The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 28, 1940, Page 1

‘a t ; WAR THREA]‘ | Where Nazi ’Chutists Are ought NOMINA‘"ON SPREADS TO0 ACCEPTED BY . | S. E. EUROPE SEN. M(NARY 3 [] [] 1 L 3 X | | 2 T | g + -Hitler Attempting fo Stave | Formally Notified, Veteran| Off Conflict Between | Oregonian Legislator, | Two Nations ! Makes His Reply . A | — | | saLEM, Ore, . 28—V . HASTY CONFERENCES Sl | sobubriokt Baatiof Chaciid. 1o DTS . ARE BEING PLANNED W it Hmat sceoad e e Laacil clotester Vice Presidential nomination, | * Russian Planes Shof Down by Gov. Harold Stasson of Min- by Rumanian Air- [ e ot et craft, Report | speneh, soveres abcized s pe ] i Deal trade policies of reciprocal — BUCHAREST, treaties as they failed to nllevlu((-‘ . 28.—Charges that a Hun- the economic problems facing ag- n plane bombed and ma- riculture. He id agriculture’s in- < ne-gunned the Rumanian | come was o seven billion dol- rport at Satumare Trans- lars annually under the New Deal - ylvania, and then was shot juumpared to nine billion dollars THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8503. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 28, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS USING GASOLINE BOMBS FEAR EXPLOSION, BALKAN POWDERKEG down by Rumanian anti-air- ft guns, is contained in an official communique tonight. (By Associated Press) i Hizh in his Obersalzburg moun- | ! under the preceding Republican Ad- | ministration. | Senator McNary endorsed the| Government's public power pro- gram, stating that the records of the Boulder and Bonneville projecls! tain chalet. Hitler today enacted & | Ajthough Berlin:denies parachute troops have landed in Britain, England role behind the scenes as peace- | js concentrating an intensive search for parachutist-saboteurs in the industrial areas indicated by shading on map, where fifty swastika- marked parachutes were found. It is believed the "chutes moy have bees dropped merely to cause alarm. 1ED| U. 5. Ships May AMERI(AN | Enter War Zone ‘Continued nn Page Eight) H i ey, _} Drew S;mal TC) RobertSAlles % Q 60 ‘ WASHINGTON. — On the wali Ship with Many Refugees B e % aery| AboBId, Menaced in War Air Corps, is a giant map of thel Zone, Makes Safe T”p | British Isles splotched with chalk} i marks to indicate where the Ger-| | ! man air raids have struck. | NEW YORK, Aug. 28—After a| It is one of the most z:loselyll,ml,flous voyage, during part of i scrutinized maps in Washington. On | which death seemed to lurk in ev- it, in the lower left hand corner, is ¢ry wave, the United States Army the score for the day “1,000 planes|transport American Legion arrived in waves of 54 and 108, and 50 jn New York harbor today with on, according to the Nazi operations more than 800 American refugees| for that particular day. | aboard. | U. S. Air Corps observers are hav-| The voyage began at Petsamo,| ing a tough time finding out Just pyjjang on August 16 and carried [ WASHINGTON, Aug. 28—Presi | > dent Roosevelt has signed legis | tion authorizing American vessels sl to enter the European combat w: | zone to bring refugee children to | the United States. SHANGHAI NOW ABANDONED BY BRITISH FORCES ternational Seftlement —Board Steamer Last of Solaie—r_s Leave In-| SHANGHAI, Aug. 28.—The with-| were most reassuring. He also, touched on the foreign question by | voicing opposition to what he termed “involvment in foreign military ad-' ventures."” { | In his praise of the power sys- tem, McNary urged the Federal Government to continue develop- | ment of hydroelectric power, de- claring that power of navigable streams “should be a common heri- tage.” McNary also told the crowd of 12,000 persons that he opposed “in- volvement, of foreign military” buit| ored peace of appeasement or urrender of our national dignit independence of action of our poli- tical freedom and civilized values we cherish.” | Following his formal acceptance, Senator McNary went into around of conferences with National and state Party leaders, including Rep- resentative Joseph Martin, Repub- lican National