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TH VOL. LVIL, NO. 8613 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” jUNLAU /\l ASK/\ MONl)/\\ I/WU/\R\ 0, I‘MI DAILY ALASKA EMPIR Bardia Surrendered STRONGHO[D Bar.r Open, but No Pool Tt oday R U S Sl A OF ITALIANS 1S CAPTURED Flag Hauled Down Over Government Buildings —Australians Enfer TWENTY-TWO DAYS OF SIEGE 1S EMDED Thousands of Prisoners, Tanks Taken by Conquer- | ers-Mussolini Loseés f 6.—The British of- Bardia's Itallan hauling CATRO, Jan. ficially report t Garrison has surrendered, the flag down from the Government hou while the Australians were continuing to mep up the last pock- els of ance. The surrender of- k place Sunday afternoon. pritish mechanized patrols 1 arc sweeping on after the spectacular conquest of Bardia and are reported to have established a “close blockade” of Italian forces at Tobruk, 70 miles west of Marshal Giraziar next defense line on the Libyan desert. i Armered Spearhead | An armored sprarhead of the Bri- tish counter offensive is said to be ~ Phllosopher of World cperating 20 miles south of Tobruk. A dispatch from newly captured Bardia itself quotes Brit, military as saying Italy position castern Libya is now in| in all of ‘Continued cn Page Five) | | | | | | Although the second floor hangs precariously over the puhlic mom. business goes on as usual in this English.pub after an air raid. The billiard table on the second floor leans over at an acute angle, but! no one seems to have any fear that the heavy piece of furniture may, land on their heads. Renown, Henri Bergson, Passes Away, Frenchland PAYMENTS Clhe $ [ % VICHY, Jan, 6.—The Government Drew Pearsos | announ that Henri Bergson, 81, ‘; ond | foremost French philosopher, win- i yner of the 1928 Nobel literature %2y RobertSAlles | prize, is dead in Paris as the result % | of pulmonary congestion. ;’ 0 | Henri Bergson was one of the "GO- | great intellectual figures of histime ,and his philosophy brought new — jhcpu to those who saw humanity WASHINGTON- he most im-'dra ed down by material things portant question discussed in inner | Adminjstraticn circles before President made his recent defense i speech was that of using American warships to convoy suppiies across | i the | who battled Lll'(l to refute (hc‘ thesis ti The thin, f little philosopher menster of mater- classro alism in 2 s the the univ the Atlantic to Irish or British wat- fl)r()'wl‘l muuuun ba into fashion crs. This question probably was in!and put it in rge of all i the President’s mind also when he!man has most cherished since ihe worte the speech. |dawn of time—the belief in God The problem among some of Roosevelt’s close ad- viscrs ever since British emissaries | brought word that while England | cculd withstand airplane bombard- ment it could not withstand the con- tinued sinking of its merchant ves- sels. The British also made it clear | i that more over-age U. S. destroyers | {i Navy was running short of has been debated | and Gifted land the power philosophy style an after-life. Philcsophy Popular Bergson was no attic philos with a streng pe to put his nto melodious prose, he made his a popular topic of the rst decade of the 20th century. The very charm of Bergson's and the beauty of his words trained crews. entually led to his undoing, for So far, the President has shied | his opponents called him “not a y from any such drastic step !philosopher but a word magician” as using American naval vessels to{and the tremendous popt ity he zuard supply ships across the At- e Jantic. Some of his advisers have | leaned toward the idea, but Roose- | velt has argued against it. He main tains, first, that it would be in vio- | lation of the Neutrality Act and could not be done without an act of Congress; second, that if an Am- | crican vessel were sunk it would mean war. Some of Roosevelt’s advisers con- tend that the last thing Hitler wants is to bring the United States into the war; that the effect on the German people (who remember how the United States tipped the scales in the last war) would be devastat- ing. Hewever, the President hasn't fallen for the idea yet, though he is watching carefully the effect of his speech on public opinion. NOTE: One of the British emis- caries who put American entry into the war bluntly up to Roosevelt was the Duke of Windsor. However, the President replied that he had given a firm pledge to the American peo- " (Continued on Page Four) | a al of as his popul became pretended (o have niture. {of came as current and as incompre- hensible “technocracy” mjoyed and the ntradicting types his supporters helped to im into an eclipse almost as rity was brilliant. Phrases, Passwerds rson’s phrases, in his heyd: passwords for those w 1y mental fur- most popular vital.” It be- Be Perhaps the them was “elan to the general public at he beginning of the ctntury as did many years later, It was discussed as fashionable tea tables and in anarchist