The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 8, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LVIL, NO. 8719. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, \1 AY 8, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e ——— = 1941. MEMB[-R ASSOC]ATH) PRle PRICE TEN CENTS BERLIN FEARS BRITISH BLITZ NAVY SECRETARY PLANS VISIT T0 JUNEAU CHILDREN EVACUATED COL. KNOX IS COMING ! TO ALASKA Cabinet Official o Inspect Areas for Proposed Defense Bases RADIOGRAM RECEIVED FROM DELEGATE DIMOND ‘ Money Repored Appro-| priated for Various Projects in North Col, Frank Knox, Secretary of the | Navy, this Jun summer to inspect areas in au, is planning a visit to Alaska | | { i \ [ \ i [ | Ketchikan, Petersburg and | Seward in preparation for the in-| stallation of an $887,000 section Na val defense base in each locality. This information was received to- day in a radiogram sent to the Ju- neau Delegate Anthony J. Dimond in reply to a communication sent to the Alaska delegate offering all co- operation in order to help the es- tablishing of the base at Juneau. Former dispatches from Washing- ton revealed that plans were being; _ made to construct 59 sectional Naval defense bases in coastal towns and included the four Alaska ports in the building program, The bases will be stations for small defense craft that will patrol harbors, be| used as mine sweepers, detect sub-| marines and protect coastal convoys from attacks. The information said that already | i — (contmuvd to Page Two) WASHINGTON — Heavy confer- ences among Army and Defense chiefs on plans for another vast ex- pansion of plane producing facilities are in progress behind the scenes. If this seems surprisig, since hun- | dreds of millions already have been allocated for this purpose, the rea- son is clear when you examine the gigantic size of the industrial sys- tem required to build the 50,000 planes called for by Presdient Roosevelt after the fall of France. Between July 1, 1940 and March | 1, 1941, just the floor space of the aviation industry expanded from | 17,216,410 square feet to 31,383,967. In a few months four huge new bomber assembly plants, at Kansas City, Fort Worth, Tulsa and Omaha, fed with parts by scores of other factories, will add millions of addi- tional square feet. But even with all these assembly and parts plants in full operation, the total output of combat planes by the end of 1942 will still be far short of 50,000. On order are 44,835 planes divided as follows: For Canada and the R.AF.—16,000, plus 3,600 bombers under the so-called Knudsen plan; | for the U. 8. Army—16,575, of which only half will be combat planes; for the Navy—6,660, of which about one- fourth will be trainer planes. Thus it will be seen that of the 23,235 planes the Army and Navy are scheduled to receive in the next| 18 months, only around 14,000 will be actual fighting ships. The rest| will be trainers. That is why Defense authorities are preparing to erect two, possibly four, more bomber assembly plants, (Continued on Page Four) Chamber of Commerce by} These children are being evacuated from Belfast, North Ireland, fol- lowing a German air raid in which hundreds of persons were killed. Children from other cities in Ulster cmml,y are also bclnx evacuated. Washmglon Is Going fo Be Vacafionless City on Account of Defense Work : NAVY WILL GET MORE SHIPS NOW Recommen&a]?on Is Made for 38 Additional Fast Auxiliary Vessels WASHINGTON, May 8. House Naval Affairs Committee to- day recommended legislation to authorize the Navy to acquire 58 additional fast auxiliary vessels to cost approximately $350,000,000. The legislation represents an in- crease to 33 ships beyond what the Navy requested in the legislation introduced in March. U.S. Airmen AreFighting With British Ten Thousand Americans Are Reported fo Be in Ranks of Defenders LONDON, May 8.—Americans are playing a role in the struggle of the British against the Axis. This |was revealed today when Robert Hutchison, Chairman of the Ameri- can-Eagle Club here said that at least 10,000 United States citizens were fighting with the British forces, the majority in the air force. — The) WASHINGTON, May 8—Wash-| ington looks like it is going to be about the most vacationless city in| the country this summer. There’s nothing official about it, but there are enough straws in the spring winds to make it appear; almast definite that thousands of government workers'are not going| to get their 26-day leaves, It's na- tional defense of course and the terrific pressure of business that it has caused, There’s hardly a Government de-| G R A SS F I R E partment or agency thHat hasn't| been affected by the national de-| fense speed-up and that means that nearly all of the 160 to 170 thousand Federal employees will catch it in the neck if there is any| curtailment of vacations. No government official has been willing to come forward yet with the declaration that there will be no vacations in his department or agency, but I have talked with a half-dozen workers in agricul- ture, commerce and the treasury who have asked for extended| leaves and been put off. These were stenographers and clerks.