The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1940, Page 1

i See—— | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1940. _ PRICE TEN CENTS —— ' VOL. LV., NO. 8312. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS il o 'FARLEY CANDIDACY GIVEN BOOST HERE , Stalls Fighting On Fronts " Cold Weather BELOW ZERO TEMPERATURE STOPS STRIFE Finnish-Russian War Zone| Is Also Reported Snow Choked MILITARY OPERATIONS ARE PRACTICALLY OFF Sweeping Air Raids Are Curtailed-Suffering Is Intense (By Associated Press) Weather has achieved wha di- plomacy has failed to produce —; peace on the European battlefields ' through a temporary lull of fight-| ing. 1 This lull has extended through- out the snow choked Finnish, Rus- sian war zone and along the West- ern Front where extreme cold has paralyzed the little fighting there | has been between the Germans and | Allies. 1 Temperatures as low as 51 degrees | below zero are reported in some parts of Fnland, making major military operations virtually impos- sible. It is the coldest in 25 years.| The severe weather has increased suffering among the Finnish victims of Soviet air raids but gave respite to Russian land attacks. The Finnish forces are reported still holding their lines from five to ten miles inside the Russian fron-| tier near Leiska, on the east cen- tral front where consistent pro-| gress has been made during the past three weeks. Sweeping air raids of the past five days also tapered off up to noon today. | There was one air attack yester-| day. Russian air raiders dropped 19 bombs on Hanko, the southwestern Finnish naval base. SPLIT OVER MONEYAID TOFINLAND | 1 Congressional Leaders, Fear Loan May Soon Involve U.S. in War WASHINGTON, Jan, 17. — Cen- | gressional leaders express doubt| whether financial aid will be voted to Finland. Many members of both the upper ' and lower Houses of Congress voice | fears that aid might involve the; United States ultimately in the European quarrels. President Roosevelt, yesterday, ex- | pressed the opposite view in letters to the Senate and House declaring that financial assistance in the pur- chase of non-military supplies would not threaten involvement in the for- eign troubles. 8 HOOVER FOR AID NEW YORK, Jan. 17. — Herbert Hoover, in charge of the Finnish Relief Fund, delared that President Roosevelt’s recommendations to Con- gress that credit be extended to Finland “should be supported” and at the same time the former Presi- dent proposed that surplus food raised in this country be sent to “such countries as Finland and Po- land,” without requiring any mone- tary obligation. Hoover declared the question of food should be separated from that of manufactured goods and raw materials. He estimates the food requirements for Finland and the territory formerly known as Poland, should not exceed $20,000,000 be- tween now and the next harvest. 'FURS HELD UP - AT FAIRBANKS; BE DISINFECTED 'Several Hundred Come from Two Epidemic | Stricken Villages FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 17— Several hundred untouchables in, |the way of furs from epidemic| | stricken Tetlin and Tanacross, up- | | ’ | per Tanana region, brought here | by plane Sunday, are detained by the Deputy Territorial Health Com- | missioner, Dr. F. B. Gillespie. He will not permit them to be dis- | tributed through the Post Office until disinfected by the autoclave sterilizer, which will take about {rhree weeks. In the meantime the furs are fully insured. | No emergency calls are reaching | Fairbanks from the stricken vil- |lages and it is believed no serious |inroads by disease have been made |since the plane left the villages 'last Sunday. Mrs. Lucille Wright, Tetlin nurse, operates a radio there. —————————— JURY SAYS G. HALLETT INNOCENT Six Men, Six Women De- bate Fate of Man Charged with Murder 29% Hours ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jan 17.— A jury in Judge Simon Hellenthal's Federal Court has returned a ver- dict of innocent in the retrial of Gene Hallett, charged with the slay- ing of his wife at Kodiak. The jury of six men and six wom- en deliberated 29% hours, lasting through Monday night, except for Ifour hours of rest at a hotel. e FINNI;H RELIEF DRIVE GOES OVER BIG IN FAIRBANKS| Tofal of 51,72_8 Confribut- ed in Nine Days-Ex- fra Help Given FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 17— The Fairbanks Finnish Relief drive, after nine days, shows a total of 81,128 contributed, including $325 representing the entire box office receipts of two movie shows given |by Capt. A. Lathrop at the Em- press Thealre Monday night, and| $138 subscribed by his Healy River coal miners. Every member of the coal mine crew contributed, including one Russian who said he was helping because it was a non-combatant fund. ‘MAJOR GEORGE T0 SECURE SUPPLIES, FAIRBANKS BASE Is Orderedzuih fo Fort Mason, California, for Personnel WASHINGTON, Jan 17.