The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1941, Page 1

TH DAILY ALASKA E __“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'P[RE \()} lVll NO 8616 JUM AU, ALASKA, THURbDAY ]ANUARY 9 I‘)4I BRITISH BOMB BER Nazis Are Now Planning ACTION HINT - GIVEN FORTH BY GOEBBELS Germany M;yABe Marshal- ling Forces—Correspond- ents Are Cautioned (By Associated Press) In Berlin today, Nazi Propaganda | Minister Goebbels dropped a hint | that Germany may be marshalling | her forces for another vast offen- | sive | Goebbels cautioned foreign cor- | respondents not to regard the pres- | ent lull in operations as meaning indecision, declaring that Nazi of- fensives are always preceded by in- | tervals of “most careful prepara- tion | Germany's enemies, he said, have | scoffed at the long siege of inactivity | ern Front in the w\nu-rl nd then on May 10 the | began in the west time imag to her knees. | | | | on the W of 1 -40 great offensive in the shortest brought France e which inable | Stock QUOTATIONS " NEW YORK, Jan. 9. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 5, American Can 94%, Anaconda 27%, Bethlchem | eel 88'c, Commonwealth and yuihorn 13/16, Curtiss 9%, Gen Motors 43, International Har 53'z. Kennecott 36%, New Central 15, Northern Pacific United States Steel 69%, Pound 5.0 DOW, The following Jones averages: 20.65, utilities ter JONES AVERAGES arc today’s mdusm.‘ls 13339! 1ail WASHINGTON—Quite a battle| was put up.by some of the Presi- dent’s friends to get famous Brain | Truster Tom Corcoran appointed as counselor of the National De-| fense Commission. | The proposal was frowned upon | by both Secretary of War Stimson| and Secretary of the Navy Knox, the two Republican members of | the Cabinet. And since the Presi-| dent did not push it, in fact seemed | lukewarm about it, the matter was| dropped. Around this revolves the fact thazl one of the most colorful and l\mc-« lighted brain trusters in the Presi-| dent’s entire entourage has now| dropped almost completely out of| the headlines. Once his name was| d back and forth in Congress O the Republican National Com- mittee used his name as one or‘ it chief criticisms of the New Deal But now his name is heard almost never, i This, unquestionably, is a big lief to “Tommy the Cork,” heca he is more thin-skinned about pub-| licity than almost any priiia donna in Washington, and Washington has more than its quota of thin- cinned prima donnas. However, it is no relief tha having resigned his RFC job las! summer to organize the Indepen-| dent sevelt (along with Mayor Guardia and Senator Norris), Con-| coran now finds himself withoul a salary and no longer on mate terms with the President. re- | DOMESTIC REFORMS OVER | There are several reasons |are Greeks Gel look al Brmsh Mechamzed Force w0 Re erts of a Greek town lined the street to look at a Bri to bolster farces opposing the Halians, 500 Planes Daily | production dustry, P’hlllp.Mllmy ~- thp Murray, chairman of the! Congress of Industrial Orgn.niu-‘ tions, calls at the White House m. Washington to present to Presi-| dent Roosevelt a plan for mass of aircraft which| would result in a daily output of| 500 modern fighting planes. plan calls for the pooling of all facilities of the automobile in- h mechanized column which passed throvgh [EDUCATION NOW PAYS GREAT ATTENTION TO DEFENSE; PLANS MADE VALUE OF GOVT.BONDS TAKE DROP Federal Reserve System’s Anti-Inflation Plan- s Cause of Decline | WASHINGTON, Jan. tary of Treasury thau today said serve system'’s has in the Governme Although still refusing any direct comment on The tem, fact, not an opinion, AIRMEN WARNED OF CALL 'Admiral Says Reserve Fliers May Be Roped | inby NextJune30 | WASHINGTON, Jflll. Voters Committee for Roo- Admiral Towers today told a Con- | La- | gressional committee that commer- | and aircraft hould be warned the Army inti-| Navy may have to call pilots who ; to active duty by cial lines reservists, June 30. Towers asserted those companies | for, should be advised to start training this lack of intimacy. One is thdt|replacements now so as to prevent | cline | bonds : Reserve made.” in the price started when System'’s | The Treasury Secretary said | could not put figures on-how much bonds value Government Isince the new year !is not sufficient to * -> Hopkms in but 9. — Rear factories and Roosevelt Safe on Henry the Federal Re- anti-inflation “caused an unwarranted decline t's bond market.” make | posals of the Federal Rest advanced on January 1, retary Morgenthau told the news- men at a conference “that it is a that of Government| the Federal| statement 9.—Secre- Morgen- plan to the pro- Sys- Sec- a de- was he dropped added it/ isturb” him England as ~ FDR’sEnvoy Special Representative of Other | Side of Atlantic Ocean | “The LONDON, Jan. 9—Harry L. Hop-|tion have jealousy has arisen between once| disruption of service when the calls kins, special representative of Presi | dent Roosevelt, has arrived in Eng good friends Corcoran and Harry Hopkins. Today Hopkins sees Roo- PSRN " (Continued on Page Four) (R come in. - Monkeys are susceptible to nearly Atlantic clipper ‘all ills that befall human beings. l(-,uil to Lisbon, Portu-| New Offensive BRITISH DRIVING Desert Irobps Keep Ad- vancing-Many Planes Are Reported Seized lwl Press) | | | | (By .