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The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11

Fighting,
West Area
Weather Conditions Better
French Make Sudden
Charge on Germans
(By Associated Press)

On the Western Front better
weather conditions gave a squirt to
aerial activity and the Allies and
Germans each announce that two
of the others planes have been
downed in early morning warfare.
This afternoon the German News
Agency DNB described new western
front fighting. The DNB said a
French detachment suddenly attack
ed and succeeded in breaking down
through German positions near
Saarbruecken but the French were
soon driven back, leaving dead and
wounded on the battlefield.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
Declares This Nation Must
Be Prepared for Po-
tentiaI Enemies
PROPOSED PLANS GET
Rise FROM JAPAN GOVT.
Nippons, However, Forget
They Started Race by
Suapping Treaty
by Associated Press

The United States program for
extensive naval construction in face
of the troubled world conditions, the
Finnish Russian war, Germany and
Allied war, and Japanese-China war,
has drawn bitter criticism in Japan.
One Japanese newspaper made the
criticism pronounced and then other
newspapers followed in similar tone.
The Japanese spokesman spoke of
the American menace" in discuss
ing the one billion, three hundred
million dollar building program now
under consideration by Congress, but
ignored the fact that Japan's de-
nunciation of the Washington Naval
Treaty opened the way for the build
ing program.
Japan Also to Build
The Japanese spokesman asserted
that the new program will spur
Japan to naval construction in a
contest with the United States.
THE United States has merely
indicated in undisguised terms its
glaring hostility toward japan" says
the newspaper Nichi Nichi.
The United States Nays request
for 100000 to develop Guam
Island harbor drew particular Jap
aiese fire.
Urges Naval Program
Admiral Harold Stark, Chief of
Naval Operations, told the House
Naval Committee that the United
States will continue to use Guam
Island and harbor whether improve
ments are made or not, but he urged
the funds be provided for the work
outlined.
Admiral Stark tooay in Washing
ton again told the members of the
House Naval Committee that in con-
sidering the proposed fleet expan-
sion program I'VE must face the
possibility of an Allied defeat in
the present European war"
The Admiral said further that the
United States must measure strength
with any potential combination of
enemies" in the event the Allies are
defeated
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
PURSUIT PLANES OF NAVY
GO TO FINLAND; ROOSEVELT
PERHAPS GAVE OUT ORDER

BY PRESTON GROVER
WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Jan. ia ru-
NOR, backed most of all by a per-
fectly logical deduction, is that Pres
ident Roosevelt ordered the Navy to
give up its priority, so that the Firms
could get those Al spanking new
mode Brewster pursuit ships.
Washington knows that the Navy
would not have acted independently
to grant such marked favor to a
nation at war. Further, it ties in
with the executive action, routed
through the State Department, once
more discouraging American plane
makers from shipping planes to
countries which bomb civilian pop
uations. That served to add Russia
to the list which already-strictly
fficially-includes Germany and
Japan. Germany has bombed no
French or British populations, but
was widely suspected of planting a
few in Poland which were far wide
Of strictly military detectives.
SO TO date the U. S. contribution
to further the success of Finnish
aims includes:
Priority on fast Naval planes
Gland models, of course, not sea-
planes).
. Virtual prohibition OF similar
shipments to Russia.
Granting of s10oOo,oOo Of govern
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
Disastrous Results Hedped
on Enemy, Says Fin
nish Report
RUSSIAN OFFICERS
SUMMONED HOME
Must Face Charges as Re-
suIt OF Not Making
Greater Progress
(By Associated Press

Advices received late today from
Finland state that Russian attacks,
suddenly launched after Soveit ar
tillery preparations, have been re-
pulsed with disastrous results on
the enemy on the Eastern and ex-
treme northern fronts.
Otherwise the Finnish reports de-
clare there are no new developments
in the northern war.
Norwegian and Finnish quarters
have heard from numerous sources
that more than 100 Soviet officers
have been called back from the Fin
nish front to face trial because of
the Red Army's failure to make
progress after six weeks fighting
in Finland.
The Russian Supply Commissar-
lat is said to be under special scrut-
my.
There is no confirmation of an
army shakeup, however
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
NO GAS USED
IN SEA FIGHT

MONTEVIDEO, Jan. ia spec
ial committee of Uruguayan doc
tors report that there is no justi-
fication for the German charges
that the British used poison gas
shells in the battle with the Adj
miral Graf Spec.
Members of the committee said
they had examined the wounded
from the German battleship. The
report stated that neither the COM
nittee nor the military medical
corps found the least symptom
which might have been caused by
gas.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
Super Tax
Is LOOMING
For Defense
Ten Percent in Addition 10
Regular Income Levy
Is Proposed

