The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 9, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8280. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEN 1]71 R 9418 H'J MI MBI R KSA EMPIRE * PRICE. TEN CENTS ASSOCIATED PRESS _ FINNS DROWN HUNDREDS OF SOVIETS ‘Revolt AgalnSt Russian Troops INSURGENTS STAGE FIGHT IN UKRAINE 1 Many Casualfies Caused- Nationality of Rebels } Is Not Given 1 1 (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) An armed insurrection] against Russian troops is re- ported to have broken out in the oil-producing western Ukraine which fell to the So-, viets in the partition of Po- land. It is said the insurgents have caused many casualties, and according to reports fil- tering across the border, many Russians are reported in Lwow hospitals. identification is made of the nationality or allegl- ance of the rebels. Reuters reports Fi se I(!n-r~ have donned white and skiis to attack the Russian invaders, making a broad surprise onslaught along a two-mile front near, Petsamo, inflicting heavy losses on the Russ tronpu. caught unawares. - MORE SHIPS SENT DOWN, WAR AT SEA (By Associated Press) | Ship losses in Europe's war mul- tiplied rapidly today as more ves-| sels went plunging to the bottom' with torpedo or mine explosions. | The London office of the owners of the Japanese freighter Axuma | Maru, 6,600 tons vessels, revealed | they had received an SOS call from| the craft in Scottish waters yes- terday, but no further word. | London also received a wireless from the British steamer Brandon, ! 6,600-ton craft, that she was tor- pedoed on the west coast of Eng- land, with nine dead and eight re- ported missing, ; An explosion has destroyed the| 751-ton British cargo steamer Corea | off the east coast, and 21 persons are reported dead in the sinking of the Danish ship Scotia, a 2,400- ton vessel, in the North Sea. The British reported the cap- turing of the 3,400-ton German steamer Henning Oldendorff. The Norwegian steamer Rudolf arrived at Arendal, Norway, today with sixteen from the crew of the Norwegian Steamer Gimle, which lost three men when sunk by an explosion, Survivors of the Gimle crowded in a single lifeboat three days. - eee JAPANESE FiSH BOAT IS SEIZED HONOLULU, T. H, Dec. 9. Naval officers have seized Japanese fishing sampan Ecisu Maru for sailing inside the for- l)lddrn three-mile square limit of ; Naval base en- were for the lof the Finnish-Russian war Answer to Nazi Sub W arfare GALEHITS - WIDE AREA NORTHWEST iShipping and Coaslal‘ Towns Take Beating from Heavy Seas TWO FISHERMEN LOST IN STORM Twenly-fourWMen Injured; as Logging Train Breaks Trestle SEATTLE, Dec, 9. gale along the coasts ington, Oregon, and British Co-! lumbia took the lives of two pe: sons, and injured 24 late yester- day. The wind disrupted shipping and | s " flooded low sections of coast towns | % - {as the gales pushed high tides far | . : \beyond their normal limits { Lives 3, Hoquiam lish- in Grays Harbor | A howling of Was Two Lo Zemlick: was lost a rowboat Roy Shearer, in Puget Sound crab-fishing boat sank Twenty-four were the logging train hind which they ESCAPES FROM ABDU(TOR; "BUNGLER'” DECLARES FBI MASKS SENT 10 FINN SOLDIERS BY BRITISHERS Thousands of Gas Fighters mining line poles, plunging the countryside into darkness. fo Be Manufactured by Britain Cannon Beach, Ore, reported | tides crashed over breakwaters. vonpon, o o1t wocs UNDULANT FEVER here that British firms have ar-| DANGER REMOVED At Astoria, Ore, houses on the beach line were wave-battered and ranged to supply 60,000 gas ma\\k. to Finland. S ” BY PASTEURIZING Brifish Send Kefchikan with Four Cases moved from their foundations. At Raymond, south of Aberc ! Constant rumors have come aut (nca B 30 Blenhelms | Requires Step - Dr. { | WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—A din- Leslie erman in of Everett, was lost | when his small swamped and| 'man undersea warfare, Great Britain bas speeded up production of depth bombs, is combing the waters around England in search for the submarines. Top, a depth bomb is heaved overside. Bottom, the explosion. The bombs can be exploded at any desired depth Answering threat of Ger injured when locomotive be- were riding in| plunged through | by the storm of Vancouver lines PORT ARTHUR, Tex. Dec. 9.