The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 20, 1940, Page 1

“ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” AILY ALASKA EMPIRE MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, AUG. 20, 1940. * PRICE TEN CENT3 ROMES OET 4 & ABLAZE (4 (-4 4 ar Into Germany +_ Engish Blloon Shot Down by German Plan A VOL. LVL, NO. 8496. PS - s - -~ - 'Francisco and appearing in The Empire foday, is remarkable. The pictures left San Francisco Sunday night by aitplane mail, arvived in Seatfle yesterday morning, B ASE RIGHTSJ sociated Press Wirephotos. for Defense of West- | 7~ Minister Winston Churchill an- States 99-year leases for air and probably Newfoundland and in he Prime Minister appealed ates, making reference BRI“SH ARE WAR PICTURES, diredi from scene, before your eyes, almosi before the smoke has cleared away. Last Friday, the greates! aerial attack in history was made on | connected with fhe Alaska Clipper, reached Juneau at 5 o'clock yesterday affernoon and here they are in The Empire, Telemats, lates! war pictures from the As- GERMAN BOMB BLASTS CRATER AT CROYDON ern Hgmisphere THE s s s 'England. Here are pictures of the raiding. Taking in consideration, fransmission by wireless across the ocean from London fo Pew York, radioing then fo San TOOFFER U.S. 99-Year Leases Indicated LONDON, Aug. 20. — Prime . decided to offer the United Western Hemisphere possessions, “‘,("r" for the advantages. in’s Navy from the which England wants > Approval Given | To Registration for | Mili{ary Service WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — The Heuse Military Committee ioday zave tentative approval to registra- tion for military service of men from 18 to 64, inclusive. | Tall people need greater quén- tities of food because of their larger skin surface and heat ra- diation | 1e trom London to New York, shows a bomb crater made when German planes ry announced This piciure, transmitted from London Big- caption, a German plane shooting down a British batrage balloon over Dover on August 16. Germany Thus preture, seut vy raided the Croydon district, an airport surburb of London on that every plane which took part in the Croyden raid was destroyed before it got back to Germany. smashed wave after wave of bombers against England Cfl'e | ger raids then followed on Britain. $“‘fc@ Nazi Bomb Smashes London Suburban Home secrerary of Beauty Aids Call To Colors ; and gl | 2 W“’*"e"bg Za REPLY, WILLKIE kG ‘Q“ | Ickes Calls Crificism of F. WASHINGTON — When those 1 D.R.’s Foreign POIl(Y | Il Considered 8 Democratic leaders told Roosevelt at their White House conference, WASHINGTON, Aug. 20. — Secre- | tary of Interior Harold L. Ickes, in “Keep Hopkins out of the cam- paign,” apparently they meant it One of those at the meeting was Ed Flynn, who sucreeded to the | a radio speech last night in answer National Chairmanship last Sat- |ing Wendell L. Willkie's acceptance | urday. And it was Ed Flynn who speech attack, called the Republican | was responsible for that Hyde Park namineels criticism of President | announcement denying that Hop- Roosevelt’s foreign affairs as “ill kins* would sit in on a political considered and demagogic.” i council-of-war with the President Ickes termed the Republican Par- ty a “party of appeasement which contains an equivalent of England’s, Franece's pro-Nazi Munich appeasers and Henry Wallace. Fiynn read in the Tuesday morn- of 1938, the same as the me with the black umbrella: | ing apers that Hopkins was to Ickes said Willkic is a member of take part in the pow-wow. He had Tammany Hall and a friend and no information as the the source of the news report, but he strongly admirer of the late Samuel Insull, utilities operator. suspected Harry, himself. However, Flynn wasted no timec in arguing about the matter. He called up Hyde Park and bluntly insisted that “Hopkins is out.” And he was. A half hour later, White House Secretary Bill Hasseft sum- moned newsmen and told them Hopkins would not be present at the conference between Roosevelt and Wallace. SIMPLE FALSEHOODS RUSHVILLE, Indiana, Aug: 20.— Wendell L. Willkie termed Ickes' statements as plain, simple false- hoods and that he was absolutely astonished that President Roosevelt "This picture, sent from London to New York by cable, shows, according to British censor-approved cap- tion, a dwelling smashed by a German bomb which was dropped in southwest suburban London during the mass raid on Friday, August 16. Firemen and Air Raid Precautions men view the wreckage. i dw 5 i i L wid The Army’s employing a beauty contest winner to help attract youth resentative (from adjoining chair): | B I guess if the Father of Our Coun-| Roosevelt decided on are the following: { B Ao o ouchy 28310, hell realize that the people Eastern headquarters, located in Democratic New Deal Senator:| "™ cna Iake % Slenator‘ weought . "inls country have no use for a New York, under Flynn himself; Dammitall, man, 1 am hot. First, (o be able to. You've beer? making| man who tries to ride rough shod mid-western offices, in Chicago, it's Hitler; then it's politics; now tco many of those pro-third term gyer the ideals of democracy. under Paul ‘McNutt; southern, in it’s the weather. I doubt if any of speeches. Say, that one you made gen,: Tush and piffie. If the peo- ‘Treasurer's office, - ‘us will live ’til the first frost. If yesterday about there not really the Westward yesterday and is at ish planes were driven away berore‘ lyml put 'a hot towel on my hnd,.beinz any third term tradition—! ,the Gastineau Hotel, reaching the capital. | in northeast England. regional offices to be under the direction of local leaders. Already should authorize such a speech. NOTE—The Secretary of Com- —— to the army, and it's working. Marilyn Meseke, who won the “Miss DECENTRALIZED SET-UP |have to have some positive acts NEW YORK, Aug. 20. — Closing gpes getting a chance to help nationally. Working at high speed behind ™ establishing it. The third term duotation today of Alqska Juneau s : it 7 kA o A £ (e the scenes for his taking over of s o as ea er' ena o’s idea mever has beaten any one in mine stock is 4%, American Can 94, | Demceratic campaign machinery. | H | When That Man Roosevelt . . 