The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1940, Page 1

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8329. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUE‘S[SAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAVY TO MANEUVER OFF ALASKA COAST Finns Resisting Furio 5 THRUSTS SENTFORTH SHORTTIME Defenders Forced fo Push Back Invaders in North Sectors SPIES BEING LANDED; DROP FROM PARACHUTES Rout of Eighteenth Division' Continues as Finns Push On HELSINKI, Feb, 6.—Finnish posi- tions on the northern front are re- ported to have been attacked fur- iously five times within 24 hours by the Red Army Each attack, munique says, heavy losses. The Soviet Army is also reported to be suffering a series of disastrous defeats by Finnish troops in the area northeast of Lake Ladoga. The Finnish Government has the Finnish com- was repulsed with warned the population by radio that | Soviet spies are being dropped be- hind the lines at night, presumably by parachute. Civilians are urged to seek identi- fication of all strangers seeking in- formation Army authorities report that the Russians have fajled again in an attempt to use the parachute tech- nique on the Karelian Isthmus. Several young Soviet soldiers are said to have been caught floating down behind the lines—with dyna- mite charges strapped around their waists. The Finnish communique says that the rout of the Eighteenth Di- vision of Russians at Lake Ladoga has not been completed as yet and it all depends on how well the Fin- ish forces are able to follow up their victory during the next 48 hours. A o PROTESTTO REOPENIN OF YANGTZE Reactionary Leader in Jap- an Says Plan Court- ing U. S. Favor TOKYO, Feb. 6.—Japan’s decisiyn to reopen the lower Yangtze River . Happy Sequel to Romeo Saga | 3asking in sequel to Lowther is the Palm Beach sunlight Shakespeare’s classic, I the former Eileen Herrick, of New York.who eloped with her Romeo despite parental objections. . Mr.and Mrs. George Lowther write | omeo and J uiiet. Honeymooning Mrs. HEAVY FINES ARE " LEVIED BY COURT ININDUSTRY CASE \Confractors, Unions, Cor- | porations Charged, ‘ Conspiracy PITTSBURGH, Pa., Feb. 6.—Fhes totaling $52,000 were today imposed by the Federal Court on 42 electri- cal contractors, land 13 corporations charged with | conspiracy to defraud the Federal | Government through collusive ac- | tion in public works. | The stiffest fine, that of $7,000, was given to Michael Gordon, Busi- Washingfon Goes fo Work At Nine Although Congress | Generally Stars af Twelve two union leaders| | | o | By PRESTON GROVER 1 WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—A win- ter day in Washington: | 1 | The sun tnumbs a ride upward! |on the crest of mists rising from Chesapeake Bay. The Norfolk boat | whistles low and cold as it rounds a bend in the Potomac to come in sight of the Capitol dome. | Ten thousand starlings, strung! | like a solid black belt around an | out-thrust coping on the new, Post-office building, break away | in swarms at the first appearance of the sun to huddle for a mo- ment of frigid chatter in the trees around the Pulaski monument. A | few early rising pedestrians give that corner a wide berth while | the starlings are overhead. l | Three men rise to their haunches |on a steel grating where they have | huddled through the night in the :heaL which has oozed upward from | the Department of Justice heating i in China to third power traffic we/ Dess Agent of Local No. 5, Inter-|system. Carved in cold stone over bitterly attacked today in the Jap- anese Parliament as “obsequious di- plomacy,” and aimed at courting favor of the United States. Ichiro Kiyose, leader of the reac- tionnary elements, in a fiery speech, said the Japanese Government an- nounced the step of reopening the Yangtze River as an effort to im- prove the attitude of the United States toward Japan. The move has failed, Kiyose shout- ed, and he advocated outright aban- donment of the Nine-Power Treaty of 1922 which pledged signatories to respect the “Open Door” policy for foreign trade in China. LORD TWEEDSMUIR HAS CONCUSSION AS RESULT OF FALL Governor General Report- ed Resting Comfortably, However, at Home | OTTAWA, Feb. 6—Lord Tweeds- | muir, Governor General of Canada, | is suffering from concussion as a| result of a fall, according to an- nouncement by the Government. | The 64-year-old official is, how- | ever, reported resting comfortably | at the Government House. l | national Brotherhood of Electrical iWDrkers, who is described by Assist- | Neil Andrews as “complete dictator” in the electrical contracting indus- ;try in Pittsburgh. TROUBLE ~ LOOMING INJAPAN | Internal Explosion Predici- ed by British Official | VANCOUVER, B. C., Feb. 6.