The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 2, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8274. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1939, MLMBI:R A S%)CIM[ D PRESb PRICE TEN CENTS RED INVADERS ARE REPULSED BY FINN U. S. May Stop Sale of Planes to Russia Bnllsh Deslroyer Glpsy (€Q) losl in Mine Bla_s__l EMBARGO ON AIRCRAFT IS LOOMING President Roosevelt Gives Out Important Stafe- ment on Subject SECRETARY OF STATE HULL MAY TAKE ACTION Senate Graap—May Go fo| Bat for Finn Aid Via Moratorium INGTON, Dec. 2—Without President Roosevelt, | ited States American manufacturers ’md* of planes, amoxmurcl ment and war materials will| bear in mind the Government’s pol- icy of condemning “unprovoked” bombing” of civilians. The statement was issued after a conference with Secretary of State | Cordell Hull ahd appeals to Russia | and Finland not to bomb civilain populations. | wmr,n House Secretary Stephen aid Finland is drafting a for- mal reply, but the American Mm- ister there has already received an! oral reply expressing Finnish “high gratification” for the United States, action. HULL MAY ACT i WASHINGTON, Dec. 2. — Wide- | spread speculation is evident that’ Secretary of State Hull might mar- shal public opinion against plane | sales to Russia by calling attention to his statement of 1938 when pub-| lic opinion halted shipments of | bombing planes to Japan after he| had cendemned civilian bombings. Another plan for proposed action, | now gaining Congressional support | is one for aiding Finland by voting | her a moratorium on her war debts | payments to the United States. 1 The plan is given support of Sen- | ators Norris, Borah, and Clark. Eenator Johnson of Colorado said he did not believe the action would | be fair to American taxpayers. - Russian legafion Damaged COPENHAGEN, Dec. 2.—All Wm- dows in the Russian legation here were broken during the night and other damage was done. 1 P BN s THOUGHT POOR, FRUGAL WIDOW LEAVES FORTUN CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 2—The se- cret wealth of Mrs. Jeanefte Lin- coln, 56, frugal widow, who spent her declining days on the fringe of pov- erty, added -up to the amazing total of more than half a million dollars. Securities were found in two safety deposit boxes and the remain- der was mostly in cash. | Lately, Mrs. Lingoln had been boarding at the home of distant relatives and paying them only $5 weekly. They believed she was poor. Till Chrigtmas ARE INVO Dec. 2—A $5,500,000 largest, ever listed in the King 1e suit claims in suit, ot f the been Superio; st over led Court 28 mining Coun cont Al 1 K. J. Field, 70-year-old Vashon Is- 'ALASKA MINING CLAIMS LVED, BIG SUIT land farmer, has filed the suit in| behalf of himself and more than a score of other former Alaskans. Named -as defendants are the Na- besna Mining Corporation and Ca F. Whitham, of Valdez, its head 1940’s Headlines May Bégm | Wl!ha.lapanese-u S. Tilt UNCARDED THRILL After fainting on a piatform 40 feet above the floor of the Boston Garden, Henrietta Wallenda of the Wallenda tight rope troupe is shown being lowered to safety. She was balancing on shoulders | of a fellow performer, who was in turn balancing on a chair on the rope when the spell seized her. She fought for consciousness un- til she was lowered to the plat- form, then collapsed. Twelve thousand attending'American Le- gion circus saw the unscheduled thriller. f(alifornia Republicans To Go Free Delegates afi 0. P. Con- vention Will Not Be Instructed SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 2.— California’s 1940 G.O.P. convention delegates will go instructed. This was the decision made at a meet- ing of the State Central Committee of the Repubncans Swedes Yell For Finland Demonstration Is Staged by Two Thousand at Stockholm STOCKHOLM, Dec. 2—Two thou- sand Swedes demonstrated = before the Finnish Legation here today shouting “Long Live Finland.” The demonstrators jeered Stalin’s name, - . Gen. U. 8. Grant’s tomb in. New York was built by popular subscrip- tion at a cost of $600,000. By I’RFNTO" (:R()\ ER WASHING1ON, Dec. 2 The State Department is keeping a weather eye out on Europe but the real trouble spot for this country just now is Japan. It will be the headline-maker around the first of the year It would be hard to find two na- so actively engaged in ruf- fling each other's feelings while at | peace as the United States and | Japan | | Naturally, both sides claim to be | | right. Each claims the pther is pur-‘ |suing a course which fails to |akc {into consideration the realities [the situation. | S |PRO AND CON Japan insists that the | States, along with all other non-| |Oriental nations, fails to “under- | stand” that there is a “new orde lin the Orient. The assertion that |others do not “understand” the pe- | culiar problems of the