The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 3, 1940, Page 1

T A i 2 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU,,ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1940. VOL. LV., NO. 8300. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ROOSEVELT DEMANDS BIG ARMY, NAVY Makes QEt;prhatici Plea For N HOUSE HEARS DIES REPORT CLEARLEWIS (10 Leader Adjudged Not Communist in 15,000 | Word Summary | SOME LEADERS OF UNION A BIT RED American Youth Congress Is Not Mentioned as Stalin Front WASHINGTON, Jan. 3—In re- porting to the House today on its two years of investigation into un-| american activities, the Dies com- mittee estimated not more than| illion Americans are seriously ected by subversive activities, are said to be declining because of the internation- tuation The mittee reported, “The time may come when they will cease to be seriously regarded by anyone in the United States.” report was a 15,000-word ; of Dies Committee hear- s signed by all seven members the special group. After a stormy meeting, the com- mittee drew the following conclu- Three Scandinavians—one F' Left to right, they are Dr. ir of Indicafes thaf sions Conclusions 1. The overwhelming majority of CIO members, including its President, John Lew are not Communist or Communist sympa- thizers but a quarter of the CIO unions’ leadership is “more than tinged with Communism.” 2. The American Youth Con- gress which Mrs. Roosevelt had up- held, was omitted from the list of “Communist front” organizations. Witnesses had described the or- ganization as a Communist “front.” 3. The Soviet-Nazi pact helped to protect constitutional democracy by “making more clear the real e of all dictatorships by re- vealing the similarity betwen Hit-| ler's Naziism and Stalin’s Coms | munism.” | 4. The German-American Bund, the Communist Party of the Unit- ed States and agents of foreign powers, should be controlled. - ————— FIRST SHIPMENT STRIKE ISOVER Seven Weeks of Water- | front Tie-up Ended by Ship Clerks Union Seeidng Aid for Finland arrived in Brooklyn, N. Y., to seek relief for Fi 8 Trygue Hoff, Norwegian newspaper editor; Dr. Marcus Tollet, Finnish newspaperman and Odd Nansen, late Fridtjof Nansen, famous explorer. inn and two Norsemen—are shown as they soldie: nland in the United States, son of Produdive Spurt of 1939 1940 Going - ToBe Good Year: U.S. Now Stands Alone Among_Powers | By CLAUDE A. JAGGER | AP General Financial Editor | | NEW YORK, Jan. 3.—The Unit- ed States rounds out a decade of economic convulsion facing a mo- | mentous and dramatic challenge | to show a cynical warring world | that the American system of dem- | ocratic free enterprise can endure and achieve a still better life in | this machine age. [ The last World War mobilized | the wealth and industry of Am- | erica to “make the world safe for | democracy.” The golden era of the | 20's saw a fantastic outpouring of ‘W(‘ull,ll and machine-made products ,in the United States, with billions (of American dollars overflowing tinto other lands to finance what| }REDS MASS !Engl;zml Plar THOUSANDS ' OF TROOPS Great Russian Onslaught Is Expected on Man- nerheim Line BITTER WEATHER AND FINNS STILL VICTORS Defenders Report Inflicting Heavy Losses on Soviels (By Associated Press) Finland today heard reports that Russian troops are massing for a new major cffensive following fur- ther Finnish military successes. Finnish reports said seven Soviet comprising about 105,000 are being made ready for a tremendous attack, | operations in the northern Finland warfare but despite bitter weather,| the Finnish forces are holding the | Mannerheim Defense line against the Russian assaults. The Finns are said to be inflicting “enormous losses” on the invading Russian forces. FIRST ATTACK MADE HELSINKI, Jan. 3.—The Finnish High Command announces a pow-| erful Russian infantry attack on| the Karelian Isthmus has been re-| pulsed “with heavy losses to invaders.” Russian fliers again bombed Tuk and Hanko today in continued air| but it was announced officially there were no casualties in Turku and few casualties and little dam- age at Hanko. | BRITISH AJAX AT MONTEVIDEO | FOR REPAIRING Graf Spee Battler in Port with Permission of | Unuguay | MONTEVIDEO, Jan. 3.