The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 24, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LIIL, NO. 8086. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 24, 1939, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIRST FISH BOAT OFF FOR BRISTOL BAY ITALY SAYS YUGOSLAVIA "FAITHFUL" Europe Awaits Hitler's Friday Speech Tensely -Special Message NEVILLE HENDERSON RETURNING, LONDON Chamberlain Tells Com- mons Ambassador’s Re- turn of No Importance (By Associated Press) | UNCLE SAM'S COLLEGIATE FLEDGINGS FIND FLYING ( | HARD WORK BUT LOVE IT 2] Invaders Repulsed In China Japanese Forces Reported on Defensive in West- ern Offensive 24 th SHANGHAI, April Chinese headquarters report Japanese offensive to the westward through Kiangsi Province suffered several setbacks during the weekend The invaders are said to have 1,000 killed and many wounded as the defenders maintained Chinese | counter thrusts. The Japanese are said to now be on the defensive. The Chinese statement also says that between April' 9 and April 15 about 3,000 Japanese soldiers were lost | Ttaly today claimed a new “faith- | ful” collaborator for the Rome-Ber- | killed in fighting along the Tient- Experimenta [ Bomber Cras e T vo of the four Army Air hes, Tiwo Hurt TR e b _ |AGREEMENT * IS SIGNED BY UNIONS { | | Working Hours, Also Pay ’ Scale Reached with Alaska Packers : *a STEAMER CHIRIKOS Couiid NOW COMING NORTH ; Negotiations Affecting " | More than 4,000 Other ' Workmen Confinue ican attack bombing Corps officers aboard th: experimental North Amel lin axis in Yugoslavia as Great| Britain began vital talks with Ru-| mania in an alignment of European powers, | Beginning another momentous | week in Europe, signs point to a| climax Friday when Hitler is ex-| pected to reject President Roo: velt's appeal for at least ten years of assured peace. Hitler will add a speedily summoned session of the Reichstag on Friday | Interrupted diplomatic links be- | tween Germany and Great Britain| in the process of restoration. | Sir Neville Henderson, British Am- bassador to Berlin, has returned from his post sooner than expected after six weeks of absence from Lon- don “to report” on the German dis- | solution of Czechslovakia Premier Chamberlain told the| House of Commons there is “no special significance” in Henderson's return. He said the action did not{ mean that Great Britain is recogniz- ing the Nazi annexation of Czech | territory or Italy’s conquest of Al-| bania. NOMINATIONS GIVEN SENATE BY PRESIDENT New Jersey Man Named as Successor to Chair- man of FSC WASHINGTON, April 24—Presi-| dent Roosevelt today nominated | Leon Henderson, of New Jersey, as| a member of the Federal Securities | Commission, to succeed William O. | Douglas now Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. | Douglas was Chairman but it is| not known whether Henderson or Jerome Frank, who is also men-/| tioned, will be Chairman. Frank is now Executive Secretary of the| monopoly investigating Committee. ‘ Other nominations sent Senate include Calvert Magruder to | be Judge of the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, Pirst District, and} Walter Huxman, of Kansas to be/ Judge of the Court of Appeals, Tenth. District. | FIRE IN NIGHT (LUB STAMPEDES 400 ATTENDANTS Wild Rush fie fo Escape Flames - Many Are | Trampled MT. VERNON, Ohio, April 24. —| Panic last night in a flaming night club, with more than 400 persons trampling. over each otber in the| rush to escape, caused the death of one woman and 30 other patronsi are | Alaska. His name A “CHUTE Hellenthal Is Renamed, Jqflgeship President Also Nominates Charles Clasby for U. S. Attorney WASHINGTON, April 24.