The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1941, Page 1

v r THE DAILY ALASK “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY.‘ N()\'ICM'HI-‘.R VOL. LVIL, NO. 8882. e 17, 1941 JAPANESE - PREPARING FOR ACTION Observers Believe Major Development Expect- ed by End of Month | ANGHAI, Nov. 17—The Japanese are rushing fresh trcops to Indo-China leading t informed observers in ench Coleny to believe major development, either ainst China of Thailand, will ceeur before the end of this month. According to trustworthy re- ports here tenight, transports, heavily lcaded with soldiers, snd supply ships are arriving off Indo na almost daily, and entering the harbers at Haci and Saignen, the chief ports respectively of north and scuth Inde-China, TROOPS AT SINGAPORE SINGAPORE, Nov. 17 — A considerable number of Indian treops have arrived here to re- inferce various units. Other re- infcreements from the British Empire have also reached here at Maylaya. -ees - The adhesive postage stamp came into use in 1847 in the Unit- ed States ... — BUY WASHINGTON—There will be| plenty of fireworks at the CIO convention opening in Detroit to- day, but not over foreign policy if anti-Lewis leaders can help it. John L.s opponents are gunning for bigger game than rebuking the grandstanding miner chief's iso- lationism. The anti-Lewis forces will con- centrate all their efforts on plans to revise the CIO constitution to wrest from Lewis the powers by means of which he has been able! largely to control the organization even though not in the driver's seat. Specifically, the antis will press for three changes: 1—To strengthen the authority of President Phil Murray; 2—Cre- ate a permanent, elective office of secretary-treasurer at $7500 & year; 3—Put the selection and con- trol of subordinate department of- ficials directly in the hands of the president. Also, the antis will try to elim- inate several Lewis henchmen from the ranks of the vice-presidents and the executive council. James B. Carey, former head' of the Electrical and Radio Workers and a vigorous anti-Lewisite, is, now secretary by Murray’s appoint- | ment. Because he is an appointed | officer, Careys authority is limi ed and he has no power over de- partment officials. The anti-Lewis forces propose to give him thi: control by making the office elec- tive and then electing Carey. | Lewis' reputed choice for this| key job is Allan Haywood, CIO or- ganization director and a long- time Lewis henchman. However, | inside word is that Carey has) enough votes already pledged to insure his election. The purpose of giving Murray | \Cuulu;ucd on Page Four) Operafing Ailarckrl?ieporl Is Mad BULLETIN—BALBOA, AL ZONE, Nov. 17.—The United States Fifteenth Naval Di o today ordered patrols to be alert for an s raider on the Pacific on followed receipt in in Padific e marine circles of unconfirmed reports that the British operated Yugoslav ship Olga Topic was attacked in the Paci ently by an Axis The Olga Topic craft. s a 4,300-ton Socialite-Bride Cuts Cake 1IN e i bR B s Much-publicized wedding of Socialite-Actress Cobina Wright, Jr., and Corporal Palmer Beaudette of the U. 8. army is over. were married in New York and The two are shown cutting wedding cake following the ceremony. After a short honeymoon, Corporal Beau- dette will return to his officers’ training camp in Georgia for pre- liminary work toward a lieutenancy and his wife will return to her film work in Hollywood. AXIS VESSEL, US FLAGGED, 1S CAPTURED Merchant Cm_ffis Seized by American Cruiser in Equatorial Waters WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — The Navy Department announced last night that a United States cruiser captured an Axis merchantman on November 6 in the Atlantic equa- torical waters with the United States flag displayed on either side of the hull and on the deck. When the U. S. cruiser sighted the Axis ship and drew near, the crew of the ldtter attempted to scut- tle her but a crew from the cruiser bearded the “outlaw” and took com- plete char The Axis ship was badly damaged by her crew and repairs were neces- sary to make her seaworthy. A crew of the cruiser, name not given last night, is now bringing the Axis ship to a port within the jur- isdictional waters of the United States. SEIZED CRAFT IN PORT SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Nov. 17. —The German motorship Odenwald, | with U. 8. flags painted on hull and deck, seized in the South Atlantic by units of the United States Navy. has arrived here with American escort, (Continued 'on Page Six) Mine Workers Won't Support \Any Open Shop Lewis TeIIs_RE)seveI' that | Agreement