The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 24, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL, LVIL, NO. 8655. EMPIL LY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” D By —— = JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEBRU ARY 24, 1941. PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER TO STRIKE BLOW WITH U-BOATS Turkey May Resist Nazi Troop Movement NEW STAND IS TAKEN IN BALKAN CASE Ottoman’s Foreign Minis!eri Makes Authoritative | Statement JAPAN ALSO GIVEN | WARNING BY BRITAIN Ambassador Told by Chur- chill Expansion South "Enhanced Dangers’ (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) A flurry of diplomatic activity in | Londen, coupled with the stiffening | of Turkey's attitude in the Balkan | crisis were big sensations today. In Londen, Prime Minister| Churchill had short, separate con- | ferences with Japanese Ambassador | | mitsu, the Turkish Ambassador |{ | also the Greek Minister Japan Warned 1 Authoritative diplomatic quarters in London said Great Britain has | se gers” militarily in the Pacific, not cnly with Great Britain but also with her allies. (Continued on Pagze Five) WASHINGTON — The most im- portant amendment to the Lease- Lend Bill was introduced in the House by Republican Representa- tive Charles Dewey of Chicago, who was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury under Coolidge. Spurned by the Administration, it is now be- | ing taken up by wiser Democratic leaders in the Senate. » By the Dewey amendment, Britain | would turn over to the U. S. A. for | safe-keeping all her stocks and bonds | invested in South American rail- roads, meat-plants, docks, electric light companies, street railways, etc. British investments in this area | are tremendous. It was the Bflnsh; who developed Argentina and still own a large part of it. And should Britain be defeated, nothing would give Hitler an easier and quicker ex- cuse to flaunt the Monroe Doctrine | than taking over these vast interests | from the British. Then he would have an American-made excuse for | landing the marines. Tmportant fact is that South Am- ericans dread such a possibility and | are the strongest rooters for the | Dewey amendment. However, the State Department has done nothing. | SPYING ON WALLACE An alarm came to Capitol police the other day that a pair of “sus- picious characters” with opera glass- | es were spying on the offices of Vice- President Wallace and Senator | Stewart of Tennessee from a window | across the street. | Captain Robert Pearce immed- iately dispatched two of his Xleetest‘ bluecoats, who nabbed the culprits | in a rooming house opposite the Senate Office Building. | But they weren't foreign agents. | They were two Georgia schoolboys | visiting in the Capital. | “T just wanted to get a closeup view of Vice-President Wallace,” confessed one. | “Shucks,” deprecated the other, ! “give me a closeup of those pretty girls in the office next door, any time.” STOCK MARKET JITTERS Almost every day recently the stock market has dipped ong dollar, | ed notice on Japan that Japanese |, expansion southward “enhanced dan. | | | bert | United States Ambassador to the S il s biatica o nr (Continuea on Page Four) EAST AFRICAN CAMPAIGN '3 BILLION CHEREN n ASMARA [] KASS. ADU\\:\A’ ”’?’ i SUDAN N MAKALE® GONDg, . ALA v t & = Z =) ™ DIREDAWA ADDIS ABABA ETHIOPIA RAF bombings preceded the massing of British forces for an assault on Cheren (1), on the route to Asmarx“dnd Massaua. The British claimed they cleaned out an Italian ouépost at Kurmuk (2), paving the way for a new British trust teward Gor:dar. The Italian high com- mand said their forces had beaten back the British on the Kenya The British reported they had pushed beyond the Giuba border (3). Awxericans in Japan, China and Indo-China have received renewed, urgent notice to leave the Far East as a sudden crisis flares in the Orient. A Japanese battle fleet was said to be concentrated off Hai- phong, Indo-China, with other Jap warships off Bangkok, and new Japanese demands on the Dutch East Indies, Siam and Indo-China were zeported, Dutch merchantmen in the Far East were ordered into harbor, N WILDERNESS ADIN | ISASKEDFOR NAT. DEFENSE President Rbbvséveli Makes, Further Demands on Conaress for Funds WASHINGTON. Feb. 24 —Presi- dent Roosevelt today asked Congress | for an additional Three Billion Eight | Hundred and Twelve Million Dollars | | for National Defense purposes to| balance the current fiscal year. | Of the total amount, the sum of | $1,716,000,000 is for a direct appro- | priation and $2,096,000,000 for con- | tractural authority The latter sum | ‘cnn'xrx $46,000,000 for the Signal N Corps direct and $17,000,000 for con- | tractural authority. | - ITALIAN osen SOMALILAND BARDERA % D Twelve persons died when this Trans-Caradian Airlines ship crumpled as it slashed a pathway through a Airline thick jackpine Corest near Armstrong, in the wild, snow-capped timberland 400 miles east of Winnipeg, Man., Grounded ! Canada, The ship crashed a mile from an emergency airport. It was Canada’s worst air disaster. On Dese" 43 Even Baby Has Thumbs Up ‘;Associated Press Man ls: | Among Four Missing— | Seek Assistance ‘ LIMA, PERU, Feb. 24.