The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS AII 'HE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8278. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, I)I CEMBE R 7508 )39, FINNS PLAN QUICK T PROTEST BRITISH BLOCKADE United States Reserves All Rights Under Inter- nafional Law COMMUNICATION IS GIVEN AMBASSADOR| Official Declares Nofe Is' | Not in Nature of Open Dissent WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — The United States, it is learned, has re- served its rights under the Inte national Law in connection with Great Britain's order in Council to stop German exports being made through neutral countries. It is understood this reservation has been communicated to the Brit-| ish Ambassador for transmission to his Government. The reservation, ing Ambassador said is strictly not| in the nature of an open protesc is based on two questions: One — Under the Inlernanonal Law in the World War the Umted States refuses to accept the British commercial blockade on Germany, as long as the United States is neu- tral. Two—The United States rea!]v needs some articles it used to pur- chase from Germany and among these are certain technical instru-, ments. ——————— Air Raid On Firth Of Forth German Wa?planes Ap- pear Shortly Before Noon-Beaten Off LONDON, Dec. 7. — German warplanes raided the vital of Forth area shortly before noon today but the British Air Minis- try announces the raiders were driven off by British planes. “One of the enemy aircraft was hit,” the announcement says. Authoritative British sources also report air engagements over the North Sea in which two big Dor-| nier flying boats were said to have been badly damaged. The reports said the fights “again demonstrat- ed the superior fighting qua.mies‘v of the Brmsh air crews.” SENATOR THOMAS IS IN HOSPITAL | INSAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 7.— Democratic Senator Thomas of Ok-| lahoma is under treatment at a San | Francisco hospital, but physicians said his condition is not serious. Senator Thomas was taken ill while on a tour of inspection of west- | ern army posts with the House and Senate Military Affairs committee. Physicians said he suffered from what was described as a local ail- ment. BELGIUM READY FOR DEFENSE OF HER HOMELAND BRUSSELS, Dec. 7.—Premier Hu- bert Piarlot told the Chamber of Deputies today that Belgium is pre- pared for any eventualities. The Premier said: “Our army is well equipped and is stationed in first class defense works. Our ter- ritory is neither open nor acces- sible.” y \ | B. Creager, i | which the Brih-! Beautiful Lucille Wilds is shown with Artist Carlo Garrone in New York shortly after she sued her agent, Walter Thornton, for the right | to marry without paying a $10,000 penalty provided in her contract. hghung | She wants to marry Bill Kent, also a model. OKAY, RELAY—THOSE MINES WON'T CROSS THE ATLANTIC JUDD JOINS * SEARCHFOR - INSANE WIFE ;Husband of Escaped Slayer | Believes Mate Still ; in Phoenix PHOENXI, Ariz, Dec. 7—Dr. €. Judd has arrived here from Lh insane wife, murderess Winnie} |Ruth Judd. The physician is a pa- tient at the Southern California , Veterans Hospital. He said he believed Winnie Ruth | lis still somewhere in the vicinity of | | Phoenix. | The woman killer escaped Sun- day night from the State Insane Asylum. It was the second time in | a little more than a month that/ she had walked out of the institution | to freedom. The search concentrated in a su-| burban district where Mrs. Judd | was reported seen. Authorities fear- ed that she might end her life rath- is believed carrying a razor stolen {from the a\\lum baxbm ARIIllERY FIRE THRUST IS MADE J ‘French Repulse Savage At- fack During Night Is Official Report 7.—French the High PARIS, Dec. are reported by forces Com- German patrol sembourg last heavy losses. The Germans used artillery fire lin the attempted thrust. The Wissembourg sector lies a short distance west of the Rhine where the river flows into Ger- many. Other German units are report- ed to have been active near Bitche, a regmn west of the vmga .