The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 14, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” A b | _VOL. LVIL, NO. 8594. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH AIR FORCES BOMB NAZI PORTS Italian Forces in Egypt Now in Retreat FASCISTS ON RUN, PURSUED BY BRITISH Rear Guard Attempls, Prove Fufile-Thousands of Prisoners Taken | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Closely pursued remnants of Mar- | shal Graziania’s Italian invasion army in Egypt are retreating today | into Libya after futile rear guard | attempts failed to stop the British | advance and all Italian forces are| reperted fleeing. | Unconfirmed reports in Cairo| that advance Units of Brit-| 1sh forces under Gen. Sir Archibald | have captured the border post of | Salum and even crossed the frontier, alsc driving the Italians out of the fo=* at Maiulzzo. The Cairo spokesman said little fig parched des | In North | ish are believed to be consolidating | farflung positions, preparing to meet any counter thrust that might | delay the major drive into Libya| pending reorganization. | More than 40,000 Italians been taken prisoners, — They rendered without resistance, omc-‘ ial reports declare. i | have | sur- | - M CAMPEN ARRIVES Mrs. Harold Campen arrived on the Mount MeKinley to join her| sand and little son here, for| a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Campen before returning to their home in Seward. Harold Campen is it for the Standard Oil at ard and arrived here several| ys ago to meet his wife who went south on a brief trip. e iy | | W ASHINGTON — Ambassador | Joseph P. Kennedy has been deny- | ing newspaper stories lately, so he| may deny this one. But in Holly- wood recently, he had the movie moguls almost pop-eyed with his ccnfidential views on the outcome of the war and appeasement. In" brief, he said that England was| virtually defeated. Ambassador Kennedy went out tc California to visit William Randolph Hearst, and to consider a proposal by banking interests that he join the Hearst newspaper enterprises. While there Joe, who once headed the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Thea- atres and later Pathe, dropped in to see scme of his old friends in Hol- lywood. At a private gathering of movie meguls he expounded these extra- ordinary views: 1. That England, although fighting heroically, faced over- whelming odds, and the United States might as well realize that England was virtually de- feated. 2. That the Uniled States should carefully limit its aid te Britain so as to gain time to beceme fully armed, in order to be in a better position to do business with the Axis vietors. 3. That Hollywood produc- ers should stop making films offensive to the dictators. Kennedy also admonished his lis- teners to follow the views of the Wwill Hays organization and heed the strictures of the Catholic Le- gion of Decency. He emphasized the great damage was bejng suffered by the Church as a result of the war, which was emptying the churches. His thesis was that the Church must seek peace as soon as posible. Kennedy' remarks, although off- the-record, caused such a sensation that they were communicafed im- mediately to Washington. Kennedy (Continued on Page Four) Sixty-five Hundred Stu- Ezis Scuttle Own Ship \GREEKS IN | ALBANIAIN BIG ACTION | As in Face of Fierciest Re- sistance, Present War | Ttalian troops in eastern Albania, !near Lake Orchrida are said to be |putting up the fiercest resistance |of the Italian-Greek war there in |an attempt to stem the Greek drive |teward the central Albanian base |at Eibasani, 20 miles frem Tirana, {the Capital City of Italian occu- {pied Albania. At the cppesite end of the battle- front, the Greek forces are advanc- Despite the resistance of the Ital- ian forces, the Greeks late this af- ternoon are said to have stemmed /in Central Albania. ‘Are ReporEdvAdvantingj (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | ing