Orient is a | favorite one of the Japanese. { On the contrary, the UniLvd‘ States declares it very well under-' stands the situation. Japan, says the United States, deliberately set| jout to make over China in its own |image, all in violation of mwrna-i | tional law and in violation of treaties | Japan had signed with other coun- | tries. tions nil(‘d DEBATE GOES ON The Japanese always insist that the United States is being used by the British as a catspaw to protect British interests in the Orient. The United States says its inter- est is governed by a large concept— equality of opportunity once agreed to by a group of nations cannot be changed simply by one nation. “Failure to observe that prin- ‘ciple," said Ambassador Grew in a comprehensive statement to the Japanese of the U. 8. position, “breeds international friction and ill-will, with consequences injurious to all countries, including in par- | ticular those countries which fail to observe it.” Japan apparently forgot to r«mll |closely enough the part of that sentence after the last comma. Also | it evidently forgot to read the next part of the same paragraph, in which Grew said: “Observance of that principle (of equal opportunity) promotes the opening of trade channels thereby making available the markets, the raw materials and the manufactured products of the community of na-| tions on a mutually and reciprocally | beneficial basis.” | REPRISALS GROW That should have told Japan that such things as embargoes of raw materials were being discussed in the United States. But Japan didn’t take the hint. The annoying block- | ade of the British area in Tientsin— including the public strippings and searching—was extended in part to Americans. Reprisal came fairly fast. Senator Pittman, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, who frequently acts under State Department guid- ance, introduced a resolution calling for an embargo against Japan. Hot on its heels came the U. S. denun- ciation of the 28-year-old trade treaty with Japan. If the United States had wanted simply to exert pressure on Japan, it could have done so forcefully |and effectively while negotiating e new treaty. But just now it is popu- lar to lash the Japanese, so they got it in the teeth. The Japanese have replied in kind. Within the past few days a detailed report was filed with the State De- partment of the increasing restric- tions imposed by Japanese on Yan- kee operations in China. |lage of Olkinuora, drained of man- !of men who were away at war. | Radiophoto from London shows half submerged wreckage of the British destroyer Gipsy, beached after striking a mine off Englan ssing, 21 njured. coast. Forty men were miss FINNISH MOB BEATS 3 RED FLIERS DEAD Women and Children Kill Downed Airmen with Shovels and Axes HELSINKI, Dec 2—Women and children in the Kaarelin sector vil- Russian shovels power, fliers with axe: and shotguns. | The fliers bailed out of their dam- aged aircraft near the village, empty | today killed three pitchforks, Reports said small boys who sight- east ' FDR Gets His Christmas Seals UN'VERS"Y ed the Russians parachuting down, | § aroused villagers who surrounded the | fliers and beat them to death, al- | though the fliers attempted to de- fend themselves with pistol fire. [FRENCH RELEASE TWICE-FATHERS, SOLDIER DUTIES [Young Men Are fo Replace Oldsters in Front Line Trenches Is Order PARIS, Dec. 2—Premier Dala- dier announced today that all mob- ilized fathers of two or more chil- dren will be released to their homes, starting December 15. Fathers of four or more children have already been sent home. The Premier said that men over 40 years of age will be taken out of the front lines also and be replaced by young men in the rear. Today’s military communique said there was “nothing to report dur- ing the night” on the Wsetern Front. ' .- 30-MILE- WIND ‘ LASHES JUNEAU Wind reaching a velocity of 30 miles an hour whipped Juneau to- day, bringing more than an inch of rain to add to the already pro- digious total for the year. According to U. S. Weather Bu- reau instruments, the wind in- creased between 4 and 5 o'clock this morning, reaching a maximum sustained velocity over a five- minute period of 30 miles per hour from the east at 9:53 o'clock this marning. International lliustrated News Phonephoto President Roosevelt receives his quota of Christmas seals from Mrs. Ernest Grant, of the National Tuberculosis Association, which receives proceeds, and Rockwell Kent (right), who designed this year’s poster. The White House transaction nfliclally opened the annual drive. NATIONAL INCOME IN U. . WILL TOP 68 BILLION IN PRESENT Typhoon Hifs Philippines; DamageGreat Storm Moving Slowly Over Crop Areas in Many Provinces MANILA, Dec. 2—A ty- phoon has struck Suriago on the | northern tip of the island of Min- | danao with