The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 20, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE 'VOL. LVIL, NO. 8676. % “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN13 JAPAN MAKES SUSPICIOUS MOVE BRITISH SUPPLY LINE RAIDED BY NAZIS When Franco Met With Petain on French Soil LONDON IS HIT HARD INNIGHT GERMAN RAID Attack Rep(fi;fi fo Be Most, Severe of Year-Con- finues for Hours RESIDENCES BLOWN UP; | HUGE FIRES STARTED| Shipping Alo_n; Coast Rak- ed by Bombers as They Make Nose Dives BERLIN, March 20.—The German High Command, in an official com- munique, declares that 66,000 wnsi of shipping were sunk during the| * night in a continuance of attacks on Great Britain's supply line as strong units of warplanes blasted dock facilities and other targets, in- | cluding London, in a violent assault. The High Command admits Lhei attack was ‘“unprecendented” ana hundreds of planes participated in' the night raid dropping about 10,000 incendiary bombs and hundreds of high explosive bombs. LONDON NIGHT RAIDED LONDON, March 20.—Ships were| demolished, business houses and i homes badly damaged and heavy| casualties resulted from a -continu- ous stream_of German night raiders | on the southeast English coast dur- ing the past night. London was repeatedly attacked during the night and it was not un- til early this morning that the n.- vading air forces began their trek homeward and dropped the last of their devastating bombs. | London is badly scarred as the re- sult of the bombings. It is officially said the attack was the worst noc- turnal pounding of this yéar. | ‘ | i ‘ | Admiral Francols Darlan, General Francisco Franeo and Marshal Henrl Petain In this original picture from Europe, flown to the United States by Clipper ship, Generalissimo Fran- cisco Franco of Spain is shown, center, as he con- ferred at Montpellier, France, with the French chief of state, Marshal Henri French foreign minister, Admiral Francois Darlan. Latest reports from Europe say that Franco has abruptly turned down a German demand for facill- tles to fly military planes across Spain to the Petain, and the | African continent. Indusirialists in Small Towns Put Up Roar for i | “GO- WASHINGTON — When Harry Hopkins, reported to Roosevelt that the most urgent British need is cargo ships, he started s series o(' moves that are destined to have far-reaching consequences on U. S. shipping. ; In process behind the scenes is| the establishment of & tie-up be-| tween the U. S. Maritime Commis-| sion and the British Ministry M, Shipping, under which the mer-| chant fleets of both nations will in| effect operate as a single coordin-| ated unit. That is, British bottoms| will be withdrawn from Mfln} and African routes and U. S.ships| will take their place. This would give the British some/ cargo vessels desperately needed to carry the war materials soon to pour from the U. 8, and at the| same time enable the U, 8. to ob- tain rubber chromite, tungsten, wool, and other strategic commodi-! ties without being dependent on! British ships. However, while the advantages are apparent, the plan will entail some drastic changes in the con- trol of U. 8. shipping. The British war government now has an iron grip on all its ship-| ping. They first tried to regulate their merchant fleet by &' Hcensing, or priority, system; but “this soon (Continued on Page four) Purpose of Gellipg Work U. . NAVY SHIPS IN AUSTRALIA Iremendous_WeIcome Giv- en af Sydney fo Seven American Craft SYDNEY, Australia, March 20.— Hundreds of thousands of Austral- ians stood on the shores of tne flag decked Sydney harbor today and cheered the arrival of seven United Btates war craft headed by the flag- ship Chicago. The visit of some of the great Am- erican fleet is part of a training cruise and hailed by the newspapers and official circles as a token cf the Australian-American friendship. > Australians gave a tremendotis ov- ation to the officers and men of the United States Navy. e DEFENSE DOLLARS MAKE BIG NOISE ROANOKE, Va., March 20—The young son of a construction worker at a big powder plant at nearby Radford expresed alarm about the safety of his father because, he fi. there had been a big explo- Secrctar); No More % © o> By JACK STINNETT I WASHINGTON, March 20. | With the lease-lend bill out of the, way, the cry of small manufac- ‘turers located away from the east-| ern seaboard to get in on defense; contracts is