The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 18, 1940, Page 1

=""HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8520. LONDON EXPERIENCES “N Terrific Attack Made On British Capital ENGlAND S KlNG AND QUEEN VIEW PAI.A(E BOMB DAMAGE DEFENSE PLANNED ON COAST , Purse Seiners Expected to Be Drafted for Patrol and Olher Duties TACOMA, Wash., 59})& builders and fishermen revealed to- dey they expect “any day now” to be notified that Puget Sound and Al 1 P! seiners are going to s be used in patrol duties in the Nerthern Pacific waters. Negotiations between naval of- ficials and owners of Puget Sound purse seiners have been underway for several months but Navy options on several Tacoma boats were drop- ped temporarily about a week ago so plans could cerporate purse seiners of the regu- Jar fleet and use of the craft for patrol duty, mine sweeping and mine b la ng. Boat builders said the assignment of nine San Pedro purse seiners to duty with the Navy is already known. Harvey Petrich, of the Western Beat Building Company said: “None of us wi " (Continued on Page Eight) 18.—Boat | | be devised to in-| be surprised to hear any | JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS \ | } | | | Robert . Alles RS 'P/:GO_QD | WASHINGTON. — The most im- ! portant development during the last few days of bombing London is the realization by British and American observers that bad weather is not going to help the defense of l.on- don, but instead will hinder it. Second important development lsx the realization that Britain's only real defense is retaliatory raids against Berlin. This means, of course, more long-distance bombers | —almost all of which are now ob- tained from the United States. | It had been generally expected that with the arrival of foggy wea- | ther, London would be safer because | Nazi raids would have to abate. | However, there was considerable cloudy weather over England last | week, and during it, Nazi bombers | had a field day. What they did was | to use the clouds as a Shield and drop their bombs, without aiming, | all over London. | On clear days they had tried to aim at military targets. But at night, and during cloudy weather, the Nazis gave up any pretense of | taking aim. One day last week it will be re- called that only two German planes { were shot down and one British | plane. This phenomenal casualty | list was because of cloudy weather. Dispatches from England told how | the British public was complaining 1 because anti-aircraft guns were not firing, and British planes were not in the air. This also was because | of cloudy weather. { HIDE AND SEEK * What happened was that when British planes went aloft they could not find the raiders. The Nazis were hidden in cloud banks, drop- ping ‘their bombs inducfimmnuly.‘ Under these circumstances,there was | only one way for the British to lo- cate the enemy bombers—by means of sound detection and radio direc- tions from the ground. However, these radio dh—ections | must be three dimensional to be ef- fective, and there is such a wide | margin for error that looking for a | bomber in the clouds is like looking | for a needle in a haystack. That is why British planes simply did not go into the air when the weather was too cloudy. 1t is important to note that the same handicap applies to Berlin. In other words, the British raiders will FLICGHT COMMAND —Maj. J. S. Macedo of the Bra- zilian army air corps is scheduled to lead the delivery flight of six North American Aviation NA-44 bombers from Los Angeles to Rig de Janeciro. The flight covers -~ about 10,000 miles, ATk o KETCHIKAN NAT.GUARD SWORN IN First Company in Alaska Is Inducted in Federal Service of U. S. KETCHIKAN, Alaska, Sept. 18.— | The first National Guard company service last night when 59 men were sworn in by Major Jesse Graham, | Commanding Officer of Alaska’s Na- | tional Guard. Gov. Ernest Gruening and Mayor | Harry G. McCain participated in the induction of the company. The Governor pointed out that | the American Army is responsible to the privileges of free men in the |Army service as free people with those forced to obey “a Fuehrer despot and tyrant.” The Guardsmen are expected to receive their uniforms and guns in about a month. However, they will start drills on Thursday night. Other National Guard companies will be inducted later at Juneau, | Anchorage and Fairbanks. Going fo Aid Motherland MELBOURNE, Sept. 18. — The Navy Office announces that a num- | ber of Australian and New Zealand fishermen will go to Britain to aid | in the defense of coastal waters. The New Zealand Chief of Staff mutual defense, including plans for naval coordination in the Pacific. be equally aided: by foggy weather e e L (Continued on Page Four) The government spokesman said that several new naval supply and fuel bases are planned. | Columbia and Alaska began today | |when the Canadian and American | in Alaska was inducted into Federal | the American people. He compared | arrived today for discussions on | 7 DEFENSE GROUPS (OMING Six Member—s"fiying Norihf fo Invesfigate Pro- | tection,Alaska 5 VANCOUVER, B. C, Sept. 18.