The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — - JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1939. MLMBI R ASSOCIATE Fl D PR SS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LIV., NO. 8094. CANNERY SHIPS LOAD, TO SAIL NORTH HITLER ASKS WEALTHY ALASKAN ELOPES NAZIS GIVEN WITH NURSE BY AIRPLANE DERISION AS SIX NATIONS RGH, Pa., May 3.—Hen-|May 3—A romance of many yea ta, wealthy industrialist | standing scheduled to be cylmin- | |and Ala gold mine operator, and | .. oo 5 Gclock thi ‘“‘.l“,m e FALLLE Pauline Thatcher, University of | £4€ & ° o i v . " Wants fo Get from Under piiiiire et utee have eop. | e mavise of seney 3. e ant|“Dowp Hitler!” Crowds| {ed in a plane and will be married at | Pauline Thatcher, They arrived this | Swedish-Finnish Aaland | Awuaueraue [ torencon by planc from Pitisbureh ny as Army Celebrates | The couple surprised their friends| The decision to be married hes i by the announcement of their wed- ding plans and also stated they will fly from Albuquerque to Ketchikan, Alaska, where they will live. Mesta is a brother of J. H. Mesta and Frank Mesta of the Mesta Machine Com- Island Guns DIPLOMATS BELIEVE OTHERS APPROACHED pany. He has lived in Alaska for o T the past ten yea Der Fuehrer Talks of War fot New Mexico, Possibilities in Pact Proposals BERLIN, May 3. — Chancellor Adolf Hitler today sought to form a neutral bloc of at least six nations | extending across northern Europe and offered identical non-aggres- sion pacts to Denmark, Norway Sweden and Finland Similar approaches were made to| Latvia and Estonia, it is claimed. There are strong reasons to be- lieve that proposals of like nature | were submitted to a number of other European countries. Lithuania was not included in the projected northern combination be- cause her relations with Germany are regulated by a scparate treaty that contains non-aggression| pledges. The Nazi government agreed to proposais of Swedish and Finnish | governments to fortify the southern | group of the Aaland Islands, but| attached & condition of neutrality | to be reed to by Sweden and Fin- land that in the event of “possible | warlike entanglements” involving | the Baltic Sea area. The Aaland Islands dominate the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia, | northern extension of the Baltic) Sea. Redproal Assurances o . 2 Crown Prml(' Olaf and Crown York upon their arrival to vis injured. Princ still laugh when they disembarked from the liner Oslofjord at New the United States. coilided early with a pilot boat in New York Harbor. The royal pair are shown leaving the boat for the cutter erside on their way to a reception a was prompted by the fact that Miss Thatcher's uncle and brother John and Charles Thatcher live in Albu- A | querque. They met the plane. The| WARSAW, May — Cries of SiibiE L wive S ROIABRAREY “Down with Hitler!” mingled with | From here the newlyweds will, cheers today as Polish troops par- stop at Boulder Dam, then visit Pa- |aded through the streets of War- Coast points before leaving for Ketchikan M«<Iu had not se the n his bride for ss Martha of Nerway could Their steamer had No one was the Battery. Suggeste British Would Accept Cer- (Ap"AI' wo R R I ES AS tain Proposals from German Govt. LONDON, M.n d Prime Minis- ter Neville Chamberlain told the House of Commons today that the British Government would certain- 1y be ready to consider proposals to exchange reciprocal assurances with the German Government. WASHINGTON, May, 3. — States The Prime Minister denied there|have built such legal are any ground to the charges the (An[qnglen\e[ll\ about British have adopted a policy of en-| quring the depression in order to| circling Germany. @ The British Prime Minister By PRESTON GROVER also | Protect home industry that Federal said that “what President Roose-|Clficials are seriously concerned | velt proposed to Hitler was an ex- about those barriers’ effect on busi- change of assurances on non-agres- | 2€55: sion rather than a guarantee on a The restrictions are in the form of taxes,”quarantines, or truck and | highway regulations designed to Poland.” shut out produce coming from other states to compete with local pro- ducts. No Federal law has been found to deal with it as the states have established their power to im- pose the restrictions. More than a dozen states have |imposed taxes on oleomargarine in ‘order to protect butter producers. reciprocal basi given by the B such as recently sh Government to Hundreds Believed Killed |t s 35 s s pound tax on ot or Injured by Japan- ese Warplanes CHUNKING, May 3.