The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 10, 1940, Page 1

A A THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRI _“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PRICE TEN CENT3 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS VOL. LVIL. NO. 85 90. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1940. NEW BRITISH THRUST MADE IN EGYPT Hand to Hand Battle Raging in Albania GRECIANS HITLER | SHELLDOVERBOUND BRITISH FIGHTING T BLASTS ~ IN ACTION FIERCELY = CAPITAL IN EGYPT New Positions Captured in. . . i ; , - T o A }MakesBidforS‘ympthyof | Desert Figfiie;s Are Re- North Sector After Ter- - i L g efic w | Labor in Blasphemous | | ported in New Offensive rific Conflict e s A b A 'Y - | Address Today Against Fascist Forces 'SAYS GERMAY T0 'MEDITERRANEAN COAST PREMIER MUSSOLINI | "o , b s L WITNESSING DEFEATS sgaeesss s o S & LICK WHOLE WORID | 15 SAID TO BE REACHED i -— S ' Thousands of Ifalians Said Paints America and De-| ’ fo Have Surrendered- | ] - o e e mocracy as Unhappy | o - \ ' Place for Workers Sand Storm Battle ¢ BULLETIN — LONDON, Dec. BERLIN, Dec. 10.—We will de- feat the entire world,” Hitler shout- 10. — Twenty-two Italian planes ed to cheering munition workers in were shot down yesterday and a speech in which he admitted not today on the western Egyptian even the remotest chance Germany desert front, according to an of- ficial communique issued late | might fall short of goals | He bitterly pictured Germany as today by the British Air Min- istry. the champion of labor and the | “bave-nots) in a war between two worlds, the “haves,” and the “have- nots,” eapital and labor. Ob, Yeah! How Nazis Camouflage Their Warships - i Clamor on Home Front as to Cost of High Living- "Why" Armies Losing (By Associated Press) Allied successes against the Rome- Berlin Axis in the Egyptian desert sector has mounted also in Albania | j A eamouflaged German mine-sweeper leaves a French channel port for a tour of duty, picking up British- sown mines designed to protect her commerce from Nazi raiders. The paint job is supposed to blend with g e 5 the graw of the water and make the vessel haxrd to see. where Greece's fierce fighting war- e 3 riors are reported to have captured | [ new positions after inflicting heavy | Josses on units of the Ninth Italian | u e u( ess Division in a hand to hand battle in | | [ the north sector. | ROSE T0 POWER, THAT Windsor N ’ I n sor ow Hitler confidently declared: | “Whatever happens, Germany will # § be victorious.” F E R E n OI I | His speech was studded with at- L] L] El " El | tacks on capitalism and democracies | (By Associated Press) | British Prime Minister Churchill | disclosed today in the House of Commons that Great Britain's des- | ert fighters in Egypt have cut in |behind Gen. Graziani’s TItallan |army, the main Fascist concentra- |tion at the base city of Sidi Bar- | rani, farthest point in the Italian ‘This big, long-range gun lets go its screaming load of destruction from a point on the English Channel and the German source caption says definitely that it is “shootig at the harbor of Dover.” Duels over the | votion in Egypt. strait between German and British guns are fequent, and it is such' | The British forces, Churchill said, emplacements as this that the Royal Air Force tries its hardest to hit. | have reached the Mediterranean Sea In the south, the Greeks are rc- | with particularly sharp gibes at Bri- Ttaly’s right wing in a drive on »; from Rome as all the more de- b i | e By JACK STINNETT The address went not to Piqueras, 15 miles north of Porto i - termined t est victory for his i only ek T - WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—To his ROY&I COUple leen Greaim’r:l'krrs in an undisclosed Berlin yecently mounting reverses and be: i, cause he is confronted with sharp | colleagues in the Senate, he's the| welfome When Ar”ve | plant, whom Hitler addressed from Xdda, Ttaly's fallen supply base on} protests at home against soaring | “gentleman from Georgia to a | a rostrum made of huge steel blocks, the Adriatic Sea. costs of living in Ttaly as well as lASI NIGHT lot of politicians, he’s the “mys-| a' Miami "’hls Day | but also to radio listening peoples of | ’ ported to have smashed against | Mussolini in Hot Water Mussolini is described in dispatch- | i | tain and her leaders. fhe “whv" the armies are losing on tery man of politi to pérsons | Nazi conquered countries and Ger- all fronts, whose memories are short, he's that o many's allies, Italy, Hungary, and Looks Like Cut Off Churchill declined to say speci- | ticaly whether the Italian army has | Slovakia. MIAMI, Florida, Dec. 10 The s g T & | Duchess of Windsor, looking smart | Fepeatedly the speech was Inter- | | | rupted by heils and cheers. land chipper despite a seriously in- | 4 fected tooth arrived here today with | £l Vb'nr:e SN it | the Duke for a major dental opera- | i b i gt in: one Disco. 