The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASK.A EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL 'I‘III', TI’IIF" VOL‘ LV., NO. 8281 ML’VIBI R AS\'()( l \[I-‘[) l’RIlSS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIAN FLEET, FINN BATTERIES IN DUEL iy Ultimatum Is Served on Russia By League REPLY MUST BE MADE IN SHORT TIME Soviets Giv;fiwenty-four Hours fo Accept Med- iation Plea ASSEMBLY GETS DOWN T0 BUSINESS TODAY, GENEVA Several Nations Are Put on Spot When Issue Is Brought Up May Be | | “First Family” of U. S Swedes Prepare Defense Commander - in-Chief for| All Military Forces Is Appointed STOCKHOLM, Dec. 11.—The Swe= | (h\ll Government Saturday night u])- pointed an active Comma Chief of all Swedish milit: The step is usually taken only in anticipation of an emergency. The new Commander-in-Chief is} Gen. Olof Gerhard Phoernell . - - CRUCIAL HOUR | 3 *!' | NAVALFIGHT ~REPORTED IN SHORE ZONES Atfacks Said fo Have Been Driven Off Dur- ing Today $KI TROOPERS SLIP THROUGH INVADERS \Guerilla Warfare on Kare- lian Froni-Tanks and Cars Destroyed HELSINKI, Dec. 11.—Duels be< tween the Kussian fleet and coastal BULLETE GENEVA, Dec. 11. — The Assembl; he League (:1( ‘\::I:: 1.,\\"“34:.-‘; FoR SwEDEN IS batteries along the Gulf of Finland s are in progress but attacks are said Russia to accept the League's mediation in the Russian-Fin- nish conflict and requested a reply within 24 hours, The request has been tele- graphed to Moscow after anap- peal by Finland’s delegate, Ru- dolf Holsti, for “all practical support possible” against Rus- sia. The Committee considering the Finnish appeal unanimous- ly adopted the proposal which was submitted by Sweden. There is a prevailing 50-50 chance Moscow may accept. GET DOWN TO BUSINESS GENEVA, Dec. 11.—The Assem- Mr. and Mrs. Paul V. McNutt Indiana’s “favorite son,” Paul V. istrator, is shown with his wife McNutt, federal security admine on a New York visit. The Mce Nutts may be the next “first family” of the United St‘dlr‘q if Mce Nutt decides 3 run for the Democratic presidential nomination—e and wins, CAPTAIN GAINARD, OF CITY OF FLINT, SEIZED, FREED, IS BECOMING NATIONAL HERO (OMING NEARER‘ London Newspaper Says, Northern Country 1 Fearing Aftack ONDON, Dec. 11.—The Liberal Ncw~ Chronicle, predicted today that | the next few days will see what the | ‘r('wspnnt'l termed, the crueial hour| - Sweden. The British newspaper sald it has learned that Sweden is| becoming more anxious hourly in ‘lhc belief that their number will be | DIDN'T EAT FOR F of Jimmy, 16 months, had left them; their and Patsy Ann, 2, who wer an unheated Philadelphia house. They were half naked. James Hannan, w OUR DAY S_More grief than their years should bear was the lo¢ e found after they’'d spent four days without food in | Police Capt. William Dever said their mother | as booked on an intoxication charge. { father, TEN MILLION DOLLARS OF CREDIT ADVANCED BY U. S. TO FINLAND FOR PURCHASES | MINE SWEEPER SUNK; 4 OTHER | l SHIPS OVERDUE Germans Report Sinking of Two Big British Tank- to have been driven off by the shore forces and anti-aircraft guns. The heaviest attack is on Kovista Island which have been bombarded | by Russian warships and warplanes, Finnish ski troops gre reported te have slipped through the Russian lines on Karelian Isthmus, almosf to the Russian occupied cities of Rauto and Valkjarvi, about 18 miles from the border. Guerilla Warfare Large scale guerilla warfare clses where on the Karelian front is also reported with the Finng counter at« tackine and harrassing the invad- ers. An entire column of Soviet tanks |and armored cars has been destroy= .ml by Finnish warplanes and are bly of the League of Nations, after as soon as Russia finishes Pin-| preliminaries today, immediately dn(l Swedish opinion is describ- | | , tllery. took up Finland's appeal for aid By PE “GROVER led as ¢ allizing in the view that » . WASHINGTON, -Dec, 11.