The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 29, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \OL LV., NO. 8374 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 29, 1940. MLMRF R AS SOCIAT[.D PR!:SS PRICE TEN CENTS AIR SERVICE FROM SOUTH STARTS S00N RED LEADER WILL RUSSIANS BATTLE 4 GETS CITED ON (ONTEMPT] Will Not Tell Who Used FDR’s Name on Com- | munist Pariy Card w. “HIN(‘TON 'V[mch 29—111e House today directed James Dol- sen, Pittsburgh Communist leader, be cited for contempt of the House | for refusal to answer questions of | the Dies Committee. One of the questions Dolsen re- | fused to answer at Monday's ses-| ion was one regarding the identi-| fication of the person responsible for issuance of a Communist party card bearing the name of Franklin D. Roosevelt, and found in his pos- ssion DIES ORDERS SUBPOENAON RED OFFI(IAL‘ Secrefary of Maryland Par-| l | ty Sends Wife to Meet- ing-He Won't Go WASHINGTON, March 29.—Mar- | tin Dies, Chairman of the Com- ‘ mittee Investigating UnAmerican| Activities, today ordered a subpoe- na issued for Dr. Albert Blumberg Baltimore, Secretary of the mmunist Party in Maryland. He failed to appear to testify igh his pretty young wife ed and he remained at home, arding a request she deliver- fr the committee for his attendance, | NAZI SUB GOES AGROUND, COAST WATERS, NORWAY Crew Disarmed, Inferned, | Over Profest of Ger- man Authorities . | | OSLO, March 29.—A German| submarine went aground off the| uthern Norway coast and was nlloax‘d by a German trawler. The sub was escorted to Mandals Fjord, where its crew was disarmed and interned. The Foreign Ministry announced that the submarine, of the coastal type U-21 with 23 men, went aground near Ryvingo Lighthouse. The Foreign Ministry said that the German legation had asked that the submarine be freed, but an investigation disclosed that it had grounded owing to a mistake in navigation, therefore, according to international law, the Norwegian Government disarmed the crew and interned the men. .——— THREE NATION SIGN AGREEMENT IN BALKAN CASE ANKARA, Turkey, March 29— Turkish miltiary sources announce today that full British, French and Turkish agreement has been reach- ed for cooperation of the three nations if war breaks out in the Balkans or Near Eut. FIRE ABOARD U, S. SHIP, STORMY SEA SAN FRANCISCO, March 29.— The American freighter Antinous is wallowing in heavy seas some 1500 miles off the Japanese coast, but a fire which broke out, causing an SOS call, is under control. Several ships are rushing to the aid of the vessel, JAPANESE, NOW THAT THE FINNISH WAR 1S ENDED? Russian and Japanese troops active here. 7 (anneries Be Operated Says Shiels PAF President Makes An- nouncement on Plans for This Year BELLINGHAM, Wash., March 29. —President Archie Shiels an- nounced today that the Pacific Am- erican Fisheries will operate seven and possibly eight canneries in Alaska this season. Prelimina crews for the King Japanese threaten | China’s supply | line from Russia. Recent unconfirmed reports said that fighting had broken out between in the region indicated by the top arrow. In the accompanying article an Associated Press correspondent out- lines new developments that may lead to serious dighting between Russian and Japanese {roo Japan and the Soviet. By RUSSELL BRINES AP Feature Service TOKYO, March 29 —Chances for renewed Japanese-Soviet border | fighting in the spring are believed here to be increased by three new developments. 1. Despite heavy snows, Japa- nese troops have been busy con- structing a railroad spur behind Lake Bor, on the Manchoukuo- Outer Mongolia Border, where numerous air battles were Te- |ported last summer. 2. Soviet - Mongol advanced five miles point they held at the time of the Nomonhan truce last September d have erected heavy gun em- placements overlooking the new r'u] spur. 3. By their latest drive into In- ner Mongolia, Japanese troops are within flying distance of Out,er Mongolia and of Ningsia where an undetermined number of Soviet forces are reported. Air fields now are being established. No Fighting in Winter Meanwhile, the army has an- nounced officially “scores of il- |legal Soviet entries” on the Man- choukuo - Soviet border to the | north. These incidents, which failed | best position to attack the Rus- to provoke hghnngA were mslgnm stan supply line to chungkmg troops have | beyond the | cant in themselves, but may indi- cate that Soviet patrols are becom-| ing active again in advance of favorable weather. During their seven years’ bor-| der intermittent fighting, Japanese | and Soviet troops have avoided ac-| tivities