—The Uru-| guayan Government has granted 04 04 ationa 4 e & | Defens 1s New Belt of Mines in North S — TS =R —X Several major mine fields in the North Sea, including a new one planned by Britain—a 500-mile charted Vield from the Orkneys to the Straits of Dover (indicated by lines and crosses), are shown on this map. Britain already has fields off the Thames estuary (A), near Hull (B), and along the German coast (C), Snow storms have checked air| covering entrances to German naval bases, Britain believes Germany has mined a rectangular area (indi- cated by dots) from 75 miles off Jutland down to The Netherlands, and that overlapping of the fields is probable. Britain's new shelter belt would be from 30 to 40 miles wide an dabout eight miles offs oY A shyss SEA WAR COSTS 100 SHIPS LASTMONTH: BRINGS TOTAL 10 284 SHIPS, 2,728 LIVES (By Associated Press) ( Recapitulation shows that the campaigns against Finnish centers,' ¢ th and most disastrous month of the war on the sea cost 100 ships and 371 lives. This brought the total of the sea war to 284 ships, with 1,015.394‘ tons and 2,728 lives. TWO-W INTERIOR, UT By PRESTON GROVER | mania, Esthonia, Japan, Jugoslav- The fourth month's total is still|ia, one each. AY ELECTRIC STORM CREATED BY SECRETARY OF far under the World War tops. Losses so far, nationally are: Great Britain 146 ships, Germany 30, France 15, Norway 24, Sweden 19, Greece 11, Denmark 11, The Netherlands 8, Finland 6, Belgium| 4, Lithuania 3, Italy 2, Russia, Ru- ILITY MEMBERS some power men that Jesse Jones, com- RFC perience, plained by i J OFNAVYPLANES | FINLAND BOUND Sixteen Brewsters Landed at Roosevelt Field- Trans-shipped ROOSEVELT FIELD, L. L, Jan. 3.| —The first shipment of American- made fighting planes for Finland has been delivered at Roosevelt Field. Eight of the planes were taken to New York City where they were | sAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 3—scemed to be a new world devoted | Striking members of the CIO Ships| o peaceful enhancement of the Clerks Union, last night, voted to Material well-being. return to work, ending a dispute| It Was evident in 1929 that the | which has tied up the San Fran-|POst war economy was far from Jjobs. Waterfront activity is expected to be resumed today. The peace formula which the ‘union members accepted provides | for arbitration of most of the is- sues but puts off settlements of the demands for preferential hir- |ing and registration of men receiv- ing pay by the month. stowed on board a freighter. The Ll s e IR plans are Brewsters, nearly identi- cal to the fighting units used by the | United States Navy. All are smgle[ seater monoplanes capable of swdsi in excess of 300 miles per hour. In| all, sixteen Brwesters will be placed | 1 aboard the freighter before it sai s{ for Finland. | < 'Deer Carcass Lies Near Ke‘fh'kan Woman Body-Gun Wound in Dies; Daughter Back Unexplained Is from Juneau vacovver s c. sun s —me KETCHIKAN, Jan. 3.—Mrs. Min- | search for seventeen-year-old Robert nie Harvey, 75, died last night at|Verrie has ended. He was found he .| shot to death. The boy had been $iem:n(:m:m$ er daughter, Mrs.|, . g since last Thursday when Mrs. Harvey had lived in Ket-|p;q pogy was a dead deer. Authori- chikan smne‘ 1910. | tics were not immediately able to Survivors include another daugh- determine whether or not the young ter, Annie Harvey of Ketchikan, a son, Adler, in Marietta, Wash., and a sister, Mrs. Arthur Carter hunter accidentally killed himself. ‘The bullet apparently struck him in the back, indicating that it may of Juneau, Jhave been fired by another hunter. o e S B | cisco waterfront for seven WN"\S‘::;xiifitih;h:elf:;mer l;?