The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, May 29, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8426. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY MAY 29, 1940. PRICE TEN CENTS NAZI FORCES KEEP SMASHING F ORWARD Allies Reported Retreatmg To _ AIRCORPS ITALY MAY BE IN WAR THIS WEEK Observers Ex;éd Order fo Be Issued Within Few Days i ROME, May 2! night on the brink of war expect Italy to start possibly within the next few days in North Africa | or on the Mediterranean, rather than against France directly. The “go” order is expected any- time now to be issued by Premier Muxunlu)l NARVIK IS TAKENOVER BY BRITISH Norwegian;A—id Troops in Capfuring Northern Norway Port LONDC:Y, May 29. — The Bli'l\]\ Admiralty today announced the cap- | ture of Narvik, where the German garrison has been under seige for | more than six weeks. } It is said the Norwegians in that | sector joined the British in the gen- 1 eral attack which resulted in the | taking of the northern Norway ore port. - e LOANS ON CROPS | GIVEN APPROVAL WASHINGTON. May 29. — The Senate Banking Committee has ap- proved of the bill to increase by | $500,000,000 the lending powers of | the Commodity Credit Corporation for crop loans. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace | advocated the bill to aid the farmers | faced by surpluses because of thé | loss of export markets. .- Will Urge U.S. 10 | Take War Refugees LONDON, May 29. — Undersecre- tary of Foreign Affairs R. A. But- ler told the House of Commons to- | day that an appeal will be sent to the United States to take as many | war refugees as possible, He said the proposal is now under considera- tion. e — Win Out in Texas WACO, Texas, May 29.—The Gar- ner Democrdts won at the State Democratic Convention here yester- day The delegation to the National | Convention, in a harmony agree- ment, will not join any stop move- ment or do anything to embarrass the Pleildent CANADIAN | FLOWN T0 SKAGWAY WHEN HE MISSES BOAT A Canadian passenger aboard the‘ Princess Louise, who missed the vessel when it sailed for Skagway last night, was flown to his destin- ation at 3 o'clock this -morning by Johnny Amundsen. With the Juneau pilot and his passenger was | V. W. Mulvihill, Juneau agent for | the Canadian Pacific Line. In a flight to the Coast today, Shell Simmons piloted E. W. Gail- breth to Hirst and David Hoffman | to Sitka. Alex Holden carried Hans Floe to Hawk Inlet in & later trip, and flew four miners to Polaris-Taku this afternoon, | | | —TItaly lingered to- : which | many foreign and Italian observers | At the Swiss-German Border A swastika-marked Nazi guard and a Swiss soldier do sentry duty on the frontier between Switzerland and Germany. This frontier has beer ordered closed by the Swiss who fear they are next on the German inva. sion list. This fear was heightened by heavy concentration of German truops on the border and appeurance of bombing nlanes over Zurich 4 | Air (OMMISSION OF NATIONAL DEFENSE IS NAMED BY FDR; SEVEN MEMBERS APPOINTED‘ DEPORTA“ON OF HARRY BRIDGES NOW (COMING UP 'Right- of Way Is Given fo|ton. Legislation Proposing Drastic Order WASHINGTON, May 29. — The | House Rules Committee today voted | |unanimously to give legislative right-of-way to the bill directing Secretary of Labor Perkins to order | deportation of Harry Bridges, al-| leged Communist and CIO chieftain on the West Coast. The committee acted on the ri quest soon after Representative Al- len, author of the legislation, testi- fied that the House Immigration Committee adopted a special reso- lution urging the Rules Committee to take such action. Income Taxes Are Going Up Excise Rates Are Also fo Be Increased for De- fense Program WASHINGTON, May 29. — A 10 percent boost in all income taxes and also an increase in excise taxes | is reported as a compromise in the Administration’s defense tax bill. The measure is designed to pro- vide an over-all revenue of $680.- 000,000 annually for the next five years. Ifalian (wilians Taking Over Jobs 0f Men Called Up ROME, May 29—Italian_civilians have started taking over jobs of men who have heen called to the colors. WASHINGTON, May 29.