The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 1, 1940, Page 1

v THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 414) (.’Ha ‘EMPIRE VOL. LV., NO. 8298. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDA\; JANUARY 1, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIAN DIVISION IS CUT TO PIECES Alaska 1939 Gold Production Near Record ANNOUN(ED U. S. Anti-Tank Guns in Action NAZI SHIP AS SECOND BEST EVER Year's $22,900,000 Is Just Short of 1938 Record | —Copper Cut Off TERRITORY'S MINES YIELD $24,888,000 Geological Survey De- clares Results Encour- aging for Future WAHINGTON, Jan. 1—Mineral production in 1939 in Alaska had a value of $24,888,000, a decrease « $3,700,000 compared with the L e e Geological Survey in an- ing preliminary figures said sflver mines which in the previous year produced nearly three million dollars worth of cop- ere not operative in 1939 but ults as a whole were good and encourage a belief in the continu- high rate of output of min- erals from the Territory.” Fcurth Highest in History Production in 1939, the survey pointed out, was the fourth high- est in the history of the Tem- tory. Total worth of minerals produce d & the 1880 survey is set $800,000,000. i Gold producticn last year was the second - highest- in value in history, only 1938 topping by $270.- ) the $22900,000 worth produced in 1929. Before 1934 gold brought $20.67 per ounce, compared with $35 an ounce after that date. Quantity Not Impressive. The Geologicai Survey said on a ouantity basis this year’s produc- tion was exceeded by nqf only 1938 buf each year from 1905 to 1917 exelusive. Gold produced since 1880 was announced to be worth $535,557,000 and gold production to have been 68 percent from placer mines and 32 percent from lodes, ——— den of Headquarters Company, o WHITE SPOT TOTAL LOSS Threat fo Large Busi- ness District Shortly before 5 o'clock this morn- ing, the White Spot Liquor Store at the corner of Second and Seward Streets was destroyed by fire with quick work of the Juneau Fire De- partment confining to the liquor store a blaze that might easily have swept a portion of the business dis- | trict | main store and the back room office gn . { rifish Ship The immediate cause is unknown. , ‘White Spot owner Ed Sweum this s ' wn | morning said his business was a to- !tal loss, valuing the store at $3500 !tal loss, valuing the store at $3,500 BV Explosi 'a year ago, Sweum said he had $8,500 insurance coverage, but yes- terday his coverage was but $2,700. | At 3:30 this morning, Sweum and X his wife stopped their work on "“' year-end billing in the office and crafi Smks So By Kkly 20 went fo a downtown restaurant for of Crew Belleved ’o breakfast where a short time later . Have Perished morning in the liquor store in the LONDON, can. 1.—The British tnan an hour, but littie remains this steamer Boxhill, 5600 tons, sank M yorming in the liquor storre in the the North Sea after an explosion. way of valu-, Twenty members of the crew re Roomers in the Winn Apartments believed to be lost. Twelve SUIVIV~ ypstairs hurried out in their night- | friends rushed up to tell them the | store was ablaze, ing members of the créw of 32 land- clothes and many of them worked ed at a British port. frantically removing their belong- the plywood partition separating the Blaze Put Down Survivors said the Boxhill sank ings from the threatened buudmg' so quickly there was no time 10 police stood guard to prevent New | launch' many of the lifeboats. | Year's revelers from pilfering stock. | — e — | Business men in the immediate THE FIRE SEX vicinity of the White Spot, which MACON, Ga., Jan. 1.—The ladies gpot this morning, were warm this of the quilting bee at the First morning in their praise of the fire Baptist Church smelled They ~tossed down their -sewing, million dollars =~ Wworth of frame srabbed axes and buckets and went structures are in the same block to work on a partition inside of with the White Spot. which flames were crackling. By Fortunately, a brisk breeze that the time the firemen arrived, the had heen blowing earlier in the | ladies, thank you, had the' blaze night, had abated at the time of the well in hand. fire. AFTERFIRE Early Morning Blaze Was Origin of the blaze was behitd W is ircnically ‘anything hut a. white | smoke. department and noted that a half | | i i i | i | i i f the Twelfth Infantry from Fort foward, Md., are shown blazing away with a 37-mm. anti-tank gun luring an artillery demonstration at Maryland’s Fort Hoyle. The g~ ners proved their accuracy by blowing up a moving target. F.D.R. Still Big Newsin U.S. Politics swer Concerning Third Term By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—The po- litical decade began and ended with the outs blaming the ins for haywire economies. Nineteen-thirty was hard ly a month old ‘before Cactus Jack Garner charged President Hoover ith a lack of capacity or courage or both, “The country has i confidence in the President,” he said. “That’ t's | what's causing chaotic f‘(‘onomln conditions.” Almost to the day, ‘nine years later, former President Hoover charged the New Deal had tried to make exfravagance a virtue. “Songs of economic hallucina- tion,” he said, “substitute for the brutal «lang of the cash register!” Haiucination or chaos, or