The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 27, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALA 'S ALL THE TIME” “ALL THE NEW SKA EMPIRE VOC. LV., NO. 8372. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CLASH BETWEEN RUSSIA, FRANCE LOOMS Canadian Liberals DOMINION POLICIES ENDORSED Mackenzie Kffi;s Govern-| ment Returned by Ov- erwhelming Vote MAJORITY IS LARGER THAN GIVEN IN 1935 Conservative Party Leader Is Defeated in Own Home Town rPULL — OTTAWA, March 27.—The war policies of the Liberal Government of Canada reccived a resounding sreement at the polls yes- v, Mackenzie King’s Gov- ernment retaining an over- whelming majority. With enly eight seats in doubt up te 2 o'clock this after- nocn, the Liberals have won 174 seats in the Canadian Par- liament out of a total of 245. The Naticnals have won 38 seats, The victory for the Liberals surpasses the previous record of 169 seats in the last Parlia- ment, SMASHING VICTORY OTTAWA, March 27.—Scoring as smashing a victory, comparable to the 1935 sweep, the Liberal Gov- ernment of Prime Minister W. L. Mackenzie King has” apparently been given another five-year term as the resuit of the Dominion of Canada’s election yesterday. The voters, by returning the 1 Government of King, en- - orsed the Dominion’s war efforts. Dr. R. J. Manion, leader of the| Ce rvative opposition and Na-| 1l Government Party, met personal defeat in his own home | city, Fort William, Ontario, losing| his Parliament seat to Liberal Don MclIvor. | Shortly after midnight last night, returns indicated 154 Liberals had been elected, 29 National Govern- | ment, other parties 15 with 46 mi the doubtful list. PEOPLE ARE THANKED OTTAWA, March 27. — Shortly after midnight, following returns| from the Dominion’s election, Prime Minister Mackenzie King thanked the people of Canada for having| reclected the Liberal Government. The Prime Minister expressed hope that all the people of the| Dominion now would forget Lhcir; (Lommued on Page Five) BLACKIS AGAIN IN POLITICS | | | Yukon Member fo Offawa, House of Commons Qut of Bed and Reelected DAWSON, Y. T., March 27.—The| Yukon Territory's seat in the House | of Commons at Ottawa remains in| the Black family. George Black, one-time spPaker\ of the House, was elected to the| national Government as Yukon | member yesterday, succeeding his| wife who sat as an independent| conservative in the last House. Black served as speaker for the} conservative administration of R.| B. Bennett and was in the House | for many 1935 election, ill health forced him out of the campaign, his wife tak- ing up the burden and getting elected to serve until the House' recently dissolved. Fighting Pla r Sl Messerschmitt 109's, Germany’s best single-engined pursuit ships, are shown (top) moving along the ass devoted exclusively to the manufa fighting ships. Not the indicatior foreground. tests. these planes. Prohlbmomsls Babson; Woodring May Get Ambassado RUSSIAN SHIP DETAINED FOR EXAMINATION | Freighter Taken fo Hong- kong Has War Mater- ials fo Soviets LONDON, March 27, — Reuters news service today reported the Soviet steamer Vladimir Mayakov- sky, said to be carrying a cargo | of metals from Manzanillo, Mexico, to Viadivostok, has been detained at Hongkong pending examination of the cargo. The vessel is said to have taken aboard copper at Manzanillo and molybdenum at San Pedro. both metals being used munitions manufacture. Authorities in said here it is the second Russian freighter taken into| Hongkong and the first was the | ship Selenga, which was compelled to enter port January 13. The Mayakovsky sailed from Manzanillo, February 1, went to' San Pedro and then turned up in San Francisco 17 with all visitors |kept at a distance. - MRS. SPENCER COMING Mrs. W. W, ger aboard the Baranof to visit here for several days before going years until before the|westward enroute to Goodnews Bay | Spencer is Chief Min- The Spencers have where Mr. ing engineer. | been south several months, He will probably come north on the Sat- urday steamer from Seattle, nes for Nazis | | | | lon Germany in an effort to stop imports of Scandinavian ore to the | Reich, | British will welcome |attempt to keep the |any increase in German submarine BRITISH Alied Nation Welcomes |give an opportunity TIGHTEN BLOCKADE New Efforts Made tfo Stop Scandinavian Ore Go- ing to Germany TRADE ROUTE IS NOW PATROLED, WARSHIPS Nazi Attack-Prepares for Naval Battle (By Asscoiated Press) The British Admiralty is reported concentrating on a tighter blockade Neutral observers assert that the any German trade route cpen with war vessels for this will | for the long| desired naval battle for combatting attacks. It is known the Royal Air Force {has been assigned to an important duty in the tightening of the bloek- | ade and subsequent developments. | Yesterday British patrol and ob- servation planes soared over var-| 1 1 | Twenty-élght planes took part in| jious parts of the German front. Bottom: A completed fighter is rolled out for flight Germany has several factories working on various parts for Spencer is a passen-|” J sembly line in one of the factories | cture of bodies and wings for these n of progress on the planes in the May Draf i r Kennedy s lobl | 1‘ By JACK STINNE WASHINGTON, March 27.