The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 11, 1940, Page 1

AILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE N WS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LV., NO. 8411. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, MAY 11, 194() MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS DUTCH FORCES STOP GERMAN ADVANCE Shock DEFENDERS STAVE OFF INVADERS See-saw Battles Raging for Possession Strate- gic Poinis FIRST ATTACK MADE FRENCH MAGINOT LINE: Royal Air Force ls Said fo Have Destroyed 50 German Planes LONDON, May 11.—Dutch shock troops fighting in defense of their homeland have recaptured the air- dromes at The Hague and Rotter- | dam, it was officially reported today Bitter see-saw battles saw The Hague field change hands three times Dutch Foreign Minister Von Klef- fens, who made the announcement in London, declared that no air- dromes in The Netherlands now re- | main in the hands of German forces | and said that German forces on the | left bank of the Neitewe River at | Rotterdam have been crushed. On other fronts the Dutch and | Belgian troops are reported holding | the German army a short distance from the frontier. The French said | the first real German attack on the | Maginot Line was made today in the Moselle region neay East Luxem- bourg and has been repulsed. The British Air Ministry said !hnl the Royal Air Force has destroyed | at least fifty German planes and | put many othels ou& of acnon Many Killed In Air Raids dred French civilians were killed or wounded in German air raids over | France yesterday, is the official an- nmmu'mcn made this morning. BALKANWAR THREATENED | | | ROME, May 11.—It is reliably| reported that a large number of| British warships have arrived in| Alexandria, giving credence to ru- mors that the war may soon spread to the Balkan.s WELFARE BOARD Troops Join Britis h, French Forces CONQUERORS THREATEN AMERICA T00, WARNS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT DURING DAY WASHINGTON, ent Roosevelt last May 11. Pre night warned America that canquerors to “every mile of the carth’s sur- face.” The President disputed any contention that this hemisphere’s distance from Europe gives it a “mvstic immunit He questioned whether the New World could continue its policy aceful construction modern seek dominate over all the rest of the globe. American republics must pon- der this euestion decply and “act ity and singleness declaration, made last night, that aggression ad presents a “definite chal- ilization, h caused an expression of from the Presi- Stephen Early, newspaper sec- said that of several thou- sand telegrams, nine out of ev- ery ten were favorable while the rder disapproved, and g to Early this ten per cont favored peace at any price. FDR Buys a Poppy e T dresident Roosevelt purchases a Buddy Poppy from 7-year-old Betty PARIS, May 11—Over -one h‘”“‘ fane Van Loon, daughter of a deceased ex-service Wars open their annual campalg‘n for rel pies are made by former doughboys in governmen | f Forei, JSIap-and Scraich Season Will Soon be Here; Kiss 0f Death By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 11. — The slap-and-scratch season soon will be with us . . . and I figured it's high time we got into the middie of the mosquito situation. Wars may come and wars may go but the fall of the house of | Oslo dr)osn't .fl.rikc nearly as clo»r-\ to home mosquitoes on THE night you and man, as the Veterans lief funds, The pop- t hospitals, Packed Around 1_]“')( winged Rudy Vallees and Bm;h JCmsbys who vo-do-de-o-do abou ll‘ the summer night, trying to ;zct\ the ladies to pay them some mind.| And it's their little habit of going| where the female humming is | thickest that the Bureau of En- ‘tomolugy hopes will be their un- doing. The bureau is pushing a new electrical gadget which duplicates the siren love songs of the mos: | | | the Ardennes mountains. AMSTERDAM IS BOMBED ‘Alr Ralders Also Make Two Attacks on Brussels AMSTERDAM, May 11 Thl“ Dutch General Staff announced to- day that the British and Frénch | troops operating in conjunction with Dutch forces had stopped the Ger- man advance at the front. FOOTHOLD OF NAZIS LOOSENED | il |British Warplanes in Ac- | tfion Helping Hol- land Defenders ‘AL AIRDROMES ARE REPORTED RECAPTURED French Troomainlaining American Shlp Bears Scars of War German bombers sheiled the | center of Amsterdam today killing | lan estimated twenty. Stout defense | \(r:mps on the eastern frontier lines | | gave engineers time to complete the | | inundation and prepare flood water | defenses which will cut Holland in | half | | One bomb fell within 300 yards | of the Amsterdam post. office build- ling, demolishing dwellings in ils vicinity and the Dam Broad Plaza which is located near the seldom used and gloomy Royal Palace | It is reported that four German | planes were shot down during & | bombing attack of Amsterdam’s air- | ! port to the south of the city. The| | bombs set several small fires. i | [ BRUSSELS SHELLED BRUSSELS, May 11. — Brussels | was homhed, twice today while mc ‘Bclgmn army in a strong line uu-. | fense centinued to hold back thef German invaders. British and French troops sup- perted by tanks and artillery moved up to bolster the Belgian positions late today. A communique said the Belgians are continuing their fight | against the enemy on the Alber} | Canal, the Meuse River and also u.