The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 10, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8410. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1940, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 ] Another Lightni @ n CHAMBERLAIN RESIGNS AS PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN; CHURCHILL IN GREATFIGHT — LONDON, May e Chamberlain has resigned as Prime Minister of during the World War. He is 65 years of age. ROTTERDAM - PUTTING UP ( 1 | ‘r Germansmd in Para-| chutes and Large Sea- | Where Blaze Took Lives of 198 Negroes in e Natche: o day, Eu 'REICH FORCES SUDDENLY 'DASH OVER BORDERS INTO ‘THE NETHERLANDS, BELGIUM, LUXEMBOURG, BY LAND, AIR 4 THREE COUNTRIES INVADED BY GERMANS gOVVQarGSthuockéTc; S (4 & urope | Great Britain, ending nearly LABOR FORCES ISSUE | three years in office. LONDON, May 10—The Labor plane Transpons ST . Winston. Churchill, following | Exccutive Gommitte announced to- ' Demands Made that No Resistance Be Made fo Invas- the resignation of Chamberlain, is announced as successor. It was immediately announced |day that the Laborite opposition in Parliament will join a new cabinei, only “under a new Prime Minister.” | It was reliably reported that INVADERS MOVE INTO ion Immediafely Answ ered by Fighting - Swarms of Nazi Bombers Sweep Over Land Dropping Shells that Churchill desired “all Cab- inet members to remain at their s and discharge ‘their duties with full freedom and responsib- ility while necessary ments for the formation of a new administration are being made.” | Chamberlain had been rebuffed by | | Labor opposition in an attempt to draw it into a reconstructed Cabinet CENTER PART OF CITY e | Dutch Make Attacks, Back- 8€- | {hat Labor leaders declared it wasi ed by Ar””ery_Head_ | - Soldiers Landed by Parachutes, Also Huge Sea- plane Transporls ' (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Steamrellering the way into Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg by a combination of land and air forces, | that proved so effective against Poland, Norway and | “imposible” to serve under him | The form in which Chamberlain | made the offer to the Labor leaders | made it clear that he is willing to | resign if such would lead to the for- | Churchill, whose mother was an American, has been First Lerd of the Admiralty since the i | outbreak of the present war and is returning to the post he held " Billfo Withdraw from imaLion of a new National Govern- I ment satisfactory to all parties. Enry, Cerfain Alaska PublicLands, Dropped - | WASHINGTON, May 10.—Alaska | of navigable or other waters, Delegate Anthony J. Lumond said | be dropped for this session in view Representative Rene L. Derouen, | of Dimond’s opposition. Louisiana, - Chairman of the House Public Lands Committee, told him that legislation intended to withdraw from entry all public lands in Alaska within 80 rods of will | Delegate Dimond wrote members protesting, saying most of the Territory’s busines: would fall within the pmhibued‘:iv | areas. CONGRESSMAN STUDIES WAR; FINDS THATITIS PEACE THAT IS KILLER KeepingU.S. Out of War, SiLH Plan President Has Not Much fo| Say on Present Sit- uation Abroad WASHINGTON, May 10.—Presi- dent Roosevelt in a conference today with newspaper men said that there was no change in respect to keeping the United States out of the Europ- ean war. The President added that there was not much he could say abou’ the situation as it now spoke for it- self. TRY T0 FIRE NAZI VESSELS WILLEMSTAD, Dutch East In- dies, May 10.—Attempts of the crews of three Germah vessels to burn or scuttle their ships were frustrated here today. One Ger- man who resisted authorities was | reported killed. Quick action of the firefighters controlled the flames on the ves- sels Patricia and Alemania. R During the 1939-40 semester at Pennsylvania State College, stu- dent failures were proportionate- ly 12 times greater among those who had been “tail-enders” in high school than among those who led their high school classes, | | | | His audience was too small. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 10. A couple of Odontoglossum Alexan- | drae to Rep. John M. Vorys of | Columus, Chio. | The other evening at a social gathering, Mr. Vorys took the floor and demonstrated that he |is a master of satire, ( } { | | —although I'm sure I'll turn up missing with the broad humor of Mr. Vorys' personal appearance— I'm going to risk passing it on. Mr. Vorys' “lecture” was on “War and Peace.” Explaining that he was a famous professor, schooled in foreign affairs, Mr. Vorys let it out that he “accompanied” Un- der-Secretary of State Sumner Welles on his recent mission abroad. He could not “divulge” any of the | great Wellesian discoveries but with charts and figures he had prepared from observation and re- search, a few enlightening conclu- sions on war and peace might be drawn. NOW, THERE'S CHINA— Mr. Vorys started with the slaughter in China, where there is no official war. He summed up with the startling information (he made up the figures) that some 10,000,000 persons had been