The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 15, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8570. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 1,000 KILLED IN NAZI AIR RAID S 04 L4 s 4 4 & 4 S & 4 4 L4 & 4 é 4 & & & WORST ATTACK OF PRESENT WAR MADE GREEKS IN BIG ADVANCE ON ITALIANS ¢ Defenders (%Eing Ground | as Invaders Refreal- | RAF Helping Out BULLETIN — ATHENS, Nov. 5.—Destruction of two Italian Divisions, presumably totaling 20,600 men, is claimed in radio advices from the Albanian frontier. Grecee's armed forces are | continuing a sweeping success | in all sectors. The Greek Army has taken the initiative along the entire bat- tlefront and driving the Italians back everywhere, the radio an- ; nounces, | | BUDAPEST, Nov. 15.—The Greek radio reported this morning that the Greek Army continued wreaking | destruction upon Italian forces with two infantry and one Alpine Divis- jon gaining ground on the Pindus, Kalamos and Korca fronts by as-) suming the initiative and sweeping the Italians before them. | A last minute communigue from the front declared that all import- ant and strategic points are now in Greek hands with the Italians re- treating with all speed before the| Greek onrush, It is authortatively reported from neutral sources that Thursday af- ternoon Greek aviators wiped out an entire squadron of Italian planes in a fierce running dogfight over{ the Korcas front. Italian communications from and | through Albania are severely ham- (Continued to Page TWO) | ) | WASHINGTON—It has not leaked out yet, but the State De- partment went pretty far in pres- suring the Vichy Government to/ surrender the 93 planes which the| U. S. Navy once sold France and which now are rusting away at Martinique. The State Department even threatened to sever diplomatic relations if the French were too stiff-necked about these airplanes. Sumner Welles has had several talks with Ambassador Henri-Haye regarding Martinique, and at one ’ time when Welles asked that the States, the French Ambassador ac- tually replied: “I'm afraid it might get us into trouble with Berlin.” In other words, Vichy is taking orders from Berlin almost every step of the way. Meanwhile the agreement nego- tiated by Marshal Petain and Hit- ler is cloaked in the strictest secre- cy. Some of the main points. have leaked out, however, and if these “leaks are correct, France and Ger- ' planes be returned to the United peace of Europe. Since Great | Britain is now the only country | disturbing “the peace of Europe” —at least in the eyes of the Nazis, —this means that France will co-| operate with Germany in lurclng': Britain into peace. | This is the formula by which France justifies the leasing to Ger-j many of her naval bases and air- fields around the Mediterranean.! This means Nazi control of Syria, all-important in the Nazi drive from the Balkans to Suez; and Da-| kar, which is all-important in dis- (Continued on Page Four) many agree to cooperate for the| PLANE TESTS INALASKA_ " Major Dale V. Gaffney (right), commanding cofficer of the Army’s new Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska, is pictured following his non-stop flight in eight hoars through sub- zero weather from Alaska to Mc- Chcerd Field, Wash., testing a Boe- ing Flying Fortress. The ship is one of a number of Army craft stationed in Alaska for winter tests | prior to dispatching of regular fly- ing units to the far north. Major Gaffney, with Lieutenant R. S. Ereeman, will report his findings to the War Department in Wash- ington. OURT ACTION - IS INDICATED ELECTION CASE Langlie Has Good Lead Over Dill for Governor of Washington State SEATTLE, Nov. 15. — Further counting of absentee ballots in the extremely close race for Governor of the State of Washnigton gives Republican Arthur Langlie of Se- |attle a lead of nearly 5000 votes over former United States Senator Dill of Spokane. | Meanwhile Dill aupporters chal- |lenged the validity of about 20,000 votes, and threatened a court ac- | tion., The State Attorney General's of- fice has rejected the protests. Langlie's election is certain, un- less a court suit should change the result. Most of the absentee votes counted are from strongly Republi- can distriets 'NOTED BUILDINGS AREDAMAGED BY " BOMBS OF NAZIS LONDON, Nov. 15. — German bombs are piling