The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1939, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS il ) ALL THE TIM THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LV., NO. 8275. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1939. HOSTILITIES MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ' BLOCKADE ON * GERMANY T0 " BE EXTENDED " Great Brifain and France Announce Neutral Ships Be Seized ANOTHER BRITISH SHIP IS SENT DOWN BY MINE Raid on Nazi Naval Base Made-Reports on Dam- age Conflicting LONDON, Dec. 4—The 3800 ton British steamer Eskedene was sent down yesterday when the craft The crew of 29 land- struck a mine. ed in Scotland. Great Britain and France today the blockade on Gerr seize Nagi exportg includ- ing thi Great Britain simuitaneously an- nounced she has put 33 German||them, Photo, top, shows a German mine being merchant ships out of action in the |of the deadly globes awaits its turn as another is. three months of the present war. Unofficial reports list 87 British | SLAYER OF TWO JUNEAU merchant ships have been lost at sea in the warfare. Blockade of exports shared atten- tion with a raid by the British Royal Air Force bombers yesterday on the German Naval base at Helgoland. The Air Minisiry announces that direct hits were scored on Nazi war- ships. The German High Command refutes the statement and declared the British raiders only scored one hit and that on a small fishing ves- sel. The communique also says a sub ¢ carried by neutral VEssels. |ong of the wartime duties of the neutral Duteh Coastgusrd is to watch| mines that are washed on Dutch beaches and to destroy for belligerent ~ WOMEN AGA ~ FROM ARiZ PHOENIX, Ariz, Dec. 4—Winnie | 'Neutréiizh1g a German Mine P_'—_f__'-'———__—_—-—. hauled away. Bottom, one is exploded in the distanca,| IN IN ESCAPE | | ONA HOSPITAL six weeks ago Mrs. Juda: walked | destroyed a flier on patrol duty on guth Judd, insane trunk murderess|out of the hospital and disappeared the North Sea D Gay 'Rebel of Brit. Royalty Passes Away Princ essTmise, Great Aunt of King, Dies After Long lliness, London LONDON, Dec. 4—Princess Lou- ise, Duchess of Argyll, sixth daugh- ter of Queen Victoria and great aunt of King George VI, died yes-| terday at the Kensington Palace| apartment after a long illness. Surviving children of Queen Vic- toria are the Duke of Connaught and Princess Beatrice. Princess Lou- ise was a gay rebel against the con- ventionalities which ruled the royal society of her youth, She shocked her mother's staid court by insisting upon studying art and won a popular following by turning down proposals from a whole group of German princes and be- coming the first English princess in 350 years to marry outside royal circles. Her wedding in 1871 to John Campbell, Marquis of Lorne, heir to the eighth Duke of Argyll, came when the nation had become open- ly exasperated at Queen Victoria's pro-Germanism and at the number of German princelings who had married into the British royal fam- ily. It persisted for years and in- spired such music hall ditties as “So in our royal family now. ‘There's neither a son nor a daughter, But what we've got from the Ger- man stock, Imported over the water.” As Marchioness of Lorne, the princess accompanied her husband to Canada in 1878 for his term as Governor General of the Dominion He became ninth Duke of Argyll in 1900 and died in 1914. The marriage was childless. All her life Princess Louise was devoted to art. “I do not want to dance,” she told her father, Albert, the prince consort, “I want to draw and study art.” Creator of Victoria’s Statue Although such pursuits were then considered unconventional for a princess, she was allowed to study sculpture under Sir Edgar Boehm and for many years worked in a studio attached to the apartments (Continued on Page Three) of two Juneau women many years | %ngu. last night escaped for the sec- | ond time within six weeks from the | Arizona State Hospital for the In- | sane, | | Key Pox, member of the GOVf‘l'-‘i convicted of the “trunk murder” of | nor’s secretarial staff, said last night | Helvig Samuelson, former Juneau| he had reason to believe she had | either outside help or had procurred |a pass key. | Fox said the blonde murderess escaped through the back door of her ward about 6:30 o'clock last night. Hospital nurses checked Mrs. Judd's ward shortly after 6 o'clock and at| | | that time she was sitting on the| ;edge of her bed apparently in a | |nervous and disfraught condition. | | When the nurses returned half an | | hour "later she had disappeared. | | Two women attendants of the hos- | pital found tracks leading from the | hospital grounds that they believe | were those of Mrs. Judd. | Bloodhounds have been ordered from