The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 15, 1940, Page 1

. THE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LV., NO. 8362. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1940. THIRD SECTION PAGES 1 T0 8 FINNS RETREATING FROM SOVIET Presidential Hopefuls at Press Party GRUENING BOOSTING FORNORTH " Dimond Da\“ands Alas- kans Be Employed on Northern Fish Jobs GOVERHOR FIGHTING ALSO ON NAVY WORK Outsiders Working in Al- aska Declared Gross Discrimination WASHINGTON, March 15.—Gov- ernor of Alaska Ernest Gruening, is urging the House Merchant Ma- rine and FPisheries Committee to foster legislation which will restrict and eventually ferbid employment of any persons except native Alask by the Alaska fishing industry Gov. Gruening said the practice of bringing outsiders up to fish in Al v waters is discrimination against the people of the Territory and that the problem does not apply solely to fishing RUFFLES AND RHUMEBA_Crowds at Havana's dance Laieasild fetes call Hilda Alvarez “rhumba queen"—with good reasem. / ALASKAR.R The Alaska Governor is also con- | ducting negotiations with the Navy Department to end discrimination against Alaskans in construction of Navy bases at Kodiak and Sitka. “Step-Children” All peoples in the Territories are step-children” of the flag and should be compensated for their lack of political representation in Congress by seeing that discrimina- tion carried into economic . Gov. Gruening said in Congress now, drawn ska Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond, will apply this rule to Bristol Bay sections this year, and all in- dustries in Alaska by 1836, author- is not izing the Secretary of the Interior to order that Alaskans be given priority in employment. Don Carlos Brownell, Mayor of Seward.and Delegate Dimond, testi- fied that legislation in this matter is necessary if Alaskans are to make a living Denounced by Jurich Joe Jurich, representing CIO's In- ternational Fishermen and Allied Workers, from Seattle, denounced the bills as designed to “drive non- residents out of the industry and take away their jobs.” Jurich said the union is accept- ing new members only from Alaska and so far as the union is concerned, the problem is taking care of it- self. Brownell For Alaskans Brownell testified that 80 percent the fishermen who work in Al- 2 never see a town in the Terri- tory, coming there only to work for the fisheries and returning to the ates with their money earned. The Seward Mayor urged legis- lation be enacted giving Alaskans at fishing employment, while Delegate Dimond declared he would “never be satisfied with a fifty-fifty divis- ion of labor” and that he wouldn't be satisfied *until all fishermen are Alaskar Fire Rages In Morning; Six Burned Eighty-six mApartment House Is Swept by Flames Today CHARLOTTE, N. C., March 15 six persons were killed and eight injured, several being in a critical condition, by a 2 o'clock fire this morning which spread rapidly through an 86-unit apartment house. The dead are Mrs. Hazelle Mar- tin. ft shop manager; Miss Ro- wena Bickinson, 26; Mrs. H. Rus- sell, 27; Miss Lucy Walton, 43, a nu Tommy Charity, 15; Ed- ward Martin, 21, a student. Two of the victims were fatally injured jumping to the concrete alleyways. of asl se: least fifty percent of the total| 1 # PAYS$10200 Motion for New Trial Curlly? | Denied Government | i by Fed. Judge SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 15—Federal Judge St. Sure has denied, without comment, the Gov- |ermiaent’s motion |in the accidental |sulting in a $10,200 judgment to Minnie C. DeBack, of for a new trial injury case, re- Mrs. san| Francisco. Her hip was injured in| a fall from the government-owned Alaska Railroad while enroute from | | Fairbanks to Seward in 1931. | | - e, —— | ALLIED ROLE ISTAKENUP, - SECRET MEET | \French Senz@)ebafing on| Inaction of Forces— Criticisms PARIS, March 15—The French Senate for the second day secretly debated the strategy of the Allies after criticism of Allied inaction in !the present war with Germany and also demands for an explanation of the Allied role in the Northern war | which ended in “surrender” of Fin- land to Soviet Russia. French are silently criticising the Allies on conduct of the war, the same as the Britishers are doing now. CONFIDENCE VOTED PARIS, March 15—The French Senate, late this afternoon, voted confidence in Premier Daladier's | conduct of the war. The vote was 1240 to 0. Many of the 310 rhem- bers of the Senate abstained from voting. The secret vote followed two days of sessions. D ATTORNEYS ARRIVE ON PRINCESS BOAT Three attorneys of Electrical Re- search Products arrived in Juneau