The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 23, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8499 JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, AUG. 23, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 FIRST NIGHT AIR RAID MADE ONLONDON - Congress Approves - GUARDBILL ¢ NO DISSENT Senafors Okeh FOR Meas- ure Putting Troops at His Call 396,000 MEN T0 BE "ON THE READY" Dependemma]use Em-| braced fo Save Many from Service Period | 5 | WASHINGTON, Aug. 23. — The| Senate has sent to the White House | legislation authorizing the Presidenti to call up the National Guard and | Army Reserves for active duty in| any period of twelve consecutive! months. | The Senators accepted the report of a conference committee on the measure as previously approved by the House. There was no dissenting vote. The measure affects about 396,000 men. 1 IS PASSED: { | vided that any_Guardsman or Re- serve officer beneath the rank .of Captain, who has dependents with no other means of support, may‘ " (Continued on Page Eight) | WASHINGTON—It did not get past the censors, but Britain's re- cent air raid on Italy was not the first. About a month ago, British| bombers also raided the industrial| centers of Milan and Turin in| Northern Italy. It was only parti- ally successful. This was because Britain's chief weakness is in long-range bombers —planes in which they can fly long distances to take the war into the enemy’s territory. By now it is obvious that the old military stra- tegy that the best defense is of- fense still remains true, and that the Gamelin theory of trying to live in security behind a Maginot, Line is futile. However, the British, up, until recently, have lacked the long-range bombers to fly all the way to Italy. On this secret trip, one month ago, some of their planes had trouble getting over the Alps, though some got through. The latter found a pilot’s dream below them in Milan and Turin. The Fascists, feeling secure behind the Alps, and knowing the British had no long-range bombers, had taken no blackout precautions. S their factories were lit up like car- nivals. These the British blasted with everything they had and got away unscathed before the sur- prised Italians could swing into ac- tion. Although considerable damage was done, it was nothing compared to what the British could have in- flicted had they been flying long- range “Flying Fortresses” used by the U. S. Army. The British are now receiving a daily output of these from the Glenn Martin Com- pany in Baltimore, which accounts for the raid of last week. Military authorities long have rated Italy the Achilles heel of the Axis, and if the British are able to muster more offensive aerial strength, they plan to aim more smashing blows at Italy’s industrial centers. WHAT GOES ON For more than six weeks Wen- dell Willkie, behind g well-guarded Under this legislation, it is pro-‘ 3 They're Building Ships This is an artist’s conception of how Britain’s reported new air raid defense weapon, the cable-shell, is working against Germany’s aerial blitzkrieg. When the shell explodes in mid-air, it releases a long steel cable attached to a parachute. The cable is designed to wreck the wings | or propellers of enemy planes. The cable-shell is reported to be an Amer- jcan invention sold to France and adopted by Britain. AllRight, But JustTryfo ALASKABANK DEPOSITS UP TMILLIONS Steady Gain Reported by | Olson fo U. S. - Tofal Now $17,148,552 An increase of more than seven million dollars in Alaska bank de- | posits in the past seven years was| reported today by Oscar G. Olson, | Secretary of the Territorial Bank- ing Board. | Olson’s annual report to the Comptroller of the Currency of the United States Treasury De- partment shows $17,14855226 on deposit in the banks of Alaska on June 30 of this year. Total deposits in banks of the Territory as of June 30 for the past ten years have been as fol- lows: 1931 $11,237,521.04 1932 10,201,574.49 1933 9,770,685.69 1934 . 10,898,400.22 1935 ... 11,879,660.78 1936 ... 13,456,519.87 1937 ... 14,774,663.02 1938 .. 15,308,174.72 1939 . 15,769,905.31 1940 17,148,552.26 Every year since 1033 a gain has been recorded, In the past year this gain was $1,378,646.95. New Ticket Is Proposed NEW YORK, Aug. 23.