up a mounting toll of irreplaceable damage to Britain's ancient churches and buildings. The British government has just announced that cathedrals in Bir- mingham, Coventry and London have been struck. The Royal Col- lege of Surgeons, one of the world’s leading, medical schools, which was built in London 95 years ago, has also been damaged. | | | BIG PLANE PLANTTIED UP, STRIKE C10 Forms Picket Line- Company Closes Doors Until Seftlement DOWNEY, Cal, Nov. 15. — The Vultee Airplane factory is closed today as the result of a strike and the establishment of a CIO picket linc. The activity is the beginning of the first strike on a factory manu- facturing military craft since the start of the present Naticxal De- fense emergency program. Spokesmen for the firm early this morning said he hoped the plant would remain opened with a skele- | ton crew but at 7:30 o'clock he announced that several hundred workers in operations could not begin with the orders on hand and she plant closed. The plant has on hand orders ‘or $30,000,000 worth of planes for he United States vorth of planes for export. The firm’s spokesman said the union seeks better conditions for the lower bracket employeqy imme- diately. wage increase from 50 {o 65 cents an hour, minimum pay. Pastor for _ Sitka Now Appoeinfed Lutherans fo Have Church! and Parsonage-Rev. Dowler Coming ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 15. — The National Defense program has spurred the Church to resume missionary work in Alaska abandoned a century ago. The Board of American Missions i has voted to reestablish its old mission at Sitka and the Rev. Hugh Dowler of Pueblo, Col, has been appointed pastor of the Sitka Church. The Mission Board members said | more than 2,000 fishing boats put into the Sitka port and also cited the activities of the Army and Navy in Alaska and especially at Sitka as reason for resuming ac-! and $11,000,000 | United Lutheran; i \ l Senator Mead (D.-N.Y.) The union asked for a _ Pictures in Hospitals Now Win Approval;Plan TakenUp 0il Bloc | In Europe . Disclosed Italy and Gtzr—m}:ny Making Agreements with Ru- mania, Sovief Union ROME, Nov. 15.—A spokesman of |the Italian government said thic morning that Italy agrees in prin- |cipal regarding the arrangement made in Berlin earlier this week 0 supply Italy’'s mechanized wal machine frem the rich oil fields o’ President Views War Plane Assembly Line ! President Roosevelt is shown watching final touche put on P-40 pursuit planes at the Ci Buffalo, N. Y. Seated beside him are State Supreme Court Justice Charles S. Desmand, center, and | eyes | welter urtiss plant in U. S. by Govemmenl' By JACK STINNETT | { - FOR NLRB " Replaces Madden- | that it almost brings tears to the | tend to unearth it. |dent Roosevelt today nominated water color paintings and with o the National Laobr Relations Board, | the walls of the Carville, | The President also submitted to | ives of the 400 lepers, most 0120’ Claims. | ‘labor board before it was recon- fine arts, whose dynamic chief,| It is expected in some quarters entrusted with organization of latter's program for changes of staff | BERLIN IS ENGLISH CITY IS ATTACKED Coventry, One of Principal Industrial Centers of AIRRAIDED LAST NIGHT Royal Air Force Planes Rain Terror of Death _ on Berlin's Millions | Midlands, Laid Low FLAMES FROM RAGING |SWARMS OF WAR PLANES FIRES LIGHT UP SKIES MAKE SMASHING ASSAULT Roving Aftacks Also Made ‘Over 20 Fires Reported from Stavanger, Norway, | Raging — Hundreds Be- to Lorient, French Base | lieved Buried, Debris (By Associated Press) (By Associated Press) German night raiders last night inflicted a toll of 1,000 believed killed and hundreds injured in-a smashing assault on Coventry, a city in the industrial midlands of Eng- land, with a population of 190,000 about 90 miles from London, Coven- |try is one of the most important Apartment bulldings were industrial’ centers of mm? wrecked by the bombs. .