The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 17, 1940, Page 1

ILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE "VOL. LVL, NO. 8494. NAZI AIR Ger many Willkie Says MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRES PRICE TEN CENTS FOR 1 DAY h Isles ' IMASTERY OF JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, AUG. 17, 1940. 1 RAIDS ABANDONED F Att Blockade, Britis 4 14 empts President Is Courting War Republican’s Accepfance Speech Challenges | Rooseveltto Debates ELWOOD, Indiana, ug. 17.— Wendell L. Willkie came home to Ellweod, where he was Peck’s in his early school to receive a tumultuous atien and accept the Repub- i nomination for Presi- special train bearing the reminee, his family and offic- party rolled into the siding of Elwood’s enlarged railroad vards this afternoon amid cheers and band music. e was greeted first by the members of Summit Post, Amer- (Continued on Page Eigho N Sy, Drew Pearsot and \2 Robert S.Allen WASHINGTON--There have been| two backstage developments re- garding the radio broadcasts of| Colonel Lindbergh. One is the fact| that the men who originally en- couraged him to go on the radio now are backing vigorously away.! The other is the still unsalved mys-| tery of those NOW behind him, | The two men who originally got the flying colonel on the air are| Fulton Lewis, enterprising radio newscaster, and William R. Castle| Jr., Under-Secretary of State dur-| ing the Hoover Administration. Castle now denies emphatically that he is having anything to do with recent broadcasts while Lewis in-| timates that the farther he keeps| away from Lindbergh's microphane‘ the better. | The man who now seems to be 23 Nice Work if You Can We're supposed to tell you about interest mostly is confined to the the big caliper here, but since your young lady, we'll begin by stating she is Marjorie Moore, one of the beauties entered in the Venice, Cal.,, Mardi Gras. The caliper, a one used by mechanics, is the brilli NEW NAZI BOMBERS ARE USED Veritable fiy—ing Battle- ships Among Craft in English Attack (By Associated Press) glamorized version of the ordinary] iant lde} 9( the Venice press asent. ‘ WINDSOR, ~ GOVERNOR, BAHAMAS Duke Takes Oath of Office Today-Women Bow fo Ducfiess NASSAU, Aug. 17.—The Duke of Gat 1 WARNING GIVENTO NEUTRALS Hiler Issues Proclamation 3 that England Is Now Blockaded (By ociated Press) Hitler warned the world today | that the British Isles are under com- plete blockade and Germany will not be responsible for the destruction of neutral vessels and lives within the besieged waters. The proclamation was broadcast by the official German radio station as new and more powerful Nazi bombers roarer across the English Channel and sent destruction to Great Britain's harbor facilities, air- ports and plants producing war sup- plies. To some of the nations, like the | United States and Argentina, the German proclamation did not apply as both nations have long regarded the waters around England as a war | zone and have forbidden their ships, | airplanes and citizens to enter them. The German proclamation con- | tinued on the air repeatedly and | warned all neutral nations of the | blockade and that the warning | would not be repeated again. WHAT BLOCKADE MEANS ! BERLIN; Aug. 17. — The “total blockade” against England is inter- | preted by the authorities to mean | unlimited sea and air war will now | be waged by Germany on Great Br tain. | The war zone has been proclaimed and the proclamation was foljowed | quickly by a report of the sinking | |of two large steamers near the Isle | of Man, presumably by striking Ger- | | man-placed mines or maybe, by Eng- | ‘lish mines, the captains not being | | informed as to exact locations. The DNB also reports that a third | steamer has been listed sighted by | | Nazi plane outlooks, as listing badly | )\:fie}ican Vessel Is Threatened ing a mine, | NATIONAL DEFENSE IS CAUSE OF BIG MOVING DAY, NATION'S CAPITAL Big Damag Cologne (above), key German city on the Rhine is “practically in ruins” according to reports from London. Cologne is one of the German centers heavily bombed by British warplanes in a series of raids coverine more than 100 towns. Nazi Time " Bombs Do e {Delayed EproSions Occur in Southwestern Lon- don Suburbs By JACK 'INNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 It's gotten so every day is moving day in Washington. Walk around the streets in the Government lmihl-‘ ing section in the evening or at| night and you are