The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 19, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8675. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA? MARCH 19, 1941. ~ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS CONFLICT NEARS, SOUTH PACIFIC CITY OF HULL FIRE BOMBED; MANY KILLED e — RECOMMENDLABOR MEDIATION BOARD LUFTWAFFE THUNDERING OVER NIGHT Violent Stru_gae Staged by Hundreds, German War- planes, Ceaseless Waves | BRITISH BOMBERS IN COUNTER ATTACK DesIroyersB—wI Off Foray of Long Range Craft on Merchant Ships (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Germany’s luftwaffe thundered fire bombs and Righ explosives on | English shipping and the city of Hull, with 2 population of 300,000. The violent overnight assault’ left great numbers of dead and wounded according to reports. Dispatches from Hull says the at- | tack was the worst of many suf-| fered there, raiders rol.rlne':wer-' head in steady waves and using the | same tactics that cost thousands | of lives and many hundreds injur-/ ed in the smashes last week on Liv-| erpool and Glasgow. | Attack Entire Night | Berlin said several hundred planes | engaged in the raid, attacking all through the night. One single explosive bomb wreck-| ed a shelter and the only survivor| there was a one year old baby. | British Counter Attack | British bombers countered = with | heavy attacks on the North German port of Kiel and again pounded the ” German Naval base at Wilhelmshav- en, also oil storage tanks‘at Rotter- dam, Germany's official statement says a number of civilians were killed and many injured in the British Air Force forays against the Reich but, as usual asserted property damage was slight, Stab At Convoy | German long range bombers again : . Stabbed in daylight early today at a | convoy of 35 merchant ships escort- ! ed by six British destroyers in the North Atlantic, | The official German news Agency, DNB, reoprts that one ship, of from 5,000 to 8,000 tons is listed as sunk| and another left with a heavy list.| The DNB acknowledges the British destroyers put a gallant defense and probably saved other ships of con- voy from destruction. } ——— |tured additional | SIGNS LEND-LEASE BILL The British aid bill became law when President Roosevelt signed the historic lease-lend legislation at the White House 15 minutes after it had arrived by special messenger from Capitol Hill. On the desk are some of the pens the President used in signing the measure. "Unknowns” Keep Wheels 0f Government Turning; Many "Don't Quofe Me" UptoSenate BRITISH TAKE MORE AFRICA FROMFASCISTS English CamEgn Planned fo Smash Italians Be- fore Rains Start CAIRO, March 19.—British forces today announced that they had cap- “important posi- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 18.— | There is one phase of government that is rarely mentioned—that most of the folk who do our daily chores here are ‘“unknowns.” I'm not talking about the poli- ticians. I'm talking about the work- ers, the experts, the dafly Plug- gers who keep the wheels turning. When President Roosevelt said once that, as executive assistants, he was looking for young men with “a passion for anonymity.” he probably was sitting right in the middle of the biggest nest of them in the world. If he had been seeking only that quality, he could have pressed a buzzer and had thousands within a few minutes. “DON'T USE MY NAME” 16 FORCE OF BRITISH IN GREECE Three Hundred Thousand Soldiers Reporfed Land- ed in Liftle Nation STRONG STAND MAY PREVENT NAZI WIN Turkish Foreian Minister Flies for Conference With Eden in Egypt (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The reported German Yugoslavia negotiations for a pact with the Axis is matched at the other end of the Balkans with reliable reports tha' Foreign Minister Saracoglu of Tur- key has left aboard a British plane for Palestine and believed enroute to Egypt to confer with British For- cign Minister Anthony Eden. ‘With the British pouring some 300,000 troops into Greece, the Is- tanbul newspaper Yeni Sabah de- clares that the strong British stand is the only thing to prevent a Ger- man victory in the Balkans. { Diplomatic messages reach [Bel- grade indicate the British have be- gan landing American made planes in Greece in anticipation with a _battle with German forces. | British Air Force pilots are re- ported to have flown the planes (from Cairo, iNav_yHOuIIay Bill Is Sent "Appropriation for Over Three Billion Dollars Is Out of Commitee WASHINGTON, March 18.