The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 23, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LV., NO. 8344. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS OMEN, CHILDREN KILLED BY SOVIETS Allies Begin Bl ockade of Russian Arctic WAR CRAFT 'GERMAN WARSHIPS ARE ARE STRUNG BOMBED; BRITISH SCOUT ALONG COAST British, French Squadrons .. iy ottici 23.—The Brit annov ffered by any of the British ft but on the homeward bound PLANES OVER HELGOLAND STEAMER TONGASS | DISABLED; Craft Hits Log, Tail Shaft s [lINER PRESIDENT QUEZON SINKS; CREW SAVED DEFENSELESS SHOT DOWNIN RAIDONTOWN | L Russians Are Said fo Have Been Repelled, But . that British planes which scouted . A N Start New Coup n over Helgoland’ Bight last: Tnesaay/|JoUrney, bad Weather wes erboun- Broken — North 1 ; night and also Wednesday morning, | tered and one British aircraft failed ; iahti i European Strife Beabed German warships and st~ |to_ return Trip Delayed ‘ Faghhn_g tiowsly —_— cessfully fought off enemy fighting The missing craft might have planes. A!M Io pREVE“I SUBS | 'The Air Ministry asserts there BEING SE“I 'I'o “Azls‘\wre no me\h (a\m‘ugu or dam- Purpose Also fo Stop Ship- | Roosevelts in Divorce , Action gone down near some patrol ships and the crews may have been pick- ed up. Steamer Tongass of the Alaskx* Transportation Company, Juneau | bound from Seattle with a heavy load of freight and full list of pas- | sengers, struck a drifting log off Cone Island, on the British Colum= bia coast near midnight and is dis- abled on account of a broken tail ment of Supplies— | Battle Reported COPENHAGEN, Feb. 23.—A Brit- ish and French warship squadron has began a blockade of the North- ern Russian coast according to of- ficial advices received by the news- paper Tidende. | The newspaper also states that unconfirmed reports are being cir- culated that the British and French squadron has already clash- shaft. This is according to advices re- ceived by D. B. Femmer, local agent, and by The Empire in Associated Press dispatéhes. | Tugs were summoned to the aid of the Tongass and the Canadian Pacfic steamer Princess Adelaide was also standing by. i A leak in the engine room has been caused by the breaking of the tail shaft. It is not known whether the Ton- gass will be drydocked at Prince Ru- | | | | ANNIVERSARY OF RED ARMY FORCES ATTACKS Viborg Is Claimed fo Be Goal of Invaders- Parachuters Killed T HELSINKI, Feb. 23--The nish Command announces that the Mannerheim Line defenders have beaten back all attacks along the entire width of the Karclian Isth- mus. Tt is officially stated that about two battalions, or perhaps 2000 Russians at one point have been killed and 800 Scviets shot down at ed with the Russian Arctic Navy with disaster to the Soviet craft. pert or towed back to Seattle, or another point The Tidende says the British and what disposition will be made of Invaders Continne Push ch ships are strung out for a the freight or passengers aboard. The daily ecommunique further lerable distance along the Arc- The Taku is now southbound and shows that the invading Russians soast to prevent shipment of may be near the scene and freight are pushing forward and deeper ssian supplies to Germany and could be transferred and brought in the center line beyon?! La é also halt any possible attempt to north while the Tongass proceeded Myoloand ‘the: two battalions: 1es del Russian submarines to the south. ported killed were ma g an at- German Navy. The Tongass left Seattle last Tues- tack north of Lake Ladoga and Aside from blocking trade between day night and the following passen- also uear Lake Aqrapasn, Germany and Russia, and delivery gers for Juneau were aboard: At Sikniemi, the Pinns beat back of submarines, the British and Mrs. C. A. Pepin, Joy Pepin, Ray- continuing attacks all along (he French blockade is also almed at mond Miller, Mrs, Miller, Jack Cre- line ecastward to Taipale at the min, Mrs. Cremin. extremity of the Mannerheim Line. prevention of any German ships ta- king refuge in Arctic Russian wa- ters as a number of merchantmen did in the early d'xys of the war. 76VETERANS i } The long-rumored separation of James Roosevelt, the President’s eldest SE A (ONFI-ICT | son, and Betsey Cushing, daughter of the late Dr. Harvey Cushing, a [ } Boston surgeon, reached the divorce courts as Roosevelt filed action |, in Los Angeles charging his wife with desertion. stomach ulcers. In New York, Mrs. S NG i T SAYS BRITISH HAS RIGHT T0 The liner President Quezon, formerly the Pr striking a reef off southern Japan on her maiden voyage for her new owners, lent Madison of the Dollar Lines, is shown sinkng after One life was lost, Crew members in lifeboats (lower picture), were picked up by Japanese ships. SEARCH MRS RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR MAKES PROTEST; THAT'S ‘Senalor Pittman Declares Welles Hitler Town Raided It is reported the Russians have raided