The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 28, 1941, Page 1

THE ATILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL,NO. 8(32. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1941. - — - U.S.MUST BACK THREE FIGHTING NATIONS Army Transport, Alaska Bound, Hits on Rocks WHERE 18 DIED AND 5 WERE SAVED U.S. VESSEL IS AGROUND; ' AID RUSHED Twelve Hund_red Ton Craft, with Passengers, Crew, | Supplies in Peril GUNBOAT CHARLESTON, NEMAHA NEAR SCENE Water Up fo Main Deck When Hit-Emergency Power Being Used BULLETIN — KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Jan. 28.—The Nemaha and Charleston have arrived at the Kvichak wreck. The ves- sel is hard aground and flood- ed with water above the main deck, with a slight list. The Charleston will transport pas- sengers, all of whom are re- ported safe, to Ketchikan while the Nemaha is standing by un- til salvage operations begin. The Cedar and Heather will arrive tomorrow morning (o help salvage dock cargo. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) BULLETIN -, The United States gunboat Charleston, in British Columbia waters, is rac- ing to the grounded Army trans- conunued on Page Five) CThe WASHINGTON — Phil Murray, new CIO head, apparently is pur- suing a policy of trying to carry water on both shoulders. There was a plum for both leftwingers and antis in his latest organizational news. The antis cheered when Murray announced that Reid Robinson would replace Lee Pressman as sec- retary of the legislative committee. This was a big feather in the cap of the antis and a very significant slap-down for Pressman. In the last few years, during the rule of John L. Lewis, Pressman ran the com- | mittee with an iron hand. Because of his use of leftist tac- tics, Pressman was disliked on Capi- tol Hill and was repeatedly in hot water. But through this drag with Lewis, none of his numerous CIO foes was able to curb him and he operated as he pleased. His ouster from the key post caus- cd much jubilation among the antis, | who have been muttering disap- pointedly for weeks over Murray’s failure to use the axe on strategical- ly-placed leftwingers. But this pleas- ure was short-lived, The next day Murray announced the appointment of John T. Jones, director of Labor's Nonpartisan League, as CIO legjslative represen- tative on Capitol Hill. This was a solar-plexus blow. A United Mine Worker official, Jones is one of Lewis' most inti- mate henchmen and completely under his thumb. Jones owes both his UMW and LNL jobs to Lewis, and he is one of the few UMW leaders who folowed Lewis in bolting to Willkie. Personally amiable and a hail-fellow, Jones is no leftyinger, but he takes his orders from Lewis and will follow any “party line” he lays down. In CIO circles the appointment was taken as clear evidence that the shadow of Lewis still looms po- | tent over Murray and that he does not feel himself strong enough to be his own boss. GETTING READY Lewis, confined to his home the’ past few weeks with 4 heart condi- " (Continued on Page Four) | sailed from Portsmouth, N. H. Re- SQUALUS SAILS AGAIN Every effort made to wipe out traces of the siuking two years ago that earried 26 men to death, the submarine Squalus (above) log, she is headed for Pacific waters. crew are aboard. She was ready to s: 5 MILLION ~ BUDGET IS SUBMITTED legislaluremR_eceives Re-| port of Territorial Budget Board HALF MILLION BOOST OVER LAST BIENNIUM Many Cuts Made But Out- weighed by Increases Throughout List A Terr:torial budget approximately half a million dollars larger than that of the last biennium is recom- ‘mvndvrl by the Territorial Board of | Budget for 1941-43 in its report sub- s |mitted to the Legislature today ailfish and with a new | The grard total of the proposed |budget for the next two years is iS'fll?zl.flBfl.'&l) as compared with $4.- 423,910 in the Jast biennium ™ % i ity fler the ill-fated craft unch je amed the Four members of the orig when this picture was made. - Little Tip; NAZISDROP " FIRE BOMBS | " ONLONDON (First Air Raid Since Las Thursday Sounded Be- | fore Noon Today | LONDON, Jan. 28—The Bri Capital City underwent the fir |raid alarm since last Thursday, | | when shortly before the noon hour | | Nazi bombing planes were sighted. A second, third and fourth warn- | ing came after the noon hour. A single raider showered fire bombs on Lonodn but the fire war- | | dens, police and civilians quickly ex- | tinguished the flames. | The raid before noon caught Wendell L. Willkie but with others | he did not wait to watch the results | but hurried to a safe place. | AXIS PLANS | DRIVES FOR - NEXT SPRING 'Fascist Quarfers in Rome Indicate Two Powers | Collaborating ; | ROME, Jan. 28.