The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 28, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA y ALL THE TIME” “ALL THE NEWS A EMPIRE VOL. LV., NO. 8373, }UNI;/\U ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, I 940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BALKAN SITUATION IS GROWING Welles Is Back From Europe; Makes SPECIAL OFFICIAL RETURNS Under Secrefary Arrives in New York — Hurries to Washington HAS IMPORTANT NEWS, | HE TELLS REPORTERS Personal Ob—s;rvafions Are Laid Before President Roosevelt and Hull NEW YORK, March 28—Sumner | Welles, Under Secretary of State, who has been on a tour of European | capitals obtaining data on the Eu-| ropean situation to be presented | personally to President Roosevelt | and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, | arrived here aboard an Italian liner. ‘ Welles left immediately for Wash- | ington, D. C., to make his personal | report Welles told the newsmen: “1 can give you some real news,” and smilingly continued: “I am mighty glad to see you and I am glad to be home.” Welles answered all of the scores of questions fired at him wit ‘1 have no comments to make.” REPORTS TO ROOSEVELT WASHINGTON, March 28.—Pres- ident Roosevelt has received rrom Sumner Welles a first hand report on conditions in Europe. Welles went to the White House with Secretary of State Cordell Hull hall an hour after arrival here Welles carried with him a small tan dispatch case in which he said | were the notes on his observations | abroad. SHELL FIRE DEALS DEATH T0 HUNDREDS Japanese Soldlers, At-| tempting fo Cross River, | Raked by Arfillery HONGKONG, March 28, A Central News, official Chinese agency dispatch, reports the drowning of 700 Japanese soldiers who attempted to cross the Ula River in a counter attack offen- sive against the city of+ Wuyuan, in Suiyan Province. The dispatch says artillery fire sank several of the large boats conveying the Japanese soldiersand | they were drowned in the swift| current or in the struggle to es- cape death. Both Japanese and Chinese re- ported occupation of the ecity yes- terday. TOKYO AFRAID OF U. 5. NAVY WAR MANEUVER Rear Admiral Expresses Concern Over Phil- pine Developments TOKYO, March 28—The Jap- anese Admiralty views with grave ccncern reports the United States is strengthening naval forces based | in the Philippines and is plannlng1 grand scale maneuvers extending into the western Pacific. ‘The statement of Nippon fears| was made by Rear Admiral Kana-' zawa, | stock today . Farley Says - Pestmaster General James A a candidate for President. “And shown above with his daughter, MAINE FOLLOWS ALASKA IN DEMO INSTRUCTIONS FARLEY TO STAY OUT OF MUDDLE IN CALIFORN Will Not Seek Delegation for Him to National Convention SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 28 —Postmaster General James A Farley has notified state Demo- cratic leaders that he will be pleased to keep out of the Cali- fornia squabble for National Con- vention delegates. Farley announc- ed his presidential candidacy last week, He has wired E. T. Mattox, a member of the California State Democratic Central Committee, that | under. no circumstances will he enter the May primary election. Farley said he would not mit a slate of delegates to filed i1 his name. Four slates of delegates to the be for al- candidates convention ready are in the field in Califor- nia. One is pledged to President Roo-| sevelt, one to Vice-President Gar- ner, one nomirally to Lieutenant Governor Patierson and the fourth is unpledged., . ‘ Stock QUOTATIONS — .o NEW YORK, March 28.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine is 6%, American Can 29, Bethlehem Steel 115, Anaconda 5%, Commonwealth ern 1, Curtiss Wright 10%, Gen- eral Motors 54'¢, International Har- vester 57'%, Kennecott 35'%, New| York Cemral 15 3/4, Normern Pa- cific 8 United States Pound $3.56%. Steel 57, DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow. Jones averages: industrials 147.25, rails 30.55, utilities 24.55. Warley announced at Boston that his name would be presentéd to the Democratic Nationd Betty, is a student, after he made the announcement. * | National per- | and South- | He Will Run | AFL PLANS BIG DRIVE IN ALASKA Building Trades Agents to| Come North Soon on Expansion Program SEATTLE, March 28. — A broad program of organizing activities' along the entire Pacific Coast, ina} cluding Alaska, is being pushed by | the American Federation of La-| bor, the drive to be intensified | within the next few weeks. Meyer L. Le of San Fran- | cisco, Western Director - of AFL, said the next move of the organi- zation will be in Alaska for the purpose of broadening the AFL or- | ganization drive there. Lewis said at least two repre- sentatives from the Building Trades | will leave here soon for the north to aid in the expanding campaign. - SUSPECT TAKEN IN CONNECTION WITH SLAYINGS, Double Murder Is Bemg Probed Anew as Man Arrested, Portland PORTLAND, Ore, March 28— Detective Captain J. J. Keegan said a man has been arrested here for questioning in connection with the double slaying last fall near Ever-| ett, Washington, of Alfred Allin- son, 32, and Cyril Ables, 27, Cali- fornia migrant workers. BANGOR, Me., March 28. — The Keegan declined to reveal the | Democr of Maine have joined name of the man arrested, but said | the Roosevelt third term movement | the arrest was made on informa-| and have pledged the delegates to | tion given by a private detective ag- the Democratic National Conven- ency and was accomplished on a | tion to vote for President Roose-|downtown street corner shortly be- | velt, should he seek reelection, with fore noon today. National Democratic - Committee A “relable informant,” Keegan de- Chairman James A, Farley as sec- clared, related meeting the arrested ond choice |man in Marysville, California, last M.mw has followed the example year in April and in May, and later Alaska which previously chose here where he appeared in the fall, | six delegates who are pledged to driving an autemobile which he said Roosevelt first, Farley second. belonged to Allinson and which had Farley addressed the delegates been given him for keeping up pay- |to the State Democratic convea- Mments on it. tion here and following the instruc-| The car was placed in a private tions to the delegates attending the [5arage and police located it this Convention to vote as a Week- unit, Farley said: “I am very grate- | 1he bodies ful and I hope to justify the con-| Were found last week Thursday, fidence placed in me.” | near Everett. Both men had been New Hampshire Democrats, eign"’"“““c“ and skulls crushed. {votes in the National Com’cnuon e 'WATERFRONT Mysterious Fire Occurs prscusSION longshoremen Employers | Near Berlin Not Yet Agreed to Five- Brief Announcment Says Year Peace Proposal "Highly Inflammable o ‘ Mate”al Burns' SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., March 2 | | | —Another meeting between water- | ’ —_— (font employers and longshoremen BERLIN, Marcli 28 —A mysterious | headed by CIO leader Harry Bridges | !fire has occurred in a big factory'has ended in another stalemate. | on the outskirts of the city, the| Bridges promised to submit to the | DNB, German news agency Says,|employers a letter outlining in de- and “highly inflammable material| taj] his proposals for a five ycarq burned.” | peace plan. The DNB did not disclose wheth-| The principal issue is the demand er the “inflammable material” con-|of employers for a cash or bond sisted of munitions of war. guarantee to assure that both sides - X would keep the contract. The em- RIFLE CLASS POSTPONED | ployers suggested that each side put | up from $10,000 to $30,000. | No more Boy Scouf rifle classes| Employers' Association President {will be held until the weather | Foisie said Bridges propoosed that warms up and it becomes possible| public opinion, and the right of (to get out on the rifle range for| either side to cancel if the other actual practice, it was announced.\iolated be the means of enforcing ! |today by Jay Williams, instructor. the contract. that’s that,” rley added at Wellesly College, where she | | I of Allinson and Ables | fractured mer Quoen Mar\ Goes to The Bi as a troop ship. AIR COUNCIL BOOSTING FOR CONTINUANCE CAA AVIA"ON AID ALASKA \Party leader in Pittsburgh | SEATTLE, March 28. The Northwest Aviation Council, con- cluding a three-day session, adopi- ed a resolution for active support of the McCarran Airport Appro- priation bill now in Congress. The McCarran measure provides for the appropriation of $125,000,- 000 for cooperation of the Federal Government with States in build- | ing landing facilities. sh liner Queen Mary, whic the Battery, with downtown Manhattan in the background, on the way to sea, supposedly to go into service | Her bigger sistership, the glant Queen Elizabeth, is in refuge at a New York dock. The Queen Mary followed the Mauretania out to sea by 12 hours. K ea Again TENSE Report BRITISH OFFICIALS RECALLED . Ambassador fo Turkey, has been docke at New York since the war began, is shown nearing 'COMMUNIST IS CITED BY DIES | COMMITTEE MEN { Won't Talk When Plac- ed on Witness Stand i S | | WASHINGTON, March 28—The! ice of Dies Committee today voted to| line landing facilities in Alaska. |cite George Powers, Pittsburgh | Joe Crosson, General Manager Communist leader, for contempt, of Pacific Alaska Airways and because of his failure to answer famed pioneer of the northern air-|questions and produce Communist | ways, represented Alaska at the| Party records. convention. The decision was made at Another resolution asked that lhtu Civil Aeronautics Authority tinue expand the in con- it air- and work now doing further: the | OVER PAYMENTS, INCOME TAX, WITH BIG INTEREST, WILL COME, COED MURDERED AND MUTILATED IN GRISLY CASE Body of 16-Year-0ld Girl Found Slain—Clothing Is Badly Torn STATE COLLki., Pa, March 28.—Rachel Taylor, 16, Freshman girl student at Pennsylvania State College, was found slain with a skull today with evi- dences of having been brutally @ tacked in the driveway of the Le mont Consolidated School The girl student was the Home Economics in Depart- ment and was a resident of Wild-| wood, N. J. Most of her clothing was from her badly mutilated body She apparently had been mur- dered shortly after she returned to school from her Easter vacation, probably met by someone at the bus station, because she failed to check in at the dormitory In high school Miss Taylor was Treasurer of the Senior Class and lactive in various athletic activi- | ties. torn - eee NO COURT s Judge George F. Alexander an- nounced today there will be no Federal Court Saturday, as that day is observed as a holiday in Alaska, Seward's Day. > ATURDAY Grog, sallor’s term for rum and|ypcle gam will discover the fellow water, was so called from the grogam breeches worn by Edward Vernon, an English admiral. ! don't studying | ling conclusion of a stormy session in | which the husky Russian-born | Powers refused flatly to give the\ | commiltee the names of Commun-| ist Party leaders on the grounds, “You're trying to blacklist our people in industry.” On Monday, Chairman Martin | Dies recommended similar con- tempt proceedings be instituted | against James Dolsen, another | Pittsburgh man who balked under | qu“'mmum' | >ee Kidnap Atfempt Is Made Invalided Son of Late Mil lionaire in Danger of Abduction DENVER, Col., March 28.