The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 4, 1940, Page 1

TH \Yal LVIL, NO. 8560. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GREEKS DRIVE INTO ITALIAN AREAS Big Vote Predicted In Nation’s BOTH SIDES (ONFIDENT OF SUCCESS , Record Breakmg Registra- | tion, Efc., Make Pre- dictions Uncertain CLAIMS ARE MADE BY TWO CHAIRMEN Fair Weaiher Is Forecast| Which Indicates Heavy | Travel to Polls (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) ‘ On the eve of the election in the | nation tomorrow, there is found no dearth of the usual contradictory forecasts of victory although rec-| ord breaking registrations, cross| currents and the like made unusual | the uncertainty of predictions. The | “silent” vote is absolutely unknown. Confident as ever of victory, Chairman Edward J. Flynn of the Jemocratic National Committee first predicted a minimum of 427/ electoral votes for Roosevelt and late this afternoon upped this esti- mate to a higher figure. Republican National Committee Chairman Joseph W. Martin, Jr.,| claims Willkie will have a minimum | of 324 electora) votes, a comfortable | margin over 262 necessary to elec- tion. The Weather Burcau, forecasting | another element in the election, predicts fair weather in most of the country tomorrow with a possibil- ity of some light rain in some east- ern and central sections. Rain on election day has long been credited with cutting down the vote in the rural areas, but the advent of good country roads made this believed less reliable than in the past. (Continued on Page Seven® Cthe WASHINGTON—During most of his life, John L. Lewis has refused to take censorship or dictation from anyone. But before delivering his tamous radio broadcast for Wendell willkie last week, he meekly bowed before the Repubicans and permit- ted at least one extract of his speech to be deleted. He had submitted the draft two days in advance to Republican leaders, since they were paying about $45,000 for his radio time. The censored portion of the speech referred to the pro-labor Congress- men and Senators who are up for re- election this year. Because these men have gone down the line for labor, the CIO has been giving them every possible help. Twenty-six of these Congressmen are in coal min- ing districts, are strong for the Unit- ed Mine Workers, but also are pro- Roosevelt. Lewis had written a plea in his speech for labor to reelect the friends of labor—referring to these men. However, since these 26 pre- labor Congressmen are being op- posed by Republicans, the GOP leaders objected. Lewis bowed to their censorship. NOTE: John L. Lewis' offer to resign as head of the CIO if Roose- velt is reelected was as empty as his offer to step down from the CIO if Bill Green would quit as head of the AFL. In either case, Lewis would remain head of the powerful United Mine Workers, a8 job which pays him $25,000 plus expenses re- puted to be around $60,000. Lewis is sure of reelection as head of the Miners, since the nominations closed in August, and he is the only candidate. Vice-President Phil Mur- hiincunsait@ict i filidusi o o7 Sy belh (Continued on Page Four) |ed Pilot Capt. Herbert Luckin with ARMISTI PROCLAMATION WHEREAS the President of the U; Roosevelt, has proclaimed Novemb as follows: “WHEREAS on November 11, laid down their weapons and turn for dawn of an era of peace and “WHEREAS Senate Concurr Congress, passed June 4, 1926 (44 Stat. 1982), requests the President of the United States to issue a proclamation calling for the display of the flag of the United States November 11 and for the observa ceremonies, and the act of May 13, 1938 (52 Stat. 351) designates day of November of each year as a legal public holiday; the 11th and “WHEREAS observance of thi 1918 will direct our minds to the not only for peace but also for peace and understanding, not only for a cessation of hosilities but intercourse between nations.” NOW, THEREFORE, I, Ernest | hereby declare that November 11, Day in the Territory of Alaska. IN TESTIMONY set my hand the Territory 1 at the City of Juneau, this fourth day of November, in hundred and ERNEST GRUENING, Governor of Alaka. | E. L. BARTLETT, Secretary of Alaska. NEGLIGENCE IS CHARGED OVER WRECK Pilot Luckin of Alaska Al- legedly Failed to Ascer- fain Boat's Position SEATTLE, Nov. 4—The Marine | Board, investigating the grounding of the steamer Alaska, today charg- negligence and he answered with a plea of innocence. The charge declared “that while serving as pilot in charge of naviga- tion of the