The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 20, 1940, Page 1

VOL. LVL, NO. 8522. GERMANY MASSING INVASION FORCES British BY DEFENSE BOARDENDS "Getting Somewhere Says| General of Northwest Defenses VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 20.—Mem- bers of the United States-Canadian Defense Board arrived here last night after an aerial survey of de- fenses in British Columbia and Al- aska and planned to resume study of coastline defenses by boat. “We certainly learned a great deal in our aerial survey of defense points of the Pacific Coast and feel that we are at last getting somewhere,” | Brig. Gen. Kenneth Stuart, senior | Canadian members of the Board, said. AR SURVEY | INSPECTION AT SITKA SITKA, A]aska Sept 20.—Mem- e “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE ie grv|\ JUNEAU. ALASKA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS Seeks Legion Post M“‘le BI“ Mrs, J. Allison Hardy Leadership of the American Legion Auxiliary’s 500,000 members will | be sought by Mrs. J. Allison Hardy, | of Columbus, Miss., at the national convention in Boston. The incum- bent, Mrs. William Corwith, of Rockville Center, N. Y..is mehglble lo!: reelecuon. 1 i [ [ | QGO‘ | WASHINGTON.—As pointed out| in a previous Merry-Go-Round ar-{ ticle cn national defense, taxes and | the sit-down strike by industry, the | bottleneck of American rearma- ment is factory expansion. In order to produce more planes, guns and tanks, new factories are necessary. And part of the delay | has resulted from a wrangle over| how taxes shall be paid on these | new plant. expansions. In fairness to industry, it,should | be noted that many of its leaders | have gone ahead and financed their | cwn plant expansion without wait- | ing to see what the tax picture would be. In fact some industrialists were far-sighted enough to begin more| than a year ago. Companies which | did this include: New York Ship- building, Newport News Shipbuild- | ing, Bethlehem Shipbuilding, Bath | Ircn Works, Federal Shipbuilding, Midvale Steel, Carnegie-Illinois Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Bausch and ' Lomb, General Electric, Ford In- strument Company, Edo Aircraft,| Grumman Aircraft, Brewster Aero-‘ nautical, Eclipse Aviation and Wal-‘ ter Kidde. \ Probably the list takes in many others. And because of their far-| sightedness, these firms not only| are reaping good profits for them- selves but also doing a service for the .Government. For instance, the | Elco Company of Bayonne, N. J.! put up an $800,000 plant extensxon‘ about a year ago in order to mnpu- facture motor-torpedo (“mosquito')‘ boats. As a result, it is now turning over to the Navy one new, and bad- | ly needed, mosquito boat each week. However, among many other man- | ufacturers there has been inexcus- able backing and filling over fac- tory expansion and how the new| plants will be taxed and financed. There is no question but this dick- ering has definitely slowed up the defense program. GOVERNMENT ARMS PLANTS There are three general means of operating factories for national | defense. | ONE is the arsenal, completely | owned and operated by the Gov-| ernment such as the Frankford Ar-f senal in Philadelphia, or Rock Is-| land Arsenal, IIl. For the most part | private industry objects to too many of these government arsenals. | TWO is the factory completely owned and operated by private in-| dustry. This was the practice em- ployed during the World War. THREE is a compromise system | whereby the Government buys the ground and erects the factory, then lets the private manufacturer step in and operate the plant for a man- agement fee. Of these three plans, the first, (Continued on Page Four) * RANSOM IS ASKED BY KIDNAPERS Child of Weathy Family s Snatched from Nurse in California ]lILl.bBORObGH Cal, Sept. 20. —Two men kidnaped Marc de Tris- tan, 3 years old, son of the Comtesse Marc de Tristan, member of a wealthy and socially prominent fam- ily in this town near San Francisco. The kidnapers left a note demand- ing $100,000 for the child’s return. The baby was snatched as he and his nurse walked near the family’s home here. One man carried a gun with which he threatened the nurse. Hillsborough police said that the ransom note left at the scene of the | kidnaping, read: “We demand $100,- 000 for the return of this child. We want the money in five, ten and twenty dollar bills. We will not take |any spuriously marked money and will collect the money at your con- venience. We want no police inter- ference.” The man who snatched the child lost his hat as he leaped into a black automobile. ——————— 'GOVERNOR TO VISIT SITKA, ANCHORAGE, KODIAK, FAIRBANKS Gov. Ernest Gruening will fly to Sitka for a brief visit within the next few days, he said today. Later this month he plans a trip to Kodiak, Anchorage and Fair- banks. 