The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 31, 1940, Page 1

TH VOL. LVII., NO. 8608. DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH, NAZI BOMBERS HELD T0 GROUND 4 4 Severe Weather Delays Air Force MAKES BID FOR PEACE IN EUROPE Montana Senator Believes | United States Should | Be Mediator ‘ WASHINGTON, Dzc. 31.—Assert- | ing that the idea of a Nazi invasion | ¢ Ameri~a is “fantastic,” Senator | Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, last night, in a radio talk, answered President Roosevelt’s plea for greater aid to England with a| call for immediate peace in Eurcpe before America becomes involved in | “the insanity” cf war. | As a working basis for a just| peace, Senator Wheeler suggested several points as follows: Autonomeus Poland and Czecho- slovakia, restoration to an indepen- | dent France, Holland, Norway, Bel- gium and Denmark; restoration of | the German colonies, protection all racial and religious minorities all countries, internationalization the Suez Canal; no indemnities ations and arms limitations. | Our independence can only be lost or compromised if Germany in- vades the Western Hemisphere worth of the Equator,” declared Senator Wheeler,” and this will be fantastic as it would require trans- portation cf 2,000,000 men with planes, tanks and equipment in one convoy across the Atlantic. Thi would req.‘re 2,000 or 3,000 flghter" res and bombers as an escortine | 1 d such a fleet cannot be| possibly available. | “Hitler has already been seven | msnths vainly trying to cross thej English Channel, only 20 miles. If| 1.5 Army cannot cross the narrow | strip in seven months, his bombers | “Continued on Page Five) ey, SR | WASHENGTON. — One of the| most difficult things to find out about the progress of the defense| program is the rate of production| r “procurement,” as military ex-| perts call it. There has been fanfare about the fact that the Defense Commis sion has ‘“cleared” some $10,000,- 00¢,000 worth of projects and that of this vast sum, orders for around —o $9,00€,000,000 actually have been| let. But on the all-important de- tail of when these arms, shlps. planes, etc., will be forthcoming, there is a deep silence. This is not a recent development. From the start of the defense pro- gram all public announcements cf Army and Navy contracts hnvn‘ carefully omitted any information | about delivery dates. The official explanation has been “military precaution.” Doubtless there are instances where secrecy is mnecessary. But it also is true that the great bulk of Army and Navy procurement| can be found minutely itemized in the published hearings of the con- w-essional appropriation commit- tees, and any foreign power that| wants t find out what is what about our defense need only read these free public documents. | In some official quarters the| opinion prevails that the real rea- son for secrecy is not so much “military precaution” as the desire to suppress the fact that output| is dragging. | | NO MEDIUM TANKS Considerable color is given this view by certain production figures that have been obtained. For ex- ample: - (1) Medium-weight tanks, which are the backbone of Hitler's famous| (Continued on Page Four) BUDGET BUGABOO, JUST WHAT IT MEANS, GIVEN GOOD EXPLANATION NOW 3 12 IZ N A n ' Ex;’éfi'szs ; 1 " in Billions NATIONAL INCOME in Tens of Billions U.S. TAX RECEIPTS in Billions 1940 1942 Income is com- tens of billiens, in this chart—taxes and receipts in billions. 1936 1938 1934 o ul¥h 1932 INCOME, tax receipts and expenses are heading up. 1930 puted By MORGAN M. BEATTV ‘BALKANS AP Frature ce Writer WASHINGTON, Dec, 31 The cu n comes down cn the 194C financial show with the national income, Federal expenses and tax | receipts all sprinting upward on the economic charts, And right at this point the | President sits down with the lead- ers of Congress to figure out what to do about it usual in emergencies ex- )x nses will shoot “off graphs | | first. Come June 30, next, and we’l | probably ding gat the rate of $13,000,000,000 a year, the fastest peacetime rate in the nation’s his- t Fascnsts Make Counter At-, tacks-Greeks Appar- ently Victorious (By Associated Press) be s national income and the tax receipts, those par- alleling twins of the economic charts, are making a race of it, too, The latest Ccmmerce partment estimates boost the prob- able national income of American | citizens for 1940 up to $74,000,000,- | 000, our greatest since® 1929. The In the Balkan war the Greeks are | hational reported today to have captured sev- eral thousand more Italians and this in the face of strong Fascist counter attacks which