The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 15, 1940, Page 1

| VOL. LVL, NO. 8543. e TR IR TR IITIE=»~, T — HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENT3 BERLIN - MOSCOW NEARING SHARP SPLIT Oriental Situation Still Dynamite Laden BLOW-UP EXPECTED SHORTLY More Americans Clamor- ing for Passage on Linersto U. S. | SCRAP IRON EMBARGO EFFECTIVE TOMORROW | Reopening_of—Burma Road | Late This Week Indi- cates Trouble Cerfain (By Associated Press) In the smouldering dynamite-lad- en Far East crisis, shipping circles | (Continued to Page TWo) U.S. Parachutists in Action . 0. 8. Army Signai Corps Photo Propped from transport plane¥; soldiers of the Test Parachute Battalion | (consisting of two officers and 48 men) drift earthward “behind the! | mnemy lines” in a demonstration at Fort Benning, Ga. They will form the nucleus of the 504st Parachute Battalion. WASHINGTON—One of the big-| gest orders for airplanes which tk National Defense Commission hus placed with any company was with| the Curtiss-Wright Corporation last| month, To finance new factories for these planes, the Reconstruc-| tion Finance Corporation lent Curtiss-Wright $49,000,000, | But what has never leaked out; is that at oné time the Curtiss company balked at the taxes it would have to pay and threatened not to build the planes. The inci- dent illustrates the difficulty lhe‘ Defense Commission and the Treas- ury have had in pushing ahead the airplane building program. The Curtiss company, after re-| ceiving assurances of its $49,000- 000 loan from the RFC, came to| the Treasury and wanted to know | what its taxes would be. The Treas- | ury has a system of giving com- panies a “closing agreement,” in other words an exact estimate of what their taxes will be in ad-| vance, if a set of advance facts are supplied. If these facts arei not changed, then the Treasury| is absolutely bound to stand by this tax estimate. Furthermore,| subsequent Commissioners of In- ternal Revenue, whether Republi-| can or Democratic, also are bound. In this case the Curtiss-Wright company asked for an immediate “closing agreement” on its taxes, and the Treasury, by working al-| most day and night, finally sup-| plied it, The tax, using the set of facts supplied to the Treasury, was to be based upon an eight-year leasehold which Curtiss was to exercise over the new airplane fac- tories. | However, after the estimate was completed, the RFC changed the set-up to five years, which threw the tax into the category of an cutright capital gains tax and con—‘ siderably boosted the amount which the aviation company would have to pay the Treasury. I It was at this point that thef‘ company’s officials balked. They protested vigorously at the higher | tax rate to be applied to them. In| fact, they told the Treasury that it was not Curtiss-Wright which wanted the planes, but the Gov- ernment which wanted them, and strongly intimated that if a more favorable tax was not worked out they would not feel obliged to ac-| cept the contract. | However, the Treasury stood pat,| and the Curtiss people finally came| around. They are going ahead with the program. POKER STAKES There's never adull moment when | Jesse Jones, Secretary of Commerce and Federal Loan Administrator, plays cards with his good friend Defense Commissioner William (Oonfln'fld‘ on Page Four) in'Bed, in Jail, or in Foreign Country, There Is Way for Registering | Wendell | rule of {who hide behind his smiling mask | Government service.” of WILLKIE DOES NOT LIKE FDR NOR NEW DEAL Makes All Sorls of Charges; in Campaign Speech Made in Syracuse | SYRACUSE, N. Y, Oct. 15. —| L. Willkie last night charged that the New Deal is following the pattern of Dictator-| ship “which calls for an indefinite one indispensable man. Roosevelt is indispensable to only| a little clique of power-hungry men of third term.” Continuing, Willkie said “give| this little clique the power they seek and the faster the grasp will be on this country. “The New Deal candidate excels lots of others in the art of spend-| ing money and has succeeded in putting the United States at the bottom of the list in economic re- covery. Under the third term can-| didate there has been an unpar- alleled increase in the number of Government Bureaus and political preference has displaced the Civil Service as 'a test for eligiblity for Nav;f)i;; Bomber in Crash, Fire SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 15— Lieut, J. N. Mayes, Jr., and Avia- tion Machinists Mate L. H. Dillon were killed last night in the flam- ing wreckage of a Navy Dive Bomb- er when the plane crashed and By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—There have been so many requests for ex- planations of selective service rul- ings that I have decided to deyote a series of columns to questions and answers, This is the first ef- fort to clarify the problems which arise under the Burke-Wadsworth selective service bill. Q. My birthday is October 17. On that date I will be 36. Am I subject to registration? A. Certainly. The laws says that any man between the ages of 21 and 36 (that is, if on that date |you ARE 21 or 35) you must reg- ister. Thus, if you are 21 on that date or 36 the day after, you must register. Q. I am taking an automo- bile trip on October 14. On Oc- tober 16, I will be in Grand Canyon National Park. Where do I register? A. In Grand Canyon National Park. Under the Selective Ser- vice regulations, if a person sub- ject to registration is