—Hundreds| are believed to have been killed or| injured as Japanese warplanes raid- | ed thjs Chinese wartime Capital City. e, FAMOUS PIONEER IS AT GASTINEAU| Dan Kennedy, pioneer of the Klon- dike and Fairbanks, is stopping at the Gastineau Hotel for a few days/ on his way back to his Palmer home. | Kennedy made history years ago when he took the first load of gold | of Fairbanks over the route of | out the present Richardson Highway, using horses and wagons, put a 15 cents a poun(l tax on oleu- margarine. Southern trade organi- zations hit back at once. Says | the Mid-South Cotton Growers As- | sociation: : “The Wisconsin Manufacturers { Association has announced that ‘lm]')mn of dollars of contracts for | Wisconsin agricultural and manu- | factured products have already been cancelled by business ,men in | sympathy with southern produc- | ers of fats and oils.” BBEER TAX WAR | Indiana put a tax on out-of-state | beer to protect local brewers. Michi- gan and other states retaliated by | drafting a law penalizing beer made in states with such laws as Indiana’s. After a year of experfence, Indiana repealed it this spring California started thé business of out-of -state | taxing prohibition repeal amendment l} authority of a faulty wording of the!wants She wines sold in this country. barbed-wire | ¢1eS W | states themselves ! VARIOUS STATES WAGE THEIR WARS ON TRADE wanted maker to protect California wine But almost at once her win- e damaged, because other followed the Michigan plan of boycotting states with such laws. Years ago the state Grange shoved an oleomargarine tax through the Idaho legislature. But a few months | ago Grange leaders came yelling | back to Washington to pruteslwhat Nevada had done to Idaho. Representative Halleck of lndl»‘ THREE NATIONS |arranged to meet in Geneva on May POLES MAR(H on Anniversary | in celebrating of Poland’s saw, Poland’s capital, the 148th anniversary tirst constitution. Other shouts were heard, of “Hur= rah for Polish Danzig! East Prussia must be Polish!’ Crowds jammed |along the eight I route of the parade and threw flowers. as clate] tering “cavalry units and groups of| mechanized weapons filed by ! Underneath the apparent gayety, | however, was a sober note of fren- the \xdow‘llk‘s' zied defensive preparation in the face of tense relations:with Ger-| many { - | these under arms. Note the recraiting GET TOGETHER OVER ALLIANCE Foreign Secretanes Great| -Britain, France, Rus- sia, Are fo Meet LONDON, May 3—Foreign Secr taries of Great Britain, Prance and | Russia are reliably reported to hav DEMANDS FOR MOREPOWERS Insists on Larger Voice in - Government of Infer- ‘ national Settlement 15 to complete the projected alliance The League of Nations is also sched- uled for a meeting in Geneva on the same day. Maxim Litvinoff of = Russia, Georges Bonnet of France and Vis-| TOKYO, May 3.—Renzo Sawada, count Halifax of Great Britain have | Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs agreed to take the opportunity of | has presented to United States and the League's session to negotiate to| British ambassadors demands that end the present deadlock over the|the Shanghai Municipal! Council extent of the alliance. governing body of the Shanghai ————— International Settlement, be reor- ganized. The demand asks the reorganiza- tion in order to give the Japanese a larger voice in the International Set- | tlement Affairs and permit more complete control of “terrorism” in the settlement Bawada declared the structure of | the council was outmoded long and that the “Japanese community fair expression LITVINOFF QUITS POST MOSCOW, May 3.—The T of - ficial Russian News Agency, an-|is Dot given its due nounces that Maxim Litvinoff, Com- | in the administration of the set- tlement.” missar of Foreign Affairs, has been | Molotoff, Chairman of the Council Molotoff, Chairman o fthe Council | of the Peoples Commissar, cquwa]uu.