06 Dec 1939
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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1939
Page
1
London dispatch reports 50 Italian made war planes delivered to Finland by air. Twenty five aircraft arrived Monday and another twenty five were flown to the Finnish Government yesterday. Italians are piloting the planes as instructors and are accompanied by Italian mechanics with extra equipment.
London reports British firms plan to provide a score of fighting planes and a substantial war material supply to Finland. Britain expresses sympathy for Finland as Helsinki honors independence heroes amid continued Russian assault with 2,000 Soviet troops captured and 64 tanks destroyed since the invasion began.
Fritz Kuhn, former head of the German American Bund, is held in special prisoner custody at Sing Sing Prison Ossining N Y. He faces a sentence of two and a half to five years for larceny of Bund funds and forgery and arrived from New York City shortly before noon.
Theo dore J. Allen, 21, of Nome, Alaska, who trapped since childhood, enlisted in Portland after seeing a Marines movie in Nome. He mushed his dog team to town to enlist, saying the film sparked his urge to join the Marines.
Inform ed sources say an accord will be concluded soon between the United States and Canada for a 200 million dollar Great Lakes St. Lawrence River deep waterway and power project.
Washington reports a technical shortage may lift domestic cotton prices by about a half cent per pound. The Agriculture Department holds 11 million bales through loans or ownership, while world demand is projected at 13.5 million bales for the coming year. Growers must repay loans at 8.3 cents plus storage, totaling 8.9 cents per pound to recover their cotton.
The passage suggests the government might release its own cotton to ease price pressure but notes it will not push prices down in 1940. Therefore the extra supply must come from growers' holdings, though they do not actually hold it.
The Bureau of the Budget warned Agriculture that no extra funds would be needed for this year’s cotton loan. Wallace argued that without a minimum loan price farmers would panic sell, noting promises made last year for crop control. The loan is fixed at 9 cents for standard grades, while the export subsidy may continue or rise to keep 6,000,000 bales moving to avoid market surplus.
Churchill reports in the House of Commons that five German submarines were sunk by French and British navies this week. He notes Allied anti-submarine efforts are destroying two to four subs weekly, a rate above Germany’s replacement capability, and cites armed merchant ships and looming countermeasures against magnetic mines.
A Reuters dispatch from Capetown reports British warships in the South Atlantic have captured the German liner Ussukuma of 7,600 tons. German officers and crew were placed aboard a warship while the prize steamer was manned by British sailors and prepared to be taken to a port. Attempts to scuttle the vessel failed as open port holes and sea cocks were found in time.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals reaffirmed invalidation of the state chain store tax law. It said the act’s classification of chain stores for taxing purposes was unreasonable and arbitrary, upholding a lower court’s demurrer in favor of the Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company.
In Moscow on December 6 an article in the Communist International urges Rumania to immediately sign a mutual aid pact with the Soviet Union. It compares to treaties with Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania and warns that English and French capitalists seek to drag small states into an imperialist war. The piece argues Romania must establish strongest ties with the USSR due to its political and economic situation.
President Roosevelt cabled Finland's Kallio on the 22nd anniversary of independence hoping the war ends soon. He said the Finnish people deserve a happier era and can continue their untroubled development of free political and social institutions admired by Americans.
Mrs. Alex Simson wife of a Simson brother and longtime Nome Fairbanks merchant arrived on the Yukon last night and rode to Fairbanks by a PAA plane today. She has spent recent years in New York. Her husband went ahead several months ago.
Harry G. Watson, secretary to the governor of Alaska for 15 years, submitted his resignation to Governor Ernest Gruening. The resignation was accepted and Miss Estella Draper was named new Secretary to Dr Gruening.
Phoenix authorities pursued Winnie Ruth Judd, the Blonde Slayer who escaped the Alaska insane hospital for a second time in a month. Searches covered vacant buildings and brush as residents reported glimpses of her. a missing razor at the barber shop is noted.
Ernest Gruening was sworn in as Alaska Governor at 7 40 pm at the Federal Building before about 40 officials and friends. He said he aims to integrate federal agency activities in Alaska and improve liaison with Washington while acknowledging Congress must grant greater autonomy, noting Hawaii’s like path to statehood.
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