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Evening star., 1940-02-19

Use your head, mot your horn
while driving.
Evening star., 1940-02-19

F0RElGN STATIONS.
(Noon, Greenwich time. today.)
TemperaturA weather
Horta fFAyal). Azores 90 Cloudy
(Current observations.J
An Juan, Puerto Rico rs Cloudy
Havana, cuba - - Cloudy
Colon. Canal zooo---- 20 Cloudy
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
Guild
 System
 Needed
Sixteen PreIafes, Catholic Church, Advocate
 Changes

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Sixteen Prelates of the Catholic Church in America have called for the re-es- tablishment of the Guild System which will bind men together in society according to their respective occupations, thus creating moral unity" and with this, morals will be reformed and profound renewal of the Christian spirit will aid the Nation to effect a social reconstruc- ton.
 Under the Guild, or cooperative system, both employers and employ ees will be organized as Pope Plus suggested mot according to the po- sition they occupy in the labor mar ket but accordni gto divers func- tions they exercise in society, re- jecting both extreme individualism and collectivism in the Government policy" Archbishops and Bishops de- clared.
 Our economic life must be re- organized" the Prelates said, not on disintegrating principles of in dividualism but on the constructive principle of social and moral unity among members of the human so- ciety"
 Guilds governed craftsmen in Eu- rope in the middle ages.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
Turkish Government Re- yeaIs Alleged Plans,
 German Agents
KRUpp SHlpYARDS
 OCCUPIED, MARINES
Hundred Teehnieians Dis- missed, Ordered 10 Quit
 Country in 48 Hours !:

ISTANBUL, Turkey, Feb 9.-Au- thCritative sources today said the Turkish Governments dismissal of 1O0 German technicians from oc- cupation in the German owned Krupp shipyards is due to the dis covery of a far flung German sa- bctage plot in the Near East.
 Turkish marines occupied the ship yards yesterday and are remaining in control again today.
 The Government dismissed the tochnicians and the War and Naval Ministeries gave them 48 hours in which to quit the country.
 Authoritative sources said the Turkish Government uncovered evil dence a network of NaZi agents were ready to perpetuate explosions, wreck trains and create other ha- voc in the Near East on signal from Berlin.
 The situation between Turkey and Germany is intense over the dis missals, it is said.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
SLAYER IN CANC(A5E
 IDENTIFIED

LOS ANGELES, Cal. Feb. 9-Tes- timony given by Mrs Elaine Huddle who identified Pete Pianezzi of San Francisco as one of the three men who shot to death wealthy gambler Les Bruneman in 1937 Pianezzi is on trial charged with first degree murder.
 Mrs. Huddle is the wife of the proprietor of the cafe where Brune- man was killed. She said that she opened the cafe door to admit the three men and was certain Pianezzi was one of them.
 Mrs. Huddle said she thought it was a holdup when she saw the men carried guns. She hid in a booth while they opened fire on Bruneman. The gambler was shot sixteen times.
 Another cafe patron, Frank Greu- gard, was killed when he ran out of the building and attempted to obtain the license number of the gunmenS' car.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09

 OF U. S. TO
 GO ABROAD
President Sends Sumner WeIIes to Interview
 European Govfs.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9-Presi- dent Roosevelt announces he is sending Sumner Wellss, Undersec- retary of State to Europe on a personal survey of conditions in Italy. France, Germany and Great Britain.
 The President disclosed this move at conference with newsmen to- day.
 The President further said that Welles has been Instructed to make no proposals or commitments in the name Of the United States made to him by officials Of the European Governments, and the information he receives is solely for the Presi- dent and Secretary of State Cordell Hull, the Chief Executive added
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
World Peace Is Aimed at
 In parIeys
U. 5. and NeutraIs in Quiel Conferences Over
 Globe 5 Future

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull an- nonuced today that diplomatic con- versations "of informal character" have been commenced with neu- tral governments "in view of the evident desire of all neutral na- tions for eventual restoration of world peace"
 Hull emphasized the conversa- tions involve no plan or plans, but are in the nature of prelim- mary inquiries relating to sound international economic systems and at the same time, world wide re- duction of armamentS."
 The State Secretary added the conversations can be extended to belligerent nations insofar as these two common problems, world fu- ture, and world peace, are involved" ]"
 Hull declared the conversations with neutrals did not embrace matters involving present war con- ditions.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
JAPAN IS BRlSTLING WITH SENTIMENT AGAINST U.S.;
 USE OF FORCE INITIATED

TOKYO, Feb. 9.-Japan must be prepared for the worst be- cause American pressure con- tinues and reports say the ulti- mate object of Americans is to resort to force" to prevent the new order in China.
 This is the declaration made today in the newspaper Asahi which noted that Premier To- raj told the Diet that Japan is fully prepared to cope with any situation that may arise in case the United States increases pressure.
 The Foreign Office spokesman also said that Premier YOnai assured the Diet that Japan is prepared to meet any decline in the American Japanese rela- tions but he refuse to say whether this included military preparations.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
Garner Contests With Roosevelt In Two Staies

