The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 2, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIR “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” " VOL. LVL. NO. 8532. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDA Y, OCTOBER 2, 1940. PRICE TEN CENTS — MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS TIGERS WIN FIRST GAME WORLD SERIES BERLIN IS AIRRAIDED " NIGHTTIME Sixteen Other Cifies Are Strafed by Royal Air Force GREAT FIRES ARE REPORTED STARTED Terrific Explosion Is Heard for Miles - Debris Fills Air (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) British bombers turned about and “made an English Blitzkreig” on Germany, the Air Ministry an- nounces, disclosing they were driv- ing the war home to the Germans in a counter offensive in which Ber- lin and sixteen other cities and towns were blasted. “Great fires were started and ter- rific explosions were heard for miles. Debris from the bomb hit buildings was hurled sky high,” it is declarea. (Continued on Page Eight) WASHINGTON—Most tragic de- velopment in London, according to | inteliigence cables, is damage to the sewers and water supply. In a city as densely populated as London this can be more devastat- ing than the bombs themselves. There are already reports of some typhoid, though how much is not known. Also the production of airplanes | seems to have been pretty well dis- rupted. This is serious, because Hit- ler probably is not going to start the | actual transportation of troops to England until the Royal Air Force is put out of commission. It is im- portant to remember that Hitler had complete mastery of the air when he conquered France. NOTE: The President recently re- ! ceived a cable from Ambassador Joe Kennedy, containing these cryptic words: “We're catching hell over here. Joe.” | Destruction of the Kenvil, New J 'y, powder plant was a far more serious blow to national defense than anyone in high official circles wanted to admit. } It now leaves the United States | with two smokeless powder plants in | the entire country — the duPont plant at Carney’s Point, N. J., and | the Government - owned Picatinny Arsenal at Dover, N. J., not far from ' Kenvil. It produces only a very small amount of powder. | Real fact is that powder plants | are slow and cumbersome to bufld,l' requiring a series of buildings in | which the powder is gradually dried. | Two new plants are being rushed to | completion by the War Department, | but they will not be finished unul‘t next spring. | One of these is near Charlestown, | Indiana, and will be operated by the | duPonts, though built by the Gov- | ernment at a cost of $25,000,000. The | other will be at Radford, Va., and | will be operated by the Hercules | Power Company, though built by the Government at the same price. POWDER SHORTAGE i | "JOE'BUCH NAZI RAID (OMESHERE PLANES ARE ~ NEXT WEEK BEATEN BACK Grand Exalted Ruler of Elks gy Early to Arrive in Juneau ‘ Next Monday | | Morning M-| | tempts to Reach London Reported Failures | INVASION ATTEMPTS GETTING NOW REMOTE Hitler's Forces Reported| Moving fo North Africa | fo Aidvltalians (By ASSOCIATED PREESS) | Arrangements for the reception and entertainment of Grand Exalt- |ed Ruler Joseph G. Buch of the |B.P.O. Elks will be announced b Fcur swift striking waves of Ger- man war planes attempted to bomb Londen this morning but British | Spitfires chased cne formation down the Thames and intercepied and scattered the other three chargers.) The British Air Ministry assert- ed the route was complete and the| British Spitfires demonstrated an- | other surprise resistance to Nazi| planes. | Berlin states that with clear| weather the aerial assault will be greatly intensified during the day.’ The British Air Ministry issued a statcment that between midnight| L [«] | construction of fighting ships for B | | | JOSEPH C. BUCH and today noon eight Nazi planes had been shot down without the | less of one defense fighter. | ASSIGNED Io Invasicn Danger Wanes As the war passed the thirteenth menth, the danger of a Nazi at- | committee chairmen at tonight's tempted invasion of England appar- | { | lodge meeting. {ently is becoming more and more | Buch and Col. William H. Kelly, remote. Chairman of the Lodge Activities| Locndon military circles said there | Committee, will arrive in Juneau is ncw “no reason to doubt” that | |on the Alaska Clipper next Mon- Hitlcr's High Command has taken !'day and remain until Friday. {over the direction of the Italian op-\ oman ress Other Alaska Lodges are making | erations