The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 7, 1940, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8434. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 1940. PRICE TEN CENT3 GERMANS REDOUBLING SUICIDAL DRIVE Allied Line Holding Half Million Nazis CAAGRANTS A UTHORITY TO PAA FOR AIR ROUTE FROM SEATTLE, JUNEAU be conducted at the outset with a | Sikorsky S-42 B flying boat but| the PAA plans ultimately to use Boeing 304 four-engined land planes all the way from Seattle to Fair-| the first passenger flight for |panks with an intermediate stop at.| June 20. | Juneau. | The plane to inaugurate the | qpe CAA has been told by “the service is expected here tomor- | s that the Boeing planes will row or Sunday. be available by the fall of 1941 Two round trips weekly be- .4 qitaple landing fields will be | bween Sealtlg and Juneau, with available for them about that time. | an intermediate stop at Ket- | chikan, is the service planned, 1 according to Robert Bullwinkel. PLANE IN WEST | SAN DIEGO, Cal, June 7—The| WASHINGTON, June 7. — The|pan American clipper Bermuda has | Civil Aeronautics Authority hasau-|arrived here from Bermuda via| thorized the Pacific Alaska Air-|Central American waters and will| ways to establish an air route be-|stay overnight before continuing to | tween Seattle and Juneau. Seattle for a shakedown flight| The CAA calls the Seattle-Juneau to, juneau, Alaska. | route important, not only commer-, The crew consists of Capt. S cially but as a matter of national | g Robbins, First Pilot W. J. Jones, | defense. mechanics W. MacLarson, J. E. Alaska is now the only territory| pagan, radioman R. C. Williams | not linked with continental United | and Supervisor M. Ames. | States by a scheduled airline, the CAA says. 7 i It is understood the Pacific Al—‘ SHAKEDOWN FLIGHT | aska Airways is prepared to beuln{ According to word received at| the service this month, about June|the Juneau office of the Pacific | 15, tentatively, having made some Alaska Airways, the shakedown | 20 trial trips over the route and | flight of the clipper is schmiulerl= now about ready for the final test|for Tuesday. The plane will arrive flight of the 32-passenger plane,| here Wednesday after a stopover BULLETIN—SEATTLE, June 7.—The Pacific Alaska Airways has tentatively sciveduled the first air mail flight from Se- attle to Juneau for June 17 and Princess Neptune | With a crown of fishhooks, a neck- lace of cork bobs, a fishnet Tobe and a fish-spear sceptre, Clarissa Tuck- er, of St. Augustine, Fla., reigns over the St. Johns County fishing tournament, which runs until Oct. 15 at St. Augustme tentatively set for leaving Seattle next Monday for Juneau with a night stopover at Ketchikan, The CAA says the service is to Army Barracks in Ketchikan. Yesterday's report scheduled the | Sikorsky to arrive in Juneau on | 'mesday Anchorage; Workers Needed; Transporlallon Is Furmshed MUNITIONS T0 BE MADE ON 24-HOUR BASIS Army Orders Munitions Manufacture Speeded -17,000 Working WASHINGTON, June 7. — The Army’s six ordnance. manufacturing arsenals were ordered today to op- erate on a full 24 hour basis and to speed up the production of mu- nitions where feasible. Major General Charles Wesson, Chief of Ordnance, said the estab- lishments will employ more than 17,000 men and more may be hired. —————— Moving Toward France BELGRADE, June 7—It is re- ported authoritively that the Yugo- slav War Ministry has released 120,000 reservists during the past fortnight as the result of the trans- fer of large Italian forces from ¥iume to the French border. Baseball Today The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major leagues: National League Philadelphia 4; Pittsburgh 10. American League Detroit 7; Boston 1. St. Louis 2; Philadelphia 3." © | Cleveland 4; New York 5. “Atice to die in the past year. | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, | —The Federal Government has ad- vised the State Department that employment of 1,000 men is needed to construct the Army Barracks at Anchorage, Alaska, and has asked aid in obtaining workers, skilled land unskilled craftsmen, including | carpenters, plumbers, electricians. | Common laborers are also needed, | the United States Civil Service an- . i nounces, The wage scale and working con- | ditions are not revealed but trans- portation to Alaska and back will be provided the workers who are to be listed for departure June 15. | SEATTLE ANGLE | SEATTLE, June 7.—The Wash- | |ington State Employment Service | said no notice has been received | here regarding men needed to bulld the Anchorage Barracks as sent out from San Francisco. The local of- ficials said there are many skilled Iworkers here who are unemployed. — ., HEART AILMENT CAUSES DEATH OF i nia Supreme Court Dies, Berkeley BERKELEY, Cal, June 7—Chief Justice William Waste of the Cal- ifornia State Supreme Court died late yesterday at his Berkeley home. The Jurist had been ill from a heart ailment for two weeks, and in Icfltlcal condition since Sunday. He was 71 years old. | Justice Waste was a native of |california and a graduate of the University of California. He had served on the Supreme Court bench since 1921 and as Chief Justice since“1935. He was the third Jus- ¥ June 'l,‘ CHIEF JUSTICE William Waste of Califor-| ABBEVILLE - ' BOOMED FOR 45 MINUTES [British Air Force Scores Di- rect Hits on German Occupied Town LONDON, June 7.