‘d noft e~ Graf Spee in the naval battle in, and put 4,000 longshoremen out of | ative position of Pré-| yhich the Graf Spee fought with | war years. The frenzied era of new | mous structure of debt. Specula- |tion had made alarming inroads | into the money market. But doubts | that necessary adjustments would | be readily made, were laughed | away. Yet within two short years after the warning sounded by tiie Wall Street stock market panic of October, 1929, interna- tonal trade had dropped by half, banks were in difficulties | and currencies depreciating, raw | material prices had tumbled so far that crops were being de- stroyed, five South American republics had suffered revolu- | tions, war clouds darkened the | Far East, revolt threatened in Germany, and millions were unemployed and in misery. The early '30’s saw totalitarian governments sweeping away dem- ocratic liberties, and nationalism rampant, The elaborate system of peace treaties toppled, and ef- | forts at international cooperation | failed. The World Economic Con- ‘ference and the disarmament par- | he left home on a hunting trip. Near |leys were fruitless, and individual| | powers turned to desperate’ meas- |ures of individual protection, or | aggression. U. 8. Unique The German blitzkrieg on Po- financing had built up an enor- 4o, the British cruiser Ajax permission |to enter Montevideo harbor for a| 24-hour stay. | The Ajax was damaged by shells, of the German battleship Admiral | three British crulsers three weeks! | However, the British Admiralty| | denied that the Ajax had sought | permission to put in at Montevideo to make repairs. | In London is is said that the] commander of the British cruiser | merely intended to make a cour- | tesy call at the Uruguayan port. STOCK OPEN, - CLOSE YEAR, SAME LEVEL | Street Rides Out Storm of War By FREDERICK GARDNER (Associated Press Financial Writer) | NEW YORK, Jan. 3—War-knotted anew the depression — tangled threads of finance and kept Wall Wall- Street markets on nervous (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Twv) J WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — Be-| chajrman, wanted as security about tween Secretary Ickes and the elec-|eyerything the power people had, tric utility members of the United| pjys their gold teeth. The expect- States Chamber of Commerce IS|oq substantial loans did not show about 2,000,000 kilowatt hours of |, 1Business_DElI as Wall| conflict over how much power the| industrial section of the country| needs for assured national defense. That is why Secretary Ickes| and the power industry generate| a two-way electrical storm every | time the subject comes up. It is up now. To get at the thing, remember that about 18 months ago a Na-| tional Defense Power Committee| was formed under of Louis Johnson, Assistant Secre-| tary of War. His responsibility, by aw, is to see that the industrial| machinery of the country is well| ready for war, He called the com- mittee together to get their views on whether there was enough power available in the U. 8. “in- dustrial quadrangle” to meet a heavy war demand. The quadran- gle ranges from St. Louis and Chi- cago on the west to Birmingham. Ala, and Boston on the south and | chairmanship | NEED MORE POWER Their view was that more power was needed, There was a differ-| ence of opinion as to how much,| but after the meeting one of the| members as spokesman put it at 1000000 kilowatts of immediate need,. Perhaps nearly that much {in orders for 400,000 more. However, power company re- sources in the industrial triangle have seemed adequate. Orders for 1,200,000 kilowatts of steam tur- bine generation were placed by the industry during the past year or so and their plans are to put To- gether that would be about $500,- 000,000 of new power generators. Meantime the Defense Power Committee had been merged with one of Secretary Ickes' groups to form the National Power Policy Committee. It was largely domi- nated by Ickes and his power-| minded ally, Benjamin Cohen. Tha‘ committee ordered a survey of the| power needs of the industrial| quadrangle, STILL MORE NEEDED This survey has not been pub-| lished but good sources indicate that the engineer who made it, Thomas R. Tate, put the needs a',i 3,500,000 kilowatts. The difference then, between the industry’s esti- mate and the committee estimate is roughly 2,000,000 kilowatts. Ickes' committee then set out to reconcile the differences. Con- ferences in Washington were scheduled from early December to Christmas time, with power more would be needed at a later company representatives from each ““ MESSAGE GIVENTO ~ (ONGRESS President Personally Ap- pears Before Law- makers Body INCREASED TAXATION IS NOW SUGGESTED Infernational, Domestic Affairs Discussed-Also Unemployment WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.