The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 14, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8671. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AZIS, BRITISH IN NIGHT RAIDS gainst Germany, ltaly Italian Ship Reported Sunk With High Death Toll New Move INVASION BY TROOPS | OF BRITISH Unifs Will Be Landed in | | Armored Barges, Each | Carrying 50 Men NEW CARRIER CRAFT | 15 ANNOUNCED TODAY Royal Air Force Achieving! Superiority-Berlin fo | Daylight Attacked | | LONDON, March 14—It was re-| vealed today that Great Britain is| equipping invasion troops for use" against both Germany and Italy. These units will be landed in new armoered invasion barges carrying some fifty men each. he front of the barges have some- | thing like a steel shield with 18 port holes for fast firing guns. | The water borne troops will also be protected by a coordinated bar- rage of naval guns from battleships | and attack bombers. Tt is also disclosed that the'Brftish Air Force is now achieving some superiority and it is hinted that the day is not far distant when Ber- lin will be bombed in broad daylight | Note Checking Britain’s Detenses British Secretary of State for War post during a tour of inspection of the Anti-Aircraft Command in England. gunners’ pet on the parapet. Britain is intensifying he i th growing suspicion that Germany will try the long-threatened invasien soon. Planned A LABORDRIVE ' FOR DEFENSE ISNEWMOVE I Nation Starts Tomorrow for Talent Pool ing to establish a great national pool of talent from which craftsmen may be chosen for jobs in the de- fense industries, the Government is appealing for cooperation from American labor in a voluntary regis- | tration drive opening tomorrow. port to the nearest state employ- | ment service office. 3 The appeal is addressed in parti- cular to every unemployed worker javailable for work or training for ;derense jobs and to every person Registration Throu ghoutv | WASHINGTON, March 14.—Mov- | Those wishing to register may re- | with “urgently needed skill” not be- | !ing used in his present position. —_———— FDR fo Speak sson visits a Lewls vigi- WOMENTO AID PLANS OF NATION Defense Chief Suggests Work to Be Done in Homes and without exceptional proportion- ate loss WASHINGTON—Keep your eye on those wage-hour neznt.hnomi R between coal miners dhd opel‘mrs; BY HARRIET ELLIOTT A are the| ;::;eomn?hgefl\g‘ ’:"'he!y'u ::"Cansumzr Adviser to the Defense long been waiting to make his re- Commission entry into the limelight, Inside word among his intimates is that| We are today in a program of “to- he is loaded for bear and r'arin’ to!tal defense.” It is Democracy’s ans- go. |wer to total war. Everyone has a Quiescent for three months, Lewis|stake in it. Everyone can make a plans to use the contract parleys contribution. to air his views on national and| This is not merely an emergency foreign affairs. From all accounts/in which we must build up an army, he has plenty of views and during|a two-ocean navy, and a potent air his long silence thought up lots of|force. It is an emergency in which snappy cracks to voice them. | we must build up a strong people, He is still as bitter about Roo-|a people with mechanical skills, peo- sevelt as ever; still is against che!ple with intelligence enough to sort defense program; still is hotly op."mmors from facts angd face down posed to the lend-lease idea. How.;communny hysteria. ever, he has undergone & change| Women's role today lies in this of opinion on Wendell Willkie.jsecond phase of defense—in the Lewis is so sensitive about this| Protection of our human resources. topic that his friends a"(uuy;‘l'he work is not glamorous nor dra- avoid bringing it up. matic, but it can form a major Lewis may go on the air dm.mg}bulwnrk for our democracy. the negotiations. He will await de- velopments to determine his course,| but it’'s a safe bet that not much| persuasion will be needed to get him on the ether waves. to be done. Women in the home have the work to be done. Women in the home have the greatest responsibility. They must build up the nation’s strength and energy by feeding their families ‘t.he right food, by seeing that every family in their community is living above the health safety line. NEW LEWIS PARTY? One reason is his closely-guarded | scheme to launch a new political party, made up of dissident ele- ments such as left-wing laborites, Should Study Nutrition