The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 5, 1940, Page 1

THE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8561. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 5: 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — s, MILLIONS GOING TO POLLS TO VOTE THOUSANDS 'GREEK FREIGHTER TAKES OF ROMANS ENTRAPPED Greeks on 6ffensive Cut; . 0ff 4,000 ltalians Be- hind Frontier Lines 30,000 OF IL DUCE TROOPS ENCIRCLED Heavy Ath;fin Artillery Shelling Vital Alban- ian Supply Center (By Associated Press) Greek quarters said today the o Italian war machine is stalled all| along the snow-banked mountain front and Greek defenders have cut pff 4,000 Fascist troops behind the lines Greek dispatches said the skirted soldiermen trapped 30,000 other Italian soldiers as well in the siege of Koritz, a key supply base of Italian conquered Albania Heavy Greek artillery is firing from heights taken in fierce bayo- net charges. It is reported the Greek forces are shelling Koritza heavily and are encircling the city. yYugoslavian dispatches said the civilian population is withdrawing. On the northwest frontier on the road to Koritza, Greek soldiers are| America Arm i;ielgs - National Advisory Defense Commissicn photo With America rushing her arma- ments supply, hundreds of women are turning out missiles of destruc- tion in arsenals throughout the United States. This attractive miss in Philadelphia is guiding .50 cal- ibre ball cartridges into a machine that gauges and weiehs them. FORMER LEADING KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Nov | Fearing seizure or sinking by the | Axis Pow the Greek freighter Georgious Potomanias has taken refuge in Dutch Harbor, obtaining protection of the United States, the Coast Guard Headquarters here an-| nounces. | The vessel arrived at Dutch Har-| bor last Friday, bound from Wil-| mingten, Delaware to Japan The captain and crew of 28 men entered the Alaska port at the ,command of the Greek Govern-| ! ment, the Coast Guard Is informed. | The nature of the freighter's cargo is not revealed. | The ship’s radio is sealed in com- pliance with the neutrality regula- tions but the freighter is free to leave anytime or remain indefin-| , itely. | . - - | Pilots of the 20th Pursuit Squadron, above, study a m:p of Al their new station a long way from their present hom*. Here Capta 'CHAMBERLAIN 1S ‘ COMING To u. S. points out Elmendorf Field, near Anchorage, | First to be assigned the task of protecting Uncla Sam's far northern | '_ONDON REPORIS San Francisco aboard transport ships. Here Is What fo Walch For Tonight; Two Stales May Give Election Clue Former BrifisF Prime Min- | i ister Said to Be Head- | ing for Calitprnia LONDON, Nov. 5—The report is | current here that Neville Chamber- lain, tne former British Prime Min,- ister, and Mrs. Chamberlain have |left or are about to leave for SQUADRONREADY TOSAIL FOR ALASKA BASE F ka at Hamilton Field, Cal,, where they find while the squadron’s collic mascot looks on with interest. | also reported to have captured the| s o e - NATION'S BANKER In the face of the ek-claime DIES, NEW YORK 6. W. McGarrah Who Rose successes, Mussolini's Command as- rerted that despite bad weather | Clerkship to Chief Fi- nancier, Passes and bogging roads, slowing the at- tack of two main thrusts toward Philorina and Toannina, progress is still being shown. Drew Pearsos McGarrah was a dominant figure in the tangled financial affairs of end Q ‘?m:de:;\rran rose rapidly from a |career in 1930 he became head of ry-Go-Round, taking a fling at the {Directors of the Federal Reserve closer than that of 1936. In every | Heads World Bank votes will go. Europe. Always reluctant to discuss it looks as if Roosevelt will be elected | Bank coincided with the severe Settle- | oard of the world bank at Basel, | NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Gates White McGarrah, 72, one of the nation’s leading bankers for more than 30 | vears died here today after a brief wr “‘Ai.