— { Presiden. Xiank’n D. Roose- velt, ac"ressing Congress at the ouiset of the new Con- ygress today, declared that the | United States ultimately can become the leader for world peace but “we must likewise be prepared to take care of ourselves if the world can- not attain peace.” Accordingly, the President | further stated, he is asking this year, in the light of con- tinued uncertainty, “Army and Navy increases which are not based on a panic but on common sense.” The President proposed | sufficient additional takx levies to meet the cost of the emergency in spending for | | | ‘ hore. MURPHY MIGHT BE NAMED FOR HIGHEST COURT Senafor Schwellenbach Is; Rumored as Up for Fed-. eral Judgeship WASHINGTON, Jan. 3. — High g authority reports that Attorney national defense. 3 General Frank Murphy will be ap-| The President did not spec- pointed to the Supreme Court and ify the amounts needed for Solicitor General Robert Jackson Tl soccesd Murphy as Attorney ‘he Army and Nayy, or meth ods of taxation. General. This shift in the Department of More than half of the mes- { Justice has been widely predicted sage, delivered by the Presi- ever since the death of Justice d . h Pierce Butler November 16, ent in person to the Sena- Reports increased yesterday of tors and Representatives as- the impending Ch":??” ;’hen Presi- gembled in a joint session in dent Roosevelt conferred both with Murphy and Jackson. the Hc?use, was Q?e\'oted to In- 1t is also reported that Senator ternational affairs and prob- Schwellenbach of the state of lems. ‘Washington, will be named to the Eastern Washington Federal Bench.] Ly el ! SKAGWAY GIVES GOVERNOR BUSY TIME ON VIS National Unity President Roosevelt also injected a strong appeal for national- unity. The Chief Executive as- serted that national unity “is in a very real deep sense a fundamental safeguard for all Democracy.” The President placed stress on the domestic problems cre- ated by the present wars. He said the Government is not ,overlooking the great sig- | nificance of the wars as re- | lating to domestie policies but | Community Sends Report on Dr. Gruening's First Visit to Lynn Canal | W. J. Mulvihill and the S Skagway's welcome last Saturday to Gov. Ernest Gruening and party was cordial and eventful, accord- ihg to word brought from the Lynn Canal community by Dr. George Dale of the Office of Indian Af- fairs, who with Dr. W. W, Coun-| cil and Dr. J. F. Worley, accom-| panied the Governor. i Arriving in the forenoon, the Governor was a guest of Mayor kagwa Chamber of Commerce at luncheon in the Pullen House. Gail Budd,| Chairman of the Chamber, pre- sided. The Govermor addressed the 100 guests on the utilization of Alaska resources and the possibili- ties of tourist travel to Southeast Alaska. | During the afternoon the Gover- nor visited the schools with Super-| intendent Rasmussen and viewed the library, the Pullen House mu-" seum, Pius X Mission and the he briefly touched on these policies to examine in a cold, analytical manner, ways in ‘which the conflicts across the «Continued an Page Eight) Gilmore Enfers First Division ~ Senale Race KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 3. —Patrick J. Gilmore, pioneer of this city and prominent in local and Southeastern Alaska poli- tics, today dropped his hat into the race for a Senatorial seat in the Territorial Legislature, run- ning as a Democrat. Gilmore this morning filed his candidacy here for the Terri- torial Senate on the Democratic time. How would the money be|,s 13 regions within the quadrangle airport. He also witnessed a basket- ticket for the April primary. raised? Part from the industry,and| jesenting their views and arguing part from the RFC. y e ball game between the Haida team This is the first Democrati¢ -But after a few months of ex- " (Continued on Page Five) and a Skagway town team. { filing of the current campaign.