The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 14, 1941, Page 2

2 FDRFLAYS CRITICOF LEND PLAN Calls Wheeiér-like State- ment 'Rottenest Thing’ in Century WASHINGTON, Jan. 14, — The described as the ever said in the public life of my generation,” the statement he said he had read in the peper that every fourth Am- | erican child would be plowed under. | The President made the statement in discussing aspects of the con- troversy over legislation which would authorize him to carry out a policy of total aid to “democracies.” Roosevelt declined to say who made the statement originally but in a radio speech Sunday night Senator Wheeler, leader of the op- position to the Administration’s lend-lease bill, termed the measure the “New Deal’s triple A foreign pol- icy to plow under every fourth Am- erican boy." | - .o Passed by the Italian censor, this photo shows aerial bombs cached in reserve behind the Italian lines in Albania. They were supposed to be used in the invasion of Greece, but the Greeks have pushed the Italians bazk so fast that many of these supplies have been captured and | dispute can THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, TUESDAY, JAN. 14, 1941. GOVERNMENT 'ORDERS END 10 STRIKES WL | | | Labor Conciliator Tells Ea!-| on Strikers fo Go Back | to Work at Once | DETROIT, Michigan, Jan. 14— | | James De Federal Labor Con- | | ciliator, announced today as a “de- | fense measures,” he will insist that | all plants of the Eaton Manufactur- | ing Company be reopened and all striking employees be put back to | work, The strike began at the Eaton plant in Saginaw and spread to ihe | | company’s factories in Detroit, Bat- | tle Creek, Marshall, in Michigan, and Cleveland, Ohio, affecting about | 3,500 workers. Dewey said: “This marks the first time such a drastic step has been taken anywhere in the country. The be settled after the plants are running again.” The Eaton company supplies air- plane engine parts. R. J. Thomas, International Presi- dent of the striking CIO United | Auto Workers, said members of his | | | (ONFIRM 7o REPORTS ETHIOPIA " OF FIRE DRIVEIS Dutch Harbor Blaze Finally Revealed by Navy Officer Today SEATTLE, Jan. 14—The first news of a mysterious fire which caused considerable damage at the naval air base huu?g constructed CAIRO, Jan. 14—A British pat- at Dutch Harbor, Alaska, was re-| . ")o S0 b o lian force i ceived here and confirmed today. |yp. Metemma area in Ethiopia, kifi- Lieut. Comdr. William Sihler, Da-|ine 40 and leaving many wounded, it val officer assigned to the Seattle of- was reported here, with British cas- fices of Siems, Drake, Puget Sound ! i ‘ R “ “ firmed tk " r‘\mlncs small contractors confirmed the report of | "pojier i< olowing in London that the fire during the Christmas holi- S eat Britain will soon start a major SRE, drive against Italian Ethiopia with He declared. British of Run Romans Out of Haile's Kingdom in Africa ‘Quite a good bit" ) e of | the aid of native rebellions. e TR o Prime Minister Smuts of the Un- R - T & |ion of South Africa said over the EMPIRE FIRST WecKAnd the' eohE L ouer e The Daily Alaska Empire reported the Dutch Harbor blaze on Decem- ber 24. It was understood the fire occurred the day before, consum- ing a large supply of lumber and other materials. For several days, “orders” for workmen were cancell- ed. year will be to “help clear Ethiopia and British Somaliland of the en- emy.” FLIER'S MOTHER DIES, VICTORiA ——e Alex Holden received sad news to- day of the sudden death of his | mother, Mrs. Donna B. Holden in Secrefaries ConferOver .o suddenly on Saturday. Fun- eral services were to be held today. Aldmg BI"ers. Rob;r.t’Stofl e Forci it On Short Visit ‘lease-lend” measure. Secretary of MFS. Robert Stoft well known for- Btate Cordell Hull is to be one of M€ Juneau girl, arrived here by the witnesses. plane yesterday from Sitka. This forenoon, Secretaries Hull, Will Visit in the Capital City for Morgenthau, Knox %nd Stimson|?2 feW days before returning to the held a conference in Hull's office | Historic City. | WASHINGTON, Jan, 14, — The| House Foreign Affairs Committee| NEWPLAN She | presumably are being used on their origina) owners. TIME LIMIT.ON " LEASE, LEND BILL - UP TO CONGRESS WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-—Steph- |en Early, White House Secretar; said today the question of whether there will be a time limit on the powers contemplated by the Presi- dent on the “lease-lend” bill to aid the British, weuld .be left to Con- gress. =¥ FLAKNE RETURNS. FROM VACATION Territorial Employment Service Director J. T. Flakne returned with his wife on the Princess Norah last night from the States to announce without further comment that he believes *“Alaska labor will get a better break on National Defense projects jobs.” Flakne, while in the States, con- ferred with Navy, Army and con- tracting officials. The Flaknes divided most of their time between Spokane and Seattle. They have been south since before the holidays. FAGERSON BACK | - FROM TRIP OUT| B Concrete man Floyd Fagerson re- turned on the steamer North Coast this morning after spending the past few months in the States ocn a combined business and pleasuce trip. | Fagerson spent considerable time in California and Oregon. ———— SENTENCED OVER - BACK-FENCE ROW and afterward Hull had a luncheon | appointment with the - YRST fof | died last night at the Government|them. “Go home and get your bi- Hospital where he had been re-!bles.” ceiving treatment for the past two| The charges included: H weeks. (By Associated Press) peratures down to new seasonal lows | today in many parts of the East ‘The cqld wave moved in on Can- Arthur E. Glover, Forest Service|self so loudy, - making disparg-| ada, driving away comparatively | Regional Engineer, left on the ing remarks about her «neighbors, mild weather North Coast today for Sitka. While the East shivered, the West | reported a complete absence of win- ter weather. Mild temperatures pre- vailed generally west of Kansas City | the Governor's office, and a rain belt extended south as|to work from Wrangell, where spent a far as the Gulf of Mexico, through eien:” JOE BORBRIDGE W. Carter Mortuary pending fun-| Winter’s icy first hammered tem- | eral arrangements. | TULSA, Okla, Jan. 14.—Charged - land counter-charged h disor- | derly conduct as the result of a ! back-fence row, two Tulsa house- DIES lASI "'GHI‘M‘W were sentenced by Judze | . J. Hateh to read the Sermon on | the Mount. Jim Borbridge, 11-year-old son “I am continuing the case pend- Mr. and Mrs. John Borbridge,|ing your good behavior,” he told = That one of the women swore The remains are at the Charles in the presence of her small boy. That one of them cut a hole 'n her hedge, the better to spy upon! her neighbors, t That one woman talked to her-| - R GLOVER TO SITKA that all the neighbors heard, - D — . * FROM WRANGELL Miss Etolin Coulter, employee has returned she leave. JURY TRIAL FOR MARTIN Appearing this afternoon in U. S. Commissioner’s Court for trial month on annual 18212, organization employed by the Eaton company were “ready to go back to | work immediately.” While negotiations resumed, the CIO called the Saginaw strike, charging the company has violated its promise to rehire 300 union mem- vers involved in the strike two | months ago. J. O. Eaton, company chairman, said the dispute is “strictly between different groups of employees.” | £ & YT T i MARTIN ASKS LABORDRAFT FOR DEFENSE Plane Manufacturef Urges Efforts fo Speed Up | Defense Plans : | WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. — Glen | Martin, airplane mant .1%(“ told | the House Naval Committée today | that the Government should have the power to draft both labor nnd‘ industry for defense production. { Martin said efforts to speed up the | rearmament drive should be un-| dertaken in stages, but with possib- ility always in mind that drafting labor and industry might neces- | Sary. T - MARTINOUT; LANGLIEMAY OLYMPIA, Wash,, Jan. 14—The| Joint Session of the Washington| State Legislature today heard the State’s outgoing Democratic Gov- ernor, Clarence D. Martin, deliver|P! his final message then turned at- tenticn to whether it will seat Re- publican Arthur B. Langliec whose inauguration is scheduled for to- mMOrrow. Retiring Gov. Martin, ceneluding eight years as Chief Exccutive, re- viewed what he termed gains made during his administration and coun- | selled the lawmakers on pending problems. { It was disclesed he had budgeted $59,000,000 for Social Security for the next biennium. Martin's message was held in check for the anticipated dispute over. whether the Legislators will| delay the induction of Langlie, perding: investigation of alleged fraud charges in certain state elec- NEW YORK, Jan. 14.—Closing quetation of Alaska Juneau mine stock ‘teday is 475, American Can Anaconda 26 Bethiehem Steel 87, Comonwealth and South- ern” %, Curtiss Wright 9!:, General | Moctors 47. International Harvester 52, Kennecott 357, New York Cen- eastern Texas, most of Oklahoma | Her mother, who fell and fractured |O" @ charge of disorderly conduct and as far west as central Colo- her hip just before Miss Coulter|and disturbing the peace, = Arthur| rado. arrived home, # recovering, she|J. Martin demanded a jury: trial, > reported. 