The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1940, Page 1

DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940. TH VOL. LVIL, NO. 8586. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 DAWN ATTACKS ARE MADE BY GREEKS Plane MAINLINER IS WRECKED, SUDDENDROP CraftHut;ApérimentHouse ~Then Utility Lines = | at Chicago ACCIDENT OCCURS NEAR | AIRPORT DURING NIGHT Pilot Circlinig,;Awaiting In- structions fo Land- Hits in Vacant Lot CHICAGO, Ill, Dec. 5—A Cleve- land to Chicago United Air main- liner crashed in a vacant lot last| t, just one block and a half | | | | | from the Municipal Airport after striking an apartment house and utility lines. Eight persons are dead, as fol- lows: Keller DeLion, 40, of Chica- go, WPA safety engineer. Charles Manviile, 38 of Cleveland, General Sales Man- ager of the National Refiners Company. Capt. Philip Scott, cago, Co-pilot Ch e Lt Heneleine, airline employee. Wilbert J. Austin, of Cleve- id, President of the Austin Cempany, big defense project puilding concern holding Seat- tle and other West Coast con- tracts. S. W. Moere, Army Engineer. Miss Jane Selby, of Chicago. Eight others liner were injured. The cause of the crash is not known but the accident occurred| during a heavy snow storm after the plane circled the airport wm- ing for instructions to land. Witiiesses to Crash ‘ Witnesses said the big craft ap- parently lost flying speed coming in to the landing and dropped from a height of about 150 feet. | The craft grazed a three-story | apartment house on Keating Avenue and 64th Street, broke an electric | power line, smashed the gable of a bungalow and demolished a frame | garage building before coming to a | stop. | Bursts Into Flames | Flames shot out from the plane | at the crash when the craft struck | the ground on the nose. City firemen were nearby and ex- | tinguished the flames which were‘ confined to the pilots’ compart- ment. The pilot, co-pilot and four pas- sengers were dragged from the wreckage dead or dying. J. H. Herlihy, Vice-President, in charge of operations of the United Air Lines, scouts the theory that ice formation on the wings might have caused the crash. He said pilots were required to radio reperts of icing and no such report was made by the plane’s crew. Jan Kubelik Passes Away BERLIN, Dsc. 5.—Jan. Kubelik, 60. rennowned Czech violinist, is| dead at Prague from an undisclosed ailment. This is the official infor- | mation as given out late this af- ternoon upon advices from Prague. — e HEALTH COUNCIL MEET TOMORROW The Gastineau Channel Health Council will meet tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in the Juneau Health Center. All representatives of Douglas and Juneau organizations are asked to bé present. of Chi- George Young, of of Chicago, of Cleveland, | aboard the main-| Crashes Name Hangs On (om Fllp To avoid confusion in names, Virg | a Dale (above) and Pana Dale have been ordered by Hollywood studio executives to decide who'll change her name. They will toss a coin to determine who'll make the change. C. medel. Virginia’s name was Paxton when she lived in Charlotte, N. Dana’s surname was Fleurette Dehuwey wher: she was a New York LACK OF AGREEMENT BY ~ HALIBUTFISHERMENMAY DOOM PROPOSED TREATY Glamo. Girl Mary Lee Abbott, daughter of | Mrs. David Hoadley Munroe and Henry Livermore Abbott of Bos- ton, is society’s new glamor girl. Miss Abbott was selected as the No. 1 society glamor girl for the 1040-41 season from a group of New York debutantes. LEST THEY FORGET KINGSTON, Mo., Dec. 5—While Glenn Setzer was serving on an American Legion grave commission he learned there were 3000 un- marked graves in Caldwell County. He announced he would furhish a marker for any person unable to buy one for the grave of a relative, and is nearing his goal of 1,000 mark- ers, KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 5. — With Chairman L. W. Patmore leaving last night on the steamer Prince Rupert for Prince Rupert, indications were that the proposed United States-Canada hn]ibut treaty has failed. “It would appear very doubtful the treaty will materialize because the por(s are not unanimous in its| | favor,” Patmore said. Three other International Fish- | eries Commissioners left aboard Lhe h and Wildlife Service vessel | Brant for Petersburg for a mcetmg‘ | Juneau on Saturday. | | today. A hearing will be held at Seasick Commission | The health of all Commissioners| has been aggravaied by the rough| trip. Patmore will meet the others| at Prince Rupert next Tuesday, when 1941 halibut regulations will| be determined. Ketchikan vessel owners and| fishermen yesterday recommended | “absolute ironclad control or no| treaty,” and extension of licensing to all but one-man boats instead of the present five-ton boats. “Before we promise anything we must complete a survey of all halibut boats in Alaska and Cana- dian waters to find out how much gear habits are,” H. A. Dunlop, Commis- sion