The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 1, 1941, Page 1

TH VOL. LVIL, NO. 8660. DAILY ALASKA ENiP “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, M/\ RCH I 1941. PRICE TEN CENTS BULGARIA JOINS AXIS POWERS FAR EAST TROUBLES SETTLED French Indo-China Conces- sion Granted on De- mand of Japan (By AaSOLlATED PRESS) 1t is has been averted in one section of the Far East. The French Government is re- . A nother M iranda unofficially reported trouble | ported to have met the demands of | the Japanese Government in yield- ing to Thailand large areas of the Indo-China provinces of Cambodia | end Laos, in the border dispute. Up to noon today, however, noth- | irg official Vichy, ment, tlement of the Oriental trcuble. B Cthe has come out from ) Drew Pearson «d RobettS.Alles 60 WASHINGTON—This is the in- teresting story of a little man on the Defense Commission who, like the one on the stair in the verse, on second look wasn‘t there — and how | that cost the Government a lot of | money in buying Army shoes. 1 The little man is Frank M. Fol- som, Executive Vice-President of one of Chicago's leading department stores, formerly Vice-President of | Montgomery Ward, and one of the | greatest merchandisers in the coun- | try. That he wasn’t there when the “bite” was put on the Government was not his fault, but that’s ahead of the storv. It reallv begins 22 years ago, when Folsom returned from France as a First Sergant in the Air Corps. As| he was mustered out of the service,‘ he made a sclemn resolve: | That if ever there was another | national emergency, and he could | do anything about it, he would see that the men who did the fighting had shoes that fitted, uniforms that didn’t look like burlap sacks, and | blankets that were long enough to| cover the feet. Last fall, Falsom got the chance | to gratify this ambition when hls\ old Sears, Roebuck business rival| and close friend, Procurement Di-| rector Donald Nelson, summoned | him to Washington as a dollar-a- year expert to help clothe the new | selective service army. i In five months Folsom supervised the placing of more than $100,000,- 009 worth of orders, and made a number of money-saving innova- tions in the Army’s buying practices. | One of these was in the purchase of shoes—2,397,000 pairs, of every pos- sible length and width, at a saving of around $1.50 a pair under what | the Army paid in 1917-18. HOW IT WAS DONE Fclsom accomplished this feat by the device of asking a large number of shoe manufacturers all over the country for informal bids covering the number of shoes they could make. Under the old system, the Army announced it was in the market for s0 many pairs of shoes and asked for bids, which gave the edge to a few big firms who could deliver con-| tracts of such size in the time speci- fied. Small companies couldn't cope with such giant orders, but Folsom'’s | plan made it possible for them to get contracst of a medrate size on an equal price footing with the big fellows: Under his method of informal ne- gotiated bids, 17 shoe plants in New England, the Midwest and the South got nice slices of the 2,397,000 pairs a prices ranging from a low of $2.65 to a high of $2.97, averaging $2.83 ! a pair or about $1.50 less than the World War price. BIG BOYS SQUAWK Everybody was happy—except the big manufacturers who, under the oid system, had for years enjoyed a virtual monopoly of the govern- | (Continued on Page tour) | carrying | Swastika flags fll“de from pears, seat of the French Govern-| or from Tokyo regarding set- | | been made public. Aurora Miranda Sister of Singer-Dancer Carmen Miranda, who already has won popularity in the United States, Aurora Miranda arrived in New York aboard the 8. S. Uruguay for her first visit to this country. Aurora, also a singer, will cross, the continent to see Carmen on the west coast. NAZIS ARE SWARMING ~ BULGARIA Planes andTr;ops in Bat- fle Gear Invade Cap- ifal of New Ally By ROBERT ST. JOHN (Associated Press Cerrespondent) SOFIA, March 1.—German troops drove into Bulgaria in grey ar-| mored cars today. Wearing regulation battle dress, | steel helmets and complete regula- tion battle kit, they reached the| center of the capital late in the day. Troops carrying rifles, gas! masks and the heavy packs of bat- | tle gear, rolled through the ma'n | streets, past the German legation Swarms of German fighter planes‘ winged over the city, Circling low enough for their swistika markinas to be seen plainly, they arrived only |a few howrs after Buigaria’s state- ment at Vienna formally announced | that that country had joined the Axis. A Junkers transport, presumably infantrymen, flew less than a thousand feet over the Ger- man legation, then swooped down to an airdrome. Transport planes in great num- | bers followed, German firms began to unfurl as police cleared the main avenues of approach to the city, indicating heavy troop ransport oumde the capital. QUAKEROCKS GREECE IN DAWN SHOCK ATHENS, Greece, March 1. —/ Northern Greece was shaken by a| destructive earthquake today with early reports mdicaung heavy cas- ualties. Buildings collapsed +in arise, a town of about 30,000 population with the panicky residents fleeing from their homes, many in night clothes. The shock occurred at 5:50 a.m. Larise authorities belegmphed, for tents for 15,000. Troops are engaged in remavmg! victims trapped in the debris. - | is an alcoholic beverage | popular in parts ‘of Prance and England. Perry TURKEY, BRITAIN ALIGNED Two Nations Ready for Any Emergency Arising Ouf - of Balkan Situation ANKARA, Turkey, March 1.