The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 19, 1940, Page 1

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” VOL. LVI, NO. 8547. JUNEAU, ALASKA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1940. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH THREATEN NEW NAZI BOMBINGS Germ AXIS MAKES DEMANDS ON GREEK SOIL -Want Air lg;s and Re- quest Abdication of Present King WOULD ALSO HAVE 10 GIVE UP LAND STRIP British Di;;lo&ais Sched- uled for Conference Soon af Istanbul (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) German - Italian demands on Greece to surrender territory, most of her pro-British government, sev- sE e relations with Great Bri- tair 1d line up in the Axis-Bal- kan sphere are reported by - Greek (Continued on Page Five) Robert S.Allen 5 WASHINGTON — When Cordell Hull wants to turn on his Ten- nessee mountain wrath he can do a magnificent job, and the word| which leaked out of his inner sanc- tum is that this was the kind of | a job he did when Japanese Am- bassador Horinouchi called on him just after the United States had decided to recall its citizens from China. The Hull dressing down, together with internal reactions M Japan, seems to have cooled off the Jap- anese somewhat. Intelligence re- ports reaching Washington indi- cate that the danger of a Japanese declaration of war against Britain over the opening of the Burma Road, is ebbing. What the Japan- ese are expected to do is to sub- ject the Burma Road, with its in- coming supplies of munitions for the Chinese army, to as intensive a bombing as is possible from air bases in South China and adja- cent French Indo-China. As far as any attack upon the United States is concerned, all t.hei reports received in Army and Navy circles—and they have been study- ing the situation as carefully as they know how—are that Japan cannot and will not risk war with the United States. In the first place, he® navy has fuel oil for only two and a half months. Her army has: line for only three months. d perhaps even more important, there is re- ported to be considerable division of opinion inside the Japanese Gov- ernment, One group, headed by Prince Konoye, feels that Japan is merely being used by Hitler and the Axis to scare the United States away from more aid to the British. In fact, Konoye vigorously opposed signing the alliance, but finally had to yield to more aggressive Foreign Minister Matsuoka and the War Minister. In addition, American ob- servers detect an uneasy feeling| among the Japanese people and increasing rumblings of unrest. NOTE—Few foreign policies have‘ met with greater unanimity inslde‘ the State Department than the American attitude on the Far East. There have been some differences with other Cabinet members Wwho| wanted to take an even stronger stand, but inside the State Depart- ment, Hull and Welles are 100 per-| cent together. ' WALLACE AND WILLKIE Henry Wallace knows how Wen- dell Willkie felt when they' threw (Continued on Page Four) 4 an Child refugees from London assure British ¢ way tra lantic br WATCHU.S. RUSSIA 1S (RY GIVEN sues Warning fo People of Nippon Kingdom TOKYO, Oct. 19.—The influen- tial newspaper Asahi warned the Japanese people today to give care- ful attention to economic negotia- tions now in progress between the United States and Soviet Russia. The newspaper said the United States obviously is attempting 1o obtain political advantage by granc- ing the Soviet Union economic aid| that is particularly needed in Rus: sia. Asahi said the negotiations are | aimed at Japan and the Axis powers. | It pointed out that the United States and Britain are giving in- creased aid to the Chungking gov-| ernment of China, and are attempt- ing to bring Soviet Russia into their orbit. of progress in the negotiations in the United States’ sale of $7,000,000 worth of machine tools to the So-; viet Union, and the chartering of | an oil tanker to carry oil products to Valdivostok. Said Asahi: “The conversations indicate that the Soviet Union does not altogether approve of the three- | power alliance, However, it is cleari that the Soviet Union won't par-| ticipate in a world conflict to pick| chestnuts out of the fire for the United States and Britain in the| i If You Can't | Prove Citizenship ‘ Register Now ? Any foreign born person living in the United States, even though he is certain he is a citizen, should | tion act if he does not have in his | possession papers proving clearly ! that he is a citizen, Catherine Greg- ory, Alien Registration Clerk here, | announced today. There is no harm in anyone’s | registering, even though he may | later be able to prove he is a citi- zen. If he is not able to prove citizenship, however, and does not register by the December 26 closing | date he may be liable to the very| severe penalties provided by tne| alien registration act. ‘To date there have been 326 reg- |istered here as aliens. e~ - UNION OIL MAN HERE H> A. Murphy of Union Oil came in yesterday and is at the Gas- tineau Hotel. Worker Refugees Broadcast to London register under the alein registra- - their parents in the much-bombed tal of their safe arrival in the United States during a two- deast from New York. leans across the table us lie unites George Welchan, 12, and his father by radio. Announcer Ben Grauer Washington Sails Japanese Newspaper Is- § The newspaper sees indications| : A British descendant of the fam- ily tree that gave the U. S. its first president, George Washing- ton is shown in New York as he sailed for home to fight with the British army. Washington has been in South America. rail, Fiance Merrill Pye and the aod oy uo pourewal sred siws WAKE ISLAND IS HIT HARD BY TERRIFIC GALE All 35 Residents Safe but Buildings Damaged by Storm HONOLULU, T H., Oct. 19.