The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 5, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LV, NO. 8302 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FINNS VICTORIOUS ON ARCTIC K BUREAU OF FISHERIES ASKS VIEWS,RECOM MENDATIONS, :FRANI( BOYLE T0 - HEAD ALASKA'S FINNISH DRIVE REGUI.ATORY PROTE(“ON Named Terriforial Chair- The Bureau of Fisheries de- views and recommenda- of Alaskans concerning abundance of game fish in the sires tions Territory. 'his request is made today in a radiogram io The Empire from Charles E. Jackson, Act- ing Commissioner of the Bu- reau of Fisheries, in Washing- _ton, D. C. Mr. Jackson requests that suggestions be submitted to the Bureau by air mail so the mat- ter may receive early consider- ation. Sport fishing regulations will be issued separately from com- mercial fishery regulations. Alaskans are urged to make their suggestions at once and get them in the mail for the States. SECRETARY ICKES CHARGES SABOTAGE; REMOVES FINCH, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF MINES BRITISH CABINET SHAKEUP Biggest Political Sensation Since War Started Is Created LONDON, Jan. 5. — Premier Chamberlain late today an- nunced he has reorganized the | British Government with War l | [ Minister Hore Belisha and Min- ister of Information MacMil- lan retiring. The change is the biggest political sensation since the war started. [ Oliver Stanley, President of | the Beard of Trade, becomes | War Minister, and Sir John } Charles Walsham, organizer of the British Broadcasting Cor- poration, former Director Gen- eral of the Government con- trolled station and head of the Imperial Airways, takes over the much criticized Ministry of Information which has | | charge of the war's censorship. | Iren and steel industry law- yer Sir Andrew Duncan be- | comes President of the Board | of Trade. LT POPULATION OF KETCHIKAN NOW LISTED AT 4,601 Growth of 350 in Decade-| Juneau 1,000 Ahead i of First City Population of Ketchikan is 4,601, according to a preliminary an- nouncement today by the Bureau of the Census. This figure com-i pares with the 1930 figure of 4,260 | for the same limits, Charcoal?omm and upper Nickeyville villages, with | a totah of 464, have been annexed to the city since the 1930 count! was taken, but are accounted for in the 4,260 figure. Juneau, by comparison, has 5,- 748, The Census announcement said the population of the environs of | Ketchikan, including Tongass High- j way, Pennock Island and the | northwest coast of Gravina Island, ! totals an additional 741. | The Ketchikan Recording Dis-| trict is listed as having a popula- tion of 7,967 as compared to 6463. in the 1939 census. SR L LR KNOX IS TAKING MONTH'S VACATION Pacific Alaska Airways pilot’ Bill Knox sailed on the North Coast ! for a month’s vacation. | While Outside, Knox will travel to Miami and visit with Jerry Jones ; and S. E. Robbins, PAA pilots who have been doing Clipper work there for the past several months, | Finch was | William Holzheimer, WASHINGTON, Jan. 5.—Secre- tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes charges that a group of employees of the Bureau of Mines who were | held over from the Hoover Admin- | istration have tried sabotage of his licies to undermine his authority. Secretary Ickes made the state- ment when asked why he dismissed Dr. John W. Finch, Director of the | Bureau of Mines, two days ago. Secretary Ickes said he felt that not running the Bureau little group was running po but that a Secretary Ickes said he did not like that kind of an organization but wanted a Bureau of Mines Chief mth iron in his blood. R A SWEDES HIT BY GERMAN NEWSPAPERS {Nazi Press Flays Both Nor- way and Sweden for Finnish Aid BERLIN, Jan. 5.—In pointed words, apparently reflecting grow- ing German official concern over developments in Scandinavia, the Nazi press today warned Norway land Sweden anew against provid- . ANCHORAGE HAS ing transit of British and military aid to Finland. The newspapers, which called upon the northern countries “clarify their positions,” sxmultan- eously sharpened their drive against lcague of Nations members who are referred to as “so-called neu- trals,” because they agreed to ful- fill the League Covenant by aiding Finlan HELLENTHAL, MRS. HOLZHEIMER TO BE JACKSON SPEAKERS| Speakers at next Monday's Jack- son Day dinner at the Baranof | Hotel will be Democratic National Committeeman Jack Hellenthal and National Committeewoman Mrs. it was an-| nounced today by Robert E. Cough- {lin, Chairman of the Program Com- mittee, The dinner, traditional Demo- cratic event, will be held in the| Gold Room at 6:30 o'clock. Tickets may be obtained at any Juneau drug store or at the Baranof | Hotel. .