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The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
ELECTRA FLIES
 TRIO ON JAUN1

Three passengers cleared from Ju- neau aboard the IA place PAA El- ectra at 10 o'clock this morning for Fairbanks. Riding behind pilots Bert Lien and Al Munson were W. A. Chipperfield, Al. Nauling and J. Rei- land.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
R0TARIAN GREETERS
 TO DON BLUE GOATS

Juneau Rotarians will go about their duties as hosts to the district conference here in May dressed in blue coats to distinguish them from citizens in general.
 The Rotary Club voted at it's reg ular weekly luncheon today for the blue coats in preference to red blaz- CTS as had been proposed by some members.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
"WILD BILL" E INJURED; PLUNGE
 TAKEN BY AUTO
Winner of Indianapolis Classic in 1932, Serious
 Iy Hurt in Accident

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Feb 7.-- William Wild Bill" Cummings, 1892 winner of the Indianapolis Speed way 500-mile automobile classic, was seriously injured today when his automobile plunged through a guard rail and overturned.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
MEDICAL AID , SENT VICTIMS
 BY RED CROSS
Super Bomber with 3,300 Pounds of Supplies
 Reaches Santiago

SANTIAGO, Chile, Feb. Limited States super bomber B-15 has ar rived here with $500 pounds of medical supplies sent here by the American Red Cross to aid victims of southern Chiles disastrous earth quake which took more than 10000 lives.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
Protection
 For Eagle
 Is Sought

WASHINGTON. Feb. "A bfl has been introduced in Congress protecting the bald eagle, the na- tional symbol since l762.
 The bill provides for fine of $500 and six months imprisonment for anyone convicted of hunting, trap ping or otherwise interfering with the eagle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
 TO MAKE COMEDY
Will Have Dual Role, with Mustathe, in Produe-
 lion The Dictator"

HOLLYWOOD. Cal. Feb. 7.-It is revealed at the United Artists studio tht Charlie Chaplain. with his ab- breviated mustache. will play dual role in his new picture. "The Die tator."
 Chaplain said the present political situation. as concerns dictators, makes an excellent vehicle for a comedy.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
Pinkerion Men Employed
 on Alaska Boats 10 Make Reports
PEACE CONFERENCE E
 MEETING IN BAY CITY
Unions in Seattle Ready 10 Work Pending Settle-
 menf-' Ships Cold

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. Feb. 7.- Charges that Alaska shipping lines used Pinkerton operatives to report that ships officers committed hundreds of contract violations" were voiced today by Capt. c. K. May, West Coast head of the Mas ters, Mates and Pilots Union. at c conference for settlement of the present tie-up of the American lines operating from Seattle to Alaska ports. Capt. May and other unionists are meeting Seattle Executives of Alaska lines here this afternoon. I Capt May insists that the tie-up is not strike as the men were forced out"
 Whats It About
 Jack Bryant. President of the Pa- cific American Ship Owners Asso- ciation, who Is head of the employer group at the conferences to be held here, said it is impossible to fore- cast the outcome. He also declined to make any comment on the issues involved, saying: We do not even know what the Unions are complain ing of, as yet"
 The Masters. Mates and Pilots, arc asking for a raise of $25 a month in wages, guarantee of II months em. ployment annually and separate rooms aboard ships.
 Employed spies < Capt. May declared: "'rhe steam- ship lines employed spies, Pinkerton men, to watch and report on officers. Licensed officers must now occupy quarters absolutely filthy. must eat in mess rooms with the unlicensed personnel. Also. in operations when the whole crew works. the Masters, Mates and Pilots get half as much for overtime as the deckhands. Dur- ing the winter period while the ships are decoilmissioned, the sailors get $6.40 a day maintenance and work and the Masters, Mates and Pilots receive $40.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
POPE kNEELS,
 LONG PRAYER
Observes Seventeenth An. niversdry of Eleefion
 10 PdpdI Throne

VATICAN CITY, Italy, Feb. 7.- Pope Plus observed the 17th an- niversay of his election to the papal throne by kneeling in long prayer in his private chapel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
asHIPs ARE COLD"

SEATTLE, Feb. 7.--Unions here have offered to return to work. pend- ing negotiations. but company of- ficials insist that the San Francisco negotiations must be carried on first and they also said the ships arc cold anyway"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
Asks Sum for Experimental Researth. Planes

WASHINGTON. Feb. 7.-Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Con- gress for an additional s6.723, 900 or airplane experimental research.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
CURRENT WORKS POPULAR

