The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 18, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ) ey VOL. LIIL, NO. 8081. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1939. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 'LOOK FOR SETTLEMENT, SALMON TIE-UP . DEFENSIVE ALIGNMENT | IN MAKING Great Britaflrance, Rus- | sia May Combine to Resist Aggression NATIONAL FORCES IN | SPAIN DEMOBILIZING ~ Northern TroTps Mustered Out, Southern Divisions . Still Under Arms (By Associated Press) British Prime Minister Neville % Chamberlain, in a brief statement | on foreign affairs, told the members | of the House of Commons today that| Threats of “inexorable martial law” Great Britain welcomed “with great| cccupation of Aibania were issued in Tirana by General Alberto Al- satisfaction” President Roosevelt's| fredc Guzzoni, commander of the Italian exped y foree, as Italy appeal to Ttaly and Germany for a | - tightened her grip ca the conguered kingdom and inspired statements ten-year peace agreement. He inti-| of Albanian acceptance of Fascism. Guzzoni is shown at right in this mated that diplomats expected that| pjcture transmitted by radio frem Berlin to New York as he con- ”‘"‘:‘:f “;"“t‘ldmf"‘"a"dgf(“:‘:dl"g""sl“;I“ ferred in Tirana with Count Galeazzo (left), Mussolini’s son-in-law as both nations addressed by the g American President would not agree| 214 Italy’s foreign minister. s DEATHLIST OF STORMS GROWING 'Nearly Half Hundred Kill- ed in Tornadoes-New Threat Arise st anyone challenging Ttalian s GIANT WEDS DANCER Working on Russia The Prime Minister added that conversations were continuing with Russia in an effort to get the Soviet | Union into a defensive alliance with Great Britain and France. The expected announcement of a British and French pledge to fight for Turkish independence, if men- aced, has been delayed, it is under- stood, until Russian conversations are completed for the expected alli-| ance. Demobilizing in Spain It is stated that demobilization has started in the meantime in Spain and the National Army troops in the northern sectors are being| mustered out. The bulk of the Southern forces will remain under arms until after the Victory Parade in Madrid next month. Belgium has a new government, headed by Senator Pierlot and his Catholic Party which is now work- | ing with the Liberals. D Clifford Thompsen, 34, of Scan- dinavia, Wis., who claims a height of eight feet, seven inches, and Mrs. Mary Mars, 22, of Milwaukee, who is five feet, five inches tall, were mar- ried in Rockford, Ill. They met while working for the same cir- cus, where Mrs. Mars a dancer, a year ago. NEW CATHOLC CLERGYMANIS COMING NORT Bishop Coa-trjMM Fitzger- ald Leaves Seattle Sat- urday for Alaska SPOKANE, Wash, April 18. — I Bishop Walter J. Fitzgerald, conse- | crated Bishop Coadjutor of Alaska | on February 24, is leaving Saturday 18. — Fatalities resulting from the series of tornadoes in the south toward the half hundred mark with rising streams offering a new threat » | Workers in four States, Texas, ; 1&)lt{luhum»x Louisiana and Arkansas, Sl vé FRAN(O SE"D|"G are clearing away the debris and i i |giving succor to the homel : 4 known 48 persons and ovs likewise known to have been injured, Rt the million dollar mark. Two Hundred Thousand Y ‘ 1 BURGOS, April 18—Gen. Fran-| eavy oc s zation of his Spanish army with an | | order sending Ene fhiet J00,000 80ld- | ¢, NyrAGO, Chile, April 18— Emn-| b sl ot | le:‘st Ijitlio. Chief of tme“'re"]e)g]mpr? Passenger and freight trains were MRS, LEDEVEY W8S Ty soldiers, many going home for the and Atacama Provinces caus(‘d.; first time since the Spanish Civil|}8rm among the populace but only| It is estimated that the Nationalist| Lillo says that according’to of- Government had 1,000,000 men un_;fwml reports no injuries to persons | B | - — CREWS ON OIL FIRES BLAZING | | | | i Sirike Called when Nego- tiations Between COm. Burning Permits fo Be can_ for Fairbanks, Alaska, aboard the Bishop Fitzgerald will stop at | Seward but his first public appear- ance will be at the commencement NEW YORK, April 16—The Na- Threatened tional Maritime Union said a strike | on May 15. il et SEATTLE, April 18— With at least | collapse of negotiations between the g, ;mper anq brush fires blazing in union and four oil companies. AS |y o washington, State officials e o of 136 tankers along the Atlantic and | .o\, aythorities - have Lhrempnedj‘v“" w“h SOII Gulf ports are idle |to arrest anyone setting bonfires. . om0 The WPA have cancelled all burn- | Dur Ing Weekend of ways projects. | WASHINGTON, April i8—Presi- Ken Edwards, popular traveling| A hot sun continues to beat down |dent Roosevelt has made tentative man, returned to Juneau on the o, the pacific Northwest with tem- | plans to spend the weekend in Charlotteville, Virginia, with his son will be in Juneau for @ few days| rhere are four square miles of land | Franklin, a law student at the Uni- in connection with his several brok- | plackened in central King County versity of Virginia. erage lines and, is a guest at the g the result of a two day timber| If the President’s plans go through LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, April Sunday afternoon and night pushed to life and property solDlERS HOME. ! The death toll has re: . 