- | s “UY RobertSAllen 2 |clerkship in a small bank to_the ".fi Q presidency of a large New York ,f) Q linstitution when he was only 28 kfio'& | years old, and as the climax of his - ‘J the Bank for International R | ments at Basel, Switzerland. WASHINGTON—Four years ago | Before he went abroad in 1930 he the authors of the Washington Mer- 'had been Chairman of the Board of national quadrennial indoor sport, ‘Bnnk of New York since 1927 and predicted that Franklin Roosevelt | previously Chairman of the Execu- would carry 45 States. He won 46. |tive Committee of the Chase Na- This year’s historic election is far tional Bank. key State there is a considerable | As President and Chairman of the bloc of doubtful votes which may determine the outcome and no one can do more than guess where these The authors of this column make |these matters publicly. he worked no claim to prescience or infallibil- | behind the scenes in the chancellor- ity, but on the basis of a personal ies and central banks. survey and other first hand sources | ' His service with the International for a third term. | economic depression of the 1930's The election will be extremely close in so many States that almost anything can happen, but Roosevelt has the advantage of a big bloc of | Southern and Western States which | probably will give him a sure lead of 208 electoral votes. This is a handicap which will be hard for Willkie to overcome. Since 266 electoral votes are neces- sary to win, Roosevelt needs to pick up only 58 additional votes from doubtful States to reelect him for another four years. The line-up of States which seem for Roosevelt and States sure to go’| for Willkie are as follows: Sure for Roosevelt—Alamaba, Ari- zona, Arkansas, California, Dela- ware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Vir- ginia—total 23 States with 208 el- ectoral votes. Doubtful, but leaning toward Roosevelt — Connecicut, Massachu- setts, Missouri, New York, New Jer- sey. Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wash- ington—total nine States with 155 electoral votes. Sure for Willkie—Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maine, Nebraska, New (Continued on Page Four) Maryland, Mississippi, | Jand he strove valiantly to* enable | European and South American | countries to maintain gold standard currencies. MGarrah retired from the world ‘bank early in 1933, and returned to New York. Born at Monroe, N. Y., July 20, 11863, he received a public school |education and started his banking |career as a clerk in the Goshen, N. ‘Y., National Bank. When he was 20, !McGarrah went to New York where |he spent most of his business life. Summarizes Life He was married October 6, 1886, to Elizabeth Wallace of Goshen. | They had two daughters, Mrs. J. | Curry Hatson, Jr., and Mrs, Herman |H. Helms, both of New York. | McGarrah once summarized his life as “hard work, lots of it, and good friends.” But even with his intimate acquaintances, he rarely spoke of himself. Arriving in New York in 1883, he went to work in a teller’s cage of the Produce Exchange National /Bank. Four years later he was | named cashier of the Leather Manu- | facturer’s National Bank. | Another four years and when he |was 28 years old, McGarrah was |elected president of the institution. He remained at head of this bank \and others with which it was sub- | sequently merged until 1927, | Southern California, | the Attantic by air-and once across, | proceed west by train. Mr. Cham- berlain’s physician says a complete | change, rest, and plenty of sun- shine are needed, if the former | Premier is to be restored to health ! He had become ill, after relinquish- ing the cares of office, and an op- | eraiion became necessary. All this | has necessitated the change in or- der to renew his strength. This, |1t is considered, will be hastened by the change that the trip to America would bring about. - VICTIMS OF NAZI RAIDER HAVE ORDEAL Adrift for S;;ehty Days o Open Ocean-Two of Eight Survive NASSAU, Bahama Islands, Nov. 5—R. Tapstock and Roy Witli- combe, English sailors, were found more dead than alive yesterday, on a small island of the Bahama group. The men were the survivors of eight sailors of the British mer- i chantman Anglo Saxon, that more | than two months ago had been sunk by a German raider off the Azores, The eight just managed to get away in a 16-foot boat. For 70 days, with scanty food and water, the tiny craft drifted toward the west. One of the sea- men, driven made, cut his throat Two jumped overboard. Two more died from gun wounds and malnu- trition. Once, a flying fish was caught. Another