Most read by laymen and lawyers alike are his current works in which he discusses the interpretations of
 Continued on Page Seven)
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07

A staff of experts representing a ld-known gasoline company have renewed the search for oil in var ious parts of New Zealand.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
OVER BILLION DOLLAR RAIL SUBSIDY URGED;
 I5 DEFENSE NECESSITY

NEW YORK, Feb. 7.-An outright Federal subsidy for railroads of be- tween one billion dollars and two billion dollars is advocated by Harry A. Wheeler, president of the Rail- way Business Association, in making public that organizations national legislative program.
 The association represents the views of companies manufacturing and selling railway equipment. It does not officially represent the views of railway homogeneous.
 The subsidy-and Wheeler said his association had decided to eschew congressional requests to disguise the word subsidy under some such term as contingent loans" s"-is based upon three grounds which were set forth as urgent necessities:
 1.-National defense.
 2.-Public safety.
 3.-National economics.
 Defense Measure
 So precarious is the national de- fense picture as to railroads, said Wheeler, that if war were declared tomorrow, and unlimited funds were made available, it would take not less than two years to put the rail- roads into shape to handle the mili- tary requirements of 1918.'
 As to public safety, Wheeler said that operating economies by the railroads during depression years had brought many lines, especially
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
F Faints al 28,OOO Fe et- PIunges Faster than
 Man Flown Before
SPEED CALCULATED
 670 MILES AN HOUR
Terrific Swoop Averages Up as Eleven Miles
 Per Minute

SHREVEPORT, La, -Feb. 7-Un- conscious, Second Lieutenant Troy Keith, of Barksdale Field, dived more than three and a half miles in a pursuit plane at supposed speed of better than Il miles a minute before recovering at 5000 feet and then landing safely.
 Keith's oxygen tank failed him and he tainted, falling into dive. The speed indicator fixed itself per- manently at 500 miles an hour. On that basis, officers figured his ulti- mate speed at 670 miles an hour. although they said such terrific speeds are no more than scientific guesses. ss s4-.
 Keith is none the worse for his experience. A dive was taken in the same type of plane in which Test Pilot H. Lloyd Child, of the Curtiss- Wright Airplane Company, went hurtling downward at an estimated speed of SIS miles an hour recently at Buffalo.
 Childs dive was deliberate from 22,000 feet, but Keith's uuscheduled plunge was from 28,O00 feet.
 Experienced aerodynamics officers, using mathematical formulas, adding certain percentage speed to the planes fall on per-thousand ra- tio, estimated Keith's longer fall resulted in probably the highest speed ever attained by man in the air
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07

The 1888 United States rice crop was estimated at 58.8s0,000 bushels, the largest ever harvested.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1939-02-07
Defense Measure

(Continued on Page Five)
Evening star., 1939-12-31
17th Week Of War
Sends Ship Loss 10
Over 100000 Tons
279 Vessels Sent Down
Since Conflict Beeon
With 2,727 Lives Lost
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
Although only four ships were re.
ported sunk during the seventeenth
week Of the European war ending
yesterday, shipping tonnage losses
topped the million mark through
confirmation of 10 sinkings which
occurred earlier in the conflict.
AS the result of these additions,
the known toll OF ships mounted to
279 aggregating 1,021,l27 tons. At
least 2,727 lives have been lost.
Outstanding in the weeks sea
action was NaZi U-boat attack on
one of Britain's battleships, as yet
unnamed by the admiralty. The
British said four lives were lost on
a ship of the old Queen Elizabeth
class, but said the vessel reached
port under her own power.
Other developments:
The German freighter Tacoma,
held at Montevideo because she as
sisted in the scuttling of the pocket
"battleship" Admiral Graf Spec, was
to be ordered to leave in "a hours
or face internment for the dura-
ton of the war.
The French announced that one
OF their warships sank a German
submarine after an English plane
dropped smoke bombs near the
U-boat's position.
The British cruiser Shropshire,
which put into Rio de Janeiro for
fuel and provisions, departed quietly
amid rumors that she had captured
the German freighter Bahia Blanca.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
100 presumably have been shipped

100 presumably have been shipped
abroad.
Approximately 1000 trucks also
are stored there and room is being
made for 1000 more. BY the end
of the month, there will be 283 mas
sive power shovels, manufactured at
cost Of $4,000 each, for use in
digging trenches.
Oddly enough, what is being
shipped is approximately the same
as the material that is being stored
airplanes, trucks, machines of one
kind or another, rope ibers and va
rious textiles, chiefly blankets. A
substantial part of this material is
being loaded on Scandinavian
freighters, presumably for trans
shipment to Finland. Shipping men
declare that as much material is
being expedited to Finland as to
England and France.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Refugee Stream
Into Ankara TeIIinq
Quake Horror Tales
Little Damage Is Caused
By Fourth Day Of
Violent Shocks
~ the Associated Press.

