The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 15, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW. S ALL THE TIME” VOL. LY., NO. 8285. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1939. " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, TEN CENTS_ “DEATH WATCH” PLACED, NAZI RAIDER NAZI SHIP DAMAGED, NORTH SEA Crippled Créfi Spotted by British Fliers Under Large Convoy LONDON, Dec. 15—The British newspapers report that Nazi war- ships have been sighted by British airmen over the North Sea convoy- ing a torpedoed German cruiser. The airmen report the crippled warship appears to be a vessel of about 6,000 tons, Two nights ago the British Ad- miralty reported that one British submarine had gone through the German nets and torpedoed a Ger- man cruiser. The German High Command the next day asserted there had been an “‘underwater explosion” near one of the German light cruisers in the North Sea but the damage was not important and the “ship returned to her home harbor.” e NAZI BASES AREBOMBED BY BRITISH Air Forces Maks Successful Raids During Night, Early Today LONDON, Dec. 15.—The Air Ministry announces that Brit- ish war planes have bombed the German seaplane bases on the Bork- um, Norderney and Sylt Islands. The actions took place during the night and early this morning. The fliers report that German warships played their searchlights| over the scene but did not hinder operations and there was no anti- aircraft firing. Air beié;ls_es For U. S. Will BeUrgedNow Special Congressional Committee Planning Recommendafion WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—A Con- onal Committee inspecting the facilities of the United States army reports that the members are about to return to Washington. The committee headed by Demo- cratic Senator Thomas of Oklahoma, has just ended a tour of army bases, air fields and arsenals from Con- necticut to the Panama Canal Zone. Senafor Thomas issued an infor- mal report in which he said the Congressional group would recom- ment that special attention be given immediately to increasing American defenses against attack by air. He| said the group favored developing the best possible anti-aircraft guns and placing them in the hands of specially trained anti-aircraft de- fense units. ee- —— 3RD TERM TALK; OPINIONS GIVEN ST. PAUL, Minn, Dec. 15.—Sec- retary of Agriculture Henry Wal- lace again predicts that President Roosevelt will be a candidate for a third term. The las ttime Wallace made a third term prediction he was rebuked by the White House. The President said at the time that the Secretary should have consulted the victim first. Democratic Senator Burton Whee- ler of Montana, who spoke on the same program, expressed the belief that the President will not run for a third term. British | Crificism 0f McNutt Is Dodged‘ ‘Annual Gatfiefing fo Usher| Roosevelt Nfiommeming on Recent Statements Made by Ickes HYDE PARK, Dec. 15.—President Roosevelt, spending the week-end at his home here, declined to make any comment on Secretary of Inter- ior Harold L. Ickes' recent criticism of Paul V. McNutt as a possible candidate for the Democratic Presi- dential nomination The President, talking to the news- papermen shortly after arriving here from Washington, declared that he is too old in political experiences to comment on Ickes' statement that the Liberals of the Democraitc and Republican parties would not sup- port McNutt. The President said the game of politics is to get the people to com- ment on this man, that man, the third man and the fourth man. By general process of elimination, the newsmen have the whole story — e~- MRS. JUDD - INCUSTODY; | YUMA’ ARIll!ago. and has been carried out each| Crazed Murderess Captur- | ed-Walked 200 Miles Across Desert YUMA, Arizona, Dec. 15.