The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 6, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA K VOL. LVIL, NO. 8640. LINDBERGH OPPOSEDTO BRITISH AID Believes Such Move "“En- | couraging War''Tes- timony Is Given | WASHINGTON, Feb. 6s—Charles A. Lindbergh today said that by | aiding Great Britain and other countries, the United States is “en- couraging war, prolonging it and in- creasing bloodshed without mater- | ially affecting the course of the war.” i Lindbergh gave his testimony in opposition to the Administration’s British Aid Bill before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. | In a prepared statement, Lind- | bergh said that if this country was | ever invaded “the responsibility will | lie with those who send our arms | abroad.” | Under questioning by Senator Tom | Connally of Texas, Lindbergh de- clared this nation has already been committed to giving some aid to| Great Britain and “we should keep our promises. I think it is very| important that England should not be beaten in this present war, hul} I do not think that is in American | control.” “ Lindbergh said he believed repeal | of this country’s arms embargo two years ago “encouraged the war” in| Europe. Publisher’s Views | Preceding Lindbergh before the | Senate group, was Col. Robert )Il.(:-1 Cormick, Publisher of the Chicagn Tribune. He did not express his| opinion of the legislation but testi- | fied he favored occupying British | and French island possessions “by | force” if necessary to prevent Ger- téoxmmled on Ps;e“éi;l CThe WASSINGTON—Most of the dis- cussion at the President's conference with Congressional leaders on the Aid-to-Britain bil hinged on two amendments which he contended had little, if any, meaning. They were aimed to prohibit the convoying of merchant ships by U. S. war vessels, and to require all lend-lease transactions to be okayed by the new super-defense agency, Office of Production Management. Biggest argument was over the prohibition of convoys. Republican Floor Leaders Charley McNary and Joe Martin insisted on such an amendment. Roosevelt argued that it would be unnecessary and mean- ingless. “The neutrality act prohibits Am- crican vessels from entering restrict- ed war zones,” he pointed out in ef- fect, “and I have no desire to repeal the neutrality act. However, if you must put this window dressing in the bill, I won’t try to stop it.” The other amendment, sponsored by isolationist Representative Ham- ilton Fish of New York, would re- quire the Office of Production Man- agement to approve the loan or lease | of all war supplies to Britain. And | the President flatly put his foot down when Joe Martin suggested that it be included in the bill. t Roosevelt contended that it would retard speedy execution of the lend- | lease program when “speed is the very essence of our attempts to help { Britain.” Also he argued that it would burden the OPM with | extraneous problems at a time when all its efforts were needed to increase | production. Martin finally agreed to a substitute, namely that the Presi- | dent consult with the Army Chief of | Staff and the Chief of Naval Opera- tions. “That's perfectly satisfactory to| me,” was Roosevelt’s feaction. “I| would naturally do that anyway.” : HULL TALKS When Secretary of State Hull ap- peared in secret session before the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- tee, he emphasized the belief that the fall of Britain would have grave Cualinued on Page rour) 'Additional Sums Awarded | “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENIS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1941. They Fight for Free France | | | | | Spahis, ¢the famous desert cavalry of Franee, rode out of Syria when | France collapsed and joined De Gaulle’s Free France forces. Shown here spurring their Arab horses over a desert dune, they may have been among the Free France legions which fought shoulder to shoulder with the English and Australians in the capture of Tobruk | Three More Barracksin Alaska Areas i | for Construction at Sitka, Kodiak and Unalaska WASHINGTON, Fecb. 6. — Tho MEASURE | WCS2RE BYDIMOND {%& Delegate Ifilgdhces Bill for | $25,000,000 Project for Defense WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—Delegaté Anthony J. Dimond has introduced’ a bill proposing construction of a $25,000,000 defense highway from the: United States proper, toward Al- aska. ) The route, according to the bill, is to be selected by the President and is to connect with the present United States and Richardson high- ways. - 2 Americans Are Held in Orient Jails Brothers Fihally Reach Chungking After Incar- ecrated Long Period Alrare picture, showing four of ir tgenthau, Secret ecictary of State Cordel) Hull CHUNGKING, Feb. 6.