along the coast toward Chimari, | | fierce resistance and are advancing | ] BOMBERS in level flight *| formation release bombs tern determined BOMBS BURST in same pattern so that areas of demolition overlap. ————————— This spectacular picture shows the German freighter Phrygia burn: ing off Tampico, Mexico, after being scuttled and set afire by he: Nazi crew members when they sighted warships of undisclosed na- tionality after leaving the harbor with three other merchant ships. IN RUMA“IA New Wonders on Farm, Additional Shekels in | Railroad Traffic fo Two Pockefs, Is Predidion vistis Reporied 10 FOEH g | ’ WASHINGTON, Dec. 14, — The ja] communique this morning says | | Department of Agriculture hasgone the Rumanian Railroad has issued | H. G. Wells, Dipping into the lab- orders that all traffic to the oil| oratory and experimental #arm sta- districts of Plossti and Buzua have | tions for material, it has written been suspended, effective immed- its own little treatise "Qt(the shape iately, or else rerouted. | of things to come.” It 1s revealed that extensive de- Prefacing it with a note of warn- struction to the lines by oil pipe-| ing that nobody really can predict|line fires and general fires over exactly what is on the way, the the entire district have caused the department proceeds to list and issuance of the orders and traffic FLU CLOSES BIG COLLEGE, SOUTH STATE B yJACK STINNETT that point in the direction of new days at least. i wenders on the farm and addition- AT L A | dents of Texas A. and & shekels in the farm family's | savings account. | M_ Sent Home Today There is, for example, the use arano ow | of colchicine, a powerful drug DALLAS, Texas, Dzc. 14—Influ- | from Asiatic and European mead- enze epidemics closed the Texas OW saffron that apparently makes | A. and M. Colleze, the largest mens' | fertile heretofore sterile plant hy- uneau oun | school in the nation and has crop- brids and may open the door to ped cut in other as a bit- hur_xdreds of mew varieties of) | ter cold wave s - rx'?lts..yegetablcs a_nd f}eld crops: SEATTLE, Dec. 14—The steamer Last night, Pr alton an- There’s a new acid with a name paranor sailed northbound at 9/ nounced that the student body of as long as from here to Tokyo o today with 202 passengers, | 6500 cadets will be sent to their|which, when used in a spray With|j\clding 96 steerage. The vessel| homes foday until the epidemic is only a half-teaspoonful to 100 gal- yiy call at Haines and Skagway' over. lons of water, keeps apples and gouthbound. i Twenty percent of San Antonio’s other fruit from dropping off the ' 40,000 school children are confined | trees. | Juneau passengers are Mr, and| t,o' their homes because of the flu {Mys. W, S Pullen B, TOUSMES i 2 ! Dorothy Keiser, Mr. and Mrs. J. epidemic._#_*“___ NIZ)W .BR"(:)ED OF CHICKENS | Peregrin, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Wil- a Cod k’l" klahoma, Dr. R. George jjams, Mrs. E. S. Nielsen and in- | Jaap has been working for four|fant, Virginia Nielsen, Dr. and Mrs.| years to produce & new breed of g, C. Nichelsen, Mrs. J. V. Hickey,| chickens (Oklabars), the sex of y. M. Beauchamp, Jim Ellen, Mrs.| which may be determined at birth Earl Boese and infant, Mrs, H. o.| by feather coloring, thus permit- ganders, E. Melroy, George Alex- | ting the elimination of an OVer-|ander, Stanley Smith, R. H. Cor- | 1 abundance of m_ales from a ship-|rigan, Marilyn Jackson, Mrs, Dave { ment of baby chicks. | Turner, Sandra Turner, Miss Reita The department also is casting K. Amos, Mrs. E. J. White, ! a watchful eye on the work of the - e | Kansas City scientists who are| trying to make palatable food out‘DouGlAS wll et of grass, which has been found l . | to have vitamin content far great-| Meagfe RadIO RepOI'f SaYS |er than that of the four standard REIUR" MONDAY Western Prince Atfack- | iubies are awicea. | | H | For instance, the department| The Douglas airliner of PAA ed: 0" Ir