The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 10, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8333. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIET MASSED OFFENSIVE THROWNBACK Hundred Injured as To | Beautiful Models? Yes, and Now They're Insured SCORE DEAD - AS STORM LETS LOOSE Property Damgge Report- ed Extensive, Wide- ‘spread Section NATIONAL GUARDS ARE CALLED OUT FOR AID Victims Rusiea fo Hospital Are Laid Out Upon Floors ALBANY, Ga. Feb. 10.—From 12 x bly one score, killed, over 100 injured and widespread property damage caused in this South Georgia resort and industrial center by a tornado which struck early this morning. Gov. E. D. Rivers has ordered two companies of Georgia National Guards to come here and aid in rescue work. Heavy rains prevented fires from breaking out. Trees were levelled, structures un- roofed and windows smashed when the tornado struck the business area near the Postoffice. Ambulances took vietims so fas to the hospital that the .floor had to be used to care for them. e——— NEW YORK CITY | | | | | rnado Hits Georgia 8 ¥ £ & | 24 B i @ % - kg 'NOW IT’S SNOW BLANKETS —SnugTas hat. ! mentioned “bug in a rug,” several of Uncle Sam’s soldiers try out. ¥ | 8 few of the army's new sleeping bags, which are said to ins vomfortable sleep in the open, even during zero weather. These PRESIDENT DISGUSTED WITH REDS Expresses liisaippoinfmenlj at New Turn Russia | Has Taken WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—Pres-| ident Roosevelt "lold, the American Youth C today that Russia is a “d hip as absolute as| any other in the world” and char- acterized the war with Finland as an invasion of a neighbor ‘“so infinitesimally small it could do no injury to the Soviet Union.” The President upheld the rights of some members of the youth ir- ganization “to call yourselves Com- munists,” adding: “As Americaas you have npt only the right, but the sacred duty to confine your| y of changes in law to the| methods prescribed by the Con- stitution of the United States.” | Is Disillusioned | President Roosevelt professed himself as disillusioned with the| Russian governmental experiment' although years ago “I hoped Rus- sia would work out her own prob- lems and its government would| eventually become a peace-lovipg | and popular government which would not interfere with the in- tegrity of its neighbors. | “That hope,” Roosevelt contin- ued, “is today shattered or pu away in storage against a bet! day.” | | | | Domestic Situation The President’s speech was most- ly confined to remarks as to the For the first time in history, photographic models ave been given protection by the ¥ 1,000,000 of benefit insurance by their manager | | | | = { | | and beauty expert, Walter Thornton, left. ~Eagh is insured for $10,000. Left to right: Jeanine Saun- ders, Peggy Diggins and Frances Garnett. establishment of TWO GERMAN AirRaiders TO WELCOME NINTH DAY OF BATTLE CONTINUES Intense Figmng Keeps Up On Karelian Isthmus Front RUSSIANS USING TANKS ALSO HEAVY ARTILLERY Col. Borrisfi(ommand- ing t1th Division, Re- ported Killed HELSINKI, Feb. 10—The Rus- sian massed offensive on the Kare- lian Isthmus front has been thrown back with heavy losses on the ninth consecutive day of intense fighting but the Finnish report | says the Soviet infantry continued | undiminished with tank and heavy artillery support. Tonight's communique reports that yesterday 32 Soviet tankswere | destroyed, making a total of 52 tanks put out of commission in fighting during the past two days. The communique also reports that four Russian planes have been shot down, Reports. from the front are that: * SUBMARINES DropBombs, WELLES ON the Russians have lost at leas$ 800 men northeast of Lake Ladoga on the other major battle scene. An unconfirmed report received is that Col. Borisoff, commanding the Eleventh Russian Division, was | domestic situation. He reviewed Ad- | ministration achievements and said: | “We know the prosperity of the | twenties can be properly compared [ to the prosperity of the Mississippi Bubble Days before the bubble burst.” wmen enjoying the benefit of outdoor ‘air are at Pine Camp “-u., The bygler’s on hand to mention getting wonj ~ SENT DOWN GermanBase PEACE TOUR S | Both Paris, London Issue‘Hufled Ba(k | Warning fo Roosevelf’s | Representatie | [y Ome Sedlor, Wesfern Area killed in fighting on February 8. PR/ ¥ LG MAYOR'S NAME | ENTERS PRIMARY LaGuardia fo Run in llli-| nois State Preferen- tial Voling SPRINGFIELD, IIl, Feb. 10.—A| surprise entry in the political ring BRITISH BOOST FOREIGN TRADE; MANUFACTURE OF ARMS IS BEING REDUCED Single Brim Destroyer Sylt Isand Attacked by Brit- | Resists Atfack of U- | ish Fleet - Then Boats on Convoy | Make Escape LONDON, Feb. 10.—The British; TOENDER, Denmark, Feb. 10— Admiralty tersely but pridefully|Observers here said British air | announces that a single British de- | raiders dropped four bombs during ! stroyer has sunk two Germansub-|the night on the German Naval | base on Sylt Island and then es-| FINNISH LOAN BILL TO COME PARIS, Feb. 10.