The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 3, 1940, Page 1

A | | THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8584. : JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1940. PRICE TEN CENTS B EMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS BRITISH BOMBERS STRAFE NAZI POINTS Greeks Seeking to T GREAT PORT | TAKEN OVER IN ADVANCE Adriatic City Fallsfo Athen- ians as Driving Rush Continues ITALIANS RETREAT 10 DELVINO HILLS Frontier Now Is Ramblingi Line in Albania-Duce- men on Defense | (By. Associated Press) Dispatches received from the Greek front today said Greek shock troops. seeking to crush or trap the | last of the Italian armies in south- ern Albania, are driving the Fascists | back past Porto Edda, about 15 miles inside Albania. | Porto Edda is on the Adriatic sea- coast and was formerly known as | Santi Quaranta, but was renamed by the Italians in honor of Mussolini’s | daughter. | The Greeks said I1 Duce’s legions have retired to the heights around | Delvino, five miles northeast of | Porto Edda. | | | The Ttalian Command merely not- ed in their dispatches that “Greek attacks and our counter attacks teck place on the fronts of the Ninth | and Eleventh Armies.” As pictured by the Greeks, the | front now runs roughly from near | V'Cun",muod on Page Six) Cthe N % | % Robert S.Alles WASHINGTON — Experts who have been following the tin prob- lem, hoping for U. S. independence in this vital commodity, groaned | when Jesse Jones made public the | terms of the new agreement to ob- | tain tin ore from Bolivia. Instead of making a clean-cut agreement | to obtain ore, Jones permitted a | clause to be introduced which would | surrender the ore to Britain, and | leave the United States almost as | dependent on British smelting as before. | After weeks of discussion, the | Metals Reserve Company (subsidiary of RFC) agreed with four Bolivian producers and the Bolivian Govern- ment to obtain tin ore sufficient to smelt 18,000 tons of fine tin a year. This is only about one-third of U. S. requirements, but it was a good beginning, and as much as U. S. smelteries, still to be built, could handle. But when the agreement was an- | nounced, a loophole was disclosed. By it Jesse Jones agreed to let the British take about one-third of the tin away from us. They are prom- | ised “as much as 6,000 tons” and | an unnamed quantity besides. Inside story of this proviso shows | the long arm of diplomacy. By clip~ per plane from Britain came Ernest V. Pierce of the giant Williams, Harvey smeltery in Liverpool. This is a part of the British-Patino tin monopoly and long has been the chief source of U. S. tin. Pierce went to the British Embassy, talked with | Lord Lothian, and Lothian prompt- 1y went to the State Department. There he pointed out that the British must continue to have their supply of dolars to pay for muni- tions purchased here on “cash and carry” terms. Sales of tin to U. S. are a source of such dollar ex- change, second only to sales of Scotch whiskey. The British Ambassador was per- suasive, and officials agreed that as long as Britain must pay cash, she must be allowed to make money by e SR (Continued on Page Four) Air Corps recruits must learn not only flyi ments, but must also be good sold center at Hamilton Field, Cal,, p barrels to any critic rash enough to assume that all airmen do is play around the skics. First man in technique appears to compare fa with their more primitive weapons NAZI SUBS - WREAKNEW ~ SEAHAVOC i | 8 | clares 18 Ships of Brit- : ish Sunk Yesterday SHIP CALEDONIA HIT BY TORPEDO Admiralty SpT)Resman Says Menace But, But Na- tion Can "'Take It (By Associated Press) The Germans announced ioday that Nazi U-boats yesterday sank eighteen ships totalling 148,000 tons, |and probably two others totalling | 16,000 tons in slashing new inroads jon Great Britain's vital sea borne commerce. Simultaneously, MacKay Radio in New York picked up a distress call saying the steamer Salvonia was g and ground assign- iers. Here a group from the recruit resent a formidable array of pistol miles due west of the Irish coast. In London the British Admiralty acknowledge 22 merchant shif line is an Indian recruit, whose vorably with that of his ancestors Novmeber 24 This figure was 24,000 tons above REALISTS NOW HELPING s DREAMERS MAKE 'GOOD NEIGHBORS' POLICY WORK '(hrislmas Truce Now Pope’sUrge Plea Made fo All Belliger- ents to Call Yuletide (By Associated Press) Urging warring nations to observe a Christmas truce and keep the “clash of arms from drowning out the anvil chorus for peace,” Pope Pius today made an appeal asking all belligerents to call a Yuletide truce. 