The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 22, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE ———— e JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIIL, NO. 8085. U.S. DEFENSE SECRETS T0 BE GUARDED o Military Intelligence Divi-, sion fo Be Increas- ed at Once SPIES ARE REPORTED A(TIVE THIS NATION. Intensified Effort Will Be Made to Combat Sabot- age — Cases Increase WASHINGTON, April 22. — The Army today announces plans to rein- | force the Military Intelligence Div-| ision in order to keep in touch with the fast moving developments abroad and also safeguard defense secrets| at home. A General instead of a Colonel will | be put in direct charge of the count- er espionage service in conformity with President Roosevelt's disclosure of intensified Administration can\ to combat spies. Both the Senate and House have approved of a 50 percent inc e in funds for the Intelligence Divis- ion. J. Edgar Hoover G-Man head, an- nounced that whereas from 1932 to 1937 there were only an average of 35 espionage cases a year, there were 634 ca: in 1938, -oo BROTHERS BRAVE FLAMING HOUSE, DARING RESCUES Ketchikan % Take Five‘ Children to Safefy in Fierce Fire KETCHIKAN, Alasks, April 22— Alec Guthrie Jr, and his brother ROYAL ENTERTAINM ENT for visiting President and Mme. Albert Lebrun of France took England’s King George and Queen Elizabeth (above) to London for a gala performance. T! Improvemenlo Covent Garden opera house in he Britons will visit U, S. soon. IWrangeII Narrows by Channel, Basin, Recommended fo Congress WOMAN BREAKS; CONFESSES T0 POISON MURDER Sensational Wlich(rafi Slaying Ring Exposed in Dramatic Trial Fred Guthrie, defied the devouring flames of an early morning blaze in Fred Guthrie's home here this morning to rescue five children asleep on the top floor of the two- | story structure. Three of the children were Fred Guthrie's. The other two were his sister’s, Mrs. Loreena Dunn. Mrs. Dunn and Mr, and Mrs. Fred | Guthrie were visiting the nearby home of Alec Guthrie when the spectacular blaze was discovered. The Guthrie brothers plunged into the burning house and leaped | to the ground with the children from the second story window. The house was a total loss. The | blaze brilliantly lighted the skies and showevs of sparks fell on ves-| sels in the Thomas Basin mooring area, causing frantic boat owners considerable’ trouble. Flames singed the hair of one child and both Guthrie brothers re- ceived burns. Defective wiring is blamed rorl the fire. DOROTHY LAMOUR AND HUBBY WILL SPLIT IN TWAIN Find 'longD_isian(e' Mar- riage Doesn't Plan Out So Well CHICAGO, Apnl 22 ~Dorothy La- mour, actress, and Herbie Kay, or-| chestra leader, don’t think absence makes the heart grow fonder. Kay has filed a divorce suit against | the glamorous serong wgaring star, charging desertion, but both agreed | that “desertion” way of saying a “long distance mar- riage is unfair to one another.” Dorothy said: “It's the worst thing that ever happened to me, but I suppose I can live through| it.” A —_—————— CAME AND WAS SEEN LONDON—Bob Parris, 76-year-old shepherd from Hampshire, invited | by the B. B. C. to take part in a television broadeast, arrived here| with a four-day-old lamb and told| reporters “Television is tomfoolery PHILADELPHIA, Pa. A[)nl 22— Mrs. Carina Favato, 44-year-old | housewife, an immigrant Italian wi- dow, dramatically halted her mur- der trial today and pleaded guilty |to the poisoning of three persons for insurance money. Her testimony was | by references to a hex doctor in a widespread poisoning scheme. She pleaded guilty to poisoning | her step son; Philip, 17, and the | boy’s father, Charles, four years ago, as well as another man !hrec years ago. In connection with the murders, she defrauded insurance companies out of $28,000. Mrs. Favato is the second person | |to go on trial in connection wn.h | what the State charges is a poison | ring that has killed scores of per-| scm highlighted ] WASHINGTON, April 22. provement of Wrangell Narrows, in Alaska, is proposed to Congress by the War Department. The project will cost $2,731,000 and has the ap- proval and recommendation of the Army Engineers. The project calls for a channel 300 feet wide and 24 feet deep and an anchorage basin - adjacent to lh(‘ channel in the vicinity of Mile Im- le basin will be 500 yards long, 200 yards wide and 26 feet deep to | care for large ships as well as \~mal]l‘l erfl 20 Fllers Killed in Accidents Fren(h Aviation Suffers Great Loss in Series of Four Crashes PARIS, April 22.