The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 21, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8342, JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ARTILLERY, AIRCRAFT POUNDING FINN Swedish Frontier Air BORDER VILLAGE BOMBED | Between Tm and Forty Missiles Dropped on Pajala BUILDINGS SET AFIRE; SEVERAL DESTROYED Incident Adfiuel to Com- plications, European Troubles BULLETIN — STOURGTLM, Feb. 21.—The Swedish Minister at Moscow has been directed to dcliver a vigerous protest to the Scviet Government for the bombing of Pajala. w STOCKHOLM, Feb. 21. — Seven Russian bombing planes showered - Raided By ‘ U S Planes Reach England l|-“'|EY lONG \ * Polifical Dynasty of Twelvei | ATTORNEY SAM JONES 8 NOMINATED, GOVERNOR MACHINEIS -~ GIVEN ROUT Years' Reign, Top- | pled by Voters | Cleanup of Graft, Corrup-’ . fion Is Promised by | | New Regime NEW ORLEANS, La. Feb. 21.— Huey Long's political dynasty, born twtelve years ag othat resulted in | dictatorial methods and violence, | has died peacefully at the hands of the ballot after one of the longest | and bitterest electicn campaigns in Louisiana State’s history The voters in the Democratic Gu= bernatorial run-off primary swept | EGYPT Near East Becomes Focus for New War Worries Soviets RUSSIAN ~ ATTACKS STALLED Defenders Putting Up Stub- | born Resistance on Isthmus Front LAND ATTACKS ARE AIDED BY PLANES Thirty Finnish Communities Are Peppered from ‘ Air Is Report | HELSINKI, Feb. 21—Finland's stubbornly resisting defenders have repulsed Russian attacks which con- | tinued far into the night along the | battered Karelian Isthmus front. \ The Finnish communique, issued | early this morning, reported Soviet |1and attacks centered on Finland’s | Mannerheim Line defenses across r ween 80/ 2Bd. 40 DRgbh 00 4 to defeat Gov. Earl Long, brother| ... . Eor cdish [,m‘,;e,m“.’,ilagerog X Tza, e kingtish" who established| With France, Britain and Turkey massing three-quarters cf a milion men in the Near East, that area has l'l\nf livlfllll.'v _?U Esda ire bul u:l- the political dynasty, and was mu-[ become a center for new war possibilities. Rumania (1), heavily armed, was seen as a vossible pathway e 10, have [CHMEGLHO. SN lar leader of the machine, and nom-| for a Russo-German thrust at Turkey and the Dardenelles. At Istanbul, in strategic Dardenelles-Bosporus Dispatches from the border region inated Attorney Sam Jones, of Lake “satf-way" area (2), and at Ankara, Turkey ousted 100 German technicians employed by the war and naval reported four buildings in the vil- Sowrios, “’Cll::n"f“cslx Covernar. ; ministries. Turkey had troops along Russia’s Cascasus border (3), within striking distance of Russia's rich lage of 3,000 inhabitants, five miles ' e ke i ngvl:lcomer"m politics ! Baku ol fields. In Syria (4), the French concentrated troops and in Palestine and Arabia (5), there was a from the Finnish frontier, were de- Two British workers and a man in uniform are shown on the wings of (but he pledged himself to restore :rmsh concentration to guard the Suez Canal. In Egypt (6), Franco-British military leaders were on an stroyed and others set afire. {0 Amercan-built (Hudson-type Lockheed) warplane as the craft was | real democracy to Loulsiana and Te-! spection ‘tour, possibly with Greek representatives. Oil fields of Iraq (7), and Iran (8), fuel sonrces for g fd“[“e:”}“ to an @t unloaded in England. Note snow on the Hlane during the recent cold | gain much of the millions of dollars | England, were rich prizes of any Near Eastern thrust. India, clamoring for {ndependence, was a question l;u‘:. “nm e beeb. efore unloading .o i England. he said the Administration and of-| MBark that haunted England. “A“L‘l“’g‘fgg