The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 22, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” PIR - VOL. LVIL, NO. 8654. “JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ICE TEN CENTS SHIP FLYING U. S. FLAG IS SUNK BRITISH, GERMAN PLANES IN AIR VAST PACIFIC AREA FEELS APPROACH OF NEW WAR (RISIS TERRIFIC CONFLICT REPORTED Battle Fougl?tiver Strait of | Dover Following Sweep- ing Atfack by RAF ASSOCIATED PRESS) Armadas of British and Ger- manw arplanes clashed In. a great battle this morning, five miles up, over the strait of Dover. The clash followed bombings of Reyal Air Force warplanes shertly befere dawn and terrific’ swecps against German held perts in France. The action, up to 9 c'cieck this morning, is reported one of the biggest and fiercest since the fall. of Boulogne, Dunkerque and Os- t nd. Restlts of the air conflict were net anncunced up to noon to- day. Oh, Boy, Oh, Boy! RCEES S L R ] i | ERNIE BUCKMASTER THROUGH | nie Buckmasier, of Nome, is a | passenger on the northbound PAA! bound for his home in the Bering| f Sea City after a vachtion of sev-! - T eral weeks spent in. the States. Alexis Smith el meet Alexis Smith, 19-year-old ‘beauty soon to be seen in U. 8. films. Miss Smith, born in Can- ada and schooled in the U. S., has Jjust been given a seven-year film contract after she clicked in a test. An agent saw her in a Los Angeles college play. Unfair Sales ' Measure May Be Presented WASHINGTON — Recently The| Washington Merry-Go-Round| showed how Japan, by occupying/ mnportant French naval bases in Indo-China, is now in a strategic position to strike at Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, chief source of American tin and rubber. merican i ane taommow what JUNaU Merchants Associa- steps, 1t any, have been o mre.| fion Calls Meeting for Discussion guard supplies of tin, in case these areas are occupied. The United States consumes one- half of all the world’s tin; so that many basic industries, including A proposed “unfair sales ‘act” to canned foods and light bulbs, would require Alaska merchants to make be seriously handicapped—or para-|a minimum markup of 15 percent lyzed—if tin supplies were exhaust-|on all articles offered for sale, ed. Therefore the State Department | above the invoice cost plus freight began moving two years ago toland cartage, will be considered by pring crude tin direct from Bolivii, members of the Juneau Merchants saving a long ocean haul, and| Association at a meeting Wednes- smelting it in the United States. day night at 8 o'clock in the Gold However, some American metal| Room of the Baranof Hotel. interests, including the National{ Members will determine at the Lead Company, which owns a stock | meeting whether the Association interest in certain British tin|should sponsor such a bill in the cmelting concerns, ~were opposed. | Legislature and will also discuss a They did not want tin smelted iu;leucr to the Legislature on the the United States. | matter of taxes. Later a former official of Ne-| The “unfair sales act” bill, simi- tional Lead, Robert L. Hallett, was|lar to those in effect in many gppeinted tin adviser to the Na-|States, is designed to safeguard the (i>nal Defense Commission, to- public by prohibiting “unfair, dis- gether with Erwin Vogelsang, who | honest, deceptive, destructive, frau- for many years had worked for dulent and discriminatory practic two British tin exporters. {by which fair and honest compe- For a long time the National | tition is destroyed or prevented.” Defense Commission, for reasons; best known to itself, also opposed T 5 0. Airnd smelting tin in this country and apparently was willing to risk oc- | (By ASSOCIATED PREES) cupation of the Dutch East Indies | by the Japanese or the long ocean haul to Liverpool and back again. But finally, even the Defense Commission was converted, and last November the U. S. Government) signed a contract with the Bolivian| Government for 18,000 tons of tin| to be delivered in the United States in crude ore and refined| here. ‘ JESSE JONES DELAYS | An official Turkish radio broad- However, the United States has|cast from Ankara declares the Brit- no tin smelter, since National Lead}ish commanders are holding large deals with the British smelters, So|forces in South Africa in readiness to rush to Greece in case there is " (Continueda on Page Four) an invasion by Germany. TAFT FLAYS | WARPOWERS INAID BILL Would Authaize President to Plunge Us Into Con- flict, Says Senator WASHINGTON, Feb. The British aid bill was denounced in the Senate as a measure which would' confer on President Roose- velt tha power to plunge the Unit- led States into a war. Dencunced was Senator Robert A. Taft, Republican of Ohio, who | declared in a speech on the sixth jday of debate: i “We are asked to give one man the power to take us into war. By passing the bill in its we are in effect approving the war policy if he set fit to declare it.” | Senator Arthur Capper of Kan- | sas said the bill would give “com- | plete war-making powers” to the { President and that he yould also | gain “complete control over our | domestic economy.” | Senator Wallace H. White Jr. lof Maine read Washington's far | well address in a. brief Washing ten's birthday ceremony today. | Administraticn leaders expect "voling on amendments to begin Wednesday. 