The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, March 25, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY MARCH 25, 1941. YUGOSLAVIA SIGNS AXIS PACT VOL. LVIL, NO. 8681. NATION EXEMPTED FROM MILITARY AID BATTLE OF MEDIATION BOARD IS ORGANIZED New Naiio_n_al Defense Group Meets in Washing- fon - Request Issued MAKES PLEA'FOR - (ONCERTED EFFORTS Flow of Production for, World Democracies Must Not Be Inferrupted (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The new National Defense Media- tion Board organized in Washington | MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BIG PLANT DESTROYED, EXPLOSION New FactorHPortland Is ; Blown Up-Wrecked by | Terrific Blast |ONE MAN KILLED; IS | HURLED INTO AIR Woman, Standlng Near | Scene Uninjured, but Trailer Home Is Lost the recently completed large R. N.| 4 | i } | PORTLAND, Oregon, March 25‘»‘ A terrific blast this forenoon leveled‘ today and urgd labor and manage- | Chipman Chemical Factory here n.nm ment prevent any further interrup- ticn in the defense program, The Board met as a sporadic vio- lence marked efforts of workers to enter the big Bethlehem Steel Com- pany’s plant at Bethiehem; Pa.; and the International Harvester McCor- mick works in Chicago. CIO unions called - the strike at both places. Bargaining agencies is' the root of the trouble it is said. Dr, Clarence Dykstra, Chairman killed oné workman, Harry Ray, aged 182, ‘The Portland plant was being con- verted for the production of explo- sive chemicals but held no defense eontracts -at present. At least one dozen workmen were man, manager of the factory. and said she saw the body of a man injured, among them Raiph Chip-| Ray's wife was standing near their | |trailer home, a short distance away, of the National Defense Mediation |blown at least 100 feet in the air.| Board, in a statement, said the first Firemen presume the body was that meeting of the mediation group at|of her husband. The latter succumb- this time found a “world erisis” and ed to burns and a multiple of injur- if the United States is to be an ar-'ies shortly after he was removed senal for Democracy, there must be an uninterrupted flow of production ! from mine mill and factory. The members of the board were all present at the Washington organiz- | ing session. The present board has no powers to compel a settlement of labor dis-| (Continued on Page Eight) CThe S | *60- WASHINGTON, March 25—Am- erican aircraft compan{,u have now been supplying pursuit“and bomb- er planes to Britain for two yeats. Yet it remains an unpalatableand; not generally known fact that not! one American pursuit plane has; been used against the Nazis with- out first undergoing substantial overhauling in British factories. i In fact, few of them have been! used at all. “We have shipped some of them around to the Mediterranean, where they are plenty good enough against the Ttalians,” . explained one high British air ace. “And we are now preparing one squldx‘on\ of your pursuit planes for action | over England, hoping they will prove satisfactory.” And this after months, in fact,| years of delay. It has not leaked out yet, but| the performance of Ameflcnnl fighter plane engines has been o) disappointing that the British have proposed to lend us the “Sabre,” their best engine for fighter or pursuit planes, together with en- gineers to supervise its production in American plants. So far William Knudsen, defense production mogul, has opposed this. Upper House Refuses fo iof armories in Alaska died at the- |D. Cochran of Nome, Edward Coffey | to the hospital. The trailet was demolished but Mrs, Ray was not injured. Ray was construction foreman who was retained by the factory after the plant had been completed, Fire Marshal Fred Roberts said he was convinced the blast originated in a large mixing machine. ARMORIES BILL DEAD expected to become most acute in Press Delegate IN SENATE Consider Measure- Furious Debate Legislation for the construction door,of the Senate at noon today when the upper house of the 15th Territorial Legislature voted' three to five against admitting House Bili No. 66, which would have appro-| priated $500,000 to construct arm- ory buildings at Ketchikan, Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks and Nome. A two-thirds vote, or six to two, would have been required to admit {the legislation (which had passed the House, ten to six, after the 50th | day) to the Senate. Voting against admitting the bill were Senators O. of Anchorage and Leroy Sullivan of | Nome. During heated debate which pre-| ceded the vote, Senator Norman R. Walker of Ketchikan charged that | those opposed to the bill bad “reach- ed new depths of depravity, chican- ery, knavery and trickery” in fight- ing it. poay Cochran Asks Investigation | Interpreting this as personal af-! frent, Cochran shouted a challenge to Walker to join with him to “ap- Donnie Lou Jacobs, 8, of Durham, N. C., is the youngest of the 3, 000 deleglteu to attend the scholastic press convention st Columbia Uni- versity in New York. Student edi- tors and writers uae m &l: )nu of the country to atter. eanvention. AIR RAIDERS ON HOLIDAY FOR 1 NIGHT| No British and No German' Bombers in Action Dur- ing Past 24 Hours (By Assoclated Press) Both British and German war Washington last night This picture, just received from Brussels points to the food shortage Belgium and throughout other occu- pied counlnes with the stx engthenmg of Great Brlums blocknde. A Financial Op By MORGAN M. BEATTY AP Feature Service Writer | WASHINGTON, March 25.