1eh | today and probably in the impor-| tion. jermany is in the war because she tant news dispatches for many| The Duke and his American-born days to come, he is and will belDuchess, arrived aboard the yacht spotlighted from coast to coa: Southern Cross and went through Chairman of the Senate Foreign|the formalities of being received as Relations Committee. | dignitaries and then talking freely Sen, Walter F. George, unscnsa-‘)wnh the newsmen before they sped euphonious delight, “George of Georgia.” As recently as two years ago, he was a thorn in the side of the New Deal; but in official Washington The Lavita, Italian monthly, pub- | lished by Robert Farinacei, formcrf secretary of the Fascist Party and | mber of the Fascist Grand Coun- | cil, declares that the costs of living | “are more than double this year in | | Ttaly than last year.” | ———— |0ld Hangar of BYA Con- Clhe . | taining Bellanca Destroy- “‘NG} | ed-New Hangar Saved | § [Y % | SKAGWAY, Alaska, Dec. 10—The British Yukon Airways old hangar Drew Pearsos | at Whitehorse, containing the ma- | chine shop and a Bellanca air | cruiser, was completely destroyed by ;t|x-c Monday evening with a loss es- | timated at $100,000. The entire crew was on duty at ad RobertS.Alles the time but none were injured. 60 An explosion from an unknown WASHINGTON— The diplomatic | cause started the fire. B rcports which President Roosevelt| The large new hangar, adjoining now has on his desk all indicate| the old hangar, and containing that the war has reached the most | three planes and other equipment; cruicial point in its variegated his-| Was saved, therefore there will be tory, and that adroit, even strong-|DC interruption in the air service. arm diplomacy by the United States B might tip the balance to a British | SPIES |7 (Continued on Page Eight) tional, aloof, statesman of old school | to the St. Francis Hospital for a pre- ‘ politics, is, at one and the same liminary X-ray. | time, the most difficult and le‘ A crowd that taxed the police casiest man in the Senate to write|lines blocked traffic on Biscayne about., | Boulevard to get a glimpse of the | Most difficult, because he has|royal couple. | always skirted the rim of anecdotal! Answering guestions as to how the | activities that give, in & para-|Duchess was feeling, the Duke com- | graph, the nature of the man. mented, smilingly: “I think her ap- Easiest, because from youth he|Pearance here answers that.” has pursued a course that is al-| The Duke declined to discuss the | most completely barren of those|British war, and remarked: | fhexplicable inconsistencies whicn| “I Was formerly a fre¢ lance, as | inexplicable inconsistencies which|YOU nhewsmen say. but after all, T also said Juneau| | coast between Sidi Barrani and Buq- H | and about midway between Sidi Bar- | as an epresen a Ion |rani and the Lybian-Egyptian bor- der, been cut off but the arrival of the H cates the main Fascist armies are in | b g — 3 | forecast the scope of the result of i | | KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Dec. 10.—| b | Gov. Ernest Gruening, in a talk| ¥ can say at any rate the pre- I | before the Ketchikan Chamber of | lminary phase i successful. | ¢ ion | The British-African Command's i inequality of Alaska representation, lABORAIORY | citing the Second Division which|COmmunique lssued this afternoon 4,000 Italian soldiers in the drive on | with only half of the population ns LN : 5 l:compared . with: the iFirst. Division,, |[00. Weston Ryl onast, T BOAIMEN i Thi " By Lthr|]v{uvp{' :v’_"j“t"‘ has been started on a huge scale or Dhe) | be according to the Democrallc v,o.6 iy 4 larger British concentra- | | H | The Governor Mask the Fascist-Egyptian forces are sur- Jackson Opens Ketchikan, Bas four Representalives in - the| Lo reecis ERVPLRD foroes bro & Bu"ding for Resear(h | House and Ketchikan has none. Re- ; | Beach Where Thejr |districtivg wiih the addition o pianes attacked @ British mechan- s tticial of th | ln'o F’Sh Uses ized column of .30 machines in a the column biographer must brush M An official of the government (ra" Pounded |aska might be the solution, the SR e % | Governor said further. but gave no indication of more than mountains. 