The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 2, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8326. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ALASKA RADIO SPY DETECTOR PLANNED Soviets Drop Patrol Forces On Finnish Actress Leading Money Maker A8 NAMES GO RUSSIANS - AGAIN USE PARACHUTES Defense Forces Reported to Have Captured or Killed Invaders TANKS ARE PRESSED INTO NEW MOVEMENT Attackson O?upied Islands in Lake Ladoga Are Beaten 7Ba(k Feb. 2. — Russian HELSINKI, Command to have dropped many patrols by parachutes on Finnish soil but the defense troops have cap- tured or killed the invaders. The new danger from the skies has been introduced before by -the Russians, but always, the Finns say, ! without success. This report of dropping soldiers by parachutes comes from the Ka- relian Isthmus front where the Rus- also shovied another wrinkle in medern warfare, the use of tanks in pushing armored sledges in an attempt to crush the defenders. This reported to have been re- d to far into the night, but the move was discovered and the Finns made an effective repulse. The High Command also reports the Russians have been beaten back after attacks on Finnish held islands in the Lake Lagoda sector. e sor nes are reported by the Finnish | | | i | | | | F. A. Countway Screen Player Claudette Colbert and a soap manufacturer share honors as leading money makers of 1938, according to a list of 400 individuals making $75,000 or more during 1938. Miss Colbert’s salary was $301,944. The soap manufacturer is F. A. Countway, who heads a United States sub- sidiary of a British concern. He was paid $469,713. Figures were Claudette Colbert released by the treasury depart-’ ment in Washington, F.D.R.'s Friend | | 10 CARRY ' ON DISASTER, FIGHT TO NAZI LAND British Iniemo Reply in Kind fo Bombing of German Planes NEW SPEEDY AIRCRAFT 15 BEING CONSTRUCTED Chamberlain Is Gives "“Go Ahead” Signal-Op- position Defeated i | SUB SQUALU Loss Is Blamed on Mechan- | ical Rather than Hum- j an Failure WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — The i Navy Department ascribes the [10ss of the submarine Squalus with | 26 members of the crew primar- |ily to mechanical rather than hu- man failure, This is the report of the three- man Court of Inquiry. | This Court of Inquiry blames “me- ! chanical failure of the operating gear engine induction valve” for the sinking of the $5,000,000 ves- ‘sel last May 25 off Portsmouth, | New Hampshire, and “no serious [blame” is attached to the officers yand men. Force is preparing to reply in kind to the large scale German bombing of the English coast and this is ex- pected in tie spring, authoritative sources asserted today. Speedy fighting planes with ma- | chine guns on the tails to permit' LONDON, Feb. 2—The Royal Air| of firing in any direction are de- scribed as Great Britain's means of meeting the anticipated attack by Germany’s new bombers which are reported as being built for a speedy performance at high alti- tudes. “Go Ahead” Signal Prime Minister Chamberlain was given the “go ahead” signal by the House of Commons tonight to con- duct the war under his own program when the opposition’s demand for a special Economic Coordinator in the War Cabinet was voted down by 185 to 90. Norwegian Ship Sunk HAUGESUND, Norway, Feb. 2.— The sinking of the 1500-ton Nor- wegian steamer Varildi with the loss of her crew of 15 is announced here this afternoon. The cause of the sinking, which occurred in the North Sea, is un- known, Is Attempfed ' In Shanghai Three PoliceTnen Wound- ed-Two Chinese Gun- men of 11 Killed SHANGHAI, Feb. 2—Two Brit- ish and one Chinese policemen were wounded and two Chinese gunmen killed in a 12-hour battle with pistols, rifles and tear gas after the officers interrupted eleven Chinese robbing a bank here. BILLIE BURKE TO BE STARS' TRAINER HOLLYWOOD, Feb. 2—Mana- ger Bill Sweeney of the Holly- wood baseball club has named Billie Burke trainer for the Stars. Burke was trainer for Sacramen- to, Oakland and Portland in the Pacific Coast League, ,Ihe'Enemy, By PRESTON GROVER 2. — It Byrd of President’s | severest critics, made it possible |for the budget to be held low }enough to skin under the 45-bil- | lion debt limit. | Last June the Senate, at Byrd's request, called on all | ernment corporations to submit financial statements. The order went to all such organizations as RFC, Commodity Credit Corpora- tion, Export-Import Bank, Fed- eral Crop Insurance and a dozen or more others, Byrd said many of them had a lot of capital they did not need and might well send back to the Treasury. When it came time for the Pres- ident to make up the budget, he was ready to agree with Byrd. WASHINGTON, Feb. develops that Senator Virginia, of the \ 1 one “With the lessening need for loans in some cases and the grow- ing surpluses in other cases,” Mr. Roosevelt said in his budget mes- | sage, “it appears that some of | these corporations will have ex- cess capital funds. Currently, in | response to Senate Resolution 150 | (Byrd's), a comprehensive survey and appraisal of assets of govern- | ment corporations is being carried | lout. On the basis of preliminary | studies, I estimate that it will prove feasible to reduce the capi- | tal funds of some of these corpor- ations by an aggregate figure of $700,000,000, without in any way impeding their operations.” | With that much money to give him a lift, the President scaled the budget under the deadline by a narrow $61,000,000. That is, pro- vided $460,000,000 is raised by spe- cial defense taxes. However, Byrd money, been used to reduce the national debt, not merely to crutch up this year's budget. Just a technicality, however, he agreed. 4 thought the The fine hat of Rep. Marvin Jones of Texas, chairman of the House agriculture commit- tee, is yet to be heard from. He laid out $15 for a fine new topper and was admiring and readjusting it on his head be- fore an occasional mirror as he strolled along Pennsylvania Avenue. He met Representa- tive Sumners, fellow Texan. “Don’t you think this hat makes me look like a states- man' Jones asked. “No, 1 don’t,” drawled Sum- ners, with scarcely a trace of a smile, “but it does as much i (Continued on Page Five) - ONPRIMARY - LISTS HERE Five Candidates Without Opposition - 30 Filed | for Representative The names of 48 candidates will appear on primary ballots in South- east Alaska for Territorial and First | Divisional offices. The only new filing between the time The Empire went to press yes=| terday and 5 o'clock when the lists | closed was that of Mrs. Mildred R. Hermann for Representative, as a | Republican. | The full list, as announced by Ter- ritorial Auditor Frank A. Boyle and Clerk of the District Court Robert Coughlin, is as follows: ! Delegate to Congress | DEMOCRAT-—Anthony J. Dimond. | REPUBLICAN—Sam Duker, Cash | Cole, both of Juneau. Attorney General DEMOCRAT — Henry Roden, George Grigsby, both of Juneau. | REPUBLICAN—Harry G. McCain | of Ketchikan. Auditor DEMOCRAT—Frank A. Boyle of Juneau; Robert Sheldon of Fair- banks | REPUBLICAN—A. H. Humpheries of Fairbanks. | | INDEPENDENTHarry G. Wat- | [son of Juneau. Highway Engineer DEMOCRAT—Wiliam A. Hesse of Juneau; Victor C. Rivers of Fair- banks. | REPUBLICAN—Irving McK Reed | |of Fairbanks; H. C. Miller of Ket- chikan. | 1‘ | \ | | Senator DEMOCRAT—Norman R. Walker, P. J. (Pat) Gilmore, both of Ket- chikan; A. P. Walker of Pelican City. | Soil ¥ ¥ A huge British bombing plane is pictured (see it?) at its airfield near the eovering blending with the snow. Only a few seconds are necessary, however, (andidafes, Legislature, 3rd Division Two Senators fo Be Elected —One for Long, Other for Short Term ' | the gov-| REUBLICAN—Frank S. Barnes of | Wrangell. 