- — Frifz Cove Resident Has Real Celebrafion Paul Lucas and his wife celebrat- ed a triple holiday yesterday at their {home on the Fritz Cove road. One—It was Paul's birthday. Two—It was the Lucas’ second wedding anniversary. Three—It was Paul’s regular dny, off at the mine. man of Fund Campaign | Tofal Is Now $487.45 Designaton of Territorial Auditor Frank Boyle as Chairman of the Finnish Relief Fund drive in Alaska was announced today by Former Governor John W. Troy, who was asked by National Chairman Her- | bert Hoover to organize a sharp, quick campaign for funds in the | Territory. Already, through the efforts of The Daily Alaska Empire, radio sta- | tion KINY and the Finnish Benevo- lent Society, a fund of $487.45 for Finnish relief has been raised in Juneau. Accepting the chairmanship, Au- ditor Boyle said work of the organ- | | izations already gathering a fund will be continued and the Territorial effort. Charles Settlemier, editor manager of the Fairbanks Miner, has been asked to head the drive in Interior Alaska. Addressed to John W. Troy, as “publisher of the Juneau Empire,” a telegram received from Hoover is as follows: | Hoover Telegram “I would appreciate it immensely if you would accept the direction of Finnish relief fund in Alaska. It | would involve the appointment of leaders in your different towns to| pu( on a sharp, quick drive in co- operation with the pre: and the usual activties. “I do not need to stress the ur- gent need of support for these hero- ic people. The hundreds of thou- sands of women and children who were hurriedly moved from the cit- | ies in the middle of the northern| winter have now to be moved en- tirely from Eastern Finland over to and | the western parts of the country, all! of them wthout adequate provision, | moany of them destitute. “This fund is for the purpose of | serving these broad relief needs. The | Red Cross has undertaken to supply medicines and hospital supplies, but | that is only a small portion of the problem we have to meet “Emil Hurja (former newspaper man now prominent in Washington) has suggested your name to me and joins with me in urging your acceptance.” Contributions to the |are as follows: local fund | Previously acknowledged $397.45 | Coliseum Theatre 25.00 H. L. Faulkner 10.00 Albert Tucker 5.00 | Alaska Electric Light and Power Company 50.00 Total $487.45 | ———————— TWO CASES OF UNDULANT FEVER City’s Milkfipply fo Be Investigated by Mor- ley and Loftus | Discovery of two cases of undu- |lant fever at Anchorage has been ,a.nnounced by the Territorial De- | partment of Health, which is send-| ing Sanitarian Lloyd Morley on| | | investigate the situation. Morley will be met at Anchor- |age by Territorial Veterinarian Dr. J. B. Loftus, who will conduct tests |on the dairy herds of the locali Undulant fever is most commonly contracted from drinking raw milk. Diagnosis of one of the Anchor- | age cases was made in the labora-| tory of the Department of Health | here and the other in Seattle. Pasteurization equipment, to‘ make milk free of undulant fever| organisms, is being installed by the' |age, and will be ready for use in about two weeks. The community’s only pasteurization plant was de- since that time Anchorage residents| have had to drink raw milk. A LOS ANGELES.—The crew of the treasure hunting ship Spend- thrift is reported to have found the long sought gold hoard of pir- ate gold buried on Cocos Island, said to be millions of dollars. abetted by! News- | Alaskan | the next boat to the Westward to, |allegations she was being forcibly | Step-and-a-half Dairy at Anchor-| stroyed by fire two years ago and | U.S. SHIP FORCED TO BRIT. PORT ‘Warning Nofe s Sent by | State DeparimenlCon- cerning Affair NEUTRALITY ACT IS PROBABLY VIOLATED Amencan Embassy in Lon- don Instructed to Get All Details WASHINGTON, Jan 5. — The American Government has warned Great Britain this nation will hold the British Government responsi-| ble for damages resulting from “loss- | es and nijuries” if American smps‘ are forced into British control ports. The State Department released the text of a long note handed to the British Ambassador for for- warding to his Government. Taken To Kirkwall At the same time it is disclosed that the American ship Moormac- | sun of the Moore, McCormick Line, | lenroute to Bergen, has been taken| to Kirkwall, one of the British con- | trol ports within the area forbidden | United States vessels by the Neu- trality Act. The State Department said that since the ship violated the Neutrality | Act by entering the combat area, He has his ups and his downs,| the Department cabled the Ameri-¢although the incredible burdens of | can Embassy in London last night the presidency would keep an av-| 'to communicate immediately with erage man mostly down ‘ the master of the Moormacsun and| The