The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 16, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8622. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 16, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BASES POUNDED BY RA AERIAL WARFARE | EXTENDED, SEA FRONT ~ Senate’s Big Three Democrats & German, Ifalian Aii Forces Concentrate on Brit- ish Naval Power MEDITERRANEAN IS NOW SCENE OF ACTION Fascist Claim Many Enemy | Ships Are Sunk or Bad- ! ly Damaged in Raids (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The European war scene has shift- ed to the Mediterranean where the Fascist air fleet is joining the It- alian force in attacks on the Bri- tish ferees. Fcllowing the five bombing at- ks by German warplanes on the British aircraft carrier TIllustrious _ and retaliation by the British on| Catania, Sicily, new German air J Lasc. by the RAF, further reports come from Rome today regarding the concerted Axis . aerlal drive against the British Mediterranean power. The newspaper D'talia declares the British aircraft car- rier Fagle has been hit when Ital- ian planes launched an attack and dicpped torpedces. This attack was made between Tobrul and Liyya, Isle of Crete. *The At the Senate caucus meeting these three veterans were elected to serve during the Seventy-seventh Congress. They are (left to right) Pat Harrison, Mississippi, president pro tempore; Alben W. Barkley, Kentucky, majority leader, and Lister Hill, Alabama, party whip. Note the whip. "SEVEN HOURS OF HELL” DESCRIBES ATTACK MADE BY NAZI, BRITISH CRAFT | pciated Pross) of hell” is the de- the British aircraft carrier Illus- | January 10 “in the Mediterranean OF SOUTH IS DEAD == | An Associated Press correspon- PR gt { dent aboard the Illustricus reports | that from 40 to 50 Nazi planes Horace M. DuBose Passes| aopped 100000 pousis of hien | plosives and many torpedoes whose On-lll Two Years-Was Formerly on Coast 15 2 Command lists ships and or damaged since January announced from Cairo that 130 and 40 planes were either burned or severely damaged in a’ British air raid on the Catania air- drome last Sunday night and greater image was caused in the raid made ast night German dive bombers are known to be operating from the base at- tacking the British Naval units es- corting merchant vessels. - ship “as’a cat shakes a rat.” A British Naval officer reports I ck on the Ilustrious nost tremendous and terrify- ing thing I have ever seen It | seemed like all the fires of hell H. J. Hansen, of the Standard Oil e Eindled & Bl o A 1,000-pound bombs were so crush- in Juneau, returned north aboard the Barancf accompanied by Mrs. i . & Hamsen and daughter Judy. 4 v 2 1ing, so incredible, that no wo e e i : | can describe it.” | The Illustrious weathered the | blistering “attack but was severely | damaged. German planes partici- pating in the attack are reported | to have flown from the new base i |at Catania, bombed last night by | | the RAF. LODESTARS DUE SOON; concussions shook the 23,000-ton RETURN WASHINGTON—That carpenter’s wife started someihing when s2e {old Mrs. Roosevelt that her hus- band had been unable to get a de- fense job because of exorbitant un- NASHVILLE, Tenn. Jan. 16. ion demands for an initition fce.' Horace Mellard DuBose, 82, retired Since then . Detdnsel Giithts ‘(B:]xshorl: of the §omhen; !:Aethndis:‘FaS' New Shlps Will Fly o vi EY hur an leader for half a cen-| . E:‘r“cgfi;ifihfln‘:":‘r;:n?,l;di::r lury.cxmlnxblv in work toward umrli-‘ ffom Sea"'e fO Fall’- banks - Stop Here country. ing the two branches of Methodism, | Most of ihe protests come from died here after an illness of two n:iembers of AFL huiling trai:s years. | unions who are being tleeced by A gifted writer able adminis-| SEATTLE, Jan. 16—Joe Crosson (eir own feilow union men. Many trator and deep student of Bibli- announced todayv that Pacific Alaska 0. the situation are astound cal history, Bishop DuBose served Airways will in a few weeks put on Here are several: the Methodist Episcopal Church an eight-hour schedule from Seattle 1. A carpenters' local establishcd South for nearly three score years. to Fairbanks, at Camp Devens, Mass,, is demand-' For two-thirds of that time he The new time will be made pos- inz $75 initiation fees from car- chiefly was a contributor to and sible by the use of three new 14- penters in nearby towns who have editor of church publications, bui passenger Lockheed Lodestars on peen in good union standing for he served pastorates in Mississippi, which delivery is expected around vears. The local will disappear in Texas, California and Georgia be- the end of February, 2 few months as soon as the camp' fore he was elected Bishop in 1918.; These Lodestars have a cruising is completed. Meanwhile it is col-| First stationed in Berkeley, Cal. speed in excess of 200 miles an hour lcoting thousands of dollars from| with the entire Pacific Coast as and will go all the way through to union men for the right to work his Diocese, he returned in 1024 Fairbanks in one day, stopping at on a Government project. to his native south land to take Juneau en route. - Crosson said carrying of pas- sengers will be resumed when the Lodestars go into service. ‘ HORACE M. DUBOSE the 2. The AFL has a closed shop, charge of the Holston, Memp! (Continued on Page Foun) (Continued on Psge Six) STIMSON " WARNS OF INVASION Declares Attack by Air fo Be Feared If British Navy Fails WAR DEPT, HEAD BOOSTS NEW BILL Booster ofie;se-lend Plan Answers Queries of Rep. Fish WASHINGTON, Jan. 16.