1] many being in a serious condition. YL P S U | . | » | Board Trains for Lands '(Chile Shaken, T cisco Franco has started demobili- iers back to the lands from where | crowded with thousands of singing earth shocks centering in Coquimbo War started. slight damage has been done. | der arms. |are reported. TANKERS QUIT [N WASHINGTON; : i : | steamer Yukon, panies, Unions Fail | celled-Arress Are | |exercises at the College of Alaska has been called as the result of the| . \President Plans result nearly 5000 crew MEmDers| ). . concelled fire permits and EDWARDS IN TOWN ing operations on power line right| steamer Alaska, from Petersburg. He | horatures nearing the eighties. Baranof, and brush fire. Ihe will leave Washington on Friday. UNITED AUTO WORKERS T0 REJOIN AFL |Agreement Is Reached Be- tween President Green and Homer Martin WASHINGTON, April 18.—Pros- pects for a peaceful settlement of the feud between the AFL and CIO | were pushed deeper into oblivion to- | day when Homer Martin agreed to | affiliate his faction of the United Auto Workeers with the AFI After a lengthy conference, AFL | President Green and Martin an- | nounced that the anti-CIO bloc ! of the Auto Workers union would be | returned to the AFL fold as an auto- | nomous industrial union | The entire United Auto Workers | deserted the APL and joined the CIO in 1936 | However, factional strife has ‘arated the union into two separate groups, one headed by Martin and the other controlled by cro.| | Martin claims that he will return| 200,000 paid up members to the AFL. | IsBurned To Death, | sep- | Cabin Fire ' Oldtime Pr(;sp;dor Vidimj of Blaze During Rag- ina Blizzard NOME, Alaska, April 18.—George Cemely, oldtime prospector, died in his burning cabin on the out- skirts of this city yesterday morn- ing A blizzard prevented the Fire Department going to his aid Comely is the third person to die this season under the same con- ditions. raging DECLARES NLRB ISDISPENSING FAIR JUSTICE Answers Ch;;g_es Concern- ing Agency Partial to (l0 Employees WASHINGTON, April 18 —Chair- man Madden of the National Labor Relations Board declared that the lagency is “dispensing jmstice with as much «fairness and impartiality as are the more traditional courts.” He testified at the hearing of the Senate Labor Committee on propos- als to amend the Wagner Act. Chairman Madden presented de- tailed figures in reply to charges that the Board was partial to em- ployees of the CIO as opposed to | the AFL. [ Chairman Madden told the Com- mittee “our workers are learning to settle their rivalaries at the ballot box and not on the picket line.” NO ACQUITTALS "IN COURT TERM AT KETCHIKAN Holzheimer Refurns - Sev- 1 eral Criminal Cases | Still Pending | U. 8. Attorney William A. Holz- | heimer returned from Ketchikan, | iwhere court is in session, on Northland today. All criminal cases | so far have resulted in either con- Holz- |viction or pleas of guilty, | heimer said. | Assistant U. 8. Attorney George W. Folta is remaining at Ketchi- kan until the rest of the criminal cases are disposed of. This will lukl’} at least two weeks, Holzheimer said SECRETARY ICKES BACKS ticnal Parks, which open soon, 100k | lo m tary Ickes is plar n tr Committee is for having Ickes take t is that prices will be- lowered. Ickes| didn’t Maybe B tors of he told the public lands committee | “Two | spect to | believe in it.” |the two bills covering Mf. McKin- |ley Park in Alaska and Mt. Rainier | in bl au ur gress has not acted yet is Icke§ and the committ ha into g MAS ypITeD L WELL SLSH ‘?TA\TE i I EXPENSES A i A BOSTON (NOT ‘TEA’) PARTY of rebellious taxpayers was staged when somie 5,000 persons gathered, with posters, to demand that state biennial budget be cut by $24,000,000. Reindeer Measure Up Again Senae Puls Appropriation Back Into Interior Dept. Fund WASHINGTON, April 18. - The Senate has approved of the $175- { 000,000 Department of Interior ap- | propriation bill. | The Senate added $820,000 for use in restoring the reindeer industry | in Alaska to the Eskimos and In- | dians. Egyptian Princess Marries | Senate and House committee to ad- | just the differences | -eo Mysterious Killing in (alfl) Cabin 'Released Prisoner Shoofs Two, then Commits Suicide in ldaho SPOKANE, Wash, April 18, — San Salinas of Spokane, Frank Lindt of Sandpoint, Idaho, and Nora McElroy, of Pierce, Idaho, are dead, two_others wounded, as the result of & shooting affray at the Dishman Cabin Camp, four miles east of Spokane. State Patrolman Warren Green- berg said Salinas, who was released from McNeil Island Prison a month ago, shot the others after breaking into the cabin they were occupying and then killed himself. The motive is not known. e What won committee members | some of the parks, when under | ! Government direction, would cater BE FOUGHI ovER more to the low-cost tourists. Pri- te operators have to cater to the big money tourists, because that is Army, Navy, Coast Guard Planes fo Participate in Maneuvers here the profit Hes. | That went over big with the far| BOSTON, Mass., April 