Committee chair- | man, McNary will make six or seven major campaign addresses, the first somewhere in the mid- west after September 20. - e SENATE MAY exactly what is happening in Eng-| the vessel into the mine areas north | grawal of British troops from the British soldiers lie hidden in a weed-covered trench as low-flying German pursuit planes machine gun a troop encampment “somewhere in England.” The AIR MAIL SERVICE IS BRANCHING GADGETS iubm;rine Spearfish Is gyerdue‘ Admiralty Announces Craft YWar Camera Catches German Strafers in Action OUT; LATEST WILL BE USED By JACK STINNETT i WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—It looks as if the time will come when every whistle stop in the United States will have air mail service— and I don’t mean the kind that| travels by some creeping mixed | local from the nearest big air ter- minal, I mean the kind of service Lhali picks it up and lays it down each| day, right back of the general| store or at least no farther away| than Jones' cow pasture. The Post Office Department and| British caption accompanying this censored phote claims that German pilots make a practice of mae chine gunning undefended sectors. ISLANDS - SCORCHED, NEW FIRE Time-fusedM_issiles Drop- ped Upon England and Elsewhere by Raiders 'GERMANS UNABLE T0 BREAK LONDON DEFENSE Alarm Sounded Over Ber- | lin as RAF Make Another Sortie BULLETIN — LONDON, Aug. | 28.—It is officially stated to- night that 24 Nazi aircraft were destroyed in today's air battles. A 20-minute air raid warning | was sounded in one London area | tonight and then an “all clear” warning was sounded but which was not heard in the heart of | the city as residents remained in shelters. | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | Nazi bombers, after night raids, |sought "early today to penetrate London’s ring of defenses anew af- ter scorching widespread sectors of the British Isles with incendiary |and also time fused gasoline bombs. | London dispatches said widespread use of aerial flame weapons Indi- cated new Nazi tactics to terrorize and destroy the British Isles. | Official British sources assert that at least 15 German planes | were downed this forenoon. Much Damage Done | The new tactics used by the Nazis, dropping time fused gasoline bombs along with the incendiary bombs, has done some damage, both to civ- ilians and property. One coast town reported fires were set by incendiary bombs and when the flames were extinguished, more fires suddenly started, pre- sumably as the result of the time {fused gasoline bombs. Konoye BOMBERS TURNED BACK - This morning a flight of 21 Nazi TOKIO, ‘Aug. 28.—Japanese of- nombers was turned back after tak- ficial, sources quoted Premier Prince jng part in raids-on Southeastern, Konoye as saying today that politi- tgouthwestern and Central England. cal parties have no place in the new The German raiders completely Japanese scheme of natjonal unity,' demolished an entire block of small regardless of their uses in other homes in an undisclosed Southeast- nations. ern town by shcwering the buildings Unlike Russia, Germany and Italy with hundreds of small incendiary "N oy . Political Parfies in Japan Qut Iotalitariafl;gime Is Se Up by Premier however, the Japanese New Nation- bombs. | the Civil Aeronautics Board, af- it Government has not outlawed land, because of a censorship Which o geofiand at a time when Ger-| gnanghai International Settlement| YOTE TODAY 01 applies even to them. However, they‘mqny' proclaiming unrestricted war- | oo completed late yesterday when| are full of admiration for the Roy-| al Air Force, and believe the odds now are almost 50-50 instead of| being one to ten against the Brit- 1sh, as they were two months ago.| The fight actually boils down to: one of machines versus men. For| the Nazis still have at least three fare in British waters, refused 0 150 men, comprising the last re- guarantee protection or any safety.