The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 3, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME Al e VOL. LVIL, NO. 8715. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 3, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CEN13 NNENANA ICE MOVES OUT TODAY . FIERCE BATTLE CONTINUES ( BRITISH, NATIVES (LASHING “Fighting Continues” Is | Report Issued by Lon- don Headquarfers | PREMIER GAILANI ASKS GERMAN AID New Confingents of War- | riors Said fo Be Mass- | ing on Frontier | . (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | The war flamed fiercely today in the graveyard of Empires as the| battle between the British and Iraq| forces went into the second day in| the area crowded with memories of | the vanished Babylonian, Assyrian, | Persian, Greek and Rcman and| sacred Turk:powers. | The Lorklon official statement said only “fighting continues” in Traq. -the section of rich oil fields, | and some Iraq artillery has been; silenced, | The Iraq communique, resumably | iesued by the German pmpugln-, dists, said 26 British planes were destroyed at the Habbaniyah air-| port, the British base 60 miles west | of Baghdad, and that British mo- | torized detachments failed to occupy! (véonrux:l;eé ‘on Page Eighd WASHINGTON—The President | has taken no pubic stand on the, Vinson anti-strike bill, but he drop- ped a clue to his attitude during | a recent luncheon Dan Tobin. The genial, white-thatched boss of the teamsters’ union is one of Roosevelt’s closest labor friends. Also, one of the most outspoken. He bluntly denounced the bill as a re- actionary attack on labor, and warned the President that if it be- came law it would have a bad effect on the defense program. “You gan't legislate a working man into staying on a job if he wants to quit,” Tobin argued. “And that's just what this bill amounts to. It is neither constitutional nor I realize that a strike necessary. can be a serious hazard to the de-| fense program, but restrictive legis- lation against unions isn't the answer. “Furthermore, the mediation board you have set up is perform- ing splendidly. It has settled every major strike turned over to it with- out delay. What more can Con- gress ask? Actually, this strike sit- uation isn't as serious as some anti- | Jabor congressmen want the country | to believe. They are making a big hullabaloo about strikes for the real purpose of cracking down on the workers.” When Tobin finished, the Presi- dent, who had been listening silent- ly, remarked quietly, “You needn’t| worry about the bill becoming lnww Dan.” | Tobin is convinced that Roosevelt| meant he was ready to use his veto power if that became necessary. IRISH BASES Tobin also urged the President to use his influence to persuade Eire/ to make air bases available to Britain. “Some Irish~American friends (Continued on Page Four, with AFL chief| = llo 10,000. , IRAQ SECTOR ‘This man will become the subject of many personal remarks next year when the new taxes must be paid. Henry Morgenthau, Jr., and is shown before the House Ways and Means Committee where he testified on Treasury plans for raising, $3,500,000,000 for national defense. gitizens—rich and poor—shall bear their fair share of the burden.” Explaining Your Tax Increase EXTRA TAXES FROM NATION | PO, [ President Roosevelt Re- | quests "Minimum"" of $3,500,000,000 WASHINGTON, May 3.—Presi- dent Roosevelt asserted that a “min- imum” of three and one half billion in extra taxes will be needed to pay {part of the extraordinary war costs. The statement is made in a letter the President sent to Chairman | | Doughton of the House Ways and | Means Committee and made public | NOW SOUGHT at Charlottesville, Virginia, where Ithe Chief Executive is week-ending. | “I hope your committee, with the | {help of the Treasury Departmertt, | will formulate a tax bill which will convince this country the program‘ {is intended to protect our Demo- | lcracy and is not going to make the | rich richer and the poor poorer,” |the President says in his letter to | | Doughton. TOBRUKIS CENTER OF He is Sccretary of the Treasury Said Morgenthau: “All classes of OutW Bally Sims Swept by a breeze, pretty Sally Sims arrives at New York on the President Madison. She is home- ward bound to San Francisco after a visit with her father, an oil exec- vtive at Bahrein, Persia (now Iran). Bahrein was bombed by axis warplanes when Italy began its first drive into Egypt. SRR L i Sl e UL s Sl ] CHITTICK SAILS Rex Chittick