The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 3, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE - “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVI., NO. 8533. JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS = —— REDS WIN SECOND WORLD SERIES GAME Fire Of Anti-Aircraft Is Shaking London NAZI AR FLEET IS INVISIBLE Cabbies Refuse fo Run | Hacks for First Time in Rain of Debris LONDON, Oct. 3. — Anti-aircraft | berrages, so heavy as to tie up trat- fic, marked a late afternoon raid| on London today by unseen Ger- man raiders. | Scme British quarters suggesled‘l the Nazi offensive may have turned to “blind” high altitude bombard- ment. i Anti-aircraft shell fragments fell like hail as the Nazi raiders thrust * at the capital through a thick haze on their, fourth visit of the day, showering bombs on northwest and southeast sections of the city. Anti-aircraft guns sent up con- stant streams of exploding steel. Cabbies who in the past plied their trade in the worst barrages, refused to stir this evening, either from out- Japanese troops clashed with sol- diers of the French garriscn at Dong Dang (arrow) as Japan in- vaded French Indo-China, There were reports that Thailand, under invasion, but Tokyo described the battle as an “incident” for which the French were responsible and announced the occupation would continue. Japan declared ‘France had agreed to gjve her three air bases in Indo-China and the right to send in 6,000 troops to man them. China, imperiled on ‘a new front, manned her threatened border. Bome s i DOUGLAS | £ GETS BIG ge Twoi (Continued-on Cthe ‘ ) 5 Drew Pearsos ed Robert S.Alles WASHINGTON.—How difficult it‘ is for the Government to build up a merchant marine reserve is War Department Awards jllustrated by the inside story of the Maritime Commission’s efforts| $141000,000 fo West to get two large luxury liners built - Coast Plane Bui'ders for trans-Pacific service. As early as two years ago the ST Maritime Commissiop ~ conceived | the idea of building two passenger| Department has awarded a $141,000- s with smoke-stacks on the 000 ccntract for warplanes to the side, so they could be converte\'l"Douglas Aircraft Company of Santa into airplane carriers at a mo- Monica, California. | ment's notice. The idea was wel-| Secretary of War Stimson said ve! comed by the Navy, but the Mari-|the award completed the Army’s con- | time Commission couldn’t get single American shipping yard to of all typ: bid on the vessels. | 5 All of them were busy with na-| val orders, and also they didn't| like the fact the Maritime Com-| mission worked out its own de-| signs. So they turned a cold| shoulder. | Meanwhile, the Japanese heard, about the Maritime Commission’s cfforts to get bids, and last month | they launched two passenger liners| also with smoke-stacks on the side, | convertible into airplane carriers.| In other words, they were two years| ahead of the United States. And only on September 10—two years after the first effort was made—did the Maritime Commis- . sion get a bid from an American Eas' Asla Peoples chipyard. This came from the Todd Shipbuilding Company of Seattle, TOKYO, Oct. 3—The newspaper and the proposed price is $32,000,- Nichy Nichy said today that the 000, compared with only $15,000.- fentry of any new power into the Eu- 000 paid for building the liner ropean war will automatically draw America. Japan into the conflict. The convertible airplane carriers| The newspaper obviously referred would be a little larger than thelto the United States although it America, but not enough to double|mentioned no names. the price. So the Maritime Com- ., - Nichy Nichy Lauds Pad; | U.S:V_Iamed§ Japanese Set Selves Up as| "Big Brothers” for | a lower price. pan, Nichy Nichy said that Japan NOTE—You can write it down has achieved some security through as certain that the Government|the pact and also has increased heri‘ He said a “tendency to exploit,”| will build more navy yards of its;responslhflities, own in the not too distant future.