The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 11, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEW'S ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVI, NO. 8437. 11, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIAThD PRI;SS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE PRICE TEN CENTS [TALY AIR RAIDS BRITISH NAVAL BASE Smoke Hangs QOver Paris As Fires Rage JUNEAU'S FIRST CLASS POSTOFFICE STAFF CLIPPER ON ALASKALINE IN SEATTLE o) e Passefiégr Sikorsky Ship Ready to Inaugur- ate Juneau Service | SEATTLE, June 11.—The four- engined 32-passenger Sikorsky Clip- per which will inaugurate the service Lo Alaska, Seattle to Juneau, 'unved at Matthews Beach yesterday at 4:| 35 p. m Coming from San Francisco .’\f!flx" a seven-d leisurely flight from | New York, giant plane landed v the here with blasts and whistles blow- rom nearby pleasure craft. The first flight to Juneau with mail only is scheduled for June 20. Four days later the clipper will start a twice-weekly passenger and mail | service Seattle Manager R. O. B\fl]winkel‘ me crew will make the trips north | as brought the ship from the East | succeeds James H. R. Cromwell, who! amcng the invading nations. | resigned to run for the Senate from; Coast i | The shakedown flight, Seattle to Juneau, is scheduled for or Friday of this week. U.§S. SHIP IS HALTED HIGH SEA Unidentified Submarine| Stops American Lin- | er Washington i WASHINGTON, June 11. — The | State Department announes that the | liner Washington with 1,020 pas- sengers aboard, enroute to Lisbon\ from Galway to pick up additional | Americans, was stopped by an un- identified submarine at early dawn | today and orders were issued to abandon the vessel. After an exchange of messages in which the captain of the Washing- ton insisted the liner was an Am- erican craft, he was allowed to pro- ceed. The 1020 passengers and 570 | members of the crew, however, had | been mden-d m the lifeboats. MAYOR CALLS MASS MEETING FOR 8 TONIGHT Fourth of JMelebralion Plans to Be Under Discussion ‘ A mass meeting of all citizens in- terested in seeing a lively Fourth of July celebration held in Juneau this vear has been talled by Mayor Harry 1. Lucas for tonight at the City Hall | at 8 o'clock, The Mayor has already received | assurances from the Commanding | Officer at Chilkoot Barracks that a large party of soldiers will be here for the Fourth. Tonight’s meeting will outline a civic celebration, which will be held with the cooperation of Alford John Bradford Post of the American Legion. FOREST SERVICE MEN FLY T0 TAKU INLET A Forest Service party consisting of Regional Forester B. Frank Heintzleman, District Ranger W. A. Chipperfield, Regional Engineer A. E. Glover and Assistant Forester william N. Parke flew today to Taku Inlet with Pilot Shell Sim- mons, & Envoy to Canada Jay Pierrepont Moffat Phonephoto Selection of Jay Pierrepont Moffat | 18 Minister to Canada indicates the increasing importance of the pest. d it was undecided whether the | He was chief of the European Divi- | ceived everywhere with the great- sion of the State Department. He New Jersey. Thursday | Princess Juliana In (anada Reaches Safe Refuge To- day with Two Infant Children HALIFAX, June 11. — Princess Juliana, of The Netherlands, and her two infant children, refugees from war torn Europe, arrived here today aboard a Dutch w: ip. Arrangements from the crossing over the Atlantic had been kept a secret. The Princess will visit Lord Ath-| |lone, new Governor General, at Ot- tawa on his im')tulion SAN FRANCISCO ITALIANS WILL BELOYALTO US SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, —The publisher of the oldest Ital- jan daily newspaper on the Pa- cific Coast, Ettore Patrizi, pledged San Francisco’s 60,000 Italians to loyalty to the United States. Small knots of Italians gathered | throughout San Francisco’s North Beach Italian district yesterday, with grave faces to listen to Pre- mier Mussolini’s speech announcing Italy’s declaration of war. The speech was greeted with lit- tle enthusiasm. There was no com- ment or emotion. After the speech editor Patrizi of L'Italia said the Italian people in San Francisco and throughout the United States would remain loyal to their adopt- |ed country. R SIS PR IR, NAVY BOMBER IN CRASH ON WAY T0 ALLIES Weather BI;r;I;d for Crack | Up of Fighting Plane Flying fo Canada MARIAVILLE, New York, June 11.—A United States Navy Curtis |bomber which was released td the | Allies, crashed late yesterday en- route to the Maine border, Killing pilot Allan Lullman, 26. Weather is blamed for the crash. June 11. PRESIDENT IS UPHELD ~ ONSTAND ‘Almost Unanimous Ap- | proval Given Roosevel on Non-Belligerency WASHINGTON, June 11. | President Roosevelt’s strong stand lon which he served notice to the world yesterday_that the United | States was shifting the role of neu- trality to one of non-belligerency, which means favoring the Allies all the nation can without entering |the war, has been endcrsed almost unanimously by Congress. It is admitted the President “made no bones” of his contempt for Premier Mussolini who by en- tering the war did a stabbing in the back act. The talk by the President was broadcast to the world and was re- t of attention and respect even o | M ini ‘ Denounced ~ ByTexans Residents of lfaly, in Tex- as, Are Against En- tering of War ITALY, Texas, June 11.