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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8369. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1940. MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW MOVES FOR EUROPE § AT WEEKEND § Diplomatic Maneuvers Center in Conferences | at Berlin, Rome | MYSTERIOUS ACTIONS ARE BEING REVEALED Uncerfainty of New French | Government Is Puz- | zling Issue (By Associated Press) | The British-German sea struggle, | uncertainty of the French Govern- | ment and diplomatic maneuvers connected with the Balkans marked the surface of calm Europe on this | Easter Eve. Following up last Monday's Bren-| ner Pass conference between Fuehrer | Hitler and Premier Mussolini, from | which Germany expects extension of | the Rome-Berlin Axis to Moscow, | comes the visit of Foreign Comm sar Molotoff To Berlin which is be- | ing forecast for this holiday week- end and the move is hailed as part of the mysterious activities appar- ent in Europe. Meanwhile, Italy became host to| Hungarian Premier Count Paltel- eky who has arrived in Rome for conferences with Premier Mussolini | and Foreign Minister Ciano. This visit appears linked with Germany’s desire for economic ex- pansion in Southeastern Europe but with Italy's anxiety that peace may be maintained there. e Television Is To Be Given More Airing .. - New Hearings fo Open-| May Postpone Commer- | cial Use of New Science | WASHINGTON, March 23. — The Federal Communications Commis- sicn has ordered its television hea ings reopened because, it was said, “of promotional activities” of the | Radio Corporation of America. | The new hearings are to slarb‘, April 8, and aré to be held, the com- mission declared, to “delermine; whether or not research, experi-| mentation and achievements of higher standards in television are| being unduly retarded by this com- | Foreign Minister Arita has rejected 100k like the balance sheet of a| pany and its subsidiaries or other| licensees. It is also to be determ- ined whether or not the effective date for beginning of limited com- mercial operation should be chang- ed from September 1 to some sub- sequent date.” David Sarnoff, President of RCA, said he was “amazed” at the action. - WHITE EASTER IS FORECAST; SNOW SUNDAY Fur Coats Will Mark Fash- on Parade with New | Bonnefs at Home | Snow flurries will thin the| ranks in Juneau's Easter Parade| temorrow, according to the Weath- | er Bureau, and many new bonnets | may rest in their boxes until bet- | ter Sundays. | All churches will hold special| Easter sesvices and one church| will hold special sunrise services.|igent Roosevelt has practically re-bome convincingly that there are| greeting the dawn with song and|covered from his cold and nides said | black figures there that balance. trumpet. The Weather Bureau predicts| light snow tonight and Sunday, temperature about 17 degrees to- night, and moderate, occasionally fresh northeast wind. Which means that fur coats wfll supplant Easter frocks on the sidewalks, | Turns Down | pan’s policy of non-involvement in |the war is unshakeable and there | parliamentary Roce va (’llor 5 Mrs. Julia Browne Colt (above), 21, Colt, Jr., will neither confirm nor Winthrop Rockefeller, fourth son were “very good She is she did say (hey each other often recently. - dog, Duice. home with b CAMPAIGN FOR, AGAINST WPA LOOMING; BALANCE SHEET IS TO BE REDUCED :. Rome-Berlin Axis Tie-up ' | [ | | | | Japanese Foreign Mims‘erf Rejects Demand fo | Strengthen Ties | TOKYO, March 23. — Japanese| a demand that Japan strengthen ties with the Rome-Berlin axis. The action was requested in or- der to prevent possible British pres- sure in the Far East in the event that the Allies win the European | war. | The Foreign Minister said: “Ja-| is no necessity for changing it at present.” | Arita made his statement at a budget committee meeting. He was responding to a question by member Shoichi Mi-| yake. | President Roosevelt Recovering: o | WASHINGTON, March 23.