The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1939, Page 1

~ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS AL! VOL. LIIL, NO. 8091. e e e NATIONS OF EXTRA TWO SOVIET FLIERS ARE INDISASTER Plane frJr?Moscow. Bound for New York, Is Forced Down Near Goal ONE AVIATOR BADLY * INJURED IN CRASH Royal Canadian Mounted Police Battle Ice Floes to Make Rescue MISCOU ISLAIND, New Bruns- wick, April 29 Royal Canadian Mounted Policemen and a doctor battled ice floes of the Bay of Chauleur in a rowoat to reach Gen. Valadimir Kokkinaki, Russian pilot, with several broken ribs, sustained when an airplane made a Im'ced‘ landing on the projected Moscow | to New York City flight. The two Russians came down in a marsh, five miles from the nearest house on the isolated St. Lawrence Gulf island, 25 miles from the main- land. The plane was demolished. Navigator Mikhail Gordienko es- caped injury. A radiogram says a plane belong- ing to Harold S. Vanderbilt and piloted by Russell- Thaw, has left| Boston with three Russians and also a Russian-speaking doctor aboard for here. The weather was described as| good- when “Wwitifesses saw the“Rus- sian monoplane circling and heard | the motors missing. The plane then | crashed. -, TROLLERS TAKE STEPS T0 STOP "SUNDAY" FISH *Unions Promise Action| Against Those Fishing | ice at Nenana went out at Anchorage. —the ice just melted out. The local American afternoon of April 29. The winners of the $97,000 prize are all Alaska residents, namely—T. W. and Miriam Benson, of Pet- ersburg; Dr. A. S. Walkowski, Dunford and Hansen, J. W. Lawton, James Scanlon, and Patrick Gillam, all of The “going out” was not a spectacular movement $856.20 has been won by George Melosevich and com- pany. The guess of this ticket was 1:32 o’clock in the 1:26 o’clock this afternoon. Legion pool amounting to CONFESSES T0 POISONING OF MANY PERSONS 'Convicted Member of In-| surance Murder-Ring.. Reveals Plot PHILADELPHIA, Pa. April 29— District Attorney Charles Jelley said Herman Petrillo, member of the in- surence murder ring, convicted of poisoning a WPA worker. admitted he had a part in the poisoning of eleven persons. Petrillo related that he provided witch brew, solution of poison, selling for $300 a pint, and this brew was used to kill eight that he knew about. The police predict that more than a score of murders will be linked to Petrillo and ' thirteen other per- . . | Without License | Sl | Juncau trollers are “clamping| down” this season on unlicensed fishermen, union officials emphati- cally announced 1 Trollers complained with fish buy-| ers and the Bureau of Fisheries| that many strip fishermen were sell-i mg Sunday caught fish to restau-| rants and to other establishments, without commercial license to do so. The law reads that anyone selling | fish must have the $1 resident fish- | ermen’s license, and that Sunday | fish cannot be legally taken for| saile, as trollers themselves voted | in favor of the Sunday law to give‘ fish and the water a rest. “Even among our own fishermen,” one union official said, “We have | taken steps to see that nobody fish- | United States fleet lay at anchor| es without a license or on Sunday and the Bureau of Fisheries is coq| operating with us. If anyone at-| tempts to sell Sunday fish this year, | we'll have to take steps to prosecute | them.” | Trollers believe the 1939 .season has a bright appearance, with first | offerings of salmon having bruoght | prices of 12 cents a pound for large | reds, 10 cents a pound for smalls, and | six cents a pound for whites, appre- ciably better prices than at the open- ing of the season last year. -, ALASKA STEAMSHIP (0. CIRCULARIZES WARNING ON JOBS A circular bearing Gov.-John W. Troy's message regarding the pau- city of employment in Alaska is be- ing distributed by the Alaska Steam- ship Company to its agents in Port- land, San Prancisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, New York and Boston, the Goveinor was noti- fied .today by L. W. Baker, Traffic Manager. Copies also have been posted in the Seattle ticket office and at Pier 2 and will be called to the attention of all prospective passengers asking for information as to employment conditions in- the Territory, Baker assured the Governor, sons, many of them widows of poison victims, who have already been| charged with homicide. ———rr——— Battle Fleet Is at Panama Warships Tak e Thirty-s Hours in Making Trip Through Canal PANAMA CITY, April 29.