The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 27, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” SKA EMPIRE VOL. LV., NO. 8294. JU NEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1939. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRIGE TEN CENTS — SOVIETS RUSH NEW FORCES TO FINLAND » » - L4 British Lay Mine Field Screen Around * * * * * * * * * * - - * * " HENRY L. DOHERTY, HEAD OF ENTERPRISES VALUED OVER BILLION DOLLARS, IS DEAD‘ Go fo Fronf PHILANELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 27— Henry L. Doherty, 69, President of | the Cities Service - Company and ! head of enterprises totalling one billion dollars, is dead. He had been ill from arthritis practically since 1927. His widow survives. A top-flight financier, organizer and promoter who amassed vast wealth but who preferred to be known as a self-educated engineer and inventor, Henry L. Doherty was a merciless driver of himself and associates in building up the Cities Service Company into one of the world’s largest business concerns, in improving the production methods of gas, coal, electric and petroleum industries and in developing huge properties in Florida as recreation centers. | In 1880 he was a newshoy in Co- | lumbus, Ohio. In 1936 he was listed as a director of 95 corporations and as president of 87 of them. A con- gressional tax investigating commit- | tee was told in June, 1937, that hls‘ combined corporate and individual | net income for 1934 was $620,000. | Burned Himself Out | Those who knew Lonerty said he literally burned himself out by the ! unrelenting energy with which he pushed his varied projects. From 1927 onward he fought ill health as well as the business ene- | mies who rose in his wake as hvf plowed ahead toward his objectives For almost six years he had to leave the da} by day direction of Cmes‘ CABINETOF JAPANTOLD 10 RESIGN Majority Members of Par-| liament Suggest Pre- 3 mier Abe Quit | TOKYO, Dec. 27.—The Govorn- ment of Premier Gen. Nobuyuki| Abe has received a resolution from the majority Parliament members asking the Cabinet to consider re- | signing. Although the resolution does not | | Council voting to return the Pen- | gone’s friends. represent official action by Parlia- | ment, Government circles pren:liccedi last week that the Abe cabinet might | fall if the United States didn’t re-‘M act favorably to the Japanese pro-|out-of-town man be named City | tinued, HENRY L. DOHERTY Service to subordinates while he struggled against arthritis and bronchial troubles. Then, on the eve of his 62nd birthday, he celebrated his return to regular activity by blowing a whistle and making an ad- dress over a radio hook-up in whnh the sound waves first traveled a beam of light reflected from l’)(‘ moon. “60 Wall Tower” The occasion was the formal open- ing of his new building, (Conunued on Page Seven) KANSAS ary 'MAYORQUITS ONSATURDAY 'Resignation Is Handed to| Council - Old Machine Restored fo Power 27.—Mayor effec- KANSAS CITY Dec. Brice Smith has resigned tive next Saturday. The resignation was presented Loday after a switch of the City | dergast Democratic machine fac- tion to power. The Council abruptly choked off ayor Smith's suggestion that an “60 Wall| fSwedes Join Finns; Many Hundreds Are Said to Have | Enlisted to Fight AgainstRussia (By Assoriated Press) There is a pronounced Swed movement of volunteers to aid Fin- | 1and reported in various circles. Fi- nancial aid is also going to Finland from Sweden No official recognition of the mevements are taken by the Swed- ish government because of the na- tion's neutrality policy, but is known that hundreds o des have jcined the Finnish the fight against Russia iBEll AVERS " FISH PROBE IS "SMEAR” Says lckes ls Just Out for Schwellenbach's Next Year Vote } sh | | | SEATTLE, Dec. 2. — Frank T.|~ Bell, former Commissioner of the | Bureau of FPisheries, in a Seattle | | Times interview, today asserted that | )Semplarv of the Interior Harold L. | | Ickes’ charges of irregularities in the Bureau of F'Lshel ies were merely | “political smear.” 3l Bell said one effect of the “smear” ( is the expected advance of Senator | Lewis B. Schwellenbach’s political | inter: . Schwellenbach is up for re-election next year from the State {of Washington. | Former Fisheries Commissioner Bell who is now operating a ranch and hotel at Ephrata, said: “Sev- ‘eml weeks ago in Spokane, Senator | | Schwellenbach said the Bureau of Fisheries will be reorganized, and intimated the reorganization will be in accordance with his plans or| wishes. | “practical politicians have long known that reorganization usually | consists of the ousting of one’s op- ponents and replacing them with I'll welcome any fair | investigation of my administration,” | Bell said. “There were no irregular prac- tices and no favoritism,” Bell con- “and I don't believe Secre- posal of reopening the lower Yang-| Manager to clean up waste payroll 'tary Ickes was especially fortunate tze