The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 5, 1940, Page 1

O . e eme——— ] — ~— - ¥ N T ow o« - THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVI, NO. 8509. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS NAZIS MAKE LIGHTNING LONDON THRUSI Balkan Situation Worse; Carol May Quit DEATH ARMY FORMING T0 SAVE HOMES 3,500 Soldiers Will Hold King's Defense Line | Agamsi Hungary MONARCH REPORTED FLEEING, ISTANBUL Peasants Battle with Pitch- forks as Old Warpot Boils Dangerously (By Associated Press) { The situation in the Balkans has plunged into new complications with unconfirmed reports declaring that 3,500 Rumanian soldiers have volunteered to form a death legion to resist Hungarian occupation in Northern Transylvaia, and “show the world that Rumania has cour- age.” The legionnaires reportedly have pledged themselves to man the con- crete forts of the Carol Defense Line near Oradea, which line was not scheduled to be turned over to Hungarian troops until tomor- row under the terms of the Axis- dictated «;ememenl. (Contnued on Page Two) WASHINGTON. — One of the main reasons why Britain has been so desperately in need of destroy- ers from the United States is the| Berlin Building Bombed German New York, said: building as well.” h bomb to: This was som British bombng of the heart of Berlin, only four days ago. Press telemat air-mailed to The Ei censored caption radioed with this picture FIGHT ON FLOOR OF t CONGRESS 1w Representafives Lef| Fists Fly in Conscrip- fion Debate - WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—With the spectacle of a hard hitting fist fight on the floor to testify as to the shortness of some tempers, the House today began in final drive from Berlin to re through house demolishing rear e of the wreckage in the wake of Associated mpire. RUBBER IS BIG PROBLEM NATIONAL DE SYNTHETICS ARE ON WAY tactics Hitler is expected to use in landing troops in Britain. The Hitler technique has been to “soften” Britain from the air by pounding away at the airports, railway’ stations, docks, navy. yards, and factories in order to tie up transportation and paralyze indus- try. Then after sufficient softening, a horde of German, French, Dutch| and Belgian transports carrying Nazi troops will attempt to cross| the English Channel. This is when Britain will urgent- | ly need destroyers, These small, ex- tremely fast vessels, carrying guns’ large enough to sink troop trans- ports, are exactly the type of war- ship needed to put to rout an in- vasion of this kind. And even it Hitler should land troops oif British soil, then there is the problem of feeding them and| keeping them supplied with ammu- | nition, replacements, hospital sup- plies and all sorts of equipment. This is the biggest job of all, and this is where the destroyers come in a second time, A large force of destroyers could cut Hitler's sup- ply ships into ribbons. NOTE—In 1927, when Calvin Coolidge 'called the Geneva Naval Conference to limit the construc- tion of destroyers and cruisers, the British, under Stanley Baldwin, claimed that they needed to IN- CREASE their crusfer and destroyer strength to 70, instead of REDUC- ING it. Economy~minded Coolidge got irked at this adjourned the conference. Later, the British un- der Ramsay MacDonald ignored the wishes of the sea lords and agreed to reduce their light sea craft, largely in order to please President Hoover and Henry L. Stimson. But it now looks as if the British should have stuck to their original war plans, despite the United States. ROOSEVELT POSES ‘When Roosevelt stopped at the ‘White House the other day in be- tween national defense’ inspections, the photographers had a field day. Not for months have they had a (Continued on Page Four) ALASKA 1§ GIVEN BIG BOOST NOW | a crisis, an adequate rubber supply | National Prefiem, Team-, sters, Makes Urge on Government DENVER, Col, Sept. 5. — The Western Division convention of the National Brotherhood of Teamsters has agreed to ask the Government to launch immediately a rush for completion of the program for total defense for Alaska and the Aleu- tian Islands . through construction of fortifications, air bases and sup- ply stations, The convention delegates also passed a resolution urging the Gov- ernment to extend every aid to Canada for the construction and early completion of the proposed| International Highway linking the United States proper, through Can- ada, to