The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 5, 1941, Page 1

TH \()l l LVIL, NO. 8639. DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUN[:AU ALASKA, WPDNESDAY FE BRU/\RY5 194| NAZI INDUSTRIAL (I Ml:.MBER /\“OCIATI:D PR[‘BS PRICE TEN ChN I8 Y POUNDED BY RAF British Aid Legislation Changes Proposed LEND - LEASE MEASURETO BE MODIFIED | i New limitalion Powers Discussed by Leaders | in Congress COMMITTEE MEETS i WITH HOUSE SPEAKER United Staies Chamber of | Commerce Objects fo | Bill, Present Form | WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.—New lim- itation of powers on President Roose- ! velt, proposed in the British Aid leg- islation, are being considered by | Congressional leaders while the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce record- | ed opposition to the controversial | measure in “its present form.” ! Damocrats of the House Foreign Affairs Committee met with Speak- ‘ er Sam Rayburn today to di.’\Cu.ssE further possible changes in the bill, | designed to conciliate opposition. to| the lease-lend program and after- ward Rayburn said no final decle-‘ ions were reached. New Provision ‘ t { Speaker Rayburn did state to news men at a cenference that the com- mittee was considering the advisa- Hility of writing in the bill a pro-/ vision “that will make a little more definite” an _understanding that| nothing in the legislation propos- ed will repeal or modify any exist- ing law prohibiting the shipment of materials on American ships to war zones. (Continued on_ Paze Seven) WASHINGTONAThe House will pass the lend-lease hill hy a decisive majority and withoui any major curtailment of the wid> powers it | grants the President, but the meas- | ure will be amended in three re- speets: (1) There will be a fixed limit on| its duration; (2) the President-will be required to report to Congress, every three months, what has been done under the act; and (3) convoy- | ing of supply ships will be expressly | prohibited. Privately, the Administration would be glad to accept any time | limit so long as it is expressed in general terms, such as for the “dur- ation of the national emergency.” But it's doubtful whether that can be put over. Sentiment is strong in the House for restricting the law to a specific period of time. The Republicans, most of whom are opposed to the bill, want to hold down its operation to one year. The Democrats are for a minimum of two years, and they will have the votes to decide the matter. Sentiment for the convoy ban is overwhelming. Many Congressmen are insisting on it as the price of | their support. They are telling leaders the ban is necessary to allay war fears in their district. They admit Roosevelt has stated repeat- edly that he has no intention of con- voying ships, but the boys insist that it be put down in writing. This is particularly true of the small group of Republicans who otherwise favor the bill. They are demanding the amendment for their protection. The GOP, incidentally, is in a tough spot. The overwhelming ma- jority is against the bill, but afraid such a line-up will hang an ap- peasement label on the Republican | That is why there will be no | rarty 1Coutinued on Page Four) Wallace Takes Over United States Vice President Henry A. Wallace takes over hln duties He is shown with the official gavel &s presiding officer in the senate in Senate w 'l | @8 he presided. Wallace succeeds John Nance Garner, vice president in the first two Roose ARE BEING velt administrations, | (AMOUFLAGED PLANTS | D I S ( u S S E D | Federal Government today formally | | charged the ASCAP, (American So- and | Publishers), 19 corporations and 26 | of the! FOR DEFENSE PROGRAM ;meu COURT GETTING T0 BEYOUNGER | | :Wilh Retirement of Asso- | ciate Justice MacRey- nolds, Record Made By ALEXANDER GEORGE | AP Feature Service Writer » WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. the retirement of 78-year-old Jus- {tice MeéReaynolds on February 1, the personnel of the Supreme Court has become the youngest in more than a century. ‘The average age of the remaining justices is 58 as ‘compared to T1 four years ago when President Roo- sevelt laurched his unsuccessful | fight to revamp the court. McReynolds is the sixth elderly Justice to leave the high bench aince 1937. Justices Vandevanter, | Sutherland and Brandeis also re- tired. Death tock Cardczo and But- ler. First Ceurt Youngest Back in 1818 the average age of i the Justices was 57, but the young- |The six Justices who began serving in 1789 averaged 49. In the early !days of the republic a few “young- sters” in their thirties and many men in their forties were appointed to the high court. This has been | talent and to a widespread tendency then to regard the court as a dis- tinctly third-rate branch of the na- tional government. Chief Justice Hughes now will be the only member of the court past 70—the age at which — With | est court was the nation’s first one.