The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 22, 1940, Page 1

THLE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVL, NO. 8549. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HAMBURG, NAZI CONVOY BOMBE WEST COAST | Mexico Cancels Leases of T0 GETMORE Oil Lands to Japan; Also NAVAL BASESg Rejects Bids for Scrap Iron il 9 MEXICO CITY, Oct. 22.—Presi-' ent crisis in the Orient end in + | dent Lazaro Cardenas has decided open hostilities.” Secrefary Knox Says Addi- | o™ acein Gontinental solidarity| This official said this rejection | | and has cancelled large oil con- and also cancelling of oil land tional Locations on Pacific Sought NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Secretary leases is in face of the fact United States firms refused to sell Mexi- cc’s petroleum industry badly need- ed equipment to repair several re- fineries. The official emphasized that the ‘(cssions granted last week to Jap- anese interests. A high Mexican Government of- ficial also discloses that a more than satisfactory bids, made by of N Frank Knox today said the | Japanese agents, for 18,000 tons of United States is to obtain additional | Mexican scrap iron, have been re-; Government’s cancellation of oil 1 bases on the Pacific and as- | jected because of the Japanese- lcases and scrap iron bids is in- serted that “events are now shaping | American tension on the Pacific. tended to firmly convince all na- up to determine just how far flung the bases must be.” Secretary Knox did not go into detail as to what negotiations or plans the Navy Department might pursue for additional bases but said: “We have Pacific bases that are the greatest and most invulnerable of them all is Pearl Harbor, but we need more and we will have them.” .. U. 5. T0 GIVE BACK SOME OF VICHY MONIES WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.—Part of the frozen funds of the French gov- ernment will be released monthly for the ichy government to pay em- ployees of the French Foreign of-| | fice in Central and South America —————— PROF. LEAPS T0 HIS DEATH eri, Chaddock, 51, ‘head of the De- partment of Social Science, Colum- bia University, last night leaped from the roof of a 12-story Clare- mount Avenue apartment building. to his death. | WASHINGTON — Big business members of the Commerce Depart- | l NEW YORK, Oct. 22.—Prof. Rob- | ment's Business Advisory Board got the surprise of their lives at the| to new Com- banquet they gave merce Secretary Jesse Jones | The towering, multi-millionawe | n has not been noted for his| New Dealism. As RFC boss, some- times he bluntly opposed the White| House, and his elevation to the| Cabinet met with dour mutters | certain inner Administration quoer- So when Jones rose to address his business hosts, they leaned back in comfortable anticipation of sooth- ing remarks. A few minutes later they were sitting bolt upright in startled astonishment. “These United States,” said the new Secretary of Commerce, “have been good to us. We. have made mceney, we have nice homes, wear good clothes, have fine cars and can afford banquets like this one. We can look back 50 years, when most of us started, and chart the cours- es we followed. But we can't look ahead that far and see where we are going. “But there are some things we do know about the future. One of them is that the days of making great| fortunes are over. That is finisked. Another is that the upper third, you and I, have got to have a more public-minded viewpoint. We must realize that the welfare and weil- being of the lower third is our prob- lem. We are not living in a worid by ourselves. We are as much a part of society as the fellow on the| other side of the tracks. “His problems are our problens and unless something is done about them, the world we know and want to preserve won't last very long. We business men can’t afford to be blind, or obstructitve, or stupid, You | can't turn the clock back. Remem- ber that.” H Equally unexpected was the re-| action to the Jones talk. His busi- ness hosts applauded vigorously. NOTE—Lone guest not_in dinner tions of Mexico's determination to collaborate with the family of Am- The high Mexican official says: “We do not want it to appear that/ Mexico will sell scrap iron to Ja-! erican nations on the Westein pan that might be used against Hemisphere in the matter of de- the United States should the pres- fense. Hitler’s Drive to the East : ET SR SOVIET RUSSIA o \, “QMALTA . or) DODECANESE a e (/7aL) J,.r/ Medrterr: 'ean/'ag%m\"" T German troop movements through the Balkans have precipitated a crisis which may spread the war all the way to Asia Minor. Embarking at Regensburg (1) Nazi forces are reported making their way down the Danube to Rumania. Two trainloads of military supplies have been observed passing through Maribor (2). Half a dozen troopships have been reported moving past Belgrade (3). At the same time, the German radio carried a report Bulgaria was strengthening her_ forces on the Greek and Turkish frontiers (4). % LaGuardia Revolt Plof Hecker Is Is Nipped by Putin Jail Machine Guns New York Ma_yor Is Razzed Disorder in Panama Quick- in Defroif When Goes | Iy Put Down-Suspecis fo Deliver Speech Being Rounded Up | | DETROIT, Mich,, Oct.22.