The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 19, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E VOL. LVIL, NO. 8651. WAR FEVER MO IFU. 5. Had Court Jester, He'd Likely Be 0"Connor; PLEA MADE, GIVE HELP T0 BRITAIN Senator COIEI})IIY Declares Democracies of World Must Hang Together WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—Senator Tom Connally of Texas, pleading for National unity on the Administra- tion's British Aid bill, told the Sen- ate today that the Democracies of the World “must all hang together or they will hang separately.” The Texan opened the third day of the Senate debate on the legis- lation with the assertion that the opponents of he bill are engaged in ious arguments charging the so- lled lease and lend measure will e Roosevelt a dictator. ma “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1941. His Recor Mediation Proposed By Japa Nippon Nation Would In- tercede in Big Conflict Raging in Europe d, Splendid One ! By JACK WASHINGTON, Feb. 19.—In a good many years of batting around in the news game, I have found |a lot of people in the theater who have no business there and darned few who should have been on the stage and aren’t—but George H. | O'Connor certainly is one of the latter. | From President McKinley to | Roosevelt II, probably more peo- | ple have called O'Connor “George” TINNETT than ever called all the nation’s | Pullman porters by that name. !For the purposes of this little ystory I'm going to join the fond !pnrflde. | George is a portly gent, with The crowded galleries listened at- tentively. TENTATIVE RITES SUNDAY AFTERNOON FOR MRS. CHAPPELL Eastern Star services for Mrs. Guila Chappell, who passed away on the steamer Alaska last Sunday, while enroute here from a vaeation to the states, have been tentatively arranged for Sunday afternoon, pending the arrival of the steamer bringing the remains here from Ket- chikan. The funeral will be held irom the Charles W. Carter Chapel. open a certain door to a private conference room in the War De- partment, you would get a drama- tic picture of aid to Britain. Here is no debate of pros and Here, aid to Britdin is al- ready in action. It is a meeting of the Tank Committee, made up of ordnance experts of the War Department plus U. S. manufacturers of tanks; and in addition, representatives of the British Purchasing Commis- sion, All are sitting in the same robm. Purpose of the Tank Committee is to help the British, and nobody makes any bones about it. On walking into the room, you might suppose the remarks of the generals and business leaders are being broadcast for the public, be- cause microphones are placed all along the conference table, But the “mikes” are solely for record- ing the conversations for confiden- tial files. Stehographers take short- hand notes, and a recording ma-| ' Morning, Alfie_rnoon Ses- LONDON, Feb. 19.— The British | whiting hair and a Muldoon map. Government informed the House of | His father’s name was Patrick and Commons this afternoon it has re-| his mother’s maiden name Mary ceived a “special message” from|McCarthy. Born thus in the shade Japan offering to mediate in the.of the shamrock, he held trumps war and e!so accusing the United|to start with, He has played them States and Great Britain with “war-|right and probably given laughs like preparations” on the Pacific. to more Washingtonians than any | Under Secretary of Foreign Af-|other native. fairs Butler said Foreign Secretary Eden received the message, follow-|gyrance executive—but it is his ing general lines of the statement|ayocation that has made George made in Tokyo by Koh Ishil, Gov-|o'Connor one of the greatest ernment spokesman. Authoritative London quarters said| (o tainers that your banquet-rid- Great Britain will not "cnlerlmn!dm capital ever has known. George proposals until complete victory is| «He is, by vocation, a title in- ained.” |15 the composer of a number of g No mention is made In London of | M¢'02I°S: fhehgliig *He" May. Be . sondon ol |, pavarian on Broadway,” and “warlike preparations” on the Pa- cific. |“He Ain't No Reiation of Mine” | which was a great favorite of the | inte Prosident Taft. Afid to that n —eee— — 1bhett take off his topper, and a ,loumzht personality which prob- ably would and maybe you are be- ginning to get a picture of George | H. O’Connor. GOLD EXEMPTION FROM PROFITTAX WON ROGERS’ PRAISE Once George was spotlighted on a banquet program with another SiOflS Held Today by | native Washington boy, who had done quite a bit of wandering—Al H Jolson. Will Rogers was in the au- v _ Itheir little numbers, Will turned Senator Hjalmar Nordale's reso-|, his neighbor and remarked, lution urging exemption of gold mining from the excess profits law was passed unanimously in the House today under suspension of the rules The Senate passed the reso- “Looks to me as if the wrong boy stayed home.” Not so long ago, George was in !top form at the White House cor- lution unanimously yesterday respom;:?:ls‘ Tannual Mdmpl;: i Hs sang “ e Tommy Murphy,” an Also passed in ‘Lhe‘_flouse 'i?day‘}a mournful ballad called “Saloon.” was the long pending “juke box" bill of Rep. Harvey S. Smith to license When.ihe “hed. falied, _waite{ i thanded him a card. On it was coin-operated amusement devices, scribbled, “Dear George Like whether legal or illegal, $15 per year.