The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 27, 1940, Page 1

i i | | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8579. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BERLIN, TUNIS BOMBED BY NIGHT RAIDS British Fleet Chases Italians To Their Cover LONG RANGE ALASKA DRAFT REGISTRATION HERRING MEN SEA BATTLE OULTINED IN PROCLAMATION CLAMOR FOR IS REPORTED Mussolini’s Mediterranean Navy Craft Make Run to Shelter LONDON, - Nov. 27—Great Bri- tai's Mediterranean Fleet reports it engaged a strong Italian sea force at “extreme range” and,gave pur- ns retired at high speed toward base. The British Admiralty, which as- previously that the Italian refused to come to grips the British, said no further with information is immediately available regarding the latest brush between the two fleets. British patrols, according to un- official advices, sighted the Ttalian fleet at a distance, gave the tip and the British fleet immediately took up the chase. The Italians turned and sped back to their ‘undesignat- ed” base, since Taranto has been practically damaging British Air Force raids. U.S. ’Gel Togelheri Diplomaiicfa_fi(s Resumed in Washingfon-Rela- tions Are Improved WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Immed- | te resumption of diplomatic talks | between the United States and So- | viet R a, interrupted by the re- | visit of Premier Molotoff to lin to talk with Hitler, is dis- closed today by the State Depart- | ment | A meeting took place late this | afternoon between Soviet Ambassa- dor Oumansky and Under Secretary | of State Sumner Welles. { It was the first conference sched- uled between the United States and Russia, stopped shortly before Molo- | toff went to Berlin. The conference is interpreted by well-informed sources as a sign that Molotoff’s Berlin visit has not im- paired negotiations in progress here for several months looking toward a general improvement in Russo- American relations. Told o Be | ReadyloBe Called Up Naval Marine Reserves Given Direct Hint by | Secrefary F. Knox WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Secre- | tary of Navy Frank Knox today | notified an additional class of Nav- al Marine Reserves, numbering al- most 32,000 officers and men, they should arrange their affairs in order to be ready for a call to active duty at any moment. e FORT YUKON MAN VISITS BROTHER Donald Barrett, brother of Wes Barrett, is visiting in Juneau. He terior, heading back to his post with the Northern Commercial Company at Fort Yukon. P AT Carnegie Hall in New York is celebrating its 15th anniversary this season., abandoned because of | President Roosevelt's proclama- one and th ix, to present [tien announcing and making ar-| paneer for and submit to reg- rangements for the registration of jgation at such time or time Alaskans on January 22 for selective a14 place or places, and in such service is as follows Harner Gnd ek group . Whereas the Congress of the Unit-| 1 oroup shall be determ- ed States ha cted and I have| L4 py T and rezulations on the sixteenth day of Scptember preserbed hereunder.” 1640, approved the Selective Ser- oo Rl i s e T] ik s S;‘;‘p{"vl A:“m:" officers, warrant officers, pay e train (he clerks, and enlisted men .of the P g 2 % Marine Corps, the Coast Guard the United States and that in a . ! Coast. and Geodetic Sur- the Public Health Service. recognized active the vey the federally free society the cbligations and priv- ileges of military training and ser- should be shared generallys in s Naticnal Guard, the Officers accordance with & fair and just pillEo UG pesuar Army system of selective compulsory mili-| poooo0 T " priiced Recorve training and service; Corps, the Naval Reserve, and Whereas the said Act the Marine Corps Reserve; ca- in part, the following dets. Dnited St Military “Scc. 2. Except @ Academy; midshipmen, United provided in this Act, it States Naval Academy; cadets, b2 the duty of very ma United States Coast Guard Ac- zen of the United States, ademy; men who have been ac- cf every male alien residing in cepted for admittance (com- the Un States, who, on the mencing with the academic year day or days fixed for the first next 'shoceeding | SUGR WOOADE- or any subsequent registration, is between the ages of twenty- (Continued g¢n Page Five) Plan New “Fight Infantile Paralysis” Qampaigq QIND YOUR OWN CORNER... o & o i o el President Roosevelt has appointed Keith Morgan of New York National Chairraan of the Committee for the Celebration of the President’s Birthday for the “Fight Infan Paralysis” campaign. The President also has authorized the use of his birthday, January 30, to raise funds for the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysi: Organization for the eighth successive drive already is at top speed and every citizen, young and old, will be asked to participate and to “Help The Youngster Around Your Own Corner.” The health of America’s children is one of the “front lines of our national defense,’ President Roosevelt said in his letter to Mr. Morgan, endorsing the campaign. Left to right—reading the letter are: George Allen of Washington, former Commissioner of the District of Columbia, Chairman of the “Mile of Dimes”; Eddie Cantor, noted radio, screen and stage star, Chairman of the “March of Dimes” of the air, and Keith Morgan, National Campaign Chairman, PRESENT SESSION OF " CONGRESS MAY BREAK RECORD, LONG SITTING By JACK STINNETT and recesses for another three days. