The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 26, 1940, Page 1

« ARSI N T " THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e ———— = VOL. LV, NO, 8553. BRITISH JUN‘EAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS , NAZI RAIDERS RAISE HAVOC Lewis Announces His Support o Indian Braves Told fo Get RAF InLine, Answer Draft Call; NAZISHIPS Fifth Columnists Suspected ON CHANNEL (10 CHIEF Takes Pledge He Will Re- sign Labor Leadership If FDR Reelected STATES HIS REASONS FOR HIS OPPOSITION Declares Unemployment Is Not Solved - Nation WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — John L. Lewis last night announced over a gigantic radio broadcast his sup- port of Wendell L. Willkie for Presi- dent and said if Willkie should be dofeated he would retire as Presi- dnet of the CIO. “T will accept the result as being equivalent to a vote of no confi- dence and this action will save our great movement, composed of mil- lions of men and women, from the embarrassment of the handicap of my leadership during the ensuing reign of President Roosevelt.” The {ull statement made by Lewis regarding his resignatiom was as follows: “It is obvious that President Roosevelt will not be reelected for the third term unless with the sup- port of the men and women of labor. If he is therefore reelected it will means that the members of the Con- gress of Industrial Organizations nave rejected my advice and recom- (Continued on page Six) WASHINGTON — We have seen, in an earlier Merry-Go-Round col- umn cn the Far Eastern crisis, how the United States and Great Bri- tain planned to cut off Japan’s scrap jron, cil, cctton and coppei ing the first- invasion of China in 1¢37, and thus paralyze the Jap- anes military machine. This plan was revived again dur- ing the Panay incident in 1938, but cach time there were differences of opoinion and the plan fell fiaf. Tcday, almost exactly the same problem faces the Administration, and again there are basic differ- ences of opinion—differences which are honest and natural when the future peace of the country is at stake. The group inside the Cabinet which favors a complete stoppage of Japan’s raw materials of war, especially her oil, includes Secre- tary of War Stimson, Secretary of the Navy Knox, Secretary of Inter- ior Tckes, and Secretary of Tre: ury Morgenthau—also certain Ad- mirals of the Navy. Perhaps it is cignificant that the strongest ad- vecates of complete embargoes against Japan are the three Repub- lican members of the Cghine! - stimsen, Knox and Ickes. On the other hand, the State Department plus some of the Ad- mirals favor a go-slow policy tom_;rd Japan. They believe in applying the embargoes gradually, or as Mr Ickes describes it, “cutting off the dog’s tail by inches.” JAPAN MIGHT ATTACK Specifically, they do not believe in cutting off Japan's oil supply: which is the all<important. ques- tion under diplomatic discussion between the British and American governments. The State Department concurs that cutting off Japan's oil would paralyze her fleet after her pres- ent two and a half months' supply dur-| SANFRANCISCO Cl0 CENSURES LEWIS ACTION Council Votes Disapproval 83 fo 15 - Ask Chief fo Stay Anyway SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 26. — The Industrial Union Council (CIO) to- day announced it had voted dis- approval of the action of John L. Lewis last night in supporting Wen- dell Willkie for President The vote of the CIO central co- ordinating body was 83 to 15 to cen- sure the Lewis move, the vote com- ing after a two-hour debate. The Council urged, however, that Lewis continue as head of the CIO “irrespective of the outcome of the election.” LEWIS WON BY CABINET GUARANTEE Washingiome rry-Go- Round Exposes Deal Made by 6.0.P. In exchange for the support of | John L. Lewis in last night's radio | speech, Wendell Willkie promised | the CIO leader that he could name | the Secretary of Labor in the Will- | kie Cabinet, according to Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, in a | special Washington Merry-Go- {Round column “for immediate re- lease,” which was mailed from Washington last Wednesday, two days before Lewis spoke, and which was received by the Empire via the | Alaska Clipper last night. The special Washington Merry- | Go-Round release on the Lewis- | Willkie tieup is as follows: “Inside story of how John L. Lewis was inveigled into taking over Willkie radio time against Roosevelt hinges around two prom- ises to the bushy-browed CIO leader .One promise was that he could name the Secretary of La- bor in the Willkie Cabinet, and second that Willkie would enforce decisions of the National Labor Re- lations Board on defense contracts. So far