The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 26, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8320 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS T e PRICE TEN CENTS AMERICAN FLIERS JOIN FINNISH FORCES Climax Reached In U. S.-- Japan R Senate Foreign Relations Committee Lvieets 1911 TRADE PACT WITH JAPAN OFF Oriental Nafion Watching United States Over ! Next Move AMERICANS ARE NOT | TIPPING THEIR HAND, Upto Nippo-ns—lo Take First Step — Embargoes Contemplated (By Associated Press) ! American and Japanese trade treaty relations drew toward the, close today and come to an end tonight. Japan is uneasy over the new strategic position but the United | States makes n ohurry to show her hand. The last day of the 1911 trade treaty, abrogated under the six months' notice by Washington, | found the United States waiting for Japan to chart the future trade | relations which will probably be on day-by-day basis. The weapon the United States | holds over the Oriental power is possible action on an embargo on shipments of materials Japan now needs for her war in China. Bills are pending in Congress, es- pecially in the Senate, that pro-! peses halting of exports to Tokyo | on the grounds that Japan vio- lated the Nine Power Treaty under which that Nation was pledged to respect China's territorial integrity and among other things, to main- tain the open door policy in trade. - .- — GREAT BRITAIN MAKES REPLY TO JAPAN, SEA RAID Answer Given fo Profest on Removal of Ger- mans from Liner LONDON, Jan, 26.—The British Government has sent its reply to the Japanese protest against remov- | al by a British warship of 21 Ger-! man seamen from the Asama Maru, off the Japanese coast, but the con- tents are not disclosed immediately. The Japanese called the incident “very serious.” The Captain of the British coast- al steamer Wing Sang has reported from Shanghai that his vessel was detained more than 16 hours Tues- day and Wednesday by Japanese in an apparent retaliation to the Asama Mnru eplsode Only Alaskans For Work in Brisfol Bay WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond, of Alaska, has introduced in the Hcuse a bill prohibiting employ- ment during 1940 to anyone ex- cept bona fide residents of Al- aska in the commercial salmon fishing industry in the Bristol Bay area. Norway Prepares Hospifals for War OSLO, Jan. 26—Establishment of a National Council to administrate all hospitals and coordinate Nor- way's medical services in event of “extraordinary conditions”, it is an- ncunced. ‘A further preparedness measure was a decision to register all wo- men for volunteer work if men should be called to the colors, Get Lite tor Abducting Girl SAYS LABOR PROBLEM 5 NOT SOLVED 'Sen. Wheeler Calls on FDR! Eugene Weaver and Ray Prucha Although they were found guilty of first degree kidnaping in t abduction and assault of a 16-year-old girl in Seattie, Wash., gene Weaver, 19, and Ray, Prucha, 24, were spared the death se tence by a jury which decreed life lmpnsonment for them. Pruc! is marned and the father of a 20-month-old son. SPEAK UP NOW, GARNER URGES ON ALL STUNG Mgf‘l;éaA‘l'llSA mfm BY PRESIDENIIAL BEEl 10 iR SWs0E PARLIAMENT OF DOMINION IS ADJOURNED' (Canadians W||| Take Con-| froversy on War Con- duct fo Polls OTTAWA, van. 26.—The contro- versy between the Dominion of Canada and Great Britain over the British conduct of .the war goes to the polls for decision The Canadian Parliament was dissolved last night and the Can- adian General Elections will be held not earlier than March 26. Ad- journment came after attacks on the King’s Governmeént for alleged in- errxcxency in pmsecutmg the war. ARTILLERY FIRE RAGES WESTFRONT Shells BurstiTg in Vosges Mountfain Area-Air Scouters Out BERLIN, Jan. 26.—Artillery fire thunders in the Vosges mountains on the Western front but activity otherwise is apparently limited to scouting by rival air forces. i One British plane is reporetd to have been shot down yesterday. KGR UG ol There is a sentence that can be recited but can’t be written cor- rectly in the English language. Borrowing a numerical symbol here's the sentence: “There are three 2's in the English language.” Two, to and too . , . By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. — Vic President Garner is putting the bee\ |on fellow candidates to follow his | example by announcing for the| Presidential nomination regardless | of whether President Roosevelt| seeks a third term | He has suggested to Postmaster | General Farley and Seantor Wheeler ' of Montana that if they wish to, court the favors of Dame Democ-| racy they ought to give her an op- portunity to “cuddle up” fear they will run if Roosevelt came into the picture. Report has it that only a few minutes before the Jackson Day dinner in Washington Garner twit- ted Farley about his half and half | candidacy and suggested that he address the assembly as “Fellow