The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 13, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA “ALL THE N ALL THE TIME” MPIRE VOL. LVI, NO. 8412. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1940, MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 NAZIS ADVANCE IS SLOWED BY ALLIES GREATEST OF FIGHTS PREDICTED Great Britain Gives Out Warning HOUSE OF COMMONS CALLED IN SESSION German Officials Also Forecast "Gigantic Battle” Looming LONDON, May 13—Winston Chur- chill, Prime Minister of Great Bri- tain, told the House of Commons to- day in a suddenly summoned ses- sion, that a conflict on the lowlands is “rapidly approaching one of the greatest battles in history.” Churchill warned that there are many, many long months of suf-‘ fering and struggle ahead.” | The Government was given a u- nanimous 381 vote of confidence. NAZI PREDICTION TOO BERLIN, May 13.—German offic- ials here predict a “gigantic battle” which looms on the Western Front especially in the lowlands and also along the Maginot line. The official statement is also made that for every Nazi parachute soldier | killed in violation of International Law, ten Allied soldier prisoners will{ be shot. | The term is used on account of a| statement received here that French | Premier Reynaud said yesterday in| Paris that Nazi parachuters, dis-| guised as Dutch and Belgian soldiers were dropping from parachutes. These disguised soldiers, it was said | have been found wearing other than | German uniforms. | The German High Command brands the statement as a lie. ‘ ATTACK, CLAIMS HUDSON BAY IS OPENBACKDOORFORAN UNITED STATES Modern bombers based on Hudso: Author H. D. Carter says the waters are open the vear around. Bay is the world’s second largest sea (largest: Mediterranean). no further north than the British Ryan Not o Take Office Unfil Feb. 28 " VGREENLAND n Bay could range over this area. Hudson It lies Isles or Scandinavia. AP FEATURE SERVICE “Nerth America can be at- tacked tomorrow. Canada can be smashed into helplessness at one blow. The United States | could hardly be quickly van- | quished, but her boasted secur- ity is nothing but empty con- fidence that could be exploded | with terrifying consequences, | and this may happen with the | mext rising of the sun.” FDR SEEKING ' MOREMONEY FOR DEFENSE }Perhaps Quarter of Billion Dollars Will Be Ask- ed Congress WASHINGTON, May 13.—Presi- dent Roosevelt plans to send to Con- |gress this week a recommendation | for more money for National De- | fense, Secretary Stephen Early said. | No specific amount has yet been decided on but the President is hold- | - ing a series of conferences with his defense advisors starting today. Already pending before Congress | are requests for upwards of two bil- | | lion dollars for defense requirements | for the year starting July 1 | Perhaps half a billion more dol- | lars for National Defense will be re- | | quested. -oo ITALY NOW ~ PREPARING | | ~ NEW LINES | Fortified Pbsilions, West- ern Alpine Frontier, ‘ Strengthened ROME, May 13.—-In the midst of | the rising anti-Allied campaign,| Italy is busily reinforcing the Lil- | [torio Line of fortified positions |along the western Alpine frontier| facing France. | Italy has called out reservists to reinforce army of 1,250,000 men. Heinkel type He. 114 seaplane. additional | the spresent | Scandinavian A major expression of anti-Allied | sentiment was given in a demon-| REICH'S SEAPLANE F e SLIM EMISSARY OF DEATH—Germany's Dornier Do. 17 bomber (above) has a maxi< wum speed of about 310 m.p.h., a range of 1,500 miles. Plane has span of 59 feet, length 52'2". g 7 1G H T ER—Few detalls are available concerning above German It's a reconnaisance craft for catapult oneration from snrface ships.! Ore Wanted 'K STINNETT By Reason Given Why (iermamyw New Adof Shot the Works on North; Neutrality Procdaimed President NGW_I ncludes TWO FORCES PUT CHECK ONGERMANS |Moforized Troops, Bomhs | from Air Are Aiding % Defenders BATTLE FRONT EXTENDS " DISTANCE OF 300 MILES PreIiminarm Great Con- | flict Starfed, Says i Frenchman BULLETIN—PARIS, May 13. | —The French military spokes- | man annocunced this afternoon that the German advance | through southern Holland and | Belgium appears to be checked | and the “great battle of the west” has started but is still in a preliminary