The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1940, Page 1

e e e g — » THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV,, NO. 8301. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAf;_. JANUARY 4, 1940. FINNS CRUY P FISHERIES TO BE BOOSTED Budget Message Recom- mends Large Appropria- tion for Reindeer HCREASE SOUGHT i RELIEF FLINDS Roads, Trails, Ferries Up $10,000 on Roosevelt Request List WASINGTON, . 4—President Roosevelt in his annual budget message to Congress today recom- mended increases over last year in Alaskan appropriations for fish- eries, game law enforcement, re- lief and the maintenance of roads, and bridges. . asks $570,000 for . trails, bridges, fer- ries and tramways. This is $10,000 more than last year. Apprepriation of $281,660 for the Bureau of eries for protection of seal, sea otter and maintenance o he Pribilof Island natives Is d, compared with $268,200 last tre e messag mour commendation of $135,300 for law enforcement is a $5,000 More Relief Money appropriations would be Relief .1 to $30,000, an increase of 00, ¢ sum of $75300 is asked for tenance of the Alaska rein- er service, $300,000 to purchase more reindeer and $75,000 for the and management of build- s and cabins and expenses Of atersance of employes. Last 05000 was authorized for irchase of non-native owned message asked $2,775,000 the Alaska Railroad special fund, compared to $2,625,000. also asked the sum of $11,900 from me taxes paid by railroads on their business in the Territories to provide a one percent payment to the Territorial Treasurer. Other recommendations included $197,092 for Signal Corps mainten- ance of the Alaska Communications System, compared with $200,000 previously appropriated. The International Pacific Sal- mon Fisheries ' Commission would set $40,000, the Alaska agricultural experiment station $25,000, the ag- riculture extension service $23913. in star route mail services was UN-! The minerals produced from Al- the most significant products of and Governor of Michigan. changed from last year. No provision was made for con- tinuing the Alaskan International Highway Commission which rve- ceived $6,200 in the last appropria- tion. The Commission has virtually completed its task during the cur- rent year. The Office of Indian Affairs bud- get carries an item of $912,250 for educational work among Alas- ka natives, $39,000 less than - this year. The recommendation for medical relief of Alaskan natives is increased from $440,000 to $494,950. ., {5 Injured, Hofel Blaze Firemen Rescue Over 50 Patrons During Fire in Omaha OMAHA, Jan. 4—Fifteen persons were injured today in a fire that destroyed the interior of the eight story Henshaw Hotel in the heart of Omaha's business district. Damage is estimated at over $200,- 000. Firemen rescued 50 hotel patrons during the blaze. resident ROADS, GAME It, ONE RUSSIA Asks More M;)—ney DIVISION For Alaska | | v Remarkable photo shows seevn German submarines putting out to sea f cruisers. ~ GERMAN U-BOAT PATROL SETS OUT FOR SHIPPING RAIDS to the Kiel Canal for raids on Allied shipping. A French communique December 27 stated that its naval patrol had sunk two U-boats rom entrance ch in a month. One sub, the French message said, was sunk by an armed sloop, the Commandant Durboo. The others were destroyed by French l of the type shown within two weeks, making three downed by the Fren | Yankee Hamburgers for Tommy American-born Lady Astor is shown serving hamburgers, doughnuts and ea to British Tommies as she inaugurated first of the American canteens n London. These canteens, financed by American women in England, vill be opened in several convenient points in England and France tc serve free snacks to the soldiers MINERAL OUTPUT OF ALASKA ‘SINCE 1880 IS ESTIMATED AT ~ ABOVE 8 HUNDRED MILLION aska mines in 1939 had an esti- | Alaska mines in 1939 were coal, sil- mated value of $24,888,000, accord- | ver, lead, limerock, tin, antimony, ing to a preliminary statement of |and a small amount of copper. the Geological Survey, United Slatesi Generat Conditions i Department of the Interior. This| The estimated value of the min- WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Presi-| WABHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has nominated dent Roosevelt completed the broad Frank Murphy, as sciate Jus-| Outlines of his Congressional pro- |a She’s Human Perfection! MURPHY IS BUDGETIS NOMINATED, ~GIVEN 10 HIGH COURT CONGRESS Atforney General Named| Tripmed Financial Stafe- | as Associate Justice on | ment Presented Today Supreme Bench | by President ‘ SOLICITOR GENERAL ESTIMATE OF EXPENSES JACKSON PROMOTED ALSO RECEIPTS REP()RTEDi Circuit Court Judge Is Also Nation Expected fo Move | Moved Up in Rank- | Forward on Reduced ing Position Rafions for Year gram today by sending the Con-!