—Two Am- erican brothers, Peter and John Stephens, who have spent 34 months sines 1936 i various Russian and Chinese jails after entering Soviet territory from Alaska, without a per- mit, have arrived here, ending a three weeks (rip from Lanchow Kansu Province. The two brothers, one 27 and the 29, are to visit the United States Embassy and make plans for re- turning home. Government’s Big Four Left to right, 18+ king executives together in one photo. . left to right, Secretary of the Treasury Henry of the Navy Frank Knox, | Navy Department announces there | has been added to the sum of $19,- 1225,790 for contracts let to the Siems, Drake and Puget Sound Company |for construction of Army garrison | facilities at Sitka, Kodiak and Un- |alaska, $5193840, also the sum of . 13100,000 for preliminaty investiga- | tions, including equipment and sup- plies at the same site. 1 JURY RETURNS VERDICT IN 20 MINUTES Charles McClelland Found Guilty on Delin- quency Charge A verdict of guilty was returned this morning .in Federal District Court before Judge George F. Alex- ander in the case of Charles Mc- Clellan, charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor, the last criminal case on the court docket this session. The jury was out 20 minutes. Maximum sentence for the charge |is two years in a Federal peniten- tiary and $1,000 fine. Date for sen- tence has not been set. McClellan testified in his own behalf this morning and claimed that he was innocent of the charge. Judge Alexander excused all out- of-town jurors from jury duty and dismissed the remainder of the local jurors on the panel subject to call. ——.————— Major Graham Host * With Stag Party Honoring Capt. Ralph C. Parker, in game regulations by rcgk,w,-cdl‘ Commander of the Alaska Sector, Juneau Guides. | | TO ALASKA_First Red | Cross man ever fe be stationed | in Alaska is Keith McCoy | (above), who'll have charge of » vast Alaska territory from Anchorage to the Alcutians, ‘The brothers, motor mechanics by profession, were born in Scranton They crossed Bering Strait in o small boat with just a few dollars in their pockets, They were released recently from a jail in Tibau through efforts of the United States Embassy here. | | | | | SESSION TO The brothers’ father lives in Shell- brook, Saskatchewan, Canada. - LIGHT, mfimummrons RAID, LONDON ™c.iccrs ropay German Bombers Affack| OF CHAMBER City and ABSaaGm \Governor, Others Infroduc- i o-ffiEingland | ed af Brief Session at LONDON, Feb. 6.—German bomb- | Baranof HOte' ers struck at this British Capital | City and the southern coast of Eng- | | Gov. Ernest Gruening and mem- bers of the Territorial Legislature land during the night in a short but | intensive air raid. British officials class the attacks, |were guests today at the Junear however, as light. | Chamber of Commerce weekly lunch- g | eon. - | President Curtis Shattuck intro- |duced Senate President Henry Rod- en and peaker of the House H. H | McCutcheon, who introduced the members cof the respective houses. Senator Roden declared nobody |in the Territory appreciates more than he that the Juneau Chamber of Commerce, the Territorial Cham- (HANGE lAwswcr and others have done a great |many things which entitle them to [the gratitude and respect of the |entire Territory i\ Another visitor today was Edward | P. Medley, Seattle attorney, former- |ly of Alaska. R. E. Robertson and Horace Ad- who recently returned from Lates, were welcomed home. S o S DEMONSTRATION AGAINST U. . BY Discussion in the meeling of the Alaska Game Commission continued today as commissioners awaited the arrival of the southbound Baranof |, with Commissioner Andrew Simons, ||y g before passing any new ,rcgulatiou.x.