The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 17, 1940, Page 1

e o L HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIMF" VOL. LVI. NO. 8545. JUNEAU ALASKA, IHURSDAY OCTOBER 17, 1940. MEMBER Assocmgh PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS MILLIONS REGISTER, PEACETIME DRAFI Germany, Russia Mass Forces, Danube Delta REDS, NAZIS FACE EACH OTHER NOW’ Hundreds of Thousand of | ; Soviet Soldiers Are Ready for Action WARSHIPS CONCENTRATE AT BLACK SEA SECTIONS | Big Guns Pifched at Strafe- | gic Points—New Move- ment Is Reported (By Associated Press) Russia and Germany continued today to mass troops facing each other Rumania. It is reliably reported that the U. | S. 8. R. now has between 300,000 and 360,000 troops in her Black Sea provinces. The same observers report that between 18,000 and 20,000 men are now stationed in her important oil fields. Russia during the past 24 hours has also massed a rather surprising number of warships in the Black Sea and is reported to have troops | and big guns now in a position which } « ,‘ controls the Danube River Delta. The Russians also are reported moving thousands of additional troops into Crimea. D C"\;}fie A\ f@ WASHINGTON — Some of the|| ever || mest important discussions held regarding the Far East are now taking place behind the scenes b in Washington. And as frequently| happens, there is a division of op- inion inside the Cabinet. This division is not over firmness in the policy toward Japan. There is complete unanimity on that point. The debate is whether to across the Danube Delta in | impose an almost complete embargo | on the sale of raw materials to Ja-| pan—particularly fuel oil. One group within the Cabinet sees no reason why we should keep on feeding the Japanese war ma- chine. The other group—and this includes the entire State Depart-|; ment—fears that if we cut off the sale of these supplies too abruptly, Japan will strike back. To get the full significance of the present picture, one must com- pare it with an almost identical situation which faced the Roosevelt Administration when Japan invad- |, ed China in 1937. For the most part, the details of this story have not been told. When Japan first launched its invasion, a series of conferences took | f place between Roosevelt, Hull and the British Embassy during which both sides agreed that a Japanese ecnquest of China, with its cheap labor and vast raw materials, would | mean a new industrial empire in Asia which eventually would chal- lenge Australia, New Zealand and the United States in the Pacific. Secretary Hull went further than this, and pointed out that the Dic- | tators of Europe—Hitler and Mus- solini — were ust beginning to show signs of going on the rampage, | and that while the United States could not afford to get mixed up in Europe, it did have treaty obliga- tions in China. He felt that to invoke the peace machinery of the werld in order to make an object lesson of a dictator nation—Japan —might have a very salutary effect upcn Hitler and Mussolini. LONG DISTANCE BLOCKADE As a result of these conversa- "(Continued on Page Pour) ( | | | British sources say this is the wreckage of a London hospital which g a mid-morning air was hit by a bomb du tion workers are digging in the debris for victims, désc ish as men and women 80 years London to New York. RAF BOMB SHEARS BUIlDING One wall of this building was sheared away by a bomb which fell dur- ing a five-hour raid by British planes on Berlin. Picture was radioed from Berlin to New York. Hospllal Wreckage Searched EXTRA BURMA ROAD | ATMIDNIGHT | | | Are Ordered fo Recon- struct Life Line (8Y ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Burma Road, lifeline to China, was officially opened at midnight tonight, right on the stroke of 12 o'clock, under or- ders of the British Government | in London, The road has been closed for three months as a British ap- peasement gesture toward Ja- pan but new attacks on Brit- ain and invasion of French Indo- China by the Japanese | forces, prompted ths rcopen- | ing. Simultaneously, the Chinese Government ordered labor | squadrons drawn up at strategic points for reconstruction of the lifeline highway as fast as Japanese bombing can destroy it. | It is said thousands of tons of war supplies, wiso trucks of | NOW OPENED |Chinese Labor Squadrons | Bombs Can’t Stop Lambeth Pushcarts Although the building in the background has been practically demolished by a Nazi bomb, street vendors continue to ply their trade between raids on London’s Lambeth Walk thoroughfare. GERMAN CHILDREN BEING JEVACUATED FROM BERLIN, | various kinds are ready to be | sent over the Burma