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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" VOL. LIIL, NO. 8082. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNE D\\ APRIL 19 1939, Mk MBLR ASS()LIM[ D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'HITLER MAY BE GIVEN DANZIGAS PRES " Giant Liner Destroyed; Sabotage Suspected FREN(I_'l_SH Ip Film Star Opposes Movie Masurc "EN('R(”NG' PARIS BURNS, HAVRE DOCK Fifteen Mill?()FDollar Craft Gutted by Blaze, Lists and then Sinks FOREIGN ENEMIES ARE UNDER SUSPICION One lfalian Dockworker Is Questioned-U. $. Air- planes Are Saved HAVRE, France, April 19—Liner Paris, $15,000,000 vessel, once the fagship of the French merchant fleet, keeled over and settled in 36 feet, of water, burned through by a fire which Leon Meyer, former Min- ister of Merchant Marine, suspects was set by foreign saboteurs. His vie is held by other French offic- ial One Italian for questioning. Twe men were killed and two others injured in the night long fire. Intense heat kept the firemen at a distance, unable tc control the rav- age. Firemen said the flames soared from two widely separated parts of the ship, one point, behind locked doors. The firemen claim one blaze started in the ship's bakery and the other in the barber shop, two decks above the bakery A shipment of 10 warplanes, made in the United States for the French Army, was taken off only an hour be- fore the ship caught fire. Only o ase of a half a million dollar shipment of art treasures, c igned to the New York Worlds Fair, is found to have been damaged. Two million dollars worth of jewels were saved. The Paris was due to sail late to- day with hundreds of passengers, in- cluding Americans, fleeing from war scares in troubled Europe ere Planls At Kekhikan Are Opened Operations Are Permitted but No Shipments fo Be Made KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 19.— Two Ketchikan wire factories re- opened this morning following agreements with the Maritime Fed- eration of the Pacific. The agree- ments permit of operations of the plants but prevents shipments of wire netting to canneries until the coastwise disputes are settled. | L eee—— dockworker is held JOE ARCHIBALD NEW CHAMPION, FEATHER CLASS Goes Fimee-n—Rounds wi Leo Rodak fo Get De- | cision-Dull Fight PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island,| April 19.—Joe Archibald, 123% pounder, of this city, took the fea-| therweight championship decision | over Leo Rodak, 125 pounder, of Chicago, last night. It was a close and dull fight, even, to the fifteenth round all Archibald takes the title disput-lest supply of feed graims and hay| per animal in the United States in| ed since Henry Armstrong vacated it, | Steel | Southern 1'% Senator Smith Robert Mantgomery, motion pictu interstate commerce sub-committ egainst the Neely : . butlaw present distribution contract for pictures long in adva the bill would ruin the Ellison D. (Cotton Ed) Smith of nti-block booking bill, methods which film industry. 'MOVEDENIED ~BYG.BRITAIN | v . ik (,Ivrolund Shiver Foreign Secrelary Halifax‘ Makes Conciliatory Speech in Lords 'SUPPLY DEPARTMENT | retary Robert Montgomery re star, appearing before a senatc in Washington, D. C. spe a measure which wou require exhibitors to nce of showing. Montgomery sai.! Questioning him is Senator South Carolina, chairman of the ee sub-committee. REDHEAD GOT A JOB THAT STARTED RUMORS, RESULT: INVESTIGATION IS BEGUN pyngary Now F: D. R. Grandpa By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 19. — Con- | gress is discovering that a pretty | face and a soft voice not only turn- |eth away wrath but snareth nice promotions in the Civil Service Congress probably suspected it all the time. But they have been told | officially now in one of these buck- | |aroo proceedings—a Senate investi- gation. The investigation began | after a strange old rumor reached | the eal of Senator Ellender of Louisiana. It was that some place ! ‘in the Navy Department was a bu- reau which hired only redheads. That rumor has been around : | here probably as long as the red- ! Mrs. Ann Boettiger President and Mrs. Roosevelt are grandparents for the ninth time with the birth of a son to Mrs Ann Boettiger, their daughter, in Seattle, Wash. Mrs. Boettiger has two other children by a for- mer marriage. z Stock QUOTATIONS l NEW YORK, April quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 7%, American Can 86%, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Commonwealth and , General Motors 40%, International Harvester 55, Kenne- |cott 30%, New York Central 14, | Northern Pacific 8%, Southern Pa- cific 12%, United States Steel 47% Pound $4.677. 