The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 17, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIR VOL. LVIL, NO. 8649, ~ JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1941. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, TEN CEN1S SENATORIS ~ LAYING IT ON STRONG Kenluckiangys Only Way to Stop Hitler Isfo De- feat Him Now WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—Senator Alben W. Barkley, opening the debate in the Senate today on the Admin- istration’s British aid bill, declared that if the United States does not help Grat Britain to defeat Hitler | in Europe “we shall some day have | to surrender to him or defeat him | over here.” | Senator Barkley, his voice ringing | through the well-filled Senate cham- | ber declared “there is but one way | to stop Hitler and that way is to de- feat him.” Senator Barkley began his speech | with the assertion that if Germany | wins the war, the United States will | face “not only a hostile Germany | but also a hostile world.” | o | FFERS POWDER BURNS Young Jerry Chapman was taken to St. Ann’s Hospital Sunday after- | noon and received first aid treat-| ment for powder burn on his| fingers, received when the .22 calls| bre which he was handuug, accidentally discharged., Bun, ‘ka_Q'?‘Q | WASHINGTON — Republican House leader Joe Martin warily| avoided committing himself on the | lend-lease armament bill at the GOP caucus. Here are the instruc- tions he gave his colleagues: | “Read the testimony of those! who testified on the bill at hear- ings. | “Listen carefully to discussion o the floor. Be present at every ses-| sion during debate on the bill and amendments, 1 “Go home and think it over. | “Use your own judgment, but vote like Americans.” | LES i ARMY MORALS | Telegrams and letters have been| pouring into the War Department| and to the Wisconsin Senators from wives and mothers of the 32nd Division of the National | Guard, about immoral conditions| around Camp Beauregard, at A‘x-J exandria, La. It Wisconsin troops happen to be| involved, and - Louisiana happens| to be the State complained of.| But the situation has brought to ai head a problem which exists in other States and with other troops.: This controversy between Wis-| consin citizens and the War De-| partment may became a national issue as the new selective service army of a million men moves into! camps all over the country. A similar controversy already has de- veloped regarding Jacksonville, Fla., and its neighboring Camp Bland- ing. i In the Louisiana situation, Wis-| consin Senators are demanding that the War Department remove three houses of prostitution near Camp Beauregard. But the War Depart- ment replies that it has no juris- diction over the civil community outside camp limits. To this Sena-| tor Wiley has replied that the War Department should extend its jur- isdiction, | Meanwhile, officials of Alexandria | contend that their town is perfect- ly moral. War Department attitude is that the Army is not charged with moral reform of its recruits,| and that their conduct around a| camp is likely to follow the same pattern as their conduct at home. s o (Continued on Page Four) l WEDS MANAGER Mrs. Osa Johnson, widow of the explorer Martin Jornson, and’ Clark H. Getts, her business manager, were married in New York by Mayor H. LaGuardia. They smile happily shortly after the cerem ny. SQUADRON WITH HEAVY BOMBERS COME NORT WASHINGTON, Feb, 17.-Rein- forcing the. Army's new garrison Alaska, the War Department id the Thirty-Sixth Bombard- ment Squadron, now stationed at Lawry Field, Denver, equippad with | heavy bombers, will be transferred to Fort Richardson, al Anchorage. The permanent change will be made as soon as adequate facili- ties are avaifable. - R 3 Plofters | Arrestedon Helping the Senator Two Charges | FBI Nabs Men Who Af- tempted fo Wreck Train ~Also Extort $50,000 SACRAMENTO, Cal., Feb, 17— Bail to the amount of $50,000 each has been set for three bowling pin setters charged with attempting to wreck a main line Southern Pa- cific train and also attempting to extort $50,000 from the company. Owen McHenry, 33; Bernal Car- ter, 20, and Kenneth Lennom, 20, have been arraigned on four charg-| es carrying maximum sentences of 50 years in prison, The three men were arrested by the FBI Friday and they were ar-| raigned Saturday, just seven days! after railroad workers found spikes and bolts removed from the main line tracks of the Southern Pa-| cific near Towle, and nearly one; month after the extortion letter was received. DEBT LIMIT LEGISLATION GOES T0 FDR Congress Cofil;leies Action on Bill-Also on Remov- ing Tax Exemptions WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — Con- gress has sent to the White House the bill increasing the Federal debt limit to sixty-five billion dollars and removing Federal tax exemptions on future issuel .of Government secur- ities. The final action on the legislation came after the House approved of minor Senate amendments. German plane while on a training Lana Turner, Hollywood’s “sweater girl,” adds a puff of glamor to the efforts of Senator Walter George of Georgia to blow out the candles on his birthday cake. Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Commit- t2e, his 63rd birthday came on the eve of the President’s 59th. American Flier Dies In Action Oklahoma Aviation, wif American Squadron, Killed in Fight LONDON, Feb. 17.-——The first fatality in action of an American in the Eagle Squadron fighting with flie Royal Air Force has oc- curred with the death of Edwin Orbizon, 23, of Oklahoma. Orbizon was Kkilled chasing flight. He was buried in a village churchyard close to the flying sta- tion of the Eagle Squadron. The Adjutant of the squadron said: “Everybody thought highly of Orbizon. He took to fighting in | the air as a duck does to water.” One other member of the Amer- ican squadron, Howard Lekrone, al BROWDER MUST GO T0 CELL | Conviction aliPasspori | Fraud Is Upheld by Highest Tribunal | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — The Supreme Court has upheld the con- | viction of Earl Browder, 1940 Presi- dential nominee of the Communist | Party, on a charge of wilfully using a passport obtained by false state- | ments. Associate Justice Stanley F. Reed delivered the decision today and there was no dissent, Browder was convicted by a jury in the Southern New York Federal — HITLER TO START BALKAN OFFENSIVE Barkley Declares U.S. Must Aid Britain i District Court and sentenced to four | | years imprisonment and also fined | The verdict was upheld by the Fed- eral Circuit Court of New York and counsel for Browder made another appeal to the highest tribunal in the land and lost again. The Government contended that I Browder, applying for a passport in 1934, swore he had not previously re- ceived a passport. The Government | proved Browder had received pass- !ports under the name of Nicholas Dozenberg in 1921, under the name of George Norris in-1927 and Albert {Henry Richards in 1931. FLOODS RAGING EUROPE Spring Higl;W—esfer, Storms Have Already Killed or Injured Hundreds BERN, Switzerland, Feb. 17.— | Spring floods and storms are raging over the breadth of Europe and al- | “ [ oSl Booth patros ! heavy | | ready have killed or injured hun-! ydreds of persons from Portugal to Yugoslavia and extending to a light- er degree through the Danube Valley and Black Sea. One brief dispatch received here |from Belgrade says Yugoslavia's Lake Scuteria is rising from the |flooded feeders and already many | buildings are under water. At Batchak, flood waters have de- | | stroyed many dwellings and threat- | | ened others. Rumanian territorial waters for 15 miles north and south of Constanta | i are declared dangerous to navigation | |and residents of the wide section | have been warned to flee to high | | ground. A s S ARMY ENGINEERS | TRANSFERRED T0 POST IN ALASKA | l } WASHINGTON, Feb. 17, — Army (orders recently issued include | transfer of the following Engineer- 11111.' Corps officers from McChord Field, at Tacoma, to Annette Is- [land. near Ketchikan, Alaska: | Lieut, Col. George Nald, Major ;b‘l.\‘hrr Blinn, Captains Bernard |Card, Edward Dillon, James Krue- ger, Otto Rhode, David Hammond, | Carlin Whitesell Jr. | R 'HAGERTY LEAVES " WASHINGTON, D.C. " ENROUTE JUNEAU Don Haggarty, Senior Organiza- | tion Field Agent of the Office of {Indian Affairs, left Washington, D. C. Saturday, according to word | received in the Juneau office and | should be in Juneau within ten ‘days Haggarty recently was called to SATURATED SUBWAY UNDER 4~ High Tide in Flood Area e L EFEFE Caught in deep water caused by torrential rain which flooded the New York metropolitan area, motorists climb to top of their cars at Valley Stream, L. I., to await rescue. Disrupting traffic on practically all auburban highways, the rain*also flooded Times Square, covering the Jower levels as much as one foot. There has been much diseus mn] during the past weeks concerning the bill now before Congress and | sintroduced by Representative Ever- lett M. Dickstein, Republican of | Tlinois, and Chairman of ‘the House Committee on Immigration and| | Naturalization, providing for utilization of unfilled immigration | quotas in order to colonize Al-| | aska, se House and Senate of the Al- aska Territorial Legislature have passed the memorial urging Con- gress nol to pass the measure. The bill, known as H. R. 2791, is quite” different from the identi- cal bills which’ were introduced in the T6th Congress by Representative | Havenner of California and Sena- was killed previously, but in a fly-' the Washington Office for De-- tor King of Utah, proposing and ing accident, partment conferences, outlining an elaborate form of cor-| | e Seftlement Legislafion !nfroduced’ ok, encanD porate ol ttlements . ‘he text of the Dickstein bill 1 as follows: “Providing for the utilization ¢ unfilled immigration quotas in or der