The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1940, Page 1

[} HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” = VOL. LV., NO. 8328. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDA\:. FEBRUARY 5, 1940. 'MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FINN CITIES FIRED BY SOVIET SHELLS ' National Demo. Body Musters 1940 P SEAWARFARE i | | PARTY T0 SEEK FOR NEW VOTE Farley Saymdependeni Ballot Man is One to Go After PHILADELPHIA MAY GET CONVENTIONERS Garner Is Only Nominee Whose Name Is Dis- cussed by “Jim” BULLETIN—WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — The Democrats this afternoon chose Chicago for the convention city this year, the date to be set later. Forty-eight members of the Democratic National Committee voted to hold the convention in Chicago. This was one more than a majority of those voting. The committee rejected offers of Houston, which nut un a sur- prise $200,000 cash fund and San Fransico which promised $200,- 000 in cash. Chicago’s 48 votes are com- vared to 38 for Philadelphia, 7 for San Francisco and 2 for Houston, WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—James A. Farley, Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, told the party today that the Democrats’ boggest job is to win over some 10,000,000 independent voters “who cast their ballots for the best candidates and best program offered.” The committee gathered today in an all-day session at the Willard Hotel to pick a convention city, with Farley predicting a “very active pre- convention campaign. Garner’s Name Htentioned Farley noted there were many who would like to have the Democratic Presidential nomination, but men- tioned only Vice-President John Nance Garner, whose name came up in Farley’s expression of thanks for the assistance given him by members of the committee “includ- ing sturdy stalwart John Nance Garner.” Garner himself said some kind words of Farley when he introduced him as “one of the most efficient, kindest, most agreeable fellows to work with T know.” Convention City As Farley spoke, there was grow- ing indication that Philadelphia might obtain the 1940 convention. Democrats met in that city in 1936 and the Philadelphia delegation to today’s meeting offered a certified check for $125000 to obtain this vear's convention. . Deficit Wiped Out The committee cheered news that the party’s $250,000 deficit was more than wiped out by over $400,000 in receipgs from recent Jackson Day dinners. Farley lent weight to talk of the committee to take no action on the convention date today, but to turn over the job to a subcommittee, se- lecting February 16 as a meeting date, when he said: “Why not wait and see what the Republicans have to offer?” Farley indicated that if the Re- publicans meet late in June or early in July, the Democratic Cdnvention will be held immediately afterward. Representative of |(E§ Is Dead WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—Repre- sentative Cassius C. Dowell, 75, Iowa Republican who served twelve terms in Congress, died Sunday. McDOWELL OUT ON BUSINESS TRIP B. F. McDowell of Bert's Cash Grocery, left on the Alaska for a month’s business trip to Seatile and Puget Sound points. During his abser.ce Tom Parke will be in charge of the store. Pretty Jane Wyman and hand- | some Ronald Reagan are to be ‘ married in the Wee Kirk of the Heather, Glendale, Cal., disdain- ing to follow the elopement trend considered so romantic by many Hollywood altar-bound celebrities. Samuel Vauclaifi,w Builderof | | Locomotives, PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 5. — Samuel M. Vauclain, 83, Chairman of the Board of the Baldwin Loco- motive Works, died here yesterday. { From an apprentice boy in a rail- road shop he rose to head the vast Baldwin Locomotive Works at Phil- adelphia, and became an authority | on railroad transportation. | During the World War he turned |his inventive and executive ability | to work that won him the Disting- | uished Service Medal from his own country and decorations from Italy, France and Poland. He served as chairman of committees on the | Council of National Defense. | He showed the Allies how to util- ize destructive 14-inch naval guns in land warfare by mounting them on flat-bottomed freight cars and designed mobile carriages for guns | He visited Soviet Russia at a |time when that country was gen-| erally closed to Americans, surveyed; its railroad needs and advised the| Soviet authorities. | | Made Munitions | In the World War he expanded‘ | the activities of the Baldwin Works| to produce munitions. Great shops | were erected at Eddystone, Pa., and Burnham, Pa. At peak production the combined plants produced 12.- 1000 rifles and 25,000 shells daily. ! England and Canada followed his {example and manufacturers there established munitions factories. As President of the locomotive works he became a super-salesman, | ireturning from Europe and South | America with contracts running as high as $10,000,000. He was born in Philadelphia May 18, 1856. The family moved to Al-| toona, Pa., where he atlended pub- lic school until he was 16 and was then apprenticed as a mechanic in| ‘the shops of the Pennsylvania Rail- \road. In five years he was made foreman. Abandoning a dream of a college education he studied me- {chanical drawing at night. { Rises From Inspector Soon he became an inspector at {the Baldwin plant and rose rapidly |to assume various responsibilities. In 1895 he was made a member of the firm; Vice President in 1911 He was working in the shops—he |always maintained an active inter- est in mechanical operations, de- spite new titles—when he was noti- fied that he had been elected Pres- ident in 1919. He served as Presi- Munitions of ~ War, Dies in Philadclphig ¥ 4 SAMUEL M. VAUCLAIN |dent for ten years and then be.