The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 24, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMP “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” \()l LVIL, NO. 8629. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, I‘)4l MEMBER ASSOCIAT! ED PRESS CENTS | PRICI— TE BRITAIN READY, ATTEMPTED INVASION Nile DERNA NEXT FORTRESS T0 BE ATTACKED British Army Unifs Nowf Moving Toward Big Stronghold \SSOLIATED PRESS) Army units today moved | i, after capturing Tobruk,! Derna, Libya, the next big; Italian fortress on the Mediterran- | BY ish rized p:«u'uls. early this af- 1, were already reported near | Supply Ship ~ Of ltalians Is SentDown British Submarine Torped-i oes 7,000-ton Craft, | Albania Bound ‘ Forces Make New BALKAN TO WORK OUT LEASES Going cver a map in preparation for their trip to London to work. out Cormal leases for American naval and air bases are Charles Fahy (left), Assistai:t Solicitor General, and Commander Harold Beisemeier, U. S. N. The President appointed them along with Col. Hary J. Maclny, U. 8. A, to go over technical details with the British, BLOOD FLOWS 'Thousands in Morgues of: Bucharest as Civil | War Continues REAL BATTLES IN OUTLYING CITIES | Iron Guard Forces Seek io‘ Put Leader Horia Sima Up as New Boss BULLETIN — BUCHAREST, Jan. 24—Rumania’s Council of Ministers in a special com- munique tonight announced severe punishment will be met- ed out to Hort Sima, Vice Prcmier and Iron Guardist Chieftain, and other alleged leadéers of the bloody rcbellion agaliist the Antonescu Gov- crnment, Antoncscu Government offi- cials, assisted by German armed forces, have crdered swift trials of rebels and called on all citi- zens to report any nest of snipers. The Government to- night ic in full contrel of Bu- charest, Senators Study “Lease Lend” Bill iN Senate leaders study the sensational administration bill in which the President asked Congress for all-out puthority to extend American aid to any government “whose defense the President considers to be vital to the defense of the United States.” Left to right: Senators Pat Harrison, Morris Sheppard, Alben W. i Barklev and Walter Georve § | Tells of Greek Wer | Sacyecy Surrounds Arrival i - Of Lord Halifax, Due Today ~ Inb.S. Aboard Batileship LONDON, Jan, " 24.=The British '~ Admiralty announces the British submarine Parthian has torpedoed nt down a 7,000 Italian sup- ply ship. The torpedoeing took p th of Italy. No mention is madc- regarding rescue of the crew The supply ship was enroute to Albania with war equipment for tl Italian = forces now battling ainst the Greeks. ———————— Cthe | Navy’s New Chiet oS WASHINGTON—The barons of the lumber industry don’t know it yet, but there is an axe quiet ly p being whetted for them. Defense Commissioner Leon Hen- derson, aroused at the skyrocketing of lumber prices, has recommended to the President that he use the “draft industry” power to order an $8 slash in the price of Southern pine. In addition, Henderson has urged trust-busting Assistant Attor- . General Thurman Arnold m' 111«’ on the lumber. boys for vio- g £ 3 lating the mandate that no one’ Admiral H. E. Kimmel shall get rich out of the defense Rear Admiral H. E. Kimmel was program. | mamed commander-in-chief of the An $8 cut for Southern pine United States Fleet in a sweeping would bring the price down from ;::crgm%;z:nt‘l’; t;l:l::ac:d:r l?; $33 per thousand feet, wmch_ it the Hattle .force, he will stoceed has reached recently, to $25, which vyise Admiral James O. Richardson. Henderson considers very liberal. The Atlantic patrol force is being In his opinion $21 woukd be fair. elevated to the status of a full fl"t At $33, according to his computa- tions, the price of pine lumber | boosting the Government's defense construction costs by close to 550-]Su((essor 000,000, also gouging big profits out| To Justice ney of private consumers, | Last fall, foreseeing price gym-| nastics in lumber, Henderson went| to the mat with the industry and, was assured prices would be kept| within reasonable bounds. Among| the assurers was John W. Watzek Jr., dollar-a-year lumber expert of the Defense Commission, and a big Chicago lumber dealer himself. During all the time that prices zoomed skyward, Watzek sat by— and still has given so sign that; he thinks anything should’ be done | * WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—Presi- dent Rocsevelt made the announce- |ment at today's conference with the| U. 5. Has Greafes! (Ieanmg, Pressing Establishment in World; Is Used by Archiviss | 08 lof Is Chosen | ment, 3,760,000 cubic feet of filing| | space was (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Fresh dispatches from revolt torn | Bucharest, the scene of four days | of bloody civil strife, sald many hos- pitals are full of the wounded and |death lists are soaring. German and Rumanian motorized troeps meanwhile patrolled the Bal- kan capital's streets. Reports reaching Sofie seid cas- ualties in Rumania totalled 6,000 with 2,000 dead in Bucharest mor- gues alone. While