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THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE VOL. LV, NO. 8525. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA TUESDAY, SEPHMBIR 24, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEMCENTS 4 NAZI TROOP SHIPS SUNK BY BRITISH Gibraltar Bombed; Dakar Is New War Center FORTRESS IS UNDER ATTACKS Dense Smoke Seen Arising Indicating that Rock Bastion in Flames FRENCH WEST AFRICA SCENE NEW ASSAULT British Attempf to Land Forces - French Bat- teries in Action (By Associated Press) Unofficial reports received at | Vichv declared that 120 French war planes have bombed Great Britain’s great rock fortress of Gibraltar as France's “blow for blow” reply to the British assault on Dakar, capital of French West Africa, on the At- | lantic Subsequently, a dispatch from Lis- | bon said French planes this after- noon are bombarding Gibraltar in the heaviest attack of the war. Observers at La Linea, Spain, on the border adjoining Gibraltar, re- ported that it is estimated that 30 French war planes attacked the rock bastion in 10-minute intervals for one hour and a half and columns of black smoke are seen arising from ! Gibraltar, apparently fires set by | bombs when thev hit stores of gaso- line. Reprisals Struck Out Coincidentally, the French Naval Minister, Admiral Darlan, announc- ed that France struck out with re- | als for the siege of Dakar saying | nd, sea and air forces Africa | have already repulsed landing at- tempts at Dakar and inflicted heavy lns.ses on the aggressor by warships " (Continued on Page Five) WASHINGTON — Although the status of the Battle of Britain re- mains- difficult to estimate, diplo- | matic cables have pieced together a | general picture which can be sum- marized as follows: 1. Bad weather in the English | Channel may prevent any invasion of England by troops this year. An- other important factor is the havoc wreaked upon Nazi barges in French and Belgian harbors by Royal Air Force bombers. 2. Bad weather will not interrupt | | the bombing of England to any ap- preciable extent, and this has al- most paralyzed London, making parts of the city a near shambles. Little by little the R. A. F. has had to back up. At first British air- men were keeping German planes to their side of the Channel. Next they met the Nazis on the southern shore of England. Then they re- treated inland so that now they do not engage Nazi bombers until they are about half way between London and the sea. Here the Royal Air Force is hold- ing, but in order to do it, they have had to bring most of their planes down from the north, leaving that part of England relatively un- guarded. | So far, the Royal Air Force has not been licked. They are still doing a good job against overwhelming numbers. However, it remains a strong probability, almost a certain- ty, that if Hitler wanted to risk sac- rificing his entire air force he could knock out che R. A, F. It would be terribly costly, but he could prob- ably do it. FACTORIES VS. FACTORIES Meanwhile British bombers have been inflicting terrific punishment on Nazi docks, ships.and munitions (Continued on’ Page Four) MUCH PROMISE HELD IN BILL FOR CAA WORK Alaska Mayfit Big Sum- Juneau Airport Plan Still in Air | If the CAA airport bill, now pend- ung in Congress, goes through with lits $80,000,000 appropriation, Alaska | will see “plenty of activity,” accord- | | ing to Walter Plett, Assistant Super Plett came in on the Columbia last night and left today for inspec- tion of Ralston Island beam station and the station at Haines, expecting | to return here Thursday. A far-reaching airport program [for Alaska is planned, should the | | airport bill pass Congress, Plett in- rerred with Southeast Alaska to get | neld construction at Gustavus! (b'.rnwben} Point in Icy Straits), at | Petersburg or Wrangell, and at | Haines or Skagway. Plett said the CAA airport bill, if passed, will give the Alaska branch funds totalling “anywhere from one | to 25 million.” The matter of the Juneau airport { development is still contingent uapon “who gets there first”-—the CAA or the Army. | “The field here is certainly of |strategic importance both from a military and a commercial | point,” Plett agreed, and added that “something” might develop within the next six months. | Low power loop stations are plan- | ned for Petersburg and Haines, Plett | i said, explaining this type-of statioh | will offer fow range courses o } a beam.” | In addition, a mainland station is planned for the Juneau area, prob- ably in the vicinity of the airport, | to be known as an ultra high fre- quency circuit whereby controls of | | Ralston Island will be operated from the mainland plant. Two mainte ' nance men will be based here, one serving ashore and alternating with | the other at Ralston Island. | CAA Pilot Al Horning.came down | with Plett, but