The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 18, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 'VOL. LVL, NO. 8417. JUNE,AU ALASKA SATURDAY, MAY I8 ‘)40 MLVIBLR ASQO(.IAII- l) PRESS __PRICE TEN CENTS NAZI FORCES PUSH DEEP INTO FRANCE @ @ Attempted Air Raid on Paris Is Beaten @ L4 @ Bombs Kill French Civilians | COLONYPLAN | FOR ALASKA IS HIT HARD Senator Homer T. Bone, of RUSHBILL ONDEFENSE T0 FINISH ‘Commlflees Acting Speed- Washington, Takes Swing at Proposal OBJECTS TO BRINGING WAR RiFUGEES IN NOW Help Amencans First Plea Made Before Senate Committee WASHINGTON, May 18 -—UI\I‘J‘&L‘ States Senator Homer T. Bone, of the State of Washington, today said | he believed the United States hould | build a ring of steel around the | Western Hemisphere and keep out| the European struggle. ‘ The Senator’s remarks were called forth after two days of guestioning | witnesses before the Senate Tl.‘r-‘ ritories Committee on the Interior| Department bill intended to provide settlement in and development of | Alaska by bringing into the Terri-| tory war refugees as employees of | public service corporations to be set | up under the bill. Senator Bone said he could not | understand why war refugees, with whom we sympathize deeply, should | be brought in to develop the Terri- tory of Alaska when 10,000,000 /\m—; ericans are unvmployed Eenator dreadful thing tn permit them (n‘ enter the Territory and later have | to deport them. | “I have no quarrel on the idea of | helping the other fellow out but we | will always have this problem at our| doorsteps; if we cannot relieve our own how can we relieve the other | fellow,” said Senator Bone. | COLUMNS OF TANKS MOVE, FRENCH LINE Formidable German Ma- chines Now Employed on Western Front This picture passed by British and French censors and sent to New York from London by cable shows wreckage of a house at Nancy, France, hit by a German aerial bomb. Many civilians were reported killed in the raid, one of many carried out by the Nazis over a wide area in France. ALASKA REPUBLICANS, AT FAIRBANKS CONVENTION, HAVE STIRRING SESSION { (Alaska and collection of all reve- ‘ FAIRBANKS, Alaska, May 18—|yjec therefrom by the Territory.| The Alaska Republican Territorial| The platform condemns the Roo- convention, meeting here yester-|seyelt Administration for seeking| | day, elected as delegates to the|, establish a “one-man dictatorial Nmmn’ll convention in Philadel-| goyernment for the Territory | phia, W. C. Arnold, of Ketchikan; through the Secretary of the In- | Ralph E. Robertson, of Juneau,| terior” | and John Clawson, of Cordova. The platform also opposes sub-| Alternates elected are Cash Cole,| stitution of bureaucratic regula- or Juneau; L. V. Ray, of Seward,| tjons for law ‘and E. S. Evans, also of Juneau. | The convention delegates also The convention hominated W. C.| adopted a resolution urging the| Arnold as National Committeeman, | removal of E. A. Rasmuson, of | and Mrs, Louis P. Clegg, of Fair- skagway, as National Committee- | 1‘banks. as National Committee-| man, charging him with failure to | woman. | permit the Republicans to select ‘ The Delegates elected J. W. Wil-| delegates to the Territorial and |son, of Juneau, as Chairman of| National Conventions and giving' | the Territorial -Committee, m:e power to select, behind closed | PARIS, May 18—Attacks by for-| The platform adopted favored doors, to Al White, of Juneau, and | midable tank columns, some of m,lcontrol of the natural resources of|E. E. Engstrom, of Douglas, tanks being 80-ton machines, sc| SRR, strong that no guns smaller than‘ the French 75s can stop them, are| being used by the Germans on the| WhI'e House peanl" Man northwestern front, i The tanks are said to be the latest I T j u ' d S of the kind in modern warfare. ————— OPERA SINGER | said, “and the people buy. Some WASHINGTON, May 18. — bmc‘days President’s wife buys. Every-| Vasilakos, who has peddled pe'h‘body sees my peanuts-popcorn ls( nuts to every President since Hard-| 800d. They let me stay.” AYT "oR'H_mg. says it's time he became an| By JACK STINNETT Five years ago, the capital po- lice chased Steve away