The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 23, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LV., NO. 8317. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUES DAY, JANUARY 23, 1940. MLMBH{ ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS RUSSIANS FAIL TO BREAK FINN DEFENSE United States and Japan Protest To Britain DIPLOMATIC CRISIS NOW MOST TENSE American Sfigping Inter- | ference Calls for Se- vere Complaint JAPANESE MAKE KICK ON RAIDING STEAMER Official Spoi(gman of Brit- ish Comes Back with Statemenis (By Associated Press) British diplomatic relations w:Lh the United States and also Japan today drew attention from the mili-} tary phases of Europe’s two wam The American State Departm has registered an objection again=L “discriminatory” British treatment of American ships in the Mediter- ranean. It is disclosed the United States questions’ the legality of Great Bxl— tain's interferrence with cargoes | moving between neutral nations. Great Britain is accused of de-| taining American ships at Gibraltar 12 to 14 days or more than three times as long as Italian ships are held for investigation of cargoes. The British Contraband Control spokesman in London, speaking for the British Ministry of Economic Warfare, attributes the delay in American shipping to reluctance of shippers to furnish in advance any information concerning cargoes. Japan’s Protest Japan has protested to Great Bri- tain’s seizure of 21 German seamen aboard the Japanese Asama Maru Congresswoman Welcomed Representative Clara G. McMillan (left), of South Carolina, only new woman member of the House of Representatives in the third session of the 76th Congress, is welcomed to line O'DAy Washington by Representative Caro- of New York. NAVY PLANS FOR GREAT BIG SHIP CAUSING SPECULATION; ' IDEA IS TERMED NIGHTMARE Spark ~ (auses Blaze while 35 miles off the east coast| of Japan. Foreign Minister Arita declares that Japan insists on the return of the Germans to the authority of Japan. The seamen were enrouv.e hcme from South American ports, | vio Japan and Siberia. Japan pro-| tests the right of the British war-| ship to stop the Asama Maru and take the German=seamen off with the purpose of interning them, pre- sumably at Hongkong. The British spokesman says the Japanese protest ‘does not question Great Britain’s right to search the Asama Maru but Japan is concern- ed over the status of the German captives. In Tokyo, the Japanese police pre- vented members of the Rightist po- litical party demonstratnig before the British Embassy. ————— WARNING GIVEN JAPAN BY U. §. ON TRADE PACT Future Relations Depend on Attitude of Amer- icans in China WASHINGTON, Jan. 23—Ken- sure Horinouchi, Japanese Ambas- sador, was told today by the State Department that future commercial relations between the United States and Japan, after the expiration of the commercial treaty, which ex- pires Friday, will positively depend upon Japan's attitude toward the rights of Americans in China. ———e——————— SCARED TO DEATH TOPEKA, Kaans., Jan. 23.—Po- lice were called to retrieve an own- er's guinea hen that had escaped just before it was scheduled to visit a stewing pot. The officers fired a couple of times and the bird came tumbling out of a tree where it roosted. There wasn’t a sign of a wound on the bird asd the owner concludéd it had been scared to death. Survivors 571 1,000-ton Italian Liner Tell of Fire Aboard GENOA, Italy, Jan. 23.