The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 18, 1940, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVL, NO. 8546. JUNEAU, ALASKA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS AZI ATTEMPTS TO INVADE ENGLAND FAIL rward Supplies For Chiang Kai Shek Go Fo CHINA WAR MACHINE IS | MOVING ON Loaded Tru&?Start Qut Under Cover or Dark- | ness on Burma Road BOMBING BY JAPANESE ADMITTED THREATENING Anti-aircraft Guns at All| Points of Vantage Are Pointing Skyward — HONGKONG, Oct, 18.—The Japanese South China Fleet announces Japan- ece Naval aircraft have attack- ed Kunming, the Southwestern China terminus of the newly recpened Burma Road and bembs have been dropped on the Chinese munitions factories in the suburbs and military estab- lishments within the city. CHUNGKING, Oct. 18 —With anti aircraft guns reported pointed sky- ward at many vantage points on| the British Burma road, traffic on| the Burma-Mandalay highway has| Parking Record Broken as Fair Prepares to Close | | Here is an air view of some of the 23,300 automobiles which jammed the New York World’s Fair parking spaces for what officials believe to be a record for both years of its existence. The attendance totaled 848,576, or about 30,000 short of the all-time record, as fair-goers made a rush to see the great show before . & + I G HOUDINI FLYNN | HIGH GEAR, BOTH CAMPS Roosevelt, Willkie Going Info Stretch - Vote 18 Davs Away By ASSOCIATED PRESS) ential election only s muitiplied that soth the and Republi- can parties o ready to open an ntensive.vola drive which will carry With the P 18 days awa, 1240 campaizn Tha President will make a series | of pelitizal sp 1es5, he announced | The first will cccur Wednesday. They {will ke made at Philadelphia, New | York, Cleveland and either Balti- |more or Washington | ‘Meanwhile his opponent, Wendell | Willkie pursued the strenuous cam- ipflis}n which has taken him from |coast to coast, showing every in- tention of ‘maintaining its unflag- | gingpace until the eve of election. “ As the campaign neared the week- end ‘which will send it into the home stretch, Willkie and his run- |ing mate, Senator Charles McNary | of Oregon, both made pleas for Missouri’s 15 electoral votes, while | Democratic Vice Presidential can- Ididnle Henry Wallace spoke in threugh to the close of the historic | resumed and under cover of the minute the road was hundreds of trucks, all began rolling along admitted that there is an been da. C Kness, 1ed is (Continued to Page Two) W S DS 'pkqo.QO | WASHINGTON—The Dies Inves-| tigating Committee now has docu-| ntary evidence of Nazi fifth col- | umn operations in the U. S. so| explosive that its publication might | lead to a complete rupture of dip-| lomatic relations with Germany. Because of this likelihood of in-| ternational complications the com-} mittee has been nervously sitting | on the load of dynamite, uncertain| what to do. It has, consulted the| State Department, which is just as jittery itself. In fact, even more so. The De-| partment foresees the inevitable| necessity of demanding the recall of a number of German diplomatic representatives, with certain re- taliation by Berlin by the ousting of U, S. officials. In the present delicate state of the U. S.-Axis re- lations, the Department doesn't want to run that risk, So on its urgent advice, the Com- mittee is sitting tight and con- tinuing its secret probe of the sub- versive activities. The documentary evidence in the possession of the committee is staggering. It defin-| itely establishes: 1. That the Nazi government is directly supervising and financing a nationwide fifth column cam- paign to oppose and obstruct the defense program, the U. 8. Gov- ernment’s foreign policy and aid to Great Britain. 2. That this activity is being carried on through German Con- sulates and German - controlled papers, plus propaganda agencies of various kinds. 3. That Nazi Consuls get de- tailed instructions from Berlin through regular short-wave broad- casts in code, COLUMN FUEHRER i Suspected master mind of the| Nazi fifth column is Dr. Man-| freid Zapp, head of the Trans- cean News Service, a propaganda | outfit with offices in New York and/ Washington. Zapp came to this country after being booted out ol "(Continued on Page Four) .