the State prison at Florence |on chance they might pick up the |slayer’s trail. one evening. No trace was found | of her. She finally refurned of her | own accord, bedraggled and starv-| ing. Mrs. Judd, wife of a physician, was school teacher, and Anne E. Leroi Miss Samuelson became ill with tuberculosis in Juneau and came here accompanied by Miss Leroi They occupied a cottage with Mrs. | Judd. A trunk shipped to Los Angeles | was noticed dripping blood, Opened by the authorities, it was found to contain bodies of the two women. Mrs. Judd was finally arrested and charged with the crime. Jeal- ousy over the alleged intentions of men to the Juneau women was giv- en as the cause for the double slay- ing. Two executions by hanging were stayed and Mrs. Judd was finally aced in the Arizona State Hos- | pital for the Insane. FINLAND NOTTO " BEDEPENDENTIS | STATEMENT MADE; CommunisIErty Organ Blames Democracies 1 for Reports | MOSCOW, Dec. 4—Russian news- papers deny that it is intended to convert Finland into a dependent country. The Pravda, official organ of the Communist party especially raps the reports and attacks “the Democra- cies” for such rumors, and names Great Britain, France and the Unit- ed States. The Pravda says a mutual assist- ance pact has been signed between the new Peoples’ Government in Finland, Russian dominated, to eliminate forever the causes for mu- tual distrust and “lay the founda- tion for a firm indestructible friendship.” The People is recog- nized over the new Finnish Gov- ernment. Jla s ™On Sl PR, FIVE TO GO OUT Five passengers went south with the steamer Tongass from here yes- tedday, four t oSeattle and one to Ketchikan. To Seattle—Frank Winkler, Mrs. B. E. Yhilityoca and daughter and Glenn Carl. To Ketchikan—I. A. Thatcher. RELATIONS OF JAPANESE AND U. §. IMPROVE Grew - Nomura Parley Is Making Headway To- ward Agreements TOKYO, Dec. 4—Sources close | to the Japanese Government indi- cated today that Foreign Minis- ter Admiral Nomura has present- ed the United States a tentative formula for settlement of the prin- cipal Japanese-American problems. It is understood reliably that Nomura and American Ambassador Grew have surveyed the whole field of relations between the na- tions at a conference which -lasted almost two hours, The Foreign Office said a mutu- ally constructive spirit marked the Nomura-Grew conference and gen- eral optimism from both sides is evident. - er—— SIMMONS FLIES ON ISLAND ROUTE/ Four passengers flew to island points with Shell Simmons in the Lockheed this afternoon. Jim Broulette was flown to Tenakee, Jack Littlepage and Lula Anderson to Chichagof, and Pete Mandarich to Hirst. | - ABERDEEN | steady stream of automobiles mov- ing slowly past the wrecked Com- | | munist Hall is the only outwra| | reminder of a two-hour riot Satur- | with the furnishing H. P. Huff, Grays Harbor County | Executive Secretary of the Com- |munist Party, issued a statement | charging the riot | create “war. frenzy WuPei-fu | |Chinese Poet and Soldier, | armies were routed by Chiang Kai former Juneau nurse. | land atfacked Shanghai. He reap- MOB RUINS RED HALL Commun'istflSecretary Blames Riot on Soviet- Finn War Situation ABERDEEN, Wash, Dec. 4. — A day night in which some 400 per- sons besieged 25 Communists. in the building which was later destroyea an attempt to among the Fin- nish people, which they failed to do because of fim and distortion spread by the press and radio in connection with the Finnish-Soviet Union sit- uation.” Huff criticized city officials for | not acting to prevent the disturb- ance, charging they knew of the| plan. Dies Affer OPf'ralion\ Paradoxical Character, Passes Away PEIPING, Dec. 4—Marshal Wuj Pei-Fu, 61, poet and soldier of Re- publican China, died today after an operation for an infected tooth. ‘Wu has lived in obscurity since his Shek. Wu Pei-Fu, whose name was something to conjure with in China, was one of the most para- doxical of all the characters de- veloped in the cock-pit of Chinese politics. Gaining the title of Marshal in the military field, he was a better poet than soldier, and a more suc- cessful diplomat than a fighter. His prestige survived defeat and he once controlled five huge prov- inces without enriching himself beyond the stage where he could live in modest comfort. Resisted Japan Five years after Chiang Kai- Shek had annihilated Wu's army, the latter emerged from a Buddhist monastery to help his old-time ne- mesis unify China against Japan when the latter occupied Manchuria peared at Peiping in January, 1932, as “honored guest” of Chang Hsiao- Liang, ousted govermor of Man- churia, and became one of the rallying centers for resisting the Japanese aggression. Wu was born at Peng-lai, prov- ince of Shantung, in 