The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8745. ALASKA CANNE ULTIMATUM IS GIV GOVERNMENT 'Production Operafions | PLANS MOVE INWALKOUT | | | Will Take Over California’ Aviation Plant Unless | Workers Refurn \ WASHINGTON, June 7.—The White House anncunced today tnat President Roosevelt will crder taking over by the Govern- ment of the strikebound North | Amcrican Aviaticn Cerperation’s plant at Inglewood, Calif., if the CIO strikers do not agree among themeelves tc return to work by Mcnday. Announcement of the preposed move has also been sent te the strikers. Secretary Early told the newsmen | the necessary papers are all ready’ for the signature of the President for the Army to take over the avia-, tion plant and operate it and that the President’s Cabinet had approv- ed of such a step late yesterday. | Early said the President had de-| cided to await the outcome of the! meeting of the CIO union scheduled for tomorrow before putting the or- der into effect. | The Presidefit ‘{5 Jeaviog laté to-| day for a week-end cruise, return-| ing tomerrow night or Monday morning and he will then sign the’ order if necessary. { Early said the action is because | “planes manufactured at the plant are badly needed for defense.” Asked about the Washington State | lumber strike, Early said there is no | | | | (Continued un Page Six) Cthe ‘ N ! WASHINGTON.—The fight over| whether national defense plants; shall be placed in the East or West provokes some bitter swearing be- hind the closed doors where Army experts work over defense blue- prints. For the Army’s pin-studded maps show that more than 50 per cent of defense production is con- centrated in an area along the At- lantic Coast reaching only from Bos- ton to Newport News, Va. ! Army officers say that fo defend this vital region against Nazi bomb- ers and foreign attack would require a concentration of military" force larger than our present army. The swivel-chair brass hats are trying to wriggle away from the mounging criticism by claiming that for the sake of speed they placed the orders where industry was al- ready located. But what they don't reveal is that even on this basis the East Coast got far more than its share. In 1939, before the emergsncy, East Ccast states were responsible for 48.7 per cent of the total of new manufacturing in the United States. When it came to defense orders, in the last half "of 1940, these states received 619 per cent of all con- tracts awarded. In contrast, the North Central states, which added 37 per cent to manufacturing facilities in 1939, re- ceived only 384 per cent of defense contracts awarded in the last half of 1940. This excludes aircraft and shipbuilding, which the Army and Navy say must be built at existing seaboard plants, NEW ORDER Since January, however, there has been a slow but steady change in favor of the Midwest. Army brass- hats apparently have begun to real- ize what they had been doing. Atlantic seaboard states still lead OnUSSRM P Fairbanks Are Suspendedé FAIRBANKS, Alaska, June 7 —- Negotiations between the striking CIO miners and United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company is progressing but no re- sults were reached up to late Fri- day. Production operations are sus- pended but by mutual agreement power is being supplied for main- tenance of refrigeration for ware- houses and maintenance on mining properties against deterioration or damage from water or otherwise. Many men are coming to town from the various camps. The strike was called Thursday afternoon at 5 o'clock when all of the union members, comprising 65/ percent of the company's 750 pro- duction employees, walked off their! roperfies af PROPAGANDA CLAIMIS FALSE SAYS GERMAN 'Nazi Spokesman Claims| . Roosevelt’s “Papers on Desk” ‘Falsified BERLIN, June 7—An authorized! “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1941 PRICE TEN CENT3 French Troops May Res If Called on fo Fight Free French (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Britain’s main hope of clinging onto the Eastern Mediterrapean, seemed today to depend mQEt? and