The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 6, 1940, Page 1

[ THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8433. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 6, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 WEYGAND LINE HOLDS UP NAZI THRUST German Bombers Make Attack, English Coast NAZIPLANES MAKE SWEEP | WIDEREGION Unleash HifitrExplosives-'; Also Incendiary Flame Sfarfers RAID APPARENTLY FOR WRECKING AIRDROMES | Six Persons Injured But| Property Damage Not | Serious, Is Report (BY ASSOCIATED PRI ) | Unleashing the most extensive | bombing attack on England since | the war began, German planes.1 dropped high explosives and in- | cendiary bombs last night. | The planes swept over a 270- | mile stretch of the coastline in an apparent attempt to hit airdromes. Bombs were dropped on York-| — r es north of th ted Police in Fifth column acuv Royal Canadian Mo tious literature, portraits of Nazi sympathizers in Montreal, The Hitler, names of those with” Nazi Headquarters Raided e border were pipped in the bud by ectacular raids on headquarters of Mounties scized this batch of sedi- stika banners, and u file of i leaninigs, The Watrior; Duce | | One raider was shot down | | { | - Being Mine | | The Washington is scheduled to| Pacific Alaska Airways, said the shire, Lincolnshire and Norfolk and M also along the Thames. ( o a s ' II n e Six persons were hurt as the re- sult of the .raid but none were killed, it is unofficially said. | \ Several minor fires were started but were quickly extinguished. | Damage is reported to have bet‘q slight, the Air Ministry claims. -ee FAA (I-IPPER |Twelve-Mile Strip Is Re- fect U. S. Liner | WASHINGTON, June 6. — Italy | today motified the United States | Government that a 12-mile strip| b o around the Italian coast is being | . | mined. | Shakedown FllgM Leaves| " rhe notiication aiso stated that | the United States liner Washing-| Sea"le MOfldaY—Sfop ton will be conducted through the H 1 mined zone safely. in Ketchikan | 9 | dock at Naples next Monday Indications that the first clipper| The mining of the coast is taken flight from Seattle to Juneau is| here to mean that Italy is getting not far away, wdle shown today ready to enter the European wa when John Gilwee, assistant sales | ———— manager for the Juneau office of | shake-down flight of the giant Si- ORDER lSSuED korsky is expected next Monday. The 32-passenger plane is ten-| | | | | Here is the latest portrait of Pre- mier Benito Mussolini, showing the Italian Duce sporting a new war helmet. All indications are that the | Jtalian dictator is about to come | off the fence and forsake his neu- trality to go into the war on the side of Germany. 'GET READY' ] ‘veloped during the Alaskan trip |ing any recommendation for abol- |ishing fish traps. |study and administrative effort to. | the number of outside purse seiner: NOHERRING FISHING, IS HOUSEPLAN, Committee Makes Recom- mendation Affer Alaska Trip FISH TRAP QUESTION NEEDS FURTHER STUDY Offshore Fishing Problem Is Left Up to State Department 1 WASHINGTON, June 6.—A total prohibition against taking herring in Alaska waters for oil, meal or fertilizer has been recommended by the House Committee on Mer-! | chant Marine and Fisheries, a sub-{ committee of which spent last sum- mer holding hearings in Alaska ofl | fisheries matters. | The recommendation appears among several others in a report | of the Committee . to, Congress after |a two-year study of Alaska fish-| eries. “The Committee said evidence dew* Here is an artist’s conception of s |last fall demonstrated increased | | scarcity of herring, believed due to| operations of reduction plants. | Reduce Salmon Traps | The report expressed conviction salmon traps probably should be | reduced and redistributed if they | are continued, and their capacity | regulated. | Two British destroyers, beneath the chalk cliffs of Dover, - Is This Hitler’s “*Secret Weapon”? > T500r wiNe SPREAD what a German refugee declares is Hitler’s dread “sccret weapon.” En- eased in the fuselage of a giant transport plane is a huge tank, which can be drop after the plane lands behind enemy lines. At least 200 of these blitzkrieg weapons are reported ready | for nse in an invasion of England. Dover, Within Range of Nazi Artillery | T % i 5 England. 