The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 18, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” ——e = VOL. LVL, NO. 8443. JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, JUNE IBV 1940 MEMBER ASSOCIATE! D PRI SS PRICE TEN CENTS HITLER, MUSSOLINI Fuehre r, Premi HE'SINT DEFIANCE ISHURLED AT NAZIS Churchill Says England s Now Prepared to Meet Invaders L4 & HEWAR | ler 'Marshal Petain lssues| ‘e KEEP ON FIGHTING 1S ORDER Command fo French Land, Sea, Air Forces BULLETIN — BORDEAUX, June —— == E-— 4 - German Fighting Planes Roar to the Attack g § . o 0 DICTATE PEACE 4 & L4 Reported In Agreement AXIS CHIEFS MEET;FRENCH PEACE IS UP Reported that Harsh Terms Will Be Demanded by 2 Nations MILLION, QUARTER 'KEEP FIGHTING ORDERED | 18.—Premier Marshal Petain tonight OF MEN UNDER ARMS | Prime Mlmsler Makes| Dramatic Talkto | Commons 1 LONDON, June 18—Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill told the| House of Commons today that “we ave more than 1,250,000 men | arms in England” and he| defiance at Nazi Germany's voiced threat of invasion of the British Isles. The Prime Minister further said: | “In view of the troops now in this country, invasion will require hos- tile armies on a very large scale and we have a navy.” i Churchill declared that any in-| vading army would be ‘‘drowned in the ‘sea or blown to pieces while trying to land.” Comment from Hitler was that cooperation between the British and French soldiers in the bloody | battle of Flanders ran none too cmoothly, while the suggestion of lack of cooperation between British and French was made more strid- ently in Rome where officials of | the Stefani News Agency spoke of | “a gigantic fegling of hatred to- ward England” in France, and said | Churchill had told the . House ofl Commons that the entire British Ex- peditionary Force in France “was thrown out of action” because the French command had failed to| withdraw northern armies in Bel- gium at the critical moment. | Churchill denijed any recrimina- tion declaring it was “utterly fu- tile :md nven harmful.” Here Duce Mussolini LARGEST NAVY IS PROPOSED FOR UNITED STATES BY ADM. STARK ‘Ilmon Ad | ordered all French soldiers on land, sea and in the air to keep on fight- ‘mg even while he awaited Hitler's |reply to his plea for honorable | peace. Peace negotiations have not even' | begun, Premier Petain told his men |and it is the “duty of all to continue | resistance.” | | CABINET MEETING | BORDEAUX, June 18—The new ‘Frencn Cabinet met again today | with Premier Petain, still awaiting | |an answer to the Marshal's appeal |to the enemy for peace with honor. this photo shows a flight Used to strafe ith a big share of the Made from the squadron commander’s plane, U to the attack during the Flanders blitzkrieg. centrations, these planes are credited w Allied ground forces and break up troop con- Nasi success in the Low Countries. (center) { Muti (left) and Marshal Pietro Badoglio. | with Fascist Secretary Ettore INWORLD WASHINGTON, June 18. — Ad- miral Naval Operations, unexpectediy recommended to' Congress today a “|ing. E,Explosiofis Reparted Harold R. Stark, Chief of|S The exhausted French armies are presumably still fighting a losing, battle. The customary official communs= ique was not forthcoming this morn- —————a—— — “GOES DOWN ON PACIFIC OCEAN Aboard-Crew Said fo Have_Efgaped SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June 18. —The Canadian steamer Niagara| was abandoned by her crew be-| tween Australia and New Zealand today after a terrific explosion in her number two hold. SOS mes-| sages picked up by the liner Presi- dent Cleveland, 1,250 miles west of Honolulu, were relayed to the BOMBER UNDERGO corporation into the land plane manufacturing field, this has a wingspread of 110 feet, range ol about 3,000 m.ph., and a bomb- carrying capacity ol about four tons. This 8San Diego. It ES TESTS —Marking the re-entry of &mmlldaud Aircraft four-engined bomber has been tested at of German fighting planes winging ] miles, speed of more than 300 is Consolidated Model 32. UNTIL ARMISTICE SIGNED Canada Iflnmediately Recruit Manpower to Repeal Nazi Threat (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Fuehrer Adolf Hitler and Ital- ian Premier Benito Mussolini have agreed to the terms of the “Axis Peace” with France. The terms are not specified but are expected to be harsh. Hitler and Mussolini left Mun- ich even as the French soldiers were told to keep on fighting until the armistice is actually signed. Canada, meanwhile, prepared to mebilize all of the Dominion’s. manpower and resources to fling on the dawning “battle for Great Britain.” Marshal Petain, new Premier of France, and Gen. Weygand made sudden