'FREE ELECTIONS SAFEGUARD T0 U. 5. SAYS FDR PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Sept. 20. —President Roosevelt, asserting that the “complete and enduring safety of our form of govern- ment rests in maintaining free elections” added in his address here today that “no dictator in history has ever dared run the gauntlet” of such an election. Yet, he said, in addressing the climaxing observance of the University of Pennsylvania’s 200th anniversary, there are still some well-meaning persons who have suggested recently that the right to vote be denied people who had lost their jobs and were a few at the top have tried to ‘advise or dictate to many lower down how they should vote.” | | ! Delegate Anthony J. Promises Aid, Alaska Additional —l;);ns fo Min- eral Claim Owners fo Help, Says Dimond WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Alaska Dimond said he believes loans available under | the bill signed by President Roose- velt authorizing the RFC to loan | $10,000,000 for development of metals | needed greatly aid the mineral production | in national defense, will of Alaska. The bill, however, contains specific reference to Alaska. | The bill authorizes new individual | loans up to $20,000 by the Recon-| Finance Corporation for | of deposits of stra- | struction “development tegic and critical mines.” Congressional supporters of measure said the legislation author- izes the $20,000 additional fof gold, s |eral properties. PRSIt e Two Nazi Ships Are Sent Down (British Adn;i“rglly Gives Belated Information on Sea Tragedy (By Associated Press) Belatedly, the British Admiralty has announced “it can now be stat- cd” his Majesty’s zeon torpedoed a heavily-laden 10,- 000-ton German troop transport in the North Sea off Denmark Septem- ber 2, sinking it in flames. Unofficial Swedish press reports previously had told of the sinking of the Nazi transport Marion with a loss of most of the 4,000 soldiers aboard. The Admlrally said the attack was executed despite heavy weather and poor visibility, the entire ship burst- ing into flames when struck. Later, when the British sub rose to the surface after sinking the Marion, a German escort cratt sweeping the water with search- lights in quest of survivors, was also | sunk. UnitedLines ManVisifing Assistant District Traffic Manager for United Air Lines in western Canada, Alaska ahd Washington, flew in from Ket- chikan on the Alaska Clipper last night. Doran is on a trip to sell Alaska bon the fast connections air passen- gers from Alaska to Seattle can make there for trips to other parts of the country. While in Juneau he is a guest at l.he Barariof Hotel. Clyde Doran, no The RFC to lcan as much as to corporations | and individuals wha have previously | obtained this much for development silver, tin and cther min- submarine Stur-| & Spi}fi;es ‘Scatter | | Passed by the British censor, blind inmates of the East G 4 4 -~ this lu!n purports to show three Home for the Blind in | an Ilr raid fillhl during ‘& Nazi bombardment. GOVERNOR BACKFROM LONGTRIP National Defense Pushing Alaska Ahead, Says 1 Gruening impressed with the speed with which the naticnal defense program | is getting under way in Alaska, Gov. Ernest Gruening returned by Alaska Clipper last night with a prediction that the program would lead the way to ever longer forward strides by the Territory. The Governor consulted at San | Francisco with General John L. DeWitt on Alaska defense develop- ments and brought home a firm be- lief that the present program will jhelp the Territory in many ways. Telephone Hookup One of these, the Governor said, will be a development of signal Corps communications facilities so that it will soon be possiblz for Ju- neauites to telephone to Sitka, An- chorage and Fairbanks as readily |as they now do to Ketchikan and Seattle. All communities with naval or military establishments will be hooked up by telephone, the Gov- ernor said. The development of commercial aviation and other transportation facilities will go hand in hand with the national defense work, he said. | The Governor said that every- where in Alaska the work of the Army is far ahead of schedule. At Annette Island, during a three-day stop at Ketchikan, Governor Gruen- | ing visited the new airbase site and | found a camp had been established, Expressing himself as very murh! a substantial dock constructed and | work begun on the difficult task or‘ Roosevelt Is Atlacked By Willkie 'GOP Nomi;lgg Continues Belitfling President- | 4-Point Program LOS ANGELES, Cal, Sept. 20— | Wendell L. Willkie told an audience | here last night that the most in- dispensable factor in American life is common sense. The Republican Presidential nom- inec hit at President Roosevelt': supported claim that he is indis- pensable to the United States, Will- kie said that there little common sense in government | during the past seven years. The candidate devoted most of his Les Angeles address to discuss- ing labor and industry, declaring | that unemployment must be ended if democracy is to survive. He also | said that democracy can survive only when it is rooted in expansion and hope. | The nominee proposed a foul-. point program for encouraging hms-i iness and restoring prosperity: that the rules under which business is| conducted must be clear and stable; | government policies affecting bus- iness must be stable; government competition with business must be kept within clearly defined nmusl and business must be given a chance | to make a profit. Willkie said that the national budget cannot be balanced imme- diately, or for some time to come. The candidate pledged the Re- | publican party to continuance of such legislation as the Wage and Hour Act and the NLRB, but de-| clared that those laws must be ad- had been very | Nazi As German Flyers Continue Terrific Raids on London German bombs missed this railroad, held by a boy. B o L e 'ALASKA T0 GET THREE GARRISONS Conscript, Regular Army| Barracks for Sitka, Ko- diak and Unalaska WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — In- cluded in the $338,000,000 appro- priation bill for barracks for the] conscript and regular army forces passed by the House yesterday and sent to the Senate is the sum of $5.708,000 for temporary construc- tion of garrisons at Kodiak, Sitka and Unalaska bases. - TAX ISSUES DISCUSSED IN SENATE Proposal Accepted fo Now | An gir raid pre- caution worker comforts the child, whose home has been reduced to rubble by a Nazi bomb. The toy rallroad escaped damage. DS R VERP TR S e 3Alaskans Elected fo MineBoard Bradley, Ear_li;g and Hess on Governor’s Com- mittee for West COLORADO SPRINGS, Col., Sept. 20.