The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 12, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12, 1941. NAZIS BOMBING GREEK TOWNS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8669. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS —_— PRICE TEN CENTY BE SPEEDED BRITISH AID PROGRAM WILL FAST ACTION BEING URGED BYROOSEVELT President Sends Message fo Congress with Bud- get Director Estimates SEVEN BILLION FUND IS T0 BE MADE AVAILABLE Chief Executive Says Am- erica Must Give Assist- ance fo Democracies WASHINGTON, March 12.—Pre-} sident Roosevelt today sent to Con- gress a request for a Seven Billion Dellar appropriation with which to carry out the “fixed policy of this Government to make for Democra- cies every gun, plane and munition of war we possibly can.” The request for the huge peace- time appropriation is made in a let- ter to Speaker Sam Rayburn and the letter is accompanied by detatl- ed estimates of the Budget Director for the Seven Billioh Dollar appro- priation. President Roosevelt asserted in his (Continued on Page Seven) WASHINGTON—Big words, such as “momentous,” - “historic,” “cru- cial,” were common in describing the Senate debate on the lend-lease bill. Defending themselves against the charge of filibuster, the opposition maintained that the issues were so grave that national interest de- manded weeks of discussion, Daily throughout long weeks front pages reverberated with the Sen- ates embattled thunderings. The headlines and crackling statements gave the impression of fierce strug- gle. But the reality was far differ- ent. ‘There was no blood shed. The Sen- ate never presented a more peace- ;ful, more indolent appearance. If a ‘great battle was raging there were few signs of it on the floor of the “greatest deliberative body in the world.” BOO{(M) TO YOU_getu 225,000-pound railroad gun, given a test at the army's ground at Aberdeen, Md., starts hurling 260-pound shel Chesapsake bay. The overall leng i er duck when this néw 8-inch, ing into th of gun and its mount is 49'6". ARMY HANDLING MORALE, ALL PROBLEMS AT POSTS, LOOKING AFTER ITS OWN Ts It Romance? Most of the time it looked more ‘like the lounge of a ritzy club than @ council chamber where history was being made. Here is @ blow-by- blow account of a typical day of ¥this “epochal” debate: QUORUM, QUORUM Eleven a. m. the convening bell rings. A quorum call is demanded and the clerk calls the roll, There is no quorum. The bells ring again. The clerk again calls the roll, very slowly. Senators straggle in. Pinal- ly, after much stalling, enough sen- ators answer the roll to permit the chamber to get to business: The clock reads 11:35. Vice-President Wallace bangs the gavel and the debate resumes. Sen- ator Harry Schwartz, Wyoming New Dealer, has the floor. He favors the bill, says, “We are killing time while ponents of the bill, 52 hours for opposition. When Schwartz sits down at 12:05 the antis take up where they left off the day before.. They aré no half- hourers. When they they.talk. Dorothy James Although she was greeted affec- tionately by. William Lundigan, film actor, upon arrival in Holly- wood, Dorothy James, 25-year-old daughter of Gov. Arthur James of Fennsylvania, laughed at reports of & romance. Miss James said she and Lundigan had been friends aines they were students at Syrar ‘euse university. FALSEHOOD GETS SITKA MAN FINE E. L. McGuern pleaded guilty in U. S. Commissidner William Knight's court in Sitka yesterday on a charge of making false statements in an application for a resident hunting license. The Juneau Game Commission of- fice said that McGuern was fined (Continued on'Fage Four) ~ $30. Wildlife Agent was C. W, Swan. This is the second of three articles about the Army’s mor- | ale program. | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 12—For | the first time in any period of intensive military training, the | Army (and what goes for the Army goes for the Navy too) is handling its morale, entertainment and re- creation problems exclusively on all Army posts and reservations. With the one exception of old camps where the Y.M.C.A. al- ready had