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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE 10, l_‘)4|. PRICE TEN CENTS VOL. LVIL, NO. 8747. bt MEMBER AS.SOCIQTED PR == U.S. SHIP REPORTED TORPEDOED Army Guarded Plane Plant Now Operating PRODUCTION | OF AIRCRAFT | IS STARTED Thirty-five Hundred Work- | ers Return fo Factory in California WARCRAFT ROLLING, PRODUCTION LINES| Armed Soldiers Stationed for Mile Around, af | All Intersections BULLETIN—LOS ANGELES, June 10.—The North American Aviation Corporation strikers have been advised by Walt Wiit- anes, member of their United Auto Workers Negotiating Com- mittee, to return to work, going back in a body and perhaps pay raises would be granted later. Dave Simpson, also of the same committee, advised return- ing to work and told the union members: “We cannot maintain a picket line because we do not have the money to fight because we have been working for the North American Aviation Cor- poration.” LOS ANGELES, Calif., June 10.— Lieut. Col. Charles Steinmetz report- ed that 3500 men returned to work in the North American Aviation Corporation’s plant at 7:30 o'clock this morning as the Army officers’ promised to start warplanes roll- ing off the production lines today. The giant plant makes practically 25 per cent of the Nation's war- planes. | Lieut. Col. Steinmetz also said “more workers are coming in and everything is happily quiet.” ‘rhe‘ i Drew Pearsos ed Robert S.Alles WASHINGTON — Shortly after | Phil Murray was elected head of the | CIO last year, an old laborite friend | said to him, “Phil, I want to give you : one piece of advice. If you don't| clean out the Kommies, you, the CIO and the whole labor movement will live to regret it.” A devout Catholic, Phil Murray is| no left-winger. But he is tied tc the apron strings of John L. Lewis, who also is no left-winger but has| been playing ball with them for his | own ends. So Murray did not purge the Communists and, as his friend | predicted, has lived to regret it. For that defiant statement of O. M. Orton, left-wing President of the CIO Woodworkers, refusing to settle the Puget Sound loggers strike, ac- tually was not aimed at the National Defense Mediation Board in general but at Murray in particular. Murray is a member of the Media- tion Board, and had approved the terms it proposed to settle the strike. Later, when Orton refused to submit | the settlement to the strikers for a vote, Murray signed the Board tele- gram to Orton ordering him to Washington to explain his action. And at that meeting Murray se- verely condemned Orton for recal- citrance. With this bawling out ringing in his ears, Orton issued his nose- thumbing pronunciamento, calling the Mediation Board “a labor-bust- ing organization” and declaring that he was following the “true trade union” principles of John L. Lewis. At first Murray took this slam without a word of reproof—as Orton figured he would if eonfronted with Lewis’ name, CIO insiders say Orton bR s o v e imbes (Continued on Page Four) ~ AWATSDIVORCE Nevada law requires six weeks residence for those seeking a divorce. Here is Tullulah Bankhead, daughter of the late Speaker of the House, William Bankhead, on the porch of her cabin at Lake Tahoe having | a cigarette with Demetros Vilan, New York producer, who's also estab- Tallulah is seeking a divorce from Actor lishing a divorce residence. John Emery. BRITISH NEARING DAMASCUS 'Successful Drive Is Being Made Through Syria by Two Forces (By Associated Press) On the Middle East war front, | British columns are driving through French mandated Syria and this |afternoon are reported less than 10 miles from the ancient capital city | of Damascus. Early capture of the city is pre- dicted, possibly during tonight. The advance, according to an of- ficial communique, is proceeding smoothly. A dispatch from Ankara, Turkey, | authoritatively reports that German | Air Force and Army specialists, scattered throughout Syria, have been ordered by the Nazis to retire from the mandated country. This Ankara report is said to have been issued when Berlin was convinced the British and Free France de Gauillist forces really meant busi- ness in the Syrian drive. FEEAT A S e O Bitl Hifs af Stoppage of Defense Work |War Deparfint Asks for | Sidefracking of Prop- MUSS Another Coal Strike Killed By MEIiaIion i Defense Board Seftles Dis- pute Which Threatened fo End in Walkout WASHINGTON, June 10.—North- er and Southern coal operators and the United Mine Workers today ac- cepted recommendations of the De- fense Mediation Board for settling a coal industry dispute which threatened a new strike. The recommendations, headlined by eliminating a 40 cent differential daily pay rate between Northern and Southern mines, suggested a scale of $7 daily. Seward Bill Goesfo FDR WASHINGTON, June 10 — The Senate has passed and sent to the White House the House bill en- abling the town of Seward, Alaska to purchase its privately owned electric and telephone system. ———,——— BUY DEFENSE BONDS OLINI DEFIES U.S. TOMAKE WAR ON AXIS: SAYS JAPAN IS LOYAL erly Seizure Bill WASHINGTON, June 10. — The | War Department today asked Con- | |gress to sidetrack the so-called | property seizure bill, at least tem- | | porarily, to permit the speedy pass- |age of legislation to give President | Roosevelt specific statutory author- 1ity to deal with defense strikes. | | Undersecretary of War Robert/ | Patterson told the House Military . | Affairs Committee that amendments | i ROME, June 10.