The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, June 20, 1940, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1940. VOL. LVIL, NO. 8445. ' FIGHTING IN s 4 ALL THE TIME” PIRE —s=a——————— MEMBER ASSOCIAT[*D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS & FRANCE NOW NEARS END Hostilities Are Evgpected To Cease Friday FDR NAMES NEW HEADS WAR, NAVY Frank Kn_ox_N;minaled fo Replace Edison-Stim- son for Woodring ARMY BOSS RESIGNS; LETTER UNRELEASED Nominations to Coalition | Cabinet Sent fo Senate WASHINGTON, June 20— President Roosevelt took steps today to form a coalition cab- inet, submitting to the Senate his nominations, The President nominated Frank Knox to be Secre- of the Navy, and Henry be Secretary of Col, Col. Knox is publisher of the Chicago Daily News. He was the Republican Vice-Presiden- tial candidate in 1936. Stimson was Secretary of State in the Hoover Administration and Se- relary of War under Taft. The submission of the nem- i ns was accompanied by a White House announcement, without amplification, that Sec- retary of War Harry Waoodring has resigned his Cabinet port- falio, effective upon the Sen- ate confirmation of the nom- ination of his successor. Officials in the 'White House say Woodring’s letter of resig- nation was so personal that the usual custom was not followed and it will not be made public. Col. Knox will succeed Charles Edison, who resigned, effective June 24, to run for Governor of New Jersey. In a letter to Woodring, accepting his resignation, the President re- ferred to his rearmament program as “defensive” and he said it Is “not aimed at intervention in world af- fairs which do not concern the Am- erican hemisphere.” Woodring told the reporters he will leave Washington as “fast as I can” on the theory that every “ex” ought to get out of Washington within 24 hours, if possible.” - ,e——— Thomas Torry Passes Away KETCHIKAN, Alaska, June 20.- - Thomas Torry, 76, pioneer who was Mayor and Street Commission- er from 1921 to 1926, and designed | several prominent buildings and streets, died this morning after . long illness. Torry was born in England. He went to the Yukon in the gold rush days and then settled in Ket- chikan. He lived in Olympia, Wash., for time time before coming north. Survivors are a sister, Esther Elizabeth, of Ketchikan, and a brother, William, of Albert Lee, Minnesota. e | Stock QUOTATIONS pedali NEW YORK, June 2, — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4, American Can 98'%, Anaconda 21, Bethlehem Steel 75 7/8, Commonwealth and South- ern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, Gen- eral Motors 43 3/4, International Harvester 45'¢, Kennecott 27%, New York Central 1%, Northern Pacif- ic 5 3/4, United States Steel 52%, Pound $3.56. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today's Dow, Jones averages: indusgrials 12235, rails 25.51, utilities 21.10. | ment troops will be swiftly ferried Ready for Nazi Invasion | Here is part of the fleet of fast torpedo boats Germany is reported groom | | | ing to participate in their forthcoming invasion of England. The German | plan is to secure all Channel ports from which they'will wage a long range bombardment of the British coast. Under cover of the bombard. | to England under protection of thesd torpedo boats und a fleet of submarines. BANKHEAD ~ FOR DEMO Permanent Conven- fion Chairman | CHICAGO, June 20—The Com- mittee on Arrangements has se- lected Speaker William B. Bank- head, of Alabama, as keynoter, and recommended Senator Barkley, of Kentucky, as perman- ent Chairman of the Democratic National Convention which meets here on Jnly l5 NAZI FORCES - ARE MOVING DOWN COAST Brest Takefiollowing | Capture of Cherbourg ~Lyons Has Fallen (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hitler's High Command announc- es the fall of Lyons, France's third largest city, 200 miles north of | Marseille, and the capture of more |than. 200,000 prisoners, including Gen. Altmeyer, Commander of the French Tenth Army. It is also claimed that 50,000 French Poilus in the eastern Magi- not Line have surrendered their arms to Swiss soldiers and poured across the Swiss frontier. The French admit that German troops have occupied Lyons. Under dwindling French resist- ance, Hitler’s High Command also claims the Nazi forces have swept further down the coast of France to Brest, the French Atlantic port below Cherbourg, where the Ameri- can Expeditionary Forces landed tens of thousands of men in 1917 and 1918. Brest fell to the German forces late today. German troops are also racing down toward Bordeaux. They hate crossed the lower Loire River. Prance's intended new line of de- fense, if the fight goes on, is he- tween Nantes and Tour. ——- —— First Flight Covers will be avail- able at The Empire office until 10 P. m. today. Mail closes at 11 p. m. KEYNOTER Senator BarII;y Slated for| Alben W.