The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1940, Page 5

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TH ASSOCIATED PRESS IN PIC LAUGH S LAS Freedom tastes good to Tom Mooney whose Jan. 7 pardon after 22 years in prison was hailed by erganized labor—and by Mrs, Mooney and Harry Bridges (center). In 1939 the A. F. of L. and C.LO. feud continued, a WPA workers’ strike protested dismissais, a House committee was named to probe Wagner act, and the government took a position that labor unions are liable under anti-trust laws. —, EA CLINGS TO SQUA LUS Successive loss of three submarines—Squalus by U. S. May 23, Thetis by England S ' June 1, Phenix by France June 15—seemed an omen forecasting importance of subs to war later in the year. Squalus sank off Portsmouth, N. H. men aboard being saved with a diving bell. Above, Squalus rises July 13 before sinking again to ocean floor. Sub was fi rydocked Sept. 15. Thetis cost 99 lives; Phénix, 71. CHILD MOTH E With 60 physicians as witnesses iz Lina Medina, a Peruvian Indian SB‘BBE‘N DEAT —An carthquake in Chile, on January 24, girl said to be five years old, gave birth by Caesarean operation a toppled buildings and killed over 20,000 t0 a son in May. Peru made child and boy (above) state wards. persons. v g ASKS PEACE Little peace did Eugenio Cardinal Pa- celli, 63 (above), find after March 2 election as pope, succeeding Pius XI. He chose name ‘“Pius,” which means peace. His first encyclical asked the end of wars. A HOME Ending his exile, Charles Linde 2 bergh drew eriticism in U, 8., - - Ca"““]fl?’ ]thlslflcl.lfl broad- S cast Wi plea for “freedom of -om Europe’s v f 4 this continent . . . from dictates No WAR CLOUDS, THES bond among th republies, and for a of European power.” Sen. Key huge U. S. defense program that’s now adding ships to the navy, ma-hines and men to the army, air Pittman said speech encouraged bases and bombers like this to air force. The Byrd expedition left fo- Antarctica to bolster U. S. ter- totalitarian ideology, ritorial claims there, and Clipper planes gave U. S. an edge in vegular transatlantic air service. apetus for a stronger PROBE %< %er. Martin Dies (above) committee PLAN ES VS SHIPS With a late start—Germany didn’t invade Poland until Sept. 1— Tom Pendergast (above), Kan- 4 & % e - ' June visit of Britain's rulers, George QUEEN'S DAY 31'7i Eilrabe, scen srecting the President at Washington, was a personal triumph for winsome Scotch-born queen. Monarchs visited U. after tour of Canada. Left to righ he Roosevelts, queen, king, Secretary Cordell Hull, MENU CHANGE pciset, for Canfornia's Sai-a- Warren Haysly, Della Archer (above), and for Ohio’s $50 to $80 monthly pension advocates enlivened November elections. F.D.R. kept mum about a third term, and the states di ed equally in observing the Nov. 23 or Nov. 30 Thanksgiving dates. SHADOW OF LAw Patrolman hovers near James Monroe Smith, for~ mer Louisiana U. president now serving sentence for misuse of school funds. His arrest made headlines a month after the June 3 conviction of h ranking U. S. Circuit Court Judge Martin T. Manton on charges of conspiracy to obstruct justice. pAsE TS TAXES 5 Garves pus e " busy in capital, two citizens Mars did a good business in 1939, Europe’s main war resoiving sas City’s Democratic boss, be~ » tangled with the law: Commu- itself into a struggle between naval and air power, as typified by this view of a Nazi raider bombing hind bars at Leavenworth. Re- . » TREAMLINER WREGKE Malice was blamed for Aug. 12 wreck of §2,000,000 nist Earl Browder was indicted a British warship in Firth of Forth. While Spain was healing her war wounds and U. S. continued her leased - from Alcafraz was Al S luxury train, “City of San Francisco,” which piled for passport frauds; Bundsman neutral policy, Japan pushed on in China, Russia nibbled at the Baltic and Balkans, and Allies and Capone, former gangster who up near Carlin, Nev., killing more_than 20, injuring about 100. A rail had been moved. Other dis- Fritz Kuhn got a 2)4-to-5 year Germany fought with mines, blockades and diplomacy. U. S. ships were banned from “combat zone,” had served prison sentence for asters: snowslide burying six climbers on Mount Baker, Wash.; Chicago’s §$3.000,000 elevator fire, . sentence for larceny. meglecting income tax payments.