The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 27, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8658. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1941 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE, TEN CENTS RUSSIA Airliner Crashes on Ni Last Flight for Raider Shot Qutof English Sky 9 INJURED AS SLEEPER WRECKED large Craft Smashed in | Attempted Landing on Radio Beam FEWSPAPER MAN IS ABOARD, GIVES ALARM Rescue Work Is Slow as| Scene in Deep Woods- Rickenbacker Victim NTA, Georgia, Feb. 27— Droppir way from a radio beam an Eastern Airlines plane ripped 1st11: to pieces in the pine woods near| here early this morning, killing| seven and injuring nine others, in- cluding the famed Werld War flier, Eddie Rickenbacker. The 14-passenger sleeper banged | nst a wooden knoll shortly after | 1 c'clock this morning while at- tempting a beam landing after a run | from New York but searchers did | not find the wreckage until shorn,vl after dawn. | Aid Is Summoned ' An injured passenger, a newspaper | man, got out of the wreckage and made his way 1o the nearest tele- phone and called for help. The sleeper, only a l4-passenger ship, crashed five miles from the virport and 700 yards from the near- st dirt road and rescue work was painfully slow. It was not until mid- morning before the seven bodies| were removed from the wrecked cab- | in and the injured were taken to hos- | i «Continued on Page Four) Cthe Drew Pearsos Australian Beauty Becomes Star Mauricette Melbourne Once & concert- pianist and a student at the Royal Academy of Dramatie Arts in London, Mauricette Melbourne, daughfer of an Australian physician, has been selected to play the role of Rima in the film version of W. H. Hudson's classic “Green Mansions,” to be screened by an independent producer. She was chosen partly for her gift of whistling, which Noel Coward once described as “the most exquisite thing” he ever had heard. But it might be said that her whistling isn't the only thing exquisite about Mauricette. Tangle of Red Tape in Washingfon Knocked Ouf By Formerrflewspaperman By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — In T0 INCREASE AR FORCE IN. NORTHLAND Secrefary of War Stimson Says Additional Units Are Coming ‘ STRENGTH OF MEN, PLANES, NOT GIVEN, No Need of Giving Out In- | formation that Might Be Used Abroad WASHINGTON. Feb. 27—/ Strengthening of the United States| | Air Forces in Alaska is announced | jvmxu,v by Secretary of War Henry | | L. stimson. | The Seceretary told the newsmen ! |at a conference that three addi-| - | tional Air Corps units left the | West Coast recently for Alaskaand ! ! three additional units are sched-| uled to leave for the northiand | within the next two months. ' | | Secretary Stimson declined to 1d»cmm~ the strength of the Air| Force upits, men and planes, de- claring . that “I do not like { J i Highway embers To Meet Chairman Mégnuson Calls Session to Discuss Sur- veys, Plans for Road | to !make the War Department the cen- |ter of specific information to go out to our friends abroad or to our non-friends abroad.’” | Secretary Stimson said the 18th Pursuit Squadron left Fort Mason ton February 8 and arrived at H('W-‘ ard February 23. The Headquarters Squadron 28th and cemposite group, a part of Lhe 23rd Air Base, also left for Seward and is scheduled to arrive there today. A detachment of the 23rd Air | Base group will leave Fort Mason ¥ | ‘for Seward on March 15, Secretary WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.