m"e‘“b;hbm b ___|fice holders have stolen from the ~ ~— ~ ] g — ~ e e —— ally regarded in Stofkholm as acel- state and jail n}oso convicted of ’ 8 n u 144 | graft and’ corruption , cenial. the incident added new oo oo 'o |Ve o' er | e e | complications to Sweden’s difficul- " e | | ties over the question of aid to Fin- Ll | . Dnofficial returns from 1508 of | 3 ' 5 4 | the state’s 1703 precincts give the | land and is expected to bring a L] following vote: | sharp protest to MoSCOW. I - = [] | Jones, 258,000. | The bombing will also further ¥ Long, 238,000, | i stimulate Swedish Activist campaign i . Machine Roite | give v ! e i to give nrnhtarr) aid to Finland. [ [] | The Long machine rout appears! A | on esses o o’rl e rlme; to be complete as the Jones' slate | | | for secondary state officers engaged | - e Rl T S s VR {in the runoff primary are going, b — j ! TR {in without a break, together with ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 21.—The . . y H ' I d | MONTEBELLO, ‘Cal, Feb. 21.—|the :lntx—macmne Lngl.;lature and HUNGER RIOIS newspaper Yeni Sabah of Istanbul Executive OfdGIWIfhdl’aws | Mrs otty He % | possibly an anti-machine State warns flatly that “Turkey will ente, e o an | Mrs. Betty Hardaker, 26, has been|conta] committee. ar the da 4 o 2 0 OA T f m | captured at Palm Springs by Chief | | A war the pay CRE SRl CROWCE rdVVy | ca at Pz gs by | Jones will take his office as Gov-| i marches into the Balkans.” ! < . " " fof Police Harry Bispham, whosaid ernor on May 14 | _‘The warning came as the Turk- I.ocahon, Eml’y Ir al e she has confessed she killed her T T | ."ENTSIN AREA ish Government's army chiefs in- ST | five-year-old daughter Geraldine spected the frontiers and prepared| Ay of Kodiak Island and sur- P lin a park restroom here Monday, IHIRD “EGRO Now H 1 "(’H"it‘e”;‘i‘:fl"nc':ea:;";‘::mfi”?; rounding islands, a total area of 2,- : ! | 86 &40 TOOD | 500,000 acres, has been withdrawn " Does AbOU'-ffl(e on Pe‘_ By Brl'lsh b;:;uac (.j)hc wal.; L:u good ::d l:{ i ARRESIED AITA(K our ShOI’iflge causedyconvmtralmns are nearest to the|grom entry and locked up against 4 olice Chiem Bisham quote 8. borders to aid Turkey in case of " roleum Policy Under Sotkeg i3 \ y | Threat of Trouble- pies private possession or use, ACoOrding Y oleu olicy e Al | Hardaker as saylng: “We were| | P roub to an executive order published in et i walking in Montebello Park, It was| ON AlASKA WOMA“w i the Federal Register for February British Pressure German High Command! brisnt and beautitul there. 1 1ookea | rices Lowered CROSS COM e ‘ . {at my baby and saw the shining| — |7 g plAINT i The order, signed by President AR T R it Makes Official An- |light of innocence in her eves. This| A Iter A hended i G, e 21 The, tireas B on ehruaty 10, wiibarews R i | thought swept over me suddenty, ASSAUITEr ADPrENenaed Inof munger riois resuliing from 4| IS HI.ED IN DIVOR(E from “settlement, location, sale of 7 Dorted authoritatively to have led npouncemen {and driving everything else from | California for Se- Tiogs Shto‘;:;lflc appears to have| entry” all of Kodiak, Whale, Uganik, the Rumanian Government to de- {my mind, it surged through my) ‘Conce}:f 4 al\:ex_tgd -% o Fl'emh\ Spruce, Sitkalidak and Alktaltk Is- 69 : BERLIN, Feb, 21.—An early|brain again and again that she| : on. suthoritles and private lands and all adjacent islands, rocks cree a banning of shipments of | y | aftle Lrime merchants in the English Conce: i aviation oil to Germany. morning foray “by several enemy ‘is too good to live; she must dxe,‘ sion reduced ices. o DE0se | ’ and pinacles within two miles of ¥ It is reported the -decree is in planes west and northwest” over|she must not grow up to endure | 5 uced prices. | shore. direct contradiction to an arrange- | Helgoland Bight is reported by the the pain @ind agony T have known’'| WATSONVILLE. Cal, Feb 21 e LOS ANGELES, Feb. 21.