The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 15, 1941, Page 1

TH DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “‘ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME" \()l,. LVIL, NO. 8648. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTY BRITISH DROP PARACHUTISTS ON ITALY Quincy Padget Sends Bullet Int P. 0. CLERK winer Winter—and Sum mer—Queens! SUICIDES ON GLACIER ROAD Writes Farewell Note and Shoots Self with .45 (alibre Revolver ng himself in the middle : forchead with a .45 calibre revciver after writing a farewell note, Quincy A. Padget, night clerk at the Junean Post Office, committed sui- cide early this morning in the back | seat of his car near Danner's dairy | on the Glacier Highway. Padget's body was found shortly after 8 o'clock this morning by Ros- coe Laughlin, who immediately re- (Continued to Page Two) {zf‘ Rebers Al g0 WASHINGTON.—Behind the re- port thal War Department officials re urging the appointment of a ar” for the airplane industry are twe grave situations: 1. A scaltered administrative set- up snarled in red-tape. Dragging production particularly in bombers. (Bombers are the most urgent air need of the British at present.) | il necessity for centralizing the administration by airplane activities is cne of the most vital in the de- © Ppre m. Only insiders realize how widely dispersed is control. The Army Air Corps and Navy Bureau of Aeronautics are only two of sev- eral agencies concerned with its management. In December, Robert Lovett, World | War Navy ace and prominent New York attorney, was brought to Wash- . ingten by Secretary Stimson to con- duct a survey and bring order out of the jumble Lovett is still grappling with the problem. Scme authorities urge that the post of Assistant Secretary of War for Air, long vacant, be revived to provide .centralized control. Created during Coolidge's regime, the post was shelved by Hoover as an econ- cmy move in 1932 and never resmred‘ by Roosevelt. | WANTED, BOMBERS Eritain's pressing need is medium and long range bombers to carry, the war with vigor to the industrial | centers of Germany and Italy. Sir| Hugh Dowding, former chief of the RAF Fighter Command, now in this country to try to expedite plane de- liveries, has come up against some stark facts. One is that there will be nosap- preciable increase in U. 8. bomber cutput until late in the summer,| when the first of four huge aircraft assembly plants gets into produc- tion at Kansas City. Thése new plants will assemble plane parts made by auto and accessory manu- facturers, and when in full opera- tion, will boost bomber production by around 309 a month. But even with this increase, plus the new aircraft plants now under construction, Britain's 16,000-plane order will be a long way from the flying fields—to say nothing of Army and Navy orders and an additional 12,000-order now* being discussed by the British. Producticn schedules on paper call for the completion of 33,000 planes cf all types, by July, 1942—a formid- able armada if the ships are built and if Hitler waits that long. NOTE.—Th plan for mass pro- ducticn of planes through use of the auto industry, as proposed by Wal- ter Reuther, of the United Auto Werkers, has made little hudws,y‘ amcng National Defense an< auto magnates. Privately, however, some of the ablest production officials in‘ (Continued on Page Four) schedules, iwas so swift after the first 10 min- rails, 26.65; utilities, 18.95. Joyce Moyen and Betty Lou McDonald Both winter and summer queens of the Twin Cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis sit op the throne together at the St. Paul winter carnival. Joyce Moyen, left, is the queen of the Minneapolis Aquas tennial, a summer festival, w)ula Betty vou MeDonald, rlght is the winter aucen Heads Air School Sea Raiders Show Mercy During Fight Send Down Fourfeen Brit- ish Ships-Spare One fo Make Rescues BERLIN, Feb. 15.—A flotilla of German warships which is report- ed to have sunk 14 British ships in | convoy, left one vessel afloat to serve as a rescue ship for the other crews. This is the report made today by the DNB news agency which said all merchantmen were armed and - defended themselves vigor- ously but no German ship was hit. | A DNB reporter on one of the| German ships said the sea fight SEATTLE, Feb. 15.—3teamer Al- acka sailed for Alaska ports at 9 o'clock this morming with 252 passen- | zers including 55 steerage. Passengers aboard the Alaska for {Juneau include the following: Mr.| |and Mrs. D. Burnaby, Mrs. Estella Merrill, Miss Paige Foley, Mrs. J.