5 3 | ' ey VpagT o E 5C: g g - 1 thrilled at being on American |A new $58,000 fisheries laboratory, {small scale fighting along the des - ‘{huq. 35 miles west of Sidi Barrani ows Inequality, Says | British troops on the sea coast indi- SR Churchill said it is too early to | the British offensive in Egypt “but Comme! yesterday, deplored the| Italians Captured D E D | (A T E D indicates that either the offensive | Plan,” sald Gov, Gruening tion of forces ready for action or \Three Taken 0" Exposed‘ Italian dispatches said 10 Italian janother district in Southeast Al- % | sandstorm south of Sidi Barrani, aside or build. fr lehills into MO | T " uild. from molehills 100}y 0, the Duke and Duchess seem- | Yusure to andg on After twelve days of ¢ the raw December wir drenching rains of Icy Stre |an open rocky beach al Whitestone Point, three bearded boatmen whose | ismall trolier was pounded to pi on the beach Thanksgiving Day were picked up last night by the| cutter Haida and brought to Ju- nea. The frio, IN SENATE SINCE 1922 soil. ALhc second of four in the Fish and Senator George came to the | Wildlife Service program, was dedi- Senate in 1922, He could have come | cated here yesterday. : a few months earlier than he did, Charles Jackson, Assistant Di- r but with a gesture of Georgian Se a | I I e s | rector of the Service, delivered the courtesy, he bowed out of the pic-| | principal address. FOREST FIRE "~ = CONTROL Now CANADIAN ALASKANgep DESTROYER | T TORPEDOED How this may be done is now the most vital question before the Wwhite House and State Depart- ment. To understand the role which the United States may or may not play in tipping this balange, one must look back on the history of this ture following the death of Sen.| THARUEDNCND. of this_ ahotatory.! Thomas E. Watson in order that| "“fksozn‘?m'( “;.fii:,o.ald rl:d:hvcs d;:' Mrs. Rebecca L. Felton, an elderly | IR o R et utilization of what is now waste in and distinguished lady in the state, i 3 o e? 4 might have the honor of being the the caniiigiand. procesing (of, fali, first of her sex to sit in the uppe: by she Siglopment of niew Jrier Brock Perry, 57, owner lof the wrecked boat, and his com- | panions, Ed Jones, 52, and Melvin war. The attempt to invade England Jast September stands out like the Battle of the Marne, when in 1914 the Germans came within a few miles of taking Paris. Had they penetrated 15 miles further the out- come of the World War would have been different. But from that moment on, the| World War settled down to a long drawn-out siege, in which the sticking powers of the German peo- ple were pitted against the immense rescurces of the Allies, and during which the German war machine lost its immediate advantage of ad- ! vance preparation. Twenty-six years later—in Sep- tember, 1940—the Battle of Britain seems to have been almost identi- cal. At one time the Germans ac- tually had barges loaded with men headed for British ports. But the alertness of the Royal Air Force, plus bad weather, drove them back. The entire force of Hitler’s mighty military machine, ‘after years of painstaking preparation, was poised for this attack. Now that the at- (Continued on Page Four) al Germans Admit Transmit- before Hitler gave his “pep” talk today to 12,000 Berlin munition workers, executed in Pentonville Prison in this city. and Karl Meier, 24 using a secret radio transmitter on formation to Nazi forces across the English Channel in occupied France relative to the proposed invasion of German troops. they were spies and said at one time they had advised the irivasion should begin but later hurriedly | changed this when death traps‘on the English coast. INLONDON house of Congress. Soon after, in an election Mrs. Felton did not enter, he dumb- founded the state's politicians by walking away with the vote—| dumbfounded them because al-| though he had held judgships in | the ate for 15 years, he was nou cven thought of as a politician or a man capable of piling up votes in the hurly-burly of a southern senatorial race. | With the same quiet persuasive- ness that he used then and a fac ulty for making influential friends in every hamlet and city in h bailiwick, Senator George has been Both men had been convicted of | ré-elected with tick-tock regularity | —even in 1938, when (because of | | | { | ting Information fo Occupied France LONDON, Dec. 10.