—Surviving | members of the 11,000-ton Italian| liner Orazio, which burned on the Mediterranean Sea Sunday, declare that a spark from the motor started | the fire and totally destroyed the | vessel. The fire imperilled more than 600 persons aboard, passengers and crewmen. The spark ignited lubricating oil which in turn caused the fuel oil tanks to explode. Other survivors declare that many | of the 70 persons reported missing, died as a result of exposure, and they also told of a badly-burned Peruvian mother jumping into the flaming sea, caused by burning oil, | leaving her baby aboard. ——————————— HAUPTMANN COURT CLERK DEAD AT 72 | FLEMINGTON, N. 3, Jan. 23— C. Lloyd Fell, seventy-two, who was Clerk of the Court where Bruno| Hauptmann was convicted in 1935 of the murder of Charles A. Lind- bergh, Jr., is dead. As Clerk of Hunterdon County,| a post he held from 1935 until his death, Fell was also Clerk during | Hauptmann’s trial. He swore in the jury, all witnesses and received the | verdict. _Sons of Legion Session Tonight There will be a business and social meeting of the Sons of Legion to- night at 7:30 o'clock in the Amer- ican Legion Dugout. Members are urged to turn out in full force. ————————— Out of Constantinople, 16th century, was operated one of the world’s largest and most pow- erful pirate fleets, & in the! (By PRESTON GROVER) WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.—Every | time we think of 65000 or 80,000 | tons of Yankee battleship shoulder- | |ing its way into Chesapeake Bay or through the Golden Gate we ! shiver. There ain’t no such animal. But the Navy apparently doesn’t shiver. There isn’t any official word on the thing, but somehow you get a feeling that the idea of a super- | colossal stupendous boat like that doesn't awe the Navy. To them it 1is a sort of a dream boat, like the idrearm one has of returning to| one’s home town in a car so long |it has to be backed twice to turn the corner into Main Street. | You might suspect that even Sec- retary of the Navy Edison has| dreamed such a dream. He remarked | (at a press conference in a sort of {mooning undertone that a ship | which contained all the features of |something bigger even than the su- | per-collosal 5,000-tonners now being | planned. There is evidence, also, that the| |Navy may have even more magni- ficent ideas in mind. The old Pan— ama Canal—the one we have now— will handle an 80,000-tonner. It| would be a tight fit with not more /than two feet to spare along the sides. The new canal which the War Department engineers are| | building for the Navy to use will| big enough even for a rah-!y Imatronly. full busted 80,000-tonner | | —a ship with hips, and maybe with |a bustle. |LOTS OF ROOM ! The new canal—parallel to but a short distance away from the present two channels — will have Ilocks 1,200 feet long. The present limit is 1,000. (The Bremen had to squeeze through on a trip she made |shortly before she shied past the | British mine blockade). The new locks will ‘be 135 feet wide. The !present ones are 110. And they will | handle a ship dipping 45 feet below ;the surface, against a 37-foot draught limit in the present locks Imagine a ship mounting a round | dozen guns shooting shells as big | around the base as a fruit basket |and taller than a man. It don't| seem right and it isn't fair. It‘ would make “pocket battleships” | out of all our present crop of pea-| nut-pushing 25,000 and 30,000- ton- ners. It could carry destroyers as| life boats. It would absorb air- planes much as a tired dog tolerntasl a fly. | And a slimy, barnacled 1,000-ton | submarine, lying in wait in the deep shadows of the sea, could put the monster down with a trio of well- placed torpedoes. | BRITISH RIB ’ Before somebody else does it we (Continued on Page Six) I |list of 400 persons in 32 States re- |ceiving salaries in excess of 375000‘ | Grace, Bethlehem Steel Corporation; CHINESE VICTORS IN FIGHT Battles Won Against Jap-3 anese During Blind- ing Snow Storms BITTER (OLD WEATHER REPORTED ON FRONTS Many Nipponese Left Dead on Fields-Abandon E Arms Supplies \\ HONGKONU, Jan. 23.—In battles ! fought in blinding snow storms and bitter cold, the Chinese are reported to have route a Japanese attack near Chao Cheng, western Shantung Province, The Chinese are also reported to have thrown back a Japanese at- tempt to break through their lines in northern Hupeh Province. Two troop trains have also been dynamited in the Chao Cheng sec- tor. In this secter, in- the batile re- ported still raging, many Japanese are dead, left lying on the field as well as large quantities of arms The weather is described as the worst in 20 yeasr at Changsha, cap- ital city of Hunan Province. | INDICTMENT ' BROUGHTON ILA UNIONS Ten Leaders Charged with Conspiracy, Anti- ‘ Trust Laws NEW YORK, Jan 23.