lucky if youv‘ don't step on a typewriter, butt| your brains out on a filing cabinet| or fall into a desk drawer. | The son: National de 1e Government is short on of- (By Associated Press) Time bombs dropped yesterday by the Nazi raiders over England caus- ed delayed explosions today, es- pecially in London’s southwestern suburbs. [stter presumably str fice space and is trying to juggle The time bombs exploded similar SKIES NOT DETERMINED No "EnemyA"'erombers Ap- . pear Over England Dur- | ing Daylight Hours NEW DEFENSE NOW BEING ESTABLISHED Bombs on Germany- Fleet Attacks Libyan LONDON, Aug. 17—For the first time in seven successive days, the daylight hours today, up to 5:30 o'clock this afternoon, passed with= |out a shadow of a German raider over Great Britain, but with the lull in the apparent struggle for mastery of Great Britain's skies, |the Empire struck with a new | vigor to hold supremacy of the seas in the face of the German | proclamation of a total blockade of | the British Isles. | The Admiralty announces that Great Britain’s own mines have | made the English Channel and Bay ‘u[ Biscay dangerous to shipping and | warned navigators to get routing directions, Night Raids | During the night, German raid~ ers spread over Wales and the Southern coast of England. The German communique de~ clares that Cardiff and Newport were successfully bombed. It is |sald that bombs struck the main square of one Welsh town and | damaged several houses with casu- | alties. The DNB, according to a broad- cast received here, said one Brit- [ish destroyer has been sunk off | the Isle of Wight but no mention | is made of this by British authori- ties. | | | KILL OWN KIN | | NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—Private| advices received here said the ships | sunk, as reported from Berlin, may |have been carrying German and Italian internes, inasmuch as the | |Isle of Man is the site of several | concentration camps, arrangements Ship Is Warned Germany Will Not Be Responsible for Steamer’s Safety BERLIN, Aug. 17. — A German radio tonight said it is “officially and jockey its various units into| a new set-up that will take care of the rapidly spreading defense | personnel, to those dropped on Paris after the‘ The British have retaliated to the raid on the French capital city on Ngazi air raids by counter-attacking {ahns ::i an‘; brought death to un-| Germany. The Royal Air Force | o _| suspecting Parisians, | 1ast night blew up a plant at Luna, biis dunig e or oay.| More persons were made home- | nar Leipeig. The plant was used Vi ‘coasy glbm e dan't the Omv‘less in the suburbs of London as i, the production of oil from coal. [ GEARy S Y| one delayed bomb damaged several | « i ¢ i one. A Reconstruction Finance C"""houres i e al| “Other important objectives were o also successfully bombed,” says the near a| Windsor took the oath of office as|having been made to later transfer |stated that Germany will not be poration employee, returning after| another bomb exploded British communique. close to the flying colonel is Colonel| New Nazi bombers are being used Robert MecCormick, publisher of the in the general attack on Great Chicago Tribune who is violently anti-British and pro-appeasement.| ‘Whether or not McCormick inspired | Lindbergh’s latest speech is not| known, but Lindbergh was McCor- | mick’s house guest while in Chi-| cago, and also it is interesting to| note that the broadcast originated| over WGN (World’s Greatest News- paper), which is McCormick’s radio | station. MYSTERIOUS COLONEL Another man who has been close to Lindbergh is Colonel Truman Smith, of U. S. Army Intelligence, and the Army’s chief specialist on Germany. Colonel Smith was stationed at Fort Benning before the advent of Hitler, when some German officers came there for training. He be- came a great friend of the officers, and as military attache in Berlin| several years later, renewed that| friendship. In fact he was giving| amazingly accurate information re-| garding the German army. For instance, when Germany| moved into Poland last year, Colo- | nel Smith was able to tell the War| Department the points which the German Army would take and al-| most the exact hour it would take| them. At first, the War Department | would not believe his information, | eventudlly had to admit its sound-| ness. Colonel Smith got to know Lind-| bergh in 1938 when the latter| spent much of his time in Berlin, so when Lindbergh now comes to| Washington, sometimes for broad- casting, he