\“o( Great Britain's switfly advancing desert troops have driven 120 miles in Itdlian Libva, the British Com- | mand in Cairo announced today | It was decl d ivance forces have reached the Fascist airport of Gazala, 40 miles west of besieged Tobruk Thirty-five planes were taken at Gazala, the Royal Alr Force rom- I munique said, and 40 more we | abandoned af the airdrome of ¥ | dem, 15 miles south of Tobruk ; Military observers are of the gen- leral opinion that the Royal Air | Force is riding virtually unchal lenged in Ialy's dwindling empire |in Nerth Africa. - e - Hope Pinned On Halifax By Brifons Chuchill Declares New En-' voy fo U. S. Given Historic Job LONDON, Jan 9.—Prime Minister "ON, Jan, 9. The Winston Churchill today pinned 4 place in education | Great Britain's hope of victory on impetus of national de-|the United States’ formal benedic- not just a spontaneous|tion of the new British Ambassador- | | | 7 I [ By JACK STINNETT (This is the last of three ticles on Education and tional Defense.) ar- Na- | WASHING! J evolutien takir under the fense is of modern educators. | fax. 1t is a planned program, still a| The former Foreign Secretary’s little hit-or-miss perhaps, because | missien, Churchaill said at a Inach- of the speed with which it had to eon given by the Pilgrims, as be set in motion, but a planned momentous as any that the mon- . hevertheless. archy has entrusted to an English- e of Education of the man in the lifetime of the oldest of ‘urity Agency, under Us here the direction of Commissioner| Churchill decl: is John W. Studebaker: the National Britain’s fervent hope the mi Education Association; Cong: will prosper. state and city boards of education | Lord Halifax himself echoed part and numerous other agenc and | ©f Churchill’s sentiments when he individuals have acted as the Said: “We are encouraged by the spurt, The program is now taking knowledge that the will to resist this definite shape. ‘Gerqmnb Bn:cm])l. to secure world The latest development is a ‘Sv_ldmnumhon is as strong on the other 000,000 project in which 64 en- side of the Atlantic as it is here. gineering schools in 35 states, the| We do 1ot doubt that achicvement District of Columbia and Puerto of our purpose is within Hut power | Rico are offering 250 intensive of English- )edkm;, peoples.” courses to turn out within a few | months 25,600 mduslrml d!‘smn- ers, inspectors and These skilled men of defense industry will 1\)) the colleges, be paid from Great ssion “tomorrow's | be selected | Their tuition wm| government funds, (anal Zone Is Changed Two Deparih}ms fo South Now Brought Under iXCHANGE 'UDENTS l Only a few months older is the| rxchange of students and |)|u<‘ 5 belween the United State: and 12 of the 21 Latin-American! republics. This phase of hemis- peric defense and “intellectual cooperation” already has borne fruit either in actual or definitely planned exchanges belween the [United Siatest And. Beaet ohil, One Head Costa Ri the Dominican Re- - public, Guatemala, Haiti, Hondu-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Consoli- ras, Nicaragua, Panama, Para- dation of the Army's commands at | gnay, Peru and Venezuela | the Panama Canal and in the Carib- A little older still is the nation-'bean Sea was announced by Secre- md:- vocational school progran ‘ln offering short courses of inten-to strengthen sive Lraining to both students and defenses. \adults it already has turned hun- Stimson said the existing Panama ‘dreda of thousands of skilled and Canal and Puerto Rican depart- scml -skilled workers into defense ments as well as the new Trinidad | factories. |base cdmmand, have been unlfled National Education Asso- under the command of Lient. Gen. ciation and the Office of Educa-|Daniel Van Doorhis, Canal Zone been issuing bulletins | chief. hand over fist to instruct every B one from kindergarten teacher to Mauna Loa on the island of) western hemisphere (contln.xed on Page Seven) volcano. J | tary of War Henry Stimson today They Want to Join the Army ONITALY Lieut. Robert N. Mutzabaugh applied at ' fully, Mutzal tonments are ready for occupancy. T Ramsey, Gladys Miller, Doroth; DESIGN FOR DEFENSE; HOW FDR CUTS CLOTH; WORLD WAR PATTERN Marrnage ‘Impossnblc’ burst of patriotism in the chests|designate to Washington, Lord Hali- Dolores Del Rio Filing suit for divorce from Cedric Gibbons, Film Art director, in Hollywood, Dolores Del Rio, ,8creen player, said that their 10 years of marrluge bhad become | “impossible.” Since her separa- tion from her husband, Miss Del Rio has been seen lrrqmmly with Orson Welles, the actor- producer, 6UY F. SCOTT DIES | FROM PNEUMONIA Guy Fullerton Scott, retired Navy (officer, passed away last night at St. Ann’s Hospital as the result of pneumonia. He had been a patient there since Monday evening. A resident of Juneau for the past »everul years, Scott was a pensioner and was not employed at the time ]ol his death. He has no known liv- ing relatives No funeral arrangements