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

VOL. LVIL, NO. 8708. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1941. THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NO U.S. CONVOY SYSTEM, NOW BRITISH RETREATING FROM “HOT GATES” REAR GUARD FORCES NOW FALL BACK Invasion ArTnEs Route Al- lies in Famous Ther- mopylae Pass SEVERE LOSSES ARE REPORTED INFLICTED Heavy Artillery Is Brought | Up by Nazis—Ports Are | Being Air Raided (By Associated Press) The British rear guard troops, hopelessly outnumbered, have fallen back from the bloody “hot gates” of Thermopylea Pass and Hitler’s invasion armies are lurching for- ward for the final drive on Athens and southern Greece. Hitler's High Command says| bluntly the Nazi units have “thrown | the enemy out” of the historic pass, overcoming the strongly fortiffed defense were a handful of British and Greeks held out for more than two days. The German break through the pass, however, came 48 hours after Berlin prematurely de- Derby “Charmer_”? { | | | | Among the co-ed candidates for selection as “charm queen” to rule over Kentucky Derby week activi- ties at French Lick Springs, Ind,,, Jean Bernard, above, is popular| on the campus at Indiana unlvar-‘ sity, where she is a student. Bernard’s home is in *"=cie, clared Wednesday morning that the pass had already been taken and | (Continued on Page Five) Cthe WASHINGTON. For' many | months, ‘dapper little Russian Am- bassador Constantine Oumansky used to complain privately that he: could not get an audiénce with Cor- dell Hull, Secretary. of State. “All T see is Sumner Welles,” grip- ed Ambassador Oumansky. “The matters I have to discuss should be‘ taken up with the Secretary of State personally.” But what the usually astute Am- bassador did not know was that Mr. Hull disliked all things Russjan, did not want to discuss Russia, or be reminded of Russia. He classified the Soviet with such institutions as carpet-baggers, John L, Lewis, Hull's Cabinet colleague Harold Ickes, and the Civil War guerillas who attacked his father. Mr. Hull has one of the choicest vocabularies in Washington and when he turned it’loose on Rus- sia he really outdid himself. All of which is by way of empha- sizing the change which took place | 3 the other day when Cordell Hull ac- tually issued a public statement in praise of Soviet Russia. That statement was issued not be- | cause Mr. Hull's basic feelings to-| ward Russia had changed, but only | because there are very few nations left in the world today which may be potential bulwarks against Hit- | ler. Russia is foremost among them, and Mr. Hull openly and obviously ICKES FAVORS OnPorfland | Canal Rock Chacon Pilalp Early in] Morning-Salvage Ves- | sel-Going fo Scene | STEWART, B. C., April 25.—A sal- vage vessel and scow is expected to arrive today at the side of the diesel | ship Chacon, in Portland Canal, 16 miles south of Hyder, where she struck a rock early Wednesday morn- ing. The freight will be transferred to the scow and the Chacon will then | be refloated and towed to Ketchikan for repairs. { The Viga, sister ship to the Cha- con; picked up the mail and express and took the shipments to Hyder. The Chacon carried only about 14 tons of freight, largely machinery for the Riverside mine at Hyder. MORE MINERAL SURVEY WORK| An increase in the appropriation for Geological Survey work in Al- aska is favored by the Department of the Interior and has been rec- ommended repeatedly by Secretary Ickes, Alaska was in formed today in'a letter from Acting Secretary A. J. Wirtz in reply to a memorial of the 15th Territorial Legislature asking that the appropriaton be was wooing the hated Soviet. That incident, more than almost | any other recent development in| . L. (Bob) -Bartlett, Washington; bs-a tell-tale indication 25k B- D (Sob) -Bartlets, Wirts of the seriousness with which Cabi-| ™., proposal meets the full net members view the desperate; plight of the British and the very| dangerous situation of the United | States. Real. fact is that many military' strategists doubt whether the Brit-' ish can hold out until September. | The consider the British l!tuanonl far worse than last June, when, Prance fell. The nthere still remain- ed