—Presi- ‘dent Roosevelt has named a Na-| ‘(mnal Defense Commission of seven | | members to gear the Nation to toD|construction and expansion of the speed in the production of defense|Nayal air implements, as follows: Edward B. Stettinus Jr., Chair- mnn of the United States Steel ‘Corpomuon will supervise produc- | ‘ Sidney Hillman, President of the | Amalgamated Clothing Workers, | will supervise labor employment :problems | Chester C. Davis, Federal Reserve | Board member, will manage farm products. Ralph Budd, Chairman of the | Burlington Railroad, will supervise | transportation, Leon Henderson, Securities Com- missioner, will watch the price trends in an attempt to avoid un- due increase in the cost of living. Miss Harriet Elliott, Dean of Wo- | men, University of North Carolina, will advise on consumer problems. President Roosevelt acted under | the 1917 Defense Act. The Army and Navy will place their own orders and the commis- sion will see that they are carried out for operation of the two de- Iieflse branches. PLANES FROM U. 5. SHOWING UP ON FRONT PARIS, May 29. — The French Government spokesman said Amer- ican airplanes are now arriving in | France in considerable quantities and are showing their superiority in | action over “anything on the front.” e - BELGIAN ARMY COMPOSED OF | ONLY 300,000 LONDON, May 29.—The Reuters military correspondent in Belgium sends a dispatch today stating that the Belgian army, originally 800,- 000 strong, was composed of only 300,000 effectives when they sur- rendered yesterdty to the Germans. This is evidence of the stubborn fight made against the invaders. ON COAST INCREASED leh Corps Area Now Has 33,573 Men - Thou- sands of Planes | SAN FRANCI&CU Cal., May 29.— Uncle Sam has doubled the Army Corps personnel on the West The Ninth Corps Area has to 33,573 Coast. been boosted 40 percent since the start of the war. It is estimated that half of the 5,500 planes authorized are now in use and others are ordered. One hundred Coast Guardsmen have also been added to the mnew base with five planes and the air- | port will he xeadv bv August NAVY'S AIR FORCEWILL BE BOOSTED Bill Passes H_o;se—Pro jects Proposed for Kodiak and Unalaska WASHINGTON, May 29. — The | ‘House has passed and sent to the Senate the bill to authorize the $1,- ‘137000000 expansion program for ! |the Navy’s sea fleet and force. | The bill includes a provision for | bases to cost approxi- | mately $144,000.000. The bill includes 1$212,000 for Kodiak and $296,300 for a naval air base at Unalaskn Sitka, Kodiak Harbor lfems In New Bill WASHINGTON, May 29.—Chair- man Mansfield of the Rivers and Harbors House Committee has pre- | pared a bill to add $238,023,000 to | the President’s defense program. In- cluded among the projects are items for the Sitka harbor, $109,000, and Kodiak Harbor, $70,000. B Bomb Defense Unit Session VERNON, British Columbia, May | 29.—A home-made bomb, planted in | an ash can, exploded near the Le- gion Hall last night, shattering | windows as the leader of the Vol- unteer Home Defense Unit was dis- cusing first day recruiting for thvl district. No person explosion. et ANCHORAGE BASE CONSTRUCTION IS GIVEN APPROVAL WASHINGTON, May 29. — The joint military committees of the | House and Senate have approved of legislation to authorize $15,000,000 for military construction, including $6,379.225 for a base at Anchorage, Alaska. was injured by the e - ‘Wartime economy: London po- lice must make trousers last 2': years instead of 18 months. (4 4 e This picture, radioed from Berlin to New York, is described by Germans as showing Gen. Henri Giraud, closed point in Germany after his cap- A German soldier stands beside the plane to Commander of the French His adjutar assist him. Tanks Rumble Through Lo ndon .5 tr(’els Cablephoto Shien Larike v l’nrmatlun. was wamlnx that “this ARMY PUTS NEW PAGE IN inth Army, ture in a French tank which had taken him to the front. n a French steel helmet, s'ands at left with German officers. o leaving a plane at an un ng :lllmg a tvplcxl London street Whlle Allred Duff (‘ooper, Minister of In- counlry is in harlul danger.” WARBOOKS ABOUT SECRET WEAPON THATBEATDUTCH By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, May 29. — Over in the block-long munitions build- ing, whose architecture is early 20th Century whitewashed barracks, | the “army boys have torn from their books that venerable saying,| “You can’t beat the Dutch.” On the nice clean page they have | inserted, there is a “Warning to| Future Generals: The way those | fifth columns work beats the| Dutch.” | Sifting down the reports of the Nazi's five-day blitzkrieg of Hol- |land, the army experts have con- cluded that the fifth column again has proved itself the most valu- able weapon developed in modern warfare, . The secret magic with which the Nazi hordes over-ran Holland, although the Dutch had been pre- paring for such an emergency for years, can, say the army men, be summed up in two words: Internal combustion. For example, from the very out- set of the German invasion, snip- ers took a toll of Dutch soldiers from