The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 6, 1940, Page 1

5 / THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE™ “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8303. ICKES IbS 'MOUNT McKINLEY SAILING FROM SEATTLE ON SUNDAY ~ DRAFTS TEN MORNING NOW CANCELLED POINT PLAN RUSSIANS SURRENDER T0 FINNS Fleeing Soviet Forces Throw Hands in Air- Quit Resistance AIR RAIDERS BEATEN OFF: DROP NO BOMBS Arfillery Engagements c Only Minor Nature Re- ported on Front INKI, Jan. 6.—Heavy fight- in reported in the Arctic sector between the defenders and the in-| rs with the Finnish forces con- to press the fleeing Rus- sia ¢ beyond their own borders Hundreds of Russians are reported to have been killed It is also said scores of prisoners ve been taken, the Soviets throw-| ing their arms into the air, surren- | dering and declaring they are weak | from lack of food to resist further. In the southern sector, several minor air raids have been attempted but Finnish fliers went into the air at several points and the Russians turned and winged quickly a y without dropping any bombs. Artillery fighting, on a sl has taken place on the eastern front { - e | 1S FOUND FROZEN T0 DEATH IN HER BED IN HER HOME Oldest Woman Doctor in| Kansas Succumbs-Sis- ‘er Taken, Hospital ATCHISON, Kansas, Jan. 6. — Dr. Minda A. McClintock, 83, be- lieved to be the oldest woman phys- ician in Kansas, has been found| frozen to death in her bed in her home on the outskirts of the city. Miss Cora McClintock, 75, a sis- ter of the doctor, has been taken to the hospital in a critical condi- | tion as a result of exposure. There was wood in the box and coal in the bin but the sister said| both had been seriously ill and too feeble to start fires after they had gene out. i ARMY ENGINEER | TRUDEAU WILL | VISIT JUNEAU UES 1940 FISHERY SEATTLE, Jan. 6—The sailing gers had been booked on the Mc- of the steamer Mount McKinley, | Kinley. scheduled to sail Sunday morning FURTHER CONFIRMATION at 9 oclock for Southeast and| rlier in the day the PAA of- Southwest Alaska has been cap-| fices here received a radiogram celled, from home offices in Seattle that This is because of a dispute over | the McKinley had been cancelled scme deck crew members' demand | and that PAA passengers for trans- to be quartered amidships instead | of in the forecastle, and the spokes- | man for the Alaska Steamship | Company says this is impossible One hundred and fifty passen-' fer to planes at Juneau could be expected to sail from Seattle not before the thirteenth The steamer Alaska is scheduled to sail on the thirteenth Stowaways from Europe Wien the American Merchant arrived in New York, these two stowaways were on board. They were found in the cargo hatches. Left, is Augustine Rocciont. an Italian, and right, Bazyli Sawicki, a Pole. The American JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — FEDERATION Alaska-for-Alaskans Cam- paign Will Be Fought | i at Juneau 5 SEATTLE, Jan. 6.—A ten-point, program to be taken up in confer-} ence at Juneau, Alaska, on January 9, has been drafted by the co~ ordinating committee of the Wash- ington Distriet Council of the Mari- time Federation of the Pacific. The program includes opposition to the Alaska - for - Alaskans cam- paign on the grounds it is employer- inspired to disrupt the labor move- ment. Also to come up for discussion will be the Federation's position on Alaska Navy air base projects. 3 4 A program for reorganization of ' T the Bureau of Fisheries is also to, it o Y 2 come up, and the matter of freight L4 and passenger rates to Alaska willl A VILLAIN IS FOILED be considered ] Political action of the Federation with reference to air mail service | between Alaska and the United | . g States will also be on the program. \G B % e F Marine hospitalization for fisher- men and allied workers is scheduled for discussion and representation of labors and packers in the Bureau | of Fisheries will be a matter of con- vention business. | Among other subjects to be brought up will be various organiz tional problems and the Federation'’s position on certain radio broadcast- ing stations. A group of Federation delegates is scheduled to leave here for Juneau on Sunday aboard the steamer Mt. McKinley. Out of West Democratic Chieftains Are fo Meet Kiddies Die, House Flames U.S.Pledge fo Keep Raiders AGAIN—From rance Seek | AtlanticOcean By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.