The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 25, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8656. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1941. MEMBER AS! SSOCIATED PRESS Filibuster on British MAY TALK MEASURE 10 DEATH Opposilioniséin ator De- | clares Movement Plan- ned AgainstLegislation WHEELER INTIMATES CONCERTED ACTION! Alf Landon E(Res Ouf with Broadcast Predicting Dangerous Results /ASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Fresh of a filibuster circulated in Capitol corridors as two moie Senators, James E. Murray of Mon- tana and W. Warren Barbour of New Jersey, presented arguments for the passage of the British Aid bill without delay. One opposition Senator, asking that he not be quoted by name, told the newsmen flatly today “there will be a filibuster.” The Senator said an increasing amount of mail urging the legisla-| ticn be “talked to death” has been received and he added that almost a dogzen Senators indicated they willing to take the floor in periods in opposition speeches legislation. are long to th (Continied on Page Seven) | WASHINGTON — When Margaret Rusgell was being escorted to the railroad’ station after rising in the gallery of the House of Represen-, tatives wearing a death mask, she suddenly confided to Capitol police that she had forgotten her coat. The coat, it developed, had been left in the office of Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, vigorous op- | ponent of the lend-lease bill. Miss Russell had gone to, Wheeler’s office, hung up her coat and then put on the black robe in which she gave her death chant against the lend-lease bill. So police took her back to Wheel- er's office, where she got her coat and then caught her train. MISSING BOTTOMS A few days ago the United States Lines announced that their Panam- anian subsidiary was selling five small, slow, 20-year-old freighters to England for the purpose of car- rying war supplies. To insiders, this graphically illustrated the desperate predicament of British shipping. The problem is particularly acute in the transport of planes—which these five ships were especially chartered to carry. Officials afe not shouting it from the housetops, but the grimmest difficulty facing Brit- ain today is not getting warplanes made in the U. S., but getting them into the hands of the heroic RAF in the face of heavy Nazi raids on British shipping. Britain now has on order approxi- mately 16,000 planes, with another 12.000 contemplated, chiefly medium and heavy bombers. Of the 16,000 | ordered, only around 2,000 actually have left the U. S. borders—and not all of them have reached England. Many (the exact number is an of- ficial secret) are still in Canada awaiting shipment. Which adds up to this: If Brit- ain is to get the 14,000 planes re-| maining on order by July, 1942, as | the schedule calls for, the minimum expori during the next 17 months e e - v (Contihuea on Page four) RUMANIA ~ NAZIS’ NEXT MOVES? NAZIS SEA OFFENSIVE IS DENIED ‘British Admiralty Claims. Wholesale Sinkings by Germans Is False 'SUPPLY LINE BEING ATTACKED, HOWEVER. DNB Asseri?Two Large Troopships Sent Down or Set Afire, Convoy | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's violent new sea offensive, as reported by the German High Ccmmand, has sunk 253,000 tons in the drive on the British supply lines. The London Naval spokesman Concer:trations of German troops in Rumania lead to speculation as to the next Nazi move. Except for the bad roads, worse in winter weather, there is little to hold back troops once they decide to cross weak Bulgaria. Arrows at the left mark possible routes to the rescue of Italy in Greece. Double-pronged arrow at right marks the roads to Istanbul and the Dardanelles and Britain’s oil resources which lie quickly asserted that ‘nothing ex- traordinary” has occurred The Nazi command claims that many of the vessels sunk averaged from 5000 to 10,000 tons | The German News Agency DNB, also claims that Nazi warplanes sunk | a troopship of 3,000 to 5,000-ton ca-| BRITISH RAID NAZI U-BOAT BASE Aid Bill Is Hinted The Army Gets a New Railway Gun #he first railway gun mount built for the Locomotive Works at Eddytone, Pa. The 8-inch gun is capa Fiving tests will be made at t i army 10 4 private plant since 1 ble of hur he proving grounds at Aberdeen, BRESTUNDER 'BOMB ATTACK FOR 2 HOURS | Royal Air Force Warplanes Make Terrific Assault During Night PLAN T0 DRIVE WAR - HOME T0 GERMANS NOW Air MinisierT)édares Brit- ain Not Daunted by Her- alded Spring Assault (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Striking back in the campaign to disrupt the German sea offensive, British