Daily Globe (Newspaper) - February 19, 1941, Ironwood, Michigan KEEP AMERICA OUT OF IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE THE WEATHER Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with light snow continued cold VOLUME 22 NUMBER 77 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE NEWS SERVICE IRONWOOD MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 19 1941 Australian Troops Sent To Defend Malay Posts Thousands Arrive in Convoy Completely Equipped For Combat ANSWER TO JAP MOVES BULLETIN London The ment informed tlic house of commons today that it had re- a special message from Japan offering to mediate in the war and also accusing Ihc United States and Britain of warlike in the Pacific ocean Richard Austen Butler un- for foreign affairs said that Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has received this message couched in courteous and following the same general lines as the statement issued yesterday in Tokyo by Koh Ishii government man Ski Tourney On March 9 Sunday March 9 has been officially selected as the date tot the invitational ski jumping tournament sponsored by the Range Ski club which was postponed last Sunday be- cause of adverse winds Club said thai sibly more name riders would be able to accept the March in- since no other jumping have been uled in this area The annual tournament will be held on Wolverine hill just outside the Ironwood city its north of Singapore Thousands 01 Australian troops manned defense stations on the Malay peninsula today as Great Britain stepped up preparations to meet any developments in the bled Far East The Australians who disembarked at the naval base here yesterday reinforced an already formidable concentration of British Indian and Malay troops guarding this keystone of Britain's far-flung Asiatic i sessions The numerical strength of the Australian contingent was a tary secret but it was beyond doubt the largest and most powerful force of men guns and munitions ever to arrive in Malaya in a single con- voy Singing and Grinning Large Quantities of artillery and motorized equipment were ed as the singing grinning lians disembarked from the great gray liners in which they had sailed 3.000 miles from their homeland under protection of British and Australian warships United States Considers De- velopment of Guam Samoa Posts OBSERVERS TO FAR EAST BULLETIN Washington tion to authorize a program for development of val bases including Guam moa and the new Atlantic is- land outposts from tain was passed by the house today and sent to the senate County Convention at semer Names Group for State Meet Patrick Kelly of Wa- was named chairman of Gogebic county delegation which will attend the state lican convention at Grand Rapids next week by the county convention which was held at here late Wright was named vice chairman the courthouse are Joseph P Cloon of Wakefield F J Smith of Ramsay Victor F of S T Bonino of army of- in the Philippines were dered by the army today to take posts as military observers in the areas of southeastern Asia They were assigned to Thailand Singapore Britain's naval Gibraltar and Batavia East Indies Major Clarence E Jackson was named as the army's first military attache to Thailand His home is Bozeman Mont Major Francis G Brink Baton Rouge La was made military ob- server at Singapore and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander H Campbell of Austin Minn military observer in the Dutch East Indies The purpose is to keep abreast of the military situation throughout the world the war department said Observers similarly were ed quickly last year to Europe to keep in close touch with the Nazi army's sweep and Soviet Russia's invasion of Finland 10 PAGES SEES PIE Predicts Settlement at waukee Appears Before House Group FAVORS DELAY PERIOD Lieut Colonel William E Shipp I California plant Raleigh N c was assigned to grade Yugoslavia today succeeding Lieut Colonel Lewis J Fortier The change was described as routine Col Fortier whose home is New Orleans has been military attache to Yugoslavia since 1938 In another transfer Major ion Van Voorst of Monticello Ind Washington XP William S Knudsen predicted today that the Allis-Chalmers strike at Milwaukee would be settled by tomorrow The director of the office of duction management made the statement to the house judiciary committee during testimony on bor difficulties in defense plants We thought we had it settled Saturday night but they thought up another one on the way said without immediate elaboration The gray-haired chief of tion for the defense program said that the job of production was preceeding fairly well There have been some delays but I don't think they have been Knudsen said The main one was at Vultee aircraft plant in California which tied up production of planes three weeks Men Idle The Allis-Chalmers deadlock has stopped production on worth of defense orders for a month and kept some men idle Union men and company officials placed different interpretations on a key clause of a truce agreement worked out by Knudsen and his associate director Sidney