most evident reason for his | obtain a full statement of the cir-|present booming disposition is the | cumstances as a preliminary to pos- | positive position he has taken in sible action. foreign affa He is far from his Ccoperation Affirmed best when on the defensive. Prob- The State Department’s note to R GRS IN 1933 along the bord By PR ON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. — Presi- dent Roosevelt enters the last year | of his second (and maybe his last) | term in booming health and good | spirits. Great Britain is dated December 14.! The note made a point also that American steamship companies are voluntarily cooperatinng with the | British authorities. The note is signed by Secretary iof State Cordell Hull who also said that “in view of these considera- | tions, it is difficult for my Govern- ment to foresee, as a practical mat- ter, any occasion necessitating entry lof American vessels into belligerent ports.” | - Romeo, -~ Juliet Wedde | Romafihc Cgsekng;:lgflng | SOURDOUGHS "mesni i MINERS OF maxes in N. H. NORTH CONWAY, New Hamp- |shire, Jan. 5—The Rev. Raymond Phelps of the North Conway cm\-; gregational Church, said he married Eilene Herrick, 20, and George Low- | ther, 30, New York’s Romeo and Juliet, shortly after their arrival SONS OF PRES. QUITS RADIO; ] He said he performed the cere- Imony shortly after 11:30 o'clock this forenoon. | Resigns as Head of Newly| Formed TBS, Coast fo Coast Chain Leaving White House on Day ank l‘lo“day took effect. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Herrick, par- ents of the bride, told the police| jvur]ier in New York that their daughter was being detained against |her will when she disappeared less than an hour after she left her ‘swank East Side home in New York City to “take a dog walk.” This is the same argument put up by Lowther when he recently had the object of his affections and her parents brought into court twice on detained and he was prevented from seeing her by her parents who dis- approved by the match. nation of Elllott Roosevelt as Pres- Lowther appeared beneath the jdent of the newly formed Trans- glrl‘s window and they would con- o ¥ [ver.se about their love. The parents continental Br‘mtdcasung System, had the police drive him away | rumored in radio circles for several then he took the case into the days, has been disclosed. courts which decided he was within| Rgosevelt, who was the prime | his rights to make legitimate love| 5 in the only manner possible under| MOVer of the new system, gave no reason for his resignation. the crcumstances. | ey, The TBS is understood to have Government| grown principally out of the newly BOMBAY. — The 12 discovered popularity of night time court has sentenced to death persons in connection with the riot last April in which six state police- |TePeats and daytime dramatic ra- men were Kkilled. dio serials. NEW YORK, Jan. 5—The resig- Resembling cowled monks, Finland’s s. The soldiers dress thus to camouflage themsel light machhine guns, automatic pistols and travel on skis. , ably | three ORGANIZETO AID FINNS “men in white” are holding back his all-time “low” in spirits, came during and after the Su-| preme Court fight of 1937 ‘ | LIKES THE OFFENSIVE | He likes the fighting side, the aggressive side, rather than the defensive, Most men do. It is a | military axiom that the soldier | on the offensive is normally high- | est in morale. Just now, President Roosevelt is on the aggressive on fronts in foreign affairs, a field in which he is particularly happy in any event. He is putting real heat on Ru sia by advancing aid to the Finr He is widening the “pressure area” around Japan, whose trade treaty with us is about to expire at a time when she most needs this trade. “good policy just olid hemi- | neighbor” is moving into a spherical front directed at driv ing the European sea warfare| away from our Atlantic dooryard. KEEPS UP WITH THE BUDGET Several weeks ago cold kept him out of the executive office, but he did not avoid much work. He couldn't. The foreign situation was moving through important st Moreover, he was Wwres- tling with the budget. | In connection with the budget| his intimate advisors noted his un-| canny power ol “mmnzmk nner‘ TRAPPERS, CANADATO His now a es. MONTREAL, $an. 5—A Division of Royal Canadian Mounted Po- lice, sourdoughs, prospectors, trap- pers and Indians may be formed in Canada to go and fight for the Finns. The Montreal Gazette, daily newspaper, says the force will be selected from volunteers who find conditions in Finland similar to those in their own country. The enlistments will be from the | Northwest Territories, Yukon Ter- ritory and Hudson Bay regions. Snowshoe and ski battalions will be formed. CHARLES NAGEL DIES SUDDENLY ST. LOUIS, Mo,, Jan. 