The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 5, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8663. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CANADIAN TROOPS LANDED IN GREECE Will Rewrite Dickstein’s Alaska Colony New Settlement Plan For Alaskals Proposed; Ickes Makes Suggestions MUTUALPACT PRESENT MEASURE ATTACKED Committee Members Aref Opposed fo Seftling | North with Refugees TRY AMERICANS FIRST IS PLEA BEING MADE Sub-organization fo Take Legislation and Make It More Acceptable WASHINGTON, March 5.— The} House Immigration Committee has{ \ decided to rewrite the Dickstein bill | which was destined to authorize the settlement of Alaska with unfilled | quotas of European immigrants. The decision came after the Com- mittee members disagreed regarding ¢ its provisions. Chairman Dickstein said he would appoint a subcommittee headed by representative Charles Kramer of | California to work with the Interior Department in drawing up a sub- stitute measure. The present Dickstein colony biil provided that all unused immigra-| tion quotas for the past six years could be granted admission to the territory where the immigrants would have to remain for five years or until they became citizens. Measure Attacked Representatives A. L. Allen- of Louisiana, L. Beckworth of Texas, Noah Mason of Illinois, Kramer and Thomas F. Ford of California, at- tacked the measure as written. John Trevor, head of the Ameri- can Coalition, said he represented more than 100 patriotic and civil or- ganizations. He said the bill would permit entrance of 700 to 2,000 Euro- " (Continued to Page Two) tary of Interior Harold L. Ici requested Congress to authoriz establishment of privately financed | immigrants will comprise the bal- | ance. —Secre- has WASHINGTON, March 5 but publicly supervised development corporations to promote settlement and economic development of A]-] aska. Each corporation in selecting sot-l tlers must guarantee employment and will be required to give prefer- ence to at least a 75 percent opening to American citizens and qualified | | [ Secretary Ickes, in a letter to| Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, | soliciting aid, said this would result | in orderly development of resources | and settlement by Americans who are anxious to gain guaranteed work, and also strengthening of defense by insuring a carefully selected popula- tion for development of vast market | products and would send unproduct- able Alaska forward. g Secretary Ickes emphasized any legislation should be “limited, ten- tative and temporary” because of “uncertainties of the world scene.” "Lend-Lease”"Vr(}irdows” on Cfuise ‘While their husbands debated the Lend-Lease Bill in Washington, these women sailed from New York for a 12-day southern cruise aboagd the liner Washington. L. to r., seated: Mrs. Paul Brown, wife of a Georgia Representative, and Mrs. Alben W. Barkley, wife of the Senate Majority Leader. Standing: Mrs. Malcalm C, Tarver, wife of a Georgia | cludes Mexico's air bases being avail- Representative; Mrs. Walter F. G eorge, wife of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman; Mrs. O. M. Gardner, wife of a former North - Carolina governor; and Mrs. Josiah W. Bailey, wife of the North Caroli ITALY LOSES H HISTORY IN ina Senator. DEFEAT IN U.S. - MEXICO AREFORMING Conversations Between Two Nations Taking | Place, Washingfon 'PROTECTION FROM ARCTIC T0 PANAMA | 'Wes!ern He_mi-sphere De- fense Being Cinched Against Aggression WASHINGTON, March 5. — The | United States and Mexico have started conversations on a mutual | |defense agreement amounting | {to a virtual aid pact which is the | | first of the kind with any Latin | { American national under the hemi- sphere defense formula worked out | iat the Havana conference last July. The conversations, taking place here, are between Mexican military attaches and unnamed United | States negotiators. | | | I FOR COMMON DEFENSE = ! WASHINGTON, March 5—Nega- | tiation of a mutual assistance agree- | ment between the United States and | Mexico gives the Nerth American |continent a common defense front from the Arctic Circle almost to the | Isthmus of Panama. | Mexico's negotiations follow the{ recently concluded joint defense paet |between the United States and the| Dominion of