Hillman Representative Walter asked whether Knudsen wanted to recommend any legislation to pre- vent such situations as arose in the Mrs W J Pinkerton of was assigned to London as an officials said the force was completely equipped for im- mediate iront line service and would be dependent on Malaya only for fuel and rations Britain's China fleet Vice Admiral Sir Geoffrey Layton the arrival of the Mrs Ralph Antonelli of Ironwood Neslo Erickson of semer township Arthur Fertile Jack Hild of Ramsay Robert A Burns of Wakefield Elmer sen of Ironwood Resolutions Listed The following resolutions were adopted by the county That there be enacted all as a demonstration of the power to assure continued i co-operation between labor and in- dustry That there be increased facilities for adult training in skilled labor wnich enables us to station our forces where they are most needed It is a clear Sir Geoffrey declared of the growing as an aid tc national defense of the empire forces Adequate state financial aid which now need leave no portion schools improved formula for See 2 THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS Washington By RAY TUCKER and ad- vices from overseas bring word that Franklin D Roosevelt has super- Winston Churchill as diplo- matic and military chieftain of the arian forces The erican president has become tary of state and chief of the eral staff for the democracies It is a strange role for the head of a neutral but it springs from the fact that only the United States has the mazuma or materials for carrying on the struggle It was Mr Roosevelt who or to open the Burma Road to relieve the be- leaguered Chinese The British were torn between the choice oi appeasing Japan or aiding they bowed to Washington FDR also negotiated the deal by which Churchill agreed to turn over planes made here to Greeks His Willkie Hopkins Currie have toured the free world to encourage nations and to try to win over neutrals London and the Dutch now depend on our fleet to check further Japanese in Asia The president's friends naturally are happy over this world-wide of his prestige acclaim exceeding the tributes paid to Woodrow Wilson But they entertain private fears that his present role entails American of heavy responsibilities distribution More improved highways for the Upper Peninsula as a part of the national defense program and lhat WPA labor with increased wages be given preference in the ed program Urge Social Legislation Commend the state legislature and the state social welfare com- mission for expanding its to take care of all needy on direct relief and those eligible for old age assistance aid lo dependent dren sometimes called mothers and to the blind with the further recommendation that expansion of these programs be increased as funds are made available facilities should be increased to take care of the That adopt intelligent child welfare legislation That the modernization of the financial system of the state of Michigan be continued and the progress made to date be com- mended military attache Lieut Col- onel Allen J Kennedy is from liston Mass URGES GUAM DEFENSE Harold R Stark told congress today that policy on defense works for the Pacific island of Guam should not be dictated by any foreign power anf that any protest from Japan on the score should be totally Chairman of the house naval committee read the de- from the chief of naval operations as debate began on a naval base development program Defeated Last Year In his letter to Vinson marked that a similar project fo That's pretty difficult Knudsen replied You can make a law but whether he law will be obeyed is another thing Then he told of visits to France in when he said he found that the proprietor of a medium-sized auto plant had been locked up in his office for two weeks by workers who were sitting in the plant prepared lo a long stay That situation he said led to tin first attempt by the French govern to legislate labor ties out of existence Later worker were paid for 48 hours of worl when they actually were on the jol only 40 A year or two later Knudsen said this legislation was found to be detrimental Partial Approval He expressed belief that attempts to prevent work stoppages in de fense industries by overall legis lation might precipitate an inclus trial breakdown such as occurred in France At the same time Knudsen gave partial approval to a proposal bj j Representative Smith D-Va tore a cooling off period in em SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS Democracies Must Hang Together Senate Is Told Pretty Pattern of Death British bombers are making their heaviest raids on the invasion coasts these days This unusual picture shows a British Blenheim bomber over the seaboard of occurs a daytime attack on German bases over the seaboard of occupied Prance apparently during for provision of proof shelters for personnel and communications centers was de- by the house last year be- cause Japan might take offensive It is inconceivable to me that Japan could or would take offense See FAR 2 Mrs P E Anderson Came To Ironwood 54 Years Ago Mrs P E