| Heads of offices and bureaus al-| ready have told me that they can't| possibly get away for more than a few days at a time. If that condition exists in these departments, think what it is in the War and Navy Departments, the Office of production Manage- ment, the Maritime Commission, and others which are carrying the brunt of the defense load. Al- ready, the Navy has staggered its civilian personnel into three eight- hour shifts. It is the only one that has done that, but there isn't any agency in Washington with any- thing to do with national defense that isn’t burning midnight oil to try to keep up with the job. JUST CAN'T KEEP UP The reason is that the work has expanded much more rapidly than has the personnel. In spite of tne thousands of new employees and the hundreds being hired daily, there still is far more work than (cmunued on Pue Seven) IMOUNTING VIOLENCE INATTACK : Hii-and-Rumrays Reach i Infensity During As- i sault Last Night THREE HUNDRED BOMBERS ENGAGED Heavier Blows Ready fo Be Struck, Declare Ber- lin Authorities (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's luftwaffe again stabbed at | the British coastal defenses last {night in mounting violence, machine | gunning the streets of a southeast English town, attacking the Dover balloon barrage again, like yester- ulnv and clashing for the second } | consecutive day with British Royal Air Forces in a series of big air battles over the channpel London dispatches compars (i Nazi hit-and-run forays as furious | as the daylight activity of last fall. ! { | Ministry that 300 German bombers | ‘flr'v. over Britain last night. | Berlin authorities announced to- 'day that heavier blows are oeing 1 made ready to strike against Britain Taken all together, it was a bad night for British cities. | Liverpool suffered the seventh| | straight assault which started | shortly after darkness. | Casualties are believed to have| been heavy. This is admitted by the | British authorities after getting | meagre reports of the night Nazi .r'udx Besides the Merse side dock area rl‘ Liverpool the Nazis scal.t.en-di bombs on Hull, Hratlepool and Bris- | tol in the channel sector, PLANEBURNS | ININTERIOR 'Flier Has Own Ship De-| stroyed on Way fo Aid | Washed-out Pilot CORDOVA, Alaska, May 8—Total loss by a freak fire of Jack Carr's| Cruisair was reported late yester-| day afternoon from Copper Center by Merle Smith of the Cordova Air Service. Carr's ship was flown by Bob Claypool from’Anchorage who was out on a flight to aid pilot| ! Al Lindermuth who cracked up on| the Klutina Lake ice Sunday, smashing his Taylor Cub. Landing at noon, Claypool went| to get lunch at a roadhouse and| in 30 minutes the landing field, was ablaze, completely destroying Claypool’s plane. The fire was be-| lieved to have been started when| |a cigaret was tossed into the dry| grass. NaziRaiders Hit Shipping On Atlantic BERLIN, May 8.—The DNB, Ger- man news agency, claims today that | undersea raiders have sunk 29,000 tons of British shipping on the North Atlantic within the past sev- | eral days. @ AT INCOME TAX PROPOSALS MEAN TO YOU fia@ $123 $550 $4,000 $1.958 1,417 - fi" $700 502 $15 $1,628 $1,364 MARRIED WO DEPENDENTS ENGLISHMAN MARRIED NO DEPENDENTS T $114 $541 o $466 IAZO $1.219 Under each classification, Column 1 shows what you pay ncw; Column 2, what you would pay under the ional committee on taxation. It is estimated by he British Aif| qyeasury’s proposal, and Column 3, what you would pay under a proposal of the staff of the joint corizress- The Englishman’s in:ome tax is not strictly comparable with the Amer- jcan’s. The Englishman pays fewer other taxes, though his rates generally are higher. He pays a purchase tax of about 24 per cent of the retail price on luxury items and 12 per cent of the retail price on standard commodities. Each square |epresent~ about SIW. FOUR DEAD, HOTEL FIRE IN SEATTLE Flames Spread Rapidly Up | Seventy-three Nazi Night Stairway Cutting: Off Escape of Residents SEATTLE, May 8. — The city’s worst hotel fire in years, spreading | B ritish Gunners Gef Eyes Raiders Shot Done by Anfi-aircraft Guns LONDON, May 8—British anti- aircraft guns are credited with | rapidly before the occupants could | shooting down many German bomb- be awakened, killed four persons. The fire was the small downtown residential Stewart Hotel at ‘517 Madison Street, opposite the new Federal Court House. The dead are: | JOHN SELLER, 76. | MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM MUR- DOCK, each about 60. | MRS VIOLET MORRISON, 48. | Eleven persons were severely in- | jured, four of them by leaping to | the ground from the second and third floor windows, as the flames raced up the central stairway. | George Robert Jordan, 28, of Des | Moines, Wash., is perhaps critically burned. He also suffered a severe | back injury as the result of jumping | from a third story window. Truck Driver Jeano Ceccarelli ! turned in the first fire alarm shortly after 2 o'clock this morning and he said at that time men and women were in the upper windows scream- ing for help. The firemen were quickly on the scene and many of the hotel in- mates were helped down ladders. Fire Chief William Fitzgerald said the fire started in a waste basket in the manager’s office and spread rapidly up the stairway and filled the hallways with smoke. o - 3 