‘ | It was reported that several ai:| raid alarms were sounded in Brus- ! sels when an aerial battle took place | JAPAN INSISTS ;Staius Quo of Dufch East| over the Evers Airdromes | An earlier communique told of fighting between advance Belgian units and German troops in “several | places.” EASTINDIESTO BE UNCHANGED Indies fo Be Same Re- gardless of War TOKYO, May 11.—The Japanese Government, announced today that |it had notified all powers concerned that Japan will insist on a status quo of The Netherlands East Indies despite Holland’s involvement 1in | the BEuropean War. The Foreign Office said such noti- fications had been given to the Uni- ted States, British, French, German and Italian embassies and The Neth- erlands Legation. The action was taken after the cabinel made a decision that Japan | should state her position concerning the rich East Indies empire of The | Advance in Luxem- bourg Section | i (By Associated Press) ‘ The Dutch forces, aided by British | warplanes, have shattered the Ger- | man foothold in the Rotterdam sec- |tor. This is the officlal announce- |ment made this morning, as the 'result of peak action on the second |day of the great confligt, and has | loosened the Nazi invasion of the | lowland ocountries. |~ The Netherlands’ Foreign Min- ister reports that all airdromes | which the Germans seized yesterday in the lightning attacks by land and air, have been recaptured as the | forces of western Europe surged over the historic battlegrounds of the lands. o British Aetive British warplaics are reported op- grating behind thé froni lines of the invaders. German transport planes continue to drop soldiers by para- chutes on the lowlands. Indecisive fighting has swept along a 200-mile front. Brussels has been bombed twice during the past 24 hours by German planes. The French General Staff said French troops are “maintaining our advance” and Luxembourg outposts, deserted yesterday in the Moselle region, have -been reoccupied. The posts were abandoned when the Ger- mans hurled thousands of soldiers against the scant number of defend- ers. The divisions of the Germans, estimated at between 10,000 and 15,- 1000 soldicrs, made the Luxembourg | attack. The American freighter Flying Fish (top), buliet-scarred, 1s shown safely berthed at a- Jersev City pier after safely navigating dangerous waters from Norway. She was accidentally raked with bullets at Bergen in an interchange hetween German forces there and raiding British nlanes. Lower left shows Mrs. Aloha Malone of Detroit on hand to welcome her father, Capt. Waldo E. Wollaston, captain of the Flying Lower right is I‘Ill‘rl Stockl , ship's cook, who brought home a hamllul of souveniers—machine-gun bullets. Threat Made by Germany As Reprisal for Bombing 0fOne City in Reichland From Hitler The German command, from Hit- ler's secret headquarters, declared the Nazi forces are continuing on “swift, forward attacks” after pene- tration of The Netherlands, Belgium | and Luxembourg, and claimed three victories yesterday with the destruc- | tion of between 300 and 400 “enemy” planes on the ground and 23 more in the air in fights which cost eleven !'and perhaps sixteen German planes. The German communique also as- serts that a British battleship has been damaged in the Narvik section by air bombs, two merchant ships have been sunk and an “enemy de- stroyer” Pope Makes PeacePlea | | | | OLD FORT CAPTURED BY NALZIS le.ige Reporfed Taken in| Surprise Affack Made by Germans BERLIN, May 11.—“Three enemy | planes bombed” one city, Freiburg, 5 planes southwestern Germany, yesterday afternoon, killing 24 civillans, the German authorities said last night, adding that Germany will answer | five-fold. It is sai the bombs were dropped S in the center of the city. The communique further said: “As a reprisal for this action, which is counter to international law, the ia s BERLIN, May gium’s rong forts, strategic Leige, where the Germans were checked in 11.—~One of Bel- 11.