| Methamzed Forces Are iRefugees FTe—eing from g War Zone Tell of Aban- | doned Nazi Machines GENEVA, June 20. — The first hint that the German mechanized machine gun |to wear out and falter, is given by refugees reaching here from the battle zone, The refugees told of seeing quan- | tities of abandoned German tanks |and armored cars and also motor- cycles along the main highways. Nazi motorcycle patrols are also reported scouring the countryside in search for needed gas supplies. >>o Alrlleld for Anneftelsle Is Indicated War Depafifient Tenta- tively Approves Plan- Now fo Get Money WASHINGTON, June 20.—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond said the War Department has tentative- ly approved plans for construction of an airfield on Annette Island, Alaska, and the next move will be to obtain the money. The airfield will most between $500,000 to $1,000,000 snd wili be The airfield will cost between tween Northern and Western Alas- ka. Delegate Dimond said the funds will probably come from the Na- tional Defense Appropriations. Senator Dies WASHINGTON, June 2—Sena- tor Ernest W. Gibson, 67, Republi- can of Vermont, died early today. He had been ill from a heart ail- ment for more than a week. Senator Gibson was a lawyer and had served in Congress for 16 years. He entered Congress first as a membe of.the House 2| Times During Night Breaking Up forces have begun | ENGLAND IS AIR RAIDED LAST NIGHT \One Hundn;d-(;erman War Planes Swoop Over Coast, Second Time BRITISH RETALIATE OVER NAZI TERRITORY Refugee - mllen Bor- deaux Also Raided Four (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Over 100 German war planes| | bombed England on the southern and eastern costs last night for |the second night in the opening phase of the “Battle for Britain.” The German planes rained new death and destruction and the Nazi |craft droned overhead dropping | their load of both incendiary and high explosive bombs. The attack started at midnight |and continued until dawn this; morning. Air raid alarms sounded in many of the coastal districts. Sixty-six civilians were killed and weunded. 3 Retaliation Raids British long range bombers made successful raids on German alrports! and industrial centers, dropping | 250-pound bombs on oil tanks near | Bremen and also attacking the giant Krupp munitions industry at Essen as well as the railroad yards, |electric power planti and other military objectives in Hamburg, Frankfort and Hanover. Bordeaux Air Ralded German planes air raided the| | refugee-swollen temporary French Capital City of Bordeaux four times last night, killing or wound-| ing perhaps 100 noncombatants. e i NALIS OF NEWYORK ATTACKED Bombs Burst in German Offices — Eleven In- jured in Blast NEW YORK, June 20.—TWO ex- plosions, both apparently caused by bombs, occurred within an hour of each other in the offices of a German banking firm and a build- ing housing the principal offices of the Communist Party. Eight persons were injured in the first blast on the eighteenth floor of a building at 17 Battery Place. The house of the German Consu- late is there and foreign agencies and shipping concerns. Witnesses said the bomb was secreted in a package wrapped in brown paper and exploded in the four-room suite of a German for- eign exchange firm. FIRE AT BOSTON BOSTON, June 20.—Fire broke out at the Battery Wharf today, | docking place of the German tank- er Pauline Priedrick, The tanker has been in port here since hostilities opened in Europe in Sepuamber DEFENSE BILL PASSES SENATE WASHINGTON, June 20. — The | emergency |defense appropriation | measure. for $1,777,070,000, the last major money bill of the Roosevelt defense program to date, has passed the Senate by a voice vote. Pepper Gives Peppery Warning fo Mussolini; Defense Program May Eliminafe Vacations Pefain Says Odds Agains! France Greal Dedlares Pififul Army Fac- ed Nazi Hordes Without Friends BORDEAUX, June 20.—Marshal Petain, France's Premier in defeat, sadly told they have lost their fight with Ger- many because “we had fewer friends” than in 1914 and 1918 and “fewer young men and less arms toa few allies.” However, Petain promised in a radio broadcast, “We learn our les- sop from the lost battle.” Hegllamed the defeat -on the lush years sinee the World War victory “when our sense of enjoy- ment predominated over the sense of sacrifice.” Petain disclosed that at the be- ginning of the “battle for France,” the nation had but 2,720,000 troops or ‘a *half million less than after the three years of bloody fighting in the World War and in contrast with 85 divisions of the British in May, 1918, he added there were but ten in May, 1940. Compared with 58 Italian World War divisions on the side of France, 42 of those have now been thrown against France as an enemy, Pe- tain said. As for planes in the battle of France, Petain said that American, neutral and French planes were outnumbered by the enemy