~ the Associated Press.
ANKARA, Turkey. Dec. 30.-In-
jured refugees from quake-torn An
atolia streamed into Ankara today
by thousands, with stark tales of
disaster wrought by earth shocks
and cold.
New violent shocks occurred for
the fourth consecutive day, imped-
ing rescuers but adding little dam
age to Wednesdays havoc. in which
of1icials reported at least 10000 were
killed in Erzincan Province alone.
Survivors told with accents Of
horror how the earthquake of early
Wednesday morning shattered their
homes during a raging blizzard
Many who escaped to the open,
they said, we're forced by the cold
to seek shelter in what was left of
ruined buildings-only to be killed
when further shocks crumbled the
structures. Others who fled to the
fields perished there in the bitter
cold.
With temperatures in some places
as low as Is to 80 below zero, the
casualty list continued to swell as
snow and quake-blocked railways
and roads kept rescue workers out
of many districts.
Airplanes few over the Erzincan
area, dropping food. fuel and cloth
ing to groups huddled in the open.
All New Year celebrations were
cancelled as the nation concentrated
upon relief.
The injured brought to the capt.
tai we're in grave need of surgical
attention. They included high
ranking army officers.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
New York Piers
Bulge With Goods
For War Zone
Material Moves Out Of
Port at Normal Speed,
Shipping Men Soy
By IRA WOLFERT.

NEW YORK. Dec. 80 tN.A.N.Ao. i.
Brooklyn, Staten Island and New
York piers all look like festive boards
now. They are groaning with goods.
Exactly how much is piled up here
waiting for shipment to the Euro
pean war zone is any mans guess,
since efforts are made to keep these
matters confidential, but one New
York shipping man said that $3O,-
100000 might not be too far out OF
the way. Most of the 100000 900 is
represented by manufactured arti-
cles that range from blankets to
trench digging machines and only a
small proportion is grains and food
stuffs, he said. More grain is being
shipped out of New York now than
in many years, he continued.
Other shipping men consulted
agreed that, although business had
been stepped up about 100 per cent
by the war and was very brisk in
deed, there was nothing like con-
gestion on the piers and no scarcity
of ships. Goods are reported to be
moving out of port at normal speed,
and even the British and French
insistence on convoy system for
their merchant marine has not
slowed the flow of shipping. The
neutral countries have come steam
ing to the rescue with supply OF
bottoms that makes up for what
ever gaps there are in the belliger-
ent fleets.
Bulk Is French Owned.
The bulk of the material await
ing shipment-approximately sl9,-
100000 worth-is French-owned
goods bought in the United States
and stored on five piers and 13
acres CT space at the New York
foreign trade zone in Stapleton,
Staten Island Shipping circles
unite in describing the report that
these were awaiting transportation
by British and French ships as be-
ing in the nature of partial truth.
They say that these goods are actu-
ally awaiting demand in Europe,
and that, if France wanted quick
delivery, she could get it.
THE consumption of war sup
plies" said one, seems to be con-
siderably less than expected. France
rented these piers and acreage for
storage space because, I believe,
the French feel it will be just as
safe. if not safer. in storage here as
in France"
Includes 60 Airplanes.
The material stored in Staten
Island and presumably not needed
Immediately on the western front
includes so airplanes. These are
all that remain of $50 airplanes
ordered at a cost of $25 900 900 from
the .Lockheed Co. The remaining
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Maple Lane Opposed
For Bus Route

Objection to use of Maple lane as
part of Capital Transit Co.'S new
bus route in Silver Spring which
was proposed at recent hearings
before the Maryland Public Service
Commission was voiced in a letter
to the commission by E. j. Wagg,
secretary of the Silver Spring Citi-
Zens' Association.
1t was suggested that Montgom-
cry avenue is the logical road to
use on a route to Dale drive instead
of Bonifant street or Maple lane.
Maple lane. according to Mr..
Wages letter, was condemned by
the association as an inadequate
route.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Divorces OFF, but Reno
Marriages Boom
By the Associated Press.

