The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 10, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8617. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT? FDR SEEKS LEASE-LEND POWERS British Bomb German Industrial Center IMPORTANT RUHR AREA IS RAIDED Noonday Attack Also Made| on Nazi-Occupied Ports in France FIREKRIEG ATTEMPTED et A $1,600 P ON LONDON LAST NIGHT | Incendaries Doused by Newly Formed Squads | as Fast as They Land | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British Royal Air Force re-l ports a heavy bombing assault last| night on Germany's vital war indus- tries in the Ruhr Valley. i The RAF also carried out a large ccale attack on across English Chan-| nel objectives in France shortly af-| ter noon today, apparently blasting the German occupied port of Boul-| ogne. | London Showered | German raiders showered hund-| reds of incendiary bombs on London last night, concentrating the attack| on “cne large district” which the/| British censorship kept secret. The | aatack was apparently an attempt to| repeat the devastating "flrekrieg"} of December 29. | The British declare | | authorities e ‘T»nfixméd Von Page Seven) |in GREEKS IN BIG MOVE | | INALBANIA Key Ifalian Stronghold of Klisure Is Reported to Have Been Captured (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The capture of the key Italian stronghold of Klisura, in central Al- bania, gateway to the Adriatic sea- {port of Valona, is announced this ¢ |afternoon by the Greek High Comi- When pretty June Wilcox goes to Tahiti Beach in Miami, she always carries along her pet chinchilla, valued at $1,600. It would take dozens of pelts like his to make a coat, but then who wants & fur coat in Florida? BRITISH IN NEW ACTION, EAST AFRICA Con(entralinTon Tobruk, Also Move West-Buna ; Is Enfered by Brifish | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British General Headquarters Cairo announces concentration of British forces around Tobruk, mand. | Valona is the last big port in | Southern Alabania remaining in It- alian hands, The capture of Klisura climaxes everal weeks of bitter fighting and ‘:s described by the Athens military sircles as the result of the sejzure |9f Tepelini, twin mountain citadel 15 miles west. ! The whole defense alians in cracked In the official communique of the {Ttalian High Command no mention |was made today cf the fall of Kli- along the Rumanian border. line of the It- Albania has now been conference called to decide whick east. { sura. | e, Italians ~In Affack e Once again world attention shifts to the Balkans as Germany pours 300,000 fresh troops into Rumania and hussia concentrates its forces The toop movement followed the reaching of a stalemate in the Russlan-German-Italian-Rumanian @ nation or group should control the all-important mouths of the Danube, Gérmany's supply line to the The German military activity coincided with the shift of Baron Manfred von Killinger, Nazi minister to Slovakia, to the same post at Bucharest. He is expected fo rule Rumania as Hitler's i FIRST THIRD TERM INAUGURAL WILL MAKE HISTORY. BUT INAUGURALS OF THE PAST HAVE ALSO DONE THAT, T00 Baron von Killinger virtual district ruler, At the same time, King Boris of Bulgaria ousted 27 high ranking Bulgarian army officers who wanted Bul- garia to enter the war on the side of the Axis. Some sources de- clared that unless King Boris changes his mind, the.Nazis will have to attack Bulgaria in order to get at Turkey and Greece, or first obtain the monarch’s abdication. The map shows (1) German and Russian troop movement and (2) a possible Nazi attack on eastern Greece, thus easing the pressure on Italian forces retreating i1 L [TERRITORY " TAX STUDY HAT, 00 SUBMITIED i WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—When thfing Council's Factual Conquered and Conquerer jBritish Naval Units in East- ern Mediterranean President Roosevelt on January 20| Survey Goes 'o Gover_ | rolls up Pennsylvania Avenue from 1600, which is the White House, (o naught-naught, which is the Cap- nor Gruening ‘ |the Ttalian Naval station and gar- rison town on the Libyan Coast, {while operations farther west con- tinue. | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) At the same time, flaring action| In the official Italian communique is reported against Ttalian East Af-|3f the High Command this after- ‘ Are Air Raided Drew Pearsos ) RobertS.Alles itel, he'll be making history. He'll be the first man ever to take that; A preliminary survey of taxation (ride for the same purpose a third in Alaska, prepared to supplement | | time. But it'll be just another item' the 1938 study made by James ! in the inaugural history books, for Rettie and John E. Pegues, was sub- inauguration day has been putting mitted to Gov. Ernest Gruening to- %”kao- WASHINGTON—Despite the buzz of speculation it evoked, Vice Presi- | | dent Jack Garner's call at the White House was purely social. It was the first time Garner and Roosevelt had met since Garner, in high dudgeon against the third term nomination, left for Uvalde last October and remained there throughout the campaign, refusing even to vote. However, there was no trace of rancor when the two men shook hands. The outgoing Vice President was spirits as he related how a White Tiouse guard nearly failed to recognize him because he was wear- ing a snappy new gray fedora, in- stead of his usual wide-brimmed| hat. “He took me for a sissy,” grinned Garner. “I .guess that's what I get for being a lame duck.” The one serious interlude during the visit was when Garner com- mended the Presid Bt on his aid- to-Britain speech and assured him of wholehearted