of Femmer's Dock left for a short trip to Portland on the southbound Tongass this morn- ing. Chittick will visit his parents in Oregon and return to Juneau on the next trip of the Tongass. e, ‘The United States has 2,364 com- munities with populations of 2500 ’ (CC Gels Info Frvying | FIGHTING Pan But Luckily Gels | - | without jobs were thick in some German, British Reports in Variance with Out- come of Conflict (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | ——— The Berlin High Command claims | By JACK STINNETT Axis forces have penetrated deeply linto the outer defense at Tobruk| WASHINGTON, May 3 — The pyg the British report is that coun- | | Civilian Conservation Corps has ter attacks have resulted in many | | been on the griddle—not put there prisoners being taken by the de-| | by any politicians but by the boys fenders and all general assaults of themselves. |Germans and Italians have failed. | What got the corps into the fry-| | ing pan in the first place and how |it got out of it without stepping van‘ouver Welcomes |into the fire is a thumbnail Am- | erican saga. | It all started because youngsters st Official Greeting Given fo o wnae pavpeneat mom wa 5K, Snowshoe Hiker from Fairbanks . . stretches from Vancouver to San Diego there went up the darnedest th VANCOUVER, B. C., May 3.—Still €| wearing his fur trimmed parka in rebel yell you ever heard. “This chow is terrible!” b;)yswflhfln'-e‘i “We can't eat this|which he travelled 1600 miles on slum! skiis and snowshoes from Fairbanks The boys from the South bel-|4, Hagzelton, Ed Borders, husky Uni- lowed we want grits and gravy.|versity of Alaska student, arrived | The boys from New Mexico and|here yesterday and was o(flclally‘ parts of Texas had to have chili|welcomed by Mayor Cornett. | ith No Scorching sections of the country (the East | and South particularly); and jobs| without youngsters were thick in other sections (the Wesfand North- west particularly). Since the jobs in the western forests, parks and on the roads couldn’t be brought| east and south, the boys in the East and South had to be sent and beans. Some of the eastern| A welcoming group accompanied boys screamed for spaghetti and|Borders south from Hazelton and all meat balls. intermediate points extended proper The boys from Louisiana want- ed cane syrup—to heck with that juice from the maple trees. Ver- monters wouldn't eat sorghum. To youth from the cow states, lamb chops at 15 cents apiece were just “goat 'meat.” When one of the wiser brothers explained that it wasn't goat, it was sheep, a dis- dainful C-man said: “Yeah, well now I know about that guy who| couldn't tell the sheep from the goats. He'd been eatin’ this stuff.” greetings. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 3 — Closlng} quotation of Alaska Juneau mine/ stock today is 4%, American Can 79%, Anaconda 23%, Bethlehem Steel 69%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 37%, International 'HUGE LOSSES {mond and Dryneck and four trans- |soldiers aboard and the 700 men "BLACKOUTS' | | Defense Officials Working A WIDESPREAD PROBLEM CCC Director James E. McEntee's field investigators from the nine corps areas have just come totown and they tell me that few such wholesale problems have bedevilled (Continued on Page Six) Harvester 43%, Gennecott 32%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pacif- ic 6%, United States Steel 52, Pound $4.03%. | | DOW, JONES AVERAGES I The following are today's Dow, | Jones averages: industrials 11555.iswnmahip vessel -Baranof. rails 28.68, utilities 17.85. Group to Inspect New Army Camps | Raf?‘(’sén}_auvcs of the press, of welfare and of religious organizations are shown about to board a plane at Bolling Iield, Washington, for a tour of southern military camps, where the greater part of Uncle Sam's Left to right: Robert Strawbridge, Jr., vice chairman of the United Services Joseph Bores, International News new army is in training. Orga.niw‘ion; J. Quinter Miller, of the Federal Council of Churche: Sexvice reporter; Fred W. Ramsay, Cleveland welfare director; Louis Keemle, United Press reporter James J. Norris, associate director of the Catholic Communitv Servica IN SHIPPING, NAZI CLAIM London Admlty Refufes | Assertions—Give Ouf Own Information (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German High Command in Berlin said the Nazi Air Force, sub- marines and other surface craft sank 1,211,000 tons of British mer- chant shipping in April, 400,000 tons in Greek waters. The London Admiralty announces that the British troop withdrawal from Greece was accomplished with the loss of only the destroyers Dia- | ports, only one of which had any AT WEEKEND MAY BE OFF on New Proposal fo Industry, Labor WASHINGTON, May 3 — De fense officials are urgently con- cerned about increasing production and striking at weekend “black- outs.” The officials are considering ask--’ g industry and labor to change; the working shifts in essential fac-| tories so they may be operated seven days a week the entire 24 hours daily. No individual working time will be changed but more employees will be put to work, it is claimed. — .