—The British Air Ministry announced this fore- noon that during "45 minutes of almost an incessant bombardment’ on German occupied Abbeyville yes- terday, the bombers scored direct |hits on the main roads, railway ‘brldges and principal exits of the town. * Sabofer Is Shot | BySquad {German, Convnded of Es- ‘ pionage, Pays Pen- alty in France PARIS, June 7. — Fritz Erner. 34, German picture producer, was shot by a French firing squad this morning, but a Presidential pardon saved his Swiss woman accomplice, |Carmen Mory, 30, from a similar |fate. The two were arrested on esp- pionage charges and convicted. — - — ALASKA YOUTH IS OUTSTANDING AT | {George Collins, Jr., of An- chorage, fo Be Given Honor, Graduation WINSLOW, Washington, June 7. |—George Harold Collins, Jr., of An- chorage, was named today as the outstanding member of the grad- uating elass at:.the Puget Sound Naval Academy. Commencement /,ceremonies ' open 4omorrow, " NAVAL ACADEMY| ANCHORAGE AIR BASE IS (ERTAIN' Appropriatfi—of $12, 000,000 Is Placed in Army Measure WASHINGTON, June 7.—The Senate and House conferees on the Army appropriation bill have agreed to retain the $12,- 009,000 appropriation for the air base at Anchorage, Alaska. The House Appropriations Committee eliminated the item but the Senate restored it, House members of the confer- ence committee finally gave in, secing the wisdom of defense for the northern territory. - - - 2 Nafions May Quit Chinaland Rumors GreamBritain and france Are fo Abandon Orienfal Inferests SHANGHAI, June 7. — Rumors that Great Britain and France are considering virtual abandonment of their interests here and elsewhere n China, caused a visible tighten- ng of police control as precau- tionary measures over foreign areas. The outstanding angle, which is denied by representatives of the wo nations involved, is that Amer- cans are negotiating to take over he French concessions. NAVY PILOT IS KILLED IN PLANE CRASH Seattle Flyifinsfrudor Is Fatally Injured Near Pensacola, Fla. PENSACOLA, Florida, June 7.— Lieut. John Dalquest, of Seattle, Navy instructor, was fatally in- jured here today when a training slane fell four miles north of here. Cadet Gliden, the other occupant of the plane, was not severely in- fured. DANILOFF RETURNING Mitchell Daniloff, former Juneau High School student who has been attending the University of Alabama for the past two years, is a. pas- senger returning here on the North- land. Nazis’ Newest Blitzkrieg Hortror PARISSOWS | PROTECTIVE | TANKTRAPS According to Paris reports, the Germans invading France now are u r: G orts say that German tanks fire entire vi R 4 on every third house. Speed-Up Foreseen at Naval llages by turning their flame-spitting nozzles German Power §; pent, Say " French - Nazis (laim Break Through 'HITLER DIVE BOMBERS, TANKS ARE DECIMATED Italian Shi;;;ardered Off Seas Info Ports of Neufrals BULLETIN—PARIS, June 7. —The Germans are attacking violently early tonight in the center of the Somme front north of Soissons in the Oise Valley and have renewed attacks on the French right flank along the Aisne, leading with swarms of infantry, BULLETIN—PARIS, June 7. —Unofficial reports received here are that Gen. MaxineWey- gand has sown the entire area between the battlefront and the Seine River just above Paris with anti-tank defense nets. The city has begun to empty sing flame-throwing tanks of the NAVY PLANES I Academy; Educational Frills May Soon Be Tossed Overboard Attempls Suicide By lo_dine Drink SITKA, Alaska, June 7.—(Special Correspondence) —Mrs, Johnny Ab- bott, a young native woman, evi- dently was attempting suicide when she drank part of the contents of a bottle of iodine here yesterday. The Fire Department was sum- moned by her frantic husband at 5:30 p. m. The firemen summoned Dr. W. C. Charteris, resident physi- cian, who rushed to the woman's ald and treated her in time to avert| serious harm. Mrs. Abbott is report- | ed recovering from the effects of the poison. | Her reason for trying to take her| life was not definite. Her husband had locked her up, having returned from work to find her quarreling with some women acquaintances. When she was not pemitted to re- enter the altercation, Mrs. Abbott secured a bottle of iodine and swal- lowed a portion of it. -ee — Film Dancer Is Opeflled Upon HOLLYWOOD, Cal, June 7. — Film dancer Eleanor Powell is re- ported in a favorable condition af- ter undergoing a major operation at a Hollywood hospital. Mr. Mar- cus Rabwin said the actress was resting comfortably. She suffered from an abdominal ailment that made the operation necessary. | | Inferior Secrefary Ickes Is (alled Enemy of Organized Labor for Colony Scheme ASTORIA, Oregon, June 7.