The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 2, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8688. ALl “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME ASSOCIATED PRESS PROBE STARTED OF AXIS OFFICIALS INU.S. LARGE FORD | PLANT TIED UP BY STRIKE (10 Union C;IEWa!koui at Rouge River Factory in Dearborn POLICE TO BE CALLED OUT T0 STOP DISORDERS Allis Chalmers Plant in Milwaukee Closed—Coal Mine Operations Cease (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Scattered fights in which more than 20 persons were hurt, led to the Michigan State Police being or- dered out today to stop disorders in the hugh Ford Rouge River plant in Dearborn, Michigan, where a CIO union,called a strike last night. The plant employs 86,000 workers. Gov. M. D, Van Wagoner ordered full strength of police to be used if necessary to restore order. It is reported that 250 officers are ready for service as fighting broke out when workers atwmpud to climb fences to get inside the Ford plant .Pickets fought them with bricks. and clubs and. later, when some 200 workers came out of the plant gate they pelted the pickets with metal missiles which the pick- ets threw back. Pickets jammed automobiles to- gether to block traffic near the plant. One CIO official claims the styike is “completely effective.” Milwaukee Piant Closes Riots have forced the closing of the defense production important Allis Chalmers factory in Milwau- kee. A wage dispute has paralyzed (Continued on Page Seven® rY 73 ~iie — Tells of Spending RESULTS OF TUESDAY'S ELECTION PEOPLE’S TICKET Precinct Precinet Precinct Mayor: No. 1 No. 2 No. 3 Total Harry I. Lucas 490 219 228 937 Councilman (1 Year): N. Floyd Fagerson ... 322 154 129 605 Councilmen (2 Years): J. A. Martin . 294 146 112 552 Henry Messerschmidt .. 311 154 165 630 Elroy E. Ninnis 392 153 161 706 CITIZEN’'S PROGRESSIVE Mayor: John McCormick 119 8 49 246 Councilman (1 Year): Kenyon MacLean 264 126 132 522 Councilmen (2 Yesrs): . Ernest Parsons . 301 141 146 588 Dr. C. C. Carter 280 139 138 857 G. E. Allen 150 105 k6l 330 CITY TICKET Mayor: Edmund J. Krause 121 51 82 254 Councilman (1 Year): Edward T. Williams ... 84 32 65 181 Councilmen (% Years): Joe Thibodeau 168 55 109 328 ‘William J. Niemi 100 46 63 209 Jack Westfall % 31 58 164 For School Director: Walter P. Scott 519 238 251 1008 TOTAL VOTED n 351 365 1433 SPAULDING ELECTED IN KETCHIKAN Defeafs Incumbent Mayor WASHINGTON—Dies committee investigators are quietly probing some sensational information that may rock the Army. 1t concerns the mysterious $125,- 000 fire in the War Department Building last October and involves an ex-Army officer. Dies agents were put on the man’s trail by the owner of a small Capital flower shop, who called on Robert Stripling, secretary of the commit- tee, and told him this tale: The night before the fire, a mid- dles-aged retired Army captain dropped into the shop to chat with a young clerk, with whom he had become friendly. The clerk was-de- scribed by his employer as having “very liberal views.” On this oc- casion he and his customer discussed the Presidential campaign for a few minutes, when suddenly the latter leaned over and whispered: “I'm going to tell you something very sensational, but keep it quiet. There will be a fire in the War Department within 24 hours.” The clerk was surprised, but didn’t think much about the remark until the following day when the predic- tion came true. The clerk was scared stiff, feared trouble and decided to — Grace Poggl called as a witness in the income tax evasion trial of Jomth: Schenck, movie tycoon, York, Grace Poggl, above, s dancer, testified that she stayed 4t Schenck’s Beverly Hills, Gal, | home during three months. of 1935 when he was in Europe, that she used his yacht and'ac- cepted an automobile from him. Miss Poggi was termed & “gpendee” of part of Schenck’s income by Assistant U. 8. Atter ney Mathias F. Correa, 4ShotDown, keep quiet until he had a chance to talk to his strange acquaintance again. The retired Army