during the severe winters. One of the reasons ascribed for| the “vest-pocket war” at Nomon-| han last summer, in which the| Japanese admitted 18,000 casual-| ties, was the Soviet desire to| prevent fruition of Tokyo' plans| for a railroad along the disputed Khalka River. | Present construction reportedly | is considerably north of last yem.s battlefield, indicating the spur is intended as a military line. | Both Sides in Position | Soviet outposts are in poaltion‘ now more deeply in the territory | claimed by Manchoukuo than the were preceding the Nomonhan clash which began with a Japa- nese attack to drive them across the Khalka, This factor, potentially explosive in itself, indicates a Soviet warn- ing that it does not intend to neglect the Outer Mongolian front. To the south, in Inner Mongolia, Japanese troops now are in their FRENCH EMBASSY IN WASHINGTON KEEPING STRICT WATCH ON SPIES By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 29.—The capital in wartime: A friend of mine—a fellow toiler in the publishing marts — needed some large-scale maps of France. He went to the Library of Con- gress and found almost what he| needed, but being a leave-no-stone- unturned fellow, he decided to storm the French Embassy. He got a formal introduction to one of the reigning secretaries. He explained what he wanted, what he had. The secretary gra- ciously requested that the young man present himself to the office of the military attache, that he bring what maps he had with him, The young man did so. He was received with great courtesy and friendliness. He was shown about, introduced, bowed to, chatted with. Each mention of the maps brought a friendly smile, a nod, and the word: “Presently.” Pres- ently finally came and he ex- plained to another official what he wanted. The official asked to see the maps he had brought with him. The official cluck-clucked in amazement, Apparently he could not believe his eyes. Apparently‘ he felt that his country had been| very lax to place with the L\brary‘ of Congress so detailed a map of France. My friend explained why he wanted additional maps, why he must obtain, if possible, maps that were not in color. About this time, the official's face lighted up. He “ah'd.” He pointed, almost triumphantly, | good-naturedly, to a small inscrip- tion in the corner of the map: “Reproduction is not permitte Patiently, the toiler explained thau he did not wish to reproduce them. He only needed these and others to guide him in preparing his own. The official went away. He was| gone a long time. When he came back, he was beaming. By writ- ing to this address in Paris, the| young man probably could et just what the wanted—a series of most complete maps of France, pub- lished in 1875. My friend almost fainted. He did not want 1875 maps. Perhaps the French Embassy had their wars confused. That was the Franco- Prussian War, He wanted 1940 maps. The official was so sorry. The (Continued on Page Five) | eign Cove and Squaw Harbor plants have already gone north and the main crews are scheduled to leave late in April or next month. Other canneries to be operated are at Port Moller, Alitak, Naknek, Cmumk. Petersburg. Nushagak cannery, on Bristol Bay, will also probably be operated, The Nornek cannery on Bristol Bay will be closed this season. - SOVIET RUSSIA PARLIAMENT 1S MEETING TODAY Republic to%?(realed Out | of Territory Gained from Finns MOSCOW, M.urh 29.—The Rus- sian Parliament today opened the third session in seven months to hear the report on foreign affairs |and create a Republic out of the Territory gained from Finland. Parliament will ratify the Russo- Finland peace pact and also an- nounce next year's budget. Premier and Foreign Commissar | Molotoff, in his report on the for policy of Soviet Russia, charged that both France and Great Britain “in many instances” showed hostility but “we have hopes | their rulers’ use of the Soviet Un- |ion in the war against Germany has been Iruslrated . SEIZED RUSSIAN VESSELS TURNED OVER TO FRENCH Great Brifain Makes An- nouncement on Far East Incident (By Associated Press) ( Great Britain, apparently trying to rid herself of a war born con- troversy with Soviet Russia, an- nounces she is turning over to the French authorities in the Far Eaast, two Russian freighters which were seized, suspected of carrying con- traband for Germany. The turning over process is for “administrative reasons.” The freighters are the Selenga and Vladimir Mayakoviky, tthe latter being enroute from the United | States for Vladivostok. Both freighters were taken to Hongkong. —r—— ‘THREE GERMAN VESSELS READY T0 MAKE DASH BATAVIA, Dutch East Indies, | March 29.