The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 4, 1941, Page 1

VOL. LVIL, NO. 889. HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL TH NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1941 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS | PRICE TEN CENTS JAPAN MAKING WAR MOVES IN FAR EASI STRIKE BILL PASSES HOUSE BY 2-1 VOTE) Hardboiled Legislation| Wins Unexpected Ap- proval by 251 ‘ SENATE MAY MODIFY DRASTIC PROVISIONS| Congresslonal Conference | Committee to Work Out | Agreement, Changes WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Stamped with an unexpected House endorse- ment of almost two to one, the hard- boiled strike curbing bill today mov- ed to the Senate where extensive modification appeared probable. Senate members predicted their | chamber would relax the bill’s dras- | tic terms and then let the Senate- House Conference Committee work out some kind bf agreement on the | final scope of the legislation. The House rolled up a vote of 251| to 136 in favor of the bill, written | by Rep. Howard' Smith, Virginia | Democrat, without gven considering | I some of the pendlng “middle of the road” measures. The Smith bill, admittedly subject to refinements in phrasing, provides for cooling-off periods ranging from 30 to 90 days in defense labor dis- putes, during which time the Na- tional Defense Mediation \Board is given statutory life and power to use its good offices to prcVQm the strike. In addition, the bill as passed by the House forbids jurisdictional'boy- cotts and sympathy strikes to freeze existing closed or open shop ar- rangements for the duration of the defense emergency. The bill will permit a derense strike only if the majority of the workers affected give their approval by secret vote. e | e \ MRS. WYLLER RETURNS | | Mrs. Chris Wyller and two child- ren were arrivals on the North Coast last night from Seattle. They | have been visiting in the East for| several months. e - Cn,e | | | | i WASHINGTON—Republican Na- tional Chairman Joe Martin isnt advertising it yet, but he has found an issue which he thinks may swing the House of Representatives against Roosevelt in 1942. It is the “Raw Deal given to Little Business Men by the New Deal.” This has the New Deal itself frantically worried, for the latest defense experiment to protect lit- tle business has just blown up. This Is the inside reason behind the trip of Floyd Odlum to the Mayo clinic at Rochester, Minn. Officially it’'s ulcers. But back of that is worry over failure to spread war contracts among little business | men. It hasn't been announced yet,but Odlum is getting out. He is going back to Wall Street where he finds | running big business a lot easier than trying to take war contracts away from big business and give them to little business. Odlum, who is head of the Atlas Corporation, outsmarted some of the best brains in Wall Street, but he found he couldn’t break through the rampart of Army-Navy brass hats, the OPM One-Dollar-Men and all the other red tape artists, who believed in throwing contracts | in the easiest direction — to b1g| business—and letting little business go into bankruptey. Wall Street Wizard Odlum set up the Contracts Distribution Di- vision of OPM, but after he has spent three months in master- (Continued on i’l_ée l;our) | was the scene ‘folnml meeting i rive here delayed the meeting when | cal auentlon Litfle Nation Is Suddenly | morrow night UNEMPLOYMENT COMMISSION HOLDS SESSION Board Meellng in Petit Jury Room Open fo Public Tomorrow The petit jury room in the Fed- eral District Court suite on the fifth fioor of the Federal Building today of the first of the Territorial Unemployment Compensation Com- mission, scheduled to get under | | way in a continuation of the an- nual board session over a week ago. Presiding over Harry Phillips, commission, whose W0 SECTIONS |Continue on Retreat from’ \ Ukraine-Also Hit on Afncan Sands (By Assoc laled Press) Hitler's invasion armies, hmd pressed on the sands of North Afri \La land in a headlong flung retreat in | the Russian Ukraine, now face a new |fight on their hands as Serb guer- | the meeting was | illas are reperted battling three Axis | chairman of the divisions in old Yugoslavia failure to ar- At