The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1939, Page 1

3 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LIIL, NO. 8080. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 17, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANY, ITALY REJECT PEACE PLEA - Tornadoes Rip ) S(ORE?DEAD | Hitler’'s Shadow Now Falls Across Polan({’fis- qut JAPAN TO SEEK AlllAN(E !iFies ' & - WITHGERMANY, ITALYFOR Through 4 Southern States . AS TWISTERS ¥ ~ Property D;rage Estimat- SWEEP AREA .' Nearly Two Hundred Are‘ - [} u » " DOUGLAS TAKES » - . *' EUROPE LANDS Reported to Have Been Injured in Gales WIND-TORN DEBRIS IS BEING SEARCHED ed Info Hundreds of | Thousands Dollars (By ASSOCIATED PR! ) | Tornadoes ripped into four south- | ern states, killed more than 40, in- jured over 170 and wrecked week- end damage estimated into the hun- dreds of thousands of dollars. Searchers, picking their way in the windtorn debris in Texas, OKla- homa, Lousiana and Arkansas, slow- 1y raised the death toll through the early Monday darkness. The greatest toll is counted in the small cattle raising community of Center Point, near Collins, Ark- anses, where at least 20 were killed and an undtermined number in- jured as a twister demolished a church soon after completion of the Sunday afternoon service The twister swept an area six miles long and several miles wide at Center Point. Among those dead in the section is the Rev. Thomas West, pastor of the church demolished. In Lousiana seven were Kkilled when a tornado whipped at the Haynesville residential and business section leveling scores of homes and tearing away portions of a brick power plant. - thriving, modern seaport, Gydnia Polish corridor. The industrious this new, planned port into a bu: CONFERENCES LABOR ISSUE Federal Conciliators af Se- | aftle Are Hurrying Negotiations MEETINGS SCHEDULED TODAY, DURING WEEK (Controversy Is Delaying Start of Alaska Salmon Fishing Season OATH, SUPREME COURT JUDGE Is Youngesme mber of Highest Tribunal in 127 Years WASHINGTON, April 17-—-Tak-| SEATTLE, April 17. — Federal | | conciliators are attempting to speed | |up negotiations between employers | ! and employees in the labor contro- versy which has held up the start of the Alaska fishing operations. | x i ing the oath to support the con-| “We hope to pe proceeding more stituti ini S _|rapidly by tomorrow than last stitution and administer justice im | week” said Assistant State Attor- parkislly, ads -Willat, O Doug-vm_y General George Downer, Spec- las, 40, the youngest member Of |y g joral Mediator after a confer-| tue. Bupitenib: Galeh fof the: Untied ence with Federal Conciliation Com- Brguee I AAY. sobiy | missioners Marsh and O'Connor. The former Chairman of the Se-| "pne peqeral conciliators are meet- i an(_i Exchange. Commssion, | ing today with representatives of the who rose in life from a newsboy | cannery Workers Union and meet- and janitor, took his seat in the|ings yith other organizations are Nation’s highest tribunal today be- | gscheduled throughout the week. fore a packed court room. Harry Lundeberg, Secretary and s T | Treasurer of the Sailors Union of IuRKEY FIGHIS the Pacific, is expected here tomor- | row to participate in the negotia- tions. — e Says Children ‘With Cold Should Former Ally of Germany Be Keptin Bed Now Joins Great Brifain and France in Pact OAKLAND, Cal, April 17—The | best way to treat children with colds is to put the patients to bed and maintain an even temperature LONDON, April 17. — Turkey, | for them, a group of specialists told Germany’s ally in the World War, | the regional conference of t_he Am- is reported here to have joined the | erican Academy of Pediatrics. British and French front against| Children who appeared to be af- aggression. fected by recurring colds often are Prime Minister Neville Chamber- | Suffering from one prolonged cold The focal point of Europe’s next crisis may be this lain is expected to announce in the| House of Commons tomorrow that Great Britain and France wi]l: guarantee Turkey's independence. | - | | rather from a series, they