The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 24, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8680. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MARCH 24, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS GERMANS MOVE TOWARD GREECE |SENATE PASSES BRITISH AID MEASURE BILL IS GIVEN| APPROVAL BY VOTE OF 67-9 Goes ThrougTuWiihout Any Change - Be Flown fo FDR for Signature WAETINGTON, March 24— The Senate has passed, by a vote of 67 to 9, the British Ald Leg- islation, The legislation is for a Seven Billien dollar. appropriation to finance the Administration’s all out pregram to aid Great Bri- tain especially, The House passed the legis- lation last week. The Senate approved the mea- sure withcut any change follow- ing a two hour debate. ' Many Senators who opposed the eriginal lend and lease mea- sure said they voled for the ap- propriaticn to carry out the law. Arrangements were immed- iately made to fly the bill to the President who is now cruising — e ———— NEW YORK, March 24.—~Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock is 4%, American Can 85%, Anaconda 24%, BEthlenem Steel mmonwealth and Southern Wright 9, Gencral Mo- International Harvester ott 33%, New York Cen- 2 Northern Pacific 6, United s Steel 56%, Pound $4.03 DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, ; averages; industridls 12240, rails 28.02, utilities 19.61, b — e The average soldier in the Unit- ed States Army -gets .88 pounds of meat a day. WASHINGTON — Anything can happen in the tempestuous Balkans, but it seems certain that Roosevelt diplomacy and the lease-lend bill were responsible for delaying the Nazi attack on Greece for at least ten days. X The big thing which the lend- lease bill did for the British was to permit tanks, anti-tank guns, and anti-aircraft guns to be landed at Lalonika immediately. The British had only lmited supplies of these, and had to keep some in reserve for use around Suez and other vital Mediterranean areas. However, with passage of the lend- lease bill, they knew they could get reserves later from the United Stat- es, therefore threw all their present resrves onto the Greek front. This type of munitions is what the Turks have especially needed. They have plenty of rifles, machine guns and a reascnable amount of artillery; but few anti-tank or anti-aircraft guns to stop the advance of modern mechanical forces. NOTE — The Balkans has been getting its American news chiefly from the official German DNB news agency, which had played up all the Wheeler-Nye speeches, gave' the impression that the United States was against Roosevelt and that the bill could not pass. Final passage, however, could not be suppressed in the news dispatches and had a tre- mendous effect upon Balkan public (Gontinuea on Fage four) Where $7,000, AlR‘CRAFT ACCESSORIES FARM OMMODITIES, ARTICLES 12918 000,000 Will Go 1.350.000.000. #,343.000000. FACTORIES. MACHI ' TOOLS. SUP! SHIPS oand FACILITIES TANKS, TRUCKS NERY. %s 752.000000. L ] 629,000,000 3 862,000.000. AUTO PARTS MILITARY [P 260,000.000. * 200,000.000. 40,000,000.! 10,000,000. { This chart shows how President Roosevelt plans to spend the $7,000,- 000,000 requested of Congress to finance the Lend-Lease Act and “make for democracies every gun, plane and munition of war that we | possibly can.” The estimates were drawn up by U. 8. Budget Director | Harold R. Smith. { Warns U. S. on Firer | 3 Mayor LaGuardia Testifying in Washington before the house public buildings com- mittee on the recent London tour of New York fire fighters, Mayor ) Fiorello H. LaGuardia told hig listeners that fire fighting equip- ment in' U, 8. cities is insufficient to combat incen bombs. He said London paid heavily for lack of such equipment in the first months of the waz NEGOTIATIONS BROKEN OFF IN COAST DISPUTE Government Asked o Take Over Operation of California Plant LOS ANGELES, Cal, March 24. —Edward Cheyfitz, International Secretary-Treasurer of the CIO Diecasters Union, last Saturday night announced a breakoff in ne- gotiations to end an eight-day strike and said he had wired to Presi- dent Roosevelt asking the Govern- ment to take over the operation of ‘the Harvill Aircraft Diecasting Corporation’s plant. Cheyfitz said the production of the plant is vital to all west coast plane manufacturers. | Chairman MartinTakes (nfpusumi 'COMMITTEE 15 MEETING Fling at New Deal-Will- | i kie Makes Statement | WASHINGTON, March 24.