thesame time, a London broad- cast reports fresh German troops inclement weather held up air have been rushed to points along | transportation between here and Bulgaria’s southern frontier on Tur, i 3 (key to which nation Pregident Fairbanks.. Secfxnd member of the | po,cevelt has extended American board sitting in on sessions 3 - this {161 and lease aid. morning and again this afternoon Germans Step Up was Mrs. Mildred Hermann, Juneau attorney. Not present was R. E | Nazi military preparations along the Hardcastle, Ketchikan man whose |frontier has been stepped up and the | | membership on the commission is ' Germans are tightening control on being made the subject of an Bulgarian ports and air fields. |ouster move, destined to be aired Turkey Involved in a court session here late this week. Phillips and Mrs. Hermann today British ally, Turkey encouraged by concerned themselves with a series Russia’s sweeping counter offensive of conferences with employees of | in the Ukraine, might open a new | the unemployment compensation | ~Pack door” front on the Balkans, office here. ' Star conferee this |°F whether Hitler plans to move on morning was Joe Flakne, directo::T"rkey ré'::::‘rl“ Fighting ofWile, Jerrisilvemung sist sec- | Serb communique, issued in vice. This afternoon, Walter Sharpe, Cairo, said the Germans have | unemployment compensation direc-|jaunched “what appears to be a tor, was to be called in for another | peneral ofefnsive Magninst posi-' conference. tions held by the unconquered guer- Starting tomorrow morning,|illa forces.” meetings of the commission wfll‘ Gen. Mihailovic, guerilla leader, be open to the public, Phillips an- |in a communique also released from nounced. | Gairo, said: “Our forces are resist- | “We don't intend to stage a pub- |ing successfully in the face of fu lic show,” Phillips said, “but any- |ious onslaughts, although in the one with constructive comment aml’Uflce sector, the enemy, by tank suggestions to offer will be wel,‘atmcks have obliged one of our come at the commission meeting.” UDits to withdraw.” As has been customary in the Wipe Out Coriguerors Uzice is a battle-torn town of past, representatives of employml or employee groups or any person about 12,000 population and about 2D & SMsSa0e: Or edcimenile~ | 80 miles southeast of Belgrade. Ger- 'man troops in Yugoslavia are esti- tion will be heard, he declared. |mated at about 75000 men while Phillips said he has every hope ' Mihailovic is said to have 80,000 of getting down to business anc|men all sworn to wipe out the Nazi | winding up the commission session 'conquerors. with dispatch. After the meeting Berlin this morning, issued no has adjgurned, the Fairbanks man statement concerning the Moscow | plans to'go to the States for medi- front. BERLIN, Oct. 4—German mili- tary dispatches said tonight that despite losses described as tremend- | ous, the Red Army is still attacking in force on the West front around Rostov and in the Donets Basin, where yesterday the Russians claim- | ed they were throwing the Germans | back in stiff counter attacks. | The German troops are reported ' |to be fighting back in a defensive | stand. Reports from the front state that ‘ualian and Slovak units have been .brought into the fight, and declare that the Russian advance is being stopped - PORTUGAL RUSHING DEFENSES - Taking Active Measure | ‘Mrs. Ralph Lomenls for Protection, (By Associated Press) | Portugal is reported today als.)oin~ | ing the rush on defensive measures 3 Enroute to Seattle from her home prevailing among Europe’s colonies in the Orient, in Nome, Mrs. Ralph Lomen ar- o Smians. rived in Juneau yesterday by PAA A Vichy radio report says the land will centinue her journey south Eo e Minister of Colonies has |\ 0 4 the Mount McKinley Sat- ordered into active service all ‘re- | serve officers in the colony of Timot | jurday. In Juneau, on the eastern tip of the Malayanl Peninsula. guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Columbials Northbound SEATTLE, Dec. 4—Steamer Co- lumbia sailed north .at 9 o'clock this morning with 57 passengers, including eight steerage. Juneau passengers are Mrs. George Roberts, Dr. Langdon Ra- bert White, O. J. Meckes, L. F\ James. lived in Juneau