The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 21, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA E MP “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8419. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, MAY 21, NAZI LEGIONS Make Decided Drives Both To %» West, South NAVY GIVEN ORDERS FOR SPEEDING UP All Esiablisfim—enis Told to Hurry Up on De- fense Work SPECIAL LETTERS SENT BY ACTING SECRETARY Shipbuilding Forces Mus! Be Increased by Fifteen | Thousand Men WASHINGTON, May 21— — All Navy establishments were today or-| dered by Acting Secretary Comp- | ton to speed up on defense pre- pa ions, working additional shifts | and increasing civilian shipbuilding forces to at least 15,000 within the | xt three months. | The Acting Secretary of the Navy has sent letters to all Comman-| dants of all Naval Districts, yards and stations to speed up. Sixty-six warships are now un- der construction or projected. This| list includes eight battleships. | NEW JERSEY VOTESTODAY AT PRIMARY Presidenliamlegates Be- : ing Elected - Dark | Horse Looms ‘ NEWARK, New Jersey, May 21— This state is holding a primary | election today. the last in the Nation | in which Presidential delegates will be chosen. The election is expected to test the | impromptu vote as to the strength of utilities maganate Wendell Will- kie, Republican dark horse Presi-| dential possibility. Dewey is the sole candidate who| has filed but the name of Willkie must be written in. All Democratic delegates are pledged to a third term for Roose- | velt ne { | | ACTION1S TAKEN ON ARMY BASE FOR ANCHORAGE WASHINGTON, May 21— The Senate has tentatively approved of | appropriations for military posts in the Army appropriation bill. Among the allocations are an army base at Anchorage, $12,460,- 000; gasoline and bomb storage, Al-| aska, $630,000 and McChord Field near Tacoma, Wash., $134,000. e —,—— King, Churchill | Have Conference LONDON, May 21.—Prime Minis- ter Winston Churchill received in an audience tonight by the British King. | - e————— TECKLENBERG NORTH Charles A. Tecklenberg, weil known old-timer of Seward passed through Juneau this afternoon on board the steamer Alaska enroute| home. Tecklenberg has been Out-| side for several months. —— REV. CAUBLE RETURNS The Rev. J. L. Cauble of the Re- surrection Lutheran church in Ju- neau returned here aboard the steamer Alaska. He has been in the states for several weeks attending the Lutheran Synod, 4 Nazi Invasion of Lowlands Pufs New Pinch on Britain 100 200 300 MILES SHETLAND/S. ORKNEY A successful German invasion of the Low Countries adds to the circle Germany started drawing around the British Isles when she invaded Denmark and Norway. Scandinavia gives her bases closer to England; conquest of the lowlands gives bases st I closer—enabling her to blast the British blockade of the lmglisll Channel. When Lewis Talks Third Party, Don't Forget He Is Good Playing Poker\lWO CiTiEs WARTENSION IS MOUNTING OVER ITALY Newspapers Indicafe First Attack Will Be Made on Egypt ROME, May 21 —Premier Musso- lini received the Chief of the Col- onial Division of the Fascist Party in East Africa as war tension mount- ed throughout Italy. The dread shadow of impending war fell over the entire northern industrial district around Turin and Milan when the section was blacked out during the night for the first time since the war began. The blackouts officially were a part of routine army maneuvers. Full kitted troops marched through cities as part of the maneuvers and plane: droned over head. Meanwhile, the controlled Italian press continued to stress the theme that Italy’s entry into the war cn the side of Germany is imminent. The press hinted that the Italians may strike at Egypt when long art- icles were printed attacking the Egyptian Government and its poi- icies. ~ Military observers reported arri- val of a British troop transport at | Gibraltar early Tuesday morning, which rumor said carried a contin- gent of colonial troops from “Down Under.” — el MARSHAL RETURNS U. 8. Marshal William T. Mahoney returned on the steamer Alaska tc- day after a business trip to Ketchi- kan, |‘are By JACK leNNth‘ WASHINGTON, May 21—If you| one of those who put it in ,um pipe that CIO Boss John L. wewis is going to the polls in November with an effective third | party, you better put your pipe | back on the rack and get yourself a stogie. Lewis' nation’s youth, the aged, and the negr with John L. Lew legions is just some Wily John's political maneuver- ing. Capital politicians at first puckered their brows every time Lewis let off a batch of political to bring the| farmers, the s into step siren song more of fireworks, and asked themselves: “What's he want?” . . . “Where’s he going?” . “What's he do- ing?” Now they are pretty cer-| tain. If the wiseacres are right what he’s doing is organizing for a lit- tle collective bargaining on a big scale. Where he's going is into the thick of the campaigns the poltical market place for all good bargainers. What he wants is perpetuation and strengthening of the influ- ence of John L. Lewis and the la- bor movement he represents. A person who knows the bushy- browed labor leader once said, he’s a great poker player.” And if Lewis could make his cards read labor, farmers, aged, youth, and negroes, that would be five aces in anybody’s political poker game. r THAT “THIRD PARTY” Let's see why the third party| possibility won't hold any more water than a rattan basket: 1. As far as 1940 fis concerned the movement was far too late getting started. Not even a genius for blitzkrieg could get an effec- tive force in the field before elec- tion. 2. In Lewis’ there’s a own CIO ranks, formidable pro-Roose- “(6&7:1?