— R.eprc-] | Stimson said and then stated the|gentative Warren G. Magnuson, of ' ! personnel of the 23rd Bombard-| Washington State, Chairman of the | | ment Squadron, other than pilots,| Alaska Highway Commission, an- will leave Seattle for Seward Marcii | nounces that efforts will be made for [22 and the flying personnel and|a joint meeting here on March 28,| |planes of the 23rd will leave Mc- with British Columbia, Yukon and | Chord Field for Seward about!Alaska highway commissioners to | April 15. |reach an agreement to permit of the| | SOLE SURVIVOR—An injured German airmax, pictured landing with parachute in the sea, was the only member of his crew saved after a Dornier bomber was picked cut of the sky by anti-aireraft fire off Eng- land’s east coast. He was picked up by a British fleet unit and interned. Note ripped 'chute. GROUND GARRISON AT ANCHORAGE PROJECTED IN PLANS FOR DEFENSE Kidnaping Charged fo Bulgarians Member of British Embas- , BULGARIA OPPOSE NAZI MOVE ght Flight; 7 Killed SOVIETS IN CHANGE IN BALKAN CASE Sudden 0bj—eaon Against | Nazi Troops Moving | Through Nation TURKISH CONFERENCE ASSUMES IMPORTANCE qugoslavia Sfigeds Up De- | fense Preparations- | (Crisis Impending (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Balkan diplomats today heard Russia has raised objections to the | passage of German troops through l Bulgaria. Dispatches from Belgrade said | Yugoslavia's General Staff has or- |dered a speed-up on defense pre- parations fearing now the German armies, massed in Rumania, might attempt to invade QGreece through | Yugoslavia instead of Bulgaria. e e e | Unexpected Move | Yugoslavia’s Forelgn Minister Cin- car Marcovic has been called back unexpectedly to Belgrade from Bud- apest, capital of Hungary, where he arrived only yesterday to sign a | Yugoslay - Hungarian treaty of | friendship. | Diplomatic quarteirs in Budapest | heard his abrupt recall is connected with “impending events of import- ance between the Axis and Yugo- slavia.” Sudden Decision Russia may have suddenly decided te stiffen her attitude on the German revealing some of the testimony 'r::f‘" D‘:lt::"::ne?::mzc‘;:omw";g; | that resulted in recommending ...y Ankara, Turkey. more money for Army and Navy g gtafford Cripps, Great Britain's work in Alaska and speeding uD|.nyoy to Russia, suddenly flew to An- construction, as it 18 neCessary, pono today as British Foreign Secre- showed that Quartermaster Gen-|iary Anthony Eden and Gen. Dill, eral officials have Included In the|chief of the British Staff, conferred | budget requests for ground garri-| yith Turkish leaders, presumably on | son facilitles at Anchorage to cost moves to counter any Nazi attack on | $6,589,000. This money is required| Greece. | to provide initiation of the project| * | immediately in conjunction with gir Stafford Cripps, it is believed, the air base there. |is carrying news of Russia’s attitude The statement was inserted in if Turkey resolves to fight. In the WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. — The' House Appropriations Committee in Carries Good News sy Staff in Sofia Mys- teriously Missing (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Government City, where agy visi-| introduction of legislation authoriz- | B i S FLAMES PG %60 RAGING, (OLOGNE WASHINGTON. Investigating | army camp sites purchases is get- ting to be a regular chore around the War Department. { Recently the Washington Merr Nazi Authorities in Con- quered Land Use Rifle, Machine Gun Fire tor is likely to hang himself in a| ing construction of the $25,000,000 ! S ! “This base, when established must‘ to remain neutral. paper man with clearing out of| the Amgtican. Gommission 8t-Vic-| "ol 00 iy were further straineq | ficers and . men, -comprising the| “Bulgarian police at the behest of 1ands or on the Alaska mainland.” |lobby. It doesn’t look like much.| | . g0 . ‘ ‘ 13 Emergency Appropriation ]50:““"“’”5 and probably could beat, | [ s 5 the Bost 45 SostAO6NA0DY akn ror‘ {One Lieutenant, Acting ag|ane Great Britain. ; sosshis a AMSTERDAM, Feb. 27. the testimony by the Army flnd‘past, Russia has been represented as tangle of red tape, credit Secre- highway. to Alaska provige ground garrison for pro- —————————— one of his assistants, Norman Bax-| of the Canadian Commission will BIG DEFE“SE the most formidable red-tape jun-| teria on March 5 to discuss SUIVeys |, day over the mysterious disappear- | 1°Cessary elements with all arms| Officially, it's known as the Ser-| A |vice and Information office. It's |& house in a room that opens off | ; rmy ane the Germans.” Construction Plans | Its staff consists of four men, a| J less the man is returned