The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 11, 1940, Page 1

3 TH DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” /OL."LVIL, NO. 8591. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH ADVANCE, DESERT BLITZKRIEG Knife Wielding Grecians Are Sent to Front SEEK BOMB VICTIMS NEW FORCE WILL FIGHT ITALY NOW Fierce Warriors Are Dis-| pafched After Fleeing Fascist Armies , IMPORTANT MOVES ARE IN DEVELOPMENT British Air Force Makes Raid on Important Sup- | B3 ply Base at Valona | (By Associated Press) | The fierce knife-wielding men of the wild hills of Crete, surpassed in toughness only by Greece's famous mountain troops, have been thrown | into the Greek front line of attack against the retreating Italians, ac- | cording to an official announce- ment from Athens today. At the same time, the govern- | ment spokesman reported “import- ant moves are now in full develop- ment” but he gave no hint of the new Greek offensive action beyond saving advances are continuing on all fron The British Air Force headquart- ers announced an air raid on Val- ona. Ttalian supply port in suuth-l western Albania, and ships, a muni- | tions dump and several shore build- | ings were hit despite opposition o[‘ alian air fighters. ———o—— CThe ‘3\"67‘% | z e Q| TS, RobertSAlles KIS WASHINGTON — Behind that closely guarded secrecy about Pres- ident Roosevelt’s Caribbean crui itinerary is a seriously considered plan to visit the famous French is- | land of Martinique. i When the President embarkec | on the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa at Miam: | no decision had been made regar(‘L1 ing this. But it was one of the| things he discussed in his two-houw | conference with Admiral Leahy | new Ambassador to France. Whether Roosevelt will debark if he goes to Martinique, or merely receive the French Governor aboard the Tuscaloosa, also is undecided. Like the plan of the trip itself, it depends on developments. The boys around the diplomatic corps aren't saying anything about it, byt it was the son-in-law of Ozden Hammond, prominent New Jersey capitalist and ex-Republi- can, who recently-was detected-tak- ing $2,000,000 into Mexico. The gentleman in question is Count Roberti, for many years at- tached to the Italian Embassy in Washington, and now attached to the Ttalian Legation in Mexico City. Countess Roberti was Mary Stevens Hammond, eldest daughter of Og- den Hammond. Count Roberti had come from Mexico City to New Otleans to pick up the $2,000,000, J. Edgar Hoover's alert G-men got wingd of the trans- action and tipped off the Mexican officials, So when Count Roberti arrived on the other side of the border, Mexican inspectors demand- ed to see what was inside his suit- case. Count Roberti demurred, claiming diplomatic immunity. The Mexicans opened his bag any- way, disclosing two millions in American bills. The young Fascist claimed that the money was only to pay the expenses 6f the Italian Legation in Mexico, And although $2.000,000 is obviously enough to run Ttalian diplomatic establishments for five years, the Mexicaps ‘were e (Continued Believing that victims are trapped, British. soldiers hurriedly attack the ruins of a London printing work after a German air raid. The British approved caption said “many people” under the wreckage. MORRISON SUGGESTS NEW PLAN Reply to Hifi;rls Idea for International Police Air Force LONDON, Dec. 11.—British Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, in a speech which amounted to a reply to Hitler's oral attack yesterday on the “have” nations, envisioned a cooperative post-war world “guar- anteed by an international police air force which will never again make it possible for a thug with a bomber force to terrorize the continent,” By implication, however, world dominated by Nazi Germany and said, “Many people are ready w0 | listen if Germany. could hold ouf a convincing promise that Europe will be enriched by economic unity paci- fied by removal of national rival- ries.” DIVE BOMBER POWER DIVES INTO CRASH Pilot, Traveling 350 Miles Per Hour, Hits Ground at Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 11.—A Douglas dive bomber power dived into the ground from an altitude of 300 feet-late yesterday, killing Test Pilot Rudy Léchner. Lechner, who started his test dive at 12,000 feet, struck the ground at 350 miles per hour, unable to bring his plane out. ————.