The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 6, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8587. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” _ - JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS " PRICE TEN CENTS [TALIAN FORCES COLLAPSE IN ALBANIA Nava NAZI, BRITISH SHIPS ENGAGE IN SEA FIGHT Armed Mefchént Cruisers of Two Nations in Battle —Conflicting Reports (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Cenflicing reports came from Londor: and Berlin today regard- ing a naval engagement between an armed British merchant r and a German merchant armed cruiser that took place late yesterday in the South At- lantic about 700 miles northeast of Montevideo. The German High Command reports the German vessel dam- aged its opponent and also claimed to have bagged four merchantmen totaling 00 tons. The armed German vessel was aided by a U-boat. The British Admiralty an- nounces that its 20,000-ton arm- ed merchant cruiser Carnarvon Castle received slight damage and suffered some casualties in an encounter with a Nazi armed merchant ship, disguised as a raider, but the German ship would not accept close action and steamed north from the scene at high speed. California’s Flu Epidemic Is Subsiding Small Oufbreaks in Adja- cent States-Many Schools Closed [ ) ROYAL FONDNESS FOR ‘F'_“F’ leads as the alphabetical favorite with Egypt's royal family. Here are Queen {Farida, 20, with her elder daughter, Ferial, almost two, and baby, Fawzia, who was born in April. Egypt's king is named Farouk. GOVERNMENT JUNK MEN ~ REALLY GOING TO TOWN: THEY KNOW THEIR STUFF | ismissal | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.— Meet the government “junk men.” | in everything from| T SEATILE MILLSARE PICKETED Night e Lumber Mandfacturing Closed-Tieup Affects About 2,000 Men SEATTLE. Dec. 6—Pickets of the AFL Puget Sound District Council | of the Lumber and Sawmill Work- | ers, today closed seven Seattle lum- ber mills, employing approximately 12,000 men. The tie-up is a result of a Puget | Sound wage dispute that has spread | to a total of 32 lumber mills and | | logging camps. | The lumber pi came from ‘Tacoma and Everef scene where already 21 mills have been closed by picketing. | A Council official said two more Seattle mills and two in Renton | will be closed before is | ended The closed mills recently signed a labor agreement with the local AFL Lumber and Sawmill Workers’ Union and granted the men an in- crease of five cents an hour but the local is not affiliated with the Puget Sound District Council which is de- manding an increase in wages of 7'% cents an hour and one week's vaca- tion with pay. | Between 11,000 and 12,000 men are out of work in the area of the| closed mills. ! Spokesmen for the mills declared they were working on National De- | fense orders for the Pacific North- west, Alaska, California, Hawaii and Panama Canal Zone - HALIBUTER HEARING IS TOMORROW the day there are some new angles to it. STRU | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 6.— | Reports indicating California’s epi- | demic of mild influenza is subsiding | 0f Morgan | | | They deal i | burlap sacks to silver fox scarves from horse manure to airplanes from blackjacks to antique clocks. nternalionfiish eries is viewed hopefully by State health authorities. Word of small outbreaks have come from adjacent States. Many schools throughout Cali- fornia remain closed and some plan- ned public gatherings have been postponed. Hundreds of citizens remain at home, absenting ' themselves from work—some because “down” with the flu and others acting nurses to other members of families. The ailment is identified as a “type” of influenza by the health department research experts. ———————— (ordova Schools (losed Mild Flu Epidemic, Not Se- rious, Causes Health Officer fo Act GORDOVA, Alaska, Dec. 6. — Schools have been ordered closed | by Dr. W. H. Chase, Health Offi- cer, when erintendent of Public Schools that one out of every five pupils were absent with the flu and another fifth at classes were suffering with colds. Children are also barred from public gatherings, including movies. During the past several daysill- ness has spread and last Monday the illness took the life of a three- monhs-old baby. Many adults are also reported ill. The situation is not serious but the order issued by the Health Of- ficer is simply one of -precaution. informed by the Sup-| the| Out of the government grab-bag | they take more than $20,000,00 | worth of junk, leftovers and con- fiscated materials every year and the figure is mounting steadily. About 85 percent of it is diverted into government channels where | the government would have to pay { millions more for the stuff if it | had to purchase it outright. The | rest is sold at public auction. | These “junk men” are the boys CINCINNATI, Ohio, Dec. 6.