Daily Globe (Newspaper) - February 21, 1941, Ironwood, Michigan KEEP AMERICA OUT OF IRONWOOD DAILY GLOBE THE WEATHER Snow flurries tonight and Saturday temperature about the same VOLUME 22 ASSOCIATED PRESS LEASED WIRE NEWS SERVICE IRONWOOD FRIDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 21 1941 12 PAGES SINGLE COPY 5 CENTS U S BRITAIN GET JAP WARNING Don't Strip U S of Senate Told in Aid Debate Gillette of Iowa Declares All Resources Needed for Selves ALSO FEAR DICTATORSHIP Washington IP Carrying on the fight against the British aid bJH Senator Brooks de- clared today that it represented a leap toward dictatorship which would involve us in active sonal fighting participation in war Brooks in an address prepared for senate delivery said that tors could not shirk their by giving President velt the powers contained in the legislation The blood of American boys will be on your he asserted The blood of America belongs to America and to her defense to the last drop Senator Gillette also opposing the told the senate that United States defenses now are so inadequate that only by the utmost exertion and use of all our resources and ingenuity can we prepare for the future The British aid he contended would further deplete these de- fenses by permitting the transfer of existing war equipment and by channeling new production toward Britain and her allies Give What We Can Spare Brooks making his first formal speech in the senate said he ored helping Britain by giving them whatever we can spare out of our present production from now on of war He said he not dissipate another ounce the present inadequate of America The Illinois senator said he wanted Britain to win because he believed it would serve the best interests of the United States She didn't do a very good job See 2 British Land Strong Army in Singapore Australian soldiers of the type landed in Singapore for the first time in history as Great Britain made the move to prove she was ready for action in the Pacific The men were rushed to kev defense positions in Malaya NBA Telephoto THE NATIONAL WHIRLIGIG NEWS BEHIND THE NEWS Washington By RAY TUCKER Hill have completely their original strategy as a re of the first few days of ex- plosive debate in the Senate While still dubious as to their chance of defeating the Lease-Lend they believe that they have forced Ad- ministration forces into an rassing position From the lips of several White House ley Pepper and G O Austin have dragged the admission that they favor American tion in the war to destroy Within a few minutes at a House Committee hearing Jesse H Jones put the country into the war and then took it out again when he realized the damage his revelation might cause In talking friends Wendell Willkie has expressed his hope for establishment of a United States of Still other members of the President's personal and official family have uttered even more warlike remarks The opponents of the all-out aid to Britain program will concentrate on piling up these admissions ing the rest of the debate They think that eventually they may con- vince the American people that the Lease-Lend means inevitable involvement including a new erican Expeditionary Force CONDITION Wendell Willkie's demand that Joe Martin hang on as Republican National Chairman the popular Bay topnotch party until they learned the inside story In view of G O P resentment against the 1940 candidate's recent activities they feared it might cast Joe in the role of a Willkie batman But it so happens that all the other candidates have privately ed Mr Martin not to resign on March 24th Alf Landon made the request when he was here for the Gridiron dinner several months ago Tom Dewey spent an hour with Mr Martin when he came here to ad- dress a Lincoln Day gathering and Insisted that the Massachusetts man stick along On the same day that Mr Willkie spoke out Bob Taft of Ohio told the House Leader that for the sake of Party harmony he must not quit Mr said also that Ohio's Hollister and David S not object Six Governors prominent in the G P have voiced similar advice These factions are See 3 Tavern Operator Found Not Guilty of Receiving Stolen Goods circuit court jury yesterday acquitted Joseph Spehar Erwin township tavern operator of a charge of receiving and aiding m the concealment of stolen property Members of the jury were Mrs Alice Carlson Bessemer Mrs An- ton Ironwood Michael Ironwood Fred Drier Wakefield township Andrew Forti Wakefield Sid Harris Ironwood Hjalmer Hill Ironwood township Mrs Harriet Lascody Bessemer Matt Sr Erwin township Herman Ironwood ma Sands Ironwood Thomas E Sullivan Ironwood The jury re- turned its verdict at p in ter being out one hour Spehar was charged with ing and aiding in the concealment of worth of stolen rettes The defense contended he had been asked by Herman Enebak one of the men pleaded guilty to stealing the cigarettes for mission to store some furniture in an outbuilding on his premises and that he was not aware that len cigarettes had been brought there The defense contended Spehar had no knowledge that the properly brought to his place was stolen property that he had