The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 12, 1940, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LV, NO. 8438. ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1940. MUVlBl-R ASSOCIATED PRFSS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZI FORCES ARE NOW NEARING PARIS Northern Italy Is Air Raided By British FAST ATTACK IS MADE BY ROYALFORCE First Assault on “Enemy” Soil Reported from Two Sources ETHIOPIANS ARE NOW ENGAGED IN FIGHTING South African Bombers Make Assault on Mili- fary ()fledives BULLETIN — CAIRO, Egypt, June 12.—-The Royal Air Force again raided Libya today direct- ing the principal attack on the Italian naval base at Tobruk, Wave after wave of Blenheims swept over the Italian harbor. One direct hit was scored on a large warship and the vessel began te burn immediately. Two submarines are also believ- ed to have been hit. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) London circles assert that bomb- ing planes have made an attack on Northern TItaly and Rome advices admit that the first “enemy assault” on Italian soil has been made on the Ligurian coast where the great| port of Genoa is situated, but no| details are given. The British attack was a surprise one and executed in quick time. Italian sources declare British air raids on the desert airdromes of Ttalian Libya have been beaten off | without serious damage. An unidentified plane, says Rome, has dropped bombs on Geneva, kill- | ing four perscns and injuring many. ETHOPIANS IN BATTLE LONDON, June 12—The Laborite | Daily Herald says 200,000 Ethiopian troops, wearing the uniform of the former Emperor Hailie Selassia, are battling the Italian Fascists who occupied Ethiopia. The Herald also says Emperor Haile Selassie, now in England, is preparing to return to Italian oc- cupied Ethiopia and lead his former soldiers. ATTACKED BY BOMBERS PRETORIA, South Africa, June 12—The first South African war communique said heavily loaded and tri-motored South African bombers attacked military objectives. of the Ttalians in Ethiopia and did exten- sive damage of buildings, highway and equipment stations. Despite heavy machine gun fire, all South African bombers returned safely to their bases. —,—>—— Aerial Bombs, British Make, Drop On Swiss Official Examination Made —Four Persons Are Killed BERN, Switzerland, June 12.—The Federal Government announces that an official examination of aerial pombs which were dropped around Lake Leman last night and resulted in the death of four persons, showed them to be of British origin. Seven bombs were dropped on Renes and six bombs were shelled down near Geneva. It is admitted the bombs might| have been dropped by German | 9 planes and may have been part of Joot reported taken when Allied troops capitulated in certain sec- tors. 1t is also admitted the bombs is not gl\ en. WORKSTARTS AT ONCE ON NAVY (RAFT Orders Issu;H_for Immed- iate Construction of War Vessels WASHINGTON, June 12. — The Navy Department today announced that an order to start work imme- diately has been issued for construction of two new 45,000-ton battleships and 20 other warships and auxiliaries. The order was issued within one hour after President Roosevelt had signed the Navy's $1,400,000 appro- priation bill. 4 - — IPRODUCTION IS T0 BE SPEEDED Army Turnm uipment Over fo Private Indus- fry, It Is Announced WASHINGTON, June 12. — The White House reports that the Army “immediate production of am- try for sizeable quantities of powder, monia, arms and ammunition. Consistent MILWAUKEE, Wis, June 12— James Roddy could pretty easily qualify a8 the most faithful track official Marquette University has ever had. Roddy, a traveling sales- man, hurries back from wherever his job might have taken him to en Avalanche’s meets — and .ae might have been dropped by Italian raiders. hasn’t missed one in seven years. ed some 1,000 persons, including children, " 10an the | has turned over reserve manufac-| turing equipment to private indus-| Inspecior serve as an inspector at the Gold- e iaiia Paris Apartment Bombed ment building wrecked by the German bombs which killed or wound- Location of this building Dimond Asks $25 000 000 To Build Alaska Highway | WASHINGTON, July 12—Alask: \Delepa(e Anthony J. Dimond ha: | introduced a bill in Congress ask- |ing for the appropriation of $25.