Candidates.” | Farley did exactly that and got a great burst out 6f the hundred-| | to Announce Third Term Stand | CcOLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 26. — Economic “absurdities” must be} | solved to relieve unemployment and | | insure prosperity, Senator Burton | K. Wheeler declared today after | |calling on President Roosevelt to | disclose his third term intentions, | Wheeler said: “Nearly ten mil~ lion who lack real jol and agri=| culture, and its millions of low in- come farmers, must be given the opportunity to consume not only the necessities, but also the luxuries of life” | | Senator Wheeler has been “the center of speculation as to whethef or not he will receive the endorse+ | |ment of CIO President John .Ii Lewis. ! | Earlier, in press conferences, Sen- | ator Wheeler expressed the belief |that “Mr. Roosvelt could get the !nomination,” but that he diln't, want renomination | | However, Senator Wheeler said if President Roosevelt wants the | third term, and “if he wants the !ncmlnanon, he should say so” and: \prevent party disaster before the | Democratic Convention | Senator Wheeler told labor dele- | gates representing 600,000 members that “Unemployment is not solved and has been compartively un- touched. It is America’s number ; one problem.” Advice Is Only Precaution- | e Here is the Senate Foreign Relations Committee meeting in the capital for the first time since the present session of Congress opened. Seated, left to right, Senators Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, Hiram John- son of California, Key Pittman of Nevada, Pat Hal lshnd and Joseph Guffey of Pennsylmn‘n ison of Mississippi and Walter George of Georgia. Standing, letf to right, are Senators Lewis Schwel'enbach -of Washington, Theodore Green of Rhode - NAZI SUBMARINE THRUST IN ATLANTIC PREDICTED; CRAFT OFF WEST INDIES NERLAND TELLS STATES ALASKA WANTS HIGHWAY cans in Sweden have been advised ary in View of Pres- | ent Situation 'Says Great Road Would Open Rich Fortymile Placer Area STOCKHOLM, Jan. 26.—Ameri- | by the United Siates Legation here; to consider returning home. i It is announced that the advice| SEATTLE, Jan. 26—Mayor Leslic is given “because of the prevailing Nerland of Fairbanks, declared international situation” without | ply a precautionary measure, |ing urgency and is sim- here today that residents of Fair- lack- banks are looking forward eagerly |to the start of construction on the International Highway. Nerland said the hig or compulsion. - e CAT STARIED FiRE | hway would One of four pet cats, charpening make more accessible, the rich its claws against a box of matches, placer mining area in the Forty- is believed to have started a fire mile. that left only charred ashes and| The Fairbanks Mayor, a furni- twisted shapes of metal where The ture dealer, intends to be In the Ranch, one of Fairbanks' most pop- ' States until about March 1. {ular suburban road, formerly stood. | - eee - The loss is estimated at $26.000, no, POTATO growers found 1939 dollar-a-plate guests. However, Gar- | insurance. one of the driest years on record ner people Mo’ nokeEocet - this Hitle | o o e R e pleasantry on the part of Farley E as any indications that he is “all S hoal k out” for the nomination. ! [ & or aters Nor has Wheeler made any state- | ment which even approximately ri- : Irving Jalfee, the o American to win th re r vals the 48 word statement by which ! Olympics championships, starts a series of 12 illusira ted g:x:ner put himself on the dotted : % ‘105 sons TODAY Of course, it is not dumb politics : on how to ice for Mr. Garner to try to get more skate . Jaffee candidates in his corner. Several Goes into every candidates, taken in the mass, i would constitute a solid “stop Roos- detail e evelt“ bloc. for the That would be more soup in Gar- o ner’s bowl, because at present he is, willy nilly, a “stop Roosevelt” move- ment all by himself ECCLES TO SENATE \ A little sister to the third term mystery is whether Marriner S, Eccles, Federal Reserve Board chair- man, and inventor of part of the New Deal, will run for the Semt,e in Utah. Senator King, a foe of much of the New Deal, is up for re-election. Several possible candidates are in the picture. Utah has adopted a general primary since King was nominated last, so it poses a new strategy, both for himself and his opposition. A constellation of ¢ minorities " (Continued on Page Seven) series of le: series of I takes the begin- ps on fld vises him about types of equipment needed, then guides him through the first strokes, turns and stops. Even the proper care 3 IRVING JAFFEE of equipment is discussed in Jaffee’s thorough teachings. First Lesson Today in The Empire __-----v-of,o-—'«,--—,.,’—.---n.-’¢”¢--,—¢—o—‘ | 3 | | | | | | NEW YORK, Jan. 26.