The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 15, 1940, Page 1

i i l H % { THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8492. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY AUG. 15, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS 1,000 NAZI PLANES FLY OVER ENGLAND 5 FLIERS KILLED IN ACCIDENT Disaster Ogu?s Late Yes- terday Affernoon Off Vancouver Island CAMPBELL RIVER, British Co- | lumbia, Aug. 15.—Canadian police boats and other craft are searching Discovery Passage for the bodies of five men killed in the crash of a| Royal Canadian Air Force plane off | Vancouver Island yesterday after- | noon. | The dead are announced as fol- | Jows: SQUADRON LEADER R. C. | PROCTOR, of Edmonton. FLYING OFFICER H. L. GORDON, of Regina. | FLYING OFFICER J. G. BIENS, of Vanvouver. | CAPT. G. H. BOURNE, Royal | Canadian Ordnance Corps, of Ottawa. CORPORAL R. G. BROWN, Royal Canadian Air Force, of Vancouver. A search for the bodies in the | wreckage instituted immediately | after the crash occurred was delayed last night by darkness but was re- said Constable M. N. MacAlphine. The plane flew out of Alliford Bay B. C.. for Queen Charlotte islands | and then headed for Patricia Bay, | Vancouver Island. The plane wus‘ pontoon-equipped and was Ilymg southward when the crash occurred. ‘ The yacht Southern Cross, two | halibut boats and other craft went | to the scene when informed of the | crash. .- MRS. ALONZO COPE ¥S ENROUTE HERE steamer | Pal- | Enroute here on the Baranof is Mrs. Alonzo Cope, mer school teacher, who will visit here for a week before going to the | Westward. She is accompanied by | her two children, Edward and Mar- | garet Jane. Drew Peersos =, \%p Robe'l‘;.,AIIel $ k6§ 0 erican Oxtord Retugees for Yale | Refugees trom Oxford, England, these children are among 97 chil- dren and_wives of Oxford umversxty faculty members who have ar- rived at New Haven, Conn., to be guests of Yale university during the wu‘ in Europe. FLAP FROM AIAnchorage MI. BERTHA On AirBase Mountaineer’s Wife Econ- omizes — Won'f Leave | Shirt fo Posterity Two Foremen Fired for In- subordination-Every- body Else on Job ka, Aug. 15.- 2 | ANCHORAGE, Al In a welter of towering glacier- | scoured peaks, topping the twomiles' TWO foremen, working on the new h snows of Mount Bertha in a ATmY air base, were discharged for yland of scenic superlatives that insubordination after fighting in | ring little known Glacier Bay, two Ll o S"p"."jhor Pamp ol navy blue socks flap:in -fhe|neadquarters, o, 1a: disclosed’ but several other foremen, who threat- the| ened to quit, remained on job. | Thirty foremen protested to Ma-| jor Ei rd George, Construction! Quarter ter, against a Super- visor, saying he used undesirable language in addressing the workers, After a conference, a small num- ber indicated they would leave their jobs but all reported on duty, as usual. } | thin air, tied to a three-foot stick. That is the marker left atop Mount Bertha by young mountain- explorer Bradford Washburn, placed there a few weeks ago when he and his party scaled the virgin summit to conquer another of the unex- plored peaks of the Fairweather | Range. Weathered young Washburn apol- ogizes for so defiling such a sacred GRECIAN | religious celebration was being hel¢ |aboard ship. One officer is missing. A WASHINGTON.—How much Am_‘spor. with the explanation that atop Seventeen hundred -, acres have isolation means to Hitler| Mount Bertha there is nothing bul,‘ beed ¢l ed in the past two‘ and how worried he is over the| deep eternal snow and no rocks for xx;ulltha M itabl selling U. 8. destroyers | & Su table cairn to remain for pos- Nine temporary bfftracks and\ drift toward to Great Britain has been illustrat-| terity—but the truth comes out ed by several factors recently. ithat on this, the first occasion on One is the steady stream of Which Washburn's 25-year-old little| other structures are now near com-| pletion. statements and press interviews by Nazi leadérs reminding the United| States that she has no quarrel with Europe, and that Hitler has no intention of coming to the West- | ern Hemisphere. Positive proof that these intended entirely for American con- sumption came the other day when| Adolf Hitler sent for a Hearst