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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8332. JUNEAU, ALASKA, F‘RIDA\ FEBRUARY 9, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICF TEN CENTS SOVIETS BLASTING MANNERHEIM LINE FAR FLUNG NAZIPLOT DISCOVERED Turkish Government Re- veals Alleged Plans, German Agents KRUPP SHIPYARDS OCCUPIED, MARINES Hundred Technicians Dis- missed, Ordered fo Quit Country in 48 Hours ISTANBUL, Turkey, Feb. 9—Au- sources today said the i Government’s dismissal of 160 German technicians from oc- cupaticn in the German ownred pp shipyards is due to the dis- of a far flung German sa- in the Near East. marines occcupied the ship vards yesterday and are remaining in control again today. The Government dismissed the technicians and the War and Naval Mini: s gave them 48 hours in which to quit the country. tative sources said the h Government uncvoered evi- dence a network of Nazi agents were X y to perpetuate explosions, wreck trains and create other ha- in the Near East on a signal 1 Berlin. 12 situation between Turkey and Germany is intense over the dis- missals, it is said. .- — RELIEF FUND RUNNING OUT; CRISIS NEAR covery Tu Alaska Forced fo Withhold COTTON ED SMITH, DEAN OF SENATE, EMISSARY HATES NEW | OFU.S.TO DEAL S0 MUCH ITHURTS GO ABROAD Needed Sixfeen Pre|aies Catholic | Church, Advocate Presndem Sends Sumnerf Welles to Inferview European Govls. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Pr dent Roosevelt announces he sending Sumner Wellss, Undersec retary of State, to Europe on a personal survey of conditions in Ttaly, France, Germany and Great Britain The Pre at a conf day The Welles is dent disclosed this move nce President further said that has been instructed to make no proposals or commitments in the name of the United States made to him by ¢ Is of the European Governments, and the information he rec dent anc Hull, the ves is Chief Executive added NO GUNS FROM U. 5. FOR FINNS SAY ROOSEVELT JAPAN IS BRISTLING WITH - SENTIMENT AGAINST U. § - USE OF FORCE INTIMATED President Makes State- ment Regarding Avail- able War Surpluses WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—Presi- dent Roosevelt, said he dr)ubted whether the United States will sell whether the United States will sell any guns directly to Finland be- cause that country is engaged in an armed conflict. The President made the at the conference with The subjct was brought up relative to conferences held by State War and Navy officials on materials By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—Ellison D. (Cotton Bd) Smith has served 31 years in the Senate, rising from “baby" member to dean, and thinks he could have had a lot more fun raising cotton or cattle or pigs. South Carolina has been sending him to the Senate ever since he was first orn in in 1909. That was a year behind Senator Borah, whose death left Smith the oldest member of the Senate in point of service, although in years he is junior to Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. Smith is 75, Glass 82. But age hasn’t modified Smith’s southern sentiments, He is 200 pounds of southern wrath at every- statement shipment to Nor Sweden any other neutraL\ or possibly available as surplusses for | with newsmen to- | solely for the Presi- ! Secretary of State Cordell Britain tightens her economic blockade of Germany. Top, the 9,521 a, after the captain scuttled his ship when w,m South Afr sighted by British Patrol at Work—Two Nazi Sea Suicides German ship, Watussi, burns off Cape a British patrol plane. All mem- ers of crew were rescued. Bottom, an unnamed British merchantman stands by after having chased the ierman supply ship Adolph Woerman (left) for twenty-four hours. A B ritish cruiser (right\ takes over and shells the now deserted »=4 <cuttled shiv, sending it to the bottom. Garner Confests With Roosevelt /In Two Stales newsmen. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 9—An- noncement in Chicago that Gar- ner's name will go before the Democratic voters in the Illinois yrelerrncp primary apparently between Garner TOKYO, Feb. 9.