under-privileged farmers and farm| 5.0 are probably thousands of f""ke"‘ Negryoes. Commuis “’:women who have never studied mod- funny-money” pensionites, isola-' o, nyrition methods. There are "“’ms":’ n::da ‘m“n'l‘m‘l‘feiomer thousands who need to bring groups who gainst Roosevelt's i . i A polles: their nutrition skills up to. date. Lewis has been nursing this plan|gguqy course. That will be possible for a long time, and will seize m!m::agh public food clinics. Where opportunity during the contract there are no such clinics women can parleys to put over some Indirect|pand together. to form'one. plugs for it. His approach will be| These same women in the home that the soaring industrial activity have identical responsibilities to- under the defense program Is only ward their communities They can a temporary, unsound economic pal-| help local nutrition programs such liative; that only through a newias school lunches. They can help political alignment is there hope in low cost food marketing plans, (Continued on Page Four) l , (Gontinued on Page Seven) (Written For AP Feature Service) | Let me suggest some of the work | The first duty is to join some food | Scheduled from 6:30'to NEW BOOST | IN SOCIAL | |020 SECURITY, 52 radio address to the nation to- morrow night on defense aid to nations battling aggressors. President Plans Recom- mendations for Program -0ld People Benefit He will speak for thirty min- utes between 6:30 pm. (PST) WASHINGTON, March 14.—Pre- sident Roosevelt at a conference and 7 o'clock. The President’s address will be with the newsmen today said he is going to recommend that the num- made during the annual dinner ber of persons covered by the Social given him by the White House Correspondents Association. Security program benefits receive increases and some developments On the question of the specific nature of war supplies that have regarding this program may be ex- pected in the spring. been or are to be sent tc Great Britain, Roosevelt today chose to The President also asserted that there should also be a greater equal- remain indefinite. He said in response to ques- tions that there has been no de- cision regarding the transfer of additional naval eraft at this time, and as for cargo vessels, he said, this country has none available for transfer. ization of benefits to the old people, something we want to go ahead with. ——————— H Act had already started to its I y re destination but withheld details regarding the transfer. ——————— Killedby |QUICK HEL Explosion IS SOUGHT . ¢ i 'Eighty Persons Injured- FROM u_ S_ Over 300 Houses De- |y .cior of Shioni shroyed by Blas! inister of Shipping Com- it ing fo U. 5.-Also Food- The number of those injured is placed at not less than 80. All of Seville felt the blast. A statment was issued today by Over 300 houses are known to have| Prime Minister Churchill’s office been wrecked in the suburb, scarcely |that Great Britain is sending Sir one remaining intact. Arthur Salter, Parliamentary Se- Twenty five hundred persons are|cretary and Minister of Shipping left homeless. to the United States immediately to work out details to aid shipping. A Mission under Robert Brad will TomorrowOn | Defense Aid Radio Broadeast Saturday | o_nr{ylng either German or Italian According to reports from London, the [talian pas- senger liner, Confe Rosso, believed to have been ‘troops from Italy to Libya, has heen sunk with an enormous loss of lite after striking & newly-laid British mine In the central Mediterranean. and the Dardanelles, it ~nbmarine bases, with This is how the Turkish-owned Bosporus, separating Eu Near East, appears at its narrowest point. With connects the Black Sea, the Aegean Sea, where Anglo-Greek warshipg are reported ready for action. and the the Sea of Marmora where Germany has By JACK STINNETT a growing kid, the government fis mother, on a limited budget that suit every other month, could get any more gray hairs than the Pub- lic Buildings Administration, the Office of Planning and Space con- trol, and a lot of others. Even though government build- ing 15 going on around here at such & dizzy pace you can almost go up in an elevator today over the same ground where you played one- Earlier today, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson told re- porters that some defense mater- SEVILLE, Spain, March 14.—-Fifty f Micei | persons were killed, the authorities Stu" MISSlon on way estimate, when the Santa Barbara R ases LONDON, March 14.