The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 11, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8644. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, s D 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER RUSHES PARACHUTERS TO FRONT oast British Warships FLANDERS | DEANNA--"MR.DEFENSE" U. 5. CANADA | Shell Belgian Celebrities Take P:l.l‘t in F. D R. Birthday Fete INVASION SECTIONS ATTACKED Royal Navy‘M;kes Sudden | Assault During Early Morning Hours RAF BOMBERS POUND | AREAS FOR 6 HOURS; Docks and Harbors Are Air | Raided, Many Fires Re- ported Blazing Up (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Britsh warships shelled Planders | invasion coast last night but the German High Command reports lhe attacking vessels were driven off bv Nazi coastal batteries. The High Command admits some damage was done as the result of | the shelling. The British statement said no damage was done to the British ves- | sels shelling the Belgian coast. Royal Air Force bombers paunded ihe big German oil and rail center of Hanover for six hours just before dawn today and fires, “too numer-' ous to count” are reported to hnve blazed up. Continued on Page Four) iy, %*?:*- =g WASHYNGTON — The forthcom- ing report of the Senate Campaign | Fund Investigating Committee will show that one family — the duPonts shelled out $186,780 in the 1940 campaign for Wendell Willkie. Biggest donor was Lammot du- Pont, who made 14 contributions, totaling $49,000, to the Republican National, and to the GOP organizations in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio, Tennessee, West Virginia, | South Dakota, Wyoming, Missouri and Indiana. Other who kicked in with $12,000 in Dela- | ware, West Virginia and Pennsyl- | vania; Pierre 8., who spent $4,600; and Mr. and Mrs. Eugene duPont, father- and mother-in-law of Frank- | lin D. Roosevelt, Jr,, donors of $4,- 700 to the Willkie war chest. Other duPont givers were Miss _Amy E. duPont, $2425; H. F. du- | Pont, $5,000; Henry B., $4,000; Mrs, | Lammot duPont, $4,000; Lydia, $6,- 000; Octavia M., $5,000; Pierre S. III, $5,000; F. S. and Alice B., $4,- 000; Mrs. Mary Chichester duPont, $4,000; and Marion duPont Scott, $4,000. REAL SECRETARY OF NAVY Secretary Knox is one of the most dynamic and forceful members of the Cabinet, but apparently the Ad- | mirals believe that they, not he, really run the Navy. This interesting view leaked out during a conversation between Rear Admiral John H. Towers, Chief of | Aeronautics, and L. M. Walling, head | of the Labor Department’s Public Contracts Division, which administ- ers the Walsh-Healey Act requiring all firms to pay prevailing wages on | government work. In league with other admirals, Towers is quietly gunning for this New Deal labor law. He publicly as- sailed it before the House Naval Af- fairs Committee, and secretly is working with Committee Chairman Carl Vinson to put through an amendment suspending the law on defense contracts. Disturbed by Towers' testimony, ‘Walling telephoned him to point out (Continued on Page Four) to Senatorial committees, | heavy contributors were | Irenee duPont, head of the clan, | "Lo begin work for Siems Drake Pu- | | With Movie Starlet Deanna Durbin as a partner, Defense Production Director William 8. Knudson danced away a moment ¢ the $25-per- each gcld plate breakfast which topped the capital’s celebration of President Roosevelt’s birthday. | | | Sl | INFORMER Ifalian ON SOVIETS | -Bombers " FOUND SHOT Gen. Krivitsky's Body Is Greeks Shoot Down Four | Identified-Appeared | Fascist Warplanes on ’ Front in Albanja | Before Dies €om. WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Chair ATHE! Feb. 31.