—Pres-| he now has no fever. ; On advice of the White House physician, Dr. Ross McIntyre, thc‘, President is remaining in bed today. e Curacao is the largest of the islands possessed by Holland ml |the West Indies. | what you'll be ying |in | talking about telling the world all {ing seen red on the ledger for five | years, is likely to be pretty skepti- Ronmm e! JAPAN, U.S. RELATIONS DISCUSSED Two Nippofiovernmenf Heads Quizzed, Amer- ican Navy Expansion TOKYO, March 23-—Premier Ad- miral Yonai and Navy Minister Ad- miral Yoshida both assured Par- liament today that the Japanese | Navy is “ready to meet any situa- tion” resulting from the surrent ex- pansion of the United States Navy.| Premier Admiral Yanai, who is a rmer Navy Minister; Admiral Yo- shida and Foreign Minister Arita were asked numerous questions con- cerning American and Japanese re- | lations. At a session of the Budgef Com- mittee of the lower house, Arita de- clared he did not believe the situa- tion between the United Staes and Japan were deadlocked. He fur- ther said .>gotiations on pending issues are continuing although he said he was unable to disclose their nature. - - - TAX RECEIPTS L OVER 1939 SUM divorced wife «! Samuel Gilbert 39 u deny reports of a romance with of John D. Rockefeller, Jr, but friends” and that they had seen shown in her Beverly Hills, Cal., Over Year Ago ASHINGTON, March 23 Al spurt in income tax collections ha tinally pushed receipts for the cur- rent fiscal year ahead of those for a corresponding period in 1939 The U. 8. Treasury disclosed to- day that current receipts for the H’.ll had been held back by a lag income tax collections, despite ases in other types of revenues. Income tax collections this year, compared with last ye: now almost constantly take, but the Tre HINGTON, March 23.—With | today shoowed a tc the ction just around the cor-|for the year through March 21, as ner and a lot closer than prosper-|sq 304,000,000, compared with $4,- ity was when that phrase was first 303.000,000 for the same period in applied to it, the WPA is sailing 19390, into a campaign to let the public know in dollars v ars and dimes anj graphic description just what has accomplished. The story behind the story JACK STINNETT led 1939's statement By - reading and henr- about WPA is this: The Repub- ns, committed to relief them- | selves, can only hope to blast the | WPA by concentrating on waste and extravagance — if any. The Democrats have to spike these guns (and first, if possible) by making a relief ledger (books that are always in the red, you know) lic \War Tide Turning in Favor| of Defenders. of gDH)" concern. | Works Erogram Administrator s |Col. F. C. Harrington and others Kwangfl the Administration have been SHANGHAI, March 23.—Dispatch- about WPA for a couple of years. es received here in dicate that the | But it took the pressure of a com- war tide is turning in favor of the ing election to get the program |Cinese in South China’s Kwangsi up on its hind legs and howling.|Province. Believe me, the two-fisted colonel| The sector is the principal scene and his press department have got of the Japanese military activity in their work cut out for them. recent weeks. According to dispatches the Jap- THE ACHILLES' HEEL anese have not only been repulsed The idea is to follow the radio but driven back.” and type barrage on general ac- TR R | complishments with forays into m(- Fol]" 'I'AKES o""l tates, and finally a mop-up releases tc the nation's 3,000 coun- s o v LEAVING ON YUKON hasn't -been worth every penny of ‘ the hundreds of millions poured| George W. Folta today took his cath in the office of the Clerk of which | Court here as Counsel at Large in sniping. | the Solicitor’s office of the Depart- a|ment of the Interior. Folta wil} leave on the Yukon to | confer in Washington as to his new position. ———————— 'MRS. CAUTHORNE RETURNS NORTH Mary Keith Cauthorne, Advisory mostly | Nurse in the Division of Maternal But | and Child Health of the Territorial jt's | Department of Health, returned on going to be different. the steamer Mount McKinley to- The folks in Kiunk county know,| |day from the States where she at- of course, that they have a newW"“"’Ed a course in the Nursing Di- | vision of the University of Ore- (Continued on Page Three) ngn Medical School at Portland. into its hopper. Their Achilles’ the opposition