—In- ‘erior Secretary Harold L. Ickes is ‘riticized as an enemy of organized ‘abor for support of the Congres- iional proposal authorizing Europ- *am colonization of Alaska. The criticism came at the Alaska Martitime Pederation of the Pacific sonvention here which condemned the Havenger colonization bill after | George Lane, convention delegate |of the United Fishermens' Union declared that Ickes “could no longer be looked upon as a spokesman for the Liberals because the measure| is a vicious attack on organized la- bor in Alaska.” Lane also attacked Secretary | years to mett the demand for of- | Ickes and the Bureau of Fisheries for curtailing commercial fishing in Alaska, ) By JACK INNETT WASHINTON, June 7. — Plans are afoot for the United States| Navy to streamline its naval aca- demy course at Annapolis to three | ficers in the vast expansion of our | sea power. | According to Grapevine informa- tion, Annapolis officials already | have the new course mapped out| and on less than 24-hour notice | from the Navy Department could put the streamlining into effect to give our fighting ships 165 more ensigns a year than theyre get- ting now. The plan, of course, would have no effect on the 500 young men‘ who are getting their stripes inl| June—but the second classmen (juniors), numbering more than| 600, probably would be kept from | their summer cruise to South Am- erica. Instead they would grind away in intensive training and be graduated at midyear early in 1941. The 1200 other young men in the Academy and the new cla.ss of plebes would be thrown into a| speed-up curriculum of high-gear training. IT'S HAPPENED BEFORE A lot of the frills and furbelows of modern education would be| dropped. The advanced courses in English, for example, probably | would go overboard. You don't need a knowledge of restoration comedy to bawl out orders from the bridge of a plunging cruiser or a familiarity with the verse forms of Beowulf to crack com-| mands down an engine-room speak- ing tube. Also tapped for dismissal are| some of the foreign language coures. A lot of the social activ- ities at the academy would be cut off. In the time thus saved, the young sea dogs would concentrate on technical studies, such as navi- gation, gunnery, electricity and steam. It begins to appear that the country’s rapidly expanding na- | val program already has created‘, a shortage of young officers in the | fleet. It was partially to offset zmsi that the order was issued that only those youngsters in the 1940 graduating class who are physi-| cally unfit will he allowed to re-| sign. In the past when there was | no shortage of officers, the young men could resign on graduation, The officers detached from the | fleet for post-graduate study at (Continued on Page Sevem) 10 BE SOLD TO ALLIES Thirty Fighfing Aircraft Are Flown to Buffalo for Sale fo England BUFFALO, N. Y., June 7.—For- malities and shrouded secrecy are apparently all that stands in the way of prompt delivery to the Allies of fifty United States Naval Re- serve war planes. More than thirty were flown here yesterday and last night from Naval Reserve bases at Floyd Bennett field, New York, Detroit, Chicago and Anacostia, Maryland. The Navy Depattment announc- ed in Washington that these planes are being turned in to the manu- facturer, the Curtis Aeroplane Di- vision, against future deliveries of new planes of a superior type equipped with leak proof tanks and armor. The Allied purchasing commis- sion is expected to buy the planes shortly. New Plan To Dispose Extra Guns. |0ld Equipn@n?to Be Turn- ed Back-Firms Then Sell fo Allies WASHINGTON, June 7-—Presi- dent Roosevelt disclosed today at the conference with the newsmen that he is asking Congress for leg- islation to permit the Government to trade in old types of guns, thereby to complete the Govern- ment’s power to turn back to the manufacturer all kinds of surplus equipment which Jn effect will put large stores of American war sup- plies available for sale to the Al- lied Nations by private firms. LENORE ANDERSON MARRIES J. ROMER Jock W. Romer and Lenore E Anderson were married late this af- ternoon by U. 8. Commissioner Felix Gray, Witnesses were Bliss Galla- gher and Henry Benson, itself as trains jammed with people are leaving. BULLETIN—PARIS, June 7. —The machine power of the German Army is dwindling, says a French statement this afternoon, and the Nazi com- mand is sending masses of men, perhaps half a millien, into a supreme effort to flank the Weygand line at both ends and strike a decisive blow at the heart of France. It is estimated that one fifth of the German’s 2,000 tank ar- . mada is now inactive and there are also a fewer dive bombers in action. (By Associated Press) .. New angles entered the Europeam war today as cannon-equipped planes made their appearance on the Western front and an ominous~hint was given regarding Italy's’ éh- trance into the war whe nthe Itals ian Line office in New York Ci announced that all Itailan on the high seas have been ordered to proceed to neutral ports immed- iately and all sailings 1:v¢ been can-~ celled. A brief communique by the Ger- man hign command this foreneon said the Weygand Line has “broken through on the en front.” Another authorized Corman source sald Germany’s war aims are two- {old, “annihilation of France and annihilation of En d Firm, Say French A Prench statement doclares that the two hufdred wmile front in (Continu q on Py St TWO THINGS STOP ITALY FROM WAR Fascists Wafifre nchAir Force Destroyed-" " Poilus Distracted BERLIN, Juue 7. — Informed German sources said tonight that ltaly’s entrance into the war de- pends on two things: the destruc- ‘ion of the French air force and *he distraction of French attention by a gigantic operation such ’n t siege of Paris. The sources said they bem'“" France had “practically vacafed" ‘he Maginot Line to throw every available man into tie M—Bflh. batle. saned