—Three German freight- | ers, loaded with freight for Ger- many, have steam up ready for a dash to Vladivostok, Siberia. e eee JAPANESE BEGIN NEW OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH CHINA HONGKONG, March 29, — Both Chinese and Japanese advices re- ceived here indicate that Japan has started an offensive in China’s| was delayed enroute to Sitka on ac- southern Kwangsi Province. Convoy Is Attacked, North Sea German Refi Says Much Damage Done, British Admiralty Says No (By Associated Press) ( The British and German versions of an aerial attack on a North Sea convoy last night are conflicting. The German High Command said one patrol boat was sunk, six mer- chantmen hit and the convoy dis- persed. The British Admiralty announces that five bombs were dropped on the ships being convoyed but no damage was done and the convoy kept proceeding. A DNB agency dispatch say: French destroyer was attacked c- cessfully” in the English channel. The British Admiralty makes no mention of ths reported incident. FIRST MINISTER T0 DIE IN CHAIR PASSES PRAYING Polish Baptist Who Had Daughter Killed for In- surance Executed TRENTON, N. J, March 29. Rev. Walter Dworecki, 43, Polish | Baptist minister, the first clergy- man to be executed in the United| States by electric chair, stalked |to his death last night mumbling | Raft, bhearer to Wed ¢ George Raft, screen villain, is shown with Norma Shearer whom he is expected by friends to wed as soon as the present Mrs. Raft is granted her planned divorce. According to Hollywood reports, the Rnns, long separated, are to make th Roosevelis Want To Visit Alaska Some Day SEATTLE, March 29.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, here on a visit, told interviewers both she and the President would like to visit Alnskz some day. 2 Runmng “Holy Father save my soul.” The Camden pastor was con-| demned to death for the schem- ing strangulation murder of his daughter Wanda, 18, so he could collect a $5,000 life insurance prem- fum. Six minutes after the switch wam thrown, the preacher was pro- nounced dead. He was convicted in October of| hiring Peter Schewchuk, 21, circus roustabout ‘and former boarder in his home, to kill the girl for a small fee. Shewchuk will month. SICK INDIAN ASKING FOR ALASKA SONS NEW YORK, March 29. — White Eagle, 70, Indian, ill in Roosevelt| Hospital here, is calling for two sons, Leslie and Howard, who he says live on Prince Patrick Island| in the Arctic Ocean off Alaska. Elderly, well dressed, White Eagle was stricken with a heart attack in a midtown bus terminal last night. He said he had just arrived from Boston and was bound for Chica- gO. FINNISH RELIEF OVER 3 MILLION PALO ALTO, Cal, March 20— Herbert Hoover announces that the Finnish Relief Fund has passed the three million dollar mark. The money is being used for rehabili- tation of those who have lost their homes as the result of the war. HIRST SEES GREAT CHANGE IN SITKA Claude M. Hirst, General Super- intendent of the Office of Indian Affairs, returned on the North Sea from a roundtrip to Sitka on busi- ness. 5 A great change in Sitka, even over just a few months ago, is ap- parent, he said. - e ESTEBETH TO SITKA be tried next Mailboat Estebeth, one day late on schedule, safled last evening for sSitka. Last weekend the Estebeth count of the storm then prevailing. For Mayor {Nine Candidates in Field for Positions on City Council SITKA, Alaska, March 29.—(Spe- cial Correspondence)—-With the fil- ing of R. W. De Armond, former United States Commissioner, for a position on the Sitka School Board, just before the time limit for filing expired Friday, the first phase of the current election cam- paign came to an end, The election is scheduled for April 2, with Tom Tilson, incum- bent Mayor, opposing Bill Hanlon, former Mayor. Running for three posts on the city Council are nine aspirants, two of whom filed last week for the Council. Tom Daine and Walt Bacon were the two who filed. Nominated at a previous meeting | of the townspeople were seven: Neill Andersen, Charley Peterson, George H. Peterson, William Beach, Frank Oja, D. W, Such, and Oscar Tilson, Against De Armond for the School Board position is Harry Hagen, who was a candidate for Mayor last year. Mrs. Nels Drugg, who had earlier filed for the po- sition withdrew when De Armond declared his candidacy. Special Election A special election for April 30, the same day when the Territorial | are held, was ordered at a special meeting of the Coun- | cil Tuesday evening. The election is for the purpose of authorizing primaries the issuance