stage. The spokesman explained that | he meant the advanced Allied | motorized forces and Allied avi- ation forces, supporting the Dutch and Belgians in Belgium | and southern Holland have | slowed up the Nazis, pending | reinforcements of more Allies at the new front. BULLETIN — BERLIN, May 13—~The DNB, official German news agency, reports.the Ger- man armies, sweeping into the lowlands, have captured 18,000 Dutch soldiers at one peint and at another point in South Holland, a Duich Gen- eral and his Staff have been taken prisoners. VIOLENCE REDOUBLED & PARIS, May 13. — The French High Command says the Germans are attacking in both Holland and Belgium with redoubled violence A | 0 . , | This Jeremiad is preached DY | iiation late Saturday that took 500 | : s . e and a major onslaught is develop- 3Board S A(hon Favo[mg‘li. Dyson Carter, a Winnipeg con-| g giers and police to protect I.hrl umanla : ‘,’{‘.’.’”.’N(,'.I_‘.W_‘,M,'."\ ,:Z{l EE f:: l. N ti ing as expected in an attempt to 5 1 S |sulting _enginecr and author, in|Briitl™ 2 prench embassies here answer to Germanys vital depen- | Three Lafe st Nalions |, Sedge aowsen the Beisian For' le' e | Umversny Is New |“Sea of Destiny.” Just published | fom mobs protesting British and | o To Be Invaded nd Dutch defending armies, also g | . (by Greenberg). French control over the Mediter- { moved fifa ’v’ S tondiid olass.| 0 be Invade |a move to drive south. | Regu'ahon The sea he speaks of is Hudson |ranean. | as ew {151, BRI S S D P 4 No Allied statew ‘Aade. #ha N lT k | hedds [Bay, which he calls America’s e s S } ;:”‘ “"; W““li“ 30 mi’l‘“sxd”‘l_ : WASHINGTON, May 13—Presi-|garding the German unnouncement | 8 |back door, wide open and invit- | There bhas been much ldealistic| gont Roosevelt has expanded the|that the northern part o a enl Dr. James C. Ryan, newly 8p-|ing any enemy. | H telk from both Jmidee whout """lxvrnvious menittality ' prociamations | Netherlacilh It T wed hanis ipomted Territorial Cmnu‘usmonr‘r} Carter'’s book is based upon a Ine tecting the weak, It is chaff. Ger-| ¢, jhelude Belgium, The Nether 300-Mile Battle Front g | of Education, will take office mx"p(-rwnal observation and study, - many knows it, and the Allies|jan4s and Luxembourg. Early this morning the battle- renc a February 28 at the expiration "[;hut he says experts have agreed B know it. | In the new proclamation, the|field extended from the North Sea the term of Anthony E. Karnes.| .. many of his conclusions. | The “30" in the problem is (;rr-jpl.esm,‘,,,, has applied the pro-|southward to the Swiss border The term is for four years, Drj Defended by a Pistol COI "(uzu Grea' S"a'e_ many's annual demand for ion|yisions of the Neutrality Act to|through Belglum, Holland and Lux- ST Ryan was “"‘M'}‘M the annuall wguqson Bay,” he says, “is the ' A . ore. Germany needs 30,000,000 those countries as well as the bel-| embourg and along the Moselle- Deny Nazn Siafemem fl’om{m““““ of the Territorial Board| ., apnq the coast our admirals ng', Has Three Ch|ef tons of iron ore a year to main-|jigerents, Rhine ffont, on what is termed a 3 = | of Education in Anchorage la“'“‘rorgm on paper. Hudson Bay is Siiieh (s tain her economy. The President has sent a message | 300-mile front. Hitler's Western an' wook. the perfect attack base from | Ministries The is the crux of the des- |y, King Leopold and said that the Air Force Active Dr. Ryan received his elementary which raiders an paralyze the il perate situation — the 22,000000] paople of the United States hoped| In The Netherlands, Sunday, the Headquarfers education in the public schools.|nerve centers of all Eastern and o o BUCHAREST, May 13—The old ;fln'vl U:Ir"nany must get outside|that the “policies which seek 1o|British Air Force made its power | He was graduated from high school | Mid-Continental America, . la R od 7 .