The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 13, 1940, Page 1

TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8568. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVE MBI ‘R B ‘)40 DAILY ALASKA EMPIR”‘ PRICE TEN C TALIAN FLEET CRIPPLED BY BRITISH TIMES SQUARE AS VOTES WERE COUNTED RAF FORCES 88 PERISHIN 'PREDICTS JAPAN WILL RAID SALMON FISHERIES, NORTH PACIFIC WATERS ON LONDON COLD WAVE IN NATION Searching Parties Hunting | for Missing — None Ex- pected Be Found Alive SHIPS FOUNDER IN GALE O LAKES;MANY DROWN Duck Hunters Drown or Die | on Marshlands in Fierce Storm BULLETIN— CHICAGO, III, Nov. 13.—A total of 92 victims as the result of frigid weather and storms in the nation is re- ported late this afternoon. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Al- aska Dclegate Anthony J. Di- mend today said that Japan’s abrogation of the fur seal con- vention has opened the doors for more salmon fishing dis- putes in the Pacific. A Tokyo dispatch cf Octo- ber 23 said Japan no lenger will adhere to the treaty between the United States, Great Brit- ain and Russia to protect the fur seals. Delegate Dimond said: “The announcement by the Japanese Government that it has decid- cd to abregate the fur seal | convention means it intends to ! alse threw overboard definite- ly the more important gentle- men's agreement to regulate the Pacific Coast salmon catch. I “If Japan is geing to slaugh- | ter the seals, it is going to raid | commercial fish as well as our | fishermen who must go out and fight them off, boat by boat.” ALASKA GENERAL ELECTION OFFICIAL RETURNS LISTED More votes were cast for arid agai |in the September 10 Alaska general e (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) hing parties today scanned | old waters of Lake Michigan and frozen marshlands of the Great | Lakes region for additional victuns| of the violent storm which has brought death and destruciion in the | (Continued on Page Eight) Cthe | | | today by the Canvassing Board. The plan for beine 6.150 for and 8,490 against. Delegate Anthony J. Dimond received 11,241 votes as compared with | force nst the liquor referendum proposition lection than for Delegate to Congress ‘m any of the Territorial offices, according to official returns announced | 3,320 for Cash Cole, his Republican opponent. | The official returns of the Canvassing Board are as follows: First Divisi Delegate: Anthony J. Dimond, Dem Cash Cole, Rep. Attorney General: Henry Roden, Dem Harry G. McCain, Rep. 1,51 | Auditor: | \ \ | | { Frank A. Boyle, Dem. ... 38, A. H. Humphries, Rep. Highway Engineer: Wm. A. Hesse, Dem. H. C. Miller, Rep. Liquor Referendum: For Against 3,1 3,21 | Total number of persons in Ter- ritory who voted 6,1 4.3 3,033 2735 1,794 2,533 2,784 Second Third Fourth | ion Division Division Division Total ] 2,685 805 51 898 370 3,407 644 11,241 01 3,320 730 459 2,592 1,244 2,257 1,018 8,612 45 809 384 2,902 940 2,286 952 9,841 4,070 83 725 455 2,673 1,165 2287 987 5,139 626 626 1,537 2,387 1,203 2,268 6,150 09 8,490 24 1320 4141 3416 15,001 WASHINGTON — There is now | Of those who voted— 440 did not vote for any Delegate. indication that the Japanese, rating carefully with the Axis| powers, waited until the very eve of the Presidential election to| launch the long contemplated move‘ on Singapore and the Dutch East| Indies. Japanese troops actually began to‘ withdraw from extended pomuons in the interior of China about two days before the elections. Japanese | transports tied up in the southern: most port of Nagasaki and in For mosa about five days before elec- | tions. Everything points to a coolly | calculated plan to take advantage | of the indecision of the American | election period to drive on a vital part of the Pacific in which the| U. S. has maintained considerable| interest. Japanese warships have been as- sembling in the waters of French Indo-China, and it looks as if a| temporary non-aggression pact has been patched up between Russia and Japan which will last long enough so the Japanese won't have to worry about an attack in Man churia at least for the time being.