no felonious intent when the property was brought there that he did not store See 2 Ironwood Barber Veteran of World War Dies Suddenly George LeTendre employed or the last five years as a barber at the Frank Mayer shop here died suddenly at last night at his home at 101 Birch street Although his health had not been good since an illness while he served in the army during the World War death was unexpected He worked day as usual Mr LeTundre was born in hawk Wis Before coming to wood he operated a barber shop in Hurley for a year and prior to that worked at Rhinelander He served two years in the army during the World War one year of this time in active service in France He is survived by his wife the former Catherine Sybeldon of ley one daughter Marianne three brothers Eli of Minnesota City Minn Louis and Joseph of rill two sisters Mrs Fred Copes and Mary of Tomahawk The body will be at the bonneau funeral home in Hurley until the funeral which is planned for Monday ing at 9 o'clock at St Ambrose church Burial will be in the ley cemetery Mr LeTendre was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Senate Group Favors Arms Contract Quiz Washington The senate military committee today mended a sweeping investigation of contract letting in the lion dollar national defense gram The committee sent on to the senate a resolution calling for pointment of a special committee of seven senators to make a full and complete study and tion of the operation of the gram for the procurement and con- struction of supplies materials munitions vehicles aircraft sels plants camps and other cles and facilities in connection with the national defense The resolution by Truman recommended that be given the investigators with broad powers to require testimony of nesses and officials and conduct hearings One senator at the closed com- session said the only ad- verse vote was that of Chairman Sheppard who explained he wanted the investigation made by the military committee rather than a special senate committee Deadline for Filling Out Home Defense Forms Set For Tomorrow All Michigan and Wisconsin World War veterans today were urged by their post commanders to register and fill out questionnaires prepared by the American Legion before the deadline tomorrow Washington's birthday This in no way increases the ob- ligation of any veteran and is en- tirely voluntary Post officers have been ed at Legion headquarters to aid veterans in answering questions which will be used for classifying men for home defense service as adopted by the 1940 American gion national convention Pest officers of Ironwood post No 5 and the Edward L post will be stationed at their quarters tonight and Saturday and Saturday night to aid veterans SEfl MSI Say Submarines Now Tied Up in Preparation Planes Sink Ships Aus land a source close German of- said today that Nazi sub- marine were sinking comparatively few British ships because many of the crews now are ed In preparation for the big of- fensive which Hitler The commentary's reference was to the fuehrer's ary 30 speech on the eighth of his rise to power Hitler sea U-boat warfare will be- gin this spring and our opponent will realize there also that we haven't slept Hitler also declared in that Let there be no deception about one Whoever believes he can help England must at all events know one ship with or without convoy that comes within range of our torpedo tubes will be Luftwaffe Sinks Ships About tons of British ping were blasted yesterday by man informed Nazies re- ported today and all thrusts against British shipping were credited by the high command communique to the Luftwaffe Dienst recalled that communiques in the first 20 days of February ed tons of British shipping as destroyed of which only tons were by Under Berlin Dienst as its first conviction that intensive U-boat warfare in connection with mass attacks of the Nazi and overseas naval units would make deadly ation of the English island possible As its second it said big success is expected from air war over land against armament works See 2 CASEY'S BROTHER DEAD Wabash Ind Jeremiah Casey 93 a brother of baseball's immortal Dan hero of Casey at the Bat is dead here He was in- jured in a fall down the cellar steps at his home two weeks ago Casey a retired railroad bridge worker played league baseball in his Doris Sullivan in U P Winter Queen Contest Miss Doris Sullivan Ironwood 1941 winter carnival queen left this morning for Marquette where she will represent Ironwood at the per Peninsula carnival today and Sunday and will enter competition with other Upper insula towns queens for the title of Queen of the North The wood queen was provided by the winter carnival committee with complete formal skating and ing attire for the events which she will attend in tions dinners skating and skiing events and the Snow Ball Friday night at the Northern State ers college Mrs L J Cartwright of the Ironwood winter carnival tee accompanied Miss Sullivan as chaperone Others who left for this morning are as Webb Gogebic Junior college student whose home is in and Mrs Felix Wotila Frank Romano left yesterday and will attend