The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 18, 1941, Page 1

TH VOL. LVIL, NO. 8624. NAZI AIRDROMES ARE FIRED BY BR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, JAN. 18, 1941. 'MEMBER AS SOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT® [TISH Mussolini, Hitler Will Confer on Sunday DICTATORS WILL GET TOGETHER Military, D};fiematic and Economic Conditions fo Be Discussed "FULL DRESS" TALKFEST NOW SLATED T0 COME UP Germany Undersiood foBe| Attempting Peace Be- fween lfaly, Greece (By Associated Press) Reports from Bern, Switzerland, tate that Premier Benito Musso- Iini might have a conference with Hitler today or tomorrow at some| undesignated place A rel le informant in Sofia said | :ermany is trying to bring about peace in the Italian-Greek warfare, and concentration of German troops | in Southern Rumania is part of] the “argument” aimed at Greece. | The Bern statement says it is| reported in diplomatic quarters that | “Full Dress” conference between Mussolini and Hitler will be held! Sunday at Rennero, Italy, "but/ ome sources suggested that it will| be in Germany, Mussolini repaying | Hitle visit to Florence on OcLo-! ber 28, the day Italy invaded Greece on the present disastrous campaign. - Cthe oy a %60° WASHINGTON — Of the 500-| odd congressmen” who flnswercd, “Here” at the opening session of the 77the, eight are women. That is a| small percentage. But much more at-| tention is focused upon them than | their smallness of numbers indicat-| &, wnal part will they play in this sescicn, which is destined to be one| of the most fateful in history? Are they effective? Are they eloguent? Industrious? Intelligent? Frivolous? | Beautiful? In shert, can they stand‘ o their own feet as legislators, ask- | no favors in deference to their Or are they merely a curtsey o the principle of equal rights? { The quickest answer is that the are more industrious than| tive. Their average age is 56| wrs and 4 months, and they are| cften too busy to go to the hair-| dreseer. They cause no among their male cclleagues. Tuo of the eight ladies are 65 (Mrs. Nor- tcn of New Jersey and Mrs. O'Day | of New York and the youngest of | the grcup, Miss Sumner of Illinois, is 42. Miss Rankin of Montana was a young thing in her thirties when she came to Washington in 1917.| Then she was the first woman ever elected to Congress. Now she is 60 years old. One day the legislaturesses came | ether for a hen-party luncheon. The newest comer in the group was comely Mrs. Frances P. Bolton of Ohio. Old Congressman Sumners of Texas strolled in, looked the ladies over, and with a wink at Mrs. Bolton, drawled, “T knew we'd get a good- locking woman in Congress if we kept on trying.” Mrs. Bolton is 55. ladies complications | NO L:\DY. £HE rdly a taetful remark. But the 1 tell it with a laugh. They | don't pretend to be beauties. But| they do pretend to be legislators. | The classic story on this point concerns Tom Blanton of Texas and Mrs, Norton of New Jersey. Blanton was straining his vocal chords in 7 (Continued on Page Four) Weekly Allowance Is $1,000 Brenda Frazier Glamorous Brenda Frazier, one of society's most publicized mem- bers, won't lack for spending money again this year. Brenda's weekly allowance has been set at $1,000, the same as she received the last two years. Miss Frazier's income from trust funds last year was $137,000. PLASTICS, WHADDYUMEAN! ANYWAY, THEY ARE HITTING | By JACK STINNETT | | WASHINGTON, Jan. 18. — Tae Department of Commerce is slap- happy over plastics. In the vast vaulted foyer of the Department’s building (sometimes referred to lo- cally as “Hoover’s Folly” because nobody up to that time had ever, thought of Commerce as impor- Laue cnougn to be housed in such an edifice) there now is on dis- play as big an exhibition of ‘plai-| tics as Washington ever has seen. There is everything from false Nazi France teeth to br from milady's Fresh Roundup Places 3,- 000 Civilians in Area |G burve o, footai heimets Under Gflard ‘hmu'. from fragile-looking bits| of costume jewelry to airplane| (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British Are Inferned in | windshields that toss-machine- -gun| | bullets aside like pellets from a] A fresh round-up of British ciy- | PCRR-ShoOter- lilians in Nazi-occupied France was | WHAT PLASTICS ARE | disclosed today. , The day I was over there, there Germans said that the round-up' Woe- 8 Igllow standing around. 