Anderson 85 one of early settlers died late Tuesday afternoon at her home at 139 South Curry street where she had lived for the last 49 years She came to Ironwood 54 years ago Mrs Anderson before her riage was Miss Caroline Gustafson She was born August 20 1855 in Socken of Sweden She came to America in 1886 settled first in for the war and the peace and the i was married to Peter E Anderson November 7 They moved in April 1887 reconstruction O P M may be forced to invoke its priorities ers as a result of the discovery that certain large manufacturers are chiseling on important contracts The alleged offenders cooked up a slick scheme to feather their nests but a secret study of their system of bidding has an- gered the national defense He died in March 1934 She is survived by four daughters Mrs Roscoe E Berg of Lakeland Fla Mrs John T Taylor of wood Mrs Minor Vandermade of Buffalo N Y now visiting Mrs Berg in Florida Mrs Arthur K Hedberg of Grand Rapids and one because of the son Luther A Anderson of wood Another son Abraham Bob died two years ago on February 13 The checkers have noted a are 15 grandchildren lous discrepancy in the offers of the j rs one of big Whenever the asks for bids on a job in- various items certain cor- apparently connive to grab off the gravy and to force the less profitable stuff on smaller ri- vals Tlie so-called sub- mit a fairly low and accurate bid on the preferable portion of the con- tract and an obviously stuffed or excessive estimate on the rest As rule the less desirable part of Sec 3 oldest members of the Mission enant church congregation and was active in the Ladies Aid society Funeral services will be ted Friday afternoon at the sion Covenant church Mrs Berg and Mrs Vandermade will arrive here Friday morning The remains may be viewed at the home tomorrow 11 a ten hours Commanding Officer h r f 2 John Murray saicl a severe gale and the time of the funeral J heavy fog caused the slow progress i i S disputes before a strike could be called Knudsen made the ii response to questions Asked whether he foresaw an substantial stoppages for the ture as a result of conditions now developing Knudsen replied in th negative We can only judge the future by what has happened in the he said and there has been ing very serious in the last six months or so He mentioned however that a new coal wage agreement coming up about April 1 Representative Walter asked at one point whether Knudsen believed an employer who does not comply with the national labor relations act should be blacklisted Would Be Desirable Certainly replied the ness gesturing with a pencil Questioned about proposals to ex- See 2 IMPOST Ell SEME Commissioner Would Be pointed By State Board Under Proposal controversial Post to make the state of agriculture the employe of the state board of agriculture was before the senate today with a com- recommendation it pass but the senate's Republican majority was reported divided over that The senate committee on ture yesterday revised the to meet constitutional objections raised by Attorney General Herbert J Rushton The committee eliminated sions giving the commissioner a f four-year term and giving the iJf e at j board the power to remove him for misfeasance malfeasance or nonfeasance It also changed the to make the commissioner an employe of the board and not an The official now is appointed by the governor Democratic senators expressed confidence the measure would nob pass the senate and several Re- publican members voiced the same belief The house yesterday passed and sent to the senate a appropriation to add new beds to new but unused state hospital units The would give Newberry state hospital to add 134 beds to its employe quarters The house passed bills permitting garnishments based on decrees providing for the of lands from cities and villages and ordering village ment rolls to be prepared by the first Monday in May Some Snow Predicted West Coast Texas Have High Temperatures The Associated Arctic blasts again kept the cury at sub-zero levels today in sections of the middlewest and brought temperatures to most of the northeastern quarter of the nation Sub-zero cold was felt in seven states with Minnesota and North Dakota reporting the lowest readings Continued cold and snow flurries were forecast for most of the northern states Before dawn the temperature was 27 below zero at Minn 25 below at Roseau Minn and Lake N D -17 at Watertown S D -10 at LaCrosse Wis -9 at Charles City Iowa and zero at me 111 Upper Michigan also had sub-zero readings Temperatures remained above normal on the Pacific coast in as and the Rocky Mountain region Among high temperatures reported yesterday 74 at Yuma Ariz and Miami 72 at Abilene 71 at Shreveport La 68 at Los Angeles 67 at Phoenix Ariz and San Diego Calif Maryland looked forward to its coldest weather of the winter as forecasters predicted a drop today The temperature fell to two above zero at Mount Baltimore was 21 above Highway crews battled drifts in western New York which suffered its worst snowstorm of the season yesterday Many country schools snowfall In