The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1941, Page 1

TH “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8612. ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ——————w JUNEAU ALASKA A, SATURDAY, jA\JUAR\ 4, 1941. PRICE TEN CENT3 BATTLE OF BARDIA IS RAGING F.D.R.T0 READ HIS MESSAGE Will Appear Before Joint Session Monday-Bud- get on Wednesday SHINGTON, Jan 4. President il deliver his annual naress in person. f The President, will address a joint essicn of the Heuse and Senate next Mc at 11 c’cleck (Pacifi» Time). | Th t recommendalions will be st itted te Ccngress next Wod- | ; 2 i | Berkeley Bunker Cecrets Stephen Senate’s Youngest Her the official announcemsan ! o AR ud the President will “keep at Ey ALEXANDE GEOR cn his annual message and wioe Wiiter ) the “~”1m)\' (}:(:(dho w]oekend.' W2 Jan 4—A 33- Early said the President hopes to .., .14 pishop and a weman who keep slative message to 3,- 4 5 sicnal headline-news el and delivery will take 4.0 4 Wworld War days contribute 1t half an hour. r to the 77th Congress which has Jeanette Rankin “No" Resounded COLORFUL CONGRESS MEETS FDR Plan FIRST 3-TIME PRESIDENT Will Be Debate Forecast WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. —Ultimate of Roosevelt’s lease-land is predicted by but it is con- i dicted, But Lengthy | approval plan to aid Britain, Democratic leaders. { the test of a “lengthy debate.” | The plan has already become the Percy Priest | foremost issue of the day-old Con- 'm Festival Fan press. Among opnonents, Senator Burton Wheeler taid he would devote amost his “entire time” to fighting | the vlan, Senators LaFollette and Nye are |also opposed to the Roosevelt plan. ars ago that the Republican p Both branches of Congress went oust Old Guard leadership aftracted |into recess today after initial or- national attention. He has assailed|ganization sessions yesterday Aiken Adds G.OP. Stringth | g Hrlpinz bolster G.O.P in the Senate is Vermont's righty budget-minded George D, Aiken. E Approvedi Conqressionial Okeh Pre-l ceded the plan will have to stand | & THREEKILLED IN COAST TRAIN WRECK ATTACK1S ~ FROMSEA, LAND, AIR 'Suicide Garrison’ Report- i ed 'Nearly’ Captured by British Forces AUSTRALIANS MAKE (HARGE BY BAYONETS German Bombers Report- ed Flying fo Scene But Radio Cuts Off Story (By Aumht:d Press) Great Britain’s Desert Army claims a victory over the “suicide garrison” at Bardia without disclos- ; ing how long the mopping up might | take. e = conven New Deal “totalitarianism” and has Both Democratic and Republican 4 The Cairo headquarters of the No WORD BA(K ' “Back to the House of Represen- | tangled with the Federal Govern-|Senators were called into caucus A speetacular freight train derailment, in which some cars plunged down a steep embankment into the | Army of the Nile sajd almost half tatives comes the first woman leect- ment over flood control jurisdiction. | meetings. Pacifie Ocean, brought death to three members of th s train crew near Del Mar, Cal. Mcst of the wrecked [of the Fascist defense positions have jed tc Congress, Montana’s Jeanetle | In place’ of the: Senatas No. 1| e cars piled into each cther beside the track. Associat d Press Telemat received by airmail heen taken and several thousands FROM FA"SHAW' ' Ra 1. Her vote against war pro- | fancy word slinger, Henry Founcai e jof the 20,000 Italian soldlers have I vide ne ¢f the dramatic moments | Ashurst of Arizona, is Errest W. M=- | been eaptured. . in the historic se on Good Fri- | Farland, a county judge and farm G r e e k s - Crushing Attack HAIDA E“ROUTE diy, April 6, 1017 lowner. An earnest but awkward | o ( a ra ays Ippon | Larry Allen, Associated Press cor- Miss Rankin, then the only one of | speaker, he won the :)'Pspondrnt with the British Fleet Democraiic I bombarding Bardia, sends a radio Murder