BY The ASsOClated Press.
RENO, New, Dec. 30.-Divorce
suits filed in Reno during 1899
dropped to 2,23l compared to 2,375
last year.
The record is 4,745, set in 1881
when the siX-weeks' divorce resi-
dence law was first effective.
A new record for marriage licenses
was established. A total of l0,934
licenses had been sold this year up
to today. The previous record, set
Evening star., 1939-12-31
}. B. DooIin Dies;
Was Democratic Official

BY the Associated Press.
WICHITA. Kans. Dec. 30.-John
B. Dooln, so, Alva, Okla, former
assistant treasurer of the Demo-
cratic National Committee and a
leader in his party in Oklahoma for
nearly 80 years, died of heart dis
ease today.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Resorts in New England
Crowded os Storm Ends

b! the Associated Press
BOSTON, Dec. 30-Winter re-
sorts were crowded tonight as New
England's heaviest snowfall of the
season abated after disrupting sea
and air traffic and causing at least
two highway deaths.
Lodges, hotels and tourist homes
in the mountain areas saw an in
flux of visitors, mostly from Greater
Boston and New York, ready to take
advantage of the new snow blanket.
which ranged generally from to
inches in depth.
Clear, crisp weather prevailed The
Boston airport weather station re-
ported snow still falling only in the
extreme northern sections Of New
England. Cloudy and colder
weather was forecast.
Ships were halted at each end
of the Cape Cod canal until the
weather cleared.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Britain $1,257,445,440
In Red for 1899
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Dec 30.-Great Brit
aims financial balance sheet for
three quarters of the current fiscal
year, which has included four
months of war, disclosed today that
the government is Sl,257 ,445 ,440 in
the red.
Expenditures so far in the fiscal
year which started April l amount
to s3435, 5,341 1852 against revenue
OF $2.177 ,896412
The deficit is said tc be covered
by borrowing under the defense
loan acts.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
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said 1000 Italians were ready"
to 60 to Finland, but had not yet
started. British reports pre-
viously had said the Italians al
ready were on hand, with air.
planesD
Big Battle Feared Imminent.
The Firms got much pleasure out
of knowing that the world was now
asking: Whats wrong with the
Russian Army?" Realistically, how
ever, many feared a great battle was
imminent, with experienced Soviet
troops reported moving up front to
replace calloW conscripts under
cover of continual artillery bonn
bardment of the isthmus.
Russian strategists also were using
captive balloons for the first time
to spy out Finnish positions, hidden
In the thick woods of the isthmus.
The leader of Swedish volunteers
in Finland, Gen. Linder, is II years
old and has seen service in both the
Finnish and Swedish Armies He is
a sportsman who once participated
in Olympic riding competitions.
Text of Communique.
Following is the text of tonight's S
Finnish General Staff communique
"On land: On the (Karelian)
1sthmus the enemy's artillery was
greatly active at several points on
December 20. In the dusk of the
morning an enemy attempt to cross
the Suvanto was again defeated.
Between Summa and Lake Muola
two enemy tanks were destroyed.
Elsewhere the day was relatively
peaceful.
"On the eastern frontier our
troops repulsed an enemy attack in
the direction of Kitalae, northeast
Of Lake Ladoga.
"On the front between Lake
Duoko and Lake Susky fighting was
in progress all day. Our troops sue
ceeded in improving their positions
somewhat.
"At Kuhmo the enemy has been
pushed back across the frontier in
the direction of Kiekki. At Suo-
mussalmi the battle which has been
raging for several days around Lake
Kianta still continued. On other
fronts there was patrol and recon-
naissance activity.
Planes Kill Civilians.
"At sea: With the exception OF
certain unsuccessful air attacks on
our costal forts, December %
passed peacefully.
I'm the air: On December 2e
enemy aircraft was busy on the
isthmus and in the home area. On
the isthmus the town of Kakisalmi
was among places attacked. A few
civilians were killed and several
buildings damaged.
I'm the home area enemy aircraft
bombarded among other places
Vaasa, where from three to five
civilians were killed and couple
Of houses damaged. Elsewhere, sc
far as is known. there was no loss
of life nor was the material damage
done significant.
Our own aircraft carried out sew
eral reconnaissance flights and took
part successfully in military oper-
ations through the cooperation OF
our other arms. Two enemy air.
planes were shot down"
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Nothing Important
On Front, Soy Russians

MOSCOW, Dec. 80 (P).-Tonight's
communique of the Russian mill
tary headquarters of the Leningrad
area said merely:
December 30, nothing important
occurred at the front"
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Losses in War at Sea


following during
December "a to December 80, inclusive:
Evening star., 1939-12-31

Russia is urging an increase in the
production of gas-generator tractors.
Evening star., 1939-12-31
Danes Fear Germany.