captain didn’t HARLAN, Ky., April 2. — Four men were shot to death and five reappear for several weeks. Finally others wounded at the Crummies Migg Strike| i he came at night and, according to the florist, was dressed in “flashy new clothes.” | But while affable and chatty, he would not discuss the fire or his mysterious prediction about it. Every time the clerk brought up the mat- ter, the customer changed the sub- ject. (Continued on Page, Four) More disturbed than’ ever, the £ SR Ko 0 S et Creek Coal Company today as the result of an outburst of violent gunplay in the Harlan County bi- tuminous coal fields. ——e—— Lord Beaverbrook, Britaix's min- ister of aircraft production, fre- quently works 16 hours a day. Canada co: 27 per cent'of the British Common- approximately | | Harry McCain-Mulvihill Refuses af Skagway KETCHIKAN, Alaska, April 2— | William K. Spauling, insurance agent and real estater, heading the Citizen's League Ticket, was elected ,Mayor yesterday over Harry Mc- | Cain, incumbent. Three Councilmen elected for the two-year term are Henry Erwick, John Wick and L. P. Sunderland. R. C. Pederson was elected to the ‘Council for the one-year term. W. C. Dibrell was elected to the Utilities Board. | ELECTION AT SKAGWAY | SKAGWAY, Alaska, April 2.—Yes- | terday’s municipal election resulted as follows: For Mayor—G. C. Benedict. For Council—Arnold Gutfeld, C. J. Sullivan, Ed Kast. For Treasurer—William Dewar. For School Board—C. J. Roehr. Mrs. F. J. Vandewall, after service for 16 years as a member of the School Board, refused to be a can- didate for reelection. Mayor W. J. Mulvihill, after serv- (ing 17 years continuously refused | to be a candidate for another term. SITKA ELECTION SITKA, Alaska, April 2, — Jack Conway, unopposed, was elected Mayor of Sitka, receiving 331 votes. The vote on Councilmen, four to be elected, follows: Dr. William Charteris, 285; Frank Price, 203; O. W. Tupper, 194; T. Holt, 184; F. Peterson, 126; F. Shen- nett, 121; John Sumner, 113. For membership on the Board of the vote was: P. S. Ganty, 306; Dan Moller, 288; Thomas Tilson, 280; Leslie Yaw, 263; Neill Anderson, 252; Len Peterson, 238. Five highest were elected. For the School Board, two to be elected, Jack Calvin received 292 votes and Robert Jernberg 252 votes. ELECTION AT FAIRBANKS FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 2— There was only one formally filed ticket for yesterday's city election and voting merely gave validation to-the following chosen for another term: ' MAYOR LUCAS IS REELECTED Fagerson, Messerschmidt, Ninnis, Parsons Are Council Victors Winning almost twice as many votes as his two opponents com- syined, Mayor Harry I. Lucas was swept back into office for a fourth .erm by Juneau: ballots in yester- jay’'s municipal election. Lucas polled 937 votes, against 254 ‘for Edmund J. Krause and 246 for John McCormick. All of the People’s ticket was car- sied into office on the Lucas land- slide except Council candidate J. A. Martin, who ran behind both Er- 1est Parsons and Dr. C. C. Carter Jf the Citizens’' Progressive ticket. Councilmen elected were Henry Messerschmidt, Elroy Ninnis and Er- aest Parsons for the two year term, and N. Floyd Fagerson for the one- Jear term. Heavy Scott Vote Walter P. Scott, unopposed for| Icheol Director, led all candidates with a complimentary vote of 1,008. Results of the election are to be sanvassed by the old City Council Directors of Sitka Public Utilities, | at 5 o'clock this evening. Newly elected officials will take office at a Council meeting Friday night. o » The new Council will consist of Ralph Beistline and Harry Lea, hold- svers, and the four men elected yes- serday. Messerschmidt was reelected to an office he has held for 13 years. Ninnis was reelected for a second wo-year term. Two New Councilmen Pagerson and Parsons will replace Sam Feldon and E. J. (Kelly) Blake, neither of whom were candidates yesterday. Feldon had been appoint- ed by the Courcil to serve out the first year of a term vacated when Councilman