The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 13, 1940, Page 1

PONGRESSIONAL LIBRAS WASHING™ON, D. 0 THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVI, NO. 8516. EXPLOSION TOLL HITS HIGH MARK Thirty-nine?n—own Dead- Searchers Hunt More in Smoking Ruins KENVILE, N. J., Sept. 13.—A scene | of blackened desolation with piles | “ALL THE N EWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1940. HITLER TRIES TO M LAGUARDIA ENDORSING ROOSEVELT New York';‘Mayor Says FDR Our Only Hope fo Stay Out gf War (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Tn New York City teday, Mayor MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT2 DER KING, QUEEN NAZIDIVER ~ IN ATTACK ON PALACE Royal Coupréfscape Death when Murderous BRITISH RETALIATE CHARGING ON FRANCE 'RAF Blasts Away at Le- | LaGuardia came out for President | Roosevelt's reelection, asserting the | President's preparedness plans and foreign policy are “our cnly hope | of keeping this country out of war." of unsightly debris and deep craters | resembling areas of warring Europe } greeted the eyes of searchers this morning as more bodies were recov- ered in the Hercules Powder Com- | | - Assault Made e | i i pany's disaster and the death toll | mounted to 39. | Still warm ruins smoldering in the | wake of yesterday's series of terrific | unexplained blasts made the hunt for bodies a continuous danger. Rescue workers pressed the search, however, for additional victims of one of the worst powder plant blasts i American history, Cause Is Mystery The cause of*the terrific explosion, felt 125 miles away, remains a mys- tery. It is belieygd still more bodies are yet to come from the wreckage, while hospitals are caring for 125 injured. The explosion took place appar- ently in the solvent recovery build- ing where ether and alohol, used to | purify the powder, were extracted | from nitrocellulose and reclaimed. Hercules Director, W. C. Hunt, said he is at a loss to account for the explosion. In the main blast, 15,000 pounds of smokeless powder exploded, while another 50,000 pounds burned fierce- ly in the fire that followed. Twenty of the hundred buildings on the 700-aore grounds of the plant were demolished . 1 2 =z TS RobertS.Alles -p 60 WASHINGTON — The behind- the-scenes struggle over taxes on national defense orders, together with the sit-down staged by cer- tain manufacturers until taxes arc adjusted to suit them, is one of the most important developments in the Capital this summer. It is a mixed story. Some busi- ness firms have been 100 percent patriotic in their attempt to aid national defense. On the other| hand, a great many have not. Some have been very much like| British and French munitions firms in their procrastination over| vital war orders. The story goes back to Novem- ber 8 1939, when John Han then Under Secretary of the Treas- | ury, submitted a confidential| memorandum to the President ad-| A&omng to the British censor-approved -caption accompanying this picture, this is a British bomb scoring a direct hit upon the Jtalian fort of Maddalena in the western Libyan desert recently. Kids fo Have Parade ai Fair Saturday Allgrnoon 10 BROBE The kids of Gastineau Channcl will have their big time at the Southeast Alaska Fair tomorrow afternoon when the costume par- ade will be held, starting at 2 oglock, and all children are asked | |to.be in line read: 3 g stuff at thal time. > Suitable prizes will be given to the best boy and girl in character costume, the best boy and girl m| a negro makeup and the best boy and girl in a sustained character,| 'MARKED AS FAIROPENS First Nighters See Colorful | fows & “otners. ™ ™ The Flying Patts will give a| gymnastic act at 3 o'clock followed | by Zerado and his dogs in a spec- Enferfainment, Variety of Booths, Exhibifs |5 % | AN children in costume will be Aerial entertainment, trained dogs | admitted free, others will pay an in clgver acts, snappy martial music | admission of 10 cents for the after- by the Juneau High School Band,|noon and adults 25 cents. games of chance, exhibits and danc- | >oe ing to the strains of Wes Barrctt and his orchestra—all feature the nineteenth annual Southeast Alas- Pershing Is Eighty g | ka Fair, officially opened by the| “first nighters” who went early, and | stayed late, as the doors were swung | open last evening for three days of | carnival fun, entertainment