—A semi-official | note says Sumner Welles, Under- ! Secretary of State of the United States Department of State, will| be welcomed here on his mission | | i | marines while they were attack- was made here last night in behalf of Mayor LaGuardia of New York City. His name was entered in the| unbinding preferential primary in Tllinois and makes a three-way Re-| publican contest, the other two be- ing Hamilton Fish and Thomas E. Dew: JUST A KID NEW YORK, Feh. 10.—“Someone is kidding me,” said Mayor LaGuar- dia today when told of the entry of his name in the Illinois primar-| ies. LORD TWEEDSMUIR IMPROVING AFTER SECOND OPERATION Governor General of Can- ada Taken fo Montreal on Special Train MONTREAL, Feb. 10.—Governor General of Canada, Lord Tweeds- muir this morning showed a slight improvement following a second operation as result of brain con- cussion resulting from a fall in the Government House last Tues- day Yesterday the Governor General was rushed here by special train from Ottawa after an operation had been performed to relieve brain pressure. —————— CIVIL SERVICE MEASURE GIVEN HOUSE APPROVAL WASHINGTON, Feb, 10. — The House has passed and sent to the Senate the Ramspeck Civil Serv- jce Bill, extending civil service to approximately 300,000 Federal workers, PELLEY TALKING | oo e OUT AT HEARING; spite of British secrecy on trade| statistics, evidence has accumulated here that England is fighting so hard for her old markets that she IS (AllED Dow“ | is even cutting down on production 3 }or war goods so she can make| £ 4 _ ., |things to sell abroad. | S||ve|’ Sh"’t Leg]on HaS “ IN, A government economist charged | . ithh observing these things said for Several Promi- |Engiand had pulled numerous piants lout of war production to fill or- nen' Men | ders for foreign goods. ——— Even the rationing of British WASHINGTON, Feb. 10—Willlam | subjects and the restraints on Dudiey Pelley, Silver Shirt Legion | purchase of ° nonressentials, he| head, told the House Committee m-‘ismd. is in large part directed at vestigating Un-American activities, | Preserving the output of export- that he favored life imprisonment|able goods. It has other purposes, | for Senator LaFollette of Wiscon-|too. Britain doesn't want her sub- sin, CIO Chieftain John L. Lewis, | jects to spend their war wages| and Congressman Dickstein of New | foolishly. British industrial wages York because “I consider these gen-|are in large part pegged to prioes.L tlemen engaged in communistic ac-|If British wage earners begin | tivity.” | | buying too lavishly of luxury and| Acting Chairman Starnes pounded | non-essential goods, prices will| the gavel protesting to the swte-lris(‘. That will force up wages.| ment and declaring that the com-|In turn rising labor costs will mittee hearing is not to serve as a|force up prices—and so on. The sounding board for loose charges!o]d spiral leads to inflation. against leading Americans. The British want none of that. District Attorney Pine has issued | Moreover, they want their wage a fugitive warrant against Pelley earners to save their increased at the request of North Carolina earnings. It will bé nice to have authorities that he is wanted on a|them able to buy war bonds. charge of probation violation after | convicted in 1935 under the Blue Sky law. LITTLE DESTRUCTION Britain wants no silk-shirt craze i #the country for fashionable frivoli- A‘ VIllanova i things to drop on Germany or sell | YILLANONA. T Tob. m'_"“"“"retum part of the great English | the same job at Loyola in LOS|(yre of the war. There has been Villanova lost one game last fall| ;e No trains have been blown el ! H . |to sweep the country as it did the | m' ul's | United States in the war years.| | That sends gallons of gold out of ties just when the country needs raw materials she can make into | to neutrals. What has made it possible to rice “Clipper” Smith has resigned| ac 17 to manufacture of as Villanova football coach to take| saneri socd is the strange na- Angeles. He is a former coach at|, 0 enormous destruction such as Gotegs Al Sanfy Olts. might have been expected by this and went through the season un- defeated the previous two seasons, (cnnu;nrd‘ on page Six) UP ONTUESDAY Senate Sefs Time for Vote-! McKellar Makes At- fack on Russia WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. The Senate has entered into an unani- mous consent agreement late yes-| terday to take final vote on the so-called Finnish loan bill by 5| o'clock Tuesday afternoon. | The chamber recessed until| Tuesday as Democratic Senator Mc- | Kellar of Tennessee climaxed a| day of Finnish loan debate with| a heated denunciation of Russia. Said McKellar: “I would willing- | ly vote today to sever our treaty| relation with Russia. The present| Russian government ought to be wiped off the face of the earth— in my opinion.” PRI SR A BULLITT COMES HOME TO CONFER WITH OFFICIALS Ambassador fo France De- ing a convoy. The Admiralty further stated all details were not known but the incident was positively verified. Germany’s 5 now es- timated unofficially 40 sub- marines. e at D e FLINT