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

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL LVI., NO. 849] ]UNLAU ALASKA WEDNESDAY AUG |4 1940 MHVIBE.R ASSOCI/\ fl D PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH PL S L4 S & 4 S ¢ S S 4 4 4 4 04 s 4 ANES BOMB ITALY 4 4 4 ERMANS SET FIRES ON ENGLISH COASI Nome Woman Believed Robbed and Slain ALittle Fellow Nestles Up fo a Big One BODYOF NOMEITE BRUISED Lake Erie Death of Mrs. Mozee Turns Into Mystery Case CASH AND JEWELRY | REPORTED MISSING Investigators May Go Into Thorough Examination of Tragedy 3 CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 14. -— Clothing and jewelry on a woman’s pruised body recovered in Lake Erie J 31 have been-identified as be- longing to Mrs. Benjamin Mozee, [ of Nome, missing from the steamship See-and-Bee on an ex- cursion of the Great Lakes. Theory of assault and is held with report Mrs. carried a large amount of and three diamond rings. Mrs. Mozee's absence from her tateroom was not discovered un- til yesterday because her stateroom had not been entered until the ship’s cruise ended. | The dead woman's husband, on the Pacific Coast, was formerly ¥ umllmt'd oun Page Two robbery Mozee cash Hart Rushes To Shanghai WASHINGTON The rigorous French censorship has suppressed; the information, but former Pre-| mier Paul Reynaud will face a sen-| sational charge when he is tried| before the special war guilt court. £ The scandal is based on what has| n u marl ne become known in inner dlplumauc circles as “Renaud’s trunk.” Following the TFrench cullap.m Reynaud attempted to escape from the country. His plan was to gol to Portugal and embark for the| United States, where he hoped tu\ be ‘made French Ambassador. He! made his dash in two automobiles. In one he travelled with Countess the small, home-| Commander ofUS Asiatic Fleet Makes Hur- ried Voyage Helene de Portes, SHANGHAI, Aug. 14—Using a ly, shrill-voiced widow for whom|g,parine as a flagships, Admiral he left his wife several years 880/ Thomas Hart, Commander of the and had French divorce 1aws|ynited States Asiatic Fleet, arrived changed so he could marry her here today from Tsingtao. in 1041 As has been reported, this| . American naval official ar- cai went off the road, Killing the ,.oq a4 4 time when the Japanese Countess and severely injuring Rey- are making demands for control of naud o ritish sect f the I - Tho olber: cat Gabtatiens Ry o0 P b AS & L g tional Settlement naud’s two private secretaries, ba iz AL g 1d the mysteroius trunk. This Car ized at the Spanish bor- closed l.lmt it Lonmincdv Twenty million francs in paper money, presumably from French public funds. A large quantity of gold. A large quantity of jewels belonging to the Countess. Numerous confidential state documents, among them secret French plans for the destruc- tion of Rumanian oil wells to prevent their falling into Nazi hand: NEW YORK, Aug. 14. | quotation of Alaska Juneau mine | stock today is 4%, American Can 94, | Anaconda 18', Bethlehem Steel 74, | Commonwealth and Southern 1%, | curtiss Wright 67, General Motors | International Harvester 41%, | Kennecott 25%. New York Central 110%, Northern Pacific 6, United | States Steel 51%, Pound $4.01%%. | i Confronted with this evidence in| DOW, JONES AVERAGES the hospital, Reynaud vehemently, The following are today'es Dow, —_ i Jones averages: Industrials, 122.25; |rails 26:32; utilities 31.78, (Cnmm\wd on” Page Four) U. S. ARMY MECHANIZES —Trainload of tanks | rolls into Fort Knox, Ky., mechanized corps center. '(OMPANY A, NATIONAL GUARDISORGANIZING; ManPower REQUEST ENlISTMENTS‘ leg,,,a,,on — Closing | HUGE ARMY DEMAND OF SEC. KNOX | Navy Head7Urges Defense Ranks Be Increased by Conscription WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. — Secre- |tary of Navy Knox today declared that the United States, lacking two | | ocean navy fleets, needs a “huge army” and urged that one be cre- | | ated by conseription. } “Should England be defeated by | | Germany,” said Knox, “we ‘will be | left without a friend in the world.” | The Secretary of Navy expressed | the opinion that England might be | defeated by Germany within the next sixty days. | | . Secretary Knox appeared before | the House Military Affairs Commit- | | tee in support of the Burke-Wad: | worth compulsory service loghlauon Up at White House At the White House, President | Roosevelt and Congressional leaders went over legislative slates cons! ing chiefly of defense bills. After the conference, Senate Lead- er Barkley predicted the Senate will {act on the Burke-Wadsworth meas- ure some time next week. Nation Faces Crisis Secretary Knox, in his appeal for | | a huge army, asserted that this na- | | tion faces a very grave crisis and | — |none in this country can tell the trend of the battle for Great Britain | because information of the beliiger- | | ents comes through officially con-‘ | trolled communiques. .