Repofl IflveS"gfl" h\l in Congress, sat through the | nomination fro mthe ecloquent Ash- : " . ) first roll call with bowed head, fail- | urst, long rated a well nigh invinc- | a l“ . [] report that the British warships op- ,‘ ed by Au'horlhes—(:oasi ing to answer to her name. On the | ible vote-getter | e Is ra lon ons(rlp lng erating off the north African Coast \a ]'flum. roll call, which came after| The Congressional cast, hcwever, trained their big guns on Bardia 3 Guard Joins Case 3 celock in the morning, she arose 1s argely the same one that put on| . land put the Fascist garrison under i £ 1 with tremulous voice: a prolonged 1940 performance and| vance & crushing attack. E el s I ’! /ant to stand by my country |set a peacetime record of votiiw | [ oar ame a ps Bayonet Charge had b 1 u- 1 n::: :E)r:mg mde:;‘ }fg:vgle";);:\, but I cannct vote for war.” ‘some $17,600,000,000 for defense. ! b " Australian forces on land, accord- of Federal authoritiss AMHich -Jeft Ycungest A Bishop The new Congress, - functioning B D | fE d ek »lnz to dispatches ”l"eceivod aboard 1 e i A 4 £ Youngest man in the Senate is against a backdrop of warfare in- ed he British- warships, made a-bay- i s (Gl FANSIAY o Eerkeley L. Bunker, 33-year-old volving coutries in all six contin- IgUeve °pme" Xxpecie Dubhfl IS Agam A"fi(ked Juneau Mefl from 21 0 35:Consulates Are Chafged o chargy. sERIUE TG shotor: of _ ot B fascor 11-year-old trapper. |Mormon bishop. Bunker, who is also ents, has a membership already al- Soon-Nazi Aid Doesn't . g ge pog Ttalians and the Italians immed- i 3 The ’C(’“\L'(“ ©d cutter Haida!® 8ascline station operator and a | most unanimously on record as op-; by RalderS—Ge{many L i Musi S|gfl Up on WI"I MI'I'B[Y A('IVI'Y un.ely threw down their arms and 1 & it at 6 oclock lash. might|{OTmer spes iker of the Nevada state | posed to entry of the United States ! Amount fo Much : 5, “ gladly surrendered. The Australlans fehile no. word. was. avallablo|dSSembly, was appointed to il the |into the war. It is the flst Queer Denial January 22 on Coast and Hawaii |cracked one sector of Bardia's de- | o her destination, it was be-|vAcancy caused by the death of Sen- | to serve with a third-term President.| py AGgOCIATED PRESS) A fenses in less than one hour after s lieved the trip was in conncction|Ator Kev Pittman. Wallage “The i Nevige | Greece today claimed new gains (BY A Draft Resistration Board for| ‘WASHINGTON, ‘Jan. 4—Senator, 10 SHAck begnn: . 5 2 : Amcng the house rookies is 33-| Democratic and Republican lead- 4 al % e s i lay by |Gillctte of the Senate Foreign Re-' At the same time the Australians vith the Cape Fanshaw g year-bid Brain Truster' Thomas .| ers, with .gne excephioh, 8% veter. Dad broken the Iialian lines & sev-| ‘Bombs § dropped again during Junein was appointed today by|Gillctte o 8 s were charging and the British fleet . fesbeion P s i 2O e - . eral places in the central Albanian the night cn Dublin, in neuteal Tre- Mayor Harry I. Lucas and the City |lations Committee teday asked the o grandson of famed Harvard ans. Presiding over the Senate in , i e e y ' Y e ¥ BT e Started shelling Bardia, the Royal = . sector, and authoritative quarters janq lemands were made by the Council State Dej men (o check reports . versity President Charles W. place of strategist John N. Garner is P o PSS aud A i ' % AR, Lot g e, g .. Air Force planes rained tons of predicted an “important develop- Irish ate for reparaticn These on the Board, all to serve which he said charged the Japanese 5 Tl Young Eliot, an early New| legislative novice Viea President o= it ponse, more bombe veluntarily without pay, ‘are.J. P.| Govarment ' of nscripting Am- , Pombs on the town. B .r, was general counsel of the Henry A. Waliace. i ARSI AR e & mmons, Mrs, | erican citizens of g s Halian Report Boolal oottty wBoand. ab) 0! Cool tactiolan Charles MoNary is| A German rudio broadcast heard jyngs. . - 3 Williams, Howard E. Simmons, Mrs.