The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 18, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NE| WS ALL THE TIME” "VOL. LVIL, NO. 8650. e PRICE TEN CENTS — REECE DEVASTATING NIGHT RAID ON ENGLAND NAZI BOMBS ROPPED IN BIG ATTACK Widespreamsaulis Are/ Made Over Extensive British Section BOMB SHELTER HIT; MANY BELIEVED DEAD German Hirghfi(fo mmand Reports "'Good Resuls” Esnecially in London (By Associated Press) Nazi bombers inflicted apparently | a heavy toll of casualties over night on the British Isles and subjected London's millions to a three and one-half air raid alarm. | The Nazi bombers also pounded | the east Anglica region in wide- | P ad attacks lasting until dawn. Rescue workers worked for over #i% hours this morning bringing out dead and survivors trapped when a heavy bemb smashed the roof of one of the largest shelters in London | and choked the entrance with dc~1 bris. | Hundreds Injured Hospitals and bath houses in the tContinued on Page Seven® WASHINGTON—Public attention has been so closely riveted on the war in Europe and upon the lease- lend debate that alarming develop- ments in the Far East have escaped almost unnoticed. This is the fact that the Japanese are now within definite striking dis- tance of Singapore and the Dutch East Indies; and that Berlin has been urging Japan to become the ag- gressor in the South Pacific in order to divert American attention away from Europe. No one knows better than the Ger- man Foreign Office that the Ameri- can people are skittish about having two oceans—both Atlantic and Pa- cific—churned up at once. So Ger- man attempts ta persuade Japan io focus American attention on the Far East are nothing new. ° Absolutely new, however, is the fact that the Japanese are in a much more strategic position to take over the Malays and the Dutch Xast Indies—two regions vital to the sup- ply of American tin and rubber. For what the Japanese very quietly have done is to occupy the powerful French naval bases of Saigon and Cap St. Jacques in French Indo- China. In gauging possible war in ‘the Pacific, one should remember that distance is all-important. A Japan- ese fleet cannot cross the Pacific to attack the United States without great risk, because of distance. Nor could it have attacked Singapore, previously, without grave risk, be- cause the distance from there to Japan is almost as great as from Japan to Honolulu. Now, however, with the French Indo-Chinese naval bases in her possession, Japan is in a far better position regarding Singapore and the Dutch East Indies than she would be regarding California if she occupied Hawaii. 1t still will not be a walkaway for Japan to take these British and AID STARTS | IN SENATE 1 Exiles in Cuban Revolt Plot | A"’A(K 0“ ) Measure !ofieTp Great Bri- fain Comes in for Round of Scoring DCITATORSHIP- CHARGE ONCE MORE HURLED OUT Clark Declares Enaciment Means Sending Ships, Planes, Men Overseas WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 —Senator Bennett Champ Clark expr d be- | lief today that the Semate’s enact- | ment of the pending British Aid bill | will be “equivalent to a declaration of a state of war,” which will ulti- ! mately have to be followed up by sending troops abroad. Senator Clark declared that “this /i not. & defense WHI'AL wll. THiS {a war bill, an itplement to put in {motion processes almost certain to iresult in wi Senator Clark contended ihe measure amounts to “guaranteeing 'a military victory by one belligerent, |over another. We all know this is | equivalent to a declaration of a state of war ourselves and must be fol- i [ 1 The Cuban officials on whose shoulders President Fulgencio Batista placed the blame for the revolt plot which caused a shakeup of Cuba's rarmed forces are shown as they arrived in Miami, Fla. They were permitted to flee Cuba by chartered plane. Left to right, Police Major Juan Serra, Col. Jose Pedraza, deposed army head, and Lieut. Col. Bernardo Garcia, ousted national police chief. GOLD PRODUCTION HELD VITALLY NECESSARY T0 —— | ultimately our men. Once commit- ted, we cannot turn aside.” Makes FDR Dictator Senator Clark spoke after Senator Hiram W. Johnson, of California, asserted the bill will make Roose- velt a “dictator or worse.” o 2 | senator Johnson submitted a min- One of the most insidious and' The “Gold Prphibition Law w‘“‘omy report on the legislation de- dangerous pieces of propaganda passed in 1933. It provides that "D\claring Great Britain needed no aid being carried on in our country to-| individuals, banks or other insti-|{y.vong what she is already getting day is that inspired by Fifth Col-' tutions can hold or own any gold.|f.om the United States. umnists, and innocently echoed by but that all gold in the United Question by Nye unsuspecting and uninformed Am- States, besides that used for jewel-| gonator Gerald P. Nye, of North ericans who do not realize that ry, etc. must be owned and held paqta joined the opposition in the their whisperings are extremely by the Federal Government, which, attack on the aid legislation de- damaging to the future welfare of as a result, now owns the greatest|anging to know whether Roosevelt every man, woman and child, and|hcard of gold ever accumulated | o “entertaining a notion for a to industry generally in our coun- history. permanent alliance with Great Brit- try. | Two of the reasons for this great ain.” 1 refer to the threats that the accumulation of gold in our coun-' Senator Nye took up the fight great reserve of gold in the Unit- (ry are easy to understand, One is | against the bill after Senator Arthur ed States will lose part or-all of because of the greatly increaso | H. Vandenberg, Republican of Mich- its present value if Hitler should balance of trade in international|igan, charged it made the President win the war. This great store of|commerce in our favor in recent a “power politician No. 1 in the gold which belongs to the Federal| years, and the other is the vast world.” Government amounts to over $22.