The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 22, 1941, Page 1

TH “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \OL LVIL, NO. 8627. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1941. DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER Ab“OLlM t}) PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS ITALIAN STRONGHOLD FALLS RAF MAKE ARR RAIDS FOR GREEKS High Explosives Dropped on Important Italian Base in Albania ATHENS, Jan. 22—1It is officially tcd that British Royal Air| ‘cree planes this afternoon raided | ' military buildings and rail- | mmunications at Embasani, | Albania and did “frightful | 99 Central dama T AT planes, loaded with high | explesives, roared over the city and mbs by the hundreds. | officially announced the | ces have captured addi-| ntageous positions in the | “tor e More Money For Navy Is - Requeste House PasseTBig Bill for Subchasers and Other Naval Craft WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — The Touse today passed and sent to the Zenate the bill authorizing the| spending of $909,000,000 for the con- | structicn of 400 subchasers and other small naval craft and for the expan- of shipbuilding and ordnance facilities. The House appropriations com- mittee recommended an emergency appropriation of $313,000,000 to build 200 new cargo ships to meet the threat to world shipping caused nal adv Tepelini s { EMBARGO ON SOVIET IS LIFTED on Air Lines Chief and Bride Jack Frye, president of Transcontinental and Western Airlines, and his bride, the former Helen Varner Vanderbilt, divorced wife o socialite Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr., are shown as they arrived ab LaGuardia Airport, New York, They were married ‘m‘An.mn_l._ d District of Columbia Has . Many Farms; Rush Dies Full of Flghl Flrmg Job Starts | District of Columbia, by submarine and air attacks. e U.S. Ban on Exports of Air- scoer- - planes, Equipment, in Ef- fect Since ‘39, Raised WASHINGTON, Jan. 22.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull has in- formed Soviet Ambassador Constan- |tine Oumansky the United States has lifted the “moral embargo” on exports of airplanes and equipment to Rusia. The embargo has been in effect Isince December, 1939, when Presi- dent Roosevelt imposed the embarzo | as a mark of disapproval to the Rus- | sian invasion of Finland. The decision to lift the embargo is interpreted as a friendly gesture as possibly involving American-Brit- nearly as ish diplomacy designed to alienate official U. S. observers in Europe Soviet Russia from Germany. can gauge the situation, there is - a split inside the German High Command over immediate Nazi stra- | tegy. The split is similar to that| existing in Berlin last winter over deciding whether to strike at| Trance, or into the Balkans. Hitler listened carefully to both {Hearings fo Begin Monday on Lease-Lend Bill- arm adequately until fall, and that BEritain can be weakened and re- Norrls S'atemen' dangerous, and they think Ger-|war, declared he is for the bill, pro- many should act now so as to avoid | vided some time limit is placed on lantic Coast from Norway tonorth-| e B g a2 | About 7083 islands make up tm\ sides, then made the decision him- duced to surrender before then. rgorr the authority given the President ‘(.unlmued on Pue .F'mu‘) | Philippine group. J First Japanese beetles ed in the U. S. were in cen Jersey. od Robert S.Alles 60 WASHINGTON—As selm, Doubtless that is what he will do today. The two schools of thought inside the German High Command are: 1. Those who believe the war of attrition against England should continue with air raids and sub- marine sinkings. They believe the United States will not be able ‘o This group does not want to n,k WASHINGTON, Jan. 22. — The ioss of a large number of men in| | Senate Foreign Relations Committee an outright attack across the today decided to start hearings next “hannel, Monday on the lease-lend bill with The second group urges in- | Secretary of State Cordell Hull likely on immediately. Their chief | to be the first witness. argument is that the United States| Senator Norris, only present mem- socn will be helping Great Britain | ber of the srnnlo who voted against to an extent which may become United States participation in the| — |{and said: “I don’t think we are IMMEDIA’ INVASION? ‘lgnim: to get into this war . T think Apparently Hitler has not yet|We can go a long way to helping made up his mind which school of | Britain without getling in.” strategy he favors, though he seems| S to be leaning toward immediate| The nation’s inland cot-| action. ton market. Signs of this are the large con- \'mm‘l«*fl a centraticns of troops along the At-|last. year. Tenn,, bales largest at Memphis, record 3,61 ! being SENATOR AGAINST NEW Blll3 McNary Launches Drive 10 Modify President’s Lease Mgasure MORMAN THOMAS IS NOW IN OPPOSITION | Socialist Leader Says He | Believes Democratic Confrol in Danger \V\SHINGTON J'\n 22.