CAPTAIN FACING CHARGE " OF UNION CREW Seamen Say Gainard Did| Not Fight Germans and Should Have MELROSE, Mass, Feb, 10. Capt. Joseph Gainard of the steamer City of Flint expressed his surprise at charges that he had neglected his duty after the Ger-| mans seized his ship last Octo- ber. The charges wére filed by the National Maritime Union with the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation. of seeking information in Euro- pean Capitals regarding peace chances but he will be warned of a “constant peril,” from Germany, | which nation, now existing, | must be crushed before France will join in any International economic system such as advanced by Sec- State Cordell Hull. caped from six German pursuers.i DIDN'T DO IT LONDON, Feb. 10—The British Air Ministry today announced that the Toender dispatch is without foundation although admitting that | raids have been attempted on the| Sylt Island base. retary of .-, | SIX LIONS BRAVEDTO | SAVE FOOL Young ManSTeps Into Cage| —Trainer Beafs Off Beasts with Club FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Feb. 10.—Chester Czaja, 24, inexplicably | entered a cage today containing| six jungle bred lions on the Clyde| Beatty jungle farm and was saved | by trainer Joseph Arcaris after the roaring beasts had bowled| as Welles is being sent abroad from | the United States as the personal representative of President Roose- velt and Secretary Hull to make a report exclusively to them, BRITISH STANDPOINT LONDON, Feb. 10.—Officials of British circles said Under Secretary | Welles will be given a cordial wel- | come when he visits London on his survey tour for President Roose- velt. In the meantime clear that neither Great Britain| or her ally, France, will alter their war policies to conform with any peace program f{rom Washington. It is stressed that Great Brit- ain and France have on numerous occasions set forth their war aims | and the terms upon which they will consider peace proposals. - it is remarkably | Capt. Gainard said the charges | Czaja over and bit and clawed him Withering fia_chine Gun Fire of French Turn- ed on Germans PARIS, Feb. 10—Military dis- patches report that 200 Nazi troop- ers have been hurled back with un- determined losses after attacking a French advance post northwest of the Serrelous Nied River sector. The defenders opened a wither« ing machine gun fire. The Ger- mans retreated, leaving their dead on the field. Fighting is also reported on the fringes of Forbach, The ad- mit ten soldiers have been as well as more than 15 Germans. RICE BOWL PARTY HELD BY CHINESE {Three Days of Fesfivifies Expected fo Raise af least$_50,000 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, Feb. 10.— The largest Chinatown in the coun- try buzzed with excitement this | were a surprise to him. He de- |clared that to his knowledge he = had at no time endanggred the 'o Run 'or Sena'e |lives of his crew during the trip to Russia and Norway. The Cap- Gy x:;?nsd:z‘:fk Md., dl"e'znm — |tain denied he failed to take ad- mbassador ance, | yantage of several opportunities William Bullitt, arrived here aboard |, regain possession of the cap- the Atlantic Clipper. |tured steamer. He said that his pg::edm‘z”":d“ ger:ed ”'“‘tt h"“ first thought was for the safety of give u is post in France to run for the Senate !rom‘“LS e Pennsylvania. Said Capt. Gainard: “Of course Bullitt was summoned home by |the men were riled when the Ger- Secretary of State Cordell Hull for| mans took charge. So was 1. But a conference with Department of-|the men returned to their posts and ficials regarding European affairs.| were splendid throughout the whole —_———e—e———— thing. I did my best to communi- George Washington received 69|cate with authorities at every electoral votes for his first term,|port—especially at Murmansk, but| 132 for the second, Lall efforts failed.” nies He Will Resign extensively. As spectators watched, the train- et entered and leaped among the infuriated beasts, driving them off by rapping a small stout stick on their noses while another trainer dragged out Czaja. s BRITISH, FRENCH DRAWING UP PACT LONDON, Feb. 10.—Great Britain and France have drawn up a com- prehensive economic agreement but the provisions will not be made public until after it is signed, prob- |ably early next week, $25,000Bank 'RobberyTakes Place, (anada HAMILTON, Ont., Feb. 10.—An automobile abandoned by outlaws FOR pRESIDE"T who held up the Hamilton branch of the Royal Bank of Canada was S—— found today by police SALEM, Oregon, Feb. 10. — The | The robbers fled with $25,000 af-|name of Senator Charles L. McNary | ter knocking down an elderly wom- | will be replaced on the Republican |an customer in the bank and forc- | Presidential primary ballot in this ing other customers to lie on the|State as petitions are now being lnoor while the safe was looted. signed. morning at the opening of a three day rice bowl party by which to raise funds for suffering millions in the Orient. It is expected that the festivities will result in more than $50,000 be- ing contributed. SENATOR McCNARY | { |