The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1940, Page 8

(ing (‘omp]eflon of a nation- wlde in-! vestigation By < o g GUN, BOMB MORE ARRESTS PREDICTED NEW YORK, Jan. 15.—Federal officlals declared that the arrest of men, and seizure of a small ar- senal, is a mere scratch on the sur- face in the Terrerist plot to over- throw the Government of the Unit- ed States, United States Attorney Harold Kennedy predicted that more ar- rests will be made. Kennedy said FBI agents under Hoover were virtually forced to act | because investigations showed a series of bombing outrages was im- minent. | Kennedy disclosed that the FBI agents closed in on suspects Sat- urday night because they received fnformation that definite instruc- ~ tions had been given to set off a followers with the Nazi salute. bomb in a certain “public place.” The Sports Club had surveyed the Eighteen men were taken in cus- offices of the American League for tody in the raids but one of them Democracy in New York City and was released a few hours later when had laid down plans for bombing it was discovered he was a victim it of mistaken identity. | g The seventeen held have been H.r»"'n: declares there are thou- arraigned before Federal Judge sands of members in the “Front” Grover Muscowitz, in Brooklyn. The but will not estimate the actual ... pleaded innocent and all are s ;’:fl;:gr”:‘;y"‘ez;z“i;“’?“”" é" held in $50,000 bail each. Hearing R - has been set for February 5. [ (i - 5% Canadian Discount UNEARTHED 18 Members of Christian Front” Arrested, Charg- ed with Conspiracy (Continued 1:~m Page One) Suly NOTICE To WPA workers: All Juneau WPA projects will be shut down until further notice because of These interesting pictures show the Engln.nd to which captured German sailors and airmen are sent for B. M. Benrends Bank First National Bank acv. cold weather. adv. CITY ENGINEER. 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PHONE 555 nlllIIIIIIIIIIlllllllfllilllllIlllIllIllIII|IIIIIIII|%IIHIIIIJEIII O w1 XS al" JU EAU TRANSP()RT WORKERS—No. 172 Will kold Their Annual Get-Together Party TUESDAY EVENING in Miners' Hall at 8 o'Clock with Dancing % and Refreshments. The business meeting will be started at seven P. M. One Person Known Killed . at Palmero, Many | Others Injured | | | PALMERO, Sicilly. Jan. 15—One person is reported to have been killed and & number of others per- | haps fatally injured in a quake THRIFT CO-0P WE DELIVER PHONE 767 T IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII“III!II alllIIIIIIIIIIlIIII|lIIIIIIlIlIIIIllllIIIHII THE DAILY ALASKA EM IRE MONDAY JAN IS l940 Barbed-wire encloses the ‘‘hotel” “U-boat hotel,” in northern * Fire Ragmg In Jap Tea Center Flames Are Out of Control -300 Already Dead -4, - 000 Homes Destroyed TOKYO, Jan. 15—Fire is be- lieved to have already killed 300 persons and destroyed at least 4,000 homes in the business and resi- dential district of Skizuoka, a city of 200,000, southwest of Tokyo. Insurance companies estimate the present loss at nearly two and one half million dollars, The fire is out of control to- night, A regiment of soldiers and two relief trains have been rushed to! the city. Half of the city’'s center of Japan's tea shipping industry was = destroyed four hours after thp fire started. BOMBS FALL NEAR U. 5. LEGATION IN FINLAND CAPITAL Direct Advices Received in Washington from Hel- sinki Official WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Ameri- can Minsiter to Poland Arthur Schoenfeld this afternoon advised the State Department that Soviet bombs narrowly missed the new $300,000 Amercian Legation building in Helsinki. At the time, two State Department | officals were working. The bombs fell within 250 ya.rds of the Legation Butlding GARNET MARTN OF NOME HERE | Inside the “hotel™ safe keeping. Barbed wire entanglements are stretched about the Life in camp is not unpleannt, as shown in the one picture plwca WILDLIFE AGENT HEADING BACK T0 WESTWARD Grenold CoIIms fo Leave for Cordova-Fly to Anchorage Wildlife Agent Grenold Collins | returned to Alaska today on the steamer Tongass after a vacation trip to California. Collins is leaving tomorrow on the Alaska for Cordova, where he will pick up his plane and fly to An- chorage. Headquarters of the agent will be at Anchorage for the time being, in- stead f at Seward as formerly, it was announced. - SUB-ZERO WAVE MOVES EASTWAR Ly Uiiled Prevs: A sub-zero cold wave swept to- ward the Easten States today while | temperatures dropped to as low as | 48 degrees below zero. The below zero readings reached into Nerth Dakota and Minnesota. It was 29 below at Winnipeg. Forecasters said the cold wave would sweep across the Great Lakes region int othe Eastern United States. The mercury is expected to tumble, to 5 above tonight in Chicago. Snow still was falling over the | Great Lakes Tegion today in the |wake of the storm which piled up a foot of flakes in Wisconsin and Icwa. A heavy blanket lay over parts of Kansas, Nebraska and upper Mich- igan. Motor clubs are warned that many highways are hazardous. e GORED MEXICO CITY, Jan. 15.