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-An- noncement in Chicago that Gar ner's name will go before the Democratic voters in the Illinois preference primary apparently assures contests so far in two States between Garner and Roosevelt over the nomination for President.
 RCOSevelts name was entered in the Illinois Primary last weekend.
 Followers of both men also en- tered their states for Garner and Roosevelt in Wisconsin.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
By PRESTON GROVER

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Ellison D. Cotton Ed Smith has served 31 years in the Senate. rising from baby member to dean, and thinks he could have had lot more fun raising cotton or cattle or pigs.
 South Carolina has been sending him to the Senate ever since he was first sworn in in 1909 That was a year behind Senator Borah, whose death left Smith the oldest member of the Senate in point of service, although in years he is junior to Senator Carter Glass of Virginia. Smith is 75, Glass 82.
 But age hasn't modified Smiths southern sentiments. He is 200 pounds of southern wrath at every thing the New Deal represents.
 T served under five Presidents" he said, before I had to run into an outfit like this, challenging the sovereignty of the states and vio- lating the Constitution at every step.
 Show me where the Constitution says anything about the wage-hour bill or social security"
 He isn't a tall man, but massive. His head is topped by thick growth of gray hair. His face is deeply lined, and divided into squares and patches, like a farm, while in the middle is brush of moustache you could hunt quail in.
 He gets so angry at what he calls the New Deals catering" to the ne- groes that, like Donald Duck, he al- most bites himself.
 T have deeper love for our col ored people than anybody in that outfit up there," he shouted across his desk, but I've had experience with them and I know where they should be kept"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
ALASKA BUYS
 RECORD TOTAL
 DURING 1939
Imports s44,4t4,O93- To. taI Commerce Drops.
 Customs Shows

Alaska in 1889 imported an all- time record amount of goods from the United States and foreign ports, according to the annual re- port of Collector of Customs James J. Connors, released today.
 The inbound commerce total of s44,414,093 exceeded the previous year by $1,562,627 and 1897, the pre- vious high. by $1,330,o95.
 Alaskas shipments to the world in 1939, while below those of 1888, bettered any year previous to 1856 The export total was s62,932,95l In 1888 it was $78,260,812.
 Total Commerce Down
 The total inbound and outbound commerce of Alaska for the year 1889 amounted to sl07 ,347, ,O44. Con- pared with like figures for 1888 of $121 ,112,278 there was decrease in commerce of $13,765,234 last year.
 The balance of trade in favor of Alaska amounted to s18518,858 in 1889, as compared with S35, 5,409, ,346 for 1938.
 Total declared value of all fish and fish products shipped from Alaska during 1889 was S35 ,894 .33l as compared with S44,932,980 for 1888, or decrease of $9,038.649. Shipments of canned salmon, a major item in the tabulation of fish and fish products, show a de- crease in both pounds and value. During 1899 shipments of canned salmon aggregated 247046,7l4 in pounds and s29976,665 in value.
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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
NO GUNS FROM U. S. FOR FINNS
 SAY R0OSEvE:L.I !
President Makes State- ment Regarding Avail
 able War SurpIuses

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.-Presi- dent Roosevelt, said he doubted whether the United States will sell whether the United States will sell any guns directly to Finland be- cause that country is engaged in an armed conflict
 The President made the statement at the conference with newsmen The subjct was brought up relative to conferences held by State War and Navy officials on materials possibly available as surplusses for shipment to Norway, Sweden or any other neutrals.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
RELIEF FUND RUNNING OUT; CRISIS NEAR
Alaska Forced 10 Withhold Aid Except 10 Pressing
 Emergency Cases

Exceptionally heavy demands upon Alaska relief funds, resulting in rapid depletion of the $300,000 ap- propriated by the last Legislature, today forced the Territory to place it's public assistance system on more stringent regulations and an emergency basis.
 Acting Governor E. L. (Bob) Bartlett, reporting that $213,00O of the bienniums $300000 has already been spent since the appropriation became available last April, an- nounced the need for retrench- ment.
 The statement by Bartlett today was as follows:
 q am informed by w. B. Kirk, Director of Public Welfare, that an extremely heavy relief load throughout the Territory since last April, when the new appropriation became available, has drastically depleted funds available for relief
 Serious Situation
 "The situation is so serious that it will be necessary for the De- partment of Public Welfare to act under much more stringent regn- lations in the providing of re- lief.
 During the remainder of the biennium for which relief funds were appropriated, it will be nec- essary to grant assistance only in those cases having an emergency aspect.
 "On April 1 last year there be- came available to the Department of Public Welfare $3OO,0O0 for the relief of needy and indigent. The payments have been so heavy for the past ten months that s213,000 has already been expended. In other words, the Territory has spent around SIPS every day to take care of those cases which appeared to be worthy. Now only s87, 900 remains and that sum must last until the Legislature meets again. The in- evitable conclusion is that only those persons in direst need can be cared for henceforth.
 Requests Increase
 T am further informed by the Department of Public Welfare that requests for relief have increased greatly on account of Alaskans travelling from their homes in
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
BRITISH LABOR
 PARTY ISSUING
 OWN MANIFESTO
Before Peace Treaty Sign ed, Germans Must Re-
 nounCe HitIerism