Royal Airforce warplanes de- livered a two-hour attack during the night on the Nazi U-boat base at Brest and also rained bombs around a 10,000-ton Glerman cruiser of the Hipper class. The British Air ministry said Ger- man targefs were hit in a “strad- dling out” attack in which heavy bombs were dropped. British Afr Minister Sir Archibald sinclair discloses that Great Britain 918 1s shown outside the Baldwin ling a 260 pound shell 18 miles. Md. beyond. AIR CORPS HAS 4,000 PLANES Secrefary of War Stimson Makes Report - British Ground Dgfense Good 2! WASHINGTON, Fel tary of War Henry L. vised the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today that the strength of the Army Air Corps was now ap- preximately 4,000 planes. Secretary Stimson gave mony at an executive s committee but later gave the tran- script ef his report to the newsmen after deleting several passages pre- sumably because of the confidential character of the testimony. Secretary Stimson testified that Great Britain considered her ground defense aircraft as in Secre- United States.” BRITISH AID ISATTACKED | ON 8THDAY One Senator Declares Bill’ Passage Means Final Step Info War WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—Sena- tor George D. Aiken, of Vermont, joined opponents of the British Aid bill contending, in his first formal Senate spee that enactment ‘s imson ad- | n “excellent | condition, and without help of the { S | pacity and set fire to another large troopship. The attack was on a British convoy in the Mediterranean, In denying the claim made yes- | terday by Hitler himself that 215, 1000 tons of British ipping have been sunk by the Germsns In two days, the British Armiralty credits the Nazi U-boats with sinking only 3 Killed Co-discoverer of Insulin Is‘MEDIA“ON Among Victims - $ ‘ essaeTelsson 1S REJECTED BY BRITISH OTTAWA, F‘(IAZ‘)_.—‘A brief mes- age, traced crudely in the snow on Japan Told Bluntly There Is No Chance to Talk of Ending Conflict Newfoundland's east coast by one survivor of a Canadian airplane 'rash, discloses the death of Dr. Sir ¥rederick Banting, 49, whose co- discovery cof insulin means the life| > countless diabetics LONDON, Feb. 25.—The British Government officially reports that | Prime Minister Winston Churchill (has bluntly told official Japanese | representatives here that Great Brit- ain flatly rejects any mediation in Besides Banting, the dead are Navigator William Bird and William | the war with Germany as proposed |by the Japanese Government. any war- Snailham. The survivor is Josenh MacKey, »f Kansas City, pilot of the military vlane which left last Friday to take Banting to England on a medical wartime mission. Advices received here say MacKey was not injured in the crash in the |snow and had been taken to Mus- | srave Harbor, Newfoundland, by a rescue party. 10 IMPROVE GUAM, SIAM AIR FORCE iSenate Naval Commitfee BA"ERED Speeds Report-House yitish Minister Claims Has Already Adted Over 1,000 Fascist WASHINGTON, Feb. 25— Acting Planes DeS"oyed at top speed, the Senate Naval Af- fairs Committee has approved the k LONDON, Feb. 25.—Air Minister on the islands of | Sir Archibald Sinclair reported to- ITALIAN | $242,000,000 authorization for im- provements, bases, ‘this was enough to ¢ Former Gov. 0f Maryland Is Stricken Harry W. Nice Suffers| Heart Atfack-Dies Sud- denly This Afternoon RICHMOND, Va., Feb mer Gov. Harry W. Nice, of Mary- land, died here suddenly this af- terncon as the result of an attack of the heart } Nice, one of the few Republicans ever to become Governor of Mary- land, won national noiice by his convineing victory in the 1934 slate election over Albert C. Ritchie, who had been a Democratic presidential possibility. Nice won by only 6.000 votes, but e him to be hailed as cne of the Republican “white hope! at a time when the political outlook of the party was not bright. His adv es held that if he could defeat Ritchie in Mary-| land, a mormally Democratic state, at such a time, he merited nation- | al consideration. | Fce of New Deal Nice in turn soon was mentioned as a presidential possibility. He took his place among the vigorousl supporters of the constitution and developed into an implacable foe| of “new deal” policies of the na- tional Democratic administration. Some saw this stand as a depar- ture from the platform on which | he had ridden to the governorship. | The state platform, charging Goy- ernor Ritchie with “failure and unwillingness” to cooperate with| the President in national recovery| efforts, bound Nice and the other| Republican candidates to place no obstacles in the way of moves to afford “relief to a stricken people and avert further economic