—Japan “must be prepared for the worst be- cause American pressure con- tinues and reports say the ulti- mate object of Americans is to resort to force” to prevent the new order in China. This is the declaration made today in the newspaper Asahi which noted that Premier Yo- nai teld the Diet that Japan is fully prepared to cope with any situation that may arise in case the United States increases pressure, World Peace Is Aimed at In Parley 'U.S. and Neu'rals in Quie Conferences Over Globe's Future WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull an- nonuced today that diplomatic con- versations “of informal character” have been commenced with neu- tral governments “in view of the evident desire of all neutral na- ' announcemeri’ RUSSIANS CLAIMING SUCCESSES Declare Thifi;n Steel "Ar- | fillery Forts” Have Been Captured LOSSES INFLICTED ON DEFENDERS TREMENDOUS Finns Ad mfiif_Terrific As- sault But Defense Lines Still Infact COPENHAGEN, Feb. 9. — The conflict now raging in Finland is enigmatic today, according to early morning reports. Two contrary pictures sented regarding the war frozen northland. The Finns report that renewed Red "Army attacks on the Man- nerheim line have resulted inheavy Russian losses. | Usually uninformative Lenin- _ | grad headquarters report in a com- \mumquc that significant victories ! have taken place against the Man- nerheim line and great losses have | been inflicted on the defenders. 1t is claimed the Red Army forc- es have captured 13 steel and con- crete “artillery forts” on the X nerheim line on Karelian Isthiuus, north of Lake Ladoga and inflict- ed great losses on the Finns. The Finns admit a steady, heavy | pounding of their lines for more Lh’l.n one week by Russian tanks 1m1 artillery and air bombs but ts minimize the fight- ing results and they declare the | Mannerhein line is still intact. are pre- in the FINNISH REPORT | HELSINKI, Feb. 9—The Finnish | Highh Command denies Leningrad reports that the Mannerheim Line | has been broken at two points. All attacks have been repulsed and the Soviets have lost twelve tanks and a large quantity of supplies and other equipment. The Finns freely admit desperate Changes S sl Roosevelt over the nomination tions for ewnuml restoration of & for President. | fighting continues but the defend world peace.” \ers are pushing the invaders back thing the New Deal represents. “I served under five Presidents,” The Foreign Office spokesman also said that Premier Yonai Aid Except fo Pressing Emergency Cases ceptionally heavy demands upon Alaska relief funds, resulting in rapid depletion of the $300,000 ap- propriated by the last Legislature, today forced the Territory to place its public assistance system on more stringent regulations and an emergency basis. Acting Governor (Bob) E. L. Bartlett, reporting that $213,000 of! the biennium’s $300,000 has already been spent since the appropriation: last April, an- retrench- became available nounced the need for ment. The statement by Bartlett today was as follows: “I am informed by W. B. Kirk,! Director of Public Welfare, that| an extremely heavy relief load| throughout the Territory since last| April, when the new appropriation became available, has drastically depleted funds available for relief. Serious Situation “The situation is so serious that it will be necessary for the De- partment of Public Welfare to act under much more stringent regf- Jations in the providing of re- lief. “During the remainder of the biennium for which relief funds were appropriated, it will be nec- essary to grant assistance only in those cases having an emergency aspect. “On April 1 last year there be- came availabde to the Department of Public Welfare $300,000 for the relief of needy and indigent. The payments have been so heavy for the past ten months Shat $213,000 has already been expended. In other words, the Territory has spent around $725 every day to take care of those cases which appeared to be worthy. Now only $87,000 remains and that sum must last until the Legislature meets again. The in- evitable conclusion is that only those persons in direst need can be cared for henceforth. Requests Increase “I am further informed by the Department of Public Welfare that requests for relief have increased | greatly om account of Alaskans traveling from their homes in (Continued on Page Five) WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.