- E(VRGI(,AL PAT"‘ZNT Glen Newton was admitted to St. Anns Hospital and received surgi- cal care this morning. thrust night, near Wis- inflicting er than return to the hospital. She| - IN WEST SECTOR mand to have repulsed a savage | By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON,Dec The Nav; | experts on ocean currents say there| [isn't a dog's chance of a floating| mine sneaking across the Atlantic into Yankee shipping lanes. But a| mine lossed in the North Sea is | likely to churn into almost any place in that sea We don’t suffer from “mineopho- bia” but it occurred to us that if a | mine slithered past our neutrality | patrol and nestled against a Hobo- ken ferry boat in New York )h\lb(u" in rush hours it would create a ser-| diplomatic incident. times past this country has| angered at the ocean man-| went, because it permitted the J‘(.mr Stream to keep England warm | ious \ n been ag -| instead of breathing its tropic breath | | along our bleak New England coast. Firth ' Angeles to aid in the search for '“‘*.But the ocean experts say there is a measure of safety in having the current flow that way. The inventor | of the Gulf Stream must have had floating mines in mind at the time. The stream helps to keep Europe’s wars to herself. | TWO YEARS TO CROSS It is true that if some of the float-| ing mines got out through the Eng- | |lish Channel they might find their| way across, following the southern | route by way of the Azores, but it| takes a bottle with a letter in it about two years to make the jour-| |ney. By that time a mine would be | so encrusted with barnacles and oth- er free-riding sea ‘objects that it probably couldn’t explode anyway The Gulf stream itself prevents mines from taking the northern route. Just so you won't feel too safe, if any mines were released in front of Canadian ports, such as Halifax, the Laborador current might bring| them down along our north Atlan- tic coast. Moreover, they would re- | main active for a longer time, be-| cause barnacles don't grow so fast in those chilly waters. The Navy has maps of every ocean current between the poles. For complex currents the tangle of little arrows that describe those in the North ‘Sea can’t all be put on one map. It takes 12 separate maps, one for each hour between high tides. One floating mine loosed along the British North Sea coast might roam up and down from one end of the island to the other. Occas- jonally it might get into a little swirling current for a ride out into the North Sea and back before re- suming its up and down cruise. It| is a very discouraging prospect for | a ship to dave mines ambling about that way. | { DANGER TO U. S. SHIPS England isn't quite sure whether floating mines or magnetic mines are giving her so much trouble just now but our Navy is keeping an in- (Continued on Page Four) | REPUBLICAN LEADERS ARE INSESSION How to Wipe Out Deficit, When to Hold Conven- tion Are Issues B ULLETIN—WASHING- TON, Dec. 7.—Tentative appor- tionment of the delegates to the Republican National Con- vention, gives Alaska three. This iv the announcement made by the Republican National Committee. A score meeting WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 of Republican leaders are here today to discuss ways ing out the Party's $700,000 deficit The leaders also voiced various views on the question of when to hold the Presidential nominating convention. Opinions ranged from that of R. of Texas, who favored a date in July or early in August to that of Mrs. John Hillman, Colorado, who declar she is a meeting at the usual time June. Dewey Begins His (ampaign for in For Presidency 'Appears Before 9,000 in Minneapolis-Seeks G. 0. P. Nomination MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Dec. 7. Thomas E. Dewey, District Attorney of New York, has launched his cam- paign for the Republican Presiden- | tial nomination with an attack on | what he termed New Deal defeat- ism. In effect, Dewey told 9,000 cheer- | that the New “There is no- that remains we got nicipal Auditorium, Deal philosoophy is: thing left to do—all is to divide up what the Indians.” Dewey also charged that the New Deal has kept the energy of Amer- ican enterprise, both great and small, from going to work on account of | taxation and r‘cnnnmk‘ q\mckuv Two Brifish Craft Sunk; Unknown Number of Lives Are Lost Off Nova