‘cued. came Chairman of the Board. Mr. Vauclain was married April 17, 1879 to Miss Annie Kearney, who died in 1923. They had six | children. Needed Little Sleep Mr. Vauclain once esttmated that he helped build 60,000 locomotives. When he was in his prime he fre- quently spent sixteen hours daily at the Baldwin Works, He rarely slept more than five or six hours An old friend asked him when he was going to take a “real” va- cation. The reply was: tery.” Hated Long Letters As an executive Mr. Vauclain carried production figures in his head and made his bids without figuring. He detested long letters. When he submitted an annual re- port his accompanying letter was about ten lines long. Until he was thirty years old he never had a watch. He said he never had need for one because he always awoke before any one else and stayed on the job until it was finished. Then one of his partners presented him with a gold watch and he car- more for sentiment’s sake than any- thing else. | l ed - Lives Are Lost “When I | take a lay-off in Bryn Mawr ceme- naturalized citizens, accused with Claim Made that Fourteen | Vessels Senf Down in Raids Saturday BRITISH ADMIT ATTACK | | | | | | | BUT ONLY 1 SHIP SUNK Nazi Attemping to Demor- alize Convoy System Is Indication (By Asscoiated Press) Main activity in the war between the Allies and Germany centers at sea where German airplanes struck three times last week against mer- chant shipping off the British coast. The German communique said 14 ships were sunk last Saturday in renewed air raids but admitted that the raids cost the Germans three large bombers, shot down by, the British Air Force. The British statement acknow- ledges ten ships were attacked by German bombers but only one ship was sunk, declaring the German claims that 14 ships were sent down |as perfectly absurd The principal German objective of the raids on shipping is to dis- ruption of convoys by which the British are attempting to safeguard their own vessels and those of neu- ! tral nations engaged in trade. | The Western front remains quiet, according to morning communiques. e BRITISH NAVAL VESSEL DAMAGED IN RAID, SINKS ‘Minesweeper Sphinx Cap- sizes While Being Tow- LONDON, Feb. —The British mine sweeper Sphinx, badly dam- aged by German air raiders last ! Ssaturday, sank today as the craft |was being towed toward port in | heavy weather. The tow line broke and the mine sweeper capsized as it entered port. | The Sphinx is the 24th British Na- val vessel lost. | One report says four officers and 145 men are missing while two offi- cers and 44 men have been res- Just previous to the President's birthday, was batting 100 percent for funds of Dimes™ | The President in President’s Birthday. NOTED PASTO DIES AFTER | A, | | | SEATTLE, Feb. 5. — The Rev Mark A. Matthews died at T7:45 o'clock this morning as the result of pneumonia and paralysis. The pastor of the largest Presbyterian | congregation in the nation was| taken to the Seattle General Hos- | pital on January 30 after suffering | | a slight cold for about a week. | To take over a church with 400 | adherents in 1902 and build it up in 24 years to 15,000, was one out- | standing achievement in the life of Dr. Matthews, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Seattle and former moderator of, the Assem- bly. | The strong religious organiza- | tion Matthews built was the cul- mination of a life devoted to fhe ministry, begun in 1886 at the | age of 19, Ordained at 20, Matthews | accepted a pastorate at Dalton, Ga., where, at a salary of $75 a year he helped build with his own hands ] tinuea on Page Threes | Queer Angle s ~ Alleged Plof United Stat | By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — Three others of a plot to overthrow the United States government, cannot | be deported even if proved guilty. | The three, two Irish and one German in ofigin, were rounded up in New York by J. Edgar Hoover and his G-men amid a fanfare of | publicity almost as fantastic as the nature of the plot against the Gov- {ernment of which the 17 were ac- | cused. The moment an alien completes |his citizenship ceremony, he be- comes forever immune to deporta- tion except on one condition. Only if it is proved he obtained his citi- zenship papers by fraud or deceit |can he be deported, no matter how iried it through life, but he wore it |undesirable a citizen he may turn 'out to be. The 17 men, including the three Vlft_av—ealed}n fo Overthrow | es Government, naturalized citizens, had an array of cans full of powder, rifles, am- munition, machine gun belts and| various impedimenta which togeth- er with other information convinc- ed G-man Hoover that they had in mind a plot so gigantic that it made ordinary revolutions look pale. As a prelude to seizing the gov- ernment, they planned to blow up| communication lines, said Hoover,| to capture arsenals, to knock off a dozen Congressmen as a sample of | what they might do if they really| got going. Morever, said Hoover, they were mad at a neighborhood theatre which showed Russian-made films and were going to blow it up, along with a Jewish newspéaper. | THE BRIDGES CASE To a ecasual spectator it would appear that the main objective of (Continued on Page Seven) _Pistrict Commissioner George