The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 29, 1939, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8296. U-BOAT TORPEDOE DEATH TOLL, QUAKE ZONE, IS MOUNTING Fifty Tho u—s;;\ d Persons May Be Victims of Turkish Disaster THREE NEW PERILS HAVE NOW COME UP Starvation, Severe Cold Weather, Disease Hits Stricken Area ANKARA, Turkey, Dec. 29.—The mounting toll of quake stricken Anatolia today led officials to ex- press belief that the total dead might reach the appalling number of 50,000 as starvation, severe cold weather and disease created new perils among survivors. Relief trains have been rushed to the earthquake center with food and medical supplies but wrecked communication facilities prevents only meager information as well as aid. The blizzard is still raging and this makes it certain that addi- tional thousands may die as the result of injuries and exposure be- fore help reaches them. New tremors, predicted by Turk- ish seismologists, also add new ter- ror. Wouldi;p;y | Finland Sum Paid on Debf Washingfon Represenia-j tive Has Bill Ready for Congress | | WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Repre- sentative Martin F. Smith, of the State of Washington, announces he will introduce on the opening day of Congress next week a bill to relieve Finland in making further payments at this time on her debts to the United States and loan her amounts she has already paid. Finland borrowed $8,280,000 and has paid $5,656,000, debt and in-| terest. | Finland has always paid the an-| nual installments with interest. | R S ! DIONNES TOGET BABIES BACK IF REPORT IS OKEH Dr. Dafoe Suggests Reun- ion — Suifs Against Him Dropped i TORONTO, Dec. 29.— Prospect that the Dionne quintuplets will be reunited with their parents and seven brothers and sisters in 1941 came to the forefront of discus- sion today. The prospect arose following the decision of Dr. Dafoe to retire from the Board of Guardians for the famous five-year-olds. | The Ontario government must ac- cept the doctor’s resignation, how- ever, before the decision will take effect, but informed sources said that step is assured. Henri St. Jacques, attorney for Dionne, said an agreement was recently reached between Dionne and Dafoe under which the suits against Dafoe by Dionne are to be dropped. Commenting on the report of Dafoe recommending reunion of the children . with their parents, Dionne, in Callender, declared, “The quints’ mother and I are happier than we have been since the babies were taken from us five years ago.” l | holders on record on January 10. | Eleanor Roosevelt was JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1939. PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS Italy’s Price for Action Vv SOVIET RUSSIA WITH AFR COLONIES ‘Washington reports a new peace plan, aiming at ending the war by| taking Italy out of the Rome-Berlin Axis, at a price, and linking her | with Britain and France. This map indicates the concessions Mussolini demands. Italy would share control of the Suez Canal, key point in| Britain’s life line to the East, and would control, in the Sudan, Egypt’s irrigation system. But the new alliance would give France and Britain | passage into Austrian Germany through the Alps and almost certniu} victory for the allies. DIVIDEND FOR ALASKA JUNEAU WIFE ARE INJURED IS AfllOUN(EDj Amounts fo Fifteen Cents a Share-Same as Prev- ious Two Quarters | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Dec. 29. | —The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining | Company has declared a dividend of 15 cents a share. The dividend is the same as paid | for the two preceding quarters andi is payable on February 1 to share-| .- FRST LADY IS NOMINATED FOR HEAD OF UNION Newspaper Guild Would| Have Mrs. Roosevelt Its President DENVER, Col., Dec. 29. — Mrs. nominated today to succeed the late Heywood Broun as President of the Ameri- can Newspaper Guild. The nomination was unanimously approved by the Executive Commit- | tee of the Guild in Denver, which | telegraphed the Guild’s international | executive in New York. Local execytive boards may make nominations under the Guild’s by- laws. UNIVERSITY HEAD , ON WAY HERETO (ONFER WITH GOv. Dr. Charles E. Bunnell, Presi- dent of the University of Alaska, left Fairbanks today by plane for | a conference here with Gov. Ernest | Gruening. The plane is remaining at White- KASAAN horse overnight. Governor Gruen- ing requested the conference be | held before he leaves for Wash- | ington. | WRANGELL FEDERAL | BUILDING BIDS T0 | BE OPENED JAN. 19, Bids on construction of the new $275,000 Federal Building and Post- office at Wrangell will be opened January 19 in Washington, ac- cording to word received today from | U. S. Commissioner Richard J.| Surratt at Wrangell, PRESIDENT'S SON, IN AUTO ACCIDENT Car Smashes Into Parked Truck-Both Hurried to Hospital WINCHESTER, Va., Dec. 29. Franklin D, Roosevelt Jr., and his wife, suffered lacerations and bruises in an auto accident early today as they were driving to ‘Washington from attending a Pol- ish Relief Ball at Boyce in North- ern Virginia. Roosevelt and his wife were brought to the Memorial Hospital here by an unidentified motorist after their car rammed a parked truck 23 miles east of here. Roosevelt and his wife walked into the hospital unassisted. Attendants express the belief the two auto accident victims would be able to leave the hospital later today. It is understood the occupants of the truck were not hurt. MAN 1§ SUICIDE; NOTE DESCRIBES PAIN Oldtimer Puts Bullet in Head in Lonely Cabin December 26 KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 29.