The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 20, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA K “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” f\*gL. LVIL, NO. 8652. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1941. JAPAN PLANS PACIFIC - REYNOLDS AID BILL North Carolina Senator | Springs Surprise-Says | Measure Means War | — | WASHINGTON, Feb., 20.—Sena-! tor Robert R. Reynolds of North Carolina announced today he is opposed to the Administration's British Aid bill because he is con- vinced its enactment might lead the United States directly into a Beginning the fourth day of the laration of war. debate on the measure in the Sen- the North Carolina Senator de- ribed the legislation as a “bill for the defense of the British Empire the expense of the lives of America’s men and the expense of | the American taxpayer.” | Senator Reynolds’ opposition came | as a surprise to many Senators| because he voted with the Admin- | istration’s majority to report the| measure out of the Foreign Rela- | tions Committee for Senate consid- | eration. He consistently refused | previously, however, to say whether | he would support the lease and lend measure. - —— UNIONIZING OF FORDEMPLOYEES STARTEDBY A.F.L. MIAMI, Florida, Feb. 20—At the closing of the business of the mid- winter session, the AFL Executive Council Committee announced the drive to organize all employees of the Ford Motor Company has been stepped up and success is predicted.‘ R de at WASHINGTON—This is an at- tempt to tell the story of the build- ing of 23 new cantonments to house the draft army It is not a happyl stery—though perhaps happier than | the story of cantonment construc-| tion during World War 1, and the net result is that the taxpayers will be out just one-third of a billion dollars more than the Army esti- mated. High-ranking War Department of- ficials are much distressed over the situation and frank in their own self-criticism. Particularly are they distressed over the fact that delay in camp construction is holding up the housing and training of the new army. ! There are four chief reasons for delay; rains, slowness of Congress in passing legislation; politics; and the fact that the job was not super- vised by the Army Engineers. How much politics entered into the picture is not known as-yet. Some time ago, the War Department was rife with politics, but a Republican has been Secretdty of War in mis‘» Democratic administration since be-, fore the cantonment program began. | So far, however, inquiring Con- gressmen have found ‘that the head of the Walsh Construction Com- pany, which is building Camp Ed- wards, Mass., contributed $2500 to the Demceratic campaign fund last June and another $2,500 to a Roose- velt organization in New York in} October.*Total $5,000. The Walsh Construction Company is located at. Davenport, Iowa, and it is customary to favor local con-| tractors. However, the Walsh Con- | struction Company of Iowa, rather| than a New England firm, got the| contract to build Camp Edwards, | Mass. There is no competitive bid- | ding on any of these camp censtruc- ticn contracts WORST RAIN IN YEARS Rain also had a lot to do-with the (COl;fl!lqu on l’lfl Four) Aid-Britain Gro ANOTHER AIRLINE T0 NORTH |United fo Make Survey of| | Route from Spokane to | Fairbanks, Alaska | SPOKANE, Wash. Feb. 20. —| James Ford, Managing Secre',ary‘ |of the Spokane Chamber of Cum-f merce, said he has received word‘ the United Airlines will shortly be-| |gin a survey of the possibility ot; lan airline from Spokane to Fmr-r‘ | banks, Alaska. | Ford said he has talked over| the telephone with Harvey Han-| cock, Assistant to the President - f! the United Airlines, and Hancock | said a group of the officials of the| iine will arrive here and begin | check within 10 days. | Ford said that if the route is found to be feasible, the United Airlines will apply to Washington for an extension the route tol the north. up Celebrates Mrs. Wales Latham, national president of “Bundles for Britain,” is swwn with the Misses Nancy Miller and Emilie 0’Donnell Iselin, mem- bers of the debutante committee arranging the first anniversary party of 4z crganization at New York’s Waldorf-Astoria. They are putting the finishing touches on their birthday cake, of | Early this month an Associated | Press dispatch to the Empire said| the Northwest Airlines applied to) the Civil Aeronautics Board for permission to fly passengers and mail from Minneapolis to Falrbanks |via Fargo, North Dakota, using | the inland route. { By JACK STINNETT | | { i ! | | i PIRIE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS TEN CENTS PRICE Disastrous Here is the first photo to show the disastrous fire Alaska. A warehouse, an electrical shop and a