The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8340. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1940. MLMB[ R ASSOCIATED PRESS TEN CENTS Pmcr. ALASKA FLIER CRASHES, RESCUED ALIVE e, 18,000 Russians Killed or Taken Prisoners { DIVISION WIPED OUT IS REPORT Soviet Attacks During Two Days Repulsed by Finnish Forces TWENTY INVADING . PLANES SHOT DOWN Fort Koivisto Is Said fo Be Isolated-New Posi- tions Taken Up LSINKI, Feb. 19.—“Annihilia- the Russian Eighteenth n, with 18,000 Russians killed en prisoners, is announced to- by the Finnish High Command. iet attacks Sunday and new Fin- ¢ place. The scene is bitterest fighting. Finnish Command assaults have Isthmus the The sa Russian repulsed. Loss—One Battalion communique estimates the Ru n losses equal to about one battalion. Twenty Russian warplanes are also said to have been shot down No mention is made in today's 1ish communique regarding Rus- announcement of further pen- eratien of the Mannerheim dfeense line along the Karelian Isthmus. Isclation of the important pivotal fort Koivisto, the western terminus of the line, is mentioned in the Rus- sion report. T Finns declare that “piece by piece” fighting reduced the Red Army division, the same one which unofficial reports of February 6 as- serted had been wiped out. Soviet Attack Repulsed Pinnish report further says the . report been The F Sunday, also today’s cs of the Russians on the Isth- front have been thrown back “new positions.” This statement apparently refers to the fresh positions taken up after the Russiary penetrations of the band of fortifications of the Man- nerheim line. DONAHEY S NOT SEEKING NOMINATION Refuses to Be Ohio’s Fav- orite Son in Presi- dential Race WASHINGTON, Feb. 19. — De- claring that “acceptance would be a subterfuge,” United States Sena- tor Vie Donahey has refused to be Ohio’s favorite son candidate for the ination. Senator Donahey has been en- dorsed for the nomination by the| Ohio Democratic State Central Exe- cutive Committee which, however, went on record favoring the renom- ination of President Roosevelt if he desires the third term. If Roose- velt is not a candidate, Ohioans are | hopeful Donahey may change his| mind and be the favorite son can- didate. Spokesman for Garner mdlcaked Garner might enter his name in| the Ohio primary if Donahey is not a candidate. CITY MAILS SECOND. HALF TAX NOTICES Notices for second-half munici- pal taxes are being sent out today by the City Clerk’s office. Second- half taxes are now payable and become delinquent March, 15. at- | Democratic Presidential nom-| Bay State Mayor Threatencd BRI"SHNAVY | Wife, Children Share in $5,000.000 Trust LOSES VESSEL; ISTORPEDOED One Hundred and Fifiy-i. seven Officers, Crew- men Are Vidims 2 NAZI MERCHANT | | Mayor Lewis and daughters “Black Spade” pictured above Police are Death threats have been made by a mysterious t Mayor Frank E. Lewis of Everett, Ma. with his two daughters, Betty Jane, left, and Joanne. keeping a close watch. Second Negro Is Arrested In Connedtion with Assauit Falrbanks Woman, Seal!le RLY HILLS, Cal, Feb. 19. | wanted for investigation of the | rape of Mrs. Adah Edmundson, of Fairbanks, in Seattle on January Program Commmee Issues. Statement for Cam- paign Talk ’7_ has been arrested here. | Fred W. Alderston, 32, the sec-| \mld of the trio of negroes allegedly involved, remains in.jail at Seattle following his arrest the ddy after (hv crime. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — The Program Committee of the Re- publican Party has suggested the | following major principles with which to go before the people in the Presidential campaign this year: The United out of war, Defense forces should be strength- ened so as to protect the Western Hemisphere. Trade agreements should be sub- ject to the approval' of Congress. The National Labor Relations Act should be amended and the National Labor Relations Board| overhauled. There should be a farm program aimed at assuring the farmers of prices to be so related to those he pays and that the interchange o goods between the farm and city be increased. Government regulations of busi- ness should be protective and not restrictive, Government expenditures should | M. J. Edmundson, miner, in- formed the Seattle