The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 30, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8556. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1940. V" —_— _—‘::fi; MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS __PRICE TEmCENrs 5 MILLION YOUTHS TO SOON MARCH WILL THE 1938 CONGRESSIONAL SWING BE EXTENDED! THE SENATE ITALIAN ADVANCE IS SLOW Reports CoM—Dispakh- es Even Declare Greeks Make Counter Thrust ROMAWM AND BRITISH SOLDIERS IN (LASH Athens Defenders Expect-| ed to Make Last Stand on Mefaxas Line (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) A radio broadcast from Rome to- day asseretd Italian troops had smashed 40 miles into Greece, cap- turing the ‘town of St. Nicholas, but Athens reported reinforced Greek | fighters were holding an unbroken | front under- heavy artillery fire. Italian attacks supported by planes and mountain guns are said to be steadily intensifying. Mussolini’s command, in unusual brevity, merly reported “our troops have continued to advance into Greek territory overcoming resis- | tance of the enemy’s rear guard.” By contrast to this fifteen word report on the war in Greece, the Italian command devoted 53 words to the Fascist campaign in Af- rica, noting mostly indecisive ac- tions about Clayhut and outposts in the African desert. British Counter Countering. London denials of } “troop” landings, the British infor- mation office in Ankara, announced British naval (Continued bn Page Five) WASHINGTON—One thing that is worrying the .Administration is that the Japanese are now finding a way to get around last week's complete embargo on scrap iron. Furthermore, their loophole is a big handicap to the British. What the Japanese are doing is buying metal which already has been fabricated and therefore is not scrap. True, it costs them more, but ap- parently they are in such desper- ate need of iron that they will pay for it. This buying also runs up prices for the British. For they are the biggest single customer, outside the | U. S. Government, for all-kinds of metals. And the more fabricated | metal Japan buys, the more diffi- cult it is for the British. Whether this loophole can be blocked remains to be seen. The man who actually blocked scrap iron exports to Japan was Ed Stettinius, patriotic young Defense Commis- sioner in charge of raw materials. Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau had been hammering at the State Department for weeks, trying to get that flow of scrap iron to Japan cut off, and finally asked Stettinius to make an investigation to see whether scrap should not be | kept at home for the use of Ameri- | can steel industry. Stettinius did so. But his chief assistant, William Batt, raised a howl. Batt is head of the SKF Swedish ball-bearing company, also a director of the Swedish Chamber of Commerce, the American Bosch Corporation and various other big concerns. He maintained that the sale of scrap iron to Japan should be continued. Stettinius overruled him. But since Stettinius is head of the United States Steel Corporation, he didn'v.‘ want to appear to be acing in fa-| vor of the steel companies, So it was arranged for Leon Henderson, | New Deal Defense Commissioner, to act as front man. HAM FISH'S HOUSE When Representative Ham Pish was asked whether he rented his New York mansion to the Nazi Con- SRR RO % S S ) o S (Continued on Page Four) detachments have | “Average” Girl Darothy Andree Meet the “average” girl, as se- | lected by a blue ribbon fiolly- | wood committee. She is Dorothy | Aadree, 25, a native of Los An- | geles. She is single, weighs 110 pounds and is 5 feet 4 inches tall. C. C. Hamlin Passes Away InColorado Newspaperflhlisher, At- forney, Leading Politic- | ian, Dies af His Home COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, Oct. $0.—Clarence C. Hamlin, 72, pub- lisher of the Gazette and Telegram, | daily newspaper, political leader in | Colorado for nearly 40 years and |also one of the West's best known attorneys, died last night at his | home here, In addition to being publisher of The Colorado Springs Gazette and the Colorado Springs Evening Tele- graph, he was active in the prac- tice of law in Colorado from 1896 to 1930, when he retired from his profession. He represented many large interests in his corporation practice, notably the Midland Rail- road and the Cripple Creek Mine Owners’ Association, For Open Shop It was during the mine strikes in Cripple Creek in the early 90s that Mr. Hamlin, as manager for ithe .mine owners, successfully fought off the attempt to union- |ize the camp, and to the present day the camp has been on an open shop basis, This early strike attracted na- tion wide attention for it was in the Cripple Creek district that W. R. (“Big Bill") Haywood, who ‘lacer died in Russia, began his or- ‘ganizauon of the Western Federa- tion of Miners, and such men as | Orchard, Pettibone, and Moyer were associated with him there. Talks As Ballets Whiz Mr. Hamlin, during the strike, fsucceeded in keeping down blood- shed and at one time addressed a meeting of miners with union pickets shooting at him from near- by hillsides. He was not injured. He engaged in the practice of law in Colorado Springs from 1896 on and in 1905 was elected to a four-year term as District Attorney (Continued cn Page Five) | THIRDRUN } HAILED BY ~ KENNEDY Ambassador Lauds Roose- | | velt-Flays Lie-Dealing | | of GOP Enemies ;ASSURES AMERICANS | WAR MOT FOR THEM‘ | i Sounds Alarm for Quick| | Defense in Light of Hit- | | ler's Battle Pace | NEW YORK. Oct 30.