—Tur- key and Great Britain are aligned ready for the expected movement in the Balkans by the Axis forces This ic unofficially reported as the information was received here of the signing of a mutual aid pact by Bul- garia with the Axis. Ccnference between British For- eign Minister Eden and the Turk- | ish officials continue, but in secret sessitns, Secret . orders, both military and naval, are reported to have been is- sued “to Turkish and British com- | mands but in what form has not 2 STORMS SWEEPING, EAST, WEST -Seventeen [i;;.s Taken on| | Atlantic Seaboard-Dam- | - age Done, Pacific Coast (By /\moemed Press) | Straddling the United = States, two storms, of gale intensity, swept up the east and west coasts, swirl- ing snow that reached depths of | 14 inches in some sections and took at least 17 lives in traffic and other accidents in the east. Shipping and air travel has been tied up, both in the east and in | the west. In California, squalls and sud- den wind gusts ripped roofs off sheds and kuildings, uprooted hun- reds of trees and blew down power lines, The gale swept in an off the Facific with a front of several hun- dred miles and reaching a velocity as high as 90 miles ah hour at one or two pomts 3 ELECTRAS LEAVE FOR FAIRBANKS Shortly after the takeoff of the southbound Lockheed Lodestar at 9 | o'clock this morning, three PAA El- | ectras roared out of Juneau bound for Fairbanks with 17 passengers aboard. Passengers were: W. P. Odom, | F. Jones, P. Degan, Lieutenant E. | Condra, W. B. Allison, Mr. and Mrs, C. Day, Glenn Day, Glenn Ellen Day, Mrs. G. Davies, R. Ortman, F. Taylor, D. Gilbertson, G. Gilbert- | son, L. Sallberg, L. Warner and Ruth Cooke. The Electras are scheduled to re- turn to Juneau Manday NORTHERN LIGHTS ARE GLORIOUS BUT THEY RAISE HAVOC There was a most brilliant display jof the Northern Lights during last night that was witnessed by hun- dreds. But the display raised havoc with radio transmission and for hours to- day not a dot was on the tape at the Signal Corps office, both press and commercial business being prac- | tically suspended. All frequencies were tried out but up to noon today |. little business was moving. | —————— TWO DIVORCES FILED Two divorce suits, both charging incompatability, were filed in Fed- eral Distict Court this morning. Eleanor De Roux filed against Nor- man De Roux, and Nellie Sparks Lewis filed against Terry Lewis, | | |over to his parents, Mr. B SEVEN KILLED, NINEINJURED WHEN AIR TRANSPORT (RASHES WINANT IS IN ENGLAND U. S. Ambassador Arrives at Bristol-Greeted Per- sonally by King BRISTOL, England, March 1.— United States Ambassador John Winant has arrived here by plane and he was greeted in person by | King George at the railroad station | on his way to London. e ESKIMO FILM STAR BOUND FOR BARROW Ray Mala, famous Eskimo star of several Hollywood productions, is cn his way to Point Barrow to make wnether picture of Alaska. Accom- ranying the actor, who is photog- -apher turned dramatist, is his wife, ind director Ewing Scoft. The Es- imo pair and the director and his wife are aboard the Baranof. Mala is bound for Ncme and then Point Barrwo to start “shooting” an- sther “Nanook” picture, this cne en- fitled “The Son of Nanock” built wround Mala and using a cast from natives of Point Barrow. 6US GEORGE SEES MARDI GRAS FESTIVAL IN NEW ORLEANS, LA. JIn New Orleans for the gulf city’s big Mardi Gras and festival, Gus George was having a fine time, ac- sording to word in Juneau George, partner in George Broth- ers, is driving a car frcm Detroit t California where it will be turnec and Mrs sent back to friend: ‘\ Mike (,eorge B Vern Damelsons Return fo Stafes Mr. and Mrs. Vern Danielson and son Kenneth, sailed south on the steamer North Sea enroute to Port- land, Oregon. Mr. Danielson and his family came here several months ago. During his stay he was employed by his broth- er, Carl Danielson, at the Top Notch Cafe. J l)ropph\x away from a radio beam, an Eastern Air Lines pl.mn crashed in a pine woods near the Atlanta, Ga., alrport, killing seven persons and mjuru\g nine others, including famed war-time Pilot Eddie Rickenbacker. tims are under shects in foreground. One wing of the big ship was hurled into a tree top (background). mcmlng and Ahis Associated Press telemat was received by The Empire practically 36 hours later, cnmmx hy .umull on yesterday's PAA Lodestar. | | | Rescue crews removed dead and injured. Bodies of some of the vie- This crash occurred early Thursday “BRITISH CAPTURE ITALIANS Nine Thousand Reported Taken in Drive on Bardena INSTRUCTORS KILLED | CAIRO March 1. — An offical !statement from the British Army headquarters here says 9,000 prison- ers were taken by the British