The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 6, 1940, Page 8

i THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, WEDNESDAY, NOV. 6, 1940. ALASKA CALED | GREECE PINS HOPES ON "METAXAS LINE" FLECTION TURN, SAYS GRUENING Governor Poinfs fo Terri-| fory’s Score asU. S. | Vote Predictor ka has truly become the po- the nation, Goy day Al litical barometer of Ernest Gruenir tatement on has now definitely es- it ht to proclaim ‘As oes, so goes the Nation ) successive elections, Maine the William Henry H just or hund: boast t tion Monda publican he country went overwhelm- y Democratic e with this Alaska ki prophetic voting on the the first Mon- y in Septel that is to say the day after Maine votes In 1932 on her mountains and the “Metaxa; ted a Territorial Legis- 18 Democrats and six F a ratio of three to one In November 1932, followed the first Roosevelt landslide with 42 out of 48 states. In 1936 Alaska did even better. In that year the Territory registered a mathematically exact prophecy, when the Territorial Leg- islature with 23 Democrats and only one Republican forecast the ratio “of 46 out of 48 states going Demo- Alaska ele vasion routes: Around passes and by coast to Janina. Italian bombers found targets at where British troops have landed DEMOCRATIC STRENGTH IN HOUSE GAINS Control in ‘Cbhgress Stays with Party - 6. 0. P. Governors Beaten (Conunuea irom rage One) cratic in November. Now for the third time, Alaska has called the turn. The Territorial Legislature elected last September will have 21 Democrats and three Republicans a ratio of eight to one. While final returns from a few states are not complete at this writing, it seems clear that the ratio of Dem- ocratic victory will vary somewhere between four to one and seven to one. In short, three successive Al- askan Democratic landslides in Sep- tember were followed by Demo- cratic Jandslides in the Nation in ‘Henceforth political prophets, will do well to observe how Alaska goes, for 5o will go the Nation.” cumbents, for a net gain of nine for the Democrats, Senate Loss Invaders said they reached the Kalamas River and bombed Metzovo. Only the principal mountains of northwest Greece are shown here. Governor's Party Back From Haines Nafional Guardsmen Will Have Encampment Next Fall Near Chilkoot | Alaska National Guardsmen will have their annual two weeks en- -ampment and maneuvers in the Acinity of Chilkoot Barracks at Haines, probably sometime next fall. | Governor Ernest Gruening declared | oday | Governor Gruening returned to| Juneau last nizht aboard the Light- | hcuse tender Cedar after an in- specticn trip to Haines with Alaska | National Guard orgenizer Major | Jesse E. Graham and Adjutant Gen- 50 | MILESZE | Despite heavy rains Italy pushed a two-pronged driv: today toward Janina (1) but Greece put her hopes s Line” of forts (shided area) along the Albania, Jugoslavia and Bulgaria Arrows show thé most Koritza to Kastoria, and through mountain More Lepanto, naval base, and other towns in the Patras area (2). Islands are kept a military secret. VICTORY IS FOURMORE REPORTED YEARS FOR ~ FORGREENS PRESIDENT ‘Mountain Fi—dlfiers Said fo Thiriy-ninefifigtes Cerfain | | Have Captured Thou- for Chief Executive- | sands of lfalians - 9 for Willkie ' (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) ; (Continued Irmix_Pngc One) Frontier dispatches said today | that Greek mountain fighters had| Willkie Confers { |entered the city of Koritza in Al-| Willkie went into a sudden con-| bania and had captured thousands. ference with his advisors..in his| | Thirty thousand Italian troops hotel suite after receiving a series Lake Ventrok to Florina; Fly UNITED in the STATES Demecrats elected 20 Senators| ~ o under siege there are reported to and Republicans nine in 36 races % be included in the seizure Republicens picked up three new ’ " ) l_ } | If this js true it marks the first seats and lost one for a net gain| % of two. |major victory in the Balkan con- | flict, presumably has disrupted the Democrats won 14 races and Re-|Tealian supply route and the pro- publicans sevem, for a net gain of | jooted invasion of western Mace- one for the Democrats, in 33 Gov- | jonja j ernorship contests. Greece's high command said to- of adverse returns from the Asso- | clated Press, but no indication was | given as to the conference sub- Ject. Pluralities Grow As the election returns gave Roo- sevelt pluralities in 39 states carly this morning, Willkie doggedly re- fused to concede his opponent had| Democrats outsted Republicans Raymond E. Baldwin of Connecti- cut, William Vanderbilt of Rhode Island and Luren D. Dickinson of Michigan with Robert Hurley, J. |Howard McGrath and Henry D. Van Wagoner respectively. Republican Dwight Griswold de- | feated Terry Carpenter in Nebras- ka. Republican Dwight Green defeated Harry Her: Democrats were leading in G ernorship races in Colorado. Dela- ware, Kansas, Massachusetts, Min- nesota, Montana and Wisconsin. — e The Only Sleepers to CHICAGO NEW YORK WASHINGTON Fares only 5¢ a mile. Liberal baggage allow- ance. Call travel agents, hotels, Pacific Alaska Airways, or Alaska Steamship Co. UNITED AIR LINES 4th Ave. and Union St. Seattle Torture was once a part of criminal Scotland. procedure in | 1S EPILEPSY INHERITED? | WHAT CAUSES IT? A booklet containing the opinions of ta.