—Fascist quarters indicate cooperation between Ger- many and Italy is reaching a more intense phase of readiness in a joint Axis offensive aimed at driving the | British from the Mediterranean. These same quarters also indicat- led that two spring drives are in prospect, one against the British in | Africa and the other against the Greeks in Albania, both preliminary to a sudden surprise attempt to in- | vade the British Isles. - ! An enlisted personnel of 232,000 men is required to bring the sh air United States Navy to 100 percent war strength, Mild Excitement (aused - By"05"; Wallace Given little $10 bet. i Federal grants and other credits | increased the 1939-41 grand total by lan additional $581,6 0, but such | grants would be exp to also add | |tn the new proposed budget by an| amount similar or larger | Increases Major increases recommended for | the next two years come in sup-| }p.»n, of schools within incorporated | towns and . districts (up $20,000), vo- | cational education (up $30,000), Uni- | | versity of Alaska experimental work K L (up $20,000), University admin a- By Jfl"‘ INNE !tien and maintenance (up $30,000), | WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Memos care of crippled children (up $10,000), [the bounties on eagles and trout, :;‘;: the edification of certain peo-|yepereal disease control (up $10,000). |and earcful reexamination of the | Pioneers’ Home general maintenance |reasons for paying Territorial mon- Orson Welles—The Northeastern, (y;, $20,000), cld age assistance (up ey for A-uyuu{‘s an(l; hair seals, is re- .scabuardv in particular and some g160 000) ccmmended by the Territorial Board other widely scattered areas Were. There have alsc been many in-|cf Budget in its report for the 1941- thrown into a mild excitement re- creases of smaller amounts through- 43 biennium, submitted to the Leg- cently by a frequently recurring oyt the budget. islature today. “SOS" marine distress call. Federal| Scme Cuts Alaska has been paying $20 per Communications Commission field = Items in which a decrease is re- woif or coyote (for a total of $165,000 inspectors, working on the "case, commended from the 1939-41 appro-|in the last biennium), 1 per eagle traced it to a New England ama- priation are as follows: support of | (for a total of $10,000); $3 per eagle teur radio operator. It seems he | schools outside of incorporated towns|seal (for a total of $60,000, plus a was merely producing a dramaticiand districts, from $515,000 to $500,- |$20,000 deficiency), and 2% cents program “to give brother hams code| 000; contingent expenses of Highway |per Doliy Varden trout tail (for a practice” and the “SOS” was just!Engineer, from $6,000 to $4,000; tele- | total of $25,000} part of the script. phone lines, eliminate $8,000 appro-. If the seal bounty is to be con- O PM(‘E 1’_“"‘" ~—— |tinued, the Board recommends that itk the appropriation will have to be T raised from $60,000 to $80,000. Wolf Worth $20 No criticism is made of the wolf beunty, but the Board says of coy- otes “it is quite possibly wrong to Bef Is Exposed of Overhauling Vice-President Henry A. Wallace —I suppose you remember how 55, o much trouble you had with farm aid programs because you couldn't’ get a lot of the farmers to go! in for keeping books and a daily.; monthly and annual record cfl farm improvements. Well, the boys! in your old department think they have it solved. They have a book- keeping and record book out now F I R SI Spl ‘bru:knt this animal with the larger II | timber wolf, the destructive habits {of which are not questicned.” Members of the Board of Budget called “Farm Plan.” It’s a McGuf-| 0 F S E S S I N fey's Reader of farm record books,| are Gov. Ernest Gruening, Treas- |urer Oscar G. Olson and Auditor with little sketches and cartoons/ | on* almost every page. It contains! | ing the last biennium for bounties on Frank A. Boyle Referring to $260,000 spent dur- such pages as “Food Needed, Food 208 | welves, coyotes, ha seals, eagles Supplied by the Farm, and How‘House DIVIdedr Bu' Elder :nu’l lr(>1lL,y|;1:- nn.:nl'xllxun I'lhv ad- | visability of continuing such huge We Did (at end of the year);” in-| ventories (at beginning®and end‘ of year) of household .goods, farm Statesman McCufcheon |50l fny e e e w i ns in wa lk 1 Eagle Harmless property and land; s month-by-| Removal of the eagle bounty is month farm plan; day-to-day | . e | aded in view of new Fed- cash and barter section; and fin-| Rep. H. H. McCutcheon, the old- pgislation protecting (he bird ally, a page from the old family est old timer of the House, wascverywhere Hut in Alaska. Ana Bible for recording marriages, clected Speaker of the House of|of a large number of cavle stomachs births, deaths and other [3mi1y7Rv-prc.srnl,utivrs of the 15th Terri-|ccntents “clearly indicates that the