The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 16, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE WS ALL THE TIME” “ALL THE N VOL. LVL, NO. 8415. URSDAY, MAY 16, 1940. _ MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TH — - GERMANS, ALLIES IN TERRIFIC BATTLE HUGE DEFENSE REQUEST OSEVELT SU OF WASHINGTON, May President Roosevelt today k- Cengress for $1,182,000,000 in cash and contract authorizations for military implements to “meet any lightening offensive against American. interests.” In a momentous message de- livered in person to the House and Senate assembled in a joint session on a few hours notice, the Chief Executive asserted earnestly that “dangers” con- frent the United States because of Eurcpe’s war speed with which modern armies may ~conquer time and space. The President broke his re- quest down to $896,000,000 in im- mediate authorizations of which the Army gets $546,000,000; the Navy and Marine Corps, $ 600,600; and cne hundred mi licn to be at his disposal to “pro- vide for those emergencies af- fecting national security and de- In addition, the President ask- ed the legislators to authorize the Gevernment to enter into con- tracts totaling $286,000,000 to be appropriated later on. Of this, the Army, Navy and Marine Alaska Refugee Bill Called Alien Plot —_ ESIDENT URGES PREPAREDNESS NOW FOR U.S. Seeks Air Title and the President, $100,000,000. The President said he “would like (o see this nation geared [ up to the ability to turn ocut | i | at least 50,000 planes a year, and furthermore I believe this natien should plan at this time a program to provide the Uni- | ted States with 50,000 military and naval planes.” The message was broadeast coast to coast in the United Mary Veroiie Diwuin States and to the world at large. | Near the end of the address, | Stewardess for a Canadian airline, tne President said he would | Mary Veronica Dawson, of Mon- treal, has entered the annual “Miss American Aviation” contest, held in conjunction with the National Air Carnival in Birmingham, Ala. spend “millions for defense and the lives of our pecple to protect the liberties of the United Stat- | es.” The solemnity of the oceasion | was heightened by the rainy day | and the grave expressions on the L] faces of the hundreds of persons | prlm ar ringing the blocked off Capitol 1 House, flags from staffs drooped Relurns | dejectedly in the drizzle. | The President was dressed in | | a blue striped business suit. | Mrs. Roosevelt was in the se- a e p cond car behind the President’s | ; grounds. As the President entered the iContinued on Page Five) | Corps would receive $186,000,000 TEXAS DEMOCRATS HAVE SOLVED GREAT DILEMMA; | TWO CANDIDATES BACKED Frenth City Air Raided Nine Times NANCY, France, May 16.—Nine air raid alarms, each followed by bombings, kept this city awake all night. 1t is not disclosed as to the num - ber of persons killed or wounded as the result of the German air raids. Fighfifi;fi For Two Islands British and—flkh Staving 0ff Germans on Hol- land’s Coast LONDON, May 16.—British and: Dutch troops are fighting a last- ditch-battle for posséssion of the islands of Beveland and Walchern in the Scheldt River Estuary. The islands are almost the only Dutch territory not already surrendered to the Nazis. Possession of the islands would give the Germans an im- portant base for submarine and air attacks on Great Britain, | Vote Given for Territorial | Candidafes, Which Is | | Nearly Complete | — | Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di-| ! mond, unopposed candidate for re- | nomination on the Democratic | ticket, received a complimentary | vote of 8,650 in the Territorial Pri- maries of April 30. | This figure is the compilation of | the returns from the primaries made by The Empire, from the four divisions of the Territory. The | returns comprise the unofficial vote | of the First Division, including ab- sentee votes, with only one pre- cinct, Yakutat, missing; complete returns from the Second Division; | complete returns from the 'I‘hnrdl J Division, with only Umnak and| | ATognak precincts missing, and