The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 21, 1941, Page 1

i s THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8730. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS U.S.TROOPS MAY BE SENT TO SEATTLE 'CHUTERS CONTINUE T0 LAND Thousands Ee_p orfed to Have Occupied Strate- gic, Tactical Points HEAVY ATTACKS ON DEFENSES ARE MADE Official Statement from’ Berlin Makes No Speci- fic Summary fo Action BULLETIN—CAIRO, May 21 —According to informed Greek sources here it is understood the British situation in Crete is in hand this afternoon but it is acknowledged some invad- ing parachutist units are still fighting the British defense forces. (By Associated Press) The battle for Crete island, Bri- tish defended and seat of the Gov- crnment of King George of -Greece, has started in earnest. Yesterday it was reported offi- cially that 1500 Nazis, disguised in the battle dress of New Zealanders, landed by parachutes, glider and aircraft troop carriers. It was later anncunced all German aerial in- vaders had been killed or captured. ! Still later came the report from ! Eerlin that the first detachments of aerial forces had been followed by thousands of others who had landed on Crete island and occu- pied several points of strategic and tactical importance. The authorized German spokes- | (Continued on Page Eight) . \ihe %60’ WASHINGTON — Recently The Washington Merry-Go-Round re- vealed how, through war risk insur- ance on shipping, the United States was supplying the Axis with large sums of money and vital military information on the movement of | cargoes. Here is another disclose of how one American pharmaceutical com- pany alone last year poured $2,235,- 000 into foreign exchinge channels readily accessible to the Nazis. The firm is the Schering Corpora~- tion of Bloomfield, N. J., manufact- urers of highly complex biologicals and serums used by physicians throughout the world. One of these products is anti-shock serum, an es- sential for the Army Medical Corps. Justice eramnent sleuths, tracking down sources of German revenue in this country, have disclosed these interesting facts: Up to 1936 the Schering firm was German-owned. But in 1936 the stock held by Germans was sold to a Swiss banking corporation known as Chefa, which now holds large in- terests in Schering companies throughout the globe. Justice agents are investigating reports that Chefa is German-controlled. ' When the stogk ¢ransfer took place, New Jersey Schering entered into an agreement with the parent Schering company in Germany not to engage in the export business anywhere in the world. It promised to confine its operations solely to the United States, leaving the Ger- man concern and its subsidiaries a completely free hand in other mar- kets. BLOCKADE “CONDITIONS” Then came the war and the Brit- ish blockade. The parent Schering firm in Germany no longer could ot G 7 5 DBl B i (Continued cn Page Four)' ertal Invaders Kee p Up Crete Attack " TOSEEHARVARD Studio officials at Hollywood lost no time in packing Marjorie Wood- worth off to Cambridge, Mass., after she received an invitation to attend the Hatvard Lampoon’s spring dance as guest of honor. The invitation, signed by “Coles Phinizy, President,” called her “the most promsing beauty in Hollywood.” 138 Americans Rescued From Sinking Liner fo Be Released by Nazis | BERLIN, May 2!—The author- lized German spokesman today offi- |cially announced that the 138 | Americans rescued from the Ezyp-’ Itian liner ZamZam which was sunk jon the Atlantie, have been landed at a port on the west coast of France and are expected tp be re- |leased soon and allowed to go to }neutrnl countries. | | | DEFINITE INFORMATION BERLIN, May 21.—Donald Heath, | First Secretary of the United States Embassy, was today officially in- formed by the German Foreign Office that the 138 Americans taken off the ZamZam before sent To Study l:{oll);v:'ooo i T Luis Saslavsky Argentina’s leading motion picture director, Luis Seslavsky arrives in New York aboard the liner Sania Elena for a six-month business and pleasure trip in the United States, | ‘during ‘which he will study Holly= 'wood picture-making methods. , down; will be released just as soon ‘as the German military authorities' make sure the Ameriobn Ambulance drivers especially cannot divuige | |any military informations to the' | United States or Great. Britain, | | Heath was told of the safety of Ethe Americans and said nrrsnge-{ ments have been made for them to| | be visited by an American Consular | otficial. i |STATE DEPARTMENT RECEIVES ADVICES WASHINGTON, May 21. — The| State Department has been advised | | the German Naval ‘authorities will | permit the 138 American survivors| of the ZamZam to leave France.