The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 1, 1941, Page 1

| THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS OL. LVIL, NO. 8713. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY MAY I ALL THE TIM it L 1941, MEMBER ASS()CIATLD PRl- Sb PRICE TEN CENTS "ROUND UP WAR SUPPLY SHIPS BLITZKRIEG ON EN AND NOW NEARlNG HITLER IS | PREPARING T0 STRIKE | Mllltary Experts Give Six Reasons Indicating At- tempt at Invasion FAVORABLE WEATHER IS LOOMING AHEAD War Sup pTi:s Reaching British in Quanfity from U. §. (By Associated Press) Military experts of Great Britain and neutral nations in London note signs that Hitler may now attempt his long-threatened invasion of Eng- | land. The experts gave out six polnts indicating the offensive campeizn“ is about to start, as follows: | 1. Favorable weather ahead, | 2. Mounting vielence of Nazi- - } | R = Jaoze luftwaffe hitting at Ply- mouth and Portsmouth, (Continued on Page Sever) WASHINGTON — There was a secret telephone call to the White House during the deadlocked coal negotiations that Franklin Roose- velt will never forget. It came from John L. Lewis, who ate humble pie and personally asked Roosevelt for help. In last year’s election no one assailed Roosevelt more bitterly in} public than Lewis. His private re-| marks were even more vitriolic.| And when the coal parleys began,| ’Lewis insisted that the Govern- ment keep hands off. efense chiefs, foreseeing exact- ly what happened later, wanted, Secretary Perkins to certify the| case to the new Defense Mediation | Board before the mines, were shut down. But she balked, on the ad- vice of her conciliation chief, Dr. John Steelman, reported to be play- ing close to Lewis. ! Lewis, who had opposed the| creation of the Mediation Board, was vehemently against turning the coal negotiations over to it. -Tts first request was sure to be that the mines continue running in the interest of defense production. Lewis' strategy was to shut down| the mines tight, thus forcing all" operators to sign up at the same| time. So by not calling in the Media- tion Board, Miss Perkins and Steel- man played squarely into John L's| horny hands. Jeannette Hall LEWIS PHONES ROOSEVELT Later, however, the situation got| Among thousands of girls seeking ot e i hands. Southern opera-| the title of United States “Car acceds | Hop Queen,” Jeannette A Hall, tors flatly refused to e 10} hove, does her ‘car hopping” in Lewis' demands, walked out of the| o/ ion "oy ™ yor the benefit of negotiations. This kind of resis-| t.hos:f who don’t know what a “car tance he had not expected. And! y,p» gir] is, she's the glamor gal as the deadlock continued, Lewlst who waits on you at those drive- became worried over mounting pub- | in stands. Miss Hall wears a cos- lic resentment. tume of white silver ¢'~th studded It was at this point thdt Joan with rhinc~ : 5 L. swallowed his pride and turned for help to the man he had blnst-' HERE FROM GUSTAVUS - ed last October with fire and brim- stone. | Telephoning the President, Lewis asked for that the .Gov- rived ernment’s lGastineau Hotel, ; Knudsen Visits Shipyards William S. Knudsen, director of the Office of Production Management, shields his face from the glare as he watches welders at. work in the River Shipyards in Quincy, Mass. 'Making a whirlwind tour of the defense plmt. he urged all possible spéed in prod\miop. ==" - ARE STUMPED ON THEIR ey, | OWNSHIP DESIGNATIONS JHRUST ON - SUEZ (ANAL | | PREDI(TED Milifary Circles Exped Grand Scale Assault Within Ten Days BRITISH TROOPS IN T STRATEGIC SECTIONS ported’Opened in Cam- paign on Desert | | (By Associated Press) | Auttokitative quikléss n: thnasas | said today a second contingent of | British troops have landed at Bas- ira, Iraq, head of the Persian Gulf, | apparently a move to counter any | German threat in Irag’s rietr:Mosul {oil fields. Other British troops ¢landed there on April 17 lmd Aprd {18, it is announced. Well informed military circles { London freely predict a grand scale Nazi assault on Egypt and the Suez Canal via the French man- i dated Syria, and Palestine, will | break within the next ten days. | sources said other Axis ¢ columns | are striking from Libya to join in ia giant pincer movement. Mussolini’s High Command as- By JACK STINNETT | serts Axis scouts have put the Brit- lish in flight and seized armored D:??S;L:Sfiimmrm:w? :::Lu‘muipment in the region of Salum, the Egyptian frontier post, just over the Coast Guard to define a cut-| ter. And if there ever was a hurri.