and | educational pursuits. Hundreds of Congratulat-| ory Messages Receiv- IPTRLE T R ed with “Title booth—which company, incidentally,| makes possible the free admission WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. to children the past two afternoons. Twenty-two years and 3,000 miles Margaret Whitely’'s booth comes removed from the scene of his| Turning to the right upon enter- ing the huge fair building carnival goers first view the Royal Blue Cab Co. booth where a comfortable car| and courteous driver may be called to help lucky winners carry bacons, canned goods, novelties and other winnings to their homes. Next to this is Satre’s candy and novelty booth and then the Green Top Cab vising that industry would have next, where various awarding ma- greatest military triumphs, Gen- to be giwm tax concessions if it|chines bring bacons and canned eral John J. Pershing today ob- was to rxpand for national Ce-|800ds to lucky individuals. An Elec-'served his 80th birthday in quiet fense, Specifically, Hanes pointed|tric Light and Power Co. booth IS seclusion at his houto apartment,. out that airplane 'manufacturers the next stop, this display featuring, Over 800 congratulatory messag- i s R (Continued on Page Four) could not be expected to build new | plants to speed up production if,| after a year or two, the war would be over and they would be% left with empty plants on their| hands. So Hanes proposed that the ccst| of these new plants be amortized in a relatively short time so that industry would not have to payi taxes on them after the war| emergency was over. MORGENTHAU'S IDEA Roosevelt approved this propo- sal. But when the Hanes memoran- | dum went back to Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, it ran into stormy weather. In fact, this memo was one of the things over which Morgenthau and his Under Sec- retary quarreled. | Hanes and Morgenthau both are| millionaires, both able men. Bui Hanes, a director of the Glenn| Martin Aircraft Corporation, looks| at taxes more from the business-| man’s viewpoint, while Morgenthau looks at taxes from the viewpcint of collecting money to run the Government. Therefore, Morgenthau told Roo- sevelt that he would secure enough fycuxy expansion tz@ the air- the benefits of a :\I: lxi:nu | es, more than he usually receives,| Salmon Industry weré piled up in the ornate old Always one of the outstanding d‘xs-“ fashioned office of the State De- glny b:ost:is is txh::it olf thel Alasi;aipmmem labelled with the title anne mon Industry, where in- ne galone bears among American teresting posters and neatly arrang- 1 military men—“General of Armies.” ed cans advertize various type's'of There Pershing arranged to grant salmon to be purchased. A minia- resq interviews and make a brief ture trawler also attracts the at-ipirtnday speech over the radio at tention of those viewing this display. .3y pm. Pacific Standard Time. tion and without a doubt the loudest‘ corner in the whole building — B'I'URKISH s“'p that of the Juneau Fire Depart-‘ Here tickets may be pur- ” ” chased on the latest model, blnck,; ls DEIAINED four-door Oldsmobile sedan. | Center booth, where a miniature BY ITAllA"s scene depicting a Mother’s Class is ] of posters and reading material. . Crossing in frong of the stage andi phtween. Tuikey: ad Sl ootred !a crisis today when the Turkish runway is the Territorial Health De- | partment display, which is followed °f 2800 tons, was reporied stopped| | by an Italian warship and detained | C. of C. Booth ,at the Island of Leros. Displaying Alaska’s industries in' resentative of the Chamber of Com- | merce The Columbia Lumber Co.| model homes and building materials | covering the quarters. A neatly ar- Probably the most interesting sec- ment. i Of worthwhile note in the Health | cleverly arranged in a background ISTANBUL, Sept. 13—Relations ting do gtarting dawn: s oiper Mde of me'cargo steamer Sakarya, a vessell by the B. M. Behrends Co. booth. photographic work is the booth rep- | display follows, with replicas of (Continued on Page Seven) The Turkish Foreigh Ministry is understood to have forwarded to Rome a sharp note, demanding im- mediate release of the Sakarya and its cargo of salt, ——a——— Travel to the Boulder Dam rec- reational area is heavier than a year ago. | for by the | pendent Roosevelt - committee.” | declaring the Senator belonged to | no party. Third