1066, 18 very close to it now. ( ped through a trap door | | the Fortune and Firedrake, are pictured convaying a freighter (hlckgn?uml) Twenty miles across the Channel. in Boulogne. the Nazis are now within heavy gun range of these cliffs. England, which hasn’t been invaded by an enemy army since Each trap should be considered | separately on the basis of thc‘ facts in each case, the Committee recommended. Temerity was expressed regar n It was asserted the question was one for scientific ward reconciling conflicting m-% terests. | Abolition Scouted The Committee’s report said com- | plete trap abolition might increas and gill netters in Alaskan waters. Concerning the question of non- REY“AUD IS | resident labor in Alaska, the Com- | { mittee found that although some DIRE(TOR OF | 7 | | | | | action appears desirable, it is im- practicable now. It recommended an effort be made to adjust the issue by negotiation or mediation before any legislation is attempted. Any such legislation should apply locally rather than for all Alaska, | NASHINGTON TAXIMEN ARELOQUACIOUS; CAME NEAR GETTING IN BAD | By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June 6. — 'l'h(“ Washington taxi drivers, with a| ift for gab that shames the most | ft-spoken congressmen, almost | lked themselves into trouble. So generous are.they in point- ing out the sights of the capital that the powers that be started a serious move to make them buy guide licenses as well as cab driv- stay over night in Ketchikan. It will arrive here Tuesday. One of the largest planes in pas- senger service in the world today, the clipper has been operating be- tween Miami and Bermuda and was flown to New York before com- ing across the country to Seattle. S. E. Robbins and W. J. Jones, former PAA pilots on the Alaska route, will fly the giant plane to Juneau. s — .- C(OLOGNE IS AIRRAIDED LASFNIGHT Incendiary Bombs Drop- ped by Allied Forces on German City BERLIN, June 6—A number of incendiary sbombs have been dropped on Cologne, is an official announcement made this morning. The ' communique said ~ Allied planes roared over Cologne last night dropping the incendiary bombs. One apartment ‘house was fired and several others were hit. ' There were ho “personal injuries” it is said, tatively scheduled to leave Scaulel on Monday with the maintenance | | crew on board and is expected m) | ALIEN TRAVEL State Department Regula- tion Requires Canad- | ians Have Passports WASHINGTON, June 6.-—Drastic restrictions were placed on the en- Itry and travel of all aliens in the United States today in an order from the State Department. | The order barred admission to the | United States to all foreigners un-| :able to prove “legitimate purpose | |or reasonable need.” Simultan-| |eously a ban was imposed on shors-} |leave privilege for all foreign sea-| men whose names are not listed on the visa or the crew roster of the ship making port. The strict regulations requires passports from all new. classes of foreigners including Canadians. SUCCESSFUL AIR "RAID ON GHENT: . TANKS DESTROYED 1 | LONDON, June 6. — Royal Air le-ce fliers destroyed many large |oil storage tanks in early morning raids on the German held Belgian city of Ghent is the official an- nouncement today. MUSSOLINI All Branches of Fascist Giv- en Preparedness Sig- nal by Premier BULLETIN—ROME, June 6. —All branches of the Fascist Party of Italy were late today ordered to be ready to don uniforms any time for a mass meeting to hear Premier Mus- solini say “Italy is at war.” The mass meeting will prob- ably be held on a few minutes notice but the Premier in issu- ing the preparedness order, did not indicate just when the time DUKE ARMY POST sources said the Duke of Windsor has relinquished the post of Liason Officer with the French and Brit- ish armies. No announcement is made fur- ther as to his intentions unless he seeks a higher commission, {of Alaskans to confer on regula- e e o it was recommended. ! B Dy oxilmpoghosscqrabed | [ Mal_<es Ugh'“iflg Changes in Cabinet of Fisheries and the Committee on introducing fair, just and equitable | legislation for penalizing unlawful | fishing. During Night Alaska Commission The Committee approved enrlyi PARIS, June (»}I.fPaul Rx'yn'fum announcing of regulations by the has become France’s one man Direc- Bureau of Fisheries and a proposal | 0 Of War. X 4 f With lightning changes in his to create a Fisheries Commission | | cabinet shortly after midnight, Pre- mier Reynaud announced he had assumed the important post of For- eign Minister in addition to the Premiership and War Portfolio. Former Premier Daladier has {been dropped from the Reynaud government in addition to other ‘hvldovers of previous regimes. {Secret Meel " For Commons ~ (Called Now tions. It was recommended that the status quo be maintained with re- lation to offshore fishing by for- eign nationals since the problem is now before the State Depart- ment. e Who'll Ride The Elephant? On June 24 the Repub- licans will meet in Phila- delphia to nominate a President. . . . Do you know the most likely candidates . . . what they stand for . . . how poli- || LONDON, June 6.