The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 19, 1940, Page 1

NAZITO MACHINE GUN BRIT. DEF Week Loo 4 v v HE DA “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 1LY ALASKA EMPIR | 'VOL. LVL, NO. 8495. " JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 19, 1940. MEMB| " PRICE TEN CENTS SSOCIATED PRESS Crucial HOSTILE | NATIONS WARNED U.S. Tells B:I_Iigerentsi They'll Be Held fo Ac- count Ship's Safety ‘ WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — The United States Government early Sunday warned all belligerents they will be held responsible for the American liner American Legion. The State Department said Ger- many was especially notified. 1t is understood the ships courde | would put her in the danger zone Sunday night. | The American Legion is carrying an illuminated United States flag both day and night. aturday night a German said it was “officially stated 4 Seeking | radio | that | .| (Continued on Page Eight) i 3 Drev Pearsos | fiases ond Robert S.Alles WASHINGTON — Although first behind-the-scenes opposition 00‘ conscription came largely from| sources, there is no question thntj those opposing the bill now have| | rolled up some very genuine and| 1 | life, particularly the churches. | In fact opposition to conscription churches of almost every denomin: | tion agree, and this is probably the ST Three Industrial Cities Af-| Methodists have worked together on a vital legislative issue. | tacked-Parts of Ger- tion has been expressed by Mon- signor Michael J. Ready, who is circulating a statement from the . & 3 " : Far ranging British bombers | Catholic Bishops; and from Father|, ..\ yiasted northern Italian cities opposition of the National Catho- i Turifi 4ad: Cuni lic Welfare Councll, ~Archbishop Other squadrons raided western A jand southern also has circulated a pastoral let"‘command ad the: ealds but de- 2 mmaterial damage was Protestant opposition has come done.” [ from Charles Boss, whose organi- Aok T, 000,000 Methodists; Bishop William A. Lawrence, speaking for a group 1 also from the Federal Council of { Churches, the overall Protestant vISIIS HERE\ Outside the church groups the| | Farmers' Union in several states Railroad Brotherhoods. Also, this| juneau yesterday, southbound from opposition to conscription is about jts far Westward cruise, loaded Bill Green have agreed upon for| Apoard the North Coast, fully months. | loaded with case salmon, were 217 able fact that these very well-mean-J A lone passenger to Juneau on ing and sincere groups are being|ino vessel was Mrs. M. Kessler, —_— - tant backstage group of pro-Nazi, Bundite isolationists to serve mcuiDR. SEWARI To WILLKIE'S TECHNIQUE | Wendell Willkie have seen anyone|tomorrow morning on the steamer| given so quick and complete a| Princess Louise, accompanying his time AAA administrator, who broke| where she will enter Stanford Uni-| with Henry Wallace and Cordell| yersity. | eventually was edged out of '-helout in several years, expects to re-| New Deal. | main Outside for about six weeks. | | a prepared statement which he read | | to the press. But Mr. Willkie swod’s("oE“lER Io | his rendition, Willkie turned fo| the newsmen and said: Baranof Hotel manager Bob Schoettler is sailing south on the night?” Peek dashed like mad through| seattle on business. Schoettler expects to be back in then walked out as unhappily as he left during the early days of N BN RO ON VISIT TO SKAGWAY Mrs. Katherine Hooker is on a /fGo.QD Nazi, anti-British and Communist | sincere opinion from all walks of| seems to be one thing upon which [ first time that both Catholic and Catholic opposition to conscrip- Sh " d Barry O'Toole, who expressed the| . ‘g ,q.y including industmal Mi-| John T. McNicholas of Cincinnati| Gérmany. The Nazl ter urging opposition to the bill. |00 only * zation is supposed to represent 8,- inside the Episcopal Church; and | body. has registered opposition, also the| The steamer North Coast was in the only thing John L. Lewis and| with fish and cannery hands. NOTE—However, it is an inescap-| orientals. used, at least in part, by*a mili-| SN Few of the newsmen coverind Dr. A. W. Stewart will sail south| brush-off as George Peek, one-|daughter