steamer Alaska at 12:15 a.m. October 27, Captain Luckin did fail and neglect to ascertain the position of the steamer Alaska when he came on duty at midnight” and that between 12:10 and 12:15 a.m., he didn't “make use of all the avail- able aids to navigation of a safe course between Elliott and Kennedy islands.” The charges then asked if Luckin could show cause why his master’s licenses should not be suspended or revoked. Franco-U.S. Talks Still Confinuing| AmbassadoTI:IaVe Gives Hull Note from Petain fo Roosevelt Today WASHINGTON, Nov. 4—Gaston Henry Haye, French Ambassador, delivered to Secretary of State Cor- dell Hull a message from Premier Petain today in reply to President Roosevelt’s communication with him concerning Franco-American rela- tions. The Ambassador told newspaper- men he could not reveal the con- tents of the note. Hull had declared in press con- ference that the question of Prench possessions in the Western Hemis- phere arose during conversations, but were not ciscussed to any great extent. ———— DIVORCE CASE Suit for divorce has been filed in the District Court by Harry Doug- las against Martha Douglas on the grounds of incompatability. Sunday Nigms Quiet But LAST BIDS FOR VOTES BEING MADE Turbulent, UTlprecedented Campaign Coming fo End Tonight ROOSEVELT, WILLKIE . MAKING RADIO TALKS Orafory to F|ow Unrestrict- ed Over Air-0ld Tra- dition Broken CE DAY nited States, the Honorable Franklin er 11, 1940, as Armistice Day, stating 1918, the nation then at war ned their thoughts to the hoped- order; and rent Resolution 18, Sixty-ninth on all Government buildings on nce of the day with appropriate e anniversary of the armistice of need of the world than as now also for mutual respect in the Gruening, Governor of Alaska, do 940, shall be observed as Armistice (By Associated Press) WHEREOF, I have hereunto and caused the Great Seal of of Alaska to be affixed: Done The turbulent, unprecedented | Presidential campaign comes to the | end of the trail tonight amid a tumult of rival claims, political or- | atory and urgent last-minute ap- peals to the voters. the year of our Lord nméezeen The crowded closing hours are not | forty. - BOMBING RENEWED ON LONDON a quiet election eve. | Apart from the final messages President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie will make tonight, both Democratic and Republican parties marshaled speakers in a national as well as a local series of eleventh- hour broadsides. Roosevelt’s Final Appeal President Roosevelt is back m New York this morning, bound for Park where he will receive the eler— tion returns tomorrow night. He set aside the day for campaigning among his Hudson Valley neighbors, very much as he did in the campaign of 1936. His final message will high- light a two-hour nationwide radio program from 7 to 9 o'clock tonight (Pacific Time), arranged by the Democratic National Committee. Roosevelt will speak from Hyde Park shortly after 8 o'clock tonight and Henry Wallace, Democratic can- didate for Vice-President, will also make a final address. It was first thought that Roose- velt might use the occasion for m- other major political address this belief is discounted after hls Raider Appears During Tea Time Today LONDON, Nov. 4. — Londoners heard the scream of air raid sirens and the bark of anti-aircraft fire vith the explosions of thudding Sombs late this afternoon after a hinterland Nazi aerial siege lasting 2lmost 24 hours. Quiet lastad during the night and most of the day, but at tea time teday, uproar broke the unaccus- cmed silence as a single raider swooped over the metropolitan area, iropping several bombs. Sunday night was quiet, the first London has enojyed since Septem- | ber 7. | The Air Ministry said very fev | assertion at Cleveland Saturday night he was then making his “final national address of the campaign.” Present expectations are he simply will urge all eligible voters to exer- cise their franchise. ! Republican Program Willkie winds up a strenuous mar- athon campaign with three radio |addresses on the election eve. The |to the continent of Manchoukuo German planes crossed Great Bri-| g ¢ his closing address to women, tain during the day, but bombs |was at 12:15 o'clock this afternoon. were dropped in the London ares, He will then go on the air at 7 the Midlands and in East Anglia o'clock tonight with his running el i and In-|mate. Senator Charles L. McNary, s “"__ B Lo AN Hv:mng and then returns to the radio broad- cast at 10 o’clock tonieht. The char- acter of tonight’s radio