The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 20, 1940, Page 1

THLE VOL. LV., NO. 8315. DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 20, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS "WILLIAM E. BORAH DIES IN WASHINGTON Fierce Fight, on Finn Froni rm— . A'"‘ A(-RS l“ 1iPresident, Son and Garner at Jackon Day Dinner NORTH AREA FLUNG BACK Invaders, D—ef;,nders Re-| ported Locked in Hand to Hand Conflict RUSSIAN AIRPLANES CONTINUE AIR RAIDS Crucial Situation Confronts Soviets in Karelian Isthmus HELSINKI, Jan. 20. — A com- munique issued by the Finnish Com- mand said strong Russian attacks have been flung back in the Kare- lian Isthmus area and also north of Lake Lagoda despite the extreme cold weather prevailing. The communique does state that Russian warplanes are flying over Southern Finland, dropping bombs on Turko and other towns. Russian columns are fighting frantically to resist a fate similar to the lcst 4th and 133rd Divisions. The fighting near Maerkejirvik has develcped into a merciless pitched ttle with the Finns pressing hard their advantage and attacking the retreating Russian forces from the front and both sides. The Red army apparently is fully aware of their situation—in a deso- late and heavily forested wilder- ness, with long lines of communi- cation to their supply base on the Murmansk Railway, 120 miles away —fight desperately to keep their lines of retreat open. . re——— PEACEMOVE INDICATED, JAPAN-U. S. Duties Are 10_Be Extended After Termination of Trade Pact | | the President was chic! speaker. BUDGET IS GIVEN CUT IN SENATE Twenty Millions Now Lop- ped Off in Aggregate | il dential race, are pictured as they attended the » % s At the right | | | | TOUR | President Raosevelt and Vice-President John Nance Garner, still the two best bets for the Democratic Presi- ackson Day, $100-a-plate dinner in Washington at which Franklin D. Roosevelt, a patch covering a bruise suffered in a recent auto accident. Jr., the President’s son, who wears Canadian Comrh:mder on Hancf . Chances for Peace Slight Asserts Pope WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Unit- ed States Senator Willlam Borah, of Idaho, aged 74, Dean of the Senate, died at 5:45 o'clock yesterday afternoon (Pacific Coast Time). Death followed cerebral hemorrhage. He was stricken about the time he suffered a fall in his apartment last Tuesday morning. The Senator was unconscious S'Ubborn ObSta(IeS Be- when Mrs. Borah found hi lying ome Daily More Diffi- | on the floor of the bathroom and | he regained consciousness rarely clt fo Surmount | thereafter, sometimes calling for | his wife who was constantly in at- WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Answer- | tendance. ing President Roosevelt's letter nam-| _ With his death, one of the long- ing Myron Taylor as his personal est and most colorful careers in representative to the Vatican, the Pope has advised that immediate American politics ended. An uncompromising foe of trusts chances of peace are reduced to a “silent probability” by “stubborn ob- and monopolies from the time of President Theodore Roosevelt, he stacles” which “become daily more WaS famous as a staunch champion difficult to surmount.” The Pope expressed hope for even- | for complete United States indepen- dence in foreign affairs. tual peace and bespoke of the Presi-| Senator Borah entered the Sen- \dent’s “providential help.” ate March 4, 1907, and would have | - completed 33 years of service next March. His term would have ex- pired in 1943. T Government by Party ! An underlying belief in the the- ory of government by party, which | tempered his notable independence | in political thought and action, set |its mark on Senator Borah from | the hour he first went to Wash- ington as United States Senalor in 1907. | Many of his friends were con- Elas | vinced it cost him a chance at {the Presidency. . ! Perhaps no more powerful, mag- Gov. Gruemng Tells Am- reric figure walked the political e stage in his time than the “Lion ericans AlaSka HaS of Idaho.” He wielded enormou 2 personal influence even when mos. Many Sw“zerlands | at outs with the leadership of his P Party. Yet the urge that impelled {him to champlonship of “under WASHNGTON, Jan. 20.—A six bil- | dogs” whether nations struggling lion dollar tourist industry has for independence or human beings pledged financial support to Presi- dent Roosevelt’s program to make 1940 travel an American year. “(olD wEATHER Representatives of steamship lines, railways, airlines, buslines, hotels, and travel agencies, meeting with | Is pREvAIllNG Govenment officlals, have adopted a | resolution devoting substantial por-| tions of annual publicity budgets to | stumulation of travel in North Am- erica, Central America and South America. \ Alaska’s Governor Ernest Gruen- | ing said: “Since the European war | has disturbed American travel to other eastern hemisphere countries, Americans can find plenty of Switz- erlands in Alaska.” ITALY WILL Clear Skies, However, Per- mit of Flights of Ger- man-Allied Planes | 5 — PARIS, Jan. 20.—Despite a second intense cold wave which has swept down from the battlefields of Fin- land to grip the Western front in the coldest weather of the winter, 24 degrees below zero centigrade, WESTERN FRONT - REMARKABLE CAREER BROU |- | E.