The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 13, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV, NO. 8335. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICI: TEN CENTS e FINNS HOLD MANNERHEIM LINE INTACT MORE CASH, SITKA BASE, ISREQUEST —_— 1 Rear Admiral John Towers Seeking Additional Appropriation AERONAUTICS CHIEF APPEARS AT HEARING Explanation Given for In-/ crease — More Equip- ment fo Be Added \V'\hHIN(.’I()N, Feb. 13. — R!"u Admiral John Towers, Chief of the | Bureau of Aeronautics of the United ates Navy, during hearinzgs before he House Appropriations Committee on the Navy appropriation bill, ask- ed for $104,000 for installation of a new hangar at the Sitka fleet base, stand and utility shop to take care of cne patrol plane squadron which is based there permanently and one additional squadron for em- Admiral Towers said the Sitka base is being enlarged along the lines Pearl Harbor but on a more limited scale “A new seaplane hangar, power house, administration building, of- ficers' and enlisted men’s quarters, barracks, dispenasry and store house er buildings. A new gasoline fueling truck, costing $8,500, and automotive equipment costing $15000 and two fire engines costing $15,000 are being added,” Towers said. Rear Admiral Towers said similar equipment is being added ta the ak air base FDR's Naval Budget Gels House Slas Guam Now Included in Ap- | propriation fo Become U. S. Lookout Post WASHINGTON, Feb, 13.—A slash of $111,699,000 was handed Presi- dent Roosevelt’s budget for the Navy today by the House Committee on Appropriations. The committee recommended ap- propriations of .$966,772.000 instead | and urged the nation build battle- ships and cruisers ‘“superior” to those abroad. The cut was the largest yet made by the Appropriation Committes on any single budget recommendation, but the committee said the fleet's needs ‘“could be adequately met” with a small sum. Included in the measure is a mil- | lion dollars with which to start work on a three million dollar pro- | ject designed to develop the island | of Guam as a naval lookout post. The Guam improvements were turned down last year after a heat- ed controversy involving questions of foreign policy toward Japan. — BRITISH FORCES ARRIVE AT SUEZ Thirty Ihousand Austral-| ians, New Zealanders Reach Palestine JERUSALEM, Feb. 13.—Austral- jan troops began arriving today in specified areas in Palestine. 1t is estimated that 30,000 Aus- tralian and New Zealand troops ar- rivd at Suez yesterday after a 1 000 mile journey from the Anti podes. .- a Swedish church Gloria Dei, near Philadelphia, is said to have' been the first American church to be equipped with an organ. of those at Pensacola and | are being built besides several small- ‘ G.0.P. Tackles Farm Problem | Rhode Island Republicans got in character at Left to right, Governor William H. in Providence. Committe n John D Manus ICKES BLASTED AT REPUBLICAN BARANOF PARTY Little Comment Made as fo | Percy's Territorial ‘ Group Meeting | Local Republicans and friends had \dinner for “both of their houses” last night, some 160 of them dining at the Baranof and 70 at Percy’s | Cafe, in honor of Abraham Lincoln’s |131st birthday anniversary. At the Baranof Hotel in the Gold Room with two radio microphones at the speaker’s table, toastmaster Grover C. Winn introduced as first speaker of the evening, Walter P. Scott, who declared, after summing the life of Lincoln in his rise to faame, that Lincoln prophesied the Rr’pllbll("in troubles under the New Deal. | Scott quoted Lincoln's statement, “If ever this free people, thsi gov- ernment, is utterly demoralized, it will come from this human struggle for office—a way to live without work.” Cash Cole, Republican candidate for Delegate to Congress, promised “no mud slinging” with reference |to the other Republican dinner in town when he followed Scott as speaker, and declared many Repub- licans are “not going to follow” the man who claims to be leader of the | Territorial Republican party.” Dislike For Ickes | Continuing, Cole blasted out against | Secretary of the Interior Ickes called \Alaska a “horrible example” of cen- tralization of governmental control under one man at the head of the | Interior Department. Cole said Ickes controls 90 per cent of Alaska and will soon get | the other ten per cent in the Forest ‘Servlce He condemned Ickes’ plan to bring about a mine leasing sys- | tem, levying road tolls in the Territory, |and the eight per cent gross gold tax proposal. “It’s time we go together to de- fend our heritage before Ickes takes contention between factions of the Cole declared. Another Attack it away,” R. one bureaucrat, Ickes.” “We are in imminent