—Sixteen Prelates of the Catholic Church in America have called for the re-es- tablishment of the Guild System | “which will bind men together society according to their respective | occupations, thus creating a moral unity” and with this, morals be reformed and a profound renewal of the Christian spirit will aid the Nation to effect a social reconstruc- tion. | Under the Guild, or cooperative system, both employers and employ- ees will be organized as Pope Pius suggested “not according to the po- sition they occupy in the labor mar- ket but accordni gto divers func- tions they exercise in society, re- ‘jecting both extreme individualism |and collectivism in the Government policy,” Archbishops and Bishops de- clared. “Our economic life must be re- ;organwed" the Prelates said, “not on disintegrating principles of in- dividualism but on the constructive principle of social and moral unity among members of the human so- ciety.” Guilds governed craftsmen in Eu- rope in the middle ages. Spyls Caught, Nefarious Ad German Nabbed Trying fo Entice French Girls fo Nazi System PARIS, Feb. German, convicted of attempting to entice beautiful young French wo- |men into the services of the Ger- man espionage, has been sentenced to 20 years at hard labor. MRS. DALZEIL SAILS Mrs. A. Dalzeil, who has been visiting her son and daughter-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. D. Dalzeil, is a passenger south on the North- land bound for her home in Se- attle. SLAYERIN Rcosevelt's name was entered in| will | 9. — A 35-year-old | he said, “before I had to run into an outfit like this, challenging Lhe sovereignty of the states and vio- {lating the Constitution at e‘exv | step. | “Show me where the Constitution | says anything about the wage-hour bill or social security.” | He isn't a tall man, but massive. | His head is topped by a thick growthl of gray hair. His face is decply LOS ANGELES, Cal. Feb. 9—Tes- | lined, and divided into squares and |timony given by Mrs. Elaine Huddle | patches, like a farm, while in the who identified Pete Pianezzi of San middle is a brush of moustache you Francisco as one of the three men could hunt quail in. | who shot to death wealthy gambler He gets so angry at what he calls Les Bruneman in 1937. the New Deal’s “catering” to the ne- on trial charged with first degree groes that, like Donald Duck, he al- | murder. most bites himself. Mrs. Huddle is the wife of the “I have deeper love for our col-!proprietor of the cafe where Brune- ored people than anybody in that|man was killed. She said that she outfit up there,” he shouted across opened the cafe door to admit the his desk, “but I've had experienceiwrot’ men and was certain Pianezzi with them and I know where they | was one of them. should be kept.” Mrs. Huddle said she thought it ——— was a holdup when she saw the A ‘NORTHERN’ GOVERNMENT men carried guns. She hid in a Referring to the New Deal as|booth while they opened fire on “that outfit up there” is the bit-|Bruneman. The gambler was shot terest denunciation he can think of |sixteen times. because to him it represents some| Another contrivance of government from |zard, north of the Mason-Dixon Line that |of the building and attempted to| |no true American will endure longer | obtain the license number of the '!h'\n he has to. Fa’““ml‘n\ car. Deep in him is a contended fm-‘ N B A ing that the New Deal will be thrown | A’l‘ THE BARANOF higher than a kite next November| Traveling men Henry Gerstman and he is confident he had a pion-|and I. A, Thatcher returned from eering hand in its defeat. He was! Sitka on the Northland and are on the “purge list” in 1938 but he|guests at the Baranof Hotel. GANGCASE e patron, Frank Greu- IDENTIFIED Pianezzi is | was killed when he ran out| in the Illinois week-end. Followers of both men also en- tered their slates for Garner and Reosevelt in Wisconsin, D Primary last AIR BATTLES ' PAGETODAY, | German Planes, Renewing Atfacks on Shipping, | Met by Defenders 1 LONDON, Feb. 9.—British fight- |ing planes, rising to meet German | bombers as they roared along the coast of Great Britain today in new | waves of attacks on merchant ship- ping, engaged the raiders in a | series of air combats. | One German plane is officially | reported to have been shot down | near Firth of Forth. The German air raids are the | first attempted by the Nazis since last week when coast shipping was struck three separate times. came through with flying colors in| what he described as “the dirtiest| campaign” of his experience. “My victory set the pace,” he said. He knew how to conduct a cam- paign that would win in South Caro- |lina. At the 1936 convention in | Philadelphia he led the South Caro- lina delegation out of the hall when |a negro preacher arose to give the benediction. The story he told about that affair echoed and re-echoed through the state in the campaign of 1938. FISHERY QUE RASMUSON URGES ALASKA STION TAKEN BRITISH LABOR BR" COASTiBefore Peace Treaiy Sign- UP IN TREATY WITH JAPAN assured the Diet that Japan is prepared to meet any decline in the American - Japanese rela- tions but he refused to say whether this included military preparations, PARTY ISSUING OWN MANIFESTO ed, Germans Must Re- nounce Hitlerism LONDON, Feb. 9.