The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 15, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” NO. 8621. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 15, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT! ULL URGES CONTROL, HIGH SEAS FASCIST FORCES ARE HIT ANOTHER BLOW BULGARIA IN SQUEEZE ITALIANS raic SMASHED, ALBANIA Mountain Forces of Greeks in Counfer Atfacks- Guerillas Active Battalions Being Disband-, . ’ | ed as Albanians Won't Fight Grecians l (BY ASSOCIATED PRESE) | Greece's mountain forces are re- perted te have smashed twe Ital- ian counter attacks in the drive, north from Klisura, Central Al- bania, compelling the Fascists to at in such haste they left theif lead and weunded on the battlefield. The Greeks are now said to have resurhed the advance on Berati. Reports reaching Struga, Yugo- <lavia, said Albanian guerillas are g the Fascist lines of coma munication and ammunition depots thus complicating the Ttalian ef- fort to stem the Greek advance. A an battalions, organized by the Ttalians, are reported to have been dishanded because they refused to fight the Greeks. | WASHINGTON — In piacing the blame for the present delays in de- fense production it is important not to forget the months of dilly-dally- which industry put in last year arguing over the tax bill. For weeks, varicus big industrialists told the Treasury and congressianal commi!‘| tces almost point blank that they would not produce national de-| fense products unless they were per- mitted to write off the value of) their new emergency plants inside of five years, for taxation purposes. The Packard Motor Company.: which received a large order of, Rolls-Royce engines after the Ford company tunred down the order.‘ argued for several weeks over the| new tax bill, while the Curtiss aero-| plane company had some pretty vig- orcus thirgs to tell the Treasury abeut taxes on the emergency plants it was to build for government ord- ers, In the end, William Knudsen, Se- cretary of War Stimson, and other rational defense chiefs told Congress that it would be impossible to get the national defense program mov- ing unless a provision was written into the new tax bill permitting capital investments fcr national de- fense to be written off within five as agreed. It was also agreed “certificates of necessity” would sued to companies working on national defense orders, and that| certificates would give them the much desired tax benefits. To handle these certificates of necessity, the War and Navy De- pariments hurriedly set up elabor- ate organizations to handle the ex- pected flood of applications from business. So did the Defense Com- missicn, which must approve the certificates before the Treasury will allow the tax charge-off. They expected at least 20,000 ap- plications. But months have passed and less than 200 applications have come in, (Continued on Page Pour) Bulgaria, hemmed in between German armies massed in Rumaria (1), and Turkish troops concentrated on her Thracian border (3), was reported to have centered her own Turks (2). enter from the south, their officers DEVELOP RECR ~ FORINCOME, GOVERNOR ADVOCATES IN REPORT Importing 0f Salmon Profested Wallgren lfi;Bare Plans of Big Nipponese Con- cern’s Glhtting WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Senator | Mcns C. Wallgren of the State of ‘Washington, today urged President | Rocsevelt to prevent the sale in this country by Japan of 600,000 cas- es of canned red Salmon that Japan cannot market in Great Britain be- | cause cf the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo alliance. The Senator, in a letter to the President, called attention to the | protest Joint Committee For Protee- tion of Pacific Coast Fisheries with the Naticnal Defense Commission. | The protest said Mitsubishi Kai- | sha Ltd., of New York and Seattle, | proposed to American salmon can- | | ners and labor that they not oppose | €ome Of $264,715. Freight revenues a plan to import huge amounts of | salmon. The protest said agents of the Japanese company invited fishing interests to a conference in Seattle | at which the proposal was explained. | and hauled 4,315,660 pounds SCOTLAND SECTIONIS AIR RAIDED If the Nazis enter Bulgaria from the north, the Turks will | Ernest Gruening of Alaska in his|Dight since Sunday, but with the Lone Nazi Bomber Swoops| Low, Machine Guns Pop- | ulace and Drops Shells | (By Associated Press) A lone German raider is reported officially by the British Air Min- istry to have machine gunned a| village in Northern Scotland and! also dopped several bombs. | It is understood many casualtics, resulted from the machine zunning razor blades. They are used by a!ment,” there’s a lot of evidence president,” you don’t need to worry lin. ATTACK ON NAZ| BASES IN NORWAY | i CONSTANTA British Bombers Brave Bad Weather fo Make Ex- | tensive Raids LONDON HAS QUIET NIGHT; O ASSAULT Daylight Brings Back Ger- man Bombers with Dam- age Slight Up to Noon (BY ASSUCIATED Prilis) Weather conditions caused a lull in the air siege of Great Britain last nizht bt Royal Air Fcrce bembers braved the dirty weather to pound | the Nazi air bases, shipping, rail- to and bridges in German oc- | cupled Norway. | Two direct hitg, were reported made on a large motership at Stav- anger and also roads on the west coast. It is believed many casualties re- | sulted frem the raid and property damage is indiciled as extensive. Londen’s millions enjoyed another | night of quiet, due te the severe! - Gov.