—James| The only exception is 570 acres - e ith Germany's trade envoy, Cerman High Command. |1 then took her to a rest room,| —Julius Foster, youthful negro, has| & | Boosevels Dag: SIS general an-|in the townsite of Kodiak. | e e o wecke agy, The communique does mot give picked her up by her heels, swung| been arrested in connection with| swer to his wife's divorce suit,| Reason for the withdrawal of this by which Rumania agreed to fin. a0y details of the result of the|her high and struck her head|the criminal assault on Mrs. M.| al ou |denying her charges of ~mental |huge area is not mentioned outside crease shipments of aviation oil flight, but says the enemy planes | against the concrete floor again J. Edmundson, of Fairbanks, Al.i cruelty and desertion. of the explanation in the order that Srovided increased export taxes were Were British craft. {and again until I knew she was|aska, in a Seattle hotel on Janu-y Attorneys for the President’s old- it is withdrawn “for classification ‘m 4 S S L | dead.” {ary 27, |est son said that the answer is aland in aid of legislation.” P Th.(' e e 2 The child’s body was found Mon-i The charges were filed in Seat- n or an irouune legal procedure asking that Another order issued the same latest of Rumania’s desperate at-‘F day night by the father. He said| tle agall_fist a trio of negroes. Fhe cross .complaint of Mrs. Cush-|day withdraws 5000 acres around mmsts to keep a balance becweeni | his wife was haunted with delu-| The first negro, Fred W. Alder- ing-Roosevelt be dismissed. Young|Anchorage, principally to the north : (‘erfnany's derl:\nnds e e Vsions o’ persectitign: ston, was arrested in Seattle short-| Mail will be dispatched aboard Roosevelt, associated with motion|and east, for military purposes. lubricants of her war machine and| WOMA“ ROBBED "I feel sorrry—for my poor baby !y after the crime was commit-| the Northland tomorrow night but picture producer Samuel Goldwyn, ST k B an o e ANy who died and for my wife ""h":uid.', A :second negro, James Gana- | will close at the Post Office, which |flled a divorce suit last week, He e (P patlovia The 4id not know what she was doing,”| WAy, Was arrested several days|is observing the holiday, at 9 o |charged that Mrs. Roosevelt de- Fl“NISH REllEF result of a recent note from Bri-| said Hardaker. ago in Beverly Hills. clock tomorrow night ‘wrkfid him meoven‘x::rmmzs, after -4 i - o e - T — A | eig! years of marri e. tain asking explanation of Ru- |3 . e =t " mania’s petroleum policy toward Life of Mrs. Anna Breckin- i idet:;:i g:zsesvxzt;e::;sdczg;pt:c Germany. | ridae | | e ke D To |band. She asked o : | 1 1 ) ustody of their| H ge S Threatened | STOCK Q'U OTATIONS || two small daughters, and court FNI.ARGED "ow SCREEN A(]’R[SS } in Seattle approval of a property seftlement.| Ngw YORK, Feb. 2L.—The scope | o | | S ?o:‘f;“m :“‘:‘ genwlflol the Finnish relief fund directed ’ i SEATTLE, Feb. 21.—Two ne- | 0. estion of | by Herpert Hoover, has been en- AGAIN FILES HER groes entered the home of Mrs. NEW YORK, 'Feb 21. o Clus{x:u, | who deserted whom_, and who should | jarged to assist in sending funds to fnts Breckielies 5oty last. | A0BHON cof~Alssks, Junest 70 be awarded the divorce. [ Finland for either civilian rellef or DIvoR(E A(Ilo“ evening and threatened to kill stock today is 6%, American ceu:, | — { munitions. her uniess she told them where |116. Anaconda 30%, Bethlehem ilce | DOMES“( HH.P o 'anboadt Al s | she had $5000 hidden in the |75% Commonwealth and risissaled | relief fund would receive