The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 12, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8567. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NEW POWDER PLANT BLASTS HIT NATION Lightning Attack on Greeks is Repulsed SMASHING DEFEAT T0 INVADERS New lfalian Drive Report- ed Beaten Back Under Heavy Shell Fire (By Associated Press) Ttaly's Alpine Centaur Division, trained for one year in Albania for a lightning attack through the moun- are said to have suffered a smashing defeat and many divisions are unofficially reported annihilated. The full extent of the defeat is not given. Dispatches from Belgrade said a | new Italian drive has pushed Greek troops back from the heights of Ko- ritza but the invaders suddenly found themselves under shell from the Greek mountain batteries. Advices from Yugoslavia’s frontier said Fascist columns made two fur- attacks on the heights frocing the Greeks (o retreat. This report is, however, in direct contrast to one from Athens which res shattered Italian forces are retreating in disorder along the whole 100-mile war front with Greek troops pursuing them under heavy bombing assaults. B A T BRITISH PLANES MAKE AIR RAIDS LONDON, Nov. 12—The British Admiralty says that planes from the aircraft carrier Ark Royal have bombed the TItalian port of Cam- dilai on the island of Sardinia. jous decl; fire | [ — | IS ORDERED DEPORTED Mrs. Raissa Berkman Browder (abeve), wife of Earl Browder, General Secretary of the U. 8. Communist Party, has been ord- ! ered deported by the Justice De- partment. Polilircal | " Other British planes raided vari-| (o n o m I s' ous Italian bases attacked many German ports, in-| cluding the former free city of| Dan: | WASHINGTON — With General| Franco of Spain definitely lined up| with Hitler and Mussolini, the| State Department is on the verge of giving a juicy Ex-port-Import Bank credit to the Spanish dictator. | The decision to bolster Hitler’s| ally with U. S. dollars came simul- tancously with Franco's ousting| of a pro-British Foreign Minister and the appointment of Serrano Suner to this key post. Suner is Franco's brother-in-law, and the envoy who has just come back from Rome and Berlin where he con- ferred with Hitler and Mussolini and brought Spain forgally jnder the Axis. Suner is considered the foremost Axis advocate in in. Shortly after State Department officials had decided privately to give the credit to Spain, Jay Allen, forthright ex-correspondent of The Chicago Tribune, encountered As- sistant Secretary of State Breckin- ridge Long. ‘Have we reached the point of getting down on our knees to beg people to take our money?” asked Allen, referring to the Franco credit. “We're hoping to keep Franco neutral,” replied Long. “Yes,” countered Jay Allen, “he’ll stay neutral just as long as it pays the Axis to keep him neutral — which is until he can get .sumcient‘ supplies and credits from us. You'll| keep Franco neutral the same way | Italy was—until she had ample U. S. steel, U. S. wheat, and U. S.| gasoline, all on credit. After Spain has all those supplies, Franco will come in.” NO WHEAT FOR LOYALISTS The Export-Import Bank credit is for the shipment of wheat to Spain. In this connection it is im- | portant to note that shortly before | —_——— and the RAF| Passes Away Prof. Frankmaussig, In- ternationally Known, Dies in Cambridge CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Nov. 12.— Frank William Taussig, interna- tionally known political economist and Professor Emeritus of Har- vard, died here last night. He would have been 81 next month. Taussig was Chairman of the United States Tariff Commission from 1917 to 1919 and was the author of many books on economics ' and international trading. Plain Speaking Plain speaking formed a notable part of the method which Taussig, authority on political economy, used in tackling public problems. A U. S. Senate Committee found this out when it summoned him as| a witness in March, 1926. | The committee was investigating the administration of the Federal Tariff Commission. Professor Taus-| sig, a member of the Harvard Uni- versity faculty for more than 40 years, had served as chairman of the first tariff commission for two years under appointment by Presi- dent Wilson in 1917. He told the committee that ap- pointments