undetermined casual- ties, The typhoon swept slowly north- | severe westward, daamging crops and com- | munications in Samar Province and | heading toward Masbate, Legaspi| and Sorsogon provinces this after- | noon, | ory. - |ing YEAR IS CLAIM By 'Vl()ll(‘ AN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Dec top the 68-billion-dollar That's about four the net income ple will mark this year billions ahead for 1938. The unemployed at the end of the year will number about 8,000,000 | —or less than they" been since the stock market crash of 1929. That income is far short of the 90-billion-dollar economic millen- nium desired by President Roose- velt. And the unemployed are still | four times as numerous as they uelv in 1929. But there has been a sharp up- turn—better than most economists | dared to expect before the Europ- of |ean war came along. JUST “BAD MEMORY” Why the sharp improvement? Did the war do it? You'd be a lot closer to the truth if you chargen it up to a ban mem- That’s the conclusion of a large group of government econo- mists, ‘The European war could not be the | (Continued on Page Five) 2-~-The na-| | tional income of the American peo-|of the States, FISH CLASS ADVOCATED Gruenmg Plans Coopera- | tive Effort by U. of Al- aska, Ketchikan Lab SEATTLE, Dec. 2. — Dr. Ernest uening, bos on this morning for Juneau to take |oath of office as Goverror of Al- laska, sald Canada's entry into the war had not dampened enthusiasm of Capadians for the proposed Al- aska highway, | slight opposition and indiffer- |ence which were at first encoun- | tered in the Dominion, he said have disappeared. Building of the highway and estab- | lishment of regular airlines between Alaska and the States are the Ter- ritory’s most urgent needs, he de- clared. | It was learned here today that | one of the first projects Dr. Gruen- will consider upon his arrival in Alaska will be the possibility of im..musnmenc of University of Alas- ka fisheries classes, made possible jointly by the University and the Ketchikan fisherjes laboratory of {the Bureau of Fisheries Gruening will confer with J. W. Mendenhall, member of the Terri- torial Fisheries Experiment Com- mission, upon his arrival in Ket- chikan. At a meeting of the Washington State Press Club, Dr. Gruening com- "nn-ndvd Alaskan newspapers as a | “ereditable part of American jour- |nalism” and said the better papers are comparable to those in the cities | Gruening is a former |newspaperman of long experience. | DESTROYER OF SOVIETS SENTDOWN | 'Shore Bafferies af Hangoe Reported to Be Do- ing Good Work | LONDON, Dec. 2—A Reuters dis- | patch says it seems certain that Pin- nish shore batteries at Hangoe have sthk one Russian destroyer. [ A Reuters dispatch from stodb holm also says that reports indicate that the Russian cruiser previously reported to have been sent down, is | DEFENDERS RESISTING RED FORCE 'Heavy Losses fo Russian Army Reported from Karelian Front TWO COMPANIES ARE MOWED DOWN BY FIRE | Many Planes Destroyed- One Arctic Town Is Recaptured BU LLFTIN—K'RKEVEA, Norway, Dee. 2~Finnish troops have fought fiercely and are re- ported to have cleared the in- vading forces from the entire Petsamo district, Finland’s Arc- tic Coast port. It is admitted tonight, however, that it is doubtful it they can hold out in face of approaching heavy Russ reinforcements. Unconfirmed reports are that British warships are seen near- by. HELSINIKI, Finland, Dec. 2.— ig guns thundered today along the Karellan Front and the Finns are reported standing firm, repulsing and inflicting heavy losses on the Red Army invaders. Refugees reaching Karkenes, Nor- way, according to radio advices re- ceived here, report the Finns have recaptured Petsamo, Chief Finland Arctic port and more than 150 Rusy sians fell there and also north of Salmijarvi, site of the rich Canad- fan-British nickel mines. Planes Shot Down A Defense Ministry commumique says 16 to 18 invading planes have been shot down withoul any Fin= rding the steamer Yu- |nish air force losses. The largest land action-is at Suo- jarvi where the communique says “enemy losses are heavy and PFin- nish machine gun fire has annihil- jated two enemy companies to the Jast man.” Tanks Destroyed Military officials also report that three dozen tanks of the Russ in- vaders have been destroyed on the Karelia front, Russaroe fortress at Hangoe is reported undamdged despite heavy warship bombardment, e NOTHING DOING WESTERN FRONT BERLIN, Dec. 2—An official com~ munique says there are “no special events at the front to report.” Dear Children fifi/fi DOLL Ly SIGRID ARNE .+« is & Christmas serial for children. . . . It's all about a golk who comes e at midnight, and about the son of Lightning. And, of course, it's about Santa Claus, too! Read it in this paper start- ing December 4. still afloat but badly damaged.