and trans- LOS ANGELES, Cal, Feb. 21. — house. |13%, curtiss Wright 10%, General| - i Av"um “ow‘mu funds to recognized private Movie Actress Helen Vinson has Mre, Breckinridge informed |Motors 54, International Harvester By PRESTON GROVER thak b At 5. fiock of dryo) | groups in Finland or to the Finnish . z N York 5 bolish lock dry-) group: the police the negroes bound her |54', Kennecott 38%, New York| wASHINGTON, Feb. 21. — The land and “dust-bowl” experiment| government through the newly- | For the first time since the 'the Isthmus, and they continue as | Russian war planes, for the second | successive day, caused two air raid alarms in Helsinki. | An attack by two Russian Divis- ions, “strongly supported by artil- |lery and aircraft,” are said to have | been repulsed on the Taipale, east- ern sector of the Isthmus front. as |continued hammering of the line ‘m. the eastern end kept up. Eight hundred Russian planes are authoritatively estimated to have | participated in yesterday's air raids |on at least thirty Finnish commun- |ities, Ten Finns are reported to have been killed ahd many injured ‘by bombs dropped by the raiders. P ARk | LOCKED up KOIVOSTO IS IS CAPTURED RUSS FORCES Town, Foriress, Anchor of | Mannerheim Line, Re- porfed Fallen MOSCOW, Feb. 21.—The High Command of the Russian Red Army announces the Russian forces have | occupied the town and fortress of | Koivosto, the western anchor citadel of the Mannerheim line and “clear- ed” them of the enemy. The communique also asserts that 47 Finnish planes were downed in | fighting. Flying Corps Is Organized To A_it_l Finns Organization Is Started in Vancouver-Seven Al- ready Enlisted VANCOUVER, B. C, Feb. 21— Organization of a flying corps to fight for Finland has started in Vancouver, with the enlistment of seven experienced pilots. The fliers will be enlisted in the Finnish Army after reaching the northern front. Finnish residents of Vancouver will aid in financing their trans- portation to Europe. | | filed suit again for divorce. She ex-| e {Central 16%, Northern Pacific 8%, | stations, Said Mr. Cannon: | formed remittance division. Several of the seven pilots are plained that she had failed to effect | a reconciliation with professional tennis ace Fred Perry. Miss Vinson brought the first’ suit three months ago, then dropped the court action when she and Perry | patched up their martial difficul- ties, and gagged her and then ran- | sacked the house. They took | two wrist watches, a gold locket 1} and $5 in money. | | Mrs. Breckinridge operated a hand |laundry in Juneau until two years ago. She is an elderly negress, United States Steel 38, Pound| $3.95%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 14834, rails 30.81, utilities 25.05, | yelping against economy came from best riot act read to congressmen "7 ‘These dry-land stations are not worth the money we are spending on them. They are doing what ought not to be done. They are| dupleating each other's work.| [ Rep. Clarence Cannon of Mis- souri. Members from the mountain and plains state were riding all over him for supporting a $126,000 cut (Continued on Pnz;.sieven) ] Alaska Territorial Employment Of-| He said the service will be given fice was established here, there is| without cost. It was established to now an excess of domestic help on clarify the relief situation. the rolls. Twelve organizations are solicit- A number of women who Will ing funds for Finnish needs. Mr. do housework by the month orday Hoover revealed that his organiza- are available at this time, 'tion has collected about $1,900,000, veterans of Great Britain’s Royal Air Force. USRI SRS Bull - baiting was a favorite sport in England during the reign of King John in 1209,