—Rep- resentative Joseph W. Martin, Jr., of Massachusetts, in the role of Chairman of the Republican Na- !tional Committee, today declared | the United States is staggering “along in the direction of war and | in the face of the possibility of na- | tional bankruptey.” | Under the circumstances, Martin | further said, it is the responsibility of the Republican Party to “police and audit the New Deal Adminis- tration to protect our country, fi- nancially, political and sociall from | bankuptey and the scandals of 1918 must not be repeated.” | Martin addressed a closed meet- ing of the Republican National Committee called to discuss the or- ganization and problems. Before the committee convened, Wendell L. Willkie, Republican Presidential nominee in 1940, dis- claimed the “slightest interest at this time in the candidacy of any- one for office in 1942 or 1944.” The statement occasion reports, circulated on the eve of the com- mittee meeting, that he is not inter- ested in the 1944 nomination for President. Speculation is Tiow that Willkie will back Gov. Harold Stas- sen of Minnesota when the time comes. TVEE IN AND OUT, BOUND FOR SEATTLE Steamer Tyee of the Alaska Transportation Company arrived in Juneau at 9:30 o'clock Saturday night and sailed for Seattle via Sitka at midnight with four pas- sengers from Juneau. Passengers to Seattle were Mrs. W. P. Sullivan, Mrs. Rex Chittick and Mrs. Elmer Garnes. Bruce Bowers was bound for Sitka. ——————— — HOLBROOK IS BACK ON MOUNT McKINLEY Wellman Holbrook, Assistant Re- gional Forester, returmed here on the steamer Mount McKinley after a three months’ business and pleas- ure trip to the States. U. 5. MARINES %2 054.000.000 :ARE ON GUARD1 INSHANGHAI | Are Pairollfintemation- [ al Settlement, Helmeted % -With Fixed Bayonefs SHANGHAI, March 24. — United | States Marines with steel helmets \and carrying rifles with fixed bay- | onets, are today patrolling the’ prin- cipal thoroughfares and sections of ! the International Settlement after | 10 persons were killed and 56 injured in the terrorist bombings of two banks affiliated with the National Chinese Government at Chungking. ! The United States Marines took | i up guard on nearby American prop- | | erty immediately after the blasts | | but withdrew after the International | | Settlement authorities called out the | | reserve police. The Marines then reestablished a patrol as the result of new un- certainties over the situation. { The terrorists are said to be an | organized party of Japanese, with | some coerced Chinese. H ——————— Program for Navy Projecis Going Ahead Various Bas—és_ Will Be De- J, | | | | { | | Red Cross Nurses Pay Tribute to Founder Red Cross nurses in uniform stand at attention during memorial services in Dgllno Memorial Gardens, Washington,,in honor of Jane Delano, founder of the Red Cross Nursing Service. Nurse Leona Hawks is placing a wreath on the statue of the founder. veloped - President | Signs Measures | WASHINGTON. March 24—The | White House announced this after- | noon the President has signed two | bills authorizing $340,000,000 for the Naval Public Works program. { The legislation includes funds for | the development of the Guam and | Samoa island bases, also bases on | the Atlantic acquired from -Great | Britain and projects in Alaska and | other insular shore stations are | authorized. Two (losed Navy Areas Designafed President Signs Executive Orders—Kodiak Section Restricted Zone WASHINGTON, March 24.——Two‘ new Naval Defense areas in the Pa- | cific from which foreign shipping is banned, have been established by | Executive Orders of President Roose- | velt. One area is Subic Bay, Philippine | Island, and the other is Kodiak, | Island, Alaska. Both areas are declared to be de- fense territories from which foreign ships are allowed to enter only on the express authority of the Secre- | tary of the Navy. The orders are effective after 90 days. TWO OLDTIMERS ARE ADMITTED TO HOME John N. Wahl of Petersburg and | Dominic Perelle of Skagway have been admitted to the Pioneers’ Home, according to word from Sup-| erintendent Eiler Hansen. Wahl, 79, is a native of Norway. He came to Alaska as a laborer in 1898, | Jesse Jones, Carroll L. Wilson and Justice Stanley Reed After taking the oath of office of director of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, Carroll L. Wilson, center, posed for a pie- ture in Washington with Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, left, and Supreme Court Justice Stanley Reed. h—Néw —Cdrfimerce Bulreau -Chiet By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 2¢. — I'd like to make a recommendation to the historians of a couple of thou-| sand years from now. When they are looking for “Americana,” let them dig up a few copies of the Congressional Record and tap the richest well of our times. There’s nothing in the world quite like the Congressional Rec- ord. It’s printed by the Govern- ment Printing Office, and if you subseribe to it ($1.50 a month) in Washington you'll get it every morning. Today it may be 400 pages; tomorrow only 50; maybe day after, it won't be published at all. (That's when Congress doesn’t meet.) The Government Printing Of- fice (GPO, as it is called in Wash- ington) is probably the great- est publishing house in the world, but that's another story. Right now we are talking about the Congressional Record. MINUTES OF THE MEETINGS Its main body contains a ver- batim report of everything that happens in the Senate and House of Representatives, The word “ver- batim” should be used with some reservation, because any congress- (bngressidhél Record Recommended as Greal - For Future Hisforians | man has the privilege of asking his house that what he has just said| be stricken from the Record. When| such a request is made, it almost always is granted, for congress- men are among the first to recog- nize that, in