| All of this apparently was timed to coincide not only with the election aftermath, but also the moment when Nazi-Fascist forces would be putting their pressure on the Brit- ish in the Mediterranean. Meanwhile, the whereabouts of the U. S. Scouting Fleet in the Pa- cific remains a mystery. It is not at its usual base—Hawail—and Na- val authorities refuse to reveal its location. It seems doubtful, how- ever, that the Scouting Fleet would be in the direct path of the Japan- ese naval thrust toward Singapore, for the reason that it would not be sufficient to cope with a large| Japanese force. Probably it is on the outskirts of the South Pacific. every cocper NATIONAL UNITY The first probtem President Roo- sevelt took under consideration im- mediately after electiop was how to bring Republican forces into the Government in order to effect great- er national unity and heal election | wounds. Last winter, Roosevelt invited Frank Knox, vice presidential run- ning-mate of Landon's, into the Cabinet as Secretary of the Navy; and Henry L. Stimson, who had a| long record in Republican Cabin- ets, as his Secretary of War. Roose- | velt would like to do something like this today in order to give repre- sentation to the opposition party at| a time of national emergency. One suggestion made along this line is appointment of Senator Mc- (Continued on Page .Four) | cago 933 did not vot 1,090 did not vo 994 did not vot 361 did not vot, DRAFTEE BROT e for any Attorney General, te for any Auditor. e for any Highway Engineer. e on the Rerenendum HER OF -TODAY ABOUT SAME AS ONEOF 23 YEARS AG0, ATSITKA By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Tak- ing for granted that you know your selectee of today, this is second of two articles designed to demonstrate how different (or how much the same) he is from his draftee brother of 23 years ago. Here’s what the conscriptee of 1917 was thinking about and doing: James Ten Eyck had just stag- gered the thought of human en- durance by rowing 150 miles up the Hudson from New York to Albany—without rest. Hazel Cun- ningham put an exclamation point after that by swimming the Gold- en Gate. There were bombings in a Chi- theater; in a Milwaukee church (the bomb didn't explode, however, until it had been trans- ferred to the police station where 10 persons were Kkilled); in the Governor’s mansion in Sacramen- to, Cal; in a church in St. Paul; in an express company package in Sea Bright, N. J.; in a railroad car in Windsor, N. D.; and in a petticoat factory in Queens on Long Island. A fellow named Harold R. Peat caused a sort of “Gone With the Wind” sensation by coming out| with a book called “Private Peat.”| . Joyce Kilmer published “Main Street and Other Poems” and no- body cared. James Branch Cabell ignored the war (thereby getting criticized) with “Cream of the Jest.” The big railroad strike was in| | the making, with 19 Chicago rail- roads’ workers threatening to do | something about it unless the pay envelopes were fattened. PERSHING PROMOTED ‘ Gen. John J. (Black Jack) Persh-‘ ing was made General by an act of Congress. , . . He forbade the! | | soldiers in France to drink any- thing stronger than light wines and beers. . . . And caught it from both sides. . . . The prohibitionists claiming he had violated the holy dictum of the Eighteenth Amend- ment to the Constitution (which was still in the process of ratifi- cation) by permitting the boys to drink anything stronger than sar- | saparilla. And the boys | grumbled that they couldn’t fight on beer and sherry. . ., . More thau 2,000 saloons closed in New York because of taxes N and the “father of prohibition,” Sen. Mor- ris Shepard of Texas, predicted the all-time death of Demon Rum by the spring of 1918. Rabbi Stephen 8. Wise urged women’s suffrage because it would make the world safe for peace. . . . But in Washington scores of suffragettes were sent to the workhouse at Occaquan for pick- eting the White House. . And| trouble broke out then because the ladies went on hunger strikes, claimed they were brutally mis- treated. . . . And sued for the con- sideration and litical prisoner: SONGS OF THE ERA If you couldn't sing Katy, ‘There’s a Long, Trail,” “Pack Up Your Troubles,” and “Tipperary,” you couldn't | sing. . . . Jesse L. Willilams wrote a title - shocking drama called| | “Why Marry?” . . . and the bed-| room farce era, was well under| way with “Parlor, Bedroom and Bath.” . , . Sir Arthur Guy Em- pey’s “Over the Top” was selling more copies than the Bible. | way a successful revival of “The Lady of the Camellias” and a couple of gents named Victor Her- | bert and Jerome Kern had turned (Continued on Page Six) 5,456 8868 | AIR RAIDS | CONTINUE Weather Clears-Nazi Fliers | Take Advantage But Are Beaien Back BU! LLI‘,TIN LONI)()N Nov. —This British Capital City underwent two air raid alarms as Axis planes roared aeross the English Channel in great waves and spread out cver the Eng- lish Midlands and also les. Observers said (here “must have been hundreds of German and Italian planes.” The daylight raids followed up a night long series of individual plane raids. One heavy German bomb is officially reported to have wrecked a crewded London mevie theatre, killing many and burying others under the debris. Nov, 13. — Clearing two days of snow LONDON, weather, after Territorial liquor control lost by 2,340 