police’ on Sat- urday night, January 27, that while | he and his wife were walking along Jackson Street, Seattle, the couple | was herded into a hotel where| | three negroes attacked his wife in| turn while the others held Edmund- | son. Edmundson said he escaped from | the negroes momentarily, threw his wife through a window, allowing her to escape, and then he feigned | unconsciousness and himself escaped while the attention of the negroes was diverted, Fred Alderston was| soon arrested and held by the po- lice on an open charge. He ad- mitted to participation in the as-| sault. Mrs, Edmundson was then‘ in a serious condition. The Edmundsons left Fanrbanks last fall to spend the winter on the coast and were in Seattle plan r ning to come north this month. The Edmunsons have made thexr‘ home in Interior Alaska for Lhe last four year, spending much of‘ their time on Coal Creek and at| Twenty-eight Mile, above Circle, on the Yukon River. Edmundson is| a nephew of Marion G. Edmund- son, who promoted the Coal Creek properties now being operated by the McRae, and is now developing tates should keep 1 $250,000. | Naval men lost during the war lists |be cut 20 percent. Higher surtax on individuals | should be reduced and Government | |and state bond issues should be| | taxed. | Emergency presidential monétary powers should be repéaled. | Adequate relief should be pro-| | vided for all in need but the ad-| | ministration should be entrustedw | to local governments. Sociai security legislation should‘ | be studied with a view of improve- | ment and expanshm \ SHOTDOWN BERLIN, Feb. 19.—Nazi military leaders report a Nazi plane shot down a British plane which tried to' | make a flight over the German coast | of the North Sea. The “enemy"‘ plane went down under machine gun fire. There was only one oocu-i pant. i |son’s parents a quartz property at Twenty-eight Mile. Young Edmundson has an uncle at Matanuska and Mrs. Edmund- reside there. young couple lived there before going to the Interior MANY CANADIANS SERVING INWAR OTTAWA, Feb. 19—A Defense | Department statement issued today | said that more than ninety thou- sand men now were serving in Can- ada’s army, naval and air forces. The statement said that depend-| ent's allowances paid since the be- ‘ginnlng of the war totaled five and a half million dollars, in addition to pay assigned by members of the forces for the support of dependents and for special purposes such as insurance amounted to more than an additional ,three million dollars, The| | | some other tribunal over the British la |feature of the ship’s status. SHIPS ARE CAPTURED Legal Bamé Over Pris- | on Craft Altmark LONDON, Feb. 19.—Great Britain and Germany have traded blow for blow in a furious naval battle. While the British pridefully count- ed two captured German merchant ships as war prizes in the sea block- ade, the Admiralty disclosed that the British destroyer Daring has been torpedoed and sunk with a| loss of 157 lives. Fight Over Prison Ship Enemy powers meanwhile waged a legal battle over the fate of the German prison ship Altmark, the British pressing for internment in | ——- Norway territorial waters where a British destroyer cornered her laflt Friday and released between and 400 British prisoners taken fr om sunken vessels, and the Germans d(-m.mdmg the Altmark be released Moters, and largest s Slxlh Destroyer Lost The Daring is fhe sixth British destroyer lost since the outbreak of the war. In all the British fleet has lost 25 vessels, 14 being capital ships and the others destroyers or submarines. Where or when the 1300 ton Dar- ing was sunk is not disclosed. The Daring was a sister ship of the de- stroyer Duchess lost v'dllll'r xn the war. She carried four inch | ! guns, seven smaller guns And mgm 21 inch torpedo tubes. She was completed in 1932 and cost abmxt; She could attain the ex-| ceptional speed of 38.2 knots per hour. TRADE SITUATION SERIOUS BETWEEN JAPAN, U.S. (LAIM Nippon Spokesman, How- ever Hopes for New Treaty — Overfures Cemmander Victim Among those lost aboard the Dar- ing is the Commander, S. A. Coope: Unofficial tabulation of Brms This includes the loss of life and also 604 2271, aboard the Daring missing Naval men. - TOKYO, Feb. 19.