The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 4, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8352. Sea Warfare Grows Intensive Over Weekend Japan’s Step-by-Step Advance in China Since War Started MORE MONEY | STEAMER 1S ATTACKEDIN ENG. CHANNEL British Vessel Is Bombed, Machine Gunned-Heavy Loss of Life Reported RUMBLES ARE HEARD ON WAR LEADERSHIP Afternoon Newspapers Make Comment 'Right Men Are Needed’» PULLETIN—LONDON, March 1. Rumors which circulated with appearance of the after- ncon pewspapers with comment that “we must have the right men” in the high places of the Government during the pres- ent war, mentioned Air Minis- ter Sir Kingsley Wcod and Supply Minister Leslie Burgin a: likely to be replaced. AR AT SEA LONDON, March 4—The war at sea was marked by a fresh out- burst of activity over the weekend. It is unofficially reported that there are disginct rumblings in Great Britain and dissatisfaction of the British war leadership. se rumblings began when the British communique reported the German bombing and machine gun- of the British liner Domala in the English Channel and of 301 persons aboard, 108 are reported missing and believed lost as they jumped overboard. The Domala, battered and fire- scarred, has been towed to an Eng- lish port ni Two other small British steamers, | the Albano and Cato, were sunk when they struck mines. The Dutch freighter Limburg is also reported to have been ma- chine gunned in the North Sea. PSS i ITALY GIVES WARNINGTO GR. BRITAIN Makes Profest fo Coa Blockade-Also Inter- ception of Mail (By Associated Press) New implications in the European situation have been raised as Italy has protested ‘to the British block- ade on German coal shipments. Ttaly has warned the British Gov- ernment that her “economic and political relations” with Rome are seriously endangered by this act. The Italian note also struck at the British Contraband Control gener- ally and charged that interception of the mail on the high seas is a flagrant violation of The Hague Conventions. Last week Great Britain announc- ed a blockade against coal shipments from Germany to Italy and Satur- day, four large colliers returned to Rotterdam with their coal cargoes rather than run the risk of being confiscated or sent down by the British fleet vessels enroute to Italy. e MRS. THORNHILL IS DEAD IN PALO ALTO. PALO ALTO, Cal, March 4. — Puneral services will be held to- morrow for Mrs. Evelyn Thornhill, wife of former Stanford football coach, “Tiny” Thornhill. She died Saturday following a ness. JUNEAU, ALASKA MONDAY, MARCH 4, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS e —— PRICE TEN CENTS 'SOVIETS REPULSED AT VIIPURI BY FINNS PANAY NANNING TAKEN NOV. 24,1939, CUTTING IMPORTANT SUPPLY ROAD MILES NORTH OF NANNING DEC, 12,1937 NANKING FELL JAPANESE FORCED BACK 14 FEBRUARY 14,1940 I o (\-'\, (2NN L i | 937 AT THE MARCO ROLO BRIDGE SUNK Kws e 5% al HONG, v 9/[7. KUTsy ‘:J \/Zi u o Y24y, F Vi 4 . UNDECLARED WAR STARTED JULY 7, / 1 e ~ <J [JAPANESE OEFEATED ATcs, CHANGGHA, GOT. OF .1939 NauaC 35 K 8, 3 \BRIAONG B4t CANTON CAPTURED OCTOBER 22,1938 4 R o 5 @®HSINKING OCHINCHOW \s P A o fHANKOW CAPUREO o JOCTOBER 25,1938 O ay (" Aran . 0 % O, PHARBIN JAPAN DECIDED TO HALT INVASION OF CHINA FEBJ3, 4940, NIPPON TO ESTABLISH A NEW ORDER IN THE FAR EAST NIKOLAEVSHKES © JAPANESE PNAVAL BASE MUNIN JORBONIN ISLANDS* Detailed map graphically illustrates the progress Japanese armies have made since they began the invasion of China proper in July, 1937. Outbreak of hostilities came when Nipponese troops swept down from Manchukuo in the north. Japanese warships nestled off the southern coast hammered the way clear for landing forces. is labeled in the Nanning area Washinglon Gels Biggeflr Kick Out of Movie Stars Visiting than of Congress TWELVE ARRESTED * IN THEFT OF GOLD - FROMMINEINCOL Accusation Made that Be- 5 tween $50,000 and | | $100,000 Stolen i TELLURIDE, Col, March 4. | Twelve persons are held in con- nection with the theft of gold ore from the Tom Boy Mines. Officials | made the arrests after uncovering | the second theft of the valuable | metal from the gold mines. | The dozen men .