River to foreign trade. | and padding conditions disclosed by |in the selection of Dr. Earl Hubbs Officials qualified that statement poth the Federal and County Grand of Michigan, to conduct his inves- today by saying the establishment of a new regime in China is expect-‘ Juries. The William Council named gation. i ’ “I am informed Dr. Hubbs told ed to precede any reopening of the|grennon, 73, retired insurance ex- | Alaska packers he expected to be Yangtze to foriegn trade. ————————— TWO AMERICANS BACK HOME, OUT OF FIGHT ZONES ‘WILMINGTON, Delnwa.re Dec. | 27—The Finnish freighter Huldai Thornden has docked here with two| American citizens aboard after four’ months of enforced idleness in| Germany and Denmark. { The freighter was captured by a German patrol ship and held up| for 38 days in Stetin, Germany,| while her cargo of wood pulp was| inspected several times. The captain explained that the Americans, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Schulze of North Arlington, N. J., were in Vienna when the war broke out, Mrs. Schulze said she and her| husband never expected to reach| American shores again. Said she:| “The crossing was dreadful, es-| pecially when we were passing; through the straits from the Bal- tic to the North Sea. The straits were so heavily mined that often we saw mines within 50 to 100 feet of the ship.” Manager over ! ecutive, as City Smith’s opposition. $150,000 ETTING BALM SUIT DENIED ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 2T. — Ruth Etting, one-time torch singer, {has been absolved of responsibility for Alma Alderman’s loss of her husband’s love. Superior Judge Samuel R. $150,000 damages—half actual and | {half punitive—against Miss Etting | for alienating the affections of | Myrl Alderman, the singer’s former pianist and her present husband. JUNEAU BOY WILL DO CAMERA WORK| Keith Petrich, young Juneauite husband had threatened her per- to let jobi whose camera work has received | considerable praise, flew to F‘air- banks today on a real assignment. Petrich, whose airplane photo- graphy is in his best line, will seek good shots of winter-flying planes in the Interior, remaining in Fair- banks for a few days before re- turning. B\ake‘ |denied Mrs. Alderman’s claim iorv | Pisheries Commissioner himself. t | “I left the Bureau after six years of service because, when Secretary ‘of Commerce Daniel C. Roper re-; isigned and was transferred to other, | work, the resignations of all Bureau chiefs were placed at the disposal of hls successor, Harry L. Hopkins. ile some of the resignauom were not accepted, mine was,” Bell con- | cluded. FEAR OF HUSBAND ENDS IN DIVORCE LOS ANGELES, Cal, Deec. 27. |When a woman develops a fear complex toward her husband, it's | time to call quits to marriage— | | At least that was the contention | lof Mrs. Margaret G. Bean. And it/ Mrs. Judge Georgia Bullock Beap told Superior Court that her slstenr.\y with bodily harm. Finally, under the pressure of the constantly repeated threats, she |developed a ‘“fear complex,” Mrs,| Bean related. ‘ All of which came under the head of “extreme cruelty,” a situauon‘ which decided Judge Bullock to grant a divorce decree. won a divorce from Leland G. Bean. Maritime Commission |gruntled over the State Department \action in THE GRAF SPEE BURNS AFTER BLAST ABOARD SHIP L e o S S m The Nazi pocket battleship Admiral Graf Spee is shown in flames in the harbor at Montevideo, Uruguay, shortly after she was scuttled by utside the harbor. all” Allied warships waiting for he destroy her commander to avoid destruction by and directed the filling of the fuel tanks for the blast that was to “d Buenos Aires to New York.) of Masquerade Graf Spee’s Commander Tell: z - i Capt. Hans Langsdorff, shown with his crew members on the tug which carried them to safety from the ! scuttied Admiral Graf Spee, said that his ship had been uised to resemble the British battle cruiser | Renown while raiding in two oceans for Allied merchantmen. He said he had sufficient oil to take the Spee o Spain, although when he retreated to Montevideo he gave shortage of duel as the reason for his action, This picture radioed from Bueno ded. | Transportation Company, owned by JOBLESS SHIPS ARE DENIED CHANGE OF REGISTRY; HULL v e e GIVES IMPORTANT DECISION <2555 eign flag ships sail into the for bidden zones. All of them can, ho ever, while those Yankee ships con- \ fined to American flag registry have T | to stick around in the safer zones The reason the Maritime Com-|of the Pacific or Westein Hemis- ssion—unofficially, of course—|phere where freight pickings are so annoyed was the realization | thinner that most American-owned ships| Breezing about the Maritime engaged in foreign commerce al-| Commission offices, you get the im- ready are operating under foreign pression that they think Secretary | When the into affect mately Later, the (nmm‘mdvr sui Alres owned by foreign corporations which in turn were wholly owned by Amer- jcan