The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1941, Page 1

B —— THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE " VOL LVIL, NO. 8721. 9y J “ALL THE NEWS ALI, THE TIM JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN Cl BRITISH AGAIN RAID BERLIN 4 & C e %Y 4 14 (4 GERMAN CHEM MACHINISTS TIEUP WORK INBAY AREA Eleven Shipms and Dry- docks Jammed with Ord- ers Given Hard Knock WASHINGTON DECLARES DRASTIC ACTION LOOMS | Half Billion Dollars in De- fense Contracls De- layed by Walkout SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, May 10. —AFL and CIO machinists today struck in eleven San Francisco bay hipyards and drydocks that arc jammed with defense orders. 1 The strike was called despite strong opposition of high labor lead- | ers and a warning from Washington t drastic action will be taken ainst stoppage of National De fense program work. t The employers said half a billion | dellars in defense contracts are tied up by the strike, ‘ The machinists are striking for; higher pay per hour and also re-| tention of double time for overtime. | Picketing was withheld from the plants today until Monday owing to the weekend holiday. e A pastured cow walks about two and one-half miles in 24 hours, T Danghter of a World war veteran, wnich go to dependent Joan Leslie , Joan Leslie of the movies has we-n selected as national buddy poppy girl by the Veterans of For- eign Wars to help promote the 1941 sale sf poppies, proceeds of ts of war veterans. grazing as much during the night as during the day, Cornell Uni- versity reports. NEW NAZI THRUSTIS ~ INDICATED Rail Traffic for Public Cur- failed Over All Hun- garian Systems (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Reports received today from Hun- Drew Pearsos o Robert S.Alles *Go®® WASHINGTON—Leaders of or- ganized labor have forcefully dt nounced the so-called “anti-strike bill, due to be voted on by the House gary state rail traffic for the public this week, as an attempt to deprive js again sharply curtailed arousing labor of the rights it has won in speculations regarding a new thrust recent years. /in the southwest by Germany. Unquestionably the sponsors of; el the legislation are no partisans ofl labor, and would like to see it sharp-| : ly curbed. But many members of | resl en Congress whose votes made the la-| bor gains possible, whose records as, friends of labor are above challenge, | ™ are gravely concerned at the failure; mproves of responsible labor leaders to con- | { ] trol elements who are bringing re- | preach to the great mass of patriotic | and upright workers. | ays‘\ These Congressmen were shocked | by the scandalous “initiation ree“" % shakedowns on defense projects that| ASHINGTON, May 10.—Presi-| poured millions of dollars into AFL | deni Roosevelt, S“"em‘:g e oo | building- trades coffers. They arefrom g stomach disorder, is improv- equally distressed by the app&rem'ed today with its disappearance and willingness of CIO officials to Wwork | return to normal temperature, Rear hand-in-glove with Communists a0d| Aqmira] Ross McIntyre, the Presi- fellow-travelers, who make no secret dent's physician announced, The of their hostility to the defense Pro-|president was however ordered to gram and the Government's anm-‘,emmn quiet in his bedroom over Axis policies. |the weekend and have no callers. A confidential report of a glanngI instance of this in a key aviation| plant has just been placed before SIO(K ouo'AIlo"s these congressmen. The plant is| the Boeing Airplane Company at| NEW YORK. May 10. — Closing Seattle, Wash., which is working|quotation of Alaska Juneau mine day and night turning out “flying ' stock today is 4%, American Can fortresses” for our army and besieg- |79, Anaconda 26, Bethlehem Steel ed Britain, | 71%, Commonwealth and Southern | —_— | %, Curtiss Wright '8!, General INTER-UNION FIGHT | Motors 40, International Harvester | The AFL machinists won bargain- |44%, Kennecott 35, New York Cen- ing rights at Boeing and the com- | tral 13%#Northern Pacific 7%, Unit- pany entered into a.contract with|ed States Steel 54%, Pound $4.03%. | the union. Recently, the