—The IX off Panama City last night after completing its transit through the| Panama Canal. The last of the warships arrived at the Pacific por- tal of the canal shortly after sun- down. ‘Thirty-six hours were required for the entire fleet to make the canal crossing. The first commercial ship to fol- low the fleet through the canal was the Santa Lucia. Canal officials said that the canal would remain open day and night until all com- mercial ships which have been de- layed by the fleet movement had | moved through the canal. The fleet is rushing back to its Pacific bases by order of President Roosevelt. b - — Baseball Heads Get Together Tonight Officials of the Gastineau Chan- nel Baseball League will meet to- night to apportion newcomers in Juneau baseball ranks among the three channel teams. About twenty newcomers have re- gistered for play, with some appar- ently really good material. Judge William Holzheimer said he would possibly announce the new lineups by Monday. RICH UNITED STATESISTO MATCH TOTALITARIANS IN GAME FOR WORLD MARKETS THE TIV & JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURb AY, APRIL 29, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS - WAGE, HOUR ICE AT NENANA GOES OUT N FISHING BULLETIN, FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 29.—The Standards Act Inter- prefed by Agency WASHINGTON, April 20. The Wage and Hour Administration is- sued interpretive bulletins today outlining the scope of cxed ptions from the Fair Labor Standards Act for seamen and employees of sef food and the fisheries industry. The Adminisgration expressed the | opinion that créws of vessels operat= |ing on inland waters as well as the oceans are exempt. The exemption covers the vessels® engineers, radio operators, firemen, pursers, surgeons, cooks and stew= ards, in fact applies to all persons whose work is dependent 1o a cor erable extent on natural factor By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, April 29. - important aspect of the Govern-| ment's new barter proposal has been | almost blotted out by discussion of | its farm relief features. | An almost equally important ele- ment is the hlow it would deal at ‘me totalitarian nations. Here is the United States, twice as wealthy as any nation that ever existed, (hmu-“ ening to go into the world markets | their own game. Moreover, he proposed exchange would be limit-| | ed, at least according to its first an-| | nouncement, to those nations v\lli('ll; {likely would be aligned against Ger- | ;man_\‘ and Italy. | The proposal was to trade to| England, Belgium and Holland an| |emergency supply of cotton | and wheat in return for rubber and tin {needed by this country. That this somewhat belligerent | aspect of the plan is considered an | important feature of it can be| | gleaned almost at once by talking |to Department of Agriculture offi- | |cials. Some of them suggest that| “the real story” behind the whole subsidy movement has been al-‘ most overlooked. | SUI DIES GAIN FAVOR For quite some time, so we are in- formed, Secretary of Agricuiture Wallace has planned to carry to| | Congress a proposal that a really | energetic campaign for foreign mar- |kets be launched, with subsidies | where necessary. Of course in these days almost | everything, from conquering can- |cer to saving the Virginia oyster | beds, is linked up with national |defense or opposition to totali- | tarian ideology. And if the Depart- ment of Agriculture were sus-| ‘pecwd making the subsidy program |a feature of 'national defense, it would not be too far afield. As a matter of fact the depart-( | ment’s whole attitude has sharnged | during the past six ar eight manths. Last fall inquirers were told that subsidizing our sales abroad was an insane waste. Why ship our wealth abroad? was the question. Since Munichi the national foreign policy has been directed toward halting the spread of the Nazi-Fas- cist principle and the Department of Agriculture has fallen directly in line. It has had only limited suc- cess in building up its home market for surplus crops of wheat and cot- ton and now has taken a strong leaning toward selling the crops | (Continued to Page Seven) B Rt THANE ROAD OPEN; (REW CLEARS OFF | SEVEN SNOWSLIDES The Thane road, closed by seven successive snowslides since the first of the year, was opened this week by a Bureau of Public Roads crew. Barring unusually soft weather, the Bureau doesn't expect any more slides this year, though snow is re-| ported to be still 20 feet deep high up Mount Roberts above Snowslide Gulch. | > ROMIGS THROUGH Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Romig, prom- inent Anchorageites, are through visited briefly with Juneau friends. Qunptgh. the jotalifarian, nalions | guessional ~leadgrs - today in the processing of fish byproduc into fish meal. L CONGRESS HEADS SAY FDR'S BILL TO MAKE GRADE Both House Leaders Call Measure Very Conser- vative Request WASHINGTON, April 29 Con prgdicted that President Roosevelt's $763,000,- 000 relief proposal will be accepted by both houses, but a fight is brew- ing over how the money shall be spent. Senate leader Barkley, Democrat of Kentucky, and House leader Ray- burn, Democrat of Texas, agreed that the sum asked by Roosevelt for the year beginning July 1 is very conservative | —————————— N.Y.WORLD FAIR OPENS ON SUNDAY Million Visitors Expecte fo Attend - President fo Make Address NEW YORK, April 29.