during sessions of friends here. e TENDER IN PORT Busy repairing and alds to navigation in this area, the Coast . Guard lighthouse tender |Hemlock visited briefly in Juneau this afternoon, and supplies at the Juneau Lumber Company wharf before mowing out | the Channel to repair bouys. ———e—w— GOES TO SITKA > COUNCIL TO MEET With Mayor H. I. Lucas back at the head of the table, the City |district, has just taken residence Council will meet at 8 o'clock to-|in the Alaska Pioneers’ Home at in the City Hall Sitka, it was announced here to- Only member expected to be ab- day. Wolf, 63 years old, came to sent is Councilman Ernest Par- sons, who sailed for Sitka on bus- | iness this morning on the steamer North Coast, { | the Territory since that time. s e BUY DEFENSE BONDS The London broadcast said the | Visitor in Juneau Mrs. Lomen is thn‘ {R. J. Sommers. Mrs. Lomen has, the Legislature of which her hus- | band was a member, and has many | replacthg | taking on water ! Alaska. in 1907 and has mined in| NAZI ARMIES PresidentProves “Piping” HARDPRESSED ~ Clever as Guest of Honor Who Was Not at Big Event e | PLACER GOLD 'A-10 RATING Priority Ruling Gives Op-/ | erafors Even Break | with Other Industries ‘ Placer gold miners in Alaska | securing of needed equipment and ‘supplies on a par with apy in-| | dustry in the country not directly | | concerned with national defense, it was pointed out here this morning | by B. D. Stewart, Territorial Com- trip of inspection to mining opera- (tions in the Anchorage and Fair- banks neighborhoods. Under the A-10 preference rating recently announced to apply to placer mining, the hydraulie min- | ers will receive the same atten- tion as is being accorded govern- mental divisions, educational insti~ tutions, railroads, telegraph com- panies, steamship lines, radio sta-| tions, newspapers and other key |non-defense industries, Stewary pointed out Meantime, shortage at the threatened Anchorage has | the "Jonesville Mine of the Evan Jones Coal Company, near Anchor- | age, thus increasing substantially the coal output of that plant, Stew- | art announced. The Jonesville mine has also started mining a new bed, running parallel with their old coal bed, Stewart declared. In | this connection, also, he said, the Healy mine of A, E. Lathrop has recently made arrangements to ship not less than 3,000 tons of coal a month to Anchorage durmg the winter months. Most serious threat to mining operations at the Jonesville, Eska and Healy mines, Stewart report- ed, is a shortage of miners, due to high pay and increased activities at defense bases and new airports | being constructed ror military use NEWSPAPER SAYSA.E.F. PLANSDRAWN WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — Presi- dential Secretary Stephen Early said | today that the government will in- vestigate the source or sources of |an article in the Chicago Tribune {which asserted that a confidential |report by a joint Army-Navy Board |called for an American expeditionary force of 5,00,0000 men for an offen- |sive against Germany by July 1, 1943. When asked about the news article at his press conference, Early re- plied: “All that can be said is that T |have not talked with the President |about the story and I am in no posi- tion to confirm or deny it.” The copyrighted Tribune story said the secret war plans were drawiy in September in response to a letter from the President to Sec- retary of War Stimson in July. ‘The letter, according to the | bune, asked ‘Stimson and Navy Sec retary Knox to explore “overall pro- | ' duction requirements requ\red to de- | feat our potential enemies.” i The Tribune story went on to say i that the joint board report contem- Tri- "John Wolf. pioneer of the Rubyfpmed a total Army, Navy and nveCormick and Mrs. Alf Monsen. | Marine force of more than 10,000,000 {men would be necessary for the United States to enter the war and | “employ part of its armed force of- fensively on the Eastern Atlantic, in |Europe and Africa.” AR L S BUY DEFENSE STAMPS IS LIFE SAVERI now enjoy priority ratings for the | coal | been | averted by the installation of new | | bunkers and washing facilities at | By JACK STINNETT ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 4. — This {1s the