The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 11, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIM _\/()L. LVI., NO. 8540. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1940. il Y PRICE TEN CENT2 SHANGHAI FOREIGN AREAS THREATENED British Warships Bombard French Ports CRISIS SEEN, FAR EAST 'INVASION’ BASE GETS SHELLING | M ONGOLIA ( | ( BRITISH AIR RAID HAMBURG FIRST RED CROSS NURSE ANS WERS ARMY CALL TR !Offi(ial German News Cherbourg Atfacked Early] This MorningFires Are Set FIRST NAVAL ACTION SINCE BIG RETREAT "“No Oppofifi;n from En- emy Fleet,” Says Brit- ish Admiralty British warships bombarded the German held “invasion” base at Cherbourg, French coast, attacking beldly in the thick dawn haze this morning and set huge fires which were visible 40 miles away. The London Admiralty reported [ [ el CHUNGKING e | Agency DNB Admits 00PS MASSED 10 ACT Situation in Japanese Con- trolled Section Most Devastation Visible | AMSTERDAM BOMBED | BY ROYAL WAR PLANES Nazis Contifi;Night, Day | Attacks on London, Other Areas (By Associated Press) More than fifty Londen districts | were hit by bombs in an all-night | raid by German planes and early this morning a series of air raid alarms were sprung as the raiders returned for an assault on the Brit- ish capital city by daylight. Miss Agnes C. Rosele, 24, became the first American Red Cross nurse to be called from the reserves to active | Murchison, adjutant of Walter no damage or casualties were sus- tained by the British sea raiders, adding “there was no naval op- | position from the enemy although | it is known enemy light naval forces | are in the Cherbourg harbor.” The Admiralty said heavy and | light forces engaged in the assault, | the first sizeable naval-action on the | English Channel since the bloody | retreat from Dunkerque last June. Nazi quarters minimized the effect : of the bombardment, asserting that only a single British cruiser “at- tempted to shell the big shipping port and it was routed by fire from the German coastal batteries. Cthe \&NG’@ Drew Pearsos and %’/‘66-?9 WASHINGTON—TH: New Deal has attracted many diverse person- alities to its orbit, from Professor Tugwell to Nelson Rockefeller but probably the most unusual is a big grizzly-bear sort of individual| named Bill Knudsen who once op- posed almost everything there was to oppose about the New Deal but who is now turning out air- planes, tanks big guns and battle- ships for national defense. Knudsen is unique from points of view: (1) his naive s\m—‘ plicity in a town which dotes on| the| rank and protocol; and (2) gradual change which has come over his polifical and social out- look. Knudsen is by no means a New Dealer, yet he is by no means the cnampion of big business that he was before coming to Washington. Compared with some other dollar- a-year men on the Natlonal De- fense Commission, Knudsen shines forth as a\crusader. That, however, comes later in the story. Fer the moment walk into the office, of Willlam Signius Knudsen in the ornate Federal Re- serve Building and find there a man built like a lumberjack, his coat slung over a 4 on his head, a pent his ham-like hand. Knudsen got into the habit of keeping his hat on in the Detroit auto factories, and he still says: “A man can think better under a hat.” DANISH EMIGRANT BOY He had moved to Detroit after operating a bicycle factory in Buf- falo; and he had moved to Buffalo after spending the first 21 years of his life in his home in Denmark. His pay in Buffalo was $1050 a week at first. After the bicycle gave way 1o the automobile, Knudsen got a job with Henry Ford, where he boosted . his salary within a .ghort time to $50,000. Then he daarreled with Yord, was snapped up by General (Continued on Page Four) ~wuied in two| United States citizens are warned Burma Road, closed at Lashio (1) Britain, will be reopened apparent » government. developed between Britain and Japan. S50 MILES to quit the Orient as a new crisis England announced that the by agreement between Japan and ly in answer to Japan's joining of xis Powers. At same time Japanese forces are reported to have land- ed on island of Liu Kung (2), off Shantung Peninsula (see inset.) Island is held by British on 10-year lease from Chiang Kai-Shek | | I | | i | | | | i | | | | Housing Is ‘ PLANES OF ~ Job Defense SaysF.D.R. iPresident Confident Peo- | ple Will Join in Defense of Homes and Jobs PITTSBURGH, Pa, Oct. 11. | President Roosevelt, referring to, public housing as a “job defense,” | the government “is working to pro- tect their jobs and homes, we can be confident that if need arises the people will whole-heartedly join in the defense of their homes and democracy.” Sitting in an open car, the Presi- dent today dedicated the hun- dred thousandth home unit of the United States Housing Authority, the $13,000,000 Terrace Village, a series of three-story apartments | for low-income families. The dedication ceremony followed a swing through industrial plants here essential to national defense. Y BAYONETS ARE | IN READINESS FOR RESISTANCE ANKARA, Oct. 11.