—Rgrewed Ifal- |man Martin Dies, of the Congres- |ian aerial assaulis on"the Tepelini | ‘slonnl Committee Investigating Un- |sector on the Albanian front is re- iAmencan Activities, refers to the |ported but dispatches received from |death of Gen. Walter Krivits as the military headquarters at the “biggest story of the year | frent the attacks have been Dies indicated he will pmdum-.npu d four Fascist bombers “evidence" later relating to the case. have been shot down. One bomber Gen. Krivitsky, former Russian Wwas a 3-engined plane. secret agent, who was a witness sev- | ports from the northern sector eral months ago before the Dies |s Greek aftack has| | committee, on Soviet propaganda in ‘dnven the Italians to snow covered | the United States, was found shot to | mcuntain positions, 6,000 feet high, death in a Bellevue hotel and a cer- | With heavy losses. | tificate of suicide was issued but fin . o 19 Fascist rise | the police are holding the case open for further investigation. This is the esult of a friend of the dead man peculating that “an assassin’ might have counterfeited” the apparent | suicide notes found in the Russian’s | rooms. Chairman Dies is in a closed con- ference with is aides, including J. B. Matthews, investigator, who iden- | |tified the body. Louis Waldman, Krivitsky’s New Generalsin ri. nanas | York lawyer, hurried here after the | body was found in a $2.50 hotel room [1ate. yesterday. " |Commander of Tenth lfal-| | Waldman disclosed that his client | , 8 fold him only recently of the ar-| (@l Army, One Caphve, Dies from Wounds rival in New York of a man named Hans, known to Krivitsky as the “deadly assassin of the OGPU.” sl CAIRO, Feb. 11.—British head- quarters said Gen. Tellera, Com- —e——— mander of the Tenth Italian Army LEAVE FOR BASE and a British captive, is dead as the Percy Johnsten, 1ocal carpenter sailed for Sitka on the North Coast vesult of wounds suffered in the fighting south of Bengasi, In all 19 Generals and one Ad- miral have been captured by the British forces in fighting in Libya to date. - ————— get Sound on the Naval Air Base on Japonski Island. Johnston was hired through the Territorial Employment Service. COLE RETUR | James Cole, of Thane, returned to Juneau on the Yukon after at-| tending funeral services for his| brother, Kenneth Cole, who passed away in Riverside, Cal. PAA MECHANIC ARRIVES Dick Ortman, PAA mechanic, ar-| rived no the North Coast and is reg- lleered at the Baramof, Repulsed' the | LINSDUPIN JOINT PLANS Defense Profirfim Already in Existence Says Mayor “of New York City FORCES (OORDINATED | SENATORS TOLD TODAY| 'Equipment and Personnel| Available fo Carry Out Scheme Arranged WASHINGTON F‘ob 11.—Mayor F. H. LaGuardia, of New York City, told the Senate Foreign Relations' Ccmmittee today that “complete| |plans” for the joint defense of the| | United States and Canada are in| | existence. LaGuardia is chairman | |of the Joint Commission created to | coordinate the defense plans of the| | United States and Canada. | | The New York City Mayor made | the defense statement in response to an inquiry by Senator Vandenberg | and elaborated by saying these plans embraced tactics and questions o(‘ coordination. of forces and. based | his assumption that eguipment nnd! perscnnel will be available to (‘nrrvA |them out. LaGuardia added that he | |indorsed the British Aid Bill. He| |declared the measure is a “part of! |the National Defense Program.” | President Conant, of Harvard Uni- | versity, also testified today and flat- |ly asserted the “Axis Powers;must | |be defeated.” | | Conant said he favored sending | | American troops to Europe. He also | declared that “our free way of life| lis opposed to um Aw. way of life.” FORD CASE PASSEDUP, HIGHCOURT Tribunal Refuses fo Infer-| | fere with NLRB's Rein- | | statement Order | WASHINGTON, Feb. 11. — The| Supreme Court has refused to in-| | terfere in ‘the National Labor Re-| lations Board’s order directing thn‘ ‘F‘ord Motor Company to reinstate |a group of employees, with back pay, and also cease- alleged inter-| ference in the collective bargaining| rights of the workmen. | | The denial to review leaves in effect the decision of the Federal| | Circuit Court at Cincinnati which| | sustained an action as applied ro| 123 employees of the company. | . | NEW YORK, Feb. 11. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 4%, American Can | 86%, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem | | Steel 80, Commonwenlth and South- | | ern 11/16, Curtiss Wright 8%, Gen- <ernl Motors 43'%, International Har- | | vester 48%, Kennecott 32%, New | York Central 12%, Northern Pacific | 6%, United States Steel 61, Pound | $4.03. DOW, JONES AVERAGES } The following are today’s Dow, | Jones averages: Industrials, 122.61; ( | rails, 27.92; utilities, 19.61 ————— WARWICK OUT ON | Jack Warwick, Fairbanks oldtimer and field representative of the Bio- | logical Survey, will be an outbound | passenger on the Yukon this after- |noon, after a several days' visit in | Juneau, Warwick is' returning to \F.nxbmks via Seward and the Alas- ka Railroad. |and black tie"- . Among the celebrities who took part in the cele- bration of President Roosevelt's 59th birthday at Vashington were, Actor Wayne Morris, Hersholt, Chairman of the Birthday Actor Stirling Hayden, Star Tommy Harmon, Comedian Jay Flippin, Radio Star Clifton Fa Laur the White House in left to right, tee George Allen, Preston Foster. Football Actor Glenn Ford, Opera Star Mrs. Roosevelt cuts cake Mrs, Sara Delano Roosevelt, mother of the president and belle of the birthday ball celebration in New York, cuts the big birthday cake @8 Oscar of the Waldorf, the banquet master, looks on. was ln observance of President Roosevelt's 59th birthday. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. notes for future historians: Opening wedge of what might be the political death of the “tux -ag least at presi- banquets was, dential electors’ | hammered home by James H. Ham- mond, Columbia, S. C., lawyer and one of that state’s electors. Unhappy at the thought of going so formally informal, Mr, Ham- mond informed the committee that ihe would not attend in any such garb. In part, Mr, Hammond pro- tested thus: “As Prometheus from his rock, with the moths plucking out its vitals, hangs my tux and tie. To the ambitionless waiter, who never hopes to be the head, I relegate my tux and tie. “Where has democracy gpne in such stringent regulations as tux and tie? All of us have howled Democracy! Liberty! Freedom!, and during ¢he cam- paign there was no mention of tux and black tie. “The every echo of our op-, poncnts still rings back: ‘Regi- mcntatien’ — as though they 11.—Foot-| Polifical Death for "Tux And Black Ties"; Screwy . (Contestin WesIVnglma | J F | Comedian Al Ritz, Commissioner Melvin Hazen, Actor George Raft, Actor Wallace Beery. Front row and kneeling, left to right, Actress Constance Moore, Actor Red Skelton, Actress Lanz Turner, Mrs Red Skelton, Actress Deanna Durbin, Mrs. Charles Pettijohn, Actress Maureen O'Hara, Ac- tress Kay Aldrich, Mrs. Roosevelt and Carol Ann Beery. The three women behind Mrs. Roosevelt are - ,not identicid back row, Actor Jean all Commit- Actor iman, itz Me'chotr, - WILLNIE 1S FOR AIDING GT. BRITAIN {Proposes U. S. Should De- liver Destroyers fo Em- pire-Against Isolation BULLETIN WASHING- TON, Feb. 11L.—Wendell L. Willkie, appealing for prompt enactment of the British Aid Eill, cxpressed the opinion that if England should fall tomor- row, the United States will be in war a month or so later. He made the siatcment reply- ing to a question acked by Sen- ator R. R. Reynolds of North Carolina. The event | WASHINGTON, Feb. 11.—Urging passage of the British Aid Bill, “with | modifications,” Wendell L. Willkie, who has just returned from a first |hand war survey trip to England, proposed to the Senate Foreign Re- | lations Committee that the United States furnish Great Britain five o |ten destroyers a month. ‘The 1940 Republican Presidential candidate, appearing in the Senate's | marbled walled caucus room, where packed hundreds waited for hours | to hear him, declared in a prepared |statement that Great Britain needs | both “immediate and long term” as- sistance. | willkie said the United States should provide Great Britain with destroyers “directly and swiftly rather than through a rigamarole of |dubious legalistic interpretations and, incidentally, if we make more £ destroyers available for Great Brit- Under such a flood of indigna-|ain we should recondition them in tion, the banquet committee wilted | this country and in our