- accused of | taking between $50,000 and $100,- 000 worth of the gold. | Previously two others were ar-| rested in the theft of $20,000 worth of vanadium from a mine at Ur- ivan Col. They were reported to, have sold the metal to either Jap- anese or German agents. | - The latest mining theft led au- thorities to a tavern basement where a complete milling appara- tus was found. ——e-— AERIAL ENGAGEMENT IN WESTERN SECTOR German and French Pur-; suif Planes in Battle, | SaysDNB Agency | 1 BERLIN, March 4.—Four Ger-| man pursuit planes, the crack equipment of the German air force, | fought off twelve French pursuit ships Sunday in one of the bit-! terest aerial duels of the entire, | war. < | DNB, semi-official German news agency, claims that one French pur- suit ship was shot down while no | German losses were suffered. DNB lingering ill- | claimed the battle took place south-| _ west of Diedenhoven, By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 4. — We cannot eScape recording that Hol- lywood’'s film actors and actresses do not glow so glamorously in Washington as a party might first suppose, Maybe it is just a matter of lo-| cal pride, but we thing your aver- age congressman stacks up pretty well beside Jimmy Cagney or “Bad Man” Bill Robinson. Seeing| congressmen and movie actors inj the mass, you get a feeling that! Rep. Joe Bimbo from Middleton is more nearly worth his $10,000 a vear than boyish Mickey Rooney his $5,000 a week. | But we'll concede at once that ~ FOUND IN CAMP Shaded area in general shows Chinese territory occupied by the Mikado’s forces. Latest activity Mid-SécIion, Pennsylvania 1 City Sinking | Below (ol BODIES OF THREE LOST FLIERS ARE Canadian Airmen Down on Labrador Coast Last September MONTREAL, Quebec, March 4.— Airways officials are to send a plane to the Labrador coast to bring the as Workings apse Affer Rain SHENANDOAH, Pa, March 4.— The middle section of this city began to sink early this morning, toppling | homes and cracking business build- lings as the abandoned anthracite mine workings below collapsed after 124 hours of heavy rainfall. Residents were awakened by the | rumbling and flew from the sixteen- | block area. Chief of Police Alinsky asserts that no one has been injured but property damage is heavy. Water and gas mains are broken. Many homes are split in two as different sections of the earth sank I slowly but steadily. { Women, especially, sobbed hyster- ically as they witnessed the destruc- tion of their homes. The population of the town is Washington gets a bigger kick out |y gies of three fliers to Montreal. | 21 0go. of a visiting movie actor than out of a whole house full of congress-| men. An average gallery in House or Senate will not exceed 200.| When Dorothy Lamour hove into| town, 2,000 doting Washingtoni-| ans mobbed the theater, broke through police lines to scream: “Lemme touch her. lemme/ touch her!” Anybody who thinks this city is altogether politically-minded is “sarong” he ought to set himself| | right. Political Note: The hand that | rocks the cradle also casts | some votes, so we hear Presi- dential Candidate Paul V. Mc- Nutt speaking: i “In bad times, it is the men | who do most of the complain- | ing but the women who do the economizing. If you will look around at your neighbors—your own family always is an excep- tion—you will find that during the lean years the man’s needs are the last to feel the pinch. He'll smoke his cigars—and drop the ashes on the carpet— long after his wife has cut down on her beauty treatments. His country club dues will be paid even if her sewing club cuts out the refreshments to save expense. He continues his golf game long after she has mate- (Continued on Fage Five) 1 The three men had been missing since last September 12. Their bod- | ies were found by a trapper near Hopeda, Labrador. A note found at the camp where the men died indicated that they had lived for more than two months after leaving Moisie, Quebec, on a trip to Lake Melvire, Labrador. The