The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 12, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE VOL. LV., NO. 8308. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1940. 7M[-M§ER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS - PARACHUTERS PICKED OFF BY FINNS German Planes Cruise Qver AIRRAIDERS FOURTH DAY Anli-Aircraquns Go Info Action as Do Pur- suit Planes 0 BOMBS ARE DROPPED; NO ALARMS ARE SOUNDED Shipping Afi Menaced- One Craft Is Struck 5 Times, rSunk LONDON, Jan. 12. — German ing planes cruised over Brit- ish ports today for the fourth suc- sive day, drawing fierce bursts anti-aircraft fire as they ap- d in the cloudle: kies above Tha estuary, Suffolk coast of f kshire German raiders were high altitude. 0 air raid warnings were sound- ed and no bombs were dropped. Goering’s Celebration British newspapers, notified German Air Marshal Goer- was observing his 47th birth- describing the air raids celebration, declared the nt was a flop. German aerial activity 1 to clearing weather which for reconnaissance. Tit for Tat The Air Ministry announces that = Royal Air Force has engaged s tit for tat. The Royal and The it a flying The that and moveme The is ideal g last night over west- nd northwestern Germany, ally over the seaplane bases Helgoland Bight. Raids on Shipping man bomber: raids on h coast. British Admiralty discloses the British steamer Keynes, tons, has been sent down in the North Sea after five bombs struck her. No other sinkings are revealed, however, as the result of aerial attacks. S le con- shipping off the The TRAINING FLAIGHLS; NEW RANGERS BUILT LONDON, Jan. 12.—Air raids car- ried out by the German bombing planes along the British coast are viewed as training flights in prep- aration for actual bombing raids later. The German bombers made no attempt to drop bombs and turned and fled as soon as anti-aircraft defense guns and British pursuit planes went into action. | British military aviation experts said that the Germans now are pro- | ducing swift fighting planes in-| tended to convoy the Nazi bomb- ing squadrons on raids along the (Continued on Page Five) WAR LOAN 1S 1SSUED BYCANADA Two Hundr;J_Million Dol- lar War Baby Open to Subscription OTTAWA, Jan. 12—Subscriptions will open Monday for a two hun- dred million dollar loan bearing three and one quarter percent in- terest. The proceeds will be used to fi- nance war expenditures estimated to cost Canada one million dollars daily during the first full year of pan as an overture to the United Wil the war. The war loan will be in denom- ter January 26 when the present|back seve inations of $50, $100, $500 and $1,000. | i Bt o SRy | English Coast Camera!—Lights! Star on which these lensmen are Yoomph” queen, who attracted this crowd of amateur photographers jsed in scant costume at the studio where she is making & Dew p NOME BRITISH BOMBS ARE DROPPED ON DANISH ISLAND " Accident” Qceurs During Royal Air Force Raid on Sylt bombs w Island of COPENHAGEN, Jan h authorities said three ere dropped on the Dan | Roem last Tuesday night. The bombs were of British man- ufacture and were dropped during an attack on the German island air base of Sylf. The bombs did little damage. Great Britain was notified has promised full restitution. D PREMIER ABE WILL RESIGN NEXTSUNDAY Japanese Cabinef Expect- ed fo Fall Because No Pact with U. S. TOKYO, Jan. 12—Premier Gen. | Nobuyuki is reported by the Domei News Agency | nis decision to resign at a specia | cabinet meeting Sunday. Informants close to the Japanese Government predicted the Cabi- net might fall if the United States | did not react favorably to the Jap- | anese proposal for reopening of the |lower Yangtze to a third power for trade. This proposal is regarded in Ja- and 1 States for a trade understanding af- commercial treaty expires. GIRL, INJURED IN ACCIDERT, RECOVERS: IS 'WALKING' NORTH AGAIN to have announced| 1940 LAWS * Australian Pilots Start Trainifig in England GROUPS OF ON FISHING | ~ UNDERFIRE Alaska | 1940, the fisheries regulations for Bureau of Fisheries and the possibilities of its future ad- ministration will draw the fire of | | Maritime Federation of the Pacific | delegates convening here today in! Mjners' Hall, | George Lane from Bellingham, Wash., of the Alaska Fishermen's Union, said today: ‘Certainly one of | the things well take up at this| convention is the question of this so-called shakeup in the Bureau of Fisheries and these recently issued fisheries regulations for 1940." | | Acting Commissioner of Fisheries | C. E. Jackson will draw “special | fire,” Lane