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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8361. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW STRIFE THREATENS SOUTH EUROPE U.S. Embargo Against Russia is Enforced BILL FOR COLONIZATION OF ALASKA INTRODUCED NO LETTING Governrnen’i's Edict Against Shipments Is Not Rescinded {ANY ISSUES ENTER ‘ INTO SITUATION NOW President RAo_o;eveII, Sec- refary of State Hull | in Conference ‘ HIN(:'ION March 14—Sec- of State Cordell Hull said that this Government's pol- a moral embargo against| imposed by President Roo- i the State Department after Soviel Union's invasion of Finland, has not ended with the end of the Russo-Finnish war.| ven before Hull's conference | 1 President Roosevelt it was| pparent the United States woul continue the embargo in regard | to Russia and no move would be | to lift the embargo. Fear Russian Moves American officials are not sure that Russia will not move again inst Finland or that Russia might move against other nations in the Balkans or Near East, or that some materials might get through to Germany. Double Embargo President Roosevelt laid down the embargo on shipments of air- planes and parts to Russia early in last December and later the State Department amplified this embargo to include materials going sto plane manufacture such as molybdenum, aluminum and also plans for the manufacture of avia- gasoline. e, — | | | NAZI-RUSSO ALLIANCE IS OFF, BELIEF Military Consolidation Is Probably Abandoned, Latest British View LONDON, March 14.—British For- eign Office circles believe the Rus- jan-Finnish peace treaty and ces- sation of the Arctic war has prob- ably killed the possibility of Rus- sia and Germany being driven into a full military alliance, It is believed Russia will again become an isolationist because of heavy losses in men and supplies and will want to consolidate forces and equipment and incidentally concentrate on the Far East front against Japanese dominance in China. RELIEFFUND FOR FINLAND TO CONTINUE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March| 14. — Despite the Russo-Finnish peace treaty, the Finnish relief fund will continue operating throughout America, to meet the| renewed needs of the suItermp civilians of that unfortunate coun-| wy. Ben S. Allen, westérn executive of the fund, has made this an- nouncement. of Russia velt a the made tion Roosevelt Inspects Canal Zone Defenses b Tuscaloosa when the Pre Charges United Stales Arranged Peace Treafy Between Sonja Henie, Millionaire OnSame Boal Film Adress,fiater Denies There Any Romance Between Two HONOLULU, March 14. actress Sonja Henie and aire Dan Topping have Honolulu aboard the million- liner Mat- sonia, still denying there was more | than friendship between them. Sonja and Topping walked about the deck, hand in hand, as Matsonia docked. The film star said she was Hawaii for 'a vacation, all about skating and acting. She insisted that the fact Topping ar- in rived on the same ship was nothing | more than a coincidence. ONE MAIL BRINGS $216,000 TAXES FOR TERRITORY Payments Made by Can- neries, Mines on 39 Operations Tax payments totaling $276,000 were received by the Territorial Treasurer's office in. the last mail from the States, Treasurer Oscar G. Olson announced today. The heavy payments consisted of gross gold tax and cannery tax payments. The paying period for 1939 ends tomorrow. As a result of the new receipts the Treasurer’s net cash balance now stands as well over a million and a half. Yresident Kocsevelt and his party are \thln coming ashore at Balboa, Canal Zone, from the (runcr it inspeeted Panama Canal Zone defenses, visit to the canal area on his tour. (U. S. Army Signal Corps |li(1un‘ from the / Film | arrived in| | the | to forget| RUSSIANS, JAPANESE | | on Manchoukuo-Mon- ‘ gohan Border | SOVIETS SAID T0 HAVE MADE ADVANCE, 5 MILES Troops, Eqni;Tn\ent Moved Eastward Over Trans- Siberian R. R. sian and Japanese troops on the | Outer Mongolia, is reported. The advices are not officially confirmed, | however from Manchoukuo. | Pighting in that area ended last September by an armistice | The reports received here said ‘lhe Soviets have advanced five ‘mlles moving troops and equip- [ment eastward over the trans-Si-| | beriart railroad. Observers here linked the reports |of increased Soviet | Manchoukuo with ¢ | Russian-Finnish hostilities. This was part of the President’s Associated Press). 25 KILLED; FASTTRAIN HITS TRUCK Mexican Laborers in Fruit| Vehicle Crushed, Burn- ed and Mangled NO JAPANESE REPORT TOKYO, Marcle 14.