the carnival events William Burns president of the Upper Peninsula development reau Walter Ray vey and Fred McAllister are all in Marquette this week end to attend development bureau meetings They left yesterday Earl Minkin ident of the Central Ski tion will go to Marquette day Pitt Appeals to United States for Help Before It Is Too Late RESOURCES HERE SPENT By LLOYD LEHRBAS Greek it was learned today has made a second urgent appeal to the United States for help for it is too late The result has been to start de- fense officials on a fresh canvass of available supplies in search of craft that can be spared to force the Greeks in their struggle with the Italians Greece's renewed plea for the sistance promised by President Roosevelt some time ago reached here during the last several days It arrived just before the signing this week of the pact which may ter the Balkan status quo anci ex- ert a decisive effect on the military and political future of Greece Cimon P the Greek minister conferred with Un- Welles yesterday but both refrained from statements on their talk The problem of finding planes for Greece is admittedly beset with for aircraft factories ready are loaded with orders for the army navy Britain and China The question however was under- stood to be under study by the navy department and the national de- fense priorities board In January after the Greeks had tried everywhere without success to obtain new planes the navy offered to make available 30 fighters from the aircraft carrier The Greek government however held a decision pending renewed forts to secure newer and more heavily armed ships Hardships Arise The Greeks seek to buy the planes it was said and are still hopeful of securing them from manufacturers by inducing the army navy or Britain to priority rights Diplomatic sources reported meanwhile that Greece faced mounting difficulties under the ere strain of carrying on the war against an Italy Financing the war has proved a terrific burden the reports said and already the Greeks have spent or pledged their gold re- serves in the United States for war supplies foodstuffs and vitally needed raw materials Severe rationing is in effect it was reported and greatly reduced imports and distribution have ed widespread hardships and some undernourishment especially among the poor Canadian Editor Questions Ability of U S to Con- It Des Moines In the light of mounting preparedness ex- a Canadian editor day questioned the ability of the United States to maintain a farm program which already has cost four billions G V Ferguson Winnipeg Free Press managing editor raised the question in an address at the ing session of the fifth annual National Farm Institute He contended in his prepared address that any farm program that depends on national grants of that magnitude is bound to be in peril once national needs that are more urgent become and added that such needs have now appeared It is he said that if we are going to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to farmers for millions of bushels of wheat that are at this moment needed by nobody and that nobody wants to buy we are going to retard and decrease the size of our military efforts Ferguson said that the United States is trying to do something that no nation has ever successfully You are trying to prepare for total defense without damage to your normal way of life It is as sure as sunset that this is sible Something will have to give way Touching the same point in his prepared address on the kind of an economic world we are Davis There is no possibility whatever that we can maintain in a war economy either business as usual or consumption as usual or that we can live in the style to which we were accustomed in a peace omy ALFONSO GRAVELY ILL described the condition of former King XIII of Spain as grave today They said he spent a restless night ing which he suffered another heart attack Litvinoff Out Of Communist Central Group Moscow The Communist party removed former Foreign Com- Maxim Litvinoff and three others from the party's central com- today for failing their ies and warned the heads of seven commissariats that similar action would be taken against them unless their work improves Litvinoff a supporter of the League of Nations and collective security was supplanted on May 3 1939 by Premier toff who subsequently negotiated the Russian pact with Germany The party congress now in sion here served notice on M M Kaganovich former head of the aviation industry that unless his work improves in his new post and he fulfills the tasks entrusted to him by the party government he will be removed from membership in the central committee and from responsible posts Similar warning was given to M P Denisoff commissar of the industry I P munitions S S Dukelsky sea transport 2 A river transport A A Ishkoff fisheries and V V electrical in- New members appointed to the committee today included V G ambassador to many Otto head of the Finnish Peoples government ing the war and now leader of the party in the new Soviet republic and four others Meeting at Cairo Fore- shadows Developments In Balkans Africa BULLETIN