clubs, Leetured in U. S, When Bergson appeared in the United States in 1913, his lectures t Harvard and Columbia shattered 11 attendance records, Nearly 200 books were written about him and his philosophy He became one of President Wil- son’s close friends and for a time he was mentioned as probable Am- bassador from France, When fthe war broke out, Bel',z-l' in America alone. HENRI BERGSON son gave up his lectures at the Col- lege de France and never returned to his classroom. In his later years his broken health kept him in al- most complete obscurity. Forced lie for hours at a time in a dar ened room because of the cxtreme headaches from which he suffered,| Bergson gave up nearly all his work His last significant beok, written at the age of 73, was in itseli a tri- umph of will-power over acuie physical suffering w Early Successes As’a young man, Bergson quick ly rose to prominence. Born in Paris, of Anglo-Jewish parents, on October 18, 1859, he received hi: primary and university ('dluz.llmn in the French capital. In his classes he won nearly every prize offered, and at 22 he became a professor of philosophy. By 1907, Bergson already had taken his place among the world’s intellectual leaders. Three books, “The Immediate Data of Conci- ousness,” “Matier and Memory” and “Creative Evolution” had much to do with assuring his fame. The philosopher’s prominence reached its greatest heights in 1914 In that year he was elected to the French Academy. In that yea: also certain of his works were piaced (Continued on ge Seven) - an | BERLIN IS GIVEN ‘ Thousands of Troops Mass- to GIRDING FOR WAR Rumored Relations with Germany Are Broken 0Off in Balkans CONCISE WARNING ed in Old Trouble Lone of Danube rim phete taken ot sea frem the deck of a German wa (BY ASSOCIATED PR of a Nazi submarine, primed {n vomit torped ‘s at enemy craft on the high seas. The U-boat is . A to ca by a destroyer and Lwn minesweepe Photo taken from deck o7 miresweeper in fore- In the Balkan cri o growid, Geodbys ave so a from destreyer as the sab sete foll speed ahead for the sealanes it will rcles reported today tha prowl for its quarry, with British merehant ships its principal goal has alread; warned Berlin a 4 L tstep might rericus 1 relations with Russin All cor iraticns with Ruman- are cnt off, Eoviet quarters in Bel- i said, and declared further that summening hom> of Russia’s ministers in Belarade. Yugoslavia and Hungry is definitely linked with “rew military developments in JRu- mania and Hn Y German trocp movemenis past week are reperted (o ha n the Nazi armies in the Balkans 600,000, while Rus- heavy cencentra- of the Red Army in nearb; carabia along the lower Danube. - - - BLACKTOM in the SUDE .0 approximatel 5o ma ARE VALID 0ld Case Upheld by Su- preme Court — State Secretary Judge WASHINGTON, J‘L“ 6—The idity of fifty m!lilien dollars in dam- age awards against Germany set by the German-American Mixed Claims Commission as a result of the des- tructive Black Tom and Kinsialn, New Jer explesions beforz the United States en! d the World ,War, was upheld the Supreme Ceurt today. Chief Justice val- in Charles Evans Hughes delivered the opinicn hold- 2 that payment (o American mants must be made because thc certificate by the Secretary of the State ordering such actirn “must be deemed to be conclust et Hopkins Off for London | rapid construction of submarines shipbuilding centers by the R. A. phote of activity at a sub ce man seaport city. stra L Minister Without Porfolio, Chair- By JACK "”"“"" Kimo-minded fouristy Iack for man of the Post- Reconstrue FO(me[ Se({efafy of com- WASHINGTON, Jan. 6.~If you thoge little packets of INg| tion Policy Committee, and has arent waxing your skis or fling maps if they did venture out on| named Supply Minister Sir Andrew merce Goes Abroad as | sour sates. youre ciear out of the the unsnow-plowed highways Disioast sa tisad, of thie Tnboth sud | FDR' E TanaIsy Ten years ago the Civilian Con- Production Committee. S nvoy What has happened 1o the vaca- oo vation Corps was no more than| Churchill named as members of cation and sports-minded In this| 4 oy wisps in the s of | Sir Duncan’s committee, Lord Beay- | ® NEW YORK, Jan. 6 Withont COUDUY in the last len years 15/ gome potential New | erbrook, Minister of Alrcraft Pro- making any comment or detailing ‘Omething for the historians 10 qen years ago, most of the na-|duction; A. V. Alexander, First Lord the motives of his mission, Harry ™MWl over. And whenever thes | yional parks shut up shop in the|of the Admiralty; Capt. Oliver Lyt- L. Hopkins, President Roosevelt’s es- Starf. they will be goufy o the| wintor and left only a few old- telton, President of the Board of pecially assigned personal envoy to 'CCOTES of several government yimers around to worry about how Trade, and Lord Woolton, Minister Great Britain, today left for Lon- #scncies and al least one privalc)ihe puffalo herds were going to|of Food don on the