re- |turns from 57 precincts of the Fourth Division. The unofficial tabulation for all By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 16—Face- saving is supposed to be an Orien- tal custom. "Swrybooks say many an Orien- tal has run himself through with a sword because he was defeated for the Oriental equivalent for al- derman. It seems he had “lost face,” and couldn't prove he didn’t want the job anyway. But what we often overlook is the fact that good old Anglo- Saxon and Latin stocks from Eu- rope and America have been known | territorial candidates is as fol- to save a few faces now and then,| ows: even - if they don't do it on pur- Democratic | pose. For Delegate — Anthony J. Di-| Take the case of Vice-President| mond, 8,650. Cactus Jack Garner, who allowed| For Attorney General—George B. it to be announced just before the| Grigsby, 3,228; Henry Roden, 3,577. big primaries a few weeks ago For Auditor—Frank A. Boyle, 4,- that he was out for the presidency | 661; Robert E. Sheldon, 2,661. whether Boss Roosevelt ran or not.| For Highway Engineer—William Garner’s announcement was|A. Hesse, 3,989; Victor C. Rivers, | taken by a lot of people to mean | 3:203. that this wise old owl of politics had reason to believe he was in| the big money. Republican For Delegate—Cash Cole, 2,032; Sam Duker, 727, | | For Attorney General—Harry G.| THEN CAME THE PRIMARIES Cain (unopposed), 2,460. | For Cactus Jack Garner has sel- For Auditor—A. H. Humphries dom made a wrong move. Why, I (unopposed), 2,043. know an executive for a big group| For Highway Engineer — H. C.| of business men who thought Gar-[Mm"- 1,307; Irving McK. Reed, ner had the lowdown on the politi- | 1,090 cal situation and was practically | N i i | in—before the primaries. | Wondering just what was what | about this presidential situation, | FAM".Y FF A'R visited the Southwest last winter. | I ran into a traveling man lrie'nd‘[ 2 i who is a keen student of Texas| MILWAUKEE, Wis, May 16. —| politics. A pair of brothers may hold down | So I asked: “What about Tex-|the two tackle positions on Mar- | as?” quette’s varsity football team next| He said, “Do you mean that|f8ll. Charles Peifer was a letter- | Garner-for-President boom? If you|™Man last fall and starred drills, along with his brother, Jack, 4 promising freshman. i I (Co;unue:‘lvon ;nge Seven) . spring ‘| | that |were made today before the Senate| COMMITTEE HEARS PLAN CRITICIZED Refugee Colonization s "Trojan Horse™ for Conquest, Claim AMERICAN LEGION CHIEF RAPS SCHEME No Benefits for Citizens of U. S. in Measure, | Says Senator | WASHINGTON, May 16.—Charges legislation recommended by the Interior Department to develop Alaska is a scheme to bring in nliem‘ and constituted a “Trojan horse increases in the Mediterranean Subcommittee on Territories. Senator Robert R. Feynolds, Dem- | _ cerat. of North Carolina, told the| Committee the bill was “just a smoke RD DIVISION sereen to bring thousands of aliens into the United States through Ai-| RETURNS ARE agents of the dictators found to get Brownell Defeats Taylor into England, France and other | European countries. |" For Senator, Short “Instead of opening the doors of Term; Father, Son In Alaska to hordes of aliens who wiil| pour into that country from Rus-| sia, Germany and other European ar countries to invest it with an alien| VALDEZ, Alaska, May 16.—After population entirely foreign to us and | the first canvass of absentee votes our national welfare, our best ef-|and with all precincts of the Third forts should be directed toward the pjvision, except Umnak and Afog- Used by Dictators | Col. John T. Taylor of the Am-| erican Legion declared the plan I.o‘\ be a “Trojan horse of enemies of our | democracy.” He added “the guise of | refugees” is a favorite way secrel formulation of a constructive pro-|pak reported, the results are as gram designed to protect Alaska 1y | follows: the prohibition of the population oi | Democratic that Territory by aliens’ Colonel| po p o0 ) oy J. Di Taylor stated. Nething For Americans [ mond, 9809, Senator Reynolds insisted that| FOF Attorney General—George I. American citizens already had an|CTi#sby, 1,100; Henry Roden, 807 the privileges' conferred by the bin| FOr Auditor—Prank A. Boyle, 1.