out of court this this week to Mrs- Margaret wmw“mom;ng and dismissed before it to build a $3.000 frame dwelling on|came to trial before U. S. Commis- Willoughby Avenue below the Sea-|sioner Felix Gray. Frank Foster and view Apartments. Otto Smnhborg!M. E. Monagle were the attorneys is the. builder, in the case, DOW, JONES AVERAGES SUIT SETTLED _————— i crashed at | yesterday in a snow storm. |Bay and Twin Lakes but were un- KETCHIKAN SLAYER FOUND Italians Shown Ru . shing Occupation of Albania o] as thousands of soldiers Armed forces of Fascism imposed Halian rule on Tirana, the Albanian capital, pushed further into the little country to crush what remained in the way of opposition to complete occu- st HMalian cycle troops are shewn leaving their warship (center foreground), was telephoned from Reme to Berlin and then radioed to New Yok, SOCIAL SECURITY TAX RATES TO BE CHANGED; ISSUE BEFORE CONGRESS pation of the liny empire. F after arriving at Durazzo. This picture Proposal Is Accepled by French Govi. Plea Desmbed as One of Most Important Moves CORDOVA PLANE CRASHES WITH By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 15 changes proposed in the curity tax rates do not mean any- one is going to get something for nothing. The Government doesn't! Made by FDR work that way ! © 535t First off, keep in mind that the| PARIS, April 15—The French two perecent payroll tax—one per- Government has accepted unveserv- cent each from employer and em- edly what is considered as a pro- o, of soeial security benc ultimate- | ten-year non-aggression pact in his Snow Storm-Silence o, n the full Peace plea to Hitler and Mussolini, Ralses Fears The ocial se old age benefits—$55 to $85 a month | Government. circles described the are provided, the total outlay | American President’s plea as one will equal 12 percent or even more of the most important moves by the |of the total payroll. The present | Chief Executive of the United Stat~ toll, remember, is two percent. That | © 11 Years. 12 percent or more, good peoplé, is s omething to think about The men designing the act in 1935 thought about it. They doubt- ed that employers or employees ever would pay such a tax. Some proposed to dip into the Treasury when the load got too heavy for| |the payroll. But that also hit n nag. Only 50 pe of the na- tion’s payroll was affected. Farm hands, domestic servants, | nd several other 1large groups were not included. So there was not mueh justification for using general taxes to pay benefits to 50 percent of industry’s payroll ANOTHER WAY FOUND Another way was decided upon. It was computed that in 60 years the normal annual payroll of the! industries affected would be about| LONDON, April 15.—Prime Min- $40,000,000000. That would be|ister Neville Chamberlain this af- when ‘the country's 1,,,],u1a1,0,, ternoon authorized an official state- L ment which said: (Commued on Page Five) “His Majesty’s Government entir- ely endorses President Roosevelt's | estimate of the International situa- tion. The Government believes it is a statesman-like initiative which President Roosevelt has been inspir- ed to take and offers real opportun- ity of averting a catastrophe which overhangs Europe.” GUILTY; HANGING, PENALTY - GOVERNOR'S WIFE DIES SACRAMENTO, Cal. April 15— CORDOVA, Alaska, April 15. Pilot Kirkpatrick and one passenger Mike Noles, in an Airways Incor- porated plane, flying from McCar- thy to Cordova yesterday morning was reliably reported to have Nelson. Bay, about 10 miles north of here on the main- land opposite Shepard Point. Ten persons reported seeing the plane go down about 11:15 am -e-- British King Endorses FDR ' PeaceScheme Official Statement Says Presents Plan fo Avert (atastrophe Pilot Mer] Smith, in another to be Airways Incorporated plane, started a search yesterday ' evening from McCarthy, and was forced down at Mile 83 on the Copper River Railroad, because of thick weather Two ground parties searched all night in the vicinity of Simpson ablé to locate any sign of the miss- ing plane. * Reports coming in this morn from Nelson Bay residents indica the plane crashed on the mainland shore opposite Shepard Point where (Continued on Page'Eight» she was still alive assaulted. | Nelson admitted murder in the testimony he gave but denied raping | his mother-in-law, saying he was | drunk and did mot remember. The jury in the case was composed | of Joe Crawley, Mrs. Grace Pretty-| man, Frank Bowman, E. M. God- dard, William C. Lawrence, Bert|Mrs. Kate Olson, wife of California Welsenfluh, R. R. Spaeth, F. A.