continued on tu wSeame where he hopes to take de- ‘ |livery of a rebuilt Bellanca Sky- | \rocket plane for the CAA which he | will fly north to Ketchikan and | meet Plett there. FRENCH GIVE UP TO JAPANESE IN INDO-CHINA PLOT Forces Surrender After 11| | Hours of Resistance- { Troops Disarmed BULLETIN — TOKYO, Sept. 24. — Belated advices received here indicate that fighting has | again broken out in French In- ! do-China after restistance was supposed to have ceased and French soldiers disarmed. In fact fighting has never ceased since the Japanese invasion. Several observers, it is re- | ported, declare the invasion is “purely a face-saving move on the nart of Japan.” TOKYO, Sept 24—Opposition to the invasion of French Indo-China | by the Japanese military has abruptly ended, according to of- ficial advices received from Hanoi. The end came after 11 hours of spasmodic resistance from the French garrison at Longdang, about 100 miles from Hanoi, the Capital City. Casualties occurred on both sides, | including the death of Lieut. intendent of the CAA in Alaska. i stand- | fliers may com¢. into the fields “on | |charging that the New Deal was Prosecution OfKidnaper Is Speeded A((omplicefiow Sought| in California Child Snatch Case SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Sept. 24. While the FBI sought to link | Wilhelm Muhlenbroich with the four | yoar old kidnap and murder of | Charles Mattson cf Tacoma, Wash., |San Matao authorities prexured wnpvdy prosecution of him as the kxdnap‘*r of little Marc de Tristan. Muhlenbroich is held in seclusion bv the FBI who confronted mm} ast night with Willlam Mattson, hr*fl-rr of the baducted and sl.un‘ Tacoma boy. Moanwhile Sheriff James Mec- | Grath checked the possibility that Muh'enbroich had an accomplice | Muhlenbroich admitted stealing Marc Friday. The license plates were removed frem the kidnap car which is the same one delivered last Jan- uary to a blond young foreigner who rented a post office bex at Half- moon Bay, apparently only to get the license plate, the authorities assert 8cn of Count and Countess de Tristan, baby Marc was kidneped Friday afternoon while with his | purse near his home in fashionable Hillsborough near San Francisco. The abductor was captured and the child returned to his home "Sunday afternoon. ) | | | LABORTALK BY WILLKIE | IN SEATTLE Four New Deal Sef- -ups Are Highly Praised by | GOP Nominee | SEATTLE, Sept. 24—Wendell L./ Willkie, in his first major labor speech of his campaign, asserbed‘ {here last night that he has the ut- most belief in the Wagner Labor | Act, the Wage and Hour Law, the| Sccial Security and Unemployment Relief, all New Deal set-ups but incidentally made a slip, which he did not correct, when he stated, “and I promise the laboring classes the minimum wages for maxxmum‘ hours.” The Republican nominee said no| American can contemplate the fu-| ture with an easy mind, unless he can see in the future a society will- ing and able to provide the workers with at least as much protection PICTURES — PICTURES — reaching The Empire less than 24 hours after actual occurrence, direct from the Associated Press office in San Francisco. The pictures left San Francisco by airmail at midnight Sunday and reached The Empire via Alaska Clipper at 3 o'clock Monday afiernoon, but foo late for vesterday's Empire. Here they are today, a pictorial | story of the capture of the kidnaper, and his 3-year-old victim. All Associated Press pictures in The Emplre BOY SAFE, UNHARMED HIS KIDNAP PLOT FAILED . . Wilhelm Jakob Muhlenbroich (right), alien German who entered the United States in 1925, and whom Federal agents said admitted being the abductor of 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, Jr., son of Count and Countess Mare de Tristan of Hillsborough, Cal., is shown shortly after he had been captured with the boy in his possession near River Pine, Cal. The boy was found 48 hours after he was abducted near his home by the kidnaper who demanded $100,000 ransom for his safe return but which he was unable to collect although the parents of the boy were ready to pay. as provided in the Labor Act, Wage | & and Hour Law, Social Security and | Unemployment relief. Mr. Willkie attacked the New| Deal for what he called its failure| to create jobs in private industry, eliminating the employer and grad- ually leaving the state as the only‘ 1 employer. He declared that the| only hope of making new jobs is to establish new business but the New Deal apparently is discouraging | this. | ‘Willkie declared tha: * as barmful today to start a new‘ busiuess as it is to rob a train, and‘ the risks of going to jail are about the same in both cases.” 1 MAKES CHARGES | SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 24.