The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 23, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE / “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e VOL. LVIL, NO. 8576. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TURKEY THREATENED, READY FOR WAR Italians, Attacking London, are Shot Down Wallace at Press Club Dinner SPITFIRES OFBRITISH IN ACTION Early Morning Assault on| Isles Repulsed-Almost Before Takeoff LONDON, Nov. 23.—A squadron of British Spitfires shot down seven Italian fighters and one German bomber early this morning in an| invasion attack. The fight occurred over the Strait of Dover. No Brit- | ish planes were lost. | The Axis raiders were surprised | in their first attempted assault by daylight § Several raiders went to a high| altitude and attempted to reach the| London defenses but were spotted | ed back before many bombs were dropped. | One Italian pilot, taken prison-| .r after a plane crash on the coast, | ed that word had passed | g the Nazi forces that there| were no British planes left to re- pell any attacks and the Italian pilots were surprised at the ferocity British airmen. Later this forenoon a swarm of warplanes of the Pewers was beaten back. Night Hammering It is admitted that last night's hammering by Axis raiders did great damage on two Midland “workshops” bothh large manufacturing centers. Churches, factories, hospitals and convents were riddled by the bombs and piles of debris litter the two cities this morning after an 11- hour attack. Among the structures smashed in one of the cities was the police station, which was hit and ¢ of the second | Axis (Continued on Page %60 WASHINGTON—The plan still is in the discussion stage, but top- rung New Deal economists are seri- ously proposing that the abolished and replaced with a large-scale public works program| for national defense. The| Army is preparing for any even-| tuality no matter where it hap-‘mm Guard Dictator, is being en- | pens. It has quietly purchased over 7,100,000 yards of mosquito net-| ting. Areas chiefly plagued by mos-| quitos are Alaska, Newfoundland, Greenland and Latin America. . . .| Only decoration on the walls of the| inner sanctum of brain truster Tommy Corcoran is a group of | six pictures of the late great Jus- tice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Cor- coran was his secretary for sev- eral years, Senator Charles McNary is one of the nattiest dressers in Con- gress, also the best bean baker. The Oregonian loves to bake beans over an open fire, using bacon, molasses, sherry .and 11 hours of simmering, . . . One congressional defeat Democratic leaders are not regretting is that of Representative Elmer J. Ryan, Minnesota Roose-| velt-hater, who created an anti-| third term scene at the Chicago| convention. A former law partner of Governor Stassen, intimate Will- kie adviser, Ryan never mentioned the President during the campaign but did confer with Wilikie. WILLKIE'S NATIONAL UNITY | willkie failed in his post-elec(ion: broadcast to convince Administra-| tion chiefs that he was sincere| about wishing to promote national| unity. Rightly or wrongly, '..hefi suspected a wily maneuver by Will-| | telephone flavakia : | United States, said: |ginning to come to an end of her|states and Alaska where constitu- Michigan’s new goveraor, Murray fMichigan’s New Governor, Wife \I_ EAHY IS D. Van Wagoner, who defeated Republican Governor Luren Dickinson, 8i-year-oid foe of liquor and vice, is shown with his wife still receiving congratulations over the INDIAN WOMEN, FROM ALASKATO BATTLE Will Join - Great Axis Premier Expected in Ber- lin Tomorrow to Sign Military Alliance BERLIN, Nov. 23.—Premier Bela WPA be Tuka, of Sloyakla. is coming here tomorrow to sign as the sixth mem- ber of the Axis military allian: This is the official statement made |late today. Gen. Ioan Antonescu, Rumania's tertained here today. BRITAINATEND OF RESOURCES, SAYS LOTHIAN Nation Is Facing Difficult Year - Needs Ships, Munitions, Money NEW YORK, Nov. 23.