——— CARMODY VISITS Frank Carmody, ‘former Juneau basketball = player, here last night while the Yukon| was in port. job at Anchorage with the Army, | after a trip to the States. Morri- | son rejected any hope of peace in a | He is returning to hxs, were believed trapped BIG LOAN BELIEVED % IN OFFING Decision on Brifain Dea Awaits Return of President WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Secre- tary of Commerce Jesse F. Jones and Chairman of the RFC, indicat- ed that the decision on the question of financial now awaits the return to Washing- ton of President Roosevelt, Asked newsmen, whether a loan to Great Britain was imminent, Jones' said the matter will have to go before ing Congressional approval could not be decided at the moment be- cause the “Administration is away,” reference being to the current cruise of the President in the Caribbean. Secretary Jones announeed that | loans of $60,000,000 to Argentina and | $7,500,000 to Uruguay will be used for general purchases of merchan- |dise in the United States. | e — BOAST OF Warcraft Sunk During Fight fo Dec. 10 (By Associated Press) More cheerful darkened Italy was provided today by authoritative quarters in Romie | with the assertion that Fascist arm- ed forces have sunk 37 British war- ships and 33 merchant ships up to December 10. In addition, these quarters said, 56 British warships and 41 merchant- | imen were damaged. | These totals were compared with the loss of 21 Italian naval craft visited friends and four damaged. | - e Eagles are found in all parts of the globe except Arctic and Ant- iti.rcm: regions. 5; Announced aid to Great Britain at a conference with the | Conmgress and the question of ask- | SHIP WAR Italians Declare 37 Brifish news to defeat-, DESTROYERS FOR (ANADA | Bates Suggests u.s. Make Trade with Brifain In- | volving Highway | WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Repre- | sentative Joe B. Bates of Kentucky has preposed the State Department start negotiations for the lease of United States destroyers to Canada | in exchange for road rights to Can- ada and Alaska. In a lotter to Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Bat ada would willi grant road rights to Ala ror use of United ! States dest in convoy duty with the understanding the destroy- ers be returned to this country at the end of the war. Government Bond Sale Is Five Hundred Million Dol- lar Issue Is Placed Be- fore Public Today WASHINGTON, Dec. 11. % The | Treasury Department last night an- nounced that it placed on sale to- |day a $500,00,000 issue of 3% per- cent “National Deefnse” notes. These notes mature in five years. The issuance is in line with Sec~ retary of Treasury Henry Morgen- | thau’s' recent statement that tax {exempt bonds are for “slacker | money” but these bonds are subject | to Federal taxation for the first time {in history. | - — NAZIS PUT OUT QUEER STATEMENT BERLIN, Dec. 11. — Authorized Nazis said the “tragedies” that have been “exaggerated by mere cpisodes of the British” are not affecting the | | Axis course which remains abso- | | lutely uninfluenced. The inference is that the “epis- | odes” referred to are the Greek | thrusts against the Italians and the British “bottling up” of the Italian forces in the 8idi Barrani sector. IRON EMBARGO, UNITED STATES, HITS NIPPONESE Domei Declares that New Export System Pointed Directly at Japan NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—The Domei Japanese news agency declared to- day in a broadcast from Tokyo that the United States Govenment's ex- tension of the export licensing sys- tem to iron ore, pig iron and certain | steel products is “regarded as her new economic measure expressly aimed at Japan.” “Newspapers have unanimously pointed out that the. appointment of Admiral Nomura as Ambassador to Washingion first appeared to "bring about a decrease in tension, but this hes not resulted in any FDR STARTS CARIBBEANCRUISE R S TR PR the eruiser Tuscaloosa. At his right stood Brig. Gei. E. M. Watson, Presidential aide, and Rear Admiral Ross T. Vlclntyre all of them surrounded by Secret bervice uperatlvr\. longshore Agreement Is Approved Two Locals Vote Accept-| ance of Which Runs Un- fil Sept. 30, 1942 SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Dec. 11.—-— The local CIO Longshoremen’s Un- ion, by a vote of three to one, has | accepted the terms of a new working PROIISS voun tmne ¥ i Lram runcurutasy, | clause. | The acceptance of the agreement | follows the lead taken by the Port- land, Oregon, local, which previously had approved of the agreement which runs until September 30, 1942, with semi-annual wage xeviews STATEHOOD FOR HAWAII Brlllsh Food MAY HAVETO WAITNOW; ' Problem Bad THERE'S MUCHOPPOSITION As “17 Days . By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—As sure 15 shooting, steps are going to be taken in the 77th Congress to bring into the union a 49th state. In case you haven't heard, it's Hawaii. PAUSE FOR A CAUSE_One of the theater's most popular actresses, Helen Hayes, called a halt in her busy days long enough to examine the 1940 Christmas seal and poster with ~ Ezra Stone, actor who heads theater division of seal sales, PO S S 7 make Hawail the 49th state is go- ing to meet plenty of opposition | —or if not “opposition” exactly,' then lethargy and indifference. This isn't my conclusion. It comes from H H a score or more of Representatives EngI|Sh