The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 26, 1940, Page 1

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L4 & L4 & 4 L4 ¢ ¢ L4 & ¢ S 4 & & & ¢ & -4 \ \ ' | overnor of Alaska, San Frandisco Visifor | \ I o SN PLANES | CONTROL OF CAPITAL | R | Squadrons of Nazi Bomb-| | Says German - Amencans‘ Early Morning Assaulfs o ers Flying on Thirty | / Here Ben,|g Usedas | MadeN on Cen‘tjer of Mile Front ‘ Berlin’s Tools ; . azi Lan ; | NEW YORK, Aug. 26—Repre-| : * TOWNS ARE RAKED, sentative Martin Dies declared: to- | HEAVIEST ATTACK OF ;; day he will seek enactment of a i ; MACHINE GUN FIRE jaw forbidding operation of any for- CONFLICT IS ADMITTED ! v | eign controlled organization within R iR PERE the United States. : % Scene of Horror Reported Dies declared many - German-| Casualties, Property Dam ene p | sl Americans are being compelled to | age Mmlmlled HOW' from Murderous Gel'- help disseminate Nazi propagands | I} ki in this country through fear for| ever by command s man ASSBU" their relatives abroad. { The Copgressman declared he BULLE"N_., Ly 3y N Bt . has obtained definite evidence this | <« bombers ¥ \vm,',u‘,w" 7,,B l:m: l;:z:,l, country is being flooded w.th Nazi| claim shells did fall in the ’ A sl propaganda sent through the Unit- | streets of Berlin in today’s rald 1 e T ed States mals. ‘ and casualties must have re- g e18 epheg Mer JeNEn M0 ey et sulted. Several fires are also e | A | said to have been set in Berlin b A hail of German bombs fell saia to hve hiee aet 1 BUTn 4 Fver e ense ess through the clouds. ¥ — | Berlin, late today, admits the ! | air raid of the RAF was the i ! AIaSka Alarms i Exnest Gruening, Alaska’s Governor and Mrs. Guening, flew into San Francisco from Juneau in the | heaviest alr ':h‘:fl:"mhfl | | far north o witness the marriage of bis son, Huntington, to Miss Elizabeth Tugails of Boston. They are uffered since ; e o 1 ;hr.:‘v::i:‘m-e after the ceremony, left to right, Mrs. G ruening, Governor Gruening, Mr. and Mrs. Huntington o AaBOD AT My j Clande R. Wickard (right), Indiana farmer, was nominated by Presi- D MatDonaId e ', SO . 2 > > Wi RS ¥ Heavy explosions uver&mud in | dent Roosevelt to succeed Henry A. Wallace (left) as Secretary of | L] | |down town Berlin early this morn- # Drew Pearsoa | i signi i n i | !ing as at least four waves of British . ; 2 % | Agriculture. Wallace is resigning to campaign for the Vice-Presidency | | o o | Royal Air Force bombers streaked | ‘of the United States, y it | over the cloud blanketed German T RobetSAlles | : ; —— Highway Commissioner | | | capltal city. ' i : [ H r It was Berlin's fifth air raid alarnt i ’ ‘AlIE"S SIARI Urges complehon Of | | n rl es since the start of the war. -~ G o | | . | Hundreds of anti-aircraft guns 9 REGISTRATION Road fo Terrifory | : e B S ALY | | —_— | | | The roar of airplane motors was WASHINGTON— There was an! K I l I. [ D o N SAN FRANCISCO, Cal,, Aug. 26— GOVERNMENT BUREAUS | Tra l l N ow pilu?nly audible in the heart of the 4 inside reas hy Attorney Gen-| l" u S IUESDAY\ | Three men with a fishing boat op- city. ')::nlmunxbou‘;z?ksxlxymckgld dyown 50| —— [ !erating on a dark night could para- it v i TR | i Berlin Statement B |u‘rcvl'uUV on the Democratic cam- | lyze the United States defense ma- R } By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Attor- The Nazi High Command asserts n bo ly did it violate F 'I t c ' M | chine in Alaska in less than an Y P i ldavr- .. G R bL Jackson . an-| 20 casualties resulted and Ro 4+ palgn ook, JNok only 4k allure 10 Lomply may hour in the opinion of Donald Mac- M(NARY READY | WASHINGTON, Aug. 26.