—Lord Lo- thian, British Ambassador to the “Britain is be- financial resources.” Returning to the United States jon the clipper after a brief visit in England he revealed in a hall hour interview that he was not op- timistic about the British situation. “It is a difficul year” he con- {tinued, saying ‘England needed all | kinds of war supplies including mu- nitions, ships and perhaps finance.” g PAA PLANES ARE HELD BY WEATHER All PAA plane movements out of kie to continue fighting the New |Juneau were cancelled today' with Deal through a national “pressure group” . . . In the opinion of Don Berry, editor of The Indianola (lowa) Record and campaign aide of Representative Cliff Hope, GOP farm chairman, Willkie's defeat i aiat e ki (Continued on Page Four) a stiff Taku blizzard whipping the channel area and a storm area pre- vailing over a wide section. The Douglas wheel plane on the Seattle run and’ the Electras on the Fairbanks run will get away lowor- row, weather permitting. Van Wagoner has been state highway commissioner. MOJAVE, IN ATBALLOTBOX By JACK STINNETT | ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 23.—While | the world has been rolling on with | other and more momentous mat- ters, a revolution has heen taking | place in the teepees and around | the council fires of the American ' Indians Out comes the Bureau of Indian| Affairs with the results of a sur-| | vey extending from Alaska to the sands of the Mojave that will knock the feathers right out of your war bonnet. The facts are| that the old idea that Indian women are subordinate to their| braves has been proved to be as| dead as the pterodactyl. A few recalcitrant old braves, may still be pulling their blankets| around them, shaking their braids | and wondering what the modern | Indian maiden is coming to, but they are in a vast minority.} Younger bucks of the tribes not| only have been accepting this new | {reedom among their women but | have been aiding and abetting| |them in it by electing them (o tribal councils and to other posts formerly held only by men, | For example in Nome,. Alaska, | where the community is largely edominated by men, a secret ballot for members of the council of the| Nome Eskimo community—a na- tive corporation chartered by the ! government—four of the five po-| 'si'.ions went to women. Only Moody Etageak saved the day for | the males and came off with the | not too choice post of vice presi- | dent. SUFFRAGE FOR ALL | Commissioner of Indian Affairs John Collier says there are 135 In- |dian communities in the United iuon.s governing tribal affairs have | been adopted and in #6t one of | these is there a single ,stipulation | | against women's voting and hold-| | ing office, b In the Ute tribal council in Col- {orado, two women, Aileen Hatch and Emma South Beecher, sit with five men. Clara Wicks, a Shasta Indian, is president of the coun-| |cil of the Indians in. Quartz Val- {ley, Cal. Bessie Tillohash, a Ute, |is a*member of the Shivwitz coun- cil in Utah. Mrs. Virginia H. Walk- er, a full-blood Omaha, is treas- urer of the Omaha council in Ne- braska. On the Wind River reser- vation in Wyoming, Mrs. Nellie F. ! Seott is president of the Arapa- hoe council. The Fort Hall (Idaho) | | reservation business council now ) (Continued on page Six) | ] Roosevelt and NOW GOING 10 FRANCE President Is fo Nominate - | Rear Admiral as Next | Ambassador Abroad | HYDE PARK, N. Y, Nov. 23.—| President Roosevelt announced to- | day he will appoint Rear Admiral | William D. Leahy, retired, now Gov- | ernor of Puerto Rico and.former | Chief of Naval Operations, as Am- | bassador to France, to succeed Wil- | liam C. Bullitt | The President said he is not de- | cided when the nomination will be given to the Senate. Secretary to the President William Hassett told the newsmen: “You know what the President thinks of Rear Admiral Leahy's naval ability | and what he thinks of him as coun- sellor on defense, and as a man, superb, in all-around ability. As you know, the President has depended heavily on him as Chief of Naval Operations.” Leahy will succeed Bullitt who resigned November 17 MCAN i Leahy is 65 years old. E ltalians NIGHT, BAY In Flight, [Twelve-Ton Amphibian annual banquet in Washington, is Thomas Qualters, his bodyguar Disorder Fleeing fro?n_(;;reeks fo| Second Line of Defense = Headed South fo Warm- ~Supplies Abandond er (limes in Virginia (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Shortly after 6 o'clock yesterday The Italians, driven out of Kor- evening, Auk Bay residents were | itza by the Greek forces, are re-|startled by the roar of powerfulair| treating in disorder toward the sec- plane engines, 1 ond defense line, 30 miles inside of Albania. At least 72,000 Italian soldiers have fled to the westward, abandon- ing stores of supplies and quantities of armaments. e | Several minutes later, Uncle| | samys 12-ton Army observation | ‘nmphibinn plane swept to a (lm-v-! lighted landing on Auk Bay after| |a headwind flight from Anchorage.