- | ous doctors on this interesting subject will I be sent FREE, while they last, to any reader | writing to the Educational Division, 535 Fifth Ave., New York, N. Y., Dept. N1004 WITH APOLOGIES TO SNUFFY: We're Plomb Discombooberated hey in Illinois. recognized as launched !day that retreating Italian troops | were being shelled by their own {tanks as Greek warriors stormed laxzd captured the hill fortifications| 'guarding Koritza. | The Greeks declared their lines were holding firmly both ends of a hundred mile front despite the | superiority of Italian arms and man | power. Mussolini’s command reported the Fascist invasion forces had driven |off Greek attacks between Lake {Presba and the Kapestica Pass in | the north after violent fighting. : Authoritative guarters in London said the TItalians had not yet| their main offensive| gainst Greece but the real attack might be expected at any moment, | probably on the Klamas river front above Iennina in northwest Greece. | ————— - won a third term. Statistics showed Roosevelt was then ahead in states having 451 electoral votes and the Republican! | nominee was ahead in states with; only 80 electoral votes. | Willkie Stands Alone ! Despite Willkie's refusal to ut- ter a word about defeat in his speech to his followers in his New York hotel a number of news- papers supporting his candidacy had long since acknowledged Roosevelt was the only man in history to win a third term. | Races are Dissolved | As the night wore on and the dawn approached, one race after another resolved itself, led by the! exciting New York battleé from which the President emerged with more than one quarter of a mil- | lion votes lead. HAwKEswoRIH Pennsylvania, Illinois, California, | Indiana, Massachusetts, Ohio and| even Oregon, home state of candi-| date for Vice-President, Sen. H. L‘ McNary, apparently followed New . RITES TO BE . o" T MORRO { York into the Roosevelt column. | Willkkie held the advantage v | New Jersey with 16 electoral votes,| Funeral rites for the late Charles, Michizan with 17, and seven other W. Hawkesworth, Office of mdmn;smtes. Maine, Vermont and mid- Affairs official who passed away| West farm states. | Monday evening, will be held in the | Indiana Shifts | Auditorium of the Scottish Rite| Indiana shifted early this morn- Temple tomorrow afternoon, it was|ing to give Willkie a narrow lead announced today. in the state election and chang- We had no idea so many people would be interested in our Easy Payment Plan . . . Must be a rattlin’ good idea. The Rev. John A. Glasse will de- liver the eulogy, public services to be held at 2 o'clock in the after- neon, with Marye Berne soloist, ing the electoral vote to a possible | 433 for Roosevelt and 98 for Willkie. At this time with two-thirds of the popular vote counted, Roose- IF YOU NEED A: COLEMAN 0il Heater; or Therm AIR-FLO 0il Range; or GALE Refrigerator; $5.00 Down Payment PUTS IT RIGHT IN YOUR HOME TODAY! Balance-at $5.00 Per Month Of course these terms apply to merchandise, too! “It's EASY to BUY and PAY preceded by a private Masonic rit- | velt has 18,585,073 and Willkie 15,- ual under Past Master Howard D.|397,032. Stabler at 1:15. Active pallbearers will be Charles Goldstein, Earl McGinty, Dr. L. P. Dawes, Frank Garnick, Fred Gees- Jin, and Virgil Farrell. Honorary pallbearers will be from the Order of DeMolay, of which body Hawkesworth was a prominent proponent. DeMolay pallbearers will be Lee Lucas, Robert Scott, Clifford Furu- ness, LeRoy Vestal, Charles Porter and Fred Sorri. Interment will be in the Masonic Plot of Evergreen Cemetery. Offices of the Office of Indian Af- (fairs and the native schools in Ju- neau and Douglas will be closed {tomorrow afternoon for the funera) {services. ‘Shines Are Free Under FDR For Covich John Covich, Secretary of the Juneau Mine and Mill Workers, probably won the oddest bet in town on the Presidential election. Covich bet on Roosevelt with tailor and shoe shiner Henry Olive. Result, Covich gets his shoes shined free for the next year. e — ENROUTE HERE Mrs. Gertrude Naylor is return- ing here on the steamer Denall jafter a six weeks vacation to Lhe | States. it MAIL GOES OUT ON NORTH COAST Mail will be dispatched for the south on the North Coast tomor- row night, according to a statement SRS RN made this afternoon by Postmaster | ¥ - \ Albert Wile. The mail for the North The Dafly Alaska Empire’ guaran- o LA L SCHOETTLER DUE R. J. Schoettler, manager of the Baranof Hotel, is