Road. e Ay RAIDING . (ONTINUES ON LONDON Night Attacks Are Bogged | Down by Rain BufRe- | | sumed af Daylight | MACHINE GUNNING IS | ORDER GIVEN BOMBERS | British Mak—e—Sudden At- fack on French Naval Base af Brest German war planes renewed mass daylight attacks on England shortly | after dawn this morning after heavy \ rains bogged down most of the Ger- man night attacks. \ | The bogging down of the attacks | | gave Londoners one of the quietest | | night since early in September. ‘ \ Air Raid Precau- ed by B Picture cabled from old or oider. ! It was also ominously quiet on | other fronts last night. | But, this morning, Nazi planes by | | the hundreds stirred repeated air | | alarms in London and elsewhere. ‘ Submarine Sunk | German drive bombing Stukas, | ‘screaming down the cloud- banked\ | skies, are reported to have sunk a | British submarine in the English | Channel and blasted a hotel in a | southeast coast town. | | A Berlin radio broadcast said Nazi | | airmen returning early this evening | after massed daylight raids on Eng- | (land claimed high explosive bombs HAMBURG INTO RUMANIA Mass exodus of 2.)0000 Germen children from Berlin and Hambu:g and other air raid range Nazi cities, to western Rumania is authorita- tively reported while Great Britain took steps to remove children and mothe from bomb-ravaged dis- tricts of London. The mass exodus from Berlin and Hamburg attests to the ravages done by RAF bomb- ers and fears for further disastrous attacks. Dispatches from Bucharest said preparations are going ahead to house the hundreds of thousands of German children and women removed from the Reichland The Berlin announcement said the removal is to “avoid imperil- ing the health of the children and | women.” | bro-spinal told that av- Ul‘xll“l Minister MacDonald the House of Commons today 500 expectant mothers, on the erage, are being :emoved daily from London to escape the Nazi bombs and 498,000 children, about 56 per- cent of the school population, have already left for safer havens in the countryside It is also stated that 5,500 beds in hospital wards in London are filled with casualty victims result- ing from the “wanton efforts of German airmen.” , | It is also stated there is an om- inous increase in the dread cere- fever, as the outcome, it is believed, of the aggravated crowding of London's millions, ad- mittedly in inadequate raid shel-‘ ters. | More Questions on Draft | DRAFT MAN Dr. Clarence A. Dykstra, President of the University of Wisconsin, was nominated by President Roos- evelt and has been confirmed by the Senate to the post of Draft Administrator. Are Given and Answered 3 German DNB CLAIMS NEW WEAPON IS WORKING Germans AE They Now Have Super Searchlight for Anti-bomb Defense BERLIN, Oct. 17.—Germans today By JACK STINNETT WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. (This is another in a series of columns in which an effort is made to an- swer some of the many questions arising from the selective service bill.) Q. My husband does not sup- pert me. Can I get him draft- ed? A. No one can get anyone drafted, but if you think your husband misrepresented his de- pendencies to the draft board, you| may go to them and explain the situation. The hoard probably will make a thorough investigation and if they find that you are telling the truth, your husband undoubt- edly will be reclassified on the basis of the boards findings. This also Warplanes Shot Down Nazi Bombers Brought fo Earth by Britishers in Night Raids LONDON, Oct. 17—Three Nazi bombers were destroyed in the early| part of last night's raids over Brit- ain. One of the German planes lel under anti-aircraft fire in London.| The wreckage burned for an hour.| | were dropped in the vicinity of the claimed a new defensive air raid | Waterloo Bridge and also that other lweapon in a super searchlight to | bombs must have started fires as blind British night raiders and make flames were seen shooting up in the |them fly directly into its rays where applies in reverse. That is, if any| | All members of the German crew| wife, parents or other dependents perished in the flames. have reason to believe that the s A second bomber crashed on the | southeast coast after being dam- | early dusk. | Night Raid Resumed Reserves Ordered To Panama Canal WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — The Navy Department has ordered the second division of organized re-| serves, which have been stationed at Baltimore, to active duty in the Panama Canal Zone for the dura- tion of the existing emergency, | Berlin claims that night raids have been resumed tonight and airmen [ELECTRA HAS . 