| e 8! ith The House passed Rep. Allen Shat- | rmenold WO “"’f’." haw.‘j it tuck’s memorial asking extension of | age.” ‘It was' signed, 'EDR. the Fe i 3 ska. derflql:;grh¥:z :lc.t);o igskn, |one of the few men—if not the ey e ly — who could always get a Rep. Harvey Smith's bill to raise | the excise tax on hard liquor re-““mny laugh u;f" ;’f OsiYin ?;01' ceived a new amendment suggestion g::u dgfezzgi ];:m::‘:ur:sst:'; from the Education Committee to- day, this time to make the tax $1.05 Society reception. The President per gallon. Present tax is 50 cents. (Con on Page Six) Smith asked $1.50 in his original bill. | Goutinned & e ) The Education Committee also re- commended passagz of the bill by Rep. Stuart Stangroom appropriat- toastmasters and after-dinner en-| !throny baritone, which wouldn't| Hous[ APPROVES I‘ncresmrlly make Lawrence Tib- The story goes that George was| :November, again confronts the law- - | makers convening here on February chine takes down every word spok-i en during two and a half hours of discussion, The discussion deals with coor- dination of industry in the produc- tion of tanks—for Britain. The presiding officer is Brigadier Gen- eral G. M. Barnes of the .U. S. Army, but it is the British inter-| est that is served. COMPLETE COOPERATION Half a dozen manufacturers of tanks are present—four of them producing tanks for the British, the others giving advice. All co- operate, opening their books, lend- ing plans, offering to supply parts. ‘The old concept of competition is; forgotten. These companies may be| keen rivals in other fields, but here there is no rivalry, First, the British order of $200,- 000,000 must be filled. Lying ahead, in the wide open spaces of the lease-lend bill, are limitless or- ders—more tanks than any coun- try ever saw, including Germany. Why talk of competition? The room is quiet, save for the one veice speaking. The microphone carries his words to the slowly re- ing $3,000 for tuberculosis diagnosis In second reading, the appropria- tion for equipping the Seldovia Hos- pital was cut from $6,000 to $5,000. Donald MacDonald’s $5,000 appro- priation came in for censure today on second reading, though an amend- ment by Rep. James V. Davis tc strike the emergency clause was de- feated 13-3. The bill was committed to the Ways and Means Committee and will continue in second reading. To a statement by Rep. Frank Gordon that “if there is one person in the Territory of Alaska who re- quires assistance as quickly as pos- sible, it is Mr. Donald MacDonald,” Davis replied that if MacDonald is as hard up as he is represented to be, he is a “subject for the Welfare Board” Davis declared the Terri- tory couldn’t undertake to make an appropriation for “every admirable person within its borders who hasn't the means to provide his own live- lihood” Drug Bill A new drug bill was submitted by the Education Committee as a sub- stitute for House Bill 25. Rep. Leo Rogge withdrew his Nursing Board bill with the explanation that a (Continued on FPage Four) Four Are Suffocated BATTLESHIP WASHINGTON S00N READY Thirty-five Thousand Ton Craft Goes Into Com- mission May 15 WASHINGTON, Feb. 19, — The |Navy announces its new 35,000 ton | battleship Washington will be placed in commissipn on May 15, six and |one-half months ahead of schedule | Undersecretary James Forrestal, in making the announcement, also stat- |ed that orders have been issued to Capt. Howard Benson to take com- mand of the Washington on the date the craft goes into commission. The Washington carries nine 16 inch guns and is designed for a speed of 27 knots an hour. Y NAZIRAID SCOTTISH ~ SECTIONS Two Towns Are Machine- Gunned - School Chil- dren Are in Peril : | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) While snow fell along the Bng- lish Channel, grounding both RAF and German night fliers, daylight brought Nazi raiders swooping over two north Scotland towns. Residents said the towns were ma-~ chine