The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 30, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8323. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FINNS AIR RAID RUSSIAN TERRITO Hitler, In Speech, Blames England For War BRAGS OVER RUSS - NAZI ALIGNMENTS Scoffs at Chamberlain for Failing to Effect Noscow Pad INTIMATES FIERCE BATTLE . SCHEDULED Says Poles Had Their Turn ~Englishmen to Soon See War Also RLIN, Jan. 30.—In a surprise idcast today on the seventh an- ary of the Nazi regime in ny, Fuehrer Adolf Hitler de- that Germany's struggle for under the weight of the Treaty made her so0 that “nothing any longe will able to defeat us.” olding England responsible present conflict, Hitler de- clared the true aims of “Old Mr. Chamberlain are complete destruc- tion of the German Reich.” ey Fuehrer, making his first address since November 8, when he narrowly escaped death in the Munich beer hall bombing, reviewed the fruits of the Versailles Treaty, Natien of Have-Nots today are a nation of have- We are surrounded by those who have all and refuse to sur- render what is vital to us,” Hitler declared, dismemberment of Poland, he said, was an excuse England had been waiting for. “Poland was forced into the war by England, but now it will also be England’s turn to see what war i Hitler said. His eech came as a surprise on the anniversary of his accession to power, Germany and Italy He declared Germany’s relations with Italy have not changed and that “close friendship binds us to- gether.” 1 Turning to Russia, Hitler said he | had succeeded in forming an al- liance where Chamberlain failed, d aring, “Chamberlain the pious, Chamberlain the righteous, tried to come to an understanding with the atheistic state of Stalin. I can easily understand why the Eng- lish are wild over the fact that) 1 succeeded where they failed." Hitler said that as a result of | the Russian pact, he no longer “had anything to worry, about from that direction.” The Chancellor was introduced by Minister of Propaganda Goeb- | bels in the Berlin Sports Palace. NINE.SHIPS ARE SENT DOWN, SEA WARFARE TODAY German Bombers Make Assault on Shipping as Gift fo Hitler (By Associated Press) German planes, on the seventh| anniversary of the Nazi regime, pre- sented a birthday gift to Fuehrer| Hitlter of the destruetion of nine| ships in the North Sea by German | air raiders. The British Admiralty announces that one Nazi raider has been shot down during the secfond consecutive day of German assaults on shippnig off the East coast of the British Isles. for the public “We nots. Lhe BRI (5 e 0 McKINLEY TO POLARIS Leaving by plane this morning, Harold (Mac) McKinley, will spend a month at the Polaris-Taku mine where he will be camp cook dur-| ing the absence of the regular chef. | New Boruh his state funeral. her mother arriving for the funeral. secretary to the Idaho Senator. FOREST SERVI e Lower picture shows Miss Cora Rubi Miss Rubin for years was CE MAY BE TRANSFERRED TO INTERIOR DEPARTMENT, REPORTNO WASHINGTON, Tan ol ~Reparts Raise, Alaskans E.S. Harkness Passes Away In New York Mulfimillionaire, Philan- thropist, Who Gave Millions Away, Dead NEW YORK, Jan. 30—Edward Stephen Harkness, 66, multimillion- aire and philanthropist, director of railroads and who was responsible for the Harkness Pavillion in the York Medical Center, Hark- ness Courts and Yale and Harvard house plans, passed away last night. His widow only survives. Harkness gave Yale $25000,000 and Harvard $11,000,000 during his lifetime. pls i e AR HOWARD THROUGH Brice Howard, Alaska Steamship Company agent at Fairbanks, for- merly in Juneau, is a passenger on the Alaska for the Westward, re- turning from a conference of agents in Seattle. are being circulated in official quarters that President Roosevelt will soon issue another reorganiza- tion order transferring the Forest Service from the Department of Agriculture to the Interior Depart- ment The reports are founded largely on the information that the White House has requested Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace to delay uaming of a successor to the late F. A. Silcox, Chief of the Forest Service. - NAVAL YARD AT VANCOUVER WILL GET CONTRACTS Construction of Anfi-Sub-| marine Craft Comes to West Coast | OTTAWA, Jan. 30—Naval con- struction contracts aggregating in | value, $30,000000 will be awarded soon. Vancouver shipyards will, ac- (ordmg to what is heard here, re- | ceive $5,000,000 worth of contracts. | Al the tenders, which have been received from different parts of Canada are now in process of being analyzed. The construction of the | vessels will be confined chiefly to anti-submarine craft. ¢ FEELS FINE ONBIRTHDAY Is "Fit as Fiddle” as Fifty- eighth Milestone Reached WASHINGTON, Jan. dent Franklin D. Roosevelt, day, is “fit as a fiddle,” either 30.