The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 16, 1940, Page 1

s THE DAILY ALASKA K “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8595. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH DESERT FORCES IN NEW DRIVE AF Make Raid on Berlin; Damage Done CALIFORNIA STRUCKHARD BY BLIZZARD Are Stalled Along Souihefl}ghwav GALE WARNINGS ARE POSTED ALONG (OAST Four Inche:of Snow Re- ported fo Have Fallen Along Ridge Route | (By As: ciated Press) | | | A blinding blizzard has stalled 200 trucks and an undetermined | » of passenger cars on the raveled Los Angeles - San | sco highway. The storm is extending to the low- er west levels of the foothills. The torm has brought rain and a gusty wind, climaxing a three-day cold spell. le wainings have been posted along the coast from Oregon to past the Mexican border, The Hawaiian Clipper which left Los Angeles for Honolulu on Sunday reports she encountered such severe headwinds, twelve hours out at sea, she is returning. State patrolman on the Ridge Route report that four inches of snow has fallen within a few hours | this afternoon. | WASHINGTON —Inside facts re- garding the present mystery trip, of Colonel William Donovan to Eu- rcpe is that his real destination is Greece. En route, however, he will stop in North Africa where he will see} his old war friend, Marshal Wey- gand, now controlling the large | French army in Africa. If this powerful force took the field cn the side of the British, the ans, already in a precarious po- sition as a result of their defeats in Greece, would be finished. This would release British naval forces for desperately needed convoy work in the Atlantic. Also it would have repercussions in the Far East, where the Jap- anese military have been greedily eying the rich Dutch East Indies and Indo-China. With the British supreme in the Mediterranean and their big fleet available for opera- ticns elsewhere, Japan would think twice before attempting any new grabs. WAR FRONT OBSERVER On the Greek front, Donovan will make a survey similar to that which he made in England last Spring. He will observe military operations, confer with Greek and British chiefs, and obtain data on fifth column and other subversive activi- ties. Also on Donovan’s itinerary are Yugoslavia and Turkey. Still un- decided is his possible return via the Far East, India, the Dutch East Indies and Indo-China. In England last spring, Donovan made a thorough survey of invasion | defenses, military intelligence and the Royal Air Force, He spent a; week in the field with the British Armv and made several flights with the RAF. Various U. 8. Army, Air Cnrps and Navy ohservers are nov attached to the British forces as the result of Donovan’s trip; alsc he established close intelligence ties on Axis espionage and fifth column operations. (Continued on Page Four) " Going to Alaska To Visit the President This is a new portrait of Her Royal Highness, Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, and daughters, Princess Beatrix (left), and Princess frene. They are scheduled to visit the President and Mrs. Roosevelt at the White House, RED KICKED OUTOFPLANE PLANTUNION ' Mechanics’ Body Begins | Purge of Communism ~More to Feel Axe 8,000 EMPLOYEES OF BOEING CLEAN HOUSE| Vice-President of Big Lo-| cal Is First Found Guilty in Trial SEATTLE, Dec. 16.—Eight thou- sand union members of the Boeing | Airplane Company awaited more re- | ports today after approving one re- port in which the union trial board | recommended Vice-President Donald Keppler be found “guilty of Com- munistic activity.” Union Local 751 of the Aeronau- tical Mechanics Union voted ap- proval of the report on Keppler in a mass meeting Saturday despite his | dental he was or ever has been a | Communist. ) Shown with his wife and 8-year-old ~on Walter, the Rev. Hugh Dowler, Pueblo, Colo., Lutheran minister, nas been assigned to open the first church in Sitka, Alaska, where the U. 8. is establishing a large plane and submarine base. The clergy- man was welterweight boxing champion of Wyoming before he married and decided to enter the iy ministry. Duchess Is - Recovering Is Removed from Hospital fo Hotel by Duke on Re- furn from FDR Talk MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 16.—The Duke of Windsor, on his return from his talk with President Roosevelt aboard the U. S. S. Tuscaloosa, found the Duchess almost completely recov- ered from her dental operation and immediately removed her from the hospital to a hotel. } MORE OUTPOSTS NEEDED FOR DEFENSE SAYS FDR, ' BACK FROM SEA CRUISE Because the trial board declared | | other reports are not completed, only about one-fourth of the union mem- | bership was present Saturday. | The local has scheduled a second | mass meeting for December 28 to hear charges against some 26 other | jofficers and members investigated | by the board on a variety of charges, including Communism activities in- imical to the union's welfare and distribution of unauthorized litera- ture. | The board