The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, September 23, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LVI, NO. 8524. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” — | JUNEAU, ALASKA, MONDAY,*SEPTEMBER 23, 1940. NAZI BOMBERS SHUTTLE OVER ir Mail Service to Juneau Will Continue A PAA CLIPPER TO OPERATE DURING WINTER BETWEEN SEATTLE, JUNEAU, DIRECT, CAPTURED INWOODS SEATTLE, Sept 23.—Pan Am- erican officials today announced that the provisional air mail, pas- sengér and express service be- tween Seattle, Ketchikan and Juneau, originally schedyled to be discontinued on October 15, will be extended through the winter. Capacity business and Nation- al Defense activity determined continuance of the service, Pan American officials said, and as the weather permits, two flights weekly will be maintained until mid-December, when the com- pany hdpes to take delivery of a new type twin-engined transport ordered from the Lockheed fac- tory at Burbank and especially adapted for the winter service to the North, The plane is exepcted to be capable of a nonstop serv- ice between Seattle and Juneau during the winter months. NEW RADIO STATIONIS FOR JUNEAU Request Is I‘Eae for Befler: Facilities for Coast Guard in Alaska BULLETIN — WASHING- TON, Sept. 23.—The House Ap- propriations Committee has arked Ccngress to appropriate $238,600 for construetion of 2 Coast Guard Radio Station at Juncau as urged by Commander Waesche as of “utmest impor- tance” because of Coast Guard activities in connection with the ncutrality patrol | WASHINGTON, Sept. 23. — Rear Admiral Russell R. Waesche, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard, told the House Apprcpriations Com- mittce during a hearing on the cupplemental Civil Functions bill that it is propesed to erect a Ccast Guard radio station at Juneau, Alaska, to cost $238,000. Rear Admiral Waesche said the station is mest important be- cause of the rapid expansion taking place in Alaska. The Ccmmander said present facilities cf the Army Station are Three - Year - Old Marc de Tristan Unharmed- | Back at Home | OTHERS ARE SOUGHT i IN SNATCHING RING WERE BEAUTY CONTESTA NS | German Who Confess- es fo Crime CULLETIN—SEATTLE, 3 23. — William Mattsen, Univer- sity ¢! Washington student, has 1cft by a United Airlines for San Franciscc, apparently tc view the rcnfessed kidnaper of the de Tristan boy and determine whether he resembles the man whe s'c’e William’s brether Charlcs frem his Tacema home Christmas week, 1936. Charles’ nude bedy was later found in the sncw nerth of here. Mattson wac escerted scuth by twe FBI agents. HILLSBOROUGH. Cal.. Sept. 23.| —Unharmed, baby Marc de Tristan, day while tight-lipped FBI men held | his accused abdu , -alien German | { Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich, 40, in |scme secret spot. | Joy reigned in Hillsharough, whose residents last night turned out to rcar a Hollywood welcome as the | Count Mare de Tristan proudly bore | | his son up the long path between | cireering hundreds to his waiting| ‘momer and child, the babe's curly { head bobbing up above a Jubilant | threng. Others Involved | | On a grimmer note, Chief of Po-| lice Hirschey said: “I think there| is more than one person involved |in this kidnaping and I expect sev- | | eral sensational revelations will be| | made when the trial opens. I don’t |want Muhlenbroich in my jail There are too many trees close by.” | FBI men said Muhlenbroich con- fessed to kidnaping the boy last ‘Continued on Page Two) Inde - (hiha Is Invaded | | ' Deer Hunters Disarm Alien ‘ three, i safe .in the arms of his- {titied Tapturously happy family to- MEMBER A SSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS LONDON At least 11 persons, presumably all plant employees, were killed and 200 persons injured in an explosion at the Hercules Powder Company’s Ken- vile, N. J Conscription Machineryls Being Set Up President Signs Rules and Regulations-Appeals to Governors HYDE PARK, N. Y., Sept. 23. — President Roosevelt today ordered into effect two sets of rules and regulaticns for operation of the Na- tion's first peacetime conscription machinery. - plant, First estimates of damage set it at “least $2,000,000.” This air view shows the devastation wrought by the fury of the explosions. REFUGEE SHIP TORPEDOED BY GERMANS: 83 CHILDREN ~ AMONG TRADEGY VICTIMS DEMOCRACY MUST | ... s ] | i BE MAINTAINED, WIllKIE DE([ARES Eand sunk 600 miles out from Eng- land on a storm-tossed Auantic with a lcss of at least 283 lives in- kcludln: 63 children, while’ stunned Britcns mourned the tragedy. London newspapers today flared in Beplin dismissed |as a “tery aimed at getting | the United States into the present Neminee Approves of Aid | war, the British announcement that | |a refugee ship has been torpedoed ' Amer. legibn Convenfion Is In S_ession \Big Conclave Held in Bos-| | fon-President's De- claration Heard BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 23.