story of the Man who wasn't | there, or, the Guest of Honor who | failed to show. The occasion was the National | ress Club’'s annual “Night at the | Club with our Fellow Member, | Pranklin D. Roosevelt.” It turned out. to be a “night at Lhr club without our fellow member.” On doctor’s orders, because of a cold, | me President was forced to remain |at home, the first time he has| | missed the club’'s annual get- | \bogethfl since he has taken office. ! It might not be worth more than a passing note, except forone | |thing: By being absent, the Presi- |dent was never more present than he was that night. When it became known that the | President would not be able to at- tend, the club made arrangements to have greetings and one brief | skit “piped into” the White House ’\o the “fellow member” could at There is no immediate indication | missioner of Mines, who returned 'least get a brief idea of what a as to whether Germany fears the | yesterday from Fairbanks after a 8000 tme he was missing The greeting was passed on by club | President Melbourne lThc little skit, in which the club kidded itself for the on-the-recocd | nature of its weekly off-the-record |luncheons with high government {officials and prominent world fig- ures, was put on. Then the club I bid its guest of honor “Adios” with a musical toast, written by two !of the members. But the President !would have none of it. He made the club stay “on the air” for its absent member “~end - throughout the evening kept up a running fire of mes- sages that probably added up to more wordage than the Presi- dent ever has spoken at any of the annual dinners which are strictly infermal and include no long speeches from any one. At one point when Speaker Sam Rayburn, who represented the President, was referred to as “rat- tling around in the President's| chair,” the President sent up a| message saying, “There’s nothlng in this rattling around business; | how can there be any when we| are both in the same seat?” | At another time Marvin H. Mc- Intyre, the President's secretary,| | CONGRESS | chusetts, | sam Christerson. ‘\ |ivities will be stressed. A roll call carried a series of color photographs | |Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Nunamaker, { hall, DOUGLAS CLIPPER (OMING TOMORROW FROM SOUTHLAND Airmail from the States will reach Juneau tomorrow if weather permits travel from Prince George ‘(u Juneau, Pan American Airways office here said today. The Douglas Clipper tle this morning and halted at | Prince George for the night. It is scheduled to come to Juneau to- | morrow Aboard the plane are three pas- sengers for Juneau and four for Fairbanks, including Joe Crosson, operations manager for the air- line. Juneau vpassengers are David Jones, J. L. Burrows and Harry Coffee. Mrs. B. L. Hawkins, Ann Hawkins and W. W. Laws are through passengers. DAN HOLLAND T0 WORK FOR GAME BOARD Dan Hollang, one ol the nation’s outstanding authorities on game; | fish and well known author of out- door articles which have been pub-, lished in mational magazines, has| accepted an appointment with the Alaska Game Commission, Frank| Dufresne, executive officer, an- Have Open Meeting On Nex' WedneSday nounced today. | | Hclland, 27, formerly'a depart- a membership drive mental editor of Fish and Stream were made last night by the mem-|npagazine, will arrive in Juneau bers of the Townsend Club at their|(omorrow to spend several days | regular meeting in the Union Hall, in conference with Dufresne before | which was presided over by G. E. going to Anchorage, where he will Almquist. The campaign will be werk under Game Warden Jack coordinated with the national'O'Connor, Tentative plans for a movement, commencing the first of (same fish survey in that area will | the new year. |be- made after Holland arrives. A special invitation is extended to| A frequenc visitor to the Territory, newcomers in Juneau to attend an Holland is one of Alaska’s most| open meeting of the group next enthusiastic boosters and has writ- Wednesday night in the Union ten several articles about the wild| Hall, at which time encouragement life resources of the country. The of participation in community act-|Saturday Evening Post recently| LEADERS, FDR MEET tFar EaslernSiIaiion "Thor- oughly Canvassed" in 90- Minute Conference WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 Presi- dent Roosevelt and Congressional leaders talked for 90 minutes at a conference today and “thoroughly canvassed the Far Eastern situation in connection with the defense of our territories and our vital inter- ests.” That summation was given by Rep. J. W. McCormack, of Massa- House Mejority Leader, who acted as spokesman for the group Other participants were Vice-Pres- ident Henry A. Wallace, Speaker Rayburn of Texas, Senator Walter P. George of Georgia, Sen- | ator Lister Hill of Alabama, acting as Senate majority leader, and Chairman Sol Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. - - Townsend Club Is to left Seat- Plans for of States will be held and persons of game fish taken by Holland. will be invited to give their town and state of former residence to enable them to establish contact (HuR(HIll S with new arrivals, A reception was appointed to | make the newcomers feel at-home,! and the committee is as follow: Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Collen, Cash Cole, Grant A. Baldwin, C. S. Whitten Hans Nielson, G. E. Stevens. Mrs. Tom McMullen, Miss Hazel backed by Rayburn, Commerce Sec- reary Jesse Jones, and Rep. Percy | Priest, of Tennessee, led the party in singing “Home on the Range,”| ! which was associated with one of | |the President’s campaigns. The President showed his approval wn.h\ a message that read, “Tell Mac on Page Three) | ( Conunue":f Boy Voyage Events Honor Mrs. Gruening Several bon voyage parties have bean given rezently in honor of Mrs. Ernest Gruening, who, witn Gov. Gruening, is leaving for the south on the steamer Mount M- Kinley Saturday. Yesterday after- noon, Mrs. A. E. Glover entertained for Mrs, Gruening at an informal luncheon and bridge party in her home. Ten guests were present, and’ | bridge prizes were won by Mrs.| Charles .Burdick, high, and Mrs. M. J. Gemmill, consolation. Last night Gov. and Mrs. Gruen- ing were honored by Dr. and Mrs Courtney Smith at an informal| dinner party. In the party were Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Council and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Glover. The evening was spent playing bridge. This afternoon Mrs. W. W. Council entertained at a luncheon honoring Mrs. Gruening and Mrs. L. E. Elkins, sister of Mrs. Coun- cil who 18 visiting here for a short |time. The party was in the Iris Room of the Baranof Hotel, and oLhers present were Mrs. Ralph | Lomen, Mrs. W. S. Ramsey, Mus. Courtney Smith, Mrs. Willlam Holz- heimer, Mrs. C. E. Rice, Mrs. John B o NEW WAITRES SHERE Peggy Slaton, formerly employed at Clark’s Top Notch Cafe in Se- |attle, arrived in Juneau yesterday ito join the dining room staff at Jthe Baranof Hotel, |salmen in Loring Creek, and cari- and women by a vote of 326 to 10. |the unveiling of the monument of ment was beaten by a vote of 336 |Joe Juneau and Dick Harris, show- to 40. jof the day. Fields, Miss Louise Neilson, Ed- ward Garnick, Miss Anita Garmck Coiman . we S s . v Maximum Mobilization for| Goodman, and Mr. and Mrs. E. Rodenburg. Moving pictures in color will be Men and Women Passed shown at the open meeting by A. by House Of commons |B. Cain, editor of the Alaska Cath- |olic, and 2,500 feet of film will be presented. The pictures include, LONDON, Dcc AThe House of views of many Alaskan cities, and Commons today gave general ap- 400 feet are devoted to Matanuska. proval to Premier Churchill's plan Other reels show bear catching for a maximum mobilization of men | | bou miegrating in McKinley Park The big vote was taken after put- and on the Steese Highway. ting down an insurgent Laborne} Recent pictures of the first mass amendment that would have con- | at the Shrine of Saint Terese, with scripted wealth. Another Laborite; many pictures of local residents, amendment would have nationalized | will be featured, as will films of many industries. The latter amend- ing Charles W. Carter, Willlam The threatened Labor split was | Markle, John Reck. Mayor Harry smoothed, however, before the unal‘ Lucas, and R. E. Robertson, speaker conclusive vote was taken on the conscription issue. ! - | FIREMEN MEET TONIGHT | Concluding