—~Four per- icns who set out afoot from a ‘xzrounded airliner on the wastes {of the Sechura Desert, 500 miles |north of here, to seek aid, have |not been heard frem for nearly| | four days, line officials said The four persons are John Lear, of the Associated Press, New York Staff, who has been touring South | Amierica; Pllot Hugh Wells and| | two others. | ‘There were 16 persons on | airliner when it grounded. | The four carried a compass but| | were without food or water. They | | had hoped to reach the main high- | ‘wuy and secure aid, | Private planes have already res- |cued four of the 16 aboard the | airliner, Ocean PHILIPPINE ISLANDS N the | GUAMe (0.5) PALAU 1S, Y 10m ppanp, ALL ARE RESCUED LIMA, Feb. 24—All these aboard | the airliner forced down on the des- |ert are now accounted for «having ‘been rescued by planes which went | to the scene. The airliner has also | been refueled *and flown out by the — | Mrs. Winston Churchill (right), wife of the British prime minister, is amused at the now-familiar thumbs-up gesture accidentally made by this tot at the opening of a new hotel in London. The shelter is for lonely husbands whose wives have been evacuated from danger zoses, Facilities Thailand Is Requested Advice Given | vere storm on the flight. in an effort to get assistance. They were found by a searching plane. FLAMES TRAP MEET J. G. WINANT, FIVE PERSONS, OREGON BLAZE Several of those aboard walked 50 President Asks Conaress Americans in Trouble Cen- miles in two days and three nights 3 for Sum fo Relieve | terTold fo Go Home by Seaftle Blackout March 7 Will Be First National De- fense Test in Major City of U. §. SEATTLE, Feb. 24-—Transcrip- lons, siren warnings and ampli- (tied loudspeakers will be placed on | fire hou: schools and factories |and whistles will blow here at 10:30 |o'clock on the night of March 7 las a signal for the first national defense blackout test in a major United States city. Ten mihutes will be allowed the | citizens to darken their homes and street lights will also be cut off at 10:40 o'clock. Mussolini Boastful In Defeat Dedlares Aid Coming from | Germany fo Help Him- | Roasts Grumblers | ROME, Feb. 24—Disclosing of-| ficially that German air units have arrived on two fronts to aid Italy, Mussolini told the TItalian people | yesterday in an unheralded broad-| | | | NEW ACTION IS PROMISED IN CONFLICT |Germany, Ih‘l; fo Launch Underwater Drive Dur- ing Coming Month FUEHRER BROADCASTS 10 PEOPLE OF REICH Makes Speech on Anniver- sary of Forming of Na- tional Socialist Party (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) On the Twenty-first anniversary of the founding of the National So- cialist Party, Hitler told the Ger- man people today, in a broadcast from Munich, that Germany's ene- mies, following the World War, at- tempted to keep her “small and in- effective,” therefore this provoked the people to unify the Reich. “To us Germans It was quickly decided that all of us must be Ger- mans first, last and always" said Hitler. Hitler’s address was not available for broadcast over the NBC but var- tous networks and monitors listened to it over short wave channels. New German Regime Bit by bit, Hitler traced the form~ ing of the National Socialist Party and the part he played in putting it into power. He spoke of the “hard- ships” of his people and then by various moves how the Party freed Germany frem the shackles of the Versallles Treaty. Hitler then told of how he and his political leaders wers forced to {convert the postwar German govern- ment of one for spacial interests into cne for all of the pecple of the Reich, Hits Jews In this respect, Hitler sald the Jews “hed the greatest responsibil- ity in maintenance of that Govern- ment for special interests and the ill-fated system.” Hitler touched on American par- ticipation in the postwar develop- ments when he said “even the high 1‘Cnnl.1mmd on Page Sevem SHOWS HE CAN FIGHT U. S. Minister fo Bulgaria Knocks German Info Unconscious State SOFIA, Feb. 24—United States