- — NIGHT RAID ON LONDON IS RESUMED PRESIDENT TO MAKE UL S FIVE ADDRESSES IN ACT HANDCUFFS REPLY, WILLKIE LIES vex vor Tmes s ; "Expose’ Skulld | FAIRBANKS PLANE oy Vs el WASHINGTON. Oct. 18.—Presi- it Frankiin D. Roosevelt said by Democrats rc has been a system of falsi- bz FlYING NONSIOP | fication in the opposition to his | s | Presidential campaign and he in-| NEW YORK, Oct. 18. — Edward | tends tc make reply in five speeches. | Flynn, Democratic Nation cnu:r-j(lOUdS, However, Make The President personally read a man, said today “the letter speaks | T0 CALIFORNIA Perfect Blackouf Over (statement teday at the conference[for itself” when asked to comment | = { with the newsmen. on instructions sent by him to | . Ladd Field FI 'n F i | The President said in his pre- |Democratic campaign workers re- Clty, AISO channel YI g or ress,pured statement that he believes|garding their operations under thn[ S Takes Major Ga"' |the falsifications have not been |Hatch Act | made unwittingly but have been| Flynn was asked at a press con-| LONDON, Oct. 18—The nightly S 'h mads deliberately and he has de- |ference about a letter received by |air raid alarm sounded early this nev Ou “ided to point out to the American |Democratic workers at Minneapolis | evening at the start of the 42nd e people exactly what the falsifica- [which indicated they could obtain | consecutive night air attack directed FAIRBANKS. Alaska, Oct. 18— |lions are. support, financial and otherwise and |at this British Capital City. Only An Army Boeing B17 “Flying Fort-| The President said he intended |still be within the Hatch Act. |one general daylight attack was ress” left Ladd Field here at 6:10 [to make some arrangements where- | The letter to which questioners|made during the day. lo'clock this morning Fairbanks |by defense orders to private indus- |veferred was published in the New | Tonight Londoners see very lit- time for a nonstop flight to Ham- |try will have priority over all oth- | York Times. 1t said: “You find |tle of the raiders because of dense ors and added that nothing along |attached two legal opinions to guide |clouds but the drone of the motors ilton Field, California | | hat line is in prospect in the im- [you in what you are permitted to|can be heard. The bomber is expected to cover | the stretch in 10 hours, arriving in time for supper in California. Abcard the plane are Major Dale | , Commander of the Ladd Capt. Richard Freeman | with the bomber to Dayton, Ohio, | Washington, D. C., and return here | in a few days. He will attend to de- | tails of the winter program at the| Armys ‘'first cold weather experi-| mental station at Fairbanks. ARMISTICE DAY LESSON POINTED BY ROOSEVELT More than Cessation of Hostilities Needed, | | - ,e-— | mediate future, however. |do with respect to soliciting or giv-| The clouds give a blackout here - D ing contributions under the Hatch|as well as over the English channel | Act during the election campaign. | and curtailed both British and Ger- IHREE AlA KA | Even where a type of Government|man air operations. |or State employee can't engage in i | political activity or even make a! Bllls SIfiNED ]r:on(ribuuon — there are few as you RAD'O SEIZURE see by the annexed legal opinions— | | their friends and relations are in| Bv pREsIDENI |no way prohibited frem such acti-| RUMOR DE"IED [ vities.” islal ith BY AUTHORITIES New Legislation Deals with | ; | land Matters in fkomans Hay % | Territor 1 |FBI, FCC Says No Powerful [ . . 