The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LIII, NO. 8090. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 28, 1939. MEMBER ASSO CIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 'HITLER SCRAPS TWO MORE TREATIES e Chena River Ice Breaks, The n Moves Out WATEROPENS AT FAIRBANKS LAST EVENING Official Time of Movement Is Given at Seven Nine o'Clock OVER SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS, LOCAL POOLS. Prospectors Get Info Mon-| ey — Former Seattle Hotel Clerk Lucky FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 28.—The Chena River ice in front of Fairbanks, went out at 7:09 o’clock last evening, of- ficial time, deciding who gets $7,250 represented in some forty local ice contests. The largest peol is the Fairbanks Fircmen, which centains $1,042 and was won by Harley Lawrence and Harry Burnoff, both local mining em- ployees. ¥red Carlson, cldiime pros- pector, won approximately $1,- 500 on eight entri Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Myers woen $550 and Deyle Derrick, a prospector, won $1,200. Der- rick recently came here from Seattle where he was clerk in the Savoy Hotel. Others captured prizes rang- ing from $30 to $250 each. The Nenana ice is still hold- ing. it usually goes out from one te four days after the Chena River ice breaks. that of report at Hot Springs, Ark., that his six-year fight against depertat Commun obtain ker American ation RUNNING, JAMMING | Ice, which went out of the Chena River at 7:09 o'clock last night, was The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the RKajor Leagues as received up to 3:15 0'- clock this afternoon: National League Chicago 6; Cincinnati 7. | American League l still running and jamming today, | the U. S. Weather Bureau here was pro osal ’or informed today. The ice report from Nenana is missing today. . L “——— (onscripfion | House of Commons Backs | Opposition T - LONDON, April 28—The House H 1 of Commons has approved of the Mount M(Klnley Naho"al Government’s proposal to introduce 1 conscription in Great Britain by Park Superinfendent Gieine™:" oocon Laver amendment by a vote of 280 to 143. Goes to So' Dako‘a | The vote amounted to an expression jof confidence in the Government WASHINGTON, April 28—Secre- 0f Prime Minister Chamberlain, tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes has The Labor amendment if adopted named Frank T. Been, Associate would have forced a general elec- Park Naturalist in the Sequoia Na- | tion on the conscription issue. tional Park. to be Superintendent of | ) i i i e the Mount McKinley National Park FOUR PAF BOATS Been will succeed Harry J. Liek who has been transferred to the SAI[ lAS'I' NI H'I' Wind Cave National Park in South Dakota. | R e MRS. LINDBERGH ‘Cannery Tenders with AFU n Crews Have No Trouble ARRIVES IN U. §. Getting Under Way | LR NEW YORK, April 28. — Mrs.| BELLINGHAM, Wash. April 28. Charles A. Lindbergh, two sons and |__gour more PAF cannery tenders, a nurse, returned to the United|manned by members of the Alaska States aboard the liner Champlain. ' pishermen’s Union, were enroute iv Mrs. Lindbergh returned to her|ajackg today after leaving port last homeland after nearly tWO Years| pion¢ without interference. Soss Two are bound for Squaw Har- Sy T |bor and two for ing Cove. BASEBAll 'I‘ODAY | The freighter Mary D' is due to load piling tomorrow and the |freighter Dellwood will load Sun- day with a cargo including $65,000 worth of cannery supplies, both ves- sels sailing from Seattle. 1L e — Portugal owns three colonies in India, with an aggregate population St. Louls 9; Cleveland 8. of 600,000. Strecker Wins Fight Joseph Strecker (above), grinned as he read The Associated Press announced paners. SOVIET FLIERS HOP FROM ~ MOSCOW FORN. Y. FAIR ON ~ NONSTOP FLIGHT ATTEMPT FISH FIGHT TURNS INTO Ambulance and Police Busy as Rival Unions Battle in Seattle 'HARRY LUNDEBERG iKeichikan Fgr—l}eys Getting | Nowhere on Seine Salmon Prices SEATTLE, April 28.