more on the French. The *Englisht found hope in a' Zurich dispatch quoting a French diplomatic source that Generalissimo Wev@and. cam- mander of France’s Colonial:Forces, could not guarantee the attitude of his men in North Africa if they were- called on to fight the pro-British, Stukas Atfack Brilis'h vaa'se on Sud “Free French” Forces. H The dispatch also said that Wey- . gand had asked to be relieved of the! jobs. The main issue is the umnu,‘Num spokesman said today Presi- shop. Hours, wages and living con-{dent Roosevelt's statement that he (Continued on | ditions are minor disputes. HUNDREDS KILLED IN AIRRAID CHUNGKING, China, June 7— Seven hundred Chinese were Kkilled ky suffocation inside and by a bloody stampede at the entrance of Chung- king’s biggest air raid dugout dur- ing a disastrous Japanese aerial at- tack. Rescue squads are still bringing out bodies of whole families. These who managed to fight their way into the shelter soon choked to death when piled up bodies cut off the ventilation. ¥ GEN. WILLIAMS IS D UE TO INSPECT NATIONAL GUARD To inspect the newest of Na- tional Guards under the American flag and to organize the 129th Ob- servation Squadron of Alaska fliers, Major General John F. Williams, Chief of the National Guard Bu- reau, will arrive here tomorrow. General Williams is enroute to uneau on the Army Engineer ves- sel Cavanaugh, due here at 6 o'- clock tomorrow morning. He is ac- companied by Col. Benjamin F. Giles, Lieut. Col. Lucas Beau Jr. Lieut. Col. Ralph F. Love and Lieut. Col. Charles E. Dissinger. FOREST SERVICE FISCAL OFFICERS DUE HERE TONIGHT Regional Fiscal Agents Ray Ward of Juneau and E. V. Lackey of San Francisco are due here at 9 o'clock tonight on the Forest Service launch Ranger IX. The California man, who is making an audit of Forest Service accounts, is accom- panied by his wife and daughter, Smiths to Have Informal Dinner Dr. and Mrs. Courtney Smith will entertain tonight with a small in- formal dinner at their home on Calhoun Avenue. Places will be set for eight and the evening will be spent playing bridge. - DIVORCE GRANTED A divorce was granted today, in District Court to Wilford Marion Welch from Bonnie Caroline Welch. (had papers on his desk outlining |the propose of German propaganda |in the United States was “based on falsified or false information.” l Then the Geérman gave numerous iquotations which he attributed to | President Roosevelt, Wendell Will- | kie,” the late Lard,Lothian, Major i'()(-neral H. H. Arnold of the U. 8. ‘Army Air Corps, and other prom- {inent Americans and Britons fo |the effect that Britain' would col- lapse if American aid was not im- mediately made available. SRR SENATE APPROVES * NATIONAL GUARD - BILL FOR ALASKA WASHINGTON, June 7—The Sen- {ate Military Affairs: Committee to- | day reccmmended granting Alaska permission to organize local militia units on the same basis as in the "Stal.es. | | The Committee is believed by local officials to have taken acticn on a bill by Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond to formally organize the Alaska National Guard and home defense units. A bill to the same effect was in- | troduced but not passed at the re- cent session of the Alaska Legis- lature. The pending legislation carries no appropriation for armories, the Army having refused to recommend ex- penditure of Federal funds for such a purpose. BROWN BEAR T0 LEAVE TODAY ON ALEUTIAN CRUISE Heading to the edge of the West- ern Hemisphere on a three months' cruise to the Aleutian Islands, the Fish and Wildlife Service vessel Brown Bear, Capt. John Sellevold, will leave Juneau late today. The Brown Bear will go via Val- | deg, Cordova and Kodiak to con- duct a sea otter patrol and attend to other matters in the vast Aleu- tian Islands Wildlife Refuge. The boat will return about the middle of September. R Malcolm Greany, Field Assistant of the Alaska Game Commission, will make the long voyage. $ID ROOD COMING WITH QFFICIALS ON REINDEER SURVEY General Superintendent J. Sidney Rood of the Reindeer Service is a passenger for Juneau on the North Coast. The