will is that WPA, being primarily vast made-work program, is cost-| ly and open to all sorts of waste and extravagance. The public, hav- heel, at keep cal unl it can ‘be hammered WPA's ammunition for battling criticism so far has been reams of dry-as-dust figures. now, the colonel's lads insist, ON INCOMEGO Sudden SplIr—t‘Puts Collec-| - tions One Million {NEW FREN(H ve up to| ceiptst | SOUTH CHINA ow-Pac ked Yosemite Streaming at full speed across snow-jammed Sierra pasces, a squadron of B-1-A twin-motored bombers of the U. S. National Park, ¢ regions. Ten Million for PREMIER TO REMAIN ON ‘deernmerfi—Will Stick It | Out af Least Until ’ April 2 | PARIS, March 23—Despite the fact that a vote of confidence, car- ried by only a margin of one vote. | new Premier Paul Reynaud has de- | cided to keep his Cabinet of the new | Government in office at least until | April 2. The Chamber of Deputies has gone on a vacation mml A])lll 2 YOUNG SENTERCED T0 6 MONTHS BUT \Correspondent, in Bad, with Japanese, May Return to U. S. TOKYO, March 23.—An American tence for writing articles said to be| anti-Japanese. disposal of the Japanese prosecut- ing attorney, but he will be liber- ated if the prosecutor does not ap- peal the case within a week Although the correspondent is free to remain in Japan if he likes, it is understood that he will return to the United States. - — MINA SOLOVIEFF i HOMEWARD BOUND FROM STUDY ABROAD, To join. her husband, Vladimir Solovieff, in Juneau, after three years of vocal study in Europe and years in Italy and made her opera debut abroad. After she returned to the United States, she spent a vear in New York continuing her vocal work. She has recently been visiting friends and relatives in Cal- ifornia. Upon her return here she will have been absent from Juneau just three years to a day. aked with late winter ice. Relief Recommended fo Congress by (ommlllee IT IS SUSPENDED Army’s Seventh Bombardment group from Hamilton Field, Cal, Bombers are flying at an altitude of 14,500 feet over the high Colonel Earl Duferd was in charge of the maneuver which took the sauadron along the mountain (ROMWELL IS Indian WASHINGTON, March 23. — Warned by John Collier, Commis- sioner of Tndian Affairs, that Amer jcan Indians are facing a very criti- cal situation, the House Committee on Indian Affairs, has approved of a bill to authorize $10,000,000 for Indian relief. The House amended the bill to Committee has clude natives is shown high over Yosemite TAKING BLAME, TORCNTO TALK Makes First Sraiemem Since Controversy Started on Speech March 23.—James United States NEW YORK, H. R. Cromwell, Minister to Canada, oday that the vie in his speech at were “made entirely responsibility.” vs he expr d Toronto recently on my own in Alaska now under the Indian Service jurisdiction The committee also broadened the bill to permit of the purchasc f capital goods in' addition to food and clothing - Britisher Is Mauled By Chinese | Atfack Mad?TJy Mob on | Vice-Consul-Japanese | to Make Inquiry 1 | | PEIPING, China, March 23Tt has been disclosed at Peiping that a mob attacked British Vice Con- |sul D. J. Robey last Tuesday in Honan Province. 20l vas struck on the arms |and shoulders by bamboo sticks I but was not injured. | The attack took place in a hotel correspondent, J. R. Young, has been | ynere the Vice Consul was dining residence where she given a six months suspended 5en-| with missionaries George Kingand fined for the past six months. Her R. G. Struthers. Thirty Chinese burst into thc ! Great Britain,” and “Where are the Britons.” Japanese patrons of the hotel | drove off the Chinese. Police are said to have taken 30 minutes to arrive on the scene. The British Embassy at Peiping { has protested to the Japanese Em- ,b«\.w which has promised to in- vestigate Robey was in Honan Province in- | vestigating the burning and loot- | ing of Canadian church pxoperty 'Robert Mize to Visit in Juneau New York, Mina Solovieff will re-| turn north April 2. i Mrs. Solovieff studied for two and now assayer for the First Na- tional Bank at Fairbanks, is en- route to Juneau on the steamer Al- aska for a stop-over before return- ing to the Golden Heart