—Senator Charles L. McNary, Republican of ~ FURCAPS FOR FAR NORTH P Oregon, announced today he is op- | posed to the Administrations’ lease- lend bill in its present form “be- cause it grants extraordinary total power to one person Senator McNary is back in the capital for the first time since Octo- ber 26, when he began campaigning for the Vice-Presidency on the GOP ticket. He defined his position on the legislation as the House Foreign Affairs Committee received a state- ment of opposition from Norman Thomas, Soclalist leader, who de- bed the bill as “contrary (o democratic control the people over their own destiny To his opposition to the bill “in its present form,” Senator McNary added the declaration he is thor- oughly in accord with the principle of extending all aid short of war w0 Great Britain, but of the lease and lend bill, he said: “This is not the democratic way of life. I earnestly hope the bill may be modified by the appropriate committees or after debate m Congress.” - Nazi Bombers Shot Dewn in Day Attacks By JA(,K INNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 22 may be happy to know that population which slops over into Virg on one side and into Maryland on the other, still can be rated as a farming community. The decennial agricultural sur- vey of the District has been com- pleted and it is found that Wasl ington still has 65 farms, 39 less than 10 years ago. The area under cultivation amounts to 1,017 acres, and total farm acreage is 2,341 District farms have 837 cows and 70 horses. The largest crop was sweet potatoes, of which the District raised 3,107 bushels last /i Other good crops included bushels of cern, 780 tons nl y and 421 bushels of Irish tatoes. The amazing thing about Dls- trict farms is their value, The a erage farm acre is worth some- . . thing between 450 and $100, but ish Fighters Washington acres are valued at| 52538 each—which means that if| LONDN, Jan. 22—British fighter you owned 39 of them, you would|planes downed two German bombers be worth very clos2 It also means that 10 years from bed at the Kent coast and Hell's now the story you will read about Corner early this morning. District farming probably will he\ The Yorkshire Government offic- just the reverse of this. It looks as jals announce that little damage was if farm land in Washington is get-|done in the raid on the Kent coast ting pretty close to the price that|and the British Air Ministry states the farmers around here seen holding out for — years, == You the f| Are Beaten Off by Brit- l’orHO}they did any damage on Hell's | Corner, gy THE LAST WORD The final Senate session of *ne| lINER FllES 76th Congress adjourned at 11:43] Sou'“ I'ODAY on a Friday morning and the Con-i The Douglas airliner gressional Record for the session came off the press the following| morning. 1lts publication disclosed, | in the index, 11 columns small type) of the, by-that-time,|uled the big ship for a northbound ex-Sen. Rush D. Holt of West flight to Juneau on Friday. Virginia. | Meanwhile a PAA Electra flew to Former Senator Holt was the| Fairbanks today with arch-isolationist and the bitterest|sengers, J. R. Copenhaver and Cas- critic of the administration for- per Ellingen. eign policy in the 76th Congress The His last contributions to the [mal\l 97 Fages of the Record included a flew south lily was Itivated in ‘Two Raids on Enghsh Coast, to Sw’-’rmviin air flights as the Luftwaffe stab- | have | fhe raiders were beaten off before | (mostly | today and Seattle dispatchers sched- | two pas- | Fur-capped U. 8. scldiers line up for York, as they prepared to sail for a for 50 over-aged V1. S. destrorers. Justice McReynolds fo Refire from High Court; President Given Nofice WASHINGTON, Jan. 22-—James Clark McReynolds, Assoclate Jus tice of the Supreme Court of he | United States, oulspoken opponent of much of the New Deal