- quantities of gold sent to this coun-| Earlier Senator Johnson said 000,000,000. It is more than 75 per- try from foreign countries for|Great Britain has received 1934 of cent of the monetary gold in the|safe keeping and for other reasons, 2884 military planes he said were world, | during the years in which war was | produced in this country in 1940. It is important to refer tosome threatening in various European ——irie of the fundamental features of the countries, and since ils outbreak. ‘ gold problem in order to under- Value and Importance | : I will give a few of the reasons| alor an | of the world after the war is over. Some practical and workable plan for the redistribution of much of the gold at present in our country will have to be adopted at that | time. By TASKER L. ODDIE Former Governor and U. Senator from Nevada. Pro dent of Gold Mining Associa- tion of America. S. stand its relation to the monetary and economic systems of our coun- showing the value and jmportance | try and to our Government, of gold, why it must be continued | Gold has been the most highly as the world’s standard of value| prized and sought after metal for and what must be dene to main-| thousands of years. Its beauty, in- (ain its position and value. destructability, mon - tarnishability. Gold is the foundation of our| and other qualities have contribut- banking and monetary system, aad | ed largely to its value as money is legal tender for all debts, in the| and personal ornaments since the payment of which it must be ac-| beginning of history. During all cepted. the ages and down to the press. "The Federal ent, it has maintained its value and controls all the gold in,the and popularity, particularly as the United States, and has given in| monetary standard of value return for it, promises to pay gold throughout the world. | dollars on demand called “goid International Money certificates,” most of which are held i It is the only truly international by the 12 Federal Reserve Banks. Aboard were Ma)nf B. B. Talley money, accepted in unlimited quan- Qur law states that gold is th;"[ the Corps of Engineers with tities in every country on earth, “sole standard unit of value, so|leidduarters at Fort Richardson, where it can be quickly exchanged all paper money and subsidiary and Governor Ernest Gruening. for goods and services at any time.. coins, as well as all goods, serv- It is the most liquid and readily ices and debts are measured in exchangable form of wealth, Dur- value by gold. Gold and “Promises' ing the last few years it has bet:;\ to pay gold” by Governments and in greater demand by governments, Central Banks are us ey | institutions and individuals than in all countries, It fflmfiflmz spd._Shell ‘Sons aneniad ik ever before, This increased demand money in all international tran- the Lynn Canal trip and carried his and its increase in price in the gactions, and as the only interna- pa&se.n gixe i Hoonate last seven years have stimulted tional money. The value of the! Passengers were J. C. Molyneaux, its production to a large extent in great majority of all paper cm_l_emw‘L‘eommi Taylor and A: W. Douglass. all parts of the world. in the world is measured by goki.\s‘mmons Xpfnad NRSUY, . Alter However, this world increase in Our basic monetary unit is mc‘noom production will not be enough to gold dollar which on January 31, Government ows | flown early this morning by Pilot Alex Holden when he winged out of | Gastineau Channel at 8 o'clock in | the Lockheed. | this afternoon. A flight to Skagway was cancelled in mid-flight this morning as strong head winds made the trip impossible - Four) meet: the normal monetary require- | | ments of our country and the rest (Continued on Page Twv) for 1940 are estimated at 1,420,000, A charter flight to Yakutat was | | Gruening was to return with Holden | JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18, — | Top lett, Cl governor of New Hampshire, to ambassador to Great Britain, Pre included other changes in the Among them were the shift of n inister to Australia, to be amb: { NAVY OF JAPANESE Forces Rep—drTed Increas- ing on Gulf of Siam- Troops on Islands (By Associated Press) Reports from reliable quarters, jand considered authoritative but, which the Associated Press has been unable to confirm directly, declare that the Japanese naval forces on I!hl‘ Gulf of Siam have increased heavily during the past twelve hours. Three Japanese cruise liously in thoge waters which lie be- | tween Ido-China, the Malay Pen- |insula and Singapore, Greal Brit- {ain’s Far Eastern naval base in | whose seas approaches were recently | filled with min | It is unofficially stated between 180,000 and 90,000 Japanese soldiers are known to have been stationed {on the islands of