The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 7, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIREK . “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8588. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GREEKS CONTINUE HARASSING ITALIANS English Seaport of Bristol Is Air Raided NAZIS ATTACK DURING NIGHT DROP BOMBS Royal Air Force Shell lfal- ian Forces at Albanian Port of Valona (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) In the Battle for Great Britain, the British Air Ministry announc- ed this morning that Bristol, one of the chief ports on the west coas of England, bore the brunt of last night’s German bombing attack. The cable facilities between Lon- don and New York were unexplain- ably cut for six hours. It is not known whether the shore base was bombed or communications cut for some other reason. The Royal Air Force bombers made 2 night and day attack on the Ttai- jan forces at the Albanian port of valona and scored direet hits on the munition dmps. Great clouds of smoke billowed up, the Air Min- istry dispatches reveal. Bombs also dropped by the RAF exploded on motor truck concen- tration and military buildings ——————— Gruening Dinner Honors Visitors Governor and Mrs. Ernest Gruen- ing entertained last evening with a dinner party in honor of visiting members of the International Fish- eries Commission, A. J. Whitmore of Ottawa, Edward W. Allen of Seat- tle and Charles E. Jackson of Wash- ington, and their advisers, J. H. 3¢ll and Vietor H. Dunlop. Following the dinner party there was a small dancing party in the ballroom. —————————— CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY In celebration of his birthday Herman Beuker had a number of his friends in Priday evening to share his birthday cake. Later the fel- lows attended a show. WASHINGTON—You can put it down as certain that the President will not give the Walter-Logan bill a pocket veto; that is, let it die withcut comment. He will veto it with a scorching blast. Some of Roosevelt’s Congression- al chiefs want a pocket veto so as not to stir up another battle. They argue that it is best to let sleep- ing dogs lie. But Roosevelt doesn't see it that way. He considers the Walter-Logan bill an adroit scheme by big busi- ness to scuttle major, New Deal re- forms through legalistic obstruc- tions, after failing to lick them at the polls and in the Supreme Court. Among the brickbats Roosevelt will heave at the bill will be these: 1. That it will block the de- fense program by permitting manu- facturers to tie the Governments hands in pushing production. 2. That the bill, which professes fo give hearings to complainants, sclually was jammed through Con- grecs without a hearing on its mer- its. 3. That thé bill was passed by a vote of less than one-third of the Scnate when only one-half of the chamber was present. The vote was 27 to 25. 1 4, That the real purpose of the Jegslation is to destroy the National Labor Relations Board, Wage-Hour Division, and Securities and Ex- change Commission. 5. That the bill was drafted by big - business interests and put through by a corps of lobbyists, sup- B (Continued on Page Four) 2DISAPPEAR FLYING TRIP | [Army Aviators Abandon| Search for Man, Wife on Oregon Flight PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 7. — De-| claring that “perfect weather’ in Southern Oregon failed to preduce any traces, two Army fliers have! abandoned search for Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Walbert of Medford, Oregon, who headed for Portland last Fri- day niht in a light plane and dis- appeared. — e GOVERNOR WILL ' DEDICATE NEW KETCHIKAN LAB Jackson Sayasifgisheries In-| stitution Last Word in Equipment 3ov Ernest Gruening will speak Monday at dedication ceremonies | for the new $70,000 Fisheries Tech- | nological Laboratory of the Fish! and Wildlife Service at Ketchikan, built with Public Works and Ter- ritorial funds. The Governor will go to Ket-| chikan on the vessel Brant tonight| with members of the International | Fisheries Commission | Charles Jackson Assistant Di- rector of the Fish and Wildlife Ser- | vice, will also take part in the dedi- catory ceremonies. | Jackson said the well-equipped laboratory will seek to develop new uses for Alaska fisheries products. It is one of three such laboratories being buil tby the Service. The oth- ers are in Maryland and Connecti- cut. A fourth is to be built in Puerto Rico shortly. Maurice Stansby has been ap-! | pointed Director of the Ketchikan| laboratory. He will be assisted by a staff of four. Jackson said Alaska fishery reg-| ulations were being worked up at | present for 1941 and that the Service hopes to issue them before the end of January. 