—Winnie Ruth Judd, crazed murderess of two 'COMMUNITY TREE - SONG FESTIVAL IS SET FOR SUNDAY | in Local Yulefide Festivities The big community Christmas tree | {around which townspeople are to | gather Sunday afternoon, for their annual Christmas songfest, under the auspices of the Juneau Woman’s Club, was erected this morning at | the corner of Front and Seward Streets, and a crew of men from the Alaska Electric Light and Pow- er Company is busy today stringing | the lights for the tree, Officially opening the Christmas season for Juneau, the tree will be | lighted every night until New Years and form a fitting decorative motif for the holiday season. Plans for holding the song festi- val are virtuaily complete, accord- ing to Mrs. Frank Harris, chairman of the committee in charge of the event. It will be held Sunday af- ternoon at 4 o'clock, at which time it is hoped all local residents will be on hand to particip in the singing of the Christmas carols. Ern- est Oberg will be organist for the program which will be broadcast over Station KINY for the benefit of those unable to attend. In addi- tion to the community singing there will be special Christmas music from various church organizations as in the past. | A fine example of community co- | operation, the idea of a community Christmas tree was originated by | the Juneau Woman'’s Club ten years | year since that time. The City pro- |vided the big tree, and a crew of ‘r:iLy workmen placed it in position and anchored it firmly against the | attacks of any stray Takus that might $tart patrolling the city streets during the boliday season. | The wiring of the tree, and elec- AIR FLEETS INBATILE, NORTH SEA - | Conflicting Reports Made | Concerning Reporfed | Engagement } (By 1\\;;l'd Press) German and British reports con- | |flict regarding an air battle over| the North Sea, supposed to have ta-| en place early today | The British repor ays: “British | lwarplanes made an attack in the| North Sea and German warplanes and war vessels responded our German planes were shot down and we los tthree. The raid was made |as German navy vessels were steam- |{ing south in some new contemplated | movement.” | The German High Command re- | ports that 10 of 20 British planes, | making an attack on German ships in the North Sea, were shot down and one German plane of a fleet| {sent into the air to repel the attack, | was forced to alight on the sea. - - - | BAR EXAMINATIONS ‘ 'FOR 5 APPLICANTS | | IS SET FOR JAN. 24 {Two More to Take Tests in| i Third Division, law | | BoardAnnounces Bar examinations for five appli- cants in the First Division and |two in the Third will be held next month, the Territorial Board SEA BATTLE German Ship Sent Down, Pacilic(oasll Cruiser Dispatch Makes Successful Aftack on | S. S. Dusseldorf ANTIAGO, Chile, Dec. 15— of the German r Dusseldorf, 4,900 tons, by the British cruiser patch is reperted by the Chile State Telegraph vice, The Dusseld [ | | I ! left Vaiparai- 56 two Gays ago and went down this morning off Caldera, Ata- cana Province. The crew is being picked up by a Chilean destroyer. The Dispatch recently refueled at San Diego, Cal | -~ WAS STAGED WRONGZONE Neutrality Bé‘H-Trespass May Result in Mass . Adion, Republics per e ATES T0 Keported Lost to Reds Gulf of Finland with a loss of 400 men, it is reported. The ship, bul 1937, is said to have suffered a direct hit from Finnish shore batteries as the Soviet fleet attacked from the sea AMERICA COOL TO IDEA OF UNITED STATES FOR ALLNATIONS OF EUROPE | " . ig S - | tricity to supply the lights is con-| e 1q4 Examiners announced to- 3 LN °l The 8,600-ton Russian eruiser Kirov (above) was sunk off Hangoe in the built in ] By PRESTON GROVER ~ WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Yankee | GRAF SPEE T0 ATTEMPT ~ T0 ESCAPE (Riddled German Craft Ex- | pected to Try to Run | Blockade 'BRITISH, ALSO FRENCH " SHIPS, LYING IN WAIT Repairs Being Completed | in Montevideo as Dead Buried ‘ | BULLETIN—LONDON, Dec. | 15.—The British Admiralty an- | nounces that four members of the crew were killed and three wounded aboard the British cruiser Achilles in Wednesday’s | sea battle with the Admiral Graf | Spee. No other casualty figures of the Ajax or Exeter have been given out. By Associated Press) The Allies have mounted a re« inforced guard and placed a “death | watch” over the trapped, battle-rid= dled German sea raider, the Ad- miral Graf Spee, which is repairing the wounds received, under an exs | tended Uruguyan sanctuary. Refueling of the battler Admiral | Graf Spee began early today in the | harbor of Montevideo amid growing expectations the war vessel will put | to sea despite increased strength of | British warships lying off the coasé |in wait for her. Oil is