- of Company A, Alas-| |ka National Guard, s to start im-| s e aye | | mediately in Juncau and enlist-| | ments may now be received ‘ Capt. W. C. Walthers annouriced today that enlistments may be made | Conscnphon Measure e et e ot Hung Up by Proposal fo | sible between 9 a. m. and 3 p m. | Delay 0u|(k Adlon Capt. Walthers says that appli- | cants, 18 to 45 years of age, single| men preferred, may now sign up. He | prefers a younger group, those about 21 years of age, as a nucleus for the company. WASHINGTON, Aug. 14.—Senate Administration leaders, after a poll, | declared today that 10 uncommitted | Serators hold the fate of efforts to Previous training, either in the |modify the Burke-Wadsworth con- | Army or National Guard in States, scription bill iz preferable although those who| It is also said the pell discloses have had no military training may | others are almost evenly divided on also enlist Maloney’s proposal to defer con- | company A will consist of 65| scription until it is proved volun-| | men and Capt. Waliher would like |teers will not produce the necessary | enlistments to total at least 75 men | MAN Power by January 1. : } in order to take care of possible| Leaders today said it is not likely withdrawals. |that a vote on the measure will be | reached before next week on the | | Company A will consist of two|Maloney plan. platoons of riflemen, one tion| Meanwhile, Representative Dough- f four machine guns and one sec-|ton disclosed technical difficulties tion of four 60-milimetered motors. |in drafting the bill is delaying the Guardsnen will be supplied with |excess profits tax legislation. the new Garand rifles and uniforms| The House expects to complete furnished by the United States Gov- | action on the bill permitting the ernment. | President to call the National Guard out in two days, by next Monday. It is therefore requested that en- listment be made as soon as possi-| The army command discloses that | ble so that measurements for un ;tho delay on the conscription bill i(crm for the National Guardsmen|bhas forced postponement of the | may be taken and the orders placed. |army plans to have 900,000 men Company A, as well as the three under arms by October. e other companies of the Alaska Na- | | tional Guard, will be streamlined, | TRAVELING MEN IN according to latest regulations. TOWN, AT BARANOF Cempany A will have three offi- | cers. Traveling men K. Louring and | The telephone number of Capt.'Leonard Taylor came in from a | Walthers is 318 but enlistees are|contact trip fb towns south of here requested to, if possible, call in per-|last night and are at the Baranof | son at his apartment between 9 a.| Hotel, expecting to remain a few |m. and 3 p. m ,days in the Capital City, [ The army’s latest fighter plane, the tiny but mighty Curti bomber at the Air Corps maneuvers at Selfridge Field, Mich line (-n(illr P-40, sits The P-4 MONITORING STATIONS PLANNED FOR ALASKA; 1 T0 BE ERECTED IN JUNEAU SAN FRANCIS Aug. 14— The CO, Cal., Communications |plans to erect powerful monitoring stations in Alaska and Hawaii. The pose of tracing foreign agents who illegally stations will be for the pur- are radioing. Western Inspector Gord Greaves sald three receiving stations are planned in Alaska and one station |is planned in Hawaii. Commission | These motoring stations will aug- ment the present mmmL.Jon* equipment Greaves said that Juneau is the possible site for one of the moni toring stations and Nome and An- chorage the sites for the other two ations. [ Greaves starts mnorthward next Saturday, it is said _ | most realistic in the history of the | Pacific Northwest | The massed forces includes troop: 1.S. Secrefary of State Hull Makes Diplomatic Record; Govt. Expenses Are Pruned By JACK STINNE WABHINGTON, Aug. tal talk: In regent weeks, no man has so covered himself with what passes or success in diplomacy as Secre- tary of State Cordell Hull When the conference was called, | the capital was full of skepticism | These ~ Pan-American conferences always had been sessions of sound and fury signifying nothing much and this, everyone said, was going to be just another one. The eco- nomic situation was too full of antagonistic selfish * interests, As for the Monroe Doctrine, that al- ways had been the United States’ own baby. 14 —Capi- A UNITED FRONT That's the way talk ran around here before the assemblage of the delegates of the 21 American na- tions at Havana. Secretary Hull arrived on the scene and went to work, One of the men who was at the conference said: “No man worked harder than he. No man was more patient, more tolerant, more deeply solicitous. of the wishes and views and attitudes of the other | | manship and said also more e be it enjoyed deleg: that teem Those ations and no man of