talks is not l Ap A" pl A“s |indicated by Willkie's aides who did say, however, that might depend on what the Democratic orators have to say previously or on late develop- THREE NATION ™ s U, 5. GUNBOATS Defails of Plan Not Dis-| GIVEN ORDERS . . | closed But Major Poinfs | AreMadePublic = FOR BIG TOU TOKYO, Nov. 4-An outline of | WASHINGTON Nov. 4, — The Japan's plans to create a tight| Nayy has ordered three gunboats| economic empire, composed of Ja-| {; leave the Great Lakes with full pan, China and Manchoukuo, Was complements of reserve officers and released by the Cabinet’s Informa- proceed to the Atlantic for a one- tion Bureau today. | year tour of duty. | The main goal is a 10-year pro- ° rne three gunboats are the Sac- gram for complete self-sufficiency. 'ramenw now at Michigan City. i s :II:;‘_";Q pot dis- | Ind, the Paducah, at Duluth, and| he Dubt t that Japan will furnish heavy in- t eDHmGees Dees dustries with precision in pro— ducts, Japan will send skilled labor’ momas A;;efls to develop agriculture, pfoducmg‘ basic supplies and staples, and the entire bloc of unskilled Chinese la-| bor will be employed in mines and | other natural resources. - et . BOYLE RETURNS Union Oil Divldmll Manager James Boyle is back in Juneau, a lmmt at the Baranof Hote! (o PITTSBURGH, Pa, Nov. 4. Norman Thomas, Socialist candi- date for the Presidency, in a poli- tical speech here said: “There is nothing in this campaign that I have seen that indicates that Wen- del L. Willkie as a chance to win.” Roosevelt Safls Tourof ‘Ne Ygr Ara in keeping with the old tradition of | President Roosevelt (left, in car) set oul tour of metropolitan New York. With him (left to rizht): Biison; ‘candidate for Governor, and James H..R. Cromwell, ground: FDR's bodyguard, Thomas Qaulters. Millions Go fo Polls ButOnly 531 Vofefor Presi LORD HAW HAW 1§ NOW SPRINGING - NEW PROPAGANDA lnfers Some Des'royers‘mensme of a state's electors is the Sold by U. S. to Brit- ish Are Worthless - NEW YORK, Nov. 4—Lord Haw| Haw, German radio commentator, declared in a broadcast picked up by CBS that two “decrepit” Unit- ed States destroyers traded to Great Britain were so badly damaged in crossing the Atlantic Ocean that “they had to be abandoned and sunk by their crews and two more were so badly damaged that they had to be taken in tow by others.” NAZI PROPAGANDA LONDON, Nov. 4—Lord Haw | Haw is only Haw Hawing, said the British Ministry regarding the broadcast concerning the U. S. destroyers. “He will soon haw haw out of the other side of his mouth when some of these same decrepit dCSC"OyEl‘b as he calls them, get e German craft,” said a Brit- Lsh omcml ——— 24 Dead in Derailment \English Train in Wrecked Buf Is Due fo “Railroad Accident” LONDON, Nov. 4—Twenty-four persons were killed and 59 injured this afternoon in the derailment of a locomotive and several coaches on the Penazence bound London pas- senger train at Somerset. Railroad officials said that as far as “we can tell it is straightfor- ward railroad accident.” dent of Nafion AP F ruture Service The people of the United States choose electors. The electors cast | the votes for Presidential candi- datcs. The 531 votes of the electoral col- lege are divided among the state: accordlng to population. The actual t by motor frym the jammed Newark, N. J,, railroad station on his Gov. A. Harry Moore of New Jersey; Charles Democratic Senaterial neminee. Left fore- * KETCHIKAN IS T0 VOTE Will Cast S'r v B Showing Presm. Preference Io* | fia Although Alaskans have no voice n the Presidential election, Ketchi-| ~ ONTUESDAY KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov. 4—| Election ALPINE TROOPS ON MOVE Forces Repo?l&i Penetrat- ed Seven Miles Into Albania Sections BRITISH WARPLANES JOINING IN ATTACK Capital City of Tirana Is Bombed and Partly De- stroyed-Fall Expected (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Fighting over snow blanketed mountains, Greek Alpine troops are reported to have droven seven miles nto Italian held Albania, ringing the Fascist supply base of Koritza and capturing 1,200 Italians as prison- ers. In further support of the eight iay old Greek defense, the British are reported preparing to send three Army divisions of about. 