due here on the steamer Denali after a business trip to Seattle. sral W. R. Mulvihill. Mrs. Gruen-| ing accompanied her husband on | he trip | While in Haines, Governor Gruen- | nz dreve to the end of the Chilkat | Highway. which is the first leg of | the projected Haines-Nabesna road recently osed Territorial Highway Engineer William Hesse. The Governor declared he is con- vinced the road plan suggested by Hesse has great merit and declared, “I believe the road should be bu\ll‘ at the earliest opportunity.” But for Juneau's water link witlr| Uncle Sam's armed forces at Haines, | Governor Gruening had little to say. | His party was stormbound two days | at Haines with fierce Lynn Canal| winds making the trip back to Ju- neau even temporarily too severe for the Army tender Fornance. Major Graham and his aide, Ser- geant H. H. Bond, are to leave to- day or tomorrow for Ketchikan on the Bureau of Fisheries vessel Brant in connection with estab- lishment of home guard units in support of National Guardsmen pur- suant to the national policy of set- ting up such units to serve locally in the event guardsmen of the na- tion unit are called into service. Governor Gruening will not accom- pany Major Graham. STORES CLOSE MONDAY In keeping with observance of[sons, a British A Ministry com- Armistice Day, next Monday, No-|munique briefly S, vember 11, Juneau grocery stores Most of the raiders were unable will be closed all day. to penetrate inland Grocery stores throughout the| The Art School and office build- city today are wrging all house-|ing was hit squarely by a bomb and wives to purchase their groceries as early as possible to aveid a last minute rush on Saturday. SENATORS ELECTED (Luntinued from rage One) Nevada—Key Pittman, Demoacrat, reelected. 2 New Jersey—W. Warren Barhour, Republican, reelected. | New Mexico — Dennis Chavez, | Democrat, reelected. New York—James M. Mead, Dem- ocrat and American-Labor, reelected, | Ohio—Harold Hitz Burton, Repub- | lican, reclected. | Pennsylvania — Joseph F. Guifey, Democrat, reelected. Rhode Island — Pater G. Gewry, Democrat, reelected Tennessee — Kenneth McKellar, Democrat, reelected Texas—Thomas Conna’ly, crat, reelexicd. Utah — .. » Murdock, Democrat, Democrat, rcelected. Vermont— T>rm ending Jan. 3, 184T)—Warren R. Austin, Republi- can, reelected; (1nexpired term end- ing Jan. 3, 1945)—George D, Aiken, Republican. Virginia—Harry I". Byrd, Demn- crat, reelected. West Virginia — 777 1L gore, Democrat, reelc ‘Wyoming—Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Democrat, reelected.’ — STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Closing quo- tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock teday following one day’s recess on account of election, is 5%, Ameri- can Can 93 7-8, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 864, Common- wealth and Southern 1, Curtiss Wright 8':, General Motors 50%. International Harvester 52'c, Ken- pecott 32, New York Central 14, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 67'x, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 131.98,( rails 28.87, utilities 21.51. ! i NATIONAL GUARD DRILL The Juneau company of the Al- aska National Guard will meet to- Demo- Kil- ‘\fiofi‘ GERMAN | here on the steamer Princess Nor- {president; Alfred Zenger, secretal Charles BARANOF HOTEL BOMBERS IN RAID Night Attack Is Made on Southampton Early This Evening 1 LONDON, Nov. 6. — German bombers smashed public buildings | and houses 2t SBouthampton in an| early mass raid tonight and in- jured an unstated number of pe it is believed a number of persons are buried beneath the ruins Three German raiders were shot down, two British planes are miss- ing, but one of the pilots is reported | safe. — —>—— 760 SOUTH, PRIN. NORAH Seven passengers sailed from ah this morning for the south, They were Paul Satko, W. Peel, Capt. A. Curry, Tom Petrich, Caro- line Todd, C. W. Riley and V. I Kraft. { | ) { { | | | e e ———— Surprise Shower | ‘For Mrs. Hudson| A surprise shower was given last evening for Mrs. Lou Hudson at the Walter Hellan residence on Distin Avenue. Co-hostesses were Mrs. Milton Danlel and Mrs. Hellan. Games were played during the| affair and honors went to Mrs. George Shaw, Mrs. M. J. Whittier and Mrs. Robert Cowling. Guests were Mesdames H. L. Mc- Donald, H. J. Turner. George Shaw. M. J. Whittier, Robert Cowling, Wil- liam Hisvon, Dudley Reynolds, Nor- man Rustad, Wilbur Wester, James Orme, Harold Brown, and Miss Clara Walther. Nomination of Officers Held Pioneers Lodge Nomination of officers was held at last night’s Pioneers of Alaska meet- ing held at the I. O. O. F. Hall, and nominations will be open until the netx meeting. Those nominated were: Jack Wil- son, president; Joe Green, vice-presi- dent: Samue! J. Paul, second vice- John Reck, treasurer; John Lang- seth, historian; Dean C. E. 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