The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 24, 1940, Page 1

HE DAILY “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVIL, NO. 8422. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1940. ALLIED FORCE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS START PINCER MOVEMENT 'Channel 'Maste 4 gins L4 4 rye-BQe Fight For English Soldierst No, Newsmen 'ROOSEVELT HAS VOTE MAJORITY More than Half of Dele- gates Now Pledged | fo President WASHINGTON, May 24.—Pr dent Roosevelt's pledged and sem! pledged Delegates to the Demo- cratic National Convention went over the majority mark with Ver- mont giving him six yesterday. Roosevelt now has commitments | for 547'% votes out of 1,094. Republicans have raised a de- mand that he state his third term | intentions in his Sunday night| broadeast. The fireside talk sched- uled for that evening will be heard at 6:30 p.m., Pacific Standard Time. Two ATiina Projects to Be AP_proved Harbor Improvements af| Sitka, Kodiak, May Get Action WASHINGTON, May 24. — The| House Rivers and Harbors Com- mittee may ask the War Deparl- ment to select navigation projects for national defense value. It is said President Roosevelt will approve defense projects and among these is the Sitka harbor improvement at a first cost esti- | mate of $190,000 and Kodiak Har- ‘ bor to cost $70,000. ‘ RaidsMade | | For Fifth ' yigHT RAIDS Columunists - | \Irish Republican Party Is| Coralled by Police-Unin- dentified Eman Held | e | | Montreal Pulls Off Sudden Attack in Dominion- wide_ D_rive MONTREAL, May 24.—Swift over-| night raids, believed to be a prelude | to a national drive against Fifth Columnists, were made last night reported in southern Ireland. and six truckloads of swastikas,| Among the prisoners was an un- photographic equipment, cards and |identified German who was seized in maps in the homes and offices of | Dublin as the owner of a secret radio suspected members of the National |transmitter. The police raiders were Unity Party, Fascist organization, |accompanied by soldiers in armored were seized, |cars. BELFAST, Ireland, May 24.—Sev-| |enty-six members of the outlawed | Irish Republican party were arrested last night in raids in the northern counties. Extensive arrests were also WASHINGTON, May 24 —Admiral Leahy said today after a defense | conference with President Roosevelt | {that the completion of Army und; Navy air bases in Puerto Rico make it extremely hazardous for any for-| The authoritiey have not revealed‘ —————— the number of arrests that were | INVASION OF U. § L RN s S Good Deed HAZARDOUS, SAYS Backfires ADMIRAL LEAHY i \Army and Navy Air Bases SALT LAKE CITY, May 24. —| i i Frank H. Stark’s Good Samaritan | at Pueno RI(O W|” act sent him to a hospital. | H His car struck a dog. He stopped Pro'ed Amen(ans to pick up the injured animal. It | attacked him. Stark subdued the dog; took it to an animal hospital. Then he sought treatment for a lacerated hand. R Yugoslavia is now building ,its|ejgn power to invade the United| own airplanes, but buys the mo-|States, Central America or Northern tors abroad. South America. player is 84. He said the bases being built would | iy be finished in two years but work The mocking bird is the state bird of Tennessee. |could be speeded up to make them |useable in two or three montis. Correspondents and photographers atiached to the German Army | must wear uniforms, earry guns and are usually in the thickest of the action. In this picture, just sent frocm Berlin, & cameraman and a correspondent cover the scene in Norway at the risk of their lives. KING GEORGE APPEALS T0 BRITISH TO FIGHT; HURLS CHARGE ATNAZI GERMANY LONDON, May 24—On Em- pire Day, with England threat- ened with the first invasion since 1086, King George, in a person- ai broadeast to the world, today accused Nazi Germany of a long planned scheme to subjugate, by force, the Nations of the World.” King George called upon his peeples to “keep your resolve unshaken, Defeat will mean des- truction of our world as we have known it and the descent of darkness upon our ru 4 - Hawaiian Islands fo "Blackouf’ Extensive Maneuvers Are fo Take Place Dur- ing Tonight HONOLULU, May 24.—All of the Hawaiian Islands will be blacked out tonight as a part of the elabor- ate war games the Army and Navy are staging in the mid Pacific. The blackout will protect import- ant military objectives in the Is- lands from air raids by fleets of imaginary enemy bombers. About half of the United States fleet is reported returning to Pearl Harbor to refuel after participating in maneuvers near Lahaina Roads. ., — FRENCH RAILROAD REPORTED BOMBED PARIS, May 24.