six to one Salmon Pack Good Except Copper River| Yakufat, Cook Inlet, Alas- ka Peninsula Ahead of Last Year A salmon pack running slightly ahead of last year in all districts except Copper River is reflected in early pack reports to the Bureau of Fisheries. Up to last Saturday the pack (by cases) in the various districts where fishing has begun was as follows: Yakutat—1,027 reds, 4,059 kings, 5,086 total, 2,013 last year. Cook Inlet—2,550 reds, 11,177 kings, four pinks, 298 chums, 14,- 029 total, 9,639 last year, Copper River—26,135 reds, - 1,180 kings, 27,315 total, 42,202 last year. Alaska Peninsula (three canner ies on South Side)—5,264 reds, 454 kings, 4,284 pinks, 3,191 chums, 13,- 203 total, 11,964 last year. PLANE ANTE GIVEN BOOST WASHINGTON, June 20.—After | hearing the testimony of Rear Ad- 10,000 miral John Towers that planes: were not adequate fors the two proposed ocean - fleets, . the House ' Naval - Committee recom- mended that the ‘Na¢y Air Force he 15,000 planes. his people today that| By JACK STINETT WASHINGTON, June 20.—Capi- tal comment from our colorful Con- gress: Senator Connally (Texas) — “The argument of military dic- tators ‘cannot be answered by sewing circles. The arguments of artillery and tanks and swarms of airplanes cannot be overwhelmed by resolutions.” It's beginning to look, Senator, as though the arguments of the mostest tanks, artillery and air- planes can’t be overwhelmed at all. Senator Pepper (Fla.)—*In the name of the people of Am- erica, I challenge Mussolini to look into the face of America and see what America thinks of the cowardly blow he is about to strike. Although I can- not speak for the Senate today, I will venture to prophesy to Mussolini: Let him do it if he will; let him think he will strike down civilization when it is prostrate, and I tell him that there will be a time he will feel the sting of America’s lash upon his body and he will crawl like a scourged slave to an ignoble dungeon and spend cternity in penance for what he has done to destroy a spiri- tual body.” Peppery words, Mr. Pepper, but jou ought to know by now those lellows over there don't waste any Ame looking in the face of Amer- ica before they make their deci- sions. MILD UNDERSTATEMENT Comment, but not all from Con- Jress: Mr. James A. Farley—“The hardest person in the world to discourage is the individual who thinks he knows all about political management, even without practical experience.” What's the matter, Uncle Jim, you been getting advice some of the boys in the cracker- barrel league? Senator Wheeler (Mont.)—“I do not care how good a man is —how able he is—he cannot be placed in a detective service (Conti.nued on Pnge Seven) CITY COUNCIL ASKS HELP OF BOAT OWNERS Regulahons for Small Boat Harbor fo Be Drawn Tomorrow All Juneau captains, fishermen and boat owners are invited by the City Council to attend a hearing at the City Hall tomorrow night on regulations for the operation of the new Juneau small boat harbor. The help of boat owners is pbeing sought by the Council in forminz a practical and fair set of rules. ‘The meeting begins at 8 o'clock. NOMINATED WASHINGTON, June 20.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has nominated Rob- CAA, as Assistant Secretary of Commerce to succeed J. Monroe Johnson, who has been appointed to the Interstate Commerce Com- { mission, e ——— | Pirst Plight Covers will be avail- from | ert Hinckley, now Chairman of the FIRST MAIL ENROUTE ON BIG (LIPPER Plane Due in Juneau To- night with Airmail, Passengers Winging its way toward Juneau on the first scheduled States-to- Alaska airmail flight in history, the Alaska Clipper left Seattle at 10:19 o'clock this morning. A later report said the Clipper was due in Ketchikan at 5 and in Ju~ neau between 7 and 8 o'clock, weather permitting. Aboard, besides bulging mail sacks of first flight covers sent by stamp collectors the world over, were 26 complimentary passengers, including newspapermen, Civil Aeronautics Authority officials and outstanding businessmen of the Northwest, Reception Planned As on the occasion of its recent shakedown flight, the Clipper will be greeted at the Auk Bay float by an officfal reception committee, headed by Gov. Ernest Gruening. Later the passengers will be hon- ored by an informal reception at the Governor's House and at 8 o'clock by a dinner in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel, the latter spon- sored by the Juneau Chamber. of Commerce. Governor Gruening today received from Postmaster General James A. Farley the following message rela- tive to the first flight: Farley Message “It is with pride and pleasure that I join with you and the people of Alaska today in the inauguration of air mail service between Seattle and Juneau which marks the establish- ment of a new link in the communi- cations and transportation systems between the United States and the Territory. The element