have land He came from New York vmlmu..ke president in the practical Hawaii has' poured out more lnvn been made as vet and the remains |in the last century than any other |are at the Charles W. Carter Mor- - k ‘tunrv. interviews a group of pretty girls who ort Belvoir, Va,, for positions as army hostesses. Regret- baugh told them the posts will not be filled until the can- \ AIR RAIDS MADE OVER LARGE AREA {Blows Struck from Ger- many in North fo lfaly in South by RAF (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Overnight, the Royal Air Force made extensive air raids. RAF warplanes bombed Naples in the heaviest series of blows that ranged from the north coast of Germany. Great dam- age Is said to have reculted ‘rom the bombing of Naples, RAF pilots also attacked P: mero, Sicilly, during the night. Wilhelmshaven: and Emden were also bombed by the British airmen. Audacious pilots of Great Bri- tain also made a surprise attack and dropped bombs on Bagasi, Tripoli, in North Africa. The German High Command admits that eleven civillans were killed and 14 injured by British | air raiders who scattered high' explosive and incendiary bombs on Berlin early this merning, | mostly hitting the residential ‘ section. The High Command in Berlin | also reports ralds By the British | | \ | | The girls are (left to right) Leetha y Pettit and Margaret Anderson, on northwestern Germany, sub- stantiating British reports, but only minor damage is reporter, although one industrial plant, place deleted, had a “disastrous blaze.” e — MORGAN M. BEATY AP Feature Service Writer (10 MEN 10 QUIT DEFENSE Union Aufo Workers Plan Strike Tonight-Congress May Take Action . ) | But there are important differ- WA%HINOTON Jan. 9--R. J. ences between 1917 and now. | Thomas, President of the CIO's In the first place, the 1917 Gov-|United Auto Workers Union, said ernment declared war on Germany,|today he expected CIO members of and passed laws giving the President |the Ranger Engineering Company indirect, but nonetheless czar-like|n Farmingdale, Long Island, to powers over the nation. War, there- |strike sometime between 5 and 7 fore, had a legal status, and the|o'clock tonight public s aware of it This strike situation earlier arous- Today we are net at war. Most ob- (°d House Naval Committeemen to servers agree, therefore, that Lhe|talk of Congressional action after public is nct imbued with a “war-|having heard Rear Admiral John time” spirit. Rather are the times|Towers, Chief of Naval Aviation, considered “peacetime,” h,,w,.\mr‘l.m»n!y the Ranger plant's work on much the academicians contend over |Army and Navy airplane engines is d for Bu.‘nn important cog in the national tain actually means we are defense machine. cn the rman people. Thomas told newsmen, the union The wartime spirit 15 gensrally re- | and the company have been trying jzed by political leaders as a|'© negotiate an agreement on wages ror - b TH - Re Y Hikion ,,‘.uul other matters for some time, s of setting aside internal dif-|and said: “1t looks now as though -es until the struggle is over, ‘men"l) be a strike tonight. There doesn't, seem to be anything anyone anggest that 'hn\ldll do about it now.” in defence production admitted| The Ranger Engineering Company by William 8. Knudsen in his old | has government centracts for some job in the Defe Advisory Com- | 2000 airpianes and “‘Cl"% mission is due in some measure to| the fact that neither workers m..‘vou'hs |o Air Force cur effort as an all-out w.mumi push. They do not have before them | the image of military battle & did | World War Americans. Barney Baruch post-war r port on the war industries board hv headed said the ultimate success of | the American war production effort depended more on the support by American public opinion of the war| effort, than on the dictatorial pow- | ers with which Congress clothed| “ONDON. Jan. 8. — British Air Secretary Sinclair announced a plan today to open the Royal Air Force In World War days, Congress gave tF8ining to boys of 16 years and old- the President power to control food & ‘10 meet the growing demand for and fuel production, transportation, pilots and also the request that boys and in one broad sweep, pledged to‘be permitted to enter the force.” the President “all the resources of | SN S the country” to bring the war to a |, APPle Juice now is being put on | the market to compete with orange Imd other fruit juices, WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 Presi- dent Roosevelt cuts his cloth from |a world war tern when he names |a new high command with a single | | director to step up defense produc- | tion He also runs intn new, confus- |ing preblems of military tailorir In the minds of many observer !big Bill Knudsen steps Into shc ;.‘;lmllar to—but not exactly the same =l | BY | | as—those worn by Barney uch in the Werld War 1. Baruch was th | Chairman of the War Indu‘-uh’s Board named by President w:],nn‘ Knudsen is director of the new nl- fice of Defense Production { the question of whether warring | force means feren Some President Wilson, \ There are legal differences, too. | : (Continued on Page Seven®