\ to a Premier, has been named suc- cessor, in addition to his present post. The Tass said the Presidium of | the Supreme Soviet Council ‘“re-| leased Litvinoff upon the latter’s re- | quest.” FIELD EXECUTIVE T0 BE SPEAKER sawada added that some nieasures must be taken immediately. Japan now has two members on| | the council, the British five, and |the United States two. Before the | Japanese War, there were five Chi- nese members. . RUMANIA OFFERS SETTLEMENT, WAR | DEBTS OWING U.S. ana, one of several members of | Congress seeking suppression of AI S(ouI DI"NER‘ such < laws, is particularly irate| | WASHINGTON, May 3. — Ru- about milk regulations. He said| {mania has presented the United regulations once designed to pro-| tect the health of milk drinkers had been bent around to protect | | milk monopolies. I PRICES GO UP 1t works this way: City authorities | permit entry of milk only from dai- | ries inspected by city or state in-| States with a formal note offering settlement of its war debl of about Court of Honor Tomorrow setement a' Bflranof Under R | It is expected the State Depart- E Robertson ment will announce the details later. > - | George Galvin, Field Executive of | the Boy Scouts of America, who is J STocK QUOTATIONS London recruits did not appe E Halleck, within a prescribed area, out other competition. “In nearly every instance” Halleck, “milk prices climbed.” He is particularly incensed the nation’s very own capital that- sort of milk inspectiorr scheme.| Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel at| 47 “Of all the places to have such a|6:30 o'clock. racket,” said Halleck, “it is city of Washington, which Congress | | controls.” He said cream in Indiana | chikan on his way, north, will con- and Wisconsin is $12 a can while | tinue on to me Weatward | in Washington it is $30. But the end is not yet. Ohio has| pxopmmg a\ gone one better, law to by tax foreign liquor. tary of State Hull put in a pxotest‘ reciprocal hundred teams were entered in the | the outlook in 1939 for higher pri liquors under |trade treaty with the U. S. and she | Indiana State Basketball Tourney| for ready-made garments caused Chamber of Commerce tomorrow this year, requiring sixty-four elim- many farm women to renew inter-| there. France has a no special taxes on pectors. That sounds beneficial. But, { in no time at all the| dairies within such states persuaded | the inspectors to limit their inspec- | tions to dairies within the state or shutting | here for a week from Seattle head- | quarters on a regular trip in con- nection with Scouting activities, will be a speaker tomorrow night at the annual father and son dinner of today is 8%, American Can 86 | Juneau Scouts. a | American Power and Light 4% R. E. Robertson will be the other|.onga 24%, Bethiehem Steel 56% NEW YORK, May 3.—Closing quo- tation of Alaska Juneau mine stoc ., Ana- says | principal speaker and will preside | commonwealth and Southern 1%, |over a Court, of Honor to be held‘c‘mN Wright 6% Conscription Fails to Dishearten Britons r downhearted. The censcription officer at right. This picture .IAPAN GlVES Reveals Troth to Di Maggio | Dorothy Arnold, Hollywood film actre: Arnoldine Olson, annocunced that ‘ Yankee baseball star, summer. M | aid: A can opener. PLANE CRASHES, - THREE MEN DIE Newspaper’s—Ship in Acci- | dent Flying on Adver- tising Stunt GRENADA, Miss., May 3. — The Memphis Appeal airplane crashed here late yesterday afternoon kil- ing George Stokes, photographer, Ted Northington, - reporter, and John Crump, son of the famed Mem- phis political leader. The plane came down in attempt- ing to land during an aerial junket ing flight of five planes advertising the Memphis Cotton Carnival. The Commerc; the best known Mississippi Valley | daily newspapers o , General Motors that | at the dinner. %, Internationa! Harvester 8%, has| The dinner is to be held in “N‘\Kennornn 32%, New York Centrai Northern Pacific 8%, Umted‘ I Irv Noble is in charge| gates Steel 48, Pound $4.68 3-16. of the ticket sale. Galvin, who spent a week in Ket- | the ‘ DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: ination tournaments, est in home sewing, nerl industrials 132 30 said attle, and K. O. Scribner, of ces ington Arms, will be guest S(OUT EXECUTIVE AND ARMS EXPERT CHAMBER GUESTS | rails 26.66, utilities 22.04. the Boy Scouts, with offices in Se- INDIANAPOLIS, May 3. — Eizht Home demonstration workers Rem As usual, the Chamber at Percy’s Cafe at noon, will eat| was radiced from London to . planned to be married sometime during the Arnold, is shown practicing with a bride’s chief kitchen Appeal is one of | ts of the) Y ™ 3STEAMERS SCHEDULED- FOR ALASKA Libby, McNeill and Libby Vessels Announce Departure Dates SAILORS WALK OFF FROM TWO VESSELS Cordova, DeTwood Tem- porarily Tied Up-Orders of Union of Pacific SEATTLE, May 3.—While nego- tiators in the Workers and Alaska Canned Salmon Industry wage and hour controversy report progress, | three large ships of Libby, McNeill ’nnd Libby are to sail north soon. | The steamer Otsego will leave for Despite the fact they are reading the news that ihe government, for the first time in modern peace his- 1Alaska May 9 with 400 men and a tery, had anncunced that young men between 20 and 21 would be drafted to boogt British armed strength, 4,000-ton cargo of supplies. The Gen. W. C. Gorgas, also |with men and supplies, will sail Inorth May 23, and the David W. |Branch will sail May 24. Loading of the three ships has tarted. Over 20 cannery tenders are now headed for the north from various ports. Negotiations with the various un- jons involved in the dispute con- tinue with settlements reported nearing. would put approximately 1,000,000 | New York. Y SAILORS WALK OFF SEATTLE, May 3.—Sallors aboars the freight-passenger steamers Cor- |dova and Dellwood walked off today by orders of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. Both ships are being loaded and |were scheduled to sail for Alaska Iwmurxow | Officers of the Alaska Steamship Company said the union complained |about the company’s methods of op- erating shipyards at West Seattle but the exact grievances are nok announced. DEFENSE IS GIVEN ONE MORE BOOST President Signs Measure that Involves Many "Crifical’ ltems ; whose true name is Dorothy | she and Joe DiMag New York \ | WASHINGTON, May 3. — Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the bill i providing for the immediate appro- ARMY OFH(ER priation of $153,000,000 for “criti ~ FORFAIRBANKS cal” defense items including sea coast defense and fleet expansion. The legislation is for moderniza- Flrsi Lieut. Welling Going | fo Inferior for Two tion of the battleships Tennessee, California, Colorado, Maryland and r Duhes | PORTLAND, Ore, May 3.—Col. Physicist's Device {John Lee, Divisional Army En- ineers, said Pirst Lieutenant Elvin Welling, of the Engineering p’Odmes Mus" From Light Beams | Sehool near Washington, D. G, will | be transferred to Fairbanks, Alaska, 0 take over engineering projects . summer time and direct the' LOUISVILLE, Ky, May 3. — Dr. at the University of Al-| Donald Bennett used a device con- in the RO.TC. aska during the winter. structed of an electric battery, a - tin can, a photo electric cell, a re- ' volvi disc full of h *Appomlmenl amplifies (o Hiey Yo Biack Jou” and “My Old . o[ Roper Is |an y Kentucky Home. 'Iempotary Bennett, a University of Louis- WASHINGTON, May 3 West Virginia. The bill also provides for the Army to put $110,000,000 worth of tanks, anti-tank guns, semi-aute- (matic rifles, gas masks, ant{-alr= craft guns and artillery ammuni- | tion., ville physicist, played the tunes by |directing a beam of light on the re- It is|volving disc. Mechanical impulses disclosed that the nomination of |thus set up causes the apparatus to Daniel C. Roper, former Secretary emit tones differing as the light of Commerce, to be Minister to strikes it through differently spaced Canada, is only a temporary Ap-]h()leh The amplifier makes the pointment and he expects relief sound audible to the human ear. | following the visit of the British| The outfit was a part of an en- King and Queen. Who the perman-|gineers’ day exhibit {ent Minister will be is not indicated. |campus. y exhibl; - on Belknap