|crican citizens of Japanese ancestry pyotones” from Rome said the H i in New York said the 15 been no | phe German ssman, in an Lille B, Hc Etla Mae Duck-| n the Pacific Coast States and in N . | To the House from Andrew Jack- leading 28 Republican senators, five FE & TR 3 el " f i 19-day siege of Bardia is reported | chang in the Reich's formal rela- uncfficial statement, intimaicd that worth and Mrs. E. L. Gruber. | Hawaii § |sen's old district comes homespun more than he led at the last sessicn Ajighd DA i) IR 4 i o p B -onsiderable 'ONight to have flared into a furious % |3, Perey Priest, conductor of &]Kentucky's Alben Bapilay tions with Greece, although the It-|the bombs dropped on Dublin “are ~Registration will take place Jan-| “This may be a considerable | oo "oe yealian defenders facing 2 et S iy o et alians have announced a German pnglish or they are imaginary.” ary 22 in the City Hall Council threat to National Defense plans,” ' Drew Pearsos {cauntry folkc;column. in & Nashville [leads the Democratie MR air corps was sent to aid them. R Tvich. contend . the . -hombs, Chambers. All Alaska.fnén from 31|he said; “My information from:ve- TIAS8 SEACKS of SNIME M aF e and £ | nevepaper. Friends tell of the “mule | the Senate. Sam Raybum will con- ——.————— 4 from planes of an uniden- to 35 are required to register on that | wble sources ind that the Jap- Mored cars, bayonet charges, planes Robert S Allen z sense of Priest, Who comes from &) tinte 85 House Speakerijipd doo on. ate German explosives. day for selection for military ser-|anese Government linked with Axis “Nd_Warships. mule-raisng ccunty, leves to lead Martin will pilot a G.O.P. phalanx o g R i & DK Sy Rl oy 3 y i ~ Ttalian reinforcements, according | v ) ———— vice. powers is conscripting men for mili . a-mmimits <ings and to attend'in the House, reduced frem 169 to DN ary by vight andk olir noag to the dispatches, are being rushed farm festivals. 162 T Sipg l60 " (ne to Bardia but dispatches do not I od that officials of the - - v _, state from where the reinforcements | Sine- n Peoples Leagu2 had are coming. B l A \:“:::\::‘ ,3”"‘ fhomn (mefi';gflsd”;:t Italian observers claim that Ger- » WASHINGTON—It was a umqun I“" o it ¥ man Air Corps are expected to ar- . V< purpose and that Japan had cession at the White House when ye z rive at Bardia any moment and 7 cmpleted a census of 89,500 Japan- A 5 President Roosevelt finally annouc- | ega’ i Easall-how srisdben: ianon- that “the big battle between the cd the four-man super-hcard which | pASI BR"ISH pri 'I“‘ 2 L eticans b AXis and Great Britain on the Medi- » ed up defense producticn.! e the e ot 21 and 36 both i lerTanean is"——at this moment tually ncne cf the Defense Com-| et sgmebigulong i B “ | telephone connection between Rome » missioners had the remot idea | e T Res'”("ons Are CIamped CATNIT S "".Y‘. X and Bern, the relay point, was cut : Svelt hindl’ (p-Bia G H ff by the Ttalian c ] e o Sl | sy worcan . searry Irish Bombing Is Laid fo Down as Result of Fs- | Lot by lan censor. ¢ n 2 AP Feature Service Writer | , g ; s | who was in the know was Wil-| (a I Ta"e Nazi Attempt 1 | —_— A 1. MeRcymolds, clvil service| . FS aSw eE I; O Government Says Bombs cape in California, f Fhout Rbesepelh faiee as WASHINGTON, Jan, 4—Meas- orce War Enlr YT . s B » an administrative exper, though| . ure the first full calendar year of y and Magnelic Mines | sav reaxcisco: san. &oThe REFUSE 'I'o ia(l’:,r‘\nu!ds and Louis Brownlow, | o uperVIse e twnr dewrmsn Of'_r:m:::y x:;x:— LONBDION, dan. fer Bl pources, Of Germal\ OTIgm naval reservists who 8 ifierned lirector of the Public Administra- | QUReh RR0 CIaTMADY S B ¥ flatly blaming Germany for