The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 29, 1940, Page 1

| | | | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ' “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV.. NO. 8349. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 29, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FINNS STUBBORNLY RESISTING SOVIETS Flood Waters Now Spread Over New LEVEES OUT I 7 PLACES ALONG RIVER ThreeASmaIIwT;wns on Sac- ramento Surrounded Suddenly RESIDENTS FORCED 10 FLEE TO SAFETY Two Drowrfis Reported -Man and Girl Meet Death BULLETIN—SAN FRANCIS- €O, Cal, Feb. 29.—The ficod menace is more critical this af- ternoon as broken levees - creased by the hundreds. Five thousand or more per- sons have already been forced frem their homes. ¥our hundred residemts of Butte City, on the Sacramento iiver, are this afternoon re- perted marooned. Water is blocking every high- way leading inte that locality. N FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 20.— e Sacramento River’s swollen wavels have burst through the at seven places on a 12-mile ilood Princeton, Butte and Codora. families are report- Most of the residents of the three towns had time to reach safety be- fore the levees broke. Two hundred residents of Prince- ton sought refuge in the high school, asium and Methodist Church. o drownings are reported, at- tributed to the three-day flood. Hy- draulic Engineer Harold von Bergen, of Sacramento, fell out of a boat and he was drowned in the swirling flood waters. Irene E. Clemens lost her Jife when she was trapped -in auto that overturned in a swollen creek. LIVES LOST IN STORMS, HEAVYRAIN Gales and Downpour Occur in Oregon, Washing- ton—Also Idaho SEATTLE, Feb. 29.—Three deaths | are attributed to heavy rain and wind storms that swept Oregon and Washington, caused rivers to rise in several areas and overflow their | banks and flooded highways and farmlands. The two-day rainfall broke all February precipitation marks. At Spokane, Wash, William Mocre, 84, homesteader, was drowned when the river bank was undermined and he fell in the river. Everett Price, of Prairie City, Ore., was killed when a tree, top- pled by the wind storm, fell on his truck and crushed him. James Crockett, of Baker, Ore., was killed when a flying limb from a tree hit him. The wind storms caused wide damage in both North and Central Idaho but no deaths are reported. .- HEINTZLEMAN T0 VISIT KETCHIKAN Regional Forester B. Frank Heintzieman will go to Ketchikan the steamer North Coast to- ¢ to outline work projects in trict. He will be away about on m the d a week. Vilhjalmur Stefansson, the Arctic explorer, was once a newspaper re- porter. Section First Lml y--and Not Busy For once the camera catches Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, wife of the the President, in 2 moment of leisure and the “first lady” smiles grac- iously for the photographer. The President is cruising. scene is Golden Beach, Fla., where Mrs. Roosevelt is spending a vacation in a rented house while the Slrmgenl Food Rahonmg Is Decreed for Frenchmen; Three Mealless Days Now PlAN STOPPING OF EXPORTS TO SOVIET SIBERIA Conirabandan trol Sta-| . tions Are Proposed on Canadian Coast | LONDON, Feb. 29.—Great Britain is considering the ablishment of contraband control stations in Can- adian West Coast waters. The pur- pose of such stations would be to survey and check traffic from the United States and Pacific territor- ies to Vladivostok, a Russian port. ling tin and copper | the Soviets. Allied authorities declared that |some of this material is reaching | Germany. The action follows demands in the (House of Commons for a tightening United States export of rubber, to Vladivostok for |of the economic blockade against the Reich. e 'NAZ| PRISOMERS ' OF WAR TURNED - OVER TO JAPAN | British Warship Delivers | Nine Seamen Taken | from Asama Maru TOKYO, F\!b 29.—A British cruiser has delivered to Japanese representatives in the bay of Tok- yo, nine German sailors taken cn Asama Maru, The Germans were brought from Hongkong where they have been kept with twelve other Nazis taken from the liner. The delivery of the Nazi prison- ers of war was the result of a compromise agreement. The German seamen were cn- route -to Berlin from a Pacific Coast. port via Japan and Russia. he British also have opened con- | | versations with Washington regard- | January 21 from the Japanese liner | ; PARIS, Feb. 29. — The French Cabinet today issued a decree put- ting into effect food rationing cards, President Lebrun has also signed r decrees intended to reduce |'the consumption of oil and alco- | hol. France already has three meat- less days a week and on other days restaurants are forbidden to serve | more than person. | The Government has also adopt- |ed a sweeping series of economic {and financial measures and regi- menting. Finance Minister Paul Reynaud said that although the Nation is holding its own financially she is slipping in other phases of na- tional economy and producing less | but ‘“consuming as much as be- fore the war.” e GERMAN CUSTOMS SYSTEM SUDDENLY UNDERGOES CHANGE Two Profectorates Not In- - cluded in Proposed ; New Plan BERLIN, Feb. 29—Officials an- nounce that plans have been aban- doned for inclusion of the protec- torate of Bohemia and Moravia in the German customs system. Previously it had been announced that the custom frontier between the Reich and the protectorate would be abolished on April 1. It was explained that the incorpora- tion of the protectorate into the customs territory of Germany would make necessary revision of Ger- many’s trade agreements with oth- er nations. This lengthy and com- plicated process was considered too difficult under war-time conditions. -~ ltaly’s Racial Law Against Jews cne meat dish to a GERMANY TO STATE AIMS T0'S. WELLES Will Take Firm Stand on | Free Hand in Europe After War RETURN OF COLONIES | tive Will Have Talk f with Hifler | BERLIN, Feb. 20.