- — HERE FROM WESTWARD | Traveling man John H. Mulkey! arrived in' Juneau on the steamer| Baranof last night after a trip to| the Westward. Mulkey is staying | at the Gastineau Hotel, | e BOYLE ARRIVES Jack Boyle arrived from the West- Four Germans, Fritz Paschbeck, and Hans E. Stour, 35, in the Los Angeles County Jail after they were jailed by FBI agents on suspicion of violating the draft act, after agents had searched 37 Germans preparing to sail on the Japanese ship Buenos Aires Maru. GERMANS HELD BY U.S. Phonephoto Alaska Students At U. Washinglon Are on Honor Roll SEATTLE, May 3—Three Alaska students at the University of Wash- Irvin Hoff, registrar. a student must carry at least 12 hours of undergraduate work and make a grade average of at least a B). ginia Lucile Berg, of Anchorage, |and Harrison R. Leer, Kodiak. ———.————— ward last, night on the Alaska He is' registered at the Gastineau, States with populations 250,000 and 1,000,000, ington have been named on the The undergraduate scholarship list for| committee today adopted a resolu- the winter quarter, according to tion supporting conveys to insure In order to be on the honor roll,| Britain, | | 35 (half-way between an A and|Company, traveling man V. C. Bing- The Alaska students iclude Alice |last night ard is stopping at the Michiko Togo, of Ketchikan; Vir-| Gastineau Hotel. There are 32 cities in the United (at Point Retreat, arrived from the between | light house yesterday and is stop- CONVOYS APPROVED INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 3.— American Legion Executive delivery of material aid to Great IN ON BARANOF Representing the Greybar Electric ham arrived from the Westward e HERE FROM PT. RETREAT Jerry Ross, son of thc light keeper ICE BREAKS UP AT 1:50 A.M.TODAY One Man Gets Award Tot- aling Approximate- ly $95,000 FRED MILLER OF KANTISHNA, LUCKY Nearest Guesser Is Five Minutes Away from Actual Movement FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 3 —The gods of fortune threw another Northland surprise when at exactly 1:50 o'clock this morning, May 3, they forced out the ice at Nenana, pouring . into the lap of Fred Miller, of Kantishna, Alaska, the entire contents of the fam- ous Nenana breakup prize to- talling approximately $95,000. minute alone. The nearest guesser to him was five minutes away. The American Legion award on the Nenana ice movement goes to Serge Merkovrich who guessed 3:20 am. May 3. The award totals $647.20 net, NENANA ICE MOVEMENTS (Paste in Hat for 1942) 1917—April 30 11:30 a.m. 1918—May 11 .. 9:33 a.m, 1919—May 3 1920—May 1921—May 1922—May 1923—May 1924—May 1926—May 1926—April 1927—May 1928—May 1929—May 1930—May 1931—May ’ 1932—May ...10:15 a.m. | 1933—May . 7:30 pm. 1934—April 30 ....... 2:07 pm. 1935—May 15 .. 1:32 p.m. 1936—April 30 .......12:58 p.m. 1937—May 12 8:04 p.m. 1938—May 6 8:14 p.n. 1939—April 29 1:26 p.m. 1940—April 20 3:27 p.m. 1941—May 3 1:50 a.m. S Columbials JuneauBound | SEATTLE, May 3—Steamer Co- lumbia sailed at 9 o'clock this morning for Alaska ports with 335 passengers aboard including 89 steerage. Passengers aboard the Columbia booked for Juneau include the fol- lowing: Lewis E. Ralph Imler, Mr. and Mrs. Covey, C. W. Huferson, Daniels, Ernest Ginnther. Mr. and Mrs. Sheodon Coe, Miss Evelyn Graham, Mr. and Mrs. John N. Jones, Sam Sorenson, Mrs. Es- ther Wallace, Mrs. L. Hami, M. B. Hamners, Brice Anapold, Mr. and Mrs. L. B. Gillespie, W. R. Geister, E. P. Lange. Dr. Walkowski fo Atiend Convenfion Enroute south from Anchorage on the steamer Baranof, Dr. A. S. Walkowski, Third Division Health Commissioner, will attend a Rotary Convention at Victoria, B. C. ¢ Askbaught, Ralph Tuck, Gene George lplnc at the Gasti\eau Hotel. Dr. Walkowski is accompanied by his wife and two children, who will visit in Santa Barbara.