frequently stays at Smith’s house. The Colonel was re- ported to have had a hand in writing some of the broadcasts.; This he later denied. | Opinion in the War Department| is unanimuos that Colonel Smith is an extremely able officer, but it is mixed as to whether his admira- | | i e (Continued on Page Fouar) Britain. Today the DNB, German official news agency, describing the new craft used against England, say they are veritable flying battleships of great capacity with heavier arma- ment than any previous aircraft. Their sides bristle with machine guns and they carry more potential instruments of destruction than ever previously flown. SPOKANE URGES ALASKA HIGHWAY IN TRADE DEAL (Would Give Britain De- stroyers in Refurn for Military Road SPOKANE, Wash, Aug. 17. The Spokane Chamber of Com- merce has proposed to President Roosevelt that any territorial trade with Great Britain in return for over-age U. S. destroyers, should include the right to build a mili- tary road north from Washington to Alaska. Such a road, it is declared, will bolster Pacific Northwest defenses Chamber of Commerce President | Raymond Kelley said the proposal has been sent via Representative Leavy, and also sent to the War and State Departments, ———— GOES TO COLLEGE Wayne Drayton, son of Thomas B. Drayton, attorney of Ketchikan, has left for the states and will at- tend the Virginia University, begin- ning the four-year law course. Young Drayton is a graduate of the University of Alaska. Governor of the Bahamas today and he promised to use his best efforts to help the colony to become recon- ciled to local interests and changed conditions imposed by the war. The former British Empire King and his American-born Duchess were given great ovation as they ap- peared briefly on the balcony im- mediately after the inauguration ceremony. The wives of high officails cur- izied to the Duke and bowed to the Duchess following a precedent set when they landed in Bermuda. GEO. C. JONES PASSES AWAY Former Cafin of Geo- detic Ship Discoverer Dies at San Juan SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, Aug. 17. —The body of Lieut. Comdr. George Clay Jones, 52, was today placed aboard ship for the United States for burial at Portland, Oregon. Jones, who had been in the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey ince graduation from Oregon State College in 1914, died as the result of an attack of the heart. Until last February he had been Captain |of the Discoverer and worked ex- tensively in Alaskan waters. L s MRS. METZGAR MOVES INTO BARANOF HOTEL Mrs. L. H. Metzgar, widow of the |late Alaska Juneau Gold Mining |Company superintendent, has taken |up residence in the Baranof Hotel, |expecting to be there for the next Jmonth. thousands of internees to Canada |responsible” for the safety of the & short illness to his office in the old Commerce Building, four.d some up a bare minute after a dozen or production plant and a third blew In African War land Australia. United States ship American Legion —————t—— now returning to America from Pet- samo, Northern Finland, with sev- eral hundred persons aboard. The German radio said the ship| is continuing her course and an-| nounces the vessel is within the danger zone about the British Isles, despite the warning from the Ger- - Gef Orders - ~ FromRome |7 AlmS SOMALILAND IS TRAPPED |Claim Warsfi at Berbera Badly Damaged by GreeceMay | | Mussolini'sfl per Flays Albanian Border Claims ROME, Aug. 17. — Mussolini’s newspaper 11 Popolo D'Italia, warn- ed Greece today to “define her po- sition immediately relative to Al- banian claims.” The newspaper indicated Greece will be called upon formally within | . a few days t osay yes or 1o to claims | Rome RalderS of territory along the Greek-Alban- e ian border. ROME, Aug. 17. — The Italian| Heretofore the Italians have ac- |Command declared today that the| cused Greece of being a British| British defense system in Somali- | vassal, aiding in the British Med-|land is encircled by the action of | itteranean war against Italy, and|two wings of advancing Ttalian | conniving plots along the Albanian |forces. | frontier. One hundred are reported dead | wevibesriaiaiiieburtepey and numerous prisoners were re- RUTH TORKELSON TO “)or!ed captured with vast quantities | TAKE NURSE SCOURSE |of materials, foodstuffs and arms |of all kinds. Miss Ruth Torkelson, daughter of | The Italians also claimed they Mr, and Mrs. Emil Samuelson, sailed have “badly damaged” warships and south