—It is revealed by high German officials, on the eve of the arrival of Sumner Welles, American Under Secretary of State, that the German regime will stand firm, demanding a free hand in cen- tral and southeastern Europe and also return of colonies lost as a result of the World War. Welles arrived at Zurich last night and left there this morning for Ber- lin for a conference with Adolf Hit- lor. The conference with Hitler is one of the high points of his observation tour of Europe. Welles is to give a confidential report to President Roogevelt on the state of the war and possibilities for an early peace, So far, Welles has conferred with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano and following the conference with Hitler will go to Paris and Lon- don to confer with high officials of those two nutions SAN FRANCISCO BASE IS MOVED UP T0 SEATTLE Chamber of Commerce Makes Profest-Sena- for fo Study Merits | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Feb. 20. —United States Senator Hiram Johnson of California has telegraph- |ed to the an Francisco Chamber of Commerce that he will investigate the merits 03 the Chamber’s protest over the change of location of the ‘Alnska Defense Project headquar- | ters from San Francisco to Seattle The Chamber of Commerce wired Senator Johnson that the headquar- | |ters and facilities have been sud- denly transferred to Seattle not- withstanding facilities were already esablished in. San Francisco. NO TRANSFER AT PRESENT SEATTLE, Feb. 29.—J. J. Under- wood, Chamber of Commerce rep- |resentative in Washington, D. C, has telegraphed here that the War Department contemplates no trans- fer of the Alaska Defense project purchase headguarters from San Francisco to Seattle at present. Underwood said he has investi- gated the report emanating from the_San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. —— ] Stock QUOTATIONS ' NEW YORK, Feb, 29. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%, American Can 115%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem Steel 75 3/4, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 52%, International Harvester 53 3/4, Kennecott 37, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 8%, United States Steel 58%, Pound $392 3/4. DOW, JONES AVERAGES ‘The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 146.54, Eifective Tomorrow ROME, Feb. 20.—It was announc- ed officially that Italy’s racial law against Jews will become effective on March 1st, tOmoITow. rails 3058, utilities 24.64. ———————— The first lighthouse to be built by the Pederal Government stands at Cape Henry, guarding the Virginia Capes. ALSO TO BE DEMANDED Roosevelt's Representa- ; IND RED fléfll Nfli’ IMAN! RUSSIA 1ELDS l pe | | AR0 ALLIEL. Tor wr L FACTY | DOTTED LINES NDICATE Poasf/su ALLIED VE RUSSIA - N NAZIS | ATTACK RUMANIA ARABIA Lines of possible action in the s ving. War on the Eastern Front is fore- | The a1d of Turkey, against which seen this spring, with more than the Allies were forced to mass 1,000,000 Allied troops concentrated 1,000,000 men in the last war, is a pri factor in Allied plans.: Tur- key has shown definite sympathy with the Allies and self-interest points to her union with them. She would be threatened by both Ger- many and Russia if Rumania fell to the Nazis or by any Balkan aggres- sion by the Reieh, there under Commander-in-Chief Maxime Weygand. of Franee, who describes his great army as a “fire department” and himself a *“fire wman.” The Allied armies include soldiers from all parts of the French and Jritish empires, including forces The Near East “Fireman” is Ready MINES ARE PLANTEDIN ONEREGION Arhllery Is Also Massed to Prevent Encircling of Viipuri RED ARMY MOVING TO FIRST MAJOR FINN CITY Three Hund—re_d Thousand Russians Are Fighting Fiercely Now Gen Maxime Weygand Rumanian ports. There, they would be joined by Rumanian troops. In event Russia and Germany unite in the Near East, Weygand's armies might try to drive through the Caucasus and cut the Soviet's oil pipelines (A) from the Baku oil fields on the Caspian Sea to Batum on the Black Sea, thus severing Russia's principal supply line and her main feedline to Germany. Gen. Weygand naturally has not revealed Allied vlans and strategy, but the 72-year-vld military genius is supremely confident and declares, “We are prepared, ready for from Australia. New Zealand and Should Rumama and her oil fields Egypt, as well as the Turkish war oe threatened, Gen. Weygand’s wachine. When action comes. ad- hosts might (1) advance eastward | ditional troops probably will be {irough Turkey and into Rumania rushed to the Near KEast from through Bulgaria or (2) ship di- France and Naorth Africa. eantiv through the Dardanelles to BENNY THE BUM AIDED PHILADELPHIA GETTING REPUBLICAN CONVENTION { By PRESTON GROVER jACKSON GEIS | WASHINGTON, Feb. 29.