—Joseph P. | .Krnmdv United States Ambassa- Anr to Great Britain, last night threw his whole support behind the re- eiection of President Rocsevelt, giv- | ing sccres of points in a national | orcadeast why Roosevelt should be | continued in office. | Kennedy also plainly showed why | the United States will not enter | into the war and why thg “boys of the Nation will not be On trans- ports,” but declared that every man, | weman and chfld i he United | States and possessions should put | their shoulders behind National De- | fense of the United State. | Werld Meving Fast “The world is on the move,” smd Kennedy, “at a speed never before witnessed. Already Hitler has con- quered nations and made the ad- vance of Napoleon appear puny. It is a faster move than one imagines. Detindark’ wos taken over in 4 mat- ter of hours, Norway in days and Belgium and Holland in weeks and | the proud and henorable France in |a menth. They did not have time | to preen and we must take warning |to be prepared.” Kennedy praised the speed with | which the National Defense plans are being maintained and declared “we must have a Navy second to nucne, a great Air Force and a trained Army.” No Commitments Kennedy declared that the Unit- ed States has no commitments with |any foreign nation and “I know. | personally, up to this minute, have | uever given to one single individual |in the world any hope whatsoever that at any stage or under any circumstances could the United States be drawn into the war. Un- fortunately, during this political campaign, there has arisen the charge the President js trying to involve this country into a World War. This is absolutely false and I know.” Hits At War Threat Regarding the possipility of the United States entering the war, Kennedy asked: “Where would we get the soldiers, where would we get the transportation for thousands of men, where would we get protec- tion and where would we land them? Hitler controls nearly every vital European port. These facts should be sufficient to cause the fear that the United States will be in the war to be quickly dissipated and take much of the argument in the present campaign out of the issues raised.” Rearmament Policy Kennedy praised the rearmament policy of the Administration and aid to Great Britain. He said, again (Continued on Page Eight) ENDORSING ROOSEVELT, THIRD TERM €10 Local Unions on Pacific Coast Repudiate Stand Taken by Lewis SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 30. —The CIO Inland Boattmens' Un- ion today reiterated endorsement of Roosevelt, notwithstanding the action of Chief John L. Lewis in backing Willkie. A third term for Roosevelt has also been approved by the San.Francisco, Fortland and San Pedro locals of ihe powerful CIO. Longshoremens’ union. | DEMOCR ui-l REPUBLICANS THE HOUSE . . . THE HOUSE Each figure represents 30 mbm Democratic gains in Congressional representation were noted in each election from 1930 until 1938, when the trend shifted and the Republicans renined seats in both houm Ratio of party nprmnutinn since 1928 is shown here. Nahonal Police Academy Gives Diplomas to Forty; 18I School Is Significant NEW AID FOR BRITAIN WILL BE ANNOUNCED Secrefary Tells Reporfers| to Be on Lookout at Boston Tonight ENROUTE WITH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT TO BOSTON, Oct. 30. —An important major step to in- crease aid to Britain and her allies probably will be announced by the President tonight in his address in Boston, Secretary Earl said today.| He advised reporters to be on| watch for something along that tine, but gave no hints as to the nature of the aid. Mellen fo Support FDR NEW YORK, Oct. 30. — Chase Mellen Jr., who was Republican chairman of New York County from 1933 to 1935, and who stayed on as a Republican district leader two additional years, announces his support of President Roosevelt| for reelection. Mr, Mellen's state- ment was made in the capacity ¢f chairman of “the Committee of| Regular - Republicans for the Re- election of Frankhn D. Roosevelt.” SUPREME (OURT WIRES TAPPED; INVESTIGATION Eavesdropp;;Lislened in| on Important Decision, Is Allegation NEW YORK, Oct. 30.