The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 26, 1941, Page 1

"THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” Y I%@jg‘) 5 i s VOL. LVIL, NO. 8657. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS — GERMAN SECTIONS SMASHED BY BRITI Army, Navy Will Speed Base Work NEW BOMBERS READY FOR ENGLAND DEMAND IS MADE FOR LARGE FUND General Marshall Testifies? Before House Appro- priations Com. RECOMMENDATION FOR | MONEY GIVEN QUICKLY Mention Is Made of Hous- ing for Alaska National | Guard, Also Selectees- WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—Immed- iate outlay of $1,530,000,000 in cash and contract authorizations for the Army and Navy has been recom- mended by the House Appropria- tions Committee which includes funds for the development of naval aviation outposts at the Pacific islands of Guam and Samoa. In addition to the money for vast expansion of shore bases, the Navy's $838,000,000 share includes funds to start construction of 400 subchasers and other small craft to make de- ‘ livery possible by the end of 1943. Fifty-five more destroyers than planned are also included in the | construction funds. | Alaska Earmarks | The Army fund of $695,000,000 has carmarks for construction to total | (Continued »n Page Eight) “The | } | | | } WASHINGTON—Whilt the Sen- ate is preparing to enact the lend- | Emergency Powers of President Again Spring Up, Lease-Lend Measure DEFENSE HOPPER o MM\ FAST PV TCONGRESS _ ey R\ /; REJECTED S A & 5&:\\ A cartconist’s (greatly simplified) conception of the Federal lawmak- ing machiner:, "= ALASKALAND " CASES TAKEN UP IN EAST 'President of Nafive Broth- erhood Refurning North By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, Feb. 26. The | lease-lend bill touches the fuse | again to the perennial debate over | the emergency powers of the Presi- dent, Legal lights -even have refined the thing down to the fine point jof arguing the meaning of words like “make” and “declare” as they |uppeflr in the Constitution In the past historians have woven power into the role of public opin- ion, and biographers have psycho- AIRROUTE IN CANADA T0 ALASKA Details of Development| Given Out by Prime | Minister of Dominion | 'SEVEN BIG FIELDS | T0 BE CONSTRUCTED Ground F;(fiifies fo Be| Provided for Commer- | cial, Defense Flying OTTAWA, Feb. 26.—Prime Minis- | ter W. L. Mackenzie King today told} the Canadian House of Commons the | | details of the development of an, airway route across Alberta and | | Northern British Columbia toward | | Alaska. | The Prime Minister caid the route | was being developed on recommen- | dation of the permament United | | States and Canadian Jeint Commis- | sion Defense Board. Up-to-Date Fields | The Prime Minister further stated | that the “Board and Canadian Gov- | ernment have arranged to provide | suitable landing fields, complete with lighting, radio beams, meteorolozieal | | equipment and hotsing for the per- | sonnel at Grand Prairie, Fort St.| | jJChn, Fort Nelson, Watson Lake, | Prince George, Smithers and White- horse, | Greund Facilities | “These fields will provide all ne- cessary ground facilities for planes ! \Lrnwllng from the United States or | | canada Alaskaward. The fields will | | be valuable for commerce as well as | | for defense purposes.” | The Prime Minister said the Juhll.‘ ! Defense Board has made no recom- | mendation regarding the coastal| rcute, known as the proposed m-f | ternational Highway and this will | | be deferred to investigation commis- | [sicns and added a report has been made out but the Government has analyzed the personal leadership!not decided on the advisability of | of Presidents, attributed to it the|th€ highway. , great powers often exercised by a The Canadian Prime Minister said | Lined up o a stors e field at Seattle, these four-motored Boeing heavy long-range bombing planes awalt delivery to Britain. One in left background is a U. §. plane, cthers have British markings. Caught in the grip of a cutting s section of Los Angeles. and mud swamps over the main st in ‘he clogged bonlevards, BLITZKRIEG AUTOS SNARED IN MUDSW AMPS AFTER RAIN in Alaska WAVES OF RAF MAKE BIG SLASH Fighting Planes Escort Bombers Across Chan- nel, Broad Daylight INDUSTRIAL CENTERS " ARE UNDER ATTACK | {German Command Claims Ships Are Sent Down- The sea and alr war in western Europe between Great Britain and Germany is going ahead at an even faster tempo than first reported. The Germans said a Nazi speed- boat sank a British destroyer off the | southeast coast of England and Ger- man U-boat sank an 8,000-ton armed British merchant ship and also a patrol craft. Nazi planes, according to the Ger- man High Command, have set fire | to three British cargo ships, totaling 21,000 tons off northwest Ireland. British Attacks British Royal Air Force bombers escorted by waves of fighting planes i roared across.the English Channel lin the sunlight and headed for such areas as Dunkerque, Boulogne, Cal- 1‘ als and Cape Gris Nez. | RAF ralders last night smashed | industrial targets in the Rubr Val- { |ley and airdromes in German accu- torm, autos are pictured stalled hub-cap deep in mud in the western An inch of rain teeming down on the city duri reets in a number of outlying secticns. 