- except authority to bring refugees |338; Robert E. Sheldon, 895. from Europe. | For Highway Engineer—William Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Di-|A. Hesse, 1046; Victor C. Rivers, mond said he agreed with Reynolds 1,219. on this point. | For Senator, long term of four The bill would permit the omnm-‘f"“rs"EdW""d D. Coffey (unop- zation of corporations for the de- | Posed), 11768. For Senator, short term of two velopment of the Territory, allow- ing nonquota immigrants to pntoriy““"S*Do" Carlos Brownell, 1,248; 5 Warren A. Taylor, 894, For Representatives—Thomas C. sy v - | Burehette, 742; William A. Egan, 1,153; Michael Hatton, 651; Allen E. Horning, 1,086; Walter E. Hunt- | ley, 698; H. H. McCutcheon, 1,081; |8. 3. McCutcheon, 1,039; Theodore | Nutbeem, 631; Harvey J. Smith, | 110 D E v E I. 0 p S | The McCutcheons are father and | son. | (Continued on Page Fiver Republican For Delegate—Cash Sam Duker, 106. For Attorney General—Harry G Cole, 634 b s McCain, 431. H H | For Auditor—A. H. Humpheries, Americans Are Advised fo |,.™ For Highway Engineer —H. C. Miller, 247; Irving McK. Reed, 1 For Senator, four-year term | Harry I. O'Neill (unopposed), 414 slavia fo Mobilize For Senatortwo-year term—Jo- (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | gpoh H. Murray, 288; E. E. Cham- A rising crisis on the Mediterran- | be?lain,- 101, ot e i ean spotlighted by United States| por Representatives, no opposi- consulates advising American Citi- | tion, four to be chosen—Moritz An- zens to leave Italy at the “earliest gresen, 435: Almer J. Peterson, 403 possible moment” was evident to- " Selb Ty H X don, e Hal B. Selby, 410; Ivan A. Wilson, R and massed troops on the wild OKEHS RUlE frontier of Albania which is an Mussolini in an effort to prevent rule decreased the danger of bas- the spread of the war, | ketball injuries, Leave lfaly - Yugo- | The Yugoslav cabinet reviewed plans for a general mobilization amid fears of an Italian attack,, Italian “protectorate.” FORT COLLINS, Col, May 1 President Roosevelt today sent Coach John Davis of Coloradc St another communication to Premier | believes the new intentional Will these British destroyers, massed in the Medi- terrunean off Greece, go into real action? foul | Will They Go Into Action in Mediterranean? | Tension as the British in- BRITISH BOMBING ATTACK ~ BRUSSELS UNLEASHED ON GERMANS HOLDS OUT; LONDON, May 18~The Roy: Air Force has unleased jts great- est bombing a‘tack on German mil- | itary objectives in the East Rhine district, the Air Ministry announc- ed today. “Many tons of bombs were re- leased in attacks which lasted throughout the night,” said the communique, “and a big offensive is in progress against the enemy’ road and rail communications whicn support Germany's forces in their | invasion of the low countries.” The announcement said that fires broke out and heavy explo- sions followed. Expeditionary forces, |also at work in that sector, de- stroyed at least 124 German planes and downed 23 more. Allied air forces adopted Nazi bombing tactics today by shower- ing explosives on motorized Ger- /man units advancing through | southern Belgium and northern | France, The advance was claimed | to have been effectively delayd, | and halted in some sectors, by the | bombing attacks. DEMOCRATS OUST HOLT ' INPRIMARY Critic of New Deal from | West Virginia Is Skidded Out CHARLESTON, West Virginia, |May 16.