news- man, veteran Karl von Weigand, and gave him an exclusive inter- view, saying that he had no in- tention of going to South America. . King Features, which distributes vonr Weigand’s writings, immedi- ately telegraphed to the leading| papers of Latin America, offering to sell them the interview. A large| number of the editors ordered it when suddenly King Features dis- covered that Hitler had been there ahead of them., The German con: suls and embassies in Latin Am-| erica had distributed the speech free of charge and cable tolls paid| to all newspapers. MISSING FARM LEADER One of the chief subjects dis- cussed at the GOP farm pow-wow | in Des Moines was the McNary-| Hagen bill, twice passsed by Con- gress and vetoed by Coolidge and Hoover. But the news dispatchés report- ing this fact contained no mention of Senator Charles McNary, chief author of the famous measure and the runfhing mate selected by Wen- are | More than one mile of railroad| blonde newlywed wife, has accom- % track has been laid, half a mile‘ i hi pepled ‘n_in ks muuntameenng“m warehouses and unloading plat- that Washburn's shirt affixed to a| leti | | stick was a needless expense, and cogpe ;n' 4 e | | that two worn out and dirty wool| A OP¢ thousand men are now &b | represented wifely economy as well.| | ! Establish Camp Bi g loa A I The Washburn party left Juneau I ns re o . Forester and established a camp in| Be Made 'o B’“aln Hugh Miller Inlet, glacial fjord at| | the head of Glacier Bay, and then SINGAPORE, Aug. 15. The ‘Mlller glacier on the ‘road for Mount | aoreed to raise twenty-five million Bertha. i | Straits dollars for a war loan. The Pilot Alex Holden then flew out pederation of Malay States is also ppphes on L‘ne other side of the|jay thus is raising a total equiva- ridge separating Hugh Miller and jent to five million pounds sterling rady Glaciers, about ten miles| which will be presented to the | 200 pounds of food for the five gift towards prosecution of the war. | Husky dogs in the party. | Special war taxation, probably in- | Four of the climbing party had/come tax, will meet the cost of ser- | gone ahead to collect the supplies|vicing the loans which will not in as they were dropped from the| |any way be charged to the British | plane, and were rewarded for thelr‘government over, which contained a thermos| jug full of hot coffee. A case of canned chicken wa; D I A two of two dozen cans were lost. | ale s galn se' From the first camp on Hugh| NEW YORK, Aug. 15—The new Miller Glacier, camp Wwas moved date for the Conn-Pastor match was airplane supplies were picked up to avoid conflict with a night game and camp established on the edge|between the Eastern College All Stars and the New York Giants " (Continued on Page Four) |the head of the family decreed forms are also in various stages of| socks not only filled the bill, but| WO On the air base. | June 28 aboard Kinky Bayers' boat | ‘back packed four miles up Hugh| giraits Settlements government has and dumped a thousand pounds of | yajsing twenty million dollars. Ma- | rom the beach camp, including British Imperial government as a | efforts with the last sack dropped Conn-Pastor Fight |also dropped to the party, and only| ahead three miles, and then the|set for September 6 this morning ]protessmn football team, (Continued on Page Eight) CRUISER IS SUNK VesseI Torpedoed While at Anchor by Uniden- - tified Submarine ATHENS, Aug. 15+~The Greefl cruiser Helle, 2,115 tons, has been; | torpedoed and sunk by an unidenti-' while riding ‘at| fied submarine anchor off Tinos Island harbor. The torpedoing was done while Twenty-nine men were injured. The sinking came as Italo-Greek' relations were at a crisis and had tween the Premier and the Greek | Cabinet. Censorsiip was clamped on both | telephone and cables after the sink- ing. The Helle was built in American yards in 1912 and was the second largest vessel of the Greek Navy and recently used as a minesweeper. —————— BRITISH LINER IS SENT DOWN Armed Merchanl Crmser Transylvania Torped- oed on Atlantic 15—The 16,923- LONDON, Aug. -/ ton armed merchant cruiser Tran- sylvania, one of the popular West Indies ise ships out of New York, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German the Atlantic, the British Admiralty