to colonize Alask: for purpo: the| of national defense and as a mar-| ket for s “Whereas during this world cri- sis, when every effort is being put forth to strengthen our rpius production experts; and “Whereas it is apparent that the| small population of Alaska with its| square| miles rea akes it difficult to| 3 . s e i ,'at once from New York for Eng- slightly less than 600,000 (Continued on Page Five) ELD FARMS P INOHALT, anization to handle n.e'Presidem 0' Harvard DiS-( national | special defense, the importance of includ-|expediting directly to Washington ing Alaska in future plans is being| ‘recent scientific information stressed by the military and naval importance to National Defense.” TIMES ARE NCHEONETT in the Arcade of a subway station under Times Square in New York took to wading when used sewers to overflow. AIR, SEA, BATILES iHurri(ane BornSforms Fail fo Prevent Bombers and Subs from Acivity (By Associated Press) Weather laid violent hands on | Europe over the weekend but even {the hurricane born storms failed to {halt the relentless war in the air | and on the seas. | Great Britain is still keeping an apprehensive eye on suspected | trouble in the Far East. Royal Air Force bombers were sent on a 2,000-mile roundtrip flight ' to western Poland to drop pamphlets and other planes, with bombs, at- | tacked Nazi-held Dutch and Belgian coasts. The daily report of the Berlin High Command underscored new |smashing blows at Great Britain's imerchant shipping and said sub- | marines and bombing planes con- | tributed to further damage, sending %duwn war-laided craft. Gales over the Strait of Dover en- \forced a lull last night but carly |today several English towns were raided by the Nazis and raid alarm sirens sounded for a time in the ‘ London area. D ROOSEVELT SENDS " NEW MISSION ON | pafched fo Report Sci- | enfific Information | WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—Presi- | dent Roosevelt has dispatched Dr | James B. Conant, President of Harvard, to England as head of a| new mission charged with| of | Other scientists will be given similar assignments from time to me. Dr. Conant, research chemist, and two companions, are to leave land. PACTS ARE REACHED TO AID NAZIS Nonaggression Agreement Made by Fuehrer with Two Nations TURKEY MAY STAY ON SIDELINES IS REPORT Nation, However, Proves Enigma, Together with Big Brother Neighbor (By Associated Press) The last obstacle to the German march to southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean has apparently been removed. 4 Rellable informants in Sofia report that Bulgaria and Yugoslavia are al- leged to have reached an non-ag- gression pact, also an Inference is given that Turkey may stand aside. This may be the keystone to fit together all military and diplomatic made for the Balkan offensive. There is nut much that Bulgaria or even Yugoslavia could do about it if Germfny decided to send an army through them to reach the Dardanelles or Greece, but Turkey, as a power, can at least contest the Nazl onslaught if that nation choose to use it. The Turks have been the center of the war problem engaging Germany in' the southeastern Eur- ope planned activities. Germany is using all diplomatic pressure to keep Turkey on the side- lines. The British made Turkey a poten- tial ally by pledging aid in defense of Turkey's integrity. So far Turkey is an enigma and like the big neighbor Russia, neither have made a clear-cut stand what the course will really be if the Nazis, already perhaps 600,000 strong in Rumania, receive orders to march. British sources acknowledge ihat an accord with Turkey by Germany will mean a sharp blow to British influence in the Balkans, Some diplomatic observers feel the odds are against Greece, notwith- standing her victories over the Ital- ians, if the German threat of a blow is really made and this might force Greece to capitulate. THOUSANDS FLEE FIRE AT SANTANDER (By Associated Press) Thirty thousand persons have been forced from their homes by a gi- gantic fire which swept Santander, northern Spain, on the Bay of Bis- cay, yesterday and today in the wake of a disastrous hurricane which has claimed scores of lives in Spain and also Portugal. The flames late this afternoon were still blazing .fiercely in San- tander but the fighters are believed to be gaining the upper hand. Among the hundreds of buildings, reported by the San Sebastian broad- | casting radio station to have already been destroyed or badly damaged, are the City Bank of Spain, Cathe- dral, Government Revenue Office, Government Customs houses and es- tablishments along the bay front. Meagre reports are picked up at San Sebatian from radio flashes of steamers in the harbor at San- tander. The fire is said to have started when an explosion occurred aboard an oil tanker moored in the harbor jand thousands of gallons of flaming gasoline blown by a high wind were carried to the waterfront and then to the surrounding section,