3 "~ Two N a"onsi Alien Sefs Taken in | Washington WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. — Three | Alaskan bills teday received the President’s approval. Rl e ROME. Oct. 18-+Two leading Cine edls gside dAgL foes of Jand ent-controlled Italian news-| SSATTLE, Oct. 18—The Seattle Tongass National Forest as a BOVErnm | FBI field office and Federal Cora- al water reserve for Peters- xfi\pei"«: h"‘:e :fifi"gr:e"::c :g;ea,;.ix;"municauom Commission today H Brawy 4 8 g jointly deniéd frequently recurring key. | : 12 One of them accuses the Greeks|T°POrtS they had seized “powerful” in mun! burg. Another authorizes the Secretary cf the Interior to sell or lease for P’ radi Says President bark or tecreational purposes or|Of secretly allowing the British Al ed gRbory wave R aYS resiaen cell for municipal cemetery use va- | fleet to use their naval bases. j4e 5" Western Washington re- | cant unreserved public land in the| In the Giornale ditalia, Edhor bt vl O 160 Gayda writes: “Histery inevitably WASHINGTON, Oct. 18—Presi-| Territory, with a limitation of will call these two nations to dent Roosevelt in proclaiming No- | acres placed on pleces of land sold vember 11 Armistice Day declared The third authorizes the Secre- | reckoning.” the anniversary should “direct our | tary to sell or lease to colonists or Another newspaper, the Corriere! minds to the fact that we need settlers part of the public land P'adano, attacks the Turkish press not only peace but also peace with |withdrawn in ‘connection with the | for its alleged pro-British stand. understanding, not only for a ce'-IMgtgnuska colonization project. It said the British are doing their sation of hostilities but also for| Designated lands must be disposed best to drag the Turks into Euro- mutual respect and intercourse be-|of on the same basis as lands|pean conflict. | tween nations.” |owned by the Alaska Rural Reha-| - e - B o e o0 vl | bilitation Corporation, sold or JONES BACK l Teahee. a TWO STALWARTS ON AIR TONIGHT California’s two veteran Senators, Republican Hiram Johnson and Democrat Sheridan Downey, will go on the air tonight to urge the election of their favorites, Wendell willkie and President Franklin D. MOVE TO TOWN b ey Mrs. J. B. Marshall and son, Roy Winston Jones of the Alaska| NORDBY SUPPLY MAN HERE | Osborne, have moved into town Transgortation Company is back| M. J. Klepper of the Nordby Sup-|from their residence on Glacier Roosevelt. in Juneau from a brief trip to|ply Company of Ketchikan, is a Highway and ‘are at the Bishop At stake is California’s block of Sitka and is at the Baranof. guest at the Baranof Hotel | Apartments. | 24 electoral votes. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.,, Oct. 18.—| CAMPAIGN IN INAZI INDUSTRY PLANTS ARE WRECKED BY RAF; "MASTER SCHEME' WORKS | | Air Ministry reports today that the LONDON, Oct. 16—The British | RAF “master scheme” of bombing rmany has “partially wrecked everal war factories in Berlin and most gutted the Berlin General Postoffice.” In contrast to repeated German discrediting of British bombings, t announced that RAF raids “seriously affected German is have rail and water transpert and dam- | aged great industrial plants over » wide area.” Repeated bombing blasts at vital Ruhr factories, at Essen, on scat- tered cil rcfineries and such ship- ping ports as Hamburg, where the Nazis officially announced having cently sent 4,000 Dutch laborers for reconstruction work, have made a telling mark on the Hitler war machine, it is declared Hitler's Machine Wrecked In centrast, Hitler's High Com- mand has the' RAF Germany insisted that has “planlessly” bombed without hitting military repeatedly obectives. Informed sources expressed buoy-| ant belief today that the Hitler meanufacturing machine, supplying replacements to the army and the | navy in ships and planes, has been at least temporarily wrecked. The British bombing plan | gone so far as to include such ob- | jectives as factorles in which spark plugs for airplane and tank en- gines are manulactured. | Magneto making plants, alumin- um casting factories, oil refining plants, all have been repeatedly bombed by the British in their broad plan to cripple Hitler's replacement machinery while the British fac- tory organization continues to ac- | celtcrate production. Hm-m-m! Some Diamonds! \ | | | ‘ | | | ladies’ hoslery. The $2,000 worth If you can take your eyes off lovely Martha O'Driscoll for a moment, we'll tell you that the point of this picture is to show the latest in of diamonds are set in the clocks of these unusual stockings. ~ Front as Contribution fo | | By JACK STINNETT | WASHINGTON—OQct. 