The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1939, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE N WS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8284. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCI ATED PRES PRICE TEN CENTS o NAZI RAIDER RUNS T0 PORT, SEA BAT British War Vessels DESTROYER GOES DOWN: LIVES LOST One Hundred and Twenty.| Men Die Following Sea Disaster FOURTH HARD BLOW DEALT BRITISH NAVY Only 23 of—C—rew Said fo Have Been Saved-De- tails Not Gfllen Qut LONDON, Dec. 14—The British Admiralty reports the British de- stroyer Duchess has collided with another warship and has sunk with an indicated loss of 120 lives, Only three blows, all deal by Gery many, have been more disastrous to the British Navy since the present war started. They were the sink- ing of the aircraft carrier Courag- eous, with a loss of 578 men; battle- ship Royal Oak with loss of 786 men, and armed merchantman Raw- alpindi, with a loss of 265 men. Det; of the whereabouts of the Duchess or how the collision occur- red, are not given, but it is disclosed that the disaster happened yester- day. The Admiralty says the other ship, not identified, was not damaged. Only one officer and 22 men were saved from the Duchess. - e U-BOAT IS SENT DOWN NORTH SEA Brifish Submarine Makes Successful Attack on Nazi Fleet LONDON, Dec. 14.—The Brit- ish Admiralty announces that a British submariie sank a Nazi U-boat and also torpedoed another Nazi war vessel, a cruis- er in the North Sea. The British attacking subma- rine is said to be the same which last Tuesday sighted the Ger- man liner Bremen but did not attack her. Midway Island Sub Base for U.S. Not Worrying fo Japan TOKYO, Dec. 14—A Japanese Admiralty spokesman said today that his country is not particularly concerned over reports that the| United States will establish a sub- marine base at Midway Island. The spokesman claimed that what he termed a gentleman’s agreemnt, existed between Japan and the United States under which the United States will not establish fortifications or stage maneuvers west of the International Date Line. Midway Island lies just east of the International Date Line. e ee———— Ketchikan May Now Talk With Seattle By Radio Telephone in Collision, One Sinks e ‘ i | . 2 ALASKA’'S ON THE WIRE_—Because Anchorage, Alaska, couldn’t wait to extend greet- ings to Dr. Ernest Gruening, Alaska governor-designate, Listening are John T. Logan Charles Williams of Fairbanks. Logan and Williams had just made motorcycle trek fro 6. 0. P. SEES LONG Gruening got this call at a reception in Seattle. Magnuson of Seattle, (left) of Pittsburgh, Congressman Warren G. m Alaska. HAND Population ~ OFF.D.R.PROPOSINGTO Of Juncau - HOLD CONVENTIONS LATE \Union Urges . Confirmation ~ 0fGruening ;Marilime F—e_d;raiion Will Expose “Alaska for | Alaskans” Move | SEATTLE, Dec. 14—A legisla- tive program announced by the | Washington District Council of the | Maritime Federation of the Pacific ‘includes a recommendation that | the Senate give confirmation of Dr. | Ernest Gruening as Governor of Al- |aska. He has already been given the oath at Juneau on a recess ap- | pointment. GROVER Census Figures Announced WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Repub- | . o ot presiaent moose-| —Douglas 521 — High- way Grows Fastest velt was the political engineer be- hind the statement by party fol-| lowers that it would be a' nice thing | to hold next year's political con- vention late in the year, possibly| The population of Juneau, as de- September. {termined by the 1940 census enu- | " The statement, made by unquoted | meration, is 5748, srding to a | party figures who had called on the| preliminary —announcement made | President at his Georgia “White |today by Supervisor J. P. Anderson | House,” had all the earmarks of a| the office of Gov. Ernest shrewd political move to make the | Gruening. | Republican National Committee 1show its hand on the matter of the | date of the National convention. We went up to Republican head- quarters to look into the business and were told that a majority of the National committee would like to have the G. O. P. convention of 1940 after the Democratic conven- tion. The idea of the majority members was that despite the long practice of Republicans boldly nam- ing their ticket first, it would be a cheap sacrifice if they could scuttle the tradition and have the Demo- crats act first. Then at the Re- Ten years ago Juneau had a population of 4,043, as determined in the census of 1930. Douglas’ population today is |as compared to 593 ten years d |The Glacier Highway population showing the greatest gain of an unit announced today, is 839. The Gastineau Channel popula- tion, Anderson estimated, would total about 00 after figures from Thane, the Gold Creek Basin and Douglas Island outside of the town are all in. Biggest Gain Announcing the figures today 1 0. Now 5,748 0f Reds Get MOSCOW IS VOTED OUT RUSSO-FINN DISPUTE: JUSTWHAT IT MEANS FIGHT WITH BRITISHIN OF LEAGUE | | e GRAF SPEE 0y ,»\“"—] Terrible Allday Engage- , 4 Unanimous Ballot Expels Russia from Council | for Aggression UNITED STATES IS ASKED T0 GIVE AID| Expulsion of U. 5. S. R.Is |[f First Such Case in | | Geneva History 14.—The | GENEVA, Dec Leagzue of Nations, by unanimous vote the League Council today expelled Russia from the League because of her invasion of Finland Four members of the including Finland, abstained from voting in the expulsion action. The | others were China, Yugoslavia and Greece Vote on the resolution was clared as a result of Russia’s ac- tions toward Finland, holding, “The | | U,8.8R. is no longer a member of | | the League.” { | A upanimous vote of the Cnunrifl lis: necessary to expel a member. | | Abstentions from voting do not| affect unanimity. | This is the first time in history | a nation has been expelled from the League Council The move followed action by the sembly, condemning Russian ag- gression and asking members to/ aid Finland, so inviting non- | League members such as the Unit- ed States to help the little repub- lic. The Council poth adjourned action. of council de- BALTIC SEA”™] 3 s 12 to 16 ingrad. E had made territory north of Leningrad. In where. FDR LAUDED AT OPENING ~ CONVENTION . _Dimond Asks Alaska I:reSh GamS: Branch of Party fo Back | Gruening as Governor Finns Using Strafegy of orcuman ansa, pec. 10 Re"ea' '0 New De_ | Democrals of Alaska, as well as the and the after Assembly taking the D Ardic Army | be proud of the record of President administration and g on Russian soldiers, Russia demanded that | - | or le: to| selfish r i ment Occurs Off Coast of Uruguay GERMAN (RAFT SEEKS REFUGE, MONTEVIDEQ | Thirty Killed, 60 Injured- One English Cruiser Is Damaged BULLETIN—LONDON, Dec. 14.—The Admiralty hnnounces that British Naval forces are watching the German pocket battleship sea raider Graf in port at WNiontevideo. Just how many British ships are now off the coast is not announced. Extreme efforts will be made to prevent escape of the Nazi warship from the neutral port. LS s Byl i MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec. 14—The damaged German pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee arriv+ ed in this port shortly before mid- | night last night with 30 killed and | 60 injured. | Two of the three British cruisers | which engaged the battleship off the Uruguayan shores in a running fight from 6 o'clock yesterday morning |until after 8 o'clock last night, are miles from the frontier, near Len- | reported lying outside the harbor. other demands, including a strip of return, Russia offered land else- BRITISH VICTORY LONDON, Dec. 14—The British victory in the sea battle with the Admiral Graf Spee is not without its | casualties. The British Admiralty admits that one of its three cruisers, the | fast 8390-ton cruiser Exeter, has been put out of action after a four | hour fight, but the other two Brit- ish warships, the 7030-ton cruiser Achilles and the 6985-ton cruiser {Ajnx trailed the Admiral Graf Spee {to her refuge and took up positions | just outside the harbor with their grim guns, hardly cooled from the { furious sea baftle, still trained on |the Nazi battleship which earlier |in the day had attacked one of them before it i& too late. |off the Uruguyan coast where rever- This authority has heard talk in!P* ""'l;m:- ’;xnt: drr;a]n' )n( mr-(-‘,;:,regugs e aters that Germany|Were heard and flashes of ob= responsible quarters that Germany erved by officials. ‘The sea battle has reason to feel that she is more ttle cuaranteed agatnst continued | ¥88 foughb within the America’s Russian aggression in eastern b:u-"""'l'\":"“.