The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, July 1, 1940, Page 1

KA EMPIRE TIME” THE DAILY ALA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE ' VOL. LVIL, NO. 8454. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, JULY 1, 1940. PRICE TEN CENT3 M MBER ASSOCIATED PRESS GERMAN ARMY ON BRITI RUSSIAN RED ARMY IN - IMPORTANT SECTION IS TAKEN OVER Supply Line of Germany Is Suddenly Cut-Threats Made-No Action BULLETIN — BUCHAREST, Rumania, July 1. — Russian airplanes and baby tanks Sun- Children Leave for Safety SURPR i MIL i MOV MALIANS, | BRITISH IN CLASH Two Reports Made Public of Fighting in Africa (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) | The Italian Command reports the capture of several British positions | and also that attacks of British| ADDITIONAL DFFENDERS FOR ALASKA | 2 ISLANDS OCCUPIED, ~ NAZIFORCE Landings By Plane Made | on Guernsey and Jer- | sey, Official Report | BERLIN, July 1—The Ger- | man Army has set foot on British soil for the first time. The Nazi forces occupied the day night seized Reni at the motorized units are reported to | English Channel Islands of juncture of the Danube and Guernsey and Jersey in a P, ivers, i i have been beaten off. | ey Prut Rivers, while a series of aik " | surprise move. bloody battles are reported Ralisens ;e | ; Units h. i Air Foro along thy " Clashes officially described as nits of the Nazi Air Force along the Prut Rvier. ys " | completed the occupation. o - considerable” have taken place ab Tank:, suspended between | Guernsey Island was occu- the wheels of big transport planes were in the display of warfare’s most modern phase and the surprise of the Ru- manian garrison was so com- plete that rifles were mnot Khertium and two British armored | cars knifed their way through the ltalian defense at the Eritrea bor- der in east Africa and routed 1,- 200 Italian cavalryman with heavy casualties, This is a British War | office statement. pied yesterday and Jersey Is- land was occupied today. The German High Command reports the occupation as a “coup de main of the German | Air Force.” Presumably this touched in the barracks. is meant troops landed by Russia has gained a com- e planes, manding position over the Dan- pA(IH( H.EEI' The islands have not been ube’s mouth which is consider- | ed a blow to Germany. MOVEMENT IS | Ameri_in troops are shown loadini g supplies. ammunitign and, guns 2 oard the Army transport St. Mihiel occupied by military forces and | were recently air-raided cn two successive nights. B:’x‘l?anAfnsp(i)tgl'?'f:f?ect:?l;;i:;m- shortly before its departure with 700 troops for the far north where the Army will protect the nation’s | Both- islands are noted ing nervousness :'wer Russian plans DEEP MYSTERY vital new air bases in Alaska. The troops sailed from Seattle gl::‘:xhnut the world for their in Southeastern Europe as the So- 3 | ! .——_”-_, S viet's Red Army seized command of the lower Danube River in Ru-/ mania which is one of Germany's vital supply lines, Coincidentally, other dispatches said Russia | 1as demanded that Turkey grany her a share of the defense of the Dardanalles, key link betwern the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, while Germany and Italy are concentrating on a battle against Great Britain. In a flurry of land and air fight- ing over the weekend, on the Lib-| indications | yan-Egyptian border, i i i A London mother bids her two sons farewell as they leave with thou- sands of other London school children for a “safer” area in the Various Reports of Con- fradictory Nature | Are Spread | BALBOA, Canal Zone, July 1.— The mysterious movement of the United States Fleet has caused con- siderable confusion. Sunday after- noon it was reported that part of the fleet would arrive at the Canal _ g = | Zone from Hawaii and would cross presidenl | | | IN VOTING to the Atlantic side on Tuesday. CONGRESS UNANIMOUS BIG SUMS; GET TOGETHER SHOW By JACK STINNETT (Author’s Note: The fellowing r New Order, BOMBERS National | HITTING Emergency AT NAZIS PyaE | R New Controls Are Clamped s cessful Night Raids Re- were that a faster tempo of the| country as the threat of (otal war turned toward England. AT Tore Wi, CartRRb ATy (A e Over All Shippingin | ted by British war in the Mediterranean area is —————— ' - i and Navy men were deeply imv‘ M dom temen picked up in | por e y " IS T looming, pressed by reports from Honolulu a week's round of the capital, U S Wa'ers | Cruiser Sunk Counter Invasion BANK AT FAIRBANKS IS saying that a major portion had| s ee lng | swoda fountain to White | il | A thinly veiled threat of counter capitol cloakrooms | | R invasion by Germany against Rus- sia’s “invasion” of Rumania is in- dicated. Under instructions from Ger- HELD UP BY LONE ROBBER suddenly returned to the islands. | | The contradictory accounts ac- | counted for deep speculation which has been going on ever since the ew axes‘ fleet units left Hawail some time hs, from beaneries to drawing rooms.) WASHINGTON, July 1 What WASHINGTON, July 1 under a proclamation on istence of a national emergency reason of a threatened disturbance of Acting (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) the ex-| British bombers, striking at Ger- “by many’s mass attacks in a warmup the expected great battle for many, Hungarian troops have been ago. Slaie Whshington' is saying n’l lI‘u- [n:.