| ¢ Libyan border. e In the three weeks old siege of | cane in the binnacle, that question| ., =g 1o garrison at Tobruk, 80 Iset one o8 moticn. If my simple| o0 cide Libya on the north sampling was accurate, about 90‘African coast, the British head- ;’:‘::m b} 4he. ot Fmp does".t:quarcers at Cairo acknowledged Here is how it happened. In a Axis troops penetrated the outer 7 | defense of the stronghold this f,‘;‘;",?m“;i i;‘;r:; II ?::nl;:g:::ym‘f:\moming, with the British fighting i PR Wi 5 V) *"|fiercely and causing many casu- | it had 485 “cutters” I explained Ities the. attaoksss. | that a cutter was any motor ship|® g s s over 26 feet in length that had a| coRABAE ity wrons, | OPened_an intensitied offensive in | | | i [but blame it on my mis-idformant. | the desert: clnpaign: gad: ombitg | | i It seems that about six months ago the Coast Guard changed its mind about cutters, “A cutter,”| they said then, “was hereafter to| be a motor ship over 65 feet with; a commanding officer.” Bo"D STAMP But what a time-1 had getting| I the way for Nazi foot soldiers. the second definition out of them.| | Some readers who take their boats seriously had come back at me and said I didn’t know a cutter from a sardine boat. “Just what IS a cutter?” I asked on the second visit. The com- mander to whom I was talking| wasn't quite sure. He called al dozen . colleagues. They weren’t sure. Finally there was one who! | was positive and he had documen- | | tary evidence to prove it, " A1l Out Efforts ” Urged by President Gets Reply from Old, Young A HAMILTON BRAIN-CHILD Before we go into that, howevir,| let me tell you about “cutters.” Th Const Guand ey the. bratn-chiig| WASHINGTON, May 1—Urged of Alexander Hamilton, who en-.by i el to patHeinate visioned a fleet of cutters, which'm the Nation's “all out effort to would protect the United smeslsgu":f;“:;’d i gy el re;':“‘:;:s‘:“"’;:y:“:n‘fcu‘;"':r‘_:‘“’;zs Office and bank windows today to & “amall veslel‘ #th s single begin investing in Defense Savings mast; a mainsail, a forestaysail Bo;:s .nifia vmf’ "':m‘:‘s‘ ” and a jib.” They were used in the B dooncal Bt et British navy and for coastal duty. cumiz m‘;‘ et Beoushond. - $he | coun ay. !“0‘ z‘:m:“-m: ‘.“:“:'::H“‘.K:”:’ ::": The President led the way last it {night in launching the bond and gt‘):rk;le-bznk oa:‘”boat vll“h 8UX-|stamp sale program nationally by a s g principally on|progdcast address. Intensified Luftwaffe Re-f At the same time these military | Berlin reports a luftwaffe has | British troops and artillery, paving, | OVER NATION {May Day Pronouncement Threc-inch anti-aircraft shells poured over this Pacif ic Northwest beach at Grayland, Wash., as- the 205th:. ‘Coast Artillery gave its new guns their first live ammunition. A 25-Ton Medlum Tank on the ] Army ordnlnce officers inspect the Bal sanks are under production for the army. Brig. Gen. Burton .ual the tanks with Maj. Daniel N. Houseman, thief of ordnance, Greek Army Is Now Being REDARMY IS READY | 10 FIGHT Demobilized Orders Have Been Issued Issued Regarding Vio- lation Soviet Frontiers (By Associated Press) Russia today issued a May Day | Dominated Land broadcast from Athens says War Bakos has ordered de- tion of her frontiers. This was issued within 24 hours Minister after the Soviet newspapers asserted | mobilization of German troops were moving through ' Army. Finland with tanks and guns. | Apparently Bakos is a membcr Russia’s Defense Commissar,of the new German Timoshenko declares in the pro- Government of occupied Greece. nouncement issued today that the‘ Red Army is ready to “offer an- Kelchikan Man fo nihiliating rebuff to any encroach- ment by imperialists.” dwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone, Pa., where 25-ton medium 0. Lewis (left), chief of ordnance, looks over | by War Minister of Nazi | BERLIN, May 1—The Gnrman‘ pronouncement against any viola- news agency DNB says a radio e | gress the entire Greek| dominated | ALLOUT AID IS ASKED OF U.S. SHIPPING Maritime Com mission Seeks Vessels for Carry- ing Maferial fo Britain FIFTY TANKERS T0 BE REQUISITIONED President Asked fo Begin Getting Two Million Tons for Purpose WASHINGTON, May 1.