1In the appeal, the Pope asked bel- ligerents to call the Yuletide truce either “spontaneously or by mutual accord so that new bloodshed may not disturb or miserably extinguish the Heavenly joy of that hour.” Only last week, Prime Minister Winston Churchill rejected any sug- gestions of the House of Commons that an attempt be made to arrange a Christmas truce. At that time Churchill intimated that the prime {mover in the present conflict had abandoned Christianity and it was of no use in making an attempt for a truce under such circumstances. McCANM LEAVES FOR SITKA JOB Billy McCann, once Juneau’s pride in the Alaska fistic world, left for Sitka today to become Sitka's leath- er-mitted hero. McCann, who recently lost his welterweight title to Cal McGraw of Sitka, intends to “get it back—and no fooling,” he said before leaving. The popular young boxer will take an electrician’s job in the Historic City at the Navy base. ———to———— - Ignace Jan Paderewski began to play the piano when he was but three years old. of the war, | ted “it is a serious menac nation, we can take the knocks Hitler's High Command has re- ported 15 merchants ships and the | 17,000-ton British auxiliary cruiser claring: Ithough the convoy was | strongly protected by cruisers and | destoyers, notwithstanding the im- | mediate opening of energetic gun- WASHINGTON, Dee. 3—Out of fire, it is probable two other ships 'lh(' flood of talk about “good belonging to the convoy, each of By JACK STINNETT German Commander De- | being attacked by planes about 300 | CALIFORNIA 3 totalling 87,000 tons were sunk by | “enemy action” in the week ending ' A British naval spokesman admit- | but as a | Caledonia, torpedoed, were sunk, de- | The United States Army has ici unit went threugh initial maneuvers (above) on Mi. R | background. ~ GETS THREE | | | | Ten States fo Lose Seas in ' House of Representa- | | fives, Census Says | WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Hl‘]un'l-‘ | ing continued “westwa rd movement” | of population has been matched by MORE SEATS | nelghbor policies,” exchanges of | about 8000 tons, were sunk also.” | culture between North and South | | America, and nebulous schemes for | welding the two continents, there are developing a few concrete plans| for laying an -economic foundation | which really may support the : dreams of the dreamers. | | To attempt to discuss even| | briefly all of these would be to| clutter this column with things of| scanty meaning, but I hope from| | time to time to report on the | really solid things that are being| i done to bring South and Central America into a hemispheric fam- ily that can stand united against| :conomic, political or military on-| slaughts from any source what-| ever, EXPERIMEN' Amcng the larger plans of the| realists is one to provide our neighbors to the south with enough capital and credit so that they can pend in the United States on a basis never thought of before. One government department re-| cently estimated that if one-third of the former U. S. tourist trade ‘o Europe could be diverted to| South America, our southern neigh-| bors would have credits enough to make all their necessary purchases from the United States. But that’s another story and herein I'm going to consider only what the Depart- ment of Agriculture is doing and | plans to do along this line. ) There are, at presenf, four ex- perimental field groups from the department in Central and South| America, working on the single ‘crop of rubber. Last year, Con- | gress appropriated a half million | dollars for this work . . . and if| | that seems a lot, let’s examine the| | possibilities. [ Rubber originated in South Am-| lerica and until about 1910 most lof it came from there. Then the | Far East . . . Malaya, Ceylon and the Dutch East Indies . . . began to come to the fore, until last |year, when U. S. imports were | approximately 600,000 tons, only about 20,000 tons came from South America. About 20,000 tons more came from Firestone plan-| | fations in Liberia, West Africa, (Contiflued on Page Seven) UNDER WAY | | The Nazis said another German ) peqyy gains in the south, the Census underseas raider sank “two armed | gyreay has advised President Roose= enemy merchantmen,” totaling 21,- | yei¢ (hat on the basis of the 1940 000 tons, including the 12,000-ton | cengus California is entitled motorship Victor Ross. AR e S o i | | three additional seats in the House | and seven other States get one more | each Ten States, most of them in the | Mississippi Valley area, will each | lose one House membership. | Tabulation of returns from the | April census showed a total popula- | tion in continental United States of | 131,669,275 persons. States listed for gains of one | House seat each are Arizona, Flor- |ida, Michigan ( GAIN Carolina, Oregon and Tennessee. States that will lose a seat are LONDON, Dec. 3.—Nazi war planes | Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, defied unfavorable flying weather Kansas, Massachusetts, Nebraska, | tonight and gave London its ear- Ohio, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. liest evening alarm in some time. <ot AT After dive bombing part of Lon- » don during the morning rush hour, the planes returned to the attack e aln Taking before dusk. | | All told, London had four day- light alarms, with thd principal damage occurring in the first at- tack as German planes screamed down through the clouds and dropped bombs, injuring several| persons. | Shortly after the night raid be- gan, heavy gunfire was heard in| ne.raders, who recenty nave MOVing Government of The ;fiiders, . been inflicting greater attacks on | fi | Free France While He | Has Full Authority | provincial cities than the capital itself, were also reported over South | ‘Wales and southwest Midland towns. (By Associated Press) | Marshal Petain’s plan to move ihe seal, of the Vichy “Free French”| NEW YORK, Dec. 3. — cnnmng‘G"“""‘_’“"m to Versailles, tradition- quotation of