The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 2, 1941, Page 1

TH DAILY ALAS “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” . LVIL, NO. 8610. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, J/\\UAR\ ‘)41 MEMBER ASSOClA'lH) PRl-'% PRICE TEN CENT® BRITISH PLANES POUR BOMBS ON NAZlS Russia Breaks Fish Treaty With Japan SURPRISE ~ "REFUGE BUOY’ 1S CAUSED BY ACTION Paci Scheduled for One Year Expired December 31 Without Renewal | MOSCOW APPARENTLY | REBUKING NAZ! GOVT. Nipnon Press Urges Clari- fication Over Rela- tions with Soviets TOKYO, Jan. 2—Japan's fish- eries. treaty with Russia expired out renewal on December 31 and le foreign observers see therein nce that Moscow is following a ewd diplomatic policy in her rela- with Japan and Germany he fact there was no announce- t of a renewal in relations with Japan in the fisheries pact before the end of 1940 caused surprise. 1f the delay continues beyond the New Year holidays, observers said this may indicate Berlin is unable persuade Moscow - to come to to terms with Japan which has held fishing East Identified as a German fliers’ ashore by hea by British as contained four bunks, British guard peers out of the tower. rights in the Russia Far “refuge buoy,” 'n territorial waters since her in the Russo-Japanese War. Since 1936, detailed regulations concerning the use of these rights has been embodied in single year a “floating hospital, food, clothing this device was washed as at a southeast English port. The buoy, designed for the use of downed airmen, and medica! supplies. GIVING AID 10 ITALIANS Nazi Warplanes and Crews| ASHORE HITLERIS bling Campalgns RP°R HELP IS ADMITTED % INROME BROADCAST: Newly Arrives Forces Are| Already Concentrated at Fascist Bases (By Assoe dltd Press) Fuehrer Hitler has sent Nazi war- planes and crews to bolster Ttaly's | wobbling campaigns in tht Mediter- an a Rome radio broadcast dis- | sed this morning, reporting also ' that Italian fliers have been recall- ed from the aerial siege of Great Britain An official Italian announcement said the German planes and pilots have been sent to Italy to “help in! the bitter aero naval fight now de- veloping in the Mediterranean ! basin " in some qumlms this move by Hitler is taken to indicate the Axis | will attempt to break tne -British.| sea blockade against Italy. By the | move, the Nazi regime practically | admits that Mussolini's forces have | “fallen down completely,” not only Here a cements and difficulties have 136 e vast Mediar Foas Tnt each year end over the re- |in the vasl editerranean area but x also in the “break the back of 1940 pact called for negotia- Grenos; gatppaigh 2 i tion for a “permanent” fisheries con- he Rome radio broadcast also noted the newly arrived German yention within a yea has not been done. The Japanese press has been urg- s time, but this | IS STILL "ROAD"; ing for weeks that relations with Russia be clarified. - - By fliers and stated they have already been stationed at several Italian bases to take part in aerial attacks with the Ttalian planes. - i STAGE POPULAR Moadsol JACK STINNETT ‘ .. GTON, Jan 2 — The l I Broadway still fondly all |ven efers to the theater of the hinter-| dead as the| of aeting, but) L r B I' I- Like a good many small villages who nurse along a single opera . . . y dllans nouse, the Nations capital bas Germans Claim Million only one legitimate theater—the ASHINGTON-—Ca circles = National—but I have it on the word Pounds of Bombs DfOp- are still buzzing cver the brickbat P i<t of Edmund Plohn, who has besn & 1oz cer e brick, ()fieially Declare Fascist of Eamun o e, i ped on Great Brifain oveli at J‘ eph ¢ e PIafleS, CI'EWS, Bomb_ s the outstand e . resizned but still unreplaced E e stand in the coun- (By Associated Press) by a Cabinet membsr who stated : o theater| O Great Britain, the Nazi High ROME, Jan 2.—The R4 Command declared that nearly 1,- ¢ had been reliably informed | 9 el e orien Mirst Committee | Cfficially announced todny hat 11 _way your taxcs and|g00000 pounds of German bombs Taadho wel.reEsnt SINLNNETH fliers in Italian.planes have Rty :’““‘ ‘” & b~ | were dropped on Great Britain since plannec use recent sta it 8 D, s 1 when Senator Splurge| pAygust 8 of Kennedy's to fight the President the Nezi assault il o M last Octozer This ratio, the High Command as- i ‘J‘n‘l-l addcd ll\{l"‘l‘:fi“‘x}n;ll;;'v‘l\tu.nlu' than a dozen British | P* 3 it 15 something serts, is 25 to 1 for every pound of Palm B ach l;x'(‘l)'u"un.', with the a bee s il has| British bombs dropped on Germany. : it e s retines, the radio broadca bf‘[“" L 1":; “;-li" x::‘hhr:mx%‘i The rcgiewalsosa:ys German rmld{. e says, th ancs cperated in groups. y < and bt T ers carried out eight major attacks 1ar: m“"“al_ weelly admfia?flg is alko ctticlally stated that | Year was considered a