LONDON, Feb. 9.-The British Labor party has issued manifesto demanding that no peace treaty be signed until Germany has disowned Hitlerism and made restitution to Poland and Czechoslovakia
 The Labor party's statement also demanded that pledges shall be made to the German people that in the General encouragement af- ter the war, the rights of the Ger mans will be respected.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
BATTLES PAGET0DAY,
 BRIT. COAST
German Planes, Renewing Attacks on Shipping,
 Met by Defenders

LONDON, Feb. 9-BritiSh fight ing planes, rising to meet German bombers as they roared along the coast of Great Britain today in new waves of attacks on merchant ship ping, engaged the raiders in a series of air combats.
 One German plane is officially reported to have been shot down near Firth of Forth.
 The German air raids are the first attempted by the Nazis since last week when coast shipping was truck three separate times.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09

SEATTLE, Feb. 9.--E. A. Rasmus- son, of Skagway, Republican Ma tional Committeeman for Alaska, while here today addressed letter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull urging the Alaska Fishery question be one of the first items considered in any negotiations for a new trade treaty with Japan.
 We of Alaska hope our Depart
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
A NORTHERN GOVERNMENT

Referring to the New Deal as that outfit up there" is the bit terest denunciation he can think of because to him it represents some contrivance of government from north of the Mason-Dixon Line that no true American will endure longer than he has to.
 Deep in him is a contended feel ing that the New Deal will be thrown higher than a kite next November and he is confident he had a pion- eering hand in it's defeat. He was on the purge list" in 1888 but he came through with flying colors in what he described as the dirtlest campaign" of his experience.
 My victory set the pace" he said.
 He knew how to conduct cam paign that would win in South Caro- lima. At the 1886 convention in Philadelphia he led the South Caro- lima delegation out of the hall when a negro preacher arose to give the benediction. The story he told about that affair echoed and re-echoed through the state in the campaign of 1888.
 He came to the Senate in what he calls the days of the giants Names like Elihu Root, Henry Ca bot Lodge, Jonathan P. Deliver, AL bert Beveridge, Joseph Weldon Bailey, Nelson w. Aldrich and John Sharp Williams stand out in his mind far above the present legis-
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
RA5MU50N URGES ALASKA FISHERY QUESTION TAKEN
 up IN TREATY WITH JAPAN

ment of State will insist that one of the first requisites of any treaty be the acceptance by the Japanese Government of the principle that fish spawned and protected in the waters of the United States remain under the jurisdiction of the United States to the limits of the Conti- mental shelf"
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
LORD TWEED5MIUR
 I5 OPERATED UPON
Governor General of Can. ada Now on Special
 Train for Montreal

OTTAWA, Feb. 9-Lord Tweeds- muir, Governor General of Canada, was operated upon today for com plications following brain concus- sions and a few hours later was placed aboard special train and is being rushed to Montreal. The concussions were caused by a fall in the Government House last Tues day.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
WESTERN FRONT
 ARTILLERY FIRE
 RESULTS FATALLY
French Report Declares En. gdgemenf Is Serious
 for Both Sides

PARIS, Feb. 9-The French Gen. eral Staff reports increased activity with artillery patrols including a severe" engagement yesterday in which both sides suffered losses.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
.5pyIs(aughf,
 Nefarious Adj
German Nabbed Trying to Entice French Girls fo
 Ndzi System

PARIS, Feb. g. - A 35-year-old German, convicted of attempting to entice beautiful young French wo- men into the services of the Ger man espionage, has been sentenced to 20 years at hard labor.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
MRS. DALZEIL SAILS

Mrs. A. Dalzeil, who has been visiting her son and daughter-in- law, MT and Mrs. D. Dalzeil, is a passenger south on the North land bound for her home in &c., attle.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
STOCK Qu'orArroNs