Term LaGuard'e's broadcast was paid Democratic National Committee. The New York City mayor an- nounced that Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska will serve as honcrary chairman of an “inde- Norris was elected to the last Con- gress as both a Republican and a Sccialist, LaGuardia said, further Wendell Willkie's comment on La- Guardia’s endorsement of President Roosevelt was that the Mayor is joining hands with Democratic lead- ers whom he (Willkie) calls “me-| chine leaders.” L CAMPAIGN EXPENSES Page Advertisements for Willkie Are to Be In- vestigated Now WASHINGTON, Sept. 13. — The question of political expenditures cropped up today when Chairman Guy M. Gillette, of the Senate Campaign Expenditures Commit- tee, announced that two Willkie| supporters have been summoned to testify regarding a series of maga-| zine advertisements asking for funds to further the Republican Presidential candidate’s election. Senator Gillette said his Com- mittee wished| to establigh “if| there is any violation of the spirit of the Hatch Act - limiting these matters.” Oren Root Jr, who with John| Young has been invited to testify,| said: “I am happy to accept the| invitation and will give all infor- mation I have on any aspect of our Willkie Club work.” Confroversy Is Averled% Bar Associ;%n Conven- | tioners Table Two Resolutions w PHILDADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 13. —The delegates attending the Am-| erican Bar Association convention here avoided the threatened con-| troversy on the third term ques-| tion by tabling resolutions con-| demning the third term for Roo-| sevelt. | The other resolution tabled ad-i vocated a single six-year term in| the future for Chief Executives of the United States. | DONADLER NAMED | CAPTAIN, NATIONAL | GUARD (OMPANY C AFL PORTS Radiophoto This apartment house in Berlin was hit by a bomb dropped by British raiders who attacked the German eapital in the night. Ten were reported killed and thirty wounded. Photo was radiced from Berlin to New York. ‘Britain’s Mi?’s Getwér Tasterof War ‘ Beveral of England’s members of Parliament try out home defense equipment set up in Osterley Park, London, as the war’s fury breaks over their heads. All parks holds rifle.- W¢ Dobbie, M.P. have been manned by units of the Home for Rotherham, & Bren guns President's Popularity Is Growing Advance RJo"n Is Made on Survey by For- fune Magazine Guard, Charles Brown, M.P, for Mansfield, OPENANEW; SOUND AREA Fifteen Days of Present Strike Ends in Three Ship Centers TACOMA, Wash, Sept. 13. AFL longshoremen voted late yes-| ity gains terday to end its “protest strike,” which has closed three Puget Sound ports, and members returned to work this morning. zine survey of public opinion. | The ports of Tacoma, Anacortes| The Fortune survey sought the | and Port Angeles have heen closed | opinicn of the nation’s voters first . 13.--Popular- President Roosevelt | by over Wendell L. Willkie are disclosed | in an advance report of the re- sults. of the latest Fortune maga- for the past 15 days with Inter- on President Roosevelt and then national Longshoremen’s Associa-|on Mr. Willkie. tion quitting work to protest| It is found that 522 percent against the two-year-old Labor|favor Roosevelt while 358 percent Board certification of the CIO as|are for Willkie, ROOSEVELT ASKS SPEED IN DEFENSE Defense Commission Hints Industry Should Be Given Breaks WASHINGTON, Sept. 13.—Presi- dent Roosevelt sent to Congress today with his endorsement of the| Defense Commission, a declaration of policy for a basic theme w0 “speed delivery of all items essen- tial to the defense program.” The Defense Commission said: “This means orders should be placed to insure the most efficient use of each particular From a point of view on the pro- gram as a whole, proper consider- ation should be given contributor bargaining agent for the entire The survey results will be pub- . coast. lished in the October issue of industries such as the machine AFL workmen declared their| the magazine. tool industry and avoid creating three strike ports never joined the oo —— Eundorlym;: boitlenecks once de- CIO and therefore they should have the bargaining agency. The NLRB reopened hearings on the jurisdiction, - -o - Death Toll Announced LONDON, Sept. 13.