The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 23, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8421. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1940. —— | MEMBER ASSOCIATE D PR[:SS PRICE TEN CENT3 NAZI FORCES REACH ENGLISH CHANNEL @ Capture Of French Seaport - British Say Hospital Bombed 8 TOWNS IN NAVY BILL IS PASSED BY SENME ! @ Billion and a Half DoIIars§ Approved for Expan- sion Program WASHINGTON, May ing the ary national defense program, the Senate today approved the $1473,- 756,728 navy appropriations bill, 72 to 0. Fairly toward the final congres- sional action, the approval came with the same speed with which the Army’s share of the program unani- mously swept through the House yesterday. A total of 2970 planes, 2,500 of 23.—Hasten- | administration’s extraordin- | | which will be used as training ships | to fill the needs of the expanding training program, will be and would augment the Nav sent fleet. The Navy Air Force now consists of 1,800 existing planes :md: 933 being built. Proposed aviation are 000,000 to develop airplnne facuums TWO ALASKA BASES GIVEN expenditures NAVY FUNDS Bill Approv—ef by Commit- tee Includes North- em Pro;eds SEATTLE, May 23—Representa- tive Warren G. Magnuson has wired here that the Emergency Naval Ap- propriation bill approved Wednes- day by the House Naval Affairs Committee includes $2,963,000 for a patrol squadron base at Dutcn| Harbor and $2,200,000 for the air| base now under construction Kodiak, Alflskn Americans Are Taken Prisoners | It is also stated that a round-up| PARIS, May 23—Te the head-| quarters of the volunteer ambulance drivers organization word this morning that fous American drivers the tank battle that radged around | the tnak battle that raged around Amiens. The missing men are iden- tified as John Clement of Boston, Donald Coster of Montreal, George King of New York and Gregory Waite of Vermont. Four, other American drivers were also reported missing after a heavy | bombardment in the Ardennes sec- | tor. They are Louis Wehle of Fort Wayne, Indiana; Al Raymond of | Chicago; Murray Shipley ¢f Cincin- nati and John Glowacki of Jersey | City. Stock QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, May 23. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can! 91, American Power and Light 2%, Anaconda 19%, Bethlehem Steel 66%, Commonwealth and Southern 13-16, Curtiss Wright 8'4¢, General Motors 387%, International Harvester 42, Kennecott 267%, New York Cen- tral 10, Northern Pacific 5, United States Steel 44, Pound $3.21%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are todays Dow, Jones averages: industrials 11471, rails 2258, utilities 18.42. $326,000,000 and includes $45.- | at! rovided | pre- | The British censor-approved captio | Valley village in France after it —— n on this picture, cabled from Lon- don to New York, says it shows Douillet maternity hospital in a Marne had been bombed by Nazi fliers. Three bodies may be seen covered by coats and rugs, the caption adds. INVASION OF | Party mem- to ask Prime to receive tee of Conservative | bers today decided Minister Churchill ity of the German invasion Ireland. The problem is considered urgent because of the presence of a Ger- man Legation in Ireland and the publican Army. Clement Attlee, Deputy leader in {the House of Commons, and Lord |of the Privy Seal, today disclose: Britain and Ireland are apprehen- | sively “alive to the possibilities” of |an invasion through Ireland. ALARM IS CAUSED NEW YORK, May 23. — Edward | Murrow, CBS correspondent | London, said in a broadcast this | morning that the presence of Ger- man diplomats in newspapermen in Dublin is causing “considerable alarm in England.” Qai Communists and German sym- | pathizers is quietly being made. SAFEGUARDING EIRE DUBLIN, May 23. — Sean O'- ‘Kelly Deputy Prime Minister, warned in an address today that Eire will “not let anybody come here and try to take advantage of the present disunity of our peo-| ple to exploit this country for the ‘z»dvamage of some other coun- NoWorkfor (ommunists WASHINGTON, May 23.—With- out debate, the House today wrote| into the 1941 relief bill a pro- vision to deny WPA employment | to Communists or members of any Nazi or Bund organization. MRS. DRAKE RETURNS FROM TRIP TU NOME Mrs. Mraie Drake, Deputy Commis- sioner of Edueation, is aboard a plane which left Fairbanks today for Juneau. Mrs. Drake attended the recent session of the - Territorial Board of Education at Anchorage and later delivered the commence- delegation to discuss the possibil- | of | activity of the outlawed Irish Re- | that the Governments of both Great | This Associated Press photo is from Paramount News. RELAND BELIEVED THREATENED; FEARS ARE EXPRESSED | LONDON, May 23.—A commit-| 23.