The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1940, Page 1

" THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — VOL. LV., NO. 8365. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MARCH 19, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NO PEACE PROPOSALS MADE TO END WAR | British | STATEMENT IS MADE IN SHORT TALK Prime Minister Says King- dom Is Prepared fo Meet Anything WILL NOT BE DIVERTED FROM PURPOSES OF WAR SarcaslicalI;R_éfers toCon- ference of Hitler, Mussolini LONDON, March 19.—Prime Min- ster Chamberlain told the House Commons today that Great Brit- is ready to meet anything that may arise from the Hitler-Musso- lini secret conference. “We are not likely to be diverted from the purpose for which we en- tered this war,” said Prime Min- ister Chamberlain and in a sar- castic tone, added: | “For all I know, these two gen- tlemen may have spent time in dis- cussing conditions under which an Italian ship was destroyed yester- day 2 German mine.” Chamberlain addressed a packed House of Commons on the con- duct of the war. His statement was nely brief but pointed. he Prime Minister called the | German air raid on Scapa Flow last Saturday as a complete failure and said 121 high explosive bombs and 500 incendiary bombs were dropped on the Orkney Islands over an area of 100 square miles| and only one British warship sul-i fered minor damage, | | | ai Can-can girls d ‘A Night at the Folies Bergere,” slose up the show. the dialogue. All his changes, WILD DRILLING IS ENDED Search for Oil in Areas in Shelikof Straits, Al- aska, Stops FRANCISCO, Cal, AIR BASE SAN Ma-ch 19 | California announces abandonment |of wildcat oil drilling operations which were undertaken in 1937, working with the Associated and iUnmn 0il Companies. The statement said the companies have drilled 7,596 feet in the Bear Creek and Salmon Creek areas | west of Shelikof Strait and have i found *“no indications of zommer- | cial oil or gas.” - (CC BEING ' REDUCED AS FUNDS DROP | WASHINGTON, March 19— | Civilian Conservation Corps |nounces a reduction of 50,000 enroliment, effective the first | next month. | The reduction is the first since | the CCC was organized in 1932 and |is the result of a reduction in funds appropriated by Congress. Enroliment will be reduced from 300,000 to 250,000 by July 1. British Min;s;r_y Tonigh Announces Raid on German North Sea LONDON, March 19.—The British Air Ministry announces that Royal Air Force planes “attacked and se- verely damaged the German North Sea air base at Hordom on the Is- and of Sylt tonight. “This is one shore base from which German airraft operate against our Naval forces and mer- chant shipping. This actipn follows the attack. made upon our shore bases in the Orkney Islands.” et Bad Check Charges Facing Flier Dahi LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 19. —Flier Harold Dahl faces bad check charges in Los Angeles County, but the District Attorney’s offices said that no attempt will be made to ex- tradite him to California. | OUIEI' plEASE! Dahl returned to New York after| WINTER HAV; March 19. spending two years as a prisoner of | Spain’s Generalissimo Francisco ‘While most of the New York Gian! Franco. The young American avia- | players are stopping at a resort tor was flying for the Spanish Loy-|hotel here, second baseman Bur- alists when he was forced down| gess Whitehead lives at an auto- back of the Franco lines. He was| mobile camp. Whitehead says he sentenced to death, but Gen. Franco | wants quiet. He is studying to- spared his life on the plea from ward a college degree. e e Dahl’s young wife. KASHEVAROFF ILL The rheck charges were filed be- fore Dahl went to Spain. The Rev. A. P. Kashevaroff is ill jat his home today. ——————— | — e DR. DICK HERE | HAYES ILL Dr. Noble Dick of Fairbanks ar-| an- in of jort e -The Standard Oil Company of |3 Dress Up,v Girls or Else! oing their number Deseribing the costuming “particularly flagrant,” City Censor John spencer of Boston ordered chorus girls and principals in the show, to put on more clothes or else he'd He also ordered a line of profanity stricken from he said later, were made. Above, the can-can girls are doing their number. (AT President’ Son's Wife Badly Hurt Horse Falls velt, Jr., Result of Accident CHARLOTTESVILLE, V rrginia, ch 19.—Mrs. Franklin D. Roose- velt, Jr., wife of the President’s son, suffered a fractured pelvis and brain concussion today as the result of a fall from a horse. Mrs. Roosevelt was horsgback rid- ing. In attempting to ‘take her mount, over a picket fence at the home of Dr. and Mrs. Rolert Funs- ten, the horse fell and rolled on top of Mrs. Roosevelt. She was ren- dered unconscicus. Witnesses ran to her assistance, 1a doctor was summoned and she was | removed to the Funsten house where a speedy examination resulted in discovering her injuries. | Young Roosevelt, attending class- {es at the University of Virginia |Law School, as notfeid and he im- | mediately left for here. Mrs. Rooseveit is the former Ethel DuPont. - e, 'OPPOSITION T0 ~ HATCH BILL IS ROUNDLY STATED | Speaker Bankhead Will, However, Not Attempt to Pigeon Hole It WASHING TON, March 19— Speaker of the House Bankhead i | | | | expresses