didn't make public the (By Associated Press) names of all other men investigated President Roosevelt is back home | OF detalls of the charges. again after landing at Charleston Investigations stemmed from a series of charges printed about a from the U. 8. S. Tuscaloosa fol- e 5 ; lowing a cruise of the Caribbean |Month ago in the union publication, Sea. Aero Mechanic. President Roosevelt, while aboard | Editor Clifford Stone was sus- the Tuscaloosa. discussed with the Pended from his position because of | Duke of Windsor the newly-acquired | his articles, but confronted Keppler | Caribbean Sea outposts which the |30 the mass meeting, urging the President described as stepping membership to approve the trial stones for United States defense. | board’s report. The President expressed satisfac- | tion at some bases and dissatisfac- | tion with others. | | i | | At a conference with the news- men, the President said the further attack is kept from the continent he wants outposts as far out as pos- sible, to Newfoundland, as far as they can go in the north, to Bermuda and as far off the coast as possible. With no island between Puerto Rico and Bermuda, the President said fhe next best outpost of defense will o | Toe resgent conterrea saturasy )+ £402F Hoover Declares’ for three hours with the Duke of H H ! Windsor aboard the Tuscaloosa. The commumS'S Comm't' | Duke was flown to the American 5 H | | Navy craft aboard a Naval plane. 'ed 10 ReVOIu"on i The Duke also told the newsmen the | great favor on the establishment of | J. Edgar Hoover, head of the FBI, | bases and said: “We are ready to do | said today investigations by FBI what President Roosevelt wants and |agents have convinced him that | | raedy when he gives the word.” {Harry Bridges, CIO leader on the . | West Coast, should be deported. Hoover made the assertion in an CUITER pulls interview while discussing the 3.- STEAM |ted to Attorney General Jackson. ER F ROM | The FBI boss declared the report | contained evidence the Communist | (l A'I'SOP Spl |Party definitely is committed to overthrow of the United States Gov- | ernment. many months ago by the Justice and Labor departments. Aboard, Grounds Early | panshisoaP BRI This Morning \DOUGL AS ! ASTORIA, Oregon, Dec. 16.—The | | steam schooneer Whitney Olson was | today pulled from the menacing | sands of Clatsop Spit, three hours | (AN(ELS | after it ran aground. | the Olson was towed stern first from | the spit by the Coast Guard cut-! The Donglas airliner of PAA was ter Onandaga and taken toward | cancelled for 24 hours this morning Astoria. * “lon its scheduled northbound flight The Olson, carrying a crew of 26, |from Seattle. grounded at 5:27 a.m. after drag-| Snowstorms in the interior, mean- ging anchor. | while held planes of the Panair sy: the safer the continent will be and be the Bahamas. | people of the Bahamas look with | MIAMI BEACH, Fla, Dec. 16»—‘ 000-word report he said was submit- H The Bridges case was consideded Craft with Crew of 26 Men | The Point Adams lookout reported | Coast Guardsmen shortly reported |tem at Fairbanks and there was no| the vessel's rudder was jammed, PAA traffic scheduled for Juneau er to bid the pepular couple goodbye caret Howard is at the | Hospital. ]hut she was taking little water. {todny. & Ki e King George (arrow), accompanied by the Lord May or (wearing chain of office about neck), inspects dam- | raids, during a visit to Southampton, English terminus of trans-Atlantic passenger traf- and rocent target of heavy German aerial assaults. age caused by air nPfpdate York from London. NAZIS NAB AMERICAN WOMAN Mrs. Elizabeth Deegan, recep- tionist in the United States Paris Embassy, held prisoner by the Germans in a Paris hotel for more than one week, has been released according to Associated Press dis- patches to The Empire. She was charged with helping British of- icers to escape from Nazi ocenpied France, Today ,the Washington Sfate Department said the U. 8. Embas- sy in Paris is making a determined | effort to secure the release of Mrs. Etta Kahn Shioer, second Amer- ican women taken in custody in occupied France. The Embassy has been unable to learn the na- ture of the charges made. Mrs. Nofitrénd and Daughter Go South A resident of Juneau for 17 years, Mrs. Garrett W. Nostrand, ace: panied by fier dauziter, Miss Max- ine Nostrand, left for Seattle aboard the Yuken. Many social affairs were given for both Mrs. Nostrand and daugh- | ter prior to their departure for the| south, where they will probably re-! side permanently. | Many friends were at the steam- this forenoon, NG INSPECT E" e 600,000 NEW WORKERS EMPLOYED FOR DEFENSE; DIRTH OF SKILLED MEN Jlm (row" (ase Going Into Court High Tribunal Will Review 0ld Negro Plaint on Railway Cars WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — The Supreme Court has agreed to review the challenge of Representative Ar- thur Mitchell; only negro member of Congress, of the constitutionality of the “Jim Crow” railways cars in the South. Mitchell