The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 5, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVIL, NO. 8743. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1941. BRITISHREADY TO STRIKEI ¢ & L4 & & Blockade FOR SEIZURE Secrefary of War Stimson Strong for Requisition- ing by President LEGISLATION IS T0 RELIEVE BOTTLENECKS Approves of Time Limit fo Put Crimp on "“Would- Be Dictator” WASHINGTON, June 5—Secre- tary of War Henry L. Stimson said property seizure powers asked for the President are needed to relieve machine tool bottlenecks and alum- inum shortages. | The War Secretary said control of German patents on vital defense processes should not be delayed and by “frivolous objections” by Con- NEEDED NOW | gress now discussing the requisition | & bill, At a conference with the news. | men today, the War Secretary said he believes there is no serious ob- | LaMargaret Jacks, Birmingham, Ala., beauty, poses prettily atop a | speedy army plane to call attention to the National Air Carnival at | the Birmingham municipal airport, National defense will be the key- note of this year’s meet, expusted $o draw a half-million visitorse jection to imposing a two or four- | year time limit of proposed power and further stated he would be will- ine tn accept a time limit if that will help the “feeling of those who believe they should put the crimp on a would-be dictator.” i At a recent conference with the newsmen, President Roosevelt said the War Department’s bill author- izing the Government to take over private property under the national | emergency situation, is useful for | defense as it assures deliveries of | defense articles needed. WASHINGTON.—Two weeks ago the Vinsen anti-strike bill was dead turkey. It had been put to quiet death in committee and even its sponsors weren't talking about it enymore. Today the same bill is mil- itantly back on the legislative calen- dar, practically certain of passage by the House, and with a 50-50 chance of Senate approval.. = . | Organized labor can thank one small group for this complete re- versal: The AFL machinist local in sSan Francisco which brokedits cons, tract and staged an outlaw strike tying up desperately needed ship c):msnmcmn 2 mflfilm #This walkout of 1,700 key workers stapped work for 12,000 other men who hesi- tated to cross the picket lines, and halted the building of eleven ships. Here is the inside story of the strike—one of the worst blotches on labor’s record: In order to ensure labor stability and obtain maximum production, OPM’s labor division established uniform wage-hour standards for all the shipyards on the West Coast— $1.12 an hour base pay, time-and-a- half for overtime, and the closed shop. Previous wage scales ranged from 96 cents to $1.04 an hour, some plants recognizing the unions, others not. But under the new master agreement, pay was uniformly in- creased and all yards were union- ized. It, was a big victory for labor. Among the leaders who partici- pated in the negotiations were Har- ry Hook and E. F. Dillon, business agents of the San Francisco, AFL machinists. Hook making the final motion that the agreement be re- comm>nded to the San FPrancisco Metal Trades-Council, Later, the ma- chinists were represented at the Council meeting which accepted the agreement, and international 'offi- (Continued on Page Four) One of Twelve Richest MeninU.S.,A.C. James ses Away, New York e ARFHUR CURTISS JAMES TO ATTACK RUSSIA IS REPORT NOW Germans, Rumanians Said fo Be Massing Along Frontiers for Assault ANKARA, Turkey, June 5—For- eign sources here exchanged stories today indicating the Germans and Rumanians are massing to attack Russia and this attack may come this month. Authoritative Turkish circles said Germans are massed on the Polish frontier and Rumanian borders. These sources claim the Ruman- ians have mobilized 25 divisions lately recalled to the colors after being demobilized last week. —— TONSILS GONE Recardo Dennis Sisson was a pa- tient this forenoon at the Juneau; Medical and Dental Clinic for a tonsilectomy. - e, ——— BUY DEFENSE BONDS _ Aeronautical But Nice 4 4 PRICE TEN CENTS MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS 4 R4 S 4 (4 lamped Down, French Ruled ARMY TESTS N S { | | % NEW YORK, June *5—Arthur Curtis James, 74, one of the 12 richest men in America died late vesterday, just 20 days after the death of his wife. ' Internationally known in yacht- | ing circles, James was seldom men- tioned as the moving spirit ‘n building up the western railroad empire that extended from Chicago | to the Golden Gate. | Grandson of Daniel James, who founded in 1928 what is now the | Phelps-Dodge Corporation, = great mining concern, and son of D. Wil- | lis James,. who was associated with James J. Hill in rail development of the northwest, Arthur Curtis James maintained the family in- vestment policy, but assiduously | avoided personal publicity and ex- ploitation in the process. Controlled R.R. Mileage Eventually he was reputed to own more railroad stock than any other individual in the nation, with |an estimated investment of more than $350,000,000 in approximately 40,000 miles of railroad, or about a seventh of the country’s total ‘mfleage. The total was greater than| | the combined mileage of America’s | earlier railroad magnates, Hill, Har- !viman and Gould. ! Worked Way Upward | James was born in New York | June 1, 1867. He was graduated from Ambherst College in 1889, en- tered the