a few European nations which might stand against Hitler. But (Continued on Page Pour) doubled. In his letter to Secretary of Al- endorsement of this Department. In fact, for many years the Sec- retary has repeatedly recommended an increase for this important work, and for the past three years has recommended even larger amounts than those suggested in the memorial, though, for financial and other reasons, such increases' have not been granted.” —t—— T Every American soldier gets five | planes this month. Miss i four-hour battle subdued.the small | More Power jern %, Curtiss Wright 7 3/4, Gen- ! NIGHTRAID BY BRITISH SUCCESSFUL Loads of Bombs Dropped‘ on |jmuiden, Also Kiel | | and Wilhelmshaven LONDON, April 25.— Royal Air | | | | | | Force bombers -attacked the im-| portant iron and steel works in' | Tihuiden, The Netherlands, and | dropped loads of bombs last night. The bombs struck the blast furnaces and must have done great damage, | according to the fliers reporting to | the air ministry British bombers through heavy antiaircraft fire to dump heavy cargoes of explosives and fire bombs on Kiel and Wil-| helmshaven shipyards with goed re- | sults, it is announced. The Air Ministry says 100 Ger- man aircgaft is the known toll of | destroyed craft by British guns and | It is admitted the British have lost 75 planes dur- ing the same period. PSS P & e A ISLAND OF LEMNOS IS TAKEN OVER also smashed | | Greek Possession || Near Dardanelles ATHENS, April 25.—German forc- | es, carried by planes and also troop ships, landed on the Greek Island of Lemnos yesterday and after | gation on the great inland water- Greek force. Lemnos is only 40 miles from the strategic Dardanelles. 3 |ing classic. A street of shattered stores and homes NENANA ICE IS STILL | HOLDING fIRM; LARGE German Forces Land on{ SUM To BE AWARDED FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April 25— holding firm and there is little in- Prospective early opening of navi-,dication of the ice breaking soon.| |ways of Alaska has been slapped 'back by three days by snow storms and also a drop in temperatures n|whlch still grip the river ice in the wide area at Nenana, the scene of the Northland's major ice break- The ice in the Nenana is still is May 3 but it may be later. Dg_n_key Trp!{ _Along _"Ququ_l}uiqe | Officials of the great ice “goingl out” contest report over $105,000 in | the pool, meaning a net award of| approximately $95,000 to the fore- caster or forecasters who made the| guess as to the day, hour and min-| ute of the break-up. | The most popular date predicted' Is Requesied ForRoosevelt, Adminisirafion Has Legis- | lafion Infroduced To- day Thro_ug_h Vinson ‘WASHINGTON, Aril %.—Rere-: sentative Carl Vinson, at fhe request ; of the Administration, today intro-; duced legislation to give the Presi-|were taken over recently, who dent vastly broadened powers to‘was called into rout out their establish priorities and ration sup-|crews, take over the boats, and plies for defense or British aid. {guard against sabotage? The Coast ——————— Guard: S'I'o(K ouor "'ONS When a cruise liner goes aground, ilists to starboard and threatens fo |dump frantic passengers into the NEW YORK, April 25.—Closin; briny, who rushes to bring them quotation of Allskl; Juneau mlnl:‘“;h“e hrongh® & irerdirons, stock today is 4%, American Can|Pounding surf? 84%, Anaconda 20%, Bethlehem| Steel 69, Commonwealth and South- By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, April 25.—If the United States Coast Guard ever gets its share of ‘public recognition, {the phrase “Let the. Coast. Guard Do It” will become as full of meaning as “Tell it to the Marines.” When ships of warring or cap- tive nations in American ports gerous ice to bring doctors, medi- cal supplies and food to some lit- eral Motors 37%, Internationaltle Harvester 44%, Kennecott 32%, New York Central 12, Northern Pa- cific 8%, United States Steel 51%, Pound $4.03. in time for the emergency opera- DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: industrials 116.58, rails 28.32, utilities 18.10. ———.—.