—Amid patriotic fanfare, the delegates to the twenty-second annual conven= tion of the American Legion today heard a declaration from' President Roosevelt that this nation must pro- | | | | | ‘The action fellowed the requmt' to Britain Also Com- headlines, ef “Murder, Hitler, Guilt.” | tect “our American way of life PLANE RAID IS RESUMED Air Attack Confinues Over Capital-Fires Spread Widening Ruin CENSORSHIP HIDES EXTENT OF DAMAGE German Formations Scat- tered, Claims News Association - BULLETIN—LONDON, 3ept. 23.—Londoners, good naturedly and from force of habit, re- turned to the air raid shelters again tonight as the presence or approach of German bombers was signalled shortly after sun- set. Londoners thus faced .the 17th successive night of air as- saults, (By Associated Press) Hitler's High Command resumed “retaliatory” raids on London, full strength, late last night as planes hourly shuttled back and forth across the English cw‘::lk small | groups and single raiders, Show - Capital City. The ralds are in ex- | change for raids the Royal Air Force i« making on Germany and occupied German areas. Fires were set and are spreading new ruin in the mid-city section and then with the arrival of day- light today, the Germans shifted to mass tactics, sending over four great waves of bombers and fight- ers to strike London from three di= rections, over Dover's “Hell's Cor- ner,” the Essex coast and Thames estuary. Bombs this morning fell in the western section of London. Rigid censorship restrictions blacked out the details of the morn- ing raids today but the authorita- tive British Newspaper Association said anti-aircraft guns and. RAP fighter patrols scattered the Ger- man formation and drove most of them back in disorder across the Channel. Five Nazi planes are reported to have been shot down. NAZI LAND BOMBED LONDON, Sept. 23.—In a series of daylight raids Sunday the Royal Air force bombed the Nazi-held Netherlands forts of Flushing, Ro-t terdam and Tereuzen, and on the Belgian coast the ports of Ostend and Antwerp. The British communique said that barges and light draft vessels in these ports had been bombed as well as the defenses and harbor instal- | not able to furnish the service needed by the Coast Guard. —— - —— ito 48 Governors to organize the; ‘drau system of their respective |states and recommend to him im- | Nazi officials denied a German U- | |bont or plane sunk any such ves-| By Japanese against any form of aggression that | may endanger it.” lations. Aircraft of the British coast- al units are reported to have suec. merce Help BRITISH FIREON FRENCH West African Port of Dakar to Be Taken with de Gaulle Aiding VICHY, France, Sept. 23.—British warships began firing on Dakar, French West African port today after General de Gaulle, leader of Frenchmen still fighting for Britain, gave the order aboard the British flazship. It was announced officially to- night that firing began at 2:15 this afternoon after Pierre Boisson, Gov- ernor General of French West Africa refused De Gaulle’s order to sur- render the colony. The announcecent said the pres- ence of British troops aboard the attacking warships 'indicated the British planned to send out a land- ing force to try to wrest the colony from France. J Fierce French Resistance mediately persons to be namad as State Directors of the selective sys- sels and dclared that “if such a ship SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.*Sept. 23.| given to all Nations of the blockade had been sunk, due notice had been Anna Maris Bennett, (top), 18, of | Lowell, Arizona, represented the Copper State at the beauty pa- geant at Altantic City early this month, Marie Besser, (bottom), of Baltimore, represented Maryland. As shapely as they are, neither won the title of “Miss America.” TAKU UNLOADS HERE SUNDAY | The steamer Taku of the Alaska ‘Transportation' Company came in from Seattle early Sunday morning and spent several hours unloading on the channel before saiiing for Sitka. ‘The vessel will be back through | Juneau southbound tomorrow night. - et VACATION OVER Peggy. D. McLeod, Deputy Clerk of the District Court, returned to work today after a month’s vacation on Lemesurier Island as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Tbach. [Chlnn Sunday night, two hours be- Surprises Troops- Fighting Stalled LONDON, Sept. 23. — A Reuters dispatch from Shanghai, quoting a! Haiphong message, sald the Japa- nese troops invaded French Indo-| | | | | fore the expiration of the ultima- turh to that Colony demanding mil- itary rights for Japan. Fierce Prench resistance was met and at midnight, two hours after the Japanese advarged, fighting ceased, but was resumed at dawn., The Japanese were surprised at the| resistance and indications are they | were not prepared for any such reception. STATUS QUO UPSET WAHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Secre-| tary of State Cordell Hull declared that the status quo of French Indo- China, being upset through duress once again, voiced disapproval of the United States at the invasion of the colony by the Japanese. Secretary Hull read a formal statement at a conference With newsmen regarding the entrance of the Japanese military forces of the French far eastern colony but would not discuss what measures might be taken by the American Government as the result of Japan's step in its southward drive. " ¢ 4. tem, and members of the local clas- | sification selecting boards, HALIBUY SALES HEAVY, SEATTLE SEATTLE, Sept. 23.