the heat of debate, to err is common. Not only that, but even if a Congressional Record is prlnwdfi‘ members may ask for corrections| to be made in their dissertations and this also is almost always granted unanimously, because what man hasn't reread his statements| and found in them things he wished | he had said differently—or not at all? 8till the Congressional Record is corrected very few times and the pleas for withdrawal of state- ments don't crop up once in ten or twenty thousand words. THE “APPENDIX” In spite of all the laws that are passed, all the debates over what is good or bad for our way of life, I don't think tomorrow’s historians| will be nearly as concerned about the word-for-word reports of what was said on the floors of the House and Senate as they will be in the iplant in Edgewater, “Appendix.” (Continued from Page Seven) ‘. STRIKES AT 2 PLANTS ARESETTLED Workers Ag—re—e fo Return to Their Jobs Pending Negofiations (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The office of Production Man- agement today chalked up strike settlements in two plants vital to de- fense orders after a weekend of in- tensive effort. Striking CIO workers of the Alum- inum Company of America, at the New Jersey, have agreed to resume work and con- tinue negotiations for wage increas- es and the: cvertime pay demands. The CIO strikers at the Harvill Aircraft Diecasting Corporation in Los Angeles have also agrecd to halt their 10-day old strike - after reaching a tentative agreement with the management on demands for union recognition and wage increas- es. The workers agreed to continue negotiations. FIVE PLANES SCHEDULED TO ARRIVE HERE Two lodest;r—sTThree Elec- fras Due fo Land Here This Affernoon Five PAA planes are scheduled to land at the Juneau airport today as two Lodestars are in the air Ju- neau-bound from Seattle and three | Electras are scheduled to land from Fairbanks. Aboard the Lodestars for Juneau are A. M. Hartford, Ken Rank. Har- ry Donnelly, William Murphy and Lillian Murphy. Electra’s passengers are Frank Karabelnikoff, Arnold Crowman, Fred Yenney and Howard Thomp- son, Yesterday two PAA Electras left Juneau for Fairbanks with Mr and Mrs. Martin Sather, Martin Sather, Jr., Paul Sather, Francis Hansen, Stephen Carey, Jullus Thomas #nd| T. Tenneson. Véra Ross was a southbound pas- senger on the Douglas DC-3 from Fairbanks to Juneau. The Douglas left Juneau for Seattle after a half hour stay. Also leaving Juneau for Seaitle yesterday was one PAA Lodestar. NAZIS POUR DOWNRIVER VALLEY NOW Advance Rep?led fo Have Started Sunday Going Rapidly Southward YUGOSLAVIA IS BEING FORCED TO SIGN PACT \Warning Gi_;e; Little Bal- kan Nation fo Be Care- | ful as Revolt Spreads (By Associated Press) | A heavy movement of German |troops through the Struma River | Valley in Bulgaria toward the Greek frontier is reported in unconfirmed Balkan dispatches as Yugoslavia's Prince Paul, overriding the angry protests against submission to Ger- |many, is prepared to join the Axis | Powers. Military experts declare the Stru- ma River Valley is likely the portal for Hitler's expected attack on Greece. 5 i A Rueters dispateh from Belgrade said large formations of Nazi troops have been seen advancing rapidly southward through the valley since Sunday afternoon. | Yugoslavia Must Act | Official German quarters in Bel- grade said Yugoslavia will have to sign up as an Axis partner, just as Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria and Slovakia have done, rather. than merely a passive member, as the lit- tle nation déemands, Presumably, when Yugoslavia does sign, this will give Germany the right to march the Nazl troops through the Balkan kingdom via the Vardar Valiey, which is a strategic gateway for the invasion of Greece. Greek Warning Greece has sent warning to Yugo- slavia against any “hostile act” in cooperating with Germany. The British Minister in Belgrade has also addressed a note to ‘the Yugoslavia Government appealing to the Regency not to betray Yugo- slavia in the face of rising public | opinion and smouldering unrest. May Sign Pact ‘There is an unconfirmed report that Yugoslavia Government lead- ers, shaken by a Cabinet crisis of the past four days, will entrain this afternoon for Vienna to sign the Axis pact. 1t is also said that new Yugoslavia Cabinet “members have replaced three anti-Axis members who re- signed. The new members of the Cabinet are said to be already in office. DIMOND URGES PROMPT ACTION ON ARMORY BILL. Alaska Delegate Also Asks Legislafure fo Enact Revenue Measures Urging appropriation of money for armories and “prompt enact- ment of whatever fair and equi- table revenue bills are necessary” to provide for this and other Ter- ritorial needs, Delegate Anthony J. Dimond today addressed radio- grams to President of the Senate Henry Roden and Speaker of the House H. H. McCutcheon as fol- lows: “Following is copy of telegram dated March eighteenth from me to Representative James V. Davis: ‘I received your telegram seven= teenth advising that serious fight is developing in Legislature over bill appropriating half million for O A e (cmu"gucd to Page Two) el