— Frank J. Fredricks, 65, took his own life with a pistol the day after Christmas in a lonely cabin near Kasaan, it was learned today. Fredricks left a note saying, “Can’t stand the pain. Can’t eat. so thought I would get out of this misery. May God have mercy on my soul.” Apparently Fredericks had been ill many weeks. His body was brought to Ketchi- kan by the Coast Guard yesterday, who also brought in notes Fredricks had left to his brother John, 650 Monroe Street, West New York, New Jersey, and a sister Kate, Palm Springs, California. L e Prisoners Taken By Frenthllesl Front PARIS, Dec. 29.—French recon- noitering patrols captured some pris- oners last night and early today in the Vosges Forest region, today's communique said, GENERALS AT FRONT - CHANGED |Soviet Russia Pufs New Commander in Field Against Finland MOSCOW, Deec. 29.—Soviet Rus- | ia had put its military hero of the 1938 Far Eastern vest pocket war, Gen. G. M. Stern, in charge | of the invasion of Finland. Gen. Mertskov, understood to | have been called upon for an ex- planation of his failure to score more impressive successes in Fin- land, has been dismissed, The Government gave official indication of dissatisfaction with the foreign news accounts in the way the campaign is progressing | by restoring a rigid censorship on outgoing news - . FIRE HITS DESTROYER |Pattern Parts May Be Lost After Fierce Foun- ‘ dry Blaze | "REVERE, Mass., Dec. 20. — Fire department officials are investigat- 1ing a blaze which swept the Re- vere Brass Foundry last night and possibly destroyed patterns of ma- chinery parts for new United States destroyers. Local officials have asked the assistance of the State Fire Mar- shal in an effort to definitely es- | tablish the cause of the flames. The fire, Chief Thomas McCar- rick said, caused approximately isl.’).OOO damage and destroyed- the entire plant building. | Officials are unable to determine ;whether or not the patterns which |could be replaced, were damaged. McCarrick said a preliminary ex- amination indicated the fire was caused by a hot air explosion in the coke oven. FRENCH SENATE - GIVES APPROVAL BIG WAR BUDGET PARIS, Dec. 29. — The French Senate has given unanimous approv- ial of a war budget of one billion, two hundred million dollars for the first three months of 1940. Premier Daladier declared the funds will be spent mainly for avia- tion, tanks and completion of three new 35,000-ton battleships. MacKinnon's Term Unique; Lea New Councilman The career of J. S. (Sim) Mac- Kinnon as Juneau City Councilman is likely to go down in history as unique in municipal politics. Though a Councilman for al- most three months, MacKinnon never ran for office, was never elected and never attended & meeting. Appointed by the Council to :ill |a vacancy left by the resignation |of John McCormick, MacKinnon took the oath of office October 10. He was out of town on a vaca- tion cruise when the first meeting of his “term” rolled around. The time of the next meeting found |him in Seattle, where he had been called from Reserve status by the Navy. Now he is back in Juneau, is back in the Navy and has opened an office of the 13th Naval Dis- tridt here. His position calls for | his resigning from all political | offices, 5o his resignation from the Council was accepted last night. | Harry Lea, truck driver with the Reliable Transfer ny, who was a candidate for 1 in the last election, has appointed to succeed MacKinnon. Lea took his oath of office last night. MACHINERY CITYASKED T0 GIVE AID T0 FINLAND \Sunday Proclaimed “Fin- land Day”" in Juneau- Fund Being Raised | OCitizens of Juneau will join the rest of e Nation in extending sympathy and assistance to the Fin- nish people through a concerted ef- {fort on Sunday, December 31, des- | ignated “Finland Day” by procla-| | mation of Mayor Harry I. Lucas. In their churches, Juneauites have | been requested to appeal for divine jprotection for “the war-locked non- | belligerents in the Finnish Repub- | lie.™ | In addition they are asked to | “give according to their ability to | bring relief to Finland.” Any fund { raised here will be forwarded to the | Finnish Relief Fund, Inc., of which | former President Herbert Hoover is chairman. Voluntary donations may be turned in to The Empire office. No funds will be solicited | except by appeals in The Empire and by radio. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Mayor's proclamation is as | follows: “Bitterly do American citizens feel the invasion of r republic; |a repfiblic that has patterned itself after our own, a republic that has lived since its founding in peace and in progress. “Deeply do we of America respect the rich character, the high moral ethics of the Finnish people, and their devotion to freedom and lib- | erty. “Richly have Finnish - Americans con@Abuted to thé progress of the | United States, of Alaska and of Ju- | against almost insurmountable odds to presedve the philosophy of her republic, as well as to protect the actual borders of one of the world's outstanding small democracies. “Therefore, I, Mayor of Juneau. do hereby proclaim Sunday, De- cember 31, 1939, Finland Day in this city; and I ask the citizens of this community on that day to appeal for divine protection for the war-lock- ed non-belligerents in the Finnish republic; and I further ask that the citizens of this community on this day and in the days following give according to their ability to bring relief to Finland by contrib- uting through the local newsbapers. “HARRY I. LUCAS, Mayor.” “under orders.” to the bottom at the d destruction of the Na Brin & e DANIEL BELL IS NAMED T0 TREAS. DEPT. Former Acting Budget Di-| rector Is to Succeed John Hanes WASHINGTON, Dec. 29.