the open meeting will be dancing, and many old time MILITARY MANEUVERS ' REVEALED Nippons Mass Forty War- ships, Includlng Aircraft Carrier, 0ff Coast AIR BASE HASTILY BEING CONSTRUCTED Springboard——P_repared for Attack in Three Direc- tions Is Indicated BULLETIN WASHING- TON, Dec. 4—Japanese embassy officials said tonight that Tok- yo's negotiators in the tense far castern situation will hand President Roosevelt and Sec- retary of State Cordell Hull to- morrow the Japanese govern- ment's reply to Roosevelt's re- quest for an explanation of re- cent large Japanese troop move- ments in Indo-China. It was added that the envoys might also bring a statement of policy bearing on the Am- erican note handed themi by Secretary Hull last week. An appointment for the meeting was set at 8 a.m., Pacific Stan- dard Time, tomorrow. (By Associated Press) In the Far East crisis, the Jap- anese newspapers today again sizzled anew over the alleged “encirclement”. of Japan by America Great Britain, China and the Dutch’ East Indles. New Japanese military maneuvers also increased the tension. In Chungking, the Chinese Army spokesman said 40 Japanese war- ships, including an aircraft carrier with 45 planes aboard, has been spotted at Camranh Bay, on the southeast coast of French Indo- | China, the potential springboard for | attacks on Singapore, the Dutch East | Indies or the Philippines. Building Air Base The Chinese spokesman also de- clared that secret service operatives also discovered the Japanese are | hastily building an air base in west- |ermn Indo-China, near the Gulf of Siam, and impressed 5,000 native workers on the job. America Prepares Meantime, dispatches from Man- | ila reported the arrival there of the first group of American transpor- tation men enroute to the Far East |to keep war supplies rolling along the Burma Road. American planes and pilots will protect them against air attacks on the long road. U. S. Waits on Japan The State Department this morn- ing still awaited Japans reply to President Roosevelt’s terse note ask- ing why the Japanese activity in French Indo-China and also reiter- ating disapproval of the “new pow- er in Asia,” on which will be based “peace or war on the Pacific.” Japanese in Session In Tokyo, the Privy Council, the Emperors highest advisory board, |discussed the American-Japanese | relations for two and one-half hours at an extraordinary session. Premier Tojo reported to the Council, in de- tail, the “active opinions to be ex- changed.” dances will be enjoyed, including equare dancus Members of the Juneau Volunteer Fire Department will hold their | regular monthly meeting in the| | Fire Hall at 8 o'clock this evening. | \Commmee reports will be submit- 1 plans for Christmas ac- tmty will be outlined. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Dec. 4. — Closing | quotation of Alaska Juffeau mine stock today is 2':, American Can | 5%, Anacol 7%, Bel egpdn 4 thehemlduuuhtrr have left Juneau aboard Steel 59%, Commonwealth and 4 % : Southern ', Curtiss Wright 8%, In- (the North Coast for Seattle, whore ternational Harvester 48%. {Molyrieux. higs _ husiness: with Kenne- | e cott 33, New York Central 9%, f'ms he represents. Northern Pacific 5%, United States Steel 52%. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Molyneux and | D()W. JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 116.61; rails, 27.3; utilities, 15.86. oo o 3, o BRING SABLE FISH With 15,000 pounds of sable fish caught in Chatham Straits, the fishing boat Explorer arrived in Juneau this morning to sell its load at the Juneau Cold Storage Company wharf. The price was not set late this afternoon. JAPAN HAS FIGHT IDEA, SAYS DOMEI BULLETIN—TOKYO, Dec. 4. —The authoritative Japanese news agency Domei tonight cir- culated a statement declaring that the Japanese view of the declaration of the fundamental position of the United States, as given to the Japanese envoys by Secretary of State Cordell Hull last week, cannot serve as a basis for “negotiations hence- forth.” Domei merely quoted a “quote of ‘observers” but in view of the close connections with the Jap- anese government this is inter- preted as an accurate forecast of an eventual reply of the Jap- anese to the United States.