reported. The specialists said children should be kept abed as long as there are manifestations of an inflamed throat and nasal discharges. They suggested that nasal drops Harbor of Gydnia of 120,000. , which is in the Poles have built stling community be xeized. SPEEDING up G-Men Nab Slmrpshobtvr 3 i Unarmed and submitted meekly to arrest amid a bustli in the heart of Kansas City's business district. menths’ crime career of the Nation’s “Public Enemy Couple No, 1.” Her cutlaw husband, Benny Dickson, died in a hail of Federal Agents’ bullets at St. Louis, but a few days earlier. It C the Polish Corridor and the free city of Danzig to greater Germany, Poles fear their city may alse alone, Estelle Dickson, 16-year-old blonde sharpshooter, - Kirkpatrick Plane Found ancellor Hitler attempts to annex Ship Found in Water -Search Pressed | CORDOVA, Alaska, Aprii 17.—One! sl and ‘two other pieces of wreckage, identified as parts of the Bellanca airplane flown by W. M Kirkpatrick were found Sunday near Observation Island by Joe Ol- son, operating a fish boat Pilot Kir! k has been missing since last Friday, when he last re- ported at 12:15 p.m, on a flight from McCarthy to Cordova, in a blinding | snow storm, with one passengers Con Miller, long time McCarthy min- ing man. Fell On Shore Evergreen needles and twigs stuck in the torn wreckage indicated Kirk- patrick’s plane fell on the shore rather than the water. Searchers are now concentrated along the south shore of the main- land between Humpback Point and Cordova. * Fully a dozen boats joined the search after the wreckage was dis- covered and about 50 men are look- ing at nearby mountains under dir- ection of the Forestry Service boat, Chugach acting as a base for radio contacts. Mrs, Kirkpatrick has remained in the radio room of the airport here almost constantly since her hus- band was reported missing Planes Make Search Last Saturday there was a break g crowd of Easter shoppers Thus ended the seven- | Smith of the Airways Company and Tom Donohoe, Cordova attorney, to spend more than one hour in their planes, air patrolliing the area be- tween Twin lakes and the Ridges on COURT DECISIONS BOTHER NEWSMEN; THOSE MADE BY FRANKFURTER ARE HARDEST By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 17—Press excitement over the first opinions handed down by Justice Frankfurter cooled noticeably when the report- ers began to read them. They were tough going. After an encounter with one of them, a reporter covering the court observed a bit ruefully that they were “a bit academic.” “Academic!” barked another. “They are as thick as mud.” Frankfurter seems to love big words. He wasn’t born with a three syllable name for nothing. His first two opinions were loaded to the gunwales with exacting terms, Big words do not necessarily strangle reporters, Most of them know a few themselves. But the job of converting big words into the north side of Nelson Bay. Donohoe discovered a fresh slide on the ridge five miles north of the lake but neither he nor Pilot Smith was able to detect any wreckage./ Two land parties combed the ridg- es in the same area but found no clews. After one hour’s flying, thie weath- er closed in and both Smith and Donohoe returned to the airport here. They were ready to go out anytime the weather broke favorable for flying. e | , {almost an art in itself. The de- cisions sometimes come down in | handfuls, some of them involving ‘ylengmy opinions. There is no time for leisurely reading. Court convenes at noon and afternoon papers have | “deadlines” about every ten min- | utes after that. They want the court | news. . It means that the reporter must NEW YORK, April 17. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can know, almost by instinct, where a 8%, American Power and Light particular judge will place the im- ' Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem portant points in a written opinion. Steel 57, Commonwealth and South- Chief Justice Hughes is a dream e 1%, Ourtiss Wright “common of a judge in that respect. He al- 5%, General Motors 40%, ways states the points of the de- national Harvester 55%, Kennecqtt cision at the end of the opinion. 