ISh COBS' ! s, on an equal weight basis, it | reached Seattle yesterday and is now s fal ady has been determined that| scheduled to come north again on (By AS&OC!ATFD PRESS) | grass and leaves have about 280 schedule Monday morning, the PAA ‘The Mackay Rla\dm‘in New York | times as much Vitamin A as a po-|offices here said this omrning. sarly this morning mterceptgd_n]mlo and 190 times as much as| An Electra was supposed to take message stating the 10900 ton Brit- | tomatoes and citrus fruits. Grasses | off from Fairbanks for Juneau this | ish liner Western Prince has been|ajso have about ten times as morning, but whether or not it had | ‘;;pe[r:-?se: -moscmllm northwest "f',much Vitamin B as any other|left was not known at noon. | Ooast. fruits or vegetables. BB i i pmi“e;":f; o Yas o Here's one to toy with; the day) McKINLEY IS ON LONG garding loss of '€ OF| when you'll go out to the grass VOYAGE, PRESENT TRIP whether the liner was sent down farm for a week’s supply of fresh| Ammedigtely food and Johnny can rake the Steamer Mount McKinley will call | § 4 leaves in’ the front yard for a at Kodiak, also Women's Bay on the | Carson City, Nev., is the small-..w;ck snack. - 3 present trip to the Westward, going est capital city in the United| oo |to those ports after calling at Sew- | States. Wonr.nued on Page Six) ard. AREABLATE p) and other equipment for both pri- | | | tion areas overlap. | second' intervals BOMBS FALL in pat- formation of planes. .. New Bomb Technique o g ™~ N e Y ) by AP FEATURE SERVICE A brand new blanket bombing technique—area demolition—is Germany's latest contribution to the science of modern warfare. The destruction of whole cities rather than single targets is the objective, a source close (o the RAF reports, pointing to the recent systematic bombing of Coventry and Birmingham. These cities on England’s midlands were test tubes for the unveiling. Area bombers approach a city in level flight formation—in the exact pattern in which the bombs will fall. The area each bomb will destroy is known. The planes fly close enough together that these demoli- Radio-electric timers release the bombs simultaneously in pattern. The salvos are spaced at split- so that their demolition areas also overlap. GOVT. PLANS IS ABLAZE Corporation Working on National Defense Burn- ed Out Early Today N T : NTFOR { Ministry announced the reduction HOBOKEN, N. J, Dec. 14 —| Fire early this morning destroyed, discuss experiments and inventions will be interrupted for five or six | the plant of the Condenser Service cents worth. and Engineering Corporation, ac-| tive in national defense orders. 1Me company spokesman said the loss is from $400,000 up and| one man is known to have been, killed. | The corporation built turbines| vate steamer lines and also for United States Navy vessels. FBI agents as well as state agenfs| are making an investigation. (ampaign Under Way In ltaly, 'Defeatists,fi)—arders, Pro- fiteers” Are fo Be Fought | at Home, Not Abroad (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | The spokesman at Rome, in try-| ing to minimize new reverses in| Albania and Egypt, says a campaign | has been started throughout Italy| against “defeatists, hoarders and profiteers.” >>o— —- ! Laval Quifs | French Govi. BERNE, Dec. 14—Authoritative diplomatic sources report that Vice Premier Pierre Laval, of the Vicay !{Senior Safety Instructor H. H. | Kazee of the Bureau of Mines and Free French Government, has ten- dered his resignation to Premier aboard the Mount McKinley bound Priday night blackouts? We've cut Petain. J POLLUTED MeatDiet = WATER IN Given Cut ROCHESTER Faod:City Employ;gfired inTy- phoid Scare-Inocula- tions Speeded Brifain's LONDON, Dec. 14.