Scotian Coast HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, —Loss of the 5900-ton Dec. T British { freighter Manchester Regiment and | | the 4,600-ton British freighter Chancellor with an unknown loss of life following collisions at sea was announced here today. The losses were disclosed on the arrival here of survivors of both collisions aboard the passenger liner Oropesa. The Manchester Regiment was rammed Monday in a pea soup fog by the Oropesa, a crew member said. The Oropesa had forty mem- bers of the Chancellor crew aboard 'hu said Lhelr ship had been sent in a fog by the British tanker Athelchief, 'BASIN ROAD WORK IS PROGRESSING Work on the Basin Road to Cape Horn is progressing satisfactorily the District Ranger's office’ report- | ed today. Culverts are about all installed and the crew has begun to osurface the road with crushed rock from the Alaska Juneau mine. of wip- | of | Javades his country. Left to right, President and Mrs. Roosevelt have offered sanctu: ehildren of the widower Belgian King, Leopold II Princess Josephine Charlotte, Prince Crown Prince Baudouin, ary at their Hyde Park, N. 1, pictured above with their from Fog (rashesj | |ing persons, who crowded the Mu-‘ Mex1co Welcomes U. S. Solons Germany-May Demand | 0. 8. Senator ’Elmor Thomas (left), of Oklahoma, is greeted by Mexican Senator Antonio Romero at Valbuena Airport, onal delegation which toured the Latin-American coun- heads a congre: Mexico City. Thomas tries in three army planes, studying military protection for the Americas Spencer Penrose, Who Made Money in Mining, Spentlf COLORADO SPRINGE Dec. Spencer Penrose, 74, mining man, capitalist and builder of the Broad- | moor hotel, died early today from a throat ailment. Penrose came out of the Colorado gold fields at the turn of the tury with a fortune and a resolve to enjoy life. Mining deals the Cripple Cre his financial start ssful oper- ation of copper companies ballooned his wealth. With cost no handicap, be built an elaborate round at Broadmoor, six miles from Colorado Springs and for more than a gen- | eration let neither advancing age nor the responsibilities of his varied financial interests interfere with | zaiety. | Memorial To Rogers | 1n 1937, on a promontory of Chey- | enne Mountain he built the “Shrine |of the Sun,” as a memorial to Will | Rogers, the cowboy laugh-maker within the shrine is a crypt in which Penrose planned to be buried Penrose was born in Philadelphia November 2, 1865, the son of Dr. and | Mrs. Richard Alexander Fullerton Penrose. His father was a professor in the medical department of the | University of Pennsy lvania. He | educated by private tutors, and wa aduated from Harvard with a de- |gree in mining ‘engineering in 1886. | Penrose was the youngest of four brothers, all leaders in their fields The others were Boise Penrose, Unit- ed States Senator from Pennsyl- vania; Dr, Charles B, Penrose, a ln the early days of boom g uce playg | H'H~| him | Enjoying Life, Passes Away | Philadelphia physician, and Richard | A, F. Penrose, Jr., geologist. Early Good Secke: | Penrose had more “bac | than money when he started Wost to apply his knowledge. He first in- spected the mining potentialities of Old Mexico and New Mexico, neither interested him. However he did realize $2,000 from the sale of some New Me: property in which he had 'inve Three- fourths of this nest egg were gone when he arrived in Colorado Spring early in 1891 That winter gold was discovered on pple Creek, Penrose and a partner, C. L. Tutt, another Phila cico delphian, went there, opening a liv ery stable and a real estate office They acquired a gold claim 'wlmn wually netted them $I£'All“fl(l with two other men the smalter business and, nto the smelter business and levised system of treating srade copper ores, formed the T Copper Company. Eventually this concern became a Guggenheim com- pany property. Alagka Gold Two other companies sanized , successfully and rose fortune bulged. One motion, Alaska Gold big-scale, money-making | his shares in Alasl | watehing the price | cents to $27, In Cripple Creek days Penrose had went when when lo en into the a were or- the Pen- more pro He solc Gold aftel from a soar 5 (Continued on Paigei!