—Describing the Japanese and United States trade situation “is very serious,” Yaki- | chiro Suma, Foreign office spokes- man said Japan has’ made “a final offer” to remedy the non-treaty status, Suma told the newspapermen | that Japan hopes a new treaty will replace the one the United State: Llake Appeal abrogated January 26 but the “sit- |uation now depends on the future AI'mark (as |attitude of the Government of the United States.” Suma said the Japanese moves | will affect settlement of a “number vl cases,” apparently meaning dam- lage to American property in China and the offer to reopen the lower Yangtze River to third power com- merce, meaning the United States. | The offer was made previously by | Premier Abe’s Government. TROOPS FOR Foreign Mlmsier Says Pris- on Ship Armed with Anti-Aircraft Guns 0SLO, Feb. 19—Foreign Minister | Koht announces that Norway might | appeal to the League of Nations or seizure of prisoners aboard the pris; on ship Altmark in Norweign wa- | ters. | Koht said the Altmark was armed with anti-aircraft guns which casts| new light on one wntroversm[Governor I.Ong fo ca" 0“’ Germany has maintained the Alt-| mark was not armed. | Nahonal Guard fOl’ Mrs. Ruth Mott (left) and Stewart Mott, 3, and Susan at more than $5,000,000, which their husband and father gle stockholder, set up for them. made the picture of the children at their Flint, Mich., home. © GERMANY DAILY ATTEMPTS TO SPREAD PROPAGANDA IN U. . BY "BERLIN BULLETIN™ NEW ORLEANS Mott’s hobby By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Repub- licans and Democratic headquarters | out party dope sheets but most | Iu'l to read is the “Berlin Bulle- | tin” distributed to newspapers in Washington by the German Em- bassy It comes out every day, with an occasional exception, but like many another work of genius, it is born to blush unseen. We have never | seen a line of it quoted in a local paper. The Bulletin correctly foretold the reaction of the European neu- trals to Churchill's speech sug- gesting the part the neutrals| might have in the war. Holland | bucked up and said she would defend her neutrality against ag- n from any source, which caused the Bulletin many safisfied | chuckles. “The unanimous rejection of! the demand of Mr. Churchill that| he neutrals join the British war ppears to have made the British government a little more cau- tious,” it said. ‘The Bulletin tries to be mod- erately objective in some of its reviews, but mostly ‘it is out and out sarcastic about the British, We have read a fair number of issues and haven’t seen France mentioned. Sometimes the Bulle- tin steps in to interpret American | sentiment, TELLS OF A PAPER SILO “ “The official Japanese protestin connection with the stopping of the Japanese steamer Asama Maru a British warship and the seiz- e of 21 German passengers is rated in the American public as the sharpest declaration ever is- {sued by any neutral power since the outbreak of the war,” says the Bulletin. | But not all is ribbing the Brit. Ix.shv The Bulletin tells of the in- |vention of a paper silo. Unlike ‘ Primary Day BATON ROUGE La., Feb. 19—/ |Gov. Earl Long announced today| that he will call out 1200 National . Truck Drivers Go on S"Ike (lomd Shop ‘(xuardgmen to protect the New Or- |leans polls in the Democratic Gu- TORONTO, Feb. 19.—Eight hun-|bernatorial runoff primary. The dred coal truck drivers continued primary will be held tomorrow. a strike today and refused to de- ~Governor Long is seeking renom- lver coal except to factories en- ination against Attorney Sam Jones. gaged in essential war preparation |He said that he is sending troops and to hospitals. |into New Orleans because his ene- The union drivers demand a closed | mies “are trying to intimidate good | shop. citizens and I won't stand for it!” | American silos, which - stand up | like sawed-off concrete chimneys, the German silo is a “lying-down" affair made of paper. The farmer digs a pit, covers the bottom with a new “bfuminous crepe paper,” both air-proof and water-proof.