being loaded from the Ger= man freighter Tacoma. | Shelled in Day Battle | ‘The warship’s crew worked hard | since arrival at Montevideo to re pair the great damage caused by {tributed each year by the Alaska Electric Light and Power Company, ‘ds)n | The First Division examinations | Juneau women, and who escaped |always an enthusiastic supporter "f‘wm o hali at e | from the State Hospital for the in- |sane at Phoenix, Arizona, on De- }cember 3, has been captured here on the main street of the ctiy. tthe project. The telephone com- pany contributes its services in con- | necting the wires for the broadcast, |and KINY adds the final contriub- She tearfully told of walking all|tion by sending the program over but 20 of the 200 miles across the|the air to shut-ins apd those living desert between Phoenix and Yuma. at a distance from Juneau. Evidence | Hollow-eyed and emaciated, she|was appaarent today also that the | was picked up by Patrolman Henr_viwea(hcr man was going to do his | | Stahl who had been informed by share fo cooperating for the event | several pérsons they had seen a wo-|and smiling skies will be on hand‘ Iman answering her description. to greet the occasion—perhaps. : Mrs. Judd offered no resistance Marquees on Seward and Front‘ Streets will furnish adequate pro—J when arrested. 1 - eee tection from the elements, however, | | Attorney Gen-! |eral's office beginning at 9:30 o'- {clock the morning of January 24 jand continuing the balance of the week. It is believed the Third Division examinations will be held' at the same time, probably Seward, Attorney General James S. Tru- itt, Chairman of the Board, and R. E. Robertson, First Division member, will conduct the tests here. Those in the Third Division will be handled by L. V. Ray of at Seward, member for the Third Division. First Division applicants, all of | Brough on assuring adequate bread and Wednesday's day long shelling from butter rather than on so-called na- | three British cruisers off the Urus guyan coast following which the Two things keep Americans from | Admiral Graf Spee sought shelter, While preparations are being | made for a dash to freedom, Ger= First is the deep-set belief that man officers, three of them, and over | | even if the weather man fails in his | ED'SH S (IAI. | promises, and it is hoped that a| ' DEMOCRATS UNDER | large crowd will gather for this an-|Juneau, are William L. Paul Jr, nual community event and that the Harold H. Bates, Michael J.Lynch old familiar Christmas carols may John S. Hellenthal and Herschel McCann 7 | sitka—Jack Conway, Neil Ander-| son Douglas—Glenn Rice, Mrs. Walter Andrews ! WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.—Sec- statesmen see really solid ground reary of State Cordell Hull has DEMO SESSION under the widely discussed plan for implied that Pan-American con- a European Federation based on sultations have begun toward a economic factors rather than on a German-British naval battle with- , | They would like to believe it would in the western hemisphere ‘“neu- ! work. It has at least the advantage trality belt ivisi L i of a different approach, one based Hull disclosed that Uruguay is DIVISIO"al onvention at or | assembling official facts relative K k to the sea battle for transmis- efchikan fi;ts on tioel Hinmirations sion to the President of Panama J who has acted as a liaison of- anuary eef | whooping up a too-eager enthusiasm | ficial among the American re- P for the idea publics since the Panama neutrel- ~KETCHIKAN, Dec. 15.—The fol- ity meetin, lowing delegates to the Democralic | guropean peoples are determined “Naturally.” Hull said, “this on Territorial convention to be held | have their quarrels regardless its face, indicates an occasion for in Juneau on January 16 have been o the general welfare collaboration and concern on the elected by the Democratic First Di-| gecond is the fact that it s be- part of American nations.” visional Convention now being held iy adyanced primarily by Eng- e - here: land, and therefore, in the eyes of | Wrangell—Van Fisk and Lew Wil- | yany should be scrutinized closely. iHaus |1t is popular and politically im- | Petersburg—Erie Ness, Mrs. H.