bomb- here has resultcd in tightening of director of the Public Admin ! est string of victories that ever B s * tion Clearing House and chief au-| " but ings of Ireland, suggested today the Tin hatted air British vigilance, an unofficial Bri- thor of the famous government reor- B A D D Lronsure Nadis are tying to force that neu- PUFLIN, Jan 4700 WHEE B0l tish spokeeman said today * ganization bill, wete the brain-fa- | a that year in terms of world treasir yra) republic into the war as a Brit- ¢ oo demolition squats | Abuse of safo conduct privileges thers of the original scheme for a (Won or lost, and Germany's still ish ally in the hope of selzing Irish stood by on the streets of DubMA oo of tne 512 sailors originally | Denesa. Gesnmmigalin ol ot Ch_;;"‘fl Gra‘"b°“'5~ 3 ineq DAseS as jumping off spots to invade “’"‘-‘5 a5 “‘i‘)‘ C‘g"“‘""::“" ’fcn“’: “weneht here to Angel Tsland after i gt ik ” A , % e German army has gained pngland, that more bombs as well a B~ on g ¥ Bt i " Roose! ralled them in again, to- B ¢ X i il i fag 4 e German ship Columbus was Roovevel: called them n sagin, o Area Office Bemg Estab- 'tor the Reich Iiterally millions of “The British said the oscupation " - Id:n‘tlrrx‘ed‘l"l:'G:;er\;n A For Once, No Excuse Please ' dustrial A Reporfed ‘ Gnith. 15 g0k advib renzt ! : square miles of the living space of Ireland would give the Germans 1and ha uary has precluded further s'mi- lai ini ¢ St KA e DO SEIEE- | lished by Army at Adolf Hitler has demanded. His “igeal” naval and air bases with Residents, however, refused to de- JEU0H v (laim Pelplng Ma- n US ral Area epo 2l force reigns supreme on the con- which to continue the assaults on Sert 1iving rooms for the discomfor! S 3 " the spokesman - oo "‘;"I; h“'] Had; B m;mm'l“ofi An(horage tinent of Europe--almost. British sea commerce. "™ 0f basements or outdoor shelters. 4ai d“"“ game is up, e apokesma rines Began Row ! Sea of Hflmes Atiny, oue from Dolenss. Gormmie-| e But the bulk of the worlds I was declared British war re- The nowspapers ridiouled the W68 1¢'yas aisclosed that five deck of-| s Bristol Raided Coner Jenudsen and others from! BEATTLE, Jan. 4. — The Army|Brains, metals, and other sinews sources would be strained further | that such bomb violations Wffl_? 8 yiers and one engineer had walked| PEIPING, Jan. 4—Authoritative i N i IR Ners O nencers Office today announced|Of beace and war still elude the should Ireland enter the conflict, be- |Mstake. An official statemen said . ord the liner Asama Maru last SCurces say the Japanese military é New Deal sources. He discarded all|Bnsine Office at!&rasp of the conqueror, ause it is woefully deficient in Lhat two magnetic sea mines drop- 0" Co. sing the baggage of Authcrities have flatly rejected de- (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) but the Army formula, which pro-|it is establishing a Area ice at!é&! L d . caus ks ved off county Wicklow were iden- Octcber 25 carrying the baggage of ds they apologize for the “illegal British bombers smashed for the ysed a super-board made up en-|Anchorage with Capt. Benamin Tal- Among the big twelve slrategic anti-aircraft guns, artillery, am- Ped of " seven Germans who had been per- Mands they apologize k¢ p WP hird sthoesmiive night on the great : iy ey rriving there January 11 to| necessities — and there are even munition and mrp!anes ifizd a5 of German origin as were .o U T LT 0 o0p physieal @196t Of five U. 8. Marines in a cab- tirely of Army and Navy executives.