announces in notifying the next of kin as to casualties. Between 30 and 40 sailors are be- | lieved to have been lost due to life- boats capsizing in choppy seas. More than 300 officers and men were saved, including Captain F. N. Miles. The survivors have been land- ed a west coast port. There were many remarkable es- | capes, the Admiralty announces. The Transylvania is the seventh large liner sunk during the present | war. . > — Bridges Case Is Taken Up WASHINGTON, Aug. 15. — The Senate Immigration Committee has | approved 6 to 5 of legislation direct- ifig Attorney General Jackson to determine whether Harry Bridges, | CIO chieftain on the Pacific Coast, should be deported. The legislation is a substitute for the House bill requiring immediate deportation of Bridges to Australia. | DESCRIBES FIRST STEP TO BE TAKEN I“ HOME DEFENSE llb:l'l‘S AREN'T IN IT SALEM, Ore, A Aug 15 Nmoml'”f the “Old Guard” Republicans, American Legion Commander R«ay-| manifested ,,,sm,ed,wmkte at Philadelphia, has per- mond Kelly, of Detroit, ! resulted in an all night session be="|" submarine somewhere on | | | | | Royal Canadian Air Force lane Crashes Buiush Tommies are on guard on the east coast of E ngland awaiting the threatened land blitzkrieg placement is at the right. Associated Press dispatches indicate the Britain Prepared for Invasion of Nazi Troops _land batteries in order to pave the way for the landin of troops. Aerial Battle Machme Gun Fire on a Nazi Shlp ) This spectacular picture, hazy because of clouds and fumes from a plane's exhaust, shows machine gun fire ripping a German bomber during an Passed by the British werial battle over England. a Heinkel ITL" German war planes are smashing at the censor, the caption reads thus: effect of machine gun fire from our aircraft is shown by this picture taken during a combat with SKY RAIDERS ~IN ASSALUT, - WORST EVER ‘Single Armada of War Planes Flying in 30-Mile Wide Formation 'HITLER EXTENDING " HIS FULL VIOLENCE ‘New Crisis Develops in Europe - lfaly, Greece Nearing Break (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS) Sky clouding waves of Nazi war planes, estimated at upward of 1,000 in a single armada fly- ing in a 30-mile wide formation, stormed the British Isles today in a maelstrom of fierce new raids, apparently the biggest mass onslaugh since Hitler turn- ed on the full violence of his aerial might a week ago. The British government claims that up to early this afternoon 55 Nazi raiders have been shot down with a loss of seven Brit- ish fighting planes. _ The British Air Ministry ac- knowledges that planes droning over one area on the southeast | coast numbered at least 500, followed by other waves of equal strength, striking up and down | the coast from the Thames es- tuary to Lands End. It is be- | Tlieved this terrific assault sig- | nalled the opening gun of the long-threatened attempt to in- | vade England. New Crisis While Hitlerls sky raiders swept back over England again today, a | sharp new crisis has developed in | southeast Europe with the torpedo- ing and sinking of the Greek cruiser Helle by an unidentified submarine A gun amid Italian newspaper threats of attack on Greece. | In London, Winston Churchill, Prime Minister, told the House ot Commons that “although very much |stronger than for several months, |the danger of invasion is by no | means passed away” and he added |that a small British holding force |has been driven back by ‘“greatly | superior Italian forces” from a posi~ | tion northeast of Hargesia, British | Somaliland. Greece may be plunged into the “The devastating Bolh Parfies Are Banking ~ On Bolters, So If's Those Floaters Who May Decide By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON,. Aug. 15.