—The | in the surplus property section of | Sixth United States Circuit Court | the Treasury Procurement Divi- | of Appeals has upheld the dismissal | sion. They know more abouf mak- lof Arthur F. Morgan, Chairman of ing palatable hash out of leftovers |the TVA, thus affirming a lower than the most efficient housewife ‘»coun's dismissal. in the land. And incidentally, they; | Morgan, in his suit, sought recov- | probably are the biggest cash-sav-| ery of $4,583 allaged due on salary | ers in your work-a-day government, | as chairman of the TVA. ¥ Judge Simons, of Detroit, cited a !Supreme Court case, and said: | “Power to remove executive of- ficers appointed by the President is | conferred upon him by the Consti- | tution, so it may not be abrogated by any statute.” Is Upheld Former Chairman of TVA, | LosesFight for Alleged | Salary Due Him OF POST-WAR ORIGIN The surplus property section was | started after the World War, when| the government found it had| about $350,000,000 worth of surplus| stocks built up that would rot or become obsolete unless somebody | Sl —— could dispose of them. The section| was formed for that specific pur- pose and eventually did dispose of everything (some of it just recent-| 2 (H I N E SE ly). But in the following years and | especially under the guidance of| | Treasury Secretary Henry Morgen-; | thau Jr, the government ‘junk! men” have really been going tu} r | town. Blo(KADED} Not long ago, they got a laun-| dry! It came from the Bureau cof Y ! Engraving and Printing, where it had been used for washing rags.: | !If you think the laundry stumped Japanese Military Take| e bovs mess asain. Thes e 1 Adion as Resu" of that needed just such a laundry| Terrorist Atfacks to make its plant complete. They once got 12300 gum-plas- tered theatre chairs and altnough they reluctantly admit they couldn’t SHANGHAI, Dec. 9.—Portions of |find anything to do with the old| | Hankow and Soochow are blockaded | chewing gum, they sold half of| by the Japanese military forces fol- | the chairs to a little church that |lowing terrorist attacks similar to was just organizing here and gave |those which caused partial block- | the other half to the national train-| ades. now in effect at Shanghai and . s Commission Arrives Aboard Brant Halibut fishermen and vessel owners will have an opportunity to- morrow to tell their troubles to the International Fisheries Com- mission which arrived on the Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Brant to hold a hearing in Juneau. The hearing will be held in the Territorial Senate Chambers on the second floor of the Federal Build- ing, beginning at 10 o'clock. { Arriving here on the Brant at 4:45 o'clock. this morning were WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.—Sir Fred- Commission Members A. J. Whit- | erick Phillip, Under Secretary of the more of Ottawa, Edward W. Allen;B"““h Treasury, who recently ar- of Seattle and Charles E. Jackson rived in the United States, said after of Washington. 'L. W. Patmore o”a conference with Secretary of the Victoria, Chairman, returned to Treasury Henry Morgenthau that he Prince Rupert from Ketchikan be- | 1 lf“’f:! il e dlen o vy cause of ill health. Accompanying| " e on the '%]'”,‘ & “‘l‘ g the Commission are Advisers Dun-|Sh Psourees and the cost of sup- plies needed.” lop and Bell and Stenographer Mor- | ™y Brigich official conferred with ris. - | Morgenthau for over an hour. Pamfel:r 1;':,:"’“ ;""’;“"Mn by| . Sir Prederick said he talked only A i 8 Y| facts with Morgenthau and “we did the Commission to a proposed new | 2 treaty under which powers of Lhe]:g]ticsfficm a1y; auestion’of e CommL}sion would be c}(tended W™ Before entering the conference, all halibut boats carrying tWo OF |y, British official told newsmen, more men. The proposal was made| y; asked him about loans, that “we by fishing vessel owners and the|,., pot up to that stage now.” Deep Sea Fishermen’s Union, which | agced about suggestions that serve as a joint advisory board for Great Britain might sell some West the Commission, | tndies islands to the United States The Juneau hearing will be the| o get more cash for war purchases, last of a series which has In-|gir Prederiek said: “That is outside cluded hearings at Vancouver,|of my scope. I deal only in financial Prince Rupert, Ketchikan and Pet- | matters.” BALANCE SHEET OF BRITISH PUT BEFOREU. 5. NOW Under Secrefary of British Treasury Confers with U. S. Treasurer gl i o ersburg. A scheduled hearing at sitka will have to be dispensed | turning south on the Brant follow-| ing tomorrow's Juneau session. | ou Busl"ESS being escorted through the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company mih,| Attorney H. L. Faulkner sailed Mastes h T 3 J:m: rcr::’dotme i cnm|st.eamer Mount McKinley for Seattle 3 i on a brief business trip. On Monday the Commission will| witness the dedication at Ketchi | 8t e kil Hotne 1" the lite Peiping. (Continued on Pege Six) with, as the Commission is rc—; FAULKNER OUT This afternoon members were south this afternoon aboard the Xe Dedicaie abacgioy He will be south about two weeks. (Continued on Page Eight) |est cathedral in the world. Night life in London these days goes on despite incessant aerial bombing by the Nazis. wear tin derbies and generally the customer won't check it, Then, it is customary for patrons to GGLEFOROIL CHIEF PHASE NOW OFEUROPEAN WAR' THEIR CELLS | | | l | and | that turns the Engagement Reported, South A Life in London Goes on—but Differently 7 g(.