—Members to serve one year on the Governors' Board of the West- |ern Division of the American Min- ing Congress were elected yesterday at the close of the 1940 Metals anc Mining Convention. Included on the board are Roy Earling and Luther C. Hess, of Fairbanks, Alaska, and P. R. Brad- ley, President of the Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company, with head- quarters at San Francisco. AXIS IN NEW ACT FORWAR Set Up Wartime In- come Schedule | RIS | WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — The| Senate has accepted the proposal| of Senator Connally to set up war-| time income tax schedules ranging up to 80 percent on top of the sur-| tax brackets in the excess profits | bill. The Senate has rejected the pro- posal to make income on future |issues of Federal, State and local 'Cnnnnued on Pne 1‘wn) How Urfited States Plans to Build ™ EE‘JEEE’ (Continued on Page Piv;n %mmm 0-Ocean Navy [ ‘PLANES | securities sub]ect to Laxa.unn | | i Germany, It—aiy Drawing Spain Into Net in Euro- pean Conflict (By Associated Press) Foreign observers report indica- tions that Germany and Italy are trying to draw Spain into war with Great Britain, with PFrench Mor- occo and possibly the fortress of Gibraltar as reward. The Rome-Fascist press bluntly wrote of Spain as a potential ally, lending credence to the report. By this strategy, it is believed the | Axis powers hope to gain control -of the Mediterranean, probably by storming Gibraltar from the rear threugh Spain and thus tighten a blockade strangle hold on the Brit- ish Empire. German Foreign Minister Joachim Von Ribbentrop, conferring at a second conference with FAsclst lead- ers today, is reported discussing the post war division of Africa and the “fate of those African peoples freed from British tyranny,” as one Rome | newspaper phrased it. e Deaflu from autgomobile accidents are fewer in congested areas than in-thos& less densely populated. Bombers (4 ONE ATTACK BEATENBACK DURING DAY Terrific Battle Is Fought High in Sky-Won by RAF |INVADERS ARE NOW KEPT IN PRACTICE New Defen;e_Expeded fo Surprise Hitler, Auth- orities Declare BULLETIN—LONDON, Sept. 20.—Anti-aircraft defense began roaring a challenge of fire and splintering steel on German bombers who appeared over the city early tonight, beginning the fourteenth consecutive night assault. (By Associated Press) English military quarters estimate that - 200,000 German soldiers are now rehearsing landing “invasion exercises” along the Norwegian defense,’ plus the “proven vulner- ability” of the Nazis’ light tank, ahd the British two-pound anti-tank gun, will upset Hitler's invasion plans. Besides the reported 200,000 Hitler troops in Norway, Hitler has other great legions massed along the Eng- lish Channel coast stretching from Denmark south to almost southern France. Attack Is Made British Spitfires and Hurricanes, each plane firing eight machine guns bristling on their wings, at- tacked an aerial armada over Dover this forenoon and a fierce battle developed high ‘in the skies. Watchers below lifted a cheer as the trim flying formation of RAF defenders came back reporting the German raiders were scattered and sent racing back in disorder to their bases. New Assaulis The Royal Air Force has stepped up the tempo of its assaults on Ger- many and German occupied terri- tory, bombing the Rhineland, strate- gic Dortmund, Ems Canal, railroad communications and Nazi “invasion ports” along the channel. Watchers from Dover see great fires raging along the entire coastal area from Calais to Boulonge as the RAF pounded the bases for two or three hours. German Sections Bombed Berlin admits German sections were bombed during the night, in- cluding the ancient university city of Heidelberg. The High Command admits 600 German civilians have been killed and 1400 wounded by British air raids on the Reichland. Berlin reports that German raiders are striking hard at London again, bombing facilities of the Southern Railway and London as well as other military objectives in a mass asault by 200 war planes which ran the cloud-hidden ambush of the RAF fighters over Dover’s “Hell Corner.” Retaliation Promised London’s millions huddled in the dim light of dawn this morning to read the morning newspapers in which Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced a pledge for ultimate retaliation for German war assaults on England. “Don't worry, they'll get it back,” Churchill is reported saying grimly when crowds demanded reprisals as he was inspecting bomb-shattered homes in the Battersea area of Lon- don. BOMBER SHOT DOWN LONDON, Sept. 20.—An anti-air- craft battery in southwest Londom scored a direct hit on a German bombing plane early today, and sent the big ship hurtling to earth. One member of the bomber crew bailed out, and was captured when he parachuted to earth. The others were killed in the ex- plosion that occurred as the plane crashed.