The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 25, 1940, Page 1

. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” /OL. LV., NO. 8319. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 25, 1940. MEI V{BER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS WITHERING FIRE HURLED AT FINN FORCES Water Warfare Contlnues, Disastrous Results SENTDOWN BY MINES IN NORTH SEA One Norwegian Steamer Sinks Within Half Min- ute After Hitting FINNISH, SWEDISH SHIPS ALSO REPORTED VICTIMS French Nava—Iaafi in Med- iferranean Sends Out Distress Call LONDON, Jan. 25.—Mines helped to swell the toll of merchant ma- rine casualties in the war in the »diterranean a small auxiliary v sel of the French Navy is in di from an unknown cause. The on Forfait sent out the dis- ss call and the Italian freighter Cellina is speeding to her aid. 38 Lose Lives Twelve passengers and 26 crew-| men lost their lives when the 1752- ton Norwegian steamer Biarritz struck a mine and sank within half a minute in the North Sea. The Norwegian steamer Borkhold | rescued 12 passengers and seven members of the crew and took them to Ijmuiden. Tremendous Explosion The Biarritz went down at 2 o'- clock this morning 36 miles north-| west of Ijmuiden after’a tremendous | explosion. The first officer said that it was only because one life- boat had been hung for emergency that permitted any to escape death. This was the only life boat able to be launched. Other Sea Vietims Other victims of the war at sea includes the Finnish steamer Onto, 1300 tons, which sank Tuesday af- ter striking a mine in the North h Sea while in the western F laming Finish of Red Bomber | | | I | | i | | Flaming wreckage of a Russian bomber, shot down during a recent raid on Helsinki, is shown burning near the Finnish capital. Continued air raids were reported from the interior of Finland, as the nation was clll(hl in the rrln of bitter cold. INSIDE LOOK AT BUDGET OF UNITED STATES WITH - INCLUSION OF FOOTNOTES [ [l By PRESTON GROVER Chinese in { WASHINGTGON, Jan. 25—Un- 1CKES ASKS MOREMONEY FOR ALASKA Would Increase Indigent | Is Discussed WASHINGTON, Jan. 25.—Edward Bartlet, Commissioner of Accounts and Deposits in the Treasury, told a House Sub-committee on Appro- priations holdinz hearings on the Treasury Appropriation Bill, that in- creased suffering among indigents in Alaska has caused Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to ask a $10.000 increase in the Territory's relief fund next year. Bartlet also told the committee | that $390,302 was left in the Aleska relief fund created by putting in ten per cent of the receipts from licenses collected outside the incorporated towns of the Territory. “Last year, we received a letter from the Secretary of the Interior asking us to include in our estimate enough money to enable them to give all those reecipts to this par- ticular purpose,” Bartlet said ! Suffering Grows Representative Ludlow. asked if suffering were on’ the ing “up there,” and Bartlet wplied “Yes. The budget has been approved for an increase from $20,000 this year to $30,000 in the 1941 fiscal year.” Treasury officials also explained an item of $11,900 to go to Alaska for general Territorial purposes came out of the one percent tax on the gross income of the Copper River and Northwestern Railway and the Pacific-Arctic Railways and Naviga- tion Company. Officials said the average of col- lections amounted to the $11,900 figure for the past two years . Mail Troubles Clinton Uttley, Superintendent of the Division Post Office Service, told the committee that unusual con- ot Fund-Air Mail Also | & Chaos Marks Route m Russian Militar: Caption on this photograph from Finland describes it as a broken-down Rus: in the region about the Arctic Circle in Finland. aided the Finns i ene, which Given $75,000 For One Year House Votes Overwhelm- ingly for Continuation of Investigation WASHINGTON, Jan. 25 The crew of 18 reached an ish port aboard a Greek steam- Sea Plot fo Kill e The Swedish steamer Patria, 1100 | tons, sank last Saturday after strik- | ing a mine while enroute to Rot-| terdam. Four of the crew of 21! U.S. Official | derstanding the budget is easy and | you should not become bewildered | about anything you see or read, | either in the magazines, the news- papers or even that source of all worldy wisdom, the Congressional Record. The budget is always in balance. To begin with, you add up every- ditions prevailed in Alaska, where House today approved, without de- | post offices cannot pay third class bate, an appropriation of $75,000] clerk hire high enough and would for the Dies committee to carry on ¢ Train n supply train somewhere It was the breakdown of Russian supply lines, similar the routs the\ claimed over the Reds in the Salla ngifln Dies Probers SCIENCE AGAIN STARTS AT SCRATCH IN BATTLE ON INFANTILE PARALYSIS SHELLING POSITIONS (ONTINUES Artillery, Infar;i—iry and Me- chanized Forces Used in Attacks DEFENDERS BEATING BACK ALL ASSAULTS Swedish Volunfeers Join Finnish Air Forces— Good Results HELSINKI, Jan. 25 Costly Russian attacks northeast of Lake Ladoga and resumption of long range shelling of Viipuri by the Red Army artillery, is reported in the Finnish communique. The communique declares the Reds have lost heavily at the hands of the Finnish forces in repulsing