—Mayor LaGuardia of New York City, pay-| PANAMA, Oct. 22—Three per- ing a whirlwind visit in behalf|OnS Were wounded here in a of President Roosevelt's reelection,| Clash described as a frustrated scuffled with a heckler on the City | 'évolutionary atempt in which a Hall steps. group of men with home-made " bombs attacked the police station As Mayor LaGuardia was walking | down teps, tepped out | At the interior town of Chorrera. 306, 56, 8. DD SteDpe | The police used machine guns from the crowd and cried: “Did Boss Flynn (Democratic Na- to beat off the attackers. tional Committee Chairman) send| The Panama authorities are busy rounding up persons accused of you here?” 3 LaGuardia strode up to the man, participation in activities again:t the Government. clothes was Averill Harriman, di-| seized him by the shoulder and ::egan to shake ‘him hard, shout- ing: “You take that back.” The police separated the two and the heckler was hustled away and placed in the police station. ———-——e— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 22. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 94%, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 82, Commonwealth and South- ern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General | Motors 50, International Harvester | 48%, Kennecott 31%, New York Cen- | tral 14%, Northern Pacific 7, United States Steel 62%, Pound $403. ' DOW, JONES AVERAGES are today’s Dow, Col. Pedro Icaza has been ar- rested as the alleged leader. GEORGE TALMADGE DIES IN SEATTLE Former Claim Agent of Al- aska Steamship Co. Passes-Away SEATTLE, Oct. 22.—George Tal- madge, 88, former claim agent for the Alaska Steamship Company, but who retired a long time ago, is dead at his home here. Talmadge started his shipping career as claim agent for the old Industrials, 131.98; | Pacific Coast Steamship Company during the Klondike gold rush. FRENCH MAY WAGE WAR | with Germans in Trade | for Open Battle LES VERRIERES, Switzerland, Oct. 22.—Pierre Laval, right hand man to Marshal Petain in the Vichy Government of negotiating with many for a possible French declar- |ation of war on Great Britain ia| | return for a definite easy peace| between France and the Axis. | Informed travelers revealed the| Laval scheme calls for such a declaration with a promise !huti France will lose only Alsace Lor-| | raine, Nice, Tunisia and Djibuti, | | Strength was lent to these re- ports by the tenor of Winston | Churchill's sudden appeal to the| French people with reiteration of | promises to let France share fully | |in a British victory. France, is e Hitler and Laval Meel ~ ForParley |German Radio Dedlares| Talk on to Get France ONBRITAIN Laval Negoiiatfng for Deal unoccupied | Ger- | POOL WINNER According to the caption received on this picture from Rome, to the Suez Canal. ASKS COURT FOR DIVORCE Husband Contésts, Wash- "V;Vriter Expelled Back Into War ! | NEW YORK, Oct. 22—The Ger-| man radio broadcast an announce- | | ment today that Hitler recetved | French Vice-Premier Pierre Lfl‘/fll! | today somewhere in France. | German Foreign Minister Count Von Ribbentrop was reported by ($her sources as also attending the| conference, with Nazi Germany| trying to get France to enter the| war against England, | The radio said the talk tock| place “during the stay in France” of Hitler. PRSP AP D PROBLEMS OF PROSPERITY FACE ALASKA Governor mening Re- turns fo Capital from Travels in Inferior Observing that he had found most of Alaska “extremely prosperous” during his travels through the In- terior, Gov. Ernest Gruening said today on his return to his office in Juneau that the new prosperity has created a number of acute problems. The prosperity is largely in con- sequence of the new defense pro- gram, the Governor said, with the places where the new military ac- tivity is under way all booming and other places feeling indirect bene- fits. “Fortunately