gunned. One Nazi plane swoop- ed low and gunned a bus in a school yard but without casualties as the children had been cleared to safety. Three persons were killed in the raid and others were wounded. Slaiehgd ‘ For Hawaii (oEing Up Territorial Legislature, Meets This Week-May Debate Question HONOLULU, T. H, Feb, 19—The question of statehood for Hawaii, demanded by a 2 to 1 plebiscite last 21. There is no clear forecast as to what action the Territorial Legisla- ture will take as the result of the plebiscite beyond the usual resolu- tion remirding Congress that Ha- waii still wants the Forty-Ninth star on the American flag. The Territory’s Delegate to Con- | gress, Samuel Wilder King, has sug- n l e gested the creation of a special com- SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Feb. 19— Three women and a boy died in the nexplained fire of a two story wood- 'en building housing a Girls club and Mission District Community Center. All were suffocated. X ———— NEW YORK, Feb. 19. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 83, Anaconda 22', Bethlehem Steel 74%, Commonwealth and Southern 11/16, Curtiss Wright 7%, Genera Motors 40%, International Harves- ter 46%, Kennecott 31%, New York Central 12, Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 55%, Pound similar bill would be introduced by | g4034. Senator Hjalmar Nordale. Rep. Charles Herbert introduced a bill to ‘prohibit remarriage of a di- | vorced person’ until ‘after the time PSS SR A OV SRR (Continued on page Six) DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow Jones averages: Industrials 117.04, rails 26.56. - utilities 18.81, mission to promote statehood by ap- pearance before a Congressional Committee if necessary. Anchorage Man Is Wedded, Bozeman BOZEMAN, Montana, Feb. 19.— George B. Frederickson, 30, of An- chorage, Alaska, and Pearl Marie Pe- terson, 18, of Helena, were married here yestreday and will soon proceed to Alaska. DIVORCES GRANTED IN FEDERAL COURT Two divorces. were granted in Federal Court this morning before Judge Simon Hellenthal. S8am EI- stad received a decree from Susie Elstad and Andree Wierenga re- ceived a decree from John Wier- enga. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS COLD WAVE, WIDE AREA OF NATION Lower Temb—eatures Fore- cast-Highway Crews _Battle Huge Drifts {By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Arctic blasts kept the mercury at sub-zero levels in sections of the Middle West and brought freezing temperatures to most of the north- eastern quarter of the Nation Sub-zero cold was felt in seven midwestern states. Minnesota and North Dakota re- port the lowest readings. Snow flurries continue over a 3reat section of the country. Colder weather is the forecast for most of the northern states. Highway crews are battling huze drifts in an endeavor to keep traffic going. New York sufféred the worst snow storm of the season yesterday anc snow is again falling heavily today. 'ALASKA' TO BE NAME OF BIG CRUISER - President Roosevelt Hon- ors Terrifory—Launch- ing Late in 1944 President Roosevelt has selected the name Alaska, in honor of the Territory, for a large cruiser to be| constructed by the New York Ship- building Corporation, Camden, N. J., Gov. Ernest Gruening was notified today by James Forrestal Acting Secretary of the Navy: The warship will be launched in December, 1944, under present plans, Forrestal wrote. At that time Alaska jwill be invited to take part in the ship’s dedication. DELEGRATE FUND USE BROADENED BY UPPER HOUSE Two New Bills Infroduced Today in Brief Ses- sion of Senafe ‘The $2,000 fund which the Legisla- ture is proposing to appropriate for the use of Delegate Anthony J. Di- mond would be available “for other purposes” as well as for entertain- ment and to assist Alaskans in con- ducting business with the Federal Government, under an amendment adopted by the Senate today. The Senate received two bills by Senator O. D. Cochran, one making a minor amendment in the section providing for public auction to en- force liens and the other raising ex- emptions from inheritance taxes as follows: property transferred to wi- dow or child, up from $5,000 to $25.