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-Presi-
dent Roosevelt looks with favor on
the 10 percent super tax" on the
income tax to pay for the emer-
gency National Defense costs, Ad-
ministration officials said but he
wants congressional leaders to take
the initiative in framing the pro-
posals.
The super tax" although an in
formal idea might be applied re-
troactively to the 1889 income tax
as we'll as the 1910 income tax.
The taxpayer will compute his
levy in the usual way and then
add 10 percent to the total if the
measure becomes law.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
Railroads
Steam Back
Into Black

NEW YORK - Railroads wrote
their earnings in black in 1889, roll
ing up a profit of approximately
500, 900, 900 compared with deficit
of $123, 100000 in 1888
Net income in 1887 was about
81 500, 900 less than in the past year
although carloadings then were IL
per cent greater than in 1889. Cuts
in operating costs made the differ
ence.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
WRANGELL MARRIAGES

Miss Meredith Mitchell, on the
Bishop Rowe Hospital nursing staff,
and Lars Eide, were recently mar
ried at Wrangell. Miss Miriam
Robinson also became the bride Of
George Sumption at church we'd
ding in Wrangell.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
Heavy 1899 Rain
Boosts
juneau Normal

AS result of the exceptionally
heavy rainfall here in 1889, the Ju-
neau normal rainfall figure has been
revised, it was announced today by
Meteorologist Howard j. Thompson,
of the U. S. Weather Bureau.
The normal until this year was
1907 inches. The new normal is
8405 inches of annual precipitation.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
CAMP CLOSED

The camp at Calumet. Mayo dis
trict. has been practically closed un-
til April l. About 40 employees have
been laid off. Twenty men will,
however. remain employed:
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
ALASKA POWER
FIRM is ASKED TO
FORFEIT license
Federal Power Commits
sion Acts in Case Of
Concern Near HYder

WASHINGTON, Jan. H. - The
Federal Power Commission has Or
dered the Portland Canal and Power
Company to surrender it's license for
electric power development on Da-
Wis River, near Hyder, Alaska.
The company asked for an extern
sion from December 81, the time for
completing certain construction.
The Commission holds hat the
firm has not carried construction
forward with due diligence and
therefore asks its license be sur
rendered.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
MINERS ARE
TRAPPED BY
EXPLOSION
Eiehfy-five Men Caught
Beneath Surface-Res-
cue Crews Work

hartley, W. Va, Jan. IL. =
AS rescue crews struggled through
debris and gas toward 81 miners
entombed by an explosion which
killed at least four, mine officials
expressed the hope fifty or sixty"
will be found alive.
Crews which pushed a mile and
a quarter through the blast
wrecked corridor of the BARLEY
number one mine of the Pond
Greek Pocahontas Coal Corpora
ton are within few hundred feet
of the men trapped in the blast
yesterday.
c. j. Strollings, General Manager
of the corpora ton, reported at noon
the crews might reach the men
within six hours.
Veteran miners of this squalid
southern West Virginia coal min
ing village shook their heads and
expressed fear all had persisted.
George Pile, company auditor,
said: Chances are heavily against
finding any Of the men alive
Cause of the mishap was not
determined Immediately, although
District Mine Inspector W. c. Stur-
giss theorized it might have result
ed when the men cut through some
long unused gas filled entry.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11

When the act was pessed trans
ferring jurisdiction over Alaska
highways from the War Department
to the Alaska Road Commission no
provision was made for penalizing
those violating traffic regulations
and load limits.
Several attempts have been made
since to remedy this situation but
have failed. Delegate Dimond has
opposed such legislation because it
would, among other things, provide
legal penalty to punish those re-
fusing to pay tolls on the Richard
son Highway.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
RAIN AT WRANGELL

Wrangell had $40 inches of rain
during December which eliminated
all danger of drought.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
TRAPPED BENEATH SURFACE

TRAPPED BENEATH SURFACE
hartley, w. Va, Jan. IL. -
Mothers, wives and children clus-
tered anXiously around the smolder-
ing ruins of a coal mine last night
while rescue workers dug franti-
cally in an attempt to reach 85
miners trapped beneath the sur
face Of the earth.
The men were included among
$40 miners who were entombed
after an explosion at the Pond
Creek Pocahontas Coal Company
mine.
Forty-five men were rescued i'm
mediately after the explosion. Later
it was reported that three bodies
had been recovered.
Rescue crew leaders last night
admitted to anxious relatives that
it would take another twelve hours
to reach the IS trapped men.
simultaneously, hopes for their
safety rose when company officials
announced that the mines venti-
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11