5—Charles Nagel, Secretary of Commerce and Labor in President Taf's Cabinet, and one of the Midwest’s most suc- cessful lawyers, died suddenly here this afternoon at the age of 90 years. - CHICAGO. — Sub-zero tempera- tures laifd an icy hand on the Midwest today as a cold wave from Canada sent the mercury tum- bling, The cold spell extends east- ward. ves with the snow. | under Finland’s “Men in W hite” Holding Reds in Check e the Russians in heavy offensives These soldiers carry - DR IN FIGHTING TRIM FOR lAST (%) YEAR Day the midnight hour, : up one another, strain past after his budget resentatives of the consideration. One of them ix hours of late night after day, often until he would department’s request staff around him, supplemented by rep- departments told us that after wrestling ONT SMASHING DRIVE ON RUSSIANS Soviefs Rou?;d, Fleeing in . Confusion Across | Frontier ‘GUERILLA ENCOUNTERS REPORTED, EAST FRONT Invaders, Defenders Now Resorting to Skiis— Cold Moderates | (By Associated Press) ‘ Finnish forces, according to | Copenhagen dispatches, are report- led to have won another smash= ing victory against the Russian troops, on the Salla front, 120 miles north of Lake Kianta, where the Finns virtually destroyed the Red Armys 163rd Division. The Russians are said to have ‘been routed at Salla, just above Lhe Arctic Circle, and are fleeing n great confusion across the fron- uer in the direction of Kandalaska. Inasmuch as the vital Russian Murmansk-Leningrad Railroad is only 40 miles from the frontier, the new victory, observers said, may mean the Finns are not only able to cut but may destroy this line of communication, cutting off war and all other supplies. Guerilla Fighting Fight on Finland’s eastern bor- with a budget he was virtually ger has developed in hand-to-hand strapped. up after midnight. Next morning, (Continued on Page Seven) TODAY As he discussed policy for an- nual message and bud[d ATTEMPTING TO BLOCK WEDDING Blond Smger Seeks fo Pre- vent Marriage of Noted Author-Columnist NEW YORK, Ja —Blonde singer Thema Spear has souglht an in- junction to prevent Ludwig Lewishon author, from marryng 21-year-old newspaper columnist Edna Manley. M second wife and the mother of his ear-old son. She said Lewishon married her by proxy after divorcing his first wife in Mexico The 46-year-old author announced three weeks ago that he intended to marry Miss Manley. s — GOV. SEES GAME FARM; DUFRESNE SEES E. OHMER To confer with Earl N. Ohmer, Chairman of the Alaska Game Com- | regarding the Commission’s | mission, forthcoming me Executive Offi s at Anchorage, Frank Dufresne left last night on the North Coast| for Petersburg. The Commission session will begin February 16. At Petersburg today, Dufresne conducted Gov. Ernest Gruening on a visit to the experimental game farm. Dufresne plans to return tomor- row on the Taku. Spear claims she is Lewishon's | The President also ap- ' gyerilla encounters. peared tired when the party broke Both Russians ana rinns are using ski troops in sudden swooping " |dashes over the hills and among the trees, The bitter cold in the snow- swept country has moderated for the present and renewed activity is expected. The Russians are attempting a drive to the westward across Fin- land’s narrow waist. The Finnish defeat of the Reds’ 163rd Division on the ice at Lake Wianta has shattered Russia’s bat= tle strength and there is no longer a well defined battle line. Initial skirmishes are virtue ally successful for the Finns. NORWEGIA? AID FINNS OSLO, Jan, —The newspaper Lagbladet today says the first con- tingent of Norwegian volunteers, about 150, will leave here during tod'l for Finland. e — | ‘WIDOW OF DOUG ' FAIRBANKS LEFT MILLION DOLLARS W||I of Former Aciress s Filed for Probate in New York Court | NEW YORK, Jan. 5.—Douglas | Fairbanks left half of his estate to his widow, the former Lady Sylvia Ashley. This was disclosed today when Fairbanks’ will was filed for pro= | bate. The will stipulates, however, that his widow's share shall not exceed $1,000,000. The actog former husband of Mary Pickford, died at Santa Monica | Cal,, on December 12. Considerable part of Fairbanks’ fortune is invested in United Ar- | tists, which Miss Pickford, now the { wife of Band Leader Buddy Rogers, is partner. Fairbanks also left twelve-fortieths of his property to his son Douglas, Jr., the total not to exceed $600,= 1‘000. | Fairbanks specified that his total bequests to his wife, son, brothers and other relatives should not ex= ceed $2,000,000. .- WASHINGTON.— President Roo- sevelt and Italian Ambassador Co- lonna conferred this afternocon at the White House, lending belief that Italy might be called into the situation arising from the Euro= |pean war and be asked to urge peace.