\ pe Tonight the commission will give | a hearing to a comumittee represent- | ing the Gastineau Channel Sports- | men’s * Association, and tomorrow | night will hear the suggested changes 1 Ralph A. Yelil and his “Ray ship” model A lighter-than-air craft, propelled on a principal that combines the features of a rocket ship and vacuum power, has been developed by | Ralph A. Yelli, Los Angeles civil could travel 200 miles an hour and weigh three-quarters less than Yelli, calling his invention a “Ray ship,” from | the initials of his name, said that helium in the vessel's interior | would lift the ship to stratosphere heights. ! | | They're Working Already On Protection for Chief existing dirigibles. Execufive, By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 6—Now it an be told: With the possible exception of the visit of the King and Queen of England, there never have been such elaborate precautions here as ere taken to guard President Roo- | evelt at his Inaugural, Under the direction of Colonel gdmund W, Starling, who I yeen chief of the Secret Service ‘White House detail for many rears, everylaing that has been learned in all the Inaug Is since 1789 was put into practice. | Almost 3,000 extra men we oroughl into Washington to guard against any eventuality. Working with the District of Columbia Metropolitan police under M:nurl Ernest W, Brown, superintendent,| hese men ranged from crack traf-| squads of a score of cities to| ils from the United States rines and agents of the Fed- Bureau of Investigation. There were hundreds of firemen, about 500 Marines, 350 of the best plainclothesmen from évery key city in the country, and at least 1,600 uniformed police officers. | | “NO PARKIN! | Even with the experience of the| | visit of the King and Queen ‘,o‘ ic | | | dering about through the crowds { from Capitol Hill to 1600 Pennsyl-| carter Mortuary pending funeral 5| the Map Lease-Lend Procedure Secretaries’ Morgenthau, Knox, Hull and Stimson War Henry Stimson, the cabinet officers have just left a meeting of the senate foreign relations sub- committee where they discussed the procedure of hearings being held on the lease-lend bill to aid o TWELVE DIE 'IN CANADIAN PLANE CRASH 'Bodies, Nine Passengers, Three Members of Crew Found in Wreckage WINNIPEG, Feb. 6-—Nine pas- sengers:and three crew members of | & Trans-Canada Airlines plane were | found dead when wreckage of the | plane was discovered this forenoon. The plane had been missing since early this morning near Armstrong, | 391 miles east of here. 6. W. SAMPLES DIES HERE AFTER BRIEF ILLNESS Deputy Marshal af Hoonah Passes Away This Morn- ing, St. Anq’s Hospital George W, (Babe) Samples, Dep- uty U. 8. Marshal at Hoonah, passed sway at St. Ann’s Hospital this | morning following an illness of five '45 Inaugural *; Well the nation’s top- Includ- and Secretary of engineer, who claims the ship known here, Samples was born February 9, 1886, at Fort Ben- | ton, Montana. He was employed in the mine at Treadwell before the ave-in and for the past five years than® arms’ length apart were Das been Deputy U. 8. Marshal at formed from end to end of the|Hoonah. He also served in he same parade route on both sides of the|capacity for a year at Tenakee street. A member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, he was it isng initiated in the local lodge on | November 10, 1937, augural day. Lines oI police, fire men and Marines at hardly mo of them, apparently wan- I;““' actually walking & “beat” | pesides his widow, Margarel Sam- that took them not more than a ples, he is survived by his mother, few yards in each direction were| Mrs. Alvira Samples of Long Beach; the hundreds of detectives, twe sisters, Mrs, Maud McCormick cret Service men, and FBI agents.|r goattle, and Mrs. 8. Bromley of | They reported at regular, frequent|yo,g Beach, and two brothers, Dan- intervals to lieutenants. The lieu-|ic) and Theodore Samples of Se- ants kept in constant touch w:ll||;.m,. | our captains in charge of the zone The remains are at the Charles W. vania Avenue. arrangements | { Proof of the effectiveness of this, -~-- minute attention to detail was that there was not one civilian report, of any suspicious 1 i roors Officers fo Be Guests st ot wenty el A Gowernor”s Tonight A man with a gun was arrested - in the Court of Freedom. Colonell For officers of the U. 5. gunboat Starling afterwards described him|Charleston,” Gov. and Mrs. Ernest care to me as a “harmless individual' Gruening will entertain with a 7] who had no other thought thanjo'clock buffet supper and dancing helping to guard the President,! party this evening at the Goveinor's | but we have to preserve our pro-, House fessional standing, you know." | R O ENGINEERS RETURN A Tl-year-old Spanish Ameri- can War veteran who went about USN, and Col. Thomas L. Mar- tin,- on the staff of the Fourth | Army, and officers of the gunboat Charleston, a stag party was given at 5 o'clock yesterday with Major | { - } HERBERTS AT ASSEMBLY | | Mr and Mrs. Charles Herbert and | son Stephen are making their home 1 draw on, Colonel Starling and his| fiercely brandishing a sword was STUDENTS, ROME | staff worked for more than a month | ROME, Feb, 6.