—The follow- ing halibut vessels scld their cargoes here today: Prom the Western banks: Electra, 44,000, 11% and 11 ' cents a pound; | terdependent and interrelated. Venture, 42,000, 11'4 and 11; Re-| “We are a commercial people and public, 35,000, 11% and 11; Argo, we must therefore build up the 25,000, Bergen, 29,000, both 11% and |commerce of the world. We are a 11; Arthur H., 40,000, 11% and 11%; (peaceful people, and we must there- Antler, 16,000, 11% straight. | fore strengthen other peoples, demo- PFrom the local banks: Lincoin,|Cratic peoples, by our economic sup- | 1,000 halibut, 1,000 sable, 13 straight [port.” - | and 5; Mariner, 18,000 sable, 4%/ Lebancn, 1,000 halibut and 9,000/ Aid to Britain sable, 12% and 4%; Normandy, 2,000| Mr. Willkie called for continued halibut, 22,000 sable, 11 and 10 and aid to Britain, which he called our |first line of defense and our only | remaining friend. He advocated eco- nomic assistance to China and the —Last Saturday night, Wendell L.| Willkie outlined a policy of active economic assistance to democracies abroad, both in war time and in peace, as essential to the defense of democracy in America. | Mr. Willkie said that it is the duty of a President of the United States to preserve democracy at home and encourage it abroad, and | “one of these objectives cannot bei raccomplished without the other be- | cause the democratic world is in-| | | | | OTHER PRICES PRINCE RUPERT, Sept. 23. around Great Britain.” Burvivors however, plainly showed that there was a tragedy. The refugee ship was bound to Canada. Survivors told of the children sing- ing lustily, “Roll Out the Barrel and | We'll Have a Barrel of Fun” as the ship went down in the darkness as the storm raged. Most of the child victims were from London's bomb-shattered East End slums. U.S. Shows Small Gain Fifty-six thousand peunds of hali- but landed here today brought 11.80 to 12 and 9 cents a pound. MRS. JOHN AHLERS IS ON NORTH SEA Returning from a business trip to Scattle, Mrs. John Ahlers of Rice and Ahlers, is on the steamer North Sea. creation of new air bases in the Pacific to protect American inter-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—Popu- | ests. lation of the United States as of Looking toward the long range fu- | April first, is 131409,031, a gain of ture, Mr. Willkic made clear that 8634835 residents in ten years, ac-| he soes the promotion of foreign | cording to a Bureau of Census re-| trade by what he termed the wise | Port. use of credits and economic agree- The bureau computed the increase 1- st RR as seven percent, the smallest in } (Céntinued on Page Five) any decade of American history. ) National Commander Kelly read the message, J. Edgar Hoover, head of the Fed- eral Bureau of Investigation, asserted that various foreign powers “with | premeditation have been sending their agents to America to embark on a recruitment campaign enlist- ing disloyal malconten! 2DEAD, 11 " INJURED N EXPLOSION DOVER, N. J., Sept. 23. — Two | persons were killed and eleven were | slightly injured in an explosion of the United States Army's Picatianny |arsenal, the second fatal munitions | blast in the Dover area within two weeks, The other explosion was in the smokeless powder line of the Ken- vil Plant of the Hercules Powder Company on September 12, which took 50 lives. | ficer at the arsenal, said the explo- sion occurred as employees were I taking apart fuses of world war shells “dangerous job at best.” Col. Buyers, Public Relations Of- | cessfully attacked a convoy of Qer man ships near Boulogne. BOMBINGS ON ENGLAND LONDON, Sept. 23.—Several per- |sons were killed and a number in- |jured in the London area when | bombs, dropped by a very high flying Nazi plane, struck in a residential district. British air authorities said that Nazi operations were smaller Sunday than in the past. The air ministry communique said that therefwere no large scale attacks although isolated aircraft crossed the southeast coast from time to time. Some of these lone raiders penetrated inland and a few reached London. Bombs were dropped in country districts and in the southeast dis- tricts of London. A number of hous- es were hit, and some damage was caused to gas and water mains. A small number of people were report- ed killed and injured. One bomber was shot down during the day. Baseball Today The following are scores of games |games played this afternoon: National League Philadelphia 6, 0; Boston 2, 8. New York 2; Brooklyn 3. Cincinnati 9; Pittsburgh 12, St. Louis 0; Chicago 10,