Alaska. Baseball Today The following are scores of games played this afternoon in the two major baseball leagues: National League Brooklyn 8; Philadelphia 5. Boston 7, 1; New York 8, 4. Pittsburgh 3; Cincinnati 6. American League Philadelphia 7; Boston 9. New York 2, 8; Washington 1, 1. Cicveland 3; Detroit 10. - e Branding of livestock, traced to Egyptians of 4,000 years ago, was introduced in America by ‘Span- iards. FENSE PLANS; By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—At the | you that the No. 1 problem for the economic trouble shooters in the | national defense program is RUB- | BER. as American as Indian corn. But now. that this hemisphere is facing | is almost as far away as star dust. Rubber was unknown until wan- dering adventurers before the 17th | century watched South American | Indians playing with a ball that | bounced like nothing the white men \had ever seen. BACK TO BUGGY RIDES Yet today, if rubber imports to off, about 30,000,000 motor vehicles would cease to chug, the defense program would be dead, and the horse-and-buggy days (without rub- ber tides) would come back. tons of rubber a mongh. Seventy- five percent for tires. Ninety-eight percent of the worl supply of rubber comes from Dutch East Indies and British Malaya (each produces around. 376,000 tons | year), A paltry 16,000 tons a year come from Brazil, on the continent where rubber first bounced into the economic picture. Africa, Cen- | tral America, other South Ameri- {can countries and India account| for the rest. ® Looking over the record and considering “any eventuality,” it | does look pretty black for rubber if worst comes to worst. But even and-a-half of discomfort, in event of a rubber shortage, there’s no more use worrying about rubber than about in. SYNTHETICS ON THE WAY Synthetic rubbers (there are sev- eral) are well on their way. We produced 1,700 tons of usable syn= thetic rubber last year. If this (Continued on Page S1x) | Department of Commerce, they tell | Funny thing about rubber—it's | the Western Hemisphere were shut The United States uses 50,000 though you "might have a year-| | for a decision on the conscription bill. | With two days of general debate over, the Chamber today settled down to consider the measure sec- tion by section and act on scores |of pending amendments. A vote is expected tomorrow night | or Saturday. The tense feeling which was en- gendered by the debate. burst open last night when an epithet of ‘ spoken in the House, be- | ‘traitor.” | cent, 50, Democrat of Kentucky, and Representative Martin L. Sweeney, 55, Democrat of Ohio throwing | punches at each other in the well of the House while the galleries | looked on. The fight followed a speech by | SBweeney in which he assailed con- scription and accused President Roosevelt with seeking to abroil the | United States. into. war. | When Bweeney returned to his seat beside Vincent, he said Vincent called him a traitor and the fight | started. Sweeney subsequently apologized |to the House, and Vincent at first repeated the charge but later with- drew it. Setcha 5 Swiss In Tight Box ‘Germany aflaly Profest British Flying Over Mountains BERLIN, Sept. 5—Germany and | Italy have issued a virtual ulti- matum to Switzerland, demanding an end to violations of Swiss neu- trality by the British Air Force. Semi-official sources said that the Axis powers have demanded that the Swiss Army use fighting planes and anti-aircraft artillery, if need be, to prevent British planes from flying across the mountain republic for raids on Italy. It was pointed out that the Swiss Army has ample means at its dis- | posal to halt violations of Switzer- land's neutrality. Fascist officials have charged that British bombers are making regular nightly flights across Switzerland to strike at ob- | jectives in northern Italy. The Swiss | government has protested repeated- ly, but the flights have continued. held Representative Beverly M. Vin- | ~ OnDemand Minnesota. Nazi Shlp Sent Down; 3900 Perish German Tr&;&afi, Also Convoy, Torpedoed and Sunk by British Sub LONDON, Sept. 5.