The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 21, 1939, Page 1

I VOL. LV., NO. 8290. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1939. MEM BER ASSOCIATED PRESS THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENTS 2 BATTALI — AIR FORCE OVERSEAS First Unit, Totalling More than 6,000 Men, Going Abroad for War Duty OTTAWA, Dec Defense Min- ister Rogers announced today that a Royal Canadian Air Force Squadron and auxiliary units, talling more than 6,000 n.'n, will be sent overseas to support the First Canadian Division now over- seas. The air equipped planes. The squadron, from Toronto, is the first unit of Canadian fliers to be sent overseas and will be in command of Squadron Leader Van | and to- be of also type will latest squadron with the Vliet of Winnipeg. - eee Two Planes Forced Down ~ OnFlightsY at Hotin, Rumania, border town in given to the latter ai NITED STATES Weather - Other Has Broken Oil Line NOME, Alaska, Dec. 21. — Pilot Curley Martin of the Mirow Air Service, reports by radio he was forced down Tuesday in bad weath- er on a flight from Hamilton to St. Michael. Another plane has left to take a unit to in Mar- LOUIS LEPKE IS CONVICTED FOR SMUGGLING J0B new ski shock absorbing replace the one damaged tin’s landing. Another plane, with three pas- sengers aboard, has been forced down because of a broken oil line Nulato on a flight from Fair- Dog teams with May Bring Him 168 Years in Prison NEW YORK, Dec. 21.—Louis Lepke Buchalter was convicted in Federal Court today of couspiracy to violate n banks. oil have been sent out to give aid. CANADIAN Deep snow covers interior of Al the narcotics Jaws as the top man aska. in what the Government alled a e NP S | TORG Us $10,000,000 international smuggling " syndicate.” Lepke is accused of cutting himself in on widespread operations in many foreign ports. . He faces a possible maximum pen- jalty of two years in prison and a NAZI CLAIMS ON SINKINGS GIVEN $10,000 fine, while nine other in- pOSI‘HVE DENIAL cictments vending asainst i, 11 brought to conviction, might bring him a total of 168 years in prison and fines totalling $180,000. — e NO CONCESSION - ON COPPER, NEW CHILEAN TREATY State Depa;m_énl Makes Announcement-Good Feeling Created 21. — The no on High Allied Officials Meet in London—Confer- ence Report LONDON, Dec. 21.—The Allies war against German air raids and mines was discussed last night at a meeting of high Allied officials + at the British Admiralty, Th> high- v est ranking officials of the British and French navies attended the conference. The naval meeting was held as a dispute raged between | London and Berlin over the suc- | cess of Germany's intensified air! attacks on Allied ships. WASHINGTON, Dec. he German Admiralty claims|State Department announces that Nazi planes have sunk 22/tariff concession will be made ships of the British outpost units copper or copper products in the in the past three days. trade agreement heing negotiated The British Admiralty issued ;\‘Wilh Chile, formal statement which sai Dur-, “In view of the widespread in- including two neutrals, were at-|Cided to make this decision known tacked by German aircraft. Only|Publicly at this time” the an- three of the vessels attacked were | nouncement says. naval units and all three of these Representative Charles H. Leavy, attacks were unsuccessful. One| Democrat of Washington, said he coastal steamer and six fishing believed the decision will create trawlers were sunk. The methods & better feeling in Cong toward ' used by the German aircraft in at- the reciprocal trade agreement tacks upon defenseless merchant | Program. ships and fishing vessels are marked 5 # by senseless inhumanity.” IRO Meanwhile the British navy N MA" claimed another valuable German prize when the 13,600-ton Irelghu-,r: WAKEFIELD, Dec. 21—Listen. ‘ Cap Norte was brought into an|vo. Tron men: Center Al Bensaul i English port. British officials said of Wakefield High School, played ! the ship had been captured in the | eyery minute of the nine games on ‘, South Atlantic. ) | his team’s schedule this year. Wake- , The small Swedish freighter|field won them all. { Mars struck a mine and sank in A Sy v e the North Sea last night. A Dan-| LATVIA consists of the former ish vessel landed in Norway eight|Russian province of Courtland, members of the crew of the Brit-|four southern districts of the Rus- ish trawler Trinidad which Was| gjan province of Livonia and three sunk by German planes off the|western districts of the