The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 16, 1940, Page 1

_‘4" TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE el JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8571. GREEKS CONTINUE SMASHING ITALIANS Four Nazi Ships Make Dash; Two Are Hit Powder Magazme LefsGo L ONDONIS DEFENDERS BRIDGE WRECK DOES NOT STOP STEAMER FREIGHTERS | IN MEXICO PUT T0 SEA' British Warships Calch’ Pair-Others on Way fo German Raider Europe’s war touched the Western Hemisphere today with a maritime incident recalling the scuttling a vear ago of the pocket hnulechip Admiral Graf Spee and the liner | Columbus. ‘While the Nazi air force was open- ing a grand scale attack on Lon- don, four heavily-laden German ships which have been lying at Tampico, Mexico, since the start of the war, made a dash for the open sea to take their chances against the British blockade. Early today, the Phrygia, 4,100- ton craft, reported in flames 15 miles offshore and the Orinoco, of 9,600 tons, was being towed back with machinery broken down. The other two ships are the Idar- (Continued on Page Eight) %WSNI«@ i ‘WASHINGTON—The situation in- side France is such that there is more and more sentiment among! Administration leaders to draft ven- | erable John J. Pershing as Ameri- can Ambassador to France. | It is believed General Pershing could do a good job because of his old friendship with Marshal Pe- tain, now No. 1 man in the Vichy Government. The two were com- rades in arms during the World War, and never do they meet with- out an affectionate embrace on both cheeks. | But more important than this is| the manner in which Marshal Pe-| tain is reported to be pulled in two different directions; toward the Germans on one hand, and toward | the British on the other. Chief advocate of friendship with Nazi Germany is Pierre Laval, long France's No. 1 appeaser, who has an inside track with Petain at pres- | ent. Laval has been carrying on/ the conversations with Germany | which aim to give French air and | naval bases to Hitler, and his ar-| gument with Petain is reported to be that the British are not to be| trusted, that France's future lies; entirely wih Germany. On the other hand, Marshal Pe-| tain's natural instincts are pro-| British and anti-German. Purther- | more, these are the natural sym- pathies ¢f most Frenchmen, in- cluding some of his other advisers. FRENCH IN AFRICA So at times Petain is reported to be drawn one way by Laval; at other times almost ready to go to Africa and put himself at the head of the French army to lead a cam-| paign against the Italians in Egypt. Should the French North Afri- can army become active on behalf of England, it would mean much not only to the British but to the United States, whose biggest worry| concerning the Monroe Doctrine | is that a combination of German- Ttalian forces might use Dakar, French naval base on the bulge of Africa, for operations against Bra- zil and South America. That is why “Papa” Pershing is considered so important to influ- ence his old friend “Papa” Petain. NOTE—General Pershing, 80 years Remarked Cuneo -afterward: “I was a mere ego in a whirlwind of super- egos. I practically had to blow a whistle just to insert one word in the conversation.” o Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles listened to election returns until 4:15 a. m. but was down at his desk reading a telegram from Greece by e S 2 A (Continued on Page Four) AR RAIDED T - EARLYTODAY AHack Opens Funously with 500 German War- | planes Taking Part LONDON, Nov. 16.