The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 17, 1941, Page 1

TH VOL. LVIL, NO. 8623. . DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” .{ JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 17, 1941. MEMBER AS! SOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH BOMBERS RAID BIG NAZI BASE New Undeclared War in Orient Breaks Out SEABATILEIS FOUGHT OUT, SIAM GULF French In(-i;;C_hina Fleet Engages Siamese War- ships—New Push On (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The undeclared war between Fre 1 Inde-China and Thailand flare Jarge proportions today when small French Asiatic Fleet to have sunk two Siamese rly damazed an- te is repo; 1 warships and seve other The enccunter Gulf of Siam. The size of the ships is not given Sir eously, a radio ts a large scale offen: pushed by the Siamese in five sectors along the 1,000 frontier between the two coun- tack on the place Army mile tries e NaziRaiders Make Atfack On Blg Base Wrangell Narrows May ROME, Jah. 17 Ih(‘ Italian High Command reports that waves of German bembers serfously damaged British cruiser ring new hits ! Tllustrious cenily attacked by A merchant been sunk in the raid. The Stefani, Italian News Agency, s great quantities of heavy med- 1 caliber bombs and tons of incen- daries were dumped on Valetta, N e Capital City, and its ar- senal, ships and “other important objectives on the Island.” on the aircraft which was re- dive bombers. hav ave WASHINGTON — Recently The vessel is reported to| | \ ! | — at Malta besides | washington Merry-Go-Round dis- | closed that one of the factors be- hind the lagging plane production ! is a serious shortage in aluminum and aluminum-alloy forgings. But | that isn’t the only crucial raw ma- terial bottleneck now plaguing the | defense program. Another is the brass, made, As in the case of aluminum, De-| fense chiefs are shush-shushing the biass shortage. But it is so grave that experts admit privately that it may become consumption for civilian purposes order to meet the steadily soar- military demand. In fact, brass nay be one of the first base metals ‘to be put on the military priority list lack of C} use of the’ shortage is two-lflakne Says 1. Lack of sufficient zinc smelt- ing facilities. Zinc is an essential ore in brass, which in turn is es- ential in the manufacture of all ammunition casings, from bullets for small arms to giant shells for have lost their chances to get jobs heaviest cannon. 2 facilities. two are can be no improvement in unless the other also is reme- died. There is no dearth of zinc ore or scrap zine, which are in plentiful supply. The bottleneck is in smelt- ing and brass-making plants, At present the United States hns 20-0dd primary slab zinc| turing The tk cne some - nCununued on Page Four) out of which shell casing is! sheet| | necessary to curtail - | Shortage of brass manufac- because they have no birth certifi- | inter-related and | — Should reply * NEW GAINS BY GREEKS | IN ALBANIA INDO-CHINA INVADED MlI.ES MANDALAY URMA | Mounfains - lfalian Losses Estimated (By Associated Press) Greek dispatches from the Alban- | ian front reported new gains in the | | bitterly contested Tepelini Mmmtmn sector while the Greek newspapel declare that one third of Italy’s| ‘f()lC(N have been knocked out of J\c“ | Grecian-Italian conflict. Italian losses in the campaizn so far, according to military records of | the Greeks, are estimated as follows: | 70,000 killed, wounded or taken pris- oners or sent back to Italy for severe | irost nte treatment R 'WAR BOSS DISCUSSES LEND PLAN Demes Bill Would Permll PROME A CHIENGMAI ‘\K VIENTIANE, THAILAND | | | BA! NGK2= iSOPHON Arrows indicate points at which Thai Army, supported by air raids, | was reported by Thai, French and Japanese sources to have invaded Fiench Indo-China. The French charged aid to Thailand is coming frem “an Asiatic country.” Be Closed by Masses of Ice (oasl Guard at Scene KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 17.— Ice driven by strong Taku winds yesterday afternoon swished back and forth through the treacherous Wrangell Narrows, menaced moor- ing docks and structures at Pet- ersburg and threatened to close ‘Wrangell Narrows at Point Crow- ley. The ice is believed to,be from the Leconte Glacier and the situa- tion was reported to the Coast Guard Headquarters here. | 1he cutter Nemaha has beer | dispatched to Frederick Sound anc | the Narrows to look after aids tc navigation. It is known that two buoys have been pushed over but they have been recovered Ice masses are ranging koi Island in Frederick Sound, Scow Bay in Wrangell Narrows. The Coast Guard reports are that no damage at Petersburg has been reported, The metal day marker established after Prowley Beacon was recently struck by the steamer Yukon has now disappeared and the Coast Guard fears the large caisson base has been pushed over, blocking the narrow entrance to the Narrows from Frederick Sound. The caisson is 24 feet in diameter. CONGRESSMAN IS FLU VICTIM; SICK 24 HOURS WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Repre- sentative Sam Massingale, 70, Demo- crat from Cordell, Oklahoma, died today after an illness of 24 hours. Death is attributed to heart dis- | ease resulting from a severe attack of influenza. Fren(h Navues BULLETIN —WASHINGTO) Jan. 17.