—Italian Premier to the selective service law such as| { Benito Mussolini today virtually de- 1 those proposed by Senator Tom Con- | fied the United States to declare war | nally and Chairman Carl Vinson of | | against the Axis. w‘che House Naval Affairs Committee, | | Addressing the Fascist Chamber |would be “able to fill the needs as | {of Guilds on the anniversary of ' the War Department sees it.” Soldier Can Shoot Whole Crank Letters in the President % YT TRESILOE YIA sl C 1 o~ a— -~ 1D ok a bt G o o SRR L D L b Tx’(‘m\ 4 ’s Mail Bag Among the thousands of letters which pour into the White House each day addressed to the President are many which are relegated to the _crnnk v addressed being sufficient for their classification. He attention. Move Up in Army Promotions Moved up in the new army promotions are Maj. Gen. George Howard Brett (left), designated chief of the air corps, and Brig. Gen. Courtney Hicks Hodges (right), designated chief of infantry. Gen. Bl‘e'tl suc- ceeds Gen. H. H. Arnold, present deputy chief of staff for air. CYPRUS IS Italy’s entrance into the war, Mus- | solini declared that Japan will be | loyal to her pact with Germany and | |Italy in the event of “American aggression against the Axis.” H The delegates to the chamber applauded when Mussolini said “Japan’s attitude is in a perfect line |in the tripartite pact and the Jap- anese, a proud and loyal people, could not remain indifferent in the | face of American aggression against the Axis.” Mussolini accused Turkey of aid- ing Greece in the Greece war| against Italy and proclaimed that conquered Greece now “reenters into Italy’s vital space in the Mediter- ranean.” Col. Elliott Nominafed - To!ew Job WASHINGTON, Juné 10—Presi- dent Roosevelt has withdrawn the nomination of Col. Malcolm Elliott, of Juneau, Alaska, as a member of the California Debris Commis- sion and nominated him instead as a member of the Missouri River Commission. Col. Elliott was Presi- |dent of the Alaska Road Commis- |sion for a number of.years. ———eo—— Both amendments enable the Gov- | ernment to take over any plant | where there is existing or where' there is threatened a failure of | | production that would interfere with | the National Defense Program. ———eteo— o ? ARMYBILL IS PASSED BY HOUSE WASHINGTON, June 10 — The| House has passed and sent to the| Week's Pay and Still Nof Make a Very Loud Noise By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 10—Trying to find an “average trainee” visit- ing Washington on weekend leave seems like trying to find a com- mon denominator for the Eskimos,| Hottentots and Boston Back Bay society. I never tried the latter, but I did try for an “average trainee. I'm going to state three generali-| ties as a result of my survey, and back home and just simply aren®t interested. I might add that the “average trainee” has about five bucks o spend for a weekend jaunt, which, if he's just a private, is a week's pay. CASE OF A MAN WITH $5.20 There was Pvt. James Martin of Fort Meade. He arrived in town | with $5.20 and four other fellows. for anybody who might raise the| They spent $1.25 apiece for rooms Senaty . Ay, Appmpriul.ion'q““nonv I admit that it hardly can| BUY DEFENSE STAMPS bill. | The bill contains a provision re- | quiring both employers and em- ployees in defense production in-| dustries to comply with the rec- ommendations of the Natiomal De- fense Mediation Board. Copper RiverR.R. Bill Passes Senafe WASHINGTON, June 10 — The Senate has passed and sent to the House the measure authorizing the Copper River and Northwestein Railway to convey to the United States its right-of-way for a high- way. ————.——— BUY DEFENSE BONDS |day for a dozen weekends I could| | they can’t afford fit, ‘:my Birls, or' have sweethearts be called “scientific sampling.” After all, it's a one-man staff that turns out this column and even if I worked three eight-hour shifts a hardly make an'appreciable lnmad; on interviewing the thousands of lads in khaki who pour into this town' from nearby training camps. ‘The generalities: ! (1) Visiting draftees like to do just about the same things other sightseers gnd weekend vacation- ists do. (2) They do not go in for a lot| of shocking devilment. Even if| they feel like that, it costs too| mueh money. 