from his| post. They decided his unpainted cart at the busy intersection was he operates on the sidewalk out- . ¥ : Alaska Instead of Usual |siae the wnite House grounds,|* janfrlc hasgee) Vacation Abroad of the way, for he predicts that| dents needed his peanuts. The police showed him traffic- plane on his way on a five weeks’ hunting trip to Alaska. grins from the goober emporium | he will have this technicality out sonal customer. He said Presi- singing star, has arrived here by ination sure as popcorn pops. | years ago and, after a brief career Avenue. | American. | “I'm good American now,” he Laurifz Melchior fo Hunt in| “only I ain't got papers.” He complained bitterly. Presi- Come August 6, Steve is sure|dent Coolidge used to be a per- SEATTLE, May 18.—Jovial Lauritz h il his_citi hi Melchior, 225-pound ~Wagnerian | D¢ Will pass his cl ot i, ol choked Pennsylvania Avenue and| Steve arrived from Greece 30 the tourist-filled East Executive| “I've been making too much noise, he said. He usually spends his summers in Copenhagen or on his | 3,000-acre estate in eastern Ger- many. ——— The National Geographic Society has more than one million mem- bers, ;m the back of a restaurant, |launched himself in the peanut-| popcorn business. | “I almost fight,” says Steve. He doesn’t recall the details of But recently—during his night how he got up courage to roll his| school studies for citizenship — cart up to the executive mansion. Steve learned the meaning of “You're a hazard,” told him, a lieutenant ily on Huge Appro- pnahon Measure WASHINGTON, ley 18. — Dis- | carding the wusual restraint on when new appropriations may be spent, the Appropriations Sub-Com- mittee today sped the $1,827,491,000 | Army Bill, | Provisions have been inserted to make the full sum available for emergenoy defense purposes as |soon as the measure becomes a law. As approved by the Military Sub- Committe the measure carries funds for the regular Army, also emer- }uonr-y appropriations asked for by | President Roosevelt on Thursday for his unprecedented peacetime program. R EFrench (Cabinel | Minister today in a reshuffle of his ‘Cabmu | Former Premier Daladier, who was Defense Minister, has taken over the Foreign Ministry and Marshal Pe- | tain, 84, Allied Commander-in-Chief during the latter part of the World War, has been named Vice-Premier. —_— . Describe Hellish Invasion Tired Throng of Helpless Crowd Roads; Refugees Played Out LONDON, May 18.—The British ~ | Trade legation, with trade attaches, stationed at Rotterdam and The Hague, have returned here and it is obvious that all were unnerved by |the experience they have passed through. Mr. Langley, head of the legation, and Mrs. Langley, said they | were aroused from sleep about four in the morning of the invasion by the roar of bombers flying over Rot- terdam, and adjoining country. Since, they have had no rest, each day and night being an inferno. Con- {tinuous fighting, planes being shot down, and fresh bombers arriving, the marching of troops and move- ments of mechanized forces of ail descriptions, burning buildings and smoke filled atmosphere, dislocation of all services, and accumulating de- bris and filth made a vertible hell on earth. There were many cases of Dutch troops, as they passed along their own streets, being fired on by “fifth column” Germans, who had machine guns at windows. Refugees Arrive Dutch refugees are arriving here Most of them had been without food | for days, and some were in need of | medical treatment. All were care-| fully inspected, for there was a possibility of a few of German's “fifth Column” operators being in | “hazard” in his grammar. “PRESIDENTS NEED PEANUTS” the crowd. “I come here with friend,” he| «Continued on Page Two) (Continued on Page Two) THE NAZ! INVADERS CAME BY AIR A German flying boat sits ¢ go ashore in an attempt fo s the right, making their way to shore. to New York. ~ " BIDDING THEIR WARRIORSFAREWELL Rotterdam. Soldiers in a rubber beat carried in the nlane are seen at This pleture was telephotoed frem Amsterdam (o London and radioed o~ | i | | | Changes |Marshal Peti;, of World| War Fame, Becomes Vice-Premier