| whom he considered ground down by political or economic circum- stances, never quite drove him out of the fold of the Republican Party. His more than a quarter of a century in the Senate made him senior member of that body, brought him the chairmanship of the highly impertant Foreign Re- lations Committee and developed him into an international figure lis chairmanships also included the interoceanic nok Major embrac Legislation as. the income -tax and di tion Se 1gal He suppo amendment and was a sader for the primary system. He introduced bills also provid- t WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Senatc leaders today made arrangements | for a state funeral for United States | senator William E. Borah for Mon- day noon. The services will be directed by the Senate Chaplain, The Rev. !Barney T. Phillips. Final state rites will be attended y President Franklin D. Roosevelt, b; | DEAN OF SENATE, KNOWN AS "'LION OF IDAHO,” PASSES AWAY IN COMA STATE; GHT TOEND ‘ing an 8-hour day for Federal em= ployees, free tolls for American ships through the Panama Canal, the Postal Savings System and ex- | tension of farm loans to reclama= tion projects. In the international Zield he was one of the “irreconcilables” in opposing American membership in the League of Nations and adher- ence to the World Court, a critic of Great Britain on the subject of Irish freedom and an advocate of recognition .of the Union of Social« ist Soviet Republics. As a champion of Russian recog« nition he provided many Americans with letters of introduction ta Moscow officlals and often was referred to as “Russia’s unofficial passport bureau.” Soviet officials communicated with him frequently. He explained his Russian atti- tude in March, 1931, when he said: “I would establish normal rela- tions with the Russian government. In doing so I would not indorse that government or the commun- istic theory, but I would have no fear of contact with it.” Guards State Rights He was a firm believer in main- taining the balance among the executive, legisialive and judicial branches of (he government asset up in the Federal Constitutionand fought measures which he deemed n conflict with that principle or ‘hich threatened to invade state lus, although he favored he opposed the umendment, hold- r ol state legis- he same ground he child labor military Santa Do- uall army lsarmament. STATE FUNERAL TO BE HELD FOR BORAH MONDAY NOON nembers of the Cabinet, Supreme Court Justices, and membors of the Diplomatic Corps. Senator D. Worth Clark, of Idaho, said Idahoans will ask Mrs. Borah for consent for another state fu- neral when the remains arrive in Boise. The body will be accompanied west by eight Senators. CRIMINAL COURTS WERE BORAH'S FIRST FORUM I last night saw intensive patrol activity throughout the hours of darkness. As dawn broke this morning avia- TOKYO, Jan. 20—The Japanese, WASHINGTON, Jan. 20 The | daily newspaper Asahi said the Senate Apprbpriations Committhpj Japanese Government, on next|has lopped nearly $13000000 off] Wednesday, will issue a decree pro- budget estimates by approving the | HAVE LARGE viding for continuation of the ex- isting duties on American imports after the Washington abrogated American-Japanese trades treaty lapses on January 26. Foreign Minister Arita declared that Japanese and American rela- tions must be normalized on ex- piration of the pact. Many observers take the Asahi report to be one of the measures the Foreign Minister had in mind, hoping the United tates will fol- low suit. - - CHURCHILL SAYS EUROPEAN WARS SURE TO SPREAD Urges Unilczd_l‘—(ont of Neu- tral Nations fo Effect Speedy Peace LONDON, Jan. 20. — Winston Churchill, in a radio address to- night, warned Europe’s neutrals that war would spread to northern and southern Europe. Churchill said the only hope was| for a speedy end of the struggle “through united action.” He said neutrals on land and on the sea “are victims upon whom Hitler's . hate and spite are certainral 10 descend.” | Emergency Defense Bill at $251- | 822,588. | | The House had previously approv- | led it at $264,611,252, making aggre- | gate cuts of the bill to date about | twenty million dollars. | The Senate committee adopted an |amendment to make available from | the current Department of Agricul- ture funds, eleven million dollars in | parity payments for farmers com- plying with the 1939 program but | |who had not received payments. | The Government had miscalcu- |lated the average of payments and the result will cut averages for 1940. PREVAILING W/ VAILING WAGE | RATES ARE WANTED IN 2 TERRITORIES {Dimond anfling Urging 3 Hearings of Labor Is- | sue,- Public Works WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.—Dele-| tes Anthony J. Dimond of Al- and Samuel W. King of Ha- n! of the House Labor Committee to| conduct hearing on their bills to establish wage rates on public works in the territories that re- quire payment of the prevailing tes of wages on all public pro- Jects. | | | | gal | aska, | waii are urging Chairman Norto Commander of the Canadian expeditionary forces in England, Major | General A. C. L. McNaughton, extreme left, is shown in rare good humor during a visit to a military depot where his men will under- go training before going to France. J. N. S. Ruchan, son of Lord Tweedsmuir, governor general of Canada. IFYOUWEREA CAPITAL BIG SHOT--WHAT WOULD - WARBUDGET Millions of Dollars Are Ap- proved for Milifary Expenditures | ROME, Jan. 20.—The government | has approved of Italy’s largest mili- | tary budget since the world war to | meet the possible dangers of the coming year. The total budget is about $542,- 1000,000, an increase of $75,000,000 over the current expenditures. At extreme right is Lieut. tion units took to the air and con-| tinued activity throughout the day.