what- §f. | ouis Reported 10 Have | s ciark, tne price, i wet krown | ever, Lhe lh‘rues were definitely packed with political action. Hoover's Reconstruction Finance Corporation and debt moratorium failed to stem panic. President Roosevelt promised lO drive the money changers from the | temple. Whether that's what he did is sfill moot, but there did follow the most vigorous reform era in American history. Before he was swept back into office in 1936 the stage had been set |for the decade’s bitterest political close '.he hommrd route. |set-to, the Supreme Court Revers-| |als of such New Deal legislation a.s the NRA started it all. The President proposed to In('rease the court in order to overthrow the so-called conservative majorify. On. that issue he took his first political |Jicking, in '37. Next the voters sent back to the | Senate three out of four Democmu the President sugxested should be Ikmked out of office. And the Re- {—The German freighter Tacoma | has been interned here for the dura- tion of the war. At 6 o'clock this morning the | order of the government, to leave' 'port or be interned, expired, and | the vessel now remains in port not- withstannding earlier reports that steam was being raised for a d&\\h out to sea The Tacoma, a 4,800-ton (‘I'ufl. stood by the scuttled Nazi pocket AIRRAIDER Nation Waiting for His An-| reached a “home harbor” after an e (cmunued on Page Beven) e ] :Freighfer Tacoma Fails fo TO INTERN INSOUTH Make Dash from Montevideo ‘ MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jan. l.‘ battleship Admiral Graf Spee when that ship of war was scuttled in the harbor here. By dadling Ao leavespeid, 2 Tx coma is the first German naval auxiliary to become a victim of this war of a neutral nation’s intern- ment regulations. The Tacoma had oil and aboard for the Graf Spee. - - TNexr dpstrayers and sank a 6,000-ton supplies SHOTDOWN BY BRITISH pyrh Gouto, Other German Bombers w. K. (I.ARK ARE WEDDED Are Driven Off Over Shetland Isles LONDON, Jdl\ l British fight- ing planes are offilially reported e to have shot down a German plane over the North Sea while British FOfmef Member Of Empife pursuit craft and antiaircraft drove off two German planes flying over the Shetland Islands. Some bombs are reported to have been dropped on the air raid over the Shetland Islands but no damage is «uxl to have been done. 16,000-TON - NAZI LINER GOES HOME' Staff, PWA Employee, Married in Seattle SEATTLE, Jan. 1.—At a private New Year's Eve ceremony Ruth Eli- zabeth Gould, of Weston, Massachu- setts, wed William King Clark, of \soame at the Trinity Episcopal Anendants were Mr, and Mrs. Ear- | ling Hendricks Bugge, former Ju- | neau residents. Also present were several members of the groom’s family. Mr. and Mrs, Clark will be at home in Seattle about January 15 after a jount to Sun Valley. in Juneau where she was on thej |staff of the WPA office for some } time. The groom, “Bill,” as he was known to his hundreds of friends in Ju- neau, was reporter on The Empire, news commentator for The Empire | on the broadcast over KINY and for the past several years, up to last| September, advertising manager on The Empire. Mr. Clark resigned from The Empire’s staff to go to Seattle in the interest of his estate |left by his mother. | The Empire’s staff and scores of others, wish the couple all the hap- |[)1“P\s fltlamed by married life. - A Slipped Through Brit- ish Blockade BERLIN, Jan. 1. — The official German News Agency DNB an- nounces that-the 16,000 ton German liner St. Louis has slipped through the British Naval blockade and absence of seven months. The announcement does not dis- GRATEFUL ADOLF VARAZDIN, Yugoslavia, Jan. lv BRYANT, Ind, Jan. 1.—Farmer —Hitler has presented the town of | Jchn Thorton wondered why ‘one | Varazdin with an auto-bus. The\ot his Jersey cows was getting |gift is in recognition of the hospi- | skinny and giving less milk. tality the town accorded Austrian| A veterinarian examined the cow Naziswho fled there after the as- and decided to operate, = sassination of Austrian Chancel ‘n'l Inside he found a staple, a piece) Dollfuss in the attempted Nazi of glass, two shingle nails and| putsch in Vienna in 1934, pins, pleces of fence wire, { & reported to have been of the Koeln class, battleship Old lnvestigations Flushed Quarry But Modern Type Now Hunts It Down, Then Kills It # German crtisey at"the By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 1. — The day of the Congressional ‘“killer” investigation has arrived to dis- place the long series of whoop-er- up investigations designed to put, across pet pileces of legislation. Many of the methods adopted by the one are about, as fantastic as those of the other. i “killer” investigations are underway and a third has already | completed its' work. The Smith | committee investigating the Na-| tional Labor Relations Board has ready brought out enough evi- dence of dissension and peculiar performances to pmt the board’s life in some jeopardy at the com- | ing scssion of Congress. The Dies committee was largely credited with bringing about the defeat of Frank Murphy last year in his race for re-election as Gon- ernor of Michigan. It is adding to the shelling directed by the Smuh‘ committee at the Wagner Act. The House investigation