The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 29, 1941, Page 1

R R =y VOL. LVIL, NO. 8711. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE BRITISH-GERMANS IN GUN DUEL ¢ 4 (4 “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, APRIL 29, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS & 4 L4 S LINDBERGH'S Chena River lce Moves; RESIGNATION | ISACCEPTED Secrefary of War Acts Fav- | orably Following lef- | ter fo President | FLIER DID NOT LIKE | NAME OF COPPERHEAD | Roosevelt's Secrefary | Makes Query Regarding ! Decoration by Hitler | WASHINGTON, April 29. — The War Department announced '.odi.\y{' acceptance of the resignation of ! Charles A. Lindbergh as a Reserve Army Air Corps officer. | Lindbergh wrote a letter to Presi- dent Roosevelt stating he had sent his resignation as Colonel to the ‘War Department. Lindbergh, in his letter to %“he | President, said he was tendering his | resignation because of th= Presi- | dent's comments ont hiim at a eon- ! ference with newsmen last Friday | as there was “no honorable alter- | native.” | While it has been the policy of | the War Department not to accept resignations of Reserve Officers during an emergency period, Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson pos- sesses discretionary power to act, favorably or not favorably on resig- nations. In this case he acted fav- orably and accepted Lindbergh’s | resignation. At the conference with the news- men last Friday, the President com- pared Lindbergh and other persons who predict the defeat of Great Britain by Germany as “Copper- heads,” a term used during the Civil War and applied to northerners who believed the Union Army incapable | of victory. [ Stephen FEarly, the President’s | secretary, commenting on Lind- | bergh’s resignation, said: { “It leads me to wonder if he is returning his decoration to Mr. Hit- | ler.” . | Ll eomlpipms i CThe ' -d \ WASHINGTON—It did not get by the London censors, but some very pointed questions were a‘sked of Winston Churchill in an execu- tive session of the House of Com- mons after the collapse of the British-Greek front. One question was why the Brit- ish army had not sent tanks and airplanes to support its troops_in“ Greece, To this the Prime Minisher re-| plied that the British Ssimply did| not have enough tanks and planes| to go around. They were needed| on too many fronts. Then came the question as @0 what was happening to the tanks| and airplanes received from Am-| erica under the lend-lease bill. Churchill had to reply that tanks| were not yet forthcoming at all and that airplanes had come in comparative driblets (only 1,000 have been received from both the| USA. and Canada since the war| started two years ago). | He tried to explain that it took time for America to get her fac- tories geared for tank and air- Nenana Ice Sfill Holds TO OPERATION FAIRBANKS, Alaska, April —The ice went cut in the Chena River in front of Fairbanks at 10:46 c'clock last evening, April ‘ 28. There were several thousand dcllars in numercus small min- | ute centests distributed but no big prizes. The ice at Nenana, the big Al- aska breakup contest, is still holding and the latest reports indicate it may hold for several days but this is only a matter of guesswork. Their Hon;ymoon (Jut_ égort 7 Capt. James Roosevelt, eldest son of 1 oride as he boards a clipper plane at San Francisco for ort for Marine Corps duty. he is to re oL East Meels West, West i Phonephoto the President, bids farewell to his Honolulu, where His wife is the former Romelle der. who nursed him back to health two years ago. Meels Draff, Twain in Great Disappoiniment By JACK STINNETT ; its size—but rare are the stories like this one, involving a newspaper man and a movie star. It's a Jap-| anese romance—which is why it could only happen in ton. The State Department and the War Department are all mixed up in it. Clarke Kawakami is an Ameri- can. The fact that he is half Jap-| anese doesn’t mean that he isn't an American. The fact that he| works for Domei — the Japanese news agency—doesn’t mean that| he isn't American. Clarke was born in Momence, Ill. His mother| | if it hadn't been for the immigra-| tion laws. i plane production, also to ship sup- plies across the Atlantic. But U. 8.| (Continued on Page Four) About eight or nine year: ago | Clarke was ordered back to an.m! and for six years he pounded out| Occidental news as Chieko Susuga—the |Lady of the Bamboo Everlasting.”| Washing-| She was a sort of Bette Davis to { Japanese films. Clarke and Chieko the ill-starred Balkan campaign in fell in love. The barriers of birth educations - broke ' MODS, |down. It wasn't very long before Momence, Ill, and the Hollywood | and different ! of Japan were joined by a matri- monial pledge. 