buildings, no outside civilian, welfare or religious or- ganizations are permitted to oper- ate on military reservations, At the morale division, they will hasten to explain that this isn’t because they don't want civilian aid. They solicit it and even a large part of the morale division personnel is devoted to seeking and encouraging civilian cooper- ation in providing recreation, en- tertainme't and a healthy moral environment in cvilian communi- ties. It’s just that—on the reser- vation—the Army looks after its own. RESTRICTION AVOIDED The whole Army theory of morale is not restriction. They do not be- lieve in setting up a lot of moral DON'TS. The idea is that, in seek- ing recreation and diversion from routine, a soldier should have all the freedom of a civilian. But, so the morale division officers insist, if a soldier can find clean, whole- some, decent recreation “at home” (which means in ‘camp), he’s not going to be wandering off down the alleys to find his fun. That is the theory behind the service clubs (in all the larger campd), with their staffs of three hostesses, their lounges, their li- braries, their games 'like chess, checkers (American and: Chinese), table tennis; their guest houses where visiting relatives and friends may stay cvernight; their week- (Continued: on Page Seven) CHURCHILL 'FORMALLY ~ THANKS U.S. Prime Minisfer Pays Re- spects for Passage of British Aid Bill | LONDON, March 12.~Prime Min: ister Winston Churchill today form- ally thanked the United States for passage of the British aid bill which he termed a “new Magna Carta, an | inspiring act of faith.” | The members of the United States ! military mission sat in the gallery and later Churchill received them and other Americans in a private | | room of the House of Commons. i Prime Minister Churchill solemnly | read his statement to the House of | Commons, saying the “lease and lend bill, as the House is aware, be- came a law yesterday when it re- ceived immediately after passage the | Roosevelt. I am sure the House members wish me to express on their behalf and in behalf of this nation, our deep and respectful ap- reaching statemanship. The most powerful democracy has in effect |declared in a solemn statute they will devote their overwhelming indu- trial and financial strength in in- suring the defeat of Nazism in order that nations, both great and small, may live in security, toler- ance and freedom.” —o——— Fairi)énks Residence Destroyed tis Adams’ House Goes Up in Daylight Blaze FAIRBANKS,_A—IMIB. March 12, sion of a kitchen stove yesterday | afternoon, desiroyed the residence and entire contents, occupied by Curtis Adams, Executive Vice Presi. dent of the Bank of Fairbanks. The residence, owned by Roy $10,000. Structure and contents were partially insured. Two Killed In Crash of Navy Plane Ensign Bafls—OuI When Over Mountains, Lands with Slight Injuries SAN DIEGO, Cal,, March 12.—Two enlisted men, tentatively identified by Ensign W. Glénn Barnes as R. Goff and Seaman Doga, were killed {and Barnes was slightly injured in | the crash of a naval torpedo plane from the airplane carrier Saratoga while on routine flying over the here. The engine stalled. Barnes bailed out but the other two men remained {aboard the craft and were killed in the subsequent crash. —- Spanish rallways are not stand- ard European gauge. signature of President Franklin D.E % preciation of this generous, fars | Home and Confents of Cur- | g Lund, is a total loss, estimated at j Waves Knock Ouf Redodo Bea; alh Ho moving it to a new location. ITRAI T —Fire originating from an explo-|§g . Gilmore Wilson didn’t have to climb, only to step from a rowboat to Wy =N front portion of a three-story bath house (arrow) cnl.lpped from ha¥s $aftered Redondo Bedvh front intermittently for months. -Meanwhile, thie awrler of & néhrby apart- ment house (lower right) decided the sea wouldn't quict down, so he put the building on rollers and began the pounding of high waves. which L0S ANGELES | s take his positon atop a Los Angeles street sign as a result of floods which followed a series of heavy rain storms, Water was “several” feet deep in