—An Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Goteborg, Sweden, quotes fishermen as saying they had seen a German transport of about 12,000 tous, carrying troops to Norway, torpedoed and sunk by a British naval vessel north of Ska- gen, northern tip of Denmark. Only about 200 persons aboard the transport were saved, the fishermen declared. REPORT 3900 DROWN STOCKHOLM, Sept. 5. — The newspaper Dagens Nyheter reports that at least 3900 German soldiers were drowned last Monday night through the torpedoing and sinking of the German transport Marion by a British submarine in the Kat- tegat, entrance to the Baltic Sea. The report came from the news- paper’s correspondent at Kysekil, |near Gitteborg and said that both | Danish and Swedish fishermen wit- “m:ssed the torpedoing and sinking. It has been officially learned that there were 4,000 soldiers on board and not more than 100 were | saved. ‘The convoy of two armed traw- lers were also sent down by the British submarine. .. - POLAR BEAR IN A. J. LaGasa, deep sea diver and marine salvor, is in town, coming in from a summer of trap work with his vessel Polar Bear, the former Marganita, well known here. | The Pan American party, headed | by Vice-Presidents H. M. Bixby and Mrs. Anne Archibald, visiting this area since last Saturday, announced that scouting will be necessary for fields for establishing the 32-pas- senger stratoliner service from Se- attle to Fairbanks. It is the hope to establish the service and be in operation within one year under normal conditions and two years otherwise. The officials said Fairbanks will be the northern objective base but fields and -alternate routes, Wwith FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 5—' STRATOLINER SERVICE - PLANNED FOR ALASKA; ~ PAAPARTY COMING HERE landing places in case of bad weath- er, are necessitated, especially at | Tanaeross and Anchorage and pos- sibly McGrath or vicinity. The stratoliners will also land at| Ketchikan, Metlakatla and Juneau where Army Fields with concrete | runways will be available as ordin- | ary municipal dirt fields are un- suitable for stratoliners, The party visited Nome, King Is- land and vicinity of Diomedes Sun- day and Monday, returned here and left for Anchorage yesterday, plan- ning to fly from Anchorage to Juneau direct today if weather is favorable. liner which crashed near Lovettsville, Va., Telemat of Associated Press to The Empire by air mail. 'FRIENDLY WAR H0ANDS HAS DAY; ELECTION Joint Banq-ueTand Grand, Ball Winds Up Day’s Ac- | The eighth annual Grand Prom- enade of The Grand Voiture of | Alaska of the Forty and Eight was| Grand Chef de Gare A. E. Karnes| in the chair. Other Grand Voiture | officers present were: Grand Chef\ de Train Walt Mickens, Grand Cor- | respondant S, C. Raynor, Grand| Cheminot E. M. Polley and Sous’ Cheminot National Don Adler. J Delegates to the Grand Promen- ade of the four local Voitures of La Societe were as follows: Walt Mickens of Voiture Local 816, Cor- dova; Voyageurs J. C. Morris, Frank Cooper and S. C. Raynor of 1008, Anchorage; Voyageur Don Adler of 1159, Fairbanks, with delegates from | the local Voiture 1126, Juneau,| Waino Hendrickson, E. M. Polley,| Gares Passe were present at the| Grand Promenade, Don Adler, Sj C. Raynor, E. M. Polley and J.| T. Petrich, i Sous Chef de Chemin de Fer| Passe Milton Campbell acted as| installation officer for the Grand| Voiture to install the officers of | 1941 in the Grand Voiture of Al-| aska. Election. Walt Mickens, of Kodiak, ‘Alas- ka, a voyageur of 816, Cordova, was elected Grand Chef de Gare for the coming year. Other' Grand Voiture officers elected were Homer Nordling, Grand Chef de Train; Frank Cooper of Seward, Grand Conducteur; S, C. Raynor was re- elected Grand Correspondante, Com- misaire Intendant; Grand Garde de La Porte elected was Dixie Hall of Fairbanks; Grand Aumonier, | John White, also of Fairbanks, | Five Grand Cheminots were elect- ed, Paul Herring of 816, Cordo Lief Strand of 1098, Anchorage; J.mhn Holler of 1126, Juneau; Dave Adler of 1159, Fairban.s, and John | Clawsen of 816, Cordova. | Cheminot National elected was| Grand Chef de Qare Passe Don Adler of Fairbanks, with Grand (Continued on Page Seven) Al Zenger. Four Grand Chef dej - o This is the wreckage of the tail assembly and rear pirt of the fuselage of the Pennsylvania Central air- last Saturday, killing 25, including Snaetor Ernst Lundeen of NING IS ~ GIVEN JAPAN BY HULL ON NEW NIPPON MOVE WASHINGTON, Sepl, tary of State Cordell Hull has given Japan new notice of the United States Government’s concern for | security of French Indo-China. Taking cognizance of the news- ' tum on the French Indo-China au- thorities, Secretary Hull declared they involve a “matter to which this Government attaches great impor-| tance.” Secretary Hull added that if events would “prove these reports | are well founded, effect upon pub- lic opinion in the United States| | will be unfortunate.” Newspapers printed a dispatch Army Command is reported to have demanded immediate submission by French Indo-China to the demands for the right to move Japanese, called to order yesterday with|troops through the French colony | for use in Haiphong, as a military | | base, or “take the con.sequ?ncen FAIRBANKS IS MAKING PLANS, GUARD ARMORY Chamber o?fommerce Starts Raising Funds by Subscription FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Sept. 5.