The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 21, 1941, Page 1

TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE ’I‘l‘lIE” 1., NO. 8626. DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE jUNLAU ALASKA, TUESDAY, J/\NUARY 21, I‘HI Ml:MBl;R /\“OCIATH) PRl-Sb PRICE TEN CENTS BLOODY FIGHTS, BOMBINGS IN RUMANIA —_— Girl Writes Suicide Note Then Disappears TRAGIC END 10 JOB HUNT FEARED HERE Aftractive Visitor Dropsi Out of Sight - Police | Seek Information } of work, nearly broke, far| from her home in the sunny suffering from an injured ankle and depressed about her er's‘ vent sometime yesterday 28- r-0ld Reita Kathleen Amos gave In her rcom at a local hotel shc\ wrote a note: “Enclosed you will find enough money to pay my hotel bill. It's all the money I have in the world. In a few minutes T am going out to take | my own life.” 1 Reita, who had traveled all | over the world and who had never | been out of a job, folded $9 the note and pinned it to Coatless, wearing a! a brown felt hat ’s, she left the ho- tel. No one ha: 1er since . Job Offer at Last This forenocn the Office of In- dian Affairs called her hotel. They had a job waiting for her. The fl(‘sk clerk answered that Reita did noL answer her telephone. At noon to- day the note was found. It asked that her luggage be pressed Lo a sister, Mrs. Lyle Porter, in Dallas, Texas, and that any amail arriving for her also be sent to the sister, Th before ide (Continued on Page Eight) B CThe | a lobetlSAIlet 60 °§ } WA'-HINGTON Confidential | conversations have been taking place between the British and the State Department for some time aimed at | getting Irish naval bases for the | British. In these conversations the British | have wanted to place the United States in the unique role of either | persuading or bulldozing Erie into | handing over the bases. Just how | the United States handled it, the British didn’t much care. | But in talking to the State De- partment, the British pointed out that if they took Irish bases by force, there would be a burst of anti-British feeling from Irish all cver the United States, particularly New England. This, the British felt, would be extremely bad just at a time when Britain particularly needs American support. The British also pointed out to the State Department that they | were placed in the unfortunate posi- tion of having to bring food to Tre- | land at the risk of having the ships | sunk, and with no protective co—’ operation from the Irish whatever. Therefore, the British Foreign Of- | fice urged the State Department to ! use its immediate and vigorous good offices with the Irish Government. | The State Department, however, | has been eyeing the situation with! no great enthusiasm. Informal | soundings revealed that the Irish| Minister in ‘Washington, Robert Brennan, is vigorously opposed to | British naval bases, and so is the | Irish Government—at least until the | recent bombing of Eire by German | planes. This has changed Irish public op- ’ inion considerably, and it is now ! possible that U. 8. persuasion might | get somewhere. MISSING REPORT O More than four months ago ex- | perts of the Congressional Monopoly | Investigating Committee completed an exhaustive report on insurance companies. It was the product of two years steady work, including (Coutinued on Page Four) | baseball club, died last | hours after stricken with an attack Bu; Nazi a in (urI cipai Judge fda May n a San Pedro, ( \g is “not an overt act aga Muni beneh ities in the Los Angeles harbor area.” introduced as evidence in the case of a seaman ac a neighbor because she refused to remove the swastika from her home, 18 Fishermen Drown as Hands Freeze, They Slip From Wreckage Info Sea DEATHHITS J. LELIVELT LAST NIGHT 'Manager of Seaftle Base- ball Club, Suddenly, Stricken, Passes SEATTLE, Jan. 21.—Jack Lelivelt, 53, reported to be one of the highest paid managers of a minor league night, two of the heart after watching a bas- ketball game. Lelivelt piloted the Seattle base- ! ball team to two successive Pacific | Coast League pennants. . Lelivelt seemed in excellent health when he went to the hasketball game. Lelivelt spent more than 35 years {in a baseball uniform. RAF BOMBS NAZI BASE AT CATANIA Axis Planes Are Seen fo Burst Info Flames as Resulf of Atfack (BL ASSOCIATED PRESS) Royal Air Force bombers are re- perted to have made a new raid on the German Air Base at Catania, Sicily, and seven Axis planes were seen to burst into flames on e ground, Adams burns a small Nazi flag on the ., courtroom, above, while explaining the | KENNEDY | ~ ONSTAND IN HOUSE Says Britain Divided as fo. Whether or Not We Should Fight 'INTIMATES GERMANY IS OVERESTIMATED Ambassodor Is Puzzled at ‘ Lack of Killing Punch -Artist Gives by Nazi Airmen WASHINGTON, Jan. 21.