—Three hours two German spies were The men were Jose Waldberg, 25, n English countryside, giving in- preme Court revision plan) he wa slated by the New Deal and Presi- dent Roosevelt, himself, for the “purge.” The two men stubbornly admitted —— i BYGONES ARE BYGONES | His split with the administra-| tion, according to intimates, has informed of | —— S e = SEATTLE, Dec. 10—Ten of Se- attle’s eleven strike-bound lumber mills reopened anew today with | full force; | down bec: cific Northwest higher wages. The mills were closed because workers refuged to pass picket lines e of a spreading Pa- lumber strike for | established by workers from strike- closed out of town plants. Operators of the 11th mill said hey failed to open hecause they didn't have time to call the work- ing crew together for resumption Pickets were withdrawn on the order of union leaders after four mills obtained court the grounds there was no controversy between workers and employers. — e The Rocky Mountains extend from New Mexico to beyond the Arctic Circle. after a four-day shut-| injunctions | | preventing the picketing on and by by-products, eventually cre- ating new enterprise for Alaska and new cmployment. “This building is reinforced con- | crete, an evidence of the increasing |appreciation of the importance of | Alaska's greatest resource in our na- | tional welfare.” Governor Speaks | Also present were Gov. Ernest Gruening, A. J. Whitmore of Ot- tawa and Edward Allen of Seattle, |who with Jackson are members of the International Fisheries Com- mission; Territorial Senator Nor- {man R. Walker and Mayor Harry | McCain of Ketchikan. In speaking of the “fine fruition” | realized by the dedication, Governor igt work :l:flch puE more than _L-!Gruv-ning said, “scientific research his devastating attack on the Su-|300 men ck to work in this city.|is the capstone of civilization or | perhaps I should qualify that state- Iment in light of developments in |Europe and say scientific research | stands but man and particular men | have debased it.” The: building is a joint Pederal and Territorial project. | Scholarships for Alaska youths | incomplete, are planned here but the setup is Randle 74, went on the beach No- |vember 28, 18 miles from Hoonah, |early in the afternoon when their engine quit Heavy Swells “If we'd had tv minutes we'd have been all right,” Perry |clared. “There was a six foot {running and the two anchors we |put out didn't help us. We broke an inch i a half anchor * line and wz just natorally pounded to pieces on the rocks.” | Perry has a broken right rib suf- fcred when he was swepl from the bow of his troller and battered in lthe rocks hv the surf Abandon Boat The men abandoned the boat and de- “ salvaged what they could, a big tar-| paulin they rigge a shelter, a |sack of partly w e water soaked | flour, some potatdes and odds and ends of canned food and miscellan- eous tools. Jones was knocked down in the surf as he struggled ashore, and he “almost lost the gun,” declaring “One wave knocked me down and (Continued on"Paze Eight) more | swell | 'Land Office Commissioner | Says Protection Requir- ed for Large Areas WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Fred W Johnson, Land Office Commissioner, reports fo & ary of Interior Har- jold L. Ickes that 250000 acres of 325,000,000 acres over which the | Public Land Office administers in | Alaska, is in need of fire protec- tion | Johnson says the Alaska Fire Con- trol Service conducted a vigorous educational campaign this year but | defense activities have greatly in- creased fire hazards in Alaska and serious losses may result unless pro- | tection is furnished and the Pire |Control Service is materially | strengthened. - eee- — . The famous Australian lyre- I bird, whose plumes are popularly supposed to be held ereet in the form of a lyre, is nearing extinc- tion, | OTTAWA, Dec. 10.—Naval Service | headquarters announced today the | Canadian destroyer Saguenay was damaged by a torpedo while engag- ing a submarine in the eastern At- lantic and 21 seamen are missing. It was also announced eighteen | men are wounded and in the hos- pital. The destroyer reached port safely and will be repaired. - | There are at least four Ameri- ‘cun species of the crocodile. [ SHOPPING DAYS i TILL CHRISTMAS