the problems with which the communities must wrestle are problems of prosperity and not problems of adversity,” the Governor declared. Solution Possible He said solution of the difficulties would depend upon the energy, in- telligence and vision of the com- munities affected. In addition to the obvious econ- | omic benefits brought to each com- munity by the arrival of a great | number of additional people, the | great purchasing pewer and increas- |ed employment, there are many | other benefits to the Territory as a whole, he said. Among these he listed better com- | munications in the way of roads, transmission facilities and airports. | New Road Recommended The Governor said he hoped be- fore long to receive word that a| connecting highway between the | Anchorage road system and the (Contnued on Page Eight) ngfon Law, Would Give Him Split ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Oct Lila Palmer, winnor of last April's Nenana Ice Pocol, told Judge Hel- lenthal’s’ District Gourt here today her husband Axcl, in Seattle, does- n't love her, and she wants a di- vorea on grounds of incompatabil- ity. Axel has contested the suit and his attorney has asked the suit be dismissed on the greunds Lila is a resident of Sealtle. If Mrs. Palmer is a resident of Seattle, Ax2] stands to get half of his wife’s $42,000 fortune because the Washington State community property law makes the division mandatory. Lila testified she and Axel were married November 19, 1939 and that a few days later Axel left Seattle and she didn't see him again until last spring. They had lived to- gether but four days, she declared % Axel's attorney here, declared Herbert Matthews Mrs. Palmer had given her hus- Because of one of his dispatches, Herbert Matthews, correspondent in Rome for the New York Times, has been ordered to leave Italy. The dispatch mentioned Axis in- terest in the U. S. presidential election. S5 20 BOMBERS BUCHAREST ARE POISED IS SHAKEN FOR FLIGHT BY QUAKE Army Air(ra—ft_Ready for Nonstop Hop from . West fo East RIVERSIDE, Cal, Oct. 22— Twenty United States Army air bombers are poised at March Fieid band $500 when she got to Seattle after winning the ice pool and both had discussed plans for supporting their children by previcus mar- riages. It was also declared Mrs. Palmer | had applied for work in Seattle. | She testified she found Palmer had taken to drink and had no af- fection for her. Thoukana;)f Persons |’ Leave Homes for Streefs | ~Shock Lasts 90 Seconds BUCHAREST, Oct. 22.—A violent for a nonstop flight to Langley 90-second quake damaged business | Field buildings and homes in Bucharest Officials declined to commenton and also the oil fields in northern the mission except to say the Rumania late today but no reports routing of the flight will begin have been received that any lives within three days. The officials have been lost. would not discuss reports that 20 Thousands of persons are jam- planes of the same type, B-17, ming the streets, howrs after the | have been earmarked for delivecy shocks, still fearful to return to!to England their home despite radio broadcasts | - R d: e m'ifi:pp.”:mw ot | PRIVATE RAILROAD DUTCH FIGHTING NAZIS | — SOMEWHERE IN WALES—Ma-' FERDINAND, Ind. — Eighteen chine ‘guns, brought from Holland Ferdinand children ride daily o) and manned by members of the high school in Huntingburg over Dutch Legion, are assisting in 8 31-year-old railroad owned by guarding airdromes in Wales| the pupils’ parents and neighbors. "Palestine Burning After Ttalian Bombardment D BY RAF CRIPPLING | BLOWS HIT " TWOPLACES British Warpléfies Set Fires in German Shipbuild- ‘ ing Section 'SHIPS LIFTED OUT OF | | WATER BY EXPLOSIONS the arrows show where bombs struck ot Haifa, Palestine, causing large fires. J& Duce’s airmen have repeatedly bombed Pnlea}ine. |Big Scale Warfare Also fo | Be Waged in Mediter- | ranean and Egypt (By Associated Press) | British Royal Air Force warplanes | struck two crippling blows to Ger- | man shipping, the London Air Min- | istry reports, dumping tons of high explosive bombs and at least 1,000 | fire bombs on Hamburg dockyards | where German warships are under iconstrucnon‘ and blasting a Nazi convoy in the English Channel. back-door Faceor Fingerprinf! That's s b CGuestion Holding Up Adion On New Civil Service Bill | most lifted some of the ships out of |the water, while in an hour-long assault on Hamburg, numerous fires were started in the shipyards sur- | rounding the docks. Chain of Fires The Ministry said “a chain of fires became engulfed in one great