E. Allen; Col. D, Walker Wear, man; George V. Riley, and Keith Morgan, National Chairman of the PRESIDENT GETS CAMPAIGN REPORT o — to “Fight Infantile Paralysi: of New REV. MARK A MATTHEWS, R OF SEATTLE, BRIEF ILLNESS AWSOCIATED FRESS REV. DR. MARK A, MATTHEWS POLE FALLS; NOME ELECTRICIAN KILLED Death of a mine worker at Nome | been reported to Territorial ! Commissioner of Mines B. D. Stew- has art by the United States Smelt-|ing seriousness, he was chosen by ing, Refining and Mining Com-|a committee of 11 business men to pany. John A. Bell, an electrician for cipal budgets. January 30, the Chief Executive received a renort that There was a steady stream of “March contributions and over 10,000 celebrations were held either just before or on January 30. the above picture is getting a preliminary report and those with him are (left to right) Q the nation York, Assistant National Chair- Committee for the Celebration of the F. D.Sérg'éfil Passes Away, long__lllness Former Head of Chicago, Northwestern Railway Dies in Evanston CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 5.—Fred W. Sargent, former head of the Chi- cago and Northwestern Railway Company for 14 years, died Sunday in an Evanston hospital after a long illness. Ontil ill heaitn rorced him to etire May 24, 1939, he also served as President of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Rail-| | way Company and as a director of | | the Continental Tllinois National | | Bank, one of the largest financial| |institutios in the country; the Il- linois Bell Telephone Company and several smaller railroad companies. He found time as well for a wide | range of civic duties. These includ- led services as trustee for the Field Museum of Natural History in Chi- cago, Northwestern University, the Rosenwald Museum of Science and Industry, Lake Forest Academy and :Comell College at Mount Vernon, Towa. Budget Balancer In 1933, when the City of Chicago and Cook County were struggling | with financial problems of increas- | | direct a campaign to balance muni- | Sargent and his fel- the company, was killed instantly low workers acc omplished their pur- on January 25 when a power pole| on which he was working broke fell to the ground. e MURPHY 1S IN and SUPREME COURT Fifth Appointee of Presi-| dent Roosevelf Takes Oath and Seat WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. — The President’s fifth appointee to the| Supreme Court of the United States, Frank Murphy, began service codxyi after taking the oath to administer justice impartially. pose. Sargent was born May 26, in Ak- ron, Towa, a Plymouth county town founded by his father, Edgar Wes- ley Sargent. As a boy he worked lin his father's flour and grist mill and on the family’s farms. His in- terest in farms persisted throughout his life, and in addition to his Ev- anston home he maintained a farm near Mount Vernon. Practice Law After being graduated from the Akron public schools, Sargent stu-| died at the State University of | South Dakota and the law school | of Towa State University. He earned | a legal degree in 1901 and started at once to practice law in Sioux City, Towa. A year later he was married to Miss Mary Minier oli Flandreau, S. D. They had three (Continued on Page Three) (0] wers TWO TOWNS SET ABLAZE BY BOMBERS Night Raids_geing Made | by Russian Planes, | ImporfantAreas TURKU, VIIPURI ARE " REPORTED AS VICTIMS fiEleven Craft Said fo Have Been Shot Down-De- fense Lines Hold (By Associated Press) Night sir raids of Soviet war- | planes brought terror and severe damage to two Finnish cities, Tur~ ku and Viipuri, | Fires burned throughout iniam after sweeping raids | the air. | The Finnish report says Rus- | sian air raids have occurred dur« ing the past several nights and | admits that Turku and Viipuri suffered heavily last night. | Resistance stiffened against the linvaders’ pounding attacks on Fin- |land'’s Karalian Isthmus defense {lines and tho Soviets were repulsed | with reported casualties of at least { | | the from __ /1,000 Russian soldiers killed. Several successive waves of Ruse sian planes roared across the Fin- nish frontier at the start of this | week but the afternoon commun- ique says the Finns claim to have shot down eleven “enemy” planes, RUSSIAN " DIVISION ISKILLED 'Reporfed Annihiliafed by | Finnish Forces North 1 of la@doga LONDON, Feb. 5—A Reuters dispatch tonight reports that the Russian Eighteenth Division has been “annihilated” at Kit- ela, a short distance north of Lake Lagoda, by a surprise at- tack of Finnish forces. | | | MORE FINNISH SUCCESSES HELSINKI, Feb, 5—A late com- munique tonight says the Finnish forces northeast of Lake Lagoda have killed more than 500 Russians, captured much booty and repulsed three Russian attacks. ‘The communique said two Russian attacks were against Island posi~ tions and the third attack against shore positions on Lake Lagoda. Attacks have also been repulsed at Summa, on the Karelian Isthmus front and at the extreme south- west point at Markajarvi near the Arctic Circle where nine Russian planes are known to have been shot down late today. Kekhfiin Woman To Wed in Nevada RENO, Nevada, Feb. 5—A mar- riage liicense has been isSued to John R. Mayne, 22, of Chico, Cal, and Ireve Thompson, 22, of Ket- chikan, Alaska. Mo!her~ y Sadrifices Her Life PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss, Feb. 5. —Mrs. Alice Richardson, 43-year-oid mother, sacrificed hery life iast night in an effort to rescue two sonms, unaware they had already escaped from their burning home, v