| In goes the green fodder or grass to be stored. Then a layer of paper is put on top, like a pie-crust, On top of that is a layer of sand or earth. “All green fodder which is pre- (Continuea on Page Four) i zabeth Mott, 4, (right), share in the trust valued Charles Stewart Mott, Vice-President of General | | front. DAVIS HITS SNOW SLOPE - OFMOUNTAIN CAA Pilot Pinned Down in Cabin-Shoots Him- self Free - 'WRECK SPOTTED FROM AR, SEARCHING PARTY ‘Remarkable Rescue Made —New Alaska Aviation Hlsiory Recorded | E ANCHORAGE Alaska, Feb. 19, i—R/escued by brother fliers who | performed almost unbelievable land- ings and takeoffs from the side |of a snow-covered mountain, Ben- |ton “Steve” Davis, of the Civil | Aeronautic Authority, is recovering in the Anchorage hospital from | injuries suffered in a plane crash. Hospital attendants said he has a fractured vertebrae, kidney in- juries and frozen feet, one foot still |in danger of amputation. Physi- clans are confident he will re- cover. is photography and he recently Startlivg Rescue Story The rescue of Davis added oLPM startling chapter to A S ! history of remarkable air acmeve- ments, Davis off [rom Anchorage last Friday morning in an amphi- bian for Yakutat with the inten- tion of stopping possibly ‘at Val- dez enroute. As no report was re=- ceived from him after his takeoff, fliers took off Saturday morning in an exlensive air search. The day was perfect for flying conditions. | Pilot Kenneth Neese, one of the | searching pa 5, finally located {Davis and his wrecked plane from |the air on a mountain side near | Portage Pass. Neese was unable to land and PARIS, Feb. 19.—A French pa- he summoned two smaller ships. trol felt the full brunt of a Ger-| Glen Collins, Wildlife Agent, ac- man ambush. before dawn today in companied by Clarence Rhode, an- the cenural sector of the W&‘emiomer Wwildlife Agent, with Collins |at the controls of a Taylor Cub About 20 men were killed, the of- | | plane, took the air and finally lo- ficial report says, and the casualties | cateq Dayis, were the heaviest suffered 'by the | Land " French so far in any single skirm=| Gonino lmded""h: ':’l‘me i ish of patrol warfare. : | space not more than 75 feet long, The clash marked the q““’kem“g‘heaumg the plane up the preci i‘ of Western front activity, as SUrong| go,c g1one P precipi- German raids were repulsed Satur-| X day and Sunday Jon“m:"esl::e“fl gt the o 2 1 , Collins g | were forced to jump and prop the Cemsorship S oo Is Profested Dick Miller, shortly after Collins and Rhode landed, duplicated the British Parliament Mem- feat with his Aeronca. CAA Inspector I. K. McWilliams, bers fo Press for Investigation Germans | Ambush French Patrol Caught Before Dawn Today-Western Front Activity Quickens took in his plane, kept circling above the scene, radioing news concerning the rescue attempt. Climb Half a Mile The rescue ,pparty made half a mile climb on the slope of the mountain to reach Davis. Davis had freed himself from his wrecked plane by shooting heavy revolver bullets and cutting the panel on his instrument board and freeing his frozen feet. Davis had been held to the ground for LONDON, Feb. 19.—Two Parlia- ment members said today that they |ernment’s request will press demands for an expla- |nation of censorship by the govern- mrnt of a newspaper article by for- mer War Secretary Hore-Belisha. The article appeared yesterday in the weekly pape ‘News of the World,” with a note that forty-four lines had been deleted at the Gov- called for immediate British aid to Fin- ‘The article and extensive land. oo Predics Congress To Meet Until June WASHINGTOCN, Feb. i3 —Senate Majority Leader Barkley predicts nearly 24 hours. Thrilling Takeoff Collins succeeded in taxiing his plane to a point near Davis and he, Rhode and Miller put Davis aboard. Collins then headed his plane down the mountain. Collins gunned the motor as the plane raced down the slope of the mountain incline through knee deep snow drifts and took off as a ski jumper might do. Miller later duplicated the same feat and followed Collins into An- chorage. INTEREST IN JUNEAU The search for Davis was watched with unabated interest in neau not only by local fliers but 11so by scores of friends of the AA pilot. Short wave listeners that Congress will remain in session until June despite some evidence that legislators are anxious to get home and mend their political fences for the fall elections. were picking up some of the de- tails of the search Saturday afier- noon but these were interrupted by