—While Municipal LOS ANGELES, May on the bench, former fic law violators. Particularly speed- ers. Today the ex-jurist planned an appeal from a traffic fine of his |own. He was handed u ticket and fined $15 for impeding traffic by | driving too slow. ALASKA WHALING FLEET TIES UP: PRICES T00 LOW {American Pacific Not to | Operate This Year, Says President R William P, Schupp, President of 'the American Pacific Whaling Com- pany, has announced in Seattle ithat because of the 1ow price for ‘whale oil, it would not be profit- able for the compady’s fleet to operate this year, Six “killer ships,” which make their base at Bellevue on the east shore of Lake Washington, com- prise the fleet of the American Pacific Whaling Company. The company has stations at Akutan and Port Hobron in Alaska. Bomb Hits Are Scored OnGermans LONDON, May- 23—A direct hit was scored on a German troop trdin at Geldern, Germany, accord- ing to British fliers in the bomb- ing raid. A German munition train was also blown up by bombs on the western German border, British ment address at Nome High School. j fliers ‘report, | Judge Russell was the terror of (mr-l ~ S.E.ALASKA ~ HIT, STRIKE Cannery Workers Sein-| ers Make Demands on Salmon Packers Eight towns in Southeast Alaska :nre witnessing strikes in the canned | salmon industry. AFL Cannery Workers and Sein- ers Union went on a strike yester- ‘duy in Ketchikan, Wrangell, Met- | 1akatla, Hydaburg, Craig, Klawock, Kake and Petersburg, according 1o }advlces received by The Empire | | from James L. Cauley, through a | dispatch from the Wrangell Sen- | tinel | Cauley, representative of the | Cannery Workers and Seiners Un- | ion, called the mittee into session and a meeting is taking place at Ketchikan. Fifteen hundred seiners and as many cannery workers are affect- |ed by the strike. The cannery workers demand a iguuraxIlee of 200 hours for the| | season against 150 hours last year which was the offer again made by the packers for this season. ‘The seiners demand two - cents more and an upward scale for| | fish and declare the strike will last until they get it The seiners are asking 10 cents for pinks, 13 for chums, 26 for co- hoes and 40 cents for reds, In Wrangell, three canneries are hit by the strike, the. Wrangell | Packing Company, Farwest Alaska | and A. R. Brueger. WAR BOARD IS CALLED BY MUSSOLINI Count Ciano Leaves for| Tension Point, Yugo- slav Border ROME, May 23.—Premier Musso- lini today summoned the Italian Supreme Defense Council into a ses- sion perhaps to discuss the long awaited Italian decision to enter the war, The Italians accused French au- thorities in Morocco of “renewing hateful persecutions against Italians living in the protectorate.” Count Ciano, Il Duce's number one man, who has been inspecting Italian held Albaia, left today for the Yugoslavia border, focal tension point for Italy. NARVIK BATTLE IS STILL RAGING BERLIN, May 23.—The German High Command issued a statement this morning saying that German forces at Narvik are still valiantly holding out against superior enemy forces which are trying to blast them from their position. The communique said the Ger- man air force has, since Monday, bombed and sunk a number of British ships of various kinds off Narvik. The victims included one destroy- er and one transport, according to Berlin. S e, — Calais Is InDanger LONDON, May 23.—Alfred Coop- er, Minister of Information, said the French port of Calais is in danger of capture by the Nazi forces which had reached the i i | 1 [ negotiations com- | | mall boxes & French Railroad Junction Bombed According to the upllnu of this picture sent by radm from Berlin it junctien somewhere in France by Nazi planes. Cloud of smoke is seen rising from noints where the tracks join. The rectangular object in the midst of the smoke is not explained. 6&‘6‘6&“&5msm Ghvn FOR HITlER‘ Is in Bad ™ (HI(AGO r |'Heil Hitler’ * Handbills Are Government Exercises Em- Pastered on Autos and | ergency Powers—Capt. Stuffed in Mailboxes ‘ Ramsay Arrested CHICAGO, Mfl} 23.—The Federal | Bureau of Investigation disclosed| LONDON, May 23 ~The (}owln-‘ here today that they have received |Ment used its hew emergency pow- complaints of “Heil Hitler” and|Crs today to crack down on 5th col- | swastika handbills being found in |Umn suspects in Britain. | and plastered on autos Fasicst organizations have beum throughout the city. banned and many arrests have been | The handbills said “Hitler will not |Made i forget you. Don't fear Roosevelt. pe arrest of a conservative mem- | Don't fight for British money. Re- 'her of Parliament, Capt. Archibald | member 1917.” | Ramsay, created the greatest sen- | The FBI sald there appeared o be | sation. The precise reason for Ram- | no violation of Federal laws. |say's arrest is mot announced but Postal authorities said stuffing | the World War veteran was known | such material in mail boxes Is & V10~ | {4 he a ¢trong Fascist symvathizer. | Jation and the violators, if found, | Numerous arri were mad | could be forced to d o pay postage. | ests e i | raid on the headquarters of Sir Os-| ‘wal:! Moseley's British Pascist Party, |and the group was officially sur) pres- | sed | An, emergency decree permits cer- | tain classes of British police to carry .hrearms romrary l.o the usual pro- ‘ 0-0P SET-UP REPUBLICANS perins Landon Wil Not Accept Are (oming Caalition Government If Roosevelt Runs Again WASHINGTON, May 23. — Alf| Landon today challenged President Roosevelt to renounce a third term if he wants the Republicans to join a coalition defense adminis- tration, The challenge drew from the White House the retort that “the President declares he has no time just now to give to preparation of political statements.” Landon has declared after a long conference with Roosevelt yes- terday that “political implications™ are inescapable in any coalition set- up and the Republicans can and will participate “only if the Presi- dent eliminates himself as a 1940 candidate.” Landon conferred today with Sec- retary of State Hull. I | PARIS, May 23—French armies,| ———e——— |in a slashing counter attack, to- PAIRBANKB Alaska, May 23— night cracked the German salient A dispatch from Dawson says fire | which had extended to the English | | | LONDON, May 23.