pipe incident has been guarded with extreme secrecy by t GERM OUT AS Douglas Gym Is Dedicafed At Exerdises AN - BRITISH AIR POWER RATIO IS GIVEN f OFFENSIVE ~ TIP GIVEN ~ BYNIPPON ~ OFFICIAL ‘ Ambassador in Wasl{ing- fon Admits His Nation HasExpansion Plans ATTEMPTS BEING MADE 10 SOFT-PEDAL ALARMS British Residents in Thai- land Advised fo Leave -Warships Massing (By Associated Press) | Japan today renewed efforts to | soft pedal war alarms in the | Orient, the Domei, Japanese News | Agency, reporting that Japan’s Vice Foreign Minister ~ Chiuchi Chag, | told Australian Minister Sir John | Greig Lathan f a talk that the | “Far Eastern crisis” is groundless. | Nevertheless, British residents in Thailand have officlally been ad- | vised to leave as thousands of new- {ly arrived Australian troops manned the defenses in northern Malaya, bordering Thailand. Japanese warships continue to mass in the Gulf of Slam how- | ever, Fire at Alaskan Naval Bas:e 5 which struck the new naval base at Dutch Harbor, shop were destroyed. Three men were injured. T'e he naval authorities. The fire was started by w Produdion 0f Planes Increasing Knudsem - Expetts 18,000 s | Deliveries This Year- WASHINGTON, Feb, 20 The | Ford '0 Ge' Con'l’afl ratio of numerical air strength be- tween Germany and Great Britain —_— on the eve of the expected climac-| WASHINGTON, Feb. 20 Wwil-| tic battle probably stands atabout liam Knudsen, Production Director 6 to 4. |of the National Defense Commis-|conflict between Thalland and That's the consensus in reliable!slon said 1036 airplanes were de-|French Indo-China, and making military circles here after careful livered the United States in SWeeping military and economic Not So Good | In Washington, Japan's new Am- | bassador, Admiral Nomura, left no doubt that Japan is bent on fi ‘snuzhwsrd expansion in the = cific, “peacefully and economically,” |1 possible, but he added: “I can- not say with absolute definiteness Japan will not resort to force.” Dispatches from Shanghal plics tured Japan in a curious role by a “demand” as mediator in. the ABOUT 6 T0 4 Hy MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer in (Continued on Page Five "Hubby”’ Kimmel Surely p p ! i i Buf Makes Mark in Navy SMASHING IND'(TED oN WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. Duun‘ | at Henderson, Ky. they call him | “Hubby”—“Hubby” Kimmel. i | Of course they expected him ‘o k | make some kind of a mark for 1 | himself. The Husbands and the| ! Kimmels were in the habit of| 5 CONSplnA(Y.\doing that in the Armf. The 'rau}RAF Rakes lflvasmn Pof's dated back to the revolution. . 0% But Hubby muffed his valedic-| Ear|y Today After nghl { : ! o | torian speech when he was grad-| d o Governof' [egISIGfOFS, S : I l i ' M k uated from high school, He is Nall Rald on England i # urgical Insirumeni MakK- the smatest of the Kimmels. too. S Maym’ Kilburn, School H a bit on the dumpy side compared | (By Associated Press) | o84 ers Accused of Viola- &, e rest | orutn moval i Poree bombers Officials Speak 1 H Today, short - spoken Hubby|raked invasion ports of Brest and /SR fion Anti-Trust Act Kimmel is the new Admiral of all|Calais on the Nazi-held French| Members of the Territorial Legis- '”“"j‘"“ Ofth“““ls""‘S ”fetsv f; coast today following German night |lature and a large number of Doug- PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 20— pecially the real one out in the|raiders who strewed cargoes oOf las and Juneau residents gathered Twenty-four surgical instrument Pacific. He has given all the H“-*‘death and destruction on London.}lasu night in the new concrete gym- manufacturing companies of the b:nds and Kimmels something to| plymouth and Portlard, and Swan-|nasium in Douglas to participate in American Surgical and Trade As-|shoot at. |sea, in Wales. |the dedication exercises for the re- .;ociatimdl. ax;d 12 hindividdunls. have Do?-x;kbnenge:i(::e ,:seyr.mthetyhht]e!:: Nazi bombs wrecked a block big| cently mmpletedx addition to the een indicted by the Federal Grand | me, [olks are 8 85| hospital, killed several patients in'Douglas School plant. Jury on charges of conspiring' to|about him that pointed the Way|their beds and several nurses and ~Gov. Ernest Gruening, the princi- fix prices in violation of the Sher-|to his later success in t._ht‘ Navy: :other patients were buried in the pal speaker, expressed his unpru}'ulg man Anti-Trust Act. | things they hardly noticed when!debris. Rescue squads, doctors and of the cooperative efforts which | The indictments climax an in-| Hubby was a kid. |nurses, working by flashlight brought about the much needed vestigation of six months by Fed-| For instance, he got hold of|throughout the night, extricated building. eral authorities, some engineering