states- attributes into attributes with those the conference are Hull molded a united front. True it is that little cool to the and its Congress that “Act of Hav does not keep official Washington from showering Hull with such phrases as “the crowning achieve- ment of your long and illustrious career.” Argentina is a whole business may not na,” PARING BUDGETS The talk continues fo circulate about Wendell L. Willkie and Presi- dent Roosevelt getting together for conferences on vital matters in the foreign situation. But hard-headed politicians argue that the Republicans would be against it because it would shoot holes in their campaign conten- tion that the President is lead- ing us into war. The Democrats would be against it because they are taking all the responsibility (Continued on Page Five) ratify | but that | under one wing of the huge B-15 0 is equipped with the Allison in- MIMIC ~ WARIS RAGING Forty -one Thousand Men Engaged in Maneuvers | in Pacific Northwest | YELM, Wash,, Aug. 14. — Forty- one thousand National Guardsmen, ulars and reservists, are clashing southeast Washington, starting a y mimic war, the largest and from California, Washington, Ore- gon, Utah, Idaho, Neveda, Montana and Wyoming and centers in this farming community. The maneuvers are designed to test the newest blitzkrieg tactics. Planes and mechanized forces are also in the maneuve The maneuvers commenced last night in the vicinity of the Nisqually and Deschutes rivers —-—— Walkout Is ~ IsStaged at Anchorag Foremen on Air Base Quit| But Men Continue on Their Jobs ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Aug. 14— | Mediators are attempting to settle a |dispute between army officials and civilian construction supervisors that | led to 30 foremen quitting their jobs at the air base The foremen accused Major Coray, | the ranking army officer at the An- | countermanding | chorage base, of their orders. Workmen on the base remained on their jobs in spite of the walk- lput of the foremen, NAZI RAID CONTINUES ONBRITAIN 'Bombers Pra);bly Beating Down Defense to Land Troops ITALIAN CITIES ARE SHELLED BY BRITISH Heavy Damage Reported on Two Vital Points- Assault Admitted (By Associated Press) Attacking in great waves, Nazi bombers today set huge fires in the | area of Dover, the English Channel gateway, for a possible land in- | vasion. | Berlin reports that the British air defenses failed to stop the raiders. | “'The DNB, official German news | agency, said fighting was still raging lat 6 o'clock tonight. It is esti- mated that 25 British planes have | been shot down, but only five Ger- man planes were destroyed, accord- |ing to DNB. Bomb Industry Zone | A London dispatch said England’s | vast industrial zone in the Midlands | has been subjected to the longest | and fiercest bombing since the war started. Waves of German bombing and fighting planes turned to Eng- land’s south coast battlefield in a series of fights involving at least 300 planes. Air Attacks Renewed Early morning dispatches said the ‘(’orman: renewed their air attacks on Great Britain, raiding the Mid- |lands and south coast and in the | latter place, a huge battle, involving at least 150 planes took place during {the night. Italian Cities Raided But while Germans and Britons were in terrific conflict, thirty Brit- |ish planes crowned France and Switzerland and raided Turin and | Milan, dropping tons of bombs, also leaflets asking the Italians, why are you fighting for Hitler and a warn- | ing—"The war with its terror is now at your doors.” Heavy Damage Caused The British statement says the | RAF raided Germany also during the night but the Germans said the |anti-aircraft guns turned the planes [back at Potsdam, 20 miles west of | Berlin, althought admitting distant firing was heard in the suburbs. Bombs Are Dropped, Italy The Italian official statement an- | nounces correct that British bombs have been dropped in Milan and Turin and also other Fascist |cities, adding that 22 Ttalians are | known to have been killed and more | than 50 wounded, many fatally. | Plants Are Damaged The British statement declares n]ml the Caproni plane factory at |Milan and the Fiat plane at Turin have been badly damaged by the | British raiders. Long Range Guns Used | A dispatch from Berlin said “in- | quiry at competent quarters elicited no denials” that Germany was using |long range Big Berthas to shell the | English coast replacements across |the English Channel. ' The British report is that the Air | Ministry declares as positive 140 German planes have “definitely |been destroyed” and probably an- other 140 planes so badly damaged they are useless, in the past two |days of intensive raiding on the edge of the imminently expected land invasion. Parachutists Reported The Britons experienced a mild alnrm this morning overreports that " (Continued from Page Seven)