—Secretary Stimson, ti’ying this afternoon, said he was apprehensive “as to the pos- sibility of a crisis within the next 60 or at least 90 days.” He made the statement without im- mediate elaboration. “I think that even my friends on the right recognize this possibility.” The Secretary referred to Re- publican members of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.—Secre- ary of War Stimson said today no President ever “rushed this country nto war” and that Congress could ‘safely rest” with Roosevelt the yroad responsibilities proposed for 1im in his lease and lend program. Discussion of the program was 1eld between the House Foreign Af- airs Committee and Secretary Stim- from Su-| :on with discussion, led by Repre- te the U. 8. might aid. Stimson described the suggestion >f the British and French navies was ‘fantastic and preposterous.” DOUGLAS BOMBER IS LOST Army Hunlsf? Big Plane- Probably Down in California McCHORD P!ELD Wash., Jan. | 17.—Reports filtering back to frantic officials at McChord Field locking for a missing bomber that left here Thursday morning, lead to the belief Fred Bate Many employes of the | Broadcasting Company, | them Fred Bate, whose well known to American transat- lantic broadcast listeners, were in- ed when two heavy Nazi bombs ell on the BBC’s London quarters. Seven radio men were killed. British among voice is i | Get Cerfificate 0f Your Birth, Get your birth certificate is the warning of Territorial Employment Service director J. T. Flakne. Flakne says dozens of persons Visiting Here from Sitka for Few Days Plakne says write the Bureau of | Jack Mahoney and Harold John- Vital Statistics in the town, county |son are in Juneau for a few day: or state where you were born and | vacationing from work at the air| on defense projects in recent months | Pass, Oregon and Hornbrook, Cal- cates. ifornia. the army “heavy plane, possibly ask for that birth certificate. lee<b;‘5“ at Sitka. They came on the |bomber” was heard and sighted a 34% them your mother’s maiden name |Steamer North Coast and are guests | few moments flying low over Horn- ern Pacific 7', \brock just over the line from Ore-| 65 7/8, Pound $4.03’ and your father's name as well a\mt the Baranof Hotel. any further information about your | O o i igon, childhood. | ATTORNEY JERNBERG HERE ‘} The plane was a Douglas with a| Ask the Bureau further, if !hev‘ Robert Jernberg, attorney of Sit- |crew of sixmen and was bound for | ‘no record,” where you . ka, arrived on the North Coast on fl{lh(‘ bombing range on can trace your certificate. professional trip. anke, entative Tinkham centering on the . liscretion the President would have| n determining the nations to whom/| he lease-lend bill was so drawn as ‘0 permit purchase by this country | | | Col. Walter Peck, Operations Of- Southern 3/4, gt | | ficer, reported this morning that a | General | Murdoch | Jones averages: Jrails 20.16, utilities 2013, Did These Men Harass the Nazis in France? It was revealed in New York that British motorcycle troops, forming “suicide” squadrons, have made lightning raids into oceupied France during recent weeks, harassing German forces and bringing back They are said to have been taken to France across the channel in trawlers and fishing boats. While no immediate military objective is served, the raids are said to be staged for the effect ~ o (German morale and for the cnplurn of prisoners from whom information is elicited. valuable information, Buying of British and GlGA NTIC HRST AID | | PROGRAM IS ARRANGED FOR FDR INAUGURATION By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan, 17. — Wel- | come to President Roosevelt’s third ‘ inaugural: J “A first aid program designed |as a model on which other e | i Jcllms may pattern efficient d ter organizations has been plan: | for inauguration day under dir tion of Rear Admiral P, S. Ros- | siter, US.N., retired. 1 “Admiral Ressiter’s first aid or- | ganization will include establish- ment of 11 first aid stations along | the parade roate, each with four nurses, two nurses’ aides, four rotor corps drivers and eight [first aid men and stretcher beavers Twenty - five ' ambulances ch carrying a doctor and a nurse, will supplement the stations. Besides the regular station personnels, 200 first aid men will be assigned ‘u, | 1osts between the regular first staticns. Each of these men has, been thoroughly trained in stan- card and advanced first aid cour i piven by the American Red | “Familiar with disaster !lems, Admiral Rossiter has | pointed as members of his mittee men conver t with geney work in large centers, |inciude Dr. Roy Iyman chairman of first aid, life s end aecident prevention of District of Columbia chapter, erican Red Cr and Dr. | Magruder MacDonald, coroner the District of Columabia “The committee agrecd to use the induguiation as experiment for y disaster relict ™ are direct qustes from a [recent release Ly the Inaug: i f 3 V‘Comuutum Fifth Floor, Districi | Building, Washington, D. C. If you {have any questions, take it up OCK QUOTATIONS || with them. I'm going to spend in- NEW YORK, Jan PROWLER’ prob- ap- eom- enci- A daring Nazi raider, believed pos- These sibly commanded by Count Felix 3 von Luckner (above), most dread- ed ocean prowler of World War 1, was reported preying on the Pa- cific's shipping lares. A