—The | former Commander of Great Brit- ain’s Yangtze River flotilla, Vice Admiral R. V. Holt, predicted an | internal explosion in Japan. | Admiral Holt is returning to England after two years in China. He said that the Japanese people are becoming increasingly impa- tient because of the costs and hard- ships of the China war. The naval official said that the people of Japan know little, if anything, about what is happening in China. |ant United States Attorney General‘ the entrance are the solemn words:l “Equal justice under law.” | CLERKS GO TO WORK 1 The sun is anr hour high. An: automobile whisks out of the White {House. It carries Mrs. Roosevelt gacross the Potomac to the Vir- | ginia side where she will take her | | early morning canter. The chaul- {feur waits to take her back soon | to begin a schedule that would be- | wilder a time clock. | | Street cars and buses come in |with the first of the hundred thousand government clerks who will fill the ranks of government buildings along Pennsylvania Ave- |nue and its tributaries. They will | keep the government going from 9 to 4:30. Nine- to- four- thirty. | Those are the government work- ing hours. Lads and lassies from | Tucson, Seattle, Hartford, Wilming- | ton, Birmingham shatch a last bite of toast and a gulp of hot cof- fee and dash off to nine-to-four-/ thirty in a government building. 'F.D.R. BREAKFASTS | Flags over the Capitol tug at: their ropes. Winds always seem to whip around the Capitol dome. Flags are lofted over the White House. Inside the White House, the President eats his breakfast in ’6on£il;)uea on Page Four) ] NEWTROUBLE THREATENING FOR BRITISH India and Ireland Provid- | ing Sources of Extreme Discontent Now BOMBINGS TAKE PLACE THREE CITIES, ENGLAND Clemency Denied in Case of Two Convicted Ex- plosive Throwers LONDON, Feb. 6.—India and Ire- land today provided new wartime headaches for Great Britain. A new wave of bombings, attri- |buted to the outlawed Irish Repub- | lican Army, swept England, and Ire- |land seethed with anti-British feel-| ing as the time neared for the exe- cution of two Irish Republican Army members tomorrow in Birmingham, i England, for Terrorist bombings of | last August. Plea For Clemency Last night pleas for clemency were turned down by the British Foreign Office. The request asked for granting of reprieves for the two men inyoked and came. from John Dulanty, Ireland’s High Commis- sioner in London. He requested that the British Foreign Office turn the bid for a clemency plea over to Prime Minister Chamberlain Bombings Break Out Following the reports that no clemency would be exercised, bombs which the police said were planted by members of the outlawed Irish Republican Army, exploded in Lon- don, Birmingham and Manchester. Four persons were injured in Bir- mingham but none were injured in the Manchester bombing. India's Independence Denied After important conferences in New Delhi, India, with Viceroy Lord Lintlithgow, Hindu Nationalist Leader Monhanas Gandhi told of a “wide gulf” separating Great Bri- tain and India over demands for self government for India. Gandhi em- phatically called the conferences a complete failure and that Great Bri- tain still refused to grant immediate independence for India e Mercy Plane Held Up by Bjfl Weather VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 6. — A mercy plane poised at a remote settlement on the west coast of Vancouver Island is awaiting clear- ing weather before attempting to fly two patients to the hospital. The patients are the critically ill wife of a prospector and an In- dent, _— . r——— ORDERED TO TRIAL ONMURDER CHARGE LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 6.