G. Emil Krause resigned in January, due to absence from the City. Krause, no relation of the unsuccessful mayoralty candidate, is now in Anchorage. He plans to re- turn here in the fall. The total vote, 1454, was four more than a year ago. The total by pre- cincts was as follows: First, 717;| Second, 351; Third, 365; Absentee, 21. LANDIS MADE MISTAKE IN BRIDGES CASE WASHINGTON, April 2—J. Ed- gar Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, advised to- day ‘that the first deportation' pro- ceedings against Harry Bridges, CIO labor leader, were conducted without full authority. House Appropriations Committees declared, “Whoever is responsible should be brought “to account.” Hoover said Dean Landis, who con- ducted the first Bridges hearing was appointed as Contract Labor Exam- iner and not as an Immigration In- spection, and no statutory authority is conferred on a Contract Labor Examiner for power to administer oaths. Landis’ proceedings resulted in the cancellation by Secretary of Labor Perkins of the deportation order previously issued against Bridges. FRED BALL TAKES POSITION IN ARMY ENGINEER OFFICE Fred Ball, Senior Clerk in the Fiscal Division of the Forest Service heer, has been appointed to a posi- tion in the Audit Department of the U. 8. Army Engineers in Seattle, according to word received here BY LANDSLIDE! S Potpmac at Port Everglades, Fla., before en Attorney General Jackson, Mr. Roosevelt, ] " Admiral Ross T. McIntise. Associated 2 . President Roosevelt, ending a ten-day vacation last Sunday, poses with his party in front of the yacht g'for Washington. From left ta right are: Harry L. Hop- -General E M. Watson, Interior Secretary Ickes and The Embyire. M - oto i James J. Bambrick (right), president of Local 32-B of building service employes union in New York City, is booked at police headquarte: charged with stealing $10,000 union funds. George Scalise, natiol head of the union, is already in prisen for thefting union funds. "SPECULATOR™ By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, April 2.—Some-| how the capital limelight has a way of eoming back to shine with| renewed brilliance on the white hair of tall, smiling, sedate Ber- nard M. Baruch. Years ago, when the term “spec- ulator” (applied to a Wall Street operator) was one of considerable opprobrium, Baruch gathered it unto himself. I'm just a specula- tor, he said, don't call me anything else. Yet “Barney” Baruch un- doubtedly has had the confidence, respect, and admiration of — and been adviser ~to—more Presidents than ' any other man who has ranged “the Street.” A little more than 20 years ago, he was head of the war industries board of World War I He was called the “czar of industry.” He didn't like the title and by word, written and spoken, has frequent- ly pointed out that in those other war years, it was President Wil- son, not Bernard M. Baruch, who labor, prices; wages and hours. today. "the States on: yacation, Ball and his mother .are now in That may be true, but, it doesn't| detract from the fact that it was BARUCH AGAIN IN COUNCILS OF - DEFENSE PLANS OF U. S. Baruch who applied the pressure that guided the industrial horse— s0 much so that when it was all over, Von Hindenburg paid trib- ute to his accomplishments with this remark: “The war was won in the American industrial* cen- ters. They understood war.” HIS FAME WAS ESTABLISHED If Baruch’s services to his coun- try had ended right there, he would have deserved at least a footnote in any outline -of history. But no sooner had he taken a breathing| spell than he was hammering away in speeches, pamphlets and maga- | zine articles to ‘“take the profits| out of war” This was years be-: fore Congress enacted any legisla- ! tion to that end. Presidents Harding, Coolidge and | Hoover all used Barugh's .great, knowledge and called him in as| adviser or appointed him to vnnoul[ commissions handling business, eco- | nomic and farm matters. The Wall Street “speculator” had BRITISH IN RETREATIN EAST ARRICA England Withdraws