The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 13, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8309. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FINNS BEAT OFF RUSSIAN AIR ATTACK Royal Air Actress to Wed Announcer BRITISHERS PENETRATE FAR ABROAD Voyage Is Carried Out fo Determine Time and Weight for Raids NAZI DESTROYERS ARE ATTACKED, NORTH SEA German Raider Shot Down Over Firth of Forth During Day LONDON, Jan. 12—uine British Air Ministry in communiques issued this afternoon said the Royal Air Force, in the greatest of wartime survey flights, penetrated Bohemia and Austria to Prague and Vienna t night, operating from French The flights were made to rmine, time and weight that 1d & ried in air raids. Other Royal Air Force planes at- tacked Nazi destroyers in the North Sea. Two British planes zoomed up and destroyed a German air raider over the Firth of Forth. German pianes roared along Great Britain’s east coast for the fifth successive day. The planes were at a high altitude and did not drop any bombs. THREE OF 12 NAZI PLANES DOWNED IN AIR DOG FIGHT French Pursuit Craff Make” Successful Atfack Over German Soil ‘ PARIS, Jan. 13.—Military sources said a second lieutenant and three sergeants in four French pursuit planes engaged twelve German planes and shot down three Mes- sersmitts over German soil. The dog fight in the air was wit-| nessed by French infantry patrols. —>-—— GERMANS REPEL | ATTACKS MADE BY BRITISHERS| | Declares Successful Flights| Have Been Made | French Area BERLIN, Jan. 13.—A communique by the German High Command | states unsuccessful attempts have been made by British planes in at- tacks on German destroyers but im- portant German reconnaissance flights over France have been made by Nazi craft. The communique says that a single plane was sighted over Ger- many on January 12 and it was chased and shot down and burned on the French side of the front. ELECTRAS DUE 10 BRING 17 Seventeen persons were due to arrive in Juneau from Fairbanks this afternoon in two Electras of the Pacific Alaska Airways, piloted by Murray Stuart and Ralph Sa- vory, and Joe Crosson and Al Mon- sen. Arriving are J. E. Nasenius, Joe Green, Cecil Clegg, George Justin,| L. F. Simson, R. E. Karells, R. Marks, Keith Petrich, Tom Kelly, Fred Sorri, George Miscovich, C. W. Butler, B. G Baker, G. Martin, J. B. Carlyle, D. H. McCloy and Howard Lyng. |875 soldiers, left for the southern - Force On Long Su Binnie Barnes Binnle Barnes, well-known screen”actress, soon will marry Mike Frankovich, former U. C. L. A. grid star and now a radio announcer. SKIIS SNOWSHOES T0 BE SPECIAL TRAINING NOW OF U. 5. SOLDIERS WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Regular | GREATWAR MANEUVERS | ON PACIFIC | | Soldiers Leave Tacoma and Olympia for Attack on California | | | TACOMA, Wash,, Jan. 13. — Six | thousand soldiers swarmed aboard" four ships here and at Olympia for | sailing late today for a California | coast rendezvous. ; Last week one vessel, carrying L~} coast. The troops aboard the ships will | launch an attack on the California | coast with guns, tractors and other | mechanized units in the greatest | Army and Navy war games in Lhis‘ area. War conditions prevailed here last | night and will continue at other|, .. from the government-spon- !sored agency to the Coop. | ports by “blackouts.” S o PO l Stock QuUoTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 13 — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 67 American Can | 114%, American Power and Light!| 4%, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Steel 73%, Commonwealth and Southern | 1%, Curtiss Wright 9%, General| Motors 51%, International Harvester | 55%, Kennecott 35!, New York Cen- | tral 16%, Northern Pacific 8%, Unit- | ed States Steel 60, Pound $3.96%. I DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 145.19,|part of the regular medical exam- ish office seized the packaage as|- rails 30.60, utilities 25.21. Army troops are to drill this winter in snowshoes and ski maneuvers a la Finnish. The soldiers in Alaska, Minnesota and northern New York will engage in the special maneuvers. War Department officials said the training is not new as troops have used skiis long before Finland’s spec- tacular demonstration showed prac- tibility during war time. — e (00P GAINS CONTROL OF MATANUSKA Final Confract Signed Tak- ing Colonists from Relief Basis PALMER, Alaska, Jan. 13.