- 000000 for construction of a | highway through Canada to Al | aska, } The highway, it is explained, needed for both industrial and mili- tary purposes. The bill will also authorize the ’Pnoudom to get the consent of the Dominion of Canada for construc- tion of the highway and any money spent in Canada, except through a to the Dominion, would be it used only for the purchase of Am- erican materials. e House Passes Defense Bill Raising Taxes National Debt of U. S. In- creased from 45 o 49 Billion Dollars WASHINGTON, Jupe 12. — The House passed the defense financing | bill late yesterday with only six adverse votes. The bill boosts tax receipts $1,004,000,000 and increas- es the nation’s legal debt limit from 45 to 49 billion dollars. Secretary of the Treasury Mor- genthau will explain the bill to the Senate Finance committee today. The Senate approval is expected next week. The bill lowers the personal in- come tax exemption to $800 for |single persons and to $2,000 for married, and increases the number of taxpayers to two million. It increases the taxes of those now paying income tax and also increas- es surtaxes and incomes from $6,000 to $100,000 annually in a range of one to thirteen percent. It boosts the corporation levies one percent and includes for five |years the only ten percent surtax. | Thus a man whose income taxes figured to $100 last year, must pay 13110 this year - eee——— Governor Dickinson of Michi- gan once used a penny post card to send instruetion to his office | JHuhile he was out of town. TROOPS ARE T0 BE SENT T0 ALASKA large Deta(_hfieni Goes fo Anchorage, Says Sec- refary Woodring | — | WASHINGTON, June 12.—Secre- tary of War Woodring announced today that the First Battalion of | the Fourth Infantry will be trans- ferred in the near future from Fort Missoula to Anchorage, Alaska, and hat a battery of the First Field Artillery will be organized from artillery troops of the Third Di- vision to accompany the First Bat- talion. A company of engineers and other small detachments of service >lements will be organized and moved to Anchorage from Fort| Lewis and other west coast sta- tions, the War Secretary also an- nounced. More Money ToBeGiven For Defense Appropriafio;s_ Committee Recommends Another Billion and Half WASHINGTON, June 12. — The| Jouse Appropriations Committee oday recommended an additional 1,706,000,000 outlay for national de- ense to prepare the country for w~hat General Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, called “all manners of possibilities in the western hem-; ‘sphere. The recommendation would boost lefense appropriations this session ‘0 $5,021619,622 and include $2,- 000,000 for the Kodiak air station and $2,900,000 for the Unalaska air station, OB ST LTSRS (OMBAT ZONES DESIGNATED IN ORDER BY FDR Only Porlsm’orlugal, Northern Coast of Spain For U. S. Shipping WASHINGTON, June 12—Presi- dent Roosevelt has proclaimed the Mediterranean and Adriatic seas as :ombat zones and has prohibited United States shipping from enter- ing those waters. The executive order, issued under the United States Neutrality Act, also had the effect of closing the Black Sea, the Red Sea and the northern coast of Africa to Ameri- can shipping. Only ports of Portugal and the northern coast of Spain in Europe still remain out of the combat The Brilish censor said this pi afire and disintegrating in mid-a from I‘lander: By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, June him. ' The other day when the inter- (name a day hasn't been), as all-get-out cently when it to the screen doors. You could almost feel the sion. The boys who labor in news marts were full of ques-| climax. at once. Then, just as slowly, he area and open to ships and planes of the United States. backed away—dropped off into Ion;, agonizing lull of explanation. Invasion of Canadian Province Feared; Armed Force Reporfed Ready ST. THOMAS, Ontario, June 12. — Premier Mitchell Hepburn de- clares the Provincial Police have been informed that Fascists and sympathizers in the United States have organized and are waiting only word from Europe to attack Ontarlo. ° The Premier charges the oygani-| zation is well armed and well trained and he said further: “I have no confidence the Dominion| Government. will be of any help to us in event of such an invasion| of our fair Province.” wandered into the afternoon press| conference. The President’s dome-|The things we shaped office was sardine-canned know were buried by either | Then them from pouring out. Then the President began to| speak —slowly, casually — like an actor building up to a dramatic| He let them have it all| ure, cabled from L:ndon to New York, showed a German Heinkel “111” The picture was made from a British fighter plane. the aerial engagement in which this action took place was not given. * For Best Adlor n (apllal Honors Given fo Roosevelt again he struck an impor- tant point, and tripped off slowly y 12.