1 Representatives DEMOCRAT—John Walmer, Al- len Shattuck, A. J. Nelson, John McCormick, Crytsal Snow Jenne, William T. Douglas, G. A. Doelker, {James V. Davis, A. B. Cain, all of Juneau; Neil Anderson, George H. Peterson, D. W, Such, all of Sitka; Van H. Fisk of Wrangell; F. J. Bar- onovich, W. M. McCall, E. L. Samp- |son, all of Ketchikan; Carroll Clau- sen, Harold C. Jones, both of Pet- ersbhurg. REPUBLICAN — Grant Baldwin, |Don Foster, Theodore Danielson, Mildred R. Hermann, Maurice T. Johnson, Virgil J. Newell, William L. Paul, Jr,, Steve Vukovich, Sigurd J. E. Wallstedt, Jay Williams, all of Juneau; J. F. Van Gilder, Ketchi- kan; Joseph J. F. Ward, Skagway. | e Legislafive 'O'Neill of Anchorage; short term VALDEZ, Alaska, Feb. 2—Com- plete legislative filings in the Third Division are as follows: By Democrats SENATE, long term—Edward D. Coffey of Anchorage; short term— Don Carlos Brownell of Seward; Warren Taylor of Kodiak. HOUSE — Walter E. Huntley of Palmer; Allen E. Horning, Harvey J. Smith, H. H. McCutcheon, Stan- ley J. McCutcheon, all of Anchorage; Michael Hatton of Naknek; Theo- dore A. Nutbeem of Selodvia; Will- iam A. Egan of Valdez; Thomas E. Burchett of Cordova. By Republicans | SENATE, long term — Harry I. E. E. Chamberlain of Seward; Jos-| eph H. Murray of Cordova. HOUSE—AlImer J. Peterson, Mor- | itz A. Andresen, both of Anchora Hal B. Selby of Valdez; Ivan A Wilson of Palmer. ———-—— .| | strong : ALASKA APPEARS | Candidales, "oy yyom spor AthDivision uNDER OUR FLAG Puzzle—Find the Camouflaged Plane - a bombing raid. Former Kaiser Wanfs Three Nations fo Stop Fighting and Wage Battle, Soviet Russia THIRD TERM FAVORED BY SOME STATES Democrafic National Com- mitteemen fo Meet Next Monday WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. — Early arrivals from the west for Monday's meeting of the Democratic National Committee report a strong sentiment in their states for renomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the Chief Executiveship. Lynn Broderick, Kansas National | Committeeman, said: “Kansas is for Roosevelt for a third term, and I feel the same way.” Ed A. Carroll, National Commit- teeman from the State of Wash- ington, expressed the belief his state is in “favor of a third term, if vot- ing today.” Charles Vogel, new member from North Dakota asserted that “my state is very pro-Roosevelt but I have no statement further than that on the third term.” The Democratic National Com- | | STATION IS PROPOSED IN WEST REGION | "Monfor” O—uariers Sug- | | ] i front in France, its tarpaulin to prepare the machine for NEW YORK, Feb. 2. — Former Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany has written to an American friend, bio- gested for Erection Near Anchorage PRECAUTION AGAINST ESPIONAGE BE TAKEN Forty Thousand Dollar Ap- propriation Sought for Building WASHINGTON, reb, 2—Becauss any foreign spy can send trans- Atlantic messages with a radio built of dime store parts, Uncle Sam is increasing precautions against the use of air esplonage. In response to an appeal from James Fly, Chairman of the Fed- eral Communications System, the Senate Appropriations Committee | recommended that the FCS appro- priation be boosted $40,000 to build a new “monitor” station near An- chorage, Alaska, as a silent detec- tive of the air waves. Air Espionage Fly told the committee, “There is extreme difficulty in avoiding esplonage work by the use of high frequencies and peculiarly enough, in the high frequency field a trans- mitting set is so cheap it may be made easily by a skilled person who with a very few dollars can take a suitcase, go around to the corner nardware store or the five and ten and come out with a short wave transmitting set which may be ca- grapher Poultney Bigelow, that he‘pable of international, or let us say, believes Germany, England and|trans-Atlantic communications.” France should stop fighting each| Station Necessary other and join Finland against 80-| Fly expressed opinion the location when found, should have/ [Two in Each Party in Race for Senate-Many Seek | Seats, Lower House FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. 2. — The complete list of Fourth Di- vision AlaskaLegislative candidates at the close of filing yesterday af- ternoon is as follows: | For Senator Democrats—Gilbert B. Stevens of Berry, Hjalmer Nordale of Fah'-;' | banks. Republicans — P. J, McDonald, | John H. “Deacon” Jones. For Representative Democrats — Jesse D. Lander, Hugh M. Henton, Fred A. Sorri Charles F. Herbert, Mrs. Dorothy | Loftus, Leo Rogge, Alfred J. Ghez-i zi, Prank 8. Gordon, all of Fair- banks; William R. Olsen of Bethel.| Republicans—Louis D. Cobert.’ (R. J. McKanna, Fred B. Johnston, | Arthur F. Carpenter, Henry P.