The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 2, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE T VOL. LVL, NO. 8481. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 2, “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1940. FOR ALASKA ANNOUNCED; LOCATION, DUTCH HARBOR \ SEATTLE, Aug. 2—The Se- | attle Post-Intelligencer says to- | day that a maval air base will | be constructed at Dutch Har- ‘ | | | Siems, Drake, Puget Sound. One year ago the syndicate was awarded .about $16,000,000 worth of contracts for the Ko- diak Naval base and enlarge- ment of the Sitka air base. The Post-Intelligencer said it is also learned that $1,193,000 bor, Alaska, by a Seattle, Spo- kane and Minneapolis syndi- cate. The initial cost of the base will be at least $2,900,000, according to the newspaper’s reliable mere will be spent on the Naval source, | air base under construction at The three-company syndicate | Kodiak in addition to previous firm will be known as the | commitments. 81 FOREIGN AGENTSIN CANAL ZONE DETAINED, HELD FOR DEPORTATION W HINGTON, Aug. Secrvtary of War Stimson said 81 foreign agents in the Pan- ama Canal Zone have been de- tained for deportation. The War Secretary was asked at a conference with the news- 2 men o comment on a news- paper report that 255 Nadls were working on canal projects. Secretary Stimson then con- firmed the number of men being detained and then added: “All aliens, other than Pan Americans, formerly employed by either the Army or Cinal Zone authorities, have been dis- charged.” ARE REFUGEBS PANAMA, Aug. 2.—It is officially said here that the 81 persons held for deportation afe mostly Europ- ean refugees, some Germans, and nostly stowaways - who fled from ships here. : Steamship lines are responsible {for bringing them here and may | be required to return them although it may be dfficult to take them to countries now at war. — .o | WASHINGTON — Now that the| job of nominating presidential can- didates is over, the Nation's Capi- | tal is settling back to the main ROOSEVEI. problem before it—that of national! defense, SPEAKS ouT Both branches of the service are| in the hands of two brand new cabinet officers, both Republicans, both keeping politics strictly Distinctly in Favor of Se- lective Training Measure out of the Army and Navy. In the case of the former, Henry L. Stim- son has a far more difficult prob- WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Presi- dent Roosevelt declared he is “dis-| lem on his hands than when he served as Secretary of War in the Taft Administration. | He is up against the fact that| for exactly 20 years—ever since ‘the World War—the United States Army has been as moribund and anti- guated as the Indian forts which| it still maintains on the Western prairies. tinctly in favor of the selective| Here is EXAMPLE NO. 1 of service training bill and I con-| h/hat Secretary Stimson is up sider it essential to adequate na-| B gainst. tional defense.” :Iore the question may give rise ‘o | friction, but the solution of this| | very soon. PORT BOMBED Duke, Duchess ‘Windsor Now Enroute U.S. Official Paffy_Scheduled fo Go to Bahamas Via ; New York City , ‘o The Empire. SLAIN LISBON, Portugal, Aug. 2.—The Duke and Duchess of Windsor, ;!mvo]ing as “Captain and Mrs. | Wood,” have sailed for New York| aboard the American Export liner | Excalibur. | The liner left at 8:15 o'clock last} night after a delay of two and one ‘qunru‘r hours. The liner is due in New York on| August 9. | Accompanying the Duke and‘ | Duchess is secretary Major Gray | ;Phillics and two aides de camp, | Capt. George Wood and Capt. Vy-‘ | van Drury. | | From New York the party will| | go to the Bahamas where the Duke | will the eral. become Governor Gen- TQ STOP AT BERMUDA NEW YORK, Aug. 2.~It is an- | nounced here that the steamer car- | |rying the Duke and Duchess of | Windsor may stop at Bermuda and | Jland the Royal couple-there instead | of coming direct to New York. | HULL'S STATEMENT WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull said the | State Department has no inform-a | tion that a British warship is fol- | lowing the Excalibur, | = - Japanese ~ Expansion ~Is Threat |Gen. Koiso Makes Stafe- F : - ment with Emphatic | * apatU. S States Marshal George Meffan (upper) and his deputy, John Glenn (lower), were Killed near Boise, Idaho, Wednesday afternoon when they attempted to evict Pearl R. Hendrickson, 49- year-old negro, from a mountain cabin. A large possee later sur- rounded the cabin, finally fatally wounding Hendrickson, who died while being taken to a Boise hos- pital TOKYO, Aug. 2.