opposition to the Hatch | ;Bl]l but denied that he will take |any steps to prevent its considera- tion in the House. Bankhead was asked to comment on reports that he and House Ma- | | jority Leader Rayburn would use their influence to pigeon-hole the | bill passed yesterday by the Senate. | The Speaker denied that he had | or would make any such move. ‘ | Bankhead said he thought the| | original Hatch Act went far enough | | without writing in more restric- on Mrs. Roose- | ~Will Continue EUROPE HAS NUMBER ONE PUZILENOW Nothing Definite Is Given Out About Hitler and Mussolini Talk 'VARIOUS RUMORS ARE BEING SPREAD TODAY New line-u}?HinIed, Es- pecially in Southern Countries (By sociated Press) Just what Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Italian Premier Benito Musso- lini talked about at the Brenner Pass secret conference yesterday is today Europe’s number one puzzle. Somewhat divergent accounts are | coming out from Rome and Berlin | regarding the conference. | In Paris and London the Allied | Governments face angry question- | ing about the conduct of the pres- ent war. | Expect New Order | Both military and diplomatic fronts indicated they expect a “‘new order” to emerge from the exten- sion of the Rome-Berlin axis to Moscow. German Intent There is another indication that implies Germany intends to “end this war victoriously.” German comment mentions ‘pusslbxmy of an Italian-Russian | reapproachment, probably entail- ing some agreement over the Bal- | kan situation.” “Neutralization” Rome comment touched also on the possibility of “neutralizing” the Balkan flank to head off Allied |control in southeast Europe and | assuring Germany sources of sup- ply, principally from Rumania. Catholic Safeguard A Vatican source disclosed that ermany and the Vatican are ne- gotiating an -agreement to safe- guard Catholic rights in territories annexed by Germany. In both Allied capitals, anger, brought to a head by Finland's capitulation to the peace terms of | Russia, has forced the Allied Gov- ernments to prepare for a scheduie {of debates on the war issues and also Cabinet changes. Stockholm discloses that Sweden has been assured by Russia that the Soviet Union has no territorial ambitions in the Scandinavian coun- tries, | the BIG MERGER TAKES PLACE tiss-Wright, Atlas Cor- poration Reported Combined NEW YORK, March 19.—It is | officially announced that the Cur- tiss-Wright Corporation will merge | with the Atlas Corporation. | The financial deal totals $165,- | 000,000.-The name of Curtiss Wright | will be retained, | Cur 'No Censure, British Shipping Ministry LONDON, March 19.—The House of Commons last night defeated a move to censure the Shippiug Ministry, is was accomplished after the House had been informel that Jack Hayes, proprietor of Lhe‘\tluns and involving some half a Great Britain contemplated build- o clear and swam to safety. | | | Roosevelf as As a Calif ROOSEVELT IMPROVING: HAS FEVER President Resumes Work Today But on Limit- ed Schedwle WASHINGTON, March 19.—Pres- ident Roosevelt has still a slight touch of fever but he resumed work today on a limited schedule, in- budgetary and appropriation proo- lems with Budget Director Harold Smith. President Rooseveit's vemperature was today half a degree above normal, This was the statement made by White House Physician Dr. Ross MclIntyre. .- — SHIPS COLLIDE IN NORTH SEA; ONE GOES DOWN OSLO, March 1ly.—A North Sea collision in which the Norwegian steamer Basra was sunk and another Norwegian ship was badly dam- aged, is confirmed from Scotland. The 3,800-ton steamer Liska limped into a Scottish port with a damaged hull and carrying the crew of the sunken vessel —————— They Wil Do It Every Time NEW YORK, March 19.—Sports writers have tagged two nicknames on Lee Savold, the young heavy- weight from Iowa. One is “Lethal rived on the Yukon and is awaiting Hayes Shop continues ill at his home 'million Federal and State em- 108 more ships than the Nazis|Lee” and the other is ‘“Corn- plane transportation to the Interior. in the ‘MacKinnon Apartments. | | ployees. could sink. belter.” “Sister Ships of Pictured at their base in Nieuwendiep, the 0-11, which was sunk in a collision with After twenty minutes the stern of ““aard from a rescue vessel, pried open & hatch and freed all but two of the remaining crew. -fiiidenl Nof Cracked Up;w | cluding a 'noontime discussion of | g Ill-Fated Dutch the sub men were in a torpedo Chipper Now ornia Blue Jay By PRESTON GROVER WASHINGTON, March 19.