—Occa-|ney General Robert Jackson | bombs fell in the Capital itself. the ‘Hald Aoy sk 5 R H H ] Donald, Alaska Highway Commis-| sionally, a word dropped here has|nounces that J. Edgar Hoover is be-| " rhe Germans did acknowledge, . o sm Paney Job and the Waite - Bring Heavy Penalfies | L w . [5iange repercusuonn. Because & inning immediiely o new Invest- | yever that . Jast one ineen- House was just as jnienant ebout) : ‘MacDc i Io BE NOIIHED | Texas reader had more than pass-|gation of Harry Bridges, Pacific| 0 ®o g - . $opd Mr. MacDonald said here toda; b |5 ot . | diary bomb landed in a village near the matter s the GG, | —Purpose Of Ad ‘I.Odge Trles fO llm" Age} lhatrsuchuan attack could be mad!ell ’ |ing interest in one of these col-|Coast CIO chieftain, to d”"erf“m‘, Berlin, another in the industrial Y Farley initiated and approved the| [ i . on Seward, the. Territory's only all- | A'I' F ARM HOME | umns, there is a new way of doing|Whether he is deportable under the| ' o gpanday, 20 miles from § book last spring, when he still k:ff CHICAGO, Til, Aug. 26.—Solici-| More—nghf Sessions | weathér entrance, while the towh | | things in the office of Herbert E. '“C"_:“Y e“f‘?fdfls"{“!‘ A“-.l 4| the Capital City while others fell ] hopes of wangling a plac; 0"“ 2 tor General Francis Biddle told| AET i was asleep. Tanks on the wharf| et Gaston, assistant Secrtary of the m:fltr mlg-: A Ci;{\:"::] fllt(:‘\z *;f north of Berlin. One incendiary Deneralc o BtQuaT? America’s three and s half milllon Beglflmflg | containing Alaska’s entire gas and \fica_Presidential Candi e ; |ine Senate Tmmigratin Grmitsece,| POMD set & three zoom garden house his close lieutenant, Oliver QUAY'®| 5ens that they need not fear com- skt | oil supply could be dynamited anda | ¥ I(€-FPTeSidentia @Ndl-| 1t happened this way: In those| i e ablaze in the suburb of Rosenthal, . Democratic National T‘”S.“re; B9 pulsory registration if they are when the population tried to give d f 'R bl |days when the Nazis were blitz- Fair Raided busy on the book. The White HOUSe 1,0 Joy._abiding non-citizens. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 — The chase, they would find _channel| ale of kKepublicans krieging France and the Red g A Other Royal Alr Force raiders v knew not_hmg about tbe matter. | Biddle explained in a nation wide Senate has rejected, 60 to 9, a pro- markers destroyed and the whole! B . fc . ‘Cm» was bemoaning the fact today appeared in extensive areas When it did break into thenews,’ . ; "ty that registration of all|posal of Senator Lodge to limit com- |area as dangerous as a mine field | rie ampalgn that money from its current cam- l I n lin Prussia and Saxony, causing THE DAILY ALASKA EMPI “ALE THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” E VOL. LVI, NO. 8501. JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUG. 26, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 what added fuel to the New Deal- ,j0nc i1 the United States starts Pulsory military service to men from ers' ire was Farley's complete Si-|yeqay 1t will be concluded by |21 years of age through 24. lence. | Although he was responsible for December 30. As now written, the conscription Every alien 14 years or older bill will make all men, 21, through BERLIN AIR RAIDED BY BRITISH owing to hidden reefs. Then not| even the Navy would dare enter| |these waters until they were re- Charles L. McNary arrived | surveyed. | saturday at his farm home, after SALEM, Ore., Aug. 26.—Senator | paign was not readily available, | the Texan wrote the Treasury De- late| partment with a plan for financ- o, j&hnson ( | ing immediate Red Cross aid. alarms in many cities, including Leipzig, where thousands of visitors at the fair underwent a 25-minute alarm. the book, he said nothing. As Ne| .. ‘egister in person and be| 30, liable for training. | "It would take a fleet of a hun- an absence of one year, to give| The letter went into Gaston’s The raid was carried out as a was stepping out as National Chair- man his silence implied he was innocent. Farley’s pussyfooting was fingerprinted. Parents or guardians| Action on the Lodge prop@a]:dred big planes a day to supply Al-| his acceptance speech to the Re-|office, where thousands of letters may register younger aliens. Fail- came after the chamber had writ- aska with food alone, MacDonald publican