—The Air Ministry announces that 110 per- sons were killed and 260 injured in| o the Lib: » o , a ; 8 the Libyan-Egyptian border, an Wednesday night air raids. The|,rey where the Italian main of- toll of Thursday night raids is| fensive is believed to be imminent. not stated, nor ‘is the toll of to- > Brifish, lfalians In Batfle CAIRO, Sept —-British patrols | are reported fighting hard against large Italian forces on the 200-mile Kenya colony front, 100 miles south Don Adler, Past Commander of day’s raids. The revised toll from | the Department of Alaska Ameri-|last Saturday through Wednesday | can Legion, has been appointed night is placed at 1,245 dead and /A Captain of Company C of the Al-|4810 injured. aska Natlonal Guard, it was an-| g e S KTTEYRS) nounced today by the Governor’s| Consumption of commercial ice| WASHINGTON, Sept. 13- Presi- office. tcrcam has jncreased more than 60| dent -Roosevelt today nominated| Adler left Juneau this week after' percent in the United States in the|Jesse ‘Jones to. be Secretary of| attending ' the Legion convention. last 20 years, Commerce. | livery dates are fixed and assur- ances given they will be met by the, supplier.” - e FIVE ITALIANS ARE KILLED BY BRITISH BOMB TURIN, Italy, Sept. 13. — Four Italian soldiers and one civillan were killed today when an Englisih time bomb, dropped near the Fiat motor factory at Mirafiori, explod- led as they were attempting to render it harmless. The men were attempting to remove the time fuse from the bomb when it exploded. Another soldier nearby was seriously in- jured. The bomb was dropped dur- ing a British air raid on north Italy. The antelope is one of the fieet- est North American animals. Iacility.‘, | Havre Where Troops . Massedfor Invasion | b (By Associated Press) Safely huddled in their Palace air raid shelter, King George and Queen Elizabeth escaped uninjured when n lone Nazi diver bomber screamed down out of the clouds and dropped a salvo of five bombs on Bucking+ hame Palace and its precincts. Witnesses said the German raider came out of his roaring dive into a “dead stick” glide with his motors silent to check his speed and give him better aim at the palace. Other Nazi raiders, flying low and ped incendiary bombs on the narrow dead end of Downing Street off Whitehall, where Winston Churchill resides at famous Number Ten. No damage was reported after the raid. King, Queen Inspect The King and the Queen inspect- ed damage to the palace leisurely a short time after the bombs were dropped. e ey 3 B Majesties’ escape, said: “Like so many other. people, we now have had a personal experience with Ger- man barbarism. Our strength lies in our resolution that all of us will fight through to final victory.” The Princesses were not at the palace at the time the great white stone palace was bhombed. | On last Tuesday & delayed action | bomb slightly damaged Buckingham Palace, used as the London resi- dence of Britain's sovereigns since | the accession of Queen Victoria in | 1837. Official sources deny reports broadcast that Hitler has ordered fliers to “get” the King and Queen of Great Britain, also Prime Min- ister Winston Churchill -and “their false friend” Neville Chamberlain. Field Marshal Goering, however, from his headquarters on the French coast, says nothing. M ttacks Berlin reports that day :u-lc‘:s | today are direc docks and in- dustries, but fr%flon the Air | Ministry says the raiders “deliber- | ately bombed conspicuous buildings | in London, irrespective of their na- ture.” Three workmen were injured in | the bombing of Buckingham Palace. Retaliation by British The Air Ministry discloses that |Royal Air Force bombers agsin | blasted German occupied LeHavre, | where Nazi Pleld Marshal Walter | von Brauchitseh is reported to have | massed troops and heavy war ma- chines for the invasion of Great | Britatn. Palace Bombing In the bombing of Buckingham Palace, two bombs fell in the pal- | ace’s inner quadrangle, a third hit the royal coupl's private chapel in | the south wing and the other two | (Continued on. Page Eight) Thrust Is (omingUp OE_ Egypt Italians Massing Forces for Long Awaited Move- mentE_Roport CAIRO, Sept. 13—Italy’s Mar- shal Graziani has rushed fresh troops to the interior of Libya and massed them near Bardia, 30 miles from the Egyptian frontier, British scouts report. The movement is taken to, indi- cate that Italy has decided tomake the long awaited thrust on EEypt | fast to the heart of London, drop- +