-—Judge | Simon Hellenthal has been renom- | inated for the Federal Third Judicial Division of was sent to the President Roose- Judgeship of the Senate today by velt. Another Alaska nomination is that of Charles Clasby to be United States Attorney of the Second Ju- dicial Division with his headquar- ters at Nome. He succeeds Hugh O'- Neill, deceased. R UNITED STATES, GREAT BRITAIN INBARTER DEAL Cotfon, Wheat fo Be Ex- changed for Rubber and Tin, Proposal LONDON, April 24. — American Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy is reported anthoritasively arranging a deal whereby the United States will barter 1,000,000 bales of cotton or more and 100,000 bushels of wheat with Great Britain for a supply. of rubber and tin. The deal, it is reported, will be| made under the barter exchange proposal made two weeks ago by United States Senator James F. Byrnes of South Carolina. - e — SCHOOL FIRED were injured. | Many of the night club attendants | leaped from windows of the second | floor. | BY DUKHOBORS; ONE IS BOMBED NELSON, B. C, April 24. — One school was set afire, another bomb- . o . T (ardinal Marianna 1 ¥ Dies, Vali(an (I'y ed, and unsuccessful attempts were St ! made to fire others at Brilliant, VATICAN CITY, Italy, Domenico | headquarters of British Columbia’s a . | Orthodox Dukhobors. No persons Cardinal Marianna, former Trea lox - urer of the Papal Ministries is dead. | Were injured according to police He was 176, lreporvs. ATLANTA, Ga., April 24 vme-l ing to fly at Georgia Tech means cutting out dates, dances, anda other | diversions but 157 applicants | room for about 30. | The civil aeronautics authority | picked the Georgia School of Tech- nology as one of 13 schools in which to launch an experimental training program. } President Roosevelt, when he an- | nounced the experimental plan, said | that if this year's work is successful the instruction may be extended to take in 20,000 students annually in | hundreds of schools. This year’s stu- dents could continue their training. | The faculty estimated the work ' | would add a 25 per cent load to a i&mdcnl’h studies. So a check of |scholastic records eliminated those | {already too hard pressed with school | work. | Students Love It Those finally accepted are en- thusiastic about the course — which | has 80 hours of ground school work | {and from 30 to 50 hours of flying| instruction. | The only cost is $10 for a physical | examination and $15 for insurance. | No college credit is given. | | Students released the school from | accident liability—each has 33,000; insurance. All of the training work is to be| finished by the end of June. CAA certificate awarded then per- | mits only pleasure flying but may be a stepping stone to commercial | flying. | Here's where Uncle Sam comes in, | as explained by V. A. Calhoun, head of the flying school in charge of the | instruction: “If war should come, this course would make it possible to cut the transition training for military fly- ing practically in half.” The cost of the experimental in- struction is met with $100,000 of National Youth Administration funds. TYRONE POWERS, ANNABELLA WED 'Romantic Screen Actor Makes His First At- fempt, Mafrimony HOLLYWOOD, Cal, April 24— Tyrone Powers, 25, and Ann Car- penter, 26, known on the screen as Annabella, were married here yes- terday. This is Powers' first attempt at matrimony. He has been one of the best known unmarried of the screen’s leading romantic actors. Annabella came to Hollywood |after attaining stardom in Euro- | pean movies. She was divorced last year from her first husband. She has a five-year-old daughter by her first husband, who is dead. o 98 0 b U e ik i o sin, Pukow and Lunghai railways. The Chinese admit their losses were also heavy. e e BOMB HURLED AS CROWD IS CELEBRATING June, were hurt when the eraft crashed and burned cn a farm near Wright Field, Dayton, O 2,000 plane was undergoing flight tests. It was one of three ships of a new attack bombing type. It | had NOT been accepted as yet by the Air Corps. ] Gunman’s Widow Arraigned | { Twenty-five Men, Women| Killed, One Hundred Reported Injured HANKOW, China, April 24.—Tt is| sought the training and there was | estimated that 25 men and women | | have been killed and 100 injured identified per- seriously when an son threw a bomb into the midst of | a crowd of Chinese celebrating with a few Japanese, under the Japanese direction, the establishment of a new Japanese organized city govern- ment. FRENCH RUSH WORK ONNEW MEDIT. BASE Navy fo Be Expanded, De- crees Say-More Planes Are fo Be Built PARIS, April 24. — The French Government today ordered work The | Yushed on the new naval base all;ig ghots: Mers El Kebir on the Algerian Coast opposite Spain in a fresh step of a broad effort to strengthen France's foreign and domestic