—Joseph Kennedy. retiring Ambassador to Britain, declared today Great Brit- al leadership 1s aiwvided on the question of the advisability of the United States’ becoming an active participant in the war | Testifying before the House ¥or- leign Affairs Commitiee, Kennedy said some of (he British government fell that if the United States entered !the contlict, “it would find a way to arry it through.” | Others, Kennedy said, believed American entrance into the war | would be a great detriment to Brit- ain’s war effort because it wonld = |slow down the dlow of material ald from America. I~ 280 Air Raids © The diplomat also reporetd he went through 280 air raids during | his service in England and told the committee that many Britishers felt, |they were not getting all the aid !they might normally have ('xpm:led ! from the United States. Kennedy, questioned as to whether or not he believed a “ecrisis” would develop in the next 60 or 90 days 15 A1 an Administration spokesman told BOSTON. Mass, Jan., 21.—Eigh- the committee last week, said there {teen men drowned before dawn to- | Were many things in the military day almost within sight of their Situation he didn't understand and he didn’t know exactly what ihe Mary E. spokesman meant. Another Query i P t Germany, but a protest against The flag was ¢ stabbing homes, The Boston schconer O'Hara, homeward bound after cne week on the fishing banks, was split | “T never understood, for instance,” open in a collision as the craft ap- Kennedy said, “Why the German preacked the Boston harbor and army permitted a British army of rank 300,000 to escape at Dunkerque.” Five half frozen survivors were' If the German air force were as dragged to safety from the protrud- Strong as it were claimed to be, he ing mainmast of the sunken schoon- continued, it would seem they had er by the crew of the trawler North a perfect chance to annihilate that British force. their rescu-| The diplomat said also he couldn't O'Hara ap- understand why the Germans had not wrought greater destruction in f the of 23 Britain's mdusmal centers. e BRITONS ARE WARNED, QUIT JAPAN NOW Peculiar Instructions Re- ported Given in View of | Nippon-U. §. Crisis E Star. | The survivors teld ers that the ary E. parently struck a barge. The 18 cther membe; fell frem the riggings one by one their hands froze and their grasp was lecsened. > -——— Nazi GHQ Is 'Panzer’ On Rails Train of Von Brauchltsch Is Cerebrum of German | | | HH : TCKYO, Jan. 21.-British Con- MIII'ary Ma(hme sular officials have advised certain British residents to leave Japan “be- /u- FEATURE SERVICE fore the impending crisis in Amer- BERLIN, Jan. 21. — A double-'ican-Japanese relations come to a | engined train pulls into a small head.” ; station in France, Behind the en-| This is disclosed by reliable in- gines is a flatcar with a crew formants. around an anti-aircraft gun. The| Wilfred MeVittie, Acting Consul caboose is another anti-aircraft' General in Yokohama is said to have | car. Between these two cars lies sent a letter warning a selected list the rolling general headquarters of of about 30 Britons of his district the German Army. Why these were selected is not ex- In one of the cars sits Fieid plained. | | Marshal General Walter von It is said that Britons in Tokyo | Brauchitsch, thin-lipped head of and other cities have received no the German land forces. such letters. l This train is the cerebrum of, T 0 S | the German military machine. Checking San Isabel national , | With its swiftly acting chie,|forest in Colorado, the U. S. For- it has toured half of the conti- ©5t Service estimated there were nent of Europe in the last 14|18500 prairie dogs on 4300 acres months directly behind the crest 8nd 34000 gophers on 6,800 acres.’ ,of the German military wave. From . 2 : There are 2,500 species of | ards. (Continued on Page Seven) »causing - Here is how the “armed” camp of the Balkans Upwards of 150,000 German soldiers, together with tanks, airplanes and guns looks to the artist. Major Aftack GREAT ART TREASURES MURALS, SCULPTURE ARE On Tobruk Is Finally Made Thirty Thousand lalians in Besieged Fortress Must Put Up Fight Now (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Great . Britain’s Desert launched a major attack today cn 3C,000 Italian troops in the be- sieged fortress of Tobruk, Liby the British General Headquarters announces, ‘Ihe Ttalian High Command pr viously noted increased artillery a tion around Tobruk and acknow ledged that British Royal Alr Force bombers had raked the “material damage.” The British communique bombers heavily raided Tobruk ing direct hits cn the m ry bal racks of the beleaguersd tow dropping “many bombs’ cist camp > NEW DRAFT REGISTERING Army | fortress| aid RAF | | | | | ! FOR BRITONS Both Workir}g Men, Wom- en May Be Called Up for War Fadory Jobs Mln- the LONDON, Jan. zl -Labor ister Bevin today anncunced British Government’s decision register Great Britain’s worki men and women for drafting n | war “factories. Bevin told the member; of the House of Commcns thal the N: tic production was steadily in creasing but has “now reached the !stage when it is ary to make an industrial registration by age groups,” The largest leper colc in lh» world is under the Amerjcan flag. | caping is located at Culion, an is- vn! liz- land 200 miles south of Manila, and away, got drunk and failed to re- You Impression of Balkans Today ! pans\on to the GIVEN TO : Yank or Canuci(?_l on the Fas- |~ Richard Daly Richard Daly, Elyria, O., youth, is In a predicament. And how! Daly enltsted in the Canadian army in August and now finds himself subject to draft into the U. 8. army. The problem is: Can Daly remain with his Canad unit or must he answer the U, army call to service? w0t All Depends on How You Look af If TULSA, Okla., Jan. 21.