| ngining unit boarded the steamer 1t is unofficially stated, however, | nqconda, that several U-boats were Seen| prypigh troops have been stationed near the vessel, but as a protec- |y, gnanghai since the Boxer Re- tion, rather than as @ menace. | penjon of 40 years ago. ‘British au- The commander of the ship, Capt. | ¢horities announced that they would B. E. Torning, conferred With of-|y0 a4ioneq elsewhere in the Em- ONBIG ISSUE Amendments fo Conscrip- that Torpedoed Scheer Is Believed Lost | LONDON, Aug. 28—The British, Admiralty announces as overdue, and presumed lost, the little 600- ton submarine Spearfish which earlier in the war torpedoed and ter experimenting a year, have Air Ministry reports indicate that political parties, but has merely at least six enem just issued new certificates to All| gicoouraged them. All major Jap-|the single flight };tb‘;';mce::t:u v‘ve:: American Aviation, Inc, Rm_‘“d,an%e parties have dissolved them-|shot down by Spitfire planes, after C. du Pont’s company at Wilming-| e ves as rnits and pledged them- | they had been scattered by an in- ton, Del. This extends the service|selves to support Konoye's new to-| tensive anti-aireraft fire from to seven eastern states and gives|iajitarian regime. |ground batteries the advantage of mail with Wings| The Premier, late today, told the : to 131 small communities which| japanese the nation must adopt 3 ATTEMPTED RAID ON BERLIN Nazi citizens scurried to the safe< planes for every one the BriUsh|fijalc of the Navy Department fiulwupL l:ve:;e 3 ‘!;\ii;én:;'"::::m‘gfc- shortly after landlng.t ton‘xcn:]s re- here Is fused to issue any statemnet con- Nazis have tremendous reserves at| cerning the conference. home — probably around 20,000 Royalty Aboard planes. At this rate they can af- Among the passengers on the ford to lose 100 a day (British| american Legion is Norwegian claims frequently have been less| crown Princess Martha and her than this) and continue raining chijdren fleeting from Scandinavia death and destruction upon Ens-‘and also Mrs. Florence Borden Har- land for sor:leE flTe to come,.d 5 riman, United States Ambassador At present England is making her ¢, Norway before that country was own airplanes at the rate of about|iaken over by the Nazis. She, it 66 daily, flm_i buying seven daily|yill be remembered, gave the first frum'-‘[he :Jmtexd stétes. It is C::; information to the United States servative to give Germany credit of the invasion of Norway by the for making at least that many— Germans. in fact, she is reported to be mak-| Mrs. Prederick Sterling, wife of ing z\rr:r‘nd lwdzlax}esldalw. - |the American Minister to Sweden, In other words, airplane produc-|is also a passenger. tion continues in favor of Ger-| princess Martha was taken from many bynsm:h 27 P’fll"ef d“&t’; : the steamer by a Coast Guarder Meanwhile, the most important ang landed at the Battery where rnclt;]r v\'oll;kll’lg"e moffl"m' 'g‘l Egfl:’:{‘g?armngemems were made for im- e climate. nce e ritis] i i - ;?)gs‘ set in, England will have bet—":';:f:?mug,f;n%hswfli :}v’:lioir]f v“‘“. ter protection than all the anti-air-| presideny and Mrs. Roosevelt at craft guns she can possibly mus-| their Hyde Park home. ter. | The American Legion had illum- - —I'N_;ABION |inated Stars and Stripes on both DIXIE 0 | sides. Wendell Willkie is serious about| invading the South. He is firmly (Continued on Page Four) ———r——— There were 3,219,000 Angora goats In Texas in 1938. | pire, | The Commander of the British | forces in Shanghai, Major F. Keith Simmons, sailed with his staff. | Major Sir Hunt remained to clear | up final details of the British with- | drawal. | British troops also are being with- )dx-uwn from Tientsin and Peiping. FOUR ARE FLOWN BY SHELL TO SITKA Shell Simmons went out to Sitka in the Lockheed today, taking N. A, McEachran, L. F. Taylor, E. E. Bromley and Mary Bromley to the Historic City. John Amundsen went out on the i mail flight to Hawk Inlet, Todd | and Tenakee, taking Sam Newman as a passenger to Chatham. Yesterday Amundsen brought in | Margaret Wake, Tony Florendo, Robert Paul, from Tenakee, and Anna Berthold from Hoonah. Simmons yesterday brought in Mrs. 1. Zupan and Bob Daily from Hirst. .