time they got a gar fish. For the last eight days, there was not a drop of water. The two men who were saved were burnt so deeply by the tropic sun, that they were hardly recognized as white men. — e — TALKING TO MEN FOR NAVY WORK R. L. Dyer, Personnel Superin- tendent for the Navy base contrac- tors in Alaska, came in on the North Coast last night and will spend a few days here interview- ing workmen at the Territorial Em- ployment Service office for base Jjobs. Dyer was accompanied by his family and expects to go to Sitka the last part of the week. n 1 By ALEXANDER R. GEORGE stn‘rt stnnsu;alAly‘ in the electoral The story says they would cross ‘AP Feature Service Writer column. However, if Willkie is run- ! nizy close to Roosevelt in such | WASHINGTON, Nov. 5. — You Democratic strongholds as New York City and Chicago (Cook |can do your own “expertng” on | the election outcome as the returis come in tonight. | Unless the Wilkie-Roosevelt race | is unusually close, it will be easy | to tell which way the wind is blow- County), G.O.P. ing New York and Tllinols wiil be very favorable. And Republican prospects for a national will be excellent. F.D.R. Topk Both in '36 | A ing if you know what the vote b ‘”mdh o ertain Koy states and| 1 Roosevelt’s pluralities, on the ic“l e piktend :Pcrhhp.s g other hand, are piling up at 3-to-1 figure out the winner by 10 p.m. ‘2He New York City and at bet- : ter than 12-to-7 in Chicago as central time—11 p.am. eastern, 9 o | p.m. mountain and 8 pm. Pacific. they did in 1936, then indications | Vote statisticians and non-par- f‘xfwh"“ re-election will be impres- tisan poitical observers are in " - oo % A L | general agreement as to such ma-| I-hur” “."al"f T‘l‘" ‘N;“om’{nr;gk Ltl:* Sor Antiisatory; 4. the Matex of New | E3¥Euae Freaidtnb 456,000 yoies | York ‘and Illinois. These two, par-|2nd Landon, 0665000—a Democratic| . s ' | plurality of more than 1,300,000.| ‘::f:]i&lj\ New York, may foretell| o oiq0" New York City the state | S gave Landon 1,614,000 votes and | South Is Clue Roosevelt 1,251,000, a Republican Virtually all the experls [igUrc jo.d of 263000 that if Roosevelt carries both| gome statisticlans believe Willkic | those states, he's in. Many belleve | win pevc a fairly good chance to he can lose Illinois, along with a| e New York bt if he holds | flock of other large northern states,| poocovelt to a 3-to-2 lead in the and still win if New York is in "h“[ nation’s largest city. That’s assum- Democratic bag { ing of course that the Republicans This js because Roosevell’s back-| wi) amass a maximum plurali'y log of “surc” southern states, plus| ygiate Hoover won the state in an array of states “leaning Demo- Z | cratic,” gives him a big head- CConunuta on Page seven: We've Had lo|s>ol Bifiet Campaigns But We Usually Get Over Themin Due Time By JACK STINNETT | barred. Socking below the belt is WASHINGTON, Nov. 5-—Finley| common. Every four years — ex-| Peter Dunne’s Mr. Dooley was| cept in two instances — they've | speaking over his bar to Hennes-| dragged their aching bodies out of | sey, “Soon,” said Mr. Dooley, “the| bed the morning after election to | election will be over and after get back to the united task of see- | that Dooley goes back to his beer|ing that America carries on pumps and Hennessey goes back to One of those two instances, of his slag pile and the old flagll| course, was the Civil War when continue to wave over us all.” the boys got mixed up in the slav-, Apparently Mr. Dunne knew|ery question and -had to call on| his history as well as he knew his| Joe Public to go out on the ficld| Irish Americans. There have been| of battle and settle the fight once | 37 national elections. With the ex-| and for all. ception of the first none has been ;unanimousv Invariably elecHz‘)n; 1876 WAS ACID TEST | campaigns have been marked With| —ne other was the exception that | bitterness. Some have been mudl:‘lyw proves the rule: the great Hayes- Some even have been bloody. Ribe| Tijden dispute in 1876. Then a eggs and over-ripe vegetables have pregigential election hung in doubt | been thrown—many times. | nearly four months while charges | But only twice in the history of| plistered the walls of Congress, the |the United States have election paying stones of the cities and the battles