note requested that the finder | “Go at once to the nearest telegraph | B A S THRONG SEES KODIAK OPEN office and report to the government that you have found our camp and | airplane lost in September on a trip | to Northwest River.” | The note whs signed by the three victims: G. H. Davidson, Joseph Fec- teau and J. C. Cote. f s - ST | IS SHOT DOWN b ! SHANGHAI, March 4—An un- identified assassin shot and killed ‘Wu Chilun, a prominent Chinese lawyer, at his Yates road office He was the former husband of the sister of Mrs. Henry Puyi, Emperor | of Manchoukuo. ! The lone assassin entered Wu's| office pretending to be a client. After a brief conversation he op- ened fire, hitting Wu three times. ‘Wu was prnounced déad when he | was taken to Paulun Hospital. The assassin escaped. BANK'S DOOR Island City Gets First Such Institution in Its Long History KODIAK, Alaska, March 4—Near- ly 300 persons joined Saturday night in the official opening of the Bank of Kodiak. The instituton is the first such in the town’s history. Guests were welcomed by Bank President O. A. Torgerson and Di- rectors W. J. Erskine and Ben Krafft of Kodiak, and F. A. Hansen of Cor- dova., - e - MRS. GOLDSTEIN COMING Mrs. Charles Goldstein, who has been in California for some time, is a passenger aboard the Princess Louise for her Juneau home. 'FOR ALASKA - DURING "M Inferior De'parfment's Bill Asks $65,000 More for Northland MEDICAL RELIEF T0 GET FAT INCREASE Alaska Railroad Fund Giv- | en Boost Totaling §150,000 WASHINGTON, March 4. — The House Appropriations Committee, introducing the Interior Department Bill today, asked for $1,059,560 for the Alaska Territorial Government during 1941, an increase of $65720 over the current year, but $200 less than budget recommendations. The Bureau of Fisheries servicr gets a recommendation of $280,540 an increase of $12,340 over the cur- rent year, but $1,120 under budget estimates. The bureau was also allowed $78.- 900 for fishery market news service. an increase of $2900, and $11,500 for fish screens, an increase of $1,500. The salaries of the Governor and Secretary remain at the usual figure of $15,600. Contingent expenses were cut from $42,180 to $18,120. Legiclative expenses of $50,000 are the same. Publi 550,000, care of insane, For Roads ridges and trails appro- | priation recommendations got an in- crease of $10,000 to $570,000 while construction of and repairs for trails t an increase of $10,000 also, to 50,000. Among other items in the bill, recommendations were made for ex- clusive funds for operation of the Territorial Government, including fire fighting, which receives a cut of | $10,500 to $27,000. Education of natives is cut $10,785 | to $940,595. | Medical Relief Raised Medical relief appropriation is raised $52,490 to $492,490. Reindeer service gets $75,000 or $300 under budget requests. McKinley Park is to draw $28,120, a cut of $1,850. ‘Enforcement of game laws gets $155,000, a cut of $24,200. The Alaska Railroad Fund is in- creased by $150,000 to $2,775,000. | Mineral resources investigations are to draw, as this year, $60,000. ! -ee ARCHDUKE ~ OTI0 HERE {Pretender to Austrian { Throne Arrives in U. S.— Says Germany fo Lose BALTIMORE, March 4. — Arch- duke Otto Von Hapsburg, the 28- year-old pretender to the Aus- trian throne, arrived in the United States today aboard the American | Clipper. The Archduke plans to make a | thorough study of United States| democracy as a basis for a postwar central European federation of states. Otto declared that such a fed- { eration will automatically come into existence after the war; and that there is now no question but that the Germans will lose the war. He said that the morale factor alone makes Allied victory a certainty. He expressed the belief that the fed- eration will include parts of Bo- hemia, Moravia, Slovakia, Yugoslav- ia, Austria, and other small na- tions or minorities which wished to join, what he referred to as the “United States of the Danube.” Ot- to was greeted when he arrived by younger brother, the Archdukul | | | Felix. "MISS ALASKA?" Tomorrow