Canada, thus providing | protection for both Southern and | Northern flanks of the continent. Military, Naval and Air force ex- | | perts of the United States and Mex- lico, the State Department discloses, | (are already at work on a specific | plan for cooperative defense against ‘aggre.ssion. | | It is believed that the agenda in- able for the United States for any use necessary, and also that Mexico | will construct new or enlarged naval | bases on both the east coast and the | | lower California coast, protection to 'the Panama Canal approaches at |one or two strategic points on the ‘,Gull‘ of Mexico. PANAMA WITH U. | PANAMA, March 5. — President I‘Arlas has proclaimed in a mani- |festo the solidarity of his Nation | | | IslelsTaken Also Capture of Inhabi- fants as Prisoners BERLIN, March 5.—The German | news agency DNB admits British naval forces bombarded an unnamed and unfortified Norwegian island, landed and captured Norwegians and Germans as prisoners. DNB says the action has “no military value and is merely intend- ed for reasons of propaganda.” ISLAND WAS BASE LONDON, March 5.—British nav- al forces have raided the island of Svolvaer, at the entrance of Vest Fjord, which leads to Narvik. After the bomardment, in which [ By Brifish | Berlin Admits Bombing-| ' How Hitler Plans to Strangle Great Britain? b b YOS 1[G EEIH Creg »/‘g° 3 b P enannel’ . rd This map shows how Fuehrer Adolf Hitler plans to strangle England by severing Britain's vital ship- ping lanes with & ring of hundreds of undersea craft. In his speech to old party comyades in the Munich Beer H to her knees. All From Wood . . i . e i 3 % /"/ il A No moT ) *- ot - Sex launch an “all-out” U-boat war to bring England After the sea attack, Hitler would follow with long-range artillery and air attacks. = 7 ol = all Hitler told of being ready to | Bill BRITISH IN NEW MOVE IN EUROPE | Break Off D-i_pvl'c;maiic Rela- tions with Bulgaria- Bombs Hinted YUGOSLAVIA IS READY 70 JOIN AXIS POWERS |Spring Offensive May'De- velop on Eastern Greek Front Is Indication (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Great Britain has severed diplo- matic relations with Bulgaria and | hinted that.bombs will soon follow. Following this actioh, the British moved on to check an apparent swing of Yugoslavia to the ranks of the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis. In Rome, Fascist Editor Gayda, mouthpiece of Premier Benito Mus- solini, said Great Britain has land- ed “almost a complete Division” of Canadian at Salonika, key Greek port on'the Aegean Sea. Charges Made SOUTH WALES AGAINRAIDED DURING NIGHT ?German War—planes Show- er Fire, Explosive Bombs on Seaptfi of Cardiff (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Intensifying of the air war in west, Europe wrought new ruin on bomb damaged South Wales. A British statement sald that a section of South Wales was raided again last night, for the second time | in two consecutive nights | Fire and -explosive bombs were dumped by the Nazi planes. The principal target was Cardiff and a five hour attack was made on that seaport, terminating shortly after midnight. Pires set were still burning at dawn today. Several east and south coast towns | l.In the severance of diplomatic re- tions. with s Aook. place at ht when British Minister Rende! asked for his ! passports, - that . nation was bluntly accused by Great Britain with co- operating with Germany in prepara- tions for an attack on Greece. In the neighboring city of Bel- grade, British Minister Campbell requested an urgent conference with Yugoslavia's Premier Cvetkovic, pre- sumably in an effort to counter the Axis pressure. It appears however that he has started too late in his conferences as diplomatic quarters in Belgrade said they have heard that Yugoslavia’s Prince Regent Paul will leave for Germany tomor- row for a conference with Nazi For- eign Minister von Ribbentrop to dis- cuss possible adherence of Yugo- slavia with the Axis. Mobilization Simultaneously with these reports Yugoslavia took steps for mobiliza- tion. The Government has called up fresh reserves. Observers in Rome, said Gayda’s assertion that British troops have already landed at Salonika indicated: the long heralded Axis spring of- fensive might develop on the eastern Greek front. ;nnd