The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 13, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8360. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 13, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FIRING CEASES ON RUSSO-FINN ERONT (4 Bitter Three, One Half Months’ Str * ALASKA BILL IS PRESENTED . BYDELEGATE Would Create Slum Clear- ance, Low Cost Hous- | ing Authority WASHINGTON, March 13.—Alas- Delegate Anthony J. Dimond introduced a bill to create a slum clearance and low cost ka has publ! Housing Authority in Alaska. The measure is known as House Bill 8884 — e FirstPrimary In Nation Is ForRoosevelt New Hamps_hire Delega- tion Pledged fo Presi- | dent, Third Term | MANCHESTER, New Hampshire, March 13.—The Nation's first pri- v election, held yesterday in this state, gave Roosevelt the full ite of eight delegates at large and | four district delegates. The twelve delegates are pledged to Roosevelt and a third term. Sixteen men were seeking the cight positions as delegates to the Democratic National Convention to be held in Chicago, July 15. | B DEMOCRATS IN CALIFORNIA IN BIG SPLIT NOWi Lieut. Gov. Patterson and | Secrefary Ickes Plan | to Harmonize SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March| 13—Lieutenant Governor Patterson | is scheduled for a conference to-| day with Secretary of Interior Har- old L. Ickes in an attempt to har- monize all Democratic factions in the state favoring President Roo- | sevelt for a third term. The Cab- inet member flew here today from | Washington to inspect various re-| clamation projects. One slate of delegates on the| May 7 primary ballot will be of- ficially pledged to Gov. C. L. Olson, but actually for President Roose- velt. Opponents of Olson, who still sup- port the President, have threatened to file a rival slate. A third slate of delegates on the} ballot will be pledged to Vice- President Garner. Patterson fears that two Roose-| velt slates in the primary election | ballot might result in Garner car-| rying the state, as he did in 1932 | STOCK QUOTATIONS | | | | stock today is 6, 115%, 3',, Anaconda 28%, Steel 75 3/4, Commonwealth and Southern 1, Curtiss Wright 10%, heels. General Motors 54%, International| Harvester 57%, Kennecott 36%, New York Central 16, Northern Pa- | axe to be smuggled into the prison cific 8, United States Steel 57%, | for the day after the axe was smug- | gled in, it was used to cut off the |leg of C. A. Welles, narcotic ad- The following are today's Dow, dict. Pound $3.71%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES Jones averages: industrials 14717, rails 30.67, utilities 24.15. —O. J. Ellingson, Manager of the NEW YORK, March 15—Closing | Texas State Prison Sysiem, dis- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine closed an epidemic of self-mutila- American Can tion among prisoners including am- American Power and Light putation of two legs, three broken Bethlehem | 1egs. and eight broken arms. the prisoners’ desires to avoid work | Mason, unk I)y German Bomber British Mine Sweeper f ¥ | 4 I This dramatic picture shows the British minesweeper Sphinx just before it capsized in a heavy sea and a while being towed to port after being bombed by German planes. The British cap- feared lost. Note how the front «f the ship NAZ! (0AL ~ FOR ITALY GOES RAIL sank in the North & tion said the commander, four officers and 49 ratings wei v by a bomb. was torn a Streets Crack in Sinking Town | ised Owing to Allied i Sea Blockade { ROME, March 13.—It is offici- i lally announced today that Italy | and Germany have signed an agree- ! | ment whereby the Reich agrees to { | supply coal Italy needs. The fuel will be shipped to Italy b | from Germany by rail in view of the Allied blockade against ship- 4 | ments by sea | MINING COMPANY AT FLAT INCORPORATED The Happy Creek Mining Com- pany, with principal office at Flat, has been incorporated under the {laws of the Territory by Andrew O. Olson of Flat and Tony Lindstrom and Axel Palmgren of Fairbanks. e | GOES TO SITKA e T ] ] Oscar Hart, Alaska broker, is a | passenger aboard the North Sea Cracks which townsfolk said looked like “earthquake fissures” ap- for Sitka to call on the trade there. { Overland Delivery Prom-. BRITISH - POSITION ATTACKED ! {Refusal fo Give Aid fo Fin- i land, Unless Asked, l Condemned 'PURE TECHNICALITY | | MOST POOR EXCUSE : Former War Minister Hore- | Belisha Demands | Formal Debate LONDON, March 13. — Leslie| | Hore-Belisha, recently dismissed as | British War Secretary, today bit- | terly attacked Great Britain's re- fusal to give large scale aid to | Finland until the Finns appealed ‘fur such help. | “Is it not a pity, in relation to the magnitude of these events and | their far reaching character, to plead as an excuse for inaction, a | pure technicality,” said the former | | War Minister, i Hore-Belisha spoke | !after Prime Minister Chamberlain | made a brief statement saying| Great