asserted railroads must furnish accommodations for mem- bers of his race equal to those pro- vided white persons traveling in interstate commerce. His petition was dismissed in a northern Illinois Federal District Court. - - LARGE ORDER IS GIVEN OUT, PLANE ENGINES Over $69,000,000 Con- fract Awarded by De- partment of War WASHINGTON, Dec. 16. — The War Department disclosed today the | letting of an additional $69,722,000 contract for airplane motors to the Allison Engineering Company, a di- vision of the General Motors Com- pany at Indianapolis. The engines are ordered for the‘ Army Air Corps. B AT LN Admitted for medical care, Mar- Government S AIR RAID DAMAGE GREEKS ON OFFENSIVE INALBANIA launch Fierce Affack on Troops Begin Moving ‘ Toward Elbasini |FRONTIER OF ITALIAN " LIBYA NOW (ROSSED Nazi Bombers Counter | Again with Air Assault on Sheffield, Midlands (By Associated Press) Great Britain’s desert fighters are reported to have driven across the frontier into Italian Libya in the battle of Egypt while Royal Air | Force planes bombed Berlin with | prolonged attacks in the battle of | Britain, The Greeks, on the Balkan front, launched a fierce new offensive to- | ward Elbasani in central Albania. | British headquarters said in a | communique that advance forces of the British counter invasion army are “well across” the Libyan frontier. { The goal of the British African forces appeared to be Bardia, 20 | miles inside Libya, while strongly | defended positions around Salum, Egyptian port, five miles from the frontier, are still held by the Ital- lans. . Berlin Bombing Admitted Hitler's High Command listed four killed and 12 wounded in the over- night assault on Berlin as well as some houses damaged, two hospitals hit and a suburban rail line tem- ! porarily disrupted. It was also declared Nazi bombers countered with a raid on Sheffield, ‘nm't‘n England steel center, raining | explosives on the city of a half mil- lion persons while rescue squads still dug for victims buried alive in This picture was fadioed 1o New By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Dec. 16, — An- wreckage left from Thursday night's swering the mail orders: | attacks. G. L., Kansas City, Kan, — The, The British Press Association said SHOPPING DA TILL most recent estimate, I believe, @ large casualty list in Sheffield is by the defense program is Greek-Italo War | He points out, however, that a|the Greek forces are pressing hard |be found. It is interesting I think, the Port of Valona in the north. {tion of young people to take up vAlDEl HAS that work with the hands was de-| | the boom years and the lack of| ‘during the depression is what has | “Bill” Knudsen, by the way, Headquarters, Third Di- | degrading about working with one’s and railway roundhouse worker and | Federal Building, which housed the S. T. P, Austin, Texas. — Ac-| Division, was completely destroyed the voting situation in the coun-| The cause of the fire has not poll taxes. Mr. Geyer says these Walls in the jail section. sippi, Arkansas, Alabama and South| 48y morning and kept the flames six miliion whites and four million | borhood of 20,000,000 other “po-| CHRISTMA |that has been made about the feared, according to dispatches "that of William S. Knudsen, who| Other dispatches received in Lon- | great many more would be em-|around Tiepelini, crossroads town | that he attributes the shortage of Continued on Page SI0 | manual labor after the World War.| grading. Many went to college who, would have been better off in the }machmu shops,” he says. i B | G B l A l E | opportunity for young persons brought about the present condi-! :ju.sl about a perfect example of | hands. Knudsen was once a bi- ViSion' Des"oyed | a bench laborer in a steel mill. | cordifig to Rep. Lee Geyer of Cali- by fire at 1 o'clock last Saturday try, there are about 10,000,000| been determined. are in eight states, Texas, Ten-| Firemen and citizens fought the Carolina, He says that roughly Within bounds. negroes, In the recent election | tential” voters (that is, persons, ;pumber of new workers put on the|reaching London. sets the figure at 600,000, |don from another war front said ployed if skilled workers could Midway between Argirocastro and | skilled workers to the disinclina-| “They seemed to get the idea | This attitude prevailed through! | seeking to become skilled workers IN MORNING e o Sonudeen. v, » Federal Building, Court ! the point that there is nothing icycle. assemblyman, a shipyard | VALDEZ, Alaska, Dec. 16.—The | court headquarters for the Third fornia, who has made a study of| morning. persons deterred from voting by The fire broke out between the nessee, Virginia, Georgia, Missis- fierce blaze until 9 o'clock Satur- these 10,000,000 are divided into| | there were somewhere in the neigh-| of voting age) who did not vote. | 7 P. K. Madison, Wis.—Hearings before the civil service commission | |on charges of Hatch act violations/ | will be public, in this way differ- l (Continued on Pi‘ue_sevrerni)" i