30%, New York Central 13%, North- The reporter can go right there ern Pacific 8%, Southern Pu(:ifw‘ and get the meat for a quick. com- 12, United States Steel 47%, Pound prehensive story. $4.68. R Reporters 1list Judge Black’s opinions as easlest to handle of any on the court. They are clear DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, — Parts of Missing Cordoval in the weather that permitted Pilot | BLOCKING AID TO CHINESE ed Directly at United States, Great Britain, France and Soviet Russia; Nippon Newspaper Gives Inti- mation of Triple Drive fo Be Launched | TOKYO, April 17.—Japan is to seek the active assistance of Ger- many and Italy in an effort to force other occidental powers to stop as- sistance to China. Nichi in a The Japanese Nichi makes this leading article today Continuing, the that this will be the newspaper assertion newspaper says | first step in | China and this drive will also in-| clude “diplomatic pressure’ the from the Britain, France and on Ambassadors States, Great Soviet Russia. | The drive will also result in cur- | tailments of commercial interests |in China for those four nations in {return for German and Italian as- s Japan will aid the com- m al interests of Germany and {Ttaly in China In perfecting the | triple alliance. 'WARNER NAMED 10 BE MEMBER | | | | C. A. AUTHORITY ‘ConnedicuI_M_an Nomin- afed as Successor to Edward Noble WASHINGTON, April 17—Presi- dent Roosevelt has nominated Ed-| ward Warner, of Connecticut, to be | |a member of the Civil Aeronautics | Authority. He is a former Republi- | can Assistant Secretary of War. ‘Warner will succeed Edward Noble who has been transferred to the De- partment of Commerce. - To Study Aleutian Weather Navy Aero@?cal Expedi- tion Cruiser Chester fo Come North SAN PEDRO, Cal, April 17— Further information about Amer- |ica’s “weather factory” in the Aleu- | tian Tslands to aid merchant, Navy ships and aircraft, will be sought this summer by the Navy Aerological | Expedition cruiser Chester. | The Chester will sail during the | middle of June from here and go to | the Puget Sound Navy Yard to take zon special supplies and equipment. | Four scouting seaplanes will be used | by the expedition. | R . 'WAR FUNDS 0 - ITALY ARE T0 - BE INCREASED a triple drive against outside aid for | | | Communist Party ! United | | Lola Laszlo, Hungarian musical | somedy star, has a bright smile for America as she arrives in New York. Daughter of playwright Aladar Laszlo, she will appear on Broadway, then go to Hollywood. COURT HALTS DEPORTATION OF STRECKER Former Membership in Not Grounds DECISION AWAITED FOR BRIDGES CASE :Supreme Courf Orders Re- lease of Arkansas Laborer WASHINGTON, April 17.—The United States Supreme Court today ordered the discharge from custody of Joseph Strecker of Hot Springs, Ark., whom the Labor Department sought to deport on the ground that he was an alien Communist. Justice Roberts delivered the op- infon which held the Department erred in construction of the statute under which Strecker was ordered deported. Roberts said: “In the absence of clear definite expression we are not at liberty to conclude Congress in- tended any alien, no matter how long a resident of this country or however well disposed toward the Government, must be deported if at any time in the past, no matter when or under what circumstances or for what timé¢, he was a member of the described.” Deportable If Still “Red” The Court concluded present mem- bership, which bars admission, re- quires deportation. Strecker was a member of the | Communist party three months in "1932 and 1933, | The Department was awaiting the ruling as a guide to action on de- mands it deport Harry Bridges, who was described as a Communist before the Dies Unamerican activities com- mittee, for the next ten years will be ap- propriated according to an official |announcement in the Gazette which |said the money will be used to“in- |crease war efficiency of the Ital- Twenty-five Million Dol- lars to Be Appropriaed TO DRIER BAY | and sprays should not be used:on Olaf Floe, cannery superintendent young children excepting on recom- at Drier Bay, was a Baranof pas-|engation of a physician. senger today, on his way to the| “guecialists contributing to the Westward port to get things N} gisenssion included Drs. Joseph B. readiness for the conning season.