Roosevelt has not entirely | done this. | | | { Definite Offer “After these overtures were made to Lewis he countered with the sug- | gestion that R. J. Thomas, head | of the United Automobile Workers Union, was wavering and might be won over to Willkie also if he were | promised the job of Labor Secre- tary, When the Republicans ap- proached Thomas, however, he gave them a flat cold shoulder, “In promising to do the broad- | cast, Lewis forgot about the Hatch Act which, in the opinion of some legalists, would prevent the CIO or Labor's Non-Partisan League from donating more than $5,000 to a political party. The broadcast | costs $65,000, Furthermore, Lewis will -have trouble with his Execu- tive Board, which is almost un- animously for Roosevelt, if he trius to collect the cash from individual units of the United Mine Workers or the CIO. Weir Is “Angel” “So in the end, any deficit for Lewis' big broadcast was guaran- teed by the Republican Finance Committee. Head of this commit- tee is Ernest Weir, steel magnate whom John L. Lewis has foughs; and behind the Republican Finance Committee are such former oppon- ents of Lewis as Tom Girdler of | Republic Steel and Joe Pew of the |Sun Oil Company. | “Lewis’ decision to break defin- |itely with Roosevelt came after a | White House conference last week, |at which the CIO chieftain again !demanded reappointment of J. | Warren Madden as head of the | Labor Relations Board, together | with the enforcement of Labor 'Baard decisions by the National | Defense Commission. When he came l (Continued on Page Five) EIPLORER CINCITY ~ BRIEFLY Stefansson Making FIighil Info North for Pan American Airways | A Tew hours by airplane from Sz- attle to the Arctic Slope represent- ed something different yesterday for 61-year-old veteran explorer Vil- hjalmur Stefansson than it did in 1907 when he passed through the city of Juneau for the first time Stefansson, since 1932 has been .northern operations adviser for Pan American Airways and is making a routine flight to the North Coun- try in that capacily now. He passed through Juneau yestesday after-| noon, arriving by PAA clipper and flying to the Interior a half hour later on a PAA Electra without coming to town, | The gray-headed veteran of mote Arctic experiments thanh any man in the list of exploratory research recalled yesterday that in 1907 it took foot travel, rafts, canoes, two river steamers, a railroad and an- other steamer to take him the Arc- other steamer to take him to the Arctic from the States in contrast to the miles a minute prospect of flying literally from dawn to dusk | yesterday over the same route. | Walks Westward | In 1907, when Stefansson was :coming out of Fort McPherson, |near the far north mouth of the McKenzie River, he walked the 80 miles overland to the Bell River on the Porcuping in four days’ journey. There he built a raft and went downstream towards the dis- tant Yukon for another four days’ pericd until he met Indians with canoes and hired them to paddle him to Fort Yukon, another day away. | From Fort Yukon he went up- river to Dawson on the old paddle- wheeler, the ‘Hannah. At Dawson he boarded another river steamer for Whitehorse boarded a White Pass train to Skagway and there took the Princess Sophia for Seat- tle, getting only an early morning glimpse of Juneau. Stefansson expressed regrets he did not see Juneau this time (the clipper came up Chatham Straits) and admitted he would not be able to see the city at all on this trip as he will fly south from the In- terior in a few days via the Yu- kon-Southern route . Mrs. Ernest Gruening, who knew Stefansson in Washington, m-~t him when the Clipper landed. Stef- ansson talked briefly with Gov. Gruening over the telephone from the airport. Also greeting the famed explorer was Mrs. Charles W. Hawkesworth who knew Stefansson intimately when he was her and her husband's guest when they were stationed at Paint Barrow many years ago. “Then men used to sit. around and play chess and eat pieces of raw fish,” Mrs, Hawkesworth laugh- ingly recalled. But for an Empire reporter, who inquired if he hadn't possibly read the directions wrong when he once attempted to eat a raw trout, Stef- ansson style, the veteran Arctic traveler only smiled. TOTEM POLE T0 BE SET UP AT 6OV'S. MANSION Indian Handiwork Towed from Ketchikan by For- est Service Launch A totem pole which will be erected at the Governor’s Mansion here has been received from Ketchikan, the Forest Service announged today. The 40-foot pole was carved by Indians at Saxman and brought here on a scow towed by the vessel Ranger IX. It will be set up shortly. . (10 Official Thinks Willkie To Gef Little The Willkie “boost” handed out last night by John L. Willkie, Pres- ident of the CIO, ‘won’t get Willkie many union votes” in the opinion of John L. Covich, Secretary of the Juneau Mine and Mill Workers Un- ian, local 203. Covich declared today that he felt Lewis would not swing many ballots | to the Willkie by his action and that the speech he made will meet with universal CIO rank and file disap- proval. S e, — ROOSEVELT SENDS NOTE 10 FRANCE American Inferests in Ne- gofiations with Germany Are Mentioned by FDR WASHINGTON, Ocl. 26.--Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull annouced | today President Roosevelt sent 2 “communication” to the French Government several days ago with regard to negotiations now under way between France and Germany and their effects on American in- terests. The note was dispatched about the time Hitler and Petain met “some- where in occupied France.” Hull declined to make public the text or any details of specific sub- jects involved. - AIR SERVICE T0 LEAS FOR - UNITY OF AMERICANS Faulkner Warns that Dan- ger fo U. S. Lies in " Apathy of Patriots Tonight's | Naticnal unity, without preju- L dice. ¥ That was the plea made last| a Io a flght by Attorney H. L. Faulkner| in a crowded, flag-filled Elks Hall| an Americanism meeting, a plea for, Npw YORK, Oct. 26.—Political Iplacing of national social PUrpOSe q)ks scheduled by the networks for Before public purse in the prepara- oqsy are as follows (Juneau time): #on of (his nation for defense. Wendell Willkie from New York { #vOur efforts towards national via NBC at 5:30 p. m defonse will be of no value” Mr.| Alfred E. Smith from Chicago via Faulkner declared, “without unity Mutual at 6:30 p. m {in the understanding of the term General Hugh Johnson from Bos- Americanism.” ton via NBC at 7 p. m. Norman Thomas from New York via CBS at 7:45. | B 1.1t apodoation. WILLKIE TALK CANCELLED | “Americanism,” he said, “Has NEW YORK, Oct. 26.—Republi- | come to mean too many things tn:mm headquarters here announced us” and lacks the potency of sin-iyq,y wendell Willkie had cancelled {&ie igtiect. |his New York broadcast scheduled | “We place too much emphasis on for 5:30 o'clock Pacific Time to- Definition of “Americanism” is not our trouble, Faulkner said, but ra- |the dollar,” he said, declaring la- n'ent. Senator Lodge will take his (ter: “We have permitted ourselves place. {to fall into classes, cliques, groups, The “complicated nature” of Will- and’ special interests. We think kjes tour through the city today of ‘America in terms of how We would make arrangements diffioult, benefit individually, and not col- it was explained. o 0ot s BERN 15 CENTER FOR COURIERS OF When Germany and Great Bri- | tain were suddenly revealed to the world in a state of war, Faulkner, in a crowded hotel in the States, declared “people stcod arcund in |groups of twos and three—and few AR'ES | listened.” | . Ju ; A year later, this past month, Faulkner continucd, he was on & BgERN, Switzerland, Oct. 26.—The railroad coach In which a radio was'jron gate of the United Stats le- |tuned on, carrying a speech by a|gation,at Bern swings open several inaticnal political candidate Who times each week to admit travel- | f Willkie By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 26.—Among | my reports on the state of the na- | tion, this one shall be titled the | American Indian and National De- | fense. The crying need for such a sur- vey became apparent the | day when of the Senecas and of the Mohawks of a tempest in three chi caused something | a teepee by 1\:1—‘ RAF BOMB Clear Weather Furnishes | Opportunity for Ex- tensive Attacks LOMDON ASSAULTED AT NIGHT; ALSO DAY other Chief Wilfred Crouse' nouncing to the young braves ofl their tribes that the Senecas and Mohawks being independent nax»[world wakhes 'or OU'- tions and none of the trive mem-| come of Three-Power bers being a citizen of the United | | This | was discussing the foreign policy (By Associated Press) { P ¥ edi " i of the United States of America. n g The Mediterranean situation was “And.ofly O othier man out of highlighted today with reports that! ' "og™ on hia't car listened!” is s ing air service U Iisly -8 sagobuding orF‘au)lmer said, sounding a warning Greece ten days from now. | _then that “Our danger today from i move i intenynaod. se, dc lack of national unity and social t calive. of gn. imminen showdown‘refipms‘b”ny is greater even than is | " il we Axibpownts |in that period over 100 years 8g0 {whcn in 1830 the north and south lAvAl REmR"S !were threatened with division over |t | sectonal issues. In closing his plea for a vigor- ouys national unity coinparable to that which the country enjoyed when America was first entrusted with (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Vice Premier Laval returned to g A s to the world, Faulkner read a quo- Vichy after conferring with Itallnn,,wucn of a speech made in 1830 Gell::::rl\ ;ngugp:;“;?tel::d:rsc'abinet‘by that most famous orator-patriot meetirig ‘at, ‘Which ‘Mamhal Petain,| °f, Amarican, history, Daniel Web- '|ster, who cried out in anguished S;:?Ligzss:itffi ‘;;fie:mml On CON- |\ rayer for “liberty and union, now 2 i and forever, one inseparable.” — - Stars and Stripes (lIPPER An American Legion color guard | the social duty of proving democracy | like ! weary young men bearing sealed gray sacks toward which their man- ner is something akin to that of a mother hen toward her chicks. They deposit their burdens and hasten off for a shave, a thick Swiss .steak, a stroll through Bern's se- date but well-lighted streets and a night’s sleep in an jmmobile bed. | Next day, surrounded by more | bulging sacks, they will be rolling loff to distant fronties through ccuntries where no lights glow at night, where air raids may halt !trains and where food rationing makes thick steaks rare indeed. The gray sacks are the diplomatic | pounches of the United States De- | partment of State. They are stuffed {with the reports which influence | American foreign pelicy and the de- partment’s confidential instructions to its emissaries abroad. The young men are the couriers who chaperon this freight hither and yon over | Europe’s war-disrupted transporta- (tion systems. The “legation in Bern is small, but war has made it the State De- partment’s central postoffice in Europe. AR 7 1 STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oet, 26. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock at today’s short sessions is 4'%, | American Can 95%, Anaconda |23 3/4, Bethlehem Steel 84, Com- | monwealth and Southern 1 | tiss Wright 7%, General Motors 50%, International Harvester 49%, | Kennecott 33, New York Central 14 374, Northern Pacific 7, United States Steel 64%, Pound $4.03%. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 132.26, | rails 28.65, utilities 22.52. | e | BACK FROM VISIT States, they did not have to regis-| ter for the draft. wasn't the first time that the Senecas had announced their independence of the laws of the United States. George B. Dekker, of Buffalo, took that position for his tribe in 1912 and held it until 1926. Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier calls this “a pleasing myth of unlimited sovereignty whose esthetic value s real to themselves.” But he goes on io point out that it is merely a myth and that the young Seneca and Mohawk braves had better be- have themselves and get in line. He points out too that nobody hearing of Chief Crouse's state- ment should question his or the Senecas’ and Mohawks’' patriot- ism, courage or loyalty to the United States. There were Sen- ecas and Mohawks in the World War, The Onandagas, who, like the Senecas and Mohawks, are members of the Iroquols federation, even went so far as to declare war on Germany in the World War and although they quit fighting when the United States did, there is no record that they ever made peace. , ELIGIBLE FOR FIRST TIME This is the first time all the braves of draft age of all the 230- odd Indian tribes in the country { have been subject to draft. Until 1924, except In some individual in- stances, the Indians had never had the rights of ecitizenship conferred upon them. It was because of bravery dis- played by Indians in France in the World War that the whole of our Indian citizenry was given that recognition, Between 12,000 and 17,000 In- dians were in service in the World war and the record of their ex- ploits is one of distinguished ser- vice throughout. Officials in the Bureau of Indian affairs here say that apparently tke same qualities midable foes in the days when they were fighting each other and the pioneers has not been lost to the race through generations of peace. They have courage under fire, endurance, alertness, scout- ing abllity and an instinctive | knowledge of the best methods of fighting. TRICKED 'THE GERMANS There is an Indian story wisich provided one of the laughs of the World War. A commanding offi- cer, suspecting that his communi- cation lines were tapped, ordered two Indians of the same ‘tribe to take over the two ends of the line He then had the Indians translate his orders into their native | tongue. Long after the war, it was \found out that the German intel- (Continued on Page Six lo;finol-iv;Boiler Explo@; Two Die which made the Indians such for-| Negotiations (By Associated Press) The tempo of the Nazi aerial war- fare speeded up with the reported sinking of the 42,000-ton Empress