the rebellion evidently was — This|quelled in the capital, dispatches probably agreed the insurgent Iron Guard- JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Jan. 24 the story of what is 2y he greatest cleaning and pressing|ists were still flercly resisting out- stablishment in the world. It can side of Bucharest, especially in such andle 40,000 pieces a day—pieces|cities as Brasoy, Giurgiu, Port Con- »f paper, not coats, pants nor stant, Ploesti, Cantina and Craiova. dresses. The revolt began after the assass- The phenomenal thing about ination Sunday of a German officer it} ihat Milady never donned a attached to the Nazi military mis- own more valuable noy a frock sion, nore fragile than some of the Officially, the uprising was charg- craps of paper which National ed against “misled” young men hot- Archives cleans, presses and puts|Dtads "Communist lnsph‘m into files every day. Here are the T priceless documents of American| history, from the Versailles treaty right on back to the Revolution- ary war alliance with:France, the MAY SEND pand-inscribed minutes of ‘the Ccntinental Comnigress, and toe Treaty with England which rec- \ized the independence of the United States. | Naticnal Archives is less than 7 10 years old, but already its offi- cials kick like steers when some- cne tries to pour an avalanche of records into their files (as for ex- ample when the War Department| recently hinted that it mighl‘ send over the records of the 1917- 18 drafts) Although the building May Be Ambassador covers a generous city block, it Pt d A soon will be crammed to its raft-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 24—At the ers with invaluable papers which|conference with newsmen today, have made American history. | President, Roosevelt revealed he con- | ferred this morning with John Win- USE BIG FIGURES |ant, former Republican Governor | The Archivists measure filing in|of New Hampshire, who has been hundreds of thousands of cubic mentioned for appointment as the {Fermer Republlcan Gover- nor of New Hampshire | feet and bother with nothing in new United States Ambassador to between, Thus, in 1939, when the Great Britain. most accurate survey was made,| The President said however they figured that without records|nothing could be said on that ap- the legislative (which woulu pointment at the present time. £0 to the Library of Congress) — e 'Mrs Crumrine and and judicial branches of govern- needed and that the| records were increasing at the rate| D gh' E f of 200,000 cubic feet a year. They au er nrou e reckoned without the New Deal.! Since advent’ of the present ad-| | ministration, from the copyright daushter, Miss Josephine Crumrine, | Mrs, Nina Crumrine and her/ about it, But, like the industry, he|newsmen that he has chosen a suc- too is in for a rude awakening. |cessor to Associate Justice J.\me:u,n the Blue Eagle (remember?) 0| 8re enroute here on the steamer NOTE—Scrap dealers got their|Clark MecReynolds, of the Supremeihe wax recording of President Mount McKinley. Both well known artists, Mrs. shock last week when C. A. Bishop, name will not be announced for| former vice president of Reming-| ton Rand Company, and one of Several weeks Henderson's toughest lieutenants,| Justice McReynolds, handed Lis called them in and broke the news resignation to the President (wo days ago stating he would retire (Continued on Page ¥Four) from the bench on February 1. |Court of the United States but his| Roosevelt’s latest “fireside chat,” there undoubtedly have been pue,,‘Crumrlno and her daughter have up more records than in the whole P¢n in the States for the past history of government before the SCVeral months. World War. If you have any doubts B ¥ AN LD t g Area of me Philippine Islands \Conunued on Pace Seven) im 114,400 square miles, that [ | Benjamin B. Levy A former Greek army veteran now living in New York, Benjamin B. Levy told of having fifty-two rela- | tives fighting with the Greek forces against Italy, A fifty-third was killed in action. He reported letters he has received from Greece indi- cate the country has been ther oughly united behind the king and *premler by the attempted invasion Asks lor oney for U.S. Army {Appropriation Requesfed by President fo Clothe | Soldiers in Line | | WABHINGTON, Jan. 24—Presi-| dent Roosevelt toda ed Congr 1 |for immediate appropriation of| ‘ $175,000,000 to purchase clothing and | {oq\w pment for the Army, approxi-j ly for 1400000 men. .