Britain made it plain its| willingness to give such help. Demands Debate | Hore-Belisha also demanded a formal debate on Great Britain's “whole conduct of the present war.” | Hore-Belisha urged an immedi- late expeditionary force for Fin- land before he was ousted from | his position in the British Cab- inet | During his attack on the Gov- ernment, the former British War | Minister said: “While this govern- ment has openly expressed sym- | pathy for the Finnish cause, is it |not a fact that repeated appeals | have been made to the Allied na- tions for supplies and men?” He claimed that Great- Britan had received requests of interven- tion as early as February. Chamberlain flatly denied the charges and declared that Great Britain was merely waiting for a request from Finland before send- imu an expeditionary force to her| aid and that the entire British peo- | ple were completely in sympathy with the Finn's gallant su‘llgult': against Soviet aggression. Hore-Belisha was wildly cheered. | e immediately | RODENS RETU! G HOME | Attorney Henry Roden and Mrs Roden are passengers aboard the | steamer Taku northbound to their Juneau home. peared in the paved and dirt streets of Shenandoah, Pa., as parts of a 16-block section settled as much as 20 inches. Caveins over a honey- | comb of old anthracite workings beneath the town were blamed. Self- Mufiliation Epidemic Breaks Oufin TexasPrison; Legs Cuf Off; Arms Brokgni — - BRINGS OUT By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 13. — A candid study of the testimony be- March 13, in the fields where new restrictions were recently placed. | i the Nati 1 Labor Relatl The. idea of self-mutilation was|E2Ung the Nafiona g e Board indicates that the cause of nated by Clyde Barrow, des- . i s perado, who chopped off two of his froule fn S0 gisalr th, the board toes. HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Jbfirn leaders of two rival labor | organizations won't make peace. | Many of the amendments to the | Wagner Act suggested during the |two months of hearings are di- e Ane man sliced the flesh off his STRANGE MATES, Ellingson said two guards have been discharged for allowing an it has been determined that except for the conflicting ambi- | tions of AFL and CIO. March 13—Col-, A primary complaint from em- GOLDEN, Cal. orado Mines has a Japanese and ployers has been that they must a Chinese on its wrestling team. supinely suffer losses while iumon.s strike and picket each other )X_h disputes over who is to be the rival Ellingson blamed the epidemic on| “The best of pals,” says Coach John INVESTIGATION OF NLIRB TROUBLES, BOARD, UNIONS et e ore the House Committee investi-| itself than in the fact that stub-| [ WRES'“I"G "'EAMirecmd at solving problems which | | probably would solve themselves EVIDENCEOF bargaining representative. Thathas prompted certain of the amend- | ments designed to give the em- ployer the right to appeal directly to the board. | DISPUTE OVER CRAFT UNIONS| The principal charge that the| AFL makes against the board is the assertion that the board| has handled too many cases in| a way that benefited the CIO.{ | President William Green of the AFL outlined four objectives to| be sought by amendments, at least | three of which were prompted by the inability of the two great la-| bor organizations to reach an un-‘ derstanding without the board Green insisted that craft unions (Continued on Page Threes Russia Gains Huge Part Of Finland as Treaty of PeaceIs Signed, Moscow MOSCOW, March 13. — An official communique announced the Russo-Finnish peace treaty has been | signed (effective at 1 a.m. Wednesday, Pacific Coast time) granting Russia huge territorial concessions from the Arctic south to the mouth of the Gulf of Finland. Russia is ceded the entire Karelian Isthmus with the Mannerheim Line, unconquered city of Viipuri shores of Lake Ladega and a 30-year lease of the south- western Finnish Gibraltar of Hanko for use as military and naval bas The far northern Sredni and Rybachi Peninsulas | are also ceded in eastern Finland. 1 Russia will withdraw troops from the Petsamo dis- | trict south of the ceded areas and also pay a single pay- | ment of $750,000 for the Hanko lease. The ncrtheastern ceded territory includes the Kuola- jarvi railroad which extension will be built this year linking the White Sea and Gulf of Bothnia, bissecting | Finland. | Russia is given a free transit of goods to Norway | without customs duties or inspections. | Finland gives up the right to have any but the small- est coast guard vessels in the Arctic waters. The trealy gives Russia far more than asked for in the pre-war demands and actually gives the Soviet Union an uncontested clutch on the northern Baltic. | The Soviet Union now has virtually all the Baltic | possessions which were held before the World War. | The treaty also prevides for a nonaggression alliance | and immediate resumption of trade relations. | GERMANS SENATORIS BEAMING STERN OVER IN GLEE PEACETERMS | e Suggests that United States| Break Off Relations | il | Satisfaction s Expressed Over Signing Russo- Finnish Peace % with Russia BERLIN, March 13.