—The Coun-| sel of a Senate Subcommittee inves-: tigating wire tapping said today hearings would be started in Wash-| ington Friday to determine whether wires of U. 8. Supreme Court Jus- tices were tapped when an import-| ant decision was pending. William Maloney, the Counsel mentioned October, -1939, as the time of the reported wire tapping but didn't specify the case in which a decision was expected. By ACK NETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — The other day in the Great Hall of the Department of Justice Build- | ing, 40 men were handed diplomas stating that they had successfully — | | | completed their work in the Na- Ilmml Police Academy. The graduation exercises were run off with comparatively little | fanfare, Had it not been that Sec-| | retary of the Navy Knox took the | occasion to make there a speech | of great significance, the com- | mencement program probably would 1’have gone unnoticed by the press. | In the last five years, it has be-| there | | come a commonplace, for \are three such exercises a year. In this period of national stress| and international strain, of fifth tage, of the building of an army of a million men and a m:t,lomalv defense undreamed of in peace-| time, this passing of one more | milestone in Chief G-Man J. Ed-| gar Hoover’s police school had & great deal more significance than it was accorded. | | ;TWELVE WEEKS OF STUDY Bureau of Investigation and there- in lies the story. The 40 men who | were graduated the other day had just finished 12 weeks of concen- trated study of what are considered by many the most efficient and i modern police methods in the world. | The important thing is that ’something like 500 men, repre- | senting .every state and several | territorial possessions, have pre- ‘cedrd them. Most of these men |return each year for a brief but intensive study of the latest dis- | coveries and new methods which are constantly being developed in ,me field qf crime prevention and | detection. | The primary purpose of the | school is not to train poncemen | but to train men who can train policemen, In other words, these | graduates of the NPA are teachers |who go back to their own citics and states and there set up police| schools modeled on the lines of the NPA here, A TRAINED RESERVE That is the primary purpose, but | it is a secondary result that cuu.sed |me to dip into the academy and find out what it's all about. And that result is that by means of the academy, the FBI has built up a men, who, if the emergency arose, jcould be thrown into the breach as special or temporary agents. Suppose tomorrow that the na- tional -defense program or the se- lective service program should sud- denly need policing by a force far SR o G AR SREMESNG (Continued on Page Sevend The NPA is run by the Federal reserve of more than 500 trained | THE SENATE DEMOCRATS _|[REPUBLICANS h figure represents 10 members " Millions of Women RE - ELECTION - OF ROOSEVELT | iS PREDICTE | Weekly Makes Nation- wide Invesiigafion NEW YORK, Oct. | Davenport, political editor of Col- lier's Weekly, has predicted the re- election of President Roosevelt, the pletion by Mr, Davenport of nation-wide tour of investigation. “There may be an undercurren that at the last moment will rise | to the surface and sweep Mr. Will- kie into the White House,” he re- ported, “but if it exists at all it is still too far below to be discernl to the unbiased observer.” e Sl EDEN IS ON FRONT LINE, EGYPTLAND British War Secrefary Pre-| dicts New Attack on Ifalians Looms CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 30. — British from Palestine. | intensive nature. — e — ROUTED | CHUNGKING, Oct. 30.—Chinese | military officials report today that Chinese troops routed the Japanese in heavy fighting in the famous wine-producing area of Chekiang province. the battle. | magazine announces, after the com-| | column talk and rumors of sabo-| non Vofers Give Problem Now fo Both Parfies By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Oct. 30. — Polls of public opinion or no polls, both home-stretch of the 1940 campaign without knowing which way—if any —10 or 20 million women are going to jump on election day. | That means the women’s vote is Political Writer of Collier's | s s e, rotitios. yust as it has been in all of the six Presi- dential elections since 1920 when | the women got the vote. There are those in high places in both political parties who feel the great independent vote in Am-| erican politics, Some even suggest| that sweeping landslides like the! swing from Hoover in 1928 to the| avalanche for Roosevelt in 1936—| FISH BOWL ' DRAFT IS - NOW ENDED Over 5,000,000 Men Get | Marching Orders in | 18-Hour Drawing $IX BLUE CAPSULES MISSING FROM LIST Second SW(;pslakes Held | in Wee Small Hours of Rainy Dawn