The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 18, 1940, Page 1

HITLER, MUSSOLINI HAVE SECRET THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8364. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 18, 1940. British SCAPA FLOW UNIONLEADER CHARGES ATTACKED BY ~ "ALASKA FOR ALASKANS' NAZI PLANES ISSUE WAS MANEUVERED Abandoned . SEATTLE, March 18—A. E. Hard- been maneuvered by absentee min- Three Baftleships and One |, sccretary ct the washington ing and packing interests not in an H District” Council of the -Marttime | 650t 0 promote the use of resi- Cruiser Are Reported | ; : deatial Tebor bitk to Greate antagon- ‘Frdoranon of the Pacific, charged in | jgn teward organized labor with Badly Damaged |a letter today to the Washington the ultimate aim to destroy union- . D | Cengreesional delegation, Represen- ism and restore open shop condi- | taticn Schuyler O. Bland, Chairman tions. OVER HUNDRED HIGH |of the House Merchant Marine and | The letter was sent following | Fisheries Committee, and Alaska EXPLOSIVES DROPPED | peicsate Anthony a. Dimond, tha |t 1e “Alaska For Alaskans” issue had As Raeder Pledged Courtesy telegrams protesting legislation which would bar non-resident fish- ing in AlasKa. English Nev;spapers Ques-| tion Effectiveness of Air Force (By Associated Press) | Heavy German attacks on Great | Britain’s Scapa Flow, British naval ! anchorage, were made late last Sat- | o urday according to both Berlin and : Londcn war statements. | 2 The British announce that one | battleship was damaged but the| Germans claim three battleships and cne cruiser were damaged severely. One Bember Shot Pown The fact that only one German | air bomber was shot down during | the raid cn Scapa Flow prompted | British newspapers today to ques-| tion the effectiveness of the Royal Air Forces. ore than 100 high explosive and | incerdiary bombs were showered down by the Nazi raiders on Scapa Flew and the nearby islands. British Statement The Brifish statement says only | “minor damage” was done to naval craft but the Admiralty later stated | seven na casualties occurred. Civilian Killed It is also announced that one| civilian, James Isbister, standing in | the doorway of a cottage near Stromness airfield, was killed by a | Nazi bomb explosion. Berlin Elated Berlin is elated at the air raid engaged in bysyoung Nazi fliers who said they could not definitely tell| what warships hits were scored on \ i | i | | | | i | | | —1. 1. N. Radiophoto "' sels Hood, Renown and Repulse Grand Admiraf Erich Raeder oo Y. Dhantedl Ry oy & radio Interview heard in the Unit:d States, Grand Admiral opped. —dch Raeder of the German navy declared that “the German navy | will be guided by the principle to do its very best to show every | ! possible consideration to American vessels wherever they may be.” A but they believed the British ves- K TR S Raeder is shown as he made his broadcast in Berlin UNEARTH BIG > == , MURDER RING (Chances for Reaching High IN BROOKLYN Courf 9 fo 1 Betfer than Siayings i omnmited Of GoiNg fo Whife House on Order If Is Alleaed o i R -Ten A@s Made By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 18.—De- spite all this talk about the gloomy prospects for American youth of | on presidential possibilities. Justices Douglas, Murphy and Frankfurter have been mentioned on the Democratic side; Justices | Roberts and Stone on the Repub-| |man, and Ross McFadden, |liament, today charged Great Bri-|wijjam Randolph Hearst |rying tonnage js now only ten mil-| NEW YORK, March 18.—A mur-|today, every community still has = der to crder combine which killed |a generous assortment of old- | lican. : ] by contract fo “big shot” racket- |fashioned proud papas who view ©Only once in American poli-| eers, is said by Brooklyn District | their bright boys as potential Pres- lical history has a justice left the Atterney William Odwyer to be re- sponsible for at least a dozen and possibly twenty gangland slayings. idents. | We've encountered relatively few | parents, however, who envision their high bench to become a presiden- tial candidate, Charles Evans Hughes was “drafted” by the Re- | publicans in 1916 and resigned & —— ‘Hop e for | Protest U-Boat Attack Inside 5 69 Miners Men Trapp&fifi Coal Mine Blast-Rescuers Work- ing Feverishly BULLETIN — ST. CLAIRS- VILLE, Ohio, March 18.