‘p' R Of course, For example, all reserve a bed in the bomb-proof basement, which is protected against all but direct hits. are stocked with provisions, fitted with gas and water-proof doors. premises, are trained in fire fighting. tlantic 'BIG FASCIST - BASE TAKEN BY GREEKS ‘Argir0(astr;E Captured | After Bloody Fighting Takes Place 'THOUSANDS OF SOLDIERS ' REPORTED AS CAPTURED 'Chief of Staff Badoglio | "Resigns”’-Gen. Cav- AURANT (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Complete collapse of Italy’s lines | in Southern Albania is indicated in reports from all sources along the Balkan war front and Italy is plan- ning to do something about it. Rome makes the announcement that Chief of Staff Badoglio has been replaced Reports, unofficial, as the Greek forces have occupled Ar=- girocastro, Italy’'s last remaining frontier region base which was es- tablished by the Itallans in an at- tempt to conquer Greece. Capture at Noon The Greek Army officially an- nounces occupation of Porto Edda, Italy's seaport and gateway to couthern Albania, which is only 15 miles from Argirocastro. The Ital- ian communique does not state that Argirocastro has fallen into the hands of the Greeks, which is claimed was captured at noon to- day after bloody fighting. The Creek advices state that rt that Basements Waiters, who also sleep on the I | By MORGAN M .BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, Dec major key to the next phs the European war may be a three- letter word “O-I-L!" | Whether the Axis powers con- centrate on the British or Gibraltar or Suez, or all three, the| long range planning behind their | military and diplomatic maneuvers may be forced upon them by the| coming thirst of their mduslriull war machines for the stuff) wheels of modern | nations—petroleum. | the view of some | The| e of! It's That Wash-| ington economists, who suspect that the Axis’ problem at this time is oil rather than food. Not that it giving out any time soon. But must look ahead, now that failed to make quick work Britain. For instance, the economisis sus- pect recent German-Russian nego-| tiations were concerned, not with| a new or intensified partnership,| but with a German scheme to| syphon oil from the Near East, o even Russia herself. Similarly, the statisticians see in the military meeting of Ttalian and German high com-! mands at Innsbruck, Austria, revival of the often discussed threat | against Gibraltar. For that way| also leads to precious oll—the oil| of the Western Hemisphere. Why the push for oil? Most military experts and econo- mists agree that it takes about 000,000 to 300,000,000 barrels of| a ar to run the Axis war| inst the British. But 'assumin; both Ttaly and Germany have| built up reasonable reserves, they| cannot hope to replenish their sup-| plies from the lone hig oil field| in their possession—the Rumanian. At best this area could give them| only 60.000,000 barrels a year. J Maybe they can squeeze out an-| it| it’s of | also the (Conunued on Pa’se' 8ix) thousands of Fascist soldiers have been taken prisoners with - their arms and equipment in the captured base. “Resigned” Directly after the Greek dispatch- s were recelved announcing the capture of Argirocastro, there came the announcement from Rome that Badoglio “resigned.” The announce- ment gave no further explanation.” except it was at his “own request.” Military circles quickly expressed the opinion that Badoglio has been | | | Prison Authorities Keep Close Watch as Alcatraz Shrouded in Fog SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 6.— Warden James Johnston and his corps of guards waited hopefully on the fog-bound Alcatraz Island for a break in the weather to end their strained watchfulness over 300 of the nation’s worst criminals for the past two nights and days. Ever since the heaviest fog in years rolled over San Francisco Bay, the convicts have been kept in their cells as the prison authorities feared scape attempts or some possible violence among the convicts who re keyed up by a reeent killing and laundry strike. - eee U. 5. EMBASSY PROTESTS AS WCMAN JALED Former Re(;ptionist for American $taff Aid- ed British VICHY, Dec. 6. — The, United States Embassy is reported to have protested against the German de- tention of former Embassy recep- tionist, Mrs, lizabeth Deegan. Mrs. Deegan is unofficially de- scribed in charges as having aided British ofticers to escape occupied France The Germand are believed to have replied they will take the matter up with Ogcupation au- thorities, R AT SR POWERS RETURNS Vie Poowers came back from a |short trip to Haines on the Mt. McKinley. “sacked as a scapegoat of Fascist military reverses” or ‘“because he opposed the attitude of the organi- | zation and the military structure of "llm Italian army.” | Successor \ The Rome announcement later |said Badoglio, Italy’s most famed soldier and successful commander | of the Ethiopian campaign, has been | succeeded by Gen. Ugo Cavallero, 60, {until recently commander of the Italian forces in East Africa. The Italian command admits the Greeks are hammering the left wing in Albania but reinforcements are being dispatched to other Greek frontiers. | | STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK, Dec. 6—Closing quo- taticn of Alaska Juneau mine stock | today is 5%, American Can 88, Ana- conda 27'%, Bethlehem Steel 85'%, | Commonwealth and Southern13/16, Curtiss Wright 9, General Motors 1497, International Harvester 54'%, Kennecott 34'%, New York Central 13%, United States Steel 68, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONI AVERAGES The following are today'’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials 130.33, rails 27.56, utilities 20.15. - — -, NEESE ON TRIP Mr. and Mrs. Ken Neese of An- chorage are Mount McKinley pas- sengers going out on a vacation trip. Neese flies for Star Airways. SHOPPINC DAYS TILL CHRISTMAS