—The Japan- |ese War Office this afternoon dis- i(lu)med knowledge of recurrence of fighting beiween Japanese and Rus- |sian troops on the Manchoukuo- Mongolian border. The War Office spokesman says it believes such re- ports are groundless. D Russia, Finland ! TOKYO, March 14—The Japan- ‘wo newspaper Asahi, in an editoria d’ ‘m(h\ indicated belief that the Unit- ed States Ambassador at Moscow, ‘L(nuvmr A. Steinhardt, arranged (lm Russian-Finnish peace. | —_ The newspaper says the reason| MCcALLEN, Texas, March 14 | for the action is because the Unit- Twenty-five persons were killed to- |ed States hoped thereby to free the |day when a passenger train cra shed Soviet Union for continued pressure ! broadside into a truck loaded with |on the Japanese. | fruit-pickers at a crossing six mxlui Vernacular newspapers now agree east of this lower Rio Grande Va al- | Illut Russia may now increase oppo- | ley city today | ity Is - Slowly Sinking sition to the Japanese sponsored re- | Seventeen persons were in Jurulw gime in China |and many of them are in ~L-um|~.r - —— | condition. 1 ' c | e e worst wreck e PEANSYIV@Nia Community history of Texas. prObIem | The Missouri Pacific train, leling at 60 miles and hour, hit the I F M jtruck at 8 o'clock this morning, {carrying it on the cow catcher for ) 600 yards, scattering bodies and 'Resettlement of Thousands | Dropping Into Coal Mine Beneath SHENANDOAH, Pa., March 14— limbs of the victims, apparently all | g ¥l ¥ Slowly, although barely perceptibly l1aborers of Mexican or related blood | SI eptibls living in farm areas around Alama,|the DoOrtheast corner of this city The truck burst into flames im-|©f 21,000 is still sinking into the | iediately after the crash and one|abandoned and worked out coal| |vietim was found charred when the Mine beneath. | {train stopped ! _Actua,l visible damage are small | = O Ul ‘nsures in several of the .ereeLsi and splits in building walls. Approach of spring thaws are| arousing worries, MANY NAIZI PLANES ARE SHOTDOWN . Driven from Homes | Must Be Solved HELSINKI, March 14, — With- |drawal of Finnish civilians from | districts ceded to Russia has made "\ homeless army of at least 100,- ‘Allies Are NotPleased Russo-Finnish Peace May Breed Further Aggres- sion in North LONDON, March 14.—The Alli(‘d‘ governments are bitterly disappoint- ed by the terms and the manner Tl.ls vast army is leaving their “home” lands in the snow-covered b:n'dvr country. 1t is estimated that half a mil- hon more are already refugees from the recent war zones. 1 Resettlement now imposes a tre- | mendous problem for the Finnish Fifty-eight E&t Reported | Government. P, e Can Join Alliance U - i % A | Informed circles today denied ™MENS. Wrecked-French Fliers They fear that it will breed fur- ther aggression and bring #11 Scan- Are Decorated dinavia under the German-Russian orbit. | PARIS, March 14, — Official It is feared that Allied prestige French reports list 58 German war that there was any clause in the! Russian-Finnish peace treaty which prohibits the proposed defensive al- liance between Finland, Sweden and Norway. Previously the rumor was prevailing that such a clause has been struck a new blov."planes have been shot down since existed. It is thought that the p,e_:thmughout neutral Europe, k:;w shta;:.) of the war and up to vious reports were the result of g i 0 TS | Mare : | the article which says that no al-| THEY ARE ELKS Sergeant Edouard Sales is the| | At a recent meeting of the| leading ace with four French dec-| liances which are directed against the other signatory may be entered Wrangell Elks, the following three | orations. Fifty fliers have already . were initiated: Hubert Wellons, been awarded decorations for re- ‘Wa]wr Tucker and Harold Nichols.|sults obtained in air fighting. (Continued on Page Three) IN BATTLE Sudden Activny Reported | SHANGHAI, March 14, 7RPbump-E {tion of fighting between Soviet Rus- | Nomonhan front, on the border of | | | | | | | | dispositions as opposite as the poles, |or shower in the | sacred place | WASHINGTON, March 14— The Senate today proposal |that Alaska be settled on a large scale by privately financed land de- velopment enterprises chartered by the Secretary of the Interior Tle proposal is embodied in a bill Robert F. received a | | introduced Wagner of New York. Drafted by Interior Department officials, it provides that any ten citizens may apply to the Secretary of the Interior for a certificate of by Senator lincorporation to provide capital iSt,()(‘k of at least $10,000,000. In- | corporators should be required to {.\3’0\&' that shares of stock or deben- tures previously subscribe to at least $250,000. Persons eligible as settlers are citi- zens of the United States and quota | immigrants and persons lawfully ad- | mitted to this country for perma- nent residence. The primary, purpose of any poration, Senator Wagner said, would be promotion of permanent settlements in Alaska and the de- | velopment of such industries, based upon natural resources of the Ter- ritory, as will contribute to the needs of the nation's economy and national defese. | Representative F. R Hn\'«-mwrg of California has introduced simi- lar legislation in the House. Huler s Pru‘e for Peace JINVYY France recognize a and restora her lost colonies. shaded.) gary Varsity Boys By PEESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 14—Two freshman New England Senator, of have garnered much more