The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” - : JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1939. PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LV., NO. 8277. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ' GRUENING BECOMES ALASKA"S GOVERNOR - Italian Warplanes Go to Aid of Finland 'INAUGURATED " Governor and Mrs. Gruening CRAFT ARE ; Red Bombs Rair Death on Helsinki, Fire City [FIVE NAZI | o s g REPORTED DELIVERED ok | British Firms Are fo Help| SRy Out Defenders with War Material LITTLE NATION IS OBSERVING BIG DAY Victories Claimed by Offic- ial Spokesman-Tanks Are Destroyed LONDON, Dec. 6. A Reuters dispatch declares that 50 Italian made war planes have been de- livered to Finland by air. Twenty- five air craft were delivered Mon- day and 25 others were flown to the Finnish Government yesterday The dispatch claims Italians are piloting the planes to be instruc-) tors and were accompanied by' ian mechanics with tons of extra equipment. cen of the mode the raids. Soviet wars RECEIVE BRITISH AID LONDON, Dec. 6--Authoritative; sources disclosed today that Brit-! ish firms have arranged to sup- i ssian bombers set aflame important sect ry bombs were dropped November 30 pellied the Finnish government to announce a state of war aga were reported killed and wounded during the hombings and subsequent capital, target of Soviet air bombs, a sweeping inv hips Menace Finnish Coast in s of Helskini, beautiful capital city ion by land, sea and air Wl st the Finns reported ten Russian planes were shot down in ply a score of fighting piyues and SUBS SUNK ! Churchill 3ay> Victories| Over U-Boats Passes Building Pace ALLIES REPORTEDLY SINKING 3 A WEEK Million Tons of Brifish Warships Now Under Construction LONDON, Dec. 6 Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admir- alty, announced today in the House of Commons that five German sub. marines have been sunk by the French and British navies this week Churchill said the destruction of Nazi submersibles during the week surpassed Germany’s capacity to place her and constituted severe blow to the enemy The Admiralty head also said the Allied drive against German subs is destroying from “two to four| weekly” which is a “rate superior to what we believe is the German power in peplacing U-boats.” | cfibrchill sald more than a thou- |sand British merchant ships are| {armed for defense and two thousand | I more will soon be added to this im- | ening, new G enroule to Se Limited traii Deeember 1, Yukon, RUMANIA GETS MOSCOW ORDER 70 "'SIGN UP" which brought the They arrived in June after in- h com- . R. Two hundred fifty iew above shows center of Finland, losses a War 1 Backing Imperialist Warfare tle, aboard the North cau last eve ¢ of Alaska, and Mrs. Grueni Pacific Railway’s North € m into Seattle on the morning of \g aboard the steamer 'HARRY WATSON " RESIGNS FROM SECRETARYSHIP Estella Draper Is New Sec- refary fo Governor Gruening | IN CEREMONY LAST NIGHT Envisions P?o?;ram of De- velopment for Territory on Land, Sea, in Air BARTLETT T0 TAKE " MORE ACTIVE PART New Governor Is Strong Booster for Internation- al Highway to North Ernest Gruening became Gover- nor of Alaska at 7:40 o'clock last night when the former newspaper- man and Washi@gton official took his oath of office at the Federal Building office he will cccupy. A group of about 40 officials and | friends looked on as Notary Pub- lic M, E. Monagle administered the oath to Dr. Gruening. The cere- mony was broadcast. Jack Hellenthal acted as Mas- |ter of Ceremonies for the inaugu- | ration. He introduced Gov. John W. Troy, who in a brief message |of greeting to his successor said |he was glad to be relieved of the | responsibility of the office. Inaugural Address that “considerable quantity” eof other war material to Finland. The British Govermnent has expressed sympathy for Finland. COURAGE BOLSTERED L HELSINKI, Dec. 6—Her courage bolstered by official announcements of successes against the Russians,, Finland today honored the heroes | of her independence, just 22 years! ago, while her fighters for freedom | ir ae P fought back an increasing tide of | invaders from Russia. The Government