| The big amphibian, only one in| existence of its type, is being sent back to Langley Field, Va., althnux{h‘ it was recently transferred to An-i | chorage. Reason for the transfer is u\e‘! ;shlp is not equipped properly for| winter flying and no adequate per- | Warming Up e o ‘ ? Vice-Consul and Newspap- <rc : erman Take Pldures | Not until nearly noon did the ship | Yakutat harbor and made his spec- dispatch from Hanoi today charged|noq from the ship at an altitude of | sonnel is available to service her| Early yeterday morning, Lieut. L‘: | began with his crew the tedious job A |get away. Desiring to get into Ju- in French China tacular night landing at Auk Bay. the U. S. Consular Service was di- 5000 feet. The first did not ex- ! land preparing for the southbound ! | | | through the winter. ‘\ | J. Gephart, in command of the ship, | | of warming starters, de-icing wings | I neau, Lieut. Gephart passed up HONGKONG, Nov. 23.—A Domei| ryree parachute flares were drop- |recting a “self-admitted espionage |pjode, put the second and third lit upon Japanese military establish- | the entire Auk Bay area and ments” in French Indo-China. | made a safe landing possible. Domei alleged that Charles Reed,| The ghip will remain here until U. 8. Consulate in Hanoi, announced | rayoraple weather for the trip south. he had directed American newspa- |y is planned to bring the ship north pers to photograph the Japanesfi;agam next spring in April | military depot November 25. | Lieut. Gephart and his crew are | Bl g aias, ) Melville Jacoby | stopping at the Baranof Hotel and Vic | were arrested and handed over to French gendarmes. | STOCK QUOTATIONS SHANGHAI REPORT | SHANGHAI, Nov. 23.—Authori- ;:;;“ Jam;m:';zn J {f:::‘l:n'ph';fiiqunumon of Alaska Juneau mine |stock at today's short session is graphed a Japanese guarded ware- | house in which were stored quan- tities of American merchandise destined for Chungking and pre- vented from being reshipped by the Japanese. |27%, Bethlenem Steel 85%, Com- | | monwealth and Southern 1, Curtiss | | necott 35%, New York Central 14%, |United States Steel 68%, | $4.04. RIS SSEPT R S HEINTZLEMAN TUESDAY Rognd | Regional Forester B. Frank Heintzleman will return to Juneau| Tuesday on the steamer Yukon.He| : | DOW, JONES AVERAGES | The following are today's Dow, | moved from Ketchikan to Peters-| Jones averages: Industrials, 13147; |@ $300 addition to a building at Common Prayer in which King and burg on the Tyee, 1rrnls, 29.38; utilities, 20.42, | J i ( | | | President Roosevelt, who was guest of honor and off-the-record speaker at the National Press Club's shown just before sitting down to dinner. With him are (left to right) Richard L. Wilson, president of the club; and Vice President-elect __owowe__ SPORTSMEN ORGANIZED LAST NIGHT | § . Channel Association IsNew Body-Deer Law Ap- proval Vofed Three men short of 200 packed the ! Elks Hall last night and set up as . a permanent organization the Gas- tineau Channel Sportsmen’s Asso- ciation, a group of men pledged to | the protection and promotion of Alaska’s game and fish resources. Frank Dufresne, Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission, traced for the association the growth jof the Alaska Game Law and the {manner in which Alaska game leg- islation is promulgated Following Dufresne’s talk the meeting was thrown open for gen- | eral discussion of the needs of the | hunter and fisherman in Alaska and a president, two vice-presidents and | a secretary were elected by the body, T Sxsici that gioup to name an Executive Committee of five men. Officers Elected Elected President was Bob Hen- | ¥ |ning; First Vice-President, George | Folta; Second Vice-President, Hen- Miss Marguerite Johnson (above), | teacher for the past three years at Rock Island, Til, is engaged to Senator Gerald P. Nye, North Da- kota Republican. The wedding is planted for late autumn or carly | winter. Miss Johnson, 33, is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Franklin Johnson, of Towa Falls, Ia. Senator Nye is 47 years old. This is a phonephoto. OLD FISHERIES AGENT, DIES ; Ve'eran A I aska offi(ial ;cox'ner of the continent. Passes