28 (3) ‘An amazingly few of them| have dates, The reasons are that| don’t know for the night (four of them slept on cots). They had one good meal,| with some “fancy junk we don't| get at camp”—cost $1.10. They averaged seven beers, 70 cents. The rest of it was spent on taxis, other transportation, hamburgers, cokes,| and postcards for the family or girl friend. If one fellow went over, he borrowed a quarter or a half from one of his more affluent bud- dies. Now what did they do for en- tertainment? They saw the Wash- ington monument, the Lincoin| Memorial, the Smithgonian mu- seum, the Zoo, and a sandlot base- ball game in one of the parks just off the Mall. Three of them went to a movie to see a picture (“Lady Eve') that they had heard was pile without even being opened, the manner in which they are Here are three which never received the President's AMERICAN VESSEL IS SENT DOWN 'Robin Moor Sunk in South Atlantic-One Boat of Survivors Found |BRAZILIAN CAPTAIN SEARCHING FOR LOST Navy Deparfment, Asso- ciated Press Given Re- ports on Sea Tragedy (By Associated Press) | Late yesterday, the Navy Depart- ment in Washington received an un- confirmed report from the Brazillan steamer Osorio stating the American steamer Robin Moor had been tor- pedoed and sunk in the South At~ lantic by a German submarine. | This report said the Osorio had . found one lifeboat with surviyors. AIR RAIDED, AXIS FORC (British Forti_fi;,t_i Island Re- ported Under Bombard- ment for 48 Hours Axis warplanes are reported to have violently and continuously as- saulted the British fortified island indicating Germany may be pre- paring for a “second Crete"” and invasion of the Mediterranean Brit- ish stronghold, 69 miles off the coast of Syria. CHURCHILL IS GIVEN GRILLING Belligerent House of Com- mons Hot After Prime Minister Today LONDON, June 30.—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill, facing a critical Parliament question on Great Britain’s war reverses, today heard sharp demands for a more vigorous war strategy, a newer and stronger plan for aerial warfare and a drastic shakeup in leadership. Churchill crisply rejected a pro- posal to form a small, compact War Cabinet to include Dominion lead- ers, The Prime Minister told the mem- bers of the House of Commons that the criticisms were “calculated to challenge the security of the ad- ministration.” The belligerent House of Com- mons queried Churchill on the loss of Crete and he declared this “som- ber, ferocious battle was well worth fighting and will play an extremely important part in the defense of the Nile Valley.” Churchill attributed Great Bri- tain's defeat and loss of Crete on weakness in the air. Churchill decared the British lost 15,000 killed, wounded or missing, men taken prisoners, exclusive of the Greeks and Cretans. He declar- ed that the Germans lost 5,000 drowned and 12,000 killed or wound- funny but which hadn't yet (Continued on Puge Seven) ed and the Nazis also lost 180 fight- er planes and bombers and 150 troop carrying aircraft. of Cyprus for the past 48 hours, | | Earlier in the day yesterday a dis- patch from Rio de Janerio merely - said the Robin Moor had sunk with- ,out giving any cause. | The Robin Moor carried passengers and a crew of 38 and .was bound from New York to Cape- town. Confirma ‘This morning the captain of the Brazilian steamer Osorio, rescue ship, declared flatly in a radiogram to the Associated Press that the Am- | erican sf Robin Moor was sunk in the South Atlantic ol May 21 and ~was tofpedoed. | Government officials in Washing- | ton expressed grave concern as other |reports received during today also claimed the Robin Moor was sent to 'the bottom by & German submarine. If this is true, the Robin Moor is the first American ship to be torpedoed since the World War. 35 Persons Missing | In the radlogram to the Asso- ciated Press, Capt. Waldeman Lucio Pereira, skipper of the rescue ship Osorio, said 35 persons are still miss- ing. | Wnen the Robin Moor left New York there were eight passengers |and crew of 38 officers and men ,aboard. The Nazi spokesman in Berlin dis- missed the reports of the sinking of the Robin Moor as “very con- fusing and contradictory,” (10 STRIKES IN ALUMINUM INDUSTRIES (By Associated Press) The sécond walkout of the CIO union members of the aluminum industry tied up six plants of the Bohn Alwminum and Brass Cor- poration at Detroit today. Another strike threat’ came from the huge Consolidated Aircraft Cor- poration plant in San Diego when union members voted all day on a strike call. Yesterday CIO die casters called a strike and closed the Aluminum Company of Awmerica’s plant in Cleveland. About 4,000 members of the United Auto Workers, CIO, walked out of the Bohn plants even though Sec- retary of Labor Prances Perkins cer- tified the wage dispuie to the De- fense Mediation Board last night. The unions ask a ten cents an hour increase over an undisclosed wage scale. A comapny official said the plant has 25 million dollars worth of Gov- ernment contracts, One plant, having a separate wage agreement, is not affected. Stephen Early, secretary to the President, said there is no possibility of immedate Government action in the aluminum strike. R o o e BUY DEFENSE BONDS