18. — Six Army bombers have arrived here in westerners | “One of the redsons the public| | has opposed establishing more parks | |is because people get in there and preparation for the war games off “Some private fortunes have been | the New England Coast Washington but shaped up a|made out of park concessions,” O'- hteen officers and 50 enlisted | Connor pegged -back. | men are aboard the planes. » members | but is. willing to concede much to log idea keep the limousine trade coming is hard| (Continued on Page Four) The Crown Prince of Iran (right) stands beside the Princess Fawzia, of Egypt, and is escorted by her brother, King Farouk, at Cairo, at the Arbin Palace after they were married. The wedding, according to custom, vas not attended by the Princess. The marriage strengthens the bond between the two, Iran and Egypt. PLAN TO LET UNCLE SAM BE MANAGER OF HOTELS By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 18. —rWht'ni‘ i take that swing around the Na- | to vote against the under-dog. SAYS COSTS TOO HIGH +Costs of going through the parks are too high, says the Interior De- partment. They buld up their case this w Private concessionairés personal interest in them. Secre- | have to make a profit on their oper- to take them |ation. If the Government operates, | no profit is necessary. Moreover, most national. parks provide only a three- or four-month season and a private operator has to make a year’s profit on his in- vestment in that period. ng at the hotels, lodges and swim- ing pools. They are Dprivately wned now. But soon you may ha er. The Secretary can’t do it without usent of Congress, which has to 1t up about $30,000,000 to turn the ick, but the House Public Lands iem over and run them, The idea on that be knocked would not himself ‘would they commit prices wn, and maybe it - he thought the government ould do a better job of running 1e hotels than the private opera- | w “I have been opposed and I am oposed to the concession system,” bills will be Congress the opportunity two parks to wipe system. I do not presented to with out out | e eoncessionaire The committee didit stop with take all the concessions and make huge private fortunes-out of them,’ said Represeniative O'Connor of anket order to give the Secreta i sthority to put the whole orkx| While no_ official statement has wder Government operation. Con- LIKES ROUGHING IT been made, ‘it {s believed the war personally favors the rough- | €ames will be concentrated over the Montana “They don't, though. They nearly and there! Icki larger cities in the New England t ; all go busted,” said Tckes. a lot of controversy over it. But|and-ready wilderness idea of a park Army, Navy and Coast planes will take part. under: Guard and it ave injected an the business— e | The measure now goes to a joint CONFERENCES BEING HELD IN SEATTLE Negotiations——Progressing Toward Conclusion Says Downer SPECIAL MEDIATOR MOST OPTIMTISTIC Deadlock May Be Broken by. Dealing with Un- ions, Not Units TTLE, April 18, — Assist- tant Atterney General George Downer, special mediator in the Alaska Canned Salmon Indus- try controversy, said today nego- tiations between the packers and unions are progressing rap- idly toward a conclusion. “I am very optimistic about the situation,” said Mediator Downer. “I have had conferences with five union groups teday. Various unions are also meeting independently with the canners.” A. E. Harding, District Coun- | cil Secretary of the Maritime | Federation of the Pacific, said he believed the deadlock will be broken through the salmon packers negotiating separately ! with various unions instead of | by a unit. FLOOD NOW THREATENED, ~ OHIORIVER Homas AreEe_ing Evacuat- | ed on Lowlands as | Water Creeps Up | CINCINNATI, Ohio, April 18— Home owners on the Ohio River front are loading their possessions into trucks as the river neared the crest in another major flood. Residential settlements along the bottomlands at Newport, Kentucky, have been abandoned and the refu- | gees are being given aid. At Catlettsburg, Kentucky, store owners are moving to the second floors as the river flood water is expected to pour over Front Street during this afternoon. PR A Bk S TO OPERATE ON SENATOR i WASHINGTON, April 18.—Demos | eratic Senator Vay Nuys of Indiana has left for Rochester, Minnesota, to enter the Mayo Clinic. He has jbeen ill for several weeks and will jundergo an operation later this |week, it Is said. {GARNET MARTIN ON WAY BACK T0 NOME AFTER TRIP BELOW Second Division Representative Garnet Matrin, head of the Ham- mon Consolidated shep, who has been in Seattle since shortly after the end of the Fourteenth Legisla- tive Session here, arrived this morn- ing om the steamer Alaska, and with the PAA Electras filled to capacity, decided to stop over in Juneau. time” in the hospital while Outside, undergoing a painful nose opera- tion. The popular Nome Legislator will ™ probably fly North next Tuesday with PAA, unless a special trip is made during the week. He is a guest at the Gastineau Hotel. e Paradichlorobenzene is a fumi-~ gating material used to treat blue mold disease in tobacco plant beds. Martin said he “spent most of the *