——— LONG DOCKET Seventy-one pending cases ai on the docket to be called in Dis- maintains a lonely and often patrol from the Azores to Green- land? It's the Coast Guard every time. iB’I'All’l‘ll) IN 1790 The Coast Guard started in 1790 pounds of balanced rations daily trict’ Court. tomorrow before Judze! George F. Alexander,. . Who chops a way through dan-| winter-bound community of Eskimos where an epidemic has! | broken out? Who sets a flying boat |down on an angry sea to bring | some pain-wracked sailor to port tion that will save his life? Who ! storm-battered weather reporting jproved an act of Congress setting| up the Revenue Marine. It had ten| boats and just one duty-—to pre- vent smuggling. In 1848, the Unit- ed States life-saving service was set up. In 1915, these two were| merged and given the name Codst Guard. As late as 1921, the Coast Guard got its first airplanes — a few obsolete old crates cast off by the Navy. In 1939, the Lighthouse Service was absorbed. There hardly has been a year| in the last hundred that the Coast i Guard hasn't added men, ships | | and duties. ! Today, it has a personnel of, | about 20,000, including more than 600 commissioned officers, and is planning to add about 5,000 en-| listed men by the end of 1942. It has 485 cutters. Anything longer than 26 feet, with a com-| manding officer, is a cufter—the| larger vessels are 125 to 327 feet.| There are seven of the big ones, commissioned in 1936 and com- parable to Navy gunboats. They have a cruising radius of 12,000 miles. In addition to the cutters, the Coast Guard has 41 lighter vessels and 3300 small boats ranging down to surf boats and dories. It has about 60 planes and pilots and crews to man them. its duties. After the Titanic went down, the Coast Guard estab- «wonunued on Page Fve) when President Washington lv-l along.which a carefrée donkey trots gives in earthquake-battered Colima, Mexieo., More than a score died at Colima, PROTECTION d Slreel" FOR CARGOES * ISDEMANDED 'Two Cabinet Officials Come ‘ | Out for Safeguarding | Aid fo British 'STRONG RESISTANCE BEING ADVOCATED Pointed Declarations Are| Made by Secrefaries | Hull and Knox | (By Associated Press) Two key figures in. President i Roosevelt’s Cabinet last night called | for more active steps to aid Great Britain, on of them declaring: “We cannot allow -our goods:to be sunk |in the Atlantic,” and the other de- | manding “resistance, whatever 're- | sistance will be effective.” ‘Secretary of State Cordell Hull in |a Washington address said “ways | “Mmust be found” to insure that aid Pl aa s | reaches its destination “in the short- T 7777 |est time in the maximum quan- | NAVY OFFERS - | In an even stronger pronounce- ‘ment in New York, Secretary of the | Navy Frank Knox declared: “This is | lour fight. We must see the job it a view of the desolation AIR COURSE (it oo TOALASKANS Examining Doctor Flies Here fo Get Air Cadefs from Territory Alaska youth interested in avia- | tion will be given an opportunity to receive instruction and training {at Pensacola, Florida, with the "Let the Coast Guard | Do It,” Is New Slogan; ”Sempg!_llaralus” Motto Naval Air Corps in the “very near future” according to Dr. William Davidson, examining doctor for the Flight Selection Board of the 13th Naval District, who passed througnh Juneau from Seattle early this | morning. Dr. Lodestar and left for Fairbanks on an Electra today. The Navy doc- tor is on a preliminary tour to make tentative arrangements for a coming examining board in the Territory and will be back in Ju- neau Monday evening at the Bar- anof Hotel to answer questions of Juneau young men interested in the reserve training program. | Men interested are asked to con- tact Davidson on his return, and to write Commander Bert Creigh-| ton at the Naval Air Station in| Seattle for full particulars. | Training Points According to the doctor, appli-! cants selected from Alaska will be| sent to the Naval Alr Station in| Seattle for a 30-day preliminary flight training course, receiving, during that time $54, per .month,! subsistence, quarters and uniform.! Then they will be placed on eligible lists for further training st Pen-| sacola as vacancies ocour. The timne lapse before going to the Navy sta-! tion in Florida may be from one to six months. Aviation Cadet Then the embryo flier is appoint® ed as an aviation cadet to receive! 