out of his state or registration district and CAN NOT GET BACK, he must register in the registration dis- | trict in which he is staying. In | the case of National Parks, pro- vision Director to register not only all | residents in his park, but all visi- |tors. In the case of visitors, these | cards are sent back to home states for handling. There are 22 na- tional parks in which this ruling {holds true. The ruling also ap- | plies to CCC camps, to men on zvacunons but traveling outside | their state or digtrict, to visitors |on Indian reservations, Q. I am ill in a hospital. How can I register? A. Provision will be made through your county clerk to register you just as if you were in your own registration district, Q. I am ill at home. I can not get out to register. What must I do to aveid penalties under the law? A. Deputize a competent per- son to register for you. In this in- stance, the person you deputize will act as registrar for you. With, of course, the permission of the local board, If you are too ill or burst into flames while on a routine practice flight. quarantined on registration day, (Continued on Page Six) RAFRAIDERS BOMB REICH - VITAL SPOTS LONDON, Oct. 15.—Buildings at }one end of Germany's largest mo- tor fuel plant at Politz near Stet-| | tin were demolished last night in one of the most violent bombing attacks carried out by the Royal| | Air Force. | The plant has-an annual output of 1,000,000 metric tons of motor fuel oil. | Other objectives were also de- | molished on the 600-mile flight in | the moonlight, The Politz plant lies north of Berlin near the Baltic Coast. | High explosive bombs were | dropped, several of the buildings | were blown from the sky and numer- ous fires were set. Daylight Raids | Shortly after noon today London had its fourth air raid alarm of the day. There was little activity during the raid which came inover 5 the southeast coast and up the| e Thames Estuary. The raiders were | soon driven back by anti-aircraft fire and British fighter planes, Earlier this morning the Nazi air force staged three raids of greater intensity following the raids | of last night which military ob- servers are agreed were the heavi- est of the war. The raiders dropped | hundreds of incendiary bombs and | resorted to a great deal of machine | | gun straffing of civilian residential | districts, both in London and other | British towns and cities in south-| east and eastern England. During| the raids British anti-aircraft bat-| U. 8. army air corps pilots who, as targets with these huge missiles. Roasevelt Will Make 2Speeches German dive bomber was seen to blow up in the air over the town of Hellen, Kent, | Hospital Hit 1 In the London area a hospital | | was again hit by Nazi bombs. The | | same hospital had been bombed | | several times in previous raids and; | was unoccupied so no casualties| Outright Political Talks Will Be Given October 23 and October 30 WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. — The | 8ix tons of demolition ready to go places. teries were in constant action. One| | is made for the National| | resulted. During the same raid ten German bombers dropped a num- ber of large calibre bombs in a residential district adjacent to the damaged hospital. Strike at Reich _ During the night, which was moonlit with perfect flying condi- tions, the British again struck at some 45 or 50 military objectives in the Reich, and again staged the usual destructive attacks on the| so-called Nazi invasion ports of the Channel coast. Although the Brit- ish Air Ministry reported that the| raids were not as heavy as the Sun- day night attacks aerial experts in Vichy described them as the heaviest of the war, declaring that| although fewer bombs were dropped | they were of larger calibre and mel favorable raiding weather made the aim of the British airmen deadly| accurate. Japan, Russia ToSignPad IsReportNow LONDON, Oct. 15.—A Far Eastern non-aggression pact between Japan and Russia may be signed within | the next few days. This is according | to a report in diplomatic circles. STAYHOME | SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 15.—The| Immigration Department here has| received word to refuse to issue passports to American women nnd} children seeking to travel to Chin-| ese, Japanese and Dutch West Indies ports, Shanghai, Hongkong| | White House announced today that | President Roosevelt will make two | “outright political” speeches, each Twelve Thousand Pounds of Destruction Crewmen are |reparing . Europe to Alaska | | | | Heru are two types of 2,000-pound aerial bombs used by the part of their intensive training at March Field, Riverside, Cal., bomb the bombs for transfer to bombing planes. ~ RUMANIA " INVASION ~ RESENTED 'Russia Claims No Informa- | fion Received as to | Plans of Germany " POSSIBLE SCHISM ! IS NOW APPARENT fSoviet Troofidvance on | Danube Delta, Now | Goal of Nazi Forces | | | (By Associated Press) | A sharp split in the Berlin-Mos- irow “mutual information” contact | is indicated as Russia today sped “ the massing of Red Army troops on | the frontier of Rumania which now | overrun with German soldiers. | The Soviet Government, through | the official news agency, Tass, dis- | closes it did not receive what is | vegarded as satisfactory advance no- ——=———— |tices of Germany's plan to send \ troops into the rich Balkan oil king- I A “ \dom in Southeast Europe. | Report Denied Tass officialy denies reports pub- lished in a newspaper