legisla- | tion, today notified President Roose- | velt he will retire frem the Supreme Many Bills 'n I r Oduced | Court on February 1. I Justice McReynolds, of Tennesse2 By Delegale was appointed to the Supreme Zourt on August 29, 1914, s resignation | will top 26 y: s a member of the court. The veteran jurist will be 79 on February 3 Justice McReynolds is the only member of the highest judicial iri- {bunal in the United States who is described by the Administration of- ficials as a conservative. The retirement of the Justice opens the way for President Roose- velt to make his sixth appointment to the nine-man court, There have been reports ihat Chief Jusice Charles Evans Huzhes might retire soon, but these rumors have not been confirmed Attorney General Robert Jackson | has been mentioned frequently possible appintee to the firsi cancy in the Supreme Court, Justice McReynold’s notification to the President was a formal two sentence letter. He stated his in- tention of withdrawing from the Supreme Court under the law per- | mitting retirement at the full pay of Dimond Puts Bumper Bunch of Measures Info Hopper Opening Day M. W. GODI} Office of Delegate WASHINGTON, Jan, 11 ial Correspondence)—On the ing day of the session the Seventy-seventh Congress Alaska Celegate Anthony J. Dimond in- troduced 31 bills relating to Al aska or for the benefit of Alas- kans. Most of these bills are simi- lar or identical with bills which had been introduced in the Seven- ty-sisth Congress and a number of them had been acted upon favorably by the committees to which they had been referred, or $20,000 annually to Justices over 72 had received favorable departmental who have served ten consecutive repor In some cases the intro- years. duction of identical bills will per-| President Roosevelt promptly ac- mit more rapid action b e ml, knowledged receipt of the letter an previous reports may be carried| | wrote in reply. over when the bills receive com-| “Permit me to congratulate you ! mittee attention. Follow a on your long service on the bench list of the bills introdus T wish you many years of health and opening day together i | bills introduced or: January 8: r - | H.R. 73—To prohibit the use of traps weirs and pound nets foi Dimond (Spec- open- of va is | on the with two|happiness. Gontinuea on Page Twoe long address which started: “I am going to tell you the truth about this drive to get us actively into war”; others titled, “America’s War | Hawks,” “Interlocking Business | Connections Between American and Brit Interests,” Thmnbnml Sketches of the War Crowd.” One of the former Senator’s L()|~ leagues thumbing through that last edition of the Record, said: “Well, nobody will ever be able to say that Rush gave up before the whistle blew FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan, 2 - | Ed Borders, sturdy University of W"()Ll‘l.\'ALI"I FIRING Alaska ski wizard and mining stu- There's been so much talk about| d€nt. got away yesterday in 20 de- re-employment and new jobs, 1|3re¢ below zero weather on a lone guess nobody will accuse me -of 1.200-mile ski hike to Hazelton a gloom-spreader if I ten B C ’ the biggest wholesale firing| Clad in | drill parka a typical ski suit with and the lightest pos- about (Continued on Page Eight) AMlaska Umverslly Sludenl Starts from Hazelfon; Will Attempt 1200 Mile Ski Hike sible outfit, Borders intends 10 go I < v py ANEATHAYCOCK at Nome as Result of Injuries FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Jan, 22. Unxu‘(l States Marshal Benjamin Mozee of Nome has radioed o lwn seeking whereabouts of Irene a Tanacross, Burwash and White-! Mari Martin, supposed (o be the horse, thence along the old Yukon| nearest relative of Joe Martin telegraph line route, following prac- Joe Martin died in the Nome hos- ! tically the western route of the pital after bein truck by an proposed International Highway. |airplane propel at Haycock in Borders ‘expects to average 12 the Nome area, last Thursday to 15 miles a day - o Borders stands 5 today are drilled 5 feet 11 weighs 192 pounds and is time required inches,’ Oil as hard| one-fifth wells the in ten ewfour:dland base, one of those acquired f PLEA MADE | | | | as al ' Antonescu Army in charge of the state police, | nspection aboard the Army transport Edmund B. Alexander in New ) Britain in exchange FOR ORDER IN RUMANIA Premier Sc&;—lranquilily Must Be Reestablished Within 24 Hours BULLETIN