The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 22, 1940, Page 1

TH VOL. LVIL, NO. 8575. ITALIAN INVASION OF GREECE FAILS TALIAN BOMBER DOWN IN ENGLAND LOCKHEEDS RAID NAZI PLANE BASE American Made Ships Ef- fect Quick Raid-Two Germans Bagged LONDON, I\o\ 2” — American- made Lockheed - Hudson bombers pounced on a German airfield at Stavanger, Norway, this morning in a destructive attack “as quick as it was heavy,” the Air Ministry an- nounced It was declared the raid was car- ried out as German planes returned to assault England after having been grounded by a night of dirty flying weather. An official announcement said two Nazi raiders were downed this morning — e STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 22. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 5%, American Can | 86':, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem | Steel 86, Commonwealth and South- | ern 1, Curtiss Wright 9%, General | Motors 497, International Harvester | 54, Kennecott 35%, New York | Central 14%, Northern Pacific 6%, | United States Steel 68%, Pound $4.04 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 139.74; rails, 29.37: utilities, 20.40. WASHINGTON — For about 160 years, the Vice-President of the United States has been either a| pure figure-head or else a trouble- | maker in the family of his chief,| the President. Tom Marshall, under Woodrow Wilson, is remem-| bered only his his remark: “What| this country needs is a good five-| cent cigar.” Charles G. Dawes, Vice-President under Coolidge, became famous when his alarm clock allegedly failed | to go off and he arrived at the) Capitol too late to change a tie vote. Charley Curtis will only be re- membered because of his social war to place his half-sister ahead of Mrs. Alice Longworth at dinner.| And Jack Garner will go down in, history because of his private re-‘ frigerator and his covert opposition | to Roosevelt. None of these Vice-Presidents was | an active worker for the head of his administration; many of them de-| liberately hindered it. Now, however, for the first time| in history, we have a Vice-Presi- | dent who, instead of being a sore- thumb, will be a right hand of the President. Wallace was trained un- der Roosevelt and can be counted upon to be a great asset, not a de- terrent It is not supposed to be known yet, but already Wallace has discuss- ed ideas with the President where- by he will work on three important problems. They are: 1. To act as liason officer be- tween the White House and Congress. This is the most important job of all. To act as a sort of ambas- sador-at-large in cement- ing Good Neighbor rela- tions between the United States and Latin America, especially where Congres- sional affairs are con- cerned. To formulate plans for shifting the nation’s in- dustrial economy from ar- mament to a normal basis, after the war is over. Vice-President | WALLACE STUDIES SPANISH These plans are not casual ges- tures; Wallace is very serious about them. Regarding the Good Neigh- bor program, for instance, he has been studying Spanish for months, (Continued on Page Four) British “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRLSb PRICE TEN CENTS Romance on Refugee Ship MURRAY S " CHOSEN AS (10 CHIEF | Lewis Makes Nomination -Delegates Elect by Acclamation ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 22—The delegates to the CIO convention meeting here today chose Philp Mur- | ray as President by acclamation and | and thus bestowing upon him the | title of leadership worn for the| past five years by John L. Lewis | who has stepped down as he prom- | ised if Roosevelt was reelected Lewis placed the name of the Pittsburg labor leader before the convention himself as his choice of his successor. | Lewis said that Murray as an industrial statesman has established | a brilliant record of three decades | and he has contributed his great energy to 1nbor without considera- | tion.” Murray, in accepting the Presi- dency, criticized what he called “gevernmental pressure for a shot- gun agreement”’ with the AFL and called on the cheering delegates for a united action to end the l)lrk(rir\g within the CIO. - BIGSTAG SESSION, ELKS HALL Channel Sportsmen Gather| for Rally Tonight-All | minister plenipotenitary to the land base 10 | of Homer and Socrates, become Juneau's biggest stag parly comes | another minister without a coun-| Off tonight in the Elks' Hall, spon- | try? sored by sportsmen of Gastineau