to the commission by Presidents Harding and Coolidge in| some instances had been made without regard to the ability, train-| ing or open mindedness of the ap- pointees. The appointments, he as-| serted, had been “carried to dan- gerous and lamentable ‘extremes to make them acceptable to the party in power.” ! Keep Politics Out [ “Unless the commission can be kept non-partisan,” he declared, “the reason for its existence is gone.” | He informed the committee also of his belief that the flexible pro-| visions of the tariff law served no good purpose and+ should be re- pealed. | Professor Taussig, who was born in St. Louis on December 28, 1859, spent his life teaching and writing | the principles of political economy. His period as chairman of the/ tariff commission was his only ex- cursion into public office. Imme- (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Four) i steamer Aleutian. FORECASTS RUSS - NAZI AGREEMENT Molotoff on First Trip Out of Russia—May Join Up with Axis BERLIN, Nov. 12.—Hitler today received Soviet Pramier Molotoff, cnce the Russian target of Hitler's bitter sc , amid indications Rus- sia will be asked to join the Berlin- Rcme-Tekye axis, for building a “new world.” Piesumably Hitler is bars with Moltcff for a Russian cff" policy in the Balkans N st A twe and one half hour confer- ence was held today in disc of the Balkan conflict, it is perted This i Mclcteff’s first trip out- c'de of Ruesia and it wes revorted he wa- ready to discuss and @ upen pelicies of world wide char- acter in conferences with rman officialdom Dienst Aus Deutschland, a com- mentary crgan closely aligned with the Wilhelmstrasse, said the visit is of “glcbal character” and that “it gees doubtless beyond mere rec- ooniticn of the international posi- n of the Soviet Union to positive rela of friendship between the tx ¥ Th> genergf atmos- phere of this visit seems to be one of progressive devcl:pgg‘m of the Russian position. ining nands ard * SCAUGHTBY CAMERA | MANYDEE IN FRESH DISASTER One Factory Filling Big Ex- plosives Army Order Contract Blows Up WIDE AREA ROCKED " ABOUT SAME TIME Death Toll Placed af 11 | Will Possibly Increase to Beyond Twenty (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Ina tragic and startling sequence, i(‘xp]cslfllfi in widely separated sec- | tions of northeast industrial sec- tions rocked two powder plants and between 11 and 21 persons are es- timated dead with an undeterm- ined number of injured. | One blast was in a factory man- | ufacturing torpedo signals and an- |other was in a plant engaged in | filling defense orders. g ‘The first blasts v h lant of the United Raflway 5. m- vany at Woodbridgs, New J A | “bout. 15 miles from Menhattan, kill- ne at least five and injuring more than a score, some critically, mostly suards. Mrny ccmmunities 1 were soveraly n a haken pepulous Unlike cther state receptions when The cond blasis i apart German bands met visitors and dip- : ; he Burton Power Works of the lomats by playing their national Caught by the camera in the very act of falling apart, the mammoth $5,400,000 Tacoma Narrows Bridge, one of the structural showpieces of the american Cyanide Chemical Cor- anthems, the band at the Anhalter staticn, when Molotoff arrived, lapsed into silence as soon as the Envoy finished taking the salute. Stricken Rumania Is Isolated Death, In ju;fisf as Result of Earthquake Con- tinues to Grow a 100-foot section of the roadbed, International Illustrated News.) COLDWAVE 34 DEATHS Severe Weather Is Raging from Rockies fo Atlantic | , —Seattle Also Shivers (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Absolute censorship on develop-' cpATTLE, Nov. 12—The mercury mem_.s in earthquake stricken Ru- during the night dropped to 30 de- | mania seems clinched wday Last gress above zero and.is hanging | reports were the death list Was ihare today, giving the city the| mounting to nearly 1500, and OVer .;igest November 12 since 1916 when | 3,000 injured and millions home- i .5 97 degrees above zero. | less with fires continuing and fur-i The forecast for tomorrow is 26 th?’;’h:izo?;oors::mn;o"::e:e v‘;uabgo':_ydegrees abt')ve zero for a minimum. | 4 Frigid weather settled down to- page of the flow of oil fo the mili- 4,y o1 most of the nation from the tary force as transportation