|portant just now to look first for | propaganda and only later for facts Skagway—W. J. Mulvihill, Mary \in any proposal from “Perfidious Al- bion.” | CHAMBERLAIN'S HOPES Chamberlain paragraph or s oas if he had his eye speech sounded for ' ATTACK, MOSCOW ?Government_fiadio Says the coming of the Prince of Peace. — e Russian | | | Party Composed of | Hirelings, Slaves | | i woscow e x| DESITOYCT day launched a sharp attack against i members of the Swedish Social Dem- ocratic party and their organ, the Social Democrat. of capitalists and imperialistic in- HELSINKI, Dec. 15.—Destruction terests and have dared to abuse the|of a Russian destroyer by coastal | glorious Red Army, which with such | batteries is reported by the Finnish unselfishness has lent its help to|command tonight. was the declaration as broadcast. |have been captured from the Rus- Continuing, the radio announcer|sians and others damaged in 24 said: “The whole world, even the|hours of fighting in which the Finns Swedish people, realize the unsel-|defeated the Russians in the region }md Army.” P, No Mention of Geneva The Moscow radio broadcaster BRIIISH IRAleR | did not mention the League of Na-| ' INE, ELEVEN | through indistinct radio reports from HIIS M '] labroad was it learned that the ' League had expelled the Russian MEN ABOARD loST government. The Moscow radio ig- LONDON, Dec. 15—The British |radio station of the government to- Sent Down “They are slaves and hirelings i the Democratic Finnish R(‘pubhc,”" It is also announced that 20 tanks fish work of Soviet Russia and her |of Suomussalmi | tions’ session at Geneva, and only nored the League’s session and maintained a strict silence on the | Geneva proceedings. | Admiralty announces that the | —— . itrawler James Ludford has been sunk by a mine and it is feared that two officers and 15 men have been lost. %(anadian Parliament Will Meet January 25 OTTAWA, Dec. 15.—The Prime b B FS x HAGERUP TO BOWL Irving Hagerup has joined the Jewelers team in the Elks bowling again send out their message of |B. Chappell, peace and good will in a world that| Third Division applicants are elsewhere seems to have forgotten|Noel K. Wennblom of Anchorage| and C. W. Minaker of Valdez. Washingfon ‘ Looks Down on ‘ F. Dufresne Executive Officer Frank Du-| fresne of the Alaska Game Com- mission hung a new picture on the | wall of his office today. | It is a Gilbert Stuart portrait| of Washington inseribed: “For my dear friend Frank Dufresne from Frank W. Boykin, Congressman from Alabama.” Representative Boykin was a member of the fisheries commit- tee which visited Alaska last sum-) FINLAN PLEA FOR SUSPENDING = HOSTILITIES, NEGOTIATE HELSINKI, Dec. 15. — Finland Foreign Minister Vaino Tanner has appealed in a radio broadcast to Russia’s Foreign Minister Molotoif for suspension of hostilities and re- sumption of negotiations on the ba- sis of the principle that small na- tions have a right of self-determ- D MAKES FINAL | NORTH SEA Bender, J. J. Connors, Jr., Chenella, James V. Davis, Ketchikan—P, J. Gilmour, Dr German Sea and Air Forces . Mokechnie, Mo, Lem M Fvidontly Plonning [ "= ¥, &t S New Atiacks | pOPULATION OF iz PETERSBURG UP; R. LONDON, Dec. 15, es in the North Sea, near the scene of the great World War battle of | the Jutland, are reported in accel- erated activity, both water and air| craft. The report is brought back by British scouting planes which indi- cate some new attack planned Several German naval craft, bat- tleships, cruisers, destroyers and | submarines were sighted in some unexplained activity and German | war planes were making Ihgth,' then returning. a-| Seafood Cifi Marks Up © Y Gain of 36-Big Loss in Other District A gain in the population of Pet- ersburg and a loss in the Hyder Recording District are evidenced in preliminary 1940 census released today by Supervi Anderson through the of | Gov. Ernest Gruening | Petersburg population was enu- merated as 1,288, compared with 1 ten years ago. One farm i counted in the incorporated limit The Hyder dis has only 97 residents now as compared with 313 in 1929, Anderson announced foday that| the population of the Glacier ion of Finland, recalled that Russia|Highway in 1829, though not pub lent support to this principle |lished separately, was 289. Yester- recalled also how the Moscow gov-|day it was announced the new ernment broke off