The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 8, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE _“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8615, JUNLAU /\LASKA WEDNESDAY, Jz\NU/\R\ 8, ME.MBLR ‘)4| /\.bb()(,lAH-l) P Rl S5 PRICE TEN CENTS MORE MONEY FOR NORTHLAND SOUGHT Italians Face New Disaster in African War LASTMAJOR DEFENSE 1S ENCIRCLED British Establish Blockade on Tobruk by Both | Land and Sea GARRISON OF 30,000 REPORTED SURROUNDED Eonceniraiifif War Craft| and Tank Units Join in Big Attack (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Italy's last major defense base in castern Libya, Port Tobruk, is reported cut off from rescue, “just another Bardia,” and its garrison of 30,000 Fascist soldiers are caught in a tightening trap of the British Army of the Ni by a sea blockade and tank en- circlement. uk is 80 miles west of the border and the pres- clement will effectively large reinforcements. British general head- , in a statement, said, ly: “Concentration of in the Tobruk area is Egypti bar any The ege and ultimate fall ish and Austral- were less than 600 Cthe %, % RobertS.Alles o WASHINGTON—New CIO Presi- dent Phil Murray has his anti-red cupporters baffled, | At the Atlantic City convention he balked for several days at tak- ing the effice because he could nct get assurances of a free hand from!| the left-wing Lewis faction. Fin- ally, through the timely leadership| of Sidney Hillman, this promise| was won for Murray and he was| clected clear of any restraints 10 jigphly reported that British author- clean house, | ities have agreed to relax the block- Murray's backers did not expectiade o permit unspecified amounts him to start purging at once. They | of condensed milk to reach unoc- figured it would take him several|cupjed France and wheat to reach months to get the reins firmly in|gpain, his . But Murray has moved| faster and in an entirely different|will handle the shipments which it direction than they expected. In-|js possible will be made in American stead of starting to reorganize, re‘smps apparently is entrenching John L.| The British decision against al- Lewis' henchmen more strongly than before. man occupied countries is not af- Murray'’s first move has been to fected by this agreement. give Allan S. Haywood, director of | ALASKA IS RELIEF T0 - EUROPE IS PROVIDED Childre nFUnoccupied France fo Receive Food and Clothing from U.S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—It is re- Linked by Rumors Mrs. Helen Vanderbilt, who divorced Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., n Reno recently, is shuwn at Phoenix, Ariz., with Jack Frye, president of Transcontitental and Western Airlines. rumors that they plan to marry. DEFENSE PROGRAM IN AHEAD OF SCHEDULE ... It is believed that the Red Cross | lowing anv foodstuff to reach Ger- | |GREAT SUM ] | FOR DEFENSE iPresndent Roosevelt Sub- | mits Unprecedented Peacetime Budget |OVER 17 BILLION IS WANTED FOR ARMING Chief Executive. Says World| Is at War, Prepared- ness Demanded WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a special message today asked Congress for $17,425,528,- 049, an unprecedented peace- time budget. The President said this re- fiects the fact (hat the “world i at war” d the sum re- quested, although a huge sum, is for preparing a “total de- fense.” The President 811,009,600 exclusively for tional Defense. The President estimates the deficit, beginning July 1 at $0,210,000,600 and foretold that the public debt will be pushesd that deficit to a record 000,000 by June 30, 1942, in the history of the Un i-| |ted States Treasury compares with | Hlv )nu,v Ligures presented to lh(- and House since the last year | of the World War when spend !lnl{ reached 18,522,000,000 and the deficit $13,370,000.000. in his Budget mes has the turn fate placed this burden cn the bac of a p loving people? The Pr in his message said that of these big sums, 62 percent of them are carmarked defense and General Staff of the War Depart- lonly forecast things to come. ment, in a radio broadcast. said the | Counting todays appropriations, United States Army - is now worthy | | and authorizations requests have ag- of any American’s praise and that ‘grcg’ll"d s 28,480,000,000, an additional 600,000 men are now in trainin allotted 510,- Na- They have not denied ONE YEAR N, Jan. 8. Gen shall, Chiel of ihe Fen. Marshall said the v;ll’iou\ garrison and outposts have been | strengthened and he mentioned that Alaska had only a few hundred soldiers in Alaska one year ago but “this lonely group has now been swelled to nearly 3,000.” Gen. Marshall said this last force represents that development is more important, however, than numbers would indicate. “With funds only made available during the latter part of last June, ;ISHU. we succeeded in delivering | material and labor to that isolated nerthern region in time to construct shelter and development of airfields before winter closed in last Novem- ber,” said Gen. Marshall. “It is pleasant to report that the War De- partment’s program in Alaska is one | WASHINGTON. Jan. 8.