The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 28, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY VOL. LV, NO. 8348. ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” KA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS SOVIETS FIRE TOWN IN ARCTIC ADVANCE California Sections Are Under F lood Waters CAMERA CATCHES DEATH OF U-BOAT HUNDREDS HOMELESS INSOUTH Nativiial Guard Units with Supply Trucks Ready to Move THREE DAYS' RAIN SENDS ALL RIVERS | Cloudburst af Berkeley Does Great Damage in Ten Minutes BULLETIN—SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb, 28.—A cloudburst to- day sent three raging streams ¢own on Berkeley and within 10 minutes hundreds of thou- cands of dellars of property was damaged. NDER FLOOD WATERS N FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 28. 15t sections of Northern and itral California are under deep waters and hundreds are after a three days' rain, California National Guard units end 1pply trucks are ready to move to the aid of the homeless in the afflicted areas. Officials of the State Legisla- are reported considering call- a special session. he downpour up to this morn- totalled almost nine inches in 4 hours in some places Skies Clearing neon today, several sections ted a bright sun and clearing this afternoon the Sacra- flood waters are reported have stopped rising and appear dy to drop. Many sections, however, are un- der water as the water broke over the banks. Three hundred homes are inun- Late dated at Redding and heavy dam- © age to crops is reported. NINE FEET DEEP SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 28.— Flood waters are reported nine.feet deep this afternoon in submerged Redding. The new water plant has a stor- supply »f only 3,000,000 gallons, all that wilf be available for the next three days at least. Fifty residents are reported to be marooned on house tops in the Church Creek area as the river went out of banks and flooded a strip six miles wide. age STRIKE AT PIONEER IS HOLDING ON Forty Miners Sit-downing on 2,400-Foot Level Inside Gold Mine PIONEER MINES, B. C. Feb. 28 —Additional Provincial Police | have arrived at this gold mining! town while below the surface, 40 striking miners continued their day-old “sit-down” demonstration. The strikers are staying at the 2400-foot level. Leaders refused to, give any explanation for the sud- den development of the five-month strike. No disturbances have been evi- dent above ground. At Victoria, Premier Pattullo said the men should be ejected from the mine and given protection. Electricity is being cut off near the men because one of the mnin; has been discovered to be; pumps proken, Dr. Howard James, Di-, recter of Piopeer Gold Mines, | Ltd., said o UPSETS LONG DYNASTY k kR Sam H. Jones, whose election as were counted. Governor of Louisiana, ended the 12 years' rule of the Huey Long political dynasty, is shown with his wife, both wearing triumphant smiles, at New Orleans after the votes Long’s brother, Earl, went down to defeat at the hands of Jones. Although it was a primary race, it is lamam(run! to election. SEATTLE - JUNEAU AIRLINE WILL BOOST TERRITORY, IS | OPINION, SCHWELLENBACH WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Estab- lishment of a Seattle to Juneau air line will help build a “stable econ- in the Territory of Alaska, United States Senator Lewis B. Schwellenbach, of the State of Washington, told the Civil Aero- nautics Authority now conducting a hearing to grant the Pan Ameri- can Airways establishment of an air mail, passenger and express ser- | vice between Seattle and Juneau, Alaska Senator Schwellenbach told the CAA that “swift transportation will greatly keep the people of Alaska on a permanent basis. Under pres- ent conditions there is a tendency to regard the Territory as the place to make a stake and get out. An airline will discourage this attitude. We are always toking things of the Territory an. not putting much in.” MONEY FOR LINE WASHINGTON, Feb. 28.