Phelps-Dodge Corporation the same year and for 20 years worked his way upward through |me organization. But he had his eyes on the great railroads of the west, and so, with an sinheritance based on copper, silver and gold mines, and railroad securities, he began expanding his/ rail holdings. Quietly, but steadily, he acquired | stocks until he became the largest individual holder of Great North-| ern, Northern Pacific and Chicago, iBurltnsbon and Quincy shares. Some sources credited him with a position bordering on actual con- itrol of these three lines. Systems Extend West Then in 1926, in one of his rare statements, he announced he had purchased control of the Western Pacific, which, with the Missouri { Pacific, held joint control of ‘the Denver and Rio Grande. With the | exception of two'short links which he acquired later, that gave him the prineipal voice in rail systems President May Act fo End |ed in Washington as to whether | the North American Aviation Cor- | number of striker to 52,800. Over | Governmnt take over any defense | | plant where production is threat- | ! this afternoon on strikes, said strikes | effect strikes against the Uni | the Detroit Steel Products Com- STRIKES ARE CAUSING BIG | WORRYNOW Labor Disputes-Defense Orders Are Delayed (By Associated Press) Defense officials report that the largest number of men on strike in defense industries are out today. Widespread speculation is indicat- President Roosevelt might act to end such stoppages of work on de- | fense products. 1 The walkout of the CIO Auto ‘Workers at the warplane plant of | poration in California pushed the 2,000,000 man days work have been | lost in recent weeks on War De- partment orders by strikes. Senator Tom Connally, of Texas, has introduced a bill proposing theg ened or delayed by “strikes or other | labor disturbances-or other causes.” Senator Connally, commenting against dire defense orders are “in States Government.” e The House today also heard ‘de. mands for Presidential action to énd strikes, Strikes described by Defense of- ficials as having serious adverse effects on defense production are at pany, where men have been out | since May 7,; Marlin-Rockwell Cor- | poration in Connecticut, where ball | and roller bearings are manufact- ured* for planes, strikes out since May 27, and the Silver Steel Cast- | ing Company at Chicago, manu- | facturers of tank armor. | ~———— STRIKE IS DECLARED, BIG PLANT Workers Quit af North Am erican Aviation Corp. in California (By Associated Press) The CIO United Auto Workers | Union at Inglewood, Calif., declared a strike at the North American Aviation Corporation’s big warplane plant at 2:45 o'clock this morning and three hours later company of- ficials instructed the workers that “no North American Aviation Cor- poration employees report for work pending further instructions from the National Defense Mediation Board at Washingtan.” The statement was issued after a long distance telephone conversa- tion of plant officials with the North American Aviation Corpora- | tion’s President, J. H. Kindelberger, | in Washington, D. C. | The union demands a minimum | wage of 75 cents an hour instead of | the present 50 cents an hour and a blanket ten-cent an hour raise for all employees. W. L. Goodman, Chairman of the | CIO United Auto Workers Union | local, charged that the National | Defense Mediation Board was “stall- | ing the workers” in negotiations ! between company and union of-| ficials. | ELLINGEN SUED BY C(OLUMBIA LUMBER The Columbia Lumber Compan today filed suit in District Court against Harry Ellingen to collect $1,154.08 allegedly due for building materials and to foreclose on a $3,500 mortgage. The B. M. Behrends Bank, which has an interest in the Willoughby Avenue property owned | by Ellingen, is named as a defend- ant. J EWAMPHIBIAN An amphibian machine, which Roger W. Hofheins h: s offered to the U. S. Army for use as a land-water recennaissance car, was tested in the swift Niagara River near Buffalo, N. Y. The craft is shown returning 10 land with inspecting army officers. " Host at Eucharistic Congféssl i The Rev. John Gregory Murray, archbishop of St. Paul, wfll be‘o.mr_hl host to the Ninth National Eucharistic Congress in the twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, June 23 from all parts of the U. S. and BOTTLENECKS ON OPEN ROADS, UNITED STATE (This is the last of a series of articles on defense and Am- erican motoring.) By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 5—Motor- ists on the United States highways this summer will be bucking the traffic of national defense. { Maybe it will be in some such situation as at Camp Dix, N. J., on a recent weekend when in a single day, 15,000 persons, all in cars or buses, visited the training center. Maybe, it will be coming in be- hind comparatively slow-moving Army truck convoys on a two- lane highway. Perhaps it will be meeting up with armored units on | maneuvers. Or it may be simply| getting caught in the jams of workers that pour into and out of defense plants at shift time. The Army and the American Automobile Association have gone into & huddle over these possibili- ties and have tried to work out some rules that may save Mike Motorist from feeling like using a lot of blue-flame language. A SET OF RULES The AAA has prepared a set of rules for visiting camps which in- | | | | | [ | 'MORE FUNDS FOR ALASKA ARMY PLANS Recommendation Made fo Congress for