diplomatic rela-|population there is 839, a gain of tions with Finland and also refused|190 percent in ten years to mediation of the United States, rejected Sweden's offer of concilia- tion and rejected the League of been enumerated along the high- ways leading to Thane and the Minister announces that the Cun- adian Parliament will open on Jan- uary 25. This will be the fourth regular session of the 18th Parlia- ment, league replacing Oscar Eliason who has gone south, Ray Ward, chair- man of the bowling committee, an- nounced today. / ination. Tanner, who took part in the long drawn out Kremlin negotia- tions that preceded Russia’s mva.s-l Nation’s mediation in the dispute. “However, the way is still open,” was the concluding statement in Tanner's broadcast, Basin and on Douglas Island. When stragglers are picked up the popu- lation of the Channel to be recorded as about 7,500. Juneau—John Covich, Mrs, Robert | Frank | HYDER SLUMPS . | tried for In addition, more than 350 have is expected a |on Secretary Hull. “In such a Europe d Chamber- |1ain, speaking of the “new Europe” he hoped would grow out of the war, Lem McKay, | «ji would be recognized that there | can be no lasting peace unless there |is a full and constant flow of trade | between the nations, for only by in- creased interchange of goods and ervices can the standard of living be improved.” | Continuing in the same vein, he said “In such a Europe, fear of ag- gression will have ceased to exist, and such adjustments of boundaries as would be necessary would be threshed out between neighbors sit- ting on equal terms around a table, with the help of disinterested third parties if it were so desired.” OFT-TRIED IDEA Europe has been looking for a | federation of some sort for a dozen The Catholic Church everal hundred years to 4, generatior fend off little nationalities. Empire with a far less sought this, too. Louis XIV of Prance tried two hundred years ago to make Europe , nation of one mind his own. gland shook him down The enthusiasts of the French | Revolution thought they had found the one-and-only type of govern- ment and tried to butter all Europe The Holy Roman noble motive, with it. Napoleon, with the same machtnery but fewer of the ideals dreamed for a time of a sort of United States of Europe—under him, Waterloo ended that At the Congress of Vienna in 1815, | Prussia, Russia and Austria set out to preserve the status quo in Eur- ope and even in the Americas by the “Holy Alliance.” South Ameri- can nations, and in turn, Greece, (Continuec O:ang} F;e;/en) the break up into tight| 23 members of the crew killed in the sea battle, were buried on Uruguayan soll, | 36 Men Killed | Thirty six men were killed on the Admiral Graf Spee in the first ma- jor naval engagement of the war, Two of the British cruisers before which the Nazi warship fled, the Ajax and Achilles, are keeping a pa- trol out at sea off the port of Mon= | tevideo. British quarters indicate that the 110,000 ton British cruiser Cumber- |land will be added to the patrol off | Montevideo. French Join Blockaders Argentina official sources also |indicate that the 26,000 ton French | battleship Dunkerque is steaming | toward Montevideo to join the block= | ading force. The impression grew this after- noon that the Adimiral Graf Spee, whose crew is celebrating escape from shells which threatened to turn their ship into a tomb, will attempt to run the gauntlet of both British and French warships. The British cruiser Exeter, the third of the Admiral Graf Spee’s antagonists in Wednesday's sea bat- tle, has steamed for the Argentina | naval base where 100 beds are pre- pared for the Exeter's wounded, Size of Craft The Achilles and Ajax are 554 feet long, beam of 55 feet with | complement of 550 officers and men; |eight 6-inch guns, four 4-inch, 4 three pounders, 12 smaller guns, leight, 21-inch torped otubes. The Exeter is 579 feet long, 55 faet | beam, complement of 600 officers and men, with guns similar to those on the Achilles and Ajax. | The Admiral Graf Spee is a 10,« {000 ton naval craft with a comple= | ment of 826 officers and men; has | six 11-inch guns, eight 5.9 guns, six 4.1-inch guns, eight 3-pounders, 14 |smaller guns, six 2l-inch torpedo tubes and two aircraft with calas | pults.