—We have | it on relable authority that the and French will be ex- 1gly pleased if we will pledge jir ourselves to keep German raiders out of the western Atlantic. They will be glad to spend their time | keeping the rest of the Atlantic free of them. i The same authority assures us a mine washed up on the English coast, 2 mem- ber of Britain’s mine patrol takes out 16 lumps of explosive, which are then thrown among the rocks to be later burned. The patrols are having a busy time of it, dismantling the scores of mines washed up weekly. The job requires the utmost caution and skill. DEMOCRATS HOPE DINNERS TO GET THEM FROM RED Deficit Expected o Be Rais- ed as Result Jackson Day Affairs WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — Demo- cratic to raise enough money by the Jack- son Day Harmony Dinners Monday night to erase the party's $219,000 deficit and start a campaign with half a million dollars. REGULATIONS BRISTOL BAY FISHING 1S RESTRICTED ' Native Alaskan Compan- ies Are Given Pre- ference 'TWENTY FISH TRAP SITES ARE CLOSED :Sixiy-Hour Closure Period Imposed by New Regulations { ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 6—Secre- tary of the Interior Harold L.Ickes in the fisheries regulations for 11940, restricts commercial salmon | fishing in Bristol Bay about 50 | percent of normal, which will mean |a heavy loss to West Coast com- | panies, as the salmon run in 1940 enters its weak year in the five- year life cycle. Further regulations prohibit com- mercial herring fishing in South- east Alaska, except gill netting for bait. | Boats Cut | Regulations regarding fishing in | Bristol Bay give preference to na- |tive and resident Alaskan fisher- men. The legal number of boats in Bristol Bay has been cut to | 780, and, with two men to a boat, the number of fishermen will be 1,560, There will be only about 360 places for fishermen from contin- ental United States, which indi- officlals said today they hobe | .oie5 that only 180 boats from the | United States will fish, compared [to 549 in 1938, the last year for | which figures are now available. !In 1938 only 412 resident boats | fished in Bristol Bay. Whether President Roosevelt will o The herring catch is limited to adhere to his previously announced | iderchant was last ship to leave bel ligerent waters after signing o'f neu- trality bill. PAYMENT IS MADELOCAL MINEGROUP \Further Development of 0ld Carlson Creek Ore Indicated Belief that another large mine for the Juneau district will go into op- ATTACK IS MADE UPON ~ BRITISHER |Assassination of C. God- | frey Pkillips Attempt- ! edin &anghai [ SHANGHAI, Jan 6—C. Godfrey Phillips( British Commissioner Gen- Mother Sia;d?Helpless Oufside in Below Tero Weather ST. LOUIS, Jan. 6—As Mrs William J. Tate, mother, stood out- side in five degrees below zero weather powerless to save 'them, three small children died in a fire that destroyed the family home this morning. s — BRITISH SEND " SWEDEN ARMS; " FINLAND ALSO that unless we guarantee that we will keep the Germans from com- | mitting war-like acts in these wa- ters, the British will insist on the right to do it, just as they always have in past wars with Germany. { National Committee Gets That, in a nutshell, is the reply Together on Feb- ruary Flfih almost certain to be made by the ST British to any blanket proposal of WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.— Chair- |0 ) aAmerican republics that our man James A. Farley has called flli'nvmmmv zone be kept free of such meeting of the Democratic National|jr, . sea battles as thé one with | Committee for February 5 to settle the Graf Spee. | the much-discussed question of just| = | when the party should hold its|ppyak FOR e ‘ | nominating convention. | _ a'f‘l‘wrc n!;x been talk in both ma-| Of course, the British would want i 11s to broaden the definition of “war- | jor parties of departing from the | \sBL Practice of fixing the conven- [like acts” toinclude more things ¢ tions for June, with some influen- |than actual battles. We would be tial members of each advocating a |2sked. for, instancs, fo keep German il Iater date and a short cam- |surface OF. Unferesa. raiders from paign. molesting British or French mer-| chan zone. That would be a nice order. It| | would vastly widen the area in which | President Roosevell for one, has shigg sl » (he neuaaliy/) been represented as believing a late | August convention followed by a| decision to make a nonpartisan speech is not determined now. Republican leaders have rejected invitations to the $100 plate affair| to be AXESLAYER KILLS WIFE OFCIOMAN Murder Follows Wrecking| of Communist Hall in Aberdeen ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 6.—Less held in Washington. 