30 Dec 1939
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Newspaper
The Daily Alaska Empire
Location
Juneau, Alaska, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1939
Page
1
In the Anatolian earthquake zone, aftershocks hinder rescue work, triggering avalanches and blocking roads and rail lines. Survivors are pulled from debris amid freezing temperatures as buildings crumble under recurring quakes. Death toll and disease remain uncertain.
Reuters dispatch reports suicide squads on skis cutting the Leningrad Murmansk railroad in three places causing a food shortage at Murmansk. An Exchance Telegraph Agency Helsinki dispatch says Russians bomb Tampere munitions base and other military centers with no casualties reported. Finnish High Command says a fierce onslaught pushed Saiaiet troops back across the Soviet border north of Lieska, inflicting heavy casualties.
Betty Sharpe of the Forest Service offices is returning aboard the Yukon after a vacation that included a brief trip to Honolulu. She will leave Seattle tomorrow morning.
Washington observers note a formal Garner announcement mask a deeper push for presidential delegates. The 71-year-old vice president faces mixed signals as Texas leaders back him, while others doubt his readiness and motives. Continued discussion follows as reporters seek clarity on his true intent.
Washington December 30 A White House notice says Charles Edison is appointed Secretary of the Navy. Edison has served as Acting Secretary since the death of Claude A. Swanson last July. The nomination will go to the Senate when Congress convenes next week.
In Montevideo on December 30, Foreign Minister Alberto Guani said the German merchantman Tacoma would be ordered to leave port within 24 hours or be interned for the war duration. The decree follows British pressure and notes Tacoma supplies oil for the Admiral Graf Spee, which was sunk after a clash with British warships off the coast. The World notes 200 distinct duck species, about 50 in North America.
By Associated Press. Problems at home occupied the powers as Europe faced a new year torn by war on the Western Front and in Finland. British dissensions and unrest amid Irish and Indian issues complicate affairs. France set a five billion four hundred eight million dollar war budget for 1940 to be borrowed from the people. Moscow indicated preparations for major battles on the Finnish Soviet front with veteran fighters replacing inexperienced conscripts. Northern Ireland faced extraordinary military precautions and Eire feared civil strife.
The estates of Ernest Kruse George Lee and Andrew Lee filed a $70 000 wrongful death suit in the Federal Court. The action names the New England Fish Company owners of the cannery tender involved in the August Alaska waters wreck.
Associated Press reports a British plane and a French warship sank a German submarine off the coast during the forenoon. The German communique claimed quiet on the Western front while weather hindered air activity.
The Daily Herald reports Corporal Thomas Friday was the first British soldier killed in action in the present war. He fell on December 9 during patrol duty between German and British lines on the Western Front.
Seattle December 30. William Monrean president of Building Trades Council and George A. Mulkey Electrical Workers representative denied Alaska Governor Ernest Gruening’s claim that Sitka and Kodiak contractors discriminated against Alaska residents. Mulkey noted 32 of 132 Sitka workers and 73 of 189 Kodiak workers were from Alaska. Monrean argued only skilled labor unavailable in Alaska was imported from the States. Gruening, returning to Washington to protest to the Acting Secretary of the Navy, called the alleged discrimination the grossest kind under the contracted union agreement.
San Francisco, Cal. Dec 30. The Pacific American Shipowners Association signed a two year working agreement with the Masters Mates and Pilots of America. Shipowners and the union have operated since Sept 30 under an extension of the old pact. Terms of the agreement have not been announced.
Five more PAA passengers were taken to Whitehorse from Fairbanks today joining eight others flown from Fairbanks yesterday waiting for favorable weather to complete the trip to Juneau. Pilots Al Monson Walt Hall Murray Stuart and Gene Meyring are assisting as passengers listed include J E Hopkins Charles Lewis Herman Lerdahl Arbuckle Vern Gorsline R Glerke c Bunnell Carl Hallberg Karl Thiele Herb Kittlesby Helen Hall and Bradford Grosmoen.
Margaret Huntley an 18 year old Pasadena California Junior College co ed has been chosen to reign over the Tournament of Roses festival in Pasadena on New Year’s Day.
In Italy at Torne Annunziata station an express train rear collided a troop train amid snow and cold. The express had right of way and investigators blamed a switch failure. Rescue efforts hampered by two inches of snow.
In Greeley a buyer paid $5 for an elderly rooster entered in a contest of 20 birds to find the hardest eating bird. The buyer aims to use the bird for a cooking demonstration, noting the bird’s age and toughness as decisive.
Washington December 30 With President Roosevelts approval the Jackson Day Dinner committee invited Republican Congressional leaders as honor guests for January 8 Invitations note the dinner speech will be non partisan Republicans invited include Senator McNary Oregon Senator Austin Vermont and House minority leader Representative Martin Massachusetts The invitation lists the party leaders and officials connected to the event
A 700 ton German naval craft sank in a southeast Stockholm snowstorm today. Of 38 crew, only one casualty reported. Survivors were rescued hours later by rescue craft responding to an SOS call.
Washington Dec 30 The United States and Canada signed a supplementary trade agreement limiting imports of silver and black fox furs into the United States to 68 300 furs annually. Fox fur duties drop from 37 percent to 35 percent. The pact also caps total annual imports from other countries at 41 700 furs.
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins will decide on Harry Bridges, West Coast CIO leader, after James M. Landis found Bridges not a member or affiliate of the Communist Party. Landis offered no deportation recommendation but indicated grounds for removal were not met. Bridges testified the 1938 charge stemmed from alleged advocacy of overthrow by force. Perkins now weighs Landis findings and next steps.
Berlin reports Fuhrer Adolf Hitler cancels his Chan cellery reception and declares in a year end address to the party that 1940 will bring German victory. He says the Reich fights to construct a new Europe and to liberate Europe from oppression and threats originating in England. The new Europe must be shaped by young productive peoples and forces.
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