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — An- The principal part of the agree- swering the mail orders: ment is that no effort will be made T. C., Garrison, N. Y.—The pres-|to handle any official business— o shank & 'REOPENING S | Industry Urges Lifting of| - Ban on Southeast | Fishing ’ SEATTLE, ervi‘;fl, A united group of cannerymen and fishermen yesterd: told Fish and Wildlife Service representatives the Ten-i-i to! struggling herring industry | | must be allowed to develop free of | govenmental strangulation in order | to exist at all Lowell Wakefield, United Fisher- men’s Union of Pacific representa- tive, declared Southeast Alaska her- ring fishery had been closed on | | “erroneous information supplied by interested third parties.” Both unions and operators agreed on requesting the service to shift | the last day of the fishing season | from August 15 to August 20. Herbert Mjorud, herring packers’| ‘¥ representative, testified at the hear- | #§ ing that the industry was worth | & i $6,000,000 annualy and affected 1200 | * Queen Elizabeth workers. Mjorud cited statistics in | an attempt to show fishermen were | entitled to more than their present | 350,000 barrels of herring. The board took the protests under | consideration but declined to pro- | phecy adoption of the requested ‘; regulations. GOPBOSS INDICTED ™ FORFRAUD NO STRIKE jRepubI ican Committee- AGREEMENI, man Called in Michigan i 18 MONTHS Grand Jury Case DETROIT, Ai;;hj;anx. Nov. 27— : AR ; The special grand jury investigating VU"ee A”v(ra" Labor DlS' pute Settled-Wage In- crease Is Granted affairs of Michigan's state govern- aluted by her the work of men disabled by war. New Powers in ment today indicted Frank McKay, of Grand Rapids, Republican Na- tional Committeeman and former State Treasurer, and eleven others for mail fraud One indictment charged that Mc- Kay and eleven others used the mails to defraud the state of the “honest services” of its public of- ficials in a half million dollar shake- down of distilleries selling their wares to the State Liquor Control Commission. Another indictment charged a scheme to defraud Edsel Ford of | $9,918. DOWNEY, Cal., Nov. 27.—The set- tlement of the 12-day Vultee Air- craft strike provides for an increase in wages for 00 men. totaling $414,000 annualiy The contract signed between the unions and plant operators includes clauses that there shall be no strikes nor no lockout for a period of 18 months from date. - - - —— e New Air Switzerland ~ Baseon Communists Pacific MustDisband lion Dollar Develop- tion of the Swiss Communist Party. menf on Columbia The order hits all of the Com- munist Party branches and also all organizations which might be sub- “Fishery Are Proposed for " International Commission OW USES ARMORED (AR chauffeur as she alights from her armored ¢ The Queen riow uses the car for her inspection visits in bombed Lon- r to open an exhibition of don. This picture was radioed from London to New York. o P.EHARRIS BUYS FOUR APS PLANTS Perhaps Two Million Dol- lars Changes Hands in Big Cannery Deal SEATTLE, Nov. 27..—The Alasks Pacific Salmon Company today an- nounced the selling of four prop- erties to the P. E. Harris Company of Seattle, in a deal reportedly in- volving a million and a half to two million dollars cash G. W. Skinner, President of the APS, said the sale was made as “the wisest thing for the stockhold- ers” in view of fishing regulations imposed by “Secretary of Interio | Harold L. Ickes, with no reason to expect the regulations will be light- ened.” Halibut OTTAWA, Nov. 27. Fisherles Minister J. E. Michaud has an- nounced meetings of Commissioners and the fishing fleet to consider >roposals to give the International Fisheries Commission additional control of landings from the North Pacific The halibut industry prepared 2 statement which said it was pro- posed that by a possible new treaty Canada and the United States in- tended to enable the Commission- ers to give force to tHe present voluntary control system which in effect would spread the catch over a longer season. Control would be extended to classes of vessels not now controlled. Meetings will be held in Seattle, Vancouver, Prince Rupert, Ket: kan, Petershurg and Juneau to con- sider the suggestions, The sale includes trap and can- Commissioners who are nxm-c!r-d“m-rws at Port Althorp, Kake, Ket- o attend are L. W. Pattore of Vic- | chikan and Rose Inlet with a com- toria, A. J. Whitmore of Oftawa, bined output of 450,000 cases of E. W. Allen of Seattle, and Charles | salmon. E. Jackson of Washington. | The Alaska Pacific Salmon Com- S ee pany retains positions at Sand Point | and other trap and cannery sites in Southeast Alaska. The deal is exclusive of the cur- Air Base | rent APS supply of 300,000 cases of | e thain fo oo vt 1o ~ BeBuill " pryup canana (Fifty Million Dollars Allof- e %icve & whai i expeciea 1o | ed for Immediate s e [become a nation-wide drive by | i | | | temperance groups for war-time s | prohibition in Canada has been Construction Haken" here 4a. refrescntatives of | the Woman's Christian Temperance | | Union met with the British Colum- | bia Cabinet, ASHINGTON, Nov. 27.