Would Harm i Miners in Other Fields L. Lewis today informed President Roosevelt by letter that the United Mine Workers refused to accept an jopen shop agreement in the captive {coal mines because it would “in- validate” other agreements in opera- tion throughout the soft coal min- ing industry. Lewis wrote the President officers of the union have no auth- ority to execute an open shop agree- the membership represented by ex- isting collective bargaining agree- ments.” | The union shop is the sole issue in the dispute which culminated in work stoppage in the captive mines. Lewis did not call at the White | House as he was requested to do |when the President asked Friday that negotiations be extended over attempt to halt the threatened shut- down of the captive mines, which | supply coal to 80 per cent of the na- | tion’s steel mills. Lewis told the Union Mine Work- ‘ers policy committee that he blamed | the present strife in the coal pits iC‘or}{'umed —on Page Eig‘ml WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. — John | that | ment “thereby destroying assets of | the weekend in an eleventh hour | U.5.-JAPAN NOW N " MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS TWONAMEDON | * UNEMPLOYMENT COMMISSION Mrs. Herma'r'm,'Harry Phil- " lip of Fairbanks, fo Suc- ceed Bragaw, Dick Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Juneau attorney, and Harry Phillips, Prom- inent Fairbanks business man and Democratic party leader, were named today by the office of Gov. Ernest Gruening here as members of the Territorial Unemployment Compensation Commission. The two will replace Robert Bra- gaw, of Anchorage, and Dr. Noble Dick, of Fairbanks, who resigned here recently before completing business to come before the com- mission’s annual meeting. Phillips, who replaces Dr. Dick, will automatically become chair- man of the commission it was an- nounced. ' A mecting of the board will be held in Juneau, starting next Tuesday, November 25, it was also declar . The official announcement the Governor’s office also from stated that “the third member of the com- mission to be decided by the Claiming membership in the is third member is Richard E. Hardcastle, of Ketchi- kan, who last week was given 30 days to show cause why he should be retained a commission mem- her, in a court action filed at Ket- chikan in behalf of Gov. Gruening The term of Hardcastle on the commission expired in February of this year, but only successor to the position proposed by the Governor was not approved by the Territorial Legislature. Following adjourn- ment of th elegislature, Gov Gru- ening appointed Rev. John L. Cauble, then in Juneau, to fill the post. At the recent meeting of the commission here, Bragaw and Dr. Dick refused to accept the creden- tials of either Hardcastle or Cauble as commission members and called for a ruling from Attorney-General Henry Rodin to determine which of the men was legally entitled to the place on the commission. Rodin up* held Hardcastle’s claim to the post According to the law governing the appointment of commissipners, both political parties must be rep- resented on the board. Mrs. Her- mann is appointed as a Republi- can representative, while Phillips, is a Democrat, the Governor's of- fice announced. WHY BRAGAW AND DICK RESIGNED JOBS “Rather than be a party to the | surrender of Territorial rights to |2 Federal agency, Robert S. Bragaw | (Continued on Page Two) KERCH IS i * CAPTURED BY NAIZIS ‘SieppingSk;t;to Rich Cau- casus Mineral Region in German Hands (By Associated Press) A communique issued in Berlin 'Lhis morning declared that the Nazis forces and Rumanian comrades in arms, have captured Kerch, in east- ern Crimea, a stepping stone to the rich Caucasus oil fields. Alfred Rosenberg, Estonian born Idealogical leader in the Reich, ha been appointed by Hitler as the Reich’s minister in charge of civil |administration in the eastern occu- ; pied regions. | Seizure of Kerch, after a long | bitter contest, has left the Germans ‘Sf‘pal'flled from the rich Caucasus minerals only by a narrow strip of a strait and the area, more than ever \lluomvd as the next theatre for @ ‘mu:m‘ war action. President Leads U. S.in . An overflow crowd in the flag-decked circular marble amphitheatre in Arling President Rocsevelt declare that the American people believe liberty is worth fighting for, and add it “hey are obliged to fight they will fight eternally to hold it Vice-President Wallace s seated af ex- trehwe tight. Armistice Observance ton Nationai Cemeiery heamd “And American Navy or Sea and in Air The pilot of a patrol bomber of the U. S. Navy's Atlantic / atrol flies alnogside a U. S, battleship. Both are on duty in the North Atlantic guarding convoys and leoking for hostile craft. GUARDIAN OF SEA LANE Senale’s Neufrality Ad Debate ProvestoBe Big Flop;Nafion Uninterested | 4 | L By JACK STINNETT | Oklahoma. ~Squared off against WASHINGTON, Nov. lT.