—Wen- | dell L. Willkie, enmuw from Senme (Conunued on Page Seven) (Cannnued on Puge Eight) TWO AMERICANS Some persons say there is a slight facial resemblance between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Wendell Lewis Willkie. AP photographs show the two men have a lot | | || incommon with each other | first in a series of paired and the rest of us. For the pictures showing what we mean, look for TWO AMERICANS on another page of today’s Empire. ‘it is about| 24 BEFRIEND KIDNAPED BOY After 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, Jr., son of Count and Countess Marc de Tristan of Hillsborough, Cal., had been freed and his abductor captured near River Pine, Cal, 48 hours after the boy had been snatched from the hands of his nurse near the family home, he was befriended by Mrs. Ann Breidenbach 1lmlfln¢u.n) and Mrs. J. E. South until Federal agents arrived, First spot pictures of the California kidnaping, Associated Press telemats, latest news picures, wirephotos. Curly-haired, 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, son of Count and Countess Marc de Tristan of Hilsborough, Cal, who was kidnaped near his home and was rescued by two lumberjacks and his abductor captured near River Pine, Cal, 48 hours later, doesn’t seem the least bit per- turbed by his experience. This picture was taken shortly after his rescue, Here they are, SAFE IN FRIENDLY ARMS nk Breidenbach, general storekeeper of the tiny El Dorade County village of River Pine is shown holding 3-year-old Marc de Tristan, Jr., son of Count and Countess Marc de Tristan of Hillsborough, Cal., who was kidnaped near his home and who was reseud and his abductor eaptured by two lumberjacks near Pine River 48 hours later” RAF DIVE BOMBERS AT WORK 'Counter Attack Is Made on Forces Intended for England’s Invasion | BLOW AFTER BLOW - STRUCK OM BERLIN Buildings Set AfireFlames f Are Beacons for | More Raids (By Associated Press) British Royal Air Force dive bomb- ers are reported to have sunk four German troopships in an attack off the French coast near Boulogne while Nazi airmen said they “ef- fectively” bombed London and the big Waterloo station on the Thames side and also the India docks. Geysers of spray as high as the | coastal cliffs shrouded the Nazl ships as five RAF Blenheim bombers dropped. the first salvo of explosives, When the air cleared, the Asso- ciated Press observer on the Dover coast, saw only one ship remaining and with the second attack of the RAF bombers the last ship dlmp~ | peared. . . . » I Tarpedo—arrymiamn E- u | raced out to the scene from Bou- [logne but quickly turned around and sped back to the harbor .ar more bombs were dropped and exs ploded near them. Invasion Countered Countering the German invasion preparations with all of its power, the British air force rapped home blow for blow in the attack on the | German ships caught out on the English Channel and carrying out the greatest raid of the war and also | leaving many German-held French coast ports in flames. Eye witnesses saw five British bombers dive in a line upon four medium-sized German troop ships approaching the Engish coast from Boulogne. The bombers apparently went out with the purpose of sink- ing the ships and did. The Channel was almost as smooth as glass, Geysers of water hid the ships from view after the first barrage of bombs. When one ship was seen |to remain afloat, a second diving attack was made and after the gey- sers and smoke settled, that ship had disappeared from view, sunk in the channel, according to observers on the British coast of Folkestone. | Berlin Attacked British sources also said attacks |on Berlin were carried out during the night by relays of British planes. Successful shots were made on railway stations at Berlin and the city’s main power station and gas works are sald by the British fliers to have been bombed and quickly roared into flames, becoming flam- ing beacons that guided the way for subsequent attacks on freight yards and station utilities. Early this morning, two more air | raid alarms were sounded in Lon- don as huge formations of German | planes warmed over the southeast | coast on England in a thrust on | London. NAZI CLAIMS BERLIN, Sept. 24.—Nazi spokes- |men said today that the Nazi air | force has dropped more than 500 | million pounds of bombs on Great Britain since August. 10. He added | that devastating damage had been | done to “military objectives” in ene | thousand separate cities. He esti- {mated that 6,000 industrial plants, including 600 in London, had been damaged or destroyed. He also | claimed that 80 per cent of all gas and electric plants in large cities | have been disabled or destroyed, that |four main railroad stations have | been destroyed and that three im- | portant subway tunnels have been caved in. Damage to grain elevators, | food stores and mills is estimated | at $600,000,000. ON TWO FRONTS | LONDON, Sept. 24—Naziplanes istaged their 1Tth consecutive raid (Continued on Fage Five)