The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8304. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS YOUNG MAN DIES IN GLACIAL PLUNGE Finns DEFENDERS CRUSHING INVADERS Make Smashing Win Against Between 15,- 000-17,000 Russ TANKS, GUNS TAKEN IN FIGHTING SECTOR Cold Arctic Weather Now Proving Effective Ally (By Associated Press) new victory is reported for the nnish forces. It is officially re- < hat a second Divsion of troops have been practi- wiped out and more than ers taken and also large of equipment. official communique says the ourth Russian Division, con- between 15,000 and 17,000 has been smashed in the Suo- selmi sector. A week ago the Finnish forces annihilated the For- ird Division of Soviets in lly the same sector. 1ms have captured 43 tanks ns of various calibre. ¢ Sunday’s fighting, the 1ssian communique said a Fin- h detachment has been repulsed rth of Lake Ladga but “nothing occurred elsewhere.” Cold Weather ally cold Arctic weather has proved increasingly effective as an ally of Finland whose stubborn re- sistance has permitted the Russian invaders to take over only one and forty-eighths of Finland's territory in 40 days of fighting. Reports are current that the So- viet troops are digging in on the Karelian Isthumus, the main battle front and this indicates that either he Russians intend waiting until 1z to launch another offesive or are planing a drive farther north. Un FOOD RATIONING FOR BRITISHERS S STARTED TODAY Butter, Bacon, Ham and Sugar Placed on Re- stricted List LONDON, Jan. 8—War conditions were again brought home to the British today and further impressed them with responsibilities. The Government, starting today, has begun food rationing, with but- ter, bacon, ham and sugar on the restricted list. Meats are to be limited next week. e i (ap;)ne Ou 0f Hospital BALTIMORE, Md., Jan. 8. — Al Capone has left his hospital bed and moved to a house here. He is| still facing a long siege for medi- cal treatment for a lingering braini malady, contracted in prison where he served his sentence following conviction on income tax viola- tions. Capone’s physician, Dr. Joseph Division | | | | Wipe O FOUR BROTHERS—Uncle Sam will probably see lots of the Blodgetts, for these four brothers from Portland, Ore., signed up en masse in the coast artillery. Shown at San Francisco before sailing for Panama are, left to right: Roy, 20; Earl, 21; Clyde, 24; Floyd, 26, who don’t seem to mind the prospect of caring for some mules on the trip to the Canal Zone. SENATE'S BIFF SEES ALL, KNOWS ALL, BUTTELLS ONLY THINGS TO HIS INDEX CARDS CABINET SHAKEUP FURORE Dismissal of British War Minister Is Cause of Serious Situation LONDON, Jan. 8—The furore| continues in England over the dis- missal of Leslie Hore Belisha from his post of War Secretary by Prime Minister Chamberlain There are reports that demands have been made that Parliament meet earlier than the called sion on January 16 for expla tion. The dismissal of Belisha has jcaused one of the biggest sensa- | tions since the war started. Oliver Stanley, President of the Board of Trade, is now War Min- ister. A more liberal censorship policy seems foreshadowed by the resig- nation of Vice Admiral C. V. Os- | borne, top news censor. | First Lord of the Admiralty | Churchill is today somewhere in | Prance on a surprise visit, presum- |ably to iron out naval questions of | the Allie: CAGERS ARE ' FLOORED BY | WHEATON, II., san. 8. — Play- |ers on Wheaton High School's | lightweight basketball team waxed /indignant over their showing WAX FLOOR By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Wash- ington choniclers would give a | mint for the compact card-index | record that Leslie Biffle keeps of those dramatic little moments of Senate history which never see day- | light Few Senators know that he keeps it. Only one, to our knowl- | edge, ever saw any part of it. He | was the late Senator Joe Robin- | son of Arkansas. Biffle was one of | his closest confidantes. Biffle is secretary to the Demo- | cratic majority in the Senate. He | has been secretary and assistant secretary for 15 years. You can | imagine the nature of some of the things that come his way—stories lof the pressure put on a wayw: Senator to get him to vote right; the painful, or