—Police were |sent to Pier B today when |1abor unions disputed the schedu sailing of three cannery tenders to }Aldskn following an outbreak at another pier late yesterday in which |six men were injured. The P. E. H Company, oper- ating the tenders Trojan, Amelie rand Morzhovia, said the vessels were \being prepared to sail today after [their sailing a month ago was can- celled. | The ships are manned by crews ! which belong to:the Alaska Fish- ermen’s Union, a CIO affiliate, but the Cannery Tenders Union, AFL |in affiliation, claims jurisdiction over the men Harry Lundeberg, Secr y of lthe Sailors Union off the Pacific, |is back in town to take charge of |the cannery tender crews' fight. he had won in the Supreme Court ion on the grounds he was an alieri he resume his efforts would to | AMBULANCES CALLED | SEATTLE, April 28.—Fist fights between rival fishing union bers fanned the Alaska Salmon Cannery labor dispute today Meyer Meldahl, 42, member of |the Alaska PFishermen’s Union, and }RA)\)(‘I'L William, 24, of the Cannery : Workers Union, | MOSCOW, April 28. — Brigadier |15 py ambulance General Viadimir Kokkinaki, Soviet |, .arations long distance flier, took off at 4:19| am. Friday, or 8:19 pm. Eastern | Standard Time Thursday, on a pro- ‘]’\;:,&dy;fikc_m'mm Hor fllgne o gregated at Pier B, where three | Kokkinaki is accompanied by Ma- |31nery tenders were preparing to jor Mikhail Gordienko, veteran |¢ave for' ‘Alaska. Russian navigator and radio opera- tor, Several other battling union men |were cut or bruised when the dis- pute arose as union members con- NO PROGRESS | "The fiiers propose to fly the Great| KETCHIKAN, April 28—In the | Circle Route on a direct course be- |third day of negotiations between tween Moscow and New York, a|Southeast Alaska salmon packers sweeping cu through Norway, |and the Alaska Salmoh Purse Sein- | Tceland, across the southern tip of |ers Union, an agreemen{ still has | Greenland to Labrador and New-|not been reached on fish prices. | foundland. Attorney Lester Gore, represen- ‘ The fliers expect to reach New [tative of the packers, said: “Fish | York for the opening of the World’s | prices are the first point of this Fair there. controversy. When this is settled | the matter of trap elimination and PLANE ON SCHEDULE demands of the Cannery Workers | NEW YORK, April 28. — The|Auxiliary are expected to be taken Soviet airmen reported at 10:26 o'~ lup.” |clock this morning (Pacific Coast F Time) they had sighted the coast {of Labrador in their nonstop flight TRAIN IRU(K L CRASH; THREE 1] |from Moscow to New York. The | plane was functioning smoothly and BUCODA, Wash, April 28. — A Union Pacific passenger train was according to schedule. . ploughed into a logging truck at a crossing here killing three. The dead are Charles Datey, of Seattle, engineer of the train; Clyde Hendrix, of Centralia, fireman, and E. H. Vollman, driver of the truck The bodies of the engineer and DUE TONIGHT p NEW YORK, April 28.—The Soviet | fliers are expected to land here dur- |ing the early evening. SENTENCE OF JACK SPARKS IS REDUCED R . | JAPAN AROUSED KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 28— Federal Judge George F. Alexander OVER pkop OSED today reduced by two years, the sentence of seven years imposed a few days ago on James (Jack) | Sparks, who pleaded guilty to rob- |bing the mails in the Juneau Post Office. Judge Alexander said the offense was the first one for Sparks and that as his previous record was {good, the sentence was too severe and therefore reduced to five years in prison. cab of the locomotive for several hours before released. TOKYO, April 28—Official cir- cles declared that Japan will be driv- en further into a German-Italian lineup if the Congress of the United States adopts the Pittman resolu- tion to give the President the power to impose an embargo on Japan. JOINS IN TROUBLE mem- | were sent to hos- | d treated for | fireman werz held trapped in the | EMBARGO OF U.S. " Nazi Fleet Oft to Spain tor Drill l | FIST BOUT { | | | | Here 1s part of the Nazi fleet during a review at Kiel, Germany. Official communique disclosed that more than 25 fleet units would revive an “old tradition of the German Navy” and spend month in foreign train- | THAT ALBANIAN COUP:DID * PREMIER MUSSOLINI SLIP