1878. In his youth he gave great promise as a scholar and became licentiate with the degree of Hsiu-Tsai, won by competitive examination. But rela- tives persuaded him to adopt a military career and in 1898 he| graduated from the Peiyang Mili- | tary Academy at Tientsin, In Imperial Army He went into the Chinese Im- perial Army and served for several years as aide to.the commander of the empire’s forces in northern Kiangsu. Establishment of the Chinese Republic under Yuan Shih-kai in 1912 brought him a post as a regi- mental commander and although his gifts as a painter and poet al- ready had earned him the nick- name among his colleagues of “the poet-soldier,” he also had gained a name as a strategist and tacti- cian, The Yunnan revolt of 1914-1915 against President' Yuan's attempt to make himself monarch of China, brought Wu his first batch of wide- spread fame. Yuan ordered the youthful colonel to crush the re- bellion and the latter accomplished the task with such thoroughness | that he was made a major general. In 1916 he won another promo- | (Continued on Page Four) Norway Uses Subs to Enforce Neutrality Three of Norway’s small fleet of submarine: The country angered Germany by interning tk en, and releasing the freighter. put into neutral Berg ‘Safe for Wa Their fighting days over, German jnspection “somewhere in England” | lAY E R STRIKE One of their jobs is filling sandbags, “They are given plenty of | “but their health and good humor are captors, work,” says the English censor, tinues to enforce her neutral rights t’s Duration prisoners of war are lined up for before setting off to work for their well looked after, in contrast to stories we hear of German camps.” OLD SUPREME COURT IS CHANGING; IS NOT WHAT IT USED TO BE, NO, SIR! By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — The death of Justice Pierce Butler gives President Roosevelt his fifth ap- pointment to the Supreme Court and there is a better than average chance he may have an opportun- ity to appoint one and perhaps two more, The Hughes is such that he has given up all social activities, although of | all the members he was the most socially inclined. He has duced one iota the staggering amount of work that falls upon a Chief Justice. Observers who know his disposition express the belief that if a time arrives when he can- not accomplish his full quota of work with his old ‘assurance, he will retire at once. The possible retirement of Jus- tice McReynolds has been rumored and forgotten a half dozen times. It is widely believed that he once had definitely made up his mind to remain on the court until after the 1940 elections. That way he could keep open one place for a non-New Deal appointment if the elections should run that way. Yet with the death of "Butler, McReynolds' only persistent asso- ciate in dissent is gone. Those two were the survivors of the con- servative group which blocked New Deal legislation until the mid- way ecourse charted by Chief Jus- tice Hughes won the support of Justiee Roberts in 1937. That swung the court majority to the Iliberal side. McReynolds was bitter at the shift of direction, health of Chief Justice | not re-| | {and his displeasure has been dis- hxlflyed often. To remain on the court will leave to him the whole| buyrden of supporting and writing | the dissents, a job which had been | shared liberally by the more suave, diplomatic Butler. | LESS “DIGNITY” The whole personality of the court has changed as markedly as the tone of its opinions on sociologi- cal and governmental issues. The four pre-New Deal members. Hughes, McReynolds, Roberts and | Stone, are elderly and -dignified, | some of them stern. The four Roose- | velt appointees, Prankfurter, Reed, | Black and Douglas, are far less so, although in court Reed frowns, al- | most glowers, from the bench. Once behind the velvet curtains that shield them from the court specta- tors, the four newly appointed mem- ibor.» are ebullient, 50 report comes | out. 2 Except for the gracious though | commanding presence of Chief Jus- | tice Hugl there are no “outstand- |ing personalit | rival the late Justice Oliver Wendell | Holmes and the retired Justice "Brnndm.