—Republi- can Candidate Wendell Willkie talked with Al Smith and other anti-Roosevelt Democratic leaders last night. The discussion consid- ered the possibility of setting up a new party ticket in the Southern states. * 1t is- explained that the proposed separate ticket would allow anti- privacy, spent long hours conferring and working in his Colorado ial v O ST - AR S (Continued on Page Four) Roosevelt Democrats to cast their ballots for Mr. Willkie without vot- Learn Where, How Big By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 23.—Picture of a perspiring reporter trying to get a little information out of the Navy Department these days (The War Department is just as tough): Reporter—Hello, Commander, one of my papers down at Tallahassee hears a report that you are build- ing a cruiser named the Tallahas- sec. Can you tell me about it? Commander—No. I don’t lieve I can. Rep.—Well, you can tell me if there is to be a cruiser named the Tallahassee, can't you? Commdr.—We are not allowed to give out any information about ships under construction. Rep.—Well, but my paper says definitely that theregs to be a cruiser named the Tallahassee. That story already is out. What I want to know is what size cruiser it is, where it will be launched and when. Commds.—We can not give out information like that. be- NOT BY SIZE ALONE Rep.—Well, what kind of cruiser are there? Commdr.—Why we have heavy cruisers and light cruisers ranging from 10,000 to 7,000 tons. Rep.—Would you say that the Tallahassee is a heavy cruiser or a light cruiser? Commdr.—I wouldn’t, No. Rep.—Well, is it closer to 10,000 tons or 7,000 tons? Commdr.—That’s a pretty diffi- cult question to emswer. You see, some light cruisers run around 9,000 tons while some heavy cruisers may be only 6,000 tons. Rep.—Please repeat that, Com- mander, I don't think I heard you right, (Commander repeats, Re- porter did hear him right) Well, then, what determines whether it’s a light or heavy cruiser? Commdr.—I don’t see what has to do with this story, but if you must know, it's a matter of guns mounted . . . size, number, etc. Rep—Just a minute, Comman- der. (Reporter puts down receiver, mops brow and struggles to get control of himself. He takes a deep breath and launches off again) Now, Commander, can you tell me approximately where it is being built? T know, I know, not the specific shipbuilding yard; but is it on the west coast or the east coast? Commdr.—Wait & minute, I'll ing Republican. (Continued on Psge Six) i it| U.S.BOMBER 'IN CRASH; 9 - MEN KILLED Aircraft Carrying 2,000, | Pounds of Bomb Hits | | -Then Explodes /OCCUPANTS BLOWN T0 BITS, IS REPORT CraftEither Struck by Light- | | ning or Caughtin Terrific Draft DENVER, Col, Aug. 23—Two of-| ficers and seven enlisted men were | ;klil&‘d in a crash and explosion of a bomb laden 2-motored Douglas | B-18 Army bomber last night while| the craft was on a routine freight trip to the Air Corps Technical school here. Stormy weather pre- vailed at the time of the crash. The wreckage of the bomber*was | {found strewn along the ground, |about 45 miles east of Denver, by | searching planes. | Al occupants of the bomber were | |blown to bits by the explosion. | Officers estimated the plane car- {ried 2,000 pounds of bombs. f Major A. L. Jewitt, Post Adjutant lat the Lowry Field Bombers' Base, |said the craft was probably either :slruck by lightning or caught in a| | terrific down draft. | Investigators believe the accident |occurred about 8 o'clock last night - ALASKA LIQUOR INDUSTRY 1S VITAL SOURCE OF TAXES, GOVERNOR'S STUDY SHOWS |during a hail and electrical storm. | The dead are as follows: S Second Lieutenant Wilbut Cham- | pagne of Denver. | Second Lieutenant Robert P.| | Schmitdtchen of Valley Stream, | Long Island. | Sergeant William McDearman of | Lebanon, Tennessce. | Sergeant Clarence Hobbs of Irv-| |ing Texas. | Sergeant Truman Fraser of Mc- |Roy, Arkansas. Sergeant Roy Adkins of Swift City, | Indiana. | Private Claude ‘Denver. | Private Charles Kelly of Texar- kana, Arkansas. i | Hutchinson of | NEW BOARD IS NAMED; 1 NATIONS Six Americans, Five Can- adians on Joint Body - fo Plan Our Defense WASHINGTON, Aug. 23— Ap- pointment of a joint United States- Canadian Defense Board has clear- ed the way for a start of active consultation on problems of high strategy and miltiary planning in- volving the security of the two na- tions. Six Americans were selected to the board by