Construc- tion, Military Posts WASHINGTON, June 5. — The mended as a program for construec- NNEW SECTOR 4 Syria POWERFUL " SQUADRONS INACTION :Big Fleet Mfing Indicat- | ing Zero Hour Near ' for New Struggle | ALEXANDRIA RAIDED BY GERMAN PLANES Nazis Repo_rt;d Slipping Info Syria Disguised as Jews, Wounded Men (By Associated Press) Great Britain today clamped a blockade on French-ruled Syria and Lebanon, declaring them to be “en- | emy-occupied territory” and poten- ’tinl springboards for Hitler's war machine to strike against Pdlestine, Cyprus and Egypt. | Powerful squadrons of the British | fleet are reported massing off the | Syrian coast, and all signs indicated | the zero hour for the vast new | struggle is now very near. | Alexandria Bombed | ~ Blasting the main base of the Brit- ish Mediterranean fleet, Axis war- | planes are reported to have hombed | Alexandria during fhe nignt, killing more than 100 persons. The London radfo reported that French type planes bombed the Capital City of Amman in British | mandated TransJordon in a reprisal | raid for the British bombing - of ! gasoline stores at Beirut and Le- banon. The radio said the attack was supported, it was believed, by French type planes seen flying over the Island of Rhodes and over Syria and manned by German pilots. ! Turkey Watching Turkey watched the crisis with L4 4 ! sum of $196,000,000 has been recom- ™Mounting anxiety as Turkish For- eign Minister Saracoglu is reported !tion of military posts throughout to have informed German Ambas- |the United States and Territorial Sador Von Papen of Turkey's con- possessions. This recommendation is made to Congress by the House Appropria- tions Committee in reporting the cern over the asserted debarkation of German troops to Syria. The Turk told Von Papen that Turkey is prepared to take additional secur. |ten billion dollar War Department Ity measures along her southeast appropriation bill. Among the projects, Army offic- |ials said, is money to be spent at | Elmendorf Field at Anchorage for | facilities to cost $159,000 and addi- | tional troop housing ir? Alaska es- timated at $6,962,000, | The committee also approved the request of the Army for funds to finance land acquisitions, including Ladd Field at Fairbanks, Alaska, to acquire certaia patents 8,000 | acres of land.at $65,000. sé(oasl(i to 26. More than 450,000 Catholics foreign countries will participate, , uard ~ Assigns Men cludes such things as advice that| you know the exact locations of! the camp, number of the division, regiment, battalion or squadron, the letter designating company, battery or troop, and the branch of service To Nivy Use in which the man you are going to visit is training. Be sure that yon| re going during visiting hours and when the man is free from duty. Three Th ois and Sailors| Turned Over fo Man This will prevent congestion at the camp. | | Before you leave, find out ifj | there are good alternate roads. | Often, the “back roads” are much faster and more pleasant than the main highways. According to Capt. Paul W. Thompson of the Army engineers, convoys move in groups of from New U.S. Transports WASHINGTON, June 5—Secre- tary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau disclosed today that the Coast Guard is turning over more than 3,000 of its sailors to the Navy to man new Navy transports. Secretary Morgenthau, at a con- ference with newsmen, said this frontier facing Syria and Iraq. Disguised Nazis Responsible sources at Ankara said the Turkish radio reported 15,000 German troops have already slipped into Syria, many of them disguised | as Jewish refugees and others ban- daged and limping like wounded soldiers home from the wars, en- (Continued on Page Eight) WARNING IS GIVEN VICHY GOVERNMENT :Secreiary Hull Serves No- fice Indicating Proced- ure of Hemisphere WASHINGTON, June 5.—Secre- |tary of State Cordell Hull told France today that the Franco-Ger- !man collaboration is “inimical” to ; the rights of the United States and | other nations. | In the statement, declared to be | official, Secretary Hull declared the | Vichy Government has adopted a policy of collaboration with other several to 50 trucks. Larger con- voys are always broken up into | “serials” of 50. On a good open highway, these will move at from 30 to 35 miles and hour and are spaced so that if a motorist b to pass, he may pass one at a time, | dropping back into the line. How- ever, the Army doesn't try to mm-‘1 | imize the danger of this, for al-, lumuxh Army drivers are praised as| ;the best in the world, convoy trueks (Continued on Page Seven) ) transfer is by Executive Order of powers for the “purpose of aggres- the President directing an umpem-" sion and oppression.” fied number of Coast Guardsmen to| The statement seems to be a “operate as a part of the Navy.” |wnrnln¢ that Prench possessions im The Treasury Secretary estimates | the Western Hemisphere might be s that at least 700 Guardsmen will | taken over by the United States and man the liner America which the |other American nations. Pederal Maritime Commission re-| Secretary Hull said further, in his quisitioned from the United States |statement: “We, therefore, are Line last week and assigned to the |undertaking as speedily as possible Navy, to assemble very material fact ‘and The Coast Guardsmen are being |circumstance that will shed Tight collected from all stations through- |on this alleged course of the French out the country. Government.”