said, explaining, “When Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes started cleaning house in the Bureau of Fisheries he made a good begin- ning, but he should have started and finished closer to home. He should have gotten rid of some of his advisors like Jackson. The talk is that he is the next Commissioner, but we’ll fight that to the last ditch. He's no friend of labor and he’s no friend of the indus! As for the new fisheries regula- tions, Lane said: “Something’s hay- wire. Those regulations, if they go through as they are, are going to come mighty close to crippling the industry.” Shortly after 1 o'clock this after noon, J. F. Jurich, Secretary-Treas- urer of the International Fishermen and Allied Workers, opened the Federation convention for transac- tion of preliminary busines: appointment of committees ection of convention officers. A group of 11 delegates arr Juneau last night on the motorship Neptune from Ketciiikan after Outside delegates had taken a boat from Vancouver to Ketchikan be- cause of the cancelling of the Mount McKinley sailing when sailors dis- puted location of their living quart- ers ak rd the vessel At the convention opening this afternoon there were 34 delegates in attendance representing 31 union organizations. Temporary Chair- man this afternoon was Martin Hegeberg of Cordova, of the Copper River and Prince William Sound Fishermen’s Union. Secretary, tem- porarily, is J. F. Jurich, of the In- ternational Fishermen and Allied Workers. Delegates attending the conven- tion are as follows John Olofson, Ketchikan, Fishermen's Union George Lane, Bellingham, Alaska Fishermen’s Union. Ragner Hansen, Ketchikan, In- ternational Order of Machinists, Hope Lodge No, 79, Seattle and Council No. 6, Maritime Federation of the Pacific Uprising in - DownQuickly = ’Defeczi:gid}’a:?sis ?azgs”MBM“ TORN Demonstration M I NE GIVES UP VICTIMS GUAYAQUIL,—;C;adOr. Jan. 12. Twenty -three Mangled focusing is Ann Sheridan, movie icture. When pretty Nome on a last October, would never SEATTLE, Jan. 12. Gritfith left for Seattle believed she Zelda stretcher friex wa 3ut Zelda has fooled them. norrow, Miss Griffith is going rd the steamer Alaska to re- home and she looks almost painfully healthy and defies any- body to guess that,she even wears a body brace to remind her of a near tal motorcycle accident in which she injured her spine. Zelda, who is employed in a drug store at Nome, threw her cane away a few days ago and hopes soon to ke able to discard her brace. - - turn Alaska United (Continued on Page Five) —Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, Pres- idential candidate, apparently de- feated in two days’ voting just closed, led an uprising last night !of aviation officers of the Mili- \tary Group about 30 soldiers and _ some 200 civilians who joined the Bodies Recovered- rebellion. | < Tharra was quickly arrested by | 68 Missing ! Government, authorities, as were lalso M:LJ_t)r Rafael Astudillo and‘ BARTLEY, West Virginia, Jan. 12 Flores Milo, broker | —Recovery of 23 bodies from the Tbarra, former President, was one | tSPR 0 S0 001 coal mine of three candidates for the Presi-|g . cioraq hope for the safety of 65 idency in the election which mOk‘other miners trapped behind twist- Iplace Wednesday and yesterday.|eq ¢impers and other debris by last ‘ Carlos Arroyo del Rio, won out m\Wednesday's explosion. the election. | Seventeen bodies, all badly man- While the disorders lasted I"“r‘gled, were found by rescue cre persons were killed. which stumbled through wrecked | ol et tunnels 600 feet underground to the | MURPHY, westernmost toWn in|yery center of the explosion area | North Carolina, long land-locked,| Rescue workers reported the men soon find itself a lake cuy.‘we,e probably killed instantly and from Hiawassee Dam will| they see little chance that miners in ral miles right up to thelomer entryways escaped a similar Leity limits. fate. | Water A group of Au: mother country in the Royal Air I , v in England, The Aussies will wear their own f Prepare Australia for Waz jeut.