1 {was “a military necessity” and gave ,, poq" pim. “Whaddyumean plas- |that as the reason for the mtem-ui 2" And his nswey as: “(’;en | ment of 3,000 British subjects, men, ‘mc:l‘v s;‘enk::\ga plas:xc:v Srst sub |wemen and children living in an' o area which might become cither a Siances capavle of being el jumping-off place for an attempted Oxgmmwtf 4 zrn:fltfue. :“;;“; ;ogé' linvasion of England or a footholc | 28 matte | ired solid form; this condition | for a British expeditionary force. Berlin understood the action to] ’¢ing obtained by a physical or| be a reprisal for internment of Ger- | ‘hemical interaction between thej, mans in EAgland molecules of a wide range of ma- terials.” \ Well, no doubt. he knew what he was talking about, but that seems to me ta be putting it the hard way. Plastics are like mdm —you can’t explain them, there they are. You take a lxme coal tar or hammered soybeans,! mix them with a little air or water, | run them through a press and you | get everything from synthetic silk | to gear-shift knobs. The Chinese started making | papier-mache about as far back as firecrackers, but since papier- The PAA Douglas airliner 1(‘(L|mache wasn't an instrument of| Seattle this morning for Juneau, bqt slaughter, it took civilizatien about | heavy snow this noon seemed CO ten centuries longer to figure ouc indicate the ship would have to that it was a plastic and plastic; spend the night at either White- were pretty hot stuff. horse or Prince George. Now, after some 25 years of| However, if conditions better this commercial development and abuut afternoon, it is believed possible & D 2. L K the ship may come on in. (Cnnunued on Page Two) PAAPLANE | (CHURCHILL | | i i CALLS FOR BROAD AID Hopkins Tells Glasgow Britain Has Enough Men to Hold Line GLASGOW, Jnn 18 —Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill has summed | up Great Britain’s war need from the United States as “guns, planes and ships—far more than we'll be able to pay for, rather than “large armies from oversea: . Harry Hopkins, at Churchill’s side, ' told the Glasgow Citv Councillors ‘n an unheralded speech that Great Britain has enough fighting men of her own “to hold the front line of civilization” with American aid in credits and supplies. However, Hopkins warned biuntly that “before us lie sufferings and tribulations™ along the road to alti- mate victory.” Churchill introduced Hopkins proudly as “Mr. Hopkins, who has come in order to put himself in closest relation with things here and will soen return to report to his famous chief the impressions he has gathered in our islands.” | | { | | “DECLARATION OF WAR" WASHINGTON, Jan, 18.—Senator Burton K. Wheeler, leader of the Senate opposition to the leaselend program for Britain, said today he had learned from “several sources” that Churchill has been “insisting on a declaration of war” by the United States. ‘Wheeler said Hopkins had been sent to England to learn what im- wediate step scould be uken “‘short of a neclamuon of war.” Third Term wmu@ DEPARTMENTS WITHBANG Inaugural | On Monday Quarter Million People As-' sembling fo Hear U. §. President’s Address | WASHINGTON, Jan. 18—Presi- dent Roosevelt’s inauzural address on the cast steps of the Capitol Monday will be comparatively brief, not to exceed twelve minutes. Secretary Stephen Early announc- ad today as trains, planes and buses E brought thousands to Washington ! to witness the first third term m- |auguration in history, that the Pre- qucr‘s address would be approxi- m'll(‘lv the same length as that made on his first inaugural on March 4, elght years ago. With