The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 12, 1941, Page 1

TH DAILY ALASKA KMPILE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" ok i \()l LVIL, NO. 8645. — MLMB}:.R /\ OCIATLD PRL JUNEAU, ALASKA, WLl)N[bI)AY FLBRL;/\R\ 1941. ) PRE Move Blocked for More Ships for Bri NAVY(AN | SPARENO VESSELS Secreiary Knox Makes Blunt Statement About Supplying Destroyers WILLKIE'S PROPOSAL | IS GIVEN TURN DOWN| . United Stafes Fleet Not fo! Be Depleted for Aid i fo Any Nation ‘ WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. — Cecl Frank Knox, Secretary of the Navy, | bluntly said today the Navy “can | ipare no more destroyers.” | The statement was made when he | was asked to make a comment on Wendell Willkie's proposal that five | to ten destroyers be supplied to | Cr Britain every month. The | proposal was made yesterday when | Willkie testified before the Senate | Foreign Relations Committee in sup- porting the British Aid bill, with modifications. Secretary Knox, at a conference with newsmen, further said: t “We havent’ any more destroyers to =pare We need all ‘we have-now for a balanced fleet. T am not going ! to make any comment directly on Willkie's proposal but my position as Secretary of the Navy is against de- pleting our Navy further.” | - *‘"a.,. %p-; WASHINGTON-—Ten years ago a| short, swarthy Frenchman, adorned in cheap cotton white-string tie, stood in the front hall of Ambas- sador Edge’s home on 18th Street and answered a barrage of questions | from Washington newspapermen | about the reasons for his pilgrimage | to President Hoover. He was Pierre Laval, then Premier | of France, now the man who holds | the future of France largely in his | hands. For the return of Laval, the mighty Nazi army behind him, makes him the real ruler of France today. Upon him depends whether the still potent fleet of France and her strategic bases in North Arrlca‘ fall into Hitler’s hand. | With those naval bases, all-im- | portant to Hitler for the purpose of | checking the march of British vic- tory in North Africa, it almost may | be said that the outcome of the | Mediterranean war, perhaps the en- | tire war, depends upon one man. | Historians have recorded that the fate of nations sometimes has been | | decided by personalities, mistresses, | and what statesmen ate for break- | | | | | | fast. In the case of Pierre Laval, it appears that the present course of | history in France might have run differently if Laval had not crossed | the Atlantic to visit Herbert Hoover in October, 1931. STIMSON AND PEACE The visit was inspired by Henry | L. Stimson, then Secretary of State, who even at that time saw what was | in store for the world if its peace | machinery was not made to func- | tion. Stimson had visited France in the summer of 1931 and suggested | SPRING —Flowers that bloom ip the spring turn up for this ‘printed wool jersey suit that a winseme New Yorker models to advantage. The shorts have sarong draping. Believes Miss Amos, Missing Woman,Alive Friend in Seaflle Asks Po- lice to Make Search in that Town SEATTLE, Feb. 12—Lucille Mad- sen, a friend of Miss Rieta Kath- leen Amos, 28, business machine op- erator who left a “suicide note” in a Juneau hotel on January 21 and has not been heard from since, has sought the aid of police here ‘in searching for Miss Amos in this city. | Miss Madsen said she believed her friend is still alive and believed she may have returned to Seattle where |she was once employed Miss Madsen said she is still hold~ ing a letter for Miss Amos from Ian [Edgar, of Manila. - (Changes Made In Red Army d Brifish Aid i TERED WRECKAGE OF BOMBER FOUND ON MOUNTAIN &JKL SMUGGLER, GOLDBARS | ARRESTED ~ EIGHTDIE IN THE (RASH OF THIS ARMY BOMBER Plof Frusirated fo Brmg‘ MUSSOLINI, FRANCO IN - CONFERENCE ‘Spam 5 Possible Entry Into $50.000 Into U.S. from | Canadian Point | SEATTLE [Feb. 12—United States Custems officers at Blaine, Wash,, | in the routine examination of au-| | temcbiles entering the United States | from Canada frustrated an attempt | | to smuggle $50,000 in gold into (hr*‘ United States. | Loe Morland, 39, of Vancouver, B.