The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, August 29, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8504. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, AUG. 29, 1940. PRICE TEN CENTS AIR BATTLES RAGE OVER LO Started By Bombs; Hundreds Killed Fires PEACETIME | DRAFTBILL HALF WON Senate Pass;;Eonscription Legislation by Vote of 58 fo 31 MEASURE IS NOW | HUSTLED TO HOUSE Opponentsin Lower Cham- ber See Slim Chances for Defeating It BULLETIN— WASHINGTON, Aug. 19. — The House Military | Committee has approved of the comscription, compulsory mili- tary training bill, but calling for drafting of men frem 21 to 44, a much wider range than provided in the bill the Senate has passed. & WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—By a smashing vote of 58 to 32, the Senate | last night passed the peace time draft bill requiring all male citi- zens, between 21 and 30 inclusive, to register for draft. Some 12,000,000 persons will be| involved. | The measure has been sent to the House. [ With the battle for peace time | (Continued on Page Five) | | | ES Reberts Alles % WASHINGTON—One of the big-‘ gest international problems facing! the Administration is whether to; feed or not to feed Europe. | Certain occupied areas are be- ing rapidly denuded by German troops. In France, for instance,| food is being purchased by the German army with “kreditenmarks” | which are redeemable against French government has guaranteed | to make good this paper German currency, which actually has nothing} else behind it. | This is a painless method of ex- tracting food from the French peas- ant. German purchasing agents pay him in kreditenmarks which; he converts to francs; thus he feels| kindly toward #he army of occupa- tion. However, the net result is that truck loads of livestock and grain are being shipped from the French countryside, first to feed the Ger- man army, and second into Ger-| many itself. Meanwhile there are certain areas in France which, because of lack ofl transportation, actually are starving. Similar conditions exist in Belgium and Holland. In the latter country, according to Dutch diplomats in ‘Washington, Hollanders have been forced, by the Germans, to plant crops but are plowing them up when German backs are turned. “We would rather starve than feed the conquerer,” is the Dutch slogan. HOOVER’S FOOD RELIEF The man who most vigorously de- mands feeding these occupied areas is Herbert Hoover. It has not leak- ed out yet, but Hoover's associates have gone much further into this than anyone realizes. Hugh Gib- son, ex-Ambassador to Belgium, ac- tually has engaged in conversations with officials of Belgium, Holland and Poland, regarding food for these areas. These conversations run exactly counter to the State Department’s policy and also to the Neutrality Act, which bars American ships from the war zone. Yet no food can be sent to Belgium, Holland and Po- land except ‘on American ships, which would ‘Have to traverse the (Continued on Page Pour) FEDERAL EMPLOYEES BAND Possible U. S. Defense Zone CANADA NEW OUNDLAND] UNITED 5 STATES o o 3 (%] IS - © BARBADOS Although the location of the proposed military bases to be leased from Britain has not been disclosed, heavy line and shaded area show how a defense zone might be enforced cff the coast and far east of the Panama Canal zone by ships and planes operating from new bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda and Barbados, Trinidad and British Guiana. TOGETHER, GET PLANE, NOW WORKING FOR THEIR WINGS By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—I hope I'm not passing along anything that will get me in bad with the accreditod flying schools. Accord- ing to the Civil Aeronautics board, PACIFIC N. W. DEFENSE PLAN IS ANNOUNCED U. S. Planes Will Use Brit- ish Columbia for Bases Up fo Alaska the national defense program. Several Federal employees have solved the I-can't-afford-it prob- lem and are well on their way toward getting pilot licenses, This may be a tip-off to a lot of folks with the burning desire to take wings, but without the where- ( withal. Avgl:muvsffiesfl'ni" At““' 2:" o Its called the reacru Flying partment of ), 1p's composed of working Justice official, Norman Littel, re- veals details of the defense coor- dination