-m‘mmml lu-lm[x‘ons. of E‘;‘rcm lBLnluh:‘ mare;ld out Lilurl:ng rushed to the frontier of King s —— The opinion had been expressed 2 s ing ob- | e Jnited States,” the Treasury the night and air ralders attackes Carol’s domain and may cross the . in orilci’;l quarters that :f the S'eeply Gfadua'ed EX(ESS (”‘f:,‘i"“ i l}yxu‘v‘l[1‘.ll(.;l,ll.\- ":f ,J_,“l Department has clamped new con-| various Nazi stations. border to aid the Rumanians FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 1. —|pn 0" 00" ooming to the Atlantic . ' et Sdbiiart Capital 1y | Urols over all shipping in American, The British claim successes but against Russia as Germany does’ The first bank holdup in Fairbanks| ;0" e fa00 would indlcate an PI’O'I'S l.eVY Reques 3 A:n' m;"’_ %) ’IM.“ ”'m;"‘ll:: | waters {the German High Command as- not intend to have her vital source oceurred shortly before noon 1Sty ,opone change in the Far East- d fc ily: nd now are only. ghout 18 per-| Under this proclamation the cap-|Serts only attacks were made ‘on of raw materials cut off. Saturday when Keith A. Chisholm.| . "ol oo "0 e Tited states. ed o1 Longress aht \"“l‘_"””"_ Frivseh e {ain of a port or any other officer Non-military points. Hungarian Claims 38, walked into the .F"SL Na,“,mm As it is, only the highest com- . o ib .” et e | designated may order a search any | The German High command re- Hungarian claims are that both Bank, pointed a rifle at Teller manding officer of the fleet knows WASHINGTON, July 1.—Pr WluaL., all this talk about a dea [ time on uny vessel, foreign or dow|POFts a British cruiser of the Orion Germany and Italy will fight any Larry Meath, presented an un-{, = o dent Roosevelt has asked Cong with Japan that would put her on | “00 " - Derson or packages| 1855, about 7,00 tons, has been extensive invasion of Rumania by signed check and said: to enact a “steeply graduated ex- Our side and keep lier there2”. .| FEH 0T FEDL Gich vessels torpedoed at the mouth of the Russia. The Russians have been “Come across. I mean it.” UNDER “SEALED ORDERS” | cess profits tax” applicable to all Hope Congress docs appoint thall = 0. oy person | Brest. ceded, by Rumania, the province| \ Meath immediately complied, HONOLULU, T, H,, July 1—The individuals of corporation organi- commiltee o try (o Segighiten. out SN It is also claimed that German of Bessarabia and mnorthern part; The bandit backed out of the|giar Bulletin’s Maui Island corres- zations, without discrimination, The Washington traffic . . . Gosh, it's U-boats sank about 23,000 tons of of the Province of Bucevina, but —— bank, covered the place with his|pondent reports the return of the President did not estimate how awful. British shipping over the week- have “encroached” and overrun the : rifle and after passing through the|major United States Fleet units|much revenue the excess profits Never saw anything like this NA end, It is claimed that two steam- P = TO Es'abhsh Sphere 0' In' door hurried across the bridge over|yhich last Monday, a week ago levy might yield. Congress before. Think of voling| | ers torpedowed were with strongly (Continued to Page Two) e [the Chena River and took refuge today, departed mysteriously under, House majority leader Rayburn hillions of dollars in the House| | protected convoys. "uen(er Nahon S in a hotel. “sealed orders.” |said the tax will be along the same by votes like 400-to-one And | ——-reo—— o age Meanwhile, the U. S. Marshal's| Admiral James Richardson said lines as levied in the World War in the Senate, 80-to-0. Guess tha ACIOR MoRGA" ASIah( Posmon office had been notified and offi-|“routine training exercise simulat- days. ought to show the world K lB i cers followed the man, cornered|ing wartime sailing without prior| The President asked . that the get together when we really go i . I" NOR"'H WI'I'H TOKYO, July 1—The newspszer| him in his room and demanded he |notification such as have taken|Proposed tax be equitably distribut- a job to do ! Nichi Nichi sgys a group of ‘Jap- | surrender or they would shoot|place in the past and expected to ed, | |anese Army men conferred last‘tmough the door, recur at irregular intervals.” — e -~ BOOM IN MARRIAG | KEEP YA(H' DOI.pHm;‘"‘g“‘ and w%ec‘i;;eptianfl;e“h?.