—More than 250 of the estimatel 3,000 Ameri- cans living in Great Britain have | already booked passage for home aboard the liner President Roose- velt expected at Galway, Irelandl on May 30. \ Al least 100 more Americans are| in Ireland awaiting the arrival of | the liner and it is reported that over 700 will be aboard the vessel | when she finally clears for the United States B 2 Nazi Lines Are Cracked | l | | In England .To Broadcasl Sunday Night | pect is described as about 65 and Back Home ALIEN CONTROL x | shows the bombing of a railway White line running from the left ROOSEVELT WILL TALK T0 NATION on U. S. Defense and Present Needs WASHINGTON, May 23. — President Roosevelt will dis- cuss defense conditions and mneeds in a ‘“fireside chat” broadcast Sunday night at 6:30 p.m., Pacific Coast time, Sec- retary Early announced today. The “chat” will be a straight factual report from the Gov- rnment to the people and a general discussion of the de- fense situation of the United States and the needs. The talk will probably last half an hour. SPY SUSPECT IS UNDER ARREST ATLANTA, Ga., May 23—The arrest of a spy suspect, having ir| his possession numerous maps of potential military value, is dis- closed late this afternoon by Chief of Detectives McKibben. The sus- speaks with a heavy German ac- cent. PROPOSAL GETS COM. APPROYAL President’s Suggestien for Transfer Immigration Bureau Is 0. K'd. WASHINGTON, May 23. — The Special House Committee has un- animously adopted a resolution for quick congressional approval of Pre- sident Roosevelt's alien control order of transferring the Immigration Service from the Labor Department to the Department of Justice. - e BIRTHRATE IN 4 04 Is Reported REICH FLAG FLYING NOW ATBOULOGNE {U-Boats, Speedsters Wait- ing for Orders to Rush On to England 'SUCCESSFUL DRIVE IN NORTH FRANCE Two Main Forces of Allies Said fo Be Cut by Spearhead By LOUIS B. LOCHNER Assoclated Press War Correspondent WITH THE GERMAN AR- IES, May 23.—I have reached the English Channel and find the German forces here with the Nazi swastika flying. It seems almost unbelievable but the swastika is waving from the local Commander's head- quarters and leaves no doubt that ‘the crews of German U- Boats and speedboats are champing to be sent on their errands of destruction. BULLETIN — BERLIN, May 23.—Authorized German sourc- es, although declining to affirm or deny the reports that Bou- logne, French seaport on the English channel, has been en- tered by the Nazi forces, said: “It is quite probable.” Boulogne is on the lower Straits of Dover, only 20 miles from Folkstone, England and some 45 miles northeast of Ab- beyville, already taken. It is intimated that “on to England” will be the next or- der. BULLETIN—PARIS, May 23. —The French Armies are af- fecting, what foreign military experts call a “miracle of re- organization” and are fighting with new fury to reunite the Northern and Central armies in an effort to chop off the long spearhead which the Germans have driven to the English Channel. The French and Germans are engaged in a bitter seasaw bat- tle between Cambrai and Val- enciennes. ABBEYVILLE CAPTURED LONDON, May 23.—The fall of Abbeyville, 12 miles from the Eng- lish Channel in France, to Ger- man shock troops, was announced this morning in a two-minute state- ment by Prime Minister Winston Churchill to the House of Com-~ mons. Heavy fighting is also raging around Boulogne, French seaport on the English Channel, said the Prime Minister, adding: “It is too e.uu yet to say what result Cromwell's Resignation Is Accepled {Minister Ioaada Quits— Is Candidate for Sen- ate from New Jersey WASHINGTON, May 23.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has accepted the U. 5. DECLINING WASHINGTON, May 23. — The Cénsus bureau reports a slight drop resignation of James H. R. Crom- well as United States Minister to Canada. Cromwell was nominated by the has destroyed the Orpheum Thea- | Channel and are reported to have | in the United States birth rate fo: | Democrats in the New Jersey pri- tre and six adjacent buildings, xv.[reached the suburbs of Amiens is said the loss is covered by in-|from where the Nazi forces are| English Channel. surance, l reported retreating. on year. Births totalled 2,262,726 or at the rate of 70.4 percent per 1,000 persons. maries on Tuesday for the United States Senate. (Continued on Page Three)