by the city of $7,000 worth of bonds to cover expenses entailed by the construction of new streets and a new addition to the school houye TORNADO KILLS 30 NAPOLEONVILLE, Louisiana, March 29—The Light and Power Company of Napoleonville has re- :eived reports that a tornado struck the small settlement of Pierre Park, 20 miles from here, and 30 persons have been Kkilled. DOCUMENTS ~ OF POLAND :Archieve Fi_fid_Purports fo Show U. S. Part in Bringing on Wa: BERLIN, March P. Lochner, Associated 29 —(By Press Louis cor- which German authorities said had 'iwme released to the newspapers today by the Foreign Office, President Roosevelt, and Ken- nedy and Bullitt, Ambassadors re- | spectively to London and Paris, are named in them. Some are represented as confi- dential reperts by Polish Ambas- sadors to Washington, London and Paris and from the ter to Stockholm. Among them is what is repre- sented to be a letter to Capt. An- thony Eden from the Polish Gen- eral Staff and a report by the Pol- ish commercial attache in London with regards to a chat with U. 5. | Ambassador to London Joseph P. Kennedy. An authorized German source said the 48-page collection “throws a most interesting light on the part which ‘American policy played in bringing about the present war.” All releases on the documents | were accompanied by photographic | inals. | LONG CONFERENCE BETWEEN WELLES, PRESIDENT IS HELD WASHINGTON, March 29—Under Secretary Sumner Welles and Presi- dent Roosevelt held another long conference today regarding the for- merfi first hand report on the Eu- | ropean situation Although Welles maintains strict | silence very little optimism is felt of near pvau- abroad. e — |Flower Time Here for Second This Winter It’s crocus time—and probably no fooling this time Flowers bloomed in Juneau on New Year's Day and winter came later, Today it is reported pale blue crocus and daffodils are poking their buds out into bloom in the yard of Mrs. E. H. Kaser, and at Carter's Mortuary, a yellow crocus came out a week ago. This time b it is hoped blooming | reproductions of the alleged orig-} been found in the archives of the jeqy, Polish Foreign Office in Warsaw, | mnjle, FLYING IS 10 BEGIN IN 6 WEEKS {Seafile-to-luneau Service Is fo Be Run Twice Weekly for Present 32 PLACE CLIPPERS T0 HANDLE FLIGHTS 'Big Stratoliners fo Operate Later - Fare Will Be Hundred Dollars SEATTLE, March 20.—Air serv- (ice between Seattle and Juneau is announced today as beginning iabout the middle of May with twice-weekly service, The announcement was made this morning when Pan-American Airways was granted a King Coun- ty Building permit to construct a 810,000 base at Matthews Beach on Lake Washington, a mile north of Sand Point naval air station. Robert Bullwinkel, District Man. ager for PAA, said four-engined, 32-passenger Sikorsky clippers of the type used to pioneer the Trans- | Pacific and Trans-Atlantic servicea UNCOVERED |for service until will be used. Present plans of operation call about Novembet 1, going as far as Juneau to con- nect with the company's present schedule in Alaska from Juneau to Fairbanks and Nome. Bullwinkel said the Matthews Beach base will be used only until PAA converts the Alaska opera- tions from flying boats to the new Boeing stratoliners which will op- rat from Boeing Field Fares are estimated to be at respondent)—Sixteen documents g70 petween Seattle and Ketchikar and $100 between Seattle and Ju- which is about 10 cents a BASE BUILDER COMING . SEATTLE, March 29.—C. W. Mc- Kenzie, PAA official who built the |clipper bases on Wake and Midway Polish Minis- | Islands, will build a PAA base here for the Seattle to Juneau air route and will also build bases at Ket- chikan and Juneau. McKenzie is conferring with Dis. trict Manager of PAA, Robert Bull- winkel and will leave for Alaska tomorrow. The first plane for use on the route is expected here from the East Coast about May 1. Reich Ready For Adion, West Front If You Don't Believe If Look at Pictures in German Papers BERLIN, March 29.—The Nazi newspapers today publish impos- ing pictures of various types of Germany’s heaviest artillery. Apparently the publication of the pictures is officially inspired to assure the Reichy, of Germany's readiness on the Western Front. Pilot Boat IsRammed; 9 Men Die HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, March 29.—Nine persons were drowned ear- ly this morning when the pilot boat Hebridean was rammed and sunk in the outer by an incom- ing freighter it was to meet. The dead are six harbor pilots and three members of the crew, trapped | flowers doesn’t mean meore winter,'below decks.