—Nearly complete returns show that United States Senator Rush Holt, 35, Roosevelt and New Deal critic, has been ousted, beaten in the Democratic primary and run- ning third, Judge Harley Kilgore is apparently the winner of the Primaries for Democratic nomination for the Sen- ate Holt, when elected to the Senate in 1935, was the youngest man ever named to the Senate, TANANA SCHEDULED The Tanana of the Alaska Steam- ship Company is scheduled to sail from Seattle on June 5 and should arrive in Juneau June 10. The ship will have miscellaneous cargo for Southeast and Southwest Alaska. - Population of Stockholm, Swe- den, is about 600,000, and 42 per- | cent are married persons, crease naval units in the Aegean see off Salonika, and Ttaly concentrates air, naval and military forces in’the Dodecanese isles. ' MECHANIZED FORCES ARE IN FIGHTING .Shmk Troops of Nazis Now ‘ Striking Along 50- \ Mile Front SITUATION SERIOUS " ALSO VERY CONFUSING Wide-Open Warfare Rag- ing - Invaders Re- ported Stopped AT | \ | | I BULLETIN — NEW YORK, May 16. — A French radio broadcast picked up by the Na- tional Broadeasting Company, said it is announced in Paris | that the “combined troops of | France, England and Belgium have again successfully coun- | ter attacked the Germans in | the region of the Namur and | are | | CITY CALM pushing part of thent oy back.” Belgian Capifal Confident| suLLern — BERLIN, May 16.—~The German newspapers report tonight that the German flag waves from the citadel of Longwy, France, 40 miles southeast of Sedan. There is no confirmation, however, from military headquarters. Own Forces and Al- | lies Will Win ‘ | LONDON, May 16.—A broadcast | from the Brussels radio station th forenoon said the Belgian Capital | City is optimistic and calm and nas confidence “in the field army and | defenders of Liege and the Aliies BULLETIN—PARIS, May 16. —A War Ministry spokesman admitted tonight that a German | motorized column had penetrat- ed deeply into France from the Sedan sector, but the French General in ccomand there has af- vised headquarters that his fore- es are “complete masters of the situation.” | The Germans nave threatened de- | | vastation of Brussels by air unless| the alleged troop movements cease. 1 | R TO RESIST (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Mechanized German shock troops | ranging far ahead of the support |of units on the seventh day of { pARA(HUTE | the new European warfare, in a | | flanking drive through Belgium | into France, struck at the French | ' N v AS I 0 N army defending the 50-mile river | | front between Sedan and Namur. | ‘The French War Office spokes- man said a great battle is starting |and the situation is “serious and | very confusing.” The German communique says the “enemy has accepted the fight" and the Nazi forces are prepared |and “going on.” | The French High Command, in | a cryptic morning communique said LONDON, May 16.—The British/a “bloody three-day-old battle of Army officials today issued a call |the Meuse has flared into a mech- for the loan of privately owned anized, wide-open warfare and is firearms as the Nation hastened | the gigantic battle of the moment.” to organize a Home Defense Corps All details are, however, withheld. to deal with a possible parachute| German troops have marched invasion. {Into the capitulated cities of The > | Hague and Amsterdam in The | | Netherlands. = | The German High Command an- |nounces that a fierce battle rages |at Antwerp in the fortified zone ialnng the secondary Belgian de- 3 !fense line on the Dyle, southward NEW YORK, May 16. — Closing | 5 namyr, quotation of Alaska Juneau mine| A | e o e etmieners BROWN BEAR IS DUE HERE MAY 26 FROM ALEUTIAN ISLANDS 'British Call for Privately- Owned Firearms- Organize Corps Stock QUOTATIONS ’ | Steel 84, Commonwealth and Southern 1, Curtiss Wright 10 3/4,| ?Geneml Motors 44%, International| | Harvester ‘51, Kennecott 32, New | | York Central %, Northern Pa-| |cific 6, United States Steel 55%,| The vessel Brown Bear of the Bio- Pound $3.23. | logical Survey is due to arrive in Ju- - neau May 26 from Unalaska, accord- DOW, JONES AVERAGES |ing to word received today by the ‘The following Jones averages: rails 26.20, utilities shortly and stop at principal ports e eee | enroute. New oil reserves found in the last| Douglas Gray, Associate Refuge five years are equal to the total Uni- | Manager for the Aleutian Islands, is ted States oil production of the first laboard the Brown Bear, of which 70 years, John O. Sellevold is Captain, are today’s Dow,iAlnska Game Commission. The industrials 131.06,| Brown Bear will leave Unalaska 2098,