capi-|and 325 minor ones against British B ] '“,','f,l,“e ‘2“;](::,0l;a;;d “many thousands of Italians” made ark wihen Ford's. Thea- | munition centers since November 16. iz > up the Italian fleet and Nazi basc oln met his death, The chief assaults fell on the peace on- England. d on the Englhh Chaxmcl coast. going Baptist chui industrial Midland section, the re- waevell umarked that he ha you a ing for a moment, he added Lhat if Kennedy did take such a stand he lot long Raids s of local histery and tell the start thumbirg throush|view claims. > about National- v President WV {onia rized by @ short R b SToCE QUOTATIONS L ry word. there but on offweeks invariably ROC LT'S SLEEP went to Keith's, where he could A E If you want to know how the epor e y catch the vaudev how NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Closing ident stands the gatf, ulxyl‘ Sos ident Hoover practically never set quotation of Al}a.ska Juneau mine feund in the simple fact that his foot inside the lobby, caring today at trze first session ‘uf the he sleeps h‘ril"d and -*lf’?llf late i) B ' pI n le or nothing for the drama: NeV 'York Stock Exchange in 1941 the ".xyz after Chr .LIIM\. he rl a es of the days when Edwin Booth ¥ 4 3/4, American Can Bfl‘J‘.‘ Ax.m« > the small hours compos- played Shak there conda Bethlehem Steel 86' io speech of last Sunday 15 followed three hours of ffairs in the early part of the and Mrs. Barrymore. Several of Itévly's Major Bases Said fo Have ° Been Bombed CAIRO, Jan 2—British planes, in pefore mov He dlld Mrs. Roosevelt entertained | at dinner for debutante Joan Mor-| genthau, daughter of the Secretar_.; of the Treasury. After dinner, the| President stood in line to receive| 505 guests to the reception for Miss|, “Corio "o fierce raids yesterday Morgenthau. i ! around Central Mediterranean, from National is The receiving took from 10 o'clock | _ b until 10:35—which means that the‘eB:rldm r‘“fl;fi_‘:’“‘m"‘(‘)‘r"";:’;“{“e‘f sev- of the Gull guests were sped along at the rate d: oL m){ . l_imo “v‘m-‘sl_) e but it of 4 seconds for each greeting. ‘rhen|p°r B, InQuUAE. T8 € el- plays, It is the President went up t0'his study' cVen bombs were dropped around way'g i —_ Mussolini’s remaining fleet of ba tleships at the sea base. ] and most ci (Continued on PIIG ge Four) Fiske . . . bewhiskered opera house ‘n To get up to modern times. plays testing (Continied on Page Seven) Commonwealith and Southern 13/16, | Curtiss Wright 9%, General Motors 45 3/4, !munatmhal Harvester 50 Kennecott 36 %, New York Cen- tral 13 7/8, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 68, Pound $4.04. and the elder GROUND water under the bridge it has washed through DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Do Jones averages: industrials 130.57, rails 28.03, utililies 19.35, - - CCCHRAN DUE Senator O. D. Gochran, Second Division upper house, is due ' Juneau from the Interior today or tomorrow aboard a PAA Electra. | that dates to the -days ies, The an outrigger, in a way, d Theatre in New York. other than Guild , in fact, one of Broad- groumts and in a Are to Bolster Wob- '[ Britain’s New Envoy to U. S, Others in New Jobs Viscount Halifax In a reshuffiing of the Brifish cabinet, Viscount Halifax, foreign secretary, becomes the new U. 8. ambassador; Anthony Eden, dapper war minister, becomes foreign minister, and Capt, David Marges- NEWRAIN OF BOMBS HIT ERIN Three Irishmen Killed as| German Raiders Dust Sixty-Mile Area DUBLIN, Jan 2.~Five are: within a 60-mile radius of Dub-| lin, including the plain headquar- ters of the Irish Army, were bombe rl last night and early today. Cne of the incendiaries thus loosed by the aerial invaders, de- clared the Irish Department of De- fense, bore German markings At les three civilians were killed and two s 1sly wounded at Knockroe, near Borris, Count Carlow It was suggested in some unof- ficial quarters the raid plane were German craft repulsed in an attack on Liverpool, 156 miles east- ward across the Irish Sea. - SEARAIDER IS ROAMING 50. PACIFIC Official German Commun- ique Admits Ten Mer- chanfmen Sunk BERLIN, Jan. 2 High Command acknowledges a Nazi warship is preying on ships in the Seuth Pacific The communique the raider has sunk “ten enemy chantmen totaling 64,000 tons The crews of the ships are said to have been taken to safety on a South Sea isle The communique denies the sea raider is flying the Japanese flag. / The German SAY mer- 1 announced | Delegate Lady Halifax CONSTRUCTION, JUNEAU FIELD, T0 BE PUSHED Delegate Dimond Says Lo- | cations, Amounts Are Still Tentative plan of the construetion Ciovernment 15 of recently national defense air- L as possible, Alaska Anthony J. Dimond has notified the Juneau Chamber of Commerce. ‘T'he to push elds as to the recent an- $10,000,000 for get $3,- Di srence L ihat of a