- Sir Thomas Blamey (1 YppGeneral D -Gen. Street, minister of defense, after an army inspection at the Melbourne showgrounds. . dish King Guslalga—ys preparations with Brij we stralian pilots, some of the 200 recently arrived in Ei nglai orce, accept delivery of training army’s unife N eft) discusses Australian war i i i | ! | nd from Down Under, to fight for the planes at their practice field somewhere orms, even on active duty. SAWMILL IS BURNED AT SITK | |SJS Loses Plant and Equip- ment-Sage Memorial Is Fire Damaged Jan. 12. — The School total TKA, Alaska, ldon Jackson | and equipment is .a caused by a fire at 9 o'clock this morning which blazed when a die- sel engine was started by a gaso- line torch The adjacent Sage Memorial was wed approximately $2,- 500, The sawmill loss is covered by $5,400 insurance and the Sage Mem- orial was also insured. The loss in the two | fires more than triples the total fire damage in Sitka for 1939, .o Danes Go fo Aid Finland; Nation Will Aid Finland; ~ Second Group Bigpele BIG EMERGENCY DEFENSE BILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE Four Dep a?im ents Will Benefit from Measure —Goes fo Senate WASHINGTON, Jan 12 House has passed by an ove ing vote the sixty-four million dollar Emergency Defense appropriation for the United States Army, Navy Coast Guard and Federal Bureau of Investgation The measure Senate. The 1elm- now goes to the e MEAN TEMPERATURES in North Carolina range from 484 degrees at Linville (in the Blue Ridges) to i 12. — King the STOCKHOLM, Jan. Gustaf told the members of Riksdag at the opening session that Sweden “feels obligated to give Fin- land’s brave people every material humanitarian help” possible. King Gustav said Finland's in- volvement in armed conflict touch- the Swedish people in the deep- way and a willingness to hurry tance to the brother people is manifested unmistakeably King Gustaf propcsed a budget of two hundred million dollars for military defense and this will give Sweden a deficit for the first time in several years, PLENTY OF SCRAP HOUSTON, Tex., Jan. 12.—Scrap iron and steel—prime food for the jaws of war—will float in tremen- dous quantities, barring accident, to British ports in the next 12 months. Exporters estimate 350,000 tons of 800,000 ordered by Great Britain est 1647 at Southport on the coast. will be sent from Gulf ports. nse Sum IS ASked First Comp;; of Volun- teers Are Now in Little Nation COPENHAGEN, Jan. 12, — The first company of Danish volunteers have arrived in Finland to aid the Finns against Russia. The Danes represented the sec- ond group of Scandinavians to go to the stance of the Finns, four contingents of Swedish volunteers having already entrained. - MENDENHALL LAKE ICE FLOODED BY GLACIER CHANGE Due to e sort of glacial movement, ice on Mendenhall Lake has been flooded with water, it was reported to the District Ran- ger's office this morning by the Montana Creek CCC Camp. There will be no skating on the lake until weather turns cold enough to freeze the lake at its new level. ) sawmill loss, morning INVADERS ~ SHOTDOWN Marksmen Spot Soldiers Attempting fo Land from Air FUTILE ATTEMPT IS MADE, NEW STRATEGY Scandinavians Rallying fo Support of Assault- ed Brothers COPENHAGEN, Jan. 12. — Fin- nish marksmen are reported to have picked off groups of Russian troops in the air as they attempt- ed to land by parachutes from planes behind the Finnish lines on the Karelian Isthmus. | Several groups of 50 men each, dropping in parachutes were anni- hilated as they floated to earth at dusk yesterday, according to of=- ficial advices received from the Stockholm newspaper Tidningen. Finnish marksmen shot the des- cending soldiers while still in the air and others who landed were quickly rounded up. The newspaper also said that Scandinavians are responding to Finnish appeals and hundreds of volunteers were going across the border and stated that the first group of Danes had arrived in Finland. e ee—— RUSS PLANES MAKE RAIDS, ~ SO. FINLAND Bombs Are Dropped Near Helsinki-Also on Islands Jan, 12. — Russian warplanes anged over southern Finland this afternoon, interrupt= ing Helsinki’s foreign telephone conuections by bombs dropped near | the city. v No planes were seen over Hel- | sinki but the Capital City's first | air raid alarm this year was sound= ed from 2:15 o'clock to 3:50 o'clock this afternoon. Slight vibrations were felt here and believed due to bombs of the enemy raiders, 1 The raiders are also reported to | have dropped bombs on some is- lands about 30 miles south of Hel« sinki. U.S. Laundry Bill Goes Up To Millions ATLANTIC CITY, N. J, Jan. 12, —Uncle Sam does a tidy bit of laun= dry with his enlisted sons. The National Association of In= stitutiona! Laundry Managers’ con= vention here was told by Brigadier | Gen. A. B. Warfield of Washington, that the Army, Navy, Marines and CCC personnel paid $2,237,317 for | cleaning 97,168,274 pieces of cloth= ing during the past year. B i s THE PRODUCTION of pigiron in Italy increased from 521444 {tons in 1934 to 862,829 tons in 1938. Production of steel jumped from 11,849,821 tons in 1934 to 2,322,856 |tons in 1938. HELSINKT,