in North Africa which is | arrangements to send delegations aimed at breaking Great Britain's | here to meet the Grand Exalted hold on the Mediterranean. Ruler, who will not visit any other Germany Aids Italy ea s ver Lodges in the Territory. Peters-| These circles said also that in ail burg has sent word a delegation probability, German troops are be-| of four officers will be present ing moved into Italy to be used as |- Re(enl pad here. Skagway has authorized Past|reinforcements for the Italian rcrc-j | Exalted Ruler V. W. Mulvihill to|es in the North African campaign. | oo President Roosevelt tours the Philadelphia 2400 MORE TROOPS ARE {he is Chairman-Director of represent that Lodge in welcoming Buch. Joseph G. Buch, of Trenton, newly-elected Grand Exalted Ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, is known through- out Elkdom and also in every state in the Union for his work among crippled children. “Joe” Buch as he i; familiarly known, has had a coiorful career and no matter how many extra jobs he takes on still retains his old connections. At the preseut time the (Continued on Page Eihc: SOVIET TROOPS " MASSED One Million Russians Re- ported Concentrated in Balfic States S$TOCKHOLM, Oct. 2.—Neutral diplomats in Stockholm report that Russia has massed one million troops in the Baltic States. These diplomats estimate also that Germany has concentrated possibly 350,000 troops in Norway. | Here the Nazis are said to be train- It is also hinted that the Musso-| “;i:&".!{igh Command is not “up toApparen“yfl'ing '0 Keep . United States Out of | Egypt appears to be the next land !for a major battlefield. | The Nazi legions are joining the‘ "A iy Italian forces in an attempt to crush the British resistance by spring,| ggressmn then turn for the final assault on gt t Great Britain itself. | ROME, Oct. 2—The Italians have Invasion Weather Poor | “no reason to suppose the spirit of Invagion weather today was poor | ASSression” exists as high seas are reported running‘smtes policy which would cause in the Straits of Dover and the | her to go to war, it was declared section is lashed by a cold northwest today by Stefani, official Italian wind. |news agency. | r ing more The agency, which always reflects [ bR i e 204 ihe views of the Fascist Govern- | ment, issued comment as to what |1t termed an answer to American | newspapers which it is claimed are | | calling Japan’s alliance with Ger- | {many and Italy a threat against | which the United States would re- act. ——,e - TURNBACK |5 745 70 B " INVADERS PLACED ONTRIAL | BY FRENCH COURT ‘Continued an P;ze Eight) 'Nazi Planes Do Litfle Dam- - age in Atfacks on {Former Minister of Educa- ; London Today | ftion fo Be Charged ‘ T 1 with Desertion | VICHY, France, Oct. 2. — The | French government announces that the former Minister of Education, | Jean Zay, will be brought to trial Friday before the Military Court at LONDON, Oct. 2—Squadron after ksquudron of Nazi warplanes flew to lattack London today, but British | fighters gave them battle and are |officially credited with turning | back each succeeding wave. The British Air Ministry an- in the United | How 5ei1;ilou: is u;h;y md::e :i:t“x:; ing men and horses in tactics| tion was illustral {which might be used for an in- one day after the New Jersey eX-|ygqion of Britain. : pmsxeo:, the Kx:‘?m‘m’,‘;‘:‘ Concentration of these heavy “speed-up” lef forces in and around Scandinavia, and Hercules, whereby they are ord- | ;4 o qiq does not necessarily mean| ered to increase powder "“’d"‘nnn;unmlnem developments on the from 200,000 pounds & day t0 300.000 ;0 thery front, but should Russia | pounds a day in the m‘“’fw‘:ol‘;;"" |invade Finland again, Germany is andlmmmm'mf;’nd 2 expected to help the Pinns with'a | day in the Chatlestown, Ind., PIant. | iycople number of volumteers' and large quantities of material, - I nounced all attacks were “intercept- ed and broken up by our fighters.” The communique acknowledged, however, that a few German planes managed to penetrate London’s de- fenses and drop bombs, inflicting some fatalities. Five air raid warnings from dawn to dusk kept London in an almost continuous state of alarm. ‘The Air Ministry said nine Ger- man ‘planes were downed. | Clermont Ferrand to face charges |of desertion from' the army. Zay fled to Morocco with former Premier Daladier and former In- terior Minister Mandel. | nounced the arrest of President Ro- jland of the Barristers’ Association of Casablanca, French Morocco. |Roland was charged:with insulting Premier Petain, He will be tried by a Military Court, ‘ Meanwhile the government nn-} I The President Checks Up On Naval Construction o Phonephoto Navy Yard to see for himself progress being made on the the navy. He saw the keel of the 45,000-ton battleship New Jersey and the almost-completed 35,000-ton Washington. With the President are John B. Keely, Philade}phil Démo- sratic chairman appointed supervisor of physical instruction for draftees, and (facing Presidentin uni- form) Admiral A. E. Watson, Commandnntyf» the 4th Naval District. 