4 COULDN'T GET VISA Then Clarke was ordered back to all this some time ago and it was i g the United States. For eight or|very fully discussed. I gave a very :':‘s Caucasian-Amer ‘cs:';‘ Hism:;-vl nine months, Chieko Susuga pound- I full explanation to the House and I er was Japanese and probably|eq per jittle fists on the doors of have nothing to add.” would have been American, too,| the American embassy @nd tried to get a visa to come to the Unit-| ed States. Why? they asked. Well, oh, -well, because she wanted to (Continued on Page Seven) ‘. et by “No sir," British Prime Ministe i _ | newspapers. Although he had been Py “No sir,” Bri e il WASHINGTON, April 2. — RO~ o “reqred, schooled and received | Winston Churchill today flatly re- mance comes to Washington about|all his cub reporting training in Jected a suggestion he form a as often as to any other city of | the United States, he liked his job.|Streamlined supreme war cabinet, After a while he met a girl. (n'then called for a vote of confidence nearly all of Japan she was known hext week on his conduct in the “Young | War- 14 4 L4 MINERS BACK ON THURSDAY :Sofl Coal Production o Be " Resumed in Nafion- | Accept Proposals | 'STEPHEN EARLY, LEWIS | " MAKE ANNOUNCEMENTS ?Soulhem Operafors Unex- ' pectedly Toss in Dollar Day Pay Boost | WASHINGTON, Aril 20— The | United Mine Workers Union of Am- |erica announces so(t coal produc- tion will be resumied on Thursday | morning in the Nation's bituminous | fields, shut down since April 1 in| a dispute over a new wage con-| tract. | The announcement of the re- sumption of mining was made by the spokesman of the Union, Presi- dent John L. Lewis, after he diseuss- | ‘ed the situation with the District. Presidents of the Appalachian Coal Area. ‘The announcement followed a de- 'cision of the southern producers last night to accept the President's pro- pesal to recpen the mines and breale | the coal wage controversy. The an-/ nouncement of this decision was made by Stephen Early, that South- ern operators had . agreed to the! Chief Executive’s proposals to con- tinue to negotiate a wage agree- ment with the United Mine Workers on a retroactive basis date. The Southern operators unexpectedly tessed in a dollar a day pay boost, pending final cortract settlement,| and Lewis was forced to a quick dis-| ,cussion with the northern operators ! over this unexpected announcement. The word was then given out re- garding the resumption of mining | Thursday. | | The suspension of soft coal pro- | duction was seriously interferring ‘with steel operations and it was| . then President Roosevelt made his i proposals, which have been accepted, | BRITISHWAR CABINETWILL NOT CHANGE (Churchill Refuses fo| Streamline Group—Calls LONDON, April 20.—With a snap- Churchill put the question of his conduct of the war in general and particular before the House of Com- announcing a debate will be held next week on the entire issue. To the question whether he | thought it was time “to invite Ewm- pire statemen to join the war cab- {lnet or an imperial war ecabinet | similar to the last war,” Churchill | replied, “We held a debate about ———————— i Sixty-five percent more girls be- |tweeh 15 and 25 die of tubercu- losis each year than do boys that age. for Confidence Vofe | 4 Boston, with the Volunteer Motor Corps Ellis (right), other war work. Tuitie l’-rry V. Never relaxing her vigilance despite her war efforts in two continents, England continues to sharpen her defenses against Nazi invasion. Here a squad of Home Guardsmen go through realistic street fi'hfi;lf drill ol /in the Dover-Folkstone danger area. The bottles contain which gave the nation the Minute Men of Revolutio . {England 14 S & CROSS CHANNEL SHELLING LASTS 7 Boston Trains Minute Women for of the Boston Red Cross as cocktails”, flaming death for enemy tank crews. nary days, today is training Minute Women, a nucleus. Pictured under command of Maj. of the local army base, they are trained for service in first aid, communication on is $35 and the course is open to all Massachusetts women. Ready for Invasion lotov (4 (4 L4 HOURS War Duty | INVASION ~ ATTEMPT ~ NEARING | ‘Speedboals*a Germany § | and British Engage in Skirmishes Today NAZI FORCES MOVING | " 10 SOUTHERN GREECE | 'Next Attack in Balkan W& § Expected fo Be Made on Island of Crete BULLETIN — DOVER, \pril & ALASKA JUNEAU ~WAGEANDHOUR " DECREE CLEARED | Employeesfie Paid Ex- | fra Overtime from ana erman speedboat ata December 14 of Hngland 18 reported taday as et | | | consent decree entered into by the | Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- { pany and the Wage and Hour Divis- |ion of the