flam- RS ey ing mass.” By JACK STINNETT Two more British spokesmen, | meanwhile, amplified Churchill’s as- WASHINGTON, Oct. 22. — Be- gertion-that the British will launch cause vhe House of Representatives an offensive to gain control of the insists that a federal employer has gair by 1941. a right to see what he’s getting| Lord Croft, War Under-secretary, when he takes on new hired help, declared: “The war can never be one of the most important pieces won without military decision in the of civil service legislation to come East or West or on both fronts. up in years, has bogged down. | That's why we are building up a It's the Ramspeck bill, which great army.” would bring into civil service| Increased Air Power more than 200,000 government: Another authorized spokesman in workers not now classified. | London forecast the increasing use The joker in the bill is a Sen-|of air power in British land opera- ate antendment which would sub-|tions, disclosing that squadrons of stitute fingerprinting for photo-| bombers and “quite possibly fighters graphs as a means of identifying|as well” will be placed under the civil service applicants. |army command when needed in any When it came back to the House| particular operation. with that rider and without a| This announcement was evidently House amendment which would | in reference to the heralded big scale have forced the government to|warfare in the Mediterranean-Egyp- hire workers from the 32 states|tian theatre. which do not have their quotas of Luring France Federal workers before taking any| A Rome-Berlin Axis attempt to more from over-quota states, the|lure France into declaring war on House went through the dome. It her former ally, Britain, was widely sent the bill back to conference|reported, with easy peace terms the with written instructions to tie bait dangled before the Vichy gov- House conferees that the bill was|ernment. However Britain has long not to come back without the quo-|since discounted the potentialities of ta amendment and with the un- French aid to Germany and Italy, written but understood instruction|especially at sea, as much of the that the ban on photos was to be French Navy, second most powerful tossed out the window. 1in Europe before the war, has been D |effectively crippled in naval actions |at Oran in Algié®, and Dakar, or T?r: MUC;' DYNAMleE ‘| bottled up in Alexandria or harbored e conferees agree: on ony in Eng“s}l pcru’ one thing—that the bill is too full SR . . O of political dynamite to go tossing around before election and so, as they are doing with a lot of poli-| u S NEVER a L] ' ing whether the prospective em- ployee is white or black and em- tical dynamite these days, they ployees must be chosen with IDUHDUbI'Shed Correspondl put it away until November. For| the time being at least, a Federal | employer still can see what he’s| getting. The case of those who want photcs was summed up by Con- gressman Ed Gossett of Texas when he said: “If this amendment is adopted there is no way of tell- against Nazi bombers, l‘l‘he line is only six miles long. idea of their appearance or physi- cal characteristics.” The anti-photo faction claims that the present system is a dis-| crimination against negroes and| applicants who have retained that foreign-born look, although they| might be Americans from way | back. The bill is deadlocked, but out of the battle came an interesting little historical item about the business of sending photos with applications to let your prospec- tive employer get some idea of what you look like. NOT IN THE LAW The civil service law has been in effect since 1883, but there's nothing in it about attaching a snapshot of your map with your application, In 1904, an 18-year-old country ence Revealed af Re- quest of President CHICAGO, I, Oct. 22.—At Presi- dent Roosevelt's request, Ambassador William Bullitt today revealed the unpublished correspondence which he said shows the United States did not promise to go to war to aid England and France last April. The unpublished correspondence shows that former French Premier Daladier sent a letter to President Roosevelt saying: “Ambassador Bul- litt always said to me that in case of a European conflict, France would have to make her own decision, |knowing full well that the United States would not enter the war.” Ambassador Bullitt said the new triple alliance, Gérmany, Italy and Japan, is a clear threat to the Unit- school teacher in _Pennsylvania (Continued on Page Seven! ed States. which as a nation should at once arm for war so no nation dare make an attack.