resulted in post -election| fields of the farms. By a carpet-' hangovers and from one of theselb,g count in laui."eiana, Florida the sick nation emerged healthier| sng South Carolina, Rutherford and happier than it had been for' p Hayes had stolen the elec-| decades. Every four years Johnny Qinreat and intimidation of the Ne- Democrat and Richard R. Repub- ;. yoters in those same states, lican strip to the waist and go at chances of corral- triumph | irstVoles BATTLE OF AreCast BALLOTS IS : NOW STAGED | First returns lrn;aT{hu Presidential Registrants Out Early, Casi- [Lalloting came from the New Eng-| and States and from the South. | The first precinct in the ration its vote was Little Sharon, ad when the votes there were 24 for to rec New Hampshi were tabulate Willkie and 7 for Roosevelt. This ing Their Tickets for vote wa¢ tabulated 12 minutes af-| & [ter midnight. This compared to| PreSIdem | the hamlet’s 1932 vote of 11 for Hoover and 1 for Roosevelt and the 136 vote of 13 for Landan and 3 for Reosevelt Another New Hampshire com-| for 'THIRTY-THREE STATES munity, Harts Location, gave 3 Also HAVE (ONIESIS pored to the 163 vote of 11 for Governors, Other Issues Roosevelt and 4 for Landon. ook Are Up for Decision During Day All For Roosevelt Among the early returns from the | South, Nut Bush, North Carolina, |gave all of its 24 registered votes| | for Roosevelt. In 1936 the com- munity voted 31 to 0 for Roosevelt.| ,:f:;:":‘;":;:’“::’ ;‘;:’;:;‘z Another deep south precinet in this afternoon, PST. X Roosevelt | Alabama, first count on absentee grt [votes, gave Roosevelt 66 votes and| g s In 12 states, ‘;:I:‘n:;: is leading in seven states with 70 votes. Roosevelt is ahead in Ala- bama, Florida, Georgia, Indi- N. D. Sillin, squadron commander, |wilkie 5. Fragmentary returns are Lrickhnfl: in while voters stream to the polls| in numbers which appear likely to| reach a record 50,000,000. empire, they will sail shortly from | i b T . | ana, Kentucky, Missouri, New These early inconclusive figures| ! s sl BUTCS| Mexico, Maine, North Carolina, ar es . Massachusetts, Willkie 255, Roo-| ::":::““e' Bossh | Caroling RNe sevelt 7, | : Willkie is learing in Colora- do, Connecticut, Kansas, Mas- sachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, Missouri, Roosevelt 147, Willkie 13. Michigan, Willkie 13, Roosevelt Hawkesworth Alabama, Roosevelt 1762, willkw‘ and New Hampshire, | ol | D . ' 6 2 Boéndlnlm‘ Roosevelt 1,100, Wil]kit; BULLETIN—Reports o | | d " by the Assoclated Press at 2 { l e s a ‘W;exa.,. Roosevelt 3,026, Wlllkiei oclock - this afterneon anl | | “Kansas, Willkie 6983, Roosevelt| <SCctions of:the nation indicat- ed that a record vote of per- v . 15308 |y haps 50,000,000 ballots may be Beloved Official, Long ) o curoon, w20/ S0 00 M0 T s election. Fragmentary returns put Roosevelt ahead, then Will- kie, but of course the early re- turns are inconclusive. | Alaska, Passes Sud- | denly Buj Quietly Georgia, Roosevelt 74, Willkie 0.|* Colorado, Willkie 347, Roosevelt/ 1320, (By Associated Press) | The turbulent Presidential cams | paign is over and the nation is going to the polls today. A band of rainfall moved eastward across some central states; stirring speculation forecasts that the record SRS RRCE P e Charles W. Hawkesworth, 62, an | Alaskan for the past 33 years, died |suddenly but peacefully at his home here last night. Hawkesworth spent | wAI(HEs all his years in Alaska as a teacher| and official of the Office of Indlan Affairs, formerly the Bureau of | ! Education. His last pesition was vote of between 50,000,000 and 55,- that of Assistant to the General 000,000 registrants might not be realized but later reports of lifting rain threats and heavy voting came from other areas. | Leaders Vote | Wendell L. Willkie was among the millions to cast his ballot, before noon entering a polling place in a public school in New York City and sald, In response to a question, that paign Closely-News- | papers on SUbJed |he was going to vote the “straight Passed Quietly | Republican ticket.” (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | At aboit 7:30 oclock he went into| Interest in the Presidential elec- | FIeHOent, Roosevelt arranged to the living rocm and cank back into|tion in the United States centered | 5 | f 7 his fevorite