The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 28, 1941, Page 1

B 0 THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LVIL, NO. 8710. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” EMPIRE Wi CHURCHILL LOOKING FOR AID FROM U. S, Title as Car Hop Queer | INDBERGH BATTLE OF ATLANTIC IS NEW ACTION Brifish Prime Minister Broadcasts Grim War Review on Sunday FURTHER CONFLICTS ARE NOW FORECAST Defies Hitler, Mussolini, However, to Find Safety for Avenging Justice LONDON, April 28.—“The tremen- dous decicion” of the United States to patrol “the wide waters of the Western Hemisphere,” was hailed by Prime Minister Winston Churchill as vital to the battle which Great Britain must win to survive, In the Battle of the Atlantic “no seeing man can doubt the even- defeat of Hitler and Mussolini; certainly in view of the respective and declared resolves of the British and American democracies.” In a grim review of the entire war situation broadcast Sunday to the British Empire and America, Chur- | chill acknowledged: German victories | in Yugoslavia and Greece, and pre-' dicted: “We must now expect war in the Mediterranean on the sea and the desert, and above all, in the air, to become very fierce and var- ied. Widespread war may spread to Spain and to Morocco and to Tur-: key and to Russia. Germany may lay her hands on the grunnries‘ Cthe ‘WASHINGTON—The reports that the Justice Department is conduct- | ing a sweeping investigation of cer- tain large chemical firms missed some highly interesting items. ! One of the companies is the Gen- | eral Aniline and Film Corporation of New York. What was overlooked was that this concern was one of ! the six indicted in January on charges of violating the anti-trust laws ‘in the production of magnes- ium, a key defense material. I The indictment declared flatly that “General Aniline and Film Cor- | poration was organized by I G.! Farbenindustrie (giant German dye trust) in 1929 &nd its stock has since | and through to the present been di- ’ : rectly or indirectly controlled by I.| G. Farbenindustrie.” It was formerly | called the “American I. G. Chemical Corporation.” | Also not brought out was that the ! last annual financial statement of General Aniline, on December 31, 1940, showed that it owned outright | 56,300 shares of common (voting) | stock, valued at $6,136,700, of the, International Gesellschaft Iuer‘ Chemische Unternehmungen A. G'i Switzerland, and another shares of this firm's common stock | listed as “50 per cent paid.” The Government is interested in ascertaining whether Chemische Un- | ternehmungen, although listed as a! Swiss firm, is not actually Nazi-con- trolled. Another item under serutiny in General Aniline’s report is 43,750 shares of common stock valued at $772012 of American Magnesium Corporation listed as “sold subse-!Store in Anchorage and who is also | wqq o erecting a large building there, is abeard the DC-3 due here this after- quent to December 31, 1840.” Ameri- can Magnesium was organized orig- inally by the Aluminum: Corpora- (Continued on Page Four) 28,600 . JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1941. 'ATHENS FALLS | Seeks Blonde, blue-eyed Josephine Powell, 19:year-old Houston beauty, is & ! contestant in the flrs:plnmml C-r,Hop Queen contest in Galveston, Tex. Entries will be judged on beauty, costume and ability in taking | and filling orders at CAPITAL SHOW PACKS THEMIN AL PREVIEW More than 1,000 square feet of tuberous begonias and giant-leaf- | ed Rex Begonias in brilliant col- ors will fill a “flower gorge” at California’s Spring Garden Show “Rainbow Forest.” Famed hor- ticultural event will be held April 30 to May 4 in the Oakland, Cal. Exposition Building. Beverly An- derson, above, “previews” some of | the showy begonias at the na- | tionally famed event. LOUSSAC FLYING NORTH Z. J. Loussac, owner of a drug nocn. Presumably he will fly to Fair- banks tomorrow and then to An- chorage, " men, the merchants and some pri- \ 4 | @ | drive-in food stands. READY, BUT [ By JACK STINNEW | | T | | WASHINGTON, Apri#*28—As 1| | write this, there are three big na-| tional conventions going on in| + Washington. It's also cherry blos-| | som time, which is probably the| jear's biggest boom time in tour-| ist trade. Add all these to defense! crowding, and the result for thei home folks is awful. | Those scowls the Senators are| wearing and the short tempers | they bring to the Capitol betray| that not even they can get a taxi when they want one. The only| vacant rooms in town are in the White House. The Board of Trade, | the hot : | vate citizens who are getting $6 to| i$8 a day