| was arrested when a Uniled| States Customs officer found 57 geld | !'bars hidden between the inner metal, walls ¢f his car’s trunk equipment. | Fred Brandt, the custems agent in | charge in Seattle, has filed a smug- | | gling charge against Morland ! | Brandt said Morland first tad him | the gold was “accumuiated” in Aus-| tralia and smuggled first into Can-| ada. Brandt said an intensive inves! tion will be made as to Morland’s| bject in bringing the gold into the | \Uuuml States, He pointed out that | ,Mu)nm is in a peculiar position, \ | facing prosecution both in the Unit- | ed States and Canada. Brandt said | the usual procedure, after trial in | he United States, will be to deport | {bim to. Canada - where ' hecan be | harged with breaking the wartime | ‘rmulmun of money that may be| | taken out of the (-wmtrv This closeup shows the foree of the impact with which a huge four-motored army bombing plane, equipped with experimental apparatis (o re- | duce hazards of Arctic flying, smashed into Ragged Top Mountain nea: Lovelock, Nev., killing its crew of eight. The bomber was en route lmm | McClelland Field, Sacramento, Cal., to Denver for experimental work i\ cold weather flying. The bomber was in command «f Capt. Richard & Freeman and the other seven members of the crew wnre nll from Ladd Field at Fairbanks, Alaska. Proposalsfo Be Changed Senafe Commiftee Taking Action on Amendments | Made by House | WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. — The, | Senate Foreign Relations Committee has approved, in principle, seven of | the House amendments to the Ad- | ministration’s British aid bill, in-| \rludmg $1,300,000,000 limitation as| the amount that existing war ma- | terial could be transferred to Great! ‘Bntam and other nations. I It is reported that proponents of the British Aid Bill have accepted the changes. | While the Committee has approved | in principle, of seven amendments, | they are subject to some technical | changes in language. | The Committee has turned its back |on opposition efforts to write into the legislation any restrictions ob- jccuonahle to the Admlmstrauon. | P Royal Fore | p ] | ressing On A' L] A | Wreckage of the McChord Field Army homber, which diasppeared with seven men on January 16 was found near the rian Area summit of Huckleberry Mountain in western Washington not far from Deschutes Peak lookout station. White arrow (left), shows where plane hit, with wreckage Between 800 and 1000 gallons of gasoline in the plane’s tanks exploded, hurling the wreckage over a to Laval that he come to the United | Ltates. But immediately the Laval pril- | MOSCOW, Feb. 12-Gen. C. K. grimage ran into oppesition fmm‘zhukurr has been appointed Vice- two potent quarters. One was Her- ‘Commlssar of Defense and Chief of bert Hoover. The other was thelme General Staff of the Red Army, British Foreign Office, which put according to an official announce- every conceivable obstacle in the |ment made here today. path of a successful visit. The former head of the General At that time, it is important to |Staff, K. A. Keretskoff, will remain remember, Britain was following her |25 @ Commissar on the Defense| traditional role of maintaining melBoard it is stated. No reason is glven for the s (Continued on Page Four) change, - sudden below. Black arrows indicate wing portions. | wide area of forest. | M b Several Inland Towns of . . . " | was “the golly-whoppingest thing beards. ‘They may €o o iot of por ! : . | 1 ever saw.” g over crusted skulls and fo Erifrea, alian Colony, Sm“hsoman |I|S|I|ll||0ll For threc months, bebind focked yf it R SIEE W O Are | doors, the men and women of the y it b Do R o B G [ re ap'ured T . Smithsonian labored in the great oo BTG ” o ens New Exhlbl'l Flalr | exhibition hall. When the (lu«ul" | |sign was changed for one reading CAIRO, Feb, 12, — TI " I I biorios ave aiviby caie he ?::)Lllt:l‘l ‘Open to the Public’ the olher| REALISTIC SPACE SHIP of Italy's east African colony of | . H H d"‘hy"' they. h“:l "“'",‘:‘lw’" L‘L t'f They have cooked up a realistic | &veral inland towns have already | o xmt:go:::: m‘:" t m;': “Hhmm zooming along some inter-planetary been captured in the drive as the "'B““_‘Ie“y th; ex):n'.m: u: le xwryln"‘hw"y As the pilot looks back British forces i ¢ “| he can see the changing scene of Ftho st e b s SR o By JACK STINNETT thing of such magnitude hat itjof life for the last half-bilon) yp, “eqrn ag tne g | Nassaua and Elgena are two in- | [ made the eyes bulge. I'm sure if| years and, just as a fillip, a glance| ooo0ne revolve mnto the sunlight. land towns captured, the latter 30| WASHINGTON, Feb. 12—Tous-| he could come to Washington to-|into the future This peek at| Before him, brightly lighted, is a | miles south of the Anglo-Egyptian | frontier, where Italian soldiers and | also equipment were captured, ists’ guide: -+ 1 once knew a lad who always stitution’s new exhibit, he would) “golly-whopping” any | such in a gquick breath and say it | described as that the men of the Smithsonian wre far from unimagmative gray (oanunuca on Pnaa sevuu day and see the Smithsonian In-|things to come is proof positive| i or his course, It is accurate War May Be One Sub- ject Broached ! 'HITLER RUSHING BIG FORCES ALOMG DANUBE Turkey Keébs Watch on Movements — May Not Fight Unless Attacked (By ASSOC IAIFII PRESS) Italian Premier Benito Mussolini |and Gen. Francigco Franco are re- | ported to beein conferencs “some- | where in Italy" amid gpeculati-n as |to whether the meet means Spain's possible entry into the war. | "In the nerve wracking Balkans, warlike preparstions moved stead- ixl\' ahead | Military chservers in Belgrade re- {port that Hitler has sped 25 new | divisicns about 400,000 soldiers, into Rimania during recent days to re- |inforce his Balkan cemmand. An ‘i\\ been passing through Hungary | carrying German munitions, tanks suns and men. Nazis On Danube The Nozi force is reported massed on the banks of the Danube facing Bulgaria, perhaps significantly. | The Turkish official press urges |a_united Balkan front against the | Gierman thyust across Bulgaria while wm:- (llplomut.( quarters sald Tub- ably will not fight unless are inyaded Turkey’s Position Other diplomatic quarters ecited | Turkey's military alliance with Great Eritain and fioted that BEritish. of- | ficers in the Middle East Gommans thave just finished inspecting thy | Turkish fortifizations facing Bui- | garia. % | Diplomatic cbservers at Bern ex- | press two beliefs as to the problems Franco and Mussolini will discus |one, that Mussolini is pressing f | Spain’s aid in the ‘western Mediter- ranean to help wrest the cffen: | from Great Britain, and-—-two, that Franco, as the head of a-large Cath- > state, will join his forces in ef- forts of those of the Pepe to bring an end to the war. - - . YOUTHS ARE CALLED FOR ARMY DUTY Ninefeen - Year - Olds in Great Britain Are fo Be Summoned fo Colers | LONDON, ¥eb. tain's 19-year-olds will be called up for Army duty almost immediately, it Is officially announced here today, { hv T hn rd 2.—~CGreal Bri- The call for Uwe 19-year-olds will be followed by men from 37 to 40, leaving the 18-yearsolds. as the last roup to be summoned and the an- neencement of the call will net be made until later. - “JUNEAU, CANADA"” Postmaster Albert Wile recently received a letter from a young wom- i in Des Moines, Towa, addressed to the Postmaster at Juneau, Can- Th ada elt wriler, who describes her- 22 years old and blonde, is v for information abont Can- ada and especially Juneau, Canada, she writes, - BAVARDS RETURN HERE Mr. and Mrs. George Bavard re- turned on the North Coast after a pleasure trip in Seattle for a few weeks visiting friends. Mr. Bavard .| reports business conditions good in Sealtle, with plenty of work there, | iverage of 40 trains & day, it is said,