is para- pocky Mountains to the East Coast, lyzed. * laccording to weather reports re- It is known that German army ..jveq hgre. i preparation of military bases in Ru-| Gaie5 gre raging on the Great | mania have been temporarly aban- yayes battering vessels, several | doned as Nazi troops are engagedgenging out distress signals. in rescue work, among ruins of| pyp 45 3 gclock this afternoon 34| houses, shops and factories razed by | joaths have been charged to the the quake. cold wave in the Eastern states. | Flames Lick Fields l | The Bucharest oil fields on which Hitler counted for fluid, without : H.6.Shepard which the mechanized war cannot; staged, is being licked flames, littered with splinters of wooden derricks; rails, bridges and roads over which the German troops are moving Southwest | through Rumania are twisted and, | o ‘one knows what nappenca PrOminent Inferior Miner, Business Man Dies Affer underground. | Emergency Air Flight | There are dark deposits of oil in| some places where oil has never been found before. The oil is ooz- ing from fissures in the ground, indicating widespread shifting un-| ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 12. derground. | —Stricken with an attack of the In some places, especially near heart on a Fairbanks to Flat flight Ploesti, sulphur fumes are spewing last Saturday, H. G. Shepard, in giant cracks | prominent Interior miner and busi- ————————— \nmman, died here after an emer- POWDER MAN LEAVES On instructions from Mrs, Shep- R. E. Murphy, Dupont mrewn-tard. in Seattle, the body will be tative, left for the States on the sent south for burial at Helena, Mont, concrete blocks and other debris shower like falling leaves around it. | safety just before this section gave way and plunged into Puget Sound with the car. ] Is S'rl(ken‘benem of hindsight could shift from in and Trotsky were the big shots {one basis of depletion to another Of the Russian Revolution and .| the civilian employees of the air-| gency flight from McGrath, } Pacific Northwest, is shown in its death throes in this remarkable photograph. Lashed by a forty-two-mile-an-hour wind, the roadbed of the 2,800-foot center suspension span swayed, buckled, and at last twisted a first portion of the bridge to collapse, Arrow indicates auto whose driver was Remember the Talk When HITS EAST: Draffees of 1917 Learned ~ POISONING About Squads, Right, Efc.? First of two articles in. which Mr. Stinnett recalls the Ameri- can scene at the time when the draft for World War service was of primary interest to men between the ages of 21 and 3L Alaska Mine Company Is Court Loser Flat Outfit Wastes Time in Tax Debate with Su- preme Law Body WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. — The Supreme Court has overruled a con- tention of the gold mining company of J. E. Riley Investment Company at Flat, Alaska, that it should be granted a depletion allowance from the over-confident New York its 1934 Federal income tax returns Glants, winning the first, second, on the ground it was not notified | fifth and sixth games. ; in time at the change of the law,| Stocks and bonds were doing a Justice Douglas delivered the Rose dive to new lows and the decision without dissent. He said Wall Streeters were screaming. . . . if the investment company's view There were investigations being were adopted, “taxpayers wth the started of war profiteers. . . . Len- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. It you don’t think a lot of water has run under the culverts since the last draftees went off to camp, just listen to what the boys in those ! days (the summer and fall of 1917) were talking about when they mus- | tered in for their first introduc- tion to squads-right, squads-left, huu-ump-mph! | The Chicago White Sox, behind the pitching of such chaps as Ci- cotte and the fielding and batting of Eddie Collins and Shoeless Joe Jackson, took the World Series in the light of developments sub- Bolshevik was a new word. sequent to their original choice.” | Maj-Gen. Charles P. Treat re- The company said that because turned from France and predicted it took two weeks to receive mail that the World War would end in from the Commissioner of Internal the fall of 1918. Revenue at Tacoma they made out Glenn Warner (nobody called their tax return on old