—A Gf'lm.ln submarine thrust against the Brit-| ish lifelines from the West Indies, within the Pan-American neutrality zone, is predicted in reliable mari- time quarters. It is asserted Nazi submarines, ten- dm ed by a German passenger liner, )nu\ run the British blockade in | the North Sea, crossed the Atlantic, Anri are now prowling in the vicinity Trinidad. 'Hw plan, it is claimed, calls for ' a lightning blow " against British land French ships carrying grain i other foods, and fuel oil for and. CHLORINE GAS HITS HUNDREDS \Two Are Killed as Deadly Fumes Creep Into Nor- wegian Town OSLO, Jan. ine gas, and wafted on a light wind into the homes of sleeping residents in the village of Mjondalen today claimed two lives and sent 26 per- to hospitals, including eight women and several children. Rescue squads, wearing gas masks, saved hundreds of the 2,000 resi- dents by rushing them away to clear air by auto, still in their night clothes. Workers in a pulp plant, for which the chlorine was intended, managed to plug the leak. e Lafvian Ship Is Iorpedoed LONDON, Jan. 26. — Merchant 26.—Poisonous chlor- sons marine losses of war increased today with the announcement that the 4400 ton Latvian steamer has been wrpedoed. All but one member of the crew was rescued, ‘ leaking from a tank car| elations SEVEN AIR PILOTS OF U. 5. ENLIST Confingent Is Headed by World War Colonel Vincent Schmidt RUSSIAN ACTIVITIES INDICATE RETREATING Heavier and More Costly Arms Being Withdrawn Is Belief Now HELSINKI, Jan. 26. — Seven American air pilots, the first to | come to Finland's aid, have arrived here. The contingent is headed by Vin= cent Schmidt, World War Colonel, who has seen service in the Chinese- Japan war and with the Spanish | Republican Air Force. PECULIAR ACTIVITIES | WITH THE FINNISH FORCES ~ |IN LAPLAND, Jan. 26. — Unusual activity on the highway east from | Kara| i, where the invading Nazis Build 1 Undersea Shlp Daily Brmsh Oflmals Look for Intensified War On Shipping BERLIN, Jan. 26. — Submarine production, statements, is now reaching orie each day. | ks LOOK FOR ACTIVITY LONDON, Jan. 26. — Announce- ment of one-a-day production of Naizi undersea craft caused a states ment to be made that intensified | attacks on shipping may be expect- ed - - FDR AGAIN SILENT ON HOT ISSUE ‘Won'i Talk Third Term and | Won't Talk About CIO John L. Lewis WASHING IUN Jan. 26.—Presi- dent Roosevelt once aside third term inquiries today, including comment on CIO John Lewis' prediction of “ignominous defeat” if he is a candidate for the third term When the statement of the CIO leader was brought up at his press conference, he was asked if he was a candidate He asked reporters to give one good reason why he should answer an inquiry of that kind A laugh rolled through the con- ference room when one reported suggested an answer would make good coov. “There’s your answer,” Roosevelt said >oo WALL EORGE BACK FROM HISTORIC CITY Wallis George returned on the Northland from a round trip busi- ness visit to Sitka where the Sitka Cold Storage has installed new ice making equipment t otake care of |increasing ice demands from the 'suku fishing fleet, according to offieial ' more turned ' |forces rallfed after retreating from | midway across Finland, is seen by the PFinns as pointing toward re= | sumption of the general retreat. | Pinnish patrols making a report on the activity and military experts |said it is the belief the Russians are moving back their heavy and more costly arms before falling back completely from the Salla sector. The village base of the Russian unlllery at Markajarvi has sud= | denly . become silent and for the past three days not a shell has been | fired, indicating artillery is or has | been withdrawn. | Activities are slack also on the | southern front today. DIXIE COLD IS GREATER - THANNORTH | | | Sunny South Becomes Frigid Zone as Tem- perafures Plunge ATLANTA, Ga. Jan. 26.—Sus- tained cold waves have sent.tem= peratures of the traditionally sunny South below much of the Northern United States readings. Birmingham, Alabama, registered |five degrees below zero while Bos= |ton had sixteen degrees. | Atlantic City notes ten degrees |and Nashvlile, Tennessee, 13 de= grees below. New York saw the thermometer hover at fourteen. No relief is seen for the cotton belt before Sunday, weathermen say. ———l DR. CHARTERIS AND WIFE HERE Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Charteris arrived in Juneau from Sitka on the Northland last night and are | registered at the Baranof Hotel. | After visfting briefly in Juneau, 1!.he Charteris’ are sailing south om |a vacation trip. Dr. Charteris is Sitka's only ‘pncticing physician and is taking |a long put off rest. — eee ‘ BUILDING ARMY FIELD Final preparatory steps have been taken at Fairbanks for the U. S. Army Air Corps station site three miles from Fairbanks. Brush clear= ing is completed and the last pile in the 600-foot railroad bridge span= ning the Chena is driven. - Actual construction work starts in tthe Spring.