uninjured ance shops, warehouses, adminis- ly. middle-aged woman, who is a | H | might lead to a break in the diplo- |service clubs, hospital, nurses’ quar- " ithe local telephone book at its| | ey # -+ magazines, - ordnance and repair’ B'" Passes House—For e Pilot, Killed-Another (exerting strong pressure on Turkey tary of Commerce Jesse Jones and) Chairman Magnuson said members | tection and this ground force may| e T ARE KIllED e A Putasion 131 Relations between Great Britain| cVentually number about 3,000 of-| gles for visiting business men. | and plans for the ”mm\:fl_l I |ance of a member of the British Le- | 1o ""'“"L'"fm‘hci bm:; flfl[flm»‘\l_ 51"(-]1 J | sation Statt in Sofia. i’rx x.l.v m ac .Lo rslnl‘ ng forces, u‘n | The British claim the member of necessary to assist in protection| |staff has been kidnaped by the | ©f Naval bases on the Aleutian Is- the Department of Commerce main GIVEN Boos' ] The incident, it 1s claimed, un- Estimates provide for mainten- jcouple of secretaries and a kind-| 'r' es re X | | forthwith and with an apology, | tration buildings, post exchange, ir| human directory of names and Atr| matic relations between Bulgaria ters and a school for children of| lown game. { shop. shop ‘ Army and Navy At Commerce, the Service and| sonal orders of Under Secretary Rob- | !n(endmry' H|gh EXDIOSIVE crt Patterson, the Inspector, General | was probing a contract made with | Bombs Are Dropped private realtors by the Department’s | s s 3 Land Division for a 60,000-acre gun- | bY Bflhsh Ralders testing range in Indiana. It can now | be revealed that this is not the only| [ONDON, Feb. 27.—The deal under investigation. | Ministry's news service said Patterson has also ordered a probe| rirec were burning at one time of 360.000 acres acquired in south-lqyring the British air raid late ern Georgia which include a large yesterday and last night in Col- malarial swamp. This time it is concerned chiefly with the selection of this particular site and the price paid, rather than (as in Indiana) the method of ac-| quiring the land; that is, how the xed the price. Both items hnvci roused questions regarding the fo!-i lowing points: | (1) That several other more de-| sirable sites in this section, one a high, sandy area in North Carolina, had been favorably considered before the Fourth Corps Area Selecting Committee chose the swampy Geor- gia tract. | (2) That Georgia Senators Wal-| ter F. George, chairman of the Fore- | ign Relations Committee, and Rich- | ard B. Russell backed the choice vig- | crously. However, Representative Hugh Peterson, who comes from the district, emphatically denies that any political pressure was exerted on the | Army. | (3) That merchants and business | men cf Savannah, 35 miles from the reservation, waged a vigorous cam- paign for it. i (4) That the purchase price willl come to around twice the $2,500,000 (Continuea on Page Four) . stores and aroused much among the Eskimos. | Information office generally is re- ferred to as “Baxter’s baby.” It was from him that I got the facts ogne. “Great tracks of fire” were left behind by the strong force of Brit- ish bombers. Loads of high cxpln:s—‘of the case. ives and incendiary bombs were| Nobody knows exactly, but it is dropped on the city’s industrial/estimated that there are center on the 58th air raid on|where around 1,000 “salesmen” a Cologne, |day in Washington, trying to ped- 1dh- their wares to Uncle Sam. | These generally aren't salesmen at - . | Esklmos all but heads of companies, vice- | bresidents, etc., of firms that. would | like government contracts | everything from toothpicks to zep- [ egister - | On the other side of the fence |are about 500 major purchasers jand thousands of inspectors, con- | sumers, supervisors, etc., who have Eleven Sign Up at Pom'llo be convinced before a govern- Barrow for Seledlve Ement contract can be signed. . 