forms to him “Pop” then) stirred up a pig- avoid delinquency and said the col- Skin hornet’s nest by announcing lector had not notified them of the that football was not as rough as change in law to permit deduction it used to be. ... Fuel to the foot- of a percentage for depletion and ball flame was added when Army allow for exhaustion, wear and tear called off its annual classic with and obsolence of its property. ;the Navy The company claimed $13,600 al- lowance. The Government had suc- NO G-MEN THEN cessfully contended before the Ninth | The “Federal men” whoever Federal Circuit Court that the com- heard of G-men then) rounded up pony was net entitled to the allow- | a slew of L.W.W.s. . Dresses ance because the claim was not made | on its first return. (Continued on Page Seven) sunder shortly before noon last Thursday, November 7. is seen hurtling upside down into the water 195 feet below while huge " (Copyright photo by Bashford and Thomas, Tacoma, from poration in the village of Edinburg, wo miles west of Neweastle in stern - Pennsylvana, killing three In this picture forced to flee for his life, reaching ree others were killed in a third osien in the. Trojan Powder plant on the ontskirts of Although were in- 1 at Toakt orth but sive U. 8. Army, af as has been delermined, two blaste ts held D 30 1 the ot » defense conlracks IS PROBED INVESTIGATION STARTS ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 12.—Prelim- inary investigations of blasts that stroved life and property by three |explosions in manufacturing plants |were taken immediately by the | FBI. 1 Whether Government agents will jStricken Anch_orage Work- ers Are Back on Jobs After Attack take charge of the full inquiries | ‘o{ all three disasters appeared to | ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 12— depend on whether substantial Fed- An investigation is under way here|eral interests, contracts, are in~ to determine the source of food pois- | volved. oning with which approximately 100 | | workers on the Army airbase con-| | struction project were stricken lasti sTo(K ouoTAT'o" | Friday. | | Capt. Donald Neil, Construction Quartermaster, said an inquiry hfld} NEW YORK, Nov. 12. — Closing been launched by the Army, Terri-| quotation of Alaska Juneau mine torial and City medical authorities. | stock, after a two-day holiday 1s A call was issued today for Kit- 6', American Can 92, Anaconda tens for food tests. 128 3/4, Bethlehem Steel 91%, Com- Neil said the food in the men's monwealth and Southern 1, Curtiss lunches was suspected, but that wright 10%, General Motors, he could find no one item all Lhe‘54 3/4, International Harvester 5512" men ate. | Kennecott #%, New York Cent: 1 ; l!lm but :5 reu{med wlworll; l:w 15 7/8, Northern Pacific Hclr;n;:: ollowing day, with nearly all the States 3% Baioos hack ailthic (5b toaay. ‘f'd States Steel 75%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JOM SANDWICHES SUSPECTED The fouowomg lr:v;:)::y(’iesmw A telegram from Dr. A. S. Wal-| o060 aver . e 3 ages: kowski, Deputy Commissioner of mus*:mzo 5':‘51‘"::’“;?:3"5 137.41, Health at Anchorage, to Territorial | 3 o A | Health Commissioner Dr. W. W. e | Council said that more than 100 of | Aw“ pmmous' SAYS TAX COLLECTOR AFTER LONG JOURNEY prepared the day previous. So se-| verely were some of the men strick- | Alaska is enjoying at present one en that narcotic relief had to bei"f the most prosperous periods in administered. None were considered | the history of the Territory, Deputy in danger of dying from the poison, | Collector of Internal Revenue O. 8. | Sullivan said today upon his re- base were stricken with food pois- | oning. | ‘The men ate tuna fish and canned | meat sandwiches which had been| however. ; The Health Department’s new|turn from his annual tax collec- | laboratory at Anchorage, opened | tion tour of Alaska. |Jess than a month ago, is conduct-| The year appears to be the fin- | ing the food tests. Frank P. Pauls,| est mining season ever, Sullivan ! Assistant Director of the Division |said. The Innoko district, especial- of Public Health Laboratories, and |1y, is coming along very fast, he Lloyd Morley, Senior Sanitarian, |declared. | both formerly of Juneau, are work-| Sullivan will now be at the Ju~ ng on the case. neau office for several months,