—Presi- | 58 to- | for | another hard political campaign or | for tapering off a in public office. Which course the President will choose remains a mystery. Whatever the decision, his physi- cian, Rear Admiral Ross MclIntire, says the President is in as “perfect a condition as any man at his age should be" for years ahead The President is celebrating his birthday in the “traditional man- ner The nation most part observing the d parties, dances and proj S raise funds in a campaign to halt the ravages of infantile paralysis Many localties held birthday dances last Saturday night. .o - SECOND SUSPECT IS ARRESTED IN SEATTLE ATTACK spectacular career is, however, for the with | Couple from Falrbanks En-/ ficed Into Alleged "Speak Easy”’ SEATTLE, Jan, 30.—A sf pect in the beating last night of M. J. Edmundson, attack on Mrs. Edmundson, itors here from Fairbanks. is held by the police Detectives said the man was ar- rested in his apartment yesterday on a tip and although he partly established an alibi, he is detained until his story is checked The Edundsons were lured by three negroes int oa hotel on May- turday 28, and 25, vis- Alaska. nard Street under pretext of seeing| a speakeasy there. Edmundson was held at bay while | his wife was assaulted. Edmundson finally managed to push his wife out of a window and then escaped himself One suspect, identified as tacker, was arrested immediately afterward. - Dlmond Puls in Bill for Pay WASHINGTON, Jan. 30. Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has introduced a bill to grant custodian service and postal employees in Alaska a pay base of 25 percent above corresponding positions in the States. (OFFEY IS HEADED SOUTH ON BUSINESS Edward D. Coffey, Representative from the Third Division last session of the Territorial Legislature, is a southbound passenger on the Mount | McKinley, going out for a three- weeks’ business trip. Coffey is to be a candidate for the Senate in the coming pnman ond sus- | one at-| A Scottish merchantman, the Castle Guard. is blasted by a direct hit from a German submarine in the North Sea in unusual picture above during the attack was a Bi photo shows the “ormation PERIODIC ANTI- Castle Guard settling into the water. LYNCHING DEBATE, BIG SHOW STAGED GROVER | WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—Con- gress never stages a better show | than in its periodic anti-lynching debates. | Half the members are furiously | serious. Some don’t care. Others | accept the business light-heartedly | ‘ms a political gesture by which| ! members with northern negro con- | | stituencies, such as in Chicago| {and New York, try to put the bill across. Representative Gavigan, au- thor of this year’s bill, comes from New York’s Harlem, although he |1s white and Irish as he can be. There isn't a souiary memb(r‘ of Congress who honestly thinks| the bill will get through the Sen- ate this year even though it Went| ., s of rape the execution should | \Lhrough the House by a wide mar-| gin. Southern Senators would die| in their seats before they would l(’l it get to a vote. It would pass |for sure if the Senate had chance to vote on it There were only three lynch- ings last year. That proves, say | southern members, that lynching is under control and the southern Istates need no Federal whiplash to make them end it. The bill FIRE SWEEPS THROUGH HALF OFTOWN OF CANDLE, SUNDAY SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—The Arctic Circle Exploration Company reports |fire destroyed half of the town of Candle over the weekend. ‘The report says the recreation hall, warehouse, electric light plant and Boris Magids’ store burned, the latter with a loss of $30,000. The fire, according to the report. apparently started in the light plant which was installed only recently. It is not known whether food is needed. Candle is in the Kotzebue Sound section and has a population of about 100 persons. The Territorial school has 12 to 15 pupils. | don't BY CONGRESS, IS GOING ON would permit the Federal govern- | ment jail local officials where a lynching occurred and make the county pay up to $10,000 to rela- tives of the vietim. Privately, some bers will tell you approve of nothing to southern mem- that while they mob operations, that quiets the southern negro populations much as “a damn good lynching.” Not so, says Representative Creal of Kentucky, a southerner who| thinks the bill should pass. “There is a theory,” he says, “that mob violence terrorizes and thereby has a better effect than an ordinary electrocution. Why not adopt a law we had in Ken- tucky which provided that in there is be by public hanging? In the case of a from miles around and when that public execution took place it had | 75 | a more deterrent effect than or 100 people dragging a man off in the dark and hanging him.” “SLUR ON WOMANHOOD” Once, he says, Iynching by proving that a