SCANDINAVIA.-The Scandina-
Wan countries must reflect upon
BENJAMIN F'ranklin's observation that
it is better to hang together than to
be hanged separately. Finnish re-
sistance may encourage them to
send help; Russian lack of success
may make them less apprehensive
of eventual Russian menace.
Probably their guess as to Ger
many's policy will determine what
they will do; Denmark, the most
exposed to German attack, is nat
urally the most apprehensive in this
Evening star., 1939-12-31

said 1000 Italians were ready"
to go to Finland. but had not yet
started. British reports pre-
viously had said the Italians al
ready were on hand, with air
y1onecA
Evening star., 1939-12-31

The only other Balkan state with
which Germany has common from
tier is Qugoslavia, and Yugoslavia is
the most formidable in the military
sense. both as to her armed power
and as to terrain of all the Balkan
nations. Here Germany might we'll
be drawn into an exhausting and
profitless campaign which would
drain her resources without giving
her much return. But any German
move into the Balkans seems likely
to drive deeper the wedge between
Germany and Italy, and to produce
complications between Germany and
Russia. Italy would be the more
nervous about an assault on Yugo-
slavai Russia about move against
herself There is not much likeli-
hood of fixing up deal with Italy at
present; there might be possibility
of deal with Russia.
Hitler Goering Rift Reported.
In the Balkans as in Scandinavia
the poor Russian military record
against Finland and the absorption
of Russian resources in that area
tends to reduce German anxiety as
to Russian opposition to German
plans to the southwark. However
just as in Scandinavia, Germany
must reckon with allied opposition,
based on the strategic middle east
position which the allies have been
at such pains to reinforce and backed
by Turkey and, pehaps in the
end by Italy. She must reckon on
the chance of being pinned down
in the Balkans, weakened in the
west to a decisive thrust. That
Germany will in the end turn upon
Russia is a solution which must
not be rejected.
At this moment, there are many In
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
Fire Threatens
Oil Field Town

TALCO, Tex, June l. CUP)-h
spectacular fire which consumed
the PaluXy company refinery and
threatened this east Texas oil field
town was brought under control
early today by firemen from near
by cities.
A series OF explosions starting in
high pressure cracking unit where
crude oil is reduced to gasoline de-
stroyed the Sl75,000 plant. Fire
spread to 10 Paluxy oil storage
tanks and critically burned c. w.
Moore, Paluxy employe.
G. S. Streetman, another Paluxy
employe. and Cotton Allen, employ
ed by American Liberty Pipeline
company whose storage tanks were
endangered. we're burned less seri-
ously
Earthen walls prevented the
flames from spreading to tanks fill
ed with hundreds of barrels of Oil.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01

three-man board would diminish
social welfare philosophy in the
administration of relief.
White collar projects, firmly de-
Tended by President Roosevelt but
under sharp congressional fire,
might almost disappear under the
plan as now drafted. Such projects,
other than theaters which would
be abandoned altogether, would
have to be sponsored locally and
supported to the extent of 20 per
cent of total cost Protested prof.
ectS include those for writer's and
artists.
The subcommittee has before it
Mr.. Roosevelt's 1910 fiscal year re-
quest for sl.750, ,OoO, 900 for relief and
similar purposes, of which Sl.447-
100000 is for WPA. In the current
fiscal year WPA received s2.25O,-
100000. The United Press was in
formed the committee had made
no decision on the sum of relief
funds to be recommended.
Imperial Valley press., 1939-06-01
Divers Fix Chains
To Sunken Vessel

PORTSMOUTH N. H, June /.
CUP)-The navy's deep-sea divers
toiled 40 fathomS down in the North
Atlantic today to attach mammoth
chains to the water-logged hull of
the sunken submarine Squalus,
which sank nine days ago with n
loss of 26 lives.
A new method of mixing oxygen
and helium Tor the salvage divers
was pronounced success today
after being tested by John Miha-
lcwski of Worcester, Mass, holder
of the Navy Cross for his work on
the S-4 and S-51 disasters. Using
a free ventilation helmet Mihalow-
ski found his mind remained clear
er and his actions became surer
than when he used the rccirculation
type helmet previously believed cs-
sential for work at extreme depths.