—Yester- day afternoon, at the CAA hearing on the Seame Juneau servifl- Charles P. Graddick supermten-\ dent of the Post Office Air Malli Service, said the Post Office had| money to establish the Seattle-Al-! aska route for three years but had | found the airline was not willing to operate. Graddick said the sum of $213,- | 000 was available this year. The Superintendent also said | there should be a minimum of two flights each week maintained each way during the summer and more during the winter to compensate | decreased steamer service. Graddick said it was undemdedv whether the line will be classified as a domestic or foreign route, but if domestic the postage rate will be six cents an ounce and if foreign, the Postmaster General will set the rate. During the afternoon, Harold M. Bixby, Vice-President of Pan Amer-| ican Airways, said the company wanted to make Ketchikan a stop,| but the company did not want to be forced to land there if conditions were found unsafe. War Is Hell Even on Those NotEngaged; Brifish Hif Embargoes of fing U. S. Hard By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—When you read that British embargoes are shutting off one-third of our | tobacco export market and are hit- Iting our cotton, wheat, and fruit growers, you're just getting new examples of the fact that war is hell even on people who aren't in it. The moves that hit American! farmers where it hurts are part of an economic triple play devised by British economists to win the war within a year. If American ! economists are right in their de- ! ductions, the play works like this: 1. Naval blockade against Germany. 2. Purchase of strategic ma- terials in the world markets to keep them from slipping through the blockade to Ger- many, supplemented by the usual rationing of the ring of neutrals surrounding Germany. 3. Trade favors for the ring of mneutrals to keep down vio- lent protests against the stran- gulation of trade, and to win them over, eventually, as Fran- co-British allies. American unofficial observers be-| lieve British economists have sold | the British government the eco-‘ nomic triple play on the ground that (1) the generals can ol’lerl 1(:onlmund on Page Seven) 2 NEUTRALS INEUROPE THREATENED Situation Concerning Ru-! mania and The Nether- lands, Cause Alarm DUTCH CHARGED WITH OFFENSES BY GERMANY ‘ Nazi Government Offers Frontier Protection Guar- anfee fo Rumania (By Associated Press) The plight of two neutrals, Ru- mania and The Netheriands, creat- ed new concern in Europe today. Germ: accused The Nether- lands of acting as a regular gateway | for British aerial squadrons to reach the Reich. The Reich officials assert have established definitely that British planes which scouted over Germany last night flew over Dutch territory. It is known that Duwh anti-aircraft guns barked intermit- tently for five hours firing at the unidentified aircraft Abeut Rumania Authoritative reports disclose that Germany has offered to guar- antee Rumanian frontiers for re- turn of huge increase of oil and wheat shipments and offered to get Hungary, Russia and Bulgaria to withdraw territorial demands. The price is considered by Ru- | manian leaders as too high, a vir- | tual Nazi trade monopoly .- — (OLD ZEPPELIN PLANT IS AR RAIDED, BELIEF (Switzerland Town Hearsl Drone of Motors, Anti- Aircraft Gun Firing ROMANSHORN, Switzerland, Feb. 28. — Inhabitants were startled today with what sound- ed like an air raid on the old Zeppelin works across Lake Censtance near Friedrichshafen. A heavy fog screens the fac- tories, which are now making airplane motors. The droning of plane motors and firing of anti-aircraft guns are heard plainly in this town. 'GERMAN PLANES ARE SHOT DOWN, FRENCH REG!ON Arfillery Firing on Western Front Is Reported Diminishing PARIS, Feb. 28. — The French | High Command announces that two German planes were shot down on French soil during the past 48 hours. The report announces that artil- |lery firing has diminished on the | Western front and there is only mi- inor skirmishing taking place. i LS, MARRIED LAS VEGAS, Feb. 28. — Herbert ‘Ma:shall actor, and Lee Russell actress, were married here yesterday. Both had been married late previously. they | | | | | Graphic set of pictures shows, U-boat, hunted and sunk by a British destroyer. seem to have found their mark, and oil, rising to the surface, is afire. | ing oil patch, looking for survivors. Bottom, destroyer moves in closer to the oil patch, increasing size of . which spells the doom of the submarine, "We (anBe Bombed, " Says Officer of Coast Artillery; Anti-Aircraft Guns Required : By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, Feb. 28—"Today we can be bombed.” “Airplanes exist that can make the round trip from Europe to the United States with a small load of bombs.” “The only rational and effective defense of an objective against night attack is provided by anti- aircraft artillery.” A cluster of has served more that there is no solid front in the War Department