-‘f‘b"“- {rope. Thal could mean Hitler is dvices from Washington, Jeo L eonvinced tie Allies for their own|Ceived. here, ssid probably o issue asons would not grind (il-r-\w'” be raised on the question of v AP Feature dervive ter | WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Russian ! pressure to hasten the dispute with I!"lnl:\ml 1o a decision comes just at | the moment when' talk of a united front against Communism is welling to the surface in several of the im- | portant states of Europe A leading American authority on Russian affairs tells me that this is much more than mere coincidence. He feels that the rise of anti-Com- munistic teeling is the only real in- ducement to Russia to work a squeeze play now against the Finns | publian convention the Democratic platform could be answered and the Democratic candidate ould be lam- basted under the hot light of pub- licity that always focuses upon a national convention. And now up come Democratic lea- ders, fresh from talks with Presi- dent Roosevelt and blandly intimate that if it is going to be a waiting game. to see who gets the last con- vention, the Democrats are willing to wait even to September, if nec- je»ar)fl The program includes a recom- | | mendatiin for abolition of fish traps | in Alaska at the rate of 20 percent | yearly. | Secretary A. E. Harding said one |of the objectives of the Maritime | !Federation's convention to be held in Juneau beginning January 9 will| “be to expose the ‘Alaska for Alas- kans’ movement as sponsored by the employers in an attelpt to disrupt organized labor in the canned sal- {mon industry.” | - DEMOCRATS' ADVANTAGE Such an idea would be dynamite | |to Republicans. They can't wait {that long to get under way. At | Republican headquarters we asked | questions about that. They frankly QUOTATIONS | stated that all the advantage of late — Closing NEW YORK, Dec. 14. — Closing |, ventions would lie with the Dem- | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| ..¢; They have a party organi- stock is 6%, American Can 112%,},4ion much more closely knit and| | American Power and Light 4%,|,04y to go. That is always the l;;awnda 30'\‘, Bethlehem Steel| .5qe” with the party in power. The p Commonwealth and SOUNErD | oty on the outside needs three or 4, Curtiss Wright 10%, General|f,,r months at least to get steam up Motors 54, International Harvester after the convention. No headway 62, Keu_necou 38, New York Cen-|can be made in a campaign before| tral 18%, Northern Pacific 9%,|the candidate is known and the United States Steel 68%, P"“"diplatiorm written. $3.94%. You might just as well know {also that Republicans smelled or | thought they smelled, something of | Stock DOW, JONES AVERAGES Gov. Gruening remarked the in- crease here was the largest between |:'.(,\:',Z_““fml>':’tx‘x‘n{; in the Listory of| pussian troops are advancing rap- | nationally, aserted Delegaie . nsus-taking in Alaska.| . through the Petsamo region thony J. Dimond in his (Continued on Page Two) GOV. WORKS FOR AIRPORT FOR JUNEAU Expected Io_Be—on Program| of CAA-Speech Boosts Tourist Industry Large commercial airports for both Juneau and Ketchikan will be pro- vided for in the Civil Aeronautics program to be introduced in Con- gress at the coming session, Gov. Ernest Gruening said today he had reason to expect. Speaking at the noon luncheon of the Juneau Chamber of Com- a third term “feeler” in the pro-|merce, the Governor said institutions The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 148.93, | posal for conventions in September | of 5 year-round direct airmail ser- | instead of in June, the customaryyice between Seattle and Juneau is : | nation at large, have the right to fense Lines Dec, 14. KIRKENE Norway, and approaching Salmijarvi, near the Norwegian frontier. The Finns seem to be preparing | to withdraw from Salmijarvi and | establish ~ defense lines further south. Salmijarvi and four other towns, Kilosjoki, Tullevi, Koilolahti, and Kovoranta, are all ablaze. The entire district from Borisglv to Salmijarvi is covered with black smoke. The Petsamo district is a narrow corridor of Finnish territory on the | Aretic Ocean. CHARGE GAS HELSINKI, Dec. 14—A Finnish Army communique issued tonight asserts that extensive areas have been recaptured by the Finns in the vicinity of Tolajarvi and the Russian invaders have been forced to retreat, The communigue declares more Russian tanks have been captured Accusation is made that the in- vaders are using gas in fighting at Suomusslami, 20 miles inside the Pinnish lines and almost mid- point on the eastern frontier, but added the gas is largely ineffec- tive. IS USED | Roosevelt’s | the battle being fought within the | ook for continuance of the party’s|many between two millstones in case i R ! ol America's neutrality zone. | domirfance both territorially and | Russia should turn on the An-| the East. keynote| That does not imply the firs Democratic | if