The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 26, 1940, Page 1

TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRI VOL. LVIL, NO. 8604. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1940. Ml:MBLR Abb()(.lAlLD PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 USSIA THREATENED BY AX | British Double Guards on Engllsh Channel READY FOR THRUST BY NAZIFORCE Exira Precautions Are Tak- en Against Any Threat- ened Invasion PICKED SQUADS ARE PATROLLING BEACHES Traffic Prao?ialy Stopped ~All Pedestrians Are Being Searched (B Associated Press) G Britain suddenly doubled along the mist shrouded English Channel coast, vigilant against a possible German invasion thrust across the now calm Strait ot wover and at the same time, Hitler posed in the war’'s biggest vanguard movement as 300,000 Ger- man troops sped by train through Hungary into Rumania. pat guards Some quarters view the mass.Ger- n movements into Rumania as a feint to throw Great Britain off guard on the home front while setting the stage for a lightning invasion of the Island Kingdom. If this is so, Great Britain is not to be deceived. Picked forces armed with H:.)h! machine guns are comb- beaches and are keeping from the white cliffs over- king the Strait of Dover. Traffic along the coast has been stopped All pedestrians, soldiers and sailor: identification cards. L Cthe Wz, DrewPeaso- % ad RobertS.Alles e ch even uniformed must show their =z WASHINGTON — The White House has seen all kinds of Christ- mases during the 140 years that it has domiciled the President of the United States. There have been rowdy, fun-loving Christmasss dur- ing the Teddy Roosevelt Adminis- tration, and there have been long stretches when Santa Claus wasn't quite sure whether to stop at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. John and Abigail Adams, the first tenants of the “President’s Pal- ace” brought no children to it, and Mrs. Adams felt that New England was a much better place for the seat of the Government. So, although she hung out the fam- washing in the solemn East 7, she hung out no stockings santa Claus to fill. here ess Christmases in the White , such as the dull period be- tween the Tylers and the Lincoln. But probably the two families which will go down in Santa Claus’ mem- ory for a really riotous holiday sea- son are the Theodore Roosevelts, when Kermit, Archie and Quen put a pony in the elevator and in- treduced the first electrically light- ed Christmas tree; and the current clan of Roosevelts, who from Frank- lin Delano the First to Franklin De- lano the Third have invoked the spirit of Christmas with equal aban- don TAD LINCOLN'S INVASION The nearest thing to Roosevelt- jan good spirits in the early days was intreduced by Tad Lincoln who —with his pets—had the full run of the mansion. Tad even went so far as to take a goat to bed with him, and on one Christmas day, he invited a group of hungry ur- chins in from the street to feaao (Continued on Page Four) have been many other a STocK QUOTATIONS WAllGREN SWORNIN Beneath the ~pread eagle behind the “bench” in the old Senate Cham- ber at Washingtor, Rep. M. C. Wallgren (D.--Wash.) was sworn in as Senator to fill the unexpired term of Sen. Lewis Schwellenbach who resigned to accept a Federal judgeship. Left to right: Sen. W. H. King (D.-Utah), President Pro Tem of the Senate; Sen. A, W. Bark- ley (D.-Kv.), and Wallgren. 'WORLD MUST REDISCOVER JESUS CHRIST; CHRISTMAS- MESSAGE T0 WORSHIPPERS WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. — At- tending Christmas Day services vesterday, President Roosevelt and Mrs. Roosevelt heard Bishop Adna Leonard, of the Methodist Church, proclaim “there is no greater need in the world today than the world li!mll rediscover Jesus Christ.” Torpedo Ship of Britai Distress Slgnals Are Heard | on Christmas Morning from North Atlantic (Ry Associated Press) Distress signals crackled out from the Nerth Atlantic Christmas morn- ing and said: “British ship Ever- leigh being shelled, by a sub- marine.” The 5,200-ton ship have her po- The Presidential party occupied center peWs in the red brick First Congngmmml Church. The serv- | ices were sponsored by the Wash- ‘rw'(m Federation of Churches in | which 157 Protestant churches of Washington and suburbs joined. The Rev. William Barnhart, Ex- | ecutive Secretary of the Federation of Churches, pleaded for a united (/lnistinn cl\\.rah BlgA Announced ition as approximately 650 miles west of Scotland off the Hebride: % e - was mtereented b3 Goodrich Announces Army Radio in New jcy. " Tire Contract for New were Ne subsequent picked up d the fa rd. message: uring the day te of the ship or re Scout Cars AKRON, Ohio, Dec. 26.