—An ap- | parent attempt was made early to-| day to kidnap Jackie Lowe, 16-year- | United States Treasury and get alold invalid son of the late John| return lke that?, Lowe, millionaire paint manufac- | However, that story about Wall g er Streeters making intentional er-| npro Margaret Hill, 36, a maid at| rors on their returns just to get|the home of her mother, Edith, was! their money invested with the!severely beaten by the intruder who | Government at 6 percent 'Wh""y!nr(otl his way into the home and U. 8. Treasury notes are only pay-|demanded around 1% percent, and long! “Where is the boy?”" bonds only 2 to 3 percent)| He fled and Mrs. Hill reached for| is all hooey | and burglar alarm calling the police. In the first place, any person| No trace of the intruder was who would be willing to risk not! found. | getting his back for a measly six percent would be too dumb to have made enough money to pay an income tax. Tax refunds come out of tax hearings or the dis- coveries of Internal Revenue check- ers. And when the checkers discov- er that something has to be paid back or hearings are scheduled on protested payments, you can bet| at any odds you can get, that the| tax return of the person involved is gone over with a fine-tooth comb. And the chances are pretty good that, under such serutiny, DON'T WORRY, By JACK STINNEIT WASHINGTON, March 28 Iry you have an lncmnn-tax»[mvmem hangover, be of good cheer. You| may get some of it back, with in-| terest About panies s and iment be 160,000 persons and com-| got around $60,000,000 inj| interest back from the| last year and one of the lucky ones gove you may this time 1f the your Government's got money it some doesn’t deserve, worry about it, either, be- cause the Internal Revenue de- partment is paying about the best interest in the country mdav~i percent. Where, in these parlous times, can you invest money with a company or bank as safe as the | { 3 term - BRITAIN, JAPAN RELATIONS ARE NOW IMPROVING TOKYO, March Ambassador Sir made a surprisingly conciliatory address here today bringing the| | prediction that improved relations with Japan are certainly seen. - - The dahlia was discovered Mexico by Cervantes in 1784, 28. — British | Robert Craigie didn't pay all the tax he should = “(Continued on Page Five) 4 Ministers to_ Four Other Nations Ordered Home ALLIED COUNCIL OF WAR IS SOON TO MEET ExIensuon of War Against German, Russian Atti- fude fo Come Up LONDON, March 28.—British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax today recalled the British Am- bassador to Turkey and the British Ministers to Bulgaria, Greece, Rumania, Hungary and Jugoslavia. The move is interpreted here as fereshadowing a British dip- lomatic and maybe military of- fensive in the Balkans. The sit- uation caused by the recall is tense. BIG CONFERENCE SLATED LONDON, March 28. — Ways of | extending the war against Germany |and clarification of the British and French attitude toward Soviet Rus- sia are scheduled for discussion by the Allied Council of War very soon, is the announcement made offic- ially here today. Russian relations are sharpened by the British detention of Russian freighters in the Orient and also the recall of Soviet Ambassador Ja- kob Surits from his post in France. Bome British circles hold to the ! belief that Russia is becoming un- easy over alignment with Germany and the Soviet Union is likely to pursue a cautious foreign policy from now on. ALLIES GET HUNDREDS OF U. §. PLANES 1,600 Delivered, 2,700 Being Built - 8,000 May Be Ordered WASHINGTON, March 28.—An official report has disclosed that American aircraft plants have de- livered about 600 warplanes ta French and British forces in the last 14 months. The report further declares that production is being rushed on or- ders for 2,700 more planes. Aviation experts, after confer- ring with Army and Navy offici- als, voiced confidence the plants could handle the heavy orders which are regarded as forerunners of a large scale Allied program for purchase of an additional 8,000 | planes with an estimated cost of a billion dollars. NO INVESTIGATION WASHINGTON, March 28—The Senate Military Affairs Commit- tee late today voted 5 to 4 against conducting a formal investigation of military plane sales to France and Great Britain. The vote followed denials by War Department officials that such sales interfered in any way with produc- |tion for America’s armed forces. e e WAR AIDS U. §. WASHINGTON, March 28.—The State Department announces that exports to Canada, France and England jumped more than 150 mil- lion dollars during the first months of the war. During the same period imports from the three countries rose only $42,670,000.