The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 16, 1940, Page 1

ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” 2 VOL. LVI.. NO. 8544. JUNEAU, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS THOUSANDS SIGN UP FOR WAR SERVICE Nazi and Red CRITICAL SITUATION IS DARKER & Turkey and Russia Near Agreement in Oppos- ing Axis Alliance THOUSANDS OF MEN | MASSED ON DANUBE Trouble Now Threatens fo| Spread Through ‘ Bal- | kans Against Germans (By Associated Press) The critical situation in the Bal- kans grew rapidly darker today with reports that Turkey and rRus- sia are near agreement on a ‘“stop| the Axis” military alliance, spread- ing through the Balkan capitals. The Turkish newspapers declarsd bluntly that neither Turkey nor her close friend, Greece, could be intimidated by Germany or any-j body else. | Massed thousands of the Ger-| man and Red Army troops faced each other across the Danube River near the Rumanian port of Galati,| CHURCHILLS ON TO damage Nazi bombings had done minister, Winston Churchill, toured the Thames, his wife at his side. Not long after this photo wi government head increased in a by the resignation of Former Questions on Seleclive poised for action that may develop (Continued on Page Eight) BurmaRoad Mo Opens Friday cio UNION WiNs LONDON, OrT; ;OYIICIEI wuv'-“ MINE BAlloI|NG Employees of U. S. Smelt- It is understood that a definite| decision to open the road day after!| ing Choose NLRB Bar- gaining Agency tomorrow was reached late yester- day afternoon when high British officials including Lord Halifax| and Butler discussed closer Anglo- Chinese collaboration. i It is understood that the discus-| sions ranged over a wide field in-| cludnig British military aid. The! FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Oct. 16.— spokesman emphasized however,| The Fairbanks Mine Workers.vnion that plans are still in a prelimin-| (c10) has won a National Labor ary stage. Relations Board election over rival e | AFL and unaffiliated groups by a ' majority of 108 votes to determine Service Are Many; Here's More Answers fo Quizzes Cthe * Drew Pearsos | and Robert S.Alles g WASHINGTON — There was a| special reason why Defense Com- missioner William Knudsen was in- vited to accompany the President | on his Maryland defense inspection tour. Knudsen is an expert on produc- tion, and Roosevelt visited certain arsenals and airplane factories. But in addition, Knudsen is under heavy pressure from former business &s- sociates to declare publicly for Wen- dell Willkie. Behind the scenes, they are pull- ing hard for the Republican can- didate. Alfred P. Sloan, Knudsen's former boss and close friend, has called for the election of Willkie as necessary for sound economic progress. A similar pronouncement by Knudsen, who is No. 1 man of the Defense Commission, would be a| smash coup for Willkie—particu- larly if it were coupled with the; inference that Knudsen has en- countered difficulties with the Ad-| ministration in doing his defense| job. Actually relations between Knud- sen and Roosevelt are very cordial. Knudsen is his own boss and re- cently the President has been con- sulting him not only ‘oW defense| matters but on general national| (Continued on Page "Four) the bargaining agency of employees of the U. S. Smelting, Refining and Mining Company in Fairbanks plac- er operations, it was announced today. Workers in the company’s various camps balloted all last week. Out of 812 eligible to vote, 512 voted. Labor Conciliator John O’Connor supervised the election. The results of a previous election were inconclusive. Although' the CIO unjon in that election also had a plurality, it failed to have a clear majority required by NLRB ruling to determine the bargaining agency. Voters for the other two unions, the Alaska Miners and Allied Crafts- men'’s Federal Union (AFL) and the Brotherhood of Alaska Miners (un- affiliated), together with votes cast by those who desired no union at all totaled more than those for the CIO group. Ir the new balloting the CIO union was given more votes than the others combined. s 2 Gty Dunkerque Is Shelled Brifish Wa?hips Hit "In- vasion Port” - Fires Reporlei&tarted LONDON, Oct. 16.