If those questions are answered| |Channel who will gather at 8 o™- in the affirmative, then Lincoln |clock for an organization business | MacVeagh will grieve deeply in- | meeting to be followed by motion | dved No representative of the | Pictures, “hot-stove session,” a late ‘Umte(l States has more thoroughly | buffet luncheon and beer. ‘ {and whole-heartedly adopted any| Close to 200 are expected to at- country than MacVeagh has ndupl—‘“"“ the session which will be the | ea Greece. | first real mass gathering of chan- | For. seven years, this quiet,| ‘nel oubdoolsm?n here in many‘ | scholarly New Englander has been | Yed Sicily, Captured | our chief diplomat in the shadow| (By Associated Press) | of the Acropolis. His love and| The Italian High Command an-| knowledge of Greece, however, nounces the capture of Great Brit-| date much farther back than that ain’s new Vice Commander of the —at least 30 years back—when | Air Forces in the Middle East. |as a student at Harward, he be- Air Marshal Owen Tudor Boyd|came engrossed in the Greek clas-| and six others, four of them offi-| sics, cers, made a forced landing in| Sicily enroute to the Near East and | KNOWS EVERY VILLAGE | were taken prisoners. ? Long before he was appointed to| P i The British Air Ministry has ac-‘ his post, MacVeagh knew his Greece | Ce‘fi:{“%?"::;: g’;figu“;eflm‘?flf{;_} knowledged that Boyd and others|from Crete to Macedonia. Since|., will bring the Game Com-| are Italian prisoners | then, he has traveled over almost| i< motion picture library| When capture was certain, the every foot of it, going by dc'“key‘along and show several reels of col- British officers set fire to their |over the rough mountain trails|,req rainbow trout movies and of plane and it was destroyed, only|and on walking tours through ‘helmg game. certain parts of the framework re- |less rugged sections. There is a| ‘wjjiam Elsner, another Juneau mammg | story in Greece that there is not|gportsman, will show two reels of T S 2 |a town or village or village in "‘eicolored movies he took late this| u s AID 'I'o T tontinued o Prae e | summer on a canoe cruise down zhef Among passengers aboard an American President Lines’ refugee ship arriving in San Francisco recently from the Orient was blonde Tatanya Tatarchoucova, white Russian beauty from Harbin, Manchuria, who represented romance among the cargo of evacuees. She was on her way to Los Angeles to become thl‘ bride of Dr. D. E. Dvorgetz, who arranged for her entry into the U. U. 5. ENVOY T0 GREECE KNOWS HIS COUNTRY; IS WATCHING EVERY MOVE 3y JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Nov, 22. Greece fall to the Axis? will Officer Is Prisoner | Air Marshal of Middle East Forces Forced Down in Orrlcers will be elected for a work-| |ing unit that will keep the organi- | | zation intact and plan future acti- vities. It is planned that tonight’s stag will become an annual affair, and afford Juneau and Douglas | | sportsmen a sounding board for‘ | their views on game and fish con- | servation along with such working | |units in the other towns of the Territory. | — o | GEN. PERSHING IS OFFERED AN |resolution after the convention first | Yukon river. BRIIAI A list of outdoor awards will be| N Is iMRS- Roos[v[lr ‘mteresl in the organization through | “0w AT pEAK,‘ the year and the evening will wmu ! IS ON(E AGAIN All attending will be assessed a ldollar to defray expenses. Al-| | personally contacted by commit! - One fO ShOW HOW Planes men, any man on the channel whc Can Be Built Faster | For First Time, Personality 55 35,080, “Cociea” 0"be”on hand. — of a Woman Enfered ™" HYDE PARK, N, Y, Nov, 22— President Roosevelt, at a confer- ed that present conditions in Am- | GRID erican aid to Great Britain is near O The President said everything possible is being done at the pres- given to expanding American as- sistance, |drawn for to aid in maintaining| |up’ with a late lunch and beer. President cmenges AHY'I MRS. Roos[v[l' though over 200 men have boen} feels he has a “stake” in the out- | H ence with newsmen today, indicat- | Re(eni campalg“ the peak. AP Feature Service Writer ent time and consideration is being The President challenged anyone! |to show him a way that planes| |could be built faster and asserted | that “you can't pass a bill or issue an order and get planes the next| day.” ————— The National Hospital for Speech Disorders in New -York treats more than 3,000 patients-a year. WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—These past few months of bitter political | | wrangling have seen the personal- th of a woman almost as much of |an issue as WPA or TVA. | That has never happened in this country before. | But, Eleanor Roosevelt was—and quite probably will continue to be —a national issue. | The lady, herself, went “off the irecord” for the campaign or as | nearly “off the record” as a Wwo- i s (Continued on Page Five) l AMBASSADORSHIP HYDE PARK, N. Y, Nov. 22— President Roosevelt disclosed today that he has asked Gen. John J.