22, - cific bases of Guam, Samoa, -ee FLOOD WATERS ' ARECLOSE, TWO ‘ CALIF. TOWNS Youth Thought Swept | Down Storm Drain While He Attempfed Rescue LOS ANGELES, Calif., Feb. 22— | { IThe suburban towns of Reseda and | | Canaga. Park, just over the hills from | | Hollywood, are clesed to visitors to- day as flood waters alternately roar- led and trickled through. The cities lof Southern California are soddei | with more than a week of almost | | centinuous rain. | This year's precipitation is now |18 9-10 inches, more than double the | |normal rainfall. Five more days of | rain are forecast. | | Streets and gutters are full, Los | Angeles stores are protected at their | entrances by sandbags and packing“ | crates. Two persons are believed to| |be drowned, one a youth, 18, who! |sought to rescue a woman and ap- ! | parently was washed down a smrm} drain. The body of an elderly man { was seen in a flooded stfeet. 'Monson, Crosson Ferrying Douglas South fo Seafle Al Monson and Joe Crosson took ' off in the Douglas DC-3 at 12:11 chasing a German plane. ’sflupvms Is. ‘With Japan speeding Jarge scale pres ped in a rising crisis. A strong Tokyo fi Kong, Singapore, possibly Australia. ing for Americans to vacate the Orient, including Midway, Wake, the Palmyra Island KILLED N ACTION The first action fatality of the American Eagle Squadron, a force fighting on the side of the RAF, was announced in London as Edwin ,’ Ezell Ordison (left, pointing), of Sacramento, who was killed while He stands here with Byron Fees Kennerley of Pasadena, Calif., a member of the squadron. PAC/IFIC PALMYRA oc O CANTON 1S.® ¢ v /] ‘Q{ SAMOA BRISBANE Cang ER) FIBDUHNEKA Map shows distances between key points the Philippines, came shortly EAN an Island, off South China, the entire Orient and western Pacific becomes wrap- trated at Hainan ready for a possible thrust at the Dutch' East Indies, Hong which might be affected should thg explosion take place. W: after the Navy asked for funds to strengthen facilities at Pa- GIBRALTAR ~ AIRRAIDED (By Associated Press) Two tri-motored warplanes raid- ed Gibraltar shortly after the inoon hour today. Two bombs are | reported to have dropped in the | arsenal area before the anti-air- |craft guns could get in action. Hugh columns of smoke were | seen arising from the area soon | after. peRa LA ! ZIEGLER HERE FROM | KETCHIKAN 10 BOWL | AND ATTEND MEETING A. H. Ziegler, member of the Ter- ritorial Board of Education, and| sixth man for the Ketchikan Elks/ {bowlers, arrived with Mrs. Ziegler | |on the Mount McKinley. Ziegler will attend meetings of "thc Territorial Board of Education | set . to start Monday. Mr. and Mrs. | Ziegler are guests at the Baranof Hotel. o'clock this afternoon on a ferry trip | ibo Seattle. No mail or passengers | Iwcre carried other than the crew, and«Oliver Rosto, official CAA in-| spector. The crew included G. A.| Nazi Forces Grab, engineer, and Ken Williams,| radio operator. | I B I i =77 In Bulgaria WALTER W. STOLLIS THROUGH ON McKINLEY' tc8 by Ralien from Belgrade. smia Walter W. Stoll, manager of the | Alaska Pacific Consolidated Mines | at Wasilla, is a Juneau visitor while | the McKinley is in port. Much activity is planned for this German troops have been crossing |year's operation of the large con |into Bulgaria from Rumania near cern which includes the old Inde-|the town of Ruschuk since 4 o'clock pendence Mine and other pmpemes‘[yesterdny stternoon, in the district. Stoll is returning to LR TR Wasilla after a combined vacation| Texas has only one game warden and business trip in the states jmr each three counties, ' Ei aplure Terilorial Schoo (ap " Board Will Mee! = | s n l(a'e | * The annual sessions of the Terri- | | torial Board of Education will start y |Monday with one members, M. J. South African Forces Take Waish. of Nome, wno is | Walsh, of Nome, who is outside on s 3 | vacation, absent. Walsh, who had Possession of Indian |cxpected to arrive today on the Mc- on the Yukon. O(ean Vlllage Other members of the board al- iready in Juneau are A, H. Ziegler, (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) |of Ketchikan, Mrs. Hjalmar Nor- said South African forces have ca- Harrais, of Valdez, and H, L. Faulk- tured the important Italian Somali-|ner, of Juneau . Dr. James Ryan, land Indian Ocean village of Jumbo Commissioner of Education, ex-of- with large quantities of guns and ficlo Secretary of the board, is also | civilian bit by giving a year |Kinley, will probably come Tuesday The British communigue today dole, of Fairbanks, Mrs. Margaret war materials, also prisoners. }in Juneau, 7 fi(onscienlicjus Objeclors Goingfo Camps; Infegral Part of National Defense By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.