Nome man is accom- panying Leroy D. Arnold, new Chief Forester of the Office of Indian Affairs, and three other officials of the buregu who will make a sur- vey of the reindeer range this sum- mer. responsibility to conduct French troops into Syria: I An Ankara, Turkey Reuters dis- patch said the latest of the varied' reports of German infiltration is that eight German pocket submar- ines have been seen in the harbor of Beirut, Lebanon, in the past week. The Italian Gommand reperted Dlanes, lust night bombed Malta and lashed 'at Tobruk, also troop em* placements near Sidi Barrani. The British occupation of Ethiopia | took a spurt with a Nairobi report that East and West African troops crossed the Omo River and captured Abalti and 2,000 prisoners, ) BRITISH ARE VERY HOPEFUL WASHINGTON, June 7—John G. { i | | | i | find their mark in an attack on th New York. hmoke plumes skyward from the harbor facilities at Suda Bay, Crete, as bombs from German Stukas (10 aBay , v e British army and naval base there. Picture radioed from Berlin to Winant, American Ambassador to Great Britain, now on a return visit to the United States, had a confer- ence today with Vice President Hen- ry A. Wallace and several Senators, | lasting for more than two hours. Winant set forth encouraging views that the British are confident they can hold the Suez Canal, pre-| vent the Mediterranean from fall- ing under German control, that the| Royal Air Force has attained air| superiority over the British Isles and channel invasion ports and that the Atlantic shipping is critical but the By JACK STINNETT ‘Sinkings have levelled off” and are (Sccond of two articles on now below the peak. | law enforcement and defense). | H tion of every complaint of fifth- s venlngicolumn activity and the business "01 searching out possible sabotage . | needles in 12,000 national de(ense‘ Pan American Airways dXspatch-; plant haystacks. ed a northbound Lodestar from Se-; No normal-time police organi- attle at noon today after waiting zation could have been handed several hours for Interior weather| such an order with any expectation fo slet |of its being filled. But FBI Direc- The plane is due in Juneau shortly tor John Edgar Hoover expects to aiter 8 o'clock this evening, weather | fill it because of the “FBI Law En- permitting, and will continue on t0| forcement Officers Mobilization the Interior. Plan for National Defense.” T0O MANY FisH! Py L qprmmisrpegro _ LEAVE THEM FOR COASTT WASHINGTON, June 7 — First | assignment of the Federal' Bureau Iot Investigation under the national | defense program was the investiga- ithouxnnds of police officials every- thing that the FBI knows about JUNEAU'S NEEDY | naticnal defense protection is hand- ed on to police of the cities and Sports fishermen are urged by,the grass roots. the Juneau Chamber of Commerce| to leave any ‘“overs” from the weekend’s catch either at the Ju-| NEWS FROM LONDON neau Cold Storage or ‘the Minfield This isn't second-hand knowl-| Home. At the Cold Storage, fish 08¢ either. Recently two FBI | » U agents returned from several| may be left at the last door to i | the right of the alleyway. They months of intensive study of po- are frozen and distributed to unm]vl“" methods in London. One in- persons. “ |valuable thing they brought back| 7 sl O was a movie entitled “War and JEAN TAYLOR RETURNS Order” which shows police at Miss Jean Taylor, daughter of Mr.| work. and Mrs. Ike Taylor, arrived last - Everything that night on the Yukon after attending| know ~about sabotage, business college in Seattle. British police espionage | i POLICING FOR NATIONAL DEFENSE UNDER FBI ON In Seaftle |and fifth column activity has been | "~ Ford Plant Is Sold Ou Out of that has. DETROIT, Mici., June 7. —The Ford Motor Company today an- prosimal nounced the sale to the Federal 0 COAST BASIS made available. come the program of conferences in which nearly 4300 Government of the assembly plant| police agencies are schooled in at Seattle which will be used as a defense police work. There is no base for supply shipments to Army better way to describe it than to’ establishments in Alaska. give a sample FBI quarterly con-| L A S ference program, i There are: “Instructions on coun-lpADDY ARRESTED violations;” “How to handle hombs FOR BURGMRY of and explosives;” “Citizens’ coopera- tion in national defense police work;” “British methods as dem-| I'AST NOVEMBER movie ‘War and Order.’” Methods of sabotage agents are explained in: detail. Vulnerabl points, hazards, persongel, physi.