The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA VOL. LVIL, NO. 8737. —_——————————————— “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 29, 1941. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH FORCES ARE CAUGHT IN CRETE (4 jSlidd i @ ¢ 4 (4 (4 (4 (4 (4 & S (4 & 4 L4 (4 L4 4 Bay, Allied Sea Base Reported Seized LOCAL GUARD (0. TO TRAIN AT CHILKOOT Seplemb‘er 15 Induction Is Announced for Alaska National Guard HEADQUARTERS, MEDICAL UNITS 6O T0 ANCHORAGE Selectees fo Be Inducied October 15 fo Bring to War Strength 1] BOMBER CHRISTENED PRESIDENT SILENT ON NEXT MOVE Full Convoys of Some De- Goods to Britain WASHINGTON, May 29.—Presi- on delivering goods to Britain. One Service official explained: “You do not telegraph your moves any more in the world today. You cannot afford to do so. You will notice the other fellows never do.” Senator Robert = R. Reynolds, isolationist and Chairman of the | | | | | President Erociaims Unlimifed Ergency scription Indicated for - | dent Roosevelt has adopted a strate- | i gy of silence on his future moves | | BIG PIRZE HARBOR IS CAPTURED ' Defenders Now in Dire Straits According fo Berlin Statements ITALIANS SAID TO HAVE LANDED ON ISLE Nazi Mountain Troops Are Striking with Results on East Side, Crefe | Senate Military Affairs Committee, ; | said he looked for “full convoys of | some description.” Senator Reynolds said his inters pretation of the President'’s fireside | chat Is that a pledge was made 0 BULLETIN.—Berlin, May 29. —It is officially announced to- night that German troops have occupied Canea and the Capital City's airport and harbor have been taken cver by the advanc- ing Germans, Several hundred The Alaska National Guard will be | inducted into Federal-service akout September 15, with two Companies to be moved to Chilkoot Barracks, s and two to Fort Richardson, the | {4 Governor's office announced today. | g Ccmpany A (Juneau) (Ketchikan) will be stationed at Chilkoot Barracks near Haines, | while Companies C (Fairbanks) and D (Anchorage) will be stationed at the Fort near Anchorage. Selectees for the National Guard will be inducted about October 15, the announcement from the Gover- | nor’s office stated. Year's Training The Guard will’ undergo a ‘year's intensive training &t “Haihes and Anchorage.When tentative induction plans were announced Several weeks | «condnued on Page Seven) WASHINGTON—Wage-Hour Ad- | ministrator Philip Fleming soon may join the safari of U. 8. officials sent to Great Britain for war studies. If he goes, Fleming will study more than wage levels and overtime “efficiency.” He isn’t saying so for fear of repercussions, but Fleming wants to use the trip as a spring- board for recommending some sen- sational changes in the Wage-Hour Act, as follows: (1) A boost in the present 40- hour-a-week working maxifum. | Fleming believes this is especially necessary in the skilled crafts and wants to find out, from British ex- perience how long a man can work and remain efficient. (2) A standardization of indus- trial wage levels all over the coun- try. Fleming dropped some broad hints on this in his annual report when he discussed “chaotic” labor condi- tions during the World War. “Wages were then completely un- standardized and workers wandered from plant to plant seeking the best wages obtainable” Fleming report- ed. “Such was the confusion that the War Labor Policies Board was fnially driven to consider the neces- sity of universal wage standardiza- tion, but peace intervened before that policy was effectuated. “The United States cannot enter a future war without giving serious thought to the need for.standard- izing wages, both to protect workers and to promote the efficient utiliza- tion of their time.” CONGRESSIONAL ECONOMY Despite loud Congressional talk about economy, the boys don't be- lieve that economy, like charity, should begin at home. For years Senators and Repre- sentatives have struggled along with free franking limited to the regular mails. For airmalil, they had to dig into their own jeans. This was a problem to challenge the, ingenuity of the most gravy- 'l? D:}mw, since the air lines are not equipped to handlé a Congress- man’s mail like the'Government, at and B The nose of the plane, as shown. and ‘most powerful bomber in U. 8. 