| Karstens, Mrs. Fay C. Hurley, E.| Thomas Murton, all of Fairbanks; Sam Estes of Chatanika. Independent—Robert McCombe of | Fairbanks, | # mittee is slated to pick the time and | radio station to the Byrd Expedition | Byrd Hears Leffers of Cold in Stafes — Pefers- burg Is Mild | | SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Feb. 2—| Bitter cold weather was the theme of nearly every letter read tonight over General Electric’s short-wave[ in Little America. Letters told of below zero tem- peatures in the deep South and ten inches of.snow at Alabama. With but one exceptian, word of freezing weather was sent to the Byrd Expedition. The exception came from Petersburg, Alaska, ac- cording to the postmark, declaring, “weather very mild here.” s HAWKES GO SOUTH ON VACATION TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hawkes and son Jackie sailed on the North Coast for the South. The three will make a vacation trip before return- inig. i place for the Party’s Presidential nominating convention, e, Kidnap Polish Women Nazis Abducting Females for Forced Labor on German Farms ROME, Feb. 2—Polish envoys to the Vatican and Italy today added a new chapter to alleged persecu- tion of the Poles by the Germans. The Polish envoys make the charge that the Nazis are kidnap- ing Polish women for forced labor on farms in the Reich, I viet Russia. “The magnificent stand with which the Finns have smashed the nimbus of Bolshevism has set the people thinking with the result that the wish for peace is gaining ground” writes the former Kaiser. The former German ruler in the World War has just celebrated his 81st birthday. | e 2nd Division Filings for Legislafure \Two Women Are Candi- dates for Nomina- tion for House NOME, Alaska, Feb. 2—Filing |for the Alaska Territorial Senate and House from the Second Division are the following: Senate Democrat, O. D. Cochran; Repub- lican, Harry Egbert. House Democrats—Howard Lyng, Leon- ard Smith, Clyde Cockburn, Eugene Kell, Frank H. Whaley, Wallace Por- ter, Fred A. Kubon, Tolbert Scott, | Richard Lee, and two women, Edna | Christofferson Fix and Elizabeth M. Cross. Republicans—A. M. Taggart, Rol- |lyn J. Ball, Stuart Stangroom, Ken- neth Rude, John Hurley, Ludwig Ost. Independent—Edward Anderson. Mrs. Cross is the wife of John Cross, Northern flier, who operates trading posts at Deering and else- where. Mrs. Fix is the widow of the Kou- garok miner, Isadore Fix, who dis- appeared two years ago in the lonely Kougarok mining section and has never been seen since. Four former Territorial legisla- tors are seeking the nomination again, Lyng, Smith, Porter and Scott. - e — Chocolate was introduced into Europe from Mexico and Brazil |of the checking station in Alaska is | especially important because “the | unsettled condition of the world makes the most important location |on the West Coast of Alaska.” RUMANIA PRESSED BY REICH German Nation Would Take Over Oil, Indus- fries, Agriculture BELGRADE, Feb. 2. — German pressure on Rumania to obtain ac- ceptance of a sweeping plan to make her industries, petroleum pro- duction and agriculture adjuncts of the Reich’s economic structure is reported by informed persons as the meeting of the Balkan En- tente opened today. Rumania, informants said, has already made some concessions to Germany regarding the plan, but is looking to her partners in the Entente, Turkey, Greece and Yugo- slavia, to support her in her pol- icy of economic neutrality and en- able her to resist encroachments which might involve her in war. Under this neutral policy, pro- posed after it was decided futile for Rumania to ask other members of the Entente for a military al- liance, the four nations will sell supplies to both Germans and the Allies, but only to the extent of normal peacetime trade. Red League Aid Stays in Geneva BERNE, Feb. 2—Vladimir So- koline, ousted as undersecretary of the League of Nations secretariat has been instructed by Moscow to remain in Geneva as a “liaison officer with the International Red Observers believe his principal task it to watch the league’s co- about 1520, |ordination of aid for Finland,