Sue to Palo Alto, Cal, B! Hull over the farm program and pr Stewart, making his first trip; Peek brought to Colorado Springs| - >o o —— * behind him, and at one point in| MAKE RIP ou-l- 1 “What are you boys doing to- Aleutian to spend a few days in the remainder of his statement, about two weeks. | the Roosevelt Administration. ‘ John Hamilton and Joe Martin| (Continued on Page Four) u Germany fo Atfack America If Defeats Brifain; Bullitt Makes His Blunt Predidionf AT HIS HOME | “It will be the Japanese navy co- visit to friends in Skagwey. She left 'guest of Mr. and Mrs, Arthur E.' for there on the steamer Yukon. valuver. ¢ New Taxes for Defense Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau (right) appeals to the House Ways and Means Committee for swift action on passage of an excess profits tax scheduled to offset fast-mounting defense costs. He said spending weuld create a record deficit for peacetime of $5,700,000,000 at the end of the current fiscal year unless new taxes are imposed. Left, mittee. Center, is Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson is Wiltiam S. Knudsen, head of the national defense advisory com- AUTO MAKER (By ASSOCSATED PRESS) Ambassador Walter P. Ch}Ysler, "Doc- William €. Bullitt, | to tthe old-France, in a radio ad- dress, bluntly predicted that Ger- i many will attack America if the 'Or Of Sl(k MO'Or(ar | British are defeated. He urged dis- patch of aid to the British fleet It is officially stated the State Dapartment approved of the speech. | Eullitt said that if Great Britain is conquered he foresaw the whole of the European continent organ- ized into an economic unit, directed from Berlin “In the Pacific,” Companies,” Dies Bullity stated, ope ing with the Dictators and his would cut off the United States from supplies of rubber and tin and compel the United States to leave a large part of the fleet in the Pa- cific to defend Hawaii, Alaska and the west coast.” ! SPEECH ATTACKED WASHINGTON, Aug. 19.—Sena- tor D. Worth Clark, Democrat of | Idaho, told his colleagues the Bul- litt prediction that Germany attack the United States if Great! g Britain is defeated, is “very little hort of treason” because it suggest- ed a “Dictatorship” for the United | States. ‘ P. CHRYSLER. WALTER - e —— WILLKIE AWAITS | home at Great Neck, Long Island. ms, PASSES AWAY WICKARD SUCCEEDS WALLACE | Resignation of Agriculfure Secrefary Accepted Ef- | fective September 5 | |HYDE PARK, Aug. 19.—Henry A. Wallace's resignation as Secretary | of Agriculture, effective September | 5, was today accepted by President | Rgosevelt who nominated Undersec- {retary Claude Wickard, Indiana | farmer, to succeed Wallace. | Paul H. Appleby, of Maryland, |now Wallace's assistant, will suc- ceed Wickard. Demgeratic Vice-Presidential can- | | didate Wallace will devote his cam- | paign entirely to the agricultural | issues. .- - - | ;Na\iy, Amy - Measure Is ~ GivenBoost Committee Efiroves Fund | “for Two Fleets-Also | More Soldiers 3 | WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — The | senate Appropriations Committee | today approved of the $5,869,277,000 | | bill for funds for the beginning of construction of a two-ocean navy land equipping the Army with 200,- 1000 men. DehateOn Training Continues | fers Second Week of Senafe Discussion WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — The Senators started another week of the sharp debate on the Burke-Wads- worth conscription bill with Senator Lister Hill, of Alabama, saying the | proposed enlistment program will CINEXV _Y;)RK‘_ léuga 19'_Ya’LFr T" “place a premium on slackerism and | Chrysler Sr., is dead as the result| ;" opajpy on patriotism.” |of a cerebral hemorrhage at his| ——————— REP[Y Io DEBATE | Banking interests associated with| | the automobile industry referred | to Walter P. Chrysler as the “doc- (HA[[E“GE ISSUED tor of sick motorcar companies.” ! He was recognized as possessing genius for organization, Knowledge of finance and mechan- ics, a driving power of will and an enormous capacity for work | carried him always forward, and Roosevelt, However, Too| Busy to Answer as He Plans Nafl. Defense | panies with which RUSHVILLE, Ind., Aug. 19 | period had dealt