|'ey 8 the 1,,,,“b5 dromx-d at og]g.y,m. o New Years Eve, declaring G€rman port of Bremen leaving the T ‘i y .o hav> gencral charge of construction more than that—Hitler's victories ] disability or ill health, The six re- arét on New Years Eve, declaring fon " This was a complete about-face|h: [{ £ / the Americans were responsible. induserial area “a sea of flames. : the Wa tme! _'at Ladd and Elmendorf Fields and have yielded comparatively little cf mained aboard and reached Tokyo Gans P : 11 by the War Department. In its in | thy : The apology demands, made by ‘This is the official report of the Bri- dustrial mobilization plan of 1939, |Fort Richardson. e resources he says the rest of Slokowski ‘I’akes and home, R Marine com. tish Air Ministery * (ne Army advocated civilian con-|{ It has noi been deiermined, the the big powers pilfered for them- As far as the United States is con- o5 Rage, Nazi planes made a big assault r ’ u § 1. who would be in charge selves. ” " cerned the men may leave the coun- Mander were sharply rejected by the Too, % Bl ™ 8 carted trel of dafense production as follows. | Army said i i ce ) 15a ks /i s s "I is contemplated that such a.of each of the three projects. | Still Needs Textiles | NEW YORK. Jan. 4 — Closing Half Price” Deal = in ws way posivie Jopanese, 1t is said, and the de- Th BUOe last night Aud staried : = Seiiat il S . DS Scant textiles to cloth sople quotation of Alaska Juneau mine z TR % mands of Turnage still stand | 2 , <et-up will be manned by qualified - L Reae T Ragop F i " , s |than 100 miles according to the Ger- civilians chosen by the President. and armies have come his way. Stock at today's short session of i g TERM of (ouR‘ man fliers when they returned to Abhrouriite FeRrdacrTitivee b tho Japanese lose He's still deprived of @ continu- the Stock Exchange is 4%, Ameri- PHILADE{PHIA, Jan. 3. — Leo-| A"ZA( A'RME" ,,m bases this momm‘ vl b 3 iR e ing supply of the rubber to turn €an Can 91, Anaconda 20 7/8, Beth- pold Stokowski has agreed to lead OPENS MONDAY. sist in the accomplishment of the HIH | his wheels ‘and put tires on his lehem Steel 877, Commonwealth the Philadelphia Orchestra in-ten ' | sedn e e -Qver niion automobiles, He's won no, sure sup- And Southern %, Curtiss Wright concerts next fall, but declared in NO JURORS YET MUSI STAY DRY cOu le CIub W|" : | ) ‘hose 9%, General Motors 48, Interna- a letter to the orchesira’s bourd But the Army now proposed that; . ply of manganese, without whose : % trall this plan be junked and the military, In (h'nese wa’ alloy not one ton of fighting steel tional Harvester 51, Kennecott 36°.. of directors that the fee agreed The January term of District MELBOURNE, Australia, Jan. 4 be top boss. H | could be produced. He's taken over NeW York Central 14'4, Northern upon is “less than half what I Court will convene here at 2 o'- —The government has reversed its Mee' Next Tuesday ; e 'little copper production for his Pacific 6%, United States Steel receive in other cities clock Monday afternoon, with order forbidding the sale of liquor “YOU'RE THE BOSS" CHUNKING, Jan. 4. — Chinese radios, communication systems and 69 3/4, Pound $3.04. The amount he will receive was Judge George F. Alexander on the in army camps and will install| The Couple Club will meet Tues- Conferring with, Roosevelt last Military Headquarters said today generators. And there's hardly DOW, JONES AVERAGES not diselosed | bench | canteens selling beer only, at all|day evening at 6:30 o'clock at the o « week, War and Navy. Secretaries that Japanese casualties since the enough oil produced in Rumnmn The following are today's Dow. For two years, Stokowski has de-| Grand Jurors will not report un-,army camps except militia camps, | Northern Light Presbyterian Church E — —iwar began July 7. 1937, were 7.800,- | _ o Jones averages: industrials 14240, yoted most of his time to moticn til January wd Petit Jurors xul"lln- air force camps will remain | for a potluck dinner followed by the P (Continued on Page Four) | (Continied on Pngt‘ Seven) ‘r.nla 28.40, utilities 19.90. picture work, ‘uuul January imy. usual social cvening. i : 1000 killed and wounded. I