The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 8, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” OL. LVIL, NO. 8666. TURKEY READY T0 GREECE PREPARES TO ARMY D06 MUSHERS T0 QUIT TRIP Teams from Chilkoot Bar- racks Will Be Flown Info Fairbanks FAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 8.—| Gen. S. B, Buckner, visiting here from Fort Richardscn, announces a soment at Burwash Landing, Yukon Territory, of the Army Dog mushinrg Expedition fom Chilkoot! for Fairbanks, | which started on the 735-mile overland trek on January 22, from Chilkoot Barracks, will bej brought here in relays by bombers. | or Charles S. Hart, Jr, has| here from Buywash Landing on an Army bomber. The head of the! dition. reports the expecition en forced to abandon the trip © than half of the dogs,| which are all young, are afflicted with the distemper and others are! dying and are practically useless. Majcr Hart says the trail was good for part of the way. 1 Ten men and 35 dogs, now at; WASHINGTON—The Capital of the United States has seen all sorts of lobbies come and go, but few that have had such a mushroom wth and such wide ramifications as the America First Committee. In recent weeks this organization has not been much publicized—as such. It's sympathizers have taken| responsibility for -their 6wn state-; ments. But it would be a mistake to assume that the America First 1 Committee is not active. 1 Few of the Senators whom it seeks to influence realize it, but cop- ies of Amierica First correspondence which have come to the attention| of some legislators show that in ‘aj few short weeks the Committee has built up an organization which ex- tends its influence to numerous rad- io stations, preachers, and anti-war groups, and has its own confidential observers in the capital. Leading members of the America Pirst Committee are Alice Long- worth, Mrs. Burton K. Wheeler, Hanford McNider (Coolidge's As- pistant Secretary of War), William R. Castle (Hoover’s Under Secre- tary of State), Mrs. Bennett Clark, General Hugh Johnson, Irvin 8. Cobb, and General Robert E. Wood, who is head of the organization and also of Sears, Roebuck and Com- pany. However, they appear willing to remain in the background. In fact, that is one of the main| features of the lobbying methods of | the America First Committee—it| does not reveal all of its far-flung| activities to the public. | Thus Lee Williams, a member of the Committee's staff, sent out to| radio station managers various tran- seriptions of speeches by Senator Nye, Senator Wheeler, ex-Governor Alf Landon, and other isolationists. But in sending the records for re- broadcast, Williams cautioned: | “These recordings do not mention ! the name of the America First Com- mittee. They are simple messages from the speakers to the people. The sole function of the Committee | is to cooperate with these speakers in the distribution of the record-: ings.’ No mention is made as to where the funds are raised to pay for these (Continued on Page Four) JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, Virginia Anne Fraley, 22, & to stay there, and not only that. e hier of {Warrani Officer Daniel Fraley - of Hamilton Field, Cal., has been in the Army all her life, She’s going she’s going to be an officer, After taking examinations for- the Army, Nurse Corps. she was told her appoiptment would'be receivedisoon. Miss Fraley will hold the rank of lieutenant. Above. she is congrafulated by her mother and father. @ @ UNIONVOTES FOR 56-HOUR - WORK WEEK ergency, AFL-Affiliate, . Will Go Full 7 Days - PHILADELPHIA, March 8.—Em- | ployees of the Midvale Steel Com=- | pany’s plant voted today to work a seven day, fifty-six hour week in “the interest of the National De- | fense emergency.” 5 | Edward Kunz, | Pederal Labor Union local affiliated with AFL said that approximately 4,000 plant employess had voted two to one for the fifty-six hour week. | He said further that this action is! | the first of its kind conducted by any | union in any manufacturing plant in | the country. | | The Midvale Steel Cempany has a | $32,000000 c-der for antiaircraft guns and other defense equipment for the army and navy. K| INDIANTEAM KETCHIKAN MANADMITS BURGLARIES Indian vConié;es fo Many Crimes Committed in First City KETCHIKAN, Alaska, March 8—| Richard Thomas, the 17-year-old Indian who asked police to be al-| lowed to stay in jail .last Thurs- day night, yesterday admitted beat- ing Mrs. Annie Hildinger about 555 | |FADINGDOG | MGNAMARA ~ DERBY RACE ? DIESIODAY Jacob Bufler Arrives atl Livengood in 9 Hours, I" pRISON 37 Minutes s PAIRBANKS, Alaska, March 8.