—Hope | fer the miners lost in the Wil- | lew Grove mine is given up this afterncon, Feur bodies have been found. 3 The State is preparing to pay the death clalms amounting to | nearly $400,000. : It may take another 24 hours | | to reach those trapped. 1 RESCUE CREWS AT WORK ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio, March 18.—Hope is virtually abandored for 69 miners trapped last Satur- day in the Willow Grove mine, but rescue crews continue feverish ef- forts to penetrate the walls of slate. The bodies of John Marks, motor- | train- men, were found early today. PALM SPRINGS, Cal, March 18 More than 100 miners reached the surface safely through the air shaft | shortly after the blast which is at- | tributed to either gas or coal dust e T | FOR Alll[s 0“ -Samuel Untermyer, 82, New York corporation lawyer, and crusader (ONDUCI OF WAR | for Jewish rights, passed away here | last. Saturday. Duting his lifetime | i | he campaigned for labor and the | 4 i underdog whenever found. | Both Govefnmems Fa(lng: Winning riches and fame as one | . B | of the highest paid corporation Parliamenlary Quizz- |iawyers in the United States, Sam- . uel Untermyer turned in his late es Du"ng week years to internationalfsm in be-| | half of the oppressed of his race (By Associated Press) as Zionist and philanthropist. Both Paris and London today|Elected President in November,' heard talk of impending changes in | 1934, of “the World Non-Sectarian their governments for prosecution|Anti-Nazi Council to . Champion, of the war more vigorously. | Human Rights,” he directed a Both governments are preparediwidespread Jboycott against Hitler- for parliamentary debates during the | ite Germany. | week. He managed always to keep his' e i g personal ideas from tinting his! | professional activities and vice SIARVAI.ON IS | versa. He was a foe of “the trusts” | vet once earned one of the largest | FA('NG R“’Al“ | fees on record, $775,000, for bring- |ing about a merger of the Utah | Copper Company with the Boston IS (HARGE MADE {and the Nevada Consolidated Com- panies, a $100,000,000 deal. | Denounced Wall Street | Shipbuilding Program’ s ‘wa aemuncuor of wan Must Be Speeded as |ichem staet, ‘parenased vetore -the Tonnage Is Low | World War as an investment, yield- |ed him $6:000,000 in profits in LONDON, March 18. — Emanuel | 1916. The Rockefellers, H. Clay Pierce. Shinwell, Laporiate member of Par-|the Lewisohn banking interests and were tain may starve te death unless the numbered among his clients, He shipbuiiding program is speeded up.|was counsel for the Lockwood leg- shinwell said effective cargo car-|igaiive eommittee, created in 1918 ; to curb post-war business evils; of lon ‘D-mp:l:?n “";d;it:;"éh'::g:‘m‘ e congressional committee which tons ag Fy | investigated fraud in war supply claims, because the Queen Mary | purchases, and the “Pujo money and other large craft are tied up or trust” mitt hich in 1912 have not been taken over. | s ee " yhich i Shinwell asked the House of com-vc““" reasons for framing consid- mons to vote a censure on the Ship- | :::’bl;‘ifi;“‘m dealing with banks Ministry. | 3 . i | Labor Union Counsel Samuel Untermyer, Fighter | For Labor, Also Underdog; .- Jewish (rusad_er! ls l?gad MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ORDERED T0 TAKE REST President Cancels All Ap- poinfments - Precau- tionary Measures WASHINGTON, March 18.—8till suffering a head cold and high tem- perature, President Roosevelt has Neutrality Belt TALK - Naval Base Air Raided By Nazis TWO AXIS PARINERS ~ CONSULT ' Sudden Meeting Held Bul T ‘| ment today i A protest has been lodged against the m?edoing well inside the neutrality zone of the British freighter nited States Coast Guard cutter Unalga and three destroyers were sent to the scene (map) 150 miles northeast of Puerto Rico. Plane Salesi— To Allies Is Secrefary Edison Gives Ouf Information Today in Lefter WASHINGTON, March 18.