“h;er)— but | completed his | 20,000 MEN MASSING ON ARCTIC LINE Decisive Ehgégement Ex- pected in Far North at Any Hour RUSSIAN ATTACKS ARE REPULSED, SOUTH AREA Qufside Aid s Indicated ' Which May Lead fo Additional Help B U LLETIN—KIRKENES, Norway, Dec. 7—A big en- gagement, possibly a decisive one, is expected to take place any hour in Finland's Arctic front. Reports the Finns received here said are massing large fore around Petsamo, Fin- land’s strategic port at the head of her narrow corridor in the Arctic Ocean. The reports assert that 20,000 men are massed there with the appar- ent intention of clearing out the Russian invaders at all costs and safeguard the north- ern outlet, Y., home to the three little father, in event Germany Albert of Liege, King Leopold and PROVOKING - TURK-RUSSO FIGHT NOW A((usahon Made Against| (By Associated Press) One week after invading Fin« land, Russia reports that the Red Army has broken through the main Finnish defense line on the Karelian Isthmus, north of Len- |ingrad. The Russians claim suc- cess in the narrow neck of land where the main forces of the two nations have battled since the in- vasion started on November 30. | The Soviet claims were followed by Finnish reports that all Rus- sian attacks have been repulsed as |the war entered the second week, Given Outside Aid The embattied Finland forces have received, in a measure, out- | side aid, altuough its extent and significance remains unclear. Two hundred and thirty Finnish- Americans, some of whom have Recall of Von Papen Dee. T accuse Turkish news-| Germany of Turkish-Rus- ANKARA papers today trying to provoke a sian war. The newspapers said Turkey might |demand the recall of German am- bassador von Papen who was sent | here several months i The cause for the charge is an| |incident arising over circulars, bearing the watermark of the («,,.r_‘nrvvr before seen Finland, arrived man Embassy |at Helsinki to help’ fight Russia. The circular reprints an ticle | Members of this contingent sald from the Moscow newspaper Pravda |others are coming |attacking the Turkish newspapers.| Oreat Britain firms have ar- The Turkish newspapers have unit- | ranged whereby Finland can obtain ed and declare the article is mis-|30 British warplanes and other translated. war materials, establishing a prece- - dent that might permit of further British assistance to the Finns. Planes Delivered Italian bombers, ordered befors 3 NAIIONS ilm‘ invasion started, are reported to be reaching Finland, over land lhgms | F I N N AR ‘ to consider Foreign - Ministers of Norway, | tance to Put Up fo league of Na- bwv(l(-n and Denmark met at Oslo ways of giving assise ‘ Mi“rp.»xdflnt Roosevelt has conferred | fions fo Inaugurate Peace Confab Finland, mon-mijitary vum officials on ways of render« | ing assistance to Finland and pro=- \pm‘,s to set aside the December |15 war debt payment for p«»,slbla ‘usc for Finnish relief. Invaders Repulsed Deports reaching London claim E the Finns are repulsing the in- 7—An agreement to vaders in bloody conflicts and the is possible through |l08ses to the defenders are nil to Nations to inaugu- | those of the Russians. rate peace negotiations between| It 18 also understood that Nor- RuL and Finland” was this af-|Way and Sweden have drawn a sea ternoon reached at a conference be- |1ine around their coasts and any tween Foreign Ministers of Norway, invaders will be d!l.utk(‘d den and Denmark | The communique also stated that it was quite generally discussed as to “consequences which the war with Pinland may have on the general situation” of the threé nations now { confe but the decision is kept {a secre ago. | 08LO, Dec do “Whatever the gue of THIRTEEN ARMY FLIERS ARE KILLED; 3 PLANES CRASH | e e TR IR ROME, Dec. 7.--Thirteen Army fliers and one farmer were killed | Klng George when three Italian bombers crashed | while flying from Milan to Rome. En'e l . d The planes fell together near the riaineaq, Baitle Area outskirts of Lucca, 160 miles north PARIS, Dec. 1 British King on a tour of the British Ex- , was today enter- ient LeBrun, Pre- and General Game- “somewhere in -+ | \ | | | | ! George. peditionary forc tained by Pres mier Daladier lin at luncheon | Prance,