last night on the steamer other vessels in the port of Ber- North Sea. She will spend some | bera by air bombings. time visiting her sister and bruth-i - er-ij-law, Mr. and Mrs Robert | WEATHERS BRINGS IN Marcum at Portland before en- CARGO OF TROLL FISH| |tering the Emanuel Hospital for| Al Weathers was in port today nurses training. | with 4000. pounds of salmon taken | R o ORI ) |aboard his troller Deutz. The Great Salt Lake is 30 miles| Engstrom bought the cargo at | gressmen and Senators, wide and 70 miles long. J13-8~8 and 5% cents a pound. Ovld Age Insurance division em-|yope persons, drawing by curiosity, ployees working there. He SWEArs| sengeq danger and moved away. it was two days—when the new e A phones were connected—before he| could locate his office. (Note: His '‘Doomed personnel director refused to ac-| cept the alibi, docked him for '.vw‘ b Bridge more days off.) Reprieved Then there is the case of the Potomac Park Apartments. That shows how desperate the situa- tion is—Uncle Sam taking office| space in apartment buildings. | As a matter of fact, Uncle Sam HAVRE DE GRACE, Md. Aug. has been using this apartment for|j7__The fortunes of war have saved some time, The Social Security| the “Gold Mine Bridge.” Board has been there, or at least| The old double-decker across the the above-mentioned Old Age In-|gusquehanna to Perryville, surance division of the SSB, has| had been doomed to demolition been there for some time. They| when a new $4,500,000 span was moved out to make way for Wur‘(,pm,,d just upstream. Instead, it's Department and national defense to pe saved for its national de- employees. | fense value. This sort of triple play—mov-| But townspeople who fought to ing three offices to accommodate| keep the old span have won only one new one—is going on all the nalf their battle. The double- time, It's the only way adequale| decker was a free bridge, and the quarters can be apportioned. new one charges toll. And the old In one case, the government| pridge will be closed to traffic. has taken over an old roller-skat- - ing rink and is converting it into| offices for the Justice Department’s| alien registration division. | THINK OF 200,000 RUGS L e If you are interested in rx::ul-4‘s“qu‘m““1°n - A’mer{gcvun Aty qoas I.'lxu Ff(:fnl“ 3:!:):&'-;;;!)[‘5 u’.:lr)r ;;C; day’s short session is 93, Anaconda Py ey 2 e “vuy| 10%, Betblehem Steel 4%, Com- :’pr:;:;“;(m L:OO m):: b‘; lelve r{ms‘monwealth and Southern 1%, Cur- 2 . o | tiss Wright 6%, General Motors 45, oy O",L,:’f ,""""‘}d"”,y‘_’}‘: ‘f"““G’“”L}lnternatmnal Harvester 41%, Ken- about take care of Washington Govt | necott 25%, New York Central 10%, gPen T 3o C'“ Northern Pacific 6%, United States have to find a place for the COD-|gieel 513, Pound $4.01%. The office space problem isn't| DOW, JONES AVERAGES the only ogre raised by national| qpe following are today’s Dow, defense to haunt the sleepless| jones averages: Industrials, 121.98; nights of Federal officials. The res-| yai1s 26.27; utilities 21.63. idential housing problem has them| sy aSn R R E sweating, too, and come what may,| »There are 16 republics in the Soviet Union, (Continued on page Six) ] Md., | | A British report says the battle | force of the British Fleet, including | battleships and cruisers, bombarded | Libyan ports of Bardia and Fort Cauozzo as well as other objectives this morning. WORST TO COME BERLIN, Aug. 17. — A German | communique this afternoon says | Great Britain has not yet been sub- l]ec(ed to a real large scale attack and the worst is yet to come. The present attacks have been simply strong armed reconnaissance flights The Communique claims 22 Brit- ish barrage balloons have been de- stroyed and many planes bombed and shelled on the ground. | CLAIM GREAT DAMAGE BERLIN, Aug. 17.—The German radio announcer claims that the Nazi air raids against England have | “played havoc” with the British | anti-aircraft batteries, especially on | the English south coast. The announcer tonight also said “much English artillery has been | eliminated during the past few | days of fighting.” \ i s Y ELKS TO PLAY . ISLAND NINE ‘ ‘Tomorrow evening, at 6 o'clock, weather permitting, the Elks ball club meets the Douglas nine in | Firemen'’s Park. | 'The Mocse drew a bye in a three {way elimination to determine the winner of the second half of the baseball season. e MRS. PLANTE RETURNS Mrs. H. J. Plante and little daughter of Thane, returned north aboard the North Sea after visit- ing relatives in Chicago. {