WASHINGTON, Oct. 30, — The grand conscription lottery which ‘holds marching orders for some 5,- ,’900.000 young Americans has fin- |ished with an unlooked for flurry |at 2:40 o'clock this morning, (PST) {wnh six numbers missing, but fi- ‘nully wound up officially with two | numbers more than the historic fish bowl should have had. The drawing ended in a rainy | dawn after 17 hours and 31 minutes |of steady plucking of the little blue | capsules. The last solitary blue capsule was | picked up from the bottom of the | glass goldfish bowl by Brigadier | General Lewis Hershey, Assistant | Selective Service Director, { Six Numbers Missing ‘ That capsule should have been the 9,000th number. Instead, it proved to be the 8994th capsule. Despite the mcst claborate precautions six hme bearing capsules were mhfln& | Selective Service officials imme- diately started a check to track idown the omitted numbers in man- ual records kept throughout the marathon drawing and confirmed the number of missing capsules as six, The master list disagreed, how- ever, showing eight capsules unac- counted for. “Junior Drawing” To make sure every number miss- ing of the master list would be |drawn, General Hershey had a spec- fal “junior drawing” for those eight numbers missing, The brief sweepstakes, witnessed /by a handful of persons, was over 30, — Walter that women may be the nucleus of | five minutes and the official last mumber accordingly drawn was the 19,002nd capsule, number 7,839. Officials suggested possibly the | missing numbers might have caught | in the sleeves of those who wrew out | only eight years later—are possible capsules, or might have fallen off ble| Women. party-bound than men. There are 75,000,000 Americans of voting ages. Something less than half, or about 35,000,000, are Only about half of our citizens over 21 actually vote, as a rule. It is generally assumed by | the high commands of both parties | that | 1Holyoke College sampled the view | } the same holds true for women. Fifteen million women’s | votes would be a sensible estimate |in a fairly lively presidential cnm- | paign. On rare occasions the women’s | vote has been sampled with the idea of finding out what sex does to the ballot. With the help of the| National League of Women Voters, | | samuel P. Hayes Jr., of Mount| of women in 37 states just before = | the election in 1932, He applied rigid statistical con-| | trols to the result and concluded | women were more liberal-minded,| more international-minded, and/ ¢ only because the women are less‘me bowl rest, or might not even have been in the bowl at the be- | ginning. | e, 'WAR DEPT. BUILDING - IN FLAMES (Fire DestroyTSecreI Files in Munitions Struc- | ture, Washingfon WASHINGTON, Oct. 30.—A roar- |ing fire in the ‘War Department | Munitions Building on Constitution Avenue destroyed the newly bullt ‘more socialist-minded than men— | fourth floor addition during the but only slightly more. For instance, a greater percentage | night and did extensive damage to sections of the building housing War Secretary Anthony Eden, it is| of the sampled women than men |, mass of records, some of them |officially disclosed, has spent sev-| favored government ownership of | secret documents. |eral days inspecting British posi- | ralroads and were against the gov- |tlons in Egypt since he returned | ernment staying out of business. marshals began an investigation into Intelligence officers and fire | More women than men favored the |the cause of the conflagration as He announced that the Britlfih‘\World Court at keep hara.x?ng the Italians on all| even he took these tendencies with| | equipment of the District of Col- fronts and “more is to come” of an | g grain of salt, for in spife of mem."lmbla brought the flames under u\nd issues generally about as men | in| that old gag about women chang-| have suffered heavy casualties in| that time. But/ he said his general conclusion was | that women reacted to candidates| do. He didn't put any stock ing their minds. At least that played no part in his survey. Harold F. Gosnell of the Uni-| versity of Chicago made a discovery in 1927 that still gives the political, master minds the jitters—namely, the old suffrage issue isn't quite (Cantinued on‘Page Seven) soon as the massed fire fighting eontrol in a struggle lasting more than an hour. Secretary of War Frank Knox, whese War Department offices were next door, said at his press con- |ference that Secretary of Navy Henry Stimson has expressed belief ‘the fire ‘was “unquestionable” as being caused by a short circuit or cigaret. Disregarding the accidental the- ory of the fire’s origin, special in- vestigators comtinued to comb the The Japanese are said t0 dead. In hunting for reasons why charred debris of the structure while |at the same time denying search for “sabotage evidence.”