rather severely. | Chrysler was not a pioneer of the Wendell L. Willkie is “awaiting pa- | tiently” an answer to Saturday’s industry. The motorcar already was challenge to debate political issues|overcoming early day with President Roosevelt while the| when it first attracted his interest. Chief Executive kept busy with Na-| Yet to him it was new., Back in tional Defense problems. Willkie indicated a tentative po-| tendent of motive power of a mid- litical program. He will go to the| western rallroad, he borrowed $4,- west coast, Los Angeles and Se- 300 and with $700 capital of attle, then back to the Midwest and own bought an automobile east after opening his campaign at | couldn’t even drive. Coffeyville, Kansas, in mid Scmem-“ Called “Crazy” ber. | Some of his friends called him e | “crazy;” others said things HUNTER HERE | harsh but shook their heads dubi- Frank Kenly, of Phoenix, Arizona, | ously. But Chrysler had a hunch expert | | made him sought after by com-| the post war| prejudice | less | DOINGS of Mexican Gunboat Go Aboard SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 19. —The Mackay Radio has picked up | a message from the Union Sulphur {1905 when Chrysler was superin-| Company’s ship Herman Frasch, | enroute to the east coast via the‘ Panama Canal, has been stopped | pulco. | —i————— | WASHBURNS LEAVE Bradford Washburn, mountain climber, and his bride, left for the south and east aboard the Prince Rupert. The two, with others of is a passenger on the ste#mer Bar- | and he wagered $5000 on it "\lhe expedition, recently climbed to anof heading for Kenai Peninsula | took him nearly three years to re- the peak of Mount Bertha in the i h for another sheep hunt. Kenly has ! pay the loans. His path to the title Fairweather mountain range. of superintendent of motive power| ————— |had been an arduous one, start-| HOUSE GUEST |ing with a job as five cents an| Mrs. Arthur Hansen, of Portland, | hour as locomotive wiper. is spending a week here as the} He bought the automobile solely hunted in Alaska before. (Continued on Page Four) | f Weather Permits NDERS UNITED STATES, CANADA ~ T0 LINK DEFENSES; PLAN REACHED AT CONFERENCE OGDENSBURG, N. Y., Aug. 19. The United States and Can- 2da have linked defenses in an unprecedented step to preserve the north half of the West- ern Hemisphere, President Reosevelt and Prime Minister W. L. MacKenzie King concluded a railroad car confer- ence and made the following Joint statement followir); the conference Sunday: “It has been agreed a perma- nent Joint Board on Defense shall be set up at once by the two countries. “It will consider, in a broad sense, the defense of the north half of the Western Hemis- phere.” It is said the Joint Board of Defense will be composed of Where Bombs Fall on England | Shaded circles on this map showi inflicted in northwest England (1) (3) and the Strait of Dover (4). militarists and they will begin | “immediately studies relating to ca, land and air problems in- and mater- ng personnel SUNDERLAND ( Sz | | | | Resistance fo Any e Invasion | FOR QUICK ACTION ‘ N | HYDE PARK, N. Y. Aug. 19. — AlR RAIDS iemonea Soate, war e sey| SUNDAY OVER ISLANDS | Department heads for suggest ions | 5 in naming members to the Canad- 2 | Belief Expressed More | The President said he hoped the| » [ Beard wil be et up by thussany | Planes, Pilofs Lost than | reached yesterday. | Those in the know, said the Pres- | | ident hopes the joint Board will hold | (By Associated Press) : ¥ The German High Command in- place Is not announced dicated that the crucial week in the and the offensive Is to start at any time. | At the same time, British author- single coordinated defense area to | combat “enemy landings” by air and sea. ‘Germln air force, given three more |days of good weather, will strike decisive blows on the blockaded Nazi troops are massed at French !channel ports, the high command | announces, impatient for the end “Preparatory” Raids } The air force has only made “pre- | paratory” ralds on England, the but is prepared to not only bomb | but swoop down and machine gun | the English defenders. | mipsfon, in a cpmmunique, an- nounces establishment of a nation- wide defense zone including