& 8o far no close friend- |ships have developed even among |the New Dealers like those which characterized that of Holmes with and the late Chief Justice White. SOME DISAPPOINTMENT In the eyes of old time observers. the new members have presented (Continued on Page 8ix) s draw up for inspection before setting out on neutrality patrol. g the Nazi prize crew of the American City of Flint, when they Despite the perilous situation, however, Norway con on the court to 'WILLIAM DICKEY, - NORTH EXPLORER, . DIES IN SEATTLE Mining Man Credited with | Naming of Mount ‘ McKinley SEATTLE, Dec. 4—Willlam A. Dickey, 77, former Seattle and Al- | aska mining engineer, died last Sat-~ urday. | Dickey was widely known as an Alaskan explorer and is credited with naming Mount McKinley in honor of President McKinley. A | A native of Manchester, N. H, 1he was a graduate of Princeton. | As an amateur baseball pitcher here, Dickey introduced the curve jm\ll to Northwest fans. Dickey later acquired mining {property in the Prince William | Sound district and continued to operate it until his death, widow Maud, a son, and two daughters, all in Seattle, survive. GERMAN MINE - MINE:BLOWN UP Forty-eight Members of | Crew of Fifty Feared | fo Bg_ Eilled | COPENHAGEN, Dec. 4—A Ger- | man mine layer struck a mine and sank toddy off the Danish coast. Only two survivors were found of a crew reported to be 50 men. - 'Rumania-Russia fo Operate Train Lines . For Aiding Germany CERAUTI, Rumania, Dec, 4—An agreement has been concluded be- | tween Soviet Russia and Rumnian officials for reopening of the rail- road between Cernauti and Lwow in ‘the Russian occupied part of Po- |land. | ‘The rail line forms an important | link in the transportation route over | which Russian supplies will be ship- |per to Germany. The agreement provides that only freight can be shipped by the Russians over the l])axwm{m' traffic being forbidden ’anrl freight traffic is restricted to Ifive trains every 24 hours and the trains must move during the night. | Anfi-Trusi Laws Do Apply, Labor Unions WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Attorney | General Murphy holds in a letter to President William Green of the | American Federation of Labor that his one time colleagues, Brandeis|anti-trust laws do apply to labor un- | ions. | The letter is a reply to one written |to the Attorney General by Green a week ago contending that labor |organizations are specifically exempt; from the terms of the anti-trust| | statutes. Cernauti-Lwow Railroad, mail and | CONTINUE, SNOWY FIELDS FINNS SEEK PEACE PLAN IN 2 MOVES Swedish Aid Is Asked at Moscow - Forgotten leaguas_CaIIed HEAVY CASUALTIES REPORTED, SOVIETS Romans Confinue fo Boo Russia and Cheer Finn Defenders BULLETIN — HELSINKI, Dec. 4.—Finland s fortifying strategic islands guarding the entrance to the Gulf of Fin- land it is announced tonight. The islands have been subject to a diplomatic tangle between Finland and Russia, MOSCOW, Dec, 4. — Russia reports her army is advancing both north and south against the Finns and her navy is making sweeping attacks on the Baltic, having captured several strategic islands. HELSINKI, Dec. 4. — The Finnish Government announces 1,500 Russian soldiers have been captured north of Lake Lagida on the middle section of the Russian-Finnish border. —_— A (By Associaied Press) Two Dpeace moves are afoot to end hostilities in the snowy battle- fields where Finnish and Russian fighting has drawn the world’s at- tention from the stalemated war on the Western Front. The League of Naiions machinery was set into motion at the arbitra- tion demand of Finland and the Swedish legation In Moscow was asked by Finland to consult the Kremlin on possibility of peace “without violating Pinnish independ- ence or vital interests.” Five Islands Captured Russia is reported to have cap- tured five islands in the Gulf of Finland and continued land advanc- es on the Kerelian Isthmus, north of Leningrad. According to frontier dispatches, 3,000 Soviet soldiers were said to have Janded at Petsamo Fjord, Fin- land’s Arctic outlet. Helsinki felt safe momentarily from air raids because of a heavy snowstorm, and announced almosu all civilians have left the city for safer inland locations. Heavy Russian Casualties Heavy Russian casualties are re- ported by the PFinnish High Com- mand which sald land mines and machine gunners have cut down hundreds, while it is thought in addition that ice, coating Pinland's many frontier lakes, has caused ad« ditional hundreds of casualties ag heavy tanks and men crashed through. In Pinland's invoking of tha Léague of Nation’s seldom used ma- chinery for settling international disputes, she appealed for arbitra- tion of the Russian-Finnish dis« pute. League Session Called The League Council has been called to meet December 9, next Sat- urday. Some Geneva observers said the sudden League activity looked as though League members are anx- ious to force Russia to either sub- mit to arbitration or withdraw from the League. Repercusion from the Finnish-8o- viet conflict was felt in Rome where. an angry crowd demonstrated in front of the Finnish Legation, cheer- ing Finland and booing Russia. FORESTER DOCKS The Forest Service vessel Fores- ter arrived back in port Saturday night after a run to Hoonah with a load of equipment.