| |Germany and Italy have recognized ANTI IN-LAWS |Japan as the protector of the East Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., third|Asiatic people and “Japan must act son of the President, is married to|8s & big brother for the people of the former Ethel duPont, but that|the East Asia area.” has had no effect on the politics ERETI, o L RS of his millionaire in-laws. mey‘\( "B DeMiIkl edi b. S are most emphatically not for the Japanese pressure, might join in the | %60 (ONTRACT WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—The War: African campaign which has forced a|tracting for more than 18,500 p]ancs} In a discussion of the three, power | mission will attempt to negotiate|treaty of Germany, Italy and Ja-| Alaska, I The newspaper pointed ou;. hat | from the gold rush days when peo- reelection of the President. Young Franklin ascertained this directly| To En'er "ew HeM from his mother-in-law. Franklin Jr. is working at Dem- | ocratic headquarters this fall be- | HOLLPWOOD, Cal, Oct. 3, | Veteran fim producer Cecil De- fore entering a New York law firm, Mille announces he is going to SINGAPORE | ~ INDANGER | FROM JAPS | Mussolini’s AN;wspa per| ' Also Warns United States | Against Infervention ROME, Oct. 3.—Premicr Benito| | Musselint’s newspaper I1 Pepolo d'- | | talia said Japan is preparing to | attack Singapore, Great Britain’s great Far Eastern fortress in the avent Great Britain obstructs Ja- | pan’s policy in the Orient, or the| United States enters into war. | | Mario Appelius, the newspaper’s | leading commentatcr, calling Sing-| apere the pivot of British positions | in the East Asia area, declares that | “Japan, secking to place itself in| the best possible position strategi- | | cally szainst Singapore, is donig so| in anticipation of being forced by | English hostilities or intervention !of new allies of England te prevent East Asia expansion and prevent Singaper», the great pillar, from teing added to the Japanese circuit.” U. S. Warned Appclius warned the United States n the same commentation that the great American nation will face he | ccmbined forces of German, Ital-| /o0 nd Japanese empires, 20,000,000 | | soldiers and 2,000,000 tons of war-| ships, and from 25,000 to 30,000 | pianes as well as their “unbeatable | | strategic positicns,” if there is any | | intervention. Appelius also writes: “Spain and | Russia have been informed in a| | special manner of the resclution the Nazis have made clear that only | the will of the Axis will be recog-| nized and this will prevent greater | jenlargements of the present cen-| | flict.” | believed to mean that must not make any move nst Germany, Italy or Japan or e sides with Great Britain. | | The commentater makes no ref- | erence to lack of military general- | ship on the part of Italy in the This is | Ru | Hitler to send his generals and forc- ~s to lead in the war movements in Africa, owing to Italy’s "fall down.” e HIGH, SAYS ~ ARMYCHIEF General Buckner Predicls. Lower Cost of Living in Alaska. Lowering of the cost of living in Alaska will be one of the results | of national defense expansion in | the Territory, Brigadier General Simon B. Buckner, Commander of Alaska defense forces, predioted to- |day in a talk before the Juneau | Chamber of Commerce. | The increased volume of trade| and transportation as 'a conse-| ‘quence of population gains should lower prices and shipping costs in| Alaska, he said. “Prices are high everywhere in believe unnecessarily 1high," the General declared. Gold Rush Is Over which he described as a holdover| | ple came north not as Alaskans but to get as much as they could| in a short time to take out with/ them is a great detriment to Al- aska, | The General cautioned Alaska | businessmen not to let the new| pecple who are bound to come to Alaska get in the habit of buying from other than local merchants. He said these people know the| prices Outside and it is only na-| tural for