again today to attend another court hearing of a several-times~heard |case involving theatre equipment. The three, who were also in Ju- neau at the last court term are NAZ! VESSEL 'LOSES CASE; IS SCUTTLED .50 BYHER CREW Merchant Ship Lacoruna, | 1,400-tons, Sent Down to Prevent Capture LONDON, March 15. — It announced that the crew of the 7,400-ton German merchant ship| Lacoru set the vessel afire in| scuttling action when a Bx'ltl.s'n} warship approached her Wednes- | day in northern waters The British warship picked up| the crew of 60 members, then fin-| ished the Lacoruna with gunfire. The Lacoruna left Rio de Janei- ro, Brazil, on February 3, after successfully running the blockade | off the Brazilian coast, | 22 SHIPS CUTTLED LONDON, March 15.—Scuttling of the Lacoruna by fire has brought the total known loss of German ves- sels to 22 with a total of 149,000 tons. The Germans have scuttled their | ships to prevent their falling into enemy” hands. Most f the ships are reported to have had rich car- goes aboar: SRS SV hree Lose Lives When Hotel Burns Two Men and One Woman| Perish in Early Morning " | Blaze - 12 Injured TORONTO, March 15—Two melL | and a woman were burned todeat) | early this morning when fire de-| stroyed the downtown Avonmore Hotel. . Twelve persons are known to have been injured. The known dead are James Hurfl and Mrs. Nellie Gibson. The body of the other victim has not been idenified as the man is believed to have registered shortly after midnight. DR. CONGDON ON WAY HOME AFTER HEALTH MISSION Dr. Palmer Congdon, Tuberculosis Clinician of the Territorial Depart- ment of Health, will return to Ju- neau on the next steamer from the |H. H. Breland and J. S. Ward of New York, and B. Laurence of Pas-| adena, Westward. He has made an exten- | Vancouver, B. C. yesterday accord- |ing to advices received here today. GEQ. FOLTA APPOINTED SOLICITOR Assistant U. S. Attorney | Gets Important Post, Interior Dept. George W. Folta, Ass S. Attorney, yesterda tant U. was ap- Solicitor for pointed Assistant the Department of the Interior, according to infcrmation re- ecived from Washington. Felta will serve as special legal counsel for the Depart- ment and all of its agencies in Alaska. The po: n, a new one, was created by Secretary Har- cld L. Xcfes. It is understood that Folta will leave scon for Washing- ton to take over his duties. His cifice will be in Juneau and sbably somewhere in the te now accupied by the Gov- erncr and Secretary of Alaska. Frasg o S Judhmenl in Alaska Mine Walter Sakow, Prospector, Awarded Forty-five Thousand Dollars SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,March 15— The $45,000 judgment won by Walter Sakow, Alaska prospector, ‘claimed on account of gold taken from his Good Hope placer claim on Otter Creek, has been upheld by the Unit- ed States Circuit Court of Appeals. Sakow won his judgment in 1938, four years after he complained the J. E. Riley Investment Company of Alaska and its officials were oper- ating a dredge on his claim s The judgment stands against the| Vice | company, Harry Sheppard President, and Harry Donnelly, banker of Flat, at the time super intendent of the company .- — Mrs. Picholfa Passes Away SKAGWAY, Alaska, March 15.— Mrs. John Pichotta passed away in Her husband, owner of the Skagway Light and Power Company, and mother, Mrs. May McCann, will leave on the south to attend the funeral ser- vices. - e —— SOVIET COUNCI WILL DETERMINE PLANS, NEW LAND | MOSCOW, March 15.—~What Rus- sia will do wtih tthe new territory ceded by Finland, is expected to be decided by the Supreme Soviet Council called to meet March 29. Some sources intimate strongly that an autonomous republic will be | created. STOoCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, March 15.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6, American Can 114%, Anaconda 27 7/8, Bethlehem Steel 73%, Commonwealth and Southern 1'%, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 53'%, Inter- national Harvester 56%, Ken- necott 34 3/4, New York Central 15%, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 55'%, Pound $3.69':. DOW JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, sive trip throughout the Interior conducting tuberculosis eclinics, Jones averages: industrials 146.53, rails 30,01, utilities 24.10. pheld the Princess Louise for| | | | | | | Possibilities, near possibilities, and vague ton where the newsmen carelessly poked fu V. McNutt, Sen. Arthur Vandenberg, Jesse Jackson, Rep. Bruce Barton, Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, Norman 'fiepulilicans»(-anbillkll Over Democrats, One Way; -~ Mlaska Fish Case Is Now Up STON GROVER ‘. By PR 1H- L FAU[K“ER WASHINGTON, March Sie | | Republican state politicians had |any choice they would have the - MAKES ADDRESS | i woods full of GOP presidential can- - ONWAR, PEACE “.. | " Reports coming here after each | | of the western tours of the vari- | ous Republican candidates indicate ISays Ultimate Position U. | fate omaniations Tl a | surge 0 new ife after being| [ S. May Be of Neces- | touchcd by the magic wand of an . . aspiring visitor sity Not Choice Tt 15 andl it e | cans have over the Democrats and A large numper of Juneau women they are playing it to the full ttended the Norwomen dinner last|Democratic candidates can't speak night at the Northern Light Pres-|out too solidly—except Vice Presi- | byterian Church and heard H. L.|dent Garner. He has boldly de- | Faulkner speak most interestingly |Clared for the presidency, regard- |on the topic, “What Shall,Be Am-|less of whether FDR blows hot or erica’s Attitude Toward the War|cold on a third term. And Garner, in Europe and Why?” las a candidate, isn't giving the The point made by the speaker|state organizations the aid the was that the position of the Unit-| Republic: ndidates give by trave ed States may not ultimately beleling around. Garer sticks close one of choice but one of necessity; | to Washington and (tuse who know that the present position of neu-|his disposition doubt if ever he trality under the circumstances is|Will campaign actively before the but that the ar-|convention | the correct one, guments generally \ | port of it are superficial and main- | DEMOCRA “IFFY” | |1y based upon false statements, sen-| Candidate Dewey of New York | timental slogans and catch p! hit about a dozen states. Candidate |and that we would do well to con-| Bridges of New Hampshire reached | sider the facts. |nine states, mostly western, in a |' He reviewed the arguments sojrccent fling. Senator Taft of Ohio generally made today that the|carried the party torch into sev- United States went into the Wun(v‘vm states. | War either simply to help Eng-| Senator Vandenberg of Michignni land and France or at the behest Dasnt hit so many high spots. As| |of munition makers, to save the|a result, while he has a lot of| nvestments of J. P. Morgan, or|{riends—as reported by camp fol- | under the false leadership of Wood-|lowers of the other candidates—| | row Wilson to support an a|).k|v|»m:|’;Lh(,'l'l‘ is a mild mutter of resent-! | principle and to make the world ment that he hasn't taken actively made in sup-| |safe for democraey. That since we|to the field. made. a considerable sacrifice in| True encugh, Democratic candi-| |men and money and got nothing!dates have toured the country, | from the World War, therefore, we | but not one of them can clear up | should never again be involved in|that awful doubt which rides on a war. | their coat-tails and cramps their | World War Self Defense vigor. They can’t say positively The speaker reviewed briefly the, that they will be candidates. They | history of the World War, the events | are, as the President would de- | which led up to a declaration of |scribe it, “iffy” candidates. They |war by the United States, and will run IF the President keeps | concluded that in the light of thel|out of the show. Such a candi- |record it must be conceded that|date is an awfully juiceless thing | the country went into the war in| Wwith which to pep up a state Dem- | self-defense and for mno other ccratic organization, And don’t he| | reason. | deceived, the local party chieftains Suggests Deeper Thinking jare kicking about it, no end. | | After reviewing at some length! the events of the World War and| ONE TREATY JAPS RESPECT comparing the treaty of peace at| Incidentally, while the Japanese| its conclusion with other treaties,' may have mussed up certain treaties | it was suggested that in consider-| with respect to handling China, ing what may ultimately be our|they have stood solidly by an in-! fate, we should do a little deeper|formal agreement to keep their thinking in the light of the teach- ships out of American salmon fish-' ings of history, both ancient and ing waters modern. In 1936 and 1937 there was a A picture was presented by the|frightful disturbance in West Coast speaker of the terrible consequenc- | fisheries because a group of Jap- (Continued on Pige Six) | (Continued on page Six) possibilities are pictured at annual Press Club party in Washing- n at high government officials. Seated, left to right, are Paul Jones and Thomas E. Dewey. Standing, left to right, are Robert Thomas and Sen. Bennett Champ Clark. ! remarked that y ARMED MEN GOING BACK, LONG TRAIL Forces SIowa- Moving from Ceded Territory to New Confines THOUSANDS AHEAD OF SOLDIER FORCE ' Great Job Confronts De- | feated Nation in Find- | ing New Homes BULLETIN, LONDON, March 15—A Reuters dispatch from Helsinki said the Finnish Gov- ernment’s radio station an- ncunced tonight ratification by the Finnish Diet of the Russo- Finnish peace treaty. HELSINKI, March 15.