have been smashed. Mussolini's legions are said to be | fighting with renewed activity. The Greek High Command said | De- | NEWSPAPERS OF GERMANY ARE WRATHY Make CausticComment Re- garding President Roosevelt’s Talk NAZIS REFUSE TO BE PROVOKED, HOWEVER Uflerances Believed fo | Convey Hitler's Opinion | of Aid |o Britain BERLIN. Dec. 317[‘\1 German | newspapers, without consent of the German Government, it is claimed, today released a torrent of caustic| comment on American President | Roosavelt's latest suggestion - that | the United States give every possible |aid to Great Britain In explosive editorials, the news- | papers declare there is evidence on de of tensing emotions but at | aver; | the me time the newspapers made loud declarations that Germany “will not permit herself to get un- | duly excited or allow herself to be; | provoked.” There is an “apparent disposttion™ expressed by the newspapers that the “whole controversy be referred | sack to the conseience of the Ameri- »an people.” The newspapers, especially those ued this afternoon, and before | Hitler made his address to the Ger- nan armies, sald America should se given time to consider all steps sefore she becomes hostile to Ger- nany. Iaformed scurces sald it is believ- | 2d the newspapers however in their | 'emment constitute Hitler's reply to R00: Sunday night speech. | | The newspapers, in eneral, as- | | umed the attitude that American | | President’s talk “was in an undigni- fied tone, arguments weak and withal, not convineing. { SURE CUREFOR - "GOLDBRICKING" ‘ CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 31.—Nurse |Jean Greer has discovered a “sure fire” cure for an insidious army | disease known as “goldbricking.” | “Goldbricking,” she says, “is what |a soldier does when he reports a | pretended illness and hope he's go- ing to get out of some work.” | Nurse Greer prescribes “flunky duty” for the patients and reports “The cure is permanent and light- | ning fast.” Flunky duty consists of cleaning hospital utensils, etc. —— - Alpine ski troops who were attacked All of which adds up to 2| Americans spent au least 25 per- by Greek advance forces, kicked off | shorter or longer period Of pros-|cent more for entertainment in ther skiis and scattered, many, | perity, as both the Wall Street 1949 than in 1939. however, being taken prisoners later. | and Washington economists seem | The Greek High Command assert | to agree. But that doesn't say the Fascist forces havé inflicted con- | siderable losses on the Greeks in “local fxghtmg where we're going financially. s no telling. Even the Pr financial advisers |and the experts in the Congression- al committees are handicapped Ly the AMERICAN PLANES T0 DECIDE WAR economy in the next year and a half—the period which the budget |is finling the formula for future taxing and spending. Whatever formula is proposed to Congress by the President is going to be based—as it must be —_— —on nothing better than fairly H . . scientific guesses, seasoned with Aircraft Made in United iy messures o polttical psy- 1 chology. States Will Prove fo | “roc” gucssers know _nat | tional income of citizens and Be Greaf Factor |icru v mecepis nave o nabic . ul maxchmg up and down the LONDON, Dec. 31. — American | economic charts together. Whe: made aireraft will prove the decisive income goes up, tax receipts fol- factor in the air war in 1941. low along a year later. It's more This is the declaration of one of the same when income goes high in the Royal Air Force in a down. statement today to correspondents | I L of American newspapers. | The question is, how much will This official said the American|ihe national income be stimulated planes are superior to anything that hy the increased spendlng? Some | (Continued on Page Six) ' has been flown so far in the Euron-| ean war. speed of our spending and the| effect it will have on our national| _ito be, now | continue to passively U. S. Mechanized Corps on the Move An eleven-ton tank and an armored truck eross during fast-moving maneuvers. Fui constructed by army engineers the Salt River at Fort Knox, Ky., on a pontoon bridge rther south, in Georgia, a tank corps showed its speed by streaking 90 miles between breakfast and lunch, TRANSPORT General Predictions for 1941:Stars Presage Year 0f Most Supreme (rise OF ITALY TORPEDOED 'Vessel Loaded with War Material for Albania «Dawned by British BELGRADE, Dec. 31. — Reports reaching here said an Italian trans- port, loaded with war materials for Albania, has been torpedoed by a British war vessel in the Adriatic and the vessel went down off a Yugosiav port about 20 miles up the coast. The report makes no mention of casualties RS e Bardia Is Resisfing All Atfack Besieged Port Continues Holding Out Against Bombardment CAIRO, Dec. 31. The British Middle East Command reports the Italian defenders of the besieged Bardia have been pounded relent- Jessly by artillery but “apparently await events. The defenders have replied some- what to our artillery attacks.’ No indications are ziven just when the British forces will attempt to storm the Fascist defended Libyan port and finallv capture it. The port has been under Eritish siege for two ' weeks. MARION POST, ACE - CAMERA-SNAPPER, IS estimates must cover. The difficulty By JACK STINNETT ! WASHINGTON, Dec, 31. — The| name is Marion Post. Not being a one-man census bureau, I couldn’t| be positive, but I think she is the| only full-time woman photogra- | pher now in the employ of Uncle Sam. (Dorothea Lange, who used is on a part-time | schedule with the Bureau of Agri- cultural Economics.) Marion is one of the three pho-| tographers on the staff of the Farm Security Administration, For more than two years she has haunted farms in every state east of 'Ol | Man River, | A tall wispy young woman, with blue eyes and a tascade of curly dark-brown hair which she usu- ally binds in a red bandana, she has beei! mistaken for a gypsy; . |arrestéd, for a spy; ordered off rd | | fessor to scores of farm (Continued on P‘n Seven) EMPLOYED BY GOVT. farms where the tenants thought she was an itinerant peddler; played the role of mother con- folk in the isolation belt; and numerou times been called a brazen young hussy for traveling about the country-side without a chaperone. WIDE TERRITORY Yet in spite of all these mishaps and happenstances she invariably has come back with the pictures—| of tenant farmers, Okies, and in- dustrial workers. ., With sometimes no more definite assignments than: “Check up on conditions among' the Mississippi delta people,” or! “let's see how far we are getting with the frult pickers in Florida,"| Marion Post has hopped off :.m { SATKO SEES NEW COLONY FOR JUNEAU Will Try fo Get | Eagle River Valley Thrown Open fo Settlers Paul Satko, robust Virginian who vecame an Alaskan with His family rummer when he landed her: with the strange Ark of Juneau, T utrned on the steamer North day after a trlp East “to see a lot of pecple” and announced he would tile on the entire Eagle River valley for hcmestead purposes. The statement sounds rash, but fetko makes a plausible explana- on I toid 1 Office hu &ash- ngton there was room for only forty tilers 1\ t Alaska,” Sat Th went through the they found there were only »y didn’t believe Sure ko saic o we encugh, that many steading places open for home- > rest of the land was under the t Service “Thsy explained to me, though,” Satko centinued, uld file on that land witl aration it was more suitable for agriculture then forest land. It's up to the For- est Service 1o ¢ whether or not want trees or people out there at Eagle River. They can throw it cpen if they want to.” Meenwhile, Satko hopes to do a littie work on his cabin cn the Her Ibert River road this winter and see if he can be ready to move in when spring breaks “Then if we can get that land thrown open, therell be lois of pecple that will want to come up,” atko said “Everywhere I want peo- ple were interested in coming north like we did. We can raise wonderful vegetables out there—not wheat of course, but good root crops, and lots of people are making a living rais- ing foxes and mink. We could have a emmunity out there and we'd have enough people for a school.” Satko and two other end of the oad parents recerstly asked the Territory for a school, Satko said, but “didn't get much satisfaction.” “I've got a letter from a woman who is 2 hool teacher,” Satko said. “She’ll teach the first it grades at any rate and that's something.” e — 300 AIR LINKED CITIES More than 300 cities and towns in | the United States are now linked | together by regular air service. The American international air transport | system, Pan American Airways, joins the United States with over 50 for- | eign countries and colonies, includ- | ing all .atin America, Europe, Al-| i [a.ska, New Zealand and the Orlent.