The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1940, Page 1

HE VOL. LV., NO. 8339. DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH BATTLE GERMAN PRISON SHIP Enter Nor wegilan & S ves o 4 Waters, Release Capti SOVIET SKI EXTBA FORCES ARE WIPED OUT Planes Huni Lost Flier in Valdez Area Radio Conversations Indi- cate Steve Davis Ob- ject of Search Fighteen Hundred Rus- sians Are Reported to Have Been Killed FINNISH FORCES ON NEW DEFENSE LINES Women and Children Are Ordered to Leave Viipuri | Planes are combing an area between Anchorage and Cordova today in search of 2 CAA amphi- n flown by Benton “Steve” Davis, ¢! the Civil Aeronautics Authority According to conversations on airways frequencies heard by short wave listeners here today. Davis had apparently left An- chorage for Yakutat yesterday morning and has not been re- ported since take-off. Davis apparently was not heard at Valdez, scheduled on his itin- erary and the search is being concentrated in the area between Valdez and Anchorage unusually fine flying weather aiding the hunt. Davis has a wife and four chil- dren in Anchorage. He is well known in Juneau. NAZIS WILL BULLETIN—MOSCOW, Feb. 17 A Soviet Russian Com- munique tenight announces (ha the nish towns of Leipasuo and Kamara, along the strategic Karelian Isthmus vilrcad, 15 miles frem Vii- . have been captured. JELSINKI, Feb. 17.—The Fin- High Command announces Karelian Isthmus troops have n withdrawn to a new position, | innish statement says a great vic has been won at Kuh- mo on tife Eastern:Front where at least 1800 men have been killed and | lete ‘destruction of three bat- tal s of ski troops has been ac- complished. Reconnaissance detachments also claim dispersal of several columns totaling 180 sleds attempting to cm&s‘y Lake Lagoda on the ice. Evacuate Viipuri Nazi Air Raider Sinks a British Trawler STORMS IN MANY PARTS ~ OF HATION Seventy-iw?)dP-ersons Are Known fo Have Lost Their Lives 'EASTERN STATES ARE COVERED WITH SNOW Out Orders for Emer- gency Work (By Asso d Press) Prospects of more snow over the weekend in the Eastern States to- day spurred efforts to restore com- munications which have been crip- pled since Valentine’s Day The sterms in the Easle States tock a toll of 72 known to have died. 40 Students Rescued Rescue parties during the night removed 400 High School pupils from busses stalled by a blizzard at Lubbock, Texas. A heavy sleet storm continues to, whip the Western Gulf States. SHoulD Pictured in these photos is a North Sea. Top left, the boml Right, a cloud of smoke rises F.D.R. Gives Order President Roosevelt, aboard the icruiser Tuscaloosa, on a vacation, has radioed the Federal Works Ad- i ministration approving of emergen- cy projects to repair storm damage in the New England States which have been heavy sufferers as the result of the midweek storm in which |31 persons were killed and in up- state New York where 10 are known dead. New York Snowed Under | W.P.A. workers have been ordered n actual attack by a German bombing ber roars down upon the ship. The sini; from the trawler after a direct hit by hovers overhead., Lower left, the trawler’s erew takes to a lifeboat, The Finnish Army command has | ordered the removal of all women | and children from Viipuri which is| close to the battle lines where the | Russians continued for the seven-| teenth day heavy pounding the Mannerheim Line. Notices have also been posted calling men of 41 to 42 years old to the colors and this indicates Fin- land’s plight. Men of 42 to 44 years of age were called to the colors three days ago. A 40-minute air raid alarm lasted | until 2:30 o'clock this afternoon but no Russian planes were sighted . | DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION HIT SHIPS, NO WARNING Unresiridema Warfare Looms as British Arm Commercials BERLIN, Feb. 17. — Answering Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, and his statement that all British commercial ships n the North Sea will be armed, DNB, the official German news ag- ency, issued inspired comment that Germany is no longer bound to re- spect the London U-boat agree- ment. The London agreement stipulated |against attacking of merchantmen | by submarines unless the crew were put in a safe place, under which heading lifeboats did not