—Resi- dents of this town, numbering 1300 assembled at a mass meeting last |night and authorized the follownig | communication be sent to Presi- dent Roosevelt: “On this day, Italy through its |Premier, declared war against | France and England. This declara- | tion was from Italy across the seas. There is another Italy in Texas |whose entire ctiizenship denounces | this action.” Tours Is . French Capifal Nerve Cenfer of Govern- ment Is Set Up in Tourist Resort * By WILLIAM HUMPHREYS Associated Press Correspondent TOURS, France, June 11.—This white city on the banks of the Loire | today became the emergency Capital City of France. Tours, always filled with fussy tourists, who are placated by good |food and wine, was turned over night into a nerve center of Gov-| ernment diplomacy. Every resource in the city as requisitioned by min- | istries, legations, embassies and their staffs. i President Applies Ad |Of Neutrality WASHINGTON, June 11.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has proclaimed a state of war existing between Italy and the Allies and has applied the neutrality act provision to Italy, excepting the prohibition of ships traveling to Italian waters and that prohibition is expected soon. ———————— Liberia, with a population of 1,500,000, almost entirely African, has no railroads. l’oklm.lsur Bessie Lavenik; l\l.nim Elaine Giovanetti, Quincy Padget. MANY SHIPS OFITALIANS ARE SEIZED Crews of Other Craft Run Them Aground to Pre- vent Seizure (By Asaouu‘u) PRESS) | istmaster Albert VV d, Night Clerk, ) R no Lavenik, William Fr FIRST ACT OF WAR IN CANADA WATERS TAKES PLACE; OTTAWA, June 11.—The llullun‘ steamer Capo Noli, 3,921 ton freighter, was grounded and fired by its crew yesterday as the Can- |adian minesweeper Bras O'r over- hauled her in the St. Lawrence {river, The ship sailed from Montreal British advices from Gibraltar| state Italian crews yesterday at- tempted to scuttle six of their ships in the harbor, but British naval| units reached them in time to beach | most of them. | Clement Atlee, Deputy leader| in the House of Commons, said 14‘ Italian ships have already heen‘ seized and 10 others are in British | ports and will be taken over today.| At Cape Town, the 5800 ton Ttal-| ian liner Sistiana was seized by the | British forces. | The 8000 ton Italian vessel Ger- isalemma was run aground at Table | Bay after the crew sighted an armed‘ British merchant cruiser. The 500 ton Italian ship Timavo! was beached by the crew at Cape Vidal after a South African Air. Force plane was sighted. At Melbourne the 9700 ton Ital- ian motorship Romo was seized by, Australian forces. | e NAVY BILLS ARE PASSED BY CONGRESS Two Measures, Building Up Deparfment, Go fo President | WASHINGTON, June 11. The! House has completed Congressional action on bills permitting the Navy to have a total of 10,000 planes, * jed, trying to find out if | pinch themselves {them up to a living nightmare of | death, Sunday with the minsweeper trail- ) ing her unm the declaration of | KILLED IN ACTION: THE ECONOMISTS' GERMANY WAS "HAVENOT By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, June 11.—Wash- | ington has been pinching itself | ever since the Nazi blitzkrieg start- it had been completely asleep during those months when' the experts assured them that Germany couldn’t last| six months in a major war. Undoubtedly Great Britain, France and a lot of small neutrals have been wondering the same | thing — but they didn't need to The Nazis waked | bombs, and blood and burning But the nation that economic | observers said couldn't last has been able to throw into lightning- war resources which would burden the wealthiest country in the world. | Fleets of huge tanks, armored | | with the most invulnerable steel, | | using six gallons of fuel to a mile, | roll relentlessly across hundreds of miles from Germany to the sea Thousands of great bombers, daily ! burning gas and oil by the thou-| sand tons, sweep devastation | say the economists. 16,000 pilots and to build 22 new ahead of the tanks. Hundreds of combat vessels, also to increase the|thousands of well-fed, well-clothed, Navy's surface tonnage 11 per- cent, Both bills will now go to the| White House as they have been‘ passed by the Senate. well-armed soldiers pour into the | paths of death cut by the machines Portable bridges, the thousands, ! that parachutes by a mosquito fleet threatens to descent in Glen Wald, W. C. White, Assistant Rose Maloney, Edward Giovanetti, POSTOFFICE SOONTO BE FIRSTCLASS ‘ r Volume of Last Year's, " Business Brings New "Promotion” s of (left to right), ay Abesl . Zimmerman, t shown. SHIP IS FIRED when she prepared to capture the TItalian vessel. The crew of the Cape Noli ran their ecraft{, aground and set it afire. The minesweeper crew and a fire tug fought the flames and extin guished them The Italian crew was imprisoned. ‘1nme grounding was the first act of war in