- 000; to lineal ancestors, from $3,000 to $5,000, for various other degrees of relationship from $1,000 to $2,500, from $250 to $1.000 and from $100 to $1,000. The bill also provides that| property transferred to hospitals, academies, colleges, universities, seminaties, churches or charitable | institutions shall be totally exempt |from taxation instead of only to the extent of $2,500 as at present. The bill provides that the tax is payable as soon as its amount can be ascertained, after which interest at six percent shall be charged. The exisfing law requires interest at 7| percent from the time of death, or| six percent if the estate is in liti- gation or the amount due is un- known. The Senate adjourned until 11 ‘o'clock tomorrow. JOHN BEATON VISITS John Beatop, mining man from | Anchorage, is at the Gastineau Hotel while making a short visit in Ju- neau. NTS ON PACIFIC Keichikan Boy Takes His Life Lawrence Wick, 18, Sui- cides-Found Near Lake, Rifle Between Knees KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb. | The body of Lawrence Wick, 18, son of Mrs. Helge Pederson, wife! |of the Secretary of the Deep Sea! Fisherman’s Union, was found be- side a Ketchikan lake late yester- day afterncon by Kornelius Kvitli. cold storage plant worker, with a rifle between the knees and 9| | bullet hole through the head. | | “From the position of the gumn| and body and the fact the gun had only one shell, there is no doubt but what it is a case of sui- cide,” said N. O. Hardy, Deputy; United States Marshal. | Young Wick was last seen Mon-| day night when he accompanied | friends to a movie. He had seemed, despondent for several days. | e ——— | DELIVERY OF MILK HELD UP Juneau housewives, restaurants and hotels were without milk de- livery this morning as the Juneau Local 172 of the Transport Work-| ers Union CIO were on strike or what they termed an “actual lock-| out.” Union members explain the situ-| ation as one in which the Juneau Dairies, Inc., has refused to nego- tiate and had offered the three local drivers and one relief driver their checks as an answer to their| demands for higher wages. J. C. Cooper, representative of the Juneau Dairies in their nego- tiations with the Transport Wnrk‘i ers, said that the company had not only had several conferences with union representatives, but had sub- mitted an agreement to the union themselves Monday morning, which the union refused to accept. Overtime Offered | He said that the Dairies could! not pay the increase in wages nsked" by the union drivers, but had of-| fered to pay them over-time in! the company-proposed agreement! at the rate of $1.15 per hour. He[ said their agreement was refused by the union, as was the union agreement refused by the com- pany. | The drivers said that the Unlon" had drawn up an agreement and: submitted it to the Dairies for| approval on February 1, and that; an answer was to be reeived Feb-/ ruary 15. There was no answer,| according to the drivers, and a two, days' grace was given the employ-} ers. 19.— | | | BRITISH . ADVANCE, ETHIOPIA Penefrate IE)—MiIes in Af- rican Kingdom Fascists Took from Selassie (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Dispatches disclose the British forces have knifed their way 150 miles inside Ethlopia in the cam- | paign to regain the African King- dom wrestled from Haile Selassie by the Italians in 1935 and 1936. The statement of the advance is made by the British headquarters in | Cairo. This is apparently the deepest the British - have ever penetrated into Ethiopia. Many important towns, including Njabara, have been captured and many Italians have been taken pris- oners. i IN THE HOUSE INTRODUCED.—H.B. 44, by Lan- der, allowing use in criminal actions of depositions taken from persons outside the Territory, in behalf of defendant only. INTRODUCED.—H.B. 45, by Pe- terson, for the appointment. of Special Agent to serve as investigat- or and enforcement agent for the Board of Pharmacy. INTRODUCED —H.B. 46, by Shat- tuck, to exempt purchases of insur- ance and fidelity bonds from the bid law, to make all purchases under the bid law F.O.B. Alaska, to give resident firms a 10 percent differen- tial allowance over outsiders. INTRODUCED.—H.B. 47, by Her- bert, prohibiting remarriage of a divorced person until after time of appeal from divorce decree has ex- pired. INTRODUCED-—H.B. 48, by Her- bert, requiring actions charging the estate of a dead person to be com- menced within six years of death. PASSED.—H.JM. 8, by Shattuck, urging Congress to extend The Fed- eral Highway Act to Alaska. PASSED.—H.B. 9, by Smith, tax- ing coin-operated amusement de- vices $15 per year. PASSED.