— The Fairbanks Chamber of Com- merce has voted to raise a fund by subscription to underwrite local expenses for the establishment and mainteance of a temporary hall for the National Guard Unit here un-| til the Alaska Legislature meets next January and deals with the matter for a permanent Armory. The Fairbanks Unit of the Alaska National Guard is in the process of formation here under Capt. Al- bert L. Pe&rl STOCK OUOTATIOIIS NEW YORK, Sept. 5. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 4%, American Can 98, | Anaconda 23, Bethlehem Steel 81}, {Commonwealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 8%, General Motors 49%, International Harvester 47%, Kennecott 29%, New York Central 15, Northern Pacific 7%, United States Steel 58'%, Pound $4.03%. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, Jones averages: Industrials, 134.10; rails, 20.29; utilities 22.91. 5.—8ecre- | WRECKAGE SHOWS FORCE OF PLANE (RASH WARREPORT IS MADE BY - CHURCHILL ‘ Britsh Prime Minister Says | Hitler May Retaliate i onU. S COMMONS SESSION " DELAYED BY RAID iMysteriousHss Appears { Over London Area Written in Sky LONDON, Sept. 5.—Prime Min- iter Winston Churchill predicted in the House of Commons today that Hitler would attempt to retaliate against the United States because of | the transfer of 50 over-age destroy- | ers to Great Brit#in in exchange for |naval and air bases in British pos- sessions of the tern Hemisphere. Churchill sa ere is no doubt { “Hitler will not like this transter- | rence of the destroyers and there is ino doubt he will attempt to make | the United States pay if he ever gets | a chance but which he won't, how= | ever.” No Law Violation The Prime Minister said there is | “not the slightest violation of inter- ! natlonal law” for the United States to swap destroyers for naval and air fhn&es and added that it “does not |affect the non-beligerency of the United States.” The House of Commons was call- ed by advance notice to hear Chur- chill's second war report but the }Hnllfie was forced to suspend the |session for about 45 minutes when | paper reports of a virtual ummm a wave of Nazi Luftwaffe raiders | droned over London for the second time today. Lightning Trust ‘The wave of planes made a light« |ning trust toward the capital city which remained under an air raid alarm for one hour and 26 minutes. | After the alarm was raised, watch- ers on the roof tops in the London |area saw a large cross in the sky written by white smoke or exhaust | hv'hes' Elks Ba"room | from Hongkong yesterday that the condensation. The plane, whose mot- |or could be heard, was too high to be visible, however. The Government announced this ‘anernoon that seven German planes were downed by British defense | fighters. 1 British deaths from air raids dur- iing August totalled 1,075, according | to an official statement made today. Italians Win OQut 2 Fights | British Air, Naval Forces Bombard Bases in Mediterranean ROME, Sept. 5.—A series of fur- ious naval and air engagements with British forces in which Italian mo- tor units and torpedo boats parti- cipated, came out “successful” for the Italians, according to a report made by the Africa-Mediterranean Italian command. ‘The report says the British Air and Naval forces bombarded the Italian bases on the Dodecanese Is- lands, off the coats of Turkey, but were beaten off; that the Italians attacked three British naval mer- chant ship formations and two cruisers were damaged by aerial bombs. $ Seventeen British planes are sald to have been destroyed in the com= bats. CANCELLATION ‘WINCHESTER, Ky—A youngster telephoned a confectionery store and ordered an ice cream cone. A few minutes later his mother tele- phoned cancelling the order, say- ing, “Billy just swallowed his nickel.”