the town of Issplmi, behind the lines, along Finland's narrow waist and 12 women and children were Kkilled. Parachuters Shot Another rald was attempted in the same vicinity in which a few patrols were dropped by parachutes but the droppers were either shot down descending or taken prison- crs upon landing. / Roosevelt, through her attorney, disclosed an agreement had been ¥ Fightin e | H g Furiously ARE HONORED made giving her custody of their two children but at that she filed i Be”lqerent Nahon It is said that large forces of Rus- a counter suit for divorce. Roosevelt and his wife are shown at | sian troops are fighting furiously on Rochester, N. Y., as he left a hospital following an operation for | HaS Powef on e the western side of the Karelian iy Isthmus line in an effort to reach | Vi Crewmen of Vldonous British Cruisers Par- aded, Decorated WAR CONTRA(IS . AREAWARDEDTO B. (.iH_IPYARDS LONDON, Reb. 23.—The ng and commoners of this Island pow- TURKEY AGAIN IS HARD HIT BY EARTH SHOCKS | WAHINGTON, Feb. 23—Chair- |man Pittman, of the Senate For- ,eign Relations Committee has con- | ceded to Great Britain the right to examine United States mails bound for Germany. Pittman asserted that a belliger- em nation had right under the rules war to stop the flow of contra- | | | | | New Wave 0f U-Boats By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, Feb, 23.—Sohard did Secretary of State Hull tram- ple on the toes of Russia’s Am- | bassador Constantine Oumansky at their any sort of a howl might have recent conferece that almost | ! 1 | | | U. S. Under Secrefary of State fo Meet Fuehrer in Berlm iiborg sometime today. This is the 23rd anniversary of the Red Army and the capfiire of Viiborg, second largest city in Finland would be cause for a suitable celebration. | Neutral observers believe the Rus« sians are now making their great- est attack in the war against Fin- land. ———.——— ffm‘fi?ineaff]mffefl:elfiifrgf‘ band to its enemies; that in some s heen ‘exposion: | BERLIN, Feb. 23—United States sulted in the destruction of the : : 'I VH cases search of mails might be nec- Neither Ambassador Oumansky Under Secretaryof State Sumner Graf Spee as the veterans paraded Twelve Mlflesweepers tO Nlne Vl lageS Vlfllla"y De' essary to enforce a blockade. | pera Ing\”“" Secretary Hull said anything Welles, on his way to Europe to s arn Ie i Earlier Senator Clark of Missouri officially after the conference. But sttudy conditions of belligerent na- before the greatest crowd of cheer-! ing Britons since the corcnation. Winston «Churchill told the vet-| x H erans that the victory over the ene- —2 n Pnn(e Rumfl my in the sea battle has “warmed | _— the cockles of British hearts.” | VANCOUVER, B. C. Feb. 23— Churchill however sobered his|gontracts for 14 minesweepers have listeners by saying that 3,000 com- peen let by the Dominion War Sup- patriots havg lost their lives in the‘ply Board to British Columbia ship |. struggle on the high seas. |yards, ship building executives an- Churchill spoke at a banquet in|yainced today. Guild Hall given in honor of the| Tyelve of the mine sweepers Wwill seamen of the Brtish cruisers EXe- e constructed at Vancouver and two Be Builf at Vancouver stroyed - 200 Are Known Dead ANKARA, Turkey, Feb. 23. |had attacked what he called the, “high handed behavior” of the Brit- |ish in respect to taking mail from | trans-Atlantic airplanes. | Clark pointed out that the F‘rench had halted and — Navy recently New earth shocks in Central An-‘searchnd a United States s'.earn.sh:m tolia, Asiatic Turkey, have caused widespread damage and they have mcreawed steadily the mounting death toll which is now nearly 200| The hardest hit by the new bound for Italy. The Missouri Dem- lo(‘rm declared that the incident re- | minded him of World War days. Said Senator Clark: “At the time the United States was being mis- the villages of Kul- | represented at the Court of st.| Renewed Attack Made on Allies’ Warships and Merchanfmen PARIS, Feb. 23. — The French High Command reéports a “new wave” of German submarines are operating against the Allied war- it was a hot session, authoritative sources report. This is the story as it is being told here— Oumansky had plenty to kick about on behalf of his country, and probably had been told pretty forcefully to do some kicking. This country has not even tried to hide its hope that Finland will knock Stalin’s legions into thes Volga. But the “kick-off” incident seems to have been a speech by Assist-. ant Secretary of War Louis John- tions, visiting a conferen he comes he This is dis States Charge d'Affaires Alexander | Kirk. The latter visited German | Secretary of State Baron Ernst von Weizsaecker for with Adol! Hitler when | Welles visit. Welles is due in Italy Sunday night and it is Berlin next Tuesday. losed. today. by United | 40 minutes today,| apparently in connection wn.h‘ ected to come to all capitals, will have | Says Moscow On Bombmg Positive Demal Made fo Reports Swedish Town ter and Ajax after a triumphal gy prince Rupert. quakes, are ships and merchant shipping in the parade. 