The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 8, 1941, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8875. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” e JL‘N AU, /\lA\I\A, SATURDAY, \()\/IMBIR 8 1941 MLMBH? ASSOCIATI- [) PRL.SS PRI( i oy xEN (xNH BIG RAID MADE ON GERMANY SENATE APPROVES ARMING OF U.S. SHIPS VESSETS 10 l(hilkool Barracks Now Has ENTER ZONES | OF COMBAT Predicted House Will Ap- On Watch for Peril? prove of Substitute | Measure WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—The Senate passed and sent to the Heuse last night legislation per- mitting American merchant ships to carry arms and sail to belligerent ports and combat zones. The action came on a vote of 50 to after eleven days of debat Administration leaders in the House predict there will be suf- ficient votes to win quick ap- prova! of the Senate substitute. Proponents of the history-making measure say it will be sent to Presi- dent Roosevelt before the end of next week. Acrimonious arguments were hurl- ed back and forth during yesterday’s debate but exchanges of compliments were made by opposition leaders at the end of the ballot completed at 9:22 nm. The vote found 43 Democrats, six Republicans and one Independent for the measure and 15 Democrats, 21 Republicans and one Progressive against it. House debate will bill next Wednesday. ———— Canada has at least two army divisions (80,000 men) stationed in Britain. start on the Eyes painted on the bow of the freighter Alcoa Courier give an eerie impression as the vessel is launched at Oakland, Cal. The 12,000-ton vessel, costing $2,800,- 000, is the latest to join America’s merchantmen. NAVY CLAIMS $ as* < B WASHINGTON — Inner CIOj| circles are buzzing excitedly over a grapevine report that John L. Lewis is seriously considering ditch-| ing his isolationism and declumg for the Roosevelt policy’of aid to' Britain and Russia. | Hitch in the rumeér is that it| s caowed to teak” by ool Refurn Collected by Lewis henchmen, which may mean; that there is more to it than meets| the eye. l It might be a stratagem b)l' Lew:: itions :Z;.:;:::‘:rn:‘e‘scs:gre:n:::n‘éy Or|Thomas of the Navy Civil Engine_er it might be & mManeuver to avert] Corps said today that net profits a drubbing on the foreign issue; lon contracts for Navy construction at the CIO convention next month. |work in Alaska are cnly about two Lewis’s foes are quietly organizing percent of the cost of the work. for a showdown. Fearing a licking,| Thomas, in charge of all Alas- he may be trying to lull them!‘kun construction, added that th> into dropping the plan. gross fee paid to contractors is Two things are definitely known: |approximately 3.72 percent of the 1—That Lewis has issued orders total money spent. Because of of- to his satellites to pipe down on“[n:&e expenses, interest, taxes and the foreign question. They are not!other fixed charges which the to say anything or make any moves |contractor, rather than the gov- one way or the other. Previously|ernment, must pay, this gross profit they beat the isolationist drums m|h pared down to the two percent line ‘IR "hie LN |net profit, he explained. 2—Lewis had long talks with two | o British labor leaders who are visit- ing the United States. A(A p’lo'ls MAKE MANY ISLAND STOPS dent of the Mine Workers Federa- tion, which corresponds to the Alaska Coastal Airlines pilots United Mine Workers, Lewis’sitook to the island milk routes today, union, and Jack Jones, Welsh|Alex Holden making a tour of miner and novelist. These two |Hoonah, Pelican City, Yakobi Is- were the first visiting British La- land, Chichagof, Hirst and Sitka, porites to confer with Lewis—a |while Shell Simmons hopped to fact he pointedly called to their)Tenakee and Sitka. attention. Both pilots carried loads of mail He told them he considered it a and freight to their various stops personal affront that Sir Walter and picked up passengers along the citrine, British Labor Party leader,jway. Passengers from Juneau in- had not called on him when he was|cluded J. Johnson, Sam Bocoloff, in the U. S. last spring . Citrine Frank Miller and J. W. McKinley. —|Both pilots were to return with full passenger lists. Alaska Bidders SEATTLE, Nov. 8—Capt. R. E. PAL TO PAL They were Will Lawther, presi- (Continued on Page Four) | Newspaper;AP Service Goes To Bugle Roll Hot Puppy CHILKOOT BARRACKS, Alaska, Nov. 8—This Post, one of Alaska’s most isolated Army Posts, will no longer have to depend on fading radio and twice-a-month steamer service to find out what is going on in the world for the first edi- tion of the Chilkoot Barracks Bugle Roll, morning edition, 1s otf the mimeograph press- machine with Associated Press service tell- ing Alaska's soldiers here of tional and world affairs News reaching the posi personnel