Investigator, replied. PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM WILL TAKE BIG SUM Thirty-five Million Dollars Required for Plans for Five Years WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—Expendi-| ture of $35,000,000,000 during the next | five years would be required, it is| estimated, to carry out the National| Preparedniess program as now for- mulated. This sum is double the amount of appropriations and authorizations | made thus far by Congress for military defense. PEACE VOTE they have and what their| in Snow Storm; CRUSHED IN PARLIAMENT i Left Wing Trio Moves for Try Ending War Even in Compromise 'VOTE ON PROPOSAL SQUASHED 341 10 4 Atlee Roasts Laborites| from Glasgow Who | Made Motion (By Associated Press) | | | Britain’s Parliament sternly ro- jected in a 341 to 4 vote, a motion by three Independent Laborites, wrging that Great Britain seek | peace immediately. | The House of Commons listened in grim silence as the trio demand- ed Great Britain state its war aims and seek to end the war “if nN‘-‘ essary in a spirit of compromise.” The three who made the motioin were all Scotsmen of Glasgow and | members of the Left Wing British | labor movement. | To the accompaniment of cheers| from the House, Clement Attlee, Lord of the Privy Seal, replied to the Left Wing motion with an im- passioned denunciation of the “fai- |lacy of suggesting on one side of this terrible war that on the other| side are all the beauties of peace. The alternatives are not war and peace, but war and what kind of| | peace?” | Attlee, Churchill's Deputy in the House, asked James Maxton, cne ‘ol the trio: “If it comes to a con- ference, and if Hitler refuses to ‘hhtcn to reason and says he pre- | fers his scheme, will the honorable member fight or give way?” — e e——— WASHINGTON STIRRED ON “WAR MONIES ' Senators Fmd Fault with British and Chinese Loan Proposals WASHINGTON, Dec. 5. — The| second member of Roosevelt's cab- | |inet described Great Britain as a| |“good risk” for U. 8. loans, but at| the capital, a Senate critic in the| past of Administration foreign pol- icy said he was “very much star-| tled” over the idea of new en- dorsement of Britain's credit rat-| ing. The new endorsement came l‘rom' Secretary of Treasury Henry Mor- genthau who replied with a sucecint| “yes” in a press conference when |he was asked if he agreed with| i | \ | | | | Secretary of Commerce Jones' statement that England was a| good risk. In the Senate, however, Senawr, | Bennet Champ Clark said he wasi ,stanled at Jones’' statement, Eng-| Christmas Trees? Say, Santa Must Be on Way! It won’t be long until Christmas, no sir! Christ- mas trees already are being cut, stacked and tied for shipping to all parts of the globe. This picture HOUSE - CLEANING MOVE T0 PURGE ALIENS FROM GOVERNMENT, INDI.ISTRY§ SEES REVOLT IN ITALY By JACK STI WASHINGTON, Dec. your nationality? Now, think. Can you prove it? What's your age? Stop and think TT 5—What's stop and again. Can you prove that? With ladies of indeterminate age, that has been a question that has pro- vided more Joe Millers than has the mother-in-law or the traveling salesman. But as strange as it may seem, there are thousands of America who can't. prove their naticnality and hundreds of thou- ands who—if they know how old they are—can't prove it, In spite of the fact that this is probakbly the most statistical era of all time, this great void in the American knowledge of facts and figgers might never have come to light if it weren't for the Census Bureau. That division of the Gov- ernment, which is charged with enumerating the peoples of our ‘natmn. is discovering that if iL‘ takes an army to enumers i takes at least a sizeable battaiion to answer the questions: How ol(l‘ am I? Where was I bhorn? R At the rate of 1,500 to 2,000 a |day, letters have bheen pouring | |into the Census Bureau for weeks | asking verification of these two |facts, The flood has been such | that there has been no chance yet |to analyze it — to separate the | queries into classifications that |mwht define just what is going on yBut on the basis of superficial ob-! | servation, there are some things zhat can be said right now— | Europe’s war will end with a se- ries of social revolutions, first of which will occur in Italy, de- clared Emil Ludwig, famed Ger- man-born analytical biographer, recently in Los An‘eles. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 5—Clesing quo- JOBS THRZATENED tation of Alaska Juneau mine stock! Not only in the Government, but| today is 5%, American Can 87%,!in private industry, there is a| Anaconda 27%, Bethlehem Steel| house-cleaning move to purge =zl 85%, cammonweaxv.h and Southern |aliens. Of the thousands of les- 13/16, Curtiss Wright 9, (Jfi‘“l‘l'-*”tcls the Census Bureau is receiving, Motors 49%, International Harves-|asking proof of citizenship, by “r ter 64%, Kennecott 34%, New York | the greater percent explain that| was taken at Shelton, Wash., which state is regard- ed as one of the largest producers of Christmas trees in the world, ROM A N C E_war called. and Doris Miller, 17, a “peach” from Atlanta, Ga: answered, but indirectly. She followed her sweetheart, A. M, Hargarett to Canada, where he’s enlisted ir the air force. They were ma: ried in Toronto recently. Fast Work Is Accomplished, Alaska Bases AssislanfStfie—tary of Navy| Gives Out Report-Full |land obtained large loans in this Central 13%, Northern Pacific 6%, the writer MUST have this inf Another aspect of the war fin- ances situation was brought up by[ Senator Taft who declared Mor- genthau was guilty of “usurpation | of authority and breach of trust” if he carried out his announced plan to aid China’s Chungking| government with funds from & $2,000,000,000 stabilization fund. e YOUTHS AT WORK BERLIN—Over five million ju- veniles are working in plants es-| sential to the conduct of the war,| according to an estimate of the| German Labor Front. Imils 27.67, utilities 20.25. | country during the World War, | United States Steel 677:, Pound|mation immediately to hold hi: he said, and instead of paying them $4.04. | job. For one reason or another off, applied to Uncle Sam the | (accent or appearance, to name| epithet, “Uncle Shylock.” DOW, JONES AVERAGES |only two) the author writes, he is The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: suspected of being an alien. Industrials 129.96, knows that the Census Bureau can !clear this up. Will they please do —_——ew |s0 at once, so he won't get fired? ! - JACK LINCKE GOES s e T0 LOCAL HOSPITAL !dustry or from the Governmens, whmc laws already passed forbid writer, entered St. Ann’s Hospital | been determined, but it is certain yesterday afternoon for medical | that lots of private employers ar: treatment. Lincke was once editor|scanning their payrolls and weed- ron publieation. Since that time not taken out papers. he has been in the westward, writ-| St (Continued on PBBe'Seven) ing and mining. He| [soon be | employment of undeclared aliens| ™*""" Jack Lincke, well known free lance |in many departments, has not yet! of the Juneau Daily Capitol, a Her-|ing out the foreign-born who have! Complements Soon | SEATTLE, Dec, 5—Lewis Comp- |ton, Assistant Secretary of Navy, here on a four day inspection visit, | told interviewers today that the ;most recent reports indicated con- struction is six months ahead of schedule on the Kodiak and Sitka lair bases. Compton also said’ the bases will manned by full comple- — .- WAHINGTON, Dec. 5—The Sen- | ate has confirmed the nomination | of Alexander King to be postmaster at Kodiak, Alaska. | Killed KEY CITIES INALBANIA ARE FALLING Greeks Almost in Com- plete Control of Porto Edda, Arigrocastro GUNS OF ATHENIAMS COMMAND HIGHWAYS Italian For;;s—Have Only Tortuous Coastal Route for Escape BULLETIN BELGRADE, Dec. 5.—Unofficial advices, but apparently authentic, says that Greek troops have entered Porto Edda and will occupy Agirocas- tro tomorrow. This spells suc- cess for the Greeks and the virtual collapse of the Italian campaign on the southern front which the Fascists aimed orig- inally at Athens. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Greek forces, in a smashing counter offensive, hurled their itrength in dawn attacks today on the remainder of Porto Edda and Argirocastro, key Italian bases in southwest Albania. Dispatches from the front said Porto Edda is almost completely in Greek hands, with only a few Ital- an units holding out on the out- skirts, while the fall of Argirocastro is likewise expected at any time. Greeks also said they have already captured Premet, midway along the Balkan war front and Mussolini’s lezions are in flight from Porto Pdda and Argirocastro. Dispatches from Athens said the main road out of Porto Edda, Italy's ea gateway to southern Albania, is dominated by Greek guns and the only avenue of escape left to the Ttalians is reported to be by a tor- nous coastal route. The Italian command in the daily war bulletin, said tersely: “Attacks md counter attacks in the sectors of the two armies took place again.” and asserted the Fascist air force heavily strafed advancing Greeks. ——————- TREATY FOR BIG PROJECT TOBEURGED President fo Ask Congress for Approval of St. Lawrence Seaway DETROIT, Mich., Dec. 5.—Presi- ‘dem Roosevelt announced through Assistant Secretary of State A. A. Berle, Jr,, he will ask Congress in January to approve a treaty with Canada providing for the comple- tion of the St. Lawrence seaway and power project “on which so much of our national safety and welfare depends.” ‘The President’s massage to the Great Lakes Seaway Conference was read by Berle. The message emphasized that the St. Lawrence project would provide millions in horsepower and is urg- ently needed to speed up defense production and create a safe haven waterway and for construction of ships to replace tonnage sunk in the present war. SHOPPING TILL D [ CHRISTAMA