—Secret | | —The Wheeler-for-President Club sent around a letter the other day | with a line at the top, “personal and confidential.” The next line| was “tn the public.” Talk in dry circles here; Politics: is that the Prohibition party mzy try to draft Roger W. Babson, the| economic sage of Wellesley, Mass., as its candidate for President. From national headquarters in Chicago, the offer already has gone of Mr.| Babson, I hear. The statistician! would easily be the best-known | candidate the party ever had, mlghty even run up more than 300,000 votes |and thereby outstrip any other can- o|didate the party ever put Iorward' 'm vote-getting. His position as mod- | erator of Congregational churchcm in the United States would help. Geography: The business section and much of the principal resi- dential section of Washington is in the Capitol's backyard. Many Wu\!)-‘ ingtonians go weeks and months| without ever seeing the front of the Capitol. Diplomacy: Ambassador Joe Ken- nedy’s intimations before he went |back to England that it might be |all right with him if somebody took over his job before very long has | started another guessing bee. Most joften guessed, Secretary of War Weodring. Information Bureau: Lewis Des- chler, House parliamentarian. He |answers about 500 questions a day, | keeping the Representatives straight on what they can and can not do, so far as the rules are concerned. Census: Secretary Ickes jumped the gun on the Census Bureau. His boys in Death Valley National Park in California have been tak- ing a census for months—of desert i bighorn sheep. The boys report it's proof of the old soporific, too. Count (Continued on Pige Six) | Fade Qut |all transpacific |noon for an hour. {and Juneau also faded this forenoon | | presumably owing to the magnetic| storm wave. quotation of Alaska Juneau mine 115%, Anaconda 29, Bethlehem Steel | rojces in Manila the President said: 16 3/4, Commonwealth and South- | ern 1, Curtiss Wright 10%, Gener-| tion ang oot 1t al Motors 54%, International Harq,uk,,d we will be conquered.” | Jones averages: rails 30.79, utilities 24.28. observations over the Western front.| Today for One Hour Electrical Bombardment from Sun Spofs Is Given as Cause SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March 27. —A new magnetic storm is blamed for an electrical bombardment from sun spots which cut off virtually and transcontinen- tal radio communication this fore- A similar dis- turbance lasted for over six hours on Sunday. The fade-out started about 8:30 o'clock this forenoon and only one regular radio communication was on, and that was the commercial line from San Francisco to Manila and one Government line, Naval Radio, low frequency, across the Pacific All overland channels, RCA, Globe Wireless and Associated Press Wire- less was shut off completely for| one hour. Temperature changes were also noted by the Weather Bureau. ALASKA IS HIT | Communication between Seattle | el | TOCK QUOTATIONS stock today is 6%, American Can|iining their freedom from the| NEW YORK, March 27.—Closing | vester 56%, Kennecott 35%, New| York Cemral 16', Northern Pa- cific 8%, United States Steel 57 American Flag, if the islands could 3/4, Pound $3.61%. DOW, JONES AVERAG! | The following are today's Dow, industrials 147.47, 'Roosevelt Asks One Sum, | |in Win Gre at Viciory On Vacation Air Junket BRITISH Brian Aherne, hero of the movies, and his wife, the lovely Joan Fontaine, | board a Pan American clipper plane at Miami, Fla., to begin a vacatiom | flight around South America. | MORE SHIPPING IS SENT DOWN, ADMIRALTY SAYS LONDON, March 27.—Great Bri-| tain continued the count today of | mounting merchantmen losses and report the sinkiifz Sunday of the | tanker Daghestan, 5,700 tons, spoil-| ing the Admiralty’s announcement | yesterday in which it was declared | that the week ending last Sundx\), midnight was the first week since | |the war began in which no British or Allied merchantmen were sunk.| The steamer Castlenoor, 6,500 wn ‘\c\xcl is reported overdue and be- |lieved lost with its crew of 40. Gets Bigger-Still Fat- for. Sum Hooled. | | 4, maseshin asced 38 s | Court, rammed and sunk by an un- identified tanker in mid-Atlantic March 13. The 36 survivors were FDR UNHEEDED ‘HOUSE BALLOTS "KEEP UP CCC" WASHINGTON, March 27—The House, in refusing to curtail the | rescued from a single lifeboat. CCC program, today tentatively ap-| .. Admiralty recalled the De- proved a $280,000,000 appropriation ' ... uccess against the Graf! to assure the continuation of lsoo‘b],r, today with the charge that camps during the next fiscal year.|gijiors on the German pocket bat- A teller vote shows 134 members | tleship refused to fight after tak- to 109 members of both parties are ing refuge in Montevideo Harbor. favor of the continuance and It was said by the Admiralty that overrule of President Roosevelt’s witnes aboard British merchant- budget request for only $230,000- men had seen the crew refuse to 000 with a subsequent reduction in|take the vessel out to face British camps by 273. arships after eight appeals from Boren, Democrat irom Oklahoma, | German “”"“‘“ proposed the appropriation be m- creased = to $300,000000 but was, shouted down. all a ro British Reconnaissance PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE IS DISCUSSED Plane Sights Craft- Shells It Down President Quezon Makes Point-Wants Protec- Air Ministry announced this after- noon that a British plane attacked tion of U. S. MANILA, March 27 7-Prvsldl'n(,and sank a German patrol vessel |Manuel L. Quezon said here that during a reconnaissance flight over he believes it would be impossible the North Sea this forenoon. for the Philippines to withstand a| No attacks were made on the foreign invasion as an mdq)pndz-m. British plane from either aircraft nation. However, Quezon said that |or shore batteries, he Is In favor of the Philippines ob- | > TREADWELL HAS ' NICE YEAR FOR MINING PROFIT SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, March !27—The Treadwell-Yukon Corpor- ation today reported the year's mine operating profit as standing at $352,051, compared with $244,777 for the previous year's earnings. Shares earned approximately five cents each, i e | | ( | United States. ; Speaking at Commencement ex ‘We might as well face the s)ma- If we are at- | He said he would favor having the Philippines remain under the enjoy complete power to live their national lives as desired. Quegon said that as long as the | United States owns the Philippines, he believes no foréign power will| try to attack -the islands. Russo-French Relations Nearing Rupture;Soviet Ambassador IsRelieved PARIS, March 27.—The strained | Russo-French relations neared a rupture with semi-official dispatch- es received revealing that Soviet Ambassador to France Jakob Surits has “been freed from the functions as Soviet Ambassador.” This is the result of a French statement that he is persona non grata. The action is understood tohave followed Surits’ attempt to dispatch a telegram to Stalin congratulating him on the Finnish war victory and in which he mentioned “Eng- lish and French war mongers.” It is not believed likely France will accept any new Ambassador. Paul Naggiar, French Ambassador to Russia, has been absent from his post in Moscow since February 3 “on sick leave.” Sir William Seeds, Great Bri- tain’s Ambassador to Moscow, has been absent on leave for several months. The Tass, Russian News Agency, says Surtis has been ordered home at the request of France. There is no immediate indica- tions the two nations might enter a formal state of war. WIN AIR BATTLES Two Nazi Planes Are Shot Down-West Front Aer- ial Adtivity Increases BULLETIN—LONDON, March 26. —British press dispatches from the Western Front said five German esserschmidt fighting planes have been shot down in three air battles. A German bomber and other fight- ers were also driven to the carth and “believed destroyed.” Seven British planes fought down 31 German fighters, the press dispatches state. LONDON, March 27.—The Brit-| ish Air Ministry announces today | | two German aircraft were wATERFRoNT shot | down in flames yesterday in a | fight with British pursuiters near Metz, France. It is said one British fighter was shot down, by a parachute, but the flier escaped PEACE PACT Smith. ]Juneau aboard the Baranof, The announcement described the aerial activity in that area as; | showing “marked increase.” — e IS ACCEPTED Employers Eree fo Seven Point Proposal Made by Longshoremen BAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, March 21 The Waterfront Employers Associa‘ oney ee s;uon has agreed to accept the Long- | shoremens’ seven point proposal for a long term contract on the basis it is intended that peace will be maintained for three to five years. The points accepted include the six hour day an® union hiring hall. The other provisions, all of which are in the contract which is still operative, though expired, including wages and simllar issues, will be ar- bitrated annually. - ee— NAVY SHIP EXPLOSION INJURES 6 One Firema?nvof Destroyer King Missing-Blown Overboard NEWPORT, Rhode Island, March 27.—One is missing and six are in- jured as the result of an explosion aboard the Navy's neutrality patrol destroyer King, old type vessel which berthed here last night. The explosion occurred in the after deck house where the oxygen tanks are stored. The Navy is uncertain as to the cause of the explosion. Carl Oehlbert, fireman, is miss- ing, and is believed to have been blown overboard as the result of the explosion. MEHERINS SAIL WITH PRINCESS Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Meherin left on the Princess Norah this morn- Wyatt Kingman, of the Warner|ing for Seattle. Machine Shops, who has beensouth| Meherin expects to be in Seattle for several weeks, is returning to{about two weeks on business before returning. Budget Requ—esl May Fall| Short of Requirements —Boost Indicated WASHINGTON, March 27 —Pres- ident Roosevelt today began a study to determine exactly how much money will be needed for re- lief work during the next fiscal year. The President arranges a con- ference with Public Works Admin- istrator Carmody, WPA Director Harrington, and Budget Director Presidential Secretary Stephen Early said a message will be sent Congress later after possibly several more conferences. 5 In his original budget, Roosevelt 00,000,000 would cover NYA, and FSA, but pointed out the sum represented a large reduction below the cur- rent year and that if the curve of employment did not go up as hoped for, it might be necessary to ask for more 1ul1 TRAINING BASE FOR VANCOUVER IS NOW ORDERED VANCOUVER B. C.; March 27— The Dominion Government has or- dered establishment of a training base at Vancouver for the Royal Canadian Air Force. Fifty planes will be stationed at the base for training of pilots recruited for ser- vice on the Western front. - -ee KINGMAN ON BARANOF