GOOD START PHILADELPHIA, May 8 — Dick| | Siebert, Philadelphia A’s first base- man, expects to surpass his 1940] home run mark this season. A year| 'ago Siebert hit only five homers| during the whole season but he hit| | two four-basers in the third game a wrestler who this year. | ers last night, making a total of 73 night raiders destroyed thus far in May, only 14 less than the entire month of April. The sharp increase might be due to the bright moonlight nights that bring a great number of German planes to shoot at or to the improved accuracy on the part of the RAF defense flghters SIEGE AT TOBRUK 1S KEEPING UP Axis Claim lTn;orlani Posi- fions Are Taken-Brit- ish Make Denial (By Associated Press) On the North African front today, the Axis communication says im- portant positions in the month-old siege of the British garrison at To- ruk have been taken but the Brit- h, now throwing up new defense works, claim only slight penetration to the outer defenses has taken | | place. AL AL Rl APTLY NAMED SHERIDAN, Wyo.—Sheridan has goes under the monicker of Ole Holde. A WORKERS GET$140,000 WAGE BOOST Here Provides for: "Union Shop” A new working agreement, pro- ivi(ling for a “union shop” and wage | increases totaling $140,000 for the |coming year, has been negotiated | between the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company and the Juneau | Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers | Union Local 203. By secret ballot conducted rmm 18 o'clock yesterday morning until 8 | last night, the Union voted to ratify I'the action of its committee in ac- | cepting the agreement. The vote Iwas in the ratio of “six to one, |John Covich, Secretary, announced today. Covich said the Union was “well | pleased” with the agreement, which| | runs for one year, starting May 1. A statement tcday by J. A, Wil- liams, General Superintendent of | the Company, is as follows: Accepted by Both “In the matter of the Union con- tract, the Company has been en- gaged for several weeks in negotia- tions with the bargaining commit- tee of Local 203, Juneau Mine, Mill and Smiter Workers Union, which is certified by the National Labor Re- lations Board as the cole collective | bargaining agency for all empluyees |of the Company. The agreement which was finally accepted by both the Company and the commitee was voted on by the members vlm- Union yesterday by ballot a'nd | accepted, “The principal features of the agreement are a wage increase and | “Union Shop". This wage increasec u.x,n.sibls of, first, certain adju: | ments which were made in the wage | scale and then a flat 5 cents an hour or 40 cents a day increase for | the first 40 hours of each week, with one and a half times that increase ;Xor all hours in any work week in| texcess of 40 hours. The total pay increase, with the adjustments " (Contlnued on Prge Sl | New Working Agreement. NAZI CAPITAL IS ALARMED, RECENTRAIDS | Start Canva;sTo Find Shelt- ers for Residents Who Are Shelled Out SUPER BOMBS ARE NOW CAUSING WORRY {Royal Air Force Makes | Night Attacks on Many German Sections (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British counter olitzkrieg is causing alarm among the Berlin | authorities, it is officlally stated. | Nazi officials started today on making a canvass of all homes in Berlin to find shelter for bombed out residents. | ‘The Jewish families have been or- |dertd to live in more restricted quarters so all or a part of their |apartments may be turned over to the Ayrans, Jewish families are re- | ported to have already been evicted from the desirable Charlottesburg |area, | It is explained that while com- paratively few houses in Berlin have |been wrecked so far in the British Air Force raids, the new British super bombs and incendiaries indi- cate what might be expected during | the summer, It is admitted the new h mbs are “terrific in intensity." Last night strong Royal Air Force |attacks were made on Brest, Nazl ‘U boat base; St. Nazaire docks, | Bremen oil refineries and several German occupiéd French ports. ‘ Explosions followed the raids and numerom flres are reported to have | been sta | RAP bvmbrs also made several successful attacks on the coast ot Norway where German concentra- |tions are reported. JULY 1 SET FOR SECOND REGISTRATION | Another Million Men Just -t Turned 21 to Sign for | Army Selection WASHINGTON, May 8. — Army | Selective Service officials here re- ported today that they have decided on July 1 as the date for registra- | tion of approximately one million men who have become 21 since the first Selective Service enrollment last October. The registration will take place in the headquarters of 6,500 local draft boards. It is expected that a | proportion will be called for training | within a few months after register- ———— =| STOCK QUOTATIONS | | NEW YORK‘ Mdy 8. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock toady is 4's, American Can 179, Anaconda 24'(, Bethlehem Steel GD %, Common valth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Mot~ {ors 39'%, International Harvester 44, Kennecott 33%, New York Cen- !tral 13%, Northern Pacific 7', Unit- ed States Steel 527, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 116.34; rails, 28.99; utilities, 17.43, N A W S