—Presi- dent Roosevelt announces he has named Daniel Bell, former Acting Budget Director, to the vacant post of Undersecretary of the Treas- ury. Bell succeeds John Hanes who has resigned, effective December | 31, to return to private business. - - GIRL DODGES TWO BULLETS FIREDBYDAD Lauderdale, Fla, outside the port. By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Dec. 29. Administration’s gesture of knock- ing down sky-rocketing sugar prices at the beginning of the war has NEW YORK, Dec. 29.— Miriam |¢0me home to roost in a fine Solovieff, 18-year-old concert vio-‘b"fi‘mb"‘ of farm policy and good linist, dodged two bullets last night { Ne/Ehborliness. and escaped injury when her ifather, Aaron, estranged from the family, shot and wounded her mother and sister, then killed him-|pound to seven or more. To stop self. the thing, the President abruptly The tragedy took place in the|suspended the sugar quota agree- family’s fashionable Riverside Drive |ments by which the Yankee mar- apartment, 'ket was apportioned among Cuba, last September the price of five cents a early sugar jumped from | neau. “Now Finland is engaged in a War peing escorted ashore at Ellis Island, New York, by U. against its will, bravely fighting oeq i1 declared on arrivi This was understood to m tion of Adolf Hitler, who had ordered similar 7i pocket battleskip Admiral Graf Spee. Capt. Withelm Dachne, master of the German liner Columbus, shown 5. Immigration al that his ship was set afire and scuttled an the Columbus was sent German Ship S SKY-ROCKETING OF SUGAR PRICES GIVEN KNOCKOUT; (Hawa The quotas of afeto Port Capt. Frederick Stengler is shown getfivg a light from Sheriff Walter Clark of Broward County, Fla., just after he had eluded capture by a British cruiser by putting the German freighter Aracua into Fort The British cruiser, cheated of its prey, stayed QUOTAS GET SUSPENSIONS ii, Puerto Rico and the Phil- The | ippines. ¢ theory was that suspending would permit a new supply ar from the island producers | to come into the market, or at least threa | would Housewives will remember that|Part of it worked all right. Then the price That ten to come. stop sky-rocketing. But one of the pinches was that the s tomatically uspension of sugar quotas au- suspended the prefer- ential tariff on Cuban sugar. Cuba had been able to ship her quota of sugar into the United States by (Continuea on Page $ix) RITISH WARSHIP HE SCUTTLED HIS SHIP NEW BLOW 1S STRUCK SEAPOWER German Report Makes (laim - Partially Ad- mitted by Admiralty SOVIET WARPLANES IN ~ RAIDS COASTAL TOWNS Finnish Rail Centers Under | Bombs - Defenders | on Russian Soil ‘ (By Associated Press) ‘ Soviet warplanes struck anew al | Finnish railway junctions in South< [ern coastal cities today while Ger< | many reports a new blow at the | British sea power. The German Submarine Command | announces that a British battleship |of the Queen Elizabeth class has | been torpedoed by a German sub- | marine west of Scotland. | British Version |, | Upon receipt of the German an= | nouncement, the British Admiralty |sald a German submarine had at- | tacked a battleship, three men were killed and some damage to the craft was done., Neither announcement disclosed when the attack occurred. There are five ships of the Queen | Elizabeth class, The vessels are 80,- 1000 tons and were constructed be- fore the World War, They have | eight 15-inch guns mounted. | Rail Centers Suffer | Each of Pinland’s rail centers in coastal towns suffered from new air attacks. Finnish airmen, according to a report, finally drove the in- vading air forces away. An official Finnish report says | the defenders have carried the fight- |ing to Russian soil on the eastern front where ski patrols are striking |toward the Murmansk railway, the | Arctic supply route of the Sovlets. | Censorship Ordered | Dissatisfied with the treatment of the Russian-Finnish war news, | Russia has imposed a censorship on | dispatches of American, French and British correspondents. All dis- patches passing through Russlan communication lines will be cen- sored, .o e Finns Throw - Soviet Army Back Again Defenders—lzii Hundreds as Reds Launch New Aflcfl(s HELSINKI, Dec. 20.—The killing of 600 Russians in a battle at Kelja is reported by the Finnish com- mand as the Red Army launched new attacks along the Leningrad Railway in the region of Lake Su- vanto in the eastern part of the Karelian Isthmus. The Finns reported the Russians left 300 dead on another battle- field in the lake sector where two Red Army battalions were “dis= persed.” | The Pinns also reported the de- | struction of five Russian tanks, the capture of two others and the smashing of several Russian ate | tacks. 'THIRD $100,000 SENT TO FINNS - FORRELIEF AID CHICAGO, Deec. 2. — Former President Herbert Hoover, Chair- man of the Pinnish relief fund drive, announces that the third $100,000 has been forwarded to Finland from American contribu- tors.