| attributed to the dearth of judicial’ | By JACK STINNETT | | WASHNGTON, Feb. 5-—The (orc-{ | man of a huge airplane factory | w through the shop, tapping this man and that on the shoulder. “As part of the defense program,” he s ‘re having a camou- | flage drill. Get up on the roof and play a round of golf.” Sounds silly, doesn’t it? But take| the word of a group of Pnu’burghl steel firm officials here to discuss lp'zml constructicn possibilities with the National Defense Commission, scmething like that can happen in| a few months in Texas. Here’s how: | i Work already has started at | Hensley Field, near Dallas, accord- ling te J. Gordon Trumbull, steel| | company engineer, on a 20-acre, |all-blackout, camouflaged plant for | | the North American Aviation Com- pany. Censtruction plans call for| |a dummy golf course c¢n the 20-acre reof. And what could make the cam- ouflage so effective as having a couple of foursomes apparemly dub- bing around in case enemy scout- |ing planes werc out searching for possible objec | WITHOUT WINDOWS | { Walls of the plant are to be of | pre-fabricated, corrugater, | broof steel. There will not be a win- jdow in the building, Exits and en- trances will have double doors, like slorm doors, se that under no cir- jcumstances can light escape from the building. Inside the corrugations | of the walls will run the tubing for air-conditioning and wires for fluo- rescent lights which will illumi- nate the interior night and day. | The plant is the second struc- Hurr built along these lines by the| | Pittsburgh firm, the other being the Allison airplane engine plant at Indianapolis. The company also ‘:has a number of plants in Liver- pool, England, where the struc- | tures have been tested under ac- | tual war conditions. According to cabled reports from | | London, one of the chief benefits to the building under bomb-fire is'| ithat when direct or close hits blow | out the walls, damaged sections can (Continued on“(-‘—ue Seven® splinter- |* (Continued on Page Six) | ITALIANS RETREAT, FAST TIME Increasing Speed in With- | drawal Toward Bengasi Where Battle Looming CAIRO, Feb. 5.—The British Gen- eral Headquarters reports today that “urged on by our pursuing troops, | the Ttaliaps are increasing in speed in their withdrawal toward Ben- | gasi. The report also adds that, | stragglers have falien into hands of | | the British forces. The British columns have now | | driven two thirds of the way across castern Libya in less than two| months and are closing in on Ben- gasi, capital city of the province of the same name, After two weeks of a fierce drive, | the British forces are closing in for | a showdown fight around Asmara, Eritrean capital city ASCAP CASE GOES INTO COURT NOW \Government Files Charges, | (laiming Violation Sher- man Anfi-Trust Act MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb, | ciety of Composers, Authors individuals, with violation Sherman Anti-Trust Act. The charges are contained in a criminal information, filed in| | the United States District Court. Federal Judge Duffy set arraign- | bill, ment for March 5. The charges include conspiracy to pool and control illegally the most .| desirable copyright music available for commercitl use of the public, the purpose being to eliminate com- | petition and monopolize the sup- | ply. LONDON IS AIR RAIDED THIS NIGHT Unarmed Expers Ride fo Crash of Bombs, Anti-Air-| Battle with Nazi Forces craft Shells Sounded as Bombers Approach BULLETIN — LONDON, Feb, 5-—~The crash of bombs and anti-aircraft shells sounded in the Londen area tonight as German raiders struck the Brit- ish Capital City after spora- dic day activities. Sirvel sounded carly this evening as raiders were report- ed near two towns in East Angelica. The Air Ministry announ 1c 400 | | i | Wendell Willkie (1eft) shook British war leader. | | | Hahfax VlSltS Wallace WILLKIE MEETS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER Lord Halifax (left), British ambassador to the United States, chats with Vice President Henry A. Wallace in the latter’s office in the Senate Office Building, Washington. Halifax, in the largest press conference | ever held at the British Embassy, told reporters that Britain can foresee | no need for the help of U, S. troops. « ds with Prime Minister Churchill in Lendon and had lunch with the In center is Eddy Gilmore of the Associzted Press London iufl' REVOLT N CUBA CAUSE OF ARRESTS Chiefs of A.n‘n'y; Navy, Na- | tional Police Impris- ' oned by President HAVANA, Feb. 5—Col. Jose Pe- draza has been ousted by Presi- | dent Batista as Chief of the Cu- i ban Army for participading in a | seditious plot against the Govern- ment. |. Col. Pedraza has fled to the | United States on a Pan American |ied by Lieut. Col. | cia, removed | Chief of the Cuban National Po- [ lice on the grounds he bad a hand in the plot with Capt. Owen Parr, | his military aide. | | under arrest at his home since last ‘nl“llL he is understood to to board the ANGUS M. THUERMER By AP Feature Service | BERLIN, Feb. ~You can meet |in France today many German of- | ficers who have no interest in guns land field maneiivers. Doesn't, sound like |army, does it? But ask one of those fellows how 'to run & coal mine, where and how the best steel is made in occupied France. Ask him for 20 ways that H the German i an ar o se wool, mercury, [ ht that fi s _jan army can use woo r::‘.