Congres- sional attention than usually comes to initiates. Both are Republicans. Already, Senator Tobey of New | Hampshire, the gentleman of the| loud voice and mile-a-second speech, has dug up something for Republicans to yell about with his attack on housing questions in the census. What right, he asked, has the government to send census takers into the homes of their neighbors to ask how large is the mortgage plaster on the house, what is the interest rate, and is there a bath home? Eagerly, Republicans took it up on both ends of the Congress when the appropriation bill came up for money for the census. “A fundamental principle of liberty is involved here,” cried red-faced Representative Reed of New York “There is no more than the American| home.” Promptly, Democratic members pointed out that sacred as the home is, a man must file a record of his mortgage at the Lounly‘ courthouse where all may read. The questions about how many Sources close to Adolf Hitler helle\ed he told U. of State Sumner Welles that Germany will fight until England and serman Monroe Doctrine” for Central Europe Hitler’s peace price according to this n, includes permanent German political domination over Bo- hemia-Moravia, Slovakia, Poland and Hungary (all shown diagonally Germany now dominates all of this territory except Hun- Plan also provides that England and France promis up the Balkans and Scandinavia, and that “stranglehold control” of Gibraltar and the Suez Canal be stopped. Two Frosh Senafors Show Republicans Taking Nollce |ing’ of an early-day Pilgrim group| fi?m,‘ S. Under Secretary not to stir Some Tricks; single bath distinetly on a goad to Tobey. room, the families use however, was personal side, a “GUN BEARER” Tobey looks just gun-bearer in that like the lead famous paint- headed for church through the snow and Indians. The lines of his face are long, up and down He has had legislative experience about as long as the next man’s, extending back into the House and Senate of his home state legisla- ture. Incidentally, he was at dif- ferent times speaker of the New Hampshire House of Representa- tives and President of the State Senate. He hasn't proved himself 50| ready on rough and tumb de bate as yet. He reads a speech to| the Senate at breakneck speed and dashes back to his office for| more study. y IRISH YANKEE r{ Connecticut’s Senator Dauaher is a Yankee of another color. - His ancestry is long-time American,| but his blood is thick with Irish peat juice. Dartmouth trained To-| bey but Yale sent Danaher into New England law and politics, out | (Continued on Fage Five) d amount | |Balkan CounTry in Fear of lvoh‘ed the | scores a AGGRESSIVE MOVES SEEN IN SENATE AND HOUSE BY NATIONS Invasion, Possibly in Spring - GERMANY REPORTED T0 HAVE RUSSIAN PLEDGE Finland, N(;;l—ay, Sweden Discussing Northern Defense Alliance (By Associated Press) New alarms of war, new fears of ression faced Europe usgain to- and kept nations in a perpet- wonder of “what next?” Sweder Norway, mindful of P Nortly land paid 1 Defe price are considering a Alliance, President Kallio, of Pinland, in a radic address, cxplaiing the peace terms between Russia and Finland, need of a trinalion al- liance. Foreign Ministers of Norway and Sweden are uneasy over the Fin- nish concessions which’ give Russia both rail and plane access to the ish and Norwegian frontiers. 1 Ministers acknow- \(,mmnuM o' Page Five) B e GERMANY PLANNING BIG (OUP Decisive Move Reporfed in Making-Russia Giv- en Warning By LOUIS LOCHNER Associated Press Correspondent BERLIN, Marchy 14—Well ine formed sources declare that this week may see a most decisive move that will “furnish political founda- tions” regarding Germany’s mili- tary victory. These sources declare that the |Rumanian question is a factor in | this situation and it is further dis- closed that a defitite pledge has been obtained from Russia, by Ger- many, that Rumania will be spared no matter what happens. ‘That pledge will probably be pub- licly documented soon and means: that Russia will continue to give supplies to Germany and keep hands off Rumania. It is known that the negotiations are being conducted in the greatest secrecy because it is said Germany has warmed Russia against further aggression and if that it occurs the powerful Nazi ma- chine of war will move. Russia, it is stated, fears any military tron- ble with Germany. If the pledge concerning Rumania is officially made and sigued, the Nazi machine victery 'DOGS RUN ARD KILL SHEEP AT MATANUSKA Farmers in Matanuska Valley are becoming concerned*over the num- r of loose dogs which are run- ining wild and turning sheep killers. One colouist, Neil Miller, who reported losing five sheep in one night, said he found tracks show- ing that the dogs had Jbeen run- ning them. Another settler said he found dogs running his sheep but was able to chase them away before any harm had been done. All dog owners have been warned to keep their dogs tied,

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