England, Wales, Scotland, Den
mark and the Netherlands show
the lowest death rates per 100000
Of population from homicide.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11
PUT TEETH In
ALASKA ROAD
RULES Is PLEA
Interior Department Wants
Congress 10 Provide
Penalties

WASHINGTON, Jan. II. = The
Interior Department has requested
Congress to put teeth in existing
laws under which the Department
administers public roads and trails
in Alaska.
Undersecretary Alvin Writ said
in a letter to Speaker Bankhead
it is difficult to enforce existing laws
because of the lack of legal pen
atty. A maximum penalty OF 80
DAYS in jail or a fine of 500 is
suggested for violations OF regula-
tons covering the Territory's roads.
The Daily Alaska empire. [volume] (Juneau, Alaska) 1926-1964, 1940-01-11

Con tinued IN Page Eignt)
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Court Names New Trustees
For Emmitsburg Railroad
Nv tho Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
FREDERICK, Md, July 81
Trustees for the portion of the
Emmitsburg Railroad Co.'S assets
covered by a $4,000 mortgage were
appointed yesterday by Judge Ed
ward S. Delaplaine.
The court decree was signed after
a petition was entered by the Safe
Deposit g. Trust Co. of Baltimore,
assignee of the mortgage.
w. Clinton McSherry, Frederick
attorney, and J. Crosson Cooper of
Baltimore, trust company counsel,
were named trustees.
Mr.. McSherry represented James
E. Alvey in receivership proceedings
entered against the railroad some
time ago. At that time. Mr.. Nc
Sherry and Louise Sebold of En-
mitsburg were appointed receivers
for that portion of the assets not
covered by the mortgage.
The trust company petition de-
clared the mortgage was executed
and delivered to the Sisters of Char
ity at st. Joseph's College, Novem-
ber 2, 1881. 1t was assigned to the
trust company July II, 1899, and
the total debt still owning as of to-
day was placed at $14,938, including
interest.
The mortgage is in default and
long overdue, the petition said in
suggesting the court fix an upset
price at which the property could
be sold 1t also requested that pro-
ceeds from the sale be kept sep
arate from receivership proceed
ings.
The court order fixed the trustees
surety at $4,000. 1t provided that
personal property, including rails
and all scrap covered by the mort
gage be offered first, then each
parcel of real estate separately, and
finally all property together.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
FOREIGN Exchange

NEW YORK, July 81 lP---The Canadian
dollar again today gained agalnSt the
United States dollar in foreign exchange
trading, before noon bringing $50 cents,
up % cent.
peso were unchanged Hong Kong and
Shanghai exchange were of small frac-
Noon rates follow Great Britain in
dollars. others in cents.
Canada.
Official Canadian Control Board rates
for United States dollars: Buying 10 per
cent permium, selling II per cent premium,
lars in New York of buying 9.91 per
cent, selling Q 90 per cent.
Canadian dollar in New York open mar
ket 1l74 per cent discount, or SS.25 United
States cents.
Great Britain. official Bankers Foreign
Exchange Committee rates., buying 81 02,
selling 81 04; open market, cables, 3.S2.
Germany, 40 Ion (beneyolent. 11.25: Fin
land, 2.05n: Greece, IS: Hungary 19.5nn;
Italy. sos: Portugal 3.S1: Rumania, .52n;
Sweden, % 90: Switzerland, 22.15; Yugo-
slavia. 2.35n
Latin America.
Areentne official, 29.17: free, q .a5;
Brazil. official eos: free, 5.O5; Mexico
20.50n.
Far East
Japan. 23.4s; Hong Kong, 23,40: shang-
tRates in spot cables unless otherwise
= !ndicatedD
n Nominal
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Virqiniu Charter Actions

RICHMOND, Va, July 81 (P.-
Charters and amendments issued by
the State Corporations Commission
include:
Charters-Potomac River Club,
Westmoreland County, post Office
address, Colonial Beach. Non-stock
corporation. Stanley G. Adams,
president, Colonial Beach. To pro-
mote social intercourse. George
Mason, jr., attorney, Colonial Beach.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS cer-
tificate of Incorporation of Southern
Housing Corp, Alexandria. Elm
mating preferred stock from mini
mum authorized capital stock, re-
ducing rate of dividend on preferred
stock from per cent to 5 per cent
and providing for redemption. King
& Nordlinges, attorneys. Southern
Building, Washington.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
RuiIroud BondhoIders'
Checks Are Ready