—Great Bri- tan is asking for quick help from Five soldiers, guarding the powder plant are among those killed. The watchman told “friends dur-|also go to the United States to ar- ing today that he intended to load ! vange for foodstuffs. several boxes of explosives and it is The official statement said ship- ial to be transferred to Great Britain under the Lease-Lend Powder Depot, near here, blew up late this afternoon. the United Btates to bolster the Mer- chant Marine. believed. one fell, causing the blast. Ping needs are most urgent. eyed cat with the kids yesterday, office “space ocan't keep up with government - expansion. It’s national defense, of coursa WASHINGTON, March 14.—Like| 4 | resulted in the employment of 30,-( didn’t permit buying Junior a new | CROWDED CAPITALTHINKS IT MIGHT LIKE T0 ADOPT " PLANTO"DECENTRALIZE" but merely to say tuat that has busting ‘out of its clothes. And no[ 000 or 40000 employees in the District of Columbia doesn't give| any picture of the office space problem. ONE SOLUTION: TWO SHIFTS ting its clerical force on a two- shift basis, with one coming on early in the morning and working {untll mid - afternoon; the other picking up there and working un- ‘tfl nearly midnight, Out in Arling- l_wn, Va., there is under construc- (Continued on Page Seven) For example, the Navy is put-' Urged On Navy Bill Report of Commitiee Re- veals New Type of Cruisers Building BULLETIN —WASHING- TON, March 14—The House passed the Naval Appropria- tion bill this afternoon and im- mediately transmitted it to the Senate. WASHINGTON, March 14.—Ap- pealing to speedy approval of the | Three Billion, Four Hundred and Forty Five Million Dollar naval ap- propriation bill, Chairman James | G. Scrugham, of the Naval Appro- | priation Subcommittee, told the |House today that “mastery at sea” | will be the declding factor of war. The committe report on the bill {discloses that among the craft be- |ing built of the United States Navy |are six powerful battle cruisers of a type new to the United States. - (. P. SERVICE ' OVERPACIFIC IS CANCELLED {Passenger Reservations Are All Off-No Future Bookings Accepied { SHANGHAL March 14.—The Can- adian Pacific today cancelled all reservations on Trans-Pacific routes and announced future bookings by the company will not be accepted. Officials of the Steamship Ser- vice of the Canadian Pacific said the action is necessary because of the uncertainty over sailings caused by withdrawal of three or four liners reported converted into troop ships. - —— The croton shrub, a vivid bush with colors similar to autumn fol- iage, dominates Puerto Rico gar- dens. ' | | —_———————— | ‘Treason is a capital offense in 16 states, \ FURIOUS ATTACKS STAGED IempeslumrBlows Struck at Four Big Cenfers in Germany HUGE FIRES BREAK OUT, HAMBURG PORT Reich Fliers Pull Off Count- er Assaults on Four Island Sections (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) British Air Forces raiders again carried the war to Germany last night in s renewed fury striking tepestuous blows at the ports of Hamburg, Bremen and Emden and raking the Nazi held port of Rotter- dam., A Berlin report said fifty nurses and patients “are known to be dead, the attack was the “most severe” yet delivered on that bomb battered port. Huge fires broke out around . the shipbuildings yards, docks 3 warehouses “which received special attention the night before.” The German High Command dis- missed the military damage at Ham- burg as the result of the British at- tack as “insignificant” but admit- ted considerable other property was “it is belleved many lives have The British claim 11 large man warplanes were shot down night in fierce action making a tal of 23 bombers lost by the since last Wednesday night. The Germans make no mention of their losses but clajm 12 Royal . Alr Force planes have been destroy- ed. . ——ee—— ITALIANS LOSE OUT, AIR FIGHT Fourteen W;r}hnes Are Downed by British in Albania Sector ATHENS, March 14.—The Royal Air Force Headquarters here an- nounced today that 14 Italian fighter planes have been downed and a number have been badly damaged in an air battle over the Klisura- Tepelini sector in Albania. The headquarters also announced that not a single British fighter plane or bomber has been lost in the present aerial warfare in Albania and in defense of Greece against aggression. —eoo—— “'SEVEN"