YRADE, Jan. 22—Repeated clashes be- tween Rumanian Premier troops and Ironr Guard Extremists are reported tonight to have resulted in a virtual state of seige at Bucharest and other principal cities in Rumania. This is according to uncensur- ed dispatches reaching here to- night. BE BUCHAREST, 'Jan. 22—Premier placed the Rumanian thus militarizing 87 important in- | dustries. Antonescu has made a desperate | appeal to the Iron Guardists to “for- | get hatreds” lish order in the nation. Meanwhile, it is officially report- ed, Horia Hima, Iron Guard leader, |has gone to Berlin to confer with 72 | Nazi leaders. Premier Antoneseu in his appeal | /e must stablish order and tranquility within 24 hours be- cause T have not been and T do not want to be tomorrow the instrument | of tyranny or the bridge leading to said |anarchy.” Joe Marfin Dies n Hospital as nails, | yeal | R WILLKIE OFF FOR ENGLAND Goes as Private Citizen o Find Qut What Is Go- ing On-Last Word NEW YORK, Jan, 22—Wendell L. | | Willkie today started for England aboard a clipper plane, as in his words a “private citizen, an in- dividual determined to find out what is going on.” Willkie told about 300 persons who gathered to see him off that “I am going to England for a few weeks. I believe strongly in the survival of England and believe it the best assur- ance of keeping America out of this war. I think we should support the fighting men of Great Britain o they can stop the onslaught of Hit- lerism. When I come back I hope to have something to say to the American people.” and aid him to reestab- | TOBRUKIS REPORTED CAPTURED Inner Defenses Smashed by Whooping Austral- ian Shock Troops "'FREE FRANCE"* FORCES ALSO JOIN IN ATTACK Ilahan ngh Command Ad- mits “‘Enemy”’ Pene- frates Stronghold Bl’lLETlN - CHBJO Jan. 22.—Australian advance forces penetrated the last defenses around the harbor and town of Tobruk this morning and entered the strenghold around no according to official ad- vices recelved from the front at British headquarters here carly this evening. It is admit- ted strong resistance was countered. (By Associated Press) Led by whooping Australian shock troops and the famous British regi- ment of “Free French” forces, Cireat Britain's Army of the Nlle has smashed the inner defense of the Italian stronghold of Tobruk and a mop-up of survivors of the 30,000 {Italian soldiers, under siege there for 18 days, has started. A Reuters dispatch from Sgdney said the Australian Army Head- quarters has béen advised that the Libyan desert stronghold has been captured. At midafternoon, London military headquarters still lacked confirma- | tion but radio transmission from the | seat of war is impaired, it is said. Last direct advices from the bat- tlefield sald the British had driven ;lo within three miles of the strong- | hold. Other advices from the Libyan desert battlefront said Gen. Wavell's | Army, at sunset yesterday, had knif- ed eight miles through Tobruk's | bristling perimeter. | The Italian High Command, in {the daily bulletin, acknoweldged at | the end of yesterday's initial assault |and “after hard {ighting the enemy |had succeeded in penettgting the |line of the nghold's e.q.ern sec- | tor of the fortified sector.” | In London, Prime Minister Win- |ston Churchill told the members of |the House of Commons this after- lnoon that “it may be that while T lam speaking, Tobruk and its gar- isons is m our hands.” ITALAN ~ CRUISER | ON FIRE (By Associated Press) | Royal Navy aircraft and warships |are “in complete command” of the offshore zone at Tobruk and the \sooo-wn Italian crulser Sangiorgio ‘b. beahed in the harbor, reportedly a mass of flames. | The Admiralty in London an- nounced ships of the British Medi- terranean Fleet have already remov- od 54,000 Italian prisoners and huge supplies of war booty from the North African war theatre. Elsewhere in Africa, British forces are reported to have driven back the Italian army 40 miles into Eritrea from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan frontier and from the Kenya frontier into Ethiopia. Boy Refurns Well from Orthopedic Ernest Ackerman, young lad from Eagle River who a few months | ago was suffering from a twisted neck, retwned to Juneau last night on the Alaska, a normal and happy boy. The Ackerman boy has been at the Orthopedic Hospital in Seattic for the past six months receiving treatments for his paralytic defor- 1 mity.