| H. Chappell, Mrs. F. E. Brentlinger, John Beaton. John H. Geyer, J. D. Bishop, Leota Russell, Virginia Newlin, Southall in sinking condition, a background of nearly 3,000 flying coast of Pon,uua] | Air Corps Basic Flying School at | {John B. Brooks, who was trans- FROM FAIRBANKS . H, B. Avakoff and E. Swartz, ex-| on the Juneau-bound Electra. Mrs. R. Kransi, Mrs. Alma Carson Lieut. Col. 1. H. Edwards utes that five British ships were | Veteran pilot of the Air Corps, with The attack on the British con- | hours, Lieut. Col. Idwal H. Ed- voy was made last Sunday off the wards is the new head of the giant e Randolph Field, Tex., West Point of the Air. He succeeds Brig. Gen. THREE FLYING IN i S homiriren 1 Wing, Westover Fietd, Mass. | Three passengers, Wilise Brown.:AIaska Is “ow pecting to sail south on the Yu- kon, left Fairbanks this forenoon One plane flew north today hi Mr, and Mrs. Denis Godsil, Mr.and | and Clarence Rhode. D NEW YORK, Feb. 15. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 42, American Can 82%, Anaconda 22', Bethlehem Steel 76%, Commonwealth and | nolds. Southern 5, General Motors 41%,| Julian Johnson, D. L. Grcen Mrs. International Harvester 47%, Kenne- |J. W. Erwin, Marjorie. Carpenter, cott 31%, New York Central 12%, H. D. Coon, George Feeny. Northern Pacific 5%, United States | NSO e it o, Steel 57%, Pound $4.03%. JEWELER SOUTHBOUND DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, ) Jones averages: Industridls, 118.55; Yukon, * | Yukon. Juneau Bound Pfund, J. E. Hopkins, Percy Rey-| JAPANTS ~ SENDING WARNING ‘Are Advising Nationals in North, South America, Not fo Be Alarmed TOKYO, Y“(‘I: 15. vTh(' Japanese Cabinet Information Bureau has ad- vised Japanese residents of both North and South America not to be alarmed at “irresponsible and sen- sational reports of increasing {en- sion between Japan and the United | States, asserting that it is not war- ranted to jump at hasty conclusions” or any -iucl\ eventuality as “war.” D GRECIANS CRACKING ITALIANS Fascist Lines in Albania Reported Under Heavy Atfiliery Atfack from Athens state the Greeks are reported cracking the | Ttalian lines at several points in Al- bania. The cracking followed long | preparations in which artillery is being used. Lodestars Will Come Next Week With the first Lodestar to be de- ilivered in Seattle Monday and two | others before the end of next week, |PAA expects to resume service be- |tween Juneau and Seattle scme- | time next week, according to Gen- |eral Manager Joe Crosson, who is in Juneau awaiting the southbound Crosson is on his way back to the Seattle office after a brief business trip to Fairbanks. Parts for the Douglas airliner. damaged here in the recent storm which were to have been shipped on the Baranof, missed that steamer and are to come north on the Alaska leaving Seattle today. e - TWO APPOINTED AS REGENTS BY GOV. GRUENING 'W. T. Stuarf of Kefchikan [ Is Named fo Succeed | Mrs. Wickersham | Two appointments went te the i | Legislature today from Gov. Lrncsm | Gruening for confirmation. | One names W. T. Stuart, of Ketchi- | kan to the Board of Regents of the University of Alaska, succeeding Mrs. James Wickersham of Juneat. Stuart | |1s manager of the Ketchikan Public | Utilities. The other reappoints Thomas M Donohoe of Anchorage Lo the same | Board. DU G | NEW PHARMA ARRIVES | ‘ John Graf, graduate pharmacist of |the University of Washington, who| H. B. Avakoff, wellknown Fair-|recently has been employed in Bel- \'1““‘ |banks jeweler, is a passenger on| lingham, came in today on the Bar- | Pheiffer, the Electra, leaving Fairbanks to-|anof, and is at the Baranof hotel.| remember him, day. Avakoff will sail south on the|Graf is here to take a pharmacist’'s| the Oaky country whe 3 position at Guy Smith’s Drug Store, | the least little bit of a Sees No Probability of U. S.-Japanese War At @ press conference abeard the liner Kamakura Maru o buror Nemura (center), new Japanese Ambassador to the war between Javan and the United States, London NewsPaper Equxpment Fnrefizhting apparatus is almost as important to London newspapers today as typewriters and presses, and here is a scene in the editorial nf‘i.u of ona of the big Fleet Street papers. Above the steel helmets are rrup pumps for combating incendiary bombs. Despite repeated .nmbm.’a. Fleet Street has continued to turn out its papers on schedule, Freshman Congressman Shows Seniors How fo Make Hit, Consfifuents By JACK STINNETT ‘1.‘,".”,”},‘ He sity of Oklahoma, gree and started practice Okla., Tex. 15.