—A survey of the defenses of British members of the Joint Defense Board | left the Jericho Air Station here on | three United States Navy flying| | boats. | The American members of the beard landed in the Navy craft early this morning and were joined by three Canadian members, who rived from Cttawa last night. The planes left less than an hour after arriving, about 9 o'clock taking the air for S(Lk'\ Alnskn DEMO VOTE GOES NEW . DEALN.Y. Connedrrui Wrsconsm and ' New York Choose No- vember Candidates (By Associated Press) Connecticut Republicans yesterday | | selected an ex-advertising man to {run for United States Senator against the Democratic incumbent, | Francis Maloney in Novemuver. Paul Cornell, now owner of a pre- paratory school, is the choice of the Republican State Convention to rep- | resent his party as candidate for | U. S. Senator in the general election. In New York, the so-called right wing of the American Labor Party supportmg Roosevelt won 53 Con- gresaronnl and state legislative of- | fices to 51 conceded the opposing | leftists. One independent also came | | out winner. One hundred and thirty- | one contests were voted upon yester- | |day but returns are not yet in in | all of them. | O’Conner Defeated | The double defeat of anti-New | | Deal former Representative John | |O'Connor in New York and the | | strength shown by Wisconsin Re- | | publicans are other highlights of 1 yesterday's elections. O’Connor, whose defeat for re- nomination was successfully advo- | |cated by administration forces in 11938, lost out yesterday in his efforts ‘ to win both the Republican and | Democratic nominations in Manhat- | | tan’s sixtenth Congressional district. | William Pfeiffer worsted O’Connor | in the Republican primary. The Democratic contest was lost again | | to his victorious- 1938 opponent, pro- | | New Deal Congressman James Fay. °| ‘Wisconsin i Available returns from Wisconsin | showed James Finnegan, former State Attorney General and William Carroll, chairman of his ptrtysr | state central committee, running in | one-two order in the Democratic | race for Senator. In the Democratic | gubernatorial contest, administra- | tion critic William Callahan and | | Francis McGovern, former Governor and Roosevelt backer, are running neck and neck. Wisconsin‘'s Republican contest | found Fred Clausen, farm machinery | manufacturer, holding a comfortable | margin over a seven-man field for | nomination to the United States State. Progressive Party candidate Rob- ert M. LaFollette was unopposed. ————— TRANSFERRED TO NORTHLAND WASHINGTON, 8ept. 18. — Ma- jor Robert Williams, Quartermaster Corps, has been ordered transferred | from Port Bragg to Elmendorf Field at Anchorage, Alaska, In an historic scene, the King and Queen of England (¢enter) inspect the damage done to a corner r;l Buekln‘hanr Palace, the Royal residence; by what British sources described as a delayed-action German bomb, This picture was cabled from London to New York. PRICE TEN CENTS Brandenburg Gels Bombed gt e Berliners stand in the city’s famous Unter Den Linden looking down into what Berlin sources claimed was a bomb crater caused by a Royal Air Force bembing raid on the German capital. is the historic Brandenburg Gate, which the British ‘claimed was thmnn:d This plclure was radioed from Berlin. (CAROL WANTS 10 REMAIN IN SPAIN MADRID, Sept. 18.—Government sources said today that former King Carol of Rumania has asked for permission to remain permanently |in Spain. Carol previously had been report- ed planning to spend his exile in Portug,al DROPS PROPELLER WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — The Coast Guard received word today that the steamer Panuco had lost her propeller 525 miles south of Jupier Inlet, Florida. A cutter was ordered to stand by to go to the ship's assistance if she called for help. The Panuco is own- ed by the New York-Cuba Steamship Company. In the background GermanWar Losses Are Climbing Up Nazi Plane_T—olI Is Abou Three fo One Against Great Britain LONDON, Seut. 18.—Air Minister Sinclair told the House of Commons today that German plane losses have outnumbered British losses more than three to one since the Nazi blitzkrieg against England started ‘ Away, Rochester Blrzzard of Bombs On London Exceeds that of Any Previous Conques LONDON, Scpt. 28.