54 Aircraft's “The Spirit of American Democracies,” was christ- ened at San Diego recently in the presence of the general naval staffs of eleven Latin-American nations. craft worker, christened the plane by sprinking salt water over the Richard Powell,son of an air- | "Stepping the Mainmast” Gets Little Attention af Christening of Navy Ship In Divorce Suit . o4 Mrs. Lucille ®. s;nm:' Testifying in a divorce suit in Los Angeles court, Mrs. Lucille Rawleigh Smith, daughter of an Niinois millionaire, told how her husband, Quentin R. Smith, a bond salesman and film actor, “ghot up” the Smith mansion while she barricaded herself and her two children behind. locked doors. She claimed her husband smashed-furniture and art objects and sent frightened servants scat- tering in confusion. DR. FREEBURGER IS FLYING SOUTH Dr. George F: Preeburger is flying south today to Seattle to be gone about three weeks. ! Dr. Freeburger will attend the graduation of his daughter, Miss | ire to step the mast would be as|5¢als in the North Pacific betwe: /Doris Freeburger, at Reed College 4n Portland on Jiine 8, while on his trip, | see that needed supplies reach Eng- | land safely. HIGHWAY MEMBERS “COMIN Intemational_ko ad Com- | missioners fo Hald Final Meeting in Juneau = | WASHINGTON, May 29—Repre-| sentative Warren G. Magnuson, of | the State of Washington, and Chairman of the Alaska Interna- tional Highway Commission, said| he will preside at a final meeting of the Commission to be held in| Juneau from June 12 t0 June 14. | Representative Magnuson said the By JACK STINNETT i WASHINGTON, May 20—Christ-| ening a battleship (or any other! ship for that matter) generally gets| a lot of attention. | | Miss or Mrs. So-and-so socks the prow with a bottle of champagne and while Miss or Mrs. So-and-so| | is trying to brush the bubble-water| | off her orchid corsage, the ship| | slides' down the ways. The cameras | grind and the flash bulbs flash and | the head - writers write “USS. | Plunkett Is Launched at Brook-| Iyn.” That isn't the whole story of get-| ting a ship under steam at all. A/ really good story—which never is | written or photographed — comesl when they “step the mainmast.” Let's take a recent big ship and run through this ceremony and I think you'll get what I mean. | “Stepping the mainmast”—as a ceremony—is probably a lot older than christening. It goes back be- yond Roman times and has its) roots in superstition. 1 A few days ago when the USS,| North Carolina — mnewest of the modern battleships — was ready for the ceremony at Philadelphia, a group of workmen and naval officers assembled dewn ‘in her lowest depths and tossed coins into the base of the metal shaft that is the ship’s mainmast. They tossed coins until $7.71 in U. 8. money, a ‘St. Christopher’s medal, an English penny, an English half-penny and & Chinese “cash” had clinked' into the shallow, 17%- inch pie plate that is the mainmast base. A cover was screwed over this and then the mainmast was swung into position and screwed down. ¥ — IT MUST BE DONE Throughout the solemn ceremony rain came down in gentle torrents, but no one paid any attention to it. The state of the weather means nothing when' the * of the mainmast” is in progress, but fail- ‘atal, seafaring men will assure you, (Continued on Page Seven! Commm?m planned to get first| hand information and a picture of | the situation from the Alaska end. Must Defeal Germany Says Anlho_n_y Eden Comprehensive Statement Is Issued Regarding Brifain's War Aims LONDON, May 29— Capt. An- thony Eden today gave his first, comprehensive statement on Great Britain's war aims. i Capt. Eden declared “we must never forget that Germany is the worst master Europe has ever; known. Five times during the last| century she has violated peace. She must never be in a position to play! that role again.” SEAL HUNTING NOW PLANNED BY JAPANESE Arrangements Made for| Large Catch in North Pacific Report NAGASAKI, May 20—In view o the abrogation by States of the 1911 treaty of com merce and navigation with Japan,| the Japanese are making arrange- ments for a great catch of fur salesman combines advertising with en robbery msurance. A sign on his of College arrived on a southbound “This 'car contains Ladestar from Fairbanks this morn- Sakhalin ‘Island and Alaska. the United Beneath the flags of the American republics in the East Room of the White House, President Roosevelt in a radio address to the world Tuesday night proclaimesd an “unlimited national emergency.” In right fore- Adjusting the flag is the President’s bodyguard, Tom Qualters. ground, back to camera, is Mrs. Roosevelt. D. C., Tuesday night, radioed to San Francisco This Assoclated Press picture was taken in Washington, from where it was telemated, then air-mailed to Seattle where it was yesterday morning at 10 o'clock and remched The Empire in Juneau at 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, in less than 15 hours after taken. It appears in The Empire today. This is the up-to-minute service of the Associated Press. SAYS WORLD DISCUSSING FDR’S TALK No Slackenflof Expres- - sions in United States —For or Against (By Associated Press) There is no slackening of the na- tionwide discussion on President | Roosevelt’s fireside chat given last | Tuesi\iy night from the White House. | ‘Wendell'L Willkie said the Presi- | dent “stirred the whole world by his ! message,” and urged that everyone | rally behind the Chief Executive. | In New York, in a broadcast, Al Smith, James Cox and John Davis, | appealed to unity of Americans dur- | ing the national emergency. Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana accused the President of “preaching fearj’ and said “his speech echoed sentiments of our | war-makers.” | Senator Robert A. Taft, of Ohio, declared the President suggested that “he may, in dictator style, take warlike action without submitting to the people the question of wheth- { er or not we will go to war.” i — THIEVES GET ONCEOVER | truck reads: JThe treaty forbade such hunt-|show samples for one foot only-— ing. JN@good to anyone except me.’ LORAINE, O.—A Laraine shoe German Says FDR Nazi Spokesman ‘Makes Comment Regarding President’s Address BERLIN, May 29.—The author- |ized government spokesman, in a short statement on the fireside chat | address of President Roosevelt, call- ed the President “tactless” for hav- ing made his address with a gath- ering of Latin-American andgyCan- adian diplomats about him. The German spokesman said that such a declaration of policy was an |intimation and effort to create the |impression of a unified Western Hemisphere. | {all of the American people. | The address, according to the | spokesman, represented very little that was new except a declaration {of an emergency and “consequent | requirement of a greater sacrifice (of the American people. We have | the impression the President spoke with uncertainty on many points, probably as a consequence of a num- | ber of reverses he has suffered.” —eee- — HERE FROM COLLEGE Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Duckering _ing and are staying at the Baranof }Hobel, "Edless". ling the national emergency. The spokesman questioned the | right of the President to speak for | | Allied defenders have been cap- tured. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Italian troops are reported to have entered the battle of Crete and are landing on the eastern end of the island while the German forces captured the prize harbor at Suda | Bay, British base. Thus the British An’dive straits, | | | placed aboard the PAA Lodestar UNITY OF AMERICANS DEMANDED Three Former Democratic Presidential Nominees Make Urgent Appeal NEW YORK, May 29 —In a broadcast sponsored here by the { Committee to Defend America and ald the Allies, Al Smith, James Cox and John Davis, three former Democratic nominees, appealed for unity of the American people dur- ———————— TakulsOn Way North SEATTLE, May 29 — Steamer Taku, sailing for Southeast Alaska today, will have the following three passengers aboard for Juneau: Melvyn Frederick, Mrs. Melvyn Frederick, Sam T. King. e FLIES TO JUNEAU Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Davis of Can- von Island arrived from the Taku River radio station with pilot Shell Simmons this morning and are staying at the Baranof Hotel .Davis Jonly boat that makes a trip o vise amid the losing struggle for Cretey 1ue sefzure of Suda Bay gives the Germans a bridgehead landing for sea-borne troops. Military experts said this may prove the turning point of the struggle, and another British de- bacle. 2 Hitler's Command reports = Nazi mountain troops are striking be- yond Suda Bay and have reached Almyro Bay in the east and are mhpuuult of the “defeated” Brit- ish. The German communique offi~ cially announces the capture of Canea, Crete Capital City, and that Nazi forces have also taken large numbers of prisoners. Fascist reports also state hun- dreds of little Greek sailboats, load- ed with German troops, have been safely escorted to Crete under guns | of Italian warships. TRADERS AT BARROWTO GET 6OODS Delegate Dimond Says Haida Will Take Sup- plies fo PEI_ in Arcic WASHINGTON, May 29—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said todsy that traders at Toint Bar- row will obtain necessary supplies aboard the Coast Guard cutter Haida which will make a summer cruise to that part of the Arctic. Delegate Dimond said some con- cern had been expressed by the traders when they learned thatthe to Point Barrow, has been transferred to the Atlantic service. The boat transferred is the Indian Service vessel North Star. i A NEW YORK, May 29. — Closing quotation of American Can today is 78%, Anaconda 26%, Bethlehem Steel 69%, Commonwealth and Southern %, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 37%, International Harvester 49%, Kennecott 35%, New York Central 12%, Northern Pacitic 6%, United States Steel 53%, Pound $4.04. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, is operator of.the PAA radio snd weather station at Canyon Island. Jones averages: Industrials, 116.23; rails, 27.57; utilities, 16.95,