Ankara of- Turkish radio broadcast reports tonight that Britain is large forces in North Africa for urgent dispatch to Greece The radio If this is so it means the British either want to establish a Balkan front against many or prevent Greece from being rushed by German threats into an untimely tice on the recent lack of news on British tions in Libya the radio said the British may be holding these forces in readiness for instant call to Cairo Egypt Far-reaching decisions on British war policy were forecast today as Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and General Sir John Dill chief of the imperial eral staff began a first-hand vey of the situation in the middle east Informed sources attached the greatest to the arrival of the two British leaders here when developments in both the Balkans and Africa appear to be Hearing a crucial stage The presence of the British als all but overshadowed reports of current activities on the African war fronts Today's RAF communique was confined to the announcement that continued support was being en land forces on the fronts the report of a raid on Massaua chief port of Eritrea and of another axis air at- tack on Bengasi in Libya Before Pact One of the Bengasi raiders was reported shot down in flames by anti-aircraft fire and its entire crew killed The loss of one British plane was acknowledged At Massaua a number of grounded Italian planes were said to have been damaged British circles were quick to point See 2 MINISTERS NAMED sevelt today nominated Pierre L Boal of Pennsylvania counselor of embassy at Mexico City to be minister to Nicaragua He also nominated Wesley Frost of tucky lately counselor of embassy at Santiago Chile to be minister to Paraguay Nazis Foster Crisis Washington Believes President Roosevelt Irked By Disclosure of Far East Testimony Washington The belief spread in some congressional cir- cles today that the administration regards the tense Far Eastern as something made in many The administration in the ion of these legislators has reason to that Berlin has been ex- erting pressure to get Japan into the present war then embroiled with the United States In the Far East in order to hamper the tish aid program This interpretation of the recent abrupt turn of events in the Orient was one reason it was reported why the decision was taken to dis- patch immediately a number of the latest army and navy planes to re- American air strength at Pacific bases When General George C shall army chief of state testified yesterday at a secret session of the senate military affairs committee one committee member said he left the impression that these were legitimate conclusions Marshall was said to have told the committee that he considered the situation in the Far East President Roosevelt said today he considered the disclosure of what was intended to be secret testimony by Marshall as hurtful to national defense i Prescient Raises Question The president told a press con- ference that it raised a question of ethics morals and patriotism oh the part of committee members and editors publishers and ers who printed reports of testimony executive said it was a question for the American people to consider At the conclusion of lengthy questioning on the subject he said it was purely a voluntary matter that he was not thinking about censorship but that he was merely putting it up to the people as a nice question to think about When Japan signed the power axis pact last September of- here construed the alliance primarily as an attempt by many and Italy to create the threat of war in the Pacific and thereby impede the flow of American aid to Britain while at the same time lowing Japan freedom for sion in Asia Two weeks ago in an apparent answer to reported axis efforts to involve Japan in war with the Uni- ted States President Roosevelt told his press conference that such a conflict would not reduce American help to Great Britain Mr Roosevelt declared at that time however that he saw no danger of an war Mr Roosevelt said today he was interested in the problem of ethics and ho thought that the American people should be interested for the same reason Some Things Secret In times of world upheaval he added there were certain things regarding the defense of the Uni- ted States that it was advisable to keep secret He emphasized it was only that it became necessary for defense officials in the inter- est of national safety to appear in a confidential capacity before con- gressional committees He said there was not much new in such appearances as the tice had been going on since 1776 but that the problem of keeping this testimony from the public still lived The president said that there were various stories on what shall was supposed to have said but that they all differed from a memorandum he had on his desk from the chief of staff what actually was told the committee Mr Roosevelt refused In re- sponse to further questions to dis- close the actual testimony saying with a smile that would be com- pounding a Blames the Editor Asserting he was not criticizing reporters for trying to get the story because that was part of their