-Secre- | tary of Navy Frank Knox today an- ;em. session of Congress will have | to last until December 23 to break !the record for the longest sitting on record. It already is the second |longest and the “gentlemen’s agree- | ment” for three-day recesses now in operation does not come to an end until December 18, so there is |a good chance that the record will |be broken. The lcngest sitting of | Congress was the second session of | the 65th—*“the World War Con- | gress"—which convened on Decem- | ber 3, 1917, and adjourned Novem- ber 21, 1918, remaining in session a total of 354 days. The present “gentlemen’s agreement” is actu- ally a long recess of some five weeks, during which a “skeleton staff” meets every three days (the' longest recess permitted by law) (Continued on Page Six) thus allowing the Representatives and those Senators up for re-elec- tion to go home and mend their political fences with a clear mind and a certainty that no one will try to slip over any legislation to which they are oppose% D. L. K., Amarillo, Teéxas — My prediction WAS righ#that if John J. “Jack’ 'Dempsey, New Mexico Representative, were defeated in his race for the Senate nomination, he would remain in the national political picture. “The man who saved the Hatch Act in the House” has been appointed a member of the United States Maritime Com- mission to serve for six years. | WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. — Secre- | tary of Navy Frank Knox announc- | ed today the Navy Department will develop a $3,500,000 air base at | The Secretary said this-will in- clude an airfield and other facilities on the promontory extending out in the Columbia River for three miles, northeast of Astoria. The airfield will be under the | command of Lieutenant Command- jer George Hasselman now stationed at Seattle. — —,———— | Missionary groups prefer to send into the field men from 23 to 30| !years old; it is believed they learn native languages more readily than older workers. stituted for the party. R~ Tongue Point, Oregon. - H Su rrender Arms, Order LEYDEN, The Netherlands, Nov. 27—(Via Berlin)—Because a pot- shot was taken at a German sen- nounced that President Roosevelt| The W.CT.U. placed a resolution has alloted $50,000,000 for immed- | before the Cabinet, calling for elim- | iate development of the chain of air | ination of liquor sales in taverns 'and naval bases on the sites re-!and canteens in the proviuce. A | cently acquired from England in| |exchange for 50 old American de- | | stroyers | BERKELEY BUNKER " NAMED T0 SENATE | 1 CARSON CITY, Nevada, Nov. 27. been gov- copy of the resolution has forwarded to the Canadian ernment at Ottawa - - NEW PURSE ARRIVE FOR ST. ANN'S STAFF Miss Gabrielle Chinelli arrived from Seattle on the steamer Yukon try, the chief of police has ordered|—Gov. E. P. Carville today an- to take up her duties on the nurs- all inhabitants of this Dutch university town to turn over Bunker, 34, Democratic leader in| famous | nounced he has appointed Berkeley |ing staff at St. Ann’s Hospital. Miss Chinelli is a Seattle girl whe all firearms. Anyone found in pos-|the State Senate, to succeed the | received her training at Columbus session of arms will be shot on|late United States Senator Key Pitt- (and was recently on the Columbus sight, said the official decree. man. hospital staff. BLOWSHIT BOTH ENDS. AXIS AREAS Fascist Invasion Army Con- tinues Falling Back in Disorder | | FRESH TROOPS BEING HURLED INTO WARFARE New Ifalian Commander Makes Request for More Assistance (By Asso ted Press) Great Britain and her little ally Greece today reported sharp new slows against the Rome-Berlin axis vhile British night raiders struck at oth ends of the axis, bombing Ber- of Turin The Greeks said Mussolini’s Fa- cist invasion armies are falling back n disorder “with broken morale.” Bloody Revenge In a grim sidelight on the inter- 'ational pictures, dispatches from 3udapest reported Rumania’s Iron Juard has taken a bloody revenge m the regime of former King Carol vith a firing squad executing 64 olitical prisoners. The Italian High Command de- lared in a communique today: “On he Greek front, normal reconnais- ance and patrol activity is reported. Jur air force carried out continuous ctions against enemy concentra- fon. Troops and flying fields were ombed and also the city of Ioan- jan.” The Italian Command also report- 1 Fascist planes made an attack n the British naval base at Alex- ndria November 19 and hit six arshins. Rich Stores Abandoned Despite the arrival of fresh Italian (Cor;iinuewci—on age Eight) FDR URGING CAUTION IN DIES PROBE Fire-eating Investigator to Meet President Friday WASHINGTON, Nov. 27.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today telegraphed Representative Martin Dies, Chair- man of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities investigation, to be careful in execution of his plans to combat subversive activ- The President warned that danger is apparent and that investigations might be “severely handicapped or completely destroyed” by premature iisclose of facts or suppositions to the public. | Dies was also told departmental nvestigations also might be Mind- ered by “hasty seizure of evidence v giving of immunities” to wit- nesses before Congressional com- mittees, The telegram: went to Dies in Orange, Texas, after Dies had ac- cepted an invitation to a conference with Roosevelt Friday on division of spheres of jurisdiction over Con- gressional departmental work against subversive influences. SHOPPING DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS in and Italy’s big industrial center