3 “|Jury names were drawn today and| I"DIA" AFFAIRS hrkr ot hx the trial bas been set for Thursday“ ACK IN JUNEAU at 2 o'clock. Martin has retained MINK pE“S ',0 Florence Elkins returned to Ju-|Sam Duker as attorney neau on the steamer North Coast RUDE AT JUN| * | ersburg | from Petersburg, is making his| - home temporarily at the Juneau Sixty-eight mink pelts will be sold AT JUNEAU Hotel | by the Office of Indian Affairs to-| 1. R M Saylor of the Office of e morrow slong with and as part of | 1410 Affairs is stopping at the| SAMPLES HERE he Alaska Game ission’ i Game Commission’s fur | jun ot auction &t 1:30 o'clock in the Fed-| eral Building The furs are on display today and | tomorrow at the Game Commission office, ing 1o " T00 LATE TO cLAssiFy | U MU sy - LOST—Pocketbook between Union! V: Hall and 4th St. Keys and small change. Return to Empire Office. Deputy Marshal and Mrs. George ! | Samples of Hoonah are visiting | here for the court term. They are Hotel > JAQUOT COMING Eugene Jacquot, Burwash Land-|at the Juneau Hotel, guide who operates a hunting | - - ge oh Kluane Lake, is coming| New plastic stiff shirt fronts wrough tomorrow on t south- | (dickies) are becoming popular. und Princess Norah, enroute to|They can be kept immaculate wiih ancouver. {a sponge or damp- cloth, Empire Classifieds Pay! Subscribe for The Emplre. tral 14'., Northern Pacific 7, Uni- ted States Steel 6 Pound $4.04. | DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow,| Jches averages: industrials 132.44,| rails 29.31, utilities 20.54. | e, MARSHAL RETURNS U. S. Marshal William T. Mahoney returned on the North Coast after spending the holidays in the States visiting his mother. He brought three prisoners from Southeast Al- aska ports. Hazel Coffin and Betty | James, to serve sentences for being |drunk and disorderly and Orvis Finzel for parole violation, C representative, didn't go to Ketchi- |kan on the Alaska Monday morn- |ing. He was sick in his hotel room fat i cancel passage. | Senior is recuperating from a bad lcase of the flu and expects to re- |turn to the First City on the next | beat. Rehearsing British Invasion Along a coast with the same characteristics as the English and Scottish suores, German troops rehearse their behind-schedule invasion attempt. Left, they hoist a light gun from the beach to the top of a cliff. Right, a soldier hauls himself up the slope with the aid of a rope. The locality probably is Norway. Find the Law Has a Heart Accused of attempted robbery because he entered a vacant house in SFBI‘C]I of junk he couid sell to buy food for his wife and child, Roy T. | le'dun found that the law in New York City is far from heartless. First the officer who arrested him gave some money to the family. Then the magistrate who heard Gordon’s story gave him $5 more and sent him home vending a hearing. | | 'DIESEL MAN HAS ATTACK OF FLU REV- DOWI.ER SITKA BOUND The Rev. Hugh Dowler, from Cclorado, is aboard the North Coast bound for Sitka where he will sup- ervise the erection of a new church there for the Lutherans and as- sume the pastorate, He is accom- panied by Mrs, Dowler and young arl Senior, Caterpillar engine the Baranof and unable to | | b sy o | HENNESSY BACK ] son. Frank Hennessy, Territorial Em-| The Rev. loyment Service interviewer, was| Juneau Res John L. Cauble, of the rrection Church, joined | back on the job today after going ihe Rev. Dowler here and went io through the flu. | Sitka to introduce him to the peo- ple and also give him the lay of I'the church land and plans. AR PRk S Empire Classifieds Pay! This Was a Hospital Once m— { ’ ® Rescue workers search through the ruins of a northwest !;nglund hospiial, blasted to earth by the Nazi air raiders. The British cap- tion fails to reveal if any of the hospital's inmates were killed, * - OF NEXT MONTH THE WEATHER | (By the U. S. Weather Bureau) U. S. DEPARTMENT )F CON MERCE, WEATHER BUREAU Forecast for Juneau and vicinity, beginning at 4:30 p.m. Jan. 11: Partly cloudy tonight and Wednesiay; not much change in tempera- ture; lowest temperature tonight a%out 30 degrees, highest Wedne:- day 40 degrees; gentle variable winis, for Southeast Alaska: Partly cloudy tonight and Wed- nesday except mostly overcast wi h possibly light showers in