—One of | | the HITLER ASKS FOR OPINION ON "MENACE" Five Couniries Reply fo| Berlin’s Neufrality | Threat Question 'POLAND IS REPORTED UNASKED ON SUBJECT| Rumama Answers "How I Can Anyone Feel Se- cure” in Europe BERLIN, April 22.—A list of r tive answers have begun to a in the German Foreign Office from | countries which Hitler has asked whether or not they | themselves “menaced” by ( Rumania replied: “Rumanis not see how anyone could feel cure in Europe at the present time. Hitler is expected to use the nega- tive replies prominently in his com- ing Friday reply to President Roose- velt's call for a peace pact and non- aggression. Finland replied she doesn't sider her neutrality threatene Switzerland said she believed her neutrality will be respected by her neighbors, who, including Germany, | expressly have guaranteed it The Netherlands said they did not consider themselves menaced. Lithuania referred Germany to the treaty by which Hitler has pled- ged himself not to resort to force A;,amw the country However, in the pile of reports, is understoad Hitler has next door neighbor Poland what her | fears might be. S STEAMER LINES ASKED TO HALT | LABOR INFLUX| | | | . general view of the island of 1 does spot of land located con= Clyde Pangborn, American airman south of Albania and now U. S Alrman and Brlde Island of Corfu, Greece 1 hinted as a possible nexi uwjecuve of Pr. Corfu, the Greek Benito Mussolini of Italy. e, R | Cook Inlef’s " Fish Canners Votes Favorably-Other Areas Unseflled SEATTLE, April 22. — Business Agent Willlam Hecker announced here today that Bellingham locals of the Alaska Fishermen's Union have approved agreements covering salmon fishing tions in Cook Inlet and Westward '] Alaska. The agreements were reached at| sessions last night. who flew the Pacific in 1931, poses at in Agreement Alaska Fishermen’s Union | and canning opera-| The agreed to proposals, offered | | Governor Sends Appeal fo Seattle - Situation Southampton, Eng., with his bride, the former Swana Beaucaire Duval, of France, after the wedding. The plane is a model of a ship on which he is experimenting, | by the canneries, give a five per cent wage increase and a share in ers. From 500 to 600 workers benefit the pack profit for Cook Inlet work- | Three others charged with impli- | worst series of accidents ever suf- cation in the poison ring are await- | fered by French aviation has cost Here Serious Hoping to head off some of the transient laborers who are noJ\ coming to Alaska in droves, Gov. John W. Troy today sent & request to the steamship companies at Se- attle urging that those seeking em- ployment be cautioned that jobs are not available here. Addressed to the Alaska Steam- shm Company, the Northland ’I‘ram)m'tauon Company and the | Alaska Transportation Company, the Governor’s message is as follows: BILL AGAIN P | | | By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 22. So | “'Unempluyment and relief situa- |, ,ch agitation has arisen over tion due to influx of drifters from |panama Canal protection in these |the south is such in Juneau. and|irying «imes that our “good neigh- other towns that I am asking your | por” treaty which surrenders some cooperation in disseminating infor-|of our rights in the Republic of mation that there is no employ- | Panama may have to remain in the ment available in Territory and | pigeon hole of the Senate Foreign that unless people coming to Al- | Relations Committee. indefinitely. PANAMA CANALPROTECTION SUDDEN ACTION MAY RESULT by the contracts. Contracts covering Kodiak Island, Southeast Alaska and Bristol Bay are still to be negotiated. gl HITLER IS T0 REJECT PEACE PLANS OF FDR BERLIN, April 22.