—Secre- tary of War. Henry Stimson today declared: “I think we are in very | | great danger of invasion by air in| the contingency the British navy ! should be destroyed or surrendered.” The War Department chief made his statement to the House Foreign Affairs Committee in response to the inquiry of Representative Hamilton Pish. | Secretary Stimson had previously | endorsed Roosevelt’s bill to lease and lend aid to Britain. Representative Fish began ques- | tioning by asking whether or not | the Secretary thought that with this ATTACKS BY AXIS, NEW SECTION Soviet Russia is ready for every eventuality and for this purpose is in a state of total mobilization,” declared Josef Stalin in a broadcast from Moscow picked up by the London Daily Mail. The announcement renewed British hopes for a Soviet-German clash in the Balkans. This picture shows armored cars in Mos- caw during a great parade held to celebrate the 23rd anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution. country’s naval strength any foreign | nation could’invade our shores and Stimson answered: “Not now,'prob- |ably not,” adding slowly, ‘Any time | |this year,” but when Fish pressed | him, Stimson declared gare say any time this year.’ Secretary Stimson told the com- mittee he could “foresee conditions under which the Navy could be transferred under conditions that ,would be very advantageous.” “I wouldn't | i He made the statement when Fish | § ‘asked whether or not he had any objection to putting into the bill a | prohibition against giving away any | part of the United States Navy. Under the bill, warships could be turned over to the British on what- ever terms President Roosevelt found acceptable, Navy will House Com;i;tee Gives ‘Unanimous Approval fo Demands Made WASHINGTON, Jan. 16. — The House Naval Committee today gave unanimous approval to the urgent Naval request for authority to spend $209,000,000 for 400 relateively small new ships and vast expansion of ship building and ordnance plants, The request was made yesterday by Rear Admiral Samuel Robin- son, Chief cf the Navy Bureau, who also stated that 288 of the 400 craft were urgently needed “right now.” SRR 320 T e SIMMONS MAKING COAST, BELLANCA' Shell Simmons flew the Bellanca to the coast today with five pas- sengers aboard. He took Vera Glen- don, Mr, and Mrs. Ralph Lister and Helen Stoft to Sitka and S. J. Thompson roundtrip to Angoon - CAVANAUGH IN Among traveling men in town today 4s Ray Cavanaugh who came in on the Baranof and is regis- tered at the Baranof Hotel - eee TO OUZINKI A. L. Regers and wife are bound for Ouzinkie aboard the Baranof. Regers manages O. L. Grimes’ store ‘at the Westward town. HORNETS’ NEST—Golden silence was maintained Henrietta Evans (above), 30, chief hostess-to-be for 10,000 soldiers 5., after a contingent of army wives marched e, worrying over a reported quotation of Miss at Camp Shelby to the general’s offic; 4 Evaus. She was quoted as saying married as well as for single soldiers. Get More gepate Is Not What It Ships Now ysed o Be; No Firearms, Liquor, Smokes;Snuff OK By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 16—To the handful of new Senators who are| iust settling in their chairs for the first time—some Dont’s in the Sen- ate that might have been Do's if you had taken your seat a long time aco: 1. Don't carry firearms onto the Senate floor. Just because Vice President Van Buren used to preside with a brace of pistols in his jeans, don't thirk it’s an old Senate custom to come to work armed. Since the days when Senator Foote of Mississippi drew his trusty derringer on a col- league and some years later when Senator Saulsbury tried to shoot the sergeant-at-arms, packing a gun in the Senate has been looked on with high disfavor. There's even a rule that you have to check your six-gun at the door. 2. Don't Invite ladies to visit you on the Senate floor There was a day, as one lady observer put it, when ‘The Senate chamber was crowded to crushing with ladies, I never go on such squeezing oceasions.” And again when “It was supposed yesterday there were 300 ladies, besides their beaus on the floor of the Senate.” Those days are gone forever As far 2 ATTACKS ARE MADE, NIGHT TIME Dusk fo Dawn Raid Smash- es German Naval Base at Wilhelmshaven FIRES ARE STARTED; FIERCE FLAMES RAGE New Base of Germans af Catania, Sicily, Is Also {. Stormed by Bombers (By Associated Press) British ‘Royal Air Force bombers pounded - Wilhelmshaven, German | naval base, last night and also made a smashing raid on the new German |air base at Catania, Siélly, the | springboard of the Nazi aerial of- fensive against the British Mediter- |ranean fleet. 