| This report comes from Vichy from Henry Waterman, American Consul 1t Bordeaux before he left for St. Jean de Luz, where the Americans vere brought ashore. | The report frem Vichy indicates he Americans will probably leave, @rance for home via Spain and Portugal. - e | 3 Halibufers Sell, Seamef SEATTLE, May 21.—Halibut ar- rivals, catches and sales today are s follows: From the western banks—Levia- than 33,000 pounds, 12% and 10% cents a pound, sold to the Whiz Fish Products Company. From the local banks—Yaquina 20,000 pounds, 12% ‘and 10 cents to Eebastian Stuart Pish Company;! Roosevelt 17,000 pounds, 12% and| 10 cemts to New England Fish Company. | PRICE AT RUPERT At Prince Rupert today 100,000 pounds of halibut were sold at 1050 |t0 10.60 and 8 cents a pound. Alaska Fish ShipyardMen “Are (rossing Picket Lines (Craftsm efietuming fo! Work in San Francisco Despite Machinists SAN FRANCISCO, Calif,, May 21, Picket lines established by AFL and CIO machinists were disregarded by AFL shipyard workers today as| | groups of men returned to work at| | Bay plants which have been closed | for 12 days by a machinists strike. | There was no sign of violence, but about 200 policemen were on hand. | Shipyard operators could not say . how long the plants could operate without machinists, none of whom are included in the back-to-work move. Those who crossed the picket |lines were members of the AFL Metal Trades unions, and included boilgrmakers, ship fitters, steel | workers, riggers, pipe fitters and; similar craftsmen. | The machinists voted last night 11,702 to 355 against refurning to |work. The vote followed an appeal ¢ | by Governor Olson. " The strike has | closed eleven shipyards and stopped more than a half-billion dollars; worth of defense contracts. ——————— Policy of ~ Russia Is | Announced Soviet Unifldependent | | ButPreparedness | 1 Underway | | MOSCOW, May 21—The policy | of the Stalinist Government, says, Ithe Comsomol Pravda, Organ of | the Young Communist League, is jone of independence and prepared- | ness. i A four-column article in the newspaper points out that Russia remains neutral but it criticises the pacifist spirit and asserts the “present international situation compels us to prepare seriously,day by day.” | > vision moves aiong a highway Britain Unions Sign New Confrac Cannery Workers Gef In- creases in Wages for Coming Season Cannery - Workers Union, Seattle| with the Nazis on Shows Her Biggest Gun Claimed by the British to be one of the world’s largest guns, this cannon | is mounted on a special railroad car, sion threatens. Such guns, known as Boche Busters, probably are being SEATTLE, May 21. — The CIO used by the British in their long-range duels over the Straits of Dover w : % % “ = TS s SEASONING TRIP_Led by motoreycles, the First armored brigade of the First armored di- trip. SINK SHIPS | ' ORDERGIVEN ~ TO CAPTAINS French Adfii?alty Issued Instructions fo Com- manders of Vessels LONDON, May 21—The British| Ministry of Economic Welfare has| received unofficial advices that the| French Admiralty has instructed the masters of French merchant-| men to scuttle their ships if in-| tercepted by British warships. .