—Speaker | year ahead of schedule,” concluded | Rayburn reported today after a | Gen. Malshall | conference with Secretary of State | Cordell Hull and Secretary of the| Treasury Henry Morgenthau, that | “progress is being made” in form- ing a plan for expanded aid to Great Britain. Hull, Morgenlhau Ray-| burn Hold Conference —Report Progress > (asualties | | SOUGHTNOW Brifish Aid; PRESIDENT'S TALK IS CARRIED 10 WORLD i President Roovevelt faced a battery of microphones in the diplomatic room at the White House as he de- | o4 natienal seeurity.” ; d translated into six languages, | is Ahe loose leaf notebook from which he read his address. | His words were carried to the In front of him Tivered his “fireside chat” which he called a “talk nation and broadeast by short wave to Furope and As a # BOY SCOUT 'FOUNDERIS DEAD TODAY ‘Lord Baden-Powell, Vet ' eran Soldier, Passes Away-Heart Attack l()NU()N Jan. #-—Lord Baden- 3, veteran soldier who spent | years of his life working ce as the founder of the Boy | Secut movement, died at his home | u Nyeri, Kenya Colony today. He | | had been in precarious health since November when he suffered attack sir Robert first baron Knight of the Rcyal Victorian Order | and ¢f the Order of St. Michael ! |and St. George, was known to mili- | tary experts as a geniu of British | arms, but by the h of the world | | he was idolized as fc and lead- ler of the bo ut movement Millions of boys in more than | three score and ten countries have| | absor and tried to practice the| | precepts of preparedness for service, [which the organization inculcates {and more than a millicn girls in the | er orders of “girl guides,” “girl| scouts” and ‘campfire’ girls” aim at; similar ob ve: ! The growth of the movement frem a small beginning in 1908 has been {one of the outstanding social {I,'Vl‘l-‘ PRAISES FDR'S SPEECH Jaden- Gilwe !],‘ Geon, of D ALASKA - BUDGHT ~ RAISED Presudent Asks for More ‘ Money for Next Fiscal | Operafing Year 'ALASKA RAILROAD " FUND MUCH LOWER ‘Big Appropriations Re- | quested for Naval ! Shore Building WASHINGTON, .Jan. 3.—Presi- dent Roosevelt, in his budget mes- sage to Congress today, asked that Alaska appropriations for the com- ing fiscal year be slighfly increased, largely in road construction and care of Indlans, while at the same time the Alaska Rallroad fund re- quest suffered nearly a half million dollar slash. | The President recommended Con- gress appropriate $1,127,050 for Al- aska's next fiscal year beinning July 1 as compared with a sum of $1,059,~ 560 appropriated for the current year. J Recommendations ¥ | 'The recommendation includes: | salaries of Governor and Secre- tary of Alaska, $15,600. 1 Contingént expenses, $17,870. Legislative expenses, $50,000. Public Schools, $50,000. Care and custody of Insane, $200,- 080, Fund Raised Roads, bridges and trails, $684,500, compared with $570,000 for the cur- rent vear. For wagon roads, Wridges and trails, $150,000 including $20,000 for maintenance of the Mount McKin- ley Park road and $30,000 for con- struction. The Alaska Railroad Fund was set, at $4,250,000, compared with $4,690,« 000 for the current year. Coastal Survey Work The budget also included $41,780 for coastal survey work by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, $26,000 to be for special aerial photographic equipment, and $5,400 for the mag- netic seismological work, including completion of the observatory at Sitka. The President asked the appro- priation for education of Alaska na- tives be increased from $940,595 to $1,044,495. | 'The President asked $28,220 for Mount McKinley National Park. Naval Shore Facilities For speeding construction of naval shore facilities along the far north- ern rim of Alaska, the President asked the sum of $27,985,000. At Kodiak, it is proposed $125,000 {be spent for extension of the bar- iracks building, $90,000 for extension i of bachelor officers’ quarters, $100,~ {000 for roads, walks and services, 1$200,000 for extenslon of the utility hangar and $500,000 for extension of land plane runways. Sitka Air Station organizers (one of the most stra- REQUEST BY ROOSEVELT For the Sitka air station, it is pros LONDON, Jan. 8. — The British government has agreed at the per- tegic positicns in the CIO), two additional jobs—head of the Unit- ed Federal Workers and boss of| the local industrial unions. | velt, to allow clothing and foodstuffs —_— b |for children of unoccupied France ONE WHO BACKED WILLKIE |[to pass the British blockade. To the anti-Lewisites, Haywood| Consent was given with the under- is poison. He is not a left-winger, standing