unexplained moves late today, hinting at a collapse of peace efforts. Both Petain and Weygand appealed to the French forces to carry on the battle. The French have dynamited the four-mile lone railroad tun- nel under Gold Mountain in Juras, close to the Swiss border. The tunnel is used by the trans- European express trains. HITLER IN MUNICH Fuehrer Adolph Hitler rode llhrough “Heil Hitler” cheering | crowds in ancient Munich today. The triumphant Puehrer whose conquests are already a challenge BRADLEY HERE |to the exploits of Alevander the | Great and Napoleon, came here to | meet his Axis partner, Premier |Globe Wireless Station at San| Francisco. $4,000,000,000 fleet expansion for the Navy to give this country the FRENCHMEN FLEET OF TRANSPORTS AIR RAIDED British Crafll—loire River Estuary Reported De- stroyed, Damaged (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) While the two Axis leaders, Hit- ler and Mussolini are meeting to| discuss peace terms with France, the Nazi High Command reported sweeping successes of the German armies in France and the bombing + —x—flest—at. Allied 1 ts and | other ships in the Loire River es- tuary, likely point of embarkation | for withdrawal of British troops in France. The High Command says more than 17¢,000 tons of shipping has been destroyed by the.bombing or else severely damaged in the “big- gest raid in the present war” — - e —— Prevailing Wage Scale For Alaska WASHINGTON, June 18.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed the leg- islation requiring payment of pre- vailing wages on Federal housing projects in Alaska thus extending to the Territory the Davis-Bacon Advanced To French British Reponed foHave Made Proposal Last | Sunday Night LONDON, June 18—An official | announcement last night said the British on Sunday offered to con- clude a “solemn act of union” with France with the object to as- sist - France and support her “to| the utmost” in her “hours of stress | through wkich she is passing, by giving every French citizen Brit- ish citizenship and every British citizen French citizenship.” PRGN o gt ol SILVER PURCHASE TO CONTINUE; 0.K. GIVEN BY SENATE WASHINGTON, June 18. — The Senate today voted down the pro- posal to end the Administration’s authority to purchase foreign sil- ver. .This decision reverses the stand taken by the Senate on two previous occasions. The vote wss 45 to 35. e CHRIS RADMILOVICH TRESPASSING AGAIN Chris Radmilovich today was sen- tenced by U. 8. Commissicner Relix Gray to pay a fine of $50. or spend 1 Amusement | greatest fleet the world has ever seen. After testifying before the House| Naval Affairs Committee at a closed | session, the Chief of Naval Opera-| tions said he proposed a program for about 200 fighting ships or about 1,250,000° tons. The Navys authorized combat tonnage now | amounts to about 1,724,000 tons. N o e e d Tax Boost Is Jw]d of the Niagara was filling | doned the Niagara in life boats. The first message said that the rapidly and that the ship was al-| most completely disabled. The Cap- tain advised that he was heading toward the group of small islands known as the Hen and Chickens. Half an hour later the crew aban- | It is presumed that all were re- moved safely, as there was no mention of any deaths or injuries. The Niagara sank six miles off Marotira Island. The American steamer West Harshaw enroute from Auckland to Sydney, radioed that she was proceeding to the aid| of the Niagara, The Niagara operated out of| Vancouver, Wash,, and was on her| way to Ackland, N. Z., by way ol“ Honolulu. MUSTERING NEW FORCE Many Escape_fr;)m Maginot Line fo Reassemble in Southern-Army | LESVERIERS, Switzerland, June | 18.—French troops, 350,000 strong, have escaped from the lower Mag- inot Line to reassemble with the Fine Vessel For Purpose |Millionaire FIenschmann | Makes Inspection of | Little Craft KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 18.— {M. A, Fleischmann, of Reno and | yeast magnate, made a bee lize Satko's Ak New York, millionaire, and retired | Maritime circles in San Fran- cisco believed that she may have Indicated Southern Army and lend force to|for Capt. Paul Satko's humble Ark | the nation’s insistance of an l"m-,on his arrival here last night aboard orable peace. ‘lus huge yacht Haida and immedi- 25 days in jail on a charge of tres- passing on land owned by Trevor Act. l Davis. Ten Percen{ha_vy Proposed| on All Admissions | Over Dime WASHINGTON, June 18. — The Senate has approved |the 'measure expected to raise $77,000,000 by in- crease in amusement taxes. The measure will put a 10 percent levy on all admissions over a dime. — .- — TWELVE DEAD | IN AIR CRASH BELLEROSE, L. I, June, 18.