The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 17, 1940, Page 1

TH VOL. LVI, NO. 8596. DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER I7 1940. ML‘IB} R ASSOC[AT ED PRk SS BRITISH BOMBERS POUND GERMAN CITY Fascist Lines Pierced by Desert Forces WINDSORS ARRIVEINU. S. ‘(AAGIVES | BIG THRUST ONTOWARD | KEY SECTOR British Invasion Troops| Pushina Way on ltal- | ian Stronghold ENCIRCLING ACTION 'S NOW UNDERTAKEN Armored Unifs Pressed Info New Movement in North Africa Battle (By Associated Press) Great Britain’s counter invasion | of troops have pushed deeper into the Italian-Libya b:utle in North | Africa. | London military headquarters said | §i Gen. Sir Archibald Wavell's desert | | forces, drawn from the four corners | . of the British Empire, have thrust a salient in the vicinity of Bardia, key Italian stronghold, 15 miles in- | side the Libyan-Mediterranean Sea | coast sector. (Continued on Pige Six) e R N %60 WASHINGTON—French appeas-| ers who favor cooperation with Germany, particularly Vice Pre- mier Laval, are going to have a rude awakening on the arrival of| Admiral William Leahy, new U.S.‘ Ambassador to Vichy. Officially inspired French news- | papers received Admiral Leahy's appointment as an indication that| the United States had decided to play ball with Germany and was veering away from Britain. But they were so wrong. fact is that Admiral Leahy is one of Roosevelt’s most vigorous ad-| visers in favor of helping Britain,| and has even urged that a large part of the American Navy be sent to Singapore in order to keep an cye on Japan, and serve as a silent warning against Japanese penetration down to the Dutch East Indies. In the White House conference at which this plan was proposed, Admiral Leahy engaged in a hot| ‘%p Inside | argument with Under Secretary of' State Sumner Welles, who wds op- | posed to sending the fleet to Sin- gapore and who pointed to the danger of a German naval advance on Dakar and the Azores in the Atlantic. Admiral Leahy replied that as long as the British fleet held out, there was no need to worry about| Dakar and the Azores. But once the British fleet crumbled, he said, then the American Navy would be/ up against the problem of guard- ing two oceans—which at the pres- ent time was impossible. AID BRITAIN IN ORIENT Therefore Admiral Leahy urged that the United States help Great Britain now before it was tuo late, especially in the Far East. Keeping Japan in her place, he said, would have a more salutary effect upon the dictators of tae the United States could make The Duke and Duchess of Windsor were greeted by Mayor Alexander Orr, Jr., (left) of Miami as they arrived in the Duchess underwent a major dental operation. from the Bahamas on the yacht Southerrn Cross. SEASON Must Speed Produdlion For Defense \Hull Has Essential Facis Re- garding Infernational Conditions WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull today said that on the basis of full information on foreign developments, including the British situation, he is asking and urging all possible speed in de- fense production. Secretary Hull told the reporters he is relaying essential facts about international conditions to the De- fense Commissioners and other of- ficials The Secretary said he is relaying | these facts obtained from confiden- { tial sources abroad, without attempt- ing to enter into technical produc- | tion questions. Secretary Hull made the comment | less than one day after high sources |declared that Great Britain made an outright request for financial as- sistance from the United States Government DURAZIO ATTACKED world than any other single move| BY GREEKS b During this White House 'con-, ference Admiral Stark, Chief of} Naval Operations, lamented that the fleet was unprepared because it| did not have enough tankers to| carry fuel oil across the Pacific. To this Admiral Leahy replied: “Admiral, did you ever of picking up the telephone and calling the heads of Standard Oil| (Continued on Page Four) l ATHENS, Dec. 17.—A violent at- tack on Durazzo, It s largest sup- ply base in Albania is reported to- night as twin Greek drives are said to be converging on the last moun-| |tain defense lme that guards the think | port cf Valona on the Adriatic Sea.