position. In another action following a series of decrees recently approved an increase was ordered in small fighting ships and auxiliary vessels for the Navy. The point chosen for the naval base is of particular strategic value since warships could operate in the narrow eastern section of the Med- iterranean which is bounded by the Spanish and Moroccan Coasts. The Air Ministry announced it is authorized to spend an additional $101,000,000 for airplanes. - eee WORLD'S FAIR BUILDING IS DAMAGED, FIRE Almost Fireproof Glass In- dustry Structure Goes A-blazing NEW YORK, April 24 A brief but spectacular fire broke out Sun-|North Carolina grins expansively at} top day night in the almost fireproof glass industry building of the New York World’s Fair. Three members of eight fire com- panies were injured during the blaze. The damage is estimated at $100,- IOOO. Loy 2 i < Mrs. Stella Mae Dickson (left), 16-year-old widow of the slain gunman, | ,I?e‘:nys Dickson, is arraigned in Kansas City federal court and ordered | held in $25,000 bond for trial in Sioux Falls, S. D., on a bank robbery | harge. The girl was captured soon after her y G-men. Her mother, Mrs, CLOSE-UPSHOTSREVEAL ~ CONGRESSMEN INFREAK POSITIONS, MANY TIMES By PRESTON GROVER ,ous orators of the House, pushes WASHINGTON, April 24—Can-|aside the loud speaker and lets the | members have st ht from his e ; 11, | lungs a demand for economy. So the Jeasodones; RFC chalrman “.“Lh members vote $100,000,000 instead the mop of hair white as Texas e | Of $150,000,000 for additional relief. ton, startles the for "f"{““"(““‘ | They applaud him wildly, with the Hope Imfr‘%,‘m (,""'i;"‘:,f:,; chaiy. | biggest share coming from the Re- :xr:[t):z?nzy“pflz\"":‘»ll‘A’;"_ Y araie ;‘,ni“mbnmn side, although -Woodrum be nearer the members on their("S * Ssigoerdk raised dais, and with his feet rest-! & ing on & chair alongside, gives them | IN THE A G a lecture on what is wrong with the | BANKING COMMIT railroads, He further disturbs their| Diminutive Senator Glass, half equanimity by declining to give a'hidden at the head of the high table, formal statement. jgruv\lh anew out of the side of his | “Go ahead and ask questions,” he|mouth at “repudiation of debts"” says. It takes them 15 minutes to!through devaluation of gold, and get ‘warmed up. { Senator Taft of Ohio lets his eye- Senator Ellender of Louisiana re-|glasses swing from one ear, like a verses the procedure. He shuffles|gate on a broken hinge, while he himself off the high dais to take a|seems to ponder whether that would position down among the \\lme.\.srs}bv a good campaign argument for he has called in an investigation of | the presidency during 1940. what's wrong—if anything—with| the Civil Service. IN THE NA | Senator (Cotton Ed) Smith South Carolina dumbfour ATE SENATE FQREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE ROOM: The committee has just broken | of lup after a secret session consider- | the|ing neutrality legislation—whether | Senate by a blanket cha that it shall be amended so we may help they are voting relief money “to|European democracies in their, des- get, votes.” Strolls across the cham-{perate effort to surround Hitler. One | ber during his. speech to ask svelte|of the Senators, pausing, a moment | | Senator Reynolds of North Caro-|during brain-testing consideration | 4 RELIEF WORK MAYUNDERG MERGER PLAN FDR fo Send Congress Pro- posal for Unifying Six Agencies WASHINGTON, April 24-—Sena- tor Alben W. Barkley today said President Roosevelt will send Con- tomorrow ‘a proposal to com- overhaul Federal agencies Senator Barkley told reporters that some half dozen agencies would be merged into a new unified re- lief system with some central con- m trol over all relief activities. The Senator declined, however, to say what agency will exercise the control Asked whether or not the Presi- husband was shot to death | dent proposes to bring all relief | Lester Rodenbaugh, stands next to her, ‘aumlcies under some existing Fed- cannery union workers and 200 eral department, Senator Barkley said it would be possible to unify relief activities without placing them under any department. NEWSMAN T0 LEAVE ITALY Fascist Government Disap-| proves of Dispafches Sent fo U. §. ROME, April 24—Richard Mowr- er, Correspondent in Rome for the Chicago Daily News for less than four months, has been ordered to leave Italy. This is because of the Fascist Government’s disapproval of the dispatches sent by Mowrer, > CLAIMS COURTS ARE LOSING OUT, PUBLIC ESTEEM Atforney General Talks of Corruption of Those in Judicial Positions NEW YORK, April 24.