former coast of Scotland. Russian province of Vitebsk, ing across the river at Soviet Russia. nates the landscape is the new district Soviet house. ready has begun a campaign against Ruman Nine Other Indidmenls: ing the last three days 35 vessels, terest in the question, it is de-| ) i | o This is the view one gets from the high bank of the Dneister river province of Bessarabia, look- The white house that domi- Russia al- a to recover Bessarabia, fter the World war. BUDGETIS the LIXE YOURS: CAN'T BE CUT By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—Out of | a eontempiated national budget of {nine billion dollars 'seems as if Congress ought to be ‘ilhlt‘ to chisel off a couple of billion «count ‘em), it at le But when you begin look- |ing he budget—item by item— | vou can’t escape the conclusion that there will NOT be much trimming. The Congressional heart is prob- ably as hard as any other heart— in the mass. But the Congressional Ineart is never confronted by the! budget in the mass. It is confront- ed by it peacemeal. And the Con- gressional heart, section by sec- tion, melts. The long odds are that in the com session of Congress, e will melt again, T and there will be no cut- {ting down of appropriations i Congress can always make a show |and demonstrate that it cut the bud- get—but that claim is always a pub- licity cheat. The budget is what/ the various departments ask for. As |a matter of well-established prac- | tice they always ask more than they | expect to get, although they will de- fend every dollar as essential to the continued national existence. Aing pieceme | e | CONGRESS RA F.D.R. | The President gets first chance at cutting the budget. He too is a| past master at doing it the skillful way. More than one Congressman will tell you that the President does his heavy trimming in items which | | he expects Congress will put back.| {The idea is that it leaves him a| {margin so he may be lenient with | | those portions of the budget for which he has shown special favor {in recent years—notably the Army | and Navy. As an example, he trimmed a slug | off farm benefits a couple of years ago and suggested that Congress could put it back only if it was will-| gilm to raise the extra money by tax- iz\li«m. The Congressmen didn't raise | the money but did put back the ap- | prepriation—and the President has |been punishing them verbally ever since. Take individual appropriations, then the point is clearer. For the old-time services of the Depart-! | ment of Agriculture, such as exten- ]:ion work, inspection, experiment stations, and the like, about $391.- (000,000 is needed. But the Depart- ment of Agriculture appropriation |last year was $1,289,000,000. Where |did it all go to, and why can’t some be cut off? Well, $654,560,000—two-thirds of a billion—went out as soil conser- vation, and benefits or parity pay- ments to cotton growers, tobacco growers, and farmers in general, In an election year do you expect Mid- Western Senators and House mem- bers, or those from the cotton and tobacco belt, o the trans-Mississippi wheat states, o vote for cutting that figure? If you think so, you have never seen a Congressman in the flesh. ! Congress cut the emergency re- ylief appropriation last session, but (Conti nuet; ;r; }u?five) jas the mountain states are suffer-| DUTCHAR FORCE HAS ENCOUNTER Invading Pla nes Coming‘ from East Driven Off Unidentified AMSTERDAM, Dec. 21.—Nether- | lands planes fought an air battle | today with aircraft of undetermined | | foreign nationality in full view of | hundreds of persons in Utrecht and | surrounding country. | The engagement started about| noon today The invaders are reported tc come from the East, where Netherlands borders Germany A smoke curtain was dropped by the foreign fighters who escaped un- | der this protection l Heavy firing was heard and smoke | have The | | plumes of bursting anti-aircraft | shells were plainly seen. | A short time earlier, three foreign | military planes were sighted over Veluve in the border province of Gelderland, north of en, Ger- m: Netherlands anti-aiveraft batter- ies fired on the planes, and the craft yere chased by Netherlands air patrols, officials said. R | TYROL ROMANS DONT HAVE 10 BECOME NAZIS Italian-German Pact Is An- nounced Regards Old Austrian Soil . ROME, z1.