—Prime Minis- ticiams rate their chances ter Winston Churchill announced | . . - who may win if one today that a secret session of the of the Big Three doesn't? House of Commons will be held next 1f not, you'll want to read | Tuesday. * The session is called, it| Alexander R. George's is said, for a debate on home de- help avoid cracking. l |ers’ licenses, Only the ire of the local eitizenry, aroused by what they considered an injustice, smoth- ered the move. Washington loves its hack driv- ers and well it might. They are as distinctive as strangers in a strange land and yet as much a| part of the Washington scene as| the Lincoln Memorial, They come | from all over, but the sun of nlxi(-J seems to have melted them down to the same general mould of| genial loquaciousness. | To understand them, you must understand first that Washington taxis are among the cheapest in the land. The zone system is used. For 20 cents you can ride the two miles from the capitol to the White House. As a matter of fact, you can ride almost anywhere in From $1,000 to $800 for single| | persons The present exemption of $400 for each child is left unchanged. It is said this will add an addi- tional 2,000,000 taxpayers, D 200 SUSPECTS JAILED, CORK Roundup Occurs in Irish Free Stafe of “Heil Hitler” Crowd official Washington for 20 cents.| Consequently, nearly all capital ! life sifts through the hackies’ screen. He knows Senators, clerks, bootblacks and barons. One min- ute, he is chauffeuring thie Am- bassador's lady, the next it's ste- nographer Judy O'Grady. | A FRONT SEAT DRIiVER ’ He talks to them all. It isn't weather talk, either. The fat they| chew has gristle in it. Without any pumping they'll| tell you what's going on “up on| the Hill” — who's backing what | bill and why. They know the po- litical effect of Dewey's speech in| the Midwest last night, and why four lively articles an- “‘“5’- the Senator of yonder state hasn't | lyzing TET S et R | got a chance to come back to Con- al m.mn‘; | Keep linoleum in 2 room of| i,e“ next year. il fl'm" appears M"‘,l moderate temperature - for Empire. Read it night, at least, before laying it io (Continued on Page Five) 10 REDUCE INCOME TAX EXEMPTIONS House Subcommittee Writ- ing Defense Measure -Plans Announced | WASHINGTON, June 6. — The House subcommittee writing the Defense Tax Bill has voted to re- duce the income tax exemptions as follows: DEFENSE SYSTEM WORKING New 'Quick Sand’ Method Reported Trapping German Tanks ALLIES STUBBORNLY HOLDING BACK NAZIS Concealed Field Gun Nests of French Are Effective PULLETIN—PARIS, June 6.— A\ semi-official Telefrance News Agency repocted touight that 25 giant tanks have been destroyed at Chaulnes and in heaviest of fighting around Abbeyviile at the mouth of the Somme. | (By Associated Press)’ Pleets of German tanks, nosing into the newly organized ‘“quick- sand” defense system reported by the French, are said to be suffer- /ing heavy losses on a 200 mile | western front. Nazi plans, according fo undis- puted authority, calls for the cap- ture of Paris within 15 days. The German high command an- nounces that the forces on the Western front have gained ground in a sweeping thrust southwest of the new French strategy. This thrust is permitting of a filtering through of infantry then an engulf- {ing .~ movement close behind is | planned in a follow up rush of Ger- | man infantry. It is admitted that German tank | squadrons have been met by point- blank 75 millimeter field guns in concealed nests. | Weygand's command denled any serlous break throughi the lines, but state several withdrawals have taken place, but only for strategic ‘pw. ol London advices from the™fromt acknowledges the Germans™, are pressing on at certain points-in an attempt to find a soft spot Hi" the Weygand line and when theg.find it will try to push through.»» A summary of the western”front movement at noon today indieates the Allied forces are holding back the German armies. 2,000 TANKS - From $2,500 as now, to $2,000 for | married men or heads of families. CORK, Irish Free State, Tune 6. —Shouting “Heil Hitler.” 200 Irish Republican Army suspects are de- tained in barracks here. The suspects started rioting and setting fire to their shirts, then throwing them out of the windows. The police charged a crowd that gathered. - - AT FAIRBANKS J. G. Shepard, Acting Territorial Representative of the Public Works one| " ope driver I rode with launuhediAdmm‘S“"fionv is spending the week in Fairbanks inspecting the PWA paving project now in progress, ARETHROWN INTO BATTLE Swarms Are Repbrled Making Affack on.- French Tonight “~~ PARIS, June 6.—The Germans are throwing at least 2,000 tanks into the battle of the Somme-Aisne rivers is the report officially made by the French War Min'siry spokes- | man tonight. | The Germans have made only a slight advance. | i { Some of the tanks, it is admit- ve driven as much as seven and a hall miles into the French {lines, The tanks are attackihg in {swarms of several hundred. It is claimed that at least 200 tanks have been blasted up by artillery. fire., Late tonight, the French forces are withdrawing from some Somme Positions to better locations toward the Bresle River. GERMAN CLAIMS BERLIN, June 6.—The Germans are crossing the Somme River on pontoon bridges laid down in the face of a withering French artil- (Continued on Page P v 1 £ i bd 1 ¥ i