danger of | our political liberties and welfare " (Continued on P Paze Four) M. Hamilton and Lieut. Gov JUNEAU REPUBLICANS HOLD TWO LINCOLN DAY DINNERS [N THIS CITY LAST EVENING .85 Repubhcans of Official his department’s practice of | E. Robertson continued the and stated attack on Ickes with a barrage of at the Baranof if they had sold me | condemnations of “all Alaska under|a ticket first.” | l LINCOLN EXTOLLED IN TALKS New Deal VC;;demned in Series of Speeches by Republicans (By Asscciated Press) | Republican notables last night ex- | tolled Abraham Lincoln and cor- | demned the New Deal in a series of speeches across the Nation cele- | brating the New Deal in a serles of speeches across the Nation cele- brating Lincoln's birthday. | United States Senator Robert A. Taft at Greensboro, North Carolina, who is said to be an avowad Repub- lican Presidential candidate, “If the New Deal is licensed to pro- ceed in the 1940 elections” unleash- led, it will lead inevitably to a “mod= streamlined totalitarian Dicta- ! January 8. ern torship.” | Dewey in Portland Thomas E. Dewey, District At= !torney of New York, an active can- didate for the Republican Presi- dential nomination, in Portland, Oregon, said the present Adminis- tration’s strategy of “divide and |rule is subtly undermining Nation=- |al unity.” Dewey further said that this strat= egy “may help the Administration but it can only hurt the country.” He further said this Nation is un- dergoing ‘‘erosion of capital” | through failure to make captial re- j])l:ll ments during the last several yea arn dance and frolic nderbilt, National James 0. Mc- Senator Bridges Talks Senator Styles Bridges in Okla- homa City said Lincoln would (le» {plore the “economic power of the (:m ernment over citizens as a tre cnd toward making citizens the wards of the state in the guise of benevo- lent paternalism.” Hoover's Warning Herbert Hoover, in Omaha, said jobs for nine million “is the only safety for our Republic’ and “the ! Nation must abandon the National | drift towards statism and turn from OPPOSITION HIT IN ADDRESS BY ALBERT WHITE - (Continued on Page Seven) NAVAL PATROL I BEING INCREASED ON ENGLISH COAST Great Britain Is Expanding Forces for Swift At- fack on Germany LONDON, Feb. 13.—Great Bri- tain is expanding her air and naval Organization Meet 1 at Percy’s } Attacking the alleged “black Re- publicanism” of another faction which met elsewhere, 85 “White Re-! publicans” of the official local party | organization met last night at Per- cy's Cafe to honor the memory of | Lincoln at a harmony banquet Albert White, candidate Zor Dele- cate in 1938, stated in a fiery b 38, stated in a flery ad-| oo, gpa) patrols for a swift smashing dress that the rival Republican Of- | ¢ ormany's mine and bomb block- | ganization “was started two weeks i ade on British shipping. The Admiralty announces 10,000 ‘addiuonal fishermen are being re- “T do not wish at this time or any | cruited for naval patrol duty against | other,” White said, “to do anything German mines and the Air Force that will work against harmony in has been increased to make effective the Republican party in Alaska.” flm,(k, Too Many Movies He mentioned newspaper state- ments coming from the other group which alluded to a White machine and said members of the new club | “must have been over seeing Mr Smith Goes To Washington’ two 0!‘ three times. White said the attitude of Ll\E‘ rival group “in attacking the Re- publican party in Alaska, is poison” to the national organization. 1 Referring to the officers of the WASHINGEER, Joli 8.5~ Con- new Juneau Republican Club, White 875 knows more tricks than a mag- said: ician when for political purposes a 2gar and Wilson, who elected little cut in an appropriation must | ago for the purpose of taking over patronage in the Territory.” CUTMADEBY By PRESTON GROVER “Met them? Were any of you allowed b‘T';“fe “’""0“ like a big one. to vote for them? No, they were hat explains most of the slash- | ing the members are talking about In actual dollars and cents Congress hasn't saved the taxpayers much picked in a room at the Baranof Hotel. There is no majority rule in what they're doing.” Stabler Is Speak money—yet. Later Congress may O Wise Washingtonians doubt there Howard Stabler, principal speaker of the evening, said in criticism W*“}gz’my revolutionary budget cuts n A of the present Administration that ; “liperties of the individual are be-| MOost of the savings are not sav- ing subordinated to the desires of ings at all. They are postponements the mass” and called for “not a New Congress is simply putting off Deal, but a new decl spending until after election day oldest of | If the Congressmen can't put