| her borders. | dominate peaceful independent peo- | felt by helping to check the Ger- (By Associated Press) }in Oklahoma and was graduated| “East, West and South, we are Fre"(h C'alm Hlllld!ed51f":‘;’e’g’_f;fi’,‘;nfin‘t"fi:mfi l:;:d},::(_ No war can be fought w"h"u'-‘pl("i through force of military ag-}man c}i’rlve l:,ygsm,mng and bomb- The French War Office disputes;_lmm an Oklahoma Normal School|secure, provided our one-ocean H B Sh 'D mier Tatarescue, has promised the steel. Armor - plate, shells, BUNS, | gression may soon be arrested.” ing supply and troop transport {he announcement from Hitler's |} 1920. He holds a Bachelor of | navy is not divided by a double ave een 0 own | natsan “guard the frontiers with motors, aln}». gll require steel in £ >oo trucks. However, the Germans Western Front Headquarters thm;sdence degree f_rom Teachers’ Col-| attack. But the northern sea, with | D r- P 'w greater vigilance than ever. gunnuty ?crt:unlyv the war has claimed control over the two north- e Nanis have captured the eitadel | lege, Oklahoma in 1925; a Master's|a coastline that is as long as Al- | uring Freseni war e o e War Air and|Increased Germany's need for stecl . SrovOoR EE Bl with DGk of Liege, fortress in Belgium, at a |desree in Education from OKla-| lantic or Pacific shores, is defended | S | Miriie * Ministries” has' been given| FlgUres for /1936 are the last principal cities occupied by Nazi point where the Kaiser's army was homa University in 1932, and a|by an ice-breaker and a police-| PARIS, May 13. — An official| ¢, Gen. Ion Ticuzzu, considered available. That year Germany im- invaders. blocked for more than one week in | 1914. The French statement is that the | only fort the Germans have seized | in Belgium so far in the Liege for-| tified zone, is Eben Amael. The official communique also says | that “everywhere our convoys, troops and war material are moving for- ward with perfect regularity.” pSHECE L | i VITAL NAZI R.R. TUNNEL ISBOMBED Artillery, Air Shells Shat- | ters Important Traf- fic Connection ; BASEL, May 13.—French artil- Jery and Allied air bombs this after- noon shattered part of the Istein Railroad tunnel under Germany's “Gibraltar of the Rhine” and thus closed to military traffic that sec- tion of the vital army railroad in the west wall of fortifications and sev- ered German connection, Doctor's degree in Education from | Oklahoma University in 1938. Professional Experience Dr. Ryan’s professional experi- ence includes teaching in .rural schools and in elementary and sec- ondary schools in Oklahoma from 1918 to 1925; teaching high school and principal of a high school in the Philippine Islands in 1925-1927; Professor of Education and head of the Department of Education of the University of Alaska since 1928. Dr. Ryan is married and has one child, a son, James Dennis, three year old. Dr. Ryan, wife and son now live at College. Karnes, retiring Commissioner of Education, has held the position eight years. Before becoming Com- missioner, he was Superintendent of Public Schools at Ketchikan. He and his family are now in the States on leave. University Favored The much-discussed action taken by the Board in favoring Univer- | sity of Alaska graduates for teach-| ing positions is stated in a new rule and regulation worded as fol-| lows: “That hereafter when vacancies in teaching positions occur in any of the schools of the Territory, the local School Board, in the case of City and Nelson schools, and the Commissioner of Education, in the case of all other Territorial schools, man’s revolver.” Carter says hostile craft, loaded with knocked-down airplanes, could enter Hudson strait “with no op- position whatever”; close the strait and establish bases for assembly of the planes. | At what home base would the enemy outfit such an expedition in time of war? By what route would the ships reach Hudson strait, evading the Allied patrol in the ocean approaches? “Such questions,” contends Car- ter, “are those of a naive naval college cadet, of one unacquainted with the history of the World War and with subsequent world politi- cal developments. Submarines Can Go There “How was the German navy able to maintain secret subma- rine refueling and restocking bases in every ocean during the entire four years of the first struggle, {and long after German warships had been scoured from the seas? How is it possible for Hitler's un- dersea fleet to repeat that history now? “Two elementary truths are suf- irlciem: the oceans of the world are very large; international fascism has' powerful friends in the most unexpected places.” Carter's book was written be- fore Germany invaded Denmark lnnd Norway. It is made more | thought-provoking by the fact (Continued to Page Three) - (Continued on Page Five) French compilation says the Ger- mans have lost 400 war planes during the first three and one- half days of the present drive. The Allies, according to the same figures, have lost 100 planas. 