PARIS May IB -—F’rt‘nt‘ll Premier | Reynaud became his own Defense This graphic picture shows women in Brussels Belgium, tearfully waving goodbye to husbands and sons called to the colors just before Germany invaded Belgium, Holland and Luxembourg. Alrporl Near Rotterdam Ruined by Nazi Bombs This is the Waalhaven Airport, south of Rotterdam, which was converted into a series of craters by German air bombs, with hingars reported knocked to the ground in the surprise i air attack on the lowland - FROM YAKUTAT HERE TO JOIN HUSBANDS Two wives of Polaris-Taku mir arrived on the Princess Louise last | night to join their husbands at Tul- sequah. They are Mrs. Thomas Gra- ham and Mrs. T. H. Wilford, who ex- pect to fly to the mining town somc- time today. They are staying at the l(‘m.sflnel\l Hotel, PIONEER RE George A. Morlander, Principal of the Government School at Yakutal, arrived on the steamer Baranof 1o |yhe steamer Baranof this morning confer with Office of Indian Af- fairs officials. He will leave on the |from Anchorage to enter the Pio- steamer Mount McKinley on a va- | neers’ Home at Sitka. He came (¢ |cation in the states. Alaska in 1869, | Joseph 8. Grosser, 84, arrived on Off GERMANS IN BIG THRUST; ~ TWO DRIVES Reich Armored Troops Now Fighting Beyond Vermns in North ANTWERD CAPTURED;NEW [HREAT IS MADE ON ALLIES Tremendous Casualfies Re- ported - French in Counter Atfacks BULLETIN—PARIS, May 18.— Premier Reynaud, in an address to the French Nation tonight, said the German pocket has spread toward the west and the situation is “grave.” BULLETIN—PAR1S, May 18. —~—German armored troops are pushing deep into northern France and fighting beyond Ver- nins to the vicinity of the Oise River, the French military spokesman said tonight. Fight- ing west of Vernins, the spokes- man said, the Germans are mak- ing a wide pocket west of Guise, more than 30 miles below the Belgian border. Two waves of eight German bombers each reached the Paris region late this afternoon and air raids were sounded. The Paris defenses drove the raiders off and four were shot down. | | (By Associated Press) | Antwerp, in Belgum, the ahchor of | the Allies Northern Front line, is | claimed by the Germans and at the |same time Hitler's vanguards are | reported to have carried the western | front battlefield to within 60 miles of Paris. The Nazi forces have unfurled the Swastikan flag over Belgium's chief commercial seaport, Antwerp. The DNB news agency says this was accomplished by lightning stabs through fortifications rated among |the strongest in Europe and with Antwerp now in German hands, | there is a double-edged threat con- fronting the Allies, a menace to the whole line defending the Paris gate and also the English Channel ports of Belgium from which the Nazis could loose the aerial blitzkreig on England. Blasting Irto France German tanks, armored cars and | warplanes are blasting and making deeper inroads in northern France, but the Allied indicat they are beginning to checl: 11 i thrusts, Hitler'’s advance guards are re- ported to have swept to within 60 miles of Paris with the main Ger- man Army only 40 miles behind. This is according to German infor- mation Situation Net o Bad | The situation Western | Front is “very serious but certainly {no worse and ¢ a little bit |better” than yeste ;ays the stiffening 215 are making the expense of tre- the French at |mendous casualties, statement declares. At least one-half of Germany's entire mechanized army is said to be |ieading the offensive in what the | French Air Ministry spokesman call- led the “most gigantic battle of all times."” | Great Tank Column Between 2,500 and 3,000 German tanks are believed assembled in the | French pocket and in some places the French artillery is shelling them point blank The retreat in Belgium is ae- | knowledged by the Allies but it is explained the withdrawal is to con- | form to the situation in France. Lines Are Being Held This forenoon the French state- ment indicated that the lines are being held against the Nazi hordes in the area of Avenes, Vervins, Reth- el and Sedan, also Bulge, where the (éonunud on Page Eight) 1