—Grant ers |n Sea Wa[fa[e It is reported Finnish aviators, and mediation in the Russian- BRITISH ARMY 3 5 Finland should be regarded as Swe- | ing of ten millioh dollars of credit | lon reconnaissance flights, spotted Finnish conflict. wm»mm.r(m. Dec. 11 (mw':m\‘d,,“;\ first line of defense | Ire applng and for the purchase in this the Soviet mechanized column and ‘Fhe friendly delegate from Nor- Joseph Aloysius Gainard of the City The paper commented on Ger- country of agricultural surplusses [,()N]n.;N. “Wi 11 Nf“ maritime | oo ed a shower of bombs and ar= way, Karl Hambro, was elected MAKES (ONIA(I of Flint is a mildish sort of man as| .. probable reaction and the i | and other civillian supplies, is an- | losses are reported for the British. | tillery finished the destruction. President of the League of Na- | b ‘:'1“”;;i‘(‘“}l"l“’m";‘mg’r;“h;""“:”"':: possible stands which she might take | | Hojneed. bys e Renonstruction M".,,fik'{:;"flll,,,',‘:‘-“:»] ,,’."1‘.‘:,,2“.'}‘,‘,‘('fm",”.?‘ #” New Russ Attacks tions Assembly. "‘H GERMANS I AR D 18 as: VI ente o nance Corporation ik kethirs e orted sunk, | The Russlans ave reported to have the League must do. its utmost to NG MW;(‘“I }“‘ lai Md'wml“ i | peace with hw,,,,,.,] thus ensuring of financial assistance granted by| COUr SERE SUEE EE O st pale River on the eastern shore of halt the Russian-Finnish war. H T R V165 thae o e allie: 06 C O ont|her supplies of Swedish iron o l al Me'hod this country since the Russian-Fin-| 01¢ W5 L0 B 5t ake Ladoga. but the Finns claimed Would Expell Bussia eavy Pafrol Adtivity Re-|iovs that zo with public excitement i f5 " rvagniy arousing Rus- land hostilities be considered lost. o have repulsed the Russian assault, South Am 1 nations are over herolc exploits, for Halifax, | o0 anger. | -o > 5 """""" v";,f“w"',' AR WD l;f The official Soviet news agency prems to e kion of mussia| porfed—French Hang |Nova scotia, almost went wild when| gorng;” Gormany couta give: ‘ s ot i ublshed charges (ha Germany as an aggressor but there is not H e B i | Russia a free hand, relying on Ry "4 i | [ ot wors mot dis. |1AS: sent anti-Ricraft guns to Fins draw her forces from Finland, no A pe [to her. [ cision - conVidiOflS | . ship warplanes to Finiand across matter what action is taken on| LONDON, Dec, 11.—A British an- If international red tape does not| Third: Germany could attempt| N German territory. hold him up too long he may vxpeu The - Germans retorted with an the issue by Finland. Action of the Assembly puts sev- nouncement today said front line ac- tion was experienced by the British a similar welcome when he turns to| New York to bring the City of Flint | | to forestall Russia by attacking Swe- | den herself and making certain of | Are Reversed IS BACKING NEW MOVE nmc.ul denial that it had supplied nnv war material to Finland since eral nations on the spot. Turkey‘expcdxuonary forces for the first °** . ' Swedish iron by right of conquest.| and Tran, both neighbors of Rus- |time last week while the King was|{rom its fantastic crulse among the| The newspaper said that it had| y\gyINGTON, Dec. 11.—The [the beginning of the Soviet in- sia, wish to avoid offending Mos- | touring troops in France. |icebergs and torpedoes. There nev-|jearned that the German Ambas- B | ARSI, cow, Heavy German patrol activity was € has been quite such a case in|sador to Moscow had made an ap- i Ao Lot "_I”"" e ———— China has received Russian as- Teported in a sector near that t: Amenican. marties tsloR; | peal to Russia 0 Seenefile Planish ::-‘:nf.:uh:“ "-I::l 3 |‘I\“1l‘ll - ’ NIPPONS MAK!“G sistance against Japanese invasion |OVer by the British forces. ok invasion—the paper said that Soviev| 1e0rra SEmERY BEE B0 T | - } and abstained from participation| French reports told of heavy barb- | TORPEDOED IN WORLD WAR | Premier Molotoff refused to hear) " acgojate Justice Owen J. Rob- |All Aid Within R W" | v in the League's session today. ed wire entanglements recently com- | Gainard’s life of exctément goes| ¢ German appeal erts delivered the dec today | | 1inin keason i IHREATS' Do“ T pleted between their two lines of pack even to the World War. Then o which reverses the conviction | PfObabIY Be Given | ’ | | Kennedy Sits concrete fortifications comprising the | Maginot Line and a second defense position. 