@ on Page Five) and his labor intimately | “Don't ever forget that| \DARK PICTURE GIVEN FRANCE BY PREMIER | Admits One French Divi- sion "'Disorganized”’ by German Atfacks "INCREDIBLE FAULTS” | CHARGED T0 COMMAND |Declares OIfiyiMiracle Can Save Nation-State- | ment Depressing PARIS, May 21.—Premier Rey- | naud announced in the French Sen- |ate this afternoon that “we must make immediate decisions.” He ad- | mitted the French Army is up | against something new in deep mot- | orized raids and parachuterists. The French Premier explained dis- crganization of the Army assigned | to hold the lines on the Meuse River | by saying the best troops had been J‘sem farther into Belgium and thus | is made easier for the enemy to move units against the lesser trained sold- iers. The Premier laid the Nazi advance to faflure of the French defenders to blow up certain bridges. Reynaud also blamed the French High Command for “incredible faults” resulting from ‘“‘disaster and | total disorganization” inflicted oa |the French Army on the Meuse. | Premier Reynaud solemnly told | the Senate that those “faults will be punished.” The Senators cheered the remark. The Premier painted a dark pic- ture but said: “France cannot die. A miracle is negded to save France and (T believe in miracles because I be- ‘]1(‘\'(' in Francc IN FRANCE SET ABLAZE 'Nazi Flame Throwers Set Arras and Amiens | "Completely Afire’ PARIS, May 21.—Amiens and Ar- ras, on the edge of the coastal plain, are ablaze and in German hands according to information re- | ceived from the French Information ‘mestry here today. The advices said | the French had withdrawn from the Lacn Region immediately west of Cambrai. The description of the Ministry | spokesman said the cities were “com- | pletely in flames,” He said the Ger- |mans had systematically fired the willages and hamlets, some Naz | soldiers carrying flame throwers while others descended from the sky in parachutes, setting blazes in the | railroad stations, postoffices and ho- tels. The destructive advance of the Germans, said the announcement, is “certainly not confined to military | objectives.” CLOSE FRONTIER 1940. l'? ASS()ClAll l) l’l(LbS iHh EGYPT EYES HER ARMY __with war interest Earthquake Area Begins Building Up California Sechon Replen- .ishing Water; Rehabi fation Begins EL CENTRO, Cal, May 21 Water to replenish the dwindling supplies and typhoid serum for any possible emergency, are being rushed into the Imperial Valley as six cities most heavily damaged by the score of earthquakes since Saturday night launched rehabili- English Cruiser On Rocks Effengham Is Wrecked Off tation programs | o The death toll is now set at NOArway d(0a51 dA" nine, two in Mexico. Property damage is estimated al boar Save $2,500,000. The water situation is serious| opprg ST because of breaks in the Alamo| A%ONI)'()N May 41— The H.” Canal south of the International|/ 4™ ton crui Border which brings the only water| . = g a rock off the Norweg from the Colorado River. | il $ 4 g The flood water caused the|'h CONH L were saved Southern Pacific to reroute trains |, ‘" i ! s to Imperial, Brawley, Calexico and| ., § 5 4 | Thi the first cruiser officially Holtville which suffered the heavi- | . : gl |listed as lost in. the present war est damage. | AN RIG D MINE LAYER LANDONTO HITS MINE; | TALK WITH CREW LOST British Craft Goes Downi with Officers and Men | Believed Killed | ,cmaron LONDON, May 21.—The SINKIng panqon will confer wit of the British mine layer Princess p Conference Slated for To- morrow-Wadsworth Meets FDR Today 21 that Pre have been lost. |for President MONSON AND HALL WAIT FOR ALASKA: INVITED BY FDR CHICAGO, T1lI, M: 21.—Al Lan- don, now here, said he has. accepted the invitation extended Presi- dent Roosevelt with a confe tomorrow at the White House SKOPLJE, Yugoslavia Frontier, ‘M,ay 21.—The frontier between Yu-| gosiavia and Italian held Albania| has been closed. by an TItalian order | GERMANS NEARING ENGLISH CHANNEL PARIS, May 21—-5mn.ll detach- menas of German motorcycle Lroop.s‘ have penetrated the outskirts of the Abbeyville region nedr the English Channel, the French spokesman ad- mitted tonight. | |from Fairbanks Thursday. invitation was made by the dent in a personal telephone call - NorthSeals FLY TO FAIRBANKS Three passengers flew out of Ju- Ineau this afternoon with pilots Al |Monsen and Walt Hall in a PAA Eleclra shortly after the arrival of |the northbound steamer Alaska. 