the general attacks which continued all day near Aittokpoki. “The Soviet forces 'have again lost hundreds by the time the at- tacks were turned back this morn- ing by the Finnish forces,” says | the communique. | Additional repulses have been 'made to enemy thrusts in the far north. Fight All Night Last night was the first time the Russians have cdntinued at- tacks during the hours of darkness, Artillery shells were hurled in a withering fire against the Finnish forces together with infantry and ! mechanized forces but all attacks were repulsed with the deadly fire The seventh campaign of Farley lees the Committee for the Cele- |Of the defenders. ; | bratien of the Presidenys | Swedish volunteer aviators have | Birthday, January 30 (in Ju- @Ppeared on the northern Finnish neau Janvary 27), is under |{ront and are leading raids against S'a'emenl on way, gathering funds to fight |the Reds in the Petsamo Arctic A infantile paralysis. This article | Z0D€. describes how science has bat- tled the disease and the big U.S. OuIIook1 o s roblem still to be solved. The intensified bombing raids in northern Finland are believed | directly connected with the arrival 1of the Swedish volunteers. have been landed in Sweden. A Netherlands steamer has land- ed at-a British, port the bodies of 4 men picked up “from a raft in '.he‘ North Sea.: Their nationality is not announced. GREEN FLAYS LABOR BOARD AND BRIDGES Says AFL Compelled fo Be Led on West Coast by "'Communist” WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. — Wil— liam Green, President of the AFL, today accused the National Labor Relations Board of forcing members | of the AFL West Coast Longshore- men’s Unions to be represented in| collective bargaining by “the alien| Communist” Harry Bridges. Criticizing the board in sharp| phrases and calling for four amend- ments to the Labor Act, Green shouted to the House Investigating Committee that the board wiped out his West Coast Longshoremen’s Unions as bargaining units when the board held the proper unit of | lcngshoremen extended from San Diego tc Washington State. Green said that meant “That man, Bridges and his crew, are clothed with authority to représent AFL unions, It is bad enough to compel the AFL unions to be merged with rival groups, but it is increasingly worse when they are compelled to be represented by a man most all of us know is a Communist.” thmg Congress is going to spend. That will be a lot of money. Usu- |ally it is a half-billion or so more: than the President suggests. That is the spending side. To balance it, you simply add son Threafened, Jap- anese Dedare | together the amount of money | that will come from taxes, which ol 1. | | SHANGHAI Jan. 25.—Lieut. Col.' iy pe ahout two thirds or three Jiro Saito, Japanese Army SpokeS-| o aiers of the amount spent. man, said he has received infm—‘.n_‘ en add to that the deficit. It al- mation from Nanking of a Chmese\ways comes out even that way |plot against the life of United! [States Ambassador Nelson Johnson o) 41" all, Uncle Sam has lots who left Nanking this morning on : the gunboat Luzon enroute to Han- | kow. | THREE TYPES Saito said he was informed the| The budget itself comes in three | plotters planned to attack the gun- sizes, There is the pamphlet edi- boat, using either mines or artil-|tion which contains the Presi- lery “in hopes of blaming the Jap-‘dents message, only not quite all. anese, thus causing a crisis in Jap-|It also contains the tables, only anese-American relations simultan-|not quite all either. ° eously with the expiration of the| The middle-weight edition, in a | Japanede-American® trade treaty.” | forest-green color, is approximately . Saito declined to disclose the|two times the size of the pamphlet source of his information. ledition. It is about a half inch| T | thick, a good full pound of earnest reading. It contains everything in the pamphlet edition and much | ILife of Ambassador John- | | HOW TO LOOK Then comes the master edition. It is a daisy. It is a ljttle larger land but not quite so large as the amounts to $50,- | narcotic farms,” SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 25—The The committee expected to hear tes- I | Walerfronf = | In it are all the tabulations, and | 451 The middle-weight edition tells La Follette Civil Liberties Committee | has subpoenaed the records of the| timony regarding the activities of both employer associations and un- . !many of the itemized expendi- H ea r' n g Is | tures. From it you can learn that | | 1 pene ow‘you that “Funds contributed for sewerage system, Fort Monroe, Waterfront Employers = Association as it prepared to resume San Fran- ions on coast waterfronts. The San Francisco hearings last month were the “personal funds of inmates of | Va.” amounted to $18,500. cisco hearings on labor conditions. devoted principally to agricultural ll.abor conditions. land but not uite so large as the one for the Manhattan district of New York City. In it you really get down to brass tacks. Take the Navy appropriation, for instance. It begins on Page ' (Continued on Page Seven) require an addition of $8,183. Uttley said, “Third class clerk hire allowance doesn't allow salaries high enough to take care of the un- usual salary conditions up there,” and added that many third class clerks are