—A festive air spread over New York City today Exempiionfirto Fair Labor| 2 PRICE TEN CENTS ATLRNTLE 4 4 a R 18 RACTAR 60) This self-explanatory map strength of European nations shows so ruuch in the news EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS ARE _OF OPINIONTHATPEACEOR - w the fighting | today following the crisis which developed follow- ing II¥Duce’s seizure of Albania. GERMAN NAVY INCREASED BY LARGE VESSE WAR snu. OPEN QUESIIONTen Thousand Ton Cruiser MRS. SPARKS 1S SENTENCED 10 13 MONTHS Pleads Guilty fo Disposing of Goods Stolen by Husband Mrs. James E. Sparks has been fect it would have on the continent | | sentenced by Judge George F. Alex- already strained to the breaking ander to 13 months’ imprisonment d for disposing of stolen goods. Word of the sentencing was received today Mahoney by Marshal William T from Ketchikan, where Mrs, Spar pleaded guilty. Sparks himself was sentenced five years imprisonment for robbi the mails and burglarizing the Fed- York € Sparks ad- on the eve of the city’s first Inter- mitted to having sold articles which Wok ef eral Building here. Mr SSOCIATED PRESS) (BY / European statesmen believe that the paramount question of war or ce has been affected little, if at all, by Chancellor Adolf Hit- ler's speech before the German Reichstag, made on Friday. Diplomatic circles in London and | Paris, and the countries of Central Europe, closely studied every sen- tence of the speech for some inkling of Hitler's plans toward Europe | Hitler’s rebuff to President Roose- velt was of only minor importance. Europe was concerned more with the tone of his speech and what ef- point by fear and suspicion. General Conclusion The general conclusions in Lon- don and Paris were these: there is little hope ences between the rival Euro- amps can be settled now by | negotiation. Hitler made no offers |to negotiate and he reaffirmed his faith in the conference ks to ng pean national Exposition in eighty yeass. | per husband took L-sin the buiding | Bethod. The Atlantic Squadron steamed into the harbor this forenoon fer the opening of the fair. Special trains are already seriving and more than 1,000,000 visitors are expected to attend the opening to- morrow. Fifty thousand workmen are foil- ing to put the huge $160,000,000 ¢x- position in shape for tomorrow and they will be working all through the night. The amusement area looks like a boom town although barren of its much-tooted strip teasers The main feature of the opening Sunday will be the address by Presi- dent Roosevelt which will be broad- cast throughout the world by an R. N, DeArmond, William DeAr- unprecedented radio hookup. A tele- vision service will also be inaug- urated for the first time in U country by national broadcasting Hallibfion Lost, Belief | a Chinese junk, survived the storm | on the eastern Pacific Ocean on March 24. This is the expression and wails, - TONGASS HAS 5 PASSENGERS JUNEAU BOUN SEATTLE, April Tongass, sailing last night lowing passengers aboard for Ji neau: Oscar Knight, Cara D. Irwin, M mond, Oliver Knight. - ELECTRA BRINGS 8 FROM INTERIO Eight passengers are aboard & right of President Roosevelt to in-|Harvester 55, Kennecott 31%, PAA Electra bound from Fairbanks|ierfere to Juneau this afternoon, piloted b |pyrope. Germany doesn't interfere 8% Al Monsen and Gene Meyring. An- other plane is due Monday. Pasengers are J. E. Hopkins. ORI £ Fifty cents an acre .pore yield, 29. — Steamer | for Southeast Alaska ports, has the fol- . w. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. April 29.| jem, Garrett Forbes, Valeria Paw- There is little hope that Richard j.p yames Doyle, Mrs. Ted Krem- Halliburton and crew of 14 aboard e Sparrow, Albert Reichart spel made by officers of the liner Presi-|for good seed corn may mean an ylich passengers on the Barahof. They dent Coolidge on arrival here from |increase of five to 15 bushels in| - it,he Orient, Second, most diplomatic experts |feel that the situation has gone {too far to be saved by diplomacy, |unless it be a last minute diplomatic |surrender to Germany, such as the {Munich settlement. ! Third, -both rival European camps |will speed up their efforts to ob- |tain allies in Central Europe and also in Eastern Europe. Announce- ment of the Soviet alliance with Britain and France may come next week. Fourth, Europe feels that Presi- u- | dent Roosevelt will not possibly gc]mm to be fully justified in giving greater American aid and encour- agement to Britain and France. Fitth, and most important, Poland becomes the next danger spot on the map of Europe. Summary | The speech was one of Hitler's longest. R‘ Here is a bitter summary of it main points: | One—Germany denies the moral in Germany's affairs in |wh(:n the United States takes any action in Ameriean Repubilcs like Haiti and Nicaragva. Two—Germanv has not found an nation which feels hersel! threat ened by Germany. Hewever, Ger- any s willing Lo give sion plcdges to aay of U President Rocsivelt ar nt na men- | (Continued on Page’ Three) that* Is Placed in Commis- \ sion Today HAMBURG, April 20.