|weather conditions, the second quiet ( | | | i soldiers on the border facing the | | warned. EATION WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 annual report to Secretary of the|arrival of daylight today, abate- Interior Harold L. Ickes declares;mem of the squalls and dispersing that one of the most obvious meth- | Of the chilly fog, German raiders ods of - increasing fhe Territorial "eturned for a daytime raid with | {only minor damage being done up | It,o noon. government’s income is in the de- velopment of recreational attrac- tions. | e The Governor, in the report made public today, calls Alaska's sc«-noryi “literally unmatched” in this hem- | isphere. | He said the Territory’s economy | pIONEER “rests none too securely” on two| prop fishing and mining. “It -is the task of far-sighted| \John Ballaine, Alaska Railroad Promoter, | Dictates Obit ‘ statesmanship in Alaska to develop new activities if the Territory's economy is to be maintained and to grow,” Gruening declared. The Governor reported the Ter- ritorial treasury had a balance of $656,685 at the end of December after disbursing $365,880. Shipments Down Annual shipments out of the| Territory were down $9,000,000 this| year. They totaled $63,245951. Pur-| SEATTLE, Jan. 15—John Bal-' chases from the United States laine, 72, long prominent in Alaska | amounted to $43,827,202. life as the organizer of the Alaska The report said pink Sfllmon;Central Railways, the first-laid steel | value was down $7,500,000 to $9,- out of which grew the Alaska Rail- | 740,427, road, died today. The Alaska Railroad carried 29,- Ballaine, who owned the townsite 510 passengers for a passenger in- } (Continued on Page Five) H _———— [NEW EUROPE-AMERICA AIR_LANE? Possible land plane bases at Arsukfjord: Could invasion of Americg come this way? Science is asking this question today on the basis of disclosure by Dr. Wiliam H. Hobbs of the University of Michigan that a land-air “bridge” exists between the United States Labrador, Greenland, Iceland and England. Short- est water hop is 900 miles. Dr. Hobbs discussed the “bridge” at a recent meeting of the American Association for the Ad- WHAT br. j;n Geyer | South on Princess Dr. John Geyer. Juneau dentist, | | sailed south on the Princess Noran Mean to the Russians that their isiness industrial heart is exposed to the Navy Department has asked author-| this morning on a month's bu and pleasure trip. Dr. Geyer plans to spend some time in Seattle and Portland be-| fore returning to Juneau. | .- — 1 Greenwich observatory, in Eng- land, was founded in 1675. brought the total to $3,058,056 which was $341,663 above operating e: penses. Planes, the report said, carried 31,435 passengers 5,745,804 miles of freight. Untaxed Categories The Governor declared develop- ment of regional attractions was needed to bolster governmental in-| come because “nowhere but in Al- aska are vast categories of occu- pations and individuals whelly un- taxed.” ! Income is needed, the Governor said, so that Alaska could “move toward assuming its place as a self-sustaining, self-governing com- munity by gradually shaping its own destiny.” Gold produced during the year totaled $20,951,797. ——-e—— OLD BLADES USED FOR GOOD CAUSE, By JACK STINNETK WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.——(Sec-| ond installment of a two-par{ letter | to Vice President Henry Agard Wal-! lace, setting forth some facts about! his new job as V. P. and President- to-be of the Senate): In spite of all I said in the first part of this letter, Mr. Vice Presi- dent of the Unifed States, don't think that your job is so punk as| some of the musical comedy writ- ers have made it appear. [ One of your predecessors once| wrote an article entitled “The| Vice President — Pifth Wheel of| 'the Government” And cven if Ithat funny fellow, John ! TORRANCE, Cal., Jan. 15—8Some- Garner, did paraphrase it body has found a use for discarded “The spare tire of the VICE-PRESIDENT ONETO FOUR CHANCE OF BECOMING MR. BIG the 32 men who have held your job have become Presidents, in- cluding a few gentlemen you may have heard of before: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Theo- dore Roosevelt and Calvin Cool- idge. That means a V. P. has more than a one-to-four chance of be- coming Mr. Big himself and at least one chance in eight of going| down in the history buoks in capital letters MAY BE “ASSISTANT PRESIDENT | What's more, if there is any truth Nance | in the ialk going around Washing-| for the future of Russia, to read ton that President Roosevelt plans| though the Germans should at this wham! The patrol car became No.