almost sure to rise to a roar. | Already it is a lusty shout in Washington. Even now congress-| men and Senators are stuffing cot- ton in their ears as they try to understand pleas from small in- + dustrialists. The other day I sat in the. of- fice of an Army colonel into whose | lap is dumped a large number of | the prospectuses and catalogs that | descend' on the Army. : “Just look at those heaps” he; groaned, indicating piles of pros-| pectuses; They were all shapes and sizes and ranged from elabo-| rate ones printed in color to, ° sheaves of poorly typed script. | “It's a job, but you have to go| HN Kay Harris Formerly a secretary in a tan- through every one. Sometimes cinnati, O. radio station, Kay they have something we want Harris has been signed to play the badly. title role in the movie version of “Tillie the Toiler,” famous comio strip. Producer Robert Sparks, with his bride, Penny Singleton, the movie Blondie, discovered Miss Harris while honeymooning in Cincinnati, Mannerheim’s Dief “Here, for instance.” | FIELD KITCHENS' | He pulled out three neatly-writ-| ten prospectuses, and told how one! town is planning to get its share' of defense industry. One prospectus can be disposed of immediately, for although it came !ra::.; eo:::nuvely large| st St |5 Walched by Fi turn out tents, his machines willl s a y nns only do nine stitches to the inch| COPENHAGEN, March 20.—The and Army requirements call for Finnish Field Marshal Mannerheim 11 |will get his special porridge, made The second can be ‘tossed off of cracked buckwheat, after all. almost as quickly for this oom-f It was recommended as part of his pany simply made something dif-' diet by physicians but the war halt- ferent. that the Army might want ed importation from England and badly — portable electrical units America. Finns living in Denmark for heavy duty use (originally heard about the difficulty, bought lup the small quantities available (Continued on Page Seven) here, and sent it to him, BIG FORCE OF BRITISH ATSALONIKA Back Door of Balkans Is Reinforced Against Pos- sible German Move GERMAN STATEMENTS MADE ARE PERPLEXING Intimate Sefflement Re- garding Greek Ques- fion Has Been Made BELGRADE, March 20.—The Bri- tish are reported to have landed “great numbers" of troops yesterday at Salonika, back door of the Bal- kans and likely to be the first ob- jective of any German thrust into Greege. P This is understood to be the first apearance of British forces at Salon- ika, pl§)oush Lhe diserobarking force is e to total 300,000 men :who, have been under way for several days to five ports in southern Greece. Accounts say the landing troops at Salcnika brought along vast sup- plies of gasoline. Berlin dispatches reaching Bel- grade asserted “the Greek questicn is already settled,” but failed to say just what kind of settlement had been made, Germans added, however, ‘“only a short time must elapse before this conflagration which had threatened to engulf other Balkan states will be extinguished.” Additional advices from Berlin de- clared furthér that Turkish-Yugo- slav questions were now settled, but they too were without explanation. An uncomfirmed report from the Albanian frontier said that Greek forces ‘that have ‘been hammering Tepelini since mid-December fin- ally had entered and were taking many Fascist prisoners and quan- tities of Italian war material. SUBMARINE ' BASE UNDER BRIT.ATTACK Lorient Raidfl with Suc- cess During Night - Co- longe Facfories Fired LONDON, March 20.—The Ger- man submaréne base at Lorient, in occupied France, was attacked by British aireraft last night, according to the British Air Ministry. The attack on Lorient was carried out by the air craft of the coastal command, and is declared to be “most suecessful.” Other British craft raided Cologne, hitting several factories and start- ing fires. Returning from the attack, sev- eral air engagements followed on the home treking Nazi planes ufter they had raided .London and the| southeast coast. It is said two, pos- sibly three large German bombers were shot down as they had spent all of their ammunition on raius and had no defensive stock on board, N.G. DRILL The Juneau unit of the Alaska National Guard will hold the regular weekly drill tonight in the Armory. |R.oll call will be at 8 o'clock sharp. ——— New York State has approxi- mately 13,500,000 residents, | | |after upholding the House on the Thailand Given Terrifory KUNMING THAILAND 3KOK 7 rrAMnuc"l 4 Diagonally-shaded areas of this map indicate territory ceded to Thai- land by Frerch-Indo-China in their frontier dispute. The Mekong ( River limits much of the new country. France retains much of the Luang-Prabang section (1) which Thalland demanded originally. The islands of Khong and Kone (2) will be under Thal sovereignty, but joint administration. New WPA Chiet l Howard O. Hunter President Roosevelt has nominat- ed Howard O. Hunter of Illinois, above, to be national Works Progress Administrator, succeed- ing the late Col. Francis Harring- ton, former head. ANOTHERBIG NAVAL BILL | IS APPROVED WASHINGTON, March 20.