—lere}ste in the front rank of the op- was hardly a day during the Sen- position were Senators Wheeler and debate on repeal of the Neu-|Nve, two rred veterans yality Act when you couldn’t get who always are in there where the . discussion in the press galleries smoke is thickest. With them was - the cloakrooms of the surpris- Senator Danaher of Connecticut, ing apathy both on the part of who can toss verbal knives in a public and participants, that at- | half dozen directions once tended the debate. | There’ were more worthy of merf- Opponents of neutrality "‘”“i",l.‘,t,)‘x,’,“.“ both sides, but that's had .warned that here was w : to a shooting war| Act L at on true to, all that had tle of the ion e last barr nd girded themselves for a fight which promised to match in tensity that of 24 years ago wh,,”} ssion was upeomir hat open- 2 handful of Senators talked to|ing day, the galleries were full death President Wilson's armed On the floor there was name-call- neutrality: bill and fist-shaking and invec- e And theu the show flopped, to pieces, disintegrated | The audiences stayed away in {0 4roves, There were days when there was only a scattering of the faithful in the galleries and if #lonce there were any of those long *|patient ques waiting their policy, T failed to see them scene I, ran | the glowing predictions Leen made that the ing tive, | went The stage was set; the cast in form. Leading the fight repeal was Senator Tom Connally, o rushes into forensic battle 1 Texas longhorn heading for China shop. Backing him, up were he Administration’s twin fire- caters from the South, *Senator pepper of Florida and Josh Lee of i top (Continued on Page Seven) | eonveys N/ /L : This is Capt. H. Mullinnix, Com- modore of the Patrol Wing of the U. S. Navy’s Atlantic Air Patrol, which operates out of an undis- closed base in the North Atlantic. The planes fly a patrol guarding and looking for hostile submarines and fighting planes. 4§ President Roo:cvelt EAR CRISS S —————————————— | NIPPON RUSHING FORCES TO INDO-CHINA Axis Raider Believed WAR NERVES HIGH TODAY; BiG TENSION {Nippon Deman ds Unre- strained Action in Work- ing Qut Her Program {ORIENTAL TROUBLE SITUATION KOW BAD Diet Meets in Tokyo as Im- perial Patience Claim to Be Exhausted (By Associated Press) The war of nerves between Japan and the United States and her po- tential allies attained a full crisis pitch today, coinciding with a break in the German-Russian conflict which apparenily gave Germany the {Caucasus approach she needed to keep her invasion on the move. Formally voiced demands that Japan be unrestrained in working jout her program of dominance in |East Asiu's “co-prosperity sphere” {were accompanted by extraordinary British and Chinese preparations for the' defense of Singapore and the rest of Malaya. Tension Is Great United States particlpation in this {contest of nerves was markedy like | that which preceded the war in Eur- ope. | The contest still is largely bound up with the openirg of a new phase !of negotiations with Japan through ! Special Envoy Saburo Kurusu at | Washington, but even bhefore Kurusu ';hcm his opening conversation with | Secr: y of State Cordell Hull this pievious to a conference (Continued on Page Two) PRESIDENT TALKS WITH JAPENVOY vDiscussionsT)B;n on Paci- fic Problems Bu Defails { Withheld from Press ! WASHINGTON, forma. conference ov. 17. — A today brought and Japan's Special Envoy, Sabure Kurusu, to- gether for more an An hour as they talked of “many thing:' cen- tering around the explo.ive Far East situation. Therc was no indication immediatelv whether any satisfact- s was made toward ter understandiug of 15 between this coun- ory prog achieving ¢ Pacific probi try and Japau Neither was it announced whether any decisions were approached which might lead to an assurance of continucd peace on the Pacific. Kurusu was accompanied to the White House by Japanese Ambas- sador Nomura. The two Japanese dodged ques- tions about the conversations, al- though the Aiubassador reported “many things” were said which he did not care to diseuss. bl o 2 1 IO AUSTRALIAN WAR DANGER "VERY GREAT" | CANBERRA, Australia, Nov. 17— Premier Curtin today declared in an nterview that the danger to Aus- |tralia in the Pacific is “very, very ‘great” and added that “no Aus- | tralian knows when we may be call- led to defend ouxselves.”