| Pershing to become American Am- bassador to France but the AEF Commander-in-Chief declined with | regret on the advice of his physi-| cians. | Gen. Pershing is now 80 years| of age and has been in poor health for the past several years. |of a million acres in the south- Beftish sources described this is a annonced that 13 Italian planes were among 26 Axis rai “crashed Italian bomber under guard somewhere in England.” iders downed during a raid on the British Isles. This | | fied city of Koritza, photo was cabled to New York from London. I('fng Parliament; Opens New Session Says Empire D i British | ~ AXISNIGHT | 'RAIDS TAKE Will Flghl for Freedom SUDDEN STOP‘ (WEONDEMNS TOTALITARIAN DICTATORSHIPS {Union Sldesteps Demand to Close Offices fo Reds, Nazis and Fascists ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. 22.—The CIO has adopted a resolution stat- ing that “dictatorship, totalitarism, Nazism and Fascism are inimical to the welfare of labor and de- structive to our form of govern- ment.” The resolution did not, however, contain any reference to the pro-| posal of Amalgamated Clothing Workers to bar Communists, Nazis and Fascists from CIO offices. Thomas Kennedy, Chairman of | the Resolutions Committee, moved the resolution’s adoption as “a plain, simple reaffirmation of the policies of the CIO and John L. Lewis, not conceived in red-baiting hysteria or witchhunting.” Kennedy said the overwhelming majority stood up for passage of the voted against throwing the issue open for debate. g Bulgaria Changing Aftitude Abandons ‘Defensive Neu- trality’-To Make De- mands on Greece (By Associated Press) | Dispatches received in Bucharest| from Sofia, Bulgaria, indicate that| Bulgaria has changed her attitude of “defensive neutrality” as the result of the current Axis political | activity and will make definite claims on Greece. Reports have long indicated that| Bulgaria might demand a corri- | dor through Greece to the Aegean Sea, a road, incidentally, Germany could useé in an advance to the Near East and attack Greece. Bulgaria has not formally; aligned herself with the Berlin- Rome-Tokyo Axis, b il The Department of Agnculturt‘ has restored to grass about a third| western dust bowl since 1935, (By A“m‘ldltd Press) King George opened a new sei- gion of Parliament with solemn as ! surances the British Empire will| fight “until freedom is made cure.” The King expressed satisfaction at the ever increasing volume munitions arriving from the Unit- ed States. The King's optimism was echoed by Prime Minister Churchill who/| also told the members of the House of Commons that Great Britain has voted to give “a helpful meas- ure of assistance to the Greeks” and also that no matter what dam-| age Nazi bombs were doing Lo Great Britain the cities and vil- lages will be rebuilt after the fight-| ing is over. In the House of Lords, Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax declared that Great Britain made proposals of a trade agreement with Russia and he had “some reason” to be-| lieve the proposals are acceptable. | Parliament opened as Rumania Premier Antonescu and Foreign| Minister Prince Sturza arrived Germany, thus strengthening belief Rumania is already domin-| ated by the s and is about| ready to officially join Axis| alliance, 1 D | RUMANIA WILL JOIN AXIS BLOC se- of the Pro-Nazi Premier Nas Ar-| rived in Berlin o | Consult Hitler (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) On the European diplomatic front Rumania’s pro-Nazi Premier An-| tonescu has arrived in Berlin for talks with Hitler. The conference is taken for granted that Rumania will follow Hungary as the newest member of | the Axis dominated “European bloc | against Great Britain.” | German Speedboals | ‘GOVERNOR RATNER Bad Weather Prevents Murderous Assaulfson | Midlands of Island | (B JCIATED PRESS Th air raids on Great Bri- tain last night are described as the lightest on the island this month. Britons credited bad weather with the softening of the attacks| on the midlands which started Iur-; iously Last night several swarms of raid- ers attempted to penetrate the Lon- don defenses but after a short time | disappeared and failed to put in| reappearance | The antiaircraft murky heavens as repelled. There is no report that other! sections of the midlands were raid-| ed. i fire lit the raide: up the rs were | River Ports 0fGermany Air Raide §Waves of British Planes Drop Explosive and Incendiary Bombs LONDON, Nov, 22.