—Ger-, man government financial opera- ‘uons since 1933 go a long way to iexplain why the Nazis have the most efficient military machine in the world. Between the time Hitler came | the fiscal year on March 30, 1941, | the German government admits it will have spent almost $78,000,- 000,000. This does not include the much ! discussed secret expenditures for armaments and the secret national debt incylred for those arma- ments. | Officially, however, of the 78 billions spent, about $62,000,000,000, ar nearly 80 percent of the total, |to power in 1933 and the end of| Occupxed Belgium Feels the Pinch of Hunger queue is lined up outside a butcher shop which doles out the meager portion of meat allotted to each person. Most of the country’s live stoek hn beer- taken by the Germans (or the army. 0f German Government ExplainEfficiencyof Great Military Machine - aAtlantic (..ommander. | has gone to rearm the nation in, & ! nine years. i These estimates are based on| official German financial flgures' | gathered by the United States De- | partment of Commerce, The mark |is valued at 40 cents. { SREERE S In contrast, the United States! | government during the same period | has spent about $72,000,000,000, Of | this, some 14 billions, or less than 18 percent, went for national de- fense. Thus in nine years, the German government has devoted at leastw four-fifths of all the money put| out by its treasury to rearmament, while. we have been devoting less | i than one-fifth of our money to the same purpose. | (Conunuea o Cage Seven) | In South Am By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, March 25. — No laboratory researcher ever kept his eye glued on the microscopic 'gyra- tions of an algae with greater in- tensity than that with which officialdom watches| planes “laid off” in what goes on in the way of pro-| erica Given Dired Official Nolue tention for a while to what eflect,‘ if any, the new wave of Spanish| Falangist activities will have in the 19 Spanish-speaking repub- lics (in Brazil, they speak Portu-! ts’um. you know). | | IN SEVERAL COUNTRIES | Under orders from Madrid, f- | ficials here say, Spanish F’-lflnglsts | | Admiral Sir Percy Noble Admiral Sir Percy Nokle has been named commander-in-cnief of the western approaches of Britain. The command has existed for some time, but has now been expanded and { raised to a rank equal with that of other naval commands. His chief | task will be to keep the Atlantic Propaganda Adivities ' Freeze Up llanes free of German submarines, Yugoslavia Funds, U.S. President Ras—evelt Issues: Orde: - Is Policy of Administration WASHINGTON, March 25.—Presi- | ) here today. The marriage was per- & BALKANS IS NEAR BREAK Military Ot;rvers SeeI Five Danger Signals for ! Quick Showdown GERMAN, GREEKS SAID | 10 BE IN ONE CLASH Soviet War Materials Flow Info Turkey-Vifal Oil Supplies Halted (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) With the little Adriatic kingdom of Yugoslavia newly enrolled in the Axis bloc, Hitler's Balkan armies have safeguarded a possible flank attack on that Nation, thus clear- ing the decks for the long expect- ed battle of the Balkans which today appeared ready to break at any moment. AT Observors see the following danger signals for a quick breakdpwn: One—Russia has pledged a benev- olent neutrality toward Turkey in event Turkey is “obliged to enter the war in defense of her territory. | Turkey claims to be a non-beliger- ent ally but close frient of Greece. Two—Bulgarian reports early this afternoon said Greek and German troops have already clashed in front- ier skirmishes. | Three—Soviet war materials are flowing into Turkey. Reliable sources also declare Russia has halted ship- ments of vital oil supplies to Ger- many. Four—Russian Army and Naval Forces in Southeast Europe and re- perted steadily strengthened. Five — British Foreign Minister: Anthony Eden has renewed Great Britain's pledge to fight on the side of Greece until victory is won. - - e — BRITISH AID ' BILL SIGNED; GOES TO FDR Vice-President Wallace Help in Legalization (4 Speaker Ra?firn and Also| L4 4 AGREEMENT IS SIGNED IN VIENNA Germany Pledges Three- Power Troops Will Not Go Through Country SEVERE BLOW AVERTED 10 2 ALLIED COUNTRIES Invasion Front Reported fo Be Greatly Decreased in South Section (By