—Please | excuse if we point out that in bid- BRAND!NG AS ding for the Republican national | convention, Philadelphia offered not only $150,000 and the Liberty Bell, but also Benny the Bum. Dies Committee Republi- can Says Attorney Gen- the ‘Bum is a versatile| once fought valiantly | the not-too-straight-laced parts u‘, thorough job Elks foAdd $31,500Unit ~ To Buildin Lodge Authorizes Start of Construction-Four New '~ Bowling Alleys to the E:ks Building here is expect- ed to start this spring as the result | of lodge action last night in author- |izing the Board of Trustees to pro- | ceed with the proposed plan. the country assembled nightly and convivially at Benny the Bum's during the 1936 convention. eral Is Sympathetic man who but not too well in the prize ring. Now he runs Philadelphia's prin- cipal night club. Democrats from NEW YORK, Feb. 29.—Represen- tative Thomas of New Jersey, Re- publican member of the Dies Com- mittee, charged today that Attor- ney General Jackson's “extraordin- ary” dismissal of recent indictments for Spanish War recruiting in De- troit was motivated by Communist sympathies. Thomas addressed the Women's National Republican Club and said a news article of August 4, 1938, in the Daily Worker, official Commun- ist newspaper, corroborated this statement. FRENCH SEEKING ENEMY STATION THAT BROADCASTS Hitler and fi&olini Favor Peace-Daladier and will remember, there were whole days of extreme tension at Phila- lelphia when delegates stood ir- esolutely about wondering whether President ivoosevelt ever would get the nomination. Benny profited 1andsomely while the Democrats made up their minds about nom- ating the President, and he is in an admirable spot to profit once igain if the Republicans should be n doubt as to whom to name in 1940. AN INSTITUTION Benny has long been an insti- tution in Philadelphia. The stories about him would fill a book. It is related that one time former Gov. Earle of Pennsylvania was chatting with Benny when up came the ubject of motion pictures, Benny complained of fraud. pictures is going to be about any more,” complained Benny to the . ’ Governor. “Just the other night Chambeflam DOflf here I was going to a plctfire show and it was supposed to be PARIS, Feb. 29.—French police|about sheep up on the Canadian are hunting for a secret enemy ra- | Boundary. But inside do I get a dio station which began opemung“show about sheep? Naw. It's about when Sumner Welles reached RomeA‘ fightin’ on ships down in them The broadcaster announced in|South Sea islands. But how was I F‘Ireréch th“'l':hhe s‘t;atlon, L-; the V;igtz | going to tell that when outside of Peace. e Voice claims everything says it is ‘Mutton on Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini| the yBou:dary?,' = are favorably inclined to peace but: Of course Benny does not sign that Premier Daladier of France his name Benny the Bum. He used g]ria l:flnr:;::ix;lrs:e: gor{;x;n:;fl:xm):;;w get mighty wrought up when the war. % wauunued on Page Seven) “You can't never tell what these . The new concrete annex to the building would be a unit in the con- | struction of a new building and| | would be used to expand the facili-| senny’s food and entertainment ties of the present club until such to introduce a bil! this week author- relieved the tension. As any one| time as a complete new building | izing acquisition of islands east and can be erected. To Build in Hillside Blue-prints of the annex, as pre- sented by the Trustees and the | Building Committee, show the unit will measure 75 by 90 feet and will| lie at the rear of the present sec- ond floor on which is located the main Elks’ Hall the present third story will be re- moved. The unit will contain four new bowling alleys, a recreation room, locker room, ,rooms. Moving of the bowling alleys will permit the present card room on the ground floor be tripled in size and will provide an additional lounge measuring 19 by 32 feet. Seven Initiated initiated 1 “Amer- Seven mest Parso fl,obwL R. Wood. | 'ollowing the meeting a Dutch lunch and beer were ved. Next Wedn > Past Ex-| alted Ruler Under the chair- m'\mh p of Dr. G. F. Freeburger, lk pied by Pa Ex )d ge. Ther will riainmen a feed at the meeting, which is alwa; of the best attended of the year. ,ee The number of stars that can be| |seen by a person of average eyesigh is said to be about 7,000 Construction of a $37,500 addition | 1t is proposed that | shower room and rest COPENHAGEN, Feb. 29 The Finns are planting mines on the ice | in the bay at Viipuri 1m ng all | available artillery d a possible encireling Russians against the port ol are 300,060 1 Isth- ing to the mus front 1ew intensity | The Red Army has & to V:uwr! to L\'ny the smashed ¢ 1 firm however the Mannerhe Air raider: Helsinki this morr bombs were dropped by the accordmu to n"l\ounc(’m(nt New Defenses Now Planned Land May Be Acquired for | U.S. Off South Am- erican Coast WASHINGTON, Feb. 29. — The first step toward acquiring land | off or ou the coast of South America |for a huge United States Army air |base for additional defense of the Paname Canal may be taken this week in the 15, Rf‘pres«-umhve FPrancis H. Case, of South Dakota, says that he plans aj ;v.est of the Canal and other terri- |tory owned by non-American pow- ers. Much emphasis has been placed on the strategic imporiance of the West Indies and defense of the {Panama Canal recently. | GERELS! | ThisIs The Time | When You MAY ; Be Asking Yourself sShould ¥ Propeose?” I You Are, We Suggesi You | | | Turn To PAGE 7