—An attack on this city and also nearby sections opened furiously this morning with as many as 500 German war planes taking part. Anti-aircraft guns are firing con- | tinuously at the horde of invaders overhead. The British Air Ministry, in an early morning communique, says Royal Air Force bombers made large scale raids last night on military objectives at Kiel, Hamburg and other dockyards and also on Osten and Calais. | The British fliers report explosions | following the attack and great fires were left raging. PEACEFOR r—peeS, Depth of water in Puget Sound at Tacoma where th> $6,400,000 newly constructed suspension bridge col- lapsed made it possible for deep sea carriers to continue operation in the area. Here a freighter and tug- A vast, billowing mass of black smoke rises from the Italian destroyer Artigliere as her powder magazine the British cruiser York off Si 4 explodes when hit by a shell from Shows His Americanism L By Selling Peanuts for American Red Cross Fund Spain Now Liffs By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. — I'm 5ust a stranger in these parts, but C(IOUNION IS NEARER Lewis and Hillman Greet Each Other, Then Go Info Conference ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 16— Threat of a split in the national CIO convention last week over par- tisan politics, labor unity and in- ternal policies, began to fade after a surprise conference today between union leaders. John L. Lewis, who came out in support of Willkie, and Sydney Hill- boat passl-d cautiously under remaining cables of (h> bridge. |]'A|_|ANS Commonwealth Day Is Celebraled Here HAVE SUB - With Dinner-Dan(e A“_AN"( Filipino Commumly of Ju- neau Gives Social Affair al BarirLM Hotel Rome Newspaper Declares Craft Sunk One U. S. Destroyer | banquet and dance which was given Marking Juneaa's social cfllendar: [for this month was last evening's| Note the torn and twisted girders. DIES SAYS THOUSANDS ~ON "LIST” |Will Ask Congress for Mil lion Dollars, Broad- er Program man, who also is one of the National Defense Commissioners, met im- mediately today after a boardwalk greeting. Tivic Wins Over Davis Ind Round | Steve has been around here a long time. As a matter of fact, Steve . . his last name is Vasilakos . . . ‘has been peddling peanuts on the ccrner at the White House while that much lived-in residence has had four tenants. The other day, ambling away {from one of the President’s press \Lcmcrences I noticed a sign on! Steve’s stand. It was to the effect, | that he was donating the proceeds/ |of two days' sales to the Ameri-| {can Red Cross. It isn't the first, \lee that Steve has donated to from Country Is Sud- denly Taken Off the Red Cross, but it was ONE more. day’s sales than usual and MADRID, Nov. 16.—The Spanish I stopped for a chat, Ban, American News Agencies Order Barnng Associations| lin the Gold Room of the Baranof | Hotel by the Filipinc community | . 16— aper ; : o FOME, Nov. 16_The ReWSPaPer | ¢ this city in celebration of their| WASHINGTON, Nov. 16—Repre day, claims tha". an Italian sub- | Commonwealth Day. Approximabe-‘svnmuve Martin Dies today declar marine, operating in the Atlantic, |ly one hundred and fifty invita-'eq the Committee on unAmerica sunk one of the 50 United SCMES.HO?_; wemFlss“id R s activities had evidence German) destroyers recently acquired by V. rnest ruening, gues! Japa "% " Great Britain. ‘speaker for the evening, called at- naly. apan and Russia are “work | tantion to thé significance of Lhed"" very closely” in the country t occasion—the impending liberation 'prevent United States preparednes of the Philippines. He stressed the and prevent aid to England. fact that while the wl:n:,nv nzm?:s‘ The Texan, back in the capite of the ‘world were ladm b ZW“Z ®lafter an ahsence of more than tw: |liberties of already independen Da- onths, said he would ask Con tions, this “““f’" bt jm":ntf ";‘mr:‘gxem “for at least a million dollar u“AlASKA HARBOR the Phl!lppmts "‘m‘é Cfe 'i Oa to combat such activity and reque 1Whmh would in 1946, give 10 A ,,.040 powers in publicizing pe dependent country its independence. 3 cns known to have connection He also mentioned, that with condi- Government has suddenly lifted! the order issued yesterday banning all Américan newspaper associa- | tions and special representatives of “All us Americans got to do our part,” said Steve, who only last week got his final papers and be- came an American. “Some get guns. Some go up in Referee Dlsqualmes Man from Brooklyn for Re- tions as they are at the present, a mutual agreement between the United States and the Philpipines might postpone the scheduled in- ;Georgiosmamianos‘ - Clears for Japan Just | ‘wn.h subversive groups. Dies said his commttee has a 1 f 300,000 subversives to bring b fore the committee “one by one.’ He added that pas experience hu peated Low Punching newspapers from Spain which order airplanes. I'm too old for that kind NEW YORK, Nov. 16—Fritzie dependence for a few years longer | |proven that “ex| P t than planned, or at least might ik posire’! énds |effectiveness of foreign agents. Ahead, Embargo was to be effective next Monday. | The order banned the Associated Press, New York Times and Chi- cago Tribune, No explanation was made as to the sudden change but the news associations are operating and will continue as usual. Communists ‘Make Move NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—Meetng in a special convention, 200 delegates to the Communist Party today unanimously adopted a resolution | to “cancel and dissolve organiza- tion and affiliation to the Com- munist Internationale.” The action was on recommenda- | tion of the National Committee and reported to the delegates in an ad- dress by Earl Browder, National Secretary of the Communist Party in the United States. The resolution said the specific | purpose is to remove the cummun-| ist Party from the terms of the/ Voorhis Act which is effective next January. of stuff. So I just give my two, days’ sales to the Red Cross. “I put that sign up so as folks would know that they weren't just buying peanuts for old Steve, but buying 'em for the Red Cross too.” I looked again at the sign. And i | beside it was one of those “God Bless America” placards. Zivic recently crowned world wel- terweight champion, burgh, was awarded a victory last night over Al “Bummy” Davis of Brooklyn, when the referee dis- qualified Davis for repeated low unching in the second round. Each man weighed 147': pounds. ! More than 17,000 fight fans paid nearly $45,000 to witness the short | fight. TERRITORY SUES TWO CANNERIES NOT ABOUT PRESIDENTS | Try to get Steve to talk about the Man in the White House and he sidesteps. I understand he al- ways has. He says: “None of the | four gentlemen who lived in there tried to tell me how to sell pea- |nuts, and Old Steve ain't gonm_ try to tell any of them how to run| the country.” I think the story of Steve Vasnl- akos should be written in forty- today by Attorney Geenral James leven languages and given to S. Truitt against two salmon can- |every alien who comes to these ning firms which are accused of | shores, under the title: |become a (fine American citizen.” taxes owed the Territory. ‘ In Territory versus A. R. Brueger, Of all the suggestions that have doing business under the name of been made recently, give a hand|the A.R. B. Packing Company, the | to that of Senator Wiley of Chippe-;Terflwn' claims $4,409.39 in taxes, gestion that “It might be well to 1938. have a rule that for three months| In Territory versus Burnett Inlet | Salmon Company, $1,794.56 is claim- (Continued on Page Four) ed for 1937 and $1,332.06 for 1938. from Pitts- | FOR PACK IAXES} Suits were filed in District Court tion, Greece is to be treated as a ¢eneral sailing just before a Presidential proclamation ordered that Greek | ships be treated as belligerent ves- sels the freighter Georglos Pot- amianos cleared from Unalaska late Wednesday according to a report re-| ceived by Collector of Customs James J. Cennors here. The ship sought réfuge in the| | Alaska port shortly after war broke |out between Greece and Italy. | On Wednesday the vessel took on bunker coal and, leaving an in- jured seaman in the Unalaska hos-| | pital, sailed for the anounced des- Vunaunn of Moji, Japan. The Geor- | gios Pataminos sailed originally from Wumlngwn North Carolina, in Sep- | Under the President’s proclama- belligerent under the Neutrality Act of 1939, R “How to not having paid license and pack | | PLANES STILL HELD The Douglas from Seattle for Ju- | neau is still at Prince George, held | there by weather, and no PAA El- jcount of weather. When the Douglas does arrive and returns south, air mail will be dis- patched. modify the control of America over |the islands, but