'HOOP CONTESTS TUESDAY NIGHT Another pre - season basketball doubleheader will be held Tues-| day night in the High School gym- nasium, it was announced today. The Haida squad will meet the High School, both teams hoping to| avenge their defeats of last week| from the Elks and the Firemen re- spectively. In the nightcap game, Firemen meet Henning's Clotheirs. Wyllers Give Party For Mrs. Nostrand For Mrs. Garrett W. Nostrand, who will leave on the southbound Yukon en December 15 to make her home in the States, Mrs. Chris | Wyller was hostess last evening witn a small farewell party. Close friends of Mrs. Nostrand were glests. The | evening was spent informally. -, - — PLANMING COUNCIL IS STILL AT WORK The Alaska Planning Council con- |tinued its annual meeting here tc- day. It was not known this morn- ing whether the Council could fin- ish it ‘business today or would have to meet again next week. | i | Greece | countries of |the Juneau Liquor Company, NoPlansBeingMadeTo ‘ ~ BringU.S. Nationals Ouf 0f Greece; Were Warned By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. — An-| swering the mail orders: | M. B, Southampton, N. Y.—The| State Department says that it is| making no further plans to bring| United States nationals out of This means that there aie no plans -at all at present. The gov- ernment points out that it gave adequate warning long ago fcr Amreican citizens to get out of Greece and the complications of transportation are now such that they can do nothing about it. If your son and daughter are still there and (although they were born in this country and hence entitled to U. S. citizenship) if you had not taken out naturaliza-| tion papers until recently, they| may be in form complications.| Greece is one of the many coun- tries where the dual citizenship| preblem arises. There are several| that say children born natives living abroad still are citizens of the country of their parents. This claim is re-cstab- lished when those children return to the land of their parents. It is| even possible that your son, now close to maturity, had been called’ for service .in the Greek army. If| this has mot happened, and ; you| can afford an expensive transpor- tation, it is possible that the boy | and girl can get out through Tur-| key and the East. One person here who recently returned from Europe tefls me that it still is pos-| sible to gel out of Greece through| Yugoslavia, northern Italy (by “sealed express”), occupied France,| Spain, and Portugal, but I am| unable to verify either of these routes, C.A.P, Biloxi, Miss.—You are right, T did jump the gun a bit onf the Socialist Party candidates for President since 1900 and I'm glad| |to straighten out my record as| well as that of my informant. Eu-! gene V. Debbs was the candidate every four years from 1900 to 1912, inclusive, and again in 1920. |Allan L, Benson was candidate ia 1916 and resigned from the party two years later. Frank T. Johns, | a carpenter, was the candidate in 1924 and Norman Thomas has| been the candidate in each suc-| ceeding four years since then.| This gives Debs a record of hav-| ing been candidate for President| on a national ticket five times and Thomas four . . . two pretty re-| markable political records and my only reason for bringing the mat- ter up at all. T. C., Newark, N. J.—The United States Ambassador to Turkey is| John Van Antwerp MacMurray, 59-| year-old veteran of 33 years in| thé diplomatic service, He has served in Bangkok. Toyo, Peking and Russia, to mention only a (Continued on Page Five) YOUTH IS GIVEN SUSPENDED TERM IN WHISKEY CASE For allegedly stealing two quart bottles of Martin'’s Scotch from L. E. VanBuskirk, 23 year old new- comer to Juneau, was today given a six months suspended sentence in U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray's Court. 7 VanBuskirk reportedly ‘took the whiskey while in the store early| this morning. Foltas Enterfain For Archie Shiels Mr. and Mrs. George Folta are entertaining with a small dinner tonight at 7:30 o'clock in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Archie Shiels. The evening will be spent informally. ———————— PULLENS AT PALACE Sojourning at the Palace Hotel in San Prancisco on November 30 woare Mr, and Mrs. W. S, Pullen of Juneau, VICHY DECREE REORGANIZES FRENCH FARMS VICHY, France, Dec. 7. The | N USTODY Vichy Government by decree today reorganized the nation’s agricultural | structure on a corporative basis. Farm strikes and lockouts were pro- hibited. The peasants are to be organized by families. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 The | State Department announced that I R I K E |the Paris Charge d'Affaires has s )r(‘portqd Elizabeth Deegan, U. S. | Embassy clerk being held by the German authorities in a small pri- vate hotel is being well treated and is in good health. Maynard Barnes, Camp Murray Base Pro-. gram May Be Held Up | ~Material Shortage faires said he hopes released shortly. Mrs, Deegan is the granddaugh- ter of former North Carolina Sen- ator Peter Pritchard and has been SEATTLE, Dec. 7. — Two-score lumber operations in western Wash- ington have been closed in a labor strike which affects national de- fense lumber contracts and threat- held without explanation since De- cember 1. At Huntsville, Alabama, ens to spread into Oregon. Contractors at the big Army base of Camp Murray indicated the lumber shortage is already being felt and might delay next month’s completion of the $6,500,000 can- tonment, and hospital program, | INAZIS HOLD Well-Trapped by Civ- ilian Spy Police Charge d'Af- 1 would be her di- vorced husband John Deegan, neither he nor his daughter 16, were worried, i ane, declaring, “She quite competent, and 1 dare say e is not worried either.” The State Department had await- ed a further report before decid- ing whether or mnot to lodge a protest and said Mrs, Deegan had been detained after two civilians, “presumably members of the Ger- man secret police,” called at her w’filf:e":‘nmlj"(m‘l:g:kg"’“zf:'hh::: apartiient aud mvited her for the ton: IS ;second ‘time in a week to visit s & x | British prisoners at Cherche Midi Ten plants closed in Seattle yes- terday as the AFL Lumber and "'y Vichy reports indicated she was Sawmill Workers brought on the offi- strike through demands for in- creased minimum wages from 62'% cents an hour to 70 cents and one week’s vacation with pay. suspected of helping. British cers to escape from France. - e Moxi 5. GREEKSHI "I’"‘"‘" ‘gl TALY HARD niNewleal NALBANIA 0ld Type D;troyers fo Be! g Get 100 Howitzers in Porfo Exchanged for Use of Naval Bases, Report- | Edda Capture-Argiro- CIATE castro Is Afire (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Authoritative sources in Mexico City said negotiations for the trans- fer of six to twelve old type United States destroyers to Mexic oin return for use of Mexican facilities, are now under way. are reported to have abandoned the city of Argirocastro, leaving parts of the Albanian base i flames, Dispatches said Greek troops were | have established contact with the In'luenla {ndvancmg in several directions and Italians preparatory to occupation w ' of the road between Porto Edda and’ the 2,000<year-old city of Ar- firocastro, 15 miles south. Porto Edda, main sea gateway for | Argirocastro, was occupied by the Greek forces yesterday and at least 3,000 prisoners were taken, along with more than 100 howitzers. Many prisoners are being trans- ported to Greek camps by plane to TACOMA, Wash, Dec. 7—In-| 8 fluenza epidemic at the Camp facilitate movement over the moun- Murray Army Base construction tains. Greek units havs now adopted the battle cry of “Tirana Before Christmas.” Tirana is the Albanian project is still rampant today and| holding social activities to a mini- mum. It is reported over 1900 men are|capital. ill with varying degrees of colds. The men are living in tents. NO EPIDEMIC YUKON NOW /IN JuNeau| BOUND HERE With only the few cases of in- b fluenza usual at this time of year, SEATTLE, Dec. T-—-Steamer Yu- Juneau seems to be in no dangerikon salled at 9 o'clock this morning of an influenza epidemic such as|for Southeast and Southwest Al- reported from Cordova, uccording|aska ports with 143 passengers in-: to local school and health authori-|cluding 29 steerage. ties. Juneau and Douglas schools| Passengers for Juneau aboard the report no increase of absences. Alaska include George F. Hendricks, - —— M. Carroll, Mrs. M..B. Berry, Mrs. The Rev. John A. Glasse will be|J. C. Morrison, Sybil Godfrey, Capt. leader for the 10 o'clock Bible Class|A C. Welling at the Northern Light Presbyterian| W. Wilson, W, R. Hinckley, Mrs. Church tomorrow and will continue ' Rod Hulse, Jdck Smith, Miss Win- to trace the story of the Bible un-|nifred Sipprell, Milton Seidenverg, til the return of H. L.Faulknerreg-!Mrs. Grace Rollins, Mr. and Mrs, ular leader. W. E. Hamilton, J. T. Petrich. id | ATHENS, Dec. 7.