for single rooms with extra cots are beaming. The rest| of us are just bucking the crowds| and perspiring and hoping it won't be the same next week. This brings up a point. Barring only New York and Chicago, Washington is fast becoming the ; greatest convention ecity in the country. Without a single state conven- tion, since it has no state, Wash- ington had 208 conventions last year, with nearly 83,000 delegates and goodness knows how many relatives and friends of delegates. They are going to beat that mark armory - completed to give space caty’s new and largest hotel ready |for the howling mabs, the town {will enter an era of conventionitis that wiil make the heyday of Al- lantic City a forgotten age. A HOTEL “FOR CONVENTIONS” tional capital is coming to as a conclave center is that after sur- {veying the situation, the = Statler {Hotel people started breaking [ground for a thousand-roomer. It |is, Board of Trade officials say| ~ |proudly, the only hotel in the|States in the “critical battle of the) designed principally for | handling big conventions. Its big- |gest convention asset will be a' that will seat 3,000—the aid of the United States will ballroom (Continued on Page Seven) Pa 0 in 1941 and by 1042, with the new for bigger conventions and the| An indication of what the na-| QUITS ARMY AS OFFICER Sends in lie_si_gnation as Reserve Colonel in Unit- ed States Air Corps LETTER IS SENT 10 PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT Crificism Made by Chief Executive Is Given as Principal Reason NEW YORK, April 28—Charles A, Lindbergh, in a letter to President Roosevelt, has resigned as Reserve | Officer of the United States Army | Air Corps. The text of the letter follows: “My Dear Mr. Roosevelt: “Your remarks at a White House press conference on April 25 involving my Reserve Com- mission in the United States Army Air Corps, of course dis- turbed me greatly. 1 hoped I might exercise my right as an American citizen to place my viewpoint before the people of my country as an Air Corps of- ficer in the event of War, but since you, in your capacity as President of the United States and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army clearly implied I am no longer of use in this country as a Reserve Officer, and in view of other implications that you, as my President, and Super- jor Officer, made concerning my loyalty to my country, my char- acter and my motives, I see no honorable alternative but ten- dering my resignation as Colonel in the United States Army Air Corps Reserve, “I am therefore forwarding my resignation to the Secretary of War. “This action is with the ut- most regret for my relationship in the Air Corps is one of the things that meant most to me in life and I placed it second only to my right as a citizen to speak freely to my fellow coun- trymen and discuss with them the issues of war and peace that confront our Nation in this crisis. T will continue to make this my country and to the best of my ability remain a private citizen, “Respectfully, “Charles A. Lindbergh.” NO COMMENT WASHINGTON, April 28.— The { White House has no comment to {make on the resignation of Lind- bergh. His letter to the President had not been received up to late this afternoon, NO CREPE ONDEBACLE INBALKANS { Brifish Nev?papers Now { Focus Attention on | Siruggle at Sea LONDON, April 28—The Balkan | debacle produced less crepe hang-| |ing than the collapse of France last| ! year. | The British newspapers focused all attention on aid from the United Atlantic,” The newspapers said England’s own life in the death struggle with survive against the probable German blockade. SSOCIATED PRES PRICE TEN CENTS 0 NAZI FORCES: | | | L Flrel%n are pictured fighting one of the many raging blazes caused by electrical short circuits following the two earthquakes that rocked Mexico City and surrounding country resulting in 36 deaths and more than 100 injuries. . BELFAST AFTER TERRIFIC ety WS i Half of the 15,000 residents of the city of Cclima were left homeless by the violent tremhlors. Numerous modern buildings in the capital were cracked or destroyed. AIRRAID Salvage workers move through wreckage left by German air raid on Belfast, northern Ireland. The Brit- ish flag flies from facade of building at left. The British announced about 500 persons were killed and | hundreds injured in the raid. This photo was radioed fo New York from London. GOVERNMENT ENCOURAGES U. S. MINERS | | WASHINGTON, April 28 — A [group of 17 Senators, including Mon C. Wallgren, of the State of | Washington, has introduced = a | measure authorizing the RFC to | make mining loans up to $5,000 |in order