ONE OVER ON NAZ! CHIEF! By MORGAN M. Bl TY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, April 28. — Your history professor will tell you | Ttaly’s conquest of Albania is much more of a threat to Hitler than a blessing—in the long run! Here's how historians out: The Adriatic is the cheap ship- ping route to Africa, America, and the Far East for much of South Central Burope. By any other route, the extra transportation costs eat up the profits. In pre-war Europe Austria man- aged to gobble the best water-front- age on the Eastern Adriatic Sea, including the important ports of Trieste, Fiume, Zara. Further down the coast little Montenegro and Al- bania were independent. Serbia was strapped down, a helpless inland state, That left Austria and Italy gnash- ing their teeth at each other across the Adriatic—bitter, natural rivals. The Italians, of course, dreamed their dreams. If only they could gain control of the Adriatic, and force Austria to use the Danube and Black Sea exclusively! The Adria- tic then would be a handy Ital- ian lake——a perfect retreat for the figure it that | ing off Spain. ( Italian navy in case of trouble. Italy would become Mediterranean Power No. 1, and show the world how an ocean should be run! Dreaming this dream, Italy de- | serted Germany and Austria—her | triple alliance partners—and joined the western allies in the World War. | 2 | DREAM BROKEN UP Sure enough, Italy got her hands |on the great Adriatic ports of Trieste, Fiume, and Zara. But— and here’s the historical rub—the western powers created Yugo- slavia, with pre-war Serbia as a nucleus, and gave the new nation the re: of the Adriatic’s eastern shore except for a strip held by ting Albania, Central Europe still ha an outlet into the Adriatic. Italy was deprived of her coveted lake! | As the years went by, Ttaly loaned | money to little Albania, and other- wise penetrated her economy, until | the independence of that Balkan state was little more than a shadow. The Italian puppet, moreover, was arated from the heel of the Ital-| ian boot by a mere 50-mile strip of water. Would it be much of a trick to close the Adriatic with the Ttal- ian navy, in case of trouble with Austria or Yugoslavia? (Continuea on Page Four) se| DON'T WORRY PUZILES YOU; EXPERTS IN TROUBLE AT KEEPING UP By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 27. It things are happening so fast in Europe that you can’'t make head nor tail of them, be not chagrined. The State Department, War De- partment, Navy Department and other departments are equally at sea. Perhaps more so. They must not only try to determine what it means, but more troublesome—what to-do | about it, if anything. Don't be ashamed to run to the library to read a book about it. They |have to at the State Department. | We rambled into one office while | the Ttalian guns still were booming |off Albanian shores. Two worried | af- in | scholars on central European fairs were buried to the ears books. lPLENTY OF MATERIAL | They knew pretty thoroughly the | background of Albania. Bul a su- perior official wanted a detailed re- port, including exactly what Musso- lini had said on the subject a couple of years ago. Don’t think they didn’t IF EUROPE have it. They had volumes and vol- umes of Mussolini speeches, both in | the original Italian and in the Eng- | lish translations. (In a pinch, somebody or other deeply hidden in the State Depart- ment probably could translate San- | skrit or ancient Egyptian if he had | to, especially if it involved some diplomatic matter.) | At the War Department we en- countered somebody speculating what will come after Albania. (Not all the studying goes on in the State Department. There are U. S.