| The British communique announc- The German High Command said oy that charging Nazi airmen com- only 10 or 15 British bombers pene- ' irteq “indiscriminat n | e bombard- trated to the heart of Berlin and'ment of the whole city.” “only a few bombs were dropped| Berlin Exults on the Reich's Capital and no 1, Berlin, the Nazis exultantly de- noteworthy damage was done.” |clared that the ancient Engish city The British fliers, returning to where Lady Godiva once rode naked their bases, said some noteworthy |on the back of a white hprse through damage must have been done M;me town, is “engulfed in an ocean tlames from raging fires lit up the of flames.” entire heavens and black smoke, An armada of 500 German bomb- rolled up at a great height. ers carried out the attack, Nazi The British Air Ministry said the|quarters declared, sweeping the city RAF also sprayed bombs around | of Coventry with a deluge of 30,000 the Berlin railway stations and|incendiary bombs and more than 1,- terrific explosions were heard, high 000,000 pounds of high explosives. in the air. | Raid in “Retaliation” Other far roving attacks are re-| Hitler's High Command said of- ported by the Air Ministry. RAF ficially the raid on Coventry was in bombers slashed 26 airdromes and |‘“retaliation” for the British raid on shipping at Stavanger, Norway, Munich the night Hitler spoke there down to Lorient, the German U-|last week. boat base on the French coast. | Hitler's High Command also of- The British Air Ministry admits |ficially describes the attack on Cov- losing 10 planes in the raids made entry as a “monster raid, especially last night. ‘;nerce. successful and causing tre- mendous devastation.” Town in Smouldering Ruins | Today, the city is smouldering irums. with uncounted townspeople |still entombed in the mountainous heaps of ruble. Many fires were reported still | burning l4te this afternoon, firemen working against overwhelming odds. The city's 14th century cathedral and 303-foot spire is among tha ruins. Berlin's millions felt the terror of death last night from the skies as Royal Air Force raiders attacked the German capital in the heaviest waves thus far, setting countless| iues and killing an unknown num- ber of Germans. >ee - SHORT SKIRTS FGR WOMEN OF GREAT BRITAIN Woolen Underwear Also fo Be Worn During Win- fer — Bright Colors Worst Attack Recorded The British Air Ministry said the 'night raid was the worst attack on |any British city, including London, |since the aerial siege of Great Bri- ( Educator-Economist Millis, WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—A lit-| tle project so kindly and humane N i 4 Witt Quits has been buried under the - i of war and politics. I in-| WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—Presi- | It is simply a project to pur- Harry Millis of Chicago, educator- chase with government funds 200|economist, for a five-year term on gift from the Carnegie corporalion‘mkmg the place vacated by Chair- | in New York 100 more to brighten |™an Madden. | La. | o e the Senate the nomination of Mad- Marine Hospital and gladden the dbi Ke tisge in the D B Court' whom are living out their span . in the United States’ only lepro-! Mullis, 67, was a member of the e, Istituted and given greater powers It is a project of the section of | ynder the Wagner Act in 1938. 1’ Edward “Ned” Bruce, hims_elr one Millis will cooperate with board | of the country's great artists, is member William . Leiserson in the competitions for murals, sculpture and paintings in public buildings,| and procedure, Leiserson declared, “It is a splen- | Syiym; Rumania. The agreement is believec reached during the Antonescue con- The Lutheran Church owned f.;once yesterday. property for years in Sitka. Last| pe statement this morning said summer the Rev. John L. Cauble tra other economic accords were of the Resurrection Lutheran grafted—some of which were ex- Church, went there from Juneau pected to result in increased Ru- and then made a report on Lu- manpgjan agricultural and mineral theran Church activities &t the production, especially copper and Navy Base town. As a result he jron, recommended construction of a. The development of a European church as a good congregation Was oil bloc under Axis guidance is indicated, and it is understood seen here as definitely envisaged as plans are now being drawn for a the result of the Antonescue and church and parsonage to be built' Molotov trips. In-this connection in Sitka as soon as possible and it is understood that Italy’s oil dea! pending erection, services will be would mainly be with Rumania held as’ designated places. | whereas Germany would deal with It is believed the new pastor the