18. — Pre- {parcdnc,&.s Note: Rep. Stephen Pace comes from the peach country down in Georgia. His home is that city bearing probably the most pa- | triotic of all names, Americus, but his principal interest at the mo- ment is nothing less than peanut butter The other day Mr. Pace took himself into the holy sanctums of the Army and there made an im- passioned plea for consideration |of the mashed goober as a con- tribution to the defense of the nation Peanut butter, said Mr. Pace, is a wonderful food and would con- 'tribute to the health and energy |of our armed forces. He explained 1tha: the estimated peanut crop for 1940 amounts to 760,000 tons, of which at least 100,000 tons is sur- Defense; Shelter Issue Up plus and not even good for grind- ing into a bread-spread. If the butter on the bill of fare, not only would the boys be pepped ud with good old goober energy, but the peanut industry could write off its troubles. P. 8. The Army has the peanuft butter suggestion ‘“under consid- eration.” ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION Gastronomy note: is a little finicky about his food day at the House restaurant. Scanning the menu, he came upon the item “Welsh rarebit with poached egg” and in the righi- hand column, “40c.” Being somewhat fond of rare- (Continued on Page Two) has army, he said, should put peanuu” A friend who! found himself lunching the other GERMANS ARE BEATEN BACK WITH LOSSES |Belated Brifish Report Is Corroborated by Nazi | Officials-Made Public THOUSANDS ARE KILLED IN SEA BORNE SCHEME Second Afiéfit Revealed | in Report of Disastrous Battle at Sea | (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) Great Britain smashed the Ger- man attempt to invade England, the London Air Ministry officially | disclosed, and simultaneously Hit- |ler's High Command admitted that a naval clash off England’s Bristol Channel, which may have been a | | “feeler” for a new invasion thrust, | | [ also failed. | Sea Battle Failure The Nazi High Comnfand said German destroyers and submarines, circling Land’s End, on the West Coast of England on the Atlantic, | “boldly” attacked a superior Brit- ish naval force yesterday but was beaten back “with some disaster. The British cruiser force was ably supported by destrovere™ Attempted Invasion Fally W Authoritative Briusn svu...s said the Naszis attempted to launch a sea borne invasion on September 16 but Royal Air Force bombers wrought such havoc among the em- barked troops that the plan was abruptly cancelled on September 20. 10,000 Nazis Die A high official of a conquersd nation, arriving in New York City, said German officers told him that practice maneuvers for an invas- ion cost the Germans 10,000 men and bodies of the German soldiers were washed ashore at French channel invasion ports. It has been frequently reported that thousands of bodies of German soldiers were washed ashore several weeks ago, but this is the first official confirmation. RAF Offensive The British admission is the first made that Hitler did’attempt to invade England on September 16 and actually started troops across the English Shannel to storm the Is- land. The statement says many German troops embarked but later were taken off the ships as the |sustained offensive of the Royal Air forces was too great and the losses suffered by the Germans were (Continued on Page Five) New Punc Mashed Goober Pressedfo s Planned By British ‘Secref Plans fo Be Pressed Info Action - Navy | Command Changes LONDON, Oct. 18.—Two' signifi- cant changes in the Royal Navy Command and talk of hurrying new | secret planes into action against the Nazis and increase the punch of her air arm; both in defense and of- fense, are the important announce- ments made by the Government to- night. Vice Admiral John Tovey, destroy- er expert and hero of the Battle of Jutland, has taken over com- mand of the Home Fleet, in a step generally interpreted as the fore- runner of an intensified sea war- fare. Admiral Sir Henry Harwood, hero lof the battle of the River Platte, has been promoted to the post of |Lord Commissioner of the Admir- alty which is Assistant Chief of the Naval Staff.