and inhabitants of the tiny by town of Haines, to. date, depended entirely on the wes and the men here have eagerly strained ears before radios for in- dications of what is doing in the States and world at large If the weather is bad, steamers are not able to dock and the radio is in the mud also There is ng plane service near- er than Skagwa, nd the treacher- ous Lynn Canal often cancels steamer and plane schedules, Chilkoot Barracks will now na- near- has ceive the Associated Press servic through the Signal Corps, United States Army, direct from Seattie, via Juneau. Post Commander Lieutenant Col- onel Jesse E. Graham is enthusi- astic over the news sheet and says: “We may be the smallest news- paper in Alaska but we will make the biggest noise.” While the above dispatch to the Empire dces not mention who the aditor is, presumbaly it is Lieut Evan Hllls former member of the Empire reportial staff before he joined the National Guard and was inducted into the Army. May- be, George Willey, former adver- tising manager of the Empire, may also look after getting the “ads” and be spOrLs editor. '(ONTRACTORS REDSATTACK 'MAKE lITTlE AS INVASION | Two Per Cent Net Profit Is DRIVE SlOWS Russians Stage Counfer- thrusts on Many Sectors as Nazis Weaken MOSCOW, Nov. 8—General Ro- kossoviky, one of the army col manders defending Moscow, over the Moscow radio today that the Soviet army has halted German attack on the Russian capital. | “The Red Army is counterattack- ing on many sectors of the front,” he declared. NAVY BASE IS ESTABLISHED IN ICELAND | said | Making a daring daylight raid on the port of LeHavre in Occupied France, the Royal Air Force is credited by London with scoring hits on the Iullomng objectives: Women Able Workers on Amrafi 1: a 12,000 wn tanker, These womgn have proved themseives highly efl] brackets and the like in tubular fuselege struetures m ving sembly line. Many of the parts they insiall at their vir assembled by women employees in fabricatng and them contribute valuable to the mass cuiptt of cembly dep Lie Thousands of Dollars Keep Rolling Inio the Govt. 'Conscience Fund’ the | By JACK STINNETT run the government in peace. WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—Strange i5 not to be used for war to klll things happen in Washington, but people.” | there is no recurrent phenomencn A man from Milwaukee, Wis, stranger than the facts packed comes up with this: “Enclose you | into the treasury’s “conscience will find $500 I owe to our govern- | fund.” ment for. a period of years for Just 130 years ago. President income tax. Our government Js| Madison received a letter enclos- 'ery badly in need of money and ing $5 and explaining ~ that 1 ny consicous (that's the way he sender wanted to pay up wht pelled it) has been bothering me he had cheated the governme! or some time. I am very sorry for RAF Rains Havoc on LeHavre in Daylight Raid 2: a 6,000-ton | tanker, s merchantman, 8: a 10,000-ton cargo boat. 4: a wreck partly sub- ‘merged as Lhe result of a previous raid. 6: the quayside and a coastal * RED CROSS DRIVETO GET GOING | L Women Assistants fo C. D ' Beale, Mrs. Burdick ; Are Named ! | | i !" The Red Cross drive in Juneau gets underway next Wednesday and | chosen to assist Charles D. Beale and Mrs, Charles Burdick in pu‘- t'ng the campaign across, are the following : & Mrs. Lynn Forrest, Mrs. Tom @; | Parke, Mrs. Alex Holden, Mrs. # Sheldon Simmons, Mrs. R. E, Ro- bertson, Mrs. A. Van Mavern, Mrs. Elmer A. Friend, Mrs. Norman Cook, Mrs. H. Stonehouse, Mrs, E. M. Polley, ! Mrs. Walter Hellan, Mrs. Arthur Adams, Mrs. Dewey Baker, Mrs. Vance Blackwell, Mrs. J. C. Ryan, Mrs. Alfred Zenger, Mrs. Frank Dufresne, Mrs. J. A. Shepard, Mrs. Charles Sabin, Mrs, A. B. Phillips./ ! Mrs. Fred Geeslin, Mrs. George| F. Freeburger, Mrs. Courtney of atiachment filtings, fisli’s pewess 1 ecnveyor as- been machined, riveted or wilat on aritec havs S % Smith, Mrs. John McCormick, Mrs. | stments cf tho Los Angeles prant. Aot pi S S0t o parle Hun Army Al Cardie ter, Mrs. Rod Darnell, Mrs. Thom- | as A, Morgan, Mrs. Lynn Gimmell, | Mrs. Charles D. Beale. | Mrs. I Goldstein, Mrs. Robert Schoettler, Mrs, W. W. Council,| Mrs, C. C. Carter, Mrs. E. D. Ham- | lin, Mrs. H. L, Faulkner, Mrs. Oscar | Olsen. M ADVANCES IN (RIMEAN WAR Defense Zone Six Miles in r-c | Depth Pierced by Ger- Chc mans, Says Bulletin BERLIN, N()\ sz bulletin from George Hitler's field headquarters today Harold said the Armies of the Crimea have Mrs {erashed through the six-mile deep E, Glover, Rev. Walter Soboleff, Russian defense zone guarding the Miss Mildred Abrahamson. narrow Kerch Peninsula and are; 1y is the earnest desire Mrs. H. R.