300,000 barrels in the Kodiak area and to 350,000 barrels in Prince | William Sound. Twenty fish trap sites will be closed, mostly in Southeast and |some in Central Western areas. Closed Period Increased Regulations impose 60 hours | weekly closed periods on Prince | William Sound salmon canneries and in the Southeast Alaska area except Yakutat and Stikine dis- tricts, meaning an additional week- |1y closure of twelve hours in Prince William Sound and twenty-four hours additional in Southeastern area. The Sccretary’s statement says that the regulations are based on Bureau of Fisheries recommenda- tions after Alaska and Seattle hear- ings, plus investigations of law en= forcement and administrative ofv ficers. “It is the collective judgment that these regulations will adequately eration on the old Carlson Creek eral and Secretary of the Municipal Shelling of Swedish Ship whirlwind two - montr: campaign sh merchant ships could oper- than a month after her husband had | protect and conserve fishery re- v ble to the old|Brit n O o e aign ragged |tc in_ safety before they had to|asked a police guard for his fam- 5 e begin that perilous dash through ily, which was not given, Mrs. Dick 2 8 B nths and | e through the summer months ARty = .41 pelligerent zones on the Law, wife of a CIO union official, property gained strength today when Council, escaped a daring assassina- it was revealed that initial pay- tion attempt as he was being mo- ment had been made to claim hold- tored on the Haig Avenue today in sources in Alaska in 1940 unless there should be extraordinary de- velopments which cannot be fore- Boat Harbor Plans Discuss- | by Russians Being ed by City Counci! at Brief Session Capt. Arthur G. Trudeau, Civil Engineer representing the War De- partment Army Engineers, North Pacific Division, will come to Ju- neau this month to inspect progress on the small boat harbor, Mayor Harry 1. Lucas has been informed by Col. John C. H. Lee. Last night the City Council, at a brief session, discussed plans for construction of floats at the harbor. The City Attorney was authorized to draw up a resolution transferring $5000 in PWA funds into a con- struction account for use on the boat harbor sewer project now under way. Bids are to be called on replacing nine fender piling at the gridiron near the Warner Machine Shop. Mayor Lucas suggested at last night’s session that the city pass a compulsory pasteurization ordinance but City Attorney Grover C. Winn said the matter was properly one for Territorial legislation. He said no one has to drink raw milk and those doing so must take their own chances of contracting undulant fever. e EDWARDS RETURNS Oliver T. Edwards, Forest Serv- ice Biologist, returned on the Taku today following a vacation in the States over the holidays. He stopped briefly in Ketchikan, ers on the option purchase price the French Concession enroute this week. It is understood Northwest Mines his office. Two men pulled tHeir jinrikishas Investigated LONDON, Jan. 6.—Sweden, warn- Syndicate, made up of Seattle and into the path of the auto and when |eq along with other northern coun- other capital in the States, holders | the car swerved they fired six PBWlltries by the Nazi press to observe of the option, made a five per cent payment on what is said to be a $100,000 purchase price. Interested in the property, it is said, are six local residents, Larry McKechnie, Robert Coughlin, Phil McKenna, Alice Bach Coughlin, John Price and Alfred Bonnett. Last summer, an engineer had several men at work on the prop- tery, which lies at the head of Carl- son Creek on the opposite side of Granite Creek Basin. Carlson Creek enters Taku Inlet a few miles west | of Point Cooper. Making of the initial payment | indicates strongly the prospect will be developed into a mine. On shutting down work for the winter last fall with deepening snows, it was planned to sled in heavy equipment on spring snow for further prospecting. The ore on the property, carried in a number of large quartz veins, runs to good constant low gold values with some silver and asso-| ciated minerals. ——e—— For holiday party tea tables, scoop out tiny rolls, butter the insides and when ready for the table heap the insides with some cold salad; crab, chicken, tuna, tongue or shrimp are tops. bullets into the side of the car. | Phillipps dropped to the floor of |the car unhurt as the auto sped away. | No arrests were made up to late \ this afternoon e TICKETS FOR ' JACKSON DAY DINNER SELL { e Tickets to the Jackson Day dinner |to be held at the Baranof Hotel {on Monday evening should be pur- |chased promptly so that the hotel \will know how many reservations to | make, it is urged by the committee. Any overflow will be handled at the Gastineau Cafe and Perey’s, |with radio hookup to the Baranof.| | Tickets may be obtained at any Ju- |neau drug store or at the hotel. --o— PATTY ARRIVES | E. N. Patty, former Dean of the | University of Alaska, now engineer | for the Woodchopper and Coal | Creek dredges, arrived by PAA plane today from Fairbanks on his way |strict neutrality in the Russian-Fin- \nish war, is receiving British arms and ammunition for her own use. {authoritative quarters said today. Aid in addition to that, going to | Finland, British military circles said lis in line with the League of Na- tions’ action. Great Britain has made no secret of her aid to the Finns and said some equipment and clothing is be- ing sent to the Finnish front that |was originally intended for use by the British army. Meanwhile the Swedish Govern- ment has asked Russia to investigate !allegations the Swedish steamer Fenris was shelled and set afire by a Russian submarine and the crew rescued. DANES FIGHT FOR FINLAND STOCKHOLM, Jan. 6.