— The Senate has approved the Three Bil- lion, Four Hundred and Forty-Six Million Dollar Naval Appropriation approved provision preventing the purchase by the Navy of corned beef from Latin-American coun- tries. —————.—— — Manufacture of cane sugar is ITALIAN CONVOYIS ATTACKED Three Brifish Submarinesr Sent Down Two, Possi- bly 3 Supply Ships LONDON, arch 20.—Three Bri- tish submarines pounced on Ital-! ian convoys and sank two heavily laden supply ships,’ almost certain- ly' destroyed another, and scored two direct hits on crowded troop transports, one which is believed to have been sent down, The British Admiralty makes the | report following radio dlspnwhea! | (from the Commander of the fleet in | the Mediterranean sea zone, The two supply ships sunk, evi- dently bound to a port in Albania, ! were of about 2500 tons each. Tne| ship believed to have been sent down | is given as about 1500 tons. One crowded transport, given as a 3500 ton craft, was believed to| have been hit squarely amidships. The attack was carried out by the submarines penetrating the sup- | posed to be mined Itallan waters of the lower Adriatic sea. | NEW YORK, March 20.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 85 3/4, Anaconda 24%, Bethlehem Steel 78%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 9, General Motors 43%, International Harvester 48, Kennecott 34%, New York Central 12 3/4, Northern Pa- cific 6, United States Steel 357, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: industrials 123.60, rails 27.97, utilities 19.86. - The United States is the world's ACTION OF NIPPON IS DISTURBING Rumors Are Circulated of Both Troop and War- ship Movements SOLDIERS TO BE SENT T0 THAILAND One Hundred Thousand Men Scheduled fo. Be: Taken from Hainan (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Widespread reports intimate . the Japanese are making suspic- ious. moves in the Far Esst that will endanger the British and possibly involve the United Stat- es. Although unable to trace the rumors, it is sald the Japanese from Kainan Island scross mid- dle French-Indo China Into Thai- land. Incidentally Japanese battle- ships and other naval craft will move southward and constitute a threat of British territory in the north, the Malay States, and the Singapore base in the south. The troop movement may be frem Bangkok toward the north- ern border of British Malay or turn northeast toward the Bur- ma berder in an attempt to is- olate Chungking, Capital city of the Central Chinese Govern- ment and prevent the movement of supplies over the Burma road. Both troop and naval move- ments threaten disruption of “peaceful” relations in the Far East, British Aid Fund Quickly Passe!:House Unprecedenfed Peacetime Measure Withsfands At- lacks—Goes_to Senate WASHINGTON, March 20.— The House, late yesterday afternoon, voted swift approval of $7,000,000,- 000 in cash for the British aid pro- | gram. The unprecedented peacetime measure was immediately sent to the Senate, just one week after President Roosevelt asked for the big fund. Repeated efforts were made by some Republican House members to reduce the fund but the biparti- san majority easily ditched all pro- posals. The House passed the British Aid legislation by a vote of 336 to 57. Administration leaders predict it will get prompt action and en- dorsement early next week in the Senate, The Appropriations Committee was expected to start hearings dur- ing this afternoon. e ALLITERATION FORT WILLIAMS, Me. — The ! Army, not at all impressed by the subtle beauty of alliteration, spoiled it all by transferring Private Wil- liam H. Williams of Williams Street, Willlamson, W. Va., from Fort Wi~ Hawaii’s principal industry. foremost producer of sulfur, llams to Camp Edwards, in Mas-