—British war- ships early this evening shelled the “invasion port” of Dunkerque, set- |ting large fires and apparently causing great damage. This is a communique issued tonight by the British Admiralty. | LONDON IS SUBJECTED, BIGATTACK Terrific K;;éuli, Worse | Ever, Made from Dusk to Dawn-Fires Set NAZI COMMAND IN " NEW BRITON THREAT Rain of Bombs Only " Zep- hyr” as fo Storm that ‘ Is Coming Up (By Associated Press) Nazi quarters in Berlin today threaten a triple force or a “typhoon | stage” aerial siege of Great Britain after an armada of 1,000 German UR_To see for himself what to London docks, Britain’s prime as made, Churchill’s strength as cabinet shuffle made necessary Prime Minister Chamberlain. last night that left the British capi- tal city in “indescribable chaos” this morning. Even this mighty and | | terrific attack, the Berlin advices | state, is only a “zephyr” compared to the storm ahead. | Pedestrians Machine Gunned London dispatches early this morn_ ing said diving Nazi war planes ma- | chine gunned pedestrians on the | streets and also dropped the biggest | explosive bombs yet rained on Lon- don. German airmen, returning from the dusk to dawn assault, told of | “deafening detonations and terrific | 1 i concussions in the skies which were | By JACK STINNETT reddened by great fi i Nazi fliers also said they observed fires raging throughout an area from 48 to 60 miles wide and de- | scribed London as a “great sea of | | WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—(Ques- tions arising from selective service are as thick as grasshoppers in a ! | swarm. Following is further effort flames.” to answer some of them.) | British Renort | Q. Suppose I refuse to answer | The London Air Ministry and n-| | the questions put to me by the |foymation Ministry admitted the registrar? A. The | night raid was of a “heavy nature” | have but said the damage “was not as| registrars already nstructions how to handle you.|great as that done by air raids early | Recalcitrants will be urged and in September.” | argued with, but if they persist,| Many are feared to have been | witnesses will be called and the|killed and wounded in last night's | sase referred to the United States|raid. | District Attorney. For willfully ob-| A London school house, used as structing the draft, a man is sub-|an air raid shelter building, was hit | ject to the same penalty as for P T i T willfully dodging the draft: not more than five years in the peni- s 0550 WILLKIE, '_'HAS", - CLUMSY,” LUCAS | dress, no matter when it occurs g after registration. | ] | @ Wit is the aitterence ve- | S€NAt0r from lllinois Says tween the registrars and the | . local boards? ' Nominee Is Show Off, | A. The registrars are merely A e reptrntionmacmnery - anl Speaks Before Thinks | most cases it will be the same as —_ | the election machinery) and aner} COFFEYVILLE, Kas., Oct, 16. — October 16 their task will be fin- Senator Scott W. Lucas, Democral, | ished. The local boards are per-|Illinois, in a speech here, termed manent, of three or more men, with a paid|dering show-off—one who speaks clerk, presiding over an area of before he thinks.” approximately 30,000 population.| “No other presidential candidate Attached to the boards, but not|in the past three-quarters of al a part of them are the examining|century has so clearly revealed his| physiclans and government ap-| temperamental unfitness for the | peal agents. It will be the duty of|delicate task of guilding our ship| (Continued on Page Five) fine. Q. I am moving to another city the day after draft regis- tration. What should I do? | |the board to classify all regis-|of state,” Lucas, midwestern cam- | trants and notify those men hailed paign chairman for the Democratic | into serviee. | National Committee, said of the Republican nominee in a prepared Q. In our local board district |address. there are many factory workers | Landon “Wiser”—Lucas and there is no labor man on [ Speaking here in the home| the beard who has any under- |county of Alf M. Landon, former | standing of labor problems. Is | Governor of Kansas and Repub- | there anything we can do about |lican candidate for President in |oit? 11936, Lucas recalled that Willkie| A. Yes. Appeal to your Gover-‘visn.ed Coffeyville recently and| nor and ask him to appoint such| commented: } a representative of labor to the “I am constrained to say, from board. Those in charge of