President Roosevelt and five Canadians were named by Premier W. L. MacKenzie King to meet Monday in Ottawa for initial discussions. American Board Those named by the President are as follows: 5 (Continued on Page Seven) CLIPPER CANCELS AND ONE ELECTRA TRIES FOR FLIGHT Al Monsen took out a PAA Elec- tra from here twice today seeking an opening through the low over- cast, for a flight ‘to Fairbanks, while the Alaska Clipper was again cancelled on its scheduled flight from Seattle to Juneau. A lone passenger with Monsen was V, Ford Greaves. . Moves in Aerial Blitzkfieg on Britain * & .IIJISK SeA Marked on this map are the localities ove 400 German warplanes blasted at the coas! determined effort to destroy Britain's GREAT PHYSICIST, SPIRITUALIST, I | Private Weldon Bryson of Deport, | | Texas. | Sir Oliver Lodge, Scientist, Believed Nothing He Could Not Prove LONDON, Aug. 23.—Sir Oliver Lodge, British scientist, physicist and spiritualist, who died late yesterday at his home in Wilt- shire, southwest England, at the age of 90, believed nothing he could not prove. - His life may be said to have been made up of two distinct chap- ters, during both of which he con- stantly endeavored to prove that which was not generally known or believed. The first ot these chapters, dur- ing which he was a natural scien- | tist and material experimenter, | went along until his 56th year. He | achieved world-wide fame as an inventor, assisted vitally in the de- velopment of wireless telegraphy and contributed largely to the gen- eral knowledge of electricity and physical phenomena. Mysteries of Mind Matter had been Sir Oliver's trade for more than 20 years when | he wrote a criticism of Haeckel's “The Riddle of the Universe.” Then he turned to psychic manifestations and began to delve into the mys- teries of mind, He professed to have found the hidden link between the living and those who had passed from the earth, In the science of spiritualism he believed he had gone even farther than in his scientific investigation of material things. He predicted that the time woud come when life could be created from a syn- thetic protoplasm in the laboratory. “What has happened on earth in the past” he said, “in the evo- lution of life from primeval moiten material or glowing gas, might pos- (Continued on Page Five) wave after wave of bombers. Factual studies of Alaska’s liquor industry by the Alaska Planning Council made at the reguest of the Governor’s office and released to- day in summary form by the of- fice of Governor Gruening reveal its economic importance to the Ter- ritory and its relative place in the| Territory's fiscal system, It ranks| third as a source of taxation \md‘i is one of the major sources of em- ployment and wages. The study was carried out by the executive staff of the Council and deals only with economic and administrative phases of the in- dustry, The industry since its establish- ment in 1933, coincidént with the| repeal of the national prohibition | laws and the Alaska Bone Dry Law has been directly under the con- trol of the Territorial Legislature| through the Territorial Treasurer.| Conducted by private interests un- der a licensing and excise tax sys- tem, automatically collecting, the gross revenues to the Territory now averages $3.67 per capita. Admin-| istrative costs, including enforce-| ment of regulations and inspection, average 36 cents per capita an- nually. The average for states hav-| ing the state monopoly or liquor store system is $1 per capita for Administration and net receipts of approximately $2 per capita. In 1939, for instance, the Treas- urer’s office received a total of $268,033 in revenue from the in- dustry. This was almost 50 percent| of the .taxes paid by the mining industry, $568,000, and more than one third of the revenues of the salmon pack tax, $765,592. In addition to the Territorial tax, incorporated communities of the Territory collected approximate- ly $135,000 in real and personal’ property taxes from licencees and in refunds from the Territory. The completed report, the Gov- ernor said, will be submitted to the Legislature next January. - eee - — Navajo silversmiths learned their art from Mexicans taken| captive about the middle of mej 19th century, 3 J r which the greatest air battles of the war were fought as some¢ t of England and at Channel shipping. The Ngazi balloon barrage and despite heavy losses continue to send ovex is are making s Greece Is A Threatened By Invasion ltaly Will Move If British Occupy Any Grecian Is_Iafiis (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Italian threav to invade Greece if the British occupy any Greek Is- lands is reported in a dispatch from Rome. The dispatch says that “if the British move into Greece, we will do the same.” The High Fascist spokesman de- clared that Italy is prepared to make a move into Greece, com- menting on the rumors that Great Britain might occupy the islands | of Crete and Corfu.’ TENSION INCREASES ATHENS, Aug. 23. — Greek re- servists continued to answer the call to arms today as tension mounted between Greece and Italy and Brit-| ish and Pascist warships waited near Crete for a definite break in rela- tions with the two countries. British diplomats have promised the small Balkan country all pos- sible aid in the .event that Greece and Italy come to war. Meanwhile Albanian newspapers continued in their threat against Greece and repeated their accusa- tions that Albanians were being held in Greek prisons. Military observers are of the op- inion that Italy’s expected break with Greece will throw the Balkans into a turmoil, divert Italy from her extensive anti-British campaign in Africa. RADELET LEAVES AFTER VACATION Dick Radalet, who has been vis- iting his family here for the past few weeks, sailed south on the Prin- cess Charlotte this morning. Radalet will go back to his teach- ing duties near Chehalis, Washing- ton. e — TIEDT SOUTHBOUND F. W. Tiedt is a passenger for the south aboard the Princess Char- lotte. Mobilization Measure RENEWED -~ ATTACKS VIOLENT Nazi War Planes Drop Sal- vos of Bombs-Much Damage_Done \BRITISH LONG RANGE GUNS NOW IN ACTION Counter Raids Are Made by RAF on France, Bel- gium and Holland (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Nazi war planes daropped salvos of bombs on three densely populated London suburbs during the past 12 hours and early reports indicate six persons were killed and scores injured. Attacks, according to late after- noon reports, are mounting in vio- lence elsewhere in England and Scotland. London reported that British long range guns fired a “few rounds across the channel” by way of re- tort to the newly discovered Ger- man big Berthas studding the French coast and which unsuccess- fully shelled a British convoy yes- terday in the Strait of Dover and rained projectiles across the channel, some striking in Dover itself. The British spokesman discounted the Nazi new attack by declaring the big German Berthas would not make Dover untenable, from a mili- tary standpoint, but the civillan residents of the channel's “Hell's Corner” began fleeing, however. Heavy Property Damage Heavy property damage is report- ed as the result of the pre-dawn assault on the London area, the Capital’s first night air raid of the war. Two emply movie theatres, one bank, several stores as well as many other buildings were badly damaged. British bombers countered with raids on Western Germany which the Nazi High Command acknow- lodged as “without special effect” but admitting a number of civilians were injured. Negligible reports were issued from the British Air Ministry this morning telling of short reconnais- sance flights over German occupied territory in France, Belgium and Holland. The British ships are re- ported to have loosed several tons of bombs on military objectives, but there was n odefinite informa- tion as to the extent of the damage or the exact district raided. ‘The Air Ministry reported that British bombers, ranging wide over Germany last night, bombed a tun- nel northwest of Hanover, just as a supply train entered it. The Ministry did not report what hap- pened to the train, Sea Raider Is Reported Sol'l!h Seas British Liner Reporfs Af- | fack Then No Further Advices Received | WELLINGTON, New Zealand, | Aug. 23. — The 8000-ton British | steamer Turakino sent out a radio |from the Tasman Sea last Tues~ | day night, saying she was being |fired on by & raider. g | Premier Fraser, of New Zea~ land, announced that this is .the ;flrst report of am attack on & | British steamer in Australian waters. ‘The message gave the ship's po- sition but no later radios were picked up. & The Turakina was due in a New Zeaand port tonight, | 3