in controlled | German Denmark that the “Soviet DESTROYERS Government was timely informed | that German troops would be sent SENI D o w N | into Rumania and that the Kremlin was informed as.to the aims and numbers of troops to be sent in the i invasion.” | This is the first open intimation s of a possble schism between Ger- | many and Russia, although foreign | observers have long said that ulti- imalely the professed friendship be- | tween the two nations would be dis- Battle in Sweeping Up Medlie"anean | solved and they will fight a “real EoR | battle in Europe.” LONDON, Oct. 15—The Admir- | Germany Makes Reply British Cruis;Aja x Ha alty reports that the British cruiser | The Soviet Government's state- | going,” said Lindbergh. half an hour in length. The first speech will be on Octo- ber 23 from 6:30 to 7 p. m. PST, on the occasion of the observance of National Youth Day, and the second speech will be on October 30 from 7:30 to 8 o'clock in the evening, PST. The subjects have not yet been selected. LINDBERGH 15 CRITICISING U, 5. LEADERS Does Not Mention Roose- velt Nor Willkie in Radio Harangue WASHINGTON, Oct. 15. — In 2 radio talk last night, Charles A. Lindbergh sharply criticized the| nation’s “leaders for the consistent record of promise, followed by failure.” He said America's future hangs not upon the war’s outcome but results of the election. “Above all, we must select lead- ers whose promises we can trust, who know where they are taking | us and who tell us where we are| Having his ticket checked by a trainman in New York is four- year-old Kasimir Siegenberg, who Yecently arrived- from war-torn | England and is bound for Sitka, Alaska, where he will live with his aunt, Mra. William Whiteley. DEVELOPMENT OF ALASKATIN 1S BEING URGED | Delegate Dimond Wants, $2,000,000 for Explor- afion of Terrifory | WAHINGTON, Oct. 15—Alaska Delegate Anthony J. Dimond has asked for an investigation of tin resources in Alaska. The Delegate has introduced a bill authorizing the Government to spend $2,000,000 to explore the Ter- ——————— | ritory with the view of the develop- Iment of the domestic supply of tin. - — 1 o ' {Should Bare Arms He did not mention either Roose- | velt or Willkie in his talk. LONDON, Oct. 15. — A British Vessels Wil Be Sentfo Aid| Ajax sank two Italian destroyers and | ment is in direct contrast to that crippled a third destroyer in two |gjven out by the Berlin spokesman, engagements in the recent extensive | who declares that on October 10 the sweep of the Eastern and Central | powers friendly to the Rome-Berlin Mediterranean by the British fleet. | Axis were notified that German The Ajax is one of the three Brit- | yyoops had arrived in Rumania and ish cruisers that drove the German | sthers were to follow. pocket battleship Graf Spee imo‘ Kremlin's Surprise Move the harbor at Montevideo, where | Ryssia’s belated disclosure is all later the craft was blown up by her | the more surprising in view of the own crew. ; . | Kremlin's extreme reticence in mat- The Admiralty says the AJax’s|ters concerning the German-Soviet fight with the destroyers constituted | relations. the main action in the Mediterran- | without confirmation elsewhere, ean and no contact was made be- | peyters say in a dispatch from tween the main British and Italian | gycharest that Soviet troops have sea forces. already advanced on the Danube | Delta in Rumania. If this is true, “Russia appears to be challenging | Germany'’s self-elected guardianship | BEDISPATCHED TO ORIENT NOW | of Rumania by moves to gain con- ontinued to Page Two) BiG PROBE in Evacuating Amer- icans in Far East | SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Oct. 15.| —The Matson liners Mariposa and | Monterey will sail as soon as pos-| sible to the Orient assisting in| evacuation of American nationals complain's 0' He(“Ofl law PART OF PACIFIC | Yiohlions Retehved- FLEET GOES BACK | o o s 10 HAWAN BASE ney General Robert Jackson today announced the appointment of Mau- rice Milligan, United States At- Other Vessels Will Leave for Voyage Across Pacific This Week torney for Wesgtern Missouri, to conduct a nationpwide investiga- SAN DIEGO, Cal, Oct. 15.—Part tion following complaints of law violations in connection with the November election. Milligan was prosecutor of the Kansas City election fraud cases. Milligan has been made special and Singapore, | Naval Officer who went to Canada ————— | to superintend transfer of the old- IS IN HOSPITAL | age destroyers from the United Arrivals from Anchorage state, States and:who has traveled across that Mrs J, W. Kehoe, wife of the the Atlantic:on one of them, is U. 8. District Attorney, is in the jubilant over them; stating they will Providence Hospital there for medi- be of the uumost value for the |eal treatment. | British, Say lulhera_ns_ OMAHA, Oct. 15—The United | Lutheran Church of America Con- vention here has approved a declar- ation that Christian citizens are in duty bound to bear arms in the defense of their country, lof the Pacific Fleet has started| back to Hawaii after two weeks’ overhaul and vacation, Other vessels will leave later this week from Navy yards. Thirty vessels have left over the Pacific but the definite destination is not made public. Attorney General and has been granted leave of absence from his Missouri post. The announcement further says investigations will be conducted in every state or city where complaints indicated a “prima facie case of law violation.” i