The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 14, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LV., NO. 8336. 'FINNS FIGHTING WITH BACKS TO WALL : s Ap eal Made To Civilized Nations For Aid ROOSEVELT | “Madcap” Merry Gers Divorce VALENTINE in Gulf |MORE MEN ~- ISDODGING DAYGALES . T ~© | ARECALLED THIRD TERM WHIP EAST T T0 COLORS Refuses fo Clear Situation Philadelphia Gefs Heav- .~ Constription Takes Place as Leaves for South | | iest Fall of Snowin | 1 | for Those Who Were on Vacation 38 Years , ; ! . Born in 1897 NAME GOING BEFORE e iione ' F oL i 'RUSSIAN ASSAULTS TWO STATE PRIMARIES ' ARE TERRIFIC ONES | ped up gale-like winds today and | | tightened winter’s grip over most | | of the East L s— | . e Purpose of Sumner Welles| ‘Finnish Military Asserts Tnp fo Europ(_e Par- Mannerheim Line Dent- fially E;fllamed ed But Not Broken Rain, sleet and snow came in on | BULLETIN—HELSINKI, Feb. Journey s Eml of “Ghost Ship” i ! | the wings of the wind and brought | reports of the worst conditions in | years. Many communities intense suffering. In New York City, scores of per-' sons were injured in falls on the experienced | - S et «dent WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Presi- Roosevelt, still silent on his pelitical future, heads for his south- ern vacation after one of his strong- est third term supporters, Ambas- or Joseph Kennedy, renounced E ambition to be the Democratic standard bearer. ident Roosevelt plans to be away from Washington, D. C., for abeut 10 days but gave no indica- tien as to his route. This will bring him up to February 22, the deadline when his name, unless he withdraws it, will go officially on the Illinois Presidential primary. Asked yesterday at a conference' | Merry Fahrney Cassini Granted a divorce from her fourth husband, Count Oleg Cassini, following sensational court sessions in New York, Merry Fahrney, with newsmen whether he will take steps to withdraw from the Illinois and Wisconsin contests before go- ing south, the President said he knew nothing about the circum- stances in the two states. It is asserted in various quaiters _ that Sumner Welles’ purpose of his mission to European capitals is to help Roosevelt to decide wether he will run for a third term. FIRST FACTS ABOUTPEACE FOR EUROPE Roosevelt's Emissary Giv- en Statement by For- mer French Premier PARIS, Feb. 14.—Sumner Welles, Undersecretary of State of the Unit- ed States, in Europe on a mission President Roosevelt's emissary, been given the assertion from Blum, former Premier of ce, that there is “not the slight- nce of getting Germany and a to agree to a peace founded on justice and international moral- ity.” as has Leon PERE D L ey Taku Is Now Juneau Bound SEATTLE, Feb. 14. — Steam Taku sailed for Southeast Alaska ports at 10 o'clock last night, Among the passengers aboard is Mrs. H. Pickett, booked for Ju- neau. The Taku is scheduled to reach Juneau Saturday morning. patent medicine heiress, is shown newsmen that she has no fifth hu might include a mp to China ‘“or the North Pole.” ice coated streets and walking was made more precarious by wmn- | cally high winds which all but blew | | pedestrians from their feet and sent hats awhirling. | Snow fell in Southeast New Eng- | 1and and in Washington, D. C., while | Pittsburgh reported the heaviest snowfall in 38 years, 15 inches deep in the downtown rict. | Highway and air traffic through- |out Pennsylvania hundreds of cars and buses are mar- ooned. R Pendergasl is crippled and| Marking the end of a tragic and mysterious voyage which cost the lives of all her nine seamen, the British schooner Gloria Colita was towed into Mobile, Ala., after being found abandoned 150 miles out in the Guilf of Mexico following a storm. The Gloria Colita is shown shortly after she was sighted. Note portion of s:ul the men did not have time to lower. It was brhcwd the winds struck and the crew washed overbolrtl CANADIANS R, BOWHEADS, LAST RITES, | BRITISH FREIGHTER, LOADED WITHBEEF, TORPEDOED, SUNK FINAN(IAl AID NEW YORK, Feb. 14—The 12,000 ton British freighter Sultar Star, 14—The Finns admittedly are fighting with their backs to the wall. Conscription posters, calling to the colors all men born in 1897, have been posted on walls. Some of this class, men 40 or 43 years old, are already in the active service as officers. BULLETIN—HELSINKI, Feb. 14.—Finland’s Information Min- istry again appealed today to the “civilized nations of the world to relieve us “with men and war materials, especially planes. MANNERHEIM LINE DENTED in her apartment where she told sband in mind and that her plans - Machine Is U. . PROTESTS BRITAIN ON MAIL, ETC., IS OLD STUFF FLEET EXPANSION PLANS ARE GIVEN DECIDED BOOST House Naval Commiftee Makes Final and Un- animous Approval WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. — The House Naval Committee has given final and unanimous approval of the two year $655,000,000 fleet ex- pansion program after another House committee slashed $111,699,- 1000 from President Roosevelt's bud- get. | The Navy Expansion program has! | been approved by the President and | \permif.s the Nevy to comstruct 21 |additional combat and 22 auxiliary | vessels in the next two years. " PHILADELPHIA * MAY GET 6. 