—A crowd of stu- on the minutely-detailed plan of| dents, bearing Italian and German operation. First the traffic lanes FROM INTERIOR TRIP Supervising Construction Engineer Earl McGinty and Assistant Me-| |chanical* Engineer Ralph Mize of| also taken into custody. Also, an-! other and younger man who ran| about beating his breast like Tar- Jesse E. Graham as host at his home on First and Dixon Streets. at the Assembly Apartments while | here for the legislative session. Mrs. | - ' Gruening and Secretary of Alaska Besides the honored guests,” Ma- Graham asked Gov. Ernest ¥. L. Bartlett, from the Fourth Division, flags, marched toward the United States Embassy this Herbert and Stephen arrived Tues- | Shouting “Down With Democracy.”' care of. A parking blackout about day from a vacation in the States| The marching students tumnd]ruur bjocks wide and more than a to join Mr. Herbert, Representative | down a side street however, and mile-and did not pass the Embassy itself, afternoon |into the Capitol, White House and cne-mile parade zones were taken| zan and shouting, “President Roo- sevelt spends too much money!” was hauled off to the hoosegow. Not one of these men was taken (Continued on Page’ Sflr'iel'l) ~half leng was ordered | from midnight to midnight on In- | the Office of Indian Affairs are re- (turning to Juneau today on the| PAA Electra from Fairbanks after FASCISTS BEATEN BY BRITISH, GREEKS HIGHWAY ITALIANS FALL BACK INAFRICA Colonists Are Also Fleeing Before Advance of Conquering Forces DECISIVE BATTLE MAY BE FOUGHT AT BENGASI Grecians Smash Two Count- er Atfacks in Albania, Declares Athens (By Associated Press) Panic - stricken Italian colonists are reported fleeing before the Brit- ish forces in Mussolini’s dwindling North African Empire as aerial scouts told of seeing the Fascist motorized columns withdrawing from Bengasi and the Black Shirt troops falling back post-haste from the cast Libyan stronghold. Fresh Greek successes in Albania are announced in Athens and coupled with the disastrous African cam- paign, Italy’s efforts are plunged further into gloom, British Press On Dispatches from the Libyan desert battlefront sald the British troops are pressing along the Mediterran- ean coast at a pace that should bring them to the gates of Bengasi within 48 hours. Bengasi is 325 miles from the Egyptian border and is the heralded site for a probable major defenes by Italian Marshal Grasiani. Graziani has withdrawn from Ben- gasi, as reported yesterday, or whether fort troops have left, leav- ing the motorized units to take up the fight with the approaching Brit- ish forces. 30 Miles & Day The latest reports put the Brit- ish forces within 60 thiles of Ben- gasl, sweeping forward at a 30- mile-a-day clip. In the Greek-Itallan war, Athens spokesmen asid the Greeks have smashed two Fascist counter attacks on the Adriatic coastal section and the Itallans are falling back “in confusion, abandoning dead and wounded on the fields of battle.” John Winant Nominated, Ambassador Former Re;fialican Gov- ernor, New Hampshire, Goes fo Great Brifain WASHINGTON, Feb, 6. — Presi- dent Roosevelt today nominated John Winant, former Republican Governor of New Hampshire, io be Ambassador to Great Britain. Wih- ant is successor to Joseph P. Ken- nedy, who resigned several months ago. > || STocx Quoran NEW YORK, Feb. 6. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4'2, American Can 87%, Anaconda 25, Bethlehem Steel 83%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Mot- ors 43%, International Harvester 51, Kennecott 33'%, New York Central 13 Northern Pacific 6%, United States Steel 63%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 124.76; rails, 28.40; utilities, 20.05. AFOGMAK MAN FINED ON TRAPPING CHARGE According to-a telegram received by the Game Commission today, Pat- rick Bowan, Afognak alien, was ap- prehended yesterday by Wildlife Agent Jack Benson and fined $100 before Commissinoer Vonscheele in Afognak on a charge of trapping fur |an inspection trip of several weeks “" the interior, i bearing animals without proper li- cense,