The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 16, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8363. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MARCH 16, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ANOTHER CONFLICT THREATENS EUROPE FINLAND IS T0 FORTIFY HER NEWBORDERS Hard Task of Reconstruc- tion Is fo Be Started Immediately TROOPS RETREATING FROM BORDER AREAS| Diet Offi(ialE Approves of | Forced Peace with l Soviet Russia | SINKI, March 16.—With ap-| pro by the Diet of the forced! peace with Russia, by a vote of 145 the little Republic faced the hard task of reconstruction as 1t of the Finnish troops to- ward the new frontiers progressed. It is officially announced that for- tifications along the border zone will immediately be started. | MORE AID FROM U. WASHINGTON, March 16.—Such powerful figures in the United States Senate as Norris of Nebras- ka, Pittman of Nevada and LaFol- lette of Wisconsin, joined today in suggesting that Finland be aided in rehabilitating their war-torn count Senator Norris funding the money Finland has remitted on its war debt. Senator LaFollette recommended that the| money be lent to the Finns at low interest, Senator Pittman intimat- ed that he was in favor of a $100.- 000,000 grant, to be administered suggested re- by the Red Cruss. Finland already has used most of a $10,000,000 credit set up through the Export Import Bankl for purchases in the United States. | Loan Administrator Jessie Jones has announced that the bank's of- | ficials will add $20,000,000 to this credit. It was considered possible | that special legislation will be of- fered to giving the Finns mdre lee- way in the use they can make of the $20,000,000, now that they face tremendous relief and rehabilita- tion problems. g IR MOTHER BURNS WITH 7 OF HER TEN CHILOREN Terrific Blaze Razes Farm- . house-Father and 3 Sons Escape HERBER SPRINGS, Ark. March 16.—A mother and seven of her ten children were burned to death last | night when their farm home was troyed by fire. Otis Allen, father of the family, and his brother-in-law, J. R. Treas, | 48, were burned seriously in their | efforts to control the flames. | Three older sons of the Allens escaped injury. i Trapped and lost in the fire were Mrs. Sallie Allen, 42, the mother, and seven of her children, including | a son, Ernest, who awoke to find the | house in flames and jumped through | the window to safety but returned | to warn the others of the flames. | The fire is believed to have started | with an explosion of an oil lamp left | burning. | TrainWreck Investigated MEDICINE HAT Alta, March 16.—Dominion authorities are in-| vestigating the wreck of a Cana- dian Pacific passenger train, 19 miles west of here. The accident, the passenger crashing into a pusher engine, in- jured six members of the crew, derailed a length of coaches and| caused the burning of an express car with the loss of mail, | striking (Brifish Planes Make Night! damaged, Welles See “ w Having previously visited in Rome and Berlin, United States Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles Lebrun of France as he arrived in for President Roosevelt. (Picture radioed to New York) LeBrun in Paris p[A([ BAS'S‘ “Kidnap Plot” Fails to Daunt Judy Garland | " BYROOSEVELT IS BROADCAST | President Joins Inferna-| | | B g _ i tional Discussion This | | T¥%ee 3 § ' 2 : | Afternoon ' ' WASHINGTON, March 16.—Pres- . ¥ " i | ident Roosevelt, from the White| ¢} # 3 3 3 | House, in an international broad- | | cast this afternoon, declared that | the world seeks a “moral basis for peace.” The President further said no | peace can last “if there is oppres- ‘sim\. or starvation, or cruelty or {if human life is dominated by armed camps.” | The President joined Queen Wil- | helmina of Holland in a radio pro- gram in connection with the Christ- ian ' foreign servide convening in New York City | | The President asserted that real | peace cannot be achieved if there is failure to recognize the brother- hood of mankind. PRESIDENT (left), is shown with President Paris to obtain the case of France Although