| Military and Naval attaches in al- most every country in the world and not for fun.) The immediate | guess down there was that Germany would move next — in the direc- tion of Danzig and perhaps the Po- lish corridor. But they were ad- mittedly just guessing: Up on Capitol Hill we met Sena- tor Borah. He recalled the telephone conversation between Hitler and | Mussolini before II Duce’s legions |- (Continued on Page Eight) BOAT WRECKAGE FOUND;PARTY OF 2 MEN MISSIN Searchers from Cordov al Make Discovery-Father | Mourns Son, Partner CORDOVA, Alaska, April 28, — Henry Gloystein, of Klamath Falls, Ore, has returffed with a search party and reports finding wreckage of a power boat which has been identified as the one used by his son Gordon and William Byer, lust} seen at Point Eches. The wreckage was found on the| beach at Zaikol Point, the northern tip of Montague Island. Gloystein’s party included Charles Freeman, former owner of the boat. Gloystein and his wife start home | during today but clinging to' the| hope that their son and his partner | might have escaped in a skiff and | are alive in some remote cove. D g Alaska Postage ‘ Stamps Dwindle Of the 1,000,000 Alaska commem- | orative three-cent stamps received here November 11, 1937, only about 30,000 remain, Postmaster Albert Wile announced today. | The stamps, picturing Mt. McKin- | ley, have been issued here as the| regular three-cent standard stock since their receipt. After they are | gone, no more of the type will be | available, Wile said. He urged that | anyone desiring to buy a few of | these as souvenirs or for collections | do so promptl, FRANCO PARADE SET FOR MAY 30 ROME, April 28.—Further delay! in complete withdrawal of Imlmn; legionnaires from Spain was indi-| cated by announcement here that| CGieneralissimo Francisco Franco's | victory parade in Madrid probably | would be postponed until May 30, It has been scheduled tentatively | for May 15. | PEACH SAPLING PROVED ROBUST ONTARIO, Cal., April 28.—In 1932 Mrs. C. C. Barnes bought and planted what she thought was an ordinary peach sapling. She was| amazed when, In an off season, it| budded well ahead of schedule and bore a fine crop of fruit. Realizing she “had something,” Mrs, Barnes has taken and culti- vated saplings from the original tree with conspicuous suceess in getting early and heavy crops.| Many acres in various ranches are now planted with offspring of the freak spceimen, ANSWER TO ROOSEVELT IS EVASIVE English Narw Trealy and Polish Peace. Pact Renounced AMERICA IS GIVEN PLEDGE OF PEACE President Asked fo Help Restore Colonies fo Reich BERLIN, April 28.—Chan- cellor Adolf Hitler announced renunciation of Germany’s naval treaty with England and her ten-year non-aggres- sion pact with Poland in a two-hour and 17-minute ora- tion today which replied point by point to President Roose- velt’s April 15 peace appeal. Addressing the Reichstag, Hitler offered assurances “of the kind desired by Mr. Roo- sevelt on condition of absolute reciprocity provided each State wishes it and itself ad- “|dresses to Germany a request for such assurance” of non- aggression. Promises America Peace Specifically he gave “an as- |surance regarding those ter- ritories which would after all give him and Roosevelt the most cause for apprehension, namely the United States it- self and other States on the American continent.” Hitler made a long 21-point analysis of the President’s message which appealed for German and Italian pledges to, 31 States, in which he coun- tered with his own views (Centinued on Page Eight) e e OPINIONSON HITLER TALK C(OME FORTH Sen. Chavez Says Speech Is Signal for U. S. Na- tional Defense WASHINGTON, Apri: 28. — A member of the Senate Foreign Ré- lations Committee, Senator Dennis Chavez, of New Mexiio. said he is more convinced than ever that there is need for national defense after listening to Hitler's speech. Said the Senator. “T am convinced more than ever that Washington was right. Not one cent of American money or a drop of American blood should be used to settle European troubles.” Senator Clark of Idaho said the speech made it clear that President Roosevelt should concentrate his ef- forts on domestic affairs and keep out of foreign arguments. “Y think Hitler made a pretty good case for his country. It was a good reply to the President. This just proves again that we had better take care of our own domestic problems and qult sending notes to Europe and messing around in their affairs” The acting head of the powerful Foreign Affairs Committee repre- “(Continued on Page Eight) _