pleasurable, little political deals that go on. Like a senatorial Samuel Pepys, Biffle puts them all into his card index file in complete detail—for some future use he has not yet decided upon. ‘KEEPS IT TO HIMSELF | Magazines have offered him | handsome sums for access to the | material. Biff (he rarely hears | his first name) refuses. We man- aged to pry out of him one exam- ple of what is contained in the | diary—provided no names were | used. | On a certain day the Senate took a three hour afternoon re- cess. It was near dinner time. | Most of the Senators went out to eat. One went for a drink or two {and in an hour was well on edge. | He bought a paper and from its | columns read a story that en- | raged him. “Where is the who wrote that?” stormed. Back in the cloak room he came upon Biff. “I'll get that man,” he told Biff. Later, when the . Senate Tre- sumed session, the Senator again came upon Biff. To Bif amaze- | ment he exhibited two pistols, |one on each hip. He was deter- mined to violate the freedom of the press in a big way. he! T0 FORTIFY ~ ALASKA IS PLAN NOW Army and Navy Announce Progra m -Appropria- tions to Be Asked MIGHTY AIR BASE 15 FOR ANCHORAGE Delegate Dimond Is Also Seeking Fund for Base at Dutch Harbor WASHINGTON, Jan. 8Tt is an- d today that the Army and Navy have decided to speed conver- sion of Alaska into one of the most powerfully fortified areas in the world [ Military circles revealed that the Army will scon ask Congress for authority to build a mighty air| base at Anchorage. While the navy | will push work on air bases at Ko- diak and Sitka. | In addition Alaska's Delegate to Congress, Anthony J. Dimond, told | | the press correspondents that he in- | | tends to ask Congress to appmpriat/el | funds for a big naval base at Dutch! | Harbor, on the island of Unalaska | lonly a few hundred miles from the | | | Asiatic mainland. The Anchorage base, for which an estimate of twelve million dol- lars is included in the 1941 Execu- tive budget, with supplemental army and navy bases at Hawaii and | San Diego, Caifornia, completing the | Northern apex of the nation's de-| fense chain and probably the major point of attack if an Asiatic power | were to attempt to invade the North American continent. | This is understood to be the rea-| son for accelerating defense estab-| lishments all along the Pacific fron- tier. e, SNOW, (OLD WAVE, HITS 28 STATES {Severest Weather of Sea- son Now Strikes Af- lantic Coast NEW YORK, Jan, 8—Most of the United States lay under a cover of snow today as the sever- est weather of the season reached the Atlantic coast. | Light to heavy snows have fall-| en since Saturday in at least 28| states and it is still snowing in the New England states where Lem-f peratures range from seven de- grees below zero at Bangor, Maine, to around 16 degrees above at New Haven. The greatest amount of snow, 24 inches, is reported at Clinton. UNSOLD STOCKS 'CANNED SALMON SHOW DECREASE Inventories at End of Year 1939 Better than fo 1938 | | | | | | | | i ut Another Soviet | | | g £ e | NO THANKS FOR TAN KS—with military activity along the western front stalemated by weather and by the apparent res pect each high army command has for his enemy’s fortifications, German sources distribute this picture of their concrete tank traps, designed “to protect the German frontier from CLAIMS 3,000 FISHERMEN WILL BE THROWN OUT OF JOBS BY NEW REGULATIONS R.C.DAWES, EXECUTIVE, DIES TODAY Brother of Former Vice- President Passes Away in Chicago Home CHICAGO, Ill, Jan. 8. — Rufus Dawes, 72, President of Chicago’s “A Century of Progress” Exposition and a brother of former Vice-Presi- dent Charles G. Dawes, died at hi: home here today Dawes had been relatively in gooc health, his aides said, until last Sat- urday night when he suffered an| attack of the heart. | His son, Charles Dawes, said death | was caused by coronary thrombosis Rufus Cutler Dawes was known as an able business executive, espec-| ially in the promotion and manage-| ment of public utility enterprises. | He proved his directing ability as| President of Chicago’s “A Century| of Progress” exposition. It was a source of great pride to him that | he piloted this two-year venture to a profit to make it, he said, the first world’s fair that did not end “in