working for “less than WPA wages and trying to raise g family on that.” Star Routes William E. Triem, Superintendent of the Railway Adjustment Division of the Post Office, told the com- mittee that his department needed | $140,000 for Star Route services, ther same amount granted this year. Triem said the department asked the Budget Bureau for $150,000 but the figure was cut ten thousand dollars. Air mail service in Alaska, Triem (Continued on Paxe Eigho (terior Harold L. | should resign investigation of un-American acti- vities. The committee has been ordered to continue until January 4, 1941, under a resolution approved by the House on Tuesday by a vtoe of 345 to 21. Across the town, Secretary of In- Ickes said Dies in order to restore public confidence in the conduct of the committee. e SHIP GOES DOWN BUCHAREST, Jan. 25—The Turk- ish coastal steamer Fevcie Basrie, sank aftér an explosion today off lhe Rumanian coast. The Turkish vessel ‘was on its way to Istanbul. | The crew was rescued. PO PSRN Olympics championships, stc 7 IRVING JAFFEE of equipment is discussed ir First Lesson Tomor School for Skuterc Irving Jaffee, the only American to win three arts a series of 12 il lessons on how skate goes detail nec the into e for skater . series of takes the bec ner before ever steps the ice, advises him about types of e quip ment nee d, then guides him through the first 2 { il ‘10 on strokes, turns and stops. Even the proper care Jaffee’s thorough teachings. row in The Empire It is also reported that the con- iy "O‘\‘;,"m' Py I:“fi::‘SLEE | tinuous attacks of the Russians has Not Indicated Whether R ! e |led to the belief that some of the of Indicaie eiher re- | NEW YORK, Jan. 2. — Among lc’:;‘mi‘t"”e‘ troops are now in the marks Have Political ;me few sure facts about infantile | R | pa s are these: Bt R SRS ianifi i The disease will strike Am- Sinfiance - =2, . GERMANY IS e year—it always does. WINSTON SALEM, N. C., Jan.| 2. No one can predict where. 25— Postmaster General James A. There is no sure preventive. BUILDING 5 Farley said love of country| The thing that causes infantile . of the two small- of man. any allegiance to the paralysis is on he gave no est known enemies transcended Democratic Party but indication that the statement had! It is a particle, called a virus, any political significance. | about one two-hundred-fifty-thou- Farley said existing wars upon| sandth of an inch in diameter. An n politics are utterly un-! The infantile particle last year predictable but the judgment of made 7,298 American children ill. our people in patriotic devotion This number is small, but not in will subordinate: partisanship to|aftermath for at least 25 percent| the public good, | of these youngsters were paralzed,| | with after-care costs of about $1,- 1000 a year each. | No Way To Reach Virus | The aftermath used to be reck-| oned at 50 percent. Years of medi-| cal effort and good care have cut DEADlINE |that to 25 percent in favorable situations | One other basic fact about the disease has been brought out by the years of medical effort: | The virus hides in the body. where there is no way of reaching e [it effec ly. It travels inside| nerves, Serums and chemicals do| not get inside nerve cells, and that | e failed to date, Tokyo Predicts Strain in is y ali BATILESHIPS ‘Announcement Made that Raider Deufschland Has "Returned Home™ BERLIN, Jan. 25.--Tt is announced that the pocket battleship Deutsch- land “returned home recently” after successfully raiding merchant ship- ping on the Atlantic since the out- break of the war. It is also dis- closed that the vessel has been re- named the Luetzow in order to re- serve to her the old name of the mightier fighting ship. It is also disclosed that Germany is bulding five 35.000-ton battleships land one of these, the Admiral von Tirpitz, will be launched in April. Presumably one of the other ships will be Launched as the Deutschland. R |a|-o ' F “ ntirely new lines of attack will| e 10ns 10 ro ow have to be devised if this disease | g e . R is to be conquered,” say sE. w,j # EXDI[B"O" Schulz, M.D., of Stanford Univer- “l!ea-ll : é ml);v one of the group which de: Blllldlllg '0[ TOKYO, Jan,' 25.~The Foreign HE s ohe of 1 ‘j,\,‘\‘\’mpm now | Ful Office issued a statement today 'C0PCd the owy Tew FeARCT oW uiure predicting strain between the Unit- 9% PR G S R e ed States and Japan to follow ex- ‘:"é"‘xj‘ T nigfs e‘t} That Juneau is building “for piration Friday of the U. §,-Japa- d‘ Ay 8 €Pl-! veeps” is markedly apparent to in- nese trade treaty. “‘l’_}‘“ EORMAERSR Y the | requent visitors to the commun- > statement sad irat )9 ‘Yirus” apperentiy’e S dty, L. The statement said expiration body only through the exposed ity, E. Sampson of Ketchikan will put general relations between the two nations, as well as trade "% of alfactory nerves. The search relations “under strain.” is to be conquered,” says E. W. The Foreign Office expressed gan in 1912. The first promise of hope that negotiations beiween the SUCCess came in 1636 when: Doctors two countries will result in a new SR treaty. (Continued on Page Six) said at today's Chamber of Com- merce luncheon. New buildings here reflect, he says, that “Juneau has an acute case of concrete-itis,” a condition which he described as a mark of progress and prosperity.