Wisconsin too some rural schools were closed because of drifted side roads Snow drifts packed hard by high winds made some secondary roads impassable in western central and southeastern Wisconsin STORM SLOWS VESSEL coast guard cutter Escanaba her decks and rigging laden with ice docked here last night after a crossing of Lake Michigan that required 33 hours Boats usually make the trip Nazis Move War Supplies In Yugoslavia to Bulgaria HT GREECE BELIEF Open Convention at Granc Rapids Tomorrow to Nominate Candidates Grand mony as their keynote Michigan Democrats began a two-day con- vention here today with the tomorrow of candidates foi the April election as principal The forces of Governor Van Wagoner said it would be a love feast marked by complete ity of purpose and that the nor had been assured he would face no active opposition to his choice of a slate of nominees Only half-hearted campaigns have been waged in behalf of in- dividual candidates to date and for some posts there has been a lack of candidates that seems ing Rumor said Charles S rit state chairman and Gus ner secretary of the state central committee might face opposition for reelection but no rivals with organized backing had appeared Tonight the Democrats will Whoop it up at a banquet and other preconvention activities U S ator M Brown is to deliver the address Delegates looked to him for an expression concerning lend-lease legislation in congress and other phases of tional defense Inaugurates Campaign The banquet is the first outright statewide gathering of Democrats since Van Wagoner's election tory It is to be a combined bration and enthusiasm builder for the spring campaign Nine candidates are to be ated Van Wagoner has sent out word that he wants the tion of all incumbent Democrats whose offices will be at stake in the election and that he especially wants no opposition to the name of Kennedy who was his campaign manager Charles F Hemans of Lansing and Franklin M Cook Hillsdale are Democratic incumbents of the board of regents of the University of Michigan seeking Supreme Court Justices George E Bushnell of Highland Park and Edward M Sharpe Bay City also seek another term the justices are nominated in partisan political conventions See 2 Free You Can Cable Hitler Without Charge What You Think Of Him New Hitler self is the target of a message krieg being waged by Americans at the German ment's expense R C A Communications Inc said today hundreds of messages of varying vindictiveness are being sent collect to the German radio which provoked the blasts last day by requesting American com- ment on its programs And despite the fact that one of the first messages asked for a broadcast of Hitler's funeral and others followed in similar vein C P S picked up by last night an appeal for more opinions The German radio announcer who identified himself as Jackie Goodsell said in asking for tions that messages up to could be sent col- lect A message costs R C A said the messages were coming in so fast it had to double its force of telephone operators here yesterday A sample of the messages broadcasts of al Air Force bombings of Germany most welcome to Americans of the chancellory gaden and Signed The United Americans CASE SETS TODDY Tavern Operator Charged With Receiving Stolen Property of Joseph Spehar Erwin township tavern operator who is charged with receiving and aiding in the concealment of stolen property got under way in circuit this afternoon Spehar is charged with receiving cigarettes valued at which lad been the Co in wood Prosecutor Leonard J Manman charged that the ettes were delivered to Spehar and hat he had knowledge that they were stolen Germans Take Quick Ad- vantage of garia Treaty Belgrade Yugoslavia Re- ports of vast German war supply movements across Yugoslavia anci the drone of Nazi planes over Greece intensified pressure on Brit- ain's embattled little Balkan ally today to decide whether to continue the fight in Albania or talk peace on Italy's terms Long lines of sealed railway cars reliably reported carrying war terial were said to have crossed the Yugoslav frontier from Germany headed for Bulgaria from which a flanking attack could be aimed into Greece through Thrace and donia Diplomatic sources said the mans apparently were taking quick advantage of the new garian pact ed in some quarters as immobilizing in event of a Nazi thrust through Bulgaria and of an ment reportedly reached last week with Yugoslavia Hands Off Policy Ziga Sol Croat Peasant party member said yesterday that this agreement gave Germany the right to move war material through Yugoslavia and take a larger share of Yugoslav agricultural tion That Yugoslavia would maintain strictly a policy in any German move in Bulgaria was seen by some observers in reports from Sofia that Premier kovic who talked with Adolf Hitler last week probably would go to the Bulgarian capital to draft a re- affirmation of the garian agreement There was no official tion meanwhile of newspaper re- ports from Bucharest that King Boris of- Bulgaria had gone to Sec 2 TEW Connally Pleads for al Unity in