—You are charged with running away and os- from the weed gang” said Municipal Judge Walter Kimmel to an Indian, a defendant in municipal court. “Did you, or did you not do that?” “No, sir, judge,” emphaticaly. “I just walked Jturn,” have rolled’ down to the Black sea through help- less Hungary for Hitler's expected move of ex- SITUATION IN BALKANS AGAIN BAD | Much Disordfiepofled in | Bucharest and Other (ities in Rumania GERMAN SOLDIERS, | CITIZENS ARE KILLED Speculaflon Anses Over Demonsiration as fo Causes of Unrest (By Associated Press) ‘The Balkan situation took a sud- den turn for the worse today, ac- cording to early advices which state | that bloody street fighting and bombings are reported in Bucharest |and other Rumanian cities. Fresh units of the German Army are reported streaming into Ru- mania amid widespread rioting. | Diplomatic dispatches from Sofia, | Belgrade and Budapest said German |soldiers, civillans and Communists |are listed among the casualties. Rumania’s frontiers on Yugoslavia and Bulgarian are reported closed ‘txupt to a few travelers with diplo- coast. | The Balkan olpiw cluu smu- |lated on whether the disorders may /have flared at resentment to the German military concentrations in |Rumania while other sources sug- gested the disorders might be caused |by rivalry between the Rumanian |Iron Guard elements. UNITED STATES wozee seexs ~$50,000, DEATH OF HIS WIFE U.s. Marsh_zfi,—Setond Di- vision, Brings Suit Against By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. — Art came from the people and, in the United States at least, it seems to be going back to the people. When the great doors swing open here on the late Andrew W. Mel- lon’s $15,000,000 National Gallery of Art, Mr. and Mrs, John Q. Pub-| lic will walk between the towering columns, stand in a rotunda that| ( & B Steamship Co. stretches 100 feet to the vaulted' dome, and take over one of the CLEVELAND, Ohio, Jan. 21—The world's greatest collections of paint- | mysterius death of his wife has led ings and sculpture. | Benjamin B. Mozee, United States The National Gallery is a stag- Marshal of the Second Division of gering, windowless expanse of Alaska with headquarters at Nome, pinkish-white Tennessee marble that to ask $50,000 damages in a Federal runs along between Constitution Court case against the Cleveland- 8. | said the defend- | and -Pennsylvania avenues within hailing distance of the Capitol. Eve:| in a city that contains buildings whose floor-space can be measured only in acres, the National Gallery is an eye-stopper. But what js in it is far more ar- resting and many times more valuable than the building itself for Mr. Mellon not only gave the building to the nation but threw| in, to boot, 122 pgreat paintings, and numerous pieces of fine sculp-| | ture, valued in the neighborhood| 1()1' $55,000,000, | MORE GIFTS FOLLOWED | Augmenting this within a few | months, Samuel H. Kress, the New | York five-and-dime tycoon, an- | nounced his gift to the Gallery of 375 paintings by the old Italian masters and more sculpture. And more recently still, Joseph E. Wide- | ner, heir of traction magnate Peter A. B. Widener in Philadelphia, an- nounced that he would strip the walls and pedestals of Lynnewood, his ancestral home at Elkins Park, Pa, further to enrich the museum It is next to impossible to place any dollar-and-cents value on arl, but guesses are that when the Na- tional Gallery opens, the building and its contents will represent an outlay of between one hundred and two hundred million dollars. Here will be Rembrandt's “The Mill,” for which it is reported the elder Widener paid England’s Lord| Landsdowne a tidy half million land which has been called one of| |the world’s greatest pictures. There will be 22 other Rembrandts, in- cluding his “Descent From the! (Cohunued-on Pi‘ge Astx) Buffalo Transit Company. Mrs. Marene Mozee, after visiting relatives here, disappeared last July 29 from the Cleveland-Buffalo Tran- sn Company's Buffalo-bound steam- r Seeandbee. Her unidentified body | was found floating in Lake Erie and was buried July 31, Marshal Mozee, who declared his wife was slain, charges the company |failed to provide proper safeguards for passengers. He filed a report on August 12 stating that it was a “fact the plain- tiff’s wife was thrown overboard.” | Marshal Mozee said examination of the body showed injuries about the head and face and one leg, that her pocketbook, containing $350 in cash and a diamond ring worth 3750 were missing. A verdict was with- held, Coroner 8. R. Gerber said, be- cause the investigation was in the hands of the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation. B illlllll FOR AUTO THIEVES GOES ON If the episode of several weeks ago, in which three young people knocked the Chief of Police down with a stolen automobile, has been all but forgotten by the public, it has not been forgotten by the police, Chief Ralston said today. The hunt for the culprits is being continued and widened as author- _ities make a careful check of every | young dnver on the Channel. e —— There are some four millior: ap- ple trees in the Shenandoak Val- ley,