about the best way to keep alien bombers off our backs—if war comes. such statements GUNS TOO SMALL, The above sentences, and many others, were written by Major Thomas R. Phillips of the Coast Artillery in an essay published in the Coast Artillery Journal, HE SAYS to demonstrate once | Most irksome lips' comments about the U. was his verdict. years ago,” he said, “the American anti-aircraft artillery- man could report, with justice, that his gun had the bomber stopped. The three-inch gun was effective at altitudes well above the capacity of loaded bombers at that time. “Since then the speed and ceil- ing of bombers has doubled. Load- ed bombers can fly at 28,000 feet. Our own air 22,000 feet more accurately than small, “Ten it was bombing at ohe-third that | altitude 10 years ago. Speed has increased from 100 to 300 miles an hour. Anti-aircraft artillery now being manufactured should be able to cope with a 300-mile-an- corps is bombing at! .huur plane flying between 25,000 l.md 30,000 feet ‘ “While aviation has progre&wd | by yearly bounds, American anti- | aircraft has devoted itself to re- | finement of the material of ten| | years ago. It no longer can fulfill| wn.s mission . Area targets can be bombed from altitudes five to ‘ezgm thousand feet in excess of the effective range of the three- | inch gun were Major Phil-| s | | three-inch anti-aircraft guns. Too Major | idea that seai pend on artillery, protection Pla carriers bomb coast i planes can them e said 300 miles out at “Our anti-aircraft cannot be aviation On that ing the experience Chinese artil he w c in toll of planes an attack against of operations upplied said ary, the Spanish a.ud1 had can eve is not according to British approved captions, three stages in the doom of a Top, destroyer (left) has loosed depth charges which Center, destroyer circles the burn- " | AREWINNERS ATTACK FROM THE SEA ps hammered on me‘ Jast cities must de- | Congressman of the Seventeenth not airplanes for | can sweep off| sea, before defense | get into the air to stop! coast defense! by interceptor he reported, demonstrated | disrupt bomb- n high. He cited a Chinese squadron a JJ,),mL'be aircraft car-|l iContinued nu Page Seven) though the| RUSSIANS - MOVINGIN ON FINNS Red Army Forces Reported to Have Reached Nautsi DEFENDERS FALLING ‘ BACK TO NEW LINES British Expeditionary Force May Be Sent fo Aid Little Nation COPENHAGEN, Feb, 28.—Official advices reaching here indicate the Russian Red Army has scored fresh advances on the Arctic front. | The Red Army is said to have | teached the town of Nautsi, on the Norwegian frontier, and every building there is reported in | flames. BRITISH MAY SEND FORCES INTO FINLAND | COPENHAGEN, Feb. 28.—Accord- | ing to official advices received here, talk of sending an expedition- ary force to relieve besieged Fin~ land is increasing in Great Britain. Both military and naval circles are said to be discussing the pos- sibility of sending the expedition- ary force to aid the Finns and this force will be supported by warships and planes in fighting with the Finnish forces. | REVERSES SUFFERED | HELSINKI, Feb. 28—The Fin- nish High Command reports that its forces on the Northern Arctic front have suffered reverses while the Russians continue to exert great pressure on the Karelian Isthmus defenses. It is admitted the Finns have fallen back south of Petsamo, Arc- tic front, in the face of strong attacks. The new Finnish line, up to last night, is said to be at Nautsi, toward the Norwegian border aboat 70 miles southwest of Petsamo. In the western sector the Rus- sians are continuing their ride toward Viborg and the communique makes no mention of Finnish suc- cesses. REPUBlI(ANS - OHIO VOTING {Two Special Elections Are | Held in Congress- ‘ ional Districts COLUMBUS Ohio, Feb. 28 | Republicans won two special Ohio | Congressional elections yesterday. J. Harry McGregory was named District, normally Democratic, by | a vote of 27,000 to 25,000, defeating Bryon B, Ashbrook, nephew of the to! |late Democratic Congressman Wii- liam A. Ashbrook. In the Twenty-seventh district, normally Republican, Mrs. Frances P. Bolton was elected to succesd ‘her late husband. The vote for Mrs. | Bolton was 40,000 as against An- thony Flegler, Democrat, whose vote was 27,000, The Republican vote was a decided increase. | McGregory hailed the result as a “general trend against the New | A State Democratic Chairman Ar- thur Limbach said the November . elections will “tell a different story.”