them to send Outside for ‘purchases when they find the things 3 & % WARCOMESTOTHEASSOCIATED PRESS S DOOR Glare of fire caused by an aerial bomb lights up the London office building of the Associated Press. The bomb fell at the frent door during a German air rail. The staff set up temporary headquarters else- where, but returned after three and a half hours, The bomb demolished the building opposite, shattered windows in AP building and littered reception hall with debris. Objects at left are sandbags. This picture was cabied frem London, BOMB CRATER NEAR ASSOCIATED PRESS OFFICE A bomb that fell at the door of the London headquarters cf the Associated Press (left) during a German air raid demclished a building opposite and left this big crater. This pictured was cabled from London, First Peacefime Draft FDR PLANS LawWillStandForthin = TALK OVER Record of “Lame Duck” 3 HOOKUPS he Democratic Senaior from Ne- WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. -- The who last April lost his white House announced toaay the WASHINGTON, Oct. 3. — Tl“lr lame ducks ordinarily limp o braska, __ |Gehringer singled to right field, of Congress as inconspicuously s possible. Perhaps being a little 4ime ashamed- for having drawn blanks Goy. R. L. Cochran, is goin; . | " 5 out on the political wheel of fortune, j, 5 blaze of activity !hngb e:umes pce 1o e ey hh” one- ' pregident will deliver a national de- | e frony, UNee e s speech from a special train| iat Dayton, Ohio, October 12. Stephen Early, the President’s pri- | Reds, 1-—Werber to Joost to F. Mc- | |Cormick; two base hits: Higgins, | “Grcunberg, Walters, Werber; home | {runs: Ripple; hits off Rowe 8 in 3 |1/3 innines for five runs; off Gor- | sica, 1 hit in 5 2/3 innings, no runs; | {off Walters, three hits, fhree runs, |nine innings. Umpires: Ormsby, Bullanfant, Basil and Klem. | - PLAYBYPLAY | | FIRST INNING | TIGERS—Walters first pitch was |wild past Wilson. Later he walked | | Bartell on five pitches. Walters also | |walked McCosky on five pitches. ‘scoring Bartell and sending Mc- Cosky to third base. Greenberg hit into a double play, Werber to Joost to F. McCormick, scoring McCosky. | | York fanned. : | Two runs, one hit, no errors; none | left on base. | REDS — Werber out, Bartell to| York. M. McCormick fanned. Good- | DETROIT g /\l"l RHPOAE 5 Bartell, ss. 310320 | B I G A ( E o N McCosky, cf 220400} Gehringer, 2b. & 019 88 Greenberg, If 21009 York, 1b. 4.0 010 0 0 Campbell, rf. 400200 MOUNDTODAY Higgins, 3b. 8071 2 kL0 Tebbelts, c. 8 00201 - - i ve, 18 % . |Gomin 5.2 0 0 o o o| Allows Defroit Only Three e ot 2 3 smw 1| Hitsand Goes Entire } :f;(i::::\rd «Rowe in the fourth Rou'e In Box | cINCINNATI ABRHPOAE| P e | rber, 2 3 1 2 4 | M. Mecomick, 4 1 0 3 o o SCHOOLBOY ROWE IS S e CHASED TO SHOWERS Ripple, If. 401300 RECA Y £ (N 4 0 2 4 0!lys . [Joost, 35 i 0122 o Tiger Hurler Allows Eight Myt S. 2013 3% . . ;\v}‘xilxm ,%)7, A AR G618 u} Hits which Count for | Totais .8 4 Fatio) Five Runs i ball: M:lARRY 1, by Wal- | Sy Bas £H owe 1, by - | et /Aol AL by Tl s o SHORT SCORE |sica 1, Walters 3; double pla; Today's Game R H E TIGERS 3 3 1 REDS 5 9 o (OMPOSITE SCORE (Two Games) R H E TIGERS 10 13 2 REDS . T n 3 TIGERS 123456789 TL Runs - 200001000— 3 Hits 100011000~ 3 Errors 01000000 *— 1 REDS 123456789 TL Runs 02210000*— 5 Hits 04220001 /— 9 Errors 000000000— 0 NEXT GAMEgPlayed at De- troit tomorrow. CROSLEY FIBBD, CINCINNATI, man out, Gehringer to York. | No runs, no hits, no errors; none | |left on base. | | Oct.. 3.—Schoolboy Rowe, towering ‘jght hander, beaten only three | times during the regular 1940 base- ball season, faced Bucky Walters on the hill in the second game of | the 1940 World Se this after- | SECOND INNING | | TIGERS—Campbell fouled out to | | Werber. Higgins out, Myers to F.