\‘l‘l;r;;aegj The msn walked ouf of his B T ] [rlm \3: ;..:..»..,.» |Ll e x:uL be war o E war presen v i i “ en ur In jitters that has sent capital mar-| Z | S i { opportunity” and she must take aj;(:‘cdm ;fi:""};fl:mfil w&i"’;f;;: SuB IS OVERDUE' | riages up 40 percent avove normai?| National Defense Speed. Has Poor Luck fishmg Buf| “strone attitude” toward establish- | g recovered, Boys figuring maybe a wife will| b ‘ ing an Asiatic sphere of influence.| "o, FPNSTEL L it SlATED 45 losll' add to their exemptions, it exenp-| 0 Up by President A have been sent to VArious com:-|g.s porn in Seattle. —_— T may be now or never |gnmg egIS|a'I0n in Alaska manders directing them to fake Pl S LONDON, July 1—The British| HOLLYWOOD, Cal, July 1.—Ben Boy, it’s hot but T wouldn't i Channel Islands Cut Off- it every opportunity to consolidate the Admiralty announces that the Brit- | Turpin, oldtime screen star and fa- trade places with a guy in the| WASHINGTON, July 1. — The e KETCHIKAN, Alaska, (July, 1.—| Mation’s position in Asia. ish submarine Gramphs is TNow | mous for his cross eyes, died here Alps [ Navy has ordered construction of No commufll(a'lon Frank Morgan, well known movie AR e R ass or s long overdue and must be consid-|today. He had been ill for SOMe [aly's entrance into the war| 4 more war ships at a cost of a Now Avail bl actor, arrived here today with his' ARY ered as lost, time. His widow fs the Only SUr- pac added to the capital hostesses’| total of half a billion dollars, the ow Avallable wife and son and their friend NAll EMISS The Gramphs has a displacement | vivor. mess That’s Senator Rey-|largest single contract letting by Genevieve Vedder aboard the Mor- > - B of 1520 tons and a speed of 16 GEmae e nolds who just went around the| the Navy Department in history. | LONDON, July 1.—The Foreign gan yacht Dolphin. IS UNDER ARRES‘I’ eman e knots. | ‘ corner. Hes been here it the State! The construction was assigned by | Office news department, clarifying The party plans to fish in South- | au rava Deparment a number of times LeWis Compton, Acting Secretary the British attitude on Syria fol- east Alaska a few days, but at CO[OR‘DO E lately . . . Trying to get his daugh-|°f the Navy, within two hours after | lowing General Mittelhauser’s ces- places tried on the way north,only LOS ANGELES, July 1.—A Ger- Go S | . M ter, Frances, out of Italy She's President Roosevelt signed the leg-|sation of hostilities, said Great mediocre success was reported. ,man diplomatic emissary, Herbert| MEXICO CITY, July 1.°— The and a sculptor . . . Been study- | is!ation to speed up the defense Britain “couldn't allow Syria or “So far we haven't done so well,” Hoesne, remains in the county jail | Cardenas Administration announces m Roos[v[l" Ies In as ing over there. program Lebanon to be occupied by any Morgan declared, “but I hope we awaiting a hearing on his case this|that effective immediately, persons Say, Pal, has anybody ever, Officials estimate this legislation hostile power.” have better luck around here” week, crossing the Mexican border into —_ | LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y., July 1. thought how sore Chicago is going Will ble the Navy Department| Isles Cut Off Morgan just finished two pic- Hoesne, who recently entered the|the United States must have pass-| COLORADO SPRINGS, Col, July | _Paul Cravath, 78, chairman of the to be if the Democrats DO nom- 0 Degotiate contracts without com-| The British Government also an- tures, “Boom Town” and “Mortal country, is charged with failure to | ports. 1.—The 12 delegates to the Demo-|Board of the Metropolitan Opera inate President Roosevelt on the|Peiitive bidding nounced that all ‘eommunications Storm.” register with the State Depart-| The order applies to Mexicans as|cratic National Convention from|Company for many years and one first ballot? Just think, all those The order for building includes| with the Channel islands have been The party is leaving for Sitka to- ment. Sealed documents in his|well as all foreigners desiring to Colorado have been instructed to|of New York's outstanding corbpor- people with jeans full of folfling 11 cruisers, 20 destroyers, 13 sub-, suspended. ” night and may go as far as Ju- Dossession were:taken by the Fed- |step onto the soil of the Latin Am-|cast their vote for President Roo-|ation lawyers, died at his home here ——— marines and one large seaplane These islands ha‘fe a populatiop neau. ieral Bureau of Investigation. erican nation’s northern neighbor.|sevelt for a third term. today. i {Continued on Puge Five, carrier, of about 150,000, K