—Attacking in waves lasting several hours, ing “showered their high explosives| |and incendiary bombs on the quays, docks and warehouses” on Duis- burg and Ruhrort, the largest river | ports of Germany. The British Air Ministry said the raid “must inevitably disorganize essential {raffic and destroy in- dispensable war materia | | sight, | REELECTED, KANSAS Democralic_STaIe Central (ommittee May Goto | Brit- | |ish bombers early yesterday morn-| |held from the Britisnh and Court, However TOPEKO, Kansas, Nov, 22—The| eelection of Gov. Payne Ratner,| _ Republican, is indicated, BERLIN, Nov. 22.—The (;erman, Returns ow Ratner is leading High Command asserts that Ger-| by 336 votes with less than 300 ab- man speedboats, since the start of| sentee ballot still to be canvassed. the war, have sunk six British de-1 Threats are made that court ac- stroyers, two submarines and other| tion may be started by the Demo- vessels totaling in all 11,300 tons | sratic State Central Committee ia and also 212,000 tons of mcrumm behalf of William Burke, of Little| (redifed with Work In Navy Operations shipping. lmver. stockman and banker, FORTIFIED KORITZA IS TAKEN NOW Defenders Move Into War Material Supply Base i Albania FASCIST TROOPS ARE RETREATING RAPIDLY Mussol|n| s Threat fo "Break Back'* Proves to Be Great Fizzle R (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Italian Premier Benito Mussoini’s threat to “break the back of Greece” has taken a boomerang setback. Mussolini'’s own High Command | acknowledges the fall of the forti- key Italian | supply base. The Greek government's spokes~ man this morning also said that by nightfall there might not be a single Italian left in the Greek | territory. The Il.ulums fell back so rapldly | that the advancing Greeks could hnrdly keep up with them . Italian reinforcements are being rushed to the front in an attempt to regain the captured city with the immense stores of war material but in face of the movement of the | Greek forces, this seems improb- able, Another Threat The Fascist High Command an- nounces that the Greek troops are moving toward Pogradetz near the | Albanian-Yugoslavia border where |thousands of Italians have crossed the frontier, surrendered and been interned. The Athens communique says |“our heroic troops entered Koritza triumphantly and the advance of our troops continues everywhere. A general display of the Greek flag has been ordered. Albanians cheer the arrival of our troops liberating them from Fascist iron heel.” Major Defeat The retreat of the Italians from Koritza, 10 miles inside the Al- |banian border, marks the first ma- jor turning point against the in- | vasion of Greece and the- conflict has now become a Greek counter in- vasion of Albania. Italy’s second main supply base |at Argirocasto, southwest of Kor- um is also threatened with immed- mte capture as the Italians are | advancing rapidly on a 100 mile VALUABLE BOMB SIGHT NOT GIVEN BRITISH FORCES President Roosevelf Makes Statement Through His Secrefary HYDE PARK, N. Y, Nov. 22— President asserted, through William Hassett, secretary, that this Na- | tion’s most efficient bomb sight remains a military secret and is not being released to Great Britain along with 46 bombing planes. The President said that bombers are equipped with Sperry bomb sight. Hassett further said the Norden used on the top grade of American bombers, is being with- the Sperry is considered “less obsolete.” the the |Issued by Newspaper ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 22. — The Morning Atlanta Constitu- tion, one of the largest news- papers in the South, swept all war news from the front page on yesterday morning's edition and devoted the entire space to accounts of holiday festivi- ties and the picture of three small girls, kneeling in church services with the caption: “Confident of showers of blessings and fearing no show- ers of bombs."