—The| toll of the midair collision of two army bombers yesterday morning | reached 12 today with the death of Mrs. Emily Kraft. Mrs. Kraft was burned critically when flaming wreckage df one of | the bombers set her. house afire. Her two small children were in- jured. Eleven army. fliers were| killed instantly when their- planes| crashed in the air lm fell flaming to earth. 11s carried and the ship has accom- been drafted into service as a erp ship on her last voyage. MORE DETAILS SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. June 18.| —Several other ships in the vicin- ity are reported going to the res-| cue of the Canadian survivors. | The ship sailed from Vancouver, B. C, May 8, on the regular run. Generally a crew of around 200] | modations for 430 passengers. } The agent here did not know| how many pusenxers were aboard e —— RETIREMENT ACT MEASURE | PASSES HOUSE WASHINGTON, June 18, — The | House has passed and sent to the| [Senate Bill No. 8046 bringing within | |the retirement provisions the Alas-| ka Railroad employees now eligi- ble under the Civil Service Retire- ment, Act. |97 3/4, Anaconda 21%, The troops moved south in two | main forces, the first composed of the 350,000 escaped men which shielded a few thousand French Al- \ pine Chasseurs who stood guard | in the lower Jura region while me‘ Maginot Line troops escaped be-) hind a thin smoke screen. B g ‘ TOCK QUOTATIONS f NEW YORK, June 18. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 4%, American Lun Bllhhh(‘m Steel 77 7/8, Commonwealth and Southern ‘1, Curtiss Wright 7%} General Motors 44%, International| Harvester 46%, Kennecott 28 7/8, | New York Central 11%, Northern e | ‘Paclflc 5 3/4, United States Steel | 53 3/4, Pound $3.63':. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow,| Jones averages: industrials 12321, | rails 2563, utilities 20.79. |of | Auditor {ately took a'liking to the home- | made boat and the owner. “That is the most creditable crart for its purpose I have ever seen,” said Fleischmann. “What all that hullabaloo down south when they stopped him was for, I don’t know. The craft is a fine sturdy | job of construction.” Fleischmann is ret,urnmg south after collecting Indian relics at Wrangell for the Santa Barbara museum Arthur Coggelshell, di- | rector of the museum, and Phillip {Orr, anthropologist, are with Pleischmann, who is President of the museum. R et DENMI MINES INCORPORATED Denali Mines, Incorporated, cap- italized at $200,000, has filed papers incorporation with Territorial Frank A. Boyle. Incor- porators, all of Anchorage, are Pred D. Houghan, H. C. Luther and George Kennedy, T0 VISIT A. J. FOR FEW DAYS {Mine Head 'May Name Suc- cessor fo Metzgar With- | “in Next Few Days | | P. R. Bradley, President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Com- | pany, arrived in Juneau this morn- ung on the steamer Aleutian with | his son Phillip Jr. to spend a few days here in connection with mine business. Bradley declined to comment on |a successor to L. H. Metzgar, the |late Superintendent of the Alaska | Juneau, but said he would make a statement” in the next few days. | son gre guests at the Baranof Ho- | tel, | Taku Here In Morning Steamer Taku is scheduled to ar- DRUG MAN HERE J. C. Anderson, Manager of Stew- art-McKesson drug wholesalers in Seattle, arrived in town this morn- ing from Seattle to spend a few days here on business. He is at the Bar- anof Hotel. -oo - LOGGER IN TOWN Gordon McDonald, Petersburg log- ging man, arrived here today from the Wrangell Narrows metropolis and is at the Gastineau Hotel. The Alaska Juneau head and his| rive in port at 3:30 o'clock tomorrow | morning, southbound to Seattle from .Sitka. S ldom for our people.” iy | Benito Mussolini of Italy, to dic~ tate the heralded “unconditional surrender” offer for peace made by France. 11 Duce arrived several hours Ya- ter and was given a tremendous welcome. The conference is taking place in the Bavarian city which saw the birth of Nazism and its abortive “beer cellar putsch” in '23. AGREE TO PLAN BERLIN, June 18.—The DNB, official German news agency an- nounces that Hitler and Mussolini agreed late today on the position of the Rome-Berlin axis concern- ing PFrance’s request for an armis- | tice. Honorable Peace Aim Of France INation WI" Never Be Ready Accept Shame- ful Conditions NEW YORK, June 18—Foreign Minister Baudoin of France, broad- casting last night, was heard here |and the French official declared that “if we are given the choice between resistance and honor, the French army and the whole French people know what we will do. “We are ready to lay down our arms if we can get an honorable peace but we are never ready accept shameful conditions whien will mean the end of spiritual free- F I