| ] " |ing changés in national character In this pericd of world upheaval astrologers who interpret the mes- sages, of , the stars raach yvarying| cumotrsions, bat alt ufrey that the year 1941 will bring tremendous stress and strain to the psoples of all lands. In the horoscope of King George V1 of Engand s read ult'- mate victory to which the Unitad States will contribute men as well as ships, airplanes and tanks. Self- preservaticn will demand the ut- most effort on the part of our na- tlon if we are to maintain democra- cy. | Nature Disturbances The year will be marked by many disturbances of nature-earthquake: tidal waves, tornad and storms of extreme severity. Great property losses will thus be added the des- truction wrought by war. Migra- [t of populations will cause amaz- tics, eradicating distinctive qualities, | and in the United States, improving the mental and physic povwrs of | large groups. Imventors scien- tists will make long s S OuL of the wreck and ruin of nv world | eventually will rise nrobler nations| and greater cities, Signs of Peace After this winter of Horrors 1he umer will bring bittdr conflicts it in September thers will be signs peace. The greal conjunction of aturn and Jupiter in 1941 is read | indicating the ending of major Though this European war is Plutonmn in its planetary direc- fion there is abundant promise of progress along new lines of human development. i . The United World Power Lfi((’s is to become emost a5 a w |)n,vwr and along | with Canada, wh. also is to be- ccme a greater cenhfl' of world pro- gress, will dominate civilized ad- vancement. Supreme achievement of our great democracy will be bought at a high price. The next three years are to bring tests that demand heroism and sacrifice. Warning 18 en that the American way of | making fortunes and spending them zenerously will undergo change. This new year marks the growing 1p of the nation. It .rust put away childish things as it mects courag-| eously the ordeals v\nflx cannot be covet the wealth and endless advantages re- presented by the land that lies be- tween the Atlanjic and the Pncuxc Oceans. | British Empire Relations Closer relations with the Brmah Empire will be welded by bloodshed | |and sacrifice. Changes are prognos- | |ticated in the government of Eng-| land. Winston Churchill may suffer |2 nervous breakdown that requires lifting of his burdens as Prime Minister. The King and Queen will| | continue to gain in the traditional reverence of the people. There is a ign which indicates that the Duke lof Windsor will be called back for mportant service, a crisis revealing his devotion to the nations over which he once reigned. | The Moon, ruler of Germany, oc- (Contiaued on Psge s & Slege " LULL MARKS CLOSING D..Y OF OLD YFAR Forecasts A?M ade that Tomorrow Will See Blasts from Air HITLER MAKES TALK 10 GERMAN FORCES Does Not R;pTy fo Roose- velt’s Address But Makes an Indirect Reference (By Associated Press) | The closing hours of 1940 brought a lull in the aerial siege of Great Britain while Fuehrer Hitler, in a New Year's message to his troops, |declared that 1941 will bring com- pletion of the “greatest victory in | our history.” Bad weather on both sides of the English Channel kept both British and German bombers grounded ov- | ernight and ushered in the last day of the year quietly but amid fore- casts of more intensive aerial war- fare for New Year's Day. ence to President Roosevelt's defense address of last Saturday night in which the United States Chief Ex- ecutive flatly predicted the defeat of the Rome-Berlin Axis, informed Naai sources sald the speech was stocked with “Insuits to Germany and Ttaly,” but the two nations will not be “pro- voked.” Hitler, in his message to the Ger- man forces which have overrun most of Europe this year, declared Ger- many is “threatened by the world, by the will of democratic war, in- citers and their Jewish capitalistic wire pullers, but the war must con- tinue.” Hitler's Number One Aide, Goer- ing, in reviewing the events of the past year, asserted the German Alr Forces have fulfilled their pledge one hundred fold in retaliation for British air ralds on Nazi land. President - To Discuss Big Topic Expected M;s—s_age to Con- aress Will Be on Aid to Britain WASHINGTON, Dec. 31. — Presi- dent Roosevelt, it is indicated at the White House today, will probably discuss in his annual messhge to Congress next Monday, a plan of landing or leasing war equipment to England. Presidential Secretary Stephen | Early said it seems logical to him that the President will talk about the pxoposal in his mesnge Brifons Wil Face Shorfage 0f Food, 41 (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British Food Minister Woolton painted a dark outlook for the com- ing year today when he issued & statement urging Britons to eat more home grown potatoes and products of oats. Wocolton warned that “we shall have te do with less meat in 1941 and appealed to the housewives to 0 easy with the can opener. e e——— Vitamins A, B, C, D and E are . 'all found in milk. )