Vice-Presidential nomina-| are received daily. ten into the measure by voice vote, said. |tion early this week at State Fair One of Gaston's assistants read Is Conceded “foreign feature” of the fair which was promised in leaflets dropped by British planes several days ago, : .. |ure to comply, said Biddle, may L+ bitterly resented in the Inner Cr-{y . cevere penalties. ian amendment fixing 900,000 as the| The only answer to this condi-| Grounds. it and answered with one of promising the city would be raided. cle, where feeling about him al-| "y ;44eq. “I assure you that|DUmber of peacetime conscripts tion as MacDonald sees the prob-| Senator McNary said Willkie was| those form letters — you know, In the raid on Berlin, the Royal : 4 ready was far from cordial these registries will not be used to|Who might be in training at any|iem would be the construction of alto carry the burden of the Re-|202A—something to the effect; SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 26.|Air Force squadrons made the round However, they couldn't strike 8t .onnie yiackists one time. | road from the railnead at Haezlton, | publican campaign, carry the bail that “Your suggestion has been —Veteran Republican Senator Hir-|trip of about 1200 miles from Eng- ) him directly, so they did the Mext| o ienvion™ of Congress in| Rejection of the Lodge amend-| B C:to Fairbanks, curving through and set the pace as his record|received and filed for considera- am Johnson is ceded to take the land compared to a 200 mile round : trip required by German bombers best thing. As the chief legal 0| poeing the Alien Registration Act ficer of the government, .:hu:kson‘h officially repudiated the book and in this blast specifically spanked Quayle, Farley’s close pal. NOTE—One of the first things| ;¢ o0 4 program of persecution | ment followed the gnnouncement of 1940 was to get full, complete m_iul Senator Barkley that the Senate formation about aliens residing in| the United States. It was not the| intention of Congress to start a| will begin holding night sessions to- night in an effort to speed final vote on the bill. Ed Flynn, new National Chairman,| ¢ pescefy] and law abiding aliens. did on taking over the office was to install a personal assistant in| Quayle’s office with explicit in-| structions to supervise everything done there, Flynn also took per-| sonal charge of the office of “Crip”| Robert, National Secretary and a| Farley lieutenant, Both Quayle and| | liams, have been killed in an ex- | ing his case and saying that here| of President Roosevelt’s foreign Robert were reelected by the N:'n-5 ” SAN DIEGO, Cal, Aug. 26.—Gov. plosion on the southeast coast of| Are A' Nowlseemed to be a splendid Examp]e‘pollcles, tional Committee at Chicago at| | Ernest Gruening of ,Alaska is a|EnSiand. ' of how not to answer a courteous| B | Farley’s instigation, despite tle fact that Roosevelt had told him he wanted both men yeplaced. DESPERATE TIN SCARCITY Willkie for Conscripfion NEW YORK, Aug. 26 —Republican Presidential Nominee Wendell L. Willkie let it be known today that he favors the quick passing of the Conscription bill by Congress. The Gruening o, | | | | | " New Zealand | passenger aboard the American |urday on the final experimental flight to New Zealand. - .. — Clipper which hopped off last’Sat-| ‘Yukon Territory to be immune from | “isn’t as well known as mine.” attack offshore. | The Vice-Presidential nominee | said he would probably make only MEETS DEATH Poles Told .“ LONDON, Aug. 26.