it off Judge H. B. LeFevre, Juneau Republicans, advised that|that long, at least they will stall i off several months. By then so much He said he was Politics Wwill be in the air that a couple of battleships could be lo:t in the mists. | party be stopped. {tied to no pnx&om\m/ in the party he “would have been | |MONEY FOR MERCHANT SHIPS Sam Duker, candidate for Dele-| Here is a sample. Last year Con- gate to Congress, said, “after we !gress kept the appropriation of the get through with this mur-pnnwa”m‘me Commission moderately —_|\low but gave it an authorization to contract for $230,000,000 in me:r- (Continvea on Page Four) said: | rl‘).) Saved Aboard Mine anr | | Graphic Radiophoto shows part of superstructure of the 10,000-ton ing from the sea off England’s southeast coast, where the vessel was ripped apart by a mine explosion All the ship’s 49 passengers and 147 crew members got away safely in lifeboats. Photo was taken from a Navy rescue boat. 100 PRETTY | \ So jealous was her husband, that pretty Lois Wagner, 22, (above), testified in Chicago that he locked her in their home when he went to work and beat her to make her less attractive. Mrs. Wagner’s tes- | timony won her a divorce from | Roy wuner a 24- year- -old baker. PUZZLE: FIND REAL BUDGET THIS CONGRESS cantile ships. That meant that the ship building would go on, but the cost wouldn't show up in the ap- propriation bills for a time. This year | it began to show up—at a mighty \bad time. Admiral Emory S. Land, | chairman of the Commission, asked | Congress to put up $200,000,000 to pay something on these shipbuild- ing contracts he had been author- ized to make. Last year it was a well idea to build ships. This year it isn’t so popular. The Neutrality Act has bottled up the ones we have, so why build more? | Congress couldn’'t repudiate con- tracts it had authorized, but it did trim the Admiral’s requests to $125,- 000,000. That looked like a net sav- ing of $75,000,000. It wasn’t anything of the kind. It was just a post- ponement. Congress will hav to pay it later—but not much later. The Admiral came rushing up to Congress to protest that $39,000,000 of the $75,000,000 was needed al-| ready to pay on contracts let, and,| by jimminies, he wasn't going to be left holding the bag. (Continued on Page Seven) | members were killed in the blast. | ganese, Sunk OffEn frlaml i s S s s ish liner Dunbar Castle protrud- Two crew (German Freighter Set Afire 7NEW LOANS ~ ON MINING PROPOSED Delegate Dimond Infro-| duces Measure Extend- ing R. F. C. Field By J. J. ECCLES Secretary t~ legate Dimond WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—(Spec- ial Correspondence) — Introducing a measure in the House on January 31 to emand the law under which the Reconstruction Finance Cor- | poration is now authorized to ex- tend mining development loans on gold, silver and tin properties. Dele- gate Dimond would include in this authorization the right to make loaans for development of platinum, tungsten, chromite, nickel, molyb- denum, antimony, vanadium, man- mercury, or asbestos or any combination of these minerals. The | sum of $20,000 is the maximum | amount available for individual de-] velopment loans from the RFC. | Because of the recently aroused | national interest in some of these | items on account of their classifi-| cation as deficiency or critical war—‘ | time minerals, and the need for ob- | taining domestic sources to provide| for at least a part of the nation’s needs of these should imports be curtailed or entirely stopped, Mr.! Dimond said that he believed the | outlook for enactment of the pro- posed legislation is definitely more favorable than it would have been if introduced two years ago. He| added that this was certainly an instance where enactment of the proposed legislation would be both in the national interest and the Territorial interest, and that he hoped it would help to initiate the development of new and diversified mining industry in Alaska. | | DO ALASKANS FLY? From statistics recently furnished a Congressional committee in testi- mony relating to delivery of mail by air in Alaska it was shown that in the fiscal year 1939 there were 116 times as many commercial planes in Alaska as in the United States; 70 times as many air miles flown in Alaska as in the United States; 23 times as many passengers flying in Alaska as in the United States; 1,- 034 times as many pounds of freight and express carried by air and 48| times as many pounds of mail car- | ried by air in Alaska as in the Unit- ed States—population considered, or | per capita. | ALASKA BILLS ADVANCED IN HOUSE The House Committee on the Ter- (Continued on Page Five) kins T Off Coast fo Prevent Being " (aplured by Brifish Ships RIO DE JANERIG, Feb. 13 Crewmen of the British cruiser Haw- declare that The crewmen of the Hawkins said the German sailors and officers left the burning ship in small boats and m far #s they can ascertain they ave not been picked up by any of thn British navy craft. The Wakama left port heavily CLAIM CREW SAVED RIO DE JANERIO, Feb. 13- —Rear Admiral Sir Henry Harwood has radioed the Associated Press that the crew of the German freighter Wakama, after setting fire to the ship yesterday off the Brazilian coast, took to the lifeboats and were later picked up and taken aboard & British cruiser. Sir Henry Harwood, who is com- mander of the British forces in the South Atlantic, said 10 officers and 36 men constituted the Wakama's crew. - Silver Shirt Legion Chief OutonBond Pelley Released on Bail of, $2,500 Pending Extradition WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—Leader William Dudley Pelley of the Silver Shirt Legion has been freed under | a $2,500 bond by Washington police court Judge Casey. Pelley was arrested last Saturday as a fugitive from North Caarolina as he finished his testimony before the Deis Committee. Judge Casey continued his case for thirty days to obtain the neces- sary extradition papers from Ash- ville. Assista torney Kindelberger accuses Pelley of having violated parole under the terms of Novth Carolina con- viction in 1935 for violation of the Blue Sky laws. -eo SAN JOSE, Cal., Feb. 13.—Wolf. the lead dog of the Rev. Bernard | Hubbard's team on seven trips into ad from effects of a Alaska, is d head injury. - - PARIS, Feb. 13.—British scouting | parties have flown over Northern | signed.” | Germany where they cnroumeled German fighting air craft. The British planes returned safe- ly to their bases. the German/| IIrei(;hter Wakama was set afire by | (her own crew when three British-| | ers overhauled her shortly after! European warfare today focussed she left Rio Sunday afternoon. nt United States At-| ARTILLERY THUNDERING NORTH AREA ‘Bifler Fighting Is Marking Invasion of Russian Red Army DEFENDERS ARE HOLDING POSITIONS, SAYS REPORTS W|Ihdrawa| Is IsAdmitted | But Advance Wins Back Positions B U LLETIN—HELSINKI, Feb. 13.—After thirteen days of bitter fighting, Finnish mili- |" tary authorities announce that | all positions of strategical im- | portance on the Karelian Isth- mus have been won back in | Finnish counter attacks. The military authorities ac- knowledge for the first time they “withdrew” late Sunday from some of the positions in the sector about Summa but the military interpreter ex- plained that such movements often occur for strategic pur- poses. | “The Mannerheim Line is | still intact and the battle is | raging with mach fury,” says | the official report. ON MANNERHEIM LINE COPENHAGEN, Feb, 13. — The |on Finland’s Mannerheim Line where the Red Army, in an official communique issued in Moscow, claims the capture of 32 “defensive fortifications, including 12 iron and concrete artillery forts and a number of machine guns.” The communique claims this makes 61 loaded with freight and apparently | pinnish defensive fortifications cap= intended to run the blockade. | tured within one week. | The Finns maintain their de- fenses are holding against the Rus- sian invasion. War Increasing The communiques of both sides, pieced together, give a war pic- ture of increasing magnitude with artillery thundering along the Karelian Isthmus, now scene of the heaviest fighting of the pres- ent conflict, Line is Intact The Finnish Communique issued this morning made no mention of losing any fortifications but say | the Mannerheim Line is sufficient- | ly intact to stave off the Red Army | assaults which have spread along the lenth of the Karelian Isthmus, | ousands Make Attack One source of information re- lCommued on Paxe Two) WAR POLICY OF NIPPONS UNDER FIRE Budget Member Throws Diet Info Uproar in Hot Debate TOKVO. Feb. 13—Ryozo Makino, | member of the Budget Committee, threw the Diet into an uproar to- day by outrightly criticising the army and demanding an explana- tion of the military expense ac- count, War Minisher Shunroku Hata bluntly refused and the verbal ex- change which ensued was so heat- |ed that stenographic records were | ordered halted. Makino said: “The people are uneasy. To remove that uneasiness it is necessary that the armament plan be explained concretely. To some extent, the people; are barred | from making political criticism, but they are criticising nevertheless in |other ways. They still want to know why Premier Konoye re=- | Hate replied: “We are in the \mldal of war and doing all that is possible to prevent espionage, Beyond this I cannot explain.”