the United States in all mat- | ters pertaining to the defense of jthe Panama Canal and announced | agreement to use Panama territory | -, of England also experienced air nu/d‘ju"EAu (M i alarms last night but no report of | | actual. bombing had been received several fishing boats were sunk, the British landed a force and took a | number of Norwegians and occupy- WASHINGTON—Since his report to the White House, Harry Hopkins has been just as tight-lipped regard- ing his London mission as he was over there. However, here are some of the things he told the' President. First and most important, Hop- kins definitely stated his cenviction that the British would be able to hold out against the Nazis. He thor- oughly agreed with Wendell Willkie in spiking isolationist claims that Britain would crack up, submit to.a negotiated peace, and leave the U. S. A. to hold the bag affer voting “all-out” aid. British morale. Hopkins reported, is holding up admirably under the Nazi air bombardments. This is es- pecially true of the working classes. Labor unions are cooperating whole- heartedly with the government in combatting the Hitler propaganda that Britain is fighting an imperial- istic war. Tremendously bolstering British | morale have been recent successes in North Africa, the visit of Wendell Willkie, plus the prospect of the lease-lend bill’s passage. . Hopkins also told Roosevelt that the British army was in excellent fighting form and well equipped to stand off the Nazis when they at- tempt to cross the Channel. NEED MOSQUITO BOATS However, Hopkins got. no request from Winston Churchill that the U. S. send five to ten destroyers a month. What Churchill did request was the right to repair British de- | stroyers and other naval craft in American dry-docks. This has been one of Britain’s most difficult. prob- lems, since all. of her dry-docks. are (Continued on Page Four) | LIBYA;MORALE ALSO HIT This is the second of two stories on what Washington thinks Italy has lost in a non- military way as the result of collapse of its war machine in Libya. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 5. — No| matter how the future evaluates Italy’s losses in Libya, one thing is certain—she certainly lost a heap of- history. k At first glance you might not think this important, but. behind it is the terrible wound to Italian pride. Back of that may be a dam-| aging effect on Italian morale. Probably there is no colony | the ‘world that has a stranger story than Libya—all of it—but for the purposes of this column we will consider principally only Cirenaica, the eastern half, which already has fallen to the British Four great civilizations have flour- ished on her soil—the Neolithic (late stone age), the Phoenician, the Greek, the pre-Christian era Roman. But in Cirenaica, except for the Neolithic, whose crude stoneware has withstood the rav- ages of sand and time, and the| Greek, whose walled cities and, temples have been unearthed by archeologists, all records havevan- ished. ‘ ‘Moving back from those few, gardens by the sea, which now arce! Libya’s only remnants of agricul- tural splendor, into the desert and barren uplands, one finds it almost' - impossible to believe that - Libya L once was the “breadbasket of the Mediterranean.” But such was true. Its grains and fruits served Greece in her heyday and filled the tables of Rome at the height of the empire, CITY OF 200,000 Once there was a great city at Cirene, peopled by anywhere from 200,000 to a million Greeks and na- tives. Many of them, as merchants, gained fabulous wealth—quite a few in the flourishing trade in silphi- um, an herb which was supposed to cure all ills. Oddly enough, not a trace of the silphium plant exists| today. The story is that after the Romans had taken over in 96 B.C. | they placed a high tax on the herb and every grower destroysd his plants in protest. According to a recent National Geographic Society bulletin, no trace of the Phoenician civiliza- tion remains today, but it is known that the Phoenicians were traders and the cities they founded were mostly trading centers and ports. It is to “the granary of Impe- rial Rome” that modern Italy tied its historical apron strings. Look- ing about for colonies in the early part of the century—some place where her crowded