‘u:: ‘mnlsmirllv: rl?e‘:th ",fi.;_ {mineral oils. Hell tell you—and light sweep over Northern | %' France during which time the airdrome at Stomer was “suc- cessfully attacked.” Two German planes were shot down early this evening. JAN KING SENTENCED 6 MONTHS, SUSPENDED In Federal Court this morning be- fore Judge George F. Alexander,| Jan King was given a six months | suspended sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of petit ln.rcen,v.J‘ | He would be ove ~of the many | specialists attached to the German {armed forces. Before the war he | might have been an economic ex- {pert at a university, a crack indus-} ‘n jal leader, a production chief, a | factory manager or a business ex- ‘perl. Came the war and mobilization. ‘Ho was ordered to the “war eco- |nomics staff.” Members of this bsanch went with er followed closely behind fighting treeps in France. Consultation with his economic adviser might have caused an artillery commander 1o hombard all around an impertant ind: trial plant hout firing a sh into the plant itself, Germany was watehing factori which might be producing goods for the cut f r'unu) Reich or P goon as troops had driven past The value of each known indu: trial unit in fighting AS | Wi known to economic officers whe they went into the field An economic officer, upon ente ing a town in which a factory w known to be opcrating, plane bound for Miami, accompan-| Bernardo Gar-| three days ago as Although Pedraza was repertedly have been permitted by the Government Pan American plane. DUSSELDORF " AIR RAIDED, - NIGHT TIME { Six GermanTeld Invasion | Ports Are Also Slashed | by British Bombers | ATTACK IN BROAD | DAYLIGHT REPORTED Black Smoke ¢ Seen Arising Near Calais Harbor- Houses Sef Afire (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Waves of Royal Alr Force bombers pounded the industrial city of Dus- seldorf, western Germany, and also slashed 't six Nazl held invasion ports along the English channel coast, the London Afr Ministry an- nounces, also stating officially the overnight raids marked the heav- iest British aerial offensive in two weeks. Then today, in a broad daylight attack, a strong force of RAF bomb- crs, protected by fighting planes, roared back across the English chan- nel area for another assault. Dive on Calais .+ Observers -on _the Kentish coast saw the RAF bombers soaring high over the Strait of Dover, headed for Calais, while other fighting planes | patrolled the coast on the lookout for Nazi counter attack raiders. A short time later, black smoke was seen rising near the harbor of Calals, Fires Are Started Many fires are reported to have bean set In last night's forays dur- | ing which time bombs were splashed on the main ports along more than a 450-mile front of Nazi held coast- | line. The RAF also struck Dunkerque, Dieppe, Ostend, Cherbourg, Brest and Bordeaux. Apartment Houses Ablaze An unspecified number of apart- ment houses were destroyed by bombs and fires in the center of Dusseldorf, according to an official German communique, issued in Ber- lin this forenoon. The communique did not state the causalty list, which is believed to have been large. BREAKUP DAYLIGHT President Batista earlier told the AlR R AID Cuban Army, Navy and Police forces he had arrested their chiefs to suppress an abortive plot, He b then revealed that Chief of the GermanSpokesmanCIaims Navy, Col. Angel Gonzalez was un- arrest al Camp Columbia, >-oo - 11BURNED - TO DEATH, der - SWIFT FIRE | en | would see er to that it was supplied BOON A5 Po; sible with electric rent, wale coal or whatever was needed keep it making what it had bee making under French control of Behind this organization specialists is Reichmarshal H mann Goering who holds the strings on German economic life in addition to his duties as chief of the air force. When land operations in France came to an end, economic experts really began (Continued o;;nge sevén) the work of lhe} ,"_]Une fluffing cotton, probably from Room Filled with Cotton Bales-Youths Injured | | NEW HAVEN, Cann,, Feb, 5.—Fire | sweeping with unexpected swiftness |in a room filled with cotton bales, | burned to death eleven employees of the New Haven Quilt and Pad Com- pany this forenoon. Three youths were injured, none critically, by jumping from a window. | The fire started around a mach- ja friction spark or static electricity. {Flames Sw;;Through‘ 14 Brit. Bombers Down- ed, Attempted Atfack BERLIN, Feb. 5—An authorized spokesman announced this after- noon that 14 British bombers were down on the English Channel today, shattering an attempted large scale | daylight attack on German objec- tives. It is also claimed that German planes attacked a convoy in the Eng- lish Chanmel off Ramsgate, and sunk a 3,000-ton ship with a direct hit - Srocx QuomTions NEW YORK, Feb. 5. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 4%, American Can | 87%, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem | Steel 68, Commonwealth and South- ern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, Gen- eral Motors 43'%, International Har- | vester 50, Kennecott 33, New York Central 13%, Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 63':, Pound 1$4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, ones averages: industrials 124.i4, rails 2868, utilities 19.85,