—Major Edward George, Constructing Quar- termaster of the Ogden, Utah, Ord- nance Depot, assigned to the Quar- termaster of the Army's new air base at Fairbanks, Alaska, has been ordered to Fort Mason, California, until April 1. He will procure his personnel and supplies for the Al- aska alr base. Unusual photo taken by an o Photo was made during one of the recent and frequent the North Sea blockade. S r aboard a British destroyer shows a German air bomb bursting in the North Sea, well wide of its target, the grey British destrover in foreground. air-sea engagements between units of the British navy and German warplanes in which the latter are attempting to smash THIRD BRIDE FOR WM. POWELL Suave, polished screen actor Wil- liam Powell, 47, startled Holly- wood’s movie colony recently by eloping to Las Vegas, Nev., with pretty 21-year-old Diana Lewis, (above) featured screen player. | Miss Lewis thus became Powell's third bride. He was engaged to silver-haired Jean Harlow before her untimely death in 1937, He was divorced from Actress Carole Lombard (now Mrs. Clark Gable) in 1936. Kodiak Labor Talk Turned | Down_l_by FDR Tells Reporter to Go Catch a Salmon WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. — Re- fsponding to questions yesterday at the conference Wwith President Roosevelt said he has heard nothing regarding a labor dispute at Kodiak, Alaska. The President was asked whether Alaska Gov. Ernest Gruening's re-| ported statement that 100 per-| cent Alaskans must be employed meant Aleutian Islanders. The President took no sides in the dispute and the reporter who | ]persisted in discussing the Kodiak situation, got from the Chief Ex-| excutive, in conclusion, a friendly! facetious suggestion to go out and catch a salmon, which made the| newsman feel better. —e——— SMITH RETURNS Harold Smith, Forest Service Mi-iAh.ska salmon pack will ministrative Assistant, returned on the steamer Alaska from a CCC inspection tour to Ketchikan, Craig, Klawock, Hydaburg, Wrangell and iPresident Takes No Sides-| newsmen, | 3Governorloing Fails fo Poll | Majority Vofe Louisiana Execufive Must Go Info Runoff Pri- ' mary Feb. 20, | NEW ORLEANS, La, Jan, 17— | Ballot tabulations show that Gov. | Earl K. Long, chief of the power- ful Louisiana political machine his | brother Huey built, must face a | self-styled reform candidate in a ! runoff of the Democratic primary in his effort to win the election and continuance of his personal policies in the regime established | by the late Senator Long. This was the issue at yesterday’s Democratic primary. It appears certain that Gov.Long | has failed | over the field by somewhere be- tween 20,000 and 30,000 votes, judg- ing from the incomplete and un- | official returns available at mnoon today. In Runoff In all probability Gov. Long must | face Sam Jones, Lake Charles At- | torney and former Commander of | the American Legion in Louisiana, {and reform candidate, at the run- loff election on February 20. Returns at noon today from 675 of the state's 1,703 precincts, in- | cluding New Orleans, which is al- | most complete, give Long 100,000 NAZIS WON'T COLLAPSE " EASILY, IS WARNING OF ~ FORMER NAZI OFFICAL to attain a majority ‘ON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 17. — A | former counsellor of the German | Embassy in Washington, now seem- iingly in poor standing with the | Nazi regime, can give you a few| fresh slants on the European war. | In a three-column letter to the New York Times, the former coun- cellor, Ernest Wilhelm Meyer, cau- | tions against thing that Ger-| many will collapse easily, and sug- gests that the Allies may have to 'revise their propaganda if they ex- pect to undermine Hitler. | Of the need of raw materials and | | the effectiveness of the blockade, | he save: | “Only major lana battles result in a very large consumption of copper, cotton, rubber, etc., and if, under the protection of his West- wall, Hitler refrains from major land battles, his need for raw ma- | terials will be greatly limited.” ‘ Of the oft-expressed view that Goering is a conservative with whom the Allies could negotiate a peace if Hitler were removed, Meyer says: i “To. regard Goering as a con- servative is tantamount to calling Gandhi a warmonger or Trotsky a capitalist.” Of the Russian alliance, he says: “The final attitude of Russia is | undetermined; the chances of ever | ‘clmr cooperation with Hitler's bolshevized Germany are many| times greater than the oppogite chances.” | PROPAGANDA EFFECTIVE Hitler’s constant propaganda that Germany wants not one inch of | French or English soil is bound to | have effect, says Meyer, especi-| {ally when British naval losses be-| |gin to increase, as they may do |with a sustained air attack. After all, ‘he says, no one knows yet just (Continued on Page Eizht) (Continued on Page Five; SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Jan. 17 |—The Alaska Cannery Workers Union Secretary, Sam Young, has released a letter he sent to Sec- retary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, declaring the plan to halve the affect 15,000 persons. In the letter, Young declared that “so far as we know, therc never has been actual proof of a Petersburg. so-called cycle which is held re- Alaska Cannery Workers Union Secrefary Kicks On Halving Salmon Pack i 2 i | sponsible for the of halving the pack.” ! Young further declared that the ‘livelihood of 15,000 people should not be jeopardized by virtual elim- ination of the salmon packing in- dustry for one full season,” and declared the Alaska catch would exceed the legal limits if the “Japanese vessels are prevented from taking salmon that spawn Alaskaward.” i “necessity” NAZI AIR BOMB GOES WIDE OF TARGET IN SEA DRAMA : {Brlow for Blow ;l‘erml Warfare | gt P [ f FIRTH OF 3 B SOUTH |SHIELDS GERMANY ), 0 h ‘e SAARBRUECKEN [J ORBACH FRANCE PARIS @ Fierce battles between British and German warplanes are reported in a series of attacks and counter-attacks over the North Sea, British coast, and the Western Front. Up to 50 planes were said to have engaged in a day-long fight over the North Sea (1), as British planes carried out raids on Sylt and Helgoland. Germany retailated with raids over Firth of Forth (2), South Shields and Newcastle-on-Tyne (3), and an attack on a merchant ship off the Essex coast (4). An Italian ship was reported sunk by a mine (5), and British and Ger- man planes were reported shot down in battles over Saarbruecken (7) and Colmar (8) on the Western Front. Near Forback (6) French land forces were reported to have pierced the German lines at Kreuz- berg, and later repulsed. | dressing the Young Republican | Club. Landon listed the actual debt at | forty-seven and one-half billion dol- ;lnrs compared to the statutory limit of forty-five billion dollars. Maki 'ng Landon also declared that the President’s budget, sent to Congress | last week, was the “trickiest of any argeS'he has submitted.” Gt ST | uPT Says Roosevelf Has Evad-| ed Stafutory Debt Limit | BRITISH TRAFFIC LINES REPORTED -Budget Tricky LONDON, Jan. 17.—British news- BALDWIN, Kansas, Jan. 11.—‘ Former Governor of Kansas Alfred M. Landon today charged that | Papers today report a German plot “President Rodsevelt evaded the |to disrupt Great Britain's rail statutory debt limit by phoney |systems, involving 600,000 railway bookkeeping and the use of emer—;employees in the British Isles. genry powers granted to him to use Extra services of special agents borrowing facilities for numerous have been employed to counter Federal corporations,” | any espionage and watch for sabo- Landon made the charge in ad- tage. KEYNOTE OF DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION Hellenthal Sa_ys Conditions | May Require Drafting 1 of Roosevelt 'WILLIAMS ELECTED " TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN \Delegates Seated Follow- ing Credentials Study ~Truitt Speaks This afternoon, Lew M. Wil- liams was elected permanent Chairman of the Territorial Democratic convention, and Fred Sorri, elected permanent Secretary. Both had been serving as temporary officers. Recommending that Democrats of the Territory inform the Na- tion that “James A. Farley is Al- aska’s first choice for President in 1940,” National Committeeman Jack Hellen hal today delivered the ‘keynote address at the Territorial Democratic Convention, Hellenthal urged that the Con- vention adopt a resolution declar- ing for Farley but adding as a proviso e statement: “Unless world conditions should be such as to imake it imperative that President Roosevelt be persuaded and indi to run for a third term.” Delegates assembled in the Elks Hall appeared divided between those favoring: @ Farley endorse- ment and those wishing an out- ht declaration for Roosevelt and a third term. Friend of Alaska “Farley,” Helllenthal said, ‘“has been the best friend Alaska ever had. 1 say that without qualifica~ tion.” Hellenthal said that “whoever is nominated will be nominated with Jim Farley’s consent.” He recom- mended that what the convention should do is, not instruct its Dele- gates to vote to the bitter end for Farley for President, but adopt a resolution favoring his candidacy. “At the present moment,” Hel- lenthal said, “there are no candi- dates in the field who will receive | (Conunued gy, Page Two: e GANNETT IS CANDIDATE, PRESIDENCY New York Publisher, Foe of New Deal, Makes Announcement (By Associated Press) Frank Gannett, publisher of Ro- chester, N. Y, severe New Deal critic, has officially announced his candidacy for the Republican nom- ination for the Presidency. Gannett said: “It is a call to duty that no citizen can ignore. My answer is yes.” Meanwhile, Ohio’s Democratic delegation announces it is pledged to support President Roosevelt for a third term. This is according to Arthur Limbach, State Democratic Committee Chairman, who said 52 | votes will go to Roosevelt, despite | nominal pledging to Senator Vic Donahey, favorite son. President Roosevelt again side- | stepped questions at yesterday's | newemen conference when asked | whether he was a candidate, de- | clining to _comment on the United States News article saying he would decline to run.