Minister George Earle said a wash- room argument over the British World War marching song “Tipper- ary,” preceded a champagne bottla fight in a Sofia cafe early yester- day in which he suffered an arm | Ranch House Burns-Moth- THE SNR" OF 1941 ' er, Three of Her Children, ISGOING TOENGLAND By JACK STINNETT : WASHINGTON, Feb. 24—Occa-| sionally some person emerges on the national or international scene who seems so typical of a ‘“new order” that every one, with the sur- prised tones of a man who has just made a great discovery, points to him and says: “Here is the very embodiment of changing times.” Such is the case of John Gil-| Winant, recently nppointed; court of St. James. “Gill” Winant | as his intimates call him, has been | around Washington, London, And: } and Another Lose Lives | crants eass, c ; 'S PASS, Ore. Feb. 24.— | Mrs. Frank Thompson, 22, and her |three children, Marina, aged Geneva for some years, but it was S e only upon his elevation to this| ncls, 1% year.and. dfene, 4 office that capital observers sud-|TOnths old, also Edna Thompson, denly noticed that he seemed the|28¢d 8 Of another family, perished personification of the changes thatWhen £he JARCH houxe bygeaed to are taking place in politics, labor,| ¢ ground early in the morning. social economy and diplomacy. "rhey were.t::l.u'apped in the bed- A glance back at some of Am-| sr s Mo bassador Winant's - 5 5 e ;fi;’"’z‘:‘d‘l‘fl'f p:;‘zs |parents of Edna, were sleeping ’I'hwereo i 84 banerg ax:)d “_"downsbmrs and had a narrow cs- cape. nanciers, Joseph P. Kennedy (whom | o Winant replaces), and former Vice | 8 President, Charles G. Dawes. There| pp N&:Gg?sl_)?":or:z:;;" of ";:“’;;“‘:;’ and dpubluhen, Robert | geward, arrived in Juneau on the ; gham and George Harvey. steamer Alaska and are guests at (Continued on. Page Seven) | the Baranof Hotel, e — .| “essential Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Thompsoq,| U. S. Minister BANGKOK, Feb. 24—All United States citizens, with no urgent rea- gons for remaining in Thailand, have Acute Shortage WASHINGTON, Feb 24— Presi- dent Roosevelt has asked Congress for $150,000,000 to build community | facilities in towns where he said |been advised to leave for home. there is an accute shorlage. | United States Minister Grant an- This shortage, the President says, |Bounces that about 200 Americans .| in his request for funds, is impeding | 3T¢ now residing in Thailand. - HOLDEN MAKES TRIP 10 SITKA WITH TWO | Pilot Alex Hoiden carried two ‘pnwngers to Sitka this afternoon National Defense activi- | | ties.” ° > e '{0UNG ENROUTE | 5 T0 INSTALL TUBES E. A. Young, of the F. T. Crowe | Coast with three passengers this af- Corporation, is a Junieau-bound pas- | ternoon. nger on the Yukon. Young will in- | Passengers to Silka are {stall the pneumatic tubes for the Hansen and W. H. Kirklin. | transmission of Weather Bureau | T es e | messages from the Alaska.Communi-| The Delware grape, named be- |cations office on the first floor of |cause it flourishes around Dela- |the Federal Building to the Weather | Ware, O. originated in New Jer lBureau office no the fourth floor. = 5y, Einar and is scheduled to return from the | cast that although the waragainst| injury, and a men he identified as Great Britain might be long, the|a German, was knocked unconsci- final outcome will surely be an|ous, Axis vjetory. | Earle explained at a conferense Mussolini defended his campaign With newspapermen that the |in Libya and promised a spring| “trouble began when a German offensive against Greece. cornered me in the washroom of The Italian Premier assailed the the cafe and demanded to know “negligible minority weepers, grum-| why I had given the orchestra in blers and reptiles left from the|the cafe ten bucks to play “Tip- Masonic lodges which we swmash|perary.” I firmly told him that without trouble when and as we|Was my business, that Bulgaria was wish.” a neutral country. “Then the German followed me outside and threw a champagne | bottle at me. The bottle just missed my head. I warded it off with my arm and then retallated by injur- > REINDEER SUPERVISOR WILL COME TO JUNEAU According to word received by the "8 his features. Office of Indian Affairs J. S. (Sid) .Farle weighs 220 pounds, and can Rood, Reindeer Superintendent, wil) |90 fast work with his fists. He is leave his Nome headquarters Friday @ former Governor of Pennsylvania for Juneu. Here he will confer with 2nd commanded a sub chaser dur- local Indian Affairs officials before|ing the World War. He knows how continuing to the States for a vaca-|to tangle with anyone and defend i"m' himself,