Alaska Juneau mino‘;';flkcezp"“‘“;o;“b"’“fi;:’:;zfllp ‘:;L:g:‘w ok s 11 Beoieben in Switzerland as another shrowd Steel 85%, Commonwealth ahd}s_bcp to expand his authority at a | Southern 13/18, Curtiss Wright 'im¢ When his prestige is high. 8 7/8, General Motors 49%, Inter- ER T T national Harvester 54 3/4, Kenne-| AL COREY THROUGH cott 34%, New York Central 13 7/8,] ey Northern Pacific 6%, United States| Al Corey, of the Leonard Hopkins Steel 67%, Pound $4.04. and Company store at Anchorage, 5 e was a through passenger today on, DOW, JONES AVERAGES the steamer Baranof with his The following are today's Dow,| young som, Al Jr., after attending| Jones averages: industrials 13074,/ the golden wedding anniversary of rails 28, utilities 20.25, lhis parents in Tacoma, STOCK QUOTATIONS | New Mexico, North, _ ted skis as part of its fighting ENVOY TO FRANCE President Roosevelt has announc- ed through a secretary that he would appoint Rear Admiral Wil- liam D. Leahy (above), retired, new Governor of Puerto Rico and former Chief of Naval Operations, Ambassador to France to succeed William C. Buliitt. Quizzed in Deaths Larry Mertz A former cook in a Pittsburgh social service center, Larry Mertz, 40, was questioned by police in | Philadelphia in connection with the poison deaths of 12 men in the social service center. It was believed the men died from roach powder in pancake flour. equipment. snowy slopes. The 41st Division's new ski Mt. Rainier, Wash,, is in the LANGLIE | ELECTED GOVERNOR "Republicra'nrwms Over Democrat Buf Roose- velt Defeats Willkie OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 3.—Arthur B. Langlie's margin over former Senator C. C. Dill for the Governor- ship of the State of Washintgon is 5,816, Secretary of State Reeves's certification of election totals re- veals. ‘The vote for Republican nominee 'Langlie is 392,522 and for Democrat Dill 386,706. ! . The'Republican candidate carried 122 counties in the State and Dill carried 17 counties. Roosevelt carried the State by a margin of 140,000 over Willkie. e DIES GIVES RADIO PLEA ~ TONATION ' Seeks Confirfian(e of His Committee to Ferret Ouf "Fifth Columnists” WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Martin the n | Dies will stake the future of | House Committee on Un-Ameri | Activities on appeals on the “peo- ple of America” for continuance of the work he said it is doing in exposing Filth Columnists and sa- betage | Exactly a month before legal | expiration of the committee'’s au- | thority, the Texan took to the radio | last night and reviewed the commit- | tee’s work, concluding with the as- | sertion there have been al least | five acts of sabotage on “the most | important experimental plane” in {one of the largest plants in the country. | —e——— } SCOUT PARADE TONIGHT i Boy Scouts sponsored by the ;Snlvauon Army will meet tonight |at the Salvation Army Hall for their parade with Donald Verton ! as leader. e ———— The United States received its. first gold from Alaska in 1897, ap Fascist Legions ROYAL AIR FORCE MAKE NIGHT RAIDS lfalian City Bombed-Also | Fascist Naval Base | on Sicily Isalnd | GERMAN U-BOAT BASE ALSO GIVEN POUNDING Hifler War;fi;es Pass Up London But Make Ter- rific Atfack, Bristol (By ASSOCIATED PREFS) | British bombers, in far ranging | night raids last night, struck Na- ples, the Fascist Naval base at Sic- ily and pounded the German U-boat base at Lorient on the French coast. Other British bombers raved up along the Norwegian coast and “successfully” bombed cccupied: Ger- man ports. The London Air Ministry said the British planes bombed an enemy supply ship, hit another ship and set fire to wharves on Feje Island. The raiders on Naples declared that incendiary and explosive bombs were dropped and fires were seen. Londen Passed Up The r Ministry acknowledged that Hitler's warplanes passed up London entirely in a dusk to dawn |raid last night, concentrating on the English west coast port of Bris- tol, the chief port of entry of war | material from the United States. There was a terrific assault, the German High Command asserts, and a trail of destruction left at Bristol. The attack on Bristol is acknow- ledged and it is officially stated that considerable damage was done but casualties were light. German Admittance Plymouth, Birmingham and South- ampton, all important English sea- ports, have been under repeated at- tacks during the past week while London has gained a comparative vest period from air raiders. It is admitted by the German High Command that British bomb- ers have done “damage” to German ports and also inland towns. WAR DEPT. WANTS BIG LAND UNIT Army Asks for 600,000 Acres Near Fairbanks for Gunfly Work WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Depart- ment of Interior officials said te- day they have under consideration a request of the War Department for 600,000 acres of public lands south of Fairbanks to be with- drawn from public entry. The land would be turned over to the War Department to be used in gunnery tests. Interior Department officials said the oniy description they had of the land wanted was that it was south of Fairbanks and north of the Tanana River near the Wood River. It was asked the request be given consideration as soon as possible. SHOPPINC DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS