The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 28, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8580. DAY 9 NIGHT ATTACKS MADE ON ENGLAND Greeks Are Driving With Speed On Italians RESISTANCE ' 1S SMASHED REPORT NOW Counter Offensive Engag- ing Attention on Fronts in Albania | BULLETIN — ATHENS, Nov. | 28.—Greek reports tonight in- i dicate the Italians are in full | flight up the Albanian coast after a stubborn 4-day stand | in the southwestern sector by the Fascist “Regiment of Death” | These picked troops had taken the cath te “die rather than retreat.” They changed their minds and are in full retreat now. Latest advices indicate the Greek vietery in this seetor is greater than first believed. Al- banians are also harassing the | Italians on their “stampede re- | treat. (By ASSOCIATED PREESS) An official Italian communigue today reports that Italian troops of the Eleventh Army Division, fight- | ing in Greece has “let loose a coun-| (Continued on Psge Six) i Cthe ; : ‘%\NG'I'% Drew Pearsos oud Robert S.Alles 5 WASHINGTON — Dies Commit- agents have secretly warned ernment authorities to be on| rd against an outbreak of sa-| ge in defense plants tec be West Coast. | According to the Dies-men, big-| gest U. 8. danger spot is Los An-} geles, where Nazi and fifth col-| umnists have been unusually active of late. The Los Angeles area con-| tains one of the largest concen- trations of defense work in the country. | One reason for the D-men's fear was their discovery of a secret| mailing list of 2,500 names in a raid on the Los Angeles headquarters of the German-American Bund.| Herman Schwinn, West Coast Bund | fuehrer, admitted, under question-| ing, that the list consisted of Nazi| sympathizers who regularly attend- | ed Bund meetings. | A check-up of names revealed the | startling fact that 800 of them are employed in airplane plants, ship- | yards, oil refineries, auto factories | and other key defense industries. One of the thickest dossiers in| the Dies Committee files concerns ( Schwinn and his activities, dating | back to 1924, when he entered the country as a German immigrant. Ameng the items in his long record is an account of an extraordinary | speech Schwinn made recetly to Bundists in Hindenburg Park, Los Angeles. Shrieking defiance against a Fed- eral Court order revoking his citi- zenship, Schwinn is recorded as saying, “As long as I have a voice and a mike, I will damn well say what I please. The persecutions I have gone through in this coun- try have made me a better German than I was before. They cannot stop us thinking, and feeling here is beccming stronger for Germany every day. “There will be a new world order guaranteed by Germany, Italy and Japan, and the new order will come whether Churchill and Roosevelt like it or not.” EXIT JOE KENNEDY Intimates of Ambassador Joe Kennedy are offering bets that he will not return to the Court of St James. Tells of Nazi Spying Admitting he had engaged in beth plant and military espionage in the U. S., Heinrich Peter Fassbender, where he was unveiled by the Dies committee in un-American activities in the U. S. cently an agent of the German 23, an alien, is shown in Chicago s investigation of Dies said Fassbender, until re- | Gestapo, had admitted receiving checks from the Germarn government varying in amounts from $100 | to $200. | near Norway Point on the Glacier, FIRE RAZES 'BOAT HOUSE ONHIGHWAY Frame Dwelling Also Con- sumed in Spectacular Blaze Last Night BULLETIN—Only the emerg- ency system in the office on the fifth floor of the Federal and Territcrial Building, maintain- cd by the Signal Corps, United States Army, is responsible for ccmmunicaticn between Juneau and the outside world today. One entire span of the cable between the city and tuning staticn at Mile 7, which line is strung along the beach, was di- rectly cver the fire last night and was burned away. Com- munication was immediately stcpped from Juneau but Op- eratcr-In-Charge Roger H. Ste- venscn called up members of his staff and the emergency system was put inte action. Teday work was started cn the burned sec- ticn, and a new cable is being spliced. Fortunately, there is a strand of cable always kept here fer just such an emergen- cy as resulted from last night's fire. Communication “between Juneau and the outside is being maintained today but under emergency conditions. SPECTACULAR BLAZE Flames last night destroyed two boathouses and a frame dwelling Highway in a spectacular .blaze | TREATY BRITISH PLANES DAM FISHERIES MADE SERIOUS i i ! | ment and dozens of “bucket volun-| | teers” while an estimated thousand spectators jammed the highway with | Phillips, on the - 760> ERRORIN 1940 SOUTHEAST IIaIiansSéi British Flee Naval Batle Fascist Command Claims Victory in Yesterday's Fray, Mediterranean (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Mussolini’s command claimed vic- tory in a new version of yesterday's naval battle in the Mediterranean asserting that the British fleet, not the Italian, “steamed rapidly away."” This belated account contradict- ed the British Admiralty’s de-| i scription more than 12 hours earlier which said that the engagement was fought at extreme range and that the Fascist fleet immediately re-| tired at ‘high speed.” 'RUN, JIM DAVIS CHARGES SEATTLE, Nov. 28—A peppery| encounter between Charles Jack-| son, Acting Chairman of the United States Fisheries Board, and James| V. Davis, Juneau fish trap opera- | tor, featured the concluding hear-| ing yesterday on Alaska fishing| regulations for 1941. ’ Jackson explained the Board felt there must be some serious curtail-| ment of fishing in Icy Strait and| Chatham Strait next season. He| said the Board did not feel a leng season could be allowed, | Davis said: “I challenge you.You haven't anything on which to. base an expectation of a short run of fish next year. You made a serious error last year when you estimated| the run, There was economic waste.| The Territory suffered from a low| tax income. | “I urge you to admit you made| a mistake. If you're going to say| it will be a short run next year,| I'm ready to put my money on the | line. It won't be.” | Eliminate Gear, Suggestion { Arthur Wolfe, President of the| Hood Bay Canning Company, sug- gestéd that the way to effect neeti-| their automobiles. Totally destroyed was Ralph Thompson's boathouse which con- tained a partly completed halibut vessel being built for Everett Kir-| choffer, and considerable lumber, tools and machinery. Also destroyed was the frame dwelling next to the boathouse in whch Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Gib- son and their baby girl resided, and a small boat shed adjoining, owned by Charles Herlin (Continued on PI;R! ive) Bombs Described By Visitor Nothing Like It Outside U. S., Says Lieutenant on Amphibian The air forces of Europe have no such device as the United States bombsight, Lieut. H. B. Monson, ed curtailment in the straits in|navigator on the Army amphibian question is by a 40 percent elimina- tion of the amount of gear allowed in use. Bri!l;h Craft Damaged 5 | “If you curtail our season you The Italian report said two Brit- |can have the key to our plant as ish cruisers were “damaged for cer-!far as I'm concerned,” he said. tain by shelling. Three British men; R. A. Welsh, Vice President of the gire‘\-w:;.daabamgshm an ajrcrafl car- | yoy Straits Packing Company, said Tk bcr;l:fi; were hit by bomps‘ 700 residents of Hoonmah who fish lowing m: nttaclx(l :Jv;rlcl'?la:ccc‘;xrr;g(;‘mr e cann_ery i o e st of BAtint | to know their economic welfare is | plane now at Auk Bay, said at | today’s Juneau Chamber of Com- merce luncheo meeting. 5 Lieut. Monson, who has worked with the famous bombsight for two years, said that “nine times out of ten, we won't drop a bomb in a rain barrel, but we'll come awfully close.” Bombing in Europe has been on what is known as an “area target” basis, Lieut. Monson said, whereas The firing was started by the| British battleship the Fascist com- munique aid, adding that only one | Fascist ship, the detroyer Lanciere was damaged. | STRASSER FUNERAL | SERVICES TODAY Puneral services for John Stras- | They are not taking much chance |ser, wha passed away last week, of losing money, for while publicly | were held¥in the Charles W. Carter Joe has expressed his willingness [ chapel this afternoon at 2 o'clock to go back, the inside fact is that|With the Rev. G. Edward Knight S COPOETOLT conducting the rites. Burial was (Continued on Page Four) in Evergreen Cemetery. at stake along with the problem of conservation, The Board indicated regulations| may be announced in January. | — oo —— Kit Carson'’s Kin Scalge_d at Polls CONEJOS, Colo., Nov. 28..