'NERVE GAS' BEING USED New Secremeapon Re- ported Brought Qut on Belgian Front BERNE, May 13.—Neutral military attaches here speculated as to whether Germany’s new secret weapon enabled the Nazi forces to capture the fort of Eben Amael in Belgium. The new weapon is called a strange “nerve gas,” capable of penetrating the victims helpless, but without ill after effects. e Women were admitted to practice in New York in 1886, law BY GERMANS the nation's greatest strategist. Essen Bombed, Berlin Claims Allied Planes Reported To Have Shelled Great : Krupp Works LONDON, May 13.-—-A German | radio broadcast picked up here | says Essen, where the great Krupp Arms Works are located, | other German towns have ‘bnmbcd by Allied planes. War Children Reach London | LONDON, May 14. — Over been 700 the regular gas masks and rendering | Allied children from the invaded jron ore from the Mesabi range | countries have arrived here. Reports are received that long | lines of Belgian refugees from Liege jand Namur are streaming through Brussels, and two| ported 22,000,000 tons of iron ore from all over the world—France, Newfoundland, Sweden and else- where. In 1936, Germany ~ pro- duced only 7,000,000 tons. SAN FRANCISCO, May 13.—Mrs. Ruth Schulman was leaving hexr ‘hnm(-, yesterday to pay a Mothers’ Day call on her mother when the phone rang. | The call was from a neighbor of CAN'T PRODUCE IT | Marshal Hermann Goering ab-|er parents 1o tell Mrs. Schuiman (\40 i P ] I’IW ‘“f‘ 9 " ik ({I.hal her father had just shot her jerman - ore deposils as parl ol|,,oiher ang then turned the gun on his four-year economic plan. The himself. Nazis admitted then that their| The father, Morris Sommers, died most, extravagant hopes were for a few moments later. a production of 12000000 tons. | The mother, Mrs. Charlotte Som- Hard-headed American comme:r-| mere js in a eritical condition. al attaches abroad remain skep-| . g Even stepped-up production - it achieved—would be liftle more M K than a drop in Germanys steel | [V{IS, ager !s | bucket | Again it's a matter of cold D d K 'h'k arithmetic. Not even the vaunted | ea ] e( l an | claims of the superiority of every- thing on German soil could make| KETCHIKAN, Alaska, May 13 German iron ore assay more than Mrs. Anna Kager, 79, died in a hos- 35-40 percent iron. It just ain't|pital here yesterday after a stroke | there, and not even a pep talk by Survivors are sons James, residing | Adolf himself can make German | near Anacortes, Wash., and Joe in | s0il produce better ore. Fairbanks; daughters Mrs. Sam | fron ore of 35-40 percent iron | Daniel, of Ketchikan; Mrs. Henry content is marginal ore, tremen- Bower, near Anacortes; Mrs. Hugh | dously expensive to process, even|Daniels and Mrs. Fred Risley, both |by efficient German methods. of Sultan, Wash, and Mrs. Ethel | Getchman of Gold Bar, Washington. ‘The remains will be taken south for interment at Anacortes. 60 - - - - The average annual appic har- vest in the United States in re- __!cent years has been about 150,- J000,000 bushels, Steelmen figure 45-50 percent ore is a minimum requirement. American on Lake Superior runs about percent. Ore from northern Sweden | runs 60-67 percent. " (Continued on Page Four) The situation in Belgium did not appear so favorable for the Allies as the German forces shoved their way down through the Albert Can- al defenses and were Treported ad- vancing southward in a slow but steady drive. Artillery Firing In the southern Belgian province of Luxembourg the Allied forces were reported Sunday to be fall- ing back before a German advance. In the Grand Duchy of Luzem- bourg, the French and German forces were engaged in heavy fight- ing. The fighting extended to sections of the Rhine-Mosselle front where the Germans opened up with a terrific artillery fire in the sector between the forested region and the Saar River. A German infantry attack was being watched for by French forces near Verdun. —_— ., —— Yugoslavia Signs Pad With Russia MOSCOW, May 13.—The offi- cial news agency announces the signing of a trade and navigation treaty between Russia and Yugo- slavia, the first since the World War. .- The postal #ystem throughout Rhode Island was organized in 1775.