—A French com afternoon says five were shot down this PARIS, Mny munique this German plane the best girl have gone to the laLel |for a picnic and a swim. quito femmes. When the young| Ou'-Of.Town Members Efl-; Sitting in Rock Creek Park Lhe‘m"" dash into the trap, the re- rouie m Juneau | other night, I slapped at a whin. | Sult is shocking . . . at least shock- | 5 | ing enough to kill the love-sick for Session ' | ing noise nearing the back of my X | . neck, It might have been the first| SWans. The theory is that if U | mosquito of the season. Like a,wholcsale electrocution system can Annual meeting-of the Territorial| Iplomat caught in s corner, it kvl-lll, o e;‘»"““" s, e ?ueemf'? Board of Public Welfare will con- |féfused to be interviewed. But ::u ’f;: EHhpeagee a"fl i ’; ene - Hinbes: Shon b just hearing it there gave m< an|f . RN eatus. JUs 8. gran Governor Ernest Gruening is|1de8 and I popped in on the Fed-| e g "“w ‘;“? rned from Chairman of the Board, John I, |¢rale Bureau of Entomology today.| “"‘S“N “ i s SiSat il walmer of Juneau is the Plrbt;They know more about mosqui-| - u'x:ea,\u,mot o}n'y ok he., gl; Division member, Enroute here to|0es than J. Edgar Hoover, Maf';:no.:,qm nee bc onl) e v.rama . attend the meeting are Howard|iin Dies, and the Army and Navy r:::n.me':m:r gxijr"uon: yde?aziyo e e combingd will ev w about| 2 7 : Lyng of Nome, who is aboard the {OMmbIn ever know bOUE| rr youwve merely had a nigat| steamer Baranof which left Se- out with the Culex and Aedes| attle today, J. G. Rivers of Fair-| For example, Kipling couldn'l|gins the bureau tells me, you | banks and Mrs. Clara McCutcheon | possibly have written with $0|peedn't worry. They are pests, it of Anchorage. ——————— FRANK WRIGHT IN TOWN the World War, is in the hands of the Germans, proving it * nmpletelyi defenseless against a surprise attack | by Germans.” { At the same time the DNB re- I Feli(i'afions Are Se n' 'o e Rulers of Present In- : vaded Countries authorized sources as claim= por Belgian and Holland air- | have been occupied by mm serman air forces as the new blitz- | Lknw continued definitely and suc-| pomE May 11.—Pope Pius, in I ‘messages to King Leopold, Queen The DNB admits German troops | wilhelmina and Grand Duchess are being strongly resisted by Bel- | charlotte, expressed a prayer gian and Dutch troops. “this stern trfal” in their countries g 405 and for early restoration of liberty and independence. Myron Taylor, President Roose- velt'’s personal emissary to ‘the Va- | tican, was among diplomats con- ferring with the Pope yesterday and today. afternoon while making raids over Northern Prance. This brings to a total of 49 German planes officially reported to have been destroyed on the one front during the past 43 hours. German air force will answer in the | same manner from now on and ev- lery further regular enemy bombing attack on the German population | will be answered five-fold on an | ‘L‘nglish or Frt‘ncl\ city.”* ARE STRUCK. BY BOMBERS >+ EARTHQUAKE : PHILADELPHIA, May 1]. — Oi- | | ficials of the Franklin Institute Is Organized & | day reported that the seismograpn By (hur(hl" had recorded a slight earthquake | to- BOMBER CRASHES MOSCOW, Idaho, A. E. Torrelle, Jr., of the Seventh Squadron, United States Army Air Corps, stationed at Sacramento, Cal., crashed to death when an attack | bomber hit a building in the business section, then hit the street and ex-| District Engineer M. D. Williams ploded. the Public Roads Administra- Torrelle was flying from Spokane | tion returned on the steamer Bar- to the Pullman airport on & circuit- |anof from hig v Inspection at ous route. Ketchikan. BUENOS AIRES, May 11.—Ar- gentine Minister to The Hague, Jose Llobet, informed his govern- ment late last night that the French, Brazilian and ~Argentine legations at The Hague had been |struck by Nazi bombs during an |air raid. } Llobet said in his communica- |tion that many people had been| killed or wounded during the raids. However, he gave no figures as to the number of casualties. hortly after 6 am (PST) The | center of the quake was said to have been 4,800 miles from Philadelphia, LONDON, May 11. — Great Bri- and probably “in the Aleutian Is- |tain’s new Prime Minister, Winston | 1ands.” Churchill, this afternoon announced ¥ the formation of a new Cabine; BUILDING PERMIT which includes Labor Party leaders,| A Ppermit to remodel her base- Major Clement Attlee and Arthur |ment for an apartment was granted Greenwood. | today by City Building Inspector | Lord Halifax is retained as Foreign | | Prank Metcalf to Jesta Timmer- Secretary, man, 525 10th Street. May 11.—Lieut. much Ieryorfl about the “female Of js trye, and can raise hob and| the species” being more deadlV ynops on the skin you love to | than the male, if he hadn’t had a|iouch and yours, too, but they | brush with mosquitoes. As a ma‘-| gon't do serious damage. Frank Wright, superintendent of ter of fact, it's the female mo: the Icy Straits Packing Company quito that's afflicted with blood-“l“q A CHANGED GALE at Hoonah, arrived in Juneau last|lust. | Edie Aedis and her clan used to| night and is stopping at the Gas-| |pack a kiss of death but science tineau Hotel. Mr. Wright will be THEY CROON OF here for several days on business, | The young men o TS Vi Sy ENGINEER RETURNS - LOVE f the tribe arr»\ (Continued on Fage Five)