—In quick response to President Roosevelt’s re- quest for ships of this country “all out to aid Democracies,” the Mari- time Commission made plans to place 50 American tankers in the service of the British within the next few days. All operators of American tankers over 5,000 tons grass are being usllcg .*Tarfiw e The present tentative plan does not call for transter of thé registry of the tankers to the British but they will be for use outside the war zone and for direct benefit to the British. e Under the proposal, the tankers will be operated by the oil produc- ing countriés along the north coast of South Amreica and of the United States. At the north Atlantic ports oil will be transferred to Britisa tankers for the remainder of tho trip. The Maritime Commission asked the President last night to begin rounding up 2,000,000 tons of ship- ping to carry “vital war materials” abroad. LINDBERGH IS INBAD INENGLAND ‘British Official Says Flier : Tried to Prevent Action Against Germany Under Secretary of F‘uu-ign Af- fairs, today answered “Yes,” when | Fund Now | Reques'ed House of Commons member asked him whether Charles A. | Lindbergh had not ‘“consistently Roosevelf Aslgs (ONQIESS | prevens “erretive " sction~ sgainst fo Appropriate Sum | Gexmany. for Construdion Assembly Line Philadelphia district. nghway The. questioner was conservative Imember 8. V. T. Adams. | A brief discussion involving ! Lindbergh brought out the state- WASHINGTON, May 1 — Pr“‘_‘mmt from Butler regarding Lind- |dent Roosevelt today asked Con- | bergh’s views on the strength of to authorize $20,000,000 for the Soviet Union about the time | consfruction of mwr-Amerficsn‘"‘" Munich Pact was signed in | highways as far as the Panama September, 1038, but Butler said | they were of “no undue signifi- cance” to the British Government. The members of the House of | Commons cheered Butler when he irefused to answer Laborite Ellis ’smlths query whether Lindbergh used his influence “along with a well known lady member of this | House.” i e MARRIAGE LICENSES Cunal Policemen Rouled By Army Souvenir CENTRALIA, Wash, May 1 Mrs. A F. Parker of Gustavus ar- in Juneau today for a shurt' Coal Divis- '.rlp Arrivlfll in her private boat, {Mrs. Parker s registered at t.hd‘ men-of-war, sometimes in nelta' with one boat fitting inside an- other. The term also has been applied to any sloop of considerable draft and comparatively small beam. . . . a “water cutter.” The Coast Guard, having in- herited the term from Alexander Hamilton, started its own termi- jmology and then went off the deep enaser The President announced he is buying a bond, so is Mrs. Roosevelt and also ten defense savings stam:ps each for his grand children. SALE HERE In Juneau, Mayor Harry 1. Lucas stepped up to the local Post Office w this morning and was pur- o“.hannslh Defense Bond here, The sale here is re- ported brisk, (ITY ASSESSOR IS | Be Wed in Seatle I oy 1 rummaging through a box of lost Io BE APPOlmn | SEATTLE, May 1—A marriage|anq found “junk” at police head- T Rnow HIGHI license has been issued to John L.|guarters, came up with an orange- Allen, 21, of Ketchikan, and Pauline | colored iron ball, policemen tum-| Appointment of a Municipal As- | Shel!on,fiwnh, bled over each other rushing into| sessor will be one of the main items | the street. of b ‘at tomorrow njght’s Ju-' Exceeding the speed limit has It was an army hand grenade, neau 'City Council meeting. iled the list as the major cause of|in 8ood working order, with the Last year the assessor Dave traffi¢ “decidents ' in the ' ‘United firing “pin in place. Veteran of-| Davenport; while in kml as records have| ficers couldn’t remember bhow it pxevimumtnru kept. | got into the box. When Sergeant Henry Southwick,! |flmcnnn¢h\. Marriage licenses have been is+ sued by U. S. Commissioner PFelix Gray to James Leslie Aubert and Maxine Jacobs, both of Juneau; | George W. Bryson and Idabelle Dob- son, both of Juneau, and William John Pege of Juneau and Jane ‘. C. Scott of Portland. v Watches: once '.. pockets and read by