—When- got man makes plurge, at- atten- it's WASHINGION, Feb ever a freshman congre tracts even a paragraph of tion from his senior colleagucs, worth recording No “frosh” in a nity is more beneath eration of upper-classmen that a first-term Representative beneath |the men who outrank him in years| of service. Tts Congress' trial by fire and water and anyone who rvives it without discouragement entitled to beat his breast |give the old Tarzan cry in political jungle. This fact makes even more un- | |usual the unusual story of Wil-| Townsend Pheiffer. “Billy” as the boys back home was born out in! n his native PLUNGED INTO POLITICS Two yea York, where just another Jawyer college frater- | the consid- the surf, In less time than takes to cross lsbridge in Sunday traffic, Mr fer was in New York politics because he was a Republican | that Tammany tiger’s den. { teenth congressional district far over on the East River it includes Welfare Island, stream. Along First, the is saloons where the " (Continued on Pege Six) Purcell was still in the Indian| went (o the Univer- his law de- in Sayre, about as outstanding as a bubble in the Queenshorough Phel m and | couldn’t have been far in, llu.ug'n in His Six- 0 that in mid-| Second and Third: avenues there are 201 Irish bartenders’ on its arrival in San Francisco, Admiral Kichisa- United States, asserted he saw no prabability of RAF MAKE ~ AIR RAIDS NAZI LAND j Official Statement Says "Destructive”” Results Are Atfained (By Amllud Press) The British Air Ministry an- nounces that Royal Air Force bomb- ers fired oil installation works at Glensinkirchen last night and also dropped bombs on Duishurg and Ruhport. Ostend was “destructive adds. The authoized Nazi spokesman at | Berlin admits British bombers flew over 22 communities in western Ger- {many but atfacked only one in- | tensively. —— = (Chaisimaio Is Occupied Importani Section in Ifal- | ian Somaliland Said fo Have Been Taken (By Associated Press) ‘The official statement of the Brit- sh headouarters at Cairo announce the occupation of the important sec- |tion of Chaisimaio. This strategic area is in Ttalian Somxllland - CHURCHILL'S TALK results, the statement A transeript ul Brfl,lsh Prime Min- last Suhday, February 9, been received here and will be sent it |out over the air from Station KINY | starting at 2 o'clock tomorrow after- noon is|don - ‘GEORGE IN GEORGIA | ENJOYING SUNSHINE/ A post card from Gus George, part- | ner in George Brothers Grocery, tells of motoring along beautiful roads was on his way to more sunshine in Xli‘lm'il.in-. again hammered with | | | ago he moved to New|ister Churchill’s talk made in Lon- ‘slmm has | o sutfered o Brain NEW MOVE 1S MADE IN SOUTH WAR Troopers R(fited Landed on Boof of Fascist Na- fion as Saboteurs ORDERED TO STRIKE BLOWS AT OBJECTIVES - Admission Ts—M ade that ""Some" Soldiers Nof - Returned fo Bases (By Associated Press) ‘The barest of hints that some Brit- ish parachutists, acting as saboteurs, are still hiding somewhere in the foot of the Italian boot to strike blows to cripple the home front of Great Britains' Fascist foe, have emanated from the British Ministry of Information. It is said that British troopers of an unspecified number were recently dropped in southern Italy with in- structions to “demolish certain oh- Jjectives connected with the ports of that area.” 1t is also reported that “some of the parachutists have not xctumsd to thelr bases” - The Italians yesterday claimed all “parachuters” found dropping on Italian ‘soil were quickly rounded up and captured before_they could do any damage. FREIGHT TRAFFIC NOW OFF Italians Iak?ngllo Chances Because of Landing of British Sabofeurs ROME, Peb. 15.—Preight traffic aleng several railroads in southern Italy where Blackshirt guards have rounded up British parachutist dy- namiters, was suspended today. Althoughf the High Command said | yesterday all British were captured, Communications . Ministry said ac- | ceptance of freight has been cut |off pending further “investigation of British saboteurs.” The official railroad statement only says: “Freight service has been | suspended to various Southern Ital- ian sections because the present transportation forwarding situation |is difficult.” Wr SRR 7y FORMER SPANISH KING IN CRITICAL CONDITION, ROME Alfonso XIII Suffers Two Heart Atfacks With- in Ihfi Days ROME, Feb, 15—The condition jof former King Alfonso XIII, of was grave again today when the second heart at- tack within three days. Doctors stated that there was a slight im- provement this afternoon butthat | his condition was still critical. King Alfonso had published ear- !n«-r in the week in Portuguese news- | papers his formal abdication in favor of hls son, Prince Juan. e GODSILS 'I'HIOUGIl and Mrs. Dennis Mr. Godsil in Georgia with contirfual sunshine.|came in on the Baranof and im- George, outside on a vacation trip, | | mediately flew north to Fairbanks on the Electra. Godsil has a cloth- ing business in the northern eity. s i e