- About Minnesota. in fion Legislation Beat- en at Night Session WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. — The | Senate last night defeated by a vote of 54 to 29 the Waish pro- posal to make conscription opera- tive only in case of war or when the country is threatened by in-| vasion. | s Later, floor leader Barkley se- | cured consent to limit Senators to "ow De“easmg one 30-minute speech each on the . | bill or 15 minutes on amendments. | ATHENS, Aug. 28.—Informed cir- i The leaders hoped the ruling will cles in Greece indicate that ten- permit of a final vote maybe some-|sion between Greece and Italy is time today. decreasing. Just at the close of last night's| The report is given as Greek gov- session, the Senate also defeated ernment officials continued to take by a vote of 55 to 22, the Taft| procautionary measures in northern substitute creating a volunteer army| Greece against a possible outbreak of 150,000 and eliminating the con-| of nostilities, | seription . prineiple, | The more optimistic viewpoint of S A Ot Y | the Italian-Greek situation is part- | Iy based on a let-down of the Ital- |ian press and radio campaign over | T. B. “Barney” Watsan, charter|the Albanian situation. member of Anchorage Lodge of| i A AR Elks, former agent for the old Pa- SCHAUB COMES IN cific Coast Steamship Company, Herb Schaub, Cummins diesel passed away recently in Portland,| man, came in yesterday on the sunk the pocket battleship Admiral| Scheer. | The Spearfish carried a crew of 40 officers and men, Tension Between Greece and lfaly ! “BARNEY” WATSON DIES stationed in Juneau, Hotel. haven't had it before. *|new national structure unit and HAS SERVED 189 CITIES ‘ If you think that isn’t branching out in a hurry, just consider Lhati after 22 years of air transportation, | the mail has been flying into and out of only 189 cities, most of| which are cities of 100,000 or more | or are natural stops on existing air passenger routes, | | The smallest town in the new; set-up, according to Rep. Jennings Randolph, of West Virginia, Is| Glenville, W. Va., where the popu- lation on the last count was 799 persons. In case you have forgotten, the| new service is made possible by that pick-up gadget that looks| like a rope stretched between two football goal posts. The pilot, hedge-hopping, hooks the pouch as he glides over, at the same time| releasing the pouch of incoming| mail. e | FEEDER SERVICE USED | It's obvious of course that lhe: tiniest communities can not supply| enough mail to justify service. The| Post Office Department has gotten| around this by feeding the smaller| 10,000 lakes are located Ore., aged 61, At one time he was | Aleutian and is at the Baranof' . i (Continued on Page Flve) 1 all energies of the people must be'ty of doorways and air raid shelters extended to take part in the es- this morning when an air raid siren tablishment of a new world order. screamed over Berlin indicating the The Premier said all of Japan's presence of British war planes near old parties are in the wake of dis- the German capital city. solution. | Three minutes later, however, before many of the civilian popu- lace had reached shelters, the all |clear signal was sounded. It was not reported by the Nazi High Command as to the details of the threatened attack but it was thought that the British raiding R EXPLOSION party was turned back by large squadrons of Messerschmitt fight- ers. No sound of bomb explosions I were heard. ———— 'Men Are Victims of Unde- Fiying Instrudior Dies, Plane Crash termined Accident as { NIgM Shift Reporfs | sax preco, cat, aue. 28—my- . ing Instructor Ralph Casteen of BATES, Ark., Aug. 28.—Ten men Los Angeles was killed when an are dead following an explosion army training monoplane crashed in the Bates Coal Corporation’s to the ground and burst into flames slope mine as the evening shift near here. was just entering the tunnel last, Cadet flier J. A. Slaughter, of night. The cause of the explosion| Edgewood Texas, was injured when has not been determined. | thrown clear of the plane. i ¥ = 1 | 7 it ]