of Britain as the world awaited the outcome of the German-Italian- French diplomatic negotiations to determine France’s new status in Europe. London Under Alarm London has been under air raid alarm five times today between day- break and early this afternoon after a night-long hammering in which it s admitted more homes and build- ings were. smashed and numerous casualties reported as Axis planes made attacks on the British capital and also on the eastern Scotland naval base at Rosyth, Liverpool, Wales and the Midland industrial cities. RAF Also Busy The Royal Air Force, taking ad- vantage of the clearest weather on the English Channel since the start of the war, attacked Nazi convoys on the channel and watchers said one large vessel was hit off Boulogne and set afire and 'seen burning | flercely. Others then scurrigd to port, chased by the RAF. GiantLiner IsReporied Sent Down Empress of Brifain Said fo Have Been Atfacked by Nazi Planes | (By Associated Press) Regarding the reported sinking of the Empress of Britain, Ge: man sources claim Nazi planes at- tacked the giant liner, on which King George and Queen Elizabeth returned home after their visit to the United States and Canada and later used in the troop transport service, off north Ireland and left 'her in a sinking condition. The Nazi sources claim the crew es- caped in the lifeboats. The British Admiralty declines to make any comment, The latest report of the move- ment of the Empress of Britain came from Boston where the crew of the steamer Pacific reported having seen her with half a dozen other ships at Freetown, Africa, awaiting convoy. Again the liner was reported at Sydney, Australia, with the Mau- | retania, Queen Mary, Acquitania |and Empresses of Canada and | Asia, all believed engaged in car- | rying 50,000 soldiers of the Austral- |ian and New Zealand forces. ——-e ——- ‘(hange Made in marched the Stars and Stripes to the speakers’ rostrum to initiate the pa- triotic evening sponsored by the Elks |lcdge in connection with a nation- |wide program of Americanism un- der the B. P. O. E. Uniformed Boy Scouts of America The Alaska Clipper got away for solemnly faced the colors as the Ketchikan enroute to Seattle this|Legionnaires brought them in, gave morning with fourteen passengers.|their three fingered salute and Those flying south were R. L.|pledged allegiance to the Flag. Corey, R. T. Schultz, R. C. Isaacson,| During the course of the program, George Weed, James Calder, Mr.|the Juneau High School Band and Mrs. J. J. Keenan, Jerry Sulli-|played “America,” soloist Ernest Eh- van, Frank Gerard, William Le-|ler sang “God Bless America,” the pitto, Alma Heflin, Mrs. Frizell, laudience joining him in an en- Mrs. Carol Beamer, Mrs. Jack Ea-|core; Lola Mae Alexander sang “My gan. Own United States,” a trio of Marye | Berne, Merle Schroeder and Ernest Ehler sang “America, the Beauti- Mrs. H 0 Adams [ful,” and Tony Del Santo, youthful |accordionist played a demand en- Back from Seattle ;. | Del Santo’s vigorous airs brought {the complimentary comment of Mrs. H. O. Adams, wife of the meeting chairman Ray Ward that Juneau agent for the Alaska Steam- “if all America pitches into the ship Co., arrived this morning on|problem of national defense the steamer Denali from the States.|Tony pitched into that accordion, Mrs. Adams spent three weeks in|we’ll have our 50,000 planes in two Seattle with her sister and brother- in-law, Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Sjursen. ——ee—— FROM KETCHIKAN | T. C. Whiteside is in town from ‘he Pirst Citv and is registered at the Baranof Hotel. - ———— { Mrs. Chris Wyller and son re-| | turned on the Alaska last night from Skagway where they have| | been visiting. weeks!” The meeting was closed with | Ernest Ehler again singing ‘“The | Star Spangled Banner.” Mrs. Harry Sperling was accompanist for all | vocals of the evening. | H. R. VanderLeest was chairman of the Elks Defense Committee fe- I MRS. NYE RETURNS Mrs, Catherine Nye returned on NEW SMYRNA BEACH, FI Oct. 26.—An engineer and a fire-| Ai p ‘ r Patrol Force the locomotive boiler exploded on| a Miami-New York express. Four but no Mngera were injured. | Admiral Arthur Cooke was ordered The train was travelling along today to command of the Atlantic man were killed last night when passenger coaches were derailed’ WASHINGTON, Oct. 26. — Rear the Florida east coast line tracks Aircraft Patrol Force. He was for- Wrestling is the most- universal|sponsible for the - successful even-|the steamer Alaska last night from| four miles south of New Smyrna merely in command of the Air and primitive of all sports, ing's affair, A business trip to Skagway. | Beach, Scouting Force in the Pacific.