Support of British Aid Hoover's Food Proposal Highlights Issue in War BY DEWITT MACKENZIE Herbert Hoover's new proposal or supplying food to Belgium with a view to determining whether such elief could be carried out on a large cale without Indirectly aiding many has emphasized an issue which will become increasingly con- as the heavy hand of war presses down on Europe Both London and Washington aave turned cold shoulders to this urther effort to secure relaxation f the British blockade That ring f steel is maintained for the of garroting Germany and taly though it is the misfortune f many little countries that through no fault of their own they havs been caught in it We haven't by any means heard the last of the efforts to send relief to Europe especially since the cations are that famine and dant disease will bear suffering and death to many regions by summer The Balkans are one of the grave danger spots and the fresh war maneuvers there will aggravate the situation The average person probably sub- consciously refuses even to debate the question of whether hungry folk especially little children should be possible The answer is yes See Reno Location Resident Succumbs at Ann Arbor Hospital Sidney Tremain 48 year old Reno location resident died suddenly last night at Ann Arbor hospital He had been in ill health for five years and was taken to the hospital in October Tremain was bora in 1892 at St Agnes Cornwall England and came to this country in 1910 where he resided 1913 at Baltic ton county He Ironwood in 1913 and lived here until October of 1940 He was married to Miss giana Champion on August 24 1916 at Ironwood Surviving In addition to his wife are one daughter Betty 16 and one son Douglas 22 both of Reno location two sisters Mrs Jane Bowden of Ironwood rnd Mrs Jabez Harris living in England and three brothers Stephen of Iron Mountain Arthur of and Samuel living in England Funeral arrangements have not been made FEARS AXIS DOMINATION Con- nally pleading lor tional unity in support of the ad- British aid told the today that the cies of the world must all hang together or they shall hang rately The tall Texan opened the third of senate de- bate on the legislation the assertion that opponents of the had engaged in specious ments with the charge that the called lease-lend measure would make President Roosevelt a tor Crowded galleries listened Describing the European war as this death struggle of democracy against ruthless Connally said the United States could not afford to be indifferent to the fate of those nations fighting the axis powers In foreign declared America should face the world as a united people In these high and important transactions we ought to prepare a solid front The democracies must all hang together or they shall hang separately Our own material interests our prestige before the world and our own domestic tranquility require that we meet this titanic issue with a single voice and a single purpose America must play the part of erica It must not fail Seek World Domination Citing Nazi statements about of a new world order Connally said it was his belief that the axis powers of Germany Italy and Japan hoped to dominate the world This compact of aggression and he declared is an armed threat to the security of the United States Great Britain with superb gallantry in a solemn pledge with fate is pouring out the Wood not alone of her soldiery but of her civilian population in the tide of world dominion To help Britain he said the proposes to furnish supplies and munitions but not men Connally said the charge made by opponents of the measure that i would make President Roosevelt a dictator was specious and chievous There is nothing in the measure he said that would give the president any authority over the lives or liberty of any can citizens Only Tax Power I he added that the stives the president no power over the property of a single Sce 2 ff 20 FOB 5 Iron County Inductees to Leave Tomorrow for Milwaukee Iron county's draft board was notified today that the county quota for March has been placed at 20 and that inductees to re- port at the Milwaukee Induction station on March 12 Five men comprising the ruary quota will leave tomorrow morning for Milwaukee where they will be examined by army cians The group is composed of two volunteers and three draftees Men who will leave tomorrow morning are Roy Clarence Roland Arthur Faul John Davis Edward U and Uno Avald Annala Madison Wisconsin will furnish men in the March draft call selective service quarters said today The state of- fice has mailed all local boards revised instructions showing the number of men each board will have to supply and the dates on which they will be called THE WEATHER UPPER Mostly cloudy tonight and Thursday with occasional light local snows east and portions not much change to temperature Fair and continued cold tonight and Thursday HIGH AND LOW Temperatures reported at official weather stations during the last 24 Miami Fla 74 Devils Lake N D -30 Maximum for the 24 hour period ending at 12 o'clock noon today -2 minimum for the same period -18