| R. J. Sommers, ws, Mrs. Elsie McLean, Mrs, (uowl C. Winn, Mrs. A. B. Hayes, | Mrs. H. C. Redman, Mrs. J. J. Me-| herin, Mrs. N. Smith, Mrs | Foss Mrs, Gertrude Naylor, Miss Pearl ! terson, Miss Katherine Torkel-! Miss Etolin Coulter, Miss Paul, Mrs. Mae Godfrey, isther Metzgar, Mrs. Clarence Harold | = wm | Mrs. Lewis Brown (Thane), Mrs, Folta, Mrs. R. Riges, Mrs Smith, Mrs. Ray G. Day, Wellman Holbrook, Mrs. A, of the out of. Since then, nearly $700.0 {has rolled into Uncle Sam's co Knox Raises No Norlhern Qui- {2xe sniax ot Hams post fo Important Cen- 1 can be said posices ter of Operations ‘lmnu] defense effort. have had effect on these conscientious do WASHINGTON, Nov. 8— Secre-' inors, but 1941 - has brought tary of Navy Frank Knox today SUMS running into the thousa: announced the establishment of aland several have been inspired ) r naval operating base in Iceland, overnment needs for defen raising the outpost to one of the funds. Navy's mosf important operations Ao centers. | A'farm woman, living nen Rear Admrial James Kaufmann Wichita, Kas, mails in a mo has been named Commandant. order for $5.80, saying, this is God I may straighten it out this port of Ker e wrong T have done and thank | continuing to advance toward the committee in ¢ 1, vital bridgehe: arge of the drive . Many thanks.” The largest contribution to th onscience fund in recent months vas from a nurse who has speni | nany years in Peking, China, and the Caucasus. - TO VISIT KETCHIAN summons of this mercy call. Kelly Foss, Anchorage construc- and pastors and ministers will pre- to vho visits her home in Charles- tion foreman, and Mrs. Foss, who on, 8. C., once every seven years, have been visiting Foss’ 3 she sent. @ ‘check for $1678, “th|Harold Poss, Juneau architect, sail- 9rive to their congregations. ume being a year's salary plus|d for Ketchikan this morning on BN S R ar's sala 1S Approximately 50,000 tickets the steamer Yukon. They will visit /in the First City for several days Major amusement and sport ac- | before continuing their trip to the tivitiese in New York City are | States. |given gratis weekly to members - > - jof the armed forces of the United I Armistice Day dance tonight, .| States, B terest which I do not now want An investigation by secret serv- lConunued on Page Two) RIEA adv. ITALY IS | ATTACKED, NIGHTRAID Biggest Assa~ufi of Present War Reported Pullad Off Over Reich BERLIN FEELS BLOW BY BOMBERS OF RAF 'Heavy Loss of Aircraft Re- porfed Because of lcing and Thunderstorms (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Giant . four motored Royal Air Force bombers smashed Germany in the biggest attack of the war last night, pounding Berlin, Cologne and Mannheim, Other Squadrons raided Scuthern Italy and Sicily, The Germans only list seven killed and 32 injured in the aszauit cn Belin but RAF ob- servers repori wany fires start- ed and miny lend explosions were heard hizh io the air in- dicating that the casualty lst is larger than reported. mb laden spitfires and hur- ricones sweplt swiftly out at daylight today and flashed ac- ross the channel from England for further atlicks on Geiman held sections, The daylight raid kept up for more than two heurs. The WBritish Air Ministry ac- knowledges an unprecedented loss of 37 bombers in the night assanlt on Germany aloue, the highest on either side ever an- ncunced in night bombing. More than half of the loss is attributed to heavy thunder- sterms and severe icing condi- tions, The Germans claim many of the invading planes were shot down by aanti-aircraft guns, listing 27. Mussolini’'s High Command admits British bombers made a “prolonged raid” on Brindisi, Adriatic port, inflicting serious damage to property and kill- ing at least 40 persons and in- Juring 80. The British bombers, according to the Italian com- munique attacked and killed several persons at Port Gela. The Germans intensified an aerial attack on England, claim- ing at least six towns were at- tacked and docks and adjacent areas were hit at Sunderalnd and Blyth. 'RATIONING OF MATERIALS TO BESURVEYED Office of Production Man- agement Ordered fo Ob- fain Sweeping Defails WASHINGTON, Nov. 8, — The Federal Supply and Priorities Allo- |cations Board has ordered the Of- ad 10 that this community will make alfice of Procduction Management to special effort to cooperate with the|obtain details on' 42 workers named here to answer the| | programng governing every production indus- iry in a step preliminary to actual | Tomorrow is Red Cross Sunday rationtng of all critical materials. The sweeping survey will cover brother, Sent the subject of the Red Cross jdefense as well as civillan produe- | tion “from washing machines ‘o tanks,” an 8.P.AB. spokesman de- clared. He said the survey is de- signed to give cdefense officials a clear overall piciure of the na- tion’s tota! ruw materials and re- quirements in ion to available supplies. rela