—Italian forces| in| Local Fleet Fish Treaty iWoman Refied Treated Halibut Men Peeved About Morgan Tells of Westward 1940 Regulation on Single Areas Juneau halibut fishermen “want no part of' the proposed treaty | which would give the International | Fisheries Commission additional | power to enforce the voluntary cur- | tailment program instituted by fish- | ermen and vessel owners, Harold | Aase, Business Agent of the Deep | Sea ' Fishermen's Union here, told members of the Commission at a hearing this morning in the Senate | Chambers of the Federal Building 1 here. | Howard Stabler, retained by the Union, said Aase spoke for the Ju- neau fleet, both the unjon and the vessel owners. The Commission’s 1940 regulation | making it illegal for a boat to clear |for more than one area per trip | was largely responsible for Juneau ‘llmhm'ln(‘n',\ “fear” of giving more | power to the Commission, Stabler sald. | Voluntary Plan Favored | Aase declared that voluntary cur- ilmlnwnl was working out fine. He | said the Juneau fleet, after agreeing jon the curtallment program in the { spring meeting, had broken its own |agreement to take 200 pounds per man additienal because of the Com- | mission’s “bonar” in issuing the one- ea regulation. | Speaking for the Commission, Am- ‘m'irau Member Edward W. Allen, | Seattle attorney, said the Commis- |sion was not a bit anxious to take lon the additional work entailed in | the proposed treaty, which he re- | minded fishermen and vessel own- | ers was “their baby,” having been proposed by the fleet. Aase said Canada’s law on the subject of controlling fishing to | areas “does not work as a law.” He |said it had worked out that “one | country can get away with almost Ianything. and the other as soon as a | | violation is made gets the book | thrown at them.” | Handicap on Juneau | stabler said bitter dissension had arisen between various classes of halibut fishermen over the disputed regulation, which Allen said the | Commission realized worked a great- | er hardship on the Juneau fleet than any other. Speaking of the fining of two Ju- | neau boats $250 apiece for violation | of this regulation, Stabler said the fishermen were of the opinion this was “one of those things that's a crime today and okeh tomorrow.” Similar ofenses in Canada are pun- | ished by a $25 fine, he said he had been told. A. J. Whitmore, Canadian Mem- ber of the Commission, said por “down the line” felt that unless there is some force of law behind the fishermen’s voluntary curtail- ment program it is going to break down. F. H. Bell, Commission technical adviser, warned fishermen that their inability under the voluntary| plan to control a growing element in the fleet, the part-time boats which in 1940 took three and one- quarter million pounds of fish, was going to lead to a shortening of the season. Chiseling Alleged Bell also told fishermen a great amount of “chiseling” was going on within their own group. “Some of the fishermen and some of the dealers think they are fool- ing us,” he said, “but they're not. We have devious ways of finding out these things." Bell said he regretted to ob- serve, but it was a fact, that “there |are forces in this thing which l‘u'nd to make liars out of you.” | Aase replied that the fishermen | had asked the Commission for in- | formation on chiseling, so that the problem could be dealt with, but were refused on the babis such in- formation was confidential. Stolen Fish? Aasc said he “won't say the fish buyers are stealing our fish, but a lot of it just disappears and we're not paid for it.” He suggested that this accounted for the volume, of | | United * States. ANCHORAGE | BOOM (AMP | | | | Town — New Homes, Playful Soldiers Anchorage has “just begun to grow” in the opinion of Thomas A.! Morgan of Columbia Lumber who | returned on the Mount McKinley | after several weeks in the Westward | cy. Morgan went up to close a deal for Columbia Lumber by which they took over the yard and busi- ness of the Anchorage Lumber and | Construction Company owned by Larson and Bliss of Anchorage, first lumber yard in that Westward city. The new branch of Columbia Lum- ber is located at Fourth and K Streets in .downtown Anchorage. Morgan, who last spent any time | in Anchorage four years ago, was | amazed as all returning travelers have been in finding Anchorage “everything it was supposed to be”| n the way of a boomnig town Everyone Busy “Everyone is busy there,” Morgan said, “And it is apparent the town will soon have a 10,000 population. The base, Fort Richardson, is def- initely a part of the Army defense scheme, and ~although nobody is| sure how far the Army wiil ac- tually go in construction work, even nresent building plans will stagger the imagination.” While Morgan was in Anchorage, | he witnessed the arrival of over a thousand troops in three train~ loads, and a 33 car freight train, loaded with artillery and supplies, including in the artillery load three dozen anti-aircraft