—Within a few days now, what ls—to me at least—one of the strangest phases of National Defense will open (its doors. It is privately financed and only partially government super- vised, but it is provided for by law and recognized by the military as an integral part of the defense set-up, It is the first camp for conscientious objectors. With 125 to 150 boys, whose re- liglous or conscientious scruples prevent their taking part in any militaristic activities, Patapsco State Park Camp, near Baltimore, Md., will be the first of a nation-wide network of camps where lads who will not spill blood will do their of labor to work that is useful to the national welfare. Patapsco is an abandoned Civil- jan Conservation Corps camp and what these boys will 'do there is not a great deal different from the non-militaristic activities of the CCC. They'll contribute to refor- estation, soil conservation, road construction and the hundred or so! other things which are considered vital to national welfare, but which have nothing to do directly with the defense program. The C.O.s who will go into these civillan camps should not be con- fused with those who will be in- ducted into the Army for non-com- batant training, such as that in the medical corps. The latter's scruples forbid only participation in actual combat. 6,700 ALREADY LISTED Plans for the civilian training camps, of which Patapsco is the first, were prepared by several gov- ernment agencies, and the Nation- al Service Board of Religious Ob- jectors. This latter is a coordinat- ing board which represents all the bid participation in wars or war activities. The plan was given the official stamp recently when President Roosevelt issued an executive or- (Continued on Page 8o (LA VESSEL IS SENTDOWN, SOUTH SEAS 'German HinTCom mand Reports Craft Canadian, Stars, Strip_es on Hull (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German High Command declares that the Nazi Naval forces in the Indlan Ocean have sunk an armed Canadian mer- chant ship flying the flag of the United States and with the Stars and Stripes painted on the hull. The High Cemmand identi- fies the ship as the 7100 ton craft Canadian Cruiser, owned by the Canadian Tramp Ship- ping Company of Montreal. German circles said that the reported displaying of the Am- erican flag should be of grave concern to the United States. Canadian Naval headguarters in Ottawa said they are with- out any information whatever but “after all the Germans have been known to put out mislead- ing reports béfore to meet their own ends.” INCOME TAX " HEARING TO BERESUMED Court Rulirfietlared fo religious groups whose beliefs for-| | Nullify Proposed Tax | on Non-Residents L Public hearing on the features of the Alaska income tax bill will re- sume in a Territorial Senate Com- mittee-of-the-Whole session at 1 o'clock Monday afternoon, when Prof. Alfred Harsch, who drafted the g6-page measure is expected to be recalled to testify. Late yesterday afternoon diseus- |sion turned on the effect of the bill {with relation to contracts entered into between employers and empley- ees outside of Alaska. H. L. Faulkner mentioned a case |of six years ago in which a cannery laborer, Juan Palma, entered into a contract in San Francisco with a packing company. The contract pro= vided his employment wouid be gov- |erned by terms of the Alaska Work- men's Compensation Act. Palma was injured in Alaska and on return'ng to San Francisco, despite the con- tract provisions, sued under the Cal- ifornia compensation act, which dif- fered materially from the Alaska act. An award to him under the Califor- inia act was upheld by the State Court, by the State Supreme Court iand by the U. 8. Supreme Court. The same prineipal, it was claimed by Faulkner and by W. C. Arnold, would apply with relations to the proposed inccme tax act, so that non-resident laborers would be held by the Courts in their own States to come under State acts and not under the Alaska act. Senators Henry Roden and Nor- man R. Walker entered into the con- tract matter discussion. LODESTAR EXPECTED 10 ARRIVE MONDAY The first Lodestar will leave Ses attle for Juneau on Monday morn= ing, according to latest information received by General PAA manager Joe Crosson this forenoon before he left for Seattle. ‘The Lodestar should bring from the States the first airmail of seve eral weeks,