'l '] Two passengers, Ernest White- | eM dn hl |head and Knute S. Melson, disem- u I |g |barked from the Alaska, and with’| | Charles Burdick of the Governmert' Steamer North Sea Is scheduled t Reindeer Surevey, flew north to arrive at midnight tonight and mll Fairbanks, Burdick will continue by be in port two or three hours be- plane to Nome. fore sailing for Sitka. The steamer The Electra is expected to return was previously scheduled to arrive jat 8:30 o'clock tonight. shifting -neasures her military strength, counting on soldiers like these at an observation post in the desert CRASHING, SMASHING AIR ROOSEVELT velt tomorrow and as a pre Victoria by a German mine IS jiminary, Representative James W ropagien. Wadsworth had lunch h the Pre-| The British Admiralty said IO"X"deC“L today. Wadsworth is cam-| officers, including the Comman-|pajgn manager fop Frank Ganneti,| der, and 31 men are feared to|seeking the Republi ne :.mmum‘ The | Presi- | GERMANS IN TWO FORKED ACTIONNOW Reported fo Be Within Fif- feen Miles of Eng- OTHER FORCES NEARLY IN SIGHT, PARIS TOWER One French Army Division Crushed-High Offic- ials Captured wm s ——— i tz Q*%H;@ww;w Mediterranean-ward, Egyp! (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) The i blitzkrieg legions in a two-forked slash to the west and south have driven to within sight lof the Fiffel Tower in Paris, only 65 miles a 3 The German High Command says the French cities of Arras, Amiens and Abbeville have been captured. Premier Reynaud verified the i | High Command claim by announc- | ing in the French Senate th By LOUIS P. LOCHNER Amiens and Arras have been taken. | Associated Press W Furious Resistance Correspondent The French War Ministry spokes- | man officially announted this noon that the Germans are meet- ing with “furious resistance” every- where and indication: e that the i advance to th nglish Cha 1 has been siowed up but ¢t drive to the westward h sur- passed the Kaiser's gains the World War, The German High C ports the Ninth French _|fending the Meuse front mur to Sedan, has been in by “attacking rations WITH THE GERMAN WE! ARMIES, May 21—Fuehrer Adolf Hitler changed his general head- quarters three times yesterday, so rapidly were the forces following up their advantage and it was only when I went to the front at the Fuehrer's invitation was I able to see what the Nazi air power means 1 saw the ruins of the Louvai library, which was erected on Her- bert Hoover Square by cooperation of numerous American universities, [PASSing_all -wartime o the building is gutted by fire, its The British spokesman describes he battl he wes 100,000~ boaks: - bonsitiersd - all - lost;| tae: Rattle OR thn westetn, Eank |1t - tioors. were swepf. ‘by “flames| ‘ROTe. confused Ehan, . ever but no one seems to be able to 1;-\:'»\»»:1\" ’l' wind ’p body « | say by or how the blaze|!ines and bands of German tanks % wandering around the coun- Here is a general idea of how I ”-"”’” i\" wide IH’M:(' i aw the Germans operate their air o Nuys-olade 0. CETRNN squiadron hitherto Commander of the French e h Divi bk, g ssumed S e mand ¢ |'v~ N‘“[,If French o A and his General Staff; has captur STERN as in ommand Army de- from Na- crushed re- a whom squadron learn the enemy troops are hen learn exactly the trength, their equipment, of weapons and other over been azi sou of the fort fortifications nemy’s type m the last n-Namur taken. | details. With these which cloped ers, folle been have - .- Nurses Are (alled Out In Britain Appeal Made in Program fo Aid Air Raid Victims “A"n’ v'.lf‘cil 1ed May DI tips, also photograph quickly de German dive bomb- b; heavy bombers, dash upon the enemy smash towns through which the troops are push- ing, demolish railroads, telephone lines, industrial plants and bomb the marching columns | The Air Information Service tells mechanized units where bomb- {in is s sful, and with te: rific speed they dart into the con- fused enemy mobile land units and then follow through., The main| then occupies positions so oughly prepared for a cam- n. The Germans have exactly | fitting substitut for bridges anc ready for every strategic rive crossing in Belgium and France where bridges are likely to damaged taken the are and | the ucees: e LONDON has nur The for pre Health Ministry available build for wounde ed a - > iSenalor Wheeler ' Advocales Giving Allies Supplies Baseball Today hospital machine™” ir raid casualties and now arriving in h ports. - convoy BOZEMAN, Mont. May 21.-De- mocratic Senator Burton K. Wheeler wing scores of games lof Montana declared here that the s afternoon in the two United States should gi upplies to major leagues: the Allies in the European war. National League i ator Whee who is seeking| Chicago 3; Brooklyn 4. the Demoeratic Presidential nom- __American League ination, sald that the United States| NEW YORK 10; Cleveland 2 should give the Allies supplies out ton 11; Detroit 8. |right, rather than making them go 9 Washington 4. loans. = TR P % AR el J. E. Most, one of the ownets of the Nellie Juan cannery, passed Colonial New Yorkers were fined | through Juneau aboard the steamer three shillings if they refused to keep | Alaska enroute to Cordova and to his their chimneys clean and in repair. cannery for the summer.