- 'Hawaiian | Isles Have | "Blackout’ | Every lighf[?o_used Evento| Lighthouses Along | Entire Coast } HONOLULU, May 21. — Lights | were blotted out in the Hawalian | Islands shortly after 9 o'clock last from Fort Knox, Ky., to Mammoth Cave, Ky., during a seasoning ready to be rushed wherever inva- the French coast. local, announced here today the ac-| ;eptar::: of a new work contract gy ’ or about 3,000 employees of the G A H | for about 3000 emplovees of e (J0y@pAOr'S At Home | Conrad Espe, union business | agent, described the new agreement T H P G d | as the “largest industry-wide agree-| o onor & or on' ment ever obtained by the union.” # He said wage increases ranged (rom‘ J. j. Ryan Ofl F"day f $25 to $35 per month and ran as| | high as 39 per cent in the lower 3 ! brackets. | Governor and Mrs. Ernest Gruen- |ing will be “at home” Friday at the | Governor’s House between 4:30 and TWO FLIGHTS MADE "= 1 The affair is to honor Paul Gor- | " pllo‘s 'IonAchn, Supervisor of Alaska Affairs Ifor the Division of Territories and | Island Possessions of the U. S. De- | Pilots of the local airway company | partment of the Interior, and J. J. | made two flights today as Alex Ryan, Assistant Director of Civilian | Holden winged out of Gastineau Defanse for Alaska, e Channel with 8. Warburton for Peli- | 1l e can City and Alda Murusky and Alf | Ak : Jensen for Hirst. Shell Stmmons| Osters carried M. Sorenson 'to Chatham, ast€, ~have ‘a kéefi sense clt One out of every four persons X in | night as residents were warned of STO(K GUOIAI'ONS | the approach of theoretical enemy | bombers. ‘The blackout was heralded by sirens NEW YORK, May 21—Closing, and radio announcements and mot- quotation of Alaska Juneau mine |Or messengers heralded the approach stock today is 4, American Can|Of the planes to isolated hamlets. $1'%, Anaconda 26'%, Bethlehem| Alllights were extinguished every- Steel 71, Commonwealth and South- | Where even Japanese grocers shut- ern 5-16, Curtis Wright 8, General|ting off their kerosene lamps and Motors 38%, International Harvest- | lighthouse keepers doused their bea- er 47%, Kennecott 36%, New York|cons from the farthest north Kaui Central 12%, Northern Pacific 6%,|Island to far south. United States Steel 53%, Pound Porrpin s gt $4.03%. | MRS. PERELLE HERE | Mrs. Charles Perelle arrived today {on the motorship Northland from | DOW, JONES AVERAG, | the ke A . 's Dow,, the . She will visit friends in The following are today's w, the Capital City. Jones averages: industrials 117.82, —————— rails 28.12, utilities 17.25, % —————— | SHYMAN TO FAIRBANKS Al Shyman left Juneau for Fair- banks on today’s Interior-bound Lodestar. Iceland speaks English, MAY TAKE . OVERPLANT OF BOEING 'Federal Forces Will Pro- tect, If Necessary, Big Airplane Concern |MAYOR MILLIKINS MAKES STATEMENT Violence Breaks Out Again on Field as Pamphlets Are Distributed SEATTLE, May 21—Seattle’s May- or Earl Millikin said today that he has received an admonition “from an authority in Washington, D.C. right from the hand of President | Roosevelt that PFederal troops will |be sent to Seattle if necessary to properly protect the Boeing Aire craft plant.” The Mayor revealed the news to | & group of business and professional | leaders in defense of his reappo\qt- ment of Police Chief Willlam Sears. Sears’ reappointment was voted ap- proval by the Mayor’s Group of the City Council. It is unofficially . reported here that an infantry regiment at Fort ‘Lewis has been prepared for the past week to move into and take over the Boeing plant if labor trouble continues, Violence broke out outside the main plant at Boeing Field yester- day between pamphlet distributing CIO members and AFL Affiliated workers, Rotten eggs and fists flew until police intervened. The Boeing plant is & wunion shop with all aeronautical mechanics unionized, but CIO automobile workers have recently started a membership drive. - WARNING IS GIVEN BRITONS Churchill SE Continued Severe Fighting Must Be Expected in Crete LONDON, May 21.—A warning that the British Empire must ex- pect fighting in Crete to continue with “increasing severity” was giv- en out by Prime Minister Churchill to the members of the House of Commons today. Churchill announced that in one operation yesterday, the Germans dropped 3,000 parachutists on the Mediterranean Island but that two hours later “part of these had been accourped for although fighting continued.” The Prime Minister de- clared the situation was well in |hand however. NAVALUNIT OF BRITISH ATTACKED German WBrTJanes Take Action West of Crefe- One Cruiser Hit BERLIN, May 21—A British na- val unit, west of Crete, was at- tacked this morning by German warplanes and a “direct hit by heaviest caliber bombs™” was scored, This is an afternoon report by DNB, the German nNews agency.