—1talian authori- ties today formally assured inhabi- tants of the Italian Tyrol they could remain on their ancestr: soil for Italian rather than Ger man citizenship, An agreement between Italy and Germany was published today cov- L ! ering migration to Germany of all former Austrians who prefer Ger- man citizenship. The announcement quieted fears of many that they would be com- pelled to quit their native moun- tains even though they chose to remain Italian. | This new agréement supplements | an earlier German-Italdian pact| relative to repatriation of Germans| . which during Italy the gained World | in the from War Tyrol Austria - NAVY OFFICE OPENS TODAY Exclusive Radiophoto stroyer and the rescue of some of the str ing submarine, Going down with it is pictured one of her points to two Nazi survivors swimming to the destroyer. Silhouetted British » Theodor his fian had annou U. 5. LUMBER T0 Teddy Roo ONS OF RUSSIA NS WIPED OUT hows estroyers which part i i it Anne Babcock, ATROOM 320 BE BOUGHT BY Cinn GREAT BRITAIN Lieut. MacKinnon Is fo Be| Assisted by Yeoman in Liaison Work Lieut. J. S. MacKinnon opened a branch office of 13th Naval District at Room of the Federal Building in qus ters used during the summer the Bureau of Fisheries. The new office makes a “service row” of the corridor. Room 316 Finance office. | MacKinnon will be assisted by | a Yeoman to be assigned here by the District. Another Federal Building move] last night was that of the U. S. Treasury Disbursement and Ac counts office to rooms 302-4-6. HCl T et e SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 21 —Ranchers of ine Rocky Mountyin region hope that snow that start\ falling late yesterday will continue ing from a severe shortage of mois- ture. e STILL IN the wreck of the Fannie & Jennie, Confederdate blockade runner lying off the beach at Wrightsville, N. C., is a| gold and jeweled sword sent Lu! General Robert E. Lee by British | sympathizers. Il American Ships as Carqo Carriers WASHINGTON, Washington Post says ests hav Dec. 21 The British inter- offered to buy a large quantity of American lumber costing and with wh as well as T T is the Army|pegween $15000,000 and $30,000,000, purchase h to transport the lumber ten American ships American cotton D ock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec 21. — Closing quotation of Alaski Juneau mine stock is 6%, American Can 112%, American Power and Light 4%, Anaconda 30 Bethlehem 82, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Mo- tors 54, International Harvester 60'%, Kennecott 38 w York | central 18, Nor fic 8 | United States Steel 67 Pound $3.93 3/4, Canadian Commonwealth DOw, The «ls 31.20, following are toda Jones averages: nd Southern 1%. AVERAGES JON industrials 149.10, utilities 24.92, inking of a G ipated in the si Louisville ced they would be married February 'LIBERALS MAY | the 1 ierman U-boat g Roosevelt III, grandson of the late President is shown with (Ky.) horsewoman after she HOLD MEETING ONPRESIDENCY Parley Wil Include Both Parties WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.—8e tary of the Interior Harold Ickes today said that liberals among the Democrats and Republicans might call a national convention some time before the 1940 Presidential cam- paign to organize support for which- ever party is named a liberal head of its ticket Ickes said he has discussed such a possibility with Senators Norris and LaFollette, and that a decision to call a conference might or might not depend upon whether or not Roosevelt has decided to try for a third term. Ickes said, however, tion will not be aimed at setting up a third political party. - - - CAROLS TO BE SUNG ON JUNEAU STREETS On Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock members of the Christian Endeavor and those in the Junior Chair of Northern Light Presbyterian Church, will carol through the Ju- neau streets under the direction of Mrs. John A. Glasse. In the even- ing there will be caroling by the young people and agdults, Sub S;nking 7;(\' Destroyerin (Jrupffir Phot« “comewhere on the sea front” by a British de- sub’s erew. Upper arrow indic men, presumably the commander. against welt I to Wed ]1De|ails 0‘ | Purchase Also Indi(ates‘Se(refary of Interior Says , REDS BOMB HELSINKI'S HOSPITALS Stalin's Birthday Party Is | New Air Raids Over Wide Area . RUSSIANS MAY BE T STOPPED, ARCTIC Shore Batteries of Defenders BULLETIN—HELSINKI, Dec. 21.