—Attorney General Frank Murphy declaring it is a “bitter but undeniable fact”} said Courts have shrunk in public esteem and he calls for definite ac- tion to “protect them from every relief | i“”fl to “plumb his heart” to deter- | mine whether he did not vote for | relief money in order to get votes |back home. And the Senator from | the bristly moustached Senator from of international law, ships at sea|influence that is degrading and un- and national front lines, has writ- | clean.” ten himself a reminder on a sheet| The Attorney General, made his of paper. It says “Jennie” at the | statements addressing the members p of the page, and beneath that:|of the annual Associated Press lun- cheon today. Peas The Attorney General also spoke | South Carolina but refuses to agree to any such indictment. The Senate | chuckles. Lamb. And then he left the committee " without the reminder. THE HOUSE: % AN A TGS Representative Woodrum of Vir-| Before 1900 there were 40 medi- ginia, one of the few truly thunder-|cal schools in the South Bread I | | room ‘ of “isolated cases of misconduct that has shocked us al R The death-rate from tuberculosis| is five times higher for negroes than for whites, R SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., April 24. —The Alaska Packers Assoclation’s steamer Chirikos, with about 500 men aboard, crossed out of the Golden Gate at 12:01 o'clock this !morning bound for Chignik and Karluk Bay, Alaska, fishing grounds, The tenders Chilkat and Alutak are scheduled to leave late today or tomorrow morning. The sailling of the Chirikos marked conclusion of negotiations in which the Maritime Federation of the Pacific and Dr. Louis Bloch, Maritime Labor Board, participated. Dr. Bloch said discussion regard- ing a second sailing will start im- mediately. ’ AGREEMENT REACHED | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April 24, |—A working agreement was signed ! saturday night under which the Alaska Packers Association’s steam- |ship Chirikos was scheduled to sail | Sunday carrying 480 workers of the |salmon fishing industry to Karluk | Bay. Negotiations affecting more than 14,000 workers in the Bering Sea |area continues with hopes that agreements will be reached in time for other boats to leave early next onth. The agreement reached provided Ithat the men will have the 1038 !working hours with restoration of |the 1937 pay scale which were lamong the union demands. Aboard the Chirikos will be 280 |workers of other unions including fishermen, cooks, stewards, ma- |chinists, carpenters and radio op- erators, | The Chirikos is to be accompan- ied by two tenders | Gt @rmiipmis. | Finds $1,000, - SelsReward MONTREAL, Que., April 24.—How much would you keep out of a |thousand dollars if told to name your own reward for finding it? | An sanonymous woman with a 1large family to feed on the meager dole allowance has won the praise of Louis Litvack, wholesale mer- chant, by only retaining $131. > On the way to the bank, Litvaek |dropped a package containing tha |thousand in cash and checks. With- |out much hope, he advertised, of~ |fering a generous reward to the iflnder. i “What reward will you give me? I am a poor woman, badly in need [or money to feed my children,” was the query received over the tele- phone next morning. | “Take whatever you think reason- able,” replied the merchant. | A little later, a messenger boy de- |livered a package containing the [lost money, less $131. | “I'm more than satisfied. I would like to thank the finder for being |50 honest. She could doubtless have |used the whole amount to advan- |tage,” Litvack commented. | ‘Investigation | by |Federation |Demanded | | SEATTLE, April 24. — The | Washington District Council of the Maritime Federation of the Pacific has passed a resolution demanding that Congress in- vestigate the Bureau of Fish- eries and also the Alaska Canned Salmon lndutry.