—Military altaches and newspaper cor- 1espondents who weathered the blizzard ¢f bembs which fell on Wazrsaw, Barcelona, and Madrid, 'd the British capital had al- GERMANS ARE LA POLES FAMOUS DOCTOR IS DEAD George Goler, Fighter for Better Heath, Passes ROCHES’I‘FR N Y Sept. 18— | Dr. George W. Goler, 76, who as Rochester’s Health Officer estab- | lished the first municipal milk sta- | tion and pre-natal clinics, died here | today. The medical career of Dr. Goler was dedicated to the cause of child heakkh and hygiene. Above all else he sought to improve the lot of !infants before and after birth and to provide in youth a sound body for future development, Upon his graduation from the University of Buffalo in 1889 he be- came house physician at the In- fants’ Summer Hospital at Char- |lotte, N. Y. Between 1891-93 he was | assistant physician and from 1894 to 1897 attending physician at the same institution. Director of Health The wealth of experience which he obtained here served him fn good | stend later as director of the board | “(Continued on Page Five) | (Continued on Page Five) J [GHT OF HELL® 4 AIR RAIDS GROWING INTENSITY Three Hundred German Planes Swarm Over Strategic Position WHIRLING DOGFIGHTS BREAK UP FORMATION Nazis Rep(—rrl_ Many Air- ports Damaged-Sev- en Assault Tonight (By Associated Press) British fighters of the air clashed with 300 German war planes in a terrifia battle over the Thames Estuary early today and reportedly scattered the raiders to save London from one of the greatest mass as- saults of the war. Flying at 15,000 feet, three waves of German bombers thundered across the Dover coast, plunged through the barrage of anti-aircraft fire and headed for London for 3 gigantic raid to spread fresh chaos over the smoke hazed British w city. An Associated Press observer on “the channel, coast said the sky seems’ ed full of planes as the Germans - | passed over head. A few miles from the London de- {fense, the planes were knifed by British planes and were suddenly broken into three formations by the charging Spitfires, ‘Whirling Dogfights A series of whirling dogfights and ready taken more punishment than any previcus cenguests, not accepting Rotterdam. All agree however, that Hit- ler has failed to smash the city | or terrorize the millions of citi, zens into surrender LAUDED; ARE VILLIFIED BERLIN, Sepr IB —Thousands ol leaflets extolling the Germans as the “Master Race” and villifying the Poles as second rate human| beings, are being distributed to Ber-A in households by “Volksbund for Germandom Abroad.” The circulars call attention to Goering’s order that all Polish la- borers, both men and women, wear | such insignia, sewed on the rlxm‘ chest side of every garment. Poles are called unfit for lnr.ermnr- riage or even comradeship of the| Germans. Bri_fi;r Bombard ltalians Invaders SErEring Along Mediterranean Coast- line of Egi_pl' sDesert CAIRO, Sept. 18.—Heavy and suc- cessful bombing of Italian troops near Barrapi, Egypt, is reported in a British communique. The Italian invaders are storming along the Mediterranean coast line | of Egypt's western desert. The communique said the British | are engaged in consolidating their position before the expected advance | | toward Alexandria, the British naval | base. | |now and election time. air battles came as London's mil- lions underwent the fifth day and night of air raids and capped a “Night{ of Hell,” marking the longest night raid of the war, nine hours and 54 minutes of terror from the skies. Casualties Heavy The British communique said it is |feared that “casualties may be heav- ier than in recent months.” A delayed action bomb fell last night near the United States Em- bassy in the heart of Mayfair, re- maining still unexploded after day- break. One member of the American Em~ bassy staff saild wryly: “We certainly had Hell last nighv. Bombs were popping all around us.” Nazi Claims Nazi quarters in Berlin, describing Lhe ruids aimed at London’s defense es, said seven out of the British plLal 's ten remaining airports were badly damaged during the past 2¢ hours, some beyond the possibility |of immediate repair. Cross “Hell’s Corner” By mid-forenoon today, the sun- |shine drove off the mist-and-rain- | shrouded English Channel as great numbers of German raiders, flying | more than 20,000 feet, crossed the (Continued on Page Eight) MRS ROOSEVELT IS - NOTTO CAMPAIGN First Lady Wil Make Only One Address - Will Be Non-Polifical WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — Mrs. | Franklin D. Roosevelt declared today | that she will not campaign for her husband. The Pirst Lady pointed out that since her husband has been in the White House she has been asked by Democratic leaders to take part in hls campaigns but has never done Only one scheduled speech is on Mrs. Roosevelt calendar between ‘That will be a non-political address at Colby College, Waterville, Me., on Octo- ber 13. Mrs. Roosevelt yqyealed that she | would visit “all her children,” during October. When it was pointed out that this meant a #ationwide swing, which might be considered to have | political meaning, she laughed wholeheartedly.