guns. Housing Inadequate i “That town has just begun to grow,” Morgan said. “People are| not leaving because there isn’t any | opportunity. They're leaving for | a few months because there are no| housing accommodations.” ! Principal building is being done | at present in one and two room | temporary houses, Morgan sald, and declared that “several times we sent out a whole house load of lumber on one truck.” As to the price kiting blamed on Anchorage by the Army and visit- ors, Morgan said “It’s one of those| things that can hardly be helped,”| explaining that if a man is renting| an apartment for, say $50, “someone | else comes along and offers $75 a| month, six months in advance— and naturally he gets it.” Soldiers “Take Over” And for night life, Morgan ad- mits “the soldiers have sort of ta- ken over.” On one night, playful soldiers | broke through three plate glass win- dows, Morgan said. “Next year will see several new buildings going up and dozens of residents,” Morgan sald. “Every- where you go on the outskirts of town, there are subdivisions and new homes springing up. Anchor- age is really going to be a big city.” | e St MARRIAGE LICENSE 1 A marriage license was issued to- day by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray to Arcino Villaneuva Credo and Amy Watson. | fish which the Commission thought was an evidence of “chiseling” on| the part of fishermen Speaking of the confidential ma- | terial, Aase said: “We're asking for it again here and I think we're entitled to have it." The other member of the Com- mission in Juneau for the hear- ing is Charles Jackson of Wash- ington, Assistant Director of the| Pish and Wildlife Service, Victor H. Dunlop is a technical adviser with the Commission After discussion of the proposed | treaty, and the Juneau fleet’s re- jection of its principle, the hearing proceeded to the 1941 regulations. The Commission plans to leave on the Brant tonight and will dis- cuss 1941 regulations while south- bound. The regulations must be ap- proved by the Governor General of Canada and the President of the BIGSHAKEUP . U.S.CLERK TurnsDown REALLY IS OFGENERALS IS REPORTED High ComT(and Makes Many Changes Owing fo Several 'Resignations’ ARGIROCASTRO GIVEN UP; IS SET ABLAZE Albania Being Invaded by Two Greek Columns- March on Elbasani ‘By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Harassed by the Greeks, Italy has made another change in the High Command, replacing Brigadier General Ceseri Maria de Vecchi de val Cismon, Governor of Italy’s Dodecanese Island -and also Com- mander of the Italian forces there, with General Ettore Bastico, Com- mander of the Army at Ponto. No official comment is made but Bastico is one of the highest rank- ing Fascists of the country and a World War veteran who took part in the march on Rome with Mus- solini in 1922 No reason is given why the Gov- ernor and military commander of the Dodecanese Islands “resigned,” His “resignation” followed on the heels of the “resignation” of Chief of Staff Badoglio, Commander of the forces in the campaign against Greece, and the appointment of Gen. Ugo Cavallero, 60, until recently commander of the Itallan forces in East Africa. City in Flames Athens dispatches said the Ital- lans have abandoned the important city of Argirocastro leaving it part- ly in flames to destroy, if possible, war equipment and supplies. The Greeks are still doggedly advancing on the entire front. New Movenent In Albania two large Greek col- umns are reported advancing, both striking toward Elbasani from dif- ferent routes. Neutral sources assert that the new Italian Chief of the Italian General Staff, Gen. Ugo Cavallero is going to confer soon with Ged- eral and Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the German High Command. 'FIVE FLY OUT FOR ISLANDS Shell Simmons took the Lockheed out to the coast today with five passengers for Hirst and Sitka and was to bring five in on his return. Going out to Hirst were Melvin Ross and William McNabb, and going to Sitka were Andrew Pet- erson, Mike Monagle and Vern Gorsline, ——————— STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 7. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today’s short session of the New York Stock Exchamge is 5%, American Can 88'%, Anaconda 28, Bethlehem Steel 87, Commonwealth and Southern 13/16, Curtiss Wright 9's, General Motors 45%. Interna~ tional Harvester 55%, Kennecotl 34%, New York Central 137%, North- ern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 69z, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones ayerages: Industrials, 131.29; rails, 27.80; utilities, 20.14. SHOPPINGC DAYS TILt CHRISTMAS