companies, such as the Panama By PRESTON GROVE WASHINGTON, Dec. 27. still The dis is snowing under the plan ss ships transfer to for- leign flags where they could con- tinue to do business without neu- trality law restraint. A fleet of nine freighters of the United States lines had all but com- pleted the transfer to Panama regis- try when, bango, Secretary Hull attacked it as an mnmoral evasion of the neutrality act. Hull and certain Administration co- horts got mad at the proposed trans- fer because they feared the political reaction, and not because of any high-flung moral reasons. But, perhaps, it won't matter. If the worst comes to the worst for neutrality act went there were approxi- s operating under At the same there were 454 American- ships under foreign flags. This 183 owned outright 'by American corporations, and 271 nCununued on Page Six, on the personal orders of Adolf Hitler. Captain Langdorff himself assembled the explosives (Picture radioed from FINNS ARE AR RAIDED MANY AREAS ;Special Atfack Is Made on Imporfant Munitions Cenler HELSINKI, Dl'( 27. — Russian planes carried out repeated raids today over Tampere, important mu- nitions center, 100 miles northvqu of here. Other Finnish cities are reported to have been air raided but mini-| mum damage is reported One lone enemy plane visited Hel- | sinki this forenoon apparently with- | {out dropping any bombs. Early tonight, the munique reported that renewed Rus- sian air raids on numeruos cities, The Russians retreated from the| | strategic | Finns following and capturing seven Lieksa sector with the tanks. On the Karelian Isthmus, all but one attack was repulsed during the day, - 688 Persons Meet Death On Holiday (By Associated Press) New compilation by the Associat-| 1 ed Press shows that at least 688 per- sons died violently in the three-day week-end and holiday in the United States. Of this fatality list, 445 were killed in auto accidents, 51 were burned to death in fires of various kinds, in- cluding house and Christmas tree Blazes and 52 were stabbed or shot to death or from other violence. Every state and the District of Columbia are represented in the death list, California having the 1largesv. toll, 65. Isles HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDSTO 60 TO FRONT Russia Dispafches Large Bodies of Men fo Fight Sectors * PFinnish Com- | aults on half a dozen fronts | | have been repulsed by the stone- wall Pinnish defense after a day of | 'STRIP TO BE PLACED 30 TO 45 MILES WIDE Twenfy three Invaders’ | Planes Shot Down Past 24 Hours (By /\»fll'lnlrd Press) Presh troops for the snowy Fin- nish-Soviet Luttlefields and a new mine screen around the British Isles today broadened the two wars in | Burope. The Finnith Military Command reports that Russia is sending 300,- 000 more soldiers to the war fronts in PFinland where the outnumbered | Pinns have held up the Soviet ad- | vances ted severe losses since th rted. It is reporied that the new com- mand of trocps will renew the of- fensive on the Central and Arctic fronts. | Central Front Drive | Military observers express belief | that Russia is counting on dissecting |Finland in a Central front drive. Russian military authorities re- port only “petty skimishes” in yes- terday’s fighting but the Finns de- clare widespread Soviet attacks were repulsed, leaving hundreds of Red |soldiers dead on frozen Lake Su- }vunw‘ The Finns also report that 23 Soviet planes have been shot down {in the past 24 hours. Huge Mine Field The British Admiralty discloses plans for a hlge mine-field, 30 to |45 miles wide, and 500 miles long, extending from the Orkney Islands to Dover Straits. The move is to counter !he Ger- man mine menace that has taken a heavy toll of British shipping. The new mine field will lie about eight miles off the coast and will | thus permit coastal shipping to move {in relative safety. | Naval sources said 200,000 mines will be used in the new protective mine neld TREMBLOR IN CALIFORNIA FELT TODAY {Long BeachR—eports Worst Shake Since Disastrous 1933 Earthquake LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 27— An earthquake was felt in Los Angeles at 11:29 o'clock this fore- | noon, Pacific Standard time, rock- m;; the Associated Press office on the fourth floor of the Herald- Express Building. California Institute of Technol- }ogy's seismological laboratory re- {ported the quake was not large, although it might have been strong enough to cause some damage, The scientists estimated the epi- genter of the quake at about 50 miles from their laboratory, but said they could not determine in what direction, Shaking was felt at Long Beach about ten scconds, but there were no reports of damage. Long *h residents reported, however, he shake was the most severe since the disastrous 1933 emblor. Glendale and Alhambra also re- ported sharp shocks, and at Ana- heim, in the 33-story Los Angeles City Hall, a chandelier swayed a few seconds and pictures on the walls went awry. a