557, JONES AVERAGES today's Dow, 127.01, DOW, The rollowmg are | Jones averages: Industrials rails 2563, utilities 22.06. - A 1939 survey indicated the larg- more than ten years, 19.—Closing | head fad (or dare we call it a fad) Once we went over to the Navy De- ‘parlmenl to look into this matter. | We weren't trying to vindicate the Navy Department. We were trying to find the redheads. | We remember checking off a couple, but gad, sir that was a very poor percentage among hundreds. | Even these two were not in the| isame bureau. Maybe the redheads are a Navy secret. We don't know. | We didn’t get in on it. g SOFT VOICES K 4 But Ellender (not a redhead but | black-haired southerner with | mayhap a trace of French in his| ancestry) would not be put ofl‘ He went to hat to determine whether ulterior influences like red- | heads could win promotion Lhmugh‘ the sacrosanct avenues of the Civil | Service. | One witness said she had been| passed over by a gal with a pcuchJ bloom voice. | “Here,” says Ellender, “a girl got a job because over the telephone | ishe would be more courteous to Senators and Congressmen.” | “I am sure that you will recog- nize that as very important,” smil- ingly responded youngish John J\ Corson, director of the Old Age‘ Insurance Bureau. Ellender sort or huffed. It is a fact, though, that tt:lc~ phone voices go big in the Govern- | "\ ment. At the hearing Ellender galloped widely in all directions. a “QUITE A FEW CASES” “There is some working which selects these people, from some other department event, to| give them the better jobs. These | transfers have been made with the| (Continued on Page Five) agency | SPEEDS REARMAMENT Dictators Offered Solemn Pledge London Policy Not Strangling LONDON, April 19.—Foreign Viscount Halifax nee that Britain is policy encircle Sec- today of= fered a. not attempting a of ment.” G In a move to cope with Europe’s troubled situation, he said in conciliatory speech in the Housee of Lords: “As to the cry of encirclement T'd be prepared at any time to give most solemn undertaking on the authority of the Government that no such idea would ever find a place in British policy.” Authoritative reports said the Cab- inet had decided to establish a sup- ply department to coordinate colie tion of material for Britain’s huge rearmament program. United With Rome-Berlin 'l Duce Toasts Joint Sirength "“for Defense and Peace” ROME, April 19.—Italy, maneuv- | ering with Germany for position in the current European crisis, ap- peartd today to have bound Hun- gary tirmly to the Rome-Berlin axis Hungarian Premier Count Paul Teleky, in an ter ‘dinner toast Mussolini, declared his country “faithful to the policy of the axis which Hungary spontaneusly adopt- ed.” Il Duce, in a similar speech, reaf- firmed the friendship which “uni- ted the strength of each country in defense in mder to thereby better preserve pvace D ANOTHER TIME, MAYBE CHATHAM, Ont. — Imagine Chathamite’s joy when he read an Irish Sweepstakes ticket on the @rand National had been drawn under his pseudonym, “This Time. But the winning “This Time” was from some other city. The United States has 24 of them, and fo- day we're showing them all — the first time, we think, that they've been crowd- ed under one head- line, Turn to Page 2. af to { A belated blizzard that swept ¢ caused these Cleve was driven by a 32-mile ' Sandusky Fire Causes o’ dusky, 0. than 100 persons living in apartments over the buildings were CANNERY CARGO IS STILL ABOARD ALASKA VESSEL Pickefing at Ket Prevents Unloading of Cans, Equipment KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 19.—|ander Weddell, of Virginia, has been ' Steamer Tongass, with 90 tons of empty cans and a small amount of cannery equipment this port. continued night without unloading the cannery cargo after the Maritime ederation of the Pacific unionists, acting upon orders from Seattle established a picket line on the water and on land around the* Balcom-Payne Fisheries dock. The cargo was authorized taken aboard at Seattle with an agreement it would not be discharged until the labor strike was settled. No effort was | made to unload the cargo. HARNESS HORSES | PINEHURST, N. C. April 19- | Pinehurst claims to be the most pop- |ulated harness-horse winter-train- | ing center. One hundred and eleven | horses are quartered here, a dozen more than in the second most pop- ular spot, Longwood, Florida, aboard for nortin last idents to shiver n-hear wind. Fire starting in a department store destroyed two city blocks in the downtown business dl‘trlcl ol San- ith damage estimated by Fire Chief Wilson McLaughlin at “over two million dollars.” chikan! V|rg|n|an Will Be Repre- 1 | fish havé not showed as yet WENDELLTO in Belated Blizzard POLAND MAY - GIVE CHIEF NAZI GIFT Rumors Circulating as fo What Might Occur To- morrow in Europe | CHANCELLOR R IS T0 (ELEBRATE BIRTHDAY Two-Day Observance Will | Take Place-World and i Politics Forgotten BERLIN, April 19.