data. Yoyr former employees think | torial Legislalure yesterday after-|bulk of this bird's diet is of a harm- Inoon in the first out-in-the-open|less nature,” the Board's report sa it's going to work wonders, view shows a Coast Guard boat searching a rusted lifeboats, drownied in the icy water near Boston while the others were saved by another fishing hoat. Eliminale Eagleand Trout ~ Bounties, Maybe Coyole, Seal Too,” Alaska’s bounty ', system, with complete elimination of ), budget. ashed into an undetermined object Of 23 crewmen who clung to m Board Urges unty, although the item is left in Preof Required “I a general sense,” the section on bounties concludes, “it would seem only right and proper that the pro- ponents of any system to expend public moneys on bounty payments should ‘assume the burden of proof, und the topmasts of the fishing trawler “Mary E. and sank so quickly the crew was nasts 18 lost their grips and were WILLKIE IS CAUGHT IN RAID, LONDON Visits House;)f Commons-| Admitted Without Re- | quired Gas Mask | LONDON, Jan, 28. — Wendell L. Willkie, personally investigating war conditions following conferences | that such expenditures are essential, and in the further event that eradi- cation'or control of a species is de- termined to be desirable, other meth ' ods, either in addition to, or in sub-| stitution for bounty payments, should | be duly consideerd” - e APPROPRIATE EARLY IS PLEA' T0 SESSION Legislature- Asked fo Pass. General Office Bill Within 30 Days 1 The revolutionary (for Aliska) wgestion that the general appro- priation bill for the n be pa within the firs of the session was made to the 15th Territorial Logislature today by the ! Territorial Beard of Budget | fons, the appropri- At previous ses ation bill was nsually the last passed, | King during the next few days. | yesterday with Prime Minister Win- | ston Churchill and Lahor Minister Ernest Bevin, today visited the | House of Commons and sat in the Distinguished Visitors’ Gallery dur- |ing the attack of the opposition on | the government's suppression of the Daily Worker, Communist party or- pan. | arlier, Willkie was caught in his | first air raid on his London visit but | was without the steel helmet he | brought from the United Etates. | Willkie got into the House of | Commons without a gas mask, ordi- | narily required equipment of all en- [ tering the House | A crowd outside the House of | commons cheered Willkie when he | left with members of his party to meet. Monttague Norman, Governor | Bank of England id of the Willkie Mayor of cit that “nearly every | and towns in Eng- | {land has written or wired him to pay them a visit Willkie received his baptismal air rald experience and hearing the air | raid sirens aming. He had just | left. St. Paul's Cathedral where I(3| surveyed the damage done on a re- | cent raid when the alarm was‘ sounded and hastily scurried to the House of Commons. | It was announced this afternoon | | that Willkie is slated to meet the | e ev e | S | division of opinion of the session. Fish~tail bounties should be dis-| 2 \ NICK THE GREEK—I{ anybody| When the rosy-faced, white-haired continued, the Board recommends, {#1 frequertly gob through the Les- | (FH | cver comes dround to you for|retired Anchorage railroad man,|“nntil facts have been presented es, | Flature in et g G B r I ' I Sh [ your memoirs, include this :,Lor.v‘ who was serving as Temporary|tablishing the value of such acti -,”"' LGOS s bbedt Siuien 0 :.”“rw ‘ of a purely amateur gamble in|Speaker, called for nominations for | tics. ADATL from the doubl as to the | ¢ Pogdaiars o ool Yot iy " which a southern Senator pourad|Permanent Speaker, at least three|destructivenes it on one of his Yankee colleagues., Legisiators tried to get to their|!s the evider ‘The gentleman from the South is feet at on something of a professional mul-} to bring agreement and the contest ball fan and pei: led his friend was ‘being brought to the floor|® that Rainbow trout am cetion,” to bet him $10 even money that of the House. o ‘oyotes Eat Mice the Washington Redskins would| Rogge vs. McCutcheon | The Board states it a beat the Chicago Bears, “Now,” Rep. Howard Lyng was recog-| il the bounty on coyotes could said the Dixie Senator, “just to nized. He nominated Rep, Leo| V¢!l be reduced or eliminated en- tirely. Recent examination of 8365 make it a little more Interesting,|Rogge of Fairbanks, Rep. Harvey| let’s agree that the loser will pay! Smith of Anchorage nominated|C°Y0l¢ stomachs collected in the the winner $1 for every point dif-| McCutcheon, and nominations were| Western States and Alaska indicates ference in the score” Well, that's|closed upon the motion of Rep.