—Informed sources said the Paris-Rouen railway line has been bombed and the Capital City is cut off from Port Lahah. e A Boston survey showed traf- fic jams increase gasoline con- sumption 50 percent. ITALY ON ~ WAR VERGE IS BELIEF Fascist Youth Official Says British Manned Gates fo Be Atfacked | (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Tension in the Mediterranean Sea | is _increasing. This was added (o | today by a Fascist Youth official | declaring that Italy “is on the eve of war to break the British-manned gates at Gibraltar and Suez. Rome shipping circles heard to- day that the scheduled sailing of the liner Rex from Genoa has been postponed and many believed this is a possible tip-off of Italian war plans. | | | i | [ | R Residence of Leon Trofzky ~ Raided Today | | St ,TweMy. Men, Disguised as | Police, Stage Demon- | strafion in Mexico : MEXICO, CITY, May 24.—At least |20 men, disguised as Police and arm- |ed with machine guns and rifles |and also incendiary bombs, raided | the residence of Leon Trotzky early today and fired volleys into the| |bedroom of the exiled Russian revol- |utionary, a longtime foe of Joseph | stalin. | Trotzky was slightly injured. The attack is blamed on a one- |time Stalin secretary and body- |guard, Sheldon Harte I A GermansBomb Women Killed |Motorized Columns Bom- | bard Non-Military Objec- | fives-Abbeyville Razed LONDON, May 24. — Red Cross worker Alan Roger today said the French Channel town of Abbeyville was “razed, with the shattered streets strewn with dead and dying omen and children.” He said the German motorized col- umn which seized it, bombed the town relentlessly although there were apparently no military objec- tives. High explosive incendiary bombs were dropped on the town, DIZZY DEAN "WASHED UP’ PHILADELPHIA, Pa, May 24— A doctor’s report indicates that| Dizzy Dean is washed up as a fast ball artist but suggested that; the Chicago Cub moundsman might | become a successful sidearm pitch- er. Cub officials read the John Hop- kins physician, Dr. George Ben-| nett, report with mixed feelings.| The report said that the once| great Dean may boost himself out of the has-been class if he changes| his style of delivery. Dr. Bennett said Dean is plagued with an ail- ment not unusual in speed ball pitchers. Channel Town; | | | Lord Halifax Foreign secretary Neville Chamberlain Council President BALKANNATIONS ~ TOLD NOT 10 BE AFRAID OF ITAL No Military Infentions Are Intended Against Them Is Report from Rome ROME, May 24—Well informed Mussolini has instructed Italian di- plomatic representatives in all the Balkan nations to assure the heads of the southeastern European states that Italy has no military intentions against them. The PFascist sources said that the envoys to the Balkans had been tolc further to give assurances that Ttaly would take all possible precautions to prevent an extension of the war to the Balkan Peninsula and was determined to continue its relations with southeastern nations in the light of existing agreements. BUTTER RATION FOR BRITISHERS LONDON, May 24 — The Food Ministry announces that only “na- tional butter” will be sold after June 1. It is not disclosed as to the qual- ity or origin. - KELLY SPIT VIELDS Fishing circles ogled this morning at what is thought to be the largest king salmon caught by a sport fish- erman this season—a 48 pounder hooked last night by Jimmy Orme. last night when the launch Bobby G was out on a trip. — e There are more than 300,000 trailer coaches in the United States, Téke it or léave if, Bulr~ Hereare VariousRumors That are Hard fo Confirm Fascist circles report that Prcmier‘ 48-YOUNG SALMON The king was caught off Kelly Spit | Winsten Prime Churchill Minister ( By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 24.—Those | proverbial small towns where gos- | sip flows over the back fence with | | the speed of radio, gathering new twists and tangles as it crosses| each yard, can't hold a megaphone to Washington. Within the space of three hours | |1 have heard ‘“authentic” reports |of a super-super munitions lob- | by's control of Congress; a Nazi | Trojan horse scheme to sabotage | upper-crust British politics; and |an elaborate plan to blow up the | Panama Canal by a suicide crew sailing an apparently harmless | tishing smack, | Also that Mrs. J. Wentworth | Traveler has pawned the crown | jewels to finance the American Bolshevik revolution; Senator Doakes is the real fuehrer of the| Christian Front; and our Govern- ment is really controlled in the| Irawing . Tooms by the American | equivalent of the Cliveden set. Also that a prominent Holly- wood actor who frequently por- trays historical characters is| America’s No. 1 Communist, and| Shirley Temple is a Japanese spy.| Such things may seem far-| fetched but they are no more fan- tastic than some of the tales that wag their way into the best Wash- | ington circles. It takes more than| a couple of pinches of salt to catch facts in Washington and a gent has to be pretty sly to keep his nose for news from slipping down to a| neck for noose. ‘ DUTY VS. POLITICS Still, a correspondent is neglect-| ing his readers if he doesn't sift| this chaff. The trouble is that gov-| ernments are run through politics and politics mean axes to grind.