millions could find breathing space, Italy settled on the once populous shores across the Mediterranean. The land (the- oretically) belonged to Turkey, who exercised little contrel and that probably only because Lib- " (Continued on Page Seven) British Aid Bill Changes " ArePutOver ] . {Senate Approves of Two Amendments Giving Congress Control WASHINGTON, March 5. — The Senate this afternoon” adopted an {amendment to the British Aid bill designed to tighten Congressional control of the purse strings and | requiring the President to obtain | specific congressional approval be- fore committing the Government |to future expenditures, The Senate also approved of an- |other amendment terminating the| bill on July 1,°1943, or any earlier | date approved by a majority of both houses of Congress. ——— oo | The scholastic average of Co- lumbia University’s 1940 footbail team was much higher during the first term of the 1939-40 school ‘ing Germans as prisoners. laway from the Turkish frontier. The official statement says the island, off the Norway coast, has been used as a submarine depot and is also equipped with anti-air- craft defenses. HITLER HAS OWN PLANS ON TURKEY German Troops Swarming Bulgaria-Remain Away | from Otfoman Frontier | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Nazi quarters in Berlin acknowl- edge that German troops are over-| running Bulgaria but are keeping| 1t is evident that Hitler, after his good will message to Turkish Presi-| dent Inonu, hopes to keep Turkey neutral in the rupture between Great Britain and Bulgaria. —.——- —— The nation’s entive electoral col- lege has met in a body only once —seven years ago. In other elec- year than that of the student body as a whole. | tAmerican tree. The raw bark is |ary 6. ‘Deana Marlow, in Los Angeles, jmodels this outfit which is cor.n.- ,p‘leeely made from a new fabric de- ived from the bark of a South treated and stretched until it as- isumes a lacy texture, after which it is bleached and dyed. ITALIAN FORT IS British Forces Continue Moving Toward Capital City of Ethiopia . (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British Headquarters in Af-| rica announce the capture of the Italian fort at Buyre, only 150 miles northeast of Addis Ababa, capital city of Italian held Ethiopia. ‘The Libyan Desert campaign ap- pears to be stalemated since the British captured Bengasi on Febru- v TR N S A fRed-haired—Magvda lup-' (APTURED {in London up to noon today. ——————— Former I(inh (arol Makes His Escape escu with Him in Gef- ting Out of Spain | BUCHAREST, March 5—Former King Carol of Rumania and his red- hair friend, Magda Lupescu, who went into exile with him, is reported to have escaped into Portugal from | Spain where he was under “pro- tective custody” at the Rumanian Governmnt’s request. Carrying a Polish diplomatic pass- |port, Carol and his titian-haired woman friend fled across the fron- tier last night, friends of Carol said they have been informed. Friends in Lisbon said he has ar- rived there but his whereabouts is net disclosed. fustee i TG A, Russia purchased more cotton The first lighthouse in America| was built in 1716 at the entrance| tion years they have met in their respective state capitals. | to Boston harbor. from the United States in the last AIRPORTNOT FAR DISTANT Preliminary Survey Com- pleted-Work fo Be- gin on July 1 Construction work on the first portion of the new CAA airpomt in Juneau will begin on July 1, according to C. M. Lample, chief of the Airways Engineering Divis- fon of the Civil Aeronautics Au- thority, who is in Juneau today, re- turning to Washington' after a two months’ inspection trip of CAA activities in Alaska;: Lample said that preliminary surveys on the airport are com- pleted and that bids will be ad- vertised within the week. Contracts will be awarded by July 1, and work will start immediately after the contract is let. He indicated that if the contract is let before July 1, work will begin sooner. Complete Field The Juneau field, he said, will eventually be a Class 3 airport with two 5,000-foot runways, parking strips, hangars and huildings, but immediate work will be on the first runway. This will be 5,000 feet three months of 1940 than in any imviolu full year. ) long, heading into the prevailing (Continued on Page Tww)