support. “If worse comes to worst, Chief,” Garner added, “I might do a lit- tle fighting myself. My shooting eye is as keen as ever. I bagged a mighty big deer on my last hunt- ing trip.” “Jack,” chuckled the President, “every time you come here your deer story gets a little taller.” “On the level, Chief. I didn’t weigh this boy, but he was the biggest critter ever bagged in Texas, if not in the whole coun- try. And I nailed him with the first shot.” “All right, all right,” laughed Roosevelt. “But I'll believe you when I see a picture of the ani- mal.” FOOLING THE PRESS At this, the beginning of a| year' The Washingfon Merry-Go- Round herewith tabulates the most famous newspaper denials issued by the New Deal during 1940: " (Continued on Page Four) rica, The Cairo Command said the Bri- tish forces entered Buna, Kenya colony, 100 miles south of the Eth- iopian border, which area has been held for months by the Italians. The | Italians, according to the Cairo Com- mand fled to Elwak on the Kenya- Italian “Somaliland frontier. The British forces have also cap- tured Serobatis on the Sudan Ethio- pian border, 40 miles south of Kas- salia. U. 5. ENVOY CONFERRING IN LONDON Hopkins Has Lunch with Churchill-Two Have Overfime Chat LONDON, Jan. 10. — Harry L. | Hopkins, President Roosevelt's per.'twcen Germany and Russia, regu- sonal envoy, had gn overtime lunch- eon talk with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill today and in a later interview predicted United States production of war materials | will reach a peak late in 1941 or| early in 1942, In a serious mood, Hopkins de- |clared he is here to “discuss mat- | ters of mutual urgency to our two countries.” * TO NAME AMBASSADOR WASHINGTON, Jan, 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt said he will defer | until next week the naming of an| Ambassador to Britain. - eee NEW REFUSE RULES Beginning on January 1, all! residents of Fairbanks were obliged; to make their own arrangements for the disposal of garbage as .the city stopped free collection, | noon, no mention is made of the cap- | ture of Klisura, in Albania, by the | Greeks, but the war bulletin declares Ttalian planes of naval units bomb- ed British battleships in the eastern Mediterranean, sank two submar- ines and two freighters and torped- ced two other merchantmen. One British battleship, unidenti- | fied, is claimed to have been hit and this aerial raid was in the face of “violent anti-aircraft reaction” and | formations of the British naval forc- | es. RUSSIAIN TRADEPACT WITH NAZI 3AgreemenISi_gned inMos- & cow According fo Ber- ’ lin Statement BERLIN, Jan. 10.—Agreement be- J i { | A shaven-skulled Italian scoops out the remains of his Greek prison- lating certain aspects of trade and| /camp dinner as he chats with a kilted Evzone, one of the erack Greek border resettlement problems, is re-| |fighters to #hose prowess he owes his plight. The bearded one doesn't | ported officially to have been signed ' 'appear at wll downcast over the fact that for him the war is over. in Moscow. i The Nazi spokesman said details of the new pact in furtherance of | reapproachment between the two STooD up 1 countries, which antedates the pre-' | NEW EXPORT | interesting items into the record from the very first. When George Washington took the ride the first time, his Penn- sylvania Avenue was a twisted ribbon of mud from Mount Ver- {non to the old Federal bhall in New York City. It took seven wearisome days to make the jour- !ney. His inauguration was weeks late. It was April 30 before those {in charge got around to the busi | ness in hand and the oath was ad- Chancellor of New York. Lhe President then wemt to the Senate chamber to make his in- | augural address, setting a custom which it was presumed would | continue forever. But by 1817, when James Monroe was inaugu- 'rated, the' young nation already was busting out of its traditional weskit and the ceremonies came out in the open. There were two rea- sons; one that the committee in | charge was afraid the new capitol | building wasn’'t strong enough to | avoid collapse under the weight of | the assembled multitude; the other Ithat the Senate and House had | got into such a row over the dis- | tribution of tickets that the only out was to move into the great open spaces where there would be room for more tickets. of the city |DIED MONTH AFTERWARDS William Henry Harrison (1841), the grizzled old Indian warrior of 68 summers, rode up ‘the avenue | ministered by R. R. Livingston, ®on with day by the Alaska Planning Council “It is purely a factual survey,” the letter of transmittal stetes, “and it is the sense of the Alaska Plan- ning Council that it is not intended | as a specific recommendation for the enactment of laws covering any of the subjects therein contained.” | The study declares that the ques- | ticn of whether or not the Territory thould increase its revenue is not a question of whether ta. too high” or “too low taxes elsewhere. question of whether or not by an ncrease of Territorial revenues, the | people of Alaska, through their co- | loperative agency called government, can more fully utilize their produc- tive resources and provide at the same time for an increase in the general welfare. If this objective is | obtained, the survey states, taxa- tion will not be a burden in the long | run but rather an avenue toward so- | cial and economic progress. Deflplul all contentions to effect that taxes| are a necessary evil to be restricted to the lowest minimum, we feel well | assured that this is not so; if it were, modern government would have breken down long ago, and the gen- eral standard of