—Germany to- day relegated the world and stir- | ring politics to the background and | turned atention to ‘the two day | birthday celebration of its leader, While officlal sources emphati- cally deny the Free City of Dan- | zig will be handed to Hitler as a pre= |sent on his 50 Birthday tomorrow, | columns are printed about the pro= | bable action of Poland as well as ~—— | the birthday preparations and all other news is crowded out of the ) j | German newspapers. 27()()()9()(1() D“""'g" 1\( Chancellor }li)m’er returned yester- | day, ending a 10-day vacation. The Chancellor’s first act was to name the almost forgotten Franz von Papen as the Reich'’s new am- bassador to Turkey. Official sources also assert that | the Lufthansa, German commercial | airline, has succeeded, after 10 years patient endeavor, in obtaining the exclusive concession for a commer- cial air «ervlce to Turkey Moscow Sees Peace Plans With Favor High Newspaper Praises Dual Moves of Great Britain and France MOSCOW, April 19.—Indications of a more benevolent attitude of Moscow toward the British and ["French foreign policy was seen to- |day in an editorial in the high | placed Le Journal de Moscow. The paper is a French publication. The editorial warmly | praised President Roosevelt’s non aggression appeal to Germany and Ttaly. The Journal, which frequently | speaks the attitude of the Foreign Office, even conceded that recent British-French moves to guarantce against any aggressions of the Rome- Berlin axis are steps in the right dir- et ection. fer Is Injured-Crash | *“Win charactars ciaity ana H e frankness, Pfesident Roosevelt sum- in Mexico |med up the international situation |and has drawn the conclusions thab the situation demands,” the Journal said. = 4D g traffic and forcing temperatures into the 20s The snow Northern Ohio, snar! as they waited for street cars, delayed by the storm. Highways were covered with a glaze of ice. More en to the street by the blaze, which DAN ROOSEVELT AND FRIEND GO T0 AIR DEATHS Newspapefm;;l's Daugh- dri firemen are shown battling. tongue 60 T0 SPAIN senfative of U. S. to New Government WASHINGTON, April MEXICO CITY, April 19.—Daniel Roosevelt, nephew of President wife, and Peter Rumsey, of E. H. Harriman, rail-| 19.—Alex~- S, Roosevelt grandson - e, —— CHAMBER AND nominated by President Roosevelt to be Ambassador to the new Gov- ernment of Spain, He is now Am- were killed in a plane | bassador to Argintina and succeeds|.rash near Guadalupe, in the state Claude Bowers vas calle .| i laude Bowers, who was called home | ..o 0 puebla today [ to give the inside on the situation | in Spain and will remain here. | A HERRING ON WAY | OUT AT AUK BAY/ Auk Bay is experiencing the first of the herring run, according to| reports from the road, but the large | road builder third passenger, Carlo{ta Con- | daughter of an American FOR MEE'"NG newspaperman, suffered a broken | ! soums men, arvaca Motion Picures Are fo Be Shown af Tomorrow’s Luncheon Hall mm”,,n Motion pictures of Juneau and i Alaska wheih have been shown be- fore Rotary Clubs throughout the EDITH LINDEGAARD | Western States as promotion for the 101st district conference which is RETURNS TO SITKA | to be heia here in May win be shown | before the home club tomorrow by Edith Lindegaard, former Juneau:;dns FRINEN, Qoavention | GRS returned to her home in Sit- | Rotarians are meeti |ka on Lm Northland last night after | noon in joint m,;;l ;‘fm“’{:;”f,‘;'f |a few days' visit with her sister |pneau Chamber of Commerce at the here, Mrs. Kenyon McLean Baranof Hotel, | T stantine, arm and leg Both of the were returning to the Uni- | young men, | students | ted States after vacationing in Mex- plane. | ico with a private Daniel Roosevelt’s father is G.| Martin Holst, on the herring seiner Wilson, closed the pound the other| day to prevent entrance of small herring that precede the larger | bloaters. The big herring should arrive to-! night or tomorrow, according tc experienced fishermen—and behinc those larger herring will be the Kins saimon, initiating a summer of fishing for sports enthusiast: girl rip