1 | | ‘Henderson, Boss 3 one night formed huge lakes Scores of autos were abandoned | pled France. g | The German High Command says - | Nazi raiders last night bombed the ° | English ports of Hull, Harwich and | Yarmouth and attacked airports in |east England, also armament fac- . | tories-at Ipswich and Norwich, | REVOLT IN ~ 0CCUPIED : to enact After Washington Trip lease bill committing this country Sre 't‘(“l tv fl:l :;:fi’:anm;irg;e:';'eB:.‘lt\:i:;1 SEASIILE, teb ib-—Roy Fendps| certain 'l ¥ |vich, of Klawock, Alaska, President . f each country has arranged for work reds ? t 8 prove. All authorities ¥ » anged for wor out hundreds of thousands of dol- | r 1.a Alaska Native Reotherbiond. | Pro a ies agree that| ub i . (in its own jurisdiction. lars monthly to Germany and Italy. | caijeq north today for his hcm(.‘i«ublk‘ opinion is the fountain- which funds are being used to fight | 31,0414 the steamer Baranof after| s MR L s B } B u l GA RIA" WORKED OUT ' Prices, Knows Industry; Is | ON ITALIANS Also Man Who Loves Scrap Brifish Forces Sweep 400 N | financial considerations are not en- strong President, The historian’s point is easier to tered into in the highway deal as ~ NAZI AREA Ho|landers_St;ge Strikes and Riots - Military | both the United States and Britain. | .onferring for some days in wash- | 3 Hl)' 11'1 li*;}m'f:vnrms. Pubilc‘ This seeret Axis aid is being de- |jngton with officials of the Indian | ““WD;’:L":}“"‘, loo];;w:ll[ d‘-mll:I livered in the form of royalty Pay-| affairs Bureau and heads of various| B IMRCAE AR A INANGN) SO By JACK STINNETT Feb, 261t the| ments on industrial formulas, trade- marks, copyrights and patents. The money is paid in dollars and is de- posited to German and Italian ac- counts in New York banks. The Justice Department, which has conducted a secret investiga- tion, has uncovered these interesting facts: 1. That the royalty payments are now running around $500,000 a month, of which Germany gets at | least 80 per cent. 2. That a considerable portion of the money was used by Germany last year to buy U. S. goods for de- livery to Latin American buyers, to make good on contracts that Ger- | many confidently had signed after the fall of France but was unable to fill, because of the unshaken British blockade. 3. That Nazi and Pascist agents hgve drawn on the funds to finance racial and anti-defense propaganda in this country; also anti-American propaganda in South America. 4. That while U. S. firms fork over their tribute in dollars, such ar can be spent only in Germany or Italy. SECRET INFORMATION Actually, the money levy is a sec- | ondary consideration. worries the authorities is how much vital military production inmrma.}little more than a skirmish betw {ion these royaity agreements betray | desert patrols, 100 miles south of to the Axis. Sinice most royalties on patents are paid according to the number of units sold, it should be a simple | matter for the Axis to obtain de- tailed figures on types and rate or} s «canu;uea on Page Four) committees. | Peratovich is seeking return of land {in Alaska the Indians claim has been itaken from them unfairly by the] white man. Motorized Troops in Skirmish QGerman Forces Report En- - gagement with British Armored Unit, Libya (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Both Berlin and Rome report Ger- royalties as Germany antl Italy pay /man motorized troops have clashed e in the form of blocked marks With British armored forces in Lib- and export lira; that is, money that |ya, North Africa, for the first time. ! The clash is reported to have tak- len place last Monday and British | armored cars were destroyed and | many prisoners taken. The Berlin What really 'Germans escaped without losses. Rome advices state the clash was, Bengasi. - - LARSSONS RETURNING Gecerge Larsson is retuning to his | decisions, sometimes create it. For, the Royal Canadian mint during| Juneau home aboard the Baranof the first 10 months of 1940 yielded place as & “small Itallan island with noén was very satisfactory, accord- accompanied by Mrs. Larsson. statement says the! { Since that day both Presidents tineau Channel has been filed with | m"ISH FOR(ES een !when he took the Panama Canal| Zone. The only question is, which came first, the public opinion or the President’s influence on that| public opinion? At any rate, most| | authorities agree that during crises| | Congress usually acts merely to| | ratify the decisions made by Presi- | dents. | | | The first use of emergency pow- | jers by a President came almost!| | immediately after the union was| | formed. President Washington pro- claimed an emergency and ordered out troops to quell the Pennsylvau-i | were using arms to back up their| grain to market in any other form| | than as distilled whisky and the|Butler, who officially made the Gov- | |new tax worked a hardship on| | them. | Congress changed the law ‘Lhmr favor, but still the farmers| !rioted. After a year or so, Wash-j | ington tired of waiting for peace. |He issued his proclamation and\ |sent the soldiers to‘back it up.! | Those two acts of the first Presi-| |dent are highly significant, be- cause they were taken indepen-| dently of Congress, and thereby established precedent. | !and Congresses have declared depending on waich idea first, | emergencies, ¢ one got the Lincoln - OCCUPATION ISADVANCED Information Received b British-Action of Tur- key Satisfactory LONDON, Feb. 26.