votes, the totals | storms and frigid weather, brought Nazi airmen back to London in full last night. { At 9:30 o'clock last night, the German raiders pounded at London area, coming over at rate of about one a minute. The raiders dropped many flares which the antiaircraft guns shelled| but usually without suocess. Then| the enemy unloaded high cxplosive ;and incendiary bread basket bombs. Five high explosive bombs were dropped in one district of the city| and one heavy expiosive missile| crashed into another. district, re- sulting in a big explosion. At 10:30 o'clock the attack slack- ened and was off for about three | hours after which raiders came over | | at the rate of one at a time until |dawn today. There seemed to be | fewer Nazi planes after midnight | |and this might have been because ‘of a more concentrated atti-air- craft barrage being sent up by the British defenders. e - SEAMAN SUICIDES the Police estimated that more than 100,000 persons had puched their way into Times Square, New York City, moaign came in from all parts of the United States. as votes in the Presidential ¢ from 45th Sireet looking south on Broadway. CRAWLED OFF BRIDGE the |~ & * Lloyd Colson Sends 22‘ Bullet Into Brain-Navy | Officials Investigate SITKA, Alaska, Nov. 13. — First class seaman Lloyd Colson, sta- ticned at the Sitka Air Base for | more than one year, died last Sun- day night, November 10, from a .22“ bullet through the head and the; gunshot wound was self-inflicted. | This was the conclusion reached by | a coroner’s jury presided over by United States Commissioner Wil- liam Knight. | Testimony revealed thal Colson | had been taken to the home of Mr. | and Mrs. R. R. Lucksinger, in an | intoxicated condition, about 6 o'clock | last Sunday evening by two sailor| friends, laid on a bed, shoes re-| moved and then covered by a blan- ket. The sailors then returned wlth‘ five companions and Mrs, Lucksin-| ger for a gay evening which was spent at various cocktail lounges. About 10 o'clock Sunday nigh. Mrs. Tony Lucksinger, nccompan- ied by one of the seven sailors, wen, | to her home. The sailor was to| take Colson over to the Jr station. | | tcontmued on Page Seven) UNIFORMS ARE HERE | FOR JUNEAU GUARDS; | DRILL TOMORRO Capt. William Walther states that uniforms for Company A and its| two detachments, located in Juneau have been arriving during the lfls | | Ethel Barrymore was. giving Broad- | few days. “Considerable equipment is al-‘ ready here,” stated the Captain. According to Sergeant Harold| Brown, some of the equipment wlll\ be issued during the regular mecei- ing tomorrow evening. i | craft factories. | until he is 100, pants torn and his shoes scuffed, Leonard Coatsworth, Tacoma ews Tribune reporter, is shown after he abandoned his automobile and left his deg behind to crawl to safety off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge shortly before it rull;lps('d and plunged into Puget Sound. Defense Boar AL d SAILORS WANT UNCLE'S AID; Is Nowon (oasl SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 13 Nine members of the Canadian- American Defense Board, including Mayor La Guardia of New York, arrived in San Francisco late terday by plane, after being de- |layed by Rocky Mountain snow 3 ekl (»:uu unit The defense commissioners will| " 2 A spend several days Inspecting Cali-| ¢’ the crew of the vegsel fassi Kir which arrived here rnia e i & fornia defense facilities and air-| . v ivostok, Har | the .1 SAN FRANCISCO, C { The United Ste today called upon the liberty of American seamen’ ves. | S1AN pOTts, *7! The demand was contaihed in ol The commissioners transferred to a plane, from the train, at Chey- enne, Wyo. i 95 A Rty LATE STARTER CHILLICOTHE, Mo.—O, P. Ja- | cobs, 91, has set a goal for him-| self. He has made up his mind to| | spector, will come have one al |denied the use of | were torbidden to talk freely. DS BURDICK SATURDAY | McKinley Saturdey, ] iulsn unknown, ! | miral Scheer SOVIET PORIS s G ')wnnm'nt vm\\ “protect the in Rus- slution adopted by the San Fran- | the Sailors Union of Pacific, acting on a complaint North recently y Lundeberg, S8UP boss, said w complained they had been | prohibited from going ashore, were the radio and | Jones averages: Charles G. Burdick, Forest In-| to Juneau from | vessel irplane ride each year'Kewhnkan on the slenmtr Mount IN ATTACK, ~NAVAL BASE Two Fasc ierameships, Two Cruisers Put Out of Commission BOMBERS SUCCESSFUL IN RAIDS, TWO NIGHTS Only Half of Mussolini's Fleet Now Effective- New Chase Begins (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) [ Great Britain's Royal Navy has struck a crippling blow at the Ital- |ian fleet. | This was the announcement made {lhls morning by the British Admir- |alty. | Two