—A Los Angeles underworld figure, Peter Pianezzi, has been ordered to trial for the two-year-old gang- land slaying of gambler Less Brune- man. Murder charges were filed against | i Highest salaried woman in the United States, as revealed by the Treasury Department’s 1938 income tax list, is Hollywood’s Claudette Colbert. She paid $164,000 tax on a $301,994 salary. Highest paid actor Fabulous salaries also went to other actresses is Warner Baxter, paying $130,001 pictured. Left to right (top), Loretta Young, $181,6156; Miss Colbert; 308 130,000, Lower, Merle Oberon, $189,285, and Alice F\ CAREER OF (.. DENEEN IS AT END Twice Governor, Once Sen- ator from lllinois, Dies in City of Chicago CHICAGO, Ill, Feb. 6.—Charles S. Deneen, 76, twice Governor of | Tllinois and once Senator from the | state, died here last night. There were two distinct periods in his public career, separated by |a stretch of 12 years. !dian who was injured in an acci-| The first was marked by the| ordinary progress of a man devot- |ed to politics in a state in which his party generally was successful and carried him to the Governor's chair for two terms Emerging from private life twelve | years later when he had been al- most forgotten as a political figure, he appeared somewhat in the role jof an opportunist. He was elected United States Senator and then assumed the leadership in a pri- mary campaign that shattered one of the most powerful political ma- chines that ever controlled state and county government in Illinois. Pianezzi for the cafe killing of Political Coup Bruneman and a bystander, His latter victory over the fac- Frankie Greuzard. tion headed by Gov, Len Small, LR RO JAMES BERRY HOM T0 BE DISPOSED OF ATMARSHAL'S SALE A house and lot at 718 East Fifth Street belonging to James J. Berry will be sold by the Mar- shal's office here to satisfy a judgment obtained by Lena Perelle The sale is set for 10 o'clock| Federal Building, with the prop- erty to go to the highest bidder. Mayor William Hale Thompson of Chicago and State's Attorney Ro- bert E. Crowe, attracted nation- wide aftention and was regarded by many as his most conspicuous public service. It was in the 1928 primary that Senator Deneen returned to Chi- cago from his duties at Washing- ton to assume the leadership against the political machine. His entry into the campaign was dramatically marked by the bombing of his Chi- cago home, an act which he charged to the “organized and protected bed. Toast, coffee, fruit, an egg ify M3rch 2 at the front door of thel riming) classes in their efforts to (Cmunl;;&'un pflge Six) GOVERNMENT OF GERMANY WILL NOT MEDIATE IN WAR BETWEEN RUSSIA, FINLAND 0 tax on a $279,807 salary. BERLIN, Feb. 6.—The German Government can see no basis for mediation in the Russian-Finnish | conflict. This is authoritatively indicated after the Reich’s envoys in Mos- | cow and Helsinki came to Berlin ito make their personal reports. Authorized sources said thateven the declaration made last Thurs- day by Finnish President Kyosti Kallio that Finland was ready to make an honorable peace, offered no concrete basis for action by Germany. ‘Admiral Byrd Exploring on Ross Sea Now Leaves Little America for . Trip-Others Left fo Prepare Camp WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. — The| Navy Department reports that Ad- miral Byrd has left Little America | aboard the steamer Bear, to ex- plore the west side of the Ross Sea. | Thirty-three members of thn} party were left behind to prepare | the winter camp. These men are/ hauling 500 tons of supplies by Baxter; and Marlene Dietrich, 'aye, 3109.7?1. Seized Nazi Seamen Are | ToBe Freed Greaf Briain Agrees fo Release of Nine of 21 to Japan % TOKYO, Feb. 6—Foreign Min- | ister Arita told the Diet today that Great Britain has agreed to re-, lease nine of the 21 German sea- men seized by a British warship from the Asama Maru and added: “I cannot say that the case is entirely settled.” The Japanese Foreign Minister further told the Diet that Japan will continue to negotiate the sur-| render of the remainder of the captives who are interned at