—A volun- teer train, with over 500 aboard, has left here for PFinland. There is an unidentified number of Dan- /Outside. ish volunteers aboard the train. not attaining full momentum until| fall, | Favored By Hamliton | On the Republican side, the late convention idea has an advocate in the National Chairman, John D. M Hamilton. He and others of the party, moreover, have considered the possibility of fixing the Repub- lican convention for a date later than that selected by the Demo- crats. This would reverse the old order of things, which in recent years has invariably found the Democrats meeting about a week or ten days after the close of the Republican convention. Some Republican lead- ers, Hamilton among them, have felt this yielded an initial advan- tage to the Democrats, enabling them to act more effectively for knowing the identity of the oppos- ing candidate and the nature of his platform. | Acton Postponed | European side. With that kind of was found slain. |guarantee, there might have been| There are no clues to the identity | no battle between the Graf Spee and of the axe slayer who split Mrs. the British cruisers |Law’s head open and ransacked the Likely, also, the British would ex- (home of Mrs. Nestor Luoma, with pect us to prohibit resupplying of whom the Law family had been liv- | German ships within the neutrality ing since the recent riot in which zone. | Finnish workers wrecked the Com- With those two things assured, munist hall, during a dance. the British navy would have many| Mrs. Luoma found her daughter's | tine ships free to patrol the rest body on the living room floor when lof the Atlartic and the North Sea. she returned from chatting with a | Moreover, there are no grounds up- neighbor at 10:45 o'clock last night. |on which the American nations The dead woman's husband came |could act to prevent British cruisers home in a taxi from a union meet- from refueling within the neutrality ing shortly afterwards. zone. Jamaica and several other A coroner’s inquest failed to-de- important little spots are entitled to termine how long the woman had shelter and refuel British ships. |been dead. | Law denounced the Finn rioters land accompanied members of the Finnish Socialist Society who pre- sented a claim to the city for dam- ages to the hall incidental to the riot, contending the authorities knew SOME HELP TO GERMANY | Germany, too, might reap some benefit from the show, although in| | proportion far less than the British | land French. There are now 50 or/ Now that the time of the meet- |more German freighters stalled in| ing of the Democratic Committee American ports. They hardly dare is known, Hamilton may be expect-|move out of the three-mile limit ed to issue a similar call to the Re- |because of patrolling British cruis- publican committee. He has frank- | ers. ly postponed ths action so that Re-| With a 300-mile zone of safe water| publicans, when they decide the in which to operate, they could| conventon question, may know the choose their own time and place/ | date of the Democratic party meet- from which to start the frenzied | | ing. |dash to home. | | *The Democratic committee also, German ships would be particu-‘ | will select the convention city. Lead- | larly discommodde by the tentative, |ing contenders are said to include suggestion put forward, that any bel- (Continued on Page Three) | (Continuea on Page Foun) § Pete Miscovich, well known In-| terior miner, came in by plane| from Fairbanks today with PAA. A guest at the Gastineau Hotel, he will sail south on the next boat, - e, — Always store wine in a uni- formly cool place—not the re- told. The regulations have been | drawn so that modifications will be unnecessary under normal condi- tions,” the Secretary said. BOB SCHOETTLER BIRTHDAY BALL CHAIRMAN HERE Appoinfed—t_)TBarflefl fo Arrange Dance for January 27 Robert Schoettler has been ap- pointed local chairman to arrange a President’s Birthday Ball in Ju- neau on January 27, it was an- lof the riot but did nothing to pre- vent it nounced today by Territorial : ., Chairman E. L. (Bob) Bartlett. MISCOVICH IN The dance here, to raise funds for combatting infantile paralysis, will be held at the Baranof Hotel. Juneau Elks and other organiza- tions have agreed to hold the date open and not hold competing dances on the same evening. President Roosevelt's birthday is January 30. As this falls on & Tuesday this year, it was consid- ered better to hold the dance on frigerator. Fill wine glasses two- thirds full when serving it. Saturday evening, January 27,