Soviet Union. will come north immediately and| The exchange of commereial mis- go to the Navy Base city. sions between Italy and Rumania made possible by the government's‘did appointment. I don't know a | stipulation that one percent of the‘man better qualified.” cost of the buildings be set aside, Promptly on President Roosevelt's for decorations | nomination of Millis, Board Secre- Although only $30 is being paid tary Nathan Witt turned- in his o ¥, 8 0 | resignation in a letter to Madden. | for each of the water colors, the i lottes ot el b paintings are rolling in in great n his lettel ignation, numbers, proving how well Bruce Madden, Witt spoke of the pleasure sald: of having “worked with you and Edwin Smith and members of the staff,” but made no mention of | Leiserson, who once tried to get him removed. knew his artists when he “It will, I know, be a very pleas-| ant ‘thought to the artists ‘whose water colors are purchased toknow that they are bringing pleasure to the unfortunates condemned by their dread disease to spend their lives in this hospital.” e e —— PAA ELECTRAS ARE HELD BY STORY BEHIND IT There is a story that has never been told behind this story of put- ————— SURGICAL PATIENT Raymond Hill underwent an ap-, tended to improve the wartime ouc.}u of pendectomy this morning at St. Ann's Hospital. —————————— RETURNING HERE Mrs, Grace Wickersham is re- of the Interior, born 58 years ago no¢ building hospitals just then. | turning here on the steamer North Coast after a visit to the States for the past few weeks. also are said to have been discussed with the General impression being given that the Antonescu mission | was mainly an economic move in-| look. | - e — | A. M. McTAGGART DIES H Archie McTaggart, well driller in Ontario, Canada, died recently, in Fairbanks as the result of an Jattack of the heart. 4 ting original paintings in hospital POOR WEATHER LONDON, Nov. 15.—The average British woman will wear shorter skirts and woolen underwear and British new woolen dresses this winter because of the aerial blitz- krieg. A survey of London shops indi- cated that common sense will be the keynote of war fashions. The wearing of uniforms and tin hats by women dictated the present trend toward shorter, simpler styles of hair dressing while winter tem- peratures in air raid shelters have made the London woman vote for wool rather than silk, both in| frocks and underwear. | The general gloom of war is bringing bright colors into the(r; own again in England, as British women strive to keep a cheery oui-| look. |tain began. The British, communique, issued today noon, says the “city suffered very seriously but the pegple are bearing the ofdeal with geat cour- The German communique says 20 P t fires were left raging in the city where the Morris-Bristol and Rover-Napier Motor Works, and General Electric plant is said to be situated. DEPTH BOMB IN STRAITS VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 15.—Can- A few years ago, Bruce was him- self confined to a hospital duringj long illness. The barren walls Whitehorse were still weather- the hospital room day after bound on the Juneau-Fairbanks day drove home the lack of cheer route today while the big Douglas which a few bright, happy paint-|DC-3 wheel plane took off from ings might save a patient’s life.|Seattle this morning and was to There was little he could do about|Pend the night at Prince George, it at once, for the government wns;B- C. until the weather opens. Passenger officials on the Doug- las due in tomorrow are N, H. Mec- Dowell, A. B. Carpenter and H. W, Helfert. PAA Electras at Juneau and at His opportunity did come, how- (Continued on Page Seven) | nine safety. )udmn authorities warned shipping today that a depth bomb is loose |in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, be- |tween Victoria and the United | States, but said that there probably * SAFETY INSTRUCTOR KAZEE RETURNS HERE ©°.cveor ptb i How the bomb happened to be Harry H. Kazee, Senior Safety released in the Strait is not ex- Instructor for the U. S. Bureau plained. The authorities said the of Mines, arrived on the steamer depth bomb contained enough ex- Denali after spending the year in |plesives to sink a battleship, but the Interior conducting classes on |probably has either exploded or be- lcome ‘waterlogged.