—Radio communication with Wake Island | osahi, reporting a dispatch from | |has been resumed and announce- | Batavia, says an agreement has been | ment is made that all members of | the Pan American Colony, about 35 persons, are safe after a terrific storm. Seventy-five percent of the build ings on the island have been dam- aged, the hotel unroofed and one- fourth of the dock knocked down,, . There are no small planes or | clippers in the area. ————— HENRY BEHRENDS GOES OUT Henry Behrends is 3 passenger south on the Denali for a visit of several months in the States. $ st OWNEY S ROOSEVELT SUPPORTER |California Senafor Takes Decided Stand as Against Johnson (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) | United States Senator Hiram Johnson, of California, former back- er of President Roosevelt, last night in a radio talk in Washington, D. | C. gave his support to Wendell L. | Willkie, declaring that the latter was right on the third term issue. Senator Sheridan Downey, Demo- cratic colleague of Johnson, in a | radio broadcast from Los Angeles, Cal, immediately following John- |son’s talk on the air, said he had {no “traditional sentiment” against [a third term but as “between a Lib- | eral Administration headed by Roos- | evelt for a third term and a Con- | servative under Willkie, he must | support Roosevelt.” | Senator Johnson stated in his | breadeast that “if the President sees fit to increase his term by four yvears he can increase it eight or |sixteen and the office will become inn inheritance.” ,———— Draffees ArefoBe [ D | | | } [ Krup T DR Greets Pgleded jSuspension of Contracis During Military Serv- ice Is Now Law WASHINGTON, Oct. 19.—Presi- dent Roosevelt has signed a bill pro- viding relief to army draftees on fixed obligations during their year in training, and a measure requiring registration of organizations subject to foreign control. The alien registration measure, sponsored by Representative Voorhis of California, provides that all or- ganizations of foreign control or advocating overthrow of the United States government must register with the State Department. The bill affecting financial obli- gations of draftees provides that they may obtain court suspension of certain contracts, leases and fixed charges while they are under train- ing at $30 monthly. The measure, patterned after a World War law, is designed to prevent financial hardships for drafted men whose income falls during their year of military service. OIL PACT IS MADE BY JAPAN {Claims Agree—ment Is Con- ! cluded Governing Export by Dutch East Indies TOKYO, Oct. 19.—The newspaper | concluded governing oil exports from the Dutch East Indies to Japan. No details are given. The Japanese | mission has been at Batavia for | some time. | The country, the newspaper Asahi |says, is vitally interested and anxious about oil lest the United | States place a complete embargo |on oil shipments to the Orient. — i FAIRBANKS FOOD PRICES Fairbanks grocers are selling eggs | at 45 cents a dozen, “Outside” spuds 'at 59 cents for ten pounds and oranges at 95 cents for three dozen. | | On Jews | InFrance Jews in France have been drastical- ly curtailed under a decree issued }by the Petain governments | The new status forbids Jews to | hold government positions, editorial positions on newspapers, any execu- | tive positions in the film industry or in the radio feld. Jews also are barred from the executive boards of learning societies. Jewish veterans of the last World War and Jews who distinguished themselves in the fighting which preceded the capitulation of France are exempt from the new regula- tions. Alfen Jews in France are either to be herded into concentration campe or compelled to live in areas designated by the French govern- ment, Jews now holding positions in the forbidden list must relinquish such posts within 60 days. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Oct. 19. — Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock at today's short session is 4%, American Can 94', Anaconda 23, Bethlehem Steel 80%, Common- {wealth and Southern 1%, Curtiss Wright 7%, General Motors 49%, International Harvester 49':, Ken- necott 31, New York Central 14%, Northern Pacific 7, United States ’sbeel 61%, Pound $4.03. DOW, JONES AVERAGES The following are today’s Dow, ardson Highway and Wellsey Willis Jones averages: Industrials, 132.18; ~has located one on the Badger road, rails, 28.89; utilities, 22, gfl"e is the famous Krupp munitions plant at ssen, Germany, which has beer a target of Royal New VFW Leader | President Roosevelt greets Dr. Joseph C. Menendez, new commander-in- | chief of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, as the latter visits him at the | White House, _ | NewBan CANADA'S | | | | VICHY, Oct. 19.—The rights of Roosevelt Meets Earl of I p Munition Works, Target of RAF Planes GOVERNOR SEES FDR Athlone to Discuss Re- lations of Countries HYDE PARK, N. Y, Oct. 19.