—Receipt orders for more than 200,000 tires to be used in the driving mechanism of the Armys new high-speed scout cars was announced by the B. F. Goodrich Company here today. Sixteen of the 12 by 4 inch tires will be mounted on each “half- track” seout car now being pro- duced for the Ordnance depart- ment by White Motor Company, Cleveland, Diamond T. Motor Cai Company, Chicago, and The Auto- car Company, Ardmore, Pa The new scout cars will be equipped with endless band rubber tracks developed exclusively by Goodrich to make high-speed op- eration possible over highways or rough terrain, the announcement said. The company is now filliny government track orders amount lmg to more than $5,700,000, those of special PRICES LAST TUESDAY Alaska Juneau mine stock last Tuesday closed at 5, American Can at 86, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 85, Commonwealth and South- ern 5/4, Curtiss Wright 87%,- Gen- cral Motors 48 17/8, International Harvester 49's, Kennecott 35 3/4, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 5 7/8, United States Steel 68 3/4, Pound $4.04. e An English-speaking colony, de- scended from early adventurews occupies an island of Nicaragua’s’ “Moeqnim Coast” and numbers lnbout 2,000. e e ———— El\lUMINUM - IS SHORT, IS CLAIM Large Plane Corporaiion Is| Curtailing Working Hours LOS ANGELES, Cal, Dec. 26— The Northrop Aircraft Corporation which holds National Defense con- tracts totaling $10,000,000, is cur-| tailing working hours of 2,000 em-| ployees by 20 percent because of the shortage of aluminum. | Lamotte Cohu, General Manager of the corporation, announced that the time of the workers has been reduced from 10 to 8 hours a day effective immediately sorporation’s plant at Haw- thorme, on a 24-hour a day sched- ule, will operate only 18 hours, NO SHORTAGE, CLAIM PITTSBURGH, Pa., Dec. 26. — The spokesman for the Aluminum w f Seahoard Air Li Company of America says that there S i NeRboard, AlF Ring is “positively no shortage of alum- inum” for the airplane industry nor those firms working on Brit ish or American orders for mili- tary ships. the wreckage shewn. BRITISH >—ee DiveBombing PLANNING PASSESAWAY IS MADE ON CORFU Attack Made, FORU.S. Fascist Port rigure us 1o s Gear in Production Late Next Year LONDON, Dec. ‘Briiish Air Force Swoops " Low Over Valona-Take | 26—Sir Walter i H Layton, Ministry of Supply, told Halians by Surprise Coxt™ e oass: " e ‘e 7) to hold on through 1941 the vol- In the Greek-Italian conflict on yme of United States production Christmas Day, the British Royal Air Forces were reported to have made dive bombing attack on Valona, Fascist port of entry, and left the airdrome “enveloped in palls of black smoke.” Pilots said they took the Italians by surprise, swooping through the low clouds and jettisoning explos- ives and also machine gunning the ground. Sharp fighting was also reported along the snow-clogged Albanian frcnt where the Greeks claimed new advances and the capture of additional prisoners and seizure of of war materials must reach apex next winter and make cer- tain an ultimate victory. Layten told the British, “Don’t expect a miracle of the United States,” and that there is a time element dificuity in making Am- erica realize fully “the scale of the war effort needed.” Two factors, he said, should show the British the full weight of U. S armament in 1941's late summer, reaching “avalanche proportions” next winter. Layton added that America’s par- ticipation in the right to over- “large quantities of war mater- whelm Germany has made the term ial.” non-beiligerent applicable to the g e L United States rather than neu- tral. ISR BETHLEHEM CELEBRATES CHRISTMAS | 2 Christian Observance Held ' Against Background | of Stark Realism PRESIDENT, WIFE GIVE OUT CHEER Christmas GTeaings Given Children—Also Carried BETHLEHEM, Dec. 26.—This Over Nation Little Town of Bethlehem cele- WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. — Mrs brated the second successive war- Franklin D, Reosevelt carried Merry Christmas greetings to hun- dreds of delighted children yester- day and added this solemn noie to adults: “This Christmas is one on which a great many children are not geing to be able to be happy. We older people should do much to make our chxldren in this country happy.” The President’s wife spoke at the Twenty-Fourth ‘Annual Christmas Party in the Central Union Mission. President Roosevelt gave his an- nual greetings to the nation dur- time Christmas against a back- ground of stark realism. | Thousands of khaki-clad British coldiers joined the usual throng of pilgrims. The devotions centered at the most revered shrine of Christen- dem in the tragic atmosphere of war, This war atmosphere was even felt in the dimly lighted Basilica Church of the Nativity in which reverent worshippers heard Patriarch Louis Barlassuna intone the. Pontifical High Mass Christ- mas eve, at the hallowed. spot where the Christ was born nearly, (2,000 years ago. lthe Capitol's Christmas tree. I ing the afternoon when he lighted _ “Sunbeam” and th : Atla STAGE DEAN AIR RAID IN NEW YORK fo Reach High Daniel Frohman Dies in|Halian PIanesSwoovaer Sanitarium-Had Most Remarkoble Career Icnidn S | fliers on Christmas Day. g;z 5 persons were killed ¢ Onc plane, said to be a | bnmhor was shot down - VDANIEL FROHMAN NEW YOR&, t Line freight trai at a crossing near Zephyhills, Fla., brought death to a trainman and in juries to 12 passengers and a porter. General view of Island - One German Ship Is Sent Down (By Associated Press) The Greek Island of Corfu, in ihe was raided by Italian The Greek High Command says ng George Broadcasts To Subjedts Declares Future Will Be Hard But Feet Planted on Path of Victory Ohio. At 23 he DE(lARE 1 for a one-night . . ONE DEAD, 13 HURTINRAILROAD WRECK HITLER IS NOW DOING MYSTERY ACT Rushing, b—y Snecial Trains, 300,000 Armed Forces to Rumanian Area BERLIN-ROME LINES " UP AGAINST SOVIETS Situation in n Balkans Mos! Puzzling-Danube Del- ta Is Moofed Point (By Associated Press) Hitler is making a mystery move, sending a vanguard of 300,000 Ger- man troops aboard speeding trains through Hungary into Rumania. Speculation is rife in the Balkan capitals as to whether a showdown may be approaching between the Rome-Berlin Axis and Russia over control of the strategically and vital Danube River. Observers also see the possibility of Nazi action against Greece, help- ing out the demoralized and defeat- ed Italians, or even Turkey in the Near East. Others say the move fs to lead England-to believe the invasion of the Island Kingdom is off for the present and then when the guard is down, make a lightning move. Situation The situation in the Balkans is, however, puzzling Budapest dispatches quote travel- ers as saying rail traffic in the east- ern Reich is being disrupted for the passage of Nazi troop trains to the Soviet frontier. The Nazi troop movements fol- lowed closely the news that the Ger- man, Russian, Ttalian and Ruman- ian experts, who have been negotiat- ing for two months in Budapest, have left for their homes after fail- ing to agree to which nation or group of nations should control the Danube Delta. Reports from Bucharest state the Red Army Forces are preparing to seize the mouth of the Danbue by force, if necessary, defying Hitler. Unofficial Truce Over Christmas Brifish, German Bombers Remain at Home Dur- German Lec, 6. — Daniel | Frohman, 89, dean of American : . stage producers, has given his last | LONDON, Dec 24 —King George, 'ng HO'IdflY Seaso“ curtain call. Frohman died in a | broa ting Christmas greetings sanitarium as the result of com- | yesterday to his Empire, declared (By Asscciated Press) pilcations following a fall. that the “future will be hard but British and German raiders, on Daniel Frohman was in or of cur feet are planted in the path Christmas Day, apparently observed the theater for more than three- of victor d we may look for- an unofficial truce In bombing quarters of a century. ward with scber confidence.” assaults, At 11 he was prompter for a2 The German attitude was out- local German company in his lined earlier that so long as the native Sandusky, Ne British planes stayed home over (AN the Christmas season the Nasi was advance m stand trcupe which penetrated by | bombers would do likewise. stage coach to cattle towns of the "ow FORCE pEA(E — e western frontier. He landed on 7 Broadway in 1879 as business mana- HUNIERS pl‘ ger for the old Madison Square EUROPEAN FA(Tlous Y Theatre and from then on saw S 3 the theatrical center move north- ST 3] 2. - 3 SA"TA (uus wards vrmm New York's Twenties ,.,,,,W.f?:‘?,:( é‘,?xirinspf(;s li;).,eE:A 3nlu the Thirties and from the is now in a position to “force’ TR Thirties into the Forties and be- s ‘I POt Bentr e ir. and Mrs. Earle Hunter played yond. ‘The eldest of three brothers whose careers gave life to the thwarted theatrical ambitions of their father, an immigrant German Jewish ped- dler, he outlived his contemporaries Wheeler should to bring nake rt Wheeler, d President Roose- a determined the warr: ns in Furope together.” returning Santa Claus unwillingly Tuesday "ning. While in visiting mends during ourse of delivering presents, k the half dozen remain- presents from the Hunters ing fac- |) here ; for the next session of Congress, ked car. o.o ’{“i“l of 'luu (s}(r‘mv “\r‘ told the reporters that the Presi- Hunter said the value of presents ::“2;: A ,"dm. nagers rv)" dent’s proposal to lease armaments stclen amounted to about ten or fif~ e actors a managers Who t, Great Britain is an evasion of teen dollars. in 1882 founded the Actors’ Fund (ne Neutrality Act. He said: “Our N . oL of America. An official of this hoonie are not gullible enough to Statistics show that it costs | «Conlinued on Page Seven) enevolent institution from he pelieve the munitions will ever be department about 40 cents each - ln:lumed or even replaced.” lv.tme an item is returned.