Department of Labor, eel- jer” of a type likely to become gen=- |eral in the invasion attempt of Eng- \land by Germany. | was issued today by J. A. Willlams, | General Superintendent of the Com- ‘dmum&mz‘n m‘m’ D‘fl { pany. boats have been damaged . A news report from San Francisco claghes today. h' | regarding the settlement was sub-| Indications are, however, that Hite stantially correct, Williams said, ex-llervs |m..':§:a mfi‘ of | cept ihat payment in restitution will pritish isle may not be in the s {g0 back to December 14, 1940, and ' mediate offing. This |not to “October 1939 as stated i in London as the result of observe the news . ances made b; British i‘ma{r‘_ Williams' statement is as fol- yésterday, N?::fiwm“ | Employees’ Request ~ |ly bombed | “In the settlement of the Wage- the Channel and' Hour dispute with the government, troop barges |the matter involved payment of | In overtime on a daily basis. The com- | | pany, by written agreement with the |union and at the union's request When Is Question Keeps Coming Up; Everybody Seems Involved By MORGAN M. BEATTY s, in itself, warfare. Some histori- AP Feature Service Writer [ WASHINGTON, April 20. — The| ticklish question of peace or War|struggle warfare—such as the scrap| for the United States constantly| for markets between Democracy’s bobs ‘up in fiery debate in Con-| private enterprise, and Totalitari-| | anism’s barter system. That also‘e“h 40-hour week was expreagiy business men|you will have to decide for your- who come to Washington from self, The ultra-modern economist; many parts of the country are ask-|says yes. The international lawyer,| ooy I0disbries roushout the ing each other questions, or gress. Editors, citizens, swering them. “Are we now at war? If we con-| voy aid to Britain, will we be 1 war?” It happens to me nearly every day. Somebody asks me one of these questions—or tries to answer one of them for me. the answers. But I have looked up | the history books and consulted in- | ternational legal authorities, a War! Ticklish war, Others say no. Second, can ‘you call an-| no. at financial systems, 1 don't know tween nations become ans interpret such a struggle a tradelor overtime. The lawyer bases his opinion employees. This was done on the on the belief that economic rivalry |insistence of the bargaining com- is natural between nations, what- mittee, This contract expires May ever their economic, political, Finally, you come to the question of, “When does war start?”, or “At be continued, what point does a disagreement be- a war?”| There the lawyer can give you ion has now made a new 1n;ezpm-’ something to sink your teeth into. tation of the meaning of the law and ¢ He tells me warfare starts legally they now insist upon payment of | First, you must decide for your-|y,pm 5 declaration or with the en- overtime only at the end of 40 hours self the question of whether the gagement of the military forces|each week. In other words, the base| FEugene Underhill is struggle of two politicak ideas, such| ’ as totalitarianism and demoeracy,' 7] (Continued to Page Two) | (Continued on Page Seven' | sometime ago, inaugurated a system {of paying overtime daily instead of |at the end of each 40-hour week. | This was requested by the employ- |ees as it was a considerable advan- tage to them for the reason that it |made the pay uniform during the |week for each day worked, and the loss of a day at the beginning or the middle of the week, or before the 4) hours had been worked, did not in- volve the complete loss of overtime as would have been the case if over- {time had been computd on the 40~ jhour weekly basis. In fact, the method requested by the employees jand put into effect by the company | protected the employees against loss o8 | “This method of compuiing over- time daily instead of at the end of in the flight from ‘The DNB aserts that five British ships, totalling over 18,000 tons, have. been sunk by Nazi bombers in the ountry. It is provided for in the passage between the Greek main- |company’s present contract with its| land and the island of Crete. ¥ i TO BUILD WESTWARD HOTEL . P. O. Peterson, construction fore- man for the J. B. Warrack Con- struction Company, flew out of Ju- neau early this morning bound for Anchorage, via Pairbanks. Petel who arrived from Seattle on Douglas last night, will take rha of the bullding of the $160,08 Westward Hotel in Anchorage. —— e BOUND FOR VALDEZ {proved by former Administrator fi drews, and it has been adopted in or| i st, and the bargaining committee requested that the present meth- of computation of overtime daily New Interpretation “However, the Wage-Hour Divis-| oo -— . ——. | Alaska, returning to ‘his Valdez after a trip to the