—The Turkish radio announces tonight that if Germany moves into Rumania it foreshadows the Axis advance through the Balkans, across Tur- key and Syria to Egypt and “this road is guarded by 2,000,000 bayon- ets.” Navy and Air Force. said that as long as people know| The statement is compiled by the | ington office for the winter. He General Staff of the Turkish Army,] will continue on his way after NAZIS ROAR ONRUMANIA Swoops Made Over Buch- arest, Oil Towns, Even | British Legafion | | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Formations totaling some 150 planes, marked with both German | and Rumanian insignias roared back | and forth over Bucharest, and also| several oil towns today, and even swooped low over the British lega- tion in Bucharest where the mem- {bers of the staff are hurriedly pack- ing to flee. German aviators arrived this morning at a hotel in Bucharest di-| rectly across the avenue from the| Royal Palace where new King Mi- chael, 19, rules under pro-Nazi dictatorship. . Meanwhiie in Budapest, the of- ficial Hungarian news agency said| Hungary has asked the Berlin- Rome Axis to intervene to settle| disputes. | FERRANDINI HERE AFTER SEASON IN KODIAK DISTRICT A fairly good fishing season in Kodiak, after termination of an early strike which cut out most of the red salmon fishing, was reported by Fishery Management Agent Ralph Ferrandini, who arrived here on the steamer Alaska after spending the season in Kodiak. Perrandini will be in the Wash- spending a few days here. | Hamburg Bombarded With unusual frankness, the Ger- man News Agency DNB reports that British bombs spread “devastation visible over a radius of five-eighths of a mile and left in shambles and !ashes” two sections of the German | | port of Hamburg. The; attack was made before dawn today. Casualties are listed as three per- sons killed, 15 seriously wounded and e slightly wounded | Raid on London | German war planes, attacking | London for the 36th consecutive | nigl:t, are reported in Berlin advices | with having dropped 496,000 pounds of bombs on the British capital alone. Other Nazi raiders dropped bombs in a raking assdult over 20 | provincial areas, Thames Estuary, | through the industrial Midlands and | Liverpool where Hitler’s High Com- | mand reported big fires were left raging at dawn today when the Ger- ‘ mans took off for home bases. Amsterdam Bombed | The DNB admits that Royal Air Force bombers attacked Amsterdam early this morning, killing 18 per- sons and wounding 20. The attack was the second heavy assault by the } RAF on the Dutch city this week. - | many mor Rumanian Funds,U.S., Are_ Frozen; President Roosevelt Issues| Order-Similar Action | Is Taken by Britain WASHINGTON, Oct. 11.—Presi-| dent Roosevelt today issued ‘an| order “freezing” Rumania funds in the Urited States. The order is an extension of or- ders previously applied to funds of other nations occupied by German and Russian troops. BRITISH TAKE ACTION LONDON, Oct. 11.—The British Government today followed the ex- ample of the United States in “freezing” Rumanian credits amid signs of a break in the Anglo-Ru- manian relations following a “Drag Nach Osten” or march to the east, infiltration of German troops to the rich Balkan ofl kingdom. 10 SPEED WORK ON ARMY PLANES WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. — War Department officials disclose orders have been issued to speed produc- tion of Army war planes to the Assistant Secretary Roberts re-| quested Henry D. Arnold, Air Corps Chief, to make any changes neces-| sary in contracts to expedite the| duty in the Army Nurse Corps when she took the oath from Capt. James L. Reed Hospital at Washington, D. C. Witnessing the ceremony were 1 Monica E. Conter (second from left), an army nurse, and Miss Edith Narr (second frem right), & navy nurse. (Associated Fress Telemat re- ceived by The Empire on Alaska Clipper Thursday afternoon). | 1. S.-Japan Naval Strength ' JAPAN Foreboding EXCITEMENT GROWS OVER ASSASSINATION Japan’s Emfior Reviews Fleet - Spokesman Warns ‘Be Calm’ SHANGHAI, Oct. 11. — Despite Japanese denials, usually well in- formed sources insisted today that 14,000 Chinese soldiers of the Jap- |anese dominated Nanking Govern- ment are concentrated outside of Shanghai. Meanwhile, rumor had it that Japan plans to take over the Inter- national Settlement or the French Concession, October 18.. , Puppet regimes and. troops are said to have moved yesterday to new positions . between . Shanghai and: Woosung forts at the mouth of the Whangpoo River, about 12 miles | below Shanghali, BATTLESHIPS Ll r secret warship construction program Japan is th the United States. American marine tely 280 ships afloat, not counting As a result of her six-year ! t rapidly nearing naval parity with t imate Japan has approximal v ot iliari United States has an i bmarines and other auxiliaries, and the United P11 :?5'0 ships in commission. Chart shows how the two navies estimated compare. WAR DEPARTMENT IS AFTER VOLUNTEERS T0 ENLIST: NEW TACTICS ‘Irrom the first call due within a few weeks after registration. By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 11. — Just what the Army is up to, the Army isn't telling these days. But it Cer-\ .ppno Army issued its recent order tainly has reversed tself by BOINE yiinout explanation. The order not in for voluntary enlistments in a on)y represents an about face from big way in the face of the im-| woiq War draft theories but also pending.deatt. 2 a reversal of opinions given before The recent order making it pos-| oongressional committees during sible for young men to enlist mr\henrings on the selective service one year, and making those en-|p yhen Army officials told con- listments count on selective service| g.ocoman that voluntary enlistment quotas, is exactly opposite to Whal|yauiq not fill requirements of an the Army did in the World War.‘“my of nearly a million men. Then it suspended entirely the —ywyh.