| gjigerback of Portland, Ore; Wil- “if there is going to be such 2 jjam Palmer Lucas of San Francisco thing.” and Hubert E; Long of Berkeley. little ones for clear and quick newspaper reading, without losing a shade of the proper meaning, was an extra task that the reporters did not relish. and unencumbered with the legal grammar that jurists often love. MUST WAIT FOR DOUGLAS Next to his, in the reporters’ estimates, come Chief Justice TAKES SPECIAL SKILL Covering Supreme Court stories is ‘Cc)minuéa 6!1 P;ge Four) Annually for 10 Years ‘ —_————— ROME, Ttaly, April 171t is | NOWELL LEAVE |announced that an increased ap- Everett Nowell, traveling man, propriation in military funds will be boarded the steamer Baranof for| made immediately. Seward. The sum of $25,000,000 annuall ‘Jones averages: industrials 12734, ’ruxls 25.68, utilities 32.18. {ian Army.” | - D | GOING TO SITK. | . Rev. A. P, Kashevaroff is leaving |#omorrow for Sitka to spend about 110 days. He will receive treatment t Goddard Hot Springs. PROPOSAL OF ROOSEVELTIS TURNEDDOWN Hitler fo Make His Formal Reply to Suggestion on April 28 FASCIST PRESS SEEMS 10 GIVE ITALY VIEWS Meanwhile, Defense Preparations Rushed by British, Also French (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS)’ Germany and Italy have unoffic~ ially rejected President Roosevelt’s request for a ten year peace pact and promise of no further aggre- ssion. Chancellor Adolf Hitler has sum- moned the Reichstag to meet April 28 to hear his reply to the Ameri- can President’s peace proposal. Violent Fascist and Nazi press attacks point directly to Italian and German rejection of the proposals. Last Saturday, following receipt of the proposals from President Roosecelt, Hitler left Berlin hur- riedly and went to Munich. From Munich he consulted Premier Mus- solini over the telephone and it was then indicated that both Italy and Germany would reject the peace pact: suggestions. Defenses Go Ahead As all indications point to rejec~ tion of a stay in aggression, Great Britain pressed ahead with her anti- Aggression Alliance and continued reinforcing the Empire defenses. Russia is reported to have prom- ised airplane and other aid to Great Britain and France in case of at- tacks, World comment on the proposals of President Roosevelt is that they were made in a statesmanlike and courageous manner but hte propos~ als will prove futile Fleets Concentrating Meanwhile a great part of the British fleet is being concentrated in the vicinity of Gibraltar. A commission of British Army Officers has arrived at Cairo by airplane from India to study ar- rangements to transfer troops to Egypt from India in event of war. French troops are being dispat- ched to many centers in South Af- rica and French naval vessels are concentrating at various strategie points in the Mediterranean. e, AMLIE WANTS NOMINATION T0 BE WITHDRAWN President Io—d)mply with Request of Man Nam- ed for ICC WASHINGTON, April 17.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, complying with the request of Thomas Amlie that his nomination to the Interstate Com- merce Commission be withdrawn, has acceded. In asking that his name be with- drawn, Amlie writing to the Presi- dent, said, “a reactionary press and unscrupulous political cabal” seized on the occasion of his nomination to “transform a public debate at the Senate hearings over confirma- tion into a veritable witchcraft trial.” Amlie was accused of being a rank Communist. -~ — DART RETURNS T0 HOME PORT SUNDAY The motorship Dart, Capt. Herb Reaber, came in from its run to Pet~ ersburg, Kake and wayports yester- day, bringing in one passenger, & Mrs. Olson, from Baranof. e Weight for weight, dried fruits contain more minerals, especially iron, than fresh fruits,