—Authorized| WASHINGTON, March 13. — German sources are beaming with | United States Senator Guy M. Gil- satisfaction today over the Russian-|lette, of Iowa, member of the Finnish peace terms. | Senate Foreign Relations Commit- An unofficial statement says: tee, asserted this afternoon that “The terms are in just proportion the United States will be justified | to the needs and necessities which jn protesting against the peace| certain states have a right to claim.” terms dictated by Russia to Fin- The peace agreement is hailed janq, as a diplomatic triumph against! genator Gillette suggested that the Allied plans to extend the Arc- tne ynjted States might break off tic war to the Scandinavian Pen-| gipigmatic relations with Russia insula. It is declared that Germany g¢ 4 means of indicating “our an- had tried to prevent the spread of tipathy of such unjustfied aggres- ugél e - > nds FIGHTING IS STOPPED, ALL WARSECTORS Weary Little Nation, Short on Arms, Foreign Aid Surrenders PEACE SETTLES OVER CORPSE-STREWN ARE Defenders will Regin Re- treat to New Front- iers on Friday HELSINKI, March 13 w Finland, lacking needed wa pons and also skeptical of f. offers of help, has ended a three and one half monihs of - gle against. Rux vieldin: soil and economic and m dependence than demanded the war. According to the peace terms sign- ed in Moscow, the dogged but cour- ageous Finnish Army stopped fight- ing (1 a. m. today Pacific Coast Time) and peace settied over the corpse piled Karelian Isthmus and other fronts. Begin Retreat Beginning Friday, Finnish troops will begin to retreat at the rat> of about four and one half miles a day to the narrowed frontiers fixed by the treaty signed last night at Mos- cow. The treaty is still subject to for- mal ratification by the Finnish Diet within three days. Sweden Blamed Finnish Foreign Miniser Vaino Tapner in a broadeast this morning from the Helsinki Radio Station made to the Finnish people said Sweden's refusal to let 50,000 French and British woops pass through that country to ald Finland against the Russlan foe, 50 times her size, proved an uneconguerable obstacle. hitter L e TWO MINISTERS RESIGN HELSINKI, March 13.—War Min- ister Nieumkanen and Minister of Education Hannula have resigned from the Finnish Cabinet because they opposed accepting the Russian peace terms. FIGHT TO END HELSINKI, March 13.—An offic~ jal communique said bitter fighting and counter aitacks continued at the front until 11 o'clock this forenoox when the armistice or truce became effective. Peaéfiealy Alarming fo Enfire World Dramatic Announcemen of Terms Comes Out from Soviet Land COPENHAGEN, March 13.—The dramatic announcement that peace terms had been made between Rus- sia and Finland was flashed by radio from Moscow to a world tense with excitement and expectancy. After 104 days of heroic fighting, WPinland was understood to b des- perate to a po'nt of surrender, even on terms which would mean a loss of strategically important territory. Fight, Backs To Wall The Finnish delegation headed by Premier Hyti was fighting with their backs to the wall even before Ger- many brought her enormous pres- sure to bear. Almost at the same moment Great Britain and France had announced their readiness to send one hun- the western war and hoped to keep'smmv other neutral nations from being | 4 PG drawn into the conflict. | German sources charged that‘FISHERIES wlll Great Britain and France intended to draw Norway and Sweden into the war over the Finnish issue in! TAKE (ENSUS IN order to open another front for at- REMOTE ALASKA Said one high Nazi official: “This | diplomatic stroke in ending the Fin- | bt /41 ; nish war has prevented the Allies . . | from trying to outflank the West‘Adlng commlss'oner Ja(k' Wall from Finland and the Baltic.” | i i son Says Agents, War- GOVERNOR AGAIN | dens fo Do Job i DEI.AYS RHUR“ | WASHINGTON, March 13.—Act- ling Commissioner of Fisheries | Charles E. Jackson, said today as- FROM (Aplloljsistam agents and wardens of the | Pisheries Bureau will take the cen- sus in remote and isolated areas on Now Scheduled fo Leave boin".iic: o e Alnskn Peninsuia 2 | from a point opposite Kodiak island Seaffle April 10 |aon e it coust to Unima f J {Pass and on the north side includ- or Juneau |ing Bristol Bay P L | -, Return of Gov. Ernest Gruening’ to the Territory has been' delayed GRA"I (o"F'RMED again by important business in! Washington, according to word re-| AS wnA"GEll p M ceived today by Acting Governor LU L (Bob) Bartlett. | WASHINGTON, March 13.—The The newest plan calls for the Senate has confirmed Brigham Y. Governor to leave Seattle April Grant to be postmaster at Wran- 10 for Juneau. | gell, Alaska. dred thousand troops to save Fin- (Conunued ou Page Three)