to finance preliminary | development work upon new pros- pects. | ™e Dbill calls for security of |lien upon the ore and an agree- | ment to apply ten percent of the net mill smelter or mint returns toward repayment. -+ 14th Capital City fo Fall (BY, ASSOCIATED PRESS) The fall of Athens makes the | 14th European Capital Cily brought under German domin- atien either by diplomatic or blitzkrieg fury since March, 1938, iyl B Kite flying had a craze among adults in America about 50 years ago. ~ Of Alaska i Change in Membership Legislature * Proposed by Dimond Alaska Delegate A. J. Dimond introduced a bill, H. R. 4397, on i April 17, “To amend the Organic Act of Alaska” providing for re- | allocation of membership in the Al- | aska Territorial Legislature on a | proportionate representation or pop- ulation basis. The bill provides for a | membership of eighteen in each , house, the same for the Senate as |for the House. The terms of the , members now in office are not af- | fected, and the period of member- ship remains the same, four years for the Senators and two years for the members of the House of Rep- resentatives, Delegate explained the reasons for the bill and. the contents of this measure in a press release and said: Original Adoption “When the act creating the Leg- islature for the Territory of Alaska was passed in the year 1912, the Ter- ritory then, as now, was divided into | four judicial divisions and those judicial divisions were adopted as legislative districts. In the original act, it was provided that two mem- bers of the Senate and four members of the House should be elected from each of the four judicial divisions, thus making a Senate of eight mem- bers and a House of sixteen mem- bers. While at that time there was some difference in the population of the several divisions, the numbers residing in each division were suf- ficiently close to justify the adop- tion of the formula then used. Since that 'time, and particularly between 1930 and 1940, several of the judicial divisions of Alaska have increased largely in population and one of them only slightly. For ex- ample, according to the 1940 census, there are now 25241 people residing in the Pirst Judicial Division and only 11,877 in the Second Judicial Division. Accordingly, under the present system of electing members of the Territorial Legislature, each voter in the Second Division has the equivalent of two votes as com- pared with each voter in the Pirst " (Continued on Page Eight) FIRE RAGES IN WAKE OF EARTHQUAKE | fighting in Greece in pursuit of the GERMANSIN - GREEK CITY ON SUNDAY Motorcylists_fifachmem : ' Rolls Into Conquered Capifal in Morning NO BOMB OR SHELL - FIRE DESTRUCTION Troops Cheea by.One Na- | tion While Citizens of Other Are Silent (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Heralded by martial music over radios, the Nazi High Command re- ported the fall of Athens saying briefly: “Troops of the German Army enemy, arrived at Athens at 9:20 o'clock Sunday morning when the first detachment of German ‘motor cyclists entered the Oapital City of the Greeks, ' The. Germian newspapers prini reports the city was taken without a fight, no bomb or'shell fire de- struction. A London radio announced the last message broadcast by the Ath- ens radio station stated that the Capital City was being,bombed and “he streets machine gunned. i The DNB, German news agency, said the German residents of Ath- ens cieered as the grey and green clad Nazi began the march into Ath- ens while the Greeks looked on in stoic silence. NAZI FORCES | DRIVESOUTH | ON BRITISH Berlin Says Refreafing Ex- pedition Being Bombed by Stuka Airplanes (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler’s swastika flag of conquest flies over Ancient Athens, birthplace | of the world’s first Democracy while . | two German columns are driving south across Polopponnesus in purs | suit of the retreating British Expe- ditionary Force troops. i1 Dunkerque. HitTer's -High Command said the luftwatfe has violently strafed the British and Greek columns in the Argos Tripolis area and this indi- cates the Allies 50 far have fallen back half way across Polopponnesus and are apparently fighting stiff rear guard actions to cover the with- drawal of the main BEF toward em- | barkation ports. BUSY BIG MAN PROVIDENCE, R. I, April 28.— | This has been a busy spring for |Ernie Savignano, Brown Univers sity’s all-round athlete. Ernie, cap- tain-elect of the football team, is also the best catcher on the base- - ball squad. So he works a while behind the plate in the aftermoom;” then dons shoulder pads and drills with the gridders. ;