instruments and|all trapped survivors by dawn. “It is truly a democratic enter-| It is charged those mmed,(hrougMsurveyed a farm from outhouse, In another London district, an prise,” he stated, continuing to say; membership with the Association,| to creek bank while he was still| elderly woman and two children, that such gymnasiums are vital to controlled the sale of approximately'in high school. | asleep, were killed 'when seven high ! the well being of the youth of |‘hu| 95 percent of all surgical supplies. | “It was correct, t0o," says Sing-|explosive bombs fell, wrecking sev- Territory, that mental education| > - | leton, Hubby’s brother, who still| eral houses. ‘alnne is insufficient and that all {holds forth at the old family| The British communique acknow-|communities lacking such facilities . . | homestead. |ledged severe damage was done at'for physical development should be| I ul They will tell you “Hubby” de-|Swansea, the South Wales indus-|Provided with adequate means for nies that he forgot that high|tria] port, including a “considerable complete education as befits a demo- : |school speech. ‘After the diplomas number of houses and business Cratic people S | were given out and the family|premises.” Strictly Utilitarian ava ase {had gone home, “Hubby's" father| Dol Noting that the school plant is [ 4 | took him to task for not shining| gy F strictly utilitarian, the G()Vl’l‘nm" | A w " yi s it should be | more brightly. “To think, he\S H I' H "y stated that that was as it sl Guam lsland snorted, “that a Kimmel would‘ lr aml on a ‘;n a t(}en;t:;racg.fl;n:l t'wrll')e&ed'_ gzze forget his speech!” p A E la hope that the cl ren now xrn - “Heck.” he Iad exploded, *I dian't| P@SS@S wav, ng M@ ucatea there would do as well or forget a word of it. I just talked ;fllvr u:‘mr:_ n:tl' rir;'lsm"l .—lf.';():i-/d[:(t,x’;ii 50 fast that I ran out of breath.”| ~ e DOLed 8180 that- the structure f Development Program Is|~ =~ ™ = | BRIGHTON, England, Feb. 20| jy feq furnishings and expressed the p g { | Sir Hamilton Harty, 60, COMPOSEr y;,e thaf funds could be obtained | WAS LONGING FOR ACTION |45 conductor - who frequently ro its completion Passed by House-Jap- | e iast time he was home i ioured the. United States 25 guest|"prme ‘Shudahit, presidnt of tho A enderson, he confided to Nis|condquctor of orchestras, dled here : an WI" Be Ignored | brother that he was restive chain2d|ioday at his home. N |to a desk job in Washington. O S S A i WASHINGTON, Feb. 20—Legis- “Hell's fire,” said the Admiral,| . [] Jation to authorize a $242,000000| 1 they ‘don’t order me, out, Ill| Ian' u e“SIve program for development of naval| 8¢t on some A“"‘_{“"“ staff and| bases, including Guam and new is- 80 (0 sea anyway! | land outposts received from Great; Admiral Kimmell first met his . H Britain, has passed the House and|Commander-in-chief, Franklin Roo- s r ' e alns been sent to the Senate. | sevelt, in 1916, when Roosevelt was Pinal passage, by 'a voice vote,|Assistant Secretary of the Navy.| | came after Chairman Vinson of| Kimmel was Rodsevelt’s personul . ! the House Naval Committee, pre-|aide for a while, ‘and theyVe been r. s es y ermany' sented a letter from Chief,of Naval| friends ever since. i » L Operations Stark asserting _that| T";'g‘d"“l‘“‘ is S":‘)' :::‘"" "";‘b" | % ey u , fansive” | By Kimmel, even own im- IR ot i :s:,‘,li :.l‘fll(‘,;‘h, Ar)lulclzx‘nlg(‘r:]r‘::]:m\f( | mediate family. In her - apartment LONDON, Feb. 20. — A neutral likely be fought out on the north-| .ea' a"" ‘:ot;“":f e J" e q::,::;:here in Washington, Mrs. Kimmel Navy source predicts that Germany western approaches to Great Brit- ‘i’t o hi/ l!:) be "l“l""lll' “:’.‘:“_‘ \rd- | makes no bones about it. | will let loose 600 submarines in a ain rather than on her beaches.” | ed.” . o s £ | “Why,” she says, “ome day his Biant naval offensive in the spring This naval source said the Ger-| € el L ;l)llowmaph in dress uniform .was and either prepare for an invasion mans are equipped to ll»n'nw 3905 Z delivered here, I noticed he wore of England, or as a substitute for subs at one “‘“f' against Grmn‘ The Census Bureau places the two medals, That was the first 1|1hfi island assault. | Britain compamed 'to 100, the great-| odds against birth of quadruplets atl* | This source said the “deciding est number believed on the seas 600,000 to one. |battle of the war will more than| hunting simultaneously up to how. 