morning, Miss Sybil Godfrey, “Miss Juneau,” will leave on a PAA plane for Fairbanks to attend the Ice Carnival there and also take her place among others for the title of “Miss Alaska.” Miss Godfrey was unanimously select- ed by nine judges at a contest at the Capitol Theatre a week ago last Satarday night The above presents Miss God- frey in her bathing suit which she will wear in the “Miss Alas- ka” contest at Fairbanks. The pic- ture is by Lu Liston and the en- graving is the work of Paul Solka, | Jr., of Fairbanks, given in compli- ment to The Emvire. The picture appeared in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner of last Friday, March 1, and under the caption “Miss Alaska?” the following apveared: “The question above is one which Juneau residents consider answered by the miss in the pic- ture, who w(ill step onto Fairbanks soil Tuesday to take her place among the candidates for the title “Miss Alaska.” She is Miss Sybil Godfrey, ,pictured in one of the costumes she-donned to win the designation * and the right to repre: the Fairbanks Ice Carnival and Dog Derby next week, She will fly here aboard the next northbound PAA Electra.” ALASKA SCHOOLS COME UP BEFORE CONGRESS TODAY Dimond Says Educationless| Indians Problem- Not Whites WASHINGTON, March 4.—Rep- resentative James Schrugham of Ne- vada today said the plight of Alaska children who have no schools should be investigated. This was stated after Representative James Fitzpatrick of New York said he had learned on his Alaska trip last summer there is a shortage of school facilities in Bris- tol Bay. Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond said perhaps-1500 native chil- dren have no schools, but the situa- tion is not nearly so serious. as to white children. - e e DEFENDERS HOLDING ON TO SEAPORT Russians Reported Closing in on Three Sides of Sector FINNISH SUCCESSES REPORTED ELSEWHERE Invaders Claim They Have Downed Many Planes in Fighting HELSINKI, March 4—The High Command announces that the Fin- nish forees have repulsed attacks al- most at the sutes of Viipuri. The revulses have beeu made on three sides. It is admifted that the Russian forces started closing in on the uorth, south and east sides but the Finns are clinging desperately to the oity, - y The Finnish report claims fresh successes on the sector northeast of Lake Ladoga. The commuriique said that 2,000 soldiers of one Russian brigade had either been killed or had frozen to death. The capture of 100 Russian tanks, most of them in working order, is also reported RUSSIAN REPORT MOSCOW, March 4.—A mor communique repocts that Red Ariny troops ave continuing drive on Viipuri and Viborg in southenstern vil of Arela, no ite of the Finnish Center and and of Tuppura lving south of Viipuri The report said that Soviet planes had bombed Finnish troops and ,military objectives in addition to ! shooting down ten Finnish planes, e FLOOD HAVEN IS DESERTED AS GERMS MARCH IFilth of Cessmls and Pol- luted Wells Drives Refugees Qut MERIDIAN, Cal., March 4.—Fear of an epidemic of disease has trans- formed this small town, haven for flood refugees, into a nearly de- serted village County Health Officer Dr. James Hennessy declared that the area, 14 by 16 miles square, is unsafe for human habitation due to germ-laden whter, polluted wells and overflow- ing cesspools. Four drowning deaths are report- ed from Redding, Lringing the flood toll to ten persons and damage to millions of doliars, ¢ The Sucramento River is now fali™s ing. e e { Stocz Qu omnonfl — NEW YORK, March 4. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6%. American Can 114%, Anaconda 29%, Bethlehem Steel 7T6%, Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 52%, International Harvester 53", Kennecott 37%, New York Central 16%, Northern Pacific 81, United States Steel B58%, Pound $3.90%. VANCES ARE RETURNING Dr. Howe Vance and Mrs, Vance are returning to Juneau aboard -the Princess Lou i pleasu trip in the States. DOW, JONES AVERAGES following are today's Dow, Jones averages: ‘industrials 14643, 00.46, utilivdes 30.15. NS