| McCormick. Tebbetts popped out to | Myers. No runs, no hits, no errors; |left on base. ‘i REDS—F. McCormick singled to | left field. Ripple popped out to| none | | |” | Bartell. Wilson singled to short right | | field, McCormick going to second. | | Joost singled to center field, scoring |F. McCormick and sending Wilsnni {to seond base. Myers singled be- | |tween Higgins and Bartell, scoring | | Wilson and sending Joost to second |base. The crowd was yelling madly. | | Tebbetts tried to catch Joost off s lond base and threw the ball into center field, Joost racing to third and Myers to second. Walters flied jout to McCosky in short center (field. A great throw kept Joost at |third base. | Cormick popped out to Bartell. Two runs, four hits, one error; |three left on bases. THIRD INNING | TIGERS—Rowe fanned. Bartell flied out to M. McCormick. Mc- Cosky lined out to M. McCormick. No runs, no hits, no errors; none left on base. | REDS—Goodman dragged a bunt down to first base. York’s throw to Rowe was too late and went for |a hit. F. McCormick lined to Mc- Cosky, Goodman holding first base. | Ripple hit the first pitch over the | right field fence, 370 feet from the | plate, scoring Goodman ahead of him. The bleacherites sent up a| shower of missles in the air. Wilson | popped out to Bartell. "Joost flied | out to Campbell. Two+runs, two hits, no errors; none left on base. FOURTH INNING TIGERS—Gehringer out, Walters to F. McCormick. Greenberg walk- {ed. York popped out to Myers. | campbell lined out to M. McCar- mick. No runs, no hits, no errors; one |left on base. REDS—Myers flied out to Camp- bell. Walter doubled down the left |field foul line. Werber sliced the Werber walked, unin- | | tentionally filling the bases. M. Mc- | they usually make the period be- anything else in his busy term. and took time out to visit his! enter into the slot machine mwleim want cost more locally than wife at her parents’ summer home field. in fashionable Bar Harbor, Me. On (Continued on Page Four) The firm headéd by DeMille will the Outside price plus the cos of transportation. compete with one headed by James Roosevelt and several others. tween their re-election failure and absence from official duties. (Continued to M Two) But not so Edward R. Burke. the end of their terms one of pont quiet, sometimes one of complete (. With Senator Austin of Ver-|Vate Secretary, said the ?reslde!_lt's‘ he teamed to fight against,my"”’ address will be non political | tax bill provisien to assesg 2nd Will be carried free on three | 4 2 Inational radio networks, starting at (Conrinued on Page Six) 6 p. m. Pacific Standard Time. ball to the left field corner where it hit the fence around some tem- porary seats and bounced back into the field - past Greenberg for a noon before over 30,000 baseball fans with perfect weather, sunnier than yesterday. Schoolboy Rowe, however, was beaten, in fact he was chased to the chowers in the fourth inning and Bucky Walters emerged winner, ving the entire route. ¥ The Cincinnati Reds won the game 3 to 3, behind excellent pitching of Walters and good hitting The Cincinnati Reds evened the ries contest behind the masterful 3-hit hurling of Bucky Walters and hoolboy Rowe, Tiger ace, gave up sht hits and all five Cincinnati | runs, ore going to the showers | after three and one-third innings. | Reds Shew “Hit” Power | Walters started poorly, walking > first two men up, Bartel and skey, in the opening frame. (Continued on Page Twu) UMBRELLA ~ MAN ENDS HIS WORK Chamberlain Gives Over with Prophecy of Suc- cess for Churchill LONDON, Oct. 3.—Ailing Neville Chamberlain, former Prime Minis- ter under whom Great Britain en- tered the war, has dropped out of the Government and Winston Churchill has reshuffled the Cabinet | to give labor a more prominent role. The man whose tightly rolled um- brella became a symbol of his pre- war policy of appeasement toward | totalitarian rulers, resigned his post as a Lord President of the Council, | which post he has held since the | Cabinet fell last May after the ill- fated campaign against the Germans in Norway. p The inner war cabinef member (Continued on Page Five) (Continued on Page Seven)