—The Ger- man Navy today commissioned the newest 10,000-ton cruiser Admiral Hipper. | The Admiral Hipper, named from the last Command-in-Chief of the Germany Navy during the World | War, is armed with eight-inch guns lin twin turrets, 12 four-inch guns, |12 one-inch anti-aircraft guns and four triple torpedo tubes. P .Roy&lly Now At Hyde Park 'Crown Prince and Princess of Norway Guests of Roosevelt HYDE PARK, N. Y., April 29. The Crown Prince and Princess of Norway arrived at Hyde fark yes- terday to be the guests of President and Mrs. Roosevelt The distinguished visitors made the trip up the Hudson from New York City on the Presidential yacht Potomac Prince Olaf and Princess Martha will return to New York Sunday. Stock QUOTATIONS N. W YORK, April 28. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at the short session today and the last one of the month, is 8, Am- erican Can 88, American Power and ;Iughl 4%, Anaconda 237%, Bethle- |hem Steel 55%, Commonwealth and 1%, Curtiss Wright 6, 1 Motors 417%, International New | York Central 14, Northern Pacific United States Steel 457%, Pound $4.68'%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: ingdustrials 12845, rails 25.86, utilities 22.06. > > The annual value of garden veg- etables grown for home use in North Carolina is estimated at $9,631,011, |said to be the largest of any 'state. EUROPE ARMING FOR WAR 'RU“NG ON | - Here's Fighting Srrcngrh of Europe’s NEW FORCES, ALL BORDERS Italy Admis_—Sirengthew ing of Army-Spanish Frontier Is Closed POLISH BOMBERS T0 STRIKE IF ATTACKED Roosevelt Ma; Answer Hitler's Speech Over World Hookup (By Associated Press) Furope resumed preparations for war today, apparently unrelieved by Hitler's speech yesterday. Premier Mussolini disclosed he i« strengthening the Ttallan army in “size and equipment.” The Nazi press reiterated criti- cism of President Roosevelt. In Poland, precautions are being taken on all frontiers facing Ger- many, while Polish newspapers de- clared Poland refuses to agree with German demands on Danzig. Warsaw cireles intimated rap- prochement with Russia is in the offing as a result of the address. France centered diplomatic efforts on Rumania, which is planning to propose a new plan of regulation on interest payments for indebtedness to the United States. According to a late communique, the Spaniards of General Franco's new regime have closed the French POLAND REPLIES WARSAW, April 29.—Poland to- day prepared a diplomatic reply to Hitler’s speech yesterday, but took extra military precautions to strengthen frontiers, The first reply is expected to take | the form of a speech by Foreign Minister Joseph Beck, to be deliv~ ered to Parliament next week. It was learned that Beck would declare Hitler's absorptions of Aus- tria and Czechoslovakia make it im- perative that Poland form an alli- ance with England. It is estimated that Poland has /1,300,000 men under arms already. The Army has scheduled impres- sive demonstrations of Polish air strength over all cities with mod- ern bombers and scouting ships that will bomb German cities, it is sald, if Poland is attacked. FDR TO ANSWER WASHINGTON, April 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt maw also reply to Hitler's talk in a fireside chat over international radio hookup, an in- formed source said today. The inormant said Hitler's re- The informant said Hitler's re- sponse to President Roosevelt's peace man Reichstag and broadcast over the world, so therefore the President is likely to reply. Sentiment is divided in Congress as to whether or not the President should reply. g BN B ST FRANCE, RUMANIA IN ALLIANCE ON DEFENSE ACTION Two Nations in Perfect Ac- cord-Germany's Next Movie Is Awaited PARIS, April 29.—The French Foreign Ministry announced, after a final conference between Foreign Ministers of France and Rumania, the formation of an alliance between the two countries in perfect accord. Informed French sources said Hit- ler's speech showed he is hesitat- ing on his future line of action. Newspapers in making comments, all take the view that Hitler's ad- dress was a maneuver aimed at con- cealing Germa next move, D MISS PETERSON RETURNING Miss Pearl Peterson, Clerk in the Regional Forester's office here, is returning ' on the steamer Alaska which left Seattle today. Miss Pet~ erson has spent six weeks on va- cation Outside, visiting a sister in California and attending the fair at San Francisco,