— Kit Carson III, grandson of the famed Indian scout, failed to win his first political race. He ran lor; Conejos County Commissioner but | was defeated by Juan Mdeina by more than 500 votes. 5 |bomhslxht as being a box about the the bombsight allows U. 8. planes to drop bombs on a “spot target.” Target Obliterated The officer said he participated recently.in a bombing demonstration {for a visiting military mission. A squadron of planes, coming from dif- ferent directions, released bombs of various weights on the outline |of a battleship drawn on an island. Lieut. Monson, who was in the third plane to come over the island, said that when he arrived over the tar- get there was “nothing left to| The Lieutenant explaified the (Continued on Page Five) - MoeWed ~ OnDec.5 {Couple Will Leave Seatfle [ for Juneau Next Day | Aboard North Sea SEATTLE, Nov. 28—A. B. Phil- lips, Superintendent of the Ju- neau Public Schools, and Miss Myr- |tle Moe, former language teacher lin the Juneau High School, will be married at the home of the bride’s | parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Moe, 4111 Park Mount Place, Beattle, on | December 5. | The wedding ceremony will be | performed at 8:30 o'clock in the ev- |ening by the Rev. C. Mahen, of the | Lutheran Church. | The sister of the bride-to-be, Miss |Maxine Moe and Mrs. Frank Gib- |son are to be attendants. D. R. {Hoyt will be best man. The newlyweds will leave for Ju- neau aboard the North Sea on De- | cember 6. WARPLANES | OF BRITAIN IN ATTACKS { Invasion P;)?s, Also Ger- man Rhinelarid Are Air Raided Last Night (By ASSOCIATED PREES) British warplanes carried out a “heavy and successful attack on Cologne and German Rhineland last night and also renewed forays |against Nazi invasicn ports of Le- }hnvre. Boulogne and Antwerp. | GARNS DIVORCED | In the District Court at Ketchi- | kan, June C. Garn was granted a | final decree of divorce from Abbie Garn, ol A major victory of British naval planes over important units of the Italian fleet at Taranto, has been an- nounced by Prime Minister Winston Churchill. Churhill said the victory decisively “effects the balance | of naval power in the Mediterranean.” Pictured above is the Italian battleship Cavour. Four of this class and two of the Littoria class battleships were involved in the battle. BFRING SEA SEALING | - PROBLEMBREAKS OUT; ROGATED IS AB m aack stnerr - pig Book of Eyidence Re-| WASHINGTON, Nov. 3. Bering Sea sealing problem is in again This 70-year itch which has kept the State Department, the Bureau of Fisheries and the U. S. Coast Guard s hing heads since posi- Civil War days has broken out again. It's all because Japan has just announced that she wants no further part of that treagy which for 29 years has regulated sealing]| and prevented complete extinction | of the great seal herds of thenorth Pacific. Russia and Great Britain are also parties to the treaty, but| Japanese abrogation of it prob- ably will have little effect on them, It may have considerable effect on the United States. Just why the Japanese suddenly! decided to abrogate a treaty which has proved so workable for nearly| 30 years is something of a mys-| tery. In the official notification, the Japanese said the seal herd that| bases at the Pribilof Islands, just inside the fringe of the Aleutians, has got so large that it is a men-| ace to Japanese fisheries. Government fishery experts brand this as bunk, pointing out that mp} grations of the Pribilof seals Co not carry them into Japanese waters. ! But if this were so, the ques- tion that immediately follows :s ITALIAN 'HUNDREDS OF 'BOMBS DROP ON ONE CITY @Aerial Siege Continues for - Over 24 Hours, Then ‘ Resumed PLYMOUTH RAIDED " BUT IS UNSCARRED 'Hospifal Roof in London Is | Blown Off - Patients, | Nurses Are Victims (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | In an aerial siege on England last night, the German claim that | more than 100 Nazi planes pound- ed the southwest port of Plymouth, dropping 110 tons of bombs and also attacked London again, setting a new series of fires. The British communique, issued this -morning, says that between 150 and 200 German planes raided a “southwest town, evidently mean- ing Plymouth, from dusk until 2:30 o'clock this morning, scattering in- cendiary and high explosive bombs which however, left “barely any scars.” An unofficial report says 11 per- sons were killed in the Plymouth area. Resume Attack This A.M. High flying German raiders re- turned to the attack on England shortly after dawn this morning, stirring an hour and a half air FLEET DIES GETS COMMUNIST | RED PAPER how does Japan plan to remove this menace? And the answer: By destruction of the great seal herd which for a good deal| longer than 30 years has been rec-| ognized in international law to be| principally the United States. inevitable | property of lhe’ FEDERAL OFFICIALS MUM | That isn't official reasoning. As| a matter of fact, all government departments affected are cautiously/ mum on this latest international| development in the Pacific, | Unofficially however, there are| off-the-record hints that the Japa-| nese action was just another of those reciprocal hooks to the belt- line that are bound to come when| nations get to trading punches, | The background of the story| briefly is this: From the time when| the first wandering fisherman dis-| covered that seal skins and oil| brought big profits, it was open season on these barking dogs of| the briny deep, Seals are easily| caught and killed. Plowing into| the herd at sea, a fleet of small | boats can slaughter them by the veals Methods of Sub- versi!e ?roup WASHINGTON, Nev. 28.—A bulky documented handbook devoted ex- clusively to Communism, came to the House Committee on UnAmer- ican Activitles today as Dies sped back from Texas to a conference with President Roosevelt The handbook was dubbed a “red paper” by the committee. 938 page compilation of alleged Communist statements, pamphlets, | setting | and newspaper excerpts, forth how party members should oppose what was termed “imper- lalistic wars,” primarily by dom tic propaganda and execution of orders for belligerent ountries.” el Parole Denied Manfon WASHINGTON, Nov. 28. — The Justice Department announced that parole was denied Martin Manton, = It is o} “hindering | alarm on London. One bomb dropped is reported to have torn off the roof of a hos- pital and is said to have killed several patients and a nurse while other explosiva bombs started a fire which could be seen for miles. The British censors today per- mitted disclosure that two of Lon- don's most famous hotels, the Sa- {voy and Carlton, were damaged in |recent Nazi air raids. Day Long Attacks British pilots fought invading aerial squadrons all day long yes- terday on their own defense line above the Kentish coast and were declared last night to have shot }(lown eleven German planes. This | series of engagements in which loss of only two British craft was acknowledged turned aside the main Nazi day forces. POWDER ~ STORAGE GOES UP | ‘Tacoma Has Big Blast- | None Hurt, But Windows | former tenth ranking United States | Judge now serving a two year sen- Broken 14 Miles Off tence in the Lewisburg, Penn. Fed- | eral prison for conspiracy to ob- struct justice and defraud the Unit- TACOMA, Wash., Nov. 28. — . | black powder storage building of the ed States. ISLAND TRADE | RESUMED NOW | Dupont Powder Company plant here exploded mysteriously, but company officials said nobody was injured. The building, 30 by 40 feet in size, was blown tq bits and fortunately was isolated from the rest of the plant by earthworks. Company officials said the storage house was used entirely for storage HONOLULU, Nov. 28. — Normal| Purposes and no one was inside at trade has been resumed between|the time of the explosion. Australia and New Zealand and; Ten windows in the Parkland the French island possessions in the| Sehool, approximately fourteen miles Pacific, according to advices to| from the scene, were broken. British Consul F. A. Wallis. He said| he understood British vessels were given assurance they would not Le| molested by French colonial au- thorities. it | KETCHIKAN HEADQUARTERS | SHOPPING DAYS Lt CHRISTMAS Ketchikan has now . been desig-| nated as Coast Guard headquarters| for Alaska in view of the erection| of a $250,000 Coast Guard radio| stagion to be erected there.