own yar like a wing collar on a sultry night | As for modifications, Willkie _,axd and the number of electors Who § i wise to limit the proposed aid followed Mr. Hammond's bold, but yot only to Great Britain but also unstarched, front probably would o China and Greece. hav:? been described by Emily Post| 1n discussing the legislation, Will- as “shocking.” [kie said: “We must not hide the — |important facts that we must have courage to draw proper inferences on facts that democracy cannot live A lot less frivolous in the mat-| . ter of smashing precedents is whnt‘by dodging around the corner. Sen.. Tom Connally smilingly e | Willkie :a_lso saidnha believed the scribed as West Virginia's apparent policy of “isolation” will eventually “ |destroy the civil liberties in the »ffort “to make two Senators grow | .. . 4 atites otk Goe. Groor: Dttre” United States and bring an economic | upheaval. West Virginia is almost notori-! >us in the matter of providing con- | tests for Senate seats, but the boys thought up a brand new one this| time. | Thomas Peake, representative of Here's how Sen. \u.v Shaw Supply Company of Se- |attle, is a Juneau visitor registered at }me Baranof. were forewarnel of tuxes and ties, Was there a fifth or fif- teenth cclumnist in our ranks who betrayed to our enemy the advance plans of this ban- quet, where, all dressed up as ‘chorus Johnnies,’ we should be in our tuxes and TWO FOR ONE >o SHAW MAN HERE it happened: (Conunum on Pue Seven® INDICATED IN MOVES Crisis Is Rapidly Approach- ing, Sav Dinlomats, in Southeast Europe TURKEY OR GREECE WILL BE ATTACKED Russia Will Not Hinder Nazi Troops from Cross- ing Through Bulgaria (By ASSOCIATED PRESE) Fleets of German transport planes, identified as the type used to drop Nazi parachute troops during the 1940 blitzkrieg on the Western Front, are reported flashing southward across Hungary as an apparent se- quel to Great Britain’s rupture of diplomatic relaticns with Rumania, announced “yesterda The transports are speeding in the direction of Rumania and Bulgaria. New Thrust Looms. to whether Hitler might be starting a thrust through Bulgaria for an in- vasion of Greece or Turkey. Informed sources in Londcn sald Great Britain is expected to break off diplomatic relations with Bul- garia if Nazi troops are admitted !o that Balkan countty. Dispatches from Budapest sald Sl giant trimotored planes have flown over that city, flying so low that markings are plainly visible. There is, late this afternoon, no immediate explanation as to the hurried reinforcement of Germany's armjes massing in the Balkans. The Nazi forces now there are estimated linto the hundreds of thousands. Russia In Action Military and political observers in Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, declare that events are moving rap- idly to a climax in southeastern Eu- rope and the crisis is accelerated, ob- servers sald, by reports that Russia has notified Bulgaria she will not oppose the German march through Bulgaria toward Greece, Turkey or the Dardanelles. Major Possibilities As the result of swift breaking de- velopments during the past 24 hours, diplomatic circles in Belgrade fore- saw two major possibilities—one that Hitler will serve an ultimatum on Bulgaria demanding passage of Ger- man troops or Nazi columns, now massed on the Rumanian frontier, to begin moving across the Danube; and two—Great Britain will declare war on Nazi dominated Rumania and bomb that kingdom's rich oil felds, the vital source of Germany’s fuel supplies. MORE AIDS FOR ALASKA NAVIGATION WASHINGTON, FPeb. 11, — The House Appropriations Committee has granted the request for $485,000 for extension and improvement of navigation aids in Alaska waters for the next fiscal year, Among the improvements are the following : Cliff Point Light station aids to navigation at Women's Bay, $269.- 250. Aids to navigation approaches at Sitka, $32,600. Wrangell Narrows, $45,000. Point Retreat Light station on Lynn Canal, $8,500. Eldred Rock Light station, south- ern_entrance of Lynn Canal, $8.- 500. North Indian Passage light, Cross Sound, $2,500.