Thanksgiving Day in East |ry Harmon, and Secretary, Earle | Hunter | ; These men will hold a meeting at a future date to name the Executive | | Committee and draw up the consti- | \Lunon and by-laws. All are pledged that next fall Juneau will have a |game bust and sportsman’s party that will make publicity in every | | he organization will have no | dues and no scheduled meeting dates |other than the annual game bust, I but officers will be prepared at any time to call a meeting should the ARMED LAW IS DECLARED, LARGE AREA Defense of Dardenelles, Key to Near East, Made ~Nation Ready to Fight (By Ass:ia:d Press) Following the report that Ru- mania has joined the Axis Powers | and that Bulgaria and Slovakia will | join next week, thus giving the | alliance territory less than 250 miles | from the Dardenelles, the key to the | Near East, Turkey early today ord- ered martial law in the areas near ‘ the Dardanelles and has also | instituted rationing of gasoline. | The Turkish newspapers, in spec- | ial editions this forenoon, said any | threat on Turkish sovereignity will | be met by Turkey's army | The newspaper Commuriyet, says: | “If war comes to us, we shall not "fllnch We are ready.” - ——— RUMANIA LINES UP, 3POWERS ‘Bulgaria Expected to Join with Rome, Berlin and Tokyo Next Week (By Associated Press) Rumania has followed Hungary's lead and joined the Rome-Berlin- | Tokyo military, political and econ- omic alliance. | Next week, Bulgaria and the Nazi- | dominated state of Slovakia are ex- | pected to come in the move, thus | extending Hitler'’s “New Order” in Europe to a territory less than 250 miles from the Daydanelles, the key | to the Near East. | The announcement of the new members in the three-power alliance came from Berlin as Nazi war | planes, winding up an 11-hour at- | tack on two English midland cities, | returned to their bases as other |war planes took up the daylight iatmck on London. — ,—— ARMYBASE ~ WORK HIT; (OLD SNAP Californians Look Longing- ly Toward Home- Many Will Leave ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Nov. 23.— The coldest night of the winter, with an official thermometer read- | { Dennis Winn, Alaska Agent for ;‘;c;’“;iu;‘i:l‘se hnond Wf‘“_ “l"‘l‘zeff”"‘;‘mg around zero brought a tem- the Bureau of Fisheries for many | g house for letters of |porary cessation of work here on years, died Thanksgiving Day at Nashua, New Hampshire, according to word received here by the Fish and Wildlife Service. Winn, who was about 70, had worked for the Bureau all his life, starting as a hatchery assistant. He retired several months ago. His particular interest in Alaska NEW YORK, Nov. 23. — Closing | yaq Bristol Bay, where he spent} most of his time. A year ago he made a trip north I a1 P 5%, American Can 86%. Anaconda (, yis; the Pribilof Islands, which | he had never seen during his long service as Alaska Agent. His com- | Wright 9%, General Motors 50%. | panion on the voyage was Superin- | | International Harvester 54%, Ken- | yonqent Harry J. Christoffers of the Royal House and the storthing | seal fishery, who died a short time | (Parliament) are things of the past| BUILDING PERMIT A building permit has been grant- ed to Mrs, W. C. Wright to build 819 C Street. ;compln‘mt or suggestion from the | | membership. Buck-Doe Law | The much-discussed buck-and-doe |law was put to a sentiment sound- | | ing straw vote that found the (Continued on Psge Six) | | Royally Omified, | Norwegian Prayer OSLO, Norway, Nov. 23. — The | |so far as prayers in Norwegian| | churches are concerned. | Lutheran Bishops of Norway| have been vested with power by| |the government to devise a new | Congress will be omitted. I { Pield, Virginia, the big army air base project. The temporary shutdown brought with it a threat of numerous Cali- fornia laborers to return home. Officers said it is expected the first fugitives from the cold wave will depart tomorrow, with others following Monday’s pay day. Meanwhile, the large Air Corps amphibian observation plane was sent south to return to Langley officers declaring the ship, which arrived a week ago, has been found unsuitable for an Alaska winter and will require many changes in equipment. - ee———— DUFRESNE TO KETCHIKAN Executive Officer Frank Dufresne of the Alaska Game Commission will leave on the steamer Baranof for Ketchikan to participate in combination boat and aerial patrol work. e il