the President will be lns wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and 26 house guests, including most of lh: Recosevelt family. The Weather Bureau has forecast clear cold weather for Monday. The last nails have been driven {in the 40,000 seats erected on the Capitol Plaza. Along the parade route on Pennsylvania avenue standing room is being roped off. It is estimated that quarter of a millicn people are coming to Wash- ington to attend the President's in- alu,ural Long Range Planes Used By Germans (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Unofficial advices received by the Associated Press reports Germany is using a new type of lcng range (r,ur motored planes for “all weath- er” attacks far out on the Atlantic, When Bombers Departed From Neutral Dublin A bomb was dropped on this street in the Sandy- cove section of Dublin, in neutral Ireland, causing WRANGELL NARROWS ICE *MENACE IS OVER; MASSES ' And Workers MOVED BY WIND, TIDE Close Deais CRACK TROOPS TAKEN lmporlanf Capture of Ifal- ian 'Wolves of Tuscany’ Reporied by Athens (BY ASSOC! IATI'I) PRESS) Advices from Athens officials con- firm other sources that the Greeks have captured 1,000 of the crack It- alian “Wolves of Tuscany” Division in the Albania sector. The Grecian High Command alsc announces torpedoing of two TItal- ian supply ships in the Adriat Both were sent down but crews were rescued., .- GOVERNOR SENT GREETINGS FROM " U SENE MEETING! Greetings and good wishes to Gov. L‘rnest Gruening were conveyed by radiogram today from the Alaska Salmon Purse Seiners Union con- (vention at Ketchikan for “the in- terest you have taken and the splen- did work you have already ac plished for the welfare of the people of Alaska. | The m Peratovi 4 Johnson, JUIIEAU HOTEL MOW sage is signed by Frank J Secrets ll‘dulll‘(‘l KARNES HEADOUARTERS Selective Service Director An- ‘thany E. Karnes has moved his hendqunrurs to room 201 of the Juneau Hotel, from where he will ‘(hrut next Wednesday's n'qlltra tion. - BETTS IS MAKING " " TERRITORY AUDIT Archie Betts has been awarded the bid for the biennial Territorial audit, it was announced today by the Governor's office, som- | 1, President, and Frank G.| this crater. here! KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 18.——- Shifting winds and tides yesterday iotning cleared Wrangell Narrows ice 1 which on day threatened to block shipping | . Point Crowley, and destroy or| badly damage mooring docks and structures at Petersburg. | No damage is reported done ac- cording to advices received at the Coast Guard headquarters here from the cutter Nemaha which dispatched to the scene late Thur day night. The Nemaha found the caisson at Prowley Rock beacon still in place, thus relieving fears that it might have been pushed over by the ice and blocking the Narrows' opening from Frederick Sound. Wrangell Narrows was practically devoid of ice yesterday afternoon the Nemaha reported, as southeast- ers replaced the Takus from the north and the ice masses are he- lieved to have moved north 1o Frederick Sound and considered no longer a menace to shipping - Gayda Says U.S. Speils For Warfare {Declares Roosevelt Lead- ing Rabid Group of Inferventionists ROME, Jan. 18.—Authoritative j Fascist editor Virginio Gayda ac cused American ‘“interventionisi theaded by Rocsevelt, with “seeking to provoke Germany and Italy into| some action which would justify the United States in going into war against the Axis."” In a four-column editorial in his newspaper, he cited the United | Btates Senate Naval Committee re- {port on the 1 construction bill, jlssued last May 15 as “belying” (the argument an Axis victory would ' endanger America | “Interventionists are throwing ’mnn:s lves into clandestine inter- ' vention with every means, in open provocation and the most open violation of international law.” - Muslin _was first made in city of Mosul in Mesopotamia. the Workers are clearing away the debris Fish Buyers Thurs- « - Southeast Alaska towns had sxgned‘ 1300 pounds, CHERBOURG, 