Eng- |able any measures to be introduced without delays which might become urgently necessary,” in case of in- ‘Three IsIesT’;epared for | President Roosevelt this morning ARE MADE | ian-United States Defense Board of this week under the agreement Ge[many Admi's | the first meeting next week but the | battle for Great Britain is at hand ities announced the empire is a The German spokesman said the | kingdom. |of the conquest. Nazi military command announces, The British Home Security Com- |land, Scotland and Wales to “en- vasion. Don't Kill Chutists The German Government, through the Swiss Foreign Office, today noti- | fied Great Britain that parachute | troops must be treated according to | international law and not shot as | spies when captured, or direct re- | prisals will be taken against Brit- ish Air Force captives. Sunday Raids Nazi planes swept over England, | parts of Wales and Scotland, on Sunday. The British claim 140 Nazi planes were shot down and about 27 | British planes were down but pilots escaped with their lives. Coastal towns were subjected to a severe bombardment during Sunday but no statement is issued as to |1oss of life or property. Observers” Views Military observers admit that the German air fleet has been surprised |at the defense of the British fleet ng districts in which major British industries are located, are the areas reported meost frequently bombed by Nazi fliers. English sources admit damage and casualties have been | , the Midlands (2), Bristol Channel | Registration of | WABHINGTON, Aug. 19.—As part of the National Defense program, {a nationwide registration of aliens {will be conducted from August 21 through December 26, 1940, by the |Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Jus- tice. Registration will take place his| by a Mexican gunboat and Officers jn the post offices of the nation. he! have boarded the vessel off Aca- {registered during the four-month | period. Registration is made compulsory |by a specific act of Congress, the Alien Registration Act of 1940, which |requires all non-citizens to register |during the four-month official reg- | istration period. The law requires Starts This Month; Fines | Face Those Don't Qbey v v e 1t is expected that more than three and one-half million aliens will be | lalso shore batteries. It is also | strongly hinted that the German | Air Force has lost hundreds of | planes that had not been announced .land also that some of the best of | Nazi pilots have been killed or in- | capacitated for further duty. Troops Not Seen, Coast British sources this morning de- Afiens Fine —Imprisonment | 1 | {quired to register in person and belvou Have I'l fingerprinted. | A fine of $1,000 and imprison- They wan' || ment of six months is prescribed by {nm Alien Registration Act for mn-i ' lure to register, for refusal to be‘An ow. | fingerprinted, or for making regis- tration statements known to be| false. | As part of its educational pro- |gram to acquaint non-citizens with | |the registration requirements, the| Alien Registration Division is dis-| tributing more than five millon spec- | imen forms listing the questions | that will be asked of aliens at reg-| istration time. Besides the usual| Listen, everybody and read. Do Empire Classified ads Pay? They do. One little classified ad, “trail- er for sale” did the trick in just one issue in The Empire and sold. “One cabin for rent,” just one timp” in the Empire’s classi- /4 R |that all aliens 14 years or older GERTRUDE NAYLOR LEAVES |are to be registered and finger- Gertrude Naylor left on the Prince |printed. Alien children under 14 Rupert Sunday morning on a vaca- years of age will be registered by tion to last about six weeks which |their parents or guardians. When will be spent principally in Cnll—l‘allen children rdach their four- fornia, teenth birthday, they will be re- questions for establishing 1dentm-i cation, the questionnaire asks the alien to tell how and when he en- tered the country, the method of | ‘crunsponanon he used to get here,| . (Continued on Page Eight) fied column—and rented. These are only a few of the Empire’s classified ad quick turnovers. Try them—you may have something someone else wants. ] ¥