1%, Curtiss Wright 7, General Mot- ALAR 7 ! The crux of the new set-up is all a( er ir erm‘ Sen.: Now look here, young O'S 45%, International Harvester 42, | decentralization. [} man, if you want to argue with Kenncott 26%, New York Central | N assume at least the dignity 11%. Northern Pacific 6%, United | ACK STINNETT ol i jai. 3l r Manhattan, which Farley bossed, By 4 ‘ 1. dgve, vt "a”e_d for. shhotage. ‘peoplc and leave out the name- L | Flynn will establish a number of WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.»Capiml‘ Republicas; anti-New Deal Rep- | calling. DOW, JONES AVERAGE hasher Aftop: [ Rep.: Al right, when PRESIDENT _ The following are loday's Dow. |ing that air raid alarms were had been r -oe | sounded in Berlin shortly after| northeast England and in two mid- CARLYLE BACK | midnight because of the approach|land districts. The statement said R i i e TROPRRRSG " i v il o - merce spent the day whiling his o | time away playing bridge in a you don’t believe .that, do you? SIO(K OUOIAIIONS 1 nearby Poughkeepsie hotel. ar er op e ar ee e s Sen.: Certainly 1 do. Traditions America” title in 1938 poses with a recruiting poster. The Marion, ¢ are not made with words. You AR Ohio, miss originally helped the Fifth Corps area recruitng staff, now the National Chairmanship, Flynn this country and it won’t. Anaconda 19%, Bethlehem Steel has completely reorganized the Rep.: Well, we'll see about that, 76%, Commonwealth and Southern Instead of the central headquar- | me, % 0 ters occupying four hotel floors in | befitting a representative of the States Steel 51%, Pound $4.02% BERLIN, Aug. 20.—The German| LONDON, Aug 20 ~The British Barber: Hello, Senator. You look becomes Mr. Roosevelt JONeS averages: Industrials, government announced this morn-| government said that Nazi raiders rails, 26.58; utilities, 21.62. Jack Carlyle of the Territorial of British planes. The German that anti-aircraft guns opened fire returned from government claimed that the Bril-' and drove the invaders away when " (Continued on Page Four) (Continued on Page Five) sorted last night over| NEW ATTACK IS MADE BY '~ BRIT. FLEET | Raids Across Eng- lish Channel IN AIR ENGAGEMENTS :}Berlin Shelled as Citizens | Run fo Shelter—New Gun E_ared LONDON, Aug. 20.—Fighting Royal Alr Force bombers car- ried the war today inte Ger- many in fierce new assaults. The bombers attacked the German iNaval base at ®iel, also thirty airdromes in enemy occupied territory. Several air- dromes were set afire. Bombers also shelled Hauge- sung, one of the nearest Nor- wegian airports to England, and wes held by Germans. The German held airdrome at Stomer, Northern France, is cloaked in flames late this ferncon after British bombers made a surprise sttack, the Alr Ministry -announced. i TRANSPORTS ATTACKED | The Air Ministry also reports that two Nazi transports, supposedly on thelr way to troop concentrations on the English Channel, had been scored with direct hits and either completely disabled or sent to the bottom. It was sald that a number of Blackburn British dive bombers con- verged on five of the troop trans- ports and kept up an attack for | several hours. | It was not disclosed where the attack took place or the destination of the transport ships, but it is thought that the bombing was di- rected against a massing of German craft in the channel ports of France in preparation for the invasion of England. 1 BERLIN AIR RAIDED ! BERLIN, Aug. 20.—Citizens in this capital of Germany spent one (hour and forty minutes in air raid | shelters last night as British bomb- ers fanned out over the Rhineland. Military authorities said no dam- age was reported but thousands of citizens were panicky all through the night although notified the “enemy” planes had been beaten back. [ NEW LONG-RANGE GUN LONDON, Aug. 20.—Military cir- cles acknowledge that at least ome big German gun in Prance has bom- barded the English Southeast coast. The authorities admit the possibil- ity exists that the Germans might shell London from across he Eng- lish Channel. DR, WESTRICK | BOUND TO ORIENT LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 20— | Aboard the Japanese liner Nita |Maru and enroute to the Orient |today is Dr. Gerhardt Westrick, | Nazi trade counsellor to the United | States, The Nazi official is presumed o be enroute to Berlin by way of | Siberia and Soviet Russla. | Dr. Westrick secretly arrived in Los Angeles from the East and booked passage on the Japanese | liner. The trade expert was often suspected and accused of being in the United States principally for the purpose of creating favorable propaganda for Germany. _— .—-——— FRANK METZGAR LEAVES ! Prank Metzgar, son of Mrs. L. H. Metzgar, salled for the states on the Aleutian yesterday afternoon. He they struck at an unidentified town plans to re-enter Notre Dame for l extra studies.