The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 14, 1940, Page 1

b '4 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL., NO. 8440. jUNEAU ALASKA, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1940. —— PRIC] l:' TEN CENTS: MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PARIS CAPTURED; FRENCH FLEE MAGINOT LINE lS_KTT_ACKED BY GERMANS CLIPPER ON WAY NORTH: INTONIGHT Giant Flyina_goaf Has 26 Aboard - Robbins and Crosson Commanding | BULLETIN—At 3:45 o'clock | this afternoon static conditions | between Juneau and Ketchikan prevented clear radio signals and it is not definitely known what time the craft will leave Ketchikan. There is a possibil- ity of the clipper remaining at Keichikan overnight. SEATTLE, June 14.—The biggest g boat ever to take the flight . pointed its bow north- ward at 9:38 o'clock this morning on a 1,000-mile leisurely shake- | down cruise to Juneau, Capital City of Alaska and northern ter- minus of the new Seattle-to-Al- | a air route being pioneered witn | Pan American Airways' giant Al- | aska Clipper, a 32-passenger Si- korsky flying boat. Aboard the craft were 26 persons, ten of them crew, headed by Capt. S. E., Robbins and Joe Crosson, pioneer Alaska aviators. Three representatives of the Civil Acronautics Authority, three from the Navy, as many from the Army, one from the Coast Guard, and also one from the U. S. Wealhfl‘ Bureau are aboard, | The Alaska Clipper radioed cn-j route that she was taking the mgh” easily, flying over alternate routes to lock over possible landing spots. | JUNEAU TO RECEIVE Phones in the Pacific Alaska Air- office here were ringing stead- ily today in the wake of prepara- tions to give the Alaska Clipper an Alaska welcome. PAA agent Louis Delebecque re- ‘ ceived a telegram this morning giv- | ing the plane’s passengers and crew | as follows: Capt. 8. E. Robbins,| Capt. Jerry Jones, Second Officer L. Bisbee, Third Officer, Murray Stuart, Fourth Officer, Gene Mey-| Engineering Officer, Jack n, Radio Officer, Dave Wil- liams, Supernumerary, O. J. John- (Continued on page Six) BRADLEYDUE TUESDAY ON MINE VISIT Alaska Juneau President Be Accompanied by Son -P. R. Bradley, Jr. | Department ISLAND OFF ALASKA COAST SWARMING WITH RUSSIANS WASHINGTON, June 14.—Alas-)governed, and Little Diomede Is- ka Delegate to Congress Anthony |land, American governed are situ-| J. Dimond told reporters today that |ated about half between Si- he has been informed that Russia beria and Alaska in " Bering Strait is settling thousands of persons The little Diomede Island is onily on the Big Diomede Island and | about 40 miles from Cape Prince the Eskimos on the American side of Wales, Alaska, and the Big of the boundary line are becoming|Diomede is about 50 miles from the alarmed at the Soviet influx. Siberian ceast, The boundary line The Big Dlomedc Island, Russian runs between the two islands. a British home defensé unit sets up a listening England. With a Nazi invasion of the British Isles fel! imminent, large numbers of these listening devices have been manned. They inform of invading planes long before ships are in sight. Equipped with “ears,” post somewhere in BIG ARMY FORCEGOING TO ANCHORAGE BASE BY END OF PRESENT MONTH WASHINGTON, June 14, — War officials estimate that probnhlv 750 regular Army officers land men will be dispatched to the HITLER IS new Anchorage Air Base by the end of this month from present stations in the west. ! About 500 are estimated to be, involved in the order announced | by Secretary of War Woodring for | transfer from the First Battalion,| Fourth Infantry, from Fort Missou- | | la, Mont. L Ofte jfie i 0 100 - \FDR Says in Effect that Nazi & Eien Leader's Word Isn't Worth Cent | A, Eighty-First Field Artillery. WASHINGTON, June 14—Presi- About 100 men are to be organ- ized at Fort Lewis, Wash., from | dent Roosevelt, told a conference of today that all possible the artillery troops of the Thiftieth | Division and Thirty-Second Divis- |ion, Company Engineers. . About 90 from the Tenth En- gineers, Fort Lewis, and about 60|newsmen (GOVERNOR T0 " DELIVER FLAG DAY ADDRESS ‘Palnohc Program Sched- uled for 7:45 Tonight at Elks Hall Gov. Ernest Gruening will deliver Flag Day address at tonight's patriotic services at the Elks Hall. The program will start at 7:45 o'- clock and is open to the public. The Governor's address will fol- low singing of “The Star Spangled Banner” by the audience and per- formance of th¢ Elks ritualistic | services. The program will be concluded by a pledge of allegiance to the flag and the singing of “America.” | Mayor Harry I. Lucas is in charge of the Flag Day observance. Nor- man Banfield will preside as Acting | | Exalted Ruler of the Elks Lodge. NATIONWAVES PROUD FLAG | AS WARS RAGE| - nlrcrn“ IFresh Pafriotism Nofed in| | land of Free Unifed | States | PHILADELPHIA, June 14.