—Rep- resentatives of the Alaska Rural Re- habilitation Corporation and Farm- ers’ Cooperative have signed a final contract to convey to the Matanuska colonists the final business enter- This is virtually the final step in a relief basis to a self-operating stand. The Coop now secures final ac- quisition of the civic center facili- ties, including the hospital, hatch- ery, garage, dormitory and water system. (anadiéfi&ifii]s Must Go Under X-ray OTTAWA, Jan. 13. — Announce- ment is made that in future, X-ray examinations will apply to all re- cruits for overseas service, as part of the army routine. This will be ination for officers and men, U. 5. NAVY PLANES IN COLLISION Torpedo (raft Smash Info Each Other at 10,000 Foot Altitude OCCUPANTS TAKE T0 PARACHUTES; 5 ESCAPE One Flier Found Dead in Crashed Plane-En- sign Missing SAN DIEGO, Cal, Jan. 13.—Two Navy planes collided above a desert near El Centro late yesterday. One plane has been found shat- tered with the body of James Ad- dison Crowson, radioman, inside. | Five other fliers are reported to have landed safely. One of them, however, is still missing. | The two torpedo planes were pil- oted by Ensign Harold Nathan Funk and Ensign Glen Barnes, Jr. The latter is missing. The two planes were circling Bor- | geo Valley, survivors said, when sud- den shifting air current smashed them together at an altitude of about 10,000 feet. Ensign Funk was seen floating away in his parachute but Crow- son seemed unable tQ leap and crashed with his plane. The other occupants of the planes make their escapes in parachutes. D }(risis Near “InJapan;Abe Is Io— Resign Prince Koyone Has Been Asked fo Form New Government TOKYO, Jan. 13—War Minister Shunroku has asked Prince Konoye to resume the Japanese Premiership as the deadline neared in the gov- ernment crisis. Premier Gen. Nobuyuki Abe is ex- | pected to hand his Cabinet’s resig- |nation to the Emperor tomorrow. DIAMONDS FOUND IN MAIL SACK Destined for Germany on Italian Ship-Seized by Brifish LONDON, Jan. 13.—A story il- | | | | | |taking the Matanuska colony from!justrative of the workings of the | Allied contraband control comes | from Ttaly. A British Control offi- | cer’ stopped and boarded an Italian | vessel in the Mediterranean headed for Rome from the United States. | The officer found that none of |the crew could speak English and | he held up the ship six hours until jthe arrival of an interpreter. Then | through the interpreter the officer asked the captain of the vessel if he carried mail from the United States to Germany via Italy. On being answered in the affirmative the officer requested a certain mail sack, designated by number. In the sack was found a registered parcel containing diamonds and destined to an address in Germany. The Brit- | contraband, rvey Flight S.F. Waterfront Hums as Clerks Return to JobsIR A'DS MADE ; Paralyzed for nearly eight weeks, the port of S representatives and striking shin clerks were called i ession for si Restoration of pier activities, which ceased when C. 1. O. Ship Clerks’ 0 | [ | | n Francisco opened January 3 as waterfront employers’ gning a back-to-work agreement. Association struck against Dock Checkers Employers November 10, put back to work more than 4,000 men, chiefly longshoremen who refused to cross picket lines. union headquarters e EYES ON F I NLAND—_while Finnish relief funds mount in U.S.A., and various European nations plan ways to aid Finns in war against Russia, attention turns toward country’s president, Kyosti Kallio (left), seen with Minister J. K. Paasikivi. Two Seatfle Youths Found Guilty of Kidnaping But _ EscapeiSignIenc SEATTLE, Jan. 13. Eugene Weaver, 19, and Raymond Prucha, 24, have been convicted of first de- gree kidnaping. RESOLUTION ON 1940 LAWS FOR FISHING PASSED aritimers Demand Ickes Reopen War on Fish- eries Bureau The potential effects of the re- cently issued fisheries regulations for Alaska this coming season and the dislike of those regulations by organized labor, was manifested to- day by the conventioning Maritime Federationers here in a resolution of condemnation. | The resolution, in full, is as‘12 NAZI SUBS WHEREAS: After a long series ARE SE“‘ Dow“ follows: of usurpations and abuses of the PARIS, Jan. 13.—Navy Minister rights of fishermen, the Federal Government finally yielded to the demands of organized labor and political control of the Bureau of Campinchi reports that the French Fisheries by the Canned Salmon Navy sunk 12 Nazi submarines in Industry was ended through the the first four months of the war. removal of Commissioner Frank| The Navy Minister said that not Bell and his agent for Alaska, L. one French warship has been lost. Wingard, and labor was promised He said the Navy had seized more than 620,000 tons of contraband merchandise and 22,000 tons of German shipping. Campinchi said that the reorganization of the Bu- reau would be on a basis designed that only 11 French merchant ships had been lost, prisonment. Weaver and Prucha attacked Bet- ty Nevis, 16, high school student, after robbing her companion, Eddie Complota, when the pair were in a parked car at Golden Gardens Beach, north of Ballard. | Prucha is married and the father lof a baby. He said he is satisfied