—The British Labor party has issued a manifesto demanding that no peace treaty be signed until Germany has disowned Hitlerism and made restitution to Poland and Czechoslovakia. ‘The Labor party’s statement also demanded that pledges shall be made to the German people that in the General re-arrangement af- ter the war, the rights of the Ger- mans will be respected, PRRSIG DL - ol Stock Qu auflou__] NEW YORK, Feb, 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 6%, American Can| 114%, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem| Steel 78%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 54%, International Harvester 55%, Kennecott 36'%, New | | York Central 17%, Northern Pa- cific 8%, United States Steel 60%, Pound $3.96%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES Final Dow, Jones averages today | He came to the Senate in what he ‘calls the “days of the giants.” Names like Elihu Root, Henry Ca- bot Lodge, Jonathan P. Dolliver, Al- |bert Beveridge, Joseph Weldon | Bailey, Nelson W. Aldrich and John Sharp Williams stand out in his 'mind far above the present legis- (Continued on Page Three) SEATTLE, Feb. 9—E. A. Rasmus- son, of Skagway, Republican Na- tional Committeeman for Alaska, while here today addressed a letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull urging the Alaska Fishery question be one of the first items considered in any negotiations for a new trade treaty with Japan. “We of Alaska hope our Depart- ment of State will insist that one of the first requisites of any treaty be the acceptance by the Japanese Government of the principle that AT THE GASTINEAU | fish spawned and protected in the Traveling men Dan Noonan and waters of the United States remain [H. B. Crewson are at the Gas- under the jurisdiction of the United tineau Hotel, having come in from States to the limits of the Conti-|the Historic City on the North-| nental shelf.” land. | are as follows: industrials 148.95, rails 3140, utilities 24.98. | — - Hull tions “involve emphasized the conversa-|yo the Soviet frontier. no plan or plans,| - ,—— but are in the nature of prelim-| inary inquiries relating to sound international economic systems and at the same time, world wide re- duction of armaments.” The State Secretary added the conversations can be “extended to belligerent nations insofar as these two common problems, world ture, and world peace, are involved.” Hull declared the conversations | with neutrals did not embrace “matters involving present war con- | ditions.” .- WESTERN FRONT ARTILLERY FIRE RESULTS FATALLY French Rep;rfi)eclares En- gagement Is Serious for Bofh Sldes PARIS, Feb. 9 eral Staff reports increased activity | with artillery patrols including a “severe” engagement yesterday in which both sides suffered losses. > lORD TWEEDSMIUR IS OPERATED UPON \Governor General of Can- ada Now on Special Train for Montreal OTTAWA, Feb. 9—Lord Tweeds- muir, Governor General of Canada, was operated upon today for com- | plications following brain concus- sions and a few hours later was placed aboard a special train and is being rushed to Montreal. The concussions were caused by a fall in the Government House last Tues- day. ~The French Gen- | | | ALASKA BUYS RECORD TOTAL DURING 1939 Imports $44,414,093 - To- tal Commerce Drops, Customs Shows Alaska in 1939 imported an all- time record amount of goods from the United States and foreign ports, according to the annual re- port of Collector of Customs James J. Connors, released today. The inbound commerce total of $44,414,093 exceeded the previous year by $1,562,627 and 1937, the pre- vious high, by $1,330,095. Alaska's shipments to the world in 1939, while below those of 1938, bettered any year previous to 1936. The export total was $62,932,951. In 1938 it was $78,260812. Total Commerce Down The total inbound and outbound commerce of Alaska for the year 1939 amounted to $107,347,044. Com- pared with like figures for 1938 of $121,112,278 there was a decrease in commerce of $13,765234 last year, The balance of trade in favor of Alaska amounted to $18518,858 in 1939, as compared with $35,409,346 for 1938. Total declared value of all fish and fish products shipped from Alaska during 1339 was $35,894,331 as compared with $44,932980 for 1938, or a decrease of $9,038,649. Shipments of canned salmon, a major item in the tabulation of fish and fish products, show a de- crease in both pounds and value. During 1939 shipments of canned salmon aggregated 247,046,714 in pounds and $29,976,665 in value, % (‘Con!i}n:ed on Paz} “Seven)

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