—Bec- retary of Navy Charles Edison to- day said the sale of domestic air- craft to the Allies, instead of inter- ferring with the Navy's procurement program, has tended to reduce costs to expedite deliveries, | Secretary §dison made this state- } a letter to Chairman | Vinson of the!House Naval Commit- | tee. The letter was placed in the | Congressional, Record. VIIPURI IS OCCUPIED BY SOVIETSNOW Russians Move Info City After Last of Finnish Defenders Go MOSCOW, Maich 18. — Soviet troops are established in the shell- | battered Finnish city of Viipuri af- ter the withdrawal of the last of the defense forces toward the new Finnish frontiers. | PFormal entry of the Russian col- umns into the main part of the Ka- |relian seaport was delayed while | Soviet army engineers went ahead to search for hidden mines. been ordered to spend the next two| Gangs of Russian workmen were or three days quietly and most of [set to work immediately repairing the time in bed. the damage to the Viipuri power Practically all appointments have station and electric transmission been cancelled |lines. ‘Telephone service between | Results Are Close- ly Guarded POPE PIUS, SUMMER WELLES ALSO CONFER Undetermined Whether Two Sessions Linked on Peace Move (By Associated Press) PFuehrer Adolf Hitler and Italian Premier Benito Mussolini have held a portentious meeting in Brenner Pass amid mounting talk of a new drive to end the European war, Al- lied and German. The Rome-Berlin axis partners conferred with dramatic suddenness and secrecy. Hitler and Mussolini talked for . M two-and & haif-hours on Mussolini’s 3 rajilway car on the Italian.side of the snow-swept Brenner Pass. Peace or—What? Peace is belleyed to have been the main topic discussed but at Ber- lin, opinion of excellent informed sources is that the two leaders agree on a possible ultimate participa- tion of Italy in the present war on ‘Germany's side, if and when such a course is deemed preferable to the present status of Italy. Pope, Welles, Confers Pope Pius and American Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles also met in a conference but it is not clear whether the two confer- ences are directly related, but ob- servers linked them as culmination of diplomatic activity since Welles has ended his trip to the Capitals of European nations involved di- rectly or indirectly in the European in the European war. Resuits Guarded Conterence results of both meet- ings ‘are guarded. French Government sources said that if the meetings are the first act of an Easter Week peace of- fensive they are doomed to fallure. INFORMATION ON TALK ROME, March 18.—It is unoffici- ally announced tonight that the main features of the plan discussed by Hitler and Mussolini at their cordial conference provide for a new offer to the Western Allies for the settlement of the war through a general conference in which the belligerents and neu- trals will participate. The purpose of this conference is to readjust political and economic relations with special regard to se- curity and access to supplies of raw materials and markets. Another plan would be presented on the familiar Nazi “or else” basis, that is, accept the plan or else face a totalitarian war. Another proposal is that Italy would declare her vital interest in the Balkans and the eastern Med- iterranean region with the implied threat she would join Germany in Ten men are already under ar-|gapient sons as Justices of the Su- rest in the drive. i e & preme Court. Perhaps something| Odwyer said youthful gunmen did|gont to pe done to stimulate that | “Omination. the trigger work under agreements| attacked him | from the court on the day of his Political adversaries for ‘“quitting the ambition. with racket overlords such S 4 5 Sl | sacrosanct atmosphere of the court “Lucky” Luciano and Lefke Buch-| First of all a promising young-|(or the sordid political arena,” not- alter. |ster’s chances for reaching the high ' yithstanding the high level of his ;caun. are statistically ¢ to 1 b"’-“per.sonnl campaign. ONE ARREST ON COAST |ter than his prospects for going| Many s congressman in the thick HOLLYWOOD, Cal., March 18— |0 the White House. Second, the o jegislative turmoil and facing Irving Cohen, 37, motion pictute bit|Public esteem for a justice often 5 fight back home for reelection player who appears mostly in roles|is equal to—and sometimes greater mys¢ Jook with longing on the se- of a policeman, has been arrested | than—that accorded a Chief EXecU- | rene round of. duties of the nine here on a telegraphic warrant from | tive. Third, a Supreme Court pPost men in black. Justices don't have New York. |is just about the nicest of all the 5 write explanatory letters. to Cohen is wanted for first degree|nice jobs in Washington. disgruntled constituents. They're murder in connection with the I's a good bet that some of the noi harassed by persistent appi “murder of order combine” uncov- | current justices are weighing the cations for jobs from “deserving” esed by Brooklyn's District Attorney | Prerequisites of their posts right gupporters. Nobody blames them 10'1 ver. Cohen is wanted, it is said, | BOW. | for depressions or unbalanced bud- n questioning about the slaying or1 % = ; gets. Walter Sage in July, three years| FIVE ARE MENTIONED - FEW SOCIAL OBLIGATIONS Flier Dahl | _He acted as counsel for several |ldbor unions, often defended the | American Federation of Labor from measures are necessary, |accusations of radicalism and fre-| - - & |quently was a labor mediator injg w m f i | industrial disputes. But once he,l nln a( |n = oJu %W fit to excoriate the Jewish|¥ I | ~ OnTurk | Bakers' Union as “dictatorial.” LONDON, March 18.—Foreign Un- Dr. R ss McIntyre, White House NEW YORK, March I8.—Aviator Huge Deal Negotiated Harold (Whiten) Dahl set foot on| He figured in several famous-di- United States soil for the first time | vorce suits and as counsel for the| in three years today and declared| Wertheimers, English art dealers,| emphatically that it was a “darn|in a dispute against the Count and | fine feeling.” | Countess de Castellane, Dahl was recently released from |from the Castellane estate payment ed today the Government is consult- a military prison in Spain whers | in full of creditors’ claims amount- | ing France as to the form of aid he had been held since his capture |ing to 20,000,000 francs. [0 give Turkey if she enters the Eu- by General Franco’s forces in 1937.| In one of the largest land ueal_g‘mpean war. He was sentenced to death, but Gen. on record, he arranged in 1921 for| RIOPRRST 71 D0 Pranco relented when Dahl’s wife | the purchase”by an American synJ George Clinton took the oath of sent her picture to Franco. Dahl dicate of the proprties of the Arch- | office as first Governor of New ago, whose body was found in a lake.| Gentlemen of the court, in un-, They have pleasant work, for a Cohen said: “I have never done usually large number, are being in-' . anything but shoot craps.” cluded in this year's speculation (Continued on Page Five) said that his actress wife's letters to| duke Prederick of Austria, valued | YOTK State in 1777 while standing Franco was what really saved him lon an upturned barrel in front of from a firing squad. lthe Kingston courthouse, A 2 SN0 (Continued on Plgé - Hve) physician, said “precautionary”| obtained der Secretary R. A. Butler announc- | the war in the event of any at- | Vilpurt and Leningrad has been re-| (0 AP B4 FE S 0 B is| a the railway line e 0 e part of Europe. I" The first train from Leningrad| Russia’s interest in the Blick |arrived today, bringing Russian civ-| Sea region would also be stressed flian officials, doctors, engineers :"m :’:Phw’k a threat from that and mechanics to begin the work e lof restoring the once thriving sea-| It 15 understood in Rome that {port and industrial center Premier Mussolini will give Under - Secretary of State Sumner Welles an outline of the results of the : B! Pa: ting ‘hen the - Salmon Seiners Sreacar Boes hping s i OS¢ . Are Against War Foreign Minister Count Ciano to- VNCOUVER, B. C, March 18— morrow morning. The salmon seiners union has voted e Lake Ladoga, mentioned in Russu- at its annual meeting to support anti-war candidates in the coming Finnish war dispatches, begins to | freeze as early as October. 8By Jan- Canadian election. Speakers at the |Uary 1. even the deeper sections meeting denounced Canada’s entry &re frozen over. Temperature into the war against Germany, and | changes and winds often raise ice called for the Dominion’s with- walls as high as 80 feet on La- ! drawal, doga’s shores. 1 | |