in the drive on the junction roads in Ital- lian Somaliland, when Bardena was capwr"d veral days ago. GAME MANTO SAIL ON BEAR FOR CAPITAL Executive Officer of the Alaska Game Commission Frank Du- fresne, will sail on the vessel Brown Bear at 8 o'clock Sunday evening bound for Seattle and a combined three months business and pleasure trip to Washington, D. C. and Flor- ida. . Dufresne will travel by train to Lansing, Michigan, where he and his wife will purchase a new auto- mobile and continue to Washingten, There the executive officer will ap- pear before several Congressional committees on game commission af- fairs The Dufresnes plan to return to Juneau in the latter part of May | after touring the Atlantic seaboard and Southern States. Dufresne says | he plans to stop in Florida for tev- eral weeks, AUK LAKE SKATING There are certain sections of Auk | Lake that are excellent for skating [ ~ 'and many are enjoying the sport. | Browning's poetry to bowls of bean Sections toward the highway are| g ” soup. sprinkled with dust, due to the| X heavy winds, but on other parts of gressman Fr ford (R-| s Michig Zengressman Fred L. Crawford : The ichigan congressman Hio Taha e toa ' sk b fairly | ooking Mich.) has his way, the new U. 8. askancer and askancer, gro o Army will be full of beans—liter-|pic eye grows more and more Al v \ My jaundiced as he contemplates the The pattie or tne pean hasopened new-fangled diets Uncle Sam's n the halls of the 77th Congress. soldiers and sailors are lapping Crawford is generalissimo of the up, ittacking' forces, a one-man pPro- what kind of an army is it, bean bloc bombarding his colleagues ___ i Scldiers from Moflfet Field, Cal, guard the charred remains of an army training plane which crashed near Sunol, Cal., Wednesday after- scon, killing Second Lieut. W. S. Rutherford, 24, Syracuse, N. Y., and seriously 'injuring Second Lieut, H. C. acDonald, 24, Han Francisco. Both men were instructors. This an Associated Press Telemat received by airmail on the PAA Lodestar just 48 hours after the accident. LOWLY BEAN HAS DAY IN CONGRESS; BATTLE OPENED BY C(RAWFORD By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 1 is PAUL RETURNS HERE | William L. Paul, who has been{ to Washington, D. C. consulting| he Wwith officials of the Indian Affairs . Buredu, was a passenger north on! | which | has NEW (CRISIS IN BALKANS IS ARISING iBulgariansSiT;ning of Padl Opens Way for German Troops fo-March TURKEY OR GREECE MAY BE ATTACKED British Repo_rfed fo Have Delivered Ulfimatum- Answer by Midnight (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Bulgaria, which was tie 1irss Cen- tral Power to sue for peace in the first World War, has formally sign- 1 up with the Axis Powers, the fourth minor partner in the Berlin- Rome-Tokyo pact. Hitler met Premier Bocdan Philoff of Bulgaria and other diplomats in Vienna. The ceremony of signing he pact took place in the historic 3elvedere. Big Alignment The signing of the pact by Bul- garia aligns 6,000,000 Bulgars and 10,000 square miles of territory with the Axis and may open the way for German troops to march through ‘ulgaria against Turkey or em- sattled Greece. Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslayia were the other little B:;k;n Natlons 0 i with the , pre o i Slacig e atias 1ame on the 3-power pact. It is sald the protocols to the reaty for mutual aid were drawn p five months ago. Bombing Threatened Bulgaria’s grain growing valleys nd timbered hills may make a con- ribution to. the economy Pascist- Tazi dominated areas in Europe but nay however mean Bfitish bombing ittacks. Unconfirmed reports in Sofia said ‘he British Government delivered an altimatum calling upon Buigaria to ‘oreswear by midnight tonight any ntention of giving German troops he right of way and if she does, to onsider herself at war with Great Sritain, This rumor, however, is denied in London. In Rome, Virginio Gayda, Fascist Zditor, said the signing of the Axis ulgarian pact “confirms the isola- jon of Greece in the Balkans.” LODESTAR FLIES BACK TO SEATTLE PAA Ship Loads Mail and Leaves on First Com- plete Alaska Flight Flying the second leg of its maid- en trip to Alaska, the new PAA Lockbeed Lodestar speeded over Juneau this morning at 9 o'clock bound for Seattle with a load of mail and one passenger, H, W. Helford of the CAA. Yesterday afternoon the new ship sat gleaming in the sun on the landing stage at the PAA airport nly 5 hours and 5 minutes out of Seattle, and bringing in a small mail load for Juneau. The plane, is the first aircraft which had its radio equipment en- gineered, into it at the factory, has a capacity of 12 passengers, two pi- |lots and a flight engineer. Comfortably arranged, the low sitting plane is tall enough for an average passenger to walk upright in the aisle between the seats. The ship resembles the Lockheed Elec- tras now on the Nome-Fairbanks- Juneau runs, with the exception of size and speed. P AQm e g s 2 MRS. WALKER HERE Mrs. Norman R. Walker, wife of Senator Walker, arrived aboard the Baranof after & visit in the "(Continued on Page 8o with ammunition ranging from ‘.lhv Baranof, % States.