5 FOR JUNEA | ‘ across an air raid shelter. | Five passengers are coming in British in Night Attacks this afternoon from Fairbanks| The British Air Ministry an- aboard a Pacific Alaska Mrwa,'_.‘m,umed tonight that RAF bombers Electra. | raided the German occupied French Due in are Clarence Carlson, Ca:llnavnl base at Brest and heavily Parker, Glenn Healas, J. J. Me- pounded it. Extensive damage is | herin and Albert Verhonich. reported by the returning RAF fliers, and machine gun the streets. Early tonight it is feared that many lives have been lost in London n a three-story building toppled have been instructed to swoop low | ‘lh:-v will be easy marks for anti- \alrcra!t guns. Official news agency DNB said the weapon was used successfully last night again a British bomber on the Dutch coast, the bomber allegedly being brought down in flames. . RAISE 3%-POUND RADISH HAYFIELD, Va—Clifton Nail claims the radish-growing champ- ionship for one weighing 3% pounds | with a stalk resembling a small| tree, | they may appear { really exist, lectee misrepresented his responsi-| bilities in order to dodge them, before the board, xplain the true situation and be certain that the board will make its| classification on conditions as thu \ Q.1 am a farmer. My parents are not wholly dependent on me but they would be handi- | capped greatly if I had to take a year out. Will I be placed on the deférred list? A. This is a matter which will | <annnued on ?lle Five) aged over the channel. The erip- pled plane flew head on into the anti-aircraft fire along the and was brought down. The third German brought down in Wales. Heavy clouds hung over London when the Germans came over last night. Bombs began to drop through the clouds almost before plane was over Liverpool. Several persons are' reported killed when a bomb made' direct hit on a public shelter in a workingman'’s district. shore | AMERICANS ARE EAGER - FOR DEFENSE Democracy_SFows Efect- iveness in First Move Made for Profection SELECTIVE SERVICE SYSTEM SUCCESSFUL Dr. Dyksira—fies 0Oath as President Issues An- other Executive Order BULLETIN — SEWARD, Al- aska, Oct, 17.—Gov. Ernest Gruening teday set January 22 as the tentative date for draft registration in Alaska for by that time he hoped forms will be distributed to all remote parts of the Territory. 'It is also announced that Alaskans of the draft age going to the States between now and Janu- ary 2% present themselves within five days at the nearest drafting office and by so do- ing preserve their status as po- tential registranis of Alaska. It is likely Aiaska draflees will remain in Alaska. WASHINGTON, Oct. 17. — Dr. Clarence Dykstra declared today in his first public statement as Draft | Director that “those who thought we were soft, supine and as a democ- racy could not move with effective- ness, are disappointed.” ‘The University of Wisconsin Presi- dent, who had taken his oath of office for his new position in the office of Secretary of War Henry Stimson a short time earlier, added that the “registration went off hap- pily and with enthusiasm. Practical- ly all of the 16,400 called on to | register did so as reports were re- ceived from the 125,000 registration points. Up to 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon registrations totaled 10,- 000,000 men between the ages of 21 and 36 and the complete registra- tion was completed by 9 o'clock on | the Pacific Coast.” To Draft 5,000,000 As chief of the nation’s first peacetime selective service system, Dr. Dykstra’s main task will be to | supervise the drafting for military | service of approximately 5,000,000 young men of the more than 16,- 000,000 who signed up. Shortly after Dr. Dykstra took of- fice, President Roosevelt issued an executive order authorizing him to appoint necessary members of local (Continued en Page Six) Wesl Point Filipino Is | Blamed, Spy Is Arersted for Allegedly Giving Away Confiden- tial Army Papers | MANILA, Oct. 17.—The arrest of Capt. Rufo Romero, of the Philip- | pine Scouts, on suspicion he was preparing to give several confiden- tial documents to unauthorized per- sons was announced by the U. S. Army Intelligence Service. | Romero, a graduate of West Point, |is held for court martial. He was attached to the l4th Engineers of [ the U. S. Army at Fort Willlam Mc- | Kinley. Two Filipino civillans were also arrested in connection with the case. Intelligence officers said Romero | the air raid sirens had sounded the| was arrested at his home by Philip- |alarm. German raiders also were pine constabulary and U. S. officers where it is alleged Romero had pho- tographed several confidential docu- ments to deliver them to an un= authorized person.