national | DOW, JONES AVERAGES headquarters of the union suspend-| The following are today's Dow, B Jones averages: Industrials, 17.54; (Continued on Page Four) rails, 29.31; utilities, 17.40, Invasion Lowlands Observed Dutch Pe_ople Place Wreaths on Graves of * Soldiers, Civilians (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The anniversary of the German invasion of the lowlands was ob- served quietly in The Netherlands today. Wreaths were placed on the |graves of thousands of Dutch sol- |diers and civilians killed. The Germans permitted no public services however. EAGLES OF KETCHIKAN SEEK WAR Pass Resolution for Nation to Enter Present Con- flict af Once KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 10. —The Lodge of Eagles last night resclved unanimously to “urge cur President and our National leaders to enter this war imme- diately, lock, stock and barrel, so we will not be left to fight the brutal forces of Hitler alone.” ———eo—— Lord Beaverbrook, Britain's Mia-|ing Assistant Custodian, who suf-| isher of Aircraft Production, hasifered a sudden severe illness several seen the Marlene Dietrich movie,!days ago, was able to return to the “Destry -Rides Again,”. more than|puilding briefly today. 25 times, CAL | She's National Buddy Poppy Girl | ROOSEVELT 4 ¢ 4 PREPARING STATEMENT President Ex_peded fo Make Important Ad- dress Wednesday 'CONVOY VOTE T0 BE HELD UP UNTIL THEN | |Senate Decides fo Post- pone Final Action on Mooted Issue WASHINGTON, May 10.—Admin- istration leaders are confident that President Roosevelt is working on an_extremely important statement for his address to the heads of the Latin-American Mission here next | Wednesday night. The address will | be broadcast. In view of the address, it has been decided to delay a showdown in the | Senate on the convoy issue until | then and hold off a vote on the Tobey resolution to prohibit con- voys for supplies to the British. L mPent;il of SHOTS FIRED | | AT (10 TRUCK; BOEING PLANT iExpelled Union Member Shoots at Sound Truck from Green Sedan SEATTLE, May 10—Armed vio- lence flared up at the Boeing plant here last night as three shots were fired at the CIO sound truck which had been used to exhort Boeing workers against the AFL Aeronau- tical Mechanics’ Union which now holds the plant’s contract. It was reported to Seattle police last night that Von Wernicke, for- mer Boeing worker, who lost his job when he was expelled from the union, fired from a passing green sedan, sending two shots, through the roof of the truck and one through the window, narrowly missing the passengers. PLANTS ALS0B TANKS ON THE MOV E_some of the Foundry Co. plant in Berwick, Pa., stretch out, ready td roll off the assembly Hlne, 3,029 order worih $70,000,000 and are ground, The company is also Deqtruc_tion This innocent-looking pencil is one of the gadgets demonstrated beforo law enforcement officials in New York by J. in exposing tricks used by saboteura. that generate a flame (inset) hot enough to burn through steel. Such vencils were frequently used during the World War to start fires on OMBED ARE STRUCK, RAF PLANES High Command Acknowl- edges Fires Started by Explosions APARTMENT HOUSES REPORTED WRECKED Dutch Airmen, Flying U.§. Built Aircraff, Make Assaults, Norway British and German airmen bat- tled fiercely in dogfights high over Dover’s white cliffs this morning on the first anniversary of Ger- many’s invasion of the lowlands. As the morning wore on the dogfights lessened in intensity and honors are scored as about even. British Royal Air Force bombers struck hard blows on Mannheim and Ludwigshafen, chemical manu- facturing centers in southwestern Germany and also dropped bombs in the center of Berlin, The Berlin High Command con- ceded that the Mannheim chemical factories are ablaze this morning. It is also admitted that apartment houses were demolished and a num- ber of civilians killed both at Mann- heim and in Berlin. Dutch airmen, flying American built bombers, carried out their first raids on German occupied Norway successfully striking at airports there, (4 L4 4 L4 American Car and They're part of 3 of the