—Loren- z0 Gargl, recognized as Mexico's 3 0'CLOCK TONIGHT | OLD GHOSTS | WALK AGAIN Dead End Measures of ‘39 1ast sring by a piece of fving I_egishmre MaY See is going to Seattle to obtain a . | sgecialist's services in caring for 194' l,lght ‘Ll'm hand, Martin will be a candidate for 3 v reelection to the Legislature, ac- A six point legislative program| ..gng to word from the Second plank for the 1041 Alaska Lezis-| .0, lature was adopted by convening! : Maritime Fderation of the Pacific delegates yesterday afternoon, which BUILDING PERMITS program, if its effect is felt, will| pyjiding permits have been issued |bring to life again, a number of i,y city Building Inspector Milton measures which met dead ends at yagergren to K. E. Ashenbrenner |the 1939 sesson. !to remodel a frame building and | Conventloners voted to urge: 1.lerect a store front at 312 Willough- |—The creation of a Department of 'y Avenue at a cost of $490 and to Labor in Alaska. 2.—The amend- | Tyygyve Hagerup to move and re- Bl ment of the Alaska Workmen's model a cabin belonging to Ray | Compensation Act to cover all oc-|pagerup at 925 West Ninth Street | cupational diseases. 3.—~The modi- gt a cost of $400. | fication of the Unemployment Com- | e, pensation laws to provide more I!b~; |eral payments to unemployed work- | ~ |ers, particularly in the seasonal in- most daring bull fighter, was se- dustries (deducnig of required work- | verely gored in a fight today. |ing period for benefit qualification The matador suffered a deep from 20 to five weeks, and making | gash in the muscles of his right the act applicable to industries | ENROUTE SOUTH Headed outside for medical at- tention, Rep. Garnet Martin of Nome is spending a few days in Juneau. He arrived by PAA plane Empire Want Ads Bring Resulta. thigh when his fifth bull hocked wherein one man is employed or him as he was completing the more, instead of the present “eight clause.) 4.—Standardi- beautiful and difficult full turn or more” with the muleta in prepnraucn for | zation of medical fees under Ter- the kill. | ritorial Code of Sanitation. ) 5—A liberal public works pro- | \gram for unemployed workers to! | pay prevailing wages and hours, and | IRUITT NOT | 6.—Territorial Wholesale Liquor| Control. i All these planks were discussed To RUN HE in the last session of the Legisla- | I ture, most of them arriving on the floor so late in the session they | ymavel' came up for vote. The Ter- | Poor Health Causes Offic- ial to Decline-Two Local Candidates | ritorial Wholesale Liquor Bill, how- | ames S. Truitt, Territorial At- iever, saw heavy action from Lhe‘ YOUR SAVINGS wrney General since 1932, ‘an-| beginning to the end of the ses-| | sion, but died in committee. | | ARE INSURED, ARE INSTANTLY | AVAILABLE AND EARN GREAT- nounced today he would not be a candidate for reelection. | ER RETURNS WITH THE In a statement to the Emplre vonpon, san. 6. — A royat! ALASKA FEDERAL Attorney General Truitt said: JOE GREEN RETURNS in 1936, Alr Force plane crashed today while taking off at an airport north of | savmgs and Loan Assn_ “I will not be a candidate.to| Joe Green, of the Treasurer's of- succeed myself, for reasons of my | fice who 'has been in Fairbanks on Mentioned as possible candidates | for the Attorney Generalship are «f the Firth of Forth. The bombs in £ 7 the plane are believed to hevel akiyenedaa exploded. | TELEPHONE 3 Bilss e | health, I am not physica.llv able | business, returned on a PAA plane| B8 to make another campaign.’ from the interior on Saturday. Mr. Truitt was elected in 1932| and reelected by a large majority Regular Juneau Mine and Mill ¥enry l?;de;. Juneau attorney and! L ‘erritor nator, and George W.| Folta, Assistant . S. Attomey here. w°rkers Local 203 : NURMIIS COMING || prpp : | TING MONDAY I TO UNITED STATES, : NS HEFI“.SINTII,dJian. 15.—Nurmi, fam- P 0 S T P 0 N nfl .‘) ous Finnis! stance runner, said| Caea e . ety ‘o UNTIL ( Thursday on a trip to raise money o rent o, wol] WODNESDAY NIGHT, JAN.17 |~ well known as a runner, are s:;&:;ig:;. in a number of spor':: BEcAusn m" “Ass ME“IRG Empxrezm results ANNOUNGEMENT ! ® L McLEAN AGENCY | llas Moved to a Meore Spaclous Location in the o Behrends Bank Building 1 123 Third Street (Formerly located on the Triangle Corner) ' ey MUTUAL BENEFIT HEALTH (] & ACCIDENT ASS'N. FIRE AND ALLIED LINES UNITED BENEFIT LIFE INSURANCE CO.