that the distribution be but he is completely under Lewls‘ thumb. When John L. bolted to‘ Willkie, Haywood not only was one| of the few consequential CIO of-| ficials who followed him, but went| Tom Cloninger, genial proprietor OveIbORIS I8 BiE Wiy lof the Nevada in Nome, and well Haywood made a speech for Will-|gnown -in the Cordova District as American Red Cross. - CLONINGER THROUGH kie especially for the purpose Df‘--cwper River Tom” visited briefly | distribution among auto Wworkers. jn Juneau while the Baranof was Thousands of copies of the talk|in port. Cloninger is bound for his were printed and inserted in of-|first vacation Outside in several ficial CIO envelopes for mailing 10 years, the locals. But at the last moment. Lee Pressman, left-wing CIO gen- i eral counsel, became worried that| REAT ON VACATION the envelopes might be a violation Ralf Reat, head of the checking of the CIO constitution, and on his department of the Lomen Commer- advice the speeches were extracted ¢ial Company in Nome, passed and plain envelopes substituted, ,through Juneau on the Baranof for a vacation in the States. He will join Mrs, Reat in Seattle. B — (Continued on Page Four) sonal request of President Roose- | Rayburn hinted legislation might | opments of the we | be considered in the House and Sen- | Internatio Attention ate at the same time, involving the | It coneentrated such international aid to Britain. attention on ils founder that over-| Other sources, including Senator | shadowed the brilliant military ca- Burton K. Wheeler, said an extra reer that reached ils climax in the $10,000,000,000 armament program | | defense of Mafeking in the early| 0f lfalians Former Governor Alfred Smith, who has frequently expressed disagreement with President Roosevelt’s policies, puffed at a cigar during a birthday interview in New York and said he was “heartly in accord” with the President’s speech. It was Smith's 67th birthday, posed additional aviation facilitieq be put in to extent of $1.438,000 | recreational facllities for officers, 1$53,700. | At the Unalaska air station, $255,- 1000 is proposed for seaplane parking | al and $42,000 for additional under the direct supervision of Lhr-; On 2 Front (By Associated Press) | British and Greek estimates place | | Ttaly’s losses at 150,000 soldiers cap- | tured, killed, wounded or missing in the campaigns in Africa nnd Greece. - - ALL WOMAN DODGE CITY Jan 8.—James L. , Wilson of Bolivar, Mo., about to be married, entered a- shop and was, WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—Imme- shaved—by a woman barber. At diate deportation of Harry Bridges, the courthouse the regular judge CIO chieftain on the Pacific Coast, was absent and Wilson and Miss is sought in a bill introduced to-| Geraldine Fay McGuire of Moun- day by Representative Allen, tain Grove, Mo, were married by “Deport Bridges back to Aus- the judge pro tem—also a woman. |tralia,” i is under sLudy stages of the Boer war in 1899-1900, | vt | Yet had neither feats of sceial service fallen to his lot, he| might have attained fame in the; | tield of fine arts. He wits an ‘ambid- | | extrous sketch artist, drawing equal- | {1y well with either hand, enough of {a seulptor to achieve exhibition of his work in the Royal Academy of 1607, author of two dozen volumes and an adept manager and excelling especially as a com- edian. | Deportafion Of Bridges Is Up Again is the keynote of the bill. | he | stage Boy Sccut Idea ! The Boy Scout idea had ils first test when, General Badey-Powell | took a dozen English youngsters on! a camping trip in the Dorset woods. In addition to the usual round of | cutdoor recreaticn—swimming, hik- ing and climbing—he invented for (Continued on Page Eight) arms nor | - HIGHER EDUCATION IS NOW GIVING ATTENTION TO DEFENSE OF NATION By JACK STINNETT ‘_wmm”‘ igher (This is the second of three |ing attention to articles en Education and Na- | At Wellesley, tional Defense.) ey i e | this: “Whatever Jan. 8. —From!' __ to post-graduate | WASHINGTON, college beanery known colleges for women, the de- (Continued on Psge Six) ! gasoline storage. Medical relief of the natives of | Alaska is recommended for increase, from $492490 to $519,810. Fish Laboratory ‘The budget message also recom- {mended the cost of a full time op- ;‘vrution of the fish laboratory in fisheries improvements on the Prib- ilof Islands. A total sum of $457,000 is proposed _ rm protection of seal, otter and ishes of Alaska, - ’rhe appropriation for care of na- education s giv- lees on the Pribilof Islands this national defense, |Year is $280,000 one of the best _The enforcement of the Alaska Game Laws is recommended $135,~ 000, a decrease of about $28,000, No appropriation is proposed for Alaska crab investigations for which 1$100,000 was set aside last yeer., theme runs like the present war's