—Note to the Philadelphia man who hears the President has so far cracked up mentally and physically that his personal physiclan has taken up residence at the White House in order to be near him every mo- ment Somebody’s been kidding you. Admiral Ross T. McIntyre, the President’s doctor, has not taken up residence at the White House, and he's still bug-eyed, as he al- ways has been, over the Presi- dent’s metabolism, In short, he can't understand /hy the President’s physical re-| lactions are contfnuously normal] man of his age, why his for heart, his kidneys, or some of his | other vital organs don't show some signs of weakness occasion-| | ally. But they don't. And the Pres-| has a pretty bad record as | health-wrecker, too. a FEELS H YEARS Now. Mr. Philadelphian, if some- | body has told you that the Presi- dent tires more easily as he enters his eighth year in the White House hat both his mental and physi- |cal snap are not so good as they were on March 4, 1933, then you'd be getting the McCoy about the President’s health. For he does feel the weight of his 58 years — probably not so much as the average man, but he | does {eel 'em. In truth, he himself felt the need of a vacation when the Canal Zone a He was pretty i | he sailed for few weeks ago. fagged out. The President takes his physi- (cal and mental health seriously— particularly his mental alertness. He doesn't trust even the word of his doctor and the people around | him on that score. He's got a per- sonal test he's constantly apply- ing to himself. It's the Presidential press con- ference. The President regards that twice-a-week meeting with the best minds in capital journalism as his own private mental testing ground. His good natured banter with the reporters is oftentimes more than that, Occasionally he's deliberately swapping verbal punches with | the reporters just to assure him- elf he can take it—and dish it out—as fast as ever. Inevitably he’s found out—and the reporters " (Continued on Page Beven) Holland, are the Dutch submarines 0-12 a tugboat in Denhelder naval harbor. ‘two liners today ‘over the ships, tish Admiralty Submarme | and 0-13, sister ships of Ten men on deck sprang emerged. Naval officers leaped The missine LINERS MAY BE USED AS TRANSPORTS Mauretania, Queen Mary, May Carry Australians fo Baftlefields NEW YORK, March 19—It was unofficially revealed here that Great Britain may plan to use the lux- ury liners Mauretania and Queen Mary as troop ships to transport "Australians to the European battle- fields. This was revealed when 770 of- ficers and men arrived here to sup- plement the skeieton crews of the two liners which have been in port since the outbreak of the war. There was great activity on the as the hundreds of crewmen who arrived aboard the Antonia from England swarmed augmenting the skeleton crews aboard It was indicated that the liners may also carry Canadian troops overseas as well as Australians. NO COMMENT NOW LONDON, March 19.—The Brit- and other English sources declined to make any com- ment on the report from New York. - e Sentence Six High Eraders TORONTO, March 19.—Six men face penitentiary terms for con- spiring to sell high graded gold and silver ore The men have been given sen- tences from one to three years. The Crown Counsel said when the men were sentenced that the charges against them involved high graded ore to the value of hun- dreds of thousands of dollars. D MARRIED HOLLYWOOD, Cal, March 19.— The home of Gracie Fields' parents | provided the setting last night for her marriage to Movie Producer Monty Banks. The British comed- jene and her producer took out a marriage license last week. Bankes ripped up one appjfication when newsmen asked him to identify his prospective bride. SILENCE IS NOW BROKEN BY WELLES American Umr Secrefary of Stafe Issues Form- al Statement NO OVERTURES MADE T0 HIM; HE MAKES NONE Fact Finder for Roosevelf Goes to Genoa-Starts Home Tomorrow ROME, March 19. Sumner Welles, American Under Secretary of State, disclosed tonight that no peace plan or mediation proposals have been offered him by any of the belligerent or other European governments during his fact-finding conversations on his present Euro- pean trip. The statement of Welles was made just before he left for Germoa | trom where he will sail tomorrow for the United States. ‘Welles declared emphatically that he had not conveyed any sugges- tions of peace to any power and no power has made any concrete peace proposals to him. Welles broke his silence he has maintained while on his European tour. He said he was taking “facts” home to President Roosevelt to study. HEADLINES FOR PEACE ARE EMPTY U. S. Government Denies Eleven Points Have Been Suggested WASHINGTON, March 18.— Stephen Early, Presidential Secre- tary, said today that on the basis of authoritative reports received by this Government ‘“peace headlines in newspapers would appear to be very empty.” Early said no information has been transmitted to the United States Government from any source supporting published stories that eleven points have been suggested as a basis for European peace fol- lowing the secret conference yes- terday between Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Italian Premier Benito Mus- solini. CHINESE LOSE OUT SHANGHAI, March 19.—Chinese troops have completely disappeared from the Nanning area as a result of the Japanese entry into Ling- shan, 50 miles northeast of Yam- chow last Sunday, the official Jap- anese news agency reports. Domei said Japanese troops siash- ed their way in furious hand to hand fighting and entered Ling- shan which is the key transporta- tion center in southwetern Kwang- tung, near the Kwangsi border. ACTRESS ILL HOLLYWOOB, Cal, March 19.— Friends of film actress Joan Fon- taine revealed that she is seriously ill in a Hollywood hospital where she has been since last Friday. Miss Fointaine is the wife of film actor Brian Aherne.