—Gen. Koiso, un- til recently Overseas Minister and | |a powerful exponent of Japanese | expansion, told the newsmen today |at a conference that the “rubber |of the East Indies is indispensable| |to the United States industry, there- | problem depends, however, on our decision.” Koiso is expected to head the Japanese m‘:sion to the East Indies FOUR UNITS | If a foreign power wanted to }ubdue the United States, its most ‘ogical ‘strategic move would be to establish a~ line through Detroit or Cleveland south to the Ohio River. This would cut the industrial| East from the agricultural West. It would sever almost every rail| line running between New Yorkand| Philadelphia to the Middle West.| 1t would stop iron ore shipments; from the lake regions. It would starve out New York. [ Yet although Army officers ad-| mit this is the strategic area they| will have to defend, the overwhelm- ing mass of U. 8. troops today is| located in the South and West in| the wide open spaces which they| may never have to defend. ‘w BIG CITY FIGHTING The President gave this reply to a reporter at the conference with | newsmen today, The reporters told him that the President was report-| ed “not so hot about conscription.”| President Roosevelt permitted al direct quotation fo his views. De éilr_hl—s | Issues, Nof Party Lines, In Election Willkie Say? He Believes Half of Vofers Are Independents COLORADA SPRINGS, Col., Aug. 2—Wendell L. Willkie believes that _ the coming election will be decided VICHY, Aug. 2. — The Frénch|on issues rather than party lines. Hitler has won the present war Military Court has condemned to| largely by military operations in-| death Gen. Charles de Gaulle, who side densely populated areas. His formed a Provisional French Gov- troops have been trained to oper- ernment in London to carry on the The Republican Presidential nom- inee today told the newsmen at a conference, held jointly with Wil- liam Allen White, Emporia, Kansas ate in Oslo, Rotterdam and Ant-| werp, Fighting in city streets is far different from fighting on the| plains of Oklahoma, yet there ll‘E‘ almost no troops in or around the big cities of the Atlantic seaboard. As a matter of fact the location of the U, 8. Army today is based not upon tactics or strategy, but/ upon the climate. “But the weath-| er!” moans the average Army of-| ficer when you start talking to| NEWPORT, R. him about transferring to a new| post in the East, i If the high command of the U. S. Army were awake and inter-| ested in something more than paper | defense, it would hold regular man-| euvers in the most densely popu-| (Continued to Pdge Three) editor, that he believes that “fully half of the voters are independent and they cross party lines very easily. There used to be pride among many people regarding their party partisanship. Now they are proud of their independence.” Willkie has been a strong Demo- crat until recently. JEWS HIT BRATISLAVA, Aug. 2.—All Jew- |ish restaurants were closed tight Lhroug:out Slovakia last night on fight against Germany. R o ROOSEVELT I ON DESTROYER FOR TRAINING 1, Aug. 2— Franklin D. Roosevelt, 3rd, son of President -Roosevelt, boarded the destroyer Lawrence this morning ml undergo training for the next two weeks as an ensign of the Naval Reserve. order of the Slovakian government. The destroyer sailed at noon and'The order was announced in a de- Young Roosevelt drove to the dock cree published by the Home Minis- in his own car, try. U.5. ARMY MOBILIZING, Extensive Peacefime Man- | euvers Taking Place- | One in Northwest | o) -Aug. 2 — At‘ training and United | WASHINGTON, peacetime pedks in equipment, units of four States armies are moving by rail- roads today toward an imaginary | front line on theoretical battlefields, | | mobilizing for the most extensive | field exercises since the World | War. | Three hundred thousand regular Army and National Guard Reserve troops are prepared for maneuvers in four areas, Forty-one thousand soldiers of the Fourth Army are assembling in the Fort Lewis area for three weeks of training in the state of Wash- | ington. MUST SUPPRESS "~ HOT NEWS NOW *BUDAPEST, Aug. 2—The For- eign Office Newspaper Bureau to- |day warned foreign newspaper cor- respondents against reporting news “which is either against Germany or Italy or which is in opposition | with the well known policies of the Axis Powers,” MEMBER ASSOCIA’ PRESS 'PRICE TEN CENTS [ED , IS DESTROYED #. teast 43 persons were burned to death early Wednesday motor coach crashed headon into the gasoline powered commute train shuttling from Hudson, potor coach after the flames had taken their tragic toll. This picture shows the shattered Rescue workers are shown here extricating the body of on The fatally burned victim, a woman, is shown at the left. torch. Haich Measure MORE "SPOT"" ASSOCIATED PRESS WIREPHOTOS—A Unifed States Marshal and deputy were killed late last Wednesday affernoon near Boise, Idaho. Early Wednesday evening, 43 persons mef death near Ak-| ron, Ohio, in the second worst railroad accident this year. Here are pictures, right before you in less than| 48 hours of the actual occurrences. The pictures were radioed fo San Francisco and made info felemats. These| A. P. Wirephoios