Hong Kong report said a former British- owned ship, now a raider, was commanded by “Captain Count von Lucknow”—apparently a gar- bled identification of Von Luck- Anmi A of | | augural day in my new disaster- proof shelter in the Virginia bhilis Closing | | and I WILL be careful, 1 | i 17. the plane is grounded somewhere | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine pmml.se in rugged terrain between_Grants stock today is American Can| FEW CIVILIANS TO MARCH Anaconda jethlehem| Sartorial item: “Two hundred 81% Commonwealth and’ r(\p[pg@n[u“ve\ each of the Civil- Curtis Wright 87, ljan Censervation Corps, the Na- Motors 3/4, Interna-|{jonal Youth Administration und | tional Harvester i, Kennecoti the Works Progress Adminisira- ., New York Central 14'4, North-|tion will be the only civilian United States Steel marchers in the inaugural parade “The only other civillans in wha’ 'is planned to be an essentially DOW, JONES AVERAGES | military- parade will be the Gover- The following are today's Dow, nors of the states . and these industrials 129.74,! e 257%, 914, Steel, 4 4 (Conunued x;n Puge Seven® I} 1! defenses | five years. BIG SMASH ON GERMAN SHIP DEPOT Daylight Thrust Made Early Today Afong French Occupied Coast WILHELMSHAVEN IS OPCE MORE ATTACKED “Torch Raiders” of Ger- many Set Hundred Fires at Bristol (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British bombers roared across the English Channel early this morning 0 pay a daylight “visit" on Nazi bases on the French Coast. Heavy explosions were heard soon after the Royal Air Force squadrons dis- appeared in the mist shrouding Dover Strait and it is belleved heavy iamage has been done. The daylight thrust followed an nitensive overnight assault by Ger- man “torch raiders” that set 100 fires in Bristol, one of the main | DoTls of entry of war supplies from | ‘he United States. » While the Royal Air Force bombs vs again blasted the big German ‘nnval base at Wilhelmshaven, the !tirst being “highly successful,” to- day’s attack was a second smdsh |that was a “great success.” British authorities at Malta, is- land citadel in the Mediterranean, 'said 10 Axis planes were shot down |'ate yesterday in a tempestuous dive tombing raid on the harbor, Three other planes were damaged. Little damage was done as British machine juns chattered from the roof tops and windows on the low flying raid- KNOX SAYS AXIS NAVY T00 GREAT Declares We Must Aid Bri- fain fo Preserve Her and Her Fleet WASHINGTON, t of Navy Fr paseage of the Roos bill l\ ‘in our best interest.,” Knox told the House Foreign | Affairs committees that the Navy| s heavily outnumbered by the fleets| of the Axis powers shculd British sea power be destroyed The Navy will probably commis- | sion 100 new fighting ships in the| next two s, he said, but durinu‘ the same period, 304 new units will te swelling the Axis forces. | The U. 8. nceds time tc perfect its | g Knox said, reminding the| WASHINGTON, Jan—At today's ccmmittee that the two ccean navy |conference with the newsmen, Presi- construetion program now undmway\de"' Rocsevelt said the provision in will take six years to complete, |(he lease-lend.measure to let the “Only Britain and its fleet will | War and Navy Departments buy war zive us that time,” Knox said "’I‘hvv"""'e"mls for friendly Nations was °d our help to survive.” ‘put in the bill as a precaution as a Knox presented figures showing |fesult of sudden world changes. the U. 8. fleet to be made up of 822/ The President told the newsmen compared with an estimated 658 in |that in every 24 hours something the navies of Germany, Ttaly and m‘gm turn up to make it necessary Japan . to add to American defenses, By next January, he said he fig-| The President advised at jumping the U. 8. will have 342, the ©f conclusions and said the provi- powers 803, and by January Yion Is Just a precautionary measure the comparatice {for American Defense. 422 and 962, S e STRIKE 1S STILL ON FOR (OLD gt STCRAGE CREW There’s a hotel here with 5000 can-| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 11— ines hanging about yet never a bark NO fish was handled in Ketchikan nor bite. as the warehousemen’s strike went The dogs are lifeless miniatures,|!it0 the second day. Pickets were part of a collection started four Waintained at the New England y 0 by Albert Novit, the hotel | *Pd Ketchikan Cold Storage docks. cwner, when his big St. Bernard _N© further action has been taken died. Novit couldn't bring himself 'OWatds conciliation pending word to replace her with another canine [fo™ Juneau fish buyers. end bought a few miniature St. Ber- | The steamer North Coast loaded nards instead. Guests began giving [f°%¢D fish at Sitka before sailing him more and now his hotel is full, Y¢sterday morning, stopping loading Eegl e at midnight Wednesday when the ntemtj working agreement expir- The number of filling stations, ed. in the United States increased be-, In Juneau, no pickets were out and tween 1935 and 1939 at about one- buyers and union committeemen third the rate of the preceding were reported to haVe agreed on “certain phases” of a new contract, NAVY, WAR CONTROL IS, GIVEN OKEH Rooseve]t_Poims Out Value of One Provision, Land-Lease Measure Jan. 17.- Knex evelt lease-lend national ¢ 161 be figures will - 5,000 Canines in One Hofel 17—