—Joseph P. | Longshoremen's Association, and ten |other persons in the Association ‘and two locals, have been indicted for conspiracy to violate the Sher- man Anti-Trust Act The indictment, handed up to Federn! Judge Vincent Leibell, also ‘named Anthony Camara, Vice Pres- ident of the ILA and nine officers | of union locals and the Building \Materml local of the Teamster's Derendaan are charged with con- | spiring to impede inter-state com- merce by which they tied up lum- | ber valued at more than $2,000,000 jat the city's docks, preventing deal- ‘ ers from obtaining the lumber in | lorder to coerce employees into join- | ing the defendant unions. It was also alleged the unions instituted boycotts against retailers and issued blacklists with names of boycotted retailers for the purpose of inducing dock employees and trucking companies to refuse to handle the lumber. ,only two hours of debate. . ‘ganon will be taken up later in u {whtich the Navy dréams would bewRyan President of the International separate measure ! 3 Democratic Chxcftams Map Strategy With E.D.R William B. Bankhead, John Nance Garner, Alben W. Barkley and Sam Rayburn Here are the Democratic leaders in the house and senate who met with President Roosevelt at the White House to map congressional strategy. Shown, left to right, after their conferences are DitS PROBE WILLGOON Drowned in § Leader Alben House V i Confinuation| o i dion by Plonee.r of La’9fl°’e Inferior On Last Trail WASHINGTON, Jan House has voted 345 to 2 for continuation of the Dies Com- mittee’s investigation of Un-Amer- Frank Miiler, Business man, Mining Operator ' Dies at Fairbanks ican activities for another year. The favorable action came after FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan. 23.— Frank Miller, 81, pioneer of the Klondike, Nome and other camps, | once a prominent business man and | mining operator here for a quarter Funds for handling the investi- - - DIMOND PUTS IN NEW BILL of a century, charter member of tlw Pioneers of Alaska Igloo, is dead. | _— Miller is survived by his widow, wmml.: here from California, three Would Extend Provisions s = fou apene of Alaska R. R. Re- RobIIlS Just firement Act WASHINGTON, Jan. 23~Alaska\ Delegate Anthohny J. Dimond has | introduced a bill to extend the pro- visions of the Alaska Railroad Em- ployees Retirement Act to workers employed at least three months an- nually for two or more years. The measure is known as House Bxll 8046. Notwithstanding the baby Taku prevailing, Juneau’s mild winter still kept attracting robin redbreasts. Two persons telephoned The Em- pire this morning that robins were 400 Persons in Receiving Over $75,000 in Annual Salary, Are Listed WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. — The | Treasury Department published a annually. The list discloses that Faye Court- ney, President of Levers Brothers iSoap Company of Massachusetts, is the nation’s highest paid corporate employee. He draws $469,000, sub- ject to income tax of $285,000 with- seen in a tree in front of Walstein Smith’s residence on Fifth Street Shortly after the noon hour, min- ers coming down the Basin Road reported robins were winging around in the wind and chirping in the trees Early this afternoon, two calls came in from Twelfth Street, that robins were seen in that section of the city. 3 Slales B 'WRANGELL FEDERAL BUILDING PLANS AVAILABLE HERE G. Wi Hill, American Tobacco Com- | Plans for the new Wrangell Fed- pany; W. S. Knudsen, General Mot- eral Building have been received ors; Claudette Colbert, Warner Bax- by Robert Coughlin, Clerk of the ter, Darryl F. Zanuck, Bing Crosby, District Court, and are available S. P. Skrouras, of the National The- at his office for contractors or sub- atres, all in excess of $250,000. Icunlm(l()r\ wishing to enter bids. out