Canadian waters, war, The Juneau Postorfice, first in Alaska to attain second class rat- ing, will become a first cl office on July 1. r pls, | higher salaries for local Postal of- | ficials, more help on the Postoffice | staff and better | Since Postma. tered office January eeding year has seen the Ju- IDEA THAT of business, until last year the to- ¥ | tal was in excess of $52,00 on gross receipts from stamp sales, box ren- | tal and periodical rates. ‘ Second Class 27 Years Second class rating was attained hordes on the English Navy, thou-|jyly 1, 1913, At that time the Post- sands of rubber boats to clear the office was located on Front Street marshes and pontoon the rivers in the present location of the Mec- | —all appear as if by the wave of a caul Motors garage. The Postmas- wand from a nation that had re- | tey was the late E. L. Hunter. At belled against Europe ‘“only be-| present there are four other sec- cause it was hungry and destitute ong class Postoffices in Alaska. in the midst of its neighbors' 1, 1914 the Postoffice moved to plenty.” | Third Street between Seward and g oned | Main, Mrs. Lottie = Spickett - was DID GERMANY LIE? | Postmaster. In 1932 the move was The only answer youwll find in made into the Nd"” Bul]d‘ng these parts is that Germany nnm —lied about its production, its im- FRE“(H YOUTH ‘ ports, its consumption. The Nazis must have been lying for years,| Greater Germany, with the| countries under its thumb today,| according to best guesses, is able | to get hold of more than 8,000,000 tons of oil products annually. Synthetic oil products alone will | be produced in Germany this year to the tune of 4,000,000 tons and the Reich already has cammnments for 1,500,000 tons from Rumania,| where the price has risen from $15 to $45 a ton since the war started. | More than a million and a half Polish field workers have been | poured onto the farms of Germany and its captive lands, Czechoslovak- lian factories, according to confi- dential reports, are being stnpped Announcement - No Reason Given PARIS, June 11. — The Military Governor of Paris of this section, has asked all young unmobilized Frenchmen from the age of 17 years and up to leave the city. No reason is given but presum- ably the request is to prevent their use in German labor battalions if the city is taken. (Continued on Page Seven) s Post- | | Based upon the volume of postal | the new rating will mean| ervice to patrons.| - Albert Wile en- | 17, 1935, each | | neau Postoffice do a greater volume | LEAVE PARIS Milifary Governor Makes| now in charge | & NAII ARMY ADVANCING ~ ON MARNE |Lower Seine River Is Also Reported to Have Been Crossed FRENCH STEM TIDE " TOWARD CAPITAL CiT¥ falians Ass;rtfhree Forces | Ready for Attacks- Turkey with Allies BULLETIAN—LONDON, June 11.—The British War Oifice an- nounces that cnemy aircraft | raided Malta, British naval base in the a mere hop frem S 4 both naval The offi ( says “at 4:50 a. 2 raid by about 10 hostile aircraft was made over Malta and a further raid | was made later. Casuallies were sliht and little damage was done. One enemy plane was shot down.” BULLETIN—PARIS, June 11. —Informed . seurces ' said the German Army bas reach&d the vicinity of the Marne, historic spot when the ¥French turned back the swiftly moving Ger~ | mans in September, 19i1. | The same sources also declare the lower Seine has been cross- ed in several places. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Destruction of two entire French armies in the great battle for Paris is reported from Berlin, saying that \Hnllu mechanizpd colur are | speeding southward to slice France |in half to meet the Italian troops. |No hint of any such “slaughter” is given in either French or British official communiqu \ The French High Command how- | ever reports that Gen. Weygand's armies have stemmed the tempes- |tuous “scythre” attack down the |coast aimed at seizing the French | capital from the rear. | Italy has marshalled all of-her | resources, according to Rome ad- Ivirs«. and “troops, naval vessels abd |air forces are undoubtedly engaging” the Allies. No details are given, however, At Istanbul, Turkey, Deputy Yait- chin, important Turkish political fi- ure, said Turkey is on the side of the Allies” with all of her heart.” | A pall of acrid smoke is hanging over Paris today due to numersiu fires t by German mcendiary bombe: - RIOTING AGAINST ITALIANS {Canadians Stage Demon- stration — Police on Guard i in Section : TORONTO, June 11.—Demonstrat- ors stoned a number of Italian bus- iness establishments here and the police, reinforced, are now on guard lin the Italian section where 15,000 Italans lve An Ttalian Catholic school ‘door | was smashed to splinters by a mob, | RIOTS IN ENGLAND LONDON, June 11.—Angry crowds rioted in Italian sections in London, |Liverpool and also Edinburgh, |smashing Italian cafes and shops. The police were forced to charge often to prevent mobs from wreck- ing Italian establishments. Soon after the declaration of war by Italy on the Allies, the police commenced a roundup of all sus- | pected unfriendly Italians of whom there are thousands in England alone,