Assoclated Press) With a solemn German pledge that no Axis troops will march through her territory, Yugoslavia has signed the Rome-Berlin-Tokyo Alliance in Vienna. It is said that Hitler attended the ceremonies. Well-informed Vienna sources de- clare that Germany specifically ex- aid to the Axis and has also wlr» |anteeéd territorial integrity. In this respect, themrmsoltln pact, as given out, averted a severe blow to the defense plans of Great Britain and Greece against the ex- pected 'invasion of Greece. ¢ Reliable sources in London said Germany has massed 800,000 Nazi soldiers in the Balkans to carry the blitzkrieg attack and also gual | the Russian frontier. Earlier reports estimated the Brit- ish strength already landed or ex- pected to land in Greece at 300,000 soldiers. With the Greek troops, the Nazi invasion could have been op- posed. Turkish troops massed on the Bul- garian frontier are estimated at 100,000. Military observers said the free passage of the German troops through Yugoslavia's Vardar River Valley would have collapsed the British-Greek plan for a stand along a 30-mile Struma River line and forced the two nations to fight along a 60-mile front and possible defend the 200-mile front from Albania ta the Thrace and Turkish front. oo — — AXIS GIVES PLEDGE TO YUGOSLAVIA WASHINGTON, March 25.—The | 'seven billion dollar appropriation | all-out aid for Great Britain has |been signed by Speaker Sam Ray- {burn, who immediately dispatched it to the Senate where Vice-Presi- dent Henry A. Wallace signed it. | With the signing by Wallace, the | bill was made ready for a quick trip | to President Roosevelt, who is now | | fishing off the coast of Florida. e e———— | Former Juneauites | Wed, San Francisco The marriage of Miss Ethel Bel- shaw and Joseph Flanagan, both| formerly of Juneau, was revealed formed December 27, at San Fran-| (By Associated Press) Hitler’s Foreign Minister von Rib= bentrop gave the pledge to Yugo- slavia's Regent Prince Paul that Axis' troops will not violate Yugoslavia's frontlers, otherwise it is said the pact is the same as those previously signed by Hungary, Rumania, Slo- vakia and Bulgaria. An unofficial version of the docu= | ment said Yugoslavia has agreed, however, to permit the transport of | war hospital equipment as well as wounded into her territory which Greece has already warned Yugos slavia she regards as a hostile act, German Poreign Minister von Rib- bentrop promised Yugoslavia |Germany Ualy and Japan will re- spect Yugoslavia's sovereignty at all times and the “Governments of the Axis Powers, during this war, will, not permit marching or transport of troops through Yugoslavia's terris: tory.” cisco. Mr. Flanagan, an employee of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Quarters sald Great Britain has re- served the right to attack any G Company for 10 years, left for California in November. The bride, ™R troops appearing in Yugosla: was employed at the Gastineau LT | night raids. | paganda in South and Central Am- He claims that American models point a committee from this Legis- | No ' Gei Bérs appeared . erica. already are in production and it make a thorough in: - would be uneconomical to brulk m{'?he n::u:nmuet h’;tu;?l?l:h over the British Isles and the RAF Authoritative reports in diplo- step and introduce a new model. have been used on this bill.” |d)d not take the air to make any matic circles here say some of the " I w ttacks on German ports or on blics south of the Rio Grande The British, not feeliig free to Furiously Cochran said: “We have repul g0 over Knudsen’s head, have hesi-|seen the spectacle of men coming | °cCuPled Nazi lands. |are up on. their hind legs, fighting tated sbout opening negotiations down here inviplably opposed to sad-| Whether the gne-night cessation mad, about anti-American ma- direct with an American company,|diing this militia on the people of {Cf &iF attacks foreCast. renewed as-, terial. saults tonight, was not indicated up If you want to keep up witn| (Continued op Page Four) (Continued to Page Two) /10’ early this sfternoon, it.ms situation, pay particular at-! have spread out like m duck-pond dent Roosevelt has frozen all funds during a cloudburst in several of Yugoslavia in the United States. countries. This wouldn't be such.a' No explanation is given out but worrisome mote in the official eye it has heen the policy of the Ad- here if there weren't also signs, ministration to tie up funds of any , that the Falangists will country coming under the domina- S o o Puangieu WL Y e et Cafe and will be remembered for| The lce was so thick on the Fascists. | Yugoslavia assets in the United, her title of champion fisherwoman |8t Philadelphia on February ____ Btates are estimated at a little over of the Channel at the derby held!1780, that an ox was ‘roasted tContinued on Page Seven) one million dollars, it is said, here last summer, IQL - : Alathoflullvo sources in