plan between the United States and Canada. Littel confines his discussion to the details of such a plan for the Pacific Coast. He sald that United folk who don’t have the time but do have the inclination to learn all there is about soaring in the blue, Banding together, they bought a light monoplane, hired an ac- credited C.A.B. instructor an a | FIGHT ONHANDS they are doing a good job and| making their own contribution to| States planes will use British Co- lumbia for bases. He added that two of the San Juan Islands in the Gulf of Georgia are being forti- fied as part of the mutual defense for territory extending from Wash- ington State up to Alaska, IMMIGRATION PROTESTED BY WAR VETERANS Convenfion Delegates Pass Resolution Calling for Restriction LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 29. — The national encampment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, now in session here, passed a resolution calling for restriction of immigra- tion. went to work on the pay-as-you-go plan. These long summer evenings and Saturdays and Sundays, you can see the little plane taking off from the Greenbelt airport taxi- ing in again as would-be pilots try their take-offs and landings. FOR ONE-THIRD COST Having worked out expense prob- | lems to the last penny, from the cost of the plane down to servic- ing, the members figure they are getting pilot licenses lor about one- third of the average cost. They have the added incentive and inspiration of competitive ef- fort and round-table discussions of experiences and problems. President of the club is R. Paul Weesner, who is an attorney ior the Department of the Interior and a resident of Silver Sprivgs,/ Md. 1t’s not hard to understand why Weesner is President of the group. His enthusiasm for the possibili- ties of the flying club fidea led to 2 discussion of how_ well prepared NAZI RAID ON LONDON - FRUSTRATED, iBrifish Figmr Planes, | | | Drive Off Big Bomb- | er Force | LONDON, Aug. 29.—Nearly 200 | German planes were turned back | from an attempted attack of Lon- | | don late today by British fighter | planes and fled southeast out to | sea without dropping any bombs, | This incident was the high spot | of widespread daylight forays with | which the Germans followed up the | greatest night attack of the war. | In the night raids, thousands of | incendiary and high explosive bombs | wrought destruction, death and in- | jury to all parts of England and | Wales | To match the German wide rang- | man attacks through England and Wales, the British Air Ministry an- nounced ‘“extensive” raids on mili- tary objectives in Germany, Hol- | land and enemy occupied France. | Several important targets in the | Berlin area were heavily bombed last night, also, the British declared. Renewal of German raids on Eng- land came to the southeast coast this afternoon before the 200 plane |attack attempt was frustrated over London and a little later, raiders were reported over Welsh towns. | e, TITTS‘TO HAVE | Former Congressman| Dockweiler fo Contest November Election | LOS ANGELES, Cal, Aug. 29.— | Former Congressman Dockweiler | and Los Angeles County’s crusading | | District Attorney Buron Fitts, will| fight it out for Fitts’ job in the November General Election, as re- sult of Tuesday's primary. Fitts | topped a field of seven candidates. Charges that Fitts does a large | part of his crusading for the pur- | pose of creating sensations feature |the campaign. - An issue was the | recent Grand Jury investigation of | an asserted plot to overthrow LheE United States Government. F‘SttsI released testimony naming asCom- munists nearly a score of top| flight film colony actors, actresses, directors and writers, All were| cleared of the charges by Chair-| man Dies of the House Committee | on subversive activities. PLME ENGIIES CONTRACTED BY NAVY AND ARMY United Aircal—(iets $160,- 000,000 Order from Government WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Agree- ment has been reached between the Navy and the United Aircraft Cor- poration for the manufacture of 17,000 airplane engines, for both| army and navy use, to cost $160,- 000,000. press conference, Secretary of the Navy Franklin Knox said that it had the full approval of the War Department and would cover the entire requirements of both army and navy for United Aircraft en- gines for the two fiscal years 1941 and 1942 Formal] contract covering |night when Rumania and HUNgary gyacx shortly before dawn tod Announcing the agreement at a|thjs afternoon and was sent to me‘nll House. | making a strong national defense.