Yankee Clipper organization which headquarter| weather the storms or aboul how, Changes in the government 'na- “T will be back when I have fin- here the bears were hibernating in the chinery are described as almed at ished, T won't be long and I do not Ten years ago, the American| pridal suits in Rainier'’s Paradise| “more rapid and decisive action.” vant to add anything to what the Autcmokile Association started lay-| np, | The duty of the imports organiza- ing off its staff in October, and by uary only a few of the boys and Is stuck around to keep the lumps lighted and see , President has said,” replied Hopkins to the newsmen. He was former Sec- retary of Commerce and resigned on account of his health, i PULL SPEED AUEAD is the word in German shi continues despite slashing raids on . From German sources comes this stion plart in an unidentified Ger- 1, which Note torpedo holes in the snob-nosed cri r probably will deal destruction to British ship SKIING, ICE SKATING NOW DEVELOPING AS GREATSPORTS INU. . that no Es- | British Forces ng in the future. FIRST SKI TRAIN Eight years ago, (Contiaued on Pige Six) the ship, and deplets the ell-like slithering rds where the first NEW POWERS Sign Contract with Labor Bodies Jan. 6.-—The-Su-| held the Labor Board has authority to require a | company to sign a written contract vith labor organizations. Justice Stene delvered the deci- <ion in the case of a Pittsburgh | company testing the Board s author- ty under the iabor act WASHINCGTON preme Court tod Employer Can Be Forced lo' U-BOAT SETS GU‘I ONERRAND OF DEATH PRESIDENT SAYS NATION FACES PERIL Chief Execufive Demands Swift Drive fo Increase Our Armaments AID MUST BE GIVEN T0 ALL DEMOCRACIES iDefense Prfim Must Be Enlarged - Munitions Manufactured WASHINGTON, Jan. 6. — Presi- dent Franklin D. Roosevelt told Congress today the United States is faced with an unprecedented “for- eign peril” and demanded a “swift driving increase in our armaments” both for defense amd for use by fighting “democracles” abroad. ‘The President, in his annual mes- sage to Congress on the state of the union, said the “need of the moment is that our actions and our policy should be devoud primarilv and al- most exclusxvely to meeting this for- eign peril” for ‘all of our domestic problems and now a’ part of the great emergency.” Increased Appropriations Appearing before a joint session of the House and Senate in the great House Chamber, the Presi- dent said he nsked Congress for “greatly increased new appropria- tions” to carry on the defense pro- gram. The President recommended that | the “greater portlon of this zreat (Continued on Page Karl Theile Passes Away Tihere were nrc dissenting votes MeReyncelds did not participate, Stene sald, “Refusal to ba . collectively is an unfair labor prac- requiring an employer to bargain collectively, dsesn't compel him to enter into & agreement, but it deeart follow it having reacned| Y eteran Alaskan Succumbs ement he can refuse to sign he never agreed to sign ¢, he may never have sargain, but the statute, however, requires him to do so.” bl i CHURCHILL DUSTS OFF MACHINERY Sefs Up New Commitfees fo Speed Imporfs— labor Gefs Job LONDON, Jan. 6. —Prime Winston Churchill has Laborite Leader Arthur ppointed ireenwood, Minister | . Following Operation agreed l(ll in Seame 1 SEATTLE, Jan. 6—Karl Theile, 53, prominent Alaskan, formerly Se- cretary of Alaska, died Saturday af- terncen folléiving an operation. ‘Theile, who has been in a hospital for the past several days, was op-= srated on a few days ago for bladder ouble. Surviving him are his widow, Ce~ celia, formerly Cecelia McLaughlin of Juneau, a daughter Rosemary, T, son Karl Jr, 17, by a former riage, The son is attending school .in Portland, Theile was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. May 10, 1886. He came to Alaska as a young man and flrst became publicly known when he | mushed the tortuous mail run with {dog team from Kuskokwim to the Nushagak in 1916, In the same year he took over |the mail contract, Theile was ap= peinted Commissioner at Iditarod, and tion is to “animate and regulate ski| the whole business of importation | in accordance with the policy of the ‘\War Cabinet.” later becoming Surveyor General. was Secretary of Alaska from 25 to 1933 during the Republican |administration of Gov. George A. Parks. | After leaving office in Juneau, Theile went into the cannery busis 58, becoming operator of the Dia~ 'm(‘nd K. Packing Company at Wrangell, leaving that business dur- ng recent poor fish years for the He mining game, Fer the past two seasons, Theile {has been operating placer ground In +ihe Seward Peninsula country on the Kugruk River, | Known from one end of the Terri= tery to the other, Theile leaves be= hind a host of friends in both the Republican ranks for which he fought and 'in the Democratig .strcngholds which he assailed. i i T

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