ruin.” 25 ~For- | (Continued on Page Twu) plans to drive war home to the Ger- mans, taking the conflict right to them in their own land. THe Alr Minister sald the Germans have spared ne horror on Coventry, bumingham and London, and quoi- ing from Shakespeare's “Henry the Fifth,” declared “We must be copy to | men of grosser blood and teach them how to war.” SWEDISH ROYALTY —Beauty runs in the family of Princess Sibylla of Sweden whose husband, Prince Gustaf Adolf, is a grandson of 82-year-old King Gustav V. Her daughters are, lefé to right: the Princesses Birgitta, Desiree and Margaratha. LEGISLATION SOUGHT BY ATTORNEY GENERAL FOR PUBLIC DEFENDERS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb If at- torney General Robert H. Jackson has his way, one of Uncle Sam’s employees will try to get you out of jail after other U. S, office:s have threwn you in. Jackson approves Federal legis-| lation which would create Federal Public Defenders in addition to the present Public Prosecutors. | The legislation isn't without its opponents. Some legal minds argue it's unnecessary and ‘wasteful. It might seem funny that the Attorney General, as big boss of FBI and the Federal Prosecutors, would be concerned with ade- quate counsel for accused person: but he says it's progressive legis- lation. ‘“The present practice hav- ing indigent defendants repre- sented by assigned attorneys act- ing without pay is frequently un- just to the defendant and unfair to members of the bar, andoc- casionally results in inadequate pre- sentation of the defendant’s rights,” he says. 2% 25 of Sir Archibald Sinclair declared | Great, Britain is not daunted by the ‘lhrent of the “all out offensive” dur- |ing the coming spring. - ‘Frenchmen in ' North Africa Planqing Bolt Spanish Ne;lspapers Claim | ' Nationals Ready fo Join Weygand's Forces (By Associated Press) Spanish newspapers, without ex- ception, note the belief that many Frenchmen in North Africa are (ready to swing over to the Free French forces if the British drive | to the border of Tunisia. One newspaper in Madrid also said France’s North African leader, General Weygand, has shown no great desire to collaborate with Gers many and Italy. RSGECARS S VBTDS RRIEP BOMBERS OF BRITISH IN - NEW ACTION | Successful Air Raids Re- ported Made on Capitals Guam and Siam. The legislation |day that more than 1,000 Italian a “final step” before American in-| volvment in war . | This is the eighth day of the| debate in the Senate. i Senator Henrik Shipstead of! Minnesota, another opponent of the | legislation, asserted that the Brit-|kan is in Juneau for several d: ish aid bill gives the President | is stopping at the Baranof. goes to the Senate floor. - HERE FROM KETCHIKAN passed the House last week and now P Arriving on the northbound Yu-| kon, Dr. Dwight Cramer of Ketchi- |'2ids on the Ttalian air fieet He coming up. lanes have been destroyed in Africa and Greece, or half of the first line |of strength with which the Italian | Air force entered the war. The Air Minister also stated more are e WARNING! Person who has been stealing newspapers delivered to Juneau homes is known. He Addis Ababa, Trioli LONDON, Peb. 25.~British bomb- ers pounded Addis Ababa, capital city of Italian-held Ethiopia, last night and great damage was inflict- rd. An official report also says Brit- ish warplanes raided Tripoli, capital SAY IT WORKS THIS WAY The plan's advocates say lhe; present system works this way:| You're Joe Doakes, without a dime to your name, and for some reason you get the come-along from a G-man, After you have been in- dicted, the judge asks where Is greater powers than ever before granted a President and will lead directly to war. i Odds against four perfect hands being dealt at a bridge table are 158,000,000 to one. | ey o S ELECTED KING REGENT BACK TO ANCHORAGE . | Dr. P. L. Heitmeyer, accompanied Jack Barrington, well known | by his wife, are through passengers bear killer, sourdough and pros- {on the Yukon, returning to their An- | Pector. has been elected King Re- |chorage home after a trip to the|8ent of the 1941 Dog Derby and | States, ice carnival! at Fairbanks, is warned to desist or face arrest and prose- cution. DAN RALSTON, Chief of Police. ————————————————————————————————————————————————————— your attorney. You say you cannot afford a lawyer, so he names one. | 1If you're assigned an inexperi- | enced lawyer, he may be so ex- |cited that a cagy prosecutor can ! (Continued on Page Six) of the Tripolitania Province in Ital- ian North Africa. There is no official report of fresh activities in the campaign in Libya. e The army expects to have 250,006 motor vehicies by next fall.