15 ELECTED COMMANDER OF AMERICAN LEGION i ANCHORAGE: ARE INCLUDED WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — The| United States Army has assigned | one squadron of pursuit planesand one squadron of medium bombers to Anchorage, Alaska. Altogether 2,400 | troopers and 38 planes are involved | and they will leave their present posts as soon as shelters and fa-| cilities are ready at Anchorage.| With the previously assigned troops, | the Army’s personnel at Anchor-| age will total 3,600 officers and| men. | The urits assigned today are as | follows: { Eighteenth Pursuit Squadron of | 20 planes frcm Hamilton Field. | Seventy-Third Squadron of| Bombers, 18 planes from McChord | Field. [ group, | Twenty-Third Air Base less certain detachments, frow| fere is Milo J. Warner, attorney | March Field. of Toledo, Ohio, who was elected Cemmander of the American Le- gion at the convention held in Boston. * Three Hundred and Forty-Sixth | Aviation Ordnance Company from | Lowry Field. | Fifty-Fifth Signal Maintenance| Company from Hamilton Field. AY i T T Eighteenth Signal Platoon from | £an Francisco. ‘HAw‘" wlll Two Hundred and Fifty-Seventh | | Quartermster Company from March | SIG" 0(] 26 | Field. | . | One Battalion, Eighty-First Field | Artillery composite group from Fort | FOR SOlDIERS Lewis with .75 mm. guns and .155| { mm. guns, | b, 25000 2 i ey ‘Alaska and Puerfo Rico Col. L. Ayres " Will Get Dates Set s ‘ Soon Says FDR | | i3 Is Re(a"ed| WASHINGTON, Oct. 2. — The | | President has set October 26 as the i | day of registration for armed forc- AR (s in Hawail. CLEVEVLAND, Ohio, Oct. 2, —!| The President said similar proc- | Col. Leonard Ayres of this vy, Jamations will be issued soon rela- | chief statisticlan of the American tive to Alaska and Puerto Rico. | Expeditionary Forces, has been re- _———— — called to active service in Wash- | inglon as chief statistician of the Ban on Japanese | War Department. . | e, — | | Now Being Urged, More Men Called | vancouver Coundil | ' . —_— | Vancouver City Council has urged | VANCOUVER, B. C. Oct. 2 the Federal government to ban | Orders have .been mailed to 2,000|all Japanese immigration. The British Columbia men between lecouncfl held that Japan's joining and 22 years of age, directing them!'the Rome-Berlin Axis places her to report for compulsory mlutary}m the position of an enemy to itmlnlna October 9, the British Empire, - BOXSCORE DETROIT AB R | Bartell, ss. | McCosky, cf. Gehringer, 2b. Greenberg, If. | York, 1b. Campbell, rf. | Higgins, 3b. Sullivan, c. Newsom, p. ) cvmwmowooy cccococcocomib SCoo~oomoococomE | | Total CINCINNATI Werber, 3b, M. McCormick, cf. Goodman, rf. F. McCormick, 1b. Ripple, 1f. Wilson, c. Joost, 2b. Myers, ss. Derringer, *Riggs, c. | tBaker, c. tMoore, p. §Craft, p. fRiddle, p. > w CoOMCOoOMmMHOROONY - | CHNRHOAANRW BB RS | BWAWRG RS p. ccocmocomormonmnEE | corvwRomn T ™ cccuwcconovans~BN| ~sonanannd cococococcoococo~omT | Total 34 2 | *—Riggs batted for Wilson in 7th. t—Baker batted for Riggs in 8th. {—Moore replaced Derringer in 2nd. §Craft for Moore in 8th. fRiddle for Craft in 8th. SUMMARY | Bases on balls: Newsom 1, Der- ringer 1, Moore 4; double plays, Tig- |gers 1 — Higgins to Gehringer to | York, Reds 1—Wilson to Joost; two- base hits: M. McCormick 1, Good- iman 1, Werber_1; .three-base hits: York, 1; home runs: Campbell, 1; |struck out: by Derringer 1, Moore 7, Riddle 2,'Newsom.4; five hits, five runs off -Derringer in 1 1/3 in~ nings; five hits, two runs off Moore in 6 2/3 innings; mno. hifs, no runs off Riddle in 1 inning; eight hits, two runs off Newsom in nine in- | nings; stolen bases, none; sacrifice | hit; Campbell 1. Batteries: Tigers — Newsom and Sullivan; Reds — Derringer, Moore, Riddle and Wilson, Baker. Umpires: At plate, Bill Klem; first | base, Emmet Ormsby; second base, |Lee Ballanfant; third base, Steve Basil, " PLAY BY PLAY | | FIRST INNING | TIGERS — Bartell fanned after count two and two. McCosky flied ‘w Ripple in short left. Gehringer out, Derringer to