selec- my knowledge of the two men, that tive service at national headquar-|the seasoned statesman of Mont- ters here are particularly eager to' gomery County, Governor Landon, have these boards made np of is a far wiser and more stable man| men of high standing who are|than the ubiquitous Mr. Willkie,| representative of the commdnity| Who used the agrarian atmosphere | they serve. In the case of appeal Of Coffeyville .. . to dim his elec- boards it is stipulated that the trical brilliance as a Wall Street | boards should include one mem- and utility magnate, ber from labor, one from indus-| “I am satisfied that no inde- ltry, a physian, a lawyer and|pendent, liberal or progressive citi- (Continued on Page Seven) _— (Continued on Page Five) | bombers reportedly dropped thou—‘ sands of tons of bombs on London‘ Army Troops Ready to Clash ONE OF MAN Y_Multiply this scene many times and you'll see what's going on «8 | » E!L SY defense program gets under way. ‘Above, soldiers arrive at Camp Jackson, South Carolina. HIGHWAY TRUCKERS SEIZE [LaGuardia DEPUTY, TAKE POSSESSION | Talks Ouf; OF FERRY AT BIG DELTA. Tells 'Em e Galls Attention of Utility | FAIRBANKS, Alaska, ©Oct. 16— Three Richardson Highway truck- R-DAY IS HERE FOR AMERICANS Rea istraifin Booths Throughout Nation Are Crowded YOUTHS, VETERANS IN LONG LINES AT POLLS President Makes Brief Ad- dress on Purposes of Great Plan BULLETIN—Registering at the rate of 1225000 an hour,. Am- erica’s young men are signing up for possible service in the na- tion’s first peacetime draft army. Reports going to Washington from all state capital cities, which in turn gathered them from every city, town and rural district, prompted the Selective Service Headquarters to an- nounce this afternoon the whole vast registration machinery was “clipping along smoothly.” (By Associated Press) For the second time in the lives WAR THREAT ‘ers, with six others standing by, k p TN | seized Deputy United States Mar- 5 3 shal Dennis Doyle at Big Delta ; g X Crossing. on Tanana River, bore the ground, forcefully his. shot gun from him and then threw it on top of a shed and placed the Deputy in a | nearby house, under guard. | The entire group of truckers ith(‘n took possession of the ferry and moved their trucks across the river without paying the freight toll but did pay the customary $1 toll per rig The truckers, arriving here, frankly admitted their action which was confirmed by other witnesses. Doyle was later released. | District Attorney Ralph Rivers imy.s he may lay the matter before him to wrestled the Grand Jury convening here | next week, | A jury in the Commissioner’s ‘]r:uurL found the truckers not guilty lon two previous occasions when | they commandeered the ferry. D Japan’s Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka declared in Tokyo Oc- | Expert of GOP fo [of Americws young men, i . ing for military service began y. | MISS'afemeflfS “It is a day of deep purposeful | . LS ) meaning in the lives of all of us,* NEWARK, N. J., Oct. 16.—Mayor President Roosevelt declared in a F. LaGuardia, in a speech at a brief early morning address prepared Roosevelt-Wallace rally here last for delivery as registration offices night, held under the auspices of OVer the country opened for a 14- the Independent Voters Club, de- hour day. [ clared that “anyone who says Presi- | Milions of men who answered the dent Roosevelt neglected National c8ll of 23 years ago last June 5, Defense utters a deliberate misstate- | today saw their sons step into line ment, and knows that he is making for registration at balloting pre- a misstatement, | cinets and schools. | “Everyone knows, except seeming- | Vets Enrolled i1y the certain utility expert of the | Even some veterans of the AEF, Republican Party, there was no real | those who lied about their ages 23 | threat to this country until about YeAars ago and enlisted at the ages |one year ago and then the Presi- lof 12 or 13 retraced their steps dent, almost within 24 hours notice, | today after nearly a quarter of a | began National Defense.” century to enroll again. o From a pool of 16,400,000 men reg- Transport voluntary, unpaid groupsiWendell L. Willkie a “hasty, blun-| ARGE UNIT | Y | istering for selective service, officials expected to draw 5,000,000 men ready { Train Hit Yy