SOII \and Senators, some of whom, m The flag people already have it|say the least, are supposed to have| LONDON, Dec. 11—R. §. Hudson, figured out, The present 6-8 pat- ‘(hflr fingers on the congressional| Minister of Agriculture, declared to- tern of stars on a field of blue| pulse, day that Britain’s food situation is can be rearranged to a 7-7 spacing |00 av RYin Ak s e during the of the stars without changing the| NOBODY CAN BE SURE | STt waridags, of 117, field or making the star pattern| Nobody can be sure of anything o o:on told the Farmers Club at 2 London th look like a crowded section of the|that will happen in Congress un- | defeating :heBrquh' ::ZVX sc;:’::e‘:f Milky Way. til the votes are in (the majorit: But the flag people have been| icaders in both houses were SO|ciicc bV submarines and long | prepared for ‘“any contingency”| wrong about adjournment, for in- trebly as diffi §l gt for a good long time and prob-|stance), But this is the wa, ¥ s ably are two hops and a skip ook at the ihead of Congress. I doubt if mmel situation: is a congressman who isn't fully| (There should be here the brief| aware that this “organized incor-| precede that the Islands, in their| vorated territory and integral part|;ecent clection, voted 68 percemt of the United States,” as Hawali-|in favor of pushing statehood, As| ans are fond of calling it, isn't| soon as the Hawafian legislature |about as important as any off-| meets and memorializes Congress shore chunks of terrain that ev"r‘ to that effect, a joint resolution will fell into the lap of Uncle Sam.|pe introduced, no doubt, which, if If there is any doubt, let one stare| passed, ‘would clear the way for for a couple of hours at the is-|the 49th state). lands’ production figures on sugar| The military powers that be‘ and pineapple (to mention only a|may not favor statehood at this| Farmers Urged fo Increase | Their Production on y they and urged farmers to increase home statehood-for- Hawau’ production. HOLEMAN'S HAVE BOY Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Holeman, of Anchorage, are receiving congratu- lations on the birth of a son, their first child. Holeman, former well known engineer of the Nabesna Mining Company, is now with the |CAB in Anchorage. - >-ee POACHER FINED moditication of the attitude of the Uniiod States Government,” couple) “or. their consumption figure| time. They figure it's easier to| on mainland tourists (to mention| nandle a territorial government| Henry Larson of Sitka has been only one), s A R A S e flned $50 for killing a deer out of Nevertheless, this measure to (Continued on Page Seven) Lseason agreement, including the arbitration TMIANS "IN POCKET, CAPTURED Thousands of Fascist Sold- iers Reporfed to Be Taken Prisoners THREE-DAY BATTLE STILL CONTINUING Believed meisions Cut Off in Sidi Barrani Sector on Sea BULLETIN LONDON, Dec 11.—The British Army is still carrying on a slasking offens- ive in the western Egyptian desert and according to official advices tonight have captured the Italian held town of Sidi Barrani, 70 miles from the Lib- yan frontier A large force of Italians have been taken pris- oners, inoluding three Italian Generals. | i | (By Associated Press) \ Great Britain's desert blitzkrieg | forces, described as striking like *‘ Gen. Stuart's Confederate cavalry in Ilhe United States during the Civil | War, is reported attacking “pockets of Italian resistance” around Sidi | Barrani in the new offensive in | western Egypt. ] More than 6,000 Italian soldiers | have been taken prisoners during the three-day battle, the British | communique announces, as well as “large quantities of war material” ‘ have been taken. \ Apparently 2,000 Italians have | been taken prisoners and totally dis~ armed during the past 24 hours. Four thousand prisoners were taken |in the first two days of the “sur- prise” battle. Continued on Page Eight) BOTTLING UP FASCIST FORCES NOW iBritish Ha\E—Hemmed in | Libyan Battalions~Ifal- ian General Falls Dead (By Associated Press) Late afternoon advices from Rome, a war bulletin issued by the Italian igh Command, said fierce fights | are continuing in the Sidi Barrani | zone and in one of the engagements, Gen. Maletii fell dead while at the | head of his Libyan battalions. | London military circles tonight, | while cautioning against over op- | timism, said the initial phases in the Egyptian campaign opened a wide field of activities, The Italians are reported to be “bottled up by the British, hemmed within a triangle formed by the towns of Sidi Barrani, thence 15 miles east alone the Mediterranean sea coast to Maktila, then 15 miles south to Nibeiwa. Credit for the spectacular 75-mile dash and cutting the Italian lines [ as in seventeen | ©f communication behind Sidi Bar- rani has been given to British Lieut. Gen. Henry Wilson, 59, first man of the British Army to command a | completely mechanized unit.