Russia marches in the East. |at all | address opening the |of the First Division | Convention here late yesterday | Dimond’s speech brought an ova- tion of several minutes While strongly advoc: fide Alaskans for all appointments, Delegate Dimond told the conven- | tion he was opposed to further op- position to the confirmation of Gov. | Ernest Gruening. | Paying him high tribute for his ilnwllml'h('t\ courage, and resours | fulness, Dimond said, “Dr. Gruen- | ing is the President’s choic | President is our leader. I feel we should abide by his decision | Delegate Dimond briefly reviewed | the record of the Roosevelt admin- | istration, its advances in Social Se- curity and fostering of National De- fanse. | Rep. James V. Davis has been | made head of a committee on reso- | Jutions and platform, while Terri | torial Auditor Frank A. Boyle heads’ the committee on nominations e 'ELLINGEN TO BUILD in Europe clear border, Communism the border from France just as dangerous to the right fore, in case of many to stop Russia, CAN STYMIE HITLER There’s more than wishful thin, ing behind the sugg many and Russia of Allies, despite all their shaking and treaty-making | tainly it observers suce that complete acy in the Baltic from Extensive naval bases and Ltihuania sions in the Gulfs Reich in | Allies ion | would call off the war against Hitler Not It does mean they may be | convinced that a weak and helpless | Germany would be an invitation to ating bona | the Communists to extend their sway up to the French across would be Allies as German victory in the war. There- Russian aggression, he Allies might be willing to lessen pressure long enough to permit Ger- stion that Ger not the bes hand- Cer- | is obvious to all military Russian s against the Finns would be a menace to German naval suprem- Already the Rus- sians have gained important Baltic onia, Latvia, conces- of Finlapd and | Bothnia would provide a straight- | The Admiral Graf Shee is within | her rights, under International law, lin taking refuge for repairs, but. she will have to leave port within 24 hours after the repairs are com< pleted. DASH IS PLANNED NEW YORK, Dec. 14—A dar- ing attempt by the shell-torn Ad- miral Graf Spee to run the gaunts let of British cruisers holding the “death watch” outside the harbor at Montevideo, is forecast in the broadcast from the South Ameri- can port. The NBC announcer said the of- ficers of the German ship are rushing repairs and seemingly des~ k- | perate efforts are being made to sail out and not be interned for { the duration of the war. STAY OF 48 HOURS WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.—Secre~ tary of State Cordell Hull said he has been informed a stay of 48 hours will be allowed at Montevideo for the Admiral Graf Spee but the (Conunbed on Pa.gé Vfiver 8yr 1 SENT arm challenge to the German fleet, | and interrupt, at the will of Russia, | THREE éPARTMENIS [rails 3184, utilities 34.95. | Harry Ellingen will construct three | apartments at 419 Willoughby Ave- VACATION AT HOME | nue, according to a building permit 10 AYNT | W 2 vfi 3 - Germany’s war lifeline of ore from <\ the Swedish iron mines, not to men- tion Pinnish nickel | And with talk of a United States|, imn;;nh.h They rea»on:‘d this way: | waiting upon such airports, which § i BaE i the Democratic convention | myst have very long runways to phone 5ervlce‘ b(:eweien Ke'.c;el‘;k.ani Stocks gamed fractions d““nggshould be held tn September it would | accommodate Lhye Lypf o sub‘iitratv flnd. Seattle will naugural at | the _mornmg session, then dull|pe 05 late to heal any party split|gsphere plane which has b;eelx }Uulxdl Meteorologist H, J. Thompson is|issued by City Building Inspector 2 o'clock _tomlorrow afternoon. 0 trading dwindled and nmr?y stocks| which Democrats fear and Repub-|most efficlent over similar routes. | taking three weeks leave from his|Milton Lagergren. {of Europe bubbling up all over the The radio telephone system be-|closed at below yesterday’s prices.|jicans hope may emerge from the| just how s N o il position as head of the U. S.| Cost of the apartments, whichcontinent, Russia may be extremely tween Seattle and Juneau has been | Brokers blamed the situation on|. ow soon such service Willl weather Bureau here. He is spend-| will have oil heat, is estimated at - 2 established for several years. peace rumors from abroad. | «Continued on Page Two) his vacation in Juneau. $4.,000. 3 SEATTLE, Dec. 14—Radio tele- Till Christmas ing (Continued on Page Seven) [{ C;nl;r;hed ong;;;ge Six)