chair. Mrs. Hawkes-| mostly in England although wr-‘,;;;'l,fi"k’""w‘y’;k‘he vilege of rth spoke to him a little later many, Italy and Russia are watch-| “p x'eglst}:ring the fintloll‘q Presi W found 4 g s " nd f 1 Ho|inz the results closely. dential choice, voters are confronted was dead | The British public has followed | 2 n is- Mrs. Hawke: I telephoned A.!the Presidential campaign so cu\snly"w(:dd""’" with other political is a neighber. Phillips and | that the British Broadcasting Com- . : 1 went to the house and (pany ennounced this morning LhnL‘Sl’:‘r;r;:;:!:5‘::::501;““';“;32:5" telephoned Dr. C. C. Carter, who|it is scheduling special broadcasts ¢, today and 432 seats in tl- renounced Hawkesworth dead. J.[of the returns. oty ” e W. Leivers, close friend for years, Newspaper editorials today in/ was then summoned o the Hawkes- |various English clties however, Te- | iu) ora oy ey have guber- worth home, |minded the readers that both of | e mpcne Charles Wesley Hawkesworth wa <}thc Presidential candidates had born April 19, 1878 at Port George, |pledged increasing aid to Great|— Nova Scotia. He was educated in|Britain. | the Massachusetts public schools and was graduated from Bowdoin| ELECTION Public Has _F_oiowed Cam- Superintendent of the Office of In-| dian Affairs, Alaska Division. The widely known, publicly ac-| tive, well loved Juneaulte went heme from his Federal Buflding of- fice after wark yesterday afters noon. Apparently in the best of| health and spirits, he put on old clothing after dinner and worked | about the bassment and garage. he did not answer. (Continued ]o ;gv Two) o College in Maine with a B. A. de- gree, Farthest North nine years’ teaching ex- perience, some of it at Arlington, Washington, Hawkesworth came to Alaska in 1907. Mrs. Hawkesworth After came with him, on what was their| honeymoon trip. They went to Peint Barrow, most northerly point on the North American continent where the young Prespyterian theo- logical student had obtained ap- pointment as a teacher for the old Bureau of Education of the De- partment of Interior. Hawkesworth remained in the far north, at Barrow, Nome and Kotze- bue, until 1911, when he was trans- ferred to Hydaburg in Southeast Alaska. At Hydaburg he started the first Native store. He also served at Klawecck during this period. this time Hawkesworth had decided to give up his ambition to enter the ministry and to devote| his life to education work in Al- aska. He came to Juneau in 1916 as District Superintendent and had remained here ever since. Acting Chief In 1930 he became Acting Chief ing in this capacity after the Bu- reau of Education became the Of- ~(Continued on page Six) it tooth and nail with no holds| (Continued uific; Two) REQUEST BRIDGES 10 QUIT | SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 5. Harry Bridges, CIO leader, declared today that his International Long- shoremen’s Union has the power to i | remove him from office, if mem- bers s0 choose. The Seattle local of the union demanded that Bridges resign be- cause of his so-called unwarranted attack on President Roosevelt in a San Francisco speech. Bridges de- nounced the President for what he termed a betrayal of labor. | The CIO leader did not endorse | Wendell Willkie for President, al- though he said he stood squarely behind CIO President John L. Lewis. Lewis urges election of the | Republican candidate. Twenty-five hundred San Fran- | tion the Democrats screamed. By of the Bureau in Alaska, connnu-lc‘sco longshoremen failed to take a stand either for or against Bridges and Lewis in the Presiden- tial campaign. VOTEPLEAS - END HEAVY CAMPAIGN All Nominees Finish Ballot Battle with Non-Polit- | ical Speeches President Franklin D. Roosevelt |and Wendell L. Willkie, in thelr | final message to the electorate, |urged all qualified voters to exercise |the right and duty of citizens by casting their ballots today. Lesser party figures also second- ed this appeal. While these messages stressed the duty of citizenship, and as such could be considered non-political, the siege ’or voters continued during the elec- tion eve and continued until long after midnight this morning. Only | then did the campaign end and the ‘voters were all reduced to the same individual level and given the op- (Continued on Page Eight)