—Finnish land forces were officially reported today to have wiped out two battalions of Rus- sians in land fighting. An army communique said the Finns either theew back the in- vaders with heavy losses, or continued their own advances. Twenty Russian tanks were either captured or destroyed, the communique reported, also in- cluding in the captured list, a wide variety of arms and am- munition and army equipment. In the day's aerial operations, two Kussian planes were re- ported shot down over Helsinki where the invaders bombed a hospital dormitory and heavily damaged a school for the blind. In a report of casualties in the five blocks hospital area where seven hospital structures were hit, enly two persons were killed and none were injured. ng tower of the sink- tes con Lower arrow two other | the ‘ | i | | | | zon are Scuttling Given OuI; Captain of Luxury Nazi Lin-| er commbus Down | Two trains were machine gun- af Sea, Talks | ned, but it is understood there | were no casualties. (By Associated Press) NEW YORK, Dec. 21—C8pt.| pussian warplanes again raided Wilelm Dahen of the German!ine capital of Finland, once beau- liner Columbus stepped ashore at| yie) Helsinki, today as the Soviets Ellis Tsland last night and teld a|giarted the fourth week of their detailed story of how he scuttled innish invaston, the luxury iiner to keep 1t from | ifteen bombs fell in a five-block falling into the hands of the Biit-nogpital area in Helsinki, as the ish | Russians celebrated Joseph Stalin's Capt. Dahen disclosed that the gviieth birthday. British hip that steamed OVer| geven hospital structures were the horizon off his starboard qUAT-|pic put the extent of damage is ter Tuesday afternoon, had fired |yt jamediately determined. two shots across his bow and sent| pesidents of the capital re- him a radio message to halt. mained in & state of alarm over The Nazi skipper settled the con-|yno raiders, who earlier visited troversy over whether ' the Colum- | ,uns for 25 miles around Helsinki, bus was scuttled inside the 300-| piior cold mided the Finnish mile American Territorial walers.| g, ces on all battle fronts, where Capt. Dahen gave the position of | ne cuceess 1s reported in staving the Columbus as latitude 382 north | ore Russian attacks. and longitude 6 west, which is Tanks Stalled about 400 miles east of Cape May,| peports reaching Copenhagen New Jersey said scores of tanks are stalled in Capt. Dahen said that at that|yo far north by frozen crank time the United States cruiser Tus- | .o caloosa was only a few miles astern of the Columbus. The Tuscaloosa Russian troops are seen moving northward in Finland's Arctic came up alongside later to find|Goean corridor, but it is uncer- the scuttled liner sinking. The| . whether or not the main Tuscaloosa rescued 579 members of | gouihward drive there has been the German ship. Two crew mem-| o own back or only someé of the bers lost their lives when the liner | g, aqvanced units are being pulled went. down . | back, .Hu- German captaln n-v(-(nlvd‘ Although the Finns said heavy that the Columbus had been es- inflicted on thg forces, Russia continued to hammer the main war front on A losses are being corted by United States warships, Red sometimes one and sometimes two, lall the way from Vera Cruz, Mex-|ihe garelian Isthmus where Fin- ico, up the Atlantic coast. | iand <y mianadt e the Mads 0 He said that shortly after 2 o= |goe "Lood clock Tuesday afternoon, the B Pinniah officials sald oba ik ish warship appeared some miles|,, SR ARSI e seored east of him. He said he walted|.'Go ot o o patties 0 minutes until he was sure she g 2 1l‘,>1:1:,; e B.‘:“.Sh, ?ag' t?:]':; Laudatory articles blanketed the 4 orders Lo prepare 10 scuttle | gqui0p press in observance of Sta- the 0-ton liner and abandon | .. birthday, hailing him as the sip | man who led the nation to Social- The captain said the seamen the conven-| |ism and now leads to Communism. went quietly to their boat stations| ™y, e. telegraphed greetings to except for LWo Ccrews h were S the fires | Capt. Dahen declared he d““”‘VARIED OC(UPAIION know why the two firsmen who| hed failed to get into their —— per - SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 21 | —Phil Brubaker, a heavyweight box~ er known as the “fighting parson, has given up both the ring and the pulpit. He's an automobile sales | man now. I (Continued on Fage Five) MANY INDICTED, COMPANY FAILURE LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec, 21.— Fourteen persons, including two state officials, have been indicted by @ Federal Grand jury on charges growing out of the collapse of the fifty miliion dollar Pacific States Savings and Loan company. The de- fendants are accused of mail fraud, conspiracy and violation of the se- and exchange act,