8 The value l;;i)elrhe contracts exceed | Pak. Kizik, and Sindernike. [amcs :‘ ihe Juie wvgalfi; Hines No:?h Sea., w |son in New York,before the State| T King George bestowed decora- Scarcely a house is left standing P28¢- Page sugges| boome French naval experts express the | Bankers’ Association. He referred was Air Raided |$8,000,000. SCOUTS TURN OUT FOR RIFLE (LASS tions on the veterans following the parade in the presence of the Horse Guards, in the three villages, according to reports received here. Thousands are left homeless. French do the seizing because the British were becoming unpopular in this country.” Latest reports indicate that nine| villages in all have virtually been opinion the new force is composed of craft recently constructed and | sent out as soon as crews could be assembled to mann them. to Finland as an “outpost of mod- ern civilization.” Presumably be- yond Finland was only barbarism. “Again,” said Johnson in 'the speech, “the world beholds the proof of the age-old axiom that a free oppression” where “politics and GAME (OMMISSION MEETING ADJOURNS; MEMBERS ENROUTE | MOSCOW, Feb. 23. — The Tass today published an authorized state- | ment that “not a single Soviet plane w over Pajala village or even \ | CONDITIONS IN | destroed JUNEAUMANIS voTE MORE CASH : . i et | i 4 s o y ying | Thirty gunean Boy Scouts turned| The Series of tremors started iy H‘:"rfi:‘&:i dl“:"' ;-xmc:::x; Executive Officer Prank Dufresne |aceounts of the hombing of the prleind lA“D ARE Io out last night for the first class|Wednesday HURT I" (RASH foes 4y the “Somostital bigstry and and other members of the Alaska|on Wednesday. R e | ‘ FOR pRoBING oF v Game Commission boarded thel The Tass characterizes the re- |of instruction in use of the rifle, |a new activity sponsored by the Scout Council. | Under the direction of Jay Wil- | liams and an officer from the Haida, the Scout will learn the care and |use of the rifle and later will en- |gage in actual practice on a range. The next class will be at 7:30 o'clock next Thursday evening at the High School Auditorium. BE STUDIED NOW Pope’s Represeniaflve in Germany Will Soon Go fo Front g BLOCK MOVE ON RESTRICTIONS IN LOANTO FINLAND neau, was severely injured in an a few days ago, friends today. Fred Jaegel, well known in Ju-| automobile crash in Hayward, Cal.| learned House has voted the special com- | BOARD OF LABOR WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The mittee investigating the National | purges stymie the officers in com- mand and blind submission dom- | inates the men in the ranks.” WHITE HOUSE APPROVAL | With such stinging phrases in Jaegel's Tl-year-old father was Labor Relations Board another $50,- | his mind, the smallish, trimly-built killed when their car was struck 000 for furtherance of the Inquiry. Oumansky swept into the State by a 15-ton truck and the younger This makes a total fund to date of pepartment, Jaegel suffered several broken ribs| $100,000. | Doubtless he knew, |as all Washington knows, thatim- steamer Yukon at Seward today to| return here after conclusion of the annual meeting of the Commission at Anchorage. - SEI.DOVIA PIONEER PASSES AT SITKA “mnudo\u fabrication.” ARTILLERY FIRE - IS REPORTED ON WESTERN FRONT port as a VATICAN CITY, Italy, Feb. 23.—| SR WASHINGTON, Feb. 23. — The|and internal injuries. IR e——— | portant speeches by Louis Johnson Martin Johnson, 67, who came to —— The Vatican news service says it is FOR KETCHIKAN House Banking Committee today re- ——————— ON NEW DUTIES and other members of the little Alaska in 1907, died at the Pioneers’ PARTS. Feb 23—It is quiet on Like many Duten mnousewives, Miss Melba Allaire, formerly of |capinet are usually passed on by Home at Sitka this week, according|the W Front outside of artil- announced in Berlin that Monsignor | Orsenjgo, Papal Nuncio Secretary in Germany, will shortly go to Po-| Jand to observe the religious condi- tions there. Aboard the Northland, traveling fused to strike out of the bill pro- viding the sum of a $30,000,000 loan to PFinland the restriction against | the use of the money for the pur- chase of military supplies. Ito Ketchikan, are Mrs. A. Cop- 'stead, -Arnold Copstead Jr., Mrs. R. Copstead and Terry Copstead. | lands has a horror of waste andltaken over the Superintendency of That added to the sting. conducts her home on simple and the Bishop Rowe Hospital at Wran- | economical lines. gell, ‘Contnueda on Page Four) ent Eiler Hansen. A native of Finland, Johnson was a fisherman at Seldovia. Queen Wilhelmina of the Nether-|the Pfoneers’ Home at Sitka, has|in. white House before delivery, to word received from Superintend- | lery fire in the sectors both west and east of the Saar river. This is the report made by the French ! Commana.