Ad-| | vance Forces on Verge | | of ltalian Collanse CARO, April 2—The British ack-! i{nowledge slightly increased pres-| sure by Axis military power in Lib- ya tcday even as their victorious forces in East Africa pursued the Italians cn two major fronts hope- |ful for a speedy knockout blow. The Imperial forces declared they 'had virtually cornered some 100,000 |Ttallans in the East African Cam- | paign to destroy ‘Mussolini’s em- | pire. | The acknowledgment of Axis ac- |tivity in Libya was noted briefly in |8 communique which said British |advance elements northeast of Mesa |Brega were withdrawing in what | the British called “reconnalsance in !force." 212 Million | | Is Sought for 4M0re£elense ‘Appropriations Committee Makes Recommenda- fion for 205 Airporfs WASHINGTON, April 2—Funds to develop 205 airporcs and to carry on other National Defense activities | were included in a $212,000,000 ap- | propriation bill recommended by the House Appropriations Committee to- day. » To run the State, Justice and Commerce departments and the Federal Judiciary for the next fiscal year, a committee which devoted about nine weeks to exhaustive held the check-reins on industry,|yecome so thoroughly: conversant|hearings of the departments’ needs, with farm problems that when the|estimated that approximately $75,- —te—— - 000,000 would be needed out of the Wontinyed on Page Five) " Yotal strictly for defense purposes. |Tates should not be reduced, Pickets, Workers in Clash; Governor Acts PRESIDENTRETURNSFROM 10-DAY VACATION SABOTAGE 15 CAUSE OFACTION | Intelligence Service Inves- tigating All Phases of Recent Ouirages MORE SHIPS ARE REPORTED SEIZED Governments Are Not Len- ient with Offenders Fol- lowing Fires, Scuftlings WASHINGTON, April 2. — The United States Intelligence Service, it is learned authoritatively today, is concentrating efforts to determine whether any German or Italian of- ficials in this country instigated the wholesale sobatage which crippled most of the Axis vessels which were seized in American ports over the weekend as the result of sabotage. If the complicity of any diplo- matic or consular officials should be established, informed sources said, the State Department is ready to take immediate action. The gulity officials will probably be handed their passports or—a prompt recall demanded. * ‘Elsewhere: story. 1s one of seized, fired or sout- tled Axis shipping. Crews are in the custody of the governments and in- vestigations are being pushed with a threat of criminal prosecution in the background. Since the weekend 16 vessels have been taken into custody by Latin American nations. Eleven have been fired or scuttled, two have taken flight. In some cases other governments have resorted to a sterner show of force than the United States. SITUATION INBALKANS HANGS FIRE "Mediation Conversations® Affain No Resulfs, Re- port from Belgrade BELGRADE, April 2—The Italian Legation spokesman today announc- ed that, “certain conversations” be- tween Italy and Yugoslavia led to reports of possible mediation by Itallan Premier Benito Mussolini in the German-Yugoslavia crisis but these “conversations attained no re- sult and no negotiations are now in progress.” i The Yugoslavia Government to- day maintained a restrained atti- tude toward the Nazi newspapers and radio atacks as intense diplo- | matic activity over its relations with the Axis is indicated. Yugoslavia Minister to Berlin, Ivo Andric, after two days in Belgrade to report personally to his superiors, started back to Berlin last night. derman Minister to Belgrade, Viktor von Heeren, is still in Berlin. He left here early yesterday when nationals of Italy and Germany Yugoslavia. FCC Orders Phone Probe WASHINGTON, April 2— The Federal Communications Commis- sion today ordered an investigation of long distance rates of the vast Bell Telephone System. The Commission directed the Am- erican Telephone and Telegraph ‘Company and its-21 associated com» panies to show why its long distance the- - were ordered to evacuate from' -