- ments (war secrets), fire preven- | tion, guard force, and identifica- tien stem of defense lndusmql‘ plants are given a thorough comb- ter espionage;” “Handing sabotage onstrated by lantern slides and thei cal properties, confidential docu- ing. A burglary of last Noveraber was ' believed solved today with the ar- rest of William Paddy, accysed of | breaking and entering the Snow White | vember 15. Paddy was arrested by Chief of Police Dan Ralston, quantity of material stolen from the | rooms. To pick out one example, an He is held under $1,000 bond FBI technical laboratory expert awaiting a preliminary hearing, displays an innocent appearing PRESERA B SE-IRE. . | pencil. Tt has lead that will write, | an eraser that will erase. While he is writing with it to demon- strate the expert DAWSON GOES WEET explains that diary powder flanked by a tinier"’““e“u' capsule of acid. When this acid eats through to the powder—com-| SR B R S MRS. SPICKETT COMING bustion, and perhaps a defense' Mrs. Josephine Spickett is a pas- | ains Senger aboard the Princess Louise | plant fire. The FBI man expl how this little gadget can be car- for Juneau and ariving here this ried aboard cargo vessels, dropped ©Vening. % —————— BUY DEFENSE BONDS (Continued on Page Seven® Laundry premises last No-| who says a! |Laundry was found in Paddy's Gene Dawson, Publisher and Edi-| its apparent harmlessness,(tor of the Kodiak Mirror, weekly inside Publication, left for Kodiak on the the pencil is a capsule of incen-|Yukon after a brief business trip to STRIKERS DELLWOOD - AGROUND, - FALSEPASS | fPassengers,—Mosfly Can- | nery Employees, Being Removed-Aid Sent SEATTLE, June 7.—The Coast Guard Naval Radio staticn here has intercepted - messages stat- ing the big camnery supply ship Dellwood is hard around on Nicholas Rock, False Pass, Alas- ka. Passengers, mostly cannery employees, are being removed by tenders and other small craft. The messages stated the Dell- wood is in no immediate danger and struck at 5:30 o'clock this morning, The Coast Guard Cutter Hai- da, on a court cruise and patrol duty, is responding to the call for aid, and is expected to be at tho scene this forenoon. Capt. L. Jacobson, commander of the Dellwood, messaged there is no wind nor fog and the water is smooth, The: Deliwoed, had 200 first’ class and 79 steerage passengers aboard, | The steamer is the former Gov- ernment cableship, is 320 feet long | and ‘was built in Oakland in 1919. GERMAN GUNS SHELL SHIPS, ENG. CHANNEL Luftwaffe Mads Over London for First Time in Alm_oi Month | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | German heavy artillery on the in- | vasion coast of the Low Countries {<helled the British shipping channel | intensively while the Luftwilfe is | reported to have been “especially successful” in raids off Scotland and West Africa where three merchant ships totalling 25,500 tons were sunk. | London took its first bombing since May 11, as Nazi planes unload- ‘ed over the population center. TWOGOTO PRISONFOR DECEIVING Former Political Boss of Kansas City, Lieuten- ant, Sentenced KANSAS CITY, June T7—T. J. Pendergast, former DemocTatic boss, and R. E. O'Malley, one of his lieu~ tenants, were today séntenced to two years each by three Pederal Court Judges which found them guil- | ty of contempt in deceiving the court in Missouri’s $10,000,000 fire insur- |ance settlement. | Both Pendergast and O'Malley !have already served one year terms in prisen for income tax evasion. e ——— ART BEAUDIN SAILS | l | | Art Beaudin, manager of the Bar- anof Cocktail Lounge, sailed to the Westward on the steamer Yukon last night for a short business trip to Anchorage. > —