fall. | | | to help snow removal in New York City where 10 persons are dead as the result of the storm. Every ef- {fort is being made to clear the |streets despite the financial strin- | gency. B Performer Is Killed accompanying plane. WE EXPORT RELIER Malanuska CONGRESSIONAL HEADS ACHE By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Not in a long time has Congress handled such a hot potato as this business of voting loans to Finland and re- lief to Poland The House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee holds a hearing around & whopping big table you could gal- lop a horse on. Representative Fish of New York and other members bring witnesses to support a pro- posal for granting relief money to Poland. “Ten million Poles,” says Fish, “literally are ving Such relief, says Fish, who last vear enjoyed the hospitality of German Foreign Minister Ribben- trop, would not be unneutral. “Who besides you,” growls Rep- resentative Tinkham of Massa- chusetts, through a brackle of beard, “says it is not unneutral?” “How are we going to keep these relief supplies from falling into the hands of the Germans?” asks Representative Johnson of Texas. Representative Sol Bloom, chair- man of the committee, reads a letter from Secretary of State Hull ‘BuH Charging from Chute Rears Head-Strikes Rider in Face PHOENIX, Ar Dorothy Gaskill, 23, rodeo perform- !er, is dead as the result of injuries | suffered while attempting to ride a Brahma bull the {Campaign Headquarters cnut. ; Opened in San Francisco | q."v.. e i one tace and Los Angeles (Garnerls ~ Enfering in Californi hna, charging from | | She was knocked unconscious and removed to a hos- died soon after to death.”| ONJULY 15 Chairman Farley Makes Announcement - Ses- (OHIO DELEGATES sion in Chicago FOR PRESIDENT IF CANDIDATE DNB's comment indicated armed | mercantmen will now be subject to sinking without warning. | e, MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 17.—James A. Farley, Chairman of the Demo- cratic National Committee announc- ed today that the Democratic Na- COLUMBUS, Ohio., Feb. 17—Ohio tional Convention will be held July | Democratic Central Executive Com- 15 in Chicago. Farley is here on his | mittee said that National Conven- winter vacation. |tion Delegates will be pledged to Yesterday it was announced the support President Roosevelt if he Republican National Convention will /d esires renomination. Otherwise be held in Philadelphia on June 24. Ohio delegates will support fav- SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 17.—Vice- | Pital- President Garner has launched a| campaign to capture the California delegation to the Democratic Presi- | dential Convention with the opening |of campaign headquarters in both | San Francisco and Los Angeles. | Garner wired San Francisco At- |torney William Wallace authority to place his name on the May 7 primary ballot as a candidate for President. | | Garner carried California in the | primary election eight years ago. FDR HEADS Uy Extradition SACRAMENTO, Cal, Feb. 17— Gov. Culbert L. Olson has signed extradition papers for William Bi- off, head of the International Al- |liance of Theatrical Stage em- | ployees for return to Chicago on | the grounds he has not complet- ed sentence on a 1922 pandering charge. | .- — For W. Bioff which he interprets to mean that| the Red Cross has reported noj need of such legislative aid. \ CUTTING RELIEF HERE There is constant harping ou Lhe1 dangers involved in the business of sending money into war territory,| even for relief purposes, Momen-| tarily the committee pauses while| a blondish-haired student solemnly | reads a report on his experiences| during the bombardment of War-| saw. The people, he says, were re-| duced to eating horses, pigeons and | dogs. In the basement of the Am- erican embassy they didn't have even that, he says, just boiled rice “Vote at least $10,000,000,” pleads Dr. B, L. Smykowski of Bridge-| port, Conn. district chief of a Polish-American relief organiza- . o plane on a British trawler in the ster shadow is a machine gun sight. a bomb, while the attacking plane These photos were made from an Colony Is InVelvet 'Manager Stock Is Going South to Place Equip- ment Orders PALMER, Alaska, Feb. 17. — | Manager Stock of the Farm Co- operatives