— ‘l‘u‘l' a1 Bureau of Investigation Ag-)| | ents today revealed a “bungling ama- | | kidnaping after an ecleven-| r-old Irwin Mingle broke his; bonds and escaped from a vacant| house attic where he had been se- | creted by a man for 16 hours. The man walked into the home of Fred Mingle and shakily aimed a pistol at Mingle and his wife, bound and gagged them, then walkt‘d‘ out with the boy. -ee Island, | | | | | - GIVES DINNER, ON GROER Wash., houses were undermined by that the Soviets are using poison By PRE ‘ quiet campaign for support and vin- flooding tides, Ships Hove To gas in their Karelian Isthums at- tacks. | An ordinance requiring all milk dication shows how earnest the for- A KS REDS | sold in Ketchikan to be pasteurized, mer President is in his effort to | was passed by the First City’s Coun- | cilmen this week on recommenda- Zeballos, on Vancouver impress his own views on the next BE OUSTED tion of Dr. A. N. Wilson, City Health Fast Atfack Bombers Ad ded to Growing Fin- also reported heavy flood. Many ships hove to off the Co- lumbia River bar and suffered ter- - Republican campaign | A staunch group of 20 to 40 Re- Oftiter; Dr. J. A. Carlswell, Terri- i publicans friendly (o Hoover are | torial Epidemiologist and Dr. J. B. | Loftus, Territorial Veterinarian, af-| \ll[lL batterings from the seas. 3 & vited to a private dinner at nish Air Forces | ter four cases of undulant fever had The freighter Henry D. Whiton lost part of her deck load as board- |ing seas pulled retaining chains the former President appears speaker. He discusses public issues, been discovered there. HELSINKI, De¢. 0.—Military cir- | Paturally emphasizing his own opin- | Dr. Carswell returned to Juneau|cles revealed here today that 30 today on the steamer Taku and|British made Blenheim bombing ‘from their deck bolts. Winds reaching a velocity of 65 Ll.‘ ions on the Roosevelt administra- MO B ' d f m tion. What it amounts to is a sort S(OW 00 e ro reported Ketchikan dairymen eager |planes, fast attack bombers, have to cooperate with public officials inarrived to aid the Finnish defense miles an hour we reported of stately peptalk league Of NailOflS |removing, by pasteurization, thmagamst the Soviets. along the storm-struck coast, companied by heavy rains, Each guest at the dinner is expect- ed to hold a little dinner of his own GENEVA, Dec. 9.—The League of | danger of humans being infected by | The thirty British bombers con- 11 tUrn to deliver the Hoover views Natlons Council today handed 10! the aetiological agent, brucella ab-|siderably augmented Finland's air (0 @1 €ver widening circle. It secms the Assembly, Finland's indictment!ortus. The disease in cattle is known | strength, adding to their small es- ' P¢ patterned on the chain letter of Russia on charges of aggression.|as contagious abortion. In humans, |tablished air force which a few days 9¢%- The session of the assembly is| the same agent caused undulant fe- |ago was fattened by the arrival of scheduled to open Monday amid| ver, a serious disease because it in-|fifty big Savola-Marchetti Italian in- Latin-Americans Wan a Yo Hcl 66, alien resident for 42 years, has been arragined. He is the owner of the sampan, Reports have it that there is solid headway being made in California, growing indications that the League| capacitates the victim for months|bombers. and progress in Minnesota and Wis- will have to choose between oust-|and sometimes years. The germ is| It is not revealed how the British |COPsin. Advance agent of the plan ing Russia or losing Latin-Ameri- | destroyed by pasteurization. bombers arrived in Finland, but it ' Ben Allen of San Francisco can members. Ketchikan dairies have arranged (is considered likely they were flown |'O"MeF newspaperman who has been It is reported that Argentina spik-| to have all milk pasteurized at the) from England via Sweden {crediieg Wih putting. sip luto Foo, ed a move to let Russia remain in|Crystal Dairy plant. |ver's speeches of the past three or the League as Moscow desired, bv\ AR R PRGNS ROAD cHlEF RETURNING four years. declaring, in effect: “It’s eiLherJ HILDRES RETURNIN M. D. Williams, District Engineer One guest at one of the “primary Russia or Latin America. e |of the Public Roads Administration, dinners reported t he noted two This reported action has mslwd‘ Mrs. Knute Hildre, accompanied |iS @ passenger on the steamer Mt. Hoover characteristics at these af- British reluctance to oust Russia.|by her daughters, Helen and Louise, iMLKmley which left Seattle today. fairs: One, that at a private dinner The Soviets were not represent,ed are passengers on the steamer He hs been consulting with PRA where his guests are amiably dis- at the session today, delegate Jacob‘Mo“m McKinley returning to Ju-|Officials at the regional headquarters | posed Hoover is a convincing talker, Syrits staying in his hotel, neau, lat San Francisco, | the other that the former President l The Norwegian freighter, Toratre, is brought to a halt unde North Sea patrol, and ordered to wait for boarding cre signed to the Allies, the Nazi raiders releas U.S. Woman On Western Fronu I:DR Reporledi which | | reau of Investigation and were r the gu ter a tha d the w. Af Mrs. Charles Grey of Florida smiles from behind wheel of the rolling ‘ dispensary in her charge on France’s Western Front. This is the first | picture of an American woman with the Allied forces. 