Robert Wilson (left), 19, of Buffalo, N. Y., was being held in Los Angeles on a charge of suspicion of kidnaping, police said they doubted the authenticity of his story that Judy Garland, 17-year-old movie star, would be kidnaped and held “in the mountains” for $50,000. Miss Garland (right), is shown serving NEW DEAL INSIDERS | PICKTAFTASMAN DEMOS MUST DEFEAT Nezi Raiders Geffing Busy In North Sea One British Patrol Boat s Reported Sunk and | Another Damaged | | (By Associated Press) | The German High Command re- ports Nazi raiders in the North Sea have sunk one British patrol vessel and damaged another. It is also reported that the 1,500- ton British steamer Melrose has been | |added to the list of vietims of the sea warfare, sinking in the North Sea after an explosion, presumably a mine. Eighteen of her| crew are missing The British do not confirm the | German claims although later it was | announced by the Admiralty that the Naval trawler Peridot had been | sunk after striking a mine but the | crew was rescued -, refreshments to Detect J. A. Everson (left), and L. Ennen, who were posted as guards at her home. BAD (OLD Germany Had SELMALAGERLOF EXPLOSION Force Ready aowansisie TRAPS 50; I:or Finland Swedish Nl;;“SL Winner‘ (0AI. MINE | Nobel Prize, Worried, | Only Iakes?’a—rt in Two En- gagements Today, Aft- | ernoon, Evening By PRESTON GROVER | WASHINGTON, March 16.—Pres- | |ident Roosevelt has a slight tem- WASHINGTON, March 16. core group of New Dealers books Senator Taft as the man they will have to beat in November. They haven't altogether kl.sal‘d; Senator Vandenberg out of the pic-| ture. As to the Michigan Senator,| they doubt he has the steady pul | in the stretches they credit to Taft. | His radio voice has improved but, |as they view it, not to the level of | cast by Queen Wilhelmina of Hol- the Taft, who won a seMes of radio debates from Representative T. V. Smith, sparkling liberal. | s to Tom Dewey of New York.{ they say that no glamour boy frow | New York can match the glamour | of Reosevelt and that anything| less would appear third grade to| an electorate grown used to such| fancy glamour as the Roosevelt brand QUIETER COU RY? | As a matter of fact, some of the | New Dealers have begun to suspect | that the country may be wishing for a bit of calm political weather. | That is how come they write Taft into the picture, One of them ana- | lyzed him as “conservative, stum-| bling, hard working, friendly and | perhaps a little bit dumb.” | For a country striving for a quieter way of life than it has had in the past seven years, that com- | bination, he said, might just fill| Scoufers Fly Over Naziland Reconnaissance- Reach Poland LONDON, March 16. British | suouting flights over German terri- tory were resumed last night and these reconnaissance air voyages ex- tended into German-occupied Po- land for the second time since the outbreak of the war. No resistance from land forces or anti-aircraft guns is reported. German air activity at the same | time resulted today in a clash off | the British coast and a German | homber is reported to have been | the bill. | Incidentally, they haven't decid- | ed who from their own ranks will be the best man to stop Taft—ex- cept Roosevelt himself. They don't concede- that Roosevelt is the only | one who can stop him, or Vanden- berg or Dewey. or Representative Martin, or Frank Gannett, or |anyone else for that matter. They to deliver an urgent message. The leased on his own personal recog are just speculating. SHIP MYSTERY We cannot pass without telling you about Lieutenant Commander | N. W. Sharpe, the only survivor of | the ill-fated cargo boat Cyclops which disappeared mysteriously dur- ing the World War with all on board. | Commander Sharpe, now in the| press division at the Navy De- {He was on recruiting duty in St.| Louis during the war when along| came an order calling for a cer- tain number of men to go to Nor- folk, Va., for sea duty. The commander lined them up one morning, marched down the|falling Italian army plane killed| wind in this country was at the ranks counting off the men in (Continued on Fage Five) | perature today because of a cold |but his condition is said to be better than yesterday. 