—For the second time in 18 months, Pres- ident Roosevelt greeted members of Britain’s Royal Family today when the Earl of Athlone, Governor Gen- eral of Canada arrived from Ottawa for a weekend visit. “How are you? I'm glad to see you,” the Chief Executive declared, welcoming the Earl, who is an uncle of King George the Sixth, at the railway station in Poughkeepsie. Whitehouse officials said no an- nouncements will be forthcoming, but this visit had bearing on Can- adian American relations, B 2 Slril}inq al . BurmaRoad (By Associated Press) Japanese naval planes, apparent- | ly flying from French Indo-China | bases, have struck at the reopened | Burma Road, hitting the hardest at bridges where trucks loaded with long-delayed vital supplies for the | Chinese forces started north over it | yesterday. ‘ e i TAKE UP HOMESTEADS | Miss Nell Kelly has taken up a homestead near Mile 21 on Rich- Air Force bombers. Two tons of explosives w re dropped on the plant. ; Youngs!ersflrn in 512 POUNDS OF NAILS WIN §2 MATINEE PRIZE Pounds of Nails from Juneau Streefs More than a quarter of a ton of nails—512 pounds to be exact, were picked up off the streéts of Ju- neau by boys and girls and turned i ac the box office of the Capitol Theatre this afternoon for free acmittance to the Saturday mat- inee. Of the 450 youngsters attend- ing the “nail matinee” today, Jim Sprague brought the heaviest loot, 62 pounds of rusty nails, winning for him a $2 cash prize donated by Charles Goldstein and H. R. VanderLeest. Billy Tonsgaard won second prize of $1, posted by Harold Smith, for 22% pounds of nafls. Winning hon- | orable mention were Dot Iverson with 21'% pounds; Beverly Lane, 1 Bob Goldstein, 14; George Tornard, 13; Herman Beukers, 14%; Junior McDermott, 12 pounds. Judges were Harold Smith, Louis Delebecque and Hector McLean. The matinee was held through the courtesy of Manager Charles Beale of the Capitol Theatre. - INVASIO BULGARIA IS FEARED SOFIA, Oct. 19.—Members of the British Legation have burned all documents in preparation for a fast departure in case the Axis Powers move into Bulgaria. MORE CHARGES ON FRENCHMEN VICHY, France, Oct. 19. — The Prench Governmenp has brought formal charges of betraying his du- ties against former French Pre- mier Blum and charges of embez- zlement of funds against former Premier Reynaud. ~~. Football Scores The following are final scores of football games played this after- noon: Illinois 0; Michigan 28. Columbia 19; Georgia 13. Dréke 0; Navy 19. Syracuse 6; Cornell 33. Holy Cross 13; New York Univer- sity 7. Fordham 24; Pittsburgh 12. Dartmouth 7; Yale 13. Army 6; Havard 6, tie. Pennsylvania State 34; Lehigh 0. Connecticut 13; Maine 6. o Pay Double for ét}a;kg RAF MAKE NIGHT RAID IN STORM Naval Basews—;?Kiel Atfack- ed-Also Other Ger- man Sections BRITISH MINISTER TELLS WHAT 0 COME Nazis Claim Destructive Assaults Made on Lon- don, English Ports (By ASSOCIATED PRESS) The British Capital City had lighter pounding than usual on the 42nd consecutive overnight attack as bad flying weather is said to have limited Nazi air activity on the dusk to dawn raiding. Berlin, however, headed for England rupted” succession. Arthur Greenwood, British Min- ister Without Portfolio said the workers of Berlin will pay double for the bombing of London. West- ern Germany and the Ruhr Indus- trial Valley have already been more severely bombed than British sec- tions, although the Germans will not acknowledge such an admis- sion. said bombers in “uninter- RAF Make Raids Notwithstanding the heavy weath- er last night Royal Air Force bomh- ers flew through the clouds and heavy rain and “successfully attack- ed Naval bases at Kiel, commercial docks at Hamburg and Emden and an aluminum factory at Lubeck, also railroad centers elsewhere.” At Hamburg the attacks were di- rected against the shipyards “where German warships are known to be under construction.” German Claims The Berlin High Command de- clares that “essential waterworks” in Londen have been destroyed and British encampments blasted in ralds yesterday while at sea sub- marines have sunk, in recent days, 31 ships totaling 173,000 tons. Informed sources also stated that British destroyers have attacked channel ports successfully but were finally beaten off by shore batter- fes. A The Nazi High Command asserts that bombs have been dropped on South England, Liverpool and alsa Birmingham. DIES PLANNING SPEAKING TOUR ON 5TH COLUMN Will Also Make Demands for Ism Stand of Both FDR and Willkie NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 19.—Rep- resentative Martin Dies said today that at least 300,000 dangerous Fifth Columnists are in the United States. Dies plans to take the stump at Toledo, Ohio, immediately in a series of 25 “non-political” speech- es to awaken the nation to its Fiffh Column dangers and to de- mand of both Roosevelt and Will- kie that they answer the peril with safeguards. The fire-eatings “ism”-prober al- ready asked the two Party leaders to come into the open, but de- clared “Roosevelt gave an evasive answer and Willkie failed to reply. They were scared stiff, both of them, for fear they might antagon- ize a few votes in next month's election.” ————————— FELCH HERE Baxter Felch is back in town to call on his trade coming in on the Denali. He is at the Gas- Minnesota 13; Ohio State 7. eight miles southeast of Fairbanks. tineau. Sk