of Matanuska Colony, is now enroute to Seattle on busi- ness_and pleasure, { Manager Stock says the colony | saved $30,000 above expenses last, | year and estimates the Coopera- | !tives will do half a million dol- |tars gross this year. | | On Manager Stock’s shopping list} is everything from farm machinery to knitting yarn for the colony. - D (10 STARTS | COURT SUIT AGAINST AFL George Woolf Seeks Re- straining Name, Alas- ka .Cannery Workers SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 17. —George Woolf, President of the CIO Alaska Cannery Workers Un- ion, has filed suit in the Superior Court to enjoin the AFL from using the same name. ‘Woolf asks for $2,500 exemplary damages. The suit is directed against J. SHARP FIGHT TAKES PLACE, ICED WATERS Landing Pa—r_ty—Makes Dash —Quickly Releases Imprisoned Men TANKER 1S SCUTTLED BY CREW NEAR SCENE Freed Seamen Taken fo Leith Where Am- bulances Await NAZIHOWL IS SENT UP ON ACTION Declares Atfacks on Prison . Ship Is Dastardly, ‘ Swinish ALTMARK'S CAPTAIN | SENDS HIS VERSION Attempted fo Scuttle His, Ship But British Surprised Him ces | BERLIN, Feb. 17 Authorized | LONDON, Feb. 17.—The British German sources brand the British | Admiralty apnounces that a British attack on the Altmark as “one of naval craff entered Norwegian ter- the most dastardly and swinish ac- | ritorial waters, battled the crew of tions in histo the German prison ship Altmark, The British action, the authorized | which was the tender for the sunken sources says, would be comparable German pockef. battleship Graf Spee, |to a German U-boat entering New and rescued between 300 and 400 York City harbor and boarding the Britishi merchant seamen who were Queen Mary, now anchored there, battened below the Altmark's desks. and lustily shooting down the crew. | German Tanker Scuttled The battling of the Altmark is de- | The report also says that while ___ lclared to be the grossest violation the sharp battle was progressing be- {of international law since the Brit- tween the Altmark and British naval |ish bombardment of Copenhagen in craft, other British craft saw the 1807. +German tanker Baldur nearby. The ; Action Was Sudden crew of the Baldur scuttled their The Captain of the Alumark has|"T.p When ordersc o stop. | It is said that five Germans and telephoned that he attempted to ram ritis] one Britisher were killed in the en- the British attacking ship when hail- . counter between the Altmark and ed and also attempted to scuttle the . 8 . h the British naval vessel Altmark, after lowering the life boats, but he was captured too soon. | Prisoners Landed The Captain said the British at- The British destroyer Cossack has tacking force fired small arms wild- landed the released British prison- ly, even at the Germans who were ers from the Altmark at Leith on attempting to escape on the ice floes. the Firth of Forth. Ambulances were said the dead and wounded at the dock. were hit in the abdomens indicating Sharp rifle fire ensued when the | the close range encounter. Cossack entered the narrow fjord - and sent a boarding party onto the T0 BE CHOSE ATSTYLESHOW Girls Will Submit Applica- tions fo Juneau Cham- ber of Commerce He Norwegians Involved Earlier, British craft withdrew |when the Norwegians reported the Altmark had been examined at Ber- gen and no prisoners were aboard. The Admiralty said the “liberated prisoners stated that during the Nor- wegian examination of the Altmark at Bergen, their efforts to make their presence known to the search- ing party went unheeded.” | From British Craft The prisoners released from the 'Altmark are seamen taken from |British craft that have been sent down in recent months in the South | Atlantic by German raiders. The }condmon of some of the prisoners (Conunued on Page Seven) f - In response to an invitation from the Fairbanks Dog Derby and Ice Carnival, to be held at Fairbanks, March 7 8, 9, and 10, the Juneau NORWAY | orite sons Senator Vic Donahey and e I Stock QUOTATIONS |National Committeeman Charles } Sawyet, e e - i | | tion, ) |E. Ferguson, former head of the Back in every member's mind Marine Firemen and several or- is the question of how such a vote ganizers who allegedly formed the will rest among his constituents' AFL Cannery Workers’ Union, TO PANAMA — {Laud