'If Allies Had Moved fo Aid | Nation, Nazis Would Fate of Homeland |Rescue Workers Overcome RUMANIAIS NOW CENTER OF TROUBLE Allied, Reich Diplomats Are Jockeying for Developments RUSSIA, HUNGARY ALSO GAZING TOWARD NATION German Plans Are Flatly Rejected as Most "Intolerable’ LONDON, March 16.—With the establishment of a forced peace on Finland on the northern war front, the spotlight today swings across restless Europe to the intense dip- lomatic maneuvering centering on Rumania whose grain and oils bulk importantly in the European war. Latest development on this fronf is the ceaseless jockeying for po- sition by Allied and Reich diplo- mats. It is reported Rumania has turned a cold shoulder on a German plan under which the Hungarian and So- viet Russian borders would be guar- anteed through concessions to Ger- many. Russian Aims Russia's eyes are on Rumania be- cause the latter gained Bessarabia from Imperial Russia after the World War. Hungary seeks Transylvania which once was part of the Austria-Hun- gary empire. Germany needs Rumanian pro- ducts to ease the effects of the Allied blockade. Under the German plan, it is reperted, Germany would engineer a 25 year Russian-Rumanian non- aggression pact and a 10 year Hun- garian pledge not to press her ter- by B|G(k Damp-GaS “nwrhl revision. In return for these Pending final word from Dr.Ross concessions Mclntire, White House physician,| [ Private Secretary Stephen Early 1 i saxd»he thought this morning the STOCKHOLM, Marchd 16. — A | President would carry out only tWo| memper of the Swedish Riksdag)| Cn[‘;agcmenbls during the day, par- Foreign Committee said the Ger- ticipation in the radio peacebroad-| ., hag troops in Danzig and| § Gdynia pre ove on Fin-| land during the afternoon and nt~{,a,,{1 if l:,h(::m:](ljm.:o 5,::]:]t ttn%op:‘“:of tendance as honor guest tonight|ip. aiq of Finland, | at the White House Correspon-| = GOVERNOR WELLES IN ROME FOR ARRESTED IND VISIT : |Rivers Taken in Custody| Confers with lfalian Lead-| for Contempt of Fed- er Court Cifation -+ |ture, is dead at her northern Swed- | |ish lcdge. Friends said worry over| . | ers Again - Meels ‘ PODe Pius | MACON, Ga, March 16—Gov.|the future of Scandinavia in war- E. D. Rivers has been arrested by ring Europe abetted her illness. ROME, March 16.—The Europ-|the United States Marshal after| Dr. Lagerlof, world renowned au- ean visit of American Under Secre-{lkw Chief Executive was convicted ' thor of “Gosta Berlings Saga,” was tary Sumner Welles on his fact find- | of contempt of Federal Court which|one of Sweden’s outstanding wo- ing mission is nearing the end with |ordered him to reinstate and cease |men and the most widely read wo- his second visit here including a|locking out Highway Chairman W. man in the history of the king- meeting with Pope Pius. L. Miller. dom. Welles visited and conferred agam‘ Miller had been prevented from She was born November 20, 1858, with Ttalian leaders, especially Count | holding office for weeks by Na-|at Marbacka in the province of Ciano. tional Guardsnien on the Gover-|Varmland, the fourth child of Lieu- The German Ambassador to Rome | nor's order, | tenant and Mrs, Erik Gustaf Lager-| made a surprise visit today to the| The Governor, who was arrested |lof Italian Foreign Office presumably late yesterday afternoon, was re Rumania would ha v e to demobolize most of her 1,400,000 soldiers so they could return to the fieids and factories and accelerate production, granting a virtual German monopoly over Rumania's exports of oll, cer- eals and other supplies. Also there would have to be approval of a pro-Nazi Iron Guard member to the Rumanian cabinet to “safeguard German interests.” Rumanians said such a plan would be “intolerable.” i = |ALASKA MINER ST. CLAIRESVILLE, Ohio, March | Jcoal mine near here following a terrific und und blast, while 200 | Brady of County Caven and Jack Wade Creek fo Masks Ngw Used BULLETIN — ST. CLAIRS- VILLE, March 16—The men have been killed trying to rescue 30 er 40 others trapped in' the Willew Grove mine. Two hun- dred others, reported imprison- ed, are said to have reached safety. John Richards, mine superin- tendent, and Howard Sanders, tipple bess, were overcome by black damp, d from the mine unconscicus, and died la- ter. SELMA LAGERLOF STOCKHOLM, March 16.