killed. Shifting to Poland, which never was officially at war with Ger- many, Mr. Vorys estimated that 300,000 had been killed there. Then, there was the matter be- tween Finland and Russia where another 250,000 spilled their life’s- blood on the field of battle — in spite of the fact that the two countries were not “at war.” Now, said Mr. Vorys, the scene has shifted to Norway, where Ger- many insists there is NO war. Al- though it is too early to estimate with any accuracy, it is safe w say that deaths there already have mounted into the many thousands. “Even in the United States, Mr. Vorys explained,—this great na- (Continued on Page Three) _|uttered a “flaming protest.” So man Army of the Air s |land and water defenses today, land- ing in parachutes and huge seaplane | transports at the western side of the | ‘nnuon and fought its way into pait | |of this seaport city. | | They occupied Waalhaven airport | |after first leveling it with a tremen- | | dous aerial bombardment and alight- ed on the Nieuwe-Maas river. The center of the city is occupied and a | |big bridge and the Maas railway |station is captured. | | Heavy fighting is going>on with ‘Dutch troops clinging tenaciously | . quarters Shelled \ i | to the right bank of the river which bisects the city, on the other side. | Holland's first line defenders are | resisting the German land army| "me}wmch entered the country along the | that * | teen miles to the vicinity of the Ijs- | Rhine and swarmed ahead some fif- 1 river near Arnhem. Doughty Queen Wilhelmina has British and French planes flew| |over the country before noon seek- ing the enemy. 1 FIGHTING FIERCE ROTTERDAM, May 10.—German jplane and parachute troops atwmpl-; |ing to fight their way through the |city, have been driven back in a| fierce encounter. They have hnrni forced into a dangerous position by | attacks of reinforced Dutch troops and pounding Dutch a¥tillery. Strong detachments of The Npth-! erlands Marines have made repeated | rushes into the enemy position alongi the river. | Incendiary Bombs | Incendiary bombs dropped on the Dutch have set fire to the large| | Maas hotel from which the Germans “were operating on the left bank. The | |fire is spreading rapidly, threaten- ing the thin lines of the Germans. | One German transport plane | alighting on the river was damaged | and sunk when rammed by a Dutch river boat. g SENATE KILLS SILVER BUYING POLICY, 45-36 Measure Must Now Go To| House; Ends 7 Years 0Of Purchasing WASHINGTON, May 10 — The| Senate, after a last-minute appeal| by Democrtatic Floor Leader Bark-| ley, passed the bill to halt Treas- | ury purchases of foreign silver and end the seven-year-old Admin—' “istration policy. The vote was 54 to 36. The measure now goes to the House for final vote. Senator Key Pittman made a proposal to continue. purchases but to require the sellers to use the proceeds to buy American farm products. This proposal was re- Jjected. Senator Townsend of Delaware declared that the policy had filled the Treasury vaults with 985 mil- lion dollars worth of “worthless sil- ver.” . - e - By the end of 1939 the total gold held by the United States exceeded 500,000,000 ounces. Here are interior and exterior views of the dance - 198 Negroes were nall in Natchez, Miss., ' HITLER IS IN COMMAND, WESTFRONT Fuehrer Leaves Berlin to Assume Personal Di- rection of Forces BERLIN, May 10.—Fuehrer Hitler | from has left Berlin to go to the Wester: Front to assume personal direction of military operations, the German High Command announces. The announcement said: “This is the beginning of a fight which decid- es the fate of the German nation for the next thousand years.” The Command also -claimed that units of the German Air Force had “successfully bombarded” airports in central and eastern France, and had completely destroyed the airport at Metz. Metz which once belonged to| Germany in Lorraine, is about 25 miles west of the German border. DEFENSE PROGRAM OF U. S. IS URGED SPEEDY INCREASE European War Brings Prompt Demands of Con- gress-Special Sessions WASHINGTON, May 10. — The spread of the European war brought demands in Congress today for a speedy increase in America’s dc- fense preparations. Senator Walsh predicted that the war would engulf “all Europe and we must redouble efforts to strengthen our defenses at every point.” Representative Ferguson advocat-‘““ anxieties to Japan concerning ed a secret session of the House the Dutch East Indies, according at which time Secretaries Wood-| 0 Yakichiro Summ, foreign office j | | | burned to death merrymakers. in a holocaust which trapped th 20 Precihds 2nd Division Make Refurns Bess (ross?