1 WAS BAD BEFORE DEFENSE Serl(e Drafi Are you beginning to see the _ | bicture? Even before national de- POINT BARROW, Alaska, Feb. fense, it was utter confusion daily, 27. — Eleven Eskimos and fOur|pyt with vastly increased buying in whites have registered here for the| recent months, Washington has be- for selectees. | business men—harried, not because The notices were posted in ”J“‘mey can't put over a deal, but be- interest g i 4 (Continued on Page Seven) some- | for| German authorities officially an- inounce that six Hollanders were killed, many wounded and numcr-“ jous others arrested, in clashes be-| tween the German police and “dis- | turbers of the peace.” | Rifle and m used in “quellin, tions” against “Nazi occupancy. North Holland has been placed ! under rigid martial law following | strikes and riots. e chine gun fire were| the “demonstra- | | ISVOTED IN CHURCHILL LONDON, Feb. 21.—The House of | be permitted to retain their seats Javmlorr, Lieutenants W. S. Ruther- Itord and H. G from |and crashed neai | day nd MecDonald serious burns. ! I ¥ r | Commons tonight gave the Churchill| Snowflakes falling late yesterday| draft with receipt of the first blanks|come a veritable clutter of harried Government a unanimous vote of |afternoon brought the first pre-| confidence on the issue as to wheth- | ¢ipitation in 13 days, ending the insurgents | er members of Parliament, appointed | possibility. of shattering to posts outside of the country should | time dry spell of 15 days registered | in Burned Seriously iSIEEl PLANT SINOL, Cal ,F_Mz,_u'l.—:rwu Army! I“ BUFFA[O 1S ON STRIKE BUFFALO, N. Y., Feb. 27—CIO ‘| workers in the Bethlehem Steel’s suffering {rom pyge Lackowanna plant now work- ing on defense orders, have struck [ while leaders predicted the walkout might spread to the company's other McDonald, flying | Moffett Field, struck a tree; here late yester- Rutherford. the pilot, was killed, is - oA i | [] ‘ NFI N E l e'c | an | sprawling plants in the East | The picket line is becoming violent ! with several autos being stoned and | clubbed as strikers strove to pre- | vent non-unionists entering the Eplant. | y p e |ITALY GIVES SPAIN I BILL ON WAR DEBT il | ROME, Feb. 21.—The Stefanie, of- KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Feb, 27.— ficlal Ttalian News Agency, today disclosed that Italy, claiming she had spent about $375,000,000 aiding during the Spanish Civil the all-| War, has presented a bill to Spain. About $275,000,000 will be paid in August, - 1926, lM annual payments, it is said. High Cost Reasons ! Committee members questioned, the higher cost of the barracks, nurses' quarters and school In Al- |aska than in the States and Army officlals replied it is necessary to add from 50 to 75 percent ahove|g oo son“ Ghich opponents the cost in the States because of |, |said will “t's the defense program in the distange and materials shipped knots." ' | Representative J. Buell Snyder| The A measure carries funds for | said the Construction Q“‘“'“""""""“"';complpuon of the Army’s big hous- testified before the Committee 1ast| g brogram and vast expansion of August that he was paying $175 Nayy shore establishments. The bidl a month for a room for himself|ywas passed without a record wnts. and wife and Army officers had| BRGSO Imet to see if it could not be ar- ranged to put up their own mrmey; and build quarters on the edge| Ll of Anchorage. | Under additional requirements to |be completed by the Engineers at | Ladd Field, Fairbanks, is listed 1$350,000 for the Air Corps pro- Joct VICHY, France, Feb. 27.—It is au- "‘"'—“ thoritatively reported that massing Du(Kv (AN T GolF “rocps along the French Indo-China | Thalland border has been resumed HAVANA, Feb. 27—Ducky Med- and hostilities will result if the ar- wick must forget about golf until mistice is ended. the baseball season ends. Leo Dur-| This statement is made on reports |ocer, Brooklyn Dodger mnnnger,lol action by Japan declaring “final” |issued a special order applying!Proposal of mediation must be ac- lonly to his clouting outtielder, cepted by Indg-China at omee, I WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. - The House has passed and sent to the | Senate the $1533,000,000 Emergency Defense appropriation after over- whelmingly defeating the anti-closed