Fascist battleships, probably |a third, as well as two cruisers, huggling behind their shore bat- |terfes” at the Taranto naval base, have been sunk or are so badly |damaged by British shells that they ~ |are useless. In addition, two auxil- fary warships there are reported |lving with their sterns under water |and bows high in the air. | Following the official announce- | ment, Prime Minister Churchill-went |to the House of Commons and im- | parted the information to a cheering | membership. Churchill also said that as the “result the action decisively affects the balance of powor in the Medit- This picture was taken FREIGHTER HITS BACK AT GERMAN :- Survivors of Heroic Sea‘ Battle in Mid-Atlantic Brought to Port i mmian it On Wnrld Wlde H!ml Naval experts said the victory will release powerful units of the British Mediterranean armada to help in the defense of Greece and also join the world-wide hunt for the “phantom” | German surface raider, possibly the 110,000 ton pocket battleship Ad- AN EASTERN CANADIAN) miral Scheer or Luetzow, which at- | PORI‘ Nov. 13— five sea-| tacked a convoy in the mid Atlantic men, most of them wounded, were on Noovember 9 and resulted in nine Canada’s heroes today, scarred and| ships reported as “missing.” exhausted survivors of the armed| Taranto is described as Italy's merchant cruiser Jervis Bay, which main sea base and lies in the “in- saved at least 20 ships in a convoy|step” of the Italian boot, is on the of 38 before sinking with its guns| Gulf di Taranto, off the Ionian Sea. still roaring in a mid-Atlantic bat-| The attack on the fleet at Tar- tle with a powerful German raider. Hllltfl climaxed fruitless months The men were brought to port|during which the British Fleet on & Swedich freighter, one of the|sought to engage the Italian Fleet | convoy. The Swedish ship’s captain,|in battle. Sven Owander, went back to the| The attack, with resuits, probably | Jervis Bay after dark on the night|left only half of the Fascist navy's of November 5 because “they did| six capital ships still effective. | 50 well for us I didn't like leaving| The Royal Air Force naval planes, ! them.” flying from undisclosed bases, car- The identities of lost ships in|ried out the assaull on the nights | the convoy and number of ~-missing l'are kept secret by crew members | from the 18-year-old 14,000-ton | Australian liner, converted to an | armed convoy guardship. The identity of the raider but some .‘;urvimra she was possibly the Ad- or the Lutezow. | Survivors of the sea fight, of | which the world had its first ink- | ling last week when distress calls | crackled out across the Atlantic, | told how the Jervis Bay headed | without hestitation to a “hopel m" | fight and laid a smoke scree under which the convoy smurrml | The Jervis Bay reportedly plowed| through a storm of shells straight| | at the raider until she was sunk by | the latter’s power. | Captai of the Jervis Bay, John | Fergen, remained with his com- Im.md “with one arm almost shot caway” and went down with his ship, «Continued cn Page Five) 'ITALIANS RETREAT ON FRONT . Greeks Confinue Advanc- ing, Taking Prisoners and War Equipment (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Dispatches from the Greek-Italio front indicate the Italians are still retreating from Koritza, 10 miles inside Albania, abandoning much equipment as they flee. The advance of the Greeks is pro- ceeding along the entire front ac- cording to unofficial reports, but the Ttalians are said to be massin« forces for a counter offensive, to stem the Greek onslaught. thought ST0CK QUOTATIONS 3~| NEW YORK, Nov. 13. — Closing| mine ‘(|unldllnn of Alaska Juneau k today is 6, American Can ‘92 3/4, Anaconda 28':, Bethlehem Steel 89%, Commonwealth and| "= o planes have bombed Vo'~ Southern 1, Curtiss Wright w”‘"ona but Italian planes are said ‘(xenpral Motors 53%, International| ¢, phave attacked Greek ships off | Harvester 55%, Kennecott 36, New|conpy ‘York Central 15 7/8, Northern Pa-| pia)an avigtion forces are being cific 7%, United States Steel 74| ressed interiaction late today. Pound $4.04. | A Greek radio broadcast, picked up at Budapest, says the Sumber of Italians takén as prisofiers is in- «lcreasing and field guns, machine guns, munitions and other equip- ment are falling into the Greek Army hands. The broadcast also says British Air Force planes have bombed Dur- azzo and other Italian held places |in Albania, thus attractng atten- tion from the main battlefront. al DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, industrials 136.61, rails 30.12, utilities 21.66. MU R B L | BRANT IN SEATTLE The Fish and Wildlife Service Brant arrived in Seattle Monday, according to word re- ceived by the local office.