1 D he was a junior officer on the troop transport President Lincoln. A Ger-| man submarine torpedoed it in one of the very few instances when our OUTSIDE AID ofythree New Yorkers on a charge of using the mails to de- fraud. In 1937, a decision of the Su- ‘ Little Nation 'Action PossibierAlong Lux- embourg-German LIKE BLOCKADE Reprisa! Action Hinted for | troopships had much of a brush with | | 4 A ! NEVA, Dec. 11.—Italian sourc- . . | preme Court/heid that the 1934 H YOUNG FATHER U-boats. | | Federal Communica Act id Ttalian Army pilots and Border N(‘w A"|ed Crafl n I or [ Captain Gainard didn't have the | prohibited the use of wire tap- |ETOWN crews accompanicd 50 Ttal ; Tokyo Wat : [ CONVI(IED GAS lead in that show, but was merely | Gping evidenco oblained In inter- |47 Planes (o Pinland Jast weck and okyo Waters i 1 y one of those who floated around in i that Premier Benito Mussolini will] BRUSSELS, Dec. 11.—The Belga . lifeboats until rescued. Fate that| B the Su. |probably give Finland “all aid with-|News Agency has received advices| TOKIO, Dec. 11—Japanese newss Ip annlng‘ DEAIH K“.I-ING time selected one of Gainard’s fel- | | preme Court held that commun- |0 reason.” from the Luxemborg frontier that|papers war that if the Western Al | . low officers, Edouard Victor Izak. ications sent are also prohibited | he same sources said Mussolini| German villagers along the Sauer|lies attempt to seize German goods ‘1Seaflle Ma“ Found Gm"y The submarine which sank the Pres | use as ovidence obtained.in in- |'akes the same view of the Rus- | riv have received orders to leave|carried on Japanese ships, Japan % { : } |ident Lincoln came along side and RAEATTIE, > b ot e tn oa XS stan-Finnish - conflict as he did of villages in that zone will confiscate British and Prench l.OOk '0 Pll"lng Ba(k Mer' of Murde”n S|xteen- | took Izak prisoner as a sort of me- y Associated Press) | No D NT IS ANNOUNCED the Spanish Oivil War. rhe villages will be emptied just|ships in Japanese waters. 3 | mento of the affair, Nowadays he is FP]rc*s.smu other nations for aid e o il " ,'" the T ;, - across the river, both ways from| The warniig, which wis believed Sel m Trad LN C"],”mmd' lomatic weapons while ymv Fm"{:— viction of three other New York- FoREiGN WRlTER ‘.lmnn:mlv-r{:.’:lnl‘n l;llx'rlr’rl::xllblI”(I'lwln“l); !h.f_ Japanest st {0 TOREE -8 S e } s i Gainard first came to real public| Al WEARORS WRe Wi WO ers whe contended evidence ob- L it e st e i BOMA L, SIS OS50 block= attentio vher S v L] ‘ a i 2 i g i " tnLs ade was enforced agains lapancse g SEATTLE, Dec. 11.—A Superior r‘_“_’;'",]k e "‘;’,hb crew on thel, o ,oval and merchant smppm;, tained /by wire tapping was im- Dl v uty hde ribed as more frequent shippin ;i WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—United Gourt jury Sunday convicted John | T"eISht ship Sigie Mistaled. In the | jemey. properly admitted as evidence Lot "bok dtcackiana! towere ths erc] . States Ambassador Kennedy has prederick Wunders sar-old fa- |Darbor at Montevideo, Uruguay. i in their trial. The men involy- i & i . ATRROET LEANRE gone to New York after a long day |gner, ot( 5 nud ers, ‘:’n? \; 1ol 4 They refused to lend a hand at| The embattled Finns report they g wore convicted of smuggling p man city of Trier and Echternach, MRS, . BFENCER LEAVES of conferences with President R/oose-l rs egree murder 10! loading cargo being put aboard by have checked Russia's campaign liquor in New York Hhv latter a I,uwmhuun, border city. Mrs. W. W. Spencer, who has velt, Secretary of State Hull and|pap, (:;Mhmuf B:’f F’f -months-old | &} reaking Uruguyan longshore-| O 8l fronts and taken their case| nyii gecision was given by | bonn, - migliisly . bar. anilicn: (RN e al au S, Z 2 | 4 piye: " 2 r ] @ the Maritime Commission. e e vordlict e o life|men. It wasn't & blood-letting mu- before the League of Nations 10| Aceodiate Justice Kelix Frank PR Willlam Fromhalts for the pesh Con : jury’s verdict makes a life i : & have the League invoke arbitr b ec. 11.