job the president did say that he the ethics of editors and publishers in printing such mation He added broadcasters to the list in answer to a query See FAR 2 U S Attitude Stays Nippon's Hand in Pacific By DEWITT MACKENZIE The situation in the far east re- mains tense and therefore but there is hope that reason will prevail and that nobody will shoot until he sees the whites of his enemy's eyes by which time shooting may not be necessary The chief deterrent to an val at the moment as I pointed out is the firm attitude and preparedness moves of the United States Japan's greatest fear is that we will be drawn into the conflict Thus it is legitimate for us to say that one of the most powerful defenses of Britain's great naval base at Singapore is America's moral and material support of the cause against the axis of which Japan is an appendage That fact should give some faction to those who have the strange idea that John Bull is ing on his broad back hot only his own burdens of defense but all those of the United States Uncle Sam doesn't need to apologize for the weight he is pulling and under- taking to pull The Tokyo newspaper day exposed one of Japan's greatest anxieties in connection with ca's attitude The paper said that the United States is preparing to resort to economic blockade Sec Z Foreign Minister Says Creating Situation Minister Yo- suke Matsuoka told Japanese today that continued de- fense preparations by Britain and the United States in the South would produce a situation at- tended by considerable danger Japanese news agency quoted the foreign minister as ex- pressing hope in a lengthy interview that the Anglo-Saxons would re- frain from taking any tending to excite Japanese public opinion Simultaneously he reiterated a denial that sent an offer of European mediation to London He said he merely dispatched a communication to British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden in which he gave a very frank reply to questions Eden had asked the Japanese ambassador to don Mamoru Shigemitsu The newspaper Chugai asserted meanwhile that British United States against pan had assumed a positive phase to thwart Japanese negotiations in the East Indies and added that the United States was planning to blockade Japan The paper said it had confirmed to its own satisfaction that mors of a crisis in the Far East ill-willed propaganda of tish source Fears Blockade Circulation of these rumors was followed by concentration of tish defense forces in Malaya the laying of mines around Singapore and the concrete shaping up of American defense activities in tha Far East it said Chugai Uni- ted States is preparing to resort to economic blockade operations against Japan There is no need of ican defense preparations in the South Seas because Japan has ken no action which should cause Britain or the United States to feel Matsuoka said I consider it not only sary but regrettable that there should be any such action on the part of Britain which would en- dorse the British propaganda cry of wolf when no wolf is at the door I think that those in charge of diplomacy should endeavor to such illusions and should take proper measures to other countries from resorting any preparation based on an sion which is unnecessary and tetes both parties Not U S Defenses The interview with the press was along much the same as a statement by da to foreign correspondents Other newspapers a chorus of critical on what is called here the economic and strategic ment of in which the main roles are given the United States and Britain assisted by tralia and the Dutch East Indies Asahi gave prominence to a New York dispatch declaring that the United States immediate concern ia to check Japan's southward ad- vance Outstanding instances of the dispatch said are the for reinforcement of defense equipment on the islands of Guam and moa and other Pacific bases passed Wednesday by the house of and the executive order barring entry into strategical bases in the Pacific The Asahi made several ces to tion in the Pacific Foreign Minister Yosuke ka held a press conference lass night to deny that he had offered to mediate for world peace Did Not Make Offer London dispatches Wednesday said the British government had in- formed commons that it had ed a special message from Japan Offering to mediate in the war As foreign Matsuoka said I never offered mediation to any nation in the world for tion of world peace I replied to an inquiry by Brit- ish foreign secretary Eden ing matters relative to Japanese See 2 THE WEATHER UPPER Snow ries tonight and Saturday no de- change in temperature Partly cloudy night and Saturday snow flurries extreme north tonight colder night except extreme northeast EXTENDED FORECAST to p m February 26 Central dard The temperature will average below normal with only small fluctuations Frequent light snows accumulating to moderate amounts during period on leeward shores of Great Late HIGH AND LOW Temperatures reported at official weather stations during the last 24 Fla 74 Devils Lake N Dak -24 Maximum for the 24 hour period ending at 12 o'clock noon today 11 minimum for the same period i