— SJ.R. 2, by Nordale, urging Congress to exempt gold min- ing from the excess profits tax. WITHDRAWN —H.B. 33, by Rog- ge, providing for licensing of Regls- tered and Graduate Nurses. THREE BODI RECOVERED AT POINT PARKER Bodies of three Angoon Indian | youths, missing since Saturday, have When the drivers checked in last Deen recovered and a search is still night they were asked to turn in|being conducted for the fourth, ac- their cash and milk . tickets and cording to a radlogram received io- informed that their checks had 38y by the Admiralty office of the been made out. | Denial | Cooper denied that the truck, drivers had been offered their checks and said that because the old agreement had expired and a 1 new one had not been signed, the drivers were told that they could get their checks if they wanted them. ‘They were not made out,” he said. Milk to Hosvitals 1 “Milk 15 being delivered to the | hospitals and people needing milk can get it from the bottling plant,” | said one of the drivers. They said that the farmers are delivering the milk to the bottling plant as usual, hut that it is not being delivered on | the three city routes. | In a statement, George Danner, President of the Juneau Dairies, said that the drivers walked out on | the Dairies becaues the company is unable to meet their demands for higher wages. The four drivers are asking a $15 a month raise to $175 and a two weeks vacation yearly with pay. Earnings Low Danner said that in the four and (Continued on Page Bix) 'SHELL FLIES Forest Service. The bodies of Roy Bell, George Davis, Jr., and Peter J. Johnson were recovered near Point Parker in Chatham Straits. The fourth mem- ber of the party, Nicholas Johnson, also believed drowned, has not yet been found. According to advices, the boys left Tenakee at 4 o'clock Saturday after- noon enroute to Angoon in two small boats with outboard motors. The youths, all between the ages of 18 and 25, were CCC enrollees at An- goon. COAST TRIP In a flight to Sitka iiils morning, Shell Simmons carried four pas- sengers to the Coast town and re- turned with four. Passengers leaving with pilot Sim- mons in the Lockheed were Mrs. Willlam Cummings, Billy Cum- mings, Mrs. Roy Jorgenson and Ev- erett Nowell. He returned wiht Ivar Hansen, Don Light, B. Wren and one other passenger from Sitka, IRE PRICE TEN CENTS FAREASTIS NEW SECTOR THREATENING Great Brilamshing Aus- fralian Troops to Ma- lay Peninsula JAPAN SPOKESMAN IS AROUSED AT SITUATION Germany Is Sending War Supplies fo New Front- May Move on Greece (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The war fever is mounting sharp=- ly in the Far East and the Balkans and threatening new major explo- sions at any moment. In the Orient, Japuu nccuses Great Britain of committing 1 “helligerent act.” Thousands of newly-arrived Aus- tralian troops have (illed the de- fense posts of the Malay Peninsula and reinforced the BEri naval base at Singapore Prepare for Invas In the Balkans, long lines of seal- ed railway cars are reported speed- ing German war supplies across Vi goslavia enroute to Bulgaria, pe ble gateway for the Nazi invasion Greece. Dispatches from Belgrade sald Germany's Axis partner Italy is ap- parently throwing available re- serves into ‘the co’gwurd‘fin Greece in Albania The Greek spokesman declares the Italian commanders are counter attacks with “complete m regard to bloodshed and without' gaining an inch of ground.” From these dispatches it appears that Mussolini’s legions are making a final and desperate attempt to turn the tide alone before Germany makes the expected strike against Greece. . British Reply to Japan In Shanghai, Major Juno Alk- yama, officlal spokesman for the Japanese military forces in China, asserted the arrival of Australian troops at Singapore “cannot be in- terpreted as a gesture contributing to peace in the Far East.” Other quarters declared the strengthening of defenses in that section of the Far East is Great Britain's answer to the increasing pressure il the South Pacific and across the Gulf of Siam and French Indo China. The Japanese claim more than 13,000 Australlan troops have heen hastily rushed to various sections of the Malay Peninsula. The British clalm two Japanese fleets are in the Gulf of Siam be- jtween Southern Indo China and Malay, one of the fleets being an- chored off Bankok. INTENSIVE CAMPAIGN, NO. AFRICA British Are—am:enlrafing Forces for Final Charge- Dive Bombers Atfack CAIRO, Feb 18—Massing of for- midable British tank and armered car forces in North Af indicates possible new attacks against Itallan Libya. This s diselosed in today's war bulletin It s alsp revealed that German dive bombers are reported trying to break up these concentrations while other German bombers pounded the shipping docks at Bengasi, recently captured by the British ‘There is now only one Ttalian gar- rison in eastern Libya that has not been captured and that !5 the desert oasis Giarabub, which 15 still hold- ing out —————————— REDMAN TO SITKA Herb Redman, Chief FHA Under- writer for Alaska, sails this after- noon on the Northland for a brief ‘nspection trip to Sitka,