F. McCormick. No runs, no hits, no errors, none |left on base. | REDS—Werber out on first pitch, IHiggings to York. M. McCormick (lined out a oduble over York's head which rolled against the railing along the right field foul line. Good- man out, Higgins to York, McCor- | mick holding second base, McClosky leaped with his back almost against the wall for a spectacular catch of ;l". MCormick’s line fly to center. i No runs, one hit, no errors, one | left on base. | SECOND INNING | | TIGERS — Greenberg singled to left. York singled to short right center; Goodman’s throw holding Greenberg on second base. Camp- | bell sacrificed; bunted down the third base line. He was safe when ’Werber's throw puled F. McCormick | off the bag, filling the bases. Higgins | singled to center scoring Greenberg iand York and sending Campbell to |second. Sullivan walked, again fill- {ing the bases. Newsom grounded | jout to F. McCormick who threw to | | Wilson, forcing Camphell and leav- |ing the bases filled. Bartell singled past Derringer’s head into center | field, scoring Higgins and Sullivan | and putting Newsome on second | base. McCosky singled to deep left i field, scoring Newsome and sending Bartell to second. Whitey Moore relieved Derringer on the Reds' mound. Moore trapped Bartell off second base but Myers dropped the ball for an error as Bartell slid back safe. Gehringer popped out to Wer- ber. Greenberg out, Werber to F. McCormick, Five runs, five hits, two errors, two left on bases. REDS—Ripple out, Gehringer to York. Wilson flied out to Green- berg. Joost lined a single to right field. Myers forced Joost, Gehringer to Bartell. | 1 No runs, one hit, no errors, one left on base. | THIRD INNING TIGERS—York fanned. Campbell | singled to center fleld. Higgins,| fanned and Campbell was doubled | trying to steal second, . Wilson to (Continued on Page Eight) English Blitzkreig Made On German Land REDS DOWN TO DEFEAT; 7-2 SCORE Buck Newsgnr Goes Route on Mound-Derringer Chased to Showers SECOND INNING IS FATAL TO CINCINNATI One Home MMade Dur- ing Game - Weather Great for Baseball SHORT SCORE R H E Tigers 7 10 1 Reds i 2 8 3 SCORE BY INMINGS Tigers 123456789 TL Runs 050020000— 7 Hits .05112001 010 Errors 000010000— 1 Reds 123456789 TIL Runs . 000100010— 2 Hits 110210021~ 8 Errors . 020000010~ 3 NEXT GAME—Phayed at Cin cinnati tomorrow. CROSLEY FIELD, CINCINNATI, Oct. 2. — The Detroit Tigers, the American League champions, found their bating power behind the tight pitching of Buck Newsom to defeat the Cincinnati Reds, champions of the National League, 7 to 2, this afternoon in the first game of the World Series and played before 31,- 973 fans. ‘Two big right handers, Buck New- som and Paul Derringer squared off on the pitching mound but the for- mer went the route and the latter was chased to the showers in the second inning. The story is told in the play by play report. The game was a good one throughout, even with that fatal Red second inning when Whitey Moore relieved Derringer. There were errors but there were also double plays and several sen- sational catches. There was' just one home run made during the game, by Campbell of the Tigers, with one man on base. Strikeouts were numerous during the game and the sweltering fans got worth of their money. ‘The Tigers put the game on ice in that second inning with a five-run * barrage on Derringer and then add- ad two more runs in the fifth when Bruce Campbell banged out that homer into the right field bleachers to score behind Rudy York who had tripled. Newsom kept his hits well scat- terde except in the fourth when Goodman donbled and came home on Ripple’s single and in the eighth when Werber doubled and scored on Goodman’s one-baser. The weather was almost perfect for the opening game of the world series, with a bright sun and lazy | west wind. The tempearture was 72 degrees. Several hours before the game time the right field bleachers were filled presaging a capacity crowd of 33,000. Holders of reserve seats were & bit slow in arriving thereby missing Comedian Al Schacha's baton swinging act as he led the band, Buck Newsom, starter on the mound for the Detriot Tigers, has won 14 games in one stretch dur- ing the season and wound up with a record of 21 victories and five de- feats. Paul Derringer, who started for the Reds, had won 20 wins during the 1940 season and 12 losses. DR. COUNCIL TO BE CHAMBER SPEAKER Dr. W. W. Council will speak at tomorrow’s Juneau Chamber of | Commerce luncheon on public health problems connected with the na- tional defense drive.