this would be done,! he said, only by mutual agreement. The invocation was given by thc | Rev. Edward C. Budde. Max Ray- cla was toastmaster for the occas- ion. | Music was provided by a string ensemble and piano selections were given by little Juanita Diaz, who showed her versatility by singing “God Bless America,” when encored by those present. Two selections |A. M. Uggen. | Speakers for the evening included |Eladio Belarde, Tony Florendo and George Ocjanas. Arrangements for the celebration were in charge of Max Rayela, 1 chairman, assisted by George Ocjanas. Other committees include: | Finance—B. Campus, B. Gomez, | D. Mationg, B. Bierly; Program -—/ |E. A. Belarde, G. Fulgencio, M. | Rayela; Invitation—A. Galao, G. Oc- janas; Decoration — T. Florendo, J. Beltran, Mrs. M. Diaz; Recep- | tion—G. Ocjanas, E. Galao and D. wa Falls, Wis, who startled the penalties and interest for 1936, $5,- |ectras are in flight from Juneau toxsarabm Senate the other day with the sug-|390.97 for 1937 and $1,33212 for |Fairbanks or from Interior, on ac- | ———o— Mexico has 22 ocean ports. Trap shooting began JUnl!.e':l States in 1825. {were sung by Miss Jessie Villoria, - accompanied at the piano by Mrs. in the | Dies declared that the 500 pas prirgted repert of his committe {contains “irrefutable evidence ¢ ithe connection of consular repre !sentatives of the German govern iment with fifth column activities Dies declared he would recom mend the committee release the re port during the day and also pro posed to issue later a similar re (port on Italian consular agents. “Russia and Italy will also be eventually involved,” Dies said. g v BRIGHT LIGHTS ' FOR JUNEAU, IS " COUNCIL ORDER Nights will be brighter in Juneau shortly when the City removes all 75 watt street lamps and replaces them with 100 watt bulbs. The Council last night voted to make the change which will cost an | additicnal $3 per month for current |but which will give a great deal more light. | An application of the Juneau Inn Cocktail Bar for a card room license was laid on the table. PUSH BACK INVADERS Plan for A;rfiiliafion or Surrender Is Indicated in New Movement (By Associated Press) The Greek-Italian war took a ‘fercer turn today with the Greeks cported to be smashing the big “talian army all the way from Lake resba to the coast port of Valona. Some of the heaviest fighting in- icates that the Greeks are attempt- ng to cut the Italian Army into hree pieces and then attempt an- thiliation unless they surrender. The Greeks are being assisted by he British air force. NAZIS WILL EAT DOG IN NEW DECREE Yeef and Pork Supplies Likely Running Low- People Eaf Anything BERLIN, Nov. 16—A new law, ffective January 1, has legalized 1eat of dogs, foxes, bears and eavers for human consumption, ut observers doubted the measure vill greaty augment the Reich’s nod supply. The law subjects these meats to he same rigid health inspection s applied to beef and pork and ndicates such meats have been n German menus probably in arger amounts recently, as the seople find their weekly pound of ieat allowance not sufficient, Alaska Will Be in Race, 49th Stafe Yimond Tells Hawaiians They Will Have Battle for New Star WASHINGTON, Nov. 16. — Ha- vaii may encounter opposition from laska and Puerto Rico in her juest to be the 49th state. Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di- nond declared today: “Alaska is 1st as much entitled to statehood s Hawaii. We'll beat them to it, et, if we can.” Aides of Resident Commissioner f Puerto Rico, Bolivar Pagan, said he island “has long been prepared ind ready for the duties of Ameri- 'an statehood.” Hawaii recently voted two to one o ask for statehood in a recent eferendum, but members of the Senate and House Territories Com- nittees explained many other steps wre necessary, including a formal equest by the Hawaiian Legisla- ture, the adoption of a constitution, and approval .of the Congress and the President. French Fleet Goes fo Sea VICHY, Nov. 16 —Informed sourc- es today said the French fleet has left the Toulon base for “exercises” in the nearby Mediterranean.