&fnong High Four for Demacratic Representative NOME, Alaska, May 10. — Witn primary election returns received 20 precincts of the Second | Division, only one precinct remain- |art L. Stangroom 257, Sam Taggart| four hours and invaded the little ing to is as follows: Democratic For Delegate—Dimond 616. For Auditor—Boyle 414, Sheldun 146 For Attorney General—Grigsby 269, Roden 294. For Highway Engineer—Hesse 319, | Rivers 246. For Senator—O, D. Cochran 535. For Representatives — Clyde Cockburn 86, Elizabeth (Bess) Cross 274, Edna Fix 88, Eugene L. Kell 196, Fred Kubon 85, Howard Lyng 342, Wallace Porter 270, Tolbert Scott 216, W. Leonard Smith 298, Frank H. Whaley 3]2. Republican | For Delegate—Cole 227, Duker 93. For Auditor—A. H. Humpheries | 265, For Attorney Gencral—Harry McCain 265. For Highway Engineer —H. C. Miller 134, Irving McK. Reed 161 For Senator—Harry Egbert 280. For Representatives — Rollyn J Ball 232, John Hurley 170, Ludvig E. Ost 192, K. D. Rude 180, Stu- | G| 194. VIEW D POINT PLANES OVER REIMS CAUSE ~ OF BLACKOUT Air Raid Alarm Sounded, Anti-Aircraft Guns Go Info Action PARIS, May 10.— Anti-aircraft | guns went into action last night | | | | report, the unofficial vote|when German planes appeared over | the Saar region. The appearance of German planes caused a 45-minute air raid alarm and complete blackout of Reims. The air raid aarm was sounded lat 1:15 p.m. and remained in force |until 11 o'clock. No bombs were dropped. This morning it was officially announced that the French cities which were bombed during the night included Nancy, Lille, Lyon, Colmar, Pontoise and Luzuel. NAZI RU USH STARTED IN EARLY MORN Making a sudden aash, Germany started a new war in the last twenty- ccuntries of Belgium, Holland and | Luxembourg. Today the two lowland countries lart' fighting back fiercly against the | Nazi invaders who crossed the front- | ier to place them under the “protec- tion” of Adolf Hitler. The small, but well trained and F | 0 jApANESE‘\wH equipped Duteh and Belgium TOKYO, May 10.—German inva: sion of The Netherlands has broug! ring and Edison could tell Congress | spokesman, in a statement today. the exact state of the nation's mili- | tary and naval defenses. ) He said that Japan’s policy “strict non-involvement.” armies appeared to have halted the | ~ | plitzkrieg a few miles inside the eastern frontiers. A terrific battle is reported in progress with the de- fenders holding their ground while awalting British and French rein- | | forcements. ht is f Vtconiunuevd to Page Two) Denmark, armed forces of t Germany’s western horders attack of the present war. “protection” of their neut The German demand many’s invasion was in self forces. BELGIUM strength against Germany’ in an air raid on Brussels. Bombs fell on the rail King Leopold, the Third, of Belgium’s forces as did In one air raid by the been set afire. The German Army of t nation. airport after first levelling (Continued he Reich have “darted over along the broadest front of The German High Command states that Hitler is duplicating his lightning moves as played on Norway, Poland and Denmark and “success is already marked.” Hitler demanded that Belgium and Holland accept rality “without resistance” and the governments when informed of the demand, responded with armed resistance. stated pointedly that Ger- protection against the Allied MUSTERS Belgium immediately mustered the fullest military s lightning war. Two children were killed and 50 persons wounded 'vay station in Brussels, in the very heart of the Belgium nation. has taken active command his father, King Albert, in 1914, and ordered complete mobilization, APPEAL TO BRITISH FOR AID Both Belgium and Holland have appealed to Great Britain for aid in the present situation. Germans a hospital for the insane at Mortsel was bombed and reported to have he air has spanned a strong land and water defense of The Netherlands, landing soldiers by parachutes and huge seaplane transports in the vicinity of Rotterdam at the western side of the ROTTERDAM REPORTED OCCUPIED The landed forces have fought their way into part of the seaport of Rotterdam and occupied Waalhaven it with bombs in a tremen- to Page Two) REACTION INDICATED BY ALLIES Great Brifain, France May Refaliate to Bomb- ing of Civilians and France today warned Germany that it was possible that “appropri- ate” action may be taken to retaliate in the extent of the bombings of civil populations. ‘The British proclamation was ls- sued folowing a report that incen- | diary bombs were dropped at Chil- ham last night. Chilham is forty miles southeast of London. STATEOFWAR WILLEMSTAD, Dutch East ln—} dies, May 10.—The Governor of Dutch East Indies has proclaimed a state of war against Germany in the territory of Curacao, pos- ‘minn of The Netherlands. LONDON, May 10.—Great Britain | THE HAGUE REPORTED CAPTURED Germans Claim Capifal of Holland Taken Over Lafer Denial BERLIN, May 10—The Germaa | radio announced at noon today that | The Hague, Capital City of The | Netherlands, has been occupied by detachments of the German Navy. Tt is also reported that a fort near the Capital City has been seized. Units of flat bottom boats are be- ‘lng used on all flooded parts of the | Duteh coast line and on the Zuider Zee to reach the unflooded areas. The German High Command an- |nounced that troops have broken border resistance on the Belgian, Netherlands and Luxemborg fronts. CAPTURE DENIED THE HAGUE, May 10—German leaflets were today dropped from German planes. The leaflets told the residents of (Continueg to Page Two) -