— iwas convlded in 19'0 O' | Jacob Butlerk,] lean, heavily muscled | g Indian, mushil a team v Dynamiting Los Angeles |oreeds, 1ea the iniricen sontestants| Building, Killing 21 into Livengood last night, the half-| way mark in the renewal of the grueling all-Alaska Dog Derby. | SAN QUENTIN, Cal. March 8--! The hundred and sixty mile race James B. MciNamra, 59, convicted|’s for @ cash prize of $3,000. The In- in 1810 for the dynamiting of thefdian covered 82': miles through | Los Angeles Times Building in which 21 persons were killed, died today in San Quentin Prison. sterm and slush, in 9 hours and 37 minutes. - | Thousands saw the start of the ‘For National Defense Em-! Secretary. of the; the head with a flashlight and McNamra had served the first attempting to choke her among 256 years of his life sentence here | other crimes in a one-man burglary and then taken to Folsom prison for and prowling wave which frightened five years but returned here on Ketchikan for the past two weeks. February 13 telling Warden Clinton He told Police that he beat Mrs, Duffy, “I came back here to die.” Hildinger because she appeared w“ Recently McNamra has underwent be awakening while he was m,‘l.wo operations for intestinal cancer. tempting to burglarize her room;| There are no known relatives. Thomas denies owning several sex magazines found with some stolen articles. cached in the woods be- hind the town. detailed to a Washington State re- form school and the County-City | H H jail in Seattle, but denies he was on P"(e ISIand' Dles arrested for burglary in Wran- of s'arva"on To investigate the death of Oscar Larsen, Gambier Bay fox farmer however, he had removed his cloth-! - 2 ing and shoes which he left in . " the Hildinger apartment. (omm'SSIoner Investigafes He came to Ketchikan on Feb-| ruary 23, where he spent most of ' a rv i } his life, but was born near Ket- » | gell. . - e (MRE"(E ouo“ jwho is thought to have died of HERE w"“ (opv or , starvation, U. 8. Commissioner Pelix Gray will sail on the M.8. Dart this All the loot from three recent chikan, on a boat. He says he is| 1941 REGULATIONS \*:%.20 burglaries is believed recovered. an orphan and admits that he was os(ar larsen Fox Farmer | ’ Larsen, who had a fox farm on Clarence Olson, Fisheries Manage- iment Supervisor, returned on the steamer Mt. McKinley from the Se- attle office of the Fish and Wild- life Service. Olson brought a codified copy of the 1941 Alaska fisheries regulations, tirst to arrive in Juneau. e — Price Island, was reported dead by officers of the Dart, which had stop- ped into the Island to leave supplies for the aged man. The supplies had been sent by Commissioner ,Gray when it was reported to him that Larsen was starving on his farm and refused to leave. race here yesterday. Other teams arrived at Livengood | in the following order: ; Butler, Buzby, Woods, Huntington, Skaug, Alexander, Moses, Jones, Hanson, Stickman, Kokrines, Dayo and Agbaba the latter arriving with | cne of his dogs dead. Woods, Skaug and Buzby each made the run in 9 hours and 43 minutes. There are 311 dogs entered. The teams are scheduled to return to Fairbanks today. 5 PASSENGERS FLY TO COAST Pilot Alex Holden winged out of Gastineau Channel this morning| with 5 passengers for the Coast and | is scheduled to return this after- noon with 4 passengers from Hirst and one from Sitka. Joel Mustonen, Lewis McClellan, Robert Cunningham and Eaf Parke| were flown to Hirst and H. Ander- son was a passenger to Sitka. In an earlier flight, Shell Simmons made & hurried flight down the| Channel to catch the northbound Mount McKinley with three pas- sengers who had missed the ship. The pilot found that the Channel was too rough for a landing and was | ferced to return with his passengers. etk FLIES TO RUBY | Mrs. Sig Wiig of Ruby passed through Juneau today, returning to the Interior mining town after a Gray will arrange for the burial of | trip Outside. Mrs. Wiig arrived here ‘South America -has nearly twice Larsen and attend to the disposal of ithe area of Europe but only one-|his estate. The deceased has no l:x*m ‘the population, ; known relatives. on the northbound Mount McKin- ley and imediately boarded the PAA DC-3 for Fairbanks. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MARCH 8, 1941 _ @ @ @ @ BATTLE These hardy-looking soldiers, carrying lunch pails, are described by niek prisoners of war in Italy. The Greeks have G oG ~ Completing Biggest Bomber This looks like & vehicular tunnel, but actually it is the pilot’s com- t of the 80-ton Douglas B-19 bomber, wcrld‘p largest airplane, | lv?val'n"itn:)rlmi,; nenif\ completion in Santa Monica, Calif. The §2,000,000 «zaft will have the greatest load-carrying capacity, longest flight range and most powerful armament of any sky ship ever built Real Beiheral Is Now Press Agent for Army; Knows His SIMB By JAUK STINNETT ‘»Lh(- first completely mechanized WASHINGTON, March B,—|divisi0n in the whole 'Army. In Around Capital Town: that capacity, he had covered him- For the first time in the mem-|self with glory, experimenting with ory of the oldest living sarge, |l1n‘nxecnanizntloxx of the cavalry and United States Army has a “EN_A;workm' out a plan for correlation ERAL for & })ress & ity Of oo ‘o( planes, horses, armored cars & ? OTTST | and tanks to bring the new cavalry you mustn’t get the Army wrong. Maj. Gen Robert C. Richardson|efficiency. Under his direction, the Jr., : ]To Dn:;rc like the m;mdw;v%mmy tested midget cars as