| gress a sharply trimmed financial budget and specifying in his budget | s Attorney General, head of the|Message that $460,000,000 of emer- | Department of Justice gency National defense (‘erndh‘ The President also sent to the| tures should be offset by speclal, Senate the nomination of Judge '® _ re | The President forecast the net Prancis Biddle, of the Third Cir-| Th¢ cuit Court of Appeals, to be Solici-|deficit for the next fiscal year be- | ginning July 1 at one billion, seven tor General. | 5 Murphy, who is 46 and who sajq | Dundred and sixteen million dol- he thought others were much bet- lars as against three billion, nine ter qualified than he for a seat hundred and thirty three million on the Supreme Court, has been dollars for the current year end- Attorney General since January 2’;‘“‘7'[.h~’“nid3°v i e reduce udget means, last year. He was formerly High| TP p ns, the Commissioner the Philippines| Fresident said, that the Govern- ment is “prepared to move forward lon reduced rations and any fur- | ther cuts will result in undue hard- | ships on individuals and economic groups.” The total expenses next year, in- tice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Solicitor General Robert Jackson to succeed Murphy | Elaine Shepard To Model Elaine Shepard goes the cup emblematic of human per- fection as selected by the Institute of Human Art in New York. The judging was based on highest ratings in intelligence, facial fea- tures, hair, posture, hands, body measurements and poise. Batfle on Trade Agreement - Ads, Lowering of Walls on Tariff, Expected fo Be Hot By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. — The Fifth Nomination Murphy's nomination is the fifth President Roosevelt has made to the nine man court and although he is named to succeed the late * jorder to win corresponding conces- |sions in other countries for our SECOND RED ARMY IS IN TRAGICWAY ‘Force Sent fo]d Defeated Forces Are Reported Surrounded DEFENDERS SAID T0 HAVE CROSSED BORDER ‘Air Bases “of Soviets on Two Islands Are Part- ly Destroyed COPENHAGEN, Jan. 4—Finnish troops are chasing the scattered remnants of Russia’s crushed 163rd | Division and is reported to have |pushed 10 miles into Soviet ter- | ritory. 1 The Finnish forces are also re- ! ported to have surrounded the sec- ond Red Army Division sent to as- sist the beaten 163rd Division. Re- ports of the encirclement of the re- lief divipion are not confirmed, however, but are believed to be cor- rect. The Finnish headquarters in Hel- sinki said the Finns have surround- ed the relief division between Lake Kianta and the Russian border. The Red Army soldiers are re- ported to be in a desperate plight as food, ammunition and other snp- plies have been cut off. Press dispatches received in Cop- enhagen also report that Finnish bombers raided and partly destroyed the new Russian air bases on the islands of Dago and Oesel, off the coast, near Estonia and near the southern rance to the Gulf of Finland. Russia won the right to fortify the islands from Estonia last fall, The Copenhagen newspaper Af- tenavis speculates that the Finns are now using the new English and Italian planes in their successful raids. A MISSING, 18 DEADIN HOTEL FIRE Firemen Cofiflue Hunt for Cause of Disastrous Blaze BULLETIN—MINNEAPOLIS, Jan. 4—Death of another vic- tim, Steven Brazil, 54, raised the €atality toll of the fire to 19. cluding one billion, eight hundred exports. The cuts have ranged from| gy e persons are still missing that have| amount brings the total value of|eral production of Alaska, as stat- Pierce Butler, he is regarded by the mineral output of Alaska since | ed, reflects the generally excellent the Administration as a Conserva- 1880 to more than $800,000,000. condition of the industry in 1939, tive and the change is not expect- Although the year 1939 set few It seems, however, to mark no unu- ed to make any material effect in new records of production, the re- |sual spurt of activity, but only to the nature of the Court’s opinions. sults as a whole were good and|reflect a normal stage that is not, The President also sent to the encourage belief in the continuing | likely to decline greatly in the near |Senate the nomination of Charles high rate of output of minerals| future, but that may well be ex- Edison to be Secretary of Navy. from the Territory. | ceeded as some of the operations Edison was given a recess appoint- | As compared with 1938, there|already in progress come into pro- ment a few days ago. i i ———————— seems to have been a decrease in| duction thousand dollars for defense expen- ditures, is put at eight billion, four hundred and twenty-four million dollars, or six hundred and seventy- five million dollars less than this year. The net receipts, aside from So- cial Security taxes, is estimated at five billion, five hundred forty-eight million dollars, an in- crease of three hundred and eighty- two million dollars over this year, and| really sweeping cuts |been made in the tariff walls by | the trade agreement acts are dis- | closed now in studies made byi various agencies in preparation for| | the expected battle over whether the trade agreement program shall be continued. In recent years the United States has imported about $1,800,-/ 000,000 in goods of all kinds. Of these about $1,244,000,000 are sub- a trifling two or three percent to [the fun 50 percent limit. On the $518,000000 worth of goods affected by the agreements, the total duty under the old rates