—The today of the British meat ration, effective Monday, The quantity allowable for a wezk per person will revert to what can| be bpought for one shilling ten e pence. which is 36 cents worth of| ROCHESTER, N. Y., Dec. 14— meat .nstead of the previous 43' 5 gormal investigation into tie bl | inadvertent introduction of six mil- é It is believed the nation may jio, gallons of untreated Genesee have to tap cold storage supplies piver water into the city water Lalliol mains brought the discharge of | Superintendent Lewis Kohl and the AlASKA JUNEAU | suspension of Assistant Foreman | Ernest Jones. ; Of the city's svvuvy persons, 1,-1 woRKMA“ GIVEN | 100 were yesterday inoculated |against typhoid and five addition- BRAVERY MEDAl;nI inoculation stations were opened in the public schools for the big ‘rush expected. The hearing produced evidence lised Nick Moorat Decorated for s o bmes ot the s sual water supply condition and Rescue of Employee | dia nothing for ten nours. Jones admitted he knew the I.BSI Yeal' |wrong valve was opened. Chlorination of the water is ex- Nick Woorat, Alaska Juneau Gold pected to purify it within a week. Mining Company employee, today .- was awarded a medal for bravery in' rescuing a fellow employee from a mine shaft February 20, 1939. The presentation was made at, 12:15 o'clock this afternoon by Gov. Ernest Gruening on behalf of the, Joseph A. Holwgs Safety Associa- | tion, the U. S. Bureau of Mines| and the Territorial Department of | oRK S o fatally injured by falling rock. Six| additional falls occurred wmlc‘K ' Moorat was making the rescue. Today’s ceremony in the Gover-} HUdsen _Dedares P‘ ane nor's office was attended by Gov- | Fadones Are 'I'h""y Percent Behind rope to reach a worker who was| Mines. | Moorat was lowered 60 feet on a| ernor Gruening, Territorial Com- | missioner of Mines B. D. Stewart, General Superintendent Joe Wfl-l liams of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company. TSI o) CORKLE LEAVES NEW YORK, Dec. 14.—William | Knudsen, Production Chief of the | National Defense Advisory Commis- | sion, believes the result of the Am- | erican defense drive to date “is not 5 | satisfactory enough to warrant Lee Corkle, Coid Storge engineer, nopes that everything is all well.” sailed on the North Sea to join his| gnydsen sized up the situation in family in Seattle over the holidays.| 5 plunt speech last night to the B o5 A | National Association of Manufact- BOUND FOR SKAGWAY urers and said aireraft output is 30 iR i percent below forecasts. Virginia Suffecool is a passenger, He demanded, “Can we afford for her home in Skagway. 120 percent off our machine time.” { EXTENSIVE RAIDS MADE NIGHT TIME {Kiel and Bremen Shelled- Also Airdrome, Docks in | in Holland Atfacked (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | British bombers last night made |an extensive and intensive raid on | the German Naval base at Kiel and also Bremen. The Royal Air Force planes also attacked and dropped many bombs on the German airdromes and docks in Holland. | Farly this morning, in a surprise raid, RAF dropped both explosive and incendiary bombs on the Nazi submarine base at Bordeaux. NEW VETERINARIAN THROUGH ON BOAT | Dr.E.F. Graves, recently appoint- ed as a second Territorial Veterin- arian, is on the steamer Mt. McKin- | ley for Kodiak, where he will look over the beef cattle situation before | going to his headquarters at Palmer. | Dr. Graves, who comes from Madi- ! son, Wisconsin, where he was an employee of the State Department ’af Agriculture, is accompanied by his wife and daughter, Mary, four years old. - RUSSO RETURNS Assistant Meteorologist Carl Rus-~ so of the U. S.-Weather Bureau, re- |turned on the Mt. McKinley from a period of leave in the States. He visited his former home in Roches- er, New York, as well as Washing+ ton, D. C. e —.—— GOVERNOR HOME Gov. Enest Gruening returned on the steamer Mt. McKinley from Ketchikan after dedicating the new fisheries technological laboratory of the Fish and Wildlife Service. | Miss Orpha Ohlsen, who will repre- sent Long Beach in Southern Cali« | fornia’s All-Winter Sun Festival, i won the title, “Miss Sunshine,” SHOPPIN CHRISTM