sub- or ollyw “press agent” WhO| stitutes for motorcycle courier ser- “plants” stories and items glori-|yice . . . and found them perfect. fying his clients than one of lhn:i(:‘ e “Congressional sirloin steaks” ($225) | gNnOWS THE PROBLEMS is like the tough little ""'A‘.k.mo}:% Why then was this son of West beef you get on a 65-cent “stea | Point, recipient of the Distinguished Wipaee, L | Bervice medal in the World War, Major General Richardson s and ace of mechanization named really’ the director of press inIor-ime Army’s No. 1 “P. A"? The ;m:zion—t;ee chief kl‘rawon‘L O'flkllve:ireamns are several, but a couple etween men who write what of them are interesting. you read about your greatly €X-| wwren o group of gnewspsper-l panding Army &nd the men WhO| on recently were taken on an! are responsible for the ‘;c;“s’]me: almost nation-wide inspection of| of lts'explmlop. How Vpfl;lfi“ defenses, there wasn't an Army the Army thinks this is is ShOWD yp9n wno made a bigger hit for| frankness, intelligent consideration| by the fact that Major General Richardson was (until his l1atest o thejr questions, and recognition assignment) _commander of the PFirst Cayalry at Fort Bliss (Texas) (Continued on page Six) —'j These Are Greek Prisoners, Says Rome lost few men as they pushed Il Duce's invar reece and far back into Albania, observers report, while Italian prisoners are said to havg been| finlt behind the Greek iines by tha thaussada.. 4 é T0 the Rome propaganda I;nm\l as s out IN SEATTLE 15 SUCCESS For Fifteen Minutes Last Night, City in Darkness —No Traffic Mishaps EEATTLE, March 8—Nearly all lights were flicked off in Seattle for 15 minutes last night, from 10:45 to 10:55 oclock in the first defen- sive blackout test in any major Am- erican city. The stunt did not blackout the festive spirit as thousands paraded the downtown streets shouting and whistling. There were no traffic mishaps dur- ing the blackout. | There were only a few isolated lights observed and these were navi- |gation lights in the harbor, airplane beacons, moving trains and the Boe- ing Aircraft plant on Harbor Is- |1and where defense work is under way. i &4 % ALABAM WOULD LET BARS DOWN | FOR TRIBESMEN 'Bills Free Indians, Aleuts, { Eskimos from Polygamy { and Adultery Charges ‘dxvtsions to their highest point of| | Including four measures by Sen- {ator C. H. (Alabam) LaBoyteax to exempt Indians, Aleuts and Eskimos from prosecution for polygamy, ad- ‘ultry and cohabitation, 11 bills were introduced in the Territorial Senate today. LaBoyteaux’s bill provides that it (shall be a defense against prosecu- tion for polygamy if it can be prov- |ed the person charged is an Indian, | Aleut or Eskimo in cne-fourth or more degree, living in the tribal relation and having been divorced according to tribal customs. The same defense would apply to prose- cution for adultry or cohabitation. The Livengood Senator also intro- duced a bill to tax coin-operated amusement devices 12% percent of their gross receipts and a bill ‘to permit - filing of instruments with Clerks of Court if there is a vacaney (4 4 & DE MEASURES OF DEFENSE CONTINUING Ottoman Government Urges Yugoslavia fo Re- sist'All Axis Overtures HITLER GIVEN NOTE, ALBANIAN SITUATION ltalians Must Leave Little Nation Without Any Humiliation (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Turkey " continues urgent defense meagure today . as woops continue to mass on the Bulgarian ' Turkish authorities have ordersd ‘gasolive and other inflammables to newspapers again today expressed defiange . Yugoslas to 4 At Athens, an open letter to Hitler was published in today's newspaper Mathimerini declaring Greece's de- termination ‘to fight to the death. Six words are censored but the letter asserts that if Germany's ob- ‘ject is to save the Itallans in Al- bania, Greece is ready to settle mat- ters “without humiliation to Italy.” but the Italians must withdraw from Albania and “leave that natlon alone.” JAPAN, AXIS PARTNERS TO MEET NOW Foreign Minister Matsuoka Going fo Berlin for Con- ference, Says Nazis (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) A hint, of the tightening of cooper- ation between Japan and the Euro- pean Axis partners came today with an official German announcement that Japanese Foreign Minister Mat- suoka will reach Berlin shortly from ‘Tokyo for “personal deliberations on all questions arising frcm collabora- tion as set forth in the three Power pact.” B 'FRISCO POLICE. SUSPENDED FOR _ BEATING YOUTHS Two Veferan Officers Are Accused of Injuring Stanford Freshman SAN FRANCISCO, March 8.—Two veteran officers, picked out of a line- up of 68 policemen, were suspended temporarily and accused of beating two Stanford Freshinen, on a slum- ming expedition o the Skid Road last night. Formal complaints for the unpro- voked assault were to be filed today against Joseph Greene and John Desmond. Both denied accusations, The youths, Don Allan and Carter Barber, are both hospitalized. Allan in the recorders office. suffering from a broken nose. FIGHT NAZIS S b