City. He has been vacationing in the States for the first time in several years. During his stay here he will visit with his brother -and sister-in-law, \Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Mize. | Robert J. Mize, formerly of Juneau Cromwell made the statement the first since the controversy de- veloped over his speech Continuing, Cromwel hed reports that Pr evelt saw in advance a copy of ny Toronto speech or had any nowledge of the contents before- said: “Pub- dent Roo- ind, are made out of whole cloth. Such stories are absolutely un-| mw Cromwell was “called down” by Sur tary of State Cordell Hull for his anti-German pro-Ally speech and in his letter to the Minister | ‘standing instr to Canada said tions not to say anything that is| likely to disturb relations between this country and other Govm‘n-’ ments” were violated - KATHERINE JACKSON DIES YESTERDAY AT NINTH STREET HOME Mrs. Katherine Jackson, for over forty yea inent in Salvation Army wor ssed away yester- at her Ninth Street has beén con- day afternoon given at 69 years. ‘widow of William Jackson, is The | age Young still is being held abt the|yining room, shouting, “Down wita Who died in 1937, Mrs. Jackson since his duties as that time took over Field Captain for the Salvation Army. | She is survived by a daughter Mrs, Peter Dick of Juneau; a son, Milton Jackson of Ketchikan; and a brother, John G. Benson of Kluk- wan. The remains are at the Charles W. Carter Mortuary pending funeral arrangement. Paralyzed by ' Monoxide Gas March 23—J. W as he drove home SALINA, Kans Blevins felt faint He pulled over to the curb and turned off the ignition. Paralyzed by carbon monoxide gas, he sat for unable to signal pass- three hours ing motorists or to open the win- dow. Finally his son, alarmed when he did not come home, searched the i streets and found him. declared here | BRITISH PREPARE FOR ATTACK BY SUBS Bombers Dash Over ! NEW WAVE OF WARFARE IS EXPECTED Protection to Vital Sea Commerce Is to Be Afforded GERMAN U-BOATS ARE T0 SWARM OVER OCEAN Throttling of Norwegian | Ore for Nazis Seen in ‘ Submarmmg LONDON, Marcn 23. — Great Britain began today bracing her- self in expectation of a greater |wave of German submarine attacks |on her vital sea commerce. ‘ The British are seeking to kecp ;sup!)lies flowing by coaxin trals, under British conv | ships with what England tecds in “Lho way of foodstuffs and other | commodities. Great Britain notes Lhe large concvntr tion of German submar- |ines just outside Norwegian waters. | ‘Unotficial acvices received here 'state that one commander of a German U-Boat told Norwegian fishcrmen that “submarines will oon be as common as fishing ves- | sels.” | Great Huiiain is alsc making a move t throttle German imports especiuily Norwegian ore. This is een in me wters after the British A :«d and sank the | Heddernheir the entrance to | the Baltic \. This is the first |of such submarinings since the start of the war, e | | (emelery - Shoofing; 22 Killed \Eleven Mourners Machine | Gunned - Survivers Rally, Shoot Eleven | MEXICO CITY, Mar« 2. Pres patche: d here fr 1z reported 22 1 cemetery bor dispute in a su hich seven persons died fic | juries. The dispateh said eleven mourn- rs at a funeral were killed by hine gun fire near the village of Cuatololapan, Vera Cruz State, and wrvivors rallied and then killed leven attackers. - Oidest Marriage Broken by Death VANCOUVER..B. C., March 23— The oldest marriage in British Columbia has been broken by the death of Mrs. Henry Cranswick, 98. She and her husband had been married nearly 73 years, Besides her husband Mrs. Crans- wick is survived by five children, 17 grandchildren and ten great- children. - > REST REQUEST PEARISBURG, Va., March 23— In a spirlt levity preceding an lection, eight citizens presented 1 petition to the Giles County | Board of Supervisors requesting | that the authorities “provide pads |to cover the led roots of the shade trees on (he courthouse lawn,” where the citizenry seeks shade in summer, and also to ‘provide pillows, with freshly | laundert illow cases, for those weary citizens who at times are unable to sit erect and must needs recline ac full length.”