- | | | | NEW YORK, Jan. 24. — Llosmz qnnlatian of American Can wday |is 90':, Anaconda 25', B('thehem | Steel 84%, Commonwealth and Southern 3/4, Curtiss Wright 9, General Motors 44, lnu-mauonul' | Harvester 50':, Kennecott 34'%, Ne | York Central H' ., Northern Faclm' | 7%, ‘Pnuud $4.03%% | DOwW, JONF\' AVERAGE The following are today’s Jones average | rails 20.48, utilities 2035 Dow, ' Heads Will Be Heard Re- | vutsiin BULLETIN — ANNAPOLIS-— SE(RET Jan, 24. — President Roosevelt arrived here at 2:50 ¢'clock this afterncon te greet Lord Halifax arriving on the battleship King Gecige V., The President was sit- ting in the front seat of his au- tomebile with the driver. The Precident and his parly moved thrcugh the greunds to the Mar- cedes Dock where he was to board the yacht Potomac which | is expected to leave shordy for | WASHINGTON, Jan. 24~ |dent Roosevelt told the newsmen at conference this forencon that | ecy surrounds the travel garding Aid fo Britain WASHINGTON. Jan. 24 Demo- cratic members ¢ House Foreign | > cxatic members of the House Forelgn |, ", "ty 0q gtates of Lord Hali- | | adfairs Commitice today voted to i | itdst < e- | |hear at a vet session. testimony |[aX. new British Ambassador, be | se publication might Jmpu(h/v by the heads of the , Navy and Air Ccips on aid to Great Britain, | Buman ’m. ; 2% Ve The decision for a secret soesion The President said he might mu ._lan anncuncement later as to where | was reached at the close of a meet- 7 i Tk ket nz of the majority of the members 20d when the former British ‘"’"“‘ _|8ecretary would land of the cemmitize after the Republl s refused Lo jein in any the un~ lon x\“()A\R’D BAT'I'LESH"’ } i LONDON, Jan. 241t is disclosed | hat the new British battleship King | George is carcying Lord Halifax to| FAVORS DEFERMEN]’ DUE DURING AFTERNOON OF All BENED'CTS this necon that British battleship, lI’~I mu‘l\ with Lord Halifax Franklin D. Roosevelt favors defer-|afternoon. i ring the drafting of young bene- - eee — But if the time comes when young married men are needed, she H | rrives « First, marued men whose wives | Oversea men who have married fo escape { the draft, well, that’s cupid’s bad| ABOARD RED SHIP NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—The Yan-‘ | DALTIMORE, Maryland, Jan. 24\ ~Shipping sources here announcad e s due Lo anchor off Anna-| WASHINGTON, Jan. 24. — Mrs. pclb’. Che:zupcukp Bay during this ! dicts until the supply of young ba- | chelors has been exhausted [ . | liKie | said at her press conference, they | should be called up ‘n the follow- are not dependent on their earn- ings, and second, married men luck. No deferment, she said,’ b i . houid be made for them \Intends '0 Hy 'o london pis: SRR . from l|sbon in Plane | |kee Clipper carrying Wendell L.| — The So- | Willkie and others across the At- MRS F D ROOSEVELT the United mm.s b | whose wives are working. As for propeller | lantic, arrived at Lisbon at 11:52 PORTLAND, Jan. 24 viet freighter Angarstroy, ice, docked here from Viadivostok vices. to load ofl drilling equipment and, Willkie planned te take a British 1,000 tons of rags. |overseas plane from Lisbon to Lon- Her- skipper, G. Bondarenka, said |don, where, as a privte American | dn..ons at first hand. ove in Africa ALL FORCES AREARMED FORATTACK “Close Ranks” Orders ls- sued in Preparation for Nazi Action "DRESS REHEARSALS" BEING CARRIED ON Day and NITM Raids by German Bombers on England Limited LONDON, Jan. 24. — Great Britain’s armed services have been called to “close ranks” in preparation to meet the an- ticlpated invasion attempt by the Hitler forces against the Islands in the spring. It is unofficially learned that the Army units guarding the . shores of the British Isles com- prise the most powerful forces ever assembled by Great Brit- ain. Already the forces are carry- ing on “dress rehearsals” to meet the expected blow from the Nazi forces. Informed sources here de- clare the British defense forces, have been in intensive training for months against the day when ‘the Nazi lcgions might try to sct foot on the British Isles. Every phase of the prepara- tions has been ordered speed- cd up. Night and day raids on Lon- don and surrounding sections have been very limited during the past 48 hcurs, Nazi planes appearing singly and dropping new bombs before they are spotted and driven away. ————— REVOLT IN ETHIOPIA IS UNDER WAY (BY ASSOCATED PRESS) Official advices from Africa state Haile Selassie, former Emveror of Ethiopia, is now in Ethiopia and is actively leading his loyal tribesmen i a revolt against the Italian con- querors. It is understood he has a* large force, well equipped, with Bri- tish &upport PAA PLANES FLYING IN Two PAA Electras took off from Falrbanks this morning for Juneau with 11 passengers for here, Arrivals will be' Ed Stroecker, Irene Tucker, Dave Anderson, John Cheney, Belmondo Shumbata, Mr. and Mrs. H, Nordale, Tony Nordale, Louise Harper, C. H. LaBoyteaux, K. N. Neill. — RINEHART IN WITH STINSON — Flier Jimmy Rinehart came in with Munter's Stinson late vester- | day, from Ketchikan, bringing in two passengers. One passenger was Senator Nor- man “Doc” Walker and the other was John Price, union warehouse- United States Steel 60 3/4, bent and bow plates battered by am, according to Pan American ad- | MAn who will seek. settlement of | Juneau’s end of the Southeast Al- |aska cold storage strike. - German railroatls report a 31 per- industrials 12852, his crew, contained women sailors|citizen, he will investigate war con- | tent increase in operating for 1940 but he declined to say how many. over 1939,