of time is being sharply reduced with the open- ing of this United States-Alaskan air mall route which will do much to further the bonds of trade and friendship between the peoples of continental United States and Al- aska.” 15,000 Letters * Mall stacked in the Juneau post office awaiting the first southbound flight of the Clipper tomorrow totals somewhere around 15,000 letters, ac- cording to Assistant Superintendent | Arthur O. Willoughby of the Division of Air Mail Service of the U. S, Post Office Department. ‘The first flight covers awaiting stamping with the special green cachet of the Post Office Depart- | ment came in faster than ever today, Willoughby said. Letters for cacheting will be ac- cepted at the Juneau post office up until 11 o’clock tonight. | Sénd Yourself One Willoughby suggested that Juneau- ites send themselves several letters. Here's how it's done: Address a | letter to yourself, apply an airmail ;sump and take it to the post office. 1t will be cacheted, carried to Seattle by Clipper and returned on the next Clipper, all for the one six-cent air- mail stamp. The cachet pictures the Clipper plane landing at Auk Bay. The let- tering around it reads: “Seattle-Ju- neau U. S. Air Mail Route FAM 20 First Flight, Juneau, Alaska.” Willoughby estimated there would probably be a few more than 15,000 first flight covers on the plane today for the northbound flight, due to the greater convenience in getting covers to Seattle, the larger population at that end of the run and the fact that the northbound flight is really the first flight. Leave Room The Postoffice staff must have| some room on the first flight cov- ers to apply the cachet, Willoughby emphasized. He urged that all en- velopes be addressed at the far right side to leave space for the cachet, which measures about 3 inches by 3 inches. Willoughby is returning on the Clipper tomorrow enroute to his San Prancisco neadquarters. To meet a widespread late de- mand, The Empire has printed a quantity of first flight cover en- velopes, which will be available at the office all evening. able at The Empire office until 10 | m. today. Mail closes at 11 p. m. ARMISTICE ENVOYS T0 MEETTODAY Session fo Be—HeId "Some- where in German- Held France” CONFLICTING REPORTS 'French Government May Flee fo Algiers and Operate from There (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Hostilities between France and the Axis Armies Is expected to cease tomorrow or Saturday at the latest, an official Itallan news agency re- ported this morning. It was asserted that French plenipotentiaries have started back to Bordeaux from Madrid with terms dictated by Hitler and Mus- solini. ‘The place of meeting between the envoys and the Axis leaders is not given, but the envoys are said to be returning in a snow white plane for “somewhere” in German occu- pied Northern France. Delegation on ‘Way Berlin, blaming “difficulties of news transmission” via Spain, said the French Government’s com- munication naming France's four peace plenipotentiaries didn't reach the German Government until three p. m. Pacific Standard Time yes- terday. A broadcast said the communica- tion ‘“could be transmitted to the Fuehrer only at six p. m.,” and the High Command thereupon gave necessary instructions immediately and made preparations for receiv- ing the Prench armistice delega- tion. The German radio, in a cryptic report, today declared, “Members of the French Government are not at all agreed on the question of laying down arms.” This lends credence to the un- confirmed reports that France has learned the girst of the Axis terms of peace and found tnem too harsh for the nation's honor and are re- solved to fight on. These reports sald President Le- Brun and members of his Govern- ment are ready to flee to Alglers in North Africa and carry on the war from there, even if German troops capture all of France. DELEGATES ANNOUNCED ROME, June 20.—A radio broad- cast declares the 'Prench Govern- ment has informed Germany its delegates to the armistice negotia- tions are Gen. Charles Huntziger, Ambassador Leon Noel, Vice Admiral Leluc and Aviation Gen. Bergeret. DUKE OF WINDSOR LEAVES RESIDENCE, ON WAY TO SPAIN Duchess Is Zl_r—eady Bound "Somewhere’ According to Cannes Reportts BULLETIN—LONDON, June. 20.—Regarding various rumors afloat today in international circles, the British Ministry of Information announces tonight that “it is ridiculous the report that an order has been made or that one is contemplated to arrest the Duke of Windsor.” CANNES, June 20.—The Duke of Windsor left his Riviera residence by auto yesterday, headed for Spain. The American born Duchess had already left the residence. The Duke has been in the south of France since lste in May after leaving his post as Liasion Officer between the French and British armies. (Conunued on Pfise Eight) not known. ARE BEING GIVEN OUT The Duke's exact destination 18