¢ has happened, however, is privilege of voluntary enlistment. | g what the men behind selective Although it’s off-the-record talk,| co.vice anticipated. Once the some Army officials already have| uipieat of a draft measure be- said that the result will be that ., e 5 reality, voluntary enlist- in many districts not a single young | hents jumped sky high. man will be called on the first| 1, New York City, police had call and possibly in some not in to be called out to keep the the first guota. would-be soldiers in line and pre- A gk Bifvey of jent their snarling traffic around will explain why” this recruiting stations, tainty. The applicants went through at CHANGE OF OPINION the figures is a cer- i | The first quota, between NO-|po rate of 100 an hour. vember and January, Is 400000\ ey york is not a typical city men. This means approximately|,, .ny means, but if every young one - fortieth of total estimated| ., gpplying for enlistment were number. of registrants from 21 10| goung to be physically, mentally 35 years old. and morally fit for service (which In other words, if one young|iney couldn't possibly be, of course) man in your neighborhood enlists, wey york City could fill the first that eliminates 40 from the. first! all states and territories, backed by | - STRESSED BY ELKS RULER Buch Also E&es Further- ance of Crippled Chil- | dren’s Program | | | | alertness, in view condition in the world, were last night urged by | Grand Exalted Ruler Joseph G. Buch at a banquet in his honor given under the auspices of Ju- neau Lodge No. 420, Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks in the Gold Room of the Baranof Hotel. Displaying a well printed Ger- man propaganda circular he had received through the mail, Mr. Buch | lalso stated that lodges of Elks in i Loyalty and of the present action of the Grand Lodge, will| |press for legislation prohibmng! |distribution of such circulars | through the mails of the United | States. He declared that the pro- | paganda fs only one of many ways | Communists are attempting to un- dermine the Government of this| nation. Mr. Buch also urged the organiz- ing of a Committee to aid crippled | children and promiséd every sup-| | port to the movement. ! Nugget Chain | The Grand Exalted Ruler, just | before the banquet came to a| close, was presented with a gold| nugget chain from Elkdom of Al- aska, the presentation speech being made by District Deputy Grand| Exalted Ruler of East Alaska, John} E. Johnson, of Ketchikan. It was brought out that ‘the visit of Mr.| Buch to Alaska was the second time in the history of the Territory | and Elkdom that a Grand Exalted| Ruler had come to the Territory. | | The banquet was well attended, every seat at the tables in the| spacious Gold Room occupied by} Elks, their ladies and visitors. It was a social session that made Elks| proud of being Elks, as one mem-| | ber declared after the affair. | Good Program As the banqueters were seated, Toastmaster R. E. Robertson an- nounced that the occasion would be | opened by everybody singing “God Bless America,” and with Ernest | Ehler leading, all arose from theué Rumors of impending forceful ac- tion against the foreign areas in this otherwise Japanese controlled city were linked with the impending opening October 17 of the Burma Road by Great Britain for supplies destined to the Central Chinese Gov-~ ernment. Japanese authorities sought to stem * exajted rumors @irculating since the United States State De- | partment suggested Thursday that the Americans leave the Orient. Excitement is accentuated by the assassination early this morning of the Chinese Puppet Mayor of the Japanese occupled Shanghai, Fu Saio En, who was called from his home. The Japanese officials are looking for the cleaver wielding assassin. Navy and Army spokesmen here denied the rumor that Japanese forces are planning to take over the Intérnational Settlement or French Concession by force on October 18 after the Burma Road is opened. JAPAN NAVY REVIEWED TOKYO, Oct. 11.—Amid an offic- |ial “softer attitude” of Japan to- wards the United States, Emperor Hirohito of Japan reviewed a huge display of Japanese naval power off Yokohama. More than 100 warships and 250 fighting planes were in the display. Japanese official news agency said, “Great importance must be attached to this naval demonstration at the present moment.” Making obvious reference to the badly strained United States-Jap- anese relations, the Japanese For- eign Office spokesman Suma, de- clared at a press-conference: “Re- sponsible people on both sides of the Pacific should be very calm.” Sovief Is Courfed by | N_a_z_i Reich BERLIN, Oct, 1l1.—Authoritative commentary in the Dienst aus Deutschland today asserted that new Russian-German conversations were to be held soon in Moscow |and denied that there was any conflict between Soviet interests seats and joined in the rendition of the song thalt is now second to the National Anthem. Following the dinner musical se- lections were given by Juneau's talented violinist, Miss Corrinne Jenne, with the ever popular Mrs. output of planes, engines, and ac- cessories. quota, and more than one in 200’ (Conutnucd on Page Seven® (Continued on Page Five) |and the recent pact of Germany, |Italy and Japan. | This German news service said | “so far as territorial problems are | concerned it has been pointed out |in Berlin that the Soviet Unien is |able to procure solid political and | commercial advantages through new relations with the Reich.”