bombps and able to undergo military train- | ing for the next 4% years, nearly | 750,000 more men than were mob- i | Nazi Sources Claim 300 Persons Are Killed or Injured in Strafing | ilized to fight the war of 1917-18, | where some 12,000,000 between the | ages of 21 and 31 registered in the BERLIN, Oct. 16. — Informed Nazi sources said at least 300 per- sons were killed or injured when| a German dive bomber attacked an| English transport train late ths; afternoon. o L | It is claimed the locomotive and | the first six cars went over an embankment and the other cars| | were torn apart. | The informants said the German | plane made an attack while re-| turning from bombing an airport on the west coast, south of Liver- | pool, | NAZIS ASSERT | NO ENGLISH BE SAID AFTER WAR BERLIN, Oct. 16—The English language is “a pseudo-Germanic di- alect which no one will have any use for after the war” Das Schwarz. Corps, organ of the Elite Storm Troopers, says. The paper was critical of the fact German school boys learning English have been singing, “It's a Long Way to Tipperary.” The school boys would be better ad- vised, it said, to sing, if they must sing in English, “What a rascal Churchill is—what a lying, crawl- TOM MIX IS ~ LAIDTOREST HOLLYWOOD, Cal, Oct. 16. — The filmland world that gave him fame and fortune paid a last fare- well today to Tom Mix, the hard| riding hero of scores of cowboy| thrillers. : The body of the 60-year-old actor| tober 4 that Japan will declare war on the U. S, if that nation enters the European war or in- upon preservation of the sta- tus quo in the Pacific. His state- ment was the first clarification of the recently signed military agree- ment pledging Japan to fight with Germany and Italy in the event the war involves U. S. Said Mat- suoka: “It would be better for Japan to perish than to the status guo in the Pa - e —— lay in a silver coffin inscribed with |Mix's cattle brand which appeared | Mix was killed Saturday night 'm‘ an automogile accident near Flor-| ence, Al AIR BASES ‘fa\'nnlr song—"Empty Saddles” at [} the funeral ceremony in the famed | Little Church of the Flowers. opERATING Lodge funeral service. | Mix was then buried under a pine tree in Forest Lake Memorial First Major Project of Na-| p tional Defense Complet- (MRS, ARM BEING ed Ahead of Schedule | BROUGHT BACK TO e | The nation’s first new major air | base has been comissioned in the v R, the National Defense program and | Mrs Anna Arm, grrested gt ) Ses than six months ahead of schedule, | 5 Peing brought back to Juneau| The air base cost-$25,000,000 and | o7 the steamer Alaska by Deputy .| castern district. W LTS S, MRS. WEBSTER RETURNING Enroute here on the steamer Al- The regular weekly meeting of | the Juneau and Douglas Telephone the Juneau Chamber of Commerce|Compuny. is returning from a bus- will b€ held tomorrow noon at theiness and pleasure trip to the ing, yellow-belly the Archbishop of cn almost all of his belengings. | Croorer Rudy Vallee sang Mix's Actor Monte Blue read a Masonic | Park. JACKSONVILLE, Fla, Oct. 16 ; ANSwER (HARGE has become an operating unit more ‘m,w- on a charge of embezzlement, has started operations in this south= | 8. Marshal Sid Thompson and wife. | CHAMBER TOMORROW | aska, Mrs. Anna Weébster, owner of | Baranof - Hotel, States. Canterbury is.” first 1917 draft. Between 21-36 Today, registrants are between the ages of 21 and 36. The President, in his speech this (Continued on Page Six) ALASKAN OF NOTE =" 1S DEAD Ira M. Rank, Colorful Char- acter of North, Passes Away at Nome NOME, Alaska, Oct. 16.—TIra M. Rank, 73, one of Alaska's most col- orful gold rushers and traders, and on whose head the Russian Revo- lutionists once set a price, is dead here. Rank was forced to abandon his ship on the last voyage to Point Barrow and became ill. He was taken off the ship at Teller and flown here. He died of a hemorrhage as the result of an intestinal dis- turbance. Rank came north from Seattle, where he was then well known, in '98, packed over the Chilkoot, came down the river to Nome, bought a mercantile store here and owned and operated a trading post at Blubber Bay, Siberia, until the post was con- fiscated during the Bolshevik revo- Jution in 1919. He escaped capture and returned to Nome just ahead of his would-be captors.