would eait $500,000, mond no surveys had been | comp d at any of the proposed Alaska bases and that locations and amounts were siill tentative Gther ficids proposed for Alaska in the 1e announcement wer Cordova, $400,000, Ruby, $500.000; Nome, $500000; Kotzebue, $100,000 Big Delta $300,000, and Boundary, 00,000 A ST Federal Reserve Is Busy WASHINGTON, Jan 2 eral Reserve System has mended the repeal of the dential powers to revalue the and issue greenback money, program designed to prevent infla- tion and higher pi which might | result in huge defense spending. | The Federal Reserve System also dvocates, among other proposals, requirement of Congressional action on gradual increase of laxes until the Federal Budget is “balanced” or until the Government tax collec-| tions pay the Government's expend- | itures ‘The recol Presi dollar in al - son, government whip in the house of commons for 10 years, succeeds Eden as war minister. Lady Halifax, who is also pictured above, expect to leave for Washington within a few davs. | b | tien BREMENIS ATTACKED 37 HOURS |\U-Boat Bases and Invasion Ports Are Also Assault- ed During Night GREAT DAMAGE IS DONE BY FLIERS Berlin Admmdion—Was in Refaliation for London’s Fires (By Associated Press) Possibly seizing on the weakness of the Axis offensive forces across * | the English Channel as a result of Hitler sending warplanes and crews to help out the losing campaigns of the Italians.against the British in the Mediterranean area, British Royal Afr Force bombers have car- ried out “very lntennve" overnight raids. The Byilish- o!flchl report de- ‘| clareés that the bombers slashed at the, German, pert of Bremen, Nazi | ifivasion ports, U-boat bases and other targets and “‘great damage has been done as the retumlng fliers re- Anthony” Eden, top,” grent debris heape Capt. David Margesson !exp}m}ve bombs.” The British Press Mwm said the attack on Bgemen is in partial retaliation of the Germans devastat- ing fire raid last Sunday night on | the city of London. The association’s report declares that RAF incendiary bombs “paid the Germans back in TRADE o“ ir.helr own coin | Berlin admits heavy damage and many fires as the result of RAF HlGHWAY ralds at night. Late this afternoon, the British Air Ministry in an official state- Would Give Munitions for 1,000-ft. Wide Strip | ment, said the RAF bombers show- to Alaska BA'_KA“ Lord and on the big north German port of Bremen for three and one-half hours. The attack last night is described as highly successful. Flushing, Ostend and Brest were also “suucess(ully" ntukad WAEHINGTON, Jan ¥ An out ight tr » of munitiens and ! supplies with Great Britain in re- | turn for a right of to o military h hway through Canada to Alaska 5 been proposed by Represenitive GROWING drew Edmistoa of West Virginia. | Fdmisten, heod of the House Mili- | tary Al 3 Committe said In an e intervigw he will offeg the sugges- ok |Bulgarian Big Bosses Hast- " i it e i e wen| €0 1o Question Confab b e e with Hitler Men ppreved would call for a 1,000 foot wide right| a the most direet route we could get there in a hurry J] had tg of the com- {apparently supine today before the Another reason for”the width nflbm German army massing along her the strip, Edmiston caid, would be to| Rumanian border. permit ample width for emergency | Premier Philoff has hastened to landing fields in ) Alaskan bases. Cong Sped facilitating flying iVicnnu and a conference is expected - |there with German leaders. man Edmiston added that| The pro-Nazi Minister of the In- »r Rayburn told him he wouldittrlor is temporarily in control of diser the proposal with President!the Government. Roosevelt, possibly al a conference| Diploinatic circles expressed the later today | belief that the Premier, whose train > OFFENSIVE OF AXIS IS INDICATED Foreien observers in Rome make a precetion that combined Nazi "All FA(IORES and it forces will launch o, BRUSSELS, Belgium, Jan vigorous aerial offensive along and Over 70,000 Belgian workers hs/c over the Mediterranean within the accepted Jobs in German factories, Inext few weeks. ‘uheu‘ there is a great dearth ows be! g to war service of German men. |tolled through Belgrade during the (night is seeking to learn in Vienna just what Hitler plans to do with his Nazi troops in the Balkans and what |part Bulgaria will be asked to play. | Observers said the stage seemed et for w German drive through Bul- aria toward Greece or the Dardan- elles if the Nazis desire to make such a move. 'BELGIANS WORK, This actic will presumaby |taken to offset the land reverses| Almost every week special trains suffered by the Italians both in| With Belgian workers leave for the amount of salt percent. The average sea water is 3¢ in| Albania and North Africa. ered fire hombs and high explosives. 1Relch i B BELGRADE, Jan 2.—Bulgaria lay \F