| Sometimes the grinding constitutes misrepresentation of facts, Some- | | times it's for the public's good; sometimes it's the public’s head- | ache. | Occasionally, the Washington | commentator can apply his secret| | formula and turn up a little pure | gold—but more often he has to| | deliver crushed ore in bulk, with | the warning: “Danger, This muyj (Continued to Page Two) Maj. C. R. Attiee Lord Privy Seal ‘WoménFighIs Here's New British Cabinet Under Churchill NAZIFORCES NOW CAUGHT, NEW ACTION zBriIish, French Infantry, . Artillery Hammer- \ ing Two Plows 'GERMANS NEARING | CALAIS, ON CHANNEL Anthony Eden \Capture Places Hitler's Minister of war ' Troops, 20 Minufes by | Air from London | BULLETIN—PARIS, May 24. | —Allied Armies are reported to | have caught German armored columns of artillery in a cross- fire in a néw effort to cut the German salient to the sea. Masses of Allied infantry are also weighing down on the cor- rider and pressing south from | Flanders field and in the Cam- brai region north from the Som- me River in a pincer movement which has brought into full play the two branches of the Allied service, infantry and artillery. Reports sald the Germans have discarded flame throwing | tanks in the drive toward the English Channel and are using a new type equipped with machine guns, (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The German capture of Boulogne, French strategic seaport, just 20 | minutes by air from London, is ad- | mitted today in authorititative Lon- ’ i(lon quarters and the sweeping Nazi [ ipusl: to the sea, preliminary to a A alnsI oddsl | heralded invasion of England, also [ gained ground as the result of two | smashing blows by German mechan- " ‘lz(‘ll forces. A r r | v es Here It is claimed in Berlin that mech- |anized forces have advanced to with- in close reach of Calais, French sea- — | port, which is only 22 miles from Dover, England, while other forces {grappled with Allied troops in fierce Young Mine Operafor|s 5 | fighting in the streets of Ghent, Leaves Hospital fo Fly |Belsium, 30 miles northwest of Brus- 3 sels where the Germans are reported to Property in Alaska attacking on the outskirts of the cil Fighting against illness, further| —qmpe trend of battle in the critical delays and a deadline on a govern-|gsryggle for mastery of the English ment mineral contract, Mrs, Willlam | channel veered rapidly north with Moroney of New York and San Fra- | the Germans striking hard for the cisco, arrived in Juneau this morn-|ghortest direct jumping off base for ing by plane from Vancouver for gngiand at Calals and in so doing, medical attention and to make ar-| gitler's armored Legions simultan- rangements for a flying trip to Fair-'mubly tightened the steel trap be- Arthur Greenwood Minister Without. Portfolio For Channel Mastery banks. |tween 500,000 and 1,000,000 Allied Young Mrs. Moroney, owner of|troops pocketed in Northern Prance chrome properties in California and |and Belgium., Alaska, is accompanied by her| Claim Allies Encircled brother, Michael Reddy; Frargis The Nazis jubilantly declare the Lass, representative of a part own-| er of her Alaska chrome mine; and | Ralph Mason, metallurgist from the Rustless Mining Corporation of Cal- encirclement of the Allies is nearing airtight completion and further de- clare that the great destructive bat- tle of all times may occur earlier ifornia, X than expected. Leaves Hospital Early afternoon reports from Ber- The woman miner, who.has a|lin said swift armored cars, driving through Stomer, have approached the “gates of Calais.” $846,000 contract with the Govern-| ment for chromium ore from her mine on the Kenai Peninsula at| A Paris radio broadcast says 5,000 Port Graham, near Seldovia, left a|German mechanized troops are iso- San Prancisco hospital to fly up the |lated in the bitterly contested Am- coast to Alaska to rush production “ iens sector on the south prong of the on the fulfillment of the Govern- | Nazi pincer and other German forces ment contract wihch is near its ex-|in Flanders are stalled because of piration date. lack of fuel. Delayed by customs authorities at | Do e o o o Vancouver and Alert Bay, Mrs. Mor- 3 cney and her party did not arrive in | Ketchikan until last night in a Can- | adian plane and immediately she| wet under nurse’s care. The Can-| adian plane arrived in Juneau early | this morning and the mining woman Tentative arrangements for Mr.x.} | Moroney and Ralph Mason, who in- tends to establish a laboratory at| Fairbanks to test the chromium ore, | R it o P et o wnrer British Authorities Make tomorrow on the steamer Baranof,| H going directly to the mining propert- | leeled ies, Small Crew Working LONDON, May 24.—Capt. Franz A small crew is now working on|von Rinteled, noted German spy the chrome deposits in an effort |during the World War, and in recent to fill the Government contract call- [years a resident of England, has was take to St. Ann’s Hospital for| medical attention. flight were made today. The other| two members of the party will leave | Arrest of Capi von ing for 25000 tons of the wartime been detained in the drive against (Continued on Page Eight) the Fifth Column.