|Jones average: Crack Italian reserves have failed to halt the advance of the Greeks over snow covered mountain rang-! FRENCH, UNDER HEEL OF NAZIS, NEAR CHRISTMAS Tweniy three Airlines Gei New Certificates from Washington WASHINGTON, D 17 Long !distance dog team travel in Alaska is at an end, miner Ray Stough teld the Aeronauntics Board today,| recommending 23 applications for airbnes in the Terriosy. | P cover in eight minutes a journey by sled, Stough said | his 405 page report on Alaska | aviation | He added that “Flying has great- | ly increased safety and materially | reduccd the rates of a trip by sled | from Fairbanks to Nome which used | to cost $500 inst a plane fare of | $78 and take 30 days against four | hours.” The report said air carriers in | Alaska have an investment of more than a million dollars with annual revenues in excess of that amount Types of service proposed by 23 applicants varied greatly. Some praposed only limited operatiores and for the most part, examiners on the recommendations board approv- me portions of the 23 applica- | ticns and disapproved of others. ‘These recommended in whole or part were theose of the Cordova Air Service, Lyle Airways, Reeve Air- |ways, Nat Browne ‘Flying Service, Christensen Air Service, Dillingham Air Service, Peck and Rice Airways, Ray Petersen Flying Service, Stary | Airlines, Woodley Airways. Jim Dod- | son Air Service, Harold Gillam, La- | very Airways, Pollack Flying Ser-| e, Ferguson Airways, Mirow Air| €ervice, Notthern Cross Inc., Wien | Alaska Airways, Aircraft Charter | ’ & Service, Alaska Air Transport and Marine Airways merged, Ellis Air| Transport, Petersburg Air Service,| and White Pass Airways. | in Florida city where the The couple traveled PARIS, Dec. 17.—This Christmas will be a nightmare to Parisians, and the French people generally. Two million young men are un- der the heel of the Nazi, Scores of thousands are in internment camps, and at work on roads and laborious toil elsewhere. | Hundreds of thousands of women are little other than slaves ! —helpless and with a blazing DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, | industrials 130.53, | (rails 27.48, utilitties 19.80. ——.————— | There are nineteen operating . railroads in Mexico. —— e — hatred of all things German. | This Christmas, the wonderful | stores of Paris do not gleam and | sparkle with Yuletide joys, and in- | ‘g,cnious and beautiful offerings for 3t | sale. The imvaders are trying to | ord Beaverbrook Makes ipopularize the sale of awkward H | ooking littte wooden cows and pizs| Talk Announcing Plans | and sheep and farm utensils. This, | they think, with. typical German of Gefman For(es OLLUSEN will turn the thoughts of the French, fo the attractions |y NDON. Dec, 17.-Lord Beaver- | of Im'm» life, A | brook, Minister of Aircraft Produc- | What it does do, is to cause gales (i geclared in a radio talk today | of bitter laughter from Parisians— that Germany is “making prepara- those past masters of irony and ions for an invasion of England insight. | before spring time by land and sea | The French will be rationed this py¢ principally by air.” | Christmas. They are lnd)tferentl Lord Beaverbrook said Hitler is | For this is not Christmas. To (hem,‘mnkmg an immense attempt w‘ it is just a calendar date. France pring out a huge air force in the | has been drained of champagne early months of next year. As a starter, the invaders shipped| Lord Beaverbrook further said 12,000,000 bottles to Germany. | there are “sure and certain signs” = The Germans have put into ef- of feverish developments in produc- |fect a strict curfew throughout| tion and added “these vast prepara- the season, and they also have| tions are directed at one objective, rules and regulations concerning|invasion of Great Brn,ain > dances. But, they need have no; RSB i 0 cencern. Few, any French, are dancing. Instead, they are endur-| (olds II ing, and wonder how long it must| be. ' STOCK QUOTAT East Asia 1 SHANGHAI, Dec. 17. — Freezing | | NEW YORK, Dec. 17. — Closing | temperatures and snow stcrms have | iquotation of Alaska Juneau mine spread death and suffering in East |stock today is 5'4, American Can Asia as far south as the Yangtze| |€67, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem LValley‘ the Shanghai Benevolent Steel 86%, Commonwealth and Society announces today. Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, YL Gty G QO General Motcrs 50, International PIONEER DIES | | Harvester 55%, Kennecott 36%, New| Edward Patten of Juneau died York Central 13%, Northern Pacific|at the Pioneers’ Home December 6%, U. S. Steel 69, Pound $4.04. |14, according to word from Super-| intendent Eiler Hanson. ————————— ARCHITECT SUES H. C. Redman, architect, hn:; filed suit in District Court against A. I, Whitley for $75 allegedly due and unpaid for services as an ar- chitect. | SEVEN INJURED [¥ TRAIN WRECK | At least seven persons, including E. Norris, jured in the derailment of the Southern’s fast passen jer trair Atlanta, Ga. Three cars tu right. President Norri ' HOLIDAY DISPLAY i over near the end of a (restle was riding in his private car (foreground). A youngster in an English Midlands town halts for a glimpse of a toy display in a