3 ¢ | ‘The RAF’s night-long attack on | Wilhelmshaven is described by the - British “Alr ‘Ministry as the “heav~ iest and most successful” series of . u S poll | 40 uttacks on the port. [ " L] | RAF pilots said fires started at | the naval station were so fierce and ' | l ) ( ags n widespread that it was difficult to '] - IsCriticized; Mobilized!” — Stalin pick out specific targets. The Hitler High Command de- clares that only 20 persons were killed and 30 wounded in the attack on the naval port but gives no de- tails on the enormous damage done by bombs and resulting fires. | The Itallan command declares the RAF night raiders inflicted only minor damage at Catania and furth- er states several persons were killed and others were wounded. B e a— Greeks in ~ AdvanceOn: Iltaly Force Make Surpfis; Atfacks in Mountain Heights— Victorious ATHENS, Jan. 16—Surprise in- fantry attacks are reported to have enabled Greek fighters to occupy the important mountain heights of the central Albania battlefront, despite severe snow storms followed by a heavy rain. The Greek spokesman said Greek troops have “continued a victorious advance” by seizing positions and improving lines north of Klisura. e Navy Home If We Mean Peace | TOKYO, Jan. 16.-—-The Woreign Oifice controlled Japan Times today sugeested “the best way” to keep | President Roosevelt's “pledge that | no troops will be sent to foreign soil (will be to withdraw the navy to home waters.” Commenting on the criticism of the United States Congress for the lease-lend bill to aid Great Britain, the Times says: “To the Japanese — (it looks very much like the United States is going the long way around for sending armed forces to the scene of action abroad,” by mainte- nance of a fleet in Hawaii. The Tokyo newspapers urge the government to hasten Japan's “southward program” and be ready for resolutute action to offset British infuence in East Asia. - eee DR. SMITH WILL ) by that she'd try to fill dates for back as 1924, “Something of a sen- sation was caused by entrance of 1| woman to the floor, outside the bar, BE CHAIRMAN OF accompanied by two Senators. It BIRIHDAY BAll proved to be Frau Schreiber, who. | being a member of the. German D f .Cfi' I d Kd l :'Dance for Cripple i-l H Italian Reichstag, was entitled to the p: lege of the floor.” The gallery i i dies fo Be Held Here February 1 i SUPplies SentDown the place for women nowadays 3. Don't prepare any speeche with the idea that you are ‘going to deliver them on the floor and Dr. Courtney Smith today was sway any. pl-nrhxw legislation appointed Chairman of the Presi- Sen. Carter Glass: “In the 28|dent’s Birthday Ball for the Gas-' years I have been a member cf tineau Channel district. Mrs. John one or the other branches of Con- McCormick, appointed earlier, is un- | gress, I have never known a able to serve due to her absence speech to change a vote.” from the city. i LONDON, Jan. 16.—It is officially 4. 1If it is your custom to toss off| Dr. Smith, Assistant Territorial reported that a British submarine an occasional highball, don't ex- Commissioner of Health, is expected has sunk two Italian supply ships pect to buy one in the Capiioll to appoint his committee within sev- in the central part of the Medit- corridors, eral days. |erranean Sea early today. As long as a hundred years ago| The Birthday Ball will be held the It is believed some of the crews of there was a rule against sale of | evening of February 1 at the Elks the two ships were picked up by the liquor in the Capitol, One observ- Hall, with a bridge party for non- submarine. er, however, visiting the Capitol dancers scheduled for the same time cafe, noticed that “You go there at the Baranof Hotel. Lillian Ug- and ask for pale sherry and they gen's orchestra will play for dancing. hand you gin; brown sherry and| T it is brandy; madeira, whisky." HEINZ MAN And as recently as Vice President e o |fistic_circles, is a passenger aboard Curti¥ day, when he consented to| A. W. Douglas, Heinz 57 man, the Baranof for Dutch Harbor to ok WS |went through on the Baranof for|enter Government employment on (Continued on Page Seven® jthe Westward. the base there. “ - ! FONTAINE GOES WEST Lew Fontaine, former welter- | 'w-um, well known in Pacific Coast IN