—Poli- tical notes for today: I spent hours on separate occasions recently talk- ing to two men high in the ranks |of the two major parties and, if I have it right, both the Democrats 'and Republicans are counting on | splits within the opposition to win | victory, There’s nothing new or amaz- | ing about a party’s efforts to sphl the opposition, The thumb-rule of| battle, “divide and conquer,” is 8s hoary in politics as it is in war- | fare. What is amazing is that this | year ranking politicians in BOTH parties insist that the time was | without the staunch fls,hnng hearts | publicans | mittee Chairman; never riper for applying the split-| | and-win wchnlqu(- d the Democrat: The coolness toward Wendell L. the Legion's program against sub-| sisted. Many conservative Republi- versive activities, cans, outside of the Wall Street Kelly said that such a program | crowd, are more lukewarm to Will- was the first step in home defense|ki¢ mow than when he steamrolled in light of the troubled times. He| Over the convention floor. added that the Legion favored sale May not belt outright, They but they of surplus war materials to Great|Can't put their hearts in electing | Britain but opposed sending men overseas, a man whose ideas are so close to those of the New Deal and l of the “Old Guard,” the G.O.P. is whipped. Willkie split the Re- publican party in Philadelphia and it isn’t politically possible for him to back up enough now to bring them in line. Without these lead- ers to guide them in the way they should go, there will be more Re- voting for Roosevelt | this year than ever before Said the Republican: Why just look at the parade of bolters al- enators Burke and “Cot- ton Ed” Smith; George White, a former Democratic National Com- Lewis Douglas, John Hanes and former Senator James Reed and that's just beginning. Roosevelt split the Dem- ocratic party by his decision to run for a third term and by the high-handed methods of his man- agers at Chicago. For every one of these men of prominence, there are hundreds of thousands in the rank-and-file who feel the same way and are swinging over, There'll be more Democrats i the ranks of Republican voters in November than at any time in the history of the party Says I: These tute politicians; are BOTH right, two men are as- just suppose they Where's the vote (Continued on Page Seven) | European war but has been prom- |ised full aid from Great Britain for 1rxchnnge of naval and air bases for ~ RESIGNS Britain’s attack on Italy. Bulgaria is also involved and may become a belligerent. Appeals to Moscow A Rome radio broadcast reports the | (ABINET |that Moscow has been appealed to | by Greece for Russia to intercede in Greece's crisis with Italy. The Italian newspapers are press- |ing demands for Greece to cede the | Greek-owned Thrace, also the outlet Will Devote His Time 1o % s epeer oo After a night, full of German Candidacy for Vice- | . |this morning in a terrific further Preslden(y !auack on England for the fifth | consecutive day. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Secre- | The intensive raids struck at tary of Agriculture Henry Wallace |Folkestone and Lympne, blasting the handed President Roosevelt his|balloon defense in the vicinity of resignation from the Cabinet dur- |Dover. and said the letter will be made| noon over the north and eastern public by the President later. |coasts and a third over Scotland. Wallace will devote his time to, The DNB, German news agency, his candidacy for the Vice-Presi-|says the British defenses have been dency on the National Democratic|Penetrated by the bombers without ticket. any losses. lAuGHED SIR“(K. CLAIM CHUTISTS LANDED " BERLIN, Aug. 15.—Informed Ger- man military sources continued to insist that a squad of parachutists, LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug. 15. — |fenses and open the way for the A former inmate of the Whmier}Nazl invasion, had landed in Eng- State School for Boys, Michael Bar-|land as a prelude to fiercer air as- ron, testified at a hearing here that saults to come. The German com- he was struck by guards because he jmand said that at least several hun- laughed. Young Barron made the dred planes raided England yester- statement before the committee day and that “time will come when waves, Nazi bombers returned early ing a luncheon conference today| Three air battles raged this after- BRUTA[I" SHow" | under orders to sabotage British de- | which is now investigating charges | the number will be much larger.” that guards were brutal to thew All dancing was prohibited again youthful inmates. llast night in a ban which was strik- The investigation was launched |ingly similar to the ban imposed at |after two boys sommitted suicide at ' the beginning of previous major | the school. Nazi campaigns.