—Selma ! Lagerlof, 81, novelist and win- |ner of the Nobel prize in litera- Willow Grove Mine of the Hanna Coal Company, four miles south of here, There was no immediate indica- tion whether or not anyone was| by black damp and had to leave| . veleq 3,000 miles to this city be- i the mine. Other rescue crews’donned | .o,.ce he was “lonesome for a crowd gas masks and entered the pits Lo.of Irishmen,” will march tomorrow aodiie \digging (at the head of 99,999 other Sons The blasts were of undetermined | or pyin who are expected to parti- mine. One of the trapped miners| mne O'Hara Association will pass phoned an alarm on the mine tele- |y.¢ore postmaster General Farley phone circuit, but the connecuun{and other dignitaries in the review- broke then, and no further word| g stang Beoks are Companions {108 Deen heard | Leading the parade will be sour- Her impulse to write, nourished others in the mine are reported | safe | The explosion occurred in the| killed or injured pp Six rv;wum. n-.‘nu l'v?.x‘e:?ch' the | NEWARK, N. J., March 16. — A entembed fifty men, were Overcome | p auny Alaskan sourdough who origin and occurred in the main| 1 cipate in Newark's biggest St. Pat- west entry, three miles fouth of meinff.s Day parade. s B b i |dough Peter A. Brady, a County (Jelxyery of Lh.e message took place| nizance and spent the night con-[in a sickly childhood when she| Caven man who struck out to the during Welles' visit with Ciano. | ferring with the Attorney General| dought companionship in books,, |gold fields 32 years ago. What's ST | regarding his case. | found its first expression in verse,! ue ere | more, he’ll wear a silk topper de- plA“E (R H < | ———— . | some of which was published. Later, | |spite a lusty vow he would never y | M iwh)]e attending school in Stock-| * |don “one of them high silk monkey i holm, she conceived the idea of' | hats.” . ‘ pERSO"S DEAD, I ‘x'ccordmg in fiction the rich legen-' y e ras‘ Brady returned to Newark at the ‘dry of the Varmland province, { |insistence of his old acquaintance, —_— It was not until 1890* huwevcr.i | Frank O'Hara, who has been cor- 1 | as a school teacher in the province,| Fourteen passengers are due in | responding with the gold mining really began work Nazi U-Boals “Gosta Berlings Saga,” novel of aboard two Pacific Alaska Airways |1908. pariment. “expians s wey Sible for Three Acci- manor house, that Electras | Brady wrote O'Hara from his camp PARIS, March 16—The French|proved her outstanding achieve- Aboard a plane piloted by Al Mon- |back on Jack Wade Creek, 200 miles Navy Ministry announces that tWo|ment. Her previous attempts to sen and Walt Hall are Robert Ames, |north of Fairbanks, saying, “I'm German submarines have been sunk | write the novel had proved un- Ralph Saathoff, H. W. Wheelock, |sad for lack of my own people. St. a provincial dent Victims MODENA, Italy, March 16.—Fly- | ‘lng pieces of wreckage hurled| | through the air by the impact of a | by French navy ships. t e b gust of The highest recorded With ! sidered the proper inspiration. Reveals Imagination the first five chapters of H. Orme. ! With Pilots Bill Knox and Gene | Meyring are Sybil Godfrey, Mrs, successful, lacking what she con- Harry Emmory, Max Witton and T.|Patrick’s night wijj dndeed be a sad time for me.” O'Hara lost no time in asking Brady to march here as the Marshal |three persons last night. The three|rate Of 231 miles an hour, atop| the book, in which she came to Alfred Fosmark, E. Tarmanzer, Chet [Of the OHara Association unit. —— 'army fliers' of the plane's crew| Mount were also killed, { Washington, N. H., on April 12, 1934, l(;(-,munued on Page FY ve) Roos, Boris Magids, Al Lomen, H . Greenberg and Murray Stuart, Sure and Brady lost no time in "getting here,