45,000 crack . ‘roops to combat the Italian invas- lon. War Planes Active British and Greek war planes in- flicted heavy casualties, dispatches aid, in low flying attacks on Ital- on troops massed along the Greek- ¥ibanian border. A British broadcast said RAF s accompanying Greek raiders attacked the Albanian capital f Tirana and partly destroyed the lace of former King Zog, which scd as Ttallan ‘mili- Yugoslavia safd in the northern 0 mile Balkan war 24 momentarily.” Ttal Repulsed ithern sector, Gresk de- fender aid to have repulsed ftallan columns in flerce hand to wnd fighting with bayonets and renades. 72 e total of Senators and Representa- tives to which it is entitled. Usually the entire electoral vote of a state is cast for one candidate, but occasionally the votes of a state are divided. This can happen when the popular vote is very close. The usual explanation is that vot- ers in considerable number believe they are voting for the whole party ote tomorrow on the same day as he National election. Voting will be conducted as in| regular local election but with| nly one polling place and that will be at the City Hall Territorial Senator Norman B. Walker, Mayor Harry McCain and other leaders of both political an has decided to hold a straw| ticket when they mark an X after the name of one individually and if the top man on the elegtoral list of the minority party gets a few more votes. than, say, the bottom man on the majority list, there is an elector vote for the Presidential candidate who was not the popular choice of the state. Greatest plurality given a candi- date in the last 10 elections was in 1936. Next greatest was in 1932. The 523-t0-8 eleetoral = advantage of Franklin ‘D. Roosevelt aver Alf M. Landon in.1936 was considefably more lop-sided than was the popular vote. Mr. Roosevelt received 27,476,- 673 votes to 16,679,583 for Mr. Lan- don. The popular advantage was | approximately 7 to 4, whereas the | electoral vote was in the ratio of approximately 65 to 1. California, Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Washington, Wiscon- sin, and South Dakota are the only states which have voted for electors of the Progressive Party. LaFollette was the Progresive nominee in 1924; Theodore Roosevelt in 1912. Ickes Says Germany Directing Campaign | For GOP Candidafe WILKESBARRE, Nov. 4—In 1 of that party’s| electors. Electoral votes are counted | parties, join in urging the chikan citizens to turn out and sote as they would at a regular election. Partisans started last Saturday in a campaign to put their candi- dates across. B e 2 lfalian LONDON, Nov. 4—Two more Ital- ian submarines have been destroyed | | by British light naval forces, the | Admiralty announces. The subs were |sent down, it is indicated, |engagment off Greece. ———————-——— \Warnmgs 0f Storm l | \ mga have been ordered displayed from all Washington and Oregon s'auum The Weather Bureau fore- casts a southerly gale within the | next 12 or 18 hours. e — (‘LlNlClAN TRAVELS Ket-| Subs Sunk in an SEATTLE, Nov. 4—Storm warn- | political speech here, Secretary of Tuberculosis Clinician Dr. Palmer Interfor Harold I. Ickes said: “The Congdon of the Teyritorial De- | German Government is directing|partment of Health left, on the the campaign from Berlin agamst|steamer Mount McKinley to con- President Roosevelt and that isthe luct tuberculosis clinics in Anchor- best reason I know for keeping age, Ekiutna, Palmer, Seward, Ko- him in the White House.” | diak, Cordeva and Valdez. I The Greck Command said heavy tal'an attacks in the mountains of Tpirus Province, preceded by 15 | vonsecutive bombing forays against | Greek defense positions, were rout- »d severely with the destruction of rine Fascist tanks. Stefani, Italian news agency, ac- knowledged Mussolini’s legions are ‘meetlng with stiff Greek resistance in the Ioarnina region of the south- | west end of the front. TANGIERS 1S TAKEN BY SPAIN ‘InlernailonéTArea Might | Soon Be Used for Axis Navy Stronghold TANGIER, Tangier International | Zone, Morocco, Nov. 4.—The Spanish | nation has wiped out the last vestige ot international control in Tangiers, taking complete charge of the strate- gic international zone on the North Coast of Africa on her own account. ‘The move consisted simply of an lorder from the High Command of the Spanish Armv oceupving forces ending the activities of the Interna- tional Control-Commission, legisla- tive assemblies and International Information Office. i Vitally important in the European | war front,- the Tangiers zone com- | mands the Atlantic approach to the | Mediterranean, and if placed at the disposal of the Axis, as a naval base, the zone might play a de- cisive role in any Axis attempt to bottle the British Mediterranean fleet and British control of the wat- ers Italians call “Mare Nostrum.” |