this spot as it formed a lake in a low area. ACTION ON John Perry MEMORIAL | Transferred FROMNORTH| To Norfhland WASHINGTON, March 12—The mountains, 85 miles northeast of | memorial from the Alaska Legisla- 'ture asking the 'Government con- struct a highway from Palmer to Copper Center was played before the Senate Saturday. The item is contained in the First Deficiency Appropriation bill pre- sented to the House containing funds for the road. . WASHINGTON, March 12—The Navy Department announces trans- fer of Commander John Perry, of the Naval Air Station in Seattle, to be commanding officer of the Naval| Air Station at Kodiak when that station is permanently established. ————— This year is the 130th anniver- sary of the accidental discovery of anthracite coal in Pennsyl- vania, PROJECTS "IN NORTH _ REQUESTED Delegate Dimond Asks Committee fo Approve of Work to Aid Fishermen WASHINGTON, March 12.—Alas- ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to- day urged the House Rivers. and | Harbors Committee to approve channel and other work in Alaskan | harbors for the benefit of the fish- ing boats as recommended by the Army Engineers. INVASION IEROHOUR NEARS NOW |German Troops Massed on Grecian, Turkish Front- iers Ready for Action THREE THOUSAND WAR PLANES WILL ATTACK *| Yugoslavia Is Expected fo Capitulate fo Axis De- mands During Day (By A-.o_h:l Pn-) German warplanes have already begun bombing Greek towns from bases in Bulgaria it is unofficially reported as Hitler massed half a million soldiers on the frontiers of Greece and Turkey, ‘With signs pointing to an immin- ent. showdown ! Yugoslavia and this will presum- ably open a new avenue for the ex- pected invasion of Greece. Zero Houy Nears Indicatiohs are that the zero hour for the capitulation of Yugoslavia and invasion of Greece is near. This 1 tion is seen as the steady str of the gouthward movement, azi troope ‘through, Bulgaria, way for the past ten days, has suddenly trickled to a trickle. Another factor is that Ger- man Staff officers are reported to have disappeared from Sofia and headed for the field headquarters at Plovdiv, 40 miles from the Greek border and 80 miles from the Turk- ish border. Three thousand German and Bul- garian warplanes have been placed ready for action, including siren- screaming Nazi bombers which were exploited with terrorizing effect in western Europe last spring. The Engineers recommended im- | provenments to cost $80,000 at Pet- ersburg, $31,000 at Port Alexander, $189,000 at Wrangell, $80,000 at Craig, $38,000 at Elfin Cove, and $50,000 at Seldovia. 'REPRESENTATIVE . FROM NEW YORK SUDDENLY PASSES P. L. Schwert, Former Ball I Player, Makes Brief Speech, then Dies WASHINGTON, March 12.—Rep- i resentative Pius L. Schwert, 48, of | Buffalo, New York, died suddenly {1ast night, apparently from an at- | tack of the heart, shortly after he had made a brief speech at a dinner party in a hotel. Schwert was a former New York Yankees ball player. RLALL i T Retired Officer 0f Army Is Dead LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 12— Brigadier Mathew C. Smith, 72, SEARCH FOR BOMB RING INTURKEY Atiempt Believed Made fo Assassinafe British DiplomaticOfficial ISTANBUL, March 12. — Turkish Police and Military authorities are searching for a“Balkan Bomb Ring,” believed to be behind the attempt to assassinate George Rendel, Bri- tish Minister who left German oc- cupled Bulgaria last Saturday and came to Istanbul. Four persons were killed and up- ward of 20 injured last night when a bomb exploded, wrecking the lobby of the luxurious Pera Plaza Hotel where the British - diplomat had brought his party from Sofia by train only a few minutes begore. ———— Delegale Presents Requefllf_ommllhe ‘WASHINGTON, March 12—Alas- Commander of Camp Sherman dur- ing the first World War and later one of the members of the General Staff of the Army, died at his home here last night. Smith retired in 1933, . | aska. ka Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to-~ day told the House Committee on Territories that additional educa- tional and communal facilities age, needed in the defense areas of Al-