the roofs and windows of buildings even ,in the well-policed cities of The Hague, Amsterdam and Rotterdam. TWO COPS ON DUTY When the sixth column, or para- | chute troops, srrived st one of| | | the | the main airports near Rotterdam, only two civil policemen were on| duty—the only logical conclusion being that some one IN THE ARMY had ordered all troops away from the airport at the In several of the principal cities, air raid alarm system completely haywire. ed day and night, throwing cities into utter confusion. In Amsterdam, the water supply system—that vital artery which is the first objective washed out completely. In The Hague, the Dutch government, there was an uprising which took on the as- pects of an organized revolution. Hour after hour, parachute troops were reported landing in locali- ties where, strangely, Dutch troops weren’t, And most significant of all, Nazi invasion even off the up of aliens. Thete's one thing more, though | this occurred in Belgium, Army | officers who fought in World War | No. 1, looked over the collapse of Namur, and the apparently in- effective resistence of the outer forts of Liege and ran back mruugh " (Continued on page Six) zero hour. | went Sirens scream- | the | of saboteurs— | heart of the| the of Holland wasn't| griddle before En-| gland started a nation-wide clean-| 7z { Hatch Bill | Goes Nearer To Passage House Judiciary Commit- tee Takes Approval Action Today g | WASHINGTON, May 29. - The| Judiciary Commmae has |approved the Senate approved Hatch bill to extend to Federal (and state employees restrictions of | | | | | House | political activities now applied to Federal employees only. The vote is reported to be 16 to |7. The committee once shelved the [legislation. | | R s POLARIS MANAGER ! RETURNS T0 MINE After a three-day business trip| v.o Juneau, Frank McPherson, Sup-| | erintendent of the Canadian Pol- | aris-Taku mine, left here today to| | fly back to Tulsequah, McPherson, who arrived here, | April 1 from Montana, succeeds B.| M. Neiding. During his stay in Juneau, McPherson and Mrs. Mc- registered at the Bar- | | Pherson were re ‘j anof Hotel. | counterattacks | back “with the bloodiest of losses.” Channel A Blow to Framv' French General (,aplurwl 3 S]’RA'I’EGI( POSITIONS IN REICHHANDS Industrial City of Lille and Seaport Ostend, Claim- ed Captured {FIGHTING TAKES PLACE, STREETS OF DUNKERQUE {On One Front French Claim to Have Ousted In- vading Troops (By Associated Press} In three pulverizing smashes, the Nazi legions have stormed Ypres, the famous World No. 1 battlefield, captured the manufacturing city of Lille and the strategic channel port of Ostend. The German High Command an- nounced tightening of the steel- Jawed trap around 500,000 Allied troops encircled in Flanders. On the strength of these reports; it is apparent the Allies are now retiring to the English Channel, seeking that means of escape rather than try to break through the Ger- | man salient south of Ostend, one of the main bases of supplies. The German High Command slso asserts that the desperate French have been beaten The German capture of Ostend | has narrowed the “back door” outlet of the trapped Flanders force to a width of about 40 miles. Wave after wave of Nazi bombers are roaring over the French and British forces falling back to the sea and fighting on the main streets of | Dunkerque, main supply base of the Allied armies, is reported. Berlin sources intimated the swastika might | be hoisted there any hour. Paris announcements said new successes along the Somme and Aisne rivers are reported and the | last German forces on the south side of the Somme have been driven back across the river and the situation is | “highly !avornble REARATTACK DRIVE ALLIES TO CHANNEL Refreat Is @med fo Be Orderly-Much Equip- ment Abandoned LONDON, May 29.—Allied' expedi- tionary forces in the Flanders trap are fighting a “stiff rear guard ac- uon in an attempt to cover their withdrawal towards the coast, re- iiable sources said today. The fight- ing is reported to be in complete order and without chaos. It is believed almost certain that much equipment will have to be abandoned or destroyed. Neutral military observers said the desper- | ate situation can be relieved only by mechanized forces equal to Ger- many's. They said the Allles. face one of the greatest disasters in his- tory. CAPT. R. MOLTEN DIES SUDDENLY HONOLULU, May 29. —.Capt. | Robert Molten, of the aircraft ear- rier Saratoga died aboard the ship last night as the result of an heart attack. The widow and three chil- dren survive at Long Beach, Cal. He was a member of the class of 1911, m e