—An authorita- al service forecasts that sharply rejected Presi- sevell's peace appeal, call- ing it a crude attempt to establish in advance the war guilt of this nation. IGEON- HOLED; | take whatever steps were necessary for* protection and enlargement of | the canal, That treaty remains in effect. It gives the United States, among other things, the right to use extra land outside fhe present zone where necessary for ‘“auxiliary <anals.” The new treaty waives some of aska have return tickets and funds The treaty has been in the hands | these rights, although for practical The Nazi spokesman said he did not know exactly what Hitler will is just another | |ing trial. A physician testified at Mrs. Fav- had died, a women had reported {by a witcheraft practitioner during | his illness. STREET PROJECT T0 BEGIN HERE ;Local Men fo Be Hired on Job-Two Shifts on Sewers Now Preliminary work on the L. J. Dowell contract for Juneau street | paving is expected to start Monday. Jim Doyle, foreman, has started to | put up a project office at Femmer's| {dor‘ Only local men are to be hired lon the work, Doyle said. Hiring is | being done through the CIO Indus- | trial Union and the AFL Carpenters’ Union. There are 35 men at work on two | shifts on the R. J. Sommers sewer job on Willoughby Avenue. Some 800 | feet of ditch has been opened and ‘u small amount of pipe laid. ato's trial, that after her step son | that the youth had been attended | FiRST OF WEEK| the lives of 20 fliers. Four of France's ipl.s.mas are involved. | The first of the fatal crashes oc- curred when an Army bomber burst into flames over morthern French Morocco and crashed, killing the crew of six men. A second Army bomber, with a crew of five, crashed near Beau- ville while in night maneuvers. they were preparing to land at the Urs Military airport, killing nine officers, SToCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, April quotation of Alaska Juneau min: stock at today’s short session is 7%, American Can 91, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconca 23Y%, Bethlehem Steel 557%, Ccm- monwealth and Southern 1%, | iss Wright 5% International Harvester 55%, Ken- necott 31, New York Central 14, Northern Pacific 8%, Southern Pa- cific 12%, United States Steel 47'%, | Pound $4.68. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 12855, rails 25.70, utilities 22.29, best fighting | Two heavy bombers collided as 22 —Closing | Curt- | , General Motors41%, of the committee now for three years. The State Department is to take care of themselves while here or employment already defin- itely secured they should stay away Only the seriousness of condition: here prompts me to make this ap peal.” The message was sent also to Foster L. McGovern of the Seattle | Chamber of Commerce with there- quest that it be called to the at- tention of newspapers in Seattle e BASEBALL TODAY The following are scores of Major League baseball games played Ll afternoon: National League Pittsburgh 2; Cincinnati 4. Philadelphia 5; Brooklyn 4. New York 6; Boston 5. Chicago 0; St. Louis 9. American League New York 1; Washington 3. Philadelphia 2; Boston 5. Detroit 1; Cleveland 2 St. Louis 5; Chicago 1 U el PINSKA ON YUKON War and Navy Departments have | clad warriors further down the line | in the War Department. have fought | ratification of the treaty from the begmnmg Their spokesman in the foreign relations Committee is Senator | Johnson of Californ He is so | | t l tial nej stone unturned if he is @ periwinkle under ought to be investigated safety for a mess of good xghbor pottage that he leaves no thinks there ACQUISITION BY CONDEMNATION Under the treaty of 1903 ratified 15 days after President Theodore| Roosevelt took Panama, as self put it, this country not | obtained rights to a 10-mile across the isthmus but kept the right to use more Panama ter- ritory where needed. To get -it, all that was necessary was to condemn | it for public use, just as the Federal | only strip | Martin Pinska, well known Fair-| banks merchant, is returning on the Yukon from a trip Outside. He will disembark here and transfer to PAA plane for Fairbanks. States. That condition of “infringe- ment” on Panama’s sovereignty made the little republic simply a protectorate, especi led with our independent right l} supporting it and top hats of the | spoken for it but some of the khaki | suspicious that the present Adminis- | uon is trading away our essen-| which | he him- | also | | Government might do in the United | lly when coup-| -~ tol say next Friday before the extra- ordinary session of the Reichstag summoned to hear his reply to the American President’s proposal for a ten-year non-aggression pact. R STERLING NAMED PRESIDENT, ASNE WASHINGTON, April 22.