—The Senate Appropriations Committee has approved of the $3,446,000,000 i outlay, the largest in peacetime his- || ;tory, for maintenance and expan- sion of the Navy for the fiscal year beginning July 1. The House has already approved | of the huge appropriation. | The measure is scheduled to come up for consideration tomorrow. | Of the appropriation, the bill ear- ries $1,515,000,000 for contract au- itherity for new ships to speed con- |struction of a powerful two ocean | fleet. tions” to the south of beseiged Cher- |en in Eritrea and have repulsed It- |alian counter 'attacks with serious |losses to the Facists. | The Middle Fast Command an- WASHINGTON — U. 8. Army-|;cunces the action as part of a Navy strategists who - have Me“!campaign aimed at smashing the One day I went to get a story| about a man who has dome yeo-| man service for the government.! He had worked out a technique' ooses which was saving the Government | hundreds of thousands of dollars! a year. At the insistehce of his| putting Hitler's strategy under the microscope are convinced that the) weather will have more to do with/ the date of his forthcoming blitz- krieg than anything else. | Weather always has governed| Hitler'’s moves, beginning with Sep-| tember 1, 1939, when he picked the dry fall season to invade Poland.| Six weeks later the rains would/ have made Polish roads a quag- mire. Likewise Hitler went into Nor-|t0 8 man whose office was on the| way at & time when the snow and winter weather in the north would' be against the British, while mild- er weatiler favored the Germans| in southern Norway. The invasion of France, Holland, and Belgium (Continued on Page Four) Italians before the rainy starts, British military circles indicated that they would occupy Jijiga in Ethiopia by Monday. —,o—— CRIME NEVER PAYS SPARTANBURG, S. C—A boot- legger told a Federal officer here that he delivered a ten-gallon keg of moonshine whiskey on his back season fifth floor of a building and the man paid him with a check — that bounced. —l More than 39,000,000 persons passed through New York's Grand superiors, he had written a book about it and the book had just come off the press. His was an in- teresting story. Back of it was an interesting personality who had doggedly pursued a fixed idea for years until he had it whipped. I talked with him for: hours. I was just getting ready to leave when he said: “But you understand, of course, you mustn't use my name.” T had to go all the way to the top of the ladder and get an order| from his department head, before I could break down his insistence’ on anonymity. Another time, I went fo the Army to get material for some ar- ticles ‘on a brand new phase of (Continued on Page Seven) ~ NewLeader ~ AsMediafor NEW YORK, March 19~Philip | Murray, new CIO chietain, submitted his own name and that of Thomas | Kennedy, Secretary of the United Mine Workers of America, as the CIO choices for membership on Pre- sident Roosevelt’s proposed eleven |man mediation board. The names were submitted to Roosevelt, Murray said, after both| had been approved at a closed meet- | supply of vegetable oils, Bulgaria | ing of the CIO’s National Execu- [tive otticers. whr Deferse Directors William S. Knudsen (left) and Sidney Hillman (H‘h (center) faced reporters as they emerged from the White House after recommending to the President a mediation board to handle labor problems related to the defense program. . WORKS WHILE HE WAITS Secretary. of so;u Cordell Hull (foreground) checked the manuscript of his testimeny while waiting to testify before a House appropriations subcommittee on the President’s request for $7,000,000,000. Next to him sits Secretary of Navy Frank Knox talking to John L. McCloy, Special Assistant to Secretary of War Stimson, Gennany_iomrols Pofash Monopoly| HisBike WhepHe | Is Allowed fo Bid BERLIN, March 19—The defeat of France has returned to Germany the European potash monopoly held by her, it is claimed, untilf the end of World War I ‘with the occupation of Alsace, all potash deposits there, esti- mated at approximately 300 mil- lion tons, have fallen into Ger- man hands and are being exploit- ed in increasing measure. o e rers Because' the war has cut off the and Yugoslavia are producing to- bacco-seed oil. Boy'fifially Gels LOS ANGELES, March 19—At the semi-annual police auction of un- claimed bicycles a thin voice kept piping unguccessfully, “Five dol- lars.’ Finally the auctioneer led |out Ephraim Laibchaik, 14, “how P “Young man,” he asked, much money have you?¥ “Five dollars, sir." “Dont you think this boy deserves a break?” the auctioneer demanded of the erowd. On the next bicycle there was only one bid—85, AUSTRALIA | PREPARING, WAR MOVE Southern Cof‘ntry Looks for Trouble Any Time Now with Nippon Empire UNITED STATES IS IHCREASING STAFFS Experfs Beifi?Sent fo Var- ious Strategic Poinfs- Warshi;go_n Scene BULLETIN — NEW YORK, March 19.—A radio broadcast by the Japanese News Agency Do- mel, picked dp here, quotes Jap- anese arri in Japan from Sydney, A as saying “Australia is ser- icusly-the possibility of war with The broadcast farther ‘el 34° members of the staff of the Jap- anese Takashimaya Company have arrived at Kobe from Aus- tralian points. U. 8. ACTIVITY BATAVIA, March 19—~The Uni- ted States is reported increasing the staff of Naval experts in the Far East and South Pacific, stationing additional officials at Singapore, Darwin, Sydney and Auckland be- sides other strategic points. The addition to staff officers is also reported extending by the Uni- ted States to the legations at Can- berra and Bangkok. The information received is that ohservers do not believe the addi- tional officials aré members of any American diplomatic ' or Consular service but strictly Naval or Army experts. At ‘the same time great interest s attached to the “training cruise” of American warships which cur- rently puts a total of four cruisers and nine destroyers of the United States Navy in Australian and New Zealand waters. Reports continue to circulate, des- pit any support from official quart- s, that the American contingent of warships in the Far East and Aus- tralian waters will be available if Japan moves southward, YUGOSLAVIA 'HOLDS OFF, AXIS PACT German Circles, However, (laim Nation Will Sign- Others M;ahe Denial BELGRADE, March 19.—Victor von Heeren, German Minister to Yugoslavia, conferred today ' for half an hour with Foreign Minis- ter Markovic on German-Yugoslav- ic relations. i t) and Secretary of Labor Perkins U. 5., CANADA SIGN MEASURE FOR DEFENSE Work, St. Lawrence, Great Lakes Power Project " fo Start af Once WASHINGTON, Mach 19. — The United States and Canada. teday signed an agreement for the immediate procedure of the development of the Great Lakes- St. Lawrence River Seaway and power project as a vital joint defense measure, The ftate Department, in an- nouncing the signing in Ottawa by American and Canadian of- ficials, made public the exchange of nctes by which President Rocsevelt linked the project and the policy of alding Britain to win the war. An engineering repert gave the total estimated cost at $265,- 00T,000, Immediate objectives of the pro- jeet are to increage the power production of the International Rapids section of the St. Law- rence outlet and to Increase shipbuilldimg facilities in the Great Lakes area. U.S. HELP 1S NEEDED BY FRANCE _ jculated the report that Yugoslavia will sign a pact with the Axis on March 26. This report has been heard else- | \Petain Declares American | Food Necessary-Plans New Constifution | Yusouay “qusrters " that the. Bar- { | srade Government has stiffened GRENOBLE, March 19. — Pre- the attitude against Germany, es- ! mier Petain of unoccupied France,'pecially since the British troops |told his Nationals today that Am- have landed in Greece. erican aid is necessary for the ———,———— feeding of France. An elaborate “plumbing” sys- | Petain also amnounced that a tem of oxygen pipes into which {new Prench Constitution will be crew members may plug lines is |drawn but only after European one of the latest innovations In jpeace is concluded. lU. S. Army bombers,