—In- creased sales of American flags ir the past month have been announc- | ed by manufacturers as the nation | observed its 163rd anniversary of ! the making here of the first “Stars | and Stripes.” ‘ | One manufacturer said “There | is definitley a renewed patriotic spirit.” NEW YORK COLORFU NEW YORK, June 14.—This city was red, white and blue today with flags waving on all streets and al- | leys of this teeming metropolis a:.", thousands proudly declared a new found love for the “Land of the! Free.” | Even more significant than tra- | ditional observance of Flag Day in | | metropolitan New York was the | heavy display of flags in foreign quarters of the city. | FRENCH REJOICE | NEW ORLEANS, La., June 14.— | Flag Day was observed quietly in New Orleans today and the numer- ous French sccieties of the city| ‘pln'ycd a prominent part in cere-| monies, PATRIOTISM WATCHED ] SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 14, Here is the French channel port that has been rained repeatedly by high explosive bombs from German This is onlv one of the many French cities to suffer Nazi bombing in intensification of the aerial " The port was cnptnred today by the Nazis. Glbralmr ‘British Rock” Under Double Threat Here is van excellent view of Gibraltar, LEHAVREIS ALSO TAKEN - BY INVADERS |French Seaport and French | Capital Fall Into Hands of Nazis | BIG: FORTIFICATION DEFENSE ASSAULTED EightAlIied—TEnsporlsAre Shelled, Sent Down ‘: with Loss of Life | BULLELIN — BERLIN, June | 14—The High Command de- | _clares that Moniemdy, the vital | morthern anchor of the Maginot Line, has been captured and | there is a “eowplete collapse” | of the French ail along the 200-mile western front. | BULLETIN — TOURS, June 14.—Beating a retreat from Paris, the tired French forces withdrer southeast, assailed by the mighticst forces of the ’ Reich, and awaiting word as to how, or even whether to bat- te on. (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's armies have marched into Paris, the Capital City of the French Nation, and the Germans also an- nounce the capture of the import- ant port of La Havre and the in- vaders immediately launched a gold frontal attack on the great Maginot line itself. Rapidly swarming Ger- man meechanized columns poured behind the Maginot line fortifica- tions between Paris and Montmedy, thus impes , from the rear, the 1,000,000 Pollus. manning the steel | concrete line of fortifications, It s not believed the Maginot line’s guns can be turned around to rema | Germans. | The French Government, urly this morning, was reported ngmg again, this time from 'lrmr..,.,md probably to Bordeaux. Pursuit to Destruction The Nuazi High Command de- clares exultantly that “pursuit “of the enemy until final destr is begun.” | The frontal attack on the Mag- |inot line centers in the Saar rze- gion, Transports Sunk ] | The Nazi High Command an- s fortress at the entrance o the Mediterranean now | nounces that eight Allied tragigporte In Madrid, |— eat Bril under a double threat of atttack from the Mediterranean and from the Spanish mainland. ——— “(Continued on Pnge Six)+ ver —Californians made a greater dayv today of Flag Day than in many| years past as an undercurrent or | strong “anti-aggressors” feeling gave | strength to the symbolic life, lib- erty and the pursuit of happiness represented by the Flag of the Unit- ed States of America, living in| | peace. | Fraternal lodgemen stood with | | FBI men and plain clothes police, | however, wherever flag demonstra- | demonstrations were staged for the return of the fortified “rock” to Snain. Now that Italy has entered the | war against the Allies, the “rock” will probably be a principal target of attack. B I h : TheyDwellinMarbleHalls, BU ll h' IT> 1 3 S Back-fo-the Wall Adtion Not Knowmg Who's Boss phur AL | P. R. Bradley, President of the| jineys will be organized into the|help is being extended to the Allies Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- | . yice elements, also from ForUand pointed to Hitler’s record in| pany, will arrive in Juneau on the Lewis and other West Coast sta- replying to a query as to the re-| Aleutian Tuesd: his | g : i it o e oy - " ein st e wesern emesnce French Refugees ‘Canadian Prime % et et Machine Gunned and he added the remark could be erty here. | is grotesque. Accompanying Mr. Bradley is ms Asked to comment, M““sler IaIksrenlnrged on with dates and na-; TOURS, France, June 14.