NEW YORK, Feb. g. = Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 6Ss, American Can 114B, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Steel 78as, Commonwealth and Southern IS, Curtiss Wright 10%, General Motors 54as, International Harvester 55k, Kennecott 36h, New York Central 17A, Northern Pa cific 8A, United States Steel 60A, Pound $396h.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
Declare Thirteen Steel Ar tilIery Forts Have
 Been Captured
LOSSES INFLICTED ON
 DEFENDERS TREMENDOUS
Films Admit Terrific As- sauIt But Defense
 Lines Still lnfdCf

COPENHAGEN, Feb. g. - The conflict now raging in Finland IS enigmatic today, according to early morning reports.
 Two contrary pictures are pre- sented regarding the war in the frozen northland.
 The Films report that renewed Red Army attacks on the Man. nerheim line have resulted in heavy Russian losses.
 Usually uninformative Lenln- grad headquarters report in com- munique that significant victories have taken place against the Man. nerheim line and great losses have been inflicted on the defenders.
 It is claimed the Red Army forc- es have captured l3 steel and con- crete artillery forts" on the Man. nerheim line on Karelian Isthnus, north of Lake Ladoga and inflict- ed great losses on the Films.
 The Films admit a steady, heavy pounding of their lines for more than one week by Russian tanks and artillery and air bombs but announcements minimize the fight ing results and they declare the Mannerheiin line is still intact.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
AT THE GAsTINEAU

Travelling men Dan Noonan and HI. B. Crewson are at the Gas tineau Hotel. having come in from the Historic City on the North land.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
FINNISH REPORT

HELSINKI, Feb. 9.-The Finnish High Command denies Leningrad reports that the Mannerheim Line has been broken at two points. All attacks have been repulsed and the Soviets have lost twelve tanks and large quantity of supplies and other equipment.
 The Films freely admit desperate fighting continues but the defend- CTS are pushing the invaders back to the Soviet frontier.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
AT THE BARANOF

Travelling men Henry Gerstman and L A. Thatcher returned from Sitka on the Northland and are guests at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
DOW, JONES AVERAGES

Final Dow, Jones averages today are as follows: industrials 148.95, rails 3140, utilities 2498.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09

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The Daily Alaska empire., 1940-02-09
Requests Increase

T am further informed by the Department of Public Welfare that requests for relief have increased greatly on account of Alaskans travelling from their homes in
The Wilmington morning star., 1940-08-02
WASHINGTON
DAYBOOK

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The Washington
scene has changed more rapidly since the Chi
cago convention than in any similar period
since the New Deal took over in 1888.
Three administration veterans, wheel horses
in the Democratic party who have been around
here some time, have departed. There is some
possibility that a fourth will follow. It'll never
be the same Washington without big Jim"
Farley, Cactus jack Garner, Lou" John
son, nor without Paul McNutt, if he goes home
too, as some of his friends say he will.
Most missed perhaps will be Farley, the big
genial fellow who came down with The Boss"
in 1888, parked at the Postmaster Generals
desk and for seven years gave all he had to the
twin jobs of seeing that the mail went through
and keeping the Democratic party machinery
running smoothly.
Farley will be hard to replace. Target of all
the abuse of Republicans and anti-New Deal
Democrats. he stood the potshots without a
whimper.
GARNER CAREER OVER?
Farley's split with the President over the
third term was merely the final straw. The
breach in the relations had been widening for
a couple of years as President Roosevelt
turned more and more to the inner circle New
Dealers and less to his old campaign manager
with his condolences and plans.
Nobody who was with Farley in those closing
days of the convention could fail to see how
QeeDlG nurI ne Was LlaL lie HdQ D6eu DTuSneQ
aside as the group that had its nucleus in
Harry Hopkins, Senators Jimmy" Byrnes and
Alben Barley took over.
Farley might have quit the government any,
way to repair his personal fortunes, but he
would rather have done it under different cir
cunstances and with less misgivlngs for the
future of the Democratic party to which he has
been so devoted.
When Vice President John Nance Garner de-
parted for Uvalde, Texas, the other day, it was
a grim, fearful little knot of friends who saw
him and Mrs. Garner off at the station.
1t was no secret that Garner was embittered
by the third term" His friends say that he
may never return to Washington, but whether
he does or doesn't, it probably is the end of his
long political career, as l pointed out here
some months back.
With Louis Johnson, the 2OO-pound, machine
gun talking lawyer from Clarksburg, w. Va,
who threw Army defense measures into high
gear, as Undersecretary of War, it was not a
question of the third term But he was the
victim. of changing politics that put Republican
Henry L. Stimson in as Secretary of War. It
was no secret that Johnson felt he was due the
Secretary of War post.
When he didn't get it and was not rewarded
at Chicago by a nod from the President that
might have made him Roosevelt's running
mate, he too departed. President Roosevelt
has offered him the job of executive assistant
in charge of the national defense drive, but his
friends here express doubt that he will accept.
McNUTT FOR Sd TERM
McNutt's position is more complicated. An
J original third-termer, his disappointment came