Russia Chamber of Commerce will spon- sor a “Miss Juneau” to attend the | Carnival and compete for the title of “Miss Alaska.” | The selection of “Miss Juneau,” | according to specifications received from the Fairbanks committee, ln-‘ cludes the following rules: PROTESTS SEIZURES Entrants must be girls between the uses of 16 snt 2 veur one Sends Brifish Nofe on Inci- residents of Juncau, who have| dent-Altmark MBY Be Inerned | never been married. | Each entrant in this city must OSLO, Feh, 17-—-The Norwegian | i | declare her candidacy for the mle‘G < . e of “Miss Juneau” and all such B:&"i:,"_‘“",'_',ms r::cues:ed bo GEpagt | declarations must be in the hands| oo "" ACHOR H SFCEAE saret- | > rial waters and removing prison- {of the committee before 12 o'clock 'gng g the Altmark {noon on Wednesday, F‘ebrufuy 21| The protest lodged makes a de- | 1940. The form appearing in this, mand for return of the prisoners, |issue may be used and mailed to|that compensation be paid and Nor- Declare Candidacy President Reveals He Is to, gyt will b | ” Bt She Wil Get NEW YORK, Feb. 17. — Closing‘s quotation of American Can at to-| srooo w'hel'l short session is 115%, Ana-| conda 29%, Bethlehem Steel 78%, (leths w'“ Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors MILWAUKEE, Feb. 17. — When 53%., International Harvester 56%, Grocer Frank Jilek made out his Kennecott 36%, New York Cgitral|will he wanted his sister in old 17, Northern Pacific 8%, Un'ited Czechoslovakia to receive his $5,000 States Steel 581, Pound $395%. | estate, but he wished to be sure of it. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The will, filed for probate here, The following are today's Dow,|directed that the estate “be held Jones averages: Industrials 148.72,|in trust and no distribution made rails 30.94, utilities 24.99. until Czechoslovakia becomes a re- public again.” Inspect Defenses on Aflantic Side ; | ABOARD THE U. S. S. LANG,| | Via Wireless, Feb. 17.—Lifting se- |crecy shrouding his vacation cruise on the Tuscaloosa, President Roose- velt announced today through an aide that he would arrive at the| Panama Canal Zone tomorrow to inspect the Atlantic side defenses. It had been rumored Roosevelt would seek conference on the high seas with foreign powers. and WPA relief from his own people during the current economy A drive. They are all sympathetic as| S;OCKHOLM, Feb. 17. — The!plazes byt home problems, plus| ;:W A ix%rkz;sh unlion sat _Vtarrl;” 2| doubt about this business of send-| earing ovief us- | ing mone; in ” pas, a | sia lauded by its Communist mem- @B e acek, maXes| e | them hedge. | rs and decided to do something| 1n the Senate is even more em-| about it. I phatic evidence of a mincing, un- They offered free one-way ti certain step about loans to Fin- ets to Moscow on condition de-|jand President Roosevelt recom- parture be made immediately r‘“imends congressional suthority for nothing less than a ten-year Visil.|non.military loans to Finland. Al- There have been no takers, unio| —— L members said. Not Go Back (Continued on page Six) while he is cutting off farm relie!,NEBRMKA PlA(ES F.D.R."S NAME ON PRIMARY BALLOT LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 17.—Demo- cratic Committeeman James Quig- ley today filed petitions which will place Franklin D. Roosevelt’s name on Nebraska primary election ballots "April 9. | the Juneau Chamber of Conunecre.!}weginn sovereignty be respected in Box 470, or delivered in person to the future. one of the Committee, consl.stlng; It is generally considered that the of Charles W. Carter, H. O. Adams Altmark will now be interned for SRR |the duration of the present war. giY Weliman, Fobkodhy | The Altmark is reported still in In order to select “Miss Juneau” the thin ice in Gjessing fjord with | from among the entrants, a Style PBritish war craft lying in wait if she Show will be held at the Capitol attempts to come out and continue { Theatre next week. | the voyage to Germany. | No mention is made of the charge |of the British that the Norwegian in | inspection of the Altmark resulted in in no prisoners being found aboard, __ 'where there were between 300 and 400 seamen locked below decks. Fashion Show The following firms dealing ladies’ apparel will participate (Continued on Page Three)