little | , the supposed victim, had lied. Hotly Representative Cox of Georgia bounds to his feet: “The gentleman is casting a damnable reflection upon th:)uum, womanhood of the south.” “The thing which I regret mos! eases in Representative Sumners of Texas, tempted new concentration of Federal power—this testimony of the great House of Representa- tives that democratic institutions in the United States have failed, and that it is required that the great Federal government shall step in and be given the power Lo take the officers of a state from 50 public hanging they came| he forestalled a “is this at-| taken by an officed aboard a small companion freighter which was untouched by the attacking U-boat and acted as rescue ship for the Castle Guard's crew. Also in the area h destroyer, which arrived at the scene too late to sight the U-boat. Photos released by the Lower British M try of In- Alaska Work For Alaskans | Two Measures Infroduced | by Delegate Favoring North Residents J. J. ECKLE of Delegate Dimond By Secretary WASHINGTON, Jan. 22—(Spec- il Correspondence)—Pressing _the stand he has always advocated, | that residents be given preference |in the filling of jobs in the Ter- ritory for which they are quali- fied, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond on January 17 introduced two bills in the House, either of which, if enacted, will require that Alaskans be given priority in in the fisheries industry of Territory. One of these would attain its purpose through an amendment to the fishery law which would re- quire the Secretary of the Interior to insure, so far as may be prac- 'ticable, by annual regulations, | “priority of employment to actual bona fide residents of Alaska, who have resided therein at least one | year immediately prior to the date of making any such regulations, | in all of the work, | trade and occupations incident to or connected with the taking, | preparing, canning, processing, or preserving fish or shellfish in the Territory of Alaska or in the wa- ters adjacent thereto.” Formula for Work The other mes: an exact formula providing that at least a certain minimum per- centage of Alaska residents be em- ployed in the fisheries each year, with annual increase in the ratio of resident employees to nonresi- dents until, at the end of five the 1(‘:on|.m:e;l on Page E’!;hl’)i 'uu.v.ulued a0 Page Eight) Says Dimond; employment | employment, | we would set up L( it lrlp lo(uplwl ROOSEVE[]‘ Unusual Photo Shows Sub ’ I'orpedo Frvwhr('r BIG FORCE OF PLANES IN ATTACK Aerial Sweep Is Reported Over Wide Section of Soviet Soil NAVAL BASE BELIEVED 70 HAVE BEEN SHELLED Iweniy one Invaders’ Planes Are Claimed to Have Been Downed (By Associated Press) A Finnish air raid on a Rus- sian harbor, possibly Kronstadt, naval Sase, and further Finnish aerial sweeps by a large force of planes over Soviet territory is described in the Finnish com- munique issued early today. The Finnish Command asserts that 21 Russian planes were shot down yesterday during air fighting with the Finns carry- ing the air warfare to Soviet soil. Kinnish air forces bombed troop quarters, railway stations as well as a Russian port. Russian attacks northeast of Lake Lagoda are the focal point for land warfare and Russian advances have been repulsed by the Finns. e - Relum Seamen, Demand Japanese M ake Emphatic Move in Case of Seized Germans TOKYO, Jan. 30.—The Japanese Foreign Office announced today that Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita told British Ambassador Sir Robert Les- lie Craigie to return to Japan the |21 German seamen seized by a Brit- !ish warship from the Japanese liner | Asama Maru off the coast of Japan |over a week ago as “essential.” f The demand for the return of the |seamen was made during a two and |one-half hour conference in which |“every angle” of the Asama Mary case was discussed. The German seamen have been interned by the British at Hong- kong. The British Ambassador and For- | eign Minister agreed to meet again tomorrow to discuss the case further, | The British Ambassador has cabled the demands of Japan to his govern- ment at London. — i Stock QUOTATIONS G i NEW YORK, Jan. 30. — Closing |quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |stock today is 6%, Anaconda 27, Bethlehem Steel 73%, Caqmmon- wealth and Southern 1%. Curtiss Wright 10%, General Mofors 527%, International Harvester 55, Kenne- cott 35%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 8%, United States | Steel 57%, Pound $3.99. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 145.63, rails 3072, utilities 24.93 - JOE McDONALDS HERE Mr. and Mrs. Joe McDonald of Fairbanks, are Alaska passengers | for the Westward. McDonald and | his wife took a brief vacation Out- side after McDonald, United States Marshal of the Fourth Division, had aken out a group of prisoners,