—Presi- 1, his exit line. dent Roosevelt has a way with| | Took HIS Story When the curtain came, there national situation was as tense wasn't a an (or woman) in the| re-| room who wasn't dying to dash| I/for a telephone or fresh air or| a chair, Questions were forgotten really wanted to umn and a half of good news or ten- exhaustion. the| Hours later, after the copy was all in, we realized the to await another day it comes pronouncements—he is a one Note to the Movie Critics: Don Ameche made a personal appear- ance here the other day before the House Committee on Inter- | state Commerce. Although he| ‘plnyvd to standing room only, his | performance was lousy. | |and secretaries found out. There being no advance billing on Don's appearance, I don’t see how all the capitol stenographers — That | just shows how fast the old grapevine travels. And when nat- ty, sunburned Don made his en- trance in Hollywood gray, the| girls were jammed around the| committee-room table, I think Don came to talk about the block-booking bill. He got in something about how tomers what a picture is about before it's finished. Then Repre~ (Continued on Page Three) things we tions. Only capital etiquette kept|really wanted to ask would huve‘ml impossible | it is for a producer to tell Cus-| Location of This picture, radioed from Berlin to New York, shows, according to German-censored caption, a British Spitfire plane, torn by shellfire, on the beach at Dunkerque, France, the Allies’ bitterly-contested exit In the b.u:erulllld smoke billows above Dunlu'rl(ur Ark Slranded On Sand Bar | | | [ Sailing SatkoTs_belayed on Trip to Cook Inlet in Homemade Vessel KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 12.— a col- | High and dry on a sand bar in Met- home made so- called Ark of Juneau is temporarily determined migra- tion to Cook Inlet witn. the seven ’ lakatla Bay, the delayed in its ling Satkos. The |seen on the bar eight hours later, | just seven miles from Prince Ru- pert. | capt. Jack Brisbois, skipper of | the fish packing boat Elsinore, sumed all were well. and another skxpper (Conunupd on Paze 'uuve; ' (lAIM IO FAME | 12 PHILADELPHIA, Pa, June | Ham Schulte, Philadelphia Philli | other claim to distinction. It is, says he, his real name: | Herman Joseph Schultehenrich. shortemed it for the sports writers when into organized ball, he Near Rupert Ark, which apparently left That President Roosevelt—when | Prince Rupert for Ketchikan about to handling his puunufi o'clock yesterday morning, was which passed the stranded Ark, re- | ported on arrival here last night | that he saw figures on deck and as- | He said he| who passed second baseman, says he has one Corps General, He played under that monicker |with the University of Iowa but benefit of | “Frank Merriwell” X moved |dime novel fame, has written 40~ German Air Raider Dlsmlegrales in Midair POIlllS IN - LAST DITCH - OF DEFENSE 'High Command Insisfs that | Nazis Only 12% Miles from Famous Capifal REIMS, ROUEN TAKEN; LEHAVRE IS BOMBED Winston, Reynaud, Wey- gand Have Conference ‘Somewhere,’ France (BY ASBOCIATED PRESS) Battle-stained French poilus are today fighting doggedly on the “last ditch” defense of Parls on the old World War battlefields of Chateau Thierry along the Marne. The German High Command in- sists the Nazi armies have smashed to within 12% miles of the Capital City of France, Reims and Rouen have been |captured and LeHavre has been bombed. Seven transports are also report- ed to have been sunk by the Nazi bombing craft. Srench Assertions The Paris military spdkesman | however, asserts that “nowhere |have the French defenses been | pierced.’ | Make Great Advance The Germans, according to DNB, | have advanced from 50 to 70 miles |toward Paris on “many fronts” | during the past six days, and con- | tinues by stating that “our offen- | sive is going ahead on schedule.” Terrific Barrage The DNB also claims that quick- |firing German antiaircraft —guns, levelled off with effective horizon- | tal range of eight miles, destroyed 1200 ailied tanks. Chiefs Confer | British Prime Minister Winston | Churchill, French Premier Paul |Reynaud and French Gen. Wey- |land conferred somewhere in France — | yesterday, according to official ad- |vices. It is claimed the three reached “complete agreement” on | vital steps. “Armistice” City Captured The German High Command in- | sists that the German forces have | captured Compeigne, scene of the :slxnmg of the “armistice” in 1918, Allies Cut Off The German High Command claims that the Allied troops have been cut off and surrounded: near St. Valery, on the English«coast and capitulation is near. This was the claim made early this morning. Fifty-nine Allied planes are said to have been destroyed in the St. Valery sector. BIG FORCE SURRENDERS T0 GERMANS 'St. Valery, on English Channel, Capitulates when Surrounded} BERLIN, June 12—The German High Command announces that French troops, surrounded at St. _|valery, on the English Channel, }huve capitulated. r | The High Command says more |than 20,000 French soldiers have |been taken prisoners as the result {of the capitulation. The prisoners s"ldre reported to include one French one British . Corps General, four French Divisional Generals and material taken is “inealculable.” S eee Gilbert Patten, creator of the stories of 000,000 words of fiction.