|'hdt rabbits, mice and carrion are the story, Nick—unless you didn'zll\lmer J. Peterson of Anchorage. hear that the Bears won 73-0 and| A roll call showed 11 for Mec- the Southland Senator put $83 in| Cutcheon and five for Rogge, with his wallet, as result of that friendly|the division as follows: For McCutcheoh — McCormick, William Marcus Greve—Isn't it| Davis, Shattuck, Egan, McCutcheon, the height of something-or-other| Harvey Smith, Peterson, Leonard “(Continued on Pege S0 | (Continued on Page Sevem dicates,” the report says, otes are trapped in the course of secured for the pelt.” s of Dolly Varden trout | 1 its belier | Their recommendation is ts principle diet. “The evidence in- days . | that coy- |Board that the Finance Committee | ending January 19. In the preced- | i | The Budzet Board making the m-: A caucus had failed and young salmon tails are included [quest that the Legislature do its ap- ng those presented for bounty |propriating early consists of Gov. Ernest Gruening, Treasurer Os (3. Olson and Auditor Prank A. Boyle as (ollows “It is the custom of the Federal | Government, to handle independent office appropriations ynmediately upen their presentation and it rare- ly occurs that these appropriations are not passed within the first 30 of the Senate and the Ways and | tions should, if possible, be passed | The Board also expresses doubts Within the first 30 days of the ses-| Jas to the worth of the hair sea] sion.” l Sealoss | Going Up LONDON, Jan. 28.—The British Admiralty today acknowledged that British shipping losses again mount- ed sharply and 58212 tons, eleven | ing week the losses dropped to mnel the regular trapping season and that /Means Committee of the House ships totaling 30,000 tons the bounty is merely a bonanza for |$hould act as speedily as possible on the trapper in addition to the price |the budget and that the appropria- The average weekly loss has been 62,000 tons. e About 38,000,000 pounds of snuff| were marketed in 1939, COLD FACTS GIVEN OUT, WAR ISSUE Secrefary I-i]orgenthau Gives Blunf Testimony to Senate Committee AID MUST BE GIVEN T0 BRITAIN, CHINA, GREECE Conference at White House Reveals Affitude of Pres. Roosevelt WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Secre- tary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, testifying regarding Great Britain's need of assistance from the United States, said the financial repercus- slons following the fall of France added heavily to Britain's liabilities and detracted greatly from her re- sources. Secretary Morgenthau appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in sypport of the Presi- dent’s bill making war material avallable to the British without im- mediate payment on the part of Great Britaln. + - vFigures Presented Secretary Morgenthau presented figures showing the British Empire could pay for orders already placed but “not dollars to take care of their additional needs.” Morgenthau's testimony came after a conference at the White House last night with President Roosevelt. at which the Chief Ex- ecutive is reportedly to have told Re- publican and Democatic legislative leaders that while the bill author- izes him to “do anything under the sun,” he has no intention of doing more under it than deemed neces- sary by the Army and Navy ad- visers. One conferee represented the President as being in a “very re- | ceptive mood” toward the three major amendments urged on Con- gress to curtail somewhat the pow- ers granted by the legislation. Secretary Morgenthau bluntly told the committee that Great Brit- ain, Greece and China “can’t con- tinue the fight” unless Congress en- acts the Administration British ald bill. The Secretary again repeated that Great Britain has exhausted the dollar exchange for buying war sup- plies. He sald the British order for 2,- 000 fighting planes is being held up for lack of cash. Secretary Morgenthau asserted under questioning that ‘“mentally” he charged off some time ago Great Britain’s multi-billion dollar war debt to the United States resulting from the World War. Secretary Morgenthau placed the amount of British dollar xechange assets available for war purchases in the United States at only one bil- lion eight hundred and eleven mil- lion dollars. - eee—— Hearings On Lease - Lend Bill Slacks |House Mefii—b;r§ Meeling to Perfect Amendments fo Aid Legislation WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. — The House Foreign Affairs Committee today tentatively closed hearings on It is the belief of your|ships, were sunk during the week | the lease-lend measure. € Private testimony was given today by Army Air Corps officials and then Demoeatic and Republican committee members meet separately this afternoon to perfect amend- ments and will reconvene tomorrow to start voting on the proposed lchangos to the legisjation,