has issued a communique stating 2,000 Russian soldiers have been captured since the invasion began last Thursday, and 64 Russian tanks have been destroyed. Eight tanks were destroyed yes- terday and many prisoners taken in the Karelian Isthmus fighting. | The Finnish spokesman empha- sized that Russian losses are “very heavy compared to those of Fin- land, Watch for Raids After a heavy snow storm this morning, the skies cleared early this afternoon and a few residents of deserted Helsinki went about their tasks with eyes watching the skies for raids. Members of the United States diplomatic Corps were received at the Presidential Palace to inscribe their names on the Independence Day Gold Book. It is estimated that only about 50,000 of Helsinki’s quarter of a million population remain in the city and they are working harder than ever for defense. e Fritz Kuhn Isin Cell Under Guard Convicted G_é;nan-Ameri- As Soviet air, for a quick dash. 'ALASKA TRAPPER NOW IN MARINES; HE SAW A MOVIE Theodore Allen Comes| South from Nome, En- lists at Portland PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 6.—Theo- dore J. Allen, 21, of Nome, who mushed a dog team to town after seeing a movie about the Marines, enlisted here today. Asked how he got the urge, Allen said: “Aw, I saw a movie in Nome ‘about some Marines and I decided that was the life for me.” Allen has been a trapper since childhood. TP i BIG WATERWAY " PROJECT NEARS | | | | ] { i | warships, such as these. were sighted off Helsinki harbor. OSSINING, N. Y. Dec. 6—Fritz . o | Signed Betweer| Unit- special prisoner in Sing Sing Prison Kuhn has been sentenced t0 ed sources said that an accord will of Bund funds and forgery. He ar- ation of $200,000,000 Great Lakes- can Bund Head Shield- CONSUMMATION Kuhn, convicted head of the Ger- ed States, Canada today. He is in special custody and serve from two and one-half to be concluded soon between the Unit- rived from New York City shortly St. Lawrence River deep waterway ed from Enemies | o8 iAccord Is Expected fo Be man-American Bund. became a' guarded from potential enemies. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Inform- five years on conviction of larceny ed States and Canada for the cre- before noon. “nnd power project. S land and sea forces moved against Finland in the unde s i e i | I Eapiutedin | RE'S T00 MUCH COTTON South Atlantic BUT U. S. PRICES MAY RIS THE By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 6—Such a queer turn has the cotton market taken that in spite of a record world surplus of American cotton, the price may be jacked up a half cent a pound in the domestic market in the next few months because of a technical shortage. Under the cotton loan program. which was originally designed to put a floor under prices but now can be used to push them up, the De- partment of Agriculture has 11,000,- 000 bales of surplus tied up by loans v outright ownership. This com- ing y there will be a world de- mand for 13,500,000 bales of cotton he department estimates, 7,500,000 bales for this country and 6,000,000 bales abroad However, the crop just harvested brought only 11,885,000 bales. That means that more than 1,500,000 bales of American cotton must be found some other place. GOVERNM! ' WILL HOLD ON Where will this extra cotton come from? Of course, the government could release some of its own cotton to prevent an upward price squeeze —but the government has been try- ing to get the market to climb and is not likely to push it down, not in 1940. The cotton will have to come from supplies held by the growers. Of course, they don’t actually hold it posing total Mines Do Di e | Germany’s magnetic mines have | { accounted for more than half of the | { British sea losses within the past | month, Churchill declared, adding { that the magnetic mines are neither | | mysterious nor new, while prepara- | | tions for counter measures were al- ready far advanced before the firs | magnetic mine was shown in British { waters. Following this statement, Churchill | g declared: “At the present stage of | building, we have nearly a million tons of warships under constructior |in all classes, and much of this con- | {struction is already in the advanced | | stage.” [ *‘Gerfinghip | L el ared war, it was reported Rus: E Prize Crew from British! Warship Is Placed They turned it over to the govern- Aboard ment as security for loans. Last i ARS year these loans amounted to 83| | ONDON Dec. 6, — A Reuter’ cents a pound. To get, their cotton | ot "0 S Cetown says Brit- back out the growers will have 0 ;" warghips in the South Atlantic| pay the 83 cents a pound plus a ,..an have captured the German | carrying storage charge, which .. yssukuma, 7,800 tons. makes tthe total 8.9 cents a pound.’ Gepman officers and crew hav | been placed aboard one warship and i{the captured steamer has been z {manned by British warshipmen and | The Bureau of the Budget 0L ) taye the Ussukum into some port | wind of the situation and told Sec- |\ KU N0l retary of Agriculture aliace that of | . 3 course he wouldn’t need any money . german attempts to scuttle the this year to leand on the current ... .. were unsuce fu}('"'fdl'r(;p, #IEES. Tae, Srpviers VT | holes and sea cocks being discovered | assured of a price above the prob- ;, yime by the boarding British crew. \ble amount of the government loan g ‘Wallace had to put up a stout ar- (HAIN SIORE I-Ax | | WALLACE PROTESTS cotton there would be a lot of pan. Gov, Gruening, remarking {o | he preferred noy to talk too much Governor the | 8¢ the beginning of his adminis- | tration but to make his actions by an article published in the “Com- L resig- | sneak for him, made clear in his munist International” mouthpiece |nation today to new Governor Er-| address an intention to bring about of the international Communist or- |nest Gruening. The resignation wu.sia better integration of the activi- ganization. |ties of Federal agencies in Al- The publication declared the ps | aska. should be similar to treaties Russis Many of Alaska’s problems orig- signed with Latvia, Estonia and | inate in Washington, a fact some Lithunia, through which Moscow lof the people of the Territory do Rumania ha G. Watson. Secretary Alaska tendered MOSCOW, Dec. 6. been urged to sign a mutual ance pact immediately with Russia Harry assist- the of for past 15 years, his resig | accepted The tella Draper Secretary is Miss Es- o Dr 11 years during his new Secretary Gru- ening for ned naval and military bases on | ence iky selling of this year's crop. More- | over, he said, the growers had been promised a loan when they signed gument against that. He insisted AGAIN HELD YOID that if the farmer was not assured of at least the “loan price” of his/ FRANKFORT, Ky., Dec. 6. — The Court of Appeals, Kentucky’s high- the soils of three Baltic states The Commintern article declared, The English and French reaction- ary bourgeoise are supported by an Amercian financial oligarchy striv- ing to involve small Countries in an imperialist war. “The political and economical sit- uation of Rumania makes it vitally | nece that peoples inhabitin Rum; tablish most friendly re- lations with the Soviet Union.’ -+ FDR MESSAGE OF NEW HOPE GIVEN FINNS Wires fo Kallic; in Honor of 22nd Year of Finnish - Independence WASHINGTON, Dec. 6-—Presi- dent Roosevelt today expressed to Finland’s President Kallio an “earn- est hope” that the Russo-Finnish war will end soon s0 Finland may “untroubled leader on the occasion of the 22nd anniversary of Finland’s independ- and sald “It is my earnest hope that these tragic days may rot be long in giving way to a hap- | pier era and permit the Pinnish people to continue their untroubled steady development of their free po- litical and soctal institutions which have aroused the admiration of the American people.” as editor of the Portland (Maine) | Evening News, The Nation and the |New York Post and in Washington as a public official. | said Watson's resignation was accepted “not |through any lack of appreciation {of Mr. Watson's ability and long service, but because a Secretary is an appointee a Governor must be | thoroughly acquainted with.” Watson, who served during the s,Mnnm:le:nmm of both Gov. John | W. Troy and George A. Parks, said |his plans for the future are in- definite. Gov. Gruening - 'BLONDE SLAYER . STILL AT LARGE :Exlensive Search for Mrs. | Winnie Ruth Judd So Far Futile | PHOENIX Ariz., Dec. 6.