were then puf on a plane at San Francisco yesterday morning af 2 o'clock, connected with | the Alaska Clipper leaving Seaffle yesterday morning at 8:30 o'clock and received by The Empire shortly \after 5 o'clock yesferday afternoon. Here they are, up-fo-fhe-minute A. P. news picture service, exclusive A3 MEET FLAMING DEATH IN TRAIN WRECK a freight ¢ 0., to Akr wreckage of the m Will Play Havoc with Whingdings in Fall Polifical Campaign By JACK STINNEIT WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. — The American Automobile Association here is up in arms. That isn't all A 1ot of railroads, Canadian border hotel managers, and other persons their liveli- to Canada, who depend- a lot for hood on tourist trade have a mad on, Those reports—that if you eross the Canadian border you can't get back into the United States with- out a passport, a copy of the Con- stitution, and ability to repeat the declaration of Independence—have played hob with travel. The situation became so serious |that the AAA - sent 15 investiga-| | tors to border points to get the | lowdown, Now they are roaring that there isn't a word of truth in it. The fact that Canada is at war has made some difference, they admit, but not enough to Jjustify the nose-dive that Canadian travel has taken this summer The report is that it is a good idea for Americans visit- ing Canada to have means of identification, but that no spe- cific documents are demanded. Birth certificates, voting regis- trations, membership cards— and a heap of patience in an- “(Continued on Page Five) cvening, July 31, when a Pennsylvania Railroad in at Cuyahoga Falls'near Akron, 0. The impact telescoped of the 43 persons killed in the headon collision. The rescuer with the helmet is using a blow ROYALAIR » FORCE IN BIG RAIDS Hamburg Isnliéborled Laid Low-Bremen Also Is Shelled NAZIS MAKE CLAIMS OF SHIPPING LOSSES Italian Munifions Dump Is Wiped Ouf-Blitzkrieg Dope Is Given Out GENEVA, Aug. 2—The Ger- man Army of Occupation in France has ordered dbsolute closing of the Swiss-French bor= der from here to Basel, effec~ tive Sunday, August 4. This is a possible indication the Germans are sealing all possible channels through which news of the preparations to in- vade England might leak out and reach the outside world. (By Associated Press) Virtual destruction of the great seaport of Hamburg Is claimed by an authoritative British source while Germany countered with a statement that her own raiders had struck new devitalizing blows &t the British merchant fleet. The British source declares that Hamburg has been destroyed by constant raids of the Roynl Air Force, Bremen Bombed Thousands ~f bombs have also been rained on the port of Bremen with its shipbuilding yards, docks and alrcraft factory. More than 100 other German towns and cities have been bombed during recent weeks, many of them military objectives, The Nazis claim today that the German Air Force sunk a large merchantman, tanker and mine pa= troler yesterday evening and dams aged one submarine returning to base. A total of 72,000 tons of shipping is reported by the Nazis to have been sunk in the past 48 hours. ire to its fuel tanks. on and set Bombing Attacks German fliers continued bomb- ing attacks on England today and planes also showered Hitler's “peace or destruction” pamphlets on the British fleet in the Mediterranean., On Southern Front The Royal Awr Force claims de- struction of a large Italian mund- tion dump in Libya. It is claimed that a British bat- tleship was set afire by TItalian bombers in the Mediterranean and several other warships were hit One British submarine, the Os« wald, is reported to have been tor- pedoed and sunk. About That Blitzkrieg Britishers are skeptical over the German statements that the blize krieg may be postponed indefi- nitely as they favor bomb attacks, air raids and undersea blockade. British observers said the almana¢ indicates that next Monday to Friday, the time of high tides and favorable weather, would be most favored for a general assault om the British Isles. B g CANADIAN | RAFBOMBS ~ SOLDIERS . HIT KRUPP ARE SAFE FACTORIES ‘ T b e 1 Large Contingent for Ac-‘B”"IS:'OMS':mg::Eofia'ds five Serviee Has Ar- Depols Struck rived m England LONDON, Aug. 2. — The great | Krupp Munitions works at Essen, Defense Min- supply depots and airdromes in | OTTAWA, Aug. 2 ister Ralston announced in the northwest Germany and four syn- House¢ of Commons this forenon the ;";‘:gh":"o plants were attacked by | safe arriva? in England of another| 2 mbers last night. The Air Ministry made the an- large contingent of Canadian Ac-|nouncement, declaring considerable | tive Seryice Force |damage was inflicted on the oil tar- 1 Ralston said the arrivals in-|gets and that other objectives were cluded part of the second division also raided in Holland yesterday, | under Major General Victor Od- including damage to several air- " lum, dromes,