the red.” During much of his business life, Dawes was associated with his elder brother, Gen. Charles Gates Dawes, | Vice President of the United States under Calvin Coolidge. Charles con- ceived many of the projects which Rufus managed. The four Dawes brothers—Henry and Beman were the others—all achieved business successes. They were the sons of a famous father, Gen. Rufus R. Dawes, who, in the Civil War commanded the 6th Wis- consin regiment to which a monu- ment has been erected on the Get- tysburg battle field. Their mother was Mary Beman Gates Dawes. Rufus Dawes was born in Marietta, 0., on July 30, 1867. After his grad- ation from Marietta College in 1886, he became associal with his father in the lumber business. This sudden attacks.” Note barbed wire interlacings. ALASKA JUNEAU YEAR'S PROFITS SHOW DECREASE Officers Say Mining of Poorer Grade of Ore Accounts for Drop SEATTLE, Jan. 8.—Approximate- ly 3,000 men from the Pacific Northwest will be thrown out of work by the drastic Bristol Bay sal- mon regulations for 1940 which re- | ¢ stricts commercial salmon fishing | The Alaska Juneau Gold Minng in that section mbout 50 percent|COMPARY's estimated December op- of normal. The regulations were | ations brought $123,100 profit be- made public Saturday by Secretary |01 depleion, depreciation and of Interior Harold L. Ickes. | e The full year gross operating ‘The statement about the men to | profit during 1939 s placed at $1,.- be out of jobs is made by Geurgelas«t.ooo compared to $2,048,000 in Lane, of Bellingham, agent of the 1938. Alaska Fishermen’s Union. Office poorer gr Gilbert W. Skinner, salmon pack- :hr rlm;. er, said the regulations promulgat-| Gold recovery amounted to only ed for two sections of the Terri-|gg cents per ton, ore milled, in 1930 ory will have the effect of great-|.ompared to $1.11 in 1938, ly increased costs and also cause | an increase in the price of canned | salmon’ ! Martin Hageberg, agent of the ishermen’s Union of Prince Wil-| liam Sound and the Copper River| ction, said he could see no rea-| son for curtailment of fishing]| hours there next season as that| season should see a big run of fish and big catch. FISHERMEN, PACKERS IN AGREEMENT 1939 Pact Between Un-| ions, Salmon Industry Continued for 1940 ATTLE, Jan. 8. — Capt. William Hecker Agent of the CIO affiliated Alaska Fisher- men’s Union, announces that last year's agreement between the Union and the Canned Salmon Industry has been re- newed for another year, with both sides agreeing to add pro- | visions allowing for modifica- tion or change if necessary. . HITCH-HIKING YOUTH IS STRUCK BY AUTO SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 8.— aid the mining of a - ITALY IS WORRYING OVER WAR 'How fo Keep Smaller Na- tions in Line Is Big Issue ROME, Jan. 8.—Italy is concernd about the role of the small nations, especially those in the southeastern Europe war affairs. Foreign ministers of Hungary and Italy, Count Chaky and Count Ciano held a series of week-end talks in Venice, discussing among other | things, fear of Russian expansion in the Balkans. Count Ciano, it is understood, counselled Count Chaky not to press territorial claims against Bulgaria in the interest of Balkan peace and unity against Russia. - RUSSIANS SINK RUMANIAN SHIP CONSTANTA, Jan. 8—Rumania’s | Gilbert Monroe, ade of ore accounted for 'HERB McLEAN 'DROWNED AT " MENDENHALL Body Not Located for Two Hours Breaks Through Thin lce- 'GIRL COMPANION ESCAPES DEATH Jean Taylor Crawls to Safe- ty in Sunday Skating Accident Crashing through thin ice while skating on Mendenhall Lake yes- terday afternoon, Herbert McLean, |21, was drowned, and Jean Taylor, 19, narrowly escaped with her life. The tragedy occurred at 2:20 o'- |clock in the afternoon near the river outlet fo the lake, while sev- eral hundred Juneauites crowded the ice to enjoy the first real skat- ing of the winter under a clear blue sky. Miss Taylor, who crawled an es- timated 75 feet on her hands and knees to safe ice after plunging | through, was rushed to town imme- | diately by her brother Louis, in the family car and was still in bed to- | day recovering from shock. | McLean’s body was not recovered for nearly two hours, although young Henry Behrends, grocery | trucker for the B. M. Behrends