| The Senate passage was by voice He explained that Japan must vote. | take such steps because of chang-| ing conditions in the world. ! Italian Forces Set to Invade Greece pressive picture of might. These fast truck-gur ece. Italy charges Greece has allowed British naval vessels to use Greek ports for refueling. Ttalian mechanized forces assembled at Turin make an imp e anits are reported ready for action in the threatened invasion of Gre SITUATION INBALKANS NOW TENSE Rumania, fifigary Mass- ing Troops-Greece, Tur- | key Are Precautious (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | 4 I lf"e DelRans ”L‘“ j“"“t‘::"" l“{; An official statement by DNB,| AY e aYen -E0taR, LeDsp M 1ast | German news agency, says a surprise BigDepot SUEZ CANAL IsAttacked | AIR RAIDED 1 InEngland BYITALIANS Surprise A;saAuIIs Repor'-‘Brifish Lifeline with Col- ed Made at Several onies Bombed on Points Before Dawn North E_nti Today | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) ports that started massing troops on their bor- ders. Charges and counter charges con- tinue to fly thick and fast between Budapest and Bucharest. This al-}ypg¢ pre.dawn attacks were made ternoon the Hungarian gOVeIN-|,, .yt he big militray and naval ment issued a statement declaring | jopo; gy Chatham, 30 miles south- that four Ru_manmn bombing plancs!east of London, also on Liverpool, dumped their loads of bombs OD|yrigqiechorough and Thames haven Hungarian soil when attacked hy:“nd big fires were set, that nation's fighter planes. | L e ek Greece and Turkey, each seeing| the possibility of a general Balkan | als In Turkey newspapers this morn-| M M Training | AIR ALARMS For Japan Make Al Night Journey to Visit British Troops ing carried firey editorials against | as Scheduled on an airport near Portsmouth turned the Royal Air Force base| into a “desert full of craters.” | Other pilots of Nazi planes report East colonies in peace time. It is the present war | has been attacked. jand Ismailia. g KING, QUEEN NOT AFRAID, Germany following the arrest in Berlin of four Turkish citizens. The arrests were regarded by nruu-ul‘, chservers as a purely retaliatory | measure resulting from the arrest | in Istanbul of a German book sel- ler for selling a German newspuperl in which were cartoons insulting m;war Miflis‘er AflnOUfl(eS New System for Youths of Nippon land the Turkish govrenment. Tax Bill land Queen Elizabeth did not allow| last night's air raid warning to in-| terfere with their all-night train journey to visit the Army's norv.h—l TOKYO, Aug. 29.—Japanese War | Minister Hideki Tojo said today|ern command. s asse | that military training is one of the best means of making young |over London when the royal car men into ideal subjects. | the opening and Queen return to hbomb-proof the Italian High Command re- Fascist planes today ~° |bombed the Suez Canal, Great Bri- 4Y | tain's vital lifeline with her Far first time during the that the Suez Canal|large Bombs were dropped on the north end of the canal, between Port Said NDON,BERLIN ROARING BARRAGE 1S SET UP | Fiercest Assaulfs of Pres- | ent War Take Place During Night |NEW TECHNIOUE 1S SPRUNG BY RAIDERS Nazis Shut Off Motors, Es- | cape Searchight Beams, Then Swoop Low | ‘ (By Associated Press) | [ German dlve bombing Stukas | smashed Great Britain's great naval base at Portsmouth and reportedly |left it a “sea of flames” after & | night of double barrelled terror for | 12,000,000 civilians in the fiercest | air raids of the war over London |and also Berlin. Untold numbers, into the hun- | dreds, were killed and great fires set by incendiary bombs that blazed in both capitals. | In a single London district more | than 60 fire bombs fell amid tight- |1y jammed rows of houses as mar- athon Nazi raiders pounded the metropolis with a roaring barrage | of explosives and flame bombs in | the most destructive all night attack |so far hurled in the present war. | London was air raided for seven “huurs and 10 minutes in the fifth | straight night attack, the longest | sustained attack so far. | Strike at Berlin British Royal Air Force bombers struck back in a three-hour attack lon Berlin just before dawn today, | raining high explosive and incen- | diary bombs within two miles of Hitler's Chancellery on the Wil- helmstrasse and belleved taking @ toll of killed and wounded. Roof fires are reported in many sections of the German capital city. Sidewalks are littered with | broken glass and craters 10 feet | wide and five deep yawned in the street pavements, blasted out by 100-pound British bombs. | New “Silence” Technique Nazi airmen displayed a new “silence” technique in the raids | last night in the spread eagling of the British Isles, by cutting | their motors to avoid attracting | searchlight beams and gliding down | to low attacks. | Bomb Sheiter Blown Up In one London section, four mem- bers of a family who took refuge in an underground shelter, were killed by a bomb which scored a direct hit and blew it out of the ground. British censorship today kept | secret the number of British casu- LONDON, Aug. 29.—King George; alties of last night's scorching raid and the official statement said only there were “some deaths and some property damage.” — ., The Information Ministry revcaled‘ that air raid sirens were shrieking | | The Japanese War Minister made| drove away from Buckingham Pal- Y y ena e the remark in an address before|8ce. | 7 session of Japanese Guards suggested that the King | Major Generals. ‘The Major Gen-| shelters at the palace to await the ties, passed swiftly in the Senate | only strengthen its armaments but | into disappointed. i A A other elements. that go | | | | | The Japanese Minister declared \} | fense must be sought in the man| ‘ [] | De’ense BI" | that the foundation of national de-| M ADE Fo R | power of the Japanese nation. | WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—Excess| erals were called into session for| profits tax legislation carrying spec- |a discussion of military training for|€nd of the alarm, however, the| jal provisions designed to speed ex- | students and other young men. King insisted on ‘continuing the| pansion of industrial defense Iacm-‘ Tojo said that Japan must not|JOUrney so thut_the troops he was‘ scheduled to . visit would not be| Wholesale Use of Fire Bombs by Hitler Is Denounced (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British Press Association, of fire bombs last might by the Nazl club members will be in war emergencies, The women can step immediately into the ferrying of planes, chauffeuring and *carrying| dispatches—work for which the women of Great Buitain have been highly praised. Q_nd the (Continued on Page Four) The resolution claimed that Gov- ernment, figures showed that 80,999 immigrants were admitted to the United States during the fiscal year of 1939. The resolution point- ed out that 44,485 immigrants were listed as having no occupation and therefore are a potential competi- tion for’ every American worker. o v cwsex | 870 PLANES | MEMPHIS, Tenn.—On the theory WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. — The @ full stomach is a good incentive] WASHINGTON, Aug 29. — The Senate has approved of the $5333-|t0 character building, the Charac-| War Department announces award- Meanwhile, Knox said, United 000,000 defense appropriation bill| ter Builder Bible Class gave star|ing of contracts for 870 planes to Aircraft is proceeding immediately | which carries funds to start con- member-getters a . fried chicken|cost $14,000,000. : with a $1,500,000 expansion of its|struction on 200 warships and 14,- dinner. Those whose enrollment lists| There are 850 training planes and plant at Hartford, Conn. 394 planes for the Army and Navy., were slim got beans, 120 transport planes in the order. gines, provided for in the five bil- lion dollar defende appropriation bill pending in Congress, becomes | available. the i agreement, Knox said, will be ne-| ‘ gotiated soon as funds for the en- [] | | |taking note of the wholesale use raiders, called the raid the “most | venomous attack of the war against Great Britain.” The Association accused Hitler of sending.his “fire raiders to scat- |ter their incendiaries indiscrimin-, lately against towns, villages and open heaths.