south portion; not much change in temerature except slightly colder ex- treme north porticn; gentle to moderate variable winds except fresh to strong in Lynn Canal and Chatiam Straits, Forecast of winas along the coast of the Gulf of Alasks: Dixon Entrance to Cape Spencer: Partly cloudy; gentle to mod southeasterly winds; Cape Spence: to Cape Hinchinbrook: Partly cloudy; moderate easterly to south-asterly winds; Cape Hinchinbrook to Resurrection Bay: Partly cloudy; moderate northeasterly winds; Resurrection Bay to Kodiak: Partly cloudy; moderate northerly (o northwesterly winds. R — LOCAL DATA Time Barometer Temp. Humidity Wind Velocity Weather 4:30 p.m. yesterday 29.82 39 81 w 2 Overcast 4:30 a.m. today 290.84 34 89 S 2 Overcast ¢ . 11:30 am. today 29.79 34 86 Calm [ Overcast RADIO REPORTS TODAY Max. tempt. Lowest 4:30am. Precip. 4:30am Station last 24 hours temp. temp. 24 hours Weather Barrow AL -3 5 0 Cloudy Fairbanks -10 -7 -17 0 Clear | Nome .22 13 16 0 Pt.Cldy Dawson o | -1 =11 0 Foggy | Anchorage 28 19 24 [ Cloudy Hethel ... 6 | -8 -8 0 Pt. Cldy St. Paul e 32 34 0 Cloudy | Dutch Harbor .. 38 27 28 0 Clear ‘Wosnesenski 36 32 34 0 Clear | Kanatak . 34 30 30 0 Clear | Kodiak 42 37 42 34 Cloudy Cordova 40 | 35 37 18 Cloudy Juneau 41 3 34 0 Cloudy Sitka g .. 49 25 39 0 Cloudy Ketchikan ... 48 40 40 12 Cloudy | Prince Rupert .. 46 | 39 41 20 Cloudy Prince George .. 42 24 25 03 Foggy Seattle . 85 40 43 T Rain Portland .. 45 36 37 03 Rain * San Francisco .. 60 49 52 0 Clear WEATHER >YNOPSis | Clear or partly cloudy skies pr:vailed this most morning over of Alaska except locally partly coudy to overcast along the coast had fallen during the previous st | from Kodiak to Ketchikan. Raia | 24 hours along the coast from Kodiak to Ketchikan. The grea amount of precipitation was .34 inch, which was recorded at Ko- | diak. Slightly cooler temperatures were reported along the western coastal area of Alaska this morning, but continued above normal at most stations, Fairbanks having reported minus 17 degrees Broken clouds to overcast with moderately high to high ceilings and very gocd visibilities prevailed this morning over the Juneau- Ketchikan airway, The Tuesday morning weather chart indicated a low pressure (29.23 incnes) was located at 50 degrees north and 147 degrees west, and the pressire was relatively low along the coast from Southeast Alaska to western Oregon, Relatively low pres- sure continued over the Bering Sea and in the vicinity of tae Al tian Islands. A high pressure area of 1025 millibars (30.27 inches) was centered at 30 degrees north and 135 degrees west. Juneau, Jan. 15 — Sunrise 9:34 a.m., sunset 4:41 p.m. it | DR. SMITH BACK M:?SSIE fil OSRH?BV! A FROM KETCHIKAN Dr. Courtney Smith, Assistant Ccmmissioner of Health, returned on the North Coast today, from Ket- chikan where he conferred with the Public Health Nurse and with lo- cal physicians concerning a venercal disease program recently undertak- en, Dr. Smith said he found the peopie of Ketchikan generlaly well disposed } toward the proposed bill for lezali- zation of the Territorial Departmen: of Health. The proposed measure huas keen cndorsed by virtually all Ket- chikan organizations, Smith said. ————-—e—— INCORPORATION area of 990 millibars Juneau Rofarians Work- ing on Parts for Club Production February 18 and 19 have been sel- ected as tentative dates for the Ju- neau Rotary Club’s minstrel show, it was announced today. The inter- |locutor and four end men went through their parts-last night with the committee and Director Lillian | Uggen. At today’s Club luncheon, Harold H. 8. Anderson, Inc, was Incor- Foss reported on the visit of Juneau p(_)rated today to operate a beverage Rotarians to Sitka last week to in- dispensary at Anchorage. Incorpor augurate a new Club. | ators are H. S. Anderson, D. B. Ra- Lou Hudson announced that a ther and Wiliam W. Renfrew, ai Rotary committee ws meeting with O°f Anchorage. cfficials of the Juneau Ski Club and | Gastineau Channel Basketball Lea- gue to arrange a ski-basketball tour- |nament for Juneau this year. | | Visitors were Dr. Joseph O. Rude and Knute Thompson of Petersburg. | |CLARENCE OLSON | RETURNING SOON | Clarence Olson, Fishery Manage- ment Supervisor for the Fish and | Wildlife Service, will return to Ju-| neau on the steamer. leaving Seattle | January 18, his office here was in- | formed today. | Olson has retusned to Seattle from Washington. | | CLOTHES that are CLEANED OFTEN—Wear Longer! 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