'j (Conunued on Fage Seven® surveys of production rates and re- serves from usually creditable SOurces. Total planes now available to the Germans probably number about 40,000. This figure comes from both American and British experts, both working with different sourc- es of information and different sets! to Ford to make bomber parts very | U of production figures. The British give no estimates of their own numerical strength, but Parts to be made by Ford will be balldon” figure they have made in the new plant at Ypsilan-| might mediate in the European American experts about 26,500 planes. Unfortunately the numerical {strength of the two nations does not reflect the ratio of real air power between them. One of the highest authorities on air power in the United States says the Ger- mans have a 4 to 1 advantage over the British. This estimate is reached by add- ing or subtracting, as the case may be, as many factors of pro- duction, performance and geog- raphy as airmen ecan get their hands on. For instance, it considers the fact that the Germans have estab- lished efficient bases on three sides of the British Isles—Nor- way, the Channel, and the French Atlantic coast opposite Ireland. It subtracts. the great German losses of last September, weighs in the superjor individual performance of English airmen. Also accounted for is the British accent on fighter defense, German accent on bomber attack Of course, nothing like 40,000 German planes and 26,500 Britisn planes will clash in the air war at any one time. In the first place, many of these ships are trainers. Others are transports. Still others are obsolete or obsclescent andare used exclusively behind the lines. The truth is, both the British and Germans consider their front line fighting forces to be equal to about one-sixth of total numerical air strength, That means total air war would send air forces of 6,600 German planes and 4,400 British planes against each other, But not all of these would clash | at once, either. That’s because the air traffic problem would be greater than either of these major air powers cduld handle, Planes today are dispatched and maneuvered by radio telephones and beam sig- nals as well as by the usual in- January and he added¢ that he ex- pected a delivery of 18,000 planes this year. Knudsen said in January 957 of the planes went to the Army ahd Navy. 1 Knudsen further said the Army | Alr Corps would award a contract |shortly and similar contracts to | other motor companies later. The 'ti, Mich. | - BRITISH - INVADING ~ ETHIOPIA South African Forces Are | Slashing af lfalians in Conquered Land {By Associated Press) ‘The British South African troops are slashing at Italian-conquered Fthiopia and it is reported a Fas- cist garrison has been taken with 600 prisoners. Other British forces are locked in heavy fighting on the Itallan So- maliland front at north of the Kenya Colony fron- tier, where the South African forces started a drive on the King- dom taken from Halle Selassie sev- eral years ago. | The British General Headquar- ters in Cairo said British troops ! have crossed the Jupa River and are successfully fighting off Ital- ian counter attacks. Elks’ Club Cabaref " Is Set for March 8 | | Legislature as their speclal guests, the Elks will hold the annual cab- aret dance on the evening of Sat- urday, March 8, in the Elks ball- roomy, with Floyd Fagerson in charge of arrangements. Besides the legislators, the af- | fair -is restricted to Elk members jand their ladies, Mega, 40 miles| With members of the Territorial| |claims on the two countries while ! supervising their ‘“peace confer= ence."” | Haul in “Trial Balloon” In Tokyo, Japanese officlals had previously asserted their only mo- tive is to restore peace, deny- ing Jn;zali will exact: concessions as he price” of her medication, At the same time, Japan ap- | peared rapidly hauling in her “trial sugigestion that ‘ Japan | war. | Domei declares that “particular exception was taken in London on the version of the peace offer by Japan." | The British newspapers termed (the mediation suggestions as a “peace offensive” in the Axis diplo- matic game. SITUATION 1S SERIOUS ON PACIFIC ‘Army Chief of Staff to Re- inforce Fleef with Lat- est Type of Planes WASHINGTON, Feb. 20. — Qe |George C, Marshall, Army Chief of Staff, is reported to have told |the Senate Military Affairs Com- mittee, the United States intends flo reinforce the Paecific Fleet, im- | mediately with an unspecified num- ber of the latest type of Army and Navy fighting planes. The Chief of Staff declined to |reveal, even in the secret session |of the committee, the number of planes dispatched for this pur- pose. Gen, Marshall is sald to have described the situation on the Pa- cific as “serious.” Several of the members of the Committee said Gen. Marshall re- fused to make any comment on the | Administration’s policy in relation |to the Far Eastern situation but assured them there is no intent on the part of the Army or Navy chiefs to “strip” American defense in an effort to speed up war equip- ment deliveries to Great Britain.