—Ref- ‘nons going back over a period of ugees arriving here said they were son Philip Bradley, Jr,, who is Gen- said: eral Superintendent of the Pine Tree mine and the Haryard prop-‘ g:‘;;fi’:;m' Shiug 8 mtics. eaxt O“i G4 e n;Years | bombed and machine gunned 20 & OTTAWA, June — Canadia miles west of Paris yesterday. Man; The Harvard property is 8 large p e Minister MacKenzie King | of the refugees are woundyed am}i’ Alag'a Juneau has been prospecting | ... e | “I believe I can say to Premier Rey as a al i RPN I"‘/me past two years. As is the|p,.q thyi the resources of the whole‘ caf¢ with the Alaska Juneau, the| ,nerican continent will be thrown wA'(H SABOIAGE margin of profit expected will be| in on the side of the Allies.” 3 = will be necessary in the selection of | Goes by Alr PANAMA CITY June 14.—The a mining method. VISITING NIECE Mr. Bradley Jr., will spend a WASHINGTON, June 14. — The hopes of adapting ‘some of the A. ‘t.hls week to visit with her rtiece, |approved of the bill that the Gov- J. methods for the Harvard prop- }Mu Alva Blackerby. She will re- | ernment continue to transport all erty, main until the end of the month. |mail within Alaska.by air, of individual reactions to the flag. - Roosevelt measures today to stamp out fifth column activities in the Canal Zone area. Agents of the Republic gov- ernment are cooperating with the United States agents to defend the Panama Canal from sabotage, erty, both of which are located in| low frade gold deposit, which the| told the House of Commons today: | e e 2% tmall and much care and planmng4 few weeks in Juneau studying the local uriderground operations, in|gon, arrived on the steamer Yukon | House Post Office Committee has Miss Mary Kirk of St. Paul, Ore- were held, and kept careful watch | Republic of Panama took definite | By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, June 14. — The Nation’s Capital rapidly is becom- ling a city of embassies without a country. | In Embassy lane—Massachusetts Avenue—marble villa after chatenu is pointed out to visiting |firemen as the embassy of a land that is no more and in many of ‘Lhem live men who really are men | without countries. | There are six embassies here of lands which have been absorbed \b_'y' Germany or captured by zis and subjected to a gove ‘mem domination that leaves thi Ambnuadors not knowing ' for whom they speak, nor to whom | they owe allegiance. The Czechoslovakian flag still over the residence of Vladi- | mir Hurban and Mr. Hurban still fcomes and goes on the business of his state, but where is that | state today? Count - Jerzy. Potocki the still s | 'American Ambassador s Placed Under Profective English Lose Armed Cryis- he enters room and “His Excellency” when a Washington drawing his 16th Street place still is the recognized center of Polish activity | i the unitea stes, bue where| Custody, Says Berlin | er — German Warship™ is Poland? At last report, it was fh /ASigiey, Brstoe e, vatie ioe | e S R Hit by Bombers LONDON, Junz 14.—The plight for Poland to be as any geography | cording to advices from Berlin it of France has caused Great Britain pupil could tell you |is indicated that American Am Count Robert van der Straten- |bassador Willlam C. Bullitt is in to drep plane for a long war and go Ponthoz, who also lives on the|Paris and has been placed under “all out" with her resources. great avenue of nations, repre- protecuve custody. Sources close Lo the Government said this releases a fund of money credit to purchase in America any- thing which will couvey or shoot explosives, The fund was originally allmd sents a nation torn asunder—Bel- > gium. His cabinet and council is now in Teurs, France, and has not given up; his King, who appointed DEFE"SE URGED and the United States, | him, has; which recognizes' his credentials,| NEW YORK, Juné 14—The Jew-, for future years. refuses to fucognize the conquest ish Society of the United States| The British Admiralty also an=- |urged today the immediate defense nounced today that the 17,000fgn \of the United States. |liner Caledonia, fitted as an auxil- 1 The noted Jewish spokesman, iary armed cruiser and renamed MINISTERS IN DOUBT |Rabbi Wise, said the first line of the Scotsoun, was sunk by a sub- Mr. Henrik de Kauffmann's status derense is now in Europe and he marine yesterday. While in Norway, theoretically has not changed for expressed the belief that “our ETEN /it was reported at least one heavy he is Washington’s Minister from defensive move would be to lend bomb and perhaps two, hit the 26,- every possible assistance to the Al—!mo ton German battleship Scharn- les.” ihorst in Tvondhelm Fljord. . of the nation that sent him here. (Continued on Page Four)