—The British ia whisky rebellion. The farmersGovernment, in an official state-|C2P™I€ marks an “impo! ment, says “all information suggests boycott ox’_ a new whisky tax. AS‘:G(‘rman preparations for occupat,icn}mnd'" they saw it, they couldn't gettheir|of Bulgaria are now far advanced.” Forcign Under Secretary R. A. ernment’s statement before the House of Commcens today, also de- in|clared the Government is “complete- | ly satisfied” in the way Turkey is carrying out the Turkish-British al- liance. APPLICATION FILED FOR WILLOUGHBY FILL Application for a rock fill on Gas- the War Department by Karl E. and Olga M. Ashenbrenner. The fill is asked to be made be- Miles, Capture Chief Port in Somaliland (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) British troops are officially dec lared Brtish troops are officially declared |to have captured Mogadiscio, capital |city and chief seaport of Italian | Somaliland, after a 400-mile sweep |that started on the Kenya frontier cne month ago. The east African |city fell last night into the hands {of the British. | An official communique says the it step mali- |in the conquest of Ttalian Only yesterday, the British report- ¢d Royal forces seized the Indian Ocean port of Brava 110 miles from onial coast. Other British troops are reported | hammering at Cheren, 42 miles from | Asmara, capital city of Italian Eri- trea SMALL ITALIAN ISLE OCCUPIED, | LONDON, Feb. 26. — A British | started the Civil War months be- tween the Femmer rock fill and the Communigue issued late this after- | fore he called Congress. | Presidents usually welcome legal| | background for their emergency | | (Continued on Page Five) ] Forest Service fill on Willoughby Avenue. ' Jewelry - and scrap received at 9,062 ounces of gold. noon announces that the Italian is- |lend of Castelrosso, in the eastern | Mediterranean, has been occupied by | the British forces. The communique described the lu seaplane base.” Mogadiscio in the drive up the col-| DEVIN HIGH CANDIDATE IN SEATTLE Police Jud;:Nominaiedg |- for Mayor in Primaries ~Millikin, Second SEATTLE Feb. 26—Police Judge Wwilliam F. Devin, 42, was nominated for Mayor in yesterday's city pri- maries by almost landslide propor- ticns. He will be opposed in the |March 11 election by County Audi- | tor Earl Millikin, second in the field | for the mayorship. There were 13 candidates in the l(u»ld seeking to fill the unexpired | term of the former mayor, now Gov. Arthur B. Langlie. | Devin polled 25,000 votes and Mil- {likin 13,000, the two being the high- |est in the run-off primary. Devin made his debut in politics in 1938 when he was elected Justice |of the Peace. Later he was appoint- | | 2d Pelice Judge by Langlie. - el MISS SARGEANT IS SURGICAL PATIENT Miss Florence Sargeant, x-ray teehnician at St. Ann's Hospital, | !underwent an appendectomy this "motning. Her condition this after-* jing to attendants. WASHINGTON, Administration had searched through all its million-odd em- ployees for a man to crack the whip over industry and keep the prices of defense materials down, it is doubtful if it could have found anyone who puts more zest into the job than Leon Henderson It isn't that Henderson enjoys belaboring legitimate business. He's too- good an economist to feel that, way about it. But he does love 4 scrap. Next, perhaps, what he loves 1, most is a new job. And in the third place he probably has thought, | talked and written more memos on the activities of controlled prices than any other government worker |in the six years that he has been around Washington It was a scrap that led to Hen- derson’s first government job. He was going along his own quiet y | as professor of industrial economi | at Carnegie Institute of Technology when Gen. Hugh Johnson called him into an NRA conference If the general expected any tame pedagogue to show up and expound in cultured tones anc professorial verbiage, he got the surprise of his life. In phrases al most as salty as the generals Henderson crossed swords with the NRA boss in a glorious, slam- bang fracas. When the dust of battle had settled, Johnson hired thim.s WAS JUST A BEGINNING That was only one of a long chain of Federal jobs Henderson was to hold. He later became eco- nomic adviser to WPA. He was made a member of the temporary ComroLOrdered BERLIN, Feb 26-~The German Government today admitted having trouble in conquered Netherlands territory Strikes and riots in Amsterdam | have led the Nazi authorities to im~ vose military control on northern Holland, and the following state- ment is Issued: “In view of the present political situation in Northern Holland, all marching, meetings and demonstra- tions are prohibited.” - e RAFBombers, Fighters Have Busy 12 Hours Scuttle Back and Forth Over English Channel Dur- ing Enfire Day LONDON, Feb 26.—British planes hzve bombed the Calais docks, the British Air Ministry announced to- n'zht, stating also that during the day other fighting planes carried out a general sweep over the Chan- nel on Northern Prance. Fizhting planes and bombers seut- tled back and forth across the chan- nel today in such numbers that coast chservers concluded it has been the busiest day of the year for the Royal Air Force.