—The in- week, left on the Yukon for the Kennedy said his conferences delt'sentence mandatory. tiny. It was in the days of the sit- p R furter, dictment of the Foreign Affairs writ south to re her husk primarily with blans for putting| fThe prosecution charged that|9°%nR fever of 1937, and was more | 0P machinery and asking that X SR e Tert Gty R (s 1 0 rejoin her husband who heok i ice United States mer- e harge at| o sit-down mutiny. Moscow be condemned as aggres- P19 susiee Jame ar arey. Sess on charges passed through Juneau last week into service Unites s Wunders returned to the family ol 7t sor in v,hr present conflict, McReynolds dissented. passport, fraud is announced wl..v on the Aluska, chant ships tied up when the neu-|apartment on a subterfuge after he| Gainard was sick, but got up from A e T e ipirrrs by the Federal government | Mr sndi M. Sasnca S trality laws shipping bans were in-|anq his wife had started for a movie bed and told the men to go to work . de, wi] Gannes was indicted several days | 5 T S T yoked: | was voiced by her Parliament ol v ¢ in Goodnews Bay. | theatre, turned on the gas jets in|They wouldn't. He telephoned Jos-| . o A 3 MR‘ "YE RHuRNS ago but the indictment was kept| Arrd. - Bt 3 Kennedy and President Roose-|the apartment, then rejoined his|eph P. Kennedy, then chairman of| %) A resolution was passed, secret until, the writer was out of | gt iyl §lvon, scusrah velt; tried to work out & plan to place | wite and sat through a film show- | the Maritime Commission. Kennedy, saying that “as an outpost of | FROM SKAGWAY ON {aiger’ ot AN o icdation G B e social affairs during her visit here. the ships on neutral routes aban-|ing of the “Unexpected Father.” |now Ambassador to England, was|Mesert civilization, Mnland has 4| | Gannes is charged with using in | Dy i el —— : ™ i e R A | S Ll sy right to expect active help from | S | peanes SN w1 nog ) eputy sheriffs have searched a| e | > i % other civilized nations” in resist- . S- YUKON IODAY B o - ol st d In 1934 number of large estates in the out- . 3 | If they refuse, place the _rlng~ the Balste. y making a false statement The |skirts of Phoenix for traces of the| he Ambassador to London said | ‘ , {leaders In trons” he told Gainard,|'"S, Pusste: st statement was that Gannes had not{mad woman slayer, Winnie Ruth he would go to Boston tomorrow | The mutiny ended. mw"am’“ "3;’"5 ]”_ troops have| Mg Catherine Nye returned from |obtained a passport since 1922, The (Judd. and expected to return to Washing- | 5 miles into Arclic skagway on the Yukon this morning government charges that the, writer( A woman resembling Mrs. Judd | Finland and made advances on all afier a month in the Lynn Canal Obtained a passport in 1925 under was reported seen in the vicinit; other fronts. fowt the name of Jacobs The large winter homes, mi;,,.d Russia has lodged a vigorous pro- Mrs. Nye has controlling interest| Gannes until recently handled a|by wealthy FEastern x\lll;lll are test against the British blockade in the light and power plant of |column in the Comunist paper Daily closed now and would nflold“mnn\v aimed at cutting off German ex-! skggway and has been attending to| Worker under the title — “World |hiding places for the escaped slayer ports, business affairs there, lFrm\t 7 of two Juneau women, ASHLAND, Ks Dee. 1140")&(‘]\-\ London after the holidays. ing his 95th birthday, Zion Tunmhy;10&'[‘];’;;‘:";{;3;:3”‘” ; by R Turner, former Alabama negro slave, | ¢aip, Gainard, a Martitfme Commis- THE FRENCH ARMY is divided |said he still felt President Lincoln| i, shipmaster, was one of those| into the Metropolitan and the Co-|“handicapped” him by giving him ¥ lonial Armies. his freedom. ton next week. He will leave for| (Continued on Page Eight)