0. P. NAT. CONVENTION, WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Offi- TO GREAT HOLDING UP Given Rout \Kansas City Voters Put Across New Deal in Municipal Election KANSAS CITY, Mo, Feb. 14— Tom Pendergast’s political machine By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. — The was routed at every l(xplana\mn here of England’s cay- first election since his incarceration |alier manner toward American mail|in the Federal prison. Jand commerce is that she is enheu The city voters yesterday approv- dead certain she is going to win '.he‘li‘d of a charter amendment short- war and/or dead certain American |ening the office terms which throws support is “in the bag.” \the Mayor and Councilmen out in This nation has always been dis- | April. posed to side with England in any, The voters also defeated the Fire | war against Germany. The im-|Department Civil Service proposal pression here is that Britain [eeLg‘Wthh was labelled as a Pendergast {she can scrub us around more than measure. | considerable without any change in | lour attitude. | Moreover, her experience during,l | the last war could convince Eng-| nner ou e Hand that she can do almost any-| | thing short of raiding our coasts | F H. h without encountering anything | harsher than a stern note. | With respect to the mail and ship | Montana and Alberta Are to Join Forces for Their Section searches—we had the same daily picnic all through the last war. We | got all hot under the collar and| sent hot notes. *The British, coach- | |ed by U. 8. Ambassador Page, large- ly ignored them. For months on end the British GREAT FALLS, Mont., Feb. 14— Dr. H. J. McGregor, Montana rep- resentative for negotiations regard- ing the proposed Alaska Highway. iplans to confer soon with Alberta highway officials to obtain addi- o thought suspect. Finally we goli | wrought up about that. | We'll jolly well have no more of | | that, we said to Britain. And Bri- | tain backed down — exactly three miles. That is the distance she pull- ed her cruisers away from the three | mile limit. They didn't loom up so {big six miles away, but they con- turn in the| (cials at the National Republican | headquarters are of the opinion LABOR CONDITIONS ARE IMPROVING IN | FRISCO BAY AREAS. | SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 14—A.| E. Roth, President of the San| Francisco Employers’ Council, re-, ports that there is an improve- ment in labor relations in San Francisco and other Bay areas and progress is being made toward a goal of industrial stability. that Party’s National convention will probably be held in Philadel- vphia some time between June 16 and the end of July. FISHERY REGULATIONS NOW AVAILABLE HERE Copies of the fisheries regulations for 1940 have been received by the Bureau of Fisheries and are avail- able at the office here to anyone interested, tinued to stop and search our ships just as they now are doing farther out to sea. Washington never will get over | being amazed and riled at Britain’s high-handed methods. She grabs our ships and drags them through the war zone, examines sealed en- velopes for anything from bonds to a 10-ton truck, and orders the cargo unloaded if she thinks it might trickle through some neutral country into Germany. And about the only thing we can do is to protest. We our- selves set up the pattern during the Civil War. The Union navy " (Continucd on Page PFive) kept a patrol of cruisers just out side New York harbor to exammer tional support for a route through Great Falls to Edmonton. | ships whose cargoes the British | Dr. McGregor said last night there is no conflict between West Coast interests favoring a route through British Columbia and inter- ests favoring the Montana-Alberta | route. The latter, however, contends that the Alberta route is less moun- tainous. —-—— WISEMAN TRADER OUT W. D. “Billy” English, trading post operator at Wiseman, is a passenger southbound on the Mount McKinley enroute to the Outside on business and pleasure, ‘Funeral Se;;k;s Are Held in Ottawa for Lord Tweedsmuir OTTAWA, Febo. 14.—A sorrowing nation bowed its head today as the body of Canada’s Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, was carried to 1St. Andrew’s Church for a state fu- neral. Soldiers, naval officers and air- men in service uniform escorted the |body from the Senate Chamber at | the Parliament buildings to the church. In the Chamber, the last tb pay respects at the bier of the Governor General was Prime Minister Mack- enzie King. Eight warrant officers from the Navy, Army, Air Force and Royal Canadian Mounted Police acted as pall bearers. Lady Tweedsmuir and Govern- ment and Church officials went di-| rectly to St. Andrews. More than an hour before the | funeral procession started from t.h«.