store window shattered by a bomb. With the Christmas season approaching, toys still attract this boy, despite damage of air British GreeksOn Cruiser 1 Charges Allacked In Albania Italian Torpedo Launching| V"l’;e"' iC(:j Ul;l 'der \A';facks‘ Planes Reporfed in Ac- | "chorcd Under Way i fion, African Warfare } Against Foststs (By Associated Press) (By G sociated Press) The eks, early this morning, | are reported smashing seven violent counter atta against the Fascist Legions on various fronts in Al- bania. | - D An Ttalian communique issued late | this afternoon in Rome asserts the F'\su‘-l torpedo launching planes scored two direct hits on a 6,000-ton British " eruiser which was found shelling Bardia. No detalls of the reported damage done is conveyed in the late after- noon communique. vroducts of the sugar industry to| the soil has successfully removed | alkalinity and increased crop pro- duction, ‘The Ponce de ind others left the The train was enroute from Chicago BRIDGES flects the opinion | gantic economic problem, ¥ President of the Southern Pacitic Railway System, were in- 14 miles south of Is but remained up- Leon HEARING ON SLATE (IO Leader Makes Answer to Hoover and Flies to Washington MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Dec. 17~ Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI ays Attorney General Jackson will probaply call public hearings on the FBI repert which Hoover de- clared menm Harry Bridges as a “Communist. Al San Francisco, Bridges ferred to the hearing a year ago, presided over by Dean Landis of the Harvard Law School in which Bridges was ruled not a Commun- 1st and no grounds existing for hi deportation. A native said: “New cured we and secured re- of Australia, evidence Hoover has know has been faked through bribery and intimidation. Hoover says “yes,” Landis says “no.” Compare the re- ports and the methods of the two. Any honest man will know who is telling the truth.” Bridges tcok a plane to Wash- ingion, but his office said there is no connection ketween his trip and Hoover's statement. - Russla Requires All 0il Slim Comfort for Germany Is Latest from Head- quarters of Soviets MOSCOW, Dec. 17.—The Rus- sian newspzper Pravda, which re- of the govern- make the likeli- Bridges ment, does not | hood of Germany getting much oil from Russia very rosy Pravda says that Russia, coming year is faced with necessity measures. of This increased effort will defense be a output and it will be necessary o | take measures to see that this out- put is increased to meet the re- Jqunemem.s of the country, in the| a gi-| and the| MANNHEIM AIRRAIDED NIGHT TIME Chemical "Ma'nufacturing Section Shelled by RAF for Seven Hours TWO KINDS OF SHELLS DROPPED IN ATTACK Nazi High tb;nmand Ad- mits Buildings Are Fired, Person Killed, Injured (By Associated Press) British Royal Air Force planes last night pounded the German city of Mannheim, where chemicals are | manufactured, for seven hours. ; The assault is believed to have | done great damage as numerous fires wer seen blazing when the RAF left the scene and returned intact to their bases. The official statement today says that while bad flying weather held the Nazis' attacks on the British Isles to a minimum, London under- going only two short air raid alarms, the RAF bombers raided Mannheim, southwest Germany, and left “many important targets in flames.” Hitler's High Command acknow- ledges “explosives and incendiary bombs caused damage by fires to buildings” but asserted that produc- tion, although declining in two chemical factories, is immaterial.” The High Command admits ten persons were killed in the Mann- heim air raid and 50 persons were perhaps fatally injured. BLACKOUT EFFECTED ONSOUND Port Townsend, Fort Wor- den, Port Angeles Turn Off All Lights FORT WORDEN, Wash., Dec. 17. —Port Angeles and Port Townsend, two cities with strategic locations at the entrance to Puget Sound, Jjoined with Fort Worden in a black-~ out last night. Military officers lauded the black- out as virtually complete, The lights of Port Townsend went out like the glimmers of Picadilly at the wail of the fort's siren, the clang of the town's fire bell, and |the chriek of a paver mill whistle. Aerial observers from Gray Field, Fort Lewis, reported only a single light gleamed in a house on the edge of the town. Port Townsend has a population 'WALLGREN FILLS SCHWELLENBACH'S - SENATORIAL SEAT OLYMPIA, Wash., Dec. 17.—Qov. | Clarence D. Martin today filled the vacancy created by the resignation of Senator Schwellenbach by the appointment of Senator-elect Mons ‘Wallgren. Schwellenbach has taken over his new Federal judgeship in eastern ‘Washington. SHOPPINGC TILL CHRIST Adding molasses and other by-|tremendous drain on Russia’s oil|