Co., | Inc., took off his sRites and hero- |ically plunged into the water with a rope around his waist a few min- ntes after Miss Taylor and Mc- Lean had cried for help. Behrends in Dive Behrends said he dived “eight or [ten feet down” in the muddy ice water seeking McLean’s body, but found nothing and was forced to eive up his hunt because of the numbing cold of the water. ‘Tt was just like somebody grab= 17 me.” Behrends said. “I could- tand it." Tavlor, deseribing the acci- he ord McLean did not s thin the ice was until ing all around us. arate, but it was went through.” her mother, Mrs. Ike P. Taylc f her escape, Miss Tay- lor said she “got one leg up on the ice” and remembered pushing on something” with her other leg and getting to her knees. Crawls To Safety While crawling, she began to get to her feet, but young Behrends warned her to keep crawling, which she did. Miss Taylor said she looked back once and saw McLean's head out of the water and he was telling her “to hurry and get help.” Another time when she looked back, his head and shoulders were out of water and he appeared to be attempting to crawl out on the ice, but when she looked again only his head was vis- ible, and when, finally she gained safe ice and turned around to point | McLean's position to people answer- ing calls for help, “he was gone.” Where the pair broke through, skaters said the ice was but three- quarters or a half inch thick, and river current underneath was ap- parent. Ralston Takes Charge Chief of Police Dan Ralston who was at the scene of the accident, preparing to skate, took charge of futile rescue efforts and recovery of McLean's body, enlisting the aid iu( several skaters and CCC boys | from the Montana Creek camp. A skiff was found on the lake shore and another was taken over to the lake from the CCC camp. At three o'clock, the emergency call was sounded at the Fire Hall and Juneau High | against Glenbard Hgh. School student received treatment | The Wheatht - paueie. sktddad Navy was made ready for instant|, party of firemen hurried to the action today with the reported sink-|scene with grappling hooks and res- Moore, announced his patient’s de- i 5 to find a re- parture from the hospital and at M SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Jan, 6 | ontinued for 11 years. the same time said it is too early to tell whether Capone will bene-| fit from his hospitalization. ———————— The United States leads the civ- ilized world in homicides. The only country approaching ours this matter is Finland. . around the floor, made most of | their shots from sitting positions and couldn’t locate the hoop even when on their feet. They lost the game by a football score, 14-0. Their difficulty, it seems, was the heavily waxed dance floor used for the game. porter and did. He didn’t tell him all the gruesome details but em-|The Associatio nof Pacific Fisheries phasized what a nasty scene|reports unsold stocks of canned sal- might break out in public. Biff is)mon about 23 percent smaller at the a diplomat, and the newsmen trust end of 1939 than at the end of 1938 {him, so the reporter obligingly| Reported inventories give 2,140, holed up for the night. By morn- 000 cases unsold at the end of 1939 - | compared to 2,769,000 cases at the end of 1938, | (Continued on Page Seven) 1 Utility Empire Founded Then in 1897 at the suggestion of Charles, who had been appointed comptroller of the currency in the McKinley administration, Rufus went to Evanston, Ill, to become President of the Northwestern Gas, (Continuea on P}ée Four) for minor injuries Saturday after- noon when struck by a car near Salmon Creek while hitch-hiking. Dr. W. M. Whitehead, who at- tended Monroe, usually in the news for his chemical explosions and near escapes from death, said injuries were limited to bruises, ing of a Rumanian liner in the Black Sea by Russian naval craft. The liner had been headed for Con- stanta, Rumania’s principle port. All merchant shipping was ordered to remain in Constanta though the extent of Russian maneuvers was not learned, | piratory equipment. i At four o'clock in the afternoon, |an hour and forty minutes after the |accident, Firemen Rod Darnell, Holly Triplette, Bill Rudolph and George Shaw located McLean’s body, (Continued on Page Five)