-—Police |and deputy sheriffs have s arched | vacant buildings, orange groves and | brush thickets of a Phoenix suburb for traces of blonde murderess Win- The dispatch also ‘stated that|continue her steady development|pie Ruth Judd, the slayed of two | Juneau, Alaska women friends, who ful, open port| The President cabled the Finnish | escaped from the state insane hos- | pital Sunday night. Tt was the sec- |ond time in little more than a month hat she gained freedom from the ylum. A woman who lives in the suburb telephoned the sheriff's office that she awoke early yesterday to see Mrs. Judd peering through a win- dow. Officers hurried to the scene, but fhe mad killer had vanished again, not appreciate, Gov. Gruening said. | He pointed out that the position of Alaska as part of the nation is unique in that Federal agencies are in a position of tremendous importance and power here. The Forest Service. he said, has administration over practically all of Southeast Alaska; some 99 per- |cent of the land in the Territory is owned by the Federal Govern- ment; the Office of Indian Affairs |has the direct responsibility for | half the population of Alaska, and | the Bureau of Fisheries controli the Territory’s most important ac- tivity. ecopomically and from the standpoint of permanent industry. Working Together “It is tremendously important,” Gov. Gruening said, “that the Gov- ernment integrate so far as is pos- sible the activities of these various agencies, to name but a few. One of the things I hope to do is make a closer liaison between the Bus reaus in Washington.” A wish for further self-govern- ment is a natural and proper as- piration for the people of Alaska, the new Governor said. but point- ed out that the decision in this matter must come from Congress, which body will not act until it is convinced the Territory is ready for a greater degree of autonomy. Gov. Gruening predicted that “‘Congress will be pretty slow in extending statehood to the first | non-contiguous Territory” and said that even when it does. it may be Hawaii instead of Alaska that will be chosen. Hawali has requisites Alaska has not, said the man who as Director of the Division of Ter- ritories and Island Possessions has a close understanding of both units. The islands have a popula- tion of 400,000 and complete fin- ancial self-sufficiency. Hawali pays up for crop control last year and itjest tribunal, today reaffirmed its was no time t obe fooling with such |inyalidation of the state chain store promises. He got the money for the oy law, loan and it is fixed at 9 cents for| The court ruled its first opinion standard grades. |in the case, handed down last March The funny part of it is that in |21, was conclusive in holding the spite of the technical squeeze, the|act's classifiation of chain stores for| department will find it necessary 1o taxing purposes was “unreasonable continue the export subsidy and pos- |and arbitrary.” | sibly even to increase it. Without| The ruling upheld a lower court| the subsidy it is likely the expected |in sustaining the demurrer of the export of 6,000,000 bales would fall {Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Com- | short, which would throw extra cot- jpany to the state’s answer defend- ton on the American market, ing the classification, ' |of Mrs, Judd is believed to have stolen (Continued on Page Two) {food from a n ; Hospital authorities led that a razor is missing from the barber shop, and may have been taken by the woman fugitive Mrs. Judd’s elderly mother, Mrs. H. J. McKinnell, predicted that her daughter would use the razor to end MRS. ALEX SIMSON HOME TO FAIRBANKS Mrs. Alex Simson, wife of one the Simson Brothers, old time merchants of Nome and Fairbanks, arrived last night on the Yukon and flew to Fairbanks by PAA i plane today. Mrs. Simson has been “ e TAthor. Wiian pecttt RN . to be returned to the insane asylum. in New York for the past few| yoars Hor inaiteh | Mrs. McKinnell visited the hospital preceded her| o . Sunday afternoon, shortly before to the Interior by severs r g y several months.| .. qaughter escaped,