was $291,000,000. Trade agree- | ment concessions reduced this to |$179,000,000, a cut of more than one-third The apove figures indicate that the average of the old tariff on | wup to late this afternoon. | Nine victims are in a serious | condition and 16 others in fair | condition. # The Red Cross has acocunted | for 113 persons in the hotel at | the time of the fire but survivors | expressed belief of more than that number. Firemen are spurred to search the debris for more bodies. | which the President said will re- |sult from better business, | AL 1939 of approximately $3,700,000 in: Prices for most of the mineral (RonEll "AMED | Production High The value of goid vroduced WASHING TON, Jan. 4— ‘ President Roosevelt today sent the momination of Dr. Ernest | Gruening to be Governor of Al- | WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Presi in Alaska. Furthermore, none of lands, did not occur until late in, Alaska mines in 1939 exceeded in o nienie ject to duties ranging from virtu- ally nothing to more than 100 per- cent in special items. Of these im- ports, the trade agreements have affected about one-third, both in| varieties of .imports and in gen- eral value. There are approxi- mately 3,000 dutiable import items of which more than 1,100 have been affected by the trade agree- ments. The totai value of imported goods coming under the influence of the trade agreement program the one-third of goods affected by the trade agreements was 56 per-| EXHAUSTIVE INQUIRY cent. These old rates for the most F‘MI:NE‘:POL:Shmm Jan 4.— part were set by the Smoot-Haw-| TP AEDAEUNETING ',::)d.yw“ ley act, The trade agreements act, Enucm:;"“l’g“mq“:yAma :h‘ d‘S; coming in 1934, four years later, ;sot:l“sme‘:'hw:“gum%" t::k":: has cut this tariff rate down to 34 ). elatttons S aat zys g percent average. o] ) Of course these are blanket av- :’é‘c‘:fin ';;‘dlol:n four persons un- erages. The individual cuts ranges| 'y j¢ w;. believed a lighted up and down from that. Here is cigarette carelessly e a sample. Agricultural items - garbage storage ch“:':dl off the fected by the trade agreements explosion which started the : act paid an average 30 percent Arhyr Spottswood, fire prevebh!nuon under the old rates, and have been chief said he was unable to de- the value of the total production|commodities from Alaska mines av- of minerals. The record for 1938, ' eraged somewhat higher in 1939 however, was exceedingly high, hav- than in 1938 The increase in prices ing been surpassed in only three in the world market for such me- ' NADA years during the entire period|tals as tin, lead, and antimony, | B | that mining has been in progress brought about by wars in foreign | Gl'uelllllfl S "ame ! the great copper mines, which in, the year, and for a large part orHUSband Of FOI'meI' DO[IS'Se“' 'o sena'e as 1938 produced copper to the value! 1930 the prices were even lower | v | of nearly $3,000000, were in oper- than in 1938, Consequently, the av- | Duke Is Named fo MaSka SGovemor | ation. erage prices for 1939 were not much e | | above those that prevailed in me! Va(am POS' | | preceding year. The price of silver, | bY | which qualified under the Gov- value that for any other year in Alaska history with the single ex- ception of 1938. The continued large output of platinum metals from Alaska mines! is a source of special national slg-| niiil::f.nce!.h fliy 1;.{ dgo;s tIar1 toward | ean of these two figures, or 67.87|0f a short time Daniel Roper, former | t0-10Use basis was begun in the| making the United States indepen-| oni. silver which did not so|Secertary of Commerce, filled in,|Mddle Ages. Cows were driven to|gram and accompanying laws, the during the visit of the King and © ch domicile and delivery was' President is authorized to cut tar- dent of foreign supplies, |\ In addition to gold and platinum, special arrangement for,dent Roosevelt has nominated James purchase, was raised on July 1/H. R. Cromwell, New Jersey econ- from 64.64 cents to 71.11 cents an omist, and the husband of former| ounce, and on the assumption that.'Doris Duke, to be Minister to Can-| all of the silver from Alaska mines ada. was eligible for such purchase its| The post has been vacant for price has been computed at the|nearly two years with the exception | ‘EanTnfiea on Page Seven) Queen of England. aska, to the Senate. Dr. Gruen- ing is mow in his position, hav- ing received a recess appoint- ment, DELIVERY of milk on a house- made on the spot. |is about $518,000,000. It is around this segment of the nation’s im- |ports that the big fight will be { waged. 40 percent. Not all these cuts were made in, cut to 18 percent under the New.|termine the cause of the fire def- That is a cut of 12 points, or about "mm,y_ Vietims Only thirtecn of the eighteen vie- ! any one trade agreement. In each | tims of the fire were positively | MAY CUT TARIFF RATES Under the trade agreement pro- naqe to obtain desired concessions (Continued on Fage Five) 3 iff rates as much as 50 percent in agreement special reductions were jdentified. They are as follows: OTTO FRANKE, 25, machinist. from the other party, However, GERHARD FRANKE, about 43. {(Conunue