4 one-year course land and scl" planes required of Naval Aviators.! After the completion of the cnur:n.‘} he receives a commission as an En- | sign in the U. 8. Naval Reur'/ei and is ordered to duty with en! aircrafi squadron. Dr. Davidson said the examin- ing board will either be formed at Davidson arrived by PAA| | | Alaska and the ‘Westward or will be formed at Sitka for the same " (Continued on Page Seven) the immoral, craven position of asking others to make all the sac- | rifices for this victory which we recognize as so essential to the Unit- ed States. Our manhood, our self- respect demands we shall assume | our part of the burden.” Secretary Knox asserted: “Hitler | cannot allow our war supplies to reach England. He will be defeated if they do’ He furth@r declared, “It makes a vast difference to the United States who wins the present struggle in Europe. The difference 1s whether we stand with our backs to the wall with four continents aaginst us, with the high seas lost, and alone defending the last freee territories on earth, or whether we keep our place in an orderly world.” :AXI?fiTBS | T0 STRIKE AT CONVOYS Fascist Nev_lgiper Makes Threat on Proposed Amefitfl Plan ROME, April 25.—The representa-~ |tive Pascist newspaper Il Popolo Di Roma declared today that Italian and German submarines will attack United States convoys to Great Britain if Washington goes so far as to send them across the Atlantic. The newspaper said it is reported | America plans to extend its air and naval patrol to the mid-Atlantic for complete convoying and this “step will then mean that the Axis submarines must speal Tong_airls_ Tongass sailed this morning for Southeast Alaska ports. The steam- er goes to Sitka before calling at; But look what has happened toSeattle and sent to ‘tour Southeast Juncau on the southbound voyage. Passengers aboard the Tongm‘ booked for Juneau are Mrs. Luella V. Robinson and Mrs. Henry Ro- den, |even the Chief Executive's }day are as follows: Coming Norlh; | SEATTLE, April 25. — Steamer PRESIDENT GIVES OUT STATEMENT Admihistrafil- Not Plan- ning for Any Escorts Across Atlantic, Yet W |PATROL VESSELS ARE OPERATING ON OCEAN American gh—ifis Will Go Info Seven Seas for De- fense, If Necessary WASHINGTON, April 25.—Presi- dent Roosevelt today declared that the American Neutrality Patrol ves- sels will operate as far into the waters of the Seven Seas gs neces- sary in. defense of the American Hemisphere. This ‘was the statement made by | the Chief Executive at a conference . with the newsmen. However, the President further stated, the Administration is not thinking of any escorting convoys at this time. He also said there is a possibility that Greenland it partly occupied by an Axis force but he did not know about this. The Presi- dent replied in the negative to the question whether occupation might be by Fifth Columnists. The President declined to be drawn into any specific comments designed to amplify his views onr the convey situation but said for one year and a half, vessels of the Neu- trality Patrol have been operating as far as 1,000 miles into the At- lantic Ocean from the eastern shores of Maryland. He said there are er- roneous reports and assumptions the patrol is operating approximately 300 miles from the American coast. CONGRESS T0 NEVER GRANT FOR POWER Senafor Wfie_ler Makes Statement Regarding U. S. Convoy Plan ST. PAUL, Minn., April 25.—Sen- ator Burton K. Wheeler, Democrat of Montana, told an audience here last night that if President Roose~ velt comes to Congress seeking au- thority for convoys to England, not most ardent supporters would vote for the proposal. 5Halibufers Sell, Seattle SEATTLE, April 25.—Halibut ar- rivals, catches and selling prices to- From the western banks—Eclipse 40,000 pounds, 9% and 9% cents a pound; Resolute 40,000 pounds, 9% and 9% cents; Nordic 33,000 pounds 9% and 9 cents. From the local banks—Reliance 2,000 pounds 10 and 9 cents; Selma J 7,000 pounds, 10%, and 9 cents, PRICES ELSEWHERE At Prince Rupert today 135,000 pounds of halibut sold for 8% to 9 and 7 cents. The price at Ketchikan today 8 and 6 cents a pound. R o Labor Day was made & holiday by act of Congress in fi«