-‘ Parliament buildings, the streets \along the way and around the | church were black with people. Soldiers kept the crowds in line. In accordance with Lord Tweeds- | muir’s wishes, the state funeral ser- vices were simple and short. The {choir and organist of the church led the music. The pastor of St. An- drew’s, the Rev. Alexander Fergu- son, delivered the funeral oration. ’I‘he servtce was concluded within 35| | —The Alaska Packers Association FOR FINLAND IS NOW UP, SENATE House Passes_Measure En- abling Raising of Funds for Loans WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The de- bate over financial aid to Finland, today moved to the House after the Senate gave approval to the meas- ure doubling the Export and Import Bank fund one hundred million dol- lars. This makes it possible for loans to Finland, China and Latin American coumrles APAREPORTS LOSSES FOR TWO YEARS Taxes, Demands of Labor, Increase Costs, Cufs Selling Profits SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 14. PP MOB OF 1,000 | RUSH JALTO GET 2 WOMEN Negresses Fi“na;lly Rescue by Stafe Troopers- | Murder Case ; SNOWHILL, Maryland, Feb. 14— Five State troopers rescued two ne- gro women from a crowd of 1,000 | persons last night who earlier rush- | ed the jail and dragged the women forth in order “to get them to tell about the slaying of Harvey Pil- chard, white farmer, and the wound- | |ing of his wife last Sunday night.” | | One trooper was battered on the! head with a club and one mob mem- | ber was shot but not serlou.sly wounded. The two women were unharmed and were finally spirtied away by the troopers, | atter all charges, including adjust- |to such an extent that it is dif- reports a $260,394 net loss in 1939 | ments of capital and asset ac-| couan compared to a loss of sszl,-. 1520 the previous year. The Directors elected A. W. Eames Vice-President, A. C. Mott, Assistant Secretary and Jreelected | all other officers. President William Timson, in a| statement, said “taxes, unreason-| able demands and higher wages ex- acted by labor have increased costs | ficult to market salmon at profit.” Talk on Proponl ‘ \For Embargo on } Japan Is Postponed } WAHINGTON, Feb. 14.—The Senate Foreign Relations com- mitte has postponed formal con- sideration of proposals for an embargo on exports to Japan, but Senator Key Pittman pre- | dicted the embargoe resolution will win committee approval at reported by radio that she has been| GOPENHAGEN, Feb. 14. — The torpedoed 230 miles southeast of |pynjang Mannerheim Line is dented Lands End, England, and the Crew py; gpparently not broken as the is abandoning the ship. |result of fourteen consecutive days The Sultar Star was last reported [of Russian assaults and fighting at out of Buenos Aires on January 17 a magnitude which the Pinns com- the next session, with a cargo of Argentine beef. A S SN LY ANTI-TANK DITCH ISDUG BY FRENCH Is Extension of Maginot |pared to the World War. Partial Russian success in the Summa sector, which is the vortex of the bitterest fighting, is ac- | knowledged in the Finnish com- !munique which says a “few fore- | most positions” have fallen to the Red Army but the Russians were repulsed before they penetrated fur- ther. | More Forts Captured The Soviets announce 23 more Line-Took Ty/o Years Pinnian Totfeations_ have _bern fo Bl.llld |Russians say they have taken from PARIS, Feb. 14.—The French army | has dug a 200-mile anti-tank dlcch\ along the Belgian border from Lux-| emburg to the English Channel ns} part of an extension of the Magi- not Line. | It was completed far ahead of schedule and three weeks before | Adolf Hitler's “Lucky Month of| March.” The ditch follows the Belgian | border and is supported by gun casements. Thick beds of barbed wire and a parallel system of anti- tank rails. The entire system was completed | in two years. e - FOREIGN MISSION INU. S. STUDYING PLANE FACTORIES LOS ANGELES, Feb. 14. — A| five-man Scandinavian air mis-| sion has started a survey of Los| Angeles plane factories preparatory | to placing orders for airships and | transports to be used in a pro- posed trans-Atlantic line from New York to Bergen, Norway. Bernt Balchen, the famous Arctic flier, heads the mission which in- cludes representatives of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. OB Gz e Kennedy fo Return To His London Post WASHINGTON, Feb. 14.—Ambas- sador to Great Britain Joseph P. Kennedy said that he will sail for Europe on February 26 to return to his post in London. Kennedy will first go to Genoa, Italy, then fly to England, | Finland. Terming continued resistance of !th Pinnish armed forces especially in the Summa sector as “miracu- |lous,” the Finnish military state- ment declares the Russians have | been restricted in gains at the cost of “thousands of dead and the loss of quantities of war materials. Claim Line Intact The Finns insist the Mannerhein Line, composed of concrete and steel fortifications across the Karelian Isthmus, is still essentially intact despite the Russian battering. Russian accounts of .bitter fight- | ing said the Red Army’s drive is de- veloplng in a success and as fully large enemy forces attempting coun- (Co;lunued on Page Three) BRITISHERS MAY ENLIST FOR FINLAND Formal Permission Given fo Volunteer in Fight- ing Russians LONDON, Feb. 14—Following the appeal of Finland for men in the conflict with Russia, Great Britain today gave her citizens formal per- mission to volunteer in fighting for Finland. + Only those over 27, or who for other reasons are not likely to be called for Great Britain’s own mili- tary services, are free to join the Finns. Thousands in all walks of life are reported offering their services to Pinland’s recruiting bureau. No organized group is known to have started for Pinland yet,