|Gov. Culbert L. Olson, died today Cooper, E. G. Ramsey, C. O. Nel- after a series of cerebral hemor- son, Gertrude Kubley and Ul]bl‘rtirhugrs which commenced suddenly L. Harrell, this -morning. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April il Nelson Charles, 37, was found guilty vesterday afternoon by a Federal Court jury of the charge of first de- gree murder while criminally as- saulting his mother-in-law, Mrs. Cecilia Johnson last September, Death by hanging is mandatory. The jury deliberated nearly four hours after hearing the evidence in the case which started Tuesday. Witnesses testified that the woman was stabbed and others related that ea i MESSAGES ARE SENT DIRECTTO CHANCELLOR, PREMIER TODAY BY U. §. PRESIDENT; OFFERS TO ACT AS INTERMEDIARY WASHINGTON, April 15. — President Franklin D. Roosevelt today urged Chancellor Adolf Hitler of Nazi Ger- many amd Benito Mussolini, Premier of Italy, to assure peace in the world for a period of at least ten years. The President made this disclosure at an unusual Sat- urday press conference. The President said he has transmitted messages to Chancellor Hitler and Premier Mussolini offering to act as an intermediary in communicating any offers for peace by Germany ov Italy to other nations. The President told the newsmen he has asked specifi- cally whether Hitler or Mussolini are willing to give assur- ance that their armed forces will not attack a score of now independent nations. Present Day, also Future “Such an assurance clearly must apply not only to the present day but also to the future, sufficiently long to give every opportunity to work by peaceful methods for more permanent peace,” the President made plain to the German and Italian heads. The President further told the newsmen that his mes- sages said: “I therefore suggest you construe the word future to apply to a minimum period of assurred non-aggression for (4 period of ten years at least, or a quarter of a century if we dare look that far ahead. “If such assurance is given by your Government I will immediately transmit to the Governments of nations I have named and will simultaneously inquire whether each of the ‘Nalmns vnumvratui will in turn give assurance for trans- mission to you.” Nations are Named elt specifically asks Chancellor Hitler ‘und Premier Mussolini whether they will give assurance that their armed forces will not attack or invade territory or possessions of the following nations: Finland, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Great Britain, Ireland, France, | Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Lichtenstein, Luxemburg, Po- |land, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and lran Will Transmit Assurances | The President said he will act as a friendly intermediary in transmitting peace assurances from Hitler and Mussolini \tn other Nations, and added that if reciprocal assurance of | peace is given the Nations of the world, he will begin dis- cussions looking toward disarmament and opening of trade channels. The President’s messages stressed there is now a gen- eral fear throughout the world of the “existence of this fear ‘umd is of definite concern to the people of the United States for whom I speak, as it must be to the peoples of other na- itions, All of them know that any major war, even if it were confined to other countries, must bear heavily on them during continuance, also generations to come. Because of the fact, after the acute tension in which the world has . been living during the past few weeks there seems to be at least a momentary relaxation because no troops are on the march at this moment, it seems to be an opportune moment to me to send )ou this mesmge ». HITLER OFF - FORMUNCH, - HURRY TRIP |Summons Foreign Secre- fary, Other Ministers for Conference President Roos Foreign Secretary Ribbentrop . as well as other ministers. Diplomatic quarters are ineclined to the believe that Hitler and Mus~ ‘| s0lini wil lconfer over the telephone and they might give a joint reply. 23,500 POUNDS OF HALIBUT ARE S0LD ON MARKET TODAY Three halibut vessels unloaded and sold a total of 23,500 pounds of hali~ but at the local fish mart today, with top prices six cents and 4.05. The Margaret T, Captain Pete Hildre, brought in 11,000 pounds, selling for six and four to the New England Fish Company. The 314303, Captain Ingvold An~ derson, brought 2500 pounds to the | exchange, selling to Alaska Coast mountain home to | Pisheries at six and 4.05, while the | ACF also bought 11,000 pounds from | the Vivian, Captain Charles Larsen, | He has summoned at the same price, q BERLIN, April 15.—Adolf Hitler is reported to have rushed from his Berchtesgaden Munich on receipt of President | Roosevglt's plea