'BREST ARE AR RAIDED jlarge Blazes, Terrific Ex- plosion Indicate Heavy Damage Is Inflicted AXIS SHIPPING OFF DUTCH COAST BOMBED Germans Strike at Seaport in South Wales-Docks, Warehouses Are Hit (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British bombers last night made a big attack on Brest, and Cherbourg airdromes in occu- pied France and large fires and terrific explosions indicated di- rect hits were made and much damage resulted. The British Air Ministry also announces that Mritish air squadrons bombed and machine gunned Axis shipping off the Dutch Ccast and four ships were hit, one left in a sinking condition. The British fliers dodged fire aimed at them and all returned safely to their bases. German fliers set fire to docks and ‘warehouses at Swanses, Scuth Wales port, center for copper, tinplate and fuel entry. The British Ministry admits the bombing but said casual- ties were “not large.” Reported Wage Increases Made-Wrangell Plants |NEw NAZ' Are Worklvrilig Anew | MOVEMENT KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 18 Fish buyers called a meeting ludu"i to seek a settlement of the ware- | housemen’s strike here following | word other fish buyers in nther‘ | | 5! [ | for a wage increase. ’ H™ 3 Tt o dectarc n en-cent an nour | LOFG@ Airfields in Southern increase was signed for but nothing | H H H wos sait/af seqlhaeitiontion e WOLR: | Rumania Teemlng with one of the main points at i&su- 2008 o o v o o.| - Unusual “Ielivily Mundy and the angLH Cold Stor- | —_— age have signed an contract with| BELGRADE, Jan. 18.—Intensive warehousemen and longshoremen al- | German Air Force preparations at lowing a ten.cent an hour increase |/more than one dozen large landing for fish handlers. | tields in Southern Rumania leads to R. Brueger has as yet failed to | predictions the Nazis may be ar- sign and has the only hot cargo in |ranging hopping off places in a new Wrangell, Other plants are working |action in the Mediterranean area. as usual, ! It is said 1,000 ground crew men are already quartered near the land- | ing fields and more are arriving \(l.ull\ ‘eee TINKHAM 0SCAR OLSON'S HITS AT “oefices moveo 10 THIRD FLOOR o | Territorial Treasurer Oscar G. Ol- WASHINGTON, Jan. 18--Repre-|son’s offices in the Federal Building ative Tinkham announced to-|are getting tc the point where they he would ask the House Foreign | are no trouble at all te find—almost \ifairs committee to subpoena Wen- | any door you open on the third floor dell Willkie to testify on the British | belongs to the Treasurer's office. aid bill after Willkie had notified| With recent renovations to the the committee he planned a trip to| Post Office, Olson and his crew were Europe and it would be impossible ' shunted upstairs to legislative cham- for him to appear before leaving|bers. Now they've been moved again. Wednesday. | Go into the former Alaska Plan- Chairman Bloom promptly told ning Council offices for General him the committee had no such pow- | Treasurer's Office business—that's ers, ‘ull Alaska Road Commission space, Tinkham angrily told newsmen but they've made room for Oscar's he wanted to know “what compet- Crew. ency has Willkie to advise the Am-|- In the Public Survey offices you erican people on foreign policy near- | can get information on homesteads ly every morning. I think it is cer-|and pay liquor stamps at the same tainly a possibility that Willkie is|time. Oscar’s in there, too. going to England as a Roosevelt| But if you want to see Oscar him= emissary.” | self, try a numbered door just a bit Willlam Knudsen, Director Gen-!farther down the hall. It's marked eral of Production Management, said | “‘Private,” but that's where the Ter- of the bill, “It will be late this year | ritorial Treasurer holds forth—in before this country can supply any space borrowed from the U. S. Trea- gunt, amount of aid to Great Bri-|*ury’s Disbursement Officer Charles tain.” Naqhel e i s Oxalic acid has been known to sclence since 1776, ® i The male ostrich often wrigh.s‘