of| WPA activities last summer Kkilled | the Federal Theater Project by ex-| posing an over-dosage of Commu- nist influence. What a contrast are these to the pattern of earlier investigations of the type which began with the securities and banking investiga- tion in 1933 and 1934. Banking practices, stock market manipula- tions and phoney security flotations were paraded before the incredu-| lous eyes of a newly critical Con- |gress and a country at large, both of which were smarting under the scorch of the depression. But of it came the Securities and Exchange Commission and a volume of legis- lation designed to make good bankers out of bad bankers and to wipe out trick security issues al- togethet. It has worked so effec- tively that now the cries arise from the other. direction—that regula- tion is stifling enterprise, ‘e Insull debacle brought a de- mana for drastic utility reform. The holding company bill result- ‘ed. At the hour of a crucial test as to the kind of teeth it would have, the Black anti-lobbying in- vestigationt got busy. A utility com- pany had tried to drum up an ap- (Continued on Fage Four) « the British submarine Uysula which the Admiralty saye knifed her The daring attack is seen as venge: Royal Oak by a Nazi submarine, 'ROBERT Smks Nazi Cruiser as l(e enge for Royal Oak y through a screen of ce for the sinking of the FECHNER IS DEAD { Organizer of Civilian Con-| servation Corps Passes Away WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-Robert | Fechner, who put depression’s idle youth to work rebuilding America’s forests and parks, is dead, at the age of 63. President Roosevelt sald PFech- “great industry by a great adminis- trative abaility and indefatiguable | efforts.” Fechner died Sunday as the re- sult of complications of heart and lung allments, Fechner formed a forest army of unemployed young men and war vet- erans in the ed days of the de- pression in the New Deal and this {army is now known as the CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps. VISITED ALASKA Robert Fechner visited Alaska sev- | eral years ago. Today Gov. Ernest Gruening said | THOUSANDS - OF SOVIETS ~ AREKILLED Finlanders Are Reported fo Have Struck Ter- rific Blow TITANTIC STRUGGLE (ONTIRUES IN EUROPE {Twenty-one Chmese War- planes Brought Down by Japanese in Battle (By Associated Press) A roundup of the dolorous heri- tage of unrest around most of the world, greeted the new-born year 194C. ..x “Germany, ana" the “BFHRIFY [French Allws, are locked in a umuc struggle now near four months old. It is agreed the year will be a momentous one, In the grim cold north of Fin- land, reports are that the Fin- landers have cut an entire Di- vision of Russian invaders to pieces, and thousands of the Soviets have been killed. NIPPON-CHINESE WARFARE Girded for continued warfare, Ja=- pan, now in the third year of the jundeclared warfare in China, is re- ’prr'ed to have shot down 21 Chin- o planes in a great aerial battle \owr Louchow, while China's Gen- |eral, Chiang Kai Shek, began the |New Year exhorting the Chinese | Nationalists to further vigorous ae= tion, | Civil Strife Abroad Civil strife looms on Ireland's thorizon and India’s restless mil- {lions are seething with demands for independence. from Great Britain. Thousands Dead, Turkey Turkey is counting thousands of (dead as the result of natural cal- amities—earthquake, blizzards, and ner brought to a public service a floods. The Nations not yet touched with violence started the New Year trod- |ding paths of peace with trepida= tion, Secretary of State Cordell Hull expressed hope that 1940 will see among all nations but warned that’ ica more heavily than it has so far, Spanish Ship Burns af Sea thc CCC Director's loss was a | great loss to the Nation No other Governme: program has been so universally praised, the Governor said. Fechner had been il for a long time, the Governor said, so the news of his death was not a great surprise, but it was. the Governor emphasized, a great l0ss. —————.———— WISE DOG OBTAINS HIS OWN LICENSE RADFORD, Va, Jan. 1. — Folks here say W. R. Withers' dog is plenty smart and that the dog catcher hasn't got a chance. The Withers had been talking (in the pup's presence) about get- ting a license, which the state would require at the age of four months. And, they will tell you, the dog appeared next day hold- ing a collar in her mouth with a 1939 license tag attached. e, —— ARIZONA'S EIGHT national for- sengers, Crew Rescued in Answer to SOS MADRID, Jan. 1.—The Spanish steamship Cabo San Antonio is & smouldering derelict about 500 mfll off the Canary Islands. The 408 persons aboard the ship, includin 280 passengers and 128 crew members were rescued by ships which answered the SOS sent out by the Cabo San Antonio. The steamer was on a voyage from Buenos Aires to Spain when the fire broke out LAt ST OLYMPIA, Wash, Jan. 1. — Thanks to State Liguor Board funds, a prosperous waler system and pinball machine license fees, the town of Ridgefield, near Vam= couver, Wash, will ‘NOT ask its citizens t. ope -penny of taxes next. year. l&efld‘u@ ci ests have a total area of more than|zens were 111,000,000 acres. \ assessed om b:mtnun‘}')mn the return of peaceful relations,. intensified warfare will affect Amer~ * Over Four Hundred Pas-