living which has been gradually going up in the last century would, instead, have been going down. Stop-Gaps The survey declares that reliance |placed on one or two taxes is un- wise. “Unless the entire structure! is devised with regard for its ef- | fect upon industry, business, finance and its effectiveness in providing are now | in compari- | It is a| sent war, may be disclosed tomor- row in a general way. The Nazi spokesman sad the exist- it:lg trade agreements will be extend- ed. ———————— LEAVES L. C. | MONMOUTH, IN, Jan. 10. —1 | Youthful pranksters, hoping for a! | holiday, coated the seats in Wallace | {Hall .at Monmouth College with ilubrlcating oil. But schools officials RULES MADE | just asked the first hour class to and while the scats were cleaned. Business went on as usual. e Herbert C. Bennett, former prom- inent hardware merchant of An- chorage, who for the past four years has been manager of the Northern Commercial Company at CITY ORDERS PHONES the Cook Inlet metropolis, has re-| The Cily Council of Anchorage signed, He will continue to live has ordered 300 phones as the serv- in Anchorage. George Anderson is ice is growing by leaps and new manager temporarly. | bounds. B an WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. — The President announced today he has signed a proclamation requiring that | copper, brass, bronze, zine, nickel !ana potash be exported only under export license. The new erder is effective Feb- ruary 3. These materials, he said, are needed in the nation’s defense, on his white charger in a raw wind needed funds for necessary public |and stood hatless and without over- | services—schools, public assistance, | toat for hours in the frigid weather| construction of highways—the Ter- while the ceremony dragged oul. ritory’s share of Alaska's defense re- A month later he was dead fromn!quirements, recreation, and all the, | pneumonia. Ever since then, they other services which go to make up have been talking about taking'the thing which, for the sake of the inaugural back indoors, but' convenience we name ‘government’ nobody has figured out yet where it is not a system. It is merely a la building could be found big'stop-gap, and when the need is 'enough to prevent another con-| greatest is most apt to fail in its gressional slugging match over purpose.” | tickets, | Fisheries over the past five years Thomas Jefferson, the first Pres- have yielded an annual average ol‘ ident inaugurated in Washingtol 892,506 in taxes, There are 13 Ter- ' | | | (Gontinucd on Page Bevem | (Continuea on Page Five) Balkans Again in News as German, Russian Soldiers March ’FAST ACTION IS URGED ON LEGISLATION Measure Givil;g Chief Ex- ecutive Sweeping Ord- ers Is in Congress AL ACTS DEEMED IN INTEREST OF DEFENSE War Material fo Be Sup- plied fo Democracies Fighting in Europe WASHINGTON, Jan. 10, — After | President Roosevelt urged quick ac- tion on his vast lease-lend plan, | Administration leaders asked Con- gress to give him sweeping powers | to transfer American made military equipment to Great Britain and other warring “democriicies.’” , The President told the newsmen at today's conference, just before legislation was introduced in both houses of Congress, that the powers 11t gave are needed to avold delay. ' The bill would permit the Presi- dent “when he deems it in the inter- of national ) 40— 1. To manufacture in arsenals, factories or shipyards under their jurisdiction, or otherwise procure, any defense article for the govern- ment of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the de- fense of the United States. 2. Sell, transfer, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of to any such government, any defense ar- ticle. 3. Test, inspect, prove, repalr, outfit, recondition, or otherwise place in good working order, any defense article for any such gov- ernment, 4. 'Communicate to any such gov- ernment any defense information pertaining to any defense article and furnish such government, under paragraph two of this subsection five, release for export any defense article to any such government, Leaders’ Statement A statement issued by Congres- sional leaders said the bill's pro- vision permitting the President to “test, repair, outfit or otherwise place in good working order any de- fense article,” means repairs could be made on defense articles whether they were manufactured in the United States or not. The statement said: “It could con- ceivably mean ,for example, that the British cruiser Renown, could be re- paired in the Brooklyn Navy Yard if the President considered it to the best interests of our national de- fense to do so. “The provision is broad enough to permit use of any of our mili- tary naval or air bases for outfit or repair of weapons of countries whose defense is vital to the defenses of the United States.” The measure authorizes the ap- - propriation of funds in “such amounts as necessary” o carry out the provisions. Estimates of the eventual costs have reached ten billion dollars. Senator Alben W. Barkely, ma- f | jority leader, estimated that two to five billion dollars may be appro- priated this year. The details of the legislative meas- ure were worked out at a confer- ence called suddenly late yesterday afternoon by the President and Sen- ate and House leaders. FRED WEBSTER OF UMNALAKLEET DIES Fred W. Webster, widely known resident of Unalakleet, recent- ly, according to word received by the U. S. Waether Bureau, which Webster served as airway weather observer. His son, Lawrence, will carry on the weather work tempor- arily. - ee—— The first gas well drilled in the United States was at Fredonia N. Y, in 1824