1 "HOOVER STARTS CAMPAIGN; THEN OTHERS | - FOLLOW, CHAIN LETTER IDEA reveals a yearning to demonstrate once more—in the White House that his way was the wise way. G-MEN ON THE ALERT British mis: and French |nmh« ing country c Edgar | en- | ions already in thi: tricky situation for J and his ate Hoove anti-sabot a cies, Following the practice of war, the visiting missions set about | buying the whole output of a plant, and sometimes the plant itself, in order to assure a steady supply of | essential materials. We checked with the Federal Bi- mm that reports whatever. of sabotage in any British-owned n?ln wise, would be investigated. With only 950 FBI ag and a smalle number of military and secret ser vice agents at his disposal for such work, G-man Hoover can't put a man in every plant where sabotage might be expected, However, he has invited everybody to report to the nearest FBI office any reports or rumors of sabotage or espionage. None will be neglected The FBI couldn’t see any for discriminating against British- or French-owned plants in this country, if the Allies should acquire some. After all, they will be manned by American workmen whose peace grounds (Crmunued on Page nw-; last | | ' af luncheon | Reported Norwegnn Freighter Halted by Nazi Ralder From News of the Day ns of a destroyer of the German yrough search for contraband con- neutral ship. All Set for Fast Session 1940 Believed P'r'ésiAdem Thinks | Quick Spring Meeting Best for All WASHINGTON, Dec It was reported today on excellent author- ity that President Roosevelt has | advised legislative leaders he| | wants Congress, convening in Jan-| | uary, to dispose of its routine prob- id adjourn by May said the President he will not which 9. has offer might | surance new proposals proceedihgs. The President is represented as believing a short session will be beneficial to the Democratic Party and the country as a whole, No Republican White House Secretary Stephen Early told reporters he doubted | | the President will put a Republi- can in the Cabinet,*making the statement relative to rumors that | any | delay | Col. Frank Knox or Col. “Wild| | Bill” William Donovan, Assistant | Attorney = General under Hoover, lmu.,hL become Secretary of War. Convention Tip | Senate minority leader McNary sald he has urged the Republican | National Committee to set a date| late in July for party convention | regardless of the time chosen by| | the Democrats. | Senator Nye said the G.OP.| | would lose some confidence if thy‘ {waited to see what their oppon-| :nL would do. - GOVERNORIS GUESTOFBAR ASSOCIATION ‘Gruenmg Makes First Pub lic Appearance Here | | - | Gov. Ernest Gruening | first public appearance day when he was the guest and speaker at a luncheon meeting of the Juneau Bar Association { Perey's Cafe dining room | Other guests today's lur {eon were E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, Sec {retary of Alaska; Robert Coughlin, Clerk of the District Court; U, S.| | Commissioner Felix Gray and R.| |C. Vogel, FBI Investigator, | H. B. LeFevre, President of the LA.ihociat]on presided. About 25 L“ew present, ) made his here to- CLIFFS ARE BLASTED ON RUSS FORCE Avalanche Causes Regular Tidal Wave, Engulf- ing Invaders KIRKENES, Norway, Dec. 9.—Hundreds of Russian sol- diers attempting to land on the beaches of steep-moun- tained Petsamo and Linaha- mari fjords were drowned to- day when the Finn defenders blasted the cliffs above and swamped the boats of the landing party. Reports from across the border on the Arctic war front said all landing at tempts of the Russians were repulsed, It was reported the Finns blasted hillsides along tha steep fjords, loosing ava. lanches into the bay before the approaching Russian boats which were engulfed in veritable tidal waves. The Finn shore defenders captured many Soviet soldiers as they strugeled to the beaches. Reports of Russian losses in the freak attack unheard of in warfare since early Vik- ing days ranged between 600 and 800, The Russians also suffered heavy losses when tanks and their crews fell through cun- ningly hidden traps on frozen lakes where the Finns had s | cut huge sections to leave ice |strong enough to hold only a few men afoot. NAVY ORDERS SPEED BOATS, = PATROL DUTY Confract Is A_w;rded for 23 Moforboats and Sub Chasers WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—The Navy Dt-purtmem has placed a $5,000,000 | order with the Electered Boat Com- pany of Groten, Connecticult for 23 high speed motorboats and subma- rine chasers. The new craft will be for rein= lrm ing the neutrality patrol and are | similar to the craft the British are | now u.slm; by l.he h(’on‘: . Major Babbift Dies in South SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Dec. 9. Major General Edwin Burr Bab- bitt, 77, retired wartime Comman- der of the Fourth Ficld Brigade in France, died today ai his Mon~ tecito residence. 123 Shopping Daps Till Christmas|