—Lord North| Where Ihey and his sister, Lady Cynthia Wil- Lady North was injured seriously. The explosion, which was heard for several miles, was said to have |been caused by the accidental set- | ting off of a land mine. Lord North, who was 38 years They Are OWServanis of Germany and Will e, |four or five speeches during the| icampnlgn. ition by the proper authority.” | B | LEARNED OF GRADY The Texan was a bit miffed but did nothing about it until he ran across one of these columns, in which the story of James F. Grady was told—the man who is slowly reyolutionizing contact of Govern- | ment Departments with the public by teaching thousands of cle | and assistants how to write cour ous and intelligent letters. The Texan wrote Grady, stat- | suggestion. Grady, knowing Gaston person- |ally, telephoned him with the 11dea of ribbing him, but Gaston refused to rib, He insisted that Grady have a talk with him, | Republican nomination for United | States Senator at the California | primary election tomorrow. Johnson is also given a good chance of taking the Democratic nomination, as under state law a candidate can file on all party slates, | Interest over Johnson's race for |nomination centers around his strong isolationist stand. The vet- eran Republican leader who has | steadfastly opposed any involvment |in foreign affairs is a severe critic JOINT DEFENS ' BOARD SLATED, in attacking London and the RAF in attacking the Nazi held bases on the French coast. Hitler was not in Berlin during the latest raid as it is stated he is on the “western front watching the bombing of England.” - meapipn—— BERMUDA AIR BASE GIVEN U. §. HAMILTON, Bermuda, Aug. 26. —The Governor of Bermuda, Major . It hasn't leaked out yet, but after |statement was released by Willkie'’s | years of delay, and after facing|campaign headquarters. old, was the hgir to the Earl of R A S The talk lasted a couple of| SESS'ON IODAY General Denis John Charles Kier- what may be a desperate tin short-| The announcemient said that “‘,(Apl. FREEMA“ | Guilford. emain 30 hours and as a result there’s a wan Bernard, announced before a age, the State Department iS about/the measure is not passed through e new set-up in Gaston’s office. | — special session of the Bermuda As- {o negotiate a contract with the|Congress within a week, Mr. Will- IS IRA"SFERRED BATES ON TRIP (By Associated Press) Things aren’t done there any| WASHINGTON, Aug. 26. — The|sembly that the air base at the Bolivian Government for the pur-|kie may ask Republican leaders in | | The British read with interest|more as they used to be done and| United States members of the joint|Great Sound would be made avail~ i chase of about half of Bolivia's tin output. This tin er: will be shippea to} the United States for refining in newly-established tin smelters. This is a :big achievement for Bolivian Minister Guachalla who, (Continued on Page Four) the House and Senate to present his views on the matter ————— DIERS VISITING HERE Mr. and Mrs. Bill Diers are guests at the Baranof Hotel, coming in from Ketehikan over the weekend. Diers is representative of the U. 8. Rubber Company. TO FAIRBANKS WASHINGTON, Aug. 26, — Army |orders include the transfer of Capt. |Richard S. Freeman, of fthe Army " Air Corps, at Denver, to Fairbanks, ‘oday a Berlin dispatch quoting Ar- oml (llppER thur Greiber, Danzig Nazi leader, Harold Bates, of the Twentieth s declaring that the Poles should Century Meat Market, flew south consider themselves as a servant on the Alaska Clipper this morn- people of Germany. ing. ‘The dispatch said Greiber, in a combined business and pleasure in|a “sérvant people of Germany and and around Seattle, will remain so forever.” Bates will spend several days on| broadeast, told the Poles they are| | the gentleman in Texas will be | happy to know that nobody else will catch form 202A if he writes in with a good suggestion. WHERE'S THE CUP? Here’s one the newsboys over- (Cotinued on Page Four) American-Canadian Defense Board has named Mayor LaGuardia of New York as chairman. The selec~ tion was announced after the Am- erican members conferred with President Roosevelt. The first meeting with the Can- able to the United States. At the same time, the Assembly received from the British Secretary for Colonies assurance that estab- lishment of a United States base at Bermuda would in no way af- fect the sovereignty of the island adian ecolleagues is scheduled for today in Ottawa. or its status in the British Em- pire, (A}