WINCHESTER, Va, July 81
John 1. Sloat, trustee, announced to-
day that checks soon will be mailed
to more than 300 bondholders of the
Winchester & Wardensville Railroad
in settlement of their proportionate
share of the proceeds from the sale
of the road recently. The settle
ment will be at the rate of 1873 cents
on the dollar. Approximately SAL 300
is available for distribution, the ball
ance of the sale price of s48,300 be-
ing consumed by many costs arising
from the sale.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Orders for Defense
Are Placed on Books
|0f Steel Producers
Fabricated Contracts
Total Upward Of
$4,000 Tons
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 31.-National
defense requirements are beginning
to reach the order books OF steel
producers, Iron Age said today in
its weekly review.
This week they are noted prin-
cipally IN structural steel, sheet pill
ing and reinforcing bars" the
trade publication asserted.
Fabricated structural steel con-
tracts are upward of $4,000 tons and
include a good many defense prof.
ects. The largest munitions
contract is one of about $25,0O0, 900
placed with the National Tube Co.,
United States Steel subsidiary, Tor
airplane bombs and proJectiles.
Seamless tubing will be used for
making the bombs and deliveries
will start in about a month. Other
War Department contracts just
placed total about $4,000 ,OO0."
Japan Enters Market.
Iron Age disclosed that Japan
has entered the American steel mar
ket for more than 100000 tons of
semi finished steel, wire rods, ETC.,
which may be result of the Presi-
dents proclamation placing No. 1
heavy smelling steel SCRAP under
the licensing provision of the May
Sheppard Act"
The scrap licensing proclamation
has had no adverse effect on scrap
prices, the publication added
"On the contrary, the decline in
prices has apparently been checked
for the time being at least"
Bottlenecks Are Found.
The big demand for steel Iron
Age said, has led to some produc-
ton bottlenecks in shortages OF
raw steel, pig iron and ty-prodrct
coke.
"A heat wave throughout the
country" it continued, has pre-
vented steel plants from getting
maximum output; nevertheless the
rate for the industry has risen a
point and half over last week to
901a per cent, of capacity, a new
high for the year to date and within
few points of the peak of last No
vember.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Britain Purges Industry
OF inefficient Heads
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press
LONDON, July 31.-Labor Minister
Ernest Bevin predicted today "the
state is bound to become the biggest
employer in Great Britain.
Speaking to luncheon audience,
Bevin, labor leader of 80 years
experience, said the government had
found it necessary to throw out
many inefficient managements to
speed up factory production for war
needs. ft
Bevin asserted that industrial Eng
land never would be the same and
that it would be impossible to fall
back into the old incompetencies.
He predicted state ownership in
the United States, particularly in
railroads.
Unemployment in Britain has
virtually vanished, he said. He ex-
planned the old unemployment prob
lem was not due so much to a
shortage of jobs as to the need of
giving new skills to semi-skilled
labor.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Crude Oil Production
Increases 110,050
Barrels in Week
Advance in Texas More
Than Offsets Declines
In Other Areas
various nations.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, July 31.-Daily av-
erage crude oil production in the
United States increased 110,050 bar
rels during the week ended July
27, totaling 3,690,400 barrels, the
American Petroleum Institute re-
ports. A year ago daily production
averaged 3,539,1 100 barrels.
An advance of 186,150 barrels in
Texas output more than Offset
drop of 42,050 barrels in Illinois
production and smaller declines in
other areas. 1t was the first time
in four weeks that daily production
had exceeded the Bureau of Mines
estimated requirements.
Operations of reporting refineries
increased slightly during the week
to 82l per cent of potential ca
pacity from 816 the previous week.
Runs of crude oil to stills for the
industry as whole were estimated
at 3,555,000 barrels day, compared
with 3540,000 the week before ana
3,448,000 a year ago.
The institute placed gasoline pro-
duction during the week at II ,474 600
barrels, up from 11,378,000 the
previous week. Stocks of finished
and unfinished gasoline declined to
90,l73,000 barrels at the end of the
week, compared with 91.789,000 bar
rels the week before and 78,l58,000
a year ago.
Imports of crude and refined oils
at principal ports totaled $4,000
barrels during the week, against
l,338,000 the previous week.
Refinery operations for the week
were reported as follows, on Bureau
of Mines basis:
Crude runs to stills daily av-
erage), 1855 900; increase, $4,000.
Total United States gasoline pro-
duction (week), ll,474,000; increase,
sc, 1000.
Total finished gasoline stocks,
83,203 600; decrease, 1,436 900.
Unfinished stocks, 6,970,000; de-
crease, 10000.
Total finished and unfinished
stocks, 90,173,000; decrease, 1,6l6,000.
Gas oil and distillate fuel, 49,
981 900; increase, 1,477,000.
Residual fuel oil, 105,924000; in
crease, $4,000.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Five Meat Packers Show
SIS, 900, 900 TotoI Profit
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The Securities and Exchange Com
mission reported yesterday that five
major meat packing concerns had
combined operating profit of $685.
100000 or g per cent of sales dur
ing the fiscal year ending last Oc-
tober 81.
This was disclosed in the first of a
series of supplements to the survey
of American listed corporations. The
supplement covered Armour & Co.
of Delaware, Armour g. Co. GILL
inois), Cudahy Packing Co., Swift
e. Co., and Wilson g. Co., Inc.
The combined volume of business
was $1,947 ,000, 900, a decrease of S28,-
100000 from the previous year. Total
current assets on October 81 were
488 times as great as current Iabil-
tiles, compared with ratio of 4.21 a
year earlier.
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Radio Telephone
Calls Set Record
During June
,y the Associated Press.