—The Fins nish forces today began the 1e- | treat over the battle-churned snow ~ |from territory ceded to Russia to their new confines, back on the | route over which they defended their homeland | ICKES, HOFFMAN HAVE DISPUIE | Ahead of the retreaiing armed | forces are 100,000 civilians, sceking new homes in tieir restricted land. OVER D‘APERS The ceder territory must be evacuated 1 Avril 10. il Lights Gleam at Night Inferior- Secrefary COMES .o aome ey fre siams or Hioacs ed windows and the sight of street s gave to Ilsinki last night man Talks cheerfuli government lead- ers in th capital faced st grim ar task. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 15, The t e reiocation of _Secretary of the Interior Harold |ore 'bi ), hahabitants | ¢6 Ickes said that he is glad to learn | the Karelian Lsthmus, Vilpuri and that Michigan's Republican Con-|the Hango Peniusula. gressman Clare E. Hoffman consid- | Difticult Job Ahead ers himself an authority on diapers,| The job of finding new homes Ickes is in San Francisco for a for the former inhabitants of the conference with Democratic leaders. | territory ceded to Russia is com- The diaper discussion started sev- Plicated by ihe fuct that thou- eral weeks ago when the Secretary|sands of them were scatiered in uthful Tom Dewey refugee camps O €Ve€l Were across of New York had tossed his diaper the border in temperary homes in into the ring of Presidential candi- Norway and Sweden. Most of these dates, | refugees left their homes in the war Ickes added that a diaper should |Zones with only a few personal be pinned up in front and back, |belongings. Household goods and In Washnigton, Hoffman said that |other property were left behind in Tckes, the father of a six months |their flight from the evacuated old son, should know better. Said |&reas. the Michigan Congressman, “Every- | one knows a diaper needs just one | pin, in front Vanguard Arrives The vanguard of Finnish troops withdrawing from the initial bat- !tle lines on the Karelian Isthmus Said Ickes in San Francisco, “I'm : b A glad that Hoffman is an authority Pesan arriving in Helsinki tonight. on diapers. Wi | been trying for These first arrivals were from the a long time to find some subject on western end of the battle line in which he is well informed.” | the vicinity of Viipuri. - - While the Finnish troops began moving back toward the new fron- | tiers the Pinnish Parliament began | deliberations for the ratification of |the agreement fixing the new Soviet-Finnish borders. Peace Pact Submitted President Kallio submitted the peace pact to the legislative body today. Ratification was regarded as |little more than a formality as the ‘provisnons of the treaty were al- {ready being put into operation. Finnish authorities estimated to- i7 i |day that the 104-day war had cost BUCHAREST, March 15—Offic- | the Pinnish Government $8,100,000. jal circles said today that KINg| qnis estimate includes the cost of Carol is standing firm in refusing | yopiization and preparations im- to accept a new German Offer| negiately before the outbreak of guaranteeing his kingdom’s fron-| pocenities put, it did not cover the tiers because it is coupled With a|peavy property losses suffered by demand a member of the pro-Nazi| o piich people through the de- Iron Guard be named to the Cab- inet. (Continued on Page Six) High sourees said the King an(l‘ S YRR e\ Bl 8 Y his Cabinet have given serious con- | FI"“S DlED FOR deration to a German promise for a 25-year period non-aggre [ CIVILIZATION 1S TANNER'S VERSION Foreign Minister Makes Broadcast Directed to United States HELSINKI, March 15 —Pinnish Foreign Minister Tanner said in a broadeast to the United States today t more thun 30,000 Finnis who were well in the war, died or were wounded in the “in defense of western civilizaticu and (heir sac- |rifice was not for Finland alone.” sion pact from Germfiny and Rus-| sia and a ten year frontier guaran- | tee from Hungary. - SISTER MAGDALENE RETURNS ON LOUISE Sister Mary Magdalene returned to Juneau today on the Princess Louise to take up her duties agair at St. Ann's Hospital | Sister Magdalene enjoyed a va cation of over two months in the States and Canada during which time she visited her family in Ho oke, Mass. She also made a trip to the Mother House of the Sisters of St. Ann at Lachine, Quebec,