Hainan and For- imost. off the China coast and re- ports received from Haipone uaid hundreds of Japanesc infantrymen {have been landed there during the past. two days. ———— MR. AND MRS. DIERS IN Mr, and Mrs. William Diers, mer- chandise Tepresentative arrived | this forenoon on the Alaska and are registered at the Baranof Ho- !tel while making calls for their | respective agencies. - MRS, McKAY VISITS Mrs. Bertha McKay, active mem- |ber of the Democratic Divisional | Committee in Ketchikan, arrived |this forenoon on the steamer Al- Total deaths in the United States!aska for a Juneau visit. Mrs. Mc- Kay is at the Baranof. They Figure in arence Gauss; below left, Nelson Johnson; son; center right, Anthony J. D. Biddle; below right, tralia; William Dawson, ambassador to Panama, named to the newly created post of ambassador to Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, ambassador With the appointment of John G. Winant, former w succeed Nelson T. Johnson, who goes to Aus- s were prev- | Majo the post of U. 8. esident Roosevelt diplomatic corps. Clarence Gauss, assador to China Uruguay; Netherlands, all Actress Honored Constauce Moore and Mrs. Druce For enlightening the American public on national defense in the air, Constance Moore, screen play- er, receives a pair of wings from the Women Flyers of America. Mrs. Ogilvie Druce, first woman fiyer in America, pins the wings on Miss Moore in New York above. The actress is the star of a pleture called “I Wanted Wi WASHINGTON, Feb. 18. — The Senate has confirmed the nomina-- tion of Orley Gwin to be Postmas- |ter at Palmer, Alaska ¢ U S Diplomatic Shifts center, John' G. Winant; top right, William Daw- to Poland, named ambassad ernments of Poland, Belgium, Norway and the Rome embassy counselor; is now minister to Egypt‘ Sitka Air estims HTLER MAKES THREAT |Grecians Are Told fo Quit, { Under Mussolini’s Term, Or be Invaded 'ROAD NOW OPENED FOR TROOPS T0 MOVE SOUTH \'Squeeze’ Proposal Comes as Fascist Legions Are Being Hard Pressed (By Associated Press) | Balkan diplomatic quarters report |Hitler has brought pressure on |Greece to make c:ick peace with Italy on Mussolinl’s terms under threat that Nazi troops will invade |Greece and it is also officially re- ‘ported that Bulgaria and Turkey ! have signed a nonaggression pact. | Dispatches from Sofia said the | German ‘Minister at Athens has in- formed the Greek leaders Turkey and Bulgaria h signed- the non- | aggression pact and Greece 15 now jopen to attack through Bulgaria if | Greece refuses to make quick peace. | Ready to Move | It 15 sald that Hitler's Balkan | Army, estimated at upwards of 600,- (000 men, will start rolling from the bases in Rumania across Bulgaria | into eastern Thrace, just as soon as | thel command is given. | An authoritative Sofia newspaper, the Zora, declares Russia has agreed | with Geermany, that the Bulgarian- {Turkish pact means preventing | spread of the war to southeast Eur- ope. Alexander Kirk. or to the exiled gov- in London, and Alexander Kirk, | Greeks Advance | Germany's reported ‘‘squeeze” on | Gireece to sue for peace on Italy's own terms, came as the Greeks | chronicled fresh advances north of Klisura, in central Albania. | It is officially reported from the ! Albanian front that Mussolini’s | Fascist legions are blowing up muni- tion stores as they retreat from the front lines, Italian Losses Heavy Greek dispatches said the Ifalian losses, dead and wounded, are ihe heaviest since Italy invaded Greece on October 28. | The Italian Command acknow- |ledges “considerable losses™ but as- "serted the Greeks have failed in “bitter fighting” to break the Fascist lines. > WABHINGTON, Feb. 18, Navy | I o5 for new construction at the Sitka Naval Station, submitted | to Congress last week, include the | following: i Surface eraft factlities (o strength- | en and extend the existing pier to | 600 feet, $202,000. ‘ Dredging entrance, 250,000 Storehouse, $50,000. Seaplane parking area, $60,000 Quarters for married officers, su-i RAERCS 500. . ospitat racnies, ssooo. | PeCUliGr Stalement Issued Motor test stand, $50,000 : . e in Tokyo by Official 500 . B AL, Nippon Spokesman WEATHER BUREAU TOKYO, Feb. 18—Japan has de- clared readiness to mediate any con- s"lrrs AI SMOKE flict “anywhere in the world,” but blamed the American-British “war- like preparations” for the present o" MI' ROBER‘ tension on the Pacific. & iy | Japan suggests the United States Channel residents were on the confine “its activities in this respect” sunshiny weather today with pessi-| The Government's official spokes- | mistic glances at thin streams of man, Koh Ishii, today handed the |hlowmg snow smoke along the ridges representatives of all newspapers of Mt. Roberts—supposedly a sign and press associations a statement of a Taku wind. |insisting Japan’s intentions are Thompson, who looks at weather The statement gave no indication maps instead of mountain tops, says as to what Japan proposes to do in there's no Taku indicated and there her 43-month-old war in China or won't be—at least until they get an- any other definite action or if a other map. change of policy is contemplated, Base Gels More Fund | Navy Sen ds Estimate to Congress for New Con- struction at Station for north Station maintenance building, $45,- | streets and countryside enjoying to the Western Hemisphere. Weather Bureau Chief Howard peaceful.