BY the Associated PreSS.
NEW YORK, July 3l.-Radio tele-
phone calls over the Bell System to
South America and across the Pa
ciflc in June set new record at
1000, the American Telephone &
Telegraph Co. reported today.
July figures, it was said, may equal
or surpaSs the June total.
Overseas traffic generally, includ-
ing European circuits still open, was
reported only Is per cent below that
a year ago despite military censor
ships.
South American business-Which
has increased with the growth of
trade since the start of the war
was rated three times and Pacific
business double that of year ago
Evening star., 1940-07-31
Washington Gas Co.
Shows Increase
In June Revenue
Chesapeake & Potomac
Telephone Co. Net Is
Slightly Behind 1889

June reports of the Washington
Gas Light Co. and the Chesapeake
g. Potomac Telephone Co. were filed
today with the Public Utilities
Commission.
The gas company shows operating
, revenues of $540,s11 for June this
year, compared with $52O,363 for
June last year, an increase of
$2O,448.
Operating expenses and taxes
amounted to $533,819 this June, an
increase of $l9,820 over June year
ago incorporating income was
SI0,25S higher in June this year,
=. being $2609l. Income deductions
were slightly lower in the current
month, and the net result of opera
tions for June this year was an i'm
provement of $11,352 over June last
year, although both years show a
loss.
The company's net income for the
first half of this year was $1,074,426,
gain of $l65,064 over the same
period last year
The report also shows gas sales
nearly 7 per cent over June last
year. There were 159,321 meters in
service on June 80 this year, an
increase of 4,971 over the same
date last year. The company ex-
pended approximately $106,000 in
June and $548,000 in the first six
months of 1910 for extensions to
its property to provide for service
requirements of customers.
Telephone Income Lags.
4 While net income of the Chesa-
Reake & Potomac Telephone Co. in
June amounted to $144 ,140, against
s166,02O in June, 1899, q decrease of
$21, $50, the telephone plant in serv-
ice on June 30, 1910, was $3,028, ITO
more than on the same date last
year.
Operating revenues for June were
S1,l01 ,072, against $1,025, 1872 year
ago, and operating expenses were
$760,960, as compared with S725, ,057
in June, 1889. For the six months
of 1910 operating revenues were 7.89
per cent higher than the same
period last year. while operating
expenses were $50 per cent higher.
Net income for the six months
showed an increase Of S18,884, or
199 per cent over last year. while
the average plant in service showed
an increase of S2,726,5 ,53l, or 593 per
cent.
Taxes in June amounted to STAT
534. an increase of S52,222 over June,
1889 For the six months of 1910
taxes amounted to S70S,679. which
is Sl35 1884 more than for the same
period of 1899, an increase of 23.7
per cent.
There were 261.017 telephones in
service in Washington at the end
of June, which was an increase of
1876 telephones over the previous
month. Telephone users made 81
$4,000 calls during the month, or
2,111,000 more than in June, 1899.