exemption. The high ten in the nation in- cludes T. J, Watson, of the Inter- national Business Machines; E. G Keep Coming Speaker of the House William B. Bankhead, Vice President John Nance Garner, Senator Majority W. Barkley and House Majority Leader Sam Rayburn. AlfBurianls Believed foHave tewart River; SKAGWAY, Ala n, White Pas is ka, Jan. Bur contractor, Stewart River. Burian was on his way home from | stewart Crossing to his wood camp, 26 miles below Mayo, with a cater- consisting of a cat, pfllar train sleigh and caboose, !mas with his | the wood camp. | Today Rennie reports from Mayo that the caterpillar has been found in the main channel of the Stewart iver, in 10 feet of water. The ‘:\lm)’h and caboose on the ice |but no signs of Alf - to spend Christ- are BROWDER IS - HONORED BY ~ CONVICTION \ (Communist Leader Talks fo ‘ Twenty Thousand in New York City | NEW YORK, Jan. 23. — Earl Browder, General Secretary and lead- er of the Communist group in the | United States, convicted )c~terday of passport frauds and quickly sen- tenced to four years in prison and fined $2,000, considers hh passport | conviction a at honor.” Browder told 20,000 Communhh and sympathizers in Madison Square Garden last night he will continue to campaign for a New York State Congressional cancy. He is at liberty on bail pending| appeal. R TRAPPING SEASON | IS CLOSED; VESSEL GOES ON PATROL| The Alaska Game Commission ship Bear left Juneau today on a 20 to 30 day post-season patrol cruise. The trapping season closed January 20. Don Gallagher is skipper of the Bear and Jack Jeffrey is Deputy Wildlife Agent aboard 23.—1\" and Yukon wood ported missing and believed to have drowned in the brother Rennie, at < THOUSANDS ARE KILLED IN BATTLES Terrific Punfi;neni Inflict- ed on Invaders, Of- ficial Report ARTILLERY ACTION IS CONTINUING ONE AREA Russian Bombmg Planes Make Attempted Af- fack, Beafen Off 23 | HELSINKI, Jan — Russian troops, trying to break through the Finnish defense lines northeast of Lake Lagoda, are taking terrific punishment according to tonight's Pinnish Army communique. The communique says casualties inflicted on the Soviet forces are running into the thousands, at one point alone. The communique also says that at Kollaanjoki, in the Loimola dis- trict, the enemy left upward of 1,000 dead on the field in the pas ttwo | days. | On the Karelian Isthmus fromt, | artillery action on both sides con- | tinues. The Pinnish-Russian war was brought again to Helsinki this af- ternoon with the approach of Rus- sian bombing planes but they were driven off by anu aircraft fire. ONE YEAR (hnslmas Tragedy Revealed S|ashes in Govt. Funds Being Made House A m opriations Committee Uses Prun- ing Knife on Bills WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, — The House Appropriations Committee, exnressly endeavoring in holding |spending at the “lowest possible ! figure,” has trimmed $13,314,000 from the rocommended one billion, |eighty million dollar total of two | Administration appropriation bills, | the Treasury and Post Office Sup- ‘ply measures, carrying funds for |the fiscal year beginning July 1. ‘The “urgent deficiency” bill re- 'cetved the biggest slash, over $l11,- 000,000. The committee has approved of a resolunon to permit the Agriculture Departmem. to transfer $11,000,000 of its funds of parity payments to its price adjustment program. The cuts made today by the com- mittee are generally in line with the recent House and Appropria- | tons committee actions of last week. The House, last week, slashed $94,- {000,000 from the Independent Offic- es Supply bill and $20,000.000 from |the Emergency Defense appropria- | tion. 6. MOTTA | IS DEAD 'Five Times—President of | Switzerland Passes Away at Berne BERNE, Jan. 23 —Guiseppe Motta, five times President of Switzeland, and President of the Chief Swiss Political Department, is dead. He was 69 years of age. e ———— There are 71 companies in the | United States which produce min- eral wool. They operate 82 plants for the purpose.