—Don J. Sterling, Managing Editor of the Portland, Oregon, Journal, has been elected President of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Sterling succeeds William ‘White, purposes the surrender of U. 8. | rights is more figurative than real, For instance, under the old treaty the U. 8. reserved the right to take whatever steps were necessary for protection of the canal even if it im~ pinged on Panama's sovareignty. | Under the proposed new treaty Pan- |ama would act jointly with the U. | 8. If the United States proposed to | take some action all by itself which | might “affect the territory” under Panama’s jurisdiction, it first would be required under the treaty to con- sult the Panama government, ACT FIRST, ASK LATER Army officers, questioned about the thing, have said that if the <~..r.(ulv of the canal required nny‘ Allen >ee of the canal is too vital to the secur- EIDER o" WAY Io three years ago as part of the pro- | protectorate over the republic, even diak, according to word received by | ‘lh“ impatience of the U. 8. back in aboard materials for building three | prompt action they would act fir and consult afterward, as the .s.irel) HSHERIES VESSH- ity both of Panama and the U. to take any chances. The treaty was put forward| KODIAK I“Is w!EK gram of upbuildmg the “good neigh- | bor policy.” It did not look so good| The Bureau of Fisheries vt‘ssel for this country to hold on to its Eider left Seattle Thursday for Ko- | though everybody knows that there Warden Don Haley here. would not have been any republic| It is not known whether the Eid- of Panama if it had not been forler will come to Juneau. It has {1903 to get a righc of way without s and carries weir men and — Istream watchmen who will be need- ed at Kodiak. (Continued on Page Seven) DYNAMITEIS FOUND NEAR VITAL POINT ‘Dominion Police Make I- | portant Discovery in Great Lakes Canal EXTRA PRECAUTIONS " IMMEDIATELY TAKEN |Squads of War Velerans Enrolled as Guards af Strategic Centers SAULT ST. MARIE, Ontario, April 22.—Discovery of 50 pounds |of hidden dynamite, suspiciously | close to the bottle neck of the Great Lakes ship canal, has intensified Canada in wide safeguards against possible sabotage to cripple the Bri- tish Empire in time of war, Dominion of Canada officials to- day took drastic measures against sabotage. The situation is linked to the tense European situation. Many reports are coming in re- | | | .|garding thefts of explosives from construction firms and the fear is expressed that the explosives { might be used to blow up the public utilities and industrial plants if Canada is involved in war, Squads of war veterans have been enrolled for guard duty at strate- gic points. Some workmen are also sworn in as special watchmen at vital hydroelectric plants. The ship canal through which flows traffic between Lake Superior and the eastern Great Lakes, is im- portant in peace or war for greal |ore and wheat shipments. | The dynamite was discovered by the police in a shed only 1,000 yards from the Great Lakes Power Com-~ pany’s plant. A charge of dynamite thrown at the power cable would float into the power house pen- stocks and blow up everytmnz. DR. ALDRICH IS ASSIGNED ALASKA POST Bishop Rfie Appoints South Dakotan fo Hos- pital at Fort Yukon SEATTLE, April 22—Peter Trim- ble Rowe, Episcopal Bishop of Al- aska, announces the appointment ot Dr. Merrick P. Aldrich, of Water- town, South Dakota, to be Physic~ ian-In-Charge of the Hudson Mem-~ orial Hospital at Fort Yukon con- ducted by the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, Dr. Aldrich is 31 and will fill the vacancy left by the death of the Rev. Dr. Grafton Burke, founder of the Far North hospital and one of Alaska’s most distinguished cleric~ physicians. Dr. Aldrich plans to be married in a few weeks and will take his bride to his new home in Alaska. PROGRESS MADE IN NEGOTIATING SALMON DISPUTE Cerfain Pazlze_rs Are Per- mitted fo Mak e Can- nery Tender Repairs SEATTLE, Aprr 22—Negotiators report good progress is being made in the dispute that has delayed fish- ing and canning operations in the Alaskan salmon waters. The Maritime FPederation of the Pacific announces that all compan- ies except nine, which operate in Lhe Copper River district, will he permitted to resume repair work on cannery tenders as long as the pack- ers carry on negotiations in good faith. The companies exempted in the repair work amnesty are those who did not pay wages stipulated for the .wasou of 1938. | | |