M3 light combat type, Tanks undefgo tests oh & 'proving making armor plate worth £35,000,000. e S e R TR S STRIKES WILLBE PROBED Special Senafe Investigat- ing Committee Asks for All Information | WASHINGTON, May 10—Chair- | man Harry S. Truman, of a spec- ial Senate committee investigating | national defense work, this morniag |asked that all information of| [ strikes that are delaying defense | production anywhere, especially i8an Francisco and Detrojt, be handed immediately to the com-| | mittee. | | Senator Truman said: “Thecom- mittee intends to insist that where | work on important defense produc- tion is stopped, negotiations for re- | sumption of work be speeded up or drastic action will be taken.” | completed tanks being built in the -, — ITALIANS ROUTEDIN ETHIOPIA South African Troops Break Info Defense After Heavy Fighting (By Associated Press) | The situation today in North | M AR E | Africa is apparently unchanged. | In southern Ethiopia, the British | claim South African troops have D. Parsons, FBI expert, “The pencil is filled with chemicals Destroyer IsDamaged Quick Fire SEATTLE, May 10—The U. S. Destroyer Gilmer was slightly dam- aged by a fire in the paint lockcr‘ last night. Four engine companies| wASHINGTON, May 10—In spite of the Seattle Fire Department res- ¢ what yoy may conclude from ponded to the alarm. The fire is be- | oading, the war isn't all there is u":"ed to have been started by spon- 1, washington, A few years ago, jtaneous combustion. research ‘scientists discovered a Second class torpedoman Russell opinese drug called ephedrin and Cleck was overcome by fumes but|o,eneq a new door to medical By JACK STINNETT Was, vesousd, s treatment. i | A few weeks ago, a Department GUU.UFSE" RE(OVERS |of Agriculture botanist, identified| |and classified (that's practically ‘m S“DDE" A"A(K discovery) a new Chinese drusi lpllmt. It may not be worth a p\u-v‘ —_— {roll to modern medicine, but the George Gullufsen, Federal Build- | fact that it has been used for cen-| turies as a cure for colds, sore throat, and minor stoprach and in- testingl’ - ailments by ‘the Chinese,| /is an indication that it - might| He is still taking it easy. Allied ships. | | FWar Is Nof Everything | Agifating Washingfon; Ephedrin Is Discovered | fact that there is an exciting story | plants and eventually give equal or top ephedrin. And me‘ dislodged the Italians from defense N | lines a mile deep after heavy fight- {German Bombers Report-| Former King ed fo Have Made Af- Carol Nears ik Southof Maa | Ctban Home § Arrives Aboard U. S. Liner morning e e ene, With Woman Friend- down a British submarine and _ulso‘ An"oun(es Plans damaged a torpedo boat. ——— | HAMILTON, Bermuda, May 10. — | The United States liner Excambion docked here this afternoon with | lHVE w““lmlo"}lormer King Carol of Rumania and Regional Forester B. Frank his red-haired woman friend, Mme. D s e O iiness| Heintzleman plans to leave Wasn- Lupescu, aboard. The Rumanian o danger to mankind. There ace|NSton about May 15 to return t|flag was at the bow of the liner. s ge - There are 5, neau, according to word received| There was only a small crowd at hundreds of discoveries each year.\by his office. |the dock and no excitement. Al A L SR EETEN Carol said he plans to reside in SANITARIAN RETURNS [Cuba. Sanitary Engineer Kaarlo W, Nasi, | B fik 0 NGRS Director of the Division of Public/ Thomas Gainsborough = painted Health Engineering of the Territor- his famous “Blue Boy" to dis~ jal Department of Health, returned prove a statement that blue to Juneau headquarters on the should not be massed together in 'Nonh Sea from Sitka, |a picture, (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | The Italian communique this behind its discovery over in the “ag department” makes it plcmy‘ worth repeating, no matter what| it amounts to. H In Agriculture, ‘there are scores| of scientists who spend days and nights with unknown insects and them TRACED TO ITS SOURCE | One of the scientists is Dr. Wal- ter T. Swingle, botanist, who, to put it simply, sure knows a heap| about, Chinese flora. Thus, it was “(Continued on Page Six)