| govern- (o make you a sort of “assistant|time have no designs against Sta-|10 and the truck No. 11. DOES IT MEAN, ARRIVAL OF GERMAN TROOPS IN BALKANS!? but no positive information 1s Hollywood man in manufacture of given out concerning the damage leg braces for Infantile paralysis irom the hombs dropped. | sufferers. that the spare tires has on occa-| apout Senators, the President and| and Jameson Land on Scoresby Soun Suggested seaplane bases at Julianehaab (Cape Farewell) and Sangmissok North Atlantic: vancement of Science. He reported discovery of two big “holes” in wind barriers which airmen have believed impassable up to now. 3 There are two wind belts over Greenland, one below the other and each whirling in an opposite direction. By choosing the right altitude, Dr. Hobbs reported, fliers could nearly always make certain of having a tail wind. Use of the routes would involve building several bases. and Europe via ~ Navy Asks ~ For Small Craft, Now Four Hundred Vessels Are | Needed-Demand Made Today on Congress By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—Nearly ree quarters of a million German the Balkans can only thi troops in WASHINGTON, Jan The ity frem Congress to build 400 small vessels, including sub chasers, mine pers and torpedo boats and has asked for extra facilities to pdssible thrust of a military dag- ger. ’ It matters mnot whether Hitler | SW! intends to use those troops against als the Russians just now. It matters comstruct them, not whether he is merely setting| Rear Admiral Samuel Robinson, up a mystery force to worry both|Chief of the Navy Bureau, informed the English and the Russians, |the House Naval Committee that 288 The fact remains that the Ger-|°f ‘!ho vessels were “urgently need- mans are in a position to drive ¢d’ right now. the Russians away from the Danu- “‘”1:"5:‘“ asked :Lgfi:%ofi; ‘"“ bian basin, then attack the Ukraine !Mmmediate sum o 1000/ or —where the bulk of Russia’s “,,,;m;fl (-cnstruct‘l‘rm of lh?' naval (-‘ru!l. cultural and industrial and raw, It 1s proposed the craft be com- material production is centered. pleted within one year. And will, 0il for Russia’s Tanks probably be constructed at ship vards on the Great Lakes, DL Al these. e BASIBIE 11 a0; The Committee unanimously en ably a most about their| ks y 3 . iswostied anouh 'l dorsed the Navy's request for $300,- industrial production. For 40 years ol = —long before the Communists took | %00:000 for strengthening the fleet's anti-aircraft power. over Russia—that nation was try- i i fergs ing to develop the vast industrial Ice Follies and hydro-electric capacity of the Don and Dneiper valleys. The Communists under Stalin have intensified the effort. They, have raised their oil production to . the point where it is the greatest in the Near East—well over 200 Ma'n s'ree' million barrels a year—and cap- able of sustaining any big mili- i tary machine in the world. One, OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. of their 12 planned hydro-electric| 15.—Patrolmen J, H. Blackard and plants has just been completed m",beedee Hunter scurried to investi- that area. - 'gate a nine-car pileup on an icy The best informed observers here| street. Parking their car, they be- believe the Russians are reasoning ban to piece together the puzzle of that those troops are not healthy which was car No. 1, No. 2, No. 3, evenete. Then along came a truck and ... ‘The picture before the Russians| 3. sion served pretty well. The record shows that mine of | (Continued on Page Five) | | | The minknum voling age is 30 (Conunued on Page Seven years in Rumsnia. SECRETARY OF STATE TALKS OUT Declares Ne—w_drdér of Pa- cific Means Exclusion, Also Domination SUPPORTS ROOSEVELT LEASE, LEND MEASURE ‘Must Provide Security for U. §., Hemisphere- Speed Is Needed WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.~Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull told the House Foreign Affairs Com- mittee today that “control of the. high seas by law abiding nations is the key to security in the Western Hemisphere.” ° The State Department head wmmn“dm the coinmittee as witness on President Roosevelt’s bill aiding Great Britiin and other nations “fight- ing aggression,” by lending or leasing them war materials rang- ing from bullets to battleships. Secretary Hull described the measure as one to “make it pos- sible for us to allocate our re- sources in ways best calculated to provide security for this na- tion and this continent., Above all, it will do all these things in the speediest possible manner. Overwhelmingly, speed is our greatest need.” Secretary Hull asserted the proposed new order in the Pa- cific means domination by one country (o the exclusion of the interests of other nations. JUSSRARgein e <l LANGLIE IS GOVERNOR IN | WASHINGTON Republitan_T;ies QOath as Legislature Vofes Down Probing of Election OLYMPIA, Wash. Jan. 15.—Ar- thur B. Langlie, Republican, form- er Mayor of Seattle, became Gov- crnor of the State of Washington at 11:01 o'clock this forenoon. He took the oath of office administer- ed by Chief Justice Robinson. By a vote of 97 to 45, the joint ses- sione of the State Legislature last night rejected the proposal that a Legislative Committee investigate Langlie's 5800 vote victory over Senator C. C. Dill, Democrat, in the November election. Dill’s support- ers charged fraud, irregularities and improper counting of the ballots. The absentee vote was what elected Langlle. R ey S 257 NEW YORK, Jan, 15. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4 7/8, American Can 92%, Anaconda 26's, Bethlehem Steel 86 7/8, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9, General Motors 46%, Internation- |al Harvester 51%, Kennecott 35%, New York Central 14'%, Northern Pacific 6 7/8, United States Steel 67%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 131.51, rails 29.06, utilities 20.44. - ————— ! The New York postoffice is the !largest in the world. It has the greatest facilities and handles the most mail.