Hong-| kong. | The settlement is regarded as a| compromise, Great Britain uphold- ing the right to search and seiz- ure and Japan getting some re- dress for the fact the seizure was close to Japanese shores. i samrerBinso B, FLOOD CONTROL WORK WILL BE §562,000 JOB Chena Slough Project to Include Three Miles of Dike Bids will soon :e invited on a $562,000 flood control project by U. dog and tractor sledges from the edge of the Bay of Whales to the| Little America cabins, Camp makers | under Biologist Jack Perkins a.rei hunting seal for the winter meat supply. Perkins reported that one| of the seal shot recently carried| an identification tag of the second | Byrd expedition. Admiral Byrd will return to Lit- | tle America before winter closes[ down. 'mduy and flew to Fairbanks again S. Army Engineers to protect Fair- banks and the new Army air baase from seasonal inundations. Lieut. A. C. Welling, in charge of the flood control project and who has been south conferring with his superiors in eattle, returned to Alaska soil on the Mount McKinley with PAA. Lieut, Welling said the big flood control job includes the building T L I COMMANDER NORTH | of three miles of dike along Chena | Slough and the relocation of 15 miles lof the Richardson Highway. Commander M. Ryan, head of the | I g A Alaska division of the U. S. Coast| GILBERT IN TOWN Guard, arrived in Ketchikan from| J. W. Gilbert, well known can- !Seattle divisional headquarters on nery man, is a passenger on the the Mount McKinley this trip. 'Mount McKinley for Cordova. us Attacks of Soviets They Pay Taxes on Salaries Totaling $1,202,492 BIG FLEET FOR GAMES IN SPRING IS REPORT Department Announces Movement Will Be on "Defense Triangle” with Ships, Aircraft WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—The Navy Department today an- nounced that Pacific Ocean ma- neuvers during the coming Spring will “cover as far as pos- sible some speclal naval situa- tions that are eccurring during the current European conflict.” The maneuvers will be off the coast of Alaska, and covering, it is assumed, the Alaska-Ha- waii and Panama “defense tri- ‘angle.” At least 135 surface ships, 350 aircraft with 2,500 officers and 40,000 men will take part in the annual war games. The maneuvers will open the first week in April and con- tinue until .the latter part of May. WM. PELLEY TURNS SELF IN TO DIES G'ives Chair?n?n Clean Bill of Health in Let- fer Scandal WASBHINGTON, Feb. 6. — William Dudley Pelley, leader of the S8ilver Shirts, dropped in on the Dies Com- mittee today after months of silence to give its chairman an “absolutely clean bill of health” in regard to charges of “collusion” between Dies and himself. The slender, goateed resident of ! Asheville, N, C., who has long been hunted by the committee, surrend- ered himself to Robert Stripling, clerk, for service of subpoena, and then went before a closed session or the Dies body to tell what he knew about certain letters to which his name was alleged forged. ‘The letters were recently brought forth as evidence of connection be- |tween Dies and Pelley. A few minutes later, Pelley talked to reporters and declared, “I'm giv- 1ing Martin Dies an absolutely clean bill of health. he’s done.” Pelley declined to discuss his brief testimony before the committee, but members told newsmen he had de- clared letters purporting to link him to Dies were forgeries. CURLING (CLUB, 4 FUR RENDEZVOUS INCORPORATED Two distinctively Alaskan enter- prises were incorporated today with the Territorial Auditor as non-prof- it corporations. The Fairbanks Curling Club, “to become the official sponsor of and to sanction ln%fl:omau the game of curling at banks,” was in- corporated by J. H. Jones, Alfred M. Ohlson, Edgar Clausen, John Dunn and Dorothy L. Springbett, all of Fairbanks. Curling is a game, resembling shuffleboard played on the ice. ‘The 1940 Anchorage Fur Rendez- vous, Inc., was incorporated for a three months’ duration by Thomas Bevers, Robert M. Mills and R. 8. Bragaw, all of Anchorage. .- CHISHOLM IS HERE J. J. Chisholm, West Coast Groc- ery representative at Anchorage, is a through passenger on the Mc- Kinley for the Westwarl. I admire the work