with the verdict. Weaver is engaged to wed. He did not comment on escaping the pos- sible death penalty. Neither testified at the trial but earlier claimed they were intoxi- cated from drinking beer and wine at the time of the kidnaping and robbery. M to protect the interests of workers, (Continued on Page Three) | BELL | " |tions be reapened and rewritten. | The jury recommended life im-| Photo shows longshoremen drawing “gang cards” as work calls pour into GIVEN SHELLACKING HERE TODAY Bureau of Fisheries Con- demned as " Still Cor- rupt” Body The Bureau of Fisheries adminis- tration and corporate canners of salmon were heaped with labbr's scorn and indignation in unani- mous resolutions today as the Mari- time Federation of the Pacific’s second annual Alaska convention opened business session in Miners’ Hall this morning. | A resolution was passed condemn- | ing the 1940 fisheries regulations and demanding that Secretary of the Interior Harold L Ickes “fin- ish the job” of fisheries bureau re- | organization and that 1940 regula-; Another resolution passing wn.h-{ |out dissenting vote was the many | times passed proposal for a five-| year plan of gradual elimination of | | fish traps. Delegates Welcomed A third resolution was passed, after Mayor of Juneau Harry I. Lucas and Acting Governor of Al- aska E. L, Bartlett had made open- ing welcome addresses to the con- vention, demanding the confirma- tion in Congress of the recess ap- pointment as Governor of Alaska for Governor Ernest Gruening. Commenting on the resolution demanding reconsideration of the 1940 fisheries regulations, George Lane, Bellingham man represent- |ing the Alaska Fishermen’s Union declared: “These 1940 fisheries regulations are concrete proof of corruption in the fisheries admin- istration.” “Every Alaskan knows of the corruption in the Bureau of Fish- eries,” Lane said, “Every Alaskan knows of the 1933 campaign tour of former Commissioner Bell and his promises then that resulted only in a policy of abolishing fish traps that caught no fish, to his gain. Political Jobs “These regulations were written surely with no insight into the packing of six million cases of sal- mon, but were written by those interested only in preserving their political jobs.” Toivo Anderson, United Trollers of the Pacific representative from Ketchikan, added his complaint by declaring “Trollers, too, are hit by these regulations. An additional 24 hour closed period will do much harm. Many boats are fishing in outside waters and are forced to make long runs from port to fish- ing grounds. The new closed per- jod will make the possible weekly fishing time practically negligible.” Fish Trap Elimination In passage of the resolution (Continued on Page Six) EARLY TODAY BY SOVIETS Casualties Reported Minor Although Some Prop- erty Damaged INVADERS ATTEMPT T0 FRIGHTEN DEFENDERS Set Up loddsfieakers Call for Surrender as Ger- mans Are Coming (By Associated Press) Russian bombers early today raid- 1 ione ce~tions of Finland but o ‘~ al' official reports cas- ualties were nunor although some property dama; is reported. The sout st section of Helsinki was hit by bombs and Russ squad- rons twice attacked Hyvinkka, rail point, 30 miles north. Firnish pursuit planes beat off further attacks. Stockholm advices said Russian troops have withdrawn from part of the Liinahamari-Petsamo sector, in PFinland’s Arctic district. Reinforcements of both armies in- dicate a major battle is imminent in the Salla region. Stockholm advices also assert that all but one Soviet cruiser have left Liinahamari. The Finns have cut the highway in that area, complicating Russ supply service. The Russians have set up loud- speakers on the Karelian front ad- vising the Finnish defenders to “surrender within 48 hours as the Germans are coming.” Dr.Vaughan, Adventurer, Passes Away Only One o—f_P—arty fo Sur- vive Trek fo Alaska in Search of Gold NEW YORK, Jan. 13—Dr. John Colin Vaughn, 64, physician. and Arctic explorer, is dead. Dr. Vaughn survived many adven- tures in untried corners of the world. In 1898 he was the only one of a group to achieve passage through the overland route across the North- west Territories to Alaska in search of gold. In 1903, Dr. Vaughn became sec- ond assistant surgeon with the Zieg- ler Expedition to the North Pole under Anthony Fiala. He and his mates were marooned on the barren wastes of Franz Josef Land for 19 months. EXPLOSION WRECKS BIG SHIP PLANT Fire Follows Blast in Brit- ish City-Sabotage Is Not Suspected LONDON, Jan. 13. — An explosion destroyed the main building of the Yarwood Shipbuilding plant at Northwich Cheshire today. The explosion shattered windows for a quarter of a mile in radius. Flames quickly spread through the plant following the explosion. The authorities said the explosion was not caused by sabotage.