| The clear cold weather resulted in | excellent phptographic conditions. | The airmen, however, suffered in- into the public eye tensely from the cold despite many njs seat in the Senate through layers of superimposed clothing.. | British observation planes flew | Senator William E. Borah came!(or political purposes. Named in before he took | the same indictment was former | Gov. Steuenberg, then dead. This the medium of the criminal courts, | ey °::°§n::wf; "mm&’: ;‘:::3 over northern Germany taking pic—[ih two cases as a special prosecu- courts. tures of troop positions and com-|tor and in another as defendant. | Borah's efforts to obtain trial munications. The German aviatc;s| Prior to the case in which Moyer, | before he went to Washington hav- concentrated their activity to Nor-|Pettibone and Haywood were tried ing been without avail, he appealed thern France—chiefly in the vic- for the death of Ex-Gov. Steuen-|directly to President Theodore Roo- inity of the Belgian border. They |berg, he had been special prosecu-|sevelt, who ordered an immediate were evidently photographing recent | tor of men accused of having dyna- | hearing. Borah was his only wit- trenching operations and also try- mited the Bunker Hill and Sulli- ness and the jury was out just ing to ascertain whether the Allies|van mines in Idaho. |long enough to vote “not guilty.” had shifted troops to that border| In this latter case the ouwomef Brief Stage Career as the result of recent reported | rested upon the physical possibil-| The case had stirred up bitter YOUDO ABOUTFAREAST! By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.— That conflict on national policy wmch; grinds and grinds within the gov- ernment was well illustrated here at one of the academic brain con- | ventions which hit Washington | during the Christmas-New Year | from classes. The grinding continues relent- lessly year in and year out, with | first one side gaining a bit and ing historians and those wiLhin{‘ the government who are forever | concerned over “grand strategy.” | | They blossom out so seldom that when they do, they startle casual readers. They even star- tled a few of the thousand or more historians who sat arm to | | nolidays when professors are free | arm in a Washington hotel ball- room while A. Whitney Griswold, of Yale's department of govern- ment and international relations, and Captain W. D. Puleston, i l Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Jan. 20. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine ‘swck at today’s short session of the New York Stock Exchange is 6%, . American Can 115%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 71%, Common- wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss menaces against Holland and Bel- gium. A reliable source close to the French War Office revealed that in- telligence reports show two more German divisions have arrived on The same War Office spokesman said that a French patrol in carry- ing out a night raid penetrated The patrol engaged in a sharp fight miles behind the German front and practically at the Siegfried line. ity of one of the bombers having| feeling in Idaho and when the ridden from the scene down asteep verdict was returned Borah's canyon on the roof of a box car.|friends held a jubilee, lasting far Borah gave it a personal test. He into the night. There had been the Holland and Belgian frontiers.| deep in German territory in the| Saar region north of the Blies river. | Wright 9%, General Motors 52'4,|when the Germans discovered the International Harvester 55%, Ken-|prench patrolo so deep within their necott 35%, New York Central 16, |,ineq they attempted to surround Northern Pacific 8, United States Steel 57%, Pound $3.95%. it but the French claim to have fought a slow retreat action which finally carried them back across then another. But for the most| United States Navy, retired, pre- part, these major influences on}sented a few of the rival view- the nation are virtually forgotten |points. by almost every one except lead- (Continued on Page Three) | . DOW, JONES AVERAGES No Man’s Land to their own lines | The following are today’s DOW.|with only slight losses. The Prench |Jones averages: Industrials 14564, rails 30.25, utilities 25.25